I honestly can’t understand what Bungie was thinking with the PvP balance in **** matchmaking feels completely broken. As a new or low-gear player you constantly get thrown into matches against fully geared squads who clearly have hundreds of hours in the game. You spawn with basic equipment and get deleted in seconds by players running optimized builds.This isn’t a fair fight. It’s not even close.Instead of being a tense extraction shooter, the experience turns into pure frustration. You spend 20 minutes gearing up just to lose everything instantly to players who massively outclass you in both gear and **** game ends up feeling like a strange mix of Counter-Strike and a battle royale — but without the balance of the former or the accessibility of the latter. It’s hyper-competitive, punishing, and unforgiving to anyone who isn’t already fully geared and **** what makes it worse is the disconnect between what the game tries to be and how it actually ****’re told this is a game with “deep lore,” but in reality it plays like a hyper-competitive esports shooter where your average lifespan is 1–3 minutes. You barely have time to understand what’s happening before running into another squad — and once shots are fired, more players swarm the area immediately.There is no time to explore. No time to read item descriptions. No time to engage with the **** of 20 matches, I might extract successfully 3–5 times — and even then, it’s usually just running away rather than actually **** what lore are we even talking about?Right now Marathon feels less like a game and more like a stressful PvP grinder where casual players are just cannon **** Bungie doesn’t fix matchmaking, pacing, and gear balance, new players will simply **** the moment, Marathon isn’t fun — it’s just stress.
