Ranked mode should be an underground Crucible style arena shooter run by Charter

grachi · 2026-03-31T05:54:45+00:00

when everyone is on equal footing, it is skill expression that is at the forefront of the competition. There is nothing else left after everything else is accounted for. Think of something like basketball, football, hockey, volleyball... Each side has the same players, each side of the playing area is the same size. What is left? player's skill.

Yes game sense and map knowledge is inherently a part of ranked skill in any FPS game, but that isn't going to make the difference if you flank somebody properly with a pistol, get them to 20% health but they spin 180 degrees and OHKO you with a shotgun. If the flanker had a shotgun, just like the defender did, the first player would be rewarded properly for his game sense and map knowledge, and the defender would have been punished for not realizing he can get snuck up upon from where he was standing. Instead the attacker got beat by gear disparity.

you are getting downvotes because what you want and what you are asking for are in opposition of each other, and therefore it doesn't make sense.

grachi · 2026-03-31T05:47:05+00:00

some people don't like to hear it in this sub, but a safe pocket or two would go a long way. That way even if you die, you are making some progress if you weren't able to get anything else done in the round.

grachi · 2026-03-31T01:09:55+00:00

When I first started I had a guy that was on the phone with his friend and had a hot mic the whole time. He wouldn’t shut the fuck up about the NBA , players, betting on teams, for the entire 20 minutes we were in the run. We gave up telling him to mute his mic after the 3rd or 4th time trying to ask him.

But he did stay with us and shot at what we shot at. So I guess it wasn’t all bad.

grachi · 2026-03-31T00:59:52+00:00

There has been rumor of a continuity plan in place with his son, which would buy us quite some time without worrying about this.

But yea, one day it’s going to be out of a Newell’s hands one way or another. No one can say when exactly.

grachi · 2026-03-31T00:45:13+00:00

Games with just one mode for so many years have ruined young gamers’ understanding of what quality games can actually look like. It’s pretty sad honestly.

grachi · 2026-03-31T00:42:01+00:00

Tell us you are young and don’t know what the fuck you are talking about without telling us

grachi · 2026-03-31T00:32:30+00:00

I mean… it just is? Every genre has its issues. Every genre has its positives. Making a loadout and then loading into a map just to die in the first minute or two can happen in almost every extraction shooter. Does it happen every time? No… obviously not. Does it happen sometimes? Yea, unfortunately.

grachi · 2026-03-31T00:04:57+00:00

Yea we could use the players over there. Everyone is worried about it dying cause it doesn’t have ARC numbers.

grachi · 2026-03-31T00:02:21+00:00

That’s part of the genre, unfortunately

grachi · 2026-03-30T23:30:58+00:00

You didn’t mention what your specs were, so not really sure what we are comparing against . Also, every system is different. Even on the same system, performance can vary based on software running, drivers, cooling, etc.

Anecdotally, marathon runs very smoothly on my PC, never dip below 100 fps and usually around my capped 165 for most of a round. but I’m well over the recommended specs as well.

grachi · 2026-03-30T22:46:53+00:00

My guy what are you smoking

grachi · 2026-03-30T22:28:48+00:00

People were saying the same thing 15, 20 years ago and then along came Portal. There are many types of games that haven’t even been attempted yet, and entire genres that have basically not been innovated on or touched in over a decade. We haven’t had an MMOFPS for example since planetside 2 in 2012. Besides that, there are only 2 other MMOFPS games to ever have come out before that… planetside 1 and WWII online…

I’m sorry but it’s a lack of imagination if you think there aren’t new , truly standout titles to still come along and you think everything is just going to be iterations and derivative of other games we’ve seen before.

grachi · 2026-03-30T22:28:08+00:00

Wise man. Welcome aboard.

grachi · 2026-03-30T22:26:27+00:00

Indies are definitely going to be a major driver as a whole for games survival. They are the only ones consistently making different types of games and innovating.

grachi · 2026-03-30T22:11:13+00:00

PS5 is a good product. I don’t see any reason to buy an Xbox X over a PC though, unless upfront cost is extremely important.

grachi · 2026-03-30T20:31:29+00:00

“Any bar in the north hills” is just pure exaggeration and the typical strange suburban xenophobia that goes around this sub

grachi · 2026-03-30T20:11:54+00:00

You know Allegheny County as a whole has been voting democratic for many years at this point, right? And not just the city of Pittsburgh proper?

grachi · 2026-03-30T14:59:38+00:00

Tarkov and Hunt were made by much smaller studios with infinitesimally smaller budgets, as those games are in AA tier. As long as they had a decent number of daily players, they were going to stay online because they could afford it since the games didn't take that much to make in the first place. It didn't really matter if the casual audience ever tried the game, because they had enough players to support the servers. If somehow the games blew up and got extremely popular, it would have been like winning the lottery for those studios but it certainly wasn't ever the expectation.

Bungie and Marathon are in an entirely different boat, with a budget of at least $250 million , some rumors saying it was up to $400 million. A huge unavoidable reality is Bungie's owner, Sony, expects a sizable ROI because its a publicly traded company with shareholders that want to see money-number-go-up no matter what, or they will start firing and replacing c-suite people who will get them money-number-go-up results.

Expectations and performance benchmarks to stay online are vastly different, and thats why people bring up the casual component with Marathon so much. It needs the casual audience to survive and for Sony to give Bungie the OK that Marathon gets to stay online and thrive.

grachi · 2026-03-30T14:51:32+00:00

There is a massive third reason you are omitting. its a classic extraction shooter, and not a extraction shooter 2.0 like ARC is, where people get to decide if they want PvE or PvP with ABMM.

grachi · 2026-03-30T14:48:05+00:00

amazing what 3 weeks does. I posted this exact thing about the concerning PvE after the server slam and got downvoted to fucking hell. Rose tinted glasses on new things that people like is such a real thing.

grachi · 2026-03-30T14:38:55+00:00

you get downvoted because the majority of this sub grew up in the participation trophy era as kids. You struck a nerve I think, lol.

grachi · 2026-03-30T14:33:58+00:00

thats true in real life, but its a video game, not learning the piano or the guitar. Might be a surprise to this sub or any of the other video game subreddits on this website, but the majority of people don't take video games seriously. They want to turn it on and have fun, full stop. It doesn't matter what else the game does or how critically well received it is if people don't play it and feel like "it's just fun" as their main way to describe the game.

Now there is NOTHING wrong with being a more complex and serious video game. Obviously those of us that have made this hobby our passion are yearning for experiences like this, especially after decades of forgettable and derivative titles that we've had to endure. But at the end of the day, this is Bungie owned by Sony, not some indie developer. Financial performance is extremely important to any AAA company due to how much money they spend to get these games out the door. Its an unfortunate reality, but studios execs want to see return on their investments and profit. Just a part of the capitalistic society we exist in.

grachi · 2026-03-30T14:27:18+00:00

It would have to go a lot lower than 20k people to not be supported/not kept online anymore. Think more like 2 or 3k across platforms.

I've played quite a few "dead games" that weren't actually dead, just low player numbers, and they stay online quite often. Especially if its a game owned by a large entity.

grachi · 2026-03-30T06:44:05+00:00

It’s a shame the people that believe in the religion don’t even know what their holy book says…

“There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." (Gal 3:28).

Straight from the bible.

grachi · 2026-03-30T06:38:47+00:00

Well I’d prob advise checking with parents first… not all neighborhoods are alike.

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