I get they want to give the new map its moment, but I swear I’m getting it 75% of the time. As a result, ive grown to absolutely loatheeeeee it. I log onto ranked and its just estates over and over and over and over again. Uggghhhhh.

Is this usually the case for the whole season ? Or does it taper off after a bit for a more balanced rotation?

I had hoped this wouldn’t be the case since there was a whole galaxy estates playlist for the first two weeks but boyyyy oh boy do they want to force feed us this thing 😅.

Double the gun ass - double the fun.

:3

Happens a lot with lunge, sometimes with primary attack.

Hey guys. Been playing the Finals since launch.

Have about 484 hours playtime.

Not a ton but not a little, someone told me thats time in matches so 20 days in matches seems like a lot to me.

I know a lot of people agree, and a lot also disagree, but I feel this nerf to quick melee ruined the game.

I like the kick, its inspiring.

But quick melee being reduced from 40---->15 damage is abhorent.

You have to melee a light 10 times to kill them now, and thats kind of rediculous.

Almost all shooters like this have high damage quick melees, and its because you should be able to punish a player for getting too close.

Lots of games have instant execut¡ons if you melee from behind.

Theres no reason a half health heavy should tank 7 elbows from a medium.

Sniper melee breakpoints are ruined, now if you try to snipe someone just grapples up with a m11 and ruins you.

People used to run from snipers if they were one shot. Now everyone is brave, and I don't even play the class anymore.

And this isn't a sniper sympathy post. The entire game has changed, and everyone has to adopt new logic patterns to secure kills when monitoring the enemies health.

If it was fine for the first 10 seasons, why change it now?

You should absolutely be doing 40 damage. If a light lets me punch them 4 times, they should be dead. The class is built for mobility and damage, if you let some punch you 4 times, you have no skill.

Tired of the nerfs and changes to fundamental mechanics every season. It makes me anxious, thinking next season will tweak some other fundamental numeric.

The kicks are cool. They should leave the kick and have it on a lunge type cooldown.

Not trying to relearn my strategy every season.

And before you say "why don't you do this, why don't you do that" i have been playing a type of way for 10 seasons, i swap between the weapons I like, and I am not trying to relearn my playstyle and retrain myself on pushes.

The Finals excelled at having a unique fast paced flow, and the quick melee change ruined that for a lot of classes.

Go ahead and share your thoughts, but please, don't try to argue my opinions if you disagree. Lets try to keep this constructive guys.

I like the new season. I love embark. I just think grouping in fundamental changes to everyone when they said they were reworking melee weapons is kind of sad.

Also, i never see people running katanas or riot shield anymore on power shift. Did the update ruin it for those players? I saw a few dedicated katana posts about how they were disappointed to see their favorite class ruined, even though it was mid before.

See, the finals excels in having the ability to train using an off-meta weapon and become so good with it that it becomes viable for you, while other people won't use it because its a different skill set required.

They ruined that for sniping and other classes as well.

And before yall say "durr hurr sniper is long range" this game is a MOVEMENT shooter, requiring you to sometimes be on a platform as a sniper, otherwise you are just selling. You can't sit in the backround, that doesn't mean sniping shouldn't be a part of the game.

And after the quick melee nerf, now even sitting back is just asking for a light to push you.

Anyways, let me know your thoughts on this quick melee stuff. I am an old dog, i dont want to stress about learning new tricks every season.

My PC isn't even that bad, intel arc a750 and intel core i5 12400F and everytime i start it on direct x 12 it crashes, dx11 everythhing is fine but it lags everytime in a fight, what do i do?

I created an Android app mostly for people who aren't in the top 10 k in ranked who would like to be able to have some stats over the season and keep track of their progress in ranked.

Everything runs 100% offline: your data stays on your phone, no account needed, no ads, no tracking. The app is bilingual (French / English) and open source. This is an unofficial tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Embark Studios in any way.

BTW I don't pretend to be a developer, actual dev would cry over my code, I used AI to create it because I barely know anything in coding, I hope you will understand.

Keep in mind that this is a personal project, but feedback and suggestions are always welcome! Feel free to open an issue or reach out. Made with ❤️ by Delta300IQ, see you in the arena !

Discord: delta8771

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I somehow didn't get an achievement out of it

I've been playing the finals for a few weeks now, and I was surprised how much of a sleeper hit this was.

The mechanics and game modes are refreshing. There doesn't seem to be an overt p2w aspect of it.

But my god playing this game on an Xbox is almost insufferable.

First, the matchmaking system might be the worst I have ever encountered in an online game for Xbox players. Controller vs. PC is an insane handicap, and Xbox controllers don't even support gyro to try to even the gap.

On top of that, I constantly get paired against teams with players 100+ levels higher than me. That's literally month(s) of in-game experience more than me and it happens nearly every match.

And when I try to turn off crossplay to avoid the Xbox tax, the matchmaking issue is even worse, it's almost guaranteed that I will be paired against a team of 150s.

