⚡️Bungie rolls out a mid‑season update for Marathon on April 14, patch 1.0.6 shifts the focus to recon and tactical play.
The overhaul centers on the Recon shell: Echo Pulse will be harder for enemies to read, making range judgments trickier; using a signal jammer before the pulse lets you masquerade as a friendly UESC. The Tracker Drone gets nastier, increased accuracy and pursuit strength, plus automatic retargeting if it loses sight...
Putting a 5K gear entrance requirement is such a weird gambling mechanic, makes it inaccessible, and still the risk of PVP elimination.
Just let us gang up on the Phfor and the S’phit guns blazing side-by-side like old times, instead of this too-close-to-the-bone setup of all of us being corporate shills.
Anyway, #marathon, I wish you all the best and will watch from afar.
Think I’ll be giving up on #Marathon
I gave into it, got good, could go in solo naked with a knife, take out a player or two, complete a mission, extract.
Sometimes.
Rarely did I have a good round with a random crew.
Seeing what it takes to beat the boss, with all that high-level gear and coordination… nah, not for me; young man’s game.
The original Marathon (and indeed, Halo) was great for having a team fight alongside you
There’s moments of this with intense PvE firefights in Cryo, but…
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