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Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Classes aren’t Unlocking due to being Overleveled? Here’s how to unlock classes faster

Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Classes aren't Unlocking due to being Overleveled? Here's how to unlock classes faster

So you’re playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and you just recruited one of the many Hero characters to join you on their journey. They’re cool, have a cool class, and you want to unlock that class on one of your main six characters. However, no matter how much you battle, it never seems to unlock for your character to use. You seem to be stuck, and classes aren’t unlocking. What’s the deal?

The truth is, the gameplay systems of Xenoblade 3 are sometimes deceptive – and if you’re overleveled, it can in turn lead to it feeling like classes won’t unlock no matter what you do. This guide aims to explain these systems, and help you out of the ruth.

What to do if Classes aren’t Unlocking in Xenoblade 3: The Overleveled Problem

If you're overleveled, it might appear nigh-impossible to unlock classes in Xenoblade 3.

After you are introduced to Classes in Xenoblade Chronicles 3, you’ll see that when unlocking new classes for new characters, the chibi-style icon on the Class Selection screen starts out looking like a silhouette or outline. You place that Hero in your party – as well as any inhibitors of the class – and as you play through the game, this outline will slowly fill in. Eventually, it’ll unlock the class for that character to use. However, you may start to think – for some reason – that classes just don’t seem to be unlocking.

Here’s the small tidbit that the game doesn’t really clearly tell you. Class unlocking in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is tied to CP gain. The more CP you earn in battle, the more that chibi silhouette will fill up. You earn more CP when fighting enemies that are higher level than you. If you fight enemies that are lower level than your party, you’ll barely gain any CP at all.

What this boils down to is that, if you stick to battling weak enemies, classes will barely budge when it comes to unlocking them. What you need to do is seek out enemies at or above your leveland maximize CP gain.

How to Maximize CP Gain to Unlock Classes in Xenoblade Chronicles 3

If you’ve been thorough in completing side quests in Xenoblade Chronicles 3, you’ll inevitably find yourself a bit over-leveled when it comes to the main-story path of the game. That means if you recruit a new Hero and stick to fighting the lower-level story enemies, it’ll take a stupidly long time to unlock that class to use for someone else. As I said before, you need to seek out enemies at your level, or ideally slightly above your level. Even if you are over-leveled, there are always higher-level enemies to fight.

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The key to CP gain is getting a high EXP bonus in a Chain Attack.

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Here are three tips to maximizing CP gain in order to unlock classes in Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

  1. The biggest tip I can give for gaining mass amounts of CP is this: you want to defeat a high-level enemy with a Chain Attack, and try to achieve the highest overkill bonus possible. If you’re not familiar, the overkill bonus is earned for any additional damage done to the enemy during a Chain Attack after their health is depleted. Logically, that means you want to try to initiate a Chain attack when an enemy is very low on HP, so that you can deal the most damage possible while earning a high overkill bonus. Note that while the UI specifically states an EXP bonus, it affects CP gain as well.

  2. A smaller tip I can give to maximize CP gain is to eat CP-boosting food before fighting enemies. You can buy CP +20% food in Colony 9, CP +30% food in Colony 11, and CP +40% food with the residents of Colony 0.

  3. Finally, Elite Monsters are ideal targets for CP gain, because they naturally give a 300% CP bonus upon defeat. Stack this with CP-boosting food and a high overkill bonus, and you’ll be swimming in CP.

Finally, depending on what your current level is, here are some suggestions for monsters to fight for CP gain. These are just suggestions, and you may find better enemies to suit your needs. Remember there are always enemies higher level than you.

  • If you are around level 35, try fighting enemies in the Elaice Highway area.
  • If you are around level 45, try fighting the level 50ish Submit Gogols in the northern part of Elaice Highway, including the Elite. in the area.
  • If you are around level 55, try fighting the level 60ish Elite Zeoth Serprond on the west border of Elaice Highway, south of Purus Palecolumn. You can also find level 55ish Elite Eclipse Marrins on the north/east side of Dannagh Desert
  • If you are around level 65, try fighting the Elite Yolmun Dragues in the Lower Maktha Wildwood.
  • If you are around level 75, try fighting enemies in Elgares Depths in Aetia Region.
  • If you are around level 85, try fighting the Elite Zenze Taos in The Cavity
  • If you are level 99, I found it best to fight the Unique Monster Dreadwyrm Nizzoont in the Lower Maktha Wildwood. You can find more details in our Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Unique Monster Guide.
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Georgia Baker secures third cycling gold as women rule the roads

Georgia Baker secures third cycling gold as women rule the roads

The Australians had the strongest team in the race and they policed ​​the peloton throughout.

