FranceHello everyone! French Xenoblade lover here! I wanted to get into speedrunning the game (starting off with a NG+ Any% run) and I tried looking for a guide or anything related to what was necessary to go fast. As the title says, I'd like to find a way to get "perfect" gems, equipement and routing to be able to go for it as easily as possible. I'm sometimes blind and if there is indeed a guide already up, then I'm sorry for not finding it! >__<"
Anyway, I'm really feeling it! Good night/evening/day to everyone ;)
Thank you very much for the answer! :) I've thought of a setup that could work properly and go according to the rules ;). Now I only have to learn and train the route as much as I can ! Good day to you all! :)
Hello everyone, as the title says, I don't own a capture card, and I would really like to start speedrunning this pokemon game. I can't really think of a good method to actually capture my run, my splits and get accepted on the leaderboard! At first I thought of recording my run on my TV with a camera (old school style) and then just editing it through OBS or whatever with my splits going beside. I just wondered if that would be acceptable for the leaderboard, and if not, has anyone got any idea how I could manage something? Thanks for your time and maybe see you soon! :)
Ah! I see! Thank you very much! I guessed it would be such a thing! I'll try it as soon as possible :)
Hello everyone, I've been playing this game since the old days and started speedrunning it! Although I do not have any speedrun times active right now, I'd like to know how you skipped cutscenes at the end of battles (Amon Hen, Eaves of Fangorn ...). It could win me some time as I have seen it on different players' runs!
Thank you for your time,
Here is my personnal route for Famfrit! Feel free to use/discuss/and tell me what you think of it
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e_jsfRzWouUWqA2ot2NZv7Kub1Q9sEJOtvdd0_Ad-q0/pub
Thanks again to Noishiru for the original route and to Berfometh for giving me the will to do this run!
Even though I have very very little practice on the run (1 run is just not really enough to point out anything...) I feel that double soldier is actually more interesting. As it was said, holding a shield garantees you to not get killed THAT fast and let's you tank a bit more damage. The boots are definitely to be taken before cheetahs/desrt if not possible before. It pains me to say that a very biig part of this game is chance dependent. You can have a perfect Desrt fight but failed miserably your Cheetahs, or eve the herbs... In the Herbs mission I missed about 5 or 6 hits which indenyably made me lose a lot of time. Tht is where Char bow comes in handy. It puts blind on the ennemy AND gives your more accuracy against these blinded ennemies. Though it has a 30% hit chance on Famfrit, I think it is more usefull than just doing nothing (except healing of course!) with the archer which is otherwise VERY useless... I think a bit of luck in looting different items can also change, not the route, but the actual possibility of going faster by making more damage (ex: thunder/fire/ice rod can give more mag pow to MontBlanc and thus hit harder). I'm realy excited to go on and make this run go as far and as quick as possible!
Placing the the map:
- Sprohm --> above Giza
- Lutia --> right of Sprohm
- Nubswood --> above Sprohm
- Desert --> right of first town (dunno how it's called, I play french version!)
- River --> right of Lutia The laws alllow you to nearly do what you want! (no Knives in Lutia, no Thunder in Desert...) Long post, hope it's usefull!
Ah yes! Final thing! Is running on a NTSC and not PAL version faster or is it just the same? Because if US version is faster, I'll go for that one and not european!
