Okay, but that’s only half the story. As the cinematic trailer hints, Marathon seems like it’s about to get a completely new enemy kind of enemy threat on the map. The shadow a squad of runners faces near the end of the clip is like a cross between a Xenomorph and Slender Man. Unless the trailer is taking a lot of artistic license, Nightfall almost feels like it could turn Marathon into a PVPVE horror game.
Players are already speculating about what this new enemy threat might be. The obvious guess is some sort of zombie runner. “Check out the lore entries for ‘Class B Anomalous Material,’” wrote one person in the YouTube comments. “I believe we’re getting Mimics (of our runners) on nighttime Dire Marsh! Either that or the fungal zombies from M2 concept art.” Player theories have a habit of being more fun than the reality, but I’m now convinced Bungie is cooking up something more exciting than its initial previews of season 2 have otherwise indicated.