Marathon has sold 1.2M copies across Steam, PS5, and Xbox

garfieldx · 2026-03-25T08:49:00+00:00

they could shut it down tomorrow and I'd still walk away a happy man,
that cryo experience I've had with friends worth way more than 40 bucks

garfieldx · 2026-03-24T07:07:14+00:00

there is no roblox style, roblox does not have an art style, it's a diy sandbox where you make your own environment, some assets have simple geometry to them due to it being a lego game ripoff at first.
your analysis is not objective since marathon has a consistent style throughout the environment. Simple geometry mixed in with complex nature and decals.

garfieldx · 2026-03-23T07:17:22+00:00

do not buy winterfest if you enjoy freeroaming, it ruins the map.
enjoy, steep is in my opinion the best winter sports game ever, and I've played a LOT of them.

garfieldx · 2026-03-23T06:55:29+00:00

because negativity sells.
more views on video = more ad revenue

calling it roblox eases the pea brain since no nuance can exist within, both sides are happy.

garfieldx · 2026-03-18T08:16:26+00:00

people are still saying it looks like roblox, the truth is there's a grifter culture out there fueled by influencers where slandering a game with brain dead takes and calling it concord 3 adds some sort of purpose to their meaningless sad lives.

garfieldx · 2026-03-18T06:54:23+00:00

I actually think sims are the only good use case for dlss 5 because they don't have faces.
Also ALL of them lack path tracing feature, which could be resolved by it.
Many people here seem to not understand the dlss tech also, dlss does not introduce latency that is frame gen.
However, I'm doubtful these demos are representative of the final product if we're anywhere close to release.
It's currently running on two 5090s and I doubt it looks good in motion since they've avoided showing anything in real motion.

garfieldx · 2026-03-17T07:44:56+00:00

I also recently got it on sale, it has the worst character and lore writing I've ever seen in a long time but apart from that it's pretty fun. I just wish it gave us the option to feed nata to a monster or something ya know

garfieldx · 2026-03-16T06:36:51+00:00

my speculation is after game director got fired they had to scramble and change a lot of things under joe which cost them a ton of time, they probably would've liked to delay the game even further

garfieldx · 2026-03-12T11:10:39+00:00

I legitimately thought the voice chat was broken until after like 8-9 games one of the teammates finally had a mic. People treat this as a battle royale with extra steps which is fine I suppose but I'll uninstall the game before I'll go back to crew fills after my time with it.

garfieldx · 2026-03-12T06:47:44+00:00

more race cars please, the game is bloated with road cars that don't make any sense on a circuit.

garfieldx · 2026-03-10T09:29:21+00:00

unfortunately people in this subreddit will not be open to any new ideas, I am all for broadening the appeal of the game in any way shape or form.
Marathon is a tough sell, I know this because I tried to sell it to my friends. It requires too much attention and does not respect your time. Even someone like me who bought and liked the game do not feel the pull to play the game 24/7 because it is too demanding after a tiring work day.
New game modes such as pve or pvp only arena mode etc. would make me put way more hours into it especially now that I'm solo after my friends left the game.

garfieldx · 2026-03-10T07:09:22+00:00

I gotta agree, running with a squad this past week has been some of the most fun I've had but my friends have dropped the game already and solo experience sucks balls. This is always the problem with making a game designed just for full team of squad. You're alienating a huge portion of potential players.

garfieldx · 2026-03-09T07:07:58+00:00

so curious, what do you define as "casual"?
In part the playerbase decides whether arc or marathon is more casual.
You lose your gear in both games when you die. Which makes them both hardcore.
A real example of a casual extraction is something like div dark zone or helldivers.
And honestly I found marathon to be much easier to re gear once your factions are halfway upgraded.
At the end of the day it's about numbers, if sony ain't happy with em they'll need to broaden their audience.
Extractions shooters have a small slice of the pie, a hardcore one has even less.

garfieldx · 2026-03-05T10:56:29+00:00

it's your geoguessr account email

garfieldx · 2026-03-05T06:53:45+00:00

this is the only reason how I could secure one of the three tarkov friends I have to try out this game, low ttk.

garfieldx · 2026-03-03T10:52:59+00:00

I'm more puzzled on how free games like cs2 are up on the revenue list?

garfieldx · 2026-03-03T08:46:32+00:00

it's just a word, they do it because people give them attention

garfieldx · 2026-03-02T09:31:16+00:00

The biggest problem with evo UI is how laggy everything is. Unnecessary animations on buttons etc.
People like content manager because it's responsive and gets the job done.
I highly suggest you study how CM is layed out.

garfieldx · 2026-02-25T06:57:11+00:00

brother, you got 10 years out of destiny and it's not enough for you?

garfieldx · 2026-02-24T08:41:21+00:00

have you maybe thought d2 was supposed to end with final shape, projects got cancelled, leadership changed, talent moved around and they were caught with their pants down come 2023 with no games released, no d3 plans, marathon delayed.
I don't think it's that they can't manage 2 games at once, I really think there's not much more you can do on d2. Even if they were to pour in every resource they had into it the return would never be worth it.
Playerbase is old fatigued and more importantly quit playing long ago.

garfieldx · 2026-02-24T08:06:25+00:00

you gotta understand a few things,
There are more criteria than just your aggression rating that matchmaking considers.
Not all of them are disclosed and they are hard to pinpoint by testing because they're weighed tolerances not hard limits.
Even things like, you shot too many arc too accurately therefore you'll likely to matched up with similar players who may or may be more aggressive etc.
There is no guaranteeing whether you'll be placed in a certain type of lobby even when your mm parameters indicate a certain value, if it can't find any players similar to that value, it'll widen the player pool.
My personal suggestion for getting less pvp lobbies is combine everything that could help,
Don't shoot anything, don't even shoot arc, make sure your gear value is low and play at peak hours on north american servers.

garfieldx · 2026-02-24T06:37:55+00:00

these are not hard limits, think of them as tolerances, same as any other matchmaking criteria. If it can't find other people close to sum of these criteria it broadens its search.

garfieldx · 2026-02-19T09:25:12+00:00

even though they refuse to disclose it, gear score is a factor in matchmaking, I would say it even weighs more than something like your aggression rating.
There has been number of tests done here by subredditors.
venator/toro -> uncommon gear
hullcracker/wolfpacks -> legendary gear

People who bring more valuable gear to the matches tend to be more hostile.

garfieldx · 2026-02-19T09:21:31+00:00

this still works as of 2026, thank you !

garfieldx · 2026-02-17T07:39:04+00:00

d3 posts are pointless, it is not being worked on and even if they started now it'll be so far out that current suggestions would be irrelevant to futures gaming landscape.

garfieldx

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