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Anime RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink gets its biggest update yet with free new questPlus fixes for progression blocks, multiplayer balancing and camera
Plus fixes for progression blocks, multiplayer balancing and camera
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Cy Games
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Cy Games
Granblue Fantasy: Relinkhas received a sizeable game update, which adds a new, difficult quest, The Final Vision, some additional camera and aim sensitivity settings, and new Steam trophies. That’s in addition to a brace of bug fixes, character-specific balancing tweaks for multiplayer, and assorted quality-of-life improvements, including visual and audio indicators to indicate when you’ve lost your buffs.
Our Alice B described Cygames' latest as a “slick JRPG wedded to the rule of cool” in ourGranblue Fantasy: Relink review, noting that “the combat is kind of weightless, but it’s layered and fun - if you can be bothered to get to the bottom of it”. There are certainly layers to the version 1.1.1 patch notes. The bits about changes to characters are a fusillade of nitty-gritty observations like “Io should no longer lose the Mystic Vortex status effect even after taking a hit from an attack that removes positive status effects”. Fans of Ghandagoza, meanwhile, will rejoice in the knowledge that they’ve nixed a problem that stopped you dodging right after performing an aerial barrage, while Cagliostro players will be happy to learn that “objects transmuted as part of a link attack should now hit foes with greater accuracy”.
I still haven’t played Granblue Fantasy: Relink (with suspiciously good timing, Alice B is on holiday today, or I’d have asked her to write this piece) and readingthe full patch notesfeels a bit like trying to glean map directions from waterfalls of Matrix code. I feel like all patch note writers should learn from Larian, whose patch notes are often very funny for all their absurd intricacy.
Let’s persevere. You’ll need to polish off The Tale of Bahamut’s Rage to access the new Final Vision quest. The quest introduces two new characters, Lucilius and Sandalphon: completing it unlocks new sigils with new traits at the Knickknack Shack’s Treasure Trade.
Granblue Fantasy: Relink - Launch Trailer | PS5 & PS4 GamesWatch on YouTube
Granblue Fantasy: Relink - Launch Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games
As for those extra camera options, camera sensitivity and aim sensitivity both now have two separate settings for vertical and horizontal movement speed, and the maximum sensitivity for each setting has been raised from 10 to 20. The developers have also adjusted the camera to stay centered on a locked-on foe that’s far away whenever possible, and fixed a problem that caused auto-targeting to lock onto a blameless ice pillar on Mt. Neigelith after destroying or losing the previous target.
