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Fucking Mira.
ultimalionbgh
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Just saw it. OMG, they put a lot of thoughts into these creatures.
Borboleta Amarela
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Pulled the trigger and bought it although I don't have much time to play nowadays. I'm a great fan of xenoblade chronicles and hope this one is as good.
Reading a guide on Skells..
Also, I had a party member get their Skell destroyed, and I have to use a salvage ticket. Why wasn't it repaired for free? Is the guide wrong?
Can somebody clarify this? Sometimes getting perfect has seemed to repair my Skell for free but other times I've had to use insurance/salvage ticket. Is there something I'm missing?
Also, I had a party member get their Skell destroyed, and I have to use a salvage ticket. Why wasn't it repaired for free? Is the guide wrong?
That happens if you have no insurance left
This game is one conspiracy after the other!
SkeptiMism
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If the skell has already lost its insurances, then jumping out with the perfect soul challenge doesn't help anything - you'll have to pay the fee.
This applies to party members too.
So you have to have remaining insurance for the "perfect" to not use insurance?
Edit: saw above, thanks!
I've never thought that the concept was bad, but the way Ubi implements it is so lazy. And Xenoblade X proves it.
The guide is a complete disaster.
As long as your teammates have 1 insurance credit left, their Skells will repair for free without consuming insurance. If they have 0 insurance, then you are fucked every single time and will pay out of your ass. Only give your teammates Skells that have insurance left.
The message that the terminal displayed is not accurate or a bug. It will always tell you "your insurance paid for it" unless you have to pay, and doesn't distinguish between the different scenarios.
All signs point to them hacking in skill test late in development and not testing it or updating the messages.
You must go to the BLADE barracks and check the console to recover your skell via insurance. You can see in its stats if it is reduced or not, with default at 3. When a party member loses the skell, insurance remains unchanged. A perfect soul challenge when you lost your own skell does the same thing.
Edit: I haven't experienced redcing my skell insurance below 3 so I'm not sure what happens when it's at 0 and you still lost it while performing a perfect soul challenge.
I noticed this earlier today, not because I cut the "neck" but because there is a tyrant named Headless something that has the same model, effectively without the "head". My mind was blown
Mira should basically be illegal at this point.
I love so many of the creature designs in this game - if only the more humanoid aliens were as well-realised and interesting.
Probably - I haven't really run into that, at least. Do you mean every Soul Voice, or only a specific category?
Also, does this mean you've never heard his weather line?
I usually go for evasion boosting augments for my light skells and gravity resistance for heavy skells. Potential boost augments are also great investments for the future.
I've heard his weather line. That's about the only line he'll say in battle aside from "Not my forte, but if you insist" which he says for literally every other action he does.
Kadin
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Thanks. At first I was thinking about stuff like Melee/Ranged Damage boosts but I'm not sure if those work as I'm thinking on weapons that are basically arts for the Skell. Stuff like you mentioned stacks fine on all parts? How about what I mentioned on the auto-attack weapons at the very least?
To be honest, it's a blur since I don't pay attention to my pickups. I accept lots of quests and do lots of exploring. Anytime I see a treasure box icon on my minimap I go out of my way to get it.
Research probes aren't super plentiful but I think I found a G6 one back at Ant's Nest (north from the middle of the giant chasm) in Oblivia. You can also get a G5 one for completing the Oblivia collectopedia (lol)
Speaking of which, need 3 more items for finishing it all at last.
That's his line for responding to a melee Soul Voice - how many of his equipped Arts are melee attacks? I definitely remember him having voiced lines for giving and responding to ranged, buff, aura and debuff Soul Voices, so maybe you've just set things up to not trigger them?
bizzarewars
Banned
Just finished the game at the 90 hour mark. All in all I loved it.
(STORY ENDING SPOILERS)
I'm really excited for the next game in the series. Can't wait to see what they do next. Not sure if I'm gonna grind it out for that Ares 90, though.
(STORY ENDING SPOILERS)
Lao and the other bosses ended up being pretty trivial because I developed a level 50 Megaflame. Ended up one hit killing both of them. Felt slightly anticlimactic because of that but that's more my fault than anything else, lol. Thought that Elma being a Xeno and the stinger after the end credits were pretty cool twists, although overall the story wasn't as memorable as XC.
I'm really excited for the next game in the series. Can't wait to see what they do next. Not sure if I'm gonna grind it out for that Ares 90, though.
I second this. The biggest issue I have with humanoid xenos is that there're several races that consist solely of tall and buff males and short and curvacious females.
A side effect of the changes made to Lin's model when using more revealing clothing is that she actually looks decent while wearing the black suit rather than a generic sexy lady.
Bump.
Female and male mannon don't look like that too me XD
Ending spoilers
what's fun is that elma is the titular character of the game! She's a Xeno-BLADE!
Although one ma-non could also bear that title
Although one ma-non could also bear that title
Those augments should also affect auto-attacks since they increase the base stats of the skell, I think.
He has 4 ranged arts equipped and I've had the text bubbles appear for "Lay down some cover fire" and "shoot to topple" but he only ever speaks that specific melee line, even for when he's just doing normal attacks.
