The commanders were so disapointing
They had no interest in fighting for the nations and just accepted the system was already broken or had already worked it out themselves.
Such a dumb fricking story
A bunch of them were already close friends with the main party and willing to hear them out
Most of the rest were directly fricked over by their consul when the party arrives
That pretty much just leaves Alex and Asherah as the only standouts, with Asherah's whole colony not giving a single frick about structured warfare and Alex figuring things out via her Bezos bullshit
>A bunch of them were already close friends with the main party and willing to hear them out
Yeah, there is no tension or stakes most of the time >NOAH IS AMAZING! HIS INTUITION IS PERFECT! >MIO IS PERFECT! LITERALLY PERFECT!
I was really disapointed.
I remember grinding for hours for KOSMOS and don't quite remember them
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They're not really good for farming legendary cores like superbosses, they just dropped a lot of gold and EXP (if you were around their level) and could usually be found in odd dead-ends and hidden spots. I recall the fastest way to farm EXP in Torna was to fight a group of like 4 of them that spawned in a hidden area you could only reach by dropping off from the balcony before the final boss fight, and in 3 they seem to be the only enemy type to naturally drop silver Nopon Coins.
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I think getting a high overkill bonus on named bosses can also net you some coins.
2 years ago
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Oh shit I haven't been killing them because they look too cute and I didn't wanna be mean
It sort of flew over my head as to why __Irma___ even bothered to reveal herself. Your info-gathering doesn't really point to anything beyond the colony being mostly kids and the kids mostly being beholden to Fiona's leadership status. The Consul could've just.... not pushed the issue, and nothing would've changed.
It's hinted that Irma felt guilty about deceiving Fiona (who treated the friendship they had as genuine) and orchestrating the deaths of her friends, so she revealed herself to Ouroboros who were conceivably the few people that could kill her, and let herself die by Fiona's hands.
>irma feels bad about being moebius and cant truly be friends with the colony so she forces a confrontation that kills her >meanwhile, in the distance, the ferronis for C15 is stomping around, the rogue colony where the moebius in charge stopped taking orders, abandoned his consulate, and became acting commander of the colony
To be fair Triton went full senile and doesn't give any fricks anymore, while Irma has to balance her LARP with her duties as both a Agnian and Kevesi Consul, while also trying to justify to herself that she's trying to make Fiona stronger by killing her friends.
way I see is that she was in too deep and there is no way to drop the charade without making herself look like a gigantic butthole. Ouroboros coming into the picture means that it was just a matter of time before her cover gets blown so I guess she figured it better be sooner than later since she's not exactly enjoying it anymore.
been out for almost 2 weeks. 3 weeks if you count the early leak.
Why are there so few threads or even art? The board and my art feeds exploded when Bridget was announced, the only thing I've seen is that Rex turned out to be a harem turbochad in the end. Is it just long as frick like XBC2 so the big reveals haven't hit a lot of people yet?
More 'realistic' looks I suppose. Pixiv gets a good fair of stuff. there's around 900 pieces of art on Gelbooru. It's not been nothing.
As for threads, we've had several, every fricking day.
>Is it just long as frick like XBC2 so the big reveals haven't hit a lot of people yet?
Yes. The game is 70 hours long if you rush, 100-120ish if you take your time. A completionist run is probably something like 200 hours.
>Why are there so few threads
There's multiple threads a day hitting bump limit, sometimes even like 2 or 3 simultaneous threads.
Dunno what you expected.
I need a class tier list. someone give me a quick rundown. I know Troubadour is kino, but what about the others?
Also what's the optimal party comp for class types and heroes?
I've been running 3 healers and 2 tanks and 2 DPS since that's mostly what keeps people fricking alive and not super dead.
Best physical attackers: Incursor, Martial Artist
Best ether attackers: Royal Summoner, FMJ
Best evade tank: Lone Exile
Best block tank: Lost Vanguard
Best pure healers: Lifesage, War Medic
Best support healers: Signifier, Troubadour
>Monica is 33 >Ghondor is 18 but looks like she's 13 >Monica got knocked up at 15
Why do I get the feeling they aged up Ghondor but didn't adjust Monica's age to compensate
Rex probably was king and she became queen by default
I wish they gave us a cutscenes from the other perspective of the worlds colliding but oh well I guess
Zeke is the most capable for the job and is only pretending to be moronic
and having Punished Zeke that actually needs an eyepatch rediscover his chuuni side thanks to the XB3 gang would be based
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Zeke is no doubt capable and only pretending to be moronic, but he'd rather spend his life adventuring with Pandy instead of taking the throne and leading the people of Alrest.
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so would Nia though, and Nia is way less capable than Zeke
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I feel like Brihghid would probably fit the role of Alrest's long lived queen best, seeing that she's already apart of royalty and is a blade.
Judging by that shot of Torigoth being destroyed, Niall probably granted her stewardship of Gormott as thanks for her service to Mor Ardain. Helps that she’s technically nobility as well
>Helps that she’s technically nobility as well
She was the "daughter" of a minor Gormotti noble. Why would that lead to her being in charge of all of Alrest
Was it ever even stated that she was in charge of all of Alrest in the first place? Like you said, it doesn’t seem likely that all the separate governments of Alrest would just form a single world government within just a few decades.
The Bionis had a small population anyway, so Melia ruling the entire thing as a queen isn’t as far-fetched.
>She was the "daughter" of a minor Gormotti noble.
Pretty sure he was the leader of Torigoth before Mor Ardain got involved but it's something you only learn by talking to Torigoth NPCs before Nia's reveal.
they decided on the parallel with melia before trying to figure out if it'd make any sense. every explanation boils down to everything except her ability to rule. she knows all the strongest people, she's immortal, she has healing magic, she's the flesheater daughter of an ex-baron, but her leadership/ruling ability amounts to nothing. they can't even let her act as if she's learnt how to rule so they just have a gag with her putting on airs every time she shows up.
In case you moved to this thread, I went down to normal to test and I immediately got this chain lmao. I knew that boss HPs were higher on hard but I didn’t realize chain attacks were nerfed at the same time. none of the guide makers make that clear either unless there really are hard mode builds that can achieve 1000%+ chain attacks
yeah, like I said, I guess it's just an effect of HP being part of the multiplier formula, since you probably have already noticed that it's much easier to get high multipliers against normal enemies than against bosses and UMs (although there's still diminishing returns at play too)
If you frick up the order you pick characters in or if you only get healers reactivated during the chain, I would sometimes not even get to finish the full chain attack.
What the frick are you doing wrong? It's rare for me to end on a percentage under 1000 unless I accidentally frick up the order, especially if I use Ashera
Without spoiling anything, are there things that only unlock post games other than the 2 classes I of course got spoiled by youtube thumbnails. I want to know if I should just finish the main quest now or if I can just do everything else first. Party is 65 atm.
I gave up and settled for the sketchy gbatemp chinese build since it doesn't have the memory leak, piss fog/water or crashes, Yuzu devs are fricking worthless.
https://github.com/theboy181/switch-ptchtxt-mods/tree/main/Xenoblade%20Chronicles%203/%5B010074F013262000%5D/1.1.0
Get these as well. 21:9 not needed unless you play on 21:9 obviously.
>We need food and water
Not my problem >Moebius are evil we need to kill them
Perhaps but maybe we could be friends. >The queens are fake
Huh, would you look at that. >Piles of corpses
Oh well, time to pass them on.
Fweet >Z wants to keep us trapped
Well, maybe we can reason with him. >Mio sprains her ankle
MIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHOI THE FRICK HURT YOU MIO??!?!??! MIOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY MIO!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL SLAUGHTER WHOEVER GETS IN OUR WAY MIO!!!!!!!!!!!
>Noah and gang come across that mass grave of THOUSANDS of Agnus and Keves husks in swordmarch >Lanz jokes about if Noah wants to send them all off >Noah seriously considers it for a second
Wtf is his problem
I think it was a good payoff when during the eclipse, he drops the flute because he just isn't capable of sending off Mio. N is such a massive dick. It makes me wonder if every Noah incarnation was an off-seer, which makes N throwing the flute to him even more of an insult, because yeah, I guess he knows himself well.
>go to prison >decide, for the lulz, to put in triton >this goofy ahh game actually puts him in the background of every scene
it's hilarious, but why they would allow you access to a fricking mobius hero before that area is beyond me
The ones that go poof become one with the force. I assume it means they dont go back into the now and get cloned. Noah and Mio aside of course they Noah wants the puss too badly and she wants the dick. so much that they both say "frick the now" and do it anyway.
Hell idk ask Riku
Husk = killed in battle by a Blade or Moebius that sapped their life force to feed a Flame Clock, poof = killed without a Flame Clock involved/Home Coming.
Hold up, why wouldn’t MIO have broken the prison bars? I know I know she was M at that point and knew what was in store for herself, but shouldn’t Noah and Co have been BEGGING her to break the bars/wall open
The answer is actually that the one-punch scene is moronic to the point that even the writers did not take it seriously enough to make that level of strength relevant again, but people will still defend it by saying that Agnians are naturally stronk
I was more making a point about the punch scene but why couldn’t they break out? Genuinely don’t remember a specific reason other than the story requiring it
They're powered down and Riku forgot to remind Noah he has a sword that can cut through anything for a whole month
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They forget about a lot of thing, like whining about unpassable obstacles and me wondering if they forgot about them being able to fricking fly in their interlink.
2 years ago
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there was a severe need of someone who regularly tells them to not forget
2 years ago
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>the girl with the gall will get removed like DON'T FORGET ME in a future patch
2 years ago
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they literally cannot summon their weapons
2 years ago
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Is Mio only super strong if she can summon her weapons?
OMG BROS
i just left my game on for over an hour while they were at camp and they are fricking right now! holy shit
they are all having sweet sweet love
I'm mid chapter 4 (little after Juniper) checking for Hero quests, and keep running into groups of level 40-42 Agnians. Are there any other quests for my current level or just wait and do those once strong enough? I have all of the Ch 3 heroes.
Yeah for Alexandria's quest, you need to defeat three of her elite troupes (all around level 40). IIRC one is in the canyon where you first meet her, on in is Dannagh Desert and one is in Ribbi Flats.
Guys I think there's a bug in my game? I just finished Sena's Side Story but it should have been labeled Ghondor's Side Story. Anyone else have this bug?
Noah's sword didn't really come off to me like it had as much gravitas as it's other 2 counterparts did. I don't exactly understand how the thing even works with it being a "sheathe" to the actual folded over 1000 times blade... but looking at pic related, is it supposed to fill the role of Logos? It can cut through anything, capable of "destroying" everything.
Origin is powered by the Conduit, they went through all the trouble of finally bringing it back into the narrative in 2, there is no way it's not playing some part in anything that happens in 3. It's probably responsible for recreating the two worlds at the end since creating and splitting worlds seems to be it's hobby. I'll eat my hat if it's not brought up or at least mentioned in the DLC.
Each world built one half of Origin. We saw its blueprint. I think we would know if it was in there. Don't think they would make a machine that requires something they don't even know about to work.
I mean it's clear that Origin taps into a higher power, even if it isn't confirmed.
It may not be the conduit itself, but something else.
