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Xenoblade Chronicles X |OT| You want a baked Potatsu? http://youtu.be/8qPGXDk23mE
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Sightseeing spot.
Yup......prima eguides are decent. Once I get home and open the thing I'll pm it to you
shoryukens
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Where can I find the HI9 ion thrusters on Noctilum?
think 'secret area' from the first one. It pops up with a different colour text when you find it.
Basically high up, hard to get to places. If you look at a segment from the probe placement screen it actually shows if there's one in the area and will also show if you found it.
Hmm.. Still not following
SSome locations are better for a specific probe than others?
Edit: nvm, thank you!
Jonneh3003
Banned
Anyone else enjoying this more than Xenoblade? I was skeptical of all the design changes at first as Xenoblade is easily one of my favourite RPGs but i'm 20 hours into X and I can hardly put this thing down. It's not getting stale and i'm having an absolute blast. Love my Skell so much and I also kind of like how they throw you into the deep end and let you figure mechanics out on your own via exploration. It's without a doubt the best open world i've ever been in and one of the most fun RPGs i've ever played. I do pine for a Xenoblade-esque story but I hardly miss it when i'm actually playing the game. 20 hours in and there's still so much to do.
I can't believe how long I went before I fully understood how important breaking enemy parts is. And I'm a Monster Hunter player. Combat makes way more sense now.
I'm about to craft my first weapon, not a huge upgrade but I wanted to do it just to understand how it works. Haven't messed around with gear slots much yet but the enhancement gem crafting is a lot more straightforward than the first game (unlike everything else about X).
As far as that goes, is there an easier way to target enemy parts than walking around them and hoping the reticle changes to the one I want before I press R3 to lock it in?
I think the gameplay, level design, and art direction have all taken massive leaps forward. The story isn't as gripping but I've only done 1 affinity mission, which gave a nice little bit of backstory.
It also improved some of the smaller issues with the original (slow menus, ugly armor with good stats, inability to prioritize sidequests, framerate during battles, etc.) though it's brought a few new problems of its own like dem faces and the party switching.
Schadenfreude
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Thanks, man. Real cool of you.
not as far as I can tell. Generally, toppling something will get you free access to whatever part you want. But yeah I didn't even know about the R3 thing at first and I was going INSANE trying to destroy the helicopter wings of a Mortifole (plant monster). There's a quest that requires you to fully break that part for a rare drop...it sucked, but I learned something from it so it was worth it.
One interesting thing is I have this Distinguished Uniform with a bunch of part-breaking bonus skills. Good defense too. No clue where I got it.
Gentle Rodriguez
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This is what I want to know, it's really annoying having to wait for it to magically change while I'm wasting precious time essentially doing nothing.
According to what I've just read in the guide it's chapter 6.
Only clocked 5 hours in the game so far but I like it a lot.
Currently in pathfinders, but I wonder how do you possibly rank up in the other divisions if you stick with the same one until the endgame? Are there any other ways to accumulate Division Points beside "the bonuses" you explicitly get for the activities enlisted in the division description? (Like completing missions, planting probes etc...)
Currently in pathfinders, but I wonder how do you possibly rank up in the other divisions if you stick with the same one until the endgame? Are there any other ways to accumulate Division Points beside "the bonuses" you explicitly get for the activities enlisted in the division description? (Like completing missions, planting probes etc...)
I thought it was chapter 6 as well, but after reading that I wasn't sure anymore.
I've just started chapter 6. I'll let you know
Far as I can tell, aim the camera at the part and then "lock on" to it.
Starwolf_UK
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You don't rank up the other divisions. Division points go into your BLADE rank/level.
You'll get some points for doing things other than the recommended activities (which give a bonus based on division). Picking up collectibles is an example. Curators will get 5 points while other divisions will get 1 point. What is sad is I can't find any tables of this info despite the game clearing telling you. Just do various things and notice when a number appears on the large division icon below the minimap.
Mechanized
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I'm kinda confused when it comes to questing in this, is there anything that says the recommended level for quests? I'll wander out into areas only to find the surrounding enemies are too tough.
Just in case people are wondering, there are certain 'hangout' spots that the map will show you on the gamepad. It shows me where Doug 'usually hangs out' and also Lao. It will show up as a check mark I believe. Just toggle what map icons show up on the gamepad map and it will eventually show you. touch it and it will tell you.
GwyndolinCinder
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Should have time to take this tonight, bless this post
Just gotta avoid, vision for enemies is not THAT good.
I'm really impressed with the frame rate. Usually with big worlds, it means shitty frame rates. Rarely does this game drop, that I have found myself not noticing frame rate issues for almost the entirety of the time I've played. How they did this on the WiiU with the gimped CPU, I don't know. MonolithSoft are wizards. They should share their tech with other companies.
I can only imagine what this game would look like if they could take advantage of the PS4's power. It would top most games out today for sure.
I can only imagine what this game would look like if they could take advantage of the PS4's power. It would top most games out today for sure.
I think I enjoy it about equally. Some things are improved but other are worse (oh god, that music!).
I haven't got a Skell yet and I'm still not too deep into the story so my opinion might change.
