- Production Update - 21 April 2026
Good Day MaraudersWe owe you an apology for the silence. We've been fully focused on the game. What started as a round of fixes grew into a much larger, necessary change and we have made the call to commit to it rather than push smaller updates in the meantime.We've been reworking core systems and rebuilding mechanics that needed it. This isn't a patch. It's a full overhaul aimed at getting Marauders where it should be.We don't have a release date to share yet, and we're not setting one until we're confident we can hit it. What we can tell you is that the next update from us will be the Technical Stress Test branch opening for community testing. To everyone who stuck with us, kept playing, and kept the community going. Thank you. We know it's been a long wait, and we haven't forgotten that.More soon.Marauders Dev Team
- Retribution 1.0 Update Released! - 16 August 2024
Welcome, Marauders! We are delighted to deliver the largest update to-date: RETRIBUTION! This is a content patch with a focus on delivering the last parts of the roadmap (with a new one in the works). Additional features will be coming at a later date. That being said It’s almost been 2 years since we launched Marauders into Early Access, with a main goal of growing the game to a scale our players deserve, resulting in over 12 Maps, 70 Weapons, 60 cosmetics and 400 items and we feel like we are only just getting started…. Outside the new content this update is taking a swing at general balance, we tried to keep nerfing to a minimum (since no one likes that, ourselves, the developers included) but instead increased the power of certain weapons and armor to maintain a healthy (slightly longer and consistent) time to kill for better armor. We hope you enjoy everything you discover so let's…
- RETRIBUTION is coming......Launches August! - 2 August 2024
Calling all Marauders....the wait is almost over. I'm pleased to announce our largest content update is heading your way this month: New Maps (Fortress, Rebel Base, Asteroid Mine V2) New Guns (AC-14, Mk4 series, Mosin attachments and more) New Bosses ( S.A.S Squad and the U.A. Commander) New Missions (Dozens of Raid Contracts) As previously mentioned this update became a lot larger than intended so required extra time to break up into several updates, the rest will soon be revealed....... This update will include a full progression WIPE, so be ready when it deploys. We hope to see you among the stars in the coming weeks. S.I.G.
- Retribution Update Delayed News - 7 May 2024
Good Day Marauders! First we wanted to apologize on recent radio silence regarding the progress of the latest update. Your passion for more updates is not wasted on us. As you have probably guessed there has been an delay to this major update, RETRIBUTION, which we are making the official statement now, we however do not have a solid date for you, we are sorry for the inconvenience this causes but we wanted to get into some reasons why; The sheer scale of the content has been challenging which may require us to pivot and break up the update into more manageable chunks/patches instead, Content has always been fun to develop for you and this time there is a lot of it... however! We also wanted to spend some time on reviewing retention and looking for ways to entertain players for longer (variety is the spice for life after all) so we can get a update cycle lasting months rather than weeks…
- Guilds 1.0 - Patch #001 - 13 March 2024
Welcome, Marauders! This is primarily a small patch to attempt to fix the “Black Screen” issue that is occuring for some players when joining a match. We thank the community again for their patience and help with this issue and encourage anyone to reach out via our Discord if they are still experiencing it, this will be our main focus until our next large update “Retribution”. Known Issue:- The SAS Major cosmetic is in the appearance menu UI, but you are currently unable to unlock it as this enemy is not included in this patch. Iron sights for the Grease gun have been improved Joining late raids/instant join has been disabled, matchmaking now tries to start a lobby at the same time. Players walkable slope angle has been increase from 44 to 45 SPP1 dart pistol added to pistol loot pool M712 20 round extended mag added to central empire shop from level 1 M712 pistol has had around a 35% r…
- Dev Blog #009 Retribution - 8 February 2024
Welcome to the 9th dev blog! We hope you are enjoying the new guilds feature and planet killer base. Firstly, we wanted to take the opportunity to assure our community that we are still investigating the black screen bug but is difficult to reproduce it from our side so please keep sending us clips and an as detailed as possible description in case you run into it, that being said we are deep into the next big update in terms of production, which is named “Retribution” and is roughly scheduled for March/April. We are aware parts of the community were happy with the 2 week update cadence however this became extremely difficult to maintain (and unfortunately wasn’t as effective as we hoped) but mainly didn’t allow us to make larger content changes and additions which the next update will certainly be! After this next update we will evaluate what sort of schedule we want to deliver but mos…
- Guilds 1.0 Hotfix #01 - 20 December 2023
Good Day Marauders! We have a small patch/hotfix to deal with new issues that came from our recent major update "GUILDS 1.0". It's been great seeing everyone jump in and take full advantage of the new features we added and the feedback has been invaluable that being said we hope you all have a wonderful Christmas break! Here are the patch notes in full: Attempted fix for the fade in during the start of match not ending resulting in a black screen fixed an issue that was preventing the colony cruiser from spawning Addressed a problem that would have members of a crew lose their equipped ship when going in with someone else as a captain Mac-10's recoil was hard set lower than other SMGs causing it to be extremely low with attachments this is now more in-line with other SMGs (with and without attachments). The commando major now has the correct german voice lines Addressed an issue that wo…
