THE FINALS

The first week of Season 7 is behind us, and we’re so grateful to everyone who has shown up to play THE DIVIDE! This season launch blew us away, and we’ve loved every moment of Season 7 so far! From creative breach plays to Chuck the Healing Emitter rolling in to save the day, this is chalking up to be a season filled with certified THE FINALS moments!

This week we're smoothing out some of the issues introduced in 7.0, adding the Season 6 trophies to the trophy cabinet in the Practice Range and bringing you a fresh updated store!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7RRSeQyIqu4
(Fullscreen video not posted on YouTube yet, only viewable from the update page)

Content and Bug Fixes

Animation

• Fixed animation issue for Ditch & Switch reload animation for the SA1216. It's now moved to be a Reload Empty animation and it's playing the correct asset
• Dev note: those of you who lost this item while it was being repaired will have it back now.

Gadgets

Breaching Drill

• Fixed the issue where the animation when placing the Breach Drill would not play correctly

Healing Emitter

• Fixed an issue where the Healing Emitter could heal through barricades

Practice Range

• Updated Trophy showcase to display the Season 6 trophies

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue that could cause weapon dispersion to break when in certain stances following a death and respawn, for example after jumping and then firing while standing still
• Dev Note: When this issue came up we disabled our new weapon system until we had time to fix the issue. With that done, we’re turning it back on again. If you notice any new or different issues, please let us know, we really appreciate your help :)

Performance&Stability

• Fixed an issue where a severe performance drop could occur while emoting with a linked Gateway while using some specific weapon skins or the Anti-Gravity Cube
• Improved performance on PS4 by reducing memory usage

Social

• Fixed an issue where text chat could not be accessed during parts of the end of round
• Fixed an issue where partying up after having switched party leader could fail for parties over 3 contestants
• Fixed an issue where clubchat messages did not show properly when sent

Store

• Fix discount not showing on the Ray Gun skin

I'm not sure if anyone wants this or cares, but a friend told me I should share this so here it is.

During Season 5 I got tired of loosely tracking my WT WPs in a Notepad file and manually doing the math to check how many WP's I needed each day to stay on track for Emerald 1, so just before Season 6 hit I created this spreadsheet for myself. The Overview worksheet shows an overview of each season, with information like current rank (pulled dynamically based on the WPs you have from tournament games entered into the seasons WT tracker table on the WT worksheet, total WPs, WP remaining for Emerald 1, target WP/day based on remaining, average WP per tournament, total cash cashed out, win percentage, KDR, and total tournaments played.

Same thing for Quick Play basically.

Also the same thing for Ranked, but with RS totals, RS remaining, average RS per tournament, etc.

Here's some screenshots showing the Overview worksheet, as well as the rest of the Table/DB worksheets (https://imgur.com/a/4XebA0r).

Here's a link to the .xlsx on my Google Drive if anyone wants to use it (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mC4Xjvx26H8T5I0Lv98TnqO3PV2vL51m/edit).

Google opens it in Sheets instead of just downloading it, so please ignore all the #ERROR! things in the cells. Apparently named tables, or VLOOKUPs, or some IF statements or something from Excel aren't compatible with Sheets, and I honestly don't care enough to port the formulas over. Having my browser open with Sheets up is more resource heavy while I'm gaming than saving this .xlsx as a .xlsb and just having it open in Excel on another monitor. It all works in Excel, just download from Sheets as .xlsx.

It's been really interesting to see that my feeling that WT was sweatier than Ranked this season supported by my Win Percentage and K/D for each. Also feel free to roast my stats idgaf.

It's already templated out for Season 7, I just cleaned it up before hopping into some games. You can just delete the columns for S6 stuff and start adding games in under the relevant S7 tables. I thought about removing my S6 data but figured I'd leave it in there for context.

Also sorry for imgur link vs catbox, but I didn't want to scare the reddit people.

It’s the last day of reveals, ending with the biggest one of them all: the Preview Event! Read all about it and get the link below.

AN UPDATE FROM OSCAR

Oscar is back with a Community Update for a slightly deeper dive on some of the new features coming to Season 7.

Watch now:
https://youtu.be/Xic6eClUlQo

CONSOLE CHAT

In-game chat is now available for console players. Warm up those typing thumbs, get ready to chat complex game strategies and send encouraging messages to your party - console communication just got a whole lot easier!

WELCOME NEWCOMERS

The Arena can be an intense place for newcomers, so with Season 7 of THE FINALS we are doing multiple changes to make the onboarding just that much nicer.

RECRUIT & RISE

We’re making onboarding more rewarding (and cooperative) with the Recruit and Rise program!

