ARC Raiders

ARC Raiders has an incredible amount of potential, but right now the game is being seriously damaged by cheating, exploits, and the overall PvP experience. The game feels completely infested with wallhackers, cheaters, exploiters, dupers, and players who abuse every possible advantage they can find. It is becoming harder and harder for legitimate players to enjoy the game when they constantly have to wonder whether the person who killed them was actually better or simply using cheats. The developers need to take a much stronger and more aggressive stance against cheating. We desperately need a reliable and powerful anti-cheat system, better detection, faster investigations, and much harsher punishments for confirmed cheaters and exploiters. Temporary bans are not enough if the same players can simply return and continue ruining matches. Cheaters should face serious consequences, including permanent bans when they are caught. Cheating doesn't just affect the person who gets killed. It affects the entire player base. Every legitimate player who gets repeatedly killed by a wallhacker or exploited out of their loot eventually becomes frustrated and may stop playing altogether. Once players lose trust in the fairness of the game, it is extremely difficult to get them back. On top of that, ARC Raiders desperately needs a proper dedicated PvE mode with NO PvP interruptions. Give us a friendly PvE-only lobby where players can focus on fighting ARC machines, exploring the maps, completing objectives, collecting resources, farming loot, testing weapons, and enjoying the world without constantly worrying about another player hiding somewhere waiting to shoot them in the back. A dedicated PvE mode would not have to replace PvP. Keep the existing PvP extraction experience for players who enjoy that style of gameplay, but give PvE-focused players a legitimate alternative. There are many players who genuinely enjoy the PvE side of ARC Raiders—the robots, Queens, exploration, looting, missions, builds, and progression—but don't enjoy being forced into PvP encounters every time they enter a match. Right now, PvP can feel extremely frustrating, especially when you combine aggressive players, rats, exploits, and suspected cheaters. A PvE-only mode would give players another reason to keep playing and could help retain people who are currently getting burned out by the PvP environment. ARC Raiders has a fantastic foundation. The atmosphere, world design, ARC machines, gunplay, movement, looting, and extraction gameplay all have huge potential. But the developers need to protect that potential before the problems become even bigger. Please listen to the community. Improve the anti-cheat system, take cheating and exploiting much more seriously, punish repeat offenders permanently, and seriously consider introducing a dedicated PvE mode with no PvP interference. The player base is already showing signs of dropping, and if legitimate players continue leaving because they feel the game is unfair or unenjoyable, that decline will only accelerate. Don't wait until the community becomes too small to recover. We want ARC Raiders to succeed. We want to keep playing. We want to support the game. But we need to feel that our time, progression, and effort are respected. Please take action before it's too late. ARC Raiders has the potential to be an incredible long-term game, but the developers need to address these issues NOW.

Hi, I'm a tired dad gamer in his late thirties. I really wanted to like Arc Raiders, and for a while I did. I find the setting and base playstyle super compelling. Here's the catch. I work a job, I take care of my kids, and I find myself with only an hour or so a night to game. I found myself taking 2-3 days to farm the resources needed to achieve a respectable trial score, making my run in my typical friendly oriented lobby, and then making a heart-pounding adrenaline-fueled extraction as someone tries to kill me at the elevator. That or I would die and I lose several days of progress in a blink. It would ruin my night of sleep, and I found myself asking: "Why am I doing this to myself?" Maybe a younger me with less responsibilities would be able to enjoy this more. Now, though, I'm uninstalling.

They had the world in their palm, then pulled a reverse No Man's Sky...

After 1300+ Hours and all expeditions up until now done, I think its time to throw down a review. Would i recommend it? sure.... the first 6 months of release. but to buy it now. id say no, dont even waste your time. Cheaters and Dupe exploiters have this game on lock. and they are a massive plague on the game. When pvp is fair.... its good. when pve is fair.... its good. but thats 1/10 matches for me. This game has gone straight downhill with the promise, waiting 6 months for an update will be worth it... i cant see it happening. because with new content and still not adressing the cheating and duping. it will still be the same sh*tshow, but with people coming back and uninstalling in a week. Absolutely gutted embark let this game get this bad. youve destroyed a masterpiece in which you created. and ill be very suspect on any embark game i install in the future. im personally giving them until october. but i know im just being stubborn and nothing will change. it never does.... Update 1/10/2026 - Good to see Embark finally address this issue, coming forward with a statement as of today, even if its a little late. its atleast better then nothing at all. we are fully aware that the cheating industry will always exist, and how much money is thrown towards cheat developers, this isnt just a plague here, but with most online games. Unfortunately they hit Arc Raiders hard....... combating this issue should always be first and formoste. with october here, and the patch around the corner. im hoping Embark can atleast hinder this issue a little harder, first game after expedition im met with a lvl 1 steam account with walls. Youve got alot riding on this Embark. and im honestly hoping you can pull somthing off to combat this. communication with the community is much appreciated too, so its nice of you to step forward and show your making strides in fighting this. well done. as for now i still stand by my original statement. and will update when required. - Siix.