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Arc Raiders Is About To Go Nuclear On Cheaters: 'No Warnings, No Second Chances'
Kotaku • • technology
Key Points:
- Embark, developer of Arc Raiders, has announced a stricter anti-cheating policy where any player caught cheating will receive an immediate permanent ban with no warnings or second chances.
- The studio employs a combination of third-party software, in-house machine learning models, and plans to add Elytra Anti-Cheat to detect and block cheating more effectively.
- Hardware bans will be implemented to prevent banned players from simply creating new accounts, with lowered thresholds for applying these bans.
- Embark explains that anti-cheat systems require multiple instances of suspicious behavior to confirm cheating before issuing bans, which is why enforcement is not instantaneous despite player frustrations.
- The developer has also addressed "queue teaming" by separating known teaming groups, resulting in an 85% reduction in this behavior and significantly fewer spoiled raids without affecting queue times.