They're the one of the few that avoid it. When you consider how limiting it is to give aliens binary genders in the first place, having so many of the races encountered hew to the same template just seems like a lack of creativity. Even taking the reality of animation rig limitations into account, they had the chance to get a lot weirder with the alien designs.
It's so boring, I agree. One is bad enough, but the Prone, Wrothians, whatever Daghan and Ryyz are...it's like they really couldn't think of anything but the same two archetypes over and over.
That might be some sort of bug, then. And it's been the case since you started, and persists on resets?
bizzarewars
Banned
some things have been quite stupid, like chapter 6 or 7 when
also after chapter 8
but it's like if nothing happened, unless there was a time skip I missed.
so far I liked that some of the npcs have different dialogues after specific story events, but in that case, which was easily the biggest event since the game began, I've hardly read any new dialogue about it, 2-3 NPCs at best mentioned it? Meh. I was expecting side-quests related to that too.
the enemies tried to recover the super weapon mech or whatever it is, they couldn't because those tainted monsters react to living things, sure, then why didn't you send the army of robots you use to attack NLA with? Idk.
also after chapter 8
NLA is supposed to be half destroyed
so far I liked that some of the npcs have different dialogues after specific story events, but in that case, which was easily the biggest event since the game began, I've hardly read any new dialogue about it, 2-3 NPCs at best mentioned it? Meh. I was expecting side-quests related to that too.
They already confirmed in the Iwata Asks that insurance for the insurance was a late addition because the lead battle designer "was a kind man"
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wiiu/xenoblade-chronicles-x/0/4
As far as I can remember. I hardly use Lao though so it doesn't bother me all too much. Just thought it was weird and wanted to see if it was a common issue.
Smiles and Cries
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where do I go to get HP rebound? everything is ( ??? ) I want some XX of those
Only started the game just now. Had been in the States for a month and Xeno X was waiting for me back home since release day.
Anyway, just played for an hour (fresh off the plane) and am enjoying it. But I think I am too tired to grasp it all yet.
Just walked to New LA and arrived at sunset. Beautiful in any case.
Any beginner's tips? (for a veteran of the Wii game, who also watched the survival guides)
Anyway, just played for an hour (fresh off the plane) and am enjoying it. But I think I am too tired to grasp it all yet.
Just walked to New LA and arrived at sunset. Beautiful in any case.
Any beginner's tips? (for a veteran of the Wii game, who also watched the survival guides)
SkeptiMism
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Got my first super weapon yesterday. The detonator thing, lvl 50 weapon on back, with 124k force or something like that.
Got the archaelogy Off the Record tyrant down with it fairly easily. Also took down multiple xe-dorns just because I could.
Using it like that really brings up how annoying the refueling mechanic is though. Either I take down multiple high level indigens (which I find fun) and refuel a lot (and as a result won't be able to add slots because of not enough miranium anymore) or then I don't take down multiple high level indigens (boring) and don't refuel as much.
I guess I should take some duplicator probes out from money sources and put them on storages probes to get some more miranium. At the moment making about 300k money with 50k miranium limit (would make 70k miranium otherwise - could make a lot more too if I bothered to optimize it but at the moment it's pointless anyway).
Still though, even if I switch some of the duplicator probes for the storage probes, the refueling mechanic is annoying and pretty much pointless regardless. I'd understand if it was a mechanic to get you to think about your fuel use per big fight (would have to be done a little differently to succeed in that), but at the moment it's just stupid how it limits you off combat.
Before selling it take off all the gear (press x in the menu when changing skell's gear, and you have the option to take off everything) you can and take off any possible augments from the skell's frame.
Got the archaelogy Off the Record tyrant down with it fairly easily. Also took down multiple xe-dorns just because I could.
Using it like that really brings up how annoying the refueling mechanic is though. Either I take down multiple high level indigens (which I find fun) and refuel a lot (and as a result won't be able to add slots because of not enough miranium anymore) or then I don't take down multiple high level indigens (boring) and don't refuel as much.
I guess I should take some duplicator probes out from money sources and put them on storages probes to get some more miranium. At the moment making about 300k money with 50k miranium limit (would make 70k miranium otherwise - could make a lot more too if I bothered to optimize it but at the moment it's pointless anyway).
Still though, even if I switch some of the duplicator probes for the storage probes, the refueling mechanic is annoying and pretty much pointless regardless. I'd understand if it was a mechanic to get you to think about your fuel use per big fight (would have to be done a little differently to succeed in that), but at the moment it's just stupid how it limits you off combat.
If you lose the insurance, you probably should just sell the skell and buy a new one. You get majority of the money back and don't have to waste any money on the fees.
Before selling it take off all the gear (press x in the menu when changing skell's gear, and you have the option to take off everything) you can and take off any possible augments from the skell's frame.
victreeb3l
Member
How do you change characters?
Kadin
Member
Just need to go into the active party screen and you can move whoever you want to play into the top left spot.
That AR with the 900 TP per clip? I think people just use that to supplement their TP skills/Overdrive quickly. And I don't mess around with other characters, but I think since L has the shield and psycho launchers he can be a support tank? I only had him long enough to get his affinity up.
Menu -> Party -> Active Members. Switch someone else into the top spot.
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