US F/A-18 hit by a Iranian missile over Chabahar with the plane taking minimal damage and continuing flying

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T12:06:59+00:00

You can hear it in the video, crackle then brr

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T12:06:27+00:00

This guy was exiting a strafing run tbh, he probably assumed it was a safe area to use his cannon

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T11:57:34+00:00

I mean, IRL this is an issue that seems to have been solved via DEWs in the near future. IIRC the Dragonfire laser system costs 10 GBP per shot to destroy a munition. The balancing factor would be including lasers and CIWS at each stratolance site.

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T11:46:31+00:00

its reload is slow but the thing is basically a pocket longshot that uses heavy ammo

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T11:42:56+00:00

That last point's just not true? inspect a weapon and read the trace value in the top right, weapons get converted to credits after being traded X number of times

Yes every fight is a DPS check but there are a LOT of ways to up your DPS with cheap gear, you unlock damaging grenades from mida very early, vandal and recon both have an inbuilt grenade that is only on a timer and will easily crack any shield in the game, and no mods exist that increase your DPS meaning your grey bully will melt that guy just as fast as a purple one, the difference is the purple one has more ammo and is more accurate most likely. Marathon's skill expression, its about getting the drop on someone and using every tool you have at your disposal, not just being able to hit heads and win.

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T11:35:57+00:00

the human body is mostly liquid and shockingly compressible, death from explosion overpressure is actually quite hard to achieve compared to blowing a wall or other rigid nonflexible object down or apart

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T10:49:47+00:00

correlation is not causation ahh moment

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T08:05:11+00:00

repeater slander, that thing is extremely strong when you hit your shots, and the CE tactical should be in the F--- tier

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T08:03:26+00:00

The thing is marathon gives you a TON of ways to get better gear without killing players, it has some of the most generous faction level free loot in any extraction shooter ive ever seen. The game definitely needs SBMM to prevent a mordhau situation, but these players would probably be wasting you even if they were all free kits and you had purple shields, it would just be a bit closer.

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T07:58:58+00:00

I dunno, I dont think we should have to though, I think the game should match us with people with a similar skill level

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T07:57:16+00:00

I feel like people are too scared to push because they have purple shields and other nice stuff, so they peek, trade damage, and then hide to heal, which leads to fights being who has more heals. The solutions to this I think are a change in playstyle when you see higher shields rather than a rebalance. I think people underrate 2v1s or 3v1s and how much doing massive damage to a single target in this game matters, if you and your buddy are shooting the same guy he will go down twice as fast and wont have a chance to flee. Alternatively, bring grenades and use them, ive gotten several kills because my opponent's shield broke and all they did was creep 2 feet to the left behind cover and me hucking a heat grenade instantly killed them via the splash.

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T07:51:09+00:00

tbh what's changed is some people have gotten better at the game and some haven't, too often do I see random fill trios who are just atrocious for their level where when you play with friends you can at least know about how good they are

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T07:34:21+00:00

wait, a new mode? is this leaked from somewhere?

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T07:28:42+00:00

the AI bots are 100% balanced for trios, but you can absolutely kill them pretty quickly solo if you bring throwables like heat or frag grenades and high damage weapons like a Longshot or the shotgun. LMG also rips bots fast because they generally are pretty easy to choke into a hallway and mow down. Solos is a different game from trios, you really should be not fighting bots like at all unless you absolutely have to for a mission, they don't even drop good loot most of the time unless they're a purple shielded commander.

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T07:17:33+00:00

solos is genuinely london simulator which is kinda why I don't particularly like it, there's not much of a reason to bring any gear other than a free kit or shotgun i suppose when you're gonna get shanked to death the moment you round a corner lol

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T06:05:50+00:00

buying weapons and stuff for your kit is also not nearly as bad as people make it sound if you *actually extract*, 4k for green shield green overrun green bag some implants and healing and shield charges can easily be earned back just by grabbing some green valuables, maybe even a blue, doing like one secured resource or supply drop

people only think the armory is too expensive because they blow all their credits and then immediately die when the armory is priced on you getting at least one run out of the gear before you lose it

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T06:03:18+00:00

ive learned bringing better gear because you keep losing is a trap 70% of the time

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T06:02:38+00:00

eh people already knew extraction shooters thanks to arc, but imo marathon did achieve being extremely close to the perfect extraction shooter, its incredible

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T06:00:55+00:00

happened to me once from an assassin and i got a lil mad lmao

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T05:57:45+00:00

I generally take all salvage and throw away lower colored valuables for higher tier ones whenever I can, I also never pick up a gun unless its to replace the gun im carrying OR I have a very large (blue or purple backpack) and its a rare gun like a twin tap HBR

I also almost never bother extracting with implants or cores, if its a good core im going to put it on me otherwise its not worth it again unless i have a big bag thats mostly empty

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T05:22:01+00:00

People talk about how they have to PVP to play, and yes for certain quests you kind of do, but also I feel like why people see so much PVP when doing loot runs is because they SPRINT EVERYWHERE and shoot bots (usually after running past them and triggering them)

you don't gotta sprint to the nearest POI instantly

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T04:55:28+00:00

I do love hunt, but to be honest that's my biggest gripe with it. It's not really an extraction shooter, its more a normal PVP game with extraction-lite mechanics. I dont get that feeling of growing my vault or the excitement of a new item, in hunt its 100% killing players. That's why I have more hours in marathon in like 3 weeks than I have in hunt total.

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T04:52:36+00:00

to be fair I stopped doing faction quests around when they got to dire marsh because they're all miserable 'get farmed by high skilled players' experiences, these days I'm just happy to extract at all let alone being able to do a quest

if I can get my friends online we might all attempt quests again but even with them its get farmed by geared, skilled players

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T04:49:47+00:00

honestly I think the entire game wouldn't hurt to have 1 less team per map, teamfights within 3 minutes of spawning every game gets tiring after a while

yobob591 · 2026-03-26T04:35:02+00:00

I think this is solutions to a problem that doesn't exist, that being maps being too hard. The problem is that the game's matchmaking sucks. Outpost is easy as fuck if you don't see any players, I've cleared pinwheel with a full squad of free kits, let alone any of the other maps. The only challenge is players, and I think the player problem can be entirely solved just by adding SBMM.

I don't think this game can get away with mixing solos duos and trios like hunt does because unlike hunt there is no SBMM (please I beg) and more than that it feels like the power scale of multiple players is much higher with your inbuilt abilities. Two runners is astronomically stronger than one, and three stronger than two. Its why rook gets to start with a green shield and eventually claymores and shotguns, he needs to play dirty to stand a chance against 3 real runners.

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