I also noticed an incredibly obscure voice line change in the new patch. When selecting a rare ‘Lucky’ monster with Noah as the playable character, Noah used to say: "Huh? Is that...?" But now he will say: "Is that what I think it is?" Like I said: incredibly obscure. But I find these kinds of things interesting.

Saving party formation has been so useful to me omg

They need to add something to better sort accessories. Going through them to find the specific one you want is a nightmare, and the favorite system isn't enough. Make it like X2's where you could sort it based on what it does, like raise attack, aggro, etc

I wish ino’s break art was called Breaky Breaky

chain attack music disable setting when

All the new voice lines are really nice to have. They help to change things up and not become repetitive or annoying, but I wish that the conversations after battle or out of battle were longer than 2 lines each.

The Ino update recording session was probably right after release, since Adam Howden, who they pulled out of the void to do the Archsage, tweeted about a recording session with Liquid Violet (Xenoblade's English recording studio, also the same people who record for Soulsborne) on August 1, about 3 days after release.

I play the game in Japanese, and ultimate Qigong actually was not a mistranslation - the Japanese was vague, and implied something wrong too! The localization team did a fantastic job translating the skill description, but if the original is wrong, the translation will be wrong too. They also reworded it in Japanese to be much clearer, and the new wording in English follows the new wording in Japanese.

Luxin trying to hide that hes paired an evasion art with an evasion art

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Hey, debuffs seem to be having less issues applying. Target Lock from Glow Ring (Zephyr) worked very well in Challenge battle

Neat little detail that I noticed was added Previously, whoever you were playing as always said the Opening Quote when you engaged an enemy, but after this patch, the person that speaks the Opening Quote seems to be random, regardless of who you're controlling It makes the party feel like more of a group/team, instead of 5 people and a leader (the controlled character) always calling the shots

for the part about voice recordings it's very likely that the third wave and story are already in progress or even finished with there voice recordings the main reason for this assumption is that Adam Howden was made the voice of the Nopon Archsage and doing so makes the most sense if they got him to do it while he was already in the studio recording lines for Shulk or someone else he's voicing for the Story DLC

I hope they add the ability to level down or up all party members to the party members at the same time. Having to individually go into every single character and slowly scroll down to the level I want is annoying.

I swear this has been changed as of the second wave of DLC and I don't think it was just me, but whenever running anywhere if a character got stuck on geometry or just randomly sounded like they were vibrating like crazy and you could even tell on sand there would be a bunch of footprints in a line suggesting that their pathing was glitching out. I feel like that doesn't happen anymore.

Apparently Acceleration was bugged, the patch fixed it so that it has the same effect as all other stances where the time it lasts is increased when used as a fusion art

I think we’ll get wave 3 sooner than April because April 2023 is just an estimation most likely, since wave 1 was said to be released in December of this year and yet it just came out weeks ago

before the patch, did anyone hear the voice line of taion saying something like "Sena can we walk closer to you?" in the snowy areas

personally, I speculate the challenges in wave 3 will be based off of 2's challenge mode, like how the wave 2 challenge mode was based off of DE's.

3:05 To explain what this is, basically every pure buff, field, or stance art is supposed to get doubled duration as a bonus when used as a Fusion Art. However for Acceleration they messed this up, and using Acceleration in a Fusion Art used to give a 50% increase to its damage instead (Acceleration does not deal damage).

i actually read the ingame patch notes and was like "YES, party formation save". then it took me several minutes to find it because i was searching for it in the "characters" screen until i realized it's just on the first menu screen

I love how something managed to get onto the in-game information tab, but not the official patch notes. Watch the patch notes for this update get updated with the next patch.

Lanz: I was the MVP. You know your thinking of it. Taion: We know Lanz, you told us 50 times already. After patch 1.20 Noah: I don't heard Lanz anymore. Eunie: Sparky you're right Noah. But Eunie's the Boss.

