Xenoblade 3 Will Have the Greatest Combat System of All Time

[@The_OPN]

Really feels like they're taking the best aspects of Xenoblade 1 (affinity between party members allowing you to customize builds), Xenoblade X (wide-range class selection letting you mix and match a wide variety of stats, arts, and skills), and Xenoblade 2 (intuitive arts layout and auto-attack integration)

[@AGuy-vq9qp]

I mean the best thing about xenoblade 2 was the customisation from the blade system.

[@domicraft6341]

And unlike X you can actually customize the entire party. That's all I ever wished for in that one.

[@dave9515]

The best thing about X was the amount of customization Augments brought with the slotted gear and skells. 3 doesn't have that nor does it have appendages or even overdrive witht eh complexity overdrive had in X.

[@Morte287]

Lol I once had a response to a comment saying ‘everything about Xenoblade 1s combat is bad’ so many people don’t realise how intuitive a lot of XB1s mechanics actually are.

[@nicolasdevincentis6381]

I'm so glad that monolith soft is coming back strong after Xc2. I know that many people enjoyed the game, but I feel like as they core gameplay, xc2's combat system was very bad and made the game rather unenjoyable. One of my main gripes was being unable to switch characters mid combat and I'm so glad they're changing that.

[@ArceusDX]

Just a reminder, only Healers can revive fallen allies in this game, you are required to have an active Healer on the team as you'll have no way to revive otherwise, so Healers will very much not be useless in this game

[@EnelXC]

I don't plan on dying

[@justinbowman1342]

So...."Don't Die" is the optimal game plan then, got it!

[@laynerowland1497]

@@EnelXC 🤣 i was about to say hahahha, they will still be useless for Enel!

[@simonbergeron3281]

Also, if I remember correctly, Eunie's Ouroboros can revive the party.

[@mowerthelawn451]

and then they bring back instant-death or doom as a status effect

[@mr.wildride1954]

It's a wild ride, this passage of great combat systems

[@enigmaticnebula1570]

14:55 You can kind of make out Lanz's class hiding behind the class information page so there are more classes, they're just behind the page. I assume Lanz, Sena, Gray, Juniper, and a few others are behind that.

[@williamstokes4282]

It covers up three characters per row on that screen so there are at least 23 classes at launch.

[@enigmaticnebula1570]

@@williamstokes4282 Indeed. Which means 25 classes including the two dlc ones, assuming Challenge mode doesn't bring even more classes like it did for blades in 2.

[@EnelXC]

my eyesight is bad

[@acardoza1234]

Great catch! I missed that myself. The more the better so that has me even more hyped!

[@jackwitkop38]

Even further: maybe seeing things behind the class information page, but that looks like a pair of Gormotti ears on a girl. And the one to the left in the middle row looks like a Keves soldier’s stormtrooper helmet.

[@enigmaticnebula1570]

8:09 On some of the Japanese screenshots, the third slot was confirmed to be unlocked at Lvl 40.

[@kokovlo]

I believe it will have one of the combat systems ever made.

[@TimothyGod]

I mean that's accurate

[@Type_Sword]

It is in fact one of the combat systems ever made.

[@igorsheludko]

Agreed, it seems it will truly be a combat system.

[@justinbowman1342]

#Xenoblade3sweep

[@xXunknownXx0000]

Yes, this is going to be the combat system we have ever seen lmao

[@TommySkywalker11]

Since we've seen healer classes aren't dedicated healers but general support with both healing and buffs/debuffs they should still be very viable for the buffs/debuffs even if you don't need their healing

[@ShadowSkyX]

You'll end up needing rez powers though so they're more essentual than ever.

[@randomd00d19]

Hoping that there is a combat healer hybrid that drains health from opponents.

[@Pine2142]

Ok but more importantly speedruns will be way more skill expressive, interesting and less stale when resetting over and over with stuff like Ouroboros, quickstepping/dodging and ESPECIALLY BEING ABLE TO SWITCH CHARACTER MID COMBAT. As always the combat is my favourite thing about this series and now it looks like it'll be the best it's ever been.

[@ShadowSkyX]

I saw the chain attack select and I just imagined speed runners internally screaming about any extra button or directional presses for the chain attacks lol

[@AndrewTheUltraBoss99]

i just hope there isn't something like corvin, who made speedruns look really terrible

[@Scytherman]

With the insane amount of options the routing will be really interesting too tbh.

