Fix nuMarathon

Scrap PVP, turn it into an immersive sim or something and immediately every fag on twitter would do a 180 and call it "engoodened"

The delay required, etc would cost too much. It's cancel now or shortly after release. Pick your poison

Solo campaign FPS like Halo with the artstyle and mood much closer than the promo art

If you were in charge, how do you fix pic related?

scrap everything and remake the original marathon trilogy ala nu-doom

Honestly speaking, how can you fix something that's rotten from its roots?

Unironically?
Go all in on the plastic slut robot women, refine that aesthetic to the max, X on lips and soft neon lights, and try to market the game to Asia. They love blatant sex appeal, it would stand out from normal animeshit fanservice, and don't give a fuck about plagiarism

I would make the TTK faster, also no revivals after being shot downed. Also add some maps inspired in the original Marathon

Step 1) i change the name of the game
Step 2) The game is now a single player campaign with coop multiplayer
Step 3) get a really good RTS engine
Step 4) make an FPS on top of it, just like a previous title
Step 5) steal even more art to make the game a bit fancier

Singleplayer campaing

Add Singleplayer.
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Change nothing.
Add meaningless stream of consciousness text entries into your bad game.
Capitalize on your enraptured audience of mentally ill semiotics autists for the next thirty years.

Are you crazy? September isn't that long from now and this shit can't be fixed by "coding like madmen until one pukes" like in the olden days with motivated devs hyped on their own invention.
It's crazy how little they have to show after what, 4 years with 300+ devs?

fix this shit

That shit's cooked, just nuke it. They didn't even produce good art assets that could be reused by a small, dedicated team to make a good single-player campaign. Where did all that money go? It obviously didn't go into the development of the game so I guess someone has a room full of gold-plated dilators.

So funny how they spend time / resources on making that retarded capture the flag shit with payed shills that pretended to be hyped for this garbage.

It's dead, Jim, let it die.

I haven't played it but it doesn't need fixing. Rehiring the people who found the art, and paying the artists for use of it would be optimal, perhaps.

I've said a few different scenarios. I'll try another.

Focus on the girl. Make a world she'd enjoy living in. You play as part of the system that provides that for her. Part of it opposing you wants attention on themselves, and they are bad taste incarnate, that decided their being. They failed to ascend to your state through cowardice, they are what remains of wrong, police, sex changes etc, not the beauty they were awarded unsuitable, like white and black cars, blue white and red sirens, or rainbows etc. They derive a sense of superiority through bad interpretations, and observing bad conditions, they make them when absent. They don't contribute otherwise. They are maintained to motivate you, keep you aggressive, ready to face such scum elsewhere. You play as your avatar. Killing AI of yourself that the bad guys add to. You show that the best they can get is not enough to be you. They get better than you, it's not enough.

You also connect with a suited to your daughter. Someone who entertains her. What entertains her. And give that a body to be human with her, or they use you so. Or just are. Ideas of them together are as they already are, you see to it that has a place outside you as much as possible and condensed in a particular set of examples, using tech to make them perfect. Preserved. Immortal and protected.

I immediately lay off every developer that isn't strictly necessary to launch the game. I take 90% of the money they would've been paid and pay it directly to myself as a consulting fee. The remaining 10% is returned to shareholders, so nobody can say I wasn't doing my job. Then I launch the game and immediately abandon it.

DESU, I don't think it can be fixed. To save Marathon, you'd also have to fix meta problems like

Bungie's cancerous woke culture

the shitty, ancient, broken Destiny 2 engine they insist on using

competing with GTA's launch in 2026, which means you either try to fix it and launch before then and make your money before May, 2026, or you wait until at least Q4 2026 after GTA's pop has started waning

Also, they have, maybe three months of actual dev time. It will take one month minimum to do the required shit like submitting the game for testing and ratings, getting compliance certs from MS and Sony, and other shit.

You're not doing anything material to the game in three months, even if Bungie wasn't infamous for being slow on their dev work.

t. gamedev

Commission whoever wrote for the first three games to write a fitting script for a fourth game and make it single player focused instead of tarkovslop.

honestly, what the fuck happened to bungie?

Useless parasites got attracted by free money from cushy jobs that let them hide their incompetence in bloated teams with too many layers of clueless management? Just guessing.

