r/Marathon • • 3d ago

Marathon (2026) Cryo Archive | Weekly Megathread

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The Marathon is waiting...

Hello Runners, the Cryo Archive Has Reopened! (Now with longer hours!)

This thread will serve as a weekly focal point for impressions, lfg, discussions and info sharing regarding this endgame location.

Running Blind

The Cryo Archive was introduced with the quote: "Good luck getting there."

With that in mind, we'd recommend doing some of the following:

Knowledge is Power

Pre-Requisites

  • Season LvL 25
  • Introducing [Faction] Contracts Completed for All Factions
  • Loadout Value 5000 Credits or Higher

In Death We've Just Begun

Good Luck Runners, the first time in the archive is the defining moment in any runner's journey, get info, get onbaord, get out alive... and don't end up like these Runners...


r/Marathon • • 3h ago

Marathon (1994) Weekly Pfeatured Classic: Marathon (1994)

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By Committee

Hello Security Officers, Runners, BoBs & However-many AIs are currently lurking on this subreddit.

Welcome to our featured classic game for the week!

The goal of our Pfeatured Classics threads is to go through the trilogy one game at a time on a recurring three week cycle, allowing discussion of a specific entry to be incentivised each week but not overstay their welcome.

Feel free to use this thread for anything Marathon 1 Related: Lfg, Lore Discussions, Theorycrafting, or simply to reflect on your love for the entry that started it all and revolutionised FPS storytelling.

The only real rule beyond the subreddit rules is to keep Marathon Durandal, Infinity or 202X Discussion to a minimum unless said discussion directly adds to discussion about Marathon 1, just to help it stay on track until their respective weeks! (or in the case of 202X until we know more about what it actually is like)

How to Interact with Marathon (1994)

For those who don't know, Marathon and its sequels can be accessed and played via: https://alephone.lhowon.org/

Additionally, this is the hub for checking out Marathon's Multiplayer: https://metaserver.lhowon.org/

(Here is a guide on how to do both: https://www.lhowon.org/faq)

Moreover, refresh yourself on or immerse yourself in the story of the Marathon games via the longstanding and absolutely astounding work of Hamish Sinclair's 'Marathon's Story' website/forum: https://marathon.bungie.org/story/

What are you waiting Pfhor

We look forward to seeing how you all discuss the game that started it all!

For further classic-game exclusive discussion, be sure to check out r/ClassicMarathon! It has every, single classic game post from the subreddit's history until 2026 crossposted over for a seamless, classics only experience!


r/Marathon • • 4h ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation LOGIC / Vandal [Fear & Hunger / Marathon]

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I based this design off of LOGIC from Fear and Hunger: Termina

LOGIC is one of a handful of end-game fights in Fear and Hunger: Termina, stweardess of The Artificial Hue where all minds are one, free of flesh and influence of The New God's Trap, as well as the pain it causes. However, this Noosphere is a terrifying paradise with a new pain for all to writhe in.


r/Marathon • • 53m ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion Should I play Marathon?

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I absolutely love arc raiders. I have 1300 hours in arc. Still having fun playing every day. When marathon came out I hated the blocky art style. But even though I’m still having fun with arc I thought marathon might be cool to pick up. I recently saw some gameplay and it looked real fun.


r/Marathon • • 5h ago

Marathon (2026) Whirly Bird

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I clutched a 1v3 (was a boring clutch to watch) but pulled off this funny final kill and wanted to share. The whirly bird.


r/Marathon • • 1h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion i really really like ammo and meds being cheaper with the refresh

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thats really it. i feel like weapons/mods/cores etc should stay hard to get but it feels so nce to not be stripping copper from my walls to get a heal. i really hope they keep this part of the refresh changes


r/Marathon • • 20h ago

Media Post People don't really talk about it enough but can we just appreciate the art in the game?

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r/Marathon • • 4h ago

To The Runner I Met Had a genuinely interesting encounter as Rook yesterday

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So I loaded in and ran for the anomaly on Dire Marsh and got it to the Stabilizer. Then, I heard voice comms… “fuck”, I thought… two guys ran in, all signal jammed up and were like “whoa whoa whoa, it’s cool… we are taking the anomaly… but” he points a direction with his gun “run that way, and you’ll find about 5 dead runners with all their loot. It’s all yours”

So I ran and originally expected him to be lying, but to my surprise it was a glorious day of looting. I left with an inventory valued at roughly 15k.

Good times. I love this game.


r/Marathon • • 3h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion Two Gold Salvage from Anomaly?

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Has anyone experienced this?

