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No. 414258
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A leak about a male saurian vet from the anemo clan.
>>414255Yeah they did a poor job rendering her face too.
No. 414262
>>414251If he's actually supposed to be the first pyro archon I can see why they'd only want him to appear in the story. I don't know why leakers would mention him so often if he was just an NPC with some design elements though. Guess we will have to wait a month or two to find out
>>414258That bitch better not be green
No. 414287
>>414252I honestly hate everything about her.
She's really
the coomer bait character of the game now. And it annoys me that she's going to be super strong apparently.
Don't get me wrong, I don't care about the meta as such, but I just don't want such an ugly character to be good.
>>414258New smol anemo boy for the collection, please!
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I hate Yumkasaurs. They’re obviously pandering to the furfags. Every time I see them on their tails I just think of Randy from South Park bouncing on his ballsack. The water saurs look like domesticated Vishaps so they’re cool.
No. 414396
>>414104Almost walked 2000m through the desert then remembered your post, lol.
I want a hovershark though. There is totally enough open space in the game for a 'vehicle' of some kind.
>>414375I think you're just internet poisoned…
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>>414375Hoyoverse panders to every single demographic other than women.
Official ad btw.
No. 414457
About the Natlan story quest, don't read if you haven't played it yet.
Just going to come out and say it, what a disappointment. I was expecting so much more from the second last nation but instead I was stuck playing as two girls I gave zero shits about for almost half of the quest. I guess they're not mind-numbingly horrible like some of the previous female characters but it was still boring, tedious and most of all, uninteresting. I had no investment in these characters, nor did I give a shit about the random dying aunt, the NPC crying after his dead friend nor Chasca's edgy past and her relationship with her sister. I don't care about Mavuika "suffering for her people and making a plan to save them from disaster" because that's literally what we just saw in Fontaine, it's old news and predictable.
The only good part in that monster of a quest was when we entered the Night Kingdom (though what the fuck was that "Mavuika's consciousness saving them" cop-out about?), the rest could've been cut entirely off and nothing would've changed, and the more I think about it, the more frustrated I get. Both Fontaine and Sumeru (and to a degree, Inazuma as well) had very dark storylines and both started out with a bang, but here we are being dragged around by a girls' club watching other characters go through their experiences. Capitano's first appearance was practically offscreen because we weren't there to see it, and he fucked off almost immediately and is now debilitated by his injury. I'm more depressed than angry at this point, I really hope the next parts will pick up the pace and that Natlan just started off slow for a reason.
No. 414482
>>414457I was considering redownloading the game but thanks to you I won't bother
nonnie. I'm the most interested in main stories and exploration and both seem to be lackluster according to what I've seen.
>>414467I'm curious, who is it?
No. 414500
>>414497They got too caught up on Chinese gender wars with the "men=won't play" bullshit and thought that by moving onto moidpandering they'll make another bank. But that said, I don't even believe they went after the most lucrative audience, I genuinely think the devs making the decisions are just good faith misogynists who don't
want female fans or pander to women.
No. 414523
>>414502>>414497Exactly and the only times I see HSR content on social media is when women are drawing fanart of the men in it. I was disappointed to see some of them latch onto the ZZZ furry because he's somehow the most appealing male character in the game.
>>414500This is kind of obvious considering their previous games had an almost all female cast. Genshin is heading in a similar direction, now that they've made their money they can fully focus on the coom they've always wanted to make.
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Is this not a strange assortment of characters? Like, why wasn't Neuvillette also there to see the traveller off?
No. 414542
>>414502Venti had so much art too. I remember all the fujos/tifs cosplayed him as well.
>>414526to be fair we had lots of interactions with Charlotte. I was also super disappointed to not see the siblings or Neuvilette.
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I don't want it to be true but I'm starting to believe that Capitano actually won't be playable as leakers say. There is no way this is a 5 star weapon, it's an interesting design but as plain/undetailed as Signoras catalyst was. Unless he gets a redesign like Wanderer it probably won't happen. In the same fight Mavuika was using an existing 4 star claymore
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Are nonnies excited to get McDonald’s?
No. 414701
>>414691>only usaWHERE THE FUCK IS THE GLIDER FOR CANADA HOYOVERSE FUCK
>>414698They announced a different collab for Russia and Belarus, it's probably coming for EU. But I am genuinely worried they're going to forget Canada.
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>>414634Are you talking about picrel anon? I really hope this isn't his final design. He is already wearing a burqa, the least Hoyo can do is give him a face reveal and make him a pretty boy.
>>414646Now that is reassuring. I still hope he is a playable character, as long as he has a gorgeous face.
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>>414701 I’m a Canadian living in the USA. Lucky me. If someone pays me I can buy the meals and give the codes.
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>>414485I’m probably not the ‘certain
nonnie’ you’re referring to but if this is real then I’m going to throw up from excitement!!! Enjou was my favourite fucking character in the game, I draw a shedload of fanart (but no posting) of him and Dainsleif all the time and he’s been my number one husbando since I abandoned that gachaslop a couple of years ago. If it’s true that he shows up again then I’ll absolutely have to start playing again, I love my dumb fuck abyss lector and his silly perfect voice— damn these integrate restrictions for not letting me spam heart emojis!!! Let me express my love AAAAA!!!
No. 414811
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Can’t believe I’m saying this, but am I the only nona who likes Mualani? Of course, I hate Natlan and its characters overall. But I accidentally rolled her and her playstyle has been an absolute blast so far. I’ve always valued the open world over any other aspect of the game; so having a character who can literally rocket across fields, sands and water is wild to me a 1.1 veteran! Her design and personality are also growing on me with time. Maybe it’s because the bar is already through the floor, but having a short female character who’s not limited to blushing and stuttering pathetically around the traveller, but is genuinely competitive and lively is pretty refreshing. There were a couple of moments during the quest (regarding Kachina) where I expected her to give a pathetic answer along the lines of ‘wahhh wahhh I can’t fight my friend… wahhh I don’t want to hurt you…’ and instead she started sperging about how excited she was about kicking each others asses, KEK-! Anyway, even if you don’t like her personally (which is fair), I would absolutely recommend her to nonas on the fun rating of her playstyle alone. I’ve grown fond!
No. 414843
>>414699Since nobody answered you, there's 2 things available but you
have to use the McDonalds app to purchase. First off is some McDonalds apple pies in game, 2nd is the glider. You get these for purchasing in app, and the codes will appear in the app I believe.
No. 414844
>>414811No I really like her too
nonnie. I just never talk about the female characters here on lolcow because other farmers hate them and only want males kek. Which is fine, I just don't want rock the boat or anything. Anyway yes her playstyle is very enjoyable!
No. 414845
>>414811I love Mualani as well and have been trying to roll her. I lost to Tighnari which makes me sad.
>>414806Yup I 100% meant Enjou.
No. 414864
>>414844AYRT, I have to confess that I’m usually one of those haters. Although, it’s not because I dislike female characters it’s because I hate the way they’re almost all written as moe gap sex dolls. On the other hand, any woman who escapes this trap is an instant win for me: Hu Tao, Beidou, Ningguang, Sarah, Yae Miko, Dori, Candace, Faruzan, Dehya, Rosaria, Signora, Mualani— Women who don’t bend over to please the traveller, who have a sense of self/pride and who meet him as an equal are a win in my books. And no, none of the Fontainian women count because they were all moe gap BLASTED by the end of 4.X including Arlecchino (I am still bitter and will die on this hill!)
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>>414862Remember back in 1.1 when Hoyo first introduced its characters and they were actually allowed to be morally gray, including the good guys? Kaeya was set up to be a semi-villain, Mona and Fischl were both ‘arrogant’ in a loveable way, Lisa tortured adventurers for fun, Diona was sharp-tongued to her customers and the traveller, Keqing was an overly pertinent civil servant, Klee was inconsiderate and reckless, Qiqi was blunt, Venti was… Venti, even _Zhongli_ gave us a hell of a lot of sass and Scaramouche was an actual villain! Who was just evil! For evil’s sake! Now when they add even a sprinkle of ‘spice’ to a character’s personality, they have to make a whole song and dance about how ‘rude’ or ‘weird’ the character is (as if the player doesn’t have comprehension skills) before either fixing their trait immediately or labelling the character a pariah to be made fun of for all eternity. That only leaves characters who are boringly upfront when we meet them or characters who are supposedly ‘evil villains’ that are then moe gapped to hell within the next two quests.
No. 414872
>>414867Well, seeing how the Chinese incels blew a goddamn gasket over Chiori being "rude" (i.e. protecting the poor woman) to the
abusive male customer in her trailer it's no wonder they need to make every character a white toast nothingburger with no proper conflict. The big charm point Alhaitham had was that he was so uncaring of social conduct that he came off rude all the time, but even male characters have been thoroughly castrated as of late. It's weird because in Star Rail the character writing has been getting better and better lately, but in that game the characters are allowed much more interpersonal relationships and development between each other rather than only being dependent on the main character but in Genshin all of the conflict is given to
goddamn NPCs. I honestly couldn't imagine a playable character like Sparkle existing in Genshin Impact anymore.
No. 414877
>>414865I deleted the game before Natlan and seeing nonnas tell what really happened without the social media wokeness filter makes me want to never play it again. It seems like neither the story not the exploration is that good.
>>414867I enjoyed the game the most when I hated some characters wholeheartedly. If you give every character proper personalities they'll be loved and hated by a good amount of people. Now they just make every character nice enough and morally good enough which leads to everyone forgetting about their existence when they're not in the main story anymore. There's nothing in their personalities to feel strongly about, positive or negative.
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>>414865nonna i'll die on that hill right alongside you, every day i seethe about what they did to arle. i love you and everyone else whos based enough to hate how hoyofucks retconned her.
>>414867i agree with your analysis wholeheartedly, extremely well-put. it's also why i have no faith in how they're going to handle harbingers from here on out, or any other character advertised as morally dubious. i honestly feel like harbingers that actually appeared
on-screen during the early versions (including manga dottore) got very, very lucky because there's only so much they can do to whitewash them now. for the rest that had more subtle lore though…
No. 414911
>>414888Can't agree more. I find Natlan exploration so dull, the saurian gimmick sucks and is just there to get you to pull the new characters, and I don't find the scenery particularly nice either.
Worst offenders are the characters though. They're just so bland. It's like Hoyo decided to make them all loveable and wholesome so the CN incels don't complain. The way they're shoving Kachina & Mualani as this cute "siblings" duo down our throat is disgusting, Mualani is waaaaaay too perfect. And like you said, Mavuika has nothing archon-y to her, imo. Yes, I know the whole shtick is that she's human, but they're going a bit too far with the Archon being bff with the common people. I'm not asking for another Raiden, but Mavuika imo has no mystery to her. To this day, we know Venti and Zhongli are holding information back. Mavuika has nothing going for her and the fact that her zipper goes all the way down over her private parts is just horrible design, sorry.
So yeah, Natlan has kind of killed my love for the game.
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>>414811I find her playstyle is awkward but the surfing is fun and I liked her friendship with Kachina.
>>414888The only Saurian I thought was awkward is the dendro one, the others feel a lot better in comparison. The shark's movespeed in water is great.
