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[Haunted]

Sneaking around higher level enemies is definitely encouraged, I love doing it, feels great.


Play the game for long enough and you realise the difference between high level enemies just populating parts of the world and high level enemies being specifically placed to prevent you from going somewhere before you're supposed to.

 

[Griss]

Does anyone actually ever use the flying drone R+dpad up thingie? It's a neat thing, but I've used it like, once in a hundred hours.


There are actually some settings for this.

I disabled showing the controls (probably something you should wait a bit before doing ), squad missions (don't care about online) and all the social notifications/BLADE report crap, which basically frees up the entire left side of the UI and only leaves the minimap and quest description during normal gameplay, similar to most other games of this type. If you set the on-foot camera to shove the character towards the right side, it opens up an acceptable portion of the screen to wonder at Mira's beauty.

Thanks for the advice, I'll try this now.

I still can't believe this game doesn't explicitly explain how to heal in battle. You'd think they'd at least cover that.

Y-you can heal?!?

 

[B-Dubs]

I still can't believe this game doesn't explicitly explain how to heal in battle. You'd think they'd at least cover that.

It does do this when it explains soul challenges/voices but most people skip over the text.

 

[Inquisitive_Ghost]

Y-you can heal?!?

There are a handful of arts that'll do it, but mostly you heal by landing the B button QTE and by responding to your party's Soul Voices. (When a party member other than you calls out something in a box with coloured text, respond quickly enough by using an art of matching colour. There's an obvious effect with coloured rings and dramatic slowdown if you land it). Both recover some HP; the QTE for the whole party and the Soul Voice for you and the person you responded to.

It does do this when it explains soul challenges/voices but most people skip over the text.

It does? I read everything and I don't remember that at all. I had to go look it up, lol.

 

[Xenoboy]

It's pretty dumb that turning off mission notifications on the UI turns off Affinity updates and Affinity descriptions in the chart.

 

[malfcn]

Interesting soundtrack.. Rock, Jazz and R&B?

 

[Griss]

There are a handful of arts that'll do it, but mostly you heal by landing the B button QTE and by responding to your party's Soul Voices. (When a party member other than you calls out something in a box with coloured text, respond quickly enough by using an art of matching colour. There's an obvious effect with coloured rings and dramatic slowdown if you land it). Both recover some HP; the QTE for the whole party and the Soul Voice for you and the person you responded to.



It does? I read everything and I don't remember that at all. I had to go look it up, lol.

Man, I was wondering what the occasional slow-motion effect was. Thanks!

 

[TheMoon]

So just started XCX RIGHT now and holy shit this world!
I can't find my way to New LA. lol

follow big yellow arrow or walk towards gigantic landmark on horizon

Interesting soundtrack.. Rock, Jazz and R&B?

there's no R&B on that soundtrack. can't think of any jazz either.

 

[pinkurocket]

Oooh I found the Nopon from that one trailer.

 

[-Horizon-]

Oooh I found the Nopon from that one trailer.

Nomura Nopon?

Edit: never mind, I'm getting my Nopon mixed up lol

 

[tengiants]

Interesting soundtrack.. Rock, Jazz and R&B?

+hip hop and country in the short 2 minutes that is each of the NLA themes.

NLA theme is such a blend of styles which is why I've determined many don't like it. If you don't happen to like one of those styles, the song sounds like crap. You need to to have a diverse taste to really appreciate it.

 

[blado]

Yay got an external drive for my wii u. Now I can finally move the data packs over and not be out of space anymore.

 

[toastyToast]

Does anyone actually ever use the flying drone R+dpad up thingie? It's a neat thing, but I've used it like, once in a hundred hours.

It was somewhat useful back when I used to run around everywhere

Stupid skells.

 

[FF Seraphim]

Glad I held off buying this, wife got it for me for Christmas!
Enjoying it so far other than the voice acting. Only 4 hours in so it may grow on me.

 

[CAAAAAAAAAAAW]

Happy Halloween everyone. Here's a nice festive image to fuel the spirit of X-mas

 

[BY2K]

120k every return. Hell yeah.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Twin Dolls time attack is such a troll

sometimes I beat them and get 2 masks that I need
sometimes I get nothing useful

other times 15 minutes fail

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Oooh I found the Nopon from that one trailer.

oh the cheap-ass cave

 

[mjc]

Any tips on how to get honey oil from copper ciniculas? I've killed seven at this point and I haven't gotten any. I've targeted it's tail, legs, and head each time. No luck. UUUUUUUUUGH

 

[BY2K]

Any tips on how to get honey oil from copper ciniculas? I've killed seven at this point and I haven't gotten any. I've targeted it's tail, legs, and head each time. No luck. UUUUUUUUUGH

You need to break the head, then the horn, THEN what's inside to get the drop.

