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Marauders Update: The Red Baron

Welcome Space Pirates, to the first content update for Marauders, The Red Baron! Get ready to face this infamous foe who will be roaming your raids in his personal Strike Frigate, a ship capable of some of the fastest manoeuvres you’ve seen to date. If you get lucky, you can board his ship and go toe to toe with him for his valuable Blast armour and weapons. Don’t forget to search the ship for any hidden loot!

If you are returning to Marauders, heads up, this Update includes a full Wipe of everyone's progress and accounts. For those of you not familiar with the term ‘Wipe’ in this context, during early access there will be times that we will need to implement new systems or gameplay features. Sometimes these new features will require us to reset everyone's progress back to a clean slate. With the new Raid Missions and Daily Market that we have added in this update, it required a wipe in order for the features to work as intended.

Before we get into the juicy details of this Update, check out this list of Known Issues that we are aware of and will be implementing fixes for as soon as we can.

WARNING: This update and wipe will cause settings to be reset to default, we apologies for the inconvenience. This includes graphic settings, sound and keybinds.

[h3]Known problems:[/h3]

Localisation may be incorrect or missing, due to content changes
You may need to reset your graphics settings and keybindings as we have added more options.
Disappearing items (including containers) have had our full attention and some efforts have been made to alleviate the issue, but due to its obscurity and complexity, we cannot confirm if it’s fixed and may still occur.

And now, all the details of today's Update!

[h3]NEW [/h3]
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Red Baron Boss (5 Loadout variations)
Baron head and body unlockable cosmetic
Strike Frigate (Red Barons personal Frigate)
Increased Locations per Raid (up to 3 raid locations can now spawn in space)
Maximum 40 player server capacity, up to 10 crews.
40% Increase to the Space map size.
Raid Missions (Raids provide players up to 3 missions to complete, rewarding faction XP)
Market Trades (Replacing daily contracts). These will refresh every 24 hours and will contain trades for potentially rare loot!
M712 special variant, chambered in .45 acp with a 20 round capacity.
Suppressor for the M712 pistol and the M712 special.
L1A1 Assault Rifle. 300 Magnum. 20 round capacity.
L1A1 Extended Mag and L1A1 Compensator
Armour type - Blast Armour. This armour mitigates damage taken from inside a ship shot by another ship.
Heavy pilot armour (blast armour)
Heavy pilot helmet (blast armour)
Pilot Armour (blast armour)
Pilot Helmet (blast armour)
Baron cap
Items such as heavy PSH helmet, diamonds, bank notes and silver ring
5 new linear contracts (Zero To Hero)
35 market deals/trades now available with various dealer types.
SAS operative body cosmetic now unlockable
L1A1 can now be found in the k.a. strongbox
The Red Baron and his Strike Frigate have a 20% spawn rate.

[h3]CHANGES[/h3]
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Flak Vests now have blast armour value
Pods are now targeted by A.I. Ships and Turrets.
Zero to hero campaign now gives more pirate faction XP, enough to get the player to level 10 of the pirate faction when the missions are complete.
Cosmetics outside the basic raider set have had their cost increased. Cosmetics that were missing their requirements now have them
Post raid statistics, including what weapon killed you, accuracy and many more.

[h3]ART [/h3]
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Strike frigate interior map
Space Debris and Asteroid Pass
Moving asteroids
16 Market Avatars added
New Jump Gate model
Market given its own scene in the main menu
Some tweaking to the shop market widgets.
Lighting and scene set up for market background.

