Chapter 8 (XCX)

Chapter 8 is a Story Mission in Xenoblade Chronicles X.

Lin makes some food for the team, as usual, but alarms suddenly ring out: the Ganglion are marching on New Los Angeles. Secretary Nagi gathers all BLADE units in front of BLADE Tower to assist in the defense of the city.

Team Elma is assigned to defend the Administrative District's gate at the East Gate Plain, while Irina is guarding the Industrial District, Doug is on standby waiting for visual contact with the enemy, and Lao is guarding the Hangar. Tatsu uses his Nopon connections to provide supplies for the team before they go into battle.

Objectives

 * 1) Leave the BLADE Barracks.
 * 2) The shop terminals are temporarily located to the left of the exit in the event that emergency shopping needs to be done. Once the player exits, they are immediately transported to the NLA Primary Defense Line on the East Gate Plain of Primordia.
 * 3) Achieve all objectives:
 * 4) Defeat the three Scout Puges.
 * 5) Defeat the two Strike Pugiliths.
 * 6) Defeat the east gate of New LA from the Ganglion's attack for three minutes.
 * 7) Enemies that appear: Blitz Qmoeva, Assister Quo, Assault Qmoeva (Chapter 8, Cannon), Assault Qmoeva (Chapter 8, Railgun)
 * 8) Achieve all objectives:
 * 9) Defeat the Impact Galdr (Claw).
 * 10) Defeat the Impact Galdr (Missile).
 * 11) Head to New LA's  and eliminate the invading forces.
 * 12) The player is transported to the NLA Last Defense Line in the Administrative District at this step of the mission.
 * 13) Achieve all objectives:
 * 14) Defeat Dagahn.
 * 15) Defeat Ryyz.

NLA exclusive enemies
There are a large number of enemies exclusive to this chapter when reaching New Los Angeles:
 * Assault Pugilith
 * Strike Puge
 * Marnuck Soldier
 * Marnuck Ruffian
 * Marnuck Gatling
 * Prone Warrior
 * Prone Commander
 * Revolver Owl Galdr
 * Talon Knight Qmoeva
 * Palace Knight Qmoeva
 * Suppressor Knight Qmoeva
 * Drone Knight Quo
 * Beryllium Oc-serv

Rewards

 * Mining Probe G8

Results
''You successfully repelled the Ganglion's attack and saved New LA. However, the alien mech was stolen.''