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No. 357984
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What have you been enjoying in the 4.4 patch? We've had:
>Chenyu Vale area added including lots of new world quests, new wildlife, a couple of new enemies>Xianyun and Gaming as new playables>New skins for Shenhe, Ganyu and Xingqiu>Xianyun's story quest>Lantern Rite quest and event>Food event happening right now>The recent battle event with trial characters>New TCG cards, including sayu, thoma, cryo cube, the electro seahorse, and action cards like jeht>Xiao and Yae re-runAnd some QoL stuff in picrel
I pulled Xianyun and have been enjoying her a lot. She breathed some new life into some characters in my roster I'd been neglecting or added more team variety for them, like Navia and Diluc. She's been a delight for traversing through Chenyu Vale with because of her jumping and I like using characters that are somewhat "canon" to explore new areas with. I do however use a mod to alter her a bit because her default is a bit much for me (
https://gamebanana.com/mods/493134). I have been slowly moving through the Vale every day until I accrue enough encounter points, so I haven't done a lot of the quests yet. Very pretty scenery as I expected.
I found the lantern rite quest pretty touching overall and appreciated the focus on family bonds, even if your family isn't blood-related. The scene between Shenhe, Xianyun, Yip Tak and Gaming sitting at the tables was very amusing. The hug at the end between Gaming and Yip Tak was sweet.
Sayu has been really fun in the TCG but I'm not sure what the new meta decks coming out on top are. I see a lot of people using Jeht now when I match with others. I prefer playing the "drafting" mode where you each have to choose three character cards from a random pool because it's refreshing not facing off against sweaty tryhard decks all the time.
The recent battle event was interesting. It used your character cons but not your weapons or artifacts and the character pools on some days were strange. I ended up with some unusual teams sometimes but still cleared it quite easily on the hardest difficulty. I wonder what the general player base experience was with it, if they found it too challenging? It makes me wonder if the devs are experimenting with making a pseudo rogue-lite mode.
No. 358018
>>357984I'm building Ga Ming and enjoying playing him, though he seems to get critically low on hp real fast. It's probably skill issue. Lantern Rite's story was pretty good this year, you can see massive improvement in the pre-rendered cutscenes from the devs over time. They did a good job incorporating Ga Ming's preexisting animations into his long dance.
The combat event was interesting, but needs some polish. The pre-made builds were appallingly bad, like laughably so. The Furina had something atrocious like 45% crit rate and 90% crit damage, anyone who ran the domain for a week could probably do better. I don't think Nilou was an appropriate character in the character pool either when the game immediately proceeded to make it near impossible to use her core mechanic by dumping electro characters on you. Overall just needed slightly better gearing on the trial characters for a smoother experience.
>>358004What the fuck are you even talking about.
No. 358036
>>358018I ended up with C6 Gaming rolling for Xianyun and need to get around to building him. His normals felt weird to me so I put him on the backburner. His kit doesn't seem as straight-forward to me as most others either when it comes to optimal rotation. I noticed a lot of HP drain in his kit but he only has this very small way to get HP back, so probably not a skill issue on your part but more of a team build issue.
>After Bestial Ascent's Plunging Attack: Charmed Cloudstrider hits an opponent, Gaming will regain 1.5% of his Max HP once every 0.2s for 0.8s.He definitely seems like he needs a healer with him, purposefully made so players want Xianyun with him.
It's funny I've seen some other people complain about the bad gearing too. I didn't even bother checking the gear at all but still found it pretty easy to clear on pro, even with not knowing how to optimally use some of the carries. The enemy HP felt really low. The one build issue that really stuck out to me was not having nearly enough ER on Xiangling for one stage. It took forever to get her burst back.
I think for the Nilou one on the last day that they really wanted you to bloom on the first two stage parts because the enemies spawned far closer together on those than the latter two. When I tried to avoid using Nilou my first time through, I ran into the issue of there not being enough electro characters. Re-doing it with her made those two parts explode quickly. It was the only one I had to re-do.
No. 358059
>>357984Personally struggled in the hardest mode but Im a retard who cant game for shit so YMMV
>>357977Haitham you beauty
No. 358090
>>357984>Chenyu ValePretty but haven't really explored it. Getting Fontaine chests while trying to finish Sumeru commissions
Gaming is cute but hate HP drain
Don't care about costumes for charas I don't have and haven't done the quest yet… Haven't even finished Wrio's story quest.
>Lantern Rite quest and eventFamily drama was dumb, but I guess it wasn't NPC drama.
>Food event happening right nowI like these kind of simple events but it makes me hungry.
>The recent battle event with trial charactersHated it. Reminded me that I hate how Furina damages the whole team not just the active character. At least you only have to beat normal for the primos and hard difficulty rewards aren't worth it.
>TCGStopped playing when I realized you don't need those points to max BP.
>Xiaogot Dehya…
No. 358475
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What do anons use to clear the Abyss? Curious as to who people main. I switch it up but I always try to use a Cyno team with Baizhu and Nahida and mono Geo whenever possible (sadly not very possible as of late). This time I did a plunge Kazuha team for the lulz then a Wriothesley first half alongside Cyno second half. I could have used Neuvillette but that would have been zero effort, he melts everything so fast.
>>358284I'm still trying for Project Baby. It's the last one the game has to give me.
No. 358512
>>358475I always have an alhaitham team on one side. It will be some mix of nahida, yaoyao, baizhu, furina, xingqiu, fischl, yae, raiden or kuki.
On the other side is usually whatever fits best to counter the enemies or whoever I got recently that I want to use. I picked up xianyun and navia on their banners, so I've been using them. Otherwise, it'll usually be another dendro team, either a hyperbloom team, a thoma burgeon team or a tighnari spread team.
No. 358528
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Okay so pic relateed is t pyro archon concept design. Which ofcourse can be changed a lot (see the old skirk and clorinde concept arts). However if you compare it to Nahida another archon concept arts, her color design didn't change at all. So I'm afraid we might be stuck with this color pallet
>>358475i pretty much always use alhaitham on one side and neuvilette on the other. Before neuv i used childe. We really need some male electro off field characters, i want to try and use teams with only male characters
No. 358530
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>>358528as comparison this is leaked nahida concept designs, again of course the pyro archon design can change, but because it won't take that long before Natlan is coming. I dont think they will change like big things. Not gonna lie im kinda sad how her design looks more Fontaine, i was hoping that we wouldnt get yet another european inspired country. Since we will also be getting Snezhnaya which is also very much eu. I think Natlan will be like Sumeru, so the educated and more civilised people will all be white and more european styled, and the people in the desert will be darker.
No. 358533
>>358528Tbf she's the fire god so it makes sense red and orange/yellow will be her main colours. Her aesthetic is what I was expecting from Fontaine at the beginning so I'd be happy to see a nomadic circus concept but if the nomadic tribes are that then where's the African inspiration going to be?
>>358530>the educated and more civilised people will all be white and more european styled, and the people in the desert will be darkerI hope they don't pull this shit again. I'm taking an unhealthy dose of copium hoping for the archon to change to having dark skin already. I thought the idea was that the entire nation is made of independent tribes anyway, so we'll have a big "civilized" city again? Guess they have to put in a giant tree somewhere.
No. 358541
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>>358534idk i at first thought it more of an italien inspo with like venetian carnival but a lot less cooler.
>>358533There are a few big tribes, so i expect the bigger tribes to be more civilized actually have buildings instead of tents ect. I don't see how this is otherwise will go, based on the design of the archon vs the design of a natlan character. You can see pic related actually has tribal inspiration, while the archon looks very different and more so like she is from fontaine. Maybe the story is that the pyro archon is actually not from natlan?
No. 358728
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>>358528I can't bring myself to get too worked up about the design either way until I see the final design and see it in 3D. For example, I liked Chevreuse's design far more in the 2D than how her model ended up looking. A character's personality can really sell a design for me, too. [spoiler]I like her big red diluc eyes. I am not a fan of the pearls, mask color or the purple hair vents. lol at at least one leaker saying the stripes are meant to be like a carnival tent.
No. 358759
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>>358528I don’t get this at all? I’m really trying to understand how this fits into a volcanic hot spring and mountainous environment. Seriously what has happened to the creative departments of Genshin
No. 358889
>>358528I think people were misled by just seeing the term "African inspiration" when it was specifically "west African" (probably specifically Morocco)
in addition to Spain and Latin America. West Africa is more influenced by Andalusian and Arab cultures than Eastern or Central African ones so I don't know why they act so surprised Natlan isn't turning out to be more like Sub-Saharan Africa.
That said, her being white skinned and wearing a spaniard-inspired outfit from colonial times really underlines the role of archons as colonizers kek.
No. 358897
>>358889We aren’t misled because of that, we’re misled by the extreme difference between this
>>358528 and this, which we have seen for years as representative of Natlan
>>358541 No. 358905
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>>358897She doesn't look African though? It's a Native Latin American style of design, similar to a traditional Aztec dress.
No. 358915
>>358528Wow I'm extremely disappointed in this. It's just boring. I was really hoping for some tribal type design like
>>358541 but more bones, skulls, body paint.
>>358905Why couldn't they make the archon look sort of like this design? Mihoyo why… I know people would dump money into her with a cooler traditional tribe design.
No. 358964
>>358917Are you thinking about North Africa like Libya and Egypt because East Africa consists of Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania which aren't really that Arab influenced compared to North/West Africa. Bottom line Natlan was always implied to be more South American/Mesoamerican including using the names from the Maya Hero Twins tales and the entire region's name being an Aztec word, people just got so hung up on that one mention of West Africa that now they're disappointed beyond repair that it's not full on African themed due to building up things that were never going to happen.
>>358915I don't know if they're really going for the colonizer narrative seeing how she's wearing a dress more inspired by Spanish royalty kek but I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. Initial leaks are saying that the pyro archon isn't the main character of the story but instead there's some male character who's supposedly going to be the hero. I also have a feeling that we're going to turn against the archons after learning about the sovereigns in Fontaine and other leaks saying that Venti will be relevant in Natlan's story chapter and that there will be other sovereigns introduced. Take it with a grain of salt though.
No. 359108
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>>358889kek could you imagine if they gave her a whole ass Dutch outfit because of south Africa being colonized by Netherlands.
No. 359243
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>Wanna know what this is? Hehe, it's a birthday present from another member of Benny's Adventure Team!
>As luck would have it, I just so happened to slip over, so it came in handy after all!
>My dads are right, a birthday that only comes around once every four years is bound to be a day of unexpected good fortune!
>Well, that's my partner calling, so I better be off! I wish you a lucky day too — hope you finally manage to find that huge pile of pinecones you're after!
Happy Birthday Bennett!
No. 359250
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>>358528Kek wtffffffffffff. Holy shit. Is this bitch the god of WAR?
No. 359314
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>>359243I love you Bennyyyyyyyy
No. 359320
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>>359243Happy birthday Benny!
No. 359383
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>>359349These are the builds I'm happiest with.
I had a top 3 Neuvi at some point but haven't gotten any upgrades for a while and people have caught up to me. Cyno's EM looks low but it's absolutely worth the tradeoff of being able to comfortably burst all the time. Akasha has no idea why my Kokomi's like this which make me lol.
No. 359509
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Livestream sucked ass. Another easy skip filler patch. New wish banner though
No. 359513
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>>359349I dont really have to much to flex, my Childe is in the top 7% thats it the other characters are all pretty bad kek, but i have no hard time clearing abyss content and that is the only end game stuff so idc to much about artifact grinding.
>>359509Here are the codes:
DAKTDBWTZTYR
AT3BDSWTYBKD
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Pic related is a quick summary i have stolen from reddit about the new banner system
No. 359627
>>359383Loving the EM kokomi and very nice zhongli, plus making top 3 at any point in time is really impressive so big kudos there. As for me, I've got <5% on two of my mains and I'm aiming to get top ranks on an upcoming character!
>>359509I don't know what they're doing with this pacing. 4.3 was filler, 4.4 was only saved from full filler status by chenyu, and 4.5 is so dry it makes the latter half of sumeru look like an oasis. Sure 4.6 will be a content nuke, but they could have spread it out over two patches for a much less agonizing result.
No. 359636
I feel like they could add in 4* character stories to fill empty patches like this, we're only getting Lynette for the first time in a while but they added 2 every patch or every other patch when it was a new thing. I don't actually want to play it 6 times for the characters I don't like but it wouldn't feel that empty at least.
>>359627>4.5 is so dry it makes the latter half of sumeru look like an oasisKEK
No. 359646
Whenever I get annoyed at genshin's designs I remember that star rail has even shittier designs. One of the upcoming characters has extremely short low waisted 2000s hot pants that you'd only see in a porn magazine and a lot of characters are dressed almost the same. Idc what anyone else says, genshin got better art direction. It's not stellar cause we still get some shitty designs but
>>358530 just looking at this there'a quite a lot of creativity that goes in the character creations. We do get the watered down versions, but it's an upgrade to star rail or wuthering waves. Also, unlike the other games, at least genshin characters have unique eyeshapes, star rail has more blatant sameface in comparison
No. 359748
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>>359592Genshin definitely tries to be a normal live service game more than being a typical gacha though. Which is why I think it’s weird to kill the game with 3 years of the same formula and pacing.
>>359627Exactly. It’s weird to have that much filler between 4.2-4.6. I get that some anons like the previous anon I replied to above like to whiteknight this but we’re getting pure shit filler. Not even charming events like Windblume kind of filler. 4.5 even lacks that. Hangouts have lessened, reoccurring events with world building storytelling (Venti and windblume, albedo in dragonspine etc) aren’t happening, and the last Dain quest was a wet fart. The quality has gone down and the pacing has gotten worse. Time to freshen the game up a bit. At least they’ve understood that with the new permanent banner.
No. 360501
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>>360489They are and irl I'd kinda agree with
>>360491 but I also see the rivals to lovers appeal. I'd like to see more regular couples in npcs tbh, they can be really cute if their interactions are paced properly.
No. 360535
>>359646I have such a hard time keeping up with Star Rail solely because the female designs are so repugnant, way worse than in Genshin. In Genshin they have coomer elements but for the most part they're fairly inoffensive and mundane (sans the armpit fetish) but in Star Rail they just look ugly and porny all the time. Most of them aren't given actual clothes, you can't tell half of what the hell they're wearing but the male characters look fine so it's clearly a conscious choice. This isn't just me either because even scrotes complained about all the Xianzhou Luofu girls having lazy, patronizing designs. But that said, Wuthering Waves on the other hand has no redeemable features because both the female and male characters look like dogshit.
I guess it boils down to what aesthetics you prefer to be fair but what I'm trying to say is that personally I just like Genshin's designs the best. Actual pornified characters like Yelan, Shenhe and Xianyun happen only occasionally and aren't given very remarkable roles while in Star Rail you have to stare at Seele's and Acheron's crotches and boob windows for long parts of the story.
No. 360554
>>360542>the rest of the communityYes, why wouldn't moids and trannies love HSR and Wuwa? They're full of half-naked women and safe mode men.
If you don't want to talk about something in this thread no one's making you. Just go to any other thread.
>>360535Anon here is right. The porny characters are pretty rare all things considered. There are stupid decisions made like Jean's armpits being out when they shouldn't be but they're much less than HSR or Wuwa's.
No. 360809
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Any thoughts? Spoilered to reduce possible seething. I didn't have the heart to make any of them handmaidens. I also wanted to focus on the reactions of female characters, but feel free to make one for the males.
No. 360817
>>360809To be honest, I would put Barbara, Nahida and Yoimiya as handmaidens.
Nilou and Amber as pure clueless normies.
Kokomi would definetly we crypto. And I like the thought of Ayaka being crypto too, lmao.
Also, I feel like Layla's sleeping personality would be a
terf or easily peaked, while her regular personality is a normie or a handmaiden, lel.
No. 360827
>>360809I think that Lynette should be a crypto, she dealt with ugly bastards before and in her voice lines it is obvious that she is very observational and independent. She is not an open
terf because she needs to stay non-controversial for her spying job
No. 361056
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>>361054Kek what the fuck is this? Now I kind of want to roll for her just to piss chincels off. Like is her hiding her pits and being rude enough for them to ree about evil feminist agenda or something? This is why Mihoyo games never have mean girls, Chinese moids will legitimately piss their pants if a girl isn't subservient and smiling all the time.
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>>361057Don't forget about Furina's designer being a feminist causing Korean gachacels to have a meltdown to the point they rented a fucking advertisement blimp to place in front of Mihoyo's Korean HQ.
No. 361703
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there are clearly different art teams working on this game and all i can really say is mhy picked the wrong one for arlecchino's drip marketing. barely even looks like the same woman. shame on them.
No. 361764
>>361724ntayrt, but i made my original post in a rush and realize i could have been unclear: i was talking about how moidgazey the drip looks. even in comparison to her character sheet, she's depicted in a particularly coomerish and overfeminized way here, almost as if they're trying to "compensate" for her not showing skin. it's such a disservice to her character, and an additional spit in the face to those of us who wanted a less sexualized female character.
>>361708>>361754fully agreed with you both. mark my words, if arle ever gets any more concept art leaks, we'll see exactly how much we were robbed of a more gnc look.
No. 361788
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>>361703Maybe I'm retarded but I still love her. I love feminine suits, I love her arm and pant ruffles. My only criticism is she didn't really need a ponytail but it doesn't overly bother me either. She looks great, especially compared to most of the other waifus of late.
No. 361806
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arlefuri is peak
No. 361812
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>>361801not delusional, factual. there was almost certainly coomer sabotage at play.
>inb4 haha leakerif some people still doubt syp after everything then there's not much i can do for them.
No. 361817
>>361812Jesus just what kind of her is "princely" at this point? She ended up being a generic dommy mommy bi4anime straight girls are begging to be strapped by. I'm just so disappointed in everything about her, she even had literally zero plot relevance in the entire Fontaine archon quest. A letdown of depressing proportions.
>>361813>The pose sort of emphasises her ass/more "feminine" side and I also think it was done as some sort of "compensation" for her outfit being fully covered.According to leaks she has her jacket removed during her burst stance making her pits and tits fully visible. Absolutely obliterated by coom.
No. 361818
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>>361814welp, Arlecchino has 2 hands, though I guess it would be too good if they also gave us her in Natlan
No. 361820
>>361812she was going to end up in heels anyway cause the tall female model was made only for heels and they weren't going to change that
>>361817ew i hope that leak is fake
No. 361823
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the problem is that her vision is on her jacket so why would she undress in the burst animation? is she gonna put her jacket on again when it ends? and isn't she wearing multiple layers underneath the jacket anyway?
