Originally Posted by
Beefhammer
Only with the classes. You ca learn all the classes, skill trees for them all, and swap any of the main 6 into anyone you want. Similar to X. As a story connection nope. X is it's own thing that has easter egg/fanservice nodd to previous xeno titles. It will be it's own universe seperate from Chronicles.
As a side note, it lookalike they are merging the not only the worlds of 1&2 but systems/combat of both, with tons if lore beats from gears and saga, which have been present in all the Blade games.