 

[-Horizon-]

Any tips on how to get honey oil from copper ciniculas? I've killed seven at this point and I haven't gotten any. I've targeted it's tail, legs, and head each time. No luck. UUUUUUUUUGH

I got frustrated after an hour of trying and redeemed the item with the tickets.

 

[mjc]

You need to break the head, then the horn, THEN what's inside to get the drop.

Wait, the horn on it's head? I thought you could only target it's head..

 

[random25]

Thanks for the tip ! Is this the "correct" way to play ? Many of them are guarded or in high level zones

Protip: Use Elma, or go FMJ class as MC. Get 1000TP. Go to a blind spot and target an enemy. Use Shadowrunner. Run like hell to the probe spot and hammer the A button fast. Teleport out or just run the hell out of the way. Works also well with infiltration missions.

 

[BY2K]

Okay what the hell is up with

Spoiler

Cat Lady in that affinity mission with the lion people

?

I can't hit her. Everything misses. What gives?

 

[random25]

Okay what the hell is up with

Spoiler

Cat Lady in that affinity mission with the lion people

?

I can't hit her. Everything misses. What gives?

Target first her allies. For some reason, I get a ton of misses when her allies are around. Maybe they're buffing her or something.

Spoiler

Or just use a skell and wipe them off.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

I need a better way to defend against Twin Dolls' time attack help please

 

[BY2K]

Target first her allies. For some reason, I get a ton of misses when her allies are around. Maybe they're buffing her or something.

Spoiler

Or just use a skell and wipe them off.

I did. Still can't hit her for shit. And using Skells feels like cheating considering the context of the fight.

 

[Astral Dog]

Ok getting used to the Skell, storming Cauldros before chapter 7 is kinda funny, only one Ambusias is enough that small and medium sized enemies are not any trouble

But, those tyrants/big enemies keep killing me by accident you cant avoid them (Anywere), finally had to pay a huge fee. is that always going to happen if they destroy it again or i get a few insurance tickets too? because im going to be poor before long, then its not better to buy more Skells instead,

 

[JulianImp]

After thinking that raygun was decent I've finally tried photon sabers, and the melee combo arts are so strong it isn't even funny! Beam Barrage still deals around 2.5K damage five times while melee combos deal 3.5-5K damage per hit for 3, 5 and 9 hits, and there's that melee art that gives me TP for attacking enemies from the front, which is the perfect set-up into all the other melee combos.

I'm still levelling up other classes, but which skills would you recommend for a photon saber-based build? I guess the extra damage from melee combos and extra damage from behind ones are important, right?

 

[BY2K]

How DOES one get insurance tickets?

 

[random25]

I did. Still can't hit her for shit. And using Skells feels like cheating considering the context of the fight.

Actually I tried that method of eliminating first her allies fast. Felt they are doing something at the background when you go first with the main target. It worked when I used that strategy.

How DOES one get insurance tickets?

Daily Division rewards, I guess?

 

[JulianImp]

How DOES one get insurance tickets?

By changing divisions into Prospectors, who are really unbalanced and get first place every single day without even trying. I'm still a Curator, though, since not missing the B-prompt and giving AIs your skells once they hit 1 insurance is enough to avoid any costly calamities.

 

[Sadist]

That's the correct strategy. I do think she (the cat lady) uses an art during the fight which ups her evasion stats. At a certain point I could damage her easily, but she used something and I couldn't really hit her for 30 seconds or so.

 

[MrDaravon]

That reminds me, should I just be grabbing the insurance ticket for the reward every day?

Still plodding along playing here and there, I'm at about 35 hours in at Chapter 5 (I spend a lot of time looking around/exploring), so far I still feel like I'm mostly forcing myself along though. The cast and lack of emotion they have as compared to Xenoblade is really jarring. I like the initial setup and story premise, but I just don't care about any of the characters or what's going on in the slightest, and it seems like half of the dialogue is tatsu = food jokes that I was already sick to death of about 5 hours into the game. So I'm sticking with it now because the world is fun to explore, but with no compelling narrative or characters to push me forward it feels kind of hollow. Thinking more and more I'm just going to beat the core story and probably be done with it, I would have dropped almost any other game like 30 hours ago. Disappointing since I adore Xenoblade to death, nearly 100%'d it (got screwed by a legitimate achievement glitch), and want to grab the n3DS version of it to 100% it again.

