I lack any trace of creativity as well, so I ended up using the colour schemes of Metroid suits, and random related terms in place of their actual names.
You can unlock their armour (but not Skells) later on, but none of them join your party.
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I lack any trace of creativity as well, so I ended up using the colour schemes of Metroid suits, and random related terms in place of their actual names.
You can unlock their armour (but not Skells) later on, but none of them join your party.
I see. I probably won't bother with Alexa, maxing affinity in this game takes forever.
pizzaparty
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There are post-game missions that let you boost affinity pretty quick.
Beat the game for Ares 90.
victreeb3l
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DeuceGamer
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There seems to be more of a story than what I expected based on some of the review. Especially if you do a lot of the affinity missions.
I'm still only scratching the surface with what this game has to offer.
I'm still only scratching the surface with what this game has to offer.
I've been trying to name them after the sky/weather but the limited space makes it kinda hard.
Mr. Blue Sky, Mr. Night, Crimson Dusk, Blue Typhoon, etc.
I seem to remember reading that you can back up with the left trigger, but I have no idea of its true or not.
Wow I never checked that out. Let me see if it's true.
Astral Dog
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So i finally completed the Skell exam, bought a new green bulky one, equipped it with new gear and went on a simple mission
It was cool against the small enemies but one flying thing that saw me killed it in one shoot, now im not sure where the Skell is, checked the barracks and it said something about insurance but where it is! ugh
also how do you refill fuel?
It was cool against the small enemies but one flying thing that saw me killed it in one shoot, now im not sure where the Skell is, checked the barracks and it said something about insurance but where it is! ugh
also how do you refill fuel?
toastyToast
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So I'm hamstrung out of substantially boosting my revenue because I can't seem to get any research probes. 60 hours and I've only got 6 or 7, most of them bad and not enough of the same tier so I can chain them.
Meanwhile I've got over 100 mining probes.
Meanwhile I've got over 100 mining probes.
What's your revenue per cycle at now? I think if you put your Research Probes in the right places (with found sightseeing spots), you can earn a lot without a ton of probes.
effective use of booster and duplicator probes helps too
that said, 60 hours in you should probably have more than 6 or 7
If the insurance renewed your skell then it will be there behind you whenever you fast travel, or just waiting outside the barracks when you head out.
Refuel is also in the barracks. Check the skell options. It costs 5k miranium.
Being absent as playable characters is kind of weird considering how they're treated in the main story and later sidequests - though I guess it's also possible their features would make things difficult. Unlike Celica, L and the female Prone, it'd be a lot more difficult to make their fur function as a texture swap of the standard body; and the proportions of the male Wrothians would conflict with it completely - it'd animate correctly, but every armour set would have to be redone. Even considering that a hypothetical playable Wrothian would have to be female (for obvious reasons); the tail is still an issue. There'd have to be a way to treat it as part of the model independent of gear, and it'd need to be incorporated into the animations of every class.
You recover your skell just by going into the Hangar menu in the Barracks, it should be available immediately afterwards. The refuel option should be in that menu as well, after you select the Skell you want to refuel.
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Look around for treasure points you may have overlooked/not had the skill level for previously
victreeb3l
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Fair enough. Its a shame but im glad they will make more appearances in the game.
I guess theyre one of the unlockables AMs? Where can I find the mission to add their AM and start buying their armor and stuff.
Ok so 122hrs of amazing gameplay, I clocked the main story & completed most of the affinity and normal missions.
Ending Spoiler story talk:
Sorry, that was a little ranty of me - but It's sad that such a great team, who made such a great game made a really perplexing decision.
Ending Spoiler story talk:
After a wonderful self contained adventure in Xenoblade, I'm crushed to find that XCX leaves so much left on the table and ends on a sequelbait ending. Given all the interviews, and the lack of commitment to the WiiU from Nintendo, it feels unlikely that the following will get resolved:
We don't find out what Mira is, what its mystery space magics purpose is or anything to do with the race of robots and frigates that are left behind, or how the current races got there, we don't find out who or what consists of either side of the interplanetary forces, or where the forces attacking the White Whale went too, Elma is a total mystery now [what race she is, how she knew about the fight over Earth 30yrs before it happened], Cross is even more of a mystery than before [As far as we know, Cross is the only one without any memories and given that there isn't a database for the mims yet everyone knows who they are - that's even more perplexing.] Yelv's ending makes it look like he has copies in the mim lab and his personality is fake, making things even more confusing.
Its frustrating, because the team did a fantastic job of making NLA evolve as you explored an amazing world, but despite thousands of pages of dialogue, none of it went to explaining how or why anything outside of NLA exists. I've not seen any chatter about anything in the works and a sequel looks either 4 years off on another platform or never happening.
We don't find out what Mira is, what its mystery space magics purpose is or anything to do with the race of robots and frigates that are left behind, or how the current races got there, we don't find out who or what consists of either side of the interplanetary forces, or where the forces attacking the White Whale went too, Elma is a total mystery now [what race she is, how she knew about the fight over Earth 30yrs before it happened], Cross is even more of a mystery than before [As far as we know, Cross is the only one without any memories and given that there isn't a database for the mims yet everyone knows who they are - that's even more perplexing.] Yelv's ending makes it look like he has copies in the mim lab and his personality is fake, making things even more confusing.
