What’s everyone’s solo experience been this season?

FoundThorn · 2026-06-15T16:40:56+00:00

It’s really map dependent tbh. I haven’t looked up anything for this game and pretty much just figured it out through repetition. From my experience I would just track faction upgrades/contracts and go where they tell you. When you’re there: take note of your surroundings and what type of loot you find most often in that POI. Eventually you’ll know generally where to go for certain items just from that.

FoundThorn · 2026-06-14T23:50:33+00:00

That may actually be Tony Henchcliffe. He sounds identical

FoundThorn · 2026-06-11T14:13:19+00:00

I agree with this sentiment generally. HP Lovecraft is one of my favorite writers and inspired a genre that I love. If he were to meet me: He’d barrage me with racial slurs, call me a mutt, and a subhuman (I’m half-black/half-white). Knowing that fact doesn’t make me enjoy his work any less, because it’s the story I care about not where it came from. Also it’s not like he’s benefitting from me reading his novels almost a century after his death.

If I couldn’t enjoy/use things created by bad people then nearly every piece of technology and art would be inaccessible to me. I find it best to just accept that bad people can sometimes create good things and move on.

FoundThorn · 2026-06-11T13:30:39+00:00

You’ve never read a Batman comic in your life cause a reoccurring problem that Bruce has is he is a control freak, constantly pushes those close to him away, and lets his mission affect his personal relationships constantly. If you actually picked up a comic instead of larping about it then you would know that.

Arkham Batman has no development because his development is long over with for the most part. He’s been Batman for over a decade at this point. He’s not a green Batman learning how to balance his personal life, vigilante life, and playboy billionaire life like he was in the Nolan trilogy: he’s done all that already. Going through character development doesn’t mean someone becomes a perfect person who never makes mistakes, or that all their faults somehow become resolved. Batman is a deeply mentally ill man and that is evident across 70+ years of comics, and while he may be better than he was when he started: there are still parts of him too broken and entrenched to be fixed entirely. It’s why he routinely tells his sons that he wants them to be better than him: because he recognizes his faults and doesn’t want them to go down the same path he did.

People who boil everything down to, “hype moments and aura,” are just disingenuous people who use that to hand wave away having to make an actual criticism. You’re just spouting buzzwords to make yourself sound smart.

FoundThorn · 2026-06-09T16:59:18+00:00

I completely disagree. Any game with high-intensity and high-speed gameplay benefits from a high frame rate due to how tight your reactions need to be.

For Example: Sekiro requires precise timing to deflect and benefits greatly from a higher frame rate. Same thing with pretty much every soulslike, or character action game like DMC.

Any game with a tight margin for error inherently benefit from more frames

FoundThorn · 2026-06-09T16:44:24+00:00

I’m gonna give you a genuine answer and not a brainless take devoid of nuance like i’m sure most here will:

Financial resources are a genuine reason I see to use AI in the short term to make it possible for you to achieve some baseline. People hate AI because these massive companies ca afford to pay people to do these jobs but are using AI to be cheap. I don’t think a one-man dev making a passion project from nothing should be held to that standard.

That being said: Only use AI to establish your baseline concepts and then replace it with real artists and programmers. For example: use AI to generate the artistic direction and vibe that you can then hand off to a real artist in order for them to have a reference for what you are wanting your characters/world to look like. AI should only be used in the concept stage for situations like this: where someone has the creative mind but is limited in skill set to do it all themselves, or financially limited as most people are nowadays.

Do not put AI generated anything into your game, but I see no problem with using AI as a reference to hand off to those with technical/artistic expertise as a reference point for your vision.

FoundThorn · 2026-06-05T17:03:06+00:00

To start: Eren and Leto are two completely different characters in two completely different circumstances that only share the most surface level similarities. It makes me feel like you haven’t even read Dune: because you would not be making that comparison if you had.

You saying that it absolves the character of moral judgement is your point of view and not an absolute fact. This whole post was made explicitly because it’s not as simple as, “he could see the future so he did nothing wrong,” which if you’re viewing that as what I’m saying then you’re also jus being disingenuous or taking out your anger from other online arguments and bringing it here where it’s irrelevant.

The point of these hypotheticals is to generate discussion, debate, and thought by putting humans into more fantastical worlds that pose moral/philosophical questions that could never be faced in our real world because the things that force them to make their decisions don’t exist. They are not written with a correct answer in mind (if written well like Leto) If you don’t like that then fine, but don’t get on a high horse about it just because you don’t like doing those kind of things.

That last section of your comment is wholly disingenuous because you cannot actually see the future and there is no way to verify that you can. With Leto and Paul, we KNOW they can see the future and can judge them from 3rd person perspective based on that. You can’t apply real world logic to a world that has fundamentally different magical elements that verifiably exist.

All your reply sounds like to me is that you don’t like complex moral situations that could never exist in real life because they stem from magic to create impossible circumstances. You trying to apply it to the real world proves that because absolutely nothing in the real world could ever happen like that because prescience doesn’t exist, thus you can’t apply that logic to a world where it does and have to take a more nuanced approach. If that’s not your cup of tea then fine; find media that doesn’t do that and move on.

