Closing Fantasy XIV Reveals Replace 6.5 Gameplay Aplenty, Particulars, & KFC Collaboration

Right now Sq. Enix hosted the 79th Letter from the Producer Stay broadcast devoted to its common MMORPG Closing Fantasy XIV, specializing in the following main replace, numbered 6.5 and titled “Rising Gentle.“.

As normal, the goodies had been delivered by producer and director Naoki Yoshida and world group producer Toshio Murouchi.

We already know that Half 1 of the replace can be launched on October 3, whereas Half 2 (Replace 6.55) will are available mid-January.

Under you may see how the patches align with the upcoming Fan Festivals.

Replace 6.5 will carry changes to jobs to stability injury output between them inside every rose. The efficiency of sure job actions may even be elevated. 

We then transfer on to the brand new Trial, The Abyssal Fracture, which is able to characteristic Zeromus. We get to take the primary glimpse of gameplay and you may watch it in the recording of the official livestream (the hyperlink will set you up on the right timestamps, like all the same hyperlinks on this article.)

Transferring on to Crystalline Battle, it will get minimap and UI changes, together with new settings to completely show your staff to the left of the minimap and HUD. 

A brand new line on the sphere will point out the “Comeback Level,” which is how far the shedding staff should attain to show the tide.

There may even be a setting to show a countdown timer ten seconds earlier than the beginning of time beyond regulation.

The progress bar may even be enhanced to offer higher and extra readable data, as you may see under. 

Results for sure actions, pets, and extra, have been adjusted to look totally different relying on whether or not they’re pleasant or forged by enemies, coming in replace 6.51.

Lastly, there can be a brand new enviornment, named the “Purple Sands” coming in replace 6.51. You’ll be able to watch some footage displaying it off from the livestream’s recording. 

We then check out PvP rewards. The second image exhibits glamours you can get for trophy crystals. 

Subsequent we hear about Thaleia, the following alliance raid. Of this, you can too watch more footage from the livestream’s recording. By the way, we get the primary take a look at Thaliak.

We return to the standard paper prints for a take a look at the armor you can earn in Thaleia and a few new housing gadgets, together with a stair that may allow us to climb on high of roofs and a Magitek armor bay. 

Extra photos present a preview of recent glamours, together with a cute one associated to Island Sanctuary with cat ears and a Kappa mascot costume. The Kappa will come later within the 6.5X cycle. 

The following gameplay phase exhibits a brand new fairy that may seem someplace within the 6.5X replace collection (which may even function a mount), new mounts, and minions. As normal, you may check out the recording of the footage. 

Indirectly associated to the replace, Sq. Enix is contemplating using cloud information facilities with the intention to develop its server infrastructure choices sooner or later.

A North American cloud information middle can be quickly applied for a public stress take a look at to be held in the course of the 6.5x patch collection. Additional data can be shared at a later time. 

Subsequent, we get the announcement of a collaboration with Kentucky Fried Hen. It’ll begin in Japan on October 4, 2023. 

You should purchase a devoted combo meal at taking part retailers throughout the nation to obtain stickers and the “Eat Hen” in-game emote. 

The marketing campaign is just for Japan, however normally, the associated in-game gadgets come to the West as effectively, sooner or later. 

We additionally hear of a fireworks occasion on November 3 in Chiba, Japan. Ticket pre-orders are actually open. An analogous occasion was held in Osaka final month. 

We additionally hear the official announcement of the Closing Fantasy XIV TTRPG leaked a couple of days in the past.

You’ll be able to watch the complete livestream under.

Under you could find a useful primer on which components of the replace will are available Half 1 (Replace 6.5) and which options will are available Half 2 (Replace 6.55). Some may even are available.between (Updayte 6.51)

Many of those options and content material had been defined within the earlier Letter from the Producer Stay.

• New important situation quests.
  • Rising Gentle, Half 1 (Patch 6.5)
  • Rising Gentle Half 2 (Patch 6.55)
• Tataru’s Grand Endeavor Continues (Patch 6.55)
• Endwalker Tribal Alliance Quests (Patch 6.55)
  • Requires the completion of the Arkasodara, Omicron, and Loporrit Tribal Quests
• By some means Additional Hildibrand Adventures (Patch 6.55)
• Additional Manderville Weapons (Patch 6.55)
• Splendorous Instruments (Patch 6.51)
• New Dungeion  (Patch 6.5)
• New Trials (Patch 6.5)
  • The Abyssal Fracture
  • The Abyssal Fracture (Excessive)
• New Alliance Raid (Patch 6.5)
  • Myths of the Realm Half 3: Thaleia
• New Unreal Trial (Patch 6.5)
  • The Sungularity Reactor (Unreal)
• New Variant & Criterion Dungein (Patch 6.51)
  • Aloalo Island
    • In response to suggestions, new rewards meant to extend merchandise stage are within the works for Savage mode.
• Responsibility Help for Stormblooed  (Patch 6.5)
  • Responsibility Suppirt added for:
    • The Drowned Metropolis of Skalla
    • The Burn
    • The Ghimlyt Darkish
  • Responsibility Suoport will now be obtainable for all important situation dungeons from A Realm Rebiorn by means of Endwalker!
• Jod Adjusttments (Patch 6.5)
• PvP Updates  (Patch 6.5)
• Crystalline Battle Replace (some in Patch 6.5 and a few in 6.51)
• Island Sanctuary Updates ( Patch 6.5)
  • Nw Sanctuary Ranks and visions
  • New Gathering space within the wilds
  • New crops., isleworks handicrafts, animals, buildings, and extra,
  • Felicitous Favors
• Fall Guys Collaboration (Patch 6.5X. The exact timing remains to be unknown)
• Miscellaneous updates  (Patch 6.5)
  • New Customized Deliveries: Margaret
  • New consecutive aetherial discount operate for collectablws
  • Inexperienced dot indicators on newly logged fish within the Fish Information
  • Potential to retailer non-compulsory gadgets within the Armoire
  • Choice to kind teleport locations by growth
  • New reward for acquiring all trial mounts within the 6.x patch collection
  • Merchandise stage restrictions for Responsibility Roulette: Alliance Raid based mostly on stage
  • EXP and Allagan tomestone rewards for every alliance raid adjusted in line with troublesome and time required for completion.

In different Closing Fantasy XIV information, the brand new growth “Dawntrail” has been introduced and it is coming for PS5, PS4, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S in summer time 2024.