We’re kicking off this week with a fresh Store Update, alongside a special sale on some items, brought to you by OSPUZE!

STORE | FIZZKICK BRAWLER

It’s time to kick it off and skip straight to overtime, because you don’t need more than that to make your mark in the Arena! Dribble through the defense, they won’t even see it coming.
We’re also running a special sale on select bundles, now until next week!

EVENT | SAFEHOUSE PASS

It’s the last week to get your hands on the SafeHouse Pass, brought to you by ALFA ACTA!
Get what your dog and your family deserve, the best of Home defense, right at your fingertips.
Guaranteed effectiveness for one simple price.

We’ve got one more week of Dragon’s Claim, so the battle for the banner rages on!
You also have one more week to spend your tickets, spin the wheel, and earn prizes, but the Daily Contracts that earn you tickets have officially ended. So don’t forget to spend your remaining tickets and collect your free rewards!

STORE | THE FACE OFFENDER SET

It’s time to get medieval on the opposing team!

Chainmail wasn’t designed for bullets? The Chain Reaction top can and will protect you from most hazards you’ll encounter in the Arena. Spike the Healing Emitter just rolled into your life! He has a cute face and will give you heals and splinters! Handle with care!

For those who like to edit their Finals clips, somebody has put together a great asset pack with effects and transitions from official The Finals trailers! The creator put a Google Drive link to the files in the YT description; it's about 20 GB altogether, about 18 GB of which are full trailers (so if you just want glitch effects and transitions, etc, it's much smaller).

I know there's a couple of users here who like sharing clips, so maybe this will be of use to those of us. :)

I spent about 3 hours trying to get as many shots to sync to the beat as possible. 😵‍💫

A new store update has landed inside the Arena, and do not forget to check out Dragon’s Claim, where a fierce battle awaits you alongside a lot of goodies!

STORE | THE FACE OFFENDER SET

In the Arena, they are playing your game. Spawn in, complete your objective and don’t let anyone stop you with the Face Offender Set. Get a grip on the Hands-On Approach Revolver and land softly in the Arena with some Pip slippers from ÖRF!

EVENT | DRAGON’S CLAIM

The Dragon is still roaming the Arena, and with it, the battle for the control of the banner continues in Dragon’s Claim. Don’t forget to participate daily to win up to 3 tickets to spin the wheel and earn some cool cosmetics! And with the addition of Golden tickets, you’re sure to be rewarded.

GAME UPDATE | BUG FIXES

Modes

Dragon’s Claim

• Fixed an issue so this mode now rewards players with World Tour points
• The Chimera-XB now has proper ammo amount in Private Matches

Known Issue

Scales of Fortune

• We are aware of an issue with the Scales of Fortune wheel where a duplicate slot can convert into a Golden Ticket before the wheel stops spinning, making it appear that a Golden Ticket has been awarded. In actuality, you have just landed on a duplicate, so the golden ticket slot has been created. The functionality of the wheel is correct, this is a visual bug.

This game is so goofy sometimes :)

CROWD CONTROL

This week we have a refreshed Store and a sale on multiple sets! We’ve heard rumors of a large shadow looming over the Arena, but that might just be someone horsing around. To be safe, Contestants should keep their guard up, next week will bring a spark to the show.

STORE | ORDERKEEPER SET

It is time someone brings some order to the Arena, and we’re giving you the tools to do so with the Orderkeeper set. Yield to no-one, maintain control, and make sure your authority is understood by other Contestants. If not, correction may be applied.

Why the long face? There’s also a small addition we just couldn’t say neigh to, so giddyup and trot on into the store to see it for yourself.

We’re also running a special sale on multiple fan-favorites such as the Death by Rhodent and Hellborne sets, now until next week!

Store trailer

I live in a legal state, so the other day I enjoyed the luxury of buying a THC cartridge from my local dispensary, and began using it as one does. Things were A-OK for a couple days, but suddenly the cartridge stopped working. I did some troubleshooting, and the best I could tell was that it was just faulty, and that as luck would have it, that fault wouldn't appear until I had already used about a quarter of the product.

However, the dispensary has an excellent return policy on cartridges, and will refund it within 30 days if it stops working. They've told me about this policy dozens of times as I've bought cartridges from them in the past, but this would be the first time I would put that policy to the test.