- Guilds 1.0 Update Released! - 14 December 2023
The day is finally here Marauders! Thanks for hanging in there with us whilst we deal with some major restructuring. This required us to re-organise how we deliver updates in the future… but the good news is Guilds 1.0 is finally here! The first of many updates to establish a new social system built around competing player created pirate factions! aka guilds. If you are not aware we refined this feature with the help of the players using our new P.T.E. branch and via our Discord feedback and bug report channel. Make sure to look out for announcements regarding more P.T.Es in the future. That being said, let's crack straight into the patch notes! WARNING! This update requires a full progress wipe Side note:- The colonist head cosmetic, body cosmetic and the Pilot voice pack (previously twitch drops) will be available to claim through the gift tab for the first two weeks only, so make sur…
- Guilds Update Announcement / P.T.E 2.0 Activity - 10 December 2023
Good day Marauders! We have great news, the GUILDS update will be launching this coming Thursday! (14/12/2023) This is due to the recent P.T.E only revealing a few issues that we are already in the process of fixing. We can't thank all the players enough for their reports including the moderators and vanguards who joined in to help process it. It has resulted in a much smoother update and we can't wait for everyone to play! (really cool to see hundreds of guilds already!). This does mean we will be taking the Guilds P.T.E. 2.0 down over the next hour but you won't have long until you can build your guild, officially!. We will take this opportunity to highlight whats coming in the GUILDS update (full patch notes will be on the day of launch) Guild Creation (up to 50 players) Guild Hideout (Level up your private base by collecting enemy guild patches for you and your members) Planet Kille…
- GUILDS P.T.E. 2.0 (Public test) Launched! - 8 December 2023
Hello again Marauders! We found that first P.T.E incredibly useful and are extremely happy as a development team with the results. We see a bright future as we continue to do more PTEs in the future. We really appreciate everyone trying out GUILDS P.T.E 1.0 as it exposed important issues that needed fixing. We have spent this last week refining the upcoming update, addressing the reported issues and adding some quality of life. We think it's important to run a second public test (for a few days depending on it's success) to see how these recent changes have worked, check the remaining bugs and confirm any stability fixes. You will probably still encounter bugs and have suggestions, which you can let us know about in our Official Discord, under the pte-guilds channels. If you wish to join in make sure to right click on "Marauders" in your steam library and pick the P.T.E in the "betas" t…
- GUILDS P.T.E 1.0 Status - 2 December 2023
Good day Marauders! We are extremely thankful for the amount of players jumping into the public test already and the feedback so far has been invaluable, however we will have to end this test sooner than expected so we focus on the issues that have already become apparent. The current P.T.E will be disabled tomorrow (Sunday 3rd December) around 13:00 G.M.T. with a plan of having Guilds P.T.E. 2.0 up in the coming days. Thanks again for everyone's patience and we will make sure to inform you of any P.T.E activity. S.I.G.
- P.T.E GUILDS Update 1.0 - 1 December 2023
Welcome Marauders, to our first public test! or “P.T.E” (Playable Test Environment) Everyone who owns Marauders can play this early test build now. Access it by right-clicking Marauders in your Steam Library, clicking properties then the going to the Betas tab. In this menu use the drop down list to choose “marauders_pte” to begin downloading the build. You may have to restart Steam for it to appear in the list. This first P.T.E will be running until Tuesday night (UTC) however this may change depending on how certain mechanics function. For example we may need to disable it early to fix issues or leave it running longer to test efficiently. Whatever happens we will make sure to let the community know of this activity. The main goal of this P.T.E. is to test the stability of the new UI/Friends Overhaul and the Guilds mechanics. So please take a look around and thoroughly explore these f…
- Upcoming Guilds PTE 1.0 - 30 November 2023
Good Day Marauders! We will be looking to launch the PTE before the end of Tomorrow! (Friday the 1st December 2023). Here is a tease into some features that will be included in this public test; Create a Guild (for the low cost of being level 10 and 100k credits) Players can join guilds at any level and for free (up to 50 players) Guild hideout (enter your private base at any time with your fellow guild members) Guild Progression (level up the guild trader “Calico” and the guide hideout) Shotgun BUFF (all shotguns have 12 pellets which do 16 damage, they just vary in spread) 5 Minute Gate timer UI Overhaul and friends system Bandage and First Aids heal more, Large first aid heals an additional health burn amount Attachments that can be removed and added to weaponry in raid Loot balance overhaul (lots more lootables including attachments that can be found “loose” in raid) Faction Trader…
- Development Update | Guilds - 15 November 2023
Good day Marauders We apologize for the lack of communication recently, however, we are undergoing a restructure which affects development, community support and how we deliver updates. Unfortunately we still do not have a set date for the ‘Guilds’ patch however we would like to take this opportunity to announce that we will soon be launching our first public testing branch (PTE). This allows us to get the update into your hands sooner and help with the current restructuring process, we have high hopes it will become the norm for future large updates and provide a smoother feedback process (hopefully avoid any drastically disliked balance changes in the main branch) The PTE will become a separate available title in your steam library and provide players a new separate account to experiment with. This confirms there will be a wipe for “guilds” in order to make sure this new functionality…
