{"id":825210,"date":"2026-05-27T09:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/825210\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T09:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:24:12","slug":"one-small-season-2-change-will-completely-change-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/825210\/","title":{"rendered":"One Small Season 2 Change Will Completely Change Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/marathon-the-kotaku-review-2000682312\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marathon<\/a> season 2 is right around the corner, and Bungie gave us our first visual sense of what the next few months are going to feel like on Tau Ceti IV with a new cinematic trailer. It showcases Nightfall, the new Dire Marsh map that will have players embracing their inner night owl as they scavenge across the extraction shooter\u2019s deadliest map in the dark. I can\u2019t wait. I\u2019m not ready.<\/p>\n<p>Nightfall is just one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/marathon-reveals-an-ambitious-blueprint-for-making-it-a-game-more-people-want-to-play-2000696161\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">many changes coming to Marathon when season 2<\/a> goes live on June 2, but it\u2019s likely to be the biggest. Bungie\u2019s latest shooter is all about constantly scanning the environment for new information and possible threats. While many players now know Dire Marsh like the back of their hand, relying on flashlights in the pitch black is going to upend everything about how fans engage with the map.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll also give Bungie\u2019s excellent sound design fresh opportunities to scare the crap out of everyone. I can\u2019t wait to hear footsteps splashing in the swamp and have no idea where they\u2019re coming from until I\u2019m dead.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, but that\u2019s only half the story. As the cinematic trailer hints, Marathon seems like it\u2019s about to get a completely new kind of enemy threat on the map. The shadow that a squad of runners faces near the end of the clip is like a cross between a Xenomorph and Slender Man. Unless the trailer is taking a lot of artistic license, Nightfall almost feels like it could turn Marathon into a PVPVE horror game.<\/p>\n<p>Players are already speculating about what this new enemy threat might be. The obvious guess is some sort of zombie runner. \u201cCheck out the lore entries for \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarathonCodex\/status\/2052372878851789226\" rel=\"nofollow\">Class B Anomalous Material<\/a>,&#8217;\u201d wrote one person in the YouTube comments. \u201cI believe we\u2019re getting Mimics (of our runners) on nighttime Dire Marsh! Either that or the fungal zombies from M2 concept art.\u201d Player theories have a habit of being more fun than the reality, but I\u2019m now convinced Bungie is cooking up something more exciting than its initial previews of season 2 have otherwise indicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marathon season 2 is right around the corner, and Bungie gave us our first visual sense of what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":825211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[77630,271138,27816,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-825210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bungie","tag-extraction-shooter","tag-marathon","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116645820527149699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}