Several early attacks were foiled with gaps kept at just a handful of seconds before Baker and her teammates turned the screw in the last few kilometers.

England’s Anna Henderson, who won silver in this week’s time trial, lashed out at the Australian tactics, branding them “boring” after the women’s road race.

Henderson had tried to break the stranglehold the Australian team appeared to have on the race when making several attacks during the 112-kilometre race. She was foiled with gaps kept at just a handful of seconds before Baker and her teammates turned the screw in the last few kilometers.

“It was a rubbish race. The Australians had a really boring race plan,” she said.

“I thought, ‘you’re strong enough to win the race, and be in the break and win the sprint’ so why don’t you race in the race. I wanted it to be active because I knew it was a course for that.”

“The Australians just played it really boring, didn’t really make a show of it.”

Ruby Roseman-Gannon, Alex Manly and finally Sarah Roy then took turns to lead out Baker, who put in a long dominant sprint to take out the race ahead of Evans in 2 hours 44:36.

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Baker said the team had felt some pressure coming in, but the group was confident in its capabilities.

“The girls did an amazing job covering all the moves. For them to nail the final lead out made my ride so easy. I finished with fresh legs and that was the goal. I did the sprint and got my hands across the line,” she said.

Baker said it was the plan for her to go for victory from the start of the race if all went according to plan.

“If it was going to be a bunch sprint I would be sprinting; if it was going to be an aggressive and hard race where the other nations were going to make it super hard, then potentially Alex would be sprinting.

“We made the call out there with about 20km to go and I was feeling good, so we stuck to the plan and the girls [the Australia cyclists] led me out beautifully.”

The win marked Australia’s second straight win in the event after Chloe Hosking won the gold medal four years ago.

Roy, 36, who was fifth in the road race four years ago, said for so many riders to transition easily from the track to the road result showed Australian cycling was “developing and moving forward”.

“We were really controlled and calm, we trusted everyone and everyone had their role. When you execute that then special things like that can happen – first and third on the podium today,” she said.

New Zealand’s Aaron Gate became the first Kiwi to win four gold medals in one Games, coming from the clouds to run down leaders which included Welshman Geraint Thomas and Australian Lucas Plapp.

Speaking after the race, Gate said: “It’s hard to believe,” he said. “I put my arms up and I didn’t know if it had really happened or not. I’m kind of lost for words.”

South Africa’s Daryl Impey won the silver, with bronze for Scotland’s Finn Crockett.

Plapp finished in sixth place, with the Aussies without Rohan Dennis after he was taken to hospital for tests and observations following what Cycling Australia has called “discomfort”.

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How John Howard and clinical psychology made Amanda Rishworth get into politics

How John Howard and clinical psychology made Amanda Rishworth get into politics

“When people told me their stories, there were a lot of things that only the government could change – whether that was isolation, whether that was a secure job. And that’s what really got me into politics,” she says.

One of Amanda Rishworth's first acts as minister was to move to ax the cashless welfare card, which sparked anger in remote communities, including the South Australian town of Ceduna where residents protested in 2016.

One of Amanda Rishworth’s first acts as minister was to move to ax the cashless welfare card, which sparked anger in remote communities, including the South Australian town of Ceduna where residents protested in 2016. Credit:alex ellinghausen

“What really struck me working as a psychologist, even though it was a brief time, was that every time there’s one person coming through your door, you’re able to help one person, but there’s someone else to help.

“And with politics, you actually can change a whole lot of people’s lives at once. You can make them better at once, or you can make them worse depending on where you are.”

She then set about getting elected for the Labor Party, winning the seat of Kingston in 2007 at the age of 29.

A member of Labor’s Right faction, Rishworth says she has learned a few things over the course of the Rudd and Gillard governments and then nine years in opposition, including to never lose touch with the electorate.

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“Knowing that you’ve got to listen, not just to the things people raise, but the things people are not telling you as well,” she says.

“You can’t turn off to constructive criticism. In parliament, which is a very combative environment… you do have to, while not taking on too much negative criticism that’s very personal, stay open to listening to constructive criticism and keep listening.”

In her first two weeks of parliament as minister, Rishworth has introduced legislation to abolish the cashless debit card and create paid domestic violence leave.

The first move led Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to accuse Labor of appeasing an “inner city woke audience”, but Rishworth is not taking a backwards step.

“There’s been a lot of rhetoric and a lot of ideology. But I think I’d start with the premise that the evidence just isn’t there to show that the cashless debit card actually did what it was intended to do,” she says.

Next on her agenda are more measures to tackle domestic violence and online gambling, supporting more women to be able to go back to work and more support for early childhood learning.

