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does poppy have an artificial bagina

I already have her

fuck you

>>14114277

Please take your washboard somewhere else. This is not the place to do your laundry.

>>14114277

I want to marry Nia!

>>14114313

I can't wait to face a level 180 Ophion. Since the first one didn't kill me enough times by spamming its AOE insta-kill attacks.

Just want to post it here.

>>14114977

She is there but the game has a extremely low drop rate for her.

I do not have an image reaction appropriate enough to visually showcase my sheer despondency at grinding Nanakoori/Ursula. Nothing else in this game has managed to even dent my enthusiasm and will to play, but this is killing my soul.

I'm just about to start this game; it will be my first Xeno game. Anything I should know starting out?

>>14115443

You must learn the mechanics or you will get nowhere.

>>14115247

I think she was the second rare blade that I got and I hate her merc sidequest because she was my Rex healer blade that I used in fights when Nia couldn't keep up so I coulsn't afford having her benched all the time.

>Get 3 blades for zeke

>It's three earth blades

>Get 3 for Mòrag

>It's three katanas

At least newt looks great on her.

>>14115247

I've come to terms with her in that she's an easy way to grind out Affinity Charts for other blades but god damn the need to check back on her every 6-10 minutes.

>>14115443

Learn the incantation. Break -> Topple -> Launch -> Smash.

Repeat it in your head as a mantra. Break -> Topple -> Launch -> Smash.

Engrave BTLS into your very soul. Once you do, you will have gained the power to defeat roughly 95% of what the game throws at you ezpz.

>>14115614

It saves your game and grants you a new blade. A few things to remember:

>You can get rare blades from common cores

>You can get common blades from rare cores

>Releasing common blades returns them to the pool decreasing your chances of getting rare blades

>You can upgrade the amount of blades you can carry by doing merc missions

>Yoh can swap a blade's owner but the item to do that is EXTREMELY rare

>The animation for spawning a blade is fucking long and repetitive so don't wait until you have 50 cores.

>>14115638

What about essences (I believe they are called, don't have the game on me right now)?

You know, the ones that are "courageous" or "righteous" or whatever. What exactly will increasing those parameters per summon do?

>>14115658

Those are "Ideas" and they increase your chances of pulling a specific rare. Rare-specific rates can be influenced by their levels. KOS-MOS, for example, is a huge pain in the ass to get without bumping them way up.

Some anon last thread had a very good post about blade trust anyone have it?

>>14115699

Thanks, that should be all the questions I have for now. I keep hearing about KOS-MOS, whoever or whatever that is, so I suppose I ought to work towards getting that now rather than later.

>>14115761

KOS-MOS is a combat gynoid and one of the main characters of the xenosaga trilogy, worst part of the xeno franchise XBC2 is the latest part of.

>>14115781

So do people want her just because she's a recognized character cameo or is she really good?

>>14115811 (checked)

>So do people want her just because she's a recognized character cameo or is she really good?

Really nigga? You're really asking this?

>>14115833

This is technically my first game in the xeno franchise. I got that one for the Wii U but I hated the combat so much then that I returned it.

So she's waifubait then?

>>14115845

She's both. Only light blade outside of Mythra or grinding Tora's fucking minigame.

>>14115845

She is a very important character in Xenosaga and one of the best blades in Xenoblade 2 plus the only light blade outside of Mythra.

>>14115845

XCX got good, minus the awful localization, but battle system really sucked for a while. Late game it's a constant race to get off as many skills as possible, I actually really enjoyed post game battles.

Kind of feel like XC2 is like that too, I am really starting to like it now, but it took like 15 hours to get there. Though I spend a lot of time doing stupid side quests. XC2 is a lot slower to get started. XCX just kind of dumped you on a planet and didn't really explain much. XC2 seems like it takes more time getting you used to how the game works.

>>14115945

>He actually played Censorblade

Really nigga? At least if you want to play it get a properly translated version on CEMU, if such a version exists.

Anyone remember (69) from the censorblade threads? https://web.archive.org/web/20160105054642/http://8ch.net/v/res/7681451.html

>>14115638

>The animation for spawning a blade is fucking long and repetitive so don't wait until you have 50 cores.

It's worth knowing that YOU CAN SKIP the latter half of the animation - the part where the Blade is revealed and makes a little intro speech.

Not, sadly, the long-ass "crystal crushing" part, but at least you don't have to wait around forever once you know you just rolled your 52nd Beast-Type-Water-Elemental-Healer.

>>14116033

At the very least, someone was working on an undub patch, but I'm not sure if anyone's managed to put back the censored outfits/slider, or remove the cancer from the translation. If you're still piloting "Skells" and not Dolls, no deal.

I'm curious to see if Nintendo will, after the big success of Xenoblade 2, try to cash in by releasing an uncensored version of X on the switch.

>>14116113

>uncensored version of X on the switch.

8-4kids cucked X too hard it would take NoE redoing it to repair the damage.

>>14116033

The censorship is the absolute least problem of XCX. A tiny detail in a sea of bad design. Still trying to push the idea it ruined the game just pegs you as a posturing idiot who doesn't play games.

>>14117136

>The censorship is the absolute least problem of XCX. A tiny detail in a sea of bad design. Still trying to push the idea it ruined the game just pegs you as a posturing idiot who doesn't play games.

t. goon

>>14117224

Shut the fuck up, goon. You think anyone is going to waste time reading your drivel?

>>14115247

I randomly got her a few days ago. Keep at it, anon.

>>14117422

The item-farming is far less obnoxious than both the original XC and XCX.

I always had spare collectibles when a quest required it and there's only five quests that require specific monster-drops.

