The Finals’ Players Are Being Accidentally Banned in Waves

Recently, Embark Studios started rolling out ban waves, addressing the ongoing issue with cheaters in The Finals. This has arguably been the biggest bugbear for those looking to enjoy the fast-paced, frenetic, and destructive shooter, which was released by Embark less than a month ago. It has been plagued by cheaters since it dropped – but that issue can be traced back further to the game’s beta phases. Now, in a new development, legitimate players are being accidentally targeted by these ban waves.

It’s one of the most frustrating things for a competitive gamer, to be banned when you’ve honestly done nothing wrong. Sadly, Embark Studios appears to have been indiscriminate in pushing out the first of hopefully many ban waves – we can only hope that future action taken against cheaters is a little more fine-tuned.

Ban Hammer

On Twitter, many beleaguered players ushered in the new year by stressing that they’d been handed an untimely ban by Embark Studios. Some posts revealed a simple but damning comment that was leading to the locking of accounts the world over:

‘Due to certain behavior that is against our Code of Conduct, your account has been banned.’

It’s not just the average players suffering with this issue, though. It has been reported that some streamers – including those actively broadcasting – are being banned from The Finals without any prior warning. However, there is a silver lining to this dark cloud, and it seems as though Embark Studios is actively working to reverse some of these erroneous bans. It’s not known what the criteria are for Embark Studios to issue a ban, but it’s likely driven by AI or ML components, like many other anti-cheat systems in other competitive games.

That means that a little tweaking will need to be applied, but it shouldn’t be too hard to trawl through the recipients of the first ban wave and reverse the false positives.

Good But Not Perfect

Many debates have surfaced in the last month regarding the ongoing development of The Finals and some of the issues that players have. For instance, there’s a voracious discourse taking place at the moment that is splitting the community into two groups: controller players and ‘MnK’ players. It’s that age-old argument that aim assist is too overpowered – a debate that exists around every competitive shooter with crossplay mechanics.

Elsewhere, users have professed their irritation with some of the game’s more innovative mechanics. For instance, features such as zero gravity and invisibility are getting up the noses of players around the world. Also, there have been complaints that the Heavy build character is too much of a tank, soaking up obscene amounts of damage.

The Finals is less than a month old and its development is community-led, so these issues will likely be addressed in due course by Embark Studios.

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