Raising two young children with husband Timothy – a computer programmer – while in parliament, Rishworth says she understands the importance of helping families strike a work-life balance. She says her two sons of her, three-year-old Oscar and seven-year-old Percy, have also shown her the importance of early childhood development.

For this cabinet minister, politics is a helping profession.

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US

Yet more human remains found as drought shrinks Lake Mead reservoir | Snowfall

A fourth set of human remains has been found at the shrinking reservoir of Lake Mead as the drought gripping the western US continues to blaze and sends its water levels plunging.

The fourth set of skeletal remains was found on Saturday at Swim Beach in Nevada, and are now being assessed by the local Clark county coroner. The identity of the body is unknown, nor the manner of death.

“Park rangers responded and set a perimeter to recover the remains with the support from the Las Vegas Metropolitan police department’s dive team … The investigation is ongoing,” the National Park Service said in a statement.

The lake is now at its lowest level for more than 80 years, posing a dire threat to a water source that is crucial for 25 million people. The dry spell has dried out its tributaries, threatened key hydropower production and hurt tourism at what is a popular recreation site for many hundreds of thousands.

But it is the regular discovery of bodies as the water recedes that has captured a thick slice of the public imagination in the US – and beyond.

In May boaters spotted a barrel containing the remains of a man shot between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s that some speculated may have been a mob hit. A week later two sisters paddleboarding found a skeleton emerging on a sand bar. And then a third set of bones was found at a popular swimming beach.

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Sydney Pork Rolls charging customers 20 cents to cut roll in half

Sydney Pork Rolls charging customers 20 cents to cut roll in half

The rising cost of living has reached new heights at a Sydney pork roll store, after a customer spotted an unusual surcharge on the sandwich bar’s menu.

A photo posted to Reddit shows Vietnamese restaurant Sydney Pork Rolls’ extensive list of surcharges for extra fillings and a bag.

A roll from the store ranges from $5.50 and $8.50 in price with additional meat, ham or an egg to set the customer back an extra $1.50 while a second bag costs 10 cents.

But at the bottom of the list is an odd surcharge for a standard request, with the Haymarket shop charging customers an extra 20 cents if they request to have their roll “half cut”.

It’s a menu item that has baffled pork roll fans as some question why there’s an extra cost for a “two-second” service.

“Which way to cut in half?” one Reddit user commented. “Longways? Sideways? Across ways? So many questions here.”

“50 cents to ask why it costs 20 cents to cut,” posted another.

Meanwhile others thought of ways to get around the additional expense.

“Ask for it to be cut into thirds, must be free as it’s not on the price list,” one comment read.

Another said they might consider halving it themselves with their own butter knife.

The uncanny surcharge also had commenters crunching the numbers to see how much extra money the business could make in an hour.

“With a two-second cut … that equals $360p/hr. I’m getting into the sandwich biz,” one comment read.

“They should ask ‘would you like to cut it in half?’ like a fast food worker upselling (by) asking if ‘you want fries with that’,” said another.

Others have justified the additional cost explaining it could be due to the restaurant using more packaging to divide the roll.

“Getting it cut in half means the two halves are wrapped and packaged separately. It’s completely reasonable to charge extra,” a Reddit user posted, defending the expense.

Sydney Pork Rolls in Haymarket has been contacted for comment.

The roll half-cut surcharge joins a list of several other odd additional costs Sydneysiders have spotted around the state recently.

A Sydney airport cafe was reportedly charging $1.50 extra if a customer wanted more tomato in a toastie while others have noticed the price of babychino’s increase from $1 to $2.50 in other cafes across the state.

Some hospitality services and small businesses are also charging their customers extra by a small percentage if they pay for their items by tapping their debit or credit card opposed to inserting or swiping.

“Local cafe great before lockdown (sic) in Western Sydney, now surcharges if you pay with debit card,” one Sydneysider tweeted.

Venues can also charge a public holiday surcharge or weekend fee where prices are increased by a percentage on those days.

According to Australia’s consumer watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), businesses can charge surcharges at their own discretion so long as the terms surrounding the surcharge are explicitly stated and don’t come as a surprise to the customer.

“The menu (or price list) must include the words ‘a surcharge of [percentage] applies on [the specified day or days]’ and these words must be displayed at least as prominently as the most prominent price on the menu (or price list),” the ACCC said.

There is no limit as to how much extra a business can charge in additional costs.

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Technology

Microsoft Flight Simulator Harrier & Bendigo Airport Get New Screenshots; Belfast Shines in New Trailer

Microsoft Flight Simulator Harrier

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Third-party developers shared new assets of upcoming aircraft and airport add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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Third-party developers shared new assets of upcoming aircraft and airport add-ons for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

We start with DC Designs, which provided a development update about the AV-8B Harrier II, which should be released in September.

