The top post on the subreddit today is a meme about coming home from a raid with 1,000 seeds and no gear. The poster is tired of cheaters having all the fun, and sarcastically thanks Embark for their spaghetti code. It sits at 1,262 points. The humor is thin.

Below it, the feed is a wall of duping threads. u/Vasuuuuu's "At this point, are you at a disadvantage if not duping?" has 726 points and 391 comments, the image showing a stash overflowing with items.

The consensus in the comments is not if people are duping, but how bad the damage is. "They fucked up so, so badly, it's almost harder to not dupe items at this point," wrote u/stewmander, at 214 points. u/Educational_Pipe_12 summed up Embark's anti-cheat announcements with a simple "Anywayssssssss" at 510 points. The subreddit is no longer debating the ethics. It's debating the cleanup.

Embark hotfixed the exploit this morning, according to a post of the patch notes by u/Invader_86. The notes were minimal. No mention of a rollback. No mention of what happens to the millions of duped items now circulating.

The real fire came from a Discord screenshot shared by u/Shneckos: Embark is not considering a full wipe. The thread gained 175 points and 176 comments in hours. u/B_R_A_N_E defended the decision, calling exploit users "the biggest babies" for demanding a wipe they'd benefit from. But the louder thread, from u/UnluckySeed, was a direct plea: "With so much duped loot in circulation this game needs a mandatory wipe." It earned 249 points, though the upvote ratio sat at 75%, showing the split.

The most striking thing on the subreddit today isn't the anger. It's the audacity. u/Ayy4K posted "I duped 400k of bastion cells for the stash space," and the post, with a 0.68 ratio, still netted 147 points. In the comments, u/RayZenz91 cut through: "So we are at the point where people are just openly admitting to cheating on this subreddit now. It's so over." The subreddit has become a confessional, and the confessions are getting upvotes.

Amid the chaos, there were still raiders trying to have fun. A group photo from a Spaceport lobby hit 316 points, with six Vaporizers and three Rocketeers downed in a rare moment of cooperation. A PSA about the Azimuth skin requirement in The Finals, which can be cheesed against bots, offered a small, practical reprieve. But these threads felt like islands.

The week has worn down the room. The seeker grenade nerf yesterday was a quiet groan; today, the duping is a scream. Embark's stance-fix the bug, ban the worst abusers, and move on-reads as denial. The subreddit is not convinced. As u/PretentiousPanda put it in the wipe thread: "Sure, once they fix it so it doesn't happen." That's the center of the bullseye. The community has seen this three times in a year. The next dupe, they're telling Embark, is already on the way.