ARC Raiders has a noticeably small number of cheaters. In my few dozen hours of playing, I don't think I've come across any at all, and that's saying something for a modern shooter. However, it does have exploiters, and they're now being dealt with in the best way possible.
Yes, you've read the title: they're being burned to death. People who didn't want to farm keys or rely on RNG to enter locked doors, which usually lead to rooms filled with exceptional loot, most notably weapons, blueprints, and rare components and parts, would resort to nefarious ways to "skip" unlocking them by merely glitching through. As of the latest patch, this will now result in severe punishment, though not one that most people would have expected.
Cheaters won't fall through the floor, nor shall they be issued a ban. Somehow, the devs have programmed in a detection system that, once it figures out you're glitching through doors, engulfs you in hellfire until you're little more than a pile of ash crawling on the floor. If you're in solo play, this is your surefire (pun intended) way to go back to Speranza posthaste, with no loot to speak of.
As you can see in the video above, shared on Reddit, there's a fiery awakening lying in wait for the cheaters who do not want to go through the same process as the rest of us. And I have to say it's inventive, much like most of ARC Raiders is inventive. It's a game that favors style in almost every case, and that's a rare thing in this day and age, and I cannot say that I'm not thrilled that they've extended that artistic drive to even punitive punishment of unsportsmanlike play.
Once actual cheats start posing a problem (and they probably will, it's 2025 after all), I'm genuinely excited to see how Embark Studios will react. Are there going to be outright bans? Quips and funny jokes in the ban message? Other forms of trolling, like the one above? The possibilities are endless, and it'll hopefully set a precedent for other devs, because banning cheaters is one thing, but making fun of them is simply better.
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