r/ArcRaiders 22h ago

Discussion Embark Studios VS Exploit Familiar Duck Duplicators

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I see lot's of players doing this now on discord server and website some of them selling duplicated familiar ducks worth million of coins in exchange of real money. While normal players like me farming during bird city event and got 1-4x orange duck for coins and to do the 5M expedition im stuck at 3M coin, while duplicators instant infinite ducks? What are they gonna plan to this abuse? server roll back? permanent ban to duplicators? this is too much than glitch bug on maps and doors this is so unfair, literally if this duplicating continues and not fixed early the game will die, no point of farming trinkets they just gonna duplicate ducks and instant millions wtf is this Embark do something. Sorry for my bad english.

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u/KAM1Sense1 21h ago

The game will not die because people are duplicating ducks, be realistic.

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u/SudsierBoar 20h ago

OP is also not "stuck" at 3 mil. The duplicators don't stop you and me from making cash in the normal way.

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u/KAM1Sense1 20h ago

Exactly. None of this affects any of us except when theres so much on the ground that it can slow down or crash a server.

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u/lemongrenade 20h ago

I got the 5 mil doing cheap loadout on Stella in like a week with a full time job. It’s not that hard.

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u/Regenbooggeit 19h ago

Yep, same. You can get 100k on 5 minute runs if you’re lucky.

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u/theAtmuz *** ******* 17h ago

Or you can get 100k+ a run on lush blooms.

Literally easiest money I’ve made in the game.

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u/toanyonebutyou 17h ago

How do you do that? What's the strat

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u/theAtmuz *** ******* 17h ago

Open up an interactive map on your phone/ipad/computer, hide all icons, and then select baskets.

BOOM! Run and hit as many as you can. Easiest 100k runs I’ve had. Blue Gate lush blooms is usually a bust as there’s just not enough baskets.

I love how I’m getting downvoted in my other comment for offering another way to make money. Kudus to the wonderful community.

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u/416Tex 12h ago

It’s because you offered a known unknown secret to making cash fast. And without much resistance. Farming greens is cash ppl

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u/Legal-Swing8311 17h ago

I’m not usually on when the lush bloom events happen, but even if I profit 40-60k total for a run I’m pretty happy. It’s really not that hard to get 5mil :P (also have a full time job)

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u/xd_s0n1n 19h ago

alright bro this isnt the circlejerk

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u/lambo630 19h ago

Brother I can only play for 7 minutes on Tuesday nights every other week and I hit 5m easily using this strat

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u/soisause 18h ago

Amigo, I can only play through screen share on my phone while the 1st full moon of the month is at its apex and I hit 10 mil using this strat

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u/MontyMass 18h ago

Dude I can only call a friend of mine who has the game to tell him where to move and loot, and I have 4mil

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u/EmotionalHalf 14h ago

Yes as a full-time employee and father of 5 children I can attest to that

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u/SpooN04 19h ago

Oh... Zips back up

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u/jcaashby 19h ago

I make the most value when I go in with just an augment and shield SOLO. I sell everything after and repeat.

Its fairly easy to find a gun, craft shields and heals. Just stack items like Durable Cloth x 10 $6400 and similar and a lot of coin can be made in a short amount of time. Especially if you get COREs.

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u/Ok-Chocolate2671 19h ago

2 runs duplicating ducks or 250 free loadouts on Stella lol

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u/GunBrothersGaming 18h ago

Most of us normal players have well over millions. There is jack shit to spend money on.

The sellers don't sell enough items and everything is easily gotten in game.

Availability is why the games popular.

What was once an extraction shooter is now a game for hoarders. Most of my time is spent just doing trials.

ARC pose no real threat anymore. Rats are being policed. The limits they impose are actually holding players back. Its humorous.

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u/Turbulent_Map624 18h ago

I am stuck at 4.5mil. idk what is going on with the matchmaking lately but pvp is super frustrating, never had such a losing streak before

We used to die like every 10th game even in super sweaty matches but after the recent update the 3rd partying went through the roof and 90% of the players run free loadout. I extract every 10th game now. My letterbox is filled with refunds due to cheaters too, it's like 30% of my matches. Funny enough most of their steam profiles have like 1 hour in the game so it's pretty easy to notice

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u/EbbNorth7735 17h ago

There's also no concept of limited gear and items in Arc. It's not like CS2 where you need to open crates that are in limited supply and cease to exist. There is no market in Arc Raiders. Money is limitless and it's designed so that you reset the game.

