Embark | Oscar

Merry Mayhem!



With the generosity of VAIIYA, we’ve secured an appropriately regulated amount of Yuletide cheer in the World Tour stop for this week! Dash through the snow and deck the competition with strategically placed snowballs (packed with an extra bit of stopping power)! Get cozy with your team in our fully-decorated, Jultide Arenas! We’ve been told that our sponsor has connections in high places, so hop into World Tour or VAIIYA might make sure you get put on the naughty list!

ARENAS:

• Juletide Las Vegas
• Juletide Bernal
• Juletide Kyoto
• Juletide Monaco

Update 5.1.0
’TIS THE SEASON

We’re sliding into the holiday season with a brand new holiday event: Snowball Blitz!



Get your mittens on contestants, it’s going to be frosty in Snowy Monaco! You’ll be taking part in a good ol’ fashioned Snowball Fight! Team up for a head-to-head snow brawl in this 5v5 TDM-style fight for victory. The first team to reach 30K wins and the only way to earn cash is through eliminations!

Everyone goes in with a fixed loadout, but the weapon of choice for every build is snowballs! Rewards are on the line, so join the skirmish and complete your contracts to earn all the spoils of wintery wartime! Snowball Blitz will be around for the next two weeks!

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SEASON 5: NEXT STAGE STARTS NOW
The spotlight is on, and Season 5 of THE FINALS begins right now! This isn’t just another season—it’s a celebration of an unforgettable year since THE FINALS launched! Over four thrilling seasons, we’ve redefined competition in the ultimate game show. Now, it’s time for the Next Stage.

Season 4 honored our amazing community by bringing back the thrill of Ranked Tournaments, unveiling the vibrant Fortune Stadium, and amplifying everything that makes THE FINALS extraordinary. But this new season isn’t just about looking back, it’s about blazing forward with exciting surprises, groundbreaking features, and a breathtaking new arena.

Get ready to dive into Season 5, the most exhilarating chapter of THE FINALS yet!

LA MAGIA DE BERNAL
As you explore what this season has to offer, your first stop has got to be Bernal, the sprawling new map! Set beneath the imposing Peña de Bernal, one of the largest mo... Read more

Season 4’s Finale!!
As we bid farewell to Season 4 of THE FINALS, we want to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for making this season unforgettable. Your creativity, competitive spirit, continuous support and constant feedback has not only filled the Arenas with incredible gameplay, but have also made THE FINALS the world’s greatest game show! This is the last update of Season 4, and while it’s bittersweet to see it go, we couldn’t be more excited for what’s coming next. Make sure to head over to our Season 5 blog to learn more about the NEXT STAGE!

To celebrate the incredible journey we’ve shared, we’re gearing up for an unforgettable event – the Anniversity Showdown, a live-streamed extravaganza happening on December 7th. Mark your calendars and join us as we reflect on the season’s highlights, showcase epic gameplay, and maybe even drop a few surprises!

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Update 4.9.0
Roll, rumble, and rise!

This week’s update cranks up the action with FANFARE: enjoy 200% XP for Daily Contracts and up to 150% bonus XP and Fans earned for gameplay until the end of Season 4! Whether you're chasing victories or grinding out those last rewards, now’s the time to shine.

Suit up with the Smashquaker Set for roller derby dominance, channel primal energy with the Savage Spots Set, or stay sleek and fast in the Swift Stripes Set. Prefer a cooler approach? The Eclipse Shade adds a shadowy edge to every encounter.

On the technical side, we’ve reshaped the Model 1887, boosting its pellet count and tightening its spread while reducing the overall damage for more precision-packed shots. Customization fixes polish up fan favorites like The Synthsprawler and Darque Mood, and performance tweaks should give your HUD a smoother shine.

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High-Fashion has never soared this high!
ISEUL-T are rounding out their sponsorship for this season by raising the stakes cashouts to brand new heights! This week our arenas are painted in ISEUL-T’s signature colors and will feature Suspended Structures and Moving Platforms!

Additionally we’re kicking off a brand new community event where we’re challenging all of you to successfully steal 600.000 cashouts within the last minute of a match! The intensity has never been higher in The Arena.




Get ready to show off your style and stylish plays in these Arenas;

• Monaco
• Skyway Stadium
• Kyoto
• Seoul

ISEUL-T – be ANYONE. be EVERYONE. be ISEUL-T.

Shred, forge, and fix your way to victory!
This week’s update cranks the volume to 11 with store items that bring the noise and some much-needed fixes to The Arena.