>>14117445

>Homura's tits

Why do drawfags do this? It could've been a great piece of art

The more cutscenes I see, the less I see "bad voice acting" and the more I see of "bad sound engineer" and "bad dub actor director". I don't think any of the dub actors did a bad job, I do think they completely forgot to play fucking videoss of what the characters where actually doing on screen so they have this level of, "I sound like I'm sitting perfectly still in a chair speaking slowly and clearly as possible" as appose to "its fucking cold out hear let my hug your robot arm for warmth."

Also the sound tracks sound like they are super imposed above all ambiance noise that reminds me like I'm watching an old kungfu dubbed movie at times.

>>14118791

Poor Dromarch.

>>14118791

Nintendo has awful sound directors and it shows.

>>14118791

>The more cutscenes I see, the less I see "bad voice acting" and the more I see of "bad sound engineer" and "bad dub actor director".

Every normalfag (countless anons here included) can't tell the difference and blame the VAs instead. I remember people saying Kaine in Neir had terrible voice acting when in reality she was playing the character perfectly well and people just didn't get the point. At least not until Neir became niche and yuppie faggos took it up as "art".

Also Nintendo is typically terrible with voice directing and any audio design that's not just SFX and music and it shows.

>>14120220

I'm willing to concede this up to a point… There is bad voice directing, some bad mixing there too, but part of the blame is on the shoddy VA. Now, it is perfectly possible that the VA is shoddy because of bad direction, but that's speculation now.

I'm actually hoping they add quest fight level scaling to the game, at the very least to the Blade quests. It's boring to get a blade like Godfrey in post-game, do his quest and everything falls almost instantly. Finish it and get worthless shit that's more trouble finding to be rid of than selling. No point having a quest like that if the blades are random, it's waste of time.

>>14118791

i like the UK voices and havent changed it to nip

>>14120715

I like the cat's voice fine.

>>14115196

Best menu music, or BEST menu music?

>>14120843

Byakko, Gramps, Tora, and some side characters side Bana and Pupunin are actually pretty good. The problem arises in the rare blades, which range from awful, to just unfitting, which is actually the greatest flaw with the characters. They're not all terrible VAs, they just don't fit. 30 year old welsh lady is not a voice for a loli tsundere catgirl.

>>14120937

>WRPGs

Man I WISH they were horny purple elves. Now they're just goblins of varying skin colors.

I should make a Mass Effect picture with Then being Liara and Now being PEEBEE

>>14117236

this tbh

I'm 30-40 hours into Nanakooris unending bullshit. I try to take small solace in the fact that it's actually a great way to grind out Blade affinity charts (especially for shit ones, like go kill x enemy at y location), but it is but a lie. There is no hope. 100 hours in, and I'm certain I will still be doing this shit quest at 150(+) hours.

I got Rinne though, and shes jumping right to the top of the chart as my favorite blade. I think her skills are pretty good too. Seems strong.

>>14115443

This, >>14115615 not only for doing more damage but better drops, I didn't realize the latter so I usually was fine with just spamming break > topple, actually completing the entire combo is a pain in the beginning because you need the right characters with the right blades because each character gets different moves with the same weapons, so for example Rex might have topple with the spear wielding blade and Nia would have break with that same blade, or more likely, none of the combo with that weapon. Then you have to switch characters and spam the next step to do it in time. This is a huge pain with Zeke because he does all these gay spins and shit before he actually does the attack, I had to equip an accessory to make Launch last longer so he could do his Smash in time.

>>14121233

How do you unlock her shit past level 2? I don't see any new merc missions pop up, and I don't know what on her affinity chart might do it.

>>14121307

>I don't see any new merc missions pop up, and I don't know what on her affinity chart might do it.

Spam the lessons. Alternate between them. Don't stop spamming them. You will be spamming those lessons for an eternity. The sun will die before you have grinded the lessons enough.

Every so often, you will unlock a pink mission that gives fans. Do that, then go back spamming lessons. You'll know when you have grinded enough to unlock the next stage in grinding when the quest updates.

>>14120933

And yet, just listening to Nia gets my dick hard.

>>14120884

I want to kill myself listening to that. Maybe I'll bond with my waifu that way.

>>14121994

>>14115443

Also save your overdrives, they give you a few right in the beginning and I didn't realise how rare they are and wasted some on shitty commons.

>>14120937

>WRPGs now

This needs updating, the purple devil elf is too attractive for western "standards" these days

>>14122524

pretty much

>>14121251

>gay spins and shit before he actually does the attack, I had to equip an accessory to make Launch last longer so he could do his Smash in time.

The funniest thing is his animation (especially the spear-smash one) is so long, that other characters that switched to a blade with topple/launch attack have enough time to switch back to their smash-blades and have long done the smash-attack before him.

So do I just feed 1000s of Noponchos to my Blades to raise their trust, or what? I just keep using them over and over, right?

>>14124264

Noponchos it is then.

What is S+ anyway?

>>14124284

The highest trust-level you can achieve, after maxing out the affinity-chart, which gives you an S.

Then it keeps building up from S1 to S9 and then finally S+.

Man I wish Tiger Tiger! was actually fun.

>>14124956

>I found it was fun only after having spent many hours at

Opposite for me. It was kind of fun at first but now it's just the same thing every time.

>>14124964

Speaking of Tiger, is there any downside of playing on easy mode? For that matter, is there a difference? Do the different levels give different rewards?

>>14125150

The couple times I tried easy mode it seemed like I was getting lower tier parts (fewer rank 3, more rank 1). I think your weapon has a bigger hitbox in easy mode.

