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Marathon Makes Big Change To Tempt Casual Players Into Endgame Map

Marathon’s latest update makes a big change to entice more casual players into one of the game’s toughest maps.

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Marathon has been continuing to drop tweaks, hotfixes, and updates since its early March release date to keep players engaged and to try and attract new gamers to the tough extraction shooter. The latest update just arrived and it makes another big change to reduce a big hurdle for more casual players.

Marathon Adds One Free Cryo Archive Sponsored Kit Per Week

Update 1.0.6.2 is available now and includes a long list of tweaks for Marathon players to dig into. The biggest highlight though is a tweak to the item economy that gives all players one free Cryo Archive Sponsored Kit each week.

To enter the Cryo Archive, players need to meet several requirements. One of the biggest hurdles for more casual players is that to enter the map your loadout needs to be worth at least 5,000 credits. That’s a lot of resources to put at risk for the average player, so many gamers just opt to sit out and never experience the Cryo Archive at all.

Marathon is trying to put an end to that limitation by giving every player what is essentially one “free” or low risk trip to the Cryo Archive per week. This seems like a great benefit for more casual players and the only risk is that the competitive and serious spirit of the map could be compromised in some matches if players are able to enter without any real skin in the game.

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