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ALTSow chaos across the landscape with these Vandal cores 👟…
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ALT…and break your enemies with these Destroyer cores 🤜
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Use smoke as more than a hiding tool with these Assassin cores 😶🌫️…
…. and Hunt foes even more relentlessly with these Recon cores 🔍
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Your next Lawless Frontier job requires you to go undercover.
Which Destiny 2: Renegades weapon name are you picking as your new codename?
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We noticed you’re excited to take Triage and Med-Drone for a spin. Just remember, don’t leave your friends hanging. 🙌
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The true measure of a society is how it treats its Rook 🤖
Clip from December Closed Playtest
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Trials of Osiris is live!
🗺 Pacifica
🔫 Cataphract GL3
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Build each Runner Shell your own way with the cores, implants, weapons, mods, and consumables you loot. Here are some of the cores you can find for Thief
And here are some of Triage’s cores!
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Build each Runner Shell your own way with the cores, implants, weapons, mods, and consumables you loot. Here are some of the cores you can find for Thief
And here are some of Triage’s cores!
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This Week in Destiny:
🏹 Arms Week returns January 27 with Volatile Bow mods
❗ New Player Guide updates
☀️ Trials of Osiris returns tomorrow on Pacifica
💙 Bungie Foundation’s Game2Give 2026 has raised more than $800,000 for charity
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Dev Insights: Runner Shells – New Video
In December, we shared a new look at Marathon in our ViDoc, where we dove into things like immersion, zones, new features since alpha, and more.
Today we want to share more about Runner shells, the moddable biosynthetic bodies you’ll inhabit on your runs to Tau Ceti. You can watch the full video now.
Runner Shells: Tools for Survival
As a Runner, you’ve sacrificed your physical form and transferred your consciousness into a biosynthetic shell designed to help you survive Tau Ceti—or at least make it so dying isn’t a permanent affliction.
Each Runner shell is built around a different gameplay archetype, such as intel gathering, combat disruption, or combat healing. With distinct silhouettes, shells allow you to evaluate player threats and strategize your next steps on the fly.
Each Runner shell’s playstyle can be customized using the cores, implants, weapons, and mods you bring on your runs. We’ll talk about the ways you can customize your shells visually in the future, including more details on the earnable cosmetics you’ll unlock through the Codex and other ways.
Customize Your Playstyle
There are multiple ways you can play each Runner shell, and the gear you equip allows you to push each archetype in different directions.
For example, with Vandal you can lean into a mobility build, with powerful map traversal and repositioning. Equip cores that turn your double jump into a triple jump, and implants that increase your base movement speed, jump height, and improve your heat capacity.
Or you could go for a more chaotic and disruptive playstyle. For example, there’s a combination for Vandal that lets you turn your arm cannon into a self-propel, which you can then fire downwards to propel yourself into the air, use your airtime to position where to land, then deal AoE damage wherever you fall (without taking fall damage).
Combine your cores, implants, and Runner shells with the weapons and mods at your disposal to craft your unique playstyle and theorycraft new ways to survive and reach greater heights.
Cores and Implants – What’s the Difference?
Cores and implants both modify your Runner shell, but they do so in different ways.
Cores are generally designed for one specific Runner shell, and they tend to buff or modify the way your abilities work. For example, one of Thief’s cores gives you a second charge of your Grapple Device, and another causes your Pickpocket Drone to periodically ping nearby enemies while it’s not being piloted.
Implants can be used by any Runner shell, and they grant additional stats as well as a random perk. The highest-tier implants also have a bonus fixed perk, such the implant Ping+ V5, where your pings remain attached to enemies for a short period of time after breaking line of sight.
Runner Shell Rundown
Head over to today’s video to learn more.
Runner Shell – Destroyer
- Archetype: Combat specialist
- Armed with a personal defense barricade, missile systems, and movement thrusters, Destroyer shells are designed to bring the fight to enemy threats.
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Runner Shell – Assassin
- Archetype: Shadow agent
- Synthetic smoke deployment and camouflage technology allow Assassin shells to plan unseen strikes or take cover during hostile engagements.
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Runner Shell – Recon
- Archetype: Intel specialist
- Recon shells excel at identifying threats and tracking movements using echo pulses, tracker drones, and holographic footstep trails.
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Runner Shell – Vandal
- Archetype: Combat anarchist
- Vandal shells traverse ground at incredible speeds, using their advanced movement and knockback cannon to disrupt combat.
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Runner Shell – Thief
- Archetype: Covert acquisitions
- With enhanced visors and piloted butterfly drone, Thief shells can locate and acquire loot, then use their grapple to push an advantage or make an escape.
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Runner Shell – Triage
- Archetype: Field medic
- Triage shells help keep themselves and allies alive using deployable healing drones, onboard reboot abilities, and combat buffs.
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Scavenger Mode – Rook
- Archetype: Scavenger
- The Rook frame is designed for scavenger mode, a unique way to play Marathon. As Rook, you’ll drop into a match that’s already in progress as a solo player. You won’t be able to bring a loadout, but you also aren’t risking anything, which makes Rook an excellent option for scavengers.
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More Marathon news is on the way, so stay tuned to our social channels and join our community Discord to keep up with the latest updates. 🐛
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Transfer your consciousness into Runner shells, customizable gameplay archetypes designed for survival. Craft your perfect playstyle using the cores, implants, weapons, and mods you scavenge on your runs.
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Weapon mods are one of Marathon’s buildcrafting tools, granting stats and effects that scale in power with rarity. Not all mods are compatible with all weapons.
Check out Torch Bug 🔥🐞 and Afterburner 🏃🎯. What other effects do you want to see in the mod system?
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The Pikers. Tharsis Reformation. Totality Division.
Create a secret handshake using emojis that only your syndicate would know.
We’ll start: 🤖🤙🃏
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Glimpse into Cryo Archive, the first floor of the UESC Marathon ❄️🌑
Cryo Archive is locked at launch. Once the way opens, bring your endgame build and solve raid-like security measures to pillage frozen vaults. Breach the 7th vault to challenge an entity even the UESC fears.
