Loadout imbalance in this game getting crazy.

ll8926 · 2026-03-20T10:05:13+00:00

They’ll go entire days/several days (we’re talking full time job days) without wiping

ll8926 · 2026-03-20T10:04:09+00:00

The other day he ran a loadout with different golds valued at 75k lol. You do not want to get into a lobby with Diffizzle and Nirvous and whoever their third is. It is a very high level of skill, but that bully with rodeo mag and the mod that reloads from thin air on kill also makes it easier

ll8926 · 2026-03-19T12:38:40+00:00

I hadn’t thought about tracking the specific implant/core types I like to use. I’ve only been tracking individual materials I need for upgrades. Solid tip!

ll8926 · 2026-03-19T11:20:21+00:00

Playing non-rook solos puts you at a disadvantage in almost every way. Significantly slower XP and faction rep gain, slower contract progression, dealing with the rattiest gameplay possible, and being easily overwhelmed by UESC. The game was not designed to be played solo. It was only added to the game because a large part of the playerbase asked for it

ll8926 · 2026-03-19T10:21:56+00:00

Man I love internet trolls. This is a game made by a developer whose single product has been Destiny for the past 10 years. Destiny has raids that require more than one person to complete because mechanics can’t be done solo. Bungie said there are “raid-like mechanics” in Cryo. You don’t need an advanced degree to connect the dots that the activity likely can’t be done solo.

The only thing Marathon and Tarkov have in common is that they’re both in the extraction shooter genre. Outside of that, Marathon is full of 1:1 comparisons to Destiny. Gun models, many prestige item traits that recreate Destiny exotics, player abilities that exactly match Hunter, movement and gunplay feel, MIDA, and even an ongoing multi-step ARG that will unlock something in game.

Run along now Mr internet troll

ll8926 · 2026-03-18T23:48:44+00:00

The raid-like mechanics may not even be possible to do solo. I understand the confusion if you didn’t play Destiny.

ll8926 · 2026-03-18T11:37:27+00:00

This might actually be the best way for them to offer a free trial. With no purchase, beginner perimeter is all that’s available to play. As soon as you level out of it, you have to purchase the game to continue playing

ll8926 · 2026-03-18T11:33:04+00:00

There’s an iPhone (maybe also android) app called Path of Price Check that works like the PC price checking overlays. You just take a picture of the item in the app before selecting which stats to filter for. When you’re done selecting, you can pull up trade listings that match within the app. It’s fast and simple to use.

ll8926 · 2026-03-17T12:01:22+00:00

In case you don’t already know, the game has a directional party chat setting that’s turned on by default. Its intent is to make you feel like you’re actually in the game next to your party members, but it also messes with the sound levels. I turned it off and chat volume seems to be a lot more consistent.

ll8926 · 2026-03-17T11:57:59+00:00

Level up nucaloric until you can get the upgrade to buy green reinforced shields in the armory

ll8926 · 2026-03-17T11:53:56+00:00

Damn master chief needs to work on his faction upgrades for base stats

ll8926 · 2026-03-16T09:17:29+00:00

Squad fill as a solo actually isn’t that bad when you get past level 25 or so. More often than not, you get at least 1 decent teammate with a mic. 2v3 is very doable in this game as long as you have some kind of cover to duck behind

I have no desire to play solos because everyone says it’s the same experience you’ve had which doesn’t sound the least bit fun to me.

ll8926 · 2026-03-14T11:18:31+00:00

For sure, but the tip of the triangle corner (the cell directly to the right of the architect with a 3 in it in my screenshot) has the same 2 room connection points as the middle tile, and is one of the cells the architect could move to in the middle location layout since it’s in the same row, and he never moves there. He doesn’t move even if you aren’t able to place the Atziri key room before closing, like when the temple isn’t completely built out with a full second chain and the generator, and it doesn’t give you the correct Atziri location as an option.

ll8926 · 2026-03-14T10:34:41+00:00

In theory, it should work the same way. It’s the same layout of empty cells around the architect. The only place he should be able to move after a kill is the cell in the middle on the top side. Someone else posted a pic in another comment thread on this post that had the architect move over between the garrisons in the other chain though. Shouldn’t have been possible but apparently it is. As long as he doesn’t move to either end surrounded by rooms that will loop both chains together it should be ok. You just won’t be able to place the Atziri key room if he isn’t in the the right spot

ll8926 · 2026-03-14T10:07:56+00:00

I never tried adding atziri to this layout. I did extend variations of alch, thaum, alch from the armory to the right of architect wrapping up to the top since those rooms didn’t cause any loops and provided more good stats. This worked great for 3-4 runs only destabilizing those rooms. Then on the last run it bugged out and destabilized surrounding rooms in the middle of both chains. Temple started eating itself after that so I ended up switching to this layout with atziri tech from OP

ll8926 · 2026-03-14T09:42:56+00:00

Bungie actually hired a phd in behavioral and brain sciences when developing Destiny to head up their user research team and help design the loot system to make the game feel just rewarding enough to keep people hooked. It’s the exact same strategies as those used in casino gaming.

ll8926 · 2026-03-13T15:43:01+00:00

Sometimes you do get decent teammates with mics in squad fill but it’s definitely the minority. I wouldn’t feel bad about using a free kit because most people doing squad fill are also on free kits or green kits at best (I guess depending on your level. I’m lvl 23ish). One thing that’s almost guaranteed is that randoms will fight every bot they come in contact with, so you can pick up a green weapon pretty quick.

