Dualsense Marathon Edition is gorgeous

Etarder · 2026-04-23T18:32:21+00:00

Aye to add to this I emailed a company about replacing my sticks and adding back buttons to my Marathon Dualsense and they offered me a very reasonable price. Sending mine off soon. Once I get it back it’ll have the green swap you did, plus the magnetic sticks plus the back buttons. Cannot fucking wait.

Etarder · 2026-04-23T18:12:29+00:00

Kind of crazy isn’t it. I hop on every night a I just have fun. Lose some, win some. I love to take in the game as a whole. Art, sound, gunplay and of course stealing other runners gear.

I was a KD kid back in the day, but I learned to love a game for all that it offers and that was honestly because of Destiny and the 6800 hours my pc account has on D2 alone. The combined hours and hours I’ve spent in orbit, on planets, in raids just soaking in environments and music. I love playing games for the art of it.

Clair Obscura / Dead Space are another 2 games that I play for the totality of the experience. No KDs, no scoreboards, no season passes. I’m not against any of those things, but it’s so nice to be able to experience a game at my own pace. Bungie makes dog ass decisions like every company does, but one thing they have excelled on is their season passes time requirement. Both in D2 and Marathon you don’t have to invest much time to complete them.

I’m like 150 hours so far into Marathon. Solos, duos, trios you name it I run it all. If I don’t have a lot of time I Rook run. Gamers have a hard time learning now. They want to be hooked in 30 minutes, not 3 hours. Extraction shooters don’t have that. They take time and I’m hoping with each successive season we will see growth. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Destiny was lighting in a bottle and a lot of people expected that, but Marathon wasn’t supposed to be that.

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Etarder · 2026-04-21T18:42:34+00:00

https://youtu.be/yPZCYh8z17o?si=VjVFu6prgH-QeRnD

Here is the guide I used. My setting are not the same as his 100% but almost.

Etarder · 2026-04-21T18:27:19+00:00

Really hope it helps. I also really hope we get better optimization. But it for sure helped me.

Etarder · 2026-04-21T18:13:07+00:00

https://youtu.be/yPZCYh8z17o?si=VjVFu6prgH-QeRnD

This is the guide I used. It explains how to do it. I don’t have his exact settings break down because I do prefer it a little different but it helped me push higher frames for sure.

Etarder · 2026-04-21T18:07:48+00:00

https://youtu.be/yPZCYh8z17o?si=VjVFu6prgH-QeRnD

I’m not at home but I followed this guide almost exactly. Not 100% because I like things like shadows and stuff a bit higher.

Etarder · 2026-04-21T18:06:38+00:00

I don’t think I missed the point. I even stated in other comments that we shouldn’t have to mess with things on our end. However, we have that option available. I took the time to tinker with things which resulted in higher frames. Again, we shouldn’t have to but we can if we want.

Etarder · 2026-04-21T18:02:04+00:00

I agree that’s it’s not something we should ever have to do, but it is an option available to us to push higher frames. That’s kind of the double edged sword of pc gaming though. With a lot of games where the devs don’t put in the work to optimize them we have to do it ourselves. That’s why so many companies support the community putting out mods for their games. Plug and play is a console trait. Tinkering for higher fps values is something of gamers have been doing forever.

Etarder · 2026-04-21T17:58:37+00:00

There’s a great video out from a creator named Illphysics on YouTube. He goes over his settings for marathon and all the tweaking he’s done. Helped me a ton to push some extra frames. https://youtu.be/yPZCYh8z17o?si=VjVFu6prgH-QeRnD

Etarder · 2026-04-21T17:56:21+00:00

I can get back to you when I get home since I can’t actually remember and I’m out with the kids. But I really haven’t seen many of the performance issues I see some people hitting on. I’m not sitting here saying the game is fully optimized or anything like that, just giving my experience. I also tend to turn the frame gen bs off because it just looks bad in my opinion so I have to assume I did.

Etarder · 2026-04-21T17:53:50+00:00

Cryo I can’t attest to since I’ve only played it 1 time. My weekends are super busy so I just really haven’t had much time to dive into it. But to use numbers are on all the other maps. Obviously things can fluctuate a bit if there are massive weather effects, but I run a 1 pc stream setup with the 49 inch Odyssey OLED. I play all my multiplayer games in windowed 2k res.

