I wish I played The Finals long time ago.

Fellow new contestant here who has almost 50 hours. I started playing The Finals mainly because of Arc Raiders and the curiosity to see what else does Embark has in The Finals.

So far, for me its easily one of the top 3 FPS game in the market at the moment. It has a mix of everything I ever liked in FPS games and spent A LOT of time playing, from Battlefield's sandbox style and destruction (even better than Battlefield IMO) which make every fight and Cashout contests feel different, Gadgets/Hero-shooter system that is kind of close to VALORANT for me, the maps are beautiful, awesome gunplay and variety which is rare now, to being a competitive game but actually... fun?!.

Let alone the unique theme and the feel of being in a TV show or something, competing in front of a live audience with Scotty and June making me chuckle every now and then with a random comment.

The random and funny skins (especially that AKM skin with a reciept or whatever lol), emotes and cosmetics in general are dope.

AND it is so easy to get into! Thats what is kind of cool about it, you don’t need to "no life" the game to understand some hidden mechanics or stuff like that, of course there is a learning curve and map knowledge may take some time, but anyone can actually have fun playing it if they want to do so.

I do really hope this game gets the support it deserves, either from the community or Embark. It has some bugs and issues of course, but so is every single game. All it needs is one big update with a lot of content and then watch the numbers go crazy.