I like ino. Her class might not be on he same level something like corvin was for his dlc, but the class is fun and ive been able to use it it too great effect. A buff would be nice, especially if they buff other classes and heroes too

I was so glad to see the Saving Party Formations addition, because that's something I've wanted added since the beginning. With how complex the combat and party setup is in this entry, and how much it wants you to experiment, being able to save party formations is much better than taking screenshots of every character loadout that I like.

im pretty sure the flash fencer change is for like if you link an evasion art it'll keep the evasion for longer so you dont miss out on evasion time due to the art being faster

I like hearing "Lanz wants something a bit meatier" and i heard a new after battle voice lines, Eunie said "easy peasy"

I got the tutorial about saving ‘load outs’ immediately after the first battle involved in the ino quest when you get her, which was the first fight I had come patch day, so I suspect it’s set up to appear either as soon as it is relevant (when you can first change everyone’s classes freely) or after your first fight since downloading the patch if you’re passed that point

Yeah theirs definately a lot of new voice lines added, not just for battle, but also for when opening crates as a character will mention if they found something rare.

Saving party comps is huge. That's a feature that should be standard for party build-oriented RPGs generally, and I'm really glad the game has it now.

there's more difficulties on the way. i believe it was datamined a while ago. a "very hard mode" with 50% increases from hard, and a custom mode. they'll probably drop next major patch

Loved your stream dude! Looking forward to seeing more! (Also I feel like the only one who actually likes Ino's voice acting)

based on Nintendo's current release schedule a late march/early April release for wave 3 and a July/August release for the story DLC would make a lot of sense October has Beyonetta 3(despite the controversy) November has Pokemon and that will hold them through the Holidays January has Fire emblem Engage February has Kirby's return to dreamland Deluxe nothing currently in march or April(from a first party/exclusive) May for Zelda ToTK so wave 3 and possibly one of the Mario kart DLC waves fill the gap for March and April then story DLC fills in probably July or August depending on how long they wait till after Zelda to release it and what else might be announced to fill in a release window for that time period

I don't know if this has affected anyone else, but i noticed that after i updated to 1.2.0 Grey's chibi class icon's eyepatch and hair tuft got flipped and now cover up his left eye for some reason

Always a lovely end of the day when the Luxin video late at night.

I think we'll find out about the DLC story sometime by winter 2023 direct in January or February. Torna's announcement trailer came out 6 months after the game base game and before the announcement of XC2's wave DLC got shown off. So there's a good chance we'll see more of wave 3 in the next direct as well as an official announcement trailer or even at least a teaser for the DLC story.

Let's go spitball Luxin. Also watch his streams when he does so once in a blue moon.

I mean the patch notes told about the party saving Edit: the ingame patch notes told better stuff

The party formation stuffs obviously developed in mind with the challenge battle. For ordinary player, you don't need such stuff to beat the game and the auto-equip will do it for you.

New pre battle banter is a nice touch and the falling screams are pretty great

I noticed they changed the description of Ultimate Qigong to be more simple. It used to say guard-annuling damage, now it describes it as ignoring defense.

Honestly we'd like to know even if a rats texture has been improved slightly. Give us more info Nintendo

informative very much though how do you feel about Ino as a hero unit, like with Isurd, Ethel, etc I find that shes quite good, her chain attack effects are both consistently good, 300% damage increase and +30 TP with activation of said character are definitely very good

I dunno if anyone else found this issue, but whenever you go to the upper deck of the city with the open view of the outside after the city moves to the sea during chapter 6, it still shows intense snow except for literally 2 frames of the entire deck. Those frames being in the far left and right corners of it where it actually shows the rocky surface in which they’re at. It’s really weird, but not something too big, I guess. I mean, I fell like they need to fix that, definitely. Heck, maybe it’s one of the things they didn’t mention in this new patch. I dunno. But it was definitely one of the big bugs that I personally took note of.

Now we have a proper voice line of Noah screaming

God I hope leveling down prior to postgame gets added soon

What do you think are the chances of a botw 2 link outfit being added to xb3

One issue the voice lines is you hear the characters react or say something about or how a monster producing items quite a bit of seconds before the monster actually does it. The voice lines are a bit too early. “That Tirkin just fell over” (Few seconds later) Tirkin collapse and drops some items. This bothers me just a little bit

One more thing in the last bullet point, they fixed getting the first interlink soul link skill slot at the start of the jorun fight and moved it to the end of the jorun fight, affects speedruns

Chain attack and menu music toggle would be amazing. Sometimes I just want to hear literally any other song in the game for more than a minute at a time.

still holding out for a way to sort accessories. flipping through them anytime i need to fill slots is an absolute slog.

