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UPDATE: FREE KIT FRENZY - EXPERIMENTAL QUEUE - DIRE MARSH SPONSORED
Thank you to all of you who participated in the Duos Experiments we've had over the past few weeks. We're currently working on making duos a real feature in Season 2 and are diligently working on delivering that to all of you who are eagerly awaiting its return.
ABOUT EXPERIMENTAL QUEUES:
The experimental queue is a time limited queue that allows us to preview features in development with you, often with a less-than-complete feature set. This queue allows the Marathon development team to learn and obtain feedback that helps us deliver a more completed feature set down the line. For the sake of queue health and focus we only run one experimental queue at a time. Once we have learned enough to understand our next steps for this feature, we start work on finalizing the feature and move on to the next experiment. Your participation in any experiment is greatly appreciated and is very helpful to us in developing features down the line.
THE NEXT EXPERIMENT:
What happens when you bring a knife... to a knife fight? For our next experiment, starting Wednesday, 4/15 at 10AM PT, we will be enabling the Dire Marsh - Sponsored Queue. This is a new experimental queue that is focused on learning a bit more about our early gear ecosystem. In this queue all players will enter with a free sponsored kit and be challenged to use what they find on Dire Marsh to upgrade themselves and get out! Details below.
DIRE MARSH SPONSORED
Details: The experiment will run for approximately 2 weeks, from 4/15 @ 10AM PT to 4/29 @ 10AM PT. We may change the end timing depending on anything we discover along the way that might warrant us to make an adjustment.
--You will only be eligible to enter the queue if you (and your crew) have a free sponsored kit (white tier) equipped.
--You can enter as a premade duo (crew fill off), premade trio, or crew fill into a trio.
--The queue will only be for the Dire Marsh Zone.
--To enter this queue, you can select "Dire Marsh Sponsored" from the zone list.
What we will be observing and looking to understand:
--How the game plays out with low fixed set gear conditions and caps.
--How the zero to hero play works in low starting set gear conditions and caps.
--Any technical issues that arise.
There are many other changes and additions coming on Wednesday 4/15 PT as well so stay tuned to learn more from the Marathon Discord, and across all the social channels for MarathonTheGame / MarathonDevTeam. Thanks everyone. We appreciate your passion and all the commitment you have to providing us feedback and helping us learn more to evolve Marathon!
Scheduling: We're taking a crack at splitting up the Cryo and Ranked play windows, and trying to give some flex to week/weekend play with some tradeoffs. This change to the schedule means:
- Cryo and Ranked windows won't overlap.
- Cryo will start this week on Thursday 3/26 10AM PT and end on Sunday 3/29 10 AM PT.
- When Cryo queue closes, Ranked queue will go live Sunday 3/29 10 AM PT.
We'll keep watching the situation and looking at further improvements.
We have a lot of convos around the game going right now, but one thing we've aligned on and will be doing for the next Cryo window is making Subroutines a 100% drop from each vault. Thanks for the feedback we'll keep hammering on more updates.
I love and appreciate your open back and forth with the community! As a person who works long shifts on weekends it will be tough to grind out both Cryo and ranked but I for sure see the vision! I trust whatever you guys do will be good for the game even if I miss out a little!
Congratulations to all the runners whoβve been battling it out in the floating death fridge we call Cryo Archive! Weβve been watching and ingesting all the thoughts and feedback that weβre hearing, aggregating it and taking it down in notes. After this weekend weβll spend some time looking into feedback and thinking of the next iterations we want to make:
Main topics weβve noted so far:
- Scheduling : options for players who canβt play on weekends
- Solos : is there any way to play this map without joining a crew?
- Subroutines: can subroutines be more guaranteed as a drop from vaults?
Any of these may take some time to figure out so I canβt guarantee quick solutions here but weβll definitely discuss these topics as a team this week.
Thanks for sticking with us as we evolve the game, and helping us fight the good fight against the cyborgs, robots, and aliens!