>>14125177

>>14125150

The only "downside" is the period on your score. Drop rates stay the same. Everything stays the same aside from walls not causing damage to you.

>>14125150

I believe Level 5 gives all the rewards plus some exclusive to that level.

>>14124930

>>14124956

I am really struggling at that point. Not the lack of Pyra, because if anyone's a crutch it's Nia, just struggling with the 2 char slot and bossfights. I think I need to level up a bit since I'm mid 50's, any place you reccomend for easy xp farming?

>>14124861

This should be the op of next thread.

I was disgusted at how JEWISH this lore is.

>The Romans are killing all the babies

>Jewish girl name mary unsheaths katana

>Global warming is killing the Titans because the Egyptians are stealing the menoras Oi Vey

>>14117224

Who is that? And is she a crybaby in her porn videos?

>>14127645

What?

>accumulate a bunch of cores

>use them all

>get not even one fucking rare

fuck, is it possible to get better odds?

>>14128938

Raising luck and/or boosting your merc level so you can hold more overall common blades, thus removing them from the pool.

>>14129862

What's wrong with her face?

>>14129862

Does this artist do fucking prints? Cause hot damn, I'd commission some more Nia art.

>>14129927

It's more the expression that's bothering me.

If Xenoblade Chronicles couldn't really catch my attention, will this?

>>14130296

The salvagers code stuff was worth it for the scene in Chapter 10 where Klaus asks him what is he going to do about Malos

The word I'd use to describe the VAing is 'misused'. It's frankly embarrassing to see some of the characters act the way they act, and imagine how the original Jap voice would have delivered their line while they did so, while their dubbed voice sounds like a completely different character. Nia suffers most from this, and Rex has occasional moments of utterly embarrassing dialogue (anything involving him actually fighting, usually).

Thoughts on the final boss?

>>14130602

Even with the bad voice direction and some questionable choices for blades the main characters English VAs are better then the Japanese.

>>14129875

My importantly, why is Pyra topless?

>>14129862

I got to the gruesome twosome and I only have 2 characters on my team still

>>14132294

Go to the character select screen and add a third one back in.

>>14131549

It's interesting to observe that in many cases, the actors DID have some context for the scene they were in, but clearly couldn't actually see the animation for what they were voicing.

This is especially obvious in the cutscene very early in the game where Rex is backstabbed: Nia visibly freaks out and her Japanese voice has exactly the kind of high pitched anime squealing you'd expect. English Nia is still clearly upset, but much less so than in Japanese; it's more a "Hey! That was needlessly cruel!" than an "OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"

Thing is, English Nia's interpretation of the line actually makes more sense story wise. As a member of Torna, or indeed anyone who knows Jin, him murdering someone dishonorably should come as no surprise given that's basically all he does. Also that Malus and Jin were surprised when Nia suddenly switched sides, when her Japanese freakout basically spelled out in giant letters "I AM GOING TO BETRAY YOU IN ABOUT FIVE MINUTES". With that in mind, her English voice was justified in performing it that way - but unfortunately, it completely doesn't match the animation.

>>14132384

Yeah, for some reason it wouldn't let me for ages then shortly after I posted I randomly managed to get a third member back on board. Well, whatever, chapter 7 is a Go. This is my first Xeno game so is this a reference to one of the previous game's towns? It certainly looks too… developed, for lack of a better word. Like, as a map, not as a location, if that makes sense?

>>14132408

Agreed. Sometimes the voices don't match animations one bit (I suspect the original animators matched the bodylanguage of the voice actors but the characters are nothing but stereotypes

>>14117261

>Driver combo the cow you raise to level 99 in Gormott.

Does he respawn at all prior to being high level? I just started the game and kinda murdered him at lvl 1, not knowing what he was for.

Also is there a reason why potions need to fly off into the infinite when fighting large monsters? Smaller and humanoid sized enemies have it plop within a few meters, but for anything larger than the cows potions seem to venture off into the distance.

>>14133248

No, he doesn't respawn.

The range of potions seems to be proportional to its model rather than a fixed distance outside of it. It's retarded.

>>14131411

I still think that Gundam 0079, Getter Armageddon, and Mazinkaiser are three of the best examples of a japanese trope succesfully carried over into english. They all have hotblood, and screaming, and they all do it near flawlessly. I think some of the perfomances in Kaiser are actually better in english, like Yumi or Shiro. That scene when Kaiser shows up and beats the everloving fuck out of Ashura Mazinger is still one of the best uses of music in an action show

>>14128997

That is news to me, I figured the commons were just randomly generated, I keep releasing all the shitty ones with no good skills/potential.

>>14133560

>I figured the commons were just randomly generated

They are.

>>14133560

They are to a point, but having more apparently does increase the rare drop chance a small amount. I think it has to do with the commons names coming from a pool.

>>14132435

No need to lie, you can go back to fast traveling anywhere as soon as you get your team back in chapter 8.

>>14134455

Yeah, the names, if anything else, belong to a set list.

>>14131549

>the main characters English VAs are better then the Japanese.

Jesus "shit taste" christ. Kill yourself on your way back to reddit.

>>14133248

>I just started the game and kinda murdered him at lvl 1, not knowing what he was for.

Congrats on killing the best legendary core farm in the game, retard.

>>14133304

Of the ones you mentioned I've only seen 0079 and i have to agree.

>>14137793

>retard

>using pre-game knowledge before actually playing the game

Jesus christ you're a massive fucking casual faggot.

>>14137955

>using pre-game knowledge before actually playing the game

Where did ya get this hot piece of info ya fucking retard? I have almost 250 hours in this game and beat it weeks ago.

