Dragonball Xenoverse.

[Inhuman One]

Have been looking forward to this game a lot, and it certainly has been great fun so far. I've played it for almost a week now, a few hours most days.

Its stupidly difficult at some points though, to the point where it really stops to be fun and just forces you to spam something that works best untill the enemies are dead. Its also very annoying that NPC allies hardly deliver any damage at all, and are at times completely ignored in favor of ganging up on you. And if two or more enemies target you, you are going to take some heavy damage and one of them will be able to disrupt whatever you try to do most of the time.

My other issue is with how vague everything is about what can and cant be done with the game. Supposedly theres offline multiplayer, but does it even extent past the versus thing at the arena? Why not have split screen and let two players take on the parralel quests offline. These are sidequests that you must do to level whenever you run into a boss in the story thats basicly invincible untill you level up further.
With another player this could be more fun to tackle, and I dont see why that should be restricted to online. I dont have a subscription fee.

It's very cool that you can make your own characters, but seems you only get to make more than one once you beat the game.. which is rediculously hard at points. I think I am getting close to the end though, but I just cant handle two equally strong bosses with huge double healthbars being all up in my face. Theres an ally with me but they insist on ignoring him and just keep focusing on me, not really giving me a moment to really do much and if I do an attack they just block it, dodge it, or somehow dont receive much damage.

But yes, character creation is pretty cool. My custom character can even go super saiyan. The initial creation seems to have a nice amount of options, maybe more will be added in time.. currently male Buu's can only be fat for example, while the female buu is slim. Clothing options are slim though, unless you want to wear the exact same thing as existing characters. Some recoloreable outfits are unlocked at a snail's pace as you work your way through the story, but some greater variety would be appreciated here.

Mostly I'm just starting this discussion in hopes of maybe others having some good strategies, more knowledge about offline multiplayer, maybe tips for good skills to use, etc.

[Thanatos]

Is it true what some people are saying, that certain moves are just straight up better than others most of the time, a la the Destructo Disk?

[Inhuman One]

I gues its partially a preference thing, some do seem stronger but I have not found any really overpowered attacks yet. At least not in my own arsenal. Usually the stronger attacks take more time to perform which leave you vurnerable to interrupts, and the quicker ones tend to do less damage. Big Bang is a great attack though, and probably the only one I'd truly recommend at this point. Short charge time but it can be done fine as long as you have a little distance or you are behind the enemy. Does good damage, nothing spectacular, just good. It's a nice reliable skill and the only one I dont switch out. Aside from Super Saiyan.

I've been considering getting the SSJ2 transformation, but while stronger it drains ki faster. While I have a good ki charge skill, I just fear it may not be worth it since as a normal SSJ I already spend a lot of time charging up ki to maintain it.
Not always with succes since sometimes enemies wont let me.

[Ciciro]

Is it true what some people are saying, that certain moves are just straight up better than others most of the time, a la the Destructo Disk?

Oh, most certainly. Although a lot of these are moves that are harder to get, so it is understandable. So far I am loving the game, my Majn can take so much damage and can deal a decent amount of it.

[Inhuman One]

I'm close to finishing the game, last boss is very annoying. There have been worse I suppose, but still I'm leveling up a bit just to be sure.

[Thanatos]

How is the online matchmaking?

[Inhuman One]

There is no online portion for now, I figured it might be a nice chance to try out the 48 hour free online play, but the servers are either offline, or throw me out within seconds.

I looked it up online and it seems to be trouble everywhere.. untill its fixed it can be said that this game has no online multiplayer.

[Ciciro]

It does on the PC if you know the trick to doing it. The hubworld just doesn't work yet.

[Inhuman One]

Tried it again later, seems it does work sometimes to connect to a game while in the singleplayer hub. Works best when I host a room it seems, didnt get disconnects from server then.

[Inhuman One]

I must say it sure is quite challenging to level new characters once the story is complete. I mean.. they are so weak in comparison to my regular character! And in PQ's, the allies seem to be made weaker to match you which means you can still get owned at the earliest quests.

