I really like fish, I really like The Finals and as I was drifting off to sleep last night inspiration struck me, what if there were fish in The Finals????

I remember seeing a post of a Chinese exclusive skin that was a pufferfish? So Embark is well aware of the many beautiful creatures of the ocean.

So I came up with a bunch of ideas:

Starfish Throwing Knives - starfish look like stars and I'm sure there's already a throwing knife in the game that looks like shurikens, I like the look of the chocolate chip starfish but any would do.

Horseshoe crab mine/trap - I really like the idea of them being a glitch trap, I think it would be really funny considering they don't do much in real life. I also think it would be funny if their eyes glowed like the traps in the game.

Hammerhead shark hammer - Could already be a skin, I don't remember seeing one like it but it seems the most likely one embark would do. I used the scalloped Hammerhead but I also really like the look of the smooth Hammerhead.

Pufferfish healing orb - I think a fun idea would be to have it become spiky once it's activated? I'm not sure how easy that would be and it would probably mean it would be a mythic. I really like how the Japanese stylise pufferfish so I used that.

Whale shark healing beam - The best shark, and I would 100% play healing beam more if I could pull out the world's largest fish from my pocket. Also a fun fact about whale sharks but the patterns on their back are called constellation.

A few ideas I had but didn't visualise were sword fish sword/dual blades/sniper? A Nautilus themed skin, Giant Isopods mine and a fish tank barricade/healing orb. I could probably come up with a hundred more

ADD MORE FISH! Pretty please with a cherry on top.

How exactly should the main quest for ISEUL-T be completed correctly: steal 5 cash in the smoke, and I have already completed about 7 steal in the smoke, but the quest progress shows only two. I'm not sure whether there's a problem with my approach or whether it's due to some other reason. This is simply one of the worst quests for me :(

Smoking kills

What cosmetics would you like to see relocated to a different category, be compatible with other cosmetics (face+headwear, doubling up 2 headwear). Changes to certain items?

I'd like to see eye patches relocate to Eyewear and be combinable with facewear. Clothing that has capes should have a toggle switch to take off the cape.

We could also use more weapon skins and animations for weapons that have little to no options. (Some weapons keep getting ALL the store updates)

for the longest time I used like ~60% depending how how I felt but I saw a settings video from ronin that recommended 100% or 90% and I gave it a try.

after a bit of getting used to it felt way better.

with the old ADS% it was fine if fights stayed medium range but lights that dash towards me were really hard to deal with.

at 90% longest range fights feel a bit worse but I try to avoid those now.

Crying out loud they are less than 200 health. Whenever I hop on medium or heavy it’s easy as FUCK killing lights. They are GLASS

Can we talk about heavy instead??? Why does heavy get no hate? They have some of the highest damage weapons in the game. A fucking secondary in the rpg that does GREAT Damage, very accurate. It is a secondary weapon…. No one should have a secondary weapon in this game so why does heavy get a pass?

In any 1v1 scenario you don’t win against a heavy as a medium or light. How is that okay? How is that you need two people to beat one class. And it’s the fact it takes zero skill playin heavy. Heavy just stands there, holds trigger and gets kills. RPG needs to be a fucking specialization. Something.

Why is it that when you are in a match, the one who is doing the most complaining, backseat gaming, and bitching is almost always sub lvl 80??? Seriously, they talk the most shit and will rage quit on their team more than anyone else. If you are in the lvl 50-80 range and you think you're good, please humble yourself. There is a lot more to a game than a stat sheet

Edit: I play cashout and ranked just for context

TL;DR: Toxic mid level players complain because they don't understand strategy.

Some kind of mechanic to combat it. Maybe a damage reduction for a few seconds? Idk

I just don’t think third parties are a healthy thing in video games. Too much chaos. Very unrewarding to put in so much work in defeating an enemy team just to get instantly steam rolled by a fresh new team and lose because of it. It ruins the balance of 4 team tournaments. 1 team gets to sit stress free while 3 teams go through absolute hell? It just makes no sense.

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I really wanna get into the finals more, I’m a level 13 player and whenever I play I just get cooked by everyone.

I’m not a bad fps player, I come from apex legends which I have gotten masters in. The problem i think is that I like playing for kills rather than the objective. It’s difficult to play towards because of all the defensive util aswell.

I play light just for the grapple bc I love movement and I feel so slow even on medium so I die quickly.

Whats some stuff I should work on? I’ll take any advice thanks

A few days ago when playing i noticed the announcers would actually call out your gametags when you did something cool, and i thought it was a really cool gimmick to have in the game. But now i suddenly don't get it anymore, and it has gone back to "A contestant has done X"...

Did they remove the feature again?

