Data & Systems Engineer // Soulless Ginger, Cat Mom // @calzotron’s singular lover boy
Seattle, WA
Joined July 2015
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I didn’t expect everyone to like this so much, so I redid all the decals myself and made some optimizations and adjustments so I could share this paint scheme.
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#ForzaHorizon６ #Marathon
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I always told myself I was capable of beating the Compiler. Didn’t want to stop till it was dead.
Marathon is genuinely one of the best shooter games i’ve ever played.
@MarathonTheGame GG
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It’s hard to put it in words but Marathon is truly the most fun I’ve had in a first person multiplayer game in so long. I do believe the extraction wording alone probably sways people away. I truly believe people are missing out on it. There’s nothing else like it
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As we get deeper into Season 1, we've been monitoring your feedback around the current combat sandbox closely. We wanted to talk a little about a few of the topics we're seeing frequently from the community, and some updates we're planning.
💣Too Many Grenades
A big topic in the community right now is that it's not a good experience to open up a fight only to be barraged with dozens of grenades. We're looking to push some changes to stock counts and stack sizes before the end of the season. We're keeping an eye on the overall usage of equipment and will make additional changes as necessary.
🪙Gold Ares Railgun
The Ares railgun with a Prestige mod being able to one-shot Runners with purple or gold shields is unintentional, and we'll be issuing a fix in a future update. We want it to feel strong and fun to use without being so effective it becomes overly frustrating to play against.
🔫WSTR Damage Nerf
The WSTR damage nerf was a temporary nerf and we just released a more nuanced set of changes earlier today in Update 1.0.6.2. While we aren't looking to change the two-shot breakpoints, the WSTR indeed took a bigger hit than we were intending with the temporary nerf and we intend for this change to put it in a better place.
It should have similar effectiveness against AI as before the nerf as well have less damage fallout at range. Go try it out and let us know what you think.
We appreciate everyone's input, please keep it coming.
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Not into extraction shooters, but gave this a shot and now I'm hooked. Runs feel tense, hostile, like they could go south at any point. Insane art direction. Absolutely does not give a fuck about pleasing everyone and all the better for it. Think FGC people would like it a lot.
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“recon is too weak, buff her!”
“WSTR is too strong, nerf it!”
Bungie does both: “REVERT THE CHANGES THEY’RE TOO MUCH!”
y’all ain’t never happy lmao
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Matchmaking is a complex series of wires and circuits trying to connect players to give them the best time to match while also providing quality matches. In that complex nest of things we found a bug related to regional matchmaking that is affecting a very small set of players that is unintentionally putting them in matches they’re not supposed to be in. We’re prepping a fix to get in for Tuesday morning 4/21 PT to fix this.
Thanks for helping us find this, we’ll work on smoothing it out.
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OMFG BUNGIE JUST BANNED CHEATERS AND REFUNDED MY RANKED POINTS @MarathonDevTeam you guys are the best wtf
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UPDATE: FREE KIT FRENZY - EXPERIMENTAL QUEUE - DIRE MARSH SPONSORED
Thank you to all of you who participated in the Duos Experiments we've had over the past few weeks. We're currently working on making duos a real feature in Season 2 and are diligently working on delivering that to all of you who are eagerly awaiting its return.
ABOUT EXPERIMENTAL QUEUES:
The experimental queue is a time limited queue that allows us to preview features in development with you, often with a less-than-complete feature set. This queue allows the Marathon development team to learn and obtain feedback that helps us deliver a more completed feature set down the line. For the sake of queue health and focus we only run one experimental queue at a time. Once we have learned enough to understand our next steps for this feature, we start work on finalizing the feature and move on to the next experiment. Your participation in any experiment is greatly appreciated and is very helpful to us in developing features down the line.
THE NEXT EXPERIMENT:
What happens when you bring a knife... to a knife fight? For our next experiment, starting Wednesday, 4/15 at 10AM PT, we will be enabling the Dire Marsh - Sponsored Queue. This is a new experimental queue that is focused on learning a bit more about our early gear ecosystem. In this queue all players will enter with a free sponsored kit and be challenged to use what they find on Dire Marsh to upgrade themselves and get out! Details below.
DIRE MARSH SPONSORED
Details: The experiment will run for approximately 2 weeks, from 4/15 @ 10AM PT to 4/29 @ 10AM PT. We may change the end timing depending on anything we discover along the way that might warrant us to make an adjustment.
--You will only be eligible to enter the queue if you (and your crew) have a free sponsored kit (white tier) equipped.
--You can enter as a premade duo (crew fill off), premade trio, or crew fill into a trio.
--The queue will only be for the Dire Marsh Zone.
--To enter this queue, you can select "Dire Marsh Sponsored" from the zone list.
What we will be observing and looking to understand:
--How the game plays out with low fixed set gear conditions and caps.
--How the zero to hero play works in low starting set gear conditions and caps.
--Any technical issues that arise.
There are many other changes and additions coming on Wednesday 4/15 PT as well so stay tuned to learn more from the Marathon Discord, and across all the social channels for MarathonTheGame / MarathonDevTeam. Thanks everyone. We appreciate your passion and all the commitment you have to providing us feedback and helping us learn more to evolve Marathon!
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We have temporarily disabled the gear refund feature while we investigate an issue. We will monitor the situation and make further changes as needed.
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As part of our mid-season update planned for April 14, we've got some notable changes and updates on the way. But by popular demand we wanted to share just a few early - specifically, a preview of some of the Recon changes that are incoming.
⭕ Echo Pulse: This will now distinguish between the Runner and UESC targets that are pinged. We're also reducing its visibility to enemies, making it a bit tougher for enemy Runners to gauge if they're in range. Notably, if you're a Runner who cleverly used their Signal Jammer before Echo Pulse hit you, you'll also show up as UESC. Use this power wisely.
🕷️ Tracker Drone: Your friendly neighborhood Tracker Drone is about to get a bit more aggressive. With 1.0.6 we're improving its tracking strength and allowing it to find a new target to track if it cannot reach its current target. Runner beware.
That's just a taste of what's to come. Keep some tick milk on ice, we'll share the full patch notes closer to 1.0.6's release date.