After 28 hours I'm at level 19 and in the middle of chapter 5. I'm really enjoying this game. As I don't have too much time to play during the day, I fucked up all my nights this week by going to sleep at 3 in the morning (while I get up early for work), but I really can't stop playing this once I'm in. During the day, at work, from time to time I read the many pages that are newly written in this thread and sometime I get some interesting hints for future quests and such.
I would say that in order to fully enjoy this you need to do several simple things for the beginning of the game:
- Don't disable the button prompts and messages on screen, except for the L+A social shit. Most of the time there are important things written there that many are missing, going by the comments in this thread.
- Read the NPCs messages on your way, you would really use some of those hints later
- Open each branch from the menu and go everywhere, otherwise you will miss things like the fact that you can get BP from Collectopedia or augment weapons
- Upgrade mechanical level first and foremost
- Invest a lot of miranium in the AMs
- Don't rush into the story, do normal missions, there are a lot of nice ones there
- Don't take any fetch quest voluntarily and if you're forced into one, check if you can't get those by exchanging reward tickets.
- Always save before accepting an affinity quest
- Edit: I forgot to add a very important one - install probes wherever you go. Install all the probes you get from treasures. Especially the mining and research probes. Link similar probes together for boost and always check the resources on that place before choosing the probe type.
