At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, in addition to talking about some of the upcoming features of Patch 5.1, Final Fantasy XIV Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida sat down with several guests involved in the upcoming collaboration Raid YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse: Yosuke Saito, Yoko Taro, and composer Keiichi Okabe.

The title for Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers‘ Patch 5.1 will be “Vows of Virtue, Deeds of Cruelty” and is set to release late next month (October). The name of the patch seems to be derived from the names of weapons from NieR: Automata, specifically the Virtuous Contract and the Cruel Oath. Will that play into the story behind the upcoming NieR Raid? Will there be weapons like fans have been asking for? We have no idea, but luckily, we won’t have to wait too long to find out.

Patch 5.1 Features

New Main Scenario Quests

Pixie Beast Tribe Quests

YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse (24-man alliance Raid)

Dungeon: The Grand Cosmos Trust System Compatible

Trial: Secret

Third Ultimate fight: Secret

Job Adjustments

Updates to Blue Mage

Level cap increased to 60

New job quests

New masked carnivale stages

Blue mage log

Form a party with your fellow blue mages to complete specified duties

Receive variousrewards including allied seals and allagan tomestones

Certain duties offer bonuses that change weekly

PvP updates

Substantial adjustments to PvP actions

New Frontline rule set: Onsal Hakair (Danshig Naadam)

New Game +

We got a closer look at New Game+ during this Live Letter as well. Upon its implementation in Patch 5.1, Heavensward, Stormblood, and Shadowbringers MSQ will be available. However, A Realm Reborn, classes and jobs, Chronicles of a new Era, and side story quests will not be available and will instead be available at a later date. In regards to A Realm Reborn, this could be due to the plan to condense the ARR MSQ sometime around Patch 5.3.

After switching to New Game+, you can only progress through quests specific to New Game+.

Select a chapter Each chapter must be played from the beginning Heavensward part 1 and 2 (3.0) Dragonsong war (3.1 to 3.3) Post dragonsong war (patch 3.4 to 3.5)



Instanced battles will be level synced

You will receive no quest rewards

You have one auto-save slot to record your progress

Crafting and Gathering revamp

Changes planned for patch 5.1 and 5.2

Increasing ease of entry for new players Adjustments to more complex systems and actions UI changes to be more informative and easily accessible New content for avid crafters



Crafting system updates

Actions will be adjusted

Additional actions will be removed

New recipe tree display option

The japanese kanji used for collectables has been changed for ease of reading

Certain items will be always be gathered as collectables

Adjustments to quick synthesis success rates

Adjustments to desynthesis

Gathering system updates

Actions will be adjusted

Actions used to locate unspoiled nodes will be automated

Items at unspoiled nodes will not appear as unknown or be out of reach

Stealth actions will be replaced by sneak

Can be used while mounted and will not affect movement speed

Quick gathering will be added

The japanese kanji used for collectables has been changed for ease of reading

adjustments to gathering rates and item yields

Elemental shard yields will be adjusted

Ishgard Restoration

Content designed for crafters and gatherers

Players must work together to build the Firmament (listed on shadowbringers website)

Contribute through a number of tasks including item deliveries

Progress of restoration will differ between worlds

Fellowships

Form casual communities similar to free companies and linkshells

Fellowships are loosely knit communities of players who share similar interests, which can accommodate up to 1,000 players

A single player and make or join up to 10 fellowships with no world restrictions so long as they’re within the same data center

Whether it’s to announce events or seek others to run dungeons, they’re a quick and easy way to exchange information

You can specify a Fellowship’s main interests or activities by selecting the icons next to each entry Player events, casual, battle, or housing

Recruitment settings You can add a comment, specify the number of players you’re recruiting and the primary language



Fellowship finder Once you’ve finalized your settings, a listing will appear in the fellowship finder menu

To join a fellowship, you need only pick one and select Yes on the confirmation prompt

Fellowship Board Used for notifications to all fellowship members

Questionnaire Create polls with up to five options. Votes are anonymous

Notices A space to leave brief messages or reminders

Message board A space for members to freely communicate only the 100 most recent messages will be saved here



Gold Saucer Updates

New GATE: features Yojimbo

New high resolution Doman Mahjon layout

Performance updates

Ensemble feature will be added Enables you to use performance actions more easily when in a party

New horn instrument

A performance assistance feature will be added Shows BPM, Beat, performance guide, gamepad guide



Launcher update

Misc updates

New custom deliveries client: Kai-Shirr

Pet display in the party list

Weapon rewards added to completion of level 51 to 59, 61 to 69, and 71 to 79 dungeons

Bicolor gemstones cap will be increased to 1,000

New group pose features will be added Brightness setting and character display toggle for non-party members

Meals can be eaten while sitting

YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse

During the second half of the Live Letter, Naoki Yoshida was joined by members of the NieR team to talk about, and show, some of the new 24-man Alliance Raid coming to Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Patch 5.1.

The first area that players will travel too in this new Raid series will be the “The Copied Factory”. Based on the images shown, players are already speculating that you’ll have to complete the quest “Word about Komra” in order to progress into the new Raid.

After needing to walk off stage because of how hot his mask was getting, Yoko Taro’s chair was filled by Keiichi Okabe. They played some of the new music that players will hear in the upcoming Raid which is a mash-up of NeiR’s “Weight of the World” and Final Fantasy’s “Crystal Prelude” which you can hear below around 1:08:20.