u/Veneels

It looks promising from a story standpoint. I’m prepared for how crazy this final battle is gonna be. However, from the content they showed us and, just recently, gameplay of SKoT, my concerns seem to have been validated, at least for me.

“We already got a USV Supreme Kai of Time, what could they possibly do different here?” and wanna know what they did different? Nothing 💀. I mean, not in a literal sense. Chronoa’s voice lines are really cool, and her old moves have new functions, sorta. But… the USV version of Kairos cannon is basically just the same thing with a different aura and extra ki blasts… extra ki blasts which could already be used in the original version… Holy inscription basically works the same but with extra ranged slashes and a different aura. AND TIMESPACE IMPACT IS JUST TIMESPACE IMPACT WITH NOTHING ELSE??? IT’S JUST A RECOLOR OF THE OG SKILL 😭

Now usually I don’t just immediately start doom posting and shit, I think it’s lame to not give things a chance, but it’s been 3 days of bullshit that THEY, THE DEVELOPERS, HYPED UP.

Day 1 was the “ultra battles” or whatever tf. And honestly i’m looking forward to them personally, but again, nothing major. Yesterday was straight bs and unanimously hated, because who cares about being able to watch loading screens?? No one asked for that feature, and we technically already had it. But i wasn’t going to write off the DLC just yet, because we still had today to see some gameplay… And we genuinely just get the same damn character but recolored (and before you say that’s ALL USV’s, that’s not the case at all. In fact the only other person this applies to is Jiren and dare I say she’s almost if not JUST as bad as he is.)

Now listen, we’ve had two different Ultra Instinct Goku’s. Two. The third will have his gameplay revealed tomorrow. I pray to god that he either has some original attacks, attacks heavily based on things from the manga, or SOMETHING that isn’t just a straight up recolor.

But all in all, it’s sad to say that i get more concerned with each reveal. We still haven’t seen any Fu gameplay. We still haven’t ACTUALLY seen the USH transformation for CaC’s, and it’s slowly starting to concern me if i’m being honest. But hey, they also haven’t showcased all the other things in the DLC… but then again if the “free update” comes tomorrow, which it should because the DLC drops wednesday, then what are they waiting for??? And if there IS no free update then i’d assume they’d show the rest of the DLC content (clothes, parallel quests, etc) tomorrow alongside Goku’s trailer right??? But I don’t know, they’re lowering my expectations more and more.

And the worst part? You can’t even say the fanbase overhyped it. THEY are the ones that made such a big deal, “drip feeding” what we THOUGHT would be actual interesting info. They hyped up every reveal just for 3/4 of them to be bullshit. Here’s to hoping Goku is cool, with their current track record for this DLC, who tf am I kidding 😐

TLDR: USV Supreme Kai of Time feels extremely underwhelming, the DLC genuinely seems unimpressive so far for a “final” DLC, and hopefully Goku and whatever else they have in their back pocket can save it.

Like I don’t know if it’s just me but Super Saiyan God is one of my favorite awoken skills in the entire game. It’s so satisfying to time your attacks just right and be able to follow up right after, especially since your attacks have less end lag and do more damage with the correct timing. You can literally chain together combo after combo with a single dash cancel because of how fast Super Saiyan God is. Man it’s just so well designed. The lack of buffs to supers mean nothing with how much basic attack damage you do. You’re literally a walking ult. If you have the right super soul you’ll still have very good damage with your supers while also having insane basic attack damage, which can make for some insane builds. I personally like using Gotenks’ super soul to truly maximize the potential of SSG, but I digress.

I know they’re changing a lot in XV3, but if there’s anything I want to stay the EXACT same, it’s the design of Super Saiyan God. This awoken skill is amazing. Don’t change a single thing (unless it’s a buff, can’t complain there tbh)

On the bright side, according to Globku, Soul Change is just going to replace your awakening ability.

My take away from that is it’ll be like an awoken skill, completely optional, and universal for all races. Instead of using your own transformation, you will also have the OPTION (KEYWORD, *OPTION* , MEANING OPTIONAL) to just transform into a different character. This could honestly be good for early game or if you just don’t like the awoken skill your race has. (obviously though, no Saiyan main is gonna want to use this awoken 💀)

As for everything else though, it’s just very….different? There’s no stamina, just ki. Supers and ults don’t use ki, but now they’re on cooldowns. It genuinely just looks like they mixed XV2 with DB Kakarot. I’m not gonna say it doesn’t look good, because it looks great. Great graphics and visuals, gameplay looks very smooth (I LOVE how there’s ACTUAL ground combat and the gameplay still seems fast). But again, it’s extremely different from what we’ve gotten in the previous two games. They didn’t just “upgrade” what was already there, they seemingly reworked EVERYTHING about it mechanically, and I don’t know how I’m gonna feel about it. Like it’ll definitely take some getting used to, but it’s almost like it won’t really “feel” like Xenoverse anymore. I don’t know how to feel about it, but what’s everyone else’s thoughts?

