The Finals

Skill Base Match Making

The Finals is a fun game all around. However, the SBMM, even though it has been changed, it is still horrid and it needs to be removed, at least from public lobbies. You have some that run cheats, such as aimbot and wall hacks in both public and ranked matches. Lobbies brake up after every match, no sense of a social aspect. Lobbies need to take together and leave it up to the player whether or not he stays or leaves to find another match.

Character Creation Lacks

Character Creation could be a lot better. Character creation consisted of quote “body type” instead of your traditional male or female. This is confusing and frustrating as man and women are not quote “type” of anything. You have a male structure and a female structure. That’s not a quote “type” Even in the animal kingdom, you have male and female. When you choose a quote “body type”, there’s no slider to adjust height, wait, facial expression, eyes, nose so on and so forth. You can choose different faces, but there’s no way to adjust facial features.

Many of the cosmetics are locked behind a pay wall such as facial hair, making it frustrating to pick and choose what you want to equip. You have a choice of three types of goatee to choose from and all three look the same, just have different colors. If you want to add a mustache, beard or a combination of both, it locked behind a pay wall. The same goes for clothing, you only get a few clothing parts to equip and you unlock other types of clothing as you level up, everything lese is locked behind a paywall. This goes also for hair style, body paint and eye shape and color.

It’s Not Pay to Win

The Finals, even though is a “Free to Play” game, it is not pay to win. You do unlock skins as you level up your weapons and gadgets. However, the majority of the cosmetics, are locked behind a paywall. Never the less, the cosmetics are nothing to be desired for. However, there are weapon camo you can unlock as you level up, but the weapon skins are nothing out of this world. There is nothing you can buy in the in-game store that will give an advantage, everything is cosmetics. You can play the game without spending one red cent vs someone who pays, say, a hundred bucks, both will accomplish the same.

No Weapon Customization

Weapons, on the other hand, lack the ability to add attachments of any kind. You only have a hand full of weapons and worst off, each weapon class is tied to a character class. For example, you can not equip an AR on a heavy or an LMG on a light class, there’s no room from creativity. It would be night to have extended mags, quicker reload speed, silencers, foregrip for recoil control and so on. I do hope this changes in the future where you can equip any type of weapon for any class.

Room for Improvement

As it stands, The Finals has room for improvements, more game modes, weapon attachments, abilities, more maps, additional options for character creation, like facial hair, blue jeans, plaid shirts, manly features. As long as theirs’s no pay to win elements, removing SBMM and woke trash, the cheating gets dealt with, quirks and bugs get fixed; All in all, The Finals is fun, fast pace and virtually the entire environment, with limitations, are destructible. You can bring down an entire building and it so much fun.

Lack of Game Modes

The Finals is beautiful, the maps are big, it’s fast pace, the environment, for the most part, is destructible and watching a building come down is fun and funny when it come down on your opponents. but yet, it lacks in game modes like Team Death Match, Domination King of the Hill or whatever other modes the developers can come up with. Right now you just playing the same mode over and over. It’s fun for a while but it gets boring with no other modes to choose from. In all honesty, the game can use more game mode types. The Finals has so much room for improvement and creativity that it would be a shame not to capitalize on it. With the 1.5.0 update, it just brings a solo mode. The worst part, it’s a limited game mode. Lets see if it becomes permanent over time.

Note: If by for any reason THE FINALS adds over all improvements and the game improves over all, then I’ll change the score rating.

(The above is based on my opinion and overall experience with the game.)

UPDATE … April 7, 2025

Jumping Back In
I decided to jump back into The Finals and to be honest, two of my favorite modes is TDM and Power Shift. Quick Cash is fun as well. It would be nice to have small to medium size maps, even if they used the current maps and cut sections to make smaller maps. As far as additional games modes, I would love to see what THE FINALS could do with modes like Domination, HardPoint and Capture the Flag. Granted, having more pvp modes would be great, but it shouldn’t be over saturated.

Grinding is Important
The attachments for the iron sights should not be locked behind a pay wall. Yes, The Finals is Free to Play, so is Call of Duty mobile, where by you can unlock everything for a weapon just by leveling up the weapon. The Finals should take a hard look and add the option to unlock iron sights by leveling up weapons individually. I don’t expect every FPS to be like Call of Duty or a Call of Duty clone, but I do want to grind and unlock items as I level up and progress.

Let the Wars Begging
Being able to create a club in the game is nice, what would make it better would be to have club ranks starting at bronze to legendary, to complete in weekly wars between clans. level up the club, earn club tokens or credits and a club store to spend the in-game tokens or credits. The club store could have anything from weapon skins, character skins, cosmetic items such as aviator glasses, club jacket with the name of your club written in the back, infantry gear sets and more. Rewards could be based on club rankings, as you level up the club and all rewards rotate every season.

SBMM and EOMM
Lastly let me address both Skill Based Match Making and Engagement Optimized Match Making respectfully, SBMM and EOMM since I wrote about it a little over a year ago. Lately, I’ve heard both arguments that The Finals has and doesn’t have SBMM and EOMM. For the last few days I’ve been playing, I haven’t noticed anything notorious with SBMM or EOMM. I can’t say it has it or it doesn’t. I honestly do know. However, if The Finals has no SBMM, my question is, why brake up the lobbies after every match? It’s frustrating to sit in the lobby for two to three minutes just waiting for a match instead of just keeping the lobbies together and voting for a map.

If and only if The Final dose have any level of SBMM, it’s tone down to the point that it’s not frustrating. I’ve been in matches, for example, that we wreck the entire team. Next match, I get put into a team and we get wrecked. Next, I get put into a match and its’ an all out war where either team can win by a close margin. It’s like rewarding you for having a hectic match and they throw you a bone. Who knows. Maybe I’m over thinking it. However, I would like the team balancing to be organic and after every match, keep the lobby intact and then vote for a map, with the option to leave if I choose to.


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