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Aerox posted:That fixed it; thanks! Right on man! I really wish the UI wouldn't stretch on 21x9 resolutions. Edit: Ok, so...Soul Voices...I think I'm getting the hang of them. Basically, my team members will perform a callout, and I use an ability (color coded even) that matches what they're saying, and there's a buff/debuff that occurs, based on how you're setup in the Soul Voices menu. Is this about right? Am I missing anything important? Seems like a really deep combat system. Also, is Skell combat as complex/rewarding as the on-foot combat? Because this is easily one of my favorite combat systems. chaosapiant fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Feb 21, 2021 |
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There is a severe sidequest drought in later stages of the game, and the few I have remaining need me to kill lvl 95 enemies. I'm currently lvl 80, I've been slaughtering swamp gorillas and this grind is already boring me to death.
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Feb 21, 2021 19:39
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And Tyler Too! posted:There is a severe sidequest drought in later stages of the game, and the few I have remaining need me to kill lvl 95 enemies. I'm currently lvl 80, I've been slaughtering swamp gorillas and this grind is already boring me to death. Assuming you're talking about XB:DE just turn the difficulty down to easy and fight some 90+ trash mobs to close the distance, you can always go back to normal for the fights that count
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And Tyler Too! posted:There is a severe sidequest drought in later stages of the game, and the few I have remaining need me to kill lvl 95 enemies. I'm currently lvl 80, I've been slaughtering swamp gorillas and this grind is already boring me to death. Did you use up all your bonus EXP from expert mode? You should definitely try to kill higher level enemies... you can trade Scarlen at Satorl Marsh (5*) or Nic (Colony 6, 5*) for Night Vision V gems which can allow you to kill enemies 10 levels higher than you at night. Combine that with Riki’s skills that reduce cooldown and increase strength at night and it’s not too bad. Kill some dudes in Tephra cave or high-level Telethia for big exp, AP and SP bonuses. Also killing enemies with chain attacks gives you bonuses, too.
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https://twitter.com/mynintendonews/status/1363903398685237249?s=21 It had sold just under 2m copies as of Dec 31st, 2020 so I’m sure it’s passed the 2m mark by now. Bring on a sequel and/or port of XCX drat it! Ugh I just started Astral Chain and Bravely Default II comes out Friday when am I gonna have time to do NG+ in XC2??
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I managed to wrap up XBC1 + Future Connected. It was a fun trip all around, though I wish Future Connected had given a little more exposition on what the antagonist actually is, and its motives.
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Feb 26, 2021 02:52
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I am 20 hours into XC2 and I'm desperate to get a fourth party member so I can kick Tora to the curb, but it's like the game is determined to keep teasing me and insisting that the perverted maid fetishist Nopon is a permanent and important part of my team. 
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Feb 26, 2021 05:32
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Tora is too horny, but you can customize Poppi to do absolute warcrimes later on in the game. You'll get your 4th friend eventually, hang in there.
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Feb 26, 2021 05:36
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Darth Nat posted:I am 20 hours into XC2 and I'm desperate to get a fourth party member so I can kick Tora to the curb, but it's like the game is determined to keep teasing me and insisting that the perverted maid fetishist Nopon is a permanent and important part of my team. The robot girl is a permanent and important part of the team. Unfortunately she comes with Tora attached so I feel your pain, I too kick him out ASAP.
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Feb 26, 2021 06:38
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You'll get your fourth party member in Mor Ardain and they make a really good dodge based tank so it's not toooooo long that you're stuck with the little creep.
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Feb 26, 2021 08:15
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Poppi is the true hero of the story, but even aside from personal opinions on Tora, it kind of sucks to have one party member limited in number of blades compared to the others for so long.
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Feb 26, 2021 08:18
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It sucks so much rear end that Poppi is really good but only if you submit yourself to the trashfire that is Tiger Tiger
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Feb 26, 2021 08:20
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It also irrationally bothers me that there's a party member named Tora and a faction named Torna. And I just got to the one-eyed monster scene and... man this game is anime sometimes isn't it 
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Feb 26, 2021 08:34
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Replace Tora with Riki imo, replace Poppi with mecha-Riki.
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Poppi is absurdly good, especially her upgraded models, but yeah the Nopon in general are really awful in XC2. There was very little “meh meh meh” in the first game or XCX, not sure why they made that the Nopon signature phrase. Speaking of XCX, Tatsu was worse than Tora if you can believe it. Easily the second worst thing about that game (the worst being the unfinished story)
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the never-ending "Lin wants to eat Tatsu lul" skits after every single story beat were the worst thing ever
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Augus posted:the never-ending "Lin wants to eat Tatsu lul" skits after every single story beat were the worst thing ever This. The joke wasn't funny the first time, it didn't suddenly start being funny after the seventh iteration.