[@Hephaestus_God]

You're assuming speedrunners won't just clip to the final area and then cheese the boss for a 10 min speedrun.

[@AndrewTheUltraBoss99]

@@Hephaestus_God this is a jrpg, not dark souls lol

[@matthewwolf5528]

I don't know why, but I absolutely love that each class has individual rankings in attack, defense, healing, and tactics. I find that so delightful. It's a minor presentation change, but I feel like it clarifies how each class is intended to be played in a simple way. One of the biggest problems of Xenoblade 2 (for me) was the lack of guidance and clarity in the menus. Not that the class ranks alone solve that problem, but it indicates that maybe they're going to lay all the information out more clearly this time around.

[@tuvillo]

Downside is, we've always seen a huge gap between how the game seems to be intended to be played, and how it's actually optimally played

[@laynerowland1497]

This is so insane, the class system is what hypes me up the most, was one of my favorite parts of X My dream is to play as Sena using dual guns on Full Metal Jaguar!

[@Kyroro97]

SLIDING SLINGER

[@marcar9marcar972]

So I mean classes seem cool but when you can only have 4 artes I feel like customization is kinda limited

[@Kyroro97]

@@marcar9marcar972 4 customizable arts x N different classes x 6 party members swappable at any times + transformations how is this limited?

[@ShadowSkyX]

@@Kyroro97 *flies off cliff

[@NoonDragoon]

I've watched the new combat footage a lot since yesterday, and man the animations in this game are looking so smooth. So excited for this to finally be in my hands.

[@Pixelgon404]

wasnt sure how I felt about the entire party being in battle at first (especially with them all shouting voicelines) but being able to switch freely FINALLY should alleviate some of the chaos and bad AI

[@Gamer-g2v1r]

"Bad AI"? The AI in 2 was great, wdym?

[@Eclipsed_Embers]

@@Gamer-g2v1r it's pretty decent but not quite as good as an actual player. I'm sure everyone has had at least one case where their party members simply won't swap to the blades you want them to use, or when their healer heals too early resulting in their healing art not being ready when you actually need it, or when they use an art for a driver combo just too late resulting in them failing to move it onto the next stage. it's not perfect but at least it's predictable if you want the AI to do a specific thing there's generally something you can do to make them do it. also Melia's AI in Xenoblade 1 kind of sucked. that's the only one that I'd consider to be truly bad.

[@dave9515]

@@Eclipsed_Embers Nah i wouldn't call any of the ai's that decent but its something you have to work with. Swapping in 3 won't matter and the reason i think so is the AI's are always programmed to burn through all their available arts by monolithsoft most of the time and thats why they never heal you when you need it or follow up when they should usually. X ai's were really good though aside from elma not saving TP when you say to build up TP in the tactics menu.

[@ShadowSkyX]

@@Eclipsed_Embers it'd be busted if the ai was too good.

[@Gamer-g2v1r]

@@Eclipsed_Embers I mean in my experience the AI is great. If the possibility of a Driver Combo appears, they'll always do it. The only times they don't is when either their Art isn't ready or they can't switch Blades. Same for Blade Combos. If they can't Switch Blades, they won't swap to an element that can end the Combo. The only bad thing is that they sometimes get stuck on one element when you want a different Combo route.

[@simonbergeron3281]

19:27 It looks like you can execute different orders in succession during the same chain attack, the screen shows a log of orders. Maybe in order to get an Ouroboros Order you need to have completed one for each of the pair. The completion bonus might apply to the rest of the chain attack. Maybe it gets more and more difficult to fulfill an order (probably by filling up the Tactical Gauge in a limited number of attacks) and that is what stops the chain attacks, up to a maximum of three, since the first order in the chain attack seen earlier drains a third of the chain attack meter. The log might also be from previous chain attacks during the same battle and still how you can use an Ouroboros Order. I'm also curious to know how the Orders you can choose from are decided, if they are random, it might make Chain Attacks slightly unreliable.

[@squared7856]

i am looking forward to be heavily reliant on your guides for xenoblade 3 endgame content. Here's to hopefully another great expansion pack.

[@Moopie12]

14:50 every class is visible on the page, but the popup for the current class is obsuring half of them. You can see Gray, Juniper, and Lanz quite easily, as well as 3 locked characters on the bottom row.