>Surely the guy who has been giving both late game and early game advice to anons over the past many threads, this thread included has never even played the game, surely!

>>14138242

>let me just talk to this guy while there's a hostile nearby

There are enemies in the first town in the game with quest icons that you're supposed to kill. Every other enemy in the game with a quest icon you're supposed to kill. None of the other arduns are even targetable. There's no reason to believe this one particular enemy wont respawn.

If you stop and have an internal debate about killing every enemy you come across, you would probably decide to not kill this one. But many players aren't going to do that. They're just going to kill any enemy they see. In game language a quest icon on an enemy means you're supposed to kill it. It's the same in this game as in any other. You're supposed to kill this one, it's only a question of when. There's no reason to believe that an enemy in only the second town (inside of it no less) will somehow turn out to be the easiest core-farming mob in the entire game.

He's not a retard for doing what the game told him to do.

>>14138242

>a quest partner who explains it right next to him

Except none of what he said seemed to be an actual gameplay element.

As in, he said something about feeding the guy but you can't drop items or anything so how would you even do it? Unlike Quests like the farming one right next to it where the guy actually opens a menu for that once you talk to him, this one just saw a guy talking, then a monster was near him that you could attack so the simplest explanation is to kill the bugger.

Besides, on that very town when you arrive, there's a Driver reading bounties of a board.

Are you also supposed to not even attack him in case he later on starts a quest chain about the power of friendship that rewards you while legendary cores?

You don't know any of this when you're playing the first time, which was what the other poster was trying to tell you.

What's your Blade element? Earth? Cause you're dense as fuck.

>>14138539

It's a town, it is the only enemy in the town, and it does not aggro. That's why he shouldn't have killed it.

Just had the 'By the Graveside' bonding event. Bloody hell they're laying it on thick, even if I knew they were a designated couple from the start of the game.

>>14139917

Also non aggro-ed.

>>14139917

eh, i killed that faggot for shit and giggles, but luckily i dint kill the bull that you need to raise because it was just a baby.

To the anon trying to rationalize killing the quest-armu, just stop it. You're embarasing yourself. I'm not that bright and even I could figure it out. Just admit you fucked it up, man. Don't make it seem like it was hard to figure it out or anything.

>>14137793

>Jesus "shit taste" christ. Kill yourself on your way back to reddit.

I bet you own a katana.

>>14140487

I get the curiosity of killing it, I just saved my game before I did it. Kinda funny dialogue from it, but not worth botching the quest.

>>14138887

>>14140704

Unfunny faggot(s).

>>14140487

>To the anon trying to rationalize killing the quest-armu

That's not what's happening at all, get some reading comprehension.

>>14131411

The elemental combos at the final boss are fucking insanity.

>>14141922

The Jin boss fights are good too.

So how is this game? I'm all for cliche anime tropes, and huge anime tiddies, but the MC's design kinda turned me off on release.

>>14140921

Look who's talking.

>>14144515

Ah, the beta MC. The only anime trope I am sick off.

>>14144515

>>14144529

I can post the ending title screen if you want to see how wrong you are.

>>14146339

What's wrong with Roc?

>>14146339

If that was treehouse you know they'd have put in "Nothing personal kid"

>>14144529

Rex ends up in a threesome that's pretty alpha.

>>14151455

>Defeat enemy in-game. Cutscene shows enemy winning like you didn't just introduced his teeth to the floor

This game has a very bad case of cutscene defeat, yes. Torna in general is kept threatening through entirely contrived means.

Still, the story is such a masterpiece compared to X I'm willing to forgive a ton of shit.

>>14151455

Answering you spoilers to the best of my ability…

I can't remember what scene its in, but it appears that the "blades dying when the drivers die" is taken to be generally at the same time, rather than a hard and fast "the blade is dead the exact second the driver is. Like when Pandoria is still alive despite Zeke being completely comatose and basically dead until Amalthus saves them.

I believe Malos straight up says that Jin recruited her specifically for the purpose of her insanely OP "healing" abilities. It apparently only worked because Malos was distracted and let it affect him, because he assumed he would be able to withstand it. Which he technically did, even if it was incredibly painful.

Yeah that's fucking bullshit. I was expecting the "lose in the battle" in the first fight with Morag, and then when I won, I was kind of pissed that the game went "actually she kicked your teeth in and you escaped by a fucking miracle call". Little did I know that was only the beginning.

I sort of get Gramps withholding information from Rex mostly, since he pretty much tells Rex when they get to the World Tree that he thought Rex would avoid fighting Jin if he knew his past, since he "cares too much". And since Rex is basically in almost every single scene with Gramps, it makes sense why he doesn't say anything. Also, Pyra is suicidal, and like most actually suicidal people, she doesn't really want to let on what her true intentions are.

I think Malos mentions that if Pyra's body were destroyed, her consciousness would be immediately transferred to Rex, and she would technically live on in him. It also isn't until the end of chapter 7 that Pyra/ Mythra becomes the true Aegis, which means she gets all her access to her stupid OP Aegis abilities then. The only fights that Malos technically loses are against Nia, which he loses due to arrogance, and against Pneuma (the other true aegis) and Rex at the very end.

I think it was sort of a weird gambit. Malos mentions that Aegis can live on for a short time without their core crystal, but not forever. When Pneuma gives the rest of her core crystal to Rex, she effectively already killed herself, its just not immediate. The fact that the core crystal would actually reactivate was a HUGE gamble, since it assumes that the aegis core would behave like a standard blade core, and wouldn't just because worthless chunk of metal the second the "not Zohar" disappeared. As for why Pyra and Mythra apparently have all their memories, its also mentioned by I think Klaus that the Aegis basically acts as data storage and collection, while standard blades act just as data collection. So blades don't have any sort of "memory preservation" function in their systems, because its not their role, while the Aegis do, since they act in sort of an administrative role to the Architect.

