I almost don’t believe the destructibility in this FPS is real

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I almost don't believe the destructibility in this FPS is real



I thought multiplayer shooters had run out of ways to surprise me, but I had a genuine shock to the system yesterday morning watching this gameplay trailer for The Finals (opens in new tab), a free-to-play FPS in development by the ex-Battlefield devs at Embark Studios. The trailer shows a brief look at what’s apparently possible in The Finals: Entire buildings crumbling into hundreds of pieces at the whim of a grenade launcher while players parkour across the falling debris like Nathan Drake.

What I saw didn’t line up with my current understanding of what’s possible in online games. You can’t do destruction this big in a multiplayer lobby, so how is The Finals pulling it off? If I hadn’t seen it myself in a remote presentation by Embark, I wouldn’t believe it.



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