Just need to wait for the DLC which feels like it'll be post-ending; and likely tie up all /most of the loose ends in the Klaus saga considering Shulk, Rex, and Noah will all likely be there according to the expansion pass.
The conduit fricks off at the end of 2, it fricking off is most likely the reason why the two dimensions are getting back together in the first place.
I mean it's clear that Origin taps into a higher power, even if it isn't confirmed.
It may not be the conduit itself, but something else.
Just need to wait for the DLC which feels like it'll be post-ending; and likely tie up all /most of the loose ends in the Klaus saga considering Shulk, Rex, and Noah will all likely be there according to the expansion pass.
>I mean it's clear that Origin taps into a higher power, even if it isn't confirmed.
There isn't really a need to given the technologies available to both Bionis and Alrest. On the Bionis side, they can recreate a whole human body as we saw with Fiora while on Alrest, they have the template for a human consciousness storage unit with the core crystals. The only extra bit they need is a terraforming unit (but I'm not sure, I don't remember if Origin's initial goal was to safe guard the people only or also fix the world if there's a castatrophic loss of landmass during the merge).
There most definitely is a need for a higher dimension energy source.
Remember it's not just storing souls in crystals and making bodies. It's literally doing that + recreating the entire universe from nothing but light waves. I think it's probably gonna set up some shit like the wave existance looking at the inspirations we already got from XG.
It's cuz it doesn't.
It's not meant to be anything more than a really sharp sword that Melia made to destroy things made from Origin. On top of being able to resonate with it to a small extent.
Nia literally state that both the sword and Ouroboros itself are gimmicks.
I've been off Ganker for 3 weeks since the leak and finally returned. I'm finally done with my playthrough, 98% done or something (couldn't fricking find Cammuravi's hero quest no matter what I did). I recorded every gameplay session, luckily I'm on vacation so I could no-life the game every day and night for the past two weeks, only stopping to sleep and eat really.
What was the consensus of the game online? I personally think it's slightly better than XC1 but not quite as good as XC2.
>(couldn't fricking find Cammuravi's hero quest no matter what I did)
You mean the rank 20 quest, right? Because the unlock one is literally on your way during the main story.
I like it a lot. I think I enjoy it for completel different reasons than 2 though.
2 had parts of it I genuinely didn’t enjoy but I feel 3 lacks that.
I’m under the opinion that chapter 5 into 6 is some of the best scenes in The blade games. Ending isn’t strong but it’s there. I hope the DLC is as good or better than Torna and FC.
I really love these characters and wish there was more time to spend with them just bullshitting eachother and hanging out.
I forgot to mention by the way that I was playing on hard. The hardest thing I ever did in this game was probably going straight to liberate Colony 9 after I liberated Colonly 4 on level 22. Moebius B took me several hours of attempts and the actual kill attempt was 30 minutes long, with me abusing chain attacks to get out enough heals to survive.
No consensus, and probably there will never be one.
People who liked 2 the best most likely still like 2 the best.
People who had 1 as their favorite are more likely to have loved 3 since it is more like that game in tone.
And the people who liked X the most are probably disappointed that it doesn't have playable mechs yet again (unless you count Ouroboros forms) and the world isn't seamless.
good game, weird main story, chapter 5 was great.
good characters and a lot of time provided to get you to enjoy them.
great side quests and so much more content around it than I thought prior.
good exploration but the world design felt less inspired compared to prior games (obviously doesn't help that it was a merge of two worlds)
the rewards for exploration felt useless, too easy to cap ether cylinders/not enough ways to spend it.
very enjoyable battle system during balanced encounters on hard around the mid game but way too easy to unbalance it and over level.
Speaking personally I absolutely loathed the game when I finished it because 90% of why I enjoy Xeno is the batshit insane plots and philosophical ramblings, which seem to have been almost absent from this game. The plot is distressingly straightforward, and while there's tons of references to past games they're all random and haphazard and never go anywhere. Nearly all the mysteries in the game are answered either by "lol its Origin magic I don't gotta explain shit" or "that thing you thought was cool/important? yeah, turns out it's just an ebin subversion that doesn't actually matter at all"
I think they wanted the game to stand on its own rather than relying on the two previous entries. But part of the appeal is that it's the two worlds melded together, so it kinda falls flat. Like, nobody in the game world questions why the Urayan mountains looks like a giant whale monster or why there is a mile tall sword stuck in the ground. Nobody bothers with the culture of the world they live in, which I guess makes sense because they only live to kill eachother, but at least the folks in City live fairly normal lives, have a culture of their own and could plausibly have someone doing some kind of research into what the world they live in actually is, but nope. I was really hoping there would be a sidequest of some guy to explore and "find out" stuff about relics, ruins and whatnot.
Agree with this so much. If they wanted it to stand on its own, why is the whole premise of the game about a fusion between the prior 2 universes? I could vaguely understand if people were clamoring for a direct sequel in a merged world and they did as a kind of loophole trick, but reception to the idea of a merged world was mixed to begin with and Monolith clearly knew that as Takahashi went out of his way to try and assuage people's doubts by saying the concept of the Mechonis Sword stabbing Uraya was drafted back before 2 was even finished. Also yeah the part about people not questioning the world and its origins makes sense and is thematically relevant for the brainwashed soldiers, but it all falls flat when even the supposedly liberated City dwellers don't seem interested in it either. Hell, the story itself largely glosses over Origin and the original universes, treating it almost as ancillary to the actual plot.
Are the heroes that join in you the final battle random? I got Miyabi, Teach, Ghondor, Valdi, and Juniper for Keves side, and Monica, Zeon, Fiona, Ethel, and Isurd for Agnes side.
I wonder if you just get fricked if you recruit the minimum amount of heroes possible to beat the game. The only required heroes are Valdi, the Nopons, Ghondor, Juniper, and Miyabi, right?
Anybody else have trouble with the 3 bird enemies in Triton's ascension quest? Fighting multiple enemies with huge ass AOEs is just fricking obnoxious.
my game bugged and they didn't even disappear after I killed them, they just froze in their death position with the blue light rising from them forever
Yeah that felt bizarre to me, especially when those two got decent screentime and proper cutscenes near the end of the game, only to get unceremoniously kicked to the curb.
Final area as a whole was underwhelming compared to the long climb up the World Tree in 2, but the final boss was pretty fun at least.
They pull the "lol they aint dead" thing lik 3 times very close together. I thought killing mio was kino as frick and they should have stuck with it. Still had M join you but she's actually M. She then would die when Z is killed. Just torment Noah with the image of his gf
Theres a secret door when u go up the first elevator from the 4th floor, before you go up that 2nd elevator on the 5th floor, touch the wall that looks like a doorway with the green circle
There's a pretty serious issue with the waterfall in that area, either it glitches and covers the entire screen or outright crashes the game.
Use opengl.
I'm still not all that onboard with that plot point, she basically just sat around for a month after alerting the City while Noah loses his shit the whole time
She hammed it up good though during the fight
>doesn’t even bother to use her magic soul communication powers to tell Noah and the others that she’s fine without the possibility of other people overhearing
I get that she didn’t want to arouse suspicion, but surely it couldn’t have hurt to pay a single visit a couple days before the eclipse
Dunno how deep is the interlinking share of memories, but going by what M said to Sena while on the prison, she seemed to have been watching the party from the beginning and most likely Mio as well. And since M and Mio are technically the same person I guess Noah didn't notice in the heat of the fight.
Finished X3 today, it was my first xenoblade game and I seriously doubt the others games can top chapter 5/6, mostly because I'm a sucker for romance Anyway my copy of XB:DE arrives next week and I'm already hyped as frick
Xb1 has fantastic music and fun cutscenes, but ckming from 3, the combat will be a massive downgrade, and I consider 1 a fun game to play.
Remember to activate expert mode right at the start
It's just the same moronic false flaggers as usual, they just changed from their old "XC3 is censored!!!" moronness to that since they saw it wasn't baiting enough people anymore.
I honestly had no idea she was locked behind a bunch of quests cause I would always occasionally stop to do as much as I could find, I conveniently had already done them all
>die like 2 hours into final boss fight, presumably last phase >booted to title screen
I am glad cutscenes are skippable
Hard mode makes bosses such damage sponges
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Is hard mode too much?
Just killed the first consul guy and I swear the fight took like half an hour, like 8+ chain attacks and dozens of ouroboros transformations
The first 2 boss fights before the last one were fun but the transformed dude was overkill. And he was easier than his previous form, he just had a billion hp
>hard mode >bloats enemy HP and damage >nerfs your actual ability to do arts >doesn't even give you a gay little sticker on your save file if you beat it >can change difficulty any time you want so you don't have to stick with it
literally what is the goddamn point
it's just the same type of cancer as bringer of chaos in 2
I'm fricking overleveled constantly from all the sidequests anyway, I haven't had a fight on normal I didn't steamroll since consul J
it also makes your chain attack multiplier start lower and decreases the values on your role actions causing both your talent art and chain attack gauges to fill slower.
There is a random bug towards the end of the final fight when Melia and Nia join the fight, there is chance you will just die the instant the game gives control back to you. Happened to me and couple others.
long hair model looks good but the 2D portraits are ass, and her not wanting to cut it to respect M is very commendable imo canon choice is short if cutscenes are anything to go by
Long is really hot but Mio seems to prefer short even though she wants to respect M's body.
You can later change it on the options anytime, though, so just follow your heart or dick.
long hair model looks good but the 2D portraits are ass, and her not wanting to cut it to respect M is very commendable imo canon choice is short if cutscenes are anything to go by
Long looks way better
but what's noah's preference
I want it to be whatever he likes
I'm pretty sure he likes it long. She is very against asking Noah, probably because he was the one to suggest it to her to begin with. But I'm sure he would like whatever Mio prefers too but still
im not sure there are hints, just think of notable nopon you've met along the way and go see them. there is no indication they have special dialog or anything you just need to talk to them.
one or two are sort of obvious but the rest are real random and pretty much require a guide
make sure you check several. most the guides on google are chink shit and get half the names wrong to make things even more confusing (using japanese romanisations instead of the localised names)
1. Burrburr at Sage's Domicile, Dannagh Desert. You need to go through the trick cavern to find him, I had already done that so finding him was a sinch for me.
2. Tempapa at Daedal Isle in Erythia Sea. He's part of Riku and Manana's hero quest.
3. Gingin at Gingin's Treehouse in Low Maktha Wildwood. She is a weird fricker living in the deepest part of the woods infested with fricking Godzilla monsters.
4. Panepane at the Hillside Ferronis Hulk in Millick Meadows. He's the dehydrated Nopon that you help early in the game as you first enter the desert. I only remembered him because he was listed as a "Fellow legendary Nopon" in the affinity chart.
5. Fixifixi in one of the cells of Li Garte Prison Camp. He is initially locked behind bars so you can only see him from the outside when you're doing the prison part of the main plot. You need to unlock Segiri a bit later and have Colony 0 move into the abandoned prison so that the cell opens. You then need to speak with him with Valdi in the party because he is Valdi's old masterpon.
6. Riku. Riku reveals himself as the final Legendary Nopon when you've found the other missing five.
This was probably the most fun sidequest for me. If you explored well during your playthrough you'll definitely have met one or two of the Nopon you seek already and only need to remember where they are. The rest can usually be found by exploring in areas you haven't been to yet, or you run into them by chance on side quests.
