Arc Raiders has « aggressively » been cracking down on cheaters and already banned « tens of thousands of players so far ».
Arc Raiders has « aggressively » been cracking down on cheaters and already banned « tens of thousands of players so far ».
That’s according to Embark Studios’ CEO Patrick Söderlund, who told IGN in a new interview that while he wasn’t « going to give a specific number » on how many players have been caught cheating, with « anywhere between 0.1 percent to one percent of any multiplayer crowd in a large-scale multiplayer game is cheating », the team had to work hard to « be a step ahead ».
« We have been pretty aggressive on this », Söderlund said. « The game wasn’t prone to so many cheaters in the beginning, but as with all multiplayer games that get successful, this becomes a component, unfortunately. For us as developers, just like a [Distributed Denial-of-Service] attack, it’s one of these things that you just have to try and be a step ahead. To be very honest with you, it’s not always easy because the minute you do something, the minute you come up with something, they’ve come up with something else to do. »
That’s not the only difficulty, either. Söderlund said that the banning process alone is « delicate » because « we need to make sure that we ban people that deserve to be banned ».
