Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is constructing as much as its subsequent enlargement, Shadowbringers, however there’s nonetheless just a few updates and a pair surprises due earlier than its July 2nd launch. Among the goodies is a fun-looking crossover occasion with Final Fantasy XV. Players will get to hang around with Prince Noctis, battle magitek robots from his world, and even borrow his remodeling, flying automobile – the expansive MMORPG’s first four-player mount. The crossover is due out in mid-April. Take a gander on the occasion trailer under, and a peek at a number of the different bits on the best way.
Sadly, it appears like solely Noctis has gone roaming between worlds – no signal of the remainder of his band of lads – however meaning you get some high quality time with him. There’s adventures to go on, mechs to battle, possibly a god or two to beat up and even some campfire down-time. No phrase on what you’ll should do to earn it, however you possibly can unlock the Regalia as a mount, and it may possibly seat 4 gamers, coincidentally the usual get together measurement. With Shadowbringers set to allow you to recruit story NPCs to your get together, you’ll even get an opportunity to take Thancred, Urianger and Y’shtola for a time out.
Coming in simply over per week on Tuesday, February 12th, the subsequent main replace for the game will add one other endgame mass co-op searching floor, Eureka Hydatos. It’s full of massive roaming bosses, like this large grumpy dragon:
And there’s a brand new map coming for the MOBA-like Rival Wings PvP mode, the place massive groups of gamers escort lovely little clockwork minions round and sometimes pilot large mechs. The new map is known as Hidden Gorge, and is split by a prepare monitor (with the occasional passing steam-train) working by means of the centre.
Also deliberate to roll out earlier than the launch of Shadowbringers is patch 4.56, which can conclude the present most important story arc and sure go away us on a dramatic pre-Shadowbringers cliffhanger. It’ll additionally embrace one other slapstick journey with Hildibrand and his bumbling buddies to supply comedian reduction. Patch 4.57 is including the World Visit system, letting gamers hop between servers at will and play with their buddies all over the world. There’s no date on these two, nevertheless. Still, that’s quite a bit to chew on and catch as much as earlier than July 2nd, and there’s lots to sit up for after that, too.
As Jay covered previously, among the many post-expansion stuff coming to the game is a Nier: Automata crossover story arc written and directed by Yoko Taro and his pal Yosuke Saito. During the announcement on the FFXIV fan-fest keynote they joked that Square had clearly gone insane and this could kill the Final Fantasy collection, however requested us to sit up for it anyway. YoRHa followers have a wait forward of them, although – the Nier story arc begins with a patch due just a few months after Shadowbringers launches, and can take round a yr to conclude, so that you’ve acquired time to catch up.
You can watch the complete FFXIV fan-fest keynote here, or skip to the Nier announcement here. Patch 4.45 launches on February 12th, the FFXV crossover occurs in April, and Shadowbringers launches on January 2nd.
