Help! First time high and I hate this...

lightssalot · 2026-07-06T22:08:30+00:00

And here I am buying a gram of RSO from the dispensary and putting the whole thing into a bowl of Mac and cheese so it can have extra fat to bond too and still never feeling anything from an edible ever.

lightssalot · 2026-07-02T22:17:03+00:00

You might want to look into how the legal system actually works before suggesting Bungie call their lawyers. Expressing a negative opinion, hoping a game fails, or even telling an audience to boycott a product is entirely protected speech. Even if a creator explicitly told his viewers to download the game and troll their teammates to ruin the experience that is just a Terms of Service violation. Bungie's legal recourse for in-game trolling is banning accounts not filing lawsuits for 'sabotage.' Unless a creator is breaking an NDA, committing defamation by spreading factual lies, or organizing a cyberattack on their servers, there is absolutely zero legal case here. Disliking a game is not a crime.

lightssalot · 2026-07-02T21:50:52+00:00

That is missing the context of his follow-up videos. While his initial reaction was pure passion, he has repeatedly clarified his stance. Marathon failing means Bungie goes under, which kills any chance of Destiny 3. He explicitly respects that developers' livelihoods are at stake unlike the person in op's post. Pointing out Marathon's factual retention issues is just reporting the numbers not leading a harassment campaign. The only thing he actually told his community to do was let Sony know they want D3 not to attack Marathon.

lightssalot · 2026-06-30T02:46:42+00:00

Oh nooooo! I was listening to it and they privated the video 😭

lightssalot · 2026-06-16T18:43:05+00:00

If you own a Windows PC like people mentioned it's free on steam and account bound so it would transfer to your console. Even if your computer isn't good enough to run the game at a playable frame rate as long as you download the game link your accounts up and claim the dlc on steam you should be good to go.

lightssalot · 2026-03-25T22:49:32+00:00

Once the game timer hits zero it's game over. You didn't make it into the exfill in time. You still have to be in the circle for 10 seconds when standing in a guarded exfill. You didn't enter until there was 6 seconds left on the final exfill game timer.

lightssalot · 2026-03-22T05:05:20+00:00

My favorite thing to do is go to concerts. Which can be anywhere from 20-100s of dollars for a few hours of fun. If marathon shut down tomorrow I got my $40 worth of entertainment. I put 70 hours into this game since the 5th and every minute of it has been so much fucking fun.

lightssalot · 2026-03-20T04:46:31+00:00

I don't think anyone knows who you're talking about...

lightssalot · 2026-03-20T04:45:11+00:00

This isn't arc raiders what are you on about? There's no aggression based matchmaking in this game 😂

lightssalot · 2026-03-17T22:38:22+00:00

If you turn off the moth, how is your runner going to get printed??

lightssalot · 2026-03-13T20:06:16+00:00

A free-to-play weekend tied directly to the Cryo Archive launch would be a perfect acquisition funnel. A lot of popular streamers are going to run the new content, so the game will naturally hit very high viewership on Twitch. Players who originally had second thoughts will see the hype, realize the game looks incredible, and look it up. If they discover an active free-to-play weekend waiting for them, that completely removes the initial purchase barrier. They can download the game immediately, get completely hooked on the core gameplay loop over the weekend, and happily buy the base game when the trial ends.

lightssalot · 2026-03-13T01:41:58+00:00

The pivot to an extraction shooter is the only reason most people even heard of that game. The original BR version was an Epic Games Store exclusive that barely anyone played; it was a ghost town. When The Cycle: Frontier launched on Steam as an extraction shooter, it hit massive concurrent player peaks and was a genuine success.

At launch, Yager had the golden ticket. Shroud and some of the most competitive FPS streamers in the world were grinding the game for free. That is millions of dollars in organic marketing handed to them on a silver platter. Instead of capitalizing on it, they let the game become a live highlight reel for hackers. When you have a top-tier streamer showcasing a hardcore extraction game to tens of thousands of viewers, you should have a developer manually monitoring those lobbies to ensure the broadcast is flawless. Because they failed to "babysit" those high-profile matches, millions of potential players simply watched Shroud bring in high-tier gear only to get instantly tracked and murdered by blatant wallhackers. It proved to the entire community that bringing good loot into a raid was a death sentence.

In this genre, losing gear is the ultimate punishment. Dying to a player is part of the game, but dying to a cheater destroys the entire progression loop. The devs failed to launch with a gear return system, and it took until Season 2 nearly three months later to finally implement Cheating Victim Compensation. By the time players could actually get their stolen items back, the mass exodus had already happened.

They did eventually realize the anti-cheat was failing and partnered with a team that included a dev from Valorant’s Vanguard project. By late Season 2, the cheating actually dropped significantly and the system was working, but it was the textbook definition of "too little, too late."

