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![Marathon | Ultimate Overview, Gameplay, Hands-On Impressions ▪️Team based extraction shooter set on Tau Ceti IV, scavenge remains of a lost colony for glory and fortune ▪️Launch: Coming to PS5, Xbox and PC on September 23 ▪️Will be a "premium" product, meaning not F2P ▪️"Weapons and movement feels crisp, fluid, and incredibly satisfying in that rarified way that few studios can achieve" ▪️3 maps, 6 runner classes at launch, more to follow post-launch ▪️Plans to support the game with new maps, weapons, characters, and more as it goes on ▪️Ranked play, end game challenges, seasonal storytelling, secrets to discover, community events all in Season One with more content coming ▪️You play as a "runner", cybernetic mercenary who's given up their human form for a bio-synthetic shell with unique abilities and stats ▪️Runner Types: "Locus" is a soldier class for pushing forward, can use a shield, "Void" is stealth, sneak by undetected, use smoke grenades, "Blackbird" is reconnaissance based, find players, positioning, and more ▪️Uncover secrets hidden in the wake of the original Marathon trilogy's events - how and where this overlaps or clashes with the original games "is a story that will unfold over time" ▪️Objective is to get in, get as much loot as you can, and get out alive ▪️If you die, your gear and loot will be up for grabs. Survive and you can take your gear with you on future runs as you grow in power and fill your vault ▪️Fight in a crew of up to 3 players, various map sizes up to 18 players ▪️PvP + PvE, battle other players, security forces, and "otherworldly threats" ▪️Contextual pings, shared objectives, down-but-not-out mechanics ▪️Environments are filled with weapons, materials, items, resources, cores, keys, backpacks, secrets etc to find You can find things like backpacks that expand your inventory, powerful and unique weapons, consumables to heal yourself, ▪️Select your runner, strategically build your loadouts pre-match ▪️Factions in the game can sponsor you and your loadout ▪️You have the freedom to opt out of crew fill and take all the glory for yourself as a solo runner ▪️"This is probably the best-looking, best-feeling extraction shooter ever made", not easy for newcomers to the genre, can be tough to get into, but one previewer was "reluctant to put Marathon down. This is a good sign – the best thing I can say after any preview is that I want more – but big questions remain" ▪️No two matches ever play out the same, dynamic events, variable weather, unpredictable players etc ▪️Customization: Each Runner "brings their own flair", but serve as foundations to customize your playstyle - collect implants and equipment to augment your Runner, like stacking implants/upgrades to reduce heat build-up to allow you to keep running, jumping, sliding longer ▪️Contracts: "Ingenious" incentives, finish contracts you accept for permanent upgrades to your stats, add precious items like grenades, shields, inventory-expanding backpacks, etc to your market. The bigger your market, the better your minimum loadout becomes ▪️Contracts provide "valuable direction", bring welcome diversity and add a "precious hit of semi-permanent progression" ▪️Prestige Cores: Rare items that can "really push the boundaries" (ex: Glitch has an upgrade that turns double jump into triple jump for more manueverability) ▪️Another rare item is a backpack that turns you invisible while interacting with containers (very useful when everyone on the map is hunting you) ▪️Each match "feels like the most important one ever", high stakes, "surprisingly challenging AI enemies" that were "much, much better at surrounding and overwhelming players than the vast majority of AI enemies found in other games" ▪️Having a balanced crew helps in exploring the "dark and forgotten places" in maps - filled with deadly creatures like a species of giant ticks who swarm you frantically ▪️Battles can become frantic as you encounter other crews, stalk them across the map, encounter AI enemies to fend off when others come to claim your loot (one preview battle turned into a 9 player free-for-all) ▪️Downside could be the reward system where skilled players enter fresh matches with high level gear that outmatches less skilled players, though Bungie says it has gone out of its way to try and make it where a poorly equipped squad can still stand a chance if they play well ▪️Even if you die, you can can still get upgrades, improve your reputation with factions, advance in perk trees, etc by completing various quests, looting chests, or fulfilling specific objectives which unlock new bits of story and can grant perks like buying slightly better gear from vendors ▪️"The world Bungie has built is every bit as beautiful as it is creepy and dystopian, and there are moments where they satisfyingly hint at the events of the Marathon trilogy from the ‘90s", though "what little I saw did only slightly more than pay lip service to the world" ▪️Uses the seasonal reset model like in Diablo 4, where players are stripped of their loot and progress at the end of each season to mix things up with new content and new meta ▪️Game is designed to get you killed, Bungie expects average exfiltration rates to be comfortably below 50% ▪️"You will lose a lot, and losing hurts a lot[...]Extracts are snapshots of this unpredictability. That white-knuckle countdown may become a gut-punch defeat, an unforgettable clutch, a desperate last-second dive into the portal as your downed allies watch in envy and horror (couldn't be me), or an unnerving anticlimax. It's not always a pleasant one, but it is a strong emotional hook" ▪️Some previewers worried about variety, weren't impressed with the objectives in the alpha, like hunting