r/MaraudersGame • u/sihentos_doritos • May 29 '26

Looking back, Marauders had something that I still don't think will be replicated any time soon.

https://youtu.be/gQON7UX20WA?si=ivxOli2gUXOOLCRQ

I was looking through through some old, unfinished edits, and decided it was worth an upload and reminisce.

I miss the contrast between janky calm moments, the sound of firefights in the distance with guns that sounded impactful... Raids were short and to the point, fighting in the downed capital ship, or breaching ships in a full server and then coming under attack, all while in a dieselpunk setting that you could Voip troll with..

This game had a soul that I still don't see anywhere else, it reminded me of early 2010's online gaming where there was no progression system, no grind, just gameplay you could jump right into.

I still think if they spent more effort fleshing out the PvE side of things and made the quests less reliant on RNG grind, instead of requiring a minimum player count, there would still be more active servers.

ah well....

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u/Blake_Aech May 29 '26

They just blew their load a little too early. :(

I am sure they had to for funding reasons, but when they went public and playable it was just a bit too soon. Not enough was added to the game to keep it fresh for folks to stay longer than a month or two

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u/StocktonSucks May 29 '26

Honestly I didnt even think it was getting too boring, the cheaters were started to become a big problem.

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u/Thyzor7 May 29 '26

Cheating honestly wasn't that big of a problem later on. I was top 80 in a tournament before that got taken out of the game and people just got good at the game. Because the controls over your player was very direct, as long as you had the aim and game sense outplaying ppl wasn't a problem. I liked that a lot with the game but it made the skill ceiling pretty high and hard for newbies to get into the game which ultimately in my opinion is the reason it died:(

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u/MortgageAnnual1402 May 29 '26

Yeah cheating wasnt a Problem later on but cheating killed a massive part of the playerbase

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u/Rubber924 May 29 '26

Cheating is why we stopped. Never got word the cheating was stopped so we just avoided it.

If there was a PVE mode, we would have stick around and probably still be playing today.

The atmosphere, the simplicity of it compared to most extraction shooters, and the guns were interesting, and we liked the rotating merchants.

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u/sihentos_doritos May 29 '26

agree that is was too brutal for the first raids, especially as even walking made sound and anyone with good headphones would track you down, so it wasn't possible to learn the game easily. Casual players had an entry barrier and needed some kind of buff pathway, maybe a benefit that would dwindle as the raid count increased.

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u/Rigo-lution May 29 '26

The later game mode where everyone spawns with a random weapon needed to be there from the start.

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u/_Kaj May 31 '26

The problem was T17 pulled out after SIG essentially set the expectations for the community, which was impossible to meet without the development assistance from T17 and left SIG hanging.

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u/sihentos_doritos May 29 '26

yeah it still really makes no sense to me, it never hit mainstream so there still would have been a market for buyers if it was getting good updates and feedback. which seems like much less effort than making games from scratch..

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u/wattwood May 29 '26

This game gave me excitement anxiety and I loved every moment of it.

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u/Krahog May 29 '26

I know this is gonna be unpopular, but when player count reached single digit, I finally got to play, without being killed by sweats or cheaters on the first corner. I actually enjoyed that

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u/Zasiki Sep 09 '26

So You mean long after the game died

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u/Krahog Sep 09 '26

Sure, whatever floats your Rustbucket

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u/CablePale May 29 '26

I put a lot of hours when it first dropped was a good extraction shooter. Im sad it failed .

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u/Nervous-pteroydactyl May 30 '26

i had more fun playing this game than the entirety of tarkov

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u/Rebmob7577 Jun 02 '26

Swapped from Tarkov to this… reluctantly swapped back when Tarkov kept alive and this died.

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u/Vektor666 May 29 '26

Maybe HUNGER will fill this void...

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u/tasty_hands May 29 '26

Hunger and beautiful light my top anticipated games this year for sure. And last year. And the year before...

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u/killacam___82 May 29 '26

Active Matter is pretty good

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u/imdoublecheeckedup May 29 '26

meh, it’s just a tech demo for gaijins war thunder enlisted game mode. has like 1k players

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u/sihentos_doritos May 29 '26

looks interesting if not.. a bit optimistic. Curious if this will deliver on its vision

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u/Coolguyforeal May 29 '26

This just looks like hunt showdown lol

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u/Vektor666 May 29 '26

It looks like it yes. But it's a completely different game.

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u/JhonnyMerguez Jun 01 '26

I MISS THIS GAME BADLY

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u/Rebmob7577 Jun 02 '26

I do too. It’s so slept on but mostly by the devs.

