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I like the part when you arrive in Fonsett and Rex indirectly threatens to throw Nia off a cliff
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quote:Stuff about Overdrive Protocols being rare Do you guys try and keep the roles of all blades on a character the same and just mix up elements, or just go hogwild with whatever you got?
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Dec 25, 2017 22:33
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I go hogwild, but I stopped caring about using the new blades I get after like hour 40 because you get so many blades from story and sidequests.
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Dec 25, 2017 22:40
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I went hog wild, but got pretty lucky to get 2 rare healing blades on Nia super early (Boreas, Ursula) and then another 2 soon thereafter (Nim, Kora). You can patch most holes with quest rares if you just want to keep everyone in their given role and the RNG is screwing you, though. Anyway, some AMAZING foreshadowing back in Chapter 5 as regards Chapter 9's ending, major spoilers: Rex: Will Pyra be OK by herself? Nia: He's the Praetor, dimwit. What's he gonna do, eat her?
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Dec 25, 2017 22:56
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70+ hours in, I just figured out that you can hold A to fast-forward through skill checks.
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Dec 25, 2017 23:12
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Doc V posted:70+ hours in, I just figured out that you can hold A to fast-forward through skill checks. You just need to tap it once
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Dec 25, 2017 23:13
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SloppyDoughnuts posted:I asked the same thing like 80 times. Gotta go to the Gates of Ulcaria skip travel spot. There will be a place nearby you can use ice mastery to make a bridge to another island that if you climb all the way to the top you get a secret location and the Airborne Throne skip travel spot. On that island is an ice ramp that if you slide down will launch you to the island with the quest (It's quest is to go to Airborne Throne). Hmm, I've been to the airborne throne for Ursula and didn't see a ramp or anything. I'll have to go look again I guess.
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Dec 25, 2017 23:26
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IcePhoenix posted:Hmm, I've been to the airborne throne for Ursula and didn't see a ramp or anything. I'll have to go look again I guess. It sticks out on the upper level of that area, also there is no skill check. It just happens,
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Dec 25, 2017 23:30
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Dumb question, but on the blade affinity charts, the first 3 skills (the ones named after special attacks), do they only affect the specials they're named after or are constant?
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Dec 25, 2017 23:32
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SloppyDoughnuts posted:Dumb question, but on the blade affinity charts, the first 3 skills (the ones named after special attacks), do they only affect the specials they're named after or are constant? The red skills only affect the special they are attached to.
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Dec 25, 2017 23:35
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Ahahaha, Herald does silly amounts of damage thanks to her passives. It's nice having an ether cannon on an attacker character now, too.
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Dec 25, 2017 23:49
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Another dumb question: what does Stench actually DO? Also a less dumb question: any tips for Pernicious Benf? He keeps completely destroying my rear end.
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SloppyDoughnuts posted:Another dumb question: what does Stench actually DO? I have no idea but it's incredibly demeaning when an enemy applies a debuff by spraying diarrhea out of its rear end.
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Dec 26, 2017 00:45
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I think it prevents you from using specials, unlike blade shackle that also blocks blade arts.
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Dec 26, 2017 00:51
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It probably also prevents other things that require close proximity to your Blade, like building Affinity and getting any kind of Affinity Max bonuses.
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Edit: Cool Double Post.
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SloppyDoughnuts posted:Another dumb question: what does Stench actually DO? It makes blades stand farther away from their driver, slowing or stopping affinity gain. You also can't use specials when you’re too far from your blade.
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Good Citizen posted:Well i cleared all the floors below the fight before trying it, but it worked on the first time I tried it and I didn’t see a better option That whole dungeon was a disaster. The waypoint was no help whatsoever and everything looked exactly the same. I wandered around for at least an hour until I figured out where I needed to go (the place you kept wiping). I wiped. Respawned back at the beginning and then couldn't find my way back. I finally figured out how to get back, which was helpful because I wiped three more times. The way I cleared it was to use Mythra as my starting blade, which let use the grappling hook at the beginning to generate potions and I focused aggro on the bunny. Once he went down, it was easy. This game is incredible in so many ways but it also has so many bizarre, glaring problems that it makes it hard to recommend it.
