After the unfortunate end to Destiny 2's live service support, all of Bungie's eggs are in a Marathon-shaped basket. The studio's immediate future hinges on the extraction shooter, so this makes Marathon's second season, Nightfall, all the more crucial. It launched yesterday and coincides with a free-play week for those on the fence.
Season 2 is all a Marathon fan like me could ask for, really:
- The Night Dire Marsh variant, which comes with new equipment like torches and sonar pulses, as well as terrifying Anomaly creatures, and UESC Certification activities.
- Sponsored Survival, a PvP-lite mode that pits a single group of players against the UESC forces and, later in the match, some Rooks.
- A new Runner shell, Sentinel, which is great for defending areas with tripmines and an anti-explosive barrier.
- Two guns, the KKV-9SD SMG and the D54 burst pistol, make the loot pool (especially at the lower ends) much more interesting. T...
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