"Since the New Year, discussions about Arc Raiders have shifted from near-unadulterated praise (for everything but its use of AI voices) to growing concerns over the game's cheating problem. Developer Embark has already started making moves to improve this, first removing access to the console in the PC version, and now issuing some quite surprisingly dramatic bans to those it's catching stream-sniping."
"Things started getting heated around January 6 when streamer Shroud expressed his frustration during a live broadcast, uttering "What's the point of fuckin' playing?" as he encountered so many issues. He was joined by other big names like Ninja and Nadeshot in making it clear that if something didn't change soon, the high-profile players were likely to move on to other games."
Arc Raiders faced a growing cheating problem after launch, with PC players exploiting the Unreal Engine console to alter visual settings and gain near-supernatural vision. Streamers such as Shroud, Ninja, and Nadeshot publicly expressed frustration and threatened to leave if issues continued. Embark removed the console from the PC build, released a hotfix and a January 13 patch that nerfed problematic elements and blocked key card spoof cheats, and announced longer-term anti-cheat plans. Embark has begun issuing substantial bans against stream snipers, with banned players posting evidence and community posts confirming enforcement.
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