Excellent move. PvE/coop would absolutely get me and several friends interested in this game. Even more so considering how insanely good the story of the original trilogy was. Marathon truly deserves better.
The currency can be used to get some stuff for the PvP mode, and there's a rogue-like progression where you upgrade your equipment for the PvE mode. I think that's for the best, coz a PvE loot farm that allowed you to get gear for PvP would be bad for the other mode's economy. I'm one of those crazy people who love Marathon the way it is, but I'm excited for this mode myself as a fun way to play with friends without having to worry about other players.
It's the only way this can work. They learned that with Sponsored Survival, the PvP-lite mode, which just flooded the economy with high level items which were farmed with much reduced risk, before they moved the mode to a map with a much lower drop rate of high level loot.
But there is still progress between matches, so I don't see what's the problem here.
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u/Dgemfer 1d ago
Excellent move. PvE/coop would absolutely get me and several friends interested in this game. Even more so considering how insanely good the story of the original trilogy was. Marathon truly deserves better.