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Freminet also has his no jacket version in design sheet but sadly he doesn't undress
No. 361825
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>>361824it was made for this scene. we've already seen arlecchino without her jacket in game
No. 361826
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>>361822KEK yeah most of that was all the same guy too (uncle k), absolute insanity. for now the only reliable leaker who's spoken up is foul in picrel, but as always take leaker TCing with a grain of salt. also, apparently the c6 ayato think is a joke among CN leakers and not meant to be taken seriously.
>>361823exactly. and arle switching between having her jacket on/off during fast-paced fighting would be really convoluted animation-wise. it's already a wonder they managed to make it work with furina, although even thats not 100% fluid.
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here
No. 361829
>>361825yeah I think his burst would be better if he put the helmet on and lost his jacket lol
>>361826Arlecchino on the other hand should just be shown as a powerful mastermind, I like the way she's clicking her fingers in the trailer for example
No. 361832
>>361817Everything from that leaker has been incorrect about her so far. He said her constellation was going to be a black widow spider. He's a clown and should be ignored.
>>361826To be fair Cyno "gains" arms and a helm during his burst and that looks fine because there's the burst cutscene that gives the game time to replace the model, so she could lose the jacket in burst. I just don't really see what that would achieve, her Vision's on her jacket and that imo is a good indicator she'll probably keep it on.
No. 361833
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this is a bit autistic but do you guys have any height headcanons for the characters? according to this official pic the in game heights don't reflect their real heights cause raiden is way taller than yae
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>>361833and either zhongli is very tall or ningguang is more on the shorter side
No. 361836
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venti taller than jean
No. 361855
>>361847It's a shitty travel guide made by a Japanese travel agency, not an actual HYV product
>>361845I think they just scaled them depending on their heels and general vibes. Venti's watermelon head compared to Jean and Kaeya looks funny though. Genshin head proportions between the different models are so fucked kek the lolis are the worst offenders but the short models also have such giant heads when put next to the tall ones
No. 362016
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Am I fucking crazy for thinking, other than her stripper heels and nails, Arlecchino isn't all that coomer? She's covered from head to toe, is wearing actual pants, and has no retarded titty cutouts or anything. She stands in that stupid as fuck pigeon toed stance and has a thigh gap, but that's because she's using the generic tall female model. It's not like she's Eula or Cloud Retainer.
Obviously she's somewhat sexualized but that's because every character in Genshin is sexualized lol. The only one I can think of who has 0 sex appeal is Neuvillette.
I don't know why anyone would think she would turn out to be a flat chested, androgynous character anyway considering she has always had a feminine face, long hair, sheer material on her chest and even lipstick on during her very first appearance in that Fatui trailer. If they had teased us with a butch and delivered something like Clorinde I'd also be pissed, but that's not what happened.
No. 362030
>>362016>feminine facewhat does that even mean? it's an anime game, every woman has the same face.
>long hairnobody knew she would have long hair during lazzo. the "proof" was shaky at best and most people thought it was just strands of hair from the back.
>sheer materialif thats sheer, its the most opaque sheer i've ever seen.
>lipstick eh. unfortunately granted, albeit this is one of the tamer cases of lipstick.
sorry, but lazzo did bait us. many people were expecting more, and we weren't wrong to do so. was she going to be the world's most hardcore butch? obviously not. but she did feel "more" gnc from the outset than other genshin women, and by the looks of it the art direction
>>361812 wanted to go for that too. it's not unreasonable to be disappointed.
No. 362054
>>362016I swear that one anon is baiting hard. She's way less sexualized than most of the female roster.
Also her kit's been leaked. She
Puts a Bond of Life on herself and enemies and when it maxes out gains a huge burst of damage. She gets a Pyro infusion and is about normal and charged attacks. No Overload shenanigans and no sign of taking off her coat. No. 362071
>>362016she really isn't, this one anon claiming yoimiya is less sexualized even though her tits are literally spilling out and her coochie is almost out… you guys just want to be mad. arlecchino looks like a character that myself i would design and i think she looks badass, like that's her appeal, to be badass and cool and dark and edgy. saying that she's nothing but a dommy mommy for moids is plain stupid, she's not like kafka from star rail, or yelan, or yae, or raiden. her "children" call her father, not mother. you're also exaggerating about her pose looking too feminine when she just has her back turned on the audience and it doesn't show any butt crack. this would be a pretty cool design and drawing anywhere else but because it's genshin you must complain and nitpick
you should check path to nowhere, that game panders to a gay female audience and the coom is off the charts, it makes arlecchino look super tame by comparison. also fun fact, arlecchino chinese va voices ling wen in heaven officials blessings
No. 362084
>>362064Right. Whenever nonas talk about liking a (female) character they always get hit with "Noo that character was clearly made for moids!!!" as if they should care. I get that you can't complain about coomerish designs as freely in other spaces, but I don't get the need to argue with anons who still like them despite that.
>>362080Kek didn't that game have to remove a character because her outfit was just lingerie
No. 362085
>>362071Yeah, I like Yoimiya but I'd never claim she's less sexualized than Arlecchino because there's no universe in which that's true. It's not even comparable.
>>362072Same anon, she reminds me
of characters I'd design as a teenager. Even most of the liked fanart I'm seeing of her is more edgy than coom. Women love her.
No. 362101
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I couldn't care less about what coomers think about Arlecchino, I've been daydreaming about being her right hand woman for months and I'm so happy that she'll be playable now. As long as she doesn't change her character completely I'll be happy to have her and build her to her full potential. I hope she gets more content after Fontaine as well.
People were speculating that we should be getting 2 harbingers per region from Fontaine on to make all of them playable during region expansions but I guess that won't be the case. Does anynonnie have an idea what story content we'll get after Khaenri'ah? The only other lsg I play regularly has a wider world and unlimited potential for world building but Genshin has limited map space for most nations and they limited the number of nations to 7+1 at the beginning. It seemed absurd to think about this in the beginning but it feels like Inazuma dropped yesterday, we'll get to the end so soon.
No. 362107
>>362101I feel like there's no way all of them will be made playable. Dottore is too difficult to redeem at this point and that small old guy shouldn't be made because he's ugly. If anything they'll continue with one per patch and put all the rest into Snezhnaya.
And once all regions are unlocked it should be over, they'll probably continue to make boring events for a few years and then they could make the traveller go to another world with their sibling. Or they reboot it completely. Did they do something similar with Honkai? I have no idea what's going on in those games at all or if they even have a similarly clear endpoint. What if they just make Genshin 2 set another few centuries in the future or past kek
No. 362113
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>>361703Rough sketch of her splash art. She has an edgy angel wing (I'm guessing as part of her burst).
No. 362115
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>>362113Also her wing kind of looks like Dvalin's based on the sketch? She has a Vision and didn't recognize Neuvillette so I doubt she's a Primordial Dragon but man that probably means something.
No. 362121
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>>362114>Fontaine's swansThey always made me think Neuvillette and Wriothesley but they might as well be Arlecchino and Furina
No. 362220
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gambling is good ig
No. 362354
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>>362320None of the reliable leaks have alluded to this, but it's always possible, I suppose. They seem to be suggesting she has more of a 6-winged motif like picrel, but it's hardly very descriptive kek. We'll find out more soon now that the beta is out. Overall, I don't see why they'd bother doing this. People have been losing their mind over Arlecchino as she is. Her mystique and relative lack of sexualization is the appeal. They just don't need to do it. There will always be moids who scream and cry over stuff like this, but if HYV capitulated to every male tantrum, we'd have no yume or fujobait at all.
No. 362397
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>>362393Yes, it's so good. File is too big to embed here but I'll add the link
https://streamable.com/5m9e57 and a screencap Ubatcha shared. Everything is much better than I expected.
No. 362400
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splash art
No. 362402
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>>362397I am so intrigued by her glitching. Can't wait to see her story. Also the ponytail hides her ass even with the ass cutout on her jacket.
No. 362410
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looks like a whole cleavage the rest of the outfit is fine however it looks kinda weird as if it was AI generated
No. 362456
File: 1710387468122.mp4 (11.2 MB, 1920x1080, tvmybd(1).mp4)
Video of Arlecchino's burst.
No. 362469
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Rise up Enjou girlies
No. 362470
File: 1710390094928.jpeg (626.61 KB, 2048x2048, IMG_1397.jpeg)
>>362469Same with you Lyney lovers
No. 362478
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>>362469I forgot Baizhu. Lyney, Baizhu and Enjou were just posted by Hoyo for White day.
No. 362488
>>362469This one and the jeht one for valentines day were very unexpected but I like the inclusion of beloved NPCs
>>362470My boyfriend
No. 362539
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>>362469Took me a second to realize he’s winking kek
>>362470Lyney’s official art is always so nice
No. 362568
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>The only Sumeru rep for White Day is commission art reposted on the various genshin art accounts>https://twitter.com/Paimon2theMoon/status/1768109798719881561Why are they like this about Sumeru? I'm happy he looks as sexy and cute as he always does.
Were they afraid of male players having a melty if they made the cutest taller guys the official arts? Wriothesley got a commission too. Why in the world did they choose Baizhu?
>https://twitter.com/Paimon2theMoon/status/1768117348517429510 No. 362569
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>>362568Wriothesley's art for the curious.
No. 362570
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>>362469>81k likes>others getting ~25-70kEnjou Nation rise up
forgive my retardation anons I'm just excited, make him playable Hoyoverse No. 362574
>>362572I don't know, there were husbando banners almost back to back for a while and leaks for Natlan can't be trustworthy at this point. Remember how the first Inazuma line-up only showed Thoma for example. But I understand you, I dropped the game for most of Inazuma and Sumeru because I just didn' care about the characters getting released and logging in to grind dailies and events felt pointless because of it.
I also wonder what they are doing with HSR, if they wanted more players they should've just made a game that doesn't suck. The turn-based combat is so boring and there's no jumping or gliding so movement feels restricted compared to genshin. All around not a very fun experience
No. 362576
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I wish Neuvillette's kit wasn't so overpowered so his fanbase wouldn't be overrun by moids who decided to turn a casual gacha game into a big numbers dick measuring contest.
No. 362582
>>362574Well the Inazuma version did end up with only two male 5-stars (Three if you count Kazuha) and two 4-stars with like 8 female 5-stars.
>I also wonder what they are doing with HSR, if they wanted more players they should've just made a game that doesn't suck. They fumbled so hard with Star Rail, it never reached the hype Genshin did despite a massive advertising budget because it lacked the casual-friendly exploration and the combat heavily forces you into rolling for new units that get released because the old characters you have constantly get powercrept. That's why I'm wondering if they're trying to pressure female players into it since it was obvious the userbase is heavily male and there's already a ton of competition for their wallets.
No. 362595
>>362586There's an article dissecting Star Rail's nature as a game that also mentions Mihoyo's business strategy.
https://naavik.co/how-honkai-star-rail-reveals-cracks-in-the-hoyoverse/Most of it is just autism over the game design choices in HSR but some key parts reveal that Star Rail had a huge burst of popularity in downloads during launch, but it staggered quite early on and after month 3 it only had half of the downloads Genshin's launch did. Some other interesting parts are as follows:
>On a portfolio level, HSR isn’t driving incremental revenue for miHoYo. Even though miHoYo did see record revenue levels during HSR’s launch months, the total monthly portfolio revenue has come down to pre-HSR levels. In other words, HSR has clearly cannibalized Genshin Impact, and quite majorly at that.>As covered previously, this cannibalization is in large part driven by miHoYo heavily promoting HSR to Genshin Impact’s audience, plus working with many Genshin Impact influencers to stream HSR instead. While it’s generally wise to lean on your portfolio’s audience to drive future product success, the fact is that HSR and Genshin Impact are both time-consuming with insane spend depth, and players have both limited time and budgets for gaming.>Even though HSR’s first two months saw 1.5x more downloads than Genshin Impact’s first two months, it only saw a marginally higher cumulative revenue over the same time period ($256M vs $235M for Genshin Impact). And by month five, HSR’s cumulative revenue is slightly lower than that of Genshin Impact’s ($390M vs $420M), even though cumulative downloads are still 1.3x higher.>Clearly, HSR is not as revenue efficient as Genshin Impact, as evidenced by comparing the two games’ RPD curves. At month five, HSR’s iOS US RPD is -40% lower than that of Genshin Impact’s ($3.32 vs $5.48), and this RPD difference is consistent across regions.HSR also isn't generating enough revenue in the western servers.
>It is also interesting to note that HSR does not monetize as well as Genshin Impact in the West. Looking at the revenue splits by region, HSR is the only game that doesn’t generate a proportionate amount of US revenue versus US downloads:>HSR: 70% East, 30% West → US is 30% of downloads, but only 15% of revenue>Genshin Impact: 60% East, 40% West → US is 15% of downloads and 20% of revenueAlso Genshin is still making much more money in the iOS store in both US and Asia than Star Rail.
This isn't the Star Rail thread but I found the number crunching in that article quite interesting, and it's inevitably going to connect back to how Mihoyo treats Genshin and what choices they make with it. All in all they wanted to bring Genshin players to Star Rail in hopes of them giving money to both HSR and Genshin but the strategy failed, now they're playing Star Rail but not putting any money in it
or Genshin. Maybe that's why they're suddenly pushing out new 5-star after 5-star, testing the waters perhaps?
No. 362598
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>>362596I'm guessing Albedo based off that description? I'm sorry anon, he didn't deserve to have another character steal his entire kit but with better constellations.
No. 362601
>>362586According to activeplayer.io hsr had 21m players in the last 30 days while genshin had 62m, but both numbers have been on the decline.
>>362595Very interesting to see, thanks for sharing nona. I feel like another part of it is that HSR just doesn't have the same mass appeal. Genshin doesn't only have an okay ratio of male:female characters but also takes inspiration from multiple different cultures while HSR seems to mostly lean chinese, so I can see why it's not as popular in the west. I get the feeling ZZZ will be even less popular because it doesn't even have the trademark hoyo style to carry it and the only somewhat cute male character is a fucking furry kek
No. 362605
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>>362598Being an Albedo fan is so painful lately…He just got directly powercrept even when he was already a very replaceable niche support and it's been forever since he's had a lore event. I had been so hopeful thinking he would for sure get a good lore event in Fontaine since there's obviously lots of possible material with Elynas and the melusines. I figured he had gone so long without a rerun because they were holding off til said cool lore event happened but…clearly that was not the case. I miss my cute and smug manlet husbando so much. Anyone happen to know if being insane and getting his C4 would actually make for a damage increase on any of the plunge teams with Xianyun, or if having Bennett or Furina in the other support slots would always be better than even a C4 Albedo?
No. 362609
>>362601>>362604HSR is clearly meant for a domestic audience in China with the
heavy emphasis on the Chinese-inspired characters and the game mechanics being a very generic turn based RPG with no exploration on maps that make your phone blow up. Most Chinese players play on mobile and like speculated the mobile first approach it makes it less appealing to the west which prefers PC as a platform. Compared to Genshin Star Rail is a pretty boring experience since you don't get to explore the world that much and you can put all battles on autoplay and only check in occasionally, it lacks the charm of the open world that drew in people with Genshin and made them curious about the world of the game. I don't know if it was a conscious decision on Mihoyo's part but seeing how much they've been shilling HSR with huge advertising campaigns for Penacony and paying popular Genshin CCs play it I don't think so.
No. 362611
>>362605Honestly anon I think the only hope is if his brother is released as a new unit or if one day characters get an additional awakening and passives like in many other gacha games to give old units a needed overhaul. Chiori's sword helps him so you're not screwed out of damage if you use his burst (crit is by far the best stat to focus on for split scalers like him) but his kit is just so all over the place and his constellations are horrible. Even just reworking his constellations to make them fit modern kit standards would be a blessing.
He'll never replace Furina or Benny, they're just too good at what they do.
No. 362731
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Arle's boss design has been leaked and I'm honestly disappointed. Hate the boob window with all my heart. It could definitely be worse, but I just feel like it's so underwhelming? It looks like a skin, not a full-blown transformation. All the Harbringers, even Signora, have had way more interesting transformations thus far. Sad.
No. 362749
>>362746Just watched this
https://streamable.com/w1dzyk and definitely agree it looks cooler in motion.
No. 362857
>>362850I find a certain amount of cringe to be charming, but the glitching on top of everything else is so incredibly ridiculous it's too much even for me.
>nephelim angel wings in boss form>but also has a spider motif>but her arms also turn into scythes >half winged angel as playable character>super strong and evil!!1!1>glitching around in a world that doesn't even have TVs or computers>shhhhhh (it's mysterious and absolutely not on the nose guise)>instead of normal orange, her pyro is blood red>apparently secretly not actually from Teyvat and also not humanLike God damn, they really threw anything edgy they could think of at her and Twitterfags are eating it up kek.
No. 362987
File: 1710573223182.png (Spoiler Image,1.05 MB, 1157x1785, sethos.png)
We're getting a sneak peak at a male playable character in 4.6. His name is Sethos and he has a character model in the beta files but so far it's untextured so we don't have a good look at him besides knowing he's a medium male who'll be showing up in Cyno's second character quest. It's hard to tell if he's Sumerian or Natlanian but possible Natlan rep.
No. 363116
>>362456She’s so fucking cooool
>>362731 but this makes me wanna kms
No. 363281
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Arlecchino‘s signature dish made me laugh it’s just raw meat on toast.
No. 363592
>>363580It runs pretty poorly and I can't recommend it to anyone. Load times are long so playing in co-op is painful, let alone the length of the initial log-in. I usually have to ask the host to re-send the invite.
Lots of texture pop-in. Sometimes frames will drop and the game will temporarily freeze when you have too much happening in combat at once. I usually notice this in my dendro teams that have a lot of reactions happening to groups of enemies within a short time period. The overall performance got noticeably worse since the start of 3.0 and I'd been playing since around 1.4
Additionally, every time you update the game, the PS4 has to basically redownload the entire game so that takes forever. You also can't pre-install before the servers go down like you can on desktop (and mobile I believe?). You have to wait until the servers are down to be allowed to install the update and it's random when it decides to let you. It doesn't allow you to start the download straight away. I'd usually have to wait at least an hour.
Another pain point is if you buy any welkins or crystals through the playstation store. Those genesis crystals will be held hostage on your playstation log-in. You won't see them on mobile or desktop.
I had to make the switch from PS4 to PC around 4.0 because I just couldn't take how shitty it ran anymore.
No. 363606
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>>363595>>363592Why the fuck is genshin so heavy? It's insane, I couldn't play for like 2 years because I refuse to buy a whole ass new PC to play a Chinese game.
