Critically acclaimed MMORPG Ultimate Fantasy XIV is many issues to many individuals, and now gamers can escape to their very own Animal Crossing model island getaway with the upcoming FFXIV Island Sanctuary, which was detailed in Dwell Letter 71. As well as, sport director Naoki Yoshida and neighborhood producer Toshio Murouchi expanded on a lot of the upcoming content material gamers can count on with FFXIV patch 6.2, which is scheduled for late August.
Island Sanctuary is a person island that every participant will get for themselves. It’s dealt with largely individually from the remainder of the sport, with its personal supplies, currencies, and stock that are all dealt with independently in order to not muddle up gamers’ regular inventories. You possibly can develop crops, domesticate seeds, look after creatures, and develop and beautify your island to your coronary heart’s content material. Every island is exclusive to you and the development is designed for solo play, however gamers will be capable to invite pals and free firm members to go to their islands.
Yoshi-P emphasises that the islands are fairly massive – pointing to a tiny dot simply seen on a large overhead shot that he says is a Roegadyn, for example of their scale. Island Sanctuary is anticipated to reach with replace 6.25, so gained’t be right here for August’s patch, however it ought to give gamers a complete new technique to spend their time in Eorzea. We might not have Animal Crossing on PC, however this definitely appears like a great different.
As for the opposite updates from FFXIV Dwell Letter 71, listed here are all the important thing particulars:
- Patch 6.18, that includes new worlds and the introduction of information centre journey, will go stay on July 5 as deliberate following a 24-hour upkeep interval to implement the brand new options.
- Season 2 of Crystalline Battle will start with patch 6.18, with Season 3 launching in patch 6.2 alongside the return of Rival Wings.
- Patch 6.2, titled Buried Reminiscence, arrives in late August.
- Tataru’s Grand Journey continues in 6.2 – and can function the sky pirates from Heavensward’s Shadow of Mhach alliance raid sequence. This implies gamers might want to full the alliance raid so as to progress this storyline additional.
- A brand new MSQ dungeon is being added with 6.2 known as The Fell Courtroom of Troia – it’s an imposing fort that appears to be positioned within the Void.
- A brand new trial and excessive trial are coming, however Yoshida declined to supply particulars for these till the discharge.
- The second a part of Endwalker’s raid sequence, Pandaemonium: Abyssos, is coming with 6.2. The savage raid will comply with one week after the patch – the primary time in FFXIV’s historical past the place such a delay has been imposed. The group says this can be a take a look at to see the way it impacts issues such because the world first race, and can contemplate participant suggestions earlier than deciding whether or not to proceed this pacing for future raids.
- Containment Bay S1T7 (unreal) is being added with 6.2, a brand new unreal trial variant of the battle with Sephirot aimed to match the unique problem of the Heavensward battle.
- Job changes can be made for courses in each PvE and PvP, however Yoshida says that the deliberate “intensive changes” to the Astrologian and Dragoon jobs have been postponed in the intervening time as an excessive amount of work is required to complete them.
- Yoshida says plans are in place to make changes that may encourage gamers with abilities that assure vital or direct hits to nonetheless profit from these stats on their gear.
- Obligation assist can be added in patch 6.2 for 5 dungeons in post-ARR and Heavensward content material: Snowcloak, the Keeper of the Lake, Sohm Al, the Aery, and the Vault.
- One of many remaining pre-Heavensward story trials, The Steps of Religion, has been retuned right into a single-player instanced trial. As well as, Thornmarch (exhausting) has been revamped – the group says they felt it was an excessive amount of of an issue spike for what’s now the primary 8-player story trial with the modifications to earlier story content material in A Realm Reborn.
- Adventurer plates and participant portraits are popping out of beta with patch 6.2. The participant portrait system has been reworked to make it easier to make use of, however would require gamers to retake their portraits as ones from the beta interval can be misplaced.
- New Allagan Tomestones of Causality have been added, together with new high-level crafted gear.
- Gamers will now be capable to request gear repairs from different gamers, together with whereas inside an obligation.
- Glamour dresser capability has been elevated from 400 to 800 slots.
- Patch 6.25 will see the return of Someway Additional Hildibrand Adventures, which may also embrace “new weapon enhancement quests” that tease the involvment of each Gerolt Blackthorn and Godbert Manderville.
- New tribal quests for the robotic Omicrons are coming in 6.25, which can be centered across the Disciples of the Land gathering jobs.
- New battle content material known as “variant dungeons” are coming with patch 6.25 – these are described as informal stage 90 dungeons for 1-4 gamers that scale to social gathering dimension. They don’t have any position restrictions, gamers can change jobs freely, and the development route and story of the dungeon can alter primarily based on participant alternative.
- The primary variant dungeon is The Sil’dihn Subterrane, the place gamers can be joined by “a sure somebody” on their adventures, who will speak and supply extra story content material in the course of the dungeon.
- Two extra such variant dungeons are deliberate to be launched in the course of the 6.x Endwalker content material roadmap.
- As well as, two more durable variations of this dungeon with a hard and fast 1 tank, 1 healer, 2 DPS composition are coming, that are described as equal to the acute and savage variants of the dungeon. In these, regular resurrection skills are restricted and gamers are granted restricted revives – if the whole social gathering wipes, all enemies within the dungeon will come again, and gamers should take care of an enrage timer in the event that they take too lengthy to clear the encounter.
Yoshida notes that he’s been so busy that he hasn’t had time to answer many interviews currently, however he did take a while out of his schedule to speak to PCGamesN about accessibility instruments in FFXIV. The neighborhood for the multiplayer sport has a status for being very supportive, however some gamers really feel that the report system continues to be unhealthy for the cases the place issues do go unsuitable.
