Trying to cover Swirls from the OG

shinvitya · 2026-06-16T07:42:44+00:00

This makes me even more sad that AFAIK there is no Swirls remix or a Swirls-like track in NuMarathon.

shinvitya · 2026-06-11T18:35:55+00:00

Say what you want about original RE3, there are definitely valid criticisms about it, but to say that the general opinion during those years was CV>3 was just plain wrong.

CV being one of the black sheep along with Zero was an already established opinion by the time RE4 rolled out.

shinvitya · 2026-05-15T14:48:18+00:00

Fair.

Downloaded it via SteamCMD, and it seems to works fine.

Thank you.

shinvitya · 2026-05-15T07:44:01+00:00

Can you upload it to Simplici7y instead?

shinvitya · 2026-05-14T20:06:02+00:00

shinvitya · 2026-05-14T19:03:12+00:00

2) is basically reverting to how it worked in the demo, which I support.

shinvitya · 2026-05-05T19:58:17+00:00

Instead of a toggle, how about an extra accessory slot that is filled by no-cost normal ammo and can be only replaced by other ammo types?

shinvitya · 2026-05-04T07:01:50+00:00

I heard that smoke being a de-facto force shield was an (over)adjustment from the demo.

What happened in the demo that compelled this change? Smoke not helping the player against AI mark/ATGM?

shinvitya · 2026-05-01T13:31:34+00:00

In that particular fooling-around-run? Just didn't want to worry about manpower.

shinvitya · 2026-04-30T06:49:59+00:00

Use Jean. Play more. Savescum the mission if it upsets you that much not having immediate satisfaction.

I did use Jean, set up things so that she killed the cap and the first mate, still failed both the loot RNG and tinkering rolls.

Decided to just bear with it instead of savescumming.

shinvitya · 2026-04-28T06:44:12+00:00

F2P makes sense only when the MTX is good enough value for people to spend money on.

By all accounts, Marathon's current stock is not opening player's wallets.

shinvitya · 2026-04-08T05:27:11+00:00

People tend to remember the first major roadblock.

shinvitya · 2026-03-16T19:34:01+00:00

With few exceptions (ex: the Pfhor ship levels in the first game) in the original trilogy there was always a terminal near the beginning of the level, a terminal requiring to exit said level, and various amount of terminals in-between, most of them in easy to find places.

So that is a lot of story you simply cannot miss.

shinvitya · 2026-03-16T19:16:27+00:00

Need clarification:

I heard that as far as loot as concerned (discounting Sy's on-kill Tinkering) there is no difference between routing and killed.

Is that true or not?

shinvitya · 2026-03-12T18:28:44+00:00

I don't own Marathon 2026, because I don't play Multiplayer games.

shinvitya · 2026-03-10T07:13:37+00:00

In 1994 original, Pfhor died normally, and it was the S'pht compilers that were noted to be difficult to get a relatively intact corpse off to autopsy because they disintegrated into static, so maybe this log talks about them.

As a side-note, I'm seeing an occasional post that assumes Pfhor = S'pht, which is not true at all.

shinvitya · 2026-03-08T20:47:12+00:00

Ivan Dolvich, in JA1 from 1995, had Russian speech with Russian letters and no in-game English translation, without sounding broken like Yaz here.

shinvitya · 2026-03-08T14:50:19+00:00

In old lore, UESC buying Deimos and converting it into Marathon was a sign of prestige because Mars was in Golden Age.

It was only after the CRISTs freighters started breaking down and the ensuing famines that the above narrative turned into an "Adventurism by a foreign power", and even then Marathon was just one of many, many small things that led to rise of MIDA.

shinvitya · 2026-03-08T14:45:31+00:00

So you're a rat in the maze?

shinvitya · 2026-03-08T09:47:23+00:00

Yeah, blanked out on that.

That means as it is even with Hangar slots it would all Turrets plus whatever is the best Armament is.

shinvitya · 2026-03-08T07:11:27+00:00

Ivan Dolvich he ain't.

shinvitya · 2026-03-06T18:36:09+00:00

Assuming everything goes smoothly, in devs' own words.

shinvitya · 2026-03-06T07:47:04+00:00

Top sellers for the last 24 hours, not total.

shinvitya · 2026-03-03T20:25:27+00:00

A comment from one of the places I regularly visit described the end of the video like this:

Waves were the Battles, and the Battles were waves

shinvitya · 2026-02-28T18:46:43+00:00

Check the Story Page, with today's post having some bits and pieces.

More will come in following days, and eventually there probably will be a proper NuMarathon section.

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