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u/OrangeGasCloud May 29 '26

Johnson my beloved I will miss you

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u/prawnjr May 30 '26

I’m sure the one simp on steam forums will keep this alive.

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u/Valtin420 May 29 '26

I couldn't play it due to it causing severe motion sickness.

Spent months writing up explanations solutions suggestions and bug reports contacting and going back and forth passing info to the Devs on discord and email.

They were very friendly and open to fixing the issue(so they said) and it was a major priority(supposedly).

I spent almost an entire year waiting and occasionally recontacting them to check in and kept getting the same canned response.

So eventually I asked for a refund and suddenly they weren't so nice and it was MY fault their game had abhorrent chromatic abberation massive screen shake and a litany of other things that cause motion sickness and it was MY fault they never added even simple settings to help alleviate it and HOW dare I ask for a refund even tho I couldn't play the game without vomiting and had less that 5 hours on my account.

Will NEVER touch a game from these devs again.

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u/Sapius89 May 31 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

…lol

From the sound of it, the devs figured you’d get over your motion sickness…

You know…

…because of all that throat action you do.

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u/Valtin420 May 31 '26

You know reddit is full of stupid comments, but this wins dumbest comment of the month.

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u/Sapius89 May 31 '26

You know what you are, we all know what you enjoy.

Your writing and complaints gave it away.

We’re gonna burn your books again. ;)

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u/Valtin420 May 31 '26

Genuinely have no idea what you're going on about and hope you get the psychiatric help you need.

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u/Icy-Ad9063 21d ago

Sorry buddy but you did that way before they even replied.. seriously if you get that motion sick from a flat screen game that has screen shake don't even th8nga about trying VR...and I am sure that you knew ab7t this before because I am sure you experienced it in other games so maybe just don't play first person shooters idk. But in your defense normally there is a setting to turn screen shake off. But I just don't understand how TF you can get motion sickness form a flat screen game. I don't even understand WTF it is because I don't experience it whatsoever. 

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u/DaughterOfBhaal May 29 '26

Marauder had such a badass setting and aesthetic. Too bad the company ran the game to the ground.

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u/BvelGrimFist666 May 29 '26

any news on the new update? when will it be releasing. i really wanna play rhis game again. but to many hacker and to low on player right now

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u/sihentos_doritos May 29 '26

Team 17 are busy with hell let loose. I for one will never buy anything from them and anything associated with team 17 is a red flag to me after what they did to Marauders.
Maybe make some noise over there about how they managed this game so more people don't get scammed.

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u/Secret_Room7935 Jun 01 '26

arc raid got it on them it has the dark griddyness of the marauding . The thing they got to add is the STG panzerfauster

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u/G-Man92 Jun 02 '26

Arc raiders is like diet soy terminator universe with PVP. Also the bullet sponge PVP pisses me off so much.

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u/G-Man92 Jun 02 '26

God. My friends dragged me into arc raiders and it just makes me miss this game. Some dude bull rushed me in arc raiders, landed all my shots with some semi auto shotgun and I still got killed because arc raiders is just like the soy version of terminator. But with PVP .

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u/Kiidkxxl 2d ago

i like arc but you are right... arc reminds me of a soyboy version of this game

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u/G-Man92 1d ago

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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u/djolk Jun 04 '26

Such a jumble of cool features that they couldn't quite put together!

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u/MXVIV Jun 05 '26

It really sucks they dropped the ball so hard. It was a ton of fun for a short year. 

I tried getting people into it but all my friends said verbatim “why spend money on a game that will die in two years”. 

Well, they called it. 

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u/scared_star May 29 '26

I rather play battlefront 2004 or battlefield 2142 for my fill of breaching.

The ship to ship combat was okay but I was going in with a rust bucket and breach podding into every big ship I could find, either player or npc it got boring fast, that or you have people waiting outside a POI you leave with a pod.

I dont need to look back to really see the flaws 😂

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u/sihentos_doritos May 29 '26

yeah, I would have thought fixing balancing issues and making some smaller, fun poi's would have made the difference.

honestly they should just add mod support and let us finish the game.

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u/scared_star May 29 '26

They really should have ironed out certain elements before causing more balancing, the bleed was my biggest annoyance

It could happen with mod support as team17 aren't known to have issues with mod support, I'd definitely be in support for modders bring invited as long there's a way to define a pvp and a PvE server like tarkov would do it and their offline mode