This is the first time I made a thread in a while.

Anyway, use this thread to talk about Xenoblade X for the Wii U

I'm enjoying it so far. What about you guys?

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Yeah we were seriously lacking a thread for this.

Expect me to ask some dumb questions here, since the game doesn't really explain how to complete some quests.

Who will make a 3DSF Squad?! I don't even know how to make them.

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Well most quests are pretty specific, its just the item collecting ones that are like "its somewhere in this continent" that annoys the crap out of me.

Have to list where and when you find items as you go if you don't want to look anything up online. ><

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Will make a video version later, let me know if there is any refining recommendations to this.


I've seen more than one instance of people taking their Skell to the desert and immediately losing it by jumping in to the chasm trying to reach that island that has no point of being reached until nearly at the end of the game, and then having no idea where their Skell went. So figured I'd do a quick write up.

Where are my Skells?
They are initially located just outside the blade home. If you fast travel while on foot, they will appear behind you. If you fast travel while inside a Skell, you stay inside the Skell.
I'll talk more on retrieving lost Skells if they are blown up later.

Skell Fuel
Fuel which is consumed when fighting, using special attacks / a certain upgrade module is active that you get late in the game.
During fights you get a chance to hold enemies, you regain fuel when doing this as well as leave the enemy vulnerable to be attacked by your team members.
Mirranium can be used to refuel quickly.
Otherwise you are sitting there for hours watching the fuel slowly go up again when you are not inside your Skell.

Skells = Death Penalty
Notice there is like no problem with dying on foot?

Well, when you get Skells this is where the whole "Death penalty" portion of the game will actually kick in.

Skells come with insurance tickets. Try not to use all of them up
If your doll is destroyed in the field, you get a quick time event to escape safely. If successful you will not use up an insurance ticket! Your NPCs will ALWAYS escape successfully, as long as you have at least one insurance ticket, you will be able to retrieve your Skell for free.

So my recommendation: assign Skells with one insurance ticket left to NPCs!
You'll learn why in a minute.

Retrieving your missing Skell
Fast travel back to the blade office. The console right in front of you is used both to decorate the blade room and go to the Skell garage.

When you go to the Skell garage, if you have insurance tickets you will automatically retrieve your doll. If you have no more insurance tickets, you will have to pay an insanely large fee (we are talking hundreds of thousands if not millions) to retrieve your Skell.
At this point the you can waiver that massive fee is with a salvage ticket. Which can be a pain to get as you can only earn one a real life day IF you are in the best performing union
Retrieve this from the console inside the blade room with the big screen in-front of it, the room with the yellow/orange doors where you start multiplayer games.

If there are no insurance tickets left, it doesn't matter if you escape your doll successfully or not, you will have to face that fee to retrieve your doll. EVEN IF THE PILOT WAS AN NPC!

If you want more insurance tickets, you have to buy a new Skell.

This is why you should palm off your Skells to be piloted by NPCs once they have only 1 insurance ticket left.


Hope you like my advise ^^

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I haven't gotten around to playing the first Xenoblade.

Will I be confused if I just jump right into this one?

No. Xenoblade is like a Final Fantasy series. They're set in different universes.

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I'm going to put this here (in spoilers for those who would rather figure it out themselves)

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So how does one aquire a skell liscense?

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Soon I'll have my special edition.....sooon

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using overdrive makes me feel like a badass

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Finally got my game. I wanna quit my job so i can dedicate all my waking time to playing it

impressions later

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Is there a special icon on the map for characters who you can invite to you party? I'm having some trouble finding some people.

my only question, does X have the same corny british accents as xenoblade on wii/new 3ds

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So far I've only heard one british accent of all the characters. Since the main area is from USA most accents are American. And I like the british accents in the original Xenoblade better tbh. Although, J. Michael Tatum is always a nice voice to hear. (Baccano anyone?)

And for my impressions after 2 hours of gameplay in a list:

Wow what is that??
Can I touch it?
I can touch/reach it!
Oh God why did I touch it?!
Wtf I didn't even touch it!
Wtf did I touch?

And I really could do without the rap lyrics in the main city.

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Absolutely loving it. There's 1 or 2 questionable design elements and the NLA music does suck, lol. But that doesn't take away from the overall experience. :]

Some screenshots I took, I'll tag them just in case, but these are not from story missions:

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I'm a big fan of Elma. I'm still super early in the game (just chose my Division), but I just have to say the Barracks have one of the grooviest songs I've heard in a long time.

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3 skells yay!! Everything dies so fast o.o

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This was mere minutes before my skell lost its first insurance ticket. Feels bad man

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Colored my first Skell red and named it "Monado" lol

I finally seriously started the game, it's pretty fun.

Does the game have a lot of texture pop ins, waiting for npcs to load, and framerate drops if it is unpatched?

yep i get a lot of those. it's kinda annoying when it's a cutscene and you're looking at potatoes for a few seconds before things pop in all the way. i only downloaded a couple of the texture dlc

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Really jarring going back to XC from this. The battle system seems turtle slow in comparison. Being able to switch between two auto attack weapons really serves to keep things fast paced.

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i have no idea what im doing in this game 90% of the time
but its fun and very pretty, except for the missions i get stuck on and i dont know what im doing even more

majority of the time its when there are multiple enemies attacking me at once in a mission, like versing that crocodile in the 'a new rival?' affinity mission, the hooting dancing owl things would swarm me and rip me, (also when i 1st heard them i thought my wii u broke? dont do that...)
also im kinda stuck on beating goetia for the 1st time and her 2 rook pals too, im in ch 4, and im dead after like 2 minutes rip me, good job when u die u dont lose all ur money and equipment and whatever

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If you need any help im right here for ya, turts

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i just beat this earlier today and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
XBC2/Z WHEN



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well i got an answer to bullet point 9, reading a post story discussion on gaf

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I've been considering revisiting this game... how many hours does it take to complete the main story?

Depends how you play and how much you want to get lost. Took me 70 hours :P Though I guess you can do it in half the time.

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took me 124, but i have done a few affinity missions, and a lot of the time i was goofing off too
im still not finished either i have a bunch more affinities i need to do

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