Last Fantasy 14 gamers have found an unsettling space launched in Patch 7.55 that appears prefer it belongs within the Backrooms moderately than the colourful zones of the Dawntrail enlargement. The Backrooms-inspired area can solely be accessed by max-level Last Fantasy 14 gamers courageous sufficient to hunt it out.
Last Fantasy 14‘s Patch 7.55 went stay on Tuesday, July 28, throughout all supported platforms. The 7.55 replace centered solely on aspect content material that max-level gamers can take pleasure in on their very own time. This content material included the ultimate chapter of Hildibrand’s Dawntrail escapades, the capstone quest for Dawntrail‘s Allied Societies, and the Occult Crescent: North Horn discipline operation zone. Gamers who’ve accomplished the search chain for the South Horn zone launched in Patch 7.25 can enterprise to the North Horn and uncover secrets and techniques that hyperlink again to Last Fantasy 14‘s Struggle of the Magi.
Last Fantasy 14’s North Horn Hides Backrooms-Impressed Zone
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Picture by GameRant | Supply: Sq. Enix -
Picture by GameRant | Supply: Sq. Enix -
Picture by GameRant | Supply: Sq. Enix
Whereas Last Fantasy 14 is not any stranger to implementing creepy areas inside the sport, resembling The Palace of the Useless deep dungeon, the North Horn has considered one of its most unsettling areas up to now. In brief, Last Fantasy 14 gamers who enterprise too deep into the North Horn might discover themselves in an space that appears prefer it was impressed by the Backrooms creepypasta. This space will be accessed by exploring the Unhallowed Hamlet, situated in the midst of the map. On the south aspect of this void-corrupted hamlet is a home with stairs main down a darkish path.
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Gamers who battle or evade the monsters patrolling this path will ultimately see a gap within the wall that results in the “Darkish Territory” area. The Darkish Territory is totally devoid of shade and participant character fashions will turn out to be desaturated upon getting into it. Last Fantasy 14‘s official social media feeds made gentle of what gamers found shortly after Patch 7.55 was launched. In brief, the Backrooms creepypasta first appeared on 4chan in 2019 with a picture of an empty yellow room with florescent lights. The phenomenon has since spun off into numerous video games, resembling Escape the Backrooms.
Regardless of the creepy nature of the Darkish Territory, some gamers on the Last Fantasy 14 subreddit offered a believable clarification behind its look. One fan said that the Darkish Territory’s lack of shade and its unsettling nature could also be a reference to Promyvion, a area from Last Fantasy 11. Promyvion is a darkish area devoid of life, with a monochromatic environment and spires that include monstrous foes lurking all through. Promyvion is a byproduct of the Vacancy, which is a darkish, insidious phenomenon tied on to the Twilight God Promathia, the namesake antagonist of FF11‘s Chains of Promathia enlargement.
The Darkish Territory is described in-game as a website that was claimed by a robust voidsent entity that suffers the corrupting affect of one other realm, which lends credence to the notion of it being a callback to Last Fantasy 11 moderately than the Backrooms. With Last Fantasy 14‘s Evercold enlargement releasing in January 2027, it stays to be seen what areas gamers will uncover.
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August 27, 2013
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Teen / Blood, Language, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence, In-Sport Purchases, Customers Work together
- Engine
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Initially the Crystal Instruments engine, however at present it is a customized engine utilizing components of the Luminous Engine.
Supply: GamesRadar+
