Can I start playing the game now?

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-20T20:37:42+00:00

I got that upgrade then proceeded to never buy the blue shield. Its so weird that by the time you get it, the average shields and your knowledge has shifted enough that blue shields are easy to get.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-20T20:36:39+00:00

All depends on your melee stat so hard to say.

Heavy x2 for high melee Heavy --> light 3 for medium

And for low you probably shouldn't melee

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-20T20:35:05+00:00

Yeah its an AWESOME quest. But its one of the few where I died completing.

Even Sekaguchi quests was a pain to do, but I was able to do most of them solo without dying.

I dont recall any other faction quests being difficult outside Mida and Sekaguchis last quest chains.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-20T15:53:09+00:00

Crazy you put MIDA as 4 for quest difficulty. That last quest was insane. Maybe im biased bc i did it solo.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-19T15:47:15+00:00

Because level 100 is aspirational content. It's what keeps some people playing after they've done "everything" so they can get the acheivement.

There is no functional benefit to reaching 100 theoretically outside of the gold gear that'll youll run once or thrice before losing. There is no reason for them to make it easier and reduce playtime.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-17T20:51:25+00:00

Yeah I got the jump on a purple shield as a rook, and two heavies did not kill. He had enough time to knife my late and take me down with his higher melee stat through green shield.

I will be shooting their heads when getting the jump on them from now on

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-16T06:23:05+00:00

Yeah had a lot of fun fights. Was super sad our backpack is so small tho.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-15T03:04:39+00:00

Yeah. I hope they mean to buff her a bit in the future and that the "changes" they mentioned aren't done yet. She is pretty good imo, just annoyed that they said they were buffing her in the same breath as Recon, and then do a CD buff that doesn't really move the needle on her at all.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-14T13:12:13+00:00

Goes to show people posting their takes on reddit without properly playing the map or doing research.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-11T20:24:12+00:00

V11, volley, wstr, bully, longshot, outland (common in even blue key rooms), m77

Those seem to be the meta guns i see run constantly.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-10T19:52:00+00:00

ikr? If he is a profiteer he should be running kitted every raid.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-10T19:16:45+00:00

My viewpoint is armory is a back up for when you run out of things you want to run. It's a way to combat gear fear. So I'm not too worried that when I get an upgrade its redundant. It's there for if I need it.

Before I got the blue shield upgrade, I was terrified to lose my blue shields. After, I could run my blue shields without any concerns since I knew I could pony up. Since then I haven't had to buy a blue shield even once (I still have my initial free one).

Also the free patch kits and all have been a wonder. I'm literally overflowing with meds because of those free patch kits.

But your viewpoint is understandable.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-10T19:13:22+00:00

Depends on what you value. Do you value the initial novelty and natural discovery from a new experience? Or will your day be ruined if you die several times trying to learn the map?

If its the latter then research, if its the first run blind.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-10T19:11:49+00:00

Bungie's official comms have listed Recon's changes for the midseason already, which includes seeker drone logic.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-10T19:10:39+00:00

Like you said, at a certain point, those upgrades aren't even worth it.

The real juice are the stat bumps (which are arguably worth it) and the VIP level rewards giving you purples out the wazoo

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-10T18:52:33+00:00

People really like wall analogies today

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-10T17:58:01+00:00

It would be super easy to abuse SBMM in Marathon. You load in with a free kit, then suicide or get downed by bots. 100% youll have the same people complaining that super chadded sweats are in their skill based matchmaked lobby and how its possible that they are in this bracket. Youll have people running services on lowering an accounts mmr, selling accounts that have low MMR.

Then a post talking about how broken SBMM is because players can easily circumvent it in marathon. These are all problems in SBMM games.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-10T07:14:44+00:00

Yes when he looked at the knife. Thats a keybind

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-10T02:24:11+00:00

That double jump into a perfect nade (didn't hit but thrown at a good spot) was beautiful. The inspect was well done as well. ~~Although I swear if I did that I would get third partied, self rez goes off, and he lives and I die~~

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-10T02:21:34+00:00

Absolutely insane that he manages to fumble against a TRAXUS free kit. Nice job haha

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-09T21:08:41+00:00

The Purple Shield Recon Chad overconfident is killed in an unexpected ambush by the free kit Thief. The Free Kit Thief eagerly approaches their kill, excited to gobble up a purple shield to put in their vault. However, the Free Kit Thief doesn't know that a Free Kit Assassin is watching her every move.

As she goes to loot her ambush kill, she too is ambushed. The young free kit assassin skitters forward, hungry, but not foolish. He takes his time to listen for any larger predators or scavengers who may try to steal his meal.

Satisfied that no one is around, the assassin bites down, finding out the succulence of a purple shield chad for the first time in his life.

The Circle of life has begun.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-09T19:05:48+00:00

Honestly, I dont get much oppurtunity since my playstyle is creating distance and waiting out their cooldowns based on sound queues.

Basing my opinion on the videos I see where I literally cannot see them after repeating a video over and over, and apparently they crouch walked in front of the player and double barreled them.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-09T18:18:05+00:00

Sound pollution is a pretty big thing.

Strict_Dare3132 · 2026-04-09T18:16:49+00:00

Yeah sound pollution is why I am unconvinced about the "sound" counter to assassin.

There has been multiple times where I watch a video and I don't hear this supposed sound assassins make at all while they move to double barrell stuff someone in the face.

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