👂┇game-feedback

[summer yoke]

Im still playing the same game where ive had no balance updates for a whole season and ranked is full of cronus abusers and embark has jerked off in my face with pro circuit skins and no balance updates in months. did i mention we need balance updates?

[raw spindle]

NO

[crisp heart]

ok, if you ever bring blast off back, introduce floating health pickups and remove (or slow down) health regen

[hybrid silo]

Does this mean you want future guns to be like shak(then why add them into the game) or the m60 and lewis to be as op close range as shak?

[undone dagger]

ADD THE SEASON 1 END OF ROUND MUSIC BACK IN
IT WAS SO FIRE

[wooden vapor]

Please make the Scope It Out inspect animation work with the Katana skin on sword!!!

[true void]

Map Voting in S9

Literally played Skyway 3x today out of 6 games. cmon guys

[olive fulcrum]

dome blocking winch is not enough,. just remove winch from the game. It makes people not be able to play

[south igloo]

Bring back sword lunge spin

[lethal fiber]

👍

[native gale]

Who else thinks the v9s is too weak

[fiery jacinth]

i think they nerfed it tbh

[long arrow]

fix cheaters thx

[fathom orchid]

when winched, you should be able to shoot still. winch should not be able to go through mesh anything. swords should have a durability like the mesh where it breaks while blocking. riot shield should have pieces that brake while shot, but regenerate over time. aps should have more life against throw ables/grenades. anything else anyone's not happy about? please add more concerns cause holy shit, just cause TGM25 is going on and they don't want any changes going on during the big tourney, why do we have to suffer

[leaden idol]

Medium melee nerfs in the big 25 💔 💔 💔
Worst weapons in the game and these guys STILL want nerfs man

For riot shield at least, just shoot their feet, they can't do anything.

[harsh cliff]

It won't go through the shield in the upcoming season, so don't worry. The only thing that upset me in this game two things
Melees should not be allowed in ranked+ the point system in ranked is just so bad, they need to fix it. They said it's more fair in season 9 so let's see. If it's still stupid system. I will uninstall it immediately. I am not willing to lose my shit this season

[compact oracle]

No melee in ranked? ???

[rotund ravine]

I mean if you are not good enough for diamond or plat then why say the game sucks when it may be you instead. Btw melee is not an issue especially on higher ranks

[violet ledge]

Lots of people want winch removed, yet all the main problem really seems to be is the stun it does.
If anything should be done with the winch, just remove the stun. Maybe let heavy use it as a shitty grapple that pulls the heavy forward to the winched location. Itd give heavy a well-needed movement option, and forces a heavy to be more critical on winch uses.

And the spear:
Another idea that i personally thought would be really neat is changing its alt-fire, lots of people hate the spin, either because its too broken, or lasts too long from just a tap of the alt-fire, but instead of a spin, what if it was tossed? It has a javelin skin, so why shouldnt it have javelin functions? Charging up a throw and tossing it to hit an enemy at a further range seems like a neat idea to me. Give it a small cooldown based on how long its charged so it can't be utterly abused, and it leaves the heavy more defenseless in the case they throw it while it recharges

[strange valley]

Im using laptop with headphone
but the finals' voice chat is using my laptop's audio outputting instead of my headphone
wut is going on
it seems that it happened just a few days ago and i promise i dont change any settings and my headphone is normal
is that a bug or smth

[tranquil plover]

Since I come from the competitive Rocket League scene and also like to do video editing in my free time I would love to see a replay system for The Finals.
Most of the suggestions are similar to the one from Rocket League since it is one of the best Replay Systems out there

• skipable Timeline with icons that indicate what happened during the match e.x. Kills/Deaths, cashout complete and begin, cashout steal... (VOD review for players and Coaches)

• being able to watch POVs from every contestant with the ability to toggle the UI (Content and Editing)

• speed up or slow down the footage (Content and Editing)

• free cam with changeable FOV (Content, Editing and Graphics Design)

• possibly a system where you can create your own cinematics (Content and Editing)

This would open up a new possibility for VOD Reviewing and just cool content all around the game and I would love to have a feature like this in the game.

[scarlet harbor]

Please add better support for ultrawide aspect ratios! Currently the UI can be a bit wonky on ultrawide, which is a shame because the game looks great on it else

[smoky gust]

just got filled in with a team of new players, they gotta start somewhere, so i dont mind

only problem is, if that happens the 1 match a day where i get my favorite map (like this time), and there isnt much of a contest because they dont really know how to play yet, that makes it a bit sour that i get the my chance of enjoying that map denied

id love to see some feature to let us pick/influence our maps
be that straight picking like tf2
a random timed selection, of which we get to choose
a backfill priority where you can choose to backfill on specific maps
or something completely different

seeing my favorite map more often would be very nice, and take the worries off my mind should something out of the ordinary happen that impacts the match somehow

[waxen thicket]

lil bro u had to edit a 4 word comment, log off and finish your english homework first

[limpid bay]

I just had the crowd in the main menu glitch and stop making sound. pls make this a feature, the quiet main menu is so good

[quick coyote]

Hi, please allow us to choose first-person handedness

[river mist]

We should have some Pacific island maps from WW2 like Makin, Saipan or Iwo Jima

[scarlet pilot]

nerf noskill dash light swordmans for god sake already 🤬

[sterile canopy]

Sword has suffered enough ;-;

[covert tapir]

please no

[small crest]

Small push for reversing defib sickness. Either removing it, if possible, or have healing from any source cure it immediately or very quickly. The latter option could help incentivize more teamwork to happen.

[muted plaza]

buffing defib when its already one of the most used med gadgets? ur crazy.

[calm wing]

Defib had been nerfed multiple times. At it’s current state i’d say well balanced

[thorny lynx]

This whole new RANKED/WORLD TOUR combo we got coming for S9 better... I mean BETTER be worth it. Big thing about WT was it was casual and not a dopamine waste like Ranked is/was/always has been. WT was an easy way to play games, make money and have fun with the way the game was meant to be played. I am again (for the 9th season and open beta) HOPEFUL that you all cook.... but I am wary.
Interested.... but wary.
So we will have an RS system one one side and a WT system connected to Ranked and every other game mode. Gotcha

[river plover]

nerf noskill gun users that cant aim through dashes for god sake already 🥰

[tame chasm]

FUCKING FIX THIS DAMN BULLSHIT I CAN'T STAND THIS GAME NO MORE SAME HAPPENS WITH MY FRIENDS SO IT'S NOT MY PC OR INTERNET

[cerulean birch]

If you shoot them they die

[prime badger]

true

[deft topaz]

Unpopular opinion, but nerf gateway.

If every light is using it, and it's an instalock gadget, then its OP.

[faint saddle]

Unpopular cause its the most perfectly balanced gadget in the game that should never get changed ever

[wicked hound]

perfectly balanced =/= instapick best gadget in the game

[brave sky]

they should buff the anticheat, recently theres so many cheaters

[gritty turtle]

If you shoot triple stack heal beam defibrillator mediums they die

[novel trench]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/856603795738722307/1425920121473470554/togif.gif

[tired fable]

Yo Embark

// Training mode

• add dmg range, %accuracy, spread infos,
• dummies presets, short gadget CD option
• choose different types of building and reset destructions

// QoL

why we can't wear contestant number 69
Matchs history: add it
Items shop: add shooting and reload test
group: give lead/join mate and be spectator when he is ingame
random FAVORITE skin : random favorite skin selection as apex
Skin preset: add gestures, spray, audio, card pose, weapon skin, etc... on skin preset plz and my wallet is your
Emote Wheel: shortcut to remove an emote/spray/ from wheel
Loadout preset: let us cook loadout preset for real
Sledge lobby Pose: buff sledge pose plz
Sight: choose weapon sight in training mode and before match
UX Loadout: put 2 items lines when choosing weap/gadget before match, scrolling is annoying
Team color: change pink or purple into green, it's hard to make difference during high fight
Jukebox: let us choose tracks

// BALANCE

Cloak : 20% less cost when used
Pyrogrenade: 30 > 20sec CD
Sword: Free cam during locked lunge
Dagger: remove M2 charge cancel when climbing and possibility to tap M2 as Throwing Knife
M26: the 5centered pellet deal 13dmg and 6 external's 10dmg /or/ reduce spread
Turret: Turret health bar on UI to monitor Turret HP
Explosive Mine: 15 > 12sec CD /or/ 2stack 20sec CD
Demat: fit color demat to the team color
Reshaper: less CD when swapping props/grenades/rocket
Dual Blade: buff everything
Cerberus: Better fire effect (burn longer? light easier?)
Spear: split M2 full combo animation into 1 swing per M2
Sledge: M1 : 100 > 105dmg to make M1 M1 QM combo back
Minigun: increase +20% destruction power
KS23: outclassed by BFR... solutions : 100% ads accuracy /or/ faster pump action

[ocean eagle]

The winch needs a nerf. You removed the stun gun because they stun effect was unfair. Then you have a stun effect to the strongest class. Getting caught is basically a free kill. When I play against PC players in somewhere like Bernal, it's insta kill. You can't "play range" when everything is indoors. The stun insta killed is OP and makes the same unplayable, especially if two heavies run it at the same time

[cold bolt]

moral of the story don't add stun to any pvp game ever no matter how skilled or unskilled it is to pull off

[rapid stream]

type shit

[crisp heart]

I am excited for new mode and happy to hear you will take feedback and plan to iterate on the mode. I think more iteration is what Terminal Attack needed, and the lack of which was what really cemented its death!

[buoyant spruce]

hey embark when are you guys gonna start addressing the smurfing issue it unironically makes ranked unplayable

[limpid orchid]

Data Reshaper should at least show what canister the prop will reshape into.

Currently, having to memorize the reshaping order is neither fun or accessible to new players

[fleet spindle]

also getting queued with "not smart people"

[covert dagger]

Please just balance the game. All aspects. Everybody knows the long needed buffs and nerfs to certain abilities, weapons, and gadgets. But the matchmaking balancing has been horrible for so long. Why am I being queued with a level 18 and level 31 against a premade stack of other level 90+ players

[obsidian nexus]

Bro why is kyoto still a map in ranked and wt

[snow heart]

Has anybody else had an issue with customization disappearing for every single weapon, gadget, and specialization? It’s happened to me now four times within a month.

[plain jacinth]

a separate solo queue would help create a more authentic and balanced competitive experience

[wide creek]

Fuck you devs.

3+ seasons of lights getting SKULL FUCKED by winch and your brilliant plan is, "Oh lets make it harder to winch HEAVIES"

Fuck you

I'm so fucking sick of this anti-light bullshit, no new weapon, no new gadget, NOTHING

I used to love this game until you gave the SLOW, HIGH HP CLASS a way to LITERALLY NEGATE THE POINT OF LIGHT.

At least 25% of ALL my deaths are from winch, and I'm SERIOUSLY not exaggerating.

Wonder why there's less Winch complaining in feedback? Cuz all the lights have quit, go figure

Screw your useless "nerf", remove it now or watch your player count drop to 6000 overnight

Edit: @tired fable Absolutely insane that you didn't include Winch, heavy main I assume?

[night bough]

Client sided custom quick melee animations ? I'm surprised this doesn't exist, yet.
Like getting a small caliber pistol out your pocket to shoot the ground right in front of you would look so cool, or punching (as the killfeed would show)

[drifting pawn]

ultimate battlepass is quite steep. i disagree with the idea altogether as we're already paying for the battlepass; is that not enough? at the very least, let us just pay less to actually buy it (rather than giving back multibucks). $30 is just too much on top of the battlepass. I'm near the end of the battlepass so the XP and 20 levels are useless to me; let me even buy JUST the extra skins at a lower price and I'd consider buying

[minor notch]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1376294423217831947/1383982119595937913/togif-1.gif

[fallen mirage]

I’d be interested to know how many genuine ADHD people play this game to get their daily dopamine levels up. I’ve played it almost everyday since launch, thanks Embark 👍🏻

[pale aspen]

Deathmatch Kyoto is the worst shit ever

[mossy creek]

someone lost their match

[crimson tree]

why on earth was the stun taken from the stun gun and given to the winch claw, the winch claw single handedly ruined this game for me

[cobalt kernel]

It has been 5 (five!) Seasons my friend, more than half the game's total life span! They even REVERTED the 10m range nerf from a couple of seasons ago, which wasnt even enough of a nerf but a step in the right direction. AND added a pocket sniper to the strongest class, which outguns every other ranged weapon in the game..

It is clear at this point the devs are catering to low skill skin collectors and challenge completionists who pretend to be gamers, they refuse to take their free kill gadgets away in fear of losing them.

Players made it very clear in this channel where the problems are months before the qualifiers even started, there is no excuse for the situation the game is in right now

Instead of long overdue balance overhaul (Heavy class in general) we get ear rings, nail polish and literal clown paint in the shop.. It's like they are mocking us!😞

I will also forever hold a grudge for them removing the genius mode that is Bank it and replacing it with mindless trash mode TDM...

[hybrid oracle]

Day 48 of asking Embark to bring back bonus pages from past battle passes

[waxen thicket]

• Add the projectile behaviour beyond max range for all guns, not just KS23 and SR84

• Add 20 damage on direct hit with MGL32 projectiles

• Add a detonation trigger for MGL32 and CL40 with aim button, allowing for mid-air detonation of the shots at 50% damage when out of position

• Remove the 2 extra spins on Spear heavy attack, like the event

• Remove the 3rd attack chain from Dual Blades' normal attack combo

• Let dagger backstab also steal the disguise of enemy for 5 seconds

• Make burn damage from all fire stackable upto 2 times, not more than once per second

• Add a 20 damage explosion to gas burns

• Give LH1 to Medium and Pike .556 to Light class, better fit for their kit

• Also make SR84's scope available for Pike .556 and vice versa

• Allow for creation of craters on solid ground with explosions and destructions as a form of trench warfare in open areas

• Add knockback on self-damage explosions to allow for tricks like Rocket Jumping and Nade Boosting

• Allow players to bring a 2nd weapon or specialization in exchange for 2 equipment slots, trading utility for versatility

• Make the pull on Winch Claw slower, like debris and cashout stations

• Rework Cloaking Device into Phasing Device, allowing users to also phase through walls while being invisible for extra energy

[mental delta]

If all sponsor tracks are now available to everyone there’s no reason bonus pages shouldn’t be

[summer elbow]

Why is it that i always have crossplay on but get put on ps5 lobbies only ??

[potent cliff]

Remove light class

[frail tangle]

Revert nerfs to sledge
And make not hitting a winch cool down as long as actually hitting the witch

[old snow]

Can we have a emblem version of the Iseul-T Bias Bag radio please and thank you

[mint steeple]

bruh, I've been waiting for Ukrainian "Around the world" cosmetics pack. The season ends in 3 days and it hasn't been added 😢

[tame abyss]

Actual Winch Claw nerf when?

It's literally the biggest get out of trouble free card ive seen.

[soft arch]

Actual Light dash nerf when?

It's literally the biggest get out of trouble free card I've seen.

[quartz coyote]

man, i love playing against the same stacked teams (with some blatantly cheating too btw) who i usually already have blocked from previous matches, great game

[quaint radish]

I just finished downloading the game on my ps4 and its relentlesly flagged the Error code TFLA0021. I have no idea how to fix this.

[lament mesa]

anyone notice that watches (or anything on the wrist) don't work on the crosswind cloak? (The outfit from halloween event)

[river plover]

me when the evasive character is evasive >:(
This will also make dagger worthless (even more than it is already)

[harsh cliff]

I give this game a chance every time in ranked, but I can say the experience is so bad and not fun. a waste of life

[versed cloud]

Can you guys look at the flamethrower and maybe fix the fact that it goes through SOLID barricades, floors, and walls? I understand it going through walls and barricades that are semi destroyed, but how it is currently is straight janky. Same with the barricades. There's a million instances where it just won't be highlighted "blue" to place despite it having clearance--but upon further inspection there's a slight garbage prop from Kyoto in the way. Props shouldn't interfere with barricades. If a barricade is near a doorway (or window), it should ATTACH to it if you're close enough.

[royal jewel]

i mean, light is perpetually "in trouble" whenever someone is looking at them, so

[simple ether]

Yes you are correct. In season 6 Embark noticed a trend of new players leaving the game before they could buy skins. Thats when they started to cater to the Heavy class. Giving them more HP, stronger weapons, more defense and lowering the skill ceiling for all the Heavy weapons to try and keep new players in the game long enough to buy skins.

This is because their focus groups found that new players tend to buy skins within the first 30 days.

This is also when they removed the original stun gun because it was a "Free Kill" and causing new players to leave the game (Embark themselves had stated this). After that they started to make the Heavy class a "noob friendly" class for low skill players so they stay in the game long enough to spend money. This is why they havent removed the Winch Claw despite it being an even cheesier "Free Kill" version the old Stun Gun. The entire Heavy class is designed for new low skill players players.

I always laugh at Heavy mains Lol. Its like tell me you suck at the game without saying you suck at the game 😂

[random hill]

Reminder light has the most weapons and gadgets compared to the other two

[hallow turret]

theyve never changed heavy's hp since release

[grand crow]

Hoping we actually get new spec in S10
Other than the lack of gear the new season looks awesome

[rustic vault]

Nah not being able to track lights and count to 3 is wholly a skill issue, being stunned by a winch for a free kill is just as bad as the old stun gun.

[last saddle]

End of season botters running wild. Again.

[prisma rain]

You will never win in the game in solo queue. If you dont have friends to play with. Good luck carrying if you can. Devs will not fix matchmaking since they no longer have players in the game. SOLOS WILL ALWAYS HAVE A HIGHER CHANCE OF LOSING. DEVS DO NOT CARE FOR SOLO PLAYERS ONLY FAVORING SQUADS FOR PLAYER COUNT.

[night vortex]

Lmayo light players deserve every single misfortune they receive.

[south igloo]

Double barrel is ridiculous its not fun to play with or against

[ember ridge]

well said my friend very well said. game went from being my favorite game to to being ashamed of having recommended it to friends. devs are heavy mains themself and it show. 50% of my deaths are to heavies and I'm always winning the gun fight until they get the winch out or their pocket sniper which one shots you to the head. today was my last day I'm never going to touch this before they remove winch from the game

[calm wing]

Simply said, get gud Light players

[still rose]

I want to see a LTM centered around the goo gun, not sure what it would be but I think that would be really funny to play

[midnight aurora]

fix powershift. im constantly losing games where im standing on the platform yet it keeps moving. just had a game where we were two on it and still lost for no reason

[steel otter]

Stupid ideas, probably really unbalanced but sharing them anyway bc why not?

Heavy should get a halo reach style jetpack specialization, light should get a orbital strike designator gadget, and medium should have healing/equipment repair grenade gadget.

[pure solar]

so is the plan to just never fix these dog shit servers?

[gaunt vortex]

i dont get why yall have not added this feature aft 8 goddamn seasons??? why can i only see the missions i starred while in game, and not all missions regardless whether i starred it? this means i can only check my missions progress aft i end a match which is so fustrating. games like marvel rivals allow u to check every single mission progress while still in a match. is this feature so difficult to add?

[quartz flicker]

Damn, i really want to hear ingame winning soundtrack from obt and first season, it was such a banger, i had goosebumps from it

[dark niche]

winch no longer going through shields is nice, but it really needs a bigger nerf. i dont struggle with it too much but it is so unbelievably easy to use compared to pretty much everything else in this game honestly

[olive fulcrum]

Winch should not silence or cancel things like charge and slam and minigun rev.
It is already an incredible OP ability. Should not silence

[dusk snow]

can we get battle royale gamemode like fortnite in season 9

[cloud fox]

Having a stun effect is not an OP ability. It’s a compensation for the Heavy’s reward for successfully winching them.
I’ll let you know that Winching someone isn’t always a guaranteed kill.

I had to explain to some people that the Winch isn’t OP at all. Already has a small hitbox and already had its range reduced by a lot. People complaining about the stun effect are probably the same people who advocated for the Stun Gun to be worked.

[pure vine]

people keep leaving the platform open to farm it for kills. platform should start moving back to center if left unoccupied to discourage this behavior

[versed hazel]

can u guys actually get around to deleting kyoto pls

[old nebula]

Nerf cl

[deft topaz]

Ok the number of cheaters has gone up dramatically. Any chance you can address this ahead of the next season Embark? The cheat-rat vermin need a cheeky extermination

[clever gorge]

90% of people who blame winch for half of their deaths are bad at positioning.
if they're in a place to be winched with no escape it's their fault.
and that's on top of the fact that light players literally have dash to get out right after they were winched

winch does have bullshit snapping sometimes where you didn't hit a target directly and they only get pulled like a second after that, but i tend to believe that's a desync bug

[waxen thicket]

wdym "we" you can easily sustain the battlepass with MB rewards from the free track of the battlepass and once you get the premium for 1125 you get 1575 from the whole thing ignoring the bonus pages, the 30$ is completely optional and no one's forcing you to pay for it. Please, play something else because this game doesn't need more salty refuse scrubs from CoD like you ruining this game.

[cold bolt]

fix all the invisible seams in floors full on preventing cashouts from being slid by winch

we were on nozomi on the vaiiya side and trying to winch it indoors on the bottom floor and it slides flat across the ground and the seam catches it losing us the game

edit:

all the bugs unfixed that I can think of that regularly impact us and drive players away

• can't shoot bug
• can't sprint bug
• every input is sluggish compared to past seasons (see: demat)
• extra-delayed input bug
• random seams in otherwise visually flat surfaces that prevent you from winching a cashout bc it gets caught on the seam
• replay continues even though you got revived bug
• wall texture see-through but still there
• wall texture visible but wall isn't actually there
• gateway left click right click mismatch bug
• cashout sucks for ranked (not a bug but spiritually is)
• winch disappears bug
• dome disappears bug
• winch hits ground when player has downward momentum bug
• zipline jiggle bug
• memory core dump crashes
• discovery crashes

[glacial geyser]

I am once again humbly asking Embark to add a price tag to The Finals.

Existing players would obviously retain the game for free and so have zero reason to complain about this suggestion.

But anyone banned from the game would now need to pay to create a new account.
This is never going to happen, I know, but if they're not going to hardware ban at least implement this change.

@limpid orchid
The entire business model is failing.
Just look at the player count 🤔

@untold hazel
If you're disagreeing, I assume it's because your alt accounts keep getting banned?
Old players will not be affected by this change.
New players aren't staying because of cheaters - that is the main complaint I keep seeing repeatedly

They have a price tag on Arc Raiders and new players are still joining that. Embark have proven that they cannot make a decent anti-cheat.

[gentle seal]

https://youtu.be/GiM5BXdg4pM?si=i_1cE06UOfvtE0Yc this is what everyone's been dealing with tbh

[limpid orchid]

the entire business model requires it to be free to play.

[untold hazel]

fuhh nah
broski adding a price tag is not a welcome sign to new players let alone old players
just makes the company seem greedy
and adding a price tag would make new players wanna join?
also makes no sense lore wise either
just say make better anti cheat smh

yea cuz of new release new hype shi

[blissful quest]

the Famas gives me cancer

[slow crescent]

This is an absolutely terrible idea, because I played every season and completed every battle pass thinking they would never be available again, investing my time. And now you’re telling me: “Hey, you can easily open every item, EVEN the bonus pages!” This is insane, dude. If you do this, Embark, it will break my heart.

[round nova]

Hi...well i have lots of frens from different regions of the world. is there a way to distinguish whom are which regions..that would be helpfull for every one. thanks

[pliant lichen]

Gee, almost as if a sensitivity DISABLING effect which is also interrupts all actions including EVEN WEAPON SWAPPING and takes FULL control away from a player for half a second; isn't and will never be a fun or engaging experience in a competitive first person shooter.
Fuckin' shocker, bro.

[twin helm]

LH1 NEEDS a nerf idc how yall do it its fucking op

[gritty jetty]

cl40 is underpowered right now because light mains like you keep demanding unnecessary nerfs

[lime lark]

Then why in the GM was every light not using it despite it's biggest counter being banned.

[mental delta]

If you guys are going to do another “no balancing for the majors” season next year, please have the majors happen 4-5 weeks into the season and then drop a balance patch during 12.6 or whenever the mid-season patch will be

It’s been over a week now since TGM25 and there still aren’t balance changes because…? Well, I know why, because it would be weird to drop a huge balance patch near the end of a season with not much else going on. But for a mid-season patch? Makes perfect sense.

Something Marvel Rivals does is they have their seasons - much like many other live service shooters - but they make a big deal about the season being halfway over, publishing a “season X.5 update” so in this case, once TGM26 wraps up, the season 12.5 update comes and is big and hyped and such

“But each season should have an overarching theme, what about the second half of the season?” Honestly you can tie the sponsors or the lore into it, TGM is literally The Finals after all. Have an actual sponsor showdown in the grand majors itself. We’ve already had a couple “generic” “finals-core” sports-adjacent seasons. Maybe whichever sponsor “wins” the grand major showdown has effects on the second half of the season?

I understand TGM26 has probably already been scheduled for about the same time next year. I understand that scheduling for events/conventions and venues is a big deal and this planning idea would totally conflict with other plans by other parties but I really do think this “two part” majors season idea really would be the best of both worlds because this season has been very trying for players’ patience. If not 26 then maybe 27 and onwards.

“But the whole point of freezing the balance is so pro players can keep playing with the balance that the majors will have”

1. not even true because why even add the BFR Titan and P90 in the same season? (My theory is that they were delayed from S7 but that’s a whole other topic)
2. if they can’t adjust to a meta within six weeks that’s their problem which has effects on the entire player base so…. oh well?
3. most games like this do not halt balance patches so the big deal hoss honcho players (0.01% of the player base) can do scrims for 70+ days

[hoary steeple]

1. Business model is in no way the same as the player count, otherwise other free to play games would be dead by your standards

2. Since the player count isn't doing well in the first place, swapping from a free to play to premium access model would make it even worse for the games growth, as the price tag disincentivises people from actually getting the game, you are suggesting something that will actively damage the growth and health of the game

3. Putting a price tag on a game on launch that yes, was originally going to be free to play, is no way equivocal to changing a game from free to play. The game just needs a better anti cheat

@glacial geyser I find it really disappointing that repopularising this wonderful game was never in your head to begin with, as you think that making the game premium play is how to retain players, you've completely lost scope of actually getting new players in the first place. They fix player retention by fixing the anticheat. Also, the game has way more issues than just cheaters, things like low server tick rate, desync, bugs and overall glitchy performance, and unbalanced weapons and specs. Swapping to premium play would be a whole repeat of when the game originally launched where players would leave because of these issues, only this time without the large amount of players to begin with. And I'll assume you're just really peddling this idea because you really want to gatekeep this amazing game from everyone else by making it premium play for new players and in no way you wanting to make this game better.

[dull whale]

Ban the goddamn sword or nerf it on 1 damage per hit, matchmaking is sooooo rigged, you play against a team with 60k kills and the same hours while your team has only like 400 at most. Game is broken and will never be a fun one. Thank you Embark, for more depression and frustration. Ban all players and shut down.

[hybrid silo]

So fuck everyone who wants to use shotguns I guess. If you really don't see the problem with a spec that takes all control away from someone, pulls them in their enemy's face and can fling the cashout all over the place with a press of a button you are special needs. Yes lights can dash away if they are full HP but only with 5HP remaining unless the heavy is ungodly terrible in the game. All this in a game where every meaningful fight happens in buildings.

[placid stream]

Fix team balancing

[covert forum]

Please add only controller lobbies for console players. I don't mind playing against PC players with a controller. No wonder console players uninstall the game and never play again, even Sea of ​​Thieves has that in it

[cedar cave]

medic skin + a scalpel as a dagger skin

[harsh iron]

The Finals no longer works with

https://github.com/ledoge/autohdr_force

It's what I use to force Windows 11 to use Auto HDR, and it's worked fine until a few days ago. I'm guessing it's a new security layer?

Could you please both:

A) send this into to your security team to whitelist it

B) Actually add HDR support for this most vibrant, colourful, visually beautiful game on the planet?

DICE PLZ

-Parcival

[glacial geyser]

I'm really disappointed by how such a simple concept has seemingly gone completely over your head.

The problem is the player count.
The player count is declining because no new players are sticking around.