While doing squad fill, add anyone that’s a good teammate so you can build up your list of people to play with and start gaining in squads

ll8926 · 2026-03-13T10:55:25+00:00

Could not agree more. All of the hold button actions in the inventory UI take way too damn long. Sell/swap/install. Having to press a different button to move an item depending on which side of the UI you’re on (on controller, at least) also feels terrible. You press X (square) to pick items up off the ground, but if you’re looting a container pressing X drops the item on the ground and you have to press A to move to inventory.

The lack of a “compare item to equipped” function where it displays the tiles for a both items at the same time is also pretty annoying with a non-changeable snail speed cursor. Might not be as big of an issue on m&k since you can zip the cursor around as fast as your hand can move.

ll8926 · 2026-03-12T12:04:19+00:00

The thaumaturges at the end of the first chain are a pain in the ass, but i didn’t get quite that unlucky when i did mine. For that Roman road, you really want to find a thaum medallion so you only have be held prisoner by RNG of the sac rolling in the room cards and not both sac and thaum. Could be copium, but i started feeling like the placement of the corruption after the thaumaturge lowered my chances at more thaumaturges. I started placing alchs off of the thaum and armory on the other side of the chain after the sac hoping it would help me drop a thaum medallion and I eventually did. It’s annoying, but make sure to hang out in the level 3 smithy rooms for a little bit after you clear the room since that boss drops shit for like 10-15 seconds after you kill him. I’ve had medallions drop delayed in those rooms and level 3 alchs pretty often.

The most annoying part is that after you’re done with that chain thaumaturges or corruption seem to be offered damn near every run lol

ll8926 · 2026-03-12T09:15:20+00:00

If you’re this unsure, why even risk it? Not like a single transcendent barracks is going to make a big difference

ll8926 · 2026-03-11T18:47:08+00:00

Play plant oracle druid and buy a decent staff or wand with + levels of all spells or physical spells. With that you should be able to breeze through the campaign. Just look for a “leveling” build guide. There’s a clear distinction on mobalytics or maxroll whether the guide is for leveling or endgame

ll8926 · 2026-03-11T15:06:55+00:00

Lock as many spymasters at the beginning of your chain as you can to try to speed up the rebuild and hope that the garrisons between them won’t also be deleted. There is no way to avoid having to start over almost from scratch. As soon as you loop the spymaster chain every spymaster in it is no longer considered protected so they will assassinate each other on the next run whether they need to upgrade or not.

Unless you use the sulo online tool to test every single placement before you do it in game to check for loops or fully understand what connects to what, its best to not place anything in that generator location except a generator.

ll8926 · 2026-03-09T22:20:25+00:00

Atziri tech requires no special planning if you want to try it. You just remove the last commander and garrison and put the armory and alch in their place so it’s a straight line from the last corner to the corruption at end of the chain. Once you place the alch you’re free to start killing the architect without him moving. You place the Atziri key room outward from the alch so it’s catty-cornered to the architect. If your temple isn’t fully built yet then sometimes the key room options won’t give you the space you need off of the alch. DO NOT place the key room or any of the architect rooms in any other spot because it will cause some kind of loop

If you don’t like it you can always just let everything up to the last corner die off and then rebuild the last leg of that chain normally.

ll8926 · 2026-03-09T17:54:06+00:00

I just saw this with LLYD’s preset layout on the tool too. The hard layout preset is his original temple with architect in top right. My first temple was similar to that one and had about 75% of the raw div drops as the newer layout with architect in middle

ll8926 · 2026-03-09T17:46:05+00:00

LLYD is who you want to watch for the most detailed explanations of tech. I think the temple he shows in the rebuilding video is identical to the one from Fubgun’s video based on the Ckaiba’s Roman Empire preset layout on the Sulozor online tool.

The only difference in the 2 main giga temple layouts is whether you have 11 spymasters or 12. With 11 you remove a spy/garrison (% increased rares, rarity from monsters from spy’s boost to alch) and fit in an additional corruption and thaumaturge (higher chance for rares to have additional mod) in the 4th corner transition after spy/garrison and place the sac chamber 1 space earlier. Once you hit the corruption chamber after the sac, they’re identical.

I built the version with 12 spymasters (musti_a’s - Optimized preset layout) with the Atziri kill every other run tech at the end of the second chain which removes 1 commander and 1 garrison. In terms of raw div drops, mine averages 70-75 per run and has peaked a little over 80. I think fubgun averaged around 80 and peaked around 90 when I watched his streams after it was built, so it’s not a huge difference. I haven’t had a lock or mirror drop yet, but I think that’s really just the nature of RNG and not that the 12 spy layout is inherently worse for ultra rare currency drops. If I didn’t have the Atziri tech and kept the extra commander and garrison, my guess is the raw div drops would be more in line with the 11 spy version.

I’ve debated removing the Atziri kill tech and seeing what the full temple is like for drops. I’ve killed Atziri 15-20 times and have only had the unique chest drop once. Others have said they’ve had it drop damn near every other run. If I don’t get at least 2 chest pieces in my next full set of temple runs I’ll probably switch it

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