Marathon players found a way to fly across the map by hooking onto their own drone

Marathon launched just a day ago, but the community has already uncovered one of those glitches that goes viral instantly. Players discovered that the Thief class lets you literally fly across the map by firing the Grapple Device onto your own Pickpocket Drone.

The Thief has two key abilities: the Grapple Device, which fires a dart and pulls the player toward the impact point, and the Pickpocket Drone – a controllable flying bot that can steal valuables from enemy inventories and pick up loot.

It turns out that if you deploy the drone and immediately grapple onto it, your character launches into the air and follows the bot wherever it flies. Essentially, a free ride across the map.

The Destiny 2 community immediately recognized the trick. Players are drawing mass comparisons to D2's grapple mechanics, where exploits involving the hook and various objects were practically a tradition. As fans put it:

You can take the player out of Destiny, but you can't take Destiny out of the player.

Others are bringing up a similar trick from Apex Legends, where players used to place Rampart's turret on Crypto's drone.

The community reaction has been remarkably unified – most players are asking Bungie to leave the glitch alone.

PLEASE keep this in the game. It's insanely fun.

Others are less optimistic and doubt the trick will survive the next hotfix. The practical value is limited anyway – the flight only goes in one direction, so it's really only useful for quickly reaching an extraction point or completing contracts.

Given that Bungie built Marathon as an extraction shooter with carefully tuned movement and class overheat balance, free flight clearly wasn't part of the intended design.

Whether the studio moves quickly to patch it out – or listens to players and keeps it as an unofficial feature – is worth watching.