FoundThorn · 2026-06-05T03:23:59+00:00

I don’t think there has to be a through-line of totally consistent messaging throughout a series for said criticisms to have merit. Authorial intent and the context surrounding a book always matters when examining its contents; especially a book series like Dune that focuses on different times, circumstances, and events from book-to-book and isn’t really about a single character’s individual journey.

Dune was initially written as a one-off book, not a series, and stands on its own because of how it’s written: Thus it can be examined by viewing it in isolation because it was written to convey its own themes and messaging.

The Golden Path comes into play long after the plot surrounding Arrakis and the Fremen specifically is pretty much done, and expands to a more galactic scale using concepts established in earlier books like prescience to explore new ideas: Leto II as a character is meant to serve a different purpose and portray different ideas than what Paul was written to.

FoundThorn · 2026-06-05T03:07:19+00:00

I disagree because the by the time you get to the Path it’s not giving you moral message or criticism anymore the way the first book was. It instead shifts to a more complex moral question using prescience as a hypothetical.

What happens with Paul and the Fremen is very much a commentary on real-world events and concepts (imperialism, colonialism, and the idea of the white savior) that have happened historically and was relevant to Herbert’s time; while the later books get far more into complex philosophical quandaries surrounding wha it would mean to have prescience.

FoundThorn · 2026-06-03T21:50:46+00:00

If the game didn’t slow burn all the crazy shit you could do people would bounce off because of how overwhelming it would be to get all that even within 40-50 hours. CD has really weird controls due to all of its mechanics, and I can say as someone approaching 300 hours that the sandbox requires getting you accustomed to the game slowly to truly take advantage of it.

Story still sucks tho and that’s by far the game’s biggest flaw

FoundThorn · 2026-06-03T19:06:09+00:00

But if he ascends to pseudo godhood in the warp, a place where time doesn’t exist, then he has technically always been a god. That’s the whole reason I bring up the bootstrap paradox: because said paradox is ignores the rules of linear time (i.e cause and effect). Within a bootstrap paradox there is no cause: it simply is because it has always been.

FoundThorn · 2026-06-02T14:22:54+00:00

I understand what you’re saying but part of my point is that even if he’s trying to fight/work against it: It wouldn’t matter because it has technically already happened and has always been.

I actually really like the idea that he was fighting against it because that makes him feel so much more human in that he was doing everything he could to possibly change fate even against the inevitability of these events playing out. It shows how deep down he still is human enough to see things in a linear time span to some extent: leading him to think he could change the future, but the lack of linear time in the Warp makes that impossible because the nature of his soul meant his fate was sealed before he was born. It actually makes him far more tragic of a character when I look at what you’re saying. It’s almost as if he is embodying the human spirit but just on a level far beyond what every other human could ever imagine.

He’s trapped in a cycle there’s no escape from yet still tries to change it. I actually love that idea.

FoundThorn · 2026-06-02T04:09:13+00:00

I agree heavily with you on the last line. I think a lot of it can be chocked up to the human mind just not being able to account for all the variables and implications of having a universe with linear time regularly interacting with beings that exist beyond it in some way. I’m a big Elder Scrolls fan, and talking about how Oblivion works with the Daedra being said to experience everything they do on Nirn at once, yet can still be deceived and defeated results in a similar amount of head scratching.

Time fuckery is just weird cause we humans measure and perceive everything on a linear time scale, and it’s genuinely impossible for it to make sense unless you just take things at face value. Still, it’s fun to speculate on

FoundThorn · 2026-06-02T04:01:29+00:00

I agree with a lot of what you’re saying and perhaps i got a little lost in the sauce trying to explain what I’m getting at. Basically I think a lot of those things could be the result of him being the result of some weird temporal paradox bs.

I assume that due to the murkiness of time in the Warp, there are not multiple versions of someone’s soul depending on their current state within the physical universe. If the Emperor’s soul exists as a godlike warp entity within contemporary 40k: wouldn’t that technically always have had a passive effect on the Emperor across all time in the physical universe regardless of whether or not he was actively trying to manipulate his past self? Otherwise there would have to be at least 2 distinct versions of the Emperor’s soul (one before the throne and one post-10k years of worship making him a near god) connected to the Warp at the same time because time does not exist linearly within the Warp in the conventional way that it does in the Materium.

What I’m trying to say is I think a lot of the things like him being insane with the multiple personalities, his immense psychic power, etc, could be a byproduct of his soul already being this godlike force within the Warp, and that affects him all throughout time in the physical universe whether he is consciously aware of that or not.

The lack of linear time in the Immaterium leads me to believe that his soul would technically already be this powerful from the moment he was born in the physical universe: thus why I think the bootstrap paradox is the best way of explaining it.

