"Gameplay and the economy suffers": Arc Raiders exploits "stemmed from a design flaw on our part," Embark admits, but it's time for "enforcement actions" after the shooter's first game-destroying cheat

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Drop your exploits, now

Arc Raiders automaton in a headset
(Image credit: Embark Studios)

After a week of what I imagine must have been intense deliberation about the nature of justice, Arc Raiders developer Embark is ready to start spanking players who have used its now somewhat fixed, and infamous, duplication glitch.

The exploit allowed players to double, triple, and multiply by 22 the loot of their choice, and it was, as Embark writes in a new blog post addressing the matter making it so that "both gameplay and the economy suffers." Finally, the studio will begin handing out a range of punishments for those who used the infinite dupe glitch, including suspensions.

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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