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No. 323623
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11 hours until Neuvillette's banner goes up. I wonder who they'll put in his trial. I'm hoping they include Beidou because I want to try them out together before rolling for him.
No. 323625
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Convinced this thread is made by a coomer kek
No. 323628
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Just heard Wriothesley's voice lines, edgy-looking softies are the best. No way I'm not going for him. I'm glad I don't want anyone after Furina until Arlecchino, my primos are going to be wrecked.
No. 323633
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60 primo code
>6T8NWE3HD7PD>>323623I'm shamelessly electro-charged #1 fan and it'd be awesome to have Beidou there. Though I'm guessing they'll either show his freezing ability or hyperbloom with Fischl.
>>323625Kek I was busy staring at that badly drawn Zhongli to notice coomy Mona.
should've been the anemo boys in my extremely biased opinion>>323628Same! Though I'm thinking of skipping Furina for his weapon.
No. 323638
i really dont want to nitpick, but op why did you chose that as the thread pic. The art styles dont even match and especially the Mona art is very bad. And why is Nahida the empress, you know the card for sensuality and fertility?
>>323633Thank you for the code!
>>323625Yeah a coomer or a minor, like how did they even find this shitty compilation? Also I swear someone posted this picture before, including the Nahida as empress, just creepy…
No. 323639
>>323638samefag I found the post
>>>/m/305868 not the same fan arts, but still weird that this anon (who i now assume is a moid kek) keeps posting shitty genshin tarrot decks.
No. 323642
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>>323640Yeah especially whenever anons dump fanart there's usually a handful of the art that several anons praise which should be an indication of using that as the thread pic.
I think a way to solve this for the next thread is to do the classic cow board “voting” method. When the thread is about to be locked anons tag the art from the thread that they would like to be the next thread pic. The most seconded one is the democratic choice.
No. 323643
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>>323638I made the compilation myself after seeing the images get posted on twitter yesterday because I thought they looked neat. They were posted under the tag #原神大アルカナ. It was a group artist project.
https://twitter.com/yuzunonicomi/status/1704813113705644496 No. 323645
>>323642I love this image so much, has all my faves and well drawn, great taste nona.
>cow board “voting” method1+
Iirc an anon voted the Hoyofair Anemo boys image as next thread pic in previous thread, which I almost used had I not seen the new thread already made. But oh well, we'll wait until this is at max posts.
No. 323650
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>>323647>>323648I don't know anything about what the tarot cards actually mean.
No. 323654
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>>323651I can only hope that they're relatively easy to collect like the sand grease pupas were for alhaitham when his patch dropped. They need to never add anything like cyno's scarabs ever again.
No. 323656
>>323648Don't feel bad, it takes all of 3 minutes to make a collage like that. Modern phone galleries have an option for it built in.
>>323650Hiding the op pic for a thread you use will only make it harder to notice… Is this the only thread you use on /m/? Whatever, it doesn't matter anymore. Let someone else make the next thread.
No. 323658
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>>323651>>323651The Wriothesley one being another bug is already worrying me. Maybe it's a good thing he's not the first banner up. Cyno's farming was a nightmare not helped by you needing to do the world quest to access most of the farming spots.
No. 323662
>>323658Lyney's passive will be handy af.
>>323660That anon is retarded. No one complains when Kaeya and Klee are posted because we all know Kaeya is being her cool big bro and it's cute when guys take care of kids.
But when Wrio is posted with Seigwennie or whatever her name is it's meant to have negative connotations? Pft.
No. 323667
>>323662Thanks for bringing me back down to earth, nona. I remember another anon who really really hated seeing male characters be good with kids which felt like she wanted her child hating feelings validated kek.
>>323665Yeah, that doesn't help at all. I'd rather believe she's just a child who's smart af.
No. 323668
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>>323667>I'd rather believe she's just a child who's smart af.She's at least partially a melusine, hence the short stature. Some of the other melusine in the city speak nicely of her and refer to her as if she's a fellow melusine, including talking about how she invites some of the melusine to the prison infirmary to enjoy tea with her. She hosts skincare lectures in Fontaine according to some of the billboard posts. So, along with her being head nurse of the prison, it's difficult to view her as a child. There's no way Wriothesley would be letting her work alongside dangerous criminals if she were, after reading his lines about his own childhood.
No. 323671
>>323669Some questions are better left unanswered.
>>323670It's probably a recessive gene that Lynette got and Lyney didn't. I was going to say maybe it only appeared in women but Draff has the cat appearance too so it can't be that.
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>>323645>great taste nonaThank you!! I really like the recent circus themed art a lot of the Japanese artists have been drawing
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>>323628I love him so much it's not even funny. I literally was expecting nothing when he was leaked back in… April? May? I thought he was going to be a hobo/emo skinny fag. God I was so fucking wrong.
Can't wait for the update to finish to run to Forest of Meropide and see him already.
No. 323731
>>323719Whoops deleted cause I misquoted.
I haven't even tried him out yet but I liked him enough from the story that I wanted him.
I guess I'll save my Primos, don't need any more of these 4 stars. I just never know when It's really worth going for C1+.
Also, I thought that tower in the distance was the fortress, I guess not? Wonder how many more map areas there will be.
Now I'll actually go into the prison later, don't want to get stuck there for hours before doing dailys.
Curious about the new thing they added and if it will help skip commissions dealing with the cycle theory without having to go into someone else's world.
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The fact that I’m skipping husbandos for a female archon, I’m ashamed. But I really need a Xinqiu sidegrade. I’m so sorry Neuvillette you’re too hot for this treatment
No. 323790
>>323741>his play style was weirdAgree. The play style is super fun, but I don't know how to position myself to use the water canon. I always panic and use it right away in front of the enemies and have to move around to hit, I look so stupid kekw.
That got me thinking… Venti + Neuvillette = insta kill? Cause Neuv can reach Venti's burst, right?
No. 323805
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Got Neuvi, unfortunately going for his C1 was ruined by Dehya of all units. At least I got her the pull right after Neuvillette and I have Lyney so she's only 90% worthless. I'm gonna stop and wait for Wriothesley, maybe get constellations on his rerun.
No. 323853
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>>323839Haven’t played yet this part yet but if it’s an obvious flirty vibe I’m never pulling Wrio
and I sure will complain about it in the survey kek
No. 323856
These new Fatui enemy girls look good but wtf is that
negative effect? If active character gets hit once they keep losing hp until the get healed for a bit or they die? That's worse than corrosion because that atleast that stops after some time.Tl;dr healers are important in Fontaine.
>>323841>looks like it's all overIf you're the same Sigewinne anon than you need relax and take a break from the screen. Wriothesly is a fictional character and can be whatever you want him to be lmao
>>323850I have a stupid theory but: Wriothesly was received well by moids >> moids project onto him >> moids now can fuck their waifu through him in fanart and things.
Though I don't know what they were thinking when they know the only het fans allow is traveller x character? We'll see I guess
No. 323861
>>323841>>323850Please tell me you're not talking about the small "do you want sugar with your tea" conversation. You cannot actually think that qualifies as flirting. I feel bad for Genshin's writers because it seems nearly impossible to write a scene with two characters without people flipping shit about it being "flirting" or "shipbait" or whatever else.
>>323859That sucks, I'm sorry.
No. 323862
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>>323859If it makes you happy his c1 specifically is insane! You literally will not need a shielder in his team which clears up a whole spot in your team build.
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Last thread we were speculating if the Tsaritsa would be Bronya. I found this from the cbt Childe profile. Looks like both the pyro and cryo archon are gonna be easy skips for me. Focusing on harbingers instead. Do you think all the harbingers will be playable?
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>>323839>>323841>>323850That wasn't flirting. Wriothesley is just a friendly guy who wants to share tea with everyone. And yes I have seen the scene, you anons are malding over two people being friendly with each other.
Also I love Arlecchino. Her English VA is killing it. The character writing has improved so much since Inazuma, these characters feel like not just a single anime archetype.
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Is the max exploration percentage out? Like max previous map exploration was %38 percent and I want to know if this one's gonna be %60++ for reputation points purpose.
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Look at XingQiu grabbing Chongyun my babiees
No. 323958
Furina animations are out
YouTube videos will be deleted very soon so click here instead:
https://files.catbox.moe/ri2lc5.mp4 No. 323960
>>323958These animations look great, will definitely get her.
What sucks to me is that her skill is stationary and don't follow the character, I just hope they have an Ayato burst range and not a small circle.
No. 323964
>>323958>she changes outfitsAdorable and the best of both worlds, but shame it means they probably won't ever make her a skin because it would be twice the work.
>>323957The change from two-part Archon quests to three-part archon quests has massively improved the writing. They can afford to slow down and give the characters time to shine. Inazuma felt like they were cramming what should have been a much longer story into an hour of gameplay, it was a mess.
No. 324003
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Do any of you know what these things are supposed to be? The guide just says "strange eels" and hitting them doesn't do anything. Are they part of some quest?
No. 324027
>>324022It's probably the same lunatic who was having a meltdown about "Mihoyo shilling Kaveh/Nilou" because they were featured in that gigo collab. I'm surprised the oneeshota sperg hasn't appeared to tinfoil about
Clorinde saving Freminet being Mihoyo shilling pedophilia.
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>>323951So cute Ayato was so pretty too!
No. 324041
Both Clorinde and Wriothesley are being lightly pushed for gay pairings, yet some anons are having a meltdown because they interacted with each other in a way very aligned with their personalities. Get help.
On the other hand, I'm loving that all the characters in Fontaine so far have interesting personalities even without ships.
>>324035I love the soundtrack there too. None of the new soundtracks caught my attention until we went into the prison. Its atmosphere was done really well.
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Anyone knows the context to why Itto's apologizing to Gorou in picrel?
>>324022I thought anons itt hated female characters for having zero personality and have coom designs, but no, it's closer to the early 2k fujo "g-girls with girls! So my men can fuck each other 24/7 without a filthy woman being there!" Vibe. Like I get this is Genshin Impact but even to the point that male characters can't interact with female ones without rage is just hilarious.
>>324027She apologized last thread(?) for being obnoxious and said she was jealous of the girls shipped with boys and now she's doing better.
the only reason I remember because of cute Haikaveh pic No. 324097
>>324075Unrelated but I've been in love with her design since anons called her hair greasy back when she was first leaked. In my mind she's an introverted
femcel that can't be bothered to buy new clothes that fit her and I could take her shopping and fix her kek
No. 324111
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>>324073>I thought anons itt hated female characters for having zero personality and have coom designs, but no, it's closer to the early 2k fujo "g-girls with girls! So my men can fuck each other 24/7 without a filthy woman being there!" VibeI thought it was only teenagers who did this sort of thing but apparently not. Tiresome. Again, I truly feel bad for Mihoyo's writers trying to navigate around how deranged the fandom can be overall when it comes to character interactions with each other. It must feel extremely limiting as a creative writer to have to walk on eggshells when it comes to character interactions, trying to make the world feel more alive and fleshing out the cast dynamics without stepping on too many toes.
Aside from that, I'm loving Sigewinne. She's very amusing to me. I like that she's kind of conniving and how she thinks humans are just so cute to observe, like little pets.
>I like smart people, but I also like playing dumb. I like the feeling of "being trusted."I'm hoping they will explain in her character story why she looks so much more human than the other melusine. I can't tell how much the game wants us to ignore that or not, like that one Kimodameshi event in Inazuma with the kid NPCs wearing yokai masks that we were supposed to pretend looked like genuine yokai because they were too lazy to make new yokai NPCs.
Also, her line about thinking the traveler is cute is funny to me too. The game tells you multiple times how the melusine perceive things pretty differently to humans, like the melusine quest line with the paintings, how they can see destruction as beauty. So, was that actually a back-handed compliment to the traveler? Lol.
I can't tell whether they'll make her a 4
or a 5, but I hope I'll be able to get her whenever she releases.
No. 324118
>>324097This is such an insane, desperate cope to make coomer boob lady into something BASTE and PINKPILLED to appeal to lc users
>>324073Why blame fujos on this when it's lumine self insert tards who care? The real problem lies with the two female characters being a lolibaba and gross coomshit paired with one of the least gay looking guys in genshin who moids would be happy to use in their own self insert porn.
No. 324130
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>>324128Charlotte's animations. NA, CA, skill, burst
https://streamable.com/3zbqjm No. 324133
>>324102Am I the only one who didn't get their appeal? It's just one domain you walk through once and you get rewarded a shrine key. I agree with
>>324104 , they're just a waste of developer effort imo.
>>324127>>324128Sorry for asking for spoonfeeding but are there any news on how Furina's kit is like?
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>>324111>So, was that actually a back-handed compliment to the traveler? It seems like they actually see something big in them
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>>324133>are there any news on how Furina's kit is like?Yes, see picrel or here:
https://genshin.honeyhunterworld.com/furina_089/If you want to get more into the weeds of her ICD/poise/hit types, you can look here:
http://www.yuhengcup.top/charLike usual, things may change as the beta goes on, so it's not set in stone yet.
She's looking to be a sub-DPS with buffing capabilities on her burst, reliant on gaining and losing HP to gain stacks. She can change between pneuma/ousia with her CA, which also changes what her skill buddies do (consuming party HP to deal damage vs healing). Her burst DMG% buff ramps over time, somewhat like Yelan's burst buff ramps. For Abyss, recommended to have her primarily off-field at C0, can spend more time on-field at C2 and above. No. 324139
>>324127So… if Cyno jumps around with his burst around the arena will they follow him and apply hydro the enemies he's attacking?
>>324130Don't really like how bland/non-character she is but that normal attack looks fun.
>>324133I'm probably one of the few who liked solving a puzzle to open them and beat up a gang for a treasure in a special place, as a change of view.
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Probably the best QOL coming in 4.2 is quick access to weekly bosses whether you started the quest or not
>>324159Regardless of retarded opinion having one different than yours isn't new faggotry, this place isn't a hivemind
No. 324228
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Lumine getting once-in-a-blue-moon official art for the Moonchase Festival.
No. 324319
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The same arguments kill conversations in every single thread we have. Why can't we just have fun nonas? We're all in our 20s-30s playing a shitty anime game for teenagers. It's not a radfem war against coomer otakus, they will always be more pandered to in a game created by men. I would love if we all made the collective effort to not be so fucking salty and serious toward each other. The vibes in these threads have shifted to being so fucking bad since around thread #3.
No. 324321
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>>324319I'm convinced it's the same one or two anons every time that just come into this thread to derail and troll with bad faith bait. It's not worth replying to them, best to just ignore.
No. 324322
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>>324319>>324321They quieted down during Star Rail's release when they migrated to its thread which was immediately contaminated with similar mental illness but after that game plateaued they returned back here.
That said I want to give credit where credit's due, they've improved massively on writing female characters since Inazuma and given them more plot relevancy and agency. I used to hate all of the female characters and felt like the game was only giving coomer men what they wanted never giving female players a break, but during v4 we got five new male 5-stars out of which Alhaitham is possibly the best DPS in the game at the moment and gave him and Kaveh a star crossed lovers dynamic. Shockingly enough the female characters only got better during Fontaine. I love Furina and Lynette, and I never thought I would say this about a female character in Genshin Impact. Post-Inazuma Genshin is like playing a different game, complete with all the QoL improvements.
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>>324322I agree. In Inazuma the only female character I liked was Yoimiya and mostly because she was just friendly and inoffensive. I thought I was going to hate Nahida but she has more character than just being a loli and Sumeru was a lot more husbando focused overall. Furina, Lynette, Navia and even Sigewinne are all really interesting and fleshed out. I wish Clorinde had had one of the better concept designs used for her but at least the character isn't offensive so far.
The QoL improvements have done so much for exploration. I'd hate navigating Fontaine without them. They put a lot of effort into making the swimming feel good and I'm going to miss it when Fontaine is done and we move on to Natlan.
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>>324324Yeah I’m gonna miss the freedom of not drowning! I seriously wonder what new climate mechanic there will be in Natlan. They can’t copy the hated desert from Sumeru. Maybe something like the volcanic parts in Fontaine? Where the bubbling water slowly kills you.
>I wish Clorinde had had one of the better concept designs used for her Same, I like her personality, face and hat but the Eula shorts and too tight shirt genuinely bothers me and reminds me why I hate anime nowadays kek
No. 324329
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>>324319Based nona.
>>324321>same one or two anonsDefinitely same ones, I recognize the same typing style. Especially the obnoxious one who posts one line each post.
You pic reminded of this one idk why kek
>>324322I like Lynette too. Even though her cold moe (kuudere?) type of personality isn't my cup of tea but her being in the trio and her sad story made me like her so much. Arle is a fave too.
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(reposted with less esl)
Fishing achievement anon here and I came back with probably the worst one known to man
I could've watched anime or something when I was bored at work but instead I grinded this. I really don't recommend this to anyone kek
No. 324380
>>324364I think I salute you. I admire you, but also damn,
nonnie.
>>324350Right, I hated this game during Inazuma and all of the shitty waifu peddling while shamelessly short changing female players, but now there is peace in the middle east. It probably helps that some of the most important characters were created before the quality decline.
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>>324350>>324380Even during the bleak Inazuma days there were some good things, like the Ruu quest, Enkanomiya, and my man Itto. I love the game too and it keeps getting better. Only up from here I hope!
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I lost to Tighnari in the 80s and thought after that loss I was bitter thought better save the guarantee for Wrio then I think I'll have enough for Furina for her Fontaine characters support ability/hydro application but I'm having second thoughts like
I want him but I don't think I'll be able to afford Wrio if I lose 50/50 to him?
In a way I'm both ranting and needing some opinions; get him and hope I win 50/50 with Wrio and ignore Furina or guarantee Wrio, most likely guarantee Furina and wait for his rerun? I really liked both after archon quests.
No. 324683
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>>324035My husband was listening to me play and he’s really good at recognizing VAs because Sigewynne is Hello Kitty in super cute adventures. Yoimiya shares a VA with cinnamoroll/kuromi as well. I hope they get more of the HK cast because I want to do fanart.
No. 324693
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>>324364What do you mean, this one was so easy to get for me??? At least it's more bearable than having to fish 2000 times while paimon shrieks in the background. I will never get that namecard, fuck whoever thought that was a good idea.
>>324515Furina will come back after 4 patches (4.6). All Archons have reruns often, because they sell well, I think you can skip her tbh.
>>324035Agree!! I was vibing hard to the soundtrack kekw. There was a part I actually stopped playing the dialogue and took my time to enjoy and appreciate the ost! It fits so well with the atmosphere, I totally agree. I liked that they added electric guitars to the usual classical instruments.
I do like Sigewinne tho! I think it's endearing she thinks humans are cute creatures, kek. It's like the reverse of us, humans, thinking Melusines are adorable. (?)
Also, I have to say, what I'm not liking at all is the part about having to
look for clues inside the Fortress while working. It takes so much time and I'm tired, I wanna see my husbando doing cool shit and being hot!!
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>>324693I wonder if Sigwinne will grow on me. So far she seems to me like Nahida but too moe.
And I agree with that part being boring, I'm in the middle of it now and I can't wait to get out. Overworld around the Institute and the new areas in general are great though.
I love the female enemies that kind of look like Arlecchino and their JP tomboyish voices.
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>>324693I handled the Meropide investigation stuff much better than the endless Samsara bullshit in Sumeru where Nahida wouldn't just tell us what was going on because hurr durr your brain wouldn't accept it despite it being a dream not being all that farfetched or weird when something is clearly wrong. I liked the hints of what was going wrong with Childe. Looks like
his Vision breaking has made him vulnerable to Abyssal corruption somehow, the leaks with him being the 4.2 boss seem pretty likely now.>>324721Her pets apply hydro pretty decently. Not as much as Xingqiu and Yelan but more flexible than them since she doesn't need normal attacks to
trigger her pets. Her crab in particular does AOE damage rather than single target. Her ult buff is better than Kazuha's shred for teams that have a hard time double-swirling. Not a lot of word on her healing in pneuma form, I think it's around Kokomi jellyfish levels from what I've seen.
tl;dr she's good but depending on the team won't be better than Xingqiu. She's more flexible to use than Xingqiu though and that's where she shines; she's flexible and can slot anywhere.
She will be very very good with Neuvillette for all the Neuvillette pullers.
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>>324742I don’t play on a laptop. I alternate between my iPad Pro with a controller and PS5. My PS5 runs the game with literally no loading times at all, it’s great
No. 324747
Nonas what did you think of today's Abyss?
I had trouble at first but when I went mono Lyney (with Kazu and Zhong) in first chamber and Baizhu burgeon on second I finished it easy peasy.
>>324746Xing and Mika?! Now I need interactions between them in game.
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>>324747Any Abyss where I can use mono Geo one half and Cyno on the other is a good Abyss.
>>324742I've played on laptop. You'll need a cooling mat or a really good fan or your laptop will boil alive.
No. 324894
>>324761Can confirm the laptop overheating.
>>324742I use a gaming laptop and a ps5 controller. Idk the brand because my husband gifted it to me. There’s some good fans on Amazon. Don’t forget to have keyboard duster so you can clean them regularly.
No. 324918
>>324742I play with a ROG Strix, but I don't really recommend it because the fans make a lot of noise and the wifi drivers or whatever the hell they are called are fucking shit. Plus the keycaps break pretty easily.
It doesn't overheat, though, and I play Genshin with the max settings at 60 FPS. I have a GeForce RTX 3050 card and a AMD Ryzen 7 6800H. The most important thing when looking for a good gaming PC/laptop is the graphics card, in my opinion. I used to play on a Lenovo that had an nVidia GTX 1050 card and I couldn't even play it a 60 FPS. The storage was pretty good, tho.
No. 324945
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Fontaine's OST is out, 96 tracks
FLAC download here
https://mega.nz/folder/VdFjVKzS#fdxch98cmpENfsQnm7_D-ASome very nice relaxing tracks in this release, listened through it all together this morning, lots I like to hum along to.
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Just finished the archon quest and
I don't get why Clorinde was there? Not as a "reee female character" but as a genuine question. I remember her as a good duelist yet she was there to swim and save the fortress, how?
Wrio can freeze water, I get that so he's useful but she's electro? I saw her shoot the lever to a gate but what's her ability to stop the water after?
