Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles 2

@QwertyQwerty It’s locked at 900p docked, XCX was 720p.

@QwertyQwerty Source is I’m playing it and haven’t noticed the resolution dip in 10 or so hours of play. Don’t worry I’m sure DF will get on it. But it looks great, maybe because I have a high end 4k tv that upscales the image helps, compare to people using cheaper 1080p tv’s. There was also an interview talking about it a while back, but I can’t remember where.

@SKTTR
How do i Save the game ?
Go to Save Crystal or Save anywhere ?

@Anti-Matter Anywhere outside of battles or cutscenes press minus-button (it's a shortcut, just like X-button is a shortcut to the fast travel menu)

@Anti-Matter

Start +
Options
Save

Ah... thank you.

The only thing I don’t like at all is the map. Why it’s there no way to bring it up and look at it properly, seems an odd thing in a large game like this.

So, I've been hemming and hawing about getting this, but I finally just decided to download it! Can't wait to play fully portable Xenoblade!

2 hours in and I’m just blown away with everything this game had to offer me atm. I LOVE anime style graphics, love the music, characters... even English dub. I started with Japanese voices but tried eng and didn’t switch back.. for now.
As for handheld graphics... I really don’t see a problem with it. I’m not graphics freak and played recently XC1 on wii u gamepad so this is HUGE improvement.
Like I said, maybe it’s early to judge game as a whole but so far so good!

@CroRock

Been playing in handheld at work today. Looks solid.

I think it was just a combination of being a bit less than 720p (probably 600p? That's my guess) and the zoomed out view makes characters so small you lose alot of detail and fidelity. I zoom it in until Rex's feet are flush with the bottom of the screen and it looks incredible.

Honestly, if there's wasn't a commotion about it I would have never once even thought about it looking sub par or lesser than.

@JaxonH payed just a bit in hanheld but I’ll bring it in my bed soon so I’ll take your advice and play with zooming if graphics will bother me. But I really don’t think that’ll be the case because game is soooo good I’d be fine even if it runs in 420p or less.
I made so many calls and run so many kilometers today for this game and it’s worth all of my efforts to get this gem today!
It’s good if not better then BOTW imo

The Gamexplain review really went mental over the combat. How is it any better than the previous 2?
I thought the combat in XCX was pretty awesome.

So straight up, what do I do with all this stuff I'm finding? I got 16 panda pansy, 14 cranberry bell, 10 meaty carrot, etc

Is this all just to sell or should I be doing something with it?

Hello

I have a question on a quest : it is the one where a nopon is 1000th late to his shift^^ (in the very beginning of the game).
i need to find a pendant in the deck area from a monster (by fishing apparently) but i tried to scavenge and fight some monsters but none of them had the pendant!! what should i do to finish this quest please?

@Galenmereth Ahh. Yes I just realised I need a lot of this stuff for aux cores. Sweet, thanks.

@maelis
The first monster I fought had the pendant.

Make sure you salvage from the point directly close to the Nopon.

@kyleforrester87
If it has an effect (like food) might wanna keep it. But treasure should be sold. You get more money by selling off full sets though. So you may want to hang onto it until you have a complete set to sell. You'll see what you have and what you're missing for a complete set when you visit the trader or whatever.

So, I'm less than an hour into this so far, but I am REALLY liking what I've seen. The english voice acting is actually quite fun. The art style is unbelievably expressive and beautiful. The music is stunning. And don't even get me started on that lovely, atmospheric start screen. I really dig rain and thunderstorms, so those weather effects paired with the beautiful music really got to me.

Switched back and forth between TV and handheld mode a few times to check out the difference and... yeah, it's a pretty big difference. Nothing that destroys the appeal of handheld mode, of course, but I will be playing this on the TV whenever possible. The presence of handheld mode means that I'll constantly be chipping away at it, though, so it should be easier for me to persist with this than a purely home console game.

Have you always been able to zoom into a first person viewpoint in Xenoblade games? It was definitely an interesting discovery. If the camera moved with the platforming, it might have been an interesting way to play the game.

I was unsure about purchasing this, but I'm really happy that I took the plunge. Hopefully I keep enjoying this.

I've been avoiding this thread to avoid spoilers, but I just wanted to say I got my first rare blade! And it's one I like, Finch!

@Ralizah
I just came to post about handheld mode.

I'm about 5 hours in. Just got Pyra a bit ago. So, it's looked fine this whole time. However, you notice a pretty big difference in the first open grass area you come across.

But, upon closer inspection, it takes a dip on the console too. Lower on TV and lower on handheld together. But I did notice a lot of it is just the effect of the blurry trees in the background (and it's an intentional blur, artistic choice to go with this approach over pop-in? Idk). But anyways it's just the outline of Rex against the backdrop of distant background assets it makes it look worse than it really is. When I panned the camera so that I could see his face against the outline of the grass it looked better. I mean it's still noticeably lower res, but it wasn't anything too extreme beyond what it normally looks like on handheld.

Now I am in another place. The second open area I've come across. And this time it looks a lot better. You're not standing in a field that stretches 20 miles as far as the eye can see, and it looks decent.

So I can now more fully appreciate what people were talking about and where all of this stems from. But aside from that one quick area, it looks as good as it always did. Which is naturally a little lower res then I think most people would've hoped for but... I think it still looks good. It's nothing distracting. When I play it yeah I can notice it's not quite as good but after two seconds that quickly fades and it just looks like the game.

Idk. But I wanted to report back now that I've been to the open areas.

@JaxonH
Are Blades necessary has to be collected all ?
Because it seems Blades mostly are Lolita Girls that i have NO Interest about, except for some Cool looking Blades both male and female. Tsuki Blades was very disturbing for me. Her boobs, tho....
But i was Shocked by the return of.....
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KOSMOS Re: !!!