Take center stage with Death by Rhodents! Smash your foes in style with the Wrath of Rats Set, complete with a sledgehammer electric guitar that riffs on inspect, or embrace your inner fan with the Thrash Rat Bundle. Prefer a more refined edge? The Synthronium Forge Set lets you channel futuristic craftsmanship in every encounter.

On the technical side, we’ve tuned up a whole bunch of bugs and included some much needed quality of life changes with everything from fixing the interrupt steal contract not rewarding players properly, to a new accessibility option that replaces flashbang whiteouts with blackouts.

Looking ahead: Tomorrow kicks off Week 3 of the ISEUL-T Cup, alongside a brand-new community event. Stay tuned for all the details in tomorrow’s notes!

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Hit the Runway!
Welcome to Fashion Week! The ISEUL-T Cup continues with a passion for fashion! Dress to impress this week and submit your best look for the chance to win a prize!

We’re partnering with THE FINALS Runway to pick the top 25 most head-turning looks! Head over to the fan-run subreddit, r/TheFinalsRunway, and read the rules to enter! Don’t forget to participate in the vote! May the most stylish contestant win!

Let’s start the festivities!



Stomp the catwalk in this week’s Arenas:

• Fortune Stadium
• SYS$HORIZON
• Skyway Stadium
• Kyoto

ISEUL-T – be ANYONE. be EVERYONE. be ISEUL-T.

Get ready to turn heads in the Arena with Update 4.7!

Suit up with The Synthsprawler to bring futuristic flair to the Arena, or add a playful punch with the Playtime Payload Set for your .50 Akimbo. For those who love precision, Juggle Jam has you covered with timing-perfect animations.

Plus, we’re just a day away from Week 2 of the ISEUL-T Cup in the World Tour, and this week there’ll be a community focus on fashion! Keep an eye out for Thursday’s notes to catch all the info.

Now, let’s check out this week’s store update:
https://youtu.be/Wq85Eg19Re8

Passion for Fashion?
Today we usher in the ISEUL-T Cup, a new leg of the World Tour sponsored by ISEUL-T!

They’ve cleaned up the arenas from last week's chaotic, frightful, spooky season and are offering us stylish arenas with standard cashout rules!



Here are this week’s Arenas:

• Fortune Stadium
• Monaco
• Skyway Stadium
• Vegas

ISEUL-T – be ANYONE. be EVERYONE. be ISEUL-T.

Update 4.6.0
Mid-way through Season 4

It’s halftime in The Arena and we bid our second sponsor, HOLTOW, farewell and Thank You for the generous sponsorship this season! ISEUL-T are next in line and have some big shoes to fill following last week’s Trick or Treat event in the World Tour - but if anyone can do it, and in a grandiose fashion, it’s ISEUL-T.

Don't forget to keep spinning the wheel! Ticket drops end on the 13th but the event will stay live until the 15th, giving you time to spend your tickets and pick up a few last items in peace. Good luck!

This week we are bringing you some balance changes, reducing the effective range of both the Healing Beam and the Sword, while adjusting the Pike-556 to have a clearer ranged identity. There’s also a boatload of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements coming your way, with everything from a fix for beards clipping through headwear to some much-needed performance improvements for XBOX.
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN, CONTESTANTS!
This week, HOLTOW has pulled out all the stops, dimmed the lights, and turned the Arena into a place where things go bump in the night…things like Pumpkins that explode on impact, so keep your gourd up!

We hope you’ll have a ghoulishly good time destroying the Arena and smashing pumpkins to delight the fans and take out the competition!



The Arena’s this week are waiting for you. Enter, if you dare:

• Spooky Kyoto
• Spooky Horizon
• Spooky Monaco
• Spooky Seoul

HOLTOW – We know what you fear. Fear not.

Update 4.5.0
Halloween is here!
We’ve got an all-new event with 27 collectible rewards and an explosive addition to the World Tour maps starting tomorrow, sponsored by HOLTOW, who reminds you to carve your pumpkins with extreme caution!

For today…

Join the Treat Hunt Collection Event

Feeling dizzy, Contestant? It might be the copious amounts of OSPUZE-flavored Halloween candy you’ve been eating, or it could be our brand new feature - the Wheel!

The Reward Wheel is something we’ve never seen before in THE FINALS! We realized that we could not be the World's greatest game show without a flashy wheel of amazing prizes!

This Halloween, instead of adding all of these amazing cosmetics to the store, we’ve added them to the Reward Wheel. In order to spin the wheel and win something, you must have a ticket, and you can earn up to three tickets per day by completing daily contracts!