Even the swimming aspect, like why her of all people? Even Navia would make more sense since she goes to metro area and would potentially sacrifice herself for Fremmi probably.
Actually wouldn't Clorinde be better fit sitting with Furina in her meeting with Arle? Since she stands beside her in court??I liked the whole thing and didn't mind her as much as I thought I would minus her shirt that's about to pop but I feel they misused her potential, especially when I'm praying male duelist to be a real thing and her introducing him to traveller or something.
>>324945Thank youuu!! I was going to wait to download a whole youtube playlist but you made my life easier. There are really nice tunes and I'm sorry I was being a doomer when Yu Peng left, these new guys are doing a great job.
No. 324985
>>324973I think they're going for Clorinde being more of a secret agent type of character. She's Furina's bodyguard but she's also probably part of Furina's spy circle trying to devise a way to save the nation from the prophecy. Or she just happens to be someone Wriothesley can trust so he asked her for help. I agree it's kind of silly that she was going to keep back the flood though, it's not like she's a hydro or cyro.
I also wish the male musketeer showed up but given we only got concept art for him and no model leaks if he shows up it's probably going to be very late into Fontaine.
No. 324996
>>324985>Furina's spy circleSorry I must've missed it, when was this mentioned?
But now that you mention him trusting her, she probably stayed down with him as a form of comradery, which is nice.
>very late into FontaineI wouldn't mind but please don't be a scrapped concept and that guy near Fontaine's Kathryn is where the concept went to.
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>>324953>Intel graphic cardsAYRT and Intel is so shit. I had Intel in my Lenovo and when my NVIDIA graphics card broke I had to rely on intel, and oh god,
Detroit Become Human wouldn't even open kek… Intel and Mediatek are my archnemesis, I swear.
Nvidia is usually good, but you probably have a model with a card that is similar to the one I had on my Lenovo, which was pretty outdated.
>the fans make so much noiseSame. Thank god my model has different settings for the fans and when I'm not playing vidya I can set it to "silent" mode and forget about them. They still wake up from time to time for god knows what, but eh. Sage for computer sperging.
No. 325077
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I just finished the Archon Quest and I need to see more of this stupid trio. I love deadpan characters and them cracking jokes and throwing jabs at each other made me laugh a lot. I hope Mihoyo adds them to events and we see them together again.
(Sorry, reposted to add spoilers.)
No. 325100
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I don't know why I love Arlecchino so much, she's so cool. She's edgy in just the right way. Also, isn't it new that Genshin kind of adds voice acting on top of art put on screen like a visual novel? Or was it in archon quests before this?
>>325017Yep honestly she was very bland before. I finished the archon quest and I do have to say sadly Wrio and Clorinde do have better chemistry than a lot of characters that people are convinced are canon ships. You say it's not flirting but Wrio does seem like he's kind of flirting with everyone, or his voice is just like that to me, even when Neuvi passed by and he was like 'wooow, what's your secret'. If only Clorinde was a bit less of a coombait character, I'd probably love her with her deadpan personality and bloodborne look. But from what I've seen scrotes absolutely love her design. If only we had skins to select from, if only her shirt wasn't white but like grey, she'd look so much better to me.
I pray Wrio's character story fleshes out his relationship with Neuvi more because he kept talking about him but they exchanged like two sentences.
No. 325102
>>325100The relationship between Wriothesley and Neuvillette is so strange, why do they keep hinting at something while barely showing them together? Like when you're in Neuvillette's office and read the document
about Wrio's case and how Neuvi was quiet for a long time? Why was that relevant? And how Wriothesley tries to invite him to stay for tea only to basically get a polite but cold no. They have barely any chemistry, it actually feels like they want to bait fujos to get that sweet, sweet free advertising through copious amounts of fanart
No. 325106
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4.2 banner leak
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>>325102I don't know if it's different in other languages but the English voiceover and script really emphasize Neuvillette's detachment and loneliness from the world and humanity in general. I'm not surprised a character like that isn't very shippable yet. Maybe he'll grow more open as the Fontaine story progresses.
I found the letter from Furina to be pretty funny,
being happy Neuvillette was seemingly taking a day off and going out for once. No. 325136
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I stupidly pulled for Nuevi just cause and hot him in a 10 pull… I was saving for Wrio lol. I think I have enough for hard pity if I grind some, but this is so funny to me.
No. 325162
>>325106I'll most likely lose my 50/50 to wrio and get him at hard pity because this game hates me but I'd love to get her to boost both Wrio and Neuvi
And Charlotte to try melt with her and Lyney.
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Some things about Neuvillete story quest:
I was kind of suprised there was no dungeon for us to try him in. He's the second character after Albedo that you can't play.
Also it felt like a mini archon quest rather than a story quest. All Fontaine's characters made an appearance, minus Furina and tbh although general lore isn't bad but I wanted more Neuvillete if that makes sense, like not as an OOC date but it felt so… general(?)
Hope Wriothesly's more personal.
Pic not related just found it be cute af
No. 325386
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I started playing recently and so far it's great! Exploring is a blast and I really enjoy the worldbuilding. In every game I play I like to choose a husbando to yoom over, but Genshin has so many cool guys to choose from that I'm not sure where to start. Which male characters seem most willing to tolerate autism and severe mental illness? Just in your opinion.
>tldr which Genshin guy would make the best tard wrangler?
No. 325398
>>325386I'd say most of them, a lot of them aren't human and seem to care about traveler a lot and traveler is basically a non-verbal weirdo kek. But I'll give you my headcanons
>TighnariCares for Collei which is a troubled kid, is very kind in general.
>ZhongliPercepts things differently from humans and rants about his monotone interests a lot himself, I feel like he wouldn't care if you were weird
>IttoHe's very nice to children and gets along with them, he's very goofy all the time and also would probably get along with speds.
>Kazuha and AlbedoBoth are very kind but kind of blandly kind (sorry kazuhafags) and I think they'd treat an autist or mentally ill person very well
>NeuviSame as Zhongli.
Honorable mentions
>BennettHe's so sweet but not a husbando so he goes in the honorable mentions
>RazorHe's too weird to notice you're weird.
>WriothesleyProbably treats everyone the same
>CynoHis post-archon quest himself would be nice, his archon-quest himself wouldn't tolerate any bullshit
Enemy
>AlhaithamHe strikes me as an autist himself and you know how autist males don't tend to be nice to autistic females kek but as a Alhaithamfag I don't care
>ScaramoucheHe'd bully you
>TartagliaHe's too psycho to be nice to an autist kek
>AyatoSeems to care about being proper too much, severe mental illness doesn't go well with that
No. 325405
>>325386>would call you retardedTighnari, Alhaitham, Ayato, Scaramouche, Xingqiu (passive aggressively), Dottore, Xiao
>would be polite about you being retardedZhongli, Albedo, Neuvillette, Kazuha, Cyno, Wriothesley, Lyney, Baizhu
>would not notice you're retardedBennett, Chongyun, Gorou, Mika
>is retarded/autisticChilde, Itto, Razor
No. 325412
>>325405I don't know why but this whole post made me laugh
But what about Diluc, Kaeya, Heizou, Kaveh, Thoma and Venti?
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>>325422This, plus Tighnari is too sweet, I agree with
>>325398 that he would be patient and understanding.
I would also add Thoma as a good potential husbando, he is very kind, he loves taking care of others and making them feel welcomed.
>>325386Also, welcome! Glad you like the game, remember to take it easy and if you have any questions you can ask here!
No. 325459
>>325412>kaeya, kaveh, thomaPolite about you being retarded (thoma would probably protect you)
>heizouPassive aggressive about you being retarded
>ventiPretends he's retarded
>dilucBorderline retarded, sorry Diluc fans (in all seriousness he'd probably be polite about it tho)
>>325422>>325430I play with English voices. Cranky English Tighnari would call you retarded but later say it's not your fault. Probably not the other languages so much.
>>325438As
>>325439 says she's not likely before 4.5-4.6 but Navia and Clorinde switched places so it's not impossible she shows up.
No. 325466
>>325386>would straight up bully youscaramouche
>would make you embarass yourselfayato, heizou, kaeya, xingqiu, alhaitham
>would tolerate autism and take care of youtighnari, thoma, baizhu, neuvilette, zhongli, kazuha, lyney, gorou, chongyun, wriothesley, albedo, venti (kinda)
>they're already mentally illitto, cyno, xiao, kaveh, diluc, childe
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>>325398You gave so much detail, thank you! It really helps me get a better idea of the characters. Based on your descriptions and what I've played so far, Zhongli intrigues me. He's a "seen it all" type of guy so I'm confident he could handle me. My only worry is that he would be
too enlightened and therefore turned off by my pitiful human catastrophizing.
>>325430Thank you for the warm welcome! Thoma seems like the most willing to be an active caretaker, so right now he's at the top of the list. He would think of a retard as a stray animal and feel compelled to help me out, and want to make me even the littlest bit happier. And beyond the yoom I really really appreciate his worldview:
>As long as you live, good things will always happen… This is what Thoma has always believed in.>Even if these animals had not encountered good things before, he hoped that at least his presence would be a good thing worth celebrating for.Great recommendation nonita ♥
>>325405Your succinctness is very funny. Though none of them are husbando material, my fave category are the ones who don't even realise I'm retarded. It's just a funny thought. Also I'm glad everyone agrees that Scara would bully any retard he happened upon.
>>325466>would make you embarass yourselfI also enjoy being tormented so maybe I could have one of these guys as a sidepiece. That would create a satisfying hurt/comfort cycle as well as scratch the masochistic/self-pitying itch. Thoma and Ayato are narratively linked, so already an Inazuma-based daydream is beginning to form. I'll be playing that chapter next and I feel more excited about it then ever!
Thank you to everyone who contributed, I'm really thankful that you shared your ideas and that everybody got to laugh together.
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>>325439>>325459Thanks! I guess I will have to wait for more leaks but if nothing indicates that Arlecchino comes before 4.5 by the last Neuvillette banner day I definitely will pull for him!
No. 325504
>>325430I was gonna say "cute Tarta pic, you never see him with animals"
I'm so sorry Thoma baby kek
>>325438I caved and got him after 120 wishes approx. Having fun but I'll have so much fun if I win Wrio's 50/50 and can guarantee Furina with what's left.
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>>325504Looks like we both need to grind for primos then kek. Good luck!
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>>325602Thanks nona, good luck to you too!!
(Although the only thing I can grind is Kaeya's hangout as I'm an ancient AR60 that wiped everything clean kek)
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Just finished the AQ and SQ. where did ppl get that Neuvilette supposedly hates archons?
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>>325643Oh okay that makes sense. Any idea why he wants to
judge the archons? All I heard him say that was a bit
anti-archon in the AQ was that his
dragon powers were limited because of Furina being the hydro archon. If she died/stopped being an archon he would regain his powers No. 325752
>>325615The 4 star system needs a rework for real. I was so unlucky with his cons I actually bought them from the paimon bargain shop thing.
>>325686Who's the guy in the pic?
No. 325758
>>325752Albedo!
>>325707>this is what must be done, this is my duty and the archons do objectively have crimes to answer forThis makes so much more sense than him just simply
”hating archons”. Thanks anon now I get it!
No. 325772
>>325707The sovereigns are all dragons right? The lore kind of reminds me of Dark Souls kek. Or is it in some world mythology that before gods, dragons ruled the world and games keep referencing it?
>>325666I'm not a very new player, I'm just unlucky with banners. XQ is always on some waifu banner I'm not interested in or on a male banner I have to skip to save for someone else. I didn't have enough starglitter for Paimon Bargain Xingqiu last month. Oh well, I'll have to wait. Sucks that I mostly use Alhaitham/XQ/Nahida/Kuki team in overworld to be quickly done with annoying mobs so his cons would help a lot.
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I swear I'm not trying to bait but I really don't get the hype for Arlecchino, at first when she was revealed during the Fatui trailer last year I was interested in the possibility of a princely female character but they made her wear an overdesigned vacuum sock pantsuit with the most lackluster color design an open back under the coat and a stupid rat tail to top it off, so far her personality has been closer to a world quest villain NPC twirling their moustache than a playable character. And before you come at me I'm not even one of those people who hate all female characters because in contrast I really like Furina's design and writing and how they're edging us on her hiding a plan. Scaramouche was foreshadowed since Inazuma but Arlecchino came out of nowhere, barely made an appearance besides bullying Furina a bit and now everyone is just losing their mind over muh problematic lesbian dommy mommy like they did with Signora. Unless she gets an actual arc in 4.2 I'm just going to assume people are just so desperate for a morally questionable female villain that they accept any crumbs that game devs throw them, maybe someone wants to explain what's her appeal because I was just disappointed beyond belief when they revealed her final design. And no, I don't hate her, I just don't understand why people are declaring her the best character in Fontaine when she's so generic. Maybe I'll be proven wrong.
No. 326014
>>324945what do you guys think of fontaine's music so far? i don't think it's bad, but sumeru's soundtrack is still my number 1. i felt it was a bit generic, but that's probably because it's european-style music.
i hope they're able to make natlan's music as good as sumeru's.
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So happy to see that Furina is good with Cyno teams (only if your Cyno team has Baizhu though)! To the anon who wished for a usable Cyno team, we have it now!!
>>326015The artist is the one who made the pretty Albedo watercolor art from last thread too! On Twitter: @Jotto75
No. 326026
>>325949For me it's because I love Fatuus and how she saved Lynette/twins. So far I hope they expand more on her and other characters and her personally.
As in even though Signora isn't playable but her lore being a witch that wants revenge for her lover, was misunderstood by her people, suppressed her powers…etc. were nice additions even though her design is too coom-ish for my tolerance kek, hope to see the same lore for Arlecchino.
>>326014I was surprised to how much I liked it despite Peng's departure, even the battle theme is great with me doing challenges with these 3mil bosses. My only complaint is Wriothesly's theme, I feel it's missing something.
No. 326028
>>326013I think the lore around her is really neat (House of Hearth,
leaks saying she's a child experiment herself for example) but I guess I'm just so disappointed in how they copped out of making her more masculine/androgynous since the word "knave" refers to a male servant and the kids call her "father". Yeah the titles don't really mean anything but something about those stiletto heels, the attire pronouncing her curves and the fandom cooming to hypersexualized pinups of her rubs me the wrong way.
No. 326029
>>326014I like it, it's different from Peng's style but still works imo. I've found myself actually listening to the tunes when before they sort of drowned in to the background, they nailed the European sound really well and I say this as an euro myself. I liked the gritty sound in Meropide, very different from the other music, but
>>326026 is right about Wriothesley's theme needing a bit more edge. But I agree with you on Sumeru having the best soundtrack in the entire game so far. Inazuma was really boring and repetitive, Enkanomiya was just droning ambient music and both Liyue and Mondstadt were just "nice".
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Thoughts about the archon quest? To me it was weaker than the last one.
What I liked
>Childe being involved and being the main conflict/dilemma alongside the prophecy. So fun when a past character’s backstory intertwines in a current archon quest. Much better than npc focused conflicts
>the world building of the prison and its system
>every Arlecchino appearance because she’s so fucking cool
What I dislike
>the weird pacing at the prison, the whole first part was me doing meaningless work and eating at a shitty cafeteria with childish paimon commentary
>overall nothing really happened?
>Neuvilette dragon identity reveal should have been more epic and cinematic
>the flashback animations of Childe looking so damn cheap. Is it that hard to make actual animated cutscenes for such a big company instead of the same running and idle animations
No. 326132
>>326110I loved his new gang so much.
But yeah I agree, for the time spent doing everything I felt the reward of lore and new information wasn't enough. Even though I love the Fatui trio seeing them again didn't make me as excited as I expected.
I know this is Genshin Impact, I know what it is, but all I want is just a little more edge,just a bit. I'm glad the Narzlongname world quest is offering it but I want more with main characters.
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Same anon ^
Yesterday was Xingqiu's bday and look at this mofo
"that takes this dish to the next level. I wonder which lucky individual will end up eating it…"
I love him and his bullying so much.
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>>326139And the chibi art features Albedo!
No. 326160
>>326110I laughed at the Childe animations too. They were laughably bad. Should have used the visual novel style instead, or do some proper animations.
On the similar note, I find it pretty weird how characters don't turn properly in cutscenes. At least I think so, or some other movement is missing, but when they stop moving and when they turn somewhere to run, it looks like old pokemon animations. Weird because we have proper running in overworld. I hope someone knows what I'm talking about.
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I pray that genshin never adds a character like this.
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Second phase banners
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Ganyu and Xq skins
No. 326226
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>>326225That one is Ganyu. This one is Xq
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Furina's C6 and C2 have been swapped around. Her C2 now turbo buffs her ultimate while the C6 is the tiny infusion. Weird choice but I guess they're doubling down on her being swapped as soon as you do skill + burst. Her burst has a shorter cooldown and less strict energy requirements now too.
No. 326276
>>326192>>326233I know nothing about this game but is it the same in Japanese/Chinese?
I noticed in some games/animes when it comes to localizations they change normal talk to "respect my pronouns!" dialogue without the creator's knowledge.
>>326250>burst has a shorter cooldown and less strict energy requirementsIf she's coming home with little primos I have after Wrio then YESSS since my arti set for her has zero energy recharge.
No. 326336
>>326226I really want XQ skin, I find him so ugly. But even with another skin, his voice is still gonna annoy me.
As for Ganyu, I don't have her, but anything is better that the weird black boobs covered by Mysterious fabric that sticks to them but isn't leather nor latex and is matte. It looks like she has boob necrosis to me.
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>>326453Same, some of the art woth Furina has him looking cute but because of his /spoiler/ he's now drawn with everyone. Though in tag websites you can choose the proper tags to find him by himself.
>>326462For now go elemental mastery or %atk in her artis if you have any, and an %atk or physical sword.
Don't sweat it too much because you'll get Lynnette for free and she's a good anemo characters for your traveller to be Dendero.
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>>326462Anon you seem very new, just use this button for builds. At your stage you really don't need advanced builds. It tells you what most users prioritized for their artifacts.
Other than that, just level talents and character level.
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I hate this man with every fiber of my being. I lose EVERY 50/50 and always to him. If I could delete one character from this game…
No. 326915
>>326892I hate his gameplay too, too clunky, but like him in fanart kek
I hope I don't see his face in my wishes.
>Inb4 I lose to him in Wriothesly's banner No. 327431
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>>327428Came here to complain too kek they really made us think we'll get interesting interactions between characters with very different personalities then it turned out to be an npc story again.
It wasn't even a cute love story, I didn't need the mental image of that old faggot kissing a young girl or a water monster. I was waiting for Hu Tao to join in and have a big ending to the story at the end, but it just ended abruptly. The actually poem related parts were good but the last part just wasn't it. I hope we learn what happened to Chongyun the way we learned Diona's condition. It's like the writers are allergic to letting the characters progress, all the characters still act the same they always were, we just learn details about shit we already knew. I know Mika will again be a scaredy cat with social anxiety next event he appears in. No wonder the few that learn and grow through the story are a million times more popular than all the others.
No. 327483
What do you think of Wrio's trailer? I like his character but to me it was meh. Not very interesting. And that's probably because they spent a lot of time on his design it seems but not a lot on his personality. I wish they'd make him a bit more interesting, imo with his design they had lot to work with. I think if they built on his past of being a criminal and repenting a bit more it would be better. Maybe it'll be in his story but so far he seems kinda mild. Or they should have built his relationship with Neuvi more, character interactions are what makes us understand the character more.
Also I'm almost always liking the characters songs from the version trailers more than their extended versions.
>>327431I wish they'd stop with using the generic boring npcs so much.
No. 327493
>>327431What killed me was the abrupt ending, aside from the weird… bestiality? I don't know what to make of that kek.
Many many decisions made me go "huh?!" Several times like Zhongli popping for no reason, Xiao popping for no reason and was this the shortest event dialogue-wise? I remember Mondstadt's Collei and Sucrose's one, it had alot of dialogue and I liked learning more about characters, why is this one so short and weird?
One postive thing is the illustrated movie thing, I like the style.
>>327483I feel the same way, hope his story and profile make him more interesting.
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>>327431The event was kinda mid for being an anniversary event. I liked better the first and second anniversary events, this one is just boring.
>It's like the writers are allergic to letting the characters progress.Since the second Golden Archipelago event, I have noticed mihoyo is listening to the casual players screeching about lore and characters being developed in events. I will never forget 2.8 update, it was one of the best events ever and it gave a lot of depth to Mona, Fischl, Kazuha and Xinyan. I'm glad I was there, kek.
>>327483>What do you think of Wrio's trailer? I like his character but to me it was meh.The trailer was just fanservice for the simps. And I'm grateful for that, kekw.
I love his personality a lot, he is perfect in my eyes. I like that he seems cold and aloof but he is actually playful and sometimes can be a total dumbass. I can wait to play his archon quest and also unlock his voicelines.
No. 327526
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>>327499I just think his personality is a bit meh like you said. It transferred into the trailer. There's not much that makes him unique. But I have hope, some characters like Cyno turn out to be completely different after the archon quest and Alhaitham became more than just “smart” when his relationship to Kaveh was developed more in depth. So I bet Wrio will get more multifaceted too with time.
No. 327542
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So nice seeing a well known trusted chinese leaker talk about this. I remember when a waifu banner (forgot which) and a Hu Tao banner had the exact same numbers on Genshin Lab down to the freaking decimals. No way the exact same amount of people pulled a character. It’s inaccurate data that caps at certain numbers and it famously shows male banners as underperforming.
No. 327547
>>327542hxg_diluc has always been on our side, kek
I barely care about banner revenue anymore tho. Mihoyo is just gonna do whatever the hell they want with the game. They don't have competition, so they don't need to listen to their userbase.
No. 327569
>>327542This guy isn't trusted at all. He gets almost all of his original leaks completely wrong, especially the story ones.
Neuvillette didn't perform terribly badly but to act like it's a major accomplishment to be the best selling banner since 3.5 is kind of stupid (and as far as I can tell, Genshinlab says the same thing anyway). IIrc the only new character who got released between 3.5 and 4.0 was Baizhu who really did sell like total shit, and anyone who wanted Lyney had 3 years to save for him. What else were people going to spend their money on between then and now? The Klee/Eula banner kek?