I need to know, when did you all buy your PCs? Because mine is from 2020 and it stopped running Genshin after the sumeru update, right in the middle of the archon quest when Scaramouche appeared. It isn't the most amazing gaming PC but hell, you would think that a game that's supposed to run on a phone would be smooth as fuck on a fucking PC, and would be updateable a bunch of times, specially considering how the game isn't that detailed.
No. 363803
>>363689Nope, I tried to play it home alone, with no other programs open in the background and even with my phone disconnected from the wifi in case it was the bad internet quality, I even prioritized the game on my PC and nothing, the game froze horribly and died on me.
Idk, I will try cleaning my pc up and adding some cooling paste to it, maybe that's what it needs.
For reference, I can't even open cookie run kingdom on my PC nowadays.
But at this point I'm honestly giving up on playing genshin impact on a PC until I buy a new one in like 4 years or so, the game will continue getting updates until it ends the plot and dies forever.
Which makes me wonder, is genshin impact going to continue existing even after the whole archon stuff is over? Or are they going to just create more and more reasons why the twins can't go back to their true world until the game stops being profitable?
No. 363865
>>363803Yeah, clean your fans and such, that definitely sounds like your computer is clogged with dust if it had such a rapid downhill decline.
I've wondered about that too. After Natlan, there's really only Snezhnaya and Celestia left, right? That's two more years at most, unless the devs tack on some convoluted bullshit to stretch out the story
No. 363920
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>>363865We already know we're going to Khaenri'ah after Snezhnaya. So Natlan, Snezhnaya, Khaenri'ah, Celestia, then maybe the Abyss somehow? That doesn't count any subregions we can go to either like Enkanomiya, the Chasm, and Remuria.
No. 364127
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>>364090Leaks are saying he's running in the second half of 4.6, good luck anon.
No. 364225
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Am I tripping or is Sucrose blushing way too much? She didn't use to have this permanently blushing face before.
No. 364497
>>364453Eimiko is
abusive? that's news lol.is it from the fanfiction since all the fanart i've seen of the ship are normally pretty tame.
>>364491Question for y'all, what's the difference between a legit lesbian and a fake one in fandom?
No. 365460
>>364497>what's the difference between a legit lesbian and a fake one in fandom?Apparently whether you agree with her posts or not kek
>>365424At least it doesn't have a boring quest tied to it
No. 365747
>>364453I don't give a shit about muh
problematic dynamics but Hoyoverse (Genshin, HSR, Honkai) yurifags are extremely insufferable coomers with a really horrible taste in characters and genuinely think a woman wearing pants = GNC masc butch lesbian. I often feel like Beigguang is the only f/f ship with actual cis lesbian fans in the entirety of Hoyoverse because they're two balanced, normal women and not a rehash of homura/madoka oneitis or apebrained cooming and even that hetfags were trying to wreck with spamming the tag with corrective rape fics and trying to force the "Ningguang is Guizhong reborn" to ship her with Zhongli.
No. 368075
>>368033I don't husbando Alhaitham by any means, but it still annoys me how he can't be his own character. There isn't even hope this will be another Tartali situation where they have three conversations and then never talk again since Kaveh is so glued to his side.
I'm not sure what's worse, the in-your-face yaoibaiting of Haikaveh, or whatever the hell lazy shit Neuvillette and Wriothesley were supposed to be.
IMO the only popular yaoi ship that doesn't feel incredibly forced is Cyonari, but even that is somewhat ruined because they flanderized Cyno to only care about TCG and make dad jokes.
No. 368284
>>368048Yeah, because it's definitely a me problem when ppl who just can't keep their traps shut about their uwu ship infesting even meta discussions about Alhaitham.
Look, I enjoy shipping myself, but I keep it to the respective threads and communities and not feel the need to go all retarded in discussions that have nothing to do with it.
No. 368344
>>368312All I'm reading here is that their characters are so reliant on each other, they basically don't exist as individuals anymore. Alhaitham was interesting in the AQ, but as soon as Kaveh released they both started revolving only around their ship.
And yes it is yaoibait, sometimes there's nothing wrong with that, but it's annoying when they lose their individual personalities and every time they appear on screen there has to be some kind of ship tease because the devs want to cater to fujos for the whalebux.
Idk what your point about straight ships is supposed to be, they don't exist in gachas because all the scrotes want their waifus to remain single and pure. Having same sex ships is more palatable for them because they can pretend they're just best friends instead of a couple (self insert into the other female character ew).
TLDR there's no need to get this mad because one person is annoyed with your ship kek
No. 368491
>>368320Ayrt and I feel you, I just also feel like it's par for the course at this point and it's been this way for years now. I think a lot of younger fandom people in general really don't understand proper fandom etiquette, like understanding time/place, tagging properly, etc. and it is annoying. I've just made my peace with it with a lot of blocking and ignoring because there's nothing much to be done about it.
>>368312It's still definitely fujobaiting. It's the definition of a shiptease. It's not canon. It's the most heavy-handed they've been with their fujobait but it's still, at the very most, hinted at. No one is saying fujos were duped or "got good," just calling a spade a spade. This game attempts to pander to yumes, fujos, himes, and waifufags all at the same time while leaving enough plausible deniability so that anyone offended can deny its presence, that's their profit model.
No. 369261
>>368320>say Alhaitham artifacts and someone starts sperging about them fucking at night. That's my only complaint and for some reason I only ever see it with Haikaveh.Lol, I feel this so hard. I never had issues with other fujos until this ship. Sometimes they make me want to start fresh media accounts to start with a completely non-fujo feed. It's always a Haikaveh one when I run into one that's particularly rabid or annoying.
For example, I like to browse most Alhaitham content, including most ships, so this one time I was looking at this post about a straight Alhaitham wedding art and there were all sorts of Haikaveh fujos throwing a fit in the comments about it. Why? You would know from the title of the post exactly what it was going to be. They appear to dominate the fandom side for both characters but still sperg out about some content not catering to them. It's very rude and obnoxious. Not to say it NEVER happens, but I've never ran across this kind of behaviour from other genshin ships except those that like Aether harem shipping.
Kavetham, on the other hand, has a problem of me coming across too much cuntboy Alhaitham but I much prefer the way they don't flanderdize Kaveh's personality nearly as much as Haikaveh fans tend to.
My favorite types of fans to discuss fandom stuff with are those that know most of what we like to pretend about isn't canon and it's all for fun.
Personally, I think they're written in canon as estranged best friends but how can you not have some fun imagining them as more?
No. 369588
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>>368320What kind of artifact help do you need for Alhaitham, anon? Aren't there only really two options for him, Gilded Dreams or FLOP? I feel you that shipping inserted in unrelated discussions is really annoying, though.
No. 369654
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>Itto event in 2.7
>Itto event in 3.3
>Itto event in 3.4
>Itto event in 4.3
>Itto event in 4.6
>Itto appearance in 4.4 event
>Itto appearance in 3.7 event
>Itto appearance in Chasm AQ interlude for literally no fucking reason
>Itto appearance in livestreams because devs can't stop sucking off Max Mittelman or whatever his EN VA scrote is called
I'm so sick and tired of this stupid fucking flanderized imbecile I swear to God can they just come up with ANY other "funny" characters so this dumbass doesn't have to have events centered around him every other version. I can't believe this next patch is going to have ANOTHER Itto event where he has 50+ lines and the other characters featured in it all have like 3. Can't wait for 50 lines of "THIS IS ARATAKI ITTO, YOUR ONE AND ONLY BRONI HAHAAHAHAHAHAHA GET IT, BRO AND ONI. ANYWHO WHAT'S UP COMPADRE AMIGO? HOW'S IT HANGIN FELLOW KIDDOS (beatboxes)".
I can't take this anymore, I'd even prefer seeing Ei or Sara or some other neglected annoying waifushit characters to spice things up. I liked him in his personal quest but these past years of non stop events featuring him and his retarded beetles have turned me into Itto hater #1
No. 369666
>>369654same. I am also completely sick of him at this point.
Also, when will we have a Sumeru festival again?
No. 369697
>>369654He's not that bad, but then I'm playing with JP voices and like looking at his design.
But not playing as him cause Geo is boring.
No. 369702
>>369697I play with CN which is his most palatable voice imo but even then I can't stand how he has the most unfitting dialogue translation ever because someone at Genshin HQ decided to let Mittelman turn Itto into his self insert OC. No other character in the whole game talks like him, it' so incredibly cringe.
>>369689I wouldn't put it past the devs to come up with an Inazuma housekeeping event and still focus it around Itto instead of Thoma.
No. 369727
>>369654I swear TMR must be paying the devs to get Itto featured more. People always claim Ei doesn't get really any lines because of how much her JP VA is alleged to cost but you'd think such a notable name as TMR would be somewhat pricey too.
I feel bad for those that don't care for him at all. He's one of my favorites, triple crowned, but holy cow I really can't understand why he gets featured so much. He doesn't even seem particularly popular. I only see more and more people getting irritated about his existence as Hoyo shoves him into more events and appearances.
Maybe it's an issue of the Inazuma cast as a whole. They wrote Ei into the NEET corner so who else is popular? Ayato? Boring. Ayaka? Also a snoozefest. Yae? She's got to be the most featured Inazuman behind Itto. Everyone else is pretty forgettable.
>>369689I wish they'd show Thoma more too. He's the perfect mix of brave and sweet, while having a cute design.
No. 369734
>>369727The voice actor thing is kind of weird to me because Kaeya's voice actor can't be cheap, considering he's to voice of Mikazuki Munechika in JP, yet he kind of appears from time to time in events and stories.
But tbh, Itto is still getting cosplays made by people, even though he was released a long time ago, meanwhile it's difficult to see someone cosplaying venti, ei, or even zhongli, or at least it's like that in my country. I also haven't seen people cosplaying most characters of genshin that aren't the flavor of the month characters (with a recent gacha release). But again, it's probably just a matter of my small country, I'm still curious about how it works at other cons.
Because maybe Mihoyo uses cons as another way to figure out who is liked and who isn't that liked, because what I've noticed is that in social media, people create micro-communities of characters and ships, so it's not the best indicator for what the general public actually wants to see, specially if they just want more normies to join.
So like, you can use the silly oni character as your unofficial mascot, or maybe you can use the character with a screechy voice who has an insane enby voice actress, or the way too cool and serious representation of China, or the many girls that have more porn made of them than sfw art.
I guess in the end, Itto is some sort of "safe" choice.
No. 369752
>>369734>zhongli and ventiZhongli and Venti are some of the most common male Genshin characters to see cosplayed here. Ei isn't as popular but there's a few around. I expect Furina will be popular this con season. Itto is a lot rarer because you need to be ripped or wear a chest piece to not look ridiculous. He's relegated to thotty men and androgynous women who will actually bother to wear a chest piece.
It's funny to me that Itto is the new Mr. Worldwide but it is kind of ridiculous they can't figure out how to incorporate any of the other Inazuman characters in naturally. I'd like to see Thoma again too and Heizou would have been nice in that detective event. Let Itto rest for a bit and actually learn with Cloud Retainer.
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>>369703>>369727>Why does Itto get so much screen timeIt's because he's their crutch character that they use whenever they run out of ideas for events. "Itto does something random and dumb because he's unemployed xd" plotlines are easy to shit out.
While most of the Inazuma cast really is boring as fuck, Yoimiya, Heizou, and even stupid ass Kirara aren't uber serious. I think events focused on them would be more fun than Itto event #63874. I also liked Kuki when she came out but unfortunately she has turned out to be nothing more than a satellite character to Itto.
And hey, we are getting Heizou in the 4.6 Itto event. His third ever appearance after his hangout, which features Itto pretty heavily
(he even appears in two of the ending pictures and gives us some ugly fucking onikabuto teapot furniture - why we got that for HEIZOU's hangout is beyond me), and that one yokai event where Itto was also the main character.
Yay. Heizou fans are eating so good.
No. 369792
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>>369654I love Itto so I'm enjoying this kek. All the haters here can keep on seething.
No. 369847
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>>369792We ain’t listening to the haters, anon. He’s a beautiful himbo that can do no wrong
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>>369792>>369847Excellent taste anons.
>>369836Imagine not wanting more underwater. Couldn't be me.
No. 369904
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Sethos is a cutie, he seems to be electro. I hope he is offield since i really want a male offield electro character
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No. 369910
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>>369772>hile most of the Inazuma cast really is boring as fuck, Yoimiya, Heizou, and even stupid ass Kirara aren't uber serious. I think events focused on them would be more fun than Itto event #63874What you really want even more Yoimiya events? She is serieusly in a lot of them for no reason. Like that one fontaine event. I get your point about Heizou and Kirara, but Yoimiya is just so boring to me. Really dislike her design too.
>>369907it seems like he kept the glowing cat eyes from his previous design. Rip another cat boy, maybe one day we will get one?
No. 369951
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>arlecchino coming out
>itto and yoimiya are finally gonna interact on screen
>cyno second story quest
>remuria
This patch is hella dead but I'm really looking forward to 4.6. I hope they manage to breathe a little life into 4.7 as unlikely as it is.
No. 369955
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I couldn't give less fucks about Arlecchino and the hype around her annoys me to no end but I'm extremely happy to return to Sumeru and meet the new cute boy and all the old familiar faces. Going to savor it.
No. 369963
>>369954Maybe you are right. I feel like she has has to much screen time, maybe its because she got a second second story quest which i also thought was a drag. On the wiki it shows how many quests she has been in
https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Yoimiya_Appearances >>369951I didnt even realise that Itto and her never interacted on screen before. Man there is just something about inazuma characters. I feel like the other regional characters interact a lot more with eachother
No. 370064
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Still the cutest ship imo
No. 370262
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>>370235I'd be grateful for any help. This is my roster. So you can see I have a lot of main dps characters and a lot of Mondstadt 5* despite only starting in 4.0. Neuvillette and Kazuha I only got this banner, so they still need to be ascended past 80.
My plan now is to get Cyno’s premium team (with Baizhu and Furina coming up) down the line, but it requires Nahida and I honestly don't know who to best use until her rerun.
My other best bet is probably a team with Kazuha and Neuvillette, since I have none of the other characters required for his premium team.
But this is where I'm hurting myself because there are three characters I'd rather not level/put in my teams: MC, Fischl and Faruzan. I'm willing to level everyone else, but it still feels hopeless. :/
(And again, I know I'm probably just bad too, but 9* at floor 11 is at least no problem at all for me.)
(no emoticons) No. 370327
>>370262Since you are a new player i wouldnt worry to much about clearing the abyss. Also you really dont need any 5 star female characters to make any of the male dpses work, but nahida def helps with Cyno long on field time. The only 5 star female character i actually got was nahida for my al haitham, but its not a must.
A team with Kazuha or Venti and Neuv is indeed a good choice. For your team with Neuv and Kazuha I would recommend a shielder, Layla or Beidou will work nicely. You can put them together if you like or swap one of them (pref swap Beidou since Layla has better shield) for an off field damage character like Albedo. If the other team needs Kazuha just swap him for Venti. Venti and Neuv also work well together.
For your second team here a some multiple suggestions on characters that you can build and use.
Cyno, Kuki, Collei and Xingqui. If you like you could also swap Kuki with Thoma or another Dendro character like Yaoyao. You also maybe swap Kuki with Yaoyao and then swap Xingqui with Lisa but that seems like a damage loss. Do keep in mind that if you use Cyno as the only electro character his ER needs to be a lot higher.
For Xiao, you will need an anemo character. Best option would be Sucrose because you can put Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers on her, however if you dont like her you can just use venti/kazuha/lynette/Jean. Use him with Bennet for healing and atk buff. You could also use 2 anemo supps if you only want him to be the main damage dealer and if you think he can do enough damage. Otherwise just the last spot for an offield dps like Albedo. Xiangling can also work but there her burst wont be up the whole time while Xiao is on field.
Diluc can be used with Bennet, Kazuha and Xingqui. You can also swap out Xingqui with Kaeya as alternative. Another team you try is mono pyro with Venti, Kazuha, Bennet and Xiangling.
These are only some suggestions, there are many more team options however it will cost time to level all your characters and build them. I hope some of my suggestions might help you out!
No. 370526
>>370327Thank you so much! I'll definitely be investing heavily in that Neuvillette team with Kazuha, Layla and Beidou then since that's actually what I've been trying out in the overworld for now.
As for Cyno, I guess I'll play around a bit once I've got Baizhu and see what feels best/most fun.
Most of the time I actually don't care that I can't clear the Abyss and just want to run around with my cute boys, but sometimes my tryhard side comes out and makes me miserable for being "bad". Rn, my goal is to simply clear floor 12 even if it's with zero stars, we'll see if I'll eventually make it.
Again, thank you for your detailed advice!
>>370329You're right, but that's where my need to git gud comes in. But I hope that once I've built him he'll do some heavy lifting for me.
No. 370551
>>370262You can use Dendro MC with Cyno in the absence of Nahida. It's very copium but better than any of your other options currently. Baizhu feels good with Cyno but does not replace Nahida with him imo. Ideally you want both of them.
How do you feel about Alhaitham? He's Kuki's best teammate. Him + Kuki + Xingqiu + any defensive option is very meta. Neuvillette is obviously very strong and doesn't really rely on specific teammates.
No. 370571
>>370569>>370551My dislike for the MC is admittedly irrational, but if she is the only one that works until I get Nahida, I guess I'll have to consider. I know it would be easier to just build an Alhaitham team since I'll try to get him on his next rerun too, but Cyno just has a special place in my heart and is actually relatively well built (even dual crowned), so I'd love to make him work.
Again, thank you all for your input!
No. 370837
>>370819I agree
>>370833 about Star Rail. Even in Genshin I stopped caring and let the quest run in the desert after a while and watched a summary with theories to real life references. Felt more engaging lol I let the story run without watching and occasionally click a dialogue option when I hate/don't care about the character too. But I get that they don't add a skip option so f2ps can't farm a bunch of primos in new accounts and have every character for free across multiple accounts.
No. 371456
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>>371453It seems she's doing it to not be anything like the "mother" she's replacing. Also saw someone say she's taking the cold father role to not show her weakness which is the kids. Really curious to see how the fight between her and the kids will play out!
I personally like when women use masculine names or terms but
twitter will probably ruin it and make her a gendie No. 371460
>>371456another character ruined by moids, you can't try to enforce so badly the idea that arlecchino is GNC, and then shove her tiddies in our face. baby arlecchino looks like a boy and adult arlecchino prefers masculine terms so in the context of the game she's clearly supposed to be a very masculine woman, but it falls flat when the genshin team still needs validation from male coomers
>>371458but i think his latest quests showed that he is making more friends? like yelan, hutao, venti
No. 371516
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>>371455I thought this was a random rant then logged into the game… I don't dislike the female player pandering though
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As much as I do like his character design, I wish he had an adult body in game.