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Everyone poo poo talks the old factory but it was insanely easy. At the same level none of the enemies really had them power to be a threat and I finished it in like 15 minutes, not counting the boss.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Everyone poo poo talks the old factory but it was insanely easy. I'm in the middle of the Old Factory and it's just annoying so far. I was also not too fond of how the game decided to completely stonewall my progress until I shoved several loaves of bread in Poppi's mouth to get a mandatory ability.
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MechaX posted:I'm in the middle of the Old Factory and it's just annoying so far. I never had to do that and I barely even use the pouches.
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Dec 26, 2017 01:18
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the biggest problem with the factory is that it shows that the aggro system is completely broken when it comes to closed, walled environments. enemies will detect you and attack through walls like they weren't there.
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I was a few levels overleveled from doing side quests and never even aggro'd a single enemy, which I guess is also an issue but not really a bad one
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is there any goddamn way to get tora to switch off his third blade once he has it? i can't loving get any of my elemental combos off anymore
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Reiterpallasch posted:is there any goddamn way to get tora to switch off his third blade once he has it? i can't loving get any of my elemental combos off anymore I've been having this problem too. I think it's happening because he switches blades back and forth between QT and QTpi to try to help with a driver combo, and then maybe can't blade switch back to Poppi QT in time to finish off a blade combo since she's on cooldown? Also, the AI seems to prioritize driver combo advancement (and bonus damage against a given reaction) over blade combos, also throwing things off a bit. When I play again, I'll try removing each of the Topple/Launch/Smash skills in turn to see if that fixes it, if no one has a good answer before then.
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Dec 26, 2017 01:55
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Does the switch have an indicator for low battery? Almost had a couple low sessions with the battery down to like 15%.
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If you're playing in handheld mode it'll pop up in the top left corner and beep when it's at like 10%.
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SloppyDoughnuts posted:If you're playing in handheld mode it'll pop up in the top left corner and beep when it's at like 10%. At 20% as well.
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So I’m travelling for the holidays and I didn’t take my switch because lmao so I’m rereading The Dark Kid’s Xenogears LP and two things sprung up in my mind: 1. Wow this game was probably misery to play 2. Why come nobody ever points out Billy and that one Elements girl who looks exactly like Billy look exactly alike
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Invenerable posted:I've been having this problem too. I think it's happening because he switches blades back and forth between QT and QTpi to try to help with a driver combo, and then maybe can't blade switch back to Poppi QT in time to finish off a blade combo since she's on cooldown? Also, the AI seems to prioritize driver combo advancement (and bonus damage against a given reaction) over blade combos, also throwing things off a bit. this was 100% it. i was fighting the 117 superboss and tora was apparently trying to break over and over instead of doing anything productive. taking away his break actions let me stack 8 orbs, do 9999999 damage, and...die because the boss has way more hp than that. oops.
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Do you have to do every one of Ursula's fan gathering missions to get her to 5000 fans? I haven't gashaponed into a third Fortitude blade and if I got all three stats to full. Now the stat checker is missing from the playhouse and I'm so tired of this quest.
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brand engager posted:We died right after You died to the 15k bullshit tail sweep too, huh? Sadie is a world class rear end in a top hat.
