Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier is approaching its fourth season on September 1st. Before the fourth season begins, the sport has added an all-new Variant Mode. In the mode, gamers can play as well-known enemies of the Final Fantasy franchise resembling Cactuar, Bomb, Slug-Ray, Bahamut, and Cloud’s nemesis, Sephiroth, the esteemed Solider 1st Class together with his iconic Masamune in hand.

Variant Mode is barely obtainable till August thirty first, however within the meantime, you may dive into the struggle towards these enemies as your customized soldier character, or management the variations of those prolific enemies that play equally to their aesthetics and mechanics within the Final Fantasy video games.

This information will present you the totally different choices to aim to play as Sephiroth, Bahamut, and extra for Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier’s Variant Mode.

What is Variant Mode

Variant Mode is a 9v3 mode. It permits 9 gamers to make use of their customized soldier they’ve been taking part in for Ranked or Standard Matches to face off towards three gamers with the power to rework into Variants.

These Variants are:

• Bomb
• Slug-Ray
• Cactuar
• Bahamut
• Sephiroth

Each of those Variants performs mechanically just like the enemies you will have fought in different Final Fantasy video games. Bomb can unleash fireballs and explodes on dying to decimate the realm. Slug-Ray can fly round capturing its artillery. Cactuar is ready to velocity across the space, is troublesome to break resulting from its tiny body, and is ready to emit needles at foes. Bahamut can fly across the map, divebomb, and create outstanding harmful flares to engulf the opposing group. Sephiroth is ready to glide across the map, slash foes effortlessly, name forth comets from the sky, and even teleport above an enemy participant earlier than slashing all the way down to execute them.

How to Play as Sephiroth

From the Main Menu, you will have to faucet on Game Mode on the field on the proper facet.

Then, select the present Event, which is Variant Mode. It’s the one with Sephiroth staring immediately at you in the identical approach he normally gazes in direction of Cloud.

Then you might be good to go and may begin trying to find a match with this mode.

If all 12 gamers don’t be a part of the match, the match will must be looked for once more.

To make sure you play because the Variant Team, you will have to earn Variant Team Tickets. The other ways to earn these Variant Team Tickets are:

• Play matches because the Candidate Team, which may have you controlling your customized soldier to struggle the Variants
• Inflict 100 or extra injury in a match
• Play matches to the tip with out quitting the sport
• Play matches with out inserting a checkmark on the Mode Selection Screen

You can solely earn Variant Team Tickets from the Variant Mode. You can’t earn Variant Team Tickets from taking part in different sport modes.

Only 10 Variant Team Tickets may be held, and should you group up with associates or as a celebration, all of you will have to have 5 Variant Team Tickets obtainable to make sure precedence to be positioned because the Variant Team.

It is essential to notice that typically you may simply find yourself on the Variant Team with out the utilization of tickets. As lengthy as you begin matchmaking by the Variant Mode, even should you should not have sufficient tickets, you may nonetheless play as Sephiroth.

If not all 12 gamers be a part of earlier than a match begins, and also you select Sephiroth, you’ll have to begin matchmaking over. This will make you lose your alternative to play as Sephiroth for that match.

Tickets is not going to be consumed should you fail to affix the Variant Team.

If you do die as any of the Variants, so long as one other group member has not taken the one you want to, then you may respawn because the Variant of your selecting. Only certainly one of every sort of Variant is allowed to be on the map, so no there can’t be three Sephiroths operating round on the identical time. Sephiroth, like the opposite Variants, has an HP Recovery Passive that restores 5% HP, when defeating a Candidate. Try to repeatedly kill the Candidate Team whereas taking minimal injury, so you may play as Sephiroth longer earlier than switching.

Best of luck on becoming a member of the Variant Team, and taking part in as Sephiroth for the subsequent a number of days!