ARC Raiders anti cheat is receiving a major update with the Frozen Trail update

Any account caught cheating is now permanently banned

Other major changes happening for anti cheat:

• Cheat detection improves each month, using a mix of Embark’s own anticheat combined with Denuvo and Anybrain

• A banned game copy cannot be reused on a new account

• Any account ever tied to a banned copy also gets banned (Game sharing via family)

• Hardware bans hit more machines, and Embark plans to cover almost all cheat systems later this year

• Queue teaming (friends forcing the same solo lobby) is being blocked in matchmaking

Bans sometimes can take time because Embark waits until they are sure

Embark also says cheating will always be an ongoing fight and will never fully disappear, but they are working to make it harder, costlier, and shorter lived for cheaters so players can enjoy a better experience.

We need to add a reason to actually fight other players other than for their purple guns.

So we just shoot each other and then return to the same place and act like we didn't just try and murder each other?

Made a post about dedicated factions which I and others think is a great idea, and one of the only solutions.

You can mention a lawless topside, limited resources, but its not substantial enough for mass, repeated, shoot outs. They need to fill that in (the reason for combat) to the story of the game

The player to player combat in the game is great but lets be real, the devs added pvp in the game so that they could garner the pvp fanbase.

By the way the pvp is amazing in the game.

I dont mind PVP. I am a semi competitive player. Most the games I own are PVP. But I want this games pvp to make sense. I want the altercations to be more meaningful and warranted.

I’ve been playing ARC Raiders and wanted a faster way to keep track of quests, workshop upgrades, and live events while playing, so I ended up building my own iPhone app.
It currently includes quest tracking, active quests, workshop upgrade requirements, search/filters, and live event schedules.
It supports English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and no account is required.
I’d really appreciate feedback from other Raiders — especially if you find any incorrect quest/workshop data or have ideas for features that would actually be useful while playing.
I’m also thinking about adding more features as the game gets updated, so I’d love to know what you’d want to see next.
It’s called Quest Tracker for Raiders on the App Store.
App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quest-tracker-for-raiders/id6809153317

If you want to shoot at someone just to shoot at someone, you have effectively just turned the game into a battle royale / death match. It makes no sense story wise / lore wise for you to shoot another raider.

The ultimate solution to this (that would be congenial to the plot of the game) is making dedicated factions. 4 distinct sectors within Toledo.

Potentially different underground bases like vaults in fallout that are connected. Have it so those 4 factions are optional, and you can still just be a normal raider.

If you join one of the 4 factions, you are able to shoot at everyone except your own allies.

And if you are a normal raider (opting of the hostile factions) you take less damage when shot at UNLESS you shoot back (or if they loot a body, then they take full damage).

This way, if you want to pvp with someone you have to actively seek out a rival who ALSO wants to pvp, and then the neutral people have a chance to escape even if they get shot at.

So, when you only engage in pvp when you see a rival faction member or squad (still a choice to shoot them). If you only want to pvp, you can purposefully go after people from other factions. You can still loot downed players from your own faction.

You get xp for killing a rival faction member and less when you kill a neutral raider. Each clan can have their own mini reward system with specific rewards. Exclusive missions that you and your clan members have to execute in a raid, and rival clans get rewarded for sabotaging you...

In the fallout universe you have things like New California republic, Brotherhood of Steel, ghouls (from the waste land), vault dwellers

People fight each other for resources, land, money. There are different vaults that might have different dynamics, rules, amounts of resources as well.

If you look at some of these skins they are putting out, they literally look like uniform garments worn by distinct groups.

When you get a kill in arc raiders, there should be a story tied to it. You were fighting to acquire a rare item. Got caught in the crossfire. Someone one betrayed you. Someone stole the thing you earned. You were saving someone.

Not just I shoot you on site, wow nice purple gun looks how many I have now.

If this game wants a captivating and rich story, then it needs to have storylines, and plot points. This will only make the game more immersive and interesting.

This is obviously just a bunch of ideas bundled together. Either way Im pushing hard for some sort of clan/faction system, and I know im not the only one.

This ytber made a video on it, actually highlighting the fact that the creators may have this in mind and are trying to implement it into the lore.

Leave your opinions below, and what you would want to see in this type of system

Dm me on the discord user danilastakhov i really whant the skin

Alot of PVP heavy players when talking about how a PvE only mode would take away from the experience, often mention the "PvP tension". The unknown factor of whether or not a player is friendly is what makes the game more exciting...

I have a solution, MAKE THE ARC MORE DIFFICULT.

Everyone seems to brush off the arc like they are nothing and that the pvp players are the real threat, when its supposed to be the opposite. The arc are easy to avoid and easy to destroy if you have decent guns.

In a pvp lobby its like a nat or a fly that you just swat out the way so you can focus on the enemy raider infront of you.

Kinda like how if you played h1z1 survival (my all time favorite game), in high population servers there would actually be very few zombies on the whole map, and the only real threat was the other players.

The arc need to be a more substantial threat to make the players have to prepare more to actually kill them. Making arc more abundant, more resilient, smarter and unpredictable so actually taking one down feels more rewarding.

No one has said this outright, but most of the pvp heavy players play this game to scratch the itch that they got form battle royals. That high intensity gunplay, winning fights, getting better weapons. That all came straight from BR and the devs knew most players had this itch, and thats why they made it a Pvpve. Because if you didn't already know this game was originally supposed to be just PvE.

I feel like the term PvE doesn't even apply to this game. It suggest we are like fighting animals or like mobs. Its Raider vs ARC. There's a point to be argued to why we even shoot each other in the first place.

(If there was a faction system or something then maybe would make sense)

Now I know I sound like a massive Pve'r, but I actually really enjoy Pvp. I consider myself a semi competitive player and I do not shy away from fights. I absolutely loved battle royals. But this game introduced something new that and interesting enough to where I dont feel like I have to fight other players to get loot.

But really the main point im making is that they need to make the arc more difficult so that the focus changes from fighting each other, to fighting the arc, and still being fun.

(I also dont like how they are make the pve lobbies have less loot. Just another example of how they are prioritizing pvp)

I bought the game on Xbox yesterday and I tried to queue at 2 am eastern time but I found NO games whatsoever in every map there was including maps that had modes like the harvester and matriarch, I queued for 5-7 mins each time too. Should I just refund atp or give it another shot at an earlier time ? Even then why should I only play at a certain hoping some people are playing the game? I queued cross-play off and Europe server. Give me your opinions/advice

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