Update 11.9.0

2026.09.10

WYVERN AHEAD

The dragon has returned to the Arena to turn up the heat while IVADA is bringing you a brand-new arsenal to give you the edge you need! Alongside a new DLC, free Twitch Drops and some bug fixes and balance changes, we’re ready to dive into this week’s Update!

WORLD TOUR | SCORCH PROTOCOL

The Dragon escaped confinement and is back to bring a rampage in the Arena!
Look out and look up for this special Game Show Event currently in World Tour on Kyoto, Las Vegas, Bernal and Monaco. No Cashout Station is safe, so you better bring your best protection or your fastest team.

EVENT PASS | RIGHT TO STRIKE

Sponsored by IVADA.

IVADA will always have your back, Contestant. Protect your body and your assets with the new Right To Strike Event Pass, and enjoy the juicy deal the union brokered for you. Rewards from our special line to show you’re on top of your game, with a Legendary Item as a final reward.

Available for purchase now until October 1st. Once purchased, complete the pass at your own pace.

DLC | SILENT CYPHER SET

VAIIYA has sent their best agent in the Arena to harvest every single bit of data from the competition.

Slice through your opponents, leave no digital trail behind you and remember, VAIIYA is listening. The Silent Cypher Set includes a full outfit, the Legendary Decryptor Edge Sword, an Epic Emote and Charm alongside 2,400 Multibucks!

STORE | ZOLGABAR COMMAND

And.. Action!

The Starbounder’s archenemies are here to lead his plans astray. If it doesn’t work at first, you know what they say, the seventeenth time is the charm. It’s time to claim the spotlight for yourselves.

TWITCH | RED BROADCAST BLAZE

Tune in live to your favorite broadcast, watch anyone playing THE FINALS with Drops Enabled and grab some sweet skins for your gadgets.

Watch 1 hour to get the Red Broadcast Blaze Hover Pad
Watch 2 hours to get the Red Broadcast Blaze Barricade
Watch 4 hours to get the Red Broadcast Blaze Tracking Dart

Available now until September 24th, 2026. Terms and conditions on twitch.tv

ESPORTS | MEET THE CONTENDERS

The Online Series has finished, and three teams have earned their tickets to The Grand Major 2026. It’s Five Fears, Luminon Gaming, and KingZero heading to Dreamhack Stockholm, where sixteen teams will compete for $150,000 from November 27 to 29.

Missed the season? Here’s who you’re meeting.

EMEA | Five Fears

Five Fears made themselves almost impossible to catch on game day, with a whole cycle left to play. They won the second and third of the region’s four events, and that second win came after losing their opening Cashout, then fighting back through the lower bracket. For this roster, even a bad start couldn’t keep them from the title. They had finished the season with a place on every podium, so if you’re looking for a team that’s been consistent and strong, start here.

AMERICAS | Luminon Gaming

Fourth, third, second, first. That’s right, Luminon Gaming’s roster is improving throughout the season, one placement at a time. Ending with a win when a direct invitation was resting on the line. You might remember them as Team ED before they joined Luminon Gaming. They entered the last event tied at the top with Unphased, then beat NTMR in the final to finish the season as our regional champions. Now that climb takes them to Stockholm!

APAC | KingZero

KingZero won the opening cycle and led the region through the first half of the season. Then HIBOO, now signed by Ape Squad, had taken the lead with just one event remaining. KZ had to take back the golden ticket standing, and a third-place finish in the last cycle was enough to reclaim the top spot and the invitation. They reached the podium in all four cycles. A reminder that you do not have to win every show to win out the season!

So, can you join them?

Thirteen places are still up for grabs. The Closed Qualifiers decide who fills them, with teams from the Online Series meeting challengers coming up from the Open Qualifiers. Win this stage and the next stop is The Grand Major.

APAC’s Closed Qualifier stage is already set, but if you’re from AMERICAS or EMEA and you think you have what it takes to face the main stage, feel free to sign up below,with a chance to get an exclusive charm for participating in the Open Qualifiers

AMER | SIGN UP HERE
EMEA | SIGN UP HERE

Thank you from all of us watching along throughout the Online Series. It’s been exciting to see the community come together through OFL, ProHubs and ApeSquad running watch-parties during the T16 stages, to watching everyone cheer their teams and following the fight for qualification, and now the main event is getting ready.
We have only one question left...

CAN YOU REACH THE FINALS?

GAME UPDATE | BALANCE CHANGES

Gadgets

Zipline

Decreased cooldown from 37s to 30s
Increased max placement distance from 40m to 50m

Dev Note: The Zipline has struggled to find relevance in the meta for a while now compared to the Jumppad and Gateway. These changes aim to close that gap a little.

Specializations

Evasive Dash

Decreased cooldown from 6s to 5s per charge

Dev Note: We decreased the cooldown from 6.5s to 6s in the 11.6 update, but our feeling is this didn’t have the level of impact we wanted once we saw it being played in the live game. This further reduction of one second to the cooldown hopefully helps to balance out the Evasive Dash versus alternatives like the Cloaking Device.

Cloaking Device

Increased the visibility of the Cloaking Device when stationary by decreasing how much it blends in with the surrounding environment, making cloaked players slightly easier to spot

Dev Note: We’re aware that a lot of players find it frustrating to face cloaked players, so this adjustment aims to make them slightly easier to find than they have been in recent months. We’re not 100% convinced this is the only change we’ll need to make to this aspect of the game to get it to a better place for all players, and we’re continuing to explore other ideas around the combat loop when it comes to cloaking, but any additional changes will come in later releases, when we’ve had a chance to see how this change plays.

GAME UPDATE | CONTENT & BUG FIXES

Audio

Fixed missing destruction sound effects for several office props in Skyway Stadium
Improved audio mix for the Rhythm & Bruise Emote so its music plays at the intended level|

Contract

Fixed the "Detect 5 opponents" contract not counting tracking darts

Cosmetic

The Purple Reign jacket no longer clips with bandoliers and emblems

Game Modes

Tutorial

Updated location of the 2nd Cashout in the tutorial away from the construction site

Rendering

Fixed an issue that made some materials noisier when anti-aliasing was disabled

Performance

Fixed an issue that caused some textures to use more memory than intended
Fixed an issue that caused a minor regression in CPU performance of rendering work
Optimized the time it takes to change Overall and Effects quality settings in-game

Stability

Fixed a rare server hang that could occur when processing corrupt network data
Fixed a PS5 crash that could occur shortly after entering the Arena
Fixed a crash that could occur when saving replay checkpoints
Mitigated a game hang that occurred more frequently when NVIDIA DLSS Frame Generation was enabled
Fixed an issue that caused the game to hang when being suspended on Xbox