The sales numbers of specific characters clearly don't matter much to Hoyo anyway, we got a ton of limited husbandos this past year while moids only got Nilou a year ago. They know that flooding regions with a majority of male or female characters works because husbando or waifu collectors need to swipe to get all of them. Neuvillette and Wriothesley will most likely be the last limited male characters for a long while because of this. At least Fontaine has stepped up its female characters and there are some promising ones like Arlecchino to tide us over until the next husbando releases in a thousand years.
No. 327690
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>>327569No? He has a good track record as of late. Almost everything in Sumeru was correct and things he said about lion dance boy turned out to be true when we got the leak flood images
No. 327742
>>327741But out of those 5 times he was wrong he was also correct over 20 times. Of course any leak is stc. I also don't get where you got this:
>Neuvillette didn't perform terribly badly but to act like it's a major accomplishment to be the best selling banner since 3.5 is kind of stupid How do you know Neuvillette didn't perform terribly badly if you don't trust Genshin labs either but at the same time denounce hxg_diluc. So what
is your source? Or are you just speaking out of your ass and pretending it's facts. He sold really fucking well, why is that something you want to downplay?
No. 327745
>>327742He's a reposter, stop whiteknighting so hard for him.
I'm not downplaying how well Neuvillette sold, I'm just saying that his banner didn't sell on the same level as the actual powerhouse banners. Hxg's weird Tiktok hours and Genshinlab are probably about equally unreliable and statistically they tell the exact same story anyway. I don't really understand what the point with being so obsessed with inaccurate sales numbers is, as I said in my first post Hoyoverse won't change the amount of male characters they release based on how much previous ones sold so who cares
No. 327837
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>>327745>I'm just saying that his banner didn't sell on the same level as the actual powerhouse banners. Well this is what I was asking, how do you know this and why state it as a fact?
No. 327862
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>>327853Yeah especially that weapon banner revenue. That is usually counted into banner revenue calculations. Shit is fake as fuck.
No. 327956
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>>327953Congrats nona!
I spent my 250 wishes in one go and I got 1 wrio, 1 jean, 1 wolf gravestone and wrio's bis. All were almost hard pity, lel. Pretty happy anyways, could have been worse! Now I have a guaranteed and I don't know if I should try and go for Baizhu or just wait and save for Shenhe.
Btw I like his playstyle a lot, he is very satisfying and easy to use! I was a little intimidated by his health drain mechanic, but after doing abyss with him I'm starting to learn how it works.
Kind of a shame he struggles running solo. He definetly needs a shield/healer.
No. 327965
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>>327953>>327956I lost my first 50/50 but won the next one for his C1. I haven't decided whether to go for the weapon or not since I already have Wanderer's weapon but never use Wanderer and Tulaytullah's Remembrance is second-best in slot for him. Furina's going to be the perfect support for both him and Neuvillette so I don't want to have to skip her.
>>327960Teams aren't that hard for Wriothesley. You'll probably want another cryo unit and an anemo unit then throw Bennett or a hydro unit in depending on whether whatever you're fighting can be frozen or not.
No. 328000
>>327997Nta but if I have enough crit rate is it best to go with 2 piece Marechaussee 2 piece Blizzard Strayer or stick with 4 Mare pieces? Or any %18 ATK 2 piece instead of BS?
(Just wanna double check before leveling up artifacts)
No. 328050
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>>327994It's not. Lyney needs ridiculously high personal damage because he's designed to not work with a lot of the best supports. With Wriothesley you need to make sure you have a healer at C0 to maintain his bonus damage buff. At C1 you don't need a healer anymore and can do whatever as long as you charged attack when your HP is around 60% and you see the red aura around him.
He's going to work really well with Furina, so you should be able to pull for her instead of Shenhe if you're unsatisfied with his current damage. I'd still run a second cryo for cryo resonance, but that's up to you.
No. 328054
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>>328050>Lyney needs ridiculously high personal damage because he's designed to not work with a lot of the best supportsWhat do you mean? Bennett and Kazuha are both BIS teammates for him and they are the best supports in the game. Xiangling, Venti and Zhongli work really well with him too. He honestly has a lot of options for being shackled to mono pyro.
No. 328055
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>>328054He doesn't work with Xingqiu, Fischl, or Yelan, widely considered some of the best supports in the game. Discouraging reactions with him means he needs really high damage himself to compete or he'd be trash compared to Hu Tao, who Vapes. He works with Bennett and Xiangling and Kazuha but a lot of other units want them too.
I'm not saying he's bad, he's not bad by any means because they gave him the insane damage buffs he needed to compete, he's just inflexible compared to a unit like Childe or Raiden (who want all the same teammates as Lyney).
No. 328065
>>327741>alhaitham isnt dendro keqing but ayakaHe is right lol. Calling alhaitham "keqing" is a casual dogwhistle. The only thing they have in common are animations.
>>327547>mihoyo is just gonna do whatever the hell they want with the game. they don't have competition, so they don't need to listen to their userbaseLmao
No. 328096
>>328062NTA but I think lore events are still really good, but I wished they would return or could be unlocked by newer players. The fact is I really just don't give a fuck about npcs.
>>328069I heard Mika is good with him, he heals and increases attack speed. Also gives cryo renosance. Ofcourse the physical buff is useless but still
No. 328218
>>328054This pic is beautiful. I love this melodramatic Fatui thing fans wanted but never really got. The closest thing is in first AQ.
>>328077Iirc leakers said Furina's healing is worse than the average healer so maybe Wrio can use her with her many buffs.
No. 328299
>>328218>I love this melodramatic Fatui thing fans wanted but never really got.I’m so curious, what do you mean by this? I felt like the Lyney Lynette situation fits that vibe
>Furina's healing is worse than the average healer Yeah and she is best in teams with a healer. Fontaine seems to be going for the two healing units in one team kind of set up
No. 328402
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>>328376Look up "The Chalk Prince and the Dragon" and "Shadows Amidst Snowstorms" on Youtube. There's a lot of important stuff that took place in Dragonspine, they really flesh Albedo out. It's a real travesty that they and Unreconciled Stars aren't permanent story events.
No. 328413
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>>328065>>328410Even as someone who kind of regretted pulling for Alhaitham because I don't really like his playstyle and how he's shackled to Kuki I still don't think he's Dendro Keqing. Play Keqing after Alhaitham and you'll be amazed at how awful and clunky she feels to play. Plus she deals so little damage compared to him it's laughable.
No. 328662
>>328645he's been as popular as astolfo with them for a long time now. that anon is coping hard, they should go back to /vg/ to post their unspoilered straight shota POV art where girl boobs take up a third of the screen. men would appreciate it more than we would.
>>328527the only woman I've seen simp for venti was the one who drew all that gross venlisa oneeshota that moids love. one moid got banned for spamming that here.
No. 328709
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>>328613That picture is pretty close to how she looks in-game.
Anyway, Venti is one of the cutest and lewdest guys in the game and I'd love a romp in the hay with him.
No. 328802
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>>328709Based and same. Next thing you know the twitterfags here will tell you that only moids want to fuck Scara since he has a sizeable tranny fanbase too. The absolute state of nu lolcor, nothing but troons and moids on the mind.
No. 328980
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>>328921It’s more like
>anon posts innocuous on-topic post>”Y-YOU CANT LIKE THAT BECAUSE TRANNIES LIKE HIM TOO WAAAA WHERE’S MY HUGBOX”>random moid accusations because you cant come up with a real argument that doesnt make you sound like a trad retard Typical moves from someone who found lc in the last few years and thinks she can create some purist radfem hivemind here. Try not being so terminally online. Women can like sexually suggestive art too.
Anyway to get back on topic I cant wait to build my Venti & Wrio to hear their cute fighting and climbing grunts.
No. 328996
>>328980I don't care about women liking shotas and Venti. That art was very obviously moidy and ugly.
>Try not being so terminally onlineWe're both on lolcow retardchama. Pot calling the kettle black
No. 329119
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>>328983The artist @nz__g, she's great
No. 329303
>>328402It's just a shame that they've struggled to find a midpoint between the critical lore dumps that get lost forever like the dragonspine events and no character development in quests at all.
>>329295Just make two separate teams? They're both meant to be the primary character on-field and don't really work with any other play style. They do both like some of the same supports though, so if you really wanted to you could pair them with any two of Bennet/Kazuha/Zhongli.
No. 329306
>>328635The image is now gone but the artist literally made her breast 2x as big
>>328613I know how she looks in game, i choose her as the mc. I don't mind if you post sexual fan art, it was just a comment about how a lot of people just change Lumine her appearance to be more sexual.
>>329295Are you asking if you can put Xiao and Lyney on the team? They are both on field characters so that would not be optimal, but if you only care about overworld you could just keep swapping dpses I guess. For Xiao you want to use a healer and/or shielder. Like
>>329303 mentioned you can use Zhongli and Bennet for shielding and healing.
No. 329499
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New official art from Genshin's Japanese twitter account to celebrate 3.4 million followers
https://x.com/Genshin_7/status/1716394039417684352 No. 330053
>>329499So cute. Although it’s so interesting how incredibly irrelevant Inazuma and sumeru characters feel.
At least with Fontaine, Neuvillette and the Arlecchino plot line with Furina makes it feel like the characters are important to the game’s overall story. Especially with Childe being involved in the story too. It really feels like the game is finally moving forward and we’re taking the steps to understand Celestia/Abyss/Archon powers more. I didn’t feel like that at all with Sumeru characters. Even the Scaramouche and Nahida irminsul tree thing didn’t feel like it told us something groundbreakingly new.
No. 330090
>>330053Liyue was also completely irrelevant though. We just went on a shopping trip and then there was a very badly written climax, only for Zhongli to tell us he can't say anything about the archon war because muh contract.
The only nation that has future lore relevancy to Celestia is Mondstadt. Sumeru didn't give us many lore bombs in the main archon quest, but Khaenri'ah is below it and the interlude was pretty good.
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>>330572>>330653God I hope this time travel plot is not what the writers go with. Superfluous time travel always makes a plot 1000% worse. The writers always fail to think things through and create endless contradictions and everything falls apart with the least bit of scrutiny.
What I immediately thought is that the Traveler's sibling died/was killed and the one we see is a clone made by Rhinedottir. We already know Albedo is made up of the same substance as the Traveler, hinting that he was only able to be made because of the Traveler somehow. We also know that Rhinedottir made a lot more than just Albedo (Durin, Elynas, Dorian, the Riftwolves). If the "sibling" is a clone it would make sense why they're recorded in Irminsul, they were made in Khaenri'ah. It would also make them being the Prince/Princess of Khaenri'ah make sense if they were a symbol of Khaenri'ah's greatest fuck you to the gods, creating life itself.
It's probably a retarded thought too but god I just can't stand time travel plots.
No. 330832
>>330828IMO, time loop isn't the same as time traveling though. Taking into regard Scaramouche's old statement of "the sky being fake" I would guess that the current events in Teyvat are happening inside a simulation and the abyss twin is looking for a way to end it in order to escape, and maybe that's also what the Tsaritsa is attempting to do seeing how the Fatui made the Sumeru Academiya conduct that controlled Samsara experiment. As for the possible reason as to why the sibling has been recorded in Irminsul, there have been speculations how when a person dies in Teyvat they get absorbed into Irminsul before being reborn (like what happened to Rukkhadevata), which would indicate towards the sibling dying in the past.
>>330782>Evil Killmankek
No. 331081
>>327431I just finished the event. It ended so awkwardly. I thought there would be at least a grand ending to the poem event like maybe Venti and Hu Tao giving an ending/goodbye poem but we got nothing. I sorta don't mind the mini npc love story line because they did set up the story a long time ago. The only part I find truly enjoyable is the Traveler and Xiao interaction.
On another note, does any know when Lyney banner reruns again? I missed out in getting him on his first banner. Forever sad I didn't get him on his first run.
No. 331364
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They finally sent out the welkin and mora rewards from that Memories: Teyvat event on Hoyolab a few weeks back. Check your in-game mailboxes. Can't believe I actually won something for once.
No. 331370
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>>331368They're doing it to force waifu collectors to whale if they want them all. Seems it worked well enough with the husbando collectors for them to be going this path but now for waifus.
Also Sigewinne isn't confirmed, the guy who leaked that has a history of faking leaks in his streams to stop people from taking credit for his leaks.
As for a credible leak, we have concept art for a new area releasing in 4.6. So we're getting expansions in 4.2, 4.4, and 4.6.
No. 331425
>>330917>Don't forget the tidbits where Gold pulled souls out of the Abyss and slapped them into her creations.Gold sounds terrifying and I've had bad vibes about her since that one Albedo event with her "failed" creations.
>>331370I'm so ashamed. I might actually whale for Wrio.
No. 331604
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>>331423Real. I know moids would seethe if Murata, whatever Furina is, and Bronya were turned into manly ass dudes, but little boys are as dimorphic as adult men, so they lost nothing by genderbending Theresa. What does the game have against little boys anyway?
No. 331681
>>331604They're lazy and don't want to make a young male model. They've shot themselves in the foot though, they have to have it ready for Pulcinella. Still two years away but the clock's ticking, Hoyoverse.
>b-but grandpa won't be playable-He's in the Travail trailer, it's almost guaranteed he'll be playable.
No. 331682
>>331668If you log in and immediately log out you will still have the mail when you log in next. If you claim the mail you'll have it forever in the heart mail icon. If you know it's someone's birthday you could log in and out real quick next time.
>>331681>it's almost guaranteed he'll be playableIs it? Who's gonna pull for him? By then meta will be even more saturated so I don't think he'll be desirable even with a meta kit.
No. 331686
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>>331425It’s what Fontaine’s story line is hinting too with jakob, caterpillar etc. I think it’s just hints leading up to Arlecchino’s backstory reveal.
No. 331690
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>>331682I would. I genuinely think his design is neat and badass grandpa isn't a character type we have yet (actual grandpa, not Zhongli). Even better if he's a support that can remove the need for one of the generic waifus on a team.
No. 331711
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>>331690I would seethe so hard if they made an ugly ass gnome playable cause you know they wouldn’t make an ugly female character. Husbando pullers getting one less husbando because of this deformed grandpa
No. 331731
>>331364Omg i also won a welkin! I'm so glad, i posted a comment but did not excpect to actually win something. Im happy that they gave the rewards to random comments, because my comment was like only 2 sentences kek
>>331719I think Nahida is cute, she's not comparable to the deformed grandpa. I agree with the other anon. I don't want any ugly male characters unless we get an ugly female one.
No. 331760
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>>331734>coomer memes about him being the only small male surrounded by a dozen lolisFuck anon, this will totally happen if he gets an in-game design that looks like his 2D art. Nightmare fuel
No. 332018
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>>331993Yes. Why else would you spend money on a character
No. 332025
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>she thinks we would still be playing without the cute anime boys
No. 332043
>>331993For me, no it's not the only metric, but it is a baseline requirement that they at least be cute or sexy. I want to like how the characters on my screen look. I wish for characters of all body types, male or female. They also need to be either fun to play or enhance the playstyle of one of my favorites.
For the vast majority of gacha players, it is expected that the characters you are able to obtain will be pleasant on the eyes in one way or another.
No. 332301
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Well the trailer got leaked and we can see Skirk. She looks like a Honkai character, so dissapointing.
No. 332302
File: 1698955449539.jpg (Spoiler Image,382.5 KB, 2036x2048, skirkconcept.jpg)
>>332301As a reminder this was her leaked concept art
No. 332318
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>>332301Been waiting since 1.1 for this shit. I know it's so retarded of me but I was imagining her like picrel. This happened with another character before, I can't take even Childe seriously now that I know his ass got taught fighting by a naked woman with the arm thickness of a toothpick. I wasn't expecting a buff woman model but at least the clothes could be used to give the weathered fighter vibe. I was hoping she would be an npc with a unique model just so she could be older too.
No. 332437
>>332301What the fuck? This is just Jingliu. It's literally a redrawn Honkai character. They even share the same character writing being a warrior mentor. This isn't even an expy anymore, it's just the same fucking character. Embarrassing. They went with the most unimaginative boring design, if they really had to have Skirk look like a young pretty girl the leftmost one in this
>>332302 would've been the best option for someone who dwells in the Abyss. Fuck Mihoyo, what an enormous disappointment. They should keep the AI-generated garbage in Star Rail where it belongs.
>>332318>I can't take even Childe seriously now that I know his ass got taught fighting by a naked woman with the arm thickness of a toothpick. This, holy shit. What are you doing, Childe. I didn't expect Skirk to be an old lady because Mihoyo would rather explode than include a female character over 25 but I did expect her to look like a warrior that lived in a dark realm.
No. 332473
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>>332301>https://twitter.com/Genshin_7/status/1720414468809920595It's official. How disappointing. There's a reason I don't play Honkai and it's primarily because I hate the "aesthetic".
No. 332502
>>332483I was disappointed when my favourite seiyuu voiced token waifu Ayaka only to realise I was lucky she got one of the few non coomer female characters genshin would ever release after 2.0
>>332477Thanks nonna! I didn't even realise they had the livestream kek
No. 332507
>>332483You know she’s going to be playable. She’s got the token hair split.
>>332302They had one chance to give us a otherworldly design and failed us again.
No. 332510
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>>332301Holy fucking shit who the fuck is this disgusting tranny mihoyo I fucking hate you so much
Who the fuck is this bitch?
Just the mere idea of this retarded slut pixelating on the same servers as genshin irritates me to no end. The honkai-fication of the game begins in line with more lore reveals. And it sucks because the lore is the only thing i really love about this game
Sorry for the autistic meltdown anons
No. 332691
>>332477>17 hours agoFor a game so casual their codes surely expire way too fast.
Fuck mihoyo, such a bunch of greedy faggots.
No. 332745
File: 1699107002051.jpg (Spoiler Image,41.77 KB, 383x500, 1698955449539.jpg)
>>332302Youre telling me we could have gotton this but didnt?
Men never fall to baffle me with their retarded tastes
No. 332779
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>>332437>This is just JingliuI don't see the resemblance personally. However, she does look an awful like another honkai character, Benares.
No. 332921
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This part just looks ridiculous
No. 333308
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Yeah if anyone had told me Skirk was gonna be this naked years ago I wouldn't even have played the game kek
No. 333315
>>333308Hideous. She looks like a 10-year old with huge tits.
This is who mentored Childe and lives in the abyss?
No. 333359
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No. 333361
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No. 333362
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No. 333363
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No. 333364
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>>333361Honkai character again. Mihoyo is creatively bankrupt
No. 333366
File: 1699270455623.png (2.25 MB, 1080x2160, Furina_Card.png)
>>333363They changed her design? Or is it another one of those "alternate outfits" like Jean and Amber had?
No. 333371
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>>333359Navia is so beautiful. Wonder if she'll end up using that umbrella to shoot something.
>>333360>She has a male master/mentor herself and her relationship with him is pretty much 98% of her personality:Seriously? This is the best they could come up with? Isn't she supposed to be based off mythical Scáthach? Between Arlecchino seeming to get the shaft for doing anything notable the archon quest despite being Harbinger rank #4 and Skirk being written like that, that's a pretty big let down for me.
No. 333380
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>>333378For once that makes me sad. We have a handful of characters like Gold, Alice, Skirk that we have heard about since the very start of the game. For such a big character to be watered down into being a nobody, it makes the story so unimpactful. At this point we only have Dain that has been hyped up since the start and actually seems to live up to his hype in the story each year.
No. 333394
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Don’t know if anyone posted this yet but here are the 4.2 banners
First half:
Furina, Beidou, Collei, Charlotte
Baizhu Beidou Collei, Charlotte
Second half:
Cyno
Ayato
Leaks say: Xiangling, Kirara, Kuki
No. 333413
>>333361Pom-pom looking ass
>>333363I like her overall design, but those shorts look super uncomfortable
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has anyone finished the new quest yet? does wrio appear in it?
i got furina as i wasn't able to get wriothesley, she's pretty fun to play and i like her design, just wish she wore pants or ouji shorts instead of booty shorts
random unrelated question: what was your first screenshot of the game? i just found out that my screenshot folder wasn't gone after having deleted the game a bunch of times, and apparently this was the first picture i took when i downloaded it in 2020 lol
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>>334031This is my oldest screenshot kek
No. 334053
>>334031>WrioHe shows up a bit at the beginning and a bit at the end.
Wasn't intending to but I just blitzed the whole thing, mixed feelings.
I really like Neuvi but once again a character with too much responsibility to be a husbando. Can we get a cool tall male bounty hunter or member of the Adventurer's Guild or something. Someone who could conceivably come along on the MC's adventures.
And then they give Furina a tragic? backstory, but it's too late, she will always be an annoying brat to me.
And Skirk… It's not her design that makes her annoying to me, but it is funny that I'm pretty sure she's the short female model. Have we ever heard about her master before? And those other names she mentioned that weren't Gold?
And annoying that they just bring up Childe's backstory like you should know it even though it only comes up in game if you rolled for him and leveled up his bond to get the story.
Don't really know what to think about all the reveals about the real Focalors and the people of Fontaine's true origin's and how easily everything seemed to wrap up at the end.
Salty that they killed off Navia's assistant's and I feel like part of it is just so the only one she has left is Chlorinde to push that ship…I guess it was a little boring, but not terrible?
When is Natlan probably then, Spring?
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I'm disappointed Arlecchino didn't do much on screen. It makes sense that most of her involvement was her help off screen since she was never really portrayed as an enemy in this region but now that we're done with the story I feel like all my excitement for her since the Winter Night video was for nothing? She just showed she cares about Fontaine, what about her goals as a Harbinger? Is she even going to be playable during Fontaine? Involving the Fatui too much would complicate things unnecessarily but I wish we got to see her more since her eventual personal story won't be about her. I was already guessing the main story would end in this update and I think they did really well with Furina's backstory (didn't play her character story yet) but dropping info that there are beings residing in Teyvat that can keep a galactic whale that terrorized a nation as a pet and not explaining anything felt so abrupt. It's not even similar to the dragon pets we saw before, this one is from out of Teyvat and all. Then there's Skirk who's been training all her life…. to fight what? More than anything I don't want this to be connected to fucking Honkai bubble universe bullshit. Guess we'll see in the next Dain quest.
