Refining Your Reflexes for The Finals
The Finals is an interesting first-person shooter, as it borrows elements from multiple different titles and throws them into a cocktail of gameplay. While playing this unique game, you will come across CoD-style gunplay, Battlefield-style environmental destruction, and higher time to kill alongside a class selection reminiscent of more hero based titles such as Overwatch or Apex Legends.
Due to the highly destructive environments found in The Finals, you will often be ambushed by opponents that seemingly come out of nowhere as they burst through walls, ceilings, and even staircases to rush you. When everything is destructible, you will need to stay on high alert at all times. So forget relying on angle-holding to win your aim duels, and start working on your ability to react quickly.
To refine the aforementioned mechanics that rely on your reaction time, you will have to train your visual reaction time, along with your hand-eye coordination, through a category of tasks called “reactive flicking.” These tasks will seem frustrating at first, often making you feel “slow” as the targets disappear or relocate before you have time to land a shot on them, but in the long term, this type of training will come to be highly beneficial.
This featured task will help to enhance your ability to deal with targets that appear quickly and disappear just as quickly, ensuring that you refine the mechanics necessary to prepare yourself for the unpredictable combat encounters you will experience in The Finals.
You will be prompted to react to targets as they spawn near your crosshair within a confined play space. The targets will be static, meaning they are not moving, and there will only be one target on your screen at a time. Work on reacting quickly to the targets while also practicing to improve your micro corrections.