You can lessen Marathon's faction rep grind by doing more than just contracts

You can lessen Marathon’s faction rep grind by doing more than just contracts | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these FPS If you’re hoping to make friends in Marathon like you can in Arc Raiders, expect a knife in the back FPS Marathon Server Slam start times and rewards FPS Marathon UI designer declares himself the ‘fontslop merchant’ and promises Bungie will never ‘remove the SAUCE from the UI’ FPS Hours before its open preview weekend, Marathon is suddenly very close to the top of Steam’s top sellers list FPS The Marathon server slam consumed my weekend: 21 hours later, I’ve gone from ‘meh’ to believer FPS Is Marathon’s time-to-kill too fast, or am I too Arc Raiders-pilled? 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Hopping into Marathon’s server slam last week, I was surprised when I saw that we could still only have one contract active at a time. People have had much bigger complaints about its hard to parse items, confusing UI, and fast TTK, but for me, the grindiness of Marathon’s faction system was a bit of a turn off.It’s something people complained about in the original beta way back, so I was pretty dumbfounded as to why Bungie didn’t decide to tweak it to let us have more than one contract at a time, even if it was just a priority contract and then a repeatable side one as well. After all, a lot of the side contracts don’t have specific location-based objectives and are usually about collecting items or killing UESC and other Runners.Alas, it was not to be, but it does make Marathon’s faction rep system a bit grindy at times. Since you can only do a single contract, from a single faction per run, the rep gains are a bit glacial at times. This is even more the case if contracts are the only thing you’re doing. Take it from me, the best way to quickly level up your factions isn’t via contracts (though they help), it’s by completing their Reputation Gain actions. You may like Best Marathon faction upgrades to unlock first If you’re hoping to make friends in Marathon like you can in Arc Raiders, expect a knife in the back How to complete Equitable Distribution in Marathon Each faction has a list of things they like you to do, including items that will give you rep if you exfil with them. If you select your faction and click on the ‘Agent’ section, you’ll see this list of actions, including events they like you to participate in. The rep gains for these actions aren’t massive by themselves, but if you’re also completing contracts at the same time it goes a long way to making the rest of the run after the contract feel more lucrative. Completing bonus actions will help you speed up the faction rep grind (Image credit: Bungie)I was trying to rank up NuCaloric, so I was doing contracts for them on Perimeter, but I realised that they really like it when you loot Tick Nests, which usually spawn in the same places. After I did my contract, I’d head for the Tick Nests in the Data W