A new update for Bungie’s Marathon is available now, and it’s got some interesting tweaks to weapons along with an extension of a limited-time mode.
The Vault Breaker PvE mode has been extended to Aug. 18, allowing for more play time and testing for the eventual full-fledged PvE experience coming in September. Along with that, several guns have had changes to optimize the player experience.
The V22 Volt Thrower got a nice damage buff in the update, along with changes to the KKV-9SD. Beyond that, the update mostly includes bug fixes and optimizations. Here’s everything new and different in Marathon today as part of its latest update.
Marathon patch notes today – Update 1.1.5.2
Vault Breaker
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We have extended the duration of the Vault Breaker mode!
- New end date: August 18.
- Increased the available stock of some limited offers to reflect this extension.
- We look forward to continuing to hear your feedback on this experimental PvE mode.
- Updated the Key Template Armory reward to correctly specify that it only awards Cryo Archive keys.
Item Economy
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Sponsored Kit Boosts – Free Sponsored Kits have now been upgraded:
- Starting weapon now come with random Enhanced (green) mods.
- 1 stack of Enhanced (green) Patch Kits.
- 1 random grenade (smoke, heat, or claymore).
Combat
Weapons
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V22 Volt Thrower
- Damage increased from 12.6 to 14.4.
- Tracking speed will now slowly decay over 1.2 seconds of a projectile’s lifetime by a maximum of 30 percent.
- Reduced the amount of time spent at 540rpm before weapon heat starts to spin down by ~20 percent.
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KKV-9SD
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Increased base magazine size from 23 to 28.
- Retuned magazine sizes at every stat value to compensate.
- Prestige Flechette Drum magazine mod stays the same at 87.
- Fixed an issue where certain magazine mods were not correctly granting any additional rounds in the magazine.
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Increased base magazine size from 23 to 28.
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V85 Circuit Breaker
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Fixed a stability issue relating to the Prestige quality Overlocked Delimiter mod.
- This mod has now been re-enabled.
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Fixed a stability issue relating to the Prestige quality Overlocked Delimiter mod.
Zones
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Fixed an issue where opening the Cryo Hatch repeatedly could grant unintended amounts of faction reputation and Season XP.
- This action will now provide the intended gains once per match.
- All actions that had previously had their reputation and XP gains disabled in Cryo Archive have now been re-enabled.
General
- Fixed an issue where players would sometimes not receive Salvage or Schemas when purchasing Rewards Pass items with LUX.
- Fixed an issue with the Store where some bundle items that should have also been visible in the Catalog section were not displaying correctly.
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