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The Season 3 Finale has been mostly well received, aside from the biggest complaint being the removal of Cashout from the rankings in favor of Terminal Attack. Fans were also unhappy with the LH1 and Sonar, but luckily this weapon and gadget recently received some major nerfs. While fans are happy about these two nerfs, many are as well The Finals community agrees that Embark went too far with a nerf to the CL-40.
Make sure to check out the update 3.1.0 patch notes to see all of Embark’s balance changes. While Terminal Attack is still Rated’s defacto mode, the good news is that Embark has solved the biggest problem for new players. Not only that, but in their explanation of why Cashout has been removed from Rated, Embark has hinted that the mode will return from World Tour at some point in the future.
While fans are happy that Embark listened to the community by delivering nerfs to the LH1 and Sonar, some in the Finals community believe that Embark got the CL-40 dirty at the start of Season 3.
Finale fans agree that CL-40 nerfs went too far
The CL-40 was updated in update 3.0.0 for The Finals Season 3. Below are the balance changes listed in the patch notes:
- Damage reduced from 110 to 93
- Increased rate of fire from 250 RPM to 275 RPM
- The duration of the pump action has been reduced from 0.7 s to 0.65 s
- The self-damage multiplier has been reduced from 1 to 0.75, reducing the damage the grenades do to the player using them
Since this nerf, there have been complaints online from the community. On Reddit, user Knooper_Bunny shared gameplay showing that the “new CL-40 nerf is brutal.”
You can check out the gameplay clip in the embedded Reddit post below. The clip shows the OP struggling to kill an opponent with the CL-40 despite taking several hits.
In the comments the OP said: “5 shots connected. 2 were splashes, 3 were direct impact. You can criticize my goal, but to say I “wouldn’t have gotten close” is just disingenuous. I absolute would have won this scenario pre-nerf.” This is a sentiment that the comments agree with, through comments like: “I play a fair amount of cl-40 and it would have killed me on the last shot that did any damage. They’ve gone a bit too far and speeding it up doesn’t help at all.”
Another said: ‘They keep thinking about it and don’t know why. It’s a grenade launcher. It would do an absurd amount of damage, so they have to balance around other weapons, but it’s not even a balance anymore.
Many comments blame the poor weapon balance on Terminal Attack. One comment says, “This is why we can’t balance around TA, causing the rest of the game to malfunction,” to which one user replied, “This is why it’s #RemoveTA and not just #BringBackRankedCashout. The game mode is either out of balance or f**ks with the rest of the entire game.”
More comments said: ‘I don’t understand why they rejected it. Literally no one complained about it,” to which another user blamed Terminal Attack, saying, “Terminal Attack, no other reason. For example, they didn’t want a weapon that could fire twice without needing a lot of accuracy in that mode.”
Unfortunately, Terminal Attack won’t be disappearing from Rated anytime soon, so for the here and now, we’re stuck with it. Season 3 was absolutely great with the new map in Japan coupled with the new Japanese-themed weapons, but Terminal Attack was unfortunately a significant tease.
For more The Finals, check out our guide to the best weapons in the game, and we also have a guide to the best gadgets. Additionally, we have a guide to the best FPS settings that will help you win matches, along with a ranking of the best classes in the game.