Final Fantasy XV - General News Thread

[Paperchampion23]

As for the coast at Cartanica, we'll just have to wait and see by the next patch, we don't know if the new quest will take place in that town, it's currently a mystery, and if it is, that would be great, as we'd finally be able to explore some of Cartanica through that town, but I'm not holding my breath, as they already were expanding Insomnia, but expanding Cartanica at the same time? That would be interesting and yet weird in a way, but we'll see, I'm not going to lose it just yet.

Actually, it has been noted (on Reddit by the mods and some of the users) that this "new town" we are seeing has actually been partially around for a while now, along with Cindy's truck. The thing is, you need to glitch out of the train before you reach Cartanica. BUT, the fact that there are still new assets (a more detailed coast and more buildings in the town and details overall) and the fact that you can now access that area at any point in chapter 10, leads me to believe that they are still going to do something soon with it. Plus we have the leaked patch notes that outright confirms something extra coming to Chapter 10, even if its not an expansion to the map (which I can't see how they can include another quest or more there without doing so, but we'll see), is something new

 

[FFChocobo18]

Actually, it has been noted (on Reddit by the mods and some of the users) that this "new town" we are seeing has actually been partially around for a while now, along with Cindy's truck. The thing is, you need to glitch out of the train before you reach Cartanica. BUT, the fact that there are still new assets (a more detailed cost and more buildings in the town and details overall) and the fact that you can now access that area at any point in chapter 10, leads me to believe that they are still going to do something soon with it. Plus we have the leaked patch notes that outright confirms something extra coming to Chapter 10, even if its not an expansion to the map (which I can't see how they can include another quest or more there without doing so, but we'll see)

Yeah, I've seen Nex's comments, I'm just keeping my expectations down for now until we have a further insight to the new quest from Square Enix themselves, and that might not be until March, as it adds compatibility with the Royal Pack, which I'm looking very much forward to, but we'll see what this quest is, whether it'll be the small town or something. Also, when you save at the town and reload the file, the town disappears.

 

[Paperchampion23]

Yeah, I've seen Nex's comments, I'm just keeping my expectations down for now until we have a further insight to the new quest from Square Enix themselves, and that might not be until March, as it adds compatibility with the Royal Pack, which I'm looking very much forward to, but we'll see what this quest is, whether it'll be the small town or something. Also, when you save at the town and reload the file, the town disappears.

Yeah, best not to get too hyped, but its absolutely hard at this point XD. There's just so much potential it hurts to think about, but at the pace they are going, I feel good about it.

 

[FFChocobo18]

Yeah, best not to get too hyped, but its absolutely hard at this point XD. There's just so much potential it hurts to think about, but at the pace they are going, I feel good about it.

Yeah, we'll see what happens with this Chapter 10/Royal Pack update/patch, at least we officially know Insomnia is getting expanded, the new quest being added to Chapter 10 does give me a little hope that some part of Cartanica/Succarpe could be explorable in the patch that accompanies the Royal Pack, which the patch states it makes the game compatible with it, unless Square Enix quickly releases another patch to hide the town like they did with the Episode Prompto area from 1.08 to 1.09, but we'll see for sure, but some part of Cartanica being explorable would be great, man, even if it's that one small town.

 

[Storm]

btw some translators said the "Character Illustrations" bit implied a character datalog like the one in comrades.

edit:

PC version lookin great

edit: looks like the cartanica thing was just a false alarm? and the notes weren't correct or something, at least one of the mods on reddit said there would be an "official" statement to clear up any confusion.

 

[Paperchampion23]

btw some translators said the "Character Illustrations" bit implied a character datalog like the one in comrades.

edit:

PC version lookin great

edit: looks like the cartanica thing was just a false alarm? and the notes weren't correct or something, at least one of the mods on reddit said there would be an "official" statement to clear up any confusion.

Its not that it was a false alarm, it just seems that there was a date confusion when posting those patch notes. They are official (it was posted on the official website), but are probably next months update. It is likely we are getting something to Chapter 10 as a result, we just don't know when. It shouldn't have been blatant false information if you know what I mean.

 

[Storm]

heres the complete translation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXV/comments/7ulnn7/march_update_information/

Patch Notes

• Addition of compatibility with New FINAL FANTASY XV ROYAL PACK DLC
• Added "Character Compendium"
• Winning FFXV Snapshot 4 contest entries now on display at the restaurant in Galdin Quay
• New quest(s) added to Chapter 10
• Various bug fixes
• Current version saves will not work with the former version of the game
• Once former version saves of the game are overwritten with current version saves, the former version of the game will become unavailable

like the mod said, its all subject to change, but i assume the content here will be added sooner or later.

 

[Paperchampion23]

heres the complete translation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXV/comments/7ulnn7/march_update_information/

Patch Notes

• Addition of compatibility with New FINAL FANTASY XV ROYAL PACK DLC
• Added "Character Compendium"
• Winning FFXV Snapshot 4 contest entries now on display at the restaurant in Galdin Quay
• New quest(s) added to Chapter 10
• Various bug fixes
• Current version saves will not work with the former version of the game
• Once former version saves of the game are overwritten with current version saves, the former version of the game will become unavailable

like the mod said, its all subject to change, but i assume the content here will be added sooner or later.

Holy crap lol exactly as we were talking about it XD

 

[FFChocobo18]

heres the complete translation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXV/comments/7ulnn7/march_update_information/

Patch Notes

• Addition of compatibility with New FINAL FANTASY XV ROYAL PACK DLC
• Added "Character Compendium"
• Winning FFXV Snapshot 4 contest entries now on display at the restaurant in Galdin Quay
• New quest(s) added to Chapter 10
• Various bug fixes
• Current version saves will not work with the former version of the game
• Once former version saves of the game are overwritten with current version saves, the former version of the game will become unavailable

like the mod said, its all subject to change, but i assume the content here will be added sooner or later.

