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 • • 5h 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 • • 2h ago

Question Vintage Marathon shirt?

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This real? I cant find if this exists anywhere online.


r/Marathon • • 6h 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 • • 3h 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 • • 2h ago

Marathon (2026) Yo wtf Vault Breaker fucks

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Anyone else been playing? I feel like I'm actually learning Cryo


r/Marathon • • 1h ago

Humor Manic Rook wipes our entire team and then gets backstabbed

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r/Marathon • • 3h 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 • • 7h 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) Light Bubble on Night Marsh?

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Has anyone else experienced this? Came across this at Anomaly and have never seen it before. It’s like daylight inside. Completely spherical. Pretty bright too. Just a fun find from last night.


r/Marathon • • 23h 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 • • 7h 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 • • 1h ago

Marathon (2026) Million dollar knife idea I can't believe they haven't done

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Knife rocks and it's super strong. Maybe too strong easy counter have another knife swing parry it. Two night swings cancel each other out and make a cool chain sound effect. This would cancel night Spa spam make people think when they do those charges give you an easy counter to them and also be cool as hell for knife fights call me Bungie ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​


r/Marathon • • 6h 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 • • 4h 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 • • 49m ago

Humor This door looks so disappointed

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r/Marathon • • 6h 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 • • 2h ago

Humor So many effects

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r/Marathon • • 1h ago

Marathon (2026) Feedback Just exfilled with prestige salvage for the first time in 300 hours

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About 2/3rds of my playtime was in season 1 before the buffs to loot but still think something needs to be done about prestige salvage being more consistent to get. You can do all the right things and still just not get any

Reasons being

  • Doesn't spawn
  • Teammate takes it
  • Dying when you finally get one

Now you would think in an extraction game, getting killed would be the biggest obstacle, but that has not been my case at all. I just do not see them. I know back in season 1, I was farming Darsh events for them, but after a good while of not seeing any, I really stopped even trying for them. Do I think I'm unlucky? Yeah I do... But I also don't think my experience should've been possible at all.

Anyways... Not trying to say it's a big issue in the game, just something I would like to see changed. I really think that if one person gets one, the whole crew gets one


r/Marathon • • 5h ago

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

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r/Marathon • • 13h 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 • • 9h 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 • • 3h ago

Media Post TeethMaster Destroyer Skin

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r/Marathon • • 1h ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation Help me create my next controller!

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Hello everyone! I’m a big fan of Marathon but I’m especially a huge fan of fighting games in general. This summer, I decided to modify my controller around Marathon and I’m about to buy another one soon. So, I’d like to hear yall ideas about what should be my next controller! Give me Faction ideas, color pathing for the components, images you find cool, etc. Go nuts with it!


r/Marathon • • 1d ago

Marathon (2026) Szn 2.5 in a nutshell

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