As for why Pyra and Mythra became two people, fuck if I know. I think whoever you picked in chapter 8 should have been the one resurrected, and the other should have stayed gone.

>>14151455

>>14151752

They tried to subvert the whole "cutscene defeat" thing in Xenoblade by making certain bossfights end early at a certain health percentage, and it didn't really work well. It makes sense on paper, but it either makes the fight end very abruptly, or makes it so you have no idea when a hard boss is going to end and don't know how to pace yourself. I think it ultimately makes the fights more enjoyable.

Not looking at the spoilers 'cus I'm only in ch4 or so but I wanted to chime in on that. I would not be surprised if a couple of the bulletin points are the fault of the translation, though.

Also just in case someone has a hard time with the ingredients for the altar of sealing in tantal.

Black pomegranates are dropped reliably just around the Yurna the elderwood teleport point, and acid tomatoes north of Dalnes stone in temperantia

>>14151789

The resurrection / split is part of Klaus' final gift I believe

>The feel when you've given up on getting kosmos and just shit out cores to clear them out of your inventory.

It's quite liberating.

>>14152547

It's only the past few days I realised they lock specific shit. So satisfying when you lock down a boss' ability to shackle your blades and drivers so you can just keep whaling on them.

>>14153059

>Getting ursula last

Yeah okay that sucks. Got her second after electra and I'm nowhere near halfway done with her last tier

>>14153059

I'm not even rank 4 yet, just got and starter her stuff. For what it's worth, it's my understanding she's one of the best healers in the game when she's fully done.

>>14153619

She's not quite as good as Boreas, but her passive 40% party heal on switch is amazing.

>>14153639

I cannot into boreas. Then again, I slapped her on nia and forgot about him after the food shenanigans.

>>14153059

>implying that Nip wouldn't laugh in your face while tortured

>implying he doesn't do way worse to himself every day out of boredom

>implying he wouldn't do some shenaningans to have you end up tortured as he watches

He's way out of your power level league anon, anyone depraved enough to create a quest this vile would find whatever you can do to him pure enjoyment. I know what you feel, but this is the sort of guy who puts Archviles when you can't dodge them in doom wads. Stay the fuck away and realise you should hope you never meet him.

>>14153639

>Boreas

>good

He's not bad, but the only particularly good thing I see about him is that he goes online very fast and can be maxed relatively easily. As far as healers go he's not Dahlia/Dromarch bad for me to call him shit, but he isn't good. He's outclassed by all the good healers, pretty much. Why take him over Ursula, Floren, Kora's super potions, Adenine's damage buff?

>>14153799

Only thing worse would be Last remnant's quest designer.

>>14153059

You actually only need 70 of each you can gain the rest of the fans needed by doing concert missions instead.

Gimmie the exp. I need the exp.

>>14156629

XP is almost completely a non-issue in 2.

>>14156646

I guess that's why I seem to be endlessly grinding at lvl 25/26.

>>14156655

Literally just fuck around the world a bit, do sidequests, and sleep at inns mate. The inn bonud xp alone is almost too much.

Compared to XCX when you had to grind with no bonus beyond online bounties and an indecent percentage of places to go were locked behind high-level monsters, 2 is a walk in the park.

>>14156783

What do you think I'm doing? I've been grinding for the last 2 hours and haven't even made 5k exp. I've done every side quest currently available to me and slept at the inn to ensure I've leveled up.

>>14156850

Don't forget to be constantly doing Merc missions too, and hunt for secret locations while exploring, those things are worth a ton of XP.

>>14156850

>What do you think I'm doing?

Assuming 2 hours is significant in this kind of game it looks like.

>>14156890

I don't have access to merc mission yet.

>>14156892

Hurr. I'm not saying 2 hours is a significant period of time, just stating what's been going on.

>>14156896

You must still be fairly early in then, were are you stuck that you need to grind that much?

>>14156896

>I don't have access to merc mission yet.

>Level 25/26

Shut the fuck up and get good. You're well within level range for anything the game throws at you, at this point.

>>14156942

>autism

>>14156909

I'm in Uraya at the moment and just getting my ass handed to me. I have no doubt that I'm pretty shit at the game.

>>14156942

Alright. Thanks for your input.

>>14157016

I have a feeling I know witch fight is tripping you up. If i'm right, make sure you focas on ONE of them. The other likes taunting and pulling you off the other, but retarget him as soon as the taunt wears off and remember to have the rest of the party do the same. As I recall this fight ends before they hit 0% health.

>>14157155

If you're talking about Vandham that went ok. It's the main quest line after he joins you that's tripping me up.

>>14157181

Oh okay, no that's not the fight I meant, you'll know when you get to it then. Is it just the trek through the stomach getting you? If your running into really high level foes, your not going the right way.

>>14157249

>not going the right way

That must be it. All the fuckers down in the water are many levels above me and I just kept getting killed. Will look around for another way through; thanks for the tip anon.

>>14157263

Yup that's the problem, look for a way up halfway in the stomach. When you see a bunch of those Lizard Man mobs milling about, you'll know your on the right path.

>>14157276

>lizard man mobs

Fuck I saw them and got thrown off the overpass thing doing the quest you stumble upon and just figured it was the wrong way. Thanks heaps man.

>>14146339

tbh i liked the art style of Xenoblade Chronicles X better than 2. Even though they both have anime eyes.

