THE FINALS News

The new community event has started and this time, it’s a party!

This week, ISEUL-T challenges you to collectively complete 6 million rounds of gameplay while in a party! Should you manage – any contestant to contribute to the goal will be rewarded with the ISEUL-T Reality Check Frag Grenade skin!

So, grab a friend and hop in the game! You can also make some new friends over on the Official Discord! Join the party challenge and build your team!

Here is this week’s store update:

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[h3]Update 3.10[/h3]

The next update for THE FINALS is here and with it we’re saying farewell to the DISSUN Challenge as we enter the next stop on the World Tour - the VAIIYA International!

Before diving into the rest of today’s changes, we need to take a moment to celebrate that you all completed the Community Event! You made it juuuuuuuust in time, but $100 BILLION was cashed out in World Tour in just a week, and as a result you can all expect the DISSUN racing helmet to appear in your inventories later this week.

We are excited to introduce more options to our crosshair customization feature, a much-requested QOL feature! You’ll be able to edit both the static and dispersive crosshair parts independently of each other and we’ve added further crosshair reticles for you to choose from. Let us know what you think!

For Cashout, we’re experimenting with the “Defender bonus,” which will help teams currently defending the cashout get back in the action faster! We’re also adding some balance changes to the mix!

For those of you on that World Tour grind, we’re lowering the number of wins needed to progress through Emerald. Emerald 4 will now need 3 wins rather than 10, and making it all the way to Emerald 1 will now take 63 wins, down from the previous 75.

We also have a fully stocked store for you to check out, both in-game and in the video below, as well as other bug fixes!

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Let’s dive into the details:

[h3]Balance Changes[/h3]

Gadgets

Dome Shield

• Decreased duration from 12s to 5.5s

Dev Note: The Dome Shield was always intended as temporary protection that would synergize well with supportive actions. Over time, its main use case has been as a ‘mobile fortress’ used to steal objectives. We want teams to have to secure the area first in order to steal an objective. To encourage this intended design, we’ve adjusted the Dome Shield’s duration.

Goo Grenade

• Decreased the time it takes for fire to destroy goo from 12s to 9s

Dev Note: We feel our previous buff to the goo, which was intended to aid defensive play, was a little too heavy-handed and removed fire’s role as a hard-counter to goo.

Game Modes

Cashout

• Introduced a defender bonus for teams that currently hold a Cashout Station. While they hold the objective, the dead players on the defending team will be able to spend any respawn coins they have after 15 seconds, rather than 30 seconds

Dev Note: We see cashouts getting stolen at higher rates than expected. This change encourages teams to start and defend cashouts rather than swooping in late. This is part of a series of changes we’re making to incentivize acting first when it comes to objectives rather than later and an ongoing part of our Cashout experimentation.

World Tour

• We’ve reduced the number of Cashout Tournament wins needed to reach each level of Emerald, for example, Emerald 4 will require 3 wins instead of 10 and the total wins needed for Emerald 1 is now 63 instead of 75.
  
  

Specializations

Goo Gun

• Decreased the time it takes for fire to destroy goo from 12s to 9s

Winch Claw

• Decreased the max range from the Winch Claw from 17m to 12m

Dev Note: The Winch Claw is meant to enable combat in short-range fights. We feel this new range better reflects this intent.

Weapons

Throwing Knives

• Decreased the fire rate of the primary fire from 125rpm to 107rpm

Dev Note: Throwing Knives have become quite an oppressive weapon! We’ll monitor this change closely and likely make more involved changes if this adjustment doesn’t do enough to address that feeling.