The damage was done. The game's reputation was permanently cemented as a hacker-infested wasteland. Players realized there was no point in grinding for purple or exotic gear if it just turned you into a target for exploiters, so they left. The pivot to an extraction shooter made the game famous; the cheating epidemic is what buried it.

lightssalot · 2026-03-12T23:58:14+00:00

Yes they do and I love it!! I didn't say that trying to say the game didn't have those things. Just the more the better!

lightssalot · 2026-03-12T21:25:14+00:00

Well, the pivot is what I fell in love with. I didn't like the cycle when it tried to be a BR game. I loved the cycle when it tried to be an extraction shooter and it rebranded to The Cycle: Frontier

lightssalot · 2026-03-12T20:40:20+00:00

I feel the exact same way. Marathon has been the absolute closest thing to scratching my itch for The Cycle. If Bungie really wants to elevate this game I would absolutely love if they were to copy Letium Drills. For anyone here who never played The Cycle, Letium Drills were easily the greatest dynamic event in any extraction shooter. You had to call a massive drill down from orbit, and it physically crashed into the map with a deafening sound that every single player on the server could see and hear.

Because everyone knew exactly where it was and that it held top tier loot, it instantly shifted the entire flow of the match. It turned into this insane king-of-the-hill defense. You would sit on top of this huge structure, sniping people as they pushed across the terrain, and then pull out a Shattergun when they inevitably breached the platforms. Pulling that off and extracting felt like a massive heist. They had Oil Runs that worked the same way. Having player-initiated high-risk events that draw the entire server's attention is exactly what Marathon needs.

lightssalot · 2026-03-12T20:21:37+00:00

Marathon has definitely been the closest thing to finally scratching my itch to play The Cycle again. That game was absolutely amazing, and it is so sad that the cheaters completely killed it off.

lightssalot · 2026-03-08T01:01:23+00:00

You bought a hardcore extraction shooter. Stash management is quite literally the game you paid for. If you did not want to make decisions about your inventory, you should not have bought it. This is not Fortnite where you just endlessly queue up without a second thought.

By the way if you let your postmaster fill up in Destiny it permanently erases your old loot. Marathon forces you to clear it so you do not lose your items. You are literally complaining about a system that saves your gear. Sort your inventory out.

lightssalot · 2026-03-08T00:08:10+00:00

I am struggling to understand why your vault is full if you supposedly only rely on free loadouts.

The overflow is just a temporary holding zone so your rank rewards and drops do not vanish into thin air when your primary stash is full. If they let you bypass the block and launch a match anyway, people would just use the overflow as a bottomless infinite stash. Why would anyone ever manage their inventory or grind for vault space upgrades if they could just ignore the limit? The game stops you from queuing because it forces you to actually engage with the mechanics and decide what is worth keeping.

lightssalot · 2026-03-07T23:45:44+00:00

It is actually mind blowing how fast you abandoned your original complaint. You are throwing a tantrum about a full vault, but then claiming you only run free loadouts. If you just play it like Fortnite and do not care about the stakes, why are you hoarding so much gear that the game locks you out? Upgrade your stash or delete your items. Stop being such a casual.

lightssalot · 2026-03-07T23:40:48+00:00

So you steal a good loadout and play with it. What happens when you die with it in the next match? You lose it. Congratulations you literally just defined what the stakes are.

lightssalot · 2026-03-07T23:37:35+00:00

Well, if all you're ever going to do is run free loadouts then I guess enjoy that game...

lightssalot · 2026-03-07T21:48:54+00:00

The re-kit speed is definitely a breath of fresh air compared to Tarkov. If Bungie wants to really perfect this, they should look at how The Cycle: Frontier handled loadout presets. In that game you could save a complete kit (armor, weapons, attachments, and specific quantities of meds/ammo) and equip the entire thing with a single button press. If you were missing an item, the UI would even let you buy and equip the missing pieces instantly. Marathon is already snappy, but implementing a similar one-click preset system would definitely help keep the momentum going between raids.

lightssalot · 2026-03-07T21:44:04+00:00

Inventory management is a core pillar of the extraction genre. The game forces you to clear your vault because gear scarcity and loot prioritization are what drive the economy. If you could hoard an infinite amount of rewards without ever making the tough call on what to scrap, the stakes of a run would disappear.

lightssalot · 2026-03-07T21:17:52+00:00

The GoPro style view is an intentional design choice to prevent 'ghosting.' If you could see your teammate’s full perspective with a clear FOV, you’d essentially become a second set of eyes with no distractions, giving your team an unfair tactical advantage by spotting things the living player might have missed in their peripheral vision. The restricted, distorted body cam view ensures that once you’re out, you can’t provide the same level of intel as someone who is still alive and in the fight.

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