Gaming Xenoblade Chronicles Hype Thread!

[PolloDiablo]

About the bird chief, I had it too, looks like it's taking a lot more time to re-spawn.
I waited two days (real time XD) before I can kill it for the mission.
Just don't loose hope, it will respawn. Try going on Tempest days, maybe it's what made it respawn. (I think it's raining a lot since I completed the mines). I had kill it last friday 19. I went while raining, and nothing. Maybe it's a game's bug.

Now I'm reluctant to kill Single/rare enemy before having a mission telling me to do it

But it looks like there's not that much mission to kill single enemies, they are just here for more epic battles.Same here. What I'm doing when I reach a new area is go directly to the new town (avoiding every enemy), that way I don’t have to fight the enemies a 2nd time.

I'm now in the jungle, after the "town" of this map. There's a lot of new missions hehe. (trying not to spoil, for new or future players)The manka jungle is amazing. There are lots of hidden areas. There is one that I couldn’t reach... if you watch the map, you will notice a couple of icons in the unexplored area of the north, one of them leads to inside the bionis I believe. Also... there is a lot of those icons inside the bionis too.

There is a quest in the jungle that ask you to kill a special monster (a weird horse xD) in a hot spring. But is says "only appears when it's hot". I noticed one time that the screen started to get blurry and move like when you are staring at the fire, but I couldn’t get it time to the hot spring to see if that monster appeared.

QUOTE(Cyan @ Aug 23 2011, 06:36 AM) I wished we could play all together like a MMORPG, it's fun telling where we are blocked, how much we advanced, asking how to complete missions etc.

Instead we are doing that in gbatemp

QUOTE(Cyan @ Aug 23 2011, 06:36 AM)

Oh, anybody managed to kill the big spiders ?
the one at the leg's temple (grabing the giant's mirror)
and the one(S) in the marches, when activating the mirror ? I escape the place and run like hell !

What mirror? lol. I reached a temple full of spiders in order to obtain a quest item (the mirror?). When I grabbed it, a giant spider (lv 3832) came to me at 300 Km/h... haha it was so funny xD

 

[chip211]

that damned spider scared the s##t outta me but i could get away with the mirror i just beat the mine boss so i dont know what quest will ask for it...

 

[Cyan]

Oh, anybody managed to kill the big spiders ?
What mirror? lol. I reached a temple full of spiders in order to obtain a quest item (the mirror?). When I grabbed it, a giant spider (lv 3832) came to me at 300 Km/h... haha it was so funny xD

THAT spider is only the first one from a long quest span all over bionis

Spoiler: Giant's Hidden items quest #1

The nopon group in the marshes will give you a quest with that item you found in Bionis leg. (the Giant's mirror).
the quest is done in multiple steps:

- Talk to the nopon group in Sarotl marshes.
- Save the nopon in the lizard's men castle. Either come from the main entrance, either from the back door (easier, no fight at all). Too bad, she already talked to them and revealed the secret.
- Go back to Nopons group.
- Go kill a group of 5 lizard's men under the castle, and grab the key.
- Return to castle, there's a secret entrance to the roof behind the king's chair. (Enter from the rear door if you don't want to fight the boss each time)
- Examine the altar,
- Report to Nopon, she says you need a mirror from an old temple on Bionis leg (you already have it. If you don't, go to Bionis's leg, it's located at the west of the lake)
- Return to roof and place the mirror on the altar. You obtain a Giant's hidden relic : Giant's guts. And now .... run ! You don't have enough levels to fight that

- Return to Nopon, she informs you about the Giant's hidden relics and tells you that the quest will continue later on another place of Bionis.

It's too bad that we can already do that quest but don't have the level to fight the spider boss

It should be the spider which give the mirror, it would be more logic to fulfill the missions after you beat it only.

Edit: I return to Bionis leg at level 37 and could beat that spider (it was hard!).

Edit:
Please, I need help, or at least your opinion on quests:

I'm currently at 2 quests where I need to make a choice. (you may need at least 3 or 4 stars at colony 9 to unlock them).

Spoiler: Quest1

• Emmy leater (little captain girl) : She wants either a knife or a shield to beat her tutor and become lieutenant instead of captain. You know that the knife is poisoned.
- Give the knife : she is not happy against you and doubt everyone now. her commandant is angry against her for using treacherous method to win. her two linked co-worker are still happy.
- Give the shield : She is very not happy against you and decide to go away from the town. her commandant is very angry because she has no power to win, and same as the co-workers.
I think the shield is better, because it's only her own power, she lose but didn't use poison to cheat-win. Though the relationship is worse than if you use the knife.

Do you know where she went ? Can we meet her again and make things better or is it final decision? If it's the final decision to disappear, I'll choose the poisoned knife as she stay in town, there will certainly new mission to make her "find" who poisoned the blade.

