Wipes are an essential feature in most extraction shooters. In Marathon, wipes come in the form of seasonal resets, creating a level playing field for all Runners to jump into the new content and explore new metas.
Here’s everything you need to know about seasonal resets in Marathon, how often they take place, and what progress gets wiped.
Marathon seasonal reset frequency
Wipes in Marathon take place every season, and every season lasts around three months. For example, Season 1 runs from March until May, and the following season runs from June to August. This gives you enough time to explore the season if you decide to commit.
However, if you take a prolonged break from the game at any point, you might come back to find all of your progress gone. It’s always a good idea to time your return to the game (or if you’re jumping in for the first time) with the beginning of the new season.
Everything that you lose and keep after seasonal reset in Marathon
Throughout the season, you level up factions, accessing better gear in the Armory and increasing your baseline strength. This makes every subsequent run a little bit easier, as your favorite loadouts become more accessible. At the same time, closer to the end of the season, you get to put all your loot to use, as everyone will shortly be starting fresh.
Here’s everything that you lose after the seasonal reset:
- Runner level
- Ranked level
- Faction level and upgrades
- Credits and other currencies (except for LUX and SILK)
- All items in your inventory and Vault
- Purchases unlocked by Schemas
- Messages, rewards, and returned items in your Mailbox
- Priority contracts (except for the first Priority contract for each faction)
- Seasonal Codex entries for Runner level and Ranked that grant gear
Here’s everything that you keep after the seasonal reset:
- Cosmetics
- Codex challenges for Combat, Feats, Loot, Map, Runner, and Title
- Liaison contracts
- Initial Priority contracts
- LUX and SILK
- Rewards Pass progress
- Cryo Archive Subroutines progress
Most of your progress gets reset at the end of the season, including your loot, faction upgrades, and everything else that affects gameplay. The only exception is the Liaison contract progression, which means you won’t have to complete introductory contracts that unlock factions again.
Even though you lose your gear, playing throughout the season gives you a slight head start next season. Based on your Runner level in the last season, you can claim up to four CyberAcme Sponsored Kits from the Codex once the new season starts.
Here are the Sponsored Kits you can secure for Season 2:
- Runner level 10: Enhanced CyberAcme Sponsored Kit
- Runner level 25: Enhanced CyberAcme Sponsored Kit
- Runner level 50: Deluxe CyberAcme Sponsored Kit
- Runner level 75: Superior CyberAcme Sponsored Kit
The main things that carry over from season to season are your milestone rewards and cosmetics. All the achievements, emblems, titles, cosmetics, and backgrounds are yours to keep and show off. These are some of the main rewards for you to chase throughout the season.
