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BIZARRE: Marathon | Mind Blowing Facts

Bungie's latest experiment turns Marathon into a battle royale, and it's a hit: 'Free kit queue might be the most fun I've had so far'

To be an extraction shooter, or a battle royale, that's the question.

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Marathon is a good game, former FPS pro Shroud says, "the problem right now is it's too hard"

"More people will realize, 'wait, this game is actually really, really good'."

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Marathon isn't going to be the big hit Sony wants because it's just too much of a sicko game

Marathon is an excellent extraction shooter, but it's also its own worst enemy.

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Xbox exec who brought Bungie into Microsoft says it's "weird" to see Sony own the creators of Halo: "It was so weird to launch Marathon and see a PlayStation logo"

"If you would've told me, 'Oh, Bungie will be part of Sony, you know, 25 years ago, I'd be like 'What? No, I don't think so'"

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Marathon is a frustrating extraction game that I can't stop playing — here's my verdict after 81 hours on PS5

Marathon is Bungie’s take on an extraction shooter, and includes both the best and worst of the developer’s tendencies, which means it’s still a pretty good game.

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As Marathon faces the kind of cheat users Destiny 2 fans know all too well, Bungie promises "we have a zero-tolerance policy" and that anti-cheat improvements are on the way

Bungie says it's "expanding our telemetry and detection methods"

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As frustration with Marathon cheaters intensifies, Bungie says improvements to its 'zero-tolerance policy around cheating' are underway: 'This is an area that we will continue to invest in'

It's also investigating how to better manage player toxicity and stream sniping.

PC Gamer

"Marathon is gonna be Game of the Year," actor Ben Starr says, because it has Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 award magnet Jennifer English

He makes a compelling point

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Marathon just buffed the best loot you can find outside Cryo Archive and nerfed the Thief movement exploit that sweaty players were abusing into the ground

Outpost's Pinwheel is harder to crack, but sweeter to loot

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Bungie nerfs Marathon's slide cancel movement tech, says no movement freaks allowed: 'Unbounded movement, while expressive and clip-worthy, is ultimately unhealthy for the pace of play'

Please just kill me like a normal person.

PC Gamer

Marathon boss cryptically suggests the game is too hard, outright confirms "we have some iterations / big balance changes brewing right now"

"It's fun to lose," is it?

GamesRadar

Marathon’s latest patch just nerfed Thief’s ‘slide cancel’ movement tech, because if you give Destiny players an inch, they will always take a mile

No more of that.

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Marathon review

A confident reminder that nobody does an FPS like Bungie.

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Marathon sold just 1.2 million copies with nearly 70% on Steam, analyst estimates: "It hasn't exactly made the splash Sony and Bungie wanted"

"Players understand the Arc Raiders loop within 30 minutes, while Marathon's UI acts as a massive filter"

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I want to love Marathon but can already see why players are falling off its miserable grind

Marathon looks great and has some strong moment-to-moment action, but it lacks compelling reasons to keep playing.

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'Is Marathon a success? Unfortunately, no, not yet' — Former Xbox exec says Bungie's new extraction shooter was built at a scale and cost that the current market 'simply isn't rewarding'

Former Microsoft Game Studios executive producer Laura Fryer believes Bungie's extraction shooter Marathon is a success among players, but the studio has a long road ahead to make the game worth its investment.

Destructoid

How to complete Paradigm Shift 2 contract in Marathon – Download Protocol G access in Complex

Hacker!!

The Guardian - UK

In the killer world of online gaming, there are no hits any more – just survivors

The fates of two ostensibly similar online games released this year, Marathon and Highguard, prove that success is becoming close to unattainable

Destructoid

How to complete Return on Investment 5 contract in Marathon – Rigged UESC supply container location in Canal

The returns were worth it.

PC Gamer

Peak extraction shooter is waiting 7 minutes and 38 seconds to kill one guy in particular

Arguably, I won.

PC Gamer

The co-creators of Caves of Qud, our favorite roguelike fever dream, worked as narrative consultants on Marathon—which mostly meant they 'got to sit there in the room and throw completely absurd ideas at the wall'

I knew something about that Tick Milk felt familiar.

GamesRadar

Arc Raiders boss says Marathon has "done a really good job" fixing things after "heavily criticized" technical test: "That's unusual. So credit to that team"

Embark's not viewing Bungie's FPS as competition, either

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