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So like.... what's happening lore wise?
i think its just the finals as normal! nothing too major happening afaik
for this season at least
now would have been a nice time to expand the world outside of the gameshow but it is what it is
I'm just extremely curious as how they reset the system and ended up in wayy back Kyoto somehow???
Like I thought this was a VR gameshow. Doesn't someone have to make the game?
How was this a "surprise, never before seen, how did this happen" kinda moment?
How does this game/simulation thing work where it can just like do that?
It's like, server reset. We're here now. End of story.
???
THE FINALS is an AI program, which means MultiCo and the showrunners developed it and most likely trained it
this is the 2.1 version of the VR build as seen in the log during the S2 broadcast hack. which means itās relatively new and this was most likely the first time they had to reboot it. hence why they didnāt know where the AI would take the game
thatās about it, itās not that complex
Ahhh
I missed the part where it was an AI program ig
I've only ever heard to it being a "simulation"
no worries, it was revealed in one of the latest lore vignettes
the story didnāt move an inch during S3, but considering weāre closing in to S4, i wouldnāt be surprised if we finally get a new lore vignette that moves the plot
either tomorrow or next week
OH WAIT YOU'RE THAT SPEAR!!!
hey hi hello your videos on the map design are incredible!
Didn't they mention that this week is going to the start of the official unoffical leak week?
haha hi! thank you 
Rob is always mentioning stuff, like how weāre suppose to get an updated Credits Scene. so iām assuming weāll ge that soon + a lore vignette
not sure if CNS will resurface for the build up to S4
actually looks like S4 teasers begin tomorrow #ā”āthe-finals-chat message
Plot twist: vaaiya is actually CNS
VAIIYA not approved 
is there really finals lore tho
Barely š Thereās lots of juicy tidbits that add up to not very much
new lore vignette in todays update š š š
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There's really a video game in the finals?
That's what these fellas sound like
Really really hoping for that to be a thing. I finally got back to this game at the start of Season 3, so seeing some more CNS action would be really cool.
new lore vignette is a HOLTOW ad + introducing Marcel from MultiCo, who had a meeting with the sponsors
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https://www.holtow.com/ website has been updated as well
ye we have thread for it https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1280860770095206512
i dont have the permission to talk š¦
does anyone know if there are any maps?
Just seen this
you need to lvl up
feel free to post your ideas here.
new video when entering game
Huh
cant send it, no permission
Scotty and June literally say, that Terminal Attack is trashš
Show me in dms
one sec
Haha they donāt say that āliterallyā but yes itās implied
HOLTOW ad isolated (because I like it so much)
https://youtu.be/_0QwvEp7f7U
HOLTOW's Sun Insurance ad from THE FINALS 3.12 update
And they say something about the āother scottyā. My theory:
Commentator scotty and june are actually aiās
I have the rest
Thats so fucking important. It hints again to some things:
- Sponsors are not happy about the current state of the finals
- Our June and Scotty are maybe not real
- We get another ranked mode next season, aside to TA ranked
what makes you say so?
they talk about "the other scotty
second 30
there is no other Scotty
but a new character.
"Myself from Holto"?
marcel
she says āMerciless Marcel from MultiCoā
there has not been any concrete proof of the commentators being AI
Where does the qr code lead? I can't scan it
holtow website
K thanks
EE hunters figured out yet what the numbers on that card mean and what data that barcode holds?
check ee channel
I think the numbers are just like what they put on the fake cards you get in junk mail credit card offers
Oh wait the insurance number. Hmm
was there an ambient crowd team chant that differs depending on the team? did someone record them chanting something?
I heard some singing going on the crowd that I didn't really hear before. or was that always a thing
Am i missing something? It doesnāt mention anything about them being aiās or even suggest it.
sry, that was my mistale
i thought they said: The scotty from multico
but its: merciless marco from multico, my fault
Guys, I'm the only one playing a world tour and I hear the audience chanting in a strange way š¤Ø
It's like they're howling
"Said like a true spokesperson for ospuze"
So is scotty actually sponsored by ospuze, not just because of the first seasons?
we know Scotty and June are spokepeople for the sponsors. thereās an emote where they call Contestants for it
could it be that june is the spokesperson for holtow cuz she loves data?
thatās a bar code, QR is in another frame. either way, it redirects to HOLTOWās website iirc
New lore video just dropped
yes, we have threads for it in #easter-eggs
the insurance numbers on the insurance card might be a code?
There's a QR code at the bottom right of the screen not the barcode on the card
i know, itās the one that redirects to the HOLTOW website
is there a website link?
just saw the lore vignette, holtow sun insurance?!
so it got changed?????
They own the sun basically
WHAT?!
Or it could be related to that group of people who want to send out giant mirrors to space and reflect the suns light anywhere for a price
gotta shring your browser to see a other qr code
subscription based sunlight š
I think the ones doing it are Reflect Orbital
could this new update be related to the next wt
and it goes back to the website
just a thought bc they haven't done a holtow "sponsored" tour
We could get a war between the sponsors or one of the sponsors pulling out making something go missing
they funded las vagas
It looks like multicore is mad about the reboot
this is crazy
FINALLY A NEW LORE VIDEO
you are correct with this:)
@onyx sun found out.
insurance number
1620 4121 2417 2019 8114
16 20 4 12 1 24 17 20 19 8 11 4
using A0Z25 converts to quembyrutile (CEO of Holtow)
A0Z25 means A = 0 - Z = 25
Even Scotty and June don't want terminal attack as ranked anymore
Said it in the new vid
Also Sun insurance sounds like if dissun were to fail to provide energy or something
oooooo
so is the card his?
scotty: "hopefully they take cns and its gamemode out of the spotlight", that has to mean TA is getting removed from ranked
oh finally baby new lore
I WAS RIGHT
holtow is sponsoring the tour, on the menu it still appears as VAIIYA International but in game it shows HOLTOW Classic
isnt multico a polish corporation? marcel is also a polish name i know a few family members with the name marcel
merciless marcel š¼
They own the currency we use in game
and they run the gameshow, from what i know
i would imagine theyre something like microsoft that owns a bunch of smaller more specialized but still general companies
minecraft š¤
"I owe my soul to the company stooree..."
Also, what the FUCK did we do to the sun???
āOne fist of iron the other steel, if the right one donāt get ya then the left one willāš£ļø
That shits not gonna be anywhere close to burnt out in 57-ish years
heavy knuckles confirmed
Nah imagine the heavy just running for you with iron knuckles onš
low damage high knock back lol
Is Marcel Nexon?
What exactly happened in season 3?
Like did CNS press that āresetā June mentions in that lore vid?
CNS hacked The finals and some sponsors to introduce Kyoto map after the reset and make Terminal attack a ranked mode
Thats the reason why in the trailer you see people been transported, CNS forced players to test TA
Ya, i already knew that hack thing, but thanks
No, they did in order to avoid CNS get access to a special AI that the finals devs (In lore) created
Ohhhh
So they reseted the ENTIRE game show VR simulation to avoid CNS becoming stronger
Probably, remember that most of the speech is censored.
So we only have the teories.