[@EnelXC]

my eyesight is bad

[@silverwalker2934]

@@EnelXC I don't blame you they are behind a very dark box

[@sarthakverma1030]

They actually confirmed 23 classes will be in the game. Wiiiild.

[@brianyang1151]

1:14 oh you don't understand how useful rolling was in Dragalia Lost for repositioning, and later dodging iframable attacks when that change was implemented.

[@Scytherman]

I like that you separated gameplay and story analysis, because i'm staying away from anything story related as much as i can, even in the trailers. But gameplay i like seeing ahead of time what i'll be able to do.

[@sabata2]

15:00 - To provide a correction. Lanz and Sena *are there*. The description of Guardian Commander is *over the Class Display*. You're actually missing a 3-wide 4-tall area for classes. You can JUUUUST Barely see Lanz behind the Guardian Commander icon that is semi-transparent behind the word "Guardian". It STILL may be Affinity related however (note the locked portrait between two Heroes in the third row).

[@Whirlwhind1]

14:52 Lanz and Sena aren't visible because their Icons are hidden by the class information window. You can kinda see Lanz's obscured face in the top left.

[@EnelXC]

my eyesight is bad

[@IronShark93]

@Enel @15:00 there are more characters behind the right info panel. I didn't notice until I rewatched on my large TV.

[@ultimatesore]

On the class selection screen you can see behind the class description that there's more people in that menu to pick from which means we have something like 40 classes

[@Ganonslayer]

I find it amusing that it appears that what defines a character's class is their weapon and their jacket. Those are the only aesthetic components of the characters that seem to change.

[@joshualawrence4301]

Not trying to be rude, just curious what else you think would change…?

[@Ganonslayer]

@@joshualawrence4301 Not really sure. I guess I expected more than just the jacket. Most class changes in video games involve changing the whole outfit.

[@dankdilly]

@@Ganonslayer true I always LOVED that in FFX-2 I kinda miss that game but I have beat it probably 10 or more times when I was a teen lol and I love that each girl got their own original design for each job and I think there were about 20

[@dankdilly]

@@joshualawrence4301 you can look at ffX-2 they will change almost everything about the character and even have animations of them switching that you can choose to cut off

[@ManuPlays05]

I can't wait for your combat explained videos for this game... this seems to be a step up

[@alexiosblake9804]

As for the weapons for Fiona and the nameless. On the screen at 14:30 you can see small icons of their weapons. Fionas looks like a trident a nameless like a double spear.

[@lucasc9142]

The world looks amazing, the combat seems like a lot of fun, there’s ton of customization and optimization options, but honestly… I’m just hoping the story can get me even half as invested and affected as XC2.

[@MonadoBoyFlameRock]

he speaks nothing but FACTS

[@Erlow]

During the fusion art video clip you can see noah does 2 instances of damage with each fusion art, implying that instead of having the master art's effect be applied to the main art or a combined damage ratio, each of the two arts deal damage sepperately

[@theimpersonator7086]

Swapping chars to have more control over AI stupidity is so nice, glad that Monolith finally added the feature. No more dumb Shulk, Melia, Tora with QT Pie holding the player back The class system looks so sick and reminds a bit of FF5. Looking forward to tampering with the classes, especially the gun class. Combine class stuff with fusion arts, Ourobrous forms,etc love the options Monolith gave the player

[@PJDAltamirus0425]

No more brain dead never using his healer for staying power or standing in flipping acid until he dies. Also brillant cus to smart AI basically is a built in non adjustable easy mode yet totally brain dead ai just leads to question every loss in the game. With character swapping, our f ups is inarguably our f ups.

[@TheRoleplayer40k]

As long as it’s not required. I hate games like ff7 remake that force me to constantly swap characters like an autistic child

[@BigCowProductions]

@@TheRoleplayer40k I actually loved that about VIIR 😅 It gave it a feel and DNA of how FF games used to be, where you controlled your whole party. With VIIR, it maintains that, as you are incentivized and encouraged to swap people. I loved swapping around, using abilities and building atb and hopping back to Cloud, or Tifa or whatever. It was super fun. To each their own, though 🙂

[@blumiu2426]

@@BigCowProductions Classic FF had nothing about swapping in it as you had set classes you chose on the field. They changed up the formula in different games, but you are talking more of a true turn-based system that no longer applies to FF games now nor Xenoblade. I would think the remasters of classic FF made this apparent.