Veteran players (Recruiters) will be able to invite newcomers (Prospects) to team up and play together. There are rewards on the line for both Recruiters and Prospects, and for every Prospect you help graduate into a Recruiter themselves, your recruiter badge upgrades!

EASIER UNLOCKS

Since the launch of THE FINALS we’ve added a bunch of Gadgets, Weapons, Sights and Specializations, so for new players, catching up and unlocking all the cool loadout options can take quite a while. With season 7 of THE FINALS we’re decreasing the VR cost of all items released during Season 1 through 6 to 500 VRs. We are also increasing the VR’s earned during the first three rounds played from 2400 to 5000!

It’s the perfect time to get your friends back into the game - and don’t forget to add them as your Prospect!

FROM GRIND TO UNWIND

Leveling up your badges in Quick Play and World Tour has been described as a bit brutal in Season 6, so we aim to lighten the load in Season 7 by speeding up progression in these more casual modes!

To do this, we are slightly increasing the Quick Play points earned for each Game Mode to boost your progress along as you reach for that gold Quick Play Badge!

In World Tour, we’re also changing the game by awarding 2 Win Points for first round eliminations. This means that the journey to Emerald will be shortened by about 25% for the average player.

LIVE STREAM

We’ve told you all about Season 7 throughout the course of this blog series and now it’s time to see everything new in action!

Join us for our seasonal Preview Event and get a full season walkthrough from Creative Director Gustav, a greeting from Rob, and then a few hours of playtime by Oscar or one of the many content creators taking part in the event !

You can catch Gustav, Rob and Oscar live on twitch.tv/thefinals or on our Youtube Channel at 18:00 CEST on June 11!

Tomorrow we welcome you to The Divide, which side will you fight for, Contestant?

SEE YOU IN SEASON 7!

INTRODUCING MYTHIC TIER

Think of the best skins in THE FINALS, then crank it up.

Mythic is a new tier of cosmetics, reserved for the most outrageous, high-effort, standout items in the game. Things that require custom meshes, special VFX, audio, signature one-of-a-kind features, and more. They take a lot of extra time to create, but they’re made to be unforgettable.

We agree that some of the most awesome items in the game might already hit that quality, so you’ll be seeing a few getting rightfully updated to Mythic in Season 7. Items like the Loop-De-Doom Set that winds a roller coaster around the Lewis Gun that gets more passengers as you get eliminations, will be upgraded so its tier matches its impressiveness.

And you can expect lots of new Mythic items and rewards on the way: such as a Mythic weapon skin that lets you manipulate music tracks that play from the gun itself, or, how about a Mythic outfit that transforms your whole body into VAIIYA’s cybernetic anatomy?

An outfit, which, if you complete the Season 7 Battle Pass, you’ll get as a free reward.

SEASON 7 BATTLE PASS

This Season’s Battle Pass theme draws its style from the collision of VAIIYA’s brutalist precision and CNS’s glitch-glow rebellion. This season’s rewards channel the Rift at the heart of the NOZOMI/CITADEL map. From cybernetic to cyberpunk, every piece you wear tells the Arena where you stand.

96 rewards (106 with the bonus page!) and 1575 Multibucks await you in the Season 7 Premium Battle Pass, more than enough to grab the next pass, plus a few extra shiny trinkets for your collection.

Upgrade to Premium+ to get an additional 20 levels unlocked right off the bat!

Want to keep things free? You’ll still be able to claim 26 cool rewards, including The Devourer (a Mythic character), and 375 Multibucks in exchange for your XP!

ULTIMATE BATTLE PASS

Looking to go all in? The Ultimate Battle Pass includes 10 extra elite rewards, 1,000 Multibucks to spend instantly, and a 20-level head start no matter where you're at. Got fewer than 20 levels left? Your unused boost carries over to Season 8… but don’t wait that long because you’ll also get a 25% Match XP bonus to help you unlock the rest of the Battle Pass in no time.

You’ll also get full access to the Premium Battle Pass. For $29.99, that means 116 total rewards, 2,575 Multibucks, and a 25% Match XP bonus to help you experience the best of Season 7, support the game, and make your presence impossible to ignore.

TO THE BATTLE PAST

Starting in Season 7, Contestants can unlock Legacy Battle Passes to chase some of the most iconic rewards from past seasons. Boxer outfits. TV heads. Towering samurai fits. If you missed them the first time, now’s your shot.

