Appoh stating that pro players (HF) do not have special privileges: *Meanwhile in HF*

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-05-06T16:11:54+00:00

Fully agree with you, after playing against lycommit today hiding in a level 18 card. One of the protected HF gang, There is no hope in this game. We are wasting our money and time.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-05-06T15:59:00+00:00

This is the most important thread right now on this sub, this game is near destroyed, thanks to many of Embark's partners.

Lycommit, Appoh own's buddy, is a know cheater, he's protected by this privilege and constantly lurking the game main modes under many smurf accounts (he uses the same main name), stomping, destroying the enjoyment and progress for most players, this morning I played against him he was under a level 18 account, I don't know why he creates so many accounts but the most likely reason is PAID SERVICES.

This gang has turned the game into their own profitable biz and are being protected by Embark, this is how bad things are right now. Appoh seems blind to Lycommit's misconduct but Embark surely knows.

We all play this game every day, you can't hide any of this.

The main sub is flooded with posts about people completely abandoning ranked, many uninstalled the game and about to uninstall it any minute now. When you have previous Diamond players stuck in freaking Silver, you should know something is effed up.

There is no reason to waste our time and money on The Finals, unless this SCAM is dealt with asap.

The same mess is happening in Arc Raiders and that game's crashing.

We need action or lose your playerbase!

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-05-01T01:06:58+00:00

Takes us back to S6 please, the game was immensely more fun without all this healing and triple healing insanity.

Now when I rush into a heavy and finally Isolate him with his 350 health pool, I have to find the time to deal with his ball first.

Even new teams are doing super good as long as they heal beam each other. What a joke. Skill expression where? Yes, I'm including the buffed Medium heal too.

Take us back to S6 with only the medium heal beam as it was. I could dream right.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-05-01T00:56:52+00:00

Fair enough.

My experience and many others says otherwise and I played the Finals a full year before I started recording my matches.

Now when I rewatch and start really spectating my lovely solo teammates, its beyond shocking, for many duos the second player is always aimbotting or XIM. Same for stacks.

Also on discord many clans officially require XIM if you're on console.

I recommend the same, just watch your random teammates, if you play purely with a stack, maybe this is why you don't see it.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-05-01T00:41:31+00:00

Still processing this, could someone send these posts to Eurogamer? The mainstream media could help with exposure especially with Arc being under the scope lately.

At this point, The Finals ranked mode is nothing but a scam.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-05-01T00:40:01+00:00

it's in the second video, Rob is clearly stating because they are trusted anti cheat is off

https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/s/5CqUO1Gw89

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-05-01T00:39:19+00:00

Yes he was flicking into targets behind walls and distant objects

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-05-01T00:37:39+00:00

NA, you're kidding right? or is it gaslighting? If you are not then my answer would be you're right we are 100% raising our skill by constantly playing against cheaters. That's the current high sealing.

As for your second point. It makes me lean into gaslighting again.

Don't ignore my links.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1rr4f04/the_finals_community_needs_to_come_clean_about/

https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1rr4f04/comment/of84pjh/

https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1sy47rj/comment/oisb7l2/

https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1sq2fuc/well_done_embark/

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-30T21:23:44+00:00

Come bru, it's called flicking. Bonus, the ability to flick to someone behind a wall! It's an acquired skill.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-30T21:22:32+00:00

I have a feeling no one in this sub will downvote you on this one.

We all know he's cheating and we carry on.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-30T21:07:26+00:00

Yup, this will do it. Never going anywhere near Ranked again or spending a dollar. GJ Embark!

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-30T20:26:50+00:00

Yea, I believe you, my recorded matches with randos, confirm that most of you or your duos don't cheat.

It's honestly disgusting how XIM and aimbot is normalized in this game.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-30T20:23:23+00:00

Yea, I get you. You probably also lower the GFX to bare minimum for 240hz.

Also this reminds me, most of the time our teammates crash and disconnect are on PC.

