Spend five minutes in New LA’s Administrative District and it becomes abundantly clear that you’re not the only BLADE operative in town. Not by a long shot. After you complete Chapter 3, you’ll be able to harness BLADE’s institutional might in a very exciting way—by cooperating and sharing with other players who are actively exploring their own parallel versions of Mira.
Xenoblade Chronicles X goes out of its way to let you choose just how profoundly the online multiplayer experience will manifest in your game. If you want to stay mostly closed off and focus on the story, you can do that, and you’ll only encounter evidence of other players in a few specific instances. There are advantages to linking up, though, beyond camaraderie’s intrinsic rewards—there’s loot in it for you, in other words. Luckily, it’s easy to switch between going solo and playing with strangers or friends.
