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The [Many] Mistakes of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 That Can Still Be Fixed

There are many examples of missing/unfinished terrain geometry in Xenoblade 3. Some are minor—and some are pretty major—but there’s a concerning amount that are easy to spot and really give the over-world an ‘unpolished’ feel which slightly sours the image of a “send-off” to a trilogy of a much beloved series.

The issues I’m talking about are where there’s a missing texture or “face” on a part of geometry that basically allows you to either see right through a surface or even pass through it, possibly leading you out of bounds.

Here’s one [out of roughly 40] I found:

As you can see, the cliffside is missing an entire texture which allows you to see right through it. In-game it’s pretty noticeable, too, as it’s a decent portion of a large cliff that’s just completely missing.

It can be found south of Altruistic Maribel in Millick Meadows, Aetia Region:

The funny thing is, if you look hard enough you can see it all the way from Colony 9 in Yzana Plains, Aetia Region. Remember though, this is just one example I’ve found. There’s many more, unfortunately.

I’m sure there’s good reason for this. Maybe the developers had to meet a deadline for Nintendo or maybe they just honestly didn’t notice [as a good portion of this game’s development time mainly took place during COVID].

All I know is the sooner we can get Monolithsoft to this the better. Eventually Monolithsoft stops doing patch updates for games, and for the last game in an amazing trilogy that’s supposed to be the “send off” title, I don’t want to see it left in this state. It would be nice for it to be the most polished Xenoblade out of them all since it takes what they’ve learned from all these years of making games. Alas, in its current form, it is anything but.

Here’s a video of mine showcasing 30+ similar issues

The video is technically outdated as I’ve found 10 additional [similar] problems, but there’s so many at this point Monolithsoft will just have to scour the world of Aionios themselves to find all of them as I’m sure there’s countless instances. This puts me under the assumption that none of these will ever get fixed because there’s so many that it would [probably] take more manpower than Monolithsoft is willing to put in, especially since they’re likely already working on their next major project.

Either way, I want to get this out there and seen by as many people as possible for awareness on the matter. Xenoblade 3 deserves to be the most polished in the trilogy due to its nature of capping off a legendary series.

The easiest way to get this to Monolithsoft is to fill out this form via their website explaining the issue and linking the video:

Note: they only accept messages in Japanese and will not read or respond to any messages in any other language

I’ve tried to reach out to them myself but only ever received an automated response saying that my message never made it to their team. I don’t have a local address [Japan] and I also had to use Google Translate for my message, so the issues probably weren’t conveyed correctly.

If there’s anyone out there fluent in Japanese that could help explain the issue to them properly via that form, it may end up getting fixed after all! That would be amazing. It would give Xenoblade 3 that extra bit of polish that it deserves!

Anyways, thank you for reading this and I hope you have an amazing week!

Xephia

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