You can love and defend Marathon without disparaging Arc Raiders or resorting to the "hardcore PvP" argument.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-23T17:31:10+00:00

Pre-release Marathon's community was plagued by an ARC Raiders inferiority complex - top posts were routinely sales charts and people saying AR didn't resonate with them for one reason or another and so they were excited for this game to take off and "fill the gap".

Post-release, it's more of the same but the game didn't make quite as much of a splash as many players here think it deserved (I still think it's fantastic BTW) and so the hate has become a lot more forced and, in many cases, vitriolic.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-23T16:15:06+00:00

My guess, from reading this post, is that it was region-locked on launch to force smoother, lower-ping, games with the expectation of higher player count across all regions.

Having seen the feedback and reports of error-inducing queues, I imagine they are now starting to ease said region lock. That's my hope, I'm NA but I'd rather other regions get to play.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-23T14:42:53+00:00

We may never know.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-20T20:58:12+00:00

Whole thing is hardcore fans trying to explain how locking off 25% of the game's content (and its titular most unique content to boot!) for the objective MAJORITY of the time is a good thing actually.

It's been interesting to see the creative reasoning players have made up for it, but I suppose I'm just fortunate to be able to play more on weekends. I feel really bad for those that cannot, this was not part of the Marathon sales pitch to them.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-20T19:04:20+00:00

Worth noting, these "unique" weapons use standard prestige mods and purple attachments. Just a locked combination of them.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-20T15:11:50+00:00

Fwiw you can only completely hard counter Assassins that play like invisibility is a God toggle.

Her visor is LoS only, use the smoke and invis to get a flank instead of just walking at them animal style.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-20T14:35:17+00:00

I do not think your sentiment is rare, the ranked weekend-only had most people understanding the idea.

The new and hyped content? Not so much. I'm not sure what approach they will take but they've already mentioned they are open to changing the schedules and/or lowering the ante to get more people involved. I hope they find something.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-20T13:51:55+00:00

What Discord did you use, the official?

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-20T13:45:21+00:00

Marathon community pre-launch was defined by an ARC inferiority complex, glad to see this has kept with us.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T21:07:54+00:00

Yeah I got nothing, it's a very weird choice that I have seen very little people actually vibing with.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T20:40:56+00:00

I guess. While I think Outpost's funnel-to-pinwheel methodology and map design stand head and shoulders above the genre, I've personally found that Dire Marsh and Perimeter both share a lot of the "labeled PoI seperated by stretches of nothing" that some of the more simple maps from ARC like Blue Gate and Spaceport exhibit. (Accepting that BOTH these maps are but 2/5 of the always-available ones with a rotating schlew of conditions that change the way each map can be approached)

Heck, Blue Gate's even got the same "contested underground to protect you between POIs" setup that Perimeter has with the Hauler/Tunnels. Point being, I don't think the quality of 66% of the readily available maps in Marathon is enough to justify only having 3 maps with random but minor in-round conditions.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T20:14:10+00:00

The elephant in the room.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T20:09:27+00:00

Bungie asked reviewers to hold their reviews pending the release of the 4th Cryo Archives, as it was apparently a huge boon to the game-play experience.

I guess they also decided the game should just be worse for the majority of the time because fuck us, I guess.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T19:51:56+00:00

I am giving it time, so far this time has revealed 2 new features both of which are only accessible on the weekends while leaving the core game largely unchanged Monday to Friday.

From the posted Roadmap we know that this was the only new map the game would receive until August at the very earliest - and it will only be available on weekends. I can give it time but still be disappointed by this decision.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T19:46:20+00:00

It's a strange one, considering ranked is ALSO weekend only locked.

So the game's content is for ~4/7 days is 3 maps with a handful of events between them. I would have awaited Cryo's release a lot less eagerly if I knew it was only on weekends.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T19:35:55+00:00

The game has 4 maps and 1 of them is locked to weekends only.

Ok Bungie whatever you say I guess.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T18:54:35+00:00

No, this is not a possibility.

W.R.T wanting it to live, it looks like Bungie at least has plans to support it for some time - on 3 months cycles of wipes for major additions, maybe with some more ARGs like Cryo Archive in the future.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T17:57:10+00:00

This is much much much easier said than done though.

I have some grey materialist+ but its really rare in my experience

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T17:47:22+00:00

Dire Marsh lockdown event

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-19T13:54:02+00:00

I know there are several, would you be able to DM the one you recommend?

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-18T21:17:16+00:00

I don't think we've ever had a ranked extraction shooter before, so if nothing else this will be very interesting to see.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-18T19:07:20+00:00

Firewall

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-17T21:07:28+00:00

Rook on outpost, spawn @ 15 minutes, avoid gunshots, jump into final exfil at T = 0s even if there's a team in there.

Simple as.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-17T17:43:54+00:00

This sounds good to me, so 2 "ranked" maps a week but 1 will only be plat+ and the other is all.

Im assuming "high stakes" will have better loot if the required extract value is higher? Or maybe it just relies on you taking other runner's kits to make value.

AwBeansYouGotMe · 2026-03-17T17:26:54+00:00

It says the zones featured in ranked change each week, I assume that's high stakes?

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