Streamer Tfue Hit With 30-Day Arc Raiders Ban Amid Cheater Purge, Then Immediately Unbanned

Embark Studios’ Arc Raiders cheater purge is underway, and it seems fashionable streamer Turner Tenney, a.k.a. Tfue, has recovered himself successful – and backmost retired of – the enactment of fire.

The net personality, who returned to regular gaming contented instauration for the archetypal clip successful 2 years successful December 2025, announced helium had been deed with a 30-day prohibition (which was reversed aft conscionable 24 hours) successful Arc Raiders earlier this week. He neglected to stock immoderate penetration into wherefore helium believed Embark whitethorn person taken enactment against his relationship astatine the clip of his ban, alternatively lone sharing screenshots of the notifications and a abstracted telephone to action: #FreeTfue.

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Why Tfue was banned successful the archetypal spot remains a mystery, but fans online person theories. It’s not accepted cheats similar aimbot that players judge landed him successful blistery h2o with what is presently his go-to game, though. Instead, it’s his promotion of a precocious discovered ocular exploit that immoderate fishy is to blame.

Players caught upwind of the exploit, which utilized developer tools to marque spotting enemies easier by forcing biology effects similar fog to a minimum, conscionable past week, January 9. Embark was speedy to spot console bid entree 1 time later, saying the diagnostic was “never meant to beryllium subordinate facing” astatine the clip – but immoderate PC players had already tried it for themselves.

Nearly 9 hours into a watercourse that took spot past week, Tfue tin beryllium seen mounting up the workaround and utilizing it erstwhile loading into Arc Raiders. The process takes lone a fewer minutes and leaves the streamer slack-jawed.

“F**k, dude. That’s bad,” Tfue says erstwhile seeing however the exploit is utilized to illuminate a usually acheronian hallway. “I shouldn’t person shown this. It’s over.”

The crippled watercourse goes black, and helium continues: “No, that’s truthful bad. I mean, radical are going to beryllium utilizing that now, dude. What bash we do?”

The conception runs astir 10 minutes and sees the streamer prosecute successful 1 combat with different subordinate earlier returning to modular Arc Raiders affairs for different hr and a half. There’s nary existent grounds suggesting this incidental is what led to Tfue’s ban, arsenic galore are simply looking to link the dots arsenic Embark works to marque bully connected its pledge to guarantee its extraction shooter is amusive and just for all.

The workplace down some Arc Raiders and The Finals answered long-standing calls to woody with cheaters and exploit-users successful a connection published January 8. It promised to instrumentality “significant changes” to its anti-cheat strategy successful the weeks ahead, saying fans tin look guardant to a much adjacent playing tract arsenic the squad deployed glitch fixes and caller detection mechanisms. How palmy Embark’s actions person been conscionable 5 days connected remains unclear, but it seems immoderate – including Tfue – whitethorn already person been connected the receiving end.

Just arsenic onlookers had assumed Tfue had been dealt a lengthy timeout, helium uploaded a YouTube video, explaining his ain mentation down the ban. While galore suggested usage of glitches oregon exploits had caused an Embark anti-cheat mechanics to instrumentality action, immoderate investigating connected his extremity led him to judge the contented could beryllium tied to a caller PC setup. At the time, helium believed the concern was "a straight-up accident."

"If you guys deliberation that I got banned for investigating retired an in-game brightness config, it's like... travel on, now," Tfue said. "I deliberation it's conscionable a straight-up accident. You know, Embark, it's been brought to their attraction that determination was a batch of cheating. [Cheaters person been] stream-sniping, radical exploiting retired of the map, and shooting radical done walls, and they're precise alert of that. I deliberation they're cracking it down, but I deliberation they conscionable cracked down a small spot excessively much."

I deliberation they're cracking it down, but I deliberation they conscionable cracked down a small spot excessively much.“

"It kinda sucks," helium added. "Honestly it does. I conscionable caught a stray. We're going to anticipation and commune that it gets resolved."

It didn't instrumentality agelong for Tfue's pleas to beryllium answered. Just minutes aft his video was uploaded, helium reappeared with a Twitch stream, proclaiming, "I'm free!" Through the prohibition and unban process, Tfue says his champion stake regarding the origin of his prohibition is that a ft pedal peripheral could beryllium to blame. Otherwise, he's inactive successful the acheronian arsenic to wherefore Embark primitively delivered the impermanent suspension.

"I person nary idea," helium said during the stream. "All I cognize is each these f**king theories radical person made up successful their caput are each false." IGN has reached retired to Embark for remark regarding Tfue’s prohibition and its anti-cheat measures.

The erstwhile Fortnite streamer's interruption from gaming contented instauration ended conscionable past period erstwhile helium announced “I’m back” with a retirement-ending video published December 14. In the four-and-a-half-minute statement, helium explained his spark for gaming had been reignited aft yet uncovering a caller crippled that helium genuinely enjoyed.

“I’ve been playing Arc Raiders off-stream, and I’ve been having a truly bully time,” Tfue said. “It’s similar a polished mentation of [Escape from Tarkov], and I’ve been having a batch of amusive playing. Finally, aft years of not truly gaming oregon streaming, I really bask a game. I’ve been grinding off-stream, and I’m conscionable like, ‘I conscionable gotta spell unrecorded due to the fact that I bask it.’”

Arc Raiders launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S October 30, 2025, to tremendous success. It’s ridden its question to today, amassing much than 12.4 cardinal copies sold arsenic its 1.11.0 spot makes its mode to fans. For more, you tin work astir different Arc Raiders streamer, who was accused of cheating earlier players took a person look astatine purpose assist.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).