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Darth Nat posted:I am 20 hours into XC2 and I'm desperate to get a fourth party member so I can kick Tora to the curb, but it's like the game is determined to keep teasing me and insisting that the perverted maid fetishist Nopon is a permanent and important part of my team. https://twitter.com/XC_Enel/status/1364989298139889666
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Still chipping away at Xenoblade Chronicles DE. The story guidance thing has informed me that the "final battle" is imminent. I previously thought the final battle was imminent four or five times, starting at Galahad Fortress, but now it seems to be happening for real. (Side note: the plot really took a turn after the second Egil fight. I was not expecting that, or that, or especially that.) I completed a late-game quest involving Tyrea and started a couple of others in the newly-added section of Tephra Cave, but I had to put them on hold because of unavoidable Level 90 monsters. It would be helpful to know: is there a postgame with new quests and more time for the existing ones, or does the game just stop at your last save point before the final battle? Besides endgame stuff, I still need to finish the Colony 6 reconstruction and revisit all the Heart to Hearts. Although I don't know how I'm going to achieve maximum affinity for some of these character pairings. How can Reyn and Dunban still be ? They've been together for the whole game!
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Optimist Prime posted:Still chipping away at Xenoblade Chronicles DE. The story guidance thing has informed me that the "final battle" is imminent. I previously thought the final battle was imminent four or five times, starting at Galahad Fortress, but now it seems to be happening for real. (Side note: the plot really took a turn after the second Egil fight. I was not expecting that, or that, or especially that.) There's no postgame content after the credits roll, everything opens up after Mechonis Core.
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The area with lv90 monsters in Tephra Cave & Alcamoth are the post-endgame areas. The end boss is lv 82. You’ll be taken back to right before the point of no return after you beat the game. Edit: you can access these places post-Mechonis Core but they don’t really expect you to complete them or those high-level quests until after you beat the end boss, for clarification. Expert Mode lets you lower your levels though which rules, you can make the end boss actually difficult!! Blackbelt Bobman fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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Optimist Prime posted:Although I don't know how I'm going to achieve maximum affinity for some of these character pairings. How can Reyn and Dunban still be If you want to powerlevel affinity here's what you need: lvl 84-ish 100% sleep or debuff resist on the character you're playing and your tank Go to Eryth Sea and along the southern wall is a beach with a unique monster named Stormy Belagon, who has a sleep spike The party member whom you want to raise affinity with will keep sleeping themselves when they auto-attack, stand next to them and keep waking them up for 2 hearts Run away when Stormy Belagon is at 25% HP (you don't want to kill him) Repeat until everyone loves each other
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:you can access these places post-Mechonis Core but they don’t really expect you to complete them or those high-level quests until after you beat the end boss, for clarification. A couple more questions: since there's a monetary component to every Colony 6 upgrade, what's the fastest way to get rich in this game? And going back to party affinity: it sounds sort of tedious maxing out everyone's friendship for a bunch of optional conversations. Are there any specific heart-to-hearts that develop relationships in a meaningful way?
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And Tyler Too! posted:If you want to powerlevel affinity here's what you need: There's another way in DE. Find a mechon somewhere and use expert mode to level down the character you want to get affinity with (7 level lower than the mechon you can find and keep your main character at 6 or 7 levels above) and don't wear mechon damaging weapons. Take off all the arts too except your main character. Hit the mechon with your main character with a spell or use an aura, so you have the Focus on your main character. Your other two dudes will try to hit the mechon, but will keep missing and get unhappy. You can then encourage them for affinity! You also don't have to worry about killing the monster either since you can't really damage it, and your other characters are too low level to actually hit it. It isn't as fast as the stormy belagon method, but you can do it at a lot lower level.
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Zarfol posted:There's another way in DE. Thanks for this, I can finally complete that stupid "get 2 female party members to high affinity" without waiting for half of the game.
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Optimist Prime posted:Still chipping away at Xenoblade Chronicles DE. The story guidance thing has informed me that the "final battle" is imminent. I previously thought the final battle was imminent four or five times, starting at Galahad Fortress, but now it seems to be happening for real. (Side note: the plot really took a turn after the second Egil fight. I was not expecting that, or that, or especially that.) Use Dunban for DPS instead of tanking. He has skills that remove aggro (Heat Haze?) and you can give him Aggro down type gems. Then let Reyn be a tank instead. In fact, one of Dunban’a strongest blades is a unique weapon with Arts Stealth VI built into it. Dunban is the best character, is my point.