No. 371571
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>>371567Lyney's at least in his late 20s and likely in his 30s based off the recent Arle animation. You are retarded.
No. 371580
>>371571To elaborate on this:
>freminet was in the previous director's care for a long time, enough to be terrified of her and develop serious mental illness>freminet was old enough to vividly remember his mother when she gave him away>arlecchino killed the director as an older teenager and has obviously aged up quite a bit since becoming the knave, at least 7-10 years and maybe more>lyney and lynette never met the previous Director>freminet is a "young man">lyney is explicitly older than freminet and being trained to replace arlecchino, so he must have been adopted by arle as an older teenager (supported by his character story where the other teenagers distrusted him and lynette) and he's been stated to have been working for her for a long timeLogically he is at least in his mid twenties now and probably older.
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>>371710She still seems evil to me though, like she clearly has some screws loose, and did you guys forget what happened to scara? If anything he's the one that got woobified
No. 371785
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>>371784I can't wait to finally have her. Good luck to all nonnies that are going to pull on either of the banners
No. 371788
>>371715Kek, true. I mean, I was neutral about arlecchino, but having an edgelord girl that wears pants and makes my husbando seem normal makes me happy. I wonder if they would get along.
I think they tried to write her like a man at first, but then they got scared and decided to tone it down a bit.
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>>371678I know the step is for coomers but stomping on someone's head so hard their blood hits you in the face is badass.
>>371715>>371788Edgelords are fun.
No. 371963
>>371914We know because of that animated short. Freminet was a child and knew the previous orphanage mother, and the battle royal took place when Arlecchino was below or exactly 18 years old. Freminet seems to be about 15 to 18 now, so that means not much more than 10 years could have passed since Arlecchino took over the orphanage, making her about 25 to 28. Maybe 30 if Freminet is an extremely young looking 20 year old, but I doubt that.
This also gives us kind of a clue about Childe's age since I don't think he's as old as Arle, so he's probably early to mid 20s.
I really hate how nobody in anime adjecent media is allowed to be older than 25.
No. 372065
>>372026How in the world could Freminet be early 20s? I'm not talking about his appearance bc all the boy models look young, but his behaviour. Even if you account for his trauma I find it impossible to believe that a guy in his early 20s behaves like that. Not dissing Freminet here, I like him okay, but he comes across as very immature. If you told me he was like 12 I'd believe you.
>>371966This post is a work of art. You tell them,
nonnie.
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>>372026I poked around a bit more and found out that this flashback (youtu.be/0jNkfHOBBBc?si=M_iyMcqgI3YEA-FY - can't embed since I'm uploading picrel) shows the twins at around the age of 9 to 12. At that point they had already been part of the Fatui. They only trained under that guy - who died 10 years ago - for 10 days, so they are 19 to 22, meaning Freminet is likely in his mid to late teens. He couldn't have been a toddler while the previous orphanage owner was still running things because he was being sent out to do assassination missions under her command. This means he was at least ~6 when the battle royale took place.
Taking all of this into consideration and assuming she was older than 16 in the animated short, Arlecchino has to be somewhere in her late 20s to, at most, 31. If she wasn't yet 16, she would be even younger than this, putting her at closer to 25 years old.
Ugh… even if she is in her late 20s, it's so cringe how the twins aren't that much younger than her. I thought they'd at least make her 35 or something.
But yeah, Lyney and Lynette being 20, Freminet 18, and Arlecchino 28 seems the most accurate to me.
I also found this list made by some hyperautist on Reddit in case anyone's curious about the estimated canon ages of the remaining Genshin characters.
And yes I realize I'm also being a hyperautist by putting time into this kek No. 372076
>>372065I don't think you realize how immature men are, especially mentally ill ones.
>>372067I don't disbelieve you but it's insane and unrealistic that a teenager could take on and groom orphans for being secret agents kek. I think Arlecchino could have realistically been in her early 20s when the killing game happened and Freminet should have been much older than this autist estimates when the previous Knave was around since he has such vivid and clear memories of his former family. Street children will also look younger and malnourished compared to healthy cared for children but that's my own autism going on so I'll shut up.
No. 372084
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>>372076Anon I understand the copium but be for real, she wasn't in her early 20s here. She's a tall woman and here she looks like she's 155cm. Female puberty doesn't work this way.
>he has such vivid and clear memories of his former familyI don't see why a 6 to 10 year old wouldn't have these. I wouldn't be surprised if the devs retcon that Freminet knew the orphanage owner before Arlecchino, but as of right now, the ages I calculated are canon.
>>372081Yeah, they are? They're canonically about 22.
No. 372087
>>372085shit twitter tier taste, hope you all grow out of your "zomg
toxic yuri dommy mommy fotm!!" himelarp phases soon
(infighting) No. 372090
>>372011I thought there was a new character with his ass out ffs
>>372067>Diluc and Jean younger than Lyney and LynetteI read all of this but am choosing to ignore it. Fuck men and their obsession with keeping everyone vaguely-almost underage. If Wrio was a woman he would be a 16 year old that renovated the prison system in the last 2 years.
>>372088This is an anonymous thread, no one's gaining yuri points for liking a character. Can nonnies really not fathom that women that like female characters exist?
No. 372096
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>>372084A bit of projection maybe but I don't really have any solid memories before age 8, and even those are pretty fuzzy.
If Freminet was 10 when he was given up he'd have to be at least 20-22 since Arlecchino's been the Knave for at least 10 years.
>>372085>>372090It's probably the same screeching moron who tries to start infights every time anons mention liking a female character. Just ignore the bait, it's not worth responding to.
No. 372135
>>371966What really gets me is that she gets a fucking
anime short despite her story being completely irrelevant to the story but someone really wanted to flex their yuribait edgelord because a special scythe wasn't enough. Fuck, they finally drop a bigger budget animated short instead of those flat flash animations and it's like an entirely different game dedicated to a character that has no real plot relevancy besides just being a ~crazy killer maniac~ grooming child soldiers. Fuck the Scaramouche clothing sets, I wanted to see his Kabukimono storyline animated instead. Fuck the waifufag who was responsible for this.
No. 372346
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I haven't been enthusiastic for a long time for a character in Genshin after the snoozefest this patch was. I can't wait to spend my primos for her.
No. 372781
>>372774I just don't understand why she's a 5
? She didn't play a memorable role in the AQ (imo), but she'll also be the third 5 hydro bow user while we're only have three hydro 4*s in total.
I'm not interested in any of the characters they revealed today though, so unless they'll rerun Furina or Alhaitham in 4.7, I'll skip those banners.
No. 372795
>>372786a playable melusine would be cute
>>372781fontaine barely has any 4 stars so i don't get it either, nothing about her screams 5 star and yet she's so popular because of her interaction with wrio
No. 372806
>>372795>she's so popular because of her interaction with wrioIs she though? I only see her mentioned when the topic is Wrio being good with kids. I really don't get what popularity she has to be 5
. Is anyone other than lolicons pulling for her? I like children characters but I still wouldn't pull for a 5 specifically. Agreeing with
>>372786 though.
>>372781I'm also only waiting for Furina in the next update.
No. 373079
>>372812ship thing as in shipping her with wrio. check tanuki_nishi on twitter, she says in her profile she ships oniichan x loli
wrio is the most popular character among japanese yumes so i wouldn't be surprised if this is some sort of weird projection but it's still weird as fuck to make your husbando a depraved lolicon/pedo. the art looks tame enough so onlookers might thing "oh it's father daughter relationship" but most of the fanartists admit that they ship them romantically too. probably the same weirdos who were shipping alhaitham x nahida. it's weird cause you'd think the yumes would ship wrio x lumine or wrio x clorinde (another barf ship but at least it doesn't involve a loli) but they all latched onto sigewinne instead ew
No. 373155
>>373079Honestly, I kind of blame the Genshin writers for making Sigewinne so oddly… adult for a little girl model. Nahida has the same issue, I've never seen her shipped with Alhaitham but Scara/Nahida is really popular in Asian countries. Dori would also get shipped with adult characters if she wasn't ugly and irrelevant.
Qiqi or Klee don't get this treatment because they actually somewhat act their age, but Sigewinne has an entire fulltime job in a prison of all places lol and there's constantly a point being made about how melusines aren't animals or children but intelligent creatures. It doesn't help that she has that gross Sanrio pastel vomit uwu so smol type of aesthetic which ddlg retards flock to. They seriously should have made her a full melusine or a short female model.
And ngl I don't care about Wriothesley/Clorinde or any Genshin ships in general, but I actually prefer them over Wriolette. At least they seem to have a somewhat fun best friends "deadpan & laidback" dynamic compared to Neuvillette and Wrio which is the most boring ship I've ever seen. Neuv is basically asexual to me, I can't envision him fucking anything or anyone
No. 373277
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I wish they'd stop giving bad kits to cool-looking characters. 4 star DPS are dead on arrival.
He plays like Tighnari. That would be fine but it's never worth choosing a 4 star over a 5 star DPS. Sigewinne should have been the 4 star.
No. 373328
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>>371784just one more hour for me… feels like an eternity.
i play since 1.0 and have never even done any hangout quest until 6 days ago, just for this cringe ass edgelord emo bitch
No. 373367
>>373355Yeah me too I got Dehya on my 50/50. Part of me wants to roll for Lyney instead.
What do we think of the update so far? I think it’s pretty but too much water.
No. 373547
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>megane doctor with snake theme
>one of the most interesting backstory and lore in the game
>decide to ruin everything by dressing him like a fucking grandma
I'll never get over this, how could they fumble such a COOL concept for a character so badly why why add the stupid purple yogs pants, the ugly anklet, the ugly croptop, the grandma glasses why he had so much potential!
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>>373547I feel like the only person ever to like his design even though I prefer short males, but I might be delusional
>>373549Yeah, his creepiness being nerfed is much more tragic. I hope his fatui twin can compensate for that in the future
No. 373562
Spoilers for Arle story quest
You nonnies reminded me how disappointed I was with Baizhu being tame. They nerfed even Arle's personality hard, she's mentally sound and has an actual moral compass. Despite all the previous times other characters called her evil and unpredictable. Don't know if we should expect that wolf side to emerge in the next quest they mentioned and this quest was just showing the sheep clothing. She was a sheep in wolf clothing if anything. Even Tartag was so chill but then again this is probably leading to him being gullible and betrayed by the Rooster.>>373558Nta but damn. I remember not seeing Fischl anywhere for months because of that, glad Kaveh is back soon.
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>>373545Her VAs might be easier to hire than others, plus she's never had a story quest or hangout. I'm guessing VA availability affects more than we know, such as in Kaveh's example. I like her a lot so I won't complain. Wish he kit sucked less ass.
No. 373573
>>373562I fucking hate how they moralfagify every single playable character. Inb4 Dottore releases in 3 years and they give us some lame ass clone of his who's an innocent little baby.
>she's mentally sound and has an actual moral compassEither Scaramouche has 0 social skills for believing she's deranged when she's such a normie, or they retconned her. Probably the former, but still a shame. She had the potential to be really cool.
No. 373662
>>373562She's still evil though
completely wiping memories like that is barely different from death. And what about those guys in Sumeru and the shrine maiden. That was after she took over.
But really were we supposed to feel sorry for the psychopath kid who killed his pets? Fucking China.I really hate this part of the plot because I have a bad feeling that the Fadui will end up being 'good guys' in the end.
>>373549Was he ever really 'creepy' though. That just felt like fans thinking stupid shit cause of QiQi.
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>awakens childe's whale from outer space that's been sealed for a millenia in an unvoiced world quest led by a cat
No. 373726
>>373662That's my take on it too. It was just a headcanon based on one voiceline people ran with. How anyone could believe that Baizhu was evil/a creep when even the supposed baddies of the game can't actually be evil because they might be misguided but actually have honourable motives is beyond me.
That said, I like his design even though ever since a friend pointed out that his belly button is too high I can't unsee it. Will definitely get him on his rerun.
No. 373727
>>373662>>373726it was that line about how he was manipulating qiqi by claiming to love her, in order to study her. of course,the weird snake doctor that makes deals with the fatui came off as creepy.
you're right though, they won't allow any playable character to remain even morally gray. i can't take childe serious at all sometimes, it feels like mihoyo doesn't know whether to settle on keeping a character antagonistic or making them retarded.
No. 373742
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>>373719Scylla is actually a totally different purple glittering fish, you can tell by the missing horn, size difference, personality and by the way literally no one alludes to having seen him before
>>373573I get the feeling he's talking about her second stage appearance since it probably is a rare sight, especially for work collegues that she most likely doesn't fight with, but I don't know if it's that crazy or true to her. Maybe there's another more emotional layer to her but she's been shown to have been cold and restrained since childhood. Childe says she'd betray anyone and that's why she's insane but that also sounds like the wrong word to use. I'm choosing to believe that they both just don't know her at all kek
No. 373764
>>373662No, Arlecchino didn't have anything to do with the shrine maiden. Look up Efim Snezhevich in the wiki, he's the bad guy who took over Inazuma orphans after Crucabena was killed. And, as far as I can tell, the Sumeru guys weren't even orphans.
>>373742I guess her cold exterior could make people believe she's a bad person, but it's not like she would be able to hide how radically and positively the orphanage changed since she took over. The harbingers should be informed enough about what's happening in their organization to realize she genuinely cares about those children. Scara is a nihilist little emo boy who sees the worst in people, but Childe should be all over her for killing the evil director and treating the kids better
No. 374029
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>>374020All the recent 5 stars have been classified as SS or S tier so of course they have to start making some that suck ass. Another easy skip.
>>373764Childe had no clue about anything until Arlecchino talked a bit about it in her storyquest if you remember, so his "About the Knave" is really just based on workplace gossip that he never looked into kek
No. 374854
>>374846I maintain that she shouldn't have been a 5
to begin with. Like, why have two new 5 that late into the expansion anyway? And then a hydro one at that when we already have much more hydro 5
than 4.
Doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.
No. 374891
>>374854Fontaine has made almost every character a 5-star for some reason. Lyney, Neuvillette, Wriothesley, Navia, Clorinde, Furina, Sigewinne, Arlecchino and according to rumors Emilie will be one too (and arguably Chiori counts since she's only been relevant in Fontaine so far). Freminet, Lynette, Chevreuse and Charlotte are the only 4-stars. Compare that to Sumeru which had 7 5-stars and 6 4-stars. But the actual issue to me is that a lot of the 5-stars just aren't that good, you need them to be at least c1-c2 to actually get a true 5-star experience out of them while the 4-stars are just lackluster on-field DPS units nobody wants to use. Navia's kit was so trash that waifufags were put on suicide watch because geo has been nerfed years ago and they can't fix it anymore.
>>374857Don't worry, I think her design is pretty cute too even though I hate the other little girl characters No. 374929
>>374854The sad thing is if she was a 4 star no one would have cared that she was dogshit and only really usable with Furina. Some 4 stars being bad is expected, like Candace or Freminet. But giving her and her weapon the chance to ruin your pulls as a 5 star fucking sucks.
>>374857>>374891I think she's cute and her laser reminds me of Chibi Moon's Rainbow Sugar Heart Attack. But she's not nearly cute enough to make me want to pull for a junk unit.
No. 374933
>>374891I think them releasing that many more 5 stars than 4 stars, which, as you said, increasingly require you to have C1/C2 just doesn't bode well for the game's future. I'm not naive, I'm well aware that gachas just want to squeeze their users dry, but it feels like they're getting more blatant now while in the past it wasn't quite as bad in Genshin as it is in other gachas. Same with the power creep, they've amped him up with Neuvillette and Arlecchino.
I'm content with several units that are badmouthed, but too many people are meta slaves that can't function without the latest FOMO unit.
No. 375077
>>374857I'd agree if she wasn't in a gacha game and made for pedos. Had she been created for a shojo or magical girl manga she would've been adorable.
>>374891I think only giving Arlecchino's weapon a special effect if it's her signature is worse than preventing characters from being meta shit before their c1 or c2. Absolute bullshit.
No. 375878
>>373545maybe it's because xinyan is a rock musician. rock originated in fontaine and it's supposed to be rather popular, but we haven't heard a single fucking mention of it and natlan is just around the corner. i wonder if it has to do with the music team having to change or something, since yu peng left.
anyway, i'm hoping the ”art event” in the leaks is about rock music.
No. 378305
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>>378155Did you notice that just now? Kek they've been building up to it forever, they try very hard to show that the fatui only act on orders or because they follow some bigger goal that's ultimately good. Even NPC-wise there's the guy in Mondstadt who befriends that little girl, the two fatui in Liyue who get together and so many sidequests all over the nations that are all supposed to show that they are generally normal people. There will never be senselessly evil characters in the game targeting all age groups
No. 378513
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>>378155are we playing the same game? because it was pretty obvious from the beginning
No. 378605
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A husbando of many talents.
No. 381450
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Old concept art of Alice
No. 381460
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>>381450Tighnari’s scrapped friend.
No. 382250
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What do we think of Cyno’s second story quest? I’m glad he finally got some backstory but it took like two years lol. Cyno standing next to Sethos shows how much Genshin’s team has improved over the years in terms of model design.
No. 382264
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>>382250I've seen some negativity about it, but personally it was perfect for me, because Sumeru is my favorite region along with Mondstadt and I missed it and its cast, so I was happy about the slice of life part. Lore dump was also nice, because I unironically love the desert, and I'm happy that now they at least focus on playable characters in quests instead of random npc #26354. New boy is qt, though the whole "searching for my purpose" theme is a bit cliche and meh
No. 382281
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>>382273Also forgot to mention that baby Cyno and his interactions with his dad were also very cute
No. 382345
>>382332Genshin characters are shortstacks in general, all the tall characters are in HSR
though they're too tall imo, they look like Chinese filters.
No. 382746
>>382731It kinda is, but it also isn't. Fleuve Sandre is a shithole along with Poisson, there are several broken aquabus lines along city walls, dailies focused on restoring ecosystem by throwing fish into waters, that weird ass tree or whatever that is in Loch Urania that looks like atomic explosion, conveniently placed near Institute and maybe something else, it's all I can think of now. Also, unpopular opinion, but I liked Furina more before we knew her sad backstory, I wanted her to be a let them eat cake kind of ruler
and Fontainian French Revolution to be real.
No. 386102
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>>386054They're super cute! I love the turning into animal to travel/solve puzzles mechanics so I think I'll enjoy this. It'll be like Sumeru without having to run through empty deserts and climbing monuments to death.
