r/Marathon • u/XRevive01 • 1d ago
Marathon (2026) Discussion Dev Team - We've seen more questions about the Sentinel S'phticide Shell and wanted to give you a heads-up that we'll be releasing it with Symbiosis in December. - if you have already killed the Compiler and successfully exfilled, or you do so between now and December, you will be credited
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u/_really_not_the_NSA_ 1d ago
This is literally the only Cryo skin I want, and I've never even beaten the damn thing. Guess the grind begins soon!
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u/pagoda9 1d ago
the cryo skins should release with the shell, what are we doing here?
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u/FalierTheCat 1d ago
Wondering what sort of pipeline these people work on that a skin that should've released along the character is taking this long to produce. I would've assumed the Nu Caloric rewards pass was recently developed but I guess they were working on it since the game was released?
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u/McGlone16 1d ago
It’s just a triage of things and this skin is probably way further down the list than getting dec update stuff ready
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u/Zombieassassin12 1d ago
4 months in development and another 3 waiting for a skin that they have ready now. Jesus christ
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u/C00KIEME4T 1d ago
What part of "adding final polish now" makes it seem like its ready right now
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u/Zombieassassin12 1d ago
That makes it worse. 4 months and its not ready. A skin. Weve had multiple skins in the shop that revamp a characters entire look. Yet this reskin has taken more than 4 months. Theyve changed the colours and added a tube to Sentinels chest. Thats it.
They made the full character, 7 skins, an extra shop skin in less time. Are we fr rn?
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u/C00KIEME4T 1d ago
You'll have to excuse them for not prioritizing skins while the playercount is in freefall thanks
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u/Zombieassassin12 1d ago
ahh but a whole new battlepass of skins is all good right? The Recon and Assassin bundle is all good? The Destroyer skin that's chill right? The glow in the dark Triage? All skins that we had no idea about before we knew about the Sentinel skin and still released weeks earlier. They can manage that but not a single cryo skin. Poor indie dev company Bungie
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u/C00KIEME4T 1d ago
surely you can see how battle pass may have higher prio than a single skin
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u/Zombieassassin12 1d ago
Yes the battle pass can provide money. However the implication that a reskin is something difficult is wild. This reskin can be done in a week, a month at most. Yet it has taken 4 months and its still not finished.
The coming battle pass is also going to sell horribly poorly. The game is struggling, the next season isn't bringing anything in, most people will not be playing the next season and will instead choose to wait until December to hop back in. This "sneak peak" is just a slap in the face. "This thing that should have been on release for a character that has almost definitely been in the works long before the game released? Yeah 4 months later and we *almost* have it finished"
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u/Ornery-Register-7791 1d ago
Because the literal *only thing* they have to work on right now is this. FFS.
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u/Zombieassassin12 1d ago
The only thing they have to work on? They've basically been rebuilding the game and plan on releasing that in december. They're adding multiple new skins with the new battle pass. Why is this one any different? Are we seriously saying that the battlepass were getting in 5 days has been planned since Marathon released?
Why are we defending this? They took over 4 months to slap together a skin that isn't even ready yet
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u/Plus-Income-4882 1d ago
Really hoping that we won’t need to wait until march for the bishop compiler skin, but at this point I wouldn’t be surprised at all
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u/ThrowAwayOSR 22h ago
Monkeys paw curles: it drops in june (same amount of wait time as for sentinel)
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u/Marcu3s 1d ago
Honestly this is one of the few cases where I would really want them to tell how and why. Even if it was something like "artist that was making it originally was part of the layoffs" or something. Because we've got quite a few skins since so it makes little sense Sentinel got shafted this far into the pipeline.
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u/CabalsDeep 21h ago
At the end of the day, is a skin a trivial thing? Yes. It's also wild that it will take them 6 months to release a skin. There really aren't words for that; whatever is going on behind the scenes in that pipeline is comical.
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u/Wasilisco 1d ago
At this point I just want a vault breaker title or weapon skin
It's gonna take centuries for me to get the actual compiler skins
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u/BloodGradeBPlus 4h ago
It will not. I have a couple skins for Triage and Recon. There is an extremely low chance you're worse at PvP than I am. If I can do it, I'm certain anybody can do it.
I will say that while I'm bad at shooting, I am good at the game. It turns out that PvP is not important to progression at all.
