Could Marathon be coming in May 2025?

“on a pack by the runner’s thigh.

This is all speculation, however.

The UESC Marathon ship, lodged inside a moon, orbits the planet Tau Ceti IV in Marathon.

What is Marathon?

Marathon is Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter.

But Marathon had a few key innovations.

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First was its rendering engine, which for the time was very impressive.

But if you die, then you lose everything on your person.

According to Bungie, Marathon is being built from the ground up as acompetitive PvP game.

Two side-by-side screenshots of runners in the Marathon trailer, with orange circles highlighting the number “27.04.” on both runners' packs.

Impressive stuff, if they can pull it all off.

The first is through the addition of abilities and perks which can give you advantages in particular situations.

Perks have weaker, passive effects, while abilities are activatable skills with more potent effects.

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Oxygen meter

Marathon’s world is persistent, which essentially means it doesn’t wait for you.

But you could’t stay on the map forever, and that’s thanks to your ever-dwindling Oxygen meter.

Injury system

In a similar vein to Escape From Tarkov,Marathon will feature an injury system.

Marathon concept art of two allied runners looking at a target offscreen, one of them aiming with a mounted sniper rifle.

For one thing, the protagonist is different.

In fact, we already got a glimpse of one particularly iconic enemy throw in in the announcement trailer.

Well, that wraps up just about everything we know so far about Marathon.

A cybernetic runner in the Marathon trailer aims with a rifle at an enemy off-screen.

A runner sprints down a dark corridor in the Marathon trailer, with a green glowing timer on their back counting down.

A dead runner sinks into a pool of milky white liquid in the Marathon trailer, with blue liquid spilling from their body.

Cybernetic silkworms slowly create the chassis or exoskeleton of a cybernetic runner’s face in a shot from the Marathon announcement trailer.

A runner reaches towards a glowing red artifact in Marathon.

The player in Marathon (1994) aims their pistol at a Compiler drifting down a darkened corridor towards them.

The UESC Marathon ship, lodged inside a moon, orbits the planet Tau Ceti IV in Marathon.

Concept art of a grassy indoor greenhouse area in Marathon.

Concept art of a close-up of a runner’s cybernetic face in Marathon.

The silhouette of a Compiler in the Marathon trailer, their green glowing light in the centre of their chest visible in the dark.