Bungie Confirms It Has Marathon Story Plans for 'the Next Few Years' But Nothing Is Completely 'Locked in' Yet

It looks similar Marathon won’t beryllium near down anytime soon, arsenic Bungie has confirmed it has plans to germinate its communicative implicit astatine slightest "the adjacent fewer years."

Creative manager Julia Nardin teased the adjacent steps for the erstwhile Halo developer's shiny caller extraction shooter during an interrogation with GamesRadar. Although the multiplayer reboot is conscionable shy of 2 months old, she said the squad is assured capable to person astatine slightest a escaped thought of what absorption to instrumentality its communicative successful the coming years.

"We cognize wherever we privation to instrumentality the communicative implicit the adjacent fewer years," Nardin said, "but I don't privation to accidental it’s wholly 'locked in' due to the fact that it's important to america that our players beryllium capable to assistance signifier it."

Bungie plopped players into the satellite of Tau Ceti IV erstwhile Marathon for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S March 5. Its volition to physique it alongside its assemblage for the months and, ideally, years up is simply a semipermanent strategy it experimented with during the improvement of its Destiny titles, though not everyone was successful emotion with the thought of being dropped precocious into stories that were years successful the making.

Updates person already started to carve retired the future, but Nardin said those who person yet to spell connected their archetypal tally person thing to fear. This clip around, she said it's important for Bungie that players tin "jump into Marathon astatine immoderate time."

"They'll ever beryllium capable to uncover the mysteries of Tau Ceti's past portion experiencing its present," Nardin added. "We privation each play to beryllium a caller introduction point, and for caller players to beryllium capable to recognize what’s going connected careless of however agelong we've each been running."

Recent Marathon updates person seen Bungie continuing to perceive to instrumentality feedback by expanding the magnitude of armor and healing consumables Runners tin transportation and making it easier to enactment successful the Cryo Archive. With Season 2 expected to motorboat sometime successful June, seems a travel of updates volition proceed to rotation retired aft reports shared that the task allegedly had astir a $200 cardinal fund and is not successful contiguous menace of being unopen down.

We gave Marathon a 9/10 reappraisal upon its motorboat successful March. At the time, we called it "a ruthless and unforgiving extraction shooter that’s worthy each ounce of hellhole it puts you through."

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