Thank you! I just picked the game back up and this will be really helpful.
I LOVE Lora. Her design and fighting style are awesome.
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Xenoblade 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country |OT| You Will Remember Their Names
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I LOVE Lora. Her design and fighting style are awesome.
Just wanted to note that along with the main game, the North American website for Torna has been removed. It now redirects to the page for Torna on Nintendo of America's website: https://xenobladechronicles2.nintendo.com/torna/
An archive of the website is available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20190930143455/https://xenobladechronicles2.nintendo.com/torna/
An archive of the website is available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20190930143455/https://xenobladechronicles2.nintendo.com/torna/
I've been playing through the game and really enjoying it. Then, it happened again, a party wipe boss. This is my most hated feature in Xenoblade by far. There is no reason at all for you to be 4-5 levels ahead of a boss and have a good battle going against the mech just have 1 attack completely wipe the party every time. I got so frustrated that I switched to Octopath since I cannot progress in the game atm...
Cross-posting this, because I was surprised when it happened. Spoiler tagging just in case.
TL;DR - You don't get additional EXPs when resting at campsites when you are overleveled and you get your first new member in your party really early in the game.
TL;DR - You don't get additional EXPs when resting at campsites when you are overleveled and you get your first new member in your party really early in the game.
Have you been using the chain attack mechanic? If it is the boss I think it is, it is the key to surviving the full party wipes - if you learn the boss cues when it is about to use that attack, use a chain attack and you'll survive, undamaged.
The game doesn't explain it very well, but it's important to get a hang of it, because at one point being over leveled won't protect you.
The timing never works to have a full bar and 3 elemental orbs.
I'll have near full health and the goliath with wipe the party; it's a dumb mechanic for artificial difficulty because it comes down to rng not tactics/skill/level.
Shuffle around your party, make sure to improve your blades and drivers' skill trees, the weapons, too.
It seems hard, but once you learn how to get that full bar quickly, you'll tumble that thing hard!
Yep, I learned from the base game that minmaxing your stats ain't gonna let you survive, so you gotta be more tactical when it comes to battling.
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the complete style shift of the score is such a welcome surprise!
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Well it was made because it was supposed to be part of the main game but a sort of flashback thing in the middle didn't fit and they spun it out and expanded it. It's not as black and white as "this was made to milk people's wallets" and "they made this to say thank you."
I know, I am just talking about how it feels like after playing it.
Alright, I'm going to need help. I just don't know enough about the game at this stage.
I still cannot get bonus EXPs from campsites after I got a new party member joining my group.
I'm at a complete loss of what I need to do. Just push on with the story?
I still cannot get bonus EXPs from campsites after I got a new party member joining my group.
I'm at a complete loss of what I need to do. Just push on with the story?
I'm not sure what's got you at a loss? If you use the rest option at a campsite you should be able to use bonus exps. Where exactly are you in the game?
When I got Emperor Hugo to join my group and after Lora left the group, like really early in the game (Chapter 1). I battled the enemies and rested at the campsites, but I never see Emperor Hugo having bonus EXPs.
Currently going through this and i'm really enjoying it.
I have a some questions though:
- i've never seen someone smash an enemy, i mainly play with Addam Mythra/Minoth. I topple with Addam and then nothing. No of the other teams seem to have a smash art either. I can't see nothing. In the maingame this was no problem.
- how can i swap between support driver arts and frontfighter driver arts?
- is there an ingame list for which elements perform a blade combo? Only one i know is fire/fire/light.
Thanks!
I have a some questions though:
- i've never seen someone smash an enemy, i mainly play with Addam Mythra/Minoth. I topple with Addam and then nothing. No of the other teams seem to have a smash art either. I can't see nothing. In the maingame this was no problem.
- how can i swap between support driver arts and frontfighter driver arts?
- is there an ingame list for which elements perform a blade combo? Only one i know is fire/fire/light.
