Video game publisher and developer Cygames has announced a free major update coming to action RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink for PlayStation and Steam on March 14, 2024, which includes a new challenging boss battle against Lucilius, various gameplay adjustments, and more additional content.

Granblue Fantasy: Relink V–1.1.0 Update

Granblue Fantasy: Relink has received a major game update, which adds a new mission, The Final Vision, aiming sensitivity, some additional camera settings, and new Steam trophies.

This is in addition to specific character balance adjustments for multiplayer mode, a couple of bug fixes, and a variety of quality-of-life improvements, including visual and audio indicators to signal when you’ve lost your benefits.

Microtransactions and More Updates On The Way

This update is just one of a series of planned content updates for Granblue Fantasy: Relink. It was originally announced in February during the special live stream for Granblue Fantasy’s 10th anniversary. The game will receive more content in the future, including the addition of Seofon and Tweyen as playable characters in April.

As for the microtransactions, you can now buy upgrade packs that’ll help you boost your characters and weapons. They are priced as follows:

• Let’s Chat Emote Expansion set — £1.69 / $1.99
• Self-Improvement Pack — £2.49 / $2.99
• Weapon Uncap Items Pack — £2.49 / $2.99
• Weapon Upgrade Items Pack — £2.49 / $2.99
• Sigil Upgrade Items Pack — £2.49 / $2.99

Granblue Fantasy: Relink has been quite successful since its release in February. In its first 11 days alone, the game sold more than a million copies. It is available on PC, PS4, and PS5.

Update Notes

New Content

・Added a new challenging quest: The Final Vision. Clear The Tale of Bahamut’s Rage to unlock this quest.

・Added sigils with new traits to the Knickknack Shack’s Treasure Trade. These sigils will become available after clearing The Final Vision.

・Added new trophies.

・Camera Sensitivity and Aim Sensitivity each now have two separate settings for vertical and horizontal movement speed. The maximum sensitivity for each setting has been raised from 10 to 20.

・Added Camera Smoothing and Battle Camera Correction to Game Options.

・Added the Clear Voice Feature to Audio options.

Quests

・Quick quests now include Proud-difficulty quests.

*The following quests are excluded: The Automagod Strikes Back, The Tale of Bahamut’s Rage, and The Final Vision.

・The Effective Characters section on the quest selection screen now displays characters controlled by other players in your session.

・Added treasure chest icons to the drop items displayed on the Results screen of Boss-type quests to designate which chests they were obtained from.

Online Multiplayer

・Fixed an intermittent bug that prevented stats scaling even when Power Adjustment was turned on.Lowered the scaling degree of HP and ATK stats when matching with players who have Power Adjustment turned on.

・Fixed a bug where after matching with players who had Power Adjustment turned on, visual effects for fully awakening weapons wouldn’t display.

・Fixed a bug that prevented a player from rejoining the same session if a network error had occurred during the session.

Battle

General

・Auto Target Switching should no longer switch to an ice pillar on Mt. Neigelith whenever the original locked-on target is destroyed or lost.

・Adjusted the camera to stay centered on a locked-on foe that’s far away whenever possible.

・Adjusted camera lock-on behavior during The Tale of Bahamut’s Rage quest.

・Adjusted the amount of link time extension granted by attacks, which was known to have caused link time to be extended for longer than intended.

・Added visual and audio indicators to notify a player if their buffs have been removed.

・Fixed a rare bug where a player wasn’t able to aim throwable objects while playing online.

The Captain (Gran/Djeeta)

・Hits that raise Arts lvl now extend the time before Arts Lvl resets from activating a skill. The following modifications were made as a result of this change:

　・Adjusted the skill cooldown shortening effect that comes from raising Arts lvl.

　・Adjusted the skill cooldown shortening effect given by Overdrive Surge.

　・Adjusted the SBA gauge fill rate given by certain □ and △ attacks.

　・Adjusted the SBA gauge fill rate given by certain skills.

　・Adjusted the amount of SBA gauge that is redistributed by Conduction.

・Fixed a bug that prevented Djeeta from dodging right after performing an aeriel barrage.

・Fixed a bug that altered Gran and Djeeta’s movement speed while they were charging Power Raise.

Katalina

・Fixed a bug where certain skills that provide a combo skip effect after activation wouldn’t need to be fully activated to provide the effect.

・Increased the SBA gauge fill rate given by link attacks while Ares is summoned.

Rackam

・Fixed a bug where Rackam didn’t gain Duration’s additional effect if he was under the Invincibility effect.

・Fixed a bug that caused Bull’s Eye Blast to charge to a lower level while playing online.

・Fixed a bug that caused the damage cap of aerial barrages to work incorrectly.

・Lowered the damage cap of Slagshot.

Io

・Fixed a bug where the effective area of Healing Winds was smaller than it appeared on screen.

・Io should no longer lose the Mystic Vortex status effect even after taking a hit from an attack that removes positive status effects.

Eugen

・Fixed a bug in chapter 6 that caused the camera to remain in a fixed position when trying to aim.

・Fixed a bug where grenades wouldn’t stick to certain foes.

