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Final Fantasy 15's Day One Update Detailed

Square Enix is adding new features and fixing bugs with the day one patch.

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As promised, Square Enix today shared the details of Final Fantasy XV's day one update. The Crown update, as it's called, adds new cutscenes from the Kingsglaive movie and Omen trailer so as to "make the story and timeline of events" easier to follow and understand for new players.

The update also adds more recipes for cooking, as well as a gallery feature that tracks "culinary discoveries." Additionally, the patch introduces support to share in-game pictures to Facebook and Twitter, while it also adds an ability tree to the Wait Mode feature, which lets players slow down time. Lastly, the patch adds a "Beast Whistle," which can be used to beckon monsters to battle.

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"The Crown Update is the result of some additional time for development since mastering the full game," a Square Enix spokesperson told Eurogamer. "[It] provides a variety of updates, minor bug fixes and new features to greatly enhance the overall story and gameplay experience."

The patch will be out on November 29 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. There is no word on how large the file size is; but someone on Twitter says it's around 7.2 GB.

In other news about Final Fantasy XV, Square Enix today put out an extended version of the game's 101 trailer, which provides an in-depth overview of what the game is all about.

Final Fantasy XV Day One Patch Notes:

  • New event scenes and scenes from Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy 15 and the Omen trailer have also been added to the game to make the story and timeline of events within the Final Fantasy 15 universe even easier to follow for newcomers
  • For those who enjoy collecting items, the upgrade will also add a wider variety or recipes and fish with the addition of a gallery to keep track of culinary discoveries
  • Implementation of social media support, allowing the photos Prompto takes along your journey to be uploaded to Facebook and Twitter.
  • Improvements to the camera with new options to better assist and track the action in tight spaces and to improve visibility during battles
  • The addition of an ability tree for the Wait Mode function improves the strategic element of this feature
  • Players can obtain the "Beast Whistle" which can be used to call monsters to battle

For more on Final Fantasy XV, check out GameSpot's new feature, "Final Fantasy XV: How Combat Has Evolved."

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day one patch?! its out already! - how did i missed that ? !?- call myself a final fantasy fan *hangs head in shame* :_ (

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@Flyin3lvl: ... It's out on the 29th. Keep up ahah

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I like how it's suddenly acceptable in the last decade to release unfinished products and fix them later. I can't think of any other industry like this.

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@moistcarrot: You say that, yet 15ish years ago developers didn't even have the option to fix games post launch. Let's not pretend like bugs and glitches didn't exist then.

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@moistcarrot: Its also amazing that games are so complex these days that it's almost impossible to find all bugs. Who cares. Got internet for a reason. Stop being a dooooosh.

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@moistcarrot: you know whats even funnier, is that one of the reasons they delayed the game for 2 months or whatever was that they didnt want to have to release the game with an additional day 1 patch, cause they wanted people to be able to play from the get go without having to rely on a online system in order to download a day 1 patch...LOL

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@tisezoda: again, someone only reading things the way they want to see it... They never said there wouldn't be a day one patch, they actually said there would be. They were only delaying it in order to avoid having to release a day one patch that was critical to the game playing up to standard beginning to end. This patch is additional features that are not necessary.

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@tisezoda: you can play the game without this patch.

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Is it possible to change clothing style? I am usually not much into cosmetics, but I really do not want to spend 50+ hours checking guys out wearing tight leather pants.

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@phili878: Yes and different outfits have different stat boosts.

They released a new video today dealing with the game mechanics if you are interested.

https://youtu.be/jFia3ZEpZJk

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@phili878: i do believe you can but in fairness i never checked out the answer myself - your question has been ask from various people the last few months and the general answer has been yes

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Can die this game because saw demo that can't die any ways getting my copy on ps4.

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@playstationzone: Makes Sense.

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So sqaureenix dealyed game for nothing since still need patch ? .

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@playstationzone: You dont need the patch. It is optional.

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So, it's not even released yet but it needs a patch

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@mirage_so3: i know scary times we live in now , a game is broken , they know it's broken but hey let's just fix it by wasting precious hard drive space on someone's console.

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@deviltaz35: where does the article say the game is broken? People are already playing the whole game start to finish with no issues without the patch. The patch just adds additional features not necessary to play the game

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@nick_e: People are saying it's largely empty alot of the time though , seems weird unless that is fixed with the patch.