>>14157393

I hated those beetles so much. It's funny too because the lizard men themselves are pushovers.

>>14157393

Gelbooru, which means stolen from pixiv or Twitter most likely.

>>14157393

Sounds like fun. At least I know I'm on the right path now.

>>14157488

>>14157420

Elma should have been the PC for X. She has basically all the attributes of the main character, almost the entire story revolves around her, and everyone basically ends up referring to "your" character as "that guy/ girl that's in Elma's squad".

Tatsu was also the worst Nopon ever. But then again, I feel like I wouldn't have appreciated Tora as much if Tatsu didn't exist. Both Tora in XC2 and XCX.

XCX had some weird soundtracks, but also had some of the best music in the series (Noctilum/ Sylvalum). And the hip hop stuff actually really grew on me about 10 hours in.

UH

YEAH

**UH*

YEAH

>>14157418

I actually have a pixiv account, but its been like 8 months since I've used it, and I've forgotten literally all info for it. I was just hunting for some sweet sexy zinogirls at the time.

>>14157420

NLA Shigai is unironically pretty jammin.

I'm only missing Agate now. Since someone posted here that keeping your commons remove them from the pool, I've been dispensing a single blade before opening each crystal. But goddamn it makes the whole ordeal a thousand times more tedious. Are you sure the chance of drawing a rare is related to the amount of commons you have? Before reading that I've been clearing my roster from a bunch of unwanted blades and that really helped with the boosters they provided.

On another subject. Some of my 4crowns have "deal X amount of damage in one attack" affinity nodes, and those are simply not getting cleared on merc missions, been like that since forever. I don't remember having that problem with any other blade. Do I really have to equip them and maybe invest a chip to get it?

When is this game going on sale

>>14158847

Probably not enough to only remove one at a time. Just keep it close-ish to the top, if Agate is all you have left the odds wont be great no matter what you do. Use boosters, she's earth by the way, she was an early rare for me.

>>14158908

It released a month ago, so not soon i'd imagine.

>>14158847

>Some of my 4crowns have "deal X amount of damage in one attack" affinity nodes, and those are simply not getting cleared on merc missions, been like that since forever.

What I did to clear those was take them to some low level area, equip some ambush aux chips and use a damaging art as the first shot. Easily goes in the thousands.

When do I just get to play the game and not have a cutscene every four steps?

>>14160323

>When do I just get to play the game?

>jrpg

>gameplay

>>14160298

Oh that's mean. And hilarious.

>>14158847

I feel your pain; I only have kosmos to go, agate was strangely one of the first I got. Now I need to find a good boss for farming for a level 70 group.

>>14160298

We need a backpack edit of Nia now.

>>14161615

Byakko is already in charge of the tail, she is in charge of the kitty mannerisms and fuzzy ears.

>>14161615

>>14161650

This is why Nim is superior. please don't post the goofy face

Well I just got KosMos and my second crash at the same time. If I didn't know she was in the game, just randomly seeing her sat in my blade list after a crash would have made me think my game is haunted.

My dad makes fun of me for being 20 and still a virgin. He routinely asks me if I've finally lost my virginity or found a girlfriend each time I come home. He emasculates me in front of my friends by saying stupid shit like "At least you guys get pussy, right?" and "Maybe you guys can set him up with some girls!"

He even started calling me "Virgy" instead of my real name. This shit gets so fucking annoying and it's actually having an impact on my mental health. Fuck him. I'm not the one in the wrong, right?

>>14161871

Answer is obvious. Rape your dad.

>>14160298

Is that some form of tumblr nose or what?

>>14162900

Fuck if I know. I just thought it was funny.

>>14164126

To be fair, any girl you buy for 500K will be as straight as you want her to be.

What are some things I can do to get exp fast? I'm level 26 on my entire party and the story is dragging me into level 30+ enemies.

>>14164236

>how is having more pussy and less dicks pro-male?

Maybe because we don't need representation to enjoy the media and we enjoy seeing pretty girls without the need to self-insert as a Gary Stu in there?

I'd expect your way of thinking in Tumblr, where they can't enjoy media unless a character is exactly them, not here in an Anonymous community where you're nothing but the posts you write.

But then again... It's all about the right kind of representation for you lot as well anyway.

When will cuckchan leave?

>>14165648

When you report them

>>14165648

Considering their board is run by ResetEra cucks and this is all they have to live for, probably never.

>>14164185

The boring way is to find and murderise monsters around the same level as you repeatedly, or maybe a level or two lower so the xp is still decent. If you're feeling ballsy you can usually take out as single enemy that's a few levels higher than you. Repeat until levelled.

The faster and more fun way is to do sidequests and mercenary jobs, though going off your level you're yet to unlock those. Remember to rest at inns every now and again, since as I understand it you only level up in battle from battle xp. You may well have enough xp to level up already, and just need to rest in an inn.

Okay, so I'm thinking of getting Xenoblade 2 very soon. I'm a little torn over whether I should use the Japanese voicepack or play with the dub. I think most of the dub casting sounds like absolute ass, however I've heard that battles are harder without voice cues. What's the consensus?

>>14166038

There are indeed voice cues that can be helpful for driver combos, which are fairly tight timing-wise. It's pretty marginal though, the greater problem is that all the flavor musings that don't belong to the scripted dialogues are left unsubtitled.

>>14166059

I assume they just subtitled the english audio, and left it completely unchanged for the Jap voices, didn't they.

