FFXIV Archived 1.0: Titan – The Lost Battle

In 2011, The Final Fantasy XIV Team was finishing up work on adding Titan, the Earth primal when the tragic 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake & Tsunami struck Japan. The team thought it would be inappropriate to release a Primal based around Earth/Earthquakes in light of this, and so the Titan encounter was scrapped from the game.

It’s believed that the Titan Encounter & Fight were both nearly very completed when this happened, however, this unfinished cutscene is all that remains in the 1.0 Game Files regarding this questline/fight. It is speculated that since the group in this scene does not include the Warrior of Light, it may be an echo flashback and the group is an early version of the Company of Heroes.

The beeping at the start is because, as this cutscene is unfinished, the music track never plays – instead the music track is a test track that just plays some loud beeping. Another side effect of this cutscene being unfinished is at 3:25 when the models and effects all unload earlier than they should. We elected to keep both of these quirks in the final video so that it would be a 100% accurate archival of the cutscene.

Special thanks to Bliv for their help in making this possible. https://www.youtube.com/@OblivionCreator and also to Lizardizzle for helping us track it down. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNHE52f0GHpLrqs2pq8ss1Q

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