Current Events > Xenoblade Chronicles X mannnnnn

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This game has a laundry list of QoL things it needs, and it doesn't look like much was answered, for me at least

Whats your friend code? Ill see you on March 20th.

What were your issues? Because I know DE has fixed a ton of stuff (that we know of) already.

Either way I can't wait to dive back into it with a version that has workable online.

I want a casual mode like the other xenoblade games on Switch

HornedLion posted...

Whats your friend code? Ill see you on March 20th.

I won't be getting the game till much later, at least until I'm done with Rebirth, and I see all the differences XCX has.

BakonBitz posted...

What were your issues? Because I know DE has fixed a ton of stuff (that we know of) already.

Either way I can't wait to dive back into it with a version that has workable online.

I have to sit down and remember them all.

All I know is that I eventually came to love the game, but it was very frustrating in numerous aspects. I think it came down to having to rely on external sources to find material even though the game presents itself as a information gathering game

The game felt solid in one instance and half assed in another instance

PowerOats posted...

I have to sit down and remember them all.

All I know is that I eventually came to love the game, but it was very frustrating in numerous aspects. I think it came down to having to rely on external sources to find material even though the game presents itself as a information gathering game

The game felt solid in one instance and half assed in another instance

Ah. I'll go ahead and list the improvements the game made so far since some of it got lost in the ether of the preview events, because to me it does seem like they fixed every issue.

• Party members can be switched around at will without having to go to NLA and search for their "usual spots." Time can also be changed freely.
• BLADE Levels, and subsequently field skill levels, are gone. The field skills are still there, it's just they're unlocked through the Off the Record Basic Missions this time and you only need to do it once. These field skills now only apply to the rare treasures and probes that required level 5 field skills in the original, so that minimizes backtracking.
• There's proper volume sliders this time, as well as a revamped Fashion Gear system that's more similar to XC1DE's system where you only need to have the piece of gear once and the option is unlocked forever, preventing inventory bloat. The Fashion Gear menu is also now a clear separate menu option.
• To reduce the grind, there's tons of changes made, starting with: inactive party members now get EXP when you do so none will be left in the dust (except for class growth, affinity, and gear of course), and Affinity is gained faster than before.
• Reward Tickets (now renamed Material Tickets) are a very common commodity this time, with daily offline rewards featuring them as well as being part of new survey percentage rewards, meaning even offline players will have an easier time getting the rarer materials.
• Support Missions (which were used as post-game shortcuts to drastically boost EXP, class rank, BP, credits, affinity) are now available from the start.
• Quest and material tracking is greatly improved: The Follow Ball has been upgraded to be more similar to XC3's quest tracker, and when wanting to craft augments, gear, and Skell stuff, you can track said piece of equipment and all needed materials will be tracked and located for you.

I think that might be everything? Also as an added bonus they added a Mira Archives page where literally every piece of info and lore in the game is documented, such as characters, story events, organizations, and more. Similar to Xenosaga's database, for those familiar!

I watched this video over a week ago and it has a big list of known QoL changes and I don't know if it's more or the same as the list BakonBitz provided (Edit: It's way more). There's a spoiler section at the end starting at about 12:36.

https://youtu.be/e909mpLfjiQ?si=60XVdHfBoL8On29W

This game has a ton of improvements. Hopefully more people will play it this time. And also experience more Uncontrollable moments.

GeminiDeus posted...

I watched this video over a week ago and it has a big list of known QoL changes and I don't know if it's more or the same as the list BakonBitz provided (Edit: It's way more). There's a spoiler section at the end starting at about 12:36.

https://youtu.be/e909mpLfjiQ?si=60XVdHfBoL8On29W

There's definitely a couple things I missed that are in there, for those curious.

Sounds great to me, I blame garoshi for going on about the game for years but Ive wanted to play it for awhile.

played sagas and 1 havent done the full weeb ones yet

Thanks BaconBitz!

At the top of my head, these are the things I wanted, now influenced by Xeno1,3, and FF7 Rebirth

Story & Quests:
- The Story sucks, and it doesnt seem like they are gonna improve on it, but part of it sucking was its execution. The MC being mute, but constantly being asked questions which stop the game completely, music and all, is jarring.
- Item collecting quests sucked in OG cuz you would have a itempedia, but it wouldnt tell you where you got that item. It seems like this was addressed a little
- Too many fetch quests in general
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Gameplay:

- I mainly stuck with Full Metal Jaguar since it seemed the most involved class gameplay wise. There was a whole lotta movement that didnt seem present in other classes.
- I loved the way Xeno 3 DLC set everything as a key to getting you more options in combat, from treasure, to beating tyrants. XCX should have that
- It should also add in art cancelling. I see there is a recast button, but something even more proactive would be even better.

- Skells feel both weak and powerful, until you gain enough resources to build a custom high-end Skell which takes AGES
- Skell combat feels underwhelming, a lot of attacks have like no oomph or good sfx. Compare to any fight in Xeno 3 or Rebirth, games with good hitstop and SFX.
- In general combat doesnt feel as good as I think it should. Its lacking a lot of flourishes that Xeno1DE &Xeno3 captured.

