Day three of the cheating fight and the subreddit has moved past disbelief into gallows humor. The new complaint is that the people ruining lobbies can't aim.
The clip making the rounds today is from u/Misanthhh on Spaceport. A guy with obvious ESP shoots through a wall, misses half the magazine, and dies anyway. The top reply in the thread is four words: "Imagine cheating and still lose lol." That is where the subreddit is on day three of this argument. Past asking whether ESP is real. Past asking for numbers. Now the cold comfort is that the cheaters are also bad at the game.
The other top thread is a Tarkov post-mortem dressed as discussion, u/Jaz1140 walking through how Escape from Tarkov, The Cycle Frontier and Dark and Darker each collapsed inside a year because the cheaters outran the bans. 2.1k upvotes, 0.95 ratio. Nobody in the comments is disagreeing with the diagnosis. They are disagreeing about how much time Embark has left to fix it. One reply pitches the GTA route, cheaters in cheater lobbies. Another points out the obvious motive nobody had said out loud yet: real-money marketplaces for the gear cheaters strip off bodies. That comment sits at 322. It changes the shape of the problem. This is not bored kids. Some of it is a job.
What has escalated this week is the lack of shame. u/The_Real_THunter1's post points at a TikTok search where streamers run the overlay live on camera, no attempt to hide. u/PunchParty13 found another one the same day. The argument used to be that cheaters tried to cover it. Now they are farming clout off it. The most upvoted reply in 's thread reads like someone leaving the building: "Makes me want to give up video games and go build furniture or something."
"Imagine cheating and still lose lol"
U/JIN-WO · ↑ 673 · R/ARCRAIDERS
"Makes me want to give up video games and go build furniture or something."
U/0XGHOSTFACE · ↑ 569 · R/ARCRAIDERS
"They sell the gear they get off people on online marketplaces for real money."
U/UNKWN_43 · ↑ 322 · R/ARCRAIDERS
"Just wait until you find out that olives are real too!"
U/-KAIMANA · ↑ 1.3K · R/ARCRAIDERS
Day three of the cheating fight and the subreddit has moved past disbelief into gallows humor. The new complaint is that the people ruining lobbies can't aim.
The clip making the rounds today is from u/Misanthhh on Spaceport. A guy with obvious ESP shoots through a wall, misses half the magazine, and dies anyway. The top reply in the thread is four words: "Imagine cheating and still lose lol." That is where the subreddit is on day three of this argument. Past asking whether ESP is real. Past asking for numbers. Now the cold comfort is that the cheaters are also bad at the game.
The other top thread is a Tarkov post-mortem dressed as discussion, u/Jaz1140 walking through how Escape from Tarkov, The Cycle Frontier and Dark and Darker each collapsed inside a year because the cheaters outran the bans. 2.1k upvotes, 0.95 ratio. Nobody in the comments is disagreeing with the diagnosis. They are disagreeing about how much time Embark has left to fix it. One reply pitches the GTA route, cheaters in cheater lobbies. Another points out the obvious motive nobody had said out loud yet: real-money marketplaces for the gear cheaters strip off bodies. That comment sits at 322. It changes the shape of the problem. This is not bored kids. Some of it is a job.
What has escalated this week is the lack of shame. u/The_Real_THunter1's post points at a TikTok search where streamers run the overlay live on camera, no attempt to hide. u/PunchParty13 the same day. The argument used to be that cheaters tried to cover it. Now they are farming clout off it. The most upvoted reply in 's thread reads like someone leaving the building: "Makes me want to give up video games and go build furniture or something."
The meanest thread is u/anhsonhmu's inventory post, proximity chat picking up enemies calling out unequipped loot in your backpack. The top reply is the bleakest line of the day, that this is how online shooters have looked for two decades and a fix is unlikely in our lifetime. Underneath all of this, u/WanderWut's PS5 meme is doing brisk numbers. Crossplay off, peace of mind on. Their PC friends have stopped logging in. That detail will matter in a month.
The relief valve today is a thirty-second clip. u/r3tr0gam3r83's Tactical MK.2 save, panic shooting from behind a Zamboni with the flashlight on, a fireball heal in the open, somehow alive at the end. 2.1k upvotes, 0.97 ratio.
The comments are split clean down the middle between "you got extremely lucky" and "your flashlight should have killed you." Both correct. The other release valve is the prickly pear thread, u/Virtual-Slide-2562 announcing they had just learned prickly pears are a real fruit and not Embark inventing produce for hideout upgrades. Sits at a 0.75 ratio because some raiders are personally offended. Top reply: "Just wait until you find out that olives are real too!"
Embark confirmed in an interview today that maps outside the Rust Belt are coming. New biomes. That thread landed at 290 upvotes and 76 comments and slid off the front page by the afternoon. On a normal week that is the lead. This week it is a footnote under five different cheating posts. The Sirena-Dorata model hunt is generating more replies than the roadmap. The mood number barely moved. Three days of the same fight does not show up in the slices, but you can feel it in what does not break through.
The meanest thread is u/anhsonhmu's inventory post, proximity chat picking up enemies calling out unequipped loot in your backpack. The top reply is the bleakest line of the day, that this is how online shooters have looked for two decades and a fix is unlikely in our lifetime. Underneath all of this, u/WanderWut's PS5 meme is doing brisk numbers. Crossplay off, peace of mind on. Their PC friends have stopped logging in. That detail will matter in a month.
The relief valve today is a thirty-second clip. u/r3tr0gam3r83's Tactical MK.2 save, panic shooting from behind a Zamboni with the flashlight on, a fireball heal in the open, somehow alive at the end. 2.1k upvotes, 0.97 ratio.
The comments are split clean down the middle between "you got extremely lucky" and "your flashlight should have killed you." Both correct. The other release valve is the prickly pear thread, u/Virtual-Slide-2562 announcing they had just learned prickly pears are a real fruit and not Embark inventing produce for hideout upgrades. Sits at a 0.75 ratio because some raiders are personally offended. Top reply: "Just wait until you find out that olives are real too!"
Embark confirmed in an interview today that maps outside the Rust Belt are coming. New biomes. That thread landed at 290 upvotes and 76 comments and slid off the front page by the afternoon. On a normal week that is the lead. This week it is a footnote under five different cheating posts. The Sirena-Dorata model hunt is generating more replies than the roadmap. The mood number barely moved. Three days of the same fight does not show up in the slices, but you can feel it in what does not break through.