The Finals Season 2: release date, new weapons, map, game mode, and more

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The Finals Season 2: release date, new weapons, map, game mode, and more
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Season 2 of The Finals will launch on March 14, 2024, with a new map, game mode, gadgets, and weapons, enabling players of the spectacular free-to-play shooter to take the field with a completely fresh playstyle thanks to the power of hackers. Wait, don’t misunderstand that – we’re not talking about the bad kind of hacker that ruins everyone’s fun.

Find out below what there is to know about The Finals Season 2, which is out in just a couple of days from now.

The Finals Season 2: new map

A rogue hacking collective by the name of CNS has compromised the game show players are participating in as part of The Finals’ setting, which leads to all kinds of thrilling shenanigans in Season 2. One of these is the new map introduced to The Finals, SYS$HORIZON. It’s a glitchy, neon-colored cityscape in which visual bugs and faulty geometry allows players to move in very unexpected ways, surprising their opponents.

The Finals Season 2 poster.
The Finals Season 2 features hackers that actually add fun to the game / Embark Studios

The Finals Season 2: new gadgets

For even more reality-altering powers, The Finals Season 2 has the brand-new Hacker Playstyle. It comes with a bunch of new gadgets that allow you to remove terrain, manipulate gravity, and transform items – yeah, it’s going to be wild.

Here’s an overview of the new gadgets in The Finals Season 2:

  • The Gateway (Light): Ever played the Engineer in Team Fortress? This allows you to set up a teleport network between two points, enabling players to traverse long distances in the blink of an eye to show up from a surprising angle or reinforce a fight quickly.
  • The Dematerializer (Medium): Temporarily wipe out walls, floors, ceilings, and whatever else is in your path to see, move, and shoot through.
  • The Data Reshaper (Medium): Did you ever think that it’d be quite handy to have an item that could just change an enemy mine into a harmless chair? Well, the Data Reshaper is making this wish a reality. Think of it as a sheep stick from Dota 2, but for fortifications.
  • The Anti-Gravity Cube (Heavy): You better believe you can fly! This handy tool defies the laws of gravity, lifting players and objects in its immediate vicinity into the air.

The Finals Season 2: new weapons

If you’re not interested in those kinds of toys, don’t worry: The Finals Season 2 is expanding the weapons arsenal as well:

  • 93R (Light): burst-fire machine pistol.
  • FAMAS (Medium): burst-fire assault rifle.
  • KS-23 (Heavy): slug shotgun.

The Finals Season 2: new game mode

When it comes to using all of these brand-new tools, Embark Studios is upgrading the variety as well in the form of an additional game mode called Power Shift. Pitting two teams of five players against each other, Power Shift is a tug-of-war type mode. Both teams need to escort a floating platform to locations in opposite directions. With the platforms being able to destroy terrain and be affected by physics, this mode is making full use of The Finals’ impressive technical base.

For competitively-minded players, Season 2 features an overhauled league system for a better ranked play experience, including weekly rewards and a streamlined career progression. Tests for private matches will be available in Season 2 as well.

You can watch the update’s trailer below:

The Finals Season 2 is coming PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S on March 14, 2024.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg