I need help understanding how to unlock all the missions. ( I beat the game)

[Do To The Best Of My Ability's]

After beating the game, there are still many Inactive stones I do not know how to activate. For example, you go into this area, the stone is not active, how do you "KNOW" what you are suppose to do to unlock the mission? there are just so many inactive missions that I can not do and it is kind of frustrating me, because I do not "know" what are the requirements to unlock the stones. Can anyone provide a simple explanation for me?

[Kargor]

Don't the stones give you that information, at least to some extent?

It's been a while, though. I do remember looking up a lot of them, but I would guess that's because I needed to know where to go to find the target.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Missions_(Final_Fantasy_XIII)

[Do To The Best Of My Ability's]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Don't the stones give you that information, at least to some extent?

It's been a while, though. I do remember looking up a lot of them, but I would guess that's because I needed to know where to go to find the target.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Missions_(Final_Fantasy_XIII)

Thank you, and once you go to a stone that is not active its just grayed out and to my knowledge it does not tell you any of the requirements to unlock it. I had to look at guides on youtube, because it was to confusing

[Aggrocore]

This game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ convoluted mess. They really made it look like the game would continue, post-ending. But it didin't, after the ending it... ended, then the only reload option was to before the final boss battle. Seriously ♥♥♥♥ this game and it's awful design.

[NomNom]

Originally posted by Aggrocore:

This game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ convoluted mess. They really made it look like the game would continue, post-ending. But it didin't, after the ending it... ended, then the only reload option was to before the final boss battle. Seriously ♥♥♥♥ this game and it's awful design.

Alright Kieran.

Originally posted by Do To The Best Of My Ability's:

After beating the game, there are still many Inactive stones I do not know how to activate. For example, you go into this area, the stone is not active, how do you "KNOW" what you are suppose to do to unlock the mission? there are just so many inactive missions that I can not do and it is kind of frustrating me, because I do not "know" what are the requirements to unlock the stones. Can anyone provide a simple explanation for me?

Well, as far I can tell, some Mission stone requires you to complete a mission, generally one of the Cie'th Mission that is active.

E.g. To unlock Mission 3, you must complete Mission 2 Cie'th Stone.

Maybe you have not explored the Gran Pulse completely. There are some places you need to go to find more Cie'th Stone using the Chocobo to get there.

Could you take a screenshot and upload it on Steam of the Gran Pulse map. Specifically, that open world area of Gran Pulse (cannot spell the name properly).

[Do To The Best Of My Ability's]

Originally posted by Aggrocore:

This game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ convoluted mess. They really made it look like the game would continue, post-ending. But it didin't, after the ending it... ended, then the only reload option was to before the final boss battle. Seriously ♥♥♥♥ this game and it's awful design.

After beating the game I felt super ripped off that you have to fight three boss fights and you get absolutely no XP for it. You get no reward for beating the game like XP for that long battle, but yet you can still continue afterwards which makes no sense. I actually had to look things up, because I wanted to save time and I got super tired of back tracking trying to do all the missions.

[Do To The Best Of My Ability's]

Originally posted by No_One✔:

Originally posted by Aggrocore:

This game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ convoluted mess. They really made it look like the game would continue, post-ending. But it didin't, after the ending it... ended, then the only reload option was to before the final boss battle. Seriously ♥♥♥♥ this game and it's awful design.

Alright Kieran.

Originally posted by Do To The Best Of My Ability's:

After beating the game, there are still many Inactive stones I do not know how to activate. For example, you go into this area, the stone is not active, how do you "KNOW" what you are suppose to do to unlock the mission? there are just so many inactive missions that I can not do and it is kind of frustrating me, because I do not "know" what are the requirements to unlock the stones. Can anyone provide a simple explanation for me?

Well, as far I can tell, some Mission stone requires you to complete a mission, generally one of the Cie'th Mission that is active.

E.g. To unlock Mission 3, you must complete Mission 2 Cie'th Stone.

Maybe you have not explored the Gran Pulse completely. There are some places you need to go to find more Cie'th Stone using the Chocobo to get there.

Could you take a screenshot and upload it on Steam of the Gran Pulse map. Specifically, that open world area of Gran Pulse (cannot spell the name properly).

I actually looked up a guide on youtube because i got tired of trying to figure out how to unlock certain missions lol, thank you though.

[Aggrocore]

Originally posted by Do To The Best Of My Ability's:

Originally posted by Aggrocore:

This game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ convoluted mess. They really made it look like the game would continue, post-ending. But it didin't, after the ending it... ended, then the only reload option was to before the final boss battle. Seriously ♥♥♥♥ this game and it's awful design.

After beating the game I felt super ripped off that you have to fight three boss fights and you get absolutely no XP for it. You get no reward for beating the game like XP for that long battle, but yet you can still continue afterwards which makes no sense. I actually had to look things up, because I wanted to save time and I got super tired of back tracking trying to do all the missions.

So... You got to continue after the final boss battle? Am I understanding that right? Because for me the game just ended and my only option was to reload to the last save point before the Orphan fights.

[Aggrocore]

Originally posted by No_One✔:

Originally posted by Aggrocore:

This game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ convoluted mess. They really made it look like the game would continue, post-ending. But it didin't, after the ending it... ended, then the only reload option was to before the final boss battle. Seriously ♥♥♥♥ this game and it's awful design.

Alright Kieran.

Alright shill.

[tiornys]

Originally posted by Aggrocore:

So... You got to continue after the final boss battle? Am I understanding that right? Because for me the game just ended and my only option was to reload to the last save point before the Orphan fights.

There should be an option to save after the credits finish/after you skip the credits.

[Do To The Best Of My Ability's]

Originally posted by Aggrocore:

Originally posted by Do To The Best Of My Ability's:

After beating the game I felt super ripped off that you have to fight three boss fights and you get absolutely no XP for it. You get no reward for beating the game like XP for that long battle, but yet you can still continue afterwards which makes no sense. I actually had to look things up, because I wanted to save time and I got super tired of back tracking trying to do all the missions.

So... You got to continue after the final boss battle? Am I understanding that right? Because for me the game just ended and my only option was to reload to the last save point before the Orphan fights.

Yes it says "Save" after you beat the game and you just reload in the final boss area and just back track to the normal world.