Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Editionhas a vast world you’re able to explore, but knowledge about the land of Mira comes from increasing your Survey Rate across your map. Your Survey Rate percentage goes up when you complete various goals for investigating different regions. By raising your Survey Rate, you can unlock story progress and earn unique rewards, including some Credits and XP.
Youunlock the ability to view the world’s Survey Rate during Chapter 2of the story, where you install a probe as an objective. By doing this, you divide your map into hexagon-shaped segments, which all have different missions you may complete as you explore the world. As you become more familiar withXenoblade Chronicles X’s gameplay mechanics, you’ll get a better idea of what those missions entail.
What Is The Survey Rate & How It Works
Percentage Tied To Overall Exploration
The Survey Rate is the percent value of Mira that you and your team have explored throughout your journey. As you continue through the main story, the Survey Rate will naturally grow as you discover new places, learn more about the world, and overcome various conflicts within Mira’s landscape. TheSurvey Rate ties into the overall exploration of your map, whether from required objectives or travel you do outside of missions.
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The percentage value of the Survey Rate goes from a scale of 0% to 100%, filling steadily over time through different actions.Every time you raise the Survey Rate by 5%, you gain a rewardfor your exploration efforts. Thesurprisingly open world ofXenoblade Chronicles Xmakes this feel natural, as you are encouraged to go out and discover new things to earn items from a higher Survey Rate.
Some story missions cannot be played until you reach a certain percentage point of your Survey Rate. For example, you may need to have a 30% Survey Rate to engage in the next Chapter of the story.
Different regions have separate Survey Ratesyou can make progress towards as you explore the larger world. As you raise the Survey Rate in certain areas, you’ll unlock fast travel to those spots, making it easier to explore the rest of the larger world.
How To Increase The Survey Percent/Rate
Complete Missions And Discover Treasures
There are multiple ways to increase the percentage of a region’s Survey Rate, including:
The fastest way to bolster a region’s Survey Rate is toinstall a Data Probeat an FN Site. This creates a fast travel point as well as an area where you can respawn should you and your party be defeated while exploring. Data Probes are fairly easy to install, making them a priority to create early as soon as you discover a new region to journey across.
When you unlock the Survey Rate, you’ll notice that your map’s split-up Segments all contain different missions.Completing missions from map Segments raises a region’s Survey Rate, but each area’s missions are different from one another. For example, one region may ask you to find a missing NPC, while another asks you to track down and defeat a dangerous threat in the area.
Completed missions will show up on your map as a yellow check mark in a region. you’re able to have multiple missions active at once that you can check at any time by pressing Y to open your map.
Normal exploration will help raise the Survey Rate too, as you find Treasure in various locations. Every so often,your map will have a notification talking about certain Treasures that can be foundas you adventure into a region. Pay attention to your screen to see which Treasures are nearby for quick increases to a location’s growing Survey Rate.
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The hardest way to boost a region’s Survey Rate is to defeat Tyrants, or special area bosses, throughout the world.Tyrants need to be defeated to max out Survey Rates, but they are difficult to defeatunless your party has the right level and gear to face them. It may take multiple attempts to beat some Tyrants, so take the time to prepare against specific ones before facing them in battle.
Rewards For Increasing Survey Rate In Xenoblade Chronicles X
Reach Milestones To Earn Special Items
Increasing the Survey Rate percentage for Mira and specific regions will reward you with various items over time.You gain rare item rewards every time you reach a Survey Rate milestone, which is measured every 5%. Theenhanced version ofXenoblade Chronicle Xincludes some new rewards that veterans of the non-DefinitiveEditionrelease may not recognize.
The table below outlines all the possible rewards given for hitting Survey Rate milestones for one of Mira’s many regions:
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10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
104 BP
50%
55%
60%
65%
70%
75%
80%
85%
90%
95%
100%
560 Material Tickets
Completing missions or other tasks tied to raising the Survey Rate of an area will also reward you with Credits and Experience regardless of specific milestone rewards. This makes pursuing a higher Survey Rate a great way to strengthen your party for future challenges.
While the above table only lists the rewards for exploring all of Primordia, other regions will offer different milestone rewards similar to the ones you see here.Raising the Survey Rate of a region also raises the overall Mira Survey Rateat the same time. I’ve found that some rewards can be earned together if you reach multiple milestones at the same time for both an individual region and the larger Mira world.
The success of recent JRPGs will likely continue with the refinements to this enhanced title of a modern classic. As you increase the Survey Rates of Mira and its regions, you’ll quickly discover whyXenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Editionis worth exploring in full, as every location offers something unique.
