As you enter the large world of Valisthea in Ultimate Fantasy 16, you might be questioning the place precisely you must begin by way of getting your ft on the bottom, and being able to deal with the various challenges the sport has to supply whereas following Clive’s unbelievable story. We’ve put collectively an inventory of what we expect are essentially the most helpful gameplay tricks to get you began in your adventures.
1. Story-Targeted Versus Motion-Targeted Mode
When you begin Ultimate Fantasy 16 off with one basic problem setting, there are nonetheless methods to regulate it based mostly on the kind of expertise you’re searching for. You’ll be given the choice to decide on whether or not you desire a “story-focused” expertise, or an “action-focused” one.
Story-focused implies that the general problem of battle content material shall be scaled again, leading to enemies with much less HP that do much less injury than regular, permitting you to go fights comparatively simply and benefit from the storyline at first. In distinction, action-focused mode will hold enemies at a comparatively regular problem, if the gameplay is what you’re set on and also you need extra of a problem all through the story.
Additionally, don’t be anxious for those who select considered one of these modes and finally determine you’re not happy with it. You’ll be able to change from one to the opposite at any time by way of the System tab within the Predominant Menu as seen above. Aspect scroll to Sport Settings, and the Gameplay choice will assist you to toggle to both mode you want.
2. Use These Well timed Equipment You’re Given
Together with with the ability to change between story and action-focused settings, the sport additionally supplies the participant with a set of “well timed equipment”. These are extremely useful not simply early on however all through the story, as they’ll flip the tide with a number of the most difficult content material within the sport.
Primarily they additional regulate your fight expertise by way of sure gameplay options, from dodging, to therapeutic, to pulling off combos extra simply. The 5 equipment embody:
- Ring of Well timed Therapeutic – Clive will routinely use a potion to heal himself when his HP reaches a sure threshold. Normal potions are prioritized over Excessive Potions.
- Ring of Well timed Help – Your loyal canine Torgal will routinely assault and use his abilities on his personal, and likewise auto-combo assaults with Clive when ready.
- Ring of Well timed Evasion – Utterly evade eligible assaults routinely.
- Ring of Well timed Strikes – Clive’s combo assaults are executed with simply the sq. button.
- Ring of Well timed Focus – Time slows down earlier than any incoming evadable assault, permitting Clive to dodge extra simply. This impact doesn’t work if the Ring of Well timed Evasion is already outfitted.
3. Easy methods to Inventory Up Potions Shortly
As you journey by every new space of Ultimate Fantasy 16, you’ll undoubtedly discover shards of sunshine that beam up from the bottom, which sign gadgets you possibly can decide up. One of many extra widespread issues to seek out are potions, and it seems these shards of sunshine is usually a useful option to refill on potions shortly and simply.
Each time you re-enter an explorable space of the sport, the sunshine shards in that space will respawn, and they’re going to at all times have the identical gadgets in the identical spots. For instance, as seen above, close to the very entrance to Caer Norvent Glorieuse Gate, there’s a Excessive Potion gentle shard location so that you can reap the benefits of. Merely go over and decide up the potion, depart the realm, come again and will probably be there as soon as once more.
Repeat this as many instances as you need. Whereas it might take a little bit of time, it might probably definitely be a great way to avoid wasting gil in the long term, particularly earlier on when your funds are restricted.
4. Promote These Valuables To Enhance Your Gil Funds
As you purchase increasingly more gadgets all through your travels in Valisthea, you’ll discover at instances that you simply get gadgets akin to Gil Bugs and Goblin Cash. These are distinctive gadgets that don’t have a function exterior of actually simply being offered for additional gil, denoted by the yellow phrase on the backside of their description.
As you decide these up, don’t neglect to commerce them in for funds, which you’ll want to begin constructing as quickly as attainable for different functions like new gear, crafting, and so on. You may as well check out our information for easy methods to earn cash quick within the sport.
5. Be Cautious About Promoting Weapons & Gear
Whereas it’s secure to promote the extra primary weapons and equipment you get firstly of the sport, it’s necessary to know forward of time that as you progress, you’ll wish to begin saving a few of these blades and armor for crafting functions.
Blackthorne on the Hideaway will begin offering recipes for higher and higher gear, a few of which would require a base weapon to construct upon, typically ones you’ve already gotten a method or one other. This contains the legendary items he’ll begin providing in a while.
You’ll save your self an honest quantity of gil and/or time having to re-acquire these base weapons by simply holding on to them, and ready till he asks you handy one over. In any case, you don’t get greater than a pair thousand gil on common for promoting sub-par weapons anyway. You’re higher off going and finishing a Infamous Hunt for 5 instances that quantity.
