>this is Genshin in 2026
a bad game still? true
A Moon this close to its parent would have extreme tidal forces leading to very unstable geology on both worlds and it would likely deorbit after billions of years.
>>739500851Yeah but it's really small actually or something idk the writers didn't think about that. Also the sky is fake anyway
>>739500851That's no moon....
>>739500851But Teyvat is upside down and we have antigravity...
>>739501058>That's no moon....But THIS is.
>>739500682the inherent and unavoidable fate of all live service storylines
>>739501651>this was never addressednigga this happened 3 days ago
>>739501651>>739501830We will be revisiting kino soon.
>>739501684That's cake. Low resolution cake but delicious nontheless.
>>739500682Is the story still going? Has anything ever actually been answered?
>>739502158 toth reveals that forbidden knowlage came from celestia which means pure celestia energy is the same as the abyss hate the "the HP are pure evil yo the dragons dindu nothin eventhough they hate humanity and tried to nuke them twice"
>>739500682Okay but are pits still okay though?
>>739502591>Is the story still going?yes>Has anything ever actually been answered?A lot of things, and new questions opened. If you had a question you wanted answers for, it probably already was answered.
>>739502604I have been calling this from year 1, but can't find my post on the archive to screenshot it.humans are fundamentally abyss aligned creatures which is why they're foreign to the worldvisions are Darksigns that bind your fate with the gods because otherwise humanity is too powerful and corrosiveit is the DARK SOULS of gacha but literally
>>739502591It's still a mess with no clear direction. They're very obviously making it on the go.
>>739502886The details and actual story are obviously not prewritten but I'm impressed they do lore callbacks constantly and keep retcons to a minimum, for a story this long it's impressive. I applaud the loremaster that keeps all these details recorded somewhere.
let me guess still the same fetch quest and unskillable cutscenes?
>unskillable cutscenes
>>739502886>literally planned 5 years ahead, with things from fucking manga clicking in place only right now>making it on the go???
>>739503408If only it wasnt boring bugman drivel. The reason I cant play genshin is because its story is utter shit.
>>739502886They had a few retcons but it's largely been planned from the start. That's the main difference between Genshin and other gachas, it has very consistent worldbuilding>but muh moonWe knew about fake moons for years, fake sky reveal was in 1.1
>>739504057Nah it's a good story, the dialogue just takes too long to play out so all the zooms are filtered
>>739502646>Okay but are pits still okay though?The day Mihoyo abandons detached sleeves is the day the world ends.
>>739500682Does this slop have a skip button yet?The writing of this chinkshit is goddamn terrible.
>>739502158>before>xel naga artifact grom starcraft 2 legacy of the voif>then>chained artifact like my soul thingThe freemasons really want my soul to despair
Naturally...
>>739500682What am I looking at here?
>>739505124
>>739505154Scalie Third Reich secret bases on the Moon
>>739502886It's unbelievable that six fucking years have passed with almost no progress regarding Paimon. The game, the Archons, sages and even the witches completely ignore this anomaly, which is obviously some primordial being or god who lost her powers and memories, a phenomenon known to occur with many other godly beings, such as Guoba. Even in this fantastical world, a being like Paimon is an outlier, and no one and her self gives two shits shits about it.The game's story is heavily instanced, and its convoluted, toothless overarching plot moves at a glacial pace. The writing is on par with a bottom barrel shounen manga, but even more afraid to offend its PG 13 rating.
>>739505124Who's on first
>>739505124>all of Teyvat is now spiritually African
>>739504549>low res textures>low poly modelsWhat happened to the devs saying there'd be major graphical updates in 6.X?
i skip all quests and just watch archon quest recaps on youtube
>>739505680No, Who's on second.
>>739506348>and just watch archon quest recaps on youtubeYou should watch this one then.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd_GA1TA6oc
>>739506348I spam spacebar and F through everythingI'm caught up with the game and I don't even know who the fatui are
>>739505558Yeah Paimon situation is weird. A few no name normi npc's have questioned what she is. But anyone important that should either know what she or recognise her as important just accept her. Only exception has been Albedo and that was mostly a joke bit. I assume they have some explanation in mind.Also it made laugh that we used a ddos attack on Dottore.
>>739505558retard
>>739506513I bound F to one of my mouse buttons so I can just lean back with my mouse on my lap and mash it during the filler sections (80% of the story). The last 20% is usually interesting enough that I'll slow down and read it.
what is going on in this game?what is the story so far?make it very detailed and include interesting worldbuilding lore as well
>>739507639pay me and maybe i will
>>739507772i just paid you with some attentionnow pretty please! spill the beans!
>>739501058Those moons are artificial. And the face side of Sonnet/Columbina also matches the leaked maps I saw. It's legit.A pity such a nice concept is stuck on a game like Genshin, though.
>>739506348based
>>739500682I havent played since Fontaine... i should visit my Yoimiya, Raiden harem and explore the new content... (how is it, worth it?)
>>739507948>worth it?No. Nod Krai killed the game.
>>739502158>>739500682>straight up ripping off ffxivrumao
>>739505558It's all but said that Paimon is a Shade in disguise, most likely Asmoday. She even bears her symbol, a black astroid, on her hair ffs.
>>739508016I wouldn't say it was the region itself that fucked things up. It's more like Hoyo became even greedier than before and added stuff that drives poorfags away.
>>739500851As if media hasn't portrayed the moon being closer just for visual dramatic effect for like a century at this point, maybe more.
>>739507639>what is going on in this game?Warhammer Fantasy if it was Chinese
>>739507871You start of as a lost foreign traveler looking for their sibling but the more you play the more you realize this world is perfectly attuned to you, almost like you unknowingly had something to do with its creation. But what will the current gods think about that? And are the original gods that were once defeated really dead?
>>739508031Paimon is the heart of Phanes. The super intelligence turned itself into her after being wounded in battle so we can find and take care of her until she recovers.
>>739509274>Paimon is the heart of Phanes.Too kino for the game
>>739509274I guess she could be part of phanes, an offshoot like venti is a fragment of istraroth but not the HP herself. Interesting things to consider are that paimon was absent when we found the spaceship and that she wasn't there when we went to hell, so she is either pure at heart and enlightened or has some sort of control in the temple of space. What paimon is won't be cleared up until the finale of the game probably, if at all
>>739509395They keep saying in game how Paimon keeps getting smarter, and her appetite for food is because she needs more energy to recover.
>>739509770grow the fuck up animepedo
>>739509824animepedo website
>>739507639It's a modern day Might and Magic.
>>739509770History talks about Phanes like a heartless machine, only caring about the bigger picture like an AI. Paimon on the other hand is very emotional and childlike, like a ying to Phanes' yang.
>>739505124It's not fair that we don't get female anthros
>>739510206>tfw being nailed is being stepped on by paimonjoke aside you might be onto something,
F1 is starting, bye.
>>739509274>until she recovers.She still hasn't recovered after 5 years?
T-38 days until Sandrone is playable
I've to this day, never seen gameplay footage from a single gacha ever posted.
Can you skip cutscenes yet?
>>739511319Youtube is one click away.
>>739511305>confirmed meeting with Mary-AnnThree years of build up to this, I wonder if they'll deliver.
>>739511609I hope they do, it's going to be interesting. Listen if they can make quests take forever atleast use one of them to give Sandrone and Mary ann a nice long talk about things.
Power of friendship - The Game.I can't wait to launch a joint attack™ with all the Archons and defeat the Abyss once and for all!
>>739512058meet the team™: >alcoholic>geriatric>NEET>radish>hollywood actor>biker lady >elysia from HSR
>>739500682This is Genshin in 2026: 80% yapping and 20% no consequences.
>>739511319There you go.
>>739513273>two frames of loli pussyYou're done.ZZZ always looked like claymation to me, I don't know why, even when I played it everything looked like it was made of plasticine. I suppose because it's not saturated enough.
>>739506456i cant believe they stretched this story to over 30 hours
>>739500682where's the impact?
>>739513821Fontaine underwater doesn't get appreciated enough for how well it's done. You have entire schools of fish with no lag
>>739513821Nahida is a bottom tier potato
>>739512115Did Aether marry her yet?
>>739513521It is padded but the only reason Nod Krai exists is because all the lore it tries to explain is locked behind world quests and item descriptions that loads of people don't bother with, which would take even longer if they forced people to do it first to progress the story.
