Once per week, you too can feel overpowered
After reaching Runner rank 25 in Bungie’s Marathon, players unlock the raid-like Cryo Archive experience. To make your first run easier, the game gives you a free Cryo Archive Sponsored Kit full of blue-rarity gear. After a particularly frustrating run in which I lost at least 3,000 credits’ worth of gear, I sighed and decided to slap on a sponsored kit — only to realize upon spawning that I’d accidentally used my Cryo Archived kit on Perimeter. What ensued was one of my all-time greatest runs. Now, I’m elated to learn that after the latest Marathon update, I’ll be able to claim a free Cryo Archive Sponsored Kit every single week.
Bungie announced Marathon update 1.0.6.2 on Tuesday. The top line item in the official patch notes promises that “one free Cryo Archive Sponsored Kit can now be claimed each week.” The rest of the patch is mostly quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes, along with some subtle tweaks to the WSTR Combat Shotgun.
The Cryo Archive Sponsored Kit was introduced with the launch of Cryo Archive on March 19 as a one-time kit that could be claimed from the Armory. “This is a bundle of blue-tier gear specifically tuned to get you through an early Cryo Archive run without having to risk your favorite items on attempt number one,” a blog post at the time read.
Each kit has 5,000 credits’ worth of gear with a mix of strong heals and even stronger weapons — which explains why I was able to dominate in the match when I accidentally used mine. If you’re anything like me, then you probably do most runs with a loadout of around 2,500 credits at most out of fear you might lose it all very easily. The two squadmates that filled into my team on that particular occasion came in with generic sponsored kits. We were able to defeat three enemy squads, complete at least one quest, and eventually hit the map’s final exfil with only seconds to spare — the kind of epic match I still chat about with my gamer friends.
Now, you too can have an epic match just like this, except you can do it on a weekly basis. For any players out there who perhaps cooled on Marathon‘s oftentimes crushing difficulty, this feels like a great reason to hop back on for at least one weekly match where you’re overpowered enough that you’ll probably exfil successfully and just wind up running it back for another one.
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