[h3]BALANCING[/h3]
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Scout ships can now be bought from the Kingdom Alliance trader.
Sten suppressor, Uzi suppressor and Mp40 suppressor now have less complicated recipe requirements.
Repo Man mission can now be completed by examining any forklift in (all raid locations, instead of the asteroid mine half-track bike)
Thompson Damage increased 25>26
Mac10 Damage increased 22>24
MP40 Damage increased 24>25
Heavy Thompson Damage increased 25>26
Mp40 now has a 10% reduction in recoil
Mp40 is now craftable.
PPSH is no longer craftable.
PPSH added to Trader.
MP40 removed from trader (MP40 now considered a mid tier weapon after all changes).
30% increase to the amount of ammo spawning in an ammo container.
Weapons in the trader no longer contain ammo
Sten, Mat49 and Uzi have had around a 50% reduction in cost/value.
Hidden stash and repo man now only require 1 second to examine to prevent confusion with multiples required.
Commando squads now have the same spawn rate in asteroid mine as other locations.
Sack bag craft recipe now only requires junk scrap.
Pirate helmet requires 1 less scrap junk.
Zero to Hero campaign now gives more pirate faction xp, enough to get the player to level 10 of the pirate faction when the missions are complete.
L1A1 and its attachments can now be found in the K.A. strongbox
Cosmetics outside the basic raider set have had their cost increased. Cosmetics that were missing their requirements now have them.
Capital ship no longer has a main turret (Disabled) but has 2 floating turrets guarding it.

[h3]UI [/h3]
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Market menu is now implemented into the trader window, under a new market tab.
Appearance menu updated with new cosmetics: Red Baron head, Red Baron body and the new SAS body
When you first spawn into a raid, your in-raid missions appear in the top right of the HUD for a short period of time.
In-game inventory has had a rework to show the in-raid mission info breakdowns.
End screen now shows in-raid mission results.
End Raid menu now show Raid stats for: damage dealt, health healed, shots fired, shots hit, headshots, amount looted, breaches, ships disabled, shanks, and close calls.
When you die the End Raid menu now shows you what weapon was used to kill you, and where the shot that killed you hit.
New UI on items to show when armour has a blast armour value
Changed the way you set screen resolution and windowed mode in the options menu
New setting in the options menu for setting UI scale
When unlocked the vault door now says "Vault Door" instead of just "Door".
When ship is at 0 health, UI popup now says "Repair or Abandon Ship", to help let new players know that you can also repair your ship.
Updated prestige unlock menu to say "Trader Reputation gets wiped", also added that you can use prestige points to unlock increased inventory and ship storage.
Main menu support ticket button now takes you to Team17 official support to centralise support tickets and help us manage them.
In-game report bug button now takes you to Team 17 support.
New popup when you buy a ship from the shop, telling you it is available in your hangar.
Updated the ship management menu wording to use the term sell instead of scrap.
Removed daily contracts summary UI from main menu (to go with the system changes).
Killing the Red Baron now shows up in the UI of your tracked stats.
Updated the in-game exit menu image with the new warp exit gate model.
Added a UI blocker over the "unlock" button in '"appearance" tab during matchmaking.
Changed wording for keybinding of "jump" key to be "jump / vault"
Crew names can no longer just be empty or blank spaces.
Zero to Hero contracts menu is now ‘cleaner’.
Moved faction standing menu to the trade menu and tweaked its look.

[h3]ANIMATION [/h3]
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Tweaked the scale of different ships in the main menu hangar to make them feel more grand.
Striker frigate rigged and animated.
L1A1 weapon rigged and animated.
Player animations for L1A1.
Animations for the Mauser Special.
Animated elements of the new space exit gate.
Updated exit gate cinematic to include the new Striker Frigate.
Tweaks to the exit gate cinematic (quicker, added a bit of randomised rotation to the ship as it leaves).
Realigned the Mac-10 position on your character in the main menu when equipped in the secondary slot.

[h3]SOUND [/h3]
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Tweaks to the vault door sound set.
New system for playing weapon foley sounds when moving around, currently for jump land light, and jump land heavy (will be expanded upon in the future).
New set of generic weapon foley sounds.
New sounds when repairing armours, weapons etc.
New ambient sounds added to metal space debris (like the rings).
Ambient sounds added to the capital and merchant ship raid exteriors.
Ambient sound added to the small clusters of space rocks.
Sounds for the L1A1: shooting, handling etc.
New items have pickup put down sounds.
New items have scrapping sounds.
New items have repairing sounds.
Enhanced the exit gate sounds.
New bullet impact sounds for hitting all material types.
Space ambience audio is now wrapped in an ‘blueprint actor’ allowing us to do more dynamic audio per skybox in the future.
Put in some temporary sound effects for when you reload the Jackhammer, Double barrel shotgun, Trench gun (will do a proper pass when we have done unique animations for their reloads).

