On May 20, the Arena Breakout: Infinite security team published another ban report with strong wording: “0% tolerance for any rule violations, including but not limited to the use of plugins, unauthorized apps, and intentional cooperation with a player using plugins.” That last part — about cooperation — is important and deserves a deeper look.
What’s New This Wave
The May 20 summary includes:
- Permanent bans for first-tier accounts (use of cheat plugins, DMA devices, hardware spoofing)
- Permanent bans for second-tier accounts — players regularly grouping with confirmed cheaters. The anti-cheat tracks consistent party associations, loot transfers, and synchronized movement patterns across the map.
- Temporary bans (7 to 30 days) for bug abuse — specifically in the current build, bypassing HUD enemy-visibility limits via a UI exploit discovered on May 16.
- Loot and Korolev Coins rollback for players who profited from trading with cheaters.
The studio doesn’t publish exact numbers this time (unlike PUBG or TFD), but states that 3.8% of all active accounts received at least one measure during the week — including soft warnings.
How Arena Breakout’s Anti-Cheat Works
The game uses ACE Anti-Cheat from Tencent — the same stack as Valorant Vanguard, but in a lighter ring-3 version without an OS-level kernel driver. Additionally connected:
- Server-side behavioral analytics — analysis of K/D, movement speed, and shot accuracy in the first seconds of boss encounters. If stats deviate from the 99th percentile of normal players, the account is flagged for additional review.
- Social graph detection — who plays with whom, how often, and the group’s combined winrate. If two accounts overlap in parties >70% of the time and one is flagged, the second one gets a warning.
- HWID fingerprint — after an account ban, the same hardware setup is locked out for 90 days. Without a spoofer, you can’t create a new account on the same machine.
Community Reaction
In the Steam discussion and Discord thread, the topic heated up to 4K posts within an hour. Main complaints:
- “Can’t queue as a group” — many players are now afraid to play with friends who had any prior ban in a Tencent game (Valorant, PUBG, Naraka), because the social graph might catch them.
- False positives — several streamers with 500+ hours in Arena Breakout got a temporary ban for “non-standard behavior” after a successful 4-PMC raid. Tencent promised individual reviews.
- Top fraggers complain about false flags due to aiming in a pure-CS2 manner — the anti-cheat doesn’t understand muscle memory from ex-CS players.
What This Means for Players Running Software
The May 20 ban wave is a reason to revisit your routine:
- HWID spoofer is mandatory before every session, especially if you have a ban history in any Tencent game (Valorant, PUBG Mobile, Honor of Kings). Details in our Arena Breakout guide.
- Don’t party up with friends running the same cheats. Each on their own account and own machine. Social graph detects cooperation.
- Don’t use caching DMA devices from older revisions — Tencent added a new signature in this wave for kmbox PRO and a range of Chinese clones. Fresh firmware versions in our DMA catalog.
- If you got a 7-day temporary ban, don’t try to bypass it via a new account on the same machine. Spoofer → new hardware signature → new email.
Next summary in a week.
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