Playing Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. Not much new here, doing some side content while waiting for FrontNav minerals to give me what I need. Did some side quests, also finally found the dog, so was able to do tons of heart-to-heart.
Finally got the required mineral last night and went to start Chapter 7, when I realised I haven’t surveyed Oblivia enough! facepalm I remember checking it before and was sure I meet the required number, so I either it read the requriement wrong or my survey percentage wrong.
Anyways, with Skell, it shouldn’t take too long to do it. Also, got all my characters to level 30, so can buy Skells for them. Haven’t done that yet though, will do it soon.
The Surge time was pretty productive, completed the third area, and got some good upgrades, then went back to second area (that’s how the game flows), and now am stuck at the boss.
I am bit confused about this boss. It has two phases, I have gotten down first one now, can do it without losing much health, or sometimes, any health. The second phase has 4 robo-arms on the side walls, which keep attacking you when you are attacking the mail pillar / boss. You can destroy those 4 arms, but if kill the boss without destroying the arms, you get a very good weapon.
So, that’s where I am stuck, I want to kill the boss without destroying those arms, to get that weapons, but I am not sure if I am good enough to keep track of 5 different things and attack the boss while dodging them. Going to try a few more times, if it didn’t work out, will just destroy the arms.
Also got Street Fighter 6
I am more of a casual fighting game player, but still enjoy them every now and then, with a soft spot for Street Fighter and Soulcalibur games. So, just got it to play few rounds every now and then. Thinking about seeing if I can get anywhere in ranked, but not too concerned about it.
Ilandar mentioned PlanetSide 2 last week, and after looking it up, I wanted to give it a try. Plan to check it out over the weekend. I am not much of a MMO fan, so not sure how much I will actually play, but want to take a look.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
So, I bought my first skell, and the difference between that and the free one is night and day. Previously, I wasn’t sure what’s such a big deal with these skells, they make traversal easy, but weren’t much for fighting, but now I can kill most enemies of my level so quickly!
What’s the point of classes once you get the skell though?
Fighting on-foot can be lot stronger than using Skells if you take the time to optimize for it, in particular late game. And there’s some downright broken stuff you can only do on-foot like infinite Overdrive or being 100% invincible by abusing Ghost Walker.
After I got the Flight Module I used Enel’s guide to quickly max classes so I could test differerent setups, then took some hints from his Long Sword and Dual Guns guide to tweak my character. I did not grind for equipment, just used what I had in my inventory with a better weapon/arte/skill combo, but the result was absurd, I was soloing enemies 20 levels higher and killing stuff faster than Level 30-50 Skells. This is what I used to beat most of the late-game bosses.
Only after unlocking the Ares 90 that I moved back to killing bigger stuff with Skells. From the videos I’ve seen you can still outdamage it on-foot but it would take quite a bit of effort grinding for the best gear and so on, and given how easily I’m killing everything now it would be probably be overkill.
The general ideal is that Skells are easier to optimize and get high damage numbers, and are more than sufficient to get through the main game, but if you want to really min-max you can destroy things even faster on-foot.
Also, one more thing to know: The Galactic Knight class has skills that buff Skells. So if you prefer to stick to Skell combat this may be a good class to unlock.