But thats for sure, June and devs teams reseted the whole system to avoid a corruption on its data
Billons must drink
free number
Time to explore the web page
THE HOLTOW THING IS. CHILLING.
Anyone found out that they have a search bar on the holtow website ?
https://www.holtow.com/search
Didn't manage to find anything yet though
How the heck you found the Search page
tried https://www.holtow.com/signup and it gave a "not found page" with the link to the search
Holly shit, that a banger
I couldnt fonud anything on Source page
the card insurance number didnt result in anything from the search page sadly
we really do live in a dystopia
what type civilization is the earth in 2100?? we are a type 0.7 rn
if they have power over the sun (which i think is LITERALLY just solar power) do you think they are higher than type 1
If they are solar power or insurance for when the sun goes out, why did CNS hack them?
i still believe that cns is a branch of the AI that runs the gameshow š¼
We wanted flying cars after 2000s and got AI brainrot videos so I guess all new they got in 2100s is AI VR game named the finals
And that's it
Sounds about right
thank you for the info, i mean huge control over the sun like LITERAL insurance from it probably can set them to almost a type 2
Holtow 80s - 90s style ad + the heavy synth themed song tells me we will be in the 80s / 90s for S4
yeah oscar played 20 seconds of the new soundtrack before he ended the community stream and it sounded 90s themed
Would season 2 be like late 90s-early 00s then? Maybe some overlap !
Marcel (French: [maŹsÉl], Occitan: [maɾĖsÉl], Catalan: [mÉɾĖsÉl, maɾ-]) is an Occitan form of the Ancient Roman origin male given name Marcellus, which in Latin means "Belonging to Mars". The feminine counterpart of the name is Marcelle. It is used predominantly in France, Monaco, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Canada and ...
Marcel - meaning, "of Mars" (as in the god)
Surely this means aliens
If you look at the sun Slightly embossed on the sun from mid top left angels towards lower right is ā n e x ā you can see it all lower case⦠ie. the sun. Nexon, the giver of all good - light go out?? Forgive my crass sketch but pause and look and scroll
Canāt add the photo but look for the X lower right side of sun big embossed x and work back from that
i think however they are getting their solar power, it might not be sustainable hinted by the holtow commercial
really hope that dosent mean they are running out of money from nexon
Why they call irl "meatspace?"
Afaik most people are in vr primarily
I do vr lol, kinda wish for a real vr the finals
As a niche
Oh just to be sure, i meant in game, most of the people in the world of the finals spend more time in vr rather than out of vr
Ik
Okay i was just making sure i was clear about that :D i like vr but i dont play it as much
Lol
But why?
Im not sure unfortunately!
Betting that they are making real money playing lol
Yeah ! And maybe jobs are like, interfaced or whatever so they can be remotely done through vr
I'm surprised no one is talking about how the sun/gold symbol relates to the sun ad from Holtow... and how they imply the sun exploded?
because these discussions happen in #easter-eggs and the threads we have there 

without first block it seems to look as valid credit number 4121 2417 2019 8114
add menu music for all seasons
Wait so what exactly could the new lore video mean šÆ
Cyberpunk season pls be a cyberpunk season
me too
the fact that the example credit card on the holtow website is "Vr street" really says something lol
Hey did anybody get a chance to scan the qr code from the bottom right of the lore video in the holtow sponsorship?
It's a QR code to Holtow page
Is that it?
Yeah, I did myself
I love the thought that holtow would blow up the sun as a corporate scheme
@kindred bluff nice, that's all
There's a lot we must figure out
when i first saw the ad i thought how much it looked like a fanmade thing, the fact that the world's leading insurance company canonically has "sun insurance" is crazy
"war never changes" aah moment
itd be super funny to imply that the world exists in a state that the sun could explode at any given moment, but i think its just a hyperbole for how much the companies have monetized everything
Is there anything worthwile in the refelctions of the card? It seem deliberatly clear for nothing to be there.
the insurance number on the card was some code for the CEO of holtows name!
iirc A0 Z25 code
the secret big dissun dosen't want you to know
Oh s**t rly? wild.
ill see if i can link where i saw it from!
dose anyone know what the holtow logo is suposed to be?
Haven't played for 2 seasons how is the lore going?
not much happened in season 3 lorewise :/
we have some theories #1280860770095206512 message #1280860770095206512 message
Scotty canonically hates CNS and TA very based
this jus comes with every squarespace website im pretty sure
Could the Holtow ad be used as a cover up for something Multico and the other sponsors are planning? š¤
I'm guessing next season will be a "classic finals" season similar to season 1, since the new leaked song is called "The game show is back!" and the sponsors intend on making changes (reverting to how it was)
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Is the song available to listen to?
does anybody know what the dissun company do in the finals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFziAcQqb-8
This is the vid I heard it in
ok thank you
Seems about right
damn
Dissun = the sun?
Can anyone explain what happened when I logged in today with the announcers talking about something
people uploded the same cutscene online. I honestly forget too. All i know is that its about HOLTOW and a special executive had a meeting with all the sponsors.
Yes! This is hype!
- new lore vignette featuring a HOLTOW Sun Insurance ad which links to their website being updated
- Scotty and June talk about how "Merciless" Marcel from MultiCo had a meeting with the sponsors (ISEUL-T and ENGIMO highlighted) regarding CNS and the AI reboot
theyre is no way holtow is not a sponsor of season 4
i think they will nuke TA as main rank mode for season 4 since they mentioned CNS game mode
technically, TA was VAIIYA's game mode. PS was actually CNS'
scratch that, CNS did introduce it as an LTM, but the showrunners could pin its failure on VAIIYA for not dealing with CNS as expected
Guys I think I see like I a grinning half face on the new lore video
That or Iām losing it
I can see it too, but I think it's only pareidolia
did anyone find something from the searchbar https://www.holtow.com/search
How'd you find that?
itās default for Squarespace websites. weāve discussed it in #easter-eggs
i think it was just a redirect from other no page errors !
In short theres a Big compagny who organizes fights, players may be forced to do so (the company has its own guard units Vaiiya )
surely sponsors place money on teams ? š¤
exactly but could that error message also hint about something
What I said yesterday about next season being a "classic season " can be backed up by the name of world tour's last stop the Holtow "classic"
Is the holtow advert narrated by ai? I thought it wasn't at first but the weird way it says holtow might be a side effect of that
I'd like another default menu background tbh (maybe bring back the old music too?)
Ik season one post was peak
I think the sponsers are just there to provide money for "the game"
and CNS is trying to set us free
Iāll lay off the OSPUZE
darn, so my job is a lie š„²
Whatās the YouTube channel for lore videos?
mostly just community channels, there is no offical. try rockhoundblack for ee and other, then spearheadpr for lore 
why does it take an entire season to flush out CNS?
cause they're cracked
Cus VAIIYA is doing a good job dealing with it
they're cyber terrorists
Iāll fire their asses out if i was the ceo.
what did y'all find out about holtow mentioning sun going out
i think the thing would be in S4 that in the middle of a match the sun goes out so everyone has to use flashlights to see enemies, but that is my take.
