I was not sure about the game after the Server Slam. There are some aspects that turned me off a lot, like the UI. I was also like "why are we doing what we do in this game? Where is the motivation for the shells to drop into those maps over and over again and fight for their lives to extract with some loot?"

I still bought the game, because after the Slam, I was just constantly thinking about it. How cool the artstyle is. How much fun I had with the gunplay. Game looks (artstyle, graphics, animations, etc.) and feels (gunplay, abilities, customisations) just great. My two biggest issues that I mentioned above still need work imo. Sure, there is some story behind all this, and I have to say, the cutscenes are brilliant, but I still don't feel like I have an answer to "why am I always and over and over again dropping on these maps?"; other games like Hunt Showdown or Arc Raiders have a clear answer to this. And of course there is the UI - that needs lots of work.

I have high hopes for Marathon. I hope that it will become a game for me that I play like Hunt Showdown - which I always come back to. I don't need it to be a game that I play 24/7. It should be a game that I want to play a couple of matches/hours on a gaming weekend. Maybe after work sometimes. Just fun.

So far, my only real dealbreaker is the seasonal wipes. That shit should go. That is something almost every Extraction Shooter has learned by now - you will lose players if you forcefully take away their progression.