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The Arena Breakout Infinite the closed beta has proven to be more popular than most people expected, but it’s far from perfect, and since the development team is rolling out a recent release, there are a lot of things that need to be fixed first.

After the first round of Twitch drops were claimed within hours and subsequent rounds also proved popular, Arena Breakout Infinite it’s currently one of the most popular games in the world, and it’s only in closed beta, which is usually a good sign for a game that’s still in development.

However, once I got to know it, I was a bit underwhelmed by it, and while it shows promise, there are a lot of things that need to be tweaked. A recent tweet from Arena Breakout Infinite The X account suggests the release date could come sooner rather than later, but before that happens, here are five things that really need to be fixed.

Make the movement more natural

My biggest issue when playing Arena Breakout Infinite is still that the movement feels a bit clunky. Even when sprinting, your character feels kind of slow and clumsy. After playing for a while, I got more used to the movement, but it still doesn’t feel right. Revamping the movement speed and animation would do Arena Breakout Infinite a world of good, and I can only hope it’s something that’s planned for pre-launch.

Add a stand-alone queue

Arena Breakout Infinite is simply much better when played in a team, and if you’re playing solo, it’s not a great experience. While such games usually have plenty of ways to avoid fights or even take on a team as a solo player, it feels infinitely more difficult in ABI and makes solo play frustrating. The simple solution to this is to add a solo-only queue where the map is full of other lone wolves. With the beta proving to be so successful, there will surely be enough solo players to fill out the matches, giving them a much better experience.

Improve Anti-Cheat

So far in the closed beta test, over 2000 cheaters have been banned and more than 22 cheaters have been found, but there are still many reports of cheaters being found in the game and reports of fake bans. Now, it’s not uncommon for cheaters to try to start a narrative that they’ve been falsely banned, and almost every other similar system has proven that most unban requests are from confirmed cheaters, but Arena Breakout Infinite’s official Twitter account acknowledged the fakes bans and looks into it, which adds some weight to the claims. If Arena Breakout Infinite wants to succeed, it needs a robust anti-cheat system that can detect cheats and have minimal false bans.

Increase the money you can make

While few people have played enough to experience this phenomenon, and those who have are generally pretty good, it seems like it could be very easy to run out of money in Arena Breakout Infinite when you start playing. Hopefully this is just a balance issue and the team can increase the amount of money you can make even while dying a lot so you never run out of money. But the more cynical view is that since it’s a free-to-play game, it’s a deliberate design to get players to spend real money to buy in-game cash. If this turns out to be the case at launch, then surely many players will leave the game, because no one likes to feel forced into microtransactions. Instead, a smarter move would be to sell only beauty products and let the loot speak for itself.

Improve spawn locations

The valley map seems to be the worst offender here, but there were a few times where within seconds of spawning I got shot by another player. I think this is partly due to the somewhat barren landscapes in some areas, but the easier solution is to just move the spawn and put more cover around them. If it happens occasionally, it’s not a massive problem, but so far the frequency has been too high, and it’s another annoying problem in a game that seems to have quite a few of them.