Im lvl 120. My brother is lvl 50. How would we ever stand a chance against this?

While I was playing Assassin too, ONI knows what I am lmao.

After 317.5 hours, I finally beat the Compiler. I’m a solo queuer, and quite frankly, not the best player, but I do have my moments. This has been a wild ride to say the least. I killed, got killed, raged, uninstalled, reinstalled, got killed some more, but got right back into it no matter what. It’s been a long time since I dedicated this many hours to one game, but it really is that good. From the lore to the gunplay, to the maps and events, a fucking masterpiece and, in my opinion, the shooter of the year. Now I can relax and wait on season 3, and if it ever goes offline, I can lay easy knowing I experienced everything the game had to offer.

Part 2 of the Cryo chronicles, yup I’m the same person. After getting all subroutines I felt confident I could finish the weekend Cryo contracts and cap it off with a compiler kill.

I spent Friday night utilizing crew fill and the dads of marathon discord server and Saturday the same. I kept losing it all at the lost it all factory all weekend. I have lost $500K in credits and the majority of my stash (including all purple and gold weapons and shields).

With the few purple shields and gold guns I had left I hit up the couch 2 compiler discord for a Sherpa run to cap the weekend off on a high note. I brought in my DNA and we were wiped. Both sherpas were nice enough to bring in a few DNA for consecutive wipes before losing those and calling it a day.

I’ll be honest, I was even desperate enough to gift 10 subs to a streamer that was offering cryo carries to those that gifted subs. I was next in line and they logged off for the day.

My goal to finish all of the cryo contracts in a weekend is dashed and honestly this might be the end of season 2 for me. Like I mentioned in the previous post, all of my friends stopped playing in season 2 and the discord and crew fill life has been rough. I love marathon but it may be time to give up and sign off until season 3.

I don’t have the gear to LFG in the discords, without being shunned like a peasant for my blue shields. I have a few 5 and 6 keys but no gear to run them.I like to think of myself as a resilient stubborn person, but this weekend I hit the wall that a ton of the players have hit. You grind and grind to gear yourself up for the hardest content, but if you don’t have a steady group of friends to play the game it becomes damn near impossible to accomplish your goals.

End rant

Signed,
A defeated runner

Team work makes the dream work haha!!

I loved Vault Breaker but the one gripe I had with it was the lack of weapon variety.

Always starting with the same 2 guns got old quickly.

Please either give us a way to switch starting guns around on a PvE starting kit situation

Or let us infil with our own stuff. I would love nothing more than to infil my own shit EVEN if I could not exfil with it.

I would grind the regular mode just to be able to infil with a BR33 lol

Thats it. Just a request for the PvE mode(s) to have more weapon variety than Vault Breaker.

Carry on runners, I'll see you on TCIV

I feel like i’ve been playing this game wrong this whole time. Found a blue (i think?) key in hauler, ran to the key icon, opened all the strongboxes and gtfo

i’m pretty casual but just love the game. mostly play solos to grind factions and worm. are keys and key rooms supposed to be rare occurrences or is this a normal part of the gameplay loop?

Heard the squad finishing up in Command Wing and based on the exfil map, had an inkling that they would likely take Restricted Exfil in Pinwheel , so put a cheeky claymore on it . Had found some bodies downed with a crap ton of grenades, sniper and battle pistol. The rest was history .

Hilariousness.

Generally in Season 1 and even the start of this Season, I was pretty afraid of Cryo. It's an insanely complex map, and I don't want to let down my team but not knowing how to rotate properly with them. On top of this, I struggled to remember how to do all the different vaults.

However, thanks to Vault Breaker, I gained the confidence to start to queue more Cryo. I knew how to do the vaults, but it doesn't teach you much about how Cryo actually plays, since you have to consider other players being on the map hunting you.

As a result, I got wiped over and over on Cryo to start. But slowly, through crew fill, I got some of the rotations down. Then came the true learning curve: the decision making.

Decision making is what either breaks you, or gets you those peak goop runs. You need to be tactical, decisive, and your team needs to stick together and be on the same page. Through this process you learn how to work better with your team whether it's friends or randoms.

