Good morning to everyone accept The Finals, the highly-destructible FPS from ex-Battlefield devs that is getting slammed on Steam.
So, for those who may have missed it, after concluding a highly successful open beta that drew in hundreds of thousands of players, The Finals is here – but not everyone is happy.
At first, everything was going well, with The Finals racing up the charts to become one of the most-played games on Steam, drawing in over 200,000 concurrent players on PC alone.
However, I wouldn’t be here writing this if everything was sunbeams and rainbows. Since people started playing the game, they began to slam it because Embark slowed down player movement between the open beta and the launch.
And if you thought that this wasn’t a big deal, you’d be wrong because these complaints alone have managed to saddle the game with a Mixed review with over 3,000 negative reviews – with all of them mentioning the movement.
“Y’all remember how buttery and smooth the movement felt in the beta? Yeah, they nerfed the movement speed for ALL classes by a very noticeable amount and introduced delays in some of the animations. Everything feels extremely sluggish now, even while playing the Light class.”
But here’s the catch: according to Embark, the movement has not been changed at all since the beta, although they do think they know why players might think otherwise:
“We have been investigating your feedback on the feel of the movement from Open Beta to now. It’s been hard to pinpoint because there was no change in the movement system or the movement speed between the two tests.
We have identified a few things that might be causing everyone to experience the gameplay differently. In the past month, we have made small adjustments to animations, sounds, and settings that, in combination, may be giving the feeling of slower movement—especially in light and medium archetypes.
Settings were reset as well, so FOV is defaulted to 71. For your part, changing your FOV can be really helpful.”
This is an interesting situation that The Finals find themselves in because while it’s true that FOV can significantly impact the perceived speed of a first-person game, we hardly ever hear people slamming a game for a simple in-game setting.
The difference between 71 FOV and 100 FOV is night and day in the finals. While many players enjoy playing around with FOV to boose peripheral vision, it also can just make many shooters feel way better.
Thankfully for The Finals, after releasing their statement, many players have tried to undo the damage dealt while advising others in the Steam review section to change their in-game settings.
But now we want to know if you have been enjoying The Finals? Let us know in the comments.