>>14166038

You can flip from english to japanese at the options so it's not too much of a choice-you can just change if you want the other. The flavour text is gone as mentioned and, honestly, I think you'll lose quite a bit. I've noticed some characters actually change their personality as you level them up, with some blades dismissive, or nervous/self depricating but getting more friendly/confident as they do so, with lines that are not subbed in the japanese original dub. Also, while there are some dodgy bits thanks to dubious voice directing and the odd bit of the lipsynch failing miserably, the voice actors themselves aren't bad.

The Important Shit (all cutscenes) is subtitled regardless. You won't suffer pointlessly if you do japanese dubs, but you miss out some flavour stuff, basically.

>>14166107

That's, sadly, absolutely right.

>>14166038

If you really genuinely can't stand the entire english cast, then get the Jap voicepack.

I will say that there are enough good performances in the english cast to justify using it though.

As for how they affect gameplay, I would say that while the voice cues do help a LOT in battle, they don't really changed the game that much. All it does it that it allows you to react to party member setups like about a half second faster than you normally would (for example, if an enemy is toppled, you may have one party member say "launchy launchy!" and then initiate a launch combo on the enemy. Generally you should have plenty of time to do whatever you want with the enemy when they are launched, such as huge damage moves or finishing the launch combo with a smash, but that extra half second can help sometimes).

Basically, if you hate ALL the English voices, and not just some of them, then its probably not worth forcing yourself to suffer through 70 hrs gameplay just to occasionally get a half second jump on an enemy.

>>14166849

What a whiny faggot.

>>14127719

That’s Shubuya Kaho or something like that.

I go to sleep once and I miss a bunch of daddy issues apparently.

>>14167245

Sperg about masculinity some more. I'm bored

>>14168281

If you enjoy homosexual activities, you are a homosexual. If you are a homosexual, there is something wrong with large areas of your brain - and possibly your genitals as well.

>>14168376

>Liking lesbians means you like dicks in your ass

That's some excellent logic there, friendo.

>>14168419

Nia is best primary character, Wulfric is best boy blade, Praxis is best girl blade. I like using spears.

>>14168528

Pandoria is second place for MC Blades, she comes over any other rare blade.

>>14168597

I liked pandoria more when her glasses were opaque. I know, loyal waifu, feels and all, but autistic lightbulb was more fun.

Holy fuck, I just found out that tachyon chips that drop from the lvl 140 boss intemperantia revert your weapon's looks back to original with some upgrades. Gotta farm a shit ton of those right NAO

>>14168633

Oh, that is good to know.

Also, found these notes about future updates, NG+ aside.

>Ability to recruit certain Blades to the party.

>Possibility to dispatch Blades like Pyra and Dromarch in Merc Groups.

>The "LV 4 Special" of a certain Blade can be unlocked.

Enemy rare blade recruitment would be nice. I do wonder what happened to Obrona.

>>14168656

>Enemy rare blade recruitment

So much this.

Torna blades have some cool designs, but little to no screen time and zero character development.

I'm 230hs in and enjoying the game plenty enough. I'm avoiding unlocking any affinity nodes that have "defeat X unique monster" on my blades exclusively because of Zenobia. I'm going to do a Unique Monster Quest after all my rares are missing only those nodes, in the order necessary to unlock all of Zenobia's affinity nodes. That means I still have some good few hours of gameplay left.

I shouldn't use this word, but I'm legitimately hyped for the season pass. Considering that it will add new rare blades, plus maybe Torna blades, I might buy that shit.

>RNG grind for characters with story

>Game plays itself similar to FFXII

No.

>>14168698

I'm 6ce664

Cosmos is cute and all. But her quest is a bit underwelming though. Other blades have better characterization.

Got her second to last, on Morag of all characters. I wanted Agate on Morag and Cos-Mos on Zeke, I was boosting his justice with every crystal, nonstop, and teh same for Morag's compassion, but RNG still decided Morag was a better fit, and I'm still missing Agate.

At least I can farm for both crystals and tachyon chips on teh same boss. Can't kill it yet though, have to rely solely on driver combos up to half HP, when he goes ultra-murderboss on my ass, then I flee

>>14168281

>Just some autist claiming yuri is evil or something.

Has dykecuck anon returned?

>>14158908

>Nintendo

>Sales

>>14168419

Mythras 'fuck auto attacks' passive has kind of ruined other blades for me gameplay wise, which is a shame since Pyra is best waifu wise.

>perun needs good deeds

>buying cookies puts me 1/3

There a more sensible list out there that I can follow?

>>14169056

From the top of my head

>In Indol go to a tower overseeing teh refugee camp, there is a prompt to throw money down, you have to throw the largest amount with the least force. Suposedly because it falls on the refugees.

>In Fonsa Mima there's a kid fishing, he broke his nopon chess set. You can give him a coral chess set, bought in argentum (requires some development level)

>At the factory where they manufacture blades

>After the meido robot fight tora stays behind while rex and nia push on ahead

>mfw the tougher fights are just rex and nia eating shit because there's no longer a designated tank to draw aggro and soak up all the damage

So where do I go from here? Go through all my core crystals until I get a tank type blade that isn't shit, then make either one of them a hybrid and grind some more so the blade has some proper affinities?

>>14169475

You must be seriously underleveled as I had little trouble with Nia healing and Rex pounding away. You could try equipping a healer blade on Rex too or just take control of Nia for that region.

>>14169475

Yeah, I had to switch Nia to tank to win this battle. Luckily she had Electra. Still this section is a bit retardedly designed if you ask me.

>>14169475

>Buff Rex's HP and Agility, if possible also boost aggro on his blades, whatever they are.

>>14169500

I think Rex is level 36, and Nia is 37.

>>14169503

>>14169509

Guess I'll try a combination of both.

