The Finals is getting blasted on Steam for slowing the game down, except the developer says it didn't change speeds at all
The Finals, the highly-destructible FPS from ex-Battlefield devs, surprise launched at The Game Awards last night. The shooter had just recently ended a very successful open beta that attracted hundreds of thousands of players, but many (myself included) wondered if Embark Studios still planned to get the game out before the end of 2023. Now it's here, and launch day is going well: The Finals is one of the most-played games on Steam right now, peaking at over 200,000 concurrent players on PC alone.
There is one hangup, though—a lot of people aren't happy that Embark slowed down player movement between open beta and launch. The pushback is strong enough that The Finals currently sits at «Mixed» on Steam with over 3,000 negative reviews, and a lot of them are about movement.
«Y'all remember how buttery and smooth the movement felt in the beta?» reads a top-upvoted user review from Steam user ThatTimberWolf. «Yeah, they nerfed the movement speed for ALL classes by a very noticeable amount, and introduced delays in some of the animations. Everything feels extremely sluggish now, even while playing the Light class.»
«PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE revert the movement changes. <3,» reads another negative review.
«Revert the speed cowards,» reads another.
Except, Embark says it hasn't changed player speeds at all since open beta, and isn't quite sure why players think it has. They do have a few good guesses, though.
«We have been investigating your feedback on the feel of the movement from Open Beta to now. It’s been hard to pinpoint because there was no change in the movement system or the movement speed between the two tests,» wrote Embark community lead Dusty Gustafsson in The Finals Discord server.
«We have identified a few things
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