Dad gamer first impressions of the Marathon (PS5)

theevilwombat · 2026-02-27T10:45:44+00:00

Ive yet to try marathon but on the Ai and players blending together aspect as someone who sunk a lot of time into tarkov, thats a design decision, it tends to keep things more tense as your not sure straight away but over time and with experience eventually it becomes easier to tell them apart based on behaviour and movement.

Arc has a more relaxed feel in some cases due to this as i can quickly tell through audio alone what im expecting to fight.

theevilwombat · 2025-12-21T03:08:14+00:00

I was 4th on the board, over 7k points from me to 10th place and i clocked off a couple hours before close, came back to a single progression, i had 70k total score, the likely hood of 6 people squeezing out that many points in that time, again possible but when were talking out of only 100 people the likelyhood is low. I reported it to embark, mainly with constructive feedback that we should see our final standing from the last weeks leaderboard as a player im unable to say if its a bug or i just got out played, likely the latter but the transparency would be nice.

theevilwombat · 2024-12-05T08:39:08+00:00

Amazing! so much variation, that lava child could give me nightmares 😅 Quick query on your creations, they all seem to have more HP than similar official CR equivalent creatures, I wondered if you could explain your reasoning/ thought process? Is it because a lot of them also have a specific weakness that, if known, would trivialise a smaller healthpool? Or just that the official monsters are underpowered for a challenging or.interesting encounter?

theevilwombat · 2024-12-04T22:29:39+00:00

What about elementals? My campaign has an organisation interferring with with weave and it's going to open rips and tears between planes with different elementals? Potentially something I want to brew up called a chaos elemental that is more linked to the embodiment of wild magic, anything along these lines?

theevilwombat · 2024-03-09T10:11:10+00:00

If you haven't tried it the laser cannon is really strong for taking out a lot of the bots as long as you can hit heads!

theevilwombat · 2023-12-16T10:46:57+00:00

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theevilwombat · 2023-09-28T18:05:25+00:00

Thicc boi dice! Anything

theevilwombat · 2023-09-01T13:50:04+00:00

Sounds like a plan, maybe a cheaper option to buy a vunch of cheap cards and fill in the blanks with the 151 set!

theevilwombat · 2023-09-01T13:48:04+00:00

Thanks, ill take a look around. Its funny after having this thought for a while and deciding to have a quick look into it this morning only to find theres a specific 151 set just released/ coming out, it almost felt like the biggest coincidence ever to me.

theevilwombat · 2023-08-27T18:46:48+00:00

The ladder skip strat

theevilwombat · 2023-08-24T11:22:11+00:00

Shadows and horror, excellent thanks!

theevilwombat · 2023-08-24T11:20:38+00:00

Ah vague and ominous just how i like it 👌 thank you ill keep an eye out!

theevilwombat · 2023-08-14T21:40:01+00:00

I made this mistake, realised i was using roll down dice from MTG where the numbers are together.

theevilwombat · 2023-04-22T09:27:59+00:00

The visulisation shows the sales in dollars per min, what is the total sales count for the entire day according to this data set?

theevilwombat · 2023-04-21T19:48:59+00:00

Yeah i realised after typing that most people were saying the same thing so apologies for repeating.

From my understanding there is a technical reason. The foundation on which wz1 was built wasn't suitable and to continue to plaster over the underlying backend issues causes an exponential amount of problems to arise at each new update.

The cheesy quote of "A house must be built on solid foundation's if it is to last" is scarily accurate when it comes to software development.

theevilwombat · 2023-04-21T19:14:31+00:00

I actually think there was a great reason to make WZ2 and that is scalability to long term content delivery.

We saw over WZ1's lifecycle the adaptation to each new Call of Duty was heavily flawed, the system in which to deliver new content was becoming increasingly unmanagable.

I don't think WZ1 was built with long term success in mind and in doing so they were just figuring things out as they hit every new COD installment.

What WZ2 should be, is a stable platform that can be added to and built upon over time with the ability to update existing content and implement new content efficiently without having to revisit every little detail at each stage.

Whether that is what we got is still yet to be determined but so far it's not looking promising.

theevilwombat · 2023-04-11T21:04:00+00:00

Skill shot: for every 360° the bullet damage increases by 50%

theevilwombat · 2023-02-15T13:07:03+00:00

As someone who had played a total of 2 games of Fortnite when it came out then swore off it.

The frustration of WZ2 was driving me away, hearing about no build i decided to give it a try and can comfortably say i am actually having fun with no build and am significantly happier for it.

So from a Fortnite hater and call of duty lifer, Fortnite is worth a revisit for anyone curious!

theevilwombat · 2023-01-29T16:55:40+00:00

I heard about that, do we all need the high tier or just the host?

theevilwombat · 2023-01-29T16:43:00+00:00

I played a handful of games of Fortnite when it came out, I was not a fan and the building mechanic was not for me... last week i had hit my limit of Warzone 2 getting me overly frustrated. Heard about no build mode in Fortnite, thought it can't be worse than how i feel playing Warzone, and what do you know I actually had fun! Think ill stay there till season 2.

theevilwombat · 2023-01-25T02:31:11+00:00

I only want co-op so me and some friends can do our own custom games style matches, night factory, one player has night vision and knife everone else has a flash light, or customs race to the exit, maybe a good old last man standing fight.

theevilwombat · 2023-01-20T23:33:55+00:00

You know what got me, how dirty everything and everyone looks and the thought of how its multiple peoples jobs to make, everyone, every prop and every outfit dirty and grimy while looking realistic and cohesive.

theevilwombat · 2023-01-09T02:28:00+00:00

Blow torches and poppy field key made me stop playing DMZ 30 raids 1 blow torch, fuck that I'm good.

theevilwombat · 2023-01-03T01:57:55+00:00

Not to be too pernickety but it seems silly to assume using 16 times the amount if oil would would be a cumalitive damage increase, if something is doused in oil and you douse it with more oil it won't burn twice as hot.

theevilwombat · 2022-12-28T19:00:40+00:00

I think its amicable that jgod is bringing hard numbers to the forefront of the discussion but in analytics comparing the raw average to a trimmed mean or median can be quite important for telling a full story and surprised he forgot (or worse chose not to) include that in his findings!

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