>>14114141

Well that just means I'm better than you

>>14169617

Morag is great with katanas. She's already a good dodge tank, and katanas also have dodge abilities. As oposed to Tora who can just take a spear to the eye and keep fighting.

>>14169617

Brighid/Perceval/Aegeon is the perfect set for Morag.

>>14169617

>Dagas, Pythra, Vale/Adenine/Ursula/whatever I feel like on Rex

Dagas makes everything easy with his +120% damage for the party. He also grants shekels for the tons of items you have to buy to get S+ ranks. I can't afford to switch him to Zeke and the gain would be miniscule anyway, so he does overlap with Pyra, but he's worth it.

>Floren, Dromarch, Kora on Nia

Two obviously good choices and Dromarch. I'd replace him because he's pretty shit, but I don't have any way to give Nia Ursula or Adenine, and it feels weird to take him away from his story-bound partner anyway. I might do it NG+.

>Aegeon, Brighid, Finch/Theory on Morag

Aegeon/Brighid are too good to refuse, Finch/Theory are superior to Perceval but as Morag's hammer moves suck and make her less likely to switch to smash, I usually take Theory.

I miss one element, but as my Trust levels improve further, it's hard to even get 7 on most superbosses so who cares.

>>14168612

I like her Jojo poses with the Opaque glasses, but the clear ones are best for emotional moments.

Kinda wish you got to pick, or they swapped back and forth depending on the scene.

>>14168419

The chapter 7 blade is proving to be a very firm favorite-hits hard, heals hard and builds the specials really fucking fast, which is handy for switching to slower attack speed chars.

I do wonder how much of the blade progress will carry over into NG+. I'm grinding away at stuff here, and if it's like XBC1, we're going to keep a handful of chips (in place of weapons), keep levels, and a few other things. It would be interesting if we had access to Mythra at the same time as Pyra, just like you keep the True Monado.

I'm gonna be raged if I have to do the Ursula stuff all over again.

>>14169838

>have to do the Ursula stuff all over again

Mark my words, if we get to keep our rare blades on NG+ but have to re-grind their affinity charts, I'm gonna release her in the wild, and if I ever draw her again I'll release her again

>>14169963

We are… Ursula's New Groove! And we'll do what we can!

>>14169963

>>14170501

Yeah, have fun doing that with Beary out in THE DAMN WILDERNESS

>>14169963

You've got to wonder, how could you possibly design a blade quest worse than Ursula? And will we get her as a "free bonus" in a later update?

>>14170563

>Open 100 of each core to unlock the second tier affinity node.

>>14160298

I'm currently grinding and trying to get kosmos and the other blades, and holy fuck I am going to kill myself if I don't get to keep them all. Ideally, you'd get to keep all your blades and affinity levels, but if you can't keep the affinity levels I'd be okay with the merc missions being unlocked right away.

>>14170837

>get legendary core from chest

>pop it

>1 strength common

Fucking hell. I wasn't holding my breath for Kosmos but a strength 1? What's a good boss to bully for a level 70 team.

>>14170948

I never got a single unique from a legendary core for what it's worth. And I have all the uniques.

>>14170948

I do the Vampire matriarch or whatever she is called in Uraya. Can get gold chips at the same time to make farming better.

If in post game you might be able to start on Cloud Sea King Ken, you'll probably at least get a few driver combos off to get some cores and moon matter chips. You'll be breaking him a lot less often then other bosses though at that level. I ended up killing him at level 79 trying to farm him.

>>14172487

>lusting after lesbo lovers

>not the tough gril by becoming a juggernaut of love, having her psychological blows harmlessly plink off, and ultimately winning her affection in the end with hot n steamy hand holding

>Reach 100+ hours and suffer a bit of burnout

>Take a small 3 day break

>Alright let's fucking do this

>Come back to NANAKOORI GANBARIMASU every 7 fucking minutes

>Instantly lose motivation again

Whoever conceived and designed this quest seriously needs to get tortured.

>>14172487

>He's the Angelica Autist

Oh my God, this is the best thing ever.

>>14172872

>100+ hours

At least you have plenty things to do in the game yet. You can be Ursula's pimp as you do other shit.

Im 230 hours in (and to be fair there's a lot of content for me to grind for the sake of completionism), and all I've been doing is taking on unique bosses for cores and chips while sending Ursula in quests in between fights. Most her stats are into 60 stamps so I might actually finish her quest today!

But I've heard that after that she resets her affinity chart like Dagas, so today might also be the day I either hang myself of throw my switch into a wall

>Black screen as I open the menu after beating the last Zenobia monster

Fucking kill me. I know I saved at least halfway through, but still. That's like, an hour of hopping around to fight shit-tier monsters.

Why are the english VA's so monotone? that beginning part where rex bursts through the ship and hes yelling, that doesnt like how people would yell in that situation, it almost sounded bored

>>14176842

It depends on the VA.

Rex has some good moments near the end, but then he sounds like he is half assing it in half the other cut scenes.

Malos on the other hand is consistently great, while Mythra is consistently shit.

Everyone else in the "main cast" either suffers other issues other than "being dull" or is actually genuinely good.

>>14177000

Which comes down to direction in the end. The VAs are fine. It's the VA director that doesn't seem to know what they're doing.

>>14176842

Bursting through the ship didn't sound right on multiple levels, mainly it sounding like he was right in front of them the entire time when hes not even through the metal bothered me.

>>14177012

Pretty sure most of the acting was done straight from a script instead of actually seeing what was happening to the character. Not seeing what you're supposed to be acting fucks it all up.

Time for a new bread.