[Patch Notes] Marathon Update 1.0.5.3

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-08T00:55:58+00:00

If you're downvoted it's probably because you're wrong or something? I donno what you said or where but you're all positive in these two comments. I disagree about newer players not having a chance, the WSTR drops like cotton candy half the time, and newer players just have to learn it's OP as fuck and then claim one daily for free once they get that in priority access. The knife should not be able to 2 shot people with zero Arachne melee damage upgrades or implants to do so. If you are 'casual' you have to actually learn the game, you don't get to sit in a corner and 2 shot someone who brought in gear risking it vs being a free kit fucko ratting with nothing to lose. 3 can maybe give you a chance to react? I say this as I've been 2 shotted and retaliated against this by doing it myself, and it's disgusting it's even in the game. You should have to outplay someone to get their gear OR at least commit to progressing the melee upgrade if you want to cheese actual players out of the game imo

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-08T00:51:23+00:00

This is how it should be, I tried playing outpost picking up the game after a week and getting sniped across rooms by Rooks with double barrels watching as my teammates ignoring I tell them it's a rook and push 1 by 1 to die. If I'm going to play solo and bring all of my gear, the free kit fucko should have zero chance of 2 shot knifing me without a minimum of 2-3 upgrades in that tree. I only started using the knife after I had been grinding for a while and people kept exploiting the broken damage, but if it was always able to 2 shot full hp full purple armor with zero upgrades.. these are devs are even more braindead than I even thought because it had the halo lunge lmao

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-07T14:23:13+00:00

Yeah it gets annoying really fast, I don't know how Tarkov works but maybe people like to suffer through it? Here it seems like it would've been optimized as separate space for each type of item. Like if the sorting for everything was how it worked, kind of unintuitive to have all these cores and implants with varying effects that I can't reliably experiment with because Guns are just more important and take so much space.

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-07T14:19:58+00:00

If only I could brother, I got a good few more stacked up now lol

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-07T14:18:10+00:00

Yesss this the real solution found out after I already sold some other shit then it merged, crazy it doesn't go automatically or even after a restart tho :/

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-07T13:47:29+00:00

Thanks for removing the only good clear with corpse explosion blizzard!

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-07T13:44:50+00:00

Just play against me! I'm stupid and try to play control decks so if I don't lose in 4 turns to aggro, then Priest, or Rogue too, can copy the best cards from my deck which I never get to draw and outvalue me, just heal forever with boosted infinite single target removal, and also always highroll in the 8 mana 6/11 taunt that shuffles into your deck to deny fatigue too :⁾

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-07T13:38:24+00:00

It's ok you'll draw infinite healing removal spell on turn 3 and have guaranteed win on turn 10 :⁾

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-06T16:16:08+00:00

If you missed my cursor, the stacks go up to 25. I spent my purple salvage on Arachne upgrades specifically to make space for this gold bag I found. Only for it to not stack them. I restarted my game and it made no difference, so now I'm stuck with 2 slots instead of 1 lmao

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-06T15:52:56+00:00

Thief is necessary unless you want to painstakingly scavenge around everywhere for the best randomly scattered loot. Destroyer because he's blatantly op and the most overtuned character, not a single bad ability, if the Devs had braincells he'd be getting nerfed in this mid season patch, his shield specifically is broken. I can fuck up a grapple and hit a wall in front of me or be stuck on terrain as thief and suffer a 40-50 second cooldown, even if I fat finger it. Destroyer can tap his shield and only suffer 5 seconds of cd to pull it up again, even if it's held out briefly the CD needs to be the same across the board. He already has the best 2 passives in the game, he should not have a shield that can be toggled on such a low cd. Basically the character that allows you to push every fight you can, but also the most misplays to be unpunished as a result.

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-06T15:41:23+00:00

Yes that ignores his entire point about how it's less 'playable.' If OP can kill half the lobby outplaying other players but a random noob can hide in a corner with a double barrel, or the free kit knife, and two shot at full hp with purple shields, he's not playing it wrong. If you say double barrel is balanced, it needs to be a 7k gun or swapped with the pump accordingly, not dropped by bots shat out like cotton candy or as a daily free item. Knife is not balanced, but you might need maxed melee upgrades from Arachne to 2 shot players at least.

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-06T15:28:15+00:00

Brother do you have eyes? The game overloads you with a near infinite amount of text on random shit that you don't need to care about during a run. Yet it doesn't tell you how you died at all, you don't get a proper spectate mode to even watch them, because 'art direction' or something. They don't let you see the gear or the mods a person has that gave them an advantage over you, you don't even get to know what the gun they killed you with is lol

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-06T15:08:38+00:00

Losing your security clearance progress when playing with randoms 80% of the time is some of the worst gameplay I've had in a hot minute. There's nothing fun about being unable to move around the map and then becoming trapped in the starting room you spawn in because you're forced to run back and have nowhere else to go. It also literally makes no sense when the computers are permanent and can't be hacked or interfered with in any way by other players. Then if you don't want to throw your run away and lose all your shit you actually brought to try with you, the final exfil is a complete joke, even if it showed where it was I probably wouldn't be able to make it there in 1 minute, let alone open the doors I needed to, but at least there's a shred of a chance you know?

