Hilarious Final Fantasy 14 bug confuses the game

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Spoiler alert: Dawntrail MSQ/Raid spoilers follow.


Key foods

  • The battle log bug in FF14 attributes enemy actions to a player with the same name, causing confusion.
  • The bug has come in many forms, including players and NPCs with similar names.
  • Weird hiccups slightly affect the gameplay by identifying characters based on the names seen in the game.


A Final Fantasy 14 The player experienced a strange bug where the game would get confused between who was responsible for the attacks that were done in a fight. It turns out that Final Fantasy 14 There is a bug that breaks this element of the game if an NPC and a player are named in the same fight.

Final Fantasy 14 Players are currently checking out the added content as in Update 7.1 after Dawntrail. As with any MMORPG, Final Fantasy 14 It's constantly changing and evolving, which can lead to some weird glitches. This particular player faced something of an identity crisis as the game could not tell the difference between the player and his opponent.


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on the original Final Fantasy 14 subreddit, Reddit user Ekanselttar shared an image that compiles several photos from his battle report where their character was mistaken for the person they were fighting. The player character, named Wicked Thunder, faced the NPC Wicked Thunder in the AAC Lightweight M4 fight. While the two entities are separate, the screenshots show that the game is confusing and states that the player will damage the boss for tens of thousands of points with his attacks. The entire battle log plays out in comedy, with the player seemingly injuring himself multiple times or preparing attacks for the rest of the party to use.



The Final Fantasy 14 Naming Bug goes way back

While this bug report goes back to before 7.1 Final Fantasy 14 Update arrived, most likely not addressed yet. Nothing in the patch notes specifically mentions it, and the bug has actually existed in various forms throughout the game. A similar problem is used to confuse the game's battle system when two players join a fight with the same name. These days, global names are now used to distinguish between players with the same name that have joined cross-server instances, so the bug isn't seen that way.

However, this is not the only known case. Another player mentioned that someone encountered something similar in Endwalker. During a certain sequence of events in the game, players can take control of allies, rather than fighting as their character. The game warns the player of this exchange by informing them that “In the upcoming battle, you will be playing as [character]However, when the player playing as “G'raha Tia” found out they were replaced by the real NPC G'raha Tia, the game told them that “you will be playing as yourself.”


Needless to say, there seems to be some weird glitches in how characters, both players and NPCs, are identified by name. Fortunately, the bug doesn't seem to have a huge negative impact on gameplay, but players who share names with NPCs may want to watch out for any quirks of their own.

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