{"id":37752,"date":"2026-03-20T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37752"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:00:35","slug":"marathons-cryo-archive-unlocks-friday-after-massive-arg-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37752","title":{"rendered":"Marathon&#8217;s Cryo Archive unlocks Friday after massive ARG effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<aside class=\"w-heading-options\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<p>\n    <span>Link copied to clipboard<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"article-header-data\">\n<div class=\"w-article-header-author-img\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-header-author-img\">\n<p>                                            <img src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fauthors%2F69120a4964522-headshot.jpg?fit=crop&amp;w=90&amp;h=90\" alt=\"4\" style=\"display:block;height:auto;max-width:100%;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p>\n                                                                        <time datetime=\"2026-03-19T21:22:17Z\"><span class=\"is-mobile-hidden\">Published<\/span> Mar 19, 2026, 5:22\u202fPM EDT<\/time>\n                                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Players can check out Cryo Archive on Friday<\/p>\n<div class=\"heading_image responsive-img img-size-heading-image-full-width   expandable \" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/marathon-cryo-archive.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Image: Bungie&quot;\" data-is-feature-img=\"true\">\n<figure><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/marathon-cryo-archive.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;h=270&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/marathon-cryo-archive.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=480&amp;h=270&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/marathon-cryo-archive.jpg?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900&amp;dpr=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/marathon-cryo-archive.jpg?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900&amp;dpr=1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" alt=\"marathon cryo archive\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/marathon-cryo-archive.jpg?&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/marathon-cryo-archive.jpg?&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900\"\/>\n        <\/picture><small class=\"item-img-caption\">Image: Bungie<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"content-block-regular\">\n<p>We may finally be about to learn a bit more about what happened to the abandoned colony on Tau Ceti in Bungie\u2019s <em>Marathon<\/em> since players have finally completed the complex ARG puzzles needed to unlock the game\u2019s first-ever raid experience: Cryo Archive. Bungie confirmed Thursday afternoon that players had unlocked the endgame zone following \u201ca massive community effort orchestrated by #breach-protocol in the official <em>Marathon<\/em> Discord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<p>Once that happened, Bungie released a launch trailer for Cryo Archive:<\/p>\n<p>Ben Starr narrates the trailer, and most fans think he\u2019s voicing the rampant AI Durandal from the original <em>Marathon<\/em> trilogy. \u201cSuch ambition for glory in the face of unknowable terror,\u201d he says, among other very ominous things. The trailer takes us aboard the titular Marathon colony ship in orbit around Tau Ceti IV. In the game\u2019s lore, the UESC Marathon went dark years ago. Once Earth finally received a distress signal, the Runners were dispatched to investigate it and the abandoned colony on Tau Ceti IV. The ARG essentially simulated hacking into the ship\u2019s systems to grant us access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCryo Archive is the first deck of the UESC Marathon, where you&#8217;ll find a labyrinth of cryopods, medical bays, and storage wings where colonists once eased into and out of deep sleep on their journey across the stars,\u201d a Bungie blog post reads. It includes six interconnected wings with a central hub through which players will seek out frozen vaults with loot and \u201cdark secrets.\u201d Along the way, players will have to unlock various levels of security clearance to access different areas, ultimately leading to &#8220;leading to an entity even the UESC fears.&#8221; If the previous Marathon trilogy is any indication, then the boss-like entity shown at the end of the trailer is an alien known as a S\u2019pht \u2014 essentially brains with powerful cybernetic bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The post confirms that moving forward, Cryo Archive will only be available to play on weekends starting Friday, March 20, at 1 p.m. EDT. Players must have a minimum runner level of 25 with all six factions unlocked. They&#8217;ll also have to load in with a loadout that has a minimum value of 5,000 credits just to enter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/marathong-cryo-archive-unlock-time-arg-solved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link copied to clipboard Published Mar 19, 2026, 5:22\u202fPM EDT Players can check out Cryo Archive on Friday Image: Bungie We may finally be about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}