I had kinda low expectations that they'd accept it for a full refund, since I already used about a quarter of it before it stopped working. I thought maybe they'd give me 3/4 of my money back, at best. And I'd have considered that to be a totally fair exchange, honestly. But instead, the guy behind the counter was super apologetic and went to the cabinet to get a brand new cartridge for me.

There was a slight price difference, since it was a different strain, so he said he'd have to ring it up to issue me a refund for the difference. I told him I didn't think that was necessary since, again, I had already used a considerable amount of the original cartridge. But he insisted on refunding me the difference, so I let him ring it up.

"Oh, and since today's Saturday, all our carts are 20% off, so that'll actually be even more of a refund," he says as he scans the barcode. I'm kind of blown away at this point because, and I don't think I can stress this point enough, I had already used a significant portion of the first cartridge to begin with.

He asked me if I had a rewards account with them, which I don't. He says they'd prefer to issue the refund as a store credit, but that's also totally fine that I don't have an account, anyway. The lengths this man is going to is astounding. Then he says "so our cash refund process is actually kind of annoying and I don't like doing it, would you be cool if instead of the $12 difference in cash, I just hook you up with a $15 battery or maybe 3 of the $5 pre-rolls or something?"

I tell him "my guy, I would've been happy with half of what you've offered me already, but uh... I'll take a battery, I guess!" So he gives me a brand new battery that I get to keep as a spare, a full and fresh cartridge of a strain that I'm honestly enjoying better than the first one, and I basically got my high for the last few days completely for free. I almost feel like I robbed the place, a little bit.

That's been about the "coolest" thing that's happened to me in quite a while, so I feel this is sufficiently dull. I hope the rest of your day is adequate.

I found out about this movie while watching a Corridor Crew video discussing the making of this film (very interesting insights into the production, if interested). This is a really amazing stop-motion film from 1979 that was made almost entirely by one single guy, Mike Jittlov, in a time before CGI and digital editing were available.

This was also before you even had the ability to do frame previews, meaning that all of the stop-motion shots were arranged purely by muscle memory, with Mike maintaining his position and pose on set with perfect accuracy for every frame.

I just thought this was a really cool piece of film history that more people should be aware of. :)

Store Update 10.4.0

Check it out below!

STORE | WIDE WATCH KIT

Win any arguments efficiently and shield yourself from any consequences with the Wide Watch Kit. They’ve told you to be blunt, after all..

GIVE YOUR FEEDBACK | RESPEC ORDER

The Respec Order Event has come to a close! Thank you to everyone who gave it a try, provided feedback, and joined the conversation in the community!

If you want to know a bit more about the test, tune in today for Oscar’s Stream with special guest, Matt Lowe, Design Director of THE FINALS. Matt will be answering some of the questions that have been asked over on the fan-run Reddit.

We’re still collecting feedback on the Official Discord Server for THE FINALS.

Join us tonight at 5PM CEST on Twitch & YouTube

See you in the chat!

Hotfix 10.4.1

We’ve solved an issue with achievements, which should now be back in working order.

Thanks for all the swift reports, and for your patience while we solved this frustrating bug!

SEE YOU IN THE ARENA!

Store refresh trailer on YouTube

http://www.bishopanimation.com/

This film "67" was created during the 1998 Ottawa International Animation Festival by a group of volunteers under the direction of Jan Pinkava. The film is stop motion, filmed in one long day and edited the next. It was shown on the closing night of the festival. If you look closely in the end, you'll see me, Floyd Bishop. I've got the brown sweater.

Credits: Jan Pinkava, Jordan Craig, Carolyn Craig, Rob Anderson, Jean Claude Kalache, Denis LeLong, Carol Beecher, Floyd Bishop Jr, Heather Hosel, Hugo Desrosiers, Karen Oxhorn, Susan Campbell, Charlie Hill, Ginette Brisson, Chris Mullington, Ed Eagen, and sculpture by Ulysse Comtois.

While the virtual bunnies are leaving the Arena and the Easter festivities are winding down, we’ve carved up a pretty neat Store update for you all as well as a fix for the automatic server selection. Check it out below!

