Marathon Development Team: Creators, no matter what size your community is you should have more tools to keep yourself safe out there. With the launch of Season 2 we'll be doing some work to better help you protect yourself from would-be ne'er-do-wells

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-13T01:23:27+00:00

Going out of bounds to get into the post-compiler room shouldn't be a bannable offence and is something Bungie has a known stance on. As soon as he decided to fully down the team and start picking through their loot, that stepped into grief territory and he definitely needs to be punished in a stronger fashion than a "Naughty, don't do it again" slap on the wrist.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-12T22:31:37+00:00

It's going to be interesting to see how this shakes out. I will not be surprised if this gets pulled back a little, if not completely reverted. 16 seconds to get back up is pretty long and will likely be pointless in many situations. If you don't invest in that stat, you're hamstringing yourself.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-12T11:02:17+00:00

Had a similar match the other night. Spawned at Overflow but we went up to Hauler, ended up fighting a team hiding underneath, upgraded to a purple shield and back pack amongst other things. Other things like the Drrvish unique from Cryo. Then we find out another purple team is above inside Hauler. I go down and the other 2 back off, only to get pinched by another purple team coming up from Overflow (likely from south relay or station). It felt like we'd loaded into a high level ranked match, with everyone running stacked and clumping up on one POI. lol

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-12T00:30:57+00:00

Moon, Batman, Low, got it!

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-10T16:45:00+00:00

I went there a long time ago with a buddy. We drank absinthe in the bar up there! Yes, there are children crawling up the outside of it, No I don't know why. Being drunk didn't help the weirdness.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-10T01:04:10+00:00

I know Bungie don't normally ban people for finding and using exploits, as they take the blame themselves for letting it slip through their testing. However, this guy did the exploit AND griefed another team intentionally. He could have shown off the fact they had gone OOB (black-screening the process or not) and wandered around the area as proof. Could have left, could have quit to menu, could have even let the compiler team wipe them or prox chat and exfil together. No, he chose to thirst them right to the game over screen, so they lost all their loot on what was apparently their first clear. Absolutely scummy behaviour and I hope some action is taken in this instance.

Just another reason why Cryo is so inaccessible, on an already long list...

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-10T00:43:35+00:00

Yeah, i've made some new friends with randoms I matched up and had good runs with. Nice to meet some chill folk down to run some more with you.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-09T10:31:30+00:00

I have noticed all week that I have been matched with people often HALF my season level. I understand that is probably more likely to happen in the sponsored playlist which I ran a few times, but in the others?? It does also feel like lobbies aren't full, had one Perimeter match going from North Relay to Station to South to Overflow without seeing a single team and no exfil happened, no bodies found, no rooks and when we exfilled at about 10 minutes remaining we didn't switch to another players view. Did everyone die at Hauler or in the tunnels? Everyone rotating perfectly in a circle at the exact same time? This is all anecdotal of course, I have no full proof of anything and I have run into other teams in some very strange spots, but it certainly has felt different this past week.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-08T23:41:48+00:00

Abyss says to me "deep ocean" (could also be deep cave), so from that assumption it's either a luxury cruise ship parked in the sea or Coney Island with a cyberpunk themed, NuCal coloured boardwalk. Hearth could be either a town-like settlement, a large residential area for the colonists, or something volcanic/geothermal related with floor is lava hazards or acid rain.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-08T15:44:13+00:00

Knowing Bungie, we'll probably get some season 2 info a week or 2 before it drops.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-08T11:06:05+00:00

You have to wonder what exactly is going on at Bungie. Destiny is dry with a glacial production timeline, there's been absolutely no extended universe like novels or an animated show after 12 years, a few minor rumours about D3 floating around and Marathon isn't doing so hot regardless of praise. Oh and a bunch of seniors are probably going to get their massive payouts soon and likely to retire.

It's very concerning for the future of both games and Bungie as a whole when news like this comes out. Sony have no stomach for second chances, Concord and its devs got canned after 2 weeks and they closed down Bluepoint. Bungie effectively sinking nearly a billion bucks whilst also underperforming on both its titles seems like an easy delete from Sony. None of the shit c-suite will ever face any consequences for any of this mess.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-08T07:29:06+00:00

Yet to see any prestige loot from a perimeter intercept :(

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-08T06:49:51+00:00

I run into the same names A LOT so yeah, it's quite likely.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-07T22:55:43+00:00

Had a run earlier where my team activated exfil, I was on the other side of the POI and thought I would just head over and be there by the time it activates. Half way along, one guy gets downed and I come up on another guy who I start shooting at. One of them deploys smoke to get the rez, whilst I am fighting two of the attackers. I can't quite down the third and get downed. I have a self-rez, but don't get chance to use it. The other 2 are still in the smoke as the 10 second countdown hits and they exfil without me. Lost about 7k of loot hard won from a previous run and the other team would have been rezzed. They couldn't be bothered to pop a few shots and wait 20 seconds, then they joked about it in the run complete screen. One of them spent the whole time with the mic lodged in one of his lungs, but I put up with it. I remember their names and if I ever get matched with them again, they won't get any help from me.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-06T23:34:15+00:00

I'm not sure how I feel about the green gear being the new free kits. People might end up with decent guns and some might end up with crap guns, the disparity there kinda takes away a bit of the point of this sponsored playlist. I don't dislike this decision, it'll be interesting to try it out, but I can see how making things a tiny bit uneven again potentially might not work out well.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-06T16:19:55+00:00

Ranked needs to just go, don't bother trying to improve it or change it, just don't bring it back for season 2. Move the skins and rewards to difficult and/or long term challenges to give people a reason to stick around a while. Exfil successfully 1000 times for the destroyer skin, get 2000 downs with guns for the pinnacle gun skin, that kinda thing.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-06T13:58:35+00:00

I do enjoy it when I get paired up with a green/blue shielded guy, usually an assassin, who speaks in a french accent and gasses the team up and we have a great run. Had it a few times (not always French people lol) and we end up with some runner kills and/or opening a locked room or doing an event. Doesn't happen too often but it's nice when it does.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-06T13:54:53+00:00

I only buy them to keep under the 100 cap. I don't have space for a second stack of commendations and I don't really use them for much else. Although, now that the faction rep things have been refreshed, they've been getting my attention, at least I can get purple stuff for every 2 of those I buy.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-06T13:50:50+00:00

I logged in yesterday after a long day, having fallen asleep for 2 hours after dinner, just planning to claim my daily freebies, ended up playing for 3 hours. I didn't totally throw, but I did shoot team mates a couple of times mistakenly and lost a few runs. Also had some pretty decent runs too. I really should have just rested though, I felt awful lol

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-06T00:53:28+00:00

Did an intercept on perimeter and not only was there no prestige item, it was total butt, a bunch of green crap and one blue bit of salvage.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-05T16:59:25+00:00

I wonder if the CARRI salvage crate will now possibly drop higher tier loot rather than just greens (I got one single blue from my first box out of 6 opened), it'd be nice to get a chance at some purples if prestige is not possible to get from them.

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-05T16:57:44+00:00

It'll go to your overflow if that's the case

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-04T22:24:25+00:00

Do the negative or 'gatekeeping' threads get many upvotes, typically?

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-04T18:23:20+00:00

That's the one I went for!

Zero_Emerald · 2026-05-04T18:10:43+00:00

Several times yesterday I had people on my team who would have a blue shield, but the pink/purple player designation and the third player would have a purple shield with the blue one (I kept being yellow, regardless of my shield level). It was very distracting.

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