PlayStation delays Marathon indefinitely: "Your voice has been strong and clear"

A squad of runners huddle together against a clinically stark white background, their gear dotted with color - in the Marathon key art
(Image credit: Bungie)

Bungie's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marathon reboot has been delayed from its original September 23 release date to an unkno𝐆w🌳n date.

In a shared to Bungie's official website, the Marathon dev team suggests feedback from the extraction shooter's alpha playtes🌊t, which ended in early May, is at the heart of the delay. No new release date was revealeℱd.

"The Alpha test created an opportunity for us to calibrate and focus the game on what will make it uniquely compelling—survival under pressure, mystery an▨d lore around every corner, raid-like endgame challenges, and Bungie’s genre-defi♔ning FPS combat," reads the news release.

"We're using this time to empower the team to create the intense, high-stakes experience that a title like Mar☂athon is built around. This means deepening the relationship between the developerಌs and the game’s most important voices: our players."

Bungie says we'll learn the new Mar🌄athon release date "later this Fall" when it'll share an update on the progress it's made on addressing feedback from the alpha test.

Namely, the studio says it's "immediate focus" is on improving the game's survival elements by adding "more challenging and❀ eng🐷aging AI encounters" and "more rewarding runs" with new loot and "dynamic events." It's also working on "making combat more tense and strategic." Which sort of sounds like the whole game, doesn't it?

Additionally, Bungie says it🌌's "doubling down on the Marathon universe" by improving visual fidelity, adding "more narrative and environmental storytelling," and focusing on "a darker tone that delivers on the themes of the original trilo﷽gy."

Finally, and this one seems to address a very common pain point, Bungie says it's "adding more social 💙experiences" to make for "a better experience for solo/duos." The only specific update we have right now in that regard is proximity chat, which will be added "so social stories can come to life."

Despite 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a very public scandal relating to it♉s in-🔥game art, a divisive alpha, and 澳洲幸运5开奖ꦆ号码历史查询:a report signaling all-time low morale at Bungie, just last week PlayStation reported "strong early engagement" in Marath꧅on. This indefinite delay only makes it harder to reconcile PlayStation's messaging with the existing facts on the game, which has been positioned as a 🎶potentially genre-expanding release.

Marathon and Elden Ring Nightreign have a common problem: the solo experience is way worse, and I can't help but think nailing your game to teams of 3 is a mistake in 2025

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