I just wanted to say that that's some goddamn nice code to look at lol. Almost makes me want to install visual studio and mess around with C++ for a bit when I get home.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Rare Blade Drop Rate Datamined
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I just wanted to say that that's some goddamn nice code to look at lol. Almost makes me want to install visual studio and mess around with C++ for a bit when I get home.
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Yeah. I'd imagine for a GUI, you'd be going for highlights for which blades you already have, text field for luck and stats, and a drop-down menu for where you only need to pick one choice.
I'm most certainly in column 4 as I got Zakuro, Uka and Ibuki in a an order and timing that really looks like they were the pity blades.
But wow... one of my 2 or 3 first rare blades in chapter 2, using only a handful of crystals was Azami and it's 0.6. Nice.
So sad KOS-MOS as a very low and similar rate for all.
But wow... one of my 2 or 3 first rare blades in chapter 2, using only a handful of crystals was Azami and it's 0.6. Nice.
So sad KOS-MOS as a very low and similar rate for all.
Stop that
You would not have spent $20, you'd likely have spent $100+ over the course of the game.
Those exclusive field skills are tied to their exclusive quest anyways, so that's really a non issue.
Nope. Not one bit. They should have just made it to where rare core crystals got you a rare blade every time, but just make the rare core crystals more rare.
Don't tell me my spending habits. I'd've gotten a rare and been done with it.
"Maybe we should have the best blades attached to optional bosses, the way Wulfric is early in the game?"
"Nah, have optional bosses maybe drop at item that gives a 1% chance of obtaining them."
"Nah, have optional bosses maybe drop at item that gives a 1% chance of obtaining them."
I had terrible luck for blades early on - was using commons, Gorg and Perun (so I must have been Column 3) for a long time - and then got KOS-MOS as my first blade on Morag.
Edit: Oh, and Dagas.
I was pretty lucky since i got my last 4 remaining rare blades in less than an hour by opening legendary cores.
Of course, Kos-Mos was the last one.
Of course, Kos-Mos was the last one.
You would have gotten a rare anyway since the game give you "rare" blades for free. by playing .. Not even story related , not even the quest related ( that exist ) but the pity system exist and give you rare blades after a certain point.
So your complain doesn't work
I can barely understand a thing in that explanation, do the boosters help get rare blades? What is the point of the boosters?
My complaint? This pity system definitely doesn't work beyond a point (Chapter gating?). In the final chapter I applied well over 100 rare cores to Morag and got nothing.
The fact that you can play for over 500 hours, complete the game 100%, and still not get the blade you want since it's locked behind a completely pointless gacha system is stupid. Gacha systems only exist to prey on those with gambling tendencies and take their money. A gacha system that doesn't take real money sounds like the most pointless thing in the world. At least allow people to buy blades for high in-game prices at some point.
I'm getting a switch with the game in april and I'm already dreading the grind...from a westerner's eyes perspective this system is bullshit for sure. I kinda get the intention but the thing that bothers me the most is that (to my understanding) these rare blades come with their own story quests. So the developer essentially gated single player story content behind a fairly low RNG change for most of these things (not even getting into kos-mos which is frankly...ridiculous).
Had the blades not come with any side quests the system would still be bullshit in my opinion but it would't be so egregious.
Had the blades not come with any side quests the system would still be bullshit in my opinion but it would't be so egregious.
I like this kind of thing when you don't have to pay for it.
Really?
Really?
Never got those ultra rare cores. This pachinko shit made me ultimately stop playing the game after beating it. It's annoying as fuck and it locks a good chunk of the game behind sheer luck. Idiotic idea
I'm really hoping they alter this in an update at some point this year. Hell, even give us a system where we can pay exorbitant amounts of gold (or XP in the upcoming NG+) to acquire rare blades. I just want to see all the story this game has to offer without being at the mercy of gacha.
Ugh, gacha is the wor... waitIt's probably because of the gachapon that originated the term. It's a fever in japan since always, so that's why it's viewd as common and why it wasn't a paid item. The act to got something good or bad is the thinking behind it.
*inserts coin into mother machine*
High level enemies. You get items when they die, an you get more items when you get to Smash in the break-topple-launch-smash sequence. There's usually a core crystal among the items, which has rarity determined by the level of the enemy.
I have use TWO legendary cores and gotten nothing out of them. I never understood the gatcha for rare cores. Getting from boss battles or from rare monsters would had been better. I was into the quest for Vess cause it involve getting a blade, every other quest is experience and some items. I think using the overworld to have special cores in certain places would make exploration more interesting.
Then learning about the rates here and is absurd O_O By the time you get another rare blade you'll probably have done the game story and most everything else.
Then learning about the rates here and is absurd O_O By the time you get another rare blade you'll probably have done the game story and most everything else.
Like, if they had to have it be random, they should have had rare crystals given out as rewards for boss fights and certain sidequests. I don't like that hte rewards are random though, personally, I would have wanted the blades to all be known before opening and given at specific points so the designers could be aware which blades a player will have at a given point in the story Either way they should have scrapped the common blades entirely, and let them be moved around between party members at will.
The whole blade system is easily the worst part of the game by a long shot.
Not quite. As the OP says, there are only three pity blades, determined by a hidden variable on your save, that you probably got long before you reached the endgame. After that, you're on your own.
I juat don't get how it's an eastern vs western thing instead of a personal opinion of yours.
PUBG has this for clothes. CSGO has it for knives.
Not that this couldn't have been done better, like by giving people an option to buy or a reward for beating the game or something.
I got about 11 of the random drops before fighting the final boss and I never did any grinding, but i did spend plenty of time exploring and doing side quests
So I must feel really glad for having KOS-MOS after 99 hours of game trying to get her. But I still think that completing Ursula's quest is still the worst.
Gacha games (both virtual and physical so to speak) are massive in japan, not so much in the west (or at least they didn't use to before overwatch opened the fucking floodgates). The same goes for Korean MMOs' that have massive grinding and pay to win elements.
Korean MMO's are a particularly good example as you can see several failing left and right when brought over to the west as they don't account for westerner's habits. In general we don't see pay to win and massive grind as something positive. Of course this is a generalization and you can still find western users that enjoy mindless grind.
I think in the case of pubg and csgo the vast majority of players play it for the gameplay aspects foremost but I play neither so I can't really comment.
If you do most side quest you rarely need to grind, they are the easiest way to level up after all. Some can be rather tedious in the constantly sending you back for X thing or something. You can play the game easily with about 6 rare blades (as party member already has one unique blade, two more for each member of your active party). Now for field skill you do need quite a few...damn the field skills!!
The side quest start to feel empty after a point same as exploration, if more quest would give out a blade they be more rewarding (only one of the quest I did gave a blade). I love them game and clock in 82 hours and did explore and side quest...but after a point you notice the reward to do either are not that great. Heck I only had problems when it came time to fight Nia and Morag cause the blade the game auto equip me had no healing and didn't match the items and items I had equip. After changing them (once I lost) I destoryed them.