{"id":722175,"date":"2026-06-24T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722175\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:07:09","slug":"marathons-first-pve-mode-launches-next-month-and-sounds-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722175\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon’s First PVE Mode Launches Next Month And Sounds Great"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bungie has revealed the first non-PVP, fully PVE Marathon<\/a> game mode, and folks, it sounds like the perfect way to introduce that kind of gameplay into the extraction shooter without breaking the loot economy or putting PVP lovers at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n

On June 23, Bungie posted a shortish update blog<\/a> from the Marathon dev team about what to expect from the sci-fi FPS over the next few weeks and months. The big news is that later this season, on July 21, Bungie is adding Vault Breaker to the game. This is a whole new PVE-only mode set within Cryo Archive, Marathon\u2018s best and biggest map, and it is designed to be playable solo, with a buddy, or in a trio.<\/p>\n

Vault Breaker, which Bungie is calling experimental, will allow players to explore the Cryo Archive map while taking on a \u201cprogressively challenging series of vaults.\u201d In Vault Breaker, you don\u2019t bring back the loot you find after you finish a match, with one exception: Vault Data, a new currency that is exclusive to this new mode.\u00a0 As you play more Vault Breaker, you can bring back that data to upgrade your Vault Breaker Sponsored Kit, helping you take on harder vaults in the mode. This data can also be exchanged for gear that can be used in the rest of the game, though what that gear will actually be, we don\u2019t know yet.<\/p>\n

The whole idea behind Vault Breaker is to offer players, even solo players, a PVE mode that is \u201clow risk, high-power\u201d and which lets everyone experience Cryo without \u201cflooding the economy\u201d with endgame gear and weaponry. Though it might already be flooded\u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Personally, I think it sounds like a brilliant way to add some variety to Marathon and bring in more players who might be put off by the PVP-only action and sweaty extraction shooter gameplay. And it doesn\u2019t break the game\u2019s economy or disrupt the experience of other players. Smart stuff.<\/p>\n

What else is coming to Marathon later this year? <\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the new blog post, Bungie promised an evolution of its Cradle system to allow players to earn new cosmetic rewards and offer more reason to keep grinding. The Marathon dev team also promises that, come the mid-season update in July, players can expect more \u201cquality-of-life, tuning, and other changes,\u201d including player profile stats.<\/p>\n

Beyond Season Two\u2019s mid-point update, Bungie also teased the game\u2019s next season. Marathon season three is set to launch on September 22 and will bring with it \u201cbig changes\u201d to the early game experience. This includes a revamp of the starting map, Perimeter, that will add \u201cmajor new areas, encounters, and gameplay.\u201d Players can also expect a new Runner shell to be added next season as well as new weapons and gear, and \u201clots of other content and surprises.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the year\u2019s best video games just gets better and better.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bungie has revealed the first non-PVP, fully PVE Marathon game mode, and folks, it sounds like the perfect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[29840,67842,188625,74,310728],"class_list":["post-722175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bungie","tag-marathon","tag-pve","tag-technology","tag-vault-breaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}