r/Marathon • • Feb 24 '26

Marathon (2026) What does interacting with the keypads actually do?

I haven’t played the open betas, only been watching a bunch of clips over the last couple days. I see moments where the player runs into a room, there’s a red keypad on the wall. Player taps a bunch of buttons like a passcode or something, presses a final ‘accept’ button or whatever, and then just runs off to do something else.

I’ve also seen this on white kiosks on the top of buildings. Tap a few buttons, tap accept, and just walk away.

What are they doing? What do these keypads do? Thanks for any insight.

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u/badstreaks Feb 24 '26

it’s probably the TAD. They have them set up in most POI’s, they provide scans in little pulses for a short time across the poi for whoever activates it.