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Wondering about The Finals game modes? Excluding limited-time event game modes, The Finals has four default modes to play. With the imminent arrival of season 2, one new game mode is being added. Let’s break down each mode and what you need to do to win.
The Finals is a round-based FPS and your team needs to beat the others to win each game. Depending on the game mode, your goal is to earn the most amount of money and get a lead over the other teams.
For more The Finals, read our guides covering we’ve got guides covering how to change and equip skins and how to get Credits. Now, these are the game modes in The Finals.
All game modes in The Finals
There are four game modes in The Finals: Quick Cash, Bank It, and Ranked and Unranked tournaments. Technically, Practice is also a game mode, but this is for learning how to play. In The Finals, you need to earn more money than the enemy teams. In the case of Quick Cash, collecting money two times will reach the limit, and your team will win the game. Within each game, there can be several rounds until you have a winner.
Quick Cash
Quick Cash (otherwise known as Cashout) is a 3v3v3 match where all three squads rush to collect a vault and cash it out. For this game mode, you need to extract two of these vaults before the other teams do. Find a vault, grab the box, and cash it out. You can get back into the action quickly with fast respawn times, but this mode will usually end very fast if a team can get ahead.
Bank It
Bank It is different to Quick Cash and it consists of four teams of three people in more of a team deathmatch game mode. You still need to get cash, but you can take it to extract it. After 15 minutes, the team that has extracted the most money will win – or the first team to reach $40,000 will win the game.
Ranked and Unranked Tournament
The ranked mode in The Finals puts you against 16 different teams in a bracket. After playing four games, all four teams will have played against each other and then the two squads who come in first will go through to the next level.
In terms of the mode, Ranked plays out similarly to Quick Cash where you need to snag vaults and move them to extraction points. This continues until you eventually get to one final winner after several different games. The Unranked Tournament in The Finals features eight teams in total and you don’t get any progress towards your overall rank.
They don’t even serve as placement games, it’s just a way to experience the Ranked experience with a bit of leniency and play around with different loadouts.
Smoking Guns – limited event-specific mode
Smoking Guns is an ongoing limited-time event mode. It has the same rules as Cashout, but with a few tweaks to make it interesting. It is a single match featuring 3v3v3v3, for a total of 12 players across four teams. Smoking Guns has event-specific contracts to complete, letting you earn unique rewards.
Having 12 players in a match is three more than the usual Cashout matchup, making for an extremely hectic game mode. If you’ve yet to try it out, you only have until March 14 to play it before it disappears.
Power Shift – 5v5
Power Shift is a brand new game mode introduced in season 2 of The Finals. This mode is effectively a 5v5 team deathmatch. During Power Shift, two teams will compete to escort a platform through the arena without being interrupted by the enemy team. If the enemy team gets control, they can start pushing the platform back the way it came and towards you. The first team to get the platform to the designated area will win.
That’s all you need to know about all the game modes in The Finals. For more, make sure you read our guides covering how to use your reserve loadout and how to fix the black screen on launch error.
The Finals game modes FAQs
Can you play The Finals solo?
You can, but only if your whole team rage quits out and you’re the last one standing.
Will there be more game modes in The Finals?
Yes! There have been limited-time event modes such as Smoking Guns and there will be a new permanent game mode in The Finals season 2 called Power Shift.