Codes btw
>US2VLGSXCAT9>6A2ULZTFVBCV>BS3DLYAFVAUH No. 386113
>>386057Good luck with your future pulls! I really want Sethos, so i guess it's not the end of the world if i do get some Alhaitham cons even if they are not that great. I sadly don't think I will have enough pulls left to get Furina after that.
> To me it felt like they portrayed the twins more like a couple than, you know, twinsIt didnt feel like they were a couple to me. I really liked the scene where Lumine braided Aether his hair. A bit dissapointed that again we are not seeing traveler Lumine.
>>386061Yeah it almost seemed like they were forced to travel together for some reason? It is interesting tho, i dont really ship them anyway but i really want to know what the reaosn is why they are traveling together
>>386102Thank you for the codes!
No. 386181
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More conquistador stuff.
Really curious what the average Natlan NPC is actually going to look like.
No. 386309
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Is anyone else having issues farming artifacts for Arlecchino or am I just super unlucky? I got 118 of the other set and 95 Harmonic Whimsy, 41 of the pieces are 5 stars and only two of those are feathers. Everything besides 3 okay-ish pieces is completely useless I can't take it anymore.
No. 387707
>>386487I've had the worst luck prefarming for Alhaitham. Like, I don't even care (much) about the substats, but I can’t even get the right main stat. It's been weeks.
I've been using the current event to grind talent books for Venti so I can give him his third crown.
No. 388642
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Emilie… the concepts designs where so cute. Just like with Skirk and Clorinde, seeing the concept art is a bad thing because you will get dissapointed so much. Her design is just way to messy and hectic. Also the stupid top that Ganyu has, but its worse because she got weird nipple flaps
No. 388644
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>>388642pic related are some of the many concept designs. Its a sad day, i guess the positive thing is that i can save my primos?
No. 388645
>>388642>ganyu's mysterious fabricwell, right now it looks like an easy skip
>>388644me when I'm in competition for choosing ugly and boring final design and my opponent is hoyoverse
No. 388657
>>388642I must be the only one but I actually like the design. I think she's really cute. Love the glasses, the cute hair and the deep green of her outfit. That said, I try not to imprint on any design leaks because it inevitably leads to disappoinment.
I'm not going to pull for her in 4.8 as I'll be out of primos after getting two characters in 4.7, but if she brings something interesting on the table for Dendro/Burning, I might consider her on her rerun.
No. 388659
>>388642>nipple flapsthey're called 'breast curtains'
fandom term lol
But whatever, I don't care about girl designs cause I don't roll for girls. It's just white noise.
No. 388676
>>388657>I must be the only one but I actually like the designMoids also like it, but because of the coomer elements. I wish i could just simply like the design just by it colors or only look at the hair of a character. Her face is cute, but hate everything else together. Some of the things would be nice separately but as a whole it looks just horrible.
>>388659Breast curtains sounds as dumb as the design element looks. But I also don't like all the clashing colors. The pink ends of her hair only suits the blonde, but does not go with the dark green. And then you also have the purple and teal bottle, it kinda hurts me
No. 388692
>>388657It looked okay on first glance, her glasses are cute, but it gets worse and worse the longer you look at it. The top is a total mess, the hideous detached sleeves strike again. Most of these designs were a lot better
>>388644 and that says something because quite a few of these are ugly as hell.
>>388676Pink and dark green are a classic color combination, as are gold and dark green. The colors aren't the problem imo as much as the design elements themselves.
No. 388716
>>388642I like her dress color but her dress itself, particularly the top part is atrocious. Her hair color is fine I guess but her hair style is not great either. The pink is meant to highlight her eyes I guess but then it seems to really clash with the purple/blue bottles.
Based on previous story leaks, it seems like she's supposed to have a playful/trickster personality so I think the expression on the end design fits her more than the concepts designs. I still prefer the lavender and the cat ear hairbun designs though.
No. 389167
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without giving too much away I really hate they didn't make her look like this
No. 389230
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>>389140Honestly probably something like Thoma or Bennett. Burning doesn't need much Pyro application. She will also likely pair well with Wriothesley in Burnmelt. Maybe Lyney if she was your only non-Pyro? But you'd lose out on Anemo's resistance shred.
I'm kind of annoyed she doesn't work with Cyno, her skill duration would have been perfect for him. But she's ugly so I can hope for a cuter Natlanese dendro support, I guess.
No. 389548
Am I the only one who is tired of seeing literally every other gacha community constantly slander and mock genshin and their fans as if our game is by far the worst? I wouldn't mind if the criticism came from someone who doesn't play gacha, but it's fucking ridiculous when it comes from arknights, wuthering waves and especially from honkai and star rail fans. They always say our game has by far the worst designs, the worst splash arts, the worst story, the worst characterizaton, the worst gameplay and I'm not gonna say genshin is perfect, I have my own problems with it but it sounds dumb as hell when it comes from games that have characters with melon sized tits, overdesigned coomery designs with their panties and ass cracks on display, cluttered splash arts where you can barely see the character you're rolling for, and boring autobattler gameplay. Even this thread constantly say that genshin female characters are too oversexualized, but have you seen the wuwa and honkai girls? Even genshin looks tame in comparison. And the star rails are literally clones of each other. It's like everyone is just seething that genshin is popular and they try to make their garbage game seem superior. I've seen criticism that genshin is too colorful and not edgy, mature and gritty enough lmao.
No. 389616
>>389553>story in other gachas (and I never see people from these communities caring about it either)They actually don't give a fuck at all kek I've seen people argue that wuwa is better than genshin because you have the ability to skip dialogue. I just don't understand the gachaplayer mindset in that regard, what are they even interested in if the gameplay is automated and the girls have the same traits. I don't know if I can believe they just want to pay for pngs that look good to them when they could use that money to access more anime porn than they could ever watch in their lifetime.
>I've seen criticism that genshin is too colorful and not edgy, mature and gritty enoughThat's one of the reasons why I like it in the first place. I tried hsr and it just felt so bleak and boring in comparison. I guess that also explains the broad appeal the game has
No. 389619
>>389548I love that Genshin is so colourful and bright. Real is brown is a mindset that needed to die in the early 2000s. I hate seeing Wuwa screenshots, 90% of them look so lifeless and bland. And it's not a good thing if everyone is skipping through your story.
I understand wanting Hoyoverse to have some competition to make them more generous, but there's a reason Genshin is the game that appeals to everyone and its competitors stay niche.
>>389553>>38961780000 dollars is mid in terms of coomer gachafags. I knew someone who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for every single character released in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. It turned out he was very deep into credit card fraud and had his account very publicly banned. It was a huge community scandal.
No. 389646
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I feel like when it comes to genshin, while the writing isn't the best so it makes reading the story kind of annoying from time to time, it's all so compacted that you have to be a mindless tiktok zombie to not be able to understand what's going on, who is who and where you are.
I can compare it with arknights, which is another game I play, the story is all over the place because you have millions upon millions of side-quests because the main quest is hard as fuck to complete since leveling up is honestly a pain in the ass.
The main character is a faceless moid; if you complain to arknights' fanboys and say that you wish you could be a girl in the game, they cope saying "i-it's to-totally n-not a moid! It could be a woman!". Meanwhile the character is an obvious moid with moid behavior (he stabs his own hand in some sort of light Yagami-tier scheme) and who is tall as fuck with broad as fuck shoulders. He is ~dark and mysterious~~~~ and all of the girls and some guys want to fuck him.
Some girls look AI generated, the guys are all cute as fuck tbh, but honestly this is a gacha problem so I won't dwell too much on this.
So, yeah, I admit that the whole "everything must be brown and too dark so you need to keep your device's brightness at the highest settings" thing is also a reason why I sometimes am tempted to skip the dialogs on arknights, because it really is a pain in the ass to follow who the fuck is who and who the fuck are you supposed to be supporting, everyone has fucking gray morals so at this point you Just follow the stories of the characters in special events that you actually give a fuck about.
I unironically consider that you need particular aesthetics for different teams, specially in war games like arknights, but they don't have that, so it does get confusing at some point, because it also has stories redeeming some bad guys at some point, because again, everyone has gray morals.
Meanwhile in genshin you really have a division between bad guys and good guys (the evil Russian dudes and the characters we control) and while you can play with bad guys (Arlecchino, Tartaglia, Ei) you can still see the difference between the actual good guys and the bad guys, which is kind of why it's less confusing to play genshin, and makes sense why most normies pick it up.
So yeah, I unironically believe that genshin being colorful and bright is what makes people actually want to play, it's quite beginner friendly and it isn't trying to be too 2deep4u unlike arknights, with their 15 minutes long segments with philosophical parroting made by animu girls in barely clothes with cat ears and big weapons.
No. 389661
>>389657Exactly.
>>389655You can just not play the game if you don't really like the story/lore, because otherwise what's even the point of playing? Is it because the characters are cute? Or is it because of the music? You can just download the music and pictures/videos of the characters, if it's the game mechanics then maybe it's just a matter of doing some research and trying to find something close to what you actually care about.
No. 389692
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>>389684>If there was a png gacha with the same story would you bother playing it?no. but for me genshin is literally anime Skyrim, so I'm both a gameplay and a schizo-lore enjoyer, normies who don't know of alchemical marriage can mald all they want
No. 389714
>>389707We get it you're one of those yumehags
>>389712Well we know that neuvilette took an interest in wrio when he was younger and is now stalking him through sigewinne
No. 389722
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i miss my boy childe. we need the second part of his storyquest asap..
No. 389889
>>389750Hate how so much of this fanart is completely out of character daddy dom shit just because he's the prison warden. Shows who's just drawing shit because it's popular but haven't actually played the game.
>>389753I self insert as Traveler Lumine, that vid was the other one.
Some of the guys are hot, but none are 100% husbando type for me so I'm content just being the power fantasy hero.
No. 389981
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I'm getting around to finishing quests I've had sitting for two-three years. Soo annoying but glad it's finally getting done.
BTW word on the street is 1.0-1.1 domains are getting nerfed so obtaining Mondstadt materials will be a lot easier.
No. 390001
>>389993I never saw yume posts about him but for me it's the Neuv shippers. It's like some people can't think of characters as anything other than
abusive tard or uwu babygorilla. Genshin's story is told like we're 5 yet people can't understand the characters' personalities
No. 390017
>>389667Penacony was good
and I love the hints of fujobait between Ratio and Aventurine, but yeah, Xianzhou Luofu was one of the worst written, most convoluted and annoying plots I've seen in a gacha yet. Honestly an even worse experience than Inazuma because Inazuma was wrecked with plot holes and bad writing but at least you knew what was going on, in Luofu you had no idea and were constantly bombarded with new lore, terminology and subplots breaking the pacing of the main story. Also it speaks volumes that they've given multiple male characters oneitis for an offscreen/dead girlfriend (Dan Heng, Argenti, possibly Luocha and now the new fox guy) but female characters remain pure and virginal being only allowed other female love interests. Do Chinese girls like being cucked or is it just the male devs self-inserting into the male characters?
>>389619>I love that Genshin is so colourful and bright. Real is brown is a mindset that needed to die in the early 2000s. I hate seeing Wuwa screenshots, 90% of them look so lifeless and bland. And it's not a good thing if everyone is skipping through your story.Same. I would get a headache playing wuwa, I don't get how anons can stare at a screen of dark green and black and the most offensive boob physics ever while the male main is dressed in churchwear and the girl is jumping around in lingerie.
>>389548I agree. I don't care enough about other gacha to constantly talk shit about it like people do to Genshin. It's almost comical how Genshin had made its home inside everyone's heads and they are literally incapable of talking about gacha without pushing out a rant about how shit Genshin's plot is, how stupid the characters look like, how bad its performance is etc. When WuWa launched and people were complaining about how utterly fucked the game was without ever mentioning genshin they were immediately reply bombed with the "it's still better than genshin shut the fuck up hoyoverse dicksucker" rhetoric even when nobody made the comparison. I guess Genshin is too big to fail and that makes everyone mald just out of principle.
No. 390018
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there are a lot of leaks about QOL changes and other stuff. So will try and summarise a few of them and wont spoiler anything story related.
>Nerf to almost all 1.0-1.1 domains in terms of enemies>Adding dialogue review>There will a new summer event again>Nilou and Kirara will get skins>Item cap to 99999 (does not include artifacts ect)>You can drag characters while forming your team in abyss>Added a few character running trails for the theater https://streamable.com/rqt479 No. 390020
>>390017>Penacony was goodIt's not finished yet. 2.0 was good, but it fell off hard in 2.1 and saying otherwise is a cope, if leakfags are right 2.2 is going to be even trashier and after that we're going to space China again, so I lost all hope for HSR in terms of story
>>390018I was in Mond's talent dungeon today and thank god they're nerfing it
No. 390026
>>389993I think it's the shippers in general be they yumes or fujos (and I say that as someone who enjoys shipping too). Way too often ppl reduce the characters they want to have fuck to nothing but tropesand whatever kink they're into. I once looked into Wrioney after seeing a cute fanart despite not caring much for either of those guys and noped right back out. Not only was Wrio always delicted as a borderline obsessive daddy dom, the gendies ofc made Lyney trans in like half the fics too.
This fandom is just cursed and ppl arguing that the devs are totally xyz shippers (which just coincidently happens to be a ship they enjoy) are super annoying too. Who the fuck cares if a ship is canon or not? And that all ships in Genshin are just bait with enough deniability to not put off those who don't care for it should be obvious.
No. 390069
>>390056some people say that was their original intention and that it was retconned later, others that it was never implied but fans simply got delusional as usual. the old theory is that the leakers found in the database a book about their relationship that sounded more like a wuxia love story, so in my opinion (and based on the writing team track record) it's likely they wanted to hint at the dead lenore trope at first but when they saw that chinese fans HATE their idea the devs got rid of that extra lore and pretended it never happened. after that in order to make guizhong seem less attached to zhongli, they added madame ping and cloud retainer in the mix, with some extra yuribait for her relationship with madame ping. so now guizhong is more of her own character with her own group of friends and not zhongli's tragic dead wife kek
for some reason the writing team still has a hard on for the dead lenore trope so they included it in star rail, with danheng being the sacrificial pawn this time. they were more subtle and ambiguous until the actual reveal so fans didn't see it coming. i mean even to this day people deny danheng and blade are both? into baiheng. and jingliu is obsessed with her tok. i guess baiheng is the ultimate mary sue lol
No. 390091
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Considering what kind of people write Penacony arc, I wouldn't be surprised
No. 390092
>>390080kek well even if jingliu is a waifu, three characters being obsessed with her and all of them adoring her as if she's their saviour and the glue that keeps everything together is over the top writing
>>390086yes the tidbit about a writer doing all this to mock female fans is real, it was a male writer and baiheng is unironically supposed to represent some moid at mihoyo
No. 390715
>>390117unrelated but Love Nikki is very much a png collector and I still adored it and am genuinely excited for Infinity Nikki.
on genshin related items,
>>372135 super late but hope you can appreciate this beautiful fanmade animation of Scaramouche's storyline
No. 392079
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Finally got my queen Alhaitham.
No. 392091
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>>392079Grats
nonny I'm jealous, still grinding for more rolls
No. 392592
>>392439Yeah I don't get the point of making us feel bad for them not remembering when the characters don't feel that. They never talk and have no personality in the name of being self inserts, so why do we know more than them right now? Idk it was weird.
Also about Chlorinde's story, I zoned out completely the moment I realised it's another nerd propaganda even though my fvaourite characters were in it. I don't want to see the characters in the game being as escapist and nerdy as I am, which is why I hated everyone bringing up TCG during Sumeru. It might be just me but I don't want to see them doing nerdy things like it's common, I only appreciate it when it's one character's hobby and rare like it is irl. I can't even tell exactly why, I just hate seeing characters take nerd shit seriously even though I'm being a nerd by playing this game myself.
No. 392598
>>392592Totally agree with you on the twins, but also… it was imo such a cheap cop-out to not have the MC ask questions. Yes, they wanted to just enjoy the time with their sibling, but having them actually say out loud "I know I should ask questions but I don't feel like it lol" is just Hoyo taking the piss. After all they've been through the MC seriously wasn't interested in finding out more?!
That's just another reason why I just don't click with the Traveller at all.
No. 392992
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Cute birthday pic
No. 393032
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sage for newfag but I finally got him after losing 50/50, I'm a welkin only player so I speedran world quests + archon quests + hangout events to get enough primos for him. Spent 151 wishes total (76pity + 75pity). I was losing hope doing single pulls but he eventually showed up. Praying for better luck for other nonnas pulling him on this thread. May he come early and low pity for you
No. 393144
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>>392992I wish they'd do an overhaul on older characters' constellations. I know they won't ever do that because it would be changing a product after purchase but Venti's are so weak. His C6 would have been his C1 if he was released today and his C6 probably would have affected any enemy regardless of size or given him some kind of Anemo-infused attacks.
If he were released today his constellations would probably be as follows:
C1
>targets who take DMG from Wind's Grand Ode have their anemo RES decreased by 20%.if an elemental absorption occurred, then their RES towards the corresponding element is also decreased by 20%
C2
>increase the radius of Wind's Grand Ode by 15m and increase its duration by 4 secondsC4
>when enemies are launched by Skyward Sonnet, reduce Wind's Grand Ode's cooldown by 2 seconds for every enemy launched by Skyward Sonnet. a maximum of 10 seconds can be refunded this wayC6
>all enemies, regardless of size or level, will be pulled in by Wind's Grand Ode. A second after casting Wind's Grand Ode, Venti will enter the Rebel Trickster state. in the Rebel Trickster state, Venti will unleash a special charged shot. This shot takes 0.5 seconds to cast and converts 400% of his Elemental Mastery into attack. the Rebel Trickster state will expire after unleashing 4 charged shots or a second after Wind's Grand Ode expires, whichever comes first. No. 393162
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>>393144Leak talk:
there are rumours that they will increase level cap to 100 in Natlan and add a third passive talent. I'm always broke on books and mora, but my favourites are Venti and Albedo and if the third passive fixes them, I'm ready to go all out.
No. 393255
>>393162I feel like for Venti they'd need to do a big overhaul on his mechanics to breathe fresh life into him. Fix the bug where he turns and fires at nothing, make more enemies vulnerable to his burst, things like that. For a
third passive to help him I guess making his cooldowns shorter would help, his burst does have a decent bit of downtime. The struggle is Venti is so feast or famine. Either he trivializes combat completely or isn't useful at all.
