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Bungie has released Update 1.0.0.4 for Marathon, which delivers a number of quality of life tweaks and balancing changes. The biggest update addresses enemies using the UESC warrior code.
UESC enemies should now feel less punishing to players while on marathon runs. Patch notes say that Bungie decreased the health of most UESC enemies. They also decreased the shield health of UESC type bosses.
Bungie said that they want to ease the resource-management crunch felt during combat, especially while solo-ing.
UESC Enemies Now Easier to Deal With
Combat against UESC forces has received the largest gameplay change in Update 1.0.0.4.
Key combat changes include:
- Reduced health for most UESC enemies
- Reduced shield HP for UESC bosses
Players should especially feel the difference when running activities solo, as it can be easier to burn through resources without a full crew.
Contract and Objective Improvements
A few contract tweaks and fixes were added with the update:
- Increased distance for objective navstone from 10m to 20m
- Added New NuCaloric Contract
- Added New Traxus Contract
- Decreased difficulty of UESC Commander encounters
- Fixed contract announcement audio/subtitles playing from far away distances
Quality of life improvements like this should help keep players better informed of their active missions and assist with some of the more annoying encounters.
Outpost Map Adjustment
Bungie temporarily took down one route on the Outpost zone map:
- Broken Wing entrance disabled
The developers say that this entrance made the Pinwheel too easy to reach. The doorway is being relocated to better fit the risk/reward of the zone. In the meantime players can still find their way to the Pinwheel by other means.
Rewards, Store, and Stability Improvements
The patch included some bug fixes for the store and technical improvements:
- Fixed Silk balance not refreshing
- Fixed bundle prices displaying incorrectly
- Fixed cosmetics displaying “Savings” tags
- Increased total LUX in LUX bundle from 1100 - 1120
- Fixed rare dedicated server crash
- Fixed multiple client crashes
Update 1.0.0.4 is clearly meant to help the overall flow of the game. By making some of the early game enemies like the UESC a bit easier to kill and fixing several crashes, this should help both solo and crew players have a much smoother experience.
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