Overview
- Marathon launches March 5 on PC (Steam), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with Bungie confirming a rolling, three‑month seasonal model and free updates.
- Each season enforces a full progression reset of gear, contracts, faction upgrades and player level, while cosmetics, Codex progress and liaison progression carry over; the first wipe arrives with Season 2 in June.
- Season 1, Death Is the First Step, debuts three planetside zones at launch, six Runner shells plus the solo Rook, six factions with upgrades and 28 weapons, with the Cryo Archive zone unlocking once the community meets in‑game requirements.
- Ranked mode is slated to open in the second half of March, and Bungie has previewed Season 2: Nightfall with a night variant of Dire Marsh, a new Runner shell and the Cradle system for deeper shell stat control.
- Alinea Analytics estimates roughly 250,000 Steam sales as of March 2, following a high‑concurrency Server Slam that also surfaced onboarding, UI and balance concerns Bungie began patching during the test and says it will continue to tune post‑launch.