Bungie has delayed Marathon from its September 23 launch date, opting to not give a brand new launch date because it focuses on bettering the sport with updates, new options, and extra.
“By way of each remark and real-time dialog on social media and Discord, your voice has been robust and clear,” a put up from the Marathon Dev Staff at Bungie reads. “We have taken this to coronary heart, and we all know we want extra time to craft Marathon into the sport that actually displays your ardour. After a lot dialogue inside our Dev staff, we have made the choice to delay the September twenty third launch.”
Bungie continues, stating the current Alpha check interval created a chance for the Marathon dev staff to calibrate and deal with what’s going to make the sport compelling within the survival FPS style. It is going to use further closed testing (together with Alpha members) to deploy gameplay updates and check new options as they arrive on-line over the following few months. These options embody “upping the survival recreation, doubling down on the Marathon universe, [and] including extra social experiences.”
Concerning upping the survival recreation, Bungie plans so as to add “tougher and interesting AI encounters, extra rewarding runs, with new kinds of loot and dynamic occasions, [and] making fight extra tense and strategic.” For doubling down on the Marathon universe, the developer plans to extend visible constancy, add extra narrative and environmental storytelling to find and work together with, and a darker tone that delivers on the themes of the unique trilogy. And at last, by way of including extra social experiences, Bungie needs a greater participant expertise for solos and duos, and so as to add proximity chat, “so social tales can come to life.”
Bungie says gamers will hear from it this Fall when it may possibly share its progress alongside the sport’s new launch date. This indefinite delay follows information final month after an artist on-line claimed Bungie had stolen her work and used it in Marathon, which Bungie confirmed as an “unauthorized use” of artwork shortly after.
Whereas ready to be taught the brand new launch date, take a look at this Marathon gameplay trailer.
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