Just 3 known players remain in the Nintendo Network servers as beloved JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles X, "known to have the worst netcode on the Wii U," loses its last
May. 21, 2024Thankfully, they cleared the online-exclusive challenges beforehand
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With controllers clenched and routers reinforced, a few determined players have been fighting to stay connected to the recently deprecated Nintendo Network servers for 3DS and Wii U. As of today, May 21, the number of known players logged in has dropped from four to three, as the last known Xenoblade Chronicles X representative has finally disconnected.
“I just got DCed,” Twitter user XC_omoroidsaid. “I’m surprised that I somehow managed to beat the record set by the Noble 14 with the game known to have the worst netcode on Wii U?” Thankfully, they confirmed in a follow-up post that they “somehow managed to quickly beat all the online exclusives before getting kicked off the server,” so at least their save file is functionally content complete.
XC_omoroid has been fighting the good fightsince the April 8 shutdown, and as they mentioned in their tweet, this puts their online record ahead of the famous “Noble 14,” a group of players who clung to the Halo 2 servers for weeks after the original Xbox Live shutdown over a decade ago.
Somewhat like Dragon’s Dogma’s Pawn system, you could also sign up to have your avatar added to the Blade pool where it could be scouted by other players, passively earning resources for contributing to their adventures. Naturally, you could enlist other players' avatars as well. All of this multiplayer stuff is fortunately non-essential apart from true completionist runs, and frankly it didn’t work very well even when the servers were still alive, but it did add some spice to XCX’s oddball world.
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