Given that Embark is showing no intention of fixing the cheat system, the easiest way to reduce the number of smurfs and cheats simply making new accounts is by adding a price tag.

The number one reason new players are leaving are because of these issues. There's no point keeping it free to play if it doesn't actually get players to play it.

If Embark doesn't intend to resolve cheaters and smurfs, feel free to suggest another practical solution.

Otherwise, I assume you're just against this idea because you want to make multiple free accounts for some reason.

[river plover]

the playercount is only 16% lower than a year ago

[steel otter]

Remove winch stun, buff cloak...

and for heavens sakes, give us a mythic cassette tapes skin for throwing knives: when inspected one cassette is flipped into a walkman, and the other cassette is inserted into it, playing music.

Also, tea drink hand gesture for season 9 please. Let me drink some tea in a fine china teacup!

[feral shard]

Revert back sword to Season 1's sword, which means:

140 damage to lunge
70 damage m1
No camera lock
No multihit
No glitchs or weird techs that can make it broken
1 sec lunge duration
revert lunge movement range (and also hit registration range)
Gadget swap
And also delete that weird tech (Which is cool but I find unfair) of lunge + jump spamming for more movility without having to use evassive dash

Because in this healing meta and stick-together Meta, sword is currently bleeding so why make it more hard / mindless with the m1 spam instead of rewarding skill with lunge? You're not going to kill anyone with only 1 lunge, but they can partially kill you with only 4 landed bullets from AKM for example

Also give Medium a movement / movility specialization like a speed boost (to match light's movement for like 5 seconds with 20 sec of cooldown, it would be awesome, just imagine riot shield & Dual sword being reliable, that would be so cool)

[open scaffold]

Please just please remove the "Earn 45K cash in a single match of World Tour or Ranked Tournaments" because not everyone wants to do World Tour and earning 45k come far nad few between most of the players only get to earn 20k+ jsut for the timer runs out

[delicate notch]

could you pls fix the sound bug with the mini? there are many instances where that thing just keeps making sounds despite not shooting, its so loud, distracting and annoying. Also, remove Kyoto, it is by far the worst map and I personally see no redeemable factors about it. I just want to close the game every time that mess comes on. Do not rework it, just remove it, it is awful. Thanks.

[ionic grail]

Smurfing / Cheaters will happen regardless of price tags.

In the current gaming landscape:
Cheaters don’t give a fuck about price they’re paid to cheat more often than not and Smurfs don’t care cause they could just buy a key from a third party website.

Keeping the game free and working on internal systems that benefit the entire ecosystem of the game instead of locking the game behind a paywall is more financially responsible than anything else.

[shy sphinx]

Can we get S3 player card badges for emerald? Can't be that hard to retro them since S3 didn't have player cards yet.

[short mulch]

They do, turn off crossplay

[hallow turret]

console has kbm now too so this doesn't actually address his issue, not that I think it's a big issue anyway

[warm bobcat]

external stickers and attachment perms for server boosters pls

[scarlet pilot]

would be nice to see Tf2 mercenary clothings/accessories in finals (not 100% identical)

[tired fable]

Maybe if you read completely my post you could know that i dont play only heavy

I drop winch 1month ago because i have more fun with CnS
I have no opinion about winch, Yes i have follow TGS in stockholm, yes its strong and predominant heavy skill however i have no idea to nerf it without kill it, S9 nerf seem a good decision imo.
I have no problèm against Whinch i u only die from the whinch and u re the only one to complain maybe its a skill issue? if u kill whinch youll see googun meta, you really want to see this ?

[thorny lynx]

They LITERALLY dont care. But hopefully with Peanut, Shroud etc exposing how bad it is in Arc will make Embark care about the other 99% of their player base. Worst anti-cheat in the industry

[azure tree]

if that double cashout at the end aint fixed next season this game can then just die. i fucking hate it. why even bother playing the first 9 min. just start the game with a double cashout and every team can fight for that

[deft topaz]

I truly hope so. They have the potential for a massive season 9 if they go harder on the cheat rat extermination efforts.

🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀

That and smurfing, which is almost as problematic for ranked.

[fathom otter]

For S9 i truly hope they FUCK THE MATCHMAKING EVEN MORE! you know i want literal babies on my team! Compared to the other team with people who have 4k+ wins and 40k+ elims! i think i should go up against the TGM winners! cause obviously this game thinks sooooooo highly of my skill that i can carry 2 people who've only played this game for 20 minutes! Man that would be so coooooooool! This shit is so peak! lets decimate the casual playeres even more!

[magic sonnet]

This makes no sense, I'm begging you embark

[lofty hound]

My only wish is ability to mute 3rd commentator (without muting contestant voices)

[sudden hamlet]

Yes I would love to see that I’m a solo player

[naive leaf]

it has been nerfed i can fight it close range with an lh1 if i can do that you can, you sir is what the globe calls a skill issue

[real oak]

hear me out:
why shouldnt embark allow us access to enter arena maps in practice (with anybody in your party of course)
mainly for some cool screenshots of your characters or experimentations... or to simply toy with the map

[tired escarp]

This need to stop, a full team leaving WT, 3 team and 2 cash box, 2 cashout and 2 team that help each other to go to the finals.
Teaming should result in a ban this is not fair.
If a full team leave just make the game spawn one cashbox like in quick cash!

[cedar eagle]

Would like to see some cross-promotion from Arc Raiders to help the player counts in The Finals. Maybe a quest in The Finals that gives you a cosmetic reward in Arc Raiders like a backpack charm or something. That way new Embark fans who may have missed out on The Finals will think to try it out. Maybe they heard about it before but never checked it out, but are now really into Arc Raiders so would be more interested knowing they are the same studio.

[cobalt kernel]

What on earth is this skin? As if the Trials reward skin wasn't bad enough (it was at least "just boring" and not flat out ugly). Who ever is charge over there for skins and more importantly game balance should be fired IMMEDIATELY. Same thing goes for the Finals

How do you create not one but two games with incredible potential and immersion, then mess it up so badly TWICE??

[hybrid oracle]

Day 49 of asking Embark to bring back bonus pages from past battle passes

[plush fjord]

Day 50 of asking Embark to bring back thermal vision

[untold hazel]

do this in the arc server

[pine whale]

Console players shouldn’t be in the same matchmaking as pc players 🫩

[maiden anchor]

Split screen on PS5 please

[safe zenith]

skill issue, get a better pc

nerf/remove dagger its clearly buggy and one taps anything so why keep it in the game

[sonic spoke]

i hope the season 9 release has hardware bans implemented. hackers is out of control

[mental delta]

If you guys aren’t going to revert the team wipe changes in Quick Cash you might as well remove it

Now that QC and cashout are both under the same category and progression in this grand merging of World Tour and Quickplay, and we have Head2Head now, QC is basically just a worse version of both these gamemodes and doesn’t even serve its own primary purpose anymore: a quick way to get a cashout experience.

[frigid finch]

Can you make the BLAST OFF SOUR CORE game mode permanent ? This game mode is perfect for training 😁🤩

[stable tinsel]

Add option to mute/turn down revive request voice line
Add option to mute/turn down background screams of scotty. New lines is extremely disturbing and annoying

[fickle ledge]

This is a weird request, but the fencing skin for the sword is much more accurate than in any other game. This makes it even more annoying to someone like me who actually fences, because it is an amalgamation of several different types of fencing weapon. It’s like having a pump action sniper rifle. The two prong attachment and the bell of the blade are for a foil, while the blade itself is for epee. The grip is a French grip, which can be used in both foil and epee, but is unbelievably bad in foil. This team of devs are currently the best in the business, and your attention to detail is astronomical. If you didn’t know about this, I fully believe that y’all can fix it. If you just chooses parts because it looked cool (like with the hood on the full fencing outfit, which also isn’t accurate), I completely understand. I just think I should mention this if it’s a change y’all want to make.

[karmic surge]

yo uhh embark me lamp naghost and slothy are all in the same game and the server is bugged pls lock in so i can get some free rs from those bots. i am still connecting15 mins later. i better not lose rs for this im at 52.3 k

[peak ermine]

Going up against 2 or possibly 3 pre-made teams with a team of 3 soloqueue people is stupid, this is in plat 2 are there not enough soloqueue people to fill a game with?

[past snow]

Two suggestions:

1. When a player kills someone, have the game trigger the arena crowd to cheer every time. Short, loud, and obvious so it feels like part of the show.
2. If a player solo wipes a squad, have the Scotty and June call that player out by name with a unique line so everyone knows they solo wiped a team.

[keen karma]

its not player count, embark have never implemented solo queue to match with only solo queue players in ranked. They said they did for WT/QC but I doubt it actually works

[twilit kite]

the chat should close when i'm pressing escape, too many times do i open it on accident looking for the change loadout key and hit escape, to then have the menu pop up while wanting to press J to change loadout and then get lost in my key trying to find my way back to the normal menu, to not being able to press space to respawn OR J to change loadout because the chat is OPEN AND ESC DOeSN4T CLOSE IT

[autumn warren]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ADD A GREEN TOPHAT SO MY LEPRECHAUN FIT MAY BE COMPLETE!!!!

[rotund gust]

let us wear the mask from the TGM25 pass.. like a mask

[glossy finch]

REMOVE THAT CUMULATIVE GRAPH

[wintry patrol]

Then people would make weird names just to hear them said out loud, like mike_oxlong

[hallow turret]

you can turn crossplay off

[warm compass]

this guy is cheating for long time and with all reports embark do nothing

[burnt notch]

doesnt look like hes cheating ._.

[unreal zodiac]

NAH HE JUST GOATED

[remote kiln]

maybe good aim?

ppls can be good at games if they put the effort lol

[hybrid silo]

”Given that Embark is showing no intention of fixing the cheat system” phenomenal sentence to show to new players. I‘m sure they would buy the game after reading it.

Here are some more reasons new players leave the game:

• terrible servers since launch
• light designed to be a rat class
• heavy being able to put out insane damage without trying
• non existent weapon balancing
• boring ltms
• ranked mode with 4 teams(it’s more luck than skill to advance to next round)
• using pick rate to balance instead of logic

Here’s a practical solution for dear Embark to fix cheaters: fix their anti-cheat. The following are required on their part:
-dedication
-logical thinking

Also please stop saying that if someone points out how moronic your posts are then they want the game to die or they don’t understand your point.

[ember ridge]

REMOVE WINCH ALREADY I'M GOING TO UNINSTALL THIS GAME!!!!!!!!

[sterile canopy]

Heavy’s weapons have, in general, the weakest raw output, that point seems nonsensical. With the one after it and the last being objectively untrue.

I will also add that it seems a bit silly to give “fix (your) anticheat” as a suggestion? They have people specifically dedicated to improving that, this just isn’t really an actionable thing further than what is already done.

[ruby umbra]

Can we add more movements for lights? It’s only fair knowing how low their hp is.

[tough sphinx]

whoever is in charge at embark needs to be fired, horrible audio ques, dying after i run 5 feet around a corner even though i cant see the enemy but they can see me, terrible balancing on weapons and specializations, glitches, lag, crashes. but hey the game is esports ready guys lets push that instead of fixing the game.

@dusty latch industry plant

[dusty latch]

Sounds like you're struggling with the get good syndrome

[shell lotus]

bros really struggling with getting good

[glacial geyser]

I love how far you must have scrolled to reply to my message. I appreciate the attention 🥰

Good thing my messages on discord don't show up when they boot the game then, right?

It's kind of weird seeing some logical complaints mixed in with absurdities.
Absurd takes like the fact that you don't like ranked with 4 teams - the literal defining game mode since closed beta.

If the point I raised has zero downsides for current players and yet they complain, I'm going to question their true reasoning for complaining.

I mean, they could literally make the game $15 and give new players $15 worth of in-game money. The only players affected would be those wanting to create new accounts for smurfing and cheating.

Any way, thanks for bringing more attention to my suggestion.

[grand crow]

Next season looks awesome
Hoping there's some Engimo skins, and also for a new spec in season 10

[simple ether]

There is a video report channel in this very Discord. Post it there to report him. This dude is obviously cheating.

[edgy needle]

In Aus I've found unless I'm on at peak times it's getting significantly harder to find a match, and one that's got stable connectivity at that, eek. Without a normal 9-5 job that can make this game essentially more of a dice roll to engage with

I'm praying we have more maps as we enter the third year, and ones that are somewhat grounded rather than hackerspace nowhere places. I'm unsure this has delivered on the abundant idea of a globetrotting world, it is a pretty limited pool

[hushed cedar]

I'd love to see the RM277 added into the game for medium class (maybe?), the gun is only in 3 games that I know of. I think it would be so cool to see it added. It's a shame it wasn't chosen for the NGSW program 😔 I'd love to see it represented and be able to use in a game more

[woeful shoal]

Game API pls

[muted plaza]

finals players when they see someone with good aim:

[pliant whale]

bring back Bank It already

[still rose]

hear me out: VR version of the game
already set in a virtual game show, so why not make it VR? 🤔

[worthy pilot]

Wait that's so peak

[tranquil skiff]

Fix your game… your contracts don’t account for all stats… I have hit well over 8 headshots from 25m+ and it’s not counting a single one… I get the damage but not the count for the contract. Fix this for the love of god

[dim holly]

klol

[slate lagoon]

fix the damn game with the winch where i get winched through one if not more walls at a time it is genuinely baffling how that is still in the game since the winch came out idk how you guys are keeping this game afloat

[river mist]

Can you please tell the people in charge that we need some maps like Makin 1943, Saipan '44 and Iwo Jima '45 added into this game

[ripe crater]

Genuinely 😭

The game does need some balancing fixes, yeah. But one person isn’t gonna roll the lobby cuz they have a “broken gun”

The balancing needs to come at the highest tier I think the grand finals showed how powerful some things are than others, but in the lower ranks you just “dying due to some glitch” is just you making excuses for low skill

[clever gorge]

you're basically proposing similar solution to what CS2 tried at the time.

it never fixed cheating or smurfing for them and it deffo won't fix anything here, especially with a smaller player base.

your suggestion is to gatekeep with money.
cheaters and smurfs don't care about costs if there's even a tinniest possibility to scratch their ego.

$15? it's cheaper than going to a bar, buying 5 beers, giving them to a homeless man and then beating the shit out of him while he's drunk and can't fight back.

making it boring and frustrating to cheat and smurf is the solution.
but that would mean making the game boring and frustrating for everyone.

cheating is inevitable in every competitive game be it a videogame or a irl sport.

there's no solution to prevent cheating and smurfing.
nada.
in nether universe.

so developers focus on making the game more engaging and fun instead.

and you should be a good little gamer and play the game to have fun, instead of thinking that everyone is cheating and smurfing.
you can't even imagine how far "they were better this time, next time i will try being better instead" mentally goes.

[pure vine]

framerate has been dying lately

[pure solar]

matchmaking needs to be balanced man some of us actually have a life outside this game

[keen karma]

• Fix ranked matchmaking with stricter RS disparities - witnessed a 30k plat team get matched against 50k dia/ruby team (Ofc 30k team gets griefed in to the finals)
• Solo queue rank should never be matched against 3-stacks
• Stop pinning plats vs top 50 players, it's demoralizing. People just want to get diamond, not qualify for esports

[lilac pelican]

Dude the Dual Swords for Medium should not block an entire mag, nor an entire minigun.

It's absolutely crazy.

[untold hazel]

We shoukd lwk ecceture all lightd plsyets

[versed hazel]

zipline jiggle happens more often than the zipline works regularly ):

[shrewd echo]

I can't wait for the Christmas gear,

[normal reef]

Concept of a winch mechanic: wind-up

Tapping the spec button just throws the winch a short distance, like 5 metres, holding it to charge up for 4 seconds instead will throw it further, think maybe a max of 15 metres

this will be useful because this way heavies can't pull the winch out of their ass mid-gunfire and drag a player across the timezone but the winch will still retain it's utility for cashout shenanigans

[radiant panther]

#BanFlameThrower

[gritty jetty]

flamethrower takes no skill and is awful to play against

[thorny elbow]

#remove the light class for 24hrs and see how much everyone enjoys their life :)

[leaden tangle]

Hi Embark developers.
I'm super excited for the new season preview, but I gotta say, the current meta with the CB-01 Repeater is a total disappointment. It's the definition of camping without taking risks.

Why nerf the CB-01?

• It combos with poke weapons, creating a devastating mix against other weapon types when positioned.
• Makes solo queues (like me) way harder to win with uncoordinated teams.
• CB-01 and 93R are solo too strong; add a BFR Titan, and it's the most disgusting TTK combo with poke weapons.
• No bullet drop or damage drop-off beyond 50 meters = doesn't make sense.

I love what you've done balancing other weapons since Season 1 chaos, but I'm busted the CB-01 got a silent rate-of-fire buff. It was a great weapon, didn't need this"upgrades"

Why focus on CB-01?

• 93R has the same hit-scan/TTK issues (unneeded).
• BFR Titan's least awful, maybe needs damage reduction, but it's a great weapon as is - heavy players can't afford to miss/reload.

Kudos on BFR Titan's design, sadly bearing the brunt of this meta anger 😅.

Big hug to the team; I know you can do better, make it less unfair and balanced.

PS: I'll attach a vid showing what I mean:

[slate mauve]

Please, never ever, ever ever, add blast off as an ltm again.

[real elm]

instead, add super cash ball

[frank holly]

remove sniper from powershift... it's the epitome of unfun

[dull whale]

Then give me at least some normal matchmaking against people who are as bad as me!

[hybrid silo]

I never specified that Im talking about heavy‘s weapons. I said they don’t need to try to deal insane damage. Here’s what I meant:

• RPG: instant 100 damage
• cns: instant 100 damage or more
• shak: literally has the best ttk in cqc out of all the ARs (in the range where 90% of fights happen)
• bfr: 90 damage on body 140 on head shots on the “tank” class
• winch claw single handedly turns EVERY single weapon into the easiest thing to get kills with(sa especially)
• dome basically doubles their health

Next you say that they don’t balance based on pickrate. Examples:

• pike went from 48 to 50 damage back and forth twice after everyone used it
• for 4 or 5 seasons they did nothing but buff the 93R because no one used it but logically they should have stopped after the 2nd or 3rd
• the latest repeater buff makes 0 sense but no one used it before
• lh1 also receiving buffs and nerfs based on usage to this day(it’s a launch weapon)

All this leads to inconsistent (or non existent) balancing.

@glacial geyser Yes a ranked mode where there are 4 teams and they can decide who goes through is competitively a joke. The game can be unique in 3v3 as well. The downside of putting a price tag on the game is that I get to play an unfinished game for free while others need to pay for it. I only know of your post because many others replied to you, don’t flatter yourself.

[undone dagger]

embark this better be fixed in season 9

[visual wave]

I am extremely excited for S9.

From being able to favorite skins, reworked world tour, and having general sponsor progression, this season is going to be a ton of fun.

Point Break in particular I’m itching to play. That and the World Tour rework are going to make me even more invested in the game. Can’t wait.

Y’all genuinely impress me with how you improve the game season to season, on top of managing Arc Raiders now that it’s released. You rock.

[naive leaf]

Its a competative game get good or fall off aim to be the better player and you wont have an issue

Imo the only changes that need looking at is winch because you cannot fight back if your a light you get winched its game over
And the xp 54 is a pee shooter its the arn when it released all over again

[spark crown]

g11 as burst gun for heavy

[white pine]

QOL suggestion: can I just create a wishlist of items without having to create outfits

Also id like to wishlist stickers, emotes, etc

Embark would get more of my money if I could remember all the cosmetics I want to buy

[scarlet pilot]

its super crazy

[sterile canopy]

Guess that works, though the shak comparison is a bit of a nonsense appeal to weapon category when it has more in common with an SMG, should be compared to all other comparable weapons. Not sure what dome’s power affects this though.

Popular things are often good things and vice versa, even if it weren’t for tons of counter examples such as dagger, spear, bow etc this wouldn’t be a sensible argument as this is not evidence for the claim made. You must be aware that you and all of us have a naive perspective on balancing, we are only able to vaguely estimate how a weapon should best be balanced. For all the “logic” we might be able to use none of us could generally balance the game better than embark without access to all their data.

[azure tree]

will we ever get a seperate solo/duo queue from trio queue? :3

[hybrid oracle]

Day 50 of asking Embark to bring back bonus pages from past battle passes

[deft topaz]

I fundamentally disagree with this feedback and the defeatest point of view that people who give this feedback have. I know you say this with no malice or bad intention, but you are essentially giving developers an easy "out" to excuse them of putting effort in.

I'm sorry, but Marvel Rivals has way less cheaters than the Finals. Embark can and should do a better job. The players deserve better.

[cinder slate]

First time back since terminal attack thank god its gone 🤞🙏🔥

[worldly mica]

Legs should be vulnerable at least

[glacial geyser]

Not sure where you got the impression that I think everyone is cheating.

My only concern is the fact that new players are not sticking around.

If they cannot fix the issue, I would rather them try to reduce it by requiring the players to buy the game again - at least then they are actively contributing to the game by funding its continued development.

If the only counter argument to my suggestion is that they need to improve the anti-cheat, which they keep failing to do... Well, I won't hold my breath.

But at least my suggestion would help.

@r.r2111#0000 lol

[frail tangle]

Bring back bank it in season 9

[torpid scarab]

What if the finals have passives depending on the spec. Like healing beam has like a 15% faster revive speed which reduces the need for a defib and opens up for more build options with it

Turret having synergy relating to gun handling if your in proximity with or what not

Demat have a 10% speed boost to whoever cross the dematted wall which effects both enemies and teammates

Charge and slam has a passive of increasing weapons structural damage for 10%

Winch having a passive where enemies who gets caught in the winch has reduced weapon handling for a short period (kinda sucks but what else yet)

Mesh Shield where the more damage mesh gets the more fire rate a weapon has by .05% per 1 hp it gets damaged

Goo gun where the more you shoot goo gun the more it can increase weapon handling for a period of time which stacks to a certain amount and resets if it runs out of ammo

Grappling hooks has an increase of movement speed for 5 seconds after using it

Cloak having quieter movement for a short duration after cloak and can make revives silent

Dash having the ability to double jump and have a further climb distance like in apex/titanfall sounds cool

It sounds like it can be a balancing nightmare but it would be cool to be put in WT as like a WT event for 1 week or 2 weeks if it is that experimental (it would be cool if specs arent just specs that work something like a gadget imo)

also the idea was borrowed by certain tides

[river plover]

they are you goober

[exotic saddle]

I think the BFR should be obliterated and instead replaced with Quad Deagles. (Joke)

Giving heavy a sniper rifle-tier weapon has been such a poor decision for longer range maps. Given their access to shielding and self healing, a good heavy dominates high ground with the BFR and cannot lose a sniper duel even if out-skilled.

[stuck pecan]

the game has some kind of hitbox issues that sometimes it reflefts on leg idk why tbo

heard it was server side

[clever gorge]

i didn't make an argument that devs shouldn't do anything about cheating
my argument was against @glacial geyser suggestion which have been tried elsewhere and will do more harm than help. comment about changing their mentality was personal, because this person keeps pushing their idea despite being told multiple times that it won't work, and not aimed to redeemed the devs or free them from doing anything.

the suggestion is based on the argument that this will improve quality of the matches by removing cheaters and smurfs with monetary gatekeep.

and it's well known that cheaters and smurfs will easily drop a 15$ for a new account if that means another couple of ego tingling matches.

they say it's out of the fear for new player experience, while making new player experience actively worse.

i disagree with this approach and many others would. improved anti-cheat and more frustrating experience for cheaters/smurfs is.

cheating as a concept was always tied to how skill bound and competitive a game is, and i would argue marvel rivals is more casual, so example isn't great imo. just look at the viewership of final's tgm and marvel rivals biggest esports. different playerbase.

and as a example of new player experience being not bad: i can back it up, because i recently showed the finals to 6 of my friends and all of them loved it and played it for at least two months each. yes, they saw cheaters and smurfs. no, that wasn't enough to make them drop the game, "because it's fun".

[tame owl]

Perhaps adding a new hybrid weapon for Heavy,
to where they have a dinky pistol that’s moderate damage, moderate ammo, pretty average, however they have a knife in their other hand that gives addition quick melee damage. The animation could be replaced with a slash

The same could be added for light but as a musket and bayonet, sniper damage, long reload, and perhaps turns the quick melee into a ranged jab 🤔

[digital yoke]

Quick melee cheats

What is this? This guy is just spamming q melee at machine gun speed with no cooldown or penalty. This crap has been going on for probably two seasons now. Either it's cheating or it's a glitch that no one wants to fix. Here's this player's data if you want to check it out for yourself.
996#1969 [ssni]

[dire ivy]

it's a known exploit that is kinda the same as phantom striking with sword. with a macro you can kill faster than an m11 sooooo hopefully it's patched next season

[pliant lichen]

"going on for 2 seasons"

Me when I lie to exaggerate the issue lol.
Check bug report threads. They know.

[simple kayak]

I LOVE THE FINALS. ALWAYS BEEN SUCH A GOATED GAME. For two years, it’s been the “go to game” on my desktop. Which game do I click twice? THE FINALS. lately, I’ve been loving Arc Raiders as well… both such incredible games. Embark knows what they are doing when it comes to games. Live, laugh, love, Embark. 💕

[tough gorge]

I have a suggestion feedback esports.
(This may sound strange as I used a translator.)

I found watching TGM25 more enjoyable than expected. As a fan of FN Esports, it was disappointing to see my favourite team perform below expectations, but I still thoroughly enjoyed watching the other matches.

However, regardless of entertainment value and popularity, I feel the current state of The Finals Esports is like a ticking time bomb that could explode at any moment.

Several esports organisations formed teams specifically for TGM25, didn't they? (Teams like Gen.G Esports and NTMR) But frankly, I believe TGM25's prize pool is insufficient to serve as the driving force for multiple teams to sustain their operations.

Other esports tournaments offer significantly higher prize pools than TGM25. In fact, TGM25's prize pool is considerably smaller than even regional leagues for other games, let alone global tournaments. A total prize pool of $100,000 is merely the winner's prize in other competitions.

In my view, either TGM's prize money should be substantially increased, or Embark should officially run other tournaments alongside TGM. While private leagues like PHL or the Ape Squad 3v3 Tournament did run during the 2025 season, their viewership and prize pools were woefully inadequate. But what about TGM25? While the prize pool wasn't enormous, it was the highest among all tournaments held so far, and viewership hit an all-time high, didn't it? It's entirely feasible. No, it must be done. Otherwise, it's plain to see that the numerous teams formed through TGM25 will dissolve pointlessly. Spacestation Gaming, which participated in TGM25, has already disbanded.

We saw tremendous potential for esports in the TGM25. Esports is the best means to increase both the game's player base and the number of players.

Therefore, Embark, we implore you. We urge you to invest more heavily in esports.

[velvet nexus]

after seeing the hoops arc raiders went through being developed it kind of of feels like this game is in a similar state currently to where arc raiders was before launch, obviously at its core this is an amazing game but at a fundamental level something just isn't very fun about it for most people, I cant get anyone I know to play it and the people I know who do play it are toxic and get angry at any suggestion that the game is flawed despite the player retention clearly reflecting it,
as someone with 100s of hours on this game even after the "fall off", I can pretty confidently say the current playerbase is extremely toxic and shouldn't be catered to, not that they dont deserve to play the game, but if the game struggles to retain players, and most of the playerbase leans on a certain playstyle, that's a pretty direct reflection that the playstyle being leaned on is the issue, so balancing the game to cater to that playstyle is like flailing violently in quicksand, and similarly the feedback from those players shouldnt be taken at face value, just look at how many people accuse people with good aim of cheating in this channel, if more people play light than any other class, inherently most of the complaints will either be that light is too easy to kill, or that other classes do too much damage, doesnt matter if it's true or not.
it's also worth noting that despite light not being viable in high rank as much, it is just so unfun to play against that the average person will refuse to play the game after 1 session because of it, look at a game like fortnite, which is blatantly being eaten alive by its own design philosophy lately, the playerbase still gives it high praise, thats because the people who dont like the game simply dont care about it anymore, I know it makes me sound almost nihilistic, but i'd dare say this community, apart from some obvious hackusators as any game has, is too positive for its own good, the game is basically boiled down to people who will take anything and give it glorious praise without a second thought, just like fortnite, just like COD, and I know embark doesn't wanna run a game like that, Arc raiders on the other hand blows this games playercount and retention out of the water and what do you notice, the playerbase complains constantly, almost everyone who plays arc raiders gets mad at everything about it, because that game allows you to play how you want, and where theres freedom theres anger and complaining, but far more opportunity for the average person to have fun playing.

