Patchnotes

This is a list of all the current patches for THE FINALS.

Full Release

Patch	Date
Update 1.5.5	2024-01-24
Hotfix 1.5.1	2024-01-19
Update 1.5.0	2024-01-17
Update 1.4.1	2024-01-11
Update 1.4.0	2023-12-20
Update 1.3.0	2023-12-15
Hotfix 1.2.3	2023-12-13
Xbox Hotfix 1.2.1	2023-12-11
Hotfix 1.2.2	2023-12-09
Season 1 1.2.0	2023-12-08

Playtests

Patch	Date
Open Beta - Update 1	2023-11-01
Open Beta	2023-10-26
Closed Beta 2 - Update 1	2023-06-16
Closed Beta 2 - Hotfix 1	2023-06-15
Closed Beta 2	2023-06-14

Closed Beta One

CB1 Patch 5 - Mar. 20, 2023

Contestants! Just a few tweaks and fixes as we near the finish line.

Fixes & Updates

• Tournaments
  • Fixed an issue where penalties for leaving tournaments early weren't applied.

Balance Updates

Abilities

• Guardian Turret
  • Fixed an issue where turrets would have no cooldown

Weapons

• LH1
  • Reduced LH1 magazine size to 15 from 20
  • Increased bullet dispersion when firing from the hip when crouching
  • Increased recoil slightly
  • Decreased recoil recovery speed slightly

CB1 Patch 4 - Mar. 17, 2023

Heading into the weekend, we got a patch coming your way, with both fixes and balance updates, and the addition of a Diamond League to the ranking system! Buckle up!

Fixes & Updates

Animations

• Fixed an issue where manual action reloads would sometimes not trigger.

Audio

• Tweaked ranges for various Foley sound effects.
• Tweaked relevancy of indoor ambience.
• Updated various clothing sounds.
• Added progress sound for getting revived by a teammate.

Characters

• Fixed an issue where some characters would appear without clothing.
• Fixed an issue where characters would become permanently invisible.

Gravity Glove

• Improved response time when picking up items.

Levels

• Improved interactions with vertical ziplines to make them easier to use.
• Removed camera shake from Cashout Stations.
• Made crane ziplines indestructible.

Ranked Mode

• Added Diamond League to the ranking system.

UI

• Fixed an issue with teams not highlighting correctly on the tournament pyramid.
• Fixed an issue where squad loadouts would not change during drafting.
• Fixed an issue where the 'Invite to Party' button would show for the party leader even when the party was full.
• Fixed an issue hindering Report a Player from recent players screen.
• Visual Effects
• Tuned various muzzle flash effects.

Balance Updates

Modes

• Cashout Mode
  • Reduced team wipe respawn times from 25 seconds to 20 seconds.

Abilities

• Cloak
  • Added new audio when in use, including volume adjustments based on movement speed and new exit and entry audio.
  • Increased the max duration from 10 seconds to 12 seconds.

• Dash
  • Fixed an issue where dash sound effects would not play.

Body Types

• Heavy
  • Reduced Heavy health from 350 to 325.

Gadgets

• Dome Shield
  • Reduced radius by 25%.
  • Increased friction and reduced bounce to make Dome Shields easier to place.
  • Removed the ability to pick them up.
  • Fixed an issue where they could knock over or push Cashout Stations and Vaults.

• Defibrillators
  • Reduced the health given by 50%.

• Explosive Mines
  • Fixed an issue where spectator cameras could detonate mines.
  • Increased Mine environmental damage from 550 to 1025.

Arenas Carribles

• Oil Barrel
  • Increased Oil Barrel environmental damage from 550 to 2050.

Weapons

• .30-06 Sniper
  • Fixed an issue where the crosshair of the sniper scope could twitch.

• AKM
  • Increased AKM magazine size from 30 to 36.

• Flamethrower
  • Reduced Flamethrower reload time from 4 seconds to 3.5 seconds.

• LH1
  • Increased LH1 magazine size from 10 to 20.

• M32 Grenade Launcher
  • Reduced M32 reload time from 3.5 seconds to 3.1 seconds.

• M60
  • Reduced M60 reload time from 4 seconds to 3.5 seconds.

• M11
  • Increased magazine size from 32 to 40.

• Pump-action Grenade Launcher
  • Reduced Pump-action manual action reload duration by 20%.

• Repeater Shotgun
  • Decreased bullet dispersion size.

• Riot Shield
  • Increased Riot Shield damage from 60 to 68.

• SA1216 Shotgun
  • Decreased bullet dispersion size.

• Sledgehammer
  • Increased Sledgehammer damage from 130 to 145.
  • Increased Sledgehammer environmental damage from 550 to 685.

• Sword
  • Increased Sword damage from 45 to 74.

• V9S
  • Increased V9S magazine size from 18 to 24.

CB1 Patch 3 - Mar. 14, 2023

Fixes & Updates

Cashout Mode

• Added a visual effect to coins being lost from Cash Boxes as their value reduces over time in the last 2 minutes of the round.
• Updated HUD widgets to show accurate value of cash boxes during the last two minutes of the round.

