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Xenoblade |OT| Sorry I Kept You Waiting!
- Thread starter SecretMoblin
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ErasureAcer
Banned
14 hours in. LVL 19.
How do I give gifts to party members?
How do I give gifts to party members?
tetrisgrammaton
Member
About 10 hours in. No desire to keep playing. This game sucks.
TDLink
Member
Y button on the CC, not sure what the mote+chuck button is. Same button as trading with NPCs.
Go into your inventory to the collectibles area. Select a collectible and choose "Present" and it will ask you to pick which party member is giving and receiving it.
ErasureAcer
Banned
Thanks TDLink and MetatronM.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
I'm not very far in but I gotta say I'm digging NOA's choice to not redub the voice work. Gives the game a bit of a signature style.
Mortrialus
Banned
Agreed. The British voice over really helps give the world its unique feel.
I'm a terrible person, I clicked on the spoiler and UPS still has my game. How many hours in should I expect that?
Almond
Member
Without exploring, it's only about an hour or two in. So don't worry too much. There's plenty of other twists along the way.
You can give party members gifts!? I'm like 30+ hours in and must havae missed this!
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
I forgot to ask, did you use the lens cleaner Nintendo sells? Or does that not work?
SecretMoblin
Member
It's a relatively minor feature, especially considering there are far more efficient ways to improve affinity between characters. Using them in battle, for example, will improve affinity while you also gain experience, AP points, skill points, and loot. Still useful on the margins, or if you want to improve affinity between characters that you don't want in the same battle party.
...I hope you know about quick travel and the ability to change the time of day. It's astounding how far some people get without knowing about such useful features.
Yeah, gifting is primarily useful if you either 1) are pretty sure two particular characters are probably close to leveling up their affinity and want to quickly boost them over the hump or 2) you have like 30 of a particular collectible that a certain character likes and can quickly rack up a whole hell of a lot of affinity points for them.
Otherwise using them in battle and/or having them in the active party when you either accept or complete quests is likely where you're going to get most of your party affinity.
(See also, the link in the OP regarding the technical details of how affinity works.)
Otherwise using them in battle and/or having them in the active party when you either accept or complete quests is likely where you're going to get most of your party affinity.
(See also, the link in the OP regarding the technical details of how affinity works.)
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
It happens to everyone. Some enemies I could beat that were two or three levels above me in the first area. Other enemies, like you said, I could not beat a the beginning.
Just level up, its the solution to all your problems in this game.
Liferebooted
Banned
Is there anyway to track regular quests on the map or minimap? Some of them really give no clue on where to go for the monsters or items.
SecretMoblin
Member
If there's a specific, unique item to find (a glowing red orb) or a specific character you need to talk to there will be a red exclamation mark on the map, just like the white exclamation marks that denote quest givers.
When it comes to monsters, you're on your own. Generally the monsters come in groups and they all respawn, so once you find some you should be fine.
Liferebooted
Banned
Only things I don't like is the camera is horrible in close spaces and the waggle remote doesn't help with that, and the voices make me wanna kill kittens 
Easystride
Member
Is it safe to sell old equipment?
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Yes, you'll never really need anything but the best/most recent equipment, and you'll find a ton of equipment on the field from monsters (better than what you get in shops usually). There are some late-game exceptions, which will probably be pretty obvious.
Don't worry about selling materials until your inventory is full. And if you do sell them, avoid selling rare items (big bags) if possible.
There's no crafting system for them though, but you'll need a lot of them for quests. Most of the time the game will mark the ones you'll need, but not always.
Early on in the game enemies around the same level or a bit higher are tough since you don't have as many arts to work with. Later on you shouldn't have too much trouble with normal enemies that are 5 levels higher (max before the agility penalty) since you'll have more, higher level arts to work with and a party better suited to your own needs. Plus more experience with the combat system, of course.
SecretMoblin
Member
You don't use materials to craft, but you never know what you may need for an upcoming quest. Plus, your inventory is huge; you can afford to hoard. You really only need money for Art manuals throughout most of the game. If you have more than 10 of any given material, it's probably safe to sell a few.
SafeinSound
Member
Only things I don't like is the camera is horrible in close spaces and the waggle remote doesn't help with that, and the voices make me wanna kill kittens
I think the voices are probably the best I've heard this gen in an jrpg.