Spoiler: Quest2

• The two fighting brothers (nopon and humhumz).
- Give the item to Nopon : he will win and decide to travel outside the town. The humz brother think he will die and is not happy, though the relationship is better because nopon can travel. And there's even a mission to help for his return.
- Give the item to humz : The nopon loose and stay in town. Relationship is bad because npon can't do what he likes. I didn't find where the nopon went in town.

I think giving to Nopon is better.

And about quests with 2 items choices to find, when you already have one of the item in stock, the mission is accepted and you have to "return talk to xxx" automatically, even if you don't want to give that object right?

But if you have both items is stock, can you choose the one you want to give?
I'm at a mission in nopon village, I have to find two type of fruits, I already have one (sugar nuts) but I want to give Kiwi (I don't have any), can I find kiwi now that the mission is already accepted with nuts?

Edit: I found the two Kiwi, but I didn't have the choice to select them

I did a lot of exp and mission between my two saves (before accepting the mission and now), so I didn't reload the save. I'm curious to know which item will be automatically used if you already have both items in enough quantity when accepting the quest.


•Facts :
in nopon town (jungle), you talk to one how says nopon call us humhumz because we are hum-humming?
Is that reference to humming ? like singing?

In French they made it sounds very stupid.
humans are called hommes, so in game it's homz.
nopon called the humans the homhomz, "because you homhommez !" (not a word, no references at all to anything else). It make it feels like only nopon see the reference and humans can't understand it.

 

[mrpinkeye]

anyone know where the 3 parts for "mementoes of a lost son" are in colony 9?

 

[Schezo92]

anyone know where the 3 parts for "mementoes of a lost son" are in colony 9?

Tephra Cave - Armour - Place where you buried the dead travellers
Bionis Leg - Gun - The falls near the entrance to Colony 6
Satorl Marsh - Knife - Hidden Shining Pond, located near "Dark Swamp"

 

[mrpinkeye]

anyone know where the 3 parts for "mementoes of a lost son" are in colony 9?

Tephra Cave - Armour - Place where you buried the dead travellers
Bionis Leg - Gun - The falls near the entrance to Colony 6
Satorl Marsh - Knife - Hidden Shining Pond, located near "Dark Swamp"

thanks, havent got to Satorl Marsh yet i dont think...is that after you get in colony 6?

do we ever get a quicker way to get around? or is it always with our slow leg stumps?!

 

[Ryoku83]

anyone know where the 3 parts for "mementoes of a lost son" are in colony 9?

Tephra Cave - Armour - Place where you buried the dead travellers
Bionis Leg - Gun - The falls near the entrance to Colony 6
Satorl Marsh - Knife - Hidden Shining Pond, located near "Dark Swamp"

thanks, havent got to Satorl Marsh yet i dont think...is that after you get in colony 6?

do we ever get a quicker way to get around? or is it always with our slow leg stumps?!

Yes the marsh is after colony 6, and you can fast travel from the map screen (to area's you've discovered).

 

[mrpinkeye]

anyone know where the 3 parts for "mementoes of a lost son" are in colony 9?

Tephra Cave - Armour - Place where you buried the dead travellers
Bionis Leg - Gun - The falls near the entrance to Colony 6
Satorl Marsh - Knife - Hidden Shining Pond, located near "Dark Swamp"

thanks, havent got to Satorl Marsh yet i dont think...is that after you get in colony 6?

do we ever get a quicker way to get around? or is it always with our slow leg stumps?!

Yes the marsh is after colony 6, and you can fast travel from the map screen (to area's you've discovered).

ok, im on my way to the marsh. but havent found the gun...should i be able to see it yet? or is it last??

 

[wafflestick]

yo anyone know where to find any crystal furnaces after colony 6

Spoiler

im past the bionis part of the game im on the mechonis now

 

[Schezo92]

anyone know where the 3 parts for "mementoes of a lost son" are in colony 9?

Tephra Cave - Armour - Place where you buried the dead travellers
Bionis Leg - Gun - The falls near the entrance to Colony 6
Satorl Marsh - Knife - Hidden Shining Pond, located near "Dark Swamp"

thanks, havent got to Satorl Marsh yet i dont think...is that after you get in colony 6?

do we ever get a quicker way to get around? or is it always with our slow leg stumps?!

Yes the marsh is after colony 6, and you can fast travel from the map screen (to area's you've discovered).

ok, im on my way to the marsh. but havent found the gun...should i be able to see it yet? or is it last??

If it's not there I might've mistaken the location with another quest item, though I'm pretty sure there is a quest item there.
If it's not the gun there, then it might be near the observation platform, to get there go up villia hills and look for a narrow passage with antols, or whatever the bug things are called. You should reach a Shrine which adds a location, search for a place to climb down and follow it, although there will be a level 70 monster there that attacks on sight, just walk behind it, you should find a red quest item there.