Movement

• Fixed an issue where players could get "ice-skating" movement as a result of bad goo spawns.
• Made improvements to jump, fall, and landing animations.
• Made improvements to Medium body type vault and ledge grab animations.
• Added speed clamping to some moves, to prevent exploits where players could boost across large distances very quickly.
• Added air friction and drag to prevent players traveling faster than intended over long distances when airborne.
• Fixed an issue where players could fly by repeatedly vaulting on liftable props.

Scoreboard

• Squad names added.
• Eliminated icon now show when a player is eliminated.
• Local player is now highlighted.

Customization

• Fixed an issue where pants would clip with the Cowboy Boots.

UI

• Fixed an issue where multiple slots in the Loadout could have the same item.
• Fixed "new offers" timer so it updates in real-time in the store.
• Added an active state to buttons on the contracts and settings screens.
• The store purchase notification now closes automatically when a purchase is complete.
• The unlock notification now closes automatically when unlocks are completed on the battle pass screen.
• Fixed an issue where the fire effect would linger on the spectator camera after elimination.
• Added a contracts summary to the end-of-round flow.
• Fixed an issue where the 'Round Over' screen would sometimes show the wrong result.
• Fixed various issues relating to the feedback survey screens.
• Made picking up revive statues even more reliable.

Spectator

• Fixed an issue where the spectated player's Loadouts didn't show correctly.

Levels

• Fixed an issue where players couldn't shoot through fences or railings.
• Updated the trajectories of some pre-placed jump-pads in Seoul.

Audio

• Updated hit sound with more coins to help it penetrate the audio mix more gracefully.
• Lowered hit sound to reasonable loudness level to avoid it sticking out too much at lower game audio volume levels.
• Slightly increased hit sound ducking to carve more space for it in the mix.
• Fixed an issue where the low health sound would continue playing during the end of round screens.

Controls

• Fixed an issue preventing the binding of mouse buttons such as Mouse 4 and 5.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the unbinding of duplicate buttons.

Graphics Settings

• Made various changes to improve the visual quality of Low and Medium graphics settings.

Destruction

• Fixed an issue where props and objectives would float in the air after destruction.

Balance Adjustments

Weapons

• M32 GL
  • Increased round fuse time to 2.5 seconds from 1.2 seconds.
  • Rounds will now detonate on impact after one bounce.
  • Reduced explosion inner radius to 1.5m from 2m.

• Pump-action GL
  • Increased max damage to 84 from 80.
  • Increased min damage to 45 from 30.

• .30-06 Sniper
  • Fixed an issue where bullet dispersion could occur when aiming down sights.

• Flamethrower
  • Reduced the intensity of visual effects when fired directly at the player.

Gadgets

• APS Turret
  • Reduced APS Turret radius to 3m from 5m.

• Dome Shield
  • Fixed an issue where the Dome Shield wouldn't block bullets from Turrets.

• Ziplines
  • Fixed an issue where players could exploit the zipline to perform larger than intended jumps.

• Goo Grenade
  • Fixed an issue where Goo could be attached to objects that were attached to Cashout Stations, causing them to move.

• Explosive Mine
  • Fixed an issue that caused Mines to not detonate.

Abilities

• Turret
  • Reduced Turret health to 300 from 350.
  • Reduced Turret damage to 5 from 7.

• Mesh Shield
  • Fixed an issue where Mesh Shield wouldn't block bullets from Turrets.

• Charge 'n' Slam
  • Fixed an issue where the ability animation would stutter.

• Goo Gun
  • Fixed an issue where Goo could be attached to objects that were attached to Cashout Stations, causing them to move.

CB1 Balance Patch 1 - Mar. 14, 2023

• Cashout Scoring
  • Increased score reward from 100 to 200 for eliminations
  • Increased score reward from depositing Cash Boxes from 1000 to 3000

• Cashout Re-spawning
  • Reduced team wipe re-spawn duration from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.

• Quickplay
  • Increased number of Respawn Coins from 2 to 4

• Gadgets
  • Jump pad
    • Reduced the number of Jump Pads players can have deployed at once from 2 to 1
    • Jump pad cooldown reduced from 20 seconds to 15 seconds.
  • Zipline
    • Cooldown increased from 20 seconds to 30 seconds.

CB1 Patch 2 - Mar. 9, 2023

• Say goodbye to the crackling noiseǃ
• Fixed a bug that prevented rewards from showing up.
• Made it easier to pick up statues to prevent triggering unintentional revives.
• The "Phantom Footsteps" bug should be gone nowǃ
• Fixed a bug that made vaults go flying when goo was attached to them.
• A major adjustment to XP for win/lossː now you'll earn 500 XP for each round played.
• Fixed a bug that caused some players to get stuck in the menu.
• Fixed the most frequent client crashes.
• Numerous smaller bug fixes and adjustment.

CB1 Patch 1 - Mar. 8, 2023

• Fixed a bug where bullet hits wouldn't register for some clients
• Fixed a bug that caused third-person characters to get stuck in frozen animation states.
• Fixed a client crash that sometimes occurred when downloading avatar images.
• Improved the level of detail for high-quality graphics settings.

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