Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will feature an ambiguous ending that will keep players wondering about the third and final part of the trilogy, according to the game's producer.
12.01.2024 - 17:01 / techradar.com / Naoki Yoshida
Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail is the next expansion coming to the incredibly popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Since its official announcement back in July 2023, details have been drip-fed from developer Creative Business Unit 3 and the game’s in-person Fan Festival events in Las Vegas, London, and, most recently, Tokyo.
There’s plenty we now know about Dawntrail, including its tentative release window as well as its new jobs (classes), main story, and raid content. But there are still plenty of unknowns as to what we can expect as Dawntrail ushers Warriors of Light into a brand new era for Final Fantasy 14 after the previous expansion, Endwalker (2021), concluded a storyline that was over a decade in the making. Here’s everything we know so far about Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail.
The full cinematic trailer for Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail was revealed at the beginning of the Tokyo Fan Festival’s keynote speech in January 2024. Before that, the initial teaser trailer debuted in July 2023 during the Las Vegas Fan Festival, and an extended trailer was shown at October’s London Fan Festival.
The full cinematic trailer for Dawntrail clocks in at just shy of six minutes long, and is the complete version of the teases we’d received prior. The full trailer showcases the new hub city of Tuliyollal, situated on the continent of Tural, which players previously knew only as the ‘New World.’
The full trailer also showcases Dawntrail’s two new jobs. The first, Viper, is the poster job for the expansion. Here, we see it taken up by Meteor (the promotional stand-in for the player character). Additionally, the cinematic trailer debuted the Pictomancer job, which the popular character Krile will be assuming the role of in the expansion.
Lastly, the trailer reveals a ‘Summer 2024’ release window, meaning the expansion is likely to arrive between June and September. Director and producer Naoki Yoshida has confirmed that the team does have a date set internally, but he doesn’t want to reveal it until he’s confident the team can meet that deadline and avoid disappointing fans who were let down by Endwalker’s two-week delay back in 2021.
Two new jobs (the game’s terminology for classes) will be added to the game when Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail releases. The first to be announced was Viper, a melee DPS (damage-per-second) class that, alongside Ninja, will find itself in the Scouting subcategory.
Vipers fight with dual swords that can be combined into a single twinblade. We don’t really know how the job will play fully at present, but its teaser trailer shows the player entering combat with the two swords separated, and engaging the Morbol enemy with the simple melee combos we’ve come to expect from other
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