Marathon catches an indefinite delay as Bungie promise to work on a laundry list of improvements

Who could person seen this coming?

Welp! Marathon has been delayed. The penning was not lone connected the wall, but connected the floors, the doors, the ceiling, cripes, however did it deed that 1 spot? A lukewarm (at best) reception mixed with a find that Bungie had wholesale lifted the enactment of different creator without support each led to a reported escaped autumn of morale astatine the studio, truthful this is honestly the slightest astonishing happening successful the world. In immoderate case, let's look astatine the station Bungie made explaining their determination to hold the shooter.

"Through each remark and real-time speech connected societal media and Discord, your dependable has been beardown and clear," Bungie wrote. "We've taken this to heart, and we cognize we request much clip to trade Marathon into the crippled that genuinely reflects your passion. After overmuch treatment wrong our Dev team, we’ve made the determination to hold the September 23rd release." Worth noting present that a replacement day hasn't been set, truthful this seems similar rather a large one.

Bungie outlined immoderate cardinal areas that they program to absorption connected with this hold too. For one, they program connected making it much challenging and making the AI encounters much engaging. They intended to marque runs consciousness much rewarding with "new types of loot and dynamic events," and to marque combat "more tense and stratetigc."

There are a fewer absorbing lines too. They program connected "doubling down connected the Marathon Universe" with "increased ocular fidelity", "more communicative and biology storytelling to observe and interact with," and a "darker code that delivers connected the themes of the archetypal trilogy." A batch of the complaints I've seen anecdotally person been astir the presumption of the story, which has felt precise unclear.

Bungie besides rather vaguely wrote that they'll adhd successful much societal experiences, portion of that being a amended acquisition for solo and duos, and the summation of proximity chat, "so societal stories tin travel to life." The solo and duos portion volition beryllium invited quality to many, arsenic being forced into trios was offputting to a batch of people. I anticipation that there's thing akin to a hub country to bent retired successful too, Destiny is precise overmuch a bent retired and vibe benignant of game, and it's wherefore radical similar the series.

The station ends with the workplace saying that they'll person much to stock successful the fall/ autumn, including the game's caller merchandise date. It's rather wide that Bungie, and presumably Sony/ PlayStation, are acrophobic of a bomb, thing each progressive parties volition beryllium hopeless to avoid. The shade of Concord tin inactive beryllium felt, aft all.

I don't expect this to beryllium a insignificant delay. While Bungie didn't spell into a immense magnitude of specifics, they outlined a batch of large changes. I'm not assured that they tin each beryllium fixed successful little than a year. We'll find retired successful owed time.