Every time you reach a new continent, try to install as many probes as you can. This will allow you to explore a good chunk of the area so you get an idea of where things are, and access to fast travel points that will make later quests easier.
Also, take your time and let the game come to you. You'll figure out the tempo as you keep playing.
Soo.... I'm pretty sure I'm at the end of the game. Is there anything to do at this point other than just endlessly grind money in preparation for the final battle? Even the side quests seem like more of a pain in the ass than anything.
I just want to finish this thing off, and not waste like 5 hours leveling up to do it.
Soo.... I'm pretty sure I'm at the end of the game. Is there anything to do at this point other than just endlessly grind money in preparation for the final battle? Even the side quests seem like more of a pain in the ass than anything.
I just want to finish this thing off, and not waste like 5 hours leveling up to do it.
This is one of the worst designed end sections of a game I've ever seen. It's not even convenient to grind. I honestly don't even want to finish the game now.
I don't see why they couldn't just have prevented you from saving from the 'point of no return' part of the chapter until after the credits, like with the first game. Making it impossible to get stuck between bosses would have made things a lot more convenient.
Ah, I wonder what happens if you're in your Skell and encounter a slight change in elevation you can't walk around. Guess you have to go into flight, hover over it and land?
Ah, I wonder what happens if you're in your Skell and encounter a slight change in elevation you can't walk around. Guess you have to go into flight, hover over it and land?
Lara Nara just told me about Treasure Deals, but I'm not sure how to access these or how they work. Maybe they can build affinity faster with party members?
I was using level 50-amdusias and although my fuel went to 1000, I manage to beat him quick using phoenix and g buster. My team is using level 50 skells too.
Lara Nara just told me about Treasure Deals, but I'm not sure how to access these or how they work. Maybe they can build affinity faster with party members?
Ah, I wonder what happens if you're in your Skell and encounter a slight change in elevation you can't walk around. Guess you have to go into flight, hover over it and land?
You can hold both the left and right triggers to have the skell enter free-fall right after you begin the jump (or anywhere while flying), even though the initial thrust still costs you a bit of fuel.
The easiest way is to search out Landmarks. The grid where you plcae probes tells you how many you've seen like 1/2. Whenever you find lnadmarks it boosts your income. Make sure you have your highest ranking research probes in the grids where you've explored 2/2 landmarks. You'll make the most money there regardless if what letter rank it receives.
... I'm at Ch.12 and have 8 million credits in the bank, making 130k per tick. Haven't fully explored the last two contients either.
I love that the game is pretty much Elma's story, you're just her sidekick throughout. She's your boss, and she fills the "chosen one" role in the games story
What was great was that in the final battle I was on my way to a fallen teammate hoping to revive them when Elma (who was the only party member left other than me) dealt the final blow, which tied things together thematically quite nicely
I was disappointed she didn't retain her true form once I was given control back
Once I got back to the barracks there were a few new affinity missions, and I found one in the last area of the game that can only be activated once you beat the game too, are there a lot of post game affinity missions?
I'm at 82 hours now and the game is great, but I kind of want to move onto something else now, but I also don't want to leave a lot of story content untouched
The easiest way is to search out Landmarks. The grid where you plcae probes tells you how many you've seen like 1/2. Whenever you find lnadmarks it boosts your income. Make sure you have your highest ranking research probes in the grids where you've explored 2/2 landmarks. You'll make the most money there regardless if what letter rank it receives.
... I'm at Ch.12 and have 8 million credits in the bank, making 130k per tick. Haven't fully explored the last two contients either.
By the way, I think farming for treasure sensor is kinda worthless if you can just scout for someone with 100% treasure sensor set.
Here few people that I've found with the set:
NTR: Scout for lvl60, full metal jaguar, dual guns, shield
Layfon: Lvl60, drifter, dual guns, shield
Yeah, I've kinda given up on getting all 5 treasure sensor XX's. I'll just scout for people with them. Getting those wings for the augment is too time consuming.
Since my Ether Blossom build is pretty much done augments wise, I guess time for me to farm for skell augments.
I bought my very first Skell today and gave it to Lin. It's a Mastema and I was curious how it controlled... if at all. Whenever I go into vehicle mode I feel like a drunk driver.