>>739514225>which would take even longer if they forced people to do it first to progress the story.Imagine you couldn't continue Fontaine because you didn't do Narzissenkreuz Order. Or sumeru without the Aranara questline, really good world quests but it would be diabolical
>>739513821Certified Cunny grade game.
>Paimon's going to collegeOh, nice.>Paimon's a history majorPAIMON NO! THE EMPLOYMENT POTENTIAL FOR HISTORY MAJORS IS PRACTICALLY NON-EXISTENT! PAIMON, THERE'S NO STABILITY IN BEING A HISTORY YOUTUBER! THE MARKET'S OVERSATURATED TO THE BRIM! PAIMON?! PAIMOOOOONNNNNN!!!!
>>739514439To be honest, I am glad they don't give a shit anymore. Total skipper annihilation.All the world quests in Sumeru culminate in this AQ? All the callbacks and sequels to Fontaine world quests in Nod Krai? Fucking kino if you actually paid attention and played through them, those that skipped will don't care either way.They did spoonfeed Mary Ann and Sandrone in Nod Krai in case you didn't get it earlier though. It was a bit on the nose.
>>739514617it's too late she already memorized all khanriahn dynasties and has an essay on the way of life of the crison moon people under the eclipse dynasty
>>739514617PAIMON NO, DON'T START AN "APOLITICAL" AKASHA CHANNEL THAT "NEUTRALLY" REVISITS THE WAR OF FUNERARY FLAMEMOST NEO-NIBELUNGITES ONLINE ARE FROM IMPOVERISHED NATIONS LIKE WEST NATLAN AND TSURUMITHE AKASHA CPM IS GARBAGE FOR THOSE DEMOGRAPHICS PAIMON, NO GUILD WILL SPONSOR THOSE BROADCASTS
>>739500682Is this the Destiny 3 we were promised?
>>739514439It wouldn't be so bad if they were voiced (even though I still enjoyed them) and lots of people who willingly did the Aranara quest still complained how long the quest is. I imagine quite a few people would just quit over it being forced or go into skip mode and not read it anyways.
>>739513864Ask ur mom lul
>>739513391I think it's the most aesthetically pleasing mihoyo game by far due to how they committed to their style. All the girls look really, really soft and the game has that dreamcast-esque look to it which makes it quite pleasant to look at
>>739514439That would be kino, total skipfaggot death
WHERE IS IT
Time to head on over to youtube and let ashikai explain this shit to me.
>>739515010I see this image and all I notice is as if there's a grey layer on top of the actual image, with 20% opacity. I just want to wipe my glasses.
>>739514632they made Sandrone remind you of Narzissenkreuz because the world formula was crucial to the main plot and NO is very integral to Sandrone's character. >>739514937actually if they switched the prison arc with the first part of Narzissenkreuz until Annapausis or so fontaine would be 10/10
>>739515071In Xilonen's asshole
>>739502591Questions are very answered like never before
>>739514632It is nice that it makes them all canon and they don't have to bother trying to skirt around everything that you learn from them. The new recollection guide thing basically gives you all the info you need anyways as a compromise for anyone who hasn't done them. Only thing extra that would be nice is if it gave a "it is recommended you should do quest x,y and z" before starting just go give people a chance to do it before jumping in blind like they do with events.
>>739515157h-hot
>>739515138>they made Sandrone remind you of Narzissenkreuz because the world formula was crucial to the main plot and NO is very integral to Sandrone's character.I know that this is the reason and I am glad they're finally incorporating information from WQs in the AQs instead of being separate worlds, but it felt a bit awkward, especially at the first Nod Krai quest where she just infodumps you.The POV sections with her diary were great though RIP MY NIGGA PULONIA
>>739515086If you don't like it, you can easily get rid of it with filters.
>>739515303never forget big niggaWe were robbed.
>>739514617I'm rolling on the floor, thanks anon.I never realised the 因論派 fucks were Sumeru's History and Social Sciences faculty, the name had me think of Philosophy.RIP, poor girl, she's going to end up flipping burgers for Xiangling when Tabibito leaves the planet.
>>739515450Homos have been getting shafted for more than 2 years now. Maybe the the sissies enjoy it.
>>739514848kek
>>739515735>HomosIt's a fucking robot. It is even called "it", like the Ruin Guard.Do chinkcels really feel cucked by a wind up robot? I refuse to believe that's the case. It's probably just done for drama and tragedy and gravitas etc. etc.
You guys made me check official youtube channel and watch some trailers. It's nice and cool but I don't feel like playing anymore. I think MHY is out of ideas for a while now. Sameface characters, the same events over and over again. It was nice, I like some small merch I got and I like old characters but it's too much to care anymore.
Can't believe they actually killed Dori.
>At various points, Paimon expresses a wish to be with the Traveler forever and ever>In the recent story quest, Paimon reveals that she's started to realize this is unlikely to happen, so she's making preparations for the inevitable farewell>Traveler generally doesn't commentI feel bad.
>>739516031>no dude you don't get it, i prefer the husky fat daddy robot with a hat instead of the beautiful female robot maid because uhh... WELL I'M NOT GAY OK??
>>739516218He's cool bro.
>>739516069It had to be done.
>>739501058>zippers on the moon
>>739516218Pulonia is an actual character. He was there with Sandrone from the first reveal, the dainty lady carried by a big henchman is a great trope, he had kino moments and cutscenes in the story, he was imoorant in resolving it, and he is lorewise inseparable from Sandrone. No matter what they give her for her combat animations as a replacement it won't have Pulonia's weight.>i prefer the husky fat daddy robot with a hatMen will look at this and say HELL YEAH
>>739515071
>>739516069wtf spoiler that shit
>>739515450I don't get why they made the unique detailed model to basically just throw the character away for something worse as part of her new skill set.
>>739516508AWAKEN MY MASTERS
>>739513935Potato you say?
>>739516624Has quite the bite, would recommend
>>739516564Me neither, it's bullshit. I'm still pulling because I always wanted Sandrone playable but having no pulonia sucks so bad. Atleast they kept the key
>>739516508>>739516609My fuarkin Sultan Deshret saved the world. And now, all souls in Teyvat can be saved by the light of Islam in Jannaaru.
>>739516852deshret is clearly egyptian. He's like Ra or something
I have zero interest in rolling for her or Sandrone, their kits are lame and seem pretty weak meta wise.Nicole was kinda interesting with her seelie thing but it only works when you have a compass, making it useless. Sandrone just seems like a bad joke to me...
>>739514439>Aranara>good
Pulonia sucks. It was clearly made just using parts from old Ruin Machines, but Ruin Machines suck. The new robot clearly at least partially utilizes King Deshret's tech, which is leagues ahead of anything created by Khaenri'ah.
>>739517198Sandrone is strong
>>739516920It's a joke anon. Although it is cool ancient aliens Egypt spaceship pyramids Wakanda is real and now powers the world
>>739517312genshins lore is just a bunch of conspiracies and random religions all mixed together, it's great honestly.
>>739517280Kept the name of Alain Guillotin out of your FUCKING mouth!
>>739517291At release her teams do meme damage and I don't have Yae and even with good future supports I can't see her being top of the pile.Most importantly her gameplay looks bad.
>clanker that guides you to the new zone is overpowereddon't skip
>>739517547nta but you went from "meta wise" to "MUH TEAM AND OPINION" pretty fast there
one piece had a strong plot robot at the end of its last arc, blech
>>739517707>saw some screencaps of GOD ZAJEF ranking electro chars recently>put Varesa above Ineffa and FlinsShe mindraped millions.
>>739515071>sis knows I like Genshin and Mavuika>gifts me a pyro gnosis from etsy (it glows!)>apparently the thing came with a bunch of wuwa stickers lmaocan't make this shit up
>>739517857>zajefLet me guess, he still has xq on S+ tier
>>739514848>Thanks for tuning into the stream guys>Oh, and my next video essay is coming out tomorrow >it's titled Six Million Khaenrians Cursed: Fact or Fiction?
I’m only here to jerk off
>>739518064Do it again, Nailer Phanes
>>739517857>zajefanybody know why he got kicked out of the monster hunter TC circle. I don't know why people take him seriously all the beta theory crafting is pointless if the numbers get changed anyway
>>739518447We're already getting Celestia in ZZZ, Khaenria held much more potential (but then they unified it with all of the old culture ruins so anything behind that doorway is just Enkanomiya part 14).
