It's hard to recommend this game to anyone without a giant asterisk. Buried beneath abysmal balancing and the worst competitive gamemode ever conceived by mankind is a solid core of fun movement and incredibly dynamic destruction.

You'll have to accept that each class only has 1-2 viable primaries out of a diverse pool of seven or more. Out of three classes, two of them take turns beating Light into pulp - but only if players have good aim, because Light completely demolishes low skill and console lobbies.

The main gamemode, Cashout, is probably the worst gamemode the devs could've created for their weapon and destruction system. Nothing is consistent, and it's incredibly easy for one team to grief another so that they're both removed from the tournament altogether. Tournaments are won because you're able to consistently win gunfights against the entire lobby, or because you waited in corners and third partied other teams.

The Finals is fundamentally unbalanced at all skill levels, and it's hard to notice because the matchmaking systems are incredibly strict and engagement based. Worst of all, ranked isn't actually ranked because your visual rank has zero relation to your rank used by matchmaking (despite the developers saying otherwise). Ranked exists to grind your brains out against an opaque algorithm, because winning or losing has zero impact on whether you move up or down.

There's many reasons why The Finals is losing players faster than water from a sieve. The gameplay is unbalanced for both casual and competitive players, the community is terrible (it's Reddit and Discord), and the developers spend most of their time programming quirky cosmetics (which are admittedly pretty good) rather than actually playing and balancing the game.

If you're willing to overlook serious fundamental flaws to experience fast movement and Battlefield-style total destruction, The Finals is great. It possesses something special no other modern game has. If not, you could go back to classic Battlefield games, which are close enough.

It's hard to recommend this game to anyone without a giant asterisk. Buried beneath abysmal balancing and the worst competitive gamemode ever conceived by mankind is a solid core of fun movement and incredibly dynamic destruction. You'll have to accept that each class only has 1-2 viable primaries out of a diverse pool of seven or more. Out of three classes, two of them take turns beating Light into pulp - but only if players have good aim, because Light completely demolishes low skill and console lobbies. The main gamemode, Cashout, is probably the worst gamemode the devs could've created for their weapon and destruction system. Nothing is consistent, and it's incredibly easy for one team to grief another so that they're both removed from the tournament altogether. Tournaments are won because you're able to consistently win gunfights against the entire lobby, or because you waited in corners and third partied other teams. The Finals is fundamentally unbalanced at all skill levels, and it's hard to notice because the matchmaking systems are incredibly strict and engagement based. Worst of all, ranked isn't actually ranked because your visual rank has zero relation to your rank used by matchmaking (despite the developers saying otherwise). Ranked exists to grind your brains out against an opaque algorithm, because winning or losing has zero impact on whether you move up or down. There's many reasons why The Finals is losing players faster than water from a sieve. The gameplay is unbalanced for both casual and competitive players, the community is terrible (it's Reddit and Discord), and the developers spend most of their time programming quirky cosmetics (which are admittedly pretty good) rather than actually playing and balancing the game. If you're willing to overlook serious fundamental flaws to experience fast movement and Battlefield-style total destruction, The Finals is great. It possesses something special no other modern game has. If not, you could go back to classic Battlefield games, which are close enough.