However Final Fantasy 14 While a hotfix update was released on Christmas Day to squash some bugs and address some issues, players still experienced disconnections from the game's North American servers. However, some Final Fantasy 14 Players have discovered some workarounds to keep players connected while issues persist.
Final Fantasy 14The Christmas Hotfix update comes a week after patch 7.4, Into the Mist, went live worldwide. Saw the story of patch 7.4 Final Fantasy 14 Shift towards the game's upcoming 8.0 expansion, and include the final chapter in the fan-favorite Arcadian Raid series. The 7.4 update also made some job balance changes, with Gunbreaker getting a small rework. As of 7.4's changes, Gunbreaker's burst window is now on a one-minute rotation, while Bloodfest and Gnashing Fang are getting some major changes. Red Mage also saw a Manafication update, and the ranged physical DPS role saw some buffs to their core abilities to keep up with other damage-related tasks.
Final Fantasy 14 fans fear that a favorite character may have been recast
One of the most popular characters in Final Fantasy 14 sounds a little different in patch 7.4, and fans fear they may have been recast.
Final Fantasy 14 fixes some of the issues, though server issues persist
On Christmas Eve at 11:00 p.m., Final Fantasy 14Servers were temporarily taken offline to implement some hotfixes. After the servers came back online around 3:00 AM Eastern on Christmas morning, Final Fantasy 14 Players had a small update to download to their game clients. According to Christmas Update, Final Fantasy 14Fixed a “MissingNo” bug where a nameless level 1 deer was seen roaming around the Koerthas Western Highlands, meaning that the deer that enchanted players was returned to its rightful place. Final Fantasy 14The new patch also addresses some glamor issues for the Summoner and Scholar jobs, along with some glamor window fixes for special outfits.
Some important fixes Final Fantasy 14The new Strategy Board feature, the new Worqor Chirteh (Triumph) Frontline PVP mode, and Patch 7.4 were built with the Main Scenario Quest Line December hotfix patch. Despite Square Enix's recent efforts, Final Fantasy 14 Still reeling from server issues that have disconnected many players from the game at random intervals. While the Christmas hotfix patch also fixed issues with retainers and universe exploration that could potentially cause server crashes, running server issues and disconnection issues are largely separate. Final Fantasy 14North American data centers. The problem is intermittent Final Fantasy 14California-based servers since November, before patch 7.4 goes live on December 16.
Could be a possible solution to FF14's ongoing server issues
Despite initial reports Final Fantasy 14While North American servers were again experiencing DDoS attacks after patch 7.4, some players said this may not be the case entirely. When a mass outage event occurs in Aether, Primal, Crystal, or Dynamis data centers, not every FF14 The player is booted from the game server. However Final Fantasy 14North American data centers are located in the Sacramento, California area, with each user connecting to servers through different nodes that are partnered with NTT, the Japanese telecommunications company, with which Square Enix has partnered. Final Fantasy 14 Players on PlayStation consoles are reportedly unaffected by these issues compared to PC and Xbox players. However, that hasn't stopped players from keeping track of when server issues occur.
with Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail'With the final raid tier starting on January 6, some players are looking for possible solutions and seeing what can be done to mitigate server issues. on Twitter, Final Fantasy 14 Content creator iTrolledU posted a thread that showed how effective players like NordVPN and ExpressVPN were at keeping connections in the game when server issues occurred. Additional rerouting services like ExitLag, Cloudflare WARP, and Mudfish were also listed in iTrolledU's post, which is being updated daily as of this writing. Given that high-end Final Fantasy 14 While raids require players to have a seamless connection to the game's servers, time will tell as Square Enix fully addresses ongoing server issues in North America.
Final Fantasy 14 Patch 7.4 Hotfix Update Notes (December 24, 2025)
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In Frontline campaigns, the time to return to the landing point after incapacitation has been reduced from 5 seconds to 0 seconds.
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In the frontline campaign Worqor Chirteh (Triumph), the maximum number of victories seen within the first 10 minutes of the game has increased. Accordingly, the attendance rate of victory for each category has been adjusted.
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The following issues have been fixed.
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The cutscene for the main scenario quest “Into the Mist” contains incorrect text in some scenes.
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The cutscene for the main scenario quest “Into the Mist” contains incorrect text in some scenes.
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The cutscene for the main scenario quest “Into the Mist” has ambient sounds played in sections where they shouldn't.
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In the Skyrise Celebrations “Toy Hunter” and “Presents of Mind,” as well as the main scenario quest “In from the Cold”, the player character can still appear in the carry state after removing the carry state.
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In AAC Heavyweight M3, the floor became invisible in some situations after the party was defeated while the boss was casting Arcadion Avalanche.
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In Frontline Seal Rock (Seize), when a captured tomelith's information was exhausted, another tomelith was immediately activated.
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Crystals can be gathered at legendary gathering nodes added in patch 7.4.
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Some monsters that wouldn't normally spawn in Coerthas were appearing in the Western Highlands.
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When a male Roegadyn or Hrothgar equipped with alternate shirt to draw his weapon as a Black Mage, part of his left hand was visible clip through the cloth.
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For certain devices that display symbols or logos, the symbol or logo was displayed incorrectly depending on the camera distance.
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In the “Try On” and “Cast Glamour” menu windows, outfit sets with Dye 2 applied were shown when stored or stored, regardless of the number of pieces added to the outfit. Wayfarer's Attire / Mirage Attire / Phantasmal Attire / Alpha Wolf Attire
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Equipment added to outfit glamor cannot be used for glamor unless the player character moves to a different area.
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Under some conditions, calling retainers caused a server outage.
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In Cosmic Exploration, the server will crash in rare cases when completing Mech Ops under certain conditions.
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In the Strategy Board menu, the “Import” and “Close” buttons in the Common Code Import window have been reversed.
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When using gamepad controls with the strategy board, the cursor sometimes moves to the strategy board list when it is not displayed.
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When using gamepad controls with the strategy board's display lock enabled, the cursor sometimes moves to the strategy board window where it normally wouldn't.
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When a blacklisted player shares a strategy board using the real-time sharing feature, the performance confirmation window will not be displayed and the strategy board will disappear.
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Under certain conditions, the name of the strategy board in the saved list was incorrectly displayed as the name of a different strategy board.
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Under certain conditions, the Strategy Board Settings window cannot be opened or closed.
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Adventurer plate portraits could not be saved due to a “requirements not met” error under the following conditions:
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A scholar's hand is glamorized when playing as a summoner or arcanist in an arcanist's grimoire.
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An arcanist's grimoire was glamorized in the scholar's arm when playing as a scholar.
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Having job-specific equipment that cannot be equipped by classes when playing as a class
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In some cases, when the resolution ratio was set to wider than 16:9 in the system configuration, taking a photo in portrait mode of a group pose without enabling “Remove aspect ratio limits” may sometimes cause the game client to freeze. (Windows®/ Mac version only)
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An issue with a voiced cutscene during AAC Heavyweight M3 (Savage) where a particular line of NPC dialogue plays twice incorrectly in an overlapping fashion.
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August 27, 2013
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T for Teens – Language, gore, sexual themes, alcohol use, violence
- Engine
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Originally a Crystal Tools engine, but currently it is a custom engine using parts from the Luminous Engine.
