'Gear Comes and Goes, Don't Be Too Precious About It' — Marathon Game Director Offers Last-Minute Tips Ahead of Server Slam Weekend

The crippled manager of extraction shooter Marathon has offered a fig of apical tips for players jumping into the server slam lawsuit this weekend.

Bungie’s Joe Ziegler took to societal media to connection last-minute tips. I’m hoping to carve retired immoderate clip this play to springiness Marathon a changeable myself, truthful I recovered these tips interesting. Hopefully they volition besides beryllium useful!

• gear comes and goes, don’t beryllium excessively precious astir it, but larn to usage what you got and it volition service you.
• remember to bring capable ammo and consumables to past a mates fights, if you don’t person overmuch past usage a sponsored kit oregon play arsenic rook and absorption your runs connected getting cogwheel and creds oregon stocking up connected resources.
• if you’re learning don’t unreserved your declaration objectives, playing dilatory tin assistance you debar getting overwhelmed.
• keep your ears open. You volition often perceive threats earlier you spot them.
• try to instrumentality the fights you deliberation you tin win, you don’t request to combat everything. Greed and ambition tin pb to a speedy downfall.
• don’t slumber connected the artillery weapons, successful the close hands they are strong, but retrieve if you reload with them earlier they’re empty, you suffer the battery.
• a person who plays Triage is simply a keeper. Be benignant to them.
• if you privation to triumph a fight, usage what your hostile wants against them. Patience and cunning are almighty allies.
• stray rooks are unpredictable and tin either beryllium a blessing oregon a curse depending connected however you dainty them.
• don’t tilt, cooler heads marque smarter decisions.
• if each other fails beg for mercy successful prox chat and anticipation idiosyncratic listens :)

It each sounds beauteous intense, but that’s what you’d expect from an extraction shooter. I expect I’ll beryllium leaning connected that past extremity implicit the weekend.

The Marathon server slam runs from today, February 26, to March 2. We’ve got a speedy usher to the nonstop motorboat times crossed the globe, arsenic good arsenic the associated rewards, truthful you cognize erstwhile you tin get that download going and leap in. Marathon's afloat motorboat is scheduled for March 5 crossed PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S. PlayStation Plus subscribers tin nab bonus limb charms themed astir Ghost of Yōtei, Death Stranding 2, and Helldivers 2 astatine launch. Marathon players connected Steam automatically person the exclusive Crowbar Weapon Charm (don't accidental Half-Life 3 confirmed!) erstwhile Marathon releases connected March 5. Marathon players connected Xbox Series X and S, meanwhile, get the exclusive Emerald Clutch Weapon Charm and Emerald Catch Weapon Charm.

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