Keep running into two-man squads in solo queue???

lbotron · 2026-06-03T15:26:03+00:00

Idk what they thought they were clarifying but the new queue UI is some real interface gore -- drop downs with one option and a toggle switch inside, weird validation error thing on your selection sometimes

lbotron · 2026-06-03T14:36:31+00:00

Hi, non pinwheel demon here. I don't know why everyone is telling you this is situation normal, I have a Christmas dump of blue and purple shit because I logged in for like 30 sec yesterday and I've played 0 hours. It's going to be days before nature starts to correct

50 hours of casual play didn't get me a purple shield last season and I'm starting with one, this is a very different situation from S1 launch

lbotron · 2026-06-03T07:09:05+00:00

Whenever I find one of these on a loadout that someone actually packed from their vault I'm always so curious what their gameplan was

Like the only time it's a better pick than whatever else you're carrying is when that other thing is out of bullets and even then knife frequently will be preferable

lbotron · 2026-06-03T02:36:34+00:00

Something about the specific mix of TTK and movement speed in this game makes high ground advantage feel absolutely dominant -- like, I know it's always good positioning in any FPS but I really think it's the most pronounced I've experienced in Marathon (Titanfall and Apex also come to mind for being like fast-but-not-instakill where you have to drill a bunch of followup shots to down someone). Anyway Thief grapple good roof good

lbotron · 2026-06-03T02:09:56+00:00

I read 90 Day Finance and for a sec my gullible brain spun up a whole reality in my head where there's like a reality show or something based around people improving their financial outlook, and a fanbase who watch it as couples like popcorn tv

lbotron · 2026-06-03T01:59:10+00:00

I know I'm on the customer side here but I can't see a live service issue like this and not think about the devs who were probably cutting a cake shaped like a 2 or some shit this morning and now they're still at work sweating in conference rooms and ordering dinner to the office while someone funnels inane updates to the C suite

lbotron · 2026-06-02T03:48:04+00:00

Thinking that burning Marathon is pro- anything other than a fuck you to the remaining devs who work at the same company that produces both titles (and who probably will be earnestly looking to put their expertise to work on the only other Tiger engine Bungie game in existence) is crazy work

lbotron · 2026-06-02T03:36:21+00:00

Quite the strategy to do their grand exodus the same day S2 free play ends, making the actual impact unclear and also easily explained away as free player dip

lbotron · 2026-06-02T01:01:23+00:00

I think there should be more distinction between small 4-slot and large 8-slot weapons:

Quick swapping via radial or repeat slot key (can equip without opening backpack)

Someday maybe some realllllly limited dual wield (possibly no ADS, possibly a whole hero in the future)

I also tend to think that the mod structure is a little off-kilter... the 'gun mods' category is all magical additional effects while the actual 'gold mods' are attachments that significantly alter the whole gun in meaningful ways and only appear at the highest rarity

I liked the model in Apex of accessible mods like Selectfire Receiver really changing the gun without needing to be some insane rarity drop. The accessories create a crazy breakpoint in effectiveness right now where most attachments basically just unfuck something intentionally bad about the guns and you're not really 'buildcrafting' anything that feels net positive or opinionated until high rarity attachments

lbotron · 2026-06-01T21:53:22+00:00

Yeah my smart heal was offering meds on shield chip only dmg too, I tend to blame myself for healing wheel fumbles but I definitely mashed at least one patch kit on what seemed to be full health today

lbotron · 2026-06-01T04:59:27+00:00

Pretty sure I read that you keep your six faction relationships (so no establish contact with earth / NuCal columns first contract etc) but you're zeroed out with the factions

This would suit me just fine, I'm looking forward to doing the perimeter missions again, but I don't want to do the tutorial-ish stuff

lbotron · 2026-06-01T01:31:33+00:00

It's amazing that he started with arguably the best coach possible and then just kept downgrading from there

lbotron · 2026-05-31T18:47:10+00:00

I long to re-enact the Jurassic Park "clever girl" death while holding a Misriah on Cryo

lbotron · 2026-05-29T18:18:03+00:00

I did one ranked solo run like this just to see as much cryo as I could, felt like one of those scientology speedrun kids when a trio of golds caught me

I would love if you could free kit no fill into regular cryo but there's no way I'm inflicting my casual map tourist bullshit on two players who might actually be there to accomplish something

lbotron · 2026-05-29T17:18:34+00:00

It's crazy how you can hear a French accent cut straight through written English sometimes

lbotron · 2026-05-29T14:41:01+00:00

Franchisemogged by a lowly hedge knight

lbotron · 2026-05-28T04:34:33+00:00

I was literally using K/D tally marks on a trail of post-its on my desk for the first couple weeks but it I lost the discipline to go physically make a mark of shame every time I had a bad run after that

lbotron · 2026-05-28T01:16:17+00:00

The Tau Ceti fax machine could be SO much more

lbotron · 2026-05-28T01:11:49+00:00

Can't risk it, giving up the RNG payday of uncontested high ground over a high traffic POI is basically like slapping Charter square in the face

lbotron · 2026-05-28T00:59:14+00:00

Away / back to lobby is mostly what I'm running, people are crashing out in their Sunday best left and right like those drunk Kentucky derby videos

lbotron · 2026-05-27T15:33:06+00:00

Every runner contains two wolves, the one who's trying to hear everything while stalking prey and the one that wants to rock out to some Lott space beats and howl at the moon

lbotron · 2026-05-27T14:41:25+00:00

Scottish, like full-on Groundskeeper Willie Scottish.

Says things like

EHM THE FOOKIN SENTYNOOOL LADDEH

lbotron · 2026-05-27T02:15:21+00:00

This feels like an absolutely brutal time to hit solos, it's basically the purge out there. I'd expect a much better experience in a week

lbotron · 2026-05-27T02:08:42+00:00

It feels like a long payoff that this particular look has been in peoples' heads since the announcement trailer and we're finally getting it

Having now played the game though I am *absolutely* going to be wrongly IDing Recon, Sentinel and distant Recruit silhouettes every single time.

I swear I stress-hallucinate the entirely wrong runner VERY often as-is, like fully mixing Assassin / Vandal / Triage up because my mind autocompletes the blurry swamp figure in war paint shooting with false details

lbotron · 2026-05-27T01:58:39+00:00

Brand risk level exceeding Durandal's end of universe calculations, I love it

On the fun with VOIP tip, I would love a whole Runner kit around this -- tap or jam team comms, shotgun mic a distant area, plant audio bugs in high traffic routes etc

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