There’s a new shooter in town and it’s Embark Studios’ The Finals. While it’s a free-to-play shooter, it does come with a full slate of features that players expect from today’s multiplayer games. You level up, unlock stuff and earn rewards as you play. In terms of matching players, it’s also keeping up with today’s standards, as The Finals does feature skill-based matchmaking (SBMM).
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This was confirmed to us by Embark themselves during an interview where we asked about various topics about the game. One of the topics we asked about is SBMM, as it’s something the multiplayer gaming community is curious about thanks to how it’s being handled in certain shooters.
MP1ST: Skilled Based Matchmaking is also another touchy subject. We know The Finals can be a pretty competitive game, but are there any match-make systems in place for new players to ease them into the game better before throwing them in with more competitive long-time players?
Gustav Tilleby (Creative Director): We have skill-based matchmaking in the game. This is another area where I’m not really an expert on how that sort of is built. It will protect new players that come in, in a way, because they won’t get matchmade with, players that’s been in for a long time and, that are much better than them.
MP1ST: I know for example, in Fortnite, when you’re playing a game, like the first match in Fortnite, you deal bots galore, right? Just to help you ease into that, are there gonna be any bots?
Gustav Tilleby: Not right now. We don’t have bots in the game.
Sven Grundberg (Senior Environment Artist): What we do have is a pretty extensive tutorial. We didn’t have that as part of the playtest we did last week because we wanted you to get as much playtime as possible. But for new players, they’re going to go through, the tutorial process..
Gustav Tilleby: We’re also gating our game modes. The tournament modes, the more competitive modes, they’ll get unlocked after a little while.
The Finals featuring SBMM isn’t really surprising, as most games do have it in order to make the game feel fair for everyone. It’s just how Call of Duty has handled it recently that has people in an uproar. We also don’t know exactly how SBMM works in the Finals. That and because this is a team-heavy game, not everything will be solely because of SBMM.
How are your lobbies in The Finals so far? Are they filled with “sweats,” or they’re just right? Sound off, and let us know in the comments below.
Stay tuned to our full interview with Embark, which will hit the site soon.
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