Also still looking for any really good attacks. The melee attack my saiyan started with was pretty good, meteor crash,smash or something its called.. allows you to keep beating on an enemy untill you run out of ki. Once you get stronger you can easily beat weak enemies to death with it.

Final Flash does some high damage too, seems stronger than Cell's perfect kamehameha or at least to me it seems so. Might have shorter range though. It can be pretty hard to really connect a final flash but when it hits, its doing great damage. But often enemies will move or your allies will beat them away as you do the attack.

I kept my main character very balanced, she's a saiyan leveled in basicly everything equally. She does good damage and is pretty versatile. Think I will make one character focused strongly on melee and another on ki, but I think I will keep most of them balanced like that.

[Ciciro]

My god is the Majin race overpowered. If you max attack, health, and have the z-soul "I'm neither Kami nor Piccolo now..."" I can soak up almost all damage sent at me, plus I automatically heal!

[Knight of Heaven]

Special beam canon is so good... i think i prefer it to Final flash. It kinda penetrates everything.

[Inhuman One]

I'll have to try that out then, can take forever to improve mentor relationship though.

So far I maxed out Cell, Vegeta and Android 18 and am waiting for Krillin's final lesson.

[irontaino]

I've been enjoying it, even (as others here have pointed out) if some of the missions are stupidly difficult. Got my destructo disk barrage so I'm set

[Leonidas The Lion]

Can someone sell me on this game?

[Ciciro]

Can someone sell me on this game?

If you love DBZ, this is the game for you. If you don't, then chances are you won't really like the game.

[Knight of Heaven]

I'll have to try that out then, can take forever to improve mentor relationship though.

So far I maxed out Cell, Vegeta and Android 18 and am waiting for Krillin's final lesson.

I have Piccolo, krilin, Cell, and vegeta... let me tell you Special beem canon, owns everything..... Im now learning from gohan, and videl, allthough i seen Goku in the city, but i need to reach lvl 70 first.

I beat Demigra so easy at 55, i tought i was using an exploit in the begining to be honest. Evil explosion, and Special beem canon, pretty much owns everything, if you know how to use it, or when to use it. With super saiyan, you pretty much can spam Special beem canon, and beat everything, is allmost a bit underwhelming. How spamy and formulaic this game is.

Or it is that i have no ideia how to melee properly, but even so why would i need that if you can just spam ultimate skils wich deals a lot of damage anyway?
Some of the Z-souls are also so very good. That Kami nor piccolo thing is amazing, and there is a Cell z-soul that is even better.

Currently im on my way to unlock the Bardock, and Broly Sagas, and farming some dragon balls. I already had one wish, that got me a new character. SS4 Gojeta ( he is too powerfull, but i dont know how to play him very well, since i suck at close combat) I do a few combos ocasionaly, but that is it, it is very hard to get close to the adversary as they keep runing away.

Also some missions are dificult at first, but as you lvl up, they become very easy.

I think the game overal is very good, but for me i think is missing a lot of things. A lot of characters, and transformations for once. ]
I miss Freazer transformations, i miss dodoria, Zarbon, Sauzer and Cooler, King vegita and King Cold, Ubb, Super saiyan gojeta, Bojack, Turles lord slug, Android 13, and 16, 19 and 20 ( dr gero)..... ( i mean the game has Appule and doesnt have Zarbon, and Dodoria...lol shame) It has very few characters and transformations for what i gather ( i mean Cell only has 2 transformations... so lame, With Buu there are a few transformations missing as well). The sagas ( story mode) were also more short then i would imagened, or i would like them to.
I remember tenkaichi, you could transform to a great ape. You had Cooler transformations, even zarbon transformation.
Xenoverse is a nice Dragon ball Z game, but i dont think it is the best i seen.

It has the nice feature to create your character, but that is about it.

I recon there will be more dlcs, and story expanded, considering, this wont be the last we see from Mira. ( amusing how they talk about dabura, and he isnt even in the game) Also i know there is a GT dlc, that adds, GT characters. And a day one DLC that gave vegeta Super siyan 4. I know to get Goku super saiyan 4 you need to clear all PQ.

