: According to Jason Jones this is a bug in the game. In the 2nd eWorld
: Conference he wrote:
: There is a problem in Marathon when playing on "Total Carnage"
: difficulty level where you can pick up an infinite number of the same
: weapon. This is really annoying in network games when one person picks up
: all the good stuff and doesn't die for a long time, and it gets
: frustrating in the single player game when you pick up 15 alien weapons
: and can't use them! If you play below Total Carnage, this won't happen.
OK, you have caused me to fire up my Mac Clone and Marathon twice today -- oh, the indignity! Anyway, I just ran a test on Normal vs. Total Carnage, and you can only pick up all the weapons of one type on Total Carnage. On normal, if you already have a weapon in hand of a particular type, then you cannot pick up another of that type. So, this is a bug, and I say leave the bug-fixed behavior as it is in the current beta.
See, that was easy! :)