At this point, there is no way they can compete with ARC Raiders. They would have to delay the game until ARC Raiders starts losing players. But that's an unknown variable and hard to plan for. The 50 project managers working on Marathon won't like that.

Gameplay mechanics:

You have endless health, but faith is diminished in you the more you are hit. You can and have to abort situations when being hit can't be countered.

Bots increase with time and success. They are sprites. The same entity with a lot of animations. You are overpowered. You do a lot of damage. One hit is enough to down initial ones. And later ones with headshots or heavy weapons.
Some are highlighted different from HUD, they have more health, so are to be prioritised less, avoided, some do more damage so are to be prioritied more. Some organise the rest, and can be left to do so to condense them around the coward, using heavily weapons to take more of them out at once.

You have other players on your side. Other humans. And other AI. Custom characters. Default is a good looking man. But a lot of options. If they incur too much damage and abort, AI assumes their actions from the other side. You can give them orders, on either side, and then following them earns them points. More points, is more faith, and the ability to join you. Your level is how much they have to spend to team up with you. AI on your side can remain, you have to spend points to save your virtual friend. And other people.

if they delay it DMZ 2.0 might come out if the leaks are real and its free

You can also spend faith to enjoy amusements, see the sights in Providence. See malls (Shopping Centres), apartments, pieces of paradise for your couple/daughter. And for you. Your part minimal, a secret, little pieces to be found with investigation, not pervasive or oppressive. Stuff to show you care, and are one hard motherfucker.
The rest, gentle, beautiful, hard set in being decent, appreciable, stylish, aesthetic. Good clean architecture.

Given that Sony probably has a gun to their head to release on time, I don't think it's particularly feasible to do a genre shift or major things like add a single player component that isn't just 'bots only' to what is already there. So within realistic confines

focus more on indoor areas and ensure there are 3-4 viable paths into and out of every point of interest on each map

increase viability of solo play by adding stealth kills for non-commander enemies - this means players too

Void's stealth only works on players for 3 seconds, but activates instantly (passive smoke invis doesn't work on players, though the smoke still obscures) - looks different but works on NPCs as before

Add a set of solo-only equipment that make you un-pingable if you haven't engaged in combat for 30 seconds, or other such things

Other than above - grind out a Pfhor set of enemies to match the UESC by launch

add absurdly strong weapons from OG Marathon but have them use unique and rare ammo

more neutral wildlife like ticks

test range

MAYBE non-PVE segments specifically for story beats to give them more weight than 'just listen to an AI robot while in the lobby' - just short sections of the existing maps with pre-set NPC challenges.

Even this level of stuff in a few months is kinda difficult to imagine pulling off. And obviously this doesn't address that everyone fucking hates it already and being 'good' in its genre barely even matters anymore.

Rework into into a porn game

the good people left

DEI shitters came in

bureaucratic bloat and sleazy execs started plundering the place

A tale as old as time.

after looking into it, and this is a shame, the accusations of plagiarism are wildly overstated by the tranny
it's unironically two pages of textures for decals
not models, character designs, actual game textures, or set pieces
it's decals
and not even from the artist's larger body of work, but two pieces from a single poster set

anyway if I was in charge I would steal more because social media artists are some of the worst people on the planet and deserve to be humbled
i would also pivot away from looter shooter and make the world a single player experience with a linear open world experience IE you get from point A to point B but the route is up to you, hell maybe even just linear so it can have a proper story and people can develop a fondness for these ugly weirdos
also character customization
literally no reason not to have a custom PC that grows and builds as the game progresses

Fire everyone who isn't White, male, and right-leaning at minimum. Scrap everything, make a high-budget 'indie'-game with the small team, something like Naissancee in terms of experience, and sell it for 20 dollars.

If we had to stick to "no PvE"...

Change it into one of the mobile FPS games that are "jack of all trades master of none".

Team Deathmatch, some big Battlefield stuff, Extraction, regular Battle Royale, etc. But instead of being on mobile, it's on console, with that "bungie good feel" shooting.

I'd just kill it and make Anthem but actually it works this time and not have the strongest tech in the game be your noobie gear.

I liked Anthem, and it did work, just the balance on higher difficulty was fucked.

Fucker, the game is set to release in 4 months, how the fuck can you fix anything?

I would copy what popular games do and not think I know better.
Do you want a commercial success or do you want a singular vision created by someone who is passionate about gaming?
The singular vision is out of the window, since the heads won't ever let it happen. So, next best thing is copy what others do and not thing that I know better.