Its frustrating, because the team did a fantastic job of making NLA evolve as you explored an amazing world, but despite thousands of pages of dialogue, none of it went to explaining how or why anything outside of NLA exists. I've not seen any chatter about anything in the works and a sequel looks either 4 years off on another platform or never happening.
Sorry, that was a little ranty of me - but It's sad that such a great team, who made such a great game made a really perplexing decision.
toastyToast
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I'm at 85k I think using the eastern part of Oblivia. 2 probes short of completely filling it out. Plus I think I need another booster for it to be optimal. I heard of people pulling 200-300k per cycle and that sounds crazy to me.
I guess I'll run around and scavenge just in case I come up with some. I think I've had it come up a research probe once or twice.
Yeah sounds like you're doing pretty well for the number of probes you have then. Definitely need to find some more from random treasures.
OH MY GOD. Mission 5. I'm having a blast exploring the newish area and completing side quests while knocking out the main mission. I'm on a thin bridge over nothing and hit my "shoot guns and slide" attack, slide off the side of the bridge, plummet to my death, but my group kills the monster just as the death animation starts. This crashes the game. I haven't saved in an hour and a half..... ugh.
victreeb3l
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Got the flight module. Its like... Wow.
I just love how I can go from Oblivia to New LA without any loading or whatever. Just fly over the walls. So much freedom man. Just damn.
I just love how I can go from Oblivia to New LA without any loading or whatever. Just fly over the walls. So much freedom man. Just damn.
kuroneko0509
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i know 4 random friend will be hanging in front of barracks door... not sure if there's other spots or how often they rotates
CAAAAAAAAAAAW
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If you're talking about the Sludge ones, they're below that probe, on the ledge near sea-level.
http://i.imgur.com/8B3aHWa.png
If you've given up on searching, I made a series of screenshots for that
I've changed my mind - Tatsu is no longer the most annoying Nopon in the game. The one in Armory Alley is so much worse - he's only got that one, horribly irritating "THIS FOR FRIEND'S USE ONLY" voice clip, and he's positioned to trigger it every time you walk through. Which is often.
victreeb3l
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Lol at "yay! We bought friendship!"
Fucking nopons
Fucking nopons
flatearthpandas
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Gave chapter 12 a go last night. I understand what the complaints are now, but not too upset. Some of the characters featured in the cutscenes were in ugly armor so I was happy to reset, doll everyone up for the finale, and farm some gear. Sitting at 1.6 billion credits so tried to spend some of that but it is legitimately difficult. Makes me chuckle at Murderess' heart to hearts though.
Not sure if I'll actually finish the game before the new year though. I'm so bad at the yearly backlog game, I may postpone finishing anything until January to get ahead.
Not sure if I'll actually finish the game before the new year though. I'm so bad at the yearly backlog game, I may postpone finishing anything until January to get ahead.
Wyndstryker
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This game needs more flowerly landscapes.
toastyToast
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Jim_Cacher
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Got my skell
Oh my god thank you for this.If you're talking about the Sludge ones, they're below that probe, on the ledge near sea-level.
http://i.imgur.com/8B3aHWa.png
If you've given up on searching, I made a series of screenshots for that
It's really helpful with the pics.
Pitch Black Flint
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I gave mine all Latin names. Mostly based on the classical elements:
Aether:
Aether, Mk. II:
Ventus
Terra
Tenebris
I've got more names and basic color schemes planned out for when I get the money for more: Mare, Lux, Cealum, Infernum. Angelus Novus, Prima Materia, Anima Mundi, etc.
I guess the game just wasn't pretentious enough for me lol.
I haven't said much about this game since it came out, but that's because I've been playing it. That's about the best compliment I can give a game. It's just freaking amazing. Love it.
Oof. Chapter 8 had soooooooo much loading in it. Was getting really impatient waiting for each successive cutscene to load. In fact, the required Affinity Mission ("The Matchmaker") also had a ton of dialogue-heavy back and forth stuff to it. Really slowed the pace of the game down to a crawl. I haven't been that impressed in general with the affinity missions they've selected to be required. A lot of the basic missions have been much better.
Although at the end of Chapter 8,
Went back and finished the Propper Chopper sidequest. Seemed like another decision tree kind of quest. After completing it, I looked it up online and found out I made the correct guess. For once.
Although at the end of Chapter 8,
they do that zoom-in on Lao, so I'm guessing all those side missions were selected for Lao character development. Establishing his mysterious disappearances, his family background, etc. They seem to be laying on the foreshadowing pretty thick, so I'm hoping it's just a fake out. I doubt it, though. Why else would they make every mandatory sidequest revolve around this guy?
Went back and finished the Propper Chopper sidequest. Seemed like another decision tree kind of quest. After completing it, I looked it up online and found out I made the correct guess. For once.
flatearthpandas
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Actually yeah, I'll need to double check when I get home. I have at least two money achievements. Million was a long time ago and buying a 2.5m level 50 skell didn't budge my total, but a billion does seem like a lot. I thought the second achievement I saw was billionaire though.
I know I agreed to let the one woman
take advantage of the nuclear waste eaters for profit in exchange for a cut,
shadow2810
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How does treasure sensor work? Should I equip it on everone on my team or it only works on one member?
victreeb3l
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Just did the BFFs sidequest. Mamapon is hilarious and im really starting to like the nopon. Tatsus fake toughness is still funny.
Mamapons are tough.
Mamapons are tough.
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