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@deviltaz35: but you need to install the game anyway. I mean the patch kinda contradicts all the claims about reasons for delay, yes, but wasted space is a wrong point, would that content be on the disc, you would still need to install it.

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One more week until this game arrives and I'm stoked. Can't wait to get my copy, hopefully then all the trolls and critics will just shut up and move on. Geez. Go play something else and stop wasting yours and everyone's else time.

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"We're delaying the release of the game so we won't have to have a massive day one patch".

Well, that turned out okay then, huh? :S

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@tom_cat_01: good job taking it out of context and leaving out the part about it being a "necessary day one patch" that they would have had to release. This patch is about additional features

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I saw Conan O Brian play this the other day. The last Final Fantasy I played was #7.

WTF HAPPENED TO THE SERIES???? A BUNCH OF HIPSTER BOY BAND GUYS PUSHING A CAR??? I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE AND NOT THE REAL GAME. BUT THAT'S IT. WTFFFFFFFFF LOL

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@wtf_666: If the last one you played was FFVII, released in 1997... then why are you still following the series? Also you can't really say, "WTF happened to the series????" when the last installment you played was released twenty years ago. I'm sorry, but everyone complaining about this game needs to go away. I'm sick of people judging this game based on their own arbitrary measurements. I've said this before and I'll continue to say it, every single Final Fantasy game is different from the last one. You will NEVER have another game just like FFVII, or VIII, IX or X. This series is know for changing up it's formula with every new game. If you don't like the way this one looks or plays, then don't play it, but stop complaining that it doesn't fit your very narrow and specific view of what Final Fantasy should be.

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@xionggou: Wow don't think that can be said more clear than how you put it nice job

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@xionggou: Well said- and anyone that listens to Conan about video games clearly does not think rationally anyway.

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@JEF8484: Watching Conan is OK... for laughs.

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@xionggou: You cast fire? cuz you burn'd him good.

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@legendaryweapon: Actually I prefer the use of flare.

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@xionggou: flare is non elemental. It wouldn't burn

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@xionggou: Your only level 4, you don't have enough mp

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@legendaryweapon: Well that sucks... I guess I'll just stick to the level 1 spells then. I'm fighting a losing battle here anyway, flinging fireballs at all the internet trolls.

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@xionggou: points well made

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@xionggou: tell em man!

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@wtf_666: This isn't even the silliest one that you've missed. There was one where a bunch of the female characters from FF X try to put on the ultimate dance pop concert or something, and they fight evil with the power of costume changes.

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@NaturallyEvil: The battle system was one of that games strong points.

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@wtf_666: That's what you're complaining about? Not the clunky-looking combat mechanic with auto-attacks and not being able to play with other characters? What about the seemingly poor framerate and texture quality?

I wish we have games today were I can only b!tch about aesthetics instead of quality gameplay or performance.

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@cboye18: i think you're referring to the Xbox version. And clearly u haven't played the latest build or you'd know it's not clunky at all. And u don't just auto attack. There's more to it than that

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@cboye18: Complains about people who complain over visuals, complains over texture quality himself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@Berserk8989: Technical issue is a very different thing. If you played the Platinum demo you'd know how terrible the texture pop-in was. That along with the poor framerate and heavy aliasing made the demo an eyesore and recent gameplay videos show that this hasn't been fixed much.

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@cboye18: I did. I also played the Judgement demo just now. It's a completely different game. I experienced a drop in framerate only in the heaviest of combat scenarios and even those weren't severe. Anti-Aliasing has been improved by a LOT too. It's a crisp Full HD presentation on the PS4. You can notice the occasional shimmering on some edges here and there, but it's nothing like in the Platinum demo.

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@Berserk8989: I agree. The Judgement demo has pretty much fixed all of the performance and aliasing issues. It looks and runs great, especially on a PS4 Pro.

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@drumjod: Hopefully they can get the 60 fps update working , it's strange they weren't able to do this before the game was released though seeing it was already delayed.

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@deviltaz35: it's not strange at all considering they just began working on ps4 pro stuff less than 2 months ago and they were spending that time getting bugs out of the game. Not optimizing for the Pro

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Wondering when the PS4 Pro support will happen...

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@frankmcma: Early Dec is what i heard.

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@frankmcma: There is already support for two PS4 Pro modes. The upcoming pro patch will attempt to also add a 60 fps mode. If you create a Japanese PSN account, you can try the Judgement demo and see how it looks and runs on the Pro. Spoiler: it looks and runs really nicely.

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Graphic *_*

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