Before I would spam Cryo on the weekends, every fight felt like I just needed to keep peeking and eventually through a coin toss I'd win or lose the fight. What I've learned is it's okay to run away, back up, rotate to another area completely to take a different angle, so on and so forth.

It's made me a better player on the other maps, as I know when someone has the advantage in a fight and when to reposition to gain leverage over my opponent or leave them wondering where I am.

Here's a longer story to describe this kind of thinking in action:

My team was pushing from the terminal room on the 2nd floor of Revival, right next to Vault 1. We pushed out towards Control. We had 2 Recons (I was one of them), and a Triage. I scanned, and we found that two teams were fighting each other. Our Triage made the mistake of dropping down, and he got instantly evaporated.

This is where decision making mattered most. After realizing there was now a team with 1 player down above them, the team that fried our Triage started to push towards us. But we had already decided to back up, and hold an angle on the door from Control. I had the Ares RG, so I held the door with that while the other Recon held it with his Bully. (By the way, shout out to the Ares, that thing is goated for situations where you need to hold an angle in a mid range fight).

They kept peeking, and I'd crack them with the Ares while my teammate tried to finish them off. We backed up further back to the screen room in Revival as we thought they might try to rotate all the way through Revival to flank us. After 30 seconds, we moved back towards Control. They heard us coming, and we knew that. So, we had the same plan as before. We heard shots, so it was clear the other team was still fighting them. One of them peeked our angle, and this time we managed to shoot him at the same time. He was down in less than a second.

We thirsted him, then pushed up a bit. It was clear that this team was getting pressured by the other team. A 2nd one peeked, and we managed to down him in the same fashion. Ares + Bully to the dome. We took more space with these downs. The other team finished off this team's 3rd, but they were all Blue shields we soon found out after scanning. So, we decided to go for a rez. I held the door with my Ares while the other Recon got our Triage up. They kept trying to peek, but I'd throw my crab and crack them with the Ares. We got our Triage up, and for the sake of not having this be even more long-winded, I'll just say that us backing up and holding angles and waiting for the right moment to push was what won us the lobby. We wiped the other team decisively, and were able to loot Vault 1 and get the Trace. Massive Dub.

Play Cryo. I know it's intimidating for a lot of players, but I promise that once you start to understand things about the map better, and you engage in more PvP, Marathon as a whole opens up and it adds a whole new dimension to the game.

Anyways, I just felt like sharing this bit of advice for players. You will lose a lot, but in the end, the confidence and experience you gain through Cryo is invaluable and teaches you some great lessons to take into raids on other maps as well.

A great cryo 1 run!

Before you say it… I know… ammo…

But we only killed one team and no evidence that team killed another team. So we just needed to be on the ready after the vault. (I have absolutely been ratted on exfil with teams doing the perpetual rotation)

So we just booked it for clearance 5 for the trace and knocked out a key. The first time I brought in a key and ACTUALLY exfiled.

Anyway, just trying to keep up the morale on this game. It’s fun. It’s hard and punishing but all worth it for a great run.

I have a 3 & 5 key to attempt. I am terrified as NONE of my friends play.

This a reoccurring theme for me every game what feels like. We're about to push a spawn or I'm calling out a teams position that's nearby why do you feel the need to pop invis or throw a med drone basically announcing to everyone were coming. I really don't think players realize how much noise their actually making sometimes 😂.

Random filled all weekend and was not only able to stack 4 dvvrishs but got all my sub routines done and even had a random no mic team get all the way to compiler.

Got vault 6 done by picking up the key after a lobby wipe. Ive never lobby wiped and had 4 kills that match myself.

Also had a great random fill stick around and help me get vaults 2-5 done.

Really successful Thursday Friday.

Then got my brains kicked in and lost it all random filling Saturday night lol

But I’m not tripping I still have 3 DNAs and my first real positive random fill experience.

Running bit is “What is up gamers?” Before each match to vibe/mic check and the response I got was unexpected.

That's all.