Legacy Passes don’t include Multibucks or Bonus Pages, but if you previously owned a Premium Battle Pass, you’ll already own the Legacy Pass, too! So if you missed an unlock, now it's your time to nab it! Seasons 1-4 go live with Season 7, with a new Legacy BP unlocking each Season.

Crimson Pointe

Season 1 never had a bonus page, so we’re adding something extra to the S1 Legacy Battle Pass: a brand-new outfit to unlock!

Now, even Contestants who have completed every single Battle Pass have something extra to grab!

Season 1 was out of this world!

Note: Back in Season 4, we made the Captain Saucerian Set, a bundle of items from the Season 1 Battle Pass, available for purchase for a limited time during the Halloween Event. We understand that the introduction of Legacy Battle Passes would be frustrating to those who purchased the bundle back then.

To anyone who has purchased the Captain Saucerian Set:
We feel it’s fair that you receive the S1 Legacy Battle Pass for free.

Have fun finishing your Season 1 collection!

INTRODUCING PRACTICE RANGE CHALLENGES

You’ve seen the door in the Practice Range. Now it’s open.

Step into a new set of combat trials built to sharpen your aim, test your loadouts, and push your skills against reactive dummies that hit back.

Go in for a solo challenge or take your Team with you. Hone your skills and set the difficulty you prefer. Just don’t set it too high, or you might find out the real dummy all along was you.

Get in there and make it rain practice coins!

Welcome to NOZOMI/CITADEL, a stunning, fully destructible Arena split by power, purpose, and control.

VAIIYA holds one side with towering precision. CNS claims the other with unruly, iridescent chaos. Between them is a battleground that shifts from tight corridors to wide-open mayhem. From brutal architecture to reactive nature, the Arena feels as divided as the forces fighting inside it.

Here is fly-through of the map from our Lead Environment Artist, Joakim Stigsson, as he explains the inspiration behind NOZOMI/CITADEL:
https://youtu.be/Gh4LvSuABPQ

WHO’S ON EACH SIDE OF THE RIFT?

VAIIYA

Defending your digital frontier.

VAIIYA is the Arena’s first and last line of digital defense. A cybersecurity titan led by CEO Sal Scoria, VAIIYA has decades of experience securing the virtual world with elite firewalls, neural implants, and a zero-tolerance-policy to compromises.

Human ingenuity meets cold and calculating machine logic. VAIIYA keeps threats in check. You couldn’t ask for a safer pair of digital hands, and, according to VAIIYA, you won’t.

Fight smart and stay protected in Season 7, VAIIYA has your back.

CNS

Seek the truth beyond the walls.

CNS is a rogue collective fighting to implement their own vision for the gameshow, and threatening to expose MultiCo and every truth the Arena tries to bury. They’ve hijacked broadcasts, corrupted systems, and left their mark on everything they touch.

CNS weren’t invited. They broke in.

This season, they’re rewriting the show from the inside, and they want you to join the fight.

Which side of the Rift will you fight for in Season 7?

In case you missed it: we revealed our brand new Come and Play Trailer last night at the Future Games Show. It features a mix of old and new, and while it is not the Season 7 trailer, you’ll still catch some sneak peeks of what’s to come!

Watch it again: https://youtu.be/ioYCTDoYEnw

If you didn’t blink, you might have caught on to the three new gadgets we snuck into the video. But don’t worry about speculating, we’ll give you all juicy details below.

Meet the New Gadgets

No matter which side of The Divide you’ll stand on, these new Gadgets are sure to change the way you play.

H+ Infuser | Light

Friendly fire has never been so friendly! The H+ Infuser lets you heal teammates by shooting them. Precision matters. Gratitude is optional. Just be sure to aim well!

Breach Drill | Medium

Walls won’t save them. Stick the Breach Drill to any surface and it burrows through, blinds whoever’s on the other side, and then detonates. Clear the room in a flash.

Healing Emitter | Heavy

Tough Contestants need sturdy healing. Chuck the Healing Emitter near your squad to restore health over time. Just don’t let it roll off, or be snatched out of your reach.

WANT TO SEE THEM IN ACTION?

Tune in on June 11th for our Preview Event extravaganza where you can get a Season 7 rundown from Creative Director, Gustav, or watch as streamers step into the Arena for two hours of showcasing!

Are you a Content Creator that would like to attend the event?
Sign up for the Preview Event for a chance to get an invite! Invites will be sent out very close to the event date.

See you there!

Season 7 doesn’t just reshape the Arena. It gives you the tools to carve your name into it.

Personal player numbers. Stickers that tag objectives. A loadout that redecorates itself every match.

PICK A NUMBER, ANY NUMBER

Every great competitor has a number. The kind that ends up on jerseys, in highlight reels, and in rival chants... Now it’s your turn.

