Bungie has claimed that it has a story plan for its extraction shooter, Marathon, that stretches years into the longer term.
Marathon launched for consoles and PC in March and is estimated to have bought round 1.2 million copies in its opening weeks, and doubtlessly over 2 million thus far.
Bungie has already broadly dedicated to the sport’s future, however in a brand new interview with Video games Radar, its artistic director, Julia Nardin, has claimed that its improvement workforce has already deliberate out the framework for a years-long story.
“We all know the place we wish to take the story over the following few years, however I don’t wish to say it’s fully ‘locked in’ as a result of it’s vital to us that our gamers be capable of assist form it,” he mentioned, including that placing participant enter into the narrative is “a part of the magic of taking part in a reside service sport.”
In line with Nardin, the backstory of what occurred to Tau Ceti is “locked,” and Bungie plans so as to add extra clues to the planet’s backstory as the sport retains “evolving in methods which might be knowledgeable by its previous and a future that excites our gamers.”
The director additionally emphasised the significance of latest gamers having the ability to simply soar into the shooter, an issue Future suffered from, because it incessantly ‘vaulted’ older sport content material, making the expertise complicated for brand spanking new gamers.
“It’s additionally vital that gamers can soar into Marathon at any time,” he mentioned. “They’ll at all times be capable of uncover the mysteries of Tau Ceti’s previous whereas experiencing its current. We would like each season to be a brand new entry level, and for brand spanking new gamers to have the ability to perceive what’s occurring no matter how lengthy we’ve all been working.”
Bungie says it’s aiming to launch a gentle stream of smaller updates for Marathon, as an alternative of rare massive ones, saying: “Our plan is to get enhancements out as quickly as we will, reasonably than wait to drop all of them on the similar time (though this would possibly make them much less apparent).
