Ultimate Fantasy 7 Remake, not Rebirth, has a brand new patch, and it ought to assist you to velocity by means of it forward of the sequel’s arrival on PC.
Earlier this week throughout this yr’s Recreation Awards, we received the shock reveal that Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth is coming to PC, and with a launch date proper across the nook, there’ll certainly be loads of gamers that both need to get by means of Remake for the primary time, or slot in a replay, forward of its arrival. In fact, Remake is a prolonged RPG, operating as much as not less than 30 hours in playtime, so that may not be the perfect strategy to spend your time particularly across the vacation season. Fortunate for you, Sq. Enix shared that Ultimate Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade had been up to date to model 1.004, which got here with a few helpful adjustments that can assist you velocity by means of it.
For one, when beginning a brand new sport there’s now a “Head Begin” choice – “When deciding on ‘New Recreation’ on the title display, you could have the choice to start out the sport with the character stage and stock already powered-up,” explains a Steam submit. When it comes to how that manifests, for starters each character will begin at stage 45, and you will have all of the ability factors you’d usually achieve as much as that stage too. You may additionally get a number of materia at max stage, each character can have gear and equipment usually discovered across the center to finish of the story, “numerous gadgets helpful to you journey,” and 50,000 gil. Fairly nifty! This all applies to the Yuffie DLC, Episode Intermission, too.
Weirdly, although, there’s one other function that may assist if you wish to get by means of the sport shortly, and nonetheless need to watch all of the cutscenes, however want they weren’t fairly so lengthy: a literal fast-forward choice. The patch notes clarify you can set all of the cutscenes to 1.5 or 2 instances velocity, and there definitely are numerous lengthy cutscenes, so these of you that similar to to give attention to enjoying quite than watching will likely be in for a greater time (however perhaps you must choose a distinct sport).
Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth is due out on PC January 23, subsequent month, so you’ve got not received lengthy to attend now! And sure, you’ll choose it up on Steam in addition to the Epic Video games Retailer this time round.