r/Marathon 11h ago

Humor Sony thank you for Marathon I love this game and forgive you for Bloodborne

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yes I will buy season pass again hope it helps


r/Marathon 14h ago

Humor To the kind Rook I murdered at Final Exfil

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I'm sorry. Due to the series of unfortunate events that transpired I executed a finisher after you rezzed me, and I hope you heard me scream "no. No. Nooooo." as the animation ended your run. I was holding down square to self-rez and it was almost done when you started rezzing me, and then I popped up and a bot downed you. My thumb was still on square for a moment and the game registered it as a finisher. I didn't have time to reverse corse and didn't see your name, but I hope you forgive my seeming betrayal. Perhaps I can repay you in some way, someday.

Your Friendly Rook,

DUDDZZ


r/Marathon 12h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion this game is so exhausting in solos

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- be Thief . load in with a free kit in hopes of getting myself some weapons to run with my abundance of purple shields . spawn overflow and immediately see supply drop at station

- find a green shield Assassin being loud and noisy in station opening secured resource , watch as they fight another Assassin + bots spawned by secured resource . . . purple shield assassin that jumped green shield assassin wins , let them start looting the bag before ending their run

- exfil goes off at north relay , head there to see if it's worth contesting . ping a purple shielded assassin

- *another purple shield would be nice*

- catch them off guard and almost down them , they smoke the small building across from the exfil , i grapple to the roof nearby and wait for them to go invis and peak . . . as all assassins do

- notice rocket drone being finished off near station

- catch them off guard again and break their shields . go in to finish only for them to smoke and run to the opposite side of NR

- go to roof in the middle to try and finish them once again . . cannot find the assassin

- give up with 3 minutes left and bolt to guarded exfil knowing at least two more players remain on the map . decide to play extra safe and don't go into exfil until ABSOLUTELY necessary

- activate guarded exfil , drone around with 30 seconds left before shell death . see the same assassin from NR and decide to DBNO in exfil

- rocket drone killer pulls up as i knock the assassin . . they finish me

- it's another fucking assassin


r/Marathon 15h ago

Question Worth getting?

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Have never played an extraction shooter really and marathon looks the coolest. I heard it was mid though and i see the player count has gone down a lot. Thoughts?


r/Marathon 21h ago

Marathon (2026) Feedback It feels like there's no point in playing when cryo isn't around

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Four games this morning I kit up with gold guns and purple shield and four games I get double free kit teammates. Ranked plays terribly - extremely commonly people just camp their poi with snipers instead of actually engaging with the map at all, and sure that's the smart way to play for the win but that's why ranked plays like such ass. People aren't playing to fight and have fun like they more often are on cryo.

Cryo needs to be available all the time. I'm sure Bungie has their "MeTriCs" that show there is some addictive pattern that "iNcReAsEs EnGaGeMeNt" with it only being available on the weekend but it just makes me not want to play when it's not around...

There is no "use the week to stock your vault for cryo" when I have a good win rate in cryo and a permanently *full* vault from it


r/Marathon 22h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion The firestorm is still in game 🫪

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I just called in a supply drop…. Low and behold the gun is just sitting there


r/Marathon 43m ago

Marathon (2026) Feedback Take away the 5k minimum for Cryo and make cryo daily

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5k isn't even like a good kit, just take it off so i can run random free kits solo cryo, it serves no purpose, let me solo cryo every day

that's it, that's the post


r/Marathon 9h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion Is it possible to play Marathon mostly as a story/campaign game?

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I really want to play Marathon for the story, factions, contracts, lore, exploration, etc. I’m basically treating each expedition like another regular story mode
But I run into contracts that require fighting other Runners.
For example, I just got an Arachne contract that asks me to deal damage to Runners and down a Runner. The problem is I’ve been playing for hours and I’ve barely seen any human players. I literally saw one Runner in the last two hours
Is there currently a way to experience Marathon mostly as a story game, or am I basically forced to wait until updates or future mission will require other runners?


r/Marathon 6h ago

Marathon (2026) Pro-tip: Use your voice comms as a Rook if you don't want to get insta-deleted

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A very hard lesson was learned here by this Rook

Using voice comms here would have worked out completely differently for them; instead of being instantly sent back to the lobby, they would have been sent along to the Algae Ponds key room that we had opened for some nice leftovers. Instead bro chose to rat in a corner, and act surprised when I opened fire.

