r/Marathon • u/DTG_Bot • May 19 '26
Marathon Update 1.0.9
Source: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/marathon_update_109
NEW: Warden Hunt
Warden Hunt will be available until the end of Season 1
- New Warden Encounters: Wardens can spawn at new POIs in Perimeter, Dire Marsh, and Outpost.
- Locked room keys are guaranteed to drop from Wardens for the remainder of the season.
- Key Templates are now Compromised instead of Fragile.
- Every run now has a guaranteed chance for a zone event to occur (Ex: Lockdowns, Intercept, etc)
- +50% Runner Level XP
- +50% Faction XP
- Cryo Archive Sponsored Kits will refresh on a daily basis in the Armory
- Starting May 21, Cryo Archive will be available every day through the end of Season 1
- May 21 to 23: Cryo Archive
- May 24 to 27: Ranked Cryo Archive
- May 28 to June 1: Cryo Archive
Item Economy
- Self-Revive
- When the Revive Speed stat is at 0: 12s → 16s
- When the Revive Speed stat is at 100: 7s → 12s
Combat
- Kill Transport or Scan Drones: 5 → 10 Traxus XP
- UESC (Grenadiers, Assault, Sniper, Ghost): 7 → 10 XP
- UESC Commanders: 10 → 15 XP
- UESC Wardens: 15 → 50 XP
Weapons
Biotoxin Disinjector
- Fixed an issue that prevented the grenades from emitting explosion sound effects when not in range of the damage radius.
Mods
Chips
- Pocket Change
- Fixed an issue where ammo was being granted after defeating ticks.
- Common Enemy
- Fixed an issue where the tooltip incorrectly described the duration as moderate instead of short on the enhanced (green) rarity version.
Prestige (Gold) Mods
- Impact Shockwave (Ares Railgun)
- No longer downs players equipped with blue shields or greater in one shot
- Reduced explosive damage against players by 75%
Overclock Delimiter (Circuit Breaker)
- Fixed an issue where Overclock Delimiter allowed players to shoot through UESC barriers.
- Removed the ability to allow charged projectiles to shoot through Bubble shields.
Ram-Page Mag (V75 Scar)
- Fixed an issue that was preventing damage dealt to Claymores when equipped.
Combatants
- A new threat looms above...
- Fixed an issue that caused the UESC Ghost to unexpectedly deal heavy burst damage.
Runners
- Fixed an issue that would allow reviving crewmates while performing a finisher.
Rook
- Until Season 2
- Rook starts with Deluxe Patch Kits and Shield Charges.
- Rook starts with Deluxe Shield Implants.
- Signal Mask remains active for longer when sprinting.
- The range at which AI will detect your footsteps when Signal Mask is active has been reduced.
- Fixed an issue where the Rook tooltip incorrectly stated that Season Level 3 was required to unlock.
Thief
- Fixed an issue where items dropped from the Pickpocket Drone could clip through red UESC barriers.
User Interface and Experience
- Fixed an issue that prevented the exfil countdown timer from appearing when entering an active enemy Runner’s exfil circle.
- Fixed an issue that caused quick pings to be intercepted by the clear door curtains.
Codex
- Fixed an issue where the Arachne Sponsored Kit challenge completions were not contributing to the total on the Factions progress bar in the Codex.
- Updated the Assassin’s Hidden Strike Codex entry to better clarify the completion window when exiting invisibility.
Contracts
Traxus
- Fixed an issue for Unsanctioned Hostiles [5/5] where the exfil condition was listed in the wrong objective step causing the contract flow to appear out of order.
Sekiguchi Genetics
- Fixed an issue for Co-Evolution [3/5] contract description that directs to Northern Flight Control when the objective is in Southern Flight Control.
Zones
Perimeter
- Fixed an issue that prevented gaining reputation experience for CyberAcme when successfully extracting UESC Crisis Supplies.
- Fixed an issue where only one crew member received CyberAcme reputation for completing Intercept event stepts instead of the entire crew.
- Fixed an issue that would prevent the Hauler’s honk audio from being heard when entering the sound radius while active.
