The top post on the subreddit today is a birthday cake. u/matuzzila’s wife made it - vanilla, with a painstakingly recreated ARC Raiders logo in frosting.

A 0.98 ratio, 53 comments, most of them variations of “marry her again.” It’s the kind of post that reminds you raiders exist outside the doomscroll.

The rest of the front page is the doomscroll.

The Denuvo anti-cheat went live for all players this morning. u/coebeezy’s thread asked if it would change anything. The answer arrived inside of an hour. u/ParkingEnergy8680 loaded into Dam night raid and ran into a cheater three-stack that deleted his squad through smoke spam. “Those who have played games that use Denuvo in the past knew how little this most recent dev post meant,” he wrote. The thread sits at 288 points and 139 comments, full of variations on “told you so.”

u/ednoggg pointed to a YouTuber who plays with cheats and still uploads almost daily. No ban. u/CaptianBlackLung described four straight runs where cheaters tracked his precise location. He hasn’t launched the game since.

The cheater problem was already the subject of the day’s second-highest post. u/killascreech’s “Current State of the Game” is a clip of two raiders running around a solo lobby with no voice comms, clearly teaming.

The comments are a cascade of exhaustion. “People that team in solos are the weakest humans,” wrote u/HappyN000dleboy, at 651 points. u/Gunsensual noted that hackers can see kit value across the map: “This guy is a Christmas tree to them.” And , at 358, said the quiet part: “The game will never be the same as it was in the first two months, regardless of what the devs do.”