[h3]OPTIMISATIONS[/h3]
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Optimised space debris objects tick rate.
Optimised ship interior components.
Optimised tick rate for rock space clusters.
Optimised the exit gate actors/elements.
Deleted second settings menu that was spawned unnecessarily in the main menu.
Ships network optimisation.

[h3]FIXES [/h3]
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Various fixes for crashes.
Various fixes for exploits.
Various fixes for inventory.
Fixed a bug where raid area entrances would block projectiles.
Fixes added to prevent falling through airlock floors.
Fixed a bug where credits aren’t removed when unlocking a recipe.
Fixed a bug where the Webley pistol would have a shell casing drop sound after each shot (when it shouldn't).
Fix added to stop light turrets from creating a pop when shooting on some headphones.
Fixed a bug where the exit gate area would block projectiles.
Fixed bug where "f" would show up when you looked at ship engines inside the ships.
Fixed a bug where you could not get money for scrapping a ship.
Fixed a bug where prestige points wouldn't be taken if you bought prestige cost appearance items.
Fix for player stuck in the crouch position after exiting the port camera "periscope" in any ship.
Fixed entrance area material light bleed from one of the Spaceport entrances.
Fix for the solo launch to raid button being stuck greyed out if you had created a crew, started searching for a match, cancelled and then disbanded
Fixed the jackhammer weapon camera being too close in the weapon workbench
Fixed a bug where in main menu hangar a second turret preview mesh would be shown on a rustbucket if you went from capital ship with dual guns and then selected rustbucket
Fix for bug where you could get softlocked in the ship management menu.
Fixed a bug where using Esc to close the ship management menu didn't play a sound.
Fixes to switching/setting resolution.
Fixes to switching/setting windows mode.
Tweak to help make it easier to shoot as the heavy frigate.
Can no longer shoot your gun while in the in-ship drop pod using animation sequence.
Grammar fixes for some item descriptions.
Spelling fixes for misc item descriptions.
Fixed a bug where the right-click options and split UI elements would appear behind containers and bags popup windows.
Fixed the K1 compensator and the K1 wire stock reward icons stuck infinite loading on the commander control core contract.
Spaceport exit locations have been moved to prevent players spawning inside asteroids
Pickup art for M712 fixed.
Fix for all players getting the ‘Pod cant Enter’ popup if a pod tries to enter a raid location.
Fixed description error on heavy frigate ship.
Fixed weapons menu stat for ammo amount being wrong for the MG-42 and heavy MG-42 magazine.

DONE!

That was a lot to get through, thanks for sticking with us all the way through! Now it’s time to suit up, and get out there Space Pirates. There’s loot to be found, and other Marauders to kill in order to earn it.

As a little extra, here's our Red Baron trailer!

Marauders | Red Baron Update OUT NOW!

Sci-fi Tarkov game Marauders update will add a Red Baron boss

A major Marauders update is coming in December that will add a new multi-stage boss encounter to the dieselpunk sci-fi game, the developers have now confirmed. The Red Baron update adds an apex space pirate boss, and you'll have to defeat him in ship-to-ship combat before heading aboard and taking him out in close-quarters combat.

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Dev Blog #002 - The Red Baron

[h2]Welcome back, Space Pirates.[/h2]

Welcome to our second Dev Blog! We’ve got lots to show you, so let’s take a look at what’s coming soon, and what you’ve got to look forward to in the near future! Bare in mind, that while many of these planned changes will be coming in the Red Baron Update, there is a chance that not all of them will be included.