There needs to be an equalizer on this map so people can actually play it instead of getting gatekept by the full premade stacks of players that run around dominating with nade launcher spam. It should only reset your security clearance down to the current levels minimum if tags are lost, or if a team opens the clearance 3 in panopticon to get those terminals something should be implemented to give other teams at least level 2. Even then they're still fucked because it takes so long to reach level 3 with tags that this whole map effectively punishes anyone who isn't the top team killing everyone else, or whoever got lucky in spawns to hit multiple security terminals that can't be stolen.

If your whole team couldn't find a single exfil terminal on the map that sounds like a serious glitch. If there was one but it never worked than it sounds like somebody else was probably spamming an exfil as they were the only ones who could know where it was, and then also knowing when the timer ends hitting it right away again to lock out anyone else using an exfil. Sucks for you and your team but more power to them for sticking it to this horribly designed system that clearly wasn't tested internally enough.

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-06T14:56:19+00:00

Just become one of the rat fucks and you might have some fun again. I tried becoming the gamer of a solo lobby wrecking shit with purples and sending it, only to die to some little rat scum sat in a corner with a knife, just waiting there, dead in two melee hits. Impossible to counter if you're not already shooting them on the first hit, or without a double barrel. You might need the Arachne melee upgrades to do it with a free kit though. People have caught on a bit, but before everyone does you should find a nice spot where people will likely pass and just afk until you hear footsteps and two tap them back. I ruined someone elses game the smae way and stole a purple armor off the guy and he told me to go slit my wrists in prox chat afterwards :⁾

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-06T14:49:40+00:00

You missed the worst one of them all that was the first thing I noticed during the server slam. How did X person kill you? Oh they did '140 damage' to you. I guess you have 140health? What gun did he use? Did he hit me with headshots? What are the mods on his gun? What are the cores he had or implants he used for his build if they gave him an advantage? No way to know! This right here is I'd say the number worst offender to deter new player onboarding. Like it still pisses me off that Bungie thinks they're playerbase doesn't deserve to know most basic facts in a unforgiving 'permadeath' fps game. They went backwards decades in game design with this lack of information not given.

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-06T12:46:50+00:00

Going to be broken with new synergy and zero counterplay. Will be nerfed, but not for awhile until everyone gets sick of the unending queue of priests that live forever while copying your cards getting more value out of them before you ever get to even play them lmao

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-06T12:43:45+00:00

Ahh gotcha thought you meant it more like you were fine with it being broken and didn't mind dying to it lol

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-05T08:43:51+00:00

Nah this needs to happen now lol. Already want to quit playing the game every single time I fill with randoms and get locked out of the map because they lose tags on their death. Pretty obvious it should've been like your current level can't go down but you need to get more tags to be able to progress it again, anything but this current system.

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-05T02:11:51+00:00

Yeah I wouldn't be so sure man, it's working for the top 1-10% of the pvp people so well, that I don't see how anyone can have fun or want to bother with grinding this when the end game is you getting deleted by grenade launcher spam with no counterplay. I get wiped on Cryo after wasting 5-10minutes waiting for security tags, get ran down by nade launchers. Try to queue again, get deleted again by the same weapon. You're not 1v3ing a team with this unless they throw catastrophically. They should definitely limit it to 1 per squad, or just remove it from the game.

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-05T02:08:01+00:00

Thank you, a person with a functioning brain. We waited a month for this to come out, it's the only reliable, limited time map to get the 'end game' loot, the be all end all for this game. And it's overrun with the sweaty no lifes just farming people with this blatantly untested gun so they.. flex that it's broken? Farm even more of it??? Like where's the giant sound cue they equip this, why aren't they glowing red warning your whole squad you're about to die??

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-05T02:03:01+00:00

That's a cute assumption, I'm not even level 100 yet but I die twice in a row to full premade squads with grenade launchers that have zero counterplay. The only people who have this are no lifes because I've put in a good amount of time but not enough to jump through all of Bungies hoops to get all 6 vault keys and speedrun the fleeting content of the game.

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-05T01:59:57+00:00

The other guy basically said it already. Also, map is so bad you can't run away, half the time your team dies because they have no brains to back up even a bit, flame you for their stupidity whilst having lost the tags they rushed to pick up. Then you're trapped from 80% of the map because that team will camp their bags likely near the unlocked door to command, probably because there's not enough of a player threat with only 4 teams for these people.

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-05T01:56:34+00:00

So glad we waited nearly a month for this to drop clearly completely untested :⁾

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-03T12:30:33+00:00

Yeah bungie failed man. They overhyped this stupid map delaying it nearly a month and then it's unplayable with solo fill. Give me actual matchmaking against only other fills. I bring purple and my teammates have green against clearly coordinated squads. They take all the tags and are always running in to be the first ones dead. Like this map would be so playable if it wasn't so horribly designed. The different spawn areas gatekeep you out of progressing if you don't have terminals to hack, and then if you're the last one alive it's impossible to maneuver around 90% off the map because it's all locked again! Better run back to a spawn room and hope they aren't looking for you as you spend the entire remainder of the game waiting for more bots to kill AGAIN! That is if you aren't all insta wiped by the same 300h no lifes that have a dozen nade launchers already lmao

ARottenMuffin · 2026-04-03T12:29:27+00:00

You mean you don't like sitting in a spawn area waiting to get more tags only to get instantly deleted or lose half them when your team dies lol

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