STORE | BULL'S EYE BARREL SET

THE WOODEN ORIGINAL

For he was once only created for Contestants to mindlessly train upon him, chained to his own fate, Barrel has now freed himself and is looking to hand out some splinters in the Arena. Gone are the days of standing in Barry’s shadows, this time, Barrel will rise above the competition, a plank expression and a new target on his mind.

GAME UPDATE | BUG FIXES

Server Performance

Fixed an issue that could cause players queuing from outside the EU, US and Asia to matchmake to servers from the wrong region when using “automatic” region selection

HOP IN!

Easter has reached the Arena, and with that we’re bringing back a classic Limited-Time Mode with a twist alongside a freshly updated Store.

EVENT | BUNNY HOP

Bunny Hop is now live!

Fight for the control of the Easter-basket platform on Powershift with custom loadouts and, as a little twist, we’ve enabled Super Jump! Expect trouble from above, keep control of the platform and complete special contracts to earn some eggciting free rewards!

STORE | URBAN PALADIN SET

Your blade is forged from centuries of craftsmanship and imbued with modern technology, ready to take on any foe. The Urban Paladin Set combines the brutal strength of a knight armor while still being urban-ready for encounters under the bright spotlights of our Arenas. Victory will be your crowning.

Easter cosmetics are also back in store for the festive season!

GAME UPDATE | BUG FIXES

• Server Performance
• Fixed a Server Crash introduced in 10.0

Fixed a bug with the disconnect penalty forgiveness introduced in 10.0 which caused players to still receive penalties, despite reconnecting and winning

Apologies if this type of question isn't fit for the community, I'll delete if so.

I'm going to start working from home again soon, and my desk setup is going to get very messy. I'm hoping to find a device that will let me easily manage 3 monitors between my personal laptop, my PS5, and my work computer.

I'd ideally like to set up "scenes", like a work scene where monitors 2 and 3 are using my work computer and monitor 1 is acting as extended display for my laptop off to the left, or a gaming scene where my work computer isn't displaying anything and my PS5 uses monitor 3 while monitors 1 and 2 are extending my laptop's display, etc.

Are there any devices that would allow one to easily manage this sort of setup? I'd really rather not have to rewire all my HDMI cables every time I want to switch from working to gaming.

SOON™

This is it, Contestants, one more week until we officially launch Season 10 of THE FINALS.

Keep an eye on our social channels, we have a lot more to share.

It’s also time for you to get those last Battle Pass levels, finish your Ranked and World Tour seasonal journey and participate in the final push in Sponsor Showdown and make the CEOs proud. We’ll see you in the Arena.

STORE | RAYZER S-TEAM SET

This week welcomes the return of one of the legend from the S-Team, Rayzer himself.

Effective entry and clean swipe is the motto. No amount of preparation and defenses can keep him and his team away from their objective, and 2nd place is not an option.

LUCK N’ LOADED

What’s at the end of a rainbow? Looks like a brand-new Store update!

Don’t forget Sponsor Showdown is also still live and we’re already seeing some Contestants putting a lot of work in the Arena to help their Sponsor climb the rankings! Nothing is set in stone, so don’t let your guard down just yet. The CEOs are watching!

STORE | CHARM OFFENSIVE SET

If you’re in need of a new pair of lucky socks, we’ve got you covered.

This week is all about giving you that little extra edge over the competition, no rules broken, pinky promise. So jump into the Arena and bet big on your next Cashout attempt…this just might be your lucky day!

THE SHOWDOWN IS ON!

It is time for you to pick the sponsor you want to represent for this season’s Sponsor Showdown Event and make them proud. We’ve also enabled the Chun Jie Bonus XP and Fans Event to make your progress even faster! All of this alongside a brand new Store update, free Twitch Drops and some bug-fixes, check it all out below.

EVENT | SPONSOR SHOWDOWN

Sponsor Showdown is now live, and it’s your mission to hop into the Arena, no matter the game-mode you play, and earn as many Fans as possible to help your Sponsor shine in the rankings. This season, every single Sponsor is participating, and we’re not locking you to any one of them. The leaderboard is live, may the best Sponsor win!

Let the Showdown begin!

