Arc Raiders players set up bounty board to hunt down rats, make streamer TheBurntPeanut the most-wanted target for being a "voice chat snake"

Members of the Arc Raiders community have taken the sheriff roleplaying to a new level by creating an online bounty board called Speranza Bounties, pitched as the best place to be for commissioning or claiming hits on other players accused of, shall we say, unsportsmanlike behavior.

At the time of writing, the top unclaimed bounty on the board's all-platform "most wanted" list is TheBurntPeanut, a Twitch and YouTube streamer who found immense fame on the back of Arc Raiders' explosive launch. The descriptive tags for TheBurntPeanut include "voice chat snake," accusing him of pretending to be friendly on voice chat before betraying others; "vault vulture," indicating someone who will steal exclusive loot after someone else opens a locked room; and "hate speech" for allegedly using discriminatory or hateful language.

Unsurprisingly, several other Arc Raiders streamers who'll naturally accrue notoriety are also marked in Speranza Bounties, including many who've played with TheBurntPeanut: Nickmercs, Clkzy, Nadeshot, Tfue, summit1G, Spyrixtv_twitch, and others are all in the top 100 most-wanted.

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Plenty of regular players are also wanted. The FAQ for Speranza Bounties, which also has its own Discord community, explains that you can submit any player's Embark ID – their in-game Arc Raiders account number – along with "up to three offenses they committed." Normally, you can mark up to three players a day, or 12 if you have the site's $2.99 "premium" monthly Discord subscription. There's also a Speranza Bounties merchandise shop filled with cards, stickers, desk mats, and clothing, which definitely raises an eyebrow.

If you eliminate enough bounties to crack the top 10 weekly bounty hunters and submit video or screenshot proof of your kills, you'll purportedly be rewarded for your efforts. "Stay tuned for exact rewards coming soon!" the FAQ requests.

Speranza Bounties also offers a free in-game overlay, which, the FAQ insists, is read-only and "complies" with Embark's anti-cheat guidelines. "It simply shows publicly available bounty information on your screen," the makers say. But given Embark's history of inexplicable (albeit rare) bans, I'd emphasize this line from the Arc Raiders anti-cheat help center: "If you are unsure about a specific program, please reach out to Support to confirm."

Depending on the sort of lobbies you're put into, engaging in PvP in Arc Raiders can already earn you the ire of countless random players without any need for a bounty board. The irony is that both PvE and PvP-leaning lobbies are dangerous. A raider flare in the sky will tell PvP enthusiasts that there's concentrated loot in the area; to sheriffs hoping to dispense justice, it suggests there's either a dastardly PvP player around or a raider struggling with Arc. Either way, you're ringing the dinner bell.

I can very easily see this bounty board leading to weaponized trolling, but for streamers who are already getting stream-sniped by viewers, it likely won't change much. For random players accused of – gasp – killing other raiders at extract or attacking after claiming to be friendly, well, I have to imagine they'll be quite hard to find, at least by normal means. Speaking of which: the biggest Arc Raiders Reddit community has rules against Embark ID "witch hunting" for good reasons, perhaps.

Arc Raiders devs love the self-described sheriffs of PvP, even if they do kill the wrong people sometimes: "Those are some of the better moments."