Are Marathon's grenade-spamming woes fixed with its latest update?
The story
Marathon patch notes for its latest update have been released, and include a drastic reduction in grenade stack sizes, in a move to downplay the prevalence of grenade spam in the game. Read more
From the source
In a post made by the official Marathon development team social media account , a breakdown of the new changes made to the game have been listed. Right at the top in bold is written: "The one about grenade stacks", so it's the prime change with this update.
This has been a hot topic among Marathon players due to the prevalence of a "grenade meta", where instead of shooting at each other, players were throwing grenades over and over again at enemy players during fights. This proved frustrating for many players and devalued the typical shooting approach of this first-person shooter.
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