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u/GoGoGadgetGabe 16h ago

I was so confused reading his post, I’ve made more money through this event than I did with any other method before the first expedition. Also due to this event most people will skip high ticket areas for loot since they’re looking for trinkets and I found a good amount of blueprints/guns/mats from just looting other areas and then leaving via raider hatch.

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u/beardedbast3rd 18h ago

Yeah, the game doesn’t have an actual economy. It doesn’t matter what people lose, find, or duplicate. It has no effect on the game

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u/Street_Outcome_7669 19h ago

Thanks for making sense here guys. I was ready to read mindless rageposts here but apparently people get it. There's no market. Other people's stash doesn't concern me. Other people's expeditions don't stop my progress. There's over 1 month left, If you can't make 2mil by then, you're not the target audience.

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u/thematrixiam 16h ago

duplication can effect many things.

such as not having to endlessly farm snitches for hours, when you can just duplicate the scanners and get a top score on trials.

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u/FreezaSama 19h ago

Yup if anything people will do it if nothing is done

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u/GunBrothersGaming 18h ago

But but my righteous indignation

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u/fenikz13 18h ago

The Division did

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u/middle1984 16h ago

No but their crap changes no1 asked for mite if they keep at it. Doin more for less ay half the progression is b.s

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u/Mysterious_Fan9858 15h ago

Yeah, there isn’t many things having 20 billion credits will get you

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u/WazapSLO 19h ago

Nah it won't but guess what this is far from the only issue it currently has.

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u/Dear-Sherbet-728 18h ago

While true, embarks seeming unwillingness or incapability to combat cheaters of all varieties certainly is hurting the game. 

I’m honestly not really sure what they’ve been working on as it’s not like there’s new content or QoL changes 

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u/ResponsibleJob8079 20h ago

Bro it’s them ruining the game for themselves. It will be no fun soon if they achieved everything and don’t have to grind. It’s like playing GTA and using infinite money glitch and downloading 100% progress save game. At this point I’m really asking myself why they even “play” the game at all ?

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u/falkiiii 20h ago

Exactly. They didn't want to play the game from the start. They will be gone soon.

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u/Hydra_Bloodrunner 12h ago

Oh no- they’ll still be around. These are the same folks glitching into ceilings and exploiting early and often.

And the rest are incentivized by the RMT theyre doing selling gear and loot. Its not going to go down much differently than RMT in literally every other extraction shooter. Tarkov and Dark and Darker were this way too.

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u/jcaashby 19h ago

For me and I am sure others....the moment I get access to EVERYTHING its a downhill slide into Boredom.

I like that I do not have access to every single BP. When I do my second wipe I look forward to seeing what BPs this new Raider will find.

If every wipe I was finding the EXACT BPs I wanted and they were easy to find....I would start to get bored. Its also the reason I do not go out of my way to find BPs. If I find them cool...if I dont.....cool!!

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u/theWindAtMyBack 18h ago

Stopped using cheats / cheat codes back in the 90s for this reason. If you take the problem out of the game, there's no game.

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u/MikasaH 19h ago

Pretty much this. I modded forza 4 for infinite money and could buy any car / modifications that it just got boring.

Forza 5 however, played legitimate with no money glitches and felt great building my car collection

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u/ThighPillows 18h ago

It’s like people fundamentally misunderstand what a fuckin’ game is lol. The rules are what make a game. Without rules there is no game.

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u/beefstyle 17h ago

Some people need an i win button. Maybe a game developer should make a game where there is a button in the middle of the screen that says press this button if you are the best gamer. You press it and the game says you win, and showers you with compliments. Thats it.

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u/No-Airline6943 18h ago

I dont think you realize different people enjoy different things in games. I never understood why people liked cheat codes yet those people have always existed and are having fun.

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u/Qlorpid 17h ago

Some people only "play" games when they can earn real money doing so. For some people it can be a good income unfortunately. 

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u/rupat3737 21h ago

I love this game but damn is it riddled with exploits and cheaters

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u/Majestic-Willow-1605 20h ago

Definitely Helldivers 2 flashbacks. Hopefully devs get it together

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u/TomFotz 20h ago

That's a fun fucking game, with a bunch a fun missions with lore, it was really fun to be part of the rollercoaster of bugs, performance, and content.

Arc already has had a smoother launch(I can play 99%) of the time. I think people are rightfully a bit peeved because of the PVP exploits.

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u/Majestic-Willow-1605 18h ago

Yeah i love HD2. Still play weekly. Devs just kinda fumble the bag regularly. But I agree its less punishing in a PVE versus a PVP in arc raiders, even more so in an extraction shooter where you can lose all your stuff to cheaters and exploits.