>>739500682I fucking love sci-fi
>>739518728>space and moon constructs made out of fucking marble and carved like columns It's weird but cool. Have you ever seen a marble space station?
I thought Genshin's "space" was water.
>>739519151Why? It's a fairly standard Honkai world.Guys are just enclosed in a shell of some sort that projects a false skyline for them, hiding the 3 fucked up moons and anything/anyone outside of the planet's immediate orbit.
>>739519151It's...weird. There's the Dark Sea around the continent that stretches for seemingly forever, there's the primordial ocean underneath the surface that seems to be infinite and always cycling, and there's the false firmament on top. All of this would make sense in a flat world, but apparently it is a globe? Or it seems so. Something is wrong here, I'm guessing we'll see eventually.
>>739500741Fpbp
>Paimon talking about how she feels useless.>Trying to make herself useful even if it puts herself in danger.>In the Cute Force event she's also trying to push herself to do stuff.She's going to be a 5* and turn into a normal-sized person once we meet the HP, isn't she?
>>739500851If the simulation was accurate, but all of Teyvat is a lie, it's a simulation, artificial, the rules of that reality aren't bound by conventional physical laws, it's why gravity is so much lesser and why the square cube law fucked off. You can accurately read the future in the stars, because the stars are designed to reflect the future and free will is also a lie because everything in Teyvat will follow the script. The Traveller and their sibling are not from Teyvat, thus can act freely and change the predestiny
it's an older one but I guess it still checks out?
>>739519763that would be great but only If she turns into a sex goddess
>>739519763I'm convinced she'll get a Midna moment eventually
>>739519770I thought the sibling can't which is why they need the Loom of Fate? Outside of doing stuff to bring back Kahenri'ah I mean. They're stuck in Irminsul's records and fated whereas Traveler isn't.
>>739519809it's more like an "egg" with the outside shell as the firmament and the yolk being teyvat. Teyvat is kinda like the matrix where everything is pseudo simulated by predetermined fate but the lifeforms and humans are still real people (in thier world) they're just confined to different rules.Unrlated but turns out the abyssal moon was the crimson moon and it chrashed into Khanriah after the war of funerary flame.
>>739519847>>739519874You mean become my wife.
>>739520031>Unrlated but turns out the abyssal moon was the crimson moon and it chrashed into Khanriah after the war of funerary flame.This is confirmed because of Arlecchino, she got the Crimson Moon Marrow because of her ancestry .
>>739517725it's all bad buddy, it's over...isn't lohen limited too? it's so over....
>>739517198>but it only works when you have a compass, making it useless.Why in the world would you not have a compass for each region? They cost virtually nothing to make and got fixed at least two years back to not be utter garbage.
Sandrone is probably just like Arle, doomed to be powercrept by the upcoming archon. Except less flexible it would seem.>>739520372Can you really not figure that out? You are so retarded it's almost unbelievable.
>>739520445>implying I won't use my tsaritsa to support Sandrone
>>739520270Can't even inclewalk in Teyvat
>>739520445I love that spot
>>739519093So is the abyss at the core of the planet? Cuz sometimes it looks like the void freaks are coming from beyond the firmament, but I see nothing shadowy in orbit.
>>739520878the abyss is anything outside the firmament, the moon is now within the false sky and it's also a lot bigger than expected. The abyss can leak into theyvat through random rifts that open up.
>>739519809yoooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>739520445>Can you really not figure that out?If you are fine with using Nicole's charged attack then you should be fine with using the compass. It's literally the same exact thing except on a shorter timer. That's why your complaint makes zero sense. There is no functional difference between manually using a compass and using Nicole's charged attack outside of a 5 second cooldown no matter if she finds something or not vs. 30 seconds on an actual compass.
>>739513391Word? I think ZZZ looks absolutely phenomenal with the models and animations. Overall gameplay is a bit bland, and the soundtrack is nonexistent despite the director being a composer, but the art is all peak.
>>739521367His complaint is that nicole's search only works when you already have another way to scan for treasures that's arguably better, you fucking RETARD
>>739522054The other way to search is worse because it's on a 30 second cooldown. Nicole's, whether she finds one or not, is always 5 seconds. If your compass finds one it goes on a 30 second cooldown and if you swap out of the gadget it stops showing.
>>739520561You can, but there will probably be better or comparable teams you know? It's just kinda depressing to me is all. She's cryo but Skirk and the upcoming archon exist. She's not a support for physical DPS which is lame for the new superconduct meme.She'll be wheelchaired with bineffa but there are already teams like that so she feels redundant.I bet in a year there will be a stronger physical DPS too, since that's obviously what superconduct is for..>>739521367You are so fucking stupid lmao.>you don't have the compass yet, meaning her perk is useless>there is no compass for the region you're exploring in, meaning her perk is useless>you have a compass already, meaning her perk is useless
>>739515071Am i supposed to believe that the very last gnosis, the only one the Tsaritsa is missing, just got lost in the fire and that's it? I'm more incline to believe that the last remnants of Dottore used it to revive for the third time before burning with the tree, only to give the thing to his boss and be turned into an ice statue because she can't deal with his bullshit anymore, honestly.
>>739522207Literally a nonissue and would've made more sense as an upgrade if you could use it without the compass. Just give it a limit of 10 uses per day like how escoffier's cake is limited.
>>739522343No. There's still one other loose end: the message that the Traveler received from Nahida at the beginning of the story chapter. I believe that Nahida already made plans to receive the Gnosis from Mavuika, and also knew what she was going to do with it after burning down the Irminsul. So I think Nahida hid it somewhere, erased the records from the Irminsul, and made it so that the only individual in all of Teyvat who has any inkling of its location is the Traveler.
>>739516609I have not started this quest yet, and not done much of the desert content.Are those the 3 locked in prison with one controlling the cats?
>>739522219>you have a compass already, meaning her perk is uselessThe entire point of compasses is for cleanup. That's why you get it so late into every region/ Her CA is a compass without needing to have one equipped in your gadget slot but with essentially no cooldown.>>739522530>Literally a nonissueHave you tried using it for cleanup? The 30 seconds comes up a lot and you constantly have to just sit there waiting for it to recover because you found the chest within a few seconds.
>>739522219>I bet in a year there will be a stronger physical DPS too, since that's obviously what superconduct is for..Who wants to tell him
>>739522753>The 30 seconds comes up a lot and you constantly have to just sit there waiting for it to recover because you found the chest within a few seconds.Have YOU used it for cleanup? If you find the treasure chest that your compass marked, the 30 second cooldown ends early.
>>739522847I have, and I don't recall this being a thing at all unless it was changed very recently because I was using it for Mondo last patch and I don't recall it doing that.
>>739522343I think the implication was that SOMEONE snatched it from the ashes before anyone else could retrieve itwatch tsaritsa pull it out of her ass when we confront her
also I laughed at this line because people have been handing these things over willy nilly too often
>>739516251>FFX Yuna summoning animation
>>739522890lol what a waste of my time
>>739522343>>739522919I'm expecting that Dottore passed it onto someone right before he fully disappeared, or Pantaloon grabbed it at some point before he met with Dottore for the final talk, or Kino somehow grabbed it because of Pyro reasons and she was sent there by Pantaloon. For all we know one of the Rulers grabbed it because they know it's around and are siding with the Tsarista too.
>>739506439Who gets the paycheck?
>>739523205>one of the Rulersspeaking of, I like these abstract avatars we got to see but I can only really make sense out of Istaroth's (duh)I guess Ronova consists of her stylized eyes and Gold's is a flower (for life?)and I bet Asmoday's would be a cube
>>739502671Is Paimon evil?
>>739522919What if I absorbed it back into my body without realizing. I wouldn't mind if Tsaritsa pulled it out of my ass haha
>>739522784Screencap my post
>>739523839I find it kinda concerning that Traveler can just put weird shit in his body and be finewhat stops the story from going "actually THIS was inside you from the very beginning" at some point?what if it's Asmoday and she smuggles herself inside you to learn about empathy and shit
>>739500682>genshit>>>/vmg/
>>739524143yes yes, ban gachafaggots and all that jazzhave you seen the tekken news? wild
I quit around the time the Water nation arc was wrapped up and Furina got her thingy. Is Eula good yet?
>>739506456I miss bill wurtz.