[vestal moss]

not game feedback, but server feedback:
i think this channel should be a forum channel (pretty easy to set up in discord), so that each topic can be posted, easily searched, and voted with a 👍 or a 👎 depending on how good they are. this would help with organization, gauging community agreement with a feedback idea, reducing duplicate posts, and more

[light zenith]

Hey m8, I see the point you mean with that, but I see one big difference here. The finals isnt any other esport tournament. That tgm25 was even made possible is only due to embark loving the game in a for other studios unimaginable way, i know no other game with a concurrent playerbase as low as the finals (no pun intended, game is in a good state) that would even think about making an official tournament and none that would directly to a world tournament. This is only possible due to embarks love and the great community. Did u see the viewer numbers for the major? They know they cant compete with other esports and they pretty sure dont want to. and if the big teams pull out, who cares, the major was not made specifically made to pull in a lot of new players and that probably wont change.
No hate towards you though, just my opinion

[tacit whale]

A scythe skin for the spear and a grim reaper outfit would be pretty sweet

[river mist]

Can we add in Makin, Saipan and Iwo Jima in this game?

[desert moat]

Emote idea:
Contestant basking in either confetti or coins (or ospuze).
Arms completely spread wide open. Looking up and just have said confetti or coins or ospuze rain on 'em.

[mortal kiln]

Pls fix your support service. I am clearly talking to an AI that has NO idea what the finals is and sais stupid nonesense all the time.
I tried to refund a skin that i gifted, but after my game lagged i got the skin myself??? I ofcourse described this issue to the support bot, who after asking me a bunch of nonesense questions, came to the conclusions that i didnt have enough multibucks to buy the skin so i couldnt gift it and instead got it myself??? After telling me this bs he closed the convo and my follow up report got ghosted. PLS HELP

[brave quarry]

I was there from the beginning of The Finals.
I’m happy for the game to see that succeed.. even if I get permabanned because i used an emulator (DualSensX) to play on RDR2 with PS5 controller.

I tried to explain that with the support but like they said “we got full trust in our anticheat system” 🤡

I know that if an human make a verification, i will get unbanned instantly but… it’s sad to have 100% trust in a AI.

Still hope the best for The Finals and Embark.

Sincerely yours,
maaz

[remote solar]

can we get a science themed outfit?

[low delta]

More TDM maps please that's all games perfect love you Embark I'll give you moneys every season

[brave dagger]

Do the Viking season based in historic Stockholm! Its such a great setting

[sonic spoke]

I'm for this minus the in game credits. The day this was announced as f2p instead of a paid game my heart broke a little.

[spice mural]

You compare The Finals with Fortnite and COD eh? I used to play a lot of Apex Legends and Overwatch 2 (maybe some Fortnite as well). My experience in Apex Legends and Fortnite was that of a hyper competitive battle Royale system with little reward for creativity, just aim and strategy. It was a grind to perform in that game, but I had fun just the same playing with my friends. When I played Overwatch 2 for a year or so my Apex friends played with me a while, but fell off after a summer or so. I kept on playing solo and actually made some good fill friends through the game chat. We had a great time working together in a far more casual setting. I then proceeded to play The Finals with my two Apex Legends friends and we were all blown out of the water by how ingenious the game was! We didn't get crushed when trying something new or having bad aim (though our performance got better over time) I was impressed by the construction and destruction systems and the music and the teamwork and the maps and the customization. Sure most will agree the game is buggy, but I think that it's only that way because it is carving new ground in detail.

Surely The Finals will improve with time as the devs adapt to the environment they create.

As to the community, I think the quick cash, world tour and competitive communities all differ. I think quick cash is a great laid back community with people experimenting and trying dumb stuff. World tour has a higher bar with a competitive goal. I think people in world tour are a bit more unpredictable in toxicity and seriousness. While you may find the occasional triple flamethrower heavy goo gun team, it's mostly heavy medium light. Competitive games I have less experience with, but ina game that is literally called "The Finals" I'm sure that contestants can get brutally concentrated on performance.

All in all, what I want to say is that I love your game Embark, keep improving it so it can reach more people!

[plain jacinth]

a separate solo queue would help create a more authentic and balanced competitive experience

[wide vortex]

Unplayable. give us the s9 already:/ and make sure to absolutely shit on winch claw

[torpid quarry]

PLEASE DONT NERF THE HEAL BEAM

[honest dock]

Good game! Better than CS, overwatch

[naive narwhal]

Removing ranked rewards is very questionable ngl

[fervent pebble]

Honesly imho even gadget skins as ranked rewards would be fine, player card things ehh

[keen karma]

Are ranked diamond skins now downgraded to World Tour diamond skins now in S9? If true then what's the point of the ranked grind besides the diamond player card background or ruby?

Ichi what are you talking about, stop replying to me seriously. You literaly do not make sense. Ranked players now have nothing to work towards the ranked diamond grind besides the diamond player card. (as others have said in this channel) @polar yacht you must have amnesia, you've been trying to attack me the past couple weeks (unsuccessfully), don't play innocent now. I report people like you and the mods have to clean up your messages (and others)

@silk bough you have no context, this guy pings me constantly and i report them and their messages get deleted. Don't reply to me k? 10 v 1 I'll still win, doesn't make you right. I make six figures btw so my life's pretty good, so not sure why you're dropping to personal attacks now? Very **friendly **of you

[full sierra]

goo nade has been broken for seasons please nerf it

[sudden spire]

I do not like the new rules for doubling the cashout

[glad pike]

no https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1425659257680040047 😧

[polar yacht]

for ranked it seems like you only share the coins at the end
so for skins if you played world tour you get emerald for ranked you get ruby

zimbo the goo nade only seems op cause people learned how to use it isnt that op
ngl the game doesnt have many peeps so your running into the same peeps that know how to use it so lets just hope season 9 brings more players

Superbyte dawg im being friendly just telling you how i understand it
i aint playing "innocent" im literally being friendly rn atleast i was tryna be nice but you twist everything
your just mad that other people dont agree with you
yes i was rude and pinging you but i can reply to who ever i want
your the actual reason people press report cause you have a hissy fit when ever someone disagrees with your opinion

if anything the mods will ban both of us if we keep this shit going so grow up or lets just block each other
shit shouldnt be this deep over a stupid opinion
we both were rude to each other

dont act like you didnt attack me as well your basically playing "innocent" as well you were (unsuccessful) for your attacking as well you didnt do shit either we both argue over something stupid you either move on from your hissy fit or we both block each other
half the time you dont make sense either

[hybrid silo]

I compared shak to ARs because it is stated that it is an AR but even if you want to compare it to SMGs shak is still the best purely because it is in heavy's arsenal so it can be used with it's specs and gadgets(at range XP could be better I'm not sure).

I brought up dome shield because once again it essentially doubles their health and my original claim is that heavy doesn't need to try to deal insane damage(the ability to double your health in a second certainly makes things easier IMO).

Embark fucked up the balancing when designing the classes because they are not using the common and most logical method:

• least HP - highest overall DPS
• most HP - lowest overall DPS
  If they redesigned the game to that damage model I promise you the game would have more players and it would be much easier to balance.

I know for certain that people who actually use their brain could manage this game's balance better than Embark, who can't even make an infected mode that makes sense(all they had to do is copy it from other games), still try to make a 4 team ranked mode work and they make the majority of the LTMs to be Power shift with a reskinned platform and locked loadouts.

[real crow]

I just wanted to give some feedback as an average player regarding the ranked season 9 rewards, specifically the lack thereof.

I never want to grind ranked in videogames, there's never a reason to. Valorant gives you a gun charm and a big middle finger for reaching top 500, apex is similar, but the finals gave you a dedicated gun skin, player background, emblem, and im probably forgetting something else. Even if i didn't reach diamond, I at least wanted to always get the reward and it kept me playing ranked and wanting to improve at the game.

I get why diamond weapons were shifted to WT instead of ranked, but it brings down their appeal knowing that anyone can just grind for it instead of earning it through ranked. The new system is great, it respects all players time, but as far as ranked goes, you either want top 500 or there's no reason for playing it.

Idk what the solution is, im not a game dev. But this is something that I was really dissapointed in when I found out about it. The intuitive solution for me would be to simply add ranked-exclusive guns on top of the new system, but maybe there's issues there that I don't see.

[jaunty vapor]

So far season sucks. Why would people play ranked if there aren't even diamond skins to grind for?
Why is rpg buffed? Why isn't bfr nerfed?

[silk bough]

Do you hate your life or something, he legit said nothing wrong, he tried being nice regardless of you being mean to him in the past. At this point you are making a fool out of yourself. Pretty sure there were like 10 people against you a while ago so starting more beef will get you nowhere. People are allowed to reply back to you if you like it or not you cannot dictate what others will do, just like i am replying to you @keen karma i can see messages history, i can see that you constantly pinged people, including egg freakler, ichi, straeus and a few others, mods have told you to stop. You are being an absolute cry baby, none of their messages got deleted you are just coping

[silk shadow]

I hate my life! but i hate embarks servers even more

[night vortex]

Hey! Stop being negative! The servers are fine. Dont think you can just switch channels negative Nelly! Lol

@mental solstice
I dont believe this for a second.

[keen cosmos]

Guys anyone or did it happen to any of u before that ur first ticket and support takes 12 (9 dec would be 12) days yet and no reply ??

[mental solstice]

some people dont have servers, australia has to play on average ping of 150-200, i dont have servers so i play at around 60 ping, rubber banding is also an issue as well as desync issues (been getting shot behind walls all the time) i have the best wifi i can buy here and get average of 20 ping on any other game. you may just be close to the servers hence why you have less issues but its a huge issue with others @night vortex legit just look it up instead of arguing

[gleaming summit]

holy fuck they really nerfed the FCAR spread in air/jump in the s9 preview. must be fun to nerf mid tier weapons....

[crisp heart]

Please add ÖRF as a pet 🥰❤

[tired fable]

there isn't free farming item anymore on your battlepass ?
you blocked tactic helmet and tablet skin behing the prenium paywall ???

one more step in the greediness, gg

[winter falcon]

ACOG, Elcan SpecterDR 1-4x, Aimpoint Comp M2 red dot, please add this Embark i know some of the scopes are same like red dot but for the love of gun customization 🙏

[dim root]

the balancing is going in the right direction but the monetazation is starting to go towards EA

[junior agate]

Fun gun/utility idea the mortar, it's takes a second or two to deploy and only has one bullet at a time but you pull it out and stick it in the ground (yes in) and it has a projectile arc similar to a grenade l. And it does huge environmental damage with a large blast radius. On a successful direct hit it does 150 with damage being a lot lower with explosion radius. Oh and it's a slower projectile.

[mental delta]

I saw in the preview that the reward for reaching Emerald 1 is getting a coin to redeem 1 emerald weapon skin. 1? Maybe I misread it but if I understand right, one emerald skin compared to the 3 we got before? Yes, it’s probably easier to reach emerald now, way easier than it’s ever been but that doesn’t mean you give us less stuff, just that said stuff isn’t as “coveted”. This is a trade-off we were all fine with when you announced this merging of QP and WT but only getting 1 emerald skin is going to deflate a lot of the excitement and motivation to keep playing.

[narrow osprey]

Bring back CNS for season 9 past sponsor options

[unreal zodiac]

fix spear spin please bro please

[fleet panther]

Please for all that is holy do not make it so that WT gives diamond tokens. Ranked rewards need to remain as incentives for ranked. If it becomes part of the main WT rewards it will cause ranked sweats to flood into the casual modes and pub stomp

[ebon isle]

Do not release diamond skins to wt please, it hollows the prestige of diamond skins, but if you do, make ruby skins obtainable from wt aswell

[faint saddle]

How is dagger not buffed even ever so slightly in the preview event holy fucking shit what a sad and dogshit balance patch

[sage sonnet]

don’t touch revolver for the rest of eternity. It’s been perfect for 8 seasons. Dont do anything to it.

[cobalt kernel]

You nerf Winch in every aspect or the game is DEAD! I am not putting myself through another season of this OP gadget abusing trash meta, and neither will half the other Light/Medium players

The new game mode look uninspired and boring, BRING BACK BANK IT

REMOVE trash modes like TDM and Quick Cash

Game needs complete balance overhaul

Look at the low frequency in this channel Embark! Players who genuinely cared about this games success have moved on, they don't even bother anymore making suggestions. The only people left posting here are OP Heavy meta abusers and skin collectors, sucking up to you and demanding more skins.. they have no concept of balance, no game sense, no clue, just don't want to get their free kill gadgets taken away..

[steel otter]

Add CNS's sponsor track, I know they are not technically an official sponsor but their track is as legitimate as the others.

Also, tea drink hand gesture and mythic cassette tapes throwing knives.

[stoic kayak]

Why are these ranked reward changes so cooked? Why the fuck can I get Diamond from powershift? Why? Why?

Look at EVERY SINGLE CONTENT CREATOR your game HAS. YOU ARE GOING TO KILL YOUR GAME AND YOUR COMMUNITY WILL HATE YOUR FOR IT LOCK IN EMBARK

WHY WOULD I QUEUE RANKED ANYMORE IF ONLY 700 PEOPLE WILL QUEUE IT FOR RUBY ONLY? WHAT?

(I verified fully multiple times before this.)

[lavish shard]

👋👋👋

[pliant whale]

I don't even play Ranked but I think WT getting rewards besides Emerald is silly, especially since WT is not just Cashout anymore

[neon rune]

PLEASE fix sword lunge bug i am so sick of being punished for trying to hit a moving target

[novel trench]

With TDM becoming a World Tour option next season I'd like to see Kill-Cam's be an opt-in option (specifically for TDM) as cheaters find faster avenues to grind WT.

To clarify: Kill-Cams are disabled in TDM and I would like an option to Opt-In or enable them.

[autumn wagon]

just make ranked rewards exclusive to ranked, but make wt rewards obtainable through ranked

[deep spear]

S9 Ranked is just WT with more yelling. Big L on the ranked rewards changes

[ebon kindle]

s9 ranked changes are genuinely terrible, players have no reason to play ranked anymore in truth and its just gonna bleed into the casual playerbase

[vocal wave]

i hope you can toggle specs showing on healthbar

[young minnow]

Why nerf fcar? The weapon is so mid, while repeater is still untouched

[plush sand]

that was legit announced

[regal scarab]

This is so frequent and not game breaking but this silly bug
Edit: ik they know abt this, just wanted to point it out

[sand lava]

i don't want them to patch this bug because its so funny

[proud urchin]

Bring back terminal attack

[fleet quiver]

rpg buff is straight brainrot yall are definitely trolling

[limber sapphire]

What did they do?

[simple ether]

Smurf accounts and cronus/hack cheaters should be perma banned. Banning someone for a couple of days does nothing Embark. Why is it Fortnite and Marvel Rivals can get a fairly decent handle on this. But Embark (who is partnered with Nvidia) cant seem to manage even the smallest fraction of cheaters. This is why the player base keeps dwindling.

[finite coral]

kill-cams are able to opt out of but i get the sentiment

[wraith orchid]

what they buffed it🤯

[solemn fulcrum]

Fix matchmaking ffs

[undone dagger]

crazy how theres server problems in the practice range 🪑

[west axle]

We want HDR

[ruby fractal]

S9 Ranked changes are terrible if it's true that players who hit diamond in ranked no longer have exclusive skins for it. A badge / banner isn't enough of a reward for an achievement like that

[woven belfry]

This is a good idea and because I personally like the new world tour coins, but yes the ranked changes are bad

[raven garnet]

can you guys make hit reg a thing for the sniper at anything past 15 meters. why is it so ass at its strongest thing. RANGE

[grand crow]

I'm not gonna lie, you guys cooked with the wt changes and the cosmetics, but the balance changes are so awful I'd rather stay in S8

[radiant panther]

Everyone spam this so devs know

#BanFlameThrower

[royal jewel]

give me season 7 back

[warm compass]

embark: thank you for listening to me about bringing break point to the finals but make the objective a and b dont make it 3 objectives

[keen karma]

Make actual ranked diamond rewards worthwhile instead of downgrading it to World Tour diamond weapon skins in S9.

@polar yacht@silk bough oh look 20+ ppl have given the same feedback as me, looks like you're wrong again. Like I said 10 v 1 beef with me doesn't make you right 🤷‍♂️

[polar yacht]

Dawg you dont make sense your delusional and arrogant just chill no one has said the same exact shit as you

Which makes you wrong completely cause you ping someone when you dont want anyone replying back

1 i was telling you how it might have been I didn't say anything wrong for once you just twisted it

2 when embark does a ranked change thats not even within reach to us doesnt mean its shit

3 grow tf up it aint that deep this all started cause we disagreed with you

4 dont act like you didnt attack me your just as rude no one is on your side same for me no one is on my side just let go of your stupid grudge

5 if you cant take criticism then dont be on here

6 just because anyone thinks slightly different then you doesnt mean you have to have a hissy fit

7. If we keep this up the mods will just ban us both or just warn us multiple times

[raven jay]

didnt they make it so that ranked is now semi merged with world tour? world tour seems to be the main mode they want to focus on and give it new life and modes so adding in a ranked version while its still playing seems fair to give ranked mode some more life. the main issue i have with it is that its just the same couple hundred people playing it so they start feeding off themselves. new blood adds new life and innovation so honestly its good theyre adding it to world tour to entice more people to try it out. unless youre talking about the new ranking system which honestly also seems like a plus. this is coming from a semi tryhard player thats been playing for nearly the entirety of the games lifespan so its not like im spouting shit from barely seeing in the game

[mortal kiln]

I could bring up like 100 more issues after that preview event. But first: Thx for nerfing the by far weakes class....AGAIN. Medium is just embarks punching bag at this point

[wraith igloo]

Nah they totally do heaps to combat smurfs and cheaters. It's just a big coincidence half the level 10 players with default outfits and console icon next to their name have god tier movement, tracking and aim...

[sleek marsh]

Account verification has to be a thing in the future(telephone number,...) the amount of smurfs apparently hits rly hard and destroys so many ranked matches. Behavoir on smurfs should be tracked, and also punished on the main acc via ban, like in LoL, which works pretty well.

[bold moth]

The Finals is still missing a core part of their corporate future aesthetic
we need some more identity diversity in body types & hair
It'd be nice to get some more adrogenous body types (y'know, at least an in-between for the masc and fem body types) for the next batch of new body types
(A heavy body type that better fits dresses would also be peak)
I'd also appreciate if some of the hairs got remodels for how they appear when wearing hats (Longer hair just looks too flat when leaving the hat, some hair has barely any change from being bald while wearing a hat, and for the love of Nama Tama PLEASE change the House-Edge Visor from a Hat to a Bandana, it looks so uglyyyyyyyy)
More specialized moderation of tattoo/bodypaint/face paint mixes would be very much appreciated, body paints like Sacred Shadow, Dissun Magnetic Field, and Null Adornment could totally stack on top of most facepaints without issue

(Also if its not too much I would like to request Pride cosmetics for the Player Card & Half-Zip Flag Capes, it would mean a lot to plenty of players to express themselves even more within the contestant customization system <3.)

[harsh whale]

how so??

[round geyser]

Can I please get more outfit slots? And darker night maps.

[round isle]

You guys really should develop a drop in mode that it doesn’t really matter if you need to quit or time out.

Also I think the monetization is wrong, you should buy into events and competitions where entry grants you an item form entry and rare sets can be competed for. I think if you could compete for actually cash that would be great too.

[feral fossil]

Nerf sword M1 to 70 dmg. Buff sword M2 to 125 dmg. Remove sword multihit from M2. Remove aimlock.

**I'm begging you Embark, please fix sword. **Doing this will raise the skill ceiling to a place where skill expression is possible at all. Sword won't dominate lower lobbies as much because people won't be spamming M1, and sword will be usable in ranked past platinum. This will also completely fix the "360 spinning tech" because there will be no reason to spin if you can only hit one target.

Right now, sword is only viable in plat or below. Any player who is good will instakill sword because of the aimlock. Almost any sidestep will make the sword miss their lunge. As soon as I hit Plat 1, and certainly into Diamond, sword is COMPLETELY unplayable.

By removing multihit on lunge but keeping it on M1, we maintain the unique identity of the sword (which is the lunge because spamming M1 on an enemy is not viable for a light weapon) and give the M1 a purpose (which will be to hit groups of enemies because it will have multihit)

**If a weapon is op in lower lobbies, and absolutely useless in higher elo, it is not balanced. **

[harsh cliff]

Ranked currently is terrible, it sucks. I personally hate the game because of ranked. It's a waste of time. I spent the whole day I was at 39k. I went back to 29k. I am really annoyed and feeling terrible because of this. Cheaters, smurfs. It sucks. I hope ranked is just removed. Stupid system. It is designed to make you waste your life. I really need to stop playing this game. It is really a waste of time. All stupid pixels. Better learn a real life skill or hobby better than this stupid trash experience. No wonder the game is dying. I hope no one will play this game anymore and that it will die so cheaters and smurfs can put the diamond and ruby skins in their.....

[idle python]

You just sound tilted mate

[pliant lichen]

I feel like people are being too nice to say this but your marketing team should really not let Oscar play the game for these big events like the S9 preview.
Nothing against him. He's an excellent hype man, and showed it during the Major.
But if people are tuning into the official Finals youtube chanel and being shown extremely clumsy and frankly fresh instal looking gameplay this will turn people off.
Winch Flamer gameplay on main channel..? He says he's swapping to CL-40 because he '"doesn't want to aim anymore'" uhh... pretty wince worthy on several angles.
A better solution for this while still keeping Oscar as a game image would be to have him narrate over a guest's gameplay. Never try fake it's him playing, of course.
But with what I watched for long enough to reach this conclusion; it really is a pretty jarring thing that needs to be addressed.

[old oyster]

Can we stop nerfing stuff that doesn’t need nerfing like heal beam and famas, why is the weakest class in the game being nerfed again. Why is goo still 2 charges? Why does winch still have the ability to hit on the way back? Why are the ranked skins not tied to ranked?How about instead changing stuff that’s perfectly fine, nerf the stuff that actually needs nerfing, buff some things and instead of wasting and dev time on a mode no one will play, make some more weapons gadgets or specs and actually fix the sprint bug. If you actually want the game to not die, YOU DONT start the first season of the second year with next to no content and a bunch of dogshit changes nobody asked for.

[muted plaza]

“weakest class”

[mossy lance]

Diamond skins should be earned in ranked. That is all.

[coral lodge]

Not a fan of different weapon in the ultimate bp from the base bp

[crisp heart]

if you guys made the normal BP better so it wasnt intentionally ugly compared to the ultimate version i would consider actually paying for the ultimate version. i dont wanna support the sort of tactics you are employing sorry

[lean bluff]

BAN SMURFING!

[frigid crown]

yea I don't agree with that change either they should be giving people more of a reason to play ranked this feels like a step in the wrong direction

[cold bolt]

Ranked skins should be tied to ranked. The ranked population is already tiny as it is. Yikes.

No new guns, no new gadgets, no new specs, barely any substantial balancing changes in the preview event, no ruby coins, and as far as bug/server fixes I suppose we're waiting on Wednesday.

Not sure what the point is in playing anymore if it's just season after season of nothing happening. Really hope the preview event was an older build, because I'm not impressed.

[real elm]

Maybe there should be different more unique skin tracks for each progression line
as in ranked vs WT has different rewards, so grinding ranked would still give WT rewards but would incentivize still grinding ranked as it has different rewards to gain

that or make outfits for reaching some ranks in WT or ranked idk itd be cool

also I think why ranked/wt FOMO is less worse is cause

1. its the whole season (even if it takes a lot of time)
   and
2. it isnt paid
   just my thoughts though which is why I think ranked rewards should be its own thing still

[open scaffold]

Please nerf winch claw to allow us to shoot that the enemies while getting Winch...This move is literally just Stun Gun for lights and it's just bias for heavies having all the stun abilities while removing stun gun from lights in the first place

[simple ether]

Literally every single match today has had smurf accounts. Most are using cheats at that! PERMA BAN THESE ACCOUNTS FFS

[dark niche]

ok why are we buffing rpg...its not a huge buff and probably wont make a big difference but its already such a good gadget as is

[tawny oak]

add am EMP grenade that destroys equipment, glitch nade sucks ass and bounces off or gets destroyed easily by aps on powershift, make one that explodes on impact.

fix the servers man what the fuck is going on

[pine frigate]

As a casual player with a busy life please don’t siphon world tour into powershift, at least put diamond stuff back into ranked.

[deft topaz]

I absolutely 100% agree with this feedback. There should be some very real consequences for smurfing as its completely ruining the ranked system and experience. This is feedback I've seen repeated again and again so I'd be shocked at this point if Embark are not taking note and working on something to satisfy the very real concerns of the player base

The other real issue is cheating. More needs to be done here, better anti cheat and more resources spent to take action on reports.

[wooden sand]

i lowkey feel like gadgets should be turned off in tdm, like its the gun fight mode not the teamplay mode. Why are people running when unfavorable gunfights, not repositioning legit running to their team

[waxen thicket]

I agree with the androgynous body, Finals could definitely fit that archetype without an issue. Would be also cool to have more body types, like slender/slim and toned physique.

But flags should be kept limited to countries only, even then it can be argued that adding flags in the first place was a potential mistake that can still be reversed, but doubt the devs will ever do that tbh.

[dusky pasture]

Make ARN recoil more difficult to control
SH1900 range reduce, make it feel like dagger that need to close up to 3 meters or less

[night vortex]

I agree with this one. Can we get a buff feminine with giant knockers?

[wooden atlas]

Same here, it’s cranking up the FOMO wheel an unnecessary amount

[keen karma]

Make actual ranked diamond rewards worthwhile instead of downgrading it to World Tour diamond weapon skins in S9. Who from the game studio thought that was a great idea?

[thick inlet]

Less is more

[static wolf]

can we get some fucking alt account detection or something? ive got shitcron on an alt hard target griefing boosting this bleue shitter. detect they are on an alt account and give them a team rs adjustment? not that hard to stop these kids from boosting wannabe ruby players

[loud seal]

Can there be an objective/icon opacity slider please?
I'm tired of trying to look at enemies and failing because of floating texts and objective markers.

[feral fossil]

Nerf sword M1 to 70 dmg. Buff sword M2 to 125 dmg. Remove sword multihit from M2. Remove aimlock.

**I'm begging you Embark, please fix sword. **Doing this will raise the skill ceiling to a place where skill expression is possible at all. Sword won't dominate lower lobbies as much because people won't be spamming M1, and sword will be usable in ranked past platinum. This will also completely fix the "360 spinning tech" because there will be no reason to spin if you can only hit one target.

Right now, sword is only viable in plat or below. Any player who is good will instakill sword because of the aimlock. Almost any sidestep will make the sword miss their lunge. As soon as I hit Plat 1, and certainly into Diamond, sword is COMPLETELY unplayable.

By removing multihit on lunge but keeping it on M1, we maintain the unique identity of the sword (which is the lunge because spamming M1 on an enemy is not viable for a light weapon) and give the M1 a purpose (which will be to hit groups of enemies because it will have multihit)

**If a weapon is op in lower lobbies, and absolutely useless in higher elo, it is not balanced. **

[spark crown]

so ranked is now meaningless? if youre gonna pull the whole diamond means nothing anymore stunt at least make ruby top 1000-1500 instead of 500

this is a straight up joke wtf

why coddle the same 500 people that hit ruby each time???? diamond still meant something at least

[raw blaze]

wondering the same thing

[stray mist]

[brittle tartan]

its a complete joke, i really hope this is not the case. i hope they dont follow thru with this absolute joke change

[old oyster]

Second year of content dumbass. The game released 7th December 2023. I feel pity for your lack of intelligence

[exotic cobalt]

make the minigun's destruction actually meaningful. just found out it had it before, and I use the minigun a good lot. I've even seen it destroy doors, but I've never genuinely destroyed a wall because it takes way, way too long with it. wiki says a full clip can destroy 3 walls, that's like 80 bullets per wall

[hybrid oracle]

Day 51 of asking Embark to bring back bonus pages from past battle passes

[hollow kelp]

the diamond plat and gold coins should have only been in ranked. keep wt the way it was but with badges and multibucks but only wepon rewards for ranked.