And it's not like I would have murdered him regardless; if a Rook rolls up and says he just wants scraps or whatever we usually see them along, usually pointing out the location of some bodies that still contain loot. We do give them a fair warning though, that any attempts at tomfoolery will be met with them being sent back to the great blue slurry factory in the sky.

TL;DR - Use your comms, a 50% chance of survival is better than a 100% chance of being sent back to the lobby.


r/Marathon 11h ago

Marathon (2026) Feedback Visual clarity is an issue in this game honestly.

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There's way too many vfx's when shooting/being shot at that really easily can make you miss crucial shots during a firefight (unless you're on roller, which bypass this issue). Add to that the hectic clutter that grenades fill your screen with, even if they don't actually hit you (looking at you emp grenades) and the overall fairly dark/foggy environmental lighting and target acquisition can be kind of ass in this game.

Additionally, nothing feels worse than bringing a sniper into a map and not being able to see further than 15m ahead of you thanks to the intensity of the fog.


r/Marathon 19h ago

Misc Tau Ceti Teamups | LFG Megathread

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Three's a Crowd

Greetings Runners! Welcome to our Tau Ceti Teamups Megathread!

These threads will serve as r/Marathon 's weekly LFG Megathreads

LFG Content on r/Marathon outside of this thread will be redirected to our LFG & Support Subreddit, r/MarathonTheGame

Death is Just the Beginning

Have fun down on Tau Ceti IV, Runners! Who Knows what you'll uncover!


r/Marathon 3h ago

Humor These rooks are wild

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Bro was fighting his demons


r/Marathon 17h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion Behave better when in squad please

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So, first of all i'm censoring the names cause i don't want any hate on this guy.

What happened: We basically wiped the lobby in Outopost and while goin for the Exfill we got pushed by 4 Rooks, two of them managed to get a full kill on the Triage, and a second one downed the assassin. Now, i managed to kill the first rook while i had no sight on the second, but our downed teammate decided to jump in the exfill and just go instead of staying there.

It's all permitted for sure, but at least, if you barely got a slice of the damage and did almost nothing in every fight, try to be as helpfull as possible


r/Marathon 3h ago

Marathon (2026) Feedback Only reason I don't play Marathon (any)more is Linux availability

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I love this game & have put over 300h in it during S1, I would play more regularly but I don't wanna bother with how garbage of an experience Windows is.

99% of my games work just fine on my Manjaro install, can whoever decided to block the game at Bungie get his shit together and stop being an ass about Linux support, thanks.

Not sure if this is the right place for that & it's just shouting in the wind really, but maybe with all the talks about playercount you'd wanna get as many people onboard as possible.


r/Marathon 12h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion Fascinating

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Marathon shows how class wars will never exist because people just wanna kill


r/Marathon 10h ago

Humor The lack of friendships in game is really a big oversight

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Anyways, some chad killed me and took my purple key room loot in solos and I'm sad about it.

I offered my drinkable cheeseburgers, I had two of them. They could have just said no.

EDIT : I mean mid run alliances, not actually finding people to play with


r/Marathon 9h ago

Marathon (2026) Idea for an event Gamemode: Rookfection

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A playlist set in Night Marsh, only accessible by those with a special event kit you can access in the armory, much like in Vault Breakers.

Three crews of players plus two rooks spawn in a random, cordoned-off Point of Interest: The objective for the Rooks is to kill all of the Runners, while the Runners must use what they find in the POI to survive until time runs (heh) out. The rooks spawn in a distant location and have to rush into the POI, so the Survivors have some time to gear up and come up with a plan (The POI is stocked with weapons, equipment and ammo). Rooks queuing up for the playlist have their inventory modified to only have a WSTR with two shots and nothing else except knives.

