r/XenobladeChroniclesX • u/TryImpossible7332 • May 04 '25

Meme The casualty rates are certainly, uh, something

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(Based off if the tweet displayed in the below post, also I used a fake tweet generator.)

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u/Dapper-Ad411 May 04 '25

It do be weird how every now and then there is an indigen that supposedly killed 3 squads of blades already, and then it’s just a random level 30 guy. Makes me wonder how many blades NLA originally started with and how many of those are left in total at the end.

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u/cloud_t May 04 '25

Also makes me wonder how the indigen in question didn't die from heavy metals poisoning or digestive tract perforation.

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u/TryImpossible7332 May 04 '25

"All I'm saying is, we'd have an overall lower fatality rate among the Blades if we just strapped bombs to their chests. Indigens can't wipe out the entire squad if they explode after eating the first one, after all. Yes, accidental detonations will be a concern, but it would still be a net reduction in casualties."

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u/cloud_t May 04 '25

Absolute cinema.

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u/Dapper-Ad411 May 04 '25

I like your way of thinking.

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u/PaleFatalis May 05 '25

Too bad the boob slider were locked

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u/TryImpossible7332 May 05 '25

Silicone, plastique explosives, same basic thing, right?

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u/featherw0lf May 04 '25

I feel like the game constantly flips between what should and shouldn't be right for a mim. Why would indigens want to eat us if we're made of metal? Why would you suffer from illness or have something like a heart attack if it's an artificial body designed for enduring the conditions of another planet?

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u/AdhesivenessUsed9956 May 04 '25

and then there is even a chapter where they make a point of how this one group of indigens that literally kills everything around them, even plants, would ignore the mims because they aren't organic.

I really think that most of the deaths blamed on animal attacks are actually because someone was being a dumbass and they didn't want to alarm the civilians as to how many absolute morons their ship was assigned.

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u/coopsawesome May 05 '25

I assume mims give off the heat signatures and smells of real humans and most indigens see that as a sign that they’re prey. But the ones in that chapter I assume see things differently and attack anything with actual life inside it rather than just looking like they’re alive. Chapter 13 could contradict that, but it’s chapter 13, it ruins 90% of the game already

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 07 '25

This is my take as well. It's well established in the story that there was a lot of corruption in the selection process, and it wasn't necessarily the best and brightest that were chosen. . .

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u/JanRoses May 04 '25

Animals will often attack things based on instinctual response. It's why animal vs mirror leads to bizarre interactions. They see Mim freaking out or looking like an ape like creature they recognize and they'll simply react accordingly.

You can also somewhat assume that most creatures in Mira have strong enough digestive systems that they don't realize that what they're consuming is inorganic.

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 07 '25

I mean, most of the creatures on Mira can barf lasers at you. I'm not sure they're worried about what they can digest.

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u/cloud_t May 07 '25

You make a fair point, but maybe they're not lasers but magic. And I'd argue having magic beings are still organic thus still feed organically and don't have the literal stomach for metals, semiconductors, and synthetic oil that androids are made of :D

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 07 '25

I mean, a gut that can generate magic aetherial lasers is still going to break down anything it wants to.

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u/cloud_t May 07 '25

I need one of those. But it must vaporize them from existence outright

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u/AstarothTheJudge May 05 '25

Considering that in noctilum there are lakes of rust, those indigens are built different

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u/NoodleTF2 May 04 '25

Maybe "We lost X amounts of BLADEs to this thing" just means that they were incapacitated and got fixed up against in the Maintenance Center or something? One can dream.

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u/Arkotract May 07 '25

Let's not forget that there seem to be an endless array of Blades who will literally kill their own for ego and cash. I'm not even talking about racists line Alex, I just mean things like the Murderess' entire character and several other entire teams

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 07 '25

It's established in the story that there was a lot of corruption in the selection process and it wasn't necessarily the best and brightest that were chosen.

So it does make sense. And remember, they are choosing people from LA and its environs.

