Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers growth will launch on July 2nd, Square Enix have introduced in a keynote on the Paris fan-festival.
Game director and producer Naoki Yoshida additionally spoke about many new particulars, together with saying a crossover raid that can draw on the world of Nier: Automata, known as YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse.
A brand new trailer, helpfully grabbed by YouTuber Giuseppe’s Gaming, teases most of the growth’s additions, together with story beats and the brand new job class, often known as gunbreaker:
NieR: Automata’s game director, Yoko Taro, and government producer Yosuke Saito made a recorded look to speak in regards to the new raid. It’ll be an Alliance raid, the sort that 24 gamers run collectively, however the pair largely cracked jokes in regards to the sudden crossover moderately than giving any particulars away. Saito did level out that Automata’s story wrapped up fairly neatly, so it appears it’ll as a substitute pull from the broader world.
Yoshida spoke a few flurry of different content material, together with 9 new dungeons, a brand new high-end raid collection, and a transforming of the battle system that can change and merge some character skills. Shadowbringers additionally introduces a brand new tribe, the pixies, and gamers will face off towards their regent, Titania.
The MMO can also be getting a brand new playable race, the bunny individuals of the Viera, as hinted at back in November when the growth was first introduced. Yoshida talked about that they’re having to edit how helmets work to account for the Viera’s ears, although he didn’t point out getting them a tailor to stitch their extraordinarily holed clothes again collectively.
The keynote additionally detailed the collector’s version, and a New Game+ mode that can permit gamers to replay previous story missions and job quests with their present progress and objects with out inflicting any modifications to their present character.
Yoshida wrapped up by promising but extra info, like the brand new job class and village which might be but to be revealed, at Tokyo’s fan-festival in March – although he did tease that extra particulars may slip by means of at different panels throughout Paris’s celebration. You can watch the keynote in full by way of the Final Fantasy XIV Twitch channel.
