The Finals has dropped Update 8.3.0, and it’s packed with a new limited-time 5v5 mode, fresh store bundles tied to upcoming events, Twitch Drops running through October 16 2025, plus a laundry list of balance tweaks and fixes.
Short and punchy: there’s a celestial brawl mode where spears are life, team bundles for The Grand Major 2025, and a whole batch of quality of life and gameplay adjustments that touch maps, weapons, gadgets and UI. ✨🔥
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Patch Notes – The Finals – 8.3.0
NEW LIMITED-TIME MODE: HEAVEN OR ELSE
Heaven or Else is a 5v5 showdown where contestants fight with a Spear and a few extra tools tuned for the event. Knock players off the Final Stage Arena’s celestial surfaces, keep your health up, and don’t fall through the clouds — lower HP sends you farther, so stay careful.
Complete contracts to earn up to 12 free rewards across the two-week event. Sponsored by HOLTOW Pearly Gates Insurance.
STORE UPDATE
New companions Quill and Cinder, Double Yolk earrings, Mandate Javelin, and Malebolge’s notice trident are available. Poland and Greece bundles are live, and The Grand Major 25 Prime selection is now in store for tournament prep.
ESPORTS BUNDLES
Collab bundles for The Grand Major 2025 are live now. Teams with bundles listed include:
- ALLIANCE x ENGIMO
- ENVY x OSPUZE
- PULSAR x ISEUL-T
- KCP x ALFA ACTA
- NTMR x VOLPE
- SSG x HOLTOW
When you buy a team set, part of the sale goes to that team and part goes to a pot split across qualified organizations. More bundles will be added in future updates.
TWITCH DROPS
Broadcast Blaze set Twitch Drops are available on streams with Twitch Drops enabled until October 16 2025. Watch for 4 hours to earn free cosmetics for the M26, Cerberus, and ShAK-50.
AND MORE
- Revive statues now have Light and Heavy formats for instant recognition.
- S3 Ruby players received a Season 3 player card badge in their inventory.
Balance Changes
Gadgets
Breach Drill
- Activation sequence reduced from 3s to 2.5s.
- Cooldown decreased from 25s to 20s.
Smoke Grenade
- Smoke duration reduced from 15s to 9s.
- Ammo reduced from 3 to 2.
- Dev Note: Short-term nudges to smoke to reduce cashout steal frustrations; longer-term improvements planned.
Game Modes
Cashout (World Tour & Ranked Tournament)
- Updated respawn position selection after team wipes to reduce teams spawning near each other.
- Dev Note: Team is aware of community concerns about ‘doubling’ cashouts in tier three and is testing changes with no set timeline yet.
Weapons
BFR Titan
- Damage decreased from 98 to 90.
- Dev Note: Aimed mainly at removing a rapid Winch Claw plus BFR headshot combo on Lights, without affecting most other shot-to-kill breakpoints.
Content and Bug Fixes
Animation
- Fixed inspect animations blending poorly with interaction animations in third person.
- Fixed a small inconsistency when going from aim down sight to sprint in first person.
- Fixed deploys and inspects breaking when activated while climbing off a ladder.
- Fixed an issue where the weapon sometimes disappeared briefly after using Charge N’ Slam in the air.
Audio
- Fixed double respawn sounds when exiting a replay.
- Fixed incorrect introduction voiceovers sometimes playing in Cashout.
- Minor tweak to the P90 firing sequence to make it sound less suppressed.
Contracts
- Daily Club Contracts now show the total number of contracts that can be accepted/completed instead of the number available to accept.
Controller
- Fixed controller input processing while the game was not in focus.
- Changed buttons used to back out of pop-up notifications to prevent accidental matchmaking cancellations.
Customization & Cosmetics
- Fixed player card display mismatch with eliminated contestants.
- Pets now play audio when you Emote in game, and also in Store and Battle Pass.
- Improved colliders on punk-style outfits to reduce erratic shoelace and chain movement.
- Fixed visible line issues on certain skins for some AMD graphics cards.
- Addressed artifact near Dale the Whale’s mouth.
- Fixed Sensorveil Bomber jacket clipping with emblems and upper back items.
- Fixed head and ear clipping on the Impact Unit V3000 mask.
- Item descriptions now show the correct origin for Battle Pass items.
- Fixed visual glitches on Mischief League heads and reduced clipping on Sick Trick Rick outfit necklace.
- Improved headband fit when combined with multiple facewear items.
Game Modes
- Updated Ranked Cashout scoreboard in private matches to hide certain info so it matches Ranked Tournament behavior.
- Fixed change-loadout mid-round issue in private Ranked Cashout matches.
- Powershift platform path now properly displays in replays.