“Hi folks, more cockpit images of the Harrier in this week’s update as work progresses on the detailing and PBR texturing. It takes quite a while to go through this phase of building an aircraft, and with the Harrier’s office being a busy little place it will be at least two more weeks of work before it’s all finished.
Decals for all markings are about 50% complete, and most of the switches are now animated, with their respective functions being coded alongside the modeling work. CodenameJack is doing sterling work once again with displays and functions, broadly similar to those found in the SC Designs F-16 Fighting Falcons but tweaked to be more relevant to the Harrier.

Asobo’s pilot has been refined to move more naturally with the controls – it turns out the contact points for the controls are via the pilot’s wrist and ankles, rather than the hands and boots. Unless users have a preference for my own pilots, I’d like to start using the Asobo pilot in future products as it’s pretty good and already matches up well with everything.

There will be no update next week as I’m away for five days on a family holiday, so this will be the last you will see of the Harrier progress until August 19th. By then, I would like to have finished most of the cockpit and be underway with liveries and the AV-8B+ / GR9 variant. Sim Acoustics have said they can do the sound package in September, which ties in well with the planned release date, so it seems everything is coming together fairly well.”

Image Source: DC Designs

Next, we take a much better look at Belfast International Airport (EGAA) in Northern Ireland by Pyreegue, with a trailer by Practically Geek.

The airport is scheduled to release this weekend, so the wait is close to its end.

Last, but not least, Impulse Simulations has completed the terminal of Bendigo Airport (YBDG) in Australia.

A trailer should be coming after the final details are done, but for now you can check out a few screenshots below.

Image Source: Impulse Simulations

If you’d like to learn more about Microsoft Flight Simulator, you can check out our brand new interview with head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann about the 40th Anniversary Edition, the world update, and more.

If you’re curious about Microsoft Flight Simulator add-ons, you can enjoy our recent reviews of Beijing Capital International Airport, Anchorage International Airport, Fenix’s Airbus A320, West Virginia International Yeager Airport, Kansai International Airport, Toronto Pearson Airport, the Twin Otter , Auckland International Airport, Skiathos Airport, Athens International Airport, Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport, Amami Airport, Bristol Airport, Marrakech Menara Airport, Great Britain Central, Tehran Imam Khomeini Airport, Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, Shanghai Pudong Airport, Kraków Airport, Fukuoka City & Airport, Fort Lauderdale Airport, Chongqing City & Airport, Manila Airport, Santiago Airport, the Frankfurt City Pack, Key West Airport, the Okavango Delta, Bali Airport, London Oxford Airport, Berlin Brandenburg Airport, the CRJ 550/700, the PA -28R Arrow III, Kristiansand Airport, Macau City & Airport, Bonaire Flamingo Airport, Milano Linate Airport, the Singapore City Pack, Tokyo Nari Ta Airport, Yao Airport, the F-15 Eagle, the Paris City Pack, Greater Moncton Airport, Tweed New Haven Airport, Santorini Airport, Sydney Airport, Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, Reggio Calabria Airport, Bastia Poretta Airport, Munich Airport, Paris Orly Airport, Newcastle International Airport, Sankt Johann Airfield, Dublin International Airport, and Seoul City Wow.

We also recently published a review of the Thrustmaster TCA Yoke Pack Boeing Edition, which is a great controller for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

If you want to learn more about the game itself, you can read our review which will tell you everything you need to know about Asobo Studio’s game.

Microsoft Flight Simulator is already available for Windows 10 and Steam, and Xbox Series X|S. A free 40th Anniversary Edition with plenty of goodies has recently been announced.

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Australia

Could a national livestock gene bank future-proof endangered farm animals?

Photo of a cow.

In 2001, foot-and-mouth disease broke out among livestock in the United Kingdom.

More than 6 million sheep and cattle were slaughtered and their carcasses incinerated on farms before the disease was brought under control.

In the wake of the crisis, estimated to have cost approximately $14 billion, the UK bolstered its national livestock gene bank to bolster rare domestic breeds, including sheep, cattle and goats.

The bank — a type of high-tech Noah’s Ark — securely stores semen and embryos cryogenically frozen as insurance against disasters such as disease, flood, fire or climate change.

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Yet more human remains found as drought shrinks Lake Mead reservoir | Snowfall

A fourth set of human remains has been found at the shrinking reservoir of Lake Mead as the drought gripping the western US continues to blaze and sends its water levels plunging.

