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New patches incoming for 1.3.0!

First, Takahashi says you’ll be able to use members of Torna as Blades. These include members of the organization like Akhos, Patroka, and Mikhail. Even their Blades will be available – Obrona, Sever, Perdido, and Cressidus.

The new mode will also allow you to dispatch all Blades on Mercenary Missions. Drivers now have new skills on their Skill Trees, and you can lower the level of a Driver at inns. This will increase the amount of experience earned when you win battles. Bonus experience can be used to purchase new special items, including an item that lets you hold more accessories.

As for what carries over, in Advanced New Game Mode you’ll keep:

1. Driver Levels
2. Unlocked Skills on both drivers and blades.
3. Blades
4. Items and Gold
5. Mercenary Ranking Level
6. Town Development Level
7. Unique Monster Kills
8. Cut-scenes

Quests, Heart to Heats, Skip Travel Points, and Mercenary Missions will be reset.

Players can unlock Advanced New Game Mode after beating Xenoblade Chronicles 2 once. You’ll need to save your game right after the ending.

As for version 1.3.0 in general, these improvements and changes are being implemented:

– You can lock blades so you won’t accidentally release them
– Can skip the Core Crystal bonding cut-scene
– When you enlarge the mini-map, icons from the skip travel map will now be displayed.
– Added an Easy Mode
– New sorting option being added for items

Note that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 version 1.3.0 will also include more items for those who have purchased the Expansion Pass.

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Full update of the change log patch notes. (1.3.0 March 2 2018) :D

  • [*]Issues Fixed
    • Fixed an issue occurring in chapter 7 and onward, in which specific conditions caused bonded blades and drivers to not appear in the Manage Blades menu.
    • Fixed an issue associated with acquiring Perun’s Key Affinity Gift in which the counter for “small good deeds” required to earn it would stop, making the item unobtainable.
    • Fixed an issue associated with acquiring Perceval’s Affinity Gift, “Brandish,” in which certain monsters failed to count toward the requirements “Defeat Igna enemies in Uraya. (Excludes unique monsters.)” and “Defeat Tirkin enemies in Tantal. (Excludes unique monsters.)”.
    • Fixed an issue associated with acquiring Perceval’s Affinity Gift, “Brandish,” in which defeating high-level Tirkin enemies (around level 80) failed to count toward the “Defeat Tirkin enemies in Tantal. (Excludes unique monsters.)”.
    • Fixed an issue in which Blades with the condition“Deal a certain amount of damage in one hit” to acquire Affinity Gifts would not meet the condition if they were not present at the start of a battle, and were brought in via Blade Switching instead.
    • Fixed an issue in which Rare Blades, once released, could not achieve a level of Trust higher than S1, even if bonded with a different Driver.
      • After applying this update, performing an action to raise Trust (clearing quests, using pouch items, etc.) will raise the rare blade’s Trust to the correct rank.
    • Fixed an issue with Poppiswap in which if the player possessed a combined total of 1023 or more Skill RAM and Skill Upgrade parts, and equipped the 1024th part, they would be unable to set or crystalize any additional parts, even if they had enough energy to do so.
    • Fixed an issue in which the descriptions for the Silver Feather and Phantom Feather accessories was switched.
    [*]Advanced New Game has been added
    • Players with save data from the final chapter and who have cleared the game will now be able to select “Advanced New Game” on the title screen and carry over some of their data from the previous playthrough.
    • Elements carried over into Advanced New Game
      • Driver levels
      • Driver and Blade equipment and growth
      • Awakened Blades
      • Acquired items and gold
      • Town development status and Merc Group level
      • Status of Events Theater and defeated unique monsters
      • Play time
    • New system features added to Advanced New Game
      • Bonding with certain Blades from Torna will allow them to join your party.
      • Meeting certain Blades from Torna in the game world will allow them to join your party.
      • All Blades can be dispatched on Merc Missions.
      • Driver Hidden Affinities have been unlocked. New skills can also be learned.
      • Zeke’s “Eye of Shining Justice” has been unlocked. (The skill can be learned by developing Zeke’s Hidden Affinities)
      • Levels can now be decreased at inns, with a corresponding amount of bonus EXP being granted for the number of levels decreased.
      • Traveling Bards that will exchange Bonus EXP and special items have been added to various locations throughout Alrest.
        • Traveling Bards are displayed on the mini map as green shop icons.
        • Among the newly exchangeable items, there are those that will increase the number of accessories a Driver can have equipped.
      • Level 4 Specials have been unlocked for certain Blades.
    • Things to note in Advanced New Game
      • Quests, Heart-to-Hearts, and Skip Travel points will all be reset.
      • Cleared Merc Missions will be reset.
      • Saving after beginning an Advanced New Game playthrough will overwrite the save data in which you initially cleared the game.
    [*]Other Updates
    • Easy difficulty has been added. Due to this addition, the default difficulty will now be “Normal.”
      • This only adjusts the balance of elements of battles. Game difficulty can be changed at any time via the Options menu.
    • Added a “simple mode” option allowing players to skip the lottery animation when bonding with Blades.
    • Added the ability to “lock” Blades so that they can’t be mistakenly released.
    • Added a “Sort” option to the Blade List, Accessories, Aux Cores, and Poppy’s Skill Parts.
    • Map icons will now appear on the mini map.
    • Adjusted AI to perform Blade Switches with no regard for Driver combos when using Drivers that prioritize Driver combos while fighting enemies against whom those combos aren’t effective.
    • Added the ability to receive the 4th round of items distributed via the Expansion Pass.
 

