The mid-season balance update is now live for Bungie’s Marathon, and while it finally brings several weapons in line, there are some new activities and features to partake in. Check out the overview trailer below.
One of the more notable new additions is the Mercy Kit, which Rooks spawn in with. If you’ve ever inadvertently killed an opposing player without meaning to, you can use this to revive them. Whether they give you a receipt or not, well, that’s just a risk you’ll have to take. Solo players can also now discover Depleted Self-Revive kits, which provide avenues for revival if knocked down.
If you found the Rewards Pass underwhelming, especially on the Premium track, Bungie has added three new skins for the Thief, Assassin, and Destroyer. The Free track now contains a Recon skin, WSTR Shotgun skin, and profile emblem. As for C.A.R.R.I. or the CyberAcme Runner Reinforcement Initiative, it offers new Commendations that can be earned from completing contracts, extracting as Rook and more.
These can be exchanged for a “random stack of Salvage items or Reputation Packs that provide reputation for their associated faction.” If that wasn’t enough, solo players now earn increased XP and faction reputation, though the standard faction contracts grant more rep for all types of players.
Check out some of the patch notes below and full details here. You can also learn what’s next on the roadmap here.
Marathon Update 1.0.6
General
- ONI has launched the C.A.R.R.I. or CyberAcme Runner Reinforcement Initiative, a new protocol that rewards both solo Runners and coordinated Crews for completing contract objectives and exfiling together.
– CyberAcme Commendations are a new material earned by helping crewmates complete contract objectives, completing contract objectives as a solo - Runner, or successfully exfiling as a Rook. Extra commendations can be earned when you exfil with other players outside of your Crew. Play nice, now.
- Added Stay Together, a new end-of-run experimental feature that allows you to stay with the Runners you just successfully exfiled with by creating a new Crew with them. Who said you can’t make friends on Tau Ceti?
– Only one crewmate needs to successfully exfil for Stay Together to be available – if you’re eliminated, stay connected! - Added the capability to access the Rewards Pass from the top left display of SILK.
- We want to increase the value of the Rewards Pass, both the Free and Premium tracks. As a result, we are adding four new Runner Shell styles, a WSTR Shotgun style, and a profile emblem to the Season 1 Rewards Pass:
– Premium Track: Thief, Assassin, Destroyer
– Free Track: Recon, WSTR Shotgun, Profile Emblem - Fixed an issue where the rank up rewards tutorial could be out of sequence.
- Disciples of Arachne earnable shell styles are now available in the Codex.
- Updated the Perimeter (Beginner) new player map to now be a solos-only map that remains available to players until Seasonal Level 12.
– The Perimeter (Beginner) map presents a reduced risk of encountering other Runners. - Added five new contracts for the Perimeter (Beginner) map.
– New and existing players under Seasonal Level 12 will also have access to new optional CyberAcme contracts tailored for the beginner experience to help with their first steps in Marathon.
– To help players understand the mechanics around the Perimeter Beginner contracts, these new contracts can only be progressed while in Perimeter Beginner or Perimeter Solo Runs.
– These contracts are no longer accessible after reaching Seasonal Level 12 and will be removed even if decrypted or active. - When the final exfil is active and there are less than 10 seconds remaining, the timer for other exfils will be reduced to match the remaining session timer. Tie goes to the Runner, after all.
Developer Note: Previously, the 10-second countdown for non-final exfils was being overwritten by the final exfil timer. Because the difference was only a few seconds, players would see the exfil animation and believe they successfully exfiltrated only to discover they did not in the Run Report. We think this change will result in last-second exfils feeling more “fair”.
Progression
- Increased runner level and faction reputation earning for solo players.
- Increased standard contract faction reputation rewards for all players.
Armory
- The C.A.R.R.I. Armory allows you to spend CyberAcme Commendations for Salvage Crates that grant a random stack of Salvage items or Reputation Packs that provide reputation for their associated faction. Salvage Crate and Sponsored Kit stock refreshes daily while other C.A.R.R.I. offers do not refresh and can only be purchased once.