Hope we don't have to wait until Wave 3 (presumably in January/February) to get our next patch/update, it's almost 8 weeks since this past one dropped.

I've been playing since the DLC dropped farming for a few items and the voice line that get the most is still the girl with the gall, sometimes a different conversations starts, cuts off in the middle of it and still plays the girl with the gall

LUXIN, THE INGAME PATCH NOTES TOLD ABOUT THE PARTY FORMATIONS. Nintendo sucks not monolith

Funny enough the party loadout is mentioned on the title screen when you press minus for patch info. Only there though.

Literally just started playing the new DLC when you posted this

I booted up the game and immediately got the tutorial for party saves, they let me know immediately and I think you're the exception

When it popped up that I could save party formations I let out a very audible scream because I had never even thought of that yet it was something I had always needed. THANK GOD. I got so sick of checking all my equips everytime I did sweeping class changes. Awesome addition.

One new feature I've noticed: When you try to equip an accessory that is already in use by another party member, you get an option to swap it right there. I don't think it was like that before: I remember having to manually go to the other character, unequip the item, and then go back.

When i first opened up the menu the game told me that it added saving teams. A little window opened and told me about the hero, challenge battles, and the team saving. Idk why it activated for only me (i have proof on my channel if u didnt get it)

When at first fighting non aggressive enemies, the party would say an after combat line after every monster, so really bad when fighting groups one by one, with the same line three times in a row

Have they added anything to easily sort items on for example item ability?

person who hasn't beaten the game yet (but post chapter 3)/hasn't done more than walk into the challenge area and walk out, i had to stumble upon the feature in the menu luckily it's fairly easy to navigate and experiment with to figure out what it does, but i was certainly surprised when this was the first i had heard anyone else talking about it despite googling "xenoblade 3 party formations" and getting nothing

WHAT?! Saving party formation is the best QoL feature ever! With 6 characters to customize it has been a hustle in itself to just create a fitting party around certain builds and then go back to "the optimal" party later on.

I'll admit, I pretty much stopped hearing "When's the battle happenin'?" after all six party members were together, so it was nice to hear Eunie's trash talk again after this update.

75 hours into Xenoblade 2 on the Malos chapter 7 boss fight, can’t wait to play this

To be fair, the saving party formation had an explicit pop up regarding it when you open the game after the 1.2.0 patch. So explicitly calling it out in the patch notes wasn't really necessary.

isnt Ultimate Qigong percentage points in code? why wouldnt they use percentage points in its description then if thats how it works.

DONT FORGET ME!!!

I'm almost positive sena's animations for her default class have been sped up. Her talent art animation is for sure way faster now. I've heard people say in the new hero sidequest sena sounds different, more cutesy. Some suspect it's a different actress voicing her.

I lowkey saw the party formations button and just thought the feature had always been there lmfao

The only thing needed to make Ino's class cracked is applying Inoswap to the main cast.

I can't get into the combat. How often do you guys change characters mid- fight? I feel like I'm never able to do combos because all other characters are using their combo abilities willy-nilly so they are on cooldown when I need them to do daze and stuff

"Girl with the gal!" had the sad effect of making me dislike Sena *more* than the story/her personality did. Absolutely the line I heard the most post-battle.

Very small nitpick: I really wish skip travel doesnt default to day time whenever you use it. This wasnt an issue in past games, and it feels redundant to do this since you can change time manually. I hope theyll fix in a future patch.

Someone wanna tell me what actually supposed to be bad about challange mode? I think it's plenty of fun and a big challange in hardmode (haven't farmed up all level 10 gems)

I thought the party loadouts were only for the land of challenge and not the entire game. If it is for the entire game, that is pretty amazing.

