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Patch 1.32 is arriving on May 9 and will fix the New Game+ bug stopping some Final Fantasy XVI players from progressing through the “A Chance Encounter” main scenario quest.  The Final Fantasy XVI team announced the existence of the bug exactly one week ago today. The bug may occur when players begin New Game+ from some game locations and choose to skip the prologue. If affected, in-game party members become invisible and progress in the main scenario quest, “A Chance Encounter,” becomes impossible. While there were a couple of suggested workarounds impacted players could try like restarting New Game+ and not skipping the prologue, the development team prioritized finding a solution and...
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Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida, aka Yoshi-P, has posted an update on the revamped Dawntrail benchmark that will replace the first one launched last month. May 23 is the tentative release date for the new benchmark but Yoshi-P notes it is not a confirmed date and it could end up launching later that week. The lengthy Lodestone post also went over the reworks the development team has been implementing based on player feedback from the April benchmark’s character creator. On the docket first was fixing the environmental parameters that didn’t reflect Dawntrail’sgraphical updates and were impacting character appearance. According to the post, elements like lighting, positioning of ligh...
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Hello everyone and welcome to another posting about what we have been doing behind the scenes here at Final Fantasy Info.com. Samina has been diligently gathering a lot of nice information about a lot of different things which we have been storing in a “To Do” queue just waiting to get up on the site as different media get their sections created and the appropriate page template made to display all this nice information, I would say right now there are about a dozen sets of information in the queue just waiting to get published. Unfortunately, most of that waiting is due to a lack of time on my (Matthew) part. Last month saw the finishing of my school semester in college so there was a lot o...
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We’re 62 days away from the July 2 launch of Dawntrail and server congestion continues to be a primary concern for the Final Fantasy XIV team. Today, they announced the creation of Shadow, a new European Data Center that’ll be ready for the summer launch. The new data center will include three new worlds appropriately themed after the 2019 Shadowbringers expansion. There’s Innocence, Pixie, and Titania. The FFXIV team will be monitoring login congestion carefully to determine the opening dates of the Shadow Data Center worlds. While you may see the Shadow Data Center following an upcoming May 7 update, none of the worlds will be accessible until the data center’s official launch which will b...
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Final Fantasy XVI may be done with DLC following the release of The Rising Tide but there’s no rest for the weary. The development team just announced the existence of a bug impacting New Game+ players that’s capable of preventing main scenario quest progress. The team has prioritized finding the cause of the bug and repairing it and is expected to release a patch once they do. While the bug is game-breaking in that it manages to prevent story progress, encountering it isn’t a sure thing. According to the announcement made on social media, there is a “small chance” of the bug occurring when a player selects New Game+ and opts to skip the prologue. Doing this could result in party members not...
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The team behind Final Fantasy VII Rebirth just announced a special event going down at this year’s Tribeca Festival in New York City. Called “From Fire to Firaga: Remaking Final Fantasy VII,” the director of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Naoki Hamaguchi, and the producer and director of the original Final Fantasy VII, Yoshinori Kitase, will be getting together at the SVA Theater on 23rd to discuss the ins and outs of remaking this iconic game. The event is set for Friday, June 14, with tickets going on sale next week on Monday, April 29, on the Tribeca website. Here’s a description of the event from the Tribeca event page. “Naoki Hamaguchi, the director of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and Yoshino...
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It’s the spirit-catching season in Final Fantasy XIV with the "Yo-kai Watch: Gather One, Gather All!" collaboration event returning on April 24. Running until the launch of Dawntrail, players can participate in FATEs in select regions to earn Yo-kai Watch minions, weapons, and mounts Yo-kai Watch is a popular Japanese game originally developed by Level-5 for the Nintendo 3DS back in 2013. The premise centers around a hero who uses a special device called a Yo-kai Watch to meet and befriend unique “Yo-kai” or spirits that have been haunting a whimsical city. But don’t worry, the Yo-kai aren’t modeled after the ghosts and ghouls you see in horror films. Yo-kai are cute and colorful like supern...
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In a letter posted to the Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone, producer and director Naoki Yoshida raises issues with the Dawntrail benchmark character creator released on April 14 that his team is reworking. Yoshida explains that the problems stem largely from lighting elements that impact the character creation environment where the Dawntrail graphical update wasn’t applied. The existing benchmark software will be replaced once the character creator is patched and reflects Dawntrail’s graphical capabilities. Yoshida calls out specific problems that the insertion of the graphical update will improve. “Lifeless” eyes due to a lack of highlights in the pupils Facial contours appearing flattened d...
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PlayStation recently updated its list of titles leaving its PlayStation Plus library and 7 Final Fantasy favorites are included. Players have about a month to enjoy these Final Fantasy classics before they depart the PlayStation Plus stable on May 21. These are all the Final Fantasy games headed out the door. Final Fantasy VII (PS4) Final Fantasy VIII Remastered (PS4) Final Fantasy IX (PS4) Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster (PS4) Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (PS4) Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition (PS4) World of Final Fantasy (PS4) The Final Fantasy titles leaving the PS Plus library (World of Final Fantasy not pictured). Technically 7 titles are on the chopping block, but...
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A new patch for Final Fantasy XVI dropped today in preparation for the game’s second and final DLC, The Rising Tide, which comes out tomorrow, April 18. This sizeable update comes with skill and accessory balancing, bug fixes, and some pretty cool quality-of-life changes that should make gameplay even more dynamic. First, Clive now has Skill Sets. Have you ever found yourself in an encounter where a certain skill you don’t have equipped would’ve come in really handy? With the ability to swap between five customizable Skill Sets by pressing L1 or R1, this should become less of an issue. In all likelihood, the arrival of Skill Sets right before the release of The Rising Tide makes sense consid...
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