>>414973The sick NPC had a pyro vision too, but yeah other than her there's something weird going on with the pyro element in Natlan. I think the adventure quest was kind of whatever so far but there's room for it to still have some hard-hitting moments. The big mystery right now is why the Traveler can't resonate with the statue and I'm guessing it's because
we're going to become the Archon at the end of it.
>>414806>>414485ENJOU MY BELOVED I CANNOT WAIT
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Fellow Enjou anon, I can confirm he shows up again in the Canopy Reputation quest.
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>>414703>the least Hoyo can do is give him a face reveal and make him a pretty boy>as long as he has a gorgeous faceWhy'd you want the character whose entire appeal is to be masked to look like a generic male character? This is how he loses his entire appeal imo. I'd rather have him stay masked and be a tall, mysterious looking husbando than have Hoyo give him the pretty male face number 5894675632 and make him look like another Wriothesley/Haitham/Zhongli.
No. 415391
>>414991The water dragon is really fun, but I feel like there isn't a lot of landscape to explore with it. Most of the current map seems to be designed for the dendro saurian and I hate using it so much.
>>415388This. The "mask needs to stay" crowd have no idea what they're enabling. Also we could never get a masked female character so I don't want a male one either.
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>>415415I have had a soft spot for Capitano since 2022, but I agree that he has one of the most unhinged fanbases out there. Besides scrotes, he attracts the most insane women - those who think they are ohh so much better and above other women who like "generic" animu boys, just because they are into old men yaoi, monsterfucking, and furryshit. Most of these tards don't even have basic decency and they bully artists who draw him with a pretty face. I have seen so much drama around this character on twatter for what feels like forever, and it honestly makes him a little hard to like.
No. 415432
>>415388Some dudes are also out there literally me-ing as Haitham and Wriothesley because they're both muscular manly men of the game. I've seen men even self insert into Diluc so they can be pretend do be some hardcore dominant daddy in the game. Anons really want Capitano to look like yet another soft boyfriend Childe so they can also flick their bean to him while going on unhinged yume spergs whenever somebody else voices their love for him a little too much.
>>415391>Women who like masked fictional men are enabling incelsThe sheer retardation of this take is insane. It's really not that deep. We just like what we want aka a masked Capitano, not everything is some mega schizocore plot from the incels. We're not enabling anything considering 99.9% fanart of Capitano is already unmasked ones and I doubt my opinion on this on an anonymous imageboard really matters to Hoyo, they will simply do whatever the fuck they want.
No. 415434
Kek only on lolcow you will see nonnies acting like a masked 2d character getting unmasked is the key to worldwide feminism and dismantling the patriarchy.
>>414888I agree. The exploration feels like such a chore with those saurian mechanics, it's clunky, and honestly, just frustrating at times. And the characters this time around don't seem to have that spark. Mavuika as an archon just feels so bland, like she's missing that memorable edge. I will be on the copium that the archon quest will get better with each update but at the same time I don't really believe it. Fontaine had me engaged with its story the second I started it meanwhile Natlan had my eyes glazing over.
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>>414226Do we have any female character yumes here? I love Chiori so much, she makes me such a sperg. A cool girl character who's not interested in sucking the Traveler's cock at any given moment is such a delight! I find her design very pretty and attractive without being coombait and her gameplay is so fun too.. she's really captured my heart.
No. 415468
>>415388>>415391Why do you anons let incels live in you head rent-free? Who cares what they think and do? Bullying people making Capitano pretty is retarded but I think the mask gives him more intrigue and removing it would be a bit of a downgrade unless there's something else on his face that's dramatic and eye-catching.
>>415437Are people actually mad at Capitano fighting a god with a turbo power booster to a standstill while he doesn't even seem to have a Vision? They were pretty clearly evenly matched in the cutscene. Mavuika was exhausted and wrecked Kinich's sword fighting him and he was getting ready to fight despite his wound before Olorun threw dust in the air. It didn't feel like some disrespectful one-sided stomp, more like Mavuika got a lucky hit in. If she lost immediately we'd have retards freaking out about how weak the god of war is.
>>415465I like Yoimiya and Arle. Furina's also cute. I know Yoimiya is just a nice girl but she was my first dps character and carried me through a lot of content.
>>415419I've been seeing a lot of genderbends of the Natlan characters, I saw a good Mualani with a wip 3D render yesterday. If Mualani had been a cute surfer man I would have been much more enticed to pull. Same with Mavuika, the design is still stupid in the context of Genshin but a man in a slutty biker outfit is far more compelling than a woman in one.
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>>415468>mask gives him more intrigueI really wish I could understand the psych of the average masked guy enjoyer but I just can't. The mask makes him look like every other generic fatui NPC imo. Will he get completely ruined for maskedmenfags if he takes off his headgear for even a single cutscene?
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>>415514I agree that the contrast is bullshit. If there was a single man on the Natlan roster than was as naked as the ladies I wouldn't care nearly as much. I think Capitano currently looks cool but if he got a half-naked masked off design I would forgive him losing the mask.
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>>415465I’ve been obsessed with ningguang ever since I started the game.
No. 415642
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>>415640Seriously, why is everyone acting like a few women wanting a fictional character to stay masked is somehow aligning them with incels or promoting more censorship of male characters?
>>415514>>415619It's not that serious ffs. Some of you unironically sound like some schizocore r/gangstalking
victims who think the gacha incels are out to get them so we must revolt against them by… giving a Genshin character a twink face kek as if there aren't any bigger issues at hand out there. I know the Genshin incels aren't innocent but this is just how the game is designed, it's a gacha game that caters to its male audience. If it upsets you this much, maybe it's time to take a step back and consider if it's worth playing.
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>>415640>everyone who doesn't agree with me must be a tourist!This discussion has happened in the previous threads and this is the first time I see maskfags having a collective meltdown here.
>>415645Honestly this. I wonder what makes the average maskfag so insanely narcissistic with a perpetual
victim complex.
No. 415649
>>415514I still get annoyed looking at Ororon's bland as fuck design. He better win me over whenever he makes his appearances in the AQ because they didn't even put a modicum of effort into his design, at least Kinich has a decent color scheme going on even if he's on the meh side as well. Having to sit through goblins like Xilonen and Chasca is just adding insult to injury as well
>Maskfags feel like suitfags arguing that being more covered is sexier lmao.KEK I don't care about this Capitano debate but this cracked me up, they kinda do sound like delusional suitfags
No. 415655
>>415648Its funny because this all started because a maskfag got upset at a random anon saying she wanted Capitano to be attractive underneath the mask
>>415362Now they want to act like
victims kek
No. 415658
>>415654You are so incredibly retarded that it's almost sad, almost. As pointed by
>>415655 the entire argument was started by a maskfag.
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This ordeal is peak Genshin Impact General Thread #16 on lolcow.farm right now.
No. 415662
>>415652>hoyo does not even acknowledge your existenceKek, I haven't spent a dime on Hoyo games so it doesn't bother me in the least. Also, women not getting pandered to in gachashit is not the big 'hehe gotchu' moment you think it is.
>>415660>moving goalpostsSasuga
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>>415652>EVERYONE BUT ME IS WRONGWhy do you even come here if you are that bothered by some anons wanting Hoyo to do better with their male characters? You can go to /gig/ or twatter or leddit and you will find legions of dickriders deepthroating whatever trash Hoyo throws their way.
>>415642>le incel conspiraciesI mean it isn't wrong. Didn't some Korean incels try to get Furina's artist fired because of some vague "feminist" posts that she had made on her personal social media account?
No. 415773
>>415659>peak Genshin Impact General Threadftfy
>>415737Depends on what you would rather have sooner: A support character that helps your current DPS or a whole new DPS character. You could also risk a few pulls for Thoma, but I wouldn't advise it if you don't want Raiden or Kinich.
No. 415782
>>415680>clunky to playIt's just bomberman, It was something completely different last time, wasn't it?
I feel like if you could dash on land with the saurians they would be much better.
No. 415828
>>415799AYRT, modding is actually very safe so long as it stays cosmetic! It's been going on for several years and nobody has ever caught a ban from it. The only instance of a ban was one
HSR player when it first launched, but that player allegedly also had some non-cosmetic mods (and even then the ban only lasted a week so it's far from dramatic). Ever since then, there have been no credible, substantiated reports of bans. That said, it is still recommended to hide your UID if you're posting any pictures of the mods publicly. And don't worry— people in coop can't see your mods either since it's purely client-side, so there's no risk of anyone snitching on you.
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>>416021Because supposed leakers have been spreading vague info about his design and kit (support/atk buffer). A lot of posts call Capitano's playability into question but I haven't seen anything like that for Xbalanque.
No. 416051
>>415514I was 100% with you, up until the suitfag slander. Suits make me so unbearably horny and I love sexualising an outfit of clothing moids wear daily in a professional capacity. Everything from the polished shoes, to the slight heel, to the legs, to the cuffs, watches, etc. gets me going. Even hotter when you have a modified suit without a shirt underneath or shorts + sock garters (AKA male thighighs). It's a shame that Zhongli is the closest we get, and he's fully covered. Manga Dottore would have been good, but there's a reason they remodelled him with even more layers… smh. Regardless, I agree that we need more stripper husbandos. The inequality of it all is starting to get ridiculous.
>>415667> HSR writer outed for trolling female fans and baiting fujos with mary sueCould I get some context for this milk?
>>415929I get what you mean: the whole biker aesthetic isn't actually that bad when you think about it alongside the whole graffiti theme, but the coom zip is just unbearable to look at.
>>416050The thought of Hoyo writing a story where the Himeko clone dies and is replaced by a hot moid both excites and terrifies me. There's just no way the CN incels would let that one slide without some SERIOUS blacklash…
No. 416057
>>416051>Could I get some context for this milk?I don't have the screenshots at hand (you can probably find them on google) but it was the guy who wrote the Baiheng segment. He made both Dan Feng (Dan Heng's previous incarnation) and Yingxing (Blade's previous identity) develop oneitis for his Mary Sue (Baiheng) to the point they fucked around with ambrosial arbor causing Jingliu to be mara-struck and Imbibitor Lunae being imprisoned. It pissed off a LOT of Chinese fans, especially because Baiheng was a very archetypal Mary Sue beloved by everyone to the point they completely broke character just to suck her ass.
>>416054Yeah Mavuika is already confirmed to become playable, she won't die. What I'm speculating is that Xbalanque will become the pyro archon once again and that's why people were already curious when Mavuika's release patch (5.3) was supposedly different from the usual archon patch (usually X.2, Raiden being an exception).
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I fucking hate the short male model. As much as I love characters like Wanderer and Xiao, I can't ever see them in a lewd light because they all look like 14 year old kids
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>>416068Don't make me cry about how peak Xiao's design would have been as a tall male anon…
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Tfw you'll never have this
No. 416079
>>416071It's speculated to be possibly a specific region in Natlan where the red-haired "Children of Mu-Natlan" come from. Himeko isn't called Himeko Murata in the Chinese version of Honkai but 无量塔姬子 (Wuliangta Jizi), but the original "Children of Murata" phrase was written specifically as 穆纳塔 (Mu-na-ta). Even if you don't speak Chinese, you can see that the characters don't match up.
>>416072He looks so adorable, I wish male characters could look like this.
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>>416067Cant relate tbh one of the few reasons I still play is because this is one of the only games that (fairly) regularly releases guys that aren’t just tall ikemen. I love the short male model.
