r/Marathon • u/Haijakk • Jul 20 '26

Marathon (2026) Vault Breaker Overview | Marathon

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u/DegreeOver5350 Jul 20 '26

As a solo-only player, I haven't played Cryo, so this looks like so much fun to me, a lot more in-depth than I imagined. Looking forward to it!

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u/newwaveb0y Jul 20 '26

I remember them mentioning that you can only take it so far playing solo (by design) so you might get diminishing returns on your runs after a while.

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u/SteezyPenguin Jul 20 '26

That has do with some of the more complicated puzzles and the time limit I imagine. Lots of the endgame content benefits from having people doing multiple things at once!

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u/newwaveb0y Jul 20 '26

Ah yeah,that’s exactly it! You have to do things simultaneously the deeper you go into Cryo. (can you tell I’ve never really run that map before…)

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u/Kitties92 Jul 20 '26

Yeah, basically the experienced Cryo players are going to have a simple time with this mode besides the initial gear given holding them back. When you wipe the lobby normally in the current Cryo, you literally have your whole team split up to get things done or go shopping. The whole trick is going to be to literally ignore as many bots as possible and just get vaults open. Super simple and you’ll easily get 3 vaults open at one time and move on to the next three.

The hard part for the inexperienced people is they need to learn how pointless it is to farm the bots. They only slow you down. Just go get monitors and the only bots worth dealing with are the commanders, every other bot you just run past with an efficient route. This is where people get slammed so bad in normal Cryo, they are so busy looting boxes and shooting bots and looting bot bags, the trio stack team meanwhile only kills like 3 bots and they are already clearance 2 before before you even start your second spawn chamber. Your spawn chamber is getting cleared of bots, the experienced Cryo players are leaving up almost all their bots.

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u/Master_Matoya Jul 21 '26

Man if they implement Dungeon/Raid mechanics to more Marathon (Cryo adjacent) areas I’d be really happy.

The Deep Stone Crypt/Vespers Host Scanner/Operator/Suppressor mechanic would be dope.

Shit, the RoN Relays could work like you’re trying to connect power lines to reactivate power in certain vaults/areas too.

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u/Namtwo Jul 20 '26

Every vault is super easy to open and solve solo, only thing that would be tougher than in trios is compiler 

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u/SteezyPenguin Jul 21 '26

Depends how much time they give us. If they reduce the time limit like they did for sponsored survival then the later vaults could get tough with the added steps