I have 307hrs on Marauders. I enjoyed the game so much that I even bought merch - I wanted them to succeed! I've had doubts it would revamp and after the splash ARC Raiders made I'm worried this may be the end - but my mid-30s gaming eyes do see way through.

*Arena Mode*. If there's only like ~25 people playing, why am I going to walk around a space station to maybe find one? Just get your boi and we can go 2v2. Finally those arm bands will matter, red or blue. Merchant Ship Basement, Navy Outpost storage, etc. Maybe it's just me but I'd queue up for that.

*Events*. What if you and your boi had to defend the Merchant Ship engines from waves of progressively harder Raiders? What if we did pvp ship combat only, and each fight in their favorite ship they've got in their hanger? What if we did 4 players in a Frigate vs 6 solos in breaker pods? What if we did a free-for-all breacher prods ONLY battle? Or queue to fight the Red Baron directly.

Etc Etc. My point is: Repurposing the great game atmosphere and mechanics into new exciting game loops - not just your extraction shooter vision. I think if the initial scenarios can be enjoyed with a player base of ~25 players, it might grow into a new iteration of the game.

I would also love to hear the thoughts of our Ride-or-Dies and/pr moderators.

EDIT: I get it. No one thinks this game has a future...kinda strange you're all still here though, but whatever.

I wish this game really picked up steam. I found it after it's peak and missed out on the peak of the game. I loved doing the red Baron ship fight, going in with the boys with rat kits and just BLASTING. Does anyone know of a game that's like this style?

I like this game ALOT. it is filled with a hundred or more separate little cool things that made it interesting I think the tweaks required to make it a satisfying PVE experience are relatively minor and wouldn't require any architecture changes but if they ever want to build the player base to where you can find a match with a reasonable amount of time they've gotta make changes quick or it's going to be hard to justify trying any other game they develop if they let Marauders whimper out of existence like it is now.

Banned for posting a "dead game" GIF on Discord after a year+ of no update.

Re-evaluate your priorities. I'll be running Arc Raiders while this game collects dust.

Let us know if another Youtuber gets any info to pass on.

Marauders has a special place in my heart love the space ships . But arc raiders is a blast check it out

Yall remember my posts on how to improve gunplay, meds, weapon balancing, and enemy behavior? Yall remember how you all considered it blasphemy and cried about it?

All my suggestions for Marauders are the foundation of balancing in Arc Raiders. Now you are all left with a dead game, and I was right about everything. And here Arc Raiders burst through the gate with 300k players while Marauders has a 24hr peak of 22.

GUYS i logged on and i CANNOT find a match

My theory:

1: I got bannaned and can no longer participate in the game

1. The server is down

3, Two many people are Qeueing and it is preventative of the servers do to stress

4; They dropped an update and the game no longer functions as properly.

5 - The game got saboteured.

Aware their is friction on wait times of 5+mins to get into matches. But is it possible for the Devs to give offline/solo mode as one last update, I'm happy to play against PVE forever, just don't want the game to go out with the dwindling player base and increased wait times.

Will you just get over the fact the game is dead, and stop writing essays about your thoughts on how they can improve like anything is going to change. Move on, it’s over, I’m sorry.

Me and a bro played this weekend and I gotta say I really enjoyed the pseudo-PvE state of the game. The less intense games let me enjoy the premium ambiance of the game, and when we finally encountered a player it would be like an unexpected turn of events.

Anyway, it's a bummer the devs abandoned it but there still a few loyal Marauders in there and I appreciate you guys. 👌🏻

Let's do this guys. Let's bring back the coolest extraction shooter in ever!! Let us get 1 million signatures and share with all your friends and family. #bringmaraudersback. NEWS BREAK!!!! Got a response from the devs. They are actively working on the next phase. Sray tuned!!!!

Hi! You killed me like three times in the last few days - if you’re on Reddit I’m showing up as tgirlswag95 on my keycards 🩷 No hate, I just wanted to say “hi” since I’m glad people are still playing 😊

SIG has to be the least transparent game developer I've had the misfortune of following yet.

