Final Fantasy 16 Update 1.21 Patch Notes and Latest Updates

Final Fantasy XVI

Final Fantasy XVI is a video game made by Square Enix that came out in 2023 for PlayStation 5. It’s the sixteenth main game in the Final Fantasy series. You can play as Clive Rosfield, who lives in a world called Valisthea split into six nations. Each nation has special crystals and people called Dominants who can control powerful creatures called Eikons. There’s a big problem called the Blight that’s hurting the land.

Clive’s home gets destroyed, and he gets caught up in a war between the nations and a hidden force causing trouble. The game has cool places to explore and a combat system where you can fight using weapons and magic. A lot of people worked on making the game, and they wanted to tell a dark fantasy story that many people would like. Making the game was hard because of the COVID-19 pandemic and later the war in Ukraine.

People who reviewed the game liked the story, how it looked, the music, and how it played. But some said it didn’t have enough role-playing stuff, had technical problems, and the side tasks weren’t so good. The game sold more than three million copies in its first week after coming out.

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Final Fantasy 16 Update 1.21 Patch Notes

This update is available for all users, and makes the following changes:

Additional Features

Adds a new Inner Voice option to the Grand Cast menu, which can be viewed upon inquiring with Vivian about the State of the Realm.Hover the cursor over a character and press the touchpad to view their inner feelings toward their allies and enemies. See how each character’s feelings change as the story progresses.
Adds several new orchestrion rolls.These can be obtained from in-game vendors after progressing a certain way through the story.

Changes to Arcade Mode

Adds a technical bonus feature that increases battle performance scores.Attacking enemies and performing a variety of battle techniques fills the technical bonus gauge, which increases your score multiplier each time it crosses a certain threshold. The gauge depletes over time or upon taking damage.
Adds new accolades.These can be earned by clearing stages within a certain time limit or with a final battle performance score above a certain threshold.
Adjusts ranking thresholds over individual legs and stages.The changes described above allow players to earn higher battle performance scores than they could previously. The ranking thresholds are adjusted to account for this.
Introduces a new leaderboard.All scores earned after the update is installed will be recorded on this new leaderboard.
Allows you to view leaderboards and rankings from previous versions.
Adjusts the difficulty level of Ultimaniac stages.
Adds and adjusts explanations of various features.

Changes to Training Mode

Adds an Immediate Takedown option.With this option turned on, attacks will reduce an enemy’s will gauge by 50%, allowing you to partially stagger enemies with a single attack, then fully stagger them with a second attack.
Adds a Megaflare Level option.This option allows you to fix your Megaflare level to any value.
Adds a Zantetsuken Level option.This option allows you to fix your Zantetsuken level to any value.

System-related Changes

Adds a Photo Mode shortcut option.This option, accessible from the Game Settings tab of the System menu, allows you to launch Photo Mode by pressing the touchpad with two fingers.
Adds the ability to enter Photo Mode from the pause screen.This allows photos to be taken during cutscenes, with certain exceptions.
Adds the option to retry from the Game Over screen when Clive is defeated by a notorious mark.Retrying will return Clive to the point immediately before the battle with the notorious mark begins.
Allows you to examine the details of the rewards available from the Patron’s Whisper in the hideaway.
Adds the option to filter save data in the Load Game tab of the System menu.Press □ to cycle between the following filtering options: Show All Saves, Show Auto-saves, and Show Manual Saves.
Adds a Credits option to the title menu.This option, which allows you to view the credits sequence, becomes available after completing the game.
Adds and adjusts various UI elements.

Bug Fixes

Corrects the following issues:

Several issues wherein graphical elements did not display correctly during cutscenes.
Several issues wherein certain NPC animations were incorrect during certain quests.
Several issues wherein certain NPCs became positioned incorrectly under specific conditions during certain quests.
Several issues wherein progress became impossible in certain quests under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein quest objectives and destination markers did not display correctly in certain quests.
Several issues wherein NPC dialogue was incorrect in certain quests.
Several issues wherein the reward of ability points was incorrect in certain quests.
An issue wherein the demontamer’s armguards were impossible to obtain.
Several issues wherein enemies did not behave correctly under specific conditions during battle.
Several issues wherein collision detection did not behave correctly under specific conditions during battle.
Several issues wherein the camera did not behave correctly under specific conditions during battle.
Several issues wherein the frame rate dropped significantly during battle.
Several issues wherein abilities or limit breaks did not trigger correctly under specific conditions during battle.
Several issues wherein accessory effects did not trigger correctly under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein the menu did not display or update correctly in Chronolith trials.
An issue wherein the conditions to achieve the Mark of the Jongleur accolades were incorrect in Chronolith trials.
Several issues wherein the menu did not display or update correctly in Arcade Mode.
An issue wherein Clive’s clothing did not display correctly under specific conditions in Training Mode.
Several issues wherein menu navigation did not behave correctly under specific conditions in Training Mode.
Several issues wherein the AI of companion NPCs did not behave correctly.
Several issues wherein parkour animations did not trigger correctly under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein graphical elements and collision surfaces were set incorrectly in explorable areas and replayable stages.
Several issues wherein location names displayed at incorrect points in explorable areas and replayable stages.
An issue wherein certain menu screens flickered when the Graphics Settings option was set to Frame Rate.
Several issues wherein character animations did not trigger correctly under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein Active Time Lore elements did not update at the correct timing.
Several issues wherein menu elements did not display or update correctly in Vivian’s State of the Realm.
Several issues wherein menu elements did not display or update correctly in Harpocrates’s Thousand Tomes.
Several issues wherein entries in the Thousand Tomes did not update at the correct timing.
Several issues wherein Torgal’s Animal Instinct did not function correctly under specific conditions.
An issue wherein graphical elements did not display correctly in Photo Mode under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein areas failed to unlock on the world map under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein text and icons did not display correctly on the world map under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein the camera did not behave correctly under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein the wireless controller vibration and adaptive triggers did not function correctly under specific conditions.
An issue wherein progress towards the trophy Here Be Rosfields did not display correctly under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein incorrect images and videos appeared in tutorial slides.
Several issues wherein important notifications did not display correctly under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein audio elements did not trigger under specific conditions.
Several issues wherein the game would freeze under specific conditions.
Several minor text issues.