Just take the progression and voice chat and other ideas from tarkov, varied enemies from arc surivors, and a mishmash of both of those for quests.

That is it. You already have a visually distinct style, you already have a universe, the rest can follow. From that point onward you can maybe split parts of your workforce towards single player content, smaller test maps with missions and only AI, for the devs that are not working on the main project.

That's it. Its not fucking reinventing the wheel.

Pay me

Ladies and gentlemen, and this is precisely how games end up like above mentioned "masterpiece" and similar "concord-style" products.

how the fuck can you fix anything?

Add overpriced MTX and pay all the top streamer to shill your shit.

I liked it too, wanted it to succeed, but EA bungled it up so bad they ruined a passionproject that could've been the next Destiny.

This is retarded cause the while reason Marathon exits is because "Tarkov is popular and making tons of money, lets do that".

Hey anon, you know what were the two biggest things during 2015 and 2016? Overwatch and Guardians of the Galaxy. A game that combines the two will surely make MILLIONS! Right?

People refusing to work for free?

Anthem art style and gameplay was top notch

complete killed by EA's greed

and killed Bioware as well

Fuck these publishers. Like the Anthem suits look so fucking good.

you immediately fucked it with your first point so i'm ignoring the rest
game stays dead under your watch

How did EA's greed kill anthem? By my understanding they gave Bioware pretty free reign to fuck around for years until whst came out was a confused mess.

Artstyle is the only interesting thing in the project so far. You'd fuck ut uo and change it into discount Halo or some shit.

It'll be interesting to see whom exactly goes to bat for Marathon around release day. Who's going to risk their reputation for it?

I think Ubi tried the streamer thing with ACS and everyone dropped it a millisecond after their contractual time ended. Or maybe that was Avowed.

Point is, streamer shilling doesn't work with fundamentally bad games.

kill the devs who made this then base the gameplay around it

They pulled the plug on the post-development support that had a very slim chance of salvaging the game.

My brother in christ, the only reason Anthem had its noteworthy flying mechanic is because that soulless ghoul, EA's CEO Andrew Wilson, played an early build where you did a minor amount of flying and said 'that's the good part and everything else is shit. Put in more flying.'

Bioware are as much to blame for Anthem as EA.

Bwah! post-RELEASE support! fuck!

It's fucked, you can't fix it. From here it's just wasting more money.

9/10 suggestions make it a solo game.
Someone mentioned that there were suggestions for a game but no one listened, so my guess the suggestions where basically that.

Regardless, the art style is also kinda problematic. It's striking and all, but it seems that's the only reason and main point of it. It really seems like the whole focus of design was to make it "edgy", and homo, obviously...

From what I've seen of old marathon, the aesthetics that comes in my to me first is eldar from Warhammer. What we got in return, ironically, is hyper corpo consumerist slop, where every "manufacturer" have barely any describable difference between each other. Borderland is the perfect example where "corpo galaxy" is done right. Every faction and manufacturer have its unique and distinctive look that is even based off the natural habitat of the corpo it self. In marathon, everything looks the same, even fucking building architecture, made out of the same PVC looking ass blocks that the characters literally wearing. Looks great and all, but whoever thought of this aesthetic was so proud of it that forgot to make it make sense.

Why didn't they just turn it into another "3 niggas fight a bunch of aliens"? Helldivers is one of their most successful new IPs by far and Bungie has more experience with that type of gameplay

Tbh I'll never get the Valorant chink on board. His direction pretty much mutilated an intriguing offer. "It wusn't wurking", well, make it work you fuck. It's literally your job.

Push the release date to late 2026 and actually focus on the storytelling. Hunt's lore is pretty cool and it's an extraction shooter.

Make artstyle match concepts and cinematic trailers

Remove pvp slop, make it story driven

Improve movement

Ez pz

why make yet another multiplayer game? then again killzone

Idk, the aesthetic of the original strikes me more of 80s operator shit with a Star Trek coat of paint (unless you're talking aboyt the aliens, in which case i'm retarded sorry), like you have these assault rifles with grenade launchers that look more akin to a Star Trek phaser, or these mp5s with fuck huge mac10 silencers, or the protagonist himself who has a retro scifi jumpsuit with a biker helmet

It doesn't have to be only multiplayer, remember when we used to get games with campaigns, pve modes, and pvp? How come games have less content now?

black ops 6 has all of those

Golgo 13? In this economy?