>>739524103>what stops the story from going "actually THIS was inside you from the very beginning" at some point?Nothing, though I would assume someone would have noticed it by now considering several people could sense the Moon Marrow as soon as it was activated. You'd have to have it be something from outside of Teyvat for it to make sense, but then you have to explain how Traveler now has space AIDs farting around in their body.
>>739524658uuuuuhhh something something descender
>>739524414No. Stellar Superconduct will do absolutely nothing for her because it's not designed to benefit phys. Even if they give her a Hexerei buff that converts all her damage to cryo, she'll still be disadvantaged because her burst is retarded.
>>739500682So they made promo art of the mythical Chinese moon base huh
>>739525209Mages should have noticed or Skirk.
>>739500682>Gachashit
>>739525370JOHN MADDEN
>>739500682Wild,Still not going to play gacha shit trying to be an actual game.
>>739525391Funny because I was thinking "what if it's some sort of Abyss Matter Converter?" and Smirk herself implied we can manipulate abyss energy, not just purity it.also how many fucking mages are there anyway, I think Nicole just mentioned an Anya?
>>739517857He's a faggot, but he's right. Fat ass cow is still extremely strong, meanwhile Chud and Clanker will immediately go into irrelevance once lunarshill is over.
>>739525974When are they going to make Kusanali appear to join the Cute Force? They have to do it now.
>>739523017It's fucking hilarious how no god gives a shit about gnoses. Tsaritsa could just ask "Hey, buddy, can I have that?" and would just get them without all the schemes and atrocities.
>>739526259I don't think that's necessarily true. They don't care about the gnoses, but they also know that they're too powerful to just give away. Nahida's more trustworthy than the Tsaritsa.
>>739526259>We get to the part in the main story where we meet the Tsarista.>Finally has all the Dragon Balls.>All the Archons appear with Traveler.>It's all menacing.>The Tsarista reveals why she needed them (To stop the Abyss or rewrite fate, whatever it's gonna be).>They all ask why she spent seven years doing this with her goon squad attacking their countries and didn't just ask them for it upfront.>Does this meme and then Sibling steals them all.
>>739500682>fantasy to sci-fiHoly fuck, how disgusting. Sci-fi is such a shit genre, fuck these slant eye jews.
>>739523483Ronova is a feather plume, Asmoday would be a cup if she wasn't MIA
>>739500741>gachashitIt's not even a game to begin with.
[Speech: 100] Talk about more cool lore stuff.
>>739513273ZZZcucks will never mention the disastrous characters designs coming in 3.0 (all sanitized gachaslop like genshin) or the norma censorship fiasco.
Why don't autists care as much about ZZZ's lore?
>>7395306646+ years of world quests vs. changing the direction of the game 2+ times in as many years.
I would read Genshin novels.
>>739500851It's a plot point in the game (and kind of the main story) that the sky and the world itself is a lie. They already destroyed the fake moon and the "new" one is implied to be fake as well.
>>739530664I only started playing it a few days ago because a code I got with my controller but the general consensus I can seem to gleam is that it's had two major overhauls to the story and has been taken in different directions that don't really work with what they initially presented to people. A main point of contention is turning the MCs from people who pilot Bangboos and guide Agents to safety to now chosen one Stand users training with Chinese cultivation masters. Hollows have also turned from places you die in a few hours if you aren't an Agent with high tolerance for it to a casual field trip.With Genshin it's been fairly consistent overall. The worst it's done is what, say that Natlan was a "Land at war" and turned out to mean the dragons thousands of years ago instead of right now? I think there's been a few minor retcons like with Venti I think it was but nothing that changes anything to such a drastic degree.
>>739530664ZZZ lets people skip the cutscenes. Turns out when you give people the option, the majority will do it. Genshin doesn't let people. So the only people still playing are those obsessed with the lore or people who just put up with it to get to the exploration (like me). And even then you still end up keeping up with it because you read it.
>namefag is the zzzschizohuh, who would have thought
>>739532249why do more people play genshin than zzz
>>739532523More people play genshin than any of the games being shilled here but we are not ready for that conversation
>>739532354Like I said, only started a few days ago. I'm not exactly a big fan of it, it's not that fun, and most of the designs aren't really that great. It's middle of the road more than anything and it feels more like a singleplayer game akin to Scarlet Nexus than anything that should be live service.
>>739531590I wish they'd keep 80% of the text in novels and not make me sit there doing 12 hours of mandatory quests to get 60 gems.>>739532523Genshin came out years before the others and was one of the biggest break out hits during covid. But more people keep playing it because they're invested in the story or gacha system.
>>739533317Moose.Gimme some Soulslike recs from the past year or two.
The reason ZZZ doesn't have a community of lore autists is becauze ZZZ doesn't really deliver information in the same way as Genshin or HSR. In Genshin, you can explore, collect books and find fragmented info across every region that might help you connect things together. In HSR, there's less exploration but there's still a ton of in-game resources, as well as the Simulated Universe, that all exist to help paint a better idea of what's going on.In ZZZ, this is not the case. ZZZ doesn't have a collection of optional reading that you can go through. You can't go off the beaten path or do any sort of in-game research to learn more. And none of the characters whom we've met in the game thus far really know more about the deeper mysteries than we do either.
>>739533532Haven't played many, still have SB, LotF, and LoP on my backlog so I haven't been looking at them.Another Crab's Treasure is a solid one though that experience was from the demo (But I know it's solid based on what I read about it).Nioh 3 obviously happened but everyone ragged on it compared to 1 and 2.Kazahn was pretty okay in the demo but I don't know about the full game. I know the demo has unique items that carry over to the full game you can't get in the full game.Where Winds Meet might be up your alley if you can stomach its boss design. I couldn't after Qinghe, I was losing my mind at how everything had 2-3 phases and one or two-shot you. You have to play on Legendary or you just faceroll and facetank everything on any difficulty below it. Legendary makes it like a Soulslike.As for other stuff Mortal Shell 2 is coming out, looking forward to that one. There's supposedly another LotF game coming out. That's all I've really kept abreast on.
how can I stop caring about the story? I played too long and want to quit but I have to see what happens and I don’t want to play anymore.
>>739533858Just stop playing until after Snez. The real reveal isn't going to happen until Abyss/Celestia anyway.
>>739533858You don't have to keep playing to see what happens. Just watch a summary on youtube as they release
>>739500682>game literally starts with the main character and maybe their sibling traveling through space>somehow unexpected that probably fake space is eventually a settinghow is this at all surprising
has anyone overtaken Hu Tao as the sexiest genshin?
>>739533630one of like three reasons i stopped playing it, the other two being aaaaaab gameplay and a complete lack of exploration content in the first 20-30 hours when i tried it (first few weeks of release)
>>739500851It's a game with magic and illogical shit, nigger.
>>739534119not if that's the kind of girl you like, she's best in class for that type of girl imo. my favorite in the past couple years is columbine hyperspace but she's a very different sort of character and has a more narrow appeal imo.
>>739534119Yes
>>739534053>maybescandalized gasp
>>739534119'fraid not
>>739508404I fucking wish
>>739511609it will be part of the main quest, so no
>>739500741No refunds.
>>739530879Prune's making me remember how much I fucking hate rolling for 4* cons
>>739515157bur I came so much in there
>>739534053If Traveler does not have a sibling then what/who is it?
>>739500851Depends on the mass
Haven't started the new Archon quest, how long is it between checkpoints this time? Last time was rediculous!
>>739534378>>739534829sibling was observed as coming from outside the ship after it crashed while traveler was still in stasis (and nobody left it before this). this, plus sibling being already present irminsul and the fatui not recognizing them as a descender, is brought up as evidence that either the traveler's memory has been modified or that history itself has been modified. however, these are presented in-game as speculation and there's not enough evidence yet to know anything for sure.
>>739535053Nothing in Natlan or Nod Krai is anywhere near as bad as Sumeru. They're still too long because of endless filler dialogue. But the shit in Sumeru was like 10-12 hours of locking you in a special zone you couldn't leave. Couldn't even do dalies.
>>739535153Did Traveler and (((Sibling))) arrive at Teyvat on a ship? I really don't remember. Thank you for the reply.
>>739502671Reminds me of this show I'm watching
>>739535153There's also the chance that the twin has either been possessed or was there 500 years in the past when the old kingdom was destroyed. Hence how he knows all about it and has connections to the abyss. But I bet they're going to pull some dues ex machina redemtion bullshit instead of actually having the twin be evil.
