The Finals genius creates the ultimate cheater-killing machine by sticking a turret to a flower pot

Dec. 21, 2023

Now that’s thinking outside the box

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A genius The Finals player has come up with an ace workaround for dealing with hackers and cheaters.

Cheating is sadly rife in The Finals right now, though a recentanti-cheat updateshould aid things. It’s gotten so bad over the last few weeks that fans are asking Embark Studios to region-lock The Finals. The developer has pushed back against this suggestion, writing thatit’s xenophobic to suggest all cheaters are contained in Asia.

While the developers beaver away to sort it all out, one player has devised a fantastic method to stop hackers. According to the player below, another player spotted a hacker struggling to deal with an APS device. The player reasoned that perhaps they couldn’t lock on to turrets, and they proved this theory correct by attaching an APS to a plant and carrying it around with them.

This meant the cheater couldn’t automatically target them, as their aiming hack wasn’t programmed to hone in on the APS system the player was carrying. It’s an utterly genius method, and you’ve got to hand it to the player in question for coming up with such a refined, logical method of dealing with a cheater in a rapid FPS game.

“There was a Light hacking in my game, and I had a turret put down, and it just murked him,” one Reddit commenter responds. “Well, I don’t know how the cheats work exactly, but it just felt like their system has a problem locking on players when something ‘not lockable’ is right in front of them. I don’t know, it worked for me, but I could only try once (we lost after this fight),” the original player responded.

The Finals patch 1.4.0is now live, and it’s introduced some long-awaited nerfs for Heavy players.

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