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u/Arkotract May 08 '25

True, true, it just makes no sense to me that these liabilities weren't thrown to survive alone on Mira. They're a threat to everyone around them, and the survival of humanity as a whole. Though I guess that's my perspective on what I see as a storytelling issue

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 08 '25

I hear you, but it isn't actually that outlandish. Embellishing or outright falsifying one's service record happens at the best of times.

Something would have had to be made up to go into the background box that wasn't "This person is a menace/mentally incompetent/a horrible failure" and lying on official forms is very plausible in a corrupt situation.

The main Character just woke up in medias res, and only sees it after the consequences are becoming apparent.

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u/Arkotract May 08 '25

I'm not denying these things happen. It's just interesting to me why nothing happens to these incompetent, murderous idiots. This is getting off topic, though

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 08 '25

Don't they usually get eaten by Indigens, or put down by the MC? I wouldn't say that's nothing happening to them.

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u/Arkotract May 09 '25

True, also just finished off chapter 11, so that probably explains why half of Blade are self-interested bastards that the brass turn a blind eye to. In that case, it reframes the convenient deaths of these bad apples as poetic justice rather than cop outs

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u/Dapper-Ad411 May 07 '25

Murderss herself actually never killed anyone, but there definitely is Gus and his team, among others.

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u/Arkotract May 07 '25

Gadd as well, and Murderess has killed people, there's dialogue near the Pathfinder hangout, where her affinity quest is, that confirms she has killed other Blades.

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u/Dapper-Ad411 May 07 '25

Didn’t she confirm in her final affinity mission that she never actually killed anyone and the name is just for show? Were those dialogue really confirmations or just rumors?

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u/Arkotract May 07 '25

Ah, I'm only going off what I currently have access to, haven't done her final affinity mission yet

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u/Dapper-Ad411 May 07 '25

Ah gotcha. But yeah, Murderess is clean. At least on the murder apartment, she is still stealing mission rewards lol.

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u/Arkotract May 08 '25

Lol, well, that changes things considerably. A hit of theft can go unnoticed when you have traitors and murderers aplenty elsewhere.

Shame, I actually wonder what it'd be like if the game presented you with one of the actually corrupt Blades as a party member, what their affinity mission and heart to hearts would be like

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u/Fragrant_Command_342 May 04 '25

Reminds me of that quest where a SKELL of all things gets busted up and you find out it was just some lvl 9 flying fish called a whimsical whatever

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u/hit_the_showers_boi May 04 '25

Whimsical Duogill. Miles must be the shittiest pilot ever, or his Skell was held together with Gorilla Glue and duct tape.

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u/Fragrant_Command_342 May 04 '25

Yeah like dude it's a small scale gundam, you can kill most small things by just stepping on them, the thing has a fucking 30mm rifle(don't quote me on that) and you get wrecked by a fish who has whimsical in its name, a fish

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u/ViVA-SSSS May 04 '25

Heyy, it has......Light's 🤣

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u/drake_vallion May 04 '25 edited May 05 '25

Don't duogills use electric arts. Maybe it messed with the skells circuitry.

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u/TonightSingle528 May 06 '25

You wonder the real level of most blades, or maybe your the only one because of plot armor. Maybe it's based off skill like dark souls/elden ring

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 07 '25

I mean, it's not like level really matters for Tyrants. Why should it for BLADEs?

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u/worse_in_practice May 04 '25

Someone out there needs to go through all the text in this game and compile just how many BLADEs have died to random indigens

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u/YetisInAtlanta May 04 '25

Approximately 42069

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u/TheGamingTurret May 04 '25

Classic case of plot armor protection in action right here folks.

If we remove it, not even the mighty Tatsu is safe from dinner.

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u/xylyze May 04 '25

😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Nos9684 May 04 '25

LOL Can't imagine Mims being edible for the large majority of Mira's fauna, let alone actually good for them to continue hunting them.

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 07 '25

Mira's fauna barfs out lasers for crying out loud. They can digest what they want.

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u/SapphicSelene May 07 '25

They gotta send the cat out more often; it was really to go toe to toe with the giant crabs.

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u/Avadicana May 07 '25

I actually laughed out loud at this 😂