Marauders is one of those games where you can truly lose everything, since when you die in a raid you lose all the items you bought in that raid. Much like the game Escape From Tarkov, Marauders can be brutal at times for new players, and some players even lose everything and quit the game. In this Complete Beginners guide, we’ll show you some general tips to help you play Marauders a little bit better!
Complete Beginners Guide For Marauders
Now contrary to popular belief, games like Marauders and Tarkov aren’t PVP only. When you go into a raid you have a chance of meeting other players that’s for sure, but there are also NPCs as well. As expected, these NPCs can be a bit easier to deal with then players so keep that in mind. I myself treat everyone as a player regardless if they’re not but that’s just me.
Inventory
Starting off this Complete Beginners guide with the Inventory. Let’s face it, in these kinds of games you’re really just playing Tetris with extra steps. Juggling items and whatnot can be a problem, and don’t even let your friends see your mess of a stash. Keep it organized and make sure it’s neat and tidy, with no random bandages in the corner of your stash reserved for bullets.
In this game, there’s a crafting system. So be familiar with the different crafting recipes the game offers. Keep an eye on items like bullets or first aid kits, two things that you’ll surely use a lot.
If you’re missing some materials, you can go and find them or buy them in the vendors. Crafting can be very useful which leads us to the next thing you should craft.
The starting stash not big enough for you? You can actually craft items that will help you have more stash. You can also increase your stash using Prestige points.
Remember, some ships have a stash on them as well! Just remember to not use the ship you’re using for a stash because you can lose your entire ship in the raid.
Remember that you can also scrap weapons to have a chance of getting crafting materials. You can see what materials you have a chance to get when you right-click on an item.
You can also repair items by right-clicking on them and selecting repair. Remember that this costs money and will be displayed on the menu.
Speaking of money, we have to talk about that. The best way to get money is of course through raids.
Raids
At the start of the match, you can spot player ships by the yellow glow of their engines. A great way to gauge your entry and see how many players are there.
Hopefully, this doesn’t happen to you, but if you’ve hit rock bottom and literally have nothing, you can go to a raid with the free Rustbucket ship, and inside of it is usually a free pistol and some ammo, and sometimes a vest. This is so you can have a chance to bounce back from going to zero. You can also use this if you want a really budget raid, don’t bring anything and just use these.
When going into a raid and docking your ship, ALWAYS check your docking bay number. Make a habit of remembering it, you don’t want to fumble around more than you need to lug around piles of loot trying desperately to check which dock bay your ship is!
This is also the place you’ll extract from the raid, remember that! Some maps do have escape pods and you can extract that way, but leaving a raid with it will make you lose your ship so remember that too!
Stats
Your Marauder will have 100 HP at the start of the raid. You can use items like first aid kits to heal yourself when you get damaged, but sometimes not too full.
There’s an effect called “Pain” and it will give you pain in real life as well since pain lowers your maximum health. The only way to remove pain is through certain items like morphine.
Stamina has something like that as well called Fatigue, so keep that in mind.
There are only 3 hitboxes in the game, the head and neck are one, the torso and arms is another, and the legs is the last hitbox. If you hit the head, you do x3.5 damage while hitting the torso does x1.0 damage while hitting the legs deals x0.75 damage so most of the time you should aim for the head and torso.
Armor is also important in this game, different vests and helmets give different armor values shown on the number beside the armor’s icon. Don’t worry if the armor doesn’t look like it defends your arms or if the helmet doesn’t defend your face, it defends the entire hitbox.
Now with this knowledge from the Complete Beginners guide, you can hopefully do better with raids. Now go out there and try not to get killed!
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