[@BigCowProductions]

@@blumiu2426 You missed the point of my statement entirely, either through lack of contextual understanding, or on purpose so you can try and 'ummm, ahkchewuhlee' someone. I have played FF since on the SNES, and have played almost every single game. It is painfully obvious you didn't 'switch' in those games. That was the whole point of what I was saying! In old FF, Command Based, or Turnbased, you controlled your whole party and were able to change the minutae of battle. That's the hallmark of a Command Based battle system, being able to control your whole party and strategise. Dexterity-based action battle systems test your hand-eye coordination and mastery of the combat systems in place, and lend more towards single-character play with AI teammates. Getting that feeling of controlling your whole team is lost on these games. This is why VII Remake was so great. It allowed the easy swapping of party members, effortlessly, where it achieved a similar function of controlling your whole team and affecting the battle through the AI not being great, and the ATB bar charging much better when you control it. Also, very easy to hit R1 or L1 to bring up the ability command menu for your team at any time. All this, while still having Dexterity-based action combat as well. I hope this clears up any confusion.

[@alexiosblake9804]

For Alexandria's class the japanese version makes it a bit more understandable. There it's said that the more she crits the higher her Attack gets.

[@Jetbladewarrior]

Also Eunie also uses Duel fans to use burst. I was just thinking maybe the mysterious character could be Mikil for 2 reasons the color is a similar color to that blurred character and Eunie using Duel Fans when she uses burst.

[@progste]

this direct definitely upped my hype, having so many possible combinations looks a bit overwhelming but hopefully it will allow for creative ways to fight!

[@enderstar1016]

at 14:53 you mention that lanz and sena's classes arent available to noah yet, but if you look behind the UI to the right, youll notice that lanz and sena are located there, along with seemingly juniper, grey, and a bunch more silhouettes with lock symbols on them.

[@enderstar1016]

Ok maybe I should have read a bit more of the comments lmfao, didn't realize so many others caught that

[@OtakuDaiKun]

I'm a bit worried about the Ouroboros mechanic. I remember who fusing with seraphim completely broke the battle system of Tales of Zestiria because it combined character stats. It balanced itself toward the fused characters, and not the individual ones, basically penalizing you for not fusing every chance you get. Hopefully there'll be a proper time and place for the fusions in Xenoblade.

[@themonkeyman2910]

I’m not gonna be sleeping for a while once I get my hands on it.

[@HUGEDILLPICKLE]

If you noticed each village has its own flame clock on the right. This could mean that our actions in game could prolong or destroy villages. Maybe helping a certain side when you see them fighting could have a effect on the clocks

[@Superflaming85]

One thing that I find super intriguing is that if any character can have any class, then we will 100% avoid the frustration of "I love this character, but they aren't very good so I don't want to play as them" that shows up throughout the rest of the series. Even if a character has a terrible, awful, horrifically bad base class...you can just swap them to a better one. Unless they're a hero, but oh well.

[@lordminsc24]

They are actually combing aspects of all previous xenoblade games into the combat, the exploration, the story, and the music. Monolith have gone crazy with power and I love it

[@hyperhollowrogue5050]

Great video, but you missed a few details that I think you and others may like to know. First, it seems like on the class selection screen, there are Chibi character portraits under the UI element on the right half of the screen. For example, look at how some of the bottom characters have lock icons, then notice that under the UI element on the right half of the screen you can see some of those icons. It's really tough to see, but it's definitely there. You can also make out Chibi portraits for Lanz, Gray (I think), and the archer class. One of the things that further solidifies this is that at the bottom of the screen there is an option to hide the class description that covers the right half of the UI. Another element that very few people are talking about is that on the hero selection and class selection screens at the top right there is a sorting feature. On both screens characters are sorted chronologically, does this imply when they may join the party? One last thing, on the class selection screen, you see nopon coins are next to the sorting element at the top right, does this mean the nopon coins can be used to somehow speedup class progression? At the bottom of the screen, you see an option labeled "Use Nopon Coins." Those same coins seem to be used in the cooking feature to supplement ingredients for cooking. It seems like the nopon coins are going to be used to speed up some of the more tedious elements of the game, which makes me wonder how they'll be earned, challenge mode maybe?

