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Very good

LOVE the gather fans concept as ranked. Its so fluid with The Finals concept where they fight in arena full of fans!

make ranked from Cash Out/WORLD TOUR mode not Terminal. Terminal is like CSGO not the finals game identity. The Finals about destruction chaos not technical and prepare like rainbow six siege.

Just stay what it is, it just needed team chat and all chat. They need to communicate. people dont wanna use mic what frustrate me.

Bro i literally searched mid video "how to get sponsored in the finals" and then just realized its a concept. Tooo awesome to be just a concept. Embark should hire you!!

In my opinion - game design is balanced not when dry stats and graphs show that, but when meta shifts with time, because every gameplay instrument is valuable. When I played dark souls 3 pvp, meta was shifted 5-6 times, years after developers ended the game support. Why am I saying that? Look at ubisoft and their games like for honor and rainbow six siege. They try to balance their games by looking at winrate, pickrate and other statistics, but it's a hero shooter, sometimes it's nearly impossible to balance abilities, because of the initial design, so they're cutting them and reworking, depriving these characters of their uniqueness. But the original concept was very balanced and well thought and it was made by the original team, and when the team changed with time, new team fucked up the balance in order to support the game and make new characters, they lost their initial vision. Meta in this game shifts only when the developer says so. The finals has a very good and solid initial balance, every hero has it's downsides and advantages. To meta shift imo you need to have an expanded rock-paper-scissors design, where every tool is unique, valuable and has it's purpose, and downsides, to be able to counter it. Right now they need to add new and unique gameplay tools, and not fuck up the current system, if it needs changes - they should be minimal. They also need to make deeper free progression in the game, make more unlockable skins systems like in call of duty dark matter skin challenges, they need to make gameplay progression deeper like make people get perks or modules on their weapons(their skin system wouldn't allow this xddd), they also should give more valuable rewards for completing tough quests, like actual items(and they kinda did it already, so it's good), and not impersonal low value xp for battlepass. I hope this stuff is readable, it's not my main language and my thought process was very chaotic, but summarizing - embark studios have to find a way to make new content for the game and not break the current well thought working systems(for that they should have good competent game designers, who can listen, but they also MUST know how to defend their decisions, when needed), and to make people attached to the game, they need to focus on f2p progression, where people could get more stuff for free, to express themselves in terms of fashion-souls, they need to make this thing a culture somehow, because people would 100% still donate and give money to the company, because there always would be people like that, you don't need to choke people progressionwise to get money. Of course it's just my opinion, and of course I described a very hard way of supporting not very popular game, but still I hope people who work at embark are competent and will figure these things out. BRUH SECOND PARAGRAPH IS ALMOST AS BIG AS THE SECOND ONEAKFNKWFQUFBQIUWFBQIUFBIQI. THANKS FOR THE VIDEO, BYEE!>(I think I need to start learning to write whole essays)

Its cause they didn't get rid of nukes quick enough when the game was popular. 3 of my friends quit because they kept getting insta killed by cheese, and I don't blame them. Game was perfect, then everyone learned about nukes and everyone started running 3 heavy's with rpgs and nuke builds. I know there not as strong but its to late now. I think if they did something about nukes earlier it would be more popular now.

every day we get closer to making the story concept of the finals into a reality

surprised the graph at 1:10 didn't trigger many people 😭

EMBARK HIRE THIS MAN 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

imagine if the higher your rank gets, the bigger the chance is for the crowd to chant your nickname (if readable) that would be so cool

The Finals is like Overwatch on crack!

Sponsor me Ospuze! Give me your top-secret golden shoes!

Amazing stuff, damn

To be honest I like feeling like a contestant and feeling like a I am in a game where its just fun and I am being watched by many people live and that feeling feels good

A lot of cheaters in this game it’s unreal.

your audio volume keeps going up and down.

