How We Uncovered Arc Raiders Biggest Cheating Scandal (The Story of Aimkey) — Transcript

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1. 0:00an extremely popular content creator in
2. 0:02the Arc Raiders community who not too
3. 0:03long ago just won a $25,000 Arc Raiders
4. 0:06tournament and has played with massive
5. 0:08content creators like Tfue and Ninja has
6. 0:11just been banned from Arc Raiders for
7. 0:14cheating. MK began posting videos around
8. 0:165 years ago to a known alias named
9. 0:18Roupert, primarily playing games like
10. 0:20Battlefield 2042, Call of Duty, and
11. 0:23Fortnite in which he would reach top
12. 0:25ranks and perform exceptionally well in
13. 0:27all of these games. He would continue to
14. 0:29play these games until October 15th,
15. 0:322025, where Arc Raiders would have its
16. 0:34first play test. AMI would log into an
17. 0:37alternate account by the name The
18. 0:38Necromancer, where he would join a
19. 0:40Discord of a well-known cheat service
20. 0:42for several games. He would then inquire
21. 0:45about DMA cheats and if Arc Raiders
22. 0:47would have any when the game goes on
23. 0:48play test in 2 days on the 17th. The
24. 0:52crazy part is is that this was all
25. 0:54brought to our attention by a user named
26. 0:56Trey who posted this information May of
27. 0:58this year, but everyone seemed to blow
28. 1:00it off. Why is that? Well, this proof is
29. 1:03non-conclusive. It's crowd screenshots
30. 1:05that don't really show anything. You
31. 1:07also can't fact check that this was ever
32. 1:09AIM keys alt as services like Google
33. 1:12have since been shut down and the
34. 1:14account has since been deleted.
35. 1:16Therefore, this was a dry lead and this
36. 1:18didn't really help prove anything. This
37. 1:20isn't the first scandal AM has been in
38. 1:22since his rise to popularity in Arc
39. 1:25Raiders. Back in the early months of the
40. 1:27game, there was an exploit that allowed
41. 1:28PC players to play in console lobbies by
42. 1:31owning the game on the Xbox store and
43. 1:33turning off crossplatform. That allowed
44. 1:35Aimy to play against only controller
45. 1:37players while he was on a PC, which made
46. 1:40his lobbies considerably easier. He
47. 1:42responded to this by admitting he only
48. 1:43did this because the cheater and stream
49. 1:45sniping situation is out of control. I
50. 1:47just want to go over the whole Xbox
51. 1:48lobby drama. Yeah, basically it is true.
52. 1:50A lot of people have been saying we did
53. 1:51it to farm easier lobbies and get clips
54. 1:53and whatnot, but that's just not the
55. 1:54case at all. The main reason was to
56. 1:56avoid stream snipers and cheaters.
57. 1:57However, that does not give you a good
58. 1:59excuse to ruin other players experience.
59. 2:01Ever since this moment, he has had a
60. 2:03trail following him of being a cheater,
61. 2:05which no one would have proof to confirm
62. 2:06until October 19th when AM would play
63. 2:10his final game of Arc Raiders.
64. 2:13On the morning of the 20th, Ami would
65. 2:15wake up and attempt to load Arc Raiders,
66. 2:17where he would first surprisingly find
67. 2:18out he's been banned. He would take to
68. 2:20Twitch and Twitter shortly after with
69. 2:23confusion, asking Embark to explain why
70. 2:25he's been banned, which shocked the
71. 2:26community and left everyone with many
72. 2:28questions. After getting in contact with
73. 2:30the devs a day later, Mi went public
74. 2:32with screenshots and DMs from the devs
75. 2:34that confirmed he had been permanently
76. 2:36banned for aimbody. This ban is
77. 2:39legitimately had me in shock. Reddit and
78. 2:41Twitter is going to love this because
79. 2:43it's going to it's going to vindicate
80. 2:44them. But the reason I got banned was
81. 2:47for aimbotting.
82. 2:49It was for aimbotting. Uh what does it
83. 2:51say?
84. 2:54This is where everything falls apart.
85. 2:56AMK defends himself on Twitter and
86. 2:58Reddit against a hate mob of people who
87. 3:00are finally happy to see him banned
88. 3:02where he promises and begs that he will
89. 3:04do anything to approve his innocence.
