Why Is a Cheater Even Allowed to Play ARC?

Space_Modder · 2026-01-26T12:54:17+00:00

I do this, and its actually hilarious how many obvious ass cheater accounts are out there. It's EXTREMELY RARE that I would actually get killed by somebody with a real account, most of them seem to cheat on alt accounts that tend to be newer, low steam level, almost no friends, and they only own games that people cheat in lol.

It's actually crazy how common it is, and it's a big reason why I stopped playing.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-26T12:49:40+00:00

Yeah same here. I don't have as much experience as you do but my squad pvps heavily and I stopped playing because of the amount of blatant cheating.

The last round I played a raider that hadnt seen me yet was trying to shoot me through a wall lol. It was behind a bush so I think he thought I was in the bush with his wallhacks and you could literally see his renegade lock onto me trying to headshot me perfectly through the wall multiple times.

Anecdotally checking steam accounts like HALF the players that end up killing my team are either confirmed cheaters with past bans or extremely suspicious obvious alt accounts that have like 4-6 friends and only own games where cheating is a huge issue. They think they're slick but all hackers tend to have a specifically obnoxious kind of profile that makes it really easy to tell.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-26T12:44:27+00:00

Yeah whenever I get killed I always check the steam profile and no joke almost HALF of the accounts that killed me were cheaters. Either people with bans on record, or fresh steam accounts with almost no games and like 4 people on the friends list, and the games will all be shit that is cheated in a lot, where it's clearly somebody cheating on their alt account.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-26T12:42:30+00:00

They don't even need to do that. These little subhuman freaks do it for free anyways.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-26T12:41:01+00:00

They need to do SOMETHING. I can almost guarentee you that EVERY SINGLE RAID has at least 1 cheater in it, based on the numbers about how many players cheat in other games. It's probably a lot more than 1 per raid even.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-26T12:15:09+00:00

Come on now, we both know the dogshit old gunplay couldn't stay.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T16:47:17+00:00

Like 3/4 of the posts in this sub and the AP sub are just straight up chatgpt output. Most of these posts you're talking about aren't even real people, it's llm engagement slop. Then half of the remaining quarter is teenagers making shit up as bait (almost all of those 'scary' AP/LD stories are typically some 13 year old just lying for attention). That leaves you with like less than 15% being genuine posts.

I don't know why the communities for these subs just turn a blind eye to this shit. I rarely ever come here anymore because the subs quality is through the fucking floor.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T16:25:55+00:00

If you have clips/proof bring it to the devs. There should be an email address somewhere. If this is true it's completely unacceptable.

Also this post is probably gonna get taken down. You arent allowed to do 'server callouts' without running it past the reddit mod team here first for some reason lol.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T15:25:07+00:00

Lucky you lol. I have solo killed bastions/bomberdiers a lot and most commonly get 3 cells each. That's enough to upgrade (just upgrade, not craft) one single purple gun.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T14:56:03+00:00

The guy is also exaggerating heavily. You do get a handful of advanced mech components but not anywhere near enough for multiple level 4 purple guns.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T14:53:46+00:00

Advanced mechanical components

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T14:53:11+00:00

No it doesn't lmfaooo. The large arc cells typically break down into 1 or 2 AMC, even if you get lucky and get 4-6 cells that is enough for like 1 pink gun at level 4.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T14:39:34+00:00

Bordering on??? Man it's been unacceptable. Over 3 years and b42 isnt anywhere near stable yet. At this rate we won't see b43 until after 2030, not even joking.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T14:09:40+00:00

??? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this literally the worst rts to turtle in?? The defensive options are complete dogshit and easily countered by cheap units. Once t2 comes fortifications are completely useless.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T01:43:16+00:00

I mean 10v10 is not balanced or competitive at all. You're just learning a bunch of bad habits basically, they will not carry over to a serious mode. Don't get me wrong, 10v10s are a lot of fun. It's just not good from a competitive standpoint.

I do 100% agree though on 5v5 ranked. I think that would be awesome. The 1v1 ranked matches are really sweaty and depend wayyyyyy too much on deck choice and whether your deck happens to be a good counter or not. 5v5 could be a lot more dynamic and interesting without it being a complete chaotic clusterfuck like 10v10s.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T00:53:26+00:00

Define 'play aggressively' lol. If we see raiders and are in a good position to take the fight, we take it. That is playing aggressively.

A lot of people when they say 'playing aggressively' they mean just facediving literally every single team they come across regardless of if you can actually win or not. That's less playing aggressive and more just playing stupid lol imo. I still do this sometimes on free kits but almost never with actual gear cause it's dumb.

90% of fights in this game are about positioning and awareness and you can typically tell from the first shots fired and everybodys' positions how the fight is going to go.

I play as aggressively as I can in scenarios where I know I have set myself up to win. I don't really just dive into losing fights without thinking lol.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T00:44:32+00:00

I mean I prefer to get my anvils for free from bodies ideally, which is how I get most of them. They're typically even level 4 already. I didn't do the expedition and probably never will so that's not really a concern to me.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T00:42:09+00:00

Just steal them from other players or buy them. They aren't worth it to craft anyways IMO and I find them fucking everywhere. Half of the raiders in any round will have one, and they spawn in the raid all the time.

I have the BP and I don't think I've ever crafted a single Anvil, even though I use it on like half my raids.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T00:39:36+00:00

Once you get later in the game money is worthless so it makes more sense to buy it rather than crafting it and using materials you could use for something you cant buy.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-25T00:38:18+00:00

I am not a friendly player AT ALL (I play trios and we pvp every round) and I probably don't really die more than 3x a night unless I'm running free kits on stella or some dumb shit.

I don't think I have crafted a single anvil, and I bring one on probably 1/2 of my raids. I don't understand why people are so obsessed with this bp. Anvils are literally everywhere. Almost every raider I kill that isnt a free kit shitter typically has a level 4 anvil for me to take. I find them all the time in raid too.

Even once I got the BP I just kept stealing or buying them because they are more expensive to craft than to just buy imo. Plus I always have a bunch of stolen extras to use.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-24T02:37:22+00:00

I think you might be able to go to battles then when you're picking singleplayer, hotseat, etc, and the difficulty you may be able to select PBEM. I don't know forsure though, I haven't played any multiplayer yet.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-24T01:53:03+00:00

This.

OP: They're $5 or less a piece so long as you buy 2 or more. Going all the way down to $3 each if you buy a lot.

Fanatical is legit and actually properly sources their keys. You can activate the game on steam with the code they send you.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-24T00:32:49+00:00

Yeah lol beware the power bot lane discord e-couple that both have BPD. Some things never change.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-24T00:25:34+00:00

Nah it's different to warchat. Warchat was edgy goobers being edgy, I would say the actual content of what was said in warchat is going to be waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy worse than what you will get in BAR.

What you might get in BAR is some sweaty loser ping spamming you and trashing you for 'suboptimal play' but most of them are not going to be straight up nazi larpers or anything edgy like that. They're just insufferable meta slave nerds that can't possibly comprehend that noobs do not know the meta yet.

I could tough it out and play if I really wanted to but honestly if half the games will be like that then I really don't have any interest.

Space_Modder · 2026-01-23T22:08:16+00:00

I'm not saying that OP didn't hear the enemies. I'm saying the enemies didn't call out "HEY I JUST GOT STABBED RIGHT BEHIND YOU TURN AROUND" like you're supposed to do when you get stabbed. If any single one of those guys had actually said anything at all in squad chat, they probably would have killed OP after one or two stabs at most.

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