Did you know that Lovely Cyclone can actually never be obtained in the game? :D Neither can Power Rush, or Meditation, or Revenge Death Ball! These attacks are actually myths and cannot be obtained by your CaC! 😁 It is literally impossible to get any of these skills!

No but on a serious note, I know these skills are possible to obtain. It’s just so annoying that you can do a quest over and over, get a Z Rank over and over, and still never get the damn skill. What is it gonna take bro 🫩

Anyways, what’s a skill you guys have been trying to get forever?

They should be reworked or just straight up given to us.
Most of them are literally either

1. A version of a skill that is actually viable

2. An anime accurate version of the skill that is literally just what the skill should’ve been in the first place.

Or

3. A skill that literally should’ve came with the character that they just never added.

I feel like this applies to like 99% of the Festival Skills, but I’m just gonna talk about one for now.

God Punisher (Festival)

It is so stupid to me that instead of reworking the original skill to what it should’ve been (which is literally what they did to begin with, just give it to CaC’s as well and get rid of the bullshit version?) they just leave us with the inferior version, and only through hours of grinding can you obtain it for a single cast character.

To an extent, I understand it’s to make cast characters unique. But when this entire game’s selling point is the CaC’s and you’ve already reworked the skill to make it accurate and better overall… why leave CaC’s out? The cast characters’ movesets themselves make them unique enough, I think they’ll live if they give us the damn festival skills.

I’m especially talking about God Punisher. The version we have for CaC’s has pretty meh damage, and the animation is super innacurate. The festival version is literally, and I mean literally the exact opposite. It’s the same skill with better and an accurate animation. But for whatever reason instead of reworking OG God Punisher or giving us the festival version for CaC’s, Bandai says “Let’s just give it to Blue Gogeta and call it a day.”

And I’m sure some people are gonna be like “well what about the ones who like the OG version?” Easy fix. “God Punisher (Legacy)” for the old one, and just “God Punisher” for the accurate version.

I could go on all day about the festival skills, but what do you guys think? Should we get the festival version of these skills/have these skills reworked, or do you guys genuinely want CaC’s to keep the inferior version?

There are plenty of skills in this game that i feel could’ve been cool but either aren’t viable, are impossible to land/use without strenuous conditions, or mediocre in damage.

Divine Ray Bomb
God of Destruction’s Might
God of Destruction’s Menace
Atomic Blast
Burning Spin
Blue Hurricane

Just to name a few.

It sucks though because a lot of these could’ve genuinely been cool if they actually worked 💀 some of them, (like Atomic Blast) aren’t even viable in PVE, that’s how you know it’s bad.

But what are you guys’ thoughts? What skills disappointed you because of its damage and/or lack of combo potential?

Like I get that everyone is hype to see more XV3, I am too. But the thing is, it wouldn’t make any logical sense to drop more info on XV3 without us knowing how XV2 ends. I feel like us getting any more info on XV3 (like antagonist(s), story, character reveals, etc) would spoil FSC4.

I can’t see a hypothetical XV3 trailer that would give us info without spoiling or giving away the ending of XV2. They still want people to buy the DLC, and if they already know how it ends then they’ll probably be less likely to spend money on it considering the next game is coming.

From a marketing perspective, them announcing XV3 is definitely going to get people interested in buying the final DLC for XV2, in order to see how we ended up in a completely different area that is (seemingly) unrelated to the time patrol. There are plenty of people that are actually just getting into the XV series just from the ANNOUNCEMENT of XV3, so it’s definitely working. And I’m sure as hell buying the last DLC.

I say all this to say, don’t expect anything on XV3 until Future Saga Chapter 4 drops. I’m 99% sure they won’t give us anything on it before then, it just wouldn’t make sense.

DROP THE LAUNCH TRAILER FOR FSC4 TOMORROW, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS (yes i know nothing’s guaranteed but let me dream 🫩)

I’m genuinely starving to see what we’ll get this DLC, how the story’s gonna unfold, and how it leads in to XV3. It’ll also allow us to make a bit more speculation on what to expect from XV3’s story, so i’m excited to see people make vids on it as well.

