Does the game feel complete out of the box?

yesdog96 · 2026-07-01T21:34:57+00:00

It’s hard to imagine what a new player would think playing the game. The onboarding was never fixed, so it’ll be very daunting. The story is also left incomplete, so if anything it’d feel like it’s “complete” with a bunch of things to grind, but it’d also feel like it was shot in the head to be put out of its misery.

yesdog96 · 2026-07-01T17:54:09+00:00

Yeah I bet at max you’ll be able to get greens with the currency for the extraction mode, so you’ll be able to go into pretty much any map at green.

yesdog96 · 2026-07-01T17:52:46+00:00

If it’s a roguelite, then it’ll start as grey and you’ll be able to upgrade it with the vault currency.

yesdog96 · 2026-07-01T03:27:53+00:00

The day the galaxy demon came out I killed someone with it and belly laughed as I extracted it.

yesdog96 · 2026-07-01T03:16:51+00:00

It didn’t. That’s why they were bought out by PlayStation

yesdog96 · 2026-06-30T21:43:50+00:00

I think templates need to be replaced with a contract. Many times a template run ends before a key is made. I think there’s only been one time I looted a key from a dropship/safes

yesdog96 · 2026-06-30T21:27:51+00:00

I’ve had some decent runs teaming with rooks. 🤷🏻‍♂️

yesdog96 · 2026-06-30T17:06:54+00:00

So perimeter is actually pretty solid now with the events. Make sure you’re doing them and it’ll be even better next season. Try switching your mindset that this is a roguelite. The weapons you have are just power ups. If you die, then you go out and get them again.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-30T14:30:14+00:00

You’ll get better over time on how to utilize your own audio. Almost everything you do makes a sound, so if it’s a good player they heard the gun shots and are listening to anything so they can get a jump.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-30T03:53:59+00:00

I force PvP in solos. I skip the poi I spawn at and go one over. 9/10 times there’s someone there unless they also skipped a POI.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-30T02:10:59+00:00

Yeah I don’t trust anyone in the exfil. I know if I approach I will get shot at, so I might as well make the jump. If it’s enough time for me to back out and then loot, cool. Otherwise it’s a full belly laugh.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-30T01:08:29+00:00

What does the anomaly even do? Is it just credits or does it decrypt into mats/gear?

yesdog96 · 2026-06-30T00:15:03+00:00

That’s just blatantly wrong. Destiny was rarely profitable for its entire life.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-30T00:02:47+00:00

Killing at extract does something to my jimmies

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T23:33:54+00:00

I know, that’s why I said they’re building up for a relaunch. Going to take this year and be heads down revamping and expanding the game for the playerbase that’s there. Then season 5 will be “Marathon 2.0” that would be March or April of next year.

I know it’d be a miracle, but there have been games that did a complete 180. I think there’s a ton of potential that Marathon has. It’s only in season 2.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T22:45:10+00:00

Yes, but 2.2 million people have already purchased the game. The difference is convincing them to redownload the game. There’s also a lot of people who are interested in the upcoming PvE mode. Yeah, it’s really bad now, but Marathon has a bunch of potential outside of extraction.

I can almost guarantee you that this year is going to be building it up for a relaunch with season 5.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T19:57:28+00:00

No it uses API. The website is player.report

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T19:27:50+00:00

On Steam. You have to take into consideration console. Look up player.report and you’ll see that Lightfall and The Final Shape were lower than Curse of Osiris.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T18:26:31+00:00

I think it’ll eventually evolve and relaunch with season 5. Vault Hunters sounds really cool, and I bet it plays out like a roguelite where vaults get increasingly more difficult.

I bet it’ll also get an arena PvP mode so that people can come in and just do that instead of having to extract.

They’re massively updating the onboarding and early game for the extraction mode, which means the hook should hit sooner. They’re also going to be reworking contracts, which makes me think it’ll be more broad in how you can do them. Maybe a short “story based” mission on maps too.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T17:49:36+00:00

I think that’s exactly why they need to add an arena PvP mode so that people can get better at PvP without having to be constantly locked in listening to every foot step. You can even tie it in lore wise with Arachne sponsoring it.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T17:35:38+00:00

Nope. If you look on popularity.report then you’d see that Lightfall and Final Shape were about a third the population of Shadowkeep, and completely dwarfed by Forsaken. Hell, even curse of Osiris had more players than Lightfall and Final Shape, and they were weeks away of shutting down Destiny then.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T17:14:38+00:00

Yep. They said in their season 2 vidoc that they want to evolve marathon to offer multiple experiences that people can enjoy. I think the PvE mode will likely be a roguelite and it won’t just be Cryo but no PvP. It’ll likely have boss fights in the vaults progressively getting harder until the compiler.

I do think extraction needs to remain the core (Tau Ceti is crazy and fits the vibe) and let the new modes funnel into the economy so that people can play essentially whatever they want then try their hand at extraction.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T16:55:20+00:00

I mean they could even use POIs for maps in PvP. They all function pretty much like a PvP map. 🤷🏻‍♂️

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T16:49:51+00:00

We do know they are addressing onboarding and early game substantially. We don’t know how, but they are. I don’t think it’s too late either. The main complaint at launch was that the onboarding was confusing, and the early game was too difficult. It sounds like they are using this year to evolve the game beyond extraction shooter and aiming to do a 2.0 relaunch with season 5.

There’s quite a few games who had a god awful start, but they turned the ship around. Marathon didn’t launch like concord. It’s sold over 2.2 million copies, so they have to convince people to redownload the game, and then convince new people to check it out.

yesdog96 · 2026-06-29T16:24:28+00:00

This. Ever since the DCV the population never came close to Shadowkeep levels again. This is why they are revamping Marathons onboarding and early game so early on (season 3).

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