[graceful kite]

Personally I feel like the XP-54 on the light needs a range and damage buff but lower the mage size

[cobalt kernel]

Not even 6k players on steam, instead of finally nerfing Heavy you do the opposite and nerf the weakest class and all it's main gadgets (by a huge amount too)

You are literally killing the game, whoever is in charge of balancing needs to be FIRED asap..

Winch still 12 meter range, still ridiculous long stun duration and broken hitbox, still doesnt break when object gets stuck

Still 2 OP pyro mines (but sure take one glitch grenade away..)

Still OP bubble shield with unfair advantage, should block damage from all sides

Sure lets buff RPG too

It's a cruel joke what you have done to this game..

[outer jetty]

Until he finds out how heavy can destroy sessions 🤫

Winch doesn't need that stun. That's it

Until he finds out how medium can destroy sessions 🤫

Until he finds out how lights can destroy sessions 🤫 (Unlikely)

The unbalancing happens in the matchmaking and skill.

The issue is. The game is more based on skill than tactics like how old seasons did well.

@solemn light
You really care about ranked skins?! 💀💀 Sounds like skill issue. There is a reason ranked is skill based. Casuals have their own place. World tour. Thankfully they will fix the ruby grinders we will be playing ranked while progressing the world tour.

All I can tell you with positive thoughts.

• BFR and Repeater should be nerfed so they would three shot lights instead. But I also think "high risk, high reward weapons" shouldn't exist in the finals, My reason for that, Is dealing so much free damage is unfair if you can handle that weapon unlike FCAR and AKM being perfectly balanced, but being thrown way because of the poke weapons.

• ARC Raiders is a god damn different game with different devs being taking care of, and it just got released. What about the finals released? It also was amazing. I don't understand what you yapping about.

• Player engagement, depends on the players choice of a game. The game is based on PvP and random events. And the game might get a PvE later in the lifetime of the finals.

[solemn light]

lights have to sweat to even be useful. You can be deaf and blind and still be useful as a Heavy/medium. Repeater and bfr 2 shotting a Light is not fair. Light is supposed to be high dps with low survivability. Its supposed to be hard to master for a great reward. in s9, picking a Light is throwing the game. No longer a glass cannon, but a mediocre glass nerfgun. Heavy has the highest dps and the strongest gadgets in the game. rpg should not do any damage and should be a tool for breaking down walls. They are buffing it to do 73% of Light's overall health. WHY?? Nerf Heavy either its dps or its health. Its too strong, unbalanced and boring. They will destroy this game if everyone can only play one class to win

Actually, it doesnt make sense how arc raiders and the finals are part of the same company. Where Arc raiders has a system to reward skill, where legendaries dont really matter for PvP, and where every weapon has an identity; it contrasts witht the SLOP that The Finals is. Where balance changes either catter to the Pros, or they remove the skill ceiling for all. Leave diamond rewards in ranked and let casuals know that theyll have to get better in order to get exclusivity. Want more player engagement? changing the sponsors is a great way of rewarding people who want to chill and play. Make every weapon have a PURPOSE. Not just: "ah yes gun good long range gun good everywhere range". Classes should have an I-DEN-TI-TY. Medium is polivent but reliable. Health = dps. Gadgets show this. Heavy is a big fella with low dps but high rate of fire and high survivability. Light is brittle, and easy to die with, but with high dps. That is the game I fell in love with. Not this awful, AWFUL MESS of a sad excuse of a game.

[limber sapphire]

Also kinda ruining the quickplay. People that work and aren't the best, don't have a good time with these pros coming in and decimating everyone.

[prime fable]

with the new sponsor changes, id love to still maintain a form of "brand loyalty" to keep some immersion into the game world, and individualization.

maybe give end-of-season rewards that is sponsorship based, and you only get that seperate reward for the sponsor you collected the most xp for? so even when you finished the sponsor track, you can still stay on that sponsor to increase "loyalty points" in case the other sponsor tracks are done too.

that way you minimize the FOMO that was pre-rework but still give sponsors more importance than just a reskinned mini battlepass

[prisma rain]

DEVELOPERS WILL BRAG ABOUT IMPROVED MATCHMAKING AND LIE TO OUR FACES IN THE NEXT SEASON AS USUAL. SOLO PLAYERS WILL NEVER WIN SINCE THEY ARE ALWAYS MATCHED AGAINST A BETTER COODINATED SQUAD. IF YOU CANNOT SOLO CARRY A TEAM YOU ARE DOOMED. PEOPLE DEVELOPING THE GAME ARE AFRAID TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS SINCE THEY VALUE PLAYER COUNT THAT QUALITY AND FAIR GAMEPLAY.

[narrow spade]

If you're gonna do a totally stupid and dishonest decision like decoupling the ranked reward skins from ranked (including all past ones), can you at least be upfront about it instead of getting the whole ranked playerbase hyped up about an actually good season of ranked just to bait and switch us? Seriously, the marketing/news delivery of this new season has been terrible. Just tell us what's happening instead completely switching plans (from the audiences perspective) 2-3 times.

[mint steeple]

Dear devs, could you make the match end automatically if the whole enemy team leaves it? I was just playing Blast Off Sour Core. My team crushed the opponents and all of them decided to leave, but the match kept going, and we just goofed around there for 2 more minutes with no one on the opposite side

[hearty bear]

please fucking seperate diamond skins from world tour and ranked, zero incentive to grind ranked unless going for top 500, games not big enough to do this lmao

[wraith orchid]

this basically says it all. they dont want their game as competetive/skill based as possible. they dont mind it that skill expression doesnt mean shit in this game. i mean, how else would you even defend their balancing since basically ever. most of us want it to be more skill dependent, but they dont want to. which is sad.

honestly, might just be me but i really dont get the hang of playing a pvp fps without actively wanting to improve and get better over time. but i also know multiple people playing since season one, who dont bother improving at all. putting hundreds of hours in this game at bronze level with no incentive to get better EVER.

sad.

wasted potential of humans and a whole game.

👋🏻

[valid solar]

PLEASE BUFF THE MINIGUN STRUCTURAL DAMAGE 80 BULLET TO 40 BULLET PER WALL

[wide isle]

Hey everyone! How are you? I'm here to talk about the costs of the premium and ultimate battle passes. It would be extremely important if you regionalized the prices according to the local currency, just like you did with the Arc Raiders price, which was a success, for example... Today in Brazil, owning a video game console/PC is a luxury due to our economy and also because the game only runs on the new generation of consoles. The difference of R$43.00 for the premium pass compared to R$169.90 is brutal... almost 4 times the price of the regular pass, and if we consider the overall cost, it's difficult to buy everything since we play so many other games, etc. The point is that we know these are the best skins and obviously have their value; we want to buy them. Brazilians love this skin culture, especially the cosmetics from The Finals, which are so detailed and unique, but they're quite expensive! Please consider this if possible. A hug from the South American community, which is growing little by little and we love the game!

[deft topaz]

There are many opportunities for the game to be friendlier to casual gamers, without ruining the potential for highly skilled play. Let's lay out a 3 step plan for Embark:

1. Step 1: Smurf Deworming 🪱 🚫
   Due to a low player base, Embark have no choice but to match casual players with high level players, or more often, smurf-worms (same thing), who they have zero chance of beating. This then creates a negative loop whereby the casual players are turned off by the game and leave, which further diminishes the player base, and on and on it goes. Smurf worms are just parasites infesting the body of the player base, feeding on it and preventing it from remaining healthy - all for clips/ego - and should be mercilessly removed and their main accounts banned.

2. Step 2: Cheat Rat Extermination 🐀🚫
   The Finals and Embark seem to be particularly bad at handling cheaters, ever since day 1. Embark have created the perfect habitat for cheat rats to breed in excessive numbers, as they know they can get away with it. It should be a priority to exterminate the cheat rats at all costs. For those who say cheating is inevitable - yes, but just look at Marvel Rivals, where cheating is relatively uncommon. Embark should learn from NetEase.

Step 3: Re-framing the Meta 👓♾️
One of the more controversial steps, but I truly believe a huge detractor for players is stepping into a map, and being instantly beamed from long range by supposedly short-to-medium ranged weapon, and dying instantly. This long range meta is simply not fun. I propose significant nerfs to damage-at-range for all weapons other than those intended for long-range play (sniper rifle and equivalents) This will make game more playable, it will make long range weapons much more viable and it will keep the gameplay fresh and exciting. Do we really want entire teams simply camping on top of buildings and beaming at each other with mid-range weapons? Sorry but this is not the meta that I believe is healthy for this game.

[ebon isle]

If diamond skins are acquired through wt they become meaningless and personally will stop playing ranked since theres no incentive anymore to do so.

[river plover]

Why is this written like AI

[magic perch]

pls tell me embark is trolling us and we will get new specialization/gadget/weapons or anything else.I am completely fine with a season having less content and embark focusing on fixing bugs and server issues but they can tell us they are going to do that this season and that why we got less content this time(similar to how seige told its community)

[harsh cliff]

Hey embark team, i would kindly ask you to tackle the smurfing issue. I am a plat player playing against new accounts ruby players. It just sucks. I think if you make the game paid this would be a good idea and you can give a three days or one week with no access to ranked free test for player's that wanna try the game. In this way you reduce the amount of cheating and smurfing at least by a percentage.

[noble valve]

Absolutely no bro. In consoles you gotta pay for online(constantly) for paid games

[young minnow]

Ranked should be separate from world tour. There is zero incentive to play ranked now

[faint saddle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKh0zzFI1Q

[final star]

Feedback on Weapon Sight Customization

Hello, developers. I would like to offer some feedback regarding the current weapon sight visuals in The Finals. While the weapon skins in the game are beautifully designed and highly detailed, the sights remain unchanged and always appear in the default black color. This creates a noticeable visual mismatch and reduces the overall aesthetic quality of the customized weapons.

Would you consider updating the sights so they can adapt to or reflect the equipped weapon skin? Even subtle color adjustments or thematic variations would greatly improve visual consistency and player immersion.

Thank you for your time and for continuously improving the game.

[rapid stream]

Give winch a spin up and don’t let it stun people

[dull whale]

AAAAAAlllllriiight Embark. You fucked up big time. First off all, the sledge nerf, WTH. You just ruin Heavy and make the already dead medium class a tiiiiny bit less awful. While everyone runs goddamn sword lights and turns them into the most op class ive ever seen. I fucking quit your bullshit, shooting through walls, hitscan mashup combo game. Search for someone else one the "best FPS ever"...

[glad pike]

diamond skins dont mean anything anymore woooooooo

[twin helm]

give everyone ruby for every gun rn

[hard sedge]

I think it would be a good idea if you could have different versions of the same specialization or gadgets

[pine quarry]

Please, for the love of everything don’t let WT award diamond tokens. Ranked rewards need to stay exclusive to ranked play.

[fleet panther]

I am begging y'all.. please do not push the current "world tour can earn diamond" rewards. It completely defeats the purpose of ranked by turning everything except Ruby into participation trophies

[golden badger]

I don't play ranked but I think ranked rewards should stay in ranked

[brave dagger]

Battlefield has an interesting idea in their tournament mode that could / should just straight up be copied for casual cashout tournaments (not ranked). Where if a team has a leaver and progresses on to the next round, the best preforming player(s) of the knocked out teams get a chance to join the team with the leaver replacing that player.

[fast seal]

For the last 3 seasons metas have been hurting the game. Back in the early days of the finals there were balance patches every week. Weapons would drop in and out the meta about every week which made the game feel refreshing. Because there were different weapons being used every week it felt like there was something new every week giving the game a refreshing feel. About 3 seasons ago embark decided to switch to mid-season patches. These patches happen midway into the season and have pretty significant changes. After the patch we Then have to wait till the next season for a new big balance change. Because of this switch to mid-season balance patches there has been the same weapons and gadgets in a seasons meta for an entire half of a season and for some weapons the entire season. This forces players to use the best gun and the meta gadgets for an extended period causing boredom amongst players. once you start fighting plat and above players it feels like CREATIVITY IS DEAD. Everyone uses the same weapons and gadgets, the same strategies, and just play the same all around(goo heavy's are a exception). Being stuck to certain gadgets kills the game more than anything. lights can use pretty much what ever they want BUT it always has to be gateway takin a slot. On medium you basically stuck with the same loadout because you gotta have pad or zip AND defib. Heavy you got to have dome shield and winch claw. What is my solution?

[frozen python]

Please embark don’t move the ranked rewards in casual modes it will literally kill the casual player base and be impossible for newcomers, please consider your decisions again embark!!!

[grand plaza]

Dont give ranked rewards for playing world tour, that would make ranked even less appealing than it is now. People who grinded for plat/diamond would just switch to casual modes, which would make things worse for both ranked players (except ruby) and casual players. Just keep world tour rewards like they were before (multibucks and emerald skins/now tokens), and keep the ranked skins/tokens exclusive to ranked. That would actually make ranked more appealing, potentially increase the playerbase and lead to more balanced and competitive matches

[radiant reef]

If we had more outfit slots, and if they saved everything instead of just clothes, I'd be more excited in the new season and to buy cosmetics.

[tame owl]

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[plucky geyser]

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[remote dagger]

I think with the new WT changes, rank either needs to be incentivized a lot more if casuals can earn diamond rewards, or keep diamond rewards exclusive to ranked. Or make it so that ranked players can earn more of these coins for playing ranked or something along those lines.

[brittle tartan]

there are alot of people specially on reddit that think they deserve the same reward if they reached diamond in WT with diamond in ranked. those people outright delusional. delulu at its finest

[dim root]

not only did they start releasing ultimate battle passes taht require you to pay real money they also added like 20 teams that played in the major and each one of them costs money

[noble path]

• Revert all the nerfs to sledgehammer
• Increase server tick rate from 5 ticks per second to at least 20 ticks per second (to at least match Minecraft 💀)
• Allow KS-23 to aim while reloading

[kindred hull]

It is absolutely AI, lazy. Also hi Embark, my feedback for the game is advertise it and invest in your servers.

[harsh whale]

30 dollars is nothing, you get the extra 10$ in value in multibucks and skins, and the teams got at least part of the money from skins being bought. this is nothing like EA's monitization.

[gritty jetty]

Buff dagger
Buff dual blades
Remove winch
Buff turret
Add reserve switching in ranked so a single flamethrower user doesn't make it impossible for medium melee users to play the game

[main coral]

Who the fuck thought the ranked skins being earned in WT or casual modes was a good idea?

[tribal spoke]

The wt only granting weapon skins change is stupid if true

[fading yoke]

I feel like Embark has huge H bias in their balancing.

How long did it take for L's stun gun to be COMPLETELY REMOVED from the game due to it being too oppressive?

Why let Winch be in the game for 5 seasons and still not properly nerfed to be in line with other specializations? It's just as oppressive as stun gun if not more + has great utility on top of it. Everything in the meta revolves around it. L's have 100% pickrate on dash because stealth is nerfed and you absolutely need dash to dodge winch. Everything in the meta currently revolves around this overpowered spez and this has been going on for AGES.

Remove the stun and remove the hooks ability to pull players on the pullback and the hook still pulls players far behind walls and cover (this probably isn't even fixable with the current tickrate the game has, I know it is because of destruction). It is way too forgiving, way too oppressive and basically just an instakill button even against M's.

From what I've seen from the S9 preview, L's only seem to be getting gigantic nerfs and H, already the class that defines the whole meta and has creeped to absurd levels of power is getting even more buffs. I'm starting to have serious doubts about continuing to play this game if nothing changes. You can't please everyone, but this coddling of H players is getting ridiculous.

[warm solstice]

Season 9 is looking dead on arrival. Its clear the devs main heavy isnt it? Massive light nerfs when the problem this season is heavy. Heavy can cross map you. 2 tap you. winch you for a insta death. but lets nerf dash? oh and buff the already high tier RPG. ALSO lets Ruin the feeling of accomplishment from ranked. Why arnt we nerfing the H+ Infuser? Why are we keeping the Repeater and BFR untouched? Genuinly what we we thinking? 3 MONTHS FOR THIS? we waited 3 months for a meta that only makes the current meta of burst damage and range poke stronger. This is possibly the most boring meta thats off putting to new players and off putting for anyone looking to show skill expression. Are you even playing the same game as us. I love oscar as a personality but if his gameplay in the S9 preview is a show of the general skill and understanding of the game over at Embark then we are cooked forever and forever more.

[gray flare]

skill issue skill issue L L L L L L L L L

[neon rune]

Hard agree. Pretty rediculous that the repeater+BFR combo that has been decimating for the entire season is left completely unchanged.

Meanwhile Gateway, Glitch, and H+ infuser are all getting nerfs, even though these gadgets were the only thing keeping light in the meta in the first place.

BFR + Repeater is so dominant that the third slot can fill in whatever niche they want without much detriment to the overall team. Light usually filled this slot to provide the ability to reposition your team, disable opponents, and provide emergency burst healing. Literally everything that Light was able to provide to a meta stack is getting nerfed.

[feral fossil]

Nerf sword M1 to 70 dmg. Buff sword M2 to 125 dmg. Remove sword multihit from M2. Remove aimlock.

**I'm begging you Embark, please fix sword. **Doing this will raise the skill ceiling to a place where skill expression is possible at all. Sword won't dominate lower lobbies as much because people won't be spamming M1, and sword will be usable in ranked past platinum. This will also completely fix the "360 spinning tech" because there will be no reason to spin if you can only hit one target.

Right now, sword is only viable in plat or below. Any player who is good will instakill sword because of the aimlock. Almost any sidestep will make the sword miss their lunge. As soon as I hit Plat 1, and certainly into Diamond, sword is COMPLETELY unplayable.

By removing multihit on lunge but keeping it on M1, we maintain the unique identity of the sword (which is the lunge because spamming M1 on an enemy is not viable for a light weapon) and give the M1 a purpose (which will be to hit groups of enemies because it will have multihit)

**If a weapon is op in lower lobbies, and absolutely useless in higher elo, it is not balanced. **

[frigid horizon]

Whats gonna happen to the casual ranking system? Is that just gone now or like.. is it just gonna exist side by side with WT?
Just curious
Edit: also are we gonna get 4 Emerald tokens or just 1? Every other season before this is offering 4 emerald skins

[cobalt kernel]

The love and passion i had for this game since closed beta has turned into complete and utter disgust at this point

How do you mess up a beautiful game like this so bad with your lack of balancing. There comes a point where it's not even incompetence anymore, it's like you are trying to kill the game on purpose

For 5 seasons Winch has been completely unchecked, prior nerfs to 10m range (not enough of a nerf even) have been reverted withing a month

In addition to that now you take away ALL crucial gadgets from the weakest class in the game by nerfing them into the ground? WTF are you doing over there?? The person in charge of "balancing" should have been fired 2 seasons ago!!

As some one with over 1500 hours in this game, i am telling you this season is going to be a disaster. We warned you months before the qualifiers for the major started, waited like 6 months for this stupid tournament to conclude. And now that it's finally over you nerf ... nothing ?? unbelievable

Player numbers have tanked below 8k , i don't see the Finals recovering at this point, next season will be 6k to 7k max

[mossy lance]

Least overreactive The Finals player.

[umbral ruin]

The current skill based / team based matchmaking system is flawed to the core. Been meeting lobbies with high diamond and ruby players when pushing through platininum 2 and 1 to reach diamond 4.

How is meeting RS players of 9-15 k above myself fair game ? Its so punishing to loose a match

And as of writing, the login server is down?

[plain jacinth]

a separate solo queue would help create a more authentic and balanced competitive experience

[stuck sandal]

I love you guys. I've never seen a studio so receptive to player feedback and input. I hope that through all the noise of this channel that you all are able to enjoy what you do. Cheers and best of luck with the launch of the new season. 😊❤️

[light nimbus]

I think you should keep the rewards the same as before but just make RANKED level up WT too

that way everyone is a winner
Ranked player base will go up
WT will be a way to play CASHOUT without losing RS if you just wanna practice and experiment

[exotic saddle]

Love the changes to the WT/Ranked system just announced. I had no idea why it planned in the initial way it was, and the new plan makes far far more sense

[light niche]

give gold/plat/diamond players in ranked a coin to choose their own reward in the respective ranked if they reach it (in a specific pool of skins), that way you are not stuck with a weapon skin you are never / barely going to use

[dense jay]

next season it will be like that lol

[covert dome]

really cool that you guys reverted the skins for ranked players. But I do think you can diverse the portfolio more by maybe giving out saphire rewards? Those would look very cool

[high coyote]

Please buff the sledge to its original stats. It is so bland as of current meta and using QM will get you killed.

[vocal marlin]

Ranked has a fundamental flaw in that cashout as a game mode to grind is not fun. I like cashout as a game mode it's what got me in the game. However I don't have the competitive spirit anymore to grind ranked. Would love time grinded skins that don't take 700 hours to get cough level 13 cough

[visual flame]

The reverted change for skins is fine, but giving players only 1 emerald coin for 1 skin that you can choose except 3 random emerald skins? There's no profit in it for us, we only lose while ranked players earn more, let us earn 3 emerald tokens or at least 2. we already have to grind a lot for them so why give us less?

[eager pilot]

Hey everyone! How are you? I'm here to talk about the costs of the premium and ultimate battle passes. It would be extremely important if you regionalized the prices according to the local currency, just like you did with the Arc Raiders price, which was a success, for example... Today in Brazil, owning a video game console/PC is a luxury due to our economy and also because the game only runs on the new generation of consoles. The difference of R$43.00 for the premium pass compared to R$169.90 is brutal... almost 4 times the price of the regular pass, and if we consider the overall cost, it's difficult to buy everything since we play so many other games, etc. The point is that we know these are the best skins and obviously have their value; we want to buy them. Brazilians love this skin culture, especially the cosmetics from The Finals, which are so detailed and unique, but they're quite expensive! Please consider this if possible. A hug from the South American community, which is growing little by little and we love the game!

[dry wraith]

Oh man, crybabies can't stand the idea that more players will have an equal amount of rewards without playing the ranked mode. I'm not sure if the change was necessary

[violet basin]

Yes, the price is simply too much for anyone in countries like Brazil, Localizing the price would sure help, like it did for Arc Raiders. Plz Embark

[mighty vault]

Low populated servers like SA and OCE deverve to play default cashout mode too.

That ranked rewards change was understandable, but kinda flat. I hope you find a way to give those rewards to players that cannot achieve them on his own server due to not being able to simply find a single match that's not quick cash.

I can see you're already aiming for that, keep pushing.

[golden snow]

why are we only getting one emerald coin WT ?? that kinda makes it even less worth it, we should still get 3 coins if we're gonna grind to emerald 1

[keen karma]

Thanks for listening embark, now i can change back my display name

[rigid crown]

PLEASE MAKE A TOP 500 WT REWARD

[lime forge]

Embark please, add the Argentine flag to your wonderful game 🇦🇷

[carmine warren]

At the next Grand Major, there should be side tournaments for some LTMs. Modes like blast off and heavy hitters would be very fun and funny to watch people try to compete in

[eternal ermine]

The games slowly dying please balance the game, though im glad the servers work now since two thirds of players are gone

[polar shell]

EMBARK: Thankyou and I still love you.

[olive fulcrum]

Winch needs the stun gun treatment.

Silence + Pull is one of the most frustrating mechanics in many games.

It is inappropriately punishing.

[slow crescent]

I love that you, Embark, make a brand-new map instead of reusing the same assets from Season 4 again. This one looks so damn fresh!

Also, a quick word about balancing. I don’t know what exactly tomorrow’s update will bring (didn’t play the preview), but everyone already kinda expects a bunch of nerfs this season and here is still poke meta. I just really hope we’ll see some real changes and BUFFs from the current meta, because Season 8 felt pretty stale with zero updates, and now I’m cant wait to see what Season 9 looks like.

Here are a few ideas that could spice things up:

1)I’d love to see the goo features come back — goo ship, goo launch, all that crazy stuff. Yeah, it takes a while to set up, but it adds so much chaos, fun and strategy to the game.

2)Please bring back and give nukes a rework — more like a cool tactical tool, not a “delete everything” button. At least let me strap C4 onto a chair or something. Let me be creative!

I know some Light players still have PTSD from the old seasons, and many people think Heavy is OP, so here’s a fun idea for a new Light spec:

Second Chance — when you drop to 1 HP, you get a nullifier-like effect plus a speed boost to bail out of the fight. Cooldown ~60 seconds.

And one more thing: it would be awesome to have a test client or at least a one-week closed test period before updates go live. That way you can drop hotfixes before launch instead of chasing them after.

Hope you enjoy the suggestions — can’t wait to see what’s next!

[wraith orchid]

exact same situation for me. hope is gone by 2 years of disappointement. about 9 weapons got played in the majors.

9 of 37
fucking 1/4

skill expression becoming less and less important by every balance patch.

the devs advertise the game as HERO BUILDER, no fixed roles/loadouts, infinite freedom

instead its going straight in the opposite direction for 2 years 😂

maybe were just missinterpreting the devs vision of how the game should be. but by the looks of their actions of the past 2 years, i cant even make up what their vision could look like.

crazy

@thorny lynx really seems undeniable sadly.
although i think they can definitely experiment/test things out. IF THEY ARE OPEN ABOUT IT AND DONT LET IT SEEM LIKE A PERMANENT CHANGE!

[thorny lynx]

For those of you who think the response to ranked was because they "paid attention", you are obviously new players and don't realize that EMBARK literally had NO CLUE what they had done until the community spoke up. Same as when they switched TA to ranked in s3.
Decisions are made and not tested. It has been repeated and proven over and over and over. However this ranked change/revert was simply due to oversight and realizing they would RUIN THE GAME if they did not do something immediately.
This also PROVES that they could fix things that constantly plague the game (quickly even) but chose to avoid.
S9 better be something else...

[night tiger]

I’m so sick of running into the triple medium grenade launcher classes they need to do more damage to themselves such an infuriating class to see literally a brainless weapon

[nimble oasis]

Buff Cl-40 please, it was underpowered prior to nerf and it is more than underpowered now.

[noble geode]

@fierce sand lol, i do have the diamond skin you absolute garbage. But it looked like a good idea to not having to grind the hellhole that is solo ranked every season to get the diamond skin, the only thing they did now is remove the freedom they were planning to add to the game to please the few people that have nothing to do with their lives, embark has no balls

[mighty ether]

Please make dematerializer smoother. I can understand the nerf to Dematerializer (2 charges + the see-through delay makes sense), but the added delay when pulling up the tablet just feels clunky and not smooth. Would love reverting that part to keep the ability feeling fluid. Just feels bad in its current state.

[steel otter]

first off, W embark for rolling back the ranked/WT reward changes less than a day after they were revealed. keeping diamond a reward for skilled ranked players is a no-brainer. that being said, I think we should have a tea sip hand gesture, a buff to cloak, and cassete tapes throwing knives skins; upon inspect one cassete is "glichflipped" into a walkman, and the remaining casset is inserted, playing a song.

[fierce sand]

you are just garbage complaing that a gun skin which is ment for ranked and has been for ranked for the pas 8 seasons isnt given to you because of how long you play the game for instead of actual skil i started in season 7 and am diamond just get better

[broken lynx]

Dear embark as much as i agree with the changes made to ranked im begging you to atleast move some of the beginner ranked rewards for example the gold and maybe platinum rewards to world tour to add more value to it keep diamond and above exclusive to the ranked gamemode a part of your playerbase just wants to play as casual fun game and feel rewarded doing so not grind a whole season and earn a green gun skin with pennies and a few charms along the way.

[smoky gust]

yes please, same thing with reshaper as well
when someone throws an aps in your face mid fight, you need to be able to respond quickly
if the flow is broken during the delay, and you need to swap back and forth a 2nd time, it can easily cost you your life

id love to see it either sped up to its old speed again, or get input buffer so that if you hit trigger before its fully out, it delays unequipped until its activated at least once
(buffer might cause fluidity issues the other way though)

[silk shadow]

Dearest Embark, Please nerf winch claw. I'm a defib player and my wife's boyfriend went down yesterday and as I ran in to revive him and then give him a beam of my heals, I was literally RIPPED away out of position into a flame thrower and his light teammate. I've never felt so hopeless. Not only could I not fight back in game, I got an earful from Jeffery (previously mentioned) in real life and was showered with bullets and flames in game. Winch claw is not only making me a failure in game, but making me feel like a failure in real life. Can we please get some help, surely I'm not the only one who feels this way.