>>739535272possessed by what?
>>739535293the khaenriahn king, maybe
>>739535293I don't know. I'm just speculating as to what deus ex machina device they're going to use. Since Genshin runs on heavy JRPG/anime tropes, that would be one of the biggest contenders. Especially given how the other twin says their personality is completely different.
>>739535250the traveler did at least. it's not shown in the intro (the intro flashback is to when they tried to leave) but it's established at some point, i don't remember exactly when especially since it could have been in side material.>>739535272>or was there 500 years in the past when the old kingdom was destroyedi think that was actually confirmed and revealed quite a while ago, well before nod-krai
>>739535053They made it so now pretty much every load screen auto-saves so you can take breaks whenever. It also tells you how much time since the last checkpoint when you try to quit.
>>739535198>Nothing in Natlan or Nod Krai is anywhere near as bad as Sumerunatlan was like 90% fluff and i hated it for it. the only good parts were the patch areas and the war segment, the rest was just terrible.
FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON FUCK PAIMON
>>739535384Ah, so Sibling is a deuteragonist.
>>739535556I ended up liking the main storyline for Natlan because Fire Archon was actually a good character. Absolutely stupid bike and gameplay. But her story segments were way better than most previous archons. The other story stuff is filler fluff. But that's the same in every region. Sumeru once again is the worst with that. Everything to do with the Nara and the desert...
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>>739534119>>739534232>>739534939kneel
New design of Sandrone revealed!
>still no skip button
>>739500682>this is Genshin in 2026and I love it
>>739516609
>>739538172
>>739538034>>739537581
>>739537426Varesa is just as big. Arguably more since she's using the teenage model. And Varesa has unique jiggle physics just for her.
>>739537581>>739538034God I fucking love this sass goddess so goddamn much.
>>739515450I'm still mad that they replaced my boi with a generic fontaine robot. sandrone looked so much cuter in her original design now she looks like some bimbo in a mini skirt
>>739538554Post the actual model instead of fanart then. Face it, Lauma is the higher level horned girl.Also Varesa's appeal is her tummy and ass not her chest.
>>739538640And the excuse of making the animations better with those short ass skirts doesn't make better.
>>739538750Noelle has a long skirt and she works fine
>>739538816Different animations.
>>739507901moron
>>739513875Too bad gameplay wise it's a boring slog that doesn't interact with any of the combat mechanics.
>>739538678Lauma and Shenhe have the same size breasts (using the same model). You're just more interested in Lauma because the clothes make it appear bigger. Varesa is even bigger proportionally because she's using the teenage model.And I'm not even trying to say Varesa is better. I like all three of them. I'm just pointing out that Varesa is just as huge, if not bigger. And she has more jiggle in her breasts. They really gimped Lauma by making her clothes so tight.
>>739538678>Also Varesa's appeal is her tummy and ass It's her breasts. hips and thighs. Her butt is actually too small compared to the rest of her body. And they don't let you look at it without some extreme camera manipulation.
>>739539307I think it's fine for what it is. You can't really make underwater combat great because combat underwater is practically impossible in itself. So either you have to make it so it's basically isn't underwater or you have to change into a fish or something.
>>739505558>The game's story is heavily instancedExactly, nothing is fucking connected, every archon quest starts off like it's a pilot episode.Mond/Liyue had some connection, starting from Inazuma it's a whole different game and world every single time with events being crossover episodes.
>>739539307I don't think the underwater combat is all that amazing. But it did have unique mechanics underwater. And it made movement much faster than most games, where underwater is just 'regular movement but 3x-5x slower.' And I'd take Genshin's underwater segments over going back to Inazuma any day.
>ruined>no pulonia>turned into a whore>absolute brick of a kitit's over
>>739540212The new robot is probably Pulonia 2.0, now with more Deshret-era tech instead of lame Khaenri'an tech.
>>739516318hehehe
>>739537581>"This world is beautiful, more beautiful than you or I can imagine. So go. Do what you want to do, and seek out your own desires, my child. Just remember, your life belongs to you."Man.
>>739514848lol
>>739505558This reads like a pseudo-intellectual trying really hard to find something to shit on, because they know they don't have a valid argument.
>Stellar Lynchpin who
>>739542359moonwheel but vodka flavoured
Do we have cryo traveler yet?
>>739515450I mean, it makes sense.Pulonia got brutally mogged in every fight he participated in. Sandrone is an inventor. Why would she keep that shit around instead of getting an upgrade?Also having that giant hunk of metal on your screen would be extremely uncomfortable from a gameplay point of view. Dude's too big and you wouldn't be able to see shit.
>>739542454Soon. Snezhnaya is around the corner.
>>739542394But moon wheels at least had supporting lore, being the original visions from the moon land and allHow will they asspull Russians having custom visions?
>>739542593something something stars, true fate yadda yadda i don't really know to be honest they could even be fake visions since the delusion project succeeded maybe. We still don't know how visions even work exactly
>>739540212>>absolute brick of a kitI will always laugh at you niggers who pull characters according to how strong their "kit" is.Imagine minmaxing in a fucking casual gacha game. Imagine being a "hardcore" genshin player in a game with zero "hardcore" content.Imagine not pulling for what you fucking like.
>>739542707i like jahoda and she's one of the best characters personality-wise yet they made her so fucking bad there's zero chance to use her anywhere but in overworld, where she feels terrible due to no movement abilities anyway.it's not about minmaxing but about having a character that doesn't feel like shit to play as
>>739542818You don't really pull for 4 stars thougheverbeit
>>739542593eeehh just say it's non-fucky delusions
>>739542856i did
>>739538678Through painstaking research, advanced technology and hours of hard work, I have determined Varesa and Lauma have the same breast size.
>>739542962what the hell
>>739542707>>739542818You can really use anyone unless you're doing abyss. Which means anyone is viable for 99% of the games content. Most of that is just watching cutscenes anyway.I'm still using Noelle for both healing and shield. There's been a grand total of like 3 bosses that she doesn't work against. Every other boss and enemy she can just tank.
>>739543010Shouldn't be that shocking. Despite how people want to think the characters are super unique, they often reuse the same base things. Most of the teenage girls have the same breast size. Most of the adults have the same breast size. Only difference is here they put the adult breast size and thighs on a teenage model. That's what makes her "unique."
>>739542962Doing god's work anon
>>739540212>absolute brick of a kitSource on these claims? Cause I've heard people tell me ultra meta characters were shit and that I should skip them before and they were always wrong.
>>739543113Well yeah genshin uses 3 models for either male of female characers, small medium and tall. But they change them up so they don't look too samey. For example Varesa has the thickest thighs and big breasts as you proven, I was just surprised because her outfit does not make it look like they're lauma's size.>Most of the teenage girls have the same breast sizeNot really you have a range from flat like Furina and Hu tao to pretty large like Varesa and I think Sandrone.
>>739500682Looks cool, is the story in genshin decent?>>739501024>Also the sky is fake anywaywhat does it mean?
>>739543247she gets neuvillette laser blast... as her C6
>>739543264A lot of what makes Lauma look bigger is the highly provocative above head shots they just conveniently use in her cutscenes/burst animation. And also the thicker outline for her cleavage and tighter clothes. Varesa's breasts are fully covered. But if you angle pictures in certain ways, she also looks huge.
>>739543043You can use almost whatever even in Abyss. It really boils down to choosing the right elements, like the current dendro lunar crab can be beaten with anyone as long as you have the right elements.People who minmax in genshin blow my mind
>>739543351>Looks cool, is the story in genshin decent?Unfortunately not. You get like 5 minutes of something interesting every 100 hours of dialogue. And I'm not even kidding. They bragged about hitting 20 million words in the dialogue. And that was 3 years ago.
>>739543351It is, if you like reading a lot.Most of the people don't read, so they complain about story being bad and constantly ask for a skip button.Also a skip button for exploration, because that is too much "work".Also a skip button for everything really, so they can complain that there is nothing to do in the game.
>>739543351Main story is very long with good ideas sprinkled in but with bad execution, the real meat is in the world quests wich are sidequests that have a heavy focus on world building and lore. Granted they're long too but they're the best stories in the game.>what does it mean?it means that genshins world is incased in a firmament on which stars and space are projected onto.
