Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles X - OT

Got the game for Christmas and I've been very pleased with what I've played so far. Characters are immediately likeable and I can't wait to explore the world properly. Also glad to see that my hundreds of hours spent on the Bionis and the Mechonis is a valuable asset here, been enjoying the combat with the few new mechanics that make it more challenging and in-depth, and I've still not died post chapter 2. The presentation is as great as I expected, the soundtrack, graphics and art direction are all pluses for the game. Though the most striking improvements this game has on the original, at least for me, are the improvements in traversing the world, thanks mainly to having the ability to run and jump like The Incredible Hulk. Been loving doing that and I think it'll be hard to go back to the original's slow sluggish movement, and this is all dozens of hours before I get my Skell

@TheLastLugia
Welcome to Mira! Glad you enjoy the game!

@shani: Non-Player characters will always succeed on their QTE to save the Skell. So it is inconsistent only in that it punishes the player for being bad at the QTE.

Been a couple days since I've played since I'm still waiting for the pain in my eyes to go away. Despite the game essentially destroying my eyeballs, I want to keep playing it. I've been on a sidequest kick that I'm upset I haven't been able to continue. Especially now that I'm finally getting peoples' affinity and levels up

@DiscoGentleman: Ah ok, then I have definitely seen you at some point in the game. Since I can't see you or @TheXReturns: anymore, I guess it is because of the lvl difference. And thanks for the tip with the name display!
@Darknyht: Well, if you look at it that way (the NPCs also doing a QTE but never missing it), it's not inconsistent. But you don't see them doing the QTE sequence, do you? That's what I meant. From the player's perspective, it's inconsistent that the player can lose his skell but the NPCs can't.
@TheLastLugia: Welcome to Mira! I didn't realize this at first (until a friend told me) but the long jumps are actually only possible because of the lower gravity on Mira (although I wonder why the smaller indigens can't do it too).
@Tsurii: Yeah that's what I thought. But you actually can scout players with higher lvls at the Scout console, it just costs you money. But I can't scout my friends's avatars there, that's a real pity. And there even would've been a simple solution to the problem. Similar to the way your lvl is reduced when you start a squad mission with a lvl cap, your avatar's lvl could also be reduced when someone with a lower lvl uses him/her in their party.
And btw, feel free to add me, not many German compatriots here anyway.

Yeah that's what I figured, lower gravity than Earth. I imagine the indigens are unable to jump high because that's the gravity they are accustomed to, unlike the Earthlings

I rarely had problems with that, since I always just write "shani from Nintendolife". But I hate the fact that in-game posts are limited to 100 characters.

Yeah? I guess you don't mean what chapter 5 reveals (didn't want to spell it out to prevent spoilering anyone), right?

So finished ch5 earlier today, was seriously awesome hoping to get ch6 requirements done tomorrow.

I honestly had no expectations for this game, and I only bought it after a few people here said it was good.

Honestly this is going in my top 3 of RPG's of all time along with KOTOR and FF12.

Lol, I didn't even thought about that (the jumping etc) when I had played chapter 5. ^^ Yeah I also love how the game justifies almost everything, it is very meta in that way. One NPC, I think it was a Manon, even tried to explain a game mechanic to me and he stressed how many people misinterpret that mechanic and how it is to be understood properly.
I even like to think that [what we learned in chapter 5] is also meant metaphorically as the connection between the player and his character.

I was hoping that this game would be great but I was doubtful if it was for me, because I'm not really an RPG-player, definitely never played a JRPG before, and I thought the fighting system would annoy me because I like to swing my weapon manually. Turns out I was wrong, this came exceeded my expectations by a long shot!

Yay, I finally did Alexa's first affinity mission which was causing me a lot of grief a few days ago. I didn't want to accept the prompt to lower the mission difficulty, so I instead got the best equipment while levelling arts and skills. Also, there was lots and lots of grinding and doing the battle enough times until I got lucky.

@crimsontadpoles: Yeah I did that one just yesterday. At first I battled them with my lvl28 character and Murderess, Doug and Irina which were all highly underlvled (something like lvl 21,18 and 16) since I had been playing exclusively with Elma, Lin and Lao before (that's the reason I changed my party, to lvl them up). I underestimated the mission, tried twice and an stood no chance (and lost my skell).
So out of anger I reloaded my savegame and changed back to my strongest crew (Elma and Lin lvl28, Lao lvl25). On the way to the mission I did a few fights so that we all would rise one lvl. The first time I didn't give it my best shot because I thought "This will be easy now!" and we managed to defeat Alex's skell, but there was one sniper left and he killed me before I could kill him lol. So i tried again, this time I coordinated the fight better with my party and we won albeit still very close.
By then I was really determined to beat that damn fascist.

Ok I will say, I actually got some corrupted footage last week so I literally only played like 20 minutes recently. Most of which was either just traveling to a destination I eventually decided to not go to and going to places I was at to make up for corrupted footage. Also I got killed in one hit by an enemy I didn't see.

I AM TEH BEST XENOBLADE PLAYER!11!!!!11!

btw: that one quest that required the like Titanium 2 knives or whatever against those insects is pretty silly. Level 10 knives for level 3 enemies. It clearly exists specifically to force you to have a battle where you're overpowered.

Man, Chaoter 8 was beyond epic! And I thought Chapter 5 was good... until now! There was more cut scene in Chapter 8 than the entire game combined up to that point.

I've since beaten chapters 9 and 10 (Zu Pharg Menace, seriously such a tough fight), gotten my fight module and finished planting the last probes, aside from the Mechanical Level 5 sites.

I'm level 45, and just finished all requirements to start Chapter 11. Need to gain 5 levels quick though...

53 hours in and I just got my Skell! I gave the free one to Elma and bought myself a level 30 one(the cheapest one). I'm really enjoying it so far, and a lot of enemies that I had difficulty with became a lot easier.

@Eat_Pie You may want to consider investing in a heavy skell (the one beginning with A is probably better) (Amudais?) And then slightly later on, farming for a prime or intergalactic "Phoenix Battle Wings" From puges in Sylvalum (There's an excellent spot in the lower right). The added fuel and defense of the Heavy Skells means that it can quite literally one/two shot most groups of enemies in the game with Phoenix Battle Wings, with little overall fuel loss. I didn't really get the hype around Phoenix, until I was struggling with something in Chapter 12, and I went out, farmed some mooks, getting a prime Phoenix somewhere along the way, and then 'equipped strongest gear' to my skells. It one-shotted what I had been struggling with for ages. (I had no skell at that point first time around, and it's very difficult, as you will probably come across).

Pre post-game, the Lahliah's probably the most balanced, the two light-weights are only really useful as an exploration skell (little fuel loss), and the Amudais(?) is the better heavy skell. The Mastema's tankier, but also far lwess manueverable, resulting in many fights you probably don't want.

Alright, thanks! The Skell you're talking about is the Amdusias. I plan on buying that because my current one isn't doing that much damage(although it's still pretty powerful), and I have more than enough money to buy it. I've heard a lot of good things about the Phoenix/G Buster, so I plan on farming for them later on.

Oh man! This is great info! I'm going to get my level 50 skell now that I read this! (I'm currently at level 48 at the time of reading this).