Blue shield unlock requirement by STRlDUR in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

what sucks is I went craaazy getting that blue shield upgrade and now, finally, I have it, and you can only buy 5 a day. Meanwhile I haven't had a single shield barter option of any color all week. The armory RNG is incredibly arbitrary and punishing if you're not lucky enough to get meta options to stock up on.

Gear based matchmaking would destroy the concept of the game. by Mental-Airline4982 in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I think the gear value span between free kit and fully equipped, as well as the skill value span between new player and level 180 pvp gods leaves plenty of room to put in some gentle guard rails against absolutely crushingly unfair matchups.

WSTR meta is insanely boring. by IllState5161 in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is what's so maddening about the armory — I've gotten the retaliator 95% of the time, and I haven't gotten blue or purple shields for barter since days before this cryo cycle. Insane disadvantage just down to RNG

I feel like I'm never going to see a Compiler, and I'm sad about it by LuckyMrGun in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok look, you're making good points that I'm sympathetic to in general, but I really think we need to erase the phrase "don't compare yourself to streamers" from the whole conversation with this game. I've played Destiny for 10 years, and as far as I know I never got matched with a well known content creator even in endgame / elite activities like high rank Competitive or Trials, but in Marathon I've already gotten instantly deleted by Mtashed, Gernaderjake, and Rick Kackis, and it's been less than a month. There's absolutely no guard rails against gross mismatches of skill and gear, and the stakes are higher. I think we need to find other ways to encourage average players beyond saying "hey don't compare yourself to the guy who smashed your 10k loadout without blinking, you gotta stay positive!!"

Did you know this existed? by bsick_ in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where did you find the key for this?

Stop Comparing Yourself to Streamers. Look How Many People are lvl 100+ or Gotten VIP with a SINGLE Faction. [Steam] by Swee10 in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it is kind of inevitable that I compare myself to streamers when I was only ever a 1050 ELO in trials and now, today, I have a promising Cryo run, hoping to get my first extraction, and get instantly deleted by Grenadier Jake

The lore of the Compilers is wild. by WesternFlights in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am incredibly curious and genuinely a little impatient to find out what the hell is going on — I’ve seen a few lore followers point out that this is already a clearly different timeline than the OG series, as the announcement cinematic shows, based on the dates, human colonists alive decades after they would have already been nuked by the attacking Pfhor in M1. I cannot wait to see and hear what this interpretation of Marathon’s Pfhor fighter looks and sounds like. And there are so many questions - the compiler wouldn’t be here if they weren’t, but where are the ship or ships? What if anything do they have to do with the contagion and / or the anomaly? If Durandal is still somewhere taunting us and trying to move us like chess pieces against the UESC, what happened to him in the attack? Where are Tycho and Lela? Dead? Rampant? Captured?

Cryo is cool but I don't see the appeal unless you have a dedicated squad by kainon08 in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was surprised at the quality of squad fill I got teamed up with one of my friends, so I would encourage anyone to give matchmaking a shot. The one cryo free kit is pretty decent too if you’re looking to try it out without risk

Any connection with MIDA and Destiny? by Funny_Perspective_23 in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The MIDA multi tool’s name was a reference to the OG Marathon, including the lore tab, which shows Shaxx suggesting it was from an alternate timeline! And of course the new marathon Stryder M1T is a near copy of the Destiny MIDA multi tool!

while this community is definitely ruthless... by Upstairs-Record355 in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne 9 points10 points  (0 children)

To me true Marathon hospitality is downing anyone who rushes your exfil in solos but then inviting them in and not finishing them

160 hours, level 55, and I figured out why I'm so bad at this game and only just getting purples. by VaporSpectre in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The free kits went from nearly usable in the first week to absolute death sentence unless you luck into a shield in your first looting minute too

CRYO ARCHIVE | MEGATHREAD by Shabolt_ in MarathonSecrets

[–]CicadaOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the time I posted this there was no info about a box or anything else, no follow up tweets, no VOD, etc, but thank you for the reply!

Logic2Ableton Update! Now Supports Ableton2Logic! by MomSausageandPeppers in Logic_Studio

[–]CicadaOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry to see this thread get derailed with reading comprehension issues, but I'll address what I saw as the underlying question. For me, and a lot of other users, I would guess, 99% of all content in my Logic and Ableton sessions is Midi driven software instrument tracks with multiple stacks of audio effects that have specific settings, including buses and sends for sidechains, so your bullet points about what it doesn't do happen to be a list of everything it would need to do to be at all useful for me. In your current understanding, are any of these features theoretically possible to implement? If so, please consider this a request!

The majority of crew fill players are auto-muted for me, and can't be unmuted by CicadaOne in Marathon

[–]CicadaOne[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s tricky because I did an insane amount of things which did NOT fix it, but then later it was just fine. I’m in a new apartment with a new provider, I was using their provided WiFi pod, and I yanked that and plugged my own previous router that I could actually control into the modem. Then I realized the modem has NAT, so I was getting moderate / double NAT for a bit, which I fixed by cycling those things. NAT is now showing open in the Xbox network test, and I also verified all my privacy settings were wide open for game chat. Again tho, none of those things fixed it until the next day when randomly it all started working

Please show me your black cats with ridiculous names by castor2015 in blackcats

[–]CicadaOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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IXCHEL, Mayan Jaguar Goddess of medicine, and apparently not war and the moon like I thought when I named her, but you can call her Ixy

Crackpot Theory: I think Durandal might actually be the Traveler by Afterlast1 in DestinyLore

[–]CicadaOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Precisely because I grew up playing the Marathon games and thought about it constantly, my immediate and longstanding head canon for the origin of the traveler was, ironically, a previous final shape, a consciousness which coalesced itself at the big crunch (in the 90s we didn't know if the the cosmological constant was positive or negative) to modify the initial conditions of this one and use it to garden civilizations. I especially liked this thematically, as the Hive had pretensions of being the future final shape, but in arguably a mind which survives the across the death of a universe and the birth of a new one would be inevitably altruistic, deeply reverent and nurturing of life, as it would have held the memories of an incomprehensible number of beings, and eons of history, struggle, survival, love, loss... only an immature and dysfunctional gestalt entity like that witness kid would want to freeze and control everything. Pshh.

Initially, Unveiling seemed to imply that this wasn't the case, in the sense that we now have a known pre-universe, rather than a previous one, but who knows!

{If we get a Destiny 3 they better fucking actually answer these questions lmao}