[crisp heart]

The false ban problem is out of control

[hybrid silo]

Please nobody thank Embark because they reverted the skin change. People who have above room temp IQ would never even THINK about something like this.

“We have the best community and it shows in the way we communicate”this HAS to be ragebait after 3 months of 0 updates and an RPG and P90 buff that legitimately nobody asked for.

[warped elk]

buff dashes for dagger, or nerf dashes for SMGs, ARs etc

aka ability mods for weapons

[wraith gale]

Buff Breach Drill; nerf goo to 1 grenade charge

[dark niche]

IMO weapons like the chinalake & flamethrower should stay underpowered, as they have very low skill floors and can be frustrating to fight

nerf winch

[glad pike]

no https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1425659257680040047 ?
😧 😭😭😭😭

[scarlet pilot]

lights cry on heavy since season one, nothing changes in this kingdome

[gilded bluff]

💯

[real crow]

Thank you for reverting the ranked changes! I can go back to being fully hyped for season 9 now

[proper warren]

The loudest voices often crowd out the silent majority even though they might represent a small minority of the player base. The small minority, though the loudest, do not represent the majority who do not even touch ranked at all. In terms of metrics, they neither contribute more to the total playerbase playtime or multibucks spending. There is enough literature out there and real life anecdotes where catering to the top 0-5% of the player base did not end too well for the game. The silent majority do not comment here, they just leave the game, quietly. I hope the devs take note.

[burnt summit]

Please buff the minigun. It lacks so much. Why does it take so much time to kill every class? Why should't i pick p90 as a medium, m11 as a light or literally any other weapon as a heavy? This weapon needs serious buffs

[odd prism]

You’re just using it wrong, it has the highest TTK out of any weapon.

Get in peoples faces and use movement.

[forest kiln]

y

[terse tiger]

minigun does NOT need a buff

[tired haven]

Would be nice if there is like a system that prevents you from getting double lights In a row when solo queueing. I can handle one double lights team but 4 in a row is ball crushing torture.

[wide creek]

Repeater meta needs to die, it is vile and beyond OP against lights.

[tacit whale]

The LTM mode this season has to be prop hunt! 🙏🙏🙏😭

[frank holly]

Can the AK get the 4 bullets back please? Medium already can't do anything about mesh, let alone a +100hp mesh. At least light has the glitch nade.

Or give medium the glitch nade too...

[ember shoal]

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[night vortex]

If the RPG is going to double damage to self you may as well just rework the thing. Take it out for a season because the approach of upping self damage is really dumb and not helpful for new players.

Make it a destruction tool with two charges and 35 damage or something. And give it rocket jumping with no self damage. This mindless nerfing of things is why the game is stale right now.

[outer estuary]

Another season with no new melee weapons :(

[gaunt osprey]

💀i main it in diamond and dropped a 40 bomb a week ago

[mental delta]

Embark, thank you for putting ranked weapons back in ranked. But please give us 3 emerald tokens instead of just 1 for the whole season

[uncut gull]

Cam we got only single match Cashout in new WT? Not just another fake ranked Tournament????

[trim plank]

Mann vs Machine game mode but ARCs instead?

[quartz osprey]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/850448260434624573/1319229600382980146/caption.gif

[obtuse creek]

I have a relatively complex request (or at least I think it is, I know nothing about modeling in games, only in blender and stuff like that), but I noticed with the Ospuze Cold Mask, it's the same model as the Special Ops Helmets, and the Noctovantage Helmet. But, with the help of the Hedge Hunter Bundle, I get to see how it looks with a helmet, and there's no clipping issues, there's no texture clashing going on, so I just kind of want to ask if it's possible, can the Ospuze Cold Mask be made a facewear? It would look amazing with the new Ospuze headset, or the Splatter Blitz Cap from the paintball bundle. Or just any helmet that doesn't have some kind of mask attached, the Shinobi Wrap is a great example, it's a facewear and looks amazing with helmets and the Ospuze headset, but the Ospuze Cold Mask can't use facewear, so it takes up both slots, when it's completely possible for it work with helmets and headsets, and potentially even hats, like the Ospuze Comms Hat, or the beanies, like the Causal Beanie, all these I tested out with the Shinobi Wrap, but in the end it's just a cosmetic request and it would make me very happy if this could be done. Thank you for hearing me out if any of the design team sees this. Here's a couple screenshots as examples for my "research" lol-

First couple are examples of how it would look using the Shinobi Wrap, the rest are the current headwear that use the model incorporated into it, and the last is the Hedge Hunter set giving me the perfect example of how it would look with a helmet. I am ONCE AGAIN asking for this even though it'll never be done. Just look at the facts, the potential. It's ALL THERE. I beg you finals design team, make it happen. You made this peak in the first place.

[digital ember]

Came back to this game, deranked like 5000 RS already because of this shit ranked system. Da faq is wrong with the matchmaking?

[harsh whale]

for real man, most of these ppl just are here to whine about this or that

[frail trout]

That’s why we keep you around in the Baggins clan 🫡😜

[cold bolt]

reverting the ranked thing is good, thank you for listening quickly on that and also revealing ruby tokens

S9 is still weak in balancing changes though. Really hope what we saw in the preview event isn't all. People were expecting a proper shakeup after a season of no balancing patches. Winch nerf and 93r nerf are the only really substantial changes.

If there's no new weapons, specs, or gadgets, it needs to be made up for technically (servers on fire, tons of common longstanding bugs) and balancing wise and that's why there's so much doom and gloom about this season other than the now resolved ranked thing

just generally feels like there's not enough direct communication with the community before going through with changes

[weary pine]

Agree! Too many weapons are just meh nowadays. We want more variety across all skill levels!

[solar stump]

Ok. Random thing. But. I did around 8 Head to Head today to try and get the "1'000'000 cash" quest. I won all but 2 of them. And they all gave me "200'000" something isn't adding up.

After noticing like "hey... we already did so many. Why are we still just halfway?". I looked at the quest ingame. And the first 25k cashout DOES count towards the quest. But the second one doesn't. It stays the same as when we just got the first one.

I followed the cash score from a game I just won:

I went in with: 547'000. The first cashout pushed it to 572'000 and we won the game. And after it. I still have the same 572'000. I'm missing around 200'000 from the game scamming me. I do have video footage of it too. Can't post it here tho so

[river valley]

Why don't we have dual sticks for the dual blades?

[grand crow]

Ngl it seems like this entire game is getting geared towards comp players and heavy mains, and it's just sad
Actively made things worse for wt players so that ranked players could get their exclusivity and ego boosts

[feral fossil]

Nerf sword M1 to 70 dmg. Buff sword M2 to 125 dmg. Remove sword multihit from M2. Remove aimlock.

Embark, I love you guys but I'm begging you to please fix sword. Doing this will raise the skill ceiling to a place where skill expression is possible at all. Sword won't dominate lower lobbies as much because people won't be spamming M1, and sword will be usable in ranked past platinum. This will also completely fix the "360 spinning tech" because there will be no reason to spin if you can only hit one target.

Right now, sword is only viable in plat or below. Any player who is good will instakill sword because of the aimlock. Almost any sidestep will make the sword miss their lunge. As soon as I hit Plat 1, and certainly into Diamond, sword is COMPLETELY unplayable.

By removing multihit on lunge but keeping it on M1, we maintain the unique identity of the sword (which is the lunge because spamming M1 on an enemy is not viable for a light weapon) and give the M1 a purpose (which will be to hit groups of enemies because it will have multihit)

**If a weapon is op in lower lobbies, and absolutely useless in higher elo, it is not balanced. **

[autumn zodiac]

Or a free for all/br looking at how huge the map is

[viscid sable]

ADD A PHONE NUMBER VERYFICATION TO LIMIT ACCOUNTS MADE BY CHEATERS AND SMURFS

[tawdry canyon]

buff dagger

[lean bluff]

spitting some facts

[leaden tangle]

Hi Embark devs, too excited to play the new season.

Something that everybody hates about sniper players in Power Shift is the camping for the objective. They can easily hit you from a distance with no risk of dead.

To fix this, could be good a rework like Team Death Match. All long range weapons are disabled to evite this kind of players, who honestly, are many and they can't risk nothing like players like me, who always try to move the platform and die in the process because most of the cases nobody is following the objective. Power Shift is the TDM for the lights and every player who don't care about objective

Nice day, everyone.🗣️

[pine frigate]

Thank you embark for listening to the feedback on the ranked rewards 🙂

[ebon nest]

Agree! Snipers on Power Shift are really a turn off for a great mode, to me

[thick cliff]

Fix controller deadzone on ts game
Its hard for me on console and not having a pro controller or a programme like pc to lower it at least
Its been a problem for year now even if its not too many people talking abt it but majority with normal controllers feeling it
Get rid of this hidden deadzone

[brave trench]

for the first time in my life im gonna be the hater of this game for making ultimate BP. i just watched a video about new season BP and it was so cool but then i just saw the ultimate thats crazy i dont like this move. and pls make the heavy chain spining in your hand and the more you hold it the more it gets range cus its ruining the game. someone tap and hooking me (an heavy player) from far away to his team and get an easy kill and i feel usless and i cant do anything

[fleet panther]

Thank you Embark for listening to the feedback about ranked rewards! ❤️ 🎄

[lilac saffron]

buff all guns

[wraith orchid]

they increased the damage ofc the self damage will increase too. they didnt change the self damage multiplier though so wym

[gritty jetty]

yeah lets make the ttk faster so gadgets are useless and we dont get to fully utilize destruction

[bold moth]

ok so wait are they ACTUALLY nerfing Evasive Dash before the Double Barrel or BRF???

[deft topaz]

Oh wow. Your feedback is "advertise the game and invest in servers 🤡" and yet you call others lazy for writing well thought-out and structured feedback?

Well, humans be human-ing!

But appreciate you highlighting my feedback for other readers.

With warm human regards,
Your AI Overlord

[spark crown]

i think the gateway nerf is a bit extreme instead of being 70m-50m how about 70m-60m

[cunning grotto]

please add a compound bow skin for the recurve bow 🙂

[raven jay]

ill be real i didnt even know the normal range was 70. that is insane and even 60 is a bit wild. 50 still gives it some good range for combat encounters and is probably what it was meant for originally. i will say that vaults moved around extremely fast due to the portals from what ive played. maybe on paper sounds bad but id say wait till it comes out for everyone to see how it feels

[tough merlin]

tbh for a long time I thought it was 50 (I thought it was nerfed to 50 in a previous patch but it wasn't?!) so played like it was 50 and it still worked fine

[gray flare]

light mains spending 24 hours a day complaining on 5 alternate accounts about a single nerf to their completely meta slave loadout instead of just playing the game with whatever is fun

[nimble oasis]

Revert ranked changes.

Streamlined world tour changes was pretty good but now that you have taken away most skins it feels pointless and a bit of a bummer. The only thing you managed to do was to make ranked players be able to get all skins by playing ranked(& hitting the ranks) while world tour players are now forced to participate in ranked also while playing other modes if they want all the skins.

Reward people for playing the gamemode they want to play.

[muted plaza]

get a load of this guy

[cerulean maple]

since we get a new map next season, could we delete kyoto from the game now? ffs

[vestal prairie]

Send whoever made the ARN to siberia

[chrome lichen]

I feel like the reward/incentivization for ranked should sort of be intrinsic to the mode itself, so like as long as your not feeling like your playing against the game and there's an even and balanced playing field advancing is mainly the reward. However the skins are a nice touch and probably needed if the first conditions feel like they aren't being met, it was smart to keep them as a reward for that. Although I am curious about the WT changes( in a good way) and am cautiously optimistic about S9. New map 👍

[cobalt kernel]

NO Winch nerf in Season 9

BFR still best ranged weapon in the game

No nerf to bubble shield no nerf to pyro mines

But sure nerf the whole Light class and all of it's relevant gadgets (which don't even do anything except for enhancing team play)

RPG actually buffed? 🤡

This game was supposed to be about build variety, but it's a completely fixed meta revolving around a one button instakill gadget. Forcing Light players into playing Dash because everything else would be throwing the game..

Whether it's gross incompetence or sabotage doesn't even matter at this point.. the game is done, killed by it's own creators

[past surge]

Nerf winch yall are still smoking crazy meat for letting it go on this long

[rapid stream]

im poopin epic style

[flat tusk]

Give us 3 emerald tokens

[tall seal]

You better give us new weapons

[thorny elbow]

Give us 3 emerald reward tokens instead of 1 or just 1 for each class please

[kindred swift]

Don't make the same mistake r6 did stop nerfing shit and instead buff everything else / fix your servers + sword lunge

[hollow vigil]

melee exploits are going crazy rn. jsut had a heavyt melee exploit to swing sledge twice as fast as normal, breaking the animations, and there's very little to no countrer to it. literally can spam six hits in five seconds and theres nothing you can do when you're wenched

[olive fulcrum]

Revert voice monitoring. Nobody talks anymore because they don't want to be spied on.
There were already very few randos that speak to begin with, now it is 99% of people I run into

[warm solstice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKh0zzFI1Q

[edgy parrot]

Bp bonus should be available to complete in a later time. I dont think the fanbase is going to cry because it isn't exclusive to only being completed during the season it released. I dont think people are that petty for BP cosmetics.

[slate mauve]

+1 on the above

p.s. Free Ospuze Can Proximity Sensor skin

[silent meadow]

Chat, if the coins/rewards are back in only rank mode, does that mean world tour would only have a sinlge coin which is only for Emerald?

[real elm]

pretty sure yes, unfortunately

I think they need to make it 3 coins to compensate for the removal of ranked rewards, not to say that the removal of ranked rewards was bad cause IMO I think ultimately its a better idea to have unique cosmetics set for ranked and not everyone

BUT the fact you (probably) only get 1 emerald coin kinda just removes the point of giving back ranked exclusivity

[worldly pumice]

now that model is getting attention can we get anims for it finally

[balmy sage]

I think that embark should double down on fixing up World Tour, the new season changes weren't that bad but there is another massive problem they haven't fixed.
WT and Ranked match servers are DEAD in Oceania and South America, in some parts of Asia too. Queueing is pointless because you never find matches and since The Finals has Client sided server interactions you can't really count on playing on north American servers because of how bad the lag handicaps you (someone from very south Latin America like Argentina or chile averaged 180 to +300 ms).

If embark wants players to notice their competitive scene more, they should invest in more public by patching up the dead servers in continents.

[sharp copper]

nerf the fucktard light class

[midnight aurora]

remove sniper from powershift. it sucks to have one on your team or the enemy team.

[night vortex]

Should have kept the ranked changes. No cap.

[rotund schooner]

why I lose for placing 4th while 4th

[normal flax]

day 602 of asking why you lose SR for placing as your seed in comp. no reason for this.

[tribal prism]

FIX EYECASTER PACK on Steam

[barren silo]

For the love of ******* god make it so text chat doesn’t kick you out after each of your 30 screen changes before during and after games

[junior cloud]

thats already a feature

[tawny oak]

fix the optimization, garbage fucking servers, do you devs even acknowledge any fucking issues with the game?

[trim tinsel]

embark is a bunch of finnish dumbasses the fact that they allow a dagger to 1 shot a heavy. do you guys huff paint or what. btw if ur complaining about the 120 tick servers ur silly. @hallow turret 1) same thing 2) prove it?... no one knows that 3) its a dagger... so a 1 shot melee and a 1 shot is the same thing to everyone who doesnt eat glue

[outer jetty]

God damn this channel is intoxicated.

[silk shadow]

The servers are the best they have ever been and the game has only been stale for like multiple months. Keep up the great work. And don't forget to get max biker his reddit gold for his enlightening observation

[ebon isle]

Diamond reward change good, i would give wt players 3 eme coins instead of 1 since thats how its always been and 3 is nice🫂

[wide vortex]

Nah WTF. I waited this season for balance updates and look what we got instead... light stomped even deeper to the ground😡 Why tf would you nerf gateway??? One of the few gadgets that still promoted the original idea of creativity.

I am done.

[hallow turret]

they are swedish the tickrate is 20 and its a 2shot

[tacit rover]

Balance was better on release/beta and it has just gotten worse since with consant nerfs and changes with no real give/take its just meta picks or lose now

[deft topaz]

I support the gateway nerf wholeheartedly. I'm proud of Embark for this one.

It unfortunately had too much impact on the meta/gameplay for a single gadget.

If every single light player insta-locks one gadget, there is a reason. And the reason is that it's OP.

It was not well balanced in the slightest, and it forces light to play a certain way.

The same way that nuke in earlier seasons meant all heavies needed to use C4 to be viable. The same way defib was a must have item for medium before it was nerfed

Gateway was too strong, no matter how many light mains whine and complain. Which is what they do best, lets be honest - they are known for being the loudest most irritating voice on this discord server.

Lights can now finally have more freedom in their gadget choices and play style. I applaud you Embark

@cold bolt I'd be totally fine for jump pad, defib, dome and c4 being nerfed further, as when I play medium/heavy I rarely use those gadgets. I don't personally feel they need nerfing, but sure, go for it!

@unreal epoch yes I think this change is a wonderful thing. Stand still? Not sure of your argument here. Can't wait for this change! W Embark.

[cold bolt]

just asking, do you have same energy with medium requiring jump pad & defib, and heavy requiring dome and borderline-require c4 but none of those are getting nerfed (as far as we know rn) in s9

just for reference my stance is all of them need nerfs somehow

[fallen mirage]

I hope the P90 stays as is and doesn’t have the ranged damage increased for S9. I currently run the P90 and think it sits in the right place. I just don’t want to see it nerfed into the ground by Christmas, it’s currently a lot of fun to use and offers Medium a different play style 🙂

[acoustic wadi]

I'm sure we will get 3 coins to choose 3 weapon skins just like normal. Each tier of emerald will give you a coin

[hybrid oracle]

Day 52 of asking Embark to bring back bonus pages from past battle passes

[lime lark]

Embark please revert the gateway nerf for release. It's going to completely remove light from the meta and it has lots of skill and teamplay. No one complains about this gadget. At the very least keep the throw distance the same.

[pine tinsel]

I mean there's got to be some reward for completing the battlepass in the season it's released right?

[full cedar]

Let us push B at the end of a game, you psychos.

[rancid cloud]

Can we please talk about this RTX lighting on the face for the results screen

[fleet socket]

Dagger does 320, I didn't realize heavy only has 320 hp

[mental creek]

Y u black?

[real tree]

I want to talk about the motion blur effect we see in the promotional videos but not in the game.

The game look superb but i would like to have the same level of motion blur we see in some promotional videos (if technically possible and not too long to do). Every season i try to set the post-process on "cinematic" level thanks to the GameUserSettings.ini file and i test the motion blur hoping for it to be like in the trailers/walkthrough videos. Not EVERY scene of the videos have this type of motion blur but i will timestamp 2 recents videos where it appear obvious (to me it's the case) to let you see what i'm talking about. I know a lot of gamer hate the motion blur but some do love it and if Embark use it in his vid' it mean they like it too, so why couldn't we have it in the game option ("Motion Blur +++") ?

https://youtu.be/KIkHp0aJnqg?si=95TEJ9ZlJOtJaw5x&t=64

https://youtu.be/wtubUGD2M-4?si=MLOII840yemmMA1t&t=36

[true hornet]

hey it doesn't one shot heavy
is plagued by the most disgusting no reg poverty netcode in the entire game
unironically one of the hardest playstyles to master and even if you do it still sucks hence why you don't see it at the top and every light just picks 93R and aimbots people across the map

hope that helps
i hate you btw.

sincerely,
your enemy for life.

[polar canopy]

What is the point of VRs once you have purchased every weapon and sight available? I hope season 9 or future seasons add not only more gadgets and weapons to spend VRs on, but also perhaps currency exchange or other ways to use VRs.

[junior oasis]

Was excited for the new seasons and cross progression with WT/Ranked but as expected this studio caved in to the 1% over a change that would be considered welcoming by 99% of playerbase.

Really need to ask yourself is the point of ranked to get better and climb the leaderboard showing of your skills and badge - like it is in every game or is it to gatekeep skins in a video game? Will it diminish your value or skill if you see someone else rocking the same shit as you

Edit: I don’t see them doing anything but pushing this game towards the 1% audience who game all day. But with that dwindling payer count and active steps taken in the game to push out casuals good luck. There’s a reason people don’t play this game. Matchmaking barely works and now you’ve made it even worse- with straying away from what was promised in previews. I guess greed takes precedence over fun.

[scarlet pilot]

Lights still remains the most broken class of casual modes in 75% situations 🤦‍♂️, still there are tons of high levels in casual matches and still there is no (kill/death rate or just kill rate based) matchmaking! 0 sence to play teamplay dependent heavy class in solo!

[rough finch]

A player leaving/disconnecting from a ranked match should negate lost rs for the remaining players. Mainly for solo queue so that it can’t be exploited

[spark bay]

please give us better weapon mastery skins that are actually worth grinding for

[mental delta]

People have asked for a dozen nerfs to the winch claw. Some good (like shield blocking, which you added) some terrible (removing the stun entirely, literally a troll pick at that point) but I'd rather see some real substantial change to winch as opposed to nothing. The shield change is a good one but it only affects Heavy V Heavy matchups. At least, in theory - this will probably effect team holds in general but the point is, the spec is still just as strong as ever VS mediums and lights. This change is simply not enough. If you guys will not, or cannot, change the winch in such a way to make it more fair for all classes in a 1v1 scenario at the very least, just turn the damn thing off. It's a bad outcome in general imo but it's still a preferable outcome to keeping it in the game as is, shield nerf included. I understand this change is supposed to empower team pushes and holds using the shield gadgets (as if Dome Shield wasn't prevalent enough) but Winch doesn't play fair. Winch doesn't care. All it takes is one tiny hole in your defense and winch will completely break your formation. The bottom line is: Winch needs to be at a level where the meta is not centralized around it, and this isn't even close. One way to ensure it? Turning it off. I can't believe I'm actually saying I'm okay with it being removed but genuinely it's better for the game's health than it is right now.

Also want to reiterate the emerald thing because why is nobody talking about this:

I saw in the preview that the reward for reaching Emerald 1 is getting a coin to redeem 1 emerald weapon skin. 1? Maybe I misread it but if I understand right, one emerald skin compared to the 3 we got before? Yes, it’s probably easier to reach emerald now, way easier than it’s ever been but that doesn’t mean you give us less stuff, just that said stuff isn’t as “coveted”. This is a trade-off we were all fine with when you announced this merging of QP and WT but only getting 1 emerald skin is going to deflate a lot of the excitement and motivation to keep playing.

[royal fractal]

Arent heavies the most OP.
High damage, high HP, shields, winch, RPG. U can just insta kill any light.

[unreal epoch]

Oh, so you think that being forced to a complete standstill is good for it, and having the max range cut down is fine? Not to mention how brutally Glitch Grenade got screwed over, with double cooldown and only 1 Grenade? I don't think I've seen anyone complain about these Gadgets, as they were fine. I hope you use Gateway and/or Glitch Grenade next season and realise how wrong you are with this statement

[mossy herald]

On the topic of the emerald skins, I'm actually very much in favor of it only giving you one skin. I am a VERY competitive player in this game and my team held their own in the early stages of the grand major rather well. I have not played ranked AT ALL for multiple seasons because the emerald grind is SO MUCH MORE WORTH IT. sure the gold/plat skins are cool or whatever I guess but they don't really feel like they mean anything, it isn't very hard to reach even plat in ranked (at least for me) it's not much time investment and they aren't a crystal skin so they don't feel substantial. So basically I can grind 2-3x as hard playing ranked for a colorless crystal skin (diamond) or play an INCONCEIVABLE amount to grind for ruby, and then get 2 crystal skins, one being red. ORRRR I can play a pretty solid amount and get roughly 80-100 wins in a season with no regard for losses to get 3 emerald skins? badge player card emblem the whole shabang? w h y.

Less effort should not equal more reward. It made sense because each season there was usually only one of the guns I wanted the emerald skin for, so at least a lot of the community gets motivation because it's higher odds it's THEIR gun that is emerald. The tradeoff makes perfect sense. There were multiple seasons I simply did not grind at all because I didn't like the selection of skins in the emerald batch. This fixes that issue in it's entirety!

TLDR:GIVE US ONLY ONE EMERALD SKIN PER SEASON IF WE CAN PICK WHICH GUN IT GOES TO

[ionic viper]

nah, we need at least 2

[faint saddle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKh0zzFI1Q&lc=Ugzu4eCtNdj95oTeO4N4AaABAg

[dull whale]

Embark nerf the goddamn sword

[wide isle]

Day 2

Hey everyone! How are you? I'm here to talk about the costs of the premium and ultimate battle passes. It would be extremely important if you regionalized the prices according to the local currency, just like you did with the Arc Raiders price, which was a success, for example... Today in Brazil, owning a video game console/PC is a luxury due to our economy and also because the game only runs on the new generation of consoles. The difference of R$43.00 for the premium pass compared to R$169.90 is brutal... almost 4 times the price of the regular pass, and if we consider the overall cost, it's difficult to buy everything since we play so many other games, etc. The point is that we know these are the best skins and obviously have their value; we want to buy them. Brazilians love this skin culture, especially the cosmetics from The Finals, which are so detailed and unique, but they're quite expensive! Please consider this if possible. A hug from the South American community, which is growing little by little and we love the game! 🫂

[robust breach]

I dont think flamethrower should go through dome sheilds or mesh shields

[kindred hull]

Well the main point of my message was to criticize the use of AI for game feedback; I added that tidbit at the end seeing as I could already do so (there's a 6 hour slowmode in this channel, so I like to maximize my use of it). It's embarrasing you can't take the time to write it yourself, and instead ask ChatGPT to make it for you. I hope you understand that it makes your feedback much less appealing to the developers, no one wants to read a 4 paragraph AI slopfest.

And yes, my feedback for the game is still advertise it and invest in your servers.

[silent meadow]

I mean with the current rewards in Emerald, having 3 emerald skins on the emerald tier, they could do the same reward system using the current one. But instead of skins directly, each tier gives an Emerald Coin instead. I'm just not sure what we would get at Emerald 4 tho. A coin at Tier 4 until 2? Or from 3 until 1? Either way, I think it's difficult to set which tier each coin should be.

[tame owl]

W

[scenic imp]

ban cheaters in ranked. every game above diamond has smurf or cheater. ty

[deft topaz]

While I admire your open but already dated hatred of AI usage and your willingness to brutally expose your insecurities in that regard - if I were you, I'd try to keep up. Being 2025's new version of a Boomer isn't going to go well for you. Please kindly reply to my message again to further highlight my feedback. Thanks Champ

So anyway, back to The Finals feedback:

In addition to my proposed 3 step plan to encourage a larger player base (Smurf Deworming, Cheat-Rat Extermination, and Reframing the Meta - i.e. massive nerfs to damage at range for short-to-medium range weapons), I'd like to resurface a few fun ideas:

1. Buff nullifier by allowing you to nullify your own team mates. This could be a niche way of enabling melee team mates to get in close to the enemy team, and adds to the Light's support toolkit

2. Wall gliding as a new specialisation for light. Something along the lines of Lucio's gliding ability in OW. Not sure this would work but it's a fun thought

3. Remove Mediums dematerialiser and instead re-work it as a wall phasing ability to run through walls for a period of time, while active. To be fair, this could also be problematic, but I feel de-materialiser just.... isn't...it?

4. Severely nerf Light mains' ability to whine and complain in The Final's Discord Feedback channel, by doubling the amount of time they have to wait in between posting feedback (only for Light mains, obviously). This will allow for more fair, healthy and balanced discourse and lead to a much more enjoyable player experience in the long run. Not to mention not having to hear them whinge and complain 14,746,367 times a day.

This penalty could also be applied to posters who don't offer any genuine feedback.

Embark, for your consideration Good Sirs!

