Bungie has delayed Marathon from its September 23 launch date, opting to not give a brand new launch date because it focuses on enhancing the sport with updates, new options, and extra.
“By means of each remark and real-time dialog on social media and Discord, your voice has been sturdy and clear,” a submit from the Marathon Dev Workforce at Bungie reads. “We have taken this to coronary heart, and we all know we want extra time to craft Marathon into the sport that actually displays your ardour. After a lot dialogue inside our Dev workforce, we have made the choice to delay the September twenty third launch.”
Bungie continues, stating the current Alpha take a look at interval created a possibility for the Marathon dev workforce to calibrate and deal with what is going to make the sport compelling within the survival FPS style. It can use extra closed testing (together with Alpha contributors) to deploy gameplay updates and take a look at new options as they arrive on-line over the subsequent few months. These options embrace “upping the survival sport, doubling down on the Marathon universe, [and] including extra social experiences.”
Relating to upping the survival sport, Bungie plans so as to add “tougher and fascinating AI encounters, extra rewarding runs, with new forms of loot and dynamic occasions, [and] making fight extra tense and strategic.” For doubling down on the Marathon universe, the developer plans to extend visible constancy, add extra narrative and environmental storytelling to find and work together with, and a darker tone that delivers on the themes of the unique trilogy. And at last, by way of including extra social experiences, Bungie desires a greater participant expertise for solos and duos, and so as to add proximity chat, “so social tales can come to life.”
Bungie says gamers will hear from it this Fall when it could share its progress alongside the sport’s new launch date. This indefinite delay follows information final month after an artist on-line claimed Bungie had stolen her work and used it in Marathon, which Bungie confirmed as an “unauthorized use” of artwork shortly after.
Whereas ready to be taught the brand new launch date, take a look at this Marathon gameplay trailer.
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