 

[toastyToast]

Phoenix is life ya'll

If you wanna farm one (or a boat load) along with intergalactic G-Busters look up the scouting terminal for someone with 4 Treasure Seeker XX. The difference is so huge it isn't funny. Ended up with 8 Phoenix and 5 Busters in 25 minutes compared to 40 minutes of nothing before I made the switch.

 

[Absol]

Depends how good you are at hitting the prompt whenever your skell gets bopped. That's what I used to pick but I haven't missed the perfect prompts yet. So I just switched to getting 3000 to for all party members.

 

[ChetWilson]

After thinking that raygun was decent I've finally tried photon sabers, and the melee combo arts are so strong it isn't even funny! Beam Barrage still deals around 2.5K damage five times while melee combos deal 3.5-5K damage per hit for 3, 5 and 9 hits, and there's that melee art that gives me TP for attacking enemies from the front, which is the perfect set-up into all the other melee combos.

I'm still levelling up other classes, but which skills would you recommend for a photon saber-based build? I guess the extra damage from melee combos and extra damage from behind ones are important, right?

Saber has TP problems, so you want to get the Duelist skill that is +60 TP everytime you use a melee art, and/or get the weapon trait Arts: Tp Up.

 

[Nose Master]

Nope-ons are drunk. They set up a convoy around an (area and minor side quest spoilers)

Spoiler

ACTIVE VOLCANO where there is a weather effect where it rains magma. Level 70+ mobs everywhere. "Hey, can you take care of these Level 13 mobs 400 feet away, they're attacking us!"

???

 

[ChetWilson]

Phoenix is life ya'll

If you wanna farm one (or a boat load) along with intergalactic G-Busters look up the scouting terminal for someone with 4 Treasure Seeker XX. The difference is so huge it isn't funny. Ended up with 8 Phoenix and 5 Busters in 25 minutes compared to 40 minutes of nothing before I made the switch.

More like Treasure Seeker is life ya''ll.

Candid and Credible sells armor with it too. There is no upper cap. Some mobs will only drop certain items if you have at least 4 people decked head to toe in TS. ( at least that much TS bonus anyway)

 

[Cramoss]

What would be the best skell for an average thermal Duelist build? I'm currently using a medium type.

 

[SkeptiMism]

That reminds me, should I just be grabbing the insurance ticket for the reward every day?

Still plodding along playing here and there, I'm at about 35 hours in at Chapter 5 (I spend a lot of time looking around/exploring), so far I still feel like I'm mostly forcing myself along though. The cast and lack of emotion they have as compared to Xenoblade is really jarring. I like the initial setup and story premise, but I just don't care about any of the characters or what's going on in the slightest, and it seems like half of the dialogue is tatsu = food jokes that I was already sick to death of about 5 hours into the game. So I'm sticking with it now because the world is fun to explore, but with no compelling narrative or characters to push me forward it feels kind of hollow. Thinking more and more I'm just going to beat the core story and probably be done with it, I would have dropped almost any other game like 30 hours ago. Disappointing since I adore Xenoblade to death, nearly 100%'d it (got screwed by a legitimate achievement glitch), and want to grab the n3DS version of it to 100% it again.

You don't need insurance tickets really. Once you get your skell, if you manage to wreck it enough times without managing the soul challenge perfectly, you can just give the skell to a teammate, since they always exit with a perfect soul challenge (resulting in no insurance lost). If you manage to lose all the insurances then better just to strip the gear off and resell it to get most of the money back, and buy another skell.
I'd just get the items with which you can heal yourself and your team in ground combat and the equivalent for skell combat.

I think the story was pretty lame before chapter 5 to 6, and the main story is definitely pretty lame after that too, but there have been several pretty interesting normal quests on the side. Some pretty grim ones too.

 

[NeonZ]

That reminds me, should I just be grabbing the insurance ticket for the reward every day?

Still plodding along playing here and there, I'm at about 35 hours in at Chapter 5 (I spend a lot of time looking around/exploring), so far I still feel like I'm mostly forcing myself along though. The cast and lack of emotion they have as compared to Xenoblade is really jarring. I like the initial setup and story premise, but I just don't care about any of the characters or what's going on in the slightest, and it seems like half of the dialogue is tatsu = food jokes that I was already sick to death of about 5 hours into the game. So I'm sticking with it now because the world is fun to explore, but with no compelling narrative or characters to push me forward it feels kind of hollow. Thinking more and more I'm just going to beat the core story and probably be done with it, I would have dropped almost any other game like 30 hours ago. Disappointing since I adore Xenoblade to death, nearly 100%'d it (got screwed by a legitimate achievement glitch), and want to grab the n3DS version of it to 100% it again.

