EasyAntiCheat false positives in ARC Raiders are real, and you can tell your own case from a deserved ban by a few things: what you played with, when exactly the block landed, and what changed on your system the day before. After one of the anti-cheat updates, a wave of bans hit people who had launched nothing unusual. Some were kicked mid raid, some right after a hardware swap, some simply on login without a single trip to the surface. The "false ban investigating" thread in the official Discord collected hundreds of messages, Reddit is full of carbon copy stories, and streamer Tfue got caught in it, which pushed the wave well past the usual community.
Below we go through the signs that point to a detection glitch, how to file an appeal, and what timing to actually expect. One honest note up front: you cannot pass a deserved ban off as a false one, and no clever wording resets the strike counter. Software with an undetected status and a price sits on the ARC Raiders cheats page, and we recheck the catalogue after every major update; the last control pass was done on Live Update 1.42.0.
Signs that point to a false ban in ARC Raiders
No single item proves anything on its own. Count the overlaps: the more of them you have, the better the odds you landed in that wave instead of getting the predictable outcome.
- Unusual peripherals. Pedals, non standard controllers, accessibility devices, homemade key mappings. This is the best known trigger of the wave. The system is described as able to separate legitimate use of such devices from abuse of them by looking at telemetry and communication patterns, yet this is exactly the layer that misfired.
- A block right after a hardware change. You swapped the motherboard, installed a different Windows build, moved the drive, poked around in BIOS settings, and the next launch handed you a ban.
- A ban on login. The account goes down during loading or in the lobby, before the first raid of the session. The behavioural telemetry that a ban normally comes from simply had no time to accumulate.
- A ban mid raid with no backstory. An ordinary run, an ordinary firefight, no reports in previous sessions, no first step of the ladder, no warning email.
- Timing that matches an anti-cheat update. If Discord and Reddit describe your situation word for word on the same day, it is no longer your personal case.
When the false ban story does not hold up
There is another side to this, and we will say it too. If you ran a build with aggressive aim assist, played in 40+ lobbies and collected reports by the handful, a glitch is unlikely. Detection in ARC Raiders rests on kernel level EasyAntiCheat plus machine learning models trained on the stream of player telemetry, including input analysis in partnership with Anybrain. The behavioural layer produces both false positives and accurate hits where a signature check would have found nothing. The largest single wave took roughly 15,000 accounts in one day, and far from all of them were innocent. An appeal against a deserved ban does not reset the ladder of 30 days, 60 days and permanent: the next step stays where it is.
How to file an appeal and what timing to expect
Appeals go through the official support form, and Embark states separately that every appeal is read by a live person and the process is not automated. The wave looked different in practice: hundreds of players got a dry "ban upheld" with no reason given and no indication of what the system counted as a violation. That is exactly what drove the community to a Change.org petition. The demands there come down to transparency: a mass review of blocks, appeals that name the reason and the evidence, and fixes for the known false triggers.
Attach the exact date and time of the block in your own timezone, a list of connected peripherals with model names, a rundown of hardware changes over the past few days, and a link to the discussion if your case is already in it. Arguing and pushing emotion gets you nowhere, since telemetry is what gets reviewed, not the tone of the letter. The studio publishes no turnaround times, so plan around the length of the block itself: if this is the first 30 day step, the reply may well arrive after the ban has expired on its own.
What to do in the first hours after a block
The order of actions matters more than speed. While emotions are fresh, it is easy to do things that will work against you later during the review.
- Record the state of your machine. A screenshot of the block message, the client version, the date of the last Windows and driver updates. There will be nothing left to remember it by later.
- Delete and reinstall nothing. Wiping the game, cleaning out peripheral drivers and reinstalling the system do not lift the block, but they do strip you of details that would be useful in the letter.
- Check your email from Embark. Sometimes the letter names the step and the end date, which tells you whether this is a first 30 day block or already a second one at 60.
- Find your scenario in the discussions. The "false ban investigating" thread and the relevant Reddit threads show whether the case is isolated or widespread, and they also hand you wording that has already worked for other people.
- Do not create a new account the same day. Logging in from the same machine right after a block often ends in a second one, and then there are two cases to sort out instead of one.
Why a template rejection is not always final
Read a first round rejection literally: all it says is that the decision was upheld on the data available. During the false ban wave some accounts came back after the studio figured out a specific trigger, not after a well written letter from a player. A repeat appeal is therefore worth sending only with a new argument in hand. Confirmation that your pedal model is the culprit, for instance, with other people reporting the same. Flooding support with identical letters every day accomplishes nothing, and the queue does not move faster for it.
