Marathon game director says Bungie's rebalancing 'god-like' knife damage, buffing Vandal and Recon shells, and knocking bubble shields down a peg

Amidst yesterday's yearly crop of April Fool's japery, Marathon game director Joe Ziegler broke from seasonal convention on X by sharing an early, fool-free preview of balance adjustments Bungie has planned for upcoming patches in the weeks ahead.

With tweaks planned for weapons, attachments, deployables, runner shells, and more, Ziegler said the wide-ranging slate of updates is intended "to adjust some of the outliers in the combat space that we've both seen in our observations and heard...