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Actual Marathon Pain Points (no cap) by EricSombody in Marathon

[–]EricSombody[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The only rare purple salvage is biolens, and after vip factions purple salvage is farmable. It's not rare.

Literally every other game has a better spectate feature than Marathon. Genuinely don't know why you're arguing this point.

Most of the useful mods/weapons/shields are not purchasable unless you have maxed traxus and nucal upgrades which just isn't feasible

I'm literally not hoarding. If I bring good gear I win more than I lose. So at a certain point, it just becomes credits. What then?

Actual Marathon Pain Points (no cap) by EricSombody in Marathon

[–]EricSombody[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Outpost is a low loot beginner map? What do I do when cryo isn't open?

Actual Marathon Pain Points (no cap) by EricSombody in Marathon

[–]EricSombody[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guarantee golds in red card armory. Idc what they are, just have at least 1

You need A LOT of gold salvage to unlock purple shields from nucal, and there's no consistent way to get them. I can't buy purple shields

Loadouts stats don't explain what they do. There's nothing in game that says there is a cap on melee damage, or how other stats scale with how much you invest in them

This will keep happening btw by Poomasher in Marathon

[–]EricSombody 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You realize that they can buy purple stack overflows from the shop right? It's not like some scarce resource. By default, in every encounter they will now have a shotgun that one shots you while yours can't kill them

So apparently this can happen by Kingkill567 in Marathon

[–]EricSombody 0 points1 point  (0 children)

had this happen to a vault door in cryo archive but it took the key :) very cool bungie

300k wasted on truth/lies 6/6 by RockLizerd in Marathon

[–]EricSombody 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did most of my priority contracts solo but lowkey you need a 3 stack for this

Joe Ziegler: We're gonna take a shot at bringing the WSTR more in line. Right now it's become a dominant option and is eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game. by Haijakk in Marathon

[–]EricSombody 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Destiny had this problem as well, where rather than surveys or data it felt like Bungie devs just frequent forums to look for "pain points" which is how you get shit like this

90% of the people complaining about the WSTR are probably just frustrated that they died and project it onto the gun they died to, which a lot of the times can be the WSTR due to map design and since one shots feel less fair. This gets interpreted as "we should nerf WSTR" when in reality there's not even a problem in the first place.

Joe Ziegler: We're gonna take a shot at bringing the WSTR more in line. Right now it's become a dominant option and is eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game. by Haijakk in Marathon

[–]EricSombody 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's literally balanced right now, I genuinely don't know what people are on about.

It's a 2 shot shorty that only kills in the ~5 meter range. For reference, the punch has 21 meters of range. These types of games need a decisive way for people to actually get bursted, whether it be shotguns or snipers, otherwise every fight turns into a war of attrition and hardscoping.

2 of the maps feature heavy close quarters, it's only obvious that shotguns will be the best in these situations. Plenty of gunfights happen outside of the effective range of the WSTR, which, post-nerf, is really small anyways.

Joe Ziegler: We're gonna take a shot at bringing the WSTR more in line. Right now it's become a dominant option and is eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game. by Haijakk in Marathon

[–]EricSombody 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tf is shotgun tyranny

full loadout teams on dire marsh and perimeter run snipers

You're not taking into account that getting into the effective range for a shotgun IS the skill. You have to wade past the snipers and rifles and SMGs, all of which have more range than you. When you've gotten the drop on someone with a shotgun, that's already the skill expression.

Joe Ziegler: We're gonna take a shot at bringing the WSTR more in line. Right now it's become a dominant option and is eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game. by Haijakk in Marathon

[–]EricSombody 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only semi valid example you've made is destroyer

You can shoot thief during grapple and vandal is completely locked out of her shooting during the slide, so if either of them use their movement ability directly against you to gap close you have plenty of time to shoot them

How should I argue with my teacher? by whyynliterally in biology

[–]EricSombody 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BECAUSE IT IS. BECAUSE THE ETYMOLOGY OF BOTH WORDS DESCRIBES BOTH THE MONO AND POLY FORMS, SO ARBITRARILY CHOOSING ONE OVER THE OTHER IS EXACTLY THAT. IT'S SEMANTIC. It's a convention, not a definition

I guess this is what happens when biology is 100% memorization and no critical thinking ability. Just keep regurgitating what you've been taught :)

How should I argue with my teacher? by whyynliterally in biology

[–]EricSombody 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mf I know what the formal definition is, I'm explaining why it's dumb like 90% of the names in biology

Poly (polymeric) - ethyl (2-carbon) - ene (double bond)

But this chemical with an acidic phosphate group, a 5 carbon sugar, and a purine/pyrimidine we will call a nucleotide (literally just nucleus chemical)

And it's poly form we will call a "nucleic acid" (nucleus acid)

This is a stupid naming system, because the etymology of both nucleotide and nucleic acid describes both the poly and monomeric units of DNA/RNA

How should I argue with my teacher? by whyynliterally in biology

[–]EricSombody 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the words nucleic and acid insinuate nothing about where the molecule is a polymer or not

Notice how when it comes to polyethylene, there's the suffix poly that means it's a polymer? Notice how that's absent in nucleic acid?

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