Text/A white demon on Star Annihilation Mountain
First of all, I would like to state that the so-called world's strongest "hanging dog" is not the title I gave, but comes from the victim himself, the evaluation of "APEX Legends" World Champion Genburten:
Of course, Genburten is referred to as a victim here, not because he was killed in the game, but because Dogdog hacked his computer and then helped him open a cheating in the game.
You heard it right, hacking a player's computer in a professional game, and then hanging up.
At the ALGS North American Regional Finals on March 17th, Genburten's DZ team had already taken a high position in the safe zone, and tried their best to get more kill points, and after shooting an arrow, the kill display quickly popped up, and then Genburten quickly shouted for his teammates to help throw mines, and directly make up for the enemies who fell to the ground below to get kill points.
The man whom Genburten is targeting
Victim perspective (he is separated from Gen by a full safe zone)
But if you look closely, you will find that Genburten is indeed aiming at the enemy under the bridge, and the arrow is indeed fired, but he is located in the lower left of the safe zone, and he actually kills zaptoh located in the upper left of the safe zone - coincidentally, the enemy under the bridge and the character used by zaptoh are both bloodhounds, which may be the reason why Genburten did not find out that he has been "possessed by divine powers" in the first place.
In order to better tell the player that "he has already opened", the hacker himself directly called up the plug-in page, and then helped Genburten open another perspective on the basis of "magic tracking bullets".
Looking at the scene in front of him, Genburten reacted, and while shouting "I'm hacked, I'm hacked", he was forced to reluctantly quit the game and wait for the official reply.
The funny and admirable thing is that even though Genburten was forced to leave the game, the other two teammates took second place in the game with their teams without officially announcing the abortment of the match.
Coincidentally, he was not the only victim of this incident. Compared to Genburten, who was a little sluggish, Hal from TSM reacted significantly faster, and after aiming at the enemy on the bridge, but killing the enemy under the bridge, he had already reacted quickly to realize that he was hacked and hanged, and after a while he tried to shoot indiscriminately to see if the hanging still worked, and unsurprisingly got another head......
Hit the enemy at the bottom right of the scope
In the face of such an oolong situation, the North American final, which was halfway through, could only end early, and then the official notice was issued announcing that the specific time of the competition would be postponed.
In addition to the hasty ending, everyone is also discussing how the subsequent games will be held, and how to consider the previous games that have been completed. Of course, there are also teams that post directly on X, hoping to make the whole final start from scratch.
Truth be told, it's definitely a big job to go down in the history of esports.
And it is not only the anti-cheat system of "APEX Legends" that is worth talking about, but also the "hanging dog" that helps players open this time: Destroyer 2009.
Even in the global APEX circle, this is definitely a big star-level figure, because this guy has always been keen to use various ways to live, snipe all kinds of well-known players and streamers.
The perspective and magic bullets that helped little Hal and Genburten open above are already very normal in 09's plug-in. Another player, Mande, once encountered something even more desperate - he was chased and beaten by dozens of "man-machines" when he landed, and even though he ran and fought all the way, he was still knocked to the ground after killing 17 - and then he was helped up by his teammates, and only then did he notice his teammate's ID "destroyer2009".
Then the two began a serious "friendly exchange", Mande first asked if he was going to play with his friends later, can he stop sniping himself, let himself experience a few normal games, and after getting a positive answer from 09, Mande asked curiously:
"You were the one who sent 4,000 boxes to my number before?"
"Yes, I see that you didn't open it, and I helped you open hundreds of them on your account."
That's right, that's where the 09 hacker gets ahead of the rest of the hackers. While others are still using perspective, self-aiming and other functions to deceive themselves and win games in the game, this guy has already begun to ride on EA's head output. In addition to opening the hanging, he can also directly retrieve various items in the game - he has previously given thousands of chests to several players, including Mande, in the form of black gifts.
Among them, the little Hal mentioned above even opened an heirloom with the box sent by 09......
If you put it in other games, you might only think that this farce disrupted the otherwise thrilling North American regional showdown, but this happened in "APEX Legends", and everyone thought it was a good thing: only this kind of direct slap in the face of EA can let them see how bad the anti-cheat system of "APEX Legends" really is.
In addition to the accident of this online competition, at the ALGS finals a year ago, there was also an accident of being bombed during the game and the main view OB position was dropped - you know, if the North American final is an online competition, the possibility of accidents is relatively high, then the previous ALGS finals are not only offline competitions, but also use specially built dedicated servers.
The old scenes are still fresh in their minds, and Genburten adds, while muttering that he will wait for an official reply: I don't think they can handle it.
After all, players in other EA games have encountered similar situations besides APEX Legends, and during the Chinese New Year early last year, Battlefield 1 broke out in a battle between players and cheating alliances.
After the player proposed the so-called "boycott of cheats" and tried to kick the hanging dog out of the official server, the so-called plug-in alliance collapsed the official server of "Battlefield 1" while shouting "Green Play get out of the official uniform and go to the private server to play". Although the official action finally repaired the server, this farce still made players suffer and made passers-by have enough fun.
But it's like the farce of APEX Legends this time, everyone may laugh and laugh, suddenly remember their usual game environment, and then never laugh again.