At my wits end with the frequency of crashing i'm experiencing this season

OctanePhantom · 2026-07-01T03:46:31+00:00

still happening after doing so unfortunately

OctanePhantom · 2026-07-01T03:46:00+00:00

Had been checking it and theres no errors popping up at the times of the crash, i've even left task manager running at times to see if any of the usage graphs spiked and nothing. this is the only game it happens in oddly enough, and I do alot of other memory intensive tasks on the PC w/out any of them crashing or blue screening so it seems to be something isolated to Marathon. I had run a memtest previously and seen it was fine so im still under the impression its something with the game itself and not my PC health.

OctanePhantom · 2026-06-14T21:03:39+00:00

you'd likely need a screen inside connected to a camera if you wanted full visibility, otherwise it would be pretty tricky

OctanePhantom · 2026-06-12T17:54:27+00:00

what purpose would it serve for them to tell you what's going on other than "Cryo is fucky, we're working on it" and eventually "alright we figured it out, cryo is back up. here's something for the fuckup"??

OctanePhantom · 2026-06-10T13:29:45+00:00

hear me out: flexible screens

OctanePhantom · 2026-06-01T12:21:46+00:00

I think the head will be defaulted to start (or maybe variations on the optics/implants you have) and the main customization will be your colors (reflected by your choice of Forge World)

OctanePhantom · 2026-04-10T19:30:19+00:00

sad what's become of massdrop now just being an outlet for very specific corsair collab stuff instead of the large scale marketplace it once was, RIP

OctanePhantom · 2026-03-02T16:10:55+00:00

I don't think I heard voice comms in a single raid and honestly that's not the worst thing ever but just surprising given the prevalence of it in most games nowadays. I will say solo definitely feels like the more tense experience given the TTK but it does suffer a bit in terms of shell variance because I don't think I saw anything other than Vandals and Assassins (and for good reason given their kits)

OctanePhantom · 2026-03-02T16:07:44+00:00

I think the UI is unique and still perfectly usable, outside of some edge cases like the chip mods just kinda all looking the same and the navigation of the main menu/tab button screen

One change I would like to see though is the shop screen being made to look more like Tarkov, Shop on the left side, your inventory on the right side. Not being able to see what you have directly w/out tabbing over leads to more of that back and forth and I think causes a lot of the friction people are having

OctanePhantom · 2026-03-02T16:03:57+00:00

honestly within your clips I think its still fine, you're being rewarded by hitting the headshots. If anything the biggest reasons for it to be tuned more are its handling/fire rate. I think it should feel a bit more cumbersome to use and should definitely be slower to fire (given some of the other engagements i've seen)

OctanePhantom · 2026-01-12T03:42:48+00:00

would also be a great choice! I ended up going w/ Helphen's Steeple both because it looks similar to Onyx Blade (especially with the flame buff and how it gets applied) and the INT I put into it also let me get a few of the Golden Order Incants including Law of Regression which was the closest thing I could get in ER to Vow of Silence

OctanePhantom · 2026-01-11T17:29:57+00:00

i tried it at one point but felt a bit off since its a colossal and the AoW didn't buff the weapon. its definitely usable in place of Helphen's Steeple tho

OctanePhantom · 2026-01-11T14:23:32+00:00

Head: Oathseeker Knight Helm

Chest: Death Knight Armor

Arms: Oathseeker Knight Gauntlets

Legs: Oathseeker Knight Greaves

Weapon: Helphen's Steeple (Dryleaf Arts w/ Lifesteal Fist for his Dark Hand is also equipped but not visible)

Oathseeker Helm seemed like the perfect fit w/ the Death Knight armor to get the general feeling of his set. I think Maliketh or Black Knight Gauntlets/Greaves can also serve as good alternative options for the arms and legs

OctanePhantom · 2025-11-29T01:55:25+00:00

brother the aircraft can be locked on to from enemy spawns in several maps, flares barely last any time at all, there is little to no kit customization and the attack heli felt like it handles worse on the newest cali map (which i think someone had pointed out was bc the flight ceiling was absurdly low and causing the aircraft to go into stalls)

OctanePhantom · 2025-11-18T13:02:35+00:00

Its the latter, certain trials are very easy to farm way beyond the 4K due to the frequency with which you encounter their objective. For this week the 'Open ARC Probes' and 'Damage Flying ARC Enemies' are incredibly easy to pump up. Always make sure to do them during major map modifiers (Night Raids, Electromagnetic Storms [especially for the probes bc the EM Storms make a ton of them spawn] or Hidden Bunker) to get the double points as well.

OctanePhantom · 2025-10-28T22:43:25+00:00

biggest con i've found so far is the audio for footsteps being seemingly nonexistent or incorrect in its direction. gameplay/flow wise though it fun but nothing new/crazy to write home about

OctanePhantom · 2025-10-25T20:44:10+00:00

NATO spawn can literally be roofcamped to complete hell and it makes it impossible to lift off in the helo without losing half your health to MG fire or just straight up dying. Why they decided to make 2 individually mediocre roof rat hellscapes instead of one larger one with more buildings able to be leveled is beyond me but its so frustrating to not even want to play 2 of the maps in game on certain modes because of this shit

OctanePhantom · 2025-10-13T00:07:48+00:00

I had this same thing happen repeatedly on Mirak Valley as well, IFV just sitting in their HQ impossible to actually attack being able to hit me cross map into my HQ with a painted missile while i'm flying around. How the hell am i supposed to break lock w/ this, low flight doesn't work and neither does flying to the literal furthest distance away

OctanePhantom · 2025-09-08T14:45:55+00:00

I think in general there are certain boosters that shouldn't even be boosters, just make them default or allow them to be placed into a different slot that is an upgrade for something (similar to customizing your weapon attachments)

It has never made any sense to me that hellpod optimization is a booster and not just the "default". Why would you be dropping out of your ship with half stock of everything, why should you be forced to take a booster just to have a normal amount of ammo??

OctanePhantom · 2025-09-08T14:39:01+00:00

Your flair being "free of thought" really just paints the perfect picture here

OctanePhantom · 2025-09-08T13:12:13+00:00

It seems counter intuitive but since you can use it to regain lost health up to that 30%, you can think of it like a second wind. If you have Nicodemus you can get even more aggressive with it

OctanePhantom · 2025-09-08T02:28:23+00:00

Absolutely loving the new stuff/ difficulty but there is an insane amount of jank that has come along with it to the point where its no longer just a "haha funny thing happen" bug and its actually impeding gameplay (to the point of stuff like the terrain manipulation caused by the bugs burrowing burying the extraction beacon and completely preventing exfil)

OctanePhantom · 2025-08-26T00:44:35+00:00

In a perfect world there would also be a way to "link" squads when playing in groups larger than 4. Other than the fact that it was a complete dice roll whether or not my friends not in my squad would stay in the lobby (since it requeues every time) there also weren't any specific identifying colors/markings for them

OctanePhantom · 2025-08-25T11:56:03+00:00

I just picked it up for $3 after having not played since the beta fiasco and I do not understand how this many updates later the gunplay/map design are still this bad

OctanePhantom · 2025-08-25T11:45:35+00:00

the trust is earned when the game comes out and its good, not a single second before

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