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The Finals on PC: genuinely awesome destruction tech without sacrificing performance
Digital Foundry analyses The Finals for PC, providing optimised settings and tech analysis of the free-to-play multipla…
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the heritage of its designers, this is a class-based FPS in the vein of Battlefield with objective-driven combat, released free-to-play on current-gen consoles and PC shortly before the holiday break in 2023. In The Finals, the levels you play through are typically made up of prefabricated buildings that can be cracked open and destroyed with explosive weapons or abilities, clearing a path to maneouvre or deny an opponent cover and concealment. Rather than the approach in BC1, where buildings' load-bearing walls were invulnerable, and BC2, where they were vulnerable but destroying them resulted in a pre-canned animation and applying lethal damage to players within, The Finals works on physicalised weighted constraints.
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