Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

Lunafreya PC?

Seems like they have a lot under the hood they're still keeping close to the chest. I'm really glad Square is seemingly learning from past mistakes and not showing too much until it's ready.

FUCKING

They fixed my ONE issue with the gameplay! Being able to accept more than one hunt!!!!!! And them story updates, I'm so happy they are finally happening. Got scared they got scrapped.

Now since we know its happening for real with proof, I wonder if its just bonus cutscenes sprinkled throughout the game, or actual gameplay as well. For example, I'm hoping Shiva's death involves exploring the area while realizing and seeing how she died. I mean, I'm grateful for anything at this point tbh.

The fact that Ignis, Comrades, and these updates are technically more story is fantastic. And apparently it doesn't stop there, according to the last few interviews we've gotten. The support for this game is immense.

In regards to the Shiva we saw in the trailer
I'm glad they're giving more of a focus on the Astrals. I wanna know what's up with Ifrit in that screenshot.

I'm so glad they're addressing that xD

Ok now this looks fun.

The visuals are fantastic and it looks fun just hanging out with the bros.

The fishing was one of the best things abt the game. I'm guessing this is 10x better.

Cant hype..Cant hype.....Oh for flax sake. I WANTTTTTTTTTTTTT ITTTT.

it's so weird how tabata said in the fan event that there wouldn't be anything for the astrals, and then one month later here we are (he is totally playing with our minds at this point)

my assumption is that all the new scenes will be flashbacks on the second half, telling more about how shiva became gentiana and her relationship with luna (as oracle, shiva was her first covenant); the scene with ifrit seems to be about his revival via starscourge. I don't know if we'll get more playable segments tho.

about monsters of the deep, the ps4 theme is quite nice:

The Ifrit bit is what interests me.

Hopefully during the ATR on saturday they can clarify a few things. Are there new gameplay segments/environments? How much are they actually adding? This is going to be interesting. Best part is that there may be multiple story updates depending on the feedback people give after Ignis releases.

One thing which is bothering me, how they add new cutscenes. I hope it will be done right without losing logic and not from main menu

probably the same way they did with chapter 13.2, available both on the main menu and inside the base game.

i'm with you, do a mini-dungeon after the train stops, group gets closer to statue ---> flashback happens ----> continue normal events

Oh gosh, Luna got some love... finally.

Just realized this but the June survey specifically asked for what you would like in "updates", meaning its likely not DLC. Of those, there were 7 pieces of story content: Ardyn's past, Luna's activities, Cor's activities, Ifrits betrayal, The world of ruin, Noctis's disappearance (which sounds heavily like it could be the omen dream) and the line of lucis (which sounds like some Dawn 2.0 stuff).

The trailer we saw could very well be part of Luna's Activities and Ifrit's Betrayal. We could very well see more Cor cutscenes after chapter 9, Ardyn scenes of his tragic downfall throughout the game, World of Ruin content in Chapter 14, Noctis's dream/disappearance inside the crystal after chapter 13, and potentially flashbacks on the line of Lucis as part of this package.

Thats not to say that Luna DLC or Ardyn DLC/Expansion/etc. won't still happen, I just find it interesting that they called it "Story Content" back in June and it seems like that is what we may be getting with this. That still leaves some gameplay updates, like new spells and armiger abilities, so I'm curious as to what they could be doing there.

The biggest question I have is how "Big" this whole thing actually is.

I think you are reading way too deep into semantics, let's not go beyond with the current information with have right now.

I'm not though, it why I said I'm wondering how big this update actually is. It could very well be 3 small cutscenes that involve the 3/4 scenes we saw in the trailer, or it could be much bigger than that. Just having fun speculating.

Haven't played this game since last december, I'm trying to wait to the absolute best moment to experience it again.

Nah not that hyped im guessing the new cutscenes will be a few minutes long at most meh... cause in episode gladio the new cutscenes weren't that long.

And episode Prompto's was about an hour of new cutscenes so I really don't think there is a correlation. They don't have to design new mechanics to go along with the update if there are gameplay segments. You'd still play as Noctis.

Whats likely is good little chunk of story content. 15 minutes seems too little, but if its hefty content sprinkled throughout important parts of the game, then it is worth it. I mean, look at chapter 13 v2. It solved like 3-4 different plot lines in like 10 minutes of cutscenes. So length isn't really a problem.

I'm leaning more towards an hour or so of new scenes, ranging from what we saw to potentially other things. I think it will be a significant update and not a small one. This has been almost a year coming since they announced they would do it. Im pretty sure a significant amount of effort will go into it.

There's something for every person that enjoyed the game to be excited about. For me, obviously it'd be Episode Ignis, but others may be more interested in the hunt capacity going up and/or more lore on the Astrals as examples.

It's anyone's guess at this point tbh.

We still don't know enough about this for an accurate conclusion to be drawn.

Personally I care more for the quality of the cutscenes than the length.

I'd rather have a handful of high quality cutscenes that make sense, are well written and directed, than one hour's worth of scenes that are poorly played out that answer nothing.

Quality over quantity.

Ignis and the Astrals for me.

That trailer addressed both of them so I'm pretty happy xD

Also, does anyone think that the story updates will be coming by the end of this month?

Or sometime next year?

They always have new features in their updates, so I'm wondering what this month's update will be?