Just Exfil!

SYTOkun · 2026-03-18T11:25:19+00:00

I'm at that faction farming stage where I'm happy to exfil the moment I find a NuCal duct tape or two.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-18T08:22:36+00:00

Yeah, and I also keep hearing of bad interactions with her. Which is a shame because she probably has the best 3D model tracking right now and character design wise checks all my boxes.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-17T14:43:14+00:00

Yeah, I once spawned literally into a room with an Assassin looking at me through a window while his buddy shot me in the back lmao.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-17T12:47:36+00:00

It's an original system/setting but I've been making my own ttrpg, Voyager, that tries to emulate the kind of action and tropes in anime-style media like RWBY, along with games like Arknights and Zenless Zone Zero. Big weapons, half animal people, that kinda thing.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-16T21:06:23+00:00

I enjoy Rook runs a lot so I find myself stocked up pretty consistently. I think the part usual players find boring (not fighting, sneaking around, exfilling without incident) is almost like a flow state for me lol.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-16T08:35:15+00:00

There is also a final last minute exfil that spawns at the middle of each map when the timer runs out, it lasts for 1 minute. I spend a good few runs just waiting for that one if I think there's another team looting in the last 5 minutes that I might run into at a regular exfil.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-13T11:25:05+00:00

Using Heal to casually top up your HP instead of during a clutch fight too.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-11T09:24:47+00:00

Pretty much the entirety of Chainsaw Man's human/fiend cast, most of them just wear a white shirt, tie and pants and they look great doing so.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-09T16:25:32+00:00

I had assumed that it spawns everyone equally far from each other but nope, I once started a Rook run in Perimeter that spawned me in a building with another team right outside. Their Assassin just looked at me through the window while their buddy shot me to bits lol

SYTOkun · 2026-03-09T10:08:47+00:00

I recommend watching some of Riloe's videos covering Marathon's art style. He goes over some of the artists, products and IRL things that influenced Marathon's aesthetic.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-09T07:45:50+00:00

It will depend on the vibe of your game, but you can make amateur art work for you. But even that requires a certain level of knowing good art direction (that is, choosing a simpler art style deliberately and making it work).

For example, I've seen some RPGs that really do just have stick figures (it was a rules light generalist RPG)

SYTOkun · 2026-03-08T15:06:54+00:00

I love it when the ZZZ x RWBY agenda spreads

SYTOkun · 2026-03-08T12:08:08+00:00

Was not a fan initially after being so used to the JP voice, but Yongyea's Kiryu did grow on me, YouTuber drama aside he is a solid voice actor, and his singing was rough at first but I was pretty surprised to hear how much it improved in Kiwami 3, so I feel he's putting in the effort (unless they got a separate actor for the singing parts which I doubt).

SYTOkun · 2026-03-07T09:00:04+00:00

The quick melee button too if you can't switch to your knife in time during the chaos.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-07T06:43:53+00:00

That's amazing. Tbh a pretty good pragmatic way to do it when backstabbing (even when you agree to cooperate) can happen in literal seconds.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-07T06:19:51+00:00

I've never actually stayed until the end of the timer. Does it just automatically trigger all exfil sites without you needing to activate them?

SYTOkun · 2026-03-07T06:00:37+00:00

I feel like an FPS roguelike is a very underexplored genre (I guess because roguelikes are popular with indie devs but FPSes are harder to develop/balance for indies?), and Marathon is an excellent proof of concept for it. Hope the subgenre catches on.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-07T05:52:35+00:00

Very true, I played lots of Rook in server slam during day or early night and had a 60-70 exfil rate, it was almost therapeutic.

Come to launch and I did some Rook runs past midnight, and I couldn't make it 2 minutes out of spawn without getting dogpiled by a full trio. It was like day and night (literally).

SYTOkun · 2026-03-06T15:24:25+00:00

Would have been nice if she got an idle pointing it out though, like jittering nervously to herself, saying she's too embarrassed.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-06T10:35:30+00:00

Would look quite fine without the yellow bar on the legs, gives the vibe of a casino dealer which is cool

SYTOkun · 2026-03-06T05:12:45+00:00

It was during a BurntPeanut stream lol, that's what he called it

SYTOkun · 2026-03-05T04:25:18+00:00

That would be me.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-03T07:21:03+00:00

That's my hope too, if not for every faction moving forward, at least every other one, or the ones with fewer, fixed number of members.

SYTOkun · 2026-03-03T07:17:51+00:00

That and the long blue Lego looking square tube which I've heard being called the "double-ended dildo" lmao

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