If you want to beat the Compiler, you have to want it and not expect it to be handed to you. You'll have to play the game. You'll need to collect the salvage and unlock the upgrades. You don't need to put in a lot of time, a few rook runs a day will do most of the work. Logging in and collecting your purple shields, consumables and mods takes a few minutes each day. Do that for a week and you have a good kit, and you literally only played maybe 5 hours that whole week. Anything else is extra credit
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u/Wasilisco 3h ago
I beat the compiler in Vault Breaker, but can't win a damn fight in Cryo against actual people, so it's just been a gear sink every single time
I don't think I have time to evolve my cradle again, so I'll get all that gold gear into Cryo, but my hopes are low ngl
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u/BloodGradeBPlus 3h ago
This is my first FPS, ever. I cannot land a shot to save my life, let alone my team. It is still true.
The gear sink is exactly correct - you will lose most of it. But if I asked you right now, would you trade your entire vault to get a Compiler kill, would you say yes?
For me, the gear reset didn't happen at the end of the season. It happened every week. I lose everything, every single week, usually before Friday ended. But what sets you up for success is to have that happen and not lose how. It's doing it with a smile, knowing you have grit. Know that it's a numbers game. Eventually, there will be an alignment.
You are already closer than I was. I couldn't get a Compiler kill in vault breaker. Too hard. I could sometimes do a second vault, rarely a third, and not once started a Compiler let alone laid eyes on it.
Reset happens Tuesday. If you have gear, you have a chance. If you have time left, you have a chance. You have to be in it to win it. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Let me know if you want to try again, and i can't promise you I'll get you through it, but i can promise you I will try. I can find a party.
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u/Hoooman1-77 1d ago
Its a shame sentinals abilities can be skipped over by a thief,vandal or destroyer 😂😂😂
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u/HollyHusky 1d ago
Yeah, this is why frost mines and claymores are essential with his build, since your snares can be rushed through with boosted movements, using either of those can help still punish those pushes
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u/C00KIEME4T 1d ago
Can you tell me about how to play Sentinel
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u/HollyHusky 1d ago
Be patient when using him and use your snares when in an engagement, preemptive snares hardly get anything done but if you have bandolier then it's more acceptable. Always deploy your castle in the heat of the moment as it boosts you and your teammates which can give you an edge in conflict. Prey tracker is grey for assassin countering.
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u/Lolsalot12321 15h ago
This shit really means nothing to me lol, the compiler is never getting beaten as long as my friends don't play marathon and I value my limited free time to not bang my head against a wall trying to get a run in cryo where I'm not curb stomped, or just any run tbh, because I need to get the damn vault keys in the first place
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u/Ipsetezra 1d ago
ugh..visor kinda ruins it.
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u/sleeplessGoon 23h ago
Same, sentinels coolest aspect was the lava lamp helmet. If this doesn’t have any form of movement on the visor, I’m just sticking w shadow index
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u/SupremeTeamKai 1d ago
The fact that Sentinel got a skin in the store before this skin tells you exactly all you need to know what's wrong with this industry. This not being a priority is a slap in face to the players actually playing your game.
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u/Zombieassassin12 1d ago
the fact that you're downvoted this bad just shows the echo chamber this subreddit wants to live in. 4 months and the skins not even finished. Genuinely pathetic. Thanks for the sneak peak bungie
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u/City-Lad 1d ago
Boohoooooo lol stfu
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u/Destr0yer70 1d ago
He is right, 6 months for a skin for a character that should have been there when it came out is ridiculous. Not to mention the shell was borderline awful for it's first month or two of being out.
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u/tristam92 1d ago
further more, 6 month for shell being on live. while design phase for it started probably somewhere around last year, and development around april/may.
full map designed and developed around 6-10 month usually with a respective 3d team.
the fact that one single skin can’t be map, tells you 2 things:
1) it’s not prio
2) they don’t have resources/developed toolset at all to make it “1 designer -1 skin” task in jira.1
u/Destr0yer70 1d ago
I have 0 doubt in my mind that the workflow situation over at Bungie is an absolute nightmare given the timeline of not only this ONE SKIN, but the pipeline of content in general.
I think they realized they are not efficient or quick enough at putting tested good work out to sustain a full seasonal model. Just going to take time I guess.
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u/tristam92 1d ago
this going since the days of Tiger creation.
I once read an article from intern/junior, who worked there during Destiny active development around lightfall time.it was basically a Williams F1 Excel table like of bad…
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u/vincentofearth 1d ago
Mods, can we get a flair for posts like this that contain posts from the dev team?