After greater than a 12 months of silence, Bungie has given an replace on the event progress of its extraction shooter Marathon. The prolonged video is surprisingly gentle on particulars, nevertheless, with solely a touch of future playtests coming in 2025.
The replace, delivered by sport director Joe Ziegler, acts extra like a reintroduction to Bungie’s newest shooter versus a significant replace. Ziegler spends time explaining what an extraction shooter is, breaking down the excessive danger, excessive reward nature of the style, whereas additionally giving transient hints as to how the video games completely different courses would possibly work. It aligns with loads of what we already find out about Bungie’s shooter, making it a gameplay replace gentle on new particulars
Within the video, Ziegler briefly speaks about two of the sport’s Runners–the identify given to Marathon’s playable characters–with every of their descriptions suggesting that Marathon is taking hints from current hero shooters. The primary is just codenamed “Thief”, with Ziegler assuming you will have an thought of their gameplay type from the identify alone. The opposite, codenamed “Stealth”, is described as utilizing deception to their benefit on the battlefield, with Ziegler remarking that he is loved taking part in because the character in assessments just lately.
Ziegler burdened that Marathon continues to be not in a state the place the staff can present it off simply but, pointing on the varied states at which distinct parts are at at present.
“The place the sport is at proper now, there’s quite a lot of various things at completely different states within the sport. Some issues are a bit extra full, like our environments are beginning to come collectively in a extremely stunning manner. A number of the character fashions we have been iterating by; they’re coming collectively however they don’t seem to be absolutely there but. Our enemy fashions are nonetheless type of in an early state so we’re nonetheless iterating by issues to make these land in a powerful manner,” stated Ziegler.
“It is a bit early to point out you all of it in one piece,” he continued. “However as you have observed, as lots of you might be accustomed to in case you’re accustomed to sport growth, all of these items are on observe. They are not all collectively, however once they all do come collectively we actually, actually are trying ahead to exhibiting you what that appears like and play.
Zielger ended off by inviting gamers in being invited to additional assessments to wishlist the sport on Xbox Collection X, PS5, and Steam, with retailer pages up for Marathon proper now. That is the primary time Bungie has spoken about Marathon because it’s announcement in Could 2023, the place it stated that the subsequent time, writing on the time, “now we’re going darkish to deal with the sport… and after we come again – we’ll have gameplay to point out!”. Marathon continues to be slated for launch in 2025, though the Steam itemizing omits this and easily reads “Coming quickly”.