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>>416091I agree they dont look like kids to me either. The only ones that seem really young to me are Mika, Freminet and Chongyun (funny that they're all cryo). The rest are just short anime boys.
No. 416098
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>>416091I also don't read them as kids, they're not childish, plus it's easy to notice the difference when the actual kids are characters like Klee or Qiqi.
You don't see any of the short guys baby talking or running like speds, they also don't have any guardians unlike Klee who has Albedo or Qiqi with Baizhu.
No. 416105
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I was going to get McDonald’s today but I have to wait until tomorrow when my husband has his coworker supper.
>>416070I haven’t played Honkai but whenever I see him I just think he’s Xiao.
No. 416174
>>415737>>415773Okay I got my Thoma in 20. Happy times. I wish he was c4 but I’ll cope for now since it could have been a Sara spook.
Did anyone roll for Kinich?
No. 416254
>>416174Yeah who else is worth saving for. And I have a ton of Primos.
Lost the 50/50 to Dehya but then got him 20 rolls later.
No. 416320
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>>416174I rolled for Kinich and got him. I still need an onset feather for him and to farm his books.
No. 416439
>>416105imbibitor lunae is so fucking hot. too bad he’s stuck in shit rail I would main him if he was in genshin
>>416070idk, nonita. him being a manlet is part of his appeal. small but fiery trope is just something I’m really into
No. 416548
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>>416487Same anon. I will never get over how Boothill had a rough start when he was first released despite getting already leaked a year ago. The shitshow stemmed from a stupid leaker that led fans to believe Firefly was going to be released instead of him so when Boothill's drip marketing came out instead of Firefly, a bunch of people who are Firefly fans (and also often those incel moids who like HSR and seethe at female fans) lost their shit and began a campaign against Boothill and his fans. Misinformation spread quickly, with majority of Firefly fans harassing Boothill fans like crazy. The situation escalated to the point where they even started a boycott hashtag, calling for others to ignore Boothill and his banner in favor of their waifu Firefly. Ever since then I've loved him even more kek.
Mini sperg but him hailing from a war torn world where he lost his loved ones in a cruel manner is so nicely written. I know other HSR characters also have deep stories but it often comes across like some 2deep4u shit while Boothill has an actual engrossing one imo. I just wish they had the same favoritism towards him and other male characters who are a lot more interesting than Firefly, who received like 5 animated pvs and a bunch of excessive trailers for being a sad 'disabled' girl in a fighting suit. Don't even get me started on how Hoyo led people to think Sam would be a murderous robot husbando, only to do the twist of him being Firefly instead
No. 417470
>>417465I got him on a whim and currently run him with XL, Bennett and Baizhu. He's not well built yet, but still already hitting hard. I just find him really clunky in the overworld because as soon as you're on uneven terrain you end up getting stuck in trees or fall into water during his E, which can be annoying. But that won't be a problem in the Abyss.
I could see myself maining him if it wasn't for the fact that his best team will at the very least require Mavuika if not more Natlan characters and I don’t intend to get any of the Natlan coomer bait girlies, nor Emilie, so I'll stick to Alhaitham.
No. 417523
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>>417243I get your frustration anon. Hoyofair just isn't exciting anymore because the male characters are always put in the most conservative fits. There was one video in the 2022 event that had a single, low-quality shot of Diluc in a bunny suit, but that’s about it kek.
No. 417724
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>>414375Made me remember your post
No. 417962
>>417861It was a joke because tumblurinas love to misinterpret canon to make it so that everyone is
problematic…
The boycott isn't doing anything either because these children only screech on twitter while still playing the game.>>417861
No. 418211
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>Sorry, for the short notice… Did it take you a long time to find the place?
>When I'm not out diving, I often spend time here alone — it's my secret base.
>Pers really likes here too. Since few have trod here, the plants can grow just freely…
>Um, what I mean is… I—I'd like to share this peaceful sight with you.
Happy birthday Freminet!
No. 418318
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loved this area a lot.
No. 418322
>>418319Really lovely pics, nonna!
There's no way to return there, or is there?
No. 418612
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New kokomi official art!!
>>418326Yeah but I don’t really care if it’s posted.
No. 418616
>>418612based. i wish more nonnas posted UIDs, but i definitely understand not wanting to
besides, i havent posted mine either kek so i'm not really in any position to be making demands. that said, love the stylish kokomi!
No. 418680
>>418211Freminet, cute boy…
>>418612Unexpectedly good art from Hoyo
>>418318Where is this place??
No. 418800
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3d Ororon, r8 him
No. 418836
>>418800this faggot is seriously wearing ripped jeans… Yoruba anon from last thread
>>404080 I am so sorry, this character keeps getting worse kekkk. Even Mavuika in her biker outfit looks less out of place than this 2edgy4me emo
No. 418845
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I know she's going to have the most retarded personality ever, but I actually think her model looks quite pretty. But maybe it's just that every other Natlan design being dogshit makes her look decent, I don't know
No. 418858
>>418800for some reason his model is uncanny valley, like he's been ported in from a different game. specifically, he reads like a xenoblade 2 character. anyway, as always, wish they'd given the cool and nonsexualized covered up design to a female character.
>>418845i have to admit i was pleasantly surprised by the long skirt, though that weird patch of skin right above it looks dumb. i'll reserve my judgements for the full microwave of her design though, just in case something even dumber is going on in the back (i hope not because she's the only natlan char i'm even vaguely interested in pulling, provided bina doesn't show up).
No. 418882
>>418800Kingdom Hearts looking motherfucker.
>>418845Her design looks less modern and more fantasy. Still seems more like something that would be in a honkai game tho
No. 418883
>>418800Ugly as fuck but I hope he can replace Fischl and isn't just another 4 star dps I'll never need.
>>418858It genuinely looks like he's not supposed to be in the game. Specifically his head, it's like it's not shaded properly
No. 419030
>>418800His design is a mess and looks like a 2005 emo boy but he's still a bishounen so automatically better than the ugly coomshit Natlan girls are. It's a shame he's a 4-star in the worst banner of them all (Chasca) so I won't be getting him, but then again he's probably going to be another shitty 4-star electro dps just like Sethos. I have absolutely no faith in Mihoyo anymore.
Btw does anyone else find it intereseting that the symbol on his shirt and scarf looks identical to the quantum element symbol from Star Rail?
No. 419052
>>419046I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this, there's only new fanart of characters like Diluc, Kaeya, Tatrtaglia, Kazuha, Venti and Wanderer, otherwise there's barely any fanart of the other guys and even girls, back in the day my Pinterest was flooded with random genshit girls, now, idk if my autism made the algorithm behave or what, I only see fanart of those guys and maybe, and only maybe, fanart of a random old waifu like Raiden but because she appears with Wanderer and it's some meme about how she's a shit mother.
I don't use Twitter because it's blocked in my country and I'm too lazy to care about it though, so I don't know how is it going there, also, on Instagram I mostly follow random shops and even they barely show stuff with newer characters, most of the merchandise they release is of characters like the english sauce wolf man, hydro archon, venti, kazuha and that's about it.
No. 419061
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>>419054They aren't losing players though so I guess whatever they are doing works.
No. 419141
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I saw this nice one of Kinich
No. 419317
>>419183What do you even mean with this. The turn based gameplay off star rail is so boring. Like
>>419285 said, you can just put it on auto and leave. How is that even engaging or exciting gameplay. The only reason to play star rail, is if you like the characters and story.
No. 419560
>>419554I got Kinich (C1 even) and while I didn't care for him at all before getting him on a whim, he's certainly grown on me. He's no Neuvillette, but he does hit like a truck, and I came to like the spinning. However, while his exploration ability is useless, I think he's fairly clunky to use in the overworld because he tends to get stuck during the spinning. Out of all the Natlan characters we've met so far I think he's the most tolerable, though I personally can't stand Ajaw at all (and hate everyone for shipping those two).
So imo, if you're in need of a fairly good dps, you should consider getting him. If you already have another dendro dps like Alhaitham or one of the meta dps units, I think you could easily skip him and get Mavuika instead. I think in the end it'll come down to preference for you.
No. 420083
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Only 2 male characters, the rest just waifus.
I really feel like dropping Genshin but I also invested too much time into it to do that kek. Why is Hoyo suddenly so allergic to male characters I don't get it. They milked the wallets of husbandofags for years and suddenly casted them aside in Natlan to kiss the asses of their incel fans (who have tried to stab them before). I really don't understand.
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>>420083>it jumps from 107 to 110Nonas… There is hope yet…
No. 420102
>>420096For me the problem isn't that we are getting only a handful of male 5 star characters, it's that the ones we are getting are shit. I don't like Kinich's design, and Ororon is unironically the ugliest character in the game. Imo he's even worse than Chasca.
>Stop playing for a while if it pisses you off, you can always come back when they release someone you'll likeThat's what I'm doing, and it's why I haven't logged in since I pulled Wriothesley an entire year ago kek.
No. 420104
>>420083Kek Natlan is such a shitty filler region. Ifa will also be a 4 star like Ororon and I bet they will both have the usual garbage 4 star DPS kits.
Reposted for annoying format
No. 420145
>>420083I don't get what's their plan here. They released 9 consecutive new limited 5-star female banners, one Kinich, and now we'll be having Xilonen, Chasca, Mavuika and Citlali as our next 5-stars, Kinich being the only 5-star male in Natlan. It makes no sense. Waifufags in Genshin roll for meta, rarely for waifu reasons. Capitano not being playable in Natlan is a disappointment so huge that I honestly considered just dropping the game entirely because I'm thinking back to that alleged insider post from a few months ago that said that Mihoyo is going to give up male characters almost completely in the future and move on to only pandering to male players.
>>420104Ororon's tribe is known for being healers so there's a chance that he'll be a support. As for Ifa, yeah, he'll be a 4-star for sure and probably released in the last Natlan banner.
>>420123Yeah according to rumors we won't be getting a map expansion in 5.1 or 5.2, not sure which. Things about Natlan have been so weird, the characters have been boring and detached, the story's like from another game and the vibe is just completely off. I don't see hype for the region at all and most Genshin fans are still celebrating Sumeru and Fontaine, nobody really shows any interest in Natlan or its characters. Including myself, I can't really put my finger on it but something about Natlan just doesn't feel right to me.
No. 420148
>>420145>Including myself, I can't really put my finger on it but something about Natlan just doesn't feel right to me.The whitewashing threw a lot of twittards off. The BoycottHYV retarded movement is hilarious but even I feel the whitewashing to some extent. Natlan is overall a mashup of LATAM and Africa altogether, with white characters and some "modern" street vibe to it.
>It makes no sense.I wonder if some seething incel is currently directing Natlan because the outfit and characters are horrendous (looking at Chasca in particular), the scenario is too milquetoast, HSR is doing better despite being in its "dead" patches, ZZZ is not doing that great despite being le funny gooner game, LADS is assblasting HYV hard in mobile sales… Everything reeks of poor strategy marketing and it's bound to impact the sales somehow.
No. 420154
>>420148Yeah the whitewashing was pretty awkward, they could've made at least one dark skinned character instead of just "vaguely tan". They've clearly made extensive research on these cultures but the characters themselves look like modern vtubers.
