Biotoxic Disinjector Has Been Nerfed
On Friday April 3rd, Jeff Ziegler announced a huge nerf to Marathon’s best weapon, the Biotoxic Disinjector.
What is the Biotoxic Disinjector?
The Biotoxic Disinjector is the only Contraband rarity weapon in the game that is found by killing the end boss - The Compiler - in Marathon’s endgame zone, Cryo Archive.
Pre-nerf, it was by far and away the best weapon in the game, offering two different firing modes: a laser beam and a grenade launcher. It has a 1000 charge magazine and each grenade launcher shot only uses 22 charges, and when you coupled that with the 17.6 firepower and explosive radius of each grenade, you had an extremely ammo efficient and powerful weapon.
What are the changes?
Unfortunately for those that have the weapon (and very fortunately for us casuals that haven’t even sniffed a Compiler fight), the Biotoxic Disinjector just received a pretty massive nerf. Joe Ziegler, game director of Marathon, announced on April 3rd that Biotoxic Disinjector would be receiving a 35% damage reduction across the board. Oof.
These changes may not be permanent, as Ziegler stated they’d be monitoring how this felt and may revisit it in the future, but it’s cool to see quick action on something that players were claiming as game breaking, and it really seems Bungie is very much on top of it when it comes to keeping Marathon in the best playable state they can!
See you on Tau Ceti!