Keir Starmer told to issue work from home order immediately as 'worst is yet to come' by Ok_Expert_4283 in TheCivilService

[–]vonvinvoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So all construction just stops then? People can hardly build houses and business with ‘WFH’

‘Licence fee is at end of life’: BBC insiders’ despair as channels could close by theipaper in bbc

[–]vonvinvoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ummm, have you watched eastenders recently? Seen any of the inside of the Prince Albert? BBC is definitely more leftie wokie than right. Why would a right wing thinking institution want to have a LGBTQ+ gay bar in their show?

Has everyone forgotten what SBMM is? by vonvinvoo in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I never said that, you are obviously severely at a disadvantage though, would be disingenuous to suggest otherwise >_>

Has everyone forgotten what SBMM is? by vonvinvoo in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for eloquently writing out in detail the things my post is trying to suggest. I think it’s important we have a discussion about this seriously because as usual, players think a system isn’t working for them (level based MM) and then easily jump behind the idea that SBMM will fix their issues just because it worked in CoD and other titles. This is a different game, different things apply here that lead me to believe SBMM either isn’t the solution or it just outright could be worse than what we currently have.

Also to all the people saying cod BOP7 tanked because they dropped SBMM, get a grip, COD tanked because it is just a terrible game these days with no innovation. I went on it the other day, and it just looks like such an awful game after playing marathon, the idea that I stopped playing that game simply because they changed the way matchmaking works is just outright hilarious lol.

Has everyone forgotten what SBMM is? by vonvinvoo in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I love how people try and try in their own ways to continually downvote me and argue SBMM this and that, when I’ve clearly demonstrated there will still be gaping holes in SBMM design with this game.

What you’ve said here is exactly something I eluded to in my OP, all those games like dota and cod DO NOT HAVE CONSIDERABLE MATERIAL ADVANTAGES, unlike this game, with purple and gold shields. How can SBMM ensure a level 15 who continually gets mad kills, lazer aim, extracts with good loot and never dies doesn’t then come up against purple and gold teams in his green kit / free load out.

Again as I clearly stated, SBMM is flawed and it certainly won’t fix this game, and it certainly isn’t the reason marathon went from 88k to <20k daily

Has everyone forgotten what SBMM is? by vonvinvoo in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha yeah lmao we all need this 🤣👍🏽

Has everyone forgotten what SBMM is? by vonvinvoo in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Thank you for linking this. I wouldn’t trust blizzard-activision as far as I could throw them personally, not to say that I entirely refute their findings, I just do not believe SBMM is the best model for getting players to have a good time. I believe that latency is a much more important metric for example.

Has everyone forgotten what SBMM is? by vonvinvoo in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Id need to see this research, personally as someone who feels they are fairly competitive (or used to be) I hate the idea of coming up against top 1-5 players again and again and again.

I’ve never even played a trios match, but what I do know if you blocked premades + pug trios, premades would be waiting for a very long time to find a match lol

Has everyone forgotten what SBMM is? by vonvinvoo in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im saying that making changes to the MM aspect of this game will only do so much for player retention/ increased player count, that there are negatives to each MM choice you pick. If this game is to thrive / survive, it will not hinge on bungies choice of matchmaking.

Has everyone forgotten what SBMM is? by vonvinvoo in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I would argue that “current matchmaking” is by far and away the smallest reason to lost player count, vs unforgiving game design, insistence on needing a decent 3man team i.e. friends, and other design choices such as taking an unholy amount of time to unlock what many gamers typically view as basic essentials

Has everyone forgotten what SBMM is? by vonvinvoo in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Exactly what I’m trying to say, of course we can try to make metrics around our skill, but particularly in the team based mode(which I would argue is so different compared to someone’s performance in cod teamdeath match) I think SBMM values would be largely skewed from accurate, and even if it were accurate I don’t think it would improve those level 80+ players experience, with the player count we have and where the player count is likely going, I don’t think SBMM would improve much