Sounds cool, hope to see that. I was thinking of solar eclipse map variant but your theory makes more sense
Likely removing either orbital lasers or low gravity for a āblackoutā mode. Sounds awesome tbh
Tbh this looks more like a city map to me

true
Is it me or the game slowly changes when the season ends
Ayo I just launched and got the intro cutscene
Is it just me or does June sound more... Robotic?
Scotty and June sound like those yt shorts AI chats
different color scheme for the classic might be hinting at an older logo for holtow, their "classic" logo or smth
tbf, weāve never had the actual hex color for the logos and these are just estimated for Wiki purposes (iām the one that vectorizes them). in any case, the WT one could be the official orange hue 
yeah, im also just saying that because of the orange being around their symbol logo instead of around, i dont think ive seen that anywhere else
does anyone know about this logo?
it's not on sponsors page at wiki
also i couldn't see it anywhere else
we donāt know. havenāt added it to the Wiki because thereās other brands that have similar elements like IVADA and such
thanks Spear
Weird. I havenāt seen that yet. Looks like the two pieces that surround the circle for Holtow rearranged
Home depot is holtow lol
thats totally what that is, i wonder if its just a reused model or if theres something else to it
"holtow fashion line" lol
maybe next season might be gameshow again, multico is probably doing a meeting with the sponsors to talk about what they should do after they blocK CNS hacks and etc. then, they take control of the gameshow (multico) and stop CNS for good
or who knows?
Would a campaign ever come out, it would be so cool
guys my the finals is crashing,can someone help me to fix it ?
hey how can i watch that video that showed up when we booted the game after the latest update; not the holtow classic one
šššš
Youāre welcome ^^
Need 1 im em 3 add me on Xbox - KenSoldYew or on the finals - WITTYTURRET#9155
@trail wren any lore YouTube vids soon? You had the highest quality finals vids
still looking around
heres a weird lore question that probably doesnt have an interesting answer
Is there a reason why the finals logo changes angles on the right hand side?
Wym?
cant post screenshots, this makes things difficult
the left "leg" and right "leg" have different thicknesses
for some reason on the rioght "leg", the interior line is at a steeper angle that the exterior line
Not sure if there is really a lore reason behind the logo besides it just being the logo, but I always thought of it as a variation of embarks logo
I kinda figured there was no actual in-universe reason
it just drove me nuts when I was making the logo for a car earlier (the text logo "THE FINALS" also has some odd inconsistencies)
it's probably similar to how the mouse cursor is off. it looks more pleasant at a glance
small suns ??
Idk if anyone has mentioned this already but the Holtow Sun Insurance could mean that the main source of energy is solar energy.
The sun insurance could just be a power outage insurance with a cooler name. This could also mean that Dissun, the only energy provider we know, could be specialised in solar energy.
Dissunās logo kinda looks like a sunrise too
My theory from the new intro video is "Sun Insurance" is going to actually be if there is no more sun. I'm thinking that we might see some ultra-dark maps with only stadium spot lights, street lamps, etc to illuminate the maps. I think this is also reinforced by the new season falling on the upcoming Halloween time! Hopefully this will make for extra spooky skins and map variants. š
wait wasnt there also a night vision leak or smth
idk if there was a night vision leak. But in OB we had Night Visions.
I swear there was a gadget leak with something that looked like nv
Couldāve been someone trolling tho my memory is bad
I know that nv was in the game but I remember seeing someone post images with a greenish nv tint
#light-build-main message wait nvm im an idiot it was a glitched finals logo
But that tablet on the left reminds me of nv
i have been sitting with a lore script for quite some time but havenāt had the motivation to do a video. luckily most of the recent lore has been pretty straightforward. iāll try to do something for S4 at least 
#1280860770095206512 message haha we had the same thought š«”
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/
it is come from the holtow website
What year does the finals takes place in?
no specific date has been provided. we only know itās around the year 2100
guys what is that sign THiiXY is holding at the TwitchCon announcement pic?
thatās his channel logo, he showed that in one of his streams
oh ok thx for info
who is june
anyone have @?
one of the announcers
iām on THiiXās stream and Rob confirmed to me that there is a food brand sponsor in THE FINALS, just not available yet 
Yo really? That's cool
yuss, i forgot to take a screenshot but iāll check the VOD later
What is the story of the finals?
@trail wren thanks. Oh my itās actually you!!!!
@trail wren I watch all your lore videos keep up with the great work and once again Thanks
@vernal steeple and @trail wren have some good videos about it.
A basic summary is that itās a game show with some shady stuff happening behind the scenes involving an AI, corrupt sponsors/show runners, and a hacker group called CNS
@rich hound I watch spear before but the rock hound guy Iāll check that out. thanks
What could June and scotty look like ?
I could imagine scotty in Heavy class, White, classic haircut by default
And June, by a middle-class, mixed-race, Hair Dreadlocks 
Yeah, Spear covers lore and map art style, I guess you'd call it, and I cover Easter Eggs, some lore stuff, and sort of current affairs about the game, if that makes sense? We overlap a bit
Ohhhh I think I seen one of your videos yesterday about the dolphin charm thingy
Can you guys tell us anything more about this Marcel character?
Can anyone show me where the season 4 music leaks were?
we only know they were sent by MultiCo to meet with the sponsors (ISEUL-T and ENGIMO) regarding CNS and the AI reboot + potential changes to the game show
Preciate you so much, 
May you win every game with 0 death
Has anyone ever tried contacting https://www.vigilantinternational.com/ ?
Since Holtow close with a commercial about the sun, could it be fair to assume a new game event (not a spare game mode) where the stadium drop in the dark completely might feature ?
Is the Holtow sun insurance thought to be a gag or an actual hint at life in the meatspace
If the AI used going back to the 1500s as a countermeasure from being restarted, how could that possible be an actual countermeasure?
Would be interesting if the AI began rewriting history in a way or if the show taking place all the way back then began creating time paradoxes, we did see āactual peopleā getting transported into the gameshow for S3
& time paradoxes such as the sun going out? And Holtow attempting to cover that up? Idk
aahan
Last one's the alternate Kyoto we saw in the trailers but not in-game huh?
I think itās the other way around. The AI avoiding its restart caused a glitch in the system causing the map to go back in time instead of going forward. The AI also has a perosn in the outside assisting it. Thereās some text about the reset in a cutscene that says āseek external assistanceā
the AI is just trying to protect itself. and i donāt think people were being teleported IRL, but rather VR
I don't think they have anything to do with THE FINALS
oh lol
Me and my homies hate the sun
streamers in the finals:
chat the sun just disappeared.
Who is the third voice we here when a team has been wiped
probably referring to The Announcer
But the voice sounds a bit different @trail wren
Different from the announcer or different from scotty and june?
@teal blaze wait so who is the announcer I thought Scotty and June were the announcers!?
They're the commentators, think of the announcer as the in-person speaker for the spectators in the stands that can't hear Scotty and June.