[h3]Too much of a good thing…
[/h3]
Overall, we felt our first patch landed as we had hoped – with a focus on addressing major issues. We knew a large patch straight out the gate was the best way to show our intention and determination to support the game and our community for the long-term.

We have, however, heard you loud and clear! We’ve read concerns regarding “too much change, too fast” – especially when it comes to balancing around weaponry and armour. Moving forward, we’ll be looking at more tweaks at a more manageable pace, so we can let things marinate and see what everyone thinks!

[h3]Raid Fever[/h3]

In the upcoming update, Red Baron, we will be introducing an extension to our raid location mechanic, so we can have more raids per instance. There will now be a chance to have multiple locations to breach and dock, creating a more dynamic and exciting experience – as you can see below.

The big difference, however, is that we’ve increased the number of crews per match to 10! This means some raids could see up to 40 space pirates duking it out! But not to worry, we are also increasing the size of each battleground to accommodate this, but not by too much!

[h3]Big Boss: Red Baron[/h3]

Red Baron will introduce our first fully-fledged boss! And yes, some of you may have guessed it: the new boss is indeed an expert pilot with their own custom ship! (seen next slide with our new jump gate asset). We are particularly excited about this because now, not only will you need to contend in C.Q.B, but space combat! So get honing those aeronautic skills!

Below, you can also see some of our initial explorations for the boss’s cosmetics and armour. But you’ll have to wait until the update’s out in the wild to see where we “landed”.

[h2]THE RED DEATH COMETH[/h2]

Red Baron is the Central Empire’s best recruit, the ship reflects this with an imperious aesthetic – a darkly lit, expansive, yet claustrophobic environment. This is a state-of-the-art strike frigate built for one purpose: destruction. Taking control and commanding the helm is not going to be easy in the presence of this death trap!

[h3]Contract Refactor[/h3]

Another exciting change is a restructuring to daily contracts. We’ll be looking to divide this into two systems:

Raid Contracts - Will provide three contracts (one from each faction) at the beginning of the raid that are context-sensitive to the raid locations that have appeared in the match.

This is to allow an easier track to levelling up factions, a new competitive dynamic between crews (that share the same goal) and to make sure the objective can be achieved without the mishaps of “RNG”.

Daily Market - This is in the main menu, where daily contracts previously existed. It’s a more passive way to earn rare loot and provides opportunities to trade items for something desirable.
This will remain limited, but similar to the current daily contracts system, with up to six per day.

To incorporate these features we will have a wipe.

[h3]We’re gonna need a bigger gun…[/h3]

More weapons and attachments are being added with every update. In Red Baron, we have a few, but let's talk about… the L1A1 Battle Rifle!

Our variant within the game is chambered in .300 magnum and comes with a few attachments making it the strongest automatic rifle in the game! Dealing a whopping 38 damage, its default capacity of 20 will make the extended mag option very tempting, so make sure to keep a look out for supply crates.

[h3]Mini-Mine[/h3]

During our prototype/pre-production days we quickly built a test level to demonstrate the features we were trying to achieve, this was actually the first iteration of the asteroid mine; some of our backers will remember it clearly! Last week, we thought it should make a return with a new lick of paint!

Throughout production, we want to keep a balance of new raids that are both dockable and breachable. This old asteroid mine map will be returning as a breach only map (much like the merchant ship) codenamed: “Mini-Mine” – a large mining ship that has coupled with a valuable space rock. Our new implementation will give players the experience of a ship breach segment, before exploring downwards to the depths of its organic, gritty location.

And to clarify, this will not be in the Red Baron Update, it will come in a future update in the new year!

Here is it’s newly finalised concept art in all its glory:

[h3]That’s all, folks![/h3]

That’s it for today’s Dev Blog, thanks for catching up with us! Stay tuned in Discord and on Twitter for more news on the upcoming Update!