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Invenerable posted:I'm unsure where all I found my few in the field, or which ones they're talking about in your quoted post, but I got another one upon finishing Rex's personal grid thingy, so I figure you get another 5 from those. Honestly can't see needing many more than that unless you are just terminally unlucky or 100% anal retentive about your blade distribution. Ah, yeah, though I think most people won't complete those grids unless they do considerable post-game content (I'm level 70 and still have like ~9000-10000 points left to fill them out). But yeah, the 8 you can get from the game (ignoring releasing completed 4* commons) + the 3 from expansion pass is enough to get all rare blades on the characters you want, provided you're not extremely unlucky and don't waste any. Btw, Dagas's side quest is pretty cool/fun. Dagas should take over as the protagonist after it. edit: Speaking of rare blades, there's a distinct lack of elemental variety for healing blades. All healing blades are wind, water, electric, or ice, with the exception of one rare earth healing blade. I often have to do more finagling with my tank and DPS to make sure I have the full elemental spread. edit2: One other thing - is it just me, or should Ursula's "Heals 40% of party's HP upon performing a Blade Switch" be ridiculously good if the healer is controlled by the player? You can switch blades really quickly if you're cancelling out of driver arts, and that's like a free big heal art every 15-20 seconds. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Dec 26, 2017 |
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Ytlaya posted:edit: Speaking of rare blades, there's a distinct lack of elemental variety for healing blades. All healing blades are wind, water, electric, or ice, with the exception of one rare earth healing blade. I often have to do more finagling with my tank and DPS to make sure I have the full elemental spread. Each of wind, ice, electric, and earth has a Bitball and a Knuckle Claws healer. The only water one is Dromarch. But yes, no fire, light, or dark. quote:edit2: One other thing - is it just me, or should Ursula's "Heals 40% of party's HP upon performing a Blade Switch" be ridiculously good if the healer is controlled by the player? You can switch blades really quickly if you're cancelling out of driver arts, and that's like a free big heal art every 15-20 seconds. It is very good in the hands of the player. It’s slightly unfortunate that Knuckle Claws don’t give any driver combo moves to Rex, who is otherwise the best character for the player to control, but you can abuse the accessories that speed up blade switches and give you extra damage for each blade switch. Zoran fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Dec 26, 2017 |
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I finished it at around 100 hours. Well, I beat the final boss, anyway. There's a lot of side content obviously but I don't really feel all that compelled to engage with it. Stray thoughts: Watching Indol and the TornaBot fighting in the background was really cool, and that almost makes up for everything from Chapter 8 onward being a straight line. It felt like there were a lot of fake outs in the game, and I can't really tell how much of it was intentional and how much was because of a time crunch. I really expected to have to fight Pyra's giant robot or Mythra's Siren or TornaBot. And it also felt like Lora's body, and Adam, and Rex's parents would have had... more. But again, I can't tell if they intentionally set out to buck expectations ("Haha y'all thought Rex's parents were gonna matter at all!"), or if they just ran out of time to go anywhere with it. I'd believe either, because they could barely stuff for Morag and Zeke to do. Also the final boss was super lame and I was waiting for a second form. Xenoblade 2 suffers from being a sequel, so the endgame stuff felt much less interesting than when it happened in Xenoblade 1. Though I guess it was supposed to be mindblowing that this was a sidequel? It probably doesn't help that most of the design in the final areas is kind of bland, while X1 had Prison Island's ridiculous heavy metal cover aesthetic happening. I wonder how Xenogears would have felt if it hadn't had the opening anime scene with the spaceship?
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TurnipFritter posted:I finished it at around 100 hours. Well, I beat the final boss, anyway. There's a lot of side content obviously but I don't really feel all that compelled to engage with it. I disagree a bit; Seeing that the Land of Morytha is Earth is majorly mindblowing if you've finished Xenoblade Chronicles, because now you know exactly who the Architect is and how badly things can possibly go by the end. Not to mention knowing what and where Elysium is once you get up there and see the satellite platform from the outside.
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Getting too strong https://twitter.com/NSwonch/status/945498715061501952 
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There's a couple of minor spoilers in that image, FYI.
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What’s everyone’s preferred VA?
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So I just found out that you can grind trust by mass-purchasing bag items (food, drinks, etc) and repeatedly using them. It's actually fairly fast and you can just do something else while mashing A, as long as you use an item that isn't the liked/favorite of any of the blades on that character. This method more or less requires having the lifestyle item quantity upgrades, though. This is particularly useful because, while you get plenty of trust for the blades you use while progressing through the story and doing quests, it can be tough to get trust afterwards. edit: It's funny how despite all the ridiculous annoying design choices in this game, there are occasionally things that are actually really helpful, like the fact that it shows field skill checks you haven't passed on the travel map. The REAL Goobusters posted:What’s everyone’s preferred VA? I dunno which character/language you're referring to, but I like the Japanese VA for Pandoria. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Dec 26, 2017 |
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