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- Release time: Roughly 11:48pm Mountain Time. 1735.11MB (PC), 1472.24MB(PS4)
- New Main Scenario Quests
- New Hildibrand Storyline
- New Beast Tribe! The Ananta
- New Dungeons:
- Hells' Lid and The Fractal Continuum (Hard)
- New Trials / New Set of Primals : The Four Lords
- This will be a new series of 4 Trials. The beasts located on the World Map are given as a hint...
- First one to be: Byakko, A White Tiger.
- The Jade Stoa - Normal and Extreme versions, for Byakko's fight.
- New Raids:
- Omega : Sigmascape (Normal and Savage)
- The Forbidden Land of Eureka:
- A new land, with a separate leveling system. (NOT Deep Dungeon)
- This area will expand as the game's patches progresses. You will expand your weapon AND your armor to make them stronger!
- Various Job Adjustments:
- BLM and WAR mentioned, but no specifics.
- The Feast Updates:
- New Map, Rule Revisions, and Ranked Team Matches
- New Map: Crystal Tower Training Grounds.
- Added because the dev team wants "to bring a more Final Fantasy feel to the PvP arena." (NOT related to the Crystal Tower series of raids.)
- Team Rankings similar to Grand Company recruitments.
- Rival Wings will also undergo adjustments.
- Match Length reduced to 6 minutes (currently 8 minutes), Supply Box times adjusted, Culling Time duration and Rate adjusted, Adrenaline Gauge Accumulation Rate adjusted. Offensive & Defensive supplies Removed, Player Respawn locations changed.
- Role-based Medal caps adjusted.
- Tank: 200, Melee DPS: 175, Ranged DPS: 150, Healer: 125 medals.
- Players in possession of fewer medals than the initial allotment will be granted the Light Medal status, which will make them receive less damage as a result.
- Glamour Updates:
- All Glamour Prisms will be unified into one type. (No more Goldsmith prisms, Blacksmith prisms, etc. Will be all one generic 'Glamour Prism' type.
- You can convert items (essentially destroying the item) and register the appearance of the item inside of a "Mirage Dresser". Will cost 1 glamour prism to destroy the item and record its appearance in the Mirage Dresser.
- Since the item is destroyed when converted, you obviously cannot wear it as equipment any longer unless you get another drop of the item.
- Maximum of 200 different items can be recorded in the "Mirage Dresser".
- Mirage Dresser only accessible from inside an Inn room. (For now!)
- Can mix and match items from the Mirage Dresser into 10 different "ensembles", which you can then apply to your gear inside Cities, Inns, Residential Areas, and the Ivory Chapel. The limit of 10 may be raised later down the line if the demand is high enough and "the time is right" for it.
- Ensembles are essentially another version of a gearset, except dealing with the physical appearance of the item only. (Does not swap items around, just their appearance.)
- Want to save an outfit for you to quickly swap into on the beach? Save a bikini top, bikini bottom, shoes, jewelry, and flower for your hair as an ensemble and quickly sport the look at the click of a button!
- Applying an Ensemble to your gear does not consume a Glamour Prism.
- An item can be dyed one color in one Ensemble, and it can be dyed a completely different color in a different Ensemble if you so wish. As an example: If you have a Cotton Shepherd's Tunic dyed White on one ensemble, you can have it dyed Black on another ensemble and the system will remember that.
- Items that can be placed in the Armoire cannot be converted/destroyed for use in the Mirage Dresser.
- The Current Glamour System will still exist. This is just being added as an alternative system, and as a way for people who frequently use the same item in multiple glamour sets a way to remove that item from their inventory and make it easier to swap into that item's appearance.
- Inventory Updates:
- Item Stack Limit raised to 999.
- 'Undo Sort' will be added, to undo the potential mess caused when using the 'Sort' command.
- Chocobo Saddlebags added. Essentially a 70 slot bag that can only be accessed outside of towns and outside of instanced areas. (Wherever you can summon your chocobo to appear to fight along side you). Items stored in these saddlebags cannot be used, put up for sale, delivered, used as components for crafting, etc. It is only a storage device. You can take the item(s) out of the saddlebags and place them into your inventory, and do whatever you want with them after that.
- New Housing Plots!
- Only a portion of the new plots will be available when the patch initially releases. As time goes on, more will be gradually released.
- There will also be 'changes to plot purchasing', which will be demonstrated at the next Live Letter.
- 'Perform' updates:
- New UI! You no longer need to use macros or individual notes assigned to your hotbars, instead you will have a keyboard layout that you can assign hotkeys or controller buttons to.
- Adjustments to the timing of when the note audio is played.
- 3 New instruments, for a total of 4 different instruments!
- New Allagan Tomestone:
- Mendacity.
- Dungeon Adjustments:
- Old Main Scenario Dungeons will be adjusted in some way.
- New Squadron Dungeons
- Duty Recorder!
- The server will allow you to record and revisit your adventures in instanced duties. Once saved, when reviewing the footage you can click around to view the different perspectives of your party members, or even the enemies themselves!
- You can pause the playback at any time and move the camera wherever you wish, including toggling on the Group Pose or Idle Cam functions.
- For this function to work:
- Duty Records must be enabled, Parties must meet the minimum size requirements, and ALL party members must consent to a new 'Ready Check', confirming that they're allowing themselves to be 'recorded' for somebody to view later. If a single party member declines the Ready Check, then the footage will not be saved. This feature is also ONLY allowed for pre-formed parties. You cannot use this in the Duty Finder with random players added.
- Player names will not be saved, and instead will use the Job name for each player when reviewing the footage later. (Dragoon, Dark Knight, etc.)
- Up to 3 different recordings can be saved at once, each one with a maximum of whatever the total length of the duty is. Currently the maximum length a duty can be is 120 minutes, so the maximum length of any one of the recordings is 120 minutes.
- A player's computer or console is not used to record the footage, it is all server-side with all player movement and actions being logged so you can see exactly what party members were doing later.
- Similar to how Street Fighter's replays are done.
- Footage can only be played back inside an Inn room.
- It is possible for footage to become 'out of date' or 'too old'. Causes for this could be: If any job actions are removed (such as Stoneskin), then it will be impossible to view the footage once that action is removed. Also can occur if any new Job actions are added like in new patches or a new expansion.
- It essentially uses the current game's data to play out the battle when you want to review it, and does not actually save a video recording of the duty. The server will record something like: "Player 1 moves to this location and uses Ability A at this time, then receives an Ability C heal from Player 2." If Ability A gets removed, then obviously the system won't know what Ability A is anymore and it will prevent the file from being viewed.
- You can disable the UI as well, opening up the possibility of some interesting cinematic choices for a fight.
- You can fast forward the footage 2x, 3x, or even 4x. But there is no 'slow motion' available due to how the game deals with packets.
- There will be a track bar available on a UI element to allow you to jump ahead to a certain part of the fight or phase. For example: If you want to watch the ending minute of a fight, you can click ahead on the track bar to that point in time without having to watch the entirety of the fight to get to that last minute.
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