For Albedo I wish they'd fix his constellations, they're also laughably bad. But since they won't the big things they could do are:
>make his flower indestructible or make it explode if it's destroyed>give his elemental burst defense scaling>give him resistance shred or shield-breaking capability when his skill triggers so mono geo isn't forced to run zhongli and can do meaningful damage to elemental shieldsHow would you other anons fix old characters' bad constellations or give better passives?
No. 393923
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I agree that this banner's 4 stars are trash, but everyone ree'ing how Hoyo can ruin phase 2 like that doesn’t seem to understand that people will be pulling for Furina regardless. She's just such a good and essential unit. Giving her bad 4 kind of "makes sense" even from a greedy company pov. First they drain our primos with Furina, then they'll put the good 4 like Shinobu and Kirara on the 4.8 ones and hope we'll swipe.
No. 393983
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>>393923>>393935It's nice when strong 4*s are on a banner but they could have put the literal worst characters in the game on this banner and people would have still pulled for Furina. Noelle and Gaming's best teams use Furina and Rosaria's okay, things could have been a lot worse. Plus Gaming is cute and I will be happy to (hopefully) get C6.
>>393930There must be something going on with Kaveh's VA. Fischl was in the basement for a similar time because they needed to replace Oz's Chinese VA.
No. 393988
>>393972Keep seething
nonnie, I'm sorry your fave doesn't have a dedicated fandom like he does
No. 394002
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WOO I got Al Haitham with the last few rolls I scraped up while exploring Inazuma, also happy about Sethos since I need an electro that isnt tabibito. Time to continue Inazuma WQ now
No. 394004
>>393972Anon i think she was making a joke. Ofcourse gaming his name is more searched in google since his name is literally gaming lol.
>>393935He's a good dps for a 4 star.
>>392992Ay thank you for sharing! I dont have social media so i totally missed this. He's handsome.
>>393162Oh i hope this leak is true. Some of the older characters really need it. I know that in other gacha games they do the same thing.
>>393930Maybe they will put him only on Nilou her banner? Kinda like how Gorou is glued to Itto, and Sara is only on Ei her banner.
>>394002Congrats!
No. 394005
>>394002congrats,
nonnie! good luck with future rolls!
No. 394381
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new nendoroids of Zhongli and EI teased.
No. 394627
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Concept art for Pyro Archon.
No. 394651
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>>394627The pilgrim clothing… I really hope it's not real, the discourse would be worse than for Sumeru designs.
No. 394658
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>>394627I fucking hope this is real because the travesty that was passed around before looked atrocious, like she came out of a circus.
No. 394751
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>>394651Uhhh I think she's supposed to be in cavalier clothing, anon, lol
No. 394795
>>394627This is a huge improvement over the previous leak. Hoping at least some elements of it remain.
>>394754She's meant to be a conquistador, yes. There's probably going to be a colonial theme.
>>394667Natlan is supposed to be West Africa + South America.
No. 394887
>>394832The issue I only see is how are they going to make the colonizer archon repent or whatever, because archons always become our friends, it can either be really good or be really
triggering to twittards.
No. 395184
>>395029the video was really cute.
neuvillette and wriothesley can be spotted at 1:02.
emilia too at 0:29.
No. 395761
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>>395029I don't know. I find it hard to like Sigewinne as a character. She's too obviously pedo-bait.
No. 395805
>>395761At least she isn't fully human and doesn't act like a kid.
Klee is the only one that bugs me, cause she acts like she's 7 too.
No. 395860
>>395761I wish they gave this outfit to a mid sized woman because I love the aesthetic. But at loli size at least they don't add cut outs to show skin everywhere.
>>395853Back when Inazuma was being released Teppei was a fan favourite, first NPC I saw to get so much love. Have fun playing the rest!
No. 395868
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>>395839Kek never forget that Furina's designer got dogpiled for "hatespeech" against men and had her Arknights works removed for tweeting this
No. 396701
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>>394627I really hope it’s her final design.
No. 396799
>>396701Criticise the design if you want (I personally like it tbh), but the ppl who want the Pyro Archon the be raped and killed during Natlan "because she's a coloniser and thus deserves it" need to go touch grass or better, think good and hard about what went wrong in their miserable lives to become like that.
Again, I'm not saying Hoyo's design choices can't be criticised or questioned, but everyone claiming that the Pyro Archon is genociding native Natlans despite us knowing NOTHING about what direction the story is going need to learn that RL history =/= game.
Who knows, maybe she'll be a horrible person, though I doubt it. The Archons, together with the Harbingers, are Hoyo's cash cows. They're not going to make her irredeemably evil. Expecting anything else is setting yourself up for disappoinment, or rather seething.
No. 396811
>>396701I really like her design, however i do think it looks to much like something from Fontaine. I know people will call me a twittertard, but i really hate how in sumeru everyone kept saying that people shouldnt whine about not getting many dark skinned characters and that we should wait for Natlan. But Natlan will be the same as Sumeru, the pale characters will be double the amount of dark skinned characters.
It's not like im super angry, but i was kinda hoping to just have more variety, we already have so many super pale characters.
>>396799>ppl who want the Pyro Archon the be raped and killed during Natlan "because she's a coloniser and thus deserves it"is that really something common that people say? I only have read comments on the leak sub on reddit, and people are civil there. Some people take it far to serieus, in the end its just a silly gacha game.
>maybe she'll be a horrible person, though I doubt itYeah i also dont think they will do that. Just look like Raiden, she was a dictator who killed her own people but the player ended up being friends with her because it was all just a big oopsy.
No. 396816
>>396804>>396811It was on Twitter (I know, I know) and coming from what looked like a female account. Which doesn't mean much, but it didn't have a trans flag, though who knows. However, several ppl agreed with this person.
Most ppl don't go as far with their hatred, but I do think that a lot take character design far too serious. Should Hoyo make more dark-skinned characters? Sure, absolutely agree. However, they're a Chinese company making a GACHA game, all they care about is money from mostly Chinese waifu fags and not real world representation. It's a sad and undeniable fact, but going so far as to wish horrible violence on a character we know absolutely nothing about yet is just deranged.
No. 397083
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>random "cute" mascot we're supposed to swoon over so that we don't realize how poor the lore is even when it's the Hexenzirkel that's been teased a million times
>elemental type restriction that makes no sense whatsoever
>"you can use 4 other characters too! if you have them."
>characters can only be used twice which would be ok if new characters weren't rng and we didn't only have 3 elemental classes to get in the first place
>you can bring a character from the dead but guess what… it's random
I don't hate the idea of another endgame thing to give us free primos but this just feels like they took every annoying thing from star rail and pushed it into genshin. Makes me a bit nervous for Natlan if they try to honkaify the story too
No. 397894
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So I just finished the Inazuma archon quest and I think it was really weird how easily(?) the problem was solved. Like all Miko had to do was appear while we were fighting Ei and then the latter goes "hmm… i GUESS i'll reconsider the slaughtering of my own people no promises though". Like I get that she lost her twin sister but it all still felt very abrupt, I wish we spent some time with her somehow even though her actual body wasnt even present. Idk. Felt like the story was more concerned with making her mysterious, scary and cool instead of fleshing out her character even though they had material to work with her backstory being quite tragic. I left Mondstadt and Liyue quite familiar with their archons but I feel like I barely know Ei.
That being said, they did succeeded in the cool aspect because I really liked the fight and how damn fast she was attacking, probably my favorite fight so far. Traveler also going foggy after seeing Musou no Hitotachi and then Kazuha's friend's vision briefly becoming active for him to use was cool. That island Kokomi was in charge of was pretty I'm looking forward to going back there for exploration. I also did the Chasm underground quest which had some interesting lore trickle so far (and Dainsleif is always nice to see).
Onto Sumeru now. I like a lot of the male character designs from this region.
No. 398004
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>>397894Inazuma's AQ is genuinely the worst part of the game. I hated it so much I almost quit, but Sumeru made me stay and got me actually interested in the lore. Ei is a retard and I'll never roll for her.
No. 398031
>>398028Isn't Natlan supposed to be based off of Latin America? Becuse I do
not see any influences at all.
No. 398035
>>398028I said tall male gdi.
Music is nice though.
No. 398041
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>>398031At this point I have no idea.
>>398034>>398030I kind of like the guy's face but the outfit is ugly as fuck and it's disappointing that the girl is so underdressed in comparison. She even has tanlines but you can't see them that well in this screenshot.
No. 398049
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Her outfit looks cute in this collaboration
No. 398050
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Happy birthday to Barbara.
No. 398055
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Skins for Nilu and Kirara.
No. 398057
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Someone stitched the map together.
No. 398059
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>>398028Why is does his outfit seem more inspired by minecraft then literally any of the countries that supposedly Natlan is based of. These designs are all over the place, I dont like any of them tbh.
>>398040they baited so hard with the first trailer, making Cyno and the dark girl mascots of Natlan and Sumeru but then proceeding to make 80% of the characters in the nations white kek.
>>398055Kirara her skin is pretty cute, I dont have Nilou but this skin give me the same vibes as kokomi her outfit.
No. 398063
Did they ever say Natlan is based on Africa and Latin America? People have been saying it for years but I've never seen it confirmed. Anyway I really thought they'd make dark skinned characters now since Sumeru was Caucasian influenced (not European/white) and still had Cyno at the beginning at least. But I guess they need to keep pandering to the Chinese market and even they must know by now that the western fanbase is never leaving even if they spit in twitterfags' faces.
>>398059>inspired by minecraftKEK
No. 398064
>>398041Like the guy but wish he had a crop top. Shark Girl is generic waifu, every loli besides Klee is terrible and this one is no exception.
>>398055Anything would be better than Kirara's base skin so that's nice. Nilou's skin is pretty but not prettier than her base skin. We were robbed of a Scaramouche skin. Diluc's skin must have sold horribly for them to be so allergic to husbando skins.
>>398037This is typical of Hoyoverse, releasing a bunch of men at once then a bunch of women. Remember when the moids were seething at Sumeru?
No. 398070
>>398068For some reason they gatekept any Natlan info all this time. All we know is literally
>hot springs>tribes>tourists>war?And we have literally no npcs from Natlan anywhere in the game. We even had some from Inazuma despite the decree, but not from Natlan. The Boss Rush event said something about Natlan people having reasons to not leave it, but we'll see
No. 398071
>>398041i'm so disappointed at how blatantly underdressed/baity the hydro girl is, might as well put her in a swimsuit and abandon all pretense of a character design. can't even argue that "oooh it's because its so hot so they have to dress lightly!!!" when the male is basically all covered up. i guess at least his face is nice
these reveals were so ugly that i pulled for furina today instead of further saving, mihoyo moids that make decisions on character designs are undoing any good will that the lore/story writers work for. hope i wont have to take swimsuit tan lines coomer bait girl seriously in a poignant story moment and she'll just be nilou-levels of relevant
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>>398070>Now that you mention it, I haven't met a single person from Natlan…>Ranjit: Well, about that… They have a lot of reservations about leaving their land… Which I don't feel comfortable talking about as a foreigner.>Ranjit: I'm not too sure about their rules and taboos, but I doubt that it's the unfamiliar environments that are the problem, haha.What if they are super racist
>>398075>>398074I just know they'd never do something similar with a male character, I hate these designers. Guess I'll be saving until Capitano and Varka unless they fuck those two up as well.
No. 398085
>>398028Mihoyo put waka waka on the character design moodboard and called it a day.
I lowered my expectation for character that was of tyla aesthetic but even that was giving them too much credit KEK
No. 398089
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>>398059When Mihoyo said Natlan was inspired by mesoamerican and african culture this is what they meant:
>animal print>bongos for ost>vaguely tribal aestheticKEK
No. 398134
>>398070Didn’t Neuvillette say that other dragon sovereigns live there too? Not sure if I’m misremembering.
>>398041I like the two women. Don’t care for the guy.
No. 398151
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For some good news, we're finally getting a red and black glider. The bad news is it's for another KFC collab, which means overseas we probably won't get it for another six months at best.
No. 398178
>>398064>Remember when the moids were seething at Sumeru?Moids literally on suicide watch and aiming to murder Da Wei again when they have to bear through 4 non-consecutive male banners in Sumeru yet we're supposed to accept our fate when Genshin throws 8 consecutive waifu banners at us with no new tall males in sight. IIRC according to leaks the gender ratio in Natlan was supposed to be 3 males (2 short 1 tall) and 7 females or so so it's only going to get worse.
>>398068Not just you. There's literally no hype around Natlan and I believe it's because they're trying to get Genshin players into Star Rail since there's such a huge overlap in the playerbase that now they're not paying for neither game and instead going F2P. It was discussed in the previous thread iirc. It could also be because Natlan is going to be a huge lore drop regarding Teyvat and its workings but I tend to be a bit cynical about this.
No. 398264
>>398064they won't make a scara skin anytime soon because he's both very popular and featured quite a bit in-story, and for some reason they seem allergic to giving those types of characters skins. actually if a character is two of these three:
>important to the story on-screen >meta (or meta-ish)>popularthen you can bet they're not getting a skin anytime soon. seriously, just look at the lineup. nilou and kirara? no hate to any of the characters featured but we're a far cry from the archon skins everyone's been begging for. they even waited until ganyu fell off hard in the meta before giving her a skin kek. xiao, yae, hu tao, harbingers, archons— all those skins would break the bank, and yet here we are.
No. 398299
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>>398041Ever since yesterday, everybody on twitter has been malding about the lack of melanin over afro/latino characters. Do you think Hoyoverse will break over the pressure and change their skintones, nonnas?
No. 398303
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>>398300
>accidentally racist
It's by the POC community. You don't get to decide what's racist or not. All I did was asking a simple question.
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>>398299>Do you think Hoyoverse will break over the pressure and change their skintonesno, they don't care and the characters will sale anyway.
>>398095>He's obviously inspired by shaman kingidk what that is, but when if you mean pic rel i dont see any resemblance.
No. 398307
>>398299Why would they? Their biggest cashcows are Chinese incels and those don't want dark skinned characters. Please don't entertain for even a second the thought that they're going to still change the characters' skin colours, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
Also, while certain parts of twitter and reddit were complaining, I'd wager that the vast majority of players just don't care.
I personally don't like the designs at all. They look like they're from splatoon. If all Natlan characters look like that I'll happily skip them and focus on the older ones I don't have yet.
No. 398311
>>398277kek, thats why i said two of the three criteria. again, no shade to xq, but his story relevance is minimal (unlike everyone else the poor guy didn't even get a justification for his skin in lantern rite), nor is his popularity completely overwhelming like the other characters i mentioned. i just find it so bizarre; it's like they're deliberately avoiding releasing the big money makers, and there being only one five-star skin after all this time doesn't help either.
>>398307agreed with you, though i'd add that natlan in general looks like a damn splatoon stage. honestly really not liking this direction.
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>>398311Oh I know it was just an excuse to post XQ. I love to see moids seethe about him and Bennet, and the fact that Yelan powercreeps him only with constellations kek. I got his C6 really fast so I'll always defend boys in shorts of this game.
No. 398313
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>>398312Absolutely based shorts enjoyer, I feel exactly the same
No. 398318
>>398264Xingqiu and Fischl both have skins, so it has nothing to do with meta. I think Diluc's skin sold poorly and they took the wrong conclusion from it (that husbando pullers don't buy skins) instead of the obvious conclusion that Diluc is powercrept to shit and no one uses him.
>>398299No. They will only care if the Chinese community complains and the Chinese community hates dark-skinned characters.
No. 398323
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I wish the Scara collab wasn't Korea exclusive
No. 398358
>>398349This is so true. While Hoyo obviously sucks at any semblance of representation, I'm fully convinced that if they were to actually reveal a dark skinned character that is wearing some kind of "tribal" outfit the same people wouldn't be happy either and cry cultural appropriation.
It's the fundamental problem with people turning their fandom presence into some kind of activism. Actual grievances get drowned out by the whiners who are never happy anyway.
And like you said, hardly any of the Twitter whiners will be whales (nor will they actually quit the game over the lack of representation), so Hoyo can really just ignore them without suffering any kind of repercussions.
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I know this has been said a million times at this point, but I seriously don't understand why they only release skins like three times a year. Skins in gacha games print money, and I can't imagine that a company like HYV can't afford to have a dev team specifically for designing new ones.
If the issue is that there aren't enough people buying them, then it's because they pick the most random characters to give them to (like, really? Diluc, Klee, and Ganyu? Who - other than their hardcore fans - still uses them in 2024?), and that they're overpriced for what they give the player. But there are such easy fixes for those problems. Throw in some minimally different effects for the skills, and the 15 dollar price tag would be more palatable for dolphins. And that is ignoring how they'd make an absolute FORTUNE if they released skins for the archons, or meta/fan favorite characters like Hu Tao, Yelan, Yae Miko, Tartaglia, Alhaitham and so on. Some of these even already have alternative outfits because they were featured in collabs or promos, like for example picrel. It's just so weird.
No. 398651
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>>398558If it's barely profitable wouldn't they make skins for more popular characters to maximize the number of skins sold? I think they're sure they'll make enough profit from any character that they use it to boost no longer meta/unpopular character banner sales by making people feel the need to get the character and the skin before the novelty wears off. Also gives those characters chance to be pulled for in the future since skins are in the shop forever. I don't think this would sell more than skins for popular characters but who knows.
No. 399655
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Happy birthday, Kaveh!
No. 400651
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>>396701holy mother of coomer downgrades. i mean, the female designs seem really weak overall (very generic dommy mommy types with only the purple girl seeming to have a semblance of personality) but jesus christ…even clorindes downgrade pales in comparison to this.
No. 400659
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This is such a laughably bad and ugly design it's actually insane. It's like they recycled clorinde's old concept art and made it 200% worse
No. 400662
>>400651They just threw away any personality she could have shown in her design huh? What is this inspired by if not Spain or Africa or South America? Bondage porn? I should've expected that one designer to put in Himeko somewhere in Genshin too.
>>400653Pisses me off that the lion character has the "lives in the middle of nowhere but wears full face makeup every day" syndrome like Dehya. I was actually really excited for Natlan from the previous trailer because I liked seeing the three being a team, characters and their friendships are what really sell me on new areas aside from exploring tbh. I'm so put off by the designs that I might end up unintentionally "boycotting" by simply not pulling for any characters I don't like the designs of. Which is all of them so far. At least we finally see Capitano in action I guess.
No. 400663
>>400653Going the Tezca/Kukulkan 'South America' I see with the Archon.
And only one other male? Next to Capitano?
Bleh, it's so close to the end now that I'm not gonna quit though.
