Midseason Update 8.6.0

Game Mode Update: Team Deathmatch.

Game Mode Update: Power Shift.

Head 2 Head: Added the Match Summary Report to the end of the round

Powershift: Added Nozomi/Citadel to the map pool

Gameplay: Added ability for Instant Replay to show the perspective from various Gadgets such as Grenades and Turrets

Gameplay: Added slow-motion effect at end of Instant Replays

Nozomi/Citadel: Added an extra cube for cover next to Cybercafe along The Rift, and slightly adjusted a jump pad on the Operations Center side so players can reach the new cube

Cosmetics: Adjusted skirt movement on certain cosmetic combinations in order to reduce clipping

Cosmetics: Updated position of the Sword, Sledgehammer, SR-84 and Model 1887 when inspecting in the menu to better fit the view

Cosmetics: Improved Pet animation to smoothen out the animation, regardless of player framerate

Gameplay: Tracking effects from Sonar Grenade, Proximity Sensor, and Tracking Dart will now reveal players through smoke and will reveal Cloaked players who are standing still

Updated the visuals of the construction crane rope and fixed an issue where it disappeared on low graphics settings

Bernal: Re-enabled the Suspended Sponsor Structures map variant now that the lighting issues have been resolved

Kyoto: Updated residential and hatch roof ridges to prevent vaulting unintentionally

Kyoto: Updated the collision of the rock meshes in the villa compound garden, allowing deployables to be placed in a more expected way

Solid bushes in Kyoto have been reworked for consistent behavior with other vegetation

Las Vegas: Simplified the collision of the railing set to fix an issue where players could get stuck between railing and wall

Seoul: Updated railing modules and placement in garden area to better indicate where there is a death pit and where there is a safe area to drop

Sys$horizon: Slightly adjusted the size of a floating cube between the Library wings to avoid an unintended angle where you could shoot the feet of other players

Sys$horizon: Brought back the missing destruction VFX and SFX in the Campus area

Performance & Stability: Improved in-game UI performance

Performance & Stability: Reduced some stutter caused by increased memory usage

Performance & Stability: Updated the recommended NVIDIA driver version to prevent potential compatibility issues

Performance & Stability: Improved performance in the Social section

Private Matches & Spectator: Improved spectator experience with interaction sounds and progress visualization

Discord Social Integration: You can now connect/disconnect your Discord account to your Embark ID in Settings > Social > Account.

Discord Social Integration: This feature is available on Steam, Xbox and Xbox on PC. It is not available on PlayStation

Discord Social Integration: Connecting your Discord account will now enable THE FINALS to provide you with enhanced social experiences so you can share your Party size, game mode, and Time-in status in your Discord Rich Presence

Discord Social Integration: You’ll be able to see your Discord friends who play an Embark Game in-game

Discord Social Integration: Will allow you to invite your Discord friends to join your in-game party on Discord, even if they don’t have the game running

Discord Social Integration: Will allow your friends to join your open party directly from Discord

Social Friends Screen updates: A unified friend list that combines both Discord and Embark friends into one list

Social Friends Screen updates: Improved performance for very large friend lists

Social Friends Screen updates: You will always be shown at the top of the party list

Social Friends Screen updates: You can now set your party to Open to Friends on the Social Friends screen, which allows any in-game friends to join your party by clicking on your player profile in the Social Friends screen and selecting the option ‘Join Their Party’.

Social Friends Screen updates: You can now change your display name in-game by going to Settings > Social > Account and choosing Edit Embark ID in order to update your name.

Activating the Grapple Hook will now cancel any ongoing interactions

VFX: Optimized the Ultimate BP smoke FX so that it no longer obstructs the player view when aiming down sights

VFX: The effect visible on characters detected by Gadgets has now been updated to be more visible in smoke

VFX: BFR Titan

VFX: CB-01 Repeater

VFX: M26 Matter

VFX: Model 1887

VFX: SA1216

M60: Reworked the base model for a much needed facelift

Riot Shield: Updated walk animations when the shield is up to align better with the shield’s collision

Cosmetics: Fixed an issue where the top of the flag capes would sometimes clip into Heavy Contestant's upper back

Cosmetics: Fixed an issue where some T-shirt’s clipped with Crossbody items

Cosmetics: Fixed an issue where turtlenecks had clipping issues with arms on low settings

Cosmetics: Fixed an issue where the CNS Crossbody on the Muscular Heavy Build would not display the CNS glitch effect

Cosmetics: Fixed the ENVY team logo not displaying correctly on the ENVY Weapon skin for the SA1216

Cosmetics: Fixed compression artifact on the ENVY bundle Helmet

Cosmetics: Fixed the lightning effects from the Ned skin being visible through smoke

TDM: Fixed an issue with a spawn in SYS$Horizon that caused players to fall underneath the map

Gameplay: Fixed the Turret deployment animation and Turret laser not appearing correctly in replays

Gameplay: Fixed an issue where players were unable to move after opening the Loadout screen on the same frame as respawning

Gameplay: Fixed issue where the Player Card or damage log could get stuck on the screen

Gameplay: Fixed issue where spamming spacebar to respawn could prolong the spawn timer

Gameplay: Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause melee and ranged attacks not to register on the target player. These were most common in situations such as melee attacks versus backpedaling crouched players, or shooting players who were airborne such as after using a Jump Pad

Fixed a noticeable seam in the lake of the Kyoto map for better visual continuity

Las Vegas: Fixed sponsor color on Ziplines

Practice Range: Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in the ceiling by using the Gateway

Fixed the Seoul Hospital skybridge so it consistently breaks when one side is destroyed

Seoul: Fixed a collision issue where players could clip into background buildings

Sys$horizon: Fix for middle backdrop building blocking players and bullets

Sys$horizon: Fixed the floating square mesh so it breaks when relevant architecture is destroyed

Performance & Stability: Resolved a rare client memory stomp crash when updating animations

Performance & Stability: Fixes to our most common crashes

Private Matches & Spectator: Fixed a bug where it was possible to change your Loadout after reconnecting to Ranked Cashout in Private Matches

UI: Fixed teams sometimes having different positions in the HUD scoreboard versus the overlay scoreboard

VFX: Fixed a collision issue which could result in destroyed glass particles floating in the air

TDM: Disabled revive statues and removed Defibrillators

Powershift: Disabled the Alien Invasion game show event to avoid unexpected overtime losses when lifted off the platform, and to avoid destruction related performance issues

Gameplay: Removed Instant Replays from playing on friendly eliminations

Riot Shield: Removed hit reaction animations in 3rd person if a Contestant is hit while shielded to minimize collision mismatches