Final weekend, Bungie held an open beta for its long-awaited live-service extraction shooter, Marathon. Referred to as the Marathon Server Slam, the beta check armed Bungie with useful participant knowledge containing helpful data that can be utilized to enhance the sport, however a few of it’s downright hilarious. Working example: During the open beta, Marathon gamers extracted 384,866 drinkable cheeseburgers, as revealed by a recent X post by which Bungie shared varied stats from the Server Slam.
Referred to as the NuCaloric Drinkable Cheeseburger, this unappetizing fictional meals cannot really be consumed in-game. As a substitute, it is meant to be extracted by gamers throughout matches and later bought as a useful for 1,100 Credit (which may then be used to purchase gear like weapons and oxygen canisters).
Marathon options a variety of different gag-inducing processed space-foods for gamers to extract throughout matches, together with Premium Tick Milk, which is precisely what it appears like. However up to now, the Drinkable Cheeseburger appears to be holding onto its title because the most-extracted meals merchandise within the sport, probably due partly to its comical design–this extraordinarily cursed fast-food merchandise is described in-game as, “Drinkable, shareable, shelf-stable!” It is available in a plastic tub just like one you would possibly discover filled with cream cheese or yogurt at your native grocery retailer. The container has two straws protruding of its lid, with one labeled, “Mouth,” and the opposite labeled, “Good friend mouth,” implying the liquified burger is supposed to be shared with a buddy.
NuCaloric is the fictional model behind lots of Marathon’s in-universe meals merchandise, and players have been speculating that the food-processing large might have had one thing to do with the collapse of the New Cascadia colony, the place the sport is about.
In the meantime, different gamers are busy debating what precisely a liquefied cheeseburger might taste like.
Marathon launches for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X on Thursday, March 5. Need to know when it launches in your area? Try our Marathon world launch occasions information.