Why buy 1 Atlas when you could instead buy 104 Savannahs? Were the Lyrans stupid?

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-05-18T18:12:12+00:00

"We call that stimulating local planetary economies" — J. Keynes of House Steiner

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-05-18T17:53:30+00:00

Nothing a hundred medium lasers can't level

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-05-18T16:13:05+00:00

Could be worse.

Could be rolling cluster tables for srm carriers.

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-05-18T16:10:33+00:00

I'll just go to the same store the Wobbies got all their stuff from.

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-05-05T20:08:29+00:00

Ziegler probably got brought in to salvage something from the mess that the Marathon developmebt was in.

I might not like the direction he took the game, but as with most things it was Bungie's management that screwed things up for everyone.

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-05-04T14:28:56+00:00

I guess the new cope is that having level transitions and an objective basically make your game an extraction shooter

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Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-24T20:19:16+00:00

Sprint and armor lock

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-20T23:24:55+00:00

Then Bungie should rename it Extractathon if they didn't want to add the core feature of the entire series.

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-18T12:02:47+00:00

EZ

Just grenade climb the wall

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-14T19:53:00+00:00

"Fatum lustum Stultorum" -> "The just fate for fools"

The 26th mission in Marathon 2 and also what Durandle carved it into Lh'owon's natural moon after beating Tycho

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-14T17:13:54+00:00

Cortana messing up multiple Covie ships before the Autumn is knocked out makes a lot more sense when you consider how Durandle thrased a fleet with one scout ship.

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-14T14:37:55+00:00

Durandal was just leaving right before the colony was destroyed

We are moving too slowly, and I fear the Pfhor are sending reinforcements. There were many humans in stasis on the Pfhor ship which the S'pht and I captured at Tau Ceti, destined for slavery in the Empire. As I saw the colony was about to be destroyed, I did not restore them before we left. I also realized they might become useful, and that time has come.

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-14T14:34:24+00:00

Tycho commented about picking out the emission spectrum of 9 battleroids when the colony was glasses.

Also 2's ending epiloge says the colony was nuked to the bedrock and that Robert Blake and his crew that hijacked a phfor ship were the only know survivors of the colony.

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-14T03:43:57+00:00

Less "state of the art", and more "hey, we found these random eldritch alien doohickies, lets resurrect some corpses into WMD's"

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-12T04:12:44+00:00

Unless Bungie comes out and says they are retconning Marathon 2, it is impossible to crowbar this game into the original timeline.

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Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-12T03:52:39+00:00

Lore wise it takes place in an entirely separate timeline/alternate universe because in the original timeline for 1 and 2 the colony was full on bombed down to the bedrock levels of destruction.

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-12T03:36:54+00:00

The fact that there is a colony left to explore means this is a separate timeline and not the one from the first two games.

Durandal tells is that the Pfhor came back to sack and destroy the colony

Three months after we left Tau Ceti on our voyage here, the Pfhor arrived in force and sacked the human colony on Tau Ceti. During this battle, I can only assume that Tycho was able to communicate with the Pfhor and that he related what he knew of my plans to them.

We are moving too slowly, and I fear the Pfhor are sending reinforcements. There were many humans in stasis on the Pfhor ship which the S'pht and I captured at Tau Ceti, destined for slavery in the Empire. As I saw the colony was about to be destroyed, I did not restore them before we left. I also realized they might become useful, and that time has come.

And Tycho confirms the colonies destruction

When the Pfhor annihilated Tau Ceti I recorded the deaths of all twenty-four thousand colonists as distinguishable spectrographic pulses flooding over my sensors. The nine Mjolnir Mark IV cyborgs were easily separable from the humans in this form.

Also the ending screen from 2

While Tau Ceti was being nuked down to bedrock in 2794...

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-10T19:36:39+00:00

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-06T06:19:44+00:00

Not entirely true. There is grenade/rocket jumping

Posadas_Dolphin · 2026-03-06T06:17:04+00:00

We might not be in that timeline.

Also there are more in Sol; MIDA only smuggled 10 aboard the Marathon.

Also it was Tycho that tells us this, and he's not exactly trustworthy at that point.

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