Pretty bumed to find out that only saiyans get transformations. Freazer race doesnt have any. And the saiyan transformation is pretty lame too, just a palette swap, hair turns gold, eyes turn green, aura turns gold, that's about it, the hair doesn't even spike. I wonder how it is that super vegeta transformation though. It supusedly change its looks. As it did in the anime....

Well im pretty confident they will no doubt milk this game with dlcs....

[Inhuman One]

Well personly I would rather have lots of DLC for this game than a new installment each year which would have just as few characters or maybe three more.

Just needs to be appropriatly priced DLC of course, but I really think they can do a lot with it with different packages..

Like adding bits of story since it would not need to be in order, and these bits could involve DLC characters.. so you could get new characters, a new story bit and new attacks of those characters all in one package. Maybe a costume along with it.

Some suggestions there:

-Frieza saga pack.
Adds Zarbon, Dodoria, King Cold, Cooler and Mecha-Frieza.
Could include two time changes: One featuring Zarbon and Dodoria on Namek, maybe Dodoria could get the power up and thus be able to overpower Vegeta, and Zarbon could pop up to help too. You'd team up with Vegeta against them.
The second time change would be Frieza arriving on earth. But due to a change, his brother Cooler is here as well and King Cold is there too of course. Could allow for an interesting cutscene featuring all three of them, and being stronger than they are supposed to be you'd fight alongside trunks against them, with Goku joining later with instant transmission.
Alongside some attacks of these new characters, King Cold's chestpiece with cape could be added for all races, and Mecha-Frieza attachements could be added as unique Frieza race armor.

-Android saga pack.
Adds Imperfect Cell, Android 16, 19 and 20.
Could also include two timechanges: 19 and 20 teaming up against Vegeta and the other Z fighters, being stronger your help would be needed.
Other change could be Imperfect Cell being stronger when fighting Piccolo and 17, you would join the fight and then 16 would join as well.
Aside form attacks of these characters, some cyborg like appearance options could be unlocked as armor and accesoires.

-Majin pack.
Could include Dabura, Majin Vegeta as new Vegeta option, Spoppovitch and Yamu, and Supreme Kai.
Time change could be one, but with more stages to it: Dabura is powered up, kills Majin Buu and replaces him as the main villain, teaming up with Vegeta.
To kick things off, Spoppovitch and Yamu could be fought at the tournament.
Again new attacks added of these characters, a majin symbol accesoiry, and could add a thin male Buu version as third Majin race option.

-Dragonball pack.
Adds King Piccolo,Tambourine, Mercenary Tao, General Blue, Nam, Kid Goku and Master Roshi.
They could try to kill Goku early by a timechange. As goku fights General Blue, Tao could be dispatched earlier causing them to team up. Being made stronger, you need to defend a kid Goku.
Later at the tournament, Tambourine would attack during the tournament instead of afterwards. Master Roshi could possibly be the first target, and you'd need to defend him. During the fight others could help too like Tien, Kid Goku, Nam and maybe even Yamcha. King Piccolo could drop in too, trying to end it quickly.
Aside from their moves, old skin customisation could be added for nameks, and clothes of various fighters of the tournaments. Maybe some red ribbon stuff too.

-Saiyan pack.
Gues this one is very unlikely, just something I'd really love to see.
Characters could include King Vegeta, Turles and Bardock's full team.
For the timechange, it could be King Vegeta who is powered up greatly, possibly even including going Super Saiyan. He would kill Frieza, meaning the Saiyans would NOT be destroyed. Instead of Raditz comeing to earth to see what Goku has been doing, Bardock could go instead.
After an initial fight, Bardock could actually be persuaded to change his ways. More Saiyans would then be send of course, which Bardock could warn against so basicly they would train for a year in similar fasion and then instead of just Nappa and Vegeta, Bardock's team would be there as well along with Radditz.
So yeah.. they would need some help fighting them all off. It could end with Bardock persuading some of his team to not fight, they would respect him after all. This could cause King Vegeta to appear with Turles. King Vegeta would be quite powerfull since he'd be a super saiyan at a point where thats far out of reach for Goku still. It could even allow for some surprises, with possibly others like Vegeta or even Nappa going Super Saiyan as well by surprise. Kind of like how Ginyu in Goku's body can do it.
Included armors would of course be lots of Saiyan armor variations, color customiseable. Maybe some new hairstyles too, and plenty of attacks from other Saiyans.

