PC Gamer's Morgan Park had a rough night in Marathon a couple days ago. He initially attributed it to a run of bad luck—everyone has an off night now and then, after all—but noticed a lot of other people having similar struggles, many of whom pointed the finger at something else: noise.
Silence is golden in Marathon. Simply put, the more noise you make, the more likely you are to attract trouble and catch a bullet. And it turns out the Marathon update that rolled out earlier this week made a change on that front, noted in an unremarkable line stuff midway down the patch notes: Increased the range gunfire and explosions can be heard from.