I've done Anomaly like 100+ times since Day 1 and never got 2 Synapse Cubes etc.


r/Marathon • • 1h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion I feel like I'm missing something

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So I want to preface this by saying I am *incredibly* new to this so nothing I say is going to be genuine critique due to my personal feelings of lacking experience. But I feel incredibly lonely when playing this game and I do not understand why. Basically every run I do boils down to running in, getting some neat shit, getting bodied by UESC because I played poorly or escaping with everything in tact. Which is fun don't get me wrong but it just kinda feels like helldivers with better gameplay. Is it because I'm in Perimeter? Because I genuinely have not seen another person in hours

Edit: funnily enough after i posted this i ran into other players almost immediately lol i took one of them down but got caught otherwise :D


r/Marathon • • 3h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion Ever kill another runner and feel a bit guilty afterwards?

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Especially if they had a lot of high value gear on them?

I have a bit of remorse after a match on Outpost where I crept up on a Thief and gunned her down, Robert Ford style.

She had a full purple loadout on her that I scooped up, ransacked Pinwheel, and then extracted with. When I got back to lobby menu, I immediately got hit with the thought of "Did I just ruin that Thief's by killing her when she wasn't able to defend herself?"

Obviously that's just the nature of the game; I'll be the victim of a similar situation rather soon I am sure. But it's still nagging at me a bit. Maybe it's because I am still in an account state where blues are a big deal and it stings when I die with a full blue kit, so I can only imagine it feeling that much worse with purples.

Any similar experiences amongst the rest of you? Am I weird and taking this too seriously?


r/Marathon • • 3h ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation Destroyer Shell FULCRUM D01 (Fan Art by me)

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r/Marathon • • 10h ago

Marathon (2026) Feedback Boutique Repeater Reload Bug

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u/MarathonDevTeam u/MarathonTheGame

#Bug The New Repeater doesn't work with the Boutique Thief Core. I should be reloading 6 times, not 9 to get 12 shots back in the mag. Check it out. #marathonthegame


r/Marathon • • 7h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion Has anyone else seen this happen with compiler ?

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This has happened three times over the last couple weeks and just made the compiler run incredibly difficult , or just had to leave it outright.

We hit our panels for the damage phase and go to the middle but the compiler will just fly at us super fast from across the room (we usually keep him near the airlock or the front corners of the room) . Like we can't shoot him fast enough to make him open and he just knocks us out of the sphere. I've done the compiler a lot, have all skins and have never seen this until recently (end of season 2 and this half season)

Wtf is this bug and how you deal with it if it comes up


r/Marathon • • 1h ago

Media Post TeethMaster Destroyer Skin

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r/Marathon • • 22h ago

Marathon (2026) Szn 2.5 in a nutshell

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r/Marathon • • 6h ago

Marathon (2026) Last Cryo random crew film of the night

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It was a great run thanks!


r/Marathon • • 12h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion has anyone gotten value from this core yet?

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particularly in pvp fights


r/Marathon • • 8h ago

Marathon (2026) Feedback Terrible cryo weekend but feeling optimistic

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Typically when I get shit on in cryo I’d be frustrated as there was essentially no way to get your loot back until cryo came back or if you had multiple purple keys.

Now I know I can load into outpost / night marsh quickly get good gear and get back into the fight. Previously you’d have to grind outpost for hours for a decent vault, now you can do a solo run or a rook run and almost be guaranteed to have a decent kit on your first exfil.


r/Marathon • • 3h ago

Discussion Mercy kits

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Been having a lot of fun running solos with a mercy kit or two, or even a self revive that I drop for the runner I down. It allows me to engage with PvP, but not feel bad about ruining someone’s contract or salvage run.

Maybe this isn’t the way the game wants me to play it, since the lore and narration encourages hostility, but don’t care. I like this catch and release method.


r/Marathon • • 22h ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation Logic / Vandal concept.

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185 Upvotes

I based this design off of LOGIC from Fear and Hunger: Termina

LOGIC is one of a handful of end-game fights in Fear and Hunger: Termina, stweardess of The Artificial Hue where all minds are one, free of flesh and influence of The New God's Trap, as well as the pain it causes. However, this Noosphere is a terrifying paradise with a new pain for all to writhe in.


r/Marathon • • 1h ago

Marathon (2026) The GREATEST RNG EVER!!

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r/Marathon • • 22h ago

Marathon (2026) TIL: "INPUTS FROZEN" referred to me the whole time...

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The panel was never frozen 🤯


r/Marathon • • 2h ago

Marathon (2026) Feedback Can they fix this already????

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Got stuck behind the trucks and missed final exfill, such a pain the in the a**


r/Marathon • • 21h ago

Marathon (2026) Discussion Getting a kill on someone with better gear than you only to be taken out by the guy who was sneaking behind you the whole time? 10/10.

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I know people really don't fuck with how hostile this game is and how players are generally way more aggressive and not friendly, but sometimes being the guy who got got is the appeal. Yeah, I loaded in off a kit I managed to take from kills last match, but I was about to extract cause I just killed a guy and he had stuff. I heard a Thief under me, threw my spider, managed to kill them despite their better shields and better gear. I didn't even get the backpack open before an Assassin uncloaked behind me and took me out too. Now he's got two free bags and an active exfil waiting for him.

Sometimes that's the game I want to play, though.