Summary

  • Final Fantasy 16 is completely broken on PS5 following the latest firmware update.
  • Players report their consoles shutting down, incredibly distracting visual glitches, and game freezes.
  • It's unclear why this is happening to FF16 in particular, but Square Enix stated that it's working alongside Sony to remedy the issue.

Following the latest PlayStation 5 firmware update, Final Fantasy 16 players have run into some major, game-breaking bugs that are completely ruining the experience.

Square Enix has addressed and apologised for the problem on Twitter, confirming that it's working alongside Sony to remedy the issue.

There's no timeline yet, but it did ask players to "wait for further information", so keep an eye on its socials if you want to know when things will be back to normal — in the meantime, Clive Rosefield has to suffer a very strange lightshow.

Some Of The Bugs Final Fantasy 16 Players Are Running Into

One look at social media and you'll see countless reports of visual hiccups and crashes plaguing fans right now. One very distracting issue is major flickering and distortions while the skybox rapidly disappears and reappears, followed by game-breaking freezes. But hey, at least the music is calming.

Others, like Reddit user Logan-Lance, claim that their PS5 turned off completely while playing the game after the software update. Others in the comments corroborated this, saying that they too had run into a "complete hard shutdown after a cutscene", which required them to rebuild the database and repair their external HDD.

Cutscenes aren't immune to this problem, either. As you can see above, visual glitches prevail even during intimate moments, with textures blacking out as lights go haywire.

It's unclear why the firmware update has broken Final Fantasy 16 in particular, but hopefully things are ironed out soon.

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Final Fantasy 16

Action RPG Systems 4.5/5 10.0/10 OpenCritic Reviews Top Critic Avg: 88/100 Critics Rec: 91% Released June 22, 2023 ESRB M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence Developer(s) Square Enix Publisher(s) Square Enix Engine Proprietary Engine
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An action RPG from Square Enix Creative Business Unit III, Final Fantasy 16 takes place in the world of Valisthea. As Clive Rosfield, First Shield of Rosaria, you embark on a quest to find your missing younger brother.

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