Embark | Oscar

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:
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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.
• When...

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Update 4.1
Welcome to the first update of Season 4!

Which comes with the first store update:

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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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Update 3.13.0

We’ve arrived at the penultimate update of Season 3 - 3.13, and this week’s store rotation offers some pretty Big Shoes To Fill!

For the nocturnal gamers who skulk around the Arena in the middle of the night, check out the Trickpaw Tanuki Set!

We’re nearing the end of Season 3 and we are full steam towards Season 4 here in the office, and we can’t wait to share more with you soon!

Also, make sure to tune in for tonight’s Community Stream on http://twitch.tv/thefinals just in case we share something then, and keep your eyes peeled throughout the rest of the week…

Here is this week’s store update:
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Time has come to enter the final stop on the Season 3 World Tour - the HOLTOW CLASSIC!

This stop will last three weeks, all the way to the end of Season 3.

Time to get busy, grind away and make sure you hit your Season 3 World Tour Goals!

BONUS XP MATSURI
Say hello to the BONUS XP MATSURI event! From now until the end of the season, we’ve increased the XP amounts you get for playing, and doubled the amount of XP you obtain from Daily Contracts. Join the party and finish the Battlepass before Season 4!



For Cashout, we’re turning off the Defender bonus in the final round of a Tournament and introducing an Underdog bonus for squads with disconnected players.

After one of the most challenging Community Events yet, where we challenged you to play 6 million rounds partied up, we are glad to see you make it past the finish line at the last second! Well done! Expect the ISEUL-T Reality Check Frag Grenade skin to be added to your inventories soon!

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Update 3.10
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’... Read more

Update 3.9
Check out the store update for this week:



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 ... Read more

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.