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Embark Studios announced today that The Finals Season 2 begins mid-March.
Season 2 adds a new map, new gadgets, more weapons, new world events, a new playstyle, and an all-new 5v5 game mode.
The Finals is a free-to-play first-person shooter video game developed and published by Nexon subsidiary, Embark Studios.
It focuses on team-based matches on maps with destructible environments. Players are encouraged to use the dynamic environment to their advantage
The Finals Season 2 content
According to the lore, the game show has been infiltrated by the rogue hacking collective CNS, leaving showrunners scrambling to decode their cryptic messages.
In The Finals Season 2, contestants can explore fresh weapons for each class, a hacked new map, the brand-new 5v5 game mode Power Shift, a new skill-based league system, rewarded weekly career progression, private matches for custom games, and the new Hacker Playstyle.
This new playstyle offers contestants several ways to manipulate the arena to their advantage.
The Finals Season 2 release date
The Finals Season 2 begins on March 14, 2024.
What is Hacker Playstyle in The Finals Season 2?
The Hacker Playstyle lets players step into the shoes of CNS, who possesses a new set of gadgets and a new specialization that can be integrated with players’ existing toolset.
As a “glitch in the system”, the Hacker Playstyle allows you to remove walls, defy gravity, tunnel across the arena, and transform items, bringing a new dimension to the game.
The Dematerializer for Mediums
This specialization temporarily erases physical surfaces such as walls, ceilings, or goo, allowing contestants to see, shoot, and pass through them. You’ll be able to create new passageways and close them back up again.
The Anti-Gravity Cube for Heavys
The Anti-Gravity Cube for Heavys is a deployable cube that manipulates gravity in its immediate area, lifting contestants and objects upwards.
Whether you use it for for travel or defense, it’s up to you.
The Gateway for Lights
The Gateway for Lights is a pair of limited-range deployable portals. When both are thrown and activated, contestants and objects can move between the two locations.
Anyone can use a portal, but players can’t see or shoot through them.
The Data Reshaper for Mediums
The Data Reshaper for Mediums is a gadget that modifies enemy fortifications or any random object into something else entirely.
For example, you can turn an enemy mine into a chair or an enemy turret into a table, which is useful for breaking through defenses.
The Finals Season 2 new weapons
All builds have new added weapons.
The 93R burst-fire machine pistol is added to Lights, while the new FAMAS burst assault rifle is added to Mediums. Heavys are able to wield the new KS-23 slug shotgun.
The Finals Season 2 new map SYS$HORIZON
CNS introduces its own Arena, SYS$HORIZON.
Featuring a mix of vertical and horizontal gameplay, this glitchy, neon-filled cityscape exists in the loading realm of the game show.
Between buildings you’ll find Voxel bridges, as well as pieces of floating, glitched geometry that allow contestants to parkour through the arena. Overall, it looks particularly stunning at night.
The Finals Season 2 new game mode Power Shift
Power Shift is a casual, 5v5 game mode where two teams compete to escort a platform through the arena.
When confronted by the enemy team, the platform stops moving or will switch direction entirely. Note that the platform rips through anything in its path and can be rocked by physics.
Players can switch contestants between respawns to adapt on the fly.
The Finals Season 2 ranked play
The revamped League System includes league rewards and improved ranked play.
The new Career Progression system offers weekly rewards from Seasonal Sponsors. Contestants can complete contracts throughout the season when they move from Rookie to Pro.
What is The Finals?
The Finals game concept is based on a televised virtual combat game show, reflected in the holographic crowds seen during gameplay and the commentary provided by the game in the form of various hosts making observations about the status of a given team or the game itself.
Embark Studios stated that the game is partly inspired by The Hunger Games and Gladiator (2000). All game modes feature three or four teams, each competing against each other in a free-for-all.
The game is free on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
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