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Innovation is the secret in ARC Raiders.
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ARC Raiders has a noticeably small variety of cheaters. In my few dozen hours of enjoying, I don’t suppose I’ve come throughout any in any respect, and that’s saying one thing for a contemporary shooter. Nonetheless, it does have exploiters, they usually’re now being handled in the easiest way attainable.
Sure, you’ve learn the title: they’re being burned to loss of life. Individuals who didn’t wish to farm keys or depend on RNG to enter locked doorways, which often result in rooms full of distinctive loot, most notably weapons, blueprints, and uncommon elements and components, would resort to nefarious methods to “skip” unlocking them by merely glitching by. As of the most recent patch, this can now lead to extreme punishment, although not one which most individuals would have anticipated.
Cheaters received’t fall by the ground, nor shall they be issued a ban. One way or the other, the devs have programmed in a detection system that, as soon as it figures out you’re glitching by doorways, engulfs you in hellfire till you’re little greater than a pile of ash crawling on the ground. For those who’re in solo play, that is your surefire (pun meant) manner to return to Speranza posthaste, with no loot to talk of.
As you’ll be able to see within the video above, shared on Reddit, there’s a fiery awakening mendacity in anticipate the cheaters who don’t wish to undergo the identical course of as the remainder of us. And I’ve to say it’s ingenious, very similar to most of ARC Raiders is ingenious. It’s a recreation that favors type in virtually each case, and that’s a uncommon factor these days, and I can not say that I’m not thrilled that they’ve prolonged that inventive drive to even punitive punishment of unsportsmanlike play.
As soon as precise cheats begin posing an issue (they usually most likely will, it’s 2025 in spite of everything), I’m genuinely excited to see how Embark Studios will react. Are there going to be outright bans? Quips and humorous jokes within the ban message? Different types of trolling, just like the one above? The chances are limitless, and it’ll hopefully set a precedent for different devs, as a result of banning cheaters is one factor, however making enjoyable of them is solely higher.
Revealed: Nov 27, 2025 11:24 am