The Finals Update 8.9.0 introduces a new Limited Time Mode titled Blast Off Sour Core, offering fast aerial combat with low gravity, jump pads, and a focus on mid air engagements. Alongside this event, players gain access to new store items, an enhanced Private Match Spectator mode, a new starter bundle, and voice moderation testing. The update also activates seasonal XP and Fans boosts, delivers details on the upcoming retirement of the PlayStation 4 version, and supports new Twitch Drops tied to the ongoing OSPUZE event.
This patch also includes a wide array of improvements, ranging from major memory and performance optimizations to refined destruction behavior, animation fixes, map touch ups, and better social system stability. The development team has addressed numerous gameplay, UI, audio, and weapon issues, strengthened anti cheat systems, and improved the spectator experience with new controls and clearer presentation.
Full Patch Notes
Limited Time Mode Blast Off Sour Core
- New three versus three mode set in a sour apple themed area of Bernal
- Features low gravity, launch pads, CL40, Jump Pad, and Evasive Dash
- Emphasis on aerial movement and mid air combat
- Event duration extended with up to 10 free rewards available
Store Update Wild Pour West Set
- New set featuring OSPUZE themed cosmetics
- Includes Zestinator RPG and associated items
Esports Grand Major 2025
- New hype trailer released
- Event scheduled for DreamHack and Twitch
Private Match Spectator Updates
- Separate squad colors for players and spectators
- Team HUD now shows active Cashout thieves
- Round counter removed from single round modes
- Fixed controller navigation bug in private match lobby
Starter Bundle New Contestant Pack
- Bundle includes OSPUZE themed gear and 1500 Multibucks
- Available as a one time purchase
Social Voice Moderation Test
- Testing new voice moderation system
- Voice chat and moderation must be manually re enabled
- Monitoring will continue to address abusive communications
Event XP and Fans Boost Enabled
- Two hundred percent XP on Daily Contracts
- Up to one hundred fifty percent XP and Fans for gameplay
- Boost active until the end of the season under Major XP banner
PlayStation 4 Support Update
- PlayStation 4 version to be retired at the start of Season 10 on March 18 2026
- Progress stored via Embark ID and transferable to modern platforms
- Focus shifting to more advanced systems incompatible with older hardware
Twitch Drops
- New OSPUZE Sour Core themed rewards
- Earnable by watching eligible creators for four hours
Quality of Life Improvements
- Instant Replays added to Xbox Series S
- Fixed issue preventing Respawn Token use after revival in Loadout Change screen
- Major memory optimizations reducing stutters
- Smarter shader caching
- Reduced PSO memory usage
- Leaner textures and meshes
- Improved threading for lower core CPUs
- Adjusted raytraced global illumination
- Smoother replays and optimized customization screen
Content and Bug Fixes
- Animation
- Corrected Heavy body clipping when sliding
- Fixed arm sweeping while interacting with Arena Carriables
- Corrected visual distortion in Recurve Bow charging animation
- Fixed first person hand distortion when inspecting Pyro Grenade while vaulting
- Fixed looping throw animation after swapping from Recurve Bow
- Updated sprint animations for Recurve Bow and Sledgehammer
- Fixed jitter and clipping issues during Dagger attacks
- Corrected C4 snapping toward hand during throws
- Restored missing animations across various interactions
- Fixed animation distortion after Gateway use
- Fixed gadget throw animations triggering during vaulting
- Improved grenade throw windup transitions
- Reduced clipping during manual reload on ARN220 and M26 Matter
- Restored missing throwing knife visuals
- Corrected melee animation failures after gadget use
- Audio
- Added additional commentator voice lines on team wipes
- Customization
- Fixed emote holograms overriding props
- Corrected animation resets during emotes
- Improved Web Designer Pet movement
- Fixed rifle hologram on Top Billing Emote
- Corrected hand flashing during Model 1887 crouch and inspect
- Added voice modification descriptions
- Gameplay
- Improved destruction stability to reduce jitter
- Fixed strain system desyncs causing excessive breakage
- Fixed Vanishing Bomb invisibility persisting
- Fixed interaction cancellation at crouch stand transitions
- Corrected respawn token availability after revival
- Fixed incorrect team outcome in Powershift overtime
- Fixed healing emitter not activating
- Added Instant Replays support on Xbox Series S
- Optimized Instant Replay transitions
- Map Updates
- SYSHorizon voxel bridge adjustments
- Fortune Stadium Zipline orientation fix
- Kyoto grass and Jump Pad improvements and branding corrections
- Las Vegas ladder and Zipline color corrections
- Practice Range additions and Loadout overlay fix
- Performance Improvements
- Shader cache optimization reducing precompiled shaders by about twenty five percent
- PSO memory reduction by about twenty percent
- Texture and mesh optimizations
- Fixed overly blurry textures under video memory pressure
- Rebalanced raytraced global illumination
- Improved customization menu performance
- Audio system optimization
- Better threading on low core CPUs
- Private Match Improvements
- New squad color options
- Round counter removed from single round modes
- Updated spectator HUD for Cashout steals
- Fixed lost menu control in lobby navigation
- Social Improvements
- Better rich presence reliability
- Invisible friends no longer triggering online notices
- Immediate tab refresh in Social menu
- Voice settings default reset for moderation test
- Improved Discord presence sync
- Fixed party wide mute bug
- Fixed incorrect icon for Discord only Xbox friends
- Removed Steam join game visibility
- Spectator Enhancements
- Auto follow player after initial tunnel sequence
- Improved death camera transitions
- Options to hide distant names and health bars
- Option to hide all HUD elements
- Expanded team bar color coverage
- Updated keybinds for ranged health bar toggle
- Improved team view layout
- Added refined camera controls
- Fixed UI glitch persistence when switching camera modes
- Stability
- Fixed rare crash ending private lobby sessions
- UI Fixes
- Corrected loadout reordering
- Newly purchased items now equip correctly
- Clearer labels for muting settings
- Fixed negative Fans display
- Added creation confirmation dialog
- Removed outdated create contestant button
- Added sound effects to lists
- Restored missing compass in event modes
- Ranked Tournament
- Improved intro and outro archetype representation
- Windows activity bar now flashes on match start
- Team Deathmatch
- Added Match Recap to TDM
- Cashout
- Scoreboard now accounts for active Cashouts
- Corrected missing distance markers
- Fixed flickering Cashbox distance markers
- Corrected invisible Cashbox issue on respawn
- Clubs
- Fixed incorrect background themes
- Weapons
- Spear secondary attack fixed after Winch Claw interruption
- Security
- Denuvo rollout complete
- Anybrain rollout complete
- Improved device detection
- Warning against third party tools
The Finals is a free to play team based first person shooter developed by Embark Studios, presenting a virtual combat game show built around physics driven destruction and dynamic arenas based on real world locations. Its core loop emphasizes tactical freedom, environmental manipulation, and three player team engagements across Light, Medium, and Heavy builds. The game launched on December 7 2023 and is available on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S, with a later PlayStation 4 version released on December 12 2024 and full cross platform play supported.
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