[h3]Content and Bug Fixes [/h3]

Animation

• Fixed the zipline attach animation not playing under certain conditions
• Fixed the riot shield not hiding properly when vaulting
• Updated animation for the Flamethrower’s Soak ‘n’ Scorch skin so it will always play the full animation
• Fixed aim down sights so it is properly portrayed in spectator view
• Updated the Mini Roulette skin for the Lewis Gun to make it compatible with animation customizations

Contracts

• Fix for the Quick Melee contract so it only registers quick melee attacks, not melee attacks with weapons
• Fixed so that the “Stop opponents from stealing your cashout or decrypting a terminal 5 times” now also counts eliminations by attackers on defenders trying to stop the decryption in Terminal Attack
• Fixed so that winch claw properly counts towards the interrupt contract
• Fixed for the contract “Get 15 eliminations or assists with Launchers or Shotguns”, it now correctly rewards assists
  
  

Game Modes

• Mines and charges will now stick to the vault’s surface correctly
• Fixed the bug that sometimes caused the connect/leave button to be present after finishing a World Tour session
• Fixed an issue in Ranked Terminal Attack that caused the teams to play different objective configurations (i.e. the locations of spawn points and terminals) when Attacking or Defending. Both teams now play the same sequence of objective configurations
• Fixed an issue where Ziplines would not properly reset after midgame in Ranked Terminal Attack
• Changed so the in-game Cashout text will display in the corresponding team’s color
• When reconnecting into World Tour in a late round, loadout choices should now be correct

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug where players were unable to use items from the start of the round and throughout the match, such as the Healing Beam
• When backfilling into a match, respawn statues will now display the correct team colors instead of being white

Maps

• Debris in Skyway Stadium now properly resets after midgame in Ranked Terminal Attack

Specializations

Winch Claw

• Fixed an issue where the action could get canceled if the targeted player jumped right when getting hit
• Fixes issue where the wrong target could get pulled if it was close to the intended target

Turret

• Fixed recovery text being wrongly displayed

Grapple Hook

• Can once again attach to walls that are out of bounds

Security and anti-cheat

• Improved existing detection rules

Stability & Performance

• Fixes for some of our most common crashes
• Performance optimizations for all platforms
• Additional fix for a rare case of the infinite loading screen
• Fixed an issue where players failed to join matches resulting in uneven teams for modes with no backfills

UI

• Leaving a private match now shows the correct dialog
• Fixed a navigation issue in the settings menu for controller
• Added more crosshair customization options

[h3]Update 3.9[/h3]

Check out the store update for this week:

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THE FINALS is best with friends, and to aid you in your quest to build the ultimate team, this week we are introducing the refer-a-friend program! Head on over to Embark ID to get your unique URL that can be shared out to friends who have yet to play THE FINALS.

Once your invited friend has played 20 rounds of the game, you’ll both get 100 Multibucks! Get rewarded for up to five friends and check out the full rules over on Embark ID.

Want one more way to recruit your friends? What better way is there than to wear THE FINALS merch in public? Today we’re also launching our merchandise store where you can pick up some THE FINALS or OSPUZE-related merch, oh, and there’s stickers! With some of the items, you can get an in-game copy of your IRL drip! This is our first run, so supplies are limited! The shop will drop in a few hours, and you can watch the countdown in the meantime: https://merch.reachthefinals.com/

Finally, this week we have a new community challenge! Collectively cash out $100 billion in World Tour Cashout and earn the DISSUN Interrupter helmet from our generous World Tour sponsor! Only those who contribute to this eye-popping goal will get the reward, so make sure to do your part!

[h3]Content and Bug Fixes [/h3]

UI

• Fixed a bug where the “THE FINALS” leaderboard was incorrectly counting wins from other game modes, in addition to Tournament wins.

After Hotfix 3.8.1, we had an issue where some Steam players were not able to launch the game.
Thanks to the quick and detailed feedback from our community on Discord, we we were able to resolve this issue.

With update 3.8, we saw a dip in game performance, specifically related to network and bandwidth.

We have just released a hotfix to all platforms that solves this issue. Once you've updated, you should all have a smoother experience across the board with fewer network-related disruptions.

SEE YOU IN THE ARENA!