Marathon season 2 launched yesterday evening, bringing with it sweeping changes to the core game as well as a full progression reset and new modes to leap into. It also, sadly, came with heaps of bugs.<\/p>\n
This second season, which was meant to launch at 10am PDT \/ 1pm EDT \/ 6pm BST \/ 7pm CEST yesterday, was immediately burdened with Weasel, Monkey, and Anteater error codes. These were kicking players from their games mid-match, resulting in plenty of lost loot (and ample frustration).<\/p>\n
Here’s the Marathon season 2 overview trailer.Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n In response, Bungie announced on its official developer social media account<\/a> that those trying to play the game while these bugs were present would receive free deluxe sponsored kits (packaged loadouts players can use in-game).<\/p>\n Shortly after, the same account announced<\/a> that the problem causing these bugs had been identified, and that servers would be taken down while emergency maintenance occurred. While the company initially pushed for a 6pm PDT target for servers to come back online, this was further pushed back<\/a>.<\/p>\n Servers would eventually come back up at 8pm PDT \/ 11pm EDT \/ 4am BST \/ 5am CEST. At this point, the major disconnecting issues were thankfully resolved, though some other issues remain as of writing.<\/p>\n These include a bug impacting codex unlocks for significant achievements for the previous season. For players who reached VIP rank for the in-game factions, special cosmetic rewards are their prize. However, players have been reporting<\/a> some of these haven’t been unlocked despite them putting in the work. Eurogamer has verified the existence of this bug first-hand, with a fully VIP’d account only receiving two of the six rewards.<\/p>\n It’s a shame too, as Marathon players have been chuffed with the game’s second season now the servers are back up. The new Night Marsh map variant is proving very spooky<\/a>, with multiple jump scares scattered throughout the map (keep an eye on bodies of water as you move through them). Changes to the menu screen are nice touches<\/a>, and new cosmetics available to players are soothing<\/a> one of the common season one gripes.<\/p>\n Whether or not this initial technical tumble has a major impact on season 2’s success, especially as it followed a trailer during Sony’s State of Play and the start of its free-to-play trial period, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marathon season 2 launched yesterday evening, bringing with it sweeping changes to the core game as well as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}