No. 334186
Archon quest spoilers:
I liked it. The biggest lore bomb for me was finding out that the gnosis are related to the third descender and their death, what do you nonnies think that means?>>334149I love her too! For the first time I actually want to roll for a female character, her design is so cute.
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Once again the summer event proved to be about the Archon quest.
No. 334305
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>>334301too bad troons relate to her. I think Furina is cute but I wish she grew up and matured a bit. I think it would be cool if she took up theatre and put together a troupe.
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>>334184yes I'd love to see some pictures of the venue! also if there's any new alhaitham merch or art in the pop-up store, if you don't mind. hope you have fun and enjoy the concert. i've seen some videos from other venues and it looks like a lovely time.
>>334315trannies love characters they can pretend are as useless and retarded as they are. "oh she's unemployed, eats macaroni all week and floods her apartment, she's just like me frfr!!! she's flat as a board just like me! girlfailure!" ignoring the fact that they look nothing like an anime girl does and that they'd never have the mental fortitude and social skills necessary to pull off what she did for 500 years.
>>334316she has shades like melus and silver do. i like them and they made me laugh, even if they're kind of cringe.
No. 334331
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>>334301She has always been a woobie ever since 4.0
No. 334335
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>>334315It’s because
Focalors kills herself No. 334336
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>>334301God I'm never going back to twitter if I have to see trannies pretend to relate to female characters. If anything, Furina's story relates to gender for being similar to how women have to act like a personality that will sit right with what's expected of our position/womanhood to get everyone's approval and constantly be overwhelmed by other people's opinions on us because their opinions and words will have crucial effects on our lives unlike men who get forgiven no matter what they do even in front of the law. Her begging people to remember how much she does for them and how they loved and were entertained by her just moments ago feels like women begging for people to be sensible while they try to ruin women's lives and careers over the smallest mistakes or even misunderstandings. I don't actually think it's a commentary on sexism or anything but if it has to relate to gender, it would've been this instead of whatever trannies think they see in her.
No. 334350
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>>334301>>334315Men see small cute woman and want to be her, what else is new. They see her being a "girlfailure"
as if pretending to be god for 500 years is anything but a losing game and think they too should be allowed to eat macaroni and cake all day and contribute nothing to society.
I think it's unintentional too but
>>334336 is some pretty good analysis. But troons are incapable of analysis because everything has to be about them and their egos.
tl;dr never listen to troons and ignore them, they feed off of attention and starving them of it is the best way to make them mad.
No. 334516
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I don't play Genshin but are there really any "implied" ships in the game? Lately, I see a lot of shipperfags claim that Focallette/Neuvifuri is canon. Can any lorenerd tell me if this is true, and if yes then what are the other almost canon ships?
No. 334519
>>334516In case this isn't bait, no Neuvilette/Furina isn't really even implied.
I'd say the most implied ships are Beidou/Ningguang, Alhaitham/Kaveh and maybe Raiden/Yae. But it's all very vague, the actual shipping is done by the fandom in fics and fanart. No canon pairs or ships in genshin unless it's some npc with another npc.
Not sure why you'd need to know if you don't even play genshin.
No. 334521
>>334516There are no canon ships, this is a martketing strategy because players self insert as the mc and they dont want to have there waifu/husbando be in a relationship with anyone else.
Like
>>334519 said, I believe the most they have implied was the flirting with Beidou and Ningguang during the lantern rite event.
>>334520I don't think it's bait, if you are not a twitterfag and infight about ships a question like this is not big deal.
No. 334530
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>>334519>>334521Thank nonas, that makes sense. I too had the impression that there cannot be any canon ships with playable characters as that would anger self-inserters.
I occasionally lurk on /gig/ and twitter and I was seeing many posts claiming them to be canon, so I had been thinking if there's any truth to it. I am not much into shipping so I really didn't post that in hopes that it will start an infight.
No. 334594
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>>334516>>334530As anons said, only Beidou and Ningguang and maybe Kaveh and Alhaitham and even then there has to be plausible deniability because anti-gay laws in China. There's flirtatious interactions between some characters but nothing confirming they're official couples or anything and almost every character flirts with the Traveler too to appeal to self-inserters.
No. 334823
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I’ll post what I can during the intermission, this one’s for the Tartaglia wives
No. 334825
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Ganyu looked nice too
No. 334849
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Zhongli and Eula is next
No. 334852
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I’m sorry for the shadow in the front, sadly there was a lot of people infront of her.
>>334317Sadly no Alhaitham stuff but there’s a pop up store in Gangnam right now, I’ll see if there’s goods there too. Ganyu and Nilou are the promo chars
No. 334870
>>334852Thank you for posting the pictures, I hope you have fun!
They all look so nice, everytime they use genshin characters with different outfits in promo art I wonder why hoyo doesn't release more skins. I guess it's because they are making so much money releasing new characters, they don't even need to bother with releasing more skins?
No. 334930
>>334870Most gacha games have multiple new outfits every update. It's harder to implement skins in Genshin but I believe they could dedicate some part of their design and 3d teams to put out a skin every patch or 2 skins every other patch if they want to keep up the 2 on theme thing.
>>334873You won't get it if you don't like it anyway.
No. 335298
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Nilou from the pop-up Samsung store in Gangnam. Saged because not that interesting but the outfit was cute. Also no Alhaitham goods sorry to the nonnie who asked, however there is Dainsleif merch which I thought was interesting lol
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>>335313On the topic of skins, it would be nice if they just gave them the same designs they have in promos, honestly the promo designs tend to be loads better than the alternate skins we have now. Imo most of the available skins are kinda ugly/not better than the original maybe except Ayaka and Fischl. If I could have this skin on Yelan or Ning I'd use them more.
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Finished the Narcissenkreuz quest.
>All dreams must come to an end
>If you don't act your dreams will never come true
gdi I play this game because I dream and my dreams can never come true in the real world no matter how much I act.
Hate when video games remind me of that shit…
something about this line though
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This was a wierd quest too, still have to finish the follow up hidden thing.
gamer girl Traveler bath water…
No. 335549
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I like the takarazuka theatre influence in fountaine. Both furina and arlecchino wear androgynous fashion (FOR GENSHIN STANDARDS don't come at me that they're still feminine-looking). I also noticed that furina's legs are skinnier/more shapeless than the other short girls who tend to look "curvier". She doesn't give much to coomers (besides the tomboy enjoyers), even her chest is ultra-flat and she speaks in a boyish manner. In japanese she sounds like venti. And arlecchino is rather handsome, even if her body underneath the suit is still very curvy with big boobs. I remember some angry chinese moids were claiming she sounds like a drag queen lol. For me at least, she gives the vibes that she's genuinely gay and for a female audience, unlike yae and raiden who pander more to straight male yurifags.
No. 335706
>>335549She definitely gives yume vibes. I'm not even a shipperfag but this here is some intense bait. And the fact that hoyoverse commissioned it knowing they were feeding the delusion KEK.
I love how Fontaine is just pandering to women, scrotes wanted lyney to be another pornified femboy but he turned out to be another character for the girls.
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>>335549i noticed that too! it's funny to me because i started playing genshin thinking venti was a cute tomboy lol
i hope to see more female characters like that, and more male characters like wriothesley, unapologetic female gazey
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>>335706>intense baitWhich one are you
No. 335730
>>335706As a yume she's too bratty and woobyish to self-insert into and Neuvi deserves better.
Anyway just realized that the weird lines in the investigation notes that made me think Fontain had homunculi was just more references to the abyss and foreshadowing of all Fontaine people actually being
Oceanids.
And Lynette and Freminet ended up just traumatized children not actually robots.
No. 335746
>>335726NTA and I don't like the ship either because they have a very familial relationship to me but honestly who cares if women wanna ship them? Furina is the character Neuvillette interacts the most with by far, and Wriothesley felt very shoehorned in as the other half of the regional yaoi ship so it's not really a surprise that Focallette has become a popular ship.
It only disgusts me if there are obvious pedo undertones and Furina is reduced to being a DDLG brat while Neuvillette is her daddy tardwrangler, but Act V showed that she is actually a lot more mature than she came across at first so… Whatever. I really couldn't give less of a fuck if 15 year old girls wanna self insert into Furina to live out their yume fantasies with Neuvillette.
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I cringed hard when I watched how Focalors sounded in English dub. I played in JP and she sounded just a bit more calm than Furina, in EN she sounded like she's trying to be Jessica Rabbit or something kek, hope you get what I mean. I get why EN players think she was flirting with Neuvi when the voice actress tried so hard to sound sultry. Wonder if in CN and KR she also sounds so cringe.
No. 336000
>>335756I'm just going to come out and say it, I absolutely despise Mihoyo for woobifying Focalors/Furina beyond repair. I hate what they did so, so much. I wanted her to be a cunning, pompous brat but in the end she got the Ei treatment and suddenly she's a kind, composed waifu deep down who just wanted to protect everyone and sacrificed herself for centuries boo hoo don't you feel bad for the little blorbo shame on you for thinking she was just being mean. It came out of nowhere during the last act while Furina had barely been present for the entire storyline doing nothing while Neuvillette was the actual hero of the archon quest for its entire length. I wanted one fucking female character that was a bitch born out of a trash fire but in a way that's interesting, got hyped for Furina, had Mihoyo shit in my face, ruin everything in just one act. The self-sacrificing storyline was done so well with Nahida/Rukkhadevata, it's like some writer at Mihoyo saw that and wanted to copy it but remove everything that made her complex, intelligent and humane. It's seriously no wonder so many emotionally unstable young women self insert into her so much, she's framed as a troubled quirky girl sitting around eating cake and crying but achsually she's a super powerful god who saved an entire nation offscreen. I'm so fucking mad because the most interesting parts of the archon quest turned out to be Childe's connections to Skirk and her master, Gold, the dragon sovereigns and Egeria's sin yet they were barely touched upon just so we could feel bad for a character that appeared at the last minute to drop the most generic, forced tearjerker cutscene that made me feel NOTHING. Just like in Inazuma, Fontaine's world quests have a way better payoff than the archon quest.
Phew, got that autism out of my system. Thank god.
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>>336004Furina is literally just a human, and she wasn't even aware of the entirety of Foçalor's plan, so the only thing that she knew was that she had a burden of knowledge that that plan would fail if she ever let even one person in Teyvat know that she's not a real archon, despite everything she did her best to suppress her more humane side which is obvious even from the first court hearing with Lyney, so I don't know why you think that that came out of nowhere. She wasn't an archon but she still did everything for her people only to be discarded by them and not even being in epilogue, how tf is this comparable to Ei who was just sitting in her shitty doll for hundreds of years and let corrupt commissions do whatever with her country and people as long as it didn't mess with "eternity" which she herself confessed she didn't know shit about. Look, I understand that hoyoverse's writing for female characters is fucked, but the latest regions are actually improving on this and if they manage to make Tsaritsa a sleepy hardworking waifu somehow I will personally send them a pipe bomb. We still have Natlan in the future with a literal goddess of war, so maybe she will satisfy your want for psycho female characters (I don't judge, I am personally very satisfied with Arlecchino)
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She is so girlfriend, anons
I love her so much
No. 337135
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>>337123No 5 star husbando banners. Save for the reruns coming in 2024!
No. 337216
>>337211ooh questionnaire time!
>Out of the current Fontaine characters, who has been your favorite in terms of gameplay?I don't really do abyss or care much about meta in general, but I really like the fact that E character skills can be utilised to solve pneuma and ousia puzzles in overworld, idk it's just more satisfying than going to those orbs. The traveler's hydro kit is shit though, even I can tell
>Which Fontaine characters have you pulled?I'm f2p newfag, so I don't have much: pulled for Lyney - didn't get him, pulled for Neuvilette - got him, didn't pull for Wriotheseley, wanted Venti - lost 50/50 to Mona, currently pulling for Baizhu, I like Furina, but I want to get her on the rerun. Out of 4 stars I got Lynette and Freminet, they are cute
>Are you planning on pulling Navia, Clorinde or Arlecchino?I pull for everything, because I actually don't care that much. Navia's banner is alongside Ayaka's and tbh I kinda hate Ayaka, so I'll be pulling for Navia. I like Clorinde even though I know that her design could be better, I hope her kit is good. And Arlecchino is simply a wife material for me, I've been daydreaming about her for an embarrassing amount of time to that Pugacheva remix from atomic heart
No. 337217
>>337216>I don't really do abyss or care much about metaI get that! I rarely pull with abyss in mind. If you don't think about meta and since you have Neuvillette, Lynette and Fremmy, which character's playstyle did you like the most?
>I've been daydreaming about her for an embarrassing amount of time to that Pugacheva remix from atomic heartKek anon that's cute
No. 337219
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>>337211>Out of the current Fontaine characters, who has been your favorite in terms of gameplay? Wriothesley. Neuvillette's laser is unique and it's funny seeing enemies just melt in it but Wriothesley feels so satisfying to play. Good animations, good damage, perfect voice acting.
>Which Fontaine characters have you pulled?Neuvillette, Wriothesley, and Furina.
>Are you planning on pulling Navia, Clorinde or Arlecchino? Navia on rerun maybe because I like her character, Arlecchino 100%. Hard no on Clorinde. Maybe Cloud Retainer but she'd have to have a broken kit for me to consider it when I already have C6 Kazuha.
No. 337223
>>337217I guess I like Freminet's playstyle the most, usually I'm not too much into claymore gameplay, because not all of my teams have shielders and dodging with giant ass sword is a challenge, but I use Neuvilette as a hydro applicator and then freeze everyone with Freminet and have a good time seeing him on-field
Thanks for keeping this thread alive,
nonnie! There's not so much places on the internet where talking about genshin is actually enjoyable
No. 337226
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Should I build a phys Freminet with prototype archaic or would he be better with cryo reactions? I still regularly use kaeya for freeze/melt but I kinda want to replace him with Fremi in my main overworld team (because I'm really into freminet these days), but I also feel like the slow ass claymore attacks wont harmonize as well as Kaeya does with my xingqiu, benny and lyney
I'm kinda just guessing and talking out of my ass here since I'm still new to building but yeah, not sure what to do
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And another Freminet pic because I was going through my folder and he is just so adorable
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>>337226I think Freminet's best team is a hyperbloom team or a team with Xinqiu, Electro (Kuki/Fischl), Kazuha or Rosaria/Kaeya or Mika. Keep him cryo, physical is dead in this game kek. Pretty much focus on off-field hydro, electro unit and then either a cryo buffer/off-field cryo/cryo healer.
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>>337365>I feel like she was designed with something different in mind, like a navy captain or a court lady.Yeah the navy vibes with Navia are strong, which is why they went with the giant ship in Poisson I guess
Also on a completely unrelated topic, what happened to Childe nonas?
Skirk threw him into that Dainsleif power-looking portal with the whale. We don’t see him but Arlecchino and the the two Fatui in Mondstadt say he’s badly hurt and is resting in Shneznaya, but is that really true? Also why is Arlecchino the second strongest harbringer she hasn’t done shit kek. Just seems like a competent and kind lady.
No. 337417
>>337410>hasn't done shitIt's all backstory lore only stuff.
She apparently killed the previous Knave.
And killed the people who abused Fremi and Lynette.
No. 337513
>>337425I think it's because they realised people want her playable and tinfoil but they might be wary of making her more edgy like Scaramouche. He ended up being a huge problem with Korean and Chinese people, probably because he's a male character but there's a substantial portion of fandom hating him just because he isn't mild a nice like most other characters. I was really looking forward to playing a villain and she sounds kind of ridiculous in English, her voice actress makes her sound like a cartoon villain while she is just a nice lady now.
I feel like the change was last minute because in the 4.0 trailer she still acted kind of evil.
No. 337539
>>337417Yeah I know that, Freminet said that. I just mean in the archon story, she is just a "cunning diplomatic mastermind" but other than that it’s a bit underwhelming for the second strongest harbringer.
>>337425Exactly, I expected her to be unreasonably cruel but she seems very level-headed and morally righteous.
>>337513The Scara hate is because women found his bad boy attitude cute and formed a huge Scara fandom globally. Dottore doesn’t get that hate by male players (even though he’s crueler than Scara) because Dottore doesn’t have a vocal fangirl fanbase. Scara is still the most liked character on every official Genshin twitter, that ought to bother the male playerbase who insist genshin is a waifu-only game. So Arlecchino could have definitely been portrayed as more cruel, the moids wouldn’t get bothered by that.
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>>337539>>337425She isn't the second strongest, she's the 4th in rank. We have only seen her "good" side in the Fontaine archon quest because that's what she wanted to present herself as. Scara told us exactly what she is, a wolf in sheeps clothing. It wouldn't make sense for her to be on bad terms with Traveller already, they're more useful to her if they think she's friendly.
If you think about who she is and what she does for more than 5 seconds you'd realize that she's actually a terrible person. She grooms children into being hyper loyal child soldiers and doesn't mind sacrificing them like pawns when it suits her.
I don't think she's fully evil like Dottore (who's pretty comic book villainous at times, especially his Webtoon variant. Thank God they gave us a different version of him in the actual game), but even her perceived kindness towards the HoH kids doesn't feel fully genuine because of how ready she is to let them get killed. Keep in mind that she has indoctrinated them to the point that Lyney was ready to sacrifice his siblings for her. She didn't save them from their
abusive circumstances out of kindness, she took them in because traumatized children are more easily manipulated into being loyal servants for their savior.
And she didn't "bully Furina a bit". She straight up attempted to assassinate her.
Fontaine was all about playing a role, and she played the role of the elegant Fatui ally.
No. 337558
>>337547>Keep in mind that she has indoctrinated them to the point that Lyney was ready to sacrifice his siblings for herHe had a mental breakdown and lost his composure entirely attacking Wriothesley when Freminet and Lynette were in perceived mortal danger, what do you mean "ready to sacrifice his siblings"?
>she took them in because traumatized children are more easily manipulated into being loyal servants for their savior.After killing the people who abused them and took the kids under her care. HoH has never been described as "grooming child soldiers", it's just a spy faction for the Fatui, not some boot camp of death because only children who are perceived to have "potential" are chosen to join Fatui ranks anyway. It's just a regular orphanage for the most part.
>And she didn't "bully Furina a bit". She straight up attempted to assassinate her.No she didn't. She literally said that she was testing her to see if she was the real archon or not, not trying to actually kill her.
Look I know you're in these threads whiteknighting the fuck out of Arlecchino because she's your ultimate waifu but people are justified in being disappointed at how milquetoast she turned out to be despite all the foreshadowing done beforehand. Dottore was a sophisticated supervillain and genuinely intimidating in how ruthless and evil he was, Arlecchino wasn't given that edge because Mihoyo would never make a a female character be threatening. Sure this might be just the first half of her story and she could turn out to be a real psycho but so far I'm not holding my breath since Genshin has woobified (or killed unceremoniously) every potential female villain in the entire game since its launch.
No. 337565
>>337211>Out of the current Fontaine characters, who has been your favorite in terms of gameplay? Wrio, but Neuvillette is just too good to not keep using in abyss.
>Which Fontaine characters have you pulled?All the male characters, I will probably try and get Furina on rerun if I think she is a better replacement in some teams where is use XQ instead.
>Are you planning on pulling Navia, Clorinde or Arlecchino? I will probably get Arlecchino if she is an off field character. I really dont need anymore on field characters. Clorinde is really ugly so i will never go for her. I think Navia is pretty, but her character to me is just okay and she is geo.
No. 337570
>>337558NTA but Lyney was having a mental breakdown over Wriothesley just asking him to arrange a meeting between him and Arlecchino. He was breaking down having to make the choice of potentially harming Arlecchino. Arle even berates Lyney later for being so paranoid about her safety and said she wouldn't have minded meeting Wriothesley.
Also Mihoyo not making a woman threatening falls apart when you remember Signora existed. She shouldn't have been killed in Inazuma, plain and simple, but she was given a plenty threatening introduction and role. Arlecchino was playing nice with us to get what she wanted, she'll probably be an antagonist towards us later.
>>337567>everyone hates dottoreCitation needed, lots of people like how unhinged Dottore is.
No. 337593
>>337567I hate Dottore because he choked a woman to death then made it look like she got killed by a rampaging meka.
Not to mention all the horrible human experimentation.
I wouldn't consider him 'morally ambiguous' in the slightest.
No. 337616
>>337558>only children who are perceived to have "potential" are chosen to join Fatui ranks anywayYes, and if they want to leave the organization they have to do crazy shit like fake their own deaths. They don't have a choice whether they want to join or leave, and we have met ex-orphanage NPC Fatui who realized that what they've been forced to do is bad and they didn't want to stay in the ranks anymore but couldn't just resign.
>No she didn't. Yes she did. She said that it was an attempted assassination.
I literally said that Arlecchino isn't a fully evil person, no idea why you think that me pointing out her wolf in sheeps clothing behavior is copium or whiteknighting. The only actually evil person we have met in the game so far is Dottore. Nobody else comes close, not even any of the other Fatui Harbingers. Childe is at this point a chill guy who plays with kids and makes friends more than he does evil things, and Wanderer is the biggest woobie in the entire game. I love him but some of the behavior he exhibited while he was still with the Fatui feels like weird over the top behavior you'd find in a fanfic kek. It is kind of a shame that Dottore is likely going to be the only actually morally black Fatui since Capitano is apparently also a decent guy, but what can you do.
Imo, what we have seen of her is very interesting, and I personally much prefer the subtle approach of Arlecchino over cringe in-your-face obvious villains. It feels like more mature writing compared to Paimon explaining things 500 times and many characters only having one personality trait. Let HYV cook, their writing abilities have been massively improving since Sumeru and I doubt this will be the last and only narrative relevance Arle is going to have. Remember that Scara's appearance in Inazuma was also super short and pretty meaningless even though he's clearly a big writers pet.
No. 337689
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Is it just me or does he look like he has a stick up his ass
No. 337701
>>337690Yep it's like I said, they made him look very cool but he needs a bit more personality. I hope he appears is a few events and we get to see more of him like what happened with Cyno.
>>337689I think this is pretty though!