Music
- Love the soundtrack, more than Xeno1&3. It seems field music resets after every battle. Havent seen anything about Don't Worry blasting everytime you attempt to fly.

Equipment:
- 80% of the games armor and weapons is ugly, and its even worse that you cant change the colors on it. Everything should have Skell levels of customization

Grinding;
- I dont mind grinding sometimes, But I cannot stand fighting some powerful boss monster for several mins, only for it to not drop the thing I came for. To me, that's a waste of time. There needs to be a way to significant increase or guarantee specific drops. Tickets is a small remedy to this, but some of those items cost 1k in tickets, even with a online team hunting for tickets, it took a while.

For that, add in Launch > Smash, and Daze > Burst

Not sure if game the will have chat or online features like OG but it it does;
- The chat function sucked in OG. It took way to long for your message to get up, it couldnt be reviewed, and it kept getting interrupted by miiverse memes. They should just add a chatlog
- playing online with friends was... quick and lame. Unless everyone was doing missions, it never really felt connected and people would often join multiplayer servers and reap the rewards but not contribute
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PowerOats posted...

- I mainly stuck with Full Metal Jaguar since it seemed the most involved class gameplay wise. There was a whole lotta movement that didnt seem present in other classes.

The irony.~

PowerOats posted...

- I dont mind grinding sometimes, But I cannot stand fighting some powerful boss monster for several mins, only for it to not drop the thing I came for. To me, that's a waste of time. There needs to be a way to significant increase or guarantee specific drops. Tickets is a small remedy to this, but some of those items cost 1k in tickets, even with a online team hunting for tickets, it took a while.

The worst one was the randomness on top of the randomness. Like, you first had to get the thing you wanted to drop, but for non-unique things there was a bit of variance in the item in question. This led to people coming up with this stupidly min-max build for the Skell to do in multiplayer that only worked because there was a particular gun that dropped with a .02% chance from this one enemy that had a tiny improvement to the fire rate that put it just over the threshold for, like, five different things that would lead to it dealing over 2x the normal damage overall. So the meta build in the raid was something that the average person would have to spend some 50+ hours grinding for purely because of this one piece of garbage gun.

PowerOats posted...

Havent seen anything about Don't Worry blasting everytime you attempt to fly.

Ah yeah, forgot to mention that. They made it so that even with the flight module you can still jump, which doesn't set off the flight music. You can also switch between the original song or a brand new arranged version of it, either with lyrics or without.

BakonBitz posted...

Ah yeah, forgot to mention that. They made it so that even with the flight module you can still jump, which doesn't set off the flight music. You can also switch between the original song or a brand new arranged version of it, either with lyrics or without.

Oh shit, hoppings back on the menu boys.

PowerOats posted...

Gameplay:

- I mainly stuck with Full Metal Jaguar since it seemed the most involved class gameplay wise. There was a whole lotta movement that didnt seem present in other classes.
- I loved the way Xeno 3 DLC set everything as a key to getting you more options in combat, from treasure, to beating tyrants. XCX should have that
- It should also add in art cancelling. I see there is a recast button, but something even more proactive would be even better.

It sounds like you didn't make the most of the combat system if you mostly stuck with Full Metal Jaguar. You were missing out by not mix and matching.

- Skells feel both weak and powerful, until you gain enough resources to build a custom high-end Skell which takes AGES
- Skell combat feels underwhelming, a lot of attacks have like no oomph or good sfx. Compare to any fight in Xeno 3 or Rebirth, games with good hitstop and SFX.
- In general combat doesnt feel as good as I think it should. Its lacking a lot of flourishes that Xeno1DE &Xeno3 captured.

Skells do take a while to feel OP, i'll give you that. I felt that the combat was easily better than XC 1 and 2. And arguably better than 3 as well with build customization.

Grinding;
- I dont mind grinding sometimes, But I cannot stand fighting some powerful boss monster for several mins, only for it to not drop the thing I came for. To me, that's a waste of time. There needs to be a way to significant increase or guarantee specific drops. Tickets is a small remedy to this, but some of those items cost 1k in tickets, even with a online team hunting for tickets, it took a while.

Yeah the grinding sucked. I remember having to fight the online bosses over and over. It does sound like they've improved the ticket system, and even made them available to offline players. But I haven't seen mention of drop rates yet. Hopefully there's improvements there. I know XC1 DE improved the terrible Colony 6 reconstruction by letting you eventually buy the materials needed instead of having to farm all of it.

For that, add in Launch > Smash, and Daze > Burst

Not sure if game the will have chat or online features like OG but it it does;
- The chat function sucked in OG. It took way to long for your message to get up, it couldnt be reviewed, and it kept getting interrupted by miiverse memes. They should just add a chatlog
- playing online with friends was... quick and lame. Unless everyone was doing missions, it never really felt connected and people would often join multiplayer servers and reap the rewards but not contribute
-

Not sure what they've improved with online features, but at the very least you won't have to deal with the miiverse memes since they discontinued that service and it was never on the Switch.