Rook Players receive certain Advantages:

  • Signal Mask doesn't disguise you as an UESC bot: instead, it disguises into another runner. Same skin as one of the other players, but none of the abilities. Disguise lasts until you take damage.
  • The Rook team gets infinite revives.
  • Kill Runners to upgrade yourself mid-match: dying resets you to cero.
    • 1st kill: Receive the effects of a permanent Cardio Kick
    • 2nd kill: WSTR gets infinite ammo (Still have to reload)
    • 3rd kill: Recuperation is turned on indefinitely.
  • Rooks are immune to friendly fire from other Rooks.

...but Runners also have an edge:

  • The event kit contains a single random blue weapon, ammo and blue shields for the runners, as well as blue rarity healing items and energy amps.
  • Each crew spawns in a corner of the map with a lot of loot. Friendly Fire is turned on, even among crews, but players can only damage other players after a minute of in-game time has passed. After that... its free game. If your buddy pulls a Mizzy... the temptation to merc him is there.
  • If you die, you get turned into a Rook. Kill other runners!

Runner crews have to hold their own or meet up with the others and formulate a plan. Rooks have to be sneaky to get their first kills. After that, it turns into a desperate fight for survival. When time runs out, an extraction beacon materializes in the center of the map, the rooks loose their infinite revives and when they die, they don't come back (you can still spectate your Rook buddies or leave the match).

Rook to win / Extract to win!

Runners: Kill all Rooks after the timer runs out to win! Successfully extract to win!
Rooks: Kill all Runners to win! Extract without any Runners extracting with you to win!

Losers gain miniscule amounts of event currency. Winners, much more. Extra currency is granted for kills, assists, and for extracting with certain high value items.


r/Marathon 9h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion the true killing blow to this game will be no-regs

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lack of maps and content will suck but there’s always going to be a small number of players who like what already exists and want to keep playing it. I am one of those people. I will always enjoy rook 1v3ing or cryo archive runs.

Every time I no-reg somebody, I am tempted to drop the game instantly. Lost a run to mizzy no-regs earlier and just lost one to goddamn Firestorm no-reg’ing a destroyer at point blank range. All my shit gone, not due to skill problems, but because the netcode decreed it so.

ā€œOh the mizzy ones were because you were out of rangeā€ then make that clearer to the user. simple fix, either an indicator for a hit being out of range or a sound or SOMETHING to clarify that I was just two pixels too far for the shotgun pellets to count.


r/Marathon 14h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion Let’s settle this once and for all: WEAVEmaster has to be earned in a single season by achieving a max cradle level of 77.

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I have seen this misinformation taken as fact by so many people, I need to make it clear: the WEAVEmaster title MUST be earned in ONE SEASON.

The challenge description is ā€œIn any season, evolve your cradle 7 times and reach level 70.ā€

To put it another way, the challenge is satisfied when you: reach the final stage of the final evolution of the cradle. Numerically, this means having 77 available cradle points. You’ve reached Evolution 7, and you’ve reached level 70.

to be clear; you do not get the reward of the title when you evolve for the 7th time. The 7th evolution actually has NO reward - until you hit level 70 on that Evolution. That debunks the theory that ā€œit’s /1 because the skins are the progress barā€

Further data to support this:
The progress bar is /1, with no way to track how close to your 7th evolution + Level 7 you are from the total.

Many people argue that the codex will not be reset next season. This is correct. This is why the title is a /1 and not an /8 that you can make progress towards over multiple seasons.

Further and most damning! The TITLE UNLOCK DESCRIPTOR for the title drops the ā€œIn any season,ā€ language — the language that is the entire opposing theory rests on.

JUST like the only other PRESTIGE title in the game, PROFITEER, WEAVEmaster is NOT cumulative.

Finally, some people may argue that ā€œevolution points will stay post wipeā€ to which I must insist they will not.

Removing one of the core gear-dump endgame goals for the most dedicated players (those who’ve earned weavemaster) while simultaneously giving them an additional 7 points of Evolution right off the bat allowing them to hit rank 77 on Day 1 would be antithetical to the basic idea of the reset, which is to give endgame players something to do again and allow new players a somewhat even playing ground.

YES I know Bungie made this same mistake before but they’ve acknowledged that and would certainly not be foolish enough to build an entire system around permanently empowering it’s highest playtime players while simultaneously removing one of their largest goals when entering a new season.

