Yet another Final Fantasy 14 Ultimate Raid world first challenge has been scuppered by cheaters, who were busted due to a single pixel.
Ultimate Raids are the toughest missions in the MMORPG, with many groups competing to be the first to complete them in an unofficial, community-led challenge. The recent patch 7.1 added another Ultimate Raid, Futures Rewritten, which became the third in a row to be impacted by scandalous cheaters.
The winning team was GRIND, as shared by MogTalk creator and World Race tracker Frosty, at least initially. It soon transpired the team had been using a cheat hack, which was spotted due to a single pixel.
The incriminating pixel, PC Gamer explained, is indicative of the Pixel Perfect Plus plugin, which shows a character’s exact hitbox. That’s particularly useful when dodging AoE attacks in an Ultimate Raid, where the sheer number of attacks across battle arenas increases the difficulty dramatically.
Of course, third-party plugins are not allowed in Final Fantasy 14. As a result, Frosty has disqualified GRIND from the race.
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“I had our team research the plugin that was used by the team and it’s capabilities makes it eligible for disqualification from the MogTalk leaderboard,” Frosty wrote on X. “GRIND did not approve this member to use the plugin and do not agree with the actions he took.”
I had our team research the plugin that was used by the team and it’s capabilities makes it eligible for disqualification from the MogTalk leaderboard. GRIND did not approve this member to use the plugin and do not agree with the actions he took.
— Frosty 🥶 (@FrostyMog) November 29, 2024
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Instead, Kindred has been awarded the world first clear of Future Rewritten. Frosty does note, however, that conversations must be had around the community-led challenge. Not all challengers stream their attempts (they wouldn’t want others to copy), but that certainly makes it harder to police cheaters.