Seeing lot of "This game should be (Insert Idea)"

[jali]

TLDR: Try to enjoy the game and it's develpment stages without using OTHER GAMES as a schematic or blueprint to Marathon (2025). Otherwise you WILL be either disappointed OR pleased based on biased expectations.

Not many people are paying attention to all that has been said and its still being said about this game: It is IN DEVELOPMENT.

All i'm getting to see these days prior to alpha testing are comments about a game they WANT. Not a game they're up for trial and approval OR denial.

The dev streams, discord communications, TWABs and other commentaries FROM THE DEV TEAM are being overlooked by the community to some extent. The dev team explicitly said this game is a WORK IN PROGRESS. The visuals, gameplay features. THE GAME in a broader extent of itself is NOT FINAL.

This is a whole new take on Marathon, it is a loved franchise that was brought back. Wether we wanted it or not, it is their take on Extraction Shooters, sci-fi, gunplay and i'm all for it.

PLEASE. Do not take this game with disdain or mistreatment. Take this game as new. As something you've never seen. And try to enjoy it for a change. Remember why you got into gaming in the first place. Maybe it was for fun, maybe it was for escapism, try to enjoy this game for YOURSELF.

I'm not one of the testers ATM since i'm from South America. But in regards to the game and its premise i'm LOCKED IN.

Thanks for the read. Enjoy the alpha.

[The992255]

Originally posted by jali:

pleased based on biased expectations

Have you played Escape from Tarkov once?
Have you played Battlefield 1 once? (using BattlEye anti-cheat, which is also used on the Marathon)
Have you played APEX once?

All three games are filled with cheaters, and that's the main problem.

Why do you enjoy the game in Alpha Test? That's because the cheaters were not invited.

The main flaw of the Extraction Shooter games is that there is only one winning team.

When cheaters enter into the game, the remaining players have no chance of winning, there is no game.

You don't even need a lot of cheaters. If there are 18 players in a game and 3.78% of all players are cheating, it is guaranteed that there will be a cheater in 50% of the games.

This is the biggest problem, you have no chance of winning from the beginning.

How can humans defeat aimbot + ignoring obstacles + automatic positioning of players + prop radar and countless other cheaters?

[Cryptix]

Originally posted by The992255:

The main flaw of the Extraction Shooter games is that there is only one winning team.

That's just not true, as long as you extract you win and there is no limit to how many people can leave. The point is to extract with the loot you collect.

The gameplay loop is risking the loot on you to get better loot in the run, all while completing challenges for meta progression.

[Stegosaurus TTV]

Originally posted by jali:

PLEASE. Do not take this game with disdain or mistreatment. Take this game as new. As something you've never seen. And try to enjoy it for a change. Remember why you got into gaming in the first place. Maybe it was for fun, maybe it was for escapism, try to enjoy this game for YOURSELF.

I might lie for a loved one but I will never lie to myself, that's where I draw the line. You are effectively telling me to be dishonest. I will not be. This game, while it looks cool, doesn't look UNIQUE. Probably the only NEW thing about this game is the fact that you have BLUE BLOOD. That's it. The rest, the runners (playable characters) all look like Warframes, actually Warframes look better because they have CHEEKS. It's not always about cheeks, but the characters in Warframe look nice. The abilities in Marathon look straight out of XDefiant, and the whole world looks like The Cycle, except a little bit worse. Why is everything in pastel? Looks a bit.. corporate. I'm not even trying to hate either, the game looks kind of cool, but there is only one cool thing I have seen, and it's the blue blood. I guess we can say the lore is SOME-WHAT interesting, we are putting our consciousness in shell-like suits, and when we die, we do it again. But we can't even customize our own suits, so customization is limited. Ironic since this is supposed to be a cyberpunk game, cyberpunk games should offer a lot in character customization.

[Silver]

You can see it from a mile, from map design to the charterers, and even the name they used, even the whole thing of squad of 3. the game was developed to compete against Apex and they switched to Extraction Shooter because they saw how BR is dying and Extraction is taking the lead. tone down movement Apex legends. I will tell what everyone deep inside feel, the game looks like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and it's DOA.

[Todd Howard]

Originally posted by jali:

TLDR: Try to enjoy the game and it's develpment stages without using OTHER GAMES as a schematic or blueprint to Marathon (2025). Otherwise you WILL be either disappointed OR pleased based on biased expectations.

Not many people are paying attention to all that has been said and its still being said about this game: It is IN DEVELOPMENT.

All i'm getting to see these days prior to alpha testing are comments about a game they WANT. Not a game they're up for trial and approval OR denial.

The dev streams, discord communications, TWABs and other commentaries FROM THE DEV TEAM are being overlooked by the community to some extent. The dev team explicitly said this game is a WORK IN PROGRESS. The visuals, gameplay features. THE GAME in a broader extent of itself is NOT FINAL.

This is a whole new take on Marathon, it is a loved franchise that was brought back. Wether we wanted it or not, it is their take on Extraction Shooters, sci-fi, gunplay and i'm all for it.

PLEASE. Do not take this game with disdain or mistreatment. Take this game as new. As something you've never seen. And try to enjoy it for a change. Remember why you got into gaming in the first place. Maybe it was for fun, maybe it was for escapism, try to enjoy this game for YOURSELF.

I'm not one of the testers ATM since i'm from South America. But in regards to the game and its premise i'm LOCKED IN.

Thanks for the read. Enjoy the alpha.

For decades bungie has kept gamers entertained, from the critically acclaimed halo series to the not so well liked but enjoyable destiny games. However, I was browsing youtube shorts and a video of pirates software appeared on my feed hyping up marathon. I have lost all interest in playing the game now and I can no longer support bungie as a company.