90. 3:06And up until this point, AM Keyy's
91. 3:08gameplay has looked completely clean. It
92. 3:11would be hard to say he was cheating,
93. 3:12and without sufficient proof, the
94. 3:14community was mixed against if Embark
95. 3:16made a proper decision or not. This is
96. 3:20when information would surface to settle
97. 3:22the matter once and for all. A video of
98. 3:24AMI would privately surface of AM's alt
99. 3:27account, the Necromancer, posting and
100. 3:29shortly deleting a screenshot of him
101. 3:31loading Arc Raiders, where you can
102. 3:33visibly see the Steam name AM Key. Now,
103. 3:36many people would say that there are
104. 3:37plenty of people that would cheat and
105. 3:38impersonate AI key, and that would
106. 3:40definitely be true. However, looking at
107. 3:42the dates these logs were taken, you can
108. 3:44see that this is well before AMI had any
109. 3:46platform, and that manipulating a video
110. 3:48like this is not impossible, but highly,
111. 3:51highly unlikely. Not only do we know
112. 3:53that, but we also saw from leaked cheat
113. 3:55information that the PC he used to cheat
114. 3:58on matches the exact same specs as a
115. 4:01comment that he left on an unlisted
116. 4:034-year-old video. Mi wasn't somebody who
117. 4:06was cheating consistently. He was
118. 4:08actually a good player across many
119. 4:09games. So why would he want to cheat?
120. 4:12Well, before his rise to popularity, he
121. 4:14was already familiar with cheating. Aim
122. 4:16has previously purchased cheats for
123. 4:18Delta Force, a game he used to play
124. 4:20right before playing Arc Raiders, and
125. 4:22Fortnite, another game he has many hours
126. 4:25in. At this point in AM's career, he has
127. 4:28very little fans, so it's unlikely to
128. 4:30assume that he cared if he got caught.
129. 4:31Mix that with his previous experience in
130. 4:33cheating, and it's likely that AMI
131. 4:35thought he was untouchable. People like
132. 4:37Aim Key don't cheat because they're bad.
133. 4:40They cheat because they don't think
134. 4:41there will be any consequences. So, what
135. 4:43does this prove? We tried to hear AM's
136. 4:45side of the story, but he didn't have
137. 4:47much to say other than believe what you
138. 4:49want. And with the evidence we've
139. 4:51presented, it sure is extremely damning
140. 4:53and points a lot of fingers towards AM
141. 4:55having cheated before. However, this is
142. 4:58all alleged and nothing has been 100%
143. 5:02confirmed. So, take this information
144. 5:04with a grain of salt and believe
145. 5:05whatever you want to believe. We know
146. 5:07that Enki likely wasn't cheating
147. 5:09recently and his recent tournament win
148. 5:12was likely legit, but despite that, his
149. 5:14credibility is completely destroyed and
150. 5:17I don't think we'll be seeing a return
151. 5:19of Anki anytime soon.
152. 5:21>> Okay, so I'm ready to reveal what I
153. 5:25know, guys. I can't I can't show the
154. 5:26stream yet. I need to hide the um I need
155. 5:29to hide the the the personal
156. 5:31information, but I'm going to tell you
157. 5:32guys what happened pretty much. I
158. 5:33confronted A key with the evidence I
159. 5:35have. He basically said, "Believe what
160. 5:37you want."
161. 5:38>> He said, "I'm I'm already banned." He
162. 5:40said, "I'm already quitting, so there's
163. 5:41no point." So he he didn't even try to
164. 5:44defend himself. See, it seems like we're
165. 5:47the last ones left, man.
166. 5:49>> I'll fucking crash.
167. 5:51>> Nah, bro. I'm I'm low key. Like I'm I
168. 5:53left the Discord. I'm like I'm not
169. 5:54associating with anybody like from that
170. 5:56core no more. I'm just I'm I'm Oh yeah,
171. 5:58I left duck, dude. I'm going my own
172. 6:00path, man. Yo, thank you for the subh
173. 6:02suck ass serve, dude. I just I don't
174. 6:04want to be surrounded by this shady
175. 6:05shit, dude. Aky fucking doing this. We
176. 6:08got this guy doing some weird shit,
177. 6:10talking to cheaters. I just I don't want
178. 6:12to associate none of that, man. I mean,
179. 6:14I always been solo anyways. And let's be
180. 6:16honest, most people in that duck code
181. 6:18don't like me anyways. So, honestly,
182. 6:20fuck it, dude. Stay my own path, man.
