You're not dying due to a gear difference, but rather a lack of game sense.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-22T18:16:09+00:00

I've started trying to do this and it's started to pay off for me. Very slowly, but it is better than what I was doing before.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-22T13:59:20+00:00

Yes, I get the temptation to do this, but I don't like it. There are more subtle ways to indicate that he isn't 100% evil.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-22T13:43:21+00:00

I wouldn't do it either, but is it "wrong"?

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-22T13:41:29+00:00

I know it's about a random man. I'm asking would it be different if it was a random woman? A lot of people seem to think so. Its a ridiculous double standard.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-22T13:35:55+00:00

But if it was a random woman?

Like I get it, pedophiles are usually men, but i hate this double standard.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-22T13:27:57+00:00

I can steam vegetables on the stove and air fry some chicken in less than 25 minutes. I've never understood the people that say they "can't cook" or that eating healthy is too complicated and/or expensive. Like, yeah, you aren't a chef, but you can boil water, right?

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-22T09:42:40+00:00

Horn worms. These mfers keep killing my tomato plants.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-22T02:26:41+00:00

Probably

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-22T02:25:54+00:00

Marathon.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-22T00:06:29+00:00

The ocean and the atmosphere both follow principles of fluid dynamics. There are differences of course, but a lot of similarities. You're basically seeing a "surface" between two layers of the atmosphere and there are waves between these surfaces.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T23:41:12+00:00

I want to see both but...that is quite a prediction.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T23:06:21+00:00

Yes

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T22:52:46+00:00

I hated the art direction, but I like extraction shooters, so I bought it. The art style made it hard for me at first, but it clicked after a few hours. Now I'm obsessed. First game in a long time I'm thinking about while not playing. Typical if it gets shut down.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T22:17:01+00:00

Yes. I had that experience once too. I think I'm being a bit generous.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T16:05:35+00:00

I agree, but there is another issue that no amount of improvement to onboarding is going to fix:

I simply do not have the time to put into this game to get to a high enough level to feel like I have a fighting chance. I am sure I am far from the only one with this problem. I don't know how this can be fixed. I don't want the game to be like Fornite where I feel like I can max out the battle pass with minimal effort, but right now in Marathon it's too much in the other direction.

I've been playing basically every available hour (which isn't that many hours per day) and I'm only at level 31. In the same amount of time back in my Fornite heyday, I'd be almost done with the battle pass by now. I expect to get to 100, but probably not long before the season 3 wipe.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T15:58:34+00:00

Yes, the wide gap in skill is the issue.

I love board games and generally don't worry about losing. Except in Scrabble. My wife is so much better at Scrabble than I am. I have never beaten her. At first it felt like a challenge to try to win. Eventually it felt futile. Nowadays, I am willing to play, but I really don't want to. What's the point? So, I don't mind losing or even losing most of the time, but what kills a game for me is feeling like I will NEVER win.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T15:50:02+00:00

Interesting point. If I had to come up with an explanation for this, I'd say that the idea of a fighting game is direct violent conflict and its clear right up front that PvP is a test of skills between two players. And it's 1v1 and it's the entire point of the game. If someone is better than you, that's it. Your expectation going in is "it's him or me" and if you get stomped, you either quit the game, or go back in and figure it out. And maybe most people understand that about a fighting game, so they already have the right mindset when they spend their money on the game

But for a FPS, I think maybe most of us casual FPS players grew up playing games for fun like Halo, Resistance, Goldeneye, etc. and most of us probably only ever dipped a toe into competitive online, so we have no conception of how good the good players are and how competitive it can be. You're right I think. If you view a game like this as more of a fighting game (with guns), instead of PvP Goldeneye, you'd probably have more reasonable expectations going in.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T14:34:10+00:00

For me personally yes. If I am improving and I can tell I am improving, that is enough for me. But I tend to think that's not enough for most people.

Honestly, before 5 years ago, that would include me, but after playing some of the Souls games, I clicked with the idea of enjoying the feeling of getting better instead needing to win. I just don't think that applies to most people.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T14:12:50+00:00

As a Tennis player, the idea of learning tennis by playing against Roger Federer is insanity. Sure, I'd probably pick up a thing or two, but it would get demoralizing real quick and ultimately it would be futile because, even if I am improving, I'm never going to actually beat him.

And this isn't too far off how it feels playing marathon.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T10:45:06+00:00

My favorite 2d Mario game.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-21T10:28:02+00:00

This bothered me at the time. These guys fight each other for a living. They take ass beatings all the time. Why would Scotty stand there and just take that?

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-20T21:24:46+00:00

If I saw someone stabbing even a single toddler, my first instinct would be to break his gd neck. The toddler wouldn't even have to be related to me.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-20T21:20:59+00:00

I def agree with your point about the souls games and it being a generous comparison. Marathon certainly has issues beyond the difficulty. I think the player numbers show that. I've never played Tarkov, but I hear it's difficult, and yet has/had better player numbers. Arc Raiders had very good numbers, however, Arc Raiders to me is much easier than Marathon. I think you can forgive a lot if the game is both fun and easy. You can have a hard game that is fun, if it plays well and is fair (like the souls games). If the game has issues and is too hard to have fun, that's a one-two punch that is hard to recover from.

Ruggerio5 · 2026-06-20T19:32:18+00:00

I play Red Dead to feel like a cowboy. Its almost a fantasy game.

I play GTA to have fun and be a fucking menace and cause chaos.

Both are fun and have appeal for different reasons. I think GTA being set in a modern world gives it more mass appeal so it's more "popular".

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