The Finals’ Season 2 brings hacker powers, a 5v5 mode, new map and more to the multiplayer shooter this week

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The second season of pretty damn excellent multiplayer team shooter The Finals is landing later this week. The hacker-themed Season 2 will introduce a new playstyle with world-altering gadgets, a brand new five-on-five game mode, an extra map, beta support for private matches and more.

Announced with a glitchy, chiptune-backed trailer, The Finals Season 2 centres around the exploits of rogue hackers CNS and their effect on its game show-within-a-game. Accordingly, the headline addition is the new Hacker playstyle, offering a set of gadgets for each of The Finals Light, Medium and Heavy classes focused around ‘hacking’ the world to do some pretty out-there things.

Light characters get the Gateway gadget, a pair of grenade-like portals that function almost exactly like Sombra’s teleporters in Overwatch 2; throw both ends down and both you and your teammates can zap between them. Bullets can’t pass through them, but objects can if you’re carrying a cash box, for example.

Mediums, meanwhile, get two gadgets. The Dematerializer is a quick way of making a hole in something without having to blast your through way through a wall or ceiling, and most interestingly appears to be temporary - allowing you to close a passage back up after you’ve hopped through. The potential for dropping deposit boxes down a couple floors without leaving yourself vulnerable is definitely interesting. It can also clear away objects, such as irritating goo. Second in their arsenal is the Data Reshaper, which turns objects into other objects - the idea being that you can use it to get rid of enemy mines or other defences, but it looks like you can just use it to transform anything you like, too.

Finally, Heavys get the Portal-esque Anti-Gravity Cube, which affects both people and objects, letting them float into the air - something that could presumably be used to move around the map, or just disrupt your opponents while you pop them in the head.

All of the builds will also get new weapons to play