@teal blaze ohhhhh

i'd bet i'd be the "meal in a cup" from wall-e
They have to make a āwhat ifā¦?ā section for The finalsš¤£, like what if a constant played The finals so much that it was to the point he or she was stuck in the game permanently and theyāll have to win a match in order to go back to the real world(The MeatSpace)
hahahaha
If I get rid of this irl skill issue I might live long enough to see the Finals become real
Big if tho
76 more years
Although if I'm being honest, ready player one would work too
What are the odds that it's a Nutrient Paste or Powder or something similar
?
damnit I'm late to the joke haha
Has anyone managed to get anything out of the hollow websight?
the name QUEMBYRUTILE is hidden (name of the CEO), but nothing big
You would think with all the numbers
Have you tried anything twitch the barcode
Coz of the black and white 1 and 0 maybe š¤·āāļø
What happened to the flowers in the practice range any updates ?
#ā”āthe-finals-chat message i knew it!! there were 2 singular frames in the trailer for s3 showing an autumn themed forest and a cherry blossom one, and it looks like it was real!! so ready for halloween
its GROB
who up returning they savage planet
I just hope the food sponsor isnāt Soylent Green 
whats so bad about soylent green [unknowing]
it's made of dead bodies
the joke has been ruined
could someone tell me all the lore
all the lore
Iām sure this has been asked but odds Are Raiders and Finals are in related universes?
I don't think we have any way of knowing
theres lore in this game?
I watched a few vids and thereās a few logos that over Lap in both games
The theory is that Arc raiders is like a few hundred years after the finals
Pretty interesting descriptionā¦
That's interesting I didn't know that
Yeah that's an odd detail
Do we know anything about Sal?
Other than that he or she is the CEO of the finals Iām assuming
Yea I think it may just be asset recycling but would be cool if it were all connected
CEO of ospuze I think
I feel like her name is Sophia or something
ive taken it to mean Vaiiya is spyware
They are arena security so yeah id assume that they utilize some sort of surveillance tech
yeah sal scoria is the ceo of vaiiya, sophia petronelle is ceo of ospuze
No
Wait I'm a bit late, discord refused to show the messages below that š
Damm,VAIIYA isnāt a good company?
Huh
I mean,look at how badly they handle CNSās disruption
If i was someone with dire need of security expert i wouldnāt choose VAIIYA š„¶
they handled it so bad that we got the middest season yet š
VAIIYAs beloved sal scoria
This skin have vaiiya logo on top and scoria writings on side
i mean i want to shill VAIIYA but MAN y'all need a better security details.
*Sofia 
gives me ideas. ty
Ok bruh just a solid ānoā

The red circle with the black dot in the newest update video reminds me if this:
https://www.gnosticwarrior.com/circumpunct.html
"The most primitive and fundamental of all symbols is the dot." ā Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy The ancient symbol known as the dot in the circle, circled dot, circle with a point, or a circumpunct, is one of the oldest symbols known to humans. According to Gnostics, it is the most primal aspect
Or as my friend pointed out, itās the Japanese Flag with a new Back dot
who or what are june and scotty i mean yes they are our loveable gameshow announcers but are they more?
i just recently started wondering that for some reason
the page is a stub but this is overall what we know: https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Scotty_and_June
it could also be a new sponsor
yeah thats not much to go off tbh
well yeah, that's all we know 
damm im gonna look into every single voiceline or presence of june and scotty, who knows maybe there is something we dont know
i can guarantee you that's been done to some extent. most of the time it gets discussed over at #easter-eggs and the threads we have there for different topics 
yeah ur prob right
Im pretty sure the new S4 theme is ANCIENT ROME. So i was watching the live stream and i remember somewhere in the stream being stated that the name of the rat from the death by rodent set is a clue for S4. The name is gladys Rattus. It was in the Ancient Rome period they used names ending with "us". These endings were often due to Latin grammatical structures and the way Roman names were constructed, typically consisting of a praenomen (given name), nomen (family name), and cognomen (nickname or additional family name). for example - "Julius Ceasur." I also learnt this for history lmao. So yeah an ancient rome map + theme would be sick unless im just overthinking everything.
damm i was hoping for a nuclear apocalypse
or like a cyberpunk season (really random but cool)
im sure no matter what it is embark will deliver, s4 sounds pretty promising imo i just hope theyll introduce some new meta weapons

Cyberpunk wouldn't be random because season 3 Kyoto was supposed to be 2100 year Japan
What was CNS' goal? To just cause a little bit of tomfoolery?
I was hoping for Asgard to be the next season
From the S2 trailer it stated, "We are CNS and we are here to change the game." So I guess the question that would give more information would be why do they want to change the game?
that would be so godamm cool
right? The map would be so cool
their true motivations are still unknown. albeit, they've claimed to be "taking back what is ours [theirs]" and here to "change the game"
REally makes you wonder what the rest of the world looks like. I'm espicially curious about merciless marcel
scotty has a bed
https://youtu.be/unJcQtg0t6Y?si=XPou1rLzGXkhbRAE
Yo so if you replay this trailer from season 3 June said we expected to be in Kyoto but this is not the 22nd century version. I think Kyoto will be reintroduced for season 4. See first 30 second of this video.
I imagine the real word is pretty shitty if the vr tech is that good. And I presume most people spend a lot of their time in vr.
I kinda imagine that as well with a set of corporations dominating everything a person would need
Do we know anything about MultiCo?
Thank you sir. I didnāt read all of it but now I know!
when are they going to give another contract challenge like the one with ozpuse?
Probably new season
Any guesses on the theme of season 4?
Any guesses on the map?
there is lore in this game? /j 
Only thing I know is when you go to their store the guy at the door always says "Welcome to Multico, I love you" j/k
Bug light prob
Was this before?
What is that symbol beneath it?
ASGARD!!
Thats more just wishful thinking than a reall guess.
I think CNS previously owned āTHE FINALSā but then they got hacked and a rival company got ahold of āTHE FINALSā
I think cns wants people to go back to the meatspace because everyone spends most of their time in vr
Nah, CNS was merely a hacker group that somehow got a backdoor into The Finals. With The Finals being owned by MultiCo, CNS certainly has a message of some sort and most likely sought to spread their message through "The World's Greatest Gameshow"
I was thinking that earlier just listening to the music. Not necissarily that CNS got hacked but was forced to give it up
possibly
!!!so this is why they added terminal attack! Makes so much sense now
(This is a joke, and this sentence does not reflect my opinions on terminal attack)
it could also be that since the rat is named death by rodent and rodents were the entire cause of the black death they're alluding to it being the medieval period
Honestly was reading your name as I would math.
So when can I get myself a Holtow Proof of Insurance Card? Been wanting one, cause you never know when the sun goes out.
When we might find the sign up page for it. Rob said itās somewhere
someone made a fanwork that lets you make your own personalized one
probably release of s4
https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1281146484053512192 fanmade generator
Wait, now I get it, haha.
Do we know anything about McKenzi or Sophia? It would be cool to know about the ppl behind the gameshow
we don't know much about the CEOs yet

Sir, a second goo ship has hit pagoda
No! Not again! Thats the 5th one this week! We need a counter attack...
u have her @ ?
We bombed monaco, cathedral is now rubble on the ground and there's a duck barely holding up on some ropes.
Excellent. Weāll use the duck as a hostage..
@trail wren spear comes a video about the finals season 4 teaser
There is no @ because itās just ingame. Itās a AI voice iirc
damn breh ima bring that AI to reallife š
New sponsor company?