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Use Dunban for DPS instead of tanking. He has skills that remove aggro (Heat Haze?) and you can give him Aggro down type gems. Then let Reyn be a tank instead. In fact, one of Dunban’a strongest blades is a unique weapon with Arts Stealth VI built into it. Dunban is the best character, is my point. Alternately, let dunban tank and use Reyn as a damage dealer.
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Dunban, Reyn and Shulk kill things so fast it doesn't really matter who is tanking.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Alternately, let dunban tank and use Reyn as a damage dealer. This. Reyn deals some ridiculous damage. Dunban is a great tank as long as you're feeding him AGI gems/skill link. Riki is a good tank too but you have to give him some aggro up gems. Horace Kinch fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Feb 27, 2021 |
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WrightOfWay posted:Dunban, Reyn and Shulk kill things so fast it doesn't really matter who is tanking. Pretty much yeah, you can do some nasty chain attack bullshit with this setup.
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I finally got more friends so XC2 is becoming more tolerable. That said, I hate the side quests. I thought they couldn't be worse than 1's, but almost every one I've done has reached a point where I either need a specific set of blade abilities that I don't have, or I need to collect basically every item in the world. And the fact that you don't realize that that's the real quest until you've already done multiple steps leads me to conclude that they are worse than 1's.
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I had XBC2 sitting on my backlog for awhile (after initially bouncing off the voice acting during combat very early on) and finally sat down with it forewarned of "gacha mechanics" and "terrible grinds" and I'm having fun because I cracked my switch and can skip the stuff that would normally make me hit the eject button but it's honestly flabbergasting how much terrible MMO-style engagement metric-focused padding is in this single player game I really want to know if the devs thought it made for a fun game or if they just came in from an MMO design philosophy, like why is the most effective way to level trust "buy food 10-30 items at a time and break your A button menuing while doing something else", why do merc missions need to have hour+ durations that don't progess in sleep mode, why is the best blade setup effectively locked behind grinding a retro arcade game when you make the most efficient way to play your game "don't play the actual game" I have Questions about your design priorities
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Merc missions can last almost no time at all if you send the right Blades. As for trust, yeah that sucks. And at least they added the easy mode to Tiger Tiger that makes it easy but time consuming instead of infuriating.
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I think the worst design decision is having to have blades equipped to use their field abilities. Also, it's hilariously dumb that your blades' abilities don't level up unless you specifically check their progress in the menu, even if you've met all the requirements. It's like the developers were being actively malevolent sometimes. Also, the Spirit Crucible sucks. Sure do love having the only way of doing reasonable damage taken away so that even random mooks become an awful slog that then kill you when they enter their rage phase.
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Darth Nat posted:Also, the Spirit Crucible sucks. Sure do love having the only way of doing reasonable damage taken away so that even random mooks become an awful slog that then kill you when they enter their rage phase. It's also cool how they stuck a unique monster in there that can't be toppled, has a high-damage AOE move with Blowdown, and is encountered on a narrow walkway above a bottomless pit, really ace design.
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Did y’all try using Poppi in the Spirit Crucible? She isn’t affected by the restrictions hope that helps!
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Poppi is stupid good for many reasons, like allowing Tora to do the entire Break>Topple>Launch>Smash combo by himself. If we get a XBC3 they may as well add a Nopon version of Citan, in keeping with the theme of that one character who is so broken that they may as well be a permanent fixture in the party.
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Did y’all try using Poppi in the Spirit Crucible? She isn’t affected by the restrictions hope that helps! I did, but it's still not enough of a boost to make that dungeon not horrible. I ultimately went to an inn and leveled Zeke up to a point where nothing would aggro him and just walked past everything. Also I loved hearing "ROGUE ROGUE ROGUE ROGUE ROGUE..." when fighting the boss.
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Did y’all try using Poppi in the Spirit Crucible? She isn’t affected by the restrictions hope that helps! I just learned that a few days ago from ChaosArgate’s Let’s Play. 
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I didn’t know about it on my first trip through, either. I think the disconnect is that they don’t actually explain what the restriction is (being unable to do specials above lv 1) and so you might not even notice a difference unless you are already using Tora? Anyway you pretty much have to use Tora & Poppi to beat the unique monster in there, if you’re into that.
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