Xenoblade Chronicles X

[SkyeWelse]

I'm also playing Xenoblade Chronicles X and I'm loving it so far. I just wish I had more time to play it! That and my wife tends to hog the Wii U for to participate in squad-based Splatoon battles daily. I've never seen such an addition to a video game before! Oh wait, that was me with Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls II...

I just watched that video explaining how large the world of Mira is in comparison to Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Witcher. That's a really impressive size! 4 times the size of San Francisco!

-Thomas

[Gredler]

I'm still enjoying the game, but I've stalled again for the first time since the collection affinity quest (repair job) I got stuck on.

The characters that have affinity quests still available have very low affinity with me, because I mostly use Lin and Elma, and then I raised Doug and a couple others, but there are so many characters that require 3+ hearts of affinity to do their missions, but I have less than a heart of affinity with them, I've just been doing basic quests (Boring and repetitive) to try to raise their affinity.

Is there a faster way to raise affinity?

Also, I've been better about placing mining probes and getting miranium, so now I am constantly maxxed out on miranium (~20k) I have all my storage probes placed and linked, so that's the max I can harvest. I also have all of my money/resource/research probes linked efficiently, getting about 50k credits every time it ticks.

What do I do with all the miranium? I've been dumping it into random arms dealers, but have no idea which to focus on and which to bolster/ take to the end game. What arms dealers are you guys using, and why? I change class whenever it maxes to 10, but I hardly every fight without my skell now so it seems like character class matters significantly less.

I have the top line, and the bottom line, maxed out and need to change class next time I play, not sure which to pick next - probably a high def class, since I have a high dmg, and a healing/debuff class, maxxed and available.

[TR0N]

I'm still enjoying the game, but I've stalled again for the first time since the collection affinity quest (repair job) I got stuck on.

The characters that have affinity quests still available have very low affinity with me, because I mostly use Lin and Elma, and then I raised Doug and a couple others, but there are so many characters that require 3+ hearts of affinity to do their missions, but I have less than a heart of affinity with them, I've just been doing basic quests (Boring and repetitive) to try to raise their affinity.

Is there a faster way to raise affinity?

Keep playing basic or normal missions to up the affinity.Myself all ready completed chapter 10 two more left i think.

[Gredler]

Keep playing basic or normal missions to up the affinity.Myself all ready completed chapter 10 two more left i think.

Yep, I've searched the nets and the consensus appears to be grind basic missions. Also, soul voices increase affinity so some people suggested grinding on low damage mobs with weak weapons and high potential (which increases chances of soul voices occurring.)

I might just move on, the grind is kinda tedious. I just want to get my flight module, and haven't figured that out yet - no spoilers please!

I haven't even seen the fifth continent yet, barely scractched Sylvalum, what a game.

[TR0N]

Keep playing basic or normal missions to up the affinity.Myself all ready completed chapter 10 two more left i think.

Yep, I've searched the nets and the consensus appears to be grind basic missions. Also, soul voices increase affinity so some people suggested grinding on low damage mobs with weak weapons and high potential (which increases chances of soul voices occurring.)

I might just move on, the grind is kinda tedious. I just want to get my flight module, and haven't figured that out yet - no spoilers please!

I haven't even seen the fifth continent yet, barely scractched Sylvalum, what a game.

Beware,syvalum is when the difficulty ramps up.I never did figure out how the soul voices worked out.I did keep playing basic and normal mission until i got enough affinity for doug.

[Gredler]

I did keep playing basic and normal mission until i got enough affinity for doug.

Friggen DOUG... hahaha I had some friends from highscool visit last weekend, they were going to a wedding in town and I offered to let them stay at my place. We used to play JRPGs on together late highschool early college days, so I was excited to show off Xenoblade Chronicles X to them. While playing the game Doug's affinity buildup was my focus, and they kept asking "who is this Doug guy, and why is he always dead" and he became a running joke for the weekend. I just got a text yesterday from one of them "is doug dead" hahaha

Soul voices seem pretty straight forward once you have a few classes available, but it's a lot of work to setup. Basically when you use a art , there is a chance that art will trigger a soul voice of that color. The chance to trigger is based off the potential stat. If you trigger a soul voice, the quick time event occurs, and if you're successful there is a bonus associated to the soul voice and your team recovers some HP. When setting up soul voices you want to select ones that you have available - so if you don't have any blue arts you do not want a blue soul voice set because you wont be able to trigger it. What's weird and kinda confusing is that your soul voices are based on party member arts, so if you use a orange art, and the party member has a orange soul voice setup. Basically, match soul voices with the colors of the arts of all of your team members, so that when you're using arts you have a chance to trigger a soul voice. Also, some soul voices bonus's are really great, some are kinda worthless, so just check them and make sure you have the beneficial and potentially trigger able soul voices selected to match your arts selected for each character in your party.

I spend a lot of time in the menus trying to wrap my thick skull around this game's systems, and am not sure I even have this correct so I hope a smart person can clarify if I am wrong ahahah

[TR0N]

I did keep playing basic and normal mission until i got enough affinity for doug.

