HWID ban in Arena Breakout: Infinite — how to check it and how to get back in

A ban in Arena Breakout: Infinite comes in two flavours. The first is an account ban: you make a new account and keep playing. The second is a hardware ban, when ACE blacklists the computer itself and every new account from it follows the old one. The difference is fundamental: in the first case you don't need a spoofer, in the second nothing helps without one. Here is how to tell them apart, what to do and how to get back into ABI after a ban.

What bans ACE hands out

• Account ban. One account is blocked: for a cheat, for reports, for trading. The computer is clean, a new account plays fine.
• Hardware ban (HWID, device ban). ACE remembered the computer's identifiers: component serials and Windows IDs. Any account from this PC gets banned within hours or is blocked right at login.
• Ban waves. Every few weeks ACE bans everyone it flagged earlier in one batch. So "the cheat isn't detected" means nothing until the wave.

How to tell it's a hardware ban

The check takes one evening. Make a new account and log in from the same computer. If it gets banned within hours while the same account plays fine from another PC, it is a hardware ban. If the new account lives for weeks, only the account was banned and you don't need a spoofer. An indirect sign: the ban lands right after login, before the first raid, which means ACE recognised the device, not your behaviour.

What ACE remembers

The anti-cheat collects a set of identifiers that lets it recognise the computer again: motherboard and BIOS serials, drive serials, network adapters, Windows identifiers and traces left in the system by previous launches. Tencent doesn't publish the exact list and changes it with updates. The practical conclusion: replacing one part or one identifier doesn't save you, the whole set has to change at once.

What doesn't help

• Reinstalling Windows. The hardware serials stay the same, the traces come back with the first game launch.
• A new account without a spoofer. It gets banned too, and gets linked to the old one on the way.
• VPN and a new IP. ACE bans the device, not the address.
• A new nickname, email or region. Nothing to do with the hardware.
• A free spoofer from GitHub. It changes one or two serials, ACE compares more and looks at traces in the system; the next ban lands on the "new" hardware.

How to bypass an HWID ban in ABI: an ACE spoofer

Spoofers built for BattlEye or EAC don't work here: ACE has its own set of identifiers and its own checks. You need a spoofer built for ACE. Ours is ABI Spoofer: a session spoof of the hardware identifiers ACE reads, plus a cleaner for the traces of old bans. The order:

1. A new Arena Breakout account; never open the old one while spoofed.
2. Run the spoofer before the game: loader, key, Start. You need a USB flash drive, a GPT disk and UEFI boot.
3. Log into the game with the new account. The spoof holds until Windows reboots; run the spoofer again before the next session.

There is no permanent spoofer for ACE: the ABI spoof lives until reboot. In return the system stays untouched, no Windows reinstall and no BIOS work. If it doesn't work on your build, you get your money back.

How not to catch a second ban

• Never open the old banned account while spoofed: ACE links it to the new one.
• Don't mix the spoofer with random loaders and "cleaners" from forums.
• Play quieter after a ban: take a web radar, which has nothing inside the game, instead of on-screen ESP.
• Watch the status on the product pages: "updating" means stay out of the game.

Getting back into Arena Breakout after a ban, in short

Account ban: new account, no spoofer needed. Hardware ban: ABI Spoofer, then a new account, then the game, and the same before every session. Everything for the game is in the Arena Breakout Infinite section, and the full spoofer-to-anti-cheat map is in the HWID Spoofer section.

FAQ

Will the spoofer unban my account?

No. It lifts the ban from the computer. The banned account stays banned; play on a new one.

Will a Tarkov or Rust spoofer work?

No. Tarkov runs BattlEye, Rust runs EAC, ABI runs ACE. ACE needs its own spoofer; for the other anti-cheats there are SMG BE and Baunti CFF.

How long does the spoof hold?

Until Windows reboots. After that the real serials are back; run the spoofer again before the next game.