computer monitors on the map, sprinting over, marking dropships, sprinting over, and repeating, though random events help spice things up ▪️Not a 20-map game says Bungie, map design "does have that sticky battle royale quality of generating memories", though still worried 3-4 medium sized maps might not be enough ▪️Bungie's "verbiage" on updates sounds like possibly 1 new map a year + refreshing existing ones in between, which could work in its favor pushing players to really learn maps, but will they hold up over hundreds of hours? ▪️Fights are decided by gun skill, clever ability use, map awareness, how strong your shield is, how many healing supplies you have, etc ▪️Example: If you have one bar of shield and enemy has four, you'll lose 1v1, but change it up with powerful grenades, status effects like toxic or overheat, backpacks are "transformative", etc Gameplay Trailer ▶️ Gameplay Overview ▶️ PS Blog ➡️ IGN ➡️ GamesRadar ➡️ ▶️](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1911151387884368075/amplify_video_thumb/1911144961749184512/img/PCWzZVWXyT_s-3eX.jpg)
![Kremlin-backed bots have begun circulating videos about “an assassination attempt” on Viktor Orban. The staged incident was part of a secret plan by the SVR The “Matryoshka” disinformation network, linked to the Russian authorities, has begun circulating videos on the social media platform X about an “alleged coup being prepared in Hungary” in the event of a victory by the ruling Fidesz party in the upcoming parliamentary elections, as well as preparations for “an assassination attempt" on its leader and Prime Minister Viktor Orban, bot blocker | блокировщик ботов told the “Agentstvo”. On Saturday, The Washington Post reported on a proposal by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) to stage an assassination attempt on Orban to ensure his and Fidesz’s victory in the elections. Details. The first video containing information about a possible assassination attempt on Orbán was published on March 17. The video, attributed to Deutsche Welle, states that “a group of Ukrainian refugees sustained fatal injuries in Hungary while attempting to detonate a homemade explosive device near Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s office.” Thanks to inflated views, the tweet with the video garnered about 100,000 views. ▪️Two days later, a video bearing the logo of “Television and Radio Moldova” (TRM) was published, falsely claiming that Hungarians were receiving messages from Ukrainians “calling on them to take up arms, resist the authorities, and kill Orban.” Another video bearing the logo of the Ukrainian media platform United24 falsely claimed that Oleg Tatarov, deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, had called on Hungarians to “vote with their blood.” The video also reported that Tatarov had called on people to take up arms and achieve “the liberation of Hungary through bloodshed.” The tweet garnered 23,000 views. ▪️One of the videos published on March 20 (the tweet with the video garnered 24,000 views) falsely claimed that Yevhen Khmara, acting head of the SBU, had posted Orban’s personal information on X, including his addresses, with the call to “Take action.” The tweet stated that “Ukraine seeks to spread the flames of bloody revolutions across Europe, starting with Hungary.” ▪️Matryoshka’s videos also mention that “Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he could pass Viktor Orban’s phone number to the Ukrainian military,” and that Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins allegedly accused the SBU of preparing a “plan for a violent seizure of power in Hungary.” ▪️A representative of the “Bot Blocker” project said that he had not previously encountered threats of a military coup in “Matryoshka” if a pro-Kremlin candidate won the election. “In the case of the U.S. presidential [election], there were only threats of unrest from those who did not recognize Trump’s victory. In other election [campaigns], it seems there wasn’t even that,” the project representative wrote to the “Agentstvo.” ▪️Matryoshka accounts began posting videos related to the Hungarian elections on March 13. Starting March 19, the elections were mentioned in all videos. “Based on the experience in Moldova and Armenia, this is one of the best indicators of the campaign’s objectives,” wrote a representative of “Bot Blocker.” SVR Proposal. On Saturday, the WP, citing an internal SVR report, reported that Russian intelligence was concerned about Orban’s falling approval ratings and proposed a way to “fundamentally change the paradigm of the election campaign” by “organizing an assassination attempt” on the prime minister. ▪️According to documents reviewed by the WP, the plan included creating videos using AI and spreading disinformation on social media. ▪️It is unclear at what level within the Russian leadership the SVR’s proposal was reviewed. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the publication “an example of disinformation.” Context. Elections in Hungary will take place on April 12. In early March, the publication Vsquare reported that three GRU officers had arrived in Budapest posing as diplomats, tasked with influencing the elections and ensuring Orban’s victory. The campaign plan was approved by Vladimir Putin, the Financial Times reported. ▪️Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has made 16 official visits to Moscow, the most recent of which took place on March 4. In addition, as one European diplomat told the WP, Szijjarto regularly called Sergey Lavrov during breaks in EU meetings to provide him with “operational reports.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2035680330456199373/amplify_video_thumb/2035680024284794881/img/h2LbRrgYzt7nyDFE.jpg)