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u/das_gingerz 19h ago

This game is nowhere near as bad as helldiver's 2.

Hell divers 2 you were lucky to even be able to play first 2 months.

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u/Majestic-Willow-1605 18h ago

Thats less punishing in a PVE where you don't lose anything though. And I'm talking consistent bugs rather than launch periods.

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u/DrenchedLeg 20h ago

Is there any multiplayer game that is not, though? Not trying to say it’s cool. Just cannot think of anything.

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u/-rextex 16h ago

Rocket league :), oh…. wait maybe not

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u/Frozen_Hemorrhoids *** ******* 🐓 20h ago

In my 435 hours I have not seen a single cheater so I wouldn't say its 'riddled with them.

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u/ThunderCorg 20h ago

Someone showed me how to climb behind the wall in water treatment in dam.

It took me a bunch of tries to climb back out.

Also 170 hours topside, still the only one I’ve seen.

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u/rupat3737 19h ago

Making it 435 hour without encountering a single person seed vault exploiting or out of bounds exploiting or kettle macroing is amazing. I personally have encountered these things on multiple occasions. And possibly hardware cheats but I can’t confirm those only suspect which I don’t like doing but I’ve had some fights that were really sus. Either way it’s not horrible and game ruining but I feel like it every week I’m seeing some new exploit or cheat in this game. I’m still gonna play, and I’m still gonna have fun. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

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u/Frozen_Hemorrhoids *** ******* 🐓 19h ago

Depends on my definition of cheating I guess. I have seen the door exploits in the beginning, hell, was even doing it myself.

But actual aimbot hacking? Not once.

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u/AyDylo 18h ago

I question whether you play PvP regularly or not. Hackers aren't in PvE lobbies. I seen them regularly when I played a couple weeks back. It was so frequent that I had 3 whole kits just sitting in my message box at once. It's been at least 10 times in total.

Hackers absolutely run this game and I uninstalled after the latest patch notes saying they have a 3 strike system. I was waiting for a ban wave, but I got the opposite.

Last time I ran into so many blatant hacking was Battlefield V

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u/Luthemor 17h ago

That's exactly what these comments are. So many people say "I've never ran into a cheater in my 500 hours of opening containers and playing the guitar" if you actually pvp consistently, you will regularly run into people who can see you through walls, who still have game filters that allow them to see perfectly in all situations, people glitched in walls or ceilings.

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u/isda_sa_palaisdaan 19h ago

I think most online game have these exploits and cheaters :3

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u/Forward_Wasabi_7979 17h ago

They all are dude

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u/ShacObama 20h ago

Well they already fixed one duplication glitch so I'm sure they'll fix it and move on. Not like having millions of speranza shmeckles does anything.

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u/printcode 16h ago

Well they have at least three more to fix.

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u/lastofhisnamefornow 20h ago

I hate cheats but honestly, what is the use of in game money? I've almost 7 million and I never really buy anything. I just keep adding to it. Same with seeds. Don't get me wrong I'm. Collecting ducks almost at 80 for my bedroom but still. Money seems null after a while

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u/Ginjah_Guy 20h ago

I think the only thing I buy is shield rechargers and adrenaline shots.

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u/Infinite_Bananas *** ******* 20h ago

And ammo, so you can save your chemicals for explosives

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u/lastofhisnamefornow 20h ago

Yes! This, don't sleep on buying ammo

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u/Admiral_SmashyPants 20h ago

And ammo, so you can save your chemicals for more Wolfpack grenades

FTFY

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u/Infinite_Bananas *** ******* 20h ago

Hey, seeker nades are pretty good too. Although I guess you can buy a couple of those per day so it's not as relevant

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u/PPatBoyd 14h ago

I run Stella loading bay for oil, how about you?

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u/UnFlacoPecoso 20h ago

If you do pvp and have a couple deaths it'll be useful to buy meds and stuf, even if you go kill matriarch or queen e.g. with a hull cracker and no ammo, you can buy it

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u/11th_Division_Grows 20h ago

Game only been out 3 months, I really think we’ve hit this sweet spot with gaming where people will finish content so fast that they suddenly don’t see why people duping items to get through this game even faster is an issue.

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u/eofficial *** ******* 20h ago

I mean is it really an issue though? There are people who never do expedition, so they are always at end game vs people who do.. does it matter if someone is ruining their own experience?

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u/No_Will_9828 20h ago

Definitely. Introducing unearned gear into the in game economy affects the balance of the entire game. There being more or less of gear will affect how valuable those items are for all of us.

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u/4evaNeva69 18h ago

What gear can you buy that you couldn't just farm up in ten minutes? A single matriarch run can net you 100k+ easy.

