Cheating in online games is a huge bummer. It can ruin the fun for everyone. So, what is ARC Raiders doing to stop cheaters? The short answer is that ARC Raiders uses Easy Anti-Cheat and a special system called "Abnormal Match Compensation" to keep the game fair.

I remember one time I was playing another shooter game, and there was this one player who just couldn't miss. Every shot was a headshot, no matter how fast I was moving. It was so frustrating that my friends and I just quit the match. It's experiences like that which make me really appreciate when developers take cheating seriously. A good anti-cheat system is super important for a game to be successful.

How ARC Raiders Fights Cheating

So, how do these systems work? Let's break it down.

• Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC): This is a very common anti-cheat software used by lots of popular games, like Fortnite and Apex Legends. It runs in the background while you play, looking for any programs that try to mess with the game. If it finds something suspicious, it can kick the player out of the game or even ban their account.
• Abnormal Match Compensation: This is a system that Embark Studios, the makers of ARC Raiders, created themselves. It's a bit different from a normal anti-cheat. This system looks at the results of a match. If it sees that something really weird happened, like one player getting a crazy amount of kills, it can flag the match. The cool part is that it can then give back any loot or items that other players lost in that match because of the cheater.

I once had a bad experience where an anti-cheat system in a different game flagged me by mistake. I wasn't cheating, but I had a program running for my keyboard's lighting, and the anti-cheat didn't like it. I got kicked from a match and it was a real hassle to sort out. A system like "Abnormal Match Compensation" sounds great because it seems to focus on fixing the damage caused by cheaters, which is a really smart approach. It helps honest players who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. You can learn more about the game itself in our post about what kind of game Arc Raiders is.

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