EVENT | CHUN JIE BONUS XP

Need a hand to finish those last few Battlepass levels? Well now is the perfect time, the Chun Jie Bonus XP and Fans event is live! Now and until the end of the season, you can earn up to 200% XP for Daily Contracts and up to 150% XP and Fans for gameplay.

STORE | EXTRACURRICULAR CREW SET

Most people say they came in peace, but a few know they really came to Earth to party. This week, expect visitors from outer space to come down and visit the Arena, incognito, fully blending in with the rest of.. you all. By the way, have you checked on your dog, recently?

Thirsty for more? We’re extending a big thank you to OSPUZE for sponsoring this week’s Store update with the incredible Unquenchable Set.

Clench. Cosmic. Thirst.

TWITCH DROPS | HELPING HANDS

We’ve welcomed a lot of new Contestants into the Arena lately!
To celebrate all of the new players joining us as well as the ones who have been here since the start, we’ve prepared some new additions to your wardrobe. You can now earn the “Free Advice” Emblem, the “Wing It Protocol” Top and the “Precision Protocol” Top by watching anyone playing THE FINALS on Twitch with Drops Enabled!

Available now until March 19

PERFORMANCE | SERVER IMPROVEMENTS

With tremendous thanks to our community on Discord, we were able to track down a server cluster issue that was impacting the West Coast from Feb 12-25. This issue caused lag for a large portion of our players, and has now been fixed. Your quick alerts really helped us locate and solve the issue! Those who were adversely affected should now have a much smoother experience.

GAME UPDATE | BALANCE CHANGES

Game Modes

Point Break

• Increased the Objective Score given for capturing Grand Vaults from 100 to 1,000
• Increased the Objective Score given for eliminating opponents near Grand Vaults from 25 to 250
• Increased objective score by 10x for capturing objectives and eliminating opponents near objectives

GAME UPDATE | CONTENT AND BUG FIXES

Cosmetics

• Improved visuals on multiple skins for the M11
• Fixed an issue where the stomach could appear compressed when wearing certain skirts with crop tops
• The Chart-Topper Emote that was reverted to match the store video now has two versions! The Chart-Topper and Chart-Stopper Emotes! Everyone who already owns The Chart-Topper Emote will soon have the Chart-Stopper Emote, too! Anyone purchasing in the future will receive both, so you can dance however you like!
• Removed compatibility with crossbody items on the Wise-Wing Jumper to reduce mesh clipping.
• Fixed clipping on the Renegade Wrap Playful Spirit top to improve fit and appearance in low settings
• Fixed a visible hole on the Final Mantra outfit

Maps

General

• Removed Lunar New Year lanterns and restored standard map rotation, bringing back blue healing visuals in Seoul, Monaco, and Las Vegas
• Re-enabled the Duck and Cover map variant

Fang Wai City

• Fixed missing collision that allowed players to go out of bounds and access unintended areas on a map
• The ocean in the backdrop was sometimes not visible, creating a gap in the terrain. We have now made sure that the backdrop water asset is loading in correctly

UI

• Fixed an issue where Multibucks rewards did not display quantity or rarity

https://www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/9120

HOTFIX 9.12.1

We’ve pushed a fix to an issue where the Discord SDK saved excessive user information when logging was enabled. No private and/or personal data was collected or shared by Embark. This fix has removed the excessive logging from happening.

For additional measures, we’re conducting a deeper audit to ensure no further issues. If you have questions or concerns, please contact our support team.

https://www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/9121

Matched them again the next round, and 3 of them left the lobby before the match started. :)

We’ve restocked the Store with a fresh new drop of content alongside a sale on some old favorites, so make sure to take a look! This is also the last week to play Bank It, so jump in, collect red envelopes, and don’t forget to cash them in!

STORE UPDATE | CURTAIN CALLER

It’s time for you to be making your ceremonial entrance into the Arena with the Curtain Caller set. Stay focused and let the other teams know you’re the one running the show. Curtain’s up! All the Arena’s your stage.

LUNAR NEW YEAR | LAST WEEK

Bank It is still here for another week! We hope you’ve been successful in banking red envelopes as well as lighting up your lanterns for the Collection Event. While the time is up to collect tickets, you can still redeem any unused tickets until next week as well as purchase rewards if you have missed any.