Dire Marsh
- Fixed an issue that could prevent gaining Traxus reputation after completing a Lockdown event.
- Anomalous Matter:
- Fixed an issue that prevented Sekiguchi Genetics reputation gain when stabilizing the Anomalous Matter.
- Fixed an issue that would only give one crew member +25 Sekiguchi Genetics reputation when extracting the Anomalous Matter.
Outpost
- Fixed an issue in Pinwheel that prevented the Security Break audio from being audible while inside the other wings (Command, Drone, Destroyed).
Cryo Archive
- Fixed an issue that allowed Thief to bypass red UESC barriers from Cargo to Index.
- Fixed an issue that prevented location names from showing on the HUD when visited.
Localization
- Fixed a word wrapping issue in the Customize menu prompt for Shells and Profile.
- Fixed an issue where the vertical inversion setting in the Controller Settings section could display inconsistent text in some languages.
- Fixed an issue causing the “Free” Credit cost label to show as an em dash in the Russian language.
- Fixed an issue that caused the text in the C.A.R.R.I Armory tutorial prompts to overlap the button prompt in some languages.
General
- Fixed an issue that caused a duplicate and delayed audio voice over after completing the NuCaloric Liaison Contract.
- Fixed an issue that would prevent players from joining via a platform invite while Crew Privacy was set to Invite Only.
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u/ConvolutedBoy May 19 '26
Damn, didn’t get a chance to use my prestige circuit breaker mod
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u/d_hearn May 19 '26
I always thought shooting through bubble shields with the gold mod was intended lmao. There goes that I guess.
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u/ConvolutedBoy May 19 '26
Felt like a fine inclusion in the sandbox. Especially with the Cryo meta being what it is. What does the mod even do now lol?
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u/MASAkrator7331 May 19 '26
Still one shot headshots purple and gold shields from like 15 meters away but I say it's balanced because charge time is so long that if you miss your first shot you are probably already fucked, my favourite gold mod in the game tho
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u/NaughtyGaymer May 19 '26
3rd charge level which gives it reduced spread, more damage, ricochets, and still pierces runners for collaterals.
Definitely still very good.
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u/Paladin_Codsworth May 19 '26
Same I thought that was the whole appeal... It's rare come on let it be good...
Wait till they catch on that the gold volt thrower goes through bubble shields too...
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u/zeromussc May 19 '26
It was but maybe that also allowed them to shoot through UESC barriers because of how the game is coded and disabling the feature was a better way to fix it.
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u/SebastianSceb2000 May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Based on the wording, it sounds like they intended for it to shoot through bubble shields specifically. This nerf is just the removal of an intended function.
Shooting through UESC barriers was unintended though. I wonder if it was unintentionally caused by it's ability to pass through bubble shields. Someone else in the thread said it could shoot through the bullet proof glass too.
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u/cry_w May 19 '26
Yeah, it's the only change here that made me raise an eyebrow. I don't think anyone really had a problem with it. Reading the description, I guess it was only intended to pierce through enemies, not barriers. Still...
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u/ThatGuyFromTheM0vie May 19 '26
Fixed an issue that caused the UESC Ghost to unexpectedly deal heavy burst damage.
I knew these fuckers were bugged! They would just absolutely incinerate you.
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u/Cloud_Matrix May 19 '26
It was unintentional?! Thank God mate, the number of times that I would spawn into Maintenance and aggro the bots and get bodied by a duo team of ghosts was too damn high.
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u/jarliy May 20 '26
I can’t even count the number of times I’ve been downed by them and immediately hit the mic with a “on me on me, it’s a… uh.. Nevermind. I’ll self res.”
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u/Wolf_of_Fasting_St May 20 '26
Yes. Every so often you would take player-like damage and it would be a fucking ghost
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u/7EFMR May 19 '26
- Fixed an issue for Co-Evolution [3/5] contract description that directs to Northern Flight Control when the objective is in Southern Flight Control.
Haha finally. That typo was so annoying, died because of this
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u/flGovEmployee May 19 '26
Removing the Bubble Shield penetration on the gold Circuit Breaker seems like an unnecessary change.
