More than a year after the sci-fi extraction shooter was announced MarathonDeveloper Bungie revealed a few new details about its next game on Monday, including a look at two character classes and confirmation of planned playtesting in 2025. The latest update on Marathon was atypical of Bungie’s style – instead of a skillfully produced “ViDoc,” as the developer likes to call them, the new video is a no-frills, talking-to-camera info dump from game director Joe Zeigler. In some ways, it seems like a video evidence from Destiny’s beleaguered developer.
After Bungie announced Marathon In May 2023 it said planned to “go into the dark to focus on the game” and promised to show gameplay Next time it talked about its extraction shooter. Zeigler confirmed that promise and said the studio wasn’t ready to show gameplay yet. Instead, Zeigler presents the concept Marathon as an “intense” extraction shooter where players fight for loot and then try to survive and escape with their loot. The developer also showed two types of runners – Marathonare the cybernetic mercenaries – with the Thief and Stealth types.
While showing concept art for the thief, Zeigler said, “If you notice that the character is eerily peering around the corner in that quiet moment before he moves, then in a lot of ways that’s similar to the theme of that character, and it should be.” Give a hint as to what kind of gameplay this character will pursue. There are lots of funny stories that come from it [the Thief] but also very, very crazy moments that this character brings to the game.”
Regarding the Stealth Runner, Zeigler said that he will use deception as a useful trait. “They’re really elusive,” he said, “and you can see that they have the tools to roam the battlefield and show themselves in a way that allows them to take advantage.”
When discussing the state of MarathonZeigler said Bungie is “on the right track” and has “made a lot of aggressive changes to the game” based on early testing with players and content creators. “There are so many people who contributed by telling us, ‘Hey, this thing sucks’ or ‘This thing is great,’ in a way that really helped us make the game to diagnose, analyze and design and change in a great way,” he said.
Players may be able to get their hands on it Marathon Sometime in 2025, when Bungie will begin “expanding more and more” its playtesting, Zeigler said. That doesn’t necessarily mean Marathon will start in 2025, but it sounds like Bungie is closer to both showing off gameplay and letting a larger group of players get started on the follow-up game Destiny 2.
Zeigler, who was previously game director of Riot Games’ shooter Appreciation, announced in March that he had taken over the management of the game Marathon. He replaced Bungie veteran Christopher Barrett, who Bloomberg He was reportedly fired for misconduct.
Marathon will be released on PlayStation 5, Windows PC and Xbox Series X.