Additionally be sure you verify in with each Charon and Blackthorne typically on the Hideaway. As you progress the story, they’ll continuously have new gadgets obtainable for buy/crafting.
6. Ought to You Craft or Simply Reinforce Gear?
On the identical tangent of crafting weapons and armor, it’s additionally necessary to know sooner somewhat than later about whether or not it’s higher to craft gear from scratch or concentrate on reinforcing current items.
Upon unlocking Blackthorne the blacksmith on the Hideaway, you’ll have entry to each crafting and reinforcing weapons and armor. A lot of the ones obtainable within the sport have three tiers of improve, together with:
- ‘Base Weapon/Merchandise Degree’
- ‘Weapon/Merchandise +1’
- Weapon/Merchandise +2′
Examples of this may be seen within the picture above. Now the query stays of whether or not you must craft these things from scratch, or choose to bolster as an alternative. Primarily, to avoid wasting gil and principally plenty of time, reinforcing is the higher choice. When crafting, you’ll generally want a number of totally different supplies of various quantities, which you’ll need to grind from totally different enemies in several areas.
Conversely, for those who merely go to Charon and purchase a base weapon/armor piece from her, then take it to Blackthorne for upgrading, he’ll ask for much fewer of those self same uncooked supplies. Total, to make environment friendly use of your time and funds, strategies like these are confirmed to work higher in your favor.
7. Get Into the Behavior of Saving Usually
Whereas earlier Ultimate Fantasy titles might have restricted the flexibility to avoid wasting progress, FF16 offers you whole liberty to avoid wasting anytime and wherever you need, which could be particularly useful when approaching severe challenges like a Chronolith Trial, a Infamous Hunt, or a severe checkpoint within the story.
You are able to do a handbook save, with beneficiant auto-saves as backup, and likewise warp again to obelisks if want be. The latter will even absolutely replenish your potions.
8. Observe Dodging
As you have interaction in increasingly more battles with totally different enemies, you’ll discover that the primary technique of avoiding injury is, fairly merely, dodging. It’s a fixture of the gameplay, and it’s one thing you’ll must follow till it’s second nature, particularly for those who’re seeking to tackle essentially the most difficult battle content material within the sport.
Given Clive’s distinctive skills, if you dodge an incoming assault you get a fast burst of motion that covers fairly a little bit of floor, and also you’re granted a short window of invincibility that may be essential in key moments of a battle.
Additionally, for those who’re in a position to dodge on the final second, you’ll acquire a Precision Dodge bonus, which lets you then chain a Precision Counter proper after. When you get the dangle of it, this can contribute plenty of additional injury in opposition to tough enemies.
9. There Are Two Totally different Sorts of Sidequests
When you’re the type of participant that likes to tackle as many sidequests as attainable, then you must undoubtedly know that there are literally two totally different sorts of sidequests present in FF16. Provided that the distinction itself is somewhat delicate on the look, that is one thing many gamers can overlook.
Common sidequests, which offer regular-tier rewards upon completion, are denoted on the map and over the heads of NPCs by a inexperienced bubble with an exclamation mark. This makes up nearly all of the sidequests discovered all through the sport, so that you’ll be seeing that image essentially the most.
Nevertheless, there may be one other sub-set of sidequests which might be denoted by an analogous inexperienced bubble, this time with a plus mark as an alternative. These present much more important rewards within the type of everlasting upgrades for Clive, from with the ability to trip a chocobo, to potion stock will increase, to new recipes from Blackthorne. As such, you’ll wish to do these quests as quickly as you get them.
10. Unlock Obelisks As Quickly As Doable
The world map of Valisthea is so huge, that whereas driving a chocobo is definitely faster in getting from one place to a different, one of the simplest ways to journey within the sport is undeniably the Obelisk quick journey factors. With these you possibly can actually zoom from one nook of the map to the opposite if want be. Additionally, do you have to fall in battle, you could be warped again to the closest Obelisk which will even replenish your spent potions, as talked about earlier.
So far as unlocking all the Obelisks, nearly all of them are achieved by way of important story development, and a choose few require merely discovering your manner on foot to them.
The faster you unlock them, the better it’ll be to get round, particularly when some quests require you to hop round from place to put. There are 28 Obelisks in all to unlock, so be sure you don’t miss one.
That concludes our information for issues to do first in Ultimate Fantasy 16. We hope you discover this useful when starting your journey with Clive, and tell us what you want most in regards to the sport to date.
You should definitely take a look at all of our different guides, akin to our Ultimate Fantasy 16 Trophy Record & Information.
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