[@anthonynguyen1289]

Maybe unique monsters and bosses drop the coins. Just to prevent people from super scaling classes early easily they could have it where it increases the coin requirements either based on the level of the class or the number of times coins were used on it. They could also make the coins not a guaranteed drop in rematch fights of elites dropping it to like 10-15% maybe lower to discourage players from doing that.

[@sonickhable]

You know what, this IS the enel video ever.

[@ThisIsSoEternal]

This is THE enel video ever!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Magic_Ice]

15:00 you can see lanz and sena hidden behind the UI in this photo

[@ayejaymanofficial]

14:59 - I only just realized that the UI box displaying info about the classes is slightly opaque, and it’s hiding Sena and Lanz’ icons, but that also means there’s another 7 different classes that aren’t shown due to obstruction!

[@Touma_S]

while you can give healing arts to other characters i think healers are the only ones who can revive KO'D characters

[@Piyamakarro]

Something I wanted to mention regarding character swapping - In the demonstration, I noticed that when the player swapped from Mio to Eunie, Eunie had all her arts + talent art ready, but the arts got reset except for one and the talent gauge was reduced a little. If you go frame by frame, you can see the gauge spin down. I think this means that you will be able to pick one art to be available when swapping in the skill tree (or maybe multiple). But other arts get reset, and you'll need to do a bit of work on the talent gauge. I'm still not certain if AI arts usage matters, or if they're all "available" by default when you switch. Perhaps arts are automatically refreshed but talent gauge isn't since I don't think the AI uses talent arts (could be wrong there, though).

[@VernonFoxx]

The other classes are under the information panel. ZR is Display Class Info and if it weren't displaying that it would be showing all of the classes. You can see Lanz somewhat clearly to the left of the class title, Gray near the left of the description text, and Juniper to the right of the description text.

[@lazydroidproductions1087]

Actually, I believe that Lanz and Senna are visible on the class selection screen, there seem to be people behind the box with info

[@Jiwpgakis]

The classes thing is the biggest feature to me. I’ve always wanted to change the class of the other characters to something that is the most fun

[@bullshark1747]

at 15:00 there are a bunch more characters behind the menu on the right

[@EnelXC]

yep my eyesight is bad sorry lol

[@johndulf7295]

You can see the indolines weapon is a staff at the heroes menu

[@marcelzwiener2667]

something interesting is, that if you look at master arts from the Classes and Compare it to other Clips, it seems, that the last Master art, at Rank 20 is Always the talent art of that class, so that means, we can also Customize that

[@conorb.1901]

I'm glad that the Ouroboros forms don't seem to fall into the same pitfalls that Skells did. Having their own skill trees should help them keep up when we inevitably crank our damage through the roof at endgame. I'm just curious how accessories and gems will apply to them.

[@livrax5827]

Considering every character essentially has their own Ouroborus form, I assume the accessories of the character in control are what affects the form

[@conorb.1901]

@@livrax5827 that would be the easy solution, but it's also two characters fused together, so it would be interesting if the Ouroboros inherited the effects of both characters' accessories. We'll just have to wait and see

[@turtlebug8552]

14:50 if you turn up the brightness all the way there are other classes behind the menu with all the stats and stuff on it, so it looks like every party member can use any class as long as you have the hero unlocked

[@rinlila6974]

I wonder if we can use the nopons class tho as its two characters and in the trailer they didnt have the class icons above their head when noah was talking about them

[@sergiusniederberg3140]

I predict you'll be my go-to source when it comes down to understanding this game. I owe you so much since your content led me through my current XBC2 so far (just arrived at Mor Ardain). Thank you so much for your effort.

[@gram6464]

Did they explain how Nopon Coins might be obtained? I see them in all different menus throughout this. Makes me think it might end up being a premium currency you can buy with real money in order to skip farming/grinding?

[@PokeMaster22222]

15:56 I wonder what "Nopon Coins" (Y button) do, here...rare items that help you unlock stuff, perhaps?

[@tirex3673]

I wonder, what would happen if you fused Daze&Launch.

[@EnelXC]

the cartridge breaks instantly

[@MajorZelDaFan1234]

Isn’t Noah using Zeon’s sword and shield when he uses Mighty Beat at around 4:10? That’s a keves class with access to smash, that seems wild.

[@sombrego2260]

I'm so excited at the idea of making whacky healer builds with cool master arts and fusion arts to bring Uber support to the team. Like you could have your healer doing break topple launch on their own while healing with fusion arts for instance, the possibilities are endless.