- SIG Team

Marauders update teased in major patch for hardcore FPS game

Small Impact Games is set to release the first Marauders update, Ace, for its alternate history dieselpunk FPS game in December. The developer reports that its Escape from Tarkov inspired looter shooter has seen players take on an average of one million raids per day since the game launched on Steam Early Access in October - with lone wolf players making up 59% of that number. The multiplayer game's first patch is now live, introducing two new weapons along with a number of quality of life improvements.

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November HEALTH Patch is LIVE | Full Notes & Info

[h3]Welcome, Marauders, to our November Health Patch! (NOW LIVE) [/h3]

We have much to get through! In the notes below we have detailed all the fixes, additions, balancing, and more.

❗ Make sure to read through to the end, you don’t want to miss the sneak peek at what’s coming next!

[h2]FULL PATCH NOTES
[/h2]

[h3]NEW [/h3]

Webley Pistol
EM-2 battle rifle
Locked Depot for the Navy Outpost
Locked Depot for Penal Colony
Sten attachments; Muzzle Brake, Drum Mag and Wooden Stock
Additional Daily Contract missions, bringing total to 42
Single loot spawners have had their physics disabled to prevent loot penetrating collision/spawning outside of the play area
Added map cycling to prevent too much map repetition
Players now receive a Marauder Kill for destroying a Breacher Pod
Intro movie can be disabled with Steam launch option command: ‘nostartupmovies’
Can now adjust FOV (80 to 100)
Can now have lean set to toggle
Air control - most weapons now have a larger spread and recoil whilst jumping. Some weapons have their spread only increased a little where it makes sense e.g. the viper mk1, shotguns and pistols.
Navy Commandos and their Major can spawn in any raid location except for the navy outpost.
Crews are automatically locked but you can set it to be unlocked via the creation of the crew.
A siren alarm can now be heard when a breach occurs inside a ship.
Reinforced Anti-Cheat

[h3]ART [/h3]

Colour, reflections and lighting pass on Asteroid Mine.
Sten Weapon Model and Textures
Redistributed airlock positions in Asteroid Mine
Colour and reflections pass on Merchant ship
Stg44 rifle now has a front post (foresight)
Improved Krasa muzzle flash effects.

[h3]BALANCING [/h3]

Capital Ship and Merchant Ship have had their spawn chance increased by 30%
The headshot damage multiplier is now 3x rather than 3.5x
Airlock redistribution in Asteroid Mine
6 airlocks in Terraformer
6 airlocks in Navy Outpost
5 airlocks in Prison
5 airlocks in Spaceport
The Airlock now has more accurate collision (props etc)
Sten suppressor now requires fabric alongside metal scrap
Sten suppressors does 2 extra damage instead of 1
Large first aid kit’s healing amount has been increased by 35%
Lower-tier recipes have had their crafting timers greatly reduced.
All armour and helmets (except the leather jerkin, civilian helmet and pouch rig) have been buffed by 20% protection.
Heavy caliber weapon damage has been increased by around 15%, except SVT40, Johnson and the Mosin pistol which have had their damage reduced.
“Top brass” mission requirements is now 8 instead of 10
“Become Infamous” mission has been re-balanced to include more targets.
M45-k is the only SMG to receive a damage buff.
Compact containers are now 3x3 cells.(storage capacity remains the same)
Industrial locked loot bins in Navy Outpost and Penal Colony
Klobb is now a burst only weapon and has a 24 round capacity
The jump turn rate is now 40% (down from 50%)
The durability of SMGs has been lowered
Most weapons have had their credit value increased by 15 to 35%
Welrod damage is down to 36 from 40.
All Smgs have had their recoil slightly increased.
Uzi suppressor now requires a toolkit instead of metal scrap
9mm ammo and luger replaced with the Webley revolver in the pirate factions trader
Suppressors and stocks no longer available in the trader have been moved to crafting unlocks
EM-2 and Sten drum mag can now be looted from the Kingdom Alliance supply drop.
Radio backpack is now 6x6 storage capacity
Reduced recoil on the M50 rifle
Shotguns now have a large increase in spread over distance. the terminator and trench having a tighter spread, liberator and jackhammer have a medium spread and the double barrel has a larger spread
Reduced the length of certain actions on ai squads (sas and commandos) to prevent them looking frozen when failing to complete/reach them
Panzer removed from the central empire shop (now it’s higher tier armour) and replaced with plate armour. (medium tier armour)
Pirate trader's supply drop has been added to the vault loot pool and removed from the faction shop, it has been replaced with the machete.