I don't care for Elma either, and Lin ends up sucked into the Tatsu food jokes, but you still get plenty of varied characterization in Affinity Quests unrelated to those two and even Normal quests.

 

[B-Dubs]

What would be the best skell for an average thermal Duelist build? I'm currently using a medium type.

It doesn't matter, your ground spec doesn't affect your skell.

 

[Astral Dog]

After hearing Lin, Elma and Lao talking about eating Tatsu like 100 times, i began to feel a bit fat for the poor potato sack

A bunch of savages, im surprised there is no affinity quest where he runs off

 

[shadow2810]

Spoiler

> Gave 500k credit to the Manon
> L said we saw this coming

oh L

 

[rando14]

Phoenix is life ya'll

If you wanna farm one (or a boat load) along with intergalactic G-Busters look up the scouting terminal for someone with 4 Treasure Seeker XX. The difference is so huge it isn't funny. Ended up with 8 Phoenix and 5 Busters in 25 minutes compared to 40 minutes of nothing before I made the switch.

What's the best place to farm Phoenix and busters?

 

[Jackano]

What's the best place to farm Phoenix and busters?

I think I got few pretty quickly in Sylvalum, at the entrance of the Prone base toward the N-W corner of the map. That's where you see the "Guard Puges" IIRC. You also need to farm them for the Sylvalum Mia mission.

 

[Pachinko]

Still plodding along playing here and there, I'm at about 35 hours in at Chapter 5 (I spend a lot of time looking around/exploring), so far I still feel like I'm mostly forcing myself along though. The cast and lack of emotion they have as compared to Xenoblade is really jarring. I like the initial setup and story premise, but I just don't care about any of the characters or what's going on in the slightest, and it seems like half of the dialogue is tatsu = food jokes that I was already sick to death of about 5 hours into the game. So I'm sticking with it now because the world is fun to explore, but with no compelling narrative or characters to push me forward it feels kind of hollow. Thinking more and more I'm just going to beat the core story and probably be done with it, I would have dropped almost any other game like 30 hours ago. Disappointing since I adore Xenoblade to death, nearly 100%'d it (got screwed by a legitimate achievement glitch), and want to grab the n3DS version of it to 100% it again.

This kind of worries me , I was legit looking forward to this game but here I am only a few hours in , after the agonizingly long and boring tutorial sections and everything I read paints this kind of picture - you never really get a better story , the characters don't suddenly become interesting and it basically comes down to how much fun you have running around finding stuff and killing other stuff.

Of course I bought this digitally too because nintendo never ships enough copies of anything that might actually sell physical copies ....

The first Xenoblade hooked me almost immediately, soon as you were in the first regular town and just running around exploring with Shulk, Reyn and Fiora I was growing attached to the characters and the neat world. Even when you eventually leave town making it up to the bionis leg (with it's fantastic music) , the open world area feels earned and you're ready for it.

XBC X by comparison is literally 4 hours of reading and listening and then suddenly here's an annoying cute thing and some aliens stolen from fifth element. I can admit I still enjoy exploring and such but it feels like somethings missing here and I can't quite place what. I mean , it's not exactly glowing praise when the game finally opened up and I stopped playing it. Which is partially because even in spite of that long boring tutorial , I can't help but feel like I got the cliffs notes version of how to play the game and still have no idea what I'm doing. Like, I switched classes because the game pretty much told me to and now I have no abilities and my character seems to be much weaker even though I got the best equipment he can equip.

I can't help but feel like everything I dislike about this so far is the direct result of adding in an online component (that no one anywhere asked for).

So is it worth continuing or is there really never a point to anything I do in this game beyond exploration ?

 

[Vena]

Anyone know who/what drops Orange level B-Centipede Skell weapons?

 

[Haunted]

After hearing Lin, Elma and Lao talking about eating Tatsu like 100 times, i began to feel a bit fat for the poor potato sack

A bunch of savages, im surprised there is no affinity quest where he runs off

With how dark some of the missions can get, I'm surprised there was no decision where I could've just cooked him in a pot.

Spoiler

I'd do it in a heartbeat to get rid of him.