[@kappa8466]

Since it's 6 party members, probably monster are gonna hit pretty hard tanks as well, which is why I think healers might be very important! It's going to be fun finding it out regardless, I'm so happy to hear all this good stuff confirmed! Can't wait to get my hands on the game!

[@ophiliavermeersch864]

You say when talking about the class select screen that it's probably affinity based (and I'm pretty sure it will) because Lanz and Sena's icon aren't on the screen - but their icons are actually on the screen hidden by the menu on the right. You can also see Juniper's and mister edgy dual gun's there.

[@codename618]

I couldn't help but notice that while you and Luxin mention being concerned about Keves art recharge, you neglect to mention the fact that stutter-stepping is gone, and there's no indication that art recharge pouch items are returning. Based on this, I think both nations' arts recharge will be more balanced than it seems. One of the Sena clips shows no stutter-stepping, and the rate of recharge seemed to be a little slower than I'm accustomed to. Plus, we need to keep in mind that Keves arts currently on cooldown continue to recharge while arts are being used, where as Agnus arts just stop in their tracks until you begin auto-attacking again. I don't mean to imply you're bashing Xenoblade 1 or anything like that, I just think you're both overlooking the lack of stutter-stepping and sufficient pouch items. I honestly believe both types of arts will be about even (minus Mio's class), and I'm eager to see how this all plays out.

[@masterplusmargarita]

I agree with this point, but I hate that I do. I don't see it as "Cooldown arts will still be viable" but more along the lines of "Charge arts have been made slower to bring them in line with cooldown arts". It makes the game more balanced, which is pretty good, but it makes charge arts less fun and tactical to use, which is super bad.

[@dave9515]

@@masterplusmargarita I don't think there was any thinking involved with 2 auto attack cancel and art spam. This solution probably won't be great either given how much more important moving around is seeming so Agnus classes might be worse than Keves because of the hard nerfs with the removal of pouch items and auto attack canceling.

[@DeltaZapdos]

I personally feel that 1 has the strongest auto-attacks in the series and that art rotation is significantly stronger in 1 and X (overdrive) when compared to 2 and Torna (although I’m more experienced with the combat in the former games). Auto-attacks feel 5-10 times faster in 1 than every other game in the series thanks to double attack, haste, and certain auras (and could be used while moving). Combined with high critical rates meant that the party gauge would max out in seconds, providing near constant access to chain attacks where art cooldown is a non-factor (multi-hit arts were also very useful for this). Even ignoring that, it meant that arts weren’t your sole source of damage and so arts could be used more sparingly if you so desired. Then there’s art rotation. Although X bypassed cooldowns with overdrive, even XC1 rarely had moments where I’d be forced to wait an extended period of time for an art to recharge. Arts recharging passively rather than from auto-attacks meant that it was possible to time arts such that you could cycle between them. Sure, you couldn’t spam an art over and over (usually), but you didn’t have to because you had immediate access to all of your arts rather than a portion of them. All the games have very abusable methods to circumvent longer downtimes, but only XC1’s combat doesn’t depend on them.

[@codename618]

As it turns out, my point is simply false. Agnus arts are superior when it comes to recharge.

[@specialschoolacc7397]

unrelated but how do you record switch gameplay enel? i cant seem to display the switch on my screen i connected the switch to,

[@EnelXC]

I use an el gato capture card

[@bigfan10-gaming79]

Alexandria's seems to be more like a Greatsword version of FE3H's Sword of the Creator as it seems to have a Whip like function

[@mr.wildride1954]

Did anyone connect Ashera with Sharla and Fiona with Nimua. Fiona has the same horns and as her and Ashera just straight up looks like Sharla

[@bigfan10-gaming79]

Uh to the right of the Guardian Commander Class on the Class Selection menu I noticed that it's a class with a character I don't think we've been shown yet, looks like a healer with some kind of pole weapon. And they are actually showing us the Character's Faction along with the Weapon Sprite(I just love the attention to detail)

[@fireembliam9090]

Do you think that one of main characters in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 will get slap. Like Shulk in Xenoblade 1 and Rex Twice in Xenoblade 2.