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They should make the tutorials like Xenoblade 1 since there's no visual prompt to even do this. Need tips in the pause menu.
I agree. They are sometimes confusing and you can't check them again in detail. The help menu in xc1 was quite better.
And that BS of buying small hints of the tutorials you've already seen from informants doesn't help.
 

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They should make the tutorials like Xenoblade 1 since there's no visual prompt to even do this. Need tips in the pause menu.
I think they plan to add that in a update. (Not actually positive when or if) But i know what you mean. Most people i saw playing it, take screen shots of the tutorial messages, it should just be listed in the options under a help guide, but they do have tutorials in the item section.

During play there is newspaper shops, they sell you information which some is from the past tutorials and some is not explained there like advance tips, visit all towns with shops and find them and buy them, then you can view them in the items menu (Look for newspaper icon) So far is the best i can offer.
 

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I think they plan to add that in a update. (Not actually positive when or if) But i know what you mean. Most people i saw playing it, take screen shots of the tutorial messages, it should just be listed in the options under a help guide, but they do have tutorials in the item section.

During play there is newspaper shops, they sell you information which some is from the past tutorials and some is not explained there like advance tips, visit all towns with shops and find them and buy them, then you can view them in the items menu (Look for newspaper icon) So far is the best i can offer.
I have every item from informants so far. In fact, I'm right before the point of no return in Chapter 10. Just working on growth of rare blades.
 

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New update patch notes boys 1.3.1. :P

