Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles 3

In other news I encourage everyone to frequently check the japanese twitter account xenoblade jp: https://twitter.com/xenobladejp
They been frequently posting about XC3 since release and have been began to post frequently again after the last trailer.

The newest posts about the combat confirm it has XC2's auto attacks so auto attack cancelling is confirmed which is nice.

@iLikeUrAttitude It also confirms that movement speed is increased during combat, so no more moving like a turtle to try to position your characters for arts... which was one of the biggest flaws of 2's combat, aside from the tutorials.

@VoidofLight I never minded that because positioning never mattered for any of the xenoblade games. It's far too easy to aggro the enemies you're fighting so you rarely get to utilize the positional arts anyway, even then it wasn't that much of a boost.
But yeah its nice that movement speed is a lot faster now during combat.

@iLikeUrAttitude I saw that clip and someone pointed out that the battle HUD is gone. I wonder if you can actually hide it or if they just did that for the sake of the clip

@Vortexeo I feel like they just did it for the sake of the clip. Marketing teams get footage from developer builds of games afterall.

@VoidofLight Yeah you're probably right on that. I just thought it was interesting because the first clip of the gameplay footage (the one that I posted a while back) still had the battle HUD on screen so I'm curious why they did it here 🤔.

That aside did you see the items the enemies drop after battle? It looks like they drop items like in Xenoblade 2

@Vortexeo I didn't see anything in terms of items, but I might need to rewatch the gameplay scenes.

@VoidofLight It's in the clip that @iLikeUrAttitude posted. You can see the items that the enemy drops at the last second of the clip.

@Vortexeo Oh yeah, a few coins seem to drop. Huh.

Even though we have this, I'm pretty sure things like Potions might be gone, since it's a bit redundant when we have healing classes now. Eunie can even apparently revive party members with the use of an art, so there's no real need for the chain attack gauge to be 3 bars again.

Heres a tweet explaining the battle roles in cute chibi art from Nintendo official. (The Japanese xenoblade twitter account tweeted before but nintendo's one is better translated so thats why i'm posting it)

Heres a tweet explaining the battle roles in cute chibi art from Nintendo official. (The Japanese xenoblade twitter account tweeted before but nintendo's one is better translated so thats why i'm posting it)

One thing I'm curious of in this entry is if the healers are going to be good for once in a xenoblade entry. They usually fall off midgame and are useless endgame (cough sharla cough xc2 crit healing).
Maybe the fact that you can switch weapons helps but since the party members all have their designated roles I wonder how badly that'll affect them during gameplay.

@VoidofLight I was wondering how reviving party members was gonna work! If we have to depend on Eunie that might be a bit scary since that AI isn't always the best lol

Its that time again - Xenobladejp uploaded info this time on the character Ethel! With a full portrait of her official art which looks great.

Rough google translation:

"Essel" (CV: Atsumi Tanezaki) is the military commander of Keves's "Colony 4" and is a dual wield with a slender sword. He is famous for the story of using only 100 soldiers to bring down three colonies at the same time, and the common name "Essel of Shirogane" is unknown to anyone in Keves!

Another tweet:

Rough google translation:

Ethel has a straightforward belief, is wise, and is trusted by many of his subordinates. He attacked Noah, who was supposed to be a Keves soldier, as a monster ...!

@iLikeUrAttitude, is it just me or does she sort of look like Mythra?

@RR529 She kind of does, but mainly because of her long hair, and the same artist made both of those characters. She's probably not in any way related to Mythra though, given that she's a Homs, born into Noah's world.

Check this out! It looks like we do indeed have a little dash/dodge during battle!

So we can actually switch characters mid-battle? God, I can't wait for this game lmao, combat is gonna be so good!

@Vortexeo The combat may just be the best in the series. They're adding tons of quality of life features, more mobility, and on top of that, still retaining things like art cancelling.

@VoidofLight IKR a lot of the things I put on my Xenoblade 3 wishlist seem to be coming true! I wonder what else will be revealed in the future.