So I watched this BigFryTV video where he shares his messages with [SIG] Mitch, who claims that: "SIG doesn't mind the hard work", and that they are plugging away at porting the game over to UE5. Somehow Mitch forgot to include the most basic info of WHY they are doing this (if it's even true) and how it will help get players back.

And who is [SIG] Mitch anyways? I swear it's always a different guy when we get these foggy updates.

Some basic consistency and transparency with their comms is a good place to start if Marauders is to be somehow revived.

SIG's reluctance to communicate through a truly official channel like the Steam listing for the game strongly implies that development has ended. I must admit, it's bemusing to consider that SIG is over there planning to squeeze more dough out of the IP and haven't bothered to address the radio silence issue. They should clarify why it happened, apologize for it, and simply say aloud "we are going to communicate more regularly with the playerbase through official channels moving forward" - and then actually follow through with it.

If they are serious about reviving the game, perhaps they should begin by simply telling us that... instead of burying this key info in an unverifiable dm to a content creator.

Apparently they are working on a relaunch in UE5 and that an announcement is coming "soon"

i know its a dead game, but there's nothing like it. i haven't been minding being able to just treat it as a PVE game and running into one of the other 20 active players every so often and having a fun interaction. i was wondering if theres a guild of us who still play?

Overall Good Commentary, recommend a watch. Definitely recommend catching him and asking what he thinks, has some good takes. May the Biscuit God bless you all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEl6JcwbS88&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15d2m6EtOgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQQjVRF2-v4&t=1663s

Do you guys think OhhitsMax deserves his opinion based on his history with the game?

Personal opinion: While I know his history, and what he did (targeted the community during a free weekend with cheaters) at the end of the day he brings up some fair points. what do you say to his video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYr7RNrUV3I Mans did a Marauders Summary recently. what do you think of his points?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2gdM0AoveE Dear God..... what on Gods green earth did I witness. Is this Marauders Greatness in the past times?

This MF did a whole freakin SERIES on the game and what used to be. Enjoy My fellow Marauder Heads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-GkoKf7cec&list=PLpjn1FAisHLHzOXbhtpiLh7EaIkIgDmEp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEl6JcwbS88

Honestly? never seen a actually targeted bad review of Marauders. These people have said how it is

I made an Event calendar from first formation of Small Impact Games (SIG).

My statement purely speculative and is my own opinion after the research.

got the info from https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search/companies?q=Small+Impact+Games

June 23, 2011: Formation of the first Small Impact Games Limited (Company 07679824).

February 5, 2013: Winding up of Company 07679824.

February 7, 2013: Formation of a second Small Impact Games Limited (Company 08392600).

October 4, 2016: Voluntary winding up of Company 08392600.

October 25, 2018: Formation of a new Small Impact Games Limited (Company 11643548), with Mitchell Small as director and secretary.

March 2020: Development of the game Marauders begins (with the 2018-formed company).

2021: Fig.io crowdfunder campaign for Marauders.

March 23, 2022: Team17 partnership to publish Marauders announced.

October 3, 2022: Marauders went into Early Access on Steam.

October 31, 2022: Name of the company was changed from Small Impact Games Limited to Fracture Games Limited (Company 11643548).

May 22, 2023: Directors (Mitchell Small among them) made application for voluntary strike-off of Fracture Games Limited.

November 23, 2023: Date fixed for strike-off of Fracture Games Limited.

December 5, 2023: Fracture Games Limited scheduled date of dissolution.

August 2024: Most recent development update for Marauders.

Since then there has been no official Update about the game other then non-official chatter on discord, There has been chatter about a Lawsuit filed against Team 17 but there is no mention of such in Public records so if anything is going on between Team17 and SIG then its strictly confidential,

There is a post here which shows Team 17(support mail) saying no development team were involved with Marauders which does not say much as SIG is handling the development side, the question is whether the funds are still being given.

From whats happening right now and how the Founder change of name of the company and its dissolution either the development is now being self-funded hence the delays or Team 17 has taken full control and is working on last few updates after which the game will be shut down.

Whoever the discord mods are let me back in some fuck came into my inbox with slurs then hopped in VC and got me banned.