Thanks!
Mythra performs smash when you swap to her from Addam, if memory serves. It's a switch art - an attack performed when switching between characters on a team. Using Addam's driver art will extend the time the enemy is in the air too (well, any part of the driver combo).
Not sure what you mean with your second question. Vanguard arts are used by you, while rearguard arts are performed by the AI behind you.
And no there is no explanation I'm afraid.
Hope that helps!
Thanks a lot, so a switch art it is.
Super helpful thanks!
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I assume you mean you like the locations better? Because they upgraded the engine so it literally doesn't on a technical level^^
I love that Torna exists. It streamlines and speeds up the combat system, simplifies and reduces micromanagement and polishes up elements, such as collection points.
Rolling a bunch of systems into camps and including accessible tutorials were also inspired choices (the latter being an obvious one, though).
Torna is a wonderful supplementary experience and we should cherish it because it might be the only time we revisit a Xenoblade cast again (kind of).
But it's got fewer party members, fewer blades, fewer titans, fewer bosses, fewer super bosses and unique monsters, fewer towns, fewer cutscenes (14 hours+ vs 3ish), less music, less customisation, less end game content, etc.
The Tornan Titan is great, but it can't compete against Argentum, Uraya, Leftheria, Mor Ardain and the like. The game's Gormott is also vastly inferior.
Again, Torna is great. But I don't think it can really hold a candle to the base game - even if the many improvements, big and small, make it easier to digest.
Interesting. Torna arguably has the best level design out of all of the XC2 areas. The only other worthy contender is Uraya. I was pretty disappointed with Gormott, Mor Ardain, Leftheria, Tantal, etc. They're all visually appealing, but the layouts are fairly forgettable.
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Interesting point, I enjoy Tantal in the same way that I enjoyed Valak Mountain in X1 but its circular nature often feels highly confusing. When combined with the multi-layer towers, I'm often completely lost as to where I am in relation to what. But still I absolutely love the way it feels to walk around in that zone. It's just awe-inspiring in terms of scale and what you see when you turn around to just face "into" the area. Have I mentioned I have an extreme weakness for snowy/winter-themed game settings? Random aside, no relevance.
Gormott always bothered me from the initial reveal because the way it is aligned makes it sort of feel crammed and weirdly small? When you exit the cave and first see the open field, BotW-style, you're looking at Torigoth in the distance to the right but the Titan's head is right behind it, encasing the whole view and towering over it also. Then pretty close to the right there is already the cloud sea cutting off the world and the Titan looking in the background makes everything feel so boxed in. The tall tree/mountain range in the center contributes to its oddly claustrophobic or tight feel. It's weird.
Mor Ardain I do like, especially the old ..err what's it called? barracks? town? I forget. The old abandoned place to the left on the way to the factory. But it also feels like the occupied zone or the running factory should open into an internal area or something. Seems like part of the zone has been cut out of it. What is there, however, is really cool. Riding the containers on the rails is so cool :)
Leftheria needed some sort of cave system or something. I do appreciate how it's basically a huge plain just filled with monsters of all sorts. Very stressful to walk through as you're constantly under threat without geography to hide behind. It really does look like a war-torn battlefield. But also, something to "discover" aside from the small side areas would've been cool.
I should clarify that when I said Torna can't compete with Argentum, Urays, Leftheria, Mord Ardain etc. I meant as a collective.
Torna is good, but it isn't good enough to compensate for the environmental diversity, variety of music tracks and cultures those titans bring to the table. It is one area after all.
One-on-one, Torna competes with XC2's best.
I will say that I think Argentum gets overlooked too often. There's more there than people think.
Torna is good, but it isn't good enough to compensate for the environmental diversity, variety of music tracks and cultures those titans bring to the table. It is one area after all.
One-on-one, Torna competes with XC2's best.
I will say that I think Argentum gets overlooked too often. There's more there than people think.
Hey everyone!