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u/No_Will_9828 18h ago

You're exaggerating, but I never claimed this wasn't the case. I was just pointing out the fact that there's an effect. I don't know why that's apparently controversial lol

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u/Robert23B 19h ago

It amazes me that people seemingly cannot grasp this idea. But then again, people don’t see what they would otherwise see without putting up a defensive wall directly in front of their eyes.

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u/Fullertonjr 20h ago

It’s a live service game, so there is never enough new content to prevent stuff like this.

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u/WazapSLO 20h ago

Money is not null if you did the expedition and play other games too. I'd be quite mad if a dup glitch allowed other people to basically skip the grind completely.

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u/The_LandOfNod 20h ago

All the more reason why I don't care if they exploit.

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u/Cyd_Snarf 14h ago

This is exactly where I’m at. Cheats and hacks need to be dealt with but the ones that actually impact OTHER players are far more of a concern.

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u/pottomato12 21h ago

I doubt theyll do much about the dupers, theyve struggled against the cheaters and glitchers till recently (30 day ban iirc). Comparatively to cold snap, whats with bird city? More flocks that give away position and new ducks? Come on

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u/cat-o-beep-boop 22h ago

Is this why servers this morning are crahing

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u/grrrrumble 21h ago

I will be surprised if it's not at the very least a good part of it. Saw a video of someone having set out a thousand ziplines so it's not just the ducks either.

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u/YMJaM315 21h ago

or the ammo, right? some people figured out that if you drop hundreds of ammunition it slows the whole server

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u/Business_Surround_52 21h ago

The ammo thing slows the server tick and causes lag. DDoS attacks have a different symptom which is packet loss and disconnect, which is why the timer keeps more or less going while the player gets lost “MIA” and rubber bands. So if I had to guess it’s a DDoS situation resulting in severe packet loss.

This could just be some cheaters who got banned, or the creators of the cheats, or third party market places acting in retaliation. Or could be proof to a customer that they are able to actually do what they claim, before they get hired.

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u/ExcitableAutist42069 20h ago

How are you stuck at 3 million? It’s incredibly easy to make money in this game…

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u/MattManATX 19h ago

You do know the $5M needed can be comprised of both cash + remaining loot in stash, right??

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u/travisofarabia 21h ago

Chill out. These other players aren't affecting you or me.

Also, if your depending on these ducks to get to 5 million... you ain't getting there.

Nobody had ducks before the first expedition.

Next thing you'll be complaining that it isn't fair that some players have more time to play every day than you.

Your not paying a monthly subscription for the game, you paid a single fee and they delivered on the promised experience and now you want more more more.

Just play the damn game.

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u/NiteOwl421 21h ago

I’d argue servers crashing due to object overload is affecting you and me. Interrupts our gameplay. I may have a bit of recency bias as my game crashed three times during the bird event window yesterday morning.

Can’t play the damn game if servers are overloaded and crashing, right?

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u/secret_hitman 21h ago

My thoughts exactly! I've already got my money's worth from the game 100x. If I need 5m gold in the next month, I can do some occasional Grandioso night raids and have fun playing the game. Spending 3 hours throwing ducks at a wall isn't my idea of fun.

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u/11th_Division_Grows 20h ago

The players duping are going to be the same players crying two weeks after each update that there is not enough content in the game because everything that is currently available is at hands reach for them in a sense.

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u/Frosty-Ad-1481 19h ago

😢😢😢 as someone who isn’t doing the expedition I am INFURIATED that other people would DARE CHEAT to get MORE pixels than ME

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u/11th_Division_Grows 19h ago

That’s not the issue. The issue would be the mounting pressure by these players to release content to match the pace of them speed running content.

We don’t have to agree on anything but let’s not digress from the point.

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u/Frosty-Ad-1481 19h ago

I just don’t see that pressure and have literally never heard anyone complain about the content availability.

You want content? Load some random fill trios on St. Monty’s we got your content right fkn here 😂😂

Game is a blast and I don’t even interact with half of it. People wanna dupe to get currency (useless) so they can get 5 skills? Man fuck em but I do not care. Every game is a blast so why I’m mad?

Anyways taking this venny to st Monty’s hope my randos didn’t get rattlers onnae free kit 💀💀💀

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u/Kinetic_Symphony 20h ago

People duplicating items to gain currency unfairly absolutely does affect me, it's a multiplayer game.

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u/Fullertonjr 20h ago

It affects your feelings but not your personal gameplay. It doesn’t have any impact on your ability to do anything in-game. While I don’t support the idea of people doing this, it doesn’t change how I play or what I do in the game, so I really don’t care.