[h3]UI [/h3]

The Discord button is now on the main menu screen
Removed ban appeal option from the main menu ticketing menu (moved to else where in the UI)
Changed the guide info to say you prestige at level 50 to match the actual in-game level you need to hit
Moved report button next to the player who killed you name in the end screen to make it more obvious
Added toggle lean to the options menu
In the main menu, can now use the ESC key to quickly close the following menus: leaderboard, support ticket, guide, ship management, daily contracts
Login screen and main menu you are banned now have buttons to appeal ban which goes to t17 support
Options menu tweaks and updated for new fov and toggle lean settings
A marauder-specific KD (aka KD against other players) to the stats menu
Build id is now shown on the login screen
Moved commando maj stat kills up next to the commando kills in the stats menu (as makes more sense)
New can’t enter raid area as pod warning popup if you try to use a raid entrance as a pod

[h3]ANIMATION [/h3]

EM2 rigged in-engine and core animation set done
Webley rigged in-engine and core animation set done
Radar dish on top of the prison raid area now rotates slowly
Sten animation poses tweaks to go with new model

[h3]SOUND [/h3]

New unlock sounds for the locked bar doors
Updated several sounds use in the large metal shutter door
Removed dead space from start of the pick up put down item sounds so they feel more responsive
Misc tweaks/adjustments to item pick up put down sounds
Tweaks/adjustments to misc attaching attachments to weapons sound in the workbench menu
Unique sounds added for k1 stock and mp40 stock being attached
New and reworked vault door sounds
New and updated lootable sounds
New sounds for the Webley (shoot & reloads)
Radar dish on top of the prison raid area now has sound

[h3]OPTIMISATIONS[/h3]

Optimised Merchant Ship
Optimised Terraformer
Optimised Asteroid Mine
Optimised Ship Interiors

[h3]FIXES [/h3]

Miscellaneous crashes
Various duplication issues
Various exploit issues
Various raid collision issues
Various Crew issues
Fix added to stop Auto looting/Fast looting removing attachments from weapons
Fixes added for instances of gear not coming into raid that was equipped in menu
Fixes added for Keycard’s losing dock information and player data.
Fixes added for members of a crew not going into raid with their captain/crew
Fixed transition sounds not playing when using the ESC button to quickly go back from certain menus
Fixed pressing escape on the main menu first time it would try and go back even though it was at the top-level menu already
Fixed vault locks back side being see through
Fixed some industrial bins being able to be accessed without being unlocked
Fix for crew still showing up in server list even if they were set to private (locked)
As pod the able to “breach” popup now contains the correct “key” based on your keybind settings
When on the turret the "key" to exit turret message now contains the correct key based on your keybind settings
When piloting the frigate the "key" to exit the pilot seat message now contains the correct key based on your keybind settings
Fix for the fire extinguisher, blowtorch and flamethrower's ammo is not shown in first person view/fpp
Fixes added to help with ultrawide problems
Fix added for splines causing a crash
Fixed - Trader Reputation will now correctly reset with Prestige. (Added Nov 14th)

[h3]Please note:[/h3]

When playing in a squad, the Captain’s ship is used.
If a teammate escapes out of the raid while piloting the captain’s ship – the pilot will take ownership of the ship, and the captain loses it.

[h3]ONE MORE THING…[/h3]

Our first, significant update is coming to Marauders this December – codename: Ace.

Cast your eyes on the transmission:

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*EDIT* - Added note on Trader Reputation changes with Prestige (Updated November 14th).