The Finals Season 1 Patch Notes: All fixes, buffs, and nerfs

After months of the handful of betas, The Finals has finally been released. Yes, it was a surprise that Embark Studios shadow-dropped the shooter, and it was a welcoming one. However, since the game is out in the wild, tons of fixes have come with it. Let’s run through patch notes for Season 1 of The Finals with stuff including fixes, buffs, and nerfs.

All The Finals Season 1 fixes, buffs, and nerfs – Patch Notes

Content Updates

• New ways to express yourself in the arena! Such as:
  • Reload and Inspect animations
  • Emoticons
  • Gestures
  • Pets (!!!)
  • Sounds
  • Watches
  • More? Yes, more!
• The Store is open and you’ll have access to an ever-changing selection of content to make your contestants pop in the arena.
• The Season 1 BattlePass contains 12 pages of unlockable rewards.
  • That amounts to 96 exclusive rewards
  • 29 rewards can be earned for free!
  • Unlock the whole BattlePass to receive a total of 1575 Multibucks!
• Play and progress, master your loadout with:
• 6 Mastery Levels per weapon
• 6 Mastery Levels per gadget
• 5 levels per ability

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New Features

• New Map Las Vegas
  • Test your luck and reach for the stars in the glitz, glam, and tight-knit gameplay of this glittering arena
• New Map variants:
  • Don’t get lost in stinging sands! Seek shelter and glory in this Las Vegas map variant: Sandstorm.
  • Tripwires & turrets: The environment can work for or against you. Traverse Vegas but watch your step, around every corner could be a trap.
• New event: Alien invasion
  • You’ll have to see this one to believe it. It’s outta this world!

Gameplay changes and balance

Movement & Animation

• Movement
  • Made multiple updates to vaulting responsiveness and general smoothness when traversing
  • Updated various first-person animations to better sync with footsteps
  • Improvements to syncing and stability when players are on moving surfaces such as elevators, sky-lifts, cranes, and moving platforms
  • Improved speed-matching and added in-air animations when coining other contestants
  • General polish updates to third-person locomotion
• Combat Animations
  • Stabilized the camera for aim-down sight reloads and bolt actions, for easier tracking of targets
  • Updated jumping and zipline animations when aiming down sights
  • Added third-person reaction animations for Flashbangs, Gas, and Fire.
  • Reworked the animations for the Charge’N’Slam specialization

Controller

• General
  • Added sensitivity scaling based on zoom FOV
• Aim Assistance
  • Added better support and various improvements for sensitivity dampening on targets
  • Updated default aim down sights sensitivity reduction
  • Reduced zoom snapping active duration
• Controller Vibration
  • Settings added
• Controller Settings
  • Added setting to allow players to further customize their controller experience
  • Added separate dead zones for the different analog sticks

Maps

• Overall, maps have been tweaked, things are better outlined to help move around. Skyway Stadium in particular now has evening conditions to get better immersed in the fight. 

Weapons

• General
  • Updated bullet dispersion system on all weapons when aiming down sights
  • Fixed various issues where weapons could fire infinitely or not at all
  • Fixed an issue where Gadgets could become stuck in an infinite cooldown
  • Added a new hitmarker to crosshairs for damage over time effects
• AKM
  • Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly less easy to control
• FCAR
  • Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly easier to control
• Flamethrower
  • Fixed a bug where the Flamethrower could be fired without consuming ammo
  • Max range reduced by 60 cm
  • Fire rate reduced to 160 RPM from 180 RPM
  • Adjusted Flamethrower impact effects to make them less blinding for the target player
  • Reduced damage to 28 from 31
• Lewis Gun
  • Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly easier to control
• LH1
  • Increased bullet dispersion when firing from the hip
  • Updated recoil pattern, making the weapon easier to control
  • Fire rate reduced to 300 RPM from 400 RPM
  • Increased LH1 damage from 41 to 45
• M60
  • Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly less easy to control
• Riot Shield
  • Fixed an issue where the Riot Shield could block bullets while the player was emoting
• Throwing Knives
  • Introduced Throwing Knives to the Light archetype
• V9S
  • Magazine size reduced to 20 from 24
  • Updated recoil pattern, making the weapon less easy to control
  • Increased damage fall-off to make the weapon less effective at long-range

Gadgets

• General
  • Fixed an issue where Gadgets could become stuck in an infinite cooldown
• C4
  • Increased health from 5 to 25
• Defibrillators
  • One of the best tools that could only heal with now can damage enemy players. They will do 50 damage and will enter cooldown if they land a successful hit
• Gas Mine
  • Added trigger audio effect
• Glitch Grenade
  • Fuse time increased from 1.1s to 1.8s, giving it more range
• Night Vision
  • Removed Night Vision from the game, to be reworked in a future update
• Sonar Grenade
  • Radius reduced from 17.5m to 10m
  • Updated the crosshair hit marker that appears when the Sonar Grenade detects targets
• Stun Gun
  • Removed sensitivity reduction from stunned players
  • Added glitch effect to stunned players, rendering their Specialization and Gadgets unusable for a short time
• Tactical Breach
  • Increased health from 5 to 25
• Vanishing Bomb
  • Introduced Vanishing Bomb gadget to the Light archetype
• Zipline
  • Added line break effect to Ziplines

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