Just one thing about that quest, the nopon who's facing a wall requires you to have Valdi as the current hero in the party, otherwise, he won't even answer. It's pretty much the only obscure one, especially since you can only get where he is after transferring Colony 0 to the agnus prison.
I wish there were upgrades for each class or at least each class the character is S rank in. I really hope it's one of the things they will add in free updates.
Reposting on proper thread
Is hard mode too much?
Just killed the first consul guy and I swear the fight took like half an hour, like 8+ chain attacks and dozens of ouroboros transformations
The first 2 boss fights before the last one were fun but the transformed dude was overkill. And he was easier than his previous form, he just had a billion hp
I found chain attacks started doing more damage after getting Ouroboros forms but it still takes a while
I think the only thing I've switched back to normal for was that shitty Colony Tau quest where you have to kill a bunch of monsters outside the colony, for some reason that one is ridiculously hard.
>I think the only thing I've switched back to normal for was that shitty Colony Tau quest where you have to kill a bunch of monsters outside the colony, for some reason that one is ridiculously hard.
I start the fight with everyone at Ouroboros form, and also 4 healers, that to prevent instant wipe at the beginning
Bros how the frick do I get Ethel back? I'm already past the point where anything involving this character would be a spoiler, so please tell me what I'm looking for. The internet in general has been fricking worthless with helping me.
When you get her back as a e-girl, bring Cammuravi to Colony Omega and enter the room with the cradle inside the facility. You'll then get the option to age her up so she can fight at her full potential again.
go back to colony omega after you get there in the main story which unlocks cammuravi as a hero and e-girl ethel. get cammuravi class to lvl10 (dunno if ethel class needs to be as well but probably is at this point) and go inside colony omega to the lab with cammuravi. not sure if there's other stuff required inbetween but if the hero roster says "get ethel to maturity" or something like that then you should be good to go
What is up with this anon? In everythread he is just like "WTF??!! You didn't hear the sound file of Melly farting on Riki on this super secret part of the game??????" Like chill dude lmao
zephyr is very good. lone exile also good for holding aggro but can hit the dirt in my experience.
ive found lost vanguard to be ok as well, heaps of shit seems to stick to them when the ai plays them while i mongo one target down as zephyr or LE
i'm pretty surprised at how standalone this game ended up being
it's an interesting model they managed to come with where fanservice is actually relevant but at the same time does not alienate new players
Someone explain this shit cause I'm dumb. >the two worlds were on a collision course with each other >they acted like matter and antimatter to each other and would have annihilated each other if they collided (hence the annihilation events that happen in lore) >the solution was to back up everything in the two worlds in an ark that could reconstruct the two worlds after the collision occurs >the process got screwed up by Z who created an imperfect fusion of the worlds that's barely functioning >the ending has the process finally go through successfully with the two worlds being reconstructed
Am I getting that right? Are the two worlds still dangerous to each other after the reconstruction?
>they acted like matter and antimatter to each other and would have annihilated each other if they collided (hence the annihilation events that happen in lore)
Not exactly, the characters SUPPOSE, they acted like matter and antimatter, we only see the annihilation events inside Aionios and it's absolutely not impossible that those events are only caused because of mobiuses straining Origin to the absolute limit with their artificial merge that you talk about later.
They just created Origin to have a contingency plan in case the two universes really tried to delete each other, the way they talk about it, they absolutely don't know if Origin did anything at all in the end (by that I mean outside of Aionios) and if it was needed in the first place. Just see the universes merging as the 2000 bug and Origin as the various contingencies people built against it, in the end we don't really know if one or the other ever did anything.
I spent the entire fight just thinking of how mad I would be if I died and had to do it all over again. Luckily it didn't happen, but I legit think I might have quit the game if it did. Whole thing took me almost 2 hours.
I died twice during it from having all 3 of my healers one-shot, the first time during the very last phase. I had played the entire game on hard to that point, but was about 5 levels underleveled for the boss. I was so tilted after the second death that I cashed in all my bonus EXP to go straight to level 90 just to get it over with
The same moron who it was a good idea to make you start from the first phase if you die at any point. Fricking stupid ass devs
I spent the entire fight just thinking of how mad I would be if I died and had to do it all over again. Luckily it didn't happen, but I legit think I might have quit the game if it did. Whole thing took me almost 2 hours.
surprised at how many complaints there are about the final boss, glad I played it on normal and just enjoyed the spectacle because damn it was a spectacle
I kinda wish there were more gimmick fights tbh
For how many party members they were and with the class system I was expecting they'd be splitting up a bunch of times, but no
I actually liked it a lot. My only gripe is that there was not a long ass exposition scene like at the end of 1 or before the final boss in 2 that autistically explains Z's motivations.
Also, I beat it on Hard and I swear the kinoplex phase was way harder than anything after it.
I had to reset like 3 times at the first phase but got trough the rest on my first try.
wait are they actually related? I was pretty flabbergasted that no one pointed out how they look identical considering all the other look alikes they've met up to that point
You can use arts whenever. Fusion arts just build up the interlink gauge and combine art effects (Main art first, fused art second). In someone situation the fusion version is preferred since the fused art might have a long ass animation that can shorten with the main art.
Most of the characters were alive when it happened, otherwise Rex and Shulk wouldn't have a statue in the City saying that they had a fighting role in the war against mobius inside Aionios.
>"so uh your majesty will you need an escort" >"who do you think I am" >immediately goes to the aid of her subjects unlike some other person
unfathomably based
I want to keep playing but it's 2am and I drive for a living starting at 8, I managed to beat the fake Nia and see Shania kill herself so this is fine right?
Yeah, I kinda really disliked it when I played it at launch but now that XC3 has scratched the serious game itch, I think I'll appreciate XC2 stupidity a bit more. I also remember liking the area visuals more in XC2 so there is that.
yeah even though I remember not liking certain parts of 2 much I think I still remember the world fondly. It'd be interesting to see if it actually holds up. I don't really remember how big/small 2 was in comparison
Supposedly in terms of traversable area 3 has five times as much as 2, but to me it didn't feel that much bigger. Or rather, it felt bigger, but more in terms of pure scale than breadth/variety.
I really did not like the KH/theme park-styled regions 2 had, everything felt so disconnected compared to 1 even though it's justified considering the setting. With 3 the random ass mishmashed biomes kind of gives the same vibe but it's still more along the lines of 1's traditional adventure thanks to the Mechonis Sword serving as a landmark.
Yeah, I kinda really disliked it when I played it at launch but now that XC3 has scratched the serious game itch, I think I'll appreciate XC2 stupidity a bit more. I also remember liking the area visuals more in XC2 so there is that.
Playing through this, still early on just wanted to ask why do the colonies stop getting mindraped into seeing you as monsters by the Irises after you free Colony 4? It's weird to me that i just got a sidequest to go back to colony 9, but i fled colony 9 because i couldn't talk to or reason with anyone because of the glowing red eye shit. Was all that just the ability of Consul K or something? feels weird that the characters just assume all of that is over now.
It's literally used as a plot point of convenience. Whenever they want the colony to be hostile, it's invoked but if they want dialogue and shit, it's not switched on.
Z was bored because M & N weren't as exciting to follow as they were before so he created another instances of Noah and Mio, slowly engineering N's NTR for his amusement, hence why he doesn't give a frick about the world after chapter 6 starts, his plan already peaked.
Was there a Rex one? I noticed Shulk but thought that was just a red herring
The statue that exactly looks like Shulk is a red herring, Shulk is most likely the one who lost an arm while Rex is the one who lost an eye.
Game is more enjoyable if you don’t go out of your way to explore and just follow the quest line, with only doing side quests of similar level to current main. Every quest will finally take you to everywhere.
i do not understand why they won't just let you level down on your first playthrough like in DE. being overleveled for a quest because you did too many or did them in the wrong order is literally not an issue if you're allowed to level down as you please.
Where do I find ascension quest for Isurd and where do I get side story for Taion? I'm already in final dungeon and I still have no clue where to find those two.
Nopon aren't even affected by the Flame Clock and live long lives, so they should definitely know. The first thing I said to myself in the baby scene was that the Nopon should know so why are they surprised.
I didn't quite get that part either. So it's a shard of Origin, sure, but why are there 2 of them once N became a separate entity, as you've pointed out? Are the 85932 Lucky Sevens just lying around that Riku's dad makes after each Noah dies?
Well there's been a ton of ouroborous stones so I don't see why not. I imagine Z probably destroys Lucky Seven when he kills off the Noah of the time though.
I usually love this sort of cheesy crap from my mecha, but this was moronic. Probably didn't help that we barely knew that guy and their "rivalry" was so quick and we got like one scene to establish was so rushed. Also made her look pretty selfish, yeah Noah you take care of my colony while I die okay?
Ethel and Cammuravi's rivalry was already established in her backstory, granted they don't spend a lot of time developing it for the player.
Consuls O and P were also draining their life through their mechs in order to force them into fighting Ouroboros, so both knew they were already screwed that they might as well have their final mating duel before they expire.
It was quite forced, I mean them getting into the mechs wouldn't change anything, they were gonna blow up their colonies whether they won or not. Should have used their life force to attack the consul instead of each other really. Their romance is pure shit.
No, its just a piece of metal from origin that Melia pretty much enchanted, which shaped it into a Monado and gave Anti Aionos properties.
It's just a tool.
I didn't quite get that part either. So it's a shard of Origin, sure, but why are there 2 of them once N became a separate entity, as you've pointed out? Are the 85932 Lucky Sevens just lying around that Riku's dad makes after each Noah dies?
>Riku's family has been making Lucky Sevens for thousands of years >Every male heir is named Riku, going all the way back to the original Riku thousands of years ago >Nopon don't have the tattoos(and have longer lifespans than humans anyway) so every time Noah dies the current Riku has to find his next incarnation >Our Noah is not this Riku's first Noah
Pretty much everything related to the lucky 7 and Riku are in "don't think too much" territory because if you do, parts of the plot starts completely crumbling.
Like "Why is there two Lucky 7 despite N losing his own when dying?", and other things like X making the fact that N has it being important somehow (which doesn't make sense since Z seemingly created N's own Lucky 7 given what I said earlier), Vandham making it one of the reasons why he activates the Ouroboros stone in the first place and so on.
It feels like there were two writers who didn't really check each other's work to check for inconsistencies, it's kinda like the cutscene about how they couldn't change classes before and then have one cutscene about how Taion's mondos were originally Nimue's weapon and recruits asking Sena why she choose a hammer and not another weapon (something she wouldn't be able to change anyway if she was class-locked).
It's not uncommon for there to be inconsistencies with relatively minor details like that in a Xenogame, but imo 3 has the most poorly thought-out central narrative/lore of the entire series.
so after Mio is saved, the party is no longer pressured for time, right? is that why they could afford to do the Origin shard world tour to upgrade the ship? I imagine this is also the time when they tackle all the sidequests
>Foreshadowed its making and usage >The music made it seem like it was gonna be bad news >Just them going WOW >Toss it aside shortly after
Seriously what was the point of all of that
When they said they were going to upgrade it, I honestly thought the great sea would be it's own region with colonies and other POI scattered throughout. Like Erythia on crack.
