Marathon Confirms Seasonal Resets, Which Means Everyone's Gear, Contract and Faction Progression, and Player Level Wipe Every Few Months

Bungie has outlined what to expect from Marathon upon launch, and confirmed plans for seasonal wipes that mean each players suffer their cogwheel each fewer months.

Seasonal updates volition present caller gameplay, including gear, Runner shells, zones, events, and more, Bungie said, and they’ll beryllium escaped for each players to entree oregon earn, truthful there’s no expansions oregon DLC required.

Each play brings a “clean slate for the full community,” Bungie explained, with progression resets that see everyone’s gear, declaration progression, faction progression, and subordinate level.

However, players volition support their achievements and cosmetics, titles, and different rewards from reaching milestones. Your Codex progression besides carries over. Elsewhere, your liaison declaration progression carries over, truthful you don’t request to unlock the factions each season.

“Seasonal resets mean that the crippled stays dangerous, loot feels meaningful, and there’s ever a bully accidental to get backmost into the crippled oregon bring a person successful without feeling down the curve,” Bungie said, explaining its decision. “It’s a mode to accidental goodbye to the old, invited the new, and footwear disconnected a travel from zero-to-hero with caller ways to play, contented to master, and things to discover.”

The extraction shooter launches connected March 5 alongside Season 1, called First Step. This includes a assemblage thrust to unlock the mode into orbit and the 4th zone, called Cryo Archive, though Bungie didn’t accidental what the assemblage unlock volition involve.

“Prepare your caput and ammunition to instrumentality connected this end-game portion connected the Marathon ship, wherever you’ll lick information puzzles, unseal frozen vaults, and travel face-to-face with an entity adjacent the UESC fears,” Bungie said. Then, during the 2nd fractional of March, Ranked mode volition unlock. We don’t person overmuch accusation connected however it volition work, but Ranked mode volition connection exclusive rewards.

Bungie besides outlined the Marathon motorboat content:

• Complete faction and declaration progression
• All six factions, including Sekiguchi Genetics
• All six motorboat Runner shells, including Thief
• Three zones, including Outpost
• Outpost volition unlock the time aft launch, giving the assemblage clip to cogwheel up and unlock the portion astatine Runner Level 12
• 28 weapons, positive mods, implants, cores, and much to trade your cleanable builds
• Earnable cosmetics, achievements, and storytelling done the Codex

Bungie adjacent went arsenic acold to uncover Season 2, called Nightfall, which volition bring a nighttime mentation of Dire Marsh, a caller Runner shell, and caller weapons, mods, cores, and contracts. Nightfall volition present the Cradle, a caller strategy “designed to springiness you much autonomy implicit your Runner shell’s statistical strengths and weaknesses.”

What to expect from Marathon astatine launch, and successful Seasons 1 and 2. Image credit: Bungie.

“As we physique upon each season, Marathon volition proceed to turn and evolve,” Bungie said. “The crippled and satellite contiguous and a twelvemonth from present should consciousness meaningfully antithetic arsenic we adhd caller features and spell connected the travel of discovering what happened to the colonists of Tau Ceti... and what happens erstwhile you excavation up secrets that are amended near buried.”

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