A persistent exploit in Arc Raiders lets players phase through locked doors without keycards, and the community has had enough. Prominent streamers are now calling on Embark Studios to ban players abusing the glitch, while memes on the game's subreddit grow increasingly bitter.
Keycards Are Supposed to Matter
Arc Raiders scatters keycards across its maps, each one unlocking a specific door somewhere in the level. The loot behind these doors is significantly better than what players find in open areas, making keycards valuable pickups during any raid.
That's the intended loop, anyway. Find a keycard, locate its door, claim the premium loot. The glitch throws all of that out the window.
Phasing Through Doors
Players discovered they can bypass locked doors entirely by pushing into them at a specific angle for long enough. Eventually, they clip right through the door and into the loot room.
The exploit works even better with a teammate. One player presses against the door while a squadmate jumps into their back. The collision physics launch the first player through the door. Once inside, they unlock it from within, giving the whole team access without ever needing a keycard.
Video clips from content creators like LancesEmporium have documented the technique in detail, making it common knowledge across the playerbase.
Legitimate Players Get Burned
Picture this: you find a keycard, fight across the map to its door, and arrive to find the room already stripped clean. Someone glitched their way in ahead of you.
That scenario plays out constantly now, and frustration is boiling over. The memes on the Arc Raiders subreddit have shifted from playful ribbing to genuine anger.
Streamers Want the Banhammer
Several prominent community figures have publicly pushed for punitive action.
"Let's just ban people doing this to be honest," streamer Klean wrote. "It needs to get fixed, and it's obviously not a simple one as it would've been done by now."
MoiDawg, a popular YouTuber and streamer, agreed: "The sooner Embark bans people doing this, the sooner it will stop."
The argument is simple. If Embark can't patch the exploit quickly, punishing abusers would at least discourage widespread use and protect players who aren't cheating.
Fixing It Isn't Simple
The glitch has been around for a while, suggesting the technical fix is more complicated than it looks. Adding deeper collision detection to doors seems obvious, but Arc Raiders' collision system might be tangled up with other mechanics in ways that make isolated changes risky.
Nobody outside Embark can know for sure what's causing the issue. The team is almost certainly aware of it, but a solution hasn't materialized yet.
Bans Seem Unlikely
Most developers hesitate to ban players for exploiting bugs that exist within the game itself, as opposed to using external cheat software. Embark will probably follow that pattern.
That puts even more pressure on the studio to ship a hotfix. Every day the exploit stays active, community complaints get louder.
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Where Things Stand
The door glitch remains fully functional. Players continue documenting it, venting on social media, and waiting for Embark to act.
For anyone trying to play Arc Raiders legitimately, the situation creates an uncomfortable choice: keep hunting keycards knowing exploiters may have already grabbed the rewards, or step back until the developers sort it out.
