The cat and bunny people of Final Fantasy 14 Online are finally getting the headgear options they deserve, the MMO’s developer announced Friday in a new Letter from the Producer Live stream. Hrothgar and Viera characters will soon be able to display the headgear they’re wearing as part of Patch 7.3, Square Enix confirmed.
Hrothgar and Viera have had limited headgear options since the two races were introduced to Final Fantasy 14 in 2019’s Shadowbringers expansion. But since the furry friends have “unique heads” — with cat ears and bunny ears, respectively — some cosmetic headgear hasn’t been available to them.
That will change soon, and Square Enix is promising that “further support for headgear, including helmets, will be added in future updates.” Hopefully, Square Enix is prioritizing the paid cosmetic outfits that its selling that Hrothgar and Viera can’t currently wear.
Of course, as important as hats for feline and lupine fantasy friends are, that’s not the only thing FF14 producer/director Naoki Yoshida and global community producer Toshio Murouchi revealed during Friday’s Letter from the Producer.
Patch 7.3, known as The Promise of Tomorrow, will feature the main scenario quest that serves as the finale of the Dawntrail story. It will be released in early August, developers said.
Elsewhere, FF14’s devs teased a new allied society scenario featuring the Yok Huy; a new level 100 expert dungeon, The Meso Terminal; an unnamed new trial with normal and extreme difficulty versions; a new 24-player alliance raid, San d’Oria: The Second Walk; a new Unreal trial versus Seiryu in The Wreath of Snakes; and a new Deep Dungeon, Pilgrim’s Traverse.
Of course, all that pales in comparison to the six-year nightmare of Hrothgar and Viera going mostly hatless finally coming to an end.
Final Fantasy 14 Online is available now on Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.