For those unaware, the Tokyo Game Show has been going on this weekend and Yoshi & Co have been releasing a whole bunch of information through a live letter event like they did at E3. I decided to compile the information I can find into a nice sectioned list. Here's what we know so far:
Patch 2.1 Content: -New Primal Battle: Good King Moggle Mog XII
- Extreme Mode Primal Battles
- Two "Hard Mode" versions of existing dungeons
- Extra New Dungeon: Pharos Sirius
- The Crystal Tower
- Housing
- The Wolves' Den (PvP)
- Treasure Hunting
- Hard Mode Boss Battles
- Beastmen Daily Quests
- Duty Finder - Random Matching System
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Official teaser pageFFXI Collaboration / Shantotto:- Giant Shantotto F.A.T.E.
- Shantotto minion reward.
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Official teaser pageFFXIII Collaboration / Lightning:- Has story and cutscenes
- Will be "available during" (11/14) the week after Lightning Returns launches (time limited)?
The Coil of Bahamut:- Nobody has beaten Turn 5 yet
- SE may make it easier over time (wipe buff?)
- Boss battle versus Bahamut himself will be added in 2.2
- Coil will be expanded with more turns in patch 2.3
Crystal Tower:- 24 man raid, 90-120 minutes per run
- Three 8-man teams with normal duty finder setup (2 tanks, 2 healers, 4 dps)
- Teams will be required to split up occasionally
- Final Fantasy III themed, including rewards (Fuma gear)
Housing:- 3 sizes: small, medium large (we knew this)
- Free company first, personal housing coming later?
- Houses are currently made of 380 different interchangeable parts
- Price of housing still not determined
- Can grow Gysahl Greens inside your house (gardening?)
- Can (in future?) raise Chocobos at your house
- Free companies can hire NPC vendors/repairs/etc for their HQ
- Can place retainers in HQ at stands
- Will eventually be able to use basement to build ships, group crafting, etc. (how do you get it out..?)
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Housing VideoWolves' Den (PvP):- Three tiers (Lv30, Lv40, Lv50)
- The game will not match pre-made teams with random duty finder teams
- PvP-only abilities available
- PvP-specific sets of armor available
- Thinking about 1v1 PvP for later
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PvP Armor AlbumTGS Titan Challenge:- Each time Titan was beaten at TGS, all characters on a random world receive Cactaur Earrings.
- Titan beaten enough times that all worlds won Cactaur Earrings on first day
- For second day, since there'd be no reward, Bomb Earrings were put up for grabs
- All worlds have now won bomb earrings too
- Will receive information on how to collect reward later
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Earrings picture modelled on Kio?Other Information:- Game has an average of 617,000 daily unique logins
- World transfer services start in early October
- More servers scheduled to go online in October
- Patch will release "this year"
There are more videos that were shown that I haven't found yet (of PvP, Lightning, dungeons, etc). Will post once I find them.
Screencaps of Live Letter 2:
http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/09/22/ ... crossover/