・Fixed a bug where Eugen didn’t gain Intercept’s additional effects if he was under the Invincibility effect.

・Fixed a bug where Sumrak dealt less hits when under specific conditions.

・Fixed a bug where grenades became less powerful when under specific conditions.

Rosetta

・Fixed a bug where after casting Lost Love during link time, the effect provided by the Enhanced Roses (Link Time) Mastery wouldn’t trigger for replanted roses.

・Fixed a bug that displayed the wrong element for Lost Love.

Ghandagoza

・Fixed a bug that prevented Ghandagoza from dodging right after performing an aerial barrage.

・Extended the input buffering window for charging △ following a combo finisher.

・Quickened the transition timing into charging △ following a combo finisher.

Ferry

・Adjusted how high a foe is launched by a launch attack, and hits from air combos are now easier to land.

・Lowered the SBA gauge fill rate given by launch attacks and aerial barrages.

・Fixed a bug where pets would link attack a foe different from the one you were locked on to.

・Fixed a rare bug where link time wouldn’t trigger if Ferry dodged after a link attack.

・Implemented measures to mitigate link attacks from missing due to certain terrain.

・Fixed a bug that prevented Ferry from dodging while casting Sic ‘Em, Geegee!

・Fixed a bug where the effective area of Benediction was smaller than it appeared on screen.

・Fixed an intermittent bug where the damage cap of Umlauf would be superseded by the damage caps of other attacks.

・Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause positive status effects of skills to not be granted if the skills were activated right after a Skybound Art.

Narmaya

・Fixed a bug that prevented Narmaya from dodging right after performing an aerial barrage.

・Fixed a bug where it was possible to make Narmaya execute Dawnfly stance combo attacks despite being in Freeflutter stance.

Lancelot

・Fixed an online multiplayer issue where upon entering link time with the Supplementary DMG effect, Lancelot would retain that effect indefinitely.

Vane

・Fixed a bug where certain skills that provide a combo skip effect after activation wouldn’t need to be fully activated to provide the effect.

・Fixed a bug that prevented Vane from performing a combo finisher despite pressing △ right after a link attack.

・Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented Vane from immediately attacking after dodging if he dodged in the middle of a Beatdown combo.

Percival

・Fixed a bug where certain skills that provide a combo skip effect after activation wouldn’t need to be fully activated to provide the effect.

・Fixed an intermittent bug where the damage cap of Roter Wirbel would be superseded by the damage caps of other attacks.

・Extended the input buffering window for a second charged △ attack following the first charged △ attack.

・Fixed a bug where the charge speed of △ wouldn’t speed up despite being charged after an air combo.

Siegfried

・Fixed a bug that prevented Siegfried from dodging right after performing an aerial barrage.

Cagliostro

・Adjusted how high a foe is launched by a launch attack, and hits from air combos are now easier to land.

・Extended the input buffering window for a second charged △ attack following the first charged △ attack.

・Objects transmuted as part of a link attack should now hit foes with greater accuracy.

・Fixed a bug where after Cagliostro recovered from Glaciate or Held Under, whenever another party member’s attack landed, she would flinch to those hits.

Yodarha

・Fixed a bug where the △ attack wouldn’t counter if Yodarha was under the Invincibility effect.

・Fixed a bug that prevented Yodarha from dodging right after performing an aerial barrage.

・Fixed a bug that displayed the wrong element for Flashing Void.

Zeta

・Fixed a bug where if Zeta had the Supplementary DMG effect, the extra attack from that effect could trigger a loop combo.

・Fixed an intermittent bug where the damage cap of Infinite Wonders would be superseded by the damage caps of other attacks.

Vaseraga

・Fixed a bug where certain skills that provide a combo skip effect after activation wouldn’t need to be fully activated to provide the effect.

Id

・Fixed a bug where certain skills that provide a combo skip effect after activation wouldn’t need to be fully activated to provide the effect.

・Fixed a bug where if Id dodged right after activating Atonement, he would only gain the Substitution effect.

・Fixed a bug that prevented Id from dodging right after performing an aerial barrage.

・Fixed an intermittent bug that reduced Id’s movement speed while he charged his △ attack.

Other Items

・Added a warning about the party having less than 4 members before going into a certain section of chapter 4.

・Fixed a bug that prevented players from obtaining the Reminiscence trophy/achievement. It will unlock upon returning to a town.

・Fixed a bug that prevented players from obtaining The Ultimate trophy/achievement. It will unlock upon returning to a town.

・Fixed a bug that prevented normal story progression if the chapter before Chapter Ø was played via chapter select before clearing Chapter Ø. If you are affected by this bug, quitting the chapter should restore progression.

・Fixed a bug that prevented players from obtaining trophies related to the Wee Pincers side quest line and opening treasure chests. They will unlock upon returning to a town.

・Fixed a bug where entries weren’t unlocking properly in the Places tab of the glossary in Lyria’s Journal.

・Adjusted the speed of the Masteries cursor.

・Adjusted the visibility of the compass when in darker areas.

・Adjusted the playback conditions of Gotle’s voice lines when transmuting sigils.

・Various bug fixes.

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