Adding new marines to the game is a while off, but I've been laying some of the groundwork needed for it.

Yesterday's update to the beta branch contains six new variables that custom challenges can use to change the maximum number of marines in the squad, the maximum number of duplicates of each marine, and the maximum number of marines per class, so 16-marine lobbies are now possible assuming someone makes a custom challenge.

LETSGOOOO

Can this somehow be made into a new mode or maybe even add new marines instead of just a challenge? I'm aware that the original was designed for only 4 players - so having all 8 is already a huge improvement - but many maps are still quite hard even on lower difficulty settings.

As of the November 1st update, a challenge mode can change the number of marines allowed for each class, the number of marines allowed total, and most importantly, the number of marines allowed per profile.

When we do eventually add more marine profiles, there will be a limit of 8 marine profiles per player and 2 marine profiles per class per player for technical reasons - if you play as a new Special Weapons marine, you replace either Wildcat or Wolfe, but someone else in your squad can still play Wildcat and Wolfe.