Cryo Archive Interactive Map – Marathon

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Marathon is Bungie’s take on the extraction shooter genre, offering the quirky secrets and precise shooting that fans know and love from their games. However, it’s a challenging game to learn, with a steep learning curve.

We can make getting started a bit easier! This interactive map will give you an advantage over opponents on Tau Ceti. It highlights important loot, events, contracts, and where enemies appear, helping you have a smoother experience.

Map-In-Progress

This map is actively being updated. Check back often for new coordinates!

Surviving In Marathon

Tau Ceti IV is a dangerous planet that doesn’t care if you live or die. The beginning of the game, Marathon, will be challenging, and you’ll probably fail a few times. The game doesn’t offer much guidance, so let’s review the important features of each level.

Points Of Interest

Marathon’s key locations all have something to offer. When you select a location on your map, you’ll see a list of resources that appear in that area, as well as the types of chests you can find. This helps you plan where to go for specific items – for instance, some areas consistently have weapon lockers, making them ideal for finding new guns.

Be careful when exploring Marathon, as UESC soldiers patrol most areas. These computer-controlled enemies can be tough to defeat if your equipment isn’t good enough. It’s best to avoid UESC Incursions and Commanders until you’ve upgraded your weapons.

Loot Spawns

Although the locations of chests and resources in Marathon seem random, there’s actually a pattern. Specific locations always have certain resources and chests, letting you reliably farm for the upgrades you need. Here’s a breakdown of what you can find in each chest type.

  • Folio: Contains smaller, common valuables. Sometimes has cores and ammo.
  • Trunks and Coffers: Can spawn anything. Usually has common loot.
  • Arms Locker: Guaranteed weapon spawn with some ammo.
  • Bioprinter: Spawns implants for your runner. These are stat modifiers that come with some type of runner-agnostic perk.
  • Core Storage: Houses cores, which act as perks for your runner. Some cores only benefit certain runners.
  • Medical Cache: Contains healing items and other useful consumables.
  • Munitions Cache: Spawns ammo with a high chance of a weapon.
  • Toolkit: Seems to bias weapon attachments.

Events

During the match, keep an eye out for special events that offer big rewards, but come with significant risk. Successfully completing these events will usually give your team valuable, rare gear and a lot of credits. Just be warned – they also attract unwanted attention from opponents.

  • Activity: A short quest that usually takes you to a different point of interest. Completing these usually awards blue-rarity gear or better.
  • Anomaly: Collect the anomaly on the map, then bring it to the waypoint on your map to stabilize the anomaly. If you extract with a stabilized anomaly sample, your team receives a major credit payout.
  • Lockdown: On some maps, a massive cube might appear in the sky and emit a hazardous energy field around a point of interest. You’ll need an Anti-Virus consumable to ignore the zone’s damage-over-time field. Complete the event inside the lockdown zone, and you’ll be awarded a high-rarity loot cache.
  • Supply Drop: Calls down four valuable caches at the marked location. This triggers a loud sound when activated and takes roughly 40 seconds to spawn, so be wary of other players.
  • Tox Clear: A room filled with toxic gas. The loot inside is above-average quality, but the gas will damage your shell over time.
  • Wardens: A UESC boss unit that’s difficult to kill. Awards high-rarity gear if defeated.

Contracts And DCON Boxes

At the beginning of each season, runners are encouraged to take on contracts from the game’s six main factions. These contracts are like personal quests that reward you with useful items, currency, and reputation. Increasing your reputation unlocks access to better gear that you can buy from vendors before starting each run.

Certain contracts might require you to go to a designated spot, called a DCON, to send off materials. These appear as plain crates on the map and will automatically collect the items for you – you don’t need to extract them separately. Remember, DCONs are only for completing contract objectives, not for extracting your own loot.

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2026-04-03 08:04