{"id":1528301,"date":"2026-03-16T21:47:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iJAqZ8LYbsgi6eCamREJEB"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:47:38","slug":"bungie-is-adding-an-experimental-duos-mode-to-marathon-for-a-few-weeks-some-things-will-be-a-bit-jank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/bungie-is-adding-an-experimental-duos-mode-to-marathon-for-a-few-weeks-some-things-will-be-a-bit-jank\/","title":{"rendered":"Bungie is adding an &#8216;experimental&#8217; duos mode to Marathon for a few weeks: &#8216;Some things will be a bit jank&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>When it comes to matchmaking, Marathon covers the basics: You can go solo and play against only other solos, or fill in a group of three to face other squads. But the community has been vocal about the desire for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/bungie-is-considering-a-dedicated-duos-mode-and-time-to-kill-changes-after-marathon-sever-slam-feedback\/\">duos mode<\/a> since the sever slam in February, and now Bungie&#8217;s ready to give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>An &#8220;experimental&#8221; duos queue will go live in Marathon on Wednesday, March 18. It&#8217;ll run on one map (Perimeter) for around two weeks, but Bungie might yank it out early or keep it around based on player feedback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just a note: this is a bit of an experimental feature so we expect to learn some things along the way and make changes to future versions of this,&#8221; wrote Marathon game director <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ziegler_Dev\/status\/2033633870835593280?s=20\">Joe Ziegler on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The duos-only Perimeter will appear as its own map option on the deployment screen, which Ziegler notes does not represent how it&#8217;ll be presented in its final version.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This likely won&#8217;t be the final implementation of how it would look and flow in the game, but for now it was [the] easiest way for us to get it to you all to help us test. We&#8217;re excited to run this experiment with you all. Pending what we learn, we&#8217;re hoping to expand duos as a queue in the future and we wanted to take this first step sooner than later so we could understand how it affects our game better before investing a lot more time in fleshing out the feature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alright everyone we&#8217;re going a bit rogue here. We have a bit of an experimental feature that&#8217;s in development we want to test and we&#8217;d love for you to help. As of Wednesday morning 3\/18 at 10am PT, we&#8217;ll be enabling a limited time duos queue on Perimeter only to test how the game\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2033633870835593280\">March 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a player, duos mode sounds like a &#8220;nice to have&#8221; option for times when I have exactly one friend to play Marathon with, but I understand why Bungie is approaching it like a significant undertaking: changing the makeup of squads changes how maps flow and how players behave on them. We don&#8217;t know exactly how loot is affected by player count, but I wonder if duos might also change the density of supplies in compounds.<\/p>\n<p>Matchmaking times are another consideration: Marathon already splits its matchmaking into six pools (soon to be eight with Cryo Archive) by letting solos\/squads specify which of the three maps they play on. Duos would introduce yet another set of queues, and the effect that&#8217;s likely to have on wait times is surely part of Wednesday&#8217;s test.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"13761733-15b0-4f0c-aa78-58e1c5abdf08\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Marathon best weapons tier list: Our top picksMarathon best characters tier list: Top Runner ShellsMarathon roadmap: What's comingMarathon Lockbox Keys: How to get 'emMarathon upgrades: Which to pickMarathon DCON locations: Contract dropboxes Marathon best weapons tier list\" data-dimension48=\"Marathon best weapons tier list: Our top picksMarathon best characters tier list: Top Runner ShellsMarathon roadmap: What's comingMarathon Lockbox Keys: How to get 'emMarathon upgrades: Which to pickMarathon DCON locations: Contract dropboxes Marathon best weapons tier list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1032px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"eUWF25hnKBuYMPFBJKc5yc\" name=\"marathon-boxout\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bungie-is-adding-an-experimental-duos-mode-to-marathon-for-a-few-weeks-some-things-will-be-a-bit-jank.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1032\" height=\"1032\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/marathon-weapons-tier-list-best-guns\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"13761733-15b0-4f0c-aa78-58e1c5abdf08\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Marathon best weapons tier list: Our top picksMarathon best characters tier list: Top Runner ShellsMarathon roadmap: What's comingMarathon Lockbox Keys: How to get 'emMarathon upgrades: Which to pickMarathon DCON locations: Contract dropboxes Marathon best weapons tier list\" data-dimension48=\"Marathon best weapons tier list: Our top picksMarathon best characters tier list: Top Runner ShellsMarathon roadmap: What's comingMarathon Lockbox Keys: How to get 'emMarathon upgrades: Which to pickMarathon DCON locations: Contract dropboxes Marathon best weapons tier list\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Marathon best weapons tier list<\/strong><\/a>: Our top picks<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/marathon-characters-tier-list-best-runner-shells\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marathon best characters tier list<\/strong><\/a>: Top Runner Shells<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/marathon-roadmap\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marathon roadmap<\/strong><\/a>: What&#8217;s coming<br \/><strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/marathon-lockbox-key-locations\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marathon Lockbox Keys<\/strong><\/a>: How to get &#8217;em<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/marathon-faction-upgrades-best-skills\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marathon upgrades<\/strong><\/a>: Which to pick<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/marathon-dcon-locations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marathon DCON locations<\/strong><\/a>: Contract dropboxes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/bungie-is-adding-an-experimental-duos-mode-to-marathon-for-a-few-weeks-some-things-will-be-a-bit-jank\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to matchmaking, Marathon covers the basics: You can go solo and play against only other solos, or fill in a group of three to face other squads. But the community has been vocal about the desire for a duos mode since the sever slam in February, and now Bungie&#8217;s ready to give it a shot. An &#8220;experimental&#8221; duos queue will go live in Marathon on Wednesday, March 18. It&#8217;ll run on one map (Perimeter) for around two weeks, but Bungie might yank it out early or keep it around based on player feedback. &#8220;Just a note: this is a bit of an experimental feature so we expect to learn some things along the way and make changes to future versions of this,&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/bungie-is-adding-an-experimental-duos-mode-to-marathon-for-a-few-weeks-some-things-will-be-a-bit-jank\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1528302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[91,748],"class_list":["post-1528301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-fps","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bungie is adding an &#039;experimental&#039; 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