Regarding Mihoyo's strategy, they got too bold. ZZZ is a very niche game in comparison to something more crowdpleasing like Genshin that pretty much any casual player can pick up and have fun with. HSR was a bit more for the weebs because it has no exploration and is very plot/lore heavy but people who like games like FGO and Arknights but felt Genshin was too immature picked it up immediately. ZZZ has no targeted audience and they don't even have the driving force of fujos producing doujinshis to keep the hype up, Aventurine really gave HSR the shot in the arm they needed after the initial slump and they've been milking him like crazy since. I wonder if the Korean gachacels and Furina feminist designer drama scared them to the point they wanted to experiment with more male pandering, but honestly not even men seem to be interested in the bland ass characters with hideous designs. Maybe it's really just an internal need to coom to waifus and that's what they meant with "returning to their roots". They did start the games with Honkai after all.
No. 420169
>>420168The Natlan being childish sentiment I've seen a lot of players share. All other regions had an edge of maturity and seriousness to them and it feels jarring to be in a place where they
I guess have a war going on but you can just be resurrected and brought back so it's no big deal. The designs feel too modern and all the characters have had their conflict solved too quickly, the last act of the 5.0 Archon quest was really stupid to have us immediately rescue Kachina and suddenly Mualani getting some big heroic powerup over it and Mavuika's scheme immediately being laid out the moment we meet her. I could cope that maybe they're building up to something but the narration just differs so much from all the previous regions that I wonder what the payoff could be.
No. 420171
>>420169I agree with Natlan seeming chuldish, so far it really reminds me of pokemon.
>>420161I haven't played Natlan yet but there was something charming about Fontaine, very fairytale like. I played the underwater exploration right when I was on a vacation and to me it had a lot of soul.
But I got out of space and kind of dropped it after Chenyu Vale was released and now I feel too overwhelmed when I start Genshin up. I haven't even done all the sumeru desert, didn't finish Chenyu Vale and newer fontaine map, now a whole new continent is up and it just too much. I feel like I'd have to play it for years. If only the dialog was faster, I don't have time to click through all of it.
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Kekk Xilonen's teaser is so funny to me, half naked and wearing her party girl gear while forging. It's like a moids pornofied blacksmith fantasy and reminds me so much of that nasty music video of that satisfaction song with skimpy women using construction equipment.
No. 420240
>>420168Agreed on the being super childish. Like, Genshin was never super serious unless you dove into the lore, but those emoji eyes they're doing this time for the female characters (so far we've seen Kachina, Mualani and Citlali with them) just seem completely out of place.
Do moids find that shit cute or why did they suddenly decide to add those emotes?
No. 420259
>>420240My main complaint is not that it’s childish but it’s going to be easily revolved without a major twist. The ending of Fontaine in comparison had a twist in its first acts that were connected to Childe’s incarceration and disappearance, which kept all of us motivated (Childe is a beloved character after all).
Here the cliffhanger isn’t very encouraging. We know we have to save Natlan from destruction somehow, but so far we have no motivation by using characters we know already. The fight with Capitano was introduced out of the blue and then quickly resolved.
No. 420270
>>420083This is only enough characters for up to 4.4. There's no way this is everyone even if Madam Ping becomes surprise playable (leaks are conflicting, lots of leakers are saying she's not going to be any time soon).
>>420099>you're crazy if you think Capitano is going to be playable before Dottore and ColumbinaRemember that last year around this time in the main story we were getting leaks that Arlecchino was going to die and conflicting info about her being playable. I doubt Capitano won't be playable in the late patches. Dottore won't be playable until Snezhnaya if at all and leaks about Snezhnaya are suggesting Columbina is going to play a big role there.
>>420123>female fans leave for greener pasturesThese greener pastures are never gonna exist. I wish they would but there's never going to be a game with the polish of Genshin but with more female focus. ZZZ is for men, the new Arknights Genshin clone is 90% ugu slutty moeblobs and plays worse than Genshin. Infinity Nikke is the only thing that might come close but it's more about the dress up than deep character bonds.
No. 420278
>>420273NTA but
>WriothesleyIt's
always Childe, nobody comes close to the pandering Childe and Scara get. Don't get me wrong, I like them and I know it's because they're the most popular ones, but I'm sick of having nonstop Childe content shoved down my throat when there are other husbandos with potential as well.
No. 420298
>>420291It's my fear that Kinich will get the same treatment, especially since they not only sidelined him in the first two acts of Natlan's AQ but even gave him very little time in his own tribal quest.
I really want his C2, but I need my guarantee for Nahida. But I just know I'm going to be crushed if they won't rerun him for more than a year.
No. 420361
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>>42031535% would be quite a lot considering it's her third rerun. It's even higher here but obviously this data is from a fraction of players
No. 420367
>>420362I hate her but I still pulled for her and even got her weapon for the meta. I wish there was a way to deactivate her chakra ring because it's so ugly and bothersome to have her in your team and the second you collect some energy from somewhere, it automatically pops up again. It has such a long cooldown to disappear too.
>>420239People will simp for literally anything as long as it has a pair of gigantic breasts attached on its body.
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>>420393Picrel is an August 2024 revenue report for mobile gacha, so I assume this is the result of the Mualani/Kazuha banner - PC purchases excluded. In September Genshin had a revenue of 45 million dollars in global.
Keep in mind the entire Genshin userbases Kazuha ownership is around 94.8% so I assume most of it went to Mualani instead. When Kazuha had a rerun with Neuvillette a few months ago, Neuvillette had around 65.9% revenue compared to Kazuha's 34.1%.
No. 420402
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>>420226Raiden and Inazuma get a lot of shit online for being presumed waifubait shit/rushed, and some of these complaints aren't without merit, but Raiden's still my favorite of the archons lmao because they actually let her fuck up in a way that feels significant and bears material consequences. Every other archon has enormous years-spanning plans to save their country and Raiden's equivalent is throwing a total temper tantrum and locking herself in the Plane of Euthymia for years. She allows her despair over Makoto's death to influence her political decisions and desire to engage in RETVRN bullshit. She throws Scara away without a second thought because he was showing weakness she found inherently contemptible - to allow him to carry on her name while crying in his sleep would be like her admitting that actually she is insanely broken up over what happened and this totalitarian nightmare Inazuma's in is a result of her panicking.
It's not perfect, obviously. But her second story quest actually involves her admitting fault and confronting herself rather than her just having been perfect the entire time like basically every other archon, who's problems are all external. I like Furina's outward personality a lot but the fact that it was all apparently a farce that she haaaad to play for years upon years otherwise The Entire Country Would Be Doomed is so obnoxious, the developers just keep coming up with reasons for their female characters to actually be entirely nonconfrontational and perfect so men can't get mad at them.
I hope we got some sort of Raiden and Wanderer reconciliation in the future, that's basically what I'm holding onto the game for. Their dynamic is understated but it's one of the only times Genshin actually fucking tries.
No. 420418
>>420402>they actually let her fuck up in a way that feels significant and bears material consequences.Consequences for everyone but her. The biggest flaw in Raiden's writing was that she was never made to face the enormous terror she put her people through or feel any sort of remorse for it, and we were just supposed to accept it and be friends with her post-AQ woobified self. Not even her second story quest was about confronting the actions she took to fulfill her own autistic pursuits, instead of really "letting go of the past" she just started to look for other ways to preserve "the eternity". People who simp for her just fill in the blanks that the bad writing left out, she never admitted fault, she never felt bad for anyone but herself and Makoto and dumped Inazuma in Yae's lap. Her lack of interest and care for her people led Inazuma to a civil war and this was never addressed in the story ONCE. Only the tri-commission was blamed for everything while it was Raiden who enabled everything that happened in Inazuma due to sheer negligence. At least Nahida was simply dethroned and suppressed by the Akademiya.
>I hope we got some sort of Raiden and Wanderer reconciliation in the futureI genuinely hope not because it would destroy all of his character development. Wanderer's entire story arc was letting go of his past and the hatred he felt for Ei and the people who betrayed him. He literally erased his entire being from the Irminsul to do so.
No. 420462
>>420460based nonna, i was just about to say the same thing. at least raiden
had an antagonistic role even if it was brief and poorly acknowledged. nowadays nobody gets antagonistic roles but dottore, and even he'll probably get some dumb whitewashed angsty clone.
No. 420468
>>420418I’m sorry
nonnie, but you’re actually a speedreader. The reason why the vast majority of people are so quick to forgive Raiden is because her political policies didn’t impact them in any way. She took less than 100 visions over the course of a year, that’s an absolutely minuscule portion of the population, of course your average Inazuman isn’t going to resent her especially when they’re already extremely devout. Gods are held to clearly different standards and it does really fucking grate on me the extent to which nonnies here will complain if female characters are woobified but also if they do anything bad ever they need to be Punished For Their Crimes via ritualistic humiliation. Ei isn’t “dedicated to pursuing eternity just in a different way” after her story quest, her opening up Inazuma’s borders and deciding on a peace treaty with the opposing factions + actually engaging with her people in the modern day is so obviously her making reparations.
Like, actually: what the fuck do you want from her? Do you want Kokomi or Gorou to take her to the guillotine? Three years later and people still fucking slobber at the mouth over this eeeeevil woman not receiving Her Dues. Drives me insane how suffering or publicly flogging yourself is seen as required for any morally gray character nowdays. Especially women!
No. 420473
>>420460NTA but Scaramouche did some horrible shit too and he remains a blunt tsundere even after his redemption arc. Raiden became a funny waifu having little treats around Inazuma city. Like
>>420450 said, Raiden was
never written as a villain nor "morally gray". She did terrible thing after terrible thing yet the game's writing never gives her actions' consequences nor the weight they should have. We're supposed to sympathize with her and see her as a dense hikki girl being a bit autistic about her eternity hyperfixation, her people paying the price for it is treated as a minor inconvenience and not an outright tyrannical genocide. It's a flaw within the writing of her character uwufying her instead of allowing her to be a true villain. People forgive the writing way too much in her case just because booba sword woman looks so cool and they can't accept the fact that Mihoyo will never create a truly villanous playable female character because scrotes threw a fit even over Chiori being rude to a customer and Arlecchino predictably getting woobified as well.
>>420468>The reason why the vast majority of people are so quick to forgive Raiden is because her political policies didn’t impact them in any way.Except for causing a literal civil war taking numerous lives including the people who got killed by Fatui's delusion experiments, lol.
>She took less than 100 visions over the course of a year, that’s an absolutely minuscule portion of the populationVision holders aren't everyday people, they're rare exceptions.
>Ei isn’t “dedicated to pursuing eternity just in a different way” after her story quest, her opening up Inazuma’s borders and deciding on a peace treaty with the opposing factions + actually engaging with her people in the modern day is so obviously her making reparations.For all this "she moved forward" talk she sure never let go of Makoto practically telling her what to do because she has no genuine personality besides being her shadow. The ending of her story quest 2 was just Makoto basically saying "sorry I wasn't there to tell you you're being a stupid bitch" and literally resolved the problem for her even beyond the grave, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at her being a worthless puppet until the end. She even said it outright, "Makoto factored my immaturity into her plan". Embarrassing, holy shit. The more I think about it the more I cannot understand how people keep caping for her and shilling her as a "villain" when her "grey morality" is in fact just her being dumb as a rock.