Most humbly yours,
The Gentleman Scholar

[pure ore]

leaving penatly in QP is needed. I am tired of playing 4v5 or 5v4 every game because apparently it's so dead it can't find a 5th player in time to backfill

[upper lagoon]

Please change back the team colors being randomized. I like when the team color you fought in the first round could carry all the way to last. It made it much clearer what team was what. I don’t like how i’m always fighting orange at the end

[topaz jungle]

Please bring back cashball! Or expand and balance it and turn it into its own game

[uncut gull]

Cam we HOPE that the new WT, We gonna get just single match Cashout? Not just another faked ranked Tournament???? Why did you love to force all new/olde players keep playing Tournament? You never think that's too long a section for them??? Why don't you let people play Cashout just only a single match to enjoy a whole real core Flagship mode of TheFinals? even learn something, test new Loadout, and train their skill. With flexibility in my one match Cashout? And no worries about being knocked out in cashout???

[mossy zodiac]

Day 2

Hey everyone! How are you? I'm here to talk about the costs of the premium and ultimate battle passes. It would be extremely important if you regionalized the prices according to the local currency, just like you did with the Arc Raiders price, which was a success, for example... Today in Brazil, owning a video game console/PC is a luxury due to our economy and also because the game only runs on the new generation of consoles. The difference of R$43.00 for the premium pass compared to R$169.90 is brutal... almost 4 times the price of the regular pass, and if we consider the overall cost, it's difficult to buy everything since we play so many other games, etc. The point is that we know these are the best skins and obviously have their value; we want to buy them. Brazilians love this skin culture, especially the cosmetics from The Finals, which are so detailed and unique, but they're quite expensive! Please consider this if possible. A hug from the South American community, which is growing little by little and we love the game! 🫂

[amber fern]

Medieval times inspired season please -thats all my feedback loll-

[dense tinsel]

Great! I was so excited to pay 30 dollars for a pass full of earrings, nail art, stickers, and emojis! 🙄

There have been 9 seasons of The Finals and I have NEVER seen ANYONE use an emoji! Graffiti, sounds, and emotes are useful — but emojis? No one has ever used them, and they keep stuffing them into the passes.

STOP ADDING TRASH!!! WE PAY A LOT OF MONEY FOR THESE PASSES FOR YOU TO FILL THEM WITH GARBAGE.
Nail designs? Stickers?! Emojis??! And on top of that, all the weapon skins look exactly the same. Some tiers even have an "ultimate" version of a watch and a mask, which feels like a complete waste — having a WATCH as a page highlight is ridiculous.

The skins: why always insist on the feminine style**?** What about players who want masculine skins?
The two new female skins in the pass clearly aim for a more “sexy” design and have a ton of detail and effort put into them. I really don’t like that they’re starting to lean into sexualization — it’s still mild for now, but if they keep pushing in that direction, they’re going to lose people...

Beyond that, it honestly feels like the female skins get months and months of work, while the male skins look like they were made in 2 hours. Why is there such a huge difference in dedication? The mid-pass male skin is awful.
You can see more effort in the final one, but the mid-pass skin looks like a recycled reskin of the old samurai from previous passes. REALLY BAD.

They are losing players and doing nothing to keep us. 👎
In the last shop update they put a skin for 3000 Multibucks!!****! COMPLETELY INSANE. How can a simple skin cost more than TWO battle passes? More than paid $20 skins? Are we all crazy? 👎
The prices they’re using in the shop make no sense for how little the game is offering.

I’ve been supporting the game since the beta, I’ve bought every pass, every ultimate bundle… but if this doesn’t improve, this season will be the last one I buy everything for.

[vocal cave]

u dont seem to understand that if ranked is pointless to grind except for the top 500 all the diamonds are just only going to play casual modes more which will ruin the casual experience even more

@junior oasis Crazy that u guys want same rewards with less effort and then are surprised the ranked players aren't happy about it. Also the only reason that the casual experience was like that was because ranked players also wanted WT rewards, now that WT can also be progressed through ranked the casual experience should be improved. If you want the ranked rewards nothing is stopping u from playing ranked where losses actually matter 🙂

[golden badger]

I wish if there is a pre-downlaod for updates

[hollow kelp]

please stop posting paragraphs of ai slop and horrible takes into this channel.

[honest wing]

been seeing this quite a bit :3

[glad pike]

32 gigabytes of die

[light viper]

5 games back to back with hackers. This game is turning into a pile of doodoo. Please get a grip on this hacking issue, it's not even playable right now.

[vestal moss]

medium does not need defib and jump pad, zipline is imo much better than jump pad on most maps, and defib is hella overrated

[jaunty vapor]

Blatant Cheaters in Ruby, no bans for weeks

ZZB#2335
SLEEP#5196
ImposingPerson#8260
AILI#7821
Rachel#1829
QQQQQ#0090
Silent_Lolly#1138
tom#3498
AG_TTV_YT#7625
GuardianSkill#0823
ForemostSkill#8151
KYRO#5597
T_T#0226
GoGuMa#2426
ɴᴀᴍᴇᴅ#0713
TrustMe#2453
Hello-Guys#0770
EngagingDagger#6067

[white anchor]

They also buffed rpg 110 damage so they can later fix it and say they r making major balance changes to fix the game so u can look forward to that instead of new content.

Same thing with p90 range buff,it's supposed to be a close range hip fire smg but they it's already way to accurate.

How many seasons it took for them to realise ks23 a precision weapon should have good accuracy?!

Oh yea they r shaking up the meta,such a big deal.

Gateway gadget suddenly and randomly bounces off the wall I throw and opens somewhere else then I intended.

[minor star]

Serious feedback on Sword

I played Sword for about 1000h (hit rank 90 with it before) and a few things get lost in the heated "Sword is overpowered/unplayable" discussion.

First of all both sides need to be understood where they are coming from.

Yes in a casual lobby where people don't hit the important shots a Sword that is just running around and left clicking people to death seems absurd, overpowered and has little to do with skill expression.

The Problem is as soon as you cross the line of people investing enough time to hit even just a moderate amount of their shots left clicks become less and less viable and you have to learn combos and movement tricks to minimize the damage you take while maximizing the damage output. That's where the sword lunge comes in. Lunging is the part where skill expression shows with movement, spacial awareness and positioning. With reducing the damage AND introducing a rotation clamp the lunge becomes really clunky to use and less effective than the simpler M1 spamm.

So what can Embark do to fix the issue for both sides ? Put the focus of the weapon back on the lunge to reduce frustrating scenarios.

Second Problem, lunging through an entire team and dealing massive damage with very little counterplay should not be a thing. It is very frustrating to play against and extremely situational. It should be like other melee weapons. Left clicking less damage but can multihit and the "special attack" simple target but is special in some way. Hammer has a single target high damage and destruction. Sword should have single target damage on the lunge but high mobility.

The rotational clamp itself got introduced to get rid of people 360° rotating through an entire team for a huge hurtbox and is without multihits therefore redundant.

I intentionally didn't talk about hit registration because it haunts the game as a whole but of course that increases the frustration for alot of people. Like all other bugs it should not be a reason to increase/decrease the weapons power and should rather be fixed.

Changes

M1 Damage 88 -> 74 (one more left click for each class)

Lunge Multihits -> removed
Lunge Damage 120 -> 140 (without multihits and less left click damage you need the combo breakpoint of 140 to have a fighting chance)
Lunge rotational clamp -> removed

[grand crow]

I feel like the wt rework was heavily biased towards ranked players, casuals lost like a third of the available rewards while ranked is only missing two skins and getting wt rewards.
Also why do y'all hate light so much?

[quaint turtle]

Could we get preinstalls for new seasons in the future??

[warm solstice]

Winch needs removing season 9. the trauma this spec is doing is crazy rn. i dont think a hook and stun character has a place in the finals (atleast not this iteration of it). i dont think its a hot take to say the finals has a little teamfortress 2 DNA in it. The devs for tf2 only removed stuns in their movment shooter. its a movment shooter. stun gun was bad for this same reason, its a free kill when you are stunned. its gotta be fun to use and fun to die to. the winch is fun sure. its also frustrating to die to. even with the stun removed insta pulling someone into your team is death. needs a big windup like a cowboy with a lasso or something. Great idea. horrible in practice. Just remove it for a season. if this was on any other class it would have been taken back for reworking ages ago. when the devs were asked whats their favorite class. most said heavy. the bias is clear.

Watch this video. it doesnt even work right. everyone can lament at the broken hitbox, being pulled through goo and walls. and awful netcode in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flKh0zzFI1Q

[hybrid silo]

You acknowledge that Winch Claw has been dominating the meta but you add a counter to the same class that has it and you don't remove the stun effect. YOU GUYS CANNOT BE REAL. Please shut off the servers and focus on Arc so at least those players have a chance of enjoying a finished game.

[warped rampart]

For me its the lack of any new gameplay tools this season, but we got at least $100 of stuff to buy added with the new season. New game modes are cool, a new map is nice, but how many seasons are we just not going to get new gadgets, specs, and now weapons? We've already had seasons where some classes get less new tools than others, now we just get none for any of them. Idk if they need to hire more actual devs or take some of these people off the art stuff or what, but its getting old when other live service games consistently give players new stuff each season, or they end the live service for the sequel. It really is starting to feel more and more like a cash grab over actual value for the players.

[spice axle]

I appreciate Embark delivering balances changes with the launch of Season 9, and plenty of them at that. However, please keep feeding more changes throughout the season. It'll help keep the game fresh and exciting, not boring and predictable

[unique wasp]

please buff sword into being a real weapon and not a casual smasher again 😔

[junior oasis]

You don’t seem to understand that this game does not have any sort of skill based matchmaking but more like EOMM. The game is so dead in terms of players it will fill up your lobbies with anyone regardless of the mode -Quick/WT/Ranked.

The argument made up by that streamer ronin that it will ruin the casual experience is such bullshit because your average Joe is already getting pounded on by Ruby/Diamonds in their lobbies + add the smurfing and cheaters.

Playing ranked is about getting better and honing your skill and showing off your place in leaderboard. Will it demean you or your skill if someone else is also rocking the same outfit or skin as you. ? No right.

At least with this season there was some incentive that casual players could look upto earning based on previews and what was promised with cross progression now because of the 1% lot complaining who are already ruining the game.- embark as usual caved in to them.

[shrewd depot]

YALL BE WHINNING AND WHINNING, play better and play smart it aint COD. On the actual comment and feedback, I think we do need more weapons for each class as well as a bit of balancing on the end of specialties. Defib is still the best gadget in the game and its not even close, they also get glitch mine and others that absolute shutdown some instances of combat. I enjoy the huge variety of play and fun! For most of us, we have jobs so coming home and seeing something new is always fun. Dont take the people who just moan and groan for the game to die seriously.

[feral elm]

The balance changes always seem to make most everything weaker and less interesting. Fewer charges, less distance, etc. Not a fan.

[rigid shale]

absolutely nothing for dagger. typical.

[obsidian zenith]

Increase attacker tokens by 50% at least for point break, they have too little. We just rolled then in about 5-7 minutes.

[novel shoal]

I try to play mnk on console but it feels super slow for some reason even though it feels normal on all other games is this an issue with the game or me

[clever fable]

so i grinded out emerald 1 during season 8 specifically for the emerald p90 skin and when claiming my rewards i didnt get the emerald p90. did anybody else have this issue?

[dense sleet]

Is anyone else missing the Emmerald P90 or is it just me? I got every emmeralrd reward except for that one

[swift parrot]

yes me too

[cold bolt]

ur bronze

[toxic valve]

can we fix this already

[mossy osprey]

Season 6 legacy pack has no button for preview or buy in the Legacy Battle Passes Screen

[unreal blaze]

Embark,

As the person who lobbied for and wrote the aim-assist whitepaper for Star Citizen, which Cloud Imperium Games later implemented, to M&K, Gamepad, HOMAS, HOTAS, and HOSAS, I'm pretty knowledgeable about the gap between M&K vs. Analog devices.

However, despite being one of the biggest aim-assist simps out there and even I know that "aim-snapping" has absolutely no business being in an FPS shooter like The Finals.
https://www.reachthefinals.com/patchnotes/900

Keep in mind I have about 5,000 hours worth of PvP experience with a HOSAS in Star Citizen, did almost 1500 hours of PvP in Elden Ring with a gamepad, and switched back to M&K gaming when I started playing the Finals (around 2000 hours now), and I can say that you need to remove aim-snapping from The Finals unless you want this game to die an even quicker death.

+Good idea: It would better to implement input based match-making rather than add aim-snapping.

[charred vapor]

Im i the only one who cant see his emerald skin for p90?

[shell sparrow]

Where’s my emerald P90???

[trim oar]

No amount of pyro mine nerfing can make explosive mine usable that mine is just useless, if you want us using it BUFF IT

[agile cloak]

How come I didnt get my p90 emerald skin?

[gleaming patio]

Also am missing emerald p90 as emerald as last season

[shy walrus]

Bring back Bank It

[analog anchor]

Aim-assist should not be a thing in shooters on PC and aim-snapping even less. Please give us input based matchmaking and everything is great. Otherwise new season looks hype.

[frigid crown]

No emerald p90 is tragicc

[mossy lance]

IN addition to this, I already own the S6 battle pass but didn't complete it. But when I go to the page I left off, it says I still gave spend hundreds of tokens before I can spend it on the things I didnt get

[grand wren]

Crazy fr

[slender girder]

Aim snapping is weak in this game and they nerfed it as well at the same time.

GL hitting targets with a revolver etc in fast moving situation.

MNK dominates this game. Is more likely to kill it if they keep controller players too inferior.

[toxic coyote]

PLEASE fix autocalibration on gyro. I was hoping that the newest season would fix this issue. Big issue and yet never gets addressed. Can we please get this looked at. It affects PC and PS5 equally

[tired fable]

ARE U OK, EMBARK ??
wtf this crazy prices

[red thunder]

Where is the emerald p90?

[supple crow]

The new gamemode selection screen is really cool

[tepid summit]

STOP NERFING EVERYTHING EVERY UPDATE! You guys what is going on, every update the game gets worse and worse to play because of all of these nerfs, time to kill is abysmally high and keeps getting higher with every nerf, im forced to use a few weapons that havent been touched just to have the closest feeling to what the game was prior to all this, PLEASE start buffing everything back to what they were in season 3

[lime shoal]

well the bundle is 3k... just buyt the bundle

[vale loom]

season 6 battlepass not possible to buy atm ?

[waxen herald]

pls fix the gyro/motion sensor aiming's description tooltip. it still tells how to directly equip gadgets by pressing Left and Right D-PADs.

[rancid ridge]

L season

[ebon hemlock]

FROM A BETA PLAYER:
Here is a break from the negativity Embark... Thank you for your hard work. Thank you for being a rare company that mostly listens to player feedback (that isnt just complaining). Reverting the ranked/WT progression system because of player feedback is a thing that this community takes for granted. Most devs are not willing to admit fault or care to revert something that work was already put in to. This is one of many reasons why I have played for 2 years and will play as long as the game lives... Praying for at least 2 more!

Buff XP-54: +1 dmg and reduce mag size to 30

[wooden cargo]

exactly everyone is just seeing the bad lol theres MUCH MUCH worse devs, season balance was bad but it cld be worse

[whole palm]

Litrally FOMO while fighting FOMO with no CNS in sponsors

[real crow]

the evil embark devs are forcing you to have 3 bundles instead of only 1

[gritty owl]

No CNS as sponsor? :(

[bold berry]

Balance parch notes is laughable.. they realize Goo is a problem but they way that it’s being handled is laughable… the amount of not fun mechanics is absurd. Almost 1 year to make a small fix to winch..

So heavy with goo gun and melee will still go on.. nice

[mighty vault]

DEMAT NEEDS A COUNTER

[rigid island]

In Season 8 I reached Emerald 1, but I only received the Sniper weapon skin and the Heavy Revolver skin. Can someone help me understand why I didn’t get the Emerald skin for the P90 and the other weapons that should come with Emerald 1?

[ebon vault]

The "welcome to season 9" screen pops up every single time you return to the lobby screen... please for the love of God patch this to only appear once

[kindred swift]

Wrong multibucks disposition in wt? I was emerald and only got 250 *edit WHHOOAH are you out of your fucking mind rpg 110 damage ? You understand that heavy can rpg melee a light now right ?

[twin stump]

Same problem with the rewards, no emerald p90 skin recieved

[feral locust]

premium battle pass suck nice try to catch us 30 buck for something used to be very great by the past

[paper sorrel]

I also have the same problem

[wide creek]

Point Break feedback:

Interesting in concept, however its very attacker biased. Played 6 games attackers won all 6. You can't give a team limited respawn tokens AND defib, attackers never dipped under 10, maybe even 15 tokens.

The attackers are always bunched up, endless healing and domes since at least 65-70% of people play heavy in this mode. Defenders, unless you're all in VC (never), are never coordinated enough to attack a 8 man team, they come in groups of 2-3, easily taken out. Defenders don't have a chance to "set up" like in other Point attack games like Valorant, but once attackers get entrenched there's literally no hope, attackers become defenders with MORE prep time then the actual defenders

Once an objective is armed, defenders almost NEVER retake it.

Two options:

A. remove defib and increase attacker tokens to 50-55

B. Greatly reduce respawn timer for defenders and/or make wave spawns

[winter hedge]

After the update the game takes a long time when the replay screen is shown

[queen cloud]

m60 op now. ks-23 feels like a sniper. bfr titan still feels op. Tankiest class has the strongest weapons ofc makes total sense

[slender pine]

no weapon balancing for 5 months, then the stuff we get today is so minimal. RIP for another season

[waxen kernel]

Guys where is the p90 emerald skin 😭

[nova cairn]

Exactly I was wondering the same thing

[full sierra]

you guys forgot to give out ruby null

[sick halo]

Really not a fan of Point Break. First match was just an unstoppable push by Attackers.

• Too many objectives spaced too far apart (2 at most, not the current 3)
• Too lengthy a respawn penalty
  (16 seconds needs to be dropped to at least 10 seconds, if only for Defenders)
• Gadgets need to be tailored to the mode. The objective being in destructable spots means they'll always end up at the ground floor.

[gray flare]

playing point break and staring at my teammate as he uses an explosive canister to destroy the entire defensive setup i spent like 2 full minutes assembling

[smoky gust]

im loving the fancy new overview of the modes, separated into tabs and what modifiers they can have
being able to see what events we will get throughout the season ahead of time is also nice

only small qol request i have is that when you view schedule and scroll with the arrows, they dont always end up in the same spot and you have to re-adjust a bunch if you want to see whats near the end, but thats pretty insignificant

good job with the new season

[terse tiger]

this^^

[novel monolith]

Embark,

Let me give you more moeny by allowing me to but season 6 legacy battlepass

PLEAAAAAAAAAAAASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[open elm]

How tone deaf are these devs?????? Powershift is still unplayable because of snipers and they still wont address it. Atp, im convinced they are hell bent on scaring new players and keeping this game barely afloat. All i see this season are cosmetics, cosmetics, cosmetics, more cosmetics. None of the community pain points were addressed. Another season down the drain.

[magic widget]

I’m loving these balance changes and the new map (especially the dome/mesh change),gj embark! Only things I’d still want are a spear buff and mgl rework (since heavy’s already limited arsenal compared to other classes has these bad weapons, limiting it further), but otherwise, keep cooking! Love the new game mode too despite me originally thinking it would be too chaotic.

[jagged walrus]

So no new content besides a map and skins… Well time to wait another 100 days and hope to get 1 new gun and a gadget

[daring fossil]

can't clear new mark on the main menu over the career button...Went through every single one of the sponsors and little yellow dot of annoyance is still there. Also are we ever getting the thermal back? It's been like over a season it's been out of the game now?

[keen sable]

pointbreak needs a giant glowing nama tama reminding that you have limited respawn credits

[ruby sand]

my teammates keep respawning while we have 5 credits and we're about to win

[rustic vault]

Lets us have 8 man stacks, it only goes to 5 sadly and we had people ready to team up.

[wispy plank]

I'm seeing a lot of people very concerned or disappointed with how few balance changes were made after waiting for so long through season 8. Hopefully we see more or get a response.

[stoic fox]

W world tour update

[fierce elk]

embark, point break in kinda overpowered for the attackers

[pine raft]

what is this joke u call ranked? i play all of the 4 promo matches against diamonds and atleast 1 ruby stack, do relatively well but get placed gold 3? fucking joke and while the enemies are all high ranked, my teammates sure arent

@sterile canopy thats normal but if i get diamonds and some rubies consistently in my lobbies and dont get completely stomped, especially individually then i dont think i should be placed in gold :D

[feral juniper]

fucking replay is broken as always

[feral fossil]

Nerf sword M1 to 70 dmg. Buff sword M2 to 125 dmg. Remove sword multihit from M2. Remove aimlock.

Embark, I love you guys but I'm begging you to please fix sword. Doing this will raise the skill ceiling to a place where skill expression is possible at all. Sword won't dominate lower lobbies as much because people won't be spamming M1, and sword will be usable in ranked past platinum. This will also completely fix the "360 spinning tech" because there will be no reason to spin if you can only hit one target.

Right now, sword is only viable in plat or below. Any player who is good will instakill sword because of the aimlock. Almost any sidestep will make the sword miss their lunge. As soon as I hit Plat 1, and certainly into Diamond, sword is COMPLETELY unplayable.

By removing multihit on lunge but keeping it on M1, we maintain the unique identity of the sword (which is the lunge because spamming M1 on an enemy is not viable for a light weapon) and give the M1 a purpose (which will be to hit groups of enemies because it will have multihit)

**If a weapon is op in lower lobbies, and absolutely useless in higher elo, it is not balanced. **

[void scarab]

really? i feel like defenders have it way better with the infinite respawn coins

[neat pumice]

fix flamethrower, it can´t be that i start burning a heavy 2 seconds earlier, he misses a few shots with his lewis and i get killed anyway (even when i winched him), it´s not even viable on low elo.

[lean bluff]

where dash nerf? where invis buff (cosmetics like wings are giving u away so much!!!!!!!!! make the player base model when invis)? where reapeater nerf? where shack nerf? where breach drill buff?

[sterile canopy]

The season just started. Matchmaking is pretty much random the first few days

[novel trench]

(Season not even 1 day old) THIS SEASON IS DEAD BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE A BARE FEET COSMETIC
Like calm down bois let’s see what they have in the shed?

[gilded falcon]

I understand the idea of bonuses being an in season benifit, but as somone who was just too busy to get the bonus rewards from s6 I think it would be neat to make them available through legacy passes

[surreal brook]

lunge + dashspamming really kills immersion for me. it looks so goofy and feels cheesy af

[hollow badger]

I want feet tho

[tired wolf]

It seems likes name are being duplicated in a team; i can see on the bottom left two different names: but on top of the characters its the same name

[winged hawk]

The Season 6 legacy battlepass can't be purchased rn - is this a bug or is the preview page for this battlepass not ready yet? Would like to purchase it soon.

[warped moat]

game got mega lag before Killcam since update

[young turtle]

This game is SO cheeks. Like, it's not even funny. Don't get me wrong, I love this game and I'll glaze Embark til the ends of time but right now this game is doodoo water.

[old burrow]

Did they still not mention the servers dude....

[spark shard]

Season 9 & Year 3, and still the same utterly embarrassing system of:

• Matchmaking
• Spawn

Please, do yourself a favor, shut down The Finals servers and dedicate all efforts to ARC Raiders.

[tacit whale]

I’m not sure if this is a me issue but all the voices have the devourer effect on them, so I have Dedes voice but with the devourer effect on it. That’s the same for the rest of them too.

[still berry]

Auto-calibration issues still lingering in native gyro support, even in the new season which is disappointing for me as well for a lot of other people. Description tooltips are broken in the gyro tab for some reason.

[grand inlet]

Could we have a sticker amount based on the level weapon it is?
If I have a weapon lv 10 I could have 10 stickers, or weapon lv 3 I could equip 3 stickers on that weapon?

[hybrid oracle]

Day 53 of asking Embark to bring back bonus pages from past battle passes

[warm sigil]

Ospuze croptop fire ty oscar

[quick coyote]

Pyro mine nerf wasnt needed yall needed to buff explosive mines the range and damage just arent enough along with only being able to use 1 well see how it plays out but yeah, pyros consistant meanwhile explosive mine its a random chance your even gonna do much damage

[slow crescent]

Ok, new game made is absolutly sick chaostic and fun to play mode, idk why ppl have any negative to this. Also i notised that gravy cube cant up huge cash. I know that its heavy thing, but feels op because anyone cant capture this when cube is active!

[mellow narwhal]

I dislike this token system replacing skins it feels like the tokens should be used as a catch up mechanic for newer players i miss looking at the skins and getting excited

[mental prawn]

replay broken

[sand holly]

The battle pass is overall great

But when i looked at the trailer, i saw and wanted the flamethrower skin
And you guys locked it to the ultimate, why

So many stuff are not even "upgrades" it's straight up new items that we cant even get as regular; Again, why ? that's cheap from yall :/

[wraith orchid]

kyoto snow dropped 100 fps. nice cperformance impro xd.

update!
big performance loss across all maps. only about 50% gpu usage in a match, but 100% in the lobby. constant fps fluctiuations of 100fps.

pls fix this asap

[grand cobalt]

^ pfft. I payed $30 just to get the Anubis helmet to find out it comes with a dissun tanktop and random jewlry meaning i can't use it with ANY other gear what so ever. NONE! DAFUQ? The tanktop doesn't even go with the anubis helmet shroud. Its just jarring as heck. I'd refund if i could.

[undone dagger]

The Expressions page is bugged out, if you enter it and exit a few times you'll see it.

[dapper rune]

game feels uplayable performance wise, went from a stable 90 fps always to constant 50 at best with drops below 20fps 💀

[distant vine]

please. for future seasons. allow people to pre download the new season. cuz some of us has McDonalds internet with no way to get better.
just pre download. and then just dont allow people to join untill said relese time.

[primal lantern]

GUYS

[vale stream]

still the laggiest worst fps game ive ever played. instant replay has been out for what 5 months and its still laggy asf? stuck in replay screen STILL? yeah fuc this

[broken cipher]

instant replay broken

[regal copper]

Embark, please, if you're seeing this, you already have a mechanically and feature rich game, PLEASE spend more money on marketing. A lot of the game's problems would be fixed just by having a bigger player base. If y'all added even a little pop-up in Arc Raiders somewhere just letting people know about this game's existence. The biggest thing The Finals needs right now is coverage!!

[wispy ivy]

chat are we lobotomised why was the max party size not increased to 8 when theres an 8 player game mode

[fleet swallow]

can we actually fucking nerf bfr and not do these baby changes that don't affect the real issues with bfr
like the actual issues with bfr was the damage and fall off range, i'm saying this as a heavy main, the heavy class (aka the class with the 350 hp character) should not have a long ranged high damage weapon, like ik you guys gave up on class identity a long time ago, but this is the dumbest weapon ever added to the finals, and it not receiving any damage nerfs is insane to me

[lament grail]

Gyro controls just need some auto calibration settings.

It’ll help us aim slower for those longer range fights without the PS5 OS adding incorrect drift to the crosshair.

Sony seems to have already have APIs in the PS5 OS to do it, as Fortnite has this ability in their gyro implementation.

Thank you Embark Studios for bringing over Gyro aim

[true hornet]

Have someone clock in to work and only play melee weapons for a week, preferably someone on the balancing team.
If they don't have a minimum of 3 pages of notes on friday morning just fire them. Do this with every team member to weed out the weak points on the team.

[violet basin]

The new mode is quite laggy. I have a pc with the recommended specs, and even with everything at the minimun I got 29 fps on bernal sometimes, terrible to play

[wary flax]

Nerf evasive dash

[trim tinsel]

how much glue did you huff before this winch nerf? you know youre just gonna put it back in 60 days tops

[tulip current]

So what was the performance update, this sh.t still lags af. New map is really bad. We waited whole season for couple of nerfs? Thanks for denying problem with ur constantly lagging servers, the very first game i got all the red icons like its a 30 years old bmw from Albania with all the checks.

