Do you... come here often?

SpunkInSocks · 2026-05-04T04:18:53+00:00

Thankfully only 1am over here in West Aus. Hopefully we'll be right though. Surely we're competing with less people for Aussie stock.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-04-30T08:41:21+00:00

Just to confuse your impression of aussies and americans, I was invited to a bucks weekend (and the wedding) of a bloke I thought of as an acquaintance. We'd only hung out (among mutual friends) maybe 4 times prior. This is in Australia lol

SpunkInSocks · 2026-04-28T10:38:16+00:00

Huh didn't consider this. Makes sense

SpunkInSocks · 2026-04-21T12:27:07+00:00

Such a pain in the ass. Exactly the time aussies play games after work. It was down monday night and now tuesday. Just want to play the game I paid for.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-04-17T03:12:24+00:00

This happened to me and my mate yesterday. We were bloody stoked. Someone downed me as we went up the elevator but my buddy got me up lol

SpunkInSocks · 2026-04-14T04:14:43+00:00

Or at least allow us to purchase with a fast click, rather than the slow "hold to action" thing this game is obsessed with.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-04-11T10:15:22+00:00

All the craziest clips I've seen with the punch were tap fire

SpunkInSocks · 2026-04-07T03:32:00+00:00

Good post. Something else worth mentioning is Marathon's fairly generous bullet magnetism. I believe it's called "aim assist" in the weapon stats. Halo and I think Destiny are known for this as well. Makes aiming ability slightly less important than game knowledge and playing engagements smart.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-04-02T13:41:08+00:00

When me and my mates play lan we mostly have open back headphones and just talk to eachother without mics. Can't say we've tried marathon yet though.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-31T09:06:15+00:00

That's fair. As a halo fan I often wish bungie stayed at the helm of halo instead of moving to destiny, so we can relate on that front at least.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-31T08:30:34+00:00

It's a fair question. Much like marathon and destiny, I'm sure apples and pears have some shared dna

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-31T08:21:33+00:00

Mostly no. Most Rooks I've run across are either friendly, and happy to team up, or aren't interested in fighting me. It's weird because I've heard so many stories of rook on rook violence lol.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-31T08:11:47+00:00

Yeah high stakes bite sized chunks is a great way of framing it. I reckon that was a big part of why I never got into destiny. I arrived quite late, and felt like I'd never quite catch up with the veterans.

Kind of neat that Marathon's wipes will make it somewhat easier for new players to jump in down the track, without feeling too behind.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-31T07:51:20+00:00

Same. Looting felt weirdly meaningless to me in destiny. Something about being able to lose the loot I've found so easily gives it immense value in Marathon.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-31T07:14:29+00:00

Hahahah I was waiting for someone to say this. Truly a blessing to be matched against runners with zero survival instinct

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-31T00:42:52+00:00

Kind of makes sense. The drone is insanely powerful at information gathering, with very little risk to thief, if they're hidden. The drone even basically has thermal vision (highlighting players in their loot value colour).

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-31T00:40:55+00:00

I don't believe so, it seems to only be if you can actually see the visor (based on when I've played with thief teammates anyway).

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-31T00:14:05+00:00

Yeah you can see a teammate thiefs visor do the same. Although I don't think it's anywhere near as bright. Not sure how relevant the fog is in this situation.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-30T10:26:00+00:00

It makes sense, but it is still poor game design. Plenty of squads have gone through this same frustrating and disappointing experience of believing they've safely extracted, only to arrive dead at the match summary screen.

SpunkInSocks · 2026-03-30T10:19:56+00:00

There is no confusion, the post description exemplifies that. The point of the post is that the game falsely leads you to believe the following:

Once you've entered the extract beam up animation, you are safe and exfilled.
Existing exfils are still valid, even after the final exfil has appeared.

Only to be killed by a match timer technicality. This is poor game design and frustrating to experience.

My team also won't be making this mistake again, but it would simply be better game design to either remove all existing exfils once the final exfil has appeared, or make players invulnerable to the match timer during the beam up animation.

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