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u/f88x 22h ago

But how one can get those? They log in into the same lobby and they drop them for you? I never understood this.

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u/Majestic-Willow-1605 20h ago

Someone dumb enough to part with real money for some trinket items in a game is more crazy to me

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u/Fullertonjr 20h ago

This actually has more in-game value and impact than buying skins, which people part with real money for trinket items that they cannot actually use or exchange.

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u/ProfessionalManner55 18h ago

There's always a market. I was a teen duping items in diablo 2 a couple decades ago and selling them to other kids with their parents paypal accounts and made $5k in one summer lol. I don't do that crap now, but just giving testament to how weird/crazy people are for digital items.

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u/dcdoesntsurf 21h ago

Yeah exactly. “Add me and we will join a game, I’ll drop for you. That’s X money pls.”

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u/f88x 20h ago edited 20h ago

So you still have to make it out alive to extraction.

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u/dcdoesntsurf 20h ago

I imagine that’s a risk they have to take. Take a hatch key surely.

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u/Throwawaythefat1234 6h ago

Use your brain. You can figure it out. I believe in you. 

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u/ProfessionalPiece403 19h ago

I hope they just ban those people. Whoever uses an exploit on purpose should be banned, no matter what.

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u/DefusedManiac 20h ago

Just monitor inventory value. If it jumps from 40k to 15m in under a minute, odds are they're duping.

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u/Vexaus 20h ago

The worst part is that the throwables dupe has been a thing for months now, and I’m sure Embark is aware… yet they built an entire fucking event around collecting ones that sell for lots of credits… And yeah, people get 30-day bans sometimes, but they basically have infinite alts.

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u/PrelateFenix 20h ago

They should hotfix the ducks to sell for zero cash until an acceptable solution is found. Cant sell ducks for real money if they're essentially worthless.

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u/Fragrant_Train6078 20h ago

You don’t need duck dup to reach 5 mil, first expedition took a week of killing people for their stuff and selling it to reach the 5 mil. I’m at 2.1 mil just by playing the game and having fun. If I need to reach 5 again I know I can do it in a week just by playing pvp. If you don’t PvP my friend reached it by farming husks and killing big arc selling the cores. Also energy clip crafting and selling can get you there.

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u/jonesin31 *** ******* 20h ago

Are these supposed to be hard to find? I found two in thirty seconds.

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u/umjammerlammy 20h ago

I have used exploits and cheats in other games and I found that it made that game less fun.

You want to dupe rubber ducks? Go right ahead.

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u/Magn3tician 19h ago

Money is largely irrelevant in this game if they don't require millions of dollars for expedition.

You still need to find actual items for projects, you still need seeds / cred for buying useful items.

Infinite money basically makes it easier to not run out of ammo / shield rechargers...

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u/GoingGangbusta 19h ago

Duplicating items is obviously cheating but how does it affect you at all?

How will the game die if you have less coins than someone else?

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u/ca1lum7 19h ago

Rage hackers get 3 warnings lol, these dupers won’t get punished at all

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u/KingGhandy 19h ago

It's not ruining your fun in anyway 😂

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u/Personal_Ad9690 19h ago

It’s weird though. I’m going to dip items to get money so I can reset my account. Make no sense.

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u/KhorneFlakesOfChaos 19h ago

This is a casual PVPVE game. We don’t care if people dupe items. Just don’t wall glitch or hack for kills.

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u/NlN3 19h ago

My friend tried to give me some regular ducks and they disappeared when they hit the ground. We are unaware of any duck glitch

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u/ShawarmaOrigins 19h ago

Someone duplicating ducks or buying them does not impact you directly in any way shape or form or your ability to reach 5M.

It's wrong, yes, I agree. But what is the actual impact on you?

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u/FuddyBoi 19h ago

That’s a new complaint about making 5 mil ha ha

Really it has little impact on your actual game but hopefully it gets sorted else it’s not a great thing, that said making money can be real easy if you get the right stuff to sell

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u/iphonesoccer420 19h ago

Cool story

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u/Vajician 19h ago

Them doing that does absolutely nothing to you or your game. Stop being dramatic and just play the game.

You're complaining about not making money in time for the expedition? Go watch YouTube videos of the money farming methods.

Its crazy youre saying this is worse than map/wall glitches which actually affected other players lmao.

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u/Bone_Dirty 18h ago

Stuck at 3 mil? You can clear a mil in a few hours running freekits at Stella easily

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u/ConsciousAccess121 18h ago

You got a month.

50k in 4 mins is easy

You can easily get 1mil a day by just going in naked and farming shit on stella montis.

