In 1991, American rock band Nirvana released the song 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' as part of its second album, Nevermind. The song opens with the lines, "Load up on guns, bring your friends / It's fun to lose and to pretend." I say all this because Marathon game director Joe Ziegler says, in a cryptic "off topic" footnote on a Twitter post promising big Marathon balance changes, that he may have taken the first two lines of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' "too much to heart."
Ziegler opens with the AAA classic "update about an update," promising "we have some iterations / big balance changes brewing right now and will talk about it soon." Marathon has seen some mild balance tuning already, but this update sounds like Bungie's first massive shakeup. I would expect several weapons, items, runner shells, and more to shift around the meta considerably, to say nothing of potential structural changes to faction quests, the loot economy, or even more. Players per map, spawn locations, and base PvP time-to-kill are also evergreen talking points that could conceivably be touched on.