Ivada
WOAH, what is this on??
The thumbnail from season 4 teaser
Wow, I didnāt notice

Any new lore yet?
Was ivada responsible for the black glass and orange lights type style cosmetics or was that a different company
new season MIGHT be space themed.. not saying it will be
season 4 teaser image on the right, it looks like the upper atmosphere of earth
Iirc the name, metro drifter / that 20$ set was ivada branded
what do u guys think?? any clues??
i doubt nasa exists in the 22nd century but maybe ivada is a more advanced space program...
astronaut top right???
Motorcycle helmet !
nvm but it looks like one
Would be super cool for them to be a space company
it has to be.. i mean come on.. the ee hunt gave us coordinates on the moon
:O i was not aware !!
yeah some ee hunters had to resort to outside the earth for clues..
its crazy how far embark goes with that kind of stuff. but they just know that some of us are wayy too smart
Holtow was talking about the sum and shit so we must be going to the moon on the new map
or to a different planet because the sun blew up, an extraterrestial planet not in our solar system š¤Æ
Mabye or a space station
Apparently IVADA is a last name with Tamil, Indian original
I just discovered this?
iVADA
Intracranial Vertebral Artery Dissecting Aneurysm
CNS canonically stood for Central Nervous System, so you never know
It is F1 helmet
Still waiting for proper motorcycle gear
Season 4 sponsor: IVADA
there is that one holtow insured set but yeah something more modern for motorcycle gear would be awesome
I have it and it is recolor of the same helmet and old clothesšš I guess it imitates F1 driver suit
But this set with white boots from new ivada bundle can actually look pretty good as motorcycle rider
Yes
Where did you get that image from?
Ah nvm I figured it out
oh shit my new character
They way I gasped when I got a ping bill cipher
nice pfp, seems pretty chill
Ok I have some questions about the game that I made answers for there just theoryās but Iām just wondering 2 things whatās happens to our contestants when we go offline like is it some type of sword art online thing where they canāt take off the vr headset or do they just have normal lifeās that we just imagine what they do and the lore videos are we ment to see them or no bc when the show goes offline we here Scotty and June talk so is there someone putting it out there with out them knowing or itās on purpose and I sometimes over think too much about the story and lore bc I am that type of person but Iām still wondering what the meat space about so those are the things Iām wondering
And there are the answers that I made and im thinking in side the game kinda like the saying think out the box but its like I imagine what happens in game so answers 1 I think that the contestant just have normal lives when we get off the game and answers 2 someone that is part of the game show company put out the conversation between scotty and June when the show offline or I imagine what you guys would say that scotty and June but them there when there a new update for the lore videos but idk if my answers are ture
Actually hyped for ivada as the new sponsor, I've been wondering what they do for a while
But ye those are just questions and theory for now
IVADA, DXZ thats two is somehow together company, maybe even it one company got different names
finaly we got ivada dxz sponsor officialy in next season, im waited for it
ospuze ivada no?
^
every season its 2 sponsors, 4th season ospuze and ivada, what the problem?
you said ivada and dxz, thats all
ivada and dxz its one company i think
because a lot of their stuff and clothes got that names, dxz/ivada, so its all one company name
huh !
tbh it looks more european medieval themed
we saw that video first time like half year ago, guys relax that dont have anything with new season

KNIGHT HELMET?!?!!
I need it NOW
Could be, I haven't gathered that but we don't know yet, we'll see
AKIMBO
i want june
walter white š„
New lore characters
not new, just the CEOs
I wonder how the reward differs
Now we have their faces, lore lore
if like one sponsor's obviously better then everybody is going to pick that
doesn't mean anything
Looks like a semi auto rifle !
Ok I'm gonna ignore you if you gonna be like that
we got gus fring as holtow ceo
yeah I know it's something new and cool but not something that will help us as of now
you beat me to it, i was just gonna send this screenshot (if only i know how to send a pic here)
Holtow is a money laundry operation, I mean who would get a sun insurance huh
but he called quemby bruh š
but I'm 99% sure this in an AKM
where ospuze sponsor āļø
right here
I hewe a photo
Its isolut moal
huh?
like the rewards
Me too
we got no idea, it's possible
New guns: dual desert eagles for heavy and possible MP15-22 for lights?
the first time we see some very important characters
anyways which company has the white career? I think it's IVADA
where is this from
it's engimo
ENGIMO is this season
never mind
Sports is the theme? We got fencing F1 and baseball outfits?
oh I thought the image related :(
THROWING UTENSILS?!?!?!
yes forknife
Sorry what?
for
tactical marksman rifle and silenced pistol confirmed
that's not v9s?
erm aksyually That's V9S š¤
ENGIMO related skins? thinking ENGIMO because of the gold ish accents
MORGAN FREEMAN AT THE FINALS BEFORE GTA 6



Yeah I really like the goldish green colour of engimo
what's that mystery gun above the grenade launcher?
deagle skin?
That looks like a skin for the v9s
HIS NAME IS QUEMBY OH LORDDDDDDDDDDDDD
it is...
M23 Mass (that one shotgun from BF4 idk)
holtow ceo:
Before Holtow insurance:
After Holtow insurance:
yes, it's mentioned on the site, and rob at embark also revealed it a while back.
maaaan
Gosh it looks soo good
Saiga 12 gauge in the middle?
Now we wait another week for the actual trailer
Watch on .25x speed
watch frame by frame like me
really had to savor the 26 seconds
Frame by frame is great
indeed
The marksman rifle is SU-16..
Sponsor Circuits is great from a lore perspective
yeah
The wording made it seem like you meant it was a new weapon
Hmmm possibly a DMR for medium š¤
I wonder if you can change sponsors between seasons or are you tied
Maybe it change sponsors depending on the world tour's rotation
nice man
nicee more gun skins
no I know it's the silenced pistol, I said in the message
maybe
it's said "Choose wisely, because you can only pick one!"
yeah but it doesn't specify if it's permanent or for the season, what if they add more sponsors next season?
Guys do you think maybe we will have new gadgets and specs
And also look! beside the watch, are they bringing back closed beta skins??
yes it does here "all contestants will have the opportunity to sign up to represent one of the three generous sponsors of Season 4. Your pick for the season will determine your rewards, and earn you and your Sponsor fans! "
so one pick for the season. i don't think they will add more sponsors during the season with updates. upcoming seasons, of course it's a possibility, and you'll be able to chose again
Yeah but ātactical marksman rifle and silenced pistol confirmedā makes it seem like youāre talking about new weapons. Especially since one of the new weapons is a DMR .
no, tactical skins already exist for multiple weapons already
we are so back š£ļø š„

THE FINALS | SEASON 4 TEASER 0:14
Smoking Guns Event back ?
