ROM Hack WIP Xenoblade 2 - New "New Game+" Balance Mod

011.guilherme · Jun 2, 2021

Enjoy Xenoblade Chronicles 2 again, in a challenging and rewarding experience!

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X2+ is a free project that strives to change and tweak several settings aiming for a New Game+ Experince that can be a challenge from the very start, while keeping the more grindy aspects of the game at bay. Intended for use with Bringer of Chaos difficulty.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
This post and, by extension, this thread contain informations for characters you unlock throughout the main campaign. You've been warned!

Planned Features

Improvements to many Rare Blades!;
Many Weapon fine-tuning improvements;
Rebalanced Blade pull mechanics
Adjusted Battle revenue (exp, sp, wp and gold)
and more...

You're welcome to participate in the project!
Through the community's valuable input, together we could turn this fantastic game into an even greater experience!

Check out our Discord Server
Extensive Details about the made/planned changes in the Github Repository

Save File Changes

Time at 00:00:00
All Rare Blade Affinity Charts are complete, even if you release and pull back the same blade.
All Rare Blade Trust at S rank and 10600 trust
All Poppiswaps at maximum output
All Blade weapons reverted back either to their first or weakest forms
Available Party: Pyra/Mythra, Dromarch, Brihgid, Roc, Pandoria, Ageon, Shulk, Fiora, Elma, Poppibuster and all Poppi forms
In new game+ Roc, Ageon, Poppi forms and Blade-Nia aren't available from the start

Items
Inclusions

99 Legendary Core Crystals
All Info Items
99 Overdrive Protocols
99 of each WP Item type
All Key Items not listed below

Exclusions

Store Deeds
Idea Enhancing items
Aux Cores
Accessories
No Money
No Ether Crystals

Drivers

Every driver is back to level 1, except for Vandham, Malos and Jin's both instances as pary members due to limitations. Yes, you gotta level up all over again
Driver Exp and Bonus Exp are set back to 0;
Rex, Nia and Tora Driver arts have all been set back to lv.1
Mórag and Zeke driver arts have all been set to lv.2 and 3 respectively (Might change both to lv.1 and replace it with some WP to compensate)
WP for all weapons of all characters has been set back to 0;
Rex, Nia and Tora Driver Charts has been Reset
Mòrag and Zeke Driver Overt Affinity charts have 2 rows and 3 rows complete, respectively (Might change this to some SP to compensate)
All ideas back at level 1; no elemental bonus damage from the get go!
All drivers have 2 item pouches and 3 accessory slots

Special Thanks to:

Enel For sharing and detailing his extensive knowledge of the game mechanics through many videos and guides
Damysteryman, for creating XC2SaveNETThingy, a fully fludged Xenoblade 2 save editor, which is what led me to get invested in this
RichardTheKing, AkiraKurusu, Tacoriffic and many others that directly or indirectly provided me support and resources in the same thread.

LyuboA · Jun 2, 2021

this gonna be a save mod of full game mod cause to mod game files you need exfat card
or to recompile the nsp with the modded bf2.ard file

btw you can make it a very different game by modding the game files like playing with Brighid from start theres very good guides here on how to do all the modding

011.guilherme · Jun 2, 2021

LyuboA said:
this gonna be a save mod of full game mod cause to mod game files you need exfat card
or to recompile the nsp with the modded bf2.ard file

This is gonna be a mod that's meant to be used with a specific save file, provided by me. This could change down the road, but depends on how progress goes.

Along the save file, I'd provide a common.bdat file of about 5Mb that works as if it were a dlc expansion, and for that Torna: The Golden Country DLC is necessary. User Tacoriffic explains it in this post.

LyuboA said:
btw you can make it a very different game by modding the game files like playing with Brighid from start theres very good guides here on how to do all the modding

I've learned somethings here and there, but it would be great to see what others are up to. If you can refer those to me it'd be really nice!

LyuboA · Jun 3, 2021

011.guilherme said:
This is gonna be a mod that's meant to be used with a specific save file, provided by me. This could change down the road, but depends on how progress goes.

Along the save file, I'd provide a common.bdat file of about 5Mb that works as if it were a dlc expansion, and for that Torna: The Golden Country DLC is necessary. User Tacoriffic explains it in this post.

