[MARATHON 2026] Introducing Vault Breaker (Gaming)

by Avateur , Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 15:40 (20 hours, 38 minutes ago) @ cheapLEY

We’ll see I guess. I’m just not a fan of even having a separate mode. Now they have to split their focus between two different things, instead of just improving the main experience. Maybe they can actually do both, but my experience with Destiny doesn’t leave me super optimistic about that.

I can't say I disagree, but they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. I see a lot of similarities between Bungie's handling of Destiny and what's happening with Marathon in its early life, and there's a lot of clamoring for some sort of PVE mode. I wish I had some stats on it, but it seems like even managing just to exfil out of Cryo is unreachable to the extreme majority of Marathon's population, and they're trying to come up with a way to let people experience Cryo without just getting utterly destroyed.

I'm all about that main Cryo life. My entire goal is Compiler or bust. At the same time, I have only had a few times where I could just stop what I was doing in Cryo and just admire the map. I'm not even talking about learning the map. The map itself is awesome and has some unreal aspects to it, and just LOOKING at and admiring the place is pretty great. If the new mode gives me more of a chance to even just take it all in, I'm down.

Circling back, I do have a concern about them splitting the population more between maps and playlists as the concurrent player count continues to drop. I'm wondering if the new Cryo mode should be available on days that the main Cryo mode isn't. Their focus still ends up split between two different things, and that could still pose a problem like you've mentioned, but the two modes ideally won't be competing with each other at the same time.