Bungie is bringing Marathon back as a PvP extraction-style shooter, and it looks about as sci-fi and kinetic as you'd expect from the team that brought you Destiny 2. As the benchmark for quality in the high-stakes world of service games, it stands to reason that the studio would want to take things to the next level with Marathon, and it appears the plan is to do precisely that
Insider Gaming has dug further, reapproaching sources and gleaning additional information. Anything can change between now and whenever the game ultimately comes out. We're logging this as a Rumour, but credit where it's due: Tom Henderson and Co. were dead-on before and likely will be again.
Something that came up several times, apparently, was the idea of making Marathon the "ultimate live service". One source said that the team is aiming for single-digit load times, from readying up to playing live on the server.
Escape from Tarkov players know that alone would be a game changer. In addition, Marathon's various maps will have secrets hidden away in them for the community to obsess over. In fact, Tarkov is referenced repeatedly, with essentially the same core gameplay loop in place, which Insider describes thusly:
- Chose your missions (to complete in the game)
- Buy / Chose your loadout/perks/abilities/gear
- Drop into a server
- Hunt for loot / Complete missions / Explore and find secrets
- Extract
- Spend XP on Updates
- Repeat
It is also understood that three maps are currently in development, but whether or not they make it in at launch remains to be seen.
Further, Tarkov staples like Permadeath will be present, and solo players will be able to get in on the action but will find themselves up against duos and trios. There will also apparently be some kind of oxygen system at play, feeding further into hardcore survival elements. Being shot and having a canister ruptured was given as an example, with other injuries (bleeding, concussion) having adverse effects on gameplay as well.
What do you think, does Bungie's take on Tarkov sound like something you'd be interested in with Marathon, or do you prefer your multiplayer in shorter bursts? Let us know down below.
[source insider-gaming.com]
Comments (34)
It's a shame that this cool-looking art direction is being used for something that is a complete turn-off for me. I'd love to play a single-player FPS from Bungie that looked like this.
I'd rather read a book than play a game like this, I don't play FPS anyway.
I'm really intrigued by It though I agree it would be cool if Bungie did a standalone SP game.
Ugh. I just want a dope alien shooter like the originals.
If it’s a better extraction experience than BF2042 I will be buying. Can’t see this game being out anytime soon though so I may have tired of the experience by then
This along with Aztecross's video on Bungie's monetization. It makes sense, they haven't cared about Destiny's PVP for a long while now.
It's a shame they're going to match solo players with duos and trios. It feels horrible to get smashed in that scenario and the only reason tarkov gets away with it is because the whole game is designed in such a player-hostile way on purpose to a stubborn degree. General console players are not going to accept "just get good" when they get matched into games as a solo player where there are trios just farming people.
God every game doesn’t have to be single player you guys are as worse as xbox fanboys who call single player games one and done.
Choose not chose, come on guys….
@4kgk2 for real I thought I was the only one thinking that
Execs just did not learn from the battle royale crash that forcing devs to chase the current trend when average AAA development time is getting longer and longer is a fundamentally flawed idea. There will be a new trend before this game releases.
I haven't been interested in live service shooters and I'm miffed that Bungie put the brakes on Factions 2 — that said, the Marathon teaser was incredible and I'll give the game a fair shot
Nup no interest in multiplayer games. Get bored of doing constant team deathmatch to rank up. At least with destiny had other things you could do and the crucible was a small part of the game . Plenty of other games coming out. I hope live service games fail and teach Sony a lesson
@4kgk2 No, but at least few could be singleplayer. 99% shooters are multiplayer now and if they represent as "also singleplayer" than know that campaign or whatever singleplayer stuff is shoddy.
For years I've turned every rock on this Earth in search of the Ultimate live service game. Well, guess my search is over
Chances are by the time this game comes out, extraction shooters are all old news and the new meta service games are, I don’t know, vertical hack and slash climbers or apocalyptic destruction derbies.
I could not be less excited or interested.
Though, all these companies must be making money off this crap because they keep churning them out.
Before someone states this is first game like this from Bungie, I’m aware. I’m saying all companies are chasing the GaaS trend.
I miss how gaming was during the PS3/360 era.
@Tharsman I’m expecting companies to circle back to traditional multiplayer games that are GaaS. It will be traditional small/medium maps with TDM, CtF, and Capture Zone modes and they will release free new maps and modes over time while supporting a store and battlepass.
They will abandon multiplayer with big maps of battle royale and extraction. I believe a traditional route may be easier for them.
The comments on news about any GaaS game lol... Zzzzz
The original Marathon on Mac decades ago was basically unplayable. So basically they are making Destiny Again and calling it something nostalgic. Yay.
Meanwhile everyone else wants a tight single player campaign. Instead, one of the best first person developers on the planet is intent on targeting and exploiting a minority with predatory monetisation and nefarious game design. Talk about selling your soul for coin.
I’d like Naughty Dog to walk into Bungie studio, take a look at the game and then tell Sony, ‘ Nah, not good enough, scrap it’.
See how it feels, Bungie.
I don’t like pvp, it always deteriorated into the elite vs my peasent skills and they made playing or getting anywhere no fun at all because they treat it as a job and not a game! I also don’t have days to put into progression…but I’ll try it but i also know that this won’t be a fun game to play for long…i really hope I’m wrong.
@PSme destiny has been one of the only live service games that hasn’t tanked. Marathon isn’t even out yet, for a while and yet you are angry? I think you need to put your head in a fridge!
@number1024 ND’s online Last of Us isn’t out either bit Bungie get to call the shots?! It’s about fairness. Why does one studio get carte blanche on another? And correct if I’m wrong but most people slammed Marathon on the showcase saying it’s bland and boring. Last of Us online? Well thanks to Bungie, we will never know.
Oh, and by the way I’m not angry, well not until someone is rude and tells me to stick my head in a fridge.
Sounds promising but the deck stacked against solo'ers will like break it for me. Apex legends has top gameplay but was a no go for solos. Splatoon is amazing fur solo players, as way killzone mps, great games.
Narrator: It wasn't.
I don't like live service game but I'm confident in bungie ability to deliver great games, destiny 2 still going strong after all this year is the proof.
I really wish they're going back to making great single & multiplayer in 1 package again like halo though, can you imagine Marathon as single player open world fps games with the story like the old marathon, about ai running rampant in alien invasion? Man I hate sony live service oriented future 😓
It's going to be interesting to see how many of these Sony GaaS games find success or flop. Wasn't there talk of 12 live service projects?
Perhaps Bungie mean ‘ultimate’ in the truest sense i.e. ‘final’. We can but hope
I wouldn't play this even if it was free.
@4kgk2 This is such a childish comment.
No interest myself and it's been some time since I engaged in online gaming, however as long as we continue to get good, single player experiences then there's room for GAAS etc.
Of course they want it to be the 'ultimate', everyone who makes a live service needs theirs to be, otherwise it dies really quickly.
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