The fourth set of skeletal remains was found on Saturday at Swim Beach in Nevada, and are now being assessed by the local Clark county coroner. The identity of the body is unknown, nor the manner of death.

“Park rangers responded and set a perimeter to recover the remains with the support from the Las Vegas Metropolitan police department’s dive team … The investigation is ongoing,” the National Park Service said in a statement.

The lake is now at its lowest level for more than 80 years, posing a dire threat to a water source that is crucial for 25 million people. The dry spell has dried out its tributaries, threatened key hydropower production and hurt tourism at what is a popular recreation site for many hundreds of thousands.

But it is the regular discovery of bodies as the water recedes that has captured a thick slice of the public imagination in the US – and beyond.

In May boaters spotted a barrel containing the remains of a man shot between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s that some speculated may have been a mob hit. A week later two sisters paddleboarding found a skeleton emerging on a sand bar. And then a third set of bones was found at a popular swimming beach.

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Technology

Jimmy Fallon test drives F-150 Lightning, Mustangs on Metro Detroit visit

Jimmy Fallon with Ford CEO Jim Farley on Friday.

Comedian and TV host Jimmy Fallon burned some rubber Friday with Ford Motor Company on a whirlwind visit to Metro Detroit.

The celebrity and former “Saturday Night Live” star did some test drives at the M1 Concourse in Pontiac then dropped by the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn — to the surprise and delight of Ford employees.

Jimmy Fallon with Ford CEO Jim Farley on Friday.

Topping Fallon’s Detroit bucket list was a spin on the F-150 Lightning, which the automaker introduced in May. “The Tonight Show” host already owns a gasoline powered F-150 and is thinking about purchasing the electric version, a Ford spokesperson told The Detroit News.

“Fun day at the track and the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, MI surprising our teams building the (F-150),” Ford CEO Jim Farley said on Twitter. “Thank you Jimmy!”

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Australia

Veteran Australian political journalist David Barnett dies aged 90 | australian average

Veteran federal political journalist David Barnett, who spearheaded the first official Canberra bureau of Australian Associated Press more than 50 years ago, has died aged 90.

Barnett became the national newswire’s first bureau chief in 1971 overseeing two journalists in what is now called Old Parliament House.

He was just in time to report on one of the most seismic shifts in Australian politics – the 1972 election of Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam.

Barnett died in Canberra’s Calvary hospital on Saturday after a short admission.

His journalism career began in 1949 as a copy boy on the Sydney Sun, before spending 13 years overseas starting in London’s Fleet Street.

He worked for multiple international wire services, including Reuters, before returning to AAP, where he first worked as a sub-editor in 1966.

Barnett later served as press secretary to Malcolm Fraser for seven years from 1975, including during the political upheaval that lead to Whitlam’s dismissal and Fraser’s elevation from opposition leader to prime minister.

Former Liberal prime minister, John Howard, who was a member of the Fraser government, said Barnett, who wrote his 1997 biography, was an invaluable adviser to Fraser.

He had been a very effective press adviser in every way and his death had removed a highly significant figure from the ranks of the national media, he said.

“I counted him as a good friend.”

In a 2010 book published to mark AAP’s 75th anniversary, Barnett tells the story of being assigned in 1971 to cover the visit of an ALP mission to China, which included the then-opposition leader Whitlam, with other journalists from News Ltd and the ABC.

“We were taken to the Great Hall of the People, which had been arranged in a horseshoe,” he wrote in ‘On The Wire – The Story of Australian Associated Press’.

Whitlam and [then-Chinese premier Chou En-Lai] were to sit at the apex, with chairs reserved for the ALP members.

“I took a shorthand note of every word between the two leaders over what seemed like a couple of hours.”

After it was over, Barnett set up in the all-night telegraph office in the Peking Hotel and began writing his story on his portable typewriter.

“My colleagues went to their room. Every time the lift clanked into operation, I would type ‘mtc’ – more to come – pull the page from my tiny portable Olivetti and hand it to the operators, thus effectively jamming the lines.

“The AAP story swamped the papers and also ran on the Reuter wires.”

Soon after, Barnett was approached by a Chinese minder and got a scoop on the first exchange of recognition negotiations between China and Labor.

“If the Chinese could use me to get a message across, then I could send a message on behalf of my country,” he wrote.

Barnett is survived by his wife, Pru Goward, a former New South Wales MP for Goulburn and minister for social housing in the Berejiklian government until her retirement in 2019, two daughters – Susan and Alice – and two grandsons.

He was also stepfather by marriage to Goward’s daughters from her previous marriage – Penny Fischer and Tziporah Malkah, previously known as Kate Fischer.