Marathon director Joe Ziegler has laid out Bungie's vision for the next few seasons of Marathon. If you're looking for a statement that confronts all the doomerism around the extraction shooter's Steam numbers or a followup on Sony's writedown of the studio's value, you won't find in Ziegler's latest communiqué. What you will find is a recap of how things are going in the game itself, including some big experiments in the works.
The studio's working on a new map that "leans into alien elements and mind warping debuffs," for instance, but that's still way off. The next Runner shell is a defensive kit named Sentinel. But the most interesting of the reveals are undoubtedly two planned PvE-focused modes coming next season.
"We want to evolve Marathon as a whole to be an experience where you can find more novel ways to play when you're stressed out from a nail-biting run and just need to cool off o...
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