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Final Fantasy XVI Game Play

Final Fantasy XVI is a game where you play as Clive Rosfield, traveling across different areas in Valisthea. You’ll explore dungeons, towns, and open fields by walking or riding a bird-like creature called a Chocobo.

Clive has a hideout where he can talk to other characters, buy things like potions and weapons, and take on tasks like helping people or hunting monsters. There’s a special database in the game called Active Time Lore that holds info about places, characters, and words in the game.

When you encounter enemies, battles happen right where you are. Clive fights using attacks, dodges, and special powers from creatures called Eikons. Clive can switch between these powers during fights to create powerful combos. There’s also a tactic called ‘Stagger’ where you build up damage to stun enemies and hit them harder.

At the beginning, you can choose an easier ‘Story’ mode or a normal mode. Once you finish the game, you can play again in New Game+ mode with your old stats and items, or try a harder ‘Final Fantasy’ mode. There’s even an arcade mode that grades your combat skills and tougher challenges called Ultimaniac Mode. These modes let Clive upgrade weapons, and accessories and face specific challenges.

Final Fantasy XVI Plot

In Final Fantasy XVI, the story revolves around Clive, who used to protect his younger brother Joshua. During a ceremony to awaken Joshua’s powers, their father is killed, triggering Joshua’s transformation into the Phoenix Eikon. Unfortunately, Ifrit, another powerful creature, emerges and kills the Phoenix. Clive swears revenge but is enslaved in an enemy army due to his lack of special powers.

Thirteen years later, Clive deserts the army to free his childhood friend, Jill, who was enslaved as a Dominant. Together with a man named Cid, they seek Ifrit’s Dominant. Clive gains the power of an Eikon named Garuda after a fight, but things go wrong, leading to tragic events. Clive discovers he can transform into Ifrit, the one who killed Joshua.

As they witness the suffering caused by the nations’ Mothercrystals draining the land’s life force, Clive, Jill, and Cid decide to destroy these crystals causing the Blight. They encounter an otherworldly being called Ultima, which attempts to possess Clive. Joshua, who survived Ifrit’s attack, intervenes and contains Ultima within himself.

Misled by revenge, Hugo, a friend of Benedikta, is manipulated into attacking Clive. Clive destroys the Mothercrystal of the Iron Kingdom and faces Hugo, who transforms into a raging Titan. Clive gains control of Ifrit and defeats Hugo. Later, Dion accidentally kills his father and transforms into Bahamut. Clive helps Joshua defeat Bahamut, and the tragedy escalates as Anabella, Clive’s mother, becomes unhinged and kills herself.

Clive continues fighting Ultima’s agents, ultimately revealing Ultima’s plan to use him as a vessel by absorbing Eikons. Clive, Joshua, and Dion confront Ultima in his sky fortress. Dion falls in battle, and Ultima fatally wounds Joshua. Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After a fierce battle, Clive defeats Ultima, heals Joshua, and destroys the final Mothercrystal to rid Valisthea of magic.

In a glimpse into the future, magic becomes a myth, and peace prevails. Post-release expansions ‘Echoes of the Fallen’ and ‘The Rising Tide’ delve into the world’s elements, revealing more battles and Clive’s quest against artificial Mothercrystals and the Eikon Leviathan in the land of Misidia.

Final Fantasy XVI Overview

Developer	Square Enix Creative Business Unit III[a]
Publisher	Square Enix
Director	Hiroshi Takai
	Kazutoyo Maehiro
Producer	Naoki Yoshida
Designer	Mitsutoshi Gondai
	Ryota Suzuki
Programmer	Yusuke Hashimoto
Artist	Hiroshi Minagawa
	Kazuya Takahashi
Writer	Kazutoyo Maehiro
Composer	Masayoshi Soken
Series	Final Fantasy
Platform	PlayStation 5
	Windows
Release	PlayStation 5 – June 22, 2023
	Windows – TBA
Genre	Action role-playing
Mode	Single-player

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