>>739508217Uh oh stinky...>anomaly of the moonNani desu ka
>>739543524The only 5* character I ever got to C6 intentionally was Varesa. And only for her eternal run. And because I like her character. She happens to also deal ridiculous amounts of damage and beats most bosses and a lot of Abyss solo. But I didn't do it for that reason. Beyond her I tend to use a lot of 4* parties because many of my favorite characters are the 4* characters. Before Varesa, Noelle and Xiangling were my favorite.
>>739500682What, did chinks finally decided to wrap the story up?
>>739502604The dragons were clearly tyrants, though.
>>739543937>wrap the story up>in an extremely successful ongoing game which makes them billionswhy would they ever do that?
>>739543264>Well yeah genshin uses 3 models for either male of female characersnot anymore, see skirk/varka/lauma>But they change them upsince late natlan/nod-krai some characters have unique models. whenever "changing them up" means unique is up to your interpretation
>>739543937Not at all. They're not even to the "final" region yet. And after that region, we're probably going to fight abyss, then go back in time 500 years to stop the calamity, then fight Celestia.
>>739517249I liked it. It was mostly held back by a lack of voice acting.
>>739544093it's not ending as long as it's the most profitable gacha, which it still is after 6 years. they're probably thinking about some sort of act 2 already
>>739544052Lauma is just Shenhe's model with more provocative clothing. Shenhe was the one that really changed the adult female model. Though is still uses the base model. They just enlarged the legs and breasts a bit.And as >>739542962 pointed out, Varesa and some others have the same features as well.
>>739544190Yup. I suspect after all the Tevyat story is done, Traveler will go to another world. Or the fake sky reveals the "true" Tevyat or something. They're already setting this up in some story events.
>>739544193>really changed the adult female model.>Though is still uses the base model.if the characters get different body proportions/height then what's the issue?
>>739540212They shortened her skirt so she can float like she does, I guarantee it. Genshin doesn’t do cloth physics.That said, I think she looks good. Her animations look good. I’m a little sad Pulonia is gone, but that’s no dealbreaker to me.As for the kit, it’ll be the first character of a new reaction system. It’s extremely unlikely that she’ll be useless. There will be Stella conduct shill content she will be useful for.
>>739544383there are already a few characters with longer skirts. sandrone is a mechanical doll so it made sense for her to have a long skirt, which they already shortened a lot compared to the initial design.i don't like it, it really makes her look like someone in sexy maid cosplay rather than a doll.
>>739544589Did you not read what I said about the shortened skirt? Retard.
>>739500851>A Moon this close to its parent would have extreme tidal forces leading to very unstable geology on both worlds and it would likely deorbit after billions of years.Yea about that
>>739544589>i don't like it, it really makes her look like someone in sexy maid cosplay rather than a doll.Yeah, it looks like an apron instead of a dress. I'll just install a mod to undo the change.
>>739543351The overarching story content is good but is extremely padded to extend it over 5 years
>>739544383Noelle, Ayaka and some others have the long skirt/dress. They have physics already made for them. Even if it isn't amazing.
>>739516609I wanna see these three goofing around in Fontaine as retarded tourists while wearing dapper suits.
>Sandrone drip>they use that goofy investigation musicbless them
>>739516609AAAAYYYAAAAYYAAYAAAYYAAAAA
>>739545080well it is her leitmotiv
>>739502767That's just Gurren Lagan.
>>739505558Anyone smart enough to understand Paimon would know not to mess with her
The story went spacial a long time ago
>>739502767It's obvious that Celestia is some kind of group of controllers who use the archons and visions to control people who would otherwise be strong or nosey enough to break the simulation. The question is 1) If the archons know more than they're letting on and 2) if the being we fight at the start of the game or Paimon is connected to Celestia and 3) if the traveler is going to fight Celestia later on.
>>739545562I know they had to use a Nod Krai track but i want more NarzissenKINO damn ithttps://youtu.be/HzRwOOmxhnM
>>739507639>what is going on in this game?It's just Greek-style gods fucking with each other, and the most powerful ones also can rewrite reality. In theory you can erase shit from existence like some computer program. The bad guys are the ones that challenge the current status quo by gathering dragon balls. The four main gods (hot girls) rule from a place outside reality, but one is missing and is probably the floating blob thing that goes around with the main character.
>>739545898>the most boring yapfest in the game is kino
>>739545914>The four main gods (hot girls) rule from a place outside realityat least try to learn the lore a little bit before speaking about it
>>739545795Celestia is either a floating city full of rich people and academics like in Alita Battle Angela, or it's just a hologram.
>>739534575>Meow even doing diplomacy with FranzNonsense, he's too far away. You send your caravan to Sylvania to grab the lifesteal sword then season Greasus' fat smelly ogre cock with meat gravy. Maybe befriend Gelt too to grab some Empire artillery.
>>739545958No fuck you. Explain your theory yourself or fuck off.
>>739545991After the Space Temple I figured Celestia is basically the same thing but for people with visions, i.e. a place full of "the best of Teyvat".
>>739545991Could be many other things. A sentient computer that's running the simulation. "Gods" as some characters have theorized. An uplifted species of humans. Past archons. Angels like we've seen in the latest expansion. Basically any scifi/fantasy trope is in play right now.I'm guessing it's just going to be a weak Mount Olympus analogy though. With "gods" who are just overpowered mortals that can't be harmed by anyone but the Traveler.
>>739545928>the most boring yapfest in the gamethat's the aranara quest
>>739538172>>739516609I really enjoy these 3 stooges interacting, reminded me of a good time back with 3 stooges in simulanka>boborano: cappet's blatant unprofessionalism and lackluster performance began to annoy the outsider. He decided to step out to get some air and come back with a change of attitude>cappet: fuck off
speaking of, what was this place in Nicole's trailer?
>>739546180Celestia probably.
>>739516852Go away, Satan, nobody want your demonic religion.
I just spent 50K primo's getting nicole, her weapon, and during and his weapon. Did I fuck up?
>>739546206I think it might be this place but since we're getting an actual moon zone now, I'm not so sure
Here hoping that the man with the strongest rape aura of Teyvat is playable. Saving until 7.x.
>>739519770Really? The plot twist of the game is that everything is fake?snore
>>739546313actually this is interesting after the entire irminsul thing that just happened
>>739546110The way I see it a lot of stuff in Genshin are specific references. Visually Celestia looks like Zalem in Alita, even if it's also meant to evoke Mount Olympus. In Alita the floating city is just used to rule over earth, but it's just actually the lower part of a much larger structure.
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>>739546180Looks like the Temple of Space.
>>739546294Just make a Hex team?
>>739546448I'm alright with that I'll roll for the immortal megajew ahasver
>>739546357yes everything is fake, but there's also some fucked up dark magic that tries to make it real. Some speculate it's connected to Homkai Star Rail's universe.
>>739546458it's definitely the same type of architecture, so either literally the Temple of Space or another "Temple" or Celestia colony(?)or maybe the Space Temple was originally another place that got repurposed by Asmoday?Also this spot might be where the asylum stands now but I kinda doubt it
>>739546206>>>/mlp/
>>739546357>The plot twist of the game is that everything is fake?That was a "plot twist" like a month into the game back in 2020
also the guys inside share the fashion with the Space Temple inhabitantswe're definitely moving towards a Greece arc
>>739517547Please pull on Sandrone not knowing who her support is because her support will come in a later patch lmao. Said support will probably have no connection to her thematically or storywise. >Skirk / Gordon Ramsay>Ineffa / Flins>Varka / PrunePls enjoy.
>>739546569Please DO NOT connect genshit to Star Rail
What's the best text based resource for character building? keqingmains? Genshin Helper Team?
>>739546718Amphoreus soon
>>739500682The Moon... Home...
>>739546650>not knowing who her support isTsaritsa is cryo. They'll probably give her the columbine treatment where she's just a super support unit that buffs all stellar reactions.
>>739546540I've been out of the loop for over a year, spoonfeed me?
>>739546789Spoiler this gore
>>739546429>Visually Celestia looks like Zalem in AlitaIt also looks like the cloud city in an episode of Star Trek. And I also wouldn't put it past them to make a Laputa reference. They're referencing every other anime. (And already the robots look like Laputa but I put that down to early BotW parallels).