- Fixed issue where players started with 4 respawn tokens in private Ranked Cashout.
Gameplay
- Fixed stuck weapon audio in replays.
- Fixed hand-gun bug where hand got stuck when interacting with objects; interactions improved.
- FOV setting no longer affects visibility of the Dematerializer’s first-person VFX.
- Picked up objects that failed to attach when launched on a jumppad will now fail sooner to reduce frustration.
- Revive statues now have unique looks for Lights, Mediums and Heavies.
- Fixed doors, ziplines and platforms appearing in wrong locations in some replays.
- Fixed corner case that could leave players stuck in replays.
- Back key can again leave the drafting screen.
- Respawn markers no longer block interaction line of sight validation and won’t interrupt steals.
- Fixed issue that made it harder to place deployables.
- Increased aiming accuracy for Grapple Hook and Winch Claw.
- Fixed revive effect position when respawn statue was moved.
- Fixed projectiles triggering effects twice when used simultaneously with another of the same type.
Game Show Events
- Flying saucers now spawn near the closest active Cashout Station during Alien Invasion events.
- Alien Invasion is re-enabled on SYS$Horizon, Fortune Stadium, and Nozomi/Citadel.
Maps
General
- Fixed players being able to go outside certain maps when spectating.
- Reduced planter bed heights to a consistent level across maps.
- Fixed tree stump destruction on destructible ground to avoid visual and gameplay issues.
Bernal
- Temporarily disabled the Suspended Sponsor Structures variant due to a lighting bug that made them completely dark.
Fortune Stadium
- Added out-of-bounds border to prevent gadget exploits to unreachable areas.
Kyoto
- Fixed step up height for temple pillar stones.
- Fixed pagoda roof issue causing unexpected destruction behavior.
Monaco
- Fixed issue with cannon collision not matching visuals.
Nozomi/Citadel
- Replaced the zipline between Apartments corner and Cybercafe with Jump Pads to provide a reliable flank option.
- Slightly moved a player spawn near the Research Facility underpass.
SYS$Horizon
- Increased large cube health from 1000 to 2000 for consistency with other sturdy geometry.
- Campus cube garden corner: split extra-large cubes, added cover, raised part of the ring around the ball, and reduced the size of a dominating Big Cube.
- Campus voxel bridge corner: added a secondary voxel bridge with a vent to the classroom and extra street cover to give more approaches to cashout corners.
Seoul
- Reduced exposed hospital roof length by 8 meters and added a 16 meter overhang, shortening the exposed area from 60m to 36m.
- Added an extra doorway and vent to the back wing for quicker exits and new flanking routes.
Skyway Stadium
- Added soil ground meshes to planter beds above Medical Center to help player flow.
Private Matches & Spectator
- Fix for back input closing team customization modal instead of the dropdown menu.
Settings
- Added descriptions explaining why certain Video settings are grayed out.
- Unified size and opacity of all option buttons.
Social
- Chat is now scrollable with the scroll-wheel anywhere in the chat window.
- Added support for official clubs.
Specializations
Winch Claw
- Increased required visibility for Winch Claw to successfully hook an enemy player.
Stability & Performance
- Optimize memory usage by showing simplified characters on the tournament overview on systems with 16GB RAM or less.
- Improve reliability of Embark systems during platform outages so the game remains playable if the platform is down.
- Improve customization screen performance.
- Potential fix for a common animation-related client crash.
UI
- Improved pacing of the Player Card sequence to fit Instant Replay flow.
- Fixed input hints not updating correctly when keybindings change.
- Emote list updated to name-based for easier overview.
- Fixed badges rendering over transition screen in winners’ sequence.
- Fixed hitmarkers appearing after respawning.
- Fixed incorrect weapon names in customization animations.
- Updated overview stats and reload durations for some weapons (Famas, CB-01, KS-23, Model, XP-54).
- You can now set your preferred reticule color.
- Added playername to the Match report.
- Fixed current ammo count not displaying for certain weapons in inventory.
VFX
- Fixed in-flight VFX restarting when changing Effects quality in Video Settings.
Weapons
Melee Weapons
- Fixed melee damage being incorrectly blocked by the world even when the enemy was hit.
- Fixed Dome and Mesh Shields incorrectly blocking melee attacks.
Riot Shield
- Improved collision alignment.
- Fixed moving in front of a Cashout Station canceling steals.
Spear
- Fixed secondary attack not showing properly in third person when being winched.
- Fixed primary attack animation sometimes missing in third person.
.50 Akimbo
- Fixed bullet dispersion growing slightly faster than intended.
This update touches nearly every corner of the game, from a flashy new event mode to deep technical fixes that should make matches and replays feel smoother. Share your thoughts in the comments, and follow us on X and Bluesky.