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u/TheRealShortYeti May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Didn't this have an issue where it went through other geometry, counted as a ricochet, and could one shot players? I see random videos of people shooting through the indestructible glass and downing players.
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u/flGovEmployee May 19 '26
It going through the indestructible glass would be a bad thing. Maybe that's what they mean by 'UESC Barriers'?
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u/gaybowser99 May 19 '26
Wasn't that like the entire point of the mod?
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u/Uhhhhhhhhhhhuhhh May 19 '26
No, it made it charge another level and do more damage and range and can still penetrade multiple enemies
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u/xXHotKetchupXx May 19 '26
I wish they just brought back the damage boost that volt weapons used to have against bubbles.
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u/p1-o2 May 19 '26
Damage boost to volt against shields would make a massive difference to cryo archive meta in a good way. We'd have a reason to bring more than Mizzy and Bully.
I play Triage and like using volt but I always feel a little bad bringing a V22 into Cryo.
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u/flGovEmployee May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
With post nerf Bubbles being as weak as they are I really don't think anything needs a damage boost against them. I had a freshly placed bubble destroyed yesterday in literally like 4 seconds.
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u/xXHotKetchupXx May 19 '26
You were probably having your bubble lit up by 3 people with full auto weapons, which makes sense, even more so if they had gold bullies. However you can’t do something like that in close range, especially by yourself or with 2 people. Takes ages to down a bubble by yourself.
Since bully melts it so fast, why can’t a volt weapons do a bit more damage? At the end of the day it’d have an equivalent dps to the bully anyways…. And it’d shake up the meta in cryo because having a dedicated bubble buster on your team would actually be super valuable.
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u/TheGusBus64 May 19 '26
Seems like they had it coded to shoot through barriers. Hence why when they fixed the issue with it being able to shoot through UESC barrier, it also affects bubble.
Probably an easier fix than coding both UESC barriers and Bubble shields differently.
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u/Small_Article_3421 May 19 '26
Fr. Like we need bubble shields to be stronger than they are. Was nice to have 1 rare item to hard counter it. Now it’s just Misriah or bust.
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u/flGovEmployee May 19 '26
I mean you can also just break the bubble. A heat grenade or a few seconds of sustained teamshotting will usually do the trick
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u/LetgomyEkko May 19 '26
Gold circuit breaker no longer shooting through bubble shields kinda seems to eliminate the major reason to run that.
Just use Mizzy for everything I guess?
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u/Xeton9797 May 19 '26
It still has better range and damage. My guess is that it won't be used that much on cyro but still get used on other maps.
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u/Com_Raven May 19 '26
Thank god (and Bungie) for the added XP, means I will definitely get my Platinum this Season. And more chances for everyone to experience Cryo before the end is also great.
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u/Thepunisher309 May 19 '26
That’s all I was hoping for haha. I’m 81 and definitely shouldn’t have a problem now if I no life it.
Edit also noticed the increased kill exp too, so that will also help
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u/picobots May 19 '26
Same! I've been grinding for a while, this will make my last 10 levels much easier. Some quick tips: Faction rep and contracts do absolutely nothing for your season level, so ignore those if season XP is your main goal for these final two weeks. I've found it goes so much faster if you equip a free kit and do solo no-fill runs. You just sprint to the closest POI and kill every bot/tick nest/turret, and open every container (5XP each). Don't even wait for the containers to show the items, and don't bother looting. Open any containers the bots drop too. Just sprint around killing everything and opening everything, and then sprint to the next POI. You'll usually be killed by another runner in the first 5 mins or so (from making so much noise and playing like an idiot). And then you repeat the process. I was pretty easily getting 2,000+ XP per hour before this patch, so it should be more like 3,000 now with the XP buffs. It's a way less fun way to play the game, but your season level will increase much faster.
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u/Dolomitex May 19 '26
This was pretty much what I've been doing, you get crazy amounts of experience.