- Dev Blog #008 | Research - 20 September 2023
Welcome to another dev blog, this one is a little unique, focusing on research trips our team have completed in recent weeks that have proven more than fruitful. There are some secrets too for upcoming content… so make sure to look for clues! Before we get started on the gathered research, we have two announcements. Marauders Champion Tournament Our Marauders Champion tournament will start in the next few hours. As stated in previous blogs, this player-kill competition is a limited-time event that will normally last for a week. These competitions will usually happen once a month but may occur twice a month. This one will run a little longer - around 2 weeks - and have additional prizes alongside the exclusive nomad blood mask, so make sure to get in the top 100 to earn it. https://i.imgur.com/Etz4roE.png Merch Store Updates The second announcement is that our merch store has been update…
- Marauders Update | Plunder 1.3 - Explosives - 14 September 2023
Welcome, Marauders. This is our final Plunder patch, as we head towards the next phase for Marauders: Guilds. The next build will require three to four weeks of development, however, that doesn’t make this iteration any less special! We now have over 70 different weapons in the game, a great milestone! The addition of three new grenade types; fire, stick and impact bombs – has helped us achieve this. We will continue to produce and incorporate more weapons for the foreseeable future! Another important addition is the recipe blueprint, helping players gain more access to Heavy MG42s and Thompsons by providing temporary crafting capabilities – this is a rare item that will make your heart pound! Let’s get into the patch notes: Fire Bomb A napalm filled grenade with a very short fuse (1 second). This device creates a devastating pool of fire that inflicts 6 damage per tick, if you’re unluc…
- DEV BLOG - #007 - The Elites - 6 September 2023
Welcome back, Marauders. Welcome to our Seventh Dev Blog! Our new development schedule has allowed us to launch our 3rd patch (Plunder 1.2) in the last 6 weeks, and we are seeing amazing results! But full transparency, the Guilds 1.0 update is larger and we anticipate we will need extra time, so after Plunder 1.3 expect a 3 to 4 week gap (rather than 2 weeks). Our goal is to drop Guilds in October! In terms of the previous patch we have received positive feedback on the hit registration change and internally we are finding a massive improvement, so we hope you agree. We also feel our change to hip firing spread was too much/over-tuned so look forward to more tweaking in the next patch. You can watch this Dev Blog recording here! Gamescom Me and the team have just arrived back from the greatest gaming event in the world… Gamescom! I’d like to thank all the kind fans who came up to us to…
- Marauders Update - Plunder 1.2 - 31 August 2023
Welcome, Marauders. First of all, we would like to thank all of you that we got to meet at Gamescom! It was a blast chatting with you all as we wandered the convention floor. We’ve got more coming on our experience at Gamescom in our Dev Blog next week, so keep an eye out for that. We even got to meet the godfather of the Extraction genre, Nikita himself! We are back in action with another update for Plunder! We’ve got new weapons, new Raid missions and more to talk about, so let’s look at the highlights. Long Double Barrel Shotgun We’ve added a Long Double Barrel shotgun with excellent stopping power, but be careful of what engagement you get into with only 2 rounds loaded… Custom Mat 49 The Marauders have fabricated their own variant of the Mat 49, built specifically for tight spots, with a snub nose barrel, burst-fire firing mode and rechambered in the .45 ammo type! In-raid missions…
- Marauders Update - Plunder 1.1 - 17 August 2023
Welcome, Marauders And welcome to all the new Space Pirates out there that joined us recently. What a weekend! Roughly 50,000 of you claimed a Drop on Twitch, with over 180 of you streaming Marauders throughout the campaign! And now it’s time to get stuck into the Patch Notes for Plunder 1.1, hot on the heels of our last update! Oh and before I forget, remember to log in after the update to get in on the action of the Marauder Champion Tournament! It’s time to earn that Blood Nomad mask again! There is a bunch of new stuff to get through, so on to the Patch Notes! Known issues: We are tracking an issue with EXISTING Meds from players stashes showing incorrect stack values. This issue seems to be resolving over time but we are watching closely! TIMER REDUCTIONS We have been monitoring time spent in raids and the average time taken to extract. So we wanted to rebalance timers to get to a…
- Marauders first FREE weekend is live! Twitch Drops Activated - 10 August 2023
Marauders old and new, It is time to deploy. We're embarking on our first FREE WEEKEND, now live! This trial - to test your skills as you trade bullets with some relentless opponents - runs through Monday 14th, 6PM BST. To celebrate our first weekend and Plunder, Twitch Drops for Marauders have been ACTIVATED. Now is your chance to reclaim all your gear, all over again! Don't waste any time, you have until the 14th to acquire the goods and expand your arsenal. Twitch Drops Please head here for full instructions and briefing on this Twitch Drops campaign: https://www.marauders.game/twitch-drops Check out our brand-new trailer for Plunder Guides The daunting abyss of space can be challenging; a brutal experience that can leave you lootless and hopeless. Initiate yourselves with some useful guides from James at SIG. Gearing Up - How to prepare for your first match https://www.youtube.com/e…
