Bungie reportedly developing new Marathon project
Destiny developer Bungie is reportedly working on a revival of its long-dormant Marathon series. This new Marathon proj…
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Community has already started looking into clues and lore of the game just by the teaser. One thing Bungie has always like to do is put secret hints everywhere for the gaming community to find like in Destiny .
The community has been able to find a ton of lore, more hidden websites and is collecting all the info in this -as of now- 80 pages long google doc full of info:
Watching the trailers again I noticed this QR code
Obviously it links to a website they created, about a fictional Japanese robotics & genetics company that makes apparently cyborg implants and related stuff: https://sekiguchigenetics.jp/
Website is in Japanese, but translated looks like this:
Closing the popup appears some black blocks behind, which when clicked opens the website with a lot of articles:
Clicking these floating articles offers more details of what I assume are going to be game loot items, or stuff you'll be able to buy in the store. There's also text articles talking about key people of the company.
In the top left corner the website has a login box. I assume somewhere in the teaser or the website there's a valid login and password to unlock more stuff.
I assumed that there was way more hidden elsewhere across the teaser as part of a bigger ARG game and that there were more clues in the teaser, vidoc, website of the page or even their tweets and yes, it's the case.
Who knows, maybe hidden behind all this ARG game there's even a gameplay teaser.
Also, some people may have not noticed but in the vidoc they said that -whenever they recorded it, I assume a few months ago- they are 'marching towards Alpha'.
Alpha is the development milestone where (the exact definition changes for each company or team) most features are completed, they basically consider it full featured game that can be played from beginning to end, but still needs a lot of testing, tweaking, bugfixing and polishing and has several placeholders across the whole game. Probably the game got announced just after achieving Alpha.
Once they achieved Alpha devs work in th Beta milestone, which typically (definition and focus changes per company/team) is focused on completing some remaining stuff that had to be developed, tweaked and optimized and specially on testing and bugfixing the game.
After beta there's the RC (Release Candidate) milestone where they further test, bugfix and tweak until they find a good enough release candidate version of the game to be released. That final version is the Gold, the one printed in the discs.
Once achieve Gold the game goes to be printed for the retail version and they work in the day one patch and move their focus to post launch content/DLCs/etc.
The amount of time between achieving Alpha and the release depends on the game/team and specially the issues and bugs they may find when testing the game and the pressure the team has to release a game on a specific date, due to publishing/marketing deals and roadmap, available budget, revenue estimations made to investors for certain quarter/fiscal year, quality bar of the company regarding bugs allowed in launch version, etc. But as a reference, for a AAA sequel of a very stabilished IP and team may take around a year. For cases like a new IP, their first game on a new engine or generation etc. may take around a couple years.
So I'd bet this game seems to be on track to release around somewhere in H2 2024 / H1 2025.
The community has been able to find a ton of lore, more hidden websites and is collecting all the info in this -as of now- 80 pages long google doc full of info:
Watching the trailers again I noticed this QR code
Obviously it links to a website they created, about a fictional Japanese robotics & genetics company that makes apparently cyborg implants and related stuff: https://sekiguchigenetics.jp/
Website is in Japanese, but translated looks like this:
Closing the popup appears some black blocks behind, which when clicked opens the website with a lot of articles:
Clicking these floating articles offers more details of what I assume are going to be game loot items, or stuff you'll be able to buy in the store. There's also text articles talking about key people of the company.
In the top left corner the website has a login box. I assume somewhere in the teaser or the website there's a valid login and password to unlock more stuff.
I assumed that there was way more hidden elsewhere across the teaser as part of a bigger ARG game and that there were more clues in the teaser, vidoc, website of the page or even their tweets and yes, it's the case.
Who knows, maybe hidden behind all this ARG game there's even a gameplay teaser.
Also, some people may have not noticed but in the vidoc they said that -whenever they recorded it, I assume a few months ago- they are 'marching towards Alpha'.
