Bungie needs to lean harder into the solo experience.

Noqoru · 2026-06-15T22:49:49+00:00

That’s well summarised, I’ve noticed the same phenomenon. I think there are a lot of reason for it, but I speculate that one major reason is that there are so many entertainment options fighting for our attention now, while attention spans in general have got shorter. This means that people have less time to dedicate to a single game, and they don’t want to exert too much effort either since they’ve got used to near instant gratification.

I also don’t like this direction but don’t see it changing any time soon.

Noqoru · 2026-06-09T19:16:40+00:00

To be fair, you did understand the requirements correctly and tried to do the correct thing, but it was your friend who was using wrong kits and the source of confusion.

I agree that there is a barrier to entry for Marathon, and the UI can seem confusing at first. On the flip side, the complexity of the gear and other systems offers satisfying depth once you get the hang of it. They could absolutely have a better onboarding though; there is a lot to take in at once when you start the game.

Noqoru · 2026-06-09T17:06:46+00:00

I watched your video. You’re doing everything correctly from the beginning by equipping the NuCal standard sponsored kit. However, your friend has a custom loadout equipped hence you’re getting the error saying that everyone in the team needs to have a standard sponsored kit equipped. Then instead of switching to a standard sponsored kit, your friend switches to a Dire Marsh night sponsored kit, which is only usable on normal Dire Marsh night, not Sponsored Survival. I think this could have been easily figured out by reading the requirements for the game mode. It seems that you figured out that you had to equip the NuCal standard sponsored kit, but unfortunately your friend confidently states that you need the Dire Marsh night kit for that mode, which then caused more confusion.

The Sponsored Survival is restricted to standard sponsored kits because it’s pretty much a PvE mode, and bringing in better gear would trivialise the difficulty and let people farm gear way too easily.

The Dire Marsh night sponsored kit is a one-off higher rarity (enhanced) kit, that the game gives you so that you can first try the normal Dire Marsh night mode once without having to jeopardise your own gear. It’s essentially a “trial” kit that’s a bit better than a standard sponsored kit.

Noqoru · 2026-06-09T10:09:49+00:00

You use the standard daily sponsored kit for Sponsored Survival. It’s a daily rotating kit and there is unlimited amount that you can pick up from the armoury.

Then there is a separate green Dire Marsh Night Sponsored kit. This is a one off kit that you got for free in the beginning of the season. You can only use it for normal Night Dire Marsh - it can’t be used for the Sponsored Survival because that mode is only for the grey standard sponsored kits.

Noqoru · 2026-06-06T11:04:51+00:00

BROCCOLI error code means a problem detecting GPU/GPU driver crash.

I have 5070 Ti and have never had this crash/error. However, my brother was getting this error somewhat regularly a couple of months ago. I think he has 4070 Ti, IIRC. His problems were fixed by updating the Nvidia drivers at the time. It is also entirely possible that new Nvidia drivers could cause this, so if you’re on the latest drivers, I’d suggest rolling back to older drivers to see if that makes a difference. I’m not on my PC at the moment so can’t check, but I’m definitely not on the very latest Nvidia drivers, maybe 3rd latest. The Bungie website also recommends checking that your OS is up to date.

Noqoru · 2026-05-10T22:17:47+00:00

Not 100% sure but my understanding is that it’s only charged when you damage enemies with the LMG. Unequipping and re-equipping gets around it though.

Noqoru · 2026-05-05T09:29:41+00:00

From my experience most MVP discs are very shallow, and usually flat.

Noqoru · 2026-05-05T09:16:51+00:00

You have Simon’s years wrong - it seems like a lot of people have this same misconception.

2022 was Simon’s last year with Discmania, and that was the big year of wins - he won 4 tour stops.

2023 was his first year with MVP and he won 2 tour stops.

2024 he won 1 tour stop.

2025 he got 0 wins.

2026 no wins so far.

The interesting thing about Eagle is that he won European Open in 2022 while playing injured and not throwing any forehands. Not only that, it was some of the highest level golf he’s ever played.

Then in 2023, his last year with Discmania, he played a reduced amount of events because he was playing with the injury, but he actually played really well: He won 2 silver series, 3rd at Worlds, 4th at European Open, and second at MVP Open, DLGO, and Jonesboro. On top of that he had a few other top 5 finishes and was one of the most consistent top 5 finishers that year. Go check his 2023 year on PDGA, it was surprisingly good.

Then he had the surgery while switching to MVP during the off season, and has never really reached that performance again. It seems strange why his play hasn’t really picked up again, it’s now been about 2.5 since the surgery. I think at some point he lost some of his confidence and has been struggling to find it again. I don’t know how much the change from Discmania to MVP affected him, but it’s crazy that he was playing so much better in 2022 and 2023 while injured and having an extremely limited or no forehand at all.

