{"id":40230,"date":"2026-03-22T00:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/marathons-ranked-mode-shows-that-its-trying-to-be-more-competitive-and-pvp-focused-even-if-its-only-in-testing-right-now\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T00:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:55:03","slug":"marathons-ranked-mode-shows-that-its-trying-to-be-more-competitive-and-pvp-focused-even-if-its-only-in-testing-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/marathons-ranked-mode-shows-that-its-trying-to-be-more-competitive-and-pvp-focused-even-if-its-only-in-testing-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon\u2019s Ranked mode shows that it\u2019s trying to be more competitive and PvP focused, even if its only in testing right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The culture war between ARC Raiders and Marathon began not long before Marathon released, thanks to the removal of PvP-related stuff from a recent patch. Then came Marathon\u2019s Server Slam, and by god the TTK is brutal. The game\u2019s dichotomy still shines bright nearly a month after it originally took place&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/marathon-ranked-mode\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The culture war between ARC Raiders and Marathon began not long before Marathon released, thanks to the removal of PvP-related stuff from a recent patch. Then came Marathon\u2019s Server Slam, and by god the TTK is brutal. The game\u2019s dichotomy still shines bright nearly a month after it originally took place&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}