Some want to be #1, others prefer to rock double digits. Starting in Season 7, pick the number that fits your story. You’ll find it on outfits, gear, and in the dreams of the Contestants you defeat.

Change it any time in Social Settings.

STICK IT TO 'EM

Signature Stickers are coming in Season 7! First to the Vault or Cashout Station? Your sticker slaps on automatically.

Weapons have stickers. Now objectives do too.

What’s next? Stickers for your stickers? Anything can happen in THE FINALS!

LET CHAOS DRESS YOU

Indecisive? Good. Equip “Deep Shuffle” on your Weapons and Gadgets. Each round, the game picks a random skin from your collection.

One loadout. Infinite drip.

You bring the fight. Let the look surprise you.

FUTURE GAMES SHOW

Catch us at the Future Games Show on June 7th, which starts at 8pm UTC! Watching live on Twitch.tv/futuregamesshow will give you a chance to earn a Twitch Drop made special for the show! Just watch for 15 consecutive minutes and make sure you’ve set up your Twitch to earn drops!

Mark your calendar and we’ll see you there!

Welcome to THE DIVIDE! Come back Every day until Season 7 for new reveals!

DAY 1 | SEASON 7 IN SIGHT

Season 7 is almost here and it’s time to start the countdown!

CNS, the rogue hacker collective, just hijacked the spotlight. VAIIYA, the elite cybersecurity giant, isn't letting that slide. The two are about to collide, and you’re caught in the middle.

This is where the reveals begin. Over the next seven days, we’ll be bringing you into the kitchen to see what we’ve been cooking with daily updates right here in this blog! There’s a new Map, new styles (and new ways to earn them!), new Gadgets to shift the fight in your favor, and a few top-secret surprises we’re not ready to name just yet.

Don’t blink.

PREPARE FOR THE DIVIDE

VAIIYA and CNS are tearing the Arena in two, literally.

Follow our channels for daily reveals, and jump into our Discord to be part of the drop as it happens.

And if you’re still grinding out Season 6, now’s your moment. Climb the ranks, grab those final rewards, and leave your mark before the lights change.

It all goes down on June 12th.

gCAN’T WAIT FOR JUNE 12th?

If you want to go hands-on with season 7 ahead of time, sign up for preview event OR tune in live on twitch.tv on June 11th to catch a two hour preview of Season 7 featuring your favorite THE FINALS content creators!

VAIIYA or CNS, where will you stand?

Stay tuned for a new commercial from VAIIYA, generous sponsor of the THE FINALS....oh wait, what is happening?

WRAPPING UP SEASON 6

As Season 6 nears its end, we’re keeping things simple this week with a milky fresh store rotation and some final reminders and announcements before the big shift into what’s next.

HEAVY HITTERS enters its third and final week. Complete your Tiger Juice contracts and climb the leaderboard while you still can. The top 10 players will be immortalized on the official Heavy Hitters Trophy, so now’s the time to swing hard and bonk harder.

We’re also down to the wire in the Sponsor Showdown, with ENGIMO holding a strong lead. But the Arena is unpredictable, and there’s still time for OSPUZE or ALFA ACTA to mount a comeback and win the showdown.

HANG OUT WITH OSCAR!

Don’t miss our community stream at 5PM today.Tune in early if you want to see the very first reveal of Season 7. You’re not going to want to miss this.

Earlier this week, some players experienced missing cosmetics due to a temporary issue. That’s now been resolved, and all items have been restored to your inventory.

NEW STORE

This week’s store rotation features the farm-ready Moolah Militia Set (complete with bucket helmet and M60), the Herd Mentality Set with field-inspired skins for six weapons, and a slick new VI Rifle Moves animation for the ARN-220.

That’s all for now - wrap up your contracts, make that final rank push - and we’ll see you tonight on the stream!

Looks like someone’s not too pleased..

Stay tuned for more!

SEE YOU IN THE ARENA!

Fastest "sorry" in the west 🤠

THE SHOWDOWN CONTINUES

As Season 7 approaches, Sponsor Showdown rages on for the second week! Rounds in any gamemode will contribute, so make sure to get those games in, and show support for your Sponsor!

JUST KEEP SWINGING, JUST KEEP SWINGING

The second week of HEAVY HITTERS contracts are out! Work hard, play hard, hit hard! Snatch those event rewards, and show your opponent just how much bonk you still have within you! Make your way into the top ten before the Season’s end and you’ll be immortalized in the trophy case!