I've learned somethings here and there, but it would be great to see what others are up to. If you can refer those to me it'd be really nice!

yes i know how it works i made myself the Brighid mod you can have her liking with save editor only but you need to mod a common.bdat for full Brighid her voice talking to you and all that by editing her into a blade that has the same lines in the blade file i Modded Akhos and aside from that i modded almost everything in the game but the mod is very specific to me and decided not to release cause i had to make lots of changes and this take lots of time i made my mod in over 3 months across 5 playthroughs and my mod is best for New Game Not NG+
and again to use just the modded bf2.ard file you need exfat card it can't be split cause it wont work and common.bdat is not ment to be used outside the bf2.ard
i hope your mod turns out very good XC2 amazing game

011.guilherme · Jun 17, 2021

Releases currently out (July 26, 2021)

v0.3 D Tier Blades are up!!
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v0.2 E-Tier blades are back!
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v0.1 First release

kiatoplox · Nov 12, 2021

hello, i can't find the save file, im new here, can you help me a little? thank you! i really want to play with this mod

kazuna2112 · Dec 4, 2021

How did you change the data for specials and the like? I have the editor and the tables out but all it allows me to do is edit raw values for things like damage output, aux cores, crit rates etc. and while all that is useful for creating a specialized rebalance for me I would also like to know how I can possibly edit specials or item effects just to see if there's anymore ways I can rebalance things. I am making this almost exclusively for me so I don't expect to ever make it publicly available I just want to learn the tricks of the trade as it were with what can be modified in the XBC2 tables

bladehunter1000 · Feb 16, 2022

I have an idea about Blade Nia. How about her instant regain gets changed into a 90% health damage buff +100%. Saber Slash has break properties (reinforcing Nia’s driver role into a blade). And finally, Her specials (except special 1) having very extremely high damage caps, especially with Redeeming strike, Divine Sword, and Nixon Strike.

I feel like that for a blade that is completely unique, limited to Rex exclusively (unlike the overly broken Fiora), and has specials tied to Pyra’s own affinity , her overall damage is way too underwhelming. She should feel more rewarding. Like, you are holding a bomb in your hands at all times that is ready to burst.

Edit: Basically, Blade Nia is a water sword Kosmos, a total special defense destroyer, with healing properties to her specials only and strong driver art. The main reason for this is because she manages to break through Malos's defensives and break him from the inside and for balancing. We don't want another Fiora.

baluga101 · Feb 24, 2022

How can I use this on Yuzu or Ryujinx? Thanks

Leonardo Estrella · Mar 1, 2022

baluga101 said:
How can I use this on Yuzu or Ryujinx? Thanks

i want to know this too

Leonardo Estrella · Mar 1, 2022

I Figured it out! on Yuzu you have to put the romfs folder in both folders 0100E95004038000 and 0100E95004039001, like this:

yuzu\load\0100E95004038000\(ModName)\romsfs

yuzu\load\0100E95004039001\(ModName)\romsfs

Some blades doesn't have 3 aux slots yet, can't wait for next update! Thank you 011.guilherme! ♥

baluga101 · Mar 2, 2022

Leonardo Estrella said:
I Figured it out! on Yuzu you have to put the romfs folder in both folders 0100E95004038000 and 0100E95004039001, like this:

yuzu\load\0100E95004038000\(ModName)\romsfs

yuzu\load\0100E95004039001\(ModName)\romsfs

Some blades doesn't have 3 aux slots yet, can't wait for next update! Thank you 011.guilherme! ♥

I did that and still nothing.

Kain777 · Mar 4, 2022

baluga101 said:
How can I use this on Yuzu or Ryujinx? Thanks

first; my thanks to the creator of this mod
here is the path i used
Yuzu 914\user\sdmc\atmosphere\contents\0100E95004039001\romfs\bdat
the file common.bdat is what u should find inside the bdat folder

bladehunter1000 · Mar 21, 2022

Kain777 said:
first; my thanks to the creator of this mod
here is the path i used
Yuzu 914\user\sdmc\atmosphere\contents\0100E95004039001\romfs\bdat
the file common.bdat is what u should find inside the bdat folder

Is he doing okay? I am just worried since he seems inactive.

Wilber_Puyol · Mar 22, 2022

where's the save file?

Kain777 · Mar 24, 2022

bladehunter1000 said:
Is he doing okay? I am just worried since he seems inactive.

i have no idea

Wilber_Puyol said:
where's the save file?

there is no save file, only one file, the mod is working fine with an old save of mine, i think the inventory and blade affinity chart changes are save related, so if u want that u'll have to do it manualy using XC2SaveNETThingy linked in the first post, make sure to backup your save file just in case.

UlyssesMendivil · Apr 11, 2022

is this project dead? i love overhauls on already good games, btw how does this work? i just need to extract the file to my switch?

apocs · Jun 23, 2022

Wilber_Puyol said:
where's the save file?

here it is

CtrlAtlDel · Aug 6, 2022

I really appreciate this mod. Makes replaying it again that much more fun.

baluga101 · Sep 19, 2022

Still doesnt work for me. Once you start a new game plus you should be back to level 1 for Rex correct with all of his skills reset to 1 as well?

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