The Finals already has the best destruction physics I have ever seen

gamesradar.com:

The Finals kicks off a two-week closed beta on Tuesday, March 7. During this time, developer Embark Studios hopes to showcase its team-based, free-to-play, so-called "virtual combat game show" shooter that it promises will "push environmental dynamism, destruction, and player freedom to the limits." In a Steam blog post promoting said beta phase, the game's executive producer talks about having "unlocked a developer's Holy Grail", before telling us that "with server-side destruction and movement, almost everything in The Finals can be wrecked." 

We're fed the same line at a digital preview event, Biblical motifs and all. To be brutally honest, it all feels like the words of marketeers keenly pushing a product. Which is fine, of course. The devs and the game's PR team are here to promote The Finals, and I'm here to play it. It's just… well, I feel like we've heard this spiel or similar a million times before. 

But when I take down an entire floor of a multistory building with an RPG missile at range 20 minutes later – and as I watch three enemies (and one team-mate) plummet from the now obliterated concrete canopy, dust and rubble and huge shards of glass showering down around them – I can't help but think: holy shit, these guys might be onto something.

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Blockbuster set-pieces like this are what drive The Finals, you see. Similar to the online components of the dev team's wider back catalog – Embark Studios is composed of ex-Battlefield and Battlefront veterans – each round's unscripted, incidental player-instigated moments ensure spectacle stays high and your open jaw stays low as the world literally crumbles around you. 

The hows and whys of all of this are pretty simple.