Meh - meh, no matter the connections, if they want to make a 3rd game it can be done fairly easily just like how this one was done. There are a number of lose plot strands that can be picked up and reconfigured into another game. The franchise has proven successful and this point it isn't a question of if but when.

The potential connections between multiple games are nice but are a luxury in the grand scheme of things.

1.3 update delayed to March 2nd.

Just as well better to remove bugs before they become a problem.

At least they caught it. More than a few publishers have failed their final quality check and released an update that busted a game.

Yeah, better a delay then some crippling update that screws stuff up for everyone.

This will also give me more time to go after the super bosses.

Someone figured out how the RNG for Blade cores works.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204208-xenoblade-chronicles-2/76338453

70 hours in and 7 chapters done, I'll be taking a break (probably for a few weeks at least) while I concentrate on Mario + Rabbids and my second playthrough of Breath of the Wild.

I thought the plot ramped up in chapter 7 and became quite interesting (even if every confrontation with the villains is predictable and repetitive), but chunks of the chapter gameplay-wise were a fairly boring slog. I love the game when it comes together, but it trips up over its own systems far more frequently than either Chronicles or X did. Undecided whether I'll power through and finish the main story when I go back to it, or take my time and go through side-quests and try and get more rare blades. I went through 70 common crystals and 8 rare crystals this weekend without a single new rare blade.

Odds are once I've done the main story I'm never going to have time to go back to Chronicles 2 (unless the story-driven DLC is particularly good), so I'm hoping a break means I'll be likelier to spend time doing more sidequests and unlocking rare blades when I go back to it.

Is this a spoiler?

New Game+ update is this weekend.

New Game+ is added to the game in a few hours along with 7 new Blades some of which aren't obtained through CCs but are wondering the game world, it's unknown if the are other blades added right now as only the 7 named blades were mentioned.