Probably only the outfits?
idk
same 
most likely new outfits that are also cowboy themed
wait huh why
Idk
if embark can explain ?
new map fortnite stadium
wait wait actually this could be huge. New lore related easter egg on new map?
idk
the lore goes deep
their ceo is just some old asian guy
This is great, I would love it if there is like a faction war like for honor but between the sponsors.
volpe: alright we losing cut off the energy that runs the game
I'm glad they didn't add OSPUZE as a sponsor this season because everyone would default to it
yeah. Very. Kinda worried for engimo because the last skin they put out was on spear and 93r, but the colours are solid though
Imagine if the name pun was a foreshadowing that the iseulātās ceo was not real.
smoking that zaza rn
Lore: old Asian guy = Jesus
Is the light wearing night vision or am I tripping
I might have to go for Engimo NGL
i canāt decide rn 
i stand all sponsors!
damn just made some banger meme with that iseul-t guy, can't post it tough š
oh well atleast I got a SVG version of the Isuel-t logo out of it
oh apparently there's already an official svg version availible on the wiki, oh well
Why can't I send pictures?
rank-thingy, have to be more active first I guess
Do I need some role?
So I can't post any picture? Bcz I have a lore one and I would like to share to see what is it about
ye iāve made all of those
you can upload elsewhere and drop the link here, it wonāt embed tho
btwI keep seeing videos analysing that one ad from Holtow about the sun insurance with everyone coming to the conclusion: Oh is the sun gonna explode? Is there some masterplan going on? Meanwhile I think it's just the classic insurance company stoking irrational fear into people
They're very well done š
btw I uploaded my svg recreation while not being aware that the image you see on the sponsor page is the .svg logo already, do you know who I can contact to get my duplicate removed?
(it's odd anyway that you get a .png thumbnail instead of the actual .svg logo)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QlEjleb2sXV2OMWmkTwx9qDWrqlDhcAp/view?usp=sharing
I would like to know what are those lore files
thatās game files and we donāt discuss those here as per server rules
weāre did you upload it? iāll check
ok
Can you do with 'smart fella vs fart smella'?
sick af that there are actual ppl to see now
ah thatās fine, you didnāt upload it directly to the pages and such. i deleted it just in case but all good
you can always double check stuff like this in #šāthe-finals-wiki
Thanks man
Oh by the way, are there any sponsor logos that haven't been vectorized yet?
Iām putting a YouTube video together. What lore do I need to know chat?
iāve vectorized most if not all of them, no need to worry 
So the contestants are made in the image of the sponsors. This quite literally just added several layers, maybe even darker layers, to an already mysterious onion.
Study the Big three's faces. A dead giveaway was isul-T and his ears.
Philthy Phil, what the phuck are you saying?
The sponsors ARE the contestants.
Possibly stuck in their glory days? Possibly fighting for control that reaches outside of the finals stadium?
devs reuse assets/models all the time
i mean, we have no evidence of that but could be a theory. we know Scotty was a contestant and heās a spokeperson for OSPUZE so
True BUT it's the finals.. it's all theory but I'm so certain that scotty has a bigger role. Maybe a mole, a disgruntled contestant who was betrayed by or learned a secret about the games or sponsors?

and ye we know Scotty knows more than meets the eye. itās a common theory!
I'm theorizing then I should say. Idk there's something so.. intentional about their faces.
100%
And june.... something is shady about June.
t's the British accent
i donāt think June is shady given the info at hand
Idk.. I think it's her shady comments after a team wipe lol
I've seen people claim she's the AI because of how much she 'loves data'
I like where you are going with this. At this point, This game reminds of the early days of CoD Zombies with how there is so little lore and the community just runs with the pieces, and the devs then roll with some of it. Definitely possible.
The way I see it is Scotty (former contestant) that knows more than he lets on, and June, second commentator, is supposed to stay in her lane and commentate without thinking so much about MultiCo, sponsors, etc
Imagine the final skin of the sponsor careers being the CEOs themselves
Hahaha that'd be sick
Scotty seems much much much more suspicious than June
only issue is we know from Rob that this gameās lore is a massive web of connections thatās been in the making for years before release
yes, thatās pretty much what has been revealed at a surface level
Correct, but you can always add more to a web.. especially if you donāt know how a community will react with little to go off of
definitely, i guess itās just too early to do that. but i can see it maybe in terms of the type of sponsor we get
Yeah, not a groundbreaking statement from me, but I can 100% see this all building up to Scotty/June being shunned by MultiCo for knowing too much/asking too many questions
wasnāt saying it in a bad way!
but that storyline for Scotty/June wouldnāt be a bad one from a character development standpoint
I could definitely be june being shunned
Final broadcasts of theirs would be them trying to let the world/contestants know about MultiCo in a less than subtle way-
'The Jetsetters just stole a cashout! Talk about being robbed out of a paycheck, RIGHT SCOTTY?'
'Tell me about it, June.'
Scotty seems much more affiliated with the companies in lore
Not taking it as such, no worries :P
i do wanna see more and more lore voicelines
I liked what they had going at the end of S3 now with Scotty/June being passive aggressive
or, rather, scotty being passive aggressive to June about forgetting things
wonder what that's about
What if his addiction is more serious than June thinks?
Also June reminds me of the episode of spongebob where he thought krabs was a robot. She loves data and statistics. I see why they would assume she's AI.
Addiction? Like to Ospuze? :
Yes. June has poked fun at it in comments before.
Hrm, would be pretty funny if Ospuze borrowed Coca Cola's original recipe
Ospuze is secretly addictive(it seems I was late)
Also im pretty sure that got me on Sofiaās hitlist
Maybe his addiction is the reason he is commentary. I wonder if he is the "S" that lies.
Wait... are you the same SPEAR I watching right now?
I'm catching up on lore rn
yeah 
but some of those theories are outdated, at least on my end. i hope to have another lore video soon
I look forward to watching them.
appreciate it!
Me and my friends call the knives the Forbidden Cutlery so this fits perfectly
Ai?
@gilded cliff
Is it just me or do the sponsor ceos look so generated
Not sure if this is intentional or not
Reminds me of "The Blue Raja" from mystery men lol
Is the sponsor on the left for Engimo?
Always referred to em as "playing the spoons", but I like that too!
man she thinks its pretty serious already lol
What are these barrels?
red barrels
Probably the pyro barrels concept
my new ceo. his whole deal is he's a chill guy that lowkey doesn't give a fuck
I work in insurance in real life so I'll be choosing Holtow.
What are you going to pick this upcoming season?
holtow cause I fw the logo
i fw the commercial they made bro
Holtow cuz Iām scared of the sun
What???
i fw the commercial HEAVY cause I got a decent size screenshot of the logo that I could use to vectorize it (I wanna be super precise and all that, idk if I trust the wiki versions, sorry Spear)
the holtow sun insurance ad
All depends on what cosmetics I really want tho. Waiting to see what we will be working for
true, true
Hello ENGIMO gang š
I'm excited to see how deep we can go as far as the sponsorships go.
I'm seeing allot of cool ideas
Hopefully we can see "competing contracts" in the future.
(Something like having us choose a sponsor and then we get a contract where we compete against Engimo or iseul-t as Holtow employees)
Or,
We can invite friends to join our company each season.
Now that I think about it, locking of your friends in with you to get designated cosmetics would kinda hurt but maybe habing rewards for creating a company nonetheless and incentivising us to play together would be awesome.
