Final Fantasy XIV gave some players a small gift for Christmas. It returned their voluptuous buttocks in the new update.
What was the problem? Along with the 24-player raid “YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse” from Nier Automata, new outfits that fit the theme of the raid were added to the game in October. One of them was the outfit of the character 2B.
The FFXIV community quickly noticed that the “pants” of 2B had an impact on the body shape of their characters. Specifically, the pants enlarge the buttocks of both male and female characters.
Yoshida makes butt a priority
However, with update 5.15, this enlargement was removed. Players on reddit and social media referred to it as the “Butt Nerf”. These discussions also reached director Yoshida.
The developers then promised to reverse the “Butt Nerf”. In the official translation of the live stream, where Yoshida spoke about the “nerf”, it states:
FFXIV has a feature that automatically adjusts the size of the buttocks depending on the combination of equipment items. When the 2B outfit was introduced to the game, without this feature being activated, it resulted in the buttocks sticking out from certain equipment items. We tried to fix this in patch 5.15, but this led to the buttocks becoming smaller depending on the equipment combination.
The team was not entirely sure whether the bug could be fixed by patch 5.18 on December 24. In the end, they succeeded and gave some FFXIV players a small Christmas gift.
Why is the size of the buttock so important? The character creator of FFXIV is quite limited in its options compared to many other MMORPGs. One of the options that some players from the community miss is the ability to adjust the size of the buttocks.
As a result, fans of shapely butts and hips in the MMORPG are left empty-handed. With the implementation of the 2B outfit, the developers provided a sort of “temporary fix” for the issue, as an after-the-fact slider for buttock size is, according to Yoshida, very difficult to implement.
What else is new in the patch? With patch 5.18, the latest season of the competitive PvP “FEAST” in FFXIV is starting. The top 100 players of a data center receive the unique mount Epimetheus. The absolute winner also gets a stylish trophy.
There were also numerous balance adjustments in PvP, where the HP of all DDs and healers was increased by several thousand.
PvE players can look forward to the lifting of weekly restrictions for loot in the normal and epic raids of Eden. They can now be farmed at will over the holidays.
