Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles 2

@iLikeUrAttitude I've seen a few. Common blades are kind of alien looking, though, so their gender didn't really occur to me. The first non-story rare blade I generated was a guy.

@Ralizah Okay, thanks for your opinion.

@iLikeUrAttitude there must be a decent amount of males because i only got 1 sexy lady blade so far and then boring females and a few guys.. and all the guy blades i got look like total cornballs.

@Inertiacreep That's probably just RNG for you. Etika got a rare blade on his first try in one of his streams.
But it's good to know that theres variety in the game.

@iLikeUrAttitude Gotta agree with @Ralizah there. It is far from a fanservice festival. It is a japanese game so you can expect some revealing clothing but that‘s about it. As for res and fps undocked, it looks good. Some irl friends told me it looked fantastic for a handheld game, though, they aren‘t really accustomed to the concept of a Switch. For fps, the only real problem area I‘ve noticed is the first big city, particularly when it rains. With the minimap fixed, my only real issue is the fact that when teleporting from one Titan to another, you get there pretty much instantly but see how everything is slowly rendered in. It just breaks the experience a bit constantly seeing textures load in and stuff. Could‘ve done away with that with a few extra secs of loading imo.

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@GoldenGamer88 I was under the impression that the new patch fixed a lot of the texture and geometry loading issues that occur when you fast-travel somewhere. Is that not the case? I haven't really played since the patch hit.

@Ralizah Hmm... neither have I with all them holiday shopping. But from little time I've played post-patch, the load times have been increased but there's still texture loading going on, just at a much faster pace than before.

Loading times got longer after the update.
I prefered the instant travel that took 3 seconds instead of the 10 seconds it's now.

I liked the texture loading. It didn't bother me, because I was able to jump from one titan to the next instantly.
With 10 seconds now the loading times are still fairly quick... but man, if there was an outstanding feature that topped all other openworld games it was the superfast turboloading in Xeno2 that now is gone.
I'm disappointed the game got a bit worse, but thankfully the map system is now updated.
A small trade-off, now time that's added in loading is saved somewhere else.

Does someone here know about Poppi's agility augment(s)? I only have Agility Boost I listed, which is strange because other augments listed their superior versions (even if you didn't have the technical manuals for them). Is that all she's allowed?

I am like 70 hours in still in chapter 6.. i am backtracking doing a bunch of side quests because i finally found a part in the story where i felt it wouldn't break immersion too much to stop and do side quests.. i am still not over how good this game looks and how awesome Nintendo switch is.. honestly the switch is the best console since super Nintendo.

Same here, 70 hours in chapter 6. I was doing some side quests and filling up the affinity charts for Zenobia, Wulfric and Kora (I really like these blades). I know I'm way over leveled now due to fighting all the unique monsters for Zenobia. I finally got bored of doing this last night and am now in position to continue the story.

So, I'm not that far into the game, I'm just below level 20 and...I'm kinda low on money. I can't buy any shops for bonuses can I? (besides that one quest) What's the best place to salvage for money?

@Joeynator3000 You can trade in item sets in the first town, and I believe you can sell extra accessories you get from Tiger! Tiger! in the Poppiswap menu.

I don't get the Tiger game...I get like, very little from it. >.>
Anyways I meant does it matter where I salvage in Gormott?

I was just seeing if I could buy any shops at this point, or if they're really late-game stuff.

@Tsurii Ah, gotcha. Although that's probably more helpful. I haven't needed much in the way of money so far.

Oh, I thought buying shops did raise the titan's level. xD
Yeah I think I missed some stuff when learning about all of this, I'm lost. lol

Alright, guess it'll just take a while. Been selling and salvaging and talking like crazy, both areas still at 1 star. xD

it seems like the key to raising dev level is higher level salvaging... I raised the areas to like 3 star or whatever doing everything I could over hours of play, but then I started grinding for that 500k core crystal... you make a ton of money using the golden cylinders, and all those transactions raise the dev level like crazy.
I was doing like 10 golden cylinders in Argentum and getting something like 100k profit off 10.