To be clear, this ā€œgoalā€ is the entire purpose of loot once a player reaches a full vault and has completed the endgame activities. Resetting your cradle is essentially a self inflicted micro wipe. I believe people believe they’ll stick around because of the Arc Raiders expeditions, but they must realize that expeditions are the only type of wipe Arc has.

Please try to poke holes in my theory in the comments as I’m positive I will be able to refute any of it!

My final thought:
If WM were a cumulative skin, they’d essentially be guaranteeing that season 7 of the game every day one player has it. Regardless of player count that’s just not good game design to offer such a prestige title simply for emptying your vault to the worm and resetting at hour 0 every season.


r/Marathon 15h ago

Lore Haven't played since April, where has the story gone?

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Howdy y'all,

Haven't played since April due to a work trip, which has also prevented me access to the internet to keep up with the game.

A primary reason I played this game was out of the dope ARG(s) [was the 2nd person into the discord!] and lore of the series.

So it's been 6 months, where has the story gone in that time? I looked up some recap videos on YT but it seems like there's not much mentioned new wise outside the initial vibe set on game release, or really that many folk posting lore videos at all.

Thanks!


r/Marathon 11h ago

Marathon (2026) Feedback Ce tactical free kit

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Either buff it or change it to something else, it’s by far the worst sponsored kit in the game


r/Marathon 11h ago

Marathon (2026) Feedback Ranked is unapproachable mid-late wipe

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I'm at a breaking point with ranked in this game. I didn't play ranked until late wipe due to work, school, and playing D2 in its finality. As a result, I didn't climb in ranked. Because of this, ranked feels impossible to move up in as I'm always and i mean ALWAYS in a 1v3. Its the same cycle every game, I knock one with sniper, TM's bum rush and both die due to positioning. I'm always able to get 2 but can never kill the third, usually because of grenades or shotgun rush.

This is more me venting than asking for change, but man, I want to play something other than outpost and cryo for good loot. Ranked keeps it fresh. It doesn't help that I average between diamond and plat for skill but started late wipe so all the good players who play ranked are already there.

Again, this is more a vent post, it just sucks being alienated from the aspects of this game I like yet again because all my friends stopped playing and finding decent players is a whole lot harder than I though it would be in fill.

Idk its starting to be too much. I had a trio to play with everyday all S1 but none of us liked the PvE mode and what it did to the loot economy so early so they dropped it, plus D2 final update dropped. This is giving me what the solo experience is like in this game and man is it rough. Before you tell me to plays solos, its just boring to me. 90% of the people don't bring good loot in, tons of people get mad when I kill them, and gunfights devolve into hiding in a room taking poke shots till one person caves or gets third partied. On top of that, my exfil rate is much higher (i mean MUCH higher) in solos, yet I never exfil with anything meaningful. So its just leaves me in this awkward in-between where the game just doesn't feel fun anymore. Oh and for the record, PvE is fun but not my jam. Of my 9k hours in destiny as a whole, approximately 4k of those are in PvP. I love PvP, especially marathon. I am just losing motivation to play without decent teammates or matchmaking that is a complete roll of the dice.

Thanks for reading my rant, please don't be toxic. I'm hitting my burnout point for issues in this game even though I absolutely love it.


r/Marathon 22h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion Why aren’t more people building teams to play with?

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So there are several discords out there and sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes to gather a team for some games. I am in dadsofmarathon and I really like that one, but there is also an official one and there is couch2compiler. Can we talk about this? I mean every 5th post in this sub complains about how their fills don’t use mics, leave them behind and exfil and so on. These types of behavior are very few and far between when you take the time to team up in a discord.

Win or lose this game is so much fun when you are strategizing together and pulling as a team.


r/Marathon 8h ago

Marathon (2026) New bug?

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I’ve never seen a UESC shield bot get stuck like this


r/Marathon 19h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion This is Marathon's "cinematic moment" right here

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This guys was a legend, the entire run he was talking like this and bein chill, was so funny. Shit like this is what makes gaming FUN. Be like this guy

Here's my other interaction with him: The other post