No way they aren't going to add an amiibo reward for the pyra mythra amiibo. My bet is another sword skin for pyra and an incursor skin for mythra

I dunno about all this speculation about new lines, I just know now that where Lanz comes from it’s called a Lanz Handshake.

This is actually the best change in the update since I can swap out from farming teams to superboss teams quickly since it also saves gems & accessories.

Im still hearing shitloads of girl with the gall and lanz wanting something meatier. Very few lines involving Taion, so few I don't remember what's said.

Any word on the Story expansion being datamined.

I feel like Ino's class is actually good. A. It's the second evasion Tank we get in the game and those are great. And B. I feel like her arts and auto attacks are really fast and she has that break art that isn't position dependent.

You missed one thing in Patch 1.2.0; in the cutscene before fighting N for the final time. In 1.1.1, he was kneeling before Lucky Seven. In 1.2.0, he is kneeling before his regular black sword. They changed the model in the cutscene. I suppose this is a continuity fix? I can't say for sure.

Where do you even read the patch notes?

another thing, is that i think that the cast recording new mini lines while doing stuff for the DLC makes it more likely Shulk will be voiced in some form in the DLC. adam howden voicing the nopon could be a side thing he did while doing work for the new story DLC

This is fantastic. underated channel❤

The last section of the video is so much more interesting in retrospect, given that the exact opposite of everything that was expected happened.

My guess is that they’ll reveal Wave 3 in the February direct and then release in March, and they’ll reveal the story expansion in the June direct and release in July.

I dont think the challenge battle is THAT easy. The hero one and superboss rush is especially challenging. I think there will be tougher challenges in wave 3 but overall I think i'm satisfied with this DLC patch. I love the N and M challenge the most just for the best music in the game. Moebius theme with flutes is soooooo good.

Man I’m praying for a custom difficulty mode

Ultimate Qigong's description was fine, definitely not the one I would've change

It's not related to bugs or fixes to combat or features, but... I'll point out something I noticed: Before the patch, cutscenes like "Cutting Down The Flame Clock" or "Two Paths" (to name a couple) had the flash transition you see in game removed from the Event Theater version. Originally, I figured it was a design choice; however, now I know it was a bug, as this was patched in the newest update. Sadly, "Taken By Surprise" is and has been a disaster since launch, at least in the Event Theater. Specifically, the weather effects. For some reason I'll never understand, it's a game of chance if your selection of weather effects actually happens on screen. For instance, you could select Clear and end up with Overcast in the cutscene, or vice versa if you selected Overcast. And Evening is simply unwatchable for this, because Evening Overcast is basically Afternoon Overcast. This is also compounded by the fact the final few minutes of the cutscene are independent of the segments before it so it'll randomize the weather effects AGAIN (this last bit really affects Evening for the reason I already addressed). Honestly, all I wanted to do was watch all the cutscenes in Morning Clear unless a cutscene didn't allow changes. And ironically, I ran across a bug I've literally found no one discussing so I thought I'd add it here. Even with this DLC patch, it's still like this and I sincerely don't know why. Edit: This applies to both versions of this cutscene. In order to avoid spoilers for anyone who hasn't finished the game, I purposely left off which chapters those cutscenes are in. It's worth noting there's likely still bugs in Event Theater even I've not discovered. Although, I will say, though your mileage may vary, it's not uncommon to see pop-in from grass or random textures even on drawn out scenes of the early game due to how the game handles the environment (specifically rocks and grass).

The Challenge battles were pretty easy, although I never played the 2 dlc, I've gotten every S rank except the last 2 on hard mode, although I have been stuck on the heroes Frontline battle for quite a while

7:05 battle wise, no, but collectibles, yes, they added multi staged comments about rare collectibles. Same with the weather too, it's fucking cool, but slightly off key

Custom builds is gonna help immensely with Soulhacker. Having to edit the entire loadout to switch roles and swap skills and arts can be tedious.

Crazy how optimized this game was on release, three months after Xenoblade 2 release they were still fixing several bugs and adding sorting options that should be available at day 1.

As somebody who is about an hour into the game, is this safe to watch or are there spoilers? Because I'm curious about that the additions are.

Why the ether in your gameplay is yellow while mine is green?

Good video