But I think the story starts to get more interesting now (after ch5). And the story in the first game also took a while to pick up pace.
ShockingAlberto
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So I got to the very early part where my party splits up and I have to find them around the city which is dumb but whatever since at least it shows me checkmarks of where they should be on the map
Except Lin
I have no damn idea where she is supposed to be
Except Lin
I have no damn idea where she is supposed to be
6 hours in now, just finished Chapter 3 and I'm taking some time just to explore and quest.
Even as someone who played the first Xenoblade religiously, I'm super overwhelmed with a lot of the new systems. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but there's just so much here that it's going to take some time to get used to it all and all of the options available to me.
Also, I'm not feeling New LA? It just feels like because everything's all in one place (and the art direction of NLA is so much worse than the rest of the game) that it all sort of jumbles together and feels simultaneously overwhelming but also not as interesting as Colony 9.
But this game is beautiful. Some screenshots I took:
Also, the quest design is already so much better than it was in XCX.
Even as someone who played the first Xenoblade religiously, I'm super overwhelmed with a lot of the new systems. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but there's just so much here that it's going to take some time to get used to it all and all of the options available to me.
Also, I'm not feeling New LA? It just feels like because everything's all in one place (and the art direction of NLA is so much worse than the rest of the game) that it all sort of jumbles together and feels simultaneously overwhelming but also not as interesting as Colony 9.
But this game is beautiful. Some screenshots I took:
Also, the quest design is already so much better than it was in XCX.
She is usually hanging out in the kitchen of the barracks, at least for me. She is the first one I saw.
ShockingAlberto
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Gentle Rodriguez
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Lin was in the kitchen for me too, maybe restart the game, might be a weird bug?
kuroneko0509
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check at different time will do the trick...
not a bug... she's (and other characters) wondering off somewhere else sometimes
Starting to get the hang of the aura and the team combos and stuff... The flashing icons are really helpful. I think Monolithsoft discovered that you can bruteforce the first Xenoblade by Arts mashing + healing, so they really built this system to make players more patient and strategic with them. I'm noticing that my current class seems to activate them a lot on my melee arts in particular. I'm tempted to start building a team with Soul Voices and abilities with a heavy focus on melee strings, but am suspecting that such an unbalanced approach is going to penalize me.
Should be in that computer station in the BLADE barracks where you manage the squad stuff. Next to that giant door where you can enter squad missions or whatever.
Should be in that computer station in the BLADE barracks where you manage the squad stuff. Next to that giant door where you can enter squad missions or whatever.
Okay, I'm at my wit's end trying to increase my survey rate so I can accept the chapter 4 mission. I understand that completing a task in a particular segment raises the segment rate, but how do I know what task needs to be done in a particular segment, or even if I've already done it in that segment? I don't understand why tapping on a segment in the view with the icons SOMETIMES gives a little info window but usually nothing happens at all when I tap it.
It's definitely after chapter but I have no idea where the quest is to start it off.
*Edit* Barracks interior
Try doing some side quests, I ended up getting it after fooling around and finding more probe locations. Try to go to all the hexagons on the map that show there can be a probe.
Also, are you sure you have competed the other tasks that are required for chapter 4? There are two side quests that must be completed.
Planting probes is probably the fastest way to raise survey rate.
Sakura
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The easiest way to increase it is to just plant probes every where you can.
If you've already done a task in a segment it should look different.
Ulysses 31
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You can get enough survey % by planting them probes.
This helped someone earlier in the thread with this problem. Completed Segments have a Shield+Star sort of thing on them.
I didn't spend much time in the world but I was at 20% for Primordia from just scavenging and setting probes. Only the probes give you info, but if you get a Research Probe up it will also fill in more information to the surrounding area. (You should have had a mandatory quest for probes and stuff before Chapter 4.)
Yes, I meant if I change Division only at the end of the game (I know I won't be doing this, it's just an example), will I be able to max its rank even if the reccomended activities have already been completed with different divisions? Seems like it, it will just be longer to achieve. So I don't have to worry about "losing" bonuses for specific divisions
Aaronrules380
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See the icons in segments around data probes you've planted? They indicate the type of thing you need to do in that region. Sparkles is treasure, monster is beat a tyrant, note is relevant mission, and the last is relevant affinity mission. When you do the right thing, the icon will change noticeably
You can find more specific info by overhearing stuff from npcs with yellow speech bubbles
For serious. I'm at your level and I still can't beat him. I figured I'll just come back later and one-shot him in style
The Elite
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Just beat it at the same level you're at. Rest of my group died but I managed to solo around it to finish it off.
Oh, wow, so this explains it. I was just about to remark that it randomly says "New" on the hexes and I couldn't explain when or why. Like, one that highlighted a little blue circle for a mechanical field action, and that finished the hex. But now that you said that, I remember the little yellow smiley face icons in NLA and it saying it had updated my recon.
That makes so much more sense.
FunkyDealer
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Some of the music is brilliant, and some of it (the tracks with lyrics) can be weird and distracting.
I'm pleasantly surprised by how much voice acting the first few hours have though.
I'm pleasantly surprised by how much voice acting the first few hours have though.
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