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Marathon looks miles ahead of Arc Raiders in one key area: "Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever, no second chances"

You heard the bio-cybernetic man

'Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever, no second chances': Bungie's doubling down on security following Arc Raiders' recent struggles

'Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever, no second chances': Bungie's doubling down on security following Arc Raiders' recent struggles

Don't go running to Bungie support to save you.

As Arc Raiders enters a peaceful era of jolly cooperation, I'm begging Embark Studios to make the robots terrifying again

As Arc Raiders enters a peaceful era of jolly cooperation, I'm begging Embark Studios to make the robots terrifying again

Opinion | An occasional excess of pigeons isn't yet enough to turn around a game that's becoming less threatening every day

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Arc Raiders cheaters are now spawning their own hatches to escape death, and players are once again begging Embark to punish cheating more: "The fact people can do this is insane"

They're drilling their way back to Speranza

Arc Raiders lead says "revisions are probably required" on uneven events like Locked Gate and Hidden Bunker, which have just become a camper's dream

"Now that we have tons of live data, we can go look at those existing map conditions"

Highguard failed because it didn't use what made ARC Raiders great — and if it did, it might have had a better chance

Had the development team behind Highguard followed a few key steps that made ARC Raiders great, they might have had a chance.

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Arc Raiders players predictably tried to rig matchmaking by lying in post-match surveys, but Embark says those don't do a darn thing: "We get really weird graphs that don't match up with what we're seeing"

The survey "was meant to gauge 'of the PvP that occurred to you. Was it good?' Not, 'do you even like PvP or not?'"

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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"

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"

"And that's not something we can ever author or force to happen"

If you want to keep some blueprints in Arc Raiders after each Expedition, the devs have good news and bad news: it's not "off the table," but it is "tricky" to do

If you want to keep some blueprints in Arc Raiders after each Expedition, the devs have good news and bad news: it's not "off the table," but it is "tricky" to do

My Survivor Mk. 3, I can't see without my Survivor Mk. 3

Arc Raiders proves it has one of the most wholesome fanbases once again, as a stranger spends 15 minutes painstakingly escorting a downed raider to safety

Arc Raiders proves it has one of the most wholesome fanbases once again, as a stranger spends 15 minutes painstakingly escorting a downed raider to safety

"He never said a word but escorted me 15 minutes to a hatch."

Arc Raiders' wall-breaking exploits took so long to fix because they were 'intrinsic to the way the game is built': 'Those things are very risky to patch rapidly'

Arc Raiders' wall-breaking exploits took so long to fix because they were 'intrinsic to the way the game is built': 'Those things are very risky to patch rapidly'

Making games remains hard, in case you had any doubts.

Arc Raiders fans suspect the new Arc from the roadmap is hiding in plain sight in the Shrouded Sky teaser: "If it’s a Boston Dynamics dog Arc then I’m soooo stoked!"

Arc Raiders fans suspect the new Arc from the roadmap is hiding in plain sight in the Shrouded Sky teaser: "If it’s a Boston Dynamics dog Arc then I’m soooo stoked!"

A fresh enemy is hidden among the grass

Arc Raiders lead dispels conspiracy theory that the robots are somehow learning how to kill us better: "That's just us in the way we author them"

Arc Raiders lead dispels conspiracy theory that the robots are somehow learning how to kill us better: "That's just us in the way we author them"

There's some machine learning in other aspects, though

Arc Raiders' next update adds hurricanes, and players think the teaser is hiding a new Arc enemy too

Arc Raiders' next update adds hurricanes, and players think the teaser is hiding a new Arc enemy too

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Saving blueprints after an Expedition isn't 'off the table', says Arc Raiders' director, but Embark is also looking at alternatives

Imagine the scenario: Do you keep the Looting Mk. 3 (Survivor) or the Anvil?

Arc Raiders players are killing Queens and Matriarchs way too fast, devs admit, because it's "not intended" for entire lobbies to dogpile them

The rewards aren't balanced for it either

Arc Raiders "needs that element of tension and risk" from PvP to work, dev says, even though Embark knows people are loving its "safer lobbies"

Room for PvP and PvE in this PvPvE shooter

Congrats, you played yourself, Arc Raiders' machines aren't actually learning: 'That's just the way we author them'

Players had begun to wonder whether the robot enemies were using AI to learn new tactics based on player behaviour, but Embark has shot the theory down.

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Embark admits Arc Raiders’ bosses are dying too fast because 'they're not intended for the full server to go up against' and 'we gave players too effective abilities'

"When we built that, we had an idealised way where we hoped people would try to engage with it".

Arc Raiders' matchmaking isn't 'binary', says design lead: 'There's no such thing as a friendly lobby or an aggressive lobby'

"We acknowledge that people are having a lot of fun with these safer lobbies".

Arc Raiders streamer who helped popularize notorious dupe exploit says "oopsies" after getting off with a light warning, leaving fans to question if Embark is serious about fair play

"This is bulls**t"

ARC Raiders issues penalties for exploiting dupe glitches, and many players get away with a warning

Penalties will roll out throughout the week.

Arc Raiders' February update gets a release date as players brace themselves for a new map condition, Arc threat, and more when Shrouded Sky launches next week

According to Embark's roadmap, this update is going to be a big one

Duck dupe criminals nabbed: Embark is dishing out warnings and even ban hammers for miscreants abusing recent duplication glitches in Arc Raiders

Let's hope you're not among them.

Arc Raiders' Shrouded Sky update arrives next week, Embark confirms, but there will be "no major game update" this week to tide you over until then

Fans are thanked for their "patience"

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