I mean it wouldn't make sense for there to be Colonies there, but yeah same. In fact I thought the party would get their shit kicked in at Origin and the real motive behind Moebius would be revealed, with a whole other overworld separate from Aionios a la 1 and 2, but that didn't turn out so well...
well sure considering the giant tornado and all but I was more thinking that there would be a bunch of islands and archipelagos in the outer areas and some ruins and funky stuff the closer you get to the center that the world never saw before thanks to being obscured by the bad weather, something like Morytha, all while is floating menacingly in the middle while you're exploring
it definitely changes more than that, your chain attack multipliers start lower and the talent art gauge fills significantly slower as well. hard is a non-playtested mess.
I hope he crushes tatsu in his hands
that is a GREAT idea!
>ith confy
Stop typing like fricking toddlers.
The commanders were so disapointing
They had no interest in fighting for the nations and just accepted the system was already broken or had already worked it out themselves.
Such a dumb fricking story
A bunch of them were already close friends with the main party and willing to hear them out
Most of the rest were directly fricked over by their consul when the party arrives
That pretty much just leaves Alex and Asherah as the only standouts, with Asherah's whole colony not giving a single frick about structured warfare and Alex figuring things out via her Bezos bullshit
>A bunch of them were already close friends with the main party and willing to hear them out
Yeah, there is no tension or stakes most of the time
>NOAH IS AMAZING! HIS INTUITION IS PERFECT!
>MIO IS PERFECT! LITERALLY PERFECT!
I was really disapointed.
the captains are less than 10 year old just like the cast, you are completely mixing up how their society works
I wonder what Nopon flesh tastes like... I bet they're delicious. With how fat and tender they are.
How the frick can I farm nopon coins. I need them for things and I don't have enough,
t. lin
Beside finding them in barrels/winning them in brawls I think the only way to farm them is to kill Pippito enemies
What are those?
The weasel things that run away from you and dodge a lot, they were introduced in 2 as loot piñatas
I remember grinding for hours for KOSMOS and don't quite remember them
They're not really good for farming legendary cores like superbosses, they just dropped a lot of gold and EXP (if you were around their level) and could usually be found in odd dead-ends and hidden spots. I recall the fastest way to farm EXP in Torna was to fight a group of like 4 of them that spawned in a hidden area you could only reach by dropping off from the balcony before the final boss fight, and in 3 they seem to be the only enemy type to naturally drop silver Nopon Coins.
I think getting a high overkill bonus on named bosses can also net you some coins.
Oh shit I haven't been killing them because they look too cute and I didn't wanna be mean
Best hero : Fiona
Amazing class, amazing CUTE, good side quests
Worst hero : Juniper
Terrible class, normal cute, horrible side quests
Colony Mu was full anime and I loved it
It sort of flew over my head as to why __Irma___ even bothered to reveal herself. Your info-gathering doesn't really point to anything beyond the colony being mostly kids and the kids mostly being beholden to Fiona's leadership status. The Consul could've just.... not pushed the issue, and nothing would've changed.
It's hinted that Irma felt guilty about deceiving Fiona (who treated the friendship they had as genuine) and orchestrating the deaths of her friends, so she revealed herself to Ouroboros who were conceivably the few people that could kill her, and let herself die by Fiona's hands.
Well, at least it's a fair sight better than the early colonies where the Consul is just some nobody ass with the same "big guy" Moebius form.
>irma feels bad about being moebius and cant truly be friends with the colony so she forces a confrontation that kills her
>meanwhile, in the distance, the ferronis for C15 is stomping around, the rogue colony where the moebius in charge stopped taking orders, abandoned his consulate, and became acting commander of the colony
It could have been thought out a little better.
triton is the most based motherfricker in the entire game
as soon as I recognized slayer's voice I knew I was in for some good shit
To be fair Triton went full senile and doesn't give any fricks anymore, while Irma has to balance her LARP with her duties as both a Agnian and Kevesi Consul, while also trying to justify to herself that she's trying to make Fiona stronger by killing her friends.
way I see is that she was in too deep and there is no way to drop the charade without making herself look like a gigantic butthole. Ouroboros coming into the picture means that it was just a matter of time before her cover gets blown so I guess she figured it better be sooner than later since she's not exactly enjoying it anymore.
Why is Segiri's design so out of place? She looks and acts like a rejected 2 Blade.
Most characters in 3 have generally normal hairstyles but here she is with her Mythra tier cowlick and giant braid.
>little Ethel
CUTE
>N fight on chapter 7
am i watching naruto or what
I heard Sena with Ghondor's class is busted. how do I make it busted?
>rolled my eyes at the e-girl Colony Mu
>ended up misty eyed at the end of both of Fiona's hero quest
Man frick this game
You love it.
Is XB3 actually out yet? I've seen 0 advertising so I assumed it was a demo or a streamer beta.
It's out yeah
It's' pretty good
Why are there so few threads or even art? The board and my art feeds exploded when Bridget was announced, the only thing I've seen is that Rex turned out to be a harem turbochad in the end. Is it just long as frick like XBC2 so the big reveals haven't hit a lot of people yet?
More 'realistic' looks I suppose. Pixiv gets a good fair of stuff. there's around 900 pieces of art on Gelbooru. It's not been nothing.
As for threads, we've had several, every fricking day.
what did you mean by this?
>Is it just long as frick like XBC2 so the big reveals haven't hit a lot of people yet?
Yes. The game is 70 hours long if you rush, 100-120ish if you take your time. A completionist run is probably something like 200 hours.
>Why are there so few threads
There's multiple threads a day hitting bump limit, sometimes even like 2 or 3 simultaneous threads.
Dunno what you expected.
been out for almost 2 weeks. 3 weeks if you count the early leak.
they pushed the release up by 2 months
I need a class tier list. someone give me a quick rundown. I know Troubadour is kino, but what about the others?
Also what's the optimal party comp for class types and heroes?
I've been running 3 healers and 2 tanks and 2 DPS since that's mostly what keeps people fricking alive and not super dead.
game8, gamewith, kamigae check it there
Best physical attackers: Incursor, Martial Artist
Best ether attackers: Royal Summoner, FMJ
Best evade tank: Lone Exile
Best block tank: Lost Vanguard
Best pure healers: Lifesage, War Medic
Best support healers: Signifier, Troubadour
Is Lone Exile really better than Zephyr?
Not in pure dodging, but it can do way more damage which probably helps more in maintaining aggro.
>Monica is 33
>Ghondor is 18 but looks like she's 13
>Monica got knocked up at 15
Why do I get the feeling they aged up Ghondor but didn't adjust Monica's age to compensate
How do I get an eternal cat GF who keeps reincarnating with me
>Nia wake up
>do nothing
>Melia wake up
>do something
why the cat is so useless
whops i mean mio
Nia does not feel like she fits as a queen at all. Who the frick agreed to this?
Riku
Rex probably was king and she became queen by default
I wish they gave us a cutscenes from the other perspective of the worlds colliding but oh well I guess
Why isn't Niall the ruler?
dead tbh
But Tora is shown alive?
you're implying they were made king or queen around the time origin went off, which might not be the case
Niall is younger than Rex, why would he be dead at a point when Rex is still alive?
it should have been Zeke
Zeke's not the type who'd be interested in ruling
Zeke is the most capable for the job and is only pretending to be moronic
and having Punished Zeke that actually needs an eyepatch rediscover his chuuni side thanks to the XB3 gang would be based
Zeke is no doubt capable and only pretending to be moronic, but he'd rather spend his life adventuring with Pandy instead of taking the throne and leading the people of Alrest.
so would Nia though, and Nia is way less capable than Zeke
I feel like Brihghid would probably fit the role of Alrest's long lived queen best, seeing that she's already apart of royalty and is a blade.
Judging by that shot of Torigoth being destroyed, Niall probably granted her stewardship of Gormott as thanks for her service to Mor Ardain. Helps that she’s technically nobility as well
>Helps that she’s technically nobility as well
She was the "daughter" of a minor Gormotti noble. Why would that lead to her being in charge of all of Alrest
Was it ever even stated that she was in charge of all of Alrest in the first place? Like you said, it doesn’t seem likely that all the separate governments of Alrest would just form a single world government within just a few decades.
The Bionis had a small population anyway, so Melia ruling the entire thing as a queen isn’t as far-fetched.
>She was the "daughter" of a minor Gormotti noble.
Pretty sure he was the leader of Torigoth before Mor Ardain got involved but it's something you only learn by talking to Torigoth NPCs before Nia's reveal.
they decided on the parallel with melia before trying to figure out if it'd make any sense. every explanation boils down to everything except her ability to rule. she knows all the strongest people, she's immortal, she has healing magic, she's the flesheater daughter of an ex-baron, but her leadership/ruling ability amounts to nothing. they can't even let her act as if she's learnt how to rule so they just have a gag with her putting on airs every time she shows up.
I don't like it since Melia went through so many trials on a personal, familial and official level in order to prove herself as being worthy of queen
I missed last weeks online icons, do they ever come back these ones suck
>3 days
sniff
In case you moved to this thread, I went down to normal to test and I immediately got this chain lmao. I knew that boss HPs were higher on hard but I didn’t realize chain attacks were nerfed at the same time. none of the guide makers make that clear either unless there really are hard mode builds that can achieve 1000%+ chain attacks
yeah, like I said, I guess it's just an effect of HP being part of the multiplier formula, since you probably have already noticed that it's much easier to get high multipliers against normal enemies than against bosses and UMs (although there's still diminishing returns at play too)
This was the highest chain attack percentage I ever reached in my entire hard mode playthrough, and it was pretty much just down to luck to be honest.
>719
you can go for 1k later
I have have managed to scrape out 800% in the postgame with Ashera and a string of ‘Bravos’ and ‘Amazings’, but it is ridiculously hard
Did they reduce chain attack damage on hard?
I don't have a problem to go over 1000% after I've got ouroboros order on normal.
pretty sure it's like 2 so chain attacks do no damage whatsoever
If you frick up the order you pick characters in or if you only get healers reactivated during the chain, I would sometimes not even get to finish the full chain attack.
What the frick are you doing wrong? It's rare for me to end on a percentage under 1000 unless I accidentally frick up the order, especially if I use Ashera
I managed to get it up to 900% with miyabi boosting mio's TP into the sky
Best I got on normal was something like 1460%, bless nopons.
Hot frick couldn’t Ethel and Cammuravi hold off on their sex fight for a few minutes
NO THEY NEED PENETRATION
IIRC their last term was coming to an end, so they decided to cum to an end instead.
Without spoiling anything, are there things that only unlock post games other than the 2 classes I of course got spoiled by youtube thumbnails. I want to know if I should just finish the main quest now or if I can just do everything else first. Party is 65 atm.
don't think so
How does post game work anyway, do you reload a finished save and it brings you to the last save before final boss or is it an actual post game?
it puts you outside the final boss' room yeah
leveling down and a few other side quests
Imagine a meeting between Colony 0 and Colony Mu.
too scottish
dubgays need not apply
What's her favorite album?
My dick wouldn't be able to handle it
>played until 3am last night
>thought I would get all the sidequests done to continue on chapter 5 tonight
>still not even close
It'll take you around 150 hours to finish all the sidequests
any emulation updates?
