One of the main requests from the Marathon community so far has been the addition of a dedicated duo queue. In response to the feedback, Bungie is launching a two-week experiment to test the duo-queue feature in development.
Marathon‘s game director, Joe Ziegler, announced on March 16 that starting March 18 at 12pm CT, Bungie will enable a limited-time duo queue to see how the game plays at a wider scale. The test will run for two weeks, but the developer may end it early or extend it.
As an experimental feature, the duo queue is limited to Perimeter and only allows premade groups (no matchmaking). This means you must invite a friend to the lobby and then queue for a dedicated Perimeter – Duo zone to match other duos. Ziegler emphasized that this isn’t the final implementation and some things may be janky.
“Just a note: this is a bit of an experimental feature so we expect to learn some things along the way and make changes to future versions of this. This likely won’t be the final implementation of how it would look and flow in the game, but for now it was easiest way for us to get it to you all to help us test,” Ziegler wrote.
Based on the outcome, the developer aims to expand duos as a queue and flesh out the feature. There’s no timeline or estimates for when the full feature may be released, but considering Bungie needs to run the experiment and then further work on it, it could be as far away as Season 2 and beyond.
The studio is quick to respond to community feedback, already adjusting the value of the rewards pass, and Ziegler added that this is likely not the last experiment Bungie runs, so expect more tests and improvements as time goes on.
