Season 5: Next Stage - Update 5.0.0

Added ‘revive sickness’ to players revived by the Defibrillator, causing their Specializations and Gadgets to be placed on a five-second cooldown

Added the ability for Medium contestants to equip the Proximity Sensor

Added the ability for Medium contestants to equip Smoke Grenades

Added the ability for Heavy contestants to equip Smoke Grenades

Added the ability to swap your contestant between team wipes in Quick Cash mode

Audio: Added an entirely new voice to Dede's face. Keep up, or stay out of the way!

Added 30 additional career ranks

Added a warning timer, with a five second wait time, before allowing the player to exit an ongoing match early. Our goal is to reduce disconnect rates, which can ruin matches for other players

Added Cashout ‘Final Round’ to private matches. This is the 3v3 format from the final round of tournaments

Added two new visual variants of destroyed walls and improved material coverage where buildings have been fractured or destroyed

Settings: Added a new graphics quality setting for Reflections

Settings: Added 120Hz mode for Xbox Series X, PS5 and PS5 Pro

Social: Added ‘Incognito Mode’ for players who want to protect themselves when streaming. This feature randomizes the player’s matchmaking queue time to help avoid ‘stream snipers’ and will also hide identifying features such as Rank Score on the player’s own screen

Social: Added the Inbox, accessible in the top right of the main menu. This feature allows us to send players direct messages about important things happening in the game and in individual accounts

Cerberus 12GA: New triple-barrel, break action shotgun for the Medium Class

ShAK-50: New assault rifle for the Heavy Class

Security: New and enhanced Aimbot detection

Security: New detection rules for unfair gameplay added

Security: Added additional levels of game (binary) obfuscation

New Sights & Reduced Visual Recoil: M26 Matter

New Sights & Reduced Visual Recoil: Cerberus 12GA

New Sights & Reduced Visual Recoil: ShAK-50

New Sights & Reduced Visual Recoil: Lewis Gun

New Sights & Reduced Visual Recoil: Model 1887

This first version of Clubs comes with: Club Bonus: Earn extra XP and Fans by competing as a team

This first version of Clubs comes with: Club Wall: Stay in the loop with your Club’s latest activities and keep the conversation alive in the chat (PC only at this time)

This first version of Clubs comes with: Team-Up Requests: Easily find teammates to join you in your favorite modes

This first version of Clubs comes with: Daily Club Contracts: Select two contracts per day, complete them, and boost your individual Club Rank. These contracts are a great way to show your loyalty and dedication to your club!

This first version of Clubs comes with: The Owner leads the Club and sets its direction and information

This first version of Clubs comes with: The Manager helps coordinate members

This first version of Clubs comes with: The Scout handles recruitment, bringing in new talent to strengthen the team

Here’s how it works: Choose Your Soundtracks: Pick from a curated selection of albums, each representing the music of a specific season of THE FINALS

Here’s how it works: Mix It Up: Select multiple albums to create your own playlist experience. The Jukebox will randomly play a track from any of the seasons you’ve chosen, keeping the audio fresh and exciting every time you log in

How it Works: Gift Limits: Players can send up to 5 gifts per day, giving you multiple chances to brighten someone’s day.

How it Works: Premium Battle Pass Gifting: Want to gift the Premium Battle Pass? There’s just one rule - you’ll need to own it yourself first.

Updated the hit sweeps for quick melee attacks, making them much more reliable when trying to hit targets

Jump Pad: Increased cooldown from 30s to 40s

Sonar Grenade: Decreased active duration from 7.52 to 5.25s

Sonar Grenade: Decreased time between sonar pulses from 2.5s to 1.75s

Zipline: Increased cooldown from 30s to 37s

Quick Cash: Updated the respawn system to be wave-based When the first player on a team is eliminated, a respawn timer for the entire team starts to count down. Any other teammates eliminated after this point will join the same respawn timer.

Quick Cash: Updated some of the spawn point selection rules for when teams wipe. These should place teams at a more consistent and reliable distance from the objective

Kyoto: Adjusted the map border to improve the flow in the Hillside area

Kyoto: Redesigned the Bamboo Forest to improve readability and flow, while reducing visual noise

Updated the Cloaking Device to consume energy based on the player’s current movement speed while cloaked, meaning that standing still drains energy much more slowly than running or sprinting

Reworked the Mesh Shield to make it energy based. The shield has 750 energy in total and loses energy each time it takes damage.

93R: Increased damage from 24 to 26

93R: Decreased horizontal recoil after the third burst, making the gun easier to control

93R: Decreased vertical recoil slightly, to make the gun easier to control

93R: Increased the damage fall-off start range from 23m to 28m

93R: Increased the damage fall-off multiplier at max range from 45% to 55%, meaning the weapon will do more damage at a longer range

KS-23: Reduced reload duration of full tactical reload from 4.6s to 3.85s (roughly 16%)

KS-23: Reduced reload duration of full empty reload from 5.13s to 4.36s (roughly 15%)

Dual Blades - Basic attack: Increased the speed and duration of the lunge for each attack animation, making it easier to reach targets that are just out of range

Dual Blades: Decreased the dispersion angle of deflected bullets from 2.5 to 1, meaning deflected bullets are now more accurate