I gave up and settled for the sketchy gbatemp chinese build since it doesn't have the memory leak, piss fog/water or crashes, Yuzu devs are fricking worthless.
how to fix piss fog?
which graphics mods are you using?
>how to fix piss fox
https://www.mediafire.com/file/fwjc1bg4hv8t1pr/Vulkan_Workaround.rar/file
thanks friend
https://github.com/theboy181/switch-ptchtxt-mods/tree/main/Xenoblade%20Chronicles%203/%5B010074F013262000%5D/1.1.0
Get these as well. 21:9 not needed unless you play on 21:9 obviously.
Mio is the biggest mutt in the series if you think about it. Mio is part Gormotti, part human, part blade, a flesh eater, and part Mobious.
>We need food and water
Not my problem
>Moebius are evil we need to kill them
Perhaps but maybe we could be friends.
>The queens are fake
Huh, would you look at that.
>Piles of corpses
Oh well, time to pass them on.
Fweet
>Z wants to keep us trapped
Well, maybe we can reason with him.
>Mio sprains her ankle
MIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHOI THE FRICK HURT YOU MIO??!?!??! MIOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY MIO!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL SLAUGHTER WHOEVER GETS IN OUR WAY MIO!!!!!!!!!!!
>Noah and gang come across that mass grave of THOUSANDS of Agnus and Keves husks in swordmarch
>Lanz jokes about if Noah wants to send them all off
>Noah seriously considers it for a second
Wtf is his problem
he's great. it cracks me up how autistic he is, idk if it's intentional but it always makes me laugh
>'ate fighting
>'ate consuls
>'ate Moebius
>Luv Mio
>Luv fweeting
>Luv me friends
>Luv Ouroboros
>Luv Mio
>Luv the Queen's beans
>Did I mention I luv Mio?
Simple as
I think it was a good payoff when during the eclipse, he drops the flute because he just isn't capable of sending off Mio. N is such a massive dick.
It makes me wonder if every Noah incarnation was an off-seer, which makes N throwing the flute to him even more of an insult, because yeah, I guess he knows himself well.
I hope all the villains in this game aren't as cringe as Moebius K. At least the cutscene looked cool.
Whoever did his animations in those cutscenes deserves a medal, it's so cheesy I love it
K is unironically one of the better ones
Just reached Origin. Is this a short dungeon like the Space Station in 2 or is it long?
It's not actually that long but it'll sure as hell feel like it because of all the trashmobs and repetitive corridors.
quite long
around the length of prison island
Personal preference for finale songs:
Where We Belong > Beyond The Sky > One Last You
>go to prison
>decide, for the lulz, to put in triton
>this goofy ahh game actually puts him in the background of every scene
it's hilarious, but why they would allow you access to a fricking mobius hero before that area is beyond me
why do some people turn into husks and others just go completely poof?
flame clock vs no flame clock
The ones that go poof become one with the force.
I assume it means they dont go back into the now and get cloned. Noah and Mio aside of course they Noah wants the puss too badly and she wants the dick. so much that they both say "frick the now" and do it anyway.
Hell idk ask Riku
Husk = killed in battle by a Blade or Moebius that sapped their life force to feed a Flame Clock, poof = killed without a Flame Clock involved/Home Coming.
they cant seriously expect me to believe shulk/rex and co lost against those moebius jobbers
My 15TP catwife…
15TP? oh no she's a sena level moron
I love Rex!
he certainly has enough love to go around
Holy FRICK Mio is best girl
she can do that but noah can't even break flimsy prison bars
Hold up, why wouldn’t MIO have broken the prison bars? I know I know she was M at that point and knew what was in store for herself, but shouldn’t Noah and Co have been BEGGING her to break the bars/wall open
The answer is actually that the one-punch scene is moronic to the point that even the writers did not take it seriously enough to make that level of strength relevant again, but people will still defend it by saying that Agnians are naturally stronk
So did you just not pay attention to the reason they couldn't break out? Or are you acting moronic for fun
I was more making a point about the punch scene but why couldn’t they break out? Genuinely don’t remember a specific reason other than the story requiring it
They're powered down and Riku forgot to remind Noah he has a sword that can cut through anything for a whole month
They forget about a lot of thing, like whining about unpassable obstacles and me wondering if they forgot about them being able to fricking fly in their interlink.
there was a severe need of someone who regularly tells them to not forget
>the girl with the gall will get removed like DON'T FORGET ME in a future patch
they literally cannot summon their weapons
Is Mio only super strong if she can summon her weapons?
OMG BROS
i just left my game on for over an hour while they were at camp and they are fricking right now! holy shit
they are all having sweet sweet love
I'm mid chapter 4 (little after Juniper) checking for Hero quests, and keep running into groups of level 40-42 Agnians. Are there any other quests for my current level or just wait and do those once strong enough? I have all of the Ch 3 heroes.
If you have Gray, Zeon and Teach, I'm pretty sure those are the only optional Hero Quests available right now beside the level 40 one.
I do have those. Saw Alexandria also, but that's one of the battles at 40. Thank you.
Will have to continue then. Thanks.
you will bump into ashera in the next zone
Is that Alexandria? In the class list hers is next after the hero after Juniper chronologically so I assume you're supposed to do her quest late ch 4.
There was her quest, then a group of troops in Dannagh desert. Also one more in the third region I think.
Yeah for Alexandria's quest, you need to defeat three of her elite troupes (all around level 40). IIRC one is in the canyon where you first meet her, on in is Dannagh Desert and one is in Ribbi Flats.
That shit annoyed me if only because I kept expecting actually new quests whenever I went to their icons on the map
Not really, you can just waltz into Colony Iota and fight them all at once.
The more I play this game the more I feel that Aionios is one of the most fricked up worlds in any jrpg I've ever played.
Guys I think there's a bug in my game? I just finished Sena's Side Story but it should have been labeled Ghondor's Side Story. Anyone else have this bug?
Sena's and Ghondor's ascension quests could have easily been swapped around but instead they just gave Ghondor 2 quests.
Noah's sword didn't really come off to me like it had as much gravitas as it's other 2 counterparts did. I don't exactly understand how the thing even works with it being a "sheathe" to the actual folded over 1000 times blade... but looking at pic related, is it supposed to fill the role of Logos? It can cut through anything, capable of "destroying" everything.
Because it's not on the same level as those two swords. It's just anathema to anything Moebius related because it's made of Origin Metal.
I think there's no point in trying to think of it that way since the Zohar didn't even show up in 3.
But... it's on every mobius' chest.
Origin is powered by the Conduit, they went through all the trouble of finally bringing it back into the narrative in 2, there is no way it's not playing some part in anything that happens in 3. It's probably responsible for recreating the two worlds at the end since creating and splitting worlds seems to be it's hobby. I'll eat my hat if it's not brought up or at least mentioned in the DLC.
But the conduit left at the end of 2?
just call it back bro
Does Pyra/Mythra still have their powers after it left? Maybe some of the unlimited energy stuck around in them
Each world built one half of Origin. We saw its blueprint. I think we would know if it was in there. Don't think they would make a machine that requires something they don't even know about to work.
I mean it's clear that Origin taps into a higher power, even if it isn't confirmed.
It may not be the conduit itself, but something else.
Just need to wait for the DLC which feels like it'll be post-ending; and likely tie up all /most of the loose ends in the Klaus saga considering Shulk, Rex, and Noah will all likely be there according to the expansion pass.
i hope it reveals Riku's secrets
Riku is Riku, no secret
he's the 7th founder
Z reincarnated Shulk as a Nopon, as a joke
Riku is the merged form of the XB1 and XB2 noponsages
What did he mean by that?!
The conduit fricks off at the end of 2, it fricking off is most likely the reason why the two dimensions are getting back together in the first place.
>I mean it's clear that Origin taps into a higher power, even if it isn't confirmed.
There isn't really a need to given the technologies available to both Bionis and Alrest. On the Bionis side, they can recreate a whole human body as we saw with Fiora while on Alrest, they have the template for a human consciousness storage unit with the core crystals. The only extra bit they need is a terraforming unit (but I'm not sure, I don't remember if Origin's initial goal was to safe guard the people only or also fix the world if there's a castatrophic loss of landmass during the merge).
There most definitely is a need for a higher dimension energy source.
Remember it's not just storing souls in crystals and making bodies. It's literally doing that + recreating the entire universe from nothing but light waves. I think it's probably gonna set up some shit like the wave existance looking at the inspirations we already got from XG.
It's cuz it doesn't.
It's not meant to be anything more than a really sharp sword that Melia made to destroy things made from Origin. On top of being able to resonate with it to a small extent.
Nia literally state that both the sword and Ouroboros itself are gimmicks.
The Aegis Blade itself didn't mean anything at all either, the actually power came from the Artifices and the Conduit.
hate it when you over level and low level monster at origin still trying to attack you
>only 10 hours in and already at chapter 3
uh bros? i thought this game was supposed to be 150 hours long?
Chapters 4-7 are pretty significantly longer than 1-3, especially if you're keeping up with sidequests and exploration.
Do sidequests and expore. Kill shit.
Are you skipping everything? I'm doing all side content and I'm 80 hours in, just started Chapter 5.
>”Queens Loney Single Bed, what are we goin’ to do now?”
What did Eunie mean by this?
>Queen's dried up ovaries!
completely uncalled for, Lanz
>Make "poor melia" a meme over how awful a hand she was dealt in X1
>"m-maybe it'll get better for her in a sequel right bro? R-right?
>X3
>she can't even get a nice bedroom to cry in
>opens up a bit to Noah
>he fricks off to see Mio in another world
.
>Another game I in which have to be the punching bag...
>Stupid Robot!
>Local spinster seethes at married woman
I still love you Melia
Queen's crooked canines
I've been off Ganker for 3 weeks since the leak and finally returned. I'm finally done with my playthrough, 98% done or something (couldn't fricking find Cammuravi's hero quest no matter what I did). I recorded every gameplay session, luckily I'm on vacation so I could no-life the game every day and night for the past two weeks, only stopping to sleep and eat really.
What was the consensus of the game online? I personally think it's slightly better than XC1 but not quite as good as XC2.
That looks like a massive waste of harddrive space (unless you plan on doing a 20 hour review for your youtube channel or something).
Anyway, we all agree that XC3 sucks and that the series peaked with XC2.
>(couldn't fricking find Cammuravi's hero quest no matter what I did)
You mean the rank 20 quest, right? Because the unlock one is literally on your way during the main story.
Going into the Hero Roster it says "Have Ethel undergo the maturation process" and I have no clue how to initiate it. Says the same thing for Ethel.
It didn't show up for me too. Turns out you need to get Rank 10 on Cammuravi's class, then go with him to Colony Omega Lab.
I like it a lot. I think I enjoy it for completel different reasons than 2 though.
2 had parts of it I genuinely didn’t enjoy but I feel 3 lacks that.
I’m under the opinion that chapter 5 into 6 is some of the best scenes in The blade games. Ending isn’t strong but it’s there. I hope the DLC is as good or better than Torna and FC.
I really love these characters and wish there was more time to spend with them just bullshitting eachother and hanging out.
why is Eunie such a tsun tsun for this cute maniac?
