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Final Fantasy 14’s perfect steamed bun animation puts its blocky grapes to shameThe most important change in Patch 6.3

The most important change in Patch 6.3

Final Fantasy XIV’s blocky grapes with a sad face scribbled on them, alongside a beautifully detailed and meaty bun splitting in two.

Final Fantasy XIV’s latest Patch 6.3 “Gods Revel, Lands Tremble” features new main scenario quests, a 24-player alliance raid dungeon, amongst many other tweaks and additions to theMMO. Really, though, it should be called “Baos Split, Tummies Rumble” as players have discovered the real highlight: a bao bun animation that’ll leave your salivary glands twitching. It’s beautiful. Magnificent. Almost NSFW.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV Patch 6.3 - Gods Revel, Lands Tremble

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Look, nolookat the bun animation. Really take in every little detail, like the way a split first forms at the bottom before the crack naturally moves upwards and gives way to the bun’s shiny innards. Look at the way the steam bursts outwards! Look at the layer of meat and how it mirrors the curvature of the torn treat.

HOLY SHIT this patch 6.3 BUN ANIMATION????pic.twitter.com/2J43ejypWC— Pimpakkard (@pimpakkard)January 10, 2023

HOLY SHIT this patch 6.3 BUN ANIMATION????pic.twitter.com/2J43ejypWC

Alright, yes, there are other things in the patch too, I suppose. For those invested in the main story, there’re some new quests involving “a half-voidsent woman named Zero”. A new dungeon called Lapis Manalis takes you up to an abandoned village in the mountains of Garlemald and looks set to feature some demonic yetis. Part 2 of the “Myths Of The Realm” raid arrives too, whose lovely golden pastures give way to a horrible shadow realm. Of course, there’s many other tweaks, all of which you can find in thepatch notes.

Maybe the beauty of the bao bun animation marks the beginning of a redemption arc for FFXIV foodstuffs? In a previous Endwalker patch, playersmourned the loss of their beloved low poly grapeswhose hard edges had been rounded off to “alleviate memory usage”. Now, perhaps, the jiggling dumpling and its realistic split can help those still “grapeving” (grape-grieving) to move on and find love again.