Duping and RMT run on a completely separate line and have nothing to do with the anti-cheat. If the account went down after buying duped loot or handing out cloned items, pointing at the false positive wave is useless: that side has its own logic, and buying is punished on the same level as duping itself.
Coming back after a ban without fearing for your hardware fingerprint
For many people the block itself worries them less than the idea that it attached to the machine and the new account will follow the old one. EasyAntiCheat has a hardware component, and a fingerprint comfortably survives an OS reinstall. If you plan to return on a new account, cover the fingerprint before the first login rather than after it. How that is done and how the options differ is covered on the HWID spoofers page. Some builds in our catalogue carry a spoofer inside, so you do not have to buy anything extra.
One more thing: part of the software needs BIOS edits. FECURITY, for example, only works with Secure Boot and TPM disabled and only on a GPT formatted drive. Changes like that shift the machine profile by themselves. If you are already under suspicion after the wave, do not combine a move to new hardware with the first launch of a new build in one evening.
What to pick for ARC Raiders for this task
There is no universal answer here, it all comes down to what you are returning with and how carefully. Below are scenarios based on our catalogue as of September 2026: 19 positions for the game in total, with the cheapest entry at 4 dollars per day.
- Returning with a clean fingerprint: ANCIENT from $4 per day, undetected status. A spoofer and streamproof against OBS recording are built in, so no separate fingerprint software is needed. Requires the Steam client and windowed mode.
- No aim assist at all: ARCANE RADAR from $4 for three days. An external radar and ESP overlay that never touches the crosshair or fires, so the behavioural layer has no input to look at. At the time of writing the listing sits in Updating status, so come back to it after the refresh.
- Maximum isolation from the game client: CLUTCH ARC DMA from $9.50 for three days and NF MASTER PACK DMA from $30 per week. The scheme moves the software onto a second machine, but it calls for a DMA card and firmware tuned for EAC.
- Paying in rubles with no conversion: MASON EXTERNAL from 299 rubles per day and DULLWAVE from 490 rubles per day, both undetected.
- Taking a day to decide: BLEAK from $4 per day or BLANK from $5 per day. A short period after a return makes more sense than a month paid for blind.
The current list with prices, undetected status and a feature comparison is gathered on the cheats for ARC Raiders page. We edit it after game patches and after every move from the anti-cheat side, so the status on a listing is more accurate than any forum thread. When a build goes back for rework we flag it and stop selling it until it returns.
Bring questions about the choice and about your own ban situation to our community: Telegram (200+ members) and Discord (637+ members). People there will also tell you whether your trigger has shown up before.
Frequently asked questions about ARC Raiders cheats
How do I tell a false ban from a deserved one?
The reference point is simple: the moment of the block plus your configuration. A false positive usually lands on login, right after a hardware change, or on owners of non standard peripherals, and on the same day as hundreds of similar complaints. If you had been playing with aggressive aim and drawing reports, the odds of a glitch are low. The ForgeCheats community picks such cases apart in detail.
How long does an appeal take?
Embark publishes no official turnaround. Judging by the wave, a reply could arrive within a few days or only after the first 30 day step had expired by itself. Plan for the worst case and do not count on being back by a specific date. A follow up letter speeds things up only when it carries new information.
Does the Change.org petition help?
A petition has no direct effect on an individual account, since support makes the decisions on appeals. The value sits elsewhere: a loud public discussion pushes the studio to hunt for a common trigger instead of closing tickets one by one. Part of the reversals in the wave happened exactly that way, after the cause was traced on the developer side.
Does an HWID spoofer cancel a ban that has already landed?
No, a spoofer changes hardware fingerprints and lets you log in on a new account, but it cannot lift the block from the old one. If the cause was crosshair behaviour, the same thing repeats on the new account within a few raids at the same settings. Options tuned for EAC and builds with a spoofer inside are in our ARC Raiders hacks section.
Will pedals or a non standard controller get me banned again?
Nobody can guarantee otherwise, though repeat complaints dropped noticeably once the trigger was examined. Practical advice: before returning, unplug the exotic peripherals for the first sessions at least, and do not change hardware in the same period. That way you separate your configuration from everything else if the situation repeats.