I forgot to mention by the way that I was playing on hard. The hardest thing I ever did in this game was probably going straight to liberate Colony 9 after I liberated Colonly 4 on level 22. Moebius B took me several hours of attempts and the actual kill attempt was 30 minutes long, with me abusing chain attacks to get out enough heals to survive.
frick his instakill grab you can't escape from for some reason
best game play in the trilogy by far, story shits the bed after chapter 5/6
No consensus, and probably there will never be one.
People who liked 2 the best most likely still like 2 the best.
People who had 1 as their favorite are more likely to have loved 3 since it is more like that game in tone.
And the people who liked X the most are probably disappointed that it doesn't have playable mechs yet again (unless you count Ouroboros forms) and the world isn't seamless.
Go back to Omega Colony with him
good game, weird main story, chapter 5 was great.
good characters and a lot of time provided to get you to enjoy them.
great side quests and so much more content around it than I thought prior.
good exploration but the world design felt less inspired compared to prior games (obviously doesn't help that it was a merge of two worlds)
the rewards for exploration felt useless, too easy to cap ether cylinders/not enough ways to spend it.
very enjoyable battle system during balanced encounters on hard around the mid game but way too easy to unbalance it and over level.
Speaking personally I absolutely loathed the game when I finished it because 90% of why I enjoy Xeno is the batshit insane plots and philosophical ramblings, which seem to have been almost absent from this game. The plot is distressingly straightforward, and while there's tons of references to past games they're all random and haphazard and never go anywhere. Nearly all the mysteries in the game are answered either by "lol its Origin magic I don't gotta explain shit" or "that thing you thought was cool/important? yeah, turns out it's just an ebin subversion that doesn't actually matter at all"
There's plenty of over the top nonsense in this game as well.
>Noah and Mio gets reincarnated endlessly always ending up as ouroboros
>"hoho this must be because of the ~wave existence~"
>never elaborated on
I think they wanted the game to stand on its own rather than relying on the two previous entries. But part of the appeal is that it's the two worlds melded together, so it kinda falls flat. Like, nobody in the game world questions why the Urayan mountains looks like a giant whale monster or why there is a mile tall sword stuck in the ground. Nobody bothers with the culture of the world they live in, which I guess makes sense because they only live to kill eachother, but at least the folks in City live fairly normal lives, have a culture of their own and could plausibly have someone doing some kind of research into what the world they live in actually is, but nope. I was really hoping there would be a sidequest of some guy to explore and "find out" stuff about relics, ruins and whatnot.
Agree with this so much. If they wanted it to stand on its own, why is the whole premise of the game about a fusion between the prior 2 universes? I could vaguely understand if people were clamoring for a direct sequel in a merged world and they did as a kind of loophole trick, but reception to the idea of a merged world was mixed to begin with and Monolith clearly knew that as Takahashi went out of his way to try and assuage people's doubts by saying the concept of the Mechonis Sword stabbing Uraya was drafted back before 2 was even finished. Also yeah the part about people not questioning the world and its origins makes sense and is thematically relevant for the brainwashed soldiers, but it all falls flat when even the supposedly liberated City dwellers don't seem interested in it either. Hell, the story itself largely glosses over Origin and the original universes, treating it almost as ancillary to the actual plot.
Maybe Melia could get some dick if she stopped with the stupid hair rolls
But I love those hair rolls. I'd stick my dick them
>He doesn't enjoy cinnamon buns
get some taste
Are the heroes that join in you the final battle random? I got Miyabi, Teach, Ghondor, Valdi, and Juniper for Keves side, and Monica, Zeon, Fiona, Ethel, and Isurd for Agnes side.
I wonder if you just get fricked if you recruit the minimum amount of heroes possible to beat the game. The only required heroes are Valdi, the Nopons, Ghondor, Juniper, and Miyabi, right?
FarmerCHAD i beg of you, please frick Melia. You're her only hope.
Melia is for Shulk only
However, Shulk is not for Melia
Takahashi isn't a disgusting hack (most of the time)
it's not happening
>Takahashi isn't a disgusting hack
>Melia is still alone without any reason
I HATE THE DEMIURGE
I HATE THE DEMIURGE
I HATE THE DEMIURGE
I HATE THE DEMIURGE
I HATE THE DEMIURGE
I HATE THE DEMIURGE
I HATE THE DEMIURGE
So what happens to Triton in the ending? Does he just immediately drop dead as a result of being hundreds of years old after moebius dies?
yes
what toxoplasmosis does to a man
At least Shulk isn't a catfricker.
toxoplasmosis confers abilities that some may consider unnatural
The nonbussy got my man zoomin
did you know?
It's his sex.
Riku must have extremely small dick if he can't even wake Manana up with it.
Anybody else have trouble with the 3 bird enemies in Triton's ascension quest? Fighting multiple enemies with huge ass AOEs is just fricking obnoxious.
Can you ever get back Mio's robo armor?
Nope
wait for dlc :^)
better buy the DLC meh meh meh
frick off Shillshill
Meh. Why Tirkin so awful? Meh..... Riku hate Tirkin...
MIO'S MOM HAS GOT IT GOING ON
When does this get good?
Chapter 4 and this shit is still not picking up the pace.
end of chapter 5
god fricking damnit
>X and Y just die with no dialogue
waste potential
my game bugged and they didn't even disappear after I killed them, they just froze in their death position with the blue light rising from them forever
They do have death monologues but they aren't subtitled or played in a cutscene.
Yeah that felt bizarre to me, especially when those two got decent screentime and proper cutscenes near the end of the game, only to get unceremoniously kicked to the curb.
Final area as a whole was underwhelming compared to the long climb up the World Tree in 2, but the final boss was pretty fun at least.
What the frick were they doing?
mating dance
fusion dance
The low IQ mating session
GRIIIM RUUUSH
UNSTOPPABLE SPEAR
Stupid sexy moron with her stupid sexy wide hips.
>get sucked totally into the story since chapter 5 sets up some absolute kino
>just kidding, haha
bullshit. i even started to tear up a bit.
They pull the "lol they aint dead" thing lik 3 times very close together. I thought killing mio was kino as frick and they should have stuck with it. Still had M join you but she's actually M. She then would die when Z is killed. Just torment Noah with the image of his gf
I assume this was not the intended way to get here.
nice parkour
post map, i want to try it
Just go behind the throne in Melia's throne room and take the elevator.
Theres a secret door when u go up the first elevator from the 4th floor, before you go up that 2nd elevator on the 5th floor, touch the wall that looks like a doorway with the green circle
Who the frick did build Alcomoth mecha if Melia was captured right in the beginning?
how do you get there?
That's literally how I got in, it's most likely intended because jumping directly to the balcony is an instant death.
Triton's ascension quest was kino
Anyone else on a Steam Deck and crashing in the Urayan tunnels? It's been solid up to this point.
There's a pretty serious issue with the waterfall in that area, either it glitches and covers the entire screen or outright crashes the game.
Use opengl.
Thanks, will try.
huh so if you didn't unlock triton before final boss you will get z field effect like burn and ice thing?
oh wait you still get the damage
Z fight is so boring compare to 1 and 2
So if M and Mio switched places right at the start, shouldn't Noah have noticed when they were interlinked in the subsequent battle?
Dont think too much about it
I'm still not all that onboard with that plot point, she basically just sat around for a month after alerting the City while Noah loses his shit the whole time
She hammed it up good though during the fight
>doesn’t even bother to use her magic soul communication powers to tell Noah and the others that she’s fine without the possibility of other people overhearing
I get that she didn’t want to arouse suspicion, but surely it couldn’t have hurt to pay a single visit a couple days before the eclipse
Dunno how deep is the interlinking share of memories, but going by what M said to Sena while on the prison, she seemed to have been watching the party from the beginning and most likely Mio as well. And since M and Mio are technically the same person I guess Noah didn't notice in the heat of the fight.
same reason why Taion wasn't able to tell Eunie had PTSD whenever he interlinked with her
the answer is that they can suppress themselves
Finished X3 today, it was my first xenoblade game and I seriously doubt the others games can top chapter 5/6, mostly because I'm a sucker for romance
Anyway my copy of XB:DE arrives next week and I'm already hyped as frick
You'll love XC1 then.
Especially if you like dolljoints and ntr.
That's neat, anon. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Now I actually wonder what the people who started with 3 will think of the other games.
>mostly because I'm a sucker for romance
You'll probably love Gears then friend.
Xb1 has fantastic music and fun cutscenes, but ckming from 3, the combat will be a massive downgrade, and I consider 1 a fun game to play.
Remember to activate expert mode right at the start
2 unironically shits on them all, especially form the romance part. X is better on the exploration part. 3 is mediocre, just like 1.
2's romance is terrible, 3's is much better
It's better than anything in 3 and 1. You will never be a woman.
2's romance is trash unless you mean Pandy and Zeke's.
2 is the worst in all categories except combat and music
>>>>>>
form the romance part
lol. 2gay. XB3's romance is the best in Xeno games besides maybe Gears.
The only thing 2 did good was have hot blade girls
I'm starting to think Xenoblade 2gays are like Dark Souls 2gays. moronic attention prostitutes with garbage taste.
And I like the game.
It's just the same moronic false flaggers as usual, they just changed from their old "XC3 is censored!!!" moronness to that since they saw it wasn't baiting enough people anymore.
>2 unironically shits on them all
No, field skills and gatcha makes it the worst.
>segiri fanart is nonexistent
i don't feel so good robot bros...
Maybe she shouldn't be locked behind an obscure quest chain at the end of the game.
I honestly had no idea she was locked behind a bunch of quests cause I would always occasionally stop to do as much as I could find, I conveniently had already done them all
so Z just got lucky because origin happen to be near him?
I hope Mio pay Tora a lot of money for making that big massive robot
>die like 2 hours into final boss fight, presumably last phase
>booted to title screen
I am glad cutscenes are skippable
Hard mode makes bosses such damage sponges
>hard mode
>bloats enemy HP and damage
>nerfs your actual ability to do arts
>doesn't even give you a gay little sticker on your save file if you beat it
>can change difficulty any time you want so you don't have to stick with it
literally what is the goddamn point
it's just the same type of cancer as bringer of chaos in 2
I'm fricking overleveled constantly from all the sidequests anyway, I haven't had a fight on normal I didn't steamroll since consul J
>nerfs your actual ability to do arts
Does it fricking really? That makes it artificial difficulty in that case holy shit.
It just changes it from 3 Fusion Arts per Interlink Level to 4 so it takes longer to reach Lvl 3 Ouroboros forms.
it also makes your chain attack multiplier start lower and decreases the values on your role actions causing both your talent art and chain attack gauges to fill slower.
it sounds like it could be fun if they didn't bump up the enemy HP and damage
There is a random bug towards the end of the final fight when Melia and Nia join the fight, there is chance you will just die the instant the game gives control back to you. Happened to me and couple others.
anons help
short or long hair
I can't decide
you can change it in the option
Long looks way better
long hair model looks good but the 2D portraits are ass, and her not wanting to cut it to respect M is very commendable imo
canon choice is short if cutscenes are anything to go by
Long is really hot but Mio seems to prefer short even though she wants to respect M's body.