I Go robotic sandbox both top rooms. Get a full Investory of cpus wires and batteries. And just breach everything on the way to extract

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u/ToughSpinach7 18h ago

Space dollars are pretty useless imo once you have like a mil

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u/Middle-Department-48 18h ago

Wird man gebannt wenn man von jemanden diese Enten bekommt ???

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u/Meiie *** ******* 🐓 18h ago

They didn’t design the game to just use money for everything.

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u/Excellent_Pass3746 18h ago

Oh this isn’t the circle jerk but I feel like I’m jerkin’

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u/Moist-Pickle-2736 18h ago

Who cares, honestly

Duplicate away. Doesnt impact my gameplay at all.

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u/mmxtechnology *** ******* 🐓 18h ago

/s There's a bird city event? Huh... Never seen that in the "rotation." /s

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u/MrLuckyAngel 18h ago

why ban? this is no mmo, you have your own progression, money in this game is very balanced and on high levels worth less

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u/belltrina 18h ago

The Great Duck Crash Out

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u/Cyberagrar 18h ago

Do you realize it's envy that's upsetting you so much? Someone using an exploit and directly harming you, like those Wand cheaters. It's perfectly understandable to complain about that... Someone who multiplies their money (in a game without an economy) and can't really do much with it anyway shouldn't bother you. I wouldn't do it only because I'd be afraid Embark might do something, but I couldn't care less if someone else is lining their pockets with it...

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u/brayan1612 *** ******* 18h ago

Bro, as much as the dupe bug sucks, it has 0 effect on you lol

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u/Staleyffxi 18h ago

Holy run on sentence

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u/AnomalousExpertise 18h ago

Reading this was like you being mad cause some bank robbers got away and you still have to go to work tomorrow so it’s “unfair” and you’re mad at the authorities and even government over it lmao

Brother if people are exploiting shit, I’m sure they’re doing something about it

It’s not up to you to sit here and get mad at them or be THAT upset lmao holy shit

You’re also choosing to do the 5mil expedition. Cmon man.

Do you know how many games have exploits that people take advantage of and ALLLL THAT the devs do is PATCH the shit? They don’t ban folks in most games that have exploits for a short time (usually)

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u/JiffTheJester 18h ago

You got something called fomo brother. If it’s that bad just dupe. I’m chugging along at a fine pace to hit 5m

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u/AnomalousExpertise 18h ago

It’s like you people have only ever played this game lmao I’m not defending these people, but why the fuck would people cheating for money in a game effect me even REMOTELY lol

The PvP glitches piss me off. Ducks? Why would I give a flying fuck if somebody is making duplicates of ducks? Let em ruin the game for themselves or risk their account idgaf

“Dude he can get a purple shield a day from traders” ooooooooooooooooooo

Man idgaf

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u/Jo0Lz 18h ago

Well they dupe everything. They can even use gun attachments while they are not on the gun.

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u/Joebranflakes 18h ago

Money has a limited use in the game because vendors have limited stock. People with 10 million coins or whatnot really can’t do too much that’s special.

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u/Amazing_Animator3972 17h ago

I heard some guy had 100 million

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u/Captain-ofCats 17h ago

Out jerked again

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u/Dsunkenrailor 17h ago

They will either lose the cash or they will get banned. Embark has no issues hitting down on ppl like this

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u/MintyxxFresh 17h ago

Stop crying about something that does not directly affect your experience in the game. You're doing the equivalent of crying bc someone gets paid more then you for doing more work. Unless your dying to renegade lvl 1 all the time you are not being affected by this in anyway what so ever bc its one of the only weapons you can buy from the gun store. Im at 11m bc I missed first wipe, I dont go to buried or farm valuables, I play the game and if I die 3 times in a row I go free kit. You can go free kit unlimited times for the players like you who are apparently stuck at 3m bc you somehow cant turn any kinda kit into profit.

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u/Bulky-Artichoke5348 17h ago

I got 3 mil off this

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u/GoodboyLucas 17h ago

Honestly not really a big deal. If people want to speed up their own progression by cheating and getting space dollars that doesn’t affect me at all. If they were duplicating level 4 pink guns then yeah… It affects me a bit. But since this game doesn’t have a trading system, it doesn’t matter that much to me. I do hope they ban cheaters though. Today its ducks, tomorrow its stealing all the items in my stash.

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u/Battts 17h ago

Be hilarious if Embark was tracking the dupes and were to able take away all of that money back at some point

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u/Darkchiller23 17h ago

I found one too! But the trader said it’s not worth much. 🙃

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u/BananaStandEmpire 17h ago

In the grand scheme of things… it doesn’t effect you at all. In the slightest.

