Arc Raiders players are tired of people "cheating like crazy," as one former FPS pro says the situation "might be worse than peak Call of Duty"

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Stella Montis is becoming a hotbed

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As the multiplayer shooter continues to grow, it appears Arc Raiders is suffering from a rash of cheaters. Players have been finding themselves victim of enemies who can shoot them through concrete and make use of other exploits, leading to calls for Embark Studios to ramp up anti-cheat protections and punishments.

Stella Montis, a tiny box of PvP, has become a particular hotspot for such behavior. “Again and again I get killed behind walls or through walls, people are cheating like crazy and it makes me want to quit because you can't do anything against them,” says one Reddit post, with an accompanying clip of them getting blasted through the roof.

"Is Embark doing anything about the cheaters? I got killed by someone on the roof somehow shooting inside of Stella Montis," another frustrated Redditor asks. The belief is that those cheating are doing so with specific software you can find online. These kinds of modifications plague many games, including the likes of Battlefield and Call of Duty, and former esports pro Matthew 'Nadeshot' Haag believes there's a troubling standard forming for Arc Raiders.

"The egregious amount of cheating genuinely might be worse than peak Call of Duty," Haag says in a post on X/Twitter. He goes on to propose how Embark should handle cheating.

"I think the only option they have to protect the success of this game is similar to how Epic handled Fortnite in the past - legitimate legal action against providers and individuals who are actively supplying and using cheating software," he states.

While that is an idea, Epic is a much larger company with considerable resources to pile into such endeavors. Embark isn't small, but it's not quite at the same level. However, rising cheating does seem to be a problem the team will want to sort out sooner rather than later.

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Anthony McGlynn
Anthony McGlynn
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Anthony is an Irish entertainment and games journalist, now based in Glasgow. He previously served as Senior Anime Writer at Dexerto and News Editor at The Digital Fix, on top of providing work for Variety, IGN, Den of Geek, PC Gamer, and many more. Besides Studio Ghibli, horror movies, and The Muppets, he enjoys action-RPGs, heavy metal, and pro-wrestling. He interviewed Animal once, not that he won’t stop going on about it or anything.

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