Aside from this.. I'd love to see the following characters added:
-Nail.
-King Chappa. (his role was small but he was the only cool black character in the series, I wish more was done with him.)
-Future Gohan.
-Teen Goten, like he is seen at the end of Dragonball Z. He looks cool but never apeared in a game like that.
-Uub.
-Tapion.

And aside from that, I wish more was done with offline multiplayer! Can only fight in the arena against another player, should have added splitscreen and allow parralel quests to be fought too. Or at least allow players to choose from all custom characters of the first player instead of just the one that was logged in with.

[Knight of Heaven]

They already announced the upcoming dlcs

Three DLC packs have been announced, these include:

• DLC Pack 1 (March 2015) will contain GT Goku, GT Trunks, and GT Pan. Also, 4 Time Patrol quests, 12 parallel quests, 15 special attacks, and 5 costumes.
• DLC Pack 2 (Release date TBA) will contain more customization items, super attacks, and Time Patrol quests.
• DLC Pack 3 (Release date TBA) will contain Jaco the Galactic Patrolman and the Master Roshi costume-set.

I heard of baby, and baby Ape vegeta in the DLC 1 pack as well.

( I mean wtf, there is no diference between Super saiyan and Super saiyan 2 looks.... they look exactly the same... very lame... i hope they fix it.) Same for Super vegeta transformations, they are just the same, Only stats are diferent of course....
One thing i noticed was when Gohan transforms to Super saiyan 2... he looks exactly the same. ( only the aura changes i think)

Aside from this.. I'd love to see the following characters added:
-Nail.
-King Chappa. (his role was small but he was the only cool black character in the series, I wish more was done with him.)
-Future Gohan.
-Teen Goten, like he is seen at the end of Dragonball Z. He looks cool but never apeared in a game like that.
-Uub.
-Tapion.

Future gohan is already there mate. It is the first Gohan adult version you unlock. When you do a paralel quest for Android 17.
( named - warriors annihilation) ( if you have all versions unlocked it is the second Gohan option) Unless you skiped it, and went do the Buu saga, in wich you unlock adult Gohan with the mystical powers etc. But 17 should be there near the time machines at toki toki city, if you skiped it. Its a quest where you fight all z warriors at same time ( krilin, yamcha, tien) Then you go to fight Piccolo and Vegeta at same time in another zone, and after that Future Gohan apears. If you do the bonus ( wich is 17, and 18 surviving Gohan), trunks will apear for you to beat him. c

And aside from that, I wish more was done with offline multiplayer! Can only fight in the arena against another player, should have added splitscreen and allow parralel quests to be fought too. Or at least allow players to choose from all custom characters of the first player instead of just the one that was logged in with.

Yes overal the game seems unpolished on a lot of areas. Even though i do think the potencial is cleary there. I think it is already a nice game, but it could have become amazing if a lot of this issues were fixed, and the game were to be more polished.


Btw my mentor atm is Freazer atm , only Supernova left to learn from him. Hoping to get goku after that. He has quite a few skills i realyw ant to get my hand on. Spirit bomb amoung them.

[Inhuman One]

Ah didnt know Future Gohan was in there. I have no idea about how additional versions of people are unlocked anyways. Some parallel quests are insanely difficult though. Online goes easier, but I only had that for free two days and I rather buy more playstation plus time once Xenoverse works properly online since I dont have any other games to play online.

But yes, usually the ones given by people in toki city are the worst quests. I tend to skip them untill I am at least 10 levels higher than when the quest first popped up.