{"id":128835,"date":"2022-10-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-139095"},"modified":"2022-10-12T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T17:00:00","slug":"heres-whats-coming-in-xenoblade-chronicles-3-expansion-pass-wave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/12\/heres-whats-coming-in-xenoblade-chronicles-3-expansion-pass-wave-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s What&#8217;s Coming In Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Expansion Pass Wave 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4bf8b24638c79\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4bf8b24638c79\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Ino Xenoblade Chronicles 3\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4bf8b24638c79\/ino-xenoblade-chronicles-3.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4bf8b24638c79\/ino-xenoblade-chronicles-3.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ino Xenoblade Chronicles 3\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo \/ Monolith Soft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wave 2 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/xenoblade_chronicles_3_expansion_pass\">Expansion Pass<\/a> for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is due to arrive tomorrow, 13th October. And while Nintendo and Monolith Soft have been light on details so far, we do know a handful of things that will be coming with the update.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectly-nintendo.com\/xenoblade-chronicles-3-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-dlc-and-the-expansion-pass\/\">Perfectly Nintendo<\/a> has gathered all of the information for Wave 2, and we&#8217;ll summarise the important parts for you so you know what to look out for in Ionios from 13th October (or 14th October in Europe and Japan).<\/p>\n<h3>Challenge Battle Mode<\/h3>\n<p>Challenge Battles make their return from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_2\">Xenoblade Chronicles 2<\/a>, as does the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/meet-the-nopon-archsage-coming-in-wave-2-of-xenoblade-chronicles-3-dlc\">Nopon Archsage<\/a>. You&#8217;ll need to go to the Land of Challenge, which you can get to via a portal at Llyn Nyddwr in the Ribbi Flats, Fornis Region. Teleport to the Llyn Nyddwr Camp and you won&#8217;t be far off.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous numbered game, you were given various combat challenges which involved taking out waves of enemies, or strong enemies, in a set time limit. It will likely be the same sort of setup here. You&#8217;ll only be able to take part in this if you&#8217;ve bought the Expansion Pass and have downloaded the latest update.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Xenoblade 3 Challenge\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe51f435705d0\/xenoblade-3-challenge.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjUwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe51f435705d0\/xenoblade-3-challenge.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Xenoblade 3 Challenge\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Xenoblade 3 Nopon Archsage\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6779b6d490796\/xenoblade-3-nopon-archsage.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMjUwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6779b6d490796\/xenoblade-3-nopon-archsage.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Xenoblade 3 Nopon Archsage\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: Nintendo \/ Monolith Soft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>More Challenge Battles will be added in Wave 3, which is due out sometime before 30th April 2023.<\/p>\n<h3>Swimsuits<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s a JRPG, so of course, swimsuit costumes are coming. In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, you&#8217;ll get these as rewards for completing Challenge Battles. Each character gets two swimsuit costumes \u2014 one in a standard colour, and the other in an alternative one.<\/p>\n<p>That means there are 12 swimsuits to unlock.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Swimsuits Xenoblade 3\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6bd23a70434b9\/swimsuits-xenoblade-3.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6bd23a70434b9\/swimsuits-xenoblade-3.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Swimsuits Xenoblade 3\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo \/ Monolith Soft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>A new Defender Hero<\/h3>\n<p>Ino, the Noponic Hero, will be a recruitable Hero if you have the Expansion Pass. She is a Defender class, but she has a few more quirks to her that make her stand out as a Hero.<\/p>\n<p>Using her Inoswap and HD Ether Cylinders+ , she can learn new skills and abilities and update them too. She talks like a Nopon, tries to act pretty normally, and is an Artificial Blade. Rumour has it she&#8217;s been created by a &#8220;Great Nopon&#8221;. Hmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Details on how to recruit Ino haven&#8217;t been shared yet, but we&#8217;ll let you know when we find out.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: Nintendo \/ Monolith Soft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;ll update you as soon as we know when Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Wave 2 drops. <em>Will you be returning to Aionios this week? Let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo \/ Monolith Soft Wave 2 of the Expansion Pass for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is due to arrive tomorrow, 13th October. And while Nintendo and Monolith Soft have been light on details so far, we do know a handful of things that will be coming with the update. Perfectly Nintendo has gathered all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}