Some way out to sea a ship lay at anchor, the only point of
reference in the haze that had been building up through the long, hot afternoon.
-- Takes place
in the Aegis War — The Driver - Blade mechanic is gone — Instead you control characters like Addam, Mythra, Brighid, Minoth, Lora, etc. directly — They all have 7 Arts — Characters like Addam for example can't upgrade their weapons with core chips — Blade data for Jin,
Haze and seemingly Malos exists, so they could be potential rewards — Datamine confirms that The Conduit is the Zohar (might just be a
reference to its shape though)