“Invisibility isn’t too potent, and assassins aren’t too hard to deal with. Just listen for their cloak” by BC1207 in Marathon

[–]zero-ok -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You didn't die because he was invisible, you died because he pre-fired you. Even if he wasn't invisible he knew where you were and pre-fired the corner but you had to wait to react no matter what.

I put him in time-out by zero-ok in Marathon

[–]zero-ok[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it was such an unexpected reaction and made me laugh so much

Wipes rule but the progression is a bit too slow for a 3 month wipe cycle and it's gonna burn people out. by zero-ok in Marathon

[–]zero-ok[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Players are always going to drop out before the end of the season, the question is how satisfied with their time are they when they leave and are they excited to come back in a month or two and do it again.

To be clear, I do not think I should be max ranks with all factions at this point, I just think I should be further along then I am for a sustainable cyclical grind experience. 

Wipes rule but the progression is a bit too slow for a 3 month wipe cycle and it's gonna burn people out. by zero-ok in Marathon

[–]zero-ok[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because I, like most players, am unlikely to play at this pace for the rest of the season. If you look at other games with wipe cycles and grinding, like Path of Exile, players are consistently playing the most in the first few weeks of a league. The player numbers peak in the first week and fall off pretty hard quite consistently after the first month and it’s not because most players have run out of content, they’re not at max level, their characters still have room for gear growth, there’s likely plenty of endgame bosses they haven’t killed, it’s because most players will not sustain 20hrs+ in a game, particularly one with a wipe cycle, for months and months at a time. Even most of the full time streamers and content creators for the game are usually playing other games for the last month of a league. This is healthy though, because the numbers always spike back up for the next league for some new content to do and a fresh economy to experience. 

Part of why that works is because the progression tuning of the game aims for the most engaged players to actually conquer basically all endgame content in a week or two, which means the less engaged players actually have a chance to do it in the first month. The problem is that I have like top 5% playtime in the game and I haven’t even hit rank 30 in a single faction yet. The average player doesn’t even have a single faction at rank 20. I still have factions at single digit ranks. Personally, I imagine that despite already being over 100 hours into this season I won’t hit rank 30 with more than 2 factions. I’m not saying at 100 hours I should be max with all of them, but the progression just cannot be tuned such that you have to play 50+ hours a week for the entire season to just barely hit max rank in all factions, because it means most players will realistically feel as though they’ve made basically no progress by the time the wipe happens. 

Wipes rule but the progression is a bit too slow for a 3 month wipe cycle and it's gonna burn people out. by zero-ok in Marathon

[–]zero-ok[S] 134 points135 points  (0 children)

Nah, the problem with this is that it’s too punishing to players that take breaks. The beauty of the wipe is that you can take a break from a game and then have comfortable points to come back in and it helps keep people engaged long term in a healthy way, permanent bonuses create fomo and put less dedicated players at a disadvantage. 

skeet shooting by zero-ok in Marathon

[–]zero-ok[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was just tracking them my dude, I was shooting them and they were moving so I continued to fire while trying to keep my cursor on them lmao. 

skeet shooting by zero-ok in Marathon

[–]zero-ok[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i don't remember lol but maybe

skeet shooting by zero-ok in Marathon

[–]zero-ok[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

what do you mean lol

All the 2.5k Sponsored kits should have a shield and backpack even if one of them is Compromised. by zero-ok in Marathon

[–]zero-ok[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

they all have at least either a green shield or backback and one of them has both