Update 29/11:GRIND has sinceadmittedthat one of its team members was using the Pixel Perfect plugin. This makesteam Kindredthe first to clear Futures Rewritten Ultimate legitimately. Our original report follows.
Summary
Final Fantasy 14has a bunch of challenging content to tackle, whether it be the trickier stuff like Savage Arcadion Raids,or the more casual content out there like Jueno: The First Walk, the first raid in the Echoes of Vana’diel Alliance Raid series. However, the hardest stuff you’ll come across are Ultimate Raids, the most recent of which is Futures Rewritten, which was added in Patch 7.11 a few days ago.
Like with every Ultimate Raid in Final Fantasy 14, the truly brave out there gathered in their statics to try and become the first team in the world to clear it. While not for everyone, it’s an exciting time for Final Fantasy 14’s more raid-focused community, and these fights usually take days for people to figure out and complete. It’s tense, exciting, full of strategy talk, and Futures Rewritten is proving to be no exception.
Final Fantasy 14 Futures Rewritten Ultimate World First Race Is Over
Just like every other Ultimate that has become before it though, Futures Rewritten has been cleared. It was a pretty tense race with a bunch of teams competing, but it was ultimately a Japanese team called GRIND that had managed to be the world’s first, having beaten the raid in three days and logging their clear at 3:26am GMT. While the race was streamed by various different teams, GRIND completed the raid off stream.
Unfortunately, just like with other raids in the past, it seems as though this clear isn’t without controversy. Following GRIND’s clear of Futures Rewritten,a red dot was spotted on one of the clear screenshots posted to Twitter, which seems to suggest that a plugin called Pixel Perfect was used, which helps players gauge their distance from enemies. This screenshot has since been deleted from Twitter, as it seems like we have yet another add-on controversy on our hands.
If you’re not aware, the Final Fantasy 14 raiding community has a tough team with cheats, as it went through a bit of a scandal during the world’s first race to beat The Omega Protocol in Endwalker,as a team called UNNAMED_ were found to have used plugins for an unfair advantage.
A very similar situation occurred during Dragonsong’s Reprise Ultimate as well, as Square Enix was forced to make a statementfollowing the discovery that a team called Neverland used third-party tools. Hopefully, GRIND is actually squeaky clean, and we can celebrate the team’s achievement drama-free this time around.
Final Fantasy 14 (2010)
WHERE TO PLAY
Square Enix’s popular MMO, Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn, has players step into the role of the Warrior of Light in the world of Eorzea. There, they find themselves testing their mettle against Primals, the Garlean Empire, the Ascians, and plenty of other threats.This award-winning MMO now has multiple expansions to its name, with the most recent Endwalker expansion bringing the Hydaelyn/Zodiark arc to a close. Director and producer Yoshi-P has promised lots of plans for future content and the game has regular updates to keep players occupied.