[raven garnet]

" The Ultimate Battle Pass is where the full theme of Dragon Rising really shines! " then a deluxe edition. and then aim snapping. truly what the hell is going on in that place

[scarlet path]

Start of a new season, I've turned cross play off, so why am I the only ps player every game

[night vortex]

HEAVY BUFFS OUT THE WAZOO!

TRULY BASED EMBARK!

[thorny elbow]

EMBARK FIX LEGACY PASS PLEASE I CANT GET THE S6 or preview it

[lilac coral]

Same thing for me and que times for lobby’s are like 6 minutes back to ARC RAIDERS

[limber sapphire]

For some reason point break doesnt show up for me???

[vestal yacht]

My game keeps on stuttering on the new Monaco, making it nearly impossible to play though this may just only be for the new mode

[silk shadow]

pipey

[karmic fiber]

RPG-7: Increased damage from 100 to 110
Dev Note: This adjustment is mostly targeted at improving the RPG’s effectiveness versus Goo, without having a significant impact on player versus player combat.

Akimbo + RPG = one shot a Light doing 154 damage. I think 105 damage for RPG is good enough you can still destroy goo after, by hitting one bullet.

[mild sorrel]

what the fuck does gateway distance have to do with a shitty zipline? this is the dumbest balance change i've seen

[hazy mountain]

There’s a bug in pointbreak, once phase 3 happened, my fellow dead teammates and I couldnt respawn

[junior ravine]

winch claw nervs making sledge more and more useless

[split cairn]

I'm being forced to play against PC players even when Cross play turned off on playstation 5. @frozen heath EMBARK look into it

[faint saddle]

How Dagger is yet to be buffed is beyond me

[calm kraken]

fix the servers

[jade hill]

is everyone else game froze when the replay scene show

[torpid quarry]

When i mark someones idol that im going for the revive, it needs to notify them. Too many skipped revives in point break

[feral shard]

Unpopular feedback:

I accepted Season's 7 lack of content on terms of weapons and inspiring gadgets, as there were only healing gadgets which aren't impressive

But in this season, having no content at all in terms of weapons and gadgets? I know that the current meta is really balanced with weapons of easy-med difficulty being the dominant weapons
But what about niche? We're forgetting a good balance patch which is meant to have fun with off-meta weapons too

The game is starting to feel stale to me, and that's quite sad having in count that this is the best game in the market in terms of new contents, espectacular maps, weapon skins, aesthetic, a big and large etc.

I love the new bundles, but, monetization isn't the main focus right now embark, I know that the TGM might spent a lot of money to get it in
But your game is main-focused to casual player base and now there's no off-meta weapons that are partially viable without breacking the game at all, I have been waiting since season 6 for a coherent change to sword but there hasn't been any

I know too that you're focusing in the improve of life-quality of the game which is pretty cool, but for now, we have been waiting since season 7, you didn't promised anything for season 9 but I've heard that there was going to be a new specialization

I just hope half season's patch have something interesting to take a look too, because I don't want to still getting bored of doing the same stuff

Bring dual blades, spear, sword, dagger to the scene. Thanks for the model 1887 changes, will test it out, but I'm sure it didn't change at all

Also hope the tons of skins that you put into sword are worth the value with a change to it, bring back season's 1 sword (Without glitches and weird things that were patch already)

I would say that the team is exhausted because of the majors, the arc raiders release and the new season 9, but, come on embark, you had a roadmap since the beta with this content until the season 9.

[quick coyote]

FUCK your change to world tour, CASHOUT is trash, there is no reason to play it, double jeopardy is one of your worst fucking ideas and it shouldnt be a thing, terrible season with no new content, patchnotes are lame, dash is still overpowered, cloak still sucks, model still sucks ass, sniper now has aimbot, oh sorry, """"""""""aim assist""""""""

worst season maybe ever, it was so bad you made me download DOTA 2 again, may you go broke and nexon eat you alive.

[hearty bough]

Sledge needs to not be 100% dependent on winch to work - nerf winch buff sledge separately

[royal inlet]

nice feedback

[tired bear]

a "teammate is coming to respawn you" popup would actually be pretty neat, tells me if i want to use a token or not

[dull tiger]

Make the bottom of tokens a rectangle I beg

[long arrow]

+1
Embark just prefer focus on a p2p game like Arc Riders...
Replay now are bugued & make your game freeze , Servers are laging all the 10sec
New bugs when cashout to steal are under the map & jackpot : golds like us matched with bronzes less to 10k rr , between level 20-50.

& after embark expect us buy their Whale bunddle & "ultimate" recolors battle pass.... Yay Merry christmas 🎅

[river plover]

If yall nerf dash again Im gonna cry so hard dagger will become somehow more useless
Anyone crying about dash doesnt understand that its the whole point of light and that it can just be countered by better aim

[misty canyon]

8V8 MODE : Please make a different color from party members so u can find them, its just blue dots rn and its confusing that they are all blue dots (especially at a distance and super quick glances) when ur in a part of 4-5 friends

[rough stump]

40 coins in the game where everyone can revive is too much

[river kite]

I cannot paste screenshots yet, but have they just used an upscaler for the tablet icons to make them hd? 💀 (turret, drill, jump pad, etc)

[sleek marsh]

stuttering makes every 2nd match barely playable since tdy. I played 20 matches, with like 2 Teams, that were not a ruby stack, with at least 1 ruby rnd mate, in normal Cashout. Pretty unfun experience

[soft arch]

It's a fun game, no need to try hard and it's not a battle royal ( thank God) HOWEVER all of the monetization and now ultimate battle passes gives me a bad feeling.

A feeling I felt with EA and Apex Legends, don't you become money hungry your game isn't popular enough for that.

[open scaffold]

did yourestart PC?? or usually open cmd and flush dns works too

[bold moth]

Now that the game has been out for around two years, I think it’s reasonable to start talking about the elephant in THE FINALS’ art/style direction:
A.I. voice lines are 100% unappealing, and frankly turn people off from playing due to their inclusion
My proposition is that, while still using the AI for temp dialogue, Embark should start redubbing the solidified dialogue in the game with their voice actors
Unless they actually use the AI generation for something actually innovated, like having text chat get vocalized by your contestant, there is no downside to making directable, cleaner lines for established mechanics and actions in the game
Genuinely I dont see a downside to this: Embark can still use the AI voicebanks for new and test voicelines, the actors get a chance to perform directly for the game & get an extra few paychecks, and the players get higher quality voicelines (I havent had Scotty & June audible for most of the game’s lifespan due to the grating nature of AI voice generation)

[fallen steeple]

get a load of this guy lol

[gilded topaz]

yeah this guy has ass opinioins that are just wrong

[simple glen]

Dash needs a global cooldown where it cant be used back to back. Give it a .75 to 1.25sec cooldown between uses.

The winch's stun is the main problem.

V9s is already being used by almost every light I've run into and it absolutely melts.

[solar citrus]

My legacy s6 pass doesn't work, i can't 'buy' anything

[glossy elm]

When there's a new map, please include it in the new mode or at the very least a 24/7 playlist for a week. RNG to play the new map has been a drag every season...

[marsh halo]

Intro for new player experience, lvl 1-19 should be locked to a separate matchmaking

Leaderboards for H2H still need to be fixed, after wasting so much time grinding board last season it's quite unfair for it to be ripped down...stole a lot of time from people for no reason.

Leaderboards for Breakpoint need adding.

[agile heath]

I've wanted a Chinoserie skin for my guns for 9 seasons. Thank you for loving your fans embark. You guys are killing it!

[radiant reef]

Please let saved outfits save every cosmetics (skins, expressions, player cards etc.) and increase the slot limit. 28 is too little, it limits creativity and spending potential.

[astral axle]

HELP WE CANT ZOOM IN ON THE CHARACTER CUSTOMISATION ANYMORE

Anyways great new map thanks for the work guys

[normal oasis]

When disarming in Point Break it should stop progressing

[pure ore]

Embark literally every time:
WE HAVE THIS AMASING IDEA! EVERYONE WILL LIKE IT!
Now, how do we make this in the game so that it's the worst fucking possible pile of shit imaginable?

They allow QP modes to give WT progression. But it's jack shit. 4 point for a win, 2 for a loss. That means with 50% winrate its 800 GAMES in QP modes to reach E1.

They introduce all previous sponsors for everyone. Except CNS for whatever fucking reason. I dont care if it's lore. Those who signed up CNS before have an acess to Vaiiya tier 2, but other way around? I guess we don't need people to have equal acess to everything...

Every time. EVERY FUCKIGN TIME embark tries to implement something they do this in the worst way possible of all of them.

[proud hare]

please add more contestant slots

[pure vine]

Really sad that there isn't a tournament WT style powershift like y'all made it sound
also why the HECK is CNS not available as a sponsor??

[granite wharf]

Is the new mode point break not available on PlayStation 4?

[sudden spire]

Yeah! Tournaments for some of the other modes would be really fun

[fluid night]

There is no option to purchase Season 6 Legacy Battle Pass.

[tacit skiff]

There's a major performance issue; I and friends with very powerful PCs are experiencing significant FPS drops. Please fix this.

[wraith gale]

stop switching my graphics settings to max + RT after every update please

[tropic wasp]

The obj needs to stop while being defused in Point Break. It makes it pointless to grab after half time sometimes

[steady turret]

anyone else experienced that ur input got kinda disconnected from finals client after being ressed? cursor not only vanishing while changing loadout but now effectively getting kicked for inactivity smh...

[sharp patrol]

Please stop switching my graphic settings to epic after updates i cant play till i revert them back

[uncut hedge]

once again the WORLD CHAMPIONS helping another top 500 team, this game will never fix the grief system

[hot juniper]

Hey embark, you forgot to give us the ruby nullifier skin!

[frigid horizon]

Remove defib from this new mode
Went against 8 mediums all running heal beam and defib
Its not fun fighting a team that just can't die

[hollow kelp]

for some reason I got much lower fps on moving platform maps but fine on anything else. not sure if anyone else has had this problem

[clever trellis]

Embark, thanks for the great Season 9 launch, solid 9/10!
No server issues, smooth start, and great balance changes without unnecessary nerfs or buffs.

Suggestions:

Weapon Balance
Please buff these weapons: Spear, Dagger, Dual Blades, PIKE-556, Riot Shield, MGL32.
Make every weapon fun and viable, not only the meta ones.

Sword Rework
The sword feels slightly overtuned. Many players above have already shared good rework ideas.

Cashout (old World Tour) - same rules
Please make Cashout follow more of the same/similar rules as Ranked Cashout (Double Jeopardy, team wipes -15%, etc.).

Fair Respawn Coin System in Ranked Cashout/Cashout
• Max 2 coins per player.
• Reset everyone to 2 coins each round.
This prevents unfair situations, like entering the final round with 4 vs 1 coin.

Friendly Fire in Ranked Cashout Only
Would make Ranked Cashout feel more competitive and distinct from casual modes like Cashout, Head2Head, Quick Cash, etc.
Adds tactical depth and reduces random spraying or reckless plays.

LAN / Dedicated Servers
Great for tournaments, scrims, and organized competitive practice.

Practice Range Improvements
• Stay in Practice Range while matchmaking
• Friendly fire toggle
• Unlimited ammo toggle
• 1v1 / 2v2 / 3v3 small arenas for real PvP warm-ups

Game Muted When Minimized
Please add match-start sounds when the game is minimized so players don’t miss the start cues.

Again, thank you Embark — you really did a great job! ❤️

[manic sandal]

About new Point Break mode:

• When playing in party players should be spawned on the same point, not everyone in different place, we want to play together
• It will be better to color teammates from party to different - like green - color for easier differentiation

[rough finch]

Maybe something like 50 tokens or 5000 vrs for 100 multibucks? all these currencies are kinda useless rn

[trail flame]

This game is still FULL of cheaters. Bran new accounts with 20-30+ kills less than 10 deaths and just magically better than all the level 100s. Never using any tracking whatsoever and ALWAYS walking up right behind our entire team weather we are together or apart. Levels 50-100+ and we could do nothing against a few bran new players all less than level 30. And the lowest level, newest account was the one with the most kills by more than double on either team. UPDATE THE ANTICHEAT TO THE HIGHEST LEVELS POSSIBLE FOR CONSOLE AND PC!

[foggy knoll]

Add the ability to create a lobby of up to 8 people so everyone can work together in Point Break with 8 people
Thank u Embark! ❤️

[umbral ruin]

im having a bug where i cant hold on to edges to get over a fence or wall...

[vestal ledge]

It would be great if the wrist accessories moved over to the other arm, or was applied to both so that the watch didn't override it. Or if it was higher up on the arm, so the watch could be equipped as well. Some way to both be applied.

[manic pebble]

am i being dumb? how do you shuffe favourites and not just shuffle all skins?

[sudden trail]

So, here's an interesting thing, again: Today we played at least 9 different games with my friend and we've never seen the new map. Can you believe it? It's a new season and we expect to see the new map but we ended todays gaming session without discovering an inch of a big new content. It's as if this season is everything minus the new map.

I experienced something similar at the beginning of the season 4. I already played enough that day until I ever see the new map.

[simple hazel]

Can dev further explain what they changed to the aim assist, it feels so off and doesn't align with the patch notes

[wet ferry]

It's pathetic how the game does not even show how many world tour points you got for each game mode for a loss or a win. Whose idea was this? The s6 legacy BP does not even open either

[pliant whale]

another season where nothing is being done about the sheer amount of leavers and leaderboard farming premades in formerly-quickplay modes, straight away getting put into 4v5 Power Shift matches against TM people, you know it's over before the match even starts

[tired flame]

max party size 8 pls 🙏 we have a big group and were hyped about never having to tell people theyre too late to join

[ivory dagger]

performance compared to last season -30%

[pseudo leaf]

Nerf glitch more plz it is still op.... Make goo 3 layers not 2 and you can carry 4 because "dynamism"

[crisp heart]

hello <3 please add: ORF RPG (the ammo is a plushie that explodes), ORF C4 (a plushie that explodes as well, obviously) and most importantly: ORF PET !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lilac citrus]

best feedback ive seen in the channel yet

[jovial fossil]

THIS. THIS. THIS!

[keen tartan]

Me and my friend didn't receive our 20 banked levels for the battle pass when buying the ultimate

[hybrid siren]

When is the original cashout music coming back

[river valley]

We have an 8v8 mode but cannot make parties larger than 5?

[random lagoon]

aw man, they took away the catching the shell and reloading it from the 1887 animation, always thought that was cool, doesn't really matter too much tho

[runic current]

man i got exicted when they said they were redoing the matchmaking for comp but nope still as awful as it was before

[fervent cradle]

I hoped this season would fix the problem with AMD drivers but no luck. On top of that, I am experiencing audio issues since the season started.

[cyan torrent]

i’m sure you’re working on it but performance is very bad right now including latency, dash feels extremely delayed and fps is fluctuating on some maps

[chilly niche]

How do you check rank progress now theres not a career tab on profile?

[thorny lynx]

Ill give the release a 5 out of 10.
Still encountering tons of server side issues, hit reg is BAD, 8v8 modes should allow a entire 8 stack (not just 5). Point system for wins/losses for WT progress should be stated somewhere. A search bar for friends list should have been there seasons ago... Lots of other things but I am going to eat a sandwich now and come back later...

CORRECTION: MATCHMAKING is worse than ever.
2 out of 10.
I want a refund for the wasted money on ultimate pass. You can never make this game better, you ruin it always EMBARK. Shame on you

DOUBLE EDIT: WORST SEASON YET BY FAR, but map is cool

[fathom aurora]

I was expecting more from this season, looks like things were rushed and each time you release performance upgrades it´s even worse than it was before. This is why the player base is lower each update, back to 10k avg.

[gray tundra]

New lvl 13 flame skin is not what i was looking for, the canister should have the skin as well. i would really like a dev to change it

[slender cipher]

Can't wait to see the pouncer helmet in hopefully just plain black and white colors, The one in the pass looks really good, but I'd like it without the gold accents to make it match better.

[indigo geyser]

Let me as the consumer be able to purchase the Ultimate Pass with Multibucks. At the moment, there's no reason to get the Ultimate version if you already have the Pass itself. Even if it takes ALL of the spare multibucks, I'd rather get it with Multibucks than real cash

I understand that Finals is F2P, and that you're supposed to make money off the cosmetics, but I still find it hard to see the value in a cosmetic nowadays. Not everyone has a real $20 to spend on a progression path..

[rancid cloud]

Please add the Dead Go Boom event to Point Break

[summer yoke]

… really? No P90 changes? What the fuck?

[storm tide]

remove degree lock on sword, but add that lounge with every next target get reduced damage by 2

[lyric whale]

I stopped playing ranked last season just because of the bfr being overpowered. 3 RPM makes 0 difference. Vault this gun and rework it. Its not love it or hate it, it is a gun where any skill makes it insanely over powered. If you think its bad its a skill issue. All i see is making it like a ferro in arc raiders. I dont see how i will get back into this game after playing since open beta if this gun isnt balanced or just removed.

[remote zealot]

8v8 is fun when you're not defending ... What if both have to attack ? And the first one to get the box gets the point with both teams having the coin limited lives ?

[fossil sigil]

SEVER FEELING LIKE A GOT DAMN LANDFILL! Was waiting for the patch notes to say we got a tick rateboost. Audio sound like ass.. Sometimes guns gave no audio.. A fat ass heavy can be running straight at me sometimes and have the feet of a ninja, but my teamates footsteps are always loud and clear..

[south igloo]

The winch nerf was NOT enough, why do they get to shoot before the stun ends, it makes no sense and is horrible for balance, treat it like nullify.

"Here at respawn we only want you to play heavy, and we want you to know it"

[fading yoke]

These winch nerfs did nothing to address the real problem of the winch, the stun.

You're repeating the same mistakes Overwatch did with their Roadhog hook. You attempted to nerf/fix when hook pulls you through walls and stuff, but you're still instadead on L and M the moment you get hooked. The stun is still so long that the chance of hook-to-instadead is like 95% if not more. The hook does not need a stun on top of the displacement, the displacement should be enough for good players to punish you anyway. Overwatch literally did a whole balancing patch revolving around reducing the amount of stuns. Stuns are not fun to play against. You already removed stun gun from the game because it was obnoxious, you removed recon senses because it was OP, but winch gets special treatment and stays effectively the same for 50% of the games lifetime?

Please, remove the stun altogether or reduce its duration to something like 0.1s to keep the stun element and give people a fighting chance because STILL at the current state it is just as effective as before.

[little granite]

I seem to be getting a massive hitch or stall where the game is totally unresponsive during a replay. I think it might've been triggered by me trying to aggressively skip every single replay I get.

[real elm]

event passes are NOT a good idea

I get the TGM pass was a thing for the major and such

but now this is legitimately just FOMO that people are gonna say its “worth the value” like the TGM pass again I CAN JUST SEE IT!

I dont like the exclusivity that will probably inevitably come with them as it incentivizes people to buy it (fomo)

[keen karma]

• Thanks for double jeopardy my ranked games feel fair now instead of getting griefed last at the last second, got 28.6k after my placements
• As for first round loss RS calculations, I'll see if its still disrespectful more to come
• I'm still facing rubies after coming home from my 9-5 and i'm doing decent but cmon, it's been like this first day of season and last day of season. Matchmake solo queue with other solo queues, these rubies are in premade 3 stacks with the fellow unemployed, I'm not really interested in deleting my income stream for a red virtual badge

[novel hollow]

WHAT?????

[glad pike]

revert lewis buff
this is coming from a level 12 lewis gun user

[mint linden]

im getting the same problem and i like watching the replays, i think they just got a bug thats gotta be fixed

[wild lion]

They added a setting with this update that lets you make replays opt in. Basically after each death you can press a button to watch the replay rather than pressing a button to skip it, this might fix the issue for y'all

Reply in weapons and gadgets, this chat has a 6 hour time out

[chrome stream]

Day 1 of asking for a PointBreak Leaderboard and an extra ranked/skillbased matchmaking mode for it and Powershift

[lilac pelican]

Dual Blades should not block an entire minigun bro lol

[cloud zodiac]

Absolutely fantastic new season, but I'm noticing more frequent and longer stutters, end of last season wasn't great, but now it's getting to be pretty bad.

[fluid merlin]

After playing over 1700h I must say the level of destruction is a bit too much now... It becomes annoying, I need to dodge more debris then I need to dodge bullets. Got stuck a lot, or block vision on crucial moments.

It's not tactical anymore, it becomes more of a nuisance now after last patch/update. Especially in point break...
Also the performance is worse than earlier seasons,maybe the extensive destruction.?

[low whale]

I cant view or purchase the legacy Season 6 pass - I can see it though and it's no longer Locked?

• Bug?

[little shell]

Please add weighted odds for seeing the new map. Aside from Point Break that's the biggest new thing that people will be coming back to check out the season for, but it only being a 1 in 11 chance of getting it is absolutely awful.

I can understand creating a whole LTM playlist of just the new map might split the playerbase but it needs drastically higher odds of coming up in rotation.

[steep imp]

Please untether Intro Emote from Player Card emote. It wasn’t like this before and it removes flexibility from customization.

Also, please consider map voting using the style that Overwatch currently uses.

[woeful plank]

Idk where to do a bug report so I’m here. Can’t view season 6 battlepass.

[civic raptor]

Hi, the season 6 battle pass is broken if you already had purchased it in season 6 - you cannot unlock any rewards because it just tells you to spend more tokens

[night tiger]

Get better aim

[wide void]

your balancing is still complete dogshit ngl. Most of your changes were okay (some weren't), but you missed a fuckton of existing issues.

Why did Sword get its gadget swap exploit back to spam lunges?
Why does Pike remain fucked? Bring back 50 damage and it'd be fine because of the worse hipfire and worse falloff range.
Why is Guardian Turret still shit? Just let it turn around faster...
Why do CL-40 and MGL32 remain completely untouched? They're nigh unusable outside of Power Shift.
Why is Evasive Dash still the only Light specialization actually worth using?
Why do Smoke Grenades remain completely unusable?
Why is Gravity Cube still better at griefing your teammates than enemies? (Just let active cubes be cancelled by pressing left-click/right-click...)
Who the fuck asked for an RPG-7 buff?
Why does Minigun, the only gun with randomized spread when at a standstill, headshot? Up the base damage and remove the headshots.
Why can you still only cancel the long, awkward swinging animations of Dual Blades by gadget swapping?
Why do Flashbangs barely last against the enemy even when they're so inconsistent to hit and can grief your own team?
Why can't you just give KS-23 perfect accuracy at all times to give proper competition to BFR?
Why does Flamethrower, a low-range projectile weapon, still do some of the least DPS on Heavy unless you get 2+ people in your line of fire? Could we at least up the projectile speed and delete the projectiles faster so that it propagates faster and doesn't always feel weirdly sluggish and inconsistent?

[tepid summit]

pls add clipping to all cosmetics

[cold bolt]

REVERT THE VAULTS DISAPPEARING AT 0 SECONDS

Why the FUCK would you add jeopardy to reduce doubling griefing, only to revert the vaults so that they don't disappear at 0 seconds which increases doubling griefing????? WHAT IS THE PLAN

[winter schooner]

Embark WE do not need to go to thw battle pass after every chance

[cyan turret]

point break should really bump the max party size to 8 players

[naive narwhal]

Because losing the vault removes half your cash, making you lose

[warm mauve]

Embark, repeater is getting really old...really fast...

[covert halo]

Biggest problem with the season is the frame drops, other than that Im very happy 🙂

[charred vapor]

Im having an issue, I already hat the battle pass 6 before the s9 update and now when he's finally unlocked to the public I can't redeem anything because it says "you need 119 spend after this recompense" and I cant because I already had it

[white elbow]

it would be EPIC if they implemented a system like OW2's gold skins where we can apply our "ruby/diamond/plat/gold token" to pre-existing skins

[sharp scroll]

Can't find a match of the new game mode in Oceania. Yeah its the middle of the day but still.

PLEASE add multi region or multi mode queue so I at least have a chance of getting the region and mode I want.

[wispy viper]

can you guys allow 8 in a lobby for the new point break mode

[lament delta]

one year deluxe edition. I got it and got nothing

[honest verge]

Point Break has been great fun so far and I think it has a lot of potential. The large chaotic defenses are great, the destruction alone is fantastic in the sandbox. I look forward to seeing interesting builds and playstyles. Viewing teammates loadouts or at least specializations in the pre-game lobby might push the community in a more strategic direction for team comp

[slim zodiac]

I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU EMBARK FOR ENDING TERMINAL ATACK DESTROYING SO MANY TEAMS AND WHYY, WHAT'S THE COST OF LEAVING IT OPEN?? YOU COULD'VE BITTEN A LARGE PORTION OF CS2 PLAYERS THAT LIKE THE STYLE BUT NOOO, PLEASE THE KIDS, AND NOW RELEASING AN EVEN CRAZIER MODE. 8 PEOPLE COULD BE RUNNING AT YOU, REALLY, VERY TACTICS, MUCH FAIR. I'M DONE. 1400H IN THIS AND I'M DONE. YOU CHOOSE TO BE THIS RANDOM ASS PLAYSTYLE I'M DONE WITH I STOPPED PLAYING

[fallow ferry]

Previously if you got emerald 1 you got 3 emerald skins... now it's just ONE coin? I understand that emerald will probably be easier to get now but ??? 1/3rd of the rewards?

[sonic salmon]

IMO I don’t like the fact that people can get emerald one and pick what ever weapon they want to get the skin for. A lot of those skins I got when world tour started I grinded my ass for and now that anyone can use a token and play QP to get Emerald one takes away the entire value of it. Like if those weapons are off limits for the token I’m okay with. Also don’t like world tour being just play our game to progress. Takes the meaning out of it. And gaining points if you lose as well just prompts poor game play and lets new players not learn how to play to the game. If you missed out you missed out don’t let new players get the same rewards as veteran players who’ve been playing since OB. It’s not right. Now I feel like there’s no skins that mean anything after S9.

[novel trench]

https://tenor.com/view/vegeta-gif-3927829398898575228

[polar blaze]

Thermal vision please ☝️🥹

[limpid flower]

have they change something about the Repeater? there's no info on the change log and the firerate on the repeater feels really off this season (firerate feels slower than before)

[marble hearth]

All of my skins were removed from my guns can you fix that please

[spice mural]

Sponsor change just blew my mind🤯🤯🤯

[fair bolt]

i dont know if it is only me but** Instant Replay now takes so long to load the play** after the s9 update.

[plucky vault]

i crash everytime i get a pop up like i unlocked soemthing and instant replays are bugged

[torpid turtle]

Replays are lagged really bad before they start and most of the time won't finish the replay. Aim assist feels pretty weak today. Also played like 8 matches before I finally played the new map. Also display names seemed bugged. Could be client or party only but if server that could be bad as I just seen it use my brothers email for his name. Like what? Why?

[barren pelican]

I just went 2W/2L in ranked for my preliminaries, had 2 ruby matches and a diamond match and a silver match, KD 6.0+ each game, top stats on each game and round, AND YOU RANK ME AT BRONZE 1?! What a joke of a system. Embark can you make your ranking algo public or at least give any reason to what you're considering in-between matches or even a dev vid of why your algo only considers w/l. -Heavy Rant

[latent shoal]

yep, same issue

[rustic birch]

cool update, but you forgot to remove SBMM. i know a company lying isnt new in this business but its so clear for someone who has 800h solo.
you almost had me think it was low player counts before, but you dont go from winning most of your games, to taking a couple hour break, then getting on and losing every game i get into.
that doesnt make any sense.
and its been happening for almost, if not a year now
I mostly only play powershift, and ive been keeping track of my W/L and it continues to stay under 100 games apart in terms of equality
(couple times ive noticed it be literally pure 50/50, several months apart)

[gaunt coyote]

Also missing 20 banked battle pass tokens at the start of the season .

[graceful cedar]

Are we even getting any new equipment this season?

[honest wing]

please PLEASE DO NOT REARANGE MY SETTINGS AFTER AN UPDATE thank you :)

i had noticed because:

• 1 i never have raytracing on
• 2 all of my settings were on epic, i only have detail and view distance on epic, everything else on low
• 3 the most obvious.... motion blur was on... i never have that on

[hybrid lintel]

Guys, I would like to get your opinion on how to increase engagement with the club feature.
(idk if i can post link here, sorry antecipate)
https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1pjk825/pls_embark_consider_to_add_a_club_vs_club_matches/

[native stone]

• Instant replay is completely broken currently
• Ranked is full of smurfs
• Having tokens at the end of the season to use for whatever weapon you want is one of the BEST changes ever happened to THE FINALS

[carmine token]

to whoever decided it was a good idea to remove gameshow events from World Tour (and I mean real World Tour, what they now call Cashout), I hope you never touch a video game again in any capacity.

