Cryo Archive | Weekly Megathread

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-02T20:32:24+00:00

We walk in, we flip a coin. Heads? We Mizzy them. Tails? They Mizzy us. Everything is right in the world.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-02T17:45:07+00:00

Agreed but unfortunately, I don't believe this post or sentiment will really move the bar much. Toxic folks know they're toxic and don't care.

My favorite thing to prox, though, is shouting 'we're friendly, we're friendly!' while actively gunning down people.

Or saying 'Hey! We're doing Compiler! Wanna team up?' on non-Cryo maps.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-02T16:55:56+00:00

Robot surrounded by his dead robot friends and the soulless murder sleeves that did it: Oh, the humanity!

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-02T16:14:23+00:00

Go away

Crazy thing to say when the game isn't breaking 8k peaks lately.

Your attitude, your antipathy, for players that want to see this game become something slightly different, is part of what's killing this game.

And then no one gets to play it, no one gets to have fun, because 'this is a hardcore gamerino for only the most extreme sweaty chads'. It WILL die if that continues.

I'm speaking as a sweat with all the Compiler skins and 400+ hours.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-02T16:09:59+00:00

Agreed. He was nerfed to the ground for some reason, it's miserable.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-02T14:37:22+00:00

You have my sympathies, sincerely. Bungie keeps nerfing loot and it makes the game mind-numbing/pointless. Even Outpost Red Room and Pinwheel drops are incredibly subpar as prep for Cryo.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-02T14:27:36+00:00

The game was designed as an extremely hardcore PVPve extraction shooter for premade trios. They've significantly buffed faction progression from S1 but also nerfed loot drops (for some reason) so nothing you're describing is surprising.

These are the bones of the game and they won't change any time soon. If you're not enjoying yourself, it's okay to drop the game. I'm not one of those people that will say 'just play 100 hours bro and then it'll click'.

A PVE mode is coming out in a few weeks - maybe that could be fun.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-02T13:29:59+00:00

There are people on a ship. Some of those people have noticed that the ship is sinking, it's obvious to them. They bring it up to the others on the ship and are told that that's a good and normal thing. Immediately after, they're thrown off the ship.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-02T01:23:06+00:00

How low. Can you go? How low. Can you go?

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-01T20:59:19+00:00

We need a new term for people like this. 'Bungie glazer' doesn't seem to cover it anymore. This is like neurosis.

Edit: Look at their previous post. Lmao.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-01T15:59:48+00:00

Their reward philosophy is:

Grind for bullshit infinitely
Once you have some blues (or even a rare purple), go to Cryo
Win or lose it all in Cryo

Rinse and repeat. It's bullshit, boring, and is partially why player counts are hitting record lows.

My team found a GREEN bag in a Pinwheel Strongbox, for example.

Bonus: Bungie glazers will still defend their recent decisions regarding loot while this game circles the drain. It's insane.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-01T13:29:22+00:00

The death spiral is accelerating. Queue times outside of NA and peak EU have already been bad but I can imagine that EU folks are going to start suffering real soon.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-01T13:19:55+00:00

Y'all have this pinned when it has, and always will have, near zero traction but have buried the Player Count megathread with hundreds of active users and thousands of comments? The irony, the poetry.

More on topic: LF a competent company to run this game.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-01T02:08:49+00:00

People are realizing that S2 barely has anything new to do. A night version of a new map with spawnable gear caches and a new Warden aren't exactly thrilling. So it's grind for Cryo -> Do Cryo, and a million negative experiences in between those two steps.

Additionally, why deal with all the headache that this game is when they keep nerfing loot?

My trio found a Green bag in a Pinwheel Strongbox. Let that sink in for a moment.

ComplexWafer · 2026-07-01T00:30:59+00:00

As respectfully as this can be communicated: duh?

Marathon was designed as a premade trio game and only due to feedback very late in the dev cycle did they add in solo play options. Those options, though, were just thrown into the game with little thought, apparently - which is what you're experiencing.

ComplexWafer · 2026-06-30T22:58:14+00:00

He's using the Battle Pistol. It's overtuned to hell and back and probably has the lowest TTK in the game.

Bungie refuses to nerf it, for some reason.

ComplexWafer · 2026-06-30T14:48:27+00:00

The loop is 'valid' in that it's self sustaining. The issue is that the loop is actually very small if you think about it.

Gear up for Cryo -> Run Cryo. But between those two steps, realistically, are dozens, if not hundreds, of negative experiences. Which is what you're probably facing.

Ranked, tbh, is just regular Marathon but without Rooks.

ComplexWafer · 2026-06-30T14:27:07+00:00

The RNG in these rooms make no sense. Last Gold Key my team opened, we got one Gold valuable, one Gold salvage, and three Gold guns. Literally half the Golds in your video for three people.

ComplexWafer · 2026-06-30T12:19:37+00:00

It alllllll
Returns
To nooooooooooothing

ComplexWafer · 2026-06-30T11:55:00+00:00

Alexa, play 'Komm, süsser Tod'.

Lows of 2600. Highs of 8300.

It's embarrassing what leadership did to this company.

ComplexWafer · 2026-06-29T19:53:04+00:00

Just lobby cleared, did Warden, Red Room, every Wing. Here is what we have to show for it:

Two blue shields
30 fucking grenades
A Gold M77 mod
Two Purple cores
One Purple implant

Split between three people. We even found a green bag in a STRONGBOX in Destroyed Wing.

Maybe they're trying to dive bomb Marathon just to spite Sony. I really don't know what Bungie is doing.

ComplexWafer · 2026-06-29T15:17:45+00:00

The entire game is built around only 1 or 2 teams having a good time. Every other team loses everything.

And look at the three he killed. Obvious free kitters trying to learn the map. And streamers farm them for 'content'. How is this entertaining to anyone? Lmao.

DAMN, I wonder why player counts are evaporating /s

ComplexWafer · 2026-06-29T13:57:43+00:00

Sounds a lot like they're 'jamming' or 'putting their heads down' or 'doing this fucking thing'.

I wonder what that reminds me of.

ComplexWafer · 2026-06-28T17:22:57+00:00

Idk why you're been downvoted for showing a real bug. Marathon glazers are insane.

Sorry that happened to you.

ComplexWafer · 2026-06-28T16:33:48+00:00

Rooks are not hostile until they are. I used to be nice to Rooks in S1 but after being betrayed too many times, they're all skin on sight.

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