Marauders – space treasure hunters

An alternate reality in the 1990s where the war never ended. Moreover, it has reached such a level that there is nothing left on Earth to keep you here. Joy, strength, wealth, it’s all gone. The nearest place where you can achieve these goals is the universe, and you will also go there as pirates, who are called Marauders.

All this reality unfolds in a first-person shooter with my favorite gaming system. Luther Shooter. This means you run into the area, kill everything they originally wanted to kill you, and rob them of everything they have. And if you don’t take on the enemies, you will find a lot of stuff scattered around or in crates and other storage areas as you explore the area. Tarkov reminds you of this? So the game is very inspiring. Marauders is more arcade-y, but you’ll still find basic elements here that will give you the right melancholy. However, unlike Tarkov, there is no complexity in terms of military equipment and a model of some kind of destruction of your character. But there is nothing to the detriment. On the contrary, this may looser system suitable.

Everything was presented to us last week in a closed alpha test. And I have to say it was one of the most stable pre-tests I’ve ever played. At the beginning, you equip the basic equipment of the boat and go hunting.

I already mentioned that in a sense, Marauders is such a lighter Tarkov. But what is missing is that in others he dwells. Because the title doesn’t want to look like a stealer from another game and that brings new interesting mechanics.

Every time you start a round, you fly into the area in a spaceship. Whether it’s on your pre-selected ships or base ships available to everyone. This start gives you the choice of whether you want to fly to the center of the map from the very beginning, where the main facility is located, or whether you want to capture a pirate or cargo ship. The pirate ship is full of armed computer-controlled soldiers and provides slightly different loot than the main complex, especially when the “armed” information and the “can turn on anyone” information are combined. whatever she wears“, so with a little skill, having been on a pirate ship, you will become equipped with it.

In space, you can even destroy or take over any other player’s ship and cut the competition from the start. This is also facilitated by the fact that the central complex can only be visited by anchoring your ship. This means that if the ship damages you so badly that you have to fly the escape pod, you won’t be able to reach the main area.

But you can use this module to infiltrate any other ship and then steal here. And yes, with the exception of pirate and basic crafting, you can remove a ship from the map and take it until another player completes the confiscation process.

Let’s move from the first phase, the space phase, to the second phase, when we can anchor somewhere.

This is the main goal of the game where you have to be vigilant or bloodthirsty and shoot down all competitors so that the area you visit is only for you or your team. You can invite to every fleet up to three other friends. Which will make raiding a lot easier for you.

Central as long as there are two cards – mining complex and space station. In each you will find similar loot. The places you’ll be most interested in are either the locked zones that you can enter with the help of jewelers, or the safes that you visit thanks to melting weapons. But if you prefer a more pacifist style of combat, there are plenty of items hidden in this area for you to focus on.

And why actually collect them? Almost every item can be sold or taken apart, from which you can then create another thing of your dreams. For example, weapons, ammo, armor, jewelers, or a better ship with lots of storage space.

Everything is limited only by your level, which you increase simply by playing or completing relatively easy, understandable tasks.

There are not so many weapons yet, but you will definitely find your own among them. The shooting model is very worthy. The whole game is set pretty believable dieselpunk jacketthanks to which it doesn’t even seem strange to you that you are viewing the universe in the 1990s.

Already in alpha testing, we had a lot of fun when we simply transferred rescue modules from ship to ship of other players and explained to them that the universe is ours. Or we got into dangerous situations when we were afraid for our prey and, even worse, for the ship.

The moments when noticeably better equipped players stuck their heads where they didn’t need to and collected a deadly bullet into it were just great. And after we searched their backpacks, we found that they arrived on a really nice ship. Then we had to figure out which landing site they parked the ship on, and here we are. thanks to their transfer card. And as a nice bonus, we also took what they already loaded into their ship’s inventory.

Of course, this early approach brought with it some errors. For example, when they forgot to disappear items from enemies’ pockets after we applied them to each other.

From time to time, communication between servers was not the same in some places, so we had to restart the game and start the party more often than we wanted, but I don’t remember dying in the game due to a bug. So I can really praise the first phase of testing and another upcoming test that I can definitely recommend.

With a calm soul, I can say that Tarkov has a lot of solid competitors, and if a small development team grows, which currently has 4 people, then they are waiting for us. very good game.