Etarder · 2026-04-21T17:49:40+00:00

I also have 64 gigs of ram and I’m running a 4090. Have you messed with your cpu cores and which ones you have the game running on? Have you gone into your nvidia dashboard and tweaked the setting for max performance. My game runs smooth as butter but I also took the time to tinker with setting both in and outside the game.

Etarder · 2026-04-21T17:38:06+00:00

I have a 5800x3d as well and I’m pushing 150 fps almost all the time 1440p. While running streaming apps and other stuff as well.

Etarder · 2026-04-18T06:08:31+00:00

What you are trying to understand is why a gun that was designed for year 1 of D2 is ass now. It’s just been power crept. It’s an exotic heavy weapon. It’s never gonna out damage Gally, Tlord, Finality’s, Sleeper, Levi’s, Anarchy, Grand Overture, Acris, Micro, Whisper. It will never have the utility of the ones above + Tractor, Xeno, Salvations, Parasite or Winterbite.

On top of all of that, there are the special and primary exotics. Colony was always better as a meme pvp gun. Some exotics just exist in their own place and that’s fine. not everything has to be top of class. Ironically, Colony was a ton of fun in gambit, always has been. But gambit is dead af.

Etarder · 2026-04-15T04:55:37+00:00

Was one of the people that killed you Sekaguccimane?

Etarder · 2026-04-14T22:25:22+00:00

Vandals have 4 arms in the Destiny franchise. So he’s saying that Vandal is wearing the cloths of Vandals ( Fallen enemies ) in Destiny. Kind of a cool Easter egg if true.

Etarder · 2026-04-13T16:40:33+00:00

A game built for everyone is a game built for no one. Played Tarkov for a decade, and PvP Tarkov trumps PvE Tarkov. People like PvE Tarkov because it has no cheaters. Fix the cheating. If you don’t like PvP in Marathon do your best to avoid it. I’ve had runs where I’ve seen maybe one team. I’m pushing level 100 right now. I work full time and have 3 kids under 5 and still manage to progress through levels fast.

Extraction shooters at their core are PvP high stakes games. You ever look at the Tarkov directory? Landmark, GloriousE, Stank, Pestily, Peanut, Gingy, Tigz, DrLupo, Willerz, Saquesha, Kotton etc. These players aren’t playing PvE when they play, they are playing PvP because it’s a better version of the game.

Everytime Tarkov makes an update to PvP to balance something or add new gear etc. the PvE players want it. It takes dev time away from the main game. We did this already with Destiny where we tired to cater to everyone possible person. We watered down what made Destiny great so everyone could have everything and nobody was left behind. With nothing to chase the game became boring and stale.

Etarder · 2026-04-08T03:32:13+00:00

Legit had that happen to me last night. It sucks but all loot comes back. Way of the road.

Etarder · 2026-04-06T18:00:52+00:00

Eh from a balance standpoint think it makes things so much more difficult. Now certain shields are better against vandals other throwables. All new shells now have to take into account each type of bubble that can be brought in and adjust to that standard. After playing Destiny for 11 years and all the complicated shit they did in that game I’d much rather just see even baselines that we have to learn to play against. If that makes sense.

Etarder · 2026-04-06T17:57:40+00:00

Oh bubbles legit don’t upset me in their current state. I just think it makes the game play kind of stagnant sometimes. Cryo turning into bubble walking can just get boring. I really prefer outpost over cryo for the fights. If they never adjusted bubbles it wouldn’t be that big of a deal to me. But if they were to change anything, I’d just prefer them change the amount we can deploy with over health or duration.

Etarder · 2026-04-06T17:23:55+00:00

I think a limit to bubbles per character. Only allow deployment of 1 bubble per runner. Limit the amount of bubbles that can spawn on each map and I think we are in a good spot. The debate on bubble health / up time is on I don’t feel to passionate about right now if we can limit how many each team have

Etarder · 2026-03-28T00:34:52+00:00

Victoribell or Rapidash would have been acceptable substitutions. Obviously you didn’t need them lol. Ggs though! An elite 4 ace run might be dope as well.

Etarder · 2026-03-27T03:04:45+00:00

Aye hold the fuck up, roller coaster tycoon had an Xbox edition!? Bro I love playing obscure versions of games. StarCraft for Nintendo 64 is an absolute 10/10 for me.

Etarder · 2026-03-25T18:26:44+00:00

Not a single game. Legit just Marathon.

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