  • Issues Fixed
    • Fixed an issue where common blades resonated to drivers other than Rex were being deleted if the player started a New Game Plus with them assigned to Rex.
      • We apologize, but even if you update your data, you will be unable to restore your common blades.
    • Fixed an issue during New Game Plus where the player was unable to acquire a common blade’s affinity gift even after fulfilling the conditions.
    • Fixed an issue where rare blades that were released were unable to rise above trust level S if they resonated with a character again.
      • Downloading the update data will set the trust level at S.
      • In the case that the actual trust level is higher than S, then upon doing something to raise the trust level, it will quickly increase to its actual level.
    • We have addressed the following problems where effects intended to be applied to blades on standby were only effective when they were deployed in battle.
      • Core Chips: Some status up types such as “HP MAX Boost”, “Increases the enemy gold drop rate”,”Increases the enemy item drop rate”
      • Aux Cores:”Hunter’s’ Chemistry”, and “Shoulder to Shoulder”
      • Poppy’s Skill RAM: Some status up types such as “HP MAX Boost”, “Gold Rush”, “Treasure Sensor”, “Hunter’s Chemistry”, and “Shoulder to Shoulder”.
      • Common Blade Skills: “Accelerated Growth”, ”Weaponsmaster”, ”Gold Rush”, and “Treasure Sensor”.
    • Fixed an issue where Patroka’s Evasion Effect Art wasn’t triggering correctly.
    • Fixed an issue where the player couldn’t advance in the Gormott quest “Whereabouts Unknown”.
    • Fixed an issue where the player couldn’t advance in the Uraya quest “Marvelous Mercenaries”.
    • Fixed an issue where the player couldn’t advance in the Mor Ardain quest “We Meet Again”.
    • Fixed an issue where the minimap and compass wouldn’t display, and fast travel with the X-button would become unavailable.
    • Fixed an issue where Mythra’s 10% Ether modifier wasn’t being reflected in Rex’s Ether attribute display.
      • This problem concerned the display of the modifier; it was being applied.
    • Addressed a problem with crafting field skills such as “Pyra’s Cooking” where you couldn’t continually make things.
    • Fixed an issue where titles of locations were not displaying when discovering landmarks, locations, and secret areas/viewpoints.
    • Fixed an issue where blades would cycle backwards for Rex when using blade change if Mythra was engaged.
  • Changes and New Features
    • An NPC, “Momoni,” has been added to chapter one of New Game Plus, to restore your money one time.
    • He will help you when you are unable to buy an Abyss Vest or unable to send funds due to lack of money on-hand.
    • Adjusted the difficulty of some of the boss battles in Chapter Ten of New Game Plus (so that they reflect Rex’s level).
    • Now displays the currently held and maximum number of accessories, Aux Cores、and Poppy parts in menus and shops.
    • Added a function to download the second Expansion Pass quest.
    • Added a notification page to the menu that contains information about the Expansion Pass.
    • If the Expansion Pass is removed or deleted from your console, “Continue” can no longer be selected to resume Expansion Pass save data.
      • You will be able to select Continue again once you download the Expansion Pass.

New side quest. :P

– Nopon of Good Tastes (Talk to Bipopo near Galad Residential Zone in Gormott. Available after adding Poppi.)
– Cleared of All Charges (Talk to Strath in Fonsett, Leftheria. Requires Perun, Godfrey and Perceval.)
– Beneath the Aurora (Talk to Len at Rigitte Harbor in Leftheria. Available from Chapter 6.)
– Upgrades and Tinkering (Examine the table in Tora’s house. Requires Tora. Available from Chapter 8.)
– Most Awful News?! (Stay at the inn in Tantal. Requires Finch’s Birdbrain Lv.3 and Zeke. Available from Chapter 10.)
 
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I noticed no one commented here in awhile, so I assume either no one cares to play this game anymore, you all cheated, some of you are new and didn't know this existed or are waiting for some new update/dlc. (Obviously just theories)

Anyway been some major updates especially for season pass owners you should consider getting back on especially before the last dlc update comes out. Currently there is new arena mode with feature obtaining shulk and fiora as blades, costumes for main characters in form of obtainable accessories/ aux cores, customizeable game options, easy and hard difficulty modes, new game+ with additional changes not in first playthrough and more items and dlc quest.

List of Update logs in link below.

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/28012

Anyway I was curious if anyone been playing the arena battles, how you been doing on there or sharing any strategies for winning cause this ain't easy. :ninja:
 

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Last bit of the DLC is interesting. Also available as stand alone game.
Maybe people waiting for that to happen. There been some other games on the Switch meanwhile.
 

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Last bit of the DLC is interesting. Also available as stand alone game.
Maybe people waiting for that to happen. There been some other games on the Switch meanwhile.
I just figured with more content comes more reason to start playing again. New quest, blades, challenge modes, helpful things to boost stats, etc. sound like some essential stuff to rpg completionist. :P
 

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I just figured with more content comes more reason to start playing again. New quest, blades, challenge modes, helpful things to boost stats, etc. sound like some essential stuff to rpg completionist. :P

Yeah I was playing some of the new stuff (1.5) before Octopath Traveler came out and I'm still hooked on that one :)
 
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