>>739546881certain characters got buffs (Hexenzirkel) and synergize togetherso use Nicole, Durin, and two Mondstadt characterstry to get Varka on his rerun, I guess
>>739546910>>739546789is amphoreus that bad? I enjoyed penacony
>>739546910I'm so fucking scared they're gonna do itit's gonna be hilarious
>>739546650>Please pull on SandroneI will. She's a girl 'tui, I roll
>>739546881In-universe it's Alice giving some tasks to Mondstadters to train them for when the Big War™ happens. Gameplay wise some characters got small quests that now give them effectively a new talent, but to activate properly, you need to have at least two of them in one team. So you'd need Nicole and Durin, Fischl and Venti, Varka and Prune etc. Just mix and match 2 hex characters. They also got a new artifact set for it.
>>739546718Genshin is already tied to HI3. Was tied even before HSR came out
>>739546650her support will be a 100% a male, first character from snez
>>739546942Amphoreus is their take on an epic greek, so a huge ambitious adventure arc about saving a dying world (which is fine but the yapping is egregious) but also has your character taking a backseat. There's a great climax like Wildfire and Great Septimus but after that it gets really retarded and drags on and then they introduce a character that you will either love or hate. It has a huge bombastic ending that will probably leave a foul taste in your mouth because of HOW it endsin short: suffering
>>739546789I meant the other way around really, genshit is atrocious
>>739546942If you liked penacony which was absolute fucking dogshit, you will like Amphoreous a lotWell at least until the actual ending, I still can't figure out who came up with the idea of continuing the story after the big plot twist
>>739546968What do you mean?
>>739547017No, tho
>>739547556>every hoyo game infested by pinkshitnow imagine if that happened to genshin...
>>739547017There is literally nothing confirmed other than Dvalin appearing in Impact, there are no ties, no nothingIt's just like "oh Genshit is somewhere in the same universe"
>>739547637I still don't see why and how people think this is pink for certain
>>739547451There's been Genshin stuff in HSR from day one basically (Herta's Space Station), and the game is kinda serious about references like that (even the damn FATE event is canon now). Plus, there was some animation, I think it was in one of the anniversary vids, where they straight up walk through the Genshin login screen (or at least something VERY similar looking).It's perpetually in a state of "maybe, maybe not~"
>>739547637ahI am surprised there isn't a pink girl yet in genshit desu
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>>739540212doomposters keep getting more ridiculous
>>739547743well there are girls with pink hair, but not every pink is equally pink
>>739513821it'd be nice if there was a mod that just gave everyone panties so I didn't have to individually install a million of them
>>739547797her design is finalized
>>739547730tf you mean "(Herta Space Station)" lmaoEaster eggs and "le funny" is not a lore connection
>>739500682You know WuWa clears this shit because genshiggers have to spam and samefag every wuwon thread kek
>>739548043you're right, they're notuntil they decide otherwise
Mona status?
>>739548148>spam and samefag every wuwon threadthat's funny
>>739548185>Mona status?CHURLED
>>739548185who?
>>739548185fucked
>>739545994he is prince AND emperor, anon
>>739546024Shades are not gods
>>739549021>theyre not gods>theyre just extremely powerful entities created by a divine being, with each of them governing a domain of existence such as life, death, time, and space. who set down the rules of existence and command entities such as the lightning, wind, fire and other elemental gods
>>739549021There's literally a shrine to Istaroth referring to her as "The Goddess of Time" at the Temple of the Winds.Also they're above Archons in the heirarchy.
>>739549021Well they're called "Rulers" specifically instead of gods but that indicates that they have a higher position than other gods in teyvat, essentially they're server admins that have control over the laws of the world itself
>>739548706Yet he is not SUPREME
>teased in artifact descriptions>teased in books>teased in world quests>now teased in story quests as wellsurely by now every player knows about it right? they won't act surprised when it's brought up in the archon quest... right?
>>739549290>>739549368>>739549505Heavenly principles is a god, shades are just executors of his will, therefore not gods
>>739549542sorry i'm employed so i don't read books in gacha games
>open the fucking chest, i'm not gonna ask you again travelerwhat the fuck is nicole's problem?
>>739549815finding treasure is her fetish
>>739549545Hermes served as Zues's messenger, Hera served as his wife, Hephastues as his smith, they were all gods, and they all worked under him.
>>739500851>Teyvat has its own laws
>>739549815>>739549906>exploring the Temple of Space with Nicole (yes I'm behind)>open chest>she starts moaningis it a JP thing because Japs are perverts or is she like that in English too
>>739550117>>739549545"God" can mean a dozen different things in Genshin. Any sufficiently powerful elemental being can be called a god. Guoba, Usual, the Thunderbird, even the synthetic lords of Natlan.Then you have abstract entities like Fortuna, is she an actual individual goddess? An emanation of Phanes? Who knows
>>739550153just jp by the looks of it. Hey you gotta entertain yourself somehow when you're forced into celebacy by god himself.
>>739546942I thought anons were bullshitting about just how much talking it had but no.Someone pulled out the stats and Amphoreus has more hours of dialogue than Natlan and Nod Kraj put together (or all of Genshin until Fontaine)... for an unsatisfying conclusion.We're talking playing through a whole-ass JRPG start to finish just on endless piles of static dialogues. It is absolutely absurd.
>>739550337i'm pretty sure aranara questline alone is 30h
>>739547072Amphoreus is just a retreading of the Flamechasers from HI you retarded secondary
>>739546448>the fucking lungs contellation
>>739549815she needs it to get off
>"Today, we gather here with heavy hearts to mourn our friend...>"...Though the world took so much from her throughout her life, she chose to save it nevertheless. And even though she gave so much to those she called her friends, we have no choice but to bid farewell to her in this way...>"May she rest in peace in her homeland, where she shall lie reunited with those she had loved and lost...>"May we meet again one day, in another land, at her tea party."
>>739551295boy are they going to look stupid when she comes back
yeah we skipping
>>739551503Who is we? I'm getting Sandy and I'll try for weapon as well, since i have c2r0 Bina.
>>739551503Holy cute and canon banner
>>739551503damn dude, REMEMBER RAIDEN SHOGUN?
>>739551503C6ing Sandrone and there is nothing you can do to stop me
>>739551503I think they'll do a round of buffs at some point only for archons. They must know that raiden is complte shit by now, zhongli sucks and nahida was hard powercrept by lauma.
>>739551503>roll Sandrone>get a cool laser>a chance to use my old raiden in stellar conductDamn, we're eating good
>>739551640>>739551662>>739552016They'll probably put sandrone with raiden and not with columbina
>>739500682>This is Genshin in 2026>More Modern & Urban than ZZZ>mfw>mihomos won but at what cost?
>>739552218>ancient ruins on the moon are modern and urban
>>739552218>genshin turns into zzz>zzz turns into genshinstar rail won(?)
>>739551769yae is getting buffed instead>>739552016laser is locked behind C6, you get single shot instead
>>739552371More than London, yes.It was promised to me in a Dream.
>>739552412>star rail won(?)We have Star Rail at home.And "ZZZ turns into Genshin"... need I remind you that ZZZ will soon get a year of THAT GUY's storytelling centered around a pink haired girl?
Endfield is better thab Hoyoslop but 90% of the SEAnogs addicted to Genshin and ZZZ are not ready for this conversation
>>739553550Okay Chigger.
>>739553125>a year of THAT GUY's storytelling centered around a pink haired girl?this is the worst fate in any hoyo game
>>739500682>Bungie kills Destiny 2>Genshin turns into Destiny 2BRAVO DAWEIRAVO
>>739522730Yup
>>739546789I don't play honkers, what the deal with this creature?
>>739553125>need I remind you that ZZZ will soon get a year of THAT GUY's storytelling centered around a pink haired girl?I am genuinely incredibly thankful that Genshin has a fixed development team and doesn't rotate writers between the Honknigger clique of Mihoyo, that bring their pet characters and recycled stories with them. HSR and now ZZZ are completely breaking immersion to discuss what their next writer is going to bring to change their story.
>>739548185blackedchurled horsed
>>739554458she is your wife and perfect
>>739546718It's already likely connected by the devs, I've got nothing to do with it.
>>739554458recycled forced waifu and writer's pet character from a dogshit recycled arc, they nuked the entire game to shill her, broke the character development of several other better characters, pulled every single marketing level to shill her, new main menus, ads, drone shows, totally organic online campaigns with other gamesAdvertising victims love her, the few ensouled players still playing shart rail hate her.
