Vampirolol
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Yeah, sound design in this game is dumb, they should have left an option.
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Xenoblade Chronicles X |OT2| Welcome to New L+A a.k.a. Read the Frakkin' Manual!
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Inquisitive_Ghost
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Where is Noctilum FN224? Am I missing a cave or something?
I think the game had a good job in setting expectations despite its title. It keeps hammering we're humanity's last chance, STUCK ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT PLAAANET, etc that I don't know how anyone can expect other towns beside NLA. Even I'm surprised that there are other intelligent aliens beside humans and the enemies, but then again the game has one point--Mira is an uncharted planet.
You know what--I thought I would be disappointed by the fact that NLA is the only town and the rest is hostile areas. I don't like the Mechonis portion of Xenoblade Chronicles because it lacks settlements, the entire Mechonis feels like a really long dungeon. But hey I apparently enjoyed XCX more.
My biggest complaint was the totally useless basecamp. The game would be so much better if basecamps had BLADE barracks console and a fast travel point.
That would have helped so much. Even if they weren't even fast travel points and just allowed you to refuel and recover Skells without returning to the barracks, it'd have eliminated a lot of tedium.
truestatic
Member
Did chapter 11 tonight. At level 44, that zig and humanoid at the end of the on-foot corridor section were probably some of the hardest fights I've had yet in the game. ... Then I got to chapter 12. At level 47 with a few level 45 team mates it's not proving easy. I think I've decided to go back and get at least one level 50 skell.
You got it. Try checking partway up the Cliffside, near the eastern edge of Qing Long Glade.
truestatic
Member
Whenever a soul challenge appears, including when your skell dies, so long as the moving ring is WHITHIN the yellow band when you hit B, it should give you a Perfect. I've noticed, though, that If you only have 1 insurance left, even with a perfect rating, your insurance will decrease to 0. At least, that's been my experience.
Myoclonic Jerk
Member
Sorry to post again requesting the same.
Any online guides for missions?
Many thanks in advance
Any online guides for missions?
Many thanks in advance
You have to hit B while it's in the shaded outer region of tbe circle - it's the same input you need to get any other 'perfect' QTE.
I hated the chamber with the Milsadis and that one Zig - I died so many times I was almost disappointed when I saw you could just run past.
Silent_Ocarina
Member
I really like the music of the game, but I agree, the design is terrible. Awkward loop points, horrendous mixing, and questionable transitions are my main complaints. Sawano's work never really interfered with the characters' conversations in the various anime he's composed for, so it really is just a mixing issue. I don't have the flight module yet, but I can already imagine how annoying the flight music can be (even though the song itself isn't bad).
Benzychenz
Member
It's no different to any other B prompt.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Anywhere where you kill lots of mechanoid enemies (mainly puges and puglith, I think others tend to drop more armour) of sufficiently high level (the higher the better though lower level do have a slim chance of dropping 50 gear) very quickly.
It feels like different weapons etc drop from different enemies and I don't know if anyone has tracked those kinds of things.
It would also seem many level 50 weapons have two versions where one version is rarer but has better stats. You might see lots of blahlbah140 but one blahblah150.
Speaking of that place.
I hear the tyrant there is good for infinite tier skell wear drops (which I probably should farm as it is also an important part of using skells) but you really have to KO it ASAP as it has absurd amounts of regen. If you're on foot and just there for the collectibles, don't worry he won't bother you.
TheMoon
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Inquisitive_Ghost
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Myoclonic Jerk
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Why do you need one? I hope it's not for collectibles
That's part of it. I also struggle with the missions. I choose the 1 star ones thinking they're easy but sometimes I find tyrants that are at level 30+ while I'm still 18!
I'm sure the guide will give me tips and stuff. And helps me avoid looking for answers for silly stuff online.