Dual Blades: Decreased the damage modifier for direct hits from enemy bullets from 0.2 to 0.1, meaning players will now take less damage when deflecting hits at the center of the Blades' deflection angle

Dual Blades: Decreased the damage modifier for glancing hits from enemy bullets from 0.4 to 0.3, meaning players will now take less damage when deflecting hits at the edge of the Blades’ deflection angle

Dual Blades: Increased deflection angle from 25 degrees to 35 degrees, making it easier to block and deflect bullets

Dual Blades: Decreased incoming melee damage modifier from 0.33 to 0.25, meaning players will take less damage from melee attacks when trying to deflect

R .357 Revolver: Decreased bullet dispersion when firing from the hip by approximately 20%, making the weapon more accurate

Spear: Increased the lunge distance from 6m to 7.5m on basic attacks, making it easier to hit enemies

Spear - Basic attack: Increased the lunge speed by approximately 15%

Spear: Increased the lunge cancel on basic attacks, causing the player to come to rest earlier once they hit the target

Spear - Secondary attack: Increased the damage of each swing from 100 to 105

XP-54: Increased ammo count from 30 to 34

Weapon Optics: Decreased the amount of animated “visual recoil” significantly on all red dot optics, across all weapons that can equip them, making those weapons easier to aim

Improved first-person animations when running with a charged throwable such as a grenade

Cleaned up some visual noise that could occur in first-person animations when sliding and aiming down sight

Controller: Increased default horizontal sensitivity from 160 to 200

Controller: Increased default vertical sensitivity from 130 to 170

Controller: Increased max horizontal and vertical sensitivity from 500 to 750, giving players more flexibility on what sensitivity they’d like to play with

Gateways will now destroy surrounding goo when activated

Gravity Vortex: Deployable, remote-triggered localized singularity added to the Light class

Lockbolt Launcher: An anchor that latches onto up to three targets added to the Heavy class

Made various optimizations to client performance when playing Kyoto

Performance & Stability: Many optimizations for the PS4 and the 120Hz console mode

Social: Clubs feature added, allowing players to form clubs with up to 50 members, complete daily club contracts, and more

UI: Updated the ‘Play’ button, making it easier to understand where to queue and where to switch modes

UI: Updated the “new” label shown in front-end menus to make it less intrusive

Overhauled the VOIP system to make it more consistent and reliable, including some fixes to ensure it better respects player settings

Security: Hardware restriction capabilities will now be implemented

Animation: Fixed an issue where the player’s character could deform when respawning

Animation: Fixed an issue where the player could ride ziplines while emoting at the same time

Fixed an issue where the player would trigger multiple pickup animations when attaching to a zipline while picking up a deployable item

Animation: Fixed a minor clipping issue on SR-84

Fixed an issue where hand gesture animations could play while blocking with the Dual Blades

Audio: Fixed an issue where some player sounds could persist after they are eliminated

Contracts & Achievements: Fixed an issue that could cause any Contracts that required headshots to complete to progress via backstabs with the Dagger by mistake

Contracts & Achievements: Fixed an issue that caused interrupted decryptions in Terminal Attack mode to not count towards the "As a team, steal a cashout or interrupt a decryption N times" contract

Contracts & Achievements: Fixed an issue where the "Finish the tutorial" achievement would fail to trigger when completing the Cashout Tutorial

Fixed an issue where players could use and pick up the Jump Pad at the same time

Fixed an issue causing cloaked characters to be overly bright for players using Thermal Vision on the PS5 Pro and on PC, when the TSR Resolution Scaling Method was selected

Fixed an issue where the UI would not behave as expected when backfilling into a match

Fixed a rare issue where players would be unable to spawn when backfilled into a match

Bank It: Fixed an issue that caused Coins to block projectiles

Fixed an issue where weapon customization would not get updated when the player swapped contestant in Power Shift mode

Gameplay: Fixed an issue that caused players on ziplines to not be detached when hitting goo blobs

Gameplay: Fixed an issue where poisonous gas could wrongly block various interactions and projectiles

Gameplay: Fixed an issue that allowed players to pick up objects while emoting

Fixed various behavior issues with doors and how they function

Performance & Stability: Fixed an issue on the client side that could cause performance issues

Performance & Stability: Fixed an issue where volumetric fog could cause ‘ghosting’ around the edges of the screen on Xbox Series S and on PCs with Shadow Quality set to Medium

Fixed an issue where Glitch effects could interrupt an Evasive Dash that was already in progress, changing the length of the dash

Fixed an issue introduced in 4.8 that accidentally caused the Grappling Hook to break glass surfaces rather than stick to them

Fixed an issue in the inventory HUD that caused it to look like the player could equip an item when they could not

UI: Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause the player to be stuck with Nama Tama hints on the main menu every time they returned to that screen

Fixed several issues where weapons could end up in a locked state, unable to fire or attack

Fixed an issue that caused Glitch Grenades to not detonate on impact with Dome Shields and Mesh Shields

Spear: Fixed an issue with the secondary attack which could cause players within range of the swing not to be hit

Cloaking Device: Removed the ability for burning damage to break the cloaking effect

Cloaking Device: Removed the ability for poison damage to break the cloaking effect