Future maker Bungie is engaged on Marathon, a PvP extraction shooter that was introduced in 2023. The studio has now offered an replace on the sport, saying that growth on it was “on monitor”. Bungie, nonetheless, didn’t reveal any Marathon gameplay, selecting as a substitute to share idea artwork photographs from the shooter and supply sparse particulars on the event.
Marathon Developer Replace
In a Developer Replace video posted on YouTube Monday, Marathon sport director Joe Ziegler broke Bungie’s silence on the sci-fi extraction shooter. Within the video Ziegler shared a growth replace on the sport and stated that Bungie was not fairly prepared to point out gameplay but. However the sport director stated that totally different elements of growth had been “on monitor”.
“For the previous couple of years, we have been doing a whole lot of aggressive change to the sport, and we have been iterating fairly closely. And through that point, we have been testing with a whole lot of gamers,” Ziegler stated.
“The place the sport is at proper now, there are a selection of various issues at totally different states within the sport. Some issues are a little bit bit extra full, like our environments are beginning to come collectively in a extremely, actually stunning means. A number of the character fashions we have been iterating by way of, so that they’re coming collectively, however they are not totally there but. Our enemy fashions are ability type of a little bit bit in an early state,” he added.
The developer stated that whereas it was a little bit early to point out gameplay to gamers, growth on “all of this stuff are on monitor.”
“They don’t seem to be all collectively. However once they all do come collectively, we actually, actually are wanting ahead to displaying you what that appears like, particularly in play,” Ziegler stated.
Hey everybody! We made a “little” video the place I chat about what we’re making on the Marathon crew and what we have been as much as at midnight all this time. It is not a gameplay reveal or something, however if you happen to’re involved in listening to the newest, test it out beneath.
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— Ziegler (@Ziegler_Dev) October 28, 2024
New Idea Artwork
Within the Developer Replace video, Bungie additionally shared a few new idea artwork photographs from Marathon. The primary screenshot was that of a “Runner” from the sport, codenamed “Thief”, whereas the second was of one other character, codenamed “Stealth”, a Runner with a deal with stealth gameplay.
Bungie stated it might reveal extra content material from the sport in 2025, which is once they plan to broaden Marathon playtests as properly. “We’re wanting so as to add a major quantity of gamers to every of our milestones as we’re going ahead,” Ziegler stated.
The Future developer had not offered any replace on Marathon in 17 months because it was revealed with a teaser trailer at PlayStation Showcase in Could 2023. Earlier than Monday’s updates, the Marathon X deal with’s final put up was on Could 27, 2023, when the sport was first introduced. “Now we’re going darkish to deal with the sport… and once we come again – we’ll have gameplay to point out!” the put up had stated.
In August, Bungie introduced that it was shedding 220 staff making structural adjustments to the studio and its functioning as a part of cost-cutting measures. Studio CEO Pete Parsons claimed on the time that the corporate wanted to make “substantial adjustments” to its price construction and “focus growth efforts solely on Future and Marathon.”
Marathon doesn’t but have a launch date, however the sport is offered to wishlist on Steam, PlayStation and Xbox storefronts.