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>>420487Arlecchino was set up to be evil and cruel from the start and Hoyo took advantage of it, hyped her up like crazy, make her sound fucked up in Childe and Scara's voice lines which led people to genuinely think she'd be a deranged manipulative woman, even in the Fontaine region trailer they made her out to be like she's going to ruin lives in the archon quest and she doesn't care about anyone (like her pushing Lyney/Lynette in it, implying she doesn't care about them either) but then she did jackshit in the quest besides threatening Furina and suddenly before her release they went full "akschually she is misunderstood and always has been a loving woman towards children uwu she is just traumatized". She used her OP powers literally once and it was against children, and even then she held back and refused to kill them by Hoyo going "akschually instead of killing children she knows how to erase their memories in the Fatui hehe such a good father". These used to be her original voice lines before Hoyo went full woobification on her too.
No. 420583
>>420575It's an Asian thing, but particularly a Chinese and Korean one. They want all female characters to kiss male feet and be as nice and pleasant as possible because a woman having a flawed personality makes her undesirable and threatening.
>>420580>Do males even care about the morals of their waifus? Kek they do, didn't you see all of the rage about Chiori when she threatened a customer during her trailer and called it a feminist psyop making girls mean?
No. 420596
>>420588We never see this side of her, all we see is her being concerned for the children and caring for them. It's a similar situation to Kokomi being praised as a strategic genius warlord yet all we see is her having an anxiety attack and getting overwhelmed by the amount of work she's made to do. And I say this as a Kokomifag. Genshin has a huge problem with show don't tell when it comes to female characters that have agency beyond just being friendly.
>>420594>I'd rather have her stick to one personality instead of constantly flip flopping between grooming orphans into joining a terrorist organization while in the same breath acting like she protects them from great harm and doesn't want them to go through the same trauma as her in the old house of hearth.This, it makes no sense. They tried having their cake and eating it too when it came to her writing.
No. 420816
>>420537Everyone should know after how they dealt with Ei and her story, that none of these characters are going to be truly "evil". They're always going to soften the edges.
>b-but her sister died and she's a huge weeb>b-but actually an orphan, and she loves her kids though>b-but he was just a puppet and really lonely and sadCan't wait to see what they do with Tsaritsa. Probably something along the lines of, "b-but she actually cares for her comrades."
No. 420910
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>>420816Knowing the Tsaritsa is going to be most likely Bronya makes me want to strangle somebody at Hoyo. I will never understand their fixation with expies and making new game characters look like HI3 ones. I've always thought the existence of 2 Bronyas in HSR was absolutely retarded, it's like they're so convinced the creation of Bronya was an absolute banger they need to put her in every game of theirs as if we've never seen a grey eyed and haired tsundere waifu before. Even worse if they also introduce a Seele expy in Snezhnaya for the yuribait, which is coming for sure.
It might be exciting and appealing for HI3 fans but I personally don't like HI3 so seeing so many Bronyas in both HSR and Genshin next year is very retarded. Same for the other expies, I wish we had original characters instead of this.
No. 421367
>>421319Same but I’m too shy
EU coop is so bad with half of it being bots or russians though
No. 421456
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lol
But was Enjou actually a good guy at the end of that quest? Was not expecting that twist.
I want a playable character with that kind of pathetic dame oyaji personality.
No. 421503
>>421471samefag but i posted here
>>>/g/435686>>421477i thought about maybe making a discord but that's a bit too risky
No. 421514
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And then the fandom saved primos as a whole
No. 421523
>>421514Kek they didn't even try with Ororon's splash art. He's literally just standing there.
>>421520Sorry, but the ripped jeans are too retarded for me to look past. If he was an edgy LI in some type of otoge it'd be fine, but he looks stupid as fuck in the Genshin world.
Did anyone read the dialogue leaks? According to what I saw on the leaks subreddit,
the story is basically going to be Fontaine 2.0 with Capitano telling us "Don't trust Furina Mavuika… Her plan isn't going to work…". Also, he apparently wears a mask because
his face is rotten and disfigured. How do maskfags feel about that?
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>>421522In Star Rail almost every single girl has the same exact outfit (bodice showing armpits, cleavage and partial midriff) so no, they really don't have shame.
No. 421533
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>I've been watching, I've been waiting
>In the shadows for my time
>I've been searching, I've been living
>For tomorrow's all my life
>In the shadows
>In the shadows
Kek, funny concept, bad nation association
No. 421536
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>>421514The difference in a male cowboy VS a female cowboy in a Hoyoverse game is funny. Boothill has massive cowboy vibes despite his cyborg body and Chasca just casually has her cheeks out in typical coombait way. The only thing that indicates her being a cowboy is her hat, nothing else.
No. 421863
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5.1 leaks below, read at your own risk.
I guess the maskspergs won - Capitano is supposedly a rotting corpse under his mask, if the leaks are true. Everyone on Xitter is eating it up like hotcakes because it is soo revolutionary and progressive compared to the generic pretty boys. I don’t get why this logic only applies to male characters. My timeline is already flooded with corpse/skelly Capitano art. Someone free me from this madness, I can’t take it anymore.
No. 421868
>>421620That's how they get you. Shame that HSR is boring as fuck though. You couldn't pay me to sit through even more of hoyoverses shitty storytelling and the movement feels so restrictive compared to genshin, you can't even jump.
>>421811Kek they want to be league so bad
No. 421882
>>421811Seriously, holy fuck. Anon
>>421868 is 100% right, they just want to be league so bad they abandoned the whimsical fantasy setting and went straight into whatever modern-inspired cringe garbage that was. Natlan has been horrible so far, I'm so glad I got everything I wanted in Sumeru and Fontaine so I can just sleep until Snezhnaya and hope for the best there. It's no fucking wonder leakers had their lips sealed about this region.
No. 421898
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>>421895This is so similar to the bright accent colors in Natlan kek how long until they make actual idols and mvs
No. 421917
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>>421863Oh my god, everyone is just overreacting and cooming over the idea of necrophilia.
Has everyone forgot how dainsleif looks? There's absolutely no way in hell in which Capitano fucking looks like this
>>421880Retarded as fuck shit. Capitano will just have like random stripes of dark blue on his body and starry patterns because there's absolutely no fucking way they will make him a rotted corpse, the game isn't like that.
No. 421920
>>421863China has a major aversion to dead bodies and skulls, there is no way Capitano will be rotted. At most he'll have some blue on his face like
>>421917 says.
No. 421997
>>421917I thought China hated ghosts and zombies. There's no way they'd allow that
>>421935The repulsive, tasteless ones. istg the monsterfuckers are chimping out to out-nlog one another on how low they can go. Capitano doesn't deserve this
No. 422006
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I just got to meet enjou in enkanomiya quest after meeting him in kinich quest (I stopped playing since yoimiya release). For the whole time I was confused who tf is enjou. Then I got to do the enkanomiya quest where we supposed to met him for the first time and now I can't stop laughing KEKKKK. I can't even take him seriously even though he's an abyss member because he's npc-looking
No. 422103
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First look at Ifa
No. 422112
>>422103Yeah, I'll take the emo dude instead.
Someone on reddit said he looks like Steve Irwin and now I can't unsee it.
No. 422191
>>422136Kek I wonder how her banner is doing so far. She looks like a bimbofied Dehya with Rosaria's personality.
>>422173>Cheap Clorinde ripoff>Cheap Wanderer ripoffIf I had to pull for her or a placeholder, the placeholder wins. Nonnas, if some of you are interested ofr Ororon, don't summon him right away and wait for his rerun, hopefully not under uggo Chascaca.
No. 422231
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>>422191>She looks like a bimbofied Dehya with Rosaria's personalitydon't compare my waifu Rosaria to to Xilonen
I don't even play the game anymore and I miss her>>422173I hate to say it, but at least Xilonen's skating animation was kinda cool. Chasca though…goofy-ass shit. Who came up with this and how did it get through? They surely had better ideas than that.
No. 422344
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>>422231What makes this goofier is Chasca can’t hover over water.
No. 422510
I really hate doom posting, but this is the third time they are power creeping a male character just for waifufags. I really hate it so much.
I'm not even going to buy welking anymore, like there is no reason because it are waifus banner after eachother each time anyway. You can really fucking tell that the honkai dude is now in charge of this game. Really have no hope that we ever get a game like this but then catered for husbando lovers. Even infinity nikki, while it looks nice the combat is clunky and its just a completely different game genre.
>>422344She can go over water and she is also faster and travels a longer distance than wanderer. And unlike wanderer she actually infuses with the character elements in the team instead of getting those shitty buffs of wanderer. She's literally our first multiple elemental character.
No. 422516
About the 5.1 quest
Someone take the writing team for this piece of shit region out to the curb. I actually feel my intelligence is being insulted with this kind of storytelling. A 7-hour AQ with only around half an hour worth of relevant lore dropping, that's where we're at now. Also Capitano is a soldier from Khaenri'ah whose body is decomposing (but for some reason Dainsleif is fine and they don't even explain why despite acknowledging this fact) who's simply invested in Natlan's future because he met someone from Natlan who was nice to him and that's about his lore. People anticipated him to be a big relevant character yet what did he end up as? A rotting corpse who's just there to "repay a debt".
The entire quest is so rushed you barely get room to breathe, and what's made it even more awkward is that they bit a piece too big for them. So since 5.0 they had to wait for four more ancient heroes to release the power that would allow them to fight against the abyss. Kachina, Mualani, Ororon and Chasca. Every single one of them had a rushed, half-assed "awakening moment" that felt so cheesy and without any real weight to it. Chasca's sister dying felt like an annoyance and I didn't give a shit about a literal NPC related to a character that I know nothing about. At least with Teppei we had spent time during the length of the AQ personally so it kinda bummed me out when he died even if he was just an NPC, but because the Traveler does fucking NOTHING it's like watching a really bad idea pitch of someone telling their idea of what COULD happen in the story, only condensed into a few hours worth of content.
They didn't dive into any of the concepts in the story, and the ones they introduced were sidelined immediately. We need to find Ororon? We find him in five minutes and he immediately dumps the entire lore on why he's helping the Fatui, followed by around half an hour of Citlali being annoying and unfunny. Capitano tells us that Mavuika's plan is flawed and she has a secret backup plan? Mavuika tells it to us immediately when we ask her about it, and of course Capitano knows what the gnosis can do because someone just told him so. Ororon and Capitano are working with a device to reform the Leylines to save Natlan? Mavuika just walks in and stops them. Ororon has a fractured soul? Becomes a convenient plot device for 2 minutes when he's possessed, resolved immediately. Xilonen would die forging an ancient name for the traveler? No big deal, she's immediately given an item that prevents this. It just goes on and on. There's no mystery or weight to anything because everything is treated as a minor inconvenience rather than an obstacle they need to overcome with time and planning.
I seriously don't understand why people are applauding the Natlan AQ as being "amazing". Say what you will about Genshin's writing but it was never THIS bad, I thoroughly enjoyed Fontaine's and Sumeru's AQs and characters but Natlan is doing absolutely nothing for me. I'm kind of interested in the finale since we are going to actually enter the Abyss and right at the tail end of the story they revealed Shade of Death's involvement in Natlan and the fake sky being revealed though.