[worn shuttle]

Pointbreak feedback: Been playing pointbreak all day today and can say 1 thing for certain. Defending sucks.

The time it takes to arm is way too fast. With there being multiple objectives I understand that decision, but the vaults already blow in FORTY SECONDS. That's almost no time to actually take it back, and with the disarm being 7/8 seconds it is ridiculously hard even with it being casual. You need FULL team synchronization innorder to even get one disarm, PLUS they can just rearm in 4 seconds. This give no time for a dive, or for gas to be worth a damn in the mode. A LIGHT can arm through gas, that's ridiculous.

The blow timer needs to be significantly longer, there's more chaos and more time for the attackers to take their time. Defenders do not have that luxury AT ALL. It's too much: too long to disarm, having to chase kills, having to defend 3, and stopping enemy revives. It's ridiculous.

Attacking is FUN: The constant rotation of pushing the front, grabbing a rez, rotating for a flank, and overall teamwork is extremely fluid is is amazing. A slight inkling of teamwork and attackers just win.

Conclusion: Attacking in point break feels really good, rezing teammates feels rewarding and keeping pressure feels good. Constant teamwork is amazing, and the focus on 3 objs at a time makes going solo fun and engaging. Defending feels HORRIBLE. When you're defending there is no incentive to defend alongside teammates because a force of people is much slower than a single player, making stopping an arm attempt not possible by your average player. The last obj of each front is where the fun feels alright. Constant firefights and pressure that you can keep up and work more with your team, the ability to flank and stop revives, and the constant use of different gadgets is fun.

Suggested change: The vault needs to explode after a longer duration. MUCH longer. 2 minutes on each vault would be about right. It gives the defending team choices to make between objs.

[fallen wave]

I know the Model was just buffed but it's still barely useable.

[sterile panther]

DeMaterialser no longer has a glitch screen... TAT

[delicate dirge]

this game still needs balancing or this season will run dry fast

Why is Guardian Turret still shit? Just let it turn around faster...

Why do CL-40 and MGL32 remain completely untouched? They're nigh unusable outside of Power Shift.

Why is Evasive Dash still the only Light specialization actually worth using? Buff cloak ffs

Why is Gravity Cube still better at griefing your teammates than enemies? (Just let active cubes be cancelled by pressing left-click/right-click...)

Why can't you just give KS-23 something to make it remotely usable compared to bfr

Why does Flamethrower, a low-range projectile weapon, still do some of the least DPS in the game. increase dot damage.

dagger left click needs a buff

Why does Pike remain fucked? Bring back 50 damage and it'd be fine because of the worse hipfire and worse falloff range.

[torpid night]

please add raw input toggle

[glacial geyser]

A nice QoL buff for Anti-grav Cube would be to allow teammates to hold jump to rise.

That way it allows somewhat free movement for your team

[sand kayak]

For Point Break, increase the tickets and decrease the respawn timer

[cedar cave]

Remove the fake sales and stop doing this shit. This cannot possibly be on sale if it didnt exist yesterday. Set its price and leave it or piss off.

[cobalt dagger]

tbh this new 8v8 gamemode is cool but seems heaqvily skewed toward the defenders.

[warped axle]

Isnt this illegal in some country's

[sullen fog]

remove fortune stadiun

[slow cargo]

Point Break is a cool idea but it definitely needs some tweaking. Im sure others can add to this or have already (I didnt read up) just my personal opinions i think should be looked at

• You're team should be able to see all the revive tokens across the map, how its setup right now you can only see someone's revive token within a certain distance.

• Maybe at 0 tokens everyone left alive should have one last push until the entire attacking team is dead. Whoever dies stays dead. Then the game should end.

• You should not be able to swap to different classes during the game. It is making it way to unbalanced throughout the games. Especially when a whole team goes Heavy midgame.

• Make it easier to see your team from a distance.

• Maybe dont let defenders have infinite tokens, but a much higher pool of available tokens. All the risk is on the attackers but none on the defenders. The game mode feels very defender sided at times.

• You should be able to have a party of 8 for the 8v8 mode. Not limit to 5 and have 3 randoms. This can help maximize team coordination with a group of people together either as friends or in club.

[pine frigate]

Liking the new season and especially the new gamemode so far but, pllllllease embark please quit making me face 4-5 stacks on powershift meanwhile my team is always all randoms. Its almost never fun playing those sorts of matches.

[simple ether]

Jesus christ. Perma ban cheaters and smurfs. They are ruining matchmaking.

[spice stag]

dagger has been the worst weapon on light since season 1, and has only gotten nerfs. would love to see dagger get any kind of love

[slender swallow]

cool update cool update, but you forgot to remove SBMM. i know a company lying isnt new in this business but its so clear for someone who has 800h solo.
you almost had me think it was low player counts before, but you dont go from winning most of your games, to taking a couple hour break, then getting on and losing every game i get into.
that doesnt make any sense.
and its been happening for almost, if not a year now
I mostly only play powershift, and ive been keeping track of my W/L and it continues to stay under 100 games apart in terms of equality
(couple times ive noticed it be literally pure 50/50, several months apart)

[ember bronze]

Bug problem for a while now : My imputs are delayed or extended on keyboard (im on PC) but when i plug in a controller it does respond immediately, its only my keyboard it is probably the most infuriating bug ever, please help if anyone knows

[humble sequoia]

Guys after the update my 1% lows are SUPER low, game feels so laggy and unresponsive. My 1% low used to be 100fps, now it's 50-60fps

[strange cape]

if anyone is bronze placed can u help me?

[quick coyote]

One of the most buggy season launches ever unfortunately.

Replay completely lags out the game so that nothing moves until it "ends," I've gotten ghost text boxes and other UI displaying on my screen while I'm trying to play, and worse for playability - the servers are lagging out! I start shooting at some guy, suddenly I die and all of his bullets fire. Anytime I shoot, my entire game stutters and I can't line up my next shot.

I have a good PC so this lag is not my computer's problem.

Everything new seems fun and I'm excited to keep playing, but I don't feel like I'm getting the full experience when everything lags out constantly

[wary flax]

Allow solo players to load into arenas without the need of another player.

[chrome lichen]

as someone who played a fair amount of rush in their life, new mode is pretty dope. DK if it'll stay in the rotation forever but it is a nice mix up

[mellow geyser]

I’ve played three matches and there is a double barrel meta forming. This can’t be good for the game. Please stop it. And nothing this season to open with VRS is REALLY disappointing.

[nocturne tendon]

Make it where defenders in Point Break have slower revives or no defibs or no heals, not all but something

[sacred elm]

What would be fun for the Christmas event is if we hard red and green tracers on weapons

[smoky arrow]

Anybody getting the new map in Point Break? Or anywhere?

[zealous schooner]

the legacy battle passes doesnt work correctly. i own 10/12 pages of the s6 battle pass and completed 1-4 originally, while skipping s5 as i didnt play, so i can’t spend show tokens on this s6 battle pass because it wants me to use 163 more tokens to unlock the 11th page? what.

make it make sense. i’m not buying the old s5 battle pass to unlock these pages in a pass i already own.

[valid wedge]

Hey embark i want to start by saying that i love 99.9% of this game but.. i feel this seasons ultimate pass has been cheaped out on a bit, i dont mind a few cosmetics feeling like they fell short to me anyways but i feel a little cheated when tiers for ultimate are just.. a mask? And only that mask no outfit with it the watches i dont like as the final tier on a page as i dont rlly think ppl care too much abt watches (i could be wrong) but just a mask on its own feels wrong for the ultimate pass to me.

[feral fossil]

Nerf sword M1 to 70 dmg. Buff sword M2 to 125 dmg. Remove sword multihit from M2. Remove aimlock.

**Embark, I love you guys but I'm begging you to please fix sword. **Doing this will raise the skill ceiling to a place where skill expression is possible at all. Sword won't dominate lower lobbies as much because people won't be spamming M1, and sword will be usable in ranked past platinum. This will also completely fix the "360 spinning tech" because there will be no reason to spin if you can only hit one target.

Right now, sword is only viable in plat or below. Any player who is good will instakill sword because of the aimlock. Almost any sidestep will make the sword miss their lunge. As soon as I hit Plat 1, and certainly into Diamond, sword is COMPLETELY unplayable.

By removing multihit on lunge but keeping it on M1, we maintain the unique identity of the sword (which is the lunge because spamming M1 on an enemy is not viable for a light weapon) and give the M1 a purpose (which will be to hit groups of enemies because it will have multihit)

**If a weapon is op in lower lobbies, and absolutely useless in higher elo, it is not balanced. **

[primal sphinx]

already lost a ranked match due to a bug. i tossed goo onto an opponent who was stealing my point and instead of stopping them the goo fell through the world

[distant vine]

please. remove riot shield from ranked. im tired of having riot teammates. they are litterally throwing the game by using it.
it should be a bannable offence to bring riotshield into ranked.

btw. i will spam report anyone using riot shield in ranked.

[slate mauve]

This is wrong

A 55LB weight plate, while uncommon, shows 24.95KG

Precision matters for weight plates.

Do you even lift, Embork?

[muted plaza]

embork

[crude vapor]

Lowkey miss the way the game selection was. I think its much harder to understand, and will be to new players as well. Please go back to what you had before.

[warm solstice]

winch 😪 just shelf it for a season. at this point i dont even care if its reworked just give me a season where every heavy isnt using winch the second they see an opponent. we deserve a break from this.

nerf repeater and bfr damage also. you nerfed 93r for being op and it was. do the same here.

[light otter]

the new gamemode 8v8 is an absolute blast, embracing the chaos, but it feels like its designed to be won by attackers as defenders can rarely win unless the team is entirely competent as people at the moment on attackers are just pulling out dead teammates statues and manual reviving to avoid losing a token, even with it feeling like its designed to be lost by defenders, i still have an absolute blast playing both sides as the teamwork moments make such amazing highs
Also there was a moment where on Bernal attackers were put in a very bad position once the building the station was inside was completely destroyed (happened quite fast), this i think was in the second phase i believe, and the defenders had a building they could stand on behind their team barrier and use as high ground and cover, we only made it through once a few heavies combo'd a shield and had enough health to withstand the chaos. we couldnt wipe them ever with the cash station being in the middle of a warzone with crowd control making it impossible.

[crimson gull]

live replay is broken

[calm hare]

Has the party limit not been increased on purpose? I would like to play breakpoint with my friends

[harsh sigil]

^this guy is an idiot

[quick coyote]

Team Proximity Chat for large team-based game modes

[sharp copper]

light players are braindamaged , lobotomized most likely

[ruby umbra]

can you add 8 users in voice chat since we got 8 players game mode??

[runic cairn]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2073850/discussions/0/685240084414340085/

Critical Exploit on Point Break

[stable salmon]

^ that's just smh

[spiral hemlock]

W season, no dash nerf / grapple buff is CRAZY

[feral shard]

Embark what did you did with the Dematerializer default skin screen.
You erased it, you nerfed CNS to the ground.

[feral coral]

having a party max of 8 for the 8v8 gamemode would be nice.

[dense sleet]

Whoever designed this matchmaking. I hope live gives they x10 times the suffering

[astral wedge]

+1, I already told my friends to download the game....

[rotund gust]

I prefered updates and new seasons on a thursday as it bridged that final day to the weekend better. Just my take

[sterile ermine]

Where patch notes

[tropic wasp]

Point break defuse needs some rework. Needs to hault timer or something. Specially on D

[twin helm]

nerf heavy

[lime quail]

The v9s has been in every lights hand in every lobby and it is actual cancer what did you guys do honestly

[median verge]

in the new gamemode pointbreak theres too many abilities if each player has 3 and there 8 players on each team the whole thing feels like ability spam

[jaunty vapor]

Hello, plz ban cheaterz in ruby thank you

ZZB#2335
SLEEP#5196
ImposingPerson#8260
AILI#7821
Rachel#1829
QQQQQ#0090
Silent_Lolly#1138
tom#3498
AG_TTV_YT#7625
GuardianSkill#0823
ForemostSkill#8151
KYRO#5597
T_T#0226
GoGuMa#2426
ɴᴀᴍᴇᴅ#0713
TrustMe#2453
Hello-Guys#0770
EngagingDagger#6067

[low igloo]

when can i buy s6 battlepass? clicking it does nothing.

[stuck pecan]

they buffed it by 5 meters

[regal maple]

Increase fov please, and make weapons smaller in screen like the animation in the store

[nova sequoia]

Just had a match where the defending team pulled the grand vault on Point Break out of bounds. Huge oversight

[unreal blaze]

Embark, why the hell does the 93R have further range the VS9? You know how stupid that looks right?

[open elm]

S9 - Onwards Wishlist/Thoughts:
-Snipers remain untouched in Powershift. Possibly one of the most obnoxious play styles that plagues this mode. No one enjoys getting shot in the back from across the map while in a gunfight. There are moments when you can't even fight outdoors when there is more than one sniper on the enemy team. Truly toxic.

• Some kind of soft matchmaking is needed in QP modes. Idk why the powershift algorithm thinks I'm some kind of hero that can solo an entire team, but it's constantly putting me in teams where two are below lv 20, and the other two are chasing their shadows. It's a 1.5 vs 5 the entire match. I even sat out matches to see how my team performed, and boy was it a shtshow. If I didn't perform at my current level, i think i would win 1/20 matches.
• Game optimization got worse. Low frames, more stutter, and it visually looks worse. Believe it or not, it was running better before S9 dropped.
• Meta barely shifted. 93R got replaced by another pistol. Woopdeedoo.
• Winch is still dominant and still a free kill tool. This is what you said when u reworked the stun gun:
  "It functions too often as a tool to secure a kill, leaving little room for counterplay. This is especially problematic for new players, as early encounters with the Stun Gun can be frustrating enough to impact their experience and desire to continue playing.”
  So by that logic, Winch should get the same treatment. Why play favorites?
  Overall, S9 just feels like Update 8.13.0 rather than a new season. New seasons should breathe life into the game, change up the scene, and display that you are listening to the player base. But instead, we got a new buggy mode, $100+ of cosmetics, and a tone deaf patch note. Sadly, a new map is not enough to keep the player base engaged for a whole season. I truly hope at least one of these points is addressed by the end of the season.

[stuck night]

Change point break vault interactions. People were using healing emitter + lockbolt to pull it out of bounds. Huge exploit problem

[blazing meteor]

UI Safe Zones PLEASE. I have a super ultrawide and have to crane my neck to see health, kill feed and ability cooldowns

[grand iron]

Fix controller dead zone

[still rose]

why is CNS not in the sponsors? is it because it is unofficial? I want the stuff I missed from s7 ;~;

[tame owl]

Pointbreak:

Attackers should take more time to plant
Both Attackers and Defenders should have a team reset/ countdown after a set of 3 are completed
Each team should be limited to 3 LMH for better balance
💯

[gleaming patio]

Intel xess 2 when? Ive used its xell (low latency) mode in other games and it helps a lot, it also works on all gpus so plz add 🙏

[twin slate]

embark, you didn't fix the two bugs i hated the most in season 8 which are :

1. Instant replay freezes your screen for like 10 seconds
2. You can't hear enemies stealing cashout although you're literally in the same building

[tranquil skiff]

Allow us to gift the Ultimate Battle Pass, please, for the love of God!

[keen karma]

• Thanks for double jeopardy my ranked games feel fair now instead of getting griefed last at the last second, got 28.6k after my placements
• As for first round loss RS calculations, I'll see if its still disrespectful more to come
• I'm still facing rubies after coming home from my 9-5 and i'm doing decent but cmon, it's been like this first day of season and last day of season. Matchmake solo queue with other solo queues, these rubies are in premade 3 stacks with the fellow unemployed, I'm not really interested in deleting my income stream for a red virtual badge

[twilit cypress]

this wont help if you're on console, but maybe you can gift it through steam. Just a thought.

[swift roost]

Matchmaking. Please fix the matchmaking. Starting from like the last week of the last season, I have been getting matched with exclusively emerald & ruby players. I am not cut out for this and have lost virtually all but 2 games out of maybe 50 that I've played because of this. Jumped into my first match of the season and I'm already fighting an entire team of players with 40k+ elims while I don't have anything near that (and neither do any of my teammates). (Just had my first point break match and the same thing happened. My teammates seem to be playing the game for the first time while the entire enemy team is 50k+ elims. WHY?!)

There is also an absurd amount of bugs on launch and if I'm gonna be frank, the more unified world tour experience and being able to switch sponsors at any time is just silly and completely un-finals-like. The art direction for the battle pass has also been steadily decreasing and I really haven't found any cosmetics except sponsor ones and season 1-3 battle pass cosmetics interesting or worth spending the money (ESPECIALLY the ultimate battle pass ones...)

I love you Embark, but you're straying away from all the cool lore, art direction, and uniqueness from prior seasons.
also bring back the curved HUD, it gives a VR game show feel and i absolutely love it 🙏

also just for fun, add some more big explosions and destruction stuff!!! its the finals for crying out loud, best destruction in gaming. Make the Point Break objectives have a huge explosion that can tear a building to shreds, idk

↓↓↓↓ also what the guy below me said ↓↓↓↓

[raven jay]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ADD THE NEW MAP TO THE NEW MODE. THE MAP AND MODE ARE PEAK PLEASSSSE EMBARK. DO THIS AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

[solemn burrow]

WHAT HE SAID^^^^^^ (besides the life part damn)

[earnest badge]

Why cant we have parties of 8?

[wide creek]

Constantly crashing:

LowLevelFatalError [File:.\Runtime/RenderCore/Private/RenderingThread.cpp] [Line: 952]
Rendering thread exception:
Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0xffffffffffffffff

0x00000001439e8f3d Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x0000000143809084 Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00000001428d08f6 Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00000001428c01e2 Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00000001428ca56c Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00000001428e6e32 Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x000000014004b624 Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00000001400302fd Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x000000014234bafb Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x0000000142358158 Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x000000014024fa15 Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x0000000140245d46 Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ffb6a3d7374 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x000000014001ad95 Discovery-d.exe!UnknownFunction []

[mighty vault]

Gurl the server lag is at its peak!

[scenic prism]

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[worldly glade]

hey,, where in the world is the new map? ive played it once today, and ive been on 12 hours

[manic prairie]

very meh whole season bs. and i think season 7 will be my last BP what i buy in this game. i ain´t paying 30€ ultimate, and premium sucks so... anyway. just want to say, i dont like it. no hate tho...

[south knot]

You guys can nerf wench, It's okay. Seriously, Embark, you guys at the balance team. You've outright removed things that were less broken. Alternatively , you can just buff everything.

[cyan sable]

defib needs to be severly nerfed in just point break, double the cooldown please, and give it a longer cooldown after being defibbed. full medium teams are almost impossible to win against if they spam defib.

[hearty coyote]

New 8v8 mode drops, super excited to get in a party with 8 people and go for it! Oh wait, I can only party up with 5 people still. Immediately disappointed. ☹️

[green summit]

Please fix your lag, I want to play the game, like i actually genuinely can not get in a quick cash match rn. 🥀

[steady cosmos]

Every season it gets harder and harder for the finals to perform well, today with the new season I literally can’t play because of how bad the performance is. If anyone has a fix please let me know

[odd pasture]

Man I just can’t. « We are bringing fair changes for ranked » I peaked plat last season, popped gold few hours ago, right after this I am ONLY matched with low silvers and unranked players, GET PUT AGAINST SEASON 8 DIAMONDS, AND LOSE 3k SR IN 4 MATCHES. I didn’t win a single one the WHOLE night. I feel like I’m playing season 8! GJ! GG!

I was SO SO hyped for this season and tbf yall brought VERY cool new things, the new map is insane, the cosmetics (oh, ofc the cosmetics will be good it’s the thing that brings you money) are very pretty, but the matchmaking? Yea just poo directly in my throat at this point.

Update: I launched a match right after this and even my teammates said it ur mm is buns. Diamonds vs silvers. All night long. Still on the lose streak. Will update you when I’m bronze 4 and I uninstall ur game.

[unreal epoch]

Why have the start of this season so fucking unbearable? I can barely change emotes, it feels jutterly half the time, like what the hell happened?

[ocean badger]

The dagger is so fun but guys, the sword does too much damage and so the dagger just feels like an extra slow sword I have to 180 with, like how is this a balanced weapon. Yeah it's still good, but u can spam the frigger button with the sword and dash to get literal team wipes

[wild galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/look-what-yep-this-gif-13617583

[hidden spire]

which weapons are emerald rewards?

[wraith gale]

friendly reminder to update your Steam trailer to the new Season 9 trailer. Also hoping we can fix killcams ASAP. Thanks for this season, team. i voted this game for Labor of Love.

also buff my breach drill

[native plinth]

game crashed multiple times, and shader preload time is even longer post-crash compare to s8... please optimize some more so I can play with my potato 😭

[sleek forge]

Why are we buffin aim assist? Controllers were doing just fine

[halcyon patio]

So heavy just got buffed in different ways and bfr still outperforms the sniper rifle????

[quick coyote]

Dash is overpowered, overused and you will never nerf it because you are afraid of upsetting the manchildren that play the light class, this game will never have any new players if light continues to be what it is, enjoy your dead game and overpriced cosmetics

[old nebula]

Just make the gate way like before no needed for a nerf to it perfectly balanced
Moreover the cl40 is too hard to counter as a light nd can just 2 shots adjusting It a bit might be better

[versed cloud]

Point break takes SO LONG as the attackers!! Doesn't feel fair to the attacking team sometimes.

[feral elm]

I can't believe you guys still haven't reenabled thermal vision. Invis has been a plague for basically 2 seasons, but I guess you aren't balancing for how people play quickcash.

[versed hazel]

i am severely disappointed that one does not eat the gingerbread cookie throwing knives on inspection.

[frank holly]

Point break literally is a 50/50 coin toss at the start of the game... So defender sided i'm actually worried how this made it through

[exotic cobalt]

glad to see others are also having this issue, I can't buy it either

[hollow dune]

i feel like Point Break should have 24 players instead of 16 and have only two objective at each times or have one objective, and go from A to D 12 Vs 12 protecting and defending one box at a time instead of three all at once..... the maps is definitely big enough for that

[next rock]

The new game mode selection UI is just bad. Before, it featured beautiful full size images and big buttons that made it straightforward to use.

Now, I have to look for the correct small button with just an icon, also the buttons cover just the left edge of the screen so after clicking “change game mode” I have to move my eyes to the other side of screen. This is a showcase of bad ui design.

Not talking about the fact that lobby background simplicity and that game mode selector look like someone just copypasted some bad UI from Season 1. They dont match the style of all other UI elements

[cold bolt]

• new gamemode select UI sucks, previous one was almost perfect
• poke is still prevalent and people are tired of it
• bugs that have been in for multiple seasons, even some dating as far back as s2, are still unaddressed here in s9. And with this game, I mean bugs that are front and center in your face, not weird stuff you have to go out of your way to do. No sprint, no ADS, no shoot, zipline jitter, etc.
• inexcusable for the the first legendary skin in Level Skins (lvl 13) to not wrap around the entire weapons/gadgets like the tier preceding it

Genuinely not sure why we sat through a whole s8 of nothing just to get essentially more nothing. I guess we got Kyoto 2? Lol

[slender girder]

Some weapons didn't have aim snap. And don't worry, they nerfed it as well. And KBM will still dominate as it did before.

[novel trench]

Ursa's bones still aren't fixed, absolute barrel chest

[wet ferry]

THIS S6 BP DOES NOT EVEN OPEN ABSOLUTELY USELESS

[rugged kettle]

New game mode feels solid, but more maps and 8 player parties would be appreciated. The double jeopardy system in cashout is fantastic as well. That being said, I think season 9s balance changes are hitting a bit mild overall, given the 2 month delay we got beforehand (please make a dedicated TGM26 patch for next year so the rest of game isn’t hurt by it). Adjustments to standout weapons like the repeater and shak, or rebalancing of specializations for light and medium considering the massive gap in effectiveness between them would have been better about shaking up the meta some more. The sandbox is relatively balanced, but I think it’s also getting somewhat stale for more casual players. I haven’t tried ranked yet but I’m hoping it’ll be better than season 8, which was absolutely brutal for multitude of reasons. Double jeopardy will help, but it won’t remove the population problems if they aren’t able to get ranked players engaged.

[river valley]

Twice tonight my three stack has gotten the same map back to back. Vegas/Vegas/Kyoto/Kyoto. Maps rotation broken?

[ionic viper]

there’s gingerbread throwing knives?

[hexed frigate]

Don't you think you should lower the grind required for the level 13 skin? I have 900 hours and my highest-level weapon is only level 7...

[ornate spindle]

Hello, tengo problemas con mi drop de Calvin el cubo, supuestamente ya lo reclame pero no me lo dan en el juego

[untold hazel]

Ive ur highest level is only level 7 after 900 hours you might need to get better bro

[digital yoke]

Performance issues after the release of Season 9

After the update, for no apparent reason, the CPU load is at 70-80 percent even in the main menu. There are unexplained fps drops in the game. My values were usually around 200, but after the update, the fps dropped to 100 for no apparent reason, and there is some kind of problem with frame "creation". The image is extremely jerky and lacks smoothness. I will repeat: there were no such technical problems before, and I have the latest drivers for all important PC components.

[rancid cloud]

Played, Point Break, Power Shift, and Team Deathmatch all day. Didn't see the new map once.

I don't like playing your core mode, it fucking sucks. Why isn't your new map available on the other modes.

[vivid seal]

"invis has been a plague"????

[night canopy]

got new map in tdm in the first match yday. just play more

[runic current]

gave the new season a chance but man comp is the most miserable competitive mode ive played in a game and this is coming from someone who actively played league of legends competitive

[white anchor]

True and the servers r still shit and unplayable.

Dagger needs a hitbox buff.

[viscid igloo]

point break on monaco needs a rework immediately, you can just camp on the cathedral and there is nothing the attackers can do about it

[cedar cave]

Please give us a structural damage badge or something to grind. I want to be known as a menace to the arena

[gray tundra]

Skins they gotta fix and rewards we need fixed or in general
Sledge lvl 13
H infuser lvl 13
Flamethrower lvl 13
Sword lvl 6 (look at this)
Gateway lvl 13
M26 matter lvl 13
Arn lvl 13
Sonar grenade lvl 13
Goo grenade lvl 13
Grenade lvl 13
Grav cube lvl 13
CL40 lvl 13 (not bad but could be better)
Heal beam lvl 13
They also have skins that they didn’t color the tag (where the charm goes) for lvl 13 but I didn’t list those
S4 emerald badge looks bad
S3 and 4 ruby badge look bad
No S3 badge for emerald but theirs a S3 background
No S3 ranked Diamond stuff

[toxic forge]

umm the instant replays kinda bugged

[jade flame]

having this issue too. i already own all the prior battlepasses and everything in them.

[keen plaza]

Matching for point blank is off

Played 7 games. All as defenders. All lost ... In a row

[cedar cave]

I like the new season but consider giving us a new speciality in s10

[fringe hatch]

Please add S3 Emerald Emblem and RIP to all S3 E1 AK47 skin owners: that was and still is the hardest skin ever to obtain asides Ruby ones with 53 WINS now you can make it with a token? It shouldn’t be possible

[south igloo]

I love s9 so far but could you consider buffing heavy? Here are some ideas:

The winch should just outright kill a light, and the stun should be longer, I should be able to unload a whole clip rather than a quarter clip before it ends, finally half the cooldown time

The BFR should be able to one shot a light with a body shot and one tap a medium with a headshot

350 health just isn’t enough, since our weapons do so much damage I think heavy should have 450 or 500 damage

Double the capacity and range of the goo gun and let it deal damage

Double the range of the flamethrower

Let the heavy class have dash as a gadget

I believe that all of these changes are in continuity with the direction of the tweaks to gameplay and the current state of the game

Oh and nerf the stun gun again

[bold berry]

A whole lot of nothing.. hey its the Chinals…