No. 400668
>>400657 it's really all been downhill since HSR huh? i predict ZZZ will in turn make HSR go downhill. i wish theyd just propped up their damn golden goose properly instead of spreading themselves thin, but it's too late for regrets now.
>>400659i noticed that too, and i 100% believe it was a recycle job. they clearly understood that people loved clorindes concepts, but completely failed to grasp what made them appealing in the first place.
i'll also add that i didn't have high hopes for the trailer, but no bina somehow manages to disappoint anyway.
>>400662>bondage porn KEK it really does feel like a shitty mod id see on gamebanana, i can't believe this actually made it to the base game. if this is well and truly going to be her final playable design then i guess i'll just cave and (properly) build my fucking bennett instead of wasting my primos.
No. 400685
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Looks like a 4*
No. 400692
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>>400653the cat lady is quite hot, if shes decent i would be willing to pull.
No. 400693
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More willing to pull for this than the characters
No. 400702
>>400700This garbage
>>400685 has no chance of getting popular don’t be so delusional
The dendro Xiao might have a chance since his VA is sasuke
No. 400706
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>>400700nobody likes edgy
No. 400722
>>400719I don't care about popularity metrics, Genshin peaked in Sumeru character- and plotwise. Best characters, best archon story, best world quests. The only downside was the abundance of shitty desert maps and only one rainforest region.
>>400721I guess it'll be another year of rolling for reruns for me. Did Mihoyo just consciously decide to get rid of female players? ZZZ is all embarrassing waifushit, they forgot about Star Rail after 2.2 and now Genshin's reached its 8th new waifu banner in a row and it's only going to continue in Natlan.
No. 400724
>>400722Those designs really are so uninspired and lazy. I'm you could easily drop those characters in ZZZ or HSR and they would fit there about as well as in Genshin, if not better.
It feels like after the whole Scara debacle they decided it was safer to just cater to the incel coomers than to foster their female player base. Just head over to reddit and see the guy all fawning over the "amazing designs" of the female characters. Moids only care about being able to jerk off to their waifus, they have no eye for actual good female character design.
No. 400733
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>>400653wow all the designs are ugly af. I mean fontaine also had some ugly designs, but at least they had all like a theme and seemed from one nation and the same culture.
>>400717i also loved sumeru the most anon. But like other anons said, now you can save up for character you do like.
>>400725i tried to play ToT, but the love interests where to boring imo
No. 400740
There are two pyro archons, the bondage chick we've already seen who will probably die and the other one who looks more like a conquistador. There's also xbalanque who will probably have a shit design….
>>400692This is like a high femme version of dehya kek
>>400659Clorine 4 star version
>>400685This guy is apparently a 5 star but I don't like his sasuke design. We already got the dendro boy who is sasuke inspired, why do we need a second time? Also we need more boys
No. 400745
>>400651this looks like someone made a sexy coomer genderbent of the pyro fatui enemy guy kek
from what we've seen in design leaks, genshin often gets a lot of good artists and genuinely interesting character design proposals that they don't use, but it's like whoever has the job of choosing the final design is hellbent on sexy-honkaifying every single mihoyo game. it boggles the mind; why do they even bother to get 10s of good, creative design proposals when 95% of the time they pick twitter coomer artist levels of designs? not that is a new problem, but the sexy honkai vibes feel like they've gotten stronger since the skirk reveal ( rip all of the infinitely more interesting and lore relevant designs we could've had)
No. 400746
>>400685The heterophobia, the awkward lean to the left, the cat ear, the stiff pose, the edginess… He's a deviantart OC kek.
I'm so glad I stopped playing after pulling Furina. If I had farmed primos in preparation for Natlan only to be shown all this garbage, I'd have had a conniption. Literally not a single good design to be seen, and I say this as someone who has low enough standards to like some of the waifu designs anons here tend to shit on.
No. 400747
>>400653No fujobait at all? Genshin has fallen off. Maybe I'll check it out I won't invest time into it until they release a cute guy. I can't believe they regressed so hard after Fontaines designs being mostly nice
>>400740They are not going to kill her off and you know that. They didn't do that for Furina or Nahida either.
>>400744KEK I just noticed that only the short preview girl has darker skin. The tall catlady is tan but probably not more than Dehya.
No. 400749
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>>400685I didn't even see him. They really didn't give a fuck, they did not want to animate this guy
No. 400755
>>400752Complaints about the lack of dark skinned characters, while absolutely
valid, have been made for years but have clearly been unsuccessful. It thus comes as zero surprise that Hoyo, as a Chinese company, made the Natlan cast light skinned again. The designs however are new as in, we're seeing these characters for the first time now and many nonnas here have come to the same conclusion that they're coomer slop level. Which is also not a new development, but it's still rather surprising just how lazy those designs are. There characters have started looking the same across all their franchises while in the pasttgere was a little more variety.
No. 400756
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I think I can tolerate the design of the pyro archon because at least she has some badass big sister vibe, but I can't stand this purple girl. Out of everyone in the cast she screams tsundere waifubait the most, literally the most fucking annoying trope
No. 400761
>>400757The seething comes from a
valid place though. Look at the Fontaine trailer, we had a bunch of good looking male characters in it and the Fontaine cast in general was really good, I personally also really liked the women. And now we are finally in Natlan, expectations are really high, and it's like we're back to square one with the cheap waifupandering and absolutely horrible female designs created with the goal of making men horny.
No. 400768
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>>400765I am sorry, but people with no taste are prohibited from lolcow guild. Please refrain from further posting in this thread.
No. 400769
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they are cute
No. 400775
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tell me this doesn't look like a forgettable 4 star
No. 400776
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>>400773You should add more keks, so we won't be able to detect a newfag. Go hump your Shenhe pillow or something.
No. 400780
>>400768nah lyney is ugly as sin, no amount of
>muh shorts muh seggsy shota plapcan salvage his design
No. 400786
>>400761i agree
nonnie, we've had decent male character designs in the past, and even cute/interesting girls too, so it feels like the game is devolving. i had no expectations for more varied skintones because genshin has no track record of that, but having had some cute/interesting designs in the past only to then reveal a nation full of ( so far) uninspired slop is disappointing exactly because it's like going backward. i know similar discussions have been had here for every reveal and hoyo slop is nothing new, but personally i've had at least one character that i liked in previous nations even in just the trailers, while natlan ones have all looked disappointing. the males look like deviantart OCs but not in a fun way, and this is coming from someone who enjoyed arles' edgy one winged dark angel spider shtick kek
No. 400788
>>400765I can sort of agree. The only male character I pulled for was Wrio, I was glad they made him so muscular and his coat short enough to not fully cover his ass but this preview does not have a single design on that level.
>>400786I feel the same way, it's just disappointing after Fontaine. No cultural influences beyond their names and the designs generally make me think of pokemon, just a weird direction. Ororon looks like he belongs in Arknights. I guess I'll drop it until they release someone I like the look of like I did in the time between Ayato and Alhaitham.
No. 400825
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>>400733the collab art was cute.
No. 400836
>>400832I'm not even the anon you're currently angrily humping with, but sure thing lmfao. Everyone I Disagree With Is A Porn Addict And A Gooner! Not Me, Who Came To That Conclusion Just Because Somebody Likes A Character Who Is Wearing Shorts And Stockings!
>>400833>You people are no different from the Iranian police and other conservatards obsessed with controlling women’s bodies.I was going to ask if you're retarded but you really are. Bringing irl politics to this, just because women are annoyed with the way these moid games are portraying female characters. Are we supposed to go full libfem and say that the way Hoyo is making women look like strippers with no proper personality and sexualizing children (Klee, Diona, etc.) is actually a good sign and all women should be naked from now on?
No. 400838
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>>400823Same, they were my favorite boys from Fontaine tbh
No. 400849
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I wish we had colonizer Pyro Archon instead.
No. 400888
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>>400849To be honest the longer I look at her the more I like her but her design does not suggest archon at all. In that regard it's almost as bad as Raiden with her panties on display
No. 400894
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>>400685This fag better not be anemo, it'd disrupt my favorite medium boys
No. 400983
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No. 401081
>>401057Meh, I feel like the only well designed characters are Kaeya, Diluc, Childe, Albedo, Venti, Zhongli, wanderer (specially as baladeer) and Xiao. I literally forget that the other characters exist, even the meme ones that were made to become the ultimate waifu/husbando like Itto and Ayato's sister, it was clear they wouldn't put more work the moment they started making the inazuma characters, being Wanderer the only one that's memorable in the whole cast of inazuma.
The other characters just mesh with each other, when I see the dumb edits that coomers and retards make by putting the heads of different characters in different bodies, I feel like you could tell me that those are their original designs and I would believe you.
Even the skins of characters like Kaeya are dull, Diluc's was great tbh, even if it didn't go too far away from his original design, but I literally can't remember any other skin that wasn't a nothingburger with no particular reason to exist other than to make people spend money.
I would honestly only play for my husbandos, I have them all already without having to spend a single peny on this game. At this point I think I will play this again once the whole plot is over and I will speedrun it so I know how it all ends.
No. 401083
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>>401057I am trying my best to brush this aside and treat it like another fake leak, but the Natlan teaser with the lack of male characters is unfortunately proof enough to me.
No. 401092
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>>401081>being Wanderer the only one that's memorable in the whole cast of inazumaAnd he was designed before the release of the game since he was in a 1.1 event so your tastes check out completely lol I see your point, the first designs had clear goals of what the character is supposed to be. I can tell Kaeya and Jean are knights and Childe is a laid back diplomat for example. You see Amber and you know her personality right away. But if I see Yelan I think she's a professional dominatrix before a secret agent. Shenhe an erotic dancer before a woman that deprives herself of worldly pleasure and only focuses on cultivation, living in the mountains. The inspiration is there if you squint but I don't even see a shrine maiden when I look at Yae Miko. Alhaitham and Faruzan don't have anything related to being academics in their designs. The designs were understandable for a while in Fontaine, but now in Natlan we're back to random bullshit let's go mode.
No. 401095
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I get why everyone is doomposting but the way I see it is I’m too far in and want to see how it ends. I’ve been playing since Klee was brought into the game a few years ago. Ngl I think snezhnaya isn’t going to be anything amazing map wise and will be significantly smaller than the other nations. Natlan will probably be the last big map.
No. 401099
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>>401081They peaked with Scara, love the guy
No. 401103
>>401057Sad. I was hoping they'd add more since the concept leaks had drawings of a muscular model but I guess not.
>>401101I also think it'll be big but it's not like they copy nations directly, the inspirations aren't an indication of size.
No. 401350
>>401057I wish they announced this from the start so I could've kept my distance and only liked it from afar. Now I'm too invested in this game to drop it.
Makes me wonder though, if this is true, why make Venti the face of the game? And why even make him the first banner of the game too? Hoyo is truly a retarded company. I hope another Chinese incel tries killing somebody but this time actually succeeds so they learn their lesson.
No. 401366
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>>401350venti isnt even the face of the games, thats paimon kek
No. 401399
>>401057Is there
any proof of this or is it just something someone made up? I haven't seen any screenshots of anyone making a rant like this and couldn't even find one when trying to look it up.
No. 401442
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>>401382>>401399A) I did say it was a sussy leak and
B) see picrel. It was discussed all over X and genshin leaks yesterday, so you mustn’t have looked very thoroughly at all.
And again, it's not that I'm claiming there'll be fewer characters but this Uncle 404 that according to other has made reliable leaks in the past.
But sure, claim I made shit up for idiots on LC.
No. 401449
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>>401442Some other leaker said these leaks were posted on an anonymous place where anyone can take over the username "Uncle 404", so I am lowkey inclined to believe they're all fake and made up, just like those leaks of Traveler teaming up with Neuvillette to kill Arlecchino and succeeding in that task.
I'd suggest all nonnies here to take these leaks with a grain of salt.
No. 401781
>>401775I don't think many of us were asking for a 50:50 ration to begin with. It's getting even fewer male characters because the pressure from CN incels has amped up recently that is unacceptable for many.
But it seems like this leak isn't supposed to be taken seriously anyway, so I guess we'll see how the full Natlan roster will look in the end.
No. 401838
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The characters they've revealed look so cluttered and even more incoherent than ever like wtf is this supposed to be? I haven't played since getting Arlecchino and it seems like I won't have a reason to lmao
No. 402591
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Neuvillette got nerfed. You can’t do his spin charged attack anymore. It’s so fucking over.
No. 402635
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>>401838Every single natlan design looks like a shitty deviantart OC. Even if there wasn't the whitewashing fandom discourse these designs would still suck. Mihoyo stopped trying after sumeru. Now they're almost as shitty as fgo designs
No. 402637
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>>402635Just cluttered coombait
No. 402640
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lmao not even a day later
No. 402646
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>>402591Looked this up on twitter to see more info about it but instead I found out about the genshin boycott that western fans started because of the Natlan teaser kek. What the fuck does "contact politicians" mean here? Also interesting how not playing the game isn't listed.
No. 402648
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>>402646KEK I checked out the petition and one of the linked articles was about this hoyo response
No. 402654
>>402646That's why the whole thing is performative bs. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the grievances over Natlan aren't
valid, but if it's really such a big problem on a personal level as some ppl make it out to be, then you should just fucking stop playing the game. Instead they twist themselves into pretzels trying to justify why it's totally okay they keep playing a game by a company they despise. Pure comedy.
As is the suggestion to contact politicians over it. Because the mayor of bumfuck nowhere is totally going to pressure the Chinese government to make Hoyo see reason. Hilarious.
No. 402658
>>402649That's what happens when you take inspo from multiple places. What's natlan going for mayan? Western cowboy? Urban Street wear? Tropical safari
Who cares as long as it has coom according to mihoyo
No. 402671
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>>402658>>402649Same issue with Sumeru, this line-up filled me with despair kek. Fontaine was good and then they nosedived, why don't they just pick one or two countries the way they did with every other nation
No. 402744
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>>402635>almost as shitty as fgo designsLet's not pretend hyv was ever above that even at it's best, it's always been below everything but the type of D list china slop gachas full of shameless plagiarism and now it's nearing that level.
No. 403014
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I really hate that they made Nilou’s forest fairy dress blue instead of green. I was hoping for an illusen look.
No. 403056
>>403051Fischl and Dilucs skins are both ugly too, literally none of them are good. Agree with
>>403054 that Ayaka's is probably the best.
No. 403135
>>402671Oh the nostalgia, I remember going through all stages of grief at once when this was leaked.
>>403051No matter what clothes he puts on, Diluc will always be ruined by his ugly ass downie face.
Out of the paid skins, Ayaka's is the best looking imo. It feels like it was designed with the female playerbase in mind instead of brainless coomers. Ningguang's skin is also really great, but that's mostly because her default outfit is ugly as shit kek
No. 403425
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spoiler for the summer event
there is so much blue nonnies, and so many shades of it.two event outfits and they're both so blue. i wonder if the mihoyo design team is cursed with having to create a blue character/skin per month or else they die or something. maybe they have a special type of colour blindness and they can only see blue. i'm so tired of fucking blue.
No. 403442
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Love
No. 403655
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>keeps up with our journey and wants to help us prepare for natlan's fights
>has been resting just to make sure his family is not worried about him
>took parts of the intergalactic whale and cooked some of it for us
>his family thinks of us positively and would feel at ease knowing he's with us
OG husbando is back in town
No. 403656
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>>403655This chibi is so ugly and unoriginal. He's just standing there and not even in Snezhnaya. At least in the detailed art he's showing off his stomach even in the cold. And I think the snowman in the bg is him made by his sibling using one of his scarves.
No. 403712
I honestly wish Scaramouche had a skin for this event. If they did more cats would be killed unfortunately.
>>403655We love you Ajax!!
No. 403726
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>>403655Happy birthday!
>>403712I'd kill for a Scara skin. All of his collab outfits are so cute so I'm patiently waiting for the day I can get him something cute to wear in-game as well (even though I love his current outfit).
No. 403898
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>>403409Natlan has djs scratching records and npcs breakdancing in a circle, so now we have even pseduo-African American elements squeezed in as well. Like what is this place even suppose to be, lol?
No. 403935
>>403910Yeah, I don't really get why they'd still go for african hairstyles, clothing and names, I would assume that all of it should be unappealing to them? Since they mashed a bunch of shit together I don't get the feeling they have a particular interest in the actual countries.
>>403928Oh my god, Ireland could've been so cool. Maybe they literally just chose based on the kinds of landscapes they'd able to do, highlands might look too similar to existing regions?
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>>403936I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought so, apparently.
No. 403963
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Event spoilers
That was such a cute callback to Wanderer's story. My heart melted seeing Wanderer being the friend for Durin that we were for him. It's also super cute that he was looking through a fairytale book. I hated that they made him saving us into a moment for waifubaiting with Nilou though. >>403937Even just changing the color makes it look so different and novel. They didn't color-code this hard in the beginning, why are they pushing it so hard now? If anything it would be more useful in the beginning to remember the characters by their elements. Now it's just too repetitive and emphasizes how bad the designs are.
No. 403975
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>>401081I purchased an account with Wanderer a few months ago, simply because he was the only 5* left who I wanted to give a go. Needless to say, the open-world experience with him feels fantastic. I wasn’t even a huge fan before, but his uniquely airy design really does make you feel like a lone wanderer traversing new lands. His hat is silly and cool, his flight mechanism never stops being fun and handy, and his sassy mannerisms have grown on me. To me, playing Wanderer feels like the last bastion of that nostalgic magic I felt when logging into Genshin for the first time. Every one else post-Liyue feels cheap in comparison. Hoyo should return to its roots.
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>>404015>>403994I'm inclined to believe this. When Eula came out there were rumours they changed design teams
No. 404030
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>>404028And so many of the collab outfits are also blue or black/white, what the fuck kek
No. 404042
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>>404030Collei and Tighnari actually look cute for this collab.
No. 404044
>>404028>>404030I mean, it's just such an easy colorway, you can't go wrong with blue, the fact that we all wear blue denim pants and consider it a neutral color should tell you enough.
Blue and red are ridiculously easy to mix and match with other neutral colors, it gives you a pop of color so it doesn't "look too boring" But it's safer than using other colors like say, pink or orange.
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>>404045ok
>>404050I think that the problem is you if you can be impressed by ai shit
No. 404080
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Natlan is so ass. It beggars belief that Hoyo would put so much love and care into upholding the cultural integrity of Liyue while pissing and shitting all over everything that’s non-CN/JP, nor European. I tend not to get offended by these things, but when I saw the supposedly Nigerian character (picrel), I was appalled. I’m proud of my Yoruba heritage, and to see such a lazy, borderline disrespectful interpretation felt like a glob of spit in my face. Forget the skin colour, the outfit alone is appalling. If they wanted to make some kind of hipsterish, colourful graffiti region full of pale/tanned Chinese characters then they could have done so without pretending to skinwalk our people. Disrespectful and crass. I’ve perma-deleted my account already and will find something else to occupy my time.