[@EnelXC]

Probably

[@ephemeralenhancement9445]

I hope the combat as good as it looks. XC2 has my favorite combat and it looks similar so I'm excited

[@jpegwarrior5431]

8:10 im pretty sure an earlier screenshot has revealed you get your third master art slot at Level 40, could be misremembering though. also at 14:55 you can actually see that Lanz and Sena (along with Gray, Juniper, and a bunch of locked heroes) are actually *behind the class description window*, meaning there are 7 classes in each row and 23 total on that screen.

[@EnelXC]

May have, I don't remember everything myself at this point.

[@waffleboi7487]

Like I said in that one tweet: the battle system will be really good and each day my statement ages better and better

[@Polarcon]

Can’t believe peak gaming and peak fiction (in one product) will release in little more than a month

[@RellekEarth]

15:00 Noooooo they ARE on there. They are not locked out. They are just UNDERNEATH the box on the right. You can even see the characters peeking through the transluscent box. Top row is Lanz, Sena and the blurred out hero from earlier. Next row is the machina girl, an unknown hero and Juniper. You can clearly see junipers bow. Third row is all locked characters and we cant see the outlines of them. This means we have the possibility of 28 classes in the game given the size of the screen.

[@Moonwalker86]

That's a hype train, hold your horses son.

[@lentinant]

I've took a look on some screenshots of tactics menu we had before, and it does seem that buttons are toggleable. So, if you enabled characters to follow specific tactic, button will be in enabled state, and if not - those will be disabled. In the segment of video, it does seem that AI is free to pick targets at will, and will not wait for fusion arts, but will use any available combo. In old Japanese screenshot, all buttons aside of bottom one were active, meaning, they will use only fusion arts, use any combo, and attack same enemy as leader.

[@theswagatron]

Wasn't planning on watching this video but you had me at Abel's Ark. Fantastic analysis didn't know it was possible for the wait to get any harder

[@weebderick3626]

Ur combat/character build content on xeno 3 finna go crazy 😭

[@Elijah5556]

I like this Combat system and the most important change that needed to happened is to switch while in battle I wonder how the scaleing is going to be

[@Thomas-qy7wm]

I'm currently replaying Xenoblade 2 a second time to get in the mood for this. It's looking good :D. Wonder if it can somehow top the last game, which would be quite the accomplishment.

[@PokeMaster22222]

The two things I really want to see return are Custom difficulty (amazing accessibility feature, and extremely handy for just speeding through mobs while giving bosses some more oomph), and Appearances (change character's appearance regardless of class/equipment). Custom difficulty would allow me to change certain aspects to my preference (maxing out party gauge gain and combo timers, minimising debuff timers inflicted on the player, making enemies hit as often and as hard as I want, changing enemy health values as I see fit), which was wonderful for XC2 Blade Affinity Charts. It's a shame it was locked behind NG+ for T:TGC, and not ported over to XC: DE (along with unique monster gravestones, for easy respawning). Appearances would let me dress the characters however I'd like; if I want Lanz to stick with his original outfit even when changing his class, I could do that. If I want Sena, Eunie and Mio to wear swimsuits, I could do that, hopefully. If I want Taion to wear the Swordmaster outfit when he's not, or maybe a Hero's outfit when he's not their class, I could do so. Oh, and being able to turn off Enemy Aggression (for non-bosses/unique monsters) would also be fantastic. Sucks that wasn't in XC: DE either.

[@danielvetencourt7586]

I think it’s confirmed you can change outfits regardless of your class

[@pokeleoantiqua7326]

The appearance is already confirmed But I agree about the custom difficulty

[@danielvetencourt7586]

@@pokeleoantiqua7326 Im gonna guess custom difficulty will be back. As well as leveling down your teammates

[@weberman173]

@@danielvetencourt7586 leveling down is confirmed by previews to not return by now if y ou didnt know yet

[@AlexT7916]

The info card that was shown when class swapping seems to have covered Lanz , Sena and 4 heroes classes

[@-siranzalot-]

The combat in this game is gonna be bonkers and I love it! Unfortunately I probably won't be able to play at launch because of personal time constraints but I'm looking forward to checking out your numerous guides as soon as I find the time to get into playing the game to get some ideas for party setups :)

[@Lulink013]

You can see some more classes under the right pannel at 16:00. That's 23 classes in total shown here, but I wonder if they have all heroes or not at that point.

[@TerryBogurt]

Im already confused and the game isn't even in my hands....AWESOME

[@SliderFury1]

Does anyone know if you can change classes on the fly, on the field, or do you have to go into the menu to do it?

