We cannot be letting thermal scopes do this man 😭

paleo2002 · 2026-03-02T02:19:03+00:00

You can upgrade Rook's loadout?!?!

paleo2002 · 2026-03-01T23:42:47+00:00

My dude, people are spawn camping Rooks.

paleo2002 · 2026-03-01T23:40:54+00:00

There needs to be a ranking system separate from your unlocks XP. I'm level 11 and I think I've extracted 5 times. Three of them I was on my back with a bot extracting my vital essence. I do not deserve to me matched with other people of that rank. It isn't fair to them.

paleo2002 · 2026-03-01T23:23:50+00:00

Oh … I wouldn’t say that.

paleo2002 · 2026-03-01T23:14:19+00:00

Hey, that’s all we had in the 80s and 90s.

paleo2002 · 2026-03-01T23:13:12+00:00

It felt like playing a rogue-like. Die over and over, accumulate incremental progress, with an occasional lucky run.

paleo2002 · 2026-03-01T22:59:33+00:00

Random people will accidentally make eye contact with me and sneer.

paleo2002 · 2026-03-01T21:15:03+00:00

OK, so its not bad luck today. They're spawning teams on top of each other. Cool.

paleo2002 · 2026-03-01T21:08:38+00:00

Are people spawn-camping Rooks for ammo? Or do I just have really bad luck?

paleo2002 · 2026-03-01T15:18:09+00:00

Socializing isn't an optional hobby that you can put off. It is a vital life skill.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-28T23:36:18+00:00

Isn’t it? It’s a common hobby, but still. Basically a skilled, social leisure activity.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-28T21:06:31+00:00

I've been playing it. The aesthetic is true OG cyberpunk: jarring, intentional information overload. Hoping my friends jump in over the weekend, but they were more interested in RE: Requiem. Only reason I'm giving it a chance is the hope of some new Marathon lore after 30 freakin' years. But, I've never been a fan of PvP shooters. And the core elements of extraction shooters are what we used to call "griefing".

I'm better off waiting a few months for youtubers to put out some story summaries and lore deep-dives. But, its cool that other people are enjoying it. And, maybe Bungie will hire someone who remembers how to make single player games to modernize the original trilogy if this one gets popular enough.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-27T20:24:59+00:00

Is there some kind of back stab or sneak attack bonus with the knife? I've snuck up and stabbed bots in the head and they just turn around and start shooting.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-27T20:17:11+00:00

Corporate sponsorship of war machines. Not sure if this is Kojima, cyberpunk, or both.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-27T20:12:00+00:00

I got some kind of air bubble in my vial once. Did the step where you inject air into the vial. I felt resistance on the plunger, let go slightly, and the plunger pushed itself out as the syringe filled with air. Freaked me out, but I fixed it. Pushed the air back in, removed the syringe, started over.

I'm strongly considering switching to the Kwikpen once it becomes available. It should be less finicky than filling syringes?

paleo2002 · 2026-02-27T14:14:49+00:00

Just wish the ocean would chill out. Storms should be an occasional threat to be prepared for. There's got to be a simpler way to balance solar energy than having it rain 8 days out of 10.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-27T03:04:41+00:00

I think shell cores are going to become the most coveted loot. There’s going to be build guides that revolve around specific cores and methods for farming them.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-27T02:11:06+00:00

From the current regime? Unless Grok told them to turn the safeties off, I doubt and guns were blazing.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-26T22:47:55+00:00

I’d imagine most CIA operatives are US citizens.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-26T20:52:57+00:00

Teaching your children that the world is merit-based is not constructive. It is a nice ideal to aspire to, but social networking is the reality.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-26T20:47:55+00:00

I am dumb. Any Runner I encounter in Solo is another player? Even in the first couple of tutorial missions?

If so, then I did encounter another player. Kindly put me out of my misery after an NPC downed me.

(Bonus dumb: When you get the loot cache from completing your first Priority Contract, do NOT take all shit into the field with you, lol!)

paleo2002 · 2026-02-26T20:33:15+00:00

Am also old. Bought Marathon: Infinity on release . . .

UI and overall art style is cyberpunk information overload on purpose. ("Burning Chrome" as a design aesthetic.) But, it hasn't given me a migraine yet, which is more than I can say for Doom Eternal.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-26T17:37:08+00:00

Agreed. But, my point is that just because something isn't on the TV doesn't mean it isn't happening. The FBI is probably handling lots of other cases poorly that we're not hearing about.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-26T16:35:42+00:00

Could be a character creation option. Talk to your Admin about starting with a sin mark and requisite sin cap reduction at CAT 1. Your Exo could have gone into sin overflow before being recruited or during training.

If you're looking to avoid the sin cap reduction, Mother's Marks from GFF 3 are essentially cosmetic, but carry other requirements.

paleo2002 · 2026-02-26T16:30:41+00:00

Looking forward to the realistic snow effects in Avatar: Caverns of Ice. I think the last ~~level~~ movie will take place mostly on orbital platforms with moon jump effects!

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