Thread 724041320

should I give it a go?

Nyo

three dozen better games to playtest right now

>>724041478
>>724041386
investigative journalism

>>724041320 (OP)
who cares? seriously who gives af uck, im having extract shooter fatigue way faster then i did with battle royales, play something worth your time because thats the only thing you should care about

>>724041572
insufferable rant
shant be read
mute

>>724041510
embarrassed to still be on ADSL, anon?

>>724041320 (OP)
I applied through Steam and Bungie and didn't get in. They really just want me to stick to ARC Raiders huh?

>>724041743
JK nvm thanks for reminding me OP.

>>724041743
I clicked request access on a whim one or two days ago, found it in my library tonight. give it another day

>>724041846
>>724041994
there you go

I just requested access to the playtest. I have a GTX 970m kek

>>724041572
>extract shooter fatigue
Tarkov gave me this a while back, I haven't been able to stomach any other extraction shooter since, and I likely will never play them again unless we invent a way to 100% completely stop cheating niggers.

>>724041743
arc definitely looks like the way better game, i wouldn't be surprised if marathon finally killed bungie given how comically bad its been recieved especially now that it looks like all the people playing destiny 2 are actually quitting for real this time not click bait.

People said it was good now

>>724042383
Twitterfags with Ukraine, Palestine and trans flags in their bios aren't people.

>>724042383
yea right

>>724042574
Under NDA

The real playtesters that played the new version arent allowed to praise it yet

>>724041320 (OP)
It sucks, its like a roblox game compared to the graphical superiority of Arc Raiders

>>724041320 (OP)
>~15 GB
I was expecting this to be gorillion of GBs since this seems to be the standard around for most AAA vidya. Is Bungie actually optimizing Marathon?

loadout window, this feels so underdeveloped but trying to pass it off as a stylistic choice

I know /v/ hates Arc Raiders, and I'm sure Arc Raiders will go to shit once people start using cheats and stacked players hunt down noobs, but for the brief period when everyone's equal at the start, the game's fun.

>>724042574
>the movement is absymal
Is it not literally just destiny's gameplay? Because that's all it needs to be.

>>724042769
This is NOT AAA, maybe AA because it looks like it should be able to run off batteries. This is literally a roblox design tier game compared to arc raiders. I think this is DoA

>>724042772
Is this the heavy nigga from the cinematic trailer?

>>724042772
negative iq.

>>724042772
No watermark for the test?

>>724042676
LMAOOOOOO

What's with the shitflinging between Arc Raiders and Marathon whenever someone makes a thread that talks about both games?

>>724042772
Seems "fine". Stats shouldn't be shown all the time however, you should press a button and they pop up. You can't see any kind of stats like that in Arc, that is some wiki shit
>ping duration
What a lame ass stat.

>Hero preset abilities
It's not even a 'everyone is just your own player' you have to pick between different characters with different abilities

>>724042856
>watermark

>>724042957
the preset abilities

>>724042920
Corporations perfected the art of conditioning their players to be their marketers.

>>724042957
o7 to anon

>>724042772
the art on the whole is wack. weapon design with the big fucking yellow ammo counter on the back. bright ass pipes on the map. i don't know what they're going for but i don't like it.

>>724043048
before even starting it says you can record/stream/etc

>>724042920
You forgot to mention Tarkov. Also, this is /v/ where people do nothing but want to bitch about things.
Tarkov vs Arc Raiders vs Marathon is just console war tier shit but for the extraction genre for shit posters.

I don't care that /v/ and everyone calls me a shill. I don't care that Bungie is considered a bad gamedev apparently (never touched Destiny), but I'm genuinely having fun playing this beta.

My only gripe so far is that the maps are really repetitive and facing better geared players is pretty much a death sentence no matter how good you aim.

THIS GAME IS ONLY FUN WITH A PREMADE TRIO

voice comms are essential to succeed

>>724043116
i like tarkov a lot, conceptually. i played fuckloads of it around the start of covid. but i went back earlier this year and it's the same fucking game as it was 5 years ago.
i'm hoping that arc raiders / marathon / that one chinese game will be the fortnite to tarkov's pubg.

map choice layout

>>724042819
>This is NOT AAA
They spent $200 million US dollars on it.

>>724041320 (OP)
It's shit, and ugly

Most annoying thing is not knowing where to go and what to do.
The indicators and descriptions might as well not exist.

this game is doa

>>724043310
Spending money =/ guarantee of quality.