183. 6:22Okay, this is how the conversation went
184. 6:23with um Anki. I confronted him with my
185. 6:26evidence and he basically just said,
186. 6:28"Believe what you want." Now, we all
187. 6:30know if you ever got cheated on by a
188. 6:32girl, whenever you confront him for
189. 6:34cheating, they always say, "Believe what
190. 6:36you want. I'm not cheating." Okay? So,
191. 6:39he he didn't even try defending himself.
192. 6:41He just said, "Believe what you want. Um
193. 6:42I'm already banned. I'm already quitting
194. 6:44anyways." D. So, so here's the evidence
195. 6:47that I have. If you guys don't know, AMI
196. 6:50goes by RER. Before he um became AMI,
197. 6:52his name was Rouper. And a cheat
198. 6:55developer for DMA reseller or whatever
199. 6:58showed us someone who bought cheats
200. 7:00named RER. The person RER also had the
201. 7:03same information that was connected to
202. 7:05Anki Steam account. So, it was connected
203. 7:08to Anki Steam account and it was bought
204. 7:11on October 15th. So this is before Inky
205. 7:15Bulock and it also showed me the PC
206. 7:18information. It shows me the the GPU and
207. 7:20the CPU of the person who bought these
208. 7:24sheets. Now I found I found a video of
209. 7:28Inky of him talking about his specs. His
210. 7:32specs is the exact same as the one as
211. 7:35the one this Rooper guy 1080 Ti uh and
212. 7:39one 900k CPU. So this RER guy, we just
213. 7:43pretend that Anki isn't RER. This RER
214. 7:46guy bought cheats from DMA and he has
215. 7:50the same exact PC as AM key. He has the
216. 7:53same exact steam account as AM key and
217. 7:56he has the Discord that is linked to
218. 8:00AM's Discord. So if you go right here,
219. 8:03this guy um this discord called
220. 8:05necromancer right here, this shows that
221. 8:08Anki, this necromancer discord is a alt
222. 8:12account of Anki discord. And now when we
223. 8:14go over here, we'll see that this
224. 8:16necromancer guy uh this necromancer
225. 8:19discord is over here asking would there
226. 8:21be DMA freeze for arc creators? Would
227. 8:23there be DMA cheats for arc raers play
228. 8:26test in two days? And so he joined on
229. 8:29October 15th. the same day that the
230. 8:32cheats were bought on the DMA website by
231. 8:34this ruper guy. And this Robert after he
232. 8:37bought the cheats, he sent a screenshot
233. 8:39of his Steam account and the name of the
234. 8:41Steam account is Aim Key. Now, hear me
235. 8:44out. This is before Aim Key blew up.
236. 8:47This is before Arc Raiders even came
237. 8:48out. This was back in October 15th. Arc
238. 8:52Raiders came out like what? October
239. 8:5430th. So, how is somebody why is
240. 8:56somebody named Loop Whooper that is also
241. 9:00buying cheats with a Discord account
242. 9:02named Neccommancer and the Steam account
243. 9:04name is Aki before Aki even became a
244. 9:08thing? Why is why is Neccommancer
245. 9:11account linked to Aki's account? Why did
246. 9:15Aki used to go by RER too? There just so
247. 9:18much there is so much coincidence. There
248. 9:22is so much length to him that it's like
249. 9:25it's hard to deny this. Like it's it's
250. 9:28hard to deny this.
251. 9:30It's hard to deny this shit, bro. And
252. 9:32I'm not even like like bro, this is
253. 9:35fucking insane, dude. But this is a
254. 9:38Steam account. This is a Steam account
255. 9:40that is linked to u his Steam account.
256. 9:42So his Steam account is linked to the
257. 9:44DMA website. When you copy and paste
258. 9:46that Steam ID, it goes straight to his
259. 9:50Steam account. So I asked Anki, "Can you
260. 9:52please explain this?" He all he said
261. 9:55was, "Believe what you want." He said,
262. 9:56"Well, you're gonna believe what you
263. 9:57want anyway, so there's no point."
264. 9:59That's like he didn't even try defending
265. 10:00himself. He said, "I I'm already going
266. 10:03to quit. I already gave up. It's GG's."
