I hate to think like this, but I wouldn't be surprised if Bungie getting cut down 40% since being acquired, including the separate studio being spun off, was the fat trimming to help make Bungie more financially viable if Marathon wasn't a blockbuster. Because right now, Destiny 2 is barely making much money. It's currently at #200 in the top sellers on Steam in global revenue, which includes microtransactions and expansion purchases. I can't even find it on the PS Store. I stopped scrolling after a while lol. So Bungie is betting its studio's future on Marathon's success.

One thing is for sure though. If Sony decides that they would rather Bungie start on a Destiny 3, Bungie will either have to outsource continued Marathon support or leave a skeleton crew to keep supporting it. The amount of content Destiny needs is unlike pretty much anything else on the market outside of MMO's like World of Warcraft. And with how many employees Bungie has lost, they just wouldn't be able to do it properly.

Forsaken, for example, is the biggest expansion in Destiny's history, and it needed the combined effort of Bungie, along with the Activision studios High Moon Studios and Vicarious Visions. Even with no other projects at the time, Bungie still needed a lot of help. It would take a Forsaken-level expansion, if not more, that Bungie would need to make for a Destiny 3 at launch. 

At least we know the likes of Nixxes and XDev are available if that ends up being the case lol

Bungie released a really good overall first patch. Nerfed thermal scopes (primarily snipers), increased your POI popup appear at 20M instead of 10M, the nerf overall to UESC enemies was not as drastic as I thought it would be. They're still really tough to fight, and some smaller changes that were also welcome.

The change I did not expect to be this much of an issue was the increase in audio when firing your weapon. Now, as soon as you get into a shootout either with other players or the enemy AI, suddenly the whole map starts to converge on you! Got tired of getting third and fourth partied by other squads (for reference, there's only 6 squads total in a match)

Hopefully Bungie reverts that change, because it makes the game feel more like a Battle Royale lol

One thing I wish Bungie would change, which I can't believe I'm still having to complain about this lol.......MORE VAULT SPACE!!!!

Some good Marathon clips in the first half of this video:

Read some good things about Marathon, but sounds like it'll need to try something different to reach a bigger audience.

It has a core player userbase that likes it but doesn't look like near enough to have Sony happy about investing on it.

PSSR2 is starting to roll out.

Also finally!

That new NVIDIA tech made me remember this picture:

That picture always makes me chuckle because I know perfectly the kind of people who would make the picture, the kind of people who would post in that particular subReddit and the kind of people who would tweet it. 

I put the rectangle because I don't know what can be posted here but I'm pretty sure you know what's under LOL. 

r/Asmongold says all you need to know about it.

Ghost of Yotei Legends mode is pretty good, btw, played about 10 hours of it so far.

It's very similar to Ghost of Tsushima Legends, it has very similar modes and functions pretty much the same, but now we have 4 boss fight stages for 4 of the Yotei 6, as there are 2 raid modes still yet to unlock I imagine the 2 missing should be raid bosses, the Dragon and Lord Saito.

Once you get enough Ki to be able to do Gold level boss fights it's pretty hard, specially in a random group. Did one Kitsune level yesterday at Gold difficulty and boy that was hard, I was pretty much focusing on keeping our party alive by not getting downed despite all the cold reducing our max HP to like 15%, and reviving up everyone in that caos, still managed to get the killing blow on it, it was awesome.

Can't imagine how hard it'll be when I can reach Platinum level difficulty, specially the survivals, Silver survival was already so hard.

AI Atsu's face kinda looked like the cutie from Beast of Reincarnation, but fake and AI-sloppy.

DLSS 5 Grace almost looks as bad as AI Aloy lmao. They couldn't even hide that dumb beauty filter smile.

I'm having a blast going through the memes. I love the internet.

PS5 Pro really awakened with the PSSR upgrade. Happy (and jealous) for the Pro + 4KTV owners. I'll just wait for the PS6.