No. 422529
>>422516It feels like they don't want to take any risks with characters anymore. They know people get attached to them too much (especially the waifufags) and thus you can't really put them in danger or actually harm them.
Which is why I'm really curious whether the theories about Mavuika actually dying for good that people have been throwing around since yesterday are actually true. I'm highly sceptical since they've been trying so hard to make us like her by turning her into this "I'm not your leader but your bff" dom mommy.
I'm with you though. Fontaine and especially Sumeru were so much better.
No. 422548
>>422529>It feels like they don't want to take any risks with characters anymore. They know people get attached to them too much (especially the waifufags) and thus you can't really put them in danger or actually harm them. Nor can they have any personality outside of being slightly "quirky" because people will be offended. The gachacels of Asia really put a dent into Mihoyo's storytelling. The traveler was also sidelined so hard in the entire AQ that I almost forgot their existence which sucks because I want to be a part of the story, not just an observer.
Mavuika's character has been left really hollow compared to the previous Archons though. Furina had a very strong personality and presence in the Archon quest, Nahida was extremely lore-relevant and most of the Archon quest was helping to reinstate her as the leader of Sumeru, Raiden was the ultimate instigator of the events in Inazuma, Zhongli spent the entire AQ in our company and Venti guided us and the Knights of Favonius every step of the way to save Dvalin and Mondstadt. We barely interacted with Mavuika, she's really done nothing but snapped her fingers to save the day and been kind of a nice lady. I don't think she will be killed for good though since she's already leaked to have a release in 5.3, but they'll have to circumvent the deal Xbalanque had made with Ronova with the death payment so a cop-out resurrection is my guess.
No. 422560
>>422548It's not just the gachacels though. Just today I've already come across several Western fans crying about how "
triggering" Citlali's interaction with Ororon was. How she's LITERALLY
abusive and how it reminds them of their parents and adds to their trauma. Fucking pathetic, kek.
I know Hoyo doesn't care about Western fans, but try to not have every single character be a perfect angel and you'll find people complain. Nuance and the ability to understand that fictional characters aren't real are dead.
No. 422561
>>422548>The gachacels of Asia really put a dent into Mihoyo's storytellingI blame them and the retarded devs who misunderstood every criticism against Inazuma's plot.
>but try to not have every single character be a perfect angel and you'll find people complainAsian fanbases are more ballistic about it. Remember the Chiori drama?
No. 422566
>>422560I doubt any of these people are genuinely "
triggered" by these interactions, they're drama queens who want to stir controversy for attention.
>>422562All of this makes me think back to that Chinese leak from last spring from some disgruntled female Mihoyo insider who sperged about how Mihoyo is abandoning their female audience and will get rid of male characters in Genshin altogether, either due to internal influence or because of the "No men No play" incel movement in Asia. Even every lore relevant NPC in Natlan was female, I was surprised they actually kept xbalanque a male kek
No. 422574
>>422566I'm not even disagreeing because I'm convinced Hoyo has shifted their focus to their incel audience completely, but how do you explain Ororon? While Kinich has been sidelined, Ororon will even play a prominent role in the 5.2 event together with Citlali.
I don't hate the guy as much as many other nonnas here, but I don't quite understand why Hoyo picked him instead of Kinich to play such an important role in Natlan.
No. 422599
>>422574In exchange for getting screentime they made him a 4
that doesn’t powercreep any of the previous 4 electro sub dps/supports
No. 422644
>>422566>some disgruntled female Mihoyo insider who sperged about how Mihoyo is abandoning their female audience and will get rid of male characters in Genshin altogether>still believing fake leaksKek. The leak was true to some extent but it was in HI3 against the male dreamseeker when Vita deleted him from the game altogether. Now HI3 players are forced to play the female main character because of this.
Meanwhile Genshin is still going through the recycling of same tropes. Also since the gender ratio is skewed, no shit some characters are going to be powercreeped. You're all complaining because HYV is powercreeping a protected category (male characters) but even waifufags are complaining: Eula sidelined into oblivion and double-crossed by Freminet, Arlecchino powercreeping Hu Tao, Wriothesley powercreeping Ayaka, etc…
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>>422649>The only reason they haven't overthrown Kazuha is because he's the rare male character everyone likesYeah… about that…
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>>422656Korean incels are even more mentally ill than the Chinese ones, they think short hair or long pants on a female character means manhater radfem. Kazuha is well-liked in China within both male and female players.
No. 422726
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>>422510The future is grim for female players in this kusoge indeed. I stopped my BP and welkin like a week ago too because of the doomleaks of no male characters and all the weird coomer shit upcoming. I'm not about to save up for shit that's clearly not coming. Besides, the new female characters look so weird and openly porny they make the most colorful region kinda bleak.
No. 422735
>>422726Yeah I've been buying BP and welkin for years but now that there has been only one new 5-star male in a year and according to leaks there are no new ones coming for the foreseeable future it's just not worth it anymore. Constellations from reruns are nice but it's not fun anymore.
>>422734Don't reply to bait, ignore and report.
No. 422792
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>>421898I didn’t really know how to bring this up without sounding like I’m racebaiting, but every attempt Hoyoverse makes at imitating African American culture (rapping, hip hop, whatever) comes across in the most painfully stiff and awkward ‘white’ way imaginable: an impressive feat for an Asian company, to say the least. I mean. A rapper called Rappa? Really? Xilonen’s godawful ‘freestyle’? I even went back and listened to Xilonen’s demo song, and minus that admittedly nice ‘ah ah ah’ section at the beginning, the rest of it is weirdly rhythmless and awkward in a way I can’t explain. All I’m saying is that Hoyo did a much better job of promoting Chinese culture, art, and music. If they’re going to keep embarrassing themselves then they should just stop bothering and go back to their roots. (Inb4 ‘uhhh
nonnie it’s acktually K-pop!!!!!!’ I have similar criticisms for certain K-slop productions too, same shit different font)
No. 422798
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>>422783i stopped playing around two years ago and came back because i could get a free tighnari and he's unbelievably cute. i looked up team building guides but i don't have most recommended units.
No. 422861
>>422788I also pulled for Mualani thinking her surfing looked fun but the more I use her the more I regret my choices. I specially dislike her hair with the ugly rat braids and her genki character is quickly getting on my nerves. Worst pull ever
Natlan is just an incoherent nightmare and if Hoyo has any sense left they will let the area die after the archon quest is finished.
No. 422897
>>422788Nonna, no offence, but stop the gambling. Don't waste you guarantee on Xilonen but save it for someone you actually like. Why would you shit up your account with characters you don't actually like if you're not a metafag?
I got Kinich on a whim and actually like him, but despite his exploration perks I'm going to use him solely in domains and the Abyss once he's friendship lvl 10 because fighting with him in the overworld is super clunky.
No. 422952
>>422951What the gonna you replied to also doesn't seem to get is that it's very, very deliberate in Chasca's case. CN incessantly still seethe endlessly about Wanderer. Just think back to Simulanka where they threw their latest hissyfit because they made some shit up about Scara cucking the Traveller with Nilou.
Hoyo absolutely made Chasca the better Scara to pacify those babies. Everything he does she does better.
They tried the same with Albedo and Chiori only it backfired when they made her have a personality and not just be a submissive waifu who sucks the MC's cock.
You can guarantee that going forward all of the waifus will be perfectly pleasant and stronger than the male units as to not offend the incels.
And what do we get? Retard Ororon and ugly af Ifa. Great.
No. 422963
>>422951>clearly made so that moids can stop seething about itAnd yet moids threw a hissy fit the second they suspected Mualani to powercreep Neuvilette and Neuvilette is a moid character (who even had gachacels setthing because he was too close to their waifu Furina). Go figure.
>but she doesn't play the same as Hu Tao doesYou're right, healing aside, she's a much better Pyro DPS than Hu Tao because at least she's more versatile.
>Xilonen's wall climbing skillsKinich's exploration gameplay still feels smoother than any Natlan 5* climber. I even ended up preferring it over Mualani's sharkboard.
>female-favourite male characters being made obsolete out of spiteAnd yet Neuvilette is still alive and kicking.
>>422952>shitty design despised by the community shat out>basically a puked out Clorinde>her leaked kit makes her look even more retarded>it's a shitty fusion between Wanderer and NaviaIt's poetic in a way that gachacels are eating garbage while Scara is still beloved among the audience. Literally every Chasca post I've seen was her trashing her design.
No. 422990
>>422988Samefag, after looking into it it's literally some singular actual retard sparking a rumor that Mualani """"powercreeps"""" Neuvillette only based on Mualani's nuke damage (i.e. damage per screenshot numbers),
completely missing the point why Neuvillette is so overpowered to begin with. His power is based on fast and repetitive damage dishing that can be done in rapid succession due to both his burst and elemental pumping him, his self-healing and his c1 fixing his only weakness (resistance to interruption). I seriously hate it when people think "powercreeping" means just having the potential to do one bigger number for a screencap when powercreeping is actually about introducing a new form of gameplay and rendering the previous elements useless by comparison.
No. 422998
>>422986Of course I know how gachas work, I play some with much worse powercreeping than Genshin has. It's just extremely annoying when female players, who used to get fed well at launch, in Sumeru and Fontaine, now get completely shafted so the game can shill yet another stripper. If it had always been that way I wouldn't even care since we'd all be used to it, but this is happening after we were decently pandered to for the majority of the game.
Inazuma was the previous lowest point of Genshin, but even that wasn't as bad as Natlan is so far. At least back then the waifus didn't replace meta male characters, we got some cute fanservice-y male 4 stars, and the female designs didn't all look like terminal gooner garbage.
No. 423054
>>422921>I can't wait for 5.3 since Paimon will be left behind for once. Where'd you hear this? Whatever quest or event that is will automatically be better for it.
>>422955Agreed, but only because I have seen people whiteknight her. I used to somewhat feel bad for them because the vast majority of people do not like Chasca's design (even people who don't play the game) and getting hate for a character you like can be annoying, but now I don't care with how bitchy they've been towards Wanderer. Such an obnoxious group of people over a mediocre character.
No. 423122
I've finished the archon quest and I'm starting to think Mihoyo is on a mission to humiliate Capitano. For some reason he keeps mentioning how he lost his fight against Mavuika, he's not that strong anymore, he lost the fight, he lost the fight again, his strength is not the same from 500 years ago, he lost the fight again again. If he mentioned it once I'd get it, being a humble knight is his personality, but he keeps mentioning it while Mavuika is just standing there, smiling and agreeing. It lowkey feels like such a big fuck you to husbandofags who really like him. They're basically saying this BDSM leather mommy dom archon is stronger than him, 1st Harbinger who was hyped up like crazy since the Lazzo trailer. I know Capitano is just a mere human compared to Mavuika, a god, but how come Arlecchino who is the 4th Harbinger has some godly OP crimson blood powercreep going on where nobody can lay a single finger on her and yet Capitano is immediately on his knees after fist fighting an archon? They even inserted a scene of him coughing after Ororon saves him, to show us how Mavuika had him in shambles ffs. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody from Mihoyo has a raging Capitano hateboner and is trying to turn him into a mega fraud and a pussy.