No. 337908
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I notice that a lot of the archons always have an other “half”. Nahida was part of Rukkadevata, Ei was Makoto’s twin and Furina was Focalors’s human self. Since Venti and Zhongli are their original archon seaters it makes sense they don’t have another “half”. Makes me wonder what will happen because it feels like all the new archons are like the traveler.
No. 337924
>>337922Does her past and present not matter to you? The before of the future you wish they started from? We saw her story and progressed it on screen. By your logic we should only ever get characters after they've completed all their arcs and that's how we get characters with boring personal stories and no true impact on archon stories. If you don't like her because she
no longer has archon powers which she never had and never showed on screen anyway so it never mattered then did you even like her at all?
No. 337995
>>337981Exactly. She didn't even read the points
>>337922 and
>>337929 said that really aren't just baseless Furina hate but about the writing being disappointing and stupid.
No. 338289
>>338286I think all anons can agree that Ei is shit and that Nahida was better written, yet Nahida
does still feel forgettable
No. 338308
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Let’s talk about Natlan! Pic related is a leak about Natlan that Liben will say in an event. He basically says nothing at all? Which is so odd for Liben to not drop hints about Natlan. At the end of the archon quest when we ask about the next nation, nothing we didn’t know already was mentioned. Thoughts about that anons? Why is this all we know about Natlan?
>Natlan has hot springs
>You can take a vacation there as a non-Natlan citizen
>Nation of dragons but not dragon sovereigns like Neuvillette
>Nation of War
>War and conflict between tribes
>Many different tribes
>Murata was or still is the archon
Why is this all we know after so many years? Why is there no Natlan NPC? Theories on what mihoyo is plotting would be a fun discussion!
No. 338315
>>338308We also know about Mare Jivari, an ash-filled field where the wind doesn't blow and people's dreams die.
I like the theory that Bennett is from Natlan and there's a curse on the people of Natlan if they leave, hence why there's no Natlan NPCs anywhere.
We know nothing because the devs probably didn't have anything nailed down except some basics like there will be hot springs and wanting South American and African influences.
No. 338319
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>>338315>there's a curse on the people of Natlan if they leaveTotally forgot about Mare Jivari! And yeah the curse would make sense but Venessa was from Natlan and could leave and end up in Mondstadt.
>We know nothing because the devs probably didn't have anything nailed down except some basics like there will be hot springs and wanting South American and African influences.This would make sense if we were still in Sumeru, but now we’re in Fontaine with a finished archon quest and Natlan being released in summer. Mihoyo has prepared the general story and conflict of the upcoming region every time during this point in the current region. This has to be deliberate.
No. 338399
>>338390Alhaitham works great with Baizhu, XQ/Furina, Kuki. Nahida is not useless but not a must-pull like scrotes shill her.
>>338340I also believe in the vishap thing, it is the only thing that would make sense based on what Neuvillette said. Maybe they can't leave because they'll turn to their vishap form? And other people from Teyvat don't know this vishap thing I assume since nobody mentions it. But the weird thing is why hasn't a single NPC mentioned the lack of Natlanian presence in other nations.
No. 338965
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The missed potential with the longer shorts.
No. 338966
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>>338965Some hairstyles. I like the short hair most.
No. 338967
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>>338966Sorry for the Reddit watermark on this one. This was supposed to be her archon form.
No. 338968
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>Haha, okay, okay… I know you can't wait to see everyone.
>You simply can't rush someone when they're doing their hair. Ah, it's been so long since the last performance… How did I do it last time again?
>Hmm… Something about it just doesn't look right. I know, why don't we ask the Traveler for a hand?
>My dear, kind, exquisitely-feathered friend — do me a favor and call over that blond Honorary Knight standing there in the distance, would you?
No. 338972
>>338968So cute
And of course there's a war in the comments about him not being dark enough kek
No. 338991
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>>338967This looks like the same artist who made the butterfly/fairy Nahida concept art. It's sad that all these really cool concept arts get watered down so much.
No. 339145
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We're getting 800 primogems in the mail total from December 2nd to December 5th. You don't have to log-in that day to get the mail, but you do need to log-in by the time 4.2 ends (December 19th/20th depending on where you are in the world) to claim the mails.
No. 339183
>>338456>We hadn't had an archon as involved as Nahida with the main party since Venti.Sad, but true. Nahida just feels like she truly loves her people even when she was imprisoned and replaced by them.
>>339160ooh, the hype's dying? Is it because of better competition, nonna? I'm genuinely curious and don't keep up with other games.
No. 339214
>>339183>Is it because of better competition, nonna? I'm genuinely curious and don't keep up with other gamesNo not because of that. You can see the hype dying just from these threads, the "big" genshin youtubers barely playing the game anymore and just the fandom in general on twitter/twitter fanartists for example dwindling in numbers. It’s natural for a game to lose some hype after the first few years, especially with a game like Genshin where most players that have left say that the amount of content to catch up with is too much.
On these threads especially I saw a small decline during the later end of Inazuma. Then a surge during Sumeru and a drastic decline in thread activity during the many desert patches. The threads have been slow since then. I do think the desert areas did drive away the returning players. It’s exactly the criticism that the leaving players have conveyed: too big, too much, hard to keep up with the lore dumps, huge world quests etc. All of this mihoyo has addressed with Fontaine with its smaller region size and shorter world quests that explain everything to you. Easier to keep up with. Seems like it’s a bit too late though, genshin isn’t nearly as hyped anymore than its earlier days.
No. 339222
>>339214>Sumeru desertI actually really enjoyed those quests etc.
But really who cares if it's a 'hype' game on twitter/youtube etc. as long as Mihoyo is still getting enough money to run everything and they finish out the story I'm fine with it.
No. 339242
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Vent post, sorry anons.
I haven't opened the game at all in the last three weeks, basically because I don't even know what to do anymore… I already have all of the characters I want built, and the ones I don't don't fit on any teams or have similar kits to the ones I already have built. There are too many charas that have the same kits or need a national team to work.
Artifact farming has taken a toll on me, and chest/primo farming too. My artifact storage is full, cause I'm too lazy to look at each one and see which ones are trash and which ones I should save "for future characters"…
Last month I bought a welkin, but I wasted my money, cause I couldn't bring myself to even log in everyday.
The story is more confusing as the plot advances, and instead of answering questions we already have, they just keep creating more plot points or whatever. The only times we get "answers" are when Dainsleif appears, which is… two times a year.
The events are so stupid lately, full of NPC faggotry instead of showing us interactions between the playable characters. I haven't even touched the 4.2 main event, even though I don't have Freminet.
The anniversary was also a joke. Nothing felt like we were celebrating 3 years of economic success for mihoyo. It was just another normal update. I miss Windtrace, I miss the first Archipelago events, I miss event namecards, I miss lore in events!!
And now, I feel stupid for having wasted so much time on this game. I enjoyed the first two years, but after Sumeru (3.0) everything went downhill in my opinion. I miss
I just don't have any motivation lately. I open the game and I get the urge to close it. It's like when you reach that point on a farming sim where you still haven't gotten all the achievements or whatever, but you are content with your farm and can't bother to keep grinding.
Maybe it's goodbye, who knows.
No. 339256
>>339242Well if you're not enjoying it you're not and you don't have to feel obligated to stay.
I still log in everyday for primos, cause who knows what kind of characters will be released in future areas.
And I'm working through the commission achievements now that they've changed how commission rng works.
The event was ok, and it really doesn't take much time. I'm glad they gave a free Fremi even though I'll never use him.
I'm used to this kind of slow burn story from other games as a service like FGO and Destiny so that doesn't bother me.
No. 339259
>>339242You don't have to regret the time you spent on it, just appreciate the fun you had in the past and accept that it's time to uninstall tbh. You
will regret forcing yourself to continue wasting your time and/or money on a game you know you no longer enjoy in the future.
No. 339264
>>339251Kazuha, Thoma and Scaramouche.
>>339256>I'm used to this kind of slow burn story from other games as a service like FGO and Destiny so that doesn't bother me.Yeah, makes sense, I'm just starting to realize that maybe gacha games are not for me because of this.
>>339259You are right, anon. I had a good time til it lasted, and I guess it's time for me to just move on. Thanks for your words.
No. 339539
>>339484>How frequently do streams happen, every X weeks or once a month? The streams are always announced beforehand by Genshin official accounts. Each Genshin patch is every 6 weeks. The livestreams are usually 2 weeks prior to the next patch, on Fridays or weekends depending on your time zone and if there is a Chinese death/holiday they have to avoid having a livestream on.
>I hear you guys get a yearly lantern event? The lantern rite event occurs close to Chinese new year. It’s a yearly event that has never been skipped. There’s also some events that used to be yearly but aren’t anymore. However, there’s a big chance they’ll come back. We used to have a yearly Dragonspine event with Albedo lore. Then there is the Windblume event in Mondstatdt. Golden Apple Archipelago event is every summer. Check this list and click on the events for more info. There are some events like the Weinlesefest that I believe will be returning someday.
https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Flagship_Event>Whats the usual gap between showing new worlds?Do you mean new nations? We get them after summer each year, around August. Usually this is after the .8 patch. So 2.8, 3.8 etc. Golden apple archipelago event is before that.
No. 339571
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I've been building my Xiangling this week because I need more pyro supports and man, have I been enjoying the ride. It's crazy when you build older characters because it's such a walk in the park to get their materials. Power creep is so real and you don't notice it until you go back to Liyue/Mondstat.
>>339539Didn't they say Fontaine was going to be shorter and have less areas? I'm probably tripping because we'll get dorman port and chenyu village soon.
No. 339622
>>339571imagine getting a genshin tattoo, cow behavior
>Didn't they say Fontaine was going to be shorter and have less areas?Some leakers started that rumor, nothing confirmed
No. 339746
>>339571Initially datamines were only showing up to version 4.6 but now they have 4.7 and 4.8 there. We're going to get Chenyu Vale in 4.4, Remuria in 4.6, and the port is delayed to who knows how long.
>>339484There's a new stream every six weeks coinciding with the release of a new patch. Lantern Rite is essentially the Chinese New Year event and happens every year. There's a summer event every .8 patch. Other than that they've had Windblume in Mondstadt and a summer festival event in Inazuma.
No. 339773
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>>339769kek I'm so sorry anon
No. 340306
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Some silly dialog lately.
I don't really like the gameplay of these fungi events, but it's cute that they game Haniyah a new outfit.
No. 340668
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Did any of you catch this? Furinas designer was getting targeted by incels because she's feminist (=she said she wants to kill moids that chew disgustingly and that creepy men should be purged). They were threatening her life and wanted to doxx her because of this. Hoyo then released a statement saying players shouldn't incite harassment, spread rumors or post personal info but that could also be due to other apparently ongoing issues in the chinese community. I'm glad that they are able to handle it without throwing women under the bus though. It's not like they are outright protecting her but other studios have reacted way worse to similar situations
No. 340674
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>>340673That was Project Moon back in july, I'm still not over what they did. I wish someone would just do something about those wastes of space that can't leave women be and I hope game studios stop listening to them. PM lost like 70% of their playerbase and basically all fanartists quit, so no one talks about the game anymore and they don't get new players but they still double down on it. I can't believe they hate women to this extent, their highest peak in revenue since then is equal to the lowest point before this happened and likely aided by the battle pass resetting in november
No. 340686
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>>340668>Hoyo then released a statement saying players shouldn't incite harassment, spread rumors or post personal info but that could also be due to other apparently ongoing issues in the chinese community.Where did they release this statement? Can you link it?
If you want to try and parse it from a Korean perspective, I ran most of this through DeepL in chunks and it wasn't complete gibberish (though it does seem to keep translating misandry as misogyny).
>https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%9B%90%EC%8B%A0%20%EC%9B%90%ED%99%94%EA%B0%80%20%ED%98%90%EC%98%A4%20%EB%B0%9C%EC%96%B8%20%EC%9D%98%ED%98%B9%20%EB%85%BC%EB%9E%80It really makes me laugh how some guys lost their marbles over these very low-level joke tweets when they, 99% of the time, are jerking it to destructive pornography of women and girls every day and in KOREA of all places, the country where women can't take a peaceful piss in public without worrying about being recorded and posted online. It seems this same artist had a previous "controversy" with fans of Arknights with at least her art getting deleted by the company and an apology message from them
>https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%AA%85%EC%9D%BC%EB%B0%A9%EC%A3%BC%20%EB%82%A8%EC%84%B1%ED%98%90%EC%98%A4%20%EC%9D%BC%EB%9F%AC%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%84%B0%20%EC%B6%95%EC%A0%84%20%EB%B0%B0%EC%A0%9C%20%EB%85%BC%EB%9E%80I can't tell if she got fired by Arknights or if she did a one-off art for them. Like you said, I'm happy Genshin's HR isn't giving her the boot considering how things have gone recently with other similar situations like with Limbus Company.
No. 340696
>>340686Here, the quote adds context saying that there were other ongoing issues in the community as well;
https://x.com/10NIPIMPACT/status/1730604884716884325?s=20That arknights thing is crazy though, I really can't understand that incel mindset. What are they so fucking pressed about, do they actually have no empathy for women who will always have it worse than them
No. 341096
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Lantern Rite leak:
This is Liyue's new kid, he's apparently based on the Lion dance and he's pyro. Don't think there's much else we know besides that
No. 341116
>>341096shonen protagonist lookin ass.
>>340686Furina got one of the best designs and better yet she was designed by a woman.
No. 341122
>>341096>Shenhe and Ganyu skinFuck I wanted a Zhongli skin, also why the hell did they chose to make the skins BLUE AGAIN.
Disappointing that the lion boy doesn't have ears and a tail. I still hope we atleast get a Xingqui skin for free.
No. 341238
>>341096He looks really cute (albeit yeah a bit plain) but I want to fucking murder something when we get TWO 5-star female skins and still that ugly ass Diluc is the only male one we have. Do men even buy aesthetic skins like women do? I thought they only gave a shit about gameplay autism.
>>341101>Anyone knows when the bad boy (Rosaria's boss?) is coming?Probably with the rumored Mondstadt's expansion that should be coming soon enough.
No. 341391
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>>341096Wish they kept the headphones.
No. 341411
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>>341391Imagine choosing generic shounen protag over tiger cutie with a scarf.
No. 341596
>>341556Even Benny looks better than the design they picked imo. Benny has personality with his scarring and skin showing.
I was so hyped for tiger cutie based on Killua now my interest is zero.
No. 341607
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>>341596he was really obviously based on gokotai from touken ranbu even if he wasn't pictured, it looks like new outfit fanart of him
No. 343164
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Looks better than the leaked image imo. Concept is still better tho, but at least he has longer hair, in the leak he was basically ben 10
No. 343166
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>>343165Did you not see the rope squished in the middle of her boobs? Gross
No. 343168
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>>343167We'll see how it looks in game. On the drip art, it isn't as apparent, in all the other art, it looks gross.
No. 343169
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Chiori looks pretty and without any coomery to me.
No. 343172
>>343170>She's literally fully dressedAm I just fucking blind or something, because to me it in the art
>>343168 it looks like her thighs and butt are exposed at the side to show that she is not wearing any panties. And her the top of her cleavage is covered with some thight see through fabric. Like yeah its not as bad as Shenhe, but lets compare her to
>>343164 or Arlecchino who are actually fully covered.
Speaking about
>>343164 so sad to see that he has no cute ears and tails, and again is fully covered. While the female characters are always allowed to show skin at weird places.
>>343169I think she is pretty, i hope she wears cute bloomers or shorts under her skirt. Ayaka her panty shots are always so creepy during her fight animation.
No. 343173
>>343170I hated the rope in her boobs since the first time I saw it in the cutscenes last year. Yeah it looks uncomfortable to look at it for me, kinda icks me out so I'll skip on Cloud Retainer sadly. Makes me cringe, like a wedgie or something.
Yeah it's good she doesn't have exposed armpits and thigh highs though.
No. 343174
>>343164This is a good female design. They should've given this to another female character and made the guy the blonde design.
>>343165I agree that it's beautiful but the fact that it is considered noncoomery just shows how bad the female designs are. It's just an okay level of coomery.
No. 343178
>>343176How is this bait?
>everyone likes arlecchinoYes, but you can't say you like any other girl without one of you being like "she has a few coomer elements so she's moidpaindering trash" like how is that fair? It's not even about being delusional, yes I'm aware that they're pandering to moids first and foremost but that
doesn't mean I can't enjoy some of these female characters. Moids are literally constantly seething that their designs are niqab tier while you guys think all of them are dressed like prostitutes just because they're showing some patch of skin. Also not all of them have the same level of coomery, look at clorinde and navia, from the same region, both showing skin, but clorinde feels more male gaze-y while navia doesn't even have a regular cleavage.
No. 343188
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>>343165Her breasts and legs are covered with see-through skintight mesh fabric so she might as well be naked. Hate the tit squish and the holes on the sides of her thighs. Blatant Bayonetta ripoff.
>>343169She's pretty, but I really hope she's wearing shorts under her skirt. Her armpits are bared again because someone at Mihoyo really can't fide his fetish.
>>343176I don't like Arlecchino's design, I hate how she looks like an overdesigned overworld monster NPC indistinguishable from those fatui women implemented recently, how her suit is vacuumed to her body showing off her figure and how she's canonically barely clothed under the open jacket with huge breasts too. That one cutscene screenshot of her without the jacket really showed how coomerish her outfit actually is, she looked way better in the concept art than her actual model. Every single tall female in Genshin looks like ridiculous coomshit except maybe Dehya and Candace who ironically enough show the most skin because at least them living in the desert it fits their conditions and they don't have stupid pervy peekholes in their clothes.
No. 343189
>>343168>arm pushing up her breastsEw. This is so embarassing kekw. If I were the artist, I would feel ashamed of drawing her like this, but moids have such simple minds they think this actually doesn't look retarded as fuck and is super sexy and all, lel.
Someone give her a free breast reduction surgery, she is struggling.
No. 343191
>>343178its bait because you keep saying we dont like any of female characters just because we comment om some of the coomer design elements?
>Yes, but you can't say you like any other girlThis is also not true and you know it, there was literally a Yoimiya fan here. She has a super coomer design, yet nothing stopped her from posting fan art and perging about her. No one called her a moid either. Do people point out the coomer elements, yes but you wont be called a moid and banned for saying you like a female character even with the coomer design kek.
Also where do any of us say that you can't like her character design? People are only saying that she in fact does have some coomer elements so i really don't see why you feel so attacked. no one is calling her a prostitute either?
>Also not all of them have the same level of coomeryNo one is disagreeing with this? Like yeah no shit Shenhe has a far more coomer design
If you are seriously so sensitive that you will feel attacked when we just point out some parts of the design, without even saying that you are not allowed to like it or that girls dont like it. You really need to get offline.
>>343177>I don't like the matte black elastic fabric over boobs in general (Ganyu, Shenhe, Sara)Yeah I remember someone saying that Ganyu her top looked like a panty hose and i cant get it out of my mind, it just looks tacky.
>>343188I don't remember Arlecchino her concept art being that different. It's just that the tall female genshin models all have the same boy so it looks different then on paper.
>except maybe Dehya and CandaceI actually really like those too, like you said it makes sense because they live in the desert. Ofcourse the thight belts on Dehya make my eyes roll. But i think her design is cool, and Candace has a really elegent outfit. It's not so much that i care about the amount of skin being showed, its those anime coomer elements that bother me (spilling thigh fat, panty shots, showing side of the hips to show a character is not wearing underwear ect).
>she looks like an overdesigned overworld monster NPC indistinguishable from those fatui women implemented recentlyThe thing is i really like those npcs desgins too kek, but i understand your point. And her suit is indeed vacuumed, but i feel like her design is the best we will ever get for a female character in a suit.
No. 343207
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His name is Gaming… I know it's pronounced completely differently but still, his name is GAMING
No. 343245
>>343221I mean we got Lyney recently right. I don't think we need a new 5 star pyro dps male yet again.
>>343207Stupid ass name and his design is boring, at least dr ratio from honkai was hot.
>>343211>he doesnt even look like a boyHe does, no female character in genshin would ever look like that
No. 343252
>>343248>favorite overall male charScara
>favorite overall female charEi
>favorite mondstadt charJean
>favorite liyue charZl
>favorite inazuma charEi
>favorite sumeru charAlhaitham
>favorite fontaine charNeuvilette
>favorite designYunjin
>least favorite designMona
>least favorite male charMika
>least favorite female charAyaka
No. 343253
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>>343248I'll start
>favorite overall male charscara
>favorite overall female charfurina
>favorite mondstadt charventi
>favorite liyue charxiao
>favorite inazuma charayato
>favorite sumeru charcyno
>favorite fontaine charfurina
>favorite designarlecchino, zhongli, xiao, hutao, furina
>least favorite designYELAN, shenhe, mona, baizhu, clorinde
>least favorite male charbaizhu
>least favorite female charyae
No. 343261
>>343189her arm isn't even touching her breasts so I don't get what you mean, but they do look like painfully inflated marshmallows who disobey the rules of gravity.
>>343164>>343207really cute design but I thought this was a cute tomboy before I remembered what game this was from so that was disappointing. hope he gets something fun in his kit to play with.
>>343169she does look pretty but she also looks like she's supposed to be emulating an oiran look and she's a lazy keqing reskin. the shoes are just lol. the textures on the design are going to look particularly bad and fuzzy without the 4k textures.
