ARC Raiders’ apparent cheater problem has warranted a response from the devs, and it appears that action is coming.
Not one multiplayer game is immune to hackers and cheaters. And in a game like ARC Raiders, where it’s all about winning your fights to take home your loot, it’s becoming prevalent with numerous hack providers popping up with cheats for things like aimbot, wallhack, and speed hacks.
“We’ve seen the discussion around the topic of cheaters in ARC Raiders,” Embark Studios community manager Ossen said on the game’s Discord. “Please know that we are taking this issue very seriously and are listening to, and acting on your feedback.”
The topic of cheaters and hackers ramped up over the holiday season and into the beginning of the year, with streamers complaining about the subject a lot over the past few weeks. Shroud, Ninja, and Nadeshot are just a few who brought attention to the problem.
“Over the next few weeks, we are implementing significant changes to our rulesets and deploying new detection mechanisms to identify and remove cheaters,” the studio said. “This includes updating our Anti-Cheat systems for improved detection and bans, as well as applying client-side fixes specifically addressing the ‘out of map’ glitch.”
Embark’s CEO Patrick Söderlund mentioned recently that the game will attempt to match you with those who play similarly, meaning if you engage in PvP more often, you will likely find others who do the same. This likely exacerbates the situation, and streamers like Nadeshot have been vocal about their experience of late.
“My experience on ARC Raiders over the last week has been hell,” Nadeshot said in a post on X/Twitter. “Just to be clear, I love this game and think it’s already moved in to my personal top 10 all time. But the egregious amount of cheating genuinely might be worse than peak Call of Duty. I’m not trying to bring negativity to the game because I know this type of dialogue can spread on socials like a disease but I genuinely cannot get through an entire raid without a Steam profile that is level 0 or an account that has multiple game bans and VAC bans on record.”
Embark also mentioned it will be “introducing tools for streamers to help mitigate stream sniping” soon as well, so hopefully, problems like all of the above will come to a head soon.
