Gaming: After a very fun, but very frustrating, first weekend, Bungie is considering tweaking Marathon's Cryo Archive
Marathon has concluded its first weekend of Cryo Archive, thrusting its player base (and all their good gear) into a challenging new map to explore and conquer. With new activities comes new feedback, and Marathon's game director has acknowledged a few key requests that are up for discussion internally. These focus around three major pain points: allowing access to Cryo Archive at times other than the weekend, removing the potential for incredibly important subroutines to not drop inside solved vaults, and offering an option for solo players to queue for the end-game activity. All of these potential plans, it turns out, have irked a subset of the game's community in some form. On X, Zieger broke down the thought process at Bungie surrounding these potential changes. "We've been watching and ingesting all the thoughts and feedback that we're hearing, aggregating it and taking it down in notes," Ziegler wrote. "After this weekend we'll spend some time looking into feedback and thinking of the next iterations we want to make." Ziegler directly asks whether options for players who can't play on weekends are possible, and if there is any way to play Cryo Archive even if you don't have a three-person fireteam ready to go, and whether can subroutines be more guaranteed as a drop from vaults. "Any of these may take some time to figure out so I can't guarantee quick solutions here but we'll definitely discuss these topics as a team this week," Ziegler noted. In case you're wondering, Cryo Archive is a lot of fun. It's a great way to use up all the loot you've hoarded away during the week. However, there are some real teeth-grinding aspects to it to. Namely, for those of us without friends able to jump into the Cryo Archive, having to team up with random people can prove exceptionally frustrating when they get caught out and die, then quit out instead of hanging back and waiting for a respawn. Losing your hard-fought gear because of people you don't know just bottle it i
Source: Eurogamer