Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is lastly coming to PC on January twenty third, virtually a yr since launching on PS5. Between all of the awards and overwhelming vital help, there are a whole lot of expectations from this port.
It’s just about the identical by way of story and content material with no DLC forthcoming, however there are a number of new graphical choices to place it over the console model. Listed here are 15 issues it is best to know in regards to the acclaimed RPG earlier than choosing it up on PC (which is at present discounted by 30 % till launch).
Setting
With out entering into spoilers for the primary half, Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth ventures past Midgar into the broader world. From the quaint village of Kalm, gamers will navigate in depth plains, go to cities like Junon and Costa del Sol, and far more. Some places from the unique aren’t current in Rebirth, although they’ll seem within the third half. The identical goes for Cid’s airship, the Highwind. Nonetheless, the world is teeming with aspect quests and secrets and techniques, together with the same old towers to uncover neighboring actions.
Exploration and Traversal
Whereas Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth does characteristic a good variety of linear areas, the bigger open areas are arguably the primary spotlight. The dimensions and scale of those places are such that there are even completely different Chocobo sorts with distinctive motion talents to assist get round, from climb climbers to flyers. You even get a buggy at one level which might traverse all types of terrain.
Characters
Cloud, Tifa, Barrett, Aerith and Crimson XIII return from the primary half, with new talents and expertise to their repertoires. This time, Crimson XIII is playable and packs Vengeance Mode, which improves his injury and pace whereas permitting him to leech well being from enemies. Yuffie joins the get together after showing in Episode INTERmission and nonetheless carries over the flexibility to imbue weapons with completely different parts.
Lastly, there’s Cait Sith, who’s expertise change relying on whether or not he’s on his Moogle, and whose identify you’ve in all probability been announcing unsuitable because the authentic Ultimate Fantasy 7. In fact, there are different characters you’ll encounter, though the likes of Vincent Valentine aren’t playable, however you’ll must play it your self.
Fight Enhancements
Although it makes use of the identical fight system as Remake with the ATB Gauge and Restrict Breaks, Rebirth expands on it in quite a few methods. You may purchase dual-type Materia to harness, say, two completely different parts on high of varied different choices. Folios are utilized to improve your character with SP and are the important thing to unlocking Synergy Skills. New Summons like Phoenix, Bahamut Arisen, Titan, and extra have additionally been added.
Synergy Skills
You even have new Synergy Skills, basically team-ups between two get together members. Relying on the present get together, these can unleash highly effective assaults that deal huge injury up shut and at vary (with a couple of defensive choices additionally obtainable). One of the best half is that they don’t require spending ATB bars, thus offering one other useful resource to decimate enemies.
Mini-Video games
If there’s each other pillar that defines the Rebirth expertise, it’s the mini-games. Queen’s Blood is a standalone card recreation with its personal aspect quest chain whereas Fort Condor affords some tower protection enjoyable. The Junon Parade has additionally been expanded into one thing spectacular and the Gold Saucer is jam-packed with the likes of Galactic Saviors, G-Bike, 3D Brawler, and extra. Do you have to ace all of them? No, however they provide tons of extra enjoyable regardless.
Nvidia DLSS and VRR Help
Nvidia DLSS is out there out of the field for improved body charges, which must also assist these battling efficiency. The developer additionally confirmed that Variable Refresh Fee (VRR) is supported, which is an effective factor given the upper body charges.
As much as 4K and120 FPS help
For all its visible magnificence on PS5 and even PS5 Professional, Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s higher restrict is 4K/60 FPS (and that decision is achieved with PSSR’s upscaling). The PC model additionally helps resolutions as much as 4K nevertheless it additionally affords body charges as much as 120 frames per second. Lengthy story brief, if you wish to expertise the RPG in probably the most visually pleasing means doable, the PC model appears to be the ticket.
Graphics Presets and Choices
Whereas the total vary of graphics settings has but to be revealed, there can be three presets: Low, Medium and Excessive. Gamers can even alter the background mannequin degree of element and texture MIPmaps to reinforce the visuals extra. This could consequence within the PC model providing the best degree of graphical constancy.
Lighting Enhancements and Customizable On-Display NPC Rely
The developer touts lighting changes for the PC model alongside “considerably improved” mild rendering. The outcomes additionally apply to cutscenes, making them look even higher than earlier than. You may as well customise the variety of on-screen NPCs for additional efficiency features.
DualSense Help
Like lots of Sony’s ports of first-party PS5 exclusives, Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth on PC will help the DualSense controller. Moreover, it options the identical controls as on console, permitting followers of the console model to seamlessly translate their expertise over to PC.
Keyboard and Mouse Help
Those that choose to play on a mouse and keyboard are additionally in luck as Rebirth helps each on PC. Moreover, you possibly can remap them in keeping with completely different actions with separate configurations for fight, mini-games and exploration.
Steam Deck Help
Having an expertise like this on the go could be really one thing. And whereas the developer hasn’t fairly given it the “Steam Deck permitted” label, it’s “working diligently on optimizations” to make sure the Steam model is playable on the hand held.
PC Necessities
With every thing that Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth affords on PC, it’s no shock that the necessities will be hefty, particularly on the low finish. To play at Low settings and 1080p/30 FPS, you want a Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core 14-8100, a Radeon RX 6600, Intel Arc 1580 or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060, and 16 GB of RAM. For Medium settings and 1080p/60 FPS, a Ryzen 5 5600, Ryzen 7 3700X, Core i7-8700, or Core i5-10400, a Radeon RX 6700 XT or GeForce RTX 2070, and 16 GB of RAM are essential. It’s value noting that enjoying at 4K on both Low or Medium requires a GPU with not less than 12 GB VRAM.
As for Excessive settings at 2160p/60 FPS, a Ryzen 7 5700X or Core i7-10700, a Radeon RX 7900 XTX or GeForce RTX 4080, and 16 GB RAM are wanted. This time, a GPU with 16 GB VRAM or larger is required for taking part in in 4K. Home windows 11 64-bit is necessary for the Advisable and Extremely necessities, and if that wasn’t sufficient, you want a whopping 155 GB of set up area on a solid-state drive.
Playtime
A lot has been made about Ultimate Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s in depth playtime – the developer revealed earlier than the PS5 model’s launch that it had double the aspect content material of Remake. Certain sufficient, HowLongToBeat reveals that the primary story and additional content material take about 91.5 hours on common to beat (with the primary story solely requiring 47.5 hours). And in the event you choose to finish every thing? It might simply take about 167 hours.
