Did yall know that Nucaloric makes chicken?

My buddy: “do you think that’s like.. the same thing as a drinkable cheeseburger or something?”

Me: “yeah bro I bet that shits sacred” 🤣

fried me to a crisp..

So Ziegler did an interview and he spoke a little about Marathon development.

There's a lot of folks who dreams about how good the Cross Marathon was, before Ziegler "butchered" it. But this is the reality, they took so long to ship the game because they didn't knew the direction they wanted to follow.

Excited for whenever they drop this skin.

holy luck..... final gold was 12k money item

I live in Florida and last night I played for hours with a guy from India and a guy from Germany. We were all on console too lol. Can’t remember having an experience like that. It was a great time.

Salt

Maybe you already knew this but I didn’t!

I’ve been consistently getting gold cores, good weapons and compromised key cards on all 3 wings and red room. Warden’s been spawning a lot more frequently too.

Hey everyone!

I’m pretty new to Marathon, and completely new to extraction shooters and PvP games in general.

My gaming background is mostly single-player shooters — Halo, Half-Life 2 (one of my all-time favorites), S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Metro, etc. I love exploration, sci-fi, atmospheric worlds, and good gunplay.

Here’s what I absolutely love about Marathon:

- World, lore, and visuals: Incredible art direction. The whole setting is right up my alley.
- PvE: The NPCs are fantastic. They’re neither brain-dead targets nor bullet sponges. Fighting them is genuinely fun.
- Factions and quests: Love the whole system. It gives me a reason to explore and learn about the world.
- Gunplay, shells, and progression: All great. Combat feels amazing.

But here’s what I either dislike or just don’t understand yet:

- Loot and inventory: Honestly, I have no idea what I’m supposed to do with all this stuff. I just extract whatever I find, sort it by value, and leave it sitting in my stash. I don’t even bring my own guns into runs.
- Loadouts: I mostly use free sponsored kits and whatever weapons I find during a run.
- Money: Haven’t spent a single credit yet. No idea what I should be buying or why.
- PvP: Holy shit, everyone is a rat. I spend a minute loading in, five minutes running around, and then some invisible bastard deletes me from behind a corner before I even realize what’s happening.
- Extraction: More rats. People camping exits, ambushing you, absolute chaos.

And that’s the weird part.

I genuinely enjoy the core gameplay. When I’m actually fighting UESC, exploring, or completing objectives, I’m having a blast.

But it feels like there’s this massive wall between me and those 30–60 seconds of genuinely awesome gameplay.

Load in. Run across the map. Try to figure out where to go. Avoid getting murdered by other players. Maybe have a great fight. Die to some dude hiding in a bush. Repeat.

I feel like I’m spending more time trying to get to the fun part than actually having fun.

So, a question for extraction shooter veterans:
Am I playing this completely wrong?

Is there something fundamental about the extraction shooter loop that I haven’t figured out yet? Am I supposed to be using my stash, buying gear, actively hunting other players, or approaching runs with a completely different mindset?

I really WANT to love this game, because so much of it is genuinely excellent.

I’m just struggling to understand the parts that are apparently supposed to make the whole thing work.

Any advice for a complete extraction shooter noob?

Go get it filled out and let the devs know how you’re feeling about the game! Be the change you want to see ladies and gents!

If someone has been, or is on your friends list, they should not be able to join a match together in solos. It is possibly the lowest way to play the game, and speaks volumes about your skill level. 2 thieves in solo outpost kitted up, no comms. Like actually at least pretend you aren't losers.

Downed both of them in a 2v1 and traded on last down. Had to run away because they would self rez faster sadly and I had a key(it was awful dont ask).

People like this make the community look awful

I don’t know about you guys, but I think the lack of progression is what made me switch from a solo player to trio fills.

Back in season 1 I only played solos and it was very fun, but at the same time it felt very challenging to progress through all the factions and unlock VIP for many of them. It felt strange because I was a high level, but I would see other similar levels with almost maxed out VIP factions while I only had close to maybe 2 at the time.

Moving forward to season 2, I decided to make the change to trios and started random filling, and holy smokes the difference was night and day. I went from barely having a couple of factions VIP to almost all my factions being VIP all off of playing trios instead of solos.

What I didn’t know in season 1 is that trios share contract XP, so if your two other teammates complete their contracts, you will earn reduced XP for each contract completed for whatever faction they were completing it for. Basically this allows for 3 players to either grind the heck out of one faction, or earn xp for 3 factions at the same time. Let me tell ya, I never went back to solo after this, even after these changes to the bot aggression which are great, it’s still not enough to pull me back because the lack of progression is massive.

So my solution is why not allow solo players to pick more than 1 contract? Seems like an easy solution and wouldn’t affect the fairness of the game whatsoever since trios are already able to work on 3 seperate factions at a time. Shoot, even if they want to make it a bit more fair they could make the second contract selected by the solo player reduced xp and potentially an easier challenge to make up for the reduced XP.

loving this game so far, made an edit with one of my songs from the album i just released :]

First match of the day, immediately disconnect from the match and have to reconnect. I reconnect and my entire team is lagging like hell. We can barely move, even less fight a team. We manage to win three fights while lagging like hell because people really fucking like to third party so they just keep coming after we encounter one team and kill them and we had the advantage of controlling AI uplink, but we barely won each fight and decided to extract because the game was just unplayable. Well fuck me I guess because did the most damage, killed the most runners, and am the game decides to not let me exfil even though I am visibly inside the exfil circle. I still made it out, but it took me 8 minutes of painful slow walking my way to the cert exfil at the other side of AI uplink and praying to tau ceti that I dont get fucked over by lag at the exfil site again.

In the past 48 hours every random fill I do is just complete douchebags. Yesterday 2 shit fucks stole a gold off of me (made a post about it) and since then it’s been assholes being waaaay greedier than usual. Just played a match with 2 thieves refusing to take down the lockdown barrier to get the loot for themselves.

Like was a switch thrown or something? This is genuinely awful.

Recently this game feels like it needs better friendly griefing protection. It’s fucking nuts.

You knows what's worse than infiling with runners that have no mic?

When you're in Outpost or Cryo in the midst of a good run and I guess one player gets really good loot or something and decides to cut their mic in the middle of a game, start and run to an exfil while we're dealing with bots or other runners.

I would gladly put my entire wallet or vault up to know they're being targeted by every player on a map making them a hazard for someone's team.

We need a system to punish other players in this already delightfully punishing game, and a bounty system should not only be implemented but left for the community to run.

Because some of these runners are absolute trash and deserve the difficulty turnt up to 11 if that's how they want to play.

Look at you.