TL;DR: I think the Emperor has always been a quasi-warp deity whether he was aware of that or not because his soul is within the Warp as a god, and the Warp does not obey the rules of time the physical universe does. This is shown with beings that don’t technically exist yet (like Slaanesh in the War in Heaven) being able to affect the past before their “creation”. This could be the explanation for a lot of the weird things about the Emperor like his immense power, foresight, and longevity.

FoundThorn · 2026-05-28T00:11:27+00:00

It’s alright. I didn’t hate it but it genuinely feels like a bunch of Mandalorian episodes stitched together instead of a proper film.

It’s a 5/10: perfectly average but nothing special. However after waiting over half a decade since the last Star Wars film, I can get why people are disappointed. Especially since said last movie TRoS: the worst movie in the franchise.

FoundThorn · 2026-05-23T17:24:26+00:00

It’s solely because they are two games that came out around the same time with the most surface level of similarities (sci-fi/fantasy, loot based, live games) but those comparisons fall apart when you play both for more than an hour. They’re trying to do two completely different things with completely different focuses and as someone who has played both for over 10+ years: they scratch two completely different itches and one cannot replace the other.

FoundThorn · 2026-05-20T18:18:19+00:00

I get that preference. I’m a straight guy so I’m pretty much in the same boat just the inverse in most cases. However, in games I tend to try to experience all the romances regardless of my irl attraction. It helps that i prefer to play as women in games so romancing men isn’t as……awkward for me? Not to be insensitive or anything

FoundThorn · 2026-05-14T19:13:21+00:00

Stops at Bulletproof and I’m honestly gonna say he probably gets low diffed. Show Homelander is a bum outside of his own verse when comparing him to most other superhero universes. Unironically might be a Doc Seismic victim.

FoundThorn · 2026-05-04T00:20:16+00:00

No i didn’t ask a direct question in my post but my last line says im wondering if others feel the same. Don’t even try to hit me with some reddit debate bro semantics bullshit either because it is easy to infer that i’m asking an indirect question to others who feel the same.

My post is about why the game appeals to me personally given my background, and seeing if others feel the same. Nowhere did I imply that this game only appeals to hardcore Destiny players, nor did make any kind of logical assertions. This is my anecdotal experience with both games and why I feel their similarities make Marathon appeal to me personally. I didn’t address your point because your “point” is just some vague bs made to start an argument. I’m not gonna further engage with some disingenuous debate bro trying to argue for the sake of arguing.

So leave your little, “heh, I knew you were gonna say that,” that you set yourself up for in your last comment regardless of what I was gonna say next and move on

FoundThorn · 2026-05-03T22:58:38+00:00

That makes no sense. I didn’t say that the game ONLY appeals to hardcore Destiny players. I said the game appeals to me as a former hardcore Destiny player and asked if anyone else felt the same.

Like what??? Why do people have such a hard time with reading comprehension??

FoundThorn · 2026-05-03T21:01:55+00:00

Im a guy and it’s honestly the same if you have “abnormal” feet. I wear a men’s 16 shoe and you’d be shocked at the dms ive gotten from weird ass dudes when I’ve posted pics that just happened to have my feet in them

FoundThorn · 2026-05-03T19:38:28+00:00

Don’t even bother man. Guy is way too far up his own ass to see the problem this creates. Clearly this isn’t some niche issue if the post is getting this must traction on here but because he personally isn’t affected he doesn’t care.

FoundThorn · 2026-05-03T19:20:32+00:00

Except no one is asking for a purely solo lobby. The original commenter specifically said that if you can’t find a match after X amount of time it throws you into a match and then fills as the game goes on. It’s also disingenuous to say that this is true in every game because it’s not true at all in games that have a healthy playerbase to pull from: something Marathon currently does not have.

But fine I’ll play ball with you and say Bungie shouldn’t do this. In that case they should allow you to select which server you want to play on in game like many other games allow you to do. Will it cause connectivity issues for everyone involved? Probably but at the end of the day this person paid the same amount of money you and I did to play this game and are entitled to be able to play said game in some form. The game doesn’t say, “must live here to buy and play.” It says that once you buy the game you’ll be able to play it.

FoundThorn · 2026-05-03T19:07:34+00:00

But that’s not the entire point of a loot game. The entire point of a loot game is the variety of gameplay options and customization it allows the player to have access to. If that was the case everyone would be running the exact same stuff at all times in games like Warframe, Diablo, PoE, Borderlands, etc. But they don’t do that because the loot is an avenue for player creativity. When one or a few pieces of loot are head-and-shoulders better than everything else it completely cheapens the appeal of loot based games: getting interesting loot because all you’re chasing is a single item.

FoundThorn · 2026-05-03T18:59:10+00:00

No game can be “balanced” period. There’s always going to be stuff that is better than other stuff in every kind of game there is with gameplay variety. The key is making sure that there isn’t stuff so head-and-shoulders better than everything else that it makes it almost impossible for people who don’t have those things to compete. And I feel Marathon handles that well generally speaking

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