No. 343263
>>343248>favorite overall male charWanderer
>favorite overall female charHu Tao
>favorite mondstadt charVenti
>favorite liyue char (exc Hu Tao)Childe (kek)
>favorite inazuma charKazuha
>favorite sumeru charDehya, Nahida
>favorite fontaine charFurina pre depression
>favorite designWanderer (all versions, video related), Wriothesley, Yunjin, Ayaka
>least favorite designSkirk (low hanging fruit kek), the usual like Shenhe
No. 343264
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>>343248>favorite overall male charChilde
>favorite overall female charLayla
>favorite mondstadt charKaeya
>favorite liyue charZhongli
>favorite inazuma charGorou
>favorite sumeru charLayla, but since I have also chosen her as fav female character my second would be Kaveh
>favorite fontaine charWriothesley
>favorite designLayla
>least favorite designShenhe or Yoimiya
>least favorite male charAyato
>least favorite female charEi
No. 343268
>>343248>favorite overall male charScara
>favorite overall female charFischl
>favorite mondstadt charVenti/Diluc
>favorite liyue charXiao
>favorite inazuma charHeizou
>favorite sumeru charAlhaitham
>favorite fontaine charLyney/Fremi
>favorite designFremi/Lyney/Scara/Heizou/Xingqiu
>least favorite designMona, Baizhu, Nahida
>least favorite male charBaizhu
>least favorite female charNahida
No. 343269
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>>343248>favorite overall male charKaeya
>favorite overall female charRosaria
>favorite mondstadt charKaeya
>favorite liyue charBeidou
>favorite inazuma charKazuha
>favorite sumeru charNaida supremacy
>favorite fontaine charFurina by vibes/design alone, since I still don't have it unlocked
>favorite designLayla/Kaeya/Kokomi/Fischl
>least favorite designFaruzan/Kirara
>least favorite male charAyato
>least favorite female charKeking. I keep losing to her.
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>favorite overall male char
Wrio, Alhaitham, JP Benny
>favorite overall female char
Layla (I don't acknowledge the sleepwalking persona though, it's dumb), Arlecchino, Rosaria
>favorite mondstadt char
Kaeya, Rosaria
>favorite liyue char
JP Yanfei
>favorite inazuma char
No one really
>favorite sumeru char
Alhaitham, Layla
>favorite fontaine char
Wrio
>favorite design
Arlecchino, Wriothesley, Rosaria
>least favorite design
Ganyu, Sara, Shenhe, Xianling, Clorinde, Xingqiu
>least favorite male char
Xingqiu
>least favorite female char
Ganyu
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>favorite overall male char
Alhaitham
>favorite overall female char
Rosaria
>favorite mondstadt char
Rosaria
>favorite liyue char
Xiangling
>favorite inazuma char
Yoimiya
>favorite sumeru char
Scaramouche
>favorite fontaine char
Furina
>favorite design
Furina
>least favorite design
Nilou
>least favorite male char
Mika
>least favorite female char
Ayaka
No. 343553
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>>343248>favorite overall male charAlhaitham
>favorite overall female charDehya, Arlecchino
>favorite mondstadt charFischl
>favorite liyue charYanfei
>favorite inazuma charItto
>favorite sumeru charAside from Alhaitham and Dehya, Dori
>favorite fontaine charNavia
>favorite designAlhaitham
>least favorite designBaizhu, Clorinde
>least favorite male charMika
>least favorite female charGanyu puts me to sleep
>>343542One of the many designs drafts leaked for a perfumer character. Her name should be Emilie. She's mentioned in-game a few times in characters lines and, if I remember correctly, a couple of billboards around Fontaine. That particular one was one of my favorite iterations too, so cute.
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>>343579Not a lot of Genshin waifus are snarky and have short hair
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>>343728Yeah, honestly haven't seen many moid fans of her, I wonder why? She's pretty much forgotten in moid spaces, I guess they have newer waifus to obsess over.
I thought I would hate her because of how she was designed for moids too much but I ended up liking her and her shitty attitude a lot. The new design is such an improvement in the chest area, I wrote itt that I hate matte black boobs and I don't discriminate, I hated her mystery fabric matte white boobs too. But a part of me really wishes she kept her fishnets in the new design, I thought they looked great. It's a shame scrotes find them sexy and apparently CCP thinks they are too sexy and have to be censored, to me fishnets are associated with cool alt girls and not porny bullshit.
No. 343848
>>343168eh, i don't see anything that wrong with her design, i really like the colors, her makeup and hair.
my only ick would be the thigh holes. i do think the cleavage fit her vibe, is not like it is exposed anyway.
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Ga Ming in game model looks good to me. Better than the splash art imo.
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And Xinyun/Cloud Retainer, not digging the side body much. Her hair is very nice though, and she looks good from front.
No. 343863
>>343857Oof, she looked a lot more elegant in her splash art. The sides makes it look trashy and looks to much like shenhe. Also her dress is weirdly vacuumed at her pelvis? Im sad because i maybe wanted to get for my Diluc. I believe her ult will make it so any character can jump like Xiao for a few times? And Dilic has really high multiplier for plunge attack. Oh well, maybe they will hopefully release a different character that allowes other characters to plunge?
>>343854I mean the hoodie is cute, but still not really excited about him
No. 343870
>>343857>Her entire fucking outfit is nude from the sides and back and she has thigh windowsWell, this post
>>343165 aged like milk left in the summer sun.
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I like Gaming's dog-lion pet, wonder if he gets to summon it in his attacks
No. 343888
>>343857noooo fuckkk it's so over
i truly liked her design but those fucking details are so unnecessarily coomerish
i'll have to avoid genshin's fanbase like the plague because i'm sure those scrotes are gonna treat her worse than how they treat ganyu and mona
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>>343248>favorite overall male charScaramouche/Wanderer
>favorite overall female charAyaka
>favorite mondstadt charDiluc
>favorite liyue charYun Jin
>favorite inazuma charAyaka
>favorite sumeru charNahida
>favorite fontaine charWriothesley, Navia as second close
>favorite designDiluc 2nd outfit, Ayaka 2nd outfit, Nilou
>least favorite designEi, Yae Miko
>least favorite male charAyato
>least favorite female charEi, Yae Miko
No. 343974
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Samefag, the rumored XQ skin is coming and he has a little mini low ponytail
No. 344000
>>343985>his model is also a huge improvement in quality and detail from the previous Liyue boys released over three years agoHow impressive!!!
Agree with the other anons, he has the weakest male design so far. Very forgettable.
No. 344011
>>343985It's not bad by itself, just basic. It ticks off the list of the most basic design rules like every clothing piece making sense and being in harmony etc but the same clothing could belong to literally any other character. It's a very common modern-traditional mix you can see on any character in any game.
>>341411 These designs on the other hand have design elements that could belong only to a character that does the Lion dance/has relations to a tiger. It has the shoes he'd wear during the dance, the fur resembling a tiger around his neck, tiger eyes, lion tail in the back of his clothing. Even the right one with no fur scarf has it on his wrists. You look at these and can tell he's a performer and is active. You look at the final design and he just looks like a guy from Liyue.
No. 344225
>>344223nta but
>Chinese Honkai players tried to commit first degree murder because hoyo put a Chinese god character in a bunny costumeNow that I think of it you're right
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this is somehow worse than cloud retainer's design….
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>>344238The garter belt is nasty but at least she doesn't have an open back all the way to her damn ass crack. Cloud Retainers side view might as well be completely naked. Hopefully this will be the last time they ever use this full body stocking bullshit in a design, it was already cringe as hell when it was just Ganyu and Shenhe.
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>>344291Good lord that looks both foul and ridiculous. Literally picrel, Mihoyo played everyone who thought she had a non-coomer outfit from the splash image.
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Official new year art
The "directing" event is so fun, I like cute short event challenges that involve characters. But about the 2nd story of the event, they really pulled a reason out their ass to replace the sibling that got no spotlight in his country's story with a female character that looks the farthest thing from Ayaka. Actor Ayato was going to be so fun to see but we can't have nice things I guess. I really can't understand what's going through their heads while writing these events. The single male character in the event and he leaves after one act despite the premise being that he's one of the two main characters.
No. 344354
>>344345>previous position not the archon positionNot entirety true. Yeah he’s not an archon but he
did say that he’s taking over the archon role and its previous duties. I think “archon role” was the exact wording he used even.
No. 344356
>>344340Because if they don't include enough female characters they will scare off the moids.
>>344336Thess outfits are very cute, kek at venti and furina wearing those shorts in the winter
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Thought this Christmas art was cute so I’m doing a mini-dump
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>>344368Glad you liked it anon! Happy holidays
>they're really pretty except for Arlecchino's face kek
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Official art for the upcoming Hoyofair event
No. 344513
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>>344512Do anons here feel anything on seeing official art of female characters with exposed midriff/cleavage/thighs etc.? I saw many women on Twitter going crazy over Ningguang, Navia and Lumine's outfits. Personally, I do not feel much except disdain because I HATE how male characters are always covered from head to toe in loose-fitting outfits, even in modern settings, while female characters are consistently drawn in skimpy outfits.
No. 344516
>>344513>I saw many women on Twitter going crazy over Ningguang, Navia and Lumine's outfits. Personally, I do not feel much except disdain because I HATE how male characters are always covered from head to toe in loose-fitting outfits, even in modern settings, while female characters are consistently drawn in skimpy outfits.I agree with you a lot, I'm a lesbian but I feel only feel annoyed that the male characters are fully clothed and the girls have to wear skimpy clothes. This will probably get me in trouble, but those "girls" on twitter who go crazy about these female anime characters (calling them mommy ect) are mostly teenage girls who feel they need to be a cool girl and act like a horny moid. I can't imagine actually finding this attractive kek.
>>344514I have never felt attracted to an anime girl, the only fictional girl i have actually felt attracted to was Vi from arcane kek.
>>344515>Anyone else saw that one gacha art on twitter a few months ago?I have not seen it, but I'm guessing it was really bad. I hate how sexualized female designs are normalised. And like you said, there is nothing wrong with a bit of subtle sexy elements. But these designs are always so over the top, non human and frankly disgusting kek.
No. 344529
>>344512Holy FUCK the Lumine outfit is so trashy it makes me cringe.
>>344516I'm a lesbian too and I hate nothing more than how all the performative polilez barely adult EiMiko shippers have made it so that fandom lesbians are always obscenely horny over moidish designs and that you can never complain about female characters consistently being made for male coom or you're being "lesbophobic". None of those people begging mommy Cloud Retainer to fuck them would eat pussy in real life, never, but most of them will never even end up with the predicament since a sizable amount of them are degenerate she/her transbian degenerates leaving bomb threats on every male character's release post.
No. 344536
>>344530one of the most notable points of her original design is the leg cutouts, it was definitely intended from the start. wouldn't be surprised if it was the other way around and the artist ended up adding more clothes after deciding she would be in the front so it wouldn't look like a pure softcore porn add when half their playerbase is still underage.
>>344532his is unironically the worst. lazy pose and expression and an unremarkable outfit with no resemblance to his original design other than being fully clothed unlike any of the others. he's already ugly but they did him dirty. if not for the hair he would barely register as a character instead of some random background helper. he was a bad choice for this.
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Traveler desperately needs a new outfit. look how outdated Lumine's model is compared to all the new girls.
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>>344515>Anyone else saw that one gacha art on twitter a few months ago?Kek I guess you are talking about Kashino from Azur Lane. What shocked me the most is that the artist is a woman. It is very disheartening how so many women genuinely enjoy drawing super coomerized art of female characters meanwhile there probably isn't even a single moid artist who would draw male characters that would appeal to fujos/yumes.
No. 344548
>>344514Despite being lesbian I barely find anime girls attractive at all. To me they represent moid pandering, they're mindless sex dolls made for men to slobber over. They're not real women and that's why the "you're misogynist if you don't like female characters" narrative is so retarded, as if 90% of these characters weren't created solely for scrotes. You can almost immediately tell when there's a female character who was made by someone wanted to just make a good character with a nice design because the vibe is noticeably different from those that are made by either coom-addicted men or alternatively women who caught coom-addicted male brainrot fleas.
>>344545Horrifying. Meeting women who unironically like and create this shit in real life is absolutely horrifying and 2 times out of 3 they're obnoxious NLOGs who think they've ascended for thinking unnaturally big booba bursting out of lingerie is soooo sexy please notice me.
No. 344604
>>344537It was the perfect opportunity to give Traveler a new outfit when Ayaka suggested buying a kimono for them. No idea why the writers even included that moment just to go "jk lol".
>>344545>there probably isn't even a single moid artist who would draw male characters that would appeal to fujos/yumesHave you never heard of faggots anon? There's plenty of scrotes that draw male characters women are into because gay men are also attracted to pretty boy yaoi, not just bara muscle beasts.
No. 344813
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merikuri
No. 344952
>>344545are you retarded? they are paid for drawing these, it's not a passion project or a hobbie kek
also, paraphrasing another anon, there are a bunch of gay moids who draw attractive men, twink bishies included
No. 345126
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More official art
No. 345145
>>345137>Is it just me or were they more subtle about their coomerism at the beginning?It was way more subtle, just look at the 1.0 female characters, back then Lisa had the most sexy design.
>>345126This art actually made me decide to stop buying welkins kek. I know I shouldn't have put any money on this game anyway, but I just wanted to grab my fave characters. It just makes me so sad, because I finally thought I found a big weeb game with a good budget that would actually also try to appeal to the female gaze and not sexualize the female characters too much. Like all these shitty open world anime games have the most coomerish and over sexualized female characters. It's so sad, I guess my only hope is Infinity Nikki, even though that will probably focus more on the dress up part like the other games in the Nikki series. I don't want to start writing a whole manifesto about how much the game industry caters to moids, but god damn. I feel like mihoyo just baited female players to play the game at launch and then slowly decided to pander more to moids with each update.
No. 345157
>>345128>all the same boring form-fitting racing suitsSeriously? Couldn't even attempt to switch it up? Especially when you look at
>>345126 which doesn't even look like clothes
No. 345167
>>345159eula was still from 1.x, she was definitely designed before the game released. ganyu and rosaria who was censored too. I do think the coom has been pretty consistent, this is from the honkai company after all.
>Fischl didn't get censoredoops, I forgot it wasn't fischl, but
amber who was censored back then, the very first character you meet after paimon kek.
No. 345169
>>345137>Is it just me or were they more subtle about their coomerism at the beginning? Not only the designs but also these commercial stuff got so out of hand. Makes me ashamed to admit I like this game at all at this point.Yes!! I said this about hoyo during the game awards too. It’s so embarrassing at this point to admit you play genshin cause they’re shameless now with the coomer designs and ads.
>>345128Also is this AI or something? Why is Arataki and Fontaine spelled as Araraki and Fointaine
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Any anons who think that the game was less coomer-ish when it first came out are on some military grade copium. The game has had anime girls wearing lingerie and hotpants while their tits jiggle around like pudding since release day. Honestly I think Liyue and Inazuma were the worst eras for pornified female designs and - other than Skirks ugly stripper outfit - things have massively improved since Fontaine.
I just wish they'd design more tall male characters like Wriothesley because I'm sick and tired of 90% of the game being either comically sluttily dressed women, comically overdressed men, or underage looking manlets.
No. 345189
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>Friend i'm hanging with asks me to look up this character i've never heard of because i'm not a genshinfag
>For some reason my hands keep typing and i end up with "Yaoyaoi"
>"I saw that"
I would have gotten away with hiding that i'm into it, if it weren't for you genshinfags and goofy ahh chinese names
I'm still so deeply embarassed
No. 345191
Chevreuse just casually talking about how her dad almost killed her but it made her a better person, oh China.
Even if it would've just been more boring politics talk I'dve liked to see Neuvi and Ayato interact.
Story was pretty meh and cliche like most events, but I liked the directing and shooting minigames.
>>345176Will forever be annoyed Cyno isn't the tall model.
Hope we get some hot Natlan guys.
No. 345205
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>>345200Same, Genshin is enjoyable as long as I only play with characters I like and don't go online to see what people post about them kek but that skip button is never coming. I'm sure they write the dialogue to be as long-winded as possible on purpose, they wouldn't gain anything by allowing players to skip
No. 345228
>>345215Nta but I feel what you're saying so much. Like literally playing any other good game is so freeing. You realize how shit genshin really is. But then there's pics like this
>>344813 and I go back to genshin. All the cute lantern rites with Xiao, playing Mondstadt for the first time and being so intrigued by Venti, getting a crush on Scara. Moments like that keeps me coming back all the time. No open world game has cute male anime characters that feel female-gazey like that.
No. 345303
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>>345128I feel like this artist is just incapable of designing good outfits, this second piece is way better
No. 345322
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>>345305>LiyueHoyoverse's inability to design Chinese female characters was called out recently on twitter, even by coomers and trannies. Spoilered for Honkai. This is the newest game with already few characters btw, so all of these literally came out consecutively. How they know their own culture the best yet make the weirdest designs is beyond me. Other areas don't get fucked up in the name of fantasy as much as Liyue.
>>345303I love this art. Kaveh's arms are times sexier than naked women with weird muscles.
No. 345528
>>345500He also would've looked better with a darker skintone imo. And I've rarely felt that way about characters in general, but when I see fanart of him with brown skin it somehow looks way nicer considering all the multi-color shit already going on. But maybe it's just because any changes are an improvement over the original
>>345526Those are rhythm and turn-based games, how does that even compare to Genshin
and Obey Me has a female character too kek No. 345628
>>345376This, the only good designs in Star Rail were in the very beginning and then it dipped immediately. They're so bad now, everything looks AI so generic I'm not surprised that they keep handing out free stuff since people aren't interested in pulling for uninspired AI generated slop #45346. Genshin's designs have only gotten better with time imo, at least I can tell female characters apart from each other which is already better than what Star Rail has going on as proven here
>>345322 .
>>345427There's a reason why the Star Rail thread died in a month. The story is even more autistic than HI3 and it's a huge snoozefest with characters that don't really have the charisma and relatability Genshin characters do since the game takes itself way too seriously.
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>>344537I like Lumine's outfit but it would be fun if she got a new one each region. It's strange how infrequent skins are in Genshin.
>>344513>>344512>>345126>>345128Only this
>>345303 one is good. The other designs just suck. They really need to quality check the artists they're giving this work to instead of approving whatever coomer slop. The coomerism is mostly outside of the game, at least.
>>344291It would look better if only part of her back was exposed or none. I like Bayonetta but this is not it. Overall I think Sumeru and Fontaine have been pretty coom free though minus Clorinde. Nilou, Layla, Dehya, Furina, Navia, Arlecchino, all of them have been well-received by women. Even the duds like Nahida have had story relevance that make them more than just coom bait. There's been a lot of fanservice for women in the men too, though I'd like to see a male character exposing as much skin as Itto again.
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Anons, I've just gotten around playing the Archon quest with the Furina/Focalor drama. I'm ESL and I don't understand what has actually happened during the quest? Can someone tell me if I got the story right? Spoiler below in case some anons haven't played the quest yet.
From what I understand, Focalor separated her "divinity" self and "humanity" self creating human Furina to play the fake Archon for 500 years right? But they're actually the same person? Just separated? But then Focalor also mentioned that they're both not humans too and were Oceanids. Focalor wanted to avoid the wrath of Celestia and the inevitable prophecy that's why she "created/separated" her humanity side to trick Celestia. But I still don't get why she needed to separate her divinity/god self and human self to trick Celestia? She's just making herself and Furina suffer for nothing because in the end the prophecy did happen? Also, does that mean all the characters from Fontaine like Navia, Lyney, Lynette etc are not human but Oceanids? What about character from other nations? Also Focalor mentioned that before the Archons become rulers of Teyvat, it was the dragons who ruled before them, so does that mean the Archons are actually just demi gods? While "Celestia" is/are the actual God(s)?
Is it just me or does the game's main story is becoming too complicated to comprehend? Or maybe I'm just bad at following Genshin lore because I have the attention span of a gnat haha. Please someone explain to me like I'm Razor who doesn't understand english. Thanks!
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>>345849Tl;dr of the story:
Hundreds of years ago, long before the Cataclysm, Egeria turned the Oceanids of Fontaine into mortal humans (only in Fontaine) as a gift to them. Celestia had a hissy fit because she didn't ask for permission and made the Prophecy saying all the Oceanid-humans would get washed away beneath the waves and the Hydro Archon would be left crying on her throne. The God-King Remus overthrew Egeria possibly with Celestia's consent and tried to reason with Celestia after he took over, but Celestia wouldn't hear him out and he went crazy trying to protect the people by turning them all into Golden Ichor and making them into robots. Before he could do that Remuria got swallowed by the Abyss and Egeria took over again. She then died during the Cataclysm helping Rukkhadevata protect Irminsul and her body became the giant flower that the Pari protect, leaving her second-in-command Focalors in charge.Focalors realized the only way to save the people of Fontaine,
who weren't really fully human yet, was to get the Hydro Sovereign (Neuvilette) to turn them all into real humans so they wouldn't dissolve in Primordial Seawater. But Neuvilette didn't have his full powers and wouldn't have them as long as a Hydro Archon existed. So she made a plan to store enough Indemnidium to fully destroy the seat of the Hydro Archon so Neuvilette could turn the Oceanid-humans into real humans and she couldn't be replaced. Celestia needed to think she was acting as the Hydro Archon or they might start the Prophecy too early, but she needed to entirely focus on her task. So she split herself (she was also an Oceanid-human, but with divine power as the Archon) into her "divine" self and her "human" self. Her human self became Furina and was given the task of pretending to be divine until Focalors could store up enough power. Focalors went into the Oratrice and stored up the emotional energy from 500 years worth of trials into a weapon that could fully destroy the Hydro Archon. Furina pretended to be fully divine. Neuvilette lived among the Oceanid-humans and learned to relate to them.When the Traveler and Neuvilette
put Furina on trial trying to figure out what she was hiding, they accidentally revealed Furina wasn't divine. Celestia triggered the Prophecy and started flooding Fontaine, which would dissolve the Oceanid-humans into water. But Focalors' trial triggered and she used the stored power to kill herself after explaining what was about to happen to Neuvilette. Neuvilette regained his full power as the Hydro Sovereign and decided to turn the Oceanid-humans into real people who wouldn't dissolve in Primordial Seawater, making it seem like the Prophecy happened but really averting it. This included Furina, who wasn't executed because she was Focalors' "human" half. Neuvilette then gifted Furina her Vision when she returned to the stage, making her a potential god candidate again. No. 345887
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Here’s uncoloured Xingqiu skin
No. 345950
>>345853Thanks anon! You're my hero.
Tbh I think Focalors/Furina had it coming since she defied Celestia lol. I really find this Archon quest more interesting than previous ones. The most boring Archon quest was definitely Ei's.
On another note… wtf?! What did they do to Xingqiu's short shorts?! A travesty!
No. 346129
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>>345913Fischl's skin is a major improvement over the original.
No. 346151
>>345887I don't get why people want him in shorter shorts? Wtf who but shotacons would care? He's looks and acts like he's 13.
