Marathon

Marathon is Bungie’s attempt at creating a high-stakes extraction shooter, complete with the strange easter eggs and tight gunplay you’d come to expect from a Bungie title. It’s a difficult game to get into with an immense learning curve.

The good news is that we can help with that difficulty curve somewhat. This interactive map will give you the jump on enemy runners. Notable loot, events, faction contracts, and spawn locations are all marked to make your journey on Tau Ceti a little less painful.

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

Surviving In Marathon

Tau Ceti IV is a hostile place that is indifferent to your survival. The first few rounds of Marathon are going to prove difficult and will likely end with your demise. Not much is explained to you in this title, so let’s go over some key aspects of each map.

Points Of Interest

Every major compound in Marathon is a point of interest. If you select the POI on your map, it’ll bring up a list of materials that spawn in the region. It also states what kind of chests you can expect to find there. For example, one zone might always spawn arms lockers, making it a good spot to find a new weapon.

But beware, as most zones in Marathon have UESC forces patrolling the region. These PvE enemies can be difficult to take down if you’re undergeared. Avoid any UESC Incursions or Commanders until you have some better firepower.

Loot Spawns

While chest and resource spawns are mostly randomized in Marathon, there is some order in the chaos. Certain POIs are guaranteed to spawn certain resources and chest types, allowing you to target-farm certain upgrades. Here’s what each chest type holds.

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

As the match continues, certain events will become available that act as high-risk profit opportunities. Completing them usually bestows your squad with some high-rarity gear and a hefty sum of credits. But beware, as these events tend to draw the eye of enemy runners.

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

During the start of a season, runners are encouraged to complete contracts for the game’s six major factions. Contracts act as account-bound quests that award you with valuable loot, credits, and reputation you can use to upgrade your arsenal of available gear. The higher your reputation, the better gear you can purchase from vendors before every run.

Some contracts will ask you to visit a DCON to transmat materials. These are unmarked crates on the map that will extract the material(s) for you automatically, no exfil needed. These are only used for contracts; you can’t exfil loot for yourself.

9/10

Released: March 5, 2026
ESRB: Teen / Animated Blood, Language, Violence, In-Game Purchases, Users Interact
Multiplayer: Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op