One example is. The Squad missions. I have no idea what do I need to kill to complete them. Although I know the hold R then press L to know what type of monsters. It still doesn't help me
Yeah I'm too lazy
truestatic
Member
When this happens, you often just have to do your best to navigate around them. You can actually pretty safely explore a lot of areas far above your level, just by being mindful of aggro radii.
That's part of it. I also struggle with the missions. I choose the 1 star ones thinking they're easy but sometimes I find tyrants that are at level 30+ while I'm still 18!
I'm sure the guide will give me tips and stuff. And helps me avoid looking for answers for silly stuff online.
One example is. The Squad missions. I have no idea what do I need to kill to complete them. Although I know the hold R then press L to know what type of monsters. It still doesn't help me
Yeah I'm too lazy
Mostly, don't bother trying to do a specific mission. Either accept those requiring collectibles you already have so it auto completes, or just accept some and you will complete them without wanting to while doing other stuff.
Same for squad missions, eventually you might encounter a monster with an S icon and you'll just have to kill those. You could check the bestiary to see where to find them but well, too much effort
The ones you want to complete are Normal Missions, given by npcs with a pink/red question mark around NLA.
A few basic missions from the consoles open some stuff like characters though. Choose according to the objective maybe?
lucablight
Member
How do you increase the number of skill slots on a character?
truestatic
Member
For the avatar, it's dependent upon class. The starter class, Drifter has the most, with 5. All other characters get what they get.
lucablight
Member
No way to increase them? Is this a way to balance out classes?
Myoclonic Jerk
Member
Mostly, don't bother trying to do a specific mission. Either accept those requiring collectibles you already have so it auto completes, or just accept some and you will complete them without wanting to while doing other stuff.
Same for squad missions, eventually you might encounter a monster with an S icon and you'll just have to kill those. You could check the bestiary to see where to find them but well, too much effort
The ones you want to complete are Normal Missions, given by npcs with a pink/red question mark around NLA.
A few basic missions from the consoles open some stuff like characters though. Choose according to the objective maybe?
I think that's what I'll do then.. I've searched on google for walkthroughs with no avail. I'm stuck in a story mission now and don't know how to find something or someone in the north-west area (forgot the name) and I can't seem to know where to even start looking. It's a huge area with lots of tough monsters.
Ah well, I'm pathetic. .. Wish I had more time to play
I meant the objective is to kill a tyrant that's way above my level.. I just need to suck it up and level up I guess
Having finished the game yesterday, I can say I really enjoyed it, but there were a few annoying decisions that made it a little bit to grindy/tedious at points.
My biggest grip with the game is how the Main Missions and Affinity Missions and Affinity Requirements are put together. First, the game requires Elma and Lin to be in a lot of missions so I felt there was little incentive to try other blade members instead of just leaving both of them and just adding someone else at the fourth spot, so at the end of the game I was stuck trying to raise Gwin's Affinity and so on. Not to mention for other side missions. Affinity is a dumb and frustrating requirement. And then there isn't a single clue as to where you should accept those Affinity missions, leaving you roaming endlessly through NLA or looking at your Gamepad screen trying to find it. I reckon it would be much better to just make those Affinity missions part of the main Missions and let the game itself sort the party. So I don't have to walk through NLA just to recruit someone at an arbitrary location. Which, again, should be more streamlined. They all have communication devices, why can't I just message them from my menu, or at least from the Barracks and have them join me? At the end of the day I don't want to go to Mission Control just to find out I need to finish a Affinity Mission first, spend time trying to find where this specific Affinity Mission is located, only to find it and discover that it requires an specific member that I need to recruit somewhere in NLA, so I go there, recruit the missing member, get back to the Affinity Mission and then I'm told I don't have enough Affinity with that member to proceed. Ridiculously overly complicated.