I honestly think it’ll have something to do with toki toki’s egg, but what do you guys think?

I don’t care if it’s a new expert mission, I don’t care if it’s some busted ass PQ, I don’t care if they drop some insane ass super soul that gives the exp a 10x multiplier, or better yet, a NEW GAME MODE. But the methods of grinding that we have at our disposal are literal shit.

Don’t give me “well you’re leveling up it’s supposed to be hard work” that’s the issue. it’s not hard at all. You throw on a super soul and emperor’s death beam, then bully some brainless AI over and over and over. It’s boring, it’s tedious, it’s mind numbing, and nobody wants to actually do it, but it’s literally the ONLY viable way to level up.

What’s worse is level 99 is basically the new level 50 when it comes to builds. You can almost never take a level 99 or lower into PvP and not get destroyed, because everyone’s at 15 bars of ki and stamina with like 6 health bars. How are newer players supposed to enjoy this game when the minute they hop into PvP they’re fighting a sentient raid boss???? And i’ve always found it weird that it takes far less EXP to level up from 99-100 than it does from 80-81. They really need to fix that too, but that’s a whole other topic.

If you don’t wanna grind for EXP then you’ll have to grind for TP Medals, but honestly even those are a hassle. It takes over 200 tp medals to level up after level 100. That’s one dragon ball wish, or depending on how much TP expert missions are giving out, you’ll have to do several playthroughs to level up ONCE. You can use STP but then you’ll be spending real money and let’s face it, no one wants to spend $20+ dollars just so that they’re not powercrept (per CaC by the way, so if you wanna level up multiple characters at a time, good luck.) Plus for the people who play offline, it takes even longer AND they have to play with the shitty AI. This is gonna be the final update before XV3 (as far as we know), something’s gotta change man. We’re still stuck with this game for a couple more months and the level cap is gonna be raised to 199.

They could do one of 3 things.

1. Introduce a new super soul to the TP Medal shop and have it accessible to offline players as well. Make the multiplier 5x minimum. We have Marba’s super souls but it’s far too inconsistent, and 40 Ton Weights is obsolete at a certain level. If they’re not willing to do that, a super soul that doubles or even triples the amount of TP medals gained would be helpful too.

2. Introduce a new expert mission that gives a LOT of exp. I wouldn’t mind having to do one really difficult expert mission in exchange for 3-5 levels per run, in comparison to the same tedious mission hundreds of times in a row while spamming the same attacks.

3. Add some sort of new game mode that gives a lot of EXP per playthrough. Something ACTUALLY engaging, like maybe a “survival” type game mode that gives you more exp the longer you last against enemies.

But the fact that this grind is so damn annoying to do is the reason why I got ONE character to level 180, the rest are still sitting in the low 100s.

I was just thinking about the fact that they’re more than likely gonna be adding more voices in the next game, which voice actors do you hope to see?

For me, Zeno Robinson or Aleks Le would be awesome 🙏🏾

And I don’t mean having “low DPS” because in some situations it’s a little understandable, but I’ve played weaver in ranked for the first time a couple days ago (Gold on Console) and i’ve noticed something so weird: Other weavers i go against never use thorns…why?

I was constantly checking the scoreboard and comparing my stats to the other lifeweaver’s just out of curiosity, I had maybe like 10-15 kills, was pushing 7k damage, and had, let’s say, around 10k healing, with almost 20 assists

The other lifeweaver had almost 20k healing, over 20 assists, but NO kills and literally ZERO damage 😭

At first I just dismissed it and I was like “okay maybe that guy’s just kinda new to lifeweaver or something” and moved on, but even throughout other games i noticed this trend with other lifeweavers, why are a lot of them just not throwing out any thorns?? Does any one else play like that? I’m not trying to put anyone down it’s just genuine curiosity.

I don’t know how it just dawned upon me that people actually have OC’s that don’t take part in time patrolling at all.

My OC’s work directly with the supreme kai of time to protect history. Think the original XV2 hero, but instead of only one person it’s a bunch of them.

I also have a villain OC that works directly with the time breakers.

But I was wondering, what about everyone else’s OC’s? Are they just everyday patrollers, people who work directly with the SKoT like my OC’s, Time Breakers, or completely unrelated? (OC’s with their own lore, fights, setting, that relate to the dragon ball universe but have nothing to do with the time patrol)