This is one of the worst designed end sections of a game I've ever seen. It's not even convenient to grind. I honestly don't even want to finish the game now.
Haha. Welcome to my situation. The last boss is absolutely atrocious and I still haven't decided if I want to put the effort into the terrible systems in the game to farm money and get a level 50 skell.
I was using level 50-amdusias and although my fuel went to 1000, I manage to beat him quick using phoenix and g buster. My team is using level 50 skells too.
The team command list (the + button I think), there's an option for party members to "board your skells!" or something like that.
Of course if everyone in your party has a mech, all your party members will go (other than your character of course).
Team members will only board their own Skells, mind. You can't use them to get a free repair on your own. If you don't want to risk losing insurance your best bet is either to run away as soon as you know you're going to lose an encounter or just get out of your skell and die on foot.
Haha. Welcome to my situation. The last boss is absolutely atrocious and I still haven't decided if I want to put the effort into the terrible systems in the game to farm money and get a level 50 skell.
Gotta say that I really am not a fan of how the story is presented in the game. It reminds me of an MMO where you get big story dumps at the end of each ranked mission with busy work to fill the majority of the space in between. At first I enjoyed the Affinity quests since they were fully voiced, but even a lot of those have felt bland for me in the end. I never got this with original XBC since the story was present at almost every beat. Villains seem like Saturday morning cartoon characters probably isn't helping either.
I'm finding some of it to be interesting though but I'm surprised at only 40 hours in at Ch 11 I'm aching for it to end while I see others clocking in 200 hours. As a big fan of the first game I'd say this game kinda disappointed me. I loved exploring at first but for some reason now that I got my Skell's flight pack I just stopped seeing that as an adventure and it became filling in dots on a map.
Also, finding out a couple of the big end reveals from loudmouths in that other thread has probably soured me a bit on pressing on.
Yeah. I'll probably grind it out, ugh. I hate grinding too. Where are you grinding at by the way? And I have like 5 other games I want to be playing right now but I'm stuck on this
Yeah. I'll probably grind it out, ugh. I hate grinding too. Where are you grinding at by the way? And I have like 5 other games I want to be playing right now but I'm stuck on this
I just found this place at the very north end of Cauldros, which is like... a little bit on the eastern side of the region. It's maybe a square or two north of a FrontierNav point. Anyway, if you approach it from the north, you'll see a bunch of level 58 Ictuses, and there's a Cave behind them. You don't have to fight those dudes to land, so land, and go into the cave where there's a bunch of level 60+ enemies that are pretty easy to take down.
Seems to be getting the job done. I'm fine with grinding, but not the way they foisted it upon me at the end of the game.
Just hit level 50, what's the best skell to buy? Is there any advantage to the lighter ones? I could kit three of my guys out for the cost of the most expensive skell, which is weird. I have 5.5m credits, so if I buy the most expensive one I won't be able to afford another for a long time.
Any opinions?
Looking to beat this game as soon as possible, it's really dragging out now.
I beat Chapter 12 and then did a few hours after that, but I googled
Elma's post game affinity mission Then and Now, and apparently you need to fight two level 80s at the same time, and I'm barely at 58,
so fuck that
It took me 20 hours to get over the fact that it wasn't what I wanted from a sequel to the first Xenoblade, but it's a really good game in it's own right, though I still prefer the original overall
Thanks to everyone who helped me in this thread, I do prefer going into most games (RPGs especially) blind, but this is the kind of game where you really do need some pointers in order to avoid frustration
I beat Chapter 12 and then did a few hours after that, but I googled
Elma's post game affinity mission Then and Now, and apparently you need to fight two level 80s at the same time, and I'm barely at 58,
so fuck that
It took me 20 hours to get over the fact that it wasn't what I wanted from a sequel to the first Xenoblade, but it's a really good game in it's own right, though I still prefer the original overall
Thanks to everyone who helped me in this thread, I do prefer going into most games (RPGs especially) blind, but this is the kind of game where you really do need some pointers in order to avoid frustration
Cheating applies to both of these, though, because by reading this thread before playing along with many of us playing, you learned from our mistakes. Cheater.