Gameplay, combat:

Triggers, adaptive or not have different fire modes for stages.

Full is full auto. Light and hold is heavy area shot. Fast depress on and off is heavy condensed shot.

Left trigger is sights. Less than full pull is a zoom level, more toward full pull, or vice versa by preference.

A range of abilities. Some awarded randomly each match. They are assigned to face buttons.

Left shoulder (L1):
Press to jump. Hold to sprint. Rapid press to sneak. When sneaking you sprint but it costs faith and all enemies ignore you, you're invisible and untouchable.

Left stick click (L3):
Run and dodge. It's dodging when it'd be avoiding attack and is greater when so, can dodge anyway with a double/repeated press. Repeated press keeps dodging. When not moving after a couple seconds press to crouch, again to return to standing, repeatedly to go prone (lie down). Crouching and going prone costs faith.

DPAD:
Weapon selection.

Right stick click (R3):
Non lethal. Does the most damage. If used to finish off enemies they join you temporarily while still looking the same. Melee then also refills their life to 100x what it'd be at full. Them being hit costs faith the same as you. And they count as friendly fire hits if hit, costing faith. Penalty for them being hit can be turned off by them voluntarily, eg if you're losing a lot of faith. To prolong the match and them being on your side. Having an army of them helping you preferable, but increasing the rate in which area area becomes impossible, and their hits don't count towards your points/faith.

Right shoulder (R1):
Reduce res to a blur for a few seconds. But increase framerate. Good for precision aiming. Also snaps to closest target to centre of screen. Hold for several seconds to abort. Rapid press to end blur early. Double press to throw grenade. Grenade blinds and does damage to all that it touches in a 100m radius. Closest to centre of blast does the most damage. Grenades recharge, go over used for +1

Kill everyone in the office.

Every time you jump, a very loud fart sound effect plays

how do you fix pic related?

reduce the budget ten fold, find a handful of people working on it who have functioning brains and make them leads, fire almost everyone else. tell them to do whatever, just make a good game. check back in 6-8 months to see what they are working on and then set up a proper milestone schedule.

OP is seemingly asking how'd you fix the situation currently not via hindsight.

There's no saving Marathon. Too many bad decisions were made early on, it's all baked in at this point, too late to course correct.

With that said, if I had a time machine:

fast TTK, solofags should actually stand a chance if they play it smart

No hero shooter aspects, you can augment your character with loot but nothing egregious like invisibilty or wallhacks

aliens front and center: no roblox enemies, and all the rare/exotic loot items are alien weaponry (wild shit like the Halo Needler)

The 3D printed weapons can stay but only as the basic starter gear

Restrict the 3D printed enviornments to a single map - the alpha had two maps but frankly they look identical. The other maps can take place on different planets with their own original architecture

TL;DR - it's a sci-fi setting, so utilize it. It's embarassing that Marathon relies on blocky humanoid enemies while Arc Raiders has you fighting massive spider mechs.
And it's okay to make it hardcore, there's no such thing as an extraction shooter for casuals. It can still be a success as long as the budget isn't retarded

there's no such thing as an extraction shooter for casuals

Yet this is the demopgrahic Bungie is explicitly trying to court and create, since all the hardcore players already sweat it out in Tarkov and Hunt.

There was DMZ but it didnt make money

Delete everything and make Oni 2 instead

The law doesn't care if it's the logo on the title screen or a single png Easter egg hidden behind 2000 hours of mundane unrelated tasks. They're using something they don't have permission to in a commercial product.

Add lolis and a romance system for them also sex cuts scenes

Story campaign mod
Solo extraction mod
Multi PVE mod
Multi PVP mod
Fix the textures and lighting
Rework the character design and make them look cool.

Scrap it completely. Extraction shooter was a bandwagon choice and the wagon has already crashed.
Scifi shooter dungeon crawl. Almost entirely PvE but a few events and areas could have players run into each other.
Players are delving into the Marathon. They are remnants of a UESC rescue/salvage fleet sent early in the events of the first game.
General structure is you set yourself up in a HUB area aboard the UESC ship and choose a mission. You then run through that mission, which is a midway point between a Destiny raid and a Warframe tileset. As players do more of these missions they advance further into the areas, like floors of a dungeon crawler. More and more of them are hand made and more Raid like. But also progressively more mind bending and strange. The entire arc of delving deeper is narrative and players will discover what happened in the Marathon since Marathon: Infinity. Players at any time could run into other squads, but this is more like a Dark Souls invasion mixed with DayZ ambiguity. There is little real reward for fighting, but the general loot pool is split if the players complete the mission together. Players don't lose anything if they die to another squad.
There is a definitive final mission.

