Marathon - Bungie Extraction Shooter

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Holy FUCK this game is bad.

Movement is sloppy as shit, you can't make out things for shit, I sat on a black screen with music playing for about 20 seconds wondering what the fuck was going on. I got into the tutorial and went through that, entered a game with a fill trio on. Everything from A-Z was just "WTF????" And holy boring as FUCK.

And right now I cannot even close the game! :p PC was frying like a fucking toaster, had to go to task manager to force close this thing, and then my PC locked for a minute and FINALLY shut the God Damn program down.

Sweet Christ this piece of shit launches in a week????
 
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Holy shit Steam bungie Devs are in full censorship mode on the steam forums. I already had my post deleted in discussions.

This game is BAD.... Wow
Booted up which took over 2 minutes on an AMD 9800 X3D with a 5080. Ran through the tutorial to an amazing graphical hard to see anything mess of horrible graphical design. Entered a game with a squad (Auto fill) which took a bit to get into - Audio is borked from the get go. Got some mission where we had to kill 5 whatever the hell's and loot a locker. Had TWO NPC's spawn in our area in 5 minutes - finally ran into some others and killed one and I was already bored, died.

Movement is GOD Awful. Controls are counter-intuitive to anything resembling a quick way to reach healing/shield items - the entire pacing is slow.

Above all that, I went to exit the game, my PC flared up to the temp of a nuclear silo - and 100% 40 million fans blowing (I think my AC turned on in the house and I live in MN for God's sake in February) where I first went to stop the game in steam to no avail, my 1st monitor was locked on the black exit screen, forced myself into task manager - ended the marathon process and where my mouse locked there as well and after 60 seconds the game FINALLY closed it's operation and I am back to normal.

This game launches in a WEEK???????

Arc Raiders isn't going to have any issue against this steaming pile. Which is sad because Embark needs some competition to get them to release content faster.

They are charging 0premium GaaS services for this too?

This thing makes Anthem, Concord, and Highguard all jealous.
 
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I haven't played it myself, but watching Lirik the game looks cool. He's only on his first outing right now though.
 

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Game looks and runs great, but the ui is really bad. That’s a problem because you spend a ton of time in the menus. They spent 6 months polishing the visuals but it seems like the ui was a complete afterthought. Will play more today to get some impressions.
 
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The entire map(s) are just fucking lifeless to boot. It makes Highguard look like Witcher 3.

Steam discussions are ramping up and almost all of it is negative as shit. Aside from all that there seems to be some stupid Arc Raiders Vs Marathon competition where these two games couldn't even be less a like anyway. Taking away my complete disdain I have for the cucks at Bungie, it may have been nice had this thing been worth a shit because at least then maybe we would see faster content rollout in Arc.
 

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LOL They censored Arc Raiders when you type it in their chat.
 
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Sifting through a LOT of the negative feedback on this. Launches in 6 days. Some are hilarious.

The same issue I had with the closed beta is still present.. there's just no action. Not enough teams on one map and the timer is rather short. It feels like a walking simulator most of the time and with the desolate environment of the game I'm about to fall asleep.

The UI gave my cat a stroke

Its absent of any creativity, soul or apparent passion. Clueless Developers, management or stockholders who gave this the green light would not know fun if it finished on their face.

Bluepoint died for this?

Flop City

My CPU Utilization is 90% and my 5090 is taking a vacation in Aruba

I cannot remember a time when I was ever more bored with a video game after 4 matches

Just hot garbage. You couldn't pay me $40 to play this slop

UI Style should never come before usability, and readability always comes first. It’s better to design something simple and clear than to over-style it and overload players with unnecessary cognitive load. Please Bungie, I genuinely want your game to succeed but right now, it feels like you’ve seriously underestimated the importance of UX and inventory management in an extraction shooter.

Don't support this slop

This thing might have concord hold their beer.
 

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A lot of that is fixable in theory, but a bad launch can be hard to recover from
 
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No matter how much I try, I just don’t like this genre of games. I really like the art style and world building, but I just don’t love spending half an hour in a pretty empty map only to lose all my shit in a 5 second fight. Like arc raiders, I play this game daydreaming about a great single player game in the fantastically rendered world they created.

Personally, I enjoy the gunplay and setting in marathon quite a bit more than arc raiders, but moment to moment gameplay isn’t enough for me to want to play either.
 
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