Marathon patch notes today – Update 1.1.5.2: Vault Breaker extended

A new update for Bungie’s Marathon is available now, and it’s got some interesting tweaks to weapons along with an extension of a limited-time mode.

The Vault Breaker PvE mode has been extended to Aug. 18, allowing for more play time and testing for the eventual full-fledged PvE experience coming in September. Along with that, several guns have had changes to optimize the player experience.

The V22 Volt Thrower got a nice damage buff in the update, along with changes to the KKV-9SD. Beyond that, the update mostly includes bug fixes and optimizations. Here’s everything new and different in Marathon today as part of its latest update.

Marathon patch notes today – Update 1.1.5.2

Vault Breaker

• We have extended the duration of the Vault Breaker mode!
  • New end date: August 18.
  • Increased the available stock of some limited offers to reflect this extension.
  • We look forward to continuing to hear your feedback on this experimental PvE mode.
• Updated the Key Template Armory reward to correctly specify that it only awards Cryo Archive keys.

Item Economy

• Sponsored Kit Boosts – Free Sponsored Kits have now been upgraded:
  • Starting weapon now come with random Enhanced (green) mods.
  • 1 stack of Enhanced (green) Patch Kits.
  • 1 random grenade (smoke, heat, or claymore).

Combat

Weapons

• V22 Volt Thrower
  • Damage increased from 12.6 to 14.4.
  • Tracking speed will now slowly decay over 1.2 seconds of a projectile’s lifetime by a maximum of 30 percent.
  • Reduced the amount of time spent at 540rpm before weapon heat starts to spin down by ~20 percent.
• KKV-9SD
  • Increased base magazine size from 23 to 28.
    • Retuned magazine sizes at every stat value to compensate.
    • Prestige Flechette Drum magazine mod stays the same at 87.
  • Fixed an issue where certain magazine mods were not correctly granting any additional rounds in the magazine.
• V85 Circuit Breaker
  • Fixed a stability issue relating to the Prestige quality Overlocked Delimiter mod.
    • This mod has now been re-enabled.

Zones

• Fixed an issue where opening the Cryo Hatch repeatedly could grant unintended amounts of faction reputation and Season XP.
  • This action will now provide the intended gains once per match.
  • All actions that had previously had their reputation and XP gains disabled in Cryo Archive have now been re-enabled.

General

• Fixed an issue where players would sometimes not receive Salvage or Schemas when purchasing Rewards Pass items with LUX.
• Fixed an issue with the Store where some bundle items that should have also been visible in the Catalog section were not displaying correctly.

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