 

[mrpinkeye]

http://uk.gamespot.com/wii/rpg/monadobegin...&pid=960564

i think the pic near end of thread shows it...think iv been there but legged it when the spider showed up!

 

[Ryoku83]

http://uk.gamespot.com/wii/rpg/monadobegin...&pid=960564

i think the pic near end of thread shows it...think iv been there but legged it when the spider showed up!

I pmed you the location. Look at the map closely when you are there.

 

[mrpinkeye]

argh.

got em all, now where is cheryl!? says i took the quest in ether light but i cant find her

same with a few others, they say return to the giver and the givers were at the refugee camp but theyre not there! can the quest giver just wander off? seems a bit rude when im doin all this bloody work for them, least they could do is stay put!!

 

[Cyan]

They said "after the attack, people changed their habits".
But the old lady is still around that balcony on colony 9, at 8AM.

On Colony 6, I thought there were people missing too ...
Return later. Quests are not timed once you are back to real C6 location.


Could someone answer my questions about Emmy Leater's quest (the one in quotes)? (previous page)

 

[mrpinkeye]

oh, i didnt think to look for her in colony 9 at different times of day, thats gonna be a nightmare if i have to do that often!

"Return later. Quests are not timed once you are back to real C6 location."

i dont follow...

even that guy that sent me into the danegrous caves and to put flowers on the grave has gone from colony 6!

 

[Cyan]

That guy is still on the cave ! ahaha, it's the only one who didn't move.
(the shop owner too).


But, before moving the cave citizen back to the town, you have been asked "are you sure you want to do that, you can't come back here anymore?"
That meant "are you sure? the current "timed quests from the cave" can't be completed anymore once in town".

If you still had quests with a watch still uncompleted, you shouldn't have said "let's move to town" until you completed all the quests from the cave.
Most of the quests are maybe lost (like the quest about the cave itself, about people feeling depressed in the cave, etc.)


"Quests are not timed once you are back to real C6 location."
By that, I meant : Once in colony 6 (not on the cave anymore), you won't have new "timed quests" anymore.
You had quests that you could loose by moving the citizen to Colony6 too soon (quest that was meant to be fullfilled in the cave), but the quests that citizens are giving you once already at Colony6 are now "not timed" and you can't fail them.

 

[Schezo92]

Oh god, I fought the story boss at Valak Mountains.

Spoiler: Valak mountains

I thought we wouldn't need the Monado and didn't bother adding back Shulk in the main Party (he hasn't been in my party since i got Melia). 1 Damage is amazing. Good thing chain link x 4 into Dunban's talent art is OP otherwise I wouldn't have won.

My team was Dunban, Melia, Sharla. And the only thing that damaged the guy was Ether attacks.
My strategy was pretty much get Chain Link, then Peerless > Tempest Kick > Fart attack err Thunder insta-daze> Activate Chain attack > Worldly Slash or Soaring Tempest (if Blossom Dance wasn't available) > Elemental Discharge > Headshot > Blossom Dance. Managed to take him down in one Chain Attack since i was lucky enough to get a link.

Right now I've gotten the 7th Character, and am in the Town after Alcamoth. My team is now Dunban, Melia, 7th Character. Let's see how I fare without a healer and with only Damage Dealers.

 

[mrpinkeye]

That guy is still on the cave ! ahaha, it's the only one who didn't move.
(the shop owner too).


But, before moving the cave citizen back to the town, you have been asked "are you sure you want to do that, you can't come back here anymore?"
That meant "are you sure? the current "timed quests from the cave" can't be completed anymore once in town".

If you still had quests with a watch still uncompleted, you shouldn't have said "let's move to town" until you completed all the quests from the cave.
Most of the quests are maybe lost (like the quest about the cave itself, about people feeling depressed in the cave, etc.)


"Quests are not timed once you are back to real C6 location."
By that, I meant : Once in colony 6 (not on the cave anymore), you won't have new "timed quests" anymore.
You had quests that you could loose by moving the citizen to Colony6 too soon (quest that was meant to be fullfilled in the cave), but the quests that citizens are giving you once already at Colony6 are now "not timed" and you can't fail them.

noones asked me if im sure i want to do something. i should still be able to go back!! and no luck finding cheryl

found her! shes upstairs on the platform. makes it hard to see the "!" until your really close

 

[Opoth]

Can't believe that NoA doesn't want to release this in the US. Reggie should go back to slinging pizzas.

 

[mrpinkeye]

whats the deal with heart-to-hearts? iv tryed loads but only ever seen one! is the game really that huge that i'll be going back past all of them? or are they just extras when iv completed the game?

and money, iv just left nopon village at level 34, i havent spent any money anywhere yet! will i ever have to buy anything?

and is it always 3 players max? will i ever be in a fight with 5 other alies?

is anyone making a walkthrough? id be happy to help where i can