Anybody get into the latest Marathon Technical Test? (Destiny)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Friday, October 24, 2025, 14:31 (22 hours, 56 minutes ago) @ cheapLEY

I played 3 games last night, solo queue.

I think that's your problem. This is not a game designed for playing alone.

I wonder how that will play out. I played a bunch of Arc Raiders over the weekend, sometimes with randoms, some with Korny and Sammy, and a bunch of it solo, and it works well in all those modes. I had a lot of tense fights, but plenty of times where I used proximity chat to talk to other solos and team up or at least agree to move along without screwing with each other. It was neat.

They also do a cool thing with the matchmaking. There aren’t different matchmaking queues for solo or groups, but the game does attempt to fill lobbies with the same team sizes, and it seemed to work well. And I think it’s neat, because it’s not a guarantee so you’re never totally sure if another player is alone. But it works both directions, so if you’re solo and run up on a team, they’re probably going to assume you have teammates.

I came away from Arc Raiders pretty impressed, counter to everything I’ve seen of Marathon. Granted, I haven’t actually played that. Hopefully they’ll have an open test before release so I can try it.

Sorry I didn't catch up with you last weekend. I'd read that about the matchmaking. Seems like they've made a lot of smart choices. Maybe Bungie can learn from them the way they said they learned from the Marathon alpha. Love the proximity chat thing. Reminds me of the handful of times I made friends playing Halo 2 matchmaking. Mostly, people just made rude comments about Miss Piggy, though.