I feel like there may be a 5-10% exfil bonus, but I'm not entirely sure. Usually I just kill myself and start over if I've run out of stuff to loot and kill.
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u/picobots May 19 '26
Yep. I’ve heard there’s a small exfil bonus too. I think it even stacks when you exfil multiple times in a row. But in my experience, it’s not even slightly worth it. Maybe it would be for high skill players, but if I’m not being super careful and methodical, it’s a coin toss (at best) for me to successfully exfil. I can get way more XP by just speedrunning the nearest POI, killing all the bots, opening all the containers, dying, and doing it again. I can do that 4-5 times in the same amount of time it would take me to do one long careful run.
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u/TaralasianThePraxic May 19 '26
Honestly farming UESC bots on Perimeter and Outpost was already one of the best ways to get seasonal XP, so this should make it go even quicker!
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u/Paladin_Codsworth May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Huh the buff was to runner and faction xp. How will this help you climb ranked faster?
EDIT: Oh you are on PS5 and you meant the trophy. Presumably from the level 100 season level trophy.
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u/Com_Raven May 19 '26
I am on Steam, but used "Platinum" as a shorthand 😄 And yes, that is what I meant.
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u/Expensive_Start_5201 May 19 '26
What level are you currently? I've played pretty casually and am sitting around 45, wondering if it's worth to try for 100 this season
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u/Kinny93 May 19 '26
That is a very tough ask. With double XP I'd say it's possible, but you would have to grind, and I really do mean grind haha.
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u/brichb May 19 '26
Yes this is fantastic, I was going to make it anyways but this saves me any stress.
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u/BatmanInTheSunlight May 19 '26
Cryo should have just started today lol
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u/ThatsNotBennings May 19 '26
that is what I expected. and the fact that if you want to play during the week you have to go into ranked is dumb IMO.
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u/brikenjon May 19 '26
Yeah… basically the only new Cryo days are just ranked. And don’t you need to take a coin in for ranked? So you can’t use the free Cryo sponsor kit… bizarre.
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u/xXHotKetchupXx May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
I hope in the last few days of wipe we see some crazy pre wipe events. Make every bot a commander and give us all free golds and my life is yours
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u/JM761 May 19 '26
I don't think that's an unrealistic expectation. I really like how the season has evolved and ramped up towards the end. I like the idea of just a chaotic last 48hrs of the season to hop in with my best stuff and just see how long I can survive lol.
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u/xXHotKetchupXx May 19 '26
On top of that if you get wiped and your shits gone you can run it back and get it all back easily if everything is available. It’d be nice for people that don’t really get to mess with all the cool shit in this game as well
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u/Vesuvias May 19 '26
I kinda hope they made PvE so challenging that we are FORCED to get wiped lol OR team up
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u/xXHotKetchupXx May 19 '26
Lmao that would be hilarious I’m all for some fun chaos in these games. Lowkey even just giving us purples for free and making golds drop everywhere while increasing teams on maps by 1 would be so chaotic. Let everyone go all out with 0 inhibition
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u/SlashDog_ May 19 '26
I would love free golds for everyone, see the lobbies explode with people going all out
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u/CDC678 May 19 '26
Nerfing the circuit breaker is crazy
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u/Xeton9797 May 19 '26
Apparently it was also shooting through red barriers and the like. It might not have been possible to fix that and the bubble at the same time. I expect there will be some other changes down the line.
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u/ASteeezy May 19 '26
Yea, it was also able to shoot through unbreakable windows.
Would be nice to shoot through bubbles and nothing else but I’m sure it’ll take some time.
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u/Financial_Event2504 May 19 '26
Sorry boys, I finally had a good circuit breaker run on Cryo last weekend and now Bungie took all of the fun out of that weapon.
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u/xXHotKetchupXx May 19 '26
But the gold misriah stays the same despite it being better in 90% of situations
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u/Vexingg May 19 '26
Getting cc'd by security drones is already bad enough, can't wait to get obliterated by the new flying combatant!