Alpha is the development milestone where (the exact definition changes for each company or team) most features are completed, they basically consider it full featured game that can be played from beginning to end, but still needs a lot of testing, tweaking, bugfixing and polishing and has several placeholders across the whole game. Probably the game got announced just after achieving Alpha.
Once they achieved Alpha devs work in th Beta milestone, which typically (definition and focus changes per company/team) is focused on completing some remaining stuff that had to be developed, tweaked and optimized and specially on testing and bugfixing the game.
After beta there's the RC (Release Candidate) milestone where they further test, bugfix and tweak until they find a good enough release candidate version of the game to be released. That final version is the Gold, the one printed in the discs.
Once achieve Gold the game goes to be printed for the retail version and they work in the day one patch and move their focus to post launch content/DLCs/etc.
The amount of time between achieving Alpha and the release depends on the game/team and specially the issues and bugs they may find when testing the game and the pressure the team has to release a game on a specific date, due to publishing/marketing deals and roadmap, available budget, revenue estimations made to investors for certain quarter/fiscal year, quality bar of the company regarding bugs allowed in launch version, etc. But as a reference, for a AAA sequel of a very stabilished IP and team may take around a year. For cases like a new IP, their first game on a new engine or generation etc. may take around a couple years.
So I'd bet this game seems to be on track to release around somewhere in H2 2024 / H1 2025.
EXCLUSIVE - Bungie's 'Marathon' Gameplay Loop, Features, Progression, And More - Insider Gaming
Insider Gaming exclusively reports some early details on Bungie's new Marathon game, including its gameplay loop, features, and more.
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The game features three different types of items, loot, implants, and perks. In the current game, permadeath is a feature, but it’s understood that players will only lose their loot (weapons, artifacts, currency, etc.) whereas implants are sometimes lost and perks are never lost.
The oxygen system also ties somewhat into the injury system of Marathon, with certain injuries causing the player to suffer different effects. For example, being shot in the waist area may cause damage to your oxygen supply, which will cause it to deplete more rapdily. Another example given was being concussed, which would cause the player’s screen to blur periodically.
Game to game loop will look something like:
Chose your missions (to complete in the game)
Buy / Chose your loadout/perks/abilities/gear
Drop into a server
Hunt for loot / Complete missions / Explore and find secrets
Extract
Spend XP on Updates
Repeat
This sounds like another terrible, bored in a week extraction shooter.EXCLUSIVE - Bungie's 'Marathon' Gameplay Loop, Features, Progression, And More - Insider Gaming
Insider Gaming exclusively reports some early details on Bungie's new Marathon game, including its gameplay loop, features, and more.
The game features three different types of items, loot, implants, and perks. In the current game, permadeath is a feature, but it’s understood that players will only lose their loot (weapons, artifacts, currency, etc.) whereas implants are sometimes lost and perks are never lost.
The oxygen system also ties somewhat into the injury system of Marathon, with certain injuries causing the player to suffer different effects. For example, being shot in the waist area may cause damage to your oxygen supply, which will cause it to deplete more rapdily. Another example given was being concussed, which would cause the player’s screen to blur periodically.
Game to game loop will look something like:
Chose your missions (to complete in the game)
Buy / Chose your loadout/perks/abilities/gear
Drop into a server
Hunt for loot / Complete missions / Explore and find secrets
Extract
Spend XP on Updates
Repeat
Makes me laugh, Escape from Tarkov showed them how to do it and they all ignore it.
I’ll probably give it a go since, unlike destiny, I could start from the beginning and don’t have to worry about a storyline
I played with Aztecross in Destiny 2 a while ago, nice guy lol. He's an avid content creator for Destiny so that's not a good sign for Marathon.
Basically a bunch of people that got to test the game said they wouldn't play it if it was available tomorrow.
Right…..There’s a recent influx of top devs that are free agents out there they could hire to work on that team/game.
Nobody has done both. Warzone kind of tried with DMZ but last I heard they are killing that.