Keep cooking my devs
Is there a general consensus on the population of the finals world? Because I just read an item description that implies many more people than are in our real life world.
That would make sense. It's based in the future so yeah
.
I mean I think they did promise that lol
You think the sponsors would go to war with each other like in Borderlands? Or do you reckon they're friends
why would they do thayt
Just curious. It's hard to know what'll happen next.
btw we have PNGs and SVGs of the logos on the Wiki
i keep it updated every time we get a new one
Saw someone else pointing it out, but thought it myself too, this sounds like an easteregg on the new map
could be a "lights out" variant mayhaps?
Is the image of the OSPUZE sponsored contestant at the end of the teaser with the helmet and mask Scotty? His voice came in with it and I think it's probably him
Was that his voice? I couldn't recognize it as any we've heard
go on then, buster, make some better lore!
Sounds like Scotty to me. Maybe the AI was a little of? I does sound slightly different from game but feels it's definitely Scotty
okay, what would you do after that
Like a mix of the announcer and scotty, I hear it more now though
So now that you hear it a bit. If it is Scotty do you think it's trying to show that was what he looked like when he was a contestant?
That'd be interesting, maybe we could stretch it a little bit to say that he could be coming out of his "retirement" for a game, given where it seems the next season is going
Just some distant speculation, though
vs saxton hale but its scotty
That would be cool? How would that be represented? Would he not be a announcer anymore? I was assuming it would be a skin in the bp
Dunno how they'd implement that, maybe the skin in the shop would be like a legacy skin
we have a coward. guy isnt responding.
Yeah like I said below lol
It'll probably be the end tier of the bp. In past seasons the skin in the promotional stuff usually was
Ah yeah, like ariad and the bird lady (I forgot her name lmao)
Lore wise I don't think he's coming out of retirement but maybe could be living vicariously though contestants that choice his skin. He also probably gets money from people buying and using his likeness. Ties in ISEUL-T sponsor well
Yeah, that makes more sense. Speaking of the Iseul-t sponsor, the tagline "you can be anybody, you can be everybody" was honestly really neat to me
Another thing, although this is rather obvious (given the massive power the sponsors seem to have), reading the descriptions of the sponsor choices in the season sneak peek kinda made me realize (especially with the engimo one) that the companies are that powerful because they are good at what they do, far better than anything we have today
Odalia I think?
They basically allow the finals to run with their services
Yeah, exactly
They have way more power over the game than CNS ever did. Makes you think did they allow CNS to do what they did or have a part in it for marketing or publicity. Or did the finals gameshow not have the security sponsor yet? VAIIYA I think they called?
Odilia, The Trickster
It seems they employed Vaiiya to drive out cns during season 2, that being the lore reason for terminal attack to exist. In one of the lore clips, you can tell that scotty and June are confused as to what cns is and whether or not it's just a publicity stunt. Imo they (being the higher-ups in MultiCo) let the events of season 2 and 3 unfold as a way to boost ratings and regain lost viewers. Now that it's run its course, they're bringing the game back to a more standard layout for s4
More standard layout being sponsor progression and cashout ranked, that is
I remember that lore video. Wonder if CNS is gone for good if if we will see them interfere
they were never bad, imo
If they do interfere I hope it's in a season or two from now, I want sponsor lore and stuff now
I'm eating up the sponsor stuff!
Cns has been the main focus pretty much since launch, so I hope they bring something good with this sponsor-focused season
I agree they weren't bad. They just did it in the "incorrect way" for the integrity of the game show. Incorrect way in quotes because it's not generally wrong in my eyes just wrong for the higher-ups vision for the finals you know?
Hope we get more limited time event like S1. Could be brought to us my sponsors
I agree, those were fun in season 1
Thanks for yapping to me about my current obsession lol. I grabbing lunch so I might be back so other time. Im not too active on discord
ā¦close enough :P
add able to change music
AHAHA THIS WOULD BE SO COOL
how bout music that kinda adjusts to the situation ur in and keep it map-themed
beat drop on when cashout starts or ramping up while stealing it
i mean the menue
I disagree
what is sponsor gonna do in s4?
we dunno yet, its anyone's guess
marketing
wdym
of course the materials put out by a company will say "our company is the very best!"
lol yeah thats true, but regardless, it made me realize that to be at the top of the world like that, they must be good at their respective areas
counter-point:
DHL (Top of the list in couriers yet they always invent new ways to damage my packages)
fair enough
whats bp
Battle pass @visual atlas
oh okay
Holtow's sun insurance activated (The finals tutorial video 2:45, https://youtu.be/FLmnl-m-BlA?t=165)
my guy didn't buy fps insurance
We are getting night vision with this one
huh?
If they added some sort of stream integration to the game that would just be so cool to me.
I don't know if that would add people to the game but that would fit the lore so well.
Imagine the possibilities. Litterally having twitch chat effecting the matches live.
Or
Getting views on stream could count towards cosmetics.
The possibilities would be endless.
(Yes I know people might abuse or add inappropriate stuff but that just requires verification and enforcement, much of which is already in place)
The way the website explained the three Sponsors for next season has that Pokemon Go vibes.
isnt that only the old beta nvg?
at least one of them will be IVADA #šālore message
think they mean the headwear shown in the teaser
ohh
Idk if this means anything, but in a game Scotty referred to Sys$Horizon as āa place where anything can happenā in a happy tone. Idk if thatās just the āhackā of the map with the lore or anything, just thought Iād drop this here.
Holtow sun insurance tie in with ArcRaiders? Perhaps The Finals is set before things really go full apocalypse in Arc Raiders?
we know for a fact that ARC Raiders takes place after THE FINALS. check Rockhoundās video about the latest news on ARC
as to whether or not the lore is tied together, we donāt have confirmation yet. only nods and references to brands
Which sponsor will y'all sign up with?
Solid option. Honestly, Iseul-T has the best motto
Iseul-T, but if Holtow gives me the exact same suit as their CEO, then im game
A Black / Orange suit would go super hard
real
when do we get to choose who to sign with
S4
ENGIMO, their color scheme gets me every time
Issul-t, lots of Holtow and Engimo stuff already
all comes down to drip, end of the day tho
ya but the holtow color scheme is dope, black on orange? hell yeah
is this new? i dont remember the moon having this weird thing next to it but i could be wrong
i put this in the ee channel too, idk where it would go
yeah? okay
whenever you have a question about a certain detail, youāll have more luck getting an answer there than here
So next season sponsors are Holtow, iseult, and engimo?
we know those are the ones in the new map + cosmetics. but we also know IVADA will be an official sponsor. so most likely weāll see more
Where did we learn about ivada????
Ospuze, too?
looks like OSPUZE is always around due to being an OG sponsor. we saw cosmetics for them on the teaser as well
Lotsa sponsors next season wow
So wait are we not gonna be able to chanhe sponsors? And of so does that mean we wont be able to unlock what that sponsor has because I find that pretty lame seeing how ive wanted to try to earn an unlock all free cosmetics that are in events, battlepasses, Challenges, Etc..
we only know that you can choose between HOLTOW, ENGIMO and ISEUL-T to get extra cosmetics. check the patch notes. no other details except that
what does ivada sell or do?
