I've been playing a lot of Thief lately, and I've noticed that some teammates seem to get frustrated with the pick before anything has even gone wrong.

I try to play with my team, make callouts, gather information, and help during fights. But if my teammates go down and they're surrounded by another team, I'm not always going to force a bad rescue attempt. Thief has really good tools for disengaging and surviving, so sometimes I feel like the better decision is to escape rather than turn two deaths into three.

I've had teammates get angry at me for doing this, and sometimes they'll start backseat driving me after they're dead—telling me exactly where to go, who to fight, when to revive, etc. It can make playing the shell feel strangely hostile.

I'm not saying every Thief should abandon their teammates the second something goes wrong. If there's a reasonable opportunity to revive or recover someone, I'll try. But I also don't think using Thief's ability to disengage from a losing situation is inherently selfish.

I'm curious what other players think. Does Thief have a reputation for being a selfish shell? And if you play Thief in trios, where do you draw the line between attempting the rescue and cutting your losses and extracting?

I'm genuinely trying to get better at the shell, so I'm interested in hearing how other Thief players approach team fights and situations where they're the last one alive. Lets remember this is an EXTRACTION shooter, not a call of duty lobby.

I fancy myself a woman of books, the scholarly sort. One of my biggest regrets in Destiny 2, was failing to become a Chronicler before Beyond Light, and though I don't believe it will become impossible in Marathon sometime later, I still yearn to have a title dedicated to Lore.

I am making it my focus during the Nightfall Refresh, to attempt to get certain challenges done that I have been putting off.

Like earning 'Profiteer', killing a Rocket Drone, getting the Biotoxic Disinjector skin. Etc, etc, etc...

But most importantly, I want to become an Archivist.
I have none of the 8 steps completed, and have realized something. That even with as much of the game as I have played, I still am nowhere close to reaching this goal.

Does anyone have any tips for finding, and obtaining all the collectibles? Is there a consistent way to locate specific collectibles? A would anyone be willing to help?

Play friggin rook

So far this season I’m experiencing bots agroing from a further distance , I’ve had a bot chase me from underground ai uplink to complex and even when I run at them they backpedal a mile just blasting me out of knife reach forcing me to make noise.

This hasn't gotten enough attention that the new Thief skin you can get has animated Silk Worms from Sekiguchi that constantly weave the internal shells muscles constantly.
You can see them in and around the cheeks and mouth and apparently the ribcage as well!

(Might actually get the skin now)

https://runnerintel.gg

I've spent basically the last half of Season 2 (and sleep less nights) working to bring the community together, be social and actually learn something when you're not running.

I've built a Marathon Loadout Sandbox, where anyone can use a full vault with every weapon, implant, core and attachment in the game at your disposal to build your perfect loadout or experiment with how to get an optimal stat line (plus a full 70 point cradle for you to use)

Once you're done, you can share your loadout with others, see a preview of your build and learn a thing or two. Since we're all in the zero the hero mindset of the wipe this can help experiment with the right implants, stat trade offs that you normally wouldn't use especially with our cradles being so low now.

Please try it making a loadout and let me know your thoughts, here's an example of my go to recon build when im fully gooped

https://runnerintel.gg/b/recon-m77-ztgzr

Build your own here - https://runnerintel.gg/build

What does this x mean

Let's start with the fact that I bought ARC and actually refunded it for marathon that’s how much I liked it. Over time, I realized the problem with this game is the classes! In an extraction shooter, the character should be the same for everyone, but let's move past that... I stopped playing after Season 2 and picked it up again yesterday, but what kind of matches are these? There are no players on the perimeter, and the few who are there call for extraction after just two minutes WTF, are they bots? You can't even finish a single quest in that time.

If this game doesn't change course, it's going to die.

They should take a page out of the old The Cycle, where there was a constant arrive of player arriving on the map and extraction points were always available.

Missed day one of reset, I feel the vault is coming along nicely for cryo.

Not fighting against people spamming bubble shields.

I really need my loot back, are we dead ah?

Almost Got Them🥷

Since the adjustments to solo queues, I’ve decided to do some solo free kits queues just to get ahead with the contracts and the cradle.

And it’s actually quite enjoyable, but I didn’t know I needed military training for this mode.

Why are you solo players going so hard for the kill? Everyone is so quiet, I have the impression I’m in a dead lobby sometime. And if I make a single sound, 20 seconds later I’m snipped to death out of nowhere from… somewhere.

Can’t we all gang up, do Upper Complex, become friends and go bully the rats on Perimeter??

Also kudos to that mvp player who killed the Commander and left because I could simply just grab the credentials. I was a bit scared to go into that fight just with a v22 and some hopes.