Brendan

You can make the argument that people were too inconsolable in their puddles of tears to rewatch Season 1, but nevertheless I am so eager to continue my rewatch of S2 of Edgerunners because there is so much more to love this time than simply the accessories to David Martinez's story.

We should be playing Dragon Age 7, Anthem 2, Halo 8, Mass Effect 6 and so on but management continues to enjoy hiring people and telling them they’re not actually allowed to do their jobs. Bioware’s been in my life since I was fucking born, dude. I can’t believe this.

They actually just shuttered a whole chapter of my childhood.

oh my god…

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Bloomberg: Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

polygon.comThe Beekeeper 2 Brings Back Jason Statham in First Official TrailerHe's back to protect the hive

what

Polygon@polygon.com

He's back to protect the hive

that was the greatest shit of all time oh my god it's so much better than i ever dared to dream

Brendan@brendanpitcher.bsky.social

Dragon Ball today :)

Dragon Ball today :)

After being mid at Marathon in Season 1 and growing as a player in Season 2, there is DEFINITELY some fucking skill-based matchmaking in Marathon with the refresh today because I ran into a player I consider top 3 of all time in the game in my second fucking game man.

All of my Pinnacle friends were miserable because they kept running into each other this is brutal

Meanwhile I kill a single player in a Solo lobby and the map is empty for the rest of the game, shit is wild

Before anyone says ANYTHING, he's in the fucking EU and this was when they had to disable Dire Marsh due to bugs for a period of time so EVERY SINGLE PLAYER was on ONE MAP.

repeating s2 launch comes with the same consequences LOL

Marathon Development Team@marathonteam.bungie.net

We're aware of an issue causing an increase amount of "ANTEATER" and "BABOON" error codes when queuing for Night Marsh.

ooh my fucking god we are so back

Marathon Development Team@marathonteam.bungie.net

We’re making a change to address cases where shots against Spectre Shielded players could appear to not register after the shield broke. When the Nightfall Refresh goes live tomorrow, if a player using a Spectre Shield keeps firing after becoming invisible... (cont'd in next post) (1/3)

did you think “wow i couldn’t keep up with farming PVE night marsh” and thought to just give up on the season because you’d fall behind? tomorrow we’re getting an 8-week period to try your hand at a fair start in anticipation of Season 3’s content drop in December (which will also have a reset)

Marathon@marathonthegame.bungie.net

Swipe to see which modes will return during Nightfall Refresh: October 6 – December 7.

the irony of seeing fanart of dylan faden control resonant being drawn handsomer than he deserves

still thinking about how there are people whose job entirely rotates around honestly telling people what healthy success looks like relative to the ecosystem they're in and how the motherfuckers at Riot- [redacted]

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social

Riot Games' 2XKO would have had to attract a base of monthly active users "in the high hundreds of thousands, if not millions" to be sustainable, according to CPO Marc Merrill www.gamesindustry.biz/2xko-would-h...

you work at Riot Games and see your co-founder go on /checks notes/ Lemonade Stand and say one of the dumbest things a person has ever uttered. a thing that would get you laughed out of literally any room that has fighting game experts in it. unbelievable stuff.

Marc Merrill expected HOW many people to be playing 2XKO? That MMO is going to fucking crash and burn dude

which one is mine, you'll never know

stinky@giiibeh.bsky.social

one only tells truths and the other only tells lies

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stinky

@giiibeh.bsky.social

one only tells truths and the other only tells lies

End of Season Rankings on Gold Weapon Mods in Marathon: S-Tier: Consistently catapults weapon effectiveness into better outcomes A-Tier: Well-rounded improvements on base performance B-Tier: Solid mods weighed down by base performance C-Tier: Both are lacking And the rest are self-explanatory

Overrun: Literally worse TTK in the burst-fire mode, magazine mod does nothing noteworthy for stats either Sidearm: Unfun recoil animation makes it really unfun to use

Hardline: Perk deserves to be on an SMG idk why it's on a gun that's implying you're chasing a target with a precision rifle Lookout: Awful sonar ping that does nothin on an overwise solid precision rifle. Copperhead: LOL if you like this you are delusional

Stryder: Solid perk, but attached to the Stryder Channel Rifle: Needs better stats tbh, worse than the longshot Conquest: Fun PVE gun with a shield Zeus: Nobody ever hits that second shot and the scope sucks Volley Rifle: Hipfire gun that nobody hipfires, use the twin tap Ares: Solid