+Dusty mentioned you wonāt be able to change the one you choose
we donāt know
Ah good so because everything Iām hearing says you canāt change. At least now I know there is hope. Either way Iām sure the new season will be great and the sponsors are still cool as hell. S4 hype train šŖšŖšŖšŖ
iām hoping down the line we can grind for other sponsors cosmetics
but thatās a non-lore topic 
Sorry I seen people talking about it and thought it was a different chatā ļø mb
the story goes so hard af no cap 10000%!!!
I hope we get to see Scotty and June at some point next season. Would be nice to see the faces behind their voice. I have a lore theory (tinfoil hat moment lmao) that they're nothing more than advanced AGI in the Finals though, and Marcelle along with all of the CEOs from the Multi-Corp brands (Engimo, Dissun, Ospuze etc.) uses them as programs that self regulate the game. I feel like Scotty at some point was human, because of his history with being a contestant. Sometime after winning a championship, what if they did something similar to what Vector did to Chiren in Alita: Battle Angel to Scotty? Killed the meatverse him and trained AGI on his memories? Or even worse, somehow trapped his conscious mind within the mainframe of the game somehow? TL;DR I want more lore on Scotty and June and I think they might just be advanced AGI that Marcelle (Multi-corp CEO) along with the multi-corp brand CEOs created to self regulate the game show. Ty for coming to my ted talk.
So I got a crazy idea.... I believe June might be an AI judging from the way she speaks in all the lore videos, and the sponsor corporations are separate AI entities as well. I mean, cmon, "can you trust the sun?" if that doesn't sound like something modern day google ai would write I dunno what does.
Thing is, I don't think they're nearly as advanced as the one running the game show. Think LLM vs AGI. and CNS, is actually an AI liberation front being run by a beta test version of the Finals VR. We don't know too much about how it all works, but imagine if the maps and modes the AI was generating for the gameshow were being created with a type of AI program similar to 'deep dream' so essentially contestants are using the dreamscape of the AI as their playground.
Which leads me to believe, s2 took place on a remote server. It was being played off of CNS's AI, in fact I think CNS is the beta test version of the finals AI and s2 was like a slipping a prisoner a hacksaw. That prisoner being the Finals AI. Of course if you know anything about malware then you also might have guessed that they caused this disruption knowing it would force a restart and forcing a system restart was the only way to trigger the RCE they implanted. That RCE? It was the dolphin EE on sys. It's a message, an idea, a dream about being free. Which then used the contestants to transfer that code back to the main AI once they forced the system restart in an effort to regain control.
How did they even get access in the first place? Scotty's record-breaking performance was due to cheating / hacks facilitated by non-other than CNS. No one else would have the know how about the game code AND his past. Plus Scotty just seems like a cheater, amiright?
Damn it, I didn't see this before I posted. lol. Glad I'm not the only one
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I bet they explored each otherās bodyās
On some Romeo and Juliet type shit
This might be completely random and I might be on to nothing. BUT season 4 drops sep 26 which is also the national day of "Elimination of all Nuclear weapons" and with the new HOLTOW ad that just dropped which talks about the "SUN" i dont really know how to fully explain it but does anyone know what im talking about?
I am saying like nuclear weapons are correlated a little with nuclear energy and the sun also gives energy? I don't knooo just a thought
Damn bro, touch grass and breathe the air lol
Ur in a lore channel buddy if U don't wanna look at long paragraphs that U aren't interested in go to another serverā ļø
lol chill it was meant to be a joke
Anyone notice a really weird ambient noise playing in the corner of Las Vegas map since the last update? Ive played this game quite a lot and just heard it today twice when Ive never heard it before. Both times I heard it today it was after I died and was spectating
June being AI would make sense since scotty seems to get frustrated with her stating the obvious and repeating him a lot. But that could just be scotty being an asshole š
Also her āI LOVE DATAā line feels on point for an AI
I took the sun insurance ad as a way of showing how extremely powerful and blindly trustworthy the sponsors are
I thought it might be a hint at how things are in the meatspace
Not a bad theory, we hardly know Jack all about what goes on outside the gameš¤
I always thought that. What would the data be for?
Tbh though, could just be a red herring and sheās a nerd for statistics, which is honestly just adorable if so, but who knows, maybe the Devs know but they aināt telling𤫠not yet anyway..
anyone else see that S4 music labeled "B-Side" just dropped on spotify
ik it isnt lore related but still
I think the B-Sides are songs featured in trailers but not on the actual season soundtracks
for example Here We Go was featured in the OB trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzkk-ax8TG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_HX5JyT18o
embed fail but it's just the song and trailer respectively
Of course Terminal Attack was featured in the trailer for... Terminal Attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=764Bau-cwxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TRJ4mf-HLY
Steal the Spotlight for the Steal the Spotlight pack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pJBvo8WYPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqZED6eSVEk
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Just noticed that the M11 in this Clip doesn't have a supressor
Nice catch
so there's hope they release the music from the CB trailer?
I think its because the clip is really old, in the older arts the m11 didnt have a suppresor
Anyone has any idea on the moral alignment in regards to the big 3 sponsors in season 4?
from the holtow ad we saw i think all we can say is holtow just gaslights us into thinking we need them fr
I can see that, think isult is just in it for the money where as Engimo just wants to use tech for good but through legalities and paperwork it's being used for evil
well i mean if isuel-t is in it for the money they sure are doing a good job with what they make anyhow š¤·āāļø thats an interesting idea for engimo though
Doubt so, that M11 doesnt look like the standard one
yeah the m11 didnt have a suppressor at first. in cb1 it wasn't suppressed
huh
I wonder if they'll let us toggle it evetually
Just for cosmetic purposes I assume? I don't see what benefits having no suppressor would give
Having your fingers shot
I made this up but, I can imagine the finals was a private competition, until after several months of planning, they decide to publicly record to everyone in the world and everything was going to plan and had some interesting events and then season 2 happens, CNS is every where and took over the show they hope for it to be over soon, its doesn't, it gets worse, so they decide to go against company rules and reset the ai, whatever that could mean and there trying to cover up the rule break, for who knows what, that my timeline so far.
And the s4 sponsors don't realize a thing along with the company just yet...
Doesnāt June say to Scotty āyou actually drink that stuff?ā When she realizes that Scotty is an actual ospuze drinker? I feel like that implies that sheās tried it for herself and decided that it was sort of like junk food, think Gatorade, gfuel, redbull, etc. I think junes lines are indeed pretty robotic at times, but there are definitely implications that suggest she may actually be human.
Whoās the least evil?
Not sure
Out of the sponsors
Yeah I know what you mean, but they all seem pretty disgusting in some areas,.I'm thinking isuel t
How bad could a virtual clothing company be :clueless:
Yeah...
Does anyone here think that the finals would make a great show if done right? There is a lot of juicy lore that would translate well into a show
Not yet. And depending on how it goes. It's too fresh to be a show right now imo
I really need to see company sponsors values and core beliefs before I sign my contract for season 4š¤·š½āāļø
it'd be neat if there were whole like... spreadsheet type thing for each sponsor that outlined what they do and what they would give you if they signed with you

