Bungie has vowed to proceed to replace Marathon for years to come back, stressing that it’s “in it for the lengthy haul”.
Marathon was launched earlier this month with Norway-based Alinea Analytics estimating final week that it had offered round 1.2 million copies.
Now, in a technical weblog submit geared toward serving to PC gamers attain 120 frames per second, Bungie has dedicated to the sport’s future, stating that it plans to proceed bettering it for plenty of years.
“Marathon is the primary DirectX 12 title that Bungie has shipped,” it defined to gamers. “We all know that a lot of you might have seen how a lot Marathon has modified visually over the previous 12 months. A lot of that change got here by your suggestions, and we wish to take an analogous method to efficiency in Marathon.
“Whereas we aren’t prepared to supply specifics but, we’ve got already recognized some smaller enhancements that we are able to make quickly, significantly to enhance CPU efficiency. We even have longer-term modifications deliberate that may additional enhance CPU efficiency.”
Bungie famous that its goal to launch a gradual stream of smaller updates as a substitute of rare giant ones, saying: “Our plan is to get enhancements out as quickly as we are able to, fairly than wait to drop all of them on the similar time (although this would possibly make them much less apparent).”
It concluded: “Whereas we’re very pleased with what we’ve got completed with the general feel and appear of the sport since Alpha, we’re in it for the lengthy haul with Marathon. We sit up for a few years of regular enhancements to each facet of the sport. Thanks for taking this journey with us.”
Whereas Alinea Analytics’ evaluation final month discovered that Marathon’s pre-launch gross sales had been slower than these of rival extraction shooter Arc Raiders, it additionally steered that Bungie’s recreation had “settled into a good rhythm”, with a comparatively secure each day participant rely.
VGC’s Marathon evaluation calls it “a hostile beast price taming”, stressing that there’s an satisfying recreation to be discovered for these prepared to place the time into it.
“Marathon is harking back to a number of the hardest elements of Future 2, moments of overwhelming hostility the place you’re feeling endangered even whereas having optimum tools for the duty,” we wrote. “The kind of problem that reminds you which you can by no means be too secure, and that hazard is at all times looming above your head.
“Nevertheless it’s these contesting moments, in Marathon and elsewhere, that mirror a story of resilience. One can solely hope that Bungie is given the grace of time to really put up a struggle.”