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Update 4.4.0
It’s getting spooky in The Arena!

With Halloween taking the spotlight next week, you might start seeing spooky changes around the Arena starting today! Dress up in your most ghoulish get-up, send shivers down enemy contestants' virtual spines as an Underworld Outcast, and get trick-or-treating before the season ends!



In this patch, you’ll find changes and fixes, including the introduction of a system to reward kills to players based on environmental kills that launch players off the map, among other things!

Check out the changes below and stay tuned for a World Tour update tomorrow that is out of this world, setting a spooky stage for things to come, and a new set of Twitch Drops to collect as we creep closer to Fright Night!

Balance Changes
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This week the Arena is back to normal and HOLTOW are treating us to some normal, standard issue, Cashout Tournaments:



As we thank ENGIMO for their generous sponsorship so far this season, we welcome HOLTOW to take the stage for the next three weeks. With HOLTOW’s insurance packages we feel certain that the World Tour is in excellent hands.

The arena rotation for this week includes the following maps;

• Fortune Stadium
  
• Skyway Stadium
  
• SYS$HORIZON
  
• Seoul

HOLTOW - Digitally Insured, Virtually Secured.

Store Update, Season 3 Rewards and Final Day for the Community Event
Let’s get ready to muck up the competition with the Green Gunk Set, or maybe climb your way to the top using the Mean Green Beanstalk Set - both featured in this week’s store update:



Season 3 Ranked Rewards

Following today’s update we will be sending out the missing Multibucks from the Season 3 World Tour. If you made it to Bronze 4 last season, 50 Multibucks will be coming your way shortly - and - if you made it all the way to Gold 1 you can expect 250 Multibucks to find its way to your account.

Alongside the Multibucks, we will also be publishing one final Ranked leaderboard for Season 3, and with it, also hand out the last few rewards which were missing from that leaderboard as well.

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Welcome to Update 4.2!
This update comes jam-packed with changes, from a brand new event in the World Tour, ranked rewards, a brand new community event and balance changes!

First, let’s check out this week’s store update:



World Tour Event - Primetime Buff

Let’s jump into this week’s changes and start it off with a brand new event in the World Tour; “Primetime Buff”! Primetime Buff triggers when you or a teammate inserts a cash box into a cashout station, and it affects your whole team! When affected by Primetime Buff, you and your teammates receive +100 health over your typical max health (e.g. a Light player would go from a max of 150 to 250 health). Some notes about Primetime Buff;

• If taking damage, the extra health does not replenish.
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Update 4.1
Welcome to the first update of Season 4!

Which comes with the first store update:

(VIDEO)

We’ve got a fix for the dash bug on Light and for the issue with contestant slots causing matchmaking issues!

Regarding World Tour stops from now on: we’ll start announcing them separately from patch notes, so stay tuned every Thursday for info about the current week’s twist, big or small!

We’re still on track to hand out the Season 3 rewards next week! While you wait, you can join us tonight on the fan-run THE FINALS Reddit for an exclusive AMA with Rob, Gustav (Creative Director), Matt (Design Director), and Joakim (Lead Environmental Artist) with support from Oscar and Dusty! Go submit your burning questions there now and join us live tonight from 18:00-20:00 CEST!

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UPDATE 4.0.0

IT’S SHOWTIME!



Welcome to Season 4, Contestants!

Season 4 brings exciting new content and features to THE FINALS! From the sleek, urban Fortune Stadium map sponsored by HOLTOW, ENGIMO, and ISEUL-T, to three powerful new weapons, there's plenty to dive into.

We’ve also added sponsor tracks, allowing players to sign up with one of our three sponsors for unique rewards, new World Tour ranks, and improved Ranked Cashout Tournaments. Plus, new customization options, loadout slots, and revamped leaderboards ensure a more competitive and personalized experience.

Read about all the changes below, and gear up for the most spectacular season of the gameshow yet!

New Map: Fortune Stadium

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Update 3.14.0
The LAST update of Season 3!

To ring out the season’s end, we have one final Community Event! ENGIMO challenges you to collectively detonate 30 million grenades in order to earn the ENGIMO Asymmetrical Top! So get in the Arena and help us close out Season 3 with a blast!



This update has some changes to UI, providing better on-screen information for cashout modes and the way your own team information is displayed, as well as fixing some issues.

The biggest changes are yet to come, so stay tuned for Season 4 patchnotes on the 26th of September! Don’t forget to tune into your favorite THE FINALS streamer on the 20th to see a preview of Season 4 content!

Read about this week’s updates below:

Content and Bug Fixes
Animation

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