Xenoblade Chronicles X

[Twilight Sky]

I have to disagree on what he said about skells being "the best part of the game". But he makes some good points.

I don't mind the kill missions. But I truly can't stand collect missions.

Well, I have 97 hours in, which is already longer than any RPG I've played, (I finished Suikoden V at 92), so the game is doing something right.

[Katlan]

I only do the collect missions if I already have the items. Unless you get screwed by a quest chain that requires a drop that has a korean tier drop chance

[Tyrath]

Reward tickets help fix half of those two. The worst I've had to do is run around for 15 mins trying to collect 10 of something for a quest.

[Tomiko]

Perfect. Thanks. Now i just need to figure out the gear aspect with mods etc.

From his video is sounds like the augments are the most important part. For the base armor, just things with good stats. He also shows where he got his Ether Katana (as well as where to farm everything).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-0jssqB98A

[Twilight Sky]

Finished chapter 11.

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Ah finally a one on one battle and against the strongest Skell in the game at that.

First phase was really easy, the boss didn't do any damage to my skell, and everyone else was holding their own.

Second phase he started cheating, a lot, while still doing hardly any damage to my skell until he started doing an attack that was serving to whittle down my frame HP. The fight was more of a who was going to outlast the other. I got a chuckle at us both repeatedly using our strongest attacks trying to end the other quickly. At around 2k HP I jumped out and fought the boss on foot, and didn't have much trouble there.

All in all the fight was fun.

Boss stuff:

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It is obvious Lao thinks of Lin as his lost daughter or perhaps reminds him of her.

Elma spoilers:

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Eh I already know what Elma REALLY is(it was an accidental spoiler), but no one caught how Lao was speaking to her as if she wasn't human.

No bullshit requirements to start chapter 12 was a breath of fresh air.

[Demosthenes]

I agree with him on the online features, In game finances and the cost, effort and time it takes to put shit together. Crafting XX augments or custom armor/weapons is a huge fucking repetitive pain and grindfest. I could live without them. I disagree with him on pretty much everything else. Those prerequisites to story missions ARE part of the Storyline/story missions. Not receiving them from the same place or them being labeled affinity missions does not change that. In his hundred hours, he failed to realize that the meat of the game is in post game. Skell combat is not the most "fun." It is a more limited than ground combat. The obly legitimate difference from ground combat is binding. I can't continue gripes on the boss battle he's on about without spoiling it, but the fight is literally the same as an earlier one except reversed. Why does the order matter at all? Also, get your ground game up pleb. Can't be an AH war/whatever job and complain about being worse off than people that spent time putting rare/ex shit together.

Reward tickets help fix half of those two. The worst I've had to do is run around for 15 mins trying to collect 10 of something for a quest.

Reward tickets shouldn't even be a thing.

[Eleven19]

From his video is sounds like the augments are the most important part. For the base armor, just things with good stats. He also shows where he got his Ether Katana (as well as where to farm everything).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-0jssqB98A

Thanks Loki. Gotta work on it this weekend.

[Twilight Sky]

Grinding for mats would be fine with me, if the mobs they dropped from weren't out of my league, but as it is, this game is all about post game.

[tenkiki]

Did we play the same game as him? High grade research probes exclusively come from mechanical wreckage.

[Twilight Sky]

Well, Monolift has something going here. They are trying to find a balance for a single player(mostly) RPG with MMO elements. They have the sized world, the annoying ass mat grinding, all your usual endgame antics, etc. Would be interesting what they have in store for the next game, if there is one.

[Tyrath]

I feel like the story got a bit lost in the shuffle. It's there but theres often large gaps in between. And I still hate Elma and Lin being the only 2 there for all the major story points. Hope they return to something like the first Xenoblade for the next one.

[Scythiroth]

Yeah, I definitely liked the story and characters much more in the original Xenoblade. Being able to create your character is probably nice for some people, but I would much rather play as a character with an actual personality that was interesting. >.> Instead, our main character was as interesting as your character in FF14, nods at everything in every CS.

[Raldo]

Being able to create your character is probably nice for some people, but I would much rather play as a character with an actual personality that was interesting. >.>

Definitely agree here, part of the fun in a character-heavy game is the interactions between characters, and having a blank slate makes so many interactions play out like you're not even there. I definitely noticed a number of times where they'd give you a choice and the response to said choice played out in such a way that it would've been an acceptable response to either option.

I didn't really care much for most of the characters in X though.

X reminds me a lot of FF12 in that regard; the main character should've just been Elma (Basch), but they shoehorned the blank-slate player in there (Vaan) and everything just seemed weird.

[Serra]

Yeah, if they're going to have us pick a voice for our characters, they could at least use it during the game (outside from combat..).

[Demosthenes]

I feel like the story got a bit lost in the shuffle. It's there but theres often large gaps in between. And I still hate Elma and Lin being the only 2 there for all the major story points. Hope they return to something like the first Xenoblade for the next one.

They are not shoehorned. It is their story and you're there for the ride. As an aside they focused on gameplay then plopped an easy story on it.

[Eleven19]

They are not shoehorned. It is their story and your there for the ride. As an aside they focused on gameplay then plopped an easy story on it.

That's how i feel about the player character in Xenoblade X. Its mostly Elma's story with some of Lin's. You are basically just a baller ass soldier on their squad. Along for the ride. At least you aren't the warrior of light level character with no lines lol.

[Twilight Sky]

I AM confused about one thing from Chapter 11..

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Ok so we know the big numbers on the tower is the amount of power the core has remaining on its backup.

SO why does Elma say we have to turn on the backup power supply..when it was running for the entire game? >.<

[Raldo]

Oh man, if there's an answer to that, I'd love to hear it. The whole thing made no fucking sense. I just assumed it was something that got lost in translation.

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The Xenoblade wiki mentions "Should the countdown reach 0 before another power source is installed..." but as far as I recall, no one ever mentions that they're carrying anything of the sort in Ch12, and when Elma is fixing it, she just types on the terminal for a bit and ta-da, power-wise everything is okay again.

The way I understood it as a played through it was just like you said, that there was some sort of backup-backup power system, but no one in their right mind builds some contrived shit like that where someone has to activate that manually.

[Kachiko]

What I don't get is why there are crystals all around NLA, from the crash, but nowhere else on Primordia.

[NynJa]

What i dont get are some of the quest lines making NO sense at all

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NPC in part 1: "i hate all xenoforms and we humans cant live with them"
NPC in part 3: is allied with the ganglions

WAT?!?