267. 10:09I mean,
268. 10:11there's just too much coincidence. There
269. 10:13is too much evidence. There too much
270. 10:14against him. There's so much linked to
271. 10:16him. I mean, dude, I don't have anything
272. 10:18linked to me. I don't have a a cheat
273. 10:20account that's linked to me. I don't got
274. 10:22a discord account that bought cheats
275. 10:24linked to me. I don't have a alternate
276. 10:26name RER that's buying. Like I don't
277. 10:28have none of that linked to me. So why
278. 10:30is all these things linked to him now?
279. 10:33Now also these cheats, it says here that
280. 10:36the last time the DMA cheats was online
281. 10:39was in May 28th. That's also around the
282. 10:42time he bought a second PC. So it just
283. 10:46it's just too much coincidence, man. So,
284. 10:48I'm not I'm not sure what to do with
285. 10:50this. Do you guys think this is like I I
286. 10:52think this is like definite proof.
287. 10:55There's just too much coincidence.
288. 10:57>> You said the last time it was used was
289. 10:58May.
290. 10:59>> Yes. When when he when he um bought a
291. 11:01new PC, so maybe he could have got a
292. 11:03different DMA or something else,
293. 11:06>> but the last time that the Eden Eden DMA
294. 11:08was used was a May 28th. So maybe we
295. 11:11could maybe we could we could just say
296. 11:13that he doesn't cheat no more and he
297. 11:15only the last time he see was in May.
298. 11:16But at the end of the day, you're still
299. 11:18guilty. You still cheated. That's it.
300. 11:21That's it. Like once a cheater, always a
301. 11:23cheater.
302. 11:24>> Uh cuz I have a question cuz I know DMA
303. 11:26is you you can only use DMA uh when you
304. 11:29have two PCs. But those screenshots of
305. 11:31like the Arc play test and stuff of him
306. 11:33like quote unquote cheating for the Arc
307. 11:34play test. You was that also DMA? Cuz if
308. 11:37that was DMA, he didn't have a second PC
309. 11:38then because he showed his setup
310. 11:40multiple times on stream before May.
311. 11:41>> You could only You could only DM me on a
312. 11:43second PC. I don't Are you sure that's
313. 11:45true? Yeah, you can only use DMA on two
314. 11:47PCs. You you need two PCs for it. I'm
315. 11:50like 90% sure.
316. 11:51>> I've never heard of that, but it just
317. 11:53>> DMA is like direct memory access and it
318. 11:56you you need two PCs and it overlays one
319. 11:58onto the onto the from one PC and it
320. 12:01overlays it onto your monitor. So you
321. 12:05>> you need like confirm like you need two
322. 12:07PCs.
323. 12:07>> Someone said you have a laptop too.
324. 12:10>> Well, yeah. Like if you have a laptop
325. 12:11like anything that counts as like a
326. 12:12computer. anything that counts as a
327. 12:15computer. So, laptop.
328. 12:16>> Who who to say he didn't have a laptop?
329. 12:17Who to say he didn't have a second PC?
330. 12:19Like, who to say that? Like, we don't
331. 12:21know for sure. But the
332. 12:22>> That's true. But he also did show his
333. 12:24his setup like multiple times on stream
334. 12:27like before he made it known that he had
335. 12:29second PC. And then when he did show
336. 12:31second PC,
337. 12:33uh he was like showing his he was
338. 12:36showing um
339. 12:37>> Oh, someone said you can also use a
340. 12:39virtual machine too.
341. 12:40>> Virtual machine. I have no idea about
342. 12:41that. But when you when you do um like
343. 12:45or when he like asked for people to say
344. 12:47like, "Oh, look at his setup. Look at
345. 12:49his setup." He would show both PCs and
346. 12:52there was never like a DMA card or
347. 12:53anything.
348. 12:55>> Well, to be fair, people have told me
349. 12:57you can hide a DMA card like really good
350. 12:59inside the PC. But either way, but that
351. 13:02doesn't explain why all this is linked
352. 13:04to him. Why is everything linked to him?
353. 13:08Why Why does some guy named RER who is
354. 13:11buying cheats under the name Enky on
355. 13:14Steam before Inky even blew up and got
356. 13:17famous? And by the way, he he Inky was
357. 13:21known as Rooper before. Actually, I have
358. 13:22a proof of that, too. Actually, give me
359. 13:24a second.
360. 13:24>> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's it's on his
361. 13:27it's on his uh it's on his YouTube, too.
362. 13:30>> Yeah. He was known as Rer before, too.