Super impressive UI mockups and great idea overall! It's very disappointing to see how neglected the whole "Sponsor" concept is in the live game. What could've (or could be) a very fresh and novel concept, is instead just a small piece of worldbuilding that's plastered here and there in their weekly challenges system. They're relegated to props on maps and quips from the announcers. Your concept is very innovative. It gives me alot of hope for the future of the game! But yeah, if you're serious about UI Design, UX and/or Game Design, you should seriously think at hitting up Emabrk, this could be a great portfolio piece 👀

Youre idea is more the finals the way they pitch the game at the beggining than it is now

But Helldivers 2 is newer than The Finals

this video just shows how much potential the game has great vid 10/10

I loved the game when it came out, sad that it died so quickly

nice work

Respawn timer destroyed the game

Bro your mic

Embark should see this, this is awesome

Really love the concept! Really brings me back to games like Monday Night Combat or Larger scale games like Planet Side 2 or Foxhole where players make the decision to associate with an in-game team or sponsor. Think this would bring a really healthy goofy meta competition and a really unique concept back to life! More games gotta get a little risky and try crazy ideas and I think this one would help a lot to make The Finals stick out and really tie into that Gameshow Tournament Arena feel!

Hi.! Sorry, I completely missed your video, great stuff.! I can assure you that sponsors will play a bigger role in future seasons, that has been our plan and dream since we created the pitch for the game... Thank you for supporting THE FINALS and I hope to see you in the arena.!

Are they using _actual voice actors yet?_

I really hope embark see this and implements something along the lines of this if not this exactly this concept, I love the whole sponsors and climbing the ranks to reach the finals idea, maybe there could be a whole thing each 2 or 3 seasons where the top players receive an extra reward for reaching the finals and have their ranks and sponsor reset but their fan bases continue to grow or sum It will also make the game more enjoyable and exciting or at least make me and others play for longer trying to progress through sponsors for sponsored rewards… more dopamine and showing of your sponsored drip and progression for reaching the finals 🫡

This game is just overhyped. lol

I'm late to this video, but these are some great ideas man. I hope Embark sees these videos the community is putting out. Thanks for your hard work trying to make this game better

Really cool thematic wrapping for a progression system, if a bit needlessly complicated. It's a neat idea and well executed.

Reminds me a bit of Destiny 1's factions. Solid fun background idea. I also love the idea of these type of missions leading to possible additional lore into the sponsors.

the game lost a crap ton of people when they nuked controller aim assist. Not sticking around to see what other crybaby whining they cave in to

I think a big Problem is that many people dont own next gen consoles yet, I have many friends in my list that definitely would play the game, if they coukd

More than two obscure gamemodes would be cool.

I think it could also be great if the story and lore of sponsors would give them thier own personality and character. Like some sponsors may take more straight forward, confident, aggressive actions in their lore like a huge monopoly corporation would do and others are more for people and do their best at having good reputation ( like embark :) ). This will stick some people to a single sponsors just cuz they rly like its personality just as some people main chars in games cuz of their lore. And this could also interact with ingame expirience as a match events, map design, mb some special comms while match( like imagine killing ospuze guy and scotty is dropping joke about ospuze), there are lots of things that may be very cool to connect to the sponsors theme.

THIS IS FREAKING GENIUS

Hey, I don't usually comment, but i recommend u to look into Shadowgun Legends game since it has similarities contestant like thing system, perhaps u could get some inspiration from the system thing and "remix" it your way :)

Great video! But audio volume going up and down constantly distracts from the great content

They need to ramp this up in season 3 it would totally just explode in a new experience

this is all good and fine but its honestly, just "more vibes and skins"... the ranked community doesnt give a shit about vibes and skins, to be frank. and embark has made it clear they will pander to the casuals so.... here, we, are.

The amount of love for this game is fucken cool. Loving it.

1:11 This chart is horrific. R6 is way more competitive than you give it credit for, rust is not a casual game by any means, COD aims for decent realism these days, and CSGO & Val aren't the only competitive shooters. Dear god

Embark please watch this!

Dude thanks for providing that sponsor clash slide it''s so dope, gonna be my new wallpaper. How'd you make it? i'm curious

That concept is absolutely sick! Would love to see this in-game as after i complete a circuit in 1 day all i can do is just play ranked with only one reason which is to rank up. A variety of a storyline of your character would be a game changer.

DUDE WTF WAS THAT UI?! INCREDIBLE JOB!

These idea are genuinely amazing and i do feel would give the game “purpose”