Yeah, either way, any day o rmonth, Chapter 10 is getting some sort of update, but we may find out soon enough, we'll probably find out in March. If the town by Cartanica's coast is among the new content, that would be great, and a double snag considering we're already getting an expanded Insomnia, but let's not get ahead of ourselves and see exactly what the new quest(s) means.

 

[Bazztek]

I wonder if the "Character Compendium" will be like the character Bios is Comrades, or a model viewer like the Beastiary but for characters.

 

[Lulcielid]

btw some translators said the "Character Illustrations" bit implied a character datalog like the one in comrades.

edit:

PC version lookin great

edit: looks like the cartanica thing was just a false alarm? and the notes weren't correct or something, at least one of the mods on reddit said there would be an "official" statement to clear up any confusion.

Dat quality grass and vegetation .

Probably Nº1 reason why I'd build a gaming PC (on top of other things).

 

[Storm]

Yeah, either way, any day o rmonth, Chapter 10 is getting some sort of update, but we may find out soon enough, we'll probably find out in March. If the town by Cartanica's coast is among the new content, that would be great, and a double snag considering we're already getting an expanded Insomnia, but let's not get ahead of ourselves and see exactly what the new quest(s) means.

definitely, for all we know it could just be a bunch of hunts you take on the train station to be killed in the dungeon (that admittedly would be lame).

no reason they wouldn't put "New area added on chapter 10"

 

[FFChocobo18]

definitely, for all we know it could just be a bunch of hunts you take on the train station to be killed in the dungeon (that admittedly would be lame).

no reason they wouldn't put "New area added on chapter 10"

That would be a funny troll move, although I wouldn't mind hunts, to be honest, the new quest could be fun.

 

[ChingleeTribal]

Long time no see, folks!
Hope you all been well.

Seen that the PC benchmark was available so could not contain my excitement!
Downloading and will give it a run

 

[Paperchampion23]

definitely, for all we know it could just be a bunch of hunts you take on the train station to be killed in the dungeon (that admittedly would be lame).

no reason they wouldn't put "New area added on chapter 10"

But are hunts considered quests in the patchnotes? Usually they are termed as a separate thing, so thats why I find this interesting. It is weird, but just going off the new patch, they never even made mention of like the 40-50 new lines of dialogue added in it, at least not until release. Even though that is a big deal (to add a town or open up the map there) it is possible that saying that they are "Adding Quests to Chapter 10" just insinuates an overall expansion of the chapter and map.
...Or it could be exactly what you said lmfao.

Those patch notes could also be updated by next month too.

Edit: Just to prove what I mean:
This is the original patch notes for 1.21

• Conclusion of the Assassin's Festival
• Inclusion of a new training partner at camp
• Implementation of a standby option at camp
• Addition of new items at Alessio's trading post in Altissia
• Introduction of new drills to the tutorial
• Various bug fixes

This is what 1.21 also added:
- Tons of new dialogue
- Changes to Ifrit
- Improvements to Character Switching
- Ignis's Hair (lol)
- Some other stuff i cant remember.

 

[ChingleeTribal]

I'm happy with this
Hopefully more tweaking and optimisation for the final game

The hairworks on the monsters are a real nice touch!

 

[Paperchampion23]

If the Royal Vessel could let us explore all of these Islands that make up Accordo, consider me satisfied

@Storm, do you think that these were the islands you saw in the Royal Trailer?


On top of that it would be cool if we could explore those other islands here:

The Northeast of Insomnia (Galahd), Southeast of Insomnia (that small circled island unspecified by this map), and the Northwest of Lucis all have potentially decent landmasses that would be nice to explore at some point.

Obviously I'm not expecting the Royal Vessel to be able to travel to all of these islands immediate, as the amount of assets needed to make this happen would be considerable. But man, it would be nice to visit some far off places that are unspecified by the game. A nice way to expand parts of Lucis impossible to travel to by car and make the boat more useful.

On top of that, I'm hoping Northern Lucis eventually becomes a thing to explore (the empty landmass above Cleigne), even if its not the whole thing.


There's Just so much of this world id love to see, and so much potential they could update.

Galahd, Accordo, Niflheim and Northern Lucis could use some small extra playable areas to explore, which could all be achieved hrough Chapter expansions (to 8-12), the Royal Vessel (depending on it's play area), Expansion DLC (similar to the Royal Update for Insomnia or Comrades for Angelgard), and Character episodes (Depending on where Ardyn's DLC takes place.

 

[FFChocobo18]

I just realized, Chapter 14 has gotten two updates, the one we had today, and the Royal Pack update, today's update changed Ifrit's design, which I do like the new Ifrit design, and giving Shiva new dialogue, and the Royal Pack update adding an in expanded Insomnia, and more bosses, it would seem these two updates could be going hand to hand.

 

[Storm]

welcome back ChingleTribal! nice to have you here again

@Storm, do you think that these were the islands you saw in the Royal Trailer?

i didn't see any island on the Royal Trailer, i just rewatched the boat segment in the base game and theres a lot of small empty islands near the entrance of altissia.

 

[SonOfEtro]

I wonder if the "Character Compendium" will be like the character Bios is Comrades, or a model viewer like the Beastiary but for characters.

If it's a text archive-like thing, then I'm seriously amused. Remember everyone complaining about XIII's Datalog being almost compulsory reading? Why does that sound familiar, only without the "almost"?