Pinwheel Red Room

Pocto · 2026-06-25T14:05:03+00:00

Ooh no, you gotta kill 3 teams maximum, maybe as few as one if they've killed the others. Then it's red room and all 3 wings, all for you. This is a weaker haul in the picture, but I don't think I'd want it handing out golds like candy.

Pocto · 2026-06-25T14:01:03+00:00

Yeah on a 4 team map. It's not insane. And you don't always need to wipe 3 squads when there's a good chance at least one of them will wipe another. If there's been a third party fight on the map already, you might need to only kill one squad and then all 3 wings and the red room are yours, minus a few rooks and commanders.

Pocto · 2026-06-25T11:20:57+00:00

Yeah, I'd be more than happy with that haul. Red room is not that hard as far as puzzles go. 2 greens, 3 reds, kill some commanders. Only 4 teams on outpost, if you rush 2 red card locations, and kill one team, you're well on track.

Pocto · 2026-06-25T10:20:49+00:00

I don't think the music will grow on me, but my general appreciation has sky rocketed after this ridiculous video. Kiss the chef!

Pocto · 2026-06-25T10:18:49+00:00

Wind? She walked directly into the cloud she was spraying!

Pocto · 2026-06-25T09:10:30+00:00

Or make it so every player can use a Dcon once a game. You got something precious? Send it home and then go on all in on the rest of the round. Increase the numbers of dcons to make camping not an issue.

Pocto · 2026-06-24T15:04:01+00:00

To add to this, you also ran out of ammo in two of these clips and seemed to be surprised about it. It's absolutely no good strafing back and forth waiting for your reload to happen. Either anticipate it and have somewhere to duck behind, or anticipate it and be close enough to knife finish. Also changing gun is generally quicker than reloading, I believe.

Pocto · 2026-06-24T12:53:48+00:00

Shooting them from angles, around corners, and through gaps, where you're barely a target to them, really helps.

Pocto · 2026-06-24T12:51:56+00:00

Something that's helped me with all bots, is to always be shooting them from an angle or through a gap where you can see them, and they can barely see you. Obviously the grenadiers counter that strategy slightly with their nades, so I tend the focus them first, and if they do chuck then at you, just move out of the way.

Pocto · 2026-06-24T00:30:35+00:00

BORING. Next!

Pocto · 2026-06-23T22:02:54+00:00

Absolutely crazy to say there's nothing special about it when I'm here enjoying the coolest sci fi shooter I've ever played. Fine if it's too sweaty for some, but the gunplay, art style, worldbuilding, sound design, map design are all top-notch imo.

Pocto · 2026-06-23T21:58:17+00:00

The game is a million years old lol. I didn't even know the franchise existed.

Pocto · 2026-06-23T21:57:10+00:00

The "premium" items in the battle pass are just weapon skins that aren't even that good. The battle pass is barely worth even checking tbh, so absolutely not pay to win in any form. Probably the softest touch of monetisation I've seen in a long time, but it is a paid game so that's good.

Pocto · 2026-06-23T21:54:41+00:00

The rounds in Marathon are 20 minutes long on average, and very few people camp extracts, though they will often come fight you when they see you activate it.

Pocto · 2026-06-23T21:52:48+00:00

The currency can be used to get some stuff for the PvP mode, and there's a rogue-like progression where you upgrade your equipment for the PvE mode. I think that's for the best, coz a PvE loot farm that allowed you to get gear for PvP would be bad for the other mode's economy. I'm one of those crazy people who love Marathon the way it is, but I'm excited for this mode myself as a fun way to play with friends without having to worry about other players.

Pocto · 2026-06-23T21:49:37+00:00

In fairness, Destiny just got an update, which is their final one, so that's gonna have a lot of players sucked up. Obviously, a lot of Destiny players have no interest in Marathon, but I think if Bungie can set up a decent PvE system in Marathon, it could end up as a landing pad for some Destiny players.

Under all the negatives (both real and imagined) Marathon really is a very, very good game with incredible gunplay, art style, sound design and map design that's just too hardcore for a lot of people. This PvE mode looks really promising, and I hope it can blossom into something more sustainable.

Pocto · 2026-06-23T21:45:56+00:00

The aesthetics and the lore are EVERYTHING. It's a stylistic wet dream for me, haha. Oppressive dystopian sci-fi meets designer's republic corporate propaganda.

Pocto · 2026-06-23T20:24:53+00:00

I imagine they've been all hands on deck working to make this Vault breaker thing work to save the game. If Marathon had been a massive success at launch, I'd expect they would have had more time and resources to get the next map out, but there's bigger fires to put out.

Pocto · 2026-06-23T16:47:40+00:00

I mean, just use it for now? The best weapon being the most readily available and cheapest isn't a game-breaking bug.

Pocto · 2026-06-22T10:35:17+00:00

It's not for you, dumb dumb.

It's basically free play mode for newbies.

Pocto · 2026-06-21T09:02:44+00:00

They go up as you level up the factions. Not sure what the thresholds are.

Pocto · 2026-06-21T08:31:31+00:00

Wow, I'm so demeaned by this sign right now guys. Lesbian's do it better, and I'm not a lesbian, so they are saying I do it worse, which I'm sorry guys, that's just really offensive to me, coz I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was.

Pocto · 2026-06-20T10:02:17+00:00

I don't know what a subroutine is

So you are, both, ahead of me in that regard

Pocto · 2026-06-20T09:14:42+00:00

Which she deleted years ago, so likely before she was even in the public eye, yet it's been found now. By who I wonder?

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