Friggen DOUG... hahaha I had some friends from highscool visit last weekend, they were going to a wedding in town and I offered to let them stay at my place. We used to play JRPGs on together late highschool early college days, so I was excited to show off Xenoblade Chronicles X to them. While playing the game Doug's affinity buildup was my focus, and they kept asking "who is this Doug guy, and why is he always dead" and he became a running joke for the weekend. I just got a text yesterday from one of them "is doug dead" hahaha

Soul voices seem pretty straight forward once you have a few classes available, but it's a lot of work to setup. Basically when you use a art , there is a chance that art will trigger a soul voice of that color. The chance to trigger is based off the potential stat. If you trigger a soul voice, the quick time event occurs, and if you're successful there is a bonus associated to the soul voice and your team recovers some HP. When setting up soul voices you want to select ones that you have available - so if you don't have any blue arts you do not want a blue soul voice set because you wont be able to trigger it. What's weird and kinda confusing is that your soul voices are based on party member arts, so if you use a orange art, and the party member has a orange soul voice setup. Basically, match soul voices with the colors of the arts of all of your team members, so that when you're using arts you have a chance to trigger a soul voice. Also, some soul voices bonus's are really great, some are kinda worthless, so just check them and make sure you have the beneficial and potentially trigger able soul voices selected to match your arts selected for each character in your party.

I spend a lot of time in the menus trying to wrap my thick skull around this game's systems, and am not sure I even have this correct so I hope a smart person can clarify if I am wrong ahahah

Doug a cool guy well not really  Funny how i never used him early in the game,until now but it didn't take to long for the leveling.Now i've run into the same problem again  I gotta get gwin affinity up and complete his mission before i can play chapter 11.

[TR0N]

Apparently I drunk-bought this on the Nintendo shop last night.

I will hate you all forever if I do not become an addict.

Free time begins in 3 hours... Inane ramblings about my impression of the game in approximately 5 hours. Can hardly wait!

I'll just say it's ending is a disappointment 

[Gredler]

Great! Lol... As an almost exclusively retro gamer, though, I am well prepared for that.

I will say that this game at times has the absolute worst music I have ever heard. Like, seriously offensive to the ears. It isn't all bad all the time, but holyshit... I hate going back to NLA.

Yeee-uh yeeee-uh, uh uh... Yeeee-uh yeeeeeee-uh *mute*

ahahah wait until you get stuck doing a lot of in town tasks, finding missions, building affinity, doing economy and gear stuff, general exploration for opening things in the overworld map. The song might eventually grow on you, like it did to me. One two three ooohhh ooohhyyaaa, dbt dbt dbt dbt ooohhh ohhh ya

[DQ187]

Great! Lol... As an almost exclusively retro gamer, though, I am well prepared for that.

I will say that this game at times has the absolute worst music I have ever heard. Like, seriously offensive to the ears. It isn't all bad all the time, but holyshit... I hate going back to NLA.

Yeee-uh yeeee-uh, uh uh... Yeeee-uh yeeeeeee-uh *mute*

ahahah wait until you get stuck doing a lot of in town tasks, finding missions, building affinity, doing economy and gear stuff, general exploration for opening things in the overworld map. The song might eventually grow on you, like it did to me. One two three ooohhh ooohhyyaaa, dbt dbt dbt dbt ooohhh ohhh ya

Hahaha! The music grew on me a little and i liked alot of the music when you're out n about but man, the skell music while flying has to be the worst!

"Just like our Dreams, They Gotta Be Free! Anyway, Lets Move On!"
Uhhgg i couldnt of said it better!
 
Overall i was kinda disappointed with the music. The first Xenoblade had one of my favorite soundtracks and i think Sawano fell short in X.

[TR0N]

Great! Lol... As an almost exclusively retro gamer, though, I am well prepared for that.

I will say that this game at times has the absolute worst music I have ever heard. Like, seriously offensive to the ears. It isn't all bad all the time, but holyshit... I hate going back to NLA.

Yeee-uh yeeee-uh, uh uh... Yeeee-uh yeeeeeee-uh *mute*

The NLA theme grows on you but it is very annoying.Id say the story and music is better from the first game.

[Gredler]

Tatsu is cool, null is just drunk

I think first was all around better than X, but both are very entertaining and addicting to me

[Zero_Gamer]

Tatsu is cool, null is just drunk

You probably thought jarjar was great, too. Lolulolulz

Mee-sa thinks so!

[Gredler]

Tatsu is cool, null is just drunk

You probably thought jarjar was great, too. Lolulolulz

Mee-sa thinks so!

Tatsu is cool, null is just drunk

You probably thought jarjar was great, too. Lolulolulz

If jar jar wore zonk glasses I'd have liked him, but I don't remember him rocking rad sunglasses... What can I say, early 90s attitude marketing appeals to me!


Tatsu obeys, have a heart!!