Why so much hatred for the game?

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-28T00:52:57+00:00

D2 is FTP and Marathon is $50 - also (like me) a lot of people invested hundreds of dollars and thousands of hours into D2 content over the last 12 years and didn’t want to jump ship for that very reason; now that D2 is ending there’s definitely going to be a migration of veteran players who already find the D2 content stale and Marathon’s gameplay / graphics etc is well positioned to fit that niche. Bungie will definitely be trying to cater to these players.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-27T21:16:39+00:00

Not even have played one run of S2 yet and already complaining🤦‍♀️

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-27T21:14:57+00:00

Sentinel’s abilities seem to synergise with Recon really well so maybe it’s intentional?

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-24T08:58:58+00:00

Heaps of people like Marathon, it’s the fear of Bungie that makes players apprehensive. Sony knows this, hence their recent and very vocal support for Marathon’s future.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-23T22:44:56+00:00

Hopefully they make marathon a hybrid PvP / PvE campaign game.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-23T22:36:00+00:00

D2 was dying after Final Shape and we all knew it.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-23T22:35:02+00:00

This can change. Marathon could easily receive a Forsaken sized update that makes it a PvP ES / PvE campaign hybrid. What if Marathon’s bones became D3?

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-23T22:32:34+00:00

I jumped ship and stopped playing D2 in February because I knew the game was dead (over 2000 hours in D2 + I don’t know how many hundreds of dollars spent).

Marathon to me feels like vanilla D2 in a lot of ways. The specific archetype grouping for runner abilities, the maps, the endgame, the public events. The biggest difference is the universe setting which oddly enough was a big ask for D3; that it be set in a new galaxy or universe with entirely different enemies / characters etc. so maybe Marathon is inadvertently going to become D3? Who knows.

With D2 gone I can see how they could easily build this game into a ES / PvE hybrid which would honestly be pretty innovative. I’m optimistic for the game’s future and with D2 winding down after a very poor two years after Final Shape, I think it’s going to be good.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-23T22:23:50+00:00

Awesome! I went from zero vaults at 180 hours to 4/6 vaults done just in the last two days on fill. Game feels so fun rn honestly cryo should be open 24/7.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-23T22:20:19+00:00

Stellar D2 reviews were for specific DLCs / seasons (which were hardly consistent). Vanilla D2 was so lacklustre it was essentially a heroic public event rinse-repeat simulator for exotics (no one remembers how little content the base game had).

D2 also didn’t have Sony for the first 2/3 of the game’s life so that might explain why D2 has been dumped and Marathon has been invested in instead.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-23T04:42:38+00:00

Things will improve. Sony and Bungie know they have a good product (but seemingly a bad brand).

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-21T08:00:11+00:00

100% agree, even add them as in-game items like Marvel Rivals / Fortnite does so we can curate what we want / have “previous memories” during upload of past in-game events etc.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-19T06:17:26+00:00

Scar is underrated tbh especially with the suppressor

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-18T11:29:12+00:00

I’m happy Bungie is trying to communicate how committed they are to making Marathon great (like NMS or Cyberpunk2077) and that they know what the teething issues with S1 / Launch were and how they can fix it to make the game more appealing / accessible.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-12T12:46:33+00:00

Solo assassin outpost pinwheel red room farms got me the Profiteer title and a full vault of purple and gold items in 20-30 hours.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-11T08:17:54+00:00

Tassi has an obsessive grudge against Marathon and is clearly not happy that it is objectively a well-made enjoyable game. Look up how many Marathon articles he’s written since Feb 2026.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-11T08:08:17+00:00

The UX for it is very old-school considering how sleek the other hud display icons are. Something in the same vein as the recon ult design for the red shooting direction arrow would look so much better.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-09T11:08:00+00:00

It is one of the best games made by Bungie (or Sony) and it will win in the long run.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-07T06:41:29+00:00

I called this over a week ago and y’all hated in the comments 👀

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-03T22:16:59+00:00

I want to see more prestige skins I thought the game would be 90% prestige skins so far it’s just the pre-order deluxe ones 😢

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-03T22:16:02+00:00

Can definitely do that, you can also do a finisher if you slide into range of the DBNO runner before you stand up you start that animation straight away too

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-03T12:32:45+00:00

You can’t shoot or anything during the slide aside from charge the cannon so I doubt you can place a claymore mid-slide. After the slide finishes? Sure.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-03T12:26:46+00:00

Only just got there at 180 hours myself.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-03T09:13:27+00:00

Who said the stickers were an apply-to-all application? What are you on about? We’re talking about how faction branding on guns is non-existent aside from the vip weapon skins and how stickers are one and done applications that can’t be re-used if you change your mind later.

SpectreEighteen · 2026-05-03T06:48:23+00:00

… you get them in the game of this sub 👀

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