You seriously think nu-Bungie could make a new Oni?

The main character would get changed from that hot Major Kusanagi lookalike to a fat black woman with vitiligo.

bidden was president for only four years

during these short four years dei & trans shit infested gaming like a plague

multiple gaming studios that have been around for twenty years died or turned to shit

Its kinda crazy to think about, DEI infesting a company is comparable to the demons in Frieren

It has been going before biden you zoomer

fire everyone and sell the IP to Respawn

Chink? I thought he was Latinix? Aren't Asians supposed to be hard workers?

no shit nigger but bidden is when it really really got bad with the government actually going out of its way to paying companies to trannifie game

Completely dumpster PvP
Bring back the writer(s) for Marathon Trilogy at any cost (which they can obviously cover)
Allow many other writers to fill the world with their own writings that were checked by the Marathon Trilogy writers (i want as much stuff to read in there as possible)
Utilize Destiny 1/2's environments as inspiration for new ones, prioritize cool skyboxes
Vehicles
Essentially just make Halo 3 co-op but Marathon now
Light nods to Halo in some ways apart from a very well-hidden and very unserious Grunt/Elite corpse celebrating their birthday with birthday hats, party streamers, a cake with lit candles, etc.
Completely dumpster PvP like I said before
Dealer's choice from here on out we just need more co-op games that look cool and appeal to people
No live-service

I think there is literally 0 people from the old bungie, still working at snoy bungie. Meanwhile the ceo that ruined bungie is still in charge. Considering the recent scandal, the game still being in alpha and the amount of playable content, I would say it's impossible to make a game in the quality of old bungie and impossible to succeed in the absolutely oversaturated shooter market.
So I would say make it a single player game with a tagged on multi-player, not a live service disaster.
But we all know sony wants that live service portfolio, so good riddance.

Bro, don't forget about the feminine penis.

+200% move speed

+200% damage

rocket lawn chairs

power ups

go so fast you can't even see the DEIslop characters

extraction arena shooter mite b cool

add a progression system and a single player campaign

Cancel it, there is nothing that can be done at this point. Also I don't get why Sony can't just take the hit, Sega cancelled Hyenas which was THE MOST EXPENSIVE GAME THEY HAVE PRODUCED UNTIL THAT POINT and Sony can't cancel an obvious flop despite being much better in money terms than sega?

As soon as I saw that the art director wore that stupid tranny-flag as a LEGO-necklace I knew this game is fucked.

clean up any infringing artwork, spin it as a heckin wholesomerino no mans sky engoodening moment

make it co-op

go all in on plastic robosluts and sell it to asia

I lock every door at the company with everyone inside and say that we will only leave when we unfuck the game - also I will promise pizza.
Then, we are never heard of again.

Yeah, that also happened before biden you dumb zoomers

Just copy the map design of Splatoon since you're already copying the art style. Crappy, bright colors thrown around with procedural generation just results in a "dazzle" camouflage effect.
Also, focus on single player. Like 80% of players only care about single player.
And give some sort of consolation prize for losing. I quit Quasimorph because randomly getting 1-tapped results in you losing a fucking hour of progress.

Futa is based but men in dresses larping as women is awful

why can't Sony take the hit

Pride and hubris, if I had to guess. They already took a monstrous black eye from Concord, but to then take another with the studio they spent $3.6b to buy in a fit of reactionary stupidity? I don't see Marathon getting axed unless Sony Japan starts really cleaning house in California. (which they need to)

There had already been some livestream with two troons who were higher ups on the project. It's been DOA for months.

Cancel the game, recreate the extraction shooter mode in Destiny 2

Every possible solution would need a long delay and sony, if they accept it, will either take over or close bungie after release, they are fucked

They are fucked no matter what. The executives holding out for the last payments from Sony are counting on Marathon selling enough to boost Bungie's financials to meet the contractual requirements. There is no world where that happens now.

Turn it into a metroidvania

Take-Two owns Oni and Myth now.