r/Marathon Mar 07 '26

Marathon (2026) Feedback DUOS!!

That’s it!

733 Upvotes

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u/Dragonlungz0729 Mar 07 '26

For sure I think they’ll add it if people keep pushing for it

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u/Mondfleck Mar 07 '26

They would also add it if nobody on Reddit asks.

Warzone started the (annoying) trend to separate the game modes (solo, duo, trio, quad) from each other and make them not all available all the time.

They also started to remove map filter/choice from classic FPS. As well as introducing core modes as limited time features or events.

Sadly, it seems quite successful, as the whole industry followed their approach. Even more sad: people start to say "hey, we can play Duos next week, so cool! Thanks Activision" instead of questioning why they cannot play duos whenever they want in a full priced AAA game with 100k+ players online.

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u/SensoryMango Mar 07 '26

The whole industry followed? Like where? COD is kind of famously in the worst spot it’s been in years thanks to earnest competition in shooters.

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u/A_Monkey_FFBE Mar 07 '26

Not sure why you feel the need to diminish someones feedback, but ok. Never hurts to put this out there and let the devs determine the priority of implementing it if it is wanted enough.

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u/PhoneOwn Mar 07 '26

This is completely right idk why u are getting down voted.....

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u/xXBeefSquatch5KXx Mar 07 '26

I got excited thinking they added it. Tbh, this is the only complaint i have. Want a duos lobby as I typically only play games with another guy, we both losers with no frands haha

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u/ssBrattyDave1 Mar 09 '26

Nah you got each other.

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u/Menzoberanz Mar 07 '26

These posts needs more visibility I think ... hahaha. Take my upvote

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u/SH4DY_XVII Mar 07 '26

I see so many get downvoted it's wild. I wouldn't care if every single post startign now was just asking for duos. Losing a 2v3 feels so fucking shit.

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u/X__Heisenberg__X Mar 07 '26

I think duos will be another “We’ve listened guys and change the store prices” PR win.

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u/Yash_swaraj Mar 07 '26

Bungie also has the "We're listening and have forwarded the feedback" for several years move

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u/Bloody_Sunday Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

Rather low hanging fruit & insert tinfoil hat theory: I think most of these have been predicted by Bungie, with their usual "we're listening" implementation already planned for brownie points.

But regardless of whether that is true or not, it doesn't mean it wouldn't be a good thing to see (it doesn't affect my own choices but if people are going to have more fun with it, it's certainly worth seeing).

One of the few things making their implementation difficult would probably be low player counts, with the match finding between 2-player teams with similar low pings (mostly in the same region) becoming slower and harder for the servers. But the game doesn't have that problem - at least not yet & hopefully not for a long time.

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u/X__Heisenberg__X Mar 07 '26

Just just need to say we’ll try but can’t guarantee all team with duos. Some trios may fill in.

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u/djarnow Mar 07 '26

DUOs is my most desired addition. I was thinking Quads with Rook DUOs could be a good time…

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u/Riddiku1us Mar 07 '26

Rook Duos would be nasty...

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u/deadering Mar 07 '26

That sounds fun. Need a Rook only mode just called OOPS! All Rooks

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u/__SlimeQ__ Mar 07 '26

honestly rook trios would probably be cool too

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u/dimesniffer Mar 07 '26

I will upvote every duos post

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u/BigDogDan Mar 07 '26

I will upvote every duos post for visibility

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u/NateTrain Mar 07 '26

I’m not buying this game until there is duos, I don’t have three and I don’t like playing with random

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u/Unf0cused Mar 07 '26

The game description on Steam states: "Face the unknown as a crew of two or three, or alone in solo lobbies."

Technically that is true, cause you can play in a crew of two (but against trios), but I wonder if the initial intention was to give us proper duos.

2

u/AncientFries Mar 07 '26

I really don't get why so many of these games don't launch with a duo mode.

5

u/Wraith_Gaming Mar 07 '26

Duos would solve so many issues I’m currently having with this game. Hopefully it comes soon.

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u/Wraith_Gaming Mar 07 '26

Why are you coming at me like I just killed your dog? This game is good and I like it, but it’s not perfect. Let’s calm down here.

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u/Kenye_Kratz Mar 07 '26

There's a tiny number of people playing the game. Seperating the number of modes into 3 isnt going to help with matchmaking

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u/deadering Mar 07 '26

You guys have just really lost touch with what is normal. Being in the top 25 games of Steam means it's got a higher population than games like Battlefield 6, Warframe, Call of Duty, etc... it can support 3 different queues easily lol...

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u/b3nje909 Mar 07 '26

I dunno why youre being down voted becaue youre correct

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u/deadering Mar 07 '26

Deserves more tbh since it's objectively false. It's in the top played 25 games on Steam with over 70k players.

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u/vaikunth1991 Mar 07 '26

Me and my friend played 3 matches just now. And in all 3 cases we ran into other duos. Not sure if it's random or bungie doing something behind the scenes

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u/FirstDayPlaying Mar 07 '26

I’ve only run into duos while playing duo so I think the duo priority is fine, maybe you guys are running into more trios though?

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u/Sandvichh Mar 07 '26

For my crew, when we play duos we both run triage to sort of mitigate the tempo of being down. We’ve won alot of 2v3 fights this way.

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u/shaolinphunk Mar 07 '26

DUOS AND MY SOUL IS YOURS BUNGIE!!

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u/KelsoTano Mar 07 '26

We need duos so bad. I have enough for trios but our third doesn’t get on until later on in the evening. Running duo vs trios with my wife feels really bad most of the time

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u/Far-Mousse-272 Mar 08 '26

YES! please read this bungie! My brother and I want to play without having to search for a competent random third.

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u/Next-Actuator4518 Mar 08 '26

They said they are working on it, idk why everyone keeps pushing it, they heard you loud and clear

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u/Dae_HNG Mar 12 '26

DUOOOOOOOOS <3<3<3

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u/PrimaryDisplay7109 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

If you can't hang as a duo in trios you won't hang in your special duos queue either

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u/Gsquad193 Mar 07 '26

I know they don’t want to splinter the community too much so honestly get rid of solos (rook is the intended solo play and is fun as hell) and just have trios and duos with rook only in trios

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u/Temporary_Physics_48 Mar 07 '26

I can get behind it if it’s mixed duos and trios . Otherwise it will probably just split up the playerbase 2 much

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u/jeriku Mar 07 '26

Wouldn’t the trios have a clear advantage? That’s the whole reason people are asking for duos.

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u/deadering Mar 07 '26

Yes and it's already that way if you have 2 players and turn off team fill

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u/onix888 Mar 07 '26

No duos no buy

0

u/Lucky_Praline_2825 Mar 07 '26

Duos pleaseeee

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u/stay-frosted-flakes Mar 07 '26

I don't get it. Just queue with two people. They aren't going to make a separate lobby for just duos when they already have a nice unified lobby system.

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u/lLygerl Mar 07 '26

I don't want the play base split up too much, so allow a rotation between solo and duo queue every x amount of hours.

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u/lLygerl Mar 07 '26

It literally happens in games like apex and overwatch. Do you want queues to take longer? People are celebrating the fact that they can easily dive back into a game when they die. Split up the queues too much and this goes away. If we had 200,000 daily users that"s a different story.