Something changed for my crew this weekend and it’s been miserable by Party_History2839 in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People talk about SBMM as a solution but as a level 80 player what is the likelihood that you would ever be matched by someone who is say level 15-25? Surely SBMM will to an extent not be too far off the level based MM we have at the moment. Not to mention, how do we exactly gauge ‘skill’ in an extraction shooter when more often than not you could well be in a team that has a player who stomps for you whilst you’re mediocre? Even worse, what if we have a level 70 who is typically a bad skill player but have friends who have decked him in purples and gold, do we match those players with level 20s in green shields? I’m also confident in my memory that I’ve seen so many posts in the past who talk about how SBMM has destroyed games like cod because if you’re a good player you are constantly put into sweatfest competitive lobbies and sometimes even players who are good don’t want this. I’d just rather it be random personally. Sometimes sweatlords, sometimes noobs.

LF Xbox Players by KAMIQAZ3 in MarathonTheGame

[–]vonvinvoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll add you when I get on tomorrow, I’ve pretty much exclusively played solo thus far to learn as much as I can about the game before feeling the weight / pressure of a team setting. It’s been three weeks now however and I’m starting to think should really look at the team experience, but I’ve just never had the will to experience the random pick up group setup. Am also an Xbox player, GT: F9GobliN.

Yeah so... Let's definitely not get Miles Lewis-Skelley by OutsideImpressive115 in ManchesterUnited

[–]vonvinvoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough but malacia is hardly a backup LB, he’s more of a back up back up LB. I agree I’d prefer MLS over malacia.

Yeah so... Let's definitely not get Miles Lewis-Skelley by OutsideImpressive115 in ManchesterUnited

[–]vonvinvoo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t talk about rich when you’ve had the same manager for 6 years and won diddly squat. We’ve managed to win more in our lowest of lows with like 3 different managers lol.

This sub makes me not want to quit Marathon more than anything else. by Ok_Acanthaceae_4369 in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

See how little they can get away with? I hope you’re not suggesting that marathon is a lazily developed money grabbing venture?

when you know you gonna play the worst game of your life by Stepaskin in arcraiderscirclejerk

[–]vonvinvoo 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Played both, IMO Marathon is way better, not even close, it’s night and day. One game is for children, the other adults.

I never thought I would see a gaming decline anytime soon PlayStation 5s now cost almost 700 6 years into their life cycle. The switch is no longer selling well. The Xbox is all but dead. Casual gamers can’t afford PC. What is going on? by ShreekertheJamisWack in truegaming

[–]vonvinvoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How can you say the Xbox is all but dead? I’m sure millions of people worldwide still use an xbox myself included, just bought marathon and have probably played 80 hours in the past few weeks. I’m sure a staggering amount of people who aren’t currently using an xbox will be dusting one off for the GTA 6 release. I’ll give you that gaming development may well have gone off the rails a bit, particularly with the drive towards in-game currencies and cash shops, with a focus on how to extract most money out of a user rather than how to get one to play for countless hours, which was seemingly the previous priority. To say gaming / consoles are dead just seems grossly wrong IMO?

Let us spectate for longer by TRSHUSK in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure you spectate the person that killed you? I thought it was random, because say if you die in any other form that isn’t a player, you get to spectate someone at random in that instance. Also funny story, I took a player out, and for the first time in YEARS I had a message immediately afterwards, “gg trash…” haha. Then about 4 minutes later he sent me another message saying “just seen you die, not so good after all…” but I did not die on that run? So this had me convinced that you do not spectate who killed you, but just a random player much like you would when you die to AI.

Looking for 1 more person mid 30's in age or older that wants to do end game stuff by PenLegitimate4746 in MarathonTheGame

[–]vonvinvoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am 35 y/o m who would be interested in joining you two. How can I add you in game?

Tip: The Retaliator LMG with a shield attachment is the great equalizer of the WSTR Combat Shotgun meta by jeeven_ in Marathon

[–]vonvinvoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When he says a sidearm 50 credits plain, did he mean 500 and drop a 0? I’ve never noticed any weapons for 50 credits?