I'll just say that this game has one of the most engaging story lines of any JRPGs I've ever played. For those just starting out, you're in for one hell of an emotional roller coaster. It's certainly not your standard predictable storyline and you'll find out why soon enough
I wish I could experience it all again. It's that damn good.
I wish I could experience it all again. It's that damn good.
Mikey Jr.
Member
That fucking caterpillar.
"Ohh, he's level 10, and I'm level 10. This should be easy!"
No....no it wasn't.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I guess I'll move my talk about the game here from the Euro thread. Still been trying to beat that final boss: I spend ten minutes a day or so just grinding just slowly leveling up a couple of times before I'm going to go tackle him again. It does feel like I'm severely underleveled though (the attacks do way to much damage way to fast) which is weird because the fights leading up to it, including the "sub-boss fight" are no problem for me.
BlazingDarkness
Member
The caterpillar always gets people :lol
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Ahaha, I remember that
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
What level are you? It should be possible but difficult around
level 78
80
83
Wouldn't normally spoiler tag that, but since the game just came out and people are just starting I did it anyway. Since those levels would give an indications of how far through the game people are and give them an idea of when the ending would be.
SecretMoblin
Member
Keep at it; it eventually gets to the point where it's (somewhat) easily manageable. Depending on your level and where you're grinding, you should be able to average a level every half hour or so, which isn't so bad. The ending is worth it.
Having gone through all this before, we know what the next major DAMN moment will be in the thread:
that spider.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I want to say I'm
78
I agree, but I do want to say that the leveling curve didn't seem smooth to me at all. The last third of the game or so felt like I was leveling up a lot faster.
Basically everything from the Fallen Arm on
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
That's the same level I beat it at. I didn't have much trouble at all, but I feel like my party was kind of broken.
Mained Shulk, had 7th with the "blender" setup dealing stupid amounts of damage, and Sharla to heal, even though it was kind of redundant with 7th self-healing with skill/links faster than she took damage and Shulk having light heal when I needed it.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah, I've been alternating between
Shulk-Melia-Riki, Shulk-7th-Riki, and sometimes Shulk-Melia-7th. Occasionally I'll stick Dunban in if I feel like it, but he's too fragile for this fight for me. Also why are we spoiling 7th inside spoiler tags?
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Some poor person will probably end up clicking the spoiler tags thinking they might not spoil too much. Might as well spoil as little as possible!
Already happened to at least one person on this page, or the last one, whenever it was.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I think next time I'm going to try maining
Melia
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
That should work, just stick beside him and avoid chain attacks unless you have really high affinity between those party members and can build the party gauge enough during the chain attack to be ready for it.
It's really unfortunate that during the middle part of the game chain attacks become very dangerous since they drain your party gauge more than you can easily restore. I guess it makes it a bit more challenging though, since chain attacks make the post-game stuff too easy with max affinity.
It's really unfortunate that during the middle part of the game chain attacks become very dangerous since they drain your party gauge more than you can easily restore. I guess it makes it a bit more challenging though, since chain attacks make the post-game stuff too easy with max affinity.
Ryu bogard
Member
I am not sure if this is the best place to ask this I am getting the game on Monday but the thing is I don't have a wii yet. Wondering if the wii u has been confirmed to be fully BC yet? Maybe I should just get a cheap wii.
ErasureAcer
Banned
Been up all night playing. Doing quests in the big zone. Think I have 1 left where a guy only comes out if its raining.
jump_button
Banned
Wii games yes GC no
Try your hardest to resist being a completionist with this game, because it's going to burn you out. There's just way too many dumb, worthless quests.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
I just started the game up, but I can tell that this game is going to suck a lot of time away for me. I'm really enjoying the atmosphere, and the battle system seems neat. Looking forward to getting further along.
I've already accepted that I'm going to miss some quests based on timelines, but I can't just skip ones that are right infront of me.
Baller. PhD
Banned
Ok, this is extremely frustrating. How the fuck do you start a chain attack? I have 3 full bars. Tooltip says I need to chain attack. Thanks tooltip, but HOW DO I DO THAT?
Yeah, I'm only a few hours in but I think I have a pretty good system. Accept all quests and then play the story. You'll finish a bunch of them without even trying, and since you don't have to return to the quest giver you don't even need to pay attention.
Yeah, I'm only a few hours in but I think I have a pretty good system. Accept all quests and then play the story. You'll finish a bunch of them without even trying, and since you don't have to return to the quest giver you don't even need to pay attention.