CPU (Final Fantasy IV 3D)

The CPU, also known as the ControlSys, is a boss from Final Fantasy IV. It is the penultimate non-optional boss the party encounters in the main storyline. The controlling unit of the Giant of Babil, CPU directs the giant's actions. Cecil and company realize CPU is the giant's only weak point, and fly the Enterprise inside to stop the war machine.

Battle
The CPU is protected by the Defense Node and Attack Node. CPU will cast Reflect on itself. If the player takes out the Attacker (or both Nodes in the 3D versions), CPU will use Globe199 (which deals 9999 damage to a single target) twice, killing two party members. In the SNES version CPU uses Globe199 to counter a physical attack.

Strategy
The player should finish off the Attacker immediately, as it has low HP, but high Attack power. A single Laser Barrage could potentially wipe out the weaker party members in one hit. The player should defeat the CPU next, because destroying both Nodes causes the CPU to use Globe199, and the CPU has no attacks whatsoever without its Attack Node. Any summon except Titan can be used to damage the Attack Node and CPU simultaneously, while leaving the Defense Node untouched, to prevent Globe199 from triggering. The Defense Node is equally helpless after that. If the player gave Rosa the dualcast augment, they could use Dispel followed by Slow or Holy to slow the CPU and its nodes.

Final Fantasy XIV


The CPU appears in Final Fantasy XIV as a recurring boss called "ADS" (Allagan Defense System). They appear as a mini-boss in the Binding Coil of Bahamut - Turn 1, and as a boss of Turn 2.

In Frontline (Slaughter), they appear as Assault Systems α, Assault System β, and Assault System γ.

Winning 200 Frontline campaigns will award the player a Logistics System mount.

Related enemies

 * Attack Node
 * Defense Node
 * Yasuhiro Kanda

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years

 * CPU
 * Attack Node
 * Defense Node

CPU (FFIV)