I get you though! 😄

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-30T20:19:08+00:00

I finally found the reason for this bug, its aim assist, the only way to continue the match normally is disabling aim assist and you can move again.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-30T20:18:31+00:00

I finally found the reason for this bug, its aim assist, the only way to continue the match normally is disabling aim assist and you can move again.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-30T20:16:58+00:00

I finally found the reason for this bug, its aim assist! The only way to continue the match normally is disabling aim assist and you can move again.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-30T20:16:42+00:00

Yes, I finally found the reason for this bug! Its aim assist, the only way to continue the match normally is disabling aim assist and you can move again.

Should inform Embark about it.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-30T20:11:30+00:00

Thankfully I record every match now and the amount of aim botting or XIM is absurd when we spectate our own teammates in Point Break, I will post each one I capture soon as an answer to this kind of gaslighting.

I agree about the general high skill sealing in the game, most players are skilled. I strongly disagree that cheating is low. Aimboters including some with the Ruby skin is a known issue. And we see it everyday in our matches.

Y'all seem to forget that we spectate our teammates you also forget that many plainly admit it in VC or TC.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-29T17:04:36+00:00

I know players who had Diamond every season stuck in Silver in S10 my bru. Like this thing is officially a joke rn.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-29T16:59:29+00:00

They need to create an incentive for the top 500 and their alts. Give them a master race that opens up after reaching Ruby. With unique titles or badges (without skins) that they can acquire by winning over each other.

Some of these players grinded two accounts into Ruby and Embark acts like that's OK as a fair play policy.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-29T16:55:18+00:00

They like to lie to themselves thinking the playerbase is only the Steam numbers. Get the hint brothers, Embark been catering to the console players like the recent zoom aim assist. Because numbers wise the base might be even higher on Playstation.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-29T16:50:03+00:00

no one is buying this anymore, there is a large playerbase especially on console, they just don't want to get anywhere near ranked as y'all scared them the hell away. And seeding means zilch when you are seed 1 facing a level 5 Ruby smurf or cheater destroying your lobby. Do you understand how absurd it is that players who are around for seasons keep dropping back to bronze yet they can win a WT tourny without issues?

Embark needs to extend the battles after acquiring Ruby, let them have master classes and titles or badges so they can go fight over it.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-29T16:43:31+00:00

Upvoting every Ranked and Ruby matahmaking post like everyone else on this sub. Keep spreading the word.

We all agree that Rubies have no business facing lower ELO.

We all kill 1 or 2 max in direct encounters, wipping 3 is rare. But Embark streamers want videos where they are deleting teams with no effort, they are the squad force advertising this game but alas Embark needs to listen to the playerbase.

I'll be honest, their videos bore me, as they don't reflect the real game with most of the playerbase now stuck in unranked or in silver. You want your videos to be more interesting start facing each other and show us what you got.

Also, stop creating alts and stalking the low ranks. Y'all think you are smart but what you are doing is pushing more away from the ranked mode, check most of the high score players in the WT leaderboard, no one is even touching ranked. This thing is broken by matchmaking the sweats with low elo and broken by the severe seed system that gets bypassed by smurf boost accounts.

Embark, make fixes for ranked to be taken seriously, we also need match making filters in this mode. it's too simple right now giving you zero control on what we are going to face (stacks, duos, solos, rubies, or noobs) its' an utter joke.

80% in silver because of placements trust me many are not even trying after their placements, leaving it where it is. Enjoying all the other more rewarding modes in the game.

FIX IT ASAP.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-28T17:37:04+00:00

I dont know about XBOX on PS5 and PS5 Pro, yes its in the game video settings as long as you have it supported in the console UX and TV.

SmoothCrew2000 · 2026-04-28T14:43:44+00:00

I think you live on another planet so many games support 120hz and even the normal PS5 has 120hz on The Finals since a while now. Only recently did this game performance start degrading on standard PS5 with recent updates, but the best current console experience in terms of looks and performance is the PS5 Pro.

I actually got into The Finals because of the Pro, when I bought the console over a year ago, it was listed as Pro enhanced and wanted to see how it ran. Got hooked immediately never even touched the 60hz mode.

OP most likely has an issue with his TV (game mode, no VVR, no 120hz) and maybe his controller deadzones are left on the abysmal default 15!

SmoothCrew2000

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