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@Ziegler_Dev Your communication has been incredible. Thank you from all of us for the updates and thought processes behind the design decisions you make!

Cryo and Ranked are coming and we're excited to see players battle it out over Tau Ceti and traverse into the big scary moon-like ship in the sky. We've put out a few posts about Cryo, poured through the variety of comments and feedback we've seen so far, and wanted to take some time to explain some of the initial decisions we've made around Cryo and Ranked with regards to weekend scheduling. So without further ado, here's what we have been thinking: We are of course always iterating and are open to looking at other options in the future, but the Ranked/Cryo Archive weekend decision is really built around three points: - Preparing: We acknowledge that players will lose a lot of gear on Cryo and Ranked because it is intended to challenge you to your limits. As a result of that, it's important that Cryo and Ranked feel like an event you can schedule towards, grind gear up to do, etc. The loop of spend time grinding gear to spend it in Cryo or Ranked is reflected in this choice as a weekly cycle. - Economy Talk: We have some great rewards on Cryo that kind of break the bank when it comes to economy and power gain. If we were to look at having it open all the time, we'd probably have to adjust how frequently you can earn these rewards so that we don't flood the game with amazing loot all of a sudden. - Logistics Time: Cryo and Ranked both have entry requirements (gear ante) that are built around the idea of you matching with other players on an equal investment level. They also both have a high level requirement to ensure you've experienced enough of the game to understand the challenges inherent to the game. This inherently makes the amount of people in that queue at any time unpredictable. Both of these experiences also need a consistent flow of players in the queue to make sure matches are full to retain the challenge. To reduce the match times and allow players to find matches quicker, making it a scheduled event means more players will show up during that window and feed the queue pool better. We also acknowledge that there are likely some who cannot participate on the weekend or are excited about the experience and want to no-life it for weeks, and we appreciate that. We'll be looking into what we can do to retain these considerations and potentially accommodate this in the future. Things we may iterate on in the future: - Staggering Ranked and Cryo queues more so they overlap less - Looking at changing the days we do either Cryo or Ranked - Changing the ante values of Cryo or Ranked - Looking at any other conditions (solo experience, crew fill experience, etc.) and iterating on it! Marathon is an evolving game and part of evolving is seeing how this initial launch plays out and adjusting as we go =). Thanks for the feedback, keep it coming and we'll update you when we figure out the next evolution.

@isolatedrook M77, Bully, then either Misriah or Volley

Now for the weapons... What are the best guns in Marathon? Give me your top three NOT including the WSTR.

@ruy_senpai Yeah, I could definitely see that. It just seems strange that both are on the weekend only. Seems like a lot of people will gear fear even more during the week and just hoard everything for the weekends.

@AboveTP Of course if people that have cryo loot never take it to the other maps because of loot fear, that might be a problem.

Very excited for Cryo & Ranked! Definitely worried about it being all weekend only, though. Makes it seem like the only meaningful time to play is on the weekends unless you’re truly down bad for loot. Hope I’m wrong! Excited to try it out.

@Pijinnn_ LOL wait

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@Professorbroman I worry that people will gear fear even more during the week to save their best stuff for Ranked & Cryo

Cryo only available on the weekends is an interesting gameplay loop test Weekdays: gather gear and prep for the weekend Weekend: spend all your gear in ranked and Cryo It’ll be fun to see how it feels long term

@Pijinnn_ Maybe the bags become part of the decay mechanic, where after a certain amount of time the bags deteriorate & teammates can no longer be revived. They’d just need to implement some other visual indicator that allows enemy teams to see an enemy player has died for information.

Current hot topic I'm seeing come up in games and streams. Death box camping. Currently there's no timelimit on going back for a teammates revive after losing a fight which leads to teams ouright camping boxes the rest of the match which then contributes to more passive lobbys Should the infite comeback exist? (I've had MANY a redemption arc match despite losing early fights which I love) Should there be a longer timelimit on boxes? Should bungie implement a "buyback" mechanic like some BRs use? Thoughts appreciated!

@tamsinwood92 @LUCKYY10P I maybeeeee got a little too passionate 😂

@LUCKYY10P @AboveTP Get em @AboveTP 💪🏼

@AboveTP ran into known Destiny 2 cheaters in Marathon and still refused to go down without a fight.

@DylanSLiu Howdy 🫡

i need 10 creators who play extraction shooters like apex with at least 10k followers on a single platform for a paid playtest and feedback session with a game studio.

@TheRooster Feel like it’s time for some new guns, big QoL patch, some new endgame incentives to chase outside of just trials, etc. The new map and boss will be great in April, but we need some new stuff to get the player base excited.

31 March 2026 Big March content update arrives in 13 days Excited?

Tension is there for sure, but there’s nothing more heart pounding than holding those keys. That room in particular is in a pretty rough spot, but several gold rooms are in much better positions (AI uplink key underground for example). IMO there are a lot of ways you can play to mitigate rats. i.e Recon ult, Thief drone to Overwatch, TAD, sound distractions, baiting exfils, etc.

@AboveTP I thought the tension was already there every raid you load up to farm the mats, exfil the fragile key, and load up another raid with unkown outcomes. I don’t see key rooms as “guranteed high tier loot with not risk” , at all

Hmm, good opportunity to start talking about keys. It’s dumb that key rooms bring you to rooms with shitty positioning, make a loud ass sound, and doesn’t let you interact with doors to close them. Ratting teams like this is funny, but it highkey will make people on both sides rat even harder. Key holders rat till 6min left on the raid (boring af), key pushers rat till they find an opportunity. We can atleast agree that fragile key mechanic is so BORING. Can’t get knocked? It promotes sitting on the edge of the map until you can leave the raid.

As we're getting closer and closer to seeing the doors open for the Cryo Deck of the Marathon Ship, please be advised when it does open: surviving will be a challenge for even the most prepared of crews. (Everyone will have something new to learn). But we believe for those of you who are brave enough, it'll be a journey that you'll remember. TL;DR: Cryo Deck is a Pinnacle Challenge in more ways than one.

@Pur3_Pineapples I do like that the bags stay to an extent just to be able to account for the number of dead teams on the map. But I feel you 100%.

@AboveTP Yup that's the conclusion we came to last night just sucks that's the best solution lol

There needs to be some sort of expiring timer on death bags in Marathon cause I'm facing an unholy amount of geared players that run mid team fight just to lurk around waiting for us to leave so they can res their team. So incredibly annoying to deal with after winning a fight

@TauCetiPfhor EXACTLY, was my biggest concern for this game and they’re crushing it

@AboveTP Yeah, huge Ws. Thank god we aren’t having 6 months of something like RDMs happening here.

It’s actually insane how quickly they’re fixing & balancing Marathon. I’m genuinely not used to this 😅 Props to the team. They cooked on these changes!

What to Keep, Sell, & Recycle in ARC Raiders! UPDATED In-Depth Guide for all you hoarders out there 😉 Watch: youtu.be/ViCnxNRQNbI

@ceno02 Yeah I'm literally just talking about when it drops

"Learn mechanics on the fly" nah bro, after 2 days, someone will create map with loot heatmap and explanations to all puzzles. No fun allowed