Bungie’s Marathon will not be popping out on time. The developer has confirmed that Marathon will miss its September 23 launch date and has been delayed to an unspecified level sooner or later.
“Via each remark and real-time dialog on social media and Discord, your voice has been robust and clear. We have taken this to coronary heart, and we all know we’d like extra time to craft Marathon into the sport that actually displays your ardour. After a lot dialogue inside our Dev crew, we have made the choice to delay the September twenty third launch,” Bungie stated in a weblog submit.
Bungie added that the Marathon alpha take a look at gave the studio an opportunity to “calibrate and focus the sport on what is going to make it uniquely compelling.”
“We’re utilizing this time to empower the crew to create the extraordinary, high-stakes expertise {that a} title like Marathon is constructed round. This implies deepening the connection between the builders and the sport’s most vital voices: our gamers,” Bungie stated.
The developer added that it’ll spend the “subsequent few months” testing Marathon in a closed atmosphere to refine and enhance the expertise earlier than its public launch.
Under are among the areas that Bungie is aiming to enhance upon for Marathon, as written by the developer:
- Upping the Survival Sport
- Tougher and fascinating AI encounters
- Extra rewarding runs, with new varieties of loot and dynamic occasions
- Making fight extra tense and strategic
- Doubling down on the Marathon Universe
- Elevated visible constancy
- Extra narrative and environmental storytelling to find and work together with
- A darker tone that delivers on the themes of the unique trilogy
- Including extra social experiences
- A greater participant expertise for solo/duos
- Prox chat, so social tales can come to life
Bungie stated it can circle again this fall and “share the progress we have made.” Additionally presently, the developer stated it can reveal the brand new launch date.
“Thanks once more in your persistence and–much extra importantly–your ardour. Your continued suggestions will assist us make Marathon the unimaginable gaming expertise everyone knows it may be,” Bungie stated.
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