Just got a steam deck and am loving the ability to run around and do simple quests while (not) watching my newborn in the middle of the night 🤭

Actually almost threw my controller

The lows in this game are 10x worse than the highs are good

That was my one game btw and I got off. Fuck that

/rant

We had just hit a blue key room on perimeter. The pressure was on. Glad to have good teammates! I’m so thankful for this guy!

Picked up a new pocket knife last week, decided to get some laser engraving done to satisfy Charter :)

I love this game but I can admit that I am not the best at pvp this one felt like a nice win. I would love to say it was me but I know it was fully the KKV. That thing is insane. I'm in love with it now.

The Major is here on Tau Ceti IV, always has been.

I would argue that Nothing and Polestar have a similar style to Marathon with their use of text on the products as Marathon brands do and a unique Graphic Realism style.

SCRT's MOSF line of clothes also have that style but their other stuff doesn't.

Is there other brands that use that similar style?

Arachne levels up way too slowly compared to the other factions. It could be for a variety of reasons such as : lack of priority contracts for it , the fact the majority of Arachne points you get are from finishers and finishers are just a bad decision to do because of animation lock in, etc. For comparison sake I play this game a lot and have all my factions above level 20, but my Arachne is only level 9 by comparison. I don’t shy away from PvP, so that isn’t the reason why. I think they need to ramp up its xp in some way

https://alineaanalytics.substack.com/p/this-years-top-first-party-sony-and

UPDATE: Rhys Elliot has issued a correction.

Personally I just can't play the pve mode anymore for Arc raiders. I was expecting everybody to just vibe with instruments and doing the map objectives together but the majority of people just act like vultures not really looking to communicate or cooperate and only want to steal each others loot. I don't think I've seen anyone even defib a player they just walk past you if your crawling on the floor lol. Also on the extraction side you now have a already terrible economy even more crippled with no wipe mechanic. I like the idea of pve but after experiencing this I'm starting to see it can ruin the game if not done right.

I was ready to neg myself, I was ready for them to be like "eww Marathon" cuz that's all I see online, but no one had even heard of it, and actually they got excited when I mentioned it.

Meaningless story but the point is, talk about the things you like with people!

Since the last figure and now I got another 3D printer. This one was an FDM printer which meant I could redo the Rook figure with its appropriate material. I even got a spool of translucent filament which is what I used for the main body parts.
This guy was way easier to assemble and had full range of motion without every joint having sticky tack in it lmao.

File for the Rook figure:

https://www.printables.com/model/1703152-rook-runner-frame-printable-jointed-figure-dummy-1/files

2v2v2v3 straight up mayhem. Also, Vandal is so cracked.

Somewhere, locked away in the vaults of Tau Ceti IV lies the mythical VamP-90 SMG.
Rumors of a weapon capable of repairing the shell of its runner with every shot. Death is not the end on Tau Ceti, especially with the VamP-90.

Hello Runners!
I created a P-90 inspired smg weapon using my 3D skills! Hope you guys check it out!

I spent hours studying the graphic realism art style spearheaded by the concept team at Bungie and lead by Joseph Cross. I fell down quite a rabbit hole and now that it’s done, I get to share it with the community!

Check out the full breakdown including weapon firing/reload animations at my ArtStation:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/NrxxgD

Wanted to jot this down as this JUST happened, because this sort of experience felt really rare as I play in Asia, so anything to do with proximity chat is very uncommon considering I get matched either with OCE servers, or quiet Asia servers consisting of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean players.

Anyways, I crew-filled into Overflow hoping to get my Traxus quest done. Unfortunately, our team was ambushed by a trio of Runners all sporting S'phticide skins while crossing the glass walkway / bridge. I thought to myself “Well shit, that’s my run.” and turned on prox chat to try and reason with the Assassin on the other side of the walkway.

It felt like a scene from the “In Death We’ve Just Begun” music video, and I reasoned with my mute captors to spare me and my crew, and that we’d rotate to another POI if they’d be so kind. They seemed to be puzzled by this sudden shift in interaction, and dropped me a few shield charges and patch kits. I tried moving towards our Triage’s body bag to revive him, but both the Destroyer and Assassin shook their heads. Before I could think of reviving my crew after the two Runners turned their backs, the UI on the left told me they disconnected from the match.

I ended up calling out to the S’phticide crew and offered to join their squad. Surprisingly, there was no need for text chat or voice chat - just a few teabags in a rapid succession told me they were down to crew up. I didn’t expect them to be so generous, having opened up some lockboxes and them dropping items for me - and then rushing together to battle a UESC Commander at North Relay together as a squad of four.

After the fight, they gifted me a blue KKV, blue CE pistol, and a blue shield, and we all ran to the exfil. I complimented the Assassin’s sniper skin, and he ended up shooting me point blank and sending me to the DBNO state.

I thought “Shit, that’s it! Why would they be so kind?”

Or so I thought, since the Destroyer had a mercy kit and brought me back up pretty quickly before exfilling together. Guess they wanted to keep me on my toes!

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That was honestly one of the coolest experiences I’ve had in Marathon, and especially since this is a game that got me so used to shooting other runners on sight before they shoot me.

I don’t know if they’ll ever see this, but thank you guys for the great game.

Pic is me on the exfil screen, and the three S’phticide crewmembers (though I guess there was the top Runner that might’ve been hiding somewhere?)

TL:DR - Proximity Chat is a godsend and actually using it can create some really memorable moments!

I really like the aspect of unlocking Cryo in S1. I think the Early Game and Mid-game benefitted a lot from it as well. Purple shield genuinely made you feel like a mini-boss. Last season you were throwing without one.

My idea is for every season, there is a hefty community challenge to complete in order to unlock cryo archive. kind of like Halo's weekly challenges, but more catered to Marathon.

This would create a pseudo time-gate and bring the community together in a way.

For example, as a Player base:

This could be an in-run achievement thing that encourages more PvE/Map Events

• Defeat 10,000,000,000 UESC Enemies
• or Defeat 500,000 Wardens
• or Complete 500,000 Lockdown Events

Or something that the Sweats can predominantly grind for to help everyone else

• Reach VIP with Factions 100,000 Times
• or Exfil with 1,000,000,000 In Valuables
• or Reach a Collective Runner Credit Wealth of 1,000,000,000,000

Wiped the lobby solo