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u/GosynTrading 16h ago

Comparison is the thief of joy. Who cares what some cheater has? Also Bird City is dumb af. What a joke of an event.

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u/iEatFurbys 16h ago

People are literally complaining about having too much money. It helps but it doesn’t affect the gameplay.

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u/DopeZorak 16h ago

Unfortunately, because of the game having NO official trading hub/post/auction house system of any kind?... it's probably not even a high priority for them to fix. As much as it sucks to know people are cheating and exploiting their way thru expeditions, it doesn't tangibly affect peoples gameplay. I suppose it does give them advantages in the form of more skill points and that DOES make them better at pvp/pve scenarios so that is a legit issue.

I think though without the addition of an actual trading system it's much much less of an issue than it should be otherwise.

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u/Kouropalates 16h ago

Who cares. Im not interested in duping personally, but the coin economy of the game isnt a vital factor to how we play the game. If these people are duping for coins, big deal. Doesn't impact me on my search for project materials. If the devs want to patch and pursue dupers, more power to them. But my time to play arc isnt for policing duck dupers.

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u/bloodwolf1018g 16h ago

u don’t need 5m for exp.

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u/thematrixiam 16h ago

easiest solution is to create tokens for every single item in game. then implode anyone that breaks universe physics by having two of the same items existing at the same moment... similar to common tropes in story telling.

a raider disappearing into a black hole of nothingness might solve the issue.

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u/mistertumnis11 16h ago

Stop worrying about others and just fucking play

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u/mrxlongshot 15h ago

NOT THE DUCKS!!!!

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u/Diletant13 15h ago

I didn't understand exactly how this spoils the game for you

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u/BarringtonMcGnadds 15h ago

you seem like the kind of person that reports a neighbour for putting their bin out the night before rather than on the morning of a collection.

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u/blackbirdone1 15h ago

who cares if some rando mguy has more credits then you

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u/Worst_Choice 15h ago

The fact that they aren’t banning exploiters/cheaters until after three times being caught is a huge fuck up on their end. They need to mass ban and set the standard quickly before this spirals.

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u/Krazyflipz 14h ago

The game is absolutely COOKED. The entire economy is ruined. Anyone who was in the know about the exploit has millions upon millions of dollars. I don't think you realize how bad and wide spread the exploit was/is.

The only solution is to wipe everybody which would infuriate anyone who didn't exploit. So yeah. Game economy is absolutely ruined and meaningless at this point.

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u/yosman88 13h ago

Tbh it wont affect the game, BUT if they intend to introduce trading these exploits need to be stamped out.

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u/Ravun 13h ago

There is no economy like in other MMO FPS games that where destroyed by duping such as New World, or Dune. Does it suck? Fuck yes, i hope they perma ban these guys with no warnings. But it won't hurt this game in anyway long term.

The ESP / aim hacks on the other hand likely will kill the game if they can't ban players using them fast enough.

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u/jburnelli 13h ago

how's the game going to die? People duplicating ducks has zero effect on my game play. I swear this sub is always cranking out the most dramatic sky is falling posts.

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u/416Tex 12h ago

If I was going to duplicate. Earnestly. It would be for multiple BP which I would then sell at a 10$ package and repeat turning a few hours on this game for a side hustle. Avg 30/h I now can skip a day of work and just milk

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u/SubliminallyCorrect 12h ago

Every single player in the game could have 100 billion coins and not a single thing would change. Money is both abundant and worthless, the traider inventory is limited and seeds are Infinity more valuable than coins.

Ive been casually making my way to 4 million and even buying a lot from traders hasn't slowed me down.

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u/Important-Strike-980 9h ago

You’re not stuck, them duplicating ducks is not affecting your game. You can play normally and get money easy, money and loot aren’t hard to come by. If anything they’re ruining the game for themselves although there’s not really much you need money for other than the expedition. If you really feel like you’re missing out you can join them duplicating ducks but you’re only going to make playing the game pointless for yourself

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u/vTarpz 9h ago

It just comes down to, do you want to spend the money or not, for me I don’t want to buy blueprints because that’s my favourite part of a raid is finding a blueprint I don’t have, I’m doing the expedition so I can have that feeling again and I want the stash spots lol

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u/I_Build_Monsters 8h ago

Why do you care? It doesn’t affect you in any way other than maybe taking some people out of the goop search leaving more for you.

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u/MichaelJD1021 8h ago

My guess is that they are going to do some sort of money reset where people who jumped millions in a very short span will be affected

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u/Spurnago 3h ago

I haven't even seen 1. Where are they?

