Marathon’s latest update wants you to cooperate — even with enemies

Rooks and Recon players are going to love Bungie's latest update Bungie has rolled out a major mid-season update (version 1.0.6) for Marathon that includes a bunch of new gear, balance changes, improvements to season pass rewards, and interesting new systems that incentivize cooperation. Rooks and Runners who play Recon are going to love it. Perhaps the biggest item in the patch notes involves the CyberAcme Runner Reinforcement Initiative (CARRI), which feels like a backronym that riffs on the concept of “carrying” your teammates. It rewards players for working together either as a coordinated squad or for solo players who help out teammates they connect with via matchmaking. Bungie outlined CARRI in a dedicated blog post separate from the patch notes, but players will not earn CyberAcme Commendations for completing contract objectives and exfiltrating together. Then they can spend that currency at the CARRI armory in the CyberAcme faction tab to unlock weapons and reputation packs granting faction XP, along with other goodies. Even solo players collect commendations by completing objectives and exfilling — with a special bonus if you exfil with other enemy players. Solo players al