I'm glad the hair is different I hate the original a lot.
No. 346157
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Very blurry picture of the skins in game.
>>346129I love Fischl her skin, I don't think I will ever take it off.
>>346151>shotaconsI feel like we argue about this every thread, if XQ is a shota then Ganyu, Yanfei and all the other female characters who also use a shorter model must be loli.
>but women are shorter then males, so because of this there is no possible way that a male can be shorter then a woman!!tell that to all the ugly manlets i have to see everyday
Also it's not like I want him in shorter shorts, it's just hypocritical that the female characters keep there skimpy clothes (see Shenhe and Ganyu skins), but Kaeya and Xingqiu actually get covered up more. Also his hair is the same, the only thing they added was a small ponytail in the back.
No. 346161
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>>346157>Very blurry picture of the skins in game.Not a fan of any of those. Someone take away the colors blue and black from their skin designer.
>I feel like we argue about this every thread, if XQ is a shotaLyney's JP VA calls Lyney a shota. There's no shortage of artists calling them shotas either and it's obvious in a lot of fan art with how it's drawn. It's not a coincidence that so many of them have the shota shorts in-game.
>https://youtu.be/jofWnBD8MmM?si=jPtS30_iJ_IHxAd6&t=160>then Ganyu, Yanfei and all the other female characters who also use a shorter model must be loli.They would have used to have qualified. The two words have taken different trajectories catering to different audiences. Clarisse from Castle of Caligostro, somewhere between 16 and 18, used to be the iconic loli character of the 80s and she has about the same body type as those characters.
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>>346157Here’s blurry Ganyu splash art.
>>346129Fischl’s skin is great. Funny how the non blue skins are the best ones.
No. 346176
>>346158They did give Ganyu a bun which makes her hair a tiny bit better. But yes they have the same silhouette and are pretty boring.
>>346161Not trying to start an argument, but since when do the va decide these things about characters? The eng va of paimon said she was an enby, should we now al refer to paimom as they/them? I also never heard of shota shorts before, it might be because im a zoomer with very little background in anime. Aren't
the character models of nahida, qiqi ect called loli in the game files? While the short characters are literally called, short female and short male. If shota and loli just means young girl/boy and that includes the age range of 16y-18y then yes i guess about 70% of the cast is either loli or shota kek.
>They would have used to have qualifiedWho the hell decides that, you can't make exceptions like that. Just because males are infantilized irl and women sexualized doesn't mean that we have to change these terms in fiction and reinforce these standards.
>>346162Yeah i would like them covered more too, but if anything i think XQ outfit resembles hu tao the most. And even then her shorts are still tinier. Like i said, its not like i need or want tiny shorts on him. Its just the double standards that bother me.
No. 346196
>>346170I couldn't care less about Ganyu, such a bland character. All the Liyue skins are lame and black/blue.
Best skins for me were Ayaka in Fontaine, Lisa in Sumeru, Fishl's magical heroine dress, Klee as a little witch. Even Kaeya's skin's concepts were okay, they just fucked up modelling and coloring it. I feel like even Jean and Barbara are better than every single uninspired Liyue skin. Why do they do such bad skins for Liyue characters, is there some connection to blue and black in Chinese mythos or something?
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So they’re really going with Scara being a university student at Sumeru. I really thought it was a thing Nahida only suggested for an event. Not that his character who's supposed to wander just chills at a university. His arc really is over, wished they would have tied him in to the overall story of the game more continuously like Childe.
No. 346363
>>346351>he gets to hang out with Nahida>He’s just very popular with the ladies kekyou mean
lolis? gross
No. 347001
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The tiger boy from wuthering waves looks so cute! He's what I wanted from Ga Ming. This question could go in the mobage gen but since they two games are so similar, is anyone going to be playing Wuthering Waves whenever it finally comes out?
>Inb4 bootleg
His design was out before the Ga Ming concept art, and his model and animations were finalized first.
No. 347088
>>347001The boys are cute so I’ll give it a shot at least.
>>347013The character tits jiggling like water in balloon were so fucking gross when I first saw them. Moids really need to be gunned down.
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>>347001Oh wow he seems really cute! I'm not sure if I will play it, the female characters seem even worse then the Genshin ones. I remember Genshin also having horrible jiggle physics, but they eventually toned it down. It also seems like there are a lot more female characters that will take the centre story wise then males? Genshin kinda baited female players by having so many male banners in the beginning, and giving husbandos important roles in the story. To be fair, Genshin still has almost an equal amount of 5 star female and male characters. And even in the latest AQ, male characters are still included and can play an important role in the story. The female MC design is also a lot more coomerish compared to the male one. I like how Aether also shows some skin. I choose Lumine, but if I will play Wuthering Waves I will probably choose the male mc because i cant stand the design of the female mc.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm complaining to much, I would really another openworld game with cute males and that doesn't have ridiculous female character designs. Pic related is a male character that will be playable. Of course they will never add an older looking lady, I'm afraid that even most men will be designed for the male gaze.
>>346992The AQ is really bad, like others said. It's probably the worst AQ, however after slugging through Inazuma you will appreciate Sumeru even more kek.
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Wuthering waves looks like an actual Genshin bootleg but with the blandest fucking designs I've seen for both genders. Muted colours, everyone wears only black and white, the men look like NPCs and the girls like generic AI generated armpit fetish coombait. Only around 4 male playable characters vs. 10 female ones, that's a ratio even worse than Genshin had during its launch. It'll inevitably have the same fate as Star Rail did, everyone hypes it up for the launch and gushes about how much better it is than Genshin, then after the honeymoon phase fades off they quietly drop the game and eventually go back to playing Genshin after a new character they like is released.
No. 347185
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>>347152The pic you're using is old. The game has been in beta for years now and all those designs have long been revamped. The latest models look pretty nice, I love the detail on the guys' bodies.
https://fxtwitter.com/blonneykisser/status/1743390215534706701?s=20I don't care about it being a bootleg when Genshin itself is a Chinese gacha bootleg of Zelda. If the gameplay and animations are better, then that's all the difference it really needs. If memory serves, both games started development around the same time, this one just wound up stuck in limbo.
No. 347259
>>347185Looking at the latest designs they still look exactly the same with only slight tweaks like changing the first girl's hair from black to green. The fedora tipper guy especially looks absolutely hideous with the mismatched colors and pieces, a lot of those have the same problem as Star Rail being having all the designs look like incoherent AI vomit. He looks like someone tossed the dice in a character randomizer, a literal clown outfit.
>If memory serves, both games started development around the same time, this one just wound up stuck in limbo.Probably because they saw how what Genshin was doing became a runaway success and revamped the entire UI to ape it. Chinese game development scene in a nutshell. That's what it looks like to be honest, like they went for a more Nier style aesthetic but then backpedaled and wanted more of a colourful anime style instead. With the most offensive boob physics yet.
No. 347265
>>347185Every single guy is fugly, that's crazy
Aside from the ugly male power fantasy muscle body type, they also all have hideous rattail or other ugly shape of hair. Not one husbando material. And I thought Genshin males were ugly.
Sorry for reposting this I skipped over some characters before.
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>>347294Are you serious? The cu chulainn one looks so fucking goofy in his nonsensical hairstyle and the bottom right guy in picrel is genuinely the ugliest male design I've seen, he's like a geriatric Sephiroth kek. One of them has a fucking neckbeard and a fedora that he tips in his animation, it's a joke. Like
>>347265 said it's amazing they missed the mark on every single male character. The female ones look equally bad though so I can't even be mad about it, it's a pure skill issue.
No. 347310
>>347294Lion boy is a shota and I'm not a coomer.
So, in my opinion: Long white hair looks like an ugly musclebeast for moids, he also looks really old and his face is ugly. The other white hair guy literally has a mullet.
Dark blue hair guy also has a hideous hairstyle with the sideburns and pineapple hair. Fedora tipper is straight up hilarious. Red hair guy looks like a cliche megane character that aren't interesting to me and has a rattail.
None of their clothes are really saying anything, designs are forgettable.
The girls look better imo, but the jiggle physics are terrible.
No. 347391
>>347294are you one of those people who actually bought into the 'waah waahh we need to sexualize muscleheads/dadbods/grandpas more and add them in my anime video games' moid propaganda?
>>347306 all of the male cast here are boring or straight up ugly. the animations/3d models in
>>347185 don't look any better. it's actually kind of amazing how unappealing they are tbh. they're like if someone designed based on a list of other, popular anime men but also had to stack on enough detracting ugly features in order to not offend other men's delicate male sensibilities or something.
No. 347392
>>347391>had to stack on enough detracting ugly features in order to not offend other men's delicate male sensibilities or something.kek I was going to say this earlier but didn't want to drag it on. The male designs really look like they tried to make it safe enough for the average fat otaku to not feel threatened by, only the cute lion and maaybe the knock-off sephiroth seem to not fit in this but the others look like they thought
>ok… surely this will get SOME men to like and roll for him too?Meanwhile we have to stare at tits jiggling around like water balloons
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Happy birthday Thoma!
No. 347409
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Hi, can anyone tell me wtf this is? I climbed a cliff next to the waypoint on the west side of Mawtiyama Forest and found this weird ass tree. I can't find anything about it online and I would like to break this dendro seal/barrier/thing. Hitting it with dendro attacks does nothing. I can't climb on top of it because it has a roof that spreads out horizontally, and this is the tallest thing in the area so I can't glide to the top either. Any ideas?
No. 347442
>>347391>>347310>mentions two bishounens and a "shota">"hurr durr you like dadbods don't you?? kekw">if any short male genshin character was called a shota it would start a 3 week long infightthey're genuinely no worse than what we've been getting in genshin, it's straight up denial to insist otherwise. are you being hypercritical about them because it isn't genshin? if the long white haired guy was announced for genshin everyone would eat him up. the faces in the models are better proportioned to boot. sure, genshin has more of tall guys, genshin has also been out for 3 whole years and had only 2 on launch followed by ugly ass childe.
>sephiroth guy is a musclebeasthow? he hits a better twink middleground than itto and wriothesley, that's what a muscular male character should look like. nice body but still a prettyboy above all.
man, I know well by know that the genshin fanbase is full of autists but I hope this is a product of samefagging and this thread didn't get discovered by tiktok genshinfags for real. or more accurately, it sounds like spergy 4chan users did.
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>>347306>the bottom right guy in picrel is genuinely the ugliest male design I've seenI just don't see how a genshin impact player can say this with a straight face, I really don't. and I'm saying this as a genshin impact player. you may be suffering from stockholm syndrome.
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>>347444Itto is a thousand times hotter than generic tacticool Sephiroth clone 1001.
>>347409There will either be a puzzle nearby to break the door or you can sneak onto the top of the building and open it from the inside.
No. 347576
>>347444I don't even husbando Itto but his design is vastly superior just because it actually shows personality compared to the white haired guy whose main design point is his abs being vacuum sucked by his full body stocking. I think the only male characters in Genshin that are really bland are Ayato and Gaming, the other male designs have personality even if they're subjectively ugly.
The WW guys all either look the same (copypaste face and skin tight space suit to show off their muscles) or they look retarded (fedora guy). It's obviously just to lure in horny women and fags because "l-look!!!!! our gacha might have shitty boob jiggle waifus BUT we also have sexy men showing off their abs!!!1!1!".
Genshin also baited the female players at the start but Venti, Zhongli, Tartaglia and Xiao actually have good or at least memorable designs.
No. 347605
>>347576>the other male designs have personalityThey look no less AI generated than the female ones. Ask anyone, this is the popular opinion about almost all of Mihoyo's character designs both male and female: painfully generic, cluttered, overdesigned, soulless, look like AI, pointless details, look like Z list vtubers, uncohesive, ugly, etc. People who aren't active fans of it take offense to their characters and others they like being compared to them. The majority of this thread's posts are purely dedicated to criticizing and fighting over them. Itto is a bad bootleg of another popular husbando from the former most popular gacha game in China. This is all pot calling the kettle black.
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>>347576This. Even though they're often cluttered as fuck, Genshin's male designs are very enjoyable for always showing personality and being instantly recognizable, you couldn't confuse one for another. They have different expressions, different colour schemes, different body language etc. The wuthering waves guys look boring and generically edgy except the fedora guy who's absolutely hilarious but in a way that's not intended to be. The Genshin characters have pretty neutral/basic hairstyles too which compensates for their overdesigned outfits and give them a conventionally attractive look, that guy with the dark green pineapple on his head shows off why you don't want to do the opposite kek
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>>347638every day genshin fans jump between breaking their backs to defend the shitty designs of a billion dollar company when they get compared to something else and complaining endlessly about those very designs, fighting eachother over who's the ugliest. it's the main discourse around the game besides porn.
>>347639kek you should not have posted a picture compiling them, its working against you. they really look terrible and soulless when you put them together like that. you like them because you like the game, not because they're good, and conversely you hate the ww and sr ones because you don't want your favorite game to have competition, not because they're worse. colorful = personality is a sparkledogian cope.
ww is made by the same people as punishing grey raven, it'll be fine. that game has fun combat, a world chat, and a story skip button. and if they make another a guy like picrel in ww, I'm downloading immediately.
No. 347688
>>347683>every day genshin fans jump between breaking their backs to defend the shitty designs of a billion dollar companyOr you know… Some people simply like the colorful genshin designs? And don't like generic scifi designs? And that's why they play Genshin. Do you realise not everyone has the same taste as you kek you don't have to do mental gymnastics about it
Also ew why are you posting coomer shota shit says a lot about your taste pedochan
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>>347688the colors in question: dark blue, brown, white, and whatever the fuck baizhu has going on. you can like ugly things all you want, just like how anons are welcome to like the coomer waifu designs. but don't insist that they're objectively better anything else kek you're only setting them up to get shat on harder.
>says a lot about your tastelike how I want to lick changyu's back down to his tailbone?
No. 347696
>>347605I've never heard any of these complaints about the male characters except for Gaming now being generic compared to his concept art. It's only the waifus that get complained about and even then some are pretty decent, outliers like Skirk and Clorinde are outliers, not the norm.
>>347306 This is generic as hell compared to Genshin's designs.
>>347683>>347694Kek, this is your peak male design? He's nothing but a mediocre Judar ripoff. The open back is the only interesting thing here, he doesn't even have Judar's nice hair or ornaments to spice up the design.
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>>347605 The only tall male design I'd say is really overdesigned is Neuvillette, everyone else looks totally fine. They have a lot of small random details but they aren't offensive to the eyes.
>>347694>male genshin designs suck because the colors in question are dark blue, brown, white>anyway I wanna fuck this underaged looking guy dressed in all blackok?
No. 347815
>>347701I was thinking the same thing earlier, same wavelength. Are you on the EU server? Honestly I'd love to play with anynonny who is kind. I made a post in the Friend Finder Thread
>>>/g/372573 with contact info.
No. 348287
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This made me so happy, moids can kill as many cats as they want. Girls still like Scara. I wonder if mihoyo knows the extent of his popularity? I feel like we deserve a skin.
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>>348302Xiao and Zhongli was on the list too but couldn’t even reach top 5. Scara even won by a large margin. We’ve loved him since his first edgy appereance in 1.1, pic related, so he’s had a long time of building a fanbase. He’s also the only male character with some fleshed out personality in a popular game like Genshin.
No. 348320
>>348302He's one of the only characters who actually had character development and an arc spanning multiple years. Everyone else is extremely stagnant. Also tsundere boys are cute
>>348312This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I never understood the love for Zhongli. He's always seemed kind of bland to me. I hate Neuvillette's design but he's a much better example of the "old stoic guy who's a bit out of touch but has a heart of gold" archetype.
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>>348287Despite all the seething and jealousy, best boy will always remain best boy.
No. 348361
>>348287they definitely know. his first fashion line kept selling out even after several restocks and even though it was expensive.
>>348321the only ones i've seen who actually ship them are young jp or SEA yumes who projected themselves onto nahida instead of lumine. all the other pics of them together are very clearly as friends or family.
No. 348365
>>348321Can we stop bringing this up every time we praise Scara
>>348320I agree!! Neuvillette is Zhongli but more well written.
>>348358>gifSo cute omg
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>>348302Abandonment issues and hot fetish torture kek
he's basically an allegory for homeless people who end up getting molested on the streets
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>>348302Might be something to do with who got polled for that considering the top five are all cute guys. Hoyolab released their 2023 character results recently and he didn't crack the top five for the guys but I think that app is mostly used by kids. He seems to be a pretty polarizing character.
https://www.hoyolab.com/article/24318878>>348287>I wonder if mihoyo knows the extent of his popularity? I assume so with all the official merch he has gotten. Boss theme is featured during the genshin concert too.
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>>348287>>348320I'm the opposite, I love Zhongli but don't get the love for Wanderer. He was intriguing as Scaramouche but how the story went for him was really disappointing imo and his redesign sucks. Still, I'm glad his fans are drowning out the psychopaths.
>>348470She's going to look like Himeko Murata. Maybe a dark-skinned Himeko Murata since Iansan has dark skin but it's way too soon to tell anything else about her.
Though there is a theory that Murata will already be dead, but as much as I want another male archon I personally think it's cope until proven otherwise.>>348422What is this retardation kek
No. 348508
>>348470There's 1 picture when you search Honkai dark skin so yes there is a chance
kek>>348502>Wrio and NaviaDoesn't it seem a bit weird among meta characters? Also Xiao still being there. But I agree, most casuals or people that are into few characters and not battle gameplay probably wouldn't even know what Hoyolab is. I forget it exists and think I never even signed up even though I play regularly, it's useless unless you want the 2 primogems a month.
No. 348512
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>>348508Wrio is a hot guy and feels good to play. Navia does big numbers and is the newest 5*. It's probably as simple as that.
No. 348521
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>>348512This reminds me that Wrio is the only Genshin dude who made it to the top 10 of the biggest yume poll in Japan.
>10th place: Wrio>59th place: Alhaitham>63rd place: ChildeSome of the male characters in the list are objectively ugly like the thing that is there in the 54th place so I wonder how reliable this poll is. But still happy to see Wrio getting some love.
No. 348535
>>348521Just wanted to post the same thing. Yeah he's probably really popular with casual players, I am no husbandofag but design-wise I probably also like him the best out of genshin male characters. He also has Daisuke Ono as his voice in Japanese so I think it was kind of guaranteed he'd attract a fanbase.
>>348508Casual players absolutely do know and use hoyolab. You can't move 5 cm in Genshin without it telling you to download it and participate in events for primogems.
No. 348605
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>>348602I agree with you, I think a lot of people mistakenly remember their fondness for the exploration in Liyue as the story. Maybe there's also fascination with the Adeptus stuff if they never read Chinese fiction before. Even while playing I thought the main story wasn't nearly as interesting as Mondstadt which made me care for all the characters. Sumeru was definitely the best.
No. 348630
Mondstadt was fine but it was also really bland, heroically saving Dvalin through the power of friendship is about as generic as it gets. The Abyss connections still don't even make sense. Venti was the only thing that made the Mondstadt AQ interesting, I don't remember anything any other character did other than Diluc fighting off a million hilichurls on the bridge and Barbara screeching at the broken lyre.
>>348602Yeah, Liyue was really shittily written. No idea who could think that it was leagues ahead of Inazuma or better than Sumeru and Fontaine. Half of it was going on boring shopping trips with Zhongli and then the writers fumbled and didn't know how to proceed so they turned Tartaglia into an attempted mass murderer. Zhongli ended up making a deal with the Fatui so that entire thing was just peak retardation and happened for no reason. The devs obviously asspulled Osial because they needed a grand epic battle where the heroes all work together in an epic moment and epically win the day. Doesn't help that they rehashed this entire thing with the Shenhe quests and basically copy pasted the Osial fight.
I think the only ones who still think that Liyue is the creme de la creme of Genshin writing are hardcore Tartali shippers who cling onto the last interactions their ship had 4 years ago.
Fontaine could have been really good if they didn't have that boring prison segment that took 4 irl hours longer than it should have. It's still my favorite because I actually like all the Fontainian characters and enjoyed watching them interact while Sumeru had some rotten eggs (Nilou, Dori) that ruined my experience a bit.
No. 348672
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>>348668Disagree, some parts of Mondstadt felt really convoluted and back when I played it I didn't fully get what the deal with the Abyss and Fatui was. I used to think they worked together because they did a shit job at explaining that there are 2 bad guy factions, and I still don't understand wtf the Abyss mages were trying to do with Dvalin. But maybe I'm just really retarded
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>>348602>worst written characterNah that goes to Diona or Noelle, fuck those bitches, Diona is a disgusting mix of bratty tsundere and loli and there's no reason Noelle shouldn't be a Knight already except that that's her only character trait so they can't progress her story. Ei is a retard but at least retarded is a personality. Scaramouche wouldn't be nearly so interesting if Ei wasn't a retard.
Eula, Yae, and Ei are definitely bottom tier to me though.
>>348599>>348562I like Liyue and the lore of it, but the story itself is a lot more about lore than doing much. If you don't like Zhongli I can see you hating it and Zhongli and Shenhe's story quests arguably advance the story of Liyue more than the story quest itself. Liyue feels like a land where all the action (Archon War, Cataclysm) is already done by the time you get there and you're living through the epilogue. Mondstadt is pretty generic save the town starter fantasy stuff and didn't leave much impact on me apart from Venti. Inazuma's Archon Quest starts strong but falls apart so completely at the third act to absolve Ei of responsibility that it's by far the worst.
I detested the Sabzeruz part of Sumeru, it's such a waste of the player's time, so I rank Fontaine's AQ higher than it but apart from that part Sumeru's archon quest was pretty good.
No. 349725
>>349546Definitely PC, I sometimes play on mobile when traveling with public transport. The controls are really a lot more difficult on mobile. I definitely have a hard time doing abyss on mobile. Doing basic quests is fine though, the underwater exploration is also really annoying with mobile compared to pc.
>>349722Yeah it's weird, i never say no to free primos though.
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So Ganyu gets LITERAL PANTIES OUT and our boy gets long boring shorts? I quit.
No. 349768
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>>349767this feels like such a fake post.
