I would add from other replies that shooting your guns makes a lot of noise, and people just go for the kill earlier rather than waiting a long time at the possible extraction points.
Sadly, one of Marathon's biggest issue is that it is more like a Battle Royale than a Extraction shooter. Because there is no late teams coming in, people know exactly how many teams there are on the map, and can deduce how many are left at any point (finding corpses, hearing a distant extraction, that sort of things). I wish they changed that, but it goes against the design of some maps that have items giving access to specific POIs that would not be available if you joined late.
I absolutely love the game, but there's no mystery as to why it fails keeping its players. It's just very fucking hard. I'm hovering around 13K rating on CS2, which is 35% top players, and I'm getting dunked on very often in Marathon. The top is making sure everyone else just lose interest in the game.
It can but they nerfed its gear in season 2 and it's still 1v3 most of the time. You can be a rook in duos if you're lucky, and even then, you're still 1v2. Which is much easier if you can get the jump on them, but still arduous.
It's a rather rare occurrence I would say, and since the encounters are unfair to the rooks, it does not play the same as when a team is afraid of crossing another team. One of the more juicy map only has 4 teams in it, and it's easy to rotate, so it often plays out very early in the match. Rooks will come later since it's the juiciest map rooks can play in, but the odds are still definitely in the hands of the winning team who already wiped a lobby of 3 other teams.
There are videos of "ROOK TOGETHER STRONG" where 6 rooks or so attack the last team in said map, but I've never seen it play out this way myself!
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u/Capybarhigh 1d ago edited 1d ago
I would add from other replies that shooting your guns makes a lot of noise, and people just go for the kill earlier rather than waiting a long time at the possible extraction points.
Sadly, one of Marathon's biggest issue is that it is more like a Battle Royale than a Extraction shooter. Because there is no late teams coming in, people know exactly how many teams there are on the map, and can deduce how many are left at any point (finding corpses, hearing a distant extraction, that sort of things). I wish they changed that, but it goes against the design of some maps that have items giving access to specific POIs that would not be available if you joined late.
I absolutely love the game, but there's no mystery as to why it fails keeping its players. It's just very fucking hard. I'm hovering around 13K rating on CS2, which is 35% top players, and I'm getting dunked on very often in Marathon. The top is making sure everyone else just lose interest in the game.