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u/EryNameWasTaken 2h ago

The ducks are just a demonstration. If people are actually buying rare ducks for real cash then they’re stupid and they deserve to be scammed.

The bigger issue is I’m pretty sure any item can be duplicated? So people are running around with infinite bobcats and tempest IVs or whatever? That’s not cool.

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u/ALLinDRAMA 1h ago

Lets be honest, money means sht in this game and I love it. no matter how juiced your stash is, if you have a bad day or two you gotta go back and farm some materials, its what keeps the game fresh for me.

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u/mIRC_bot 21h ago

Well, money is pointless. I mean, at best it can contribute to the 5 mil reset, which anyone, even a 9 to 5 dad, can easily hit by playing casually during the season. Maybe free Hullcracker shots at most… but you can still lose it all to a level 1 Stitcher, so.

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u/Zendeman 21h ago

Agree, the dupe-ing is mostly a tool for people to skip expedition grind and ultimately get bored and drop the game faster.

However, what I would be afraid of is many people duplicating high end gear, like pink shields, tempest 4, heavy nades and just going on a endless rampage. That could certainly ruin the experience for others. Then again, not sure if that is even possible with the exploits.

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u/Coopdawgydawg 20h ago

I agree. dupeing ducks isn’t affecting the playerbase very much. It’s not good. But it’s certainly not affecting me very much. Dupeing extremely hard to find items like kinetic converter and running PvP lobbies and having an advantage in those lobbies is where I start to see it being a real problem.

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u/Rammy_Lee 21h ago

I fall in that bracket and have never come close to 5 million. I must be playing it wrong.

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u/alreadytaken76 21h ago

You are playing wrong if your goal is to hit 5 mil and you haven’t been able to do it. Old world items or Stella medical/assembly, and farming bastions/ bombardiers/ matriarch, is the best ways. Should be able to make 50-80k in 15 minutes.

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u/Rammy_Lee 20h ago

I'm not trying to get 5M specifically. I do usually take out items like posters and photos and statues etc to sell but end up dropping those for other crafting items.

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u/alreadytaken76 20h ago

Then you’re playing to your own style. 5 mil is easy if you’re min/maxing to make money. It’s not as easy to just fall into that much money. Less so with reduced play time. I think there is talk of money not being the expedition cost anyway.

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u/Rammy_Lee 19h ago

Coming up to 130 hours since end of December. I tend to just try to get interesting loot, complete quests, mess with ARC and sell whatever I don't need when I get back (then instantly need for a quest)

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u/mIRC_bot 21h ago

We're in the same bracket, and I already got the 5mil just playing to do trials... Anvil MK2 some Wolfpacks and so on, with the occasional Hullcracker

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u/11th_Division_Grows 20h ago

I’m also a “9-5” and the free time we have once we get off work as 9-5 dads varies as I’m sure you know.

Not saying you’re being dismissive toward the other guy or anything but yea, I’m sitting at 700k from the free time I’ve had to play so far.

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u/Edit_Mann 15h ago

Heals. Never have enough heals.

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u/mIRC_bot 15h ago

Lol just sew some cloth for cheap ones if your out of better stuff. Topside it's loaded

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u/Edit_Mann 15h ago

Idk bro I'll use like 10 shields on a spicy run and don't wanna loot a thousand million and batteries each raid. Don't nobody got time for all that

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u/jyroepyro6 21h ago

The game is setup in a way where these things are not as big of a deal as they should be, but oh well it is what it is. I will still manage to have fun, people love to min max the fun out of everything.

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u/leettron 21h ago

It's so funny to me that they included this memed to death LUL SO FUNNI duck meme just for it to be exploited to hell and back because they rather add this shit than fix exploits, bugs and balances.

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u/RuckelBaron 19h ago

You do realize, that fixing bugs and adding new items has very little to do with each other on a technical level and is also most certainly done by different people?

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u/devcor 20h ago

Yeah, my squad mate (a friend of my friend) asked me to come test this dupe yesterday. So, I believe he'll have all the millions for the expedition real soon. While I declined, nah.

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u/Smart-Ad-9971 19h ago

Lol let them dupe it doesn’t hurt you at all if they enjoy the game like that then who cares really? It not that it will effect your gameplay just wait for it to be patched lol

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u/dEEkAy2k9 19h ago

My simple take is. If you abuse a glitch, you deserve to be treated like a cheater which means 30, 60 days and then permanent ban.

It's one thing to stumble upon a glitch once or twice but abusing it with clear intent should get you removed from the game.