363. 13:34So it come on is just too much
364. 13:36coincidence to like there's something's
365. 13:39up. There's something's up, dude. This
366. 13:41something's wrong, dude.
367. 13:44Like I I I I really I really believe
368. 13:47that he wasn't cheating. I really did.
369. 13:50As you all can see here, his old videos
370. 13:52from like 2022, 2023, his he he went by
371. 13:56Rooper, as you can tell from all these
372. 13:58titles. Rer defeating foes. Rer aim
373. 14:01Robert. So that's his proof right there.
374. 14:03Like he he did go by Rooper 100%.
375. 14:07And you're telling me that there's some
376. 14:10random guy named Rooper that that isn't
377. 14:13Anki bought cheats under a Discord
378. 14:17account that is linked to Anki, but it's
379. 14:19not Inky.
380. 14:20Who also have a Steam account named
381. 14:22Anki, but it's not Anky though. All all
382. 14:27the evidence points to it being Aki. And
383. 14:30it and it is
384. 14:34there. And and I asked him to explain.
385. 14:37All he said was believe what you want.
386. 14:39So I mean what the fuck do I do? What
387. 14:41the fuck do I do? Just I guess I believe
388. 14:43what you want. I believe he's cheating
389. 14:46and that that that that's that's what I
390. 14:48believe in, dude. I fucking hate
391. 14:49cheaters. I hate all cheaters and I want
392. 14:52nothing to do with them. And I'm going
393. 14:54have to give back my money that I won
394. 14:55for the tournament whenever they pay me
395. 14:57because it's just what I believe in. is
396. 14:59my moral code.
397. 15:03>> Wait, you have to pay back the 4K.
398. 15:05>> I don't have to, but I should because I
399. 15:08won it playing with a cheater. Maybe he
400. 15:10maybe I'm pretty sure he didn't cheat in
401. 15:12a tournament, but he definitely got
402. 15:14cheats before. I don't know, dude, cuz
403. 15:17it doesn't look like his gameplay
404. 15:19doesn't look like cheats at all. But why
405. 15:22why all this like there's so much
406. 15:25evidence against him, dude? I just don't
407. 15:26get it, man.
408. 15:29call me crazy, but I still think it I
409. 15:31don't know.
410. 15:32>> I still can't believe if he's not
411. 15:34cheating, but
412. 15:35>> but you got to understand that the cheat
413. 15:36dev like went out to like like
414. 15:39to show it to show me this and like he's
415. 15:42not supposed to.
416. 15:45And like I I asked him to PC checked him
417. 15:47and he did not want to. So I'm just
418. 15:49dude, I don't know, man. All he had to
419. 15:52do was PC check. He didn't want to do
420. 15:54it. He didn't comply with me. He said,
421. 15:56"Believe what you want. What do I do
422. 15:58then?" He didn't want a PC check. He
423. 16:01didn't want to defend himself. Then I'm
424. 16:03just going to believe what I want what I
425. 16:04believe. And I think he's cheating.
426. 16:06There's just too much evidence against
427. 16:08him. Dude, there is so much evidence
428. 16:10against him.
429. 16:12Like Like I I I don't have any evidence
430. 16:14against me. There no evidence against
431. 16:16lies or you. Why is all this link linked
432. 16:19to him? Why is so many cheating
433. 16:21allegations linked to him? Unless he's
434. 16:23doing something fishy. That's it.
435. 16:27Unless he doing something fishy that he
436. 16:30not supposed to. That's the reason why
437. 16:32so many things are linked to him because
438. 16:34it's not nothing is linked to me.
439. 16:39>> Wait, so he stayed up that he's just
440. 16:41quitting. That's it. He's not
441. 16:43>> Yeah, he he said he quit. He said he
442. 16:45quit.
443. 16:45>> Unless he said
444. 16:47>> unless like literally the day he got
445. 16:49banned, he said if he doesn't get
446. 16:50unbanned, he's just going to quit.
447. 16:52>> Yes. So he just quit. He's not even
448. 16:54gonna try to defend himself. He's not
449. 16:55gonna try to, you know, you know, defend
450. 16:58his repetition. He's just gonna quit.
451. 17:00So,
452. 17:01>> okay. That is crazy because his team was
453. 17:03doing so well. Like, who the fuck quits
454. 17:05like that?
455. 17:07>> Yeah. Like he could just go to a new