BEYBLADE X XONE: Beginner Guide offers essential tips to help new players get started quickly.
BEYBLADE X XONE: Beginner Guide
Adjust Settings
Start by configuring everything in the main menu’s options, including screen ratio, fullscreen, borderless, and key bindings. The game recommends using a controller, which works well, but if you don’t set your preferences in the options menu and switch from keyboard and mouse to a controller, it will still display keyboard controls. Likewise, with screen size, you can maximize it with shortcuts, but until you adjust it in settings, it will reset to the default size each time.
Importance of Naming
One crucial point for players: the developers have coded the game so that forenames (first names) cannot exceed 4 characters and surnames 5 characters. Additionally, there’s strict censorship in place, so certain references, like “Ne,” are prohibited. This limitation doesn’t affect the canonical character name, but if you choose a name that triggers the banned word filter, the game may soft-lock or freeze, requiring you to start over.
Acquiring EP
EP is a form of currency used to upgrade parts of your bey. Normally to acquire this currency you will need to fight event battles with main characters in the story or speciality events outside of the X competition. An additional way is by interacting with the audience.
You will be able to do this starting on floor 21. There you will see there two spots that sparkle in a checker pattern on each side of the map, you interact as you normally would once you get to them and you will acquire more EP.
Making Money outside of the Tourney
So if you ever find yourself strapped for cash in-game (I have not yet), there is a feature to gain more without you having to worry about going to high in the floors and making the game too difficult for you.
There is a feature called the BeyBattle Net. This feature allows you to face off against NPCs for the goal of just the prize money!
Located to the right of the lobby Elevator it is a little hard to miss.
Battling and the X Feature
Battling in this game is straightforward. Release your Beyblade precisely when the bar hits the perfect spot for a bonus. You can customize your Beyblade into one of four types: Balance, Attack, Stamina, and Defense.
- Balance Type: A versatile choice with no strong weaknesses or specific advantages. While balanced against the other types, it lacks any standout traits.
- Attack Type: Specializes in offensive moves, excelling against weaker Stamina types but vulnerable to Defense types.
- Stamina Type: Known for its longevity, it spins longer and resists a spin-out loss. Stamina types fare well against Defense Beyblades, as they endure hits better than Attack types.
- Defense Type: Built to withstand attacks, making it the ideal counter to Attack types by draining their momentum over time.
The X gauge adds complexity to battles. Once maxed, it triggers a mini-game where you and your opponent pick one of three options, similar to rock-paper-scissors, from Defense, Attack, and Stamina. NPCs often choose moves matching their Bey’s archetype, while story-specific characters are less predictable-some maximize buffs for themselves, while others counter your most advantageous move.
Winning and Points
To win in Beyblade, you need a specific number of points, which varies by battle size:
- 1v1: Requires 3 points
- 2v2: Requires 4 points
- 3v3: Requires 5 points
Point values depend on the type of knockout:
- Survivor Finish (Spin Out): If your opponent’s Beyblade loses all momentum and stops without direct impact, you earn 1 point.
- Knockout Finish: Attacking your opponent to the point where their Beyblade is knocked out of the ring awards 2 points.
- Xtreme Finish: A successful attack while in X-mode or “electrified” by ring grinding that brings the opponent’s Beyblade to zero awards 3 points.
Gaining New Parts and Scanning
One of the key features for any Beyblade game is acquiring new parts and either building new beyblades, or augmenting existing ones.
In most cases you will acquire parts from either winning battles against NPCs, given to you through the game’s story, find them around the traverse-able areas, or purchasing from the store.
One of the perks on purchasing through the store is that you do have a chance of gaining parts of a normally hard to find or unique colour that you could not get otherwise.
Once you progress far enough in the beginning of the game you will be notified that the company in charge of the tournament have left out parts in the traverse-able areas that are fair game to all. This includes but is not limited to all the lobby’s and the arena rooms. Minus, however, boss/story-based floors.
You also have a chance at finding “? Parts.”
These are unidentified parts that you can find just as mentions regular parts above, however, these have a higher chance of being a rarer part or upgraded in comparison to parts that were won or purchased. To identify them you will go to the shop and select scan. This will identify the part and add it to your inventory.
Of course if you have an over abundance of parts and unneeded Dupes you can sell them at the shop too!
the Power of Bonds
You have three companions that you can bond with.
Each of them are met through the story. As of right now in Level 1, your choices in the dialogue have no barring on the points received. During my play-through I have noted that each instance increases the bond with these companions by 20 points well at least until you hit 60 out of 100 recently checking back has only netted me about 5 points.
Also at this stage there is not very much influence on how these bonds will affect you later on in story other then receiving a gift from your companions.
Shinonaga and Co.
This is Shinonaga and Co, are similar to the Game Director’s Self insert in the older pokemon games. Shinonaga and Co will give you criteria to strive towards for either battles or something nice. One such criteria is from Shinonaga himself to win 50 Battles with a Balanced-type Bey, where doing so he will be an opponent for you to fight.
Make sure that before you speak with Shinonaga, that you search the area and pick up ALL items, if there are any on the ground. As talking with him will cause the area to refresh after he leaves, meaning if you saw a part on the ground and did not pick it up before talking with him, it will vanish.
Note: There has been no mention if this was intended by the devs or if this is an ongoing bug that needs be remedied.
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