It’s an incredible game, and the MTX model is insanely generous too, and it’s free to play. You get free premium currency just by playing, and if you get like 3/4 through a battle pass you get more out than you put in, and battlepasses are purchasable with the premium currency you can get for free.
Lol. Not paid by them, but I do love the game and think it deserves more recognition for being the first truly innovative multiplayer shooter I’ve played in a long time, and also for not being greedy fucks.
It definitely doesn’t play like fortnite, that’s for sure.
It’s not meant to be a superior battlefield btw. It just has old battlefield team members making it, so things like the gunplay, destruction, class structure and game balance are similar in style (though not 1-1)
The setting is that you’re playing in a video game, so things aren’t realistic, that’s for sure. It’s not supposed to be though. The issue with the crazy skins in CoD is that they’re portraying themselves as a “hardcore realistic military shooter”, but then you have the American Dad characters running around.
The Finals being not realistic allows them to do so much, from level design to mechanics. It does not play like Battlefield at all, but it does have better destruction than it’s ever had. The gameplay is that of a fast paced movement shooter, and it’s very cerebral, with a lot of ways to outplay your enemy and use them and the environment to your advantage. Even without the reaction time and skill of some people, you can play smarter and win.
The Finals is an absolute mess with cheaters right now. People are pissed in the forums. They’re leaving the game as fast as they can attract new players. Player numbers have been flat since March, and are significantly down since launch. I don’t know if a game like this is sustainable with only 18,000 weekly players but I guess we’ll find out.
Embark has made a statement I think in 7.6 or 7.5 patch notes, that even though they will not make a native version of The Finals on Linux, they still make sure this game will work on Linux, even once they switch anti-cheats.
On Discord (I know I know yuck) they said they’ve been cooperating with Codeweavers since Season 5, iirc as consulting to prevent making changes which would break the game on Linux.
There were two updates (iirc 5.12 and 6.9) which did break the game, but those got fixed within 24 hours.
Yeah, while it would be nice, I don’t care about a native Linux version. Proton is so supported that I’m fine with using it.
Since they’ve explicitly stated that they want to continue to support Linux (at least for now), that at least shows a viable future for me.
Like in my response to the other commenter, that’s why I was playing FragPunk, because I thought support for Linux would be there. But they’ve pushed that to the way side.
IIRC it broke for like a week maybe for me since they added Linux support, but it’s been very solid on Linux for me. Give it another shot. It’ll probably work.
Meanwhile the game by the ex-DICE devs with superior destruction physics (THE FINALS) is playable on linux and pledged to remain so! :)
It’s a ton of fun, you guys should check it out.
OH MY GOD JUNE, ARE WE STARTING A COMEDY DUO?!?
THAT’S RIGHT SCOTTY! WE BETTER RAMP UP OUR JOKES SO THEY LAND ON THE MONEY, JUST LIKE OUR CONTESTANTS!
It’s an incredible game, and the MTX model is insanely generous too, and it’s free to play. You get free premium currency just by playing, and if you get like 3/4 through a battle pass you get more out than you put in, and battlepasses are purchasable with the premium currency you can get for free.
Thanks for the recommendation, Mr. The Finals
Lol. Not paid by them, but I do love the game and think it deserves more recognition for being the first truly innovative multiplayer shooter I’ve played in a long time, and also for not being greedy fucks.
Looks more like Fortnite than BF.
I want another game like BF1942+Desert combat, or possibly BF2142
It definitely doesn’t play like fortnite, that’s for sure.
It’s not meant to be a superior battlefield btw. It just has old battlefield team members making it, so things like the gunplay, destruction, class structure and game balance are similar in style (though not 1-1)
Yeah but I don’t like the clownsy look, I want the nitty gritty battlefield realism
The setting is that you’re playing in a video game, so things aren’t realistic, that’s for sure. It’s not supposed to be though. The issue with the crazy skins in CoD is that they’re portraying themselves as a “hardcore realistic military shooter”, but then you have the American Dad characters running around.
The Finals being not realistic allows them to do so much, from level design to mechanics. It does not play like Battlefield at all, but it does have better destruction than it’s ever had. The gameplay is that of a fast paced movement shooter, and it’s very cerebral, with a lot of ways to outplay your enemy and use them and the environment to your advantage. Even without the reaction time and skill of some people, you can play smarter and win.
Fair. It can still be a good game but I was so miss the old BF games
The Finals is an absolute mess with cheaters right now. People are pissed in the forums. They’re leaving the game as fast as they can attract new players. Player numbers have been flat since March, and are significantly down since launch. I don’t know if a game like this is sustainable with only 18,000 weekly players but I guess we’ll find out.
Last I checked, I was not able to get it to play. They broke it with an update and I assumed that was by design and I haven’t looked back.
Embark has made a statement I think in 7.6 or 7.5 patch notes, that even though they will not make a native version of The Finals on Linux, they still make sure this game will work on Linux, even once they switch anti-cheats.
On Discord (I know I know yuck) they said they’ve been cooperating with Codeweavers since Season 5, iirc as consulting to prevent making changes which would break the game on Linux.
There were two updates (iirc 5.12 and 6.9) which did break the game, but those got fixed within 24 hours.
Yeah, while it would be nice, I don’t care about a native Linux version. Proton is so supported that I’m fine with using it.
Since they’ve explicitly stated that they want to continue to support Linux (at least for now), that at least shows a viable future for me.
Like in my response to the other commenter, that’s why I was playing FragPunk, because I thought support for Linux would be there. But they’ve pushed that to the way side.
IIRC it broke for like a week maybe for me since they added Linux support, but it’s been very solid on Linux for me. Give it another shot. It’ll probably work.
Alright I’ll redownload it lol
I was playing FragPunk because it worked on Linux and I really like the game but they seem to be going the way that I thought The Finals was.