THE FINALS Season 12 "PRIME TIME" Overhauls Destruction

Embark Studios released the major update "PRIME TIME" for THE FINALS on October 20, 2026, opening Season 12 with an overhaul of the game's destruction system, according to Automaton Media.

The centrepiece is a rework called "Dynamism 2.0", which introduces staged destruction: buildings now tilt, twist, bend and hang instead of collapsing all at once. The update also adds rope-hung objects that sway under physics, walls that dent from blasts, breakable trees, debris piles, and revised smoke, gas, dust and explosion sound effects.

The Light build receives the new specialization "Truesight", which highlights enemy players and placed objects through smoke and reveals cloaked or mimicked opponents. Two gadgets join it: the "Mimic Device", which scans objects such as barrels, potted plants or chairs so players can disguise themselves as them and drop the disguise at will, and the "Translocator", which instantly swaps the player's position with a nearby object.

Solo Showdown enters beta

A new solo mode, "Solo Showdown", was added in beta. It is a 12-player tournament across three rounds, with rules drawn at random from eight mini-modes. Arenas Monaco, Seoul and Skyway Stadium were remastered with new visuals, lighting, textures, landmarks, objects and traversal options, while the HUD and menus were redesigned and features such as Dynamic Commentary and Sponsor 3.0 were added.

Steam concurrent players for THE FINALS passed 32,000 shortly after the update went live. According to SteamDB figures cited in the background, the game launched on December 8, 2023, and peaked at 242,619 concurrent Steam players two days later, before monthly peaks on Steam fell below 20,000 by July 2024.