No. 423123
>>423122Preach, anon. They kept Dottore a threatening, serious villain despite him being merely a human, Childe is fighting an extraterrestrial, planet-eating whale for weeks despite being a human, Arlecchino is an OP edgelord nobody can even touch. They foreshadowed Capitano as this extremely strong warrior to the point Childe idolizes him,
the first Harbinger. And then he just takes one hit to the chest from Mavuika and coughs on top of it. Him being a rotting corpse feels like a retcon because they brought up Dainsleif in the conversation out of nowhere just for the "Oh, I don't know why
he's not a fragile zombie, no idea" line to "connect loose ends". Watch Columbina be revealed to be some godly being instead.
No. 423130
>>423123>Watch Columbina be revealed to be some godly being instead.This is coming for sure and I already dread it. They'll make her all kinds of OP and amazing and special for the cash grab. Every Harbinger voice line about her are already mentions of how pretty and frail looking she is but she is akshually s-so stronk!!1! So special!!1! You have never met anyone as extraordinary as her!!!1! It straight up smells like a gigantic Mary Sue OC from a Hoyo dev.
>Scara: Let me ask: what should you do if you were to encounter a "damsel" who is oblivious and innocent at any given time, and unconcerned and unfeeling in any given situation? If it were me, I could at least challenge her to a fight. But if it were you… with your conscience, I would stay away from her.
>Childe: The Fatui Harbingers are ranked by strength, and I have no idea why that girl is No. 3. I'd test my skills with every Harbinger who ranks above me if I had the chance, but when it comes to her… something just doesn't feel right. Anyway, you should be careful around her.
>Arlecchino: She is a very special Harbinger. Pose her a question, and the answer you receive will be entirely unpredictable, if she sees fit to give a proper answer at all. Regardless, any answer you do receive is sure to be an interesting one.She will be singing and looking ethereal and pretty for sure while Capitano's entire dominant personality has been reduced to some flimsy cuck who is suddenly against forcefully taking the Gnosis from his main enemy, an archon, and is willing to return to Snezhnaya empty handed.
No. 423236
>>423225I know this is a retarded moid but it's not about fujos, it's about the fact that Columbina is already such a shit character and her fans aren't that great either. They're always trannies, moids or obnoxious retards who are convinced for some reason she'll appear in Natlan and be playable over Capitano because some leaker lied about it months ago, so every time Capitano breathes in the archon quest, they start shitting on him like crazy.
>>423215I'm a woman, you retard. I'm annoyed over how they reduced a husbando who is known for his strength to a coughing faggot, falling on his knees because an archon punched his chest.
No. 423244
>>423236That's just the Genshin fandom in general though. They latch onto a character we know basically nothing about, headcanon them to the moon and back, and then screech in self-righteous rage when the character in question behaves differently from how they though he/she would. It's the same every single time, it's also why tge fujos have declared Ororon/Ifa canon even though all we've seen of Ifa is the mural.
That's why I've given up on this fandom. People only care about their shitty headcanons.
No. 423254
>>423244Exactly. But it's mostly because Hoyo doesn't give fans anything to work with. They drop designs and vague hints at backstories or personalities and months later players find out that the character is nothing like that. I already gave up getting attached to characters for that reason, I only open Genshin if there's a cute guy I want to pull but I'm not going to go out of my way to read about him.
>>423122Kek would that imply Mavuika>Capitano>Signora>Venti in terms of power/strength?
No. 423328
>>423122Jesus christ what is this moid-tier take. You make it sound like this is 100% of his dialogue. You're the only one seeing your husbando being "humiliated" or whatever when other characters make it clear that he's really strong. Go take your meds.
>>423236>Columbina is already such a shit characterShe showed up in just one trailer and isn't noticed enough except from cringe arlebina shippers and retarded powerscalers. You have issues.
No. 423358
>>423328>You're the only one seeing your husbando being "humiliated" or whatever when other characters make it clear that he's really strong.Genshin has been nonstop talking about how the top 4 harbingers are on god level and even more and yet the first harbinger, who is supposed to be beyond god tier, was portrayed in an absolutely retarded way to show us how strong Mavuika really is. They literally made him lose to showcase the pyro archon's skill level despite kissing his ass and strength like crazy before he was introduced in the Natlan quest. How come Arlecchino didn't have any of this pathetic portrayal despite her being the 4th one? Everything she did was activate her OP skills to show us how epic and amazing she is while fighting against literal
children. Even the traveler was left shaking in fear because of her and couldn't do shit, we've never seen Arlecchino get pwned in any way or form, all thanks to that some Arlecchino fans genuinely believe she's actually stronger than Capitano because she never lost a fight compared to him too. Judging by the way male characters are treated in this game wouldn't surprise me that they have some retarded vendetta against Capitano. They cannot dare to do this to Childe because his yumes are absolutely deranged and would threaten them for the nth time, like that one time they made him and Yoimiya talk in an event and the yumes lost their shit, and Capitano barely has any deranged yumes like that to begin with, so it's a field day for the devs.
>She showed up in just one trailer And yet I'm obligated to love her or what? Kek. The way her fans behave is enough for me to know this is a shit character and I don't like her the tiniest bit. Plus every harbingers' voice lines about her keep sucking her off and talking about how amazing and special she is, so no thanks.
No. 423362
>>423358>who is supposed to be beyond god tierNahida's actual line was about them being on par with Archons.
> How come Arlecchino didn't have any of this pathetic portrayal despite her being the 4th one?You wanted to see le ebin Arlecchino vs Flopina fight? The point is that Arlecchino acts as a diplomat in Fontaine, and it's retarded to make her fight the literal hydro dragon.
>some retarded vendetta against CapitanoThe character was barely out and yet yo'ure talking about devs' personal vendetta. Kek your humiliation fetish is showing hard.
>They cannot dare to do this to Childe And yet he's still a weekly boss who was constantly
victim of the weekly asskicking meme back in 1.x and early 2.x.
How the fuck do you manage to shit "devs are scared of yumes" and "devs want to troll yumes with Columbina-sue" in the same post is amazing.
>And yet I'm obligated to love her or what?Nobody's focing to do that but admit you're deranged.
No. 423371
>>423362>"devs want to troll yumes with Columbina-sue"Did you pull this out of your ass? I've never implied that kek wtf. I'm talking about how devs are making Columbina into a massive Mary Sue OC. There are plenty of yumes self inserting into her and I don't care about that, I just think the exaggerated compliments she receives every time she's mentioned is absolutely stupid.
>>423365Hard to not take things as a personal attack when the game has turned into an even worse massive waifupandering coomshit. I know it's been always one, they have always preferred waifus and incels over their female players but Natlan is just a whole new level of low. Inb4 "stop playing if it makes you this upset", I am aware, I am just complaining here.
>>423367NTA but Dottore getting pwned by an useless lolishit who made him pinky promise to get rid of his clones is pretty retarded too.
No. 423396
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It’s really frustrating to be a SSA woman on this board sometimes. I don’t have anything against husbandofags, and I am intelligent enough to gauge when decisions by higher-ups are made in hopes of appealing to scrotes, but it gets really disheartening to see every single female character in the game held to an insane level of scrutiny and blatantly hated for any supposed “waifubait” traits when all the identical cookie cutter tall stoic handsome otome boys get a pass. Let alone all the posting about how the female fanbase is clearly only in this for hot guys, and any mention of the female fanbase is solely dedicated to talking about whether or not the game is giving het women yume/fujobait.
No. 423406
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Real talk, I don't get why Ororon's design is being clowned on all over the place when even this thing has defenders.
No. 423492
>>423425>If you go to /gig/ or tieba or any other scrote-infested siteWhy would you even go there in the first place? Staring at shitty AI coomer pictures?
>>423434>Xilonen is dressed like a literal whoreOk but tone down with the misogyny here.
No. 423496
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>>423425Okay, but clearly I’m not interested in being on twitter kek? Don’t get me wrong like I said I’m absolutely fine with critiquing the way Mihoyo writes women and how they’re designed to appeal to men, but I think I’m also allowed to be frustrated because half of the time it doesn’t feel like we’re actually doing nuanced critique here, just throwing shit everywhere like monkeys over the fact that, what, women are… winning fights against men? The Capitano spergout in this thread, if it had been posted on like, /vg/, would be viewed by nonnies here as misogynistic ranting about Le Wokisme strong woman bullshit but because it’s done by a yume instead of an incel it’s just fine?
>>423434Generally the shit the Liyue and Inazuma women get bugs me, yeah. I don’t want to reignite any Raiden arguments but it does actually annoy me that her being nice to the protagonist is seen as the ultimate waifupandering moidbait sin (while just ignoring everything about her second Story Quest existing) never mind that this supposed pandering didn’t even work on moids, they stil complain online about her not suffering enough consequences for her actions. Yae, Sara, Yoimiya, Keqing, Hu Tao are all girls I find actually interesting but if I talk about them I get accused of whiteknighting for moids like
>>423441 is currently shitflinging about! I’m sorry that you’re one of the Good Lesbians who would neveeeeer fall for any bait launched by the Evil Mihoyo Overlords, (but it’s fine when het women embrace a million identical tall stoic males as their forever husbands) but I am actually attracted to women and interested in them being involved in the story, or not being nerfed to piss off Neuvillette yumes, or completely narratively sidegraded as the archons of their Own Regions in order to jerk off men!
No. 423500
>>423496>I don’t want to reignite any Raiden arguments but it does actually annoy me that her being nice to the protagonist is seen as the ultimate waifupandering moidbait sin (while just ignoring everything about her second Story Quest existing)Are you
>>420402 kek? If not, you two should totally befriend each other, both of your opinions are retarded as fuck.
No. 423522
>>423513I personally don't see how Ei was even redeemed during her second story quest. Sure, she had more depth as a character in it (because anything is more than zero), but it just ended on a note of her sister calling her a selfish, immature retard from beyond the grave and Ei was just happy that Makoto planned ahead did all the work for her. Even during events Ei's only role has been just wandering around like a lost grandma not really doing anything of substance. And her just abandoning an unstable weapon of mass destruction (Scaramouche) into the wild has never been properly addressed.
>>423443My blackpill was when Collei was released and the edgy, disturbed tomboy from the original comic was reduced into a clumsy little girl barely being able to form sentences without stuttering like a sperg and her admiration of Amber was turned into an over the top obsession. I don't know if someone at Mihoyo REALLY hated her or if some incel wanted to waifu her, knowing men it can be both.
No. 423709
>>423514I don't know why you are not interested in twitter. People love it there when female characters are overly sexualized because its totes liberating~
Even though all male characters are dressed from head to toe
No. 423803
>>423514Allow me to rephrase for you
>A moid at hoyoverse dressed her like a whore because he sees women as fap material with no higher purposeHope that helps
No. 424093
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Absolute faggotry from HYV. Deserved to be dehroned by HSR in terms of sales.
No. 424100
>>424093Meanwhile Star Rail is ending 2024 on releasing a new male 5-star that broke records in regards to social media numbers during his drip marketing, making the amount of released 5-star males this year a total of five (Sunday, Yanqing, Boothill, Aventurine, Ratio), the same amount as last year (Jing Yuan, Luocha, Blade, IL, Argenti). I don't think Genshin has ever seen numbers like that, and to add to it, the female characters in Star Rail are often pretty well written despite being ugly as shit for most of the time. I literally have hundreds of wishes worth of primos on my Genshin account because there haven't been any new male characters and even all the female characters have sucked, like who the fuck actually wants to roll for filler characters like Emilie or Chiori? Sigewinne was cute but her kit was trash, she should've been a 4-star on Wriothesley's banner. Everyone forgot about Clorinde immediately and despite the hype and a fucking animated short Arlecchino just left a bitter taste in everyone's mouths for having her character retconned. Guess I'll just pour them all on Wriothesley's re-run IF it's ever going to fucking come.
