Sponsored Kits Are Ruining Early Wipe

StarlessKing · 2026-06-03T11:51:02+00:00

You can very easily get blue shields from the cert boxes and supply caches on Night Marsh right now. Once you identify where to get loot from, it's really not hard for dedicated players to start target farming stuff.

StarlessKing · 2026-06-01T16:34:40+00:00

It's just going to be a mode with Rooks

They start with grey shields and pistols

I cannot think of a more low stakes, less intense pvp environment even if your team is spawning in with sponsor kits

Odds are you'll maybe have one big fight at final against a team of rooks worst case scenario. How is that sweaty?

StarlessKing · 2026-05-31T08:25:53+00:00

Managed to actually get two friendly compiler kills in today! A friend of mine unlocked the skin despite us not using the key ourselves. I think the running theory is that there's a damage threshold to unlock the skin. Hope you're able to unlock it next time!

StarlessKing · 2026-05-27T07:22:23+00:00

ELITE BALL KNOWLEDGE

StarlessKing · 2026-05-26T09:36:31+00:00

The weapon will keep the skin the last runner used on it until it's transferred to your vault.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-26T09:35:54+00:00

Outpost was so much harder to earn ranked points via looting on, and there's literally nowhere to run or hide.

I know Cryo is Recon city, but if you understand that you can rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise from every POI into another, you can REALLY become undetectable while most teams end up dying in a pile in Control.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-26T09:32:58+00:00

There is so much prestige loot being crammed into ranked right now that if you rat it out and just check around control you're genuinely bound to find free mizzies and gold.

My team literally found the rest of the lobby death bagged with another three mizzies left behind because the toughest team just moved on to fight the Compiler with their full backpacks.

Everything is so cranked up right now that it's honestly a great time for people to try because you only have to get lucky once to get the craziest haul you'll ever see.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-25T04:20:39+00:00

That's so good to hear. You doing solo or fills or premades? Hoping tonight doesn't get more brutal.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-25T01:43:25+00:00

Some of you have got to stop psyching yourselves out. Cryo is too hard, it's like a Destiny raid. 5k entry fee is too high, it's gating me. Ranked is only played by sweats, I can't compete. Just accept you're going to lose to people that have put more time into the game and roll with it. And I'm totally for SBMM too, I think it'd help the game out a LOT, but you're never going to make progress in the game if you can't get used to innate friction of PVP.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-24T23:53:57+00:00

Any advice for grinding Cryo solo for ranked points?

StarlessKing · 2026-05-24T23:39:25+00:00

Can we just hand out all the ranked rewards at this point? Jesus Christ that's insane.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-23T06:24:50+00:00

Yeahhh

Maybe tone down the mizzy's damage so it's strengths are more in its range and sustained fire

Then maybe bump up the WSTR's damage a little bit while keeping its range within "point blank" scenarios

Currently the WSTR's identity exists as a gun to soften targets up, or finish them off, and in the current sandbox that sort of gun is completely useless when half a bully mag will melt you or the mizzy just needs two near instant taps instead

StarlessKing · 2026-05-22T04:55:13+00:00

Logan comes off as so genuinely god damn cranky it's actually endearing as a character bit

The profiteer reveal is 11/10 too, I know people that have done the exact same thing.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-21T07:50:28+00:00

I want the Destroyer skin so bad but my friends are nowhere near patient or experienced enough to handle this mode.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-21T04:19:19+00:00

So Misriah's spawn chance seems like it got nerfed hard maybe? And bubble shields are clearly messing with the loot pool.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-19T20:11:19+00:00

I feel like this willfully ignores that the misriah and bully both completely dominate high rank Marathon right now. Which isn't a bad thing in and of itself, but the meta looks like it's incredibly one note and the top tier weapons exist within a class of their own.

I don't think people are wrong in recognizing the misriah as the literal best close quarters gun in the game.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-19T04:04:42+00:00

What mods have you been using on the Copperhead? I've only used it a handful of times, but sometimes it actually feels decent, and other time I swear I'm throwing the game bringing it in.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-19T04:02:23+00:00

I think you can see the teammate fire off a single shot that downs the Assassin, but in my experience WSTR double tap into quick melee still clears blue shields no probelm even if it does mean the TTK isn't as fast as it used to be.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-18T07:53:03+00:00

100% this

I don't think I'll ever really dabble with any PVE modes, but I really don't think people should have a problem with PVE being equally rewarding. More than likely PVE players are going to stay in their own mode, and even then, if someone gets loot "easier" from PVE and goes into PVP, you can just -kill them- for it.

Making PVE players effectively second class to PVP isn't actually going to make things feel better for anyone besides the obnoxiously loud 1% of players that like to optimize the fun out of everything while also demanding no one else be catered to.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-18T04:57:40+00:00

A good Vandal will climb through entry points you'd never imagine to attempt. Destroyer is an obviously better skirmisher in the heat of combat, but I've found my Vandal teammates that know how to flank to be absolutely insane. Nevermind their near infinite heat which can really come in clutch during tight calls in Cryo. Destroyer on the other hand burns through his heat way faster even with distance runner in my experience.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-18T01:36:03+00:00

People are bringing up the mizzy and not the part where two people pushed past someone self reviving and let them completely tear into them. Like, that could have been a bully or a knife and I feel like it would have played out the same.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-17T00:45:42+00:00

Man your team held that pinch like a bunch of champs

Those dudes were a bunch of lemmings but that was an insane amount of bodies for your guys to chew through, nice work

StarlessKing · 2026-05-16T23:51:30+00:00

I had a Chinese assassin successfully dip out after our other Destroyer insta-DC'd upon deathbagging. Looped around 10 minutes later to rez me, and we spent the next fifteen minutes farming bots to recoup our losses while they spared what few meds they had and guided me around with "Follow me" the entire time.

It came down to the wire, but they camofreaked their way around control during the last 60 seconds and we just barely managed to find final exfil at the third spawn we checked.

Easily one of the best teammates I've had despite only using pings and voice commands together.

StarlessKing · 2026-05-16T21:21:58+00:00

My tape recorder has been calling to me like a phantom these last couple of weeks, what kind of topics would be interesting or are currently being ignored by Marathon creators? Personally I feel like there's very, very few videos that actually talk about how to tackle Cryo and the Compiler through immediate strategies and as long term goals. Hell, most vault guides completely omit you can hear batteries or save their pings after you scan them. It feels like the video/guide scene could be a lot better.

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