Marathon Developer Bungie Drops Season 2 Cinematic With Big Horror Vibes

Marathon developer Bungie has dropped a sneak peek astatine what's to travel erstwhile Marathon's 2nd play launches adjacent month.

Looking much similar Destiny than ever — from the tense ambiance to the unsettling people — the trailer sets up unseasonably spooky events arsenic nighttime falls crossed Tau Ceti IV. Crucially, the teaser is cinematic, truthful not existent gameplay, and contented is taxable to change, but overmuch similar Destiny's Nightfall mode, it looks similar Marathon's 2nd play ups the stakes, offering a overmuch tougher situation for the Runners prepared to instrumentality it on.

We don't yet person immoderate of the details — who these caller foes are, what they want, oregon wherefore they're tracking america — but we bash get a small spirit of what's to travel with the video description: "Players volition caput into the nighttime arsenic Nightfall emerges connected Dire Marsh, offering a tense and acheronian acquisition against different Runners and caller creatures autochthonal to Tau Ceti 4. Fight connected the caller Night Marsh representation with caller contented specified arsenic the caller Runner ammunition Sentinel, the Cradle, caller weapons, progression improvements, and more.

Season 2 of Marathon kicks disconnected connected June 2 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.

The caller play follows a plethora of changes, large and small, for the extraction shooter. Just past month, Marathon doubled the magnitude of Depleted Patch Kits (meds) and Depleted Shield Charges (armor) consumables players could transportation successful a azygous inventory slot arsenic Bungie bids to marque its extraction shooter little punishing for newbies. The week before, Bungie's boldest effort yet went live, introducing the CyberAcme Runner Reinforcement Initiative (C.A.R.R.I.), a "new protocol from ONI that rewards solo Runners and coordinated crews for completing declaration objectives and exfiling together."

Last week, Bungie announced the extremity of contented updates for unrecorded work shooter Destiny 2, astir 9 years aft launch. The workplace said it volition merchandise the last contented update for Destiny 2 connected June 9, 2026. Destiny 2 volition stay playable contempt progressive improvement ending. The absorption is intelligibly connected expanding the subordinate basal of Marathon, which Bungie genitor institution Sony appears to person backed.

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