>>724043310
Next you're going to tell me Concord is deemed 'AAA'.

the disconnect between promo material and the shitty in game models is so baffling

This might be fine for a playtest... if this game plans on coming out in 3 more years. The textural "stylistic design choice" either simply deliberately lacking detail or just for PT -- looks bad. It looks like roblox and I feel like I'm waiting for the textures to fully load.

I have everything on Ultra already, too

>>724043581
The promo material doesn't even look good either.

>>724043235
Arc Raiders definitely seems like the most casual friendly and appealing to casuals so it's probably going to be the most popular, at least at its launch.
It will be up to them to not shit the bed if they want to keep that player base.

>>724043235
Just at the genre's core there is nowhere to go. What would you even want Tarkov to have done except add maps, rework old maps, and add new weapons/quests? Since 2020 you have Streets, Customs overhaul like twice, Shoreline and Woods expanded, Lighthouse added and it still sucks. Tons of quests and weapons etc.
The genre is go in, loot and kill in either PVE or PVP.

Arc isn't doing anything more than that either, and Fortnite's real success is what Arc is which is just being on consoles and running at 60FPS and overall just running/looking good in comparison to PUBG/Tarkov.

There's certain places in the Marsh map that are just straight up death traps with invisible NPCs and traps.

Do not go inside those red rooms.

>>724042195
come play Forever Winter. Its jank as fuck but cool art and no pvp bullshit

>>724043943
To me, the difference with Arc is that the PvE robots are actually really cool and fun to fight. With new maps and updates I can see them also implementing more bosses and common robots which has me look forward to its future since new enemies to fight shake things up the most. They've already teased a new boss on the newest field map.
With these other extraction games I don't really see updates ever being anything other than new maps and weapons which isn't nearly as cool as a new unique enemy to fight.
Marathon will probably get something like Destiny raids but enemies in Destiny and Marathon aren't fun to fight.

>>724041572
Battle royales were fun because like MOBAs it's a competitive game where there's a clear winner and loser, which is what's always made even very simple multiplayer games fun. The problem for me with this extraction genre is just that there's not "winner" you just exit the map with loot you'll eventually lose, and it ends up just being a game about completing quests. It's kinda fun to complete quests I guess.

>spot a crew coming into our POI
>we can just pick and ambush them one by one
>retarded teammates rush and push into them instead
>we all die

you revive teammates by playing on your switch

>>724044606
Ill just disagree that PVE in Arc is fun in the first place, especially when the interiors of buildings are just super predictable 2 rolling variants, ticks and an obvious turret.
Also remember every single fucking thing in Arc now, is still the same from the old reveal trailer
https://youtu.be/xuftkDxjGT4

I think overly focusing on PVE will be a downfall considering more and more alienates solo players which will be a shock when people find out you need/used to need a Queen Core to max out the workbench.

>>724044749
Are you anons playing with friends or randoms? Because playing with randoms is ass and solo is likely impossible.

>>724043050
I know what they're going for but it's just terribly executed. I can't understand how supposedly educated and experienced artists don't immediately fix it.

>>724044804
randoms, just managed to be the only team left and extracted. wasn't that bad

>>724041320 (OP)
Definitely it's fun af

>>724041478
name 5

>>724043098
There definitely is an NDA that you signed btw.

Bro all these cutscenes and loading screens are the most ADHD, random AI prompted looking shit I've seen. Zero coherence.

>>724045802
rip to everyone posting on steam directly on the playtest's page

WAS THE PLAYTEST FUN?

>>724046437
its still going
its a mixed bag... a lot on screen and some AI are just weird. idk

>>724046435
I don't understand why the actual game looks so washed out when one of the only good things from the trailers were the vibrant colors. Bravo Bungie having your test map being a fucking swamp too, love me cyberpunk swamps and sunshade-looking thingamabobs!

>>724046871
Look at the textures in Halo 3 then compare them to texture in Halo Infinite, the difference is night and day.

Nothing looks weathered or beyond a simple color coat, there isn't any depth to it leaving designs looking very flat

Also doesn't seem to have a night/day cycle - just a constant overcast

so they made everything darker?

>>724047532
some rooms are so dark you can't see anything - surprised there isn't a flashlight.

I feel like they mad it playable now
But thats it
I see no reason why I should play this over other games

How the fuck is this the same Bungie that made Destiny?

>>724047868
Ship of Theseus, anon.

That's like asking "How is this the same Blizzard who made [insert some niche thing about early wow blizzard]. Not everyone are people who worked on Halo, or even that game

>>724047868
They made destiny over 10 years ago. see >>724048124
It's not the same company.

>>724047868
It usually takes one talented director with a clear vision for the game to make something great.
Once that person leaves, the studio is doomed.