Overview
- Bungie announced on Monday that the update planned for September 22 will now arrive as part of a larger Symbiosis release on December 8.
- The studio will issue a focused October 6 update that resets player progression and the in-game economy, refreshes the reward pass, and applies tuning and quality-of-life fixes.
- Symbiosis is billed as a major relaunch that will add Marathon’s first permanent PvE experience, a refreshed Perimeter zone, a new Runner shell, a social space with a firing range, an experimental team-deathmatch mode, and onboarding improvements.
- Bungie said it will stop using a strict seasonal schedule and move to a more flexible, experiment-driven cadence so teams can build and test larger features before release.
- The changes come as peak Steam concurrent players for Marathon fell over the summer and Bungie cut staff and listed office space for sublease, which reporters say raises uncertainty about the studio’s capacity to sustain long-term support.