The new season of THE FINALS is out, and it shakes things up by taking us to a new kind of location, with gadgets and weapons to match. We’ve got you covered with everything featured in THE FINALS season three.
Everything included in THE FINALS season 3
New map, Kyoto 1568
Kyoto 1568 is the new arena set in feudal Japan. Unlike THE FINALS‘ usual urban maps, Kyoto features a network of 16th-century temples, gardens, and bamboo forests. The map also has a few unique elements, including the hidden traversal options and Shoji paper walls you can shoot through.
Japanese-themed gadgets, weapons, and Specializations
Alongside the new map, in season three, THE FINALS adds multiple Japanese-themed items for every build in the game. Here are all the new additions to the game in season three:
- Recurve Bow (Light build): Medium to long-range weapon that shoots arrows in a curve.
- Thermal Bore (Light build): Long-range breaching gadget.
- Dual Katanas (Medium build): Melee weapon that can combo light attacks and deflect incoming bullets.
- Spear (Heavy build): Melee weapon that has long-range attacks and can be spun up for a wider area of effect.
- Winch Claw (Heavy build): A new Specialization that works like a hook, allowing you to pull enemies toward you, briefly stunning them.
The weapons and Specialization are locked behind 1,200 VRs you can earn by playing the game and completing contracts. The Thermal Bore gadget costs 1,600 VRs, making it the most expensive gadget currently in the game, as others cost 1,200 VRs.
Ranked Terminal Attack
In season three of THE FINALS, the five-vs-five Terminal Attack game mode is getting a Ranked playlist that replaces the Ranked Tournaments. The rules are the same: Two teams, 13 rounds, no healing, no revives, one life per round, and terminals to attack/protect.
To ensure the mode is fair and balanced for competitive play, there are a few changes to the gameplay elements of Terminal Attack in season three:
- You must now interact with the Terminal to start decryption (similar to planting the bomb in CS2.)
- Added warm-up zones with barriers to limit movement at the start of the round.
- Carriable canisters respawn every round.
- Map destruction resets at half-time.
World Tour series
World Tour is a new game mode in THE FINALS that replaces regular Cashout Tournaments. In World Tour, there’s a new tournament every few weeks with different rules, loadouts, and featured maps. As you rack up wins in the tournaments, you increase your standing on the leaderboard and upgrade the World Tour badge displayed on your player card.
There are also new contracts with every new tournament, as well as contracts to complete and rewards to earn, including XP, cosmetics, and Multibucks.
Apart from new content, plenty of balancing changes were introduced to THE FINALS in season three. Make sure to familiarize yourself with them before jumping into the arena to avoid getting caught off guard by a reworked Glitch Trap.