>>739547743Closest we got is this whore who looks 90% like a honkhonk character
>>739554820that's my wife
>>739554458>create perfect fluffy sidekick>PLOT>downgrade her into an ELF>spend the next few patches wanking her off
>>739554820they keep tickling our bumholes
>>739554762Hey remember when they retconed Kafka to retroactively add a scene in a past quest so she can come and tell you you have to go and meet that girl that will "teach you love?" lmfaoStill seething that despite years of doing nothing, and repeated intentional gunshots to the knees, Kafka is way more liked and popular than any of the new characters they shit out.
I filter all pagrene images
>>739554987You can't filter LOVE!
>>739550153>>739549815>>739550294In the lore Angels can only feel very little emotions, but whenever they guided somebody to a treasure, the angel was filled with an "incredible emotional ecstasy", essentially an orgasm. Reminds me of some sci-fi dystopias that have killer cyborgs in constant pain running around, but when they kill something they're relieved from the pain temporarily
>>739554917yeah, but we've been teased about alice's bum tickles for yearsfrom what anons are saying, this pink whore just appears out of nowhere and fingers the player without foreplay, that's not nice
>>739549021>Shades are not gods
>>739554201>that hilinigger came from the moonStill not sure how they got away with this
>>739553125>need I remind you that ZZZ will soon get a year of THAT GUY's storytelling centered around a pink haired girl?And here I thought it couldn't get worse than china wank. Be honest with me, is it time to drop the game? I'm kinda feeling it's time to drop the game, plus the new characters all look bland.
>>739525459
JP kinda like her
As a day one player I think I cant keep with this game anymoreIm not saying its worse now but that Im mentally fatigued of it, just tried to log in after 2 months and Im already bored. I understand it would be ridiculous to kill a multi billion game but what about the playerbase retention?
>>739555424>Be honest with me, is it time to drop the game?I smelled where the game was going back in 1.3ish and quit, the devs exposed themselves as having zero spine or trust in their game. It's sad, really, early ZZZ was special.
>>739555424ZZZ story was alwsys a nothingburger anywayYeah the new arc is going to have a lot of time travel bullshit and memory swipe shenanigans but at least you can wrap a ZZZ story chapter in one hour
>>739549545t. Zoroaster
>>739555917huh?
>>739556141Just saying they should relaunch the game with new visuals and combat instead of building on a 6 year old mobile game.Yeah, I know its not gonna happen but dont tell me you like Sandrone being a hold attack to shoot lazer like a shitty Neuvillete clone. Its always the same
>>739555979>>739556048idk I just feel like the designers don't know what to do with the game anymore. Every fight is just either spam parry until the bosses shield is broken, or if your units are strong enough, ignore it and dump your whole load anyhow. Pretty much no endgame, minigames are actually decent but it's not enough, and of course the story is all over the place. I feel like the setting is hard-capping the potential of the game because it's an apocalypse with only one giant city remaining along with maybe the moon, the outskirts, and some random occasional chinky spiritual realm. What happens when all these places have been explored? I think they need to do what most successful gachas do and hire famous korean writers for their stories. Aside from that one recent cuck gacha yes yes don't remind me
>>739556048>Yeah the new arc is going to have a lot of time travel bullshit and memory swipe shenaniganshuh?? what the fuck happened? last time I played there was street gangs and bikers and an airship and some nebulous corporate conspiracy in the background
>check Amphoreus spoilers>it's Madoka's ending but even dumber somehow
>>739556362skipGOD
>>739520445Stellar reactions are proof that the Cryo Archon will just be another Columbina that exists to buff them all. It's kind of boring in that regard, but there's no way in hell they don't introduce more reactions in a region and don't have the main push character buff them.
>>739556362>corporate conspiracy in the backgroundZZZ was defanged. It was meant to be a punk game, both in aesthetics and atmosphere, if you look up its beta story. Corrupt police and businessmen conspiring for power and endangering people and all that, but the dev team that was full of young people had senior Mihoyo breathing down on their necks and changed it, because China.All this was removed. Launch ZZZ at least kept the shibuya punk street aesthetics but cops are good, corporations that cooperate with government are good, the system is good, it's only "rogue elements" that threaten harmony. And in 2.x they also fucked up the punk visuals with Chinese shit, and 3.x designs are even further away, there's no identity to dilute anymore.
>>739556295I'm sure you know this, but the closest Genshin will ever get to a full relaunch is what it's going through now where the story and little animations are higher quality on average than it used to be, along with better and more experimental models. As far as mechanics go, things like nightsoul and lunarwank were all good ideas since they evolve the base mechanics of the game, something most long-lived gachas do, but they didn't do anything interesting with it. I think it works specifically for Genshin because like 95% of players don't even touch spiral abyss or stygian onslaught in the slightest, so touching up the combat doesn't affect them. Really all they need to do is start making characters with 2 or 3 skills on top of their burst and that alone would massively increase complexity. I've played several games where adding literally one extra button you have to press makes the game feel completely brand new. But as always I'm sure they'd rely on the evergreen tactic of bitching about how that's not possible on mobile so it can't be done. Similar to how PC gamers used to complain about consoles holding back the industry with their limited hardware, we're at the point where developing with the shittiest phone on earth is their main goal instead of spreading their wings and making something truly special
>>739554874I want to sniff your wife's socks and nibble her ears
>>739556561I just hate that the stellar reactions are going to be so boring. Instead of trying to evolve super conduct and make it accessible to everyone, it's literally just "it does huge damage and the new enemies take like triple damage from it lol!". They could make it a generic debuff so you could use more of your old 4-stars and they still be strong, which is one of the reasons Genshin's combat was praised for so long. But nah, superconduct is essentially just vaporize or melt now. So boring.
>>739556567>only S3 character revealed so far that fits the original ZZZ aesthetic is Norma>she keeps eating nerfs after nerfs after nerfs >in a world where fucking Dialyn and Nangong existAt this point I am convinced this is some kind of humiliation ritualThey've chained up the original ZZZ heads somewhere in Hoyo's HQ secret basement and they're forcing them to look at the new dev team make a mockery of their passion project to punish them for flopping
>>739556660it's crazy because they are able to have good ideas to play with kits like varesas kit is cool and unique for genshins standarts but they sometimes just refuse to do stuff. Even diluc is the only character (well maybe nilou too) who has 3 different skills depending on how many times you press it. I think sometimes they just want the easy way out just make something they know is easy and will sell and be done with it.About sandrone since she's my favourite character I think her kit is not too bad but it's missed potential, having pulonia punch enemies like lumi or hell even having him be the one with the beams and variations in attacks based on imputs would make her the best character in the game, but oh well.
>>739557730>tfw unironically fantasized about Sandrone having some kind of "Pulonia shoulder ride" movement passive when she was first revealed
>>739555917just take a break you're burnt out, never force yourself to play games, after like a year or two you'll probably want to come back and check it out again. or not, and that's fine too, if you just care about the story watch it on yt
>>739502591Unlike JRPGs, most gacha game stories have no plot progression. It's just endless world building with flat characters and that's why their animated adaptations aren't good.
>>739557916yeah, they did it on honkai, it wouldn't be a first
>>739556415amphoreus had two major problems that ruined it: pacing and cyrene. cut these two out and it would have been like 10x better.
>>739558012>cut these two outi mean fix the pacing and cut cyrene
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>>739557916I regret thinking of ideas of how her kit might've looked like, if you have no expectations you can not be dissapointed. Atleast her wind up key is still there
>>739556660an average genshin player has troubles with open world puzzles, which have been dumbed down several times over the course of 6 years.even natlan->nod krai they simplified the comissions from having to manually dodge/jump/change lanes to just pressing E and being able to close your eyes with kuuvahki moonlanes
>>739558445I do miss them having mini storylines (even if the rng on getting the next part was ass), but most people just spend their resin and auto complete daily commissions now anyways.
>>739559163we all must suffer because of the f2poors that want zero friction between them and their gambling money
>>739559163>I do miss them having mini storylinesi do not. i skipped all of them since 1.0. whoever thought having repeatable quests as daily comissions was retarded. however with auto complete i wouldn't have an issue with them
>>739559163what happened to the traveling gourmets
>>739559163yeah, I sure do miss doing the same gourmet supremos quest for the billionth time and the offchance of doing that stupid love quest that was up to rng if you get the remaining one for the cheevofuck that, fuck off
