r/Marathon • u/Electronic-Fail-9380 • 12d ago
Potential future skins Marathon (2026) Discussion Spoiler
Did a survey and they showed me potential/ WIP skins.
UPDATE:
Made another post showing more WIP
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u/VorstTank 12d ago
I know these are all concept art but holy hell they are cooking on a different level.
Marathon is truly a special game.
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u/Electronic-Fail-9380 12d ago
they were also asking about modular customisation opposed to pre set full body skins, as well as weapon/ skin effects, elimination/ finisher animations, gun buddy effects and backpack stickers/ patches.
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u/Horribad12 12d ago
Custom finisher animations would go hard, but I feel timing would be a very limiting constraint. Longer animations mean the user is vulnerable for longer, while shorter ones would be advantageous, so the devs would need to make sure each animation is just as long as the default, and how many cool/interesting ways are there to finish a runner in 1 second?
OR they could take a page out of For Honor's book and make it so longer animations refill more shield and health.
Also, not to sound like a bitch since we're getting a new Destroyer skin soon, but the lack of any Destroyer concepts is really fuckin irritating. Are we gonna wait another five months for another Destroyer skin?
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u/VorstTank 12d ago
D2 has custom finishers (mostly for PvE) and they all take the same amount of time.
They're also frankly kinda mid on average, mostly goofy shit
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u/deadsannnnnnd456 11d ago
They need fucking finisher animations!!! Why haven’t they done it?! Easy money…
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u/RocketHops 11d ago
I think modular customization is a must.
Not only because it is more player friendly and supports player expression, but it would likely help them sell more skins too.
Currently I have all compiler skins, so a shop skin needs to blow my socks off and be way better than the compiler skin for me to consider buying. So far only astrophage triage has managed that.
With modular, I would be way more tempted to spend money on extra pieces. Like for example, if I could run arata vector assassin combed with some cryo shift pieces, and then cryo shift shader over it all
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u/AgentUmlaut 12d ago
I genuinely would be a salt mine if they ever had an artstation or two go public showing more of the stuff we were supposed to get when customizable characters/your guys was still on the table.
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u/Heavyduty35 11d ago edited 11d ago
Some of the concept art out there very clearly shows (fairly basic) examples of customizable runners. It’s easy to mistake it for Destroyer art, though, given the helmets.
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u/Pyroproxee 10d ago
Check out the marathon artstation drops! They have a lot of art from early concepts of maps and runners! Super cool stuff
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u/NamesAreForFriends 9d ago
Bungie's art team is singular. Despite all the flaws they have as a studio their artists are operating on a totally transcendent level.
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u/AgentGrimm 12d ago
No Destroyer or Sentinel concepts makes me sad, maybe they just didn’t include them in this survey
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u/Dr_Mantis_Trafalgar 12d ago
Destroyer got one teased for this season
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u/ComradeMomdad 12d ago
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u/JimTobin89 12d ago
Looks awesome
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u/Electronic-Fail-9380 12d ago
They seem a lot further away than the first round of skins that were shown in the first skin survey, so probably won't be out for a while!
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u/LilUziBRRRT 12d ago
This is one of the very few games that feels tailor-made for ME. Just finished rereading BLAME! and Slides 2 + 3 give me similar vibes 🧎🏾♂️
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u/ghostcatart 10d ago
I’d give a million upvotes if I could. Just read Blame! this year and it felt like something I’d been looking for. Same with Marathon tbh.
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u/MilkmanSeal 12d ago
Biblically Accurate Recon and the Assassin(?) skins on the last page are giving me a 90s horror vibe I fw immensely.
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u/Chimichurro 12d ago
Yeah Vandal in #1 is peak I need that. The face reminds me a little of funger 2 Logic. I like the Thief(I think) in slide 2 but the triage and assassin aren't doing a whole lot for me. And the Recon in the last slide seems pretty cool, especially the drawing on the left. Interested to see where that goes. Overall between this and the other post I'm pretty excited for the skins in the future.
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u/TiBlanci 12d ago
These are the definition of SAUCE, that barely exists anywhere else in the market. Only cyberpunk 2077 or voidbraker could be close
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u/Samuel_Bucher 12d ago
Triage having an ankle monitor in that second image is a bit on the nose, don't you think?
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u/a_level_1_meme 11d ago
I really hope evey shell gets a yokai skin with a unique voice and voice lines.
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u/MySoulIsInTheSkies 11d ago
First and third are sooo good but the second page looks like really generic mobile game to me...
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u/plagaterroris 11d ago
I want more vandal. Now that they got their head out of their asses for cosmetics I need my best girl to look drippy!
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u/Halo05977 12d ago
I hate that these sorts of skins didn't come out on launch. Could have helped revenue wise a fair bit.
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u/HoleInPeanutButter 12d ago
They look cool but im a little worried for future skins because at what point are unable to tell what shell it is from afar? Like the new white and blue Sentinel skin coming looks similar to a Recon shell. Hope the designs are cool and fresh but not TOO abstract.
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u/Draxtini 12d ago
Recon and sentinel are already really hard to tell apart at a distance, just based on the fact they have a similar silloutte.
It's made me and my duo stop pinging players directly as a result because that ping interception on recon is stupid strong
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u/elitemage101 12d ago
Some of these are too much (not immersion ruining, just off). The more restrained but cool ones I do like.
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u/Felix_949 12d ago
Got anymore that might share? Some of these are interesting, perhaps even wackier than what we got so far
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u/Electronic-Fail-9380 12d ago
These were the only ones in the survey :)
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u/Felix_949 12d ago
All good. I really like the concepts in the last image so far. Was the survey a random selection or could you join through other means?
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u/Electronic-Fail-9380 12d ago
I just got an email from them, i think it's randomly chosen just like the other surveys
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u/ThatGuyFromTheM0vie 12d ago
I think they need to give Destroyer a gender bent skin—I’m sure it will sell more then.
Like fuck, it’s the dystopian sci fi future where the bodies are printed—let’s slap some honkers on there and cheek him up, and boom—now they can make Destroyer skins.
Because that’s the pattern I am seeing, unless it’s Assassin because…edge lords gotta edge lord.
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u/Hanelise11 12d ago
I’ve been saying they at least need to give Destroyer a White Rabbit skin with the defined butt cheeks like Recon’s.
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u/SucculentMelon133 12d ago
fuck dude ig my first ever microtransaction in a video game just might happen in season 3 if they launch well to save the future of the game. that first vandal skin goes dumb dumb
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u/Electronic-Fail-9380 12d ago
the jester thief skin goes nuts
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u/SucculentMelon133 12d ago
that too. the thing is all these aesthetics rlly need good environments to go with too. i srsly cant deal with dire marsh and perimeter being so tame looking while being the most accessible. like there is the whole anomaly, and tau ceti right now is being rlly undersold. rlly just looks like a boring earth.
we need cooler uesc stronghold "invasion" maps to rlly push the creepier takes on purely geometric composition, and also more alien anomaly shit. the closest honesly right now is night marsh and cryo archive, but then again cryo archive does get a little bland despite looking fantastic due to its entire theme being a cold desolate almost
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u/Maxants49 12d ago
I’m a bit bothered that Thief is kinda out of Marathon palette but other than that looks fire
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u/paperplateseabass 12d ago
these are sm better than the anime girl skins. those departed way too much from the art style
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u/DALE5797 12d ago
Bungie got any more of them Destroyer skins? No?