You can later change it on the options anytime, though, so just follow your heart or dick.
but what's noah's preference
I want it to be whatever he likes
I'm pretty sure he likes it long. She is very against asking Noah, probably because he was the one to suggest it to her to begin with. But I'm sure he would like whatever Mio prefers too but still
>letting Mio guilt trip herself into keeping it long
That’s not what M would’ve wanted anon. Let her be free of guilt
I just think it's hotter
How are you supposed to find these ultimate hammer Nopon? Was there a hint I missed?
im not sure there are hints, just think of notable nopon you've met along the way and go see them. there is no indication they have special dialog or anything you just need to talk to them.
one or two are sort of obvious but the rest are real random and pretty much require a guide
Well frick. I can't think of a single one. Guide it is I guess.
make sure you check several. most the guides on google are chink shit and get half the names wrong to make things even more confusing (using japanese romanisations instead of the localised names)
thats more a problem with the localization not using the actual names than the guide sites
The order in which I got them:
1. Burrburr at Sage's Domicile, Dannagh Desert. You need to go through the trick cavern to find him, I had already done that so finding him was a sinch for me.
2. Tempapa at Daedal Isle in Erythia Sea. He's part of Riku and Manana's hero quest.
3. Gingin at Gingin's Treehouse in Low Maktha Wildwood. She is a weird fricker living in the deepest part of the woods infested with fricking Godzilla monsters.
4. Panepane at the Hillside Ferronis Hulk in Millick Meadows. He's the dehydrated Nopon that you help early in the game as you first enter the desert. I only remembered him because he was listed as a "Fellow legendary Nopon" in the affinity chart.
5. Fixifixi in one of the cells of Li Garte Prison Camp. He is initially locked behind bars so you can only see him from the outside when you're doing the prison part of the main plot. You need to unlock Segiri a bit later and have Colony 0 move into the abandoned prison so that the cell opens. You then need to speak with him with Valdi in the party because he is Valdi's old masterpon.
6. Riku. Riku reveals himself as the final Legendary Nopon when you've found the other missing five.
>6. Riku. Riku reveals himself as the final Legendary Nopon when you've found the other missing five.
nice try, RIku is Riku
I found them by checking the affinity chart, their portraits have them all wearing hammers.
This was probably the most fun sidequest for me. If you explored well during your playthrough you'll definitely have met one or two of the Nopon you seek already and only need to remember where they are. The rest can usually be found by exploring in areas you haven't been to yet, or you run into them by chance on side quests.
Huh, that actually sounds pretty fun. Time to go hunting I guess.
Just one thing about that quest, the nopon who's facing a wall requires you to have Valdi as the current hero in the party, otherwise, he won't even answer. It's pretty much the only obscure one, especially since you can only get where he is after transferring Colony 0 to the agnus prison.
I wish there were upgrades for each class or at least each class the character is S rank in. I really hope it's one of the things they will add in free updates.
Reposting on proper thread
Is hard mode too much?
Just killed the first consul guy and I swear the fight took like half an hour, like 8+ chain attacks and dozens of ouroboros transformations
The first 2 boss fights before the last one were fun but the transformed dude was overkill. And he was easier than his previous form, he just had a billion hp
Don't bother with hard mode until late game or until Normal gets too easy. It's just gonna extend fights a LOT.
I found chain attacks started doing more damage after getting Ouroboros forms but it still takes a while
I think the only thing I've switched back to normal for was that shitty Colony Tau quest where you have to kill a bunch of monsters outside the colony, for some reason that one is ridiculously hard.
>those fricking ram things
>everyone goes from max health to dead 20 seconds into the fight
>stuck with bow b***h instead of someone actually useful
>I think the only thing I've switched back to normal for was that shitty Colony Tau quest where you have to kill a bunch of monsters outside the colony, for some reason that one is ridiculously hard.
I start the fight with everyone at Ouroboros form, and also 4 healers, that to prevent instant wipe at the beginning
Why does Mio have a tumblr nose?
How in the everloving frick do I get over there.
this.
asking the same question
Go from the left. Fight the lvl 70 enemies.
Bros how the frick do I get Ethel back? I'm already past the point where anything involving this character would be a spoiler, so please tell me what I'm looking for. The internet in general has been fricking worthless with helping me.
It's literally in the main story lul.
When you get her back as a e-girl, bring Cammuravi to Colony Omega and enter the room with the cradle inside the facility.
You'll then get the option to age her up so she can fight at her full potential again.
go back to colony omega after you get there in the main story which unlocks cammuravi as a hero and e-girl ethel. get cammuravi class to lvl10 (dunno if ethel class needs to be as well but probably is at this point) and go inside colony omega to the lab with cammuravi. not sure if there's other stuff required inbetween but if the hero roster says "get ethel to maturity" or something like that then you should be good to go
Ah okay, the reaching rank 10 thing must be what I was missing and what literally every guide was neglecting to mention.
Check Hero roster speedreader. Every single Ascension quest requires Rank 10 in the class.
I didn't realize it was an ascension quest. Simple as.
do i need to level up all character to level 10 or just go with like one?
Just one.
It's usually only the class inheritor who's required to be rank 10, so for Cammunavi, it's Taion.
What is up with this anon? In everythread he is just like "WTF??!! You didn't hear the sound file of Melly farting on Riki on this super secret part of the game??????" Like chill dude lmao
>Nia is sleeping in pod
>Melia is sleeping with her wife
Okay...
I can't believe Melia and Tyrea sinned
>all the heroes come
alright, that's a good one
Are any of the tank classes even good? They can't seem to hold aggro for shit.
zephyr is very good. lone exile also good for holding aggro but can hit the dirt in my experience.
ive found lost vanguard to be ok as well, heaps of shit seems to stick to them when the ai plays them while i mongo one target down as zephyr or LE
>fusion
>cutscene
>cutscene end
>fusion end
DAMN IT
i'm pretty surprised at how standalone this game ended up being
it's an interesting model they managed to come with where fanservice is actually relevant but at the same time does not alienate new players
Someone explain this shit cause I'm dumb.
>the two worlds were on a collision course with each other
>they acted like matter and antimatter to each other and would have annihilated each other if they collided (hence the annihilation events that happen in lore)
>the solution was to back up everything in the two worlds in an ark that could reconstruct the two worlds after the collision occurs
>the process got screwed up by Z who created an imperfect fusion of the worlds that's barely functioning
>the ending has the process finally go through successfully with the two worlds being reconstructed
Am I getting that right? Are the two worlds still dangerous to each other after the reconstruction?
It wasn't successful and it fricked up, resulting in Mira.
>they acted like matter and antimatter to each other and would have annihilated each other if they collided (hence the annihilation events that happen in lore)
Not exactly, the characters SUPPOSE, they acted like matter and antimatter, we only see the annihilation events inside Aionios and it's absolutely not impossible that those events are only caused because of mobiuses straining Origin to the absolute limit with their artificial merge that you talk about later.
They just created Origin to have a contingency plan in case the two universes really tried to delete each other, the way they talk about it, they absolutely don't know if Origin did anything at all in the end (by that I mean outside of Aionios) and if it was needed in the first place. Just see the universes merging as the 2000 bug and Origin as the various contingencies people built against it, in the end we don't really know if one or the other ever did anything.
Sex with Mio
the way they deal with last boss is pretty moronic tbh
yeah, the game really end at chapter 6, chapter 7 never happen
>no Bri'ish birdbrain GF that will call you a sparking muppet to show affection
Why live, Gankerros?
I like how quest enemies have sub-headers above their names.
>goon squad
>jeremy's just deserts
which ones did you find
>G.G. Bros. (gogol brothers)
if i skip credit scene i'll miss the extra cutscene?
If you skip, you skip every single cutscene that comes after it as well
alright, thanks, guess i'll have to watch the credit
Yes.
Just finished the game.
Who thought it was a good idea to make the final boss have like 12 phases and take almost two hours to beat?
this.
also the way the last boss die is too moronic
The same moron who it was a good idea to make you start from the first phase if you die at any point. Fricking stupid ass devs
I spent the entire fight just thinking of how mad I would be if I died and had to do it all over again. Luckily it didn't happen, but I legit think I might have quit the game if it did. Whole thing took me almost 2 hours.
I died twice during it from having all 3 of my healers one-shot, the first time during the very last phase. I had played the entire game on hard to that point, but was about 5 levels underleveled for the boss. I was so tilted after the second death that I cashed in all my bonus EXP to go straight to level 90 just to get it over with
>The same moron who it was a good idea to make you start from the first phase if you die at any point
Guess pic related was the devs' favorite boss.
At least Nyx Avatar's phase changes were only like 5 seconds long, and didn't have 5 or so cutscenes spliced in-between them.
THE ARCANA IS THE MEANS BY WHICH ALL IS REVEALED
It's just to punish morons for playing on Hard
surprised at how many complaints there are about the final boss, glad I played it on normal and just enjoyed the spectacle because damn it was a spectacle
The ideas were good, it just takes way too fricking long. Even on normal.
I kinda wish there were more gimmick fights tbh
For how many party members they were and with the class system I was expecting they'd be splitting up a bunch of times, but no
I actually liked it a lot. My only gripe is that there was not a long ass exposition scene like at the end of 1 or before the final boss in 2 that autistically explains Z's motivations.
Also, I beat it on Hard and I swear the kinoplex phase was way harder than anything after it.
I had to reset like 3 times at the first phase but got trough the rest on my first try.
Smug gormotti
Runs in the family.
wait are they actually related? I was pretty flabbergasted that no one pointed out how they look identical considering all the other look alikes they've met up to that point
It's never outright stated they are, but Nia's hero quest heavily implies it.
She's smug because she locked down the protag dick within an hour of the game starting
Dumb gormotti
They took all the criticism 2's final boss got for being too short and easy and went WAY too far in the opposite direction.
>Prison Problems 1/2
>Second rumor bubble only appears at night with no indication
Bravo Monolith
It's infuriating because every time you teleport somewhere it'll default to 8 in the morning
You can use L and R to set which time you want to arrive you know
Yes, but who is gonna do that
Am I meant to use the auto attack arts asap and the gcd arts only during fusion? I don’t know which arts are good to use together for fusion.
You can use arts whenever. Fusion arts just build up the interlink gauge and combine art effects (Main art first, fused art second). In someone situation the fusion version is preferred since the fused art might have a long ass animation that can shorten with the main art.
Not gonna lie, there are times the plot gets so stupid I start laughing even though it's supposed to be a dramatic scene.
>Nia has the two Aegis swords aside from her own blade when she fights
a nice touch
wtf is that machine gun behind her
That's my player character (Eunie) holding a gun since she's a Full Metal Jaguar. The weapons don't disappear in first person view.
kek
imagine the smell
I'm getting bored, too many side quests, too much running around. I just hit chapter 7, just gonna beat it. How long if I just mainline it?
WELCOME TO COLONY 9 ETHAN WINTERS same VA
Heizenberg and Nikolay? Really?
so what's the "japanese humor" moment in this game?
someone post THAT webum
the friend we made along the way
Colony Mu.
always been curious, is this real? The cats looked so surreal
>you didn't see their Red faces afterwards
>most party members slowly raise their hands
>meanwhile Mio's shoots up at the speed of light
How many pent-up heat cycles is this cat carrying?
