The Finals Update 1.5.5 Makes Balance Changes, Adds Crash Fixes, and More
The Finals developer Embark Studios has released update 1.5.5, which makes a number of significant balance changes.
The balance changes for weapons and gadgets include a decrease in the length of invulnerability after revival, Embark said in a post on Steam. The full notes can be seen below.
Elsewhere, there are crash fixes and an adjustment to tournament matchmaking “that will lead to tighter player skill-gap in tournaments”. There’s also a fix to the crossplay settings “so it can be turned off successfully”. There’s some new content in the store, too.
Embark added that it now recognises that the Recon Senses ability for the Medium build needs an overhaul. The developers are working on that right now, and changes should be made in next week’s update.
The Finals is a free-to-play competitive first-person shooter made by former Battlefield developers. It launched with a huge concurrent player count on Steam, where it’s still going strong and wowing fans with its impressive destruction tech.
IGN’s The Finals review returned an 8/10. We said: “The Finals is a fresh and exciting take on team based PVP shooters, featuring some of the best environmental destruction in any FPS.”
Not everything has gone down well with fans though, as Embark was criticised for using AI voiceovers in The Finals by myriad voice actors and even other developers. Embark told IGN that "making games without actors isn't an end goal" and claimed it uses a mix of both recorded audio voices and audio generated via AI text to speech tools for its games. The Finals also endured a torrid time with cheating, although Embark declared the problem over last month.
Balance Changes Gadgets Defibrillators
Revives
Weapons .357 Revolver
CL-40
FCAR
Guardian Turret
MGL32
Throwing Knives
Content And Bug Fixes
Crashes
Matchmaking
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