Scar: Needs a velocity buff like its little brother the V22 KKV: On the cusp of greatness if it gets a buff Retaliator: Actually belongs in "needs new perk" awful gun intended to be awful Repeater: Belongs in B, but required to use its iron-sights Longshot: Just weak Punch: Deserves faster charge

Magnum: Radically transforms the ranges at which the gun operates with custom recoil on the ADS WSTR: increases the guns consistency and speeds up TTK Bully: Rodeo mag just ramps up TTK Circuit Breaker: Turns into a OHKO gun with headshots BRRT: Insane outlier with .6s bodyshot ttk D54: Laser beam

Demo: Gun shield a little OP and speeds up TTK Twin-Tap: Phenomenal upgrade all around Outland: Should drop to B or C, any other barrel has better stat benefits M77: Perk is useless, stat package is goated though Misriah: Consistency buff Volt-Thrower: Huge ttk buff and scares teamshots H-AR: Solid

tough bandaid to rip but it needed to happen. good luck to all the recon mains that are gonna get dropped from their stacks if they can't adapt properly to their character finally having a skill ceiling

Marathon@marathonthegame.bungie.net

Gathering (less) intel. Nightfall Refresh begins October 6.

I know nothing lasts forever but man do I miss the community I had for Destiny 2

I've been posting less in general over here because so many of my Marathon friends are still on Twitter but reminding everyone how hilariously awful the hit registration issues are in the game with this clip

youtu.beThe Future Of Marathon (Part 1) | Bungie Dev InsightsYouTube video by Marathon

this game is so cool :)

Marathon@marathonthegame.bungie.net

We’ve got a lot to show you about what’s next for Marathon, from Nightfall Refresh in October, to Symbiosis in December, and Marathon’s evolution in March. youtu.be/YaLvrG6-kkM Hear directly from Del Chafe III and Julia Nardin: bung.ie/marathonfuture

1. Fem Assassin skin 2. New Destroyer skin with a new gun 3. funky perimeter :) 4. layout of the new map coming in march!

i guess my body really doesn’t care to linger on the fact that i had a fever break like 3 times over the past couple of days with no other symptoms. thank you, immune system

22 Sept

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Halo Season Two (4K UHD) is $12.49 on Amazon amzn.to/4yR60yW #ad

I do not care for the Destiny news, for anyone interested in my take lol

- The Farm - All of the Red War combat maps not on patrol spaces (Almighty, Last City, etc) - Titan - Io - Mercury (Curse of Osiris) - Mars (Warmind) - The Reef are we bringing back all of the adventures too?

Also just thinking about their promise for new Destiny stories after this and I'm just sitting here like who is going to make this? The total manpower is a fraction of what we had only a few years ago.

I do not care for the Destiny news, for anyone interested in my take lol

The seasonal storytelling after Beyond Light was infinitely more compelling than vaulted expansions and a lot of Forsaken's hype lay in its quantity of content as well as the reversal of some baffling design choices from launch.

Red War is a non-sequitur story for the launch, Curse of Osiris has been memed on since before it came out and Warmind was pretty uninspired. I am also so much more worried about the stability of the game because you could always feel Destiny creak under the weight of seasonal content pre-wipe.

19 Sept

i should be allowed to b*mb jeff bezos's house whenever twitch resets the volume of a stream just because ads are playing

17 Sept

i’m diamond. i’m going to try to hit pinnacle before ranked is disabled for 8 weeks so i can finally feel like i’ve done it all.

Marathon@marathonthegame.bungie.net

Ranked Cryo Archive returns next week. Get your loadouts ready!

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15 Sept

lol Ed Sheeran's band quit

Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

14 Sept

tl;dr: i need the wipe and update in 3 weeks to be good to prove that bungie is capable of addressing some of the core complaints i still have with the game. every kind of player is getting a win in december and i want the ramping excitement to december to win back disillusioned players and new ones

Marathon Development Team@marathonteam.bungie.net

We’re making changes to Marathon’s update plans and how we deliver new content. We’re moving away from a strict seasonal schedule to give the team more flexibility to build, test, and improve features before release. (1/2)

bung.ieBungie.net

14 Sept

im also generally exhausted with the way people are not normal about marathon or bungie in general. i like playing this game, other people's doomposting feels so counterproductive to hearing real feedback that could go to real channels and it serves no purpose reaching my ears lol

twitch.tv/yourpersonal...

12 Sept