Definitely Colony Mu. Feels extremely out of place and like a different game.
>kill last boss 5 times
>the last boss die because N&M hit Z in cutscene
what's the fricking point with that 5 battle then
To prove a point
The way this homie looks at her like he has never seen a woman before.
He pretty much hasn't, they've only had the capacity for attraction for like a couple of weeks
So Tora was alive to take part in building Origin? How old do Nopons get again?
cannot share, is trade secret
Most of the characters were alive when it happened, otherwise Rex and Shulk wouldn't have a statue in the City saying that they had a fighting role in the war against mobius inside Aionios.
Was there a Rex one? I noticed Shulk but thought that was just a red herring
The one about the gigachad who dual wields great swords
Sena is so cute
and Sexy
>It was I, Riku
I'm getting real tired of his shit.
*nods at you with a smile*
I really want to just genocide Nopons
Tirkins live matter
>"so uh your majesty will you need an escort"
>"who do you think I am"
>immediately goes to the aid of her subjects unlike some other person
unfathomably based
lazy tomboy useless cat
>MELIA'S DA QUEEN
And poeple thought she and Eunie are absolutely different
>at the end of melia's ascension quest fiora's theme plays
This is just overly mean at this point.
Why is Nia so autistic about acting Queenly?
Idk but it made me love her even more.
She hates pretending to be someone with certain etiquette standards to uphold
>finished chapter 5
>got to a place to save and stop for the night in chapter 6
I'm feeling so many things right now
I don't recommend stopping there tbh
I want to keep playing but it's 2am and I drive for a living starting at 8, I managed to beat the fake Nia and see Shania kill herself so this is fine right?
oh yeah definitely I thought you meant you stopped at the end of 5, good luck trying to sleep after all that excitement
This is all making me want to replay XC2 to really see how it compares.
imo the XC3 story hasn't got shit on XC2 story. Especially the villains are leagues better than the fricking Moebius goons.
yeah even though I remember not liking certain parts of 2 much I think I still remember the world fondly. It'd be interesting to see if it actually holds up. I don't really remember how big/small 2 was in comparison
Supposedly in terms of traversable area 3 has five times as much as 2, but to me it didn't feel that much bigger. Or rather, it felt bigger, but more in terms of pure scale than breadth/variety.
I really did not like the KH/theme park-styled regions 2 had, everything felt so disconnected compared to 1 even though it's justified considering the setting. With 3 the random ass mishmashed biomes kind of gives the same vibe but it's still more along the lines of 1's traditional adventure thanks to the Mechonis Sword serving as a landmark.
Yeah, I kinda really disliked it when I played it at launch but now that XC3 has scratched the serious game itch, I think I'll appreciate XC2 stupidity a bit more. I also remember liking the area visuals more in XC2 so there is that.
I think the serious parts of 2 hit harder because they are contrasted by the other themes. 3 largely has the same(or two) tone all the way through.
Playing through this, still early on just wanted to ask why do the colonies stop getting mindraped into seeing you as monsters by the Irises after you free Colony 4? It's weird to me that i just got a sidequest to go back to colony 9, but i fled colony 9 because i couldn't talk to or reason with anyone because of the glowing red eye shit. Was all that just the ability of Consul K or something? feels weird that the characters just assume all of that is over now.
You'll have a better time if you just stop questioning why the Consuls do anything and see them for the Saturday morning cartoon villains they are.
It's literally used as a plot point of convenience. Whenever they want the colony to be hostile, it's invoked but if they want dialogue and shit, it's not switched on.
How did Noah and Mio split themselves? I don't understand
Z was bored because M & N weren't as exciting to follow as they were before so he created another instances of Noah and Mio, slowly engineering N's NTR for his amusement, hence why he doesn't give a frick about the world after chapter 6 starts, his plan already peaked.
The statue that exactly looks like Shulk is a red herring, Shulk is most likely the one who lost an arm while Rex is the one who lost an eye.
Finding those Legacy of the Seven chests is some nice dopamine. Are they all in Cadensia?
where the frick do I find the materials for riku's ascension quest?
PLEASE RESPOND
fabricator iirc
which one?
fabricator gacha drops literally everything in the region it belong.
>tfw will never have your waifu be reborn into a thirsty e-girl
is that just her regular model shrunk down
yeah
too many models not enough time
pls understand
the cyberpunk tech
They have slightly different clothes. It's the same with Ethel
Ethel looks visibly different at a glance especially with the shorter hair and everything
I don't think so. Her older model looked more mature.
taion side quest?
I really hope they let us keep Mio's alternate outfit, like how Pyra's disguise was added to 2 later
I'm sure they will. If not I am going to write letters to the company and complain. And I dont mean emails, I mean letters.
I'm flabbergasted that they didn't give you M's outfit permanently
You think they will release an update that lets you play as the heroes? Seems like that was planned but taken out last min for some reason.
won't they be severely handicapped without fusion arts and ouroboros
Thats exactly what would make them so fun
so what side quest i need to use this odd shape thing?
Game is more enjoyable if you don’t go out of your way to explore and just follow the quest line, with only doing side quests of similar level to current main. Every quest will finally take you to everywhere.
i do not understand why they won't just let you level down on your first playthrough like in DE. being overleveled for a quest because you did too many or did them in the wrong order is literally not an issue if you're allowed to level down as you please.
This is a Japanese Kevesi first termer
Cammuravi is a lucky guy
Ethel is not Japanese. Cammuravi maybe but Ethel is clearly Caucasian.
The most based outcome is to keep her e-girl so Cammuravi dies from old age and some based guy like Travis starts grooming her after that.
Where do I find ascension quest for Isurd and where do I get side story for Taion? I'm already in final dungeon and I still have no clue where to find those two.
Don’t nopon know how children are made, why is riku surprised?
Nopon aren't even affected by the Flame Clock and live long lives, so they should definitely know. The first thing I said to myself in the baby scene was that the Nopon should know so why are they surprised.
Riku's dadapon didn't give him the talk
He's acting, Riku's a piece of origin that Melia enlisted. He can't blow his cover
What even is Lucky Seven? Noah had it in his 85932 previous lifetimes, so it's more than just some generic hunk of metal from the deus ex machina.
Play the game instead of demanding strangers on the internet to spoil it for you.
>something something melia something origin something
is not a satisfying explanation
I didn't quite get that part either. So it's a shard of Origin, sure, but why are there 2 of them once N became a separate entity, as you've pointed out? Are the 85932 Lucky Sevens just lying around that Riku's dad makes after each Noah dies?
Well there's been a ton of ouroborous stones so I don't see why not. I imagine Z probably destroys Lucky Seven when he kills off the Noah of the time though.
>Sex metaphor through violence : the cutscene
better shot
they both cum at the same time
I usually love this sort of cheesy crap from my mecha, but this was moronic. Probably didn't help that we barely knew that guy and their "rivalry" was so quick and we got like one scene to establish was so rushed. Also made her look pretty selfish, yeah Noah you take care of my colony while I die okay?
Ethel and Cammuravi's rivalry was already established in her backstory, granted they don't spend a lot of time developing it for the player.
Consuls O and P were also draining their life through their mechs in order to force them into fighting Ouroboros, so both knew they were already screwed that they might as well have their final mating duel before they expire.
It was quite forced, I mean them getting into the mechs wouldn't change anything, they were gonna blow up their colonies whether they won or not. Should have used their life force to attack the consul instead of each other really. Their romance is pure shit.
Aroused murder onee san.
The cutscenes is pretty much ghe closest confirmation that they are freaks in bed lmao.
Elites need to appear on map. How am I meant to remember where some of them are if I haven’t killed it yet.
Reminder to keep Ethel e-girl so she never develops feelings for Cammuravi
>Baby cutscene
>Taion is the most excited dude of the group
My dude is curious.
Taion is a nerd
The interest in the subject is purely scientific
Ok but what the frick is the lucky seven??
PLAY.THE.GAME
I did. There has to be more to this fricking sword than what was explained.
No, its just a piece of metal from origin that Melia pretty much enchanted, which shaped it into a Monado and gave Anti Aionos properties.
It's just a tool.
How did Noah always end up with it then?
Unironically fate.
>Riku's family has been making Lucky Sevens for thousands of years
>Every male heir is named Riku, going all the way back to the original Riku thousands of years ago
>Nopon don't have the tattoos(and have longer lifespans than humans anyway) so every time Noah dies the current Riku has to find his next incarnation
>Our Noah is not this Riku's first Noah
Same reason why he keeps becoming ouroboros.
Who fricking cares
He threw it away and even if he didn't, it would be still gone the time the two worlds would separate
Pretty much everything related to the lucky 7 and Riku are in "don't think too much" territory because if you do, parts of the plot starts completely crumbling.
Like "Why is there two Lucky 7 despite N losing his own when dying?", and other things like X making the fact that N has it being important somehow (which doesn't make sense since Z seemingly created N's own Lucky 7 given what I said earlier), Vandham making it one of the reasons why he activates the Ouroboros stone in the first place and so on.
It feels like there were two writers who didn't really check each other's work to check for inconsistencies, it's kinda like the cutscene about how they couldn't change classes before and then have one cutscene about how Taion's mondos were originally Nimue's weapon and recruits asking Sena why she choose a hammer and not another weapon (something she wouldn't be able to change anyway if she was class-locked).
It's not uncommon for there to be inconsistencies with relatively minor details like that in a Xenogame, but imo 3 has the most poorly thought-out central narrative/lore of the entire series.
It tried to be many things, instead of exploring a number of them they just tossed shit at the wall and hoped it worked.
It's the Xenoblade.
What this game lacks is a monster list with a drop table.
Why is this so hard to do? Almost every game JRPG has that shit
They got lazy, similarly how fps all had bots, now barely any of the available ones have them
so after Mio is saved, the party is no longer pressured for time, right? is that why they could afford to do the Origin shard world tour to upgrade the ship? I imagine this is also the time when they tackle all the sidequests
pretty much, it's what I did
>upgrade the boat
>use it for a grand total of 5 seconds
>teleport to final dungeon
weird
>get to final dungeon
>you can just teleport out
Uhm, ok?
>Foreshadowed its making and usage
>The music made it seem like it was gonna be bad news
>Just them going WOW
>Toss it aside shortly after
Seriously what was the point of all of that
When they said they were going to upgrade it, I honestly thought the great sea would be it's own region with colonies and other POI scattered throughout. Like Erythia on crack.
I mean it wouldn't make sense for there to be Colonies there, but yeah same. In fact I thought the party would get their shit kicked in at Origin and the real motive behind Moebius would be revealed, with a whole other overworld separate from Aionios a la 1 and 2, but that didn't turn out so well...
well sure considering the giant tornado and all but I was more thinking that there would be a bunch of islands and archipelagos in the outer areas and some ruins and funky stuff the closer you get to the center that the world never saw before thanks to being obscured by the bad weather, something like Morytha, all while is floating menacingly in the middle while you're exploring
it definitely changes more than that, your chain attack multipliers start lower and the talent art gauge fills significantly slower as well. hard is a non-playtested mess.
>There are shortcut for Interlink
What buttons is it?
I see people use it on youtube but cant find it when playing
you can switch it in the settings so you can manually control who interlinks, is that what you mean?
Yes