Also, about the Barracks, it is just as annoying how you can only manage your Skell from there. As already mentioned in this page, wouldn't it be great if you could use the base camps to refuel or to repair your Skell? Having to fast travel (which requires the Gamepad, another silly decision) to the barracks every time a member of the party loses their Skell gets annoying pretty fast. Another thing that wouldn't hurt is to not get rid of the jump button after you get the Flying Module. Flying could be activated with a double tap on the ZR or something else entirely without striping you of a function you are already used to by the time you get the flying module.
FUCK. THE. FIND. A. YELLOW. BUBBLE. MISSIONS.
I've spend a lot of time with this game and I had a lot of fun. But overall, it is still overly complicated at points, and it makes your life playing it harder for absolutely no reason. I understand they might have made those so we are forced to explore NLA and the world, but it just makes it too tedious at points. I almost gave up at certain point because I didn't want to go online to find out where on NLA the Affinity Mission was hiding.
But the things it gets right, it gets right. The world was a joy to explore and not giving you the Skell when you first start it, or not giving you the Flight Module when you first get your Skell was actually a great decision. At those points the game world opens up for you and you rediscover it once again. First time flying from inside NLA straight to the vastness of Mira was a great gaming moment.
Anyway, I do hope there is a sequel coming that streamlines the issues I've mentioned and makes the game punish you less for no reason. I mean, (ending spoilers
My biggest grip with the game is how the Main Missions and Affinity Missions and Affinity Requirements are put together. First, the game requires Elma and Lin to be in a lot of missions so I felt there was little incentive to try other blade members instead of just leaving both of them and just adding someone else at the fourth spot, so at the end of the game I was stuck trying to raise Gwin's Affinity and so on. Not to mention for other side missions. Affinity is a dumb and frustrating requirement. And then there isn't a single clue as to where you should accept those Affinity missions, leaving you roaming endlessly through NLA or looking at your Gamepad screen trying to find it. I reckon it would be much better to just make those Affinity missions part of the main Missions and let the game itself sort the party. So I don't have to walk through NLA just to recruit someone at an arbitrary location. Which, again, should be more streamlined. They all have communication devices, why can't I just message them from my menu, or at least from the Barracks and have them join me? At the end of the day I don't want to go to Mission Control just to find out I need to finish a Affinity Mission first, spend time trying to find where this specific Affinity Mission is located, only to find it and discover that it requires an specific member that I need to recruit somewhere in NLA, so I go there, recruit the missing member, get back to the Affinity Mission and then I'm told I don't have enough Affinity with that member to proceed. Ridiculously overly complicated.
Also, about the Barracks, it is just as annoying how you can only manage your Skell from there. As already mentioned in this page, wouldn't it be great if you could use the base camps to refuel or to repair your Skell? Having to fast travel (which requires the Gamepad, another silly decision) to the barracks every time a member of the party loses their Skell gets annoying pretty fast. Another thing that wouldn't hurt is to not get rid of the jump button after you get the Flying Module. Flying could be activated with a double tap on the ZR or something else entirely without striping you of a function you are already used to by the time you get the flying module.
FUCK. THE. FIND. A. YELLOW. BUBBLE. MISSIONS.
I've spend a lot of time with this game and I had a lot of fun. But overall, it is still overly complicated at points, and it makes your life playing it harder for absolutely no reason. I understand they might have made those so we are forced to explore NLA and the world, but it just makes it too tedious at points. I almost gave up at certain point because I didn't want to go online to find out where on NLA the Affinity Mission was hiding.
But the things it gets right, it gets right. The world was a joy to explore and not giving you the Skell when you first start it, or not giving you the Flight Module when you first get your Skell was actually a great decision. At those points the game world opens up for you and you rediscover it once again. First time flying from inside NLA straight to the vastness of Mira was a great gaming moment.
Anyway, I do hope there is a sequel coming that streamlines the issues I've mentioned and makes the game punish you less for no reason. I mean, (ending spoilers
That ending feels like they are teasing a sequel, right?
Of course they still matter, either you're not perfect exiting or you've already used all of your insurance (perfect exits won't stop you from having to pay a fee for fixing it when you have 0 insurances).