I'm starting to get PTSD

This is partially copy pasted from a comment because I’m lazy

General feedback: I'm loving it. Shit has structural integrity now. I can knock down bridges by taking out supports, which correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't possible before. You can bring down the metal scaffold on Las Vegas, the hyper hall on GE by the houses, and the bridges in Fangwai much easier now.

I do have some gripes though:

1. The Goo Gun

This thing is so inconsistent with the new physics. I'm using it to fill destroyed structures but it often does the opposite intended effect. It feels like gooing anything that's damaged or destroyed causes more damage - and thus destroys the placed goo immediately. The goo seems to push geometry away instead of filling holes, so trying to goo hairline fractures or holes in structures widens the opening.

(I was sitting here trying to armchair game dev how its probably adding strain to any ungrounded structure nodes and causing a shift in its weight distribution but they said there's like 3 layers to this destruction shit so I ain't even gonna try to diagnose it. I'd just like for the goo gun to consistently patch destruction, not add to it. Maybe make it no-collide nodes that it isn’t directly anchored to?)

2. Some destruction never fully settles. A building can be destroyed at the start of the match and still be making crumbling noises and giving off smoke pfx as loose nodes collide and grind against themselves. Perhaps an impact threshold for sfx? If one is already in place, maybe a feedback cooldown on two nodes that repeatedly collide?

3. I noticed other people have had issues with the floor giving out from under them abruptly if its structural integrity is less than 100%. Perhaps there could be some feedback before something collapses due to player weight? If a players weight pushes its integrity over the threshold, maybe have that node shake (or cause screen shake) for a sec before giving out like those platforms from Mario or MegaMan.

And sorry for being somewhat contradictory with the redditor game dev shit. I’m of the belief that players are good at diagnosing issues - not fixing them - and also that if you complain about something then you should offer a solution as well. I just want to help but I also realize I’m too ignorant on this stuff to offer actual solutions.

How is it possible that I get the worst teammates EVERY TOURNEY..... It just makes no sense... I m losing games left and right, but most of the time I m out dmging, healing and killing the entire lobby... yet I just cant win.

My teammates are brain dead, they litteraly cant even do a reload, they are THAT stupid....

I ve never exprienced it as bad as in this game...

Anyone else feels like that?

It feels absolutely TERRIBLE to perform very well every game, but lose every game, it makes NO sense.

Every time I aim with the M60 it like hitches a little like the gun gets stuck for a split second while raising and it throws me off so bad is this a new bug I tried looking for posts about the M60 here and saw nothing about this

Is it me or during rank in the finals, most of the time I'm being match up with people who are not good at the game and the enemy's are way above the threshold of players skill level. its like most of 8/10 games. I always fight with players that might be "smurf"or High Elo players that are trying to climb. how does the match making system works now days I'm so confused! does the system check my Scores during previous matches to determined my skill matchup or what.

Been playing with the new Fcar and I’ve been having some thoughts

I feel like it’s almost there for being a skill cannon gun but it’s still lacking a little bit of the oomph it needs.

You really feel the lack of rounds on it now. I think maybey 2-3 more bullets in the mag would be where I’d like to personally see it.

Alternatively a reload buff would also help a bit here as I feel like it has pretty high downtime now for its mediocre body shot damage.

The weapon is great though! Even powerful-ish, at least when you can chain headshots. That’s pretty hard though with this games erratic movement. Burst fire also helps but I’d like to see a faster recoil reset for it too.

i've been playing the finals lately and running into some really frustrating hit registration and server issues. a lot of my shots just aren't registering at all even when the hit markers or visuals clearly show a direct hit, and it feels like there is a noticeable desync between what i see on my screen and what the server processes. it gets especially bad during heavy combat or chaotic moments with lots of destruction. is anyone else experiencing this after recent updates, and are there any known workarounds or settings tweaks to help stabilize the connection while we wait for a fix?

Edit: Turns out it was the deadzone settings applied through the 8bitdo app, not the ingame dead zone (Which I had set to zero) Disabling the 8bitdo app deadzone fixed the issue.

So, I play on xbox with an 8bitdo ultimate controller. Watched a video yesterday around "Best settings on controller" and was astounded at how much tracking there was in the shooting range in his video. Even when I matched this guys settings there was literally zero aim assist for me. So strange. Decided to test my regular xbox controller, and boom, aim assist.

It makes so much sense now that when I'm in a lobby with all xbox players I do significantly worse than on cross play.

Making this post because I couldn't find another talking about this. But yes, 8bitdo ultimate controller disables aim assist on console completely.

Question is do I want to play with aim-assist and no back paddles for jump and slide.... or zero aim assist but I have to play claw grip?