No. 424178
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>>424100You are right anon, but I am still irritated by the bulky/overdressed outfits that Hoyo uses for nearly all male characters. It just doesn’t feel right when compared to the female characters. It's a shame that husbandofags on twitter eat this up, while also defending the skimpy female designs.
I will still pull for Sunday though. No. 424211
>>424199You definitely have more faith in Hoyo than I do. I personally don't care about any of the cryo units, but I do think it's bs that several of them haven't rerun in more than a year now.
We need triple banners, the character roster is simply too big by now regardless of the reason for the lack of cryo reruns.
No. 424234
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>>424195>misha mentionHe was my 2nd fav character in Penacony, right after Aventurine and I agree with you. A tall male character in short shorts would be an instant C6 for me.
No. 424235
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>>424198The mind of the average woman on xitter is simply incomprehensible to me because even when they do complain about male designs, they only whine about male characters not having the build of a roidpig and body hair.
No. 424236
>>424235You can tell from the melodramatic typing style that she doesn't
actually believe this, she's just being a pickme. The lady doth protest too much. The terminology is different but this is exactly the same tone that NLOG deviantart posters used to bash yaoi/"girly shows"/bishie fangirls with kek
No. 424382
>>424380I don't know anon, the dialogue really makes it sound like he doesn't just have blue skin, but that he's disfigured.
>"The Captain": Heh, even without the mask, my past appearance is long gone. Even with the curse of immortality, the flesh still rots.The word "rots" kind of implies it.
No. 424383
>>424382According to Mika's character story, he's seen Capitano's eyes as he describes them a shade of deep blue so he most definitely isn't some rotting skeleton. Looking at Dainsleif who's also cursed with immortality and half of his body is overtaken by the blue substance and Capitano saying that Dainsleif has found the way to
stop the rot, not prevent it altogether, we can assume that the way people from Khaenri'ah decay is not some gorey real life zombie rot but their body turning to whatever that blue thing is. Of course he would say that his past appearance is long gone if his face looks completely like Dain's arm, he would be unrecognizable.
No. 424628
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China giving a shit about a non-meta male character? Some westerners were disappointed with him being a 4* when he's a canon chosen hero.
No. 424641
>>424628Apparently this is gaining a ton of traction on Chinese social media with women demanding more male characters in the game, hoping that they'll get shit done because Mihoyo only listens to the Chinese playerbase. Female players woke up to the fact that we've gotten only one male 5-star in a YEAR and apparently there's no new ones to be seen according to dataleaks. So the known banners since Neuvillette in 4.1 have been Furina, Navia, Cloud Retainer, Chiori, Arlecchino, Sigewinne, Emilie, Kinich, Mualani, Xilonen, Chasca, Mavuika. 12 new limited characters, only one of them being male. That's a new low for Genshin, it's no wonder they're mad.
No. 424650
>>424628That has almost the same amount of supporters as the one about stopping cultural appropriation and whitewashing kek
>>424100I wonder if that isn't just their way of drumming up hype. They released that catboy(?) in ZZZ not too long ago and that was the first I heard about the game since it released. They know yumes and fujos are the best moneymakers and advertisers but their pandering to them is so half assed, I'm sure they'll drop it as soon as possible just like they did with genshin.
No. 424657
>>424656Kek Sumeru's four five-star male character banners really traumatized waifufags, even though there were female banners inbetween and they followed Inazuma's large waifu lineup. Even two years later they still keep bringing it up to use as a gotcha against anyone complaining about the disparity between the male and female characters.
>>424650The catboy in ZZZ was just a 4-star and despite being cute he was obviously made for shipbait with the waifu whose banner he was released on. That game is tanking hard and it's character roster fucking sucks, all the characters look the same and it's way more blatantly coomer pedoshit than any other hoyoverse game.
No. 424671
>>424656So many quotes on
>>424628 are talking about Ningguang and Candace or other female 4 stars for some reason. Just play literally any other gachagame if you want an abundance of meta units with big tits
No. 424675
>>424671The same normies arguing games like NIKKE and Destiny Child are super feminist because at least there's only female characters!!! Take that moids!!! Teehee!!!
>>424667Worse is how they bring up the sales showing that Genshin lost money between Inazuma and Sumeru. They thought putting waifus would reignite the game again but it turns out the game never reached 2.0 levels unless they put meta units in the same patch. Natlan also didn't help with a new region and the anniversary.
No. 424699
>>424628skimmed through some of the comments on weibo and douban (another CN forum). Lots of CN users complaining that there aren't enough males, that the male outfits are not skimpy enough, that the female designs and poses are ugly and too sexualized. Admittedly, both of those sites skew more towards women users. No idea on the male playerbase's reception to Olorun or Chasca.
I'm genuinely confused about Chasca's design though. Her clothes are hideous, sexualized to the point where it's more grotesque than sexy. Her animations are just goofy and out of place. I hate the oversexualization in Shenhe, Ganyu, Yelan, Miko, Yoimiya, etc., etc., but still found some appealing elements and could understand how others can like them. Zero design appeal in Chasca. Does the self proclaimed more visual gender really think this trash looks good? I would've almost thought some designers drafted this unit to be hideous on purpose to spite all the incels who begged for a female flying unit because they're still upset about Wanderer.
No. 424723
>>424699The difference is that Shenhe's and Yelan's designs could be beautiful with just a few fixes to make it look less coomery but Chasca's is unsalvageable, it would require a redesign entirely. The asymmetrical pants that look like her rendering glitched, the excessive shine painted on her ass cheeks, the nonsensical top, the stiletto heels on cowboy boots, the retarded looking hat, her colors clashing with the corpse pale skin, the ugly Bratz style makeup, the ridiculous big gun in her animations that makes no sense in Natlan much less Genshin, it's just dogshit all around.
Thinking how each character must go through multiple concept designs evaluated again and again I can't believe they allowed that travesty to go into production. And it doesn't help that her character is bland as fuck and boring, her kit is terrible (she powercrept wanderer only in exploration, her combat is ass even according to metafags) and she barely did shit in the AQ. A failure all around, I'm not at all surprised even the Chinese hate her.
No. 424733
>>424650>>424657I know that nonnas have been discussing a lot about Genshin becoming even more moid pandering and neglecting its female fans, but ZZZ isn't even worth discussing in that lens because it's always been even more completely blatantly coomer bait for moids.
I remember thinking that cop woman character, who wears a full uniform, looked nice just to play her demo and her ass was so fucking prominent. You can talk about some Genshin characters dressing like street hookers, but ZZZ manages to make sure even the fully clothed characters are also blatant coomer baitI sometimes see people talk about ZZZ not having that much success after release and it makes me glad every time I hear it, but I wonder if the turbo coomer approach actually is more popular in the Asian market.
No. 424895
>>424699>I'm genuinely confused about Chasca's design though.I know, right? Many users suspected she was crafted from the scrapped Clorinde design. Her kit looks goofy as fuck, her backstory even uses elements of Clorinde's and Shenhe's and she was even promoted to hero based on the anemo boy meme. Overall she's just a poorly patched waifu whose only purpose is to give incels an alternative.
Weibo also agreeing on female characters' designs being too sexualized (and I'd also add: weird and unoriginal) makes me think some incel wanted to run Midlan while the region was still a concept. Or else how come Mavuika ended up being completely different from conquistador!Furina?
Also whoever is in charge definitely wanted to piss off POCs by being blatantly anti "DEI skin" by making Xinyan even brighter kek.
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i wish i was able to get her event outfit, i refuse to pay money
No. 425458
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Not gonna lie, Ororon managed to charm me despite his horrendous design… As always he is a trope but at least not a boring one.
No. 425500
>>425458I'm really looking forward to him. My only 5* electro dps is Cyno, but I'll try slotting him with my C6 Sethos for the fun of it.
I hate what the fandom is doing with him already though…
No. 425697
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>>423122This one goes for you
No. 425865
>>425697Ignoring the retarded anti-feminism spergout he has a point, it really bothers me from a narrative viewpoint that Capitano challenged Mavuika to a duel if he knew he can't rival a god and defeat her. They said that the first 4 Harbingers are on par with gods in their power but then make Capitano, the
first one, a frail corpse complaining about how his power is only a fraction of what it used to be and how his body is decaying fast and the game going out of its way to explain how the pyro archon is a mortal and barely has any access to the power of the divine throne. It's such a big inconsistency in the story and really disappointed a lot of players, Capitano arguably being one of the most anticipated Harbingers shrouded in teasing and mystery.
No. 425888
>>425858I dunno, i was able to break the shield easily with only Albedo and Zhongli to break the shields. I did run them together with Kazuha and Neuvillette tho, those 2 can clear pretty much all off abyss easily with the right flex characters. I tried at first to clear it with mono geo Itto, but the lack off cc makes it really annoying to clear some floors. I do understand your struggle tho, with the current geo 4 stars it not easy to break the geo shield. Unless you invest alot in your Noelle or Ningguang. Maybe you could play sub dps Ningguang?
Navia is a pretty good option for a 5 star alternative since she's not locked into mono geo teams. But just wanted you to know that you don't need an on field geo character to break those shields. I guess you could also use a non geo on field dps who uses a claymore, but again not many good options. Except maybe for Gaming, he's actually good for a 4 star.
No. 425894
>>425888>>425858Also sorry for the samefag, but if you need some help you can post your characters. Im a huge autist and have all starred every abyss for like 3 years now and i only pull for characters i actually like so i have mostly male characters. However I do agree that the abyss has been a lot harder lately, I'm just lucky that I have played for so long so I have a lot of characters to work with. I'm also looking forward to Zhongli his rerun, there are no new characters i like right now so i want to get his c2.
>>425697I have no strong opinion about both Capatino and Mavuika , only that I don't like how we have another male completely covered and how Mavuika has a far to modern design (I already accepted that most female characters will wear tacky exposing outfits, especially if they have the tall model). I do think the Harbringers are a complete joke now tho kek. What's up with there weird numbering, like is Capitano actually super weak or is Mavuika just stronger then most gods? Based on what I remember what happened in Sumeru, I would say Scara is a lot strongern then Capitano.
No. 425905
>>425697Imo typical misogynistic scrote blabbering aside the yume sperg
>>423122 was lowkey right. Capitano is a joke now.
No. 425927
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>>425697I sincerely hope this is just ragebait to rile up libfems on xitter. I honestly can't understand how any female character in Hoyoshit can be seen as feminist. Even Yae Miko - who is one of the more liked characters among women because she is mean to the traveler - is admittedly the self-insert of the same moid writer who has a history of mocking female fans for shits and giggles.
No. 425929
>>425697Kek based Mavuika beating the shit out of a moid much weaker than her??
>>425927Kek I can't believe anyone could get mad over this shit. Gamers have such thin skin. I wouldn't call Yae a self insert because of this though, all artists or writers put some of their own traits, experiences or traumas into characters.