[@chaselanglands6757]

A Xenoblade game with a job system. Inject this game into my veins right now!

[@raphaelpulmano2212]

I've been a bit bummed that the Heroes themselves don't look to be playable, but then again taking their classes and weapons is the next best thing, I suppose. Stoked to see the rest of the classes and heroes in the full game. I'm giving everyone Noah's Jacket.

[@Alexj96]

Lets go i have been waiting this video since.... Yesterday! Cool to hear your thoughts. Combat looks AMAZING.

[@KromeLazarus]

Hope you get the Character Guides concise yet digestible. I always watch your XC2 stuff and excited to see how you can push them to the limits.

[@Hoovinoyse]

14:53 Lanz’s and Senna’s classes are probably behind the menu explaining Guardian Commander, since it’s a little opaque and you can see some chibis behind it.

[@EnelXC]

my eyesight is bad

[@juanfebejarano5474]

If anyone is playing Trails of Cold Steel 1 right now, skip from 12:05 to 12:15. Enel dropped a pretty big spoiler there

[@Averi0]

I audibly 'bruh'd.

[@EnelXC]

i'm literally past kuro at this point I forget that's technically a spoiler sorry

[@Averi0]

@@EnelXC That's fair, it happens relatively early on in a very lengthy arc

[@ihavetrashopinions6324]

I’ve been watching previous gameplays clips and looking back in the direct and I’ve noticed and Keves can only break topple and daze while Agnus is only able to launch and smash. So despite both sides having different cooldowns Keves classes and Agnus classes must be used both in combat in order to access the combo.

[@RobC1983]

Somehting I noticed is that when Eunie is using Mio's class, the weapon has a shape of hand fans!

[@saroporoggo]

The only issue i've seen with party member swapping is it only gives you the option to swap to adjacent members in the party list. It also seems, due to the pair merging into the robot forms, the list order cannot be changed. So it seems like if you want to go from Eunie to Sena (to / from any party members 3 positions apart in the list), it's gonna be ZL, R, ZL, R, ZL, R (or Ls) which may be too slow to take advantage of driver combos

[@andromeda8226]

Just noticed that you can get collectibles like meat from enemies. I LOVED that from Torna and I’m glad it’s back.

[@mattscartozzi6697]

great video!! My brain is going crazy thinking of the possibilities!!

[@dreg9124]

can someone explain fusion arts to me a bit more? Are they specific arts themselves? or are they simply two arts with their respective effects coupled together? Are there new animations? Do you have to press 2 different buttons at once to activate them? I am hoping we can keep the flashiness of blade combos for xeno3 but i havent seen anything resembling the over the top blade combos of 2 yet

[@EnelXC]

fusion arts seem to be a combination of 2 different arts and their effects, using the animation of the primary art.

[@dreg9124]

@@EnelXC ok ty! Looking forward to checking out your xeno3 content Enel. Just a couple more days!!!!!!

[@maagic2031]

One of my favorite Blade/Driver combos in 2 was Elma on Nia because I loved the Break/Evasion art. Knowing that I could break without risking interruption from getting broken, toppled, blowdown, etc. was such huge safety net. And now I can put that same art on everyone! This game is gonna be wild, I literally cannot wait.

[@xxKYTHExx]

I think pacing of tutorial will be very important given the complexity of the battle system. For many of us here with experience with previous xc games, it will be easier, however it might not be so for someone totally new to the series (and for some reason started with xc3 1st). We have to remember that a big part of the gripe against xc2 for people who didnt like the game was the complexity of the battle system and lack of early and comprehensive tutorial to guide them. I really want the series to become a mainline rpg series on par with the likes of persona in popularity and im hoping that the game will guide players properly and timely this time on the battle system. I actually felt sad with xc2 how some of my friends gave up on the game because they feel lost with the battle system knowing that they are missing out on a great game with a great story. Hoping for the best for my favorite switch rpg series.

[@GamerBKL]

The Indoline is totally shown to be a green support/healer with a staff or another dual blade like ashera. Only thing I can point to is the select classes for the main character screen.

[@darkhaze1991]

Quick question, what is the BGM that’s playing in the video? Besides that, I am very much looking forward to your coverage of the game. The Heroes system is a welcome and familiar substitute for the Blade system and I am REALLY looking forward to the class system. So hyped for XB3!!!