Fortnite Fans Have Started Making Final Fantasy 14-Style Raid Boss Battles

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A while back, Fortnite introduced a series of tools that creators could use to create their own maps, and these tools provided enough creative freedom that players were soon using them to mimic entirely different genres. We've seen all kinds of weird and wonderful creation from Fortnite players ever since these tools were introduced, though none have managed to capture the feeling of a Final Fantasy 14 raid boss quite as well as the DoomsDay: Raid Boss Battle has.

Uploaded last week (thanks Kotaku), this map has a very intimidating golden giant that a team of six players are tasked with taking down. It has a wide range of attacks at its disposal, most of them are AoEs that threaten to wipe out any party that isn't properly prepared for them, though there are plenty of others you need to be ready for. To take on this goliath, you'll need to choose one of three roles (Assault, Support, or Vanguard), ensuring your team is properly built. You can see the fight play out in a video by YouTuber RoyalMishMash down below.

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If you were hoping you and your squad could be the first to beat it, that accolade has already been claimed by Mlick, who uploaded a video of their victory to their Twitter account yesterday. Upon taking down the The God of Exiles, a short cutscene plays in which the camera pans out and you watch the creature fizzle out of existence.

What makes this fight so reminiscient of Final Fantasy 14 is the amount of preparation these players had to undergo to pull this feat off. Sure, the fact that it's a holy golden being that's fought in a big space arena gives it that Final Fantasy 14-esque vibe, but prior tweets from Mlick show that raid