Bungie has introduced that Marathon has been delayed from its earlier September 23 launch date to an unannounced date. The delay was executed to provide the sport “extra time to craft Marathon into the sport that really displays your ardour.” A brand new launch date will probably be introduced this fall. The sport will probably be obtainable on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection, and PC through Steam.
The complete particulars:
Thanks not solely to your passionate suggestions across the Marathon reveal and Alpha playtest, but additionally to your endurance whereas we took the time to pay attention intently and chart our subsequent steps.
By each remark and real-time dialog on social media and Discord, your voice has been robust and clear. We’ve taken this to coronary heart, and we all know we’d like extra time to craft Marathon into the sport that really displays your ardour. After a lot dialogue inside our Dev workforce, we’ve made the choice to delay the September 23 launch.
The Alpha take a look at created a possibility for us to calibrate and focus the sport on what’s going to make it uniquely compelling—survival beneath strain, thriller and lore round each nook, raid-like endgame challenges, and Bungie’s genre-defining FPS fight.
We’re utilizing this time to empower the workforce to create the extreme, high-stakes expertise {that a} title like Marathon is constructed round. This implies deepening the connection between the builders and the sport’s most necessary voices: our gamers.
Over the subsequent few months, we’ll proceed closed testing(together with contributors from the Alpha) to deploy gameplay updates and take a look at new options as they arrive on-line.
A few of our speedy focus areas will probably be:
- Upping the Survival Recreation
- Tougher and fascinating AI encounters
- Extra rewarding runs, with new sorts 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
You’ll hear from us once more later this Fall after we can share the progress we’ve made, alongside the sport’s new launch date. Thanks once more to your endurance and—rather more importantly—your ardour. Your continued suggestions will assist us make Marathon the unimaginable gaming expertise everyone knows it may be.
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