Final Fantasy XV Buffed with 3.2GB Patch on PS4

cool New Game +, i wonder what carries over?

@get2sammyb oh well that's OK, not bothered about enemies being stronger or not

but i'll wait to do it until the Story content update is released before i use it

@get2sammyb So nothing else changes apart from carrying your equipment over?

So for NG+ can I just start afresh from the main menu? I ask because I finished the main storyline last night and went back to the field already to do hunter quests; can still take advantage of NG+ in this instance?

Seriously where are the 60 fps patch.

@wiiware making games is a difficult thing, perhaps they just haven't found a way to fix the problem yet

Its apparently going to take 6 hours to download on 200mb fibre optic broadband. See also the SF V update which is going to take 10 hours..

C'mon Sony, time to upgrade those servers, not exactly short of the old money

@gmxs Yeah, I'm getting 1.2MB/s on my GIGABIT fiber line.... the PSN download speeds are the worst in the business.

@AhabSpampurse

You can start a NG+ from the main menu as New game will be replaced with New Game+

@get2sammyb "enemies aren't buffed" - wait, so you are super buffed and higher level but the mobs aren't? So NG+ is easy mode? what happened to basic game design principles?

@NathanUC @gmxs I currently have 50mb and was thinking about upgrading to 300 for all of my Christmas needs, but thanks to you 2 reminding me how slow things are on their end I guess there really isn't any point. I guess it's good I won't be playing until the 27th, maybe by Tuesday morning things will ease up a bit. Then I'll watch Kingsglaive on my PS3 while FFXV does its thing.

@FullbringIchigo I hope squareenix doesn't cancel it, I definitly want to play the game on 60 fps, the graphics are good enough.

@rjejr 50mb is still about 6MBps, so if you are getting at least that, it might be worth trying the 300mb line. There are times where I can get 15-20MBps on PSN downloads, but usually it only lasts a minute or two when it throttles back down to sub 1-5MBps. On Xbox/Steam I can easily get 40-50MBps.. it's nuts!
EDIT: I should also say that it somewhat seems to be regional. If I try different PSN data centers, I get vastly different speeds.

@NathanUC how do you try different data centres?

@gmxs Connecting to VPNs from my router. Usually the VPN connection becomes the bottleneck, but there were days I was getting like 0.02MBps patching FFXIV. By connecting to a Canadian VPN, I was able to get about 2MBps instead.

More content is no bad thing, hope we get the 60fps patch soon.

@wiiware i'm sure they are working on it

Props to Square for adding NG+.

Now if they can patch the depth of field issue with World of Final Fantasy on the Pro, I would be a happy camper.

I really wish they would fix the frame pacing issues. It's my main gripe with the game. The frame rate is fine but that little jitter takes me out of the experience which is a shame cause I am enjoying the game so far.

@FullbringIchigo they've had plenty of time for this title tho!

@stevejcrow well this version of the game was only developed over the past 3-4 years as the original was scrapped but i understand what you mean

but you also need to keep in mind that the PS4 Pro was released AFTER the game was completed, it was built for the original model NOT the pro (same with the XB1 ans XB1s) so it's possible that there was unforeseen complications

@FullbringIchigo CID weapons also drop back down to their basic level.
Side quests & Monster hunts are also reset.

Nice to have the option but I'm not eager to jump back in as of yet.
For me to consider doing the NG+ run I'll need a higher difficulty level & the patched story content.

Literally bought a ps4 pro, because of the promised 60fps. Seems like theyre just going to sweep under the rug.

So NG+ suck's then eh, buzzing. Gunna trade it in anyway fed up with how easy and casual the game is and the sucky NG+ confirm's the casualness in game's these day's. NG+ where the mob's aint buffed ................ so 2016.

@ZurapiiYohane64 a slight technicality this but the framerate is virtually locked at 30fps in high resolution, it's frame pacing which is the issue. This basically means that the images are being drawn at irregular intervals which creates the stuttering effect but no frames are actually being dropped. If they can fix this it should be nigh on perfectly and here's hoping we can get 60 fps too

@NathanUC not sure what the issue is, but i've not long ago downloaded ~50gb in about 90 mins from the PSN store, and my connection is 100mb/s max. i've just downloaded rhe GR2 demo in about 15 minutes. the download speeds have rarely been much of a problem for me.. destiny's massive taken king update was the last time i recall it being particularly slow..

@leucocyte Like I said, it seems regional. When I connect to other data centers I can usually hold a fast download speed (to the limit of my VPN), but connected to my local data center (midwest USA), it's horrible most of the time (but not always). It's a horribly broken system for some while perfectly usable by others.

@Mega-Gazz I think in most cases that's always what NG+ was. It's only in rarer cases like Dark Souls where the enemies get tougher as well. NG+ has always been a way to race through the game again to see the story again, get things you missed, or take different choices in the plot. It would also let you beat bosses that you were meant to lose to first time around, since they are now massively underpowered. You'd get that a lot in the Tales series. In Chrono Trigger you could always face the final boss early in the game but he'd kill you for sure. In NG+ you could now beat him at that time. Different endings were also possible.

So yeah, this is actually normal but it's nowhere near the first time I've seen someone expect it to make the enemies tougher like in DS.

@xMEADx As I say above, NG+ was usually like this. It's actually more recent that NG+ buffs the enemies. I don't know how you can say FFXV is casualised when pretty much 99% of every FF is just clicking the "Attack" option on a menu.

EDIT:
And I just notice @Bliquid has already said most of what I just said. Haha, oh well.

@Bliquid Couldn't you just also not camp or rest? I mean, you'd avoid levelling and you'd avoid getting food buffs. I haven't got that far, but does the game ever force you to rest (and would thus insta-level you to god knows what with your millions of unspent XP)?

But yeah, it always makes me laugh when people complain about difficulty in an RPG. One of the great things about them is you can modify the difficulty yourself by not levelling, not upgrading equipment, not using magic/only using magic, and lots of other things. That's part of the fun of the genre, and games in general, really. Even Dark Souls is easy as hell if you level up a lot.

So this doesn't include the new cut scenes they said would be added? I'm holding out to purchase/play till then!