I just started the game yesterday, barely went through the first scenes up to the Addam/Mythra fight.
Any general tips for the game?
Also, is there a recap list of the fighting mechanics? I completely forgot everything about toppling, launching enemies and combos and so on, and the short tutorial didn't help much lol
I just started the game yesterday, barely went through the first scenes up to the Addam/Mythra fight.
Any general tips for the game?
Also, is there a recap list of the fighting mechanics? I completely forgot everything about toppling, launching enemies and combos and so on, and the short tutorial didn't help much lol
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There is a side quest you will get early into the game. It's called A Rare Sense of Justice.
I counted that there are a total of 80 green barrels. It's not 77.
I started counting the last 10 barrels after my side quest alerted me of an update for tuis mission.
I counted that there are a total of 80 green barrels. It's not 77.
I started counting the last 10 barrels after my side quest alerted me of an update for tuis mission.
Damn. Such a beautiful game and a great compliment to XBC2.
I'm really going to miss the soundtrack more tgan anything because it adds so damn much to the game immersion and presentation.
I'm really going to miss the soundtrack more tgan anything because it adds so damn much to the game immersion and presentation.
Truly, the soundtrack of this game and the main game are so good that it is really sad that it was mostly forgotten to be nominated in most best soundtrack awards.
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I got so excited when I entered my first battle in Torna, having listened to the theme from the web rip for quite a while before that in anticipation.
But alas, "DLC" ghetto ... almost as bad as "handheld game" ghetto.
The soundtrack not getting awards was a damn robbery.
A personal opinion, but for me, "A Moment of Eternity" was far better than "One Last You". It was perfect during the last scenes.
A personal opinion, but for me, "A Moment of Eternity" was far better than "One Last You". It was perfect during the last scenes.
I really dig the combat and characters in this game, but the way it locks story progression behind sidequest completion rate really killed it for me. I can't stand artificial padding like that and ruins the way I play games. I like to mainline the story first and do sidequests on NG or post-game. I do miss the combat system though.
If I don't remember wrong,
You've got to kill all superbosses, then talk to the granny in the Village where Jin's former house was
Finally!
Got 100% completion on my first playthrough.
I'm moving on. A total of 66 hours were played. It's incredible for a DLC.
Got 100% completion on my first playthrough.
I'm moving on. A total of 66 hours were played. It's incredible for a DLC.
I am so through with Torna, even though I initially loved it.
I put the game on hold for almost a year when I had to push side quests until the community reached level 2 - which I don't know who thought this is a good idea - esp considering how weak they are in the game - but doing it all over again to push it till level 4!?
Im so done. What a gross waste of time.
really makes you appreciate video game journalists who clearly havent bothered to play the damn thing.
I put the game on hold for almost a year when I had to push side quests until the community reached level 2 - which I don't know who thought this is a good idea - esp considering how weak they are in the game - but doing it all over again to push it till level 4!?
Im so done. What a gross waste of time.
really makes you appreciate video game journalists who clearly havent bothered to play the damn thing.
To be fair, the DLC trains you to be prepared to do Community quests. If you push forth, you will appreciate some of the world-building aspects. But there is no harm in putting it down.
Trains me to do silly unrewarding fetch quests?
Nein Danke!
I struggled enough with level 2. However you look at it it's needless inflating the game. I wanted to find out the end of the story but I have way too many more fun games to get through.
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The part that I don't get about this complaint is that this is where the world and characters get built out, through those quests. I mean, if you just want to rush through the big setpieces I guess I get it but that feels like a waste of a cool world.
Because Xenoblade Chronicles are awful and boring. and the game basically like breaks up the momentum to do pointless stufftl during a time of great disaster
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I meant to put in side quests. Yes the side quest have always been the low point of the whole series. They're just not very interesting
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I knew what you meant, the side quests are fantastic. They're a huge reason why I come to these games. The wildest shit happens in these.