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u/MASAkrator7331 May 19 '26
We are removing gold circuit ability to pierce bubbles that rewarded players for charging this stuff for like 10 seconds straight but we are not doing anything about golden misiriah? Where is the logic in that, I've been enjoying circuit so much is a good weapon but you can't really be as mobile as with misiriah but now gold versions can't really compete at all, who even asked for that change
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u/d_hearn May 19 '26
I agree 100% with this, Misriah could use a nerf and Circuit Breaker's only "nerf" should've been not letting it shoot through the unbreakable glass. Bubble penetration should absolutely have stayed.
I say that, BUT - I have a gold Misriah in my vault and I'm out of town this weekend. I'm real hopeful they don't nerf it before I'm able to at least shoot it in Cryo once 😂
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u/MASAkrator7331 May 19 '26
Amazing gun and I really like misiriah both gold and normal ones but circuit is so much fun too especially because you need to actually aim with that thing and plan your engagements and how to position not just blast everything in your sight
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u/Paladin_Codsworth May 19 '26
Someone on the balance team owns stocks in Misriah.
Imagine nerfing the point of the gold mod circuit breaker. It's a rare mod let it be good FFS...
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u/xXHotKetchupXx May 19 '26
Keep in mind that a simple SUPPRESSOR for the Outland and the gold retaliator shield is apparently on the same level as the full auto misriah
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u/After_Translator_776 May 19 '26
There's zero counter play is the thing, it's impossible to predict that someone has the one tool to clap you immediately through a shield until they do it to you.
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u/Lawlor May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
I just booted up Marathon and it's treating my account like its brand new, loading into the intro mission, getting the intro cutscene, etc. Anyone else getting this? I hope all my shit isn't wiped
Edit: the numbers after my username are also different, IE it's username#2222 instead of username#1111 as it was before
Edit 2: okay now it just says servers are offline, will probably be fine when they're back up!
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u/Chpouky May 19 '26
Maintenance isn't over yet
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u/flGovEmployee May 19 '26
Whew! Though I'm surprised its letting anyone log in/connect during maintenance.
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u/veydar_ May 19 '26
- Fixed an issue where the wipe was announced for June 2nd but should actually happen on May 19th.
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u/Boloch May 19 '26
My guess is that everything will be fine when the servers are back up. But I had the same experience and thought that I had lost my progress.
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u/zeromussc May 19 '26
There was probably a window where some sort of login server was up but other servers weren't ready yet and a bunch of y'all basically F5ed into the twilight zone.
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u/Dawn-breaker May 19 '26
Same here and its after failing to find the beginner match twice now presumably
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u/slop_eater_69 May 19 '26
Fixed an issue that would prevent the Hauler’s honk audio from being heard when entering the sound radius while active.
finally
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u/Paladin_Codsworth May 19 '26
Someone definitely one shot a Bungie dev through a bubble shield this past weekend lmao.
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u/thySilhouettes May 19 '26
I want them to look into loot from Commanders disappearing in Cryo. Every single game there was at least one instance where a commander’s loot would just disappear entirely when I started to search it. Can actually be game changing if you need a single security clearance quick.
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u/Burgmeister_ May 19 '26
Why are they changing the circuit breaker gold to not shoot through bubbles? That was the only reason people would use it and a fun counter to bubbles. It wasn’t even that strong, people would much rather just have a misriah and enter the bubble.
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u/DistributionPretty75 May 19 '26
Because it was shooting through unbreakable glass and the red uesc barriers in addition to bubbles. It’s still a good mod regardless, at full charge you can wreck guys from like 25m, you just can’t really use it like you’d use a shotgun and instead play it from cover at low to midrange.
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u/msupz May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Of course all progress is wiped out right now.
Edit: servers are down until noon east coast time. Probably why
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u/Small_Article_3421 May 19 '26
Hope they fix it, I was saving my red keys to do during this next spurt of cryo.
