Xenoblade Chronicles 2's 1.51 Update Arrives Tomorrow, Adds New Rare Blade And Quests

Oh yeah.

I am going back to this after I finish Octopath Traveller. (Or after Ys VII...but I will be going back at some point.)

Looks like the datamine I posted in the XB2 thread was accurate. Her design isn't my favorite, but a fire healer is interesting enough. I remember being impressed with her passives, too.

I bought the DLC on day 1 because I loves the first game so much.
I really didn't expect it to bring so much content and be generally so well supported.
By the time I come back to XC2 to finish my 2nd play through it will be an entirely new game.

Now I need Monolith soft to team up with Mistwalker and make my dream of The Last Story 2 happen.

Will wait for the story DLC to come before I'll back to XC2, awesome game despite some little hiccups here & there.

Correction: The blade quest with Adenine requires having Kos-mos as well.

Better start praying to the Zohar...

I just hope it fixes the bug with the merc group returns.

Time to dive back in. I've been raring for more things to do in this game.

Almost complete then, nearly time to jump in. Just have to finish NNK2 first - which will never be complete the rate they are going - and maybe DQXI b/c it's shipping complete, and Amazon still offers the 20% discount in the US, have to take advantage of it while I can it.

Have they fixed the performance issues in handheld mode yet?

Here I go again with the XC2 rabbit whole.

@GrailUK same

Female Blades again ?
Where is another Muscular Six Pack Male Blades ?

@Rhaoulos
Oh damn, The Last Story 2 would be a dream come true.

This is a really cute character design.
I got the game at launch but other games keep getting in the way of me playing this, so I'm only still in the chapter where you just arrived in Mor Ardain. I have a looooooot to catch up to.

@Rhaoulos Please don't even mention The Last Story 2. The possibility makes my heart to skip a beat.

Hot Spring Vacation In Mor Ardain
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Cool, nice to have more reason to head back to XC2 before the story DLC comes out in September.

@Frank90
I live in a world of impossible hope, dreaming of sequels that will never happen like The Last Story, F-zero, Jet Force Gemini, Chrono Trigger (with time travel, not alternate dimension as in Chrono Cross)

This game, BotW, and SMO have fallen into a special category for me I call "re-rent", where I've beaten the vanilla versions of each, and sent them on their way. I have yet to partake in the extended/DLC portions of each and are saving it for a rainy day. With all the games on Switch I have yet to play, it's probably gonna be a LONG WHILE before it rains again...

I poured probably over 200 hours into Xenoblade Chronicles X on the Wii U, taking my time and doing side quests and exploring. It was an absolutely immense and gorgeous world with very well thought-out ecosystems and creature AI. But the risk with any game that becomes such a time sink happened and other games caught my interest, and I ended up never finishing the actual storyline. I still have the game and will hopefully go back and wrap everything up at some point, but after all this time even remembering the controls and what I was doing will probably be daunting.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was...different. The characters and the story never caught on for me despite the obviously vast world and similar creature variety. It's hard to put a finger on it, but some games just grab hold of you while others don't, and as much as I liked Xenoblade Chronicles 2, it never felt quite the same as what drew me into X. Despite purchasing the Season Pass I never made it off that first island where your island/creature/thing (man, it's been so long I can't even remember the names anymore) was reborn, you fought an endless army of weak soldiers with heavy...and very, very repetitive...Scottish accents, and you met that (for me at least) extremely annoying creature that apparently is the mascot of the Xenoblade franchise and helped him build his Blade. The last thing I remember is him telling the party that our next destination was the island's "bum-bum".

Hmm, come to think of it perhaps I can think of a few things that actually turned me off from wanting to play more. Early impressions are critical, especially for games with quests as massive as this.

I guess I'll come back to Xenoblade Chronicles 2 at some point; given that I never got that far in it to begin with, I may as well approach it as starting a whole new game with the bonus of all that extra DLC content to find. But for now it's going to have to wait until I finish the likes of Octopath Traveler, Dragon Quest XI, Valkyria Chronicles 4...you get the idea.

@AtlanteanMan Yeah. Tora is obnoxious. They did fix the battle chatter though. It's not as obnoxious.

Hype!!!

Doesnt look like this includes the back story DLC about Torna, so I don't know why it says final... Im still waiting for that since the season pass seems to be like 90% new game plus related.
Wonderful game, but with as long as it took to play through, a replay wont be any time soon.

Never played it. I am a bit 'Marmite' with this game but until I've tried it I won't know if I would love it or hate it.

A you tube video I watched yesterday convinced me to look again at Octopath Traveler.

Any suggestions welcome.

@AtlanteanMan I do. I Played the Mario + Rabbids Dlc. I wish I hadn't.

It was worth the cost, just about. But it had little to do with the original game, it was an add on and not really worth the wait. The game play was good and different from the original, but not better. I would rather have waited another year and have got a complete new game. DLC not for me.

Have the DLC penciled in for after Dragon Quest XI and before Valkyria 4.

I'll do all this at that point - rather grind new Blades while doing a new story. RPG heaven!

I've taken a break from that game due to Octopath Traveler.

Should I get this? I’m into action RPG, love Zelda, but not keen on turn based.

I feel like, once I finish Octopath, and all the DLC is out, I might just replay Xenoblade all the way from the beginning again. It's been so long since I finished, and playing the early DLC quests now would be boring since my Characters are sooooo OP at this point.

@steve_1978 No performance issues on handheld. Yes, occasionally there may be some framing issues but these are very, very minor to be called "performance issues". I have played the game for more than 350 hours so I definitely know what I am saying. You either give too much credit to what you read on the internet (which you shouldn't) or your Nintendo Switch is broken somehow.

As much as I love the gameplay in XC2 the weeb character designs (and writing but I wont get into that) really bring the game down for me and this new blade looks horrible.

@River3636 nope, and they never will

@Cosats Thanks for that. I've seen YouTube videos where the adaptive resolution drops as low as 368p in handheld mode with the standard resolution only being 480p.

I was hoping this would be fixed with a patch but can't find any confirmation anywhere on the internet. Have you noticed any low resolution drops in handheld mode?

This article is extremely misleading. You should make it clear that the new Blade is also paid DLC. As it stands, your article makes it sound like a free update for everyone.