The Finals Season One Patch Notes: Battle Pass, Weapon Changes & More

Full breakdown of Patch Notes for the full release of The Finals, revealed at The Game Awards 2023. Gameplay, content, rewards, everything in Patch 1.2.0 and Season 1

After months of anticipation, Embark Studios has finally released The Finals. The Finals is a brand new battle royal game that features unique, highly destructible maps that cater to fast and explosive gameplay. With the release of Season One, we have a new battle pass, a new map, weapon changes and much more. Here’s everything you need to know for Patch 1.2.0 and The Finals Season 1.

The Finals Season 1 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 content selection 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

New Features

The Finals

• 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 & 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

The Finals

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 customize their controller experience further
• Added separate dead zones for the different analog sticks

Maps

• All
• Finally, the wrecking ball is back! Check the cranes.

• Monaco
• Improved readability of map border

• Skyway Stadium
• Added ‘Evening’ environment condition

Specializations

• Charge’N’Slam
• Updated damage of the ground slam so that it will break floors in buildings more consistently

• Cloaking Device
• Rebalanced fade-in/out durations to make it harder to vanish mid-combat
• Added fade-in/out visual effect

• Grapple Hook
• Fixed a bug where players could become stuck when grappling during a vault

• Recon Senses
• Reduced the total fuel, shortening the max duration
• Fixed an issue where Recon Senses would trigger on enemy statues

Weapons

The Finals

• 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
• Added ability for defibrillators to 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

How to Play The Finals

The Finals is free to play and available now on PC, Xbox Series X/S and PS5.