It was only last night after getting my Skell and being confused as fuck that I read the entire thing from start to finish. The amount of things I didn't know was just incredible. I blame the game for that, frankly.
A good example is the hexagon colours indicating the level range of enemies found there. That was never explained. Or the 'paper' button on the gamepad being to turn off Blade Reports etc. So many unexplained things.
ChetWilson
Banned
There's a third version too, 160. Usually the 140 has +7 mods, the 150 has +9/10 mods, and the 160 has +11/+12 mods.
Level 60 req armor/weapons on foot also come in at least 3 tiers too. There's Ultra, Ultra Cosmic/Nebulan, then Ultra Diamond.
black_clavus
Neo Member
Whew, just beat the last chapter. Amazing 170h of play time
There's still a lot to do, but time to break
There's still a lot to do, but time to break
Hence the title of thee OP.
But the things it gets right, it gets right. The world was a joy to explore and not giving you the Skell when you first start it, or not giving you the Flight Module when you first get your Skell was actually a great decision. At those points the game world opens up for you and you rediscover it once again. First time flying from inside NLA straight to the vastness of Mira was a great gaming moment.
I nominate that first flight as the greatest gaming moment of my life. Nothing this year even comes close. I couldn't believe how beautiful it was, even after watching so many previews and videos.
Weltall Zero
Member
Mmmm, if you're expecting to use your skell right after the battle, you might be missing that even a perfect result will still get your skell destroyed, meaning you still have to get back to your quarters to repair it. The only thing a perfect result does is not consuming an insurance charge, and letting you out with full health and double cooldown charge on your arts.
ph1l0z0ph3r
Member
What do the different colors mean on the mobs name plates? Like purple, green, etc
air jordans for dogs
Member
I'm pretty sure its difficulty level but i havent READ THE MANUAL
TheMoon
Member
at some point I should just start putting screenshots of the manual in the OP
no, they're only teasing you.I mean, (ending spoilersThat ending feels like they are teasing a sequel, right?
I really hate this colour scheme, because in my head 'rainbow based difficultly level colour schemes' always start with blue, and end with purple being higher than red. Purple coming at the beginning throws me off completely and thirty hours in I'm still confused by it.
Fortunately the levels of enemies themselves are always clearly displayed.
Myoclonic Jerk
Member
Ok guys. I'm home and here's the task I need to do
"find a spherical EM motor in Noctilum"
Appreciate the help. I have no clue what to do
"find a spherical EM motor in Noctilum"
Appreciate the help. I have no clue what to do
They're a random drop, but one is a fixed reward for a later mission. If you want, you can just leave it until then.
don't
you'll eventually get the item from some mission a bit later in the game
if you absolutely must do it now, you can find it rarely in the Weeping Whitewood area in north-east Noctilum
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
lol just look at the monster Lv number, you'll figure it out real quick in relation to yours whether the monster is going to be easy or hard.
It can basically be found any NE/NEE place in Noctilum you can get to without a flying Skell(the north most island is flying only). Most people say Weeping Whitewood, but I found it a bit more north than that.
Sadly, if you haven't explored much in Noctilum, which you most likely won't have, you'll have to do quite a bit of exploration to find it. So it may be worth coming back later if you don't fancy it.
pinkurocket
Member
It's further up north in Noctilum, there's an area named 'weeping whitewood' where it can be found.
Edit: or what person above me says, but I did find it in there. But yeah, leave it for later if you haven't explored much yet, that's what I did as well.
1) Wheeping Whitewood but it's a rare drop. The NPC that gives you the quest gives you the name of the exact area where is most common found (The Nail or something, idr)
2) It's a fixed reward for doing Irina's first Affinity Mission.
Wyndstryker
Member
You're not the only one that gets confused. My head always thinks Purple and Yellow as super difficult. Blame other games for instilling this mindset lol.