You’ll be able to directly harpoon fish in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker

The massive Final Fantasy XIV Letter to the Producer stream for this month detailed many fascinating modifications and changes coming to the MMO within the coming weeks, regardless of the slight delay of the Endwalker expansion – together with the shocking change that gamers will now get a correct spearfishing minigame when searching in murky waters.

Spearfishing was launched into Closing Fantasy XIV way back in the Stormblood expansion when that was launched in 2017. Apart from the requirement of being a stage 61 Fisher and having accomplished numerous quests beforehand, the method of spearfishing could be very easy and has remained unchanged because it was launched – discover some teeming waters, use the spear on them, catch fish.

That’s set to vary within the Endwalker enlargement and patch 6.1. As illustrated by producer Naoki Yoshida within the Letter to the Producer stream, now when gamers go to spear fish after discovering the glowing teeming waters areas they’ll activate a enjoyable little minigame as an alternative – in order that they’re immediately harpooning the fish they catch.

The minigame is a really fundamental flash sport the place the participant prompts the spear to stab upwards and catch the fish as they swim previous – you may see it in motion beneath. As soon as the time restrict runs out, the space disappears and gamers must search elsewhere in the event that they need to harpoon extra fish. Hopefully it’ll turn into slightly extra concerned than the video makes it look, however in any other case it’s an amusing little technique to make spearfishing extra fascinating.

Both approach, gamers must wait slightly longer to expertise it as Endwalker has been delayed into December – here are all the details on the new jobs, races, raids, etc coming to Closing Fantasy XIV when it hits.

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