Xenoblade Chronicles X Welcome Back, Conner side quest guide

For those playing Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, we have a new guide up for the Welcome Back, Conner side quest.

In the game, the story progress is tied to your survey rate, which you can increase by placing probes and completing side quests. The Welcome Back, Conner side quest is for the most part just as straightforward as the other early-game side quests. You’ll find an NPC in Primordia (we finished this quest in Chapter 3) who asks you to find a missing BLADE team member. By this point, you may have the Follow Ball item that clearly shows you where to go, so you’ll want to follow that trail for the most part until you find the missing member on a cliff. Where this quest gets a bit tricky is the next part – you need to retrieve a comms device that’s surrounded by very high-level enemies.

If you want to get this quest done as quickly as possible, then you’re probably far too weak to be able to fight the Level 36 enemies guarding the comms device. Instead, you’ll want to slowly make your way up the rock cliff so that you end up at the enemies’ right side. If you’re having trouble making it up, click in the control stick just before you jump (to initiate a dash) and you’ll gain some extra distance on your jumps. The moment you make it to the top, stand still and then slowly walk forward to grab the comms device. If done correctly, you’ll stay out of the enemies’ vision and they won’t wake up and attack (but make sure it’s nighttime so they’re asleep). From there, slowly walk away from the enemies and off the cliff and you should be good to go.

This is just the beginning for our guide coverage for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, so stay tuned for future side quest guides plus more. In the meantime, if you want to learn more about the game, you can do so over at the official Nintendo eShop store page.