It appears as if some main Marathon information is on the horizon. A barrage of cryptic teasers and a neighborhood ARG have pushed Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter again into the highlight as soon as extra, suggesting that new bulletins, trailers, or possibly even a launch date reveal could possibly be arriving quickly. Gamers collaborating within the ARG have additionally uncovered some small new items of details about Marathon, together with the potential names of weapons within the sport, a screenshot of recent characters, and extra.
Bungie is aware of easy methods to make wonderful FPS video games, however the silence round its upcoming extraction shooter Marathon (and the deaths of lots of PlayStation’s dwell service tasks) hasn’t precisely crammed me with confidence. Judging by early idea artwork and teasers, it’ll really feel aesthetically recent, no less than. However the extraction style is a tricky nut to crack, and there are a number of different rivals in improvement proper now like Exodus and Arc Raiders. I already imagine that the gunplay, the motion, and certain all of the FPS fundamentals shall be nice in marathon, as a result of Bungie’s monitor report, however nonetheless, all I really feel is anxiousness.
In direction of the tip of final 12 months, Marathon briefly reappeared by the use of a developer diary with its sport director, Joe Ziegler, who beforehand lent his skills to Riot Video games’ Valorant. In it, he confirmed that it has shifted from a customized character-based expertise to a hero-based one – once more, a transfer that I’m actually uncertain about. However other than that, there was little or no else to go on about what sort of an expertise Marathon shall be, and nonetheless there was no gameplay footage.
Within the months since, the silence has returned, however out of nowhere, a mountain of teasers have been launched by Bungie, and PlayStation is making a giant deal out of it too.
This all began with a really transient, uninformative 15-second clip of some corrupted data-style graphics posted by the official Marathon X account. Nevertheless, this has spiraled into one thing a lot larger. PlayStation has modified its social media banners, and the banner on its official weblog web site, to resemble the identical inexperienced, corrupted graphic. Marathon’s Steam web page has additionally now been up to date to point out this graphic as its foremost product picture.
Then an X account known as ‘we_are_mida’ (MIDA was a terrorist group within the unique Marathon video games from the Nineteen Nineties) started posting some very weird, cryptic messages and an audio log mentioning the UESC, the primary authorities physique in Marathon’s universe.
This all led to a neighborhood ARG, wherein followers have uncovered potential particulars concerning the sport from a web based ‘UESC terminal.’ These embody extra audio logs tied to the UESC, what appear to be audio information from the sport’s soundtrack, a screenshot exhibiting three of the sport’s characters, and a listing of weapons which are more likely to be included within the sport. A few of these weapons share or carefully resemble names of weapons discovered within the unique Marathon trilogy. To see all the pieces that was revealed, ‘Marathon Bulletin’ on X has a radical paper path of information.
All of that is to say that extra Marathon information – and hopefully some gameplay in any case this time too – is simply across the nook. If PlayStation is tricking out its weblog and socials in Marathon colours, I really feel like new data is imminent. I pray that it’s going to encourage some confidence in me.
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