Marathon: How to Play as Triage

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In Marathon, the character class you choose, called a Shell, greatly impacts how you play the game because each one has different skills and strengths. Triage is a particularly valuable Shell – it functions as a medic, and having a Triage on your team significantly improves your chances of successfully completing a mission.

Learning to play Triage effectively can be tricky, but with a little practice, you’ll become a valuable asset to your team – and greatly improve your own gameplay!

Want to use Triage as your primary Shell in Marathon? This guide will show you everything you need to know! We’ll cover Triage’s unique abilities, effective strategies, and how to build a winning team around it.

Triage Abilities, Explained

In Marathon, Triage is a medic character designed to help teammates stay alive and in the action. Mastering Triage means you’ll need to use fewer healing items and shield recharges, giving you a significant advantage against both computer-controlled enemies and other players.

You can learn about Triage’s abilities and traits from the bullet point below:

  • Damage Mitigation (Tech): Triage saves lives. Deployable healing drones and onboard reboot abilities allow Triage Runners and their crews to keep running after taking damage.
  • Reboot+ (Prime): Ready your shell’s emergency defibrillator systems. Lock on to downed crew members or hostile targets and fire your Reboot+ device at them, which revives crew members and EMPs hostiles.
  • Med-Drone (Tactical): Deploy a floating medical drone that attaches to crew members and restores health or recharges shields, and prevents them from bleeding out while downed.
  • Shareware.exe (Trait): Benefits from medical consumables are shared between crew members with Med-Drone attached to them.
  • Battery Overcharge (Trait): Divert energy from your cooling systems to boost the performance of your weapons at the cost of generating additional heat. While active, breaking a target’s shield with a volt weapon EMPs them.

Honestly, playing as Triage is awesome. Their whole deal is keeping the team alive – healing everyone, bringing people back from the brink, and even buffing our weapons. Seriously, after playing a few rounds, I can tell you every team needs a Triage in Marathon. They’re a game changer!

Triage Strategies

As the Triage role, it’s best to play carefully during fights with other players or computer-controlled enemies. You really want to avoid getting knocked down, as your team will be left without a medic when things get tough. Stick to cover while shooting, and be extra careful when entering buildings where opponents might be hiding.

During the match, always watch your teammate’s health bar in the bottom left corner. This helps you know when to send a Med-Drone to heal or shield them.

Keep in mind that medical supplies are shared by everyone on the team who has access to the Med-Drone. It’s important to let your teammates know when you’re using supplies so you don’t duplicate efforts and waste anything. Because the supplies are shared, it’s like everyone has three times the amount they normally would.

Use the Reboot+ ability only in critical situations. For instance, if you’re in a gunfight and a teammate goes down, leaving you at a disadvantage, quickly get to cover and use Reboot+ to safely revive them from a distance.

Don’t use Reboot+ unless absolutely necessary. It has a long recharge time, and using it when you’re not in danger could leave you vulnerable in a future fight.

When you’re fighting, remember to activate your Battery Overcharge. It boosts your weapon’s power, letting you do more damage and improving your odds of winning.

Best Team Composition

I’ve played Triage extensively, and I’m convinced that the best Shell combinations are Assassin and Destroyer. Both of these Shells have skills that really boost Triage’s effectiveness as a medic.

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Destroyer’s Riot Barricade creates a shield that blocks all damage. This is useful for protecting Triage from enemy attacks, giving you time to heal or revive a teammate in need.

The Assassin class works similarly, but with a unique ability called Smoke Screen. This ability fills the area with dark smoke, making it much harder for enemies – both players and AI – to hit you. This is especially helpful for the Triage class, allowing them to safely heal and revive teammates.

I highly recommend Destroyer and Assassin, but you could also use two Triages together. Having extra healing is always helpful, and two Triages will make sure you consistently have Med-Drones available.

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2026-02-28 15:09