Marathon updates come fast and furious (Gaming)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Saturday, April 18, 2026, 12:08 (4 hours, 18 minutes ago) @ cheapLEY

I'm not 100% in favor of all of them

Can you elaborate?

I played a couple of hours last night, and I liked what I saw, with one exception. The icon changes are atrocious. They just look awful, and they're not any more identifiable at a glance than they were before. It just made everything uglier for no good reason, as far as I can see.

The CARRI stuff seems good so far. I played four games with randoms last night and in every single one, everyone tried to do as many of the entire squad's contracts as possible, which is something I had never seen before. So I assume people really want those commendations. I also did a few Rook runs, and friendly Rooks are even more common now. I think that stuff rules. It seems like it could help a lot with progress bottlenecks, and it makes things a bit more interesting in solos and Rook runs, without it turning into the all-friendly garbage collector simulator that Arc Raiders became.

I'm less tuned into all the balance changes, but it all seemed good on paper.

I am impressed by how fast Bungie is responding to everything and mixing things up. I hope it continues.

EDIT: Your post made me look at the Front Page for the first time in years, and it's highlighting a TWID from 2024. Does Bungie even do those anymore? On Monday, I was trying to find out when the new update in Marathon would go live, and it was basically impossible for me to find that information.

They still do one every week for Destiny. Marathon seems to be treated separately, here: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Marathon

Much to my annoyance, the forward-looking stuff mostly (entirely?) gets posted on x.com by one of the devs.

The icon graphics were one of the things I was thinking of. I like that they gave different outer shapes to the positions, but the icon itself is a downgrade for me.

I have not seen any more cooperative behavior, but I have only been in solos. I don't think the commendation rewards are very compelling, though. The faction XP is useful, but the salvage crate mystery box gave some pretty low level stuff when I saw people posting their hauls. Maybe it fits the level of the people who need it, though?

Spiderbot is still useless. The range on the thief drone became WAY too short. (maybe a bug? It was not in the patch notes)