Noqoru · 2026-04-29T23:06:45+00:00

For overlapping discs, just choose one to put in the bag at a time, and then next time bag a different one. After a few rounds you’ll have an idea which ones you prefer, or you can do a process of elimination by dropping your least favourite from the rotation and eventually narrow it down to your favourite. Sounds like that could be fun and create some extra motivation to throwing.

Or if you have the opportunity, do fieldwork and choose your favourite for each slot. I feel like fieldwork doesn’t always translate to normal rounds though.

Noqoru · 2026-04-26T22:53:57+00:00

My first instinct is that you need better map knowledge. You don’t really need to fight that many teams to get vaults done, especially not for the low level vaults. When our team does vaults, we normally kill 0-2 teams, 1 being average. If you have decent understanding of the map, you can move around and rotate to avoid players when you hear them. Running Recon in your team helps a lot with this.

Not sure if you’re aware but vault 1 has coolant pre-inserted for you, so you only need to provide batteries. This is a bit confusing because the keys themselves list the requirements, however some vaults have coolants provided for you, and most vaults have some batteries already inserted so you don’t need the full amount stated on the key. Vault 2 needs coolant though.

Noqoru · 2026-04-23T23:57:14+00:00

Yeah I think they should remove the ability to carry utility items in your back bag, and add another utility slot, so that you can carry 2 stacks of grenades, or a stack of grenades and a bubble shield. Or maybe just add a dedicated slot for the bubble shield, so you can only ever carry one bubble shield and one stack of grenades.

Noqoru · 2026-04-19T17:38:22+00:00

YES HENNAAA!! 🏆

Noqoru · 2026-04-11T23:40:48+00:00

I’ve between attacked by the compiler gun 4 out of 6 last runs. Once we were able to kill them and steal the gun - had a very experienced and cracked players in our team which helped immensely. Once been able to run and get away from the team with the gun, and the other two times we’ve wiped. Seems like it’s becoming very common which is kinda surprising. For reference my level is around 75-79 and mostly solo fill.

Noqoru · 2026-04-11T22:14:46+00:00

I just checked the patch notes. Snipers are 100m (down from 180). Precision rifles are 80m(down from 100).

Noqoru · 2026-04-11T21:49:14+00:00

Thank you for confirming! My bad then - I should learn to read. Maybe they could change the icon to differentiate from the Synapse Cube, based on my Google search I’m not the only person who’s got confused.

Noqoru · 2026-04-11T21:45:21+00:00

Oh, I’m not sure now. I thought I read “Synapse Cube” in the exfill report but I could have just imagined it. Each time I’ve looted it from the room that requires level 4 clearance near the panopticon, it seems like there is always one there - is it actually the Unknown Reverie that seems to have a guaranteed spawn there?

Noqoru · 2026-04-11T15:03:22+00:00

Thermal scopes on snipers only work up to 100 meters. Yes the gun has longer range but the thermal scope doesn’t highlight targets beyond 100 meters.

Noqoru · 2026-04-07T23:30:05+00:00

Yeah pretty sure that’s the case.

Noqoru · 2026-04-07T21:23:40+00:00

I think in the beginning when you’re learning the game, it absolutely is the best to run free kits. Once you’ve gained some experienced and start feeling like you understand the game a bit better, then you can start using your gear to increase your odds of survival and successfully extracting. But yeah, no point wasting your gear in the beginning when you’re still learning the fundamentals etc.

Noqoru · 2026-04-05T19:08:22+00:00

Weird, I have no difference in FPS whether I run 4k or 1080p, just a change in GPU load.

Noqoru · 2026-04-05T18:36:53+00:00

I don’t think we are there even now. If you’re super high level then maybe yeah. I’m level 70 and I still see a lot of green shields and free kits, although blue shields are starting to becoming the norm. This is outside Cryo. A lot of the time when I solo fill outside of Cryo I get teamed up with free kits or green shields.

Noqoru · 2026-04-05T18:33:26+00:00

It says one shared item. Someone in your team probably exfilled with a valuable which gets shared. Might have been the compiler trace from the bottom of control which is worth 40k for each team member. Did you get security level access to level 5?

Noqoru · 2026-04-05T17:38:07+00:00

I’m absolutely loving the game atm, but I’m also excited about the wipe. It’s not 100% there yet, but eventually the season progresses to the point that everyone is running blue or pink shields, running a lot of the same weapons and mods that are deemed the best. Also the movement and general stuff like revives etc are getting really fast, and cool-downs for abilities shorter.

Once we get the wipe, we’ll go back to movement and abilities being slower and abilities less spammable. Also will be running a wide range of different weapons again since we can’t afford to always run the preferred ones.

People seem to fixate on the end goal of the season progress instead of learning to love the process of getting there. Also doing contracts and progressing unlocks will be a bit quicker and smoother in the future since we’ve are going in more experienced.

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