Marathon
Marathon: Playing with a squad
Extract traffic is the real boss. Plan the door, not just the loot. Extraction shooter pace: load in, loot, leave before someone else does. This page stays on playing with a squad so you can use it in the next session.
Playing with a squad
Tight interiors mixed with longer sightlines once you leave cover. Trades win more than highlight clips.
Keep a cheap kit you can lose. Ego kits make you freeze in doorways.
Enter with a leave time. When it hits, walk even if the crate is pretty.
Keep the focus on loadout weight, audio, and extract windows. If the first two minutes are messy, reset before you stack another fight.
Trading and comms
Ambush timing and extract traffic. Greed is the usual wipe.
Clear audio first. Sprint only when the room is actually empty.
When the space is bad, leave. Marathon punishes people who stay because they already spent ammo.
A simple rule: 1. Keep a cheap kit you can lose. Ego kits make you freeze in doorways. 2. Enter with a leave time. When it hits, walk even if the crate is pretty. 3. Clear audio first. Sprint only when the room is actually empty.
Solo habits that fail in a group
The usual Marathon mistakes are Reloading in the only doorway out.; Chasing a kill into a third squad’s setup.; Overfilling the bag until you cannot reset a fight..
Patch days change timings. Recheck your drop, extract, site, or loadout before you copy last week’s VOD.
If you only remember one thing: loadout weight, audio, and extract windows.
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