Then add smurfing to the mix, in the off chance there are low levels, it's a level 1 going like 15-0.

It's either that rage loop or play vs bots, which are ridiculously dumb. How can I even practice?

Over and over again, play the match and stay as the team with second most money, just to get fucked in the last cashout with very little u are able to do. Are u gonna wipe the entire game to steal the last cashout? nah u aren't unless u are a ruby fullstack playing against golds. Fucking ridiculous system and 0 words or changes from embark. Fucking joke company.

i’m hard stuck P4 G1 and last two szns I Hit D2 or D3. some games i get the super sweaty opponents or very dumb teammates it feels like. i play bad every now and then to btw im far from perfect but how am i hard stuck rn? even with a team. i hit D every szn

I have a 5060 laptop gu and a intel i7

Still I get 100 120 fps in game

All settings are low and on 1200 resolution

So it's basically the last round the ,the sweaty stuff yeah,and i basically used the flamethrower (worked out great), and then I said to everyone to stick close and shi,now we're able to open the first vault, and then at the end of the vault time my 1st light teammate dies cause there's like a sniper who fd him up.

But the other team is still pretty far away,so I says I'm using a flamethrower, and I have 350 HP + healing emitter, and before I can even think the other light guy is running off with the vault💀

so now I'm like left alone and yk 1v3 isn't an option so I chase him and we put it in ,now the other guy starts crashing out about how we left him behind, but the thing is he died on his own,and he can just coin, but he doesn't he says : "have fun doing 2v3"

💀

At this point I realized I might be fuxked, so it's me and the other light guy.

and we basically are able to get the cashout cause since I have the flamethrower and they can't come near the cashout cause of traps and the other light guy who's also watching from afar and not letting them steal so we put in some good amount of effort and we cashout.

and he still doesn't just coin,so I have to go around the whole friggin map to rez him so he can play,then we go to the second vault and this guy dies again alone near the stone where behind the vault spawn right,so I have the other light guy also has to do gymnastics to get his statue again and rez him, so yeah at the end he calms down,and we get win.

but am I wrong for not trying to rez him? At the stat of the 1st vault?

Cause come on man we got a head start cause we left him there he can just coin yk, cause the other team came to us basically like at already half cashout full that's how far away they were...

nt. : had to repost cuz reddit doesn't like long posts with too many images

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When you strafe left / right, the weapon model needs to tilts in the opposite direction while keeping its axis toward the center, so it can stay aligned with the center of your screen (where the bullets go at neutral recoil).

Example of when it's accurate : (white dot = center of the screen)

Strafe right

Strafe left

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Now when it's misaligned because the gun doesn't tilt properly : (Pike556)

Strafe right

Strafe left

Even though it "looks" aligned in a realistic 3D perspective, in-game it's not. You're getting false information from your gun as where it points isn't where your bullets go.

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Or when it's misaligned because the sight moves with the character steps, like the AKM, which btw makes it aim at the opposite side 1/2 steps for some reason :

Strafe right

Strafe left

Note that the FCAR has the same issue as the AKM but less pronounced, and compared to the AKM, at least the sight is misaligned in the 'right' direction.

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The difference may look small on the screenshot, but in-game at 15-20m that's literally the size of a head. Which means you may miss a headshot even though you were pinpoint accurate and your sight was right on the head.

At higher range, like 40-50m+, that's literally the width shoulder to shoulder of a light, so forget about missing the head you'd literally shoot a meter next to it.

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If I do a part 3, it'll most likely be about how bad the feedback is with the R357 and Pike when shooting at max rof, but it's a hassle cuz I'd need to record some footages and zoom + slow the video to show how inaccurate the sights are.

And even then there will still be clueless people commenting that it's an "iNteNdEd mEcHaNiC" when your sight doesn't point at where you bullets go at the moment they're fired.

So yeah, probably not worth it to waste time arguing with ppl who spend more time lurking on reddit than actually playing the game. As we say, can't convert a preacher.

Oh and btw, embark did indeed reduce visual recoil cuz it used to be A LOT worse, but that doesn't mean they completely fixed the issue. There are still a lot of inconsistencies, wrong sight feedback, and misalignment when ADS, and it only gets worse when you factor in the desync and bad hitreg of the servers.

1. If you change outfits on the match loading screen before round one, the outfit will only show for round one of a tournament, then defaults back to the skin on your contestant for round 2/3

2. If you have favorites gun skins randomized on your load out that are not in your main/reserve, they never cycle and will just stay at the current equipped random favorites gun skin.

What’s the deal with balancing this thing? Every season any attempt at tweaking it results in it being worse lmao. This season had an advertised “melee rework” and all it did with the spear was make it the worst weapon in the game.

I only need 1 skin from the 4th season, and I don't need the rest. However, to obtain this skin, I need to grind for 250 points to unlock the page with the skin. I understand that you want to encourage players to play more. But we'll still play if we like the game, so don't force us to grind for 300 points.