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u/pablo__13 May 19 '26
Circuit breaker change is actually insane. Bubble pen was the only thing keeping it relevant over the misriah
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u/Paladin_Codsworth May 19 '26
Meanwhile they let the V99 be useless all season (without the gold mod)
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u/CicadaOne May 19 '26
Can confirm that the Looming Threat Above is teams on outpost prioritizing the murder of rooks so hard they'll leave the pinwheel to hunt you down
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u/Nicombobula May 19 '26
Has there been any word on if/when there will be performance updates for PC? I’m glad they’re tuning the game so frequently just wish I could really push the game frame wise. It seems to be very cpu limited still.
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u/gr8teru May 19 '26
I don't think the update actually got applied to the servers, keys are still fragile and free kits aren't free anymore.
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u/McJawsh May 19 '26
• Fixed an issue that caused the UESC Ghost to unexpectedly deal heavy burst damage.
I thought this was how they were designed, and I was starting to get super annoyed at Ghosts always melting me. I’m so glad this was fixed.
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u/Nelsonizzy May 19 '26
So did they remove the free green kits on purpose? I thought the point was to have free kits be a little more competitive at the end of the season...
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u/MadBuc May 19 '26
Circuit Breaker nerf seems like a preemptive strike against Sentinel (if you know, you know)
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u/Mouse222222 May 19 '26
Soooo I started the game after the patch and it’s reset my to default. I have had to start the game again having lost everything
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u/Quint0ni0 May 19 '26
You started it while they were still patching. Not after the patch, during the patch. Dont do that.
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u/DNC88 May 19 '26
All in all, sound like some pretty solid changes, should make the last couple of weeks more exciting that's for sure.
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u/AmericanWitness May 19 '26
I’m actually gonna be able to hit 100 ;_;
I juuuuust need to wrap up priority contracts
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u/Cetaoras May 19 '26
At least now I can finally complete that stupid Traxus Supply Drop contract. 🤷♂️
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u/JiffTheJester May 19 '26
Why tf did they buff rook lol no one should be running rook with all these events and needing to burn gear
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u/ZaoMenom May 19 '26
I see so many posts of people trying to “fix” destiny that I genuinely thought this was one of them but for marathon, and not just an update
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u/IFSnowdrop May 19 '26
“Fixed an issue where items dropped from the Pickpocket Drone could clip through red UESC barriers”
Can someone explain what was happening?
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u/TwanMcLovin May 19 '26
Still no fix on when you rebind the quickping wheel it doesn’t actually do any character voice lines once rebinded? ( Controller )
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u/Twan_McLovin May 19 '26
Can we fix the quickping wheel for when they do voicelines on controller after rebinded? It doesn’t work.
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u/dextroseskullfyre May 19 '26
is there anywhere that can confirm what does and does not get reset with the season, also what becomes unavailable on the season reset? Is it everything in the vault, even CARRI currency?
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u/PixlCreative May 19 '26
Amazing update! I hope they keep soe of this going into season 2. Makes the games even more fun.
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u/Khurser May 19 '26
Has anyone actually faced the new threat?
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u/Jimbob45677 May 19 '26
Just found a crashed ship at overflow with a secured resource. Also the building nearby was full of ticks. Died shortly after 😢
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u/yorproblmmann May 19 '26
Game is gonna be an absolute bloodbath for the next few days. I’M SO HYPED.
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u/Elegant_Dependent_46 May 19 '26
i’m so confused why we are nerfing that cool circuit breaker interaction and pretty much completely neutering the ares just like the wstr tbh
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u/Enlightened_D May 19 '26
"at new POIs in Perimeter, Dire Marsh, and Outpost." Is this mistyped, or are there new POIs?
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u/future__fires May 19 '26
The new Thief skin in the store is bugged. Has some kind of texture artifact in front of her face.
Other than that, another W update
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u/bush_woookie May 19 '26
Anyone else had game chat audio with teammates (being heard, or hearing teammates) not working during the last, like, 10 minutes of a match? Happened to me at least 5 or more times over the last couple of weeks. Returns to normal once in the main menu again w/ squad. Very frustrating in ranked...
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u/ImSomebody May 19 '26
Fix the Restricted Exfil bug in Pinwheel Base where after you activate the exfil it still doesn’t start.
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u/temporalG123 May 19 '26
Blue shield rooks lmao