Summary
- Final Fantasy 16 on PC allows for easily moddable gameplay improvements without impacting performance.
- Mods like Natural Colors and Cimmerian Reshade enhance visuals and realism while maintaining game performance.
- Additional mods such as Basic Difficulty and Reduced Skill Cooldowns offer challenge and gameplay customization options.
The best part about Final Fantasy 16 coming to PC is the fact that it becomes easily moddable as well, which has led to many people in the community making different types of mods for the iconic game to make it even better.
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Posts By Jesus MoralesAs Final Fantasy 16 has been plagued with a lot of performance issues since its launch, a lot of these mods are centered around optimization changes, but there are also quite a few options for players looking for customization additions and some minor gameplay changes as well.
8 Natural Colors
Image via instanity- Download Natural Colors here.
- Creator: instanity
The Natural Colors mod by instanity changes the lighting and colors in FInal Fantasy 16 so that they appear to be a lot more natural. If you want the game to look a little bit more realistic and darker, while also increasing its sharpness by a bit, then you should definitely try out this mod.
What's even better about this mod is that it doesn't change the performance of your game at all, which is one of our main complaints with most shader mods.
To use this mod, you will first have to download and install ReShade, as it is the only way to install this mod.
7 Basic Armor And Accessory Combinations
- Download Basic Armor and Accessory Combinations here.
- Creator: jayden
This mod brings a cool and unique addition to Final Fantasy 16 by combining the stats of parts of the Eludian armor with some accessories.
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Posts By Kendall CunninghamSome of the buffs this mod comes with include adding one Genji Glove effect to the Eludium Wristlets, one Ring of Swiftshot to the Berserker Ring, and many other similar changes that make these accessories a lot stronger and more fun to use.
6 Cimmerian Reshade
Image via VitaExNihilo- Download Cimmerian Reshade here.
- Creator: VitaExNihilo
Similar to the Natural Colors mod, this Cimmerian Reshade mod by VitaExNihilo focuses on making the colors of the game look a lot more realistic by changing the lighting, and making the darker areas look a lot better.
This is the perfect mod to improve the clarity of your game, and it is fairly simple to use and install as well, with the help of Reshade. It also doesn't come with any performance issues from our experience with it.
5 Clive's Casual Clothes
Image via Tenshiken1- Download Clive's Casual Clothes here.
- Creator: Tenshiken1
We can't make a Final Fantasy 16 mod list without including any clothing changes, as fans of this series love customization and different clothing options for the characters have led to some of the most popular mods in previous FF games.
This mod specifically removes Clive's bearer and normal outfits and replaces them with different clothing options, consisting of a simple black and a white outfit, both of which look a lot lighter and a lot more casual.
4 Basic Difficulty
- Download Basic Difficulty here.
- Creator: gladias9
Difficulty has been a controversial aspect of FF16 ever since it launched. Most fans of the series consider it to be one of the easiest entries so far, with most enemies and bosses being relatively easy to kill. This mod fixes this issue, and makes it so that enemies can cause more damage, and makes it possible for more enemies to attack you at the same time.
Although this mod works perfectly fine from our experience, its creator does call it experimental and advises you to have multiple save files just in case anything goes wrong.
This is the perfect mod for players who want more of a challenge, and it can prove to be really difficult, especially if you're playing on the hardest difficulty level already.
3 Reduced Skill Cooldowns
- Download Reduced Skill Cooldowns here.
- Creator: Akeela_Darchiev
The Reduced Skill Cooldowns doesn't necessarily address a problem with the game. It just makes it a lot easier and fun to play by reducing the cooldown of all skills to be way shorter. You can either choose the three-second version of this mod, which will allow you to spam skills one after the other, and take your enemy out within seconds.
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Posts By Jesus MoralesOr you can choose to go for the 50 percent reduction, which still makes the game easier, but isn't too overpowered and still keeps the game competitive as well to a certain limit.
2 Anti-Stutter - High CPU And Disk Priority
- Download Anti-Stutter - High CPU And Disk Priority here.
- Creator: ChemBoy1
This mod by ChemBoy1 is one of the simplest but most effective mods we have seen in Final Fantasy 16. Performance has been one of the main issues for the PC port of this game, with a lot of players suffering with problems such as stuttering and frame-drops, which can completely ruin the gameplay experience.
With a simple registry edit, this mod improves performance, and helps the game perform a lot better on older CPUs, and stops most of the stuttering issues as well. Although this mod isn't guaranteed to work for everyone, it is still worth trying out as it won't have any negative impact on the game or your PC.
1 FFXVIFIX
- Download FFXVIFIX here.
- Creator: Lyall
There is a severe lack of options in Final Fantasy 16 when it comes to optimization and adjusting your gameplay settings, and this mod fixes most of these problems by itself.
From adjusting FOV to disabling depth of field to uncapping framerate during cutscenes, there is so much you can do with this mod, and you can go through all of it on the mod description page.
4.5/5 Final Fantasy 16 Like Follow Followed Action RPG Systems OpenCritic Reviews Top Critic Avg: 87/100 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 Cross-Platform Play Final Fantasy 16 does not support cross platform multiplayer Cross Save yesWHERE TO PLAY
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