trying marathon!
What better to do when stuck inside all day than relax, watch the LRR sealed league, and try out a game in a genre I've never tried!
I watched a few LRR streams where they played this game, and the art direction is what mostly sold me on it! It look super neat and it's a very different cyberpunk aesthetic, at least from what I usually see. I like all the weapons and building looking very pre-fab and the characters (shells) all have neat designs!
In what little I played today (~3.5 hours) I managed to exfil a few times, complete a few missions, and die my fair share. I even pulled my old headphones out for the optimal audio experience, which did help! Towards the end I kept trying to do a mission in Dire Marsh, but I'd end up killing someone with way better loot than me, taking it, and immediately running to a nearby exfil with my bounty!
In this clip I got super lucky, getting downed in the exfil zone without being killed! I made so many mistakes though, but seeing as I'm new to the game and genre I'll forgive these. I Left smoke way to early (unfamiliar with exfil timing), didn't engage enemy until it was far too late (I half assumed they'd just join me in the exfil, but they fired at me before hand so I shouldn't have given them the benefit of the doubt), and my hiding location had me effectively cornered (lack of map knowledge).
The game seems super neat though and I like the short commitment of the runs, will def be playing more this weekend!