THE FINALS Dev Tracker

Welcome to Update 1.5.0
Today we are introducing our very first limited-time mode (LTM): Solo Bank It!
This experimental twist on Bank It pits contestants against each other in a fight for individual glory in a 12-player arena. Just like Bank It, the first to amass 40,000 and deposit in the cash-out station wins. Solo queuers, rejoice!



We’re putting this mode out there to learn more about your experience, so we’ll open a channel in Discord to gather feedback for as long as the mode stays up.

Outside the new mode, Update 1.5.0 comes with a litany of balance changes, tweaks, and bug fixes — all laid out below — to help improve the overall experience.

In addition, with Update 1.5.0 we’re introducing our fair play guidelines, with revamped and improved detection methods for unfair play. ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

We’re back!

Today we have a small patch that addresses community feedback on aim assist, fair play, and bug fixes. These changes are the result of an in-depth review of how aim assist works — something we’ve only been able to validate with a player base as large as ours (thanks so much for playing our game, yolks!).

We have another bigger update in the works for next week, with a major security fix and some new exciting content, so stay tuned for that!


Aim Assist changes

• Zoom Snapping Angular Velocity now has a max cap, preventing unintended rapid 90-degree turns.
  
• Camera Magnetism will be reduced to 35% from 50%, making player aim less sticky and lowering controller accuracy.
  
• Zoom Snapping Time will be reduced to 0.25s from 0.3s.
  
• Zoom Snapping will be removed from the SR-84 Sniper Rifle, Revolver, LH1, and all Shotguns, as it buffs them more than other weapons.
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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Celebrate the holidays in THE FINALS! Between December 20 and January 3, you can tumble around in a snowy Monaco, get your free holiday cosmetics, and cause mayhem and destruction in the world's most festive game show.



Happy holidays, yolks!

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Merry Patchmas, Yolks!

Today’s patch comes with lots of balance, and quality-of-life improvements across the entire game — along with general crash fixes. We also made major changes to our anti-cheat detection to ensure fewer matches with players who don’t play fair.

To celebrate the holidays, contestants will find a gift waiting for them! And don’t forget to bring your boots to Monaco, because it’s snowy and the halls have been decked!

Ho-Ho-Ho-Hop in there!


Balance Changes
Abilities Goo Gun

• Fixed an issue where goo could block the player

Mesh Shield

• Mesh Shield Health reduced to 1100 from 1250

Recon Senses

• Recon Senses activation cost reduced to 1 from 2

Gadgets C4

• C4 max player damage reduced to 210 from 240
  
• C4 max damage radius reduced to 1.6m from 2...

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

The first patch of Season 1 is chock-full of quality-of-life improvements and general fixes. The one everyone here is most happy about: the doors in Vegas won’t open in the wrong direction anymore — That was so annoying!

Here are the highlights we think you will all care about the most:

• You can now see your actual position in the leaderboards once you have played a ranked match
  
• Changed requirements for unranked tournaments from 12 to 6 matches
  
• The Recent tab in the social screen is now working
  
• Fixed some crash instances
  
• Animation improvements to movement feel to get closer to the OB experience
  
• Fixed a bug where some doors in Vegas would open in the wrong direction
  
• Hold interactions that are started while moving will no longer be interrupted prematurely
  
• OCE/SA Servers are selectable on all platforms

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

What a whirlwind the last few days have been! Thanks for all the good games and amazing support <3

We have a patch with a few small but impactful updates:

We solved an authentication issue that was incorrectly reported as a ban and removed bans from accounts swept up in the error (try a restart now), an update to Skill-based Matchmaking (SBMM), and an adjustment to alleviate the backfilling annoyances flagged by the community.

• Fixed a Steam login problem that caused players to receive a faulty ban message
  
• We've made some changes to our skill-based matchmaking to ensure better-quality games. This means matchmaking times are likely to be ever so slightly longer, but you should find yourselves in slightly closer matches
  
• We've updated the way backfills work in Quick Cash and Bank It. This should mean that you get backfilled less often and when you do get backfilled, you should have more time remaining in the m...

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If you played in our Closed Betas and you feel that you are experiencing the game differently now. Make sure to bump your Field-of-View (FOV) up to 90 in the Video Settings menu for the same experience.

UI Changes

• Added missing UI that made Oceania/South American matchmaking regions not visible in the settings even though they have been online and working. Please note, for the time being, South America will incorrectly be labeled as Brazil.
  
  
• Fixed incorrect UI on prices from Steam that added two additional zeros in some countries. No one was charged that much, it was only a display issue.

Movement

• Fine-tuned the first-person view sprint animations

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Oceanic (OCE) and South American (SA) servers do exist and are up and running in THE FINALS.
Currently, we have a UI error that causes them not to show up as selectable in the settings menu. However, if folks in these regions keep their server location as the default auto-select, they will play on their local servers.

It’s truly a shame that we had these issues, but very soon we will have a fix for this, and OCE and SA players will be able to see their server location on the list.

In the meantime, OCE and SA players are playing in OCE and SA servers.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

WELCOME TO SEASON 1
After years of development, multiple community Alpha and Beta tests, and many months of “soon,” we are so excited to launch THE FINALS! We could not have done it without all the time, energy, feedback, and love heaped onto us by our community of players. As we welcome you to live service, you will see below that we have been very very busy.

But we’re not done. Live service games take continuous work, a lot of listening, iteration, patching, fixing, and balancing. Rest assured, we’re up for the challenge and ready to support this game and its players (that includes us!) through thick and thin. Thank you for being on this journey with us – it means the world.!

Suit up, contestants. Cameras are rolling. The arena is open.

Content Updates
New ways to express yourself in the arena! Such as:

• Reload and Inspect animations
  
• Emoticons
  
• Gestures
  
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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

We asked for Epic plays, and you all delivered! Here is the first highlight reel of Open Beta, featuring your captures and sponsored by OSPUZE!
Thanks for playing, yolks!