No. 404118
>>404084Average genshit player, tbh. Thanks for reminding me why I quit.
>>404100You say this, but fans freaked out when people were disrespectful towards Yun Jin's singing or Gaming's name, and no-one told them to 'relax'.
No. 404259
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>>404080What I don't understand is why, if they are racist, why did they choose black and brown cultures to base characters off them? I guess this is some kind of marketing strategy, ragebait or whatever, idk. Next nation is Russia, so the race/culture controversies will be forgotten once again, just like how it happened during Fontaine.
No. 404271
>>404080What do you MEAN he's nigerian kek this is so fucking bad. He's not a pale spanish guy? He's inspired by nigerian culture and not some random emo oc from DeviantArt?
You're completely right in feeling offended and disappointed. The people at hoyo are ridiculous and it's sad that the charm from the first two regions seems to be completely gone. Imagine putting all the boring and retarded details about chinese and japanese culture in the story like fucking taxes or the way political power is divided or some damn sword forging technique, shoehorning peking opera and sperging about the superior chinese food and money and stability and then when it comes to south african and native american culture they do this shallow ugly nonsensical shit. I'm glad I stopped playing right before Fontaine, though imo the desert part of Sumeru was also incredibly disappointing considering all the interesting material they could have used as inspiration other than desert bandits, boring samey ruins and giant robots.
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I liked how the event brought back a certain character and made him loved and accepted.
>>404334It’s always the meta 4 stars that don’t get better until later on.
No. 404404
>>404370Same with you on that character. If only he was on the banner now, I'd pull for him immediately.
As for Candace, she's one of the few 4 stars I'm still missing and it pains me every day. She's so pretty, I'd trade the C4 Kaveh I never wanted for a single copy of her. :(
No. 405178
>>404080He's Nigerian? I'm with the other anon thinking he was some Spanish dude with a bootleg Cyno motif.
Your comment kind of inspired me. I've been putting off finishing Fontaine because archon quests have felt like a chore since Liyue. I'll just try to binge the story and do the character stories for the ones I care about and then dip. I can't go further with Natlan.
>>404259>why, if they are racist, why did they choose black and brown cultures to base characters off them?I've wanted to know this since it was announced that Natlan would be African and indigenous inspired. It was obvious that this company wouldn't actually care for accuracy or to portray these cultures (which are on different ducking continents) positively so why do it? They would've been better off just doing Spain if they needed a country to represent pyro so badly.
No. 406007
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>>405930It was a good event for sure, a lot better than last year's nothingburger summer event. I wasn't expecting Durin content before winter.
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>>405930>>406007It was nice to see Albedo but unfortunately it was lore bombed at the end. I love that Wanderer gets more story time too. Chinese cat killers are seething.
No. 407520
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Just realized that both of these guys being brooding silent types means at least one of them will be a nerd cause they have to turn "cool" characters into retards whose every waking thought is a stupid card game and who takes it serious to the point of being extremely cringe but because this is a self jerk moment for the devs themselves they make every other character take their cringe interests seriously and even be interested in it themselves. If any woman was involved in the writing of Cyno after the archon quest somebody in game would call him an incel who will never get married cause he's too busy being autistic and collecting cards for a boring game.
No. 407977
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>>407964It's not bad or anything, the general rule is it's good music if you don't notice it sticking out. But the previous areas had some real gems where I remember having to stop playing to appreciate the music for a few minutes because it was just hitting real nice lol That one port ormos bgm still turns on in my brain sometimes and I sway a little. I love that yu peng's bgm music presents the place it plays in perfectly. Fontaine's music has Fontaine's vibes as well, but I can't imagine the port ormos one fitting anything else after experiencing it there while you could put Fontaine's music over other games and it would fit. Another favourite I remember getting chills hearing for the first time is the bgm that plays around Stormterror's lair. Thanks to the feelings the music awakened in me, I'll never forget how I felt while discovering the place for the first time and doing the quest there. I can't think of anything that really stuck with me deeply in Fontaine.
No. 409655
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Natlan is approaching, and I'm curious who everyone is planning to pull.
For some reason I don't think Capitano is going to be playable yet, so the only one I might bother with is the archon, but that'll heavily depend on her lore and kit. The other female characters make me cringe, and the two males ones look ugly (Lego guy) or boring (DeviantArt guy). Maybe their personalities are going to blow me away and make me change my mind, but so far… eh.
This looks like it'll be such a shitty scrote pandering region. Unless HYV pulls a likable ikemen 5* out of their ass in one of the later patches, I'm going to uninstall after the archon quest conclusion in 5.2 (if I even get that far without losing interest) and then come back for Snezhnaya next year.
No. 409681
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>>409655Honestly probably this unless a kit is too powerful to ignore (unlikely). I'll wait for the Pyro dragon later in the patches and go for constellations.
No. 409866
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>>409655pretty meh looking overall.
No. 410222
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>>410121It depends what you like in a husbando. Wriothesley is hot, Lyney and Neuvillette are given a lot of character focus. Furina is a neat character. Arlecchino is pretty good. The only complete duds were Clorinde, Sigewinne, and Emilie.
No. 410581
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Livestream codes:
2SMTYV59TLFD
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For anniversary this year we're getting the typical pet, 20x free pulls, and a toy. We're also getting an artifact creator and for the first time ever, a 5* standard banner character selector. C6 Tighnari here I come.
No. 410592
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>>410258>Even Arlecchino people forgot about pretty fast despite Mihoyo marketing her more aggressively than I've ever seen them to do for any character everthat's because they fucking retconned everything about her into oblivion, made her just another forgettable generic cold-outside-warm-inside mommy ft. le hekkin found family (barf), and then called it "subverting expectations teehee this was totally planned from the start trust us"
and somehow people fell for it. as a huge og arlefag i'm still seething, those retards had everything set up for greatness but chickened out and did the shittiest job in existence whitewashing her at the eleventh hour, probably because their misogynist asses couldn't handle it otherwise. no amount of spectacle can make up for lack of substance; it's no wonder she doesn't have staying power, especially not when compared to her male colleagues. sperg over.
No. 410614
Okay so I know leaks have been wrong before, but I'm really scared they will again replace a waifu with a better kit to an already existing male character. They have done it with Xingqui and Albedo, and it now seems like they are trying to replace Kazuha.
>>410581Thanks for the codes! I'm glad I will be finally able to get Tighnari.
No. 410617
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I am so ready for him to end Eula's career and make so many Eulatards crying.
No. 410633
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>>410617Do Capitanofags here want him to take his mask off? I am already seeing a lot of seethe on Xitter and other places because he is built like a "twink" according to monsterfucker standards.
No. 410652
>>410633He looks hot and I will be very angry if they pull a bait and switch and don't make him playable in Natlan with how much they've been hyping him up. I really don't need more Cryo units but I'll do it for him.
>>410622>why do people like cute animals>>410614Don't worry too much, anon. Most main DPSes are sidegrades anyways and most of the men are DPS. Xingqiu wasn't replaced anyways, most teams that want him run both him and Yelan together or him instead for interruption resistance. The only direct powercreep case was Chiori. I don't think Kazuha will get powercrept completely, especially not by a Geo character. The Anemo cowboy slut is a main DPS, apparently, not a Kazuha replacer.
No. 410654
>>410633>I am already seeing a lot of seethe on Xitter and other places because he is built like a "twink" according to monsterfucker standards.Kek my entire timeline has been like this all day, endless amounts of monsterfuckers malding because Capitano looks like a normal, muscular guy and not a cartoonish roidpig. I hope he has a handsome face under the mask to make them seethe even more.
>>410592>>410611The bait-and-switch from a cool unhinged assassin to a woobified tragic one winged angel yuribait edgelord was the most brutal act of character assassination I've seen. I feel sorry for Arlecchinofags, I really do.
>>410614Chinese players love Kazuha and will start calling fraud on Mihoyo again if they ever try to surpass him. Don't worry.
No. 410686
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>>410622>>410652No I agree they suck. Saurians look like if humans tried to bred dinosaurs for "cuteness" thereby turning them into deformed caricatures of once healthy animals that can only sit around and blink at you retardedly; i.e.: they are dinosaur pugs. Put one of these in the wild and it'll topple over its own feet because it lacks a stable center of gravity and is fat for no reason. Maybe I'm just a paleosperg or whatever but I just find it more beautiful when designs obey the laws of physics or at least make some kind of sense in the given fantasy setting but hey I guess Teyvat has its own laws.
No. 410699
>>410590We don't have to grind dailies anymore. You get dailies credits for completing regular quests and events now. Quests completed in batches also generate excess encounter points that can be converted to credit for dailies by using stamina.
It's probably my favorite QoL improvement.
No. 410886
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I wish they would’ve gone with the island Polynesian theme 100% instead of this weird amalgamation of cultures that don’t really feel like they go together. I think the different tribes thing is cool, though. That’ll be fun to explore in game. Praying for better husbandos, as much as I do love Capitano so far.
No. 411169
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I'm sick of all the retards claiming Capitano will be a waifu incelbait when there's nothing in the game to prove it. I'm betting it's gooner faggots who desperately want to delete all husbandos despite their shit waifus no longer selling well.
No. 412443
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I might end up getting Mualani because her VA is Morgana/Kyubey. My husband hates Kyubey and I think it would be funny to play as her with the volume up.
No. 412488
>>412443based
I'm definitely going for the Kazuha rerun. I somehow always managed to miss him.
No. 412729
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I used a single wish on the banner being like “I’ll probably just get a weapon again” and it was Emilie instead. I kinda wanted to lose the 50/50 so I could get C2 Tighnari or C2 Mona but oh well. I think Emilie will end up being like Kokomi or Kuki or even Diluc and Fischl where they’ll be kickass in the next region.
I also don’t mind her design it’s not that atrocious. Lily of the valley is one of my favourite flowers so maybe that’s why I like it lol.
No. 412785
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>>412738>>412745lol yes I 100% agree. The titty napkins gotta go. I just really like forest green and short hair on the female characters since we don’t have a lot of them. Wish she looked more like this but the pink they used for the outfit is bad.
No. 412846
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>>412785i dont know why but this design reminds me so much of kakania from reverse 1999 or maybe theres a trend of this design in china
No. 413549
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Fucking coomer bait, she's atrociously ugly. Hoyo couldn’t pay me to ruin my account with her.
No. 413560
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>>413559> What the fuck, that hole is giant enough for us to see a peek of her asshole if she bends over kek.She needs one of these. Kek
No. 413562
>>413549>>413553>>413559>>413560ITT: genshit mudslimes getting
triggered by skin
Women can't even sing in Afghanistan and you're focused on that. Get a life.
(bait) No. 413571
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>>413549A gyaru in stripper heels, are they using designs from Zenless Zone Zero or something? This doesn't even make sense in the whole, you know, fantasy game setting.
Just look at the other geo characters, she doesn’t fit in at all.
Or look at the other characters from the same region even
>>401838>>400849They have "urban" inspiration but they're still fantasy characters in a fantasy world, this girl looks like someone going to the beach after spending the whole winter working out at home to get a beach body.
No. 413578
>>413574She doesn't fit in because she doesn't even look like a fantasy character, anon, she looks like any gyaru OC that has been made ever since gyaru became a porn category.
Did they seriously think they could add some weird stole and call it a day?
Noelle has some retarded armor and yunjin has some lolita elements in her outfit, everyone has fantasy elements in their designs, they fit in because you can assume they're characters in a fantasy setting.
No. 413584
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>>413549Here’s what her design looks like from the front. Natlan would have been more interesting had it taken place in America/mexico/hawaii Unfortunately it might have not fit the lore for the region.
No. 413585
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>>413549The thing is, i dont even mind when a character shows some skin. Candace for example is a design i really like, but also i think it suits her character. We know Candace is from the dessert, so her outfit makes sense. Her outfit looks mystical imo. Xilonen is supposed to be a blacksmith yet her outfit reflects that she is a city girl? I mean Natlan designs are already a mess, not just her. They are all far to modern, for the fact that all other nations are fantasy inspired. People can argue with Fontaine, because they have "technology", but its pretty much just lite steampunk France. I'm sad because I thought it would be so cool to have a fantasy nation inspired by South America and Subsaharan Africa. But instead all the Natlan characters look like they could be from ZZZ?
>>413553Ah wow, that is really bad and was so unecessary to add.
>>412443>>412488Goodluck with pulling!
>>413574I'm pretty sure she's not talkin g about the color scheme. But because her outfit looks to modern.
>>413584Her coat looks a lot bigger here.
>Unfortunately it might have not fit the lore for the regionWhat do you mean by that?
No. 413613
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Capitano's model has leaked. He's in he files as playable. His model is also larger than the rest of the tall males.
No. 413614
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>>413613Without the coat. His helmet doesn't have a rendered face under it.
No. 413617
>>413614There's also a bunch of new names banned for Wanderer:
Xbalanque (a previously leaked playable male character), Kapatcir (the Thunderbird), Tasraque (a dragon mentioned in fischl's skin), and Xiuhcoatl (leaked as the Sovereign of Fire) Another male character has been leaked in voicelines as well,
Ifa, a Saurian vet. No. 413618
>>413584Honestly, I think they just got new character designers that they're using for ZZZ and these designers only know how to make modern character slop instead of fantasy character slop, it's too much of a coincidence that the characters look like they're from a completely whole ass different game right when there's a new game out that's made by them.
At least the other regions kind of make more sense within their own overdesigned characteristics, but Natlan is just a mess.
It's disappointing because I unironically wanted more characters like
>>412443Because she looks summery, fresh and cute even, like she's ready to go to the beach or gather some fruits after hunting a huge boar with her friends, or like she's the kind of girl that goes diving to gather pearls and pretty seashells.
No. 413634
>>413613I'm so happy that "leak" about the harbinger for Natlan being Columbina instead of him was fake kek I was actually worried for a second.
>>413622I genuinely hope they let him keep the mask on. I don't think hoyo could do this right, I'd rather stay delusional
No. 413671
>>413565man, remember when possible leaks for Gaming had him with lion ears and a tail? But instead we just got generic ass shounen boy. Moids can get a gyaru stripper lion though. God this is shit
>>413614fuck…praying he gets a playable version with a rendered prettyboy face. Sorry mask fetish nonas, masked male characters always give me too scrote self-insert friendly vibes
No. 413715
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>>413549Meanwhile we get bootleg Xiao and this guy for the males. They couldnt be more transparent
No. 414108
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genshin updates getting bigger and bigger in file size and yet the quality of said updates rapidly decreasing is making me consider dropping this game, why am i wasting 6-8 hours on a download for new characters that are either a) coom women b) ugly male clutter c) pedobait? when i got into the franchise i was blown away by the story and would spend hours analysing it, i poured so much energy into levelling up my characters and exploring. i don't think it's just burnout anymore. it's sad to watch this rapid downfall in real time, i keep holding out hope that something enticing will get my attention again but it's looking bleak. hopefully you nonas can enjoy this update, as pisspoor as it is, more than me.
No. 414119
>>414102Not getting any of the Natlan characters we've seen so far. I know a lot of nonnies here are going crazy over bargain bin Xiao and his pet, but I just don't see his appeal. And yeah, I know everyone's like "They're literally Sasuke and Naruto" due to their JP VAs, but that's not a selling point for me either, the oposite actually.
Anyway, in the past I quite liked the design of some of the female characters, but Natlan's female cast is just coomer whores, so no thanks.
No. 414123
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Off to Natlan we go nonnies~!
No. 414137
>>414119>a lot of nonnies here are going crazy over bargain bin Xiao and his pet…Are these nonnies in the room with us right now? Kek
What do you all think about
the cutscene of Capitano getting folded by Mavuika? I'm sorry to all the anons who husbando him, but it's funny as hell how the scrotes who self insert into him are absolutely seething No. 414155
>>414108i get your feelings, the xilonen stripper-tier design has really put me in a doomer mood as well, especially since we have no good male designs yet. unfortunately i got attached to certain characters and i like enough of the story that i want to see it through. i've decided i'll just enjoy what i do like about this game, ignore the gacha and moid community when coombait characters are on it and just not give hoyo any money. i only ever spent 5$ on this game ( and maybe 10$ of misc husbando merchandise, most bought 2nd hand at places like surugaya). voting with my money is the best i can do right now since i can't make myself quit. i hope you can enjoy the parts of this game that used to bring you joy
nonnie! i just hope this thread won't die, every other genshin community online is infiltrated by moids and handmaidens pretending to love stripper coom designs and misinterpreting any story aspect that isn't spelled out for them
No. 414162
>>414159thank you nona, I think I will go for Tighnari.
>>414161Yes I think a weapon would be better for me too, but I get why they don't do it. People just aren't that exited for weapons.
No. 414178
>>414138We have had two guys leak (Xbalanque and Ifa), but we don't know what they look like yet. They'll probably be late in the patches like Emilie was.
>>414148NTA but so far I'm liking the vertical map design of Natlan and how many puzzles have been integrated into the world environment. It reminds me of the Chasm but more polished. The battle music is good too. I care more about the exploration than the gacha, though.
No. 414197
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Nonnas I can't do it anymore. I tried to give this game a chance but they're baiting in too many moids with those skin-revealing outfits. I thought Genshin would finally become one of these games where women would be modest and cover to avert themselves from the eyes of these perverted freaks, but no… they all turn up to be hookers and whores and sluts with no shame. I hate this. I'm uninstalling the game and whoever is still playing, good luck with all these immodest whores flashing.(retarded bait)
No. 414210
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>>414108It's so annoying how I basically need a whole ass gaming PC to be able to play genshin, not even my brand new phone can handle all of these updates. I truly appreciate the events, expansions and such, and I love my husbandos, but the game is just too heavy and I can't just buy a new laptop just so I can continue playing games.
I do want to know how is it going to end and what's going to happen once the game is over, plus I don't even care anymore if the girls are walking around in g-strings at this point as long as I can keep enjoying my husbandos.
Maybe in two years I could actually get a powerful gaming laptop to actually play comfortably.
Actually, does anyone have any idea of how long will it take for the story to end? We're in the sixth land of seven, and my tinfoil is that traveler will have to do something in Celestia too since the archons aren't exactly evil entities or gets redeemed with the power of friendship and bobba tea, so that means the enemy is something that isn't even the Russian spies.
I wonder if it will be something like pic related where both "good" and "evil" wants to kill you because you suck.