A FRUITFUL STORE UPDATE

The store has been updated with some freshly tropical additions! Quench your summer thirst, courtesy of TRENTILA! It’s quite a-peel-ing, check it out:

This was just an experiment to see if I liked video editing. Turns out I do. Whether or not I'm good at it is debatable. Not my favorite clips, just using a limited selection to tinker around and learn editing with. I've got 160+ GB of Finals clips on my PS5 that I need to sort through, eventually.

Song is KIIXSHI & D4C - POTIK (SoundCloud (Spotify, Apple Music).

HEAVY HITTERS is here! Join the 5v5, smash em up, Platform fighter mode where everyone is a heavy with a Hammer!

Noteworthy updates:

• HEAVY HITTERS limited-time mode
• XP boost through rest of season
• Sponsor Showdown circuit goes live
• New Twitch drops
• P.E.A.C.E. Center permanently added to TDM map rotation
• Bug causing status effects like fire, invisibility, detected, etc, no longer persist through respawn
• The water in Kyoto no longer slows you down, you can run through it at full speed
• ARN-220 no longer has unique recoil patterns with each magazine, both have the same pattern now
• FAMAS has less visual recoil
• KS-23 got several buffs to accuracy
• M11 has less visual recoil and less real recoil
• All melee weapons should have better hit registration now
• XP-54 got a damage decrease, but a rate-of-fire increase
• LOTS of smaller bug fixes

Get your teams together and read more about the upcoming Major in this blog series from Oscar!

OSPUZE Tiger Juice
Official Sponsor of Update 6.9!

WHO NEEDS WATER

Double Trouble in the Arena

Kicking it off we’ve got the World Tour where this week, one game show event at a time just isn’t enough - Double Dose is here, and the Arena will never be the same.

For the first time ever, multiple game show events will run simultaneously, throwing contestants into a chaotic cocktail of hazards, modifiers, and total unpredictability. We’ve got three lethal combos lined up for this round of madness:

• Alien Invasion + Low Gravity
• Mega Damage + Drop Bombs
• Orbital Laser + Head Hunter (yep, it’s back!)

This one’s brought to you by OSPUZE, who’s clearly decided that more is more. So expect the unexpected, stay on your toes, and adapt fast. This World Tour stop is going to hit hard and weird.

You’ll be dodging lasers and low-grav aliens across:

• Monaco
• Kyoto
• Bernal
• Skyway Stadium

What’s in the Store?

This week’s store has something for everyone, from tropical heat to silent strikes:

• Tropic Takedown Set – A jungle-ready outfit complete with the Guerilla Grip Lockbolt skin and the “Knife to Meet You” emote
• Brushline Bundles – Stealthy, leafy Leaf No Trace skins for weapons across all three build types
  Live Rounds – A new crossbody cosmetic that says “every bullet tells a story.”

We’re also saying farewell (for now) to Close Quarters and the P.E.A.C.E. Center. As for the Wheel of Trust, ticket collection has ended, but if you’ve still got tickets to spend, you can cash them in or pick up any final pieces to complete your set and unlock the Bull’s Eye Barry outfit.

Whether you're popping emotes in low gravity or getting headhunted under an orbital laser, one thing’s clear: Double Dose is not for the faint of heart. Let’s get into it.

Boom Goes the Drop

This week’s update is light on downloads, but heavy on chaos.

No patch to install, no balance changes or bug fixes. Just fresh content and explosive gameplay straight from the World Tour.

Before we dive into what’s new, a heads-up: we’re now in the final week of ALFA ACTA’s sponsored events: Close Quarters and Wheel of Trust. If you haven’t jumped in yet, now’s the time to complete the contracts, spin the wheel and enjoy some chaotic TDM matches at the P.E.A.C.E Center!

World Tour: Last Drop

This one’s about going out with a bang!

Every time a contestant is eliminated, they drop a live bomb. Pick it up, throw it at an enemy, or run for cover! Just make sure you’re not holding on to one when the timer runs out. Each explosive sticks around for a few seconds… or detonates instantly on impact.

Arenas in rotation:

• Fortune Stadium
• Seoul
• Las Vegas Stadium
• SYS$HORIZON

This Week’s Store Rotation

Over in the store, Arena Security is taking charge with the Lockdown Triad outfit set, while the Final Carving Set adds a stylish new inspect and intro to sharpen your look. ALFA ACTA fans can grab the Redline Overrule bundle for a sleek set of weapon skins, and Junior’s Foresight brings a tactical edge with a knife skin straight from the top floors of the corporate tower.

Get ready to throw hands and bombs. This week, the chaos doesn’t stop until the Last Drop!