No. 349783
I think all Liyue skins so far are mid, I wonder if Zhongli ever gets one if he'll also be blue kek
>>349767I still think it's a bit weird to want XQ in short shorts, I'd rather both him and the young female charas were dressed in a non-outright-fanservice way but what can you do, it's a gacha game for weebs. But idk I guess I'll never get wanting to see teen character's thighs. Don't dogpile me please I don't mean harm, I think it's just some cultural difference.
No. 349785
>>349783I'm more interested in the Shenhe skin than the Ganyu skin because it covers Shenhe up a bit more, even if just by the smallest bit. Her default outfit is so bad anything is an improvement.
Zhongli still not having one is absurd with how many collabs have given him new outfits.
No. 349822
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>>349767The double standards between the male and female outfits piss me off so much. Nearly every other female character wears some variation of a vacuum-tight, backless, armpit-less mini dress with booty shorts and stiletto heels while all men are covered in nice, comfy clothes. I am already dreading what they have in plan for the Tsaritsa.
No. 350326
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>>349769They actually updated his hair. The bangs are more separated now and not so chunky. It’s just his original design has such simple colours is all.
No. 350629
>>350469I agree. Their relationship could be really funny, a more traditional manzai comedy than what he has with Shinobu (who babies him) and Paimon (who is a baby).
>>349722My first reaction was also "wtf," but when I actually played it I liked it a lot. I hope they'll do more weird, random stuff like that because the minigame was fun. It was held together by more than just desperation for social media engagement.
No. 350953
>>350950they're stingy fuckers, but the "just three pulls" thing is incorrect. it's 10 pulls given via log-in rewards like they've done before + 3
>>350951that's not what the bundle is. the incentive is to buy a PS5 in china and you'll receive a 4* skin selector bundled with it.
No. 350966
>>350960From what I understand the Chinese fans are pissed about the skin + PS5 bundle. They're saying everyone should be getting it for free (and they're not wrong)
It's an extremely shitty bundle regardless, those bundles usually come with a whole-ass game like Spider-Man or Horizon Forbidden West. The skins are worth what, $15?
No. 351031
>>351026I didn't really think it was that bad.
But there isn't any other way then playing through the quest.
Just force yourself to do one step a day until you're done?
No. 351046
>>351026this is similar to my experience with the game
except im not a new player i just haven't logged in in almost two years now kek I was extremely charmed by Mondstadt and Liyue and played quickly trough them but Inazuma was so dreadful that I stopped playing completely. I wasn't super invested in the stories and characters in Mondstadt and Liyue either but I still loved exploring their worlds. I just hate moving around in Inazuma for some reason and the story just feels too "grand" compared to the other two nations.
I can't say when it gets better but you reminded me of how much i wanted to reach Sumeru. Hopefully if I just focus on that then I can motivate myself to finish inazuma
No. 351220
>>351026Inazuma is generally pegged as the worst arc of the game. The Tsurumi Island world quest is good but you have to do Seirai Island first so no shame if you don't feel like doing it right away. Enkanomiya is locked behind doing the main quest which sucks imo because Enkanomiya is a cool place.
You can go right to Sumeru or Fontaine and do the world quests there for a break from Inazuma if you feel like (I recommend Aranyaka), or even the Chasm quest if I remember correctly.
No. 351684
>>351680I liked the puzzles and the atmosphere was good. Helping Ruu and then
the island's ghosts was fun for me. Plus there's a lot of lore there and I enjoy lore. If you think it sucked as much as dealing with the Tatarasuna and Balethunder for seven irl days I dunno what to tell you.
No. 351947
>>351946Samefagging to also answer your question. I’m mostly f2p but buy welkin if I feel like playing a lot.
I used to be like you anon and really prioritized getting primos but you’ll grow out of it after a few years playing.
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Ok who’s gonna attempt to murder da wei for second time?
No. 352082
>>352075>ugly old menWe haven't had a single playable old man yet, anon. Why do you think they would have been old men if they were made playable? They would have looked vaguely old like Neuvillette at most.
These designs are incredibly generic, though. They can put effort into NPC designs (see Takuya) yet keep choosing not to.
No. 352176
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>>352044Kek, this makes me wonder what they have in plan for Capitano. He attracts the worst kind of fans, ranging from women who are into old men yaoi and monsterfucking to moids who want a faceless, power fantasy self-insert.
No. 352226
>>352044You gotta be kidding me?? Seriously hoyo?>>352176
I hope he’s a cute bishie
No. 352242
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Chiori's kit has been leaked.
Her E switches party members and summons a doll that attacks with the player twice and leaves an additional doll that attacks with the player if there's a geo construct on the field. Her Q is just two big slashes of damage.
tl;dr she's an Itto support, but not a very good one unless you get constellations because they summon additional dolls when there's more Geo constructs and start applying on every attack at C1 and C2.
Her weapon seems like Albedo's new best in slot, so there's that I guess. Crit damage ascending weapon, boosts off-field elemental skill damage by 24%, then by 48% if teammates do geo damage. It also buffs defense by 20% passively.
No. 352256
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>>352180>>352176I really hope they make him pretty but that his playable version still has the mask, it looks cool. I also like his long hair but I'm worried they'll give him an awful middlepart
>>352082>>352142Tbf while Neuvillette isn't that ugly he's also not appealing to me. My bad though, I basically meant to say another vaguely old guy in a full suit and coat that covers his entire back. Her design is also uninteresting to me, but we all know that male whales pay more and have lower standards than female ones so they can't just make a male 5 star character up like that, they are usually relevant to the main quests
No. 352258
>>352242>Her weapon seems like Albedo's new best in slotMight go for her weapon then.
>>352257I guess albedo, zhongli or geo mc. They are the only ones who can actually create a construct. Not counting ning since her construct gets destroyed pretty easily i believe? Albedo his e has a low cool down too, so you can easily places his. They really need to make constructs less easier to destroy by enemies tho.
No. 352267
>>352257>>352258>They are the only ones who can actually create a construct. Itto's ushi (skill) also counts as a construct and I don't think it can be destroyed. It behaves more like amber's baron bunny or xiangling's guoba, but is still counted as a construct. And ushi taunts, too. Ning's jade screen does get wrecked about as easily as albedo's flower but if you've got one of her early cons, you can recreate it fairly easily, with the caveat that if you recast it within ~6-8 seconds, she won't generate particles on the second cast.
I think Chiori should work pretty decently with Itto considering that she has a decent amount of dual-scaling (ATK+DEF), so Gorou would buff her and even better if he's C6.
No. 352277
>>352257She's fine for Itto if you don't already have Albedo. If you already have Albedo there's not much need for her at C0. With constellations she will probably be better than Albedo because unfortunately he's a
victim of early Genshin design where constellations sucked and his scaling is split.
Her sword is perfect for Albedo. It's the sword he should have been given as his signature from the start.
No. 352324
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>>352176I love Capitano, but I'm not a monsterfucker or into old men. I feel like Capitano is more appealing to women who like masked characters.
I do hope he is the mature type tho, I don't want him looking like Childe or Zhongli. Something like Wriothesley maybe. My theory is that maybe they will give him face scars which could look cool, like picrel but a few more scars.
No. 353432
>>353336In about 11-24 hours, depending on your server, you'll see this event in-game called Vibrant Harriers Aloft in Spring Breeze. You must be adventure rank 20 and have completed the third part of Mondstadt's Archon Quest. The game might prompt you about a couple other quests you should complete for "the best experience" but you won't be required to do them for the event.
Do enough of the mini-games and you'll eventually get enough event currency to claim both Xingqiu's skin and your choice of a Liyue 4*. Genshin's events are always set up so that you can claim everything in the event shop with the allotted event currency.
Check this page for the countdown and more details.
https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Vibrant_Harriers_Aloft_in_Spring_Breeze No. 353619
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>>353555Fischl? I was going to say Furina but it's more that Furina's job is over now.
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>>353555Dori kek but I guess she has responsibilities (keeping an eye out for people to scam)
We should start to discuss the next thread pic, any ideas?
No. 353668
Why do the character designers for this game make a character have a nice full head of (short) hair, and then stick a random ass ponytail onto the bottom of it? Or whatever the fuck is going on with Furina's hair? I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it does kek.
>>353653Fully agree. It's so jarring teleporting from Chenyu Vale into Liyue Harbor to clear the reputation quest notification.
No. 353756
>>353668Furina's hair is a jellyfish. But as
>>353685 said the devs try to spice up the back of the designs since we're looking at them constantly in gameplay. The rat tails were probably easier to model than full long hair too before the devs started picking up their stride with how hair on the models should work in-game. Notice in the early patches everyone had either short hair or ponytails but now we have some veiled characters and some long haired characters with loose hair like Yun Jin.
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>>353668I find this funny because it reminds me of the sailor starlights treatment in the 90s. They were going to be made into dolls and demanded that they get long hair so Naoko gave them long ass ponytails.
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>>353668>Why do the character designers for this game make a character have a nice full head of (short) hair, and then stick a random ass ponytail onto the bottom of it?Have you seen how Chevreuse's hair looks in motion? It looks so bad to me. Very chunky and pretty stiff. I get why they tend to go for ponytails or no longer than mid-length loose hair. Still adds movement to the backs of the models without being time-consuming to accommodate for. It's fine for Yun Jin because her hair is on the thinner side, more like a veil.
There's also the issue of animations and clipping. They went through extra effort for Chevreuse's hair in regards to how her hair will split only when needed for her spear to not clip through it. Yun Jin has a built-in hair split but her spear still clips a little sometimes. Video showing that off:
https://youtu.be/RUmQbIL3gH4 No. 353764
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>>353762me too. i'm pretty bummed they gave arlecchino that ugly DNA looking ponytail. she'd look so much better without it. still not a pixie cut but it'd be shorter than any of the other ladies' cuts.
>>353763yeah people tend to forget rosaria because of the illusion her veil gives. eula has that longer bit off her one shoulder, so yelan and sara's cuts are shorter than hers on average.
No. 353969
>>353968I think they wanted it to be a situation in which the traveller lets her do whatever because there's no way to actually stop her and their goals align somewhat. After the trust with Lyney and Lynette is rebuilt that extends to Arlecchino since she's family and then she also helps out Navia, which means she can at least be counted on if it's about saving Fontaine. I agree that it didn't make sense to distrust the siblings that much in the first place though, considering all the previous encounters with fatui.
But I found it funny how little the traveller cared for Childe, they barely talked during all the wild shit that happened and in the end they couldn't even let the traveller see him off or something, it was almost surprising that they even remembered to mention him. So I don't think there's a lot of trust or friendship there kek
No. 353982
>>353969>But I found it funny how little the traveller cared for Childe, they barely talked during all the wild shit that happened and in the end they couldn't even let the traveller see him off or something, it was almost surprising that they even remembered to mention him.Yes this is so weird to me kek, traveler is kind to all fatui at this point
except Childe who traveler still gives a hard time or completely ignores
No. 354044
>>353968The very first thing Furina did was challenge the Traveler to a duel then immediately back off of it. Everything she was doing was suspicious. The Traveler still tried to protect her from Arlecchino during their meeting at Neuvillette's request. It was only after Arlecchino was seemingly willing to do more for Fontaine than Furina was that the Traveler turned on her.
>>353969A lot of the Fortress of Meropide arc was trying to figure out what happened to Childe, so I'm not sure I'd say the Traveler doesn't care about him at all. It was a little weird that we didn't see him off but I suspect they didn't want to bring his VAs back in for such a small thing. I'm guessing that's why the Traveler doesn't talk much too, they would rather have Paimon's VAs record lines once and not have to pay the Traveler's two VAs for each language when they can avoid it.
No. 354444
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Here’s cloud retainer’s concept art. Not sure how to feel about it.
Now that lantern rite is here who did you take home? I got Gaming at c1.
No. 354707
>>354698>scan through video>genshinlabs sales chartanyone who takes that chart seriously when it literally makes up the numbers is a major idiot. anyone trying to assert how much the game generates when the revenue is split across playstation, iOS, android, PC and several different major countries is making shit up.
>>354703what is alhaitham doing now that he isn't grand sage anymore? did he go back to being the scribe? he's known for being hard to find in his office and does as little work as he can so he can pursue his own interests and leisure time. he has a number of voice lines about being as lazy as he can. I don't think razor does anything either which makes sense because he's basically a feral kid.
No. 354719
>>354703Itto, kind of? But he takes laborer jobs to keep the gang fed so even he's not sitting on his ass all day. Razor is feral so it's not the same as laziness, I don't think.
>>354698>source: my assIt could be true I suppose but I doubt it. There's more gacha addicts than people realize.
No. 354826
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Leaked Varka concept art. Still early so he could be changed, but expect something like this.
No. 354863
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>>354826>>354834other anon is right, that's Gallagher, upcoming 4-star in Star Rail
No. 354868
>>354863aww too bad, he's cute, but a little too 'flirty' for my idea of Varka.
He'll probably come with Natlan so probably a few months yet before we really get an idea of what he might look like.
No. 354907
>>354895The white haired design then?
Still feel he's a bit too lanky and sly looking. And I was thinking darker hair.
No. 355132
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>I wouldn't have guessed I'd bump into you two in a Sumeru tavern.
>Here to give me your wishes? Thank you, it is indeed my birthday. I just hope that today will be as relaxing and enjoyable as any other.
>The signature dish here at Lambad's Tavern is fish rolls. You should give them a try if you're interested.
>If you stay a little longer, you'll see a couple of other familiar faces too. They're coming over from Avidya Forest, so they should be arriving any moment. When there's something that calls for a celebration, we meet at the tavern — that's how it's always been with us four.
Love him. Happy birthday.
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>>355132I love all 4 of them
No. 355955
>>355222I also want to see more characters with different skin tones, it's crazy that there's so little visual variety. There are already quite a few characters that I think would look better if they weren't as pale as they are. I also don't want everyone to shit on Genshin again when they inevitably make more than half of the new cast pale for no reason.
>more fujobaitThere will be two tall male characters interacting and that will be enough for fujos kek I think they've realized how to get the response they want. But I hope Varka/Capitano won't be as big of a nothingburger as Neuvillette/Wriothesley turned out to be
No. 356271
>>355222>I know it's a ways away, but what are everyone's wishes for the new region?not a cringe pyro archon waifu mommy but we already know it's coming anyways. she's just going to be another coomer cumsock just like raiden with a "muh sister died so now i am a stoic retard" type of story so we feel bad for her. i wish we had more than 2 male archons in this retarded incel game but even asking for more than 2 playable male characters in an entire region is too much
>>354863he looks like a wriothesley ripoff, especially the clothes
No. 356324
>>356271>even asking for more than 2 playable characters in a region is too muchAre you retarded? We got five in Sumeru. If anything it's likely Natlan will be more male-focused like Sumeru was, they seem to release a bunch of men then a bunch of women to try to get people to drain all their primos.
>>355222I'd like some dark-skinned characters too.
No. 356354
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>>356353Pull the lever, Paimon!
No. 356366
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>>356345It's partly Spain, partly West Africa, and partly Latam. So there's going to be a huge mess of different ideas and probably some cultural divides like Sumeru with the Rainforest vs Desert.
On that note, an early emote of a beta design for the Pyro archon got leaked (using one of Jean's emotes as a base model). It's looking pretty bleak.
The bowtie bit is apparently not going to be in the final design but she's going to be based off a Matador with Carnivale theming. Spain Twitter is already reeing about how racist that is and how Spaniards hate that part of their culture and the usual meltdowns Twitter has. No. 356367
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>>356366Some additional context for this leak.
No. 356413
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Jeht got Valentine's Day art. This is notable in that it's the first time we've gotten NPC art for a holiday. Now do Enjou for White Day, Hoyoverse.
No. 356542
>>356515Chinese people are racist as shit and seem to think any culture that doesn't have lily white skin are uneducated cavemen which makes them all the same to them.
It's telling that Liyue gets an annual blowjob with Lantern Rite, Fontaine and Mondstadt are mostly French/German mixed with a bit of English, Inazuma is accurate to milk weeb bux but dead in the water content wise, and Sumeru and now apparently Natlan will be weird mishmashes of 50 different cultures that have nothing to do with each other.
I understand the favoritism HYV has towards Liyue but it's still annoying how every other region only gets breadcrumbs.
No. 356569
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>>356324oh wow we got five playable male characters in sumeru. mhy is so generous, cease your complaining anons
>>356556>there's no culture in Mondstadt or Fontainetfw the only culture in sumeru is mhy throwing middle eastern/indian cultures together and slapping stereotypical arab music on top. they even gave us a white loli as the goddess of the brown people, it's like they're taking the piss
No. 356736
>>356639Kirara is a great shielder and so is Layla. Kirara also has her place in Nilou teams and using her box form for exploration.
Collei is also fantastic for Nilou teams, particularly for speedrunning, and she's a good pick for spread too. She gets forgotten about because of dendro traveler's existence but I like that you don't have to worry about Collei's burst randomly exploding from coming into contact with pyro.
Lynette is underrated because she's only been on one banner so basically no one has, let alone her c6 which adds her anemo infusion and turns her into a great driver for the team. She's also always going to get overshadowed by Kazuha's existence. Her taunt is pretty handy.
Candace is really the only truly trash one in that list, with her singular niche of hydro-infusing Yaoyao in Nilou teams.
I'd say percentage-wise that it's pretty even when it comes to kinda shit or nearly useless characters, it's just more noticeable with the ladies because there's more of them total. Like who the fuck is actually using Mika? The 1% of Eula owners that still use her and don't mind having a guy in the team? Kaveh and Freminet can both work if you put a lot of investment into them but they take so much work as a 4
on-field character. They'll always get outshone by 5 on-field characters.
>>356641I really hope they take their time to make a good batch of guys for Natlan because Fontaine has been very lackluster for me in that regard. The Sumeru guys were much more preferable to me.
No. 356752
>>356736>kiraraKek, use DMC or Yaoyao
>colleiSee the above but even worse
>laylaGenuinely good to be fair but niche because cryo isn't in a great spot right now
>doriDogshit, you don't even want to run her with Furina because you can electro-charged and/or overload yourself accidentally and she needs 250+ energy without C6
>candaceActually dogshit as you said
>lynetteKek Sucrose is better in every way, much less Venti or Kazuha, there's no situation in which you wouldn't want Sucrose over her. Lynette can't even snapshot
>kavehUnfortunately he's worse Nilou, typical 4 star vs 5 star gacha problem
>mikaSees use in Furina teams for cryo resonance, but see point about Layla
>freminetKek physical, his kit had neat ideas but kek physical
Plus there's never been a male 5 star that was simply plain unusable. Even Albedo whose kit and constellations are a mess is still fringe used. Look at poor Dehya or Eula (and Chiori soon).
No. 356757
>>356752Isn't Freminet better as cryo?
Anyway the reality of gacha games is they can't keep making better characters especially for 4 stars. Characters only have 2 skills and 2 passives, they just can't be unique enough to not overlap. The fontaine blue/yellow light mechanic (not playing in EN orz) was as far as new mechanics can go unfortunately. Unless Natlan surprises us with something new that's exciting but won't break the game or the previous characters entirely.
No. 356763
>>356752Mona, Klee and arguably CR and Shenhe are also all awful. The latter two are so incredibly niche they're not even worse running unless you own either Xiao or Ayaka respectively. But yeah, the other anon is on giga copium if she actually thinks any of the 4 stars she listed are usable unless you're a noob who doesn't own anything else.
Why the fuck would anyone use characters like Collei when Nahida, Yaoyao, Baizhu, DMC, etc exist? It's like that with all 4 stars that have been released in recent history. The only good ones that aren't just a complete downgrade from any 5* that serves the same role are Faruzan and Yaoyao, and maybe Charlotte in Furina/Ayaka teams.
No. 356884
>>356757Freminet is probably better as cryo, but cryo has so many good options already. I like the idea of him being able to be either cryo or physical but his numbers just aren't good enough.
I want Natlan to give some more burgeon support of some kind, because right now there isn't really a great option aside from Thoma for it. A good Melter would be great too.
>>356763I didn't put Mona down because she's standard banner but you're right. Keqing is worse Alhaitham as well. Klee is borderline unplayable, only masochists pick her up. Cloud Retainer is peak "for fun" character, I only tolerate her because Ga Ming is fun. Shenhe is a for whales character, she enables stupid shit if you have Wriothesley but is otherwise unnecessary and probably should have been a 4 star like Faruzan.
Again, the most poorly-designed male character is probably Albedo. The others have a lot of thought put into their kits. So yeah, it's better to have quality male characters over a bunch of garbage ones that aren't worth building.
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>>357618I got Dehya.
I probably have enough primos for full pity, but maybe I'll wait.
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>>356743I don’t get how that would mean she has to be white…?
I’m pretty convinced the Natlan archon will be white-skinned too. It sucks. There was some weird stuff sprinkled in Sumeru so I have a feeling they might have a full-blown racist line somewhere like in honkai 3rd.
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>>357658Iirc there was a whole character whose identity was being ashamed of being half black / having a black mother and that it makes her ugly. Said mother is basically a hypermasculine racist caricature called “Lewis” btw. Never played the game though.
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>>357660Ew wtf. They can get away with it in HI3 because their only international fanbase is incels that don't give a fuck but if they put even a little bit of passive aggressive racist shit in Genshin like some other games do they'll have fucked up irreversibly. They better have some of the EN team check up on their shit.
Also we need a new thread pic before someone sneaks in a coomer image again. I don't have many fanart saved so any ideas?
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>>357661I doubt they'll go hyperaggressive with the racism in Genshin even if the devs believe in it. They know Genshin is their big overseas seller, they won't want to risk that. It'll stick around in their less popular games. The worst they'll do is gimp the dark-skinned characters' kits and make them unessential pulls like they did to Dehya. The Pyro Archon will 100% be white to pander to the Asian incel market who can't handle a drop of melanin in their waifus without having autistic meltdowns.
At least Cyno is good even if he demands all your resources to reach his best potential No. 357912
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>>357661Thoughts on this for the thread pic?
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>>357912It's very pretty, but Arlecchino looks way too moe for my liking
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>>357951ayrt. I prefer my Arlecchinos on the more badass side too, but I thought a thread pic with multiple characters would go over more easily than a solo. Have an offering for good taste though!