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Genshin Impact |OT| 4.0 (Fontaine) - Je m'appelle "la baleine"

Pejo

Member
Yeah, because Genshin as such an awesome character design!
I don't hate Genshin's designs in general. Some of them could be better, but there are some iconic designs in the game.

Kuro (Wuthering Waves devs) started out with some basic designs in Punishing Gray Raven, but their new characters are pretty great. Plus their costumes are all distinctly different and usually have new SFX, way better than Genshin's bullshit.

Anyways, I'm hopeful that the whole package for Wuthering Waves is good. I'm pretty much done with ToF, they keep going hard on content expansion and give players an absolute pittance trying to stay even (or even only slightly behind) in power curve. It feels like either you whale or you quit, so I'm about done with it.

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Wuthering Waves just started accepting applications for closed beta, if anyone is interested.


Visually it doesn't seem as interesting as Genshin, and I think the character designs are pretty boring so far, but the dev's other game that I play has excellent combat, so I'm at least going to try it out.
 
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Fuz

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Maybe I should pull Ayaka or build pity. Which banners are we expecting next patches?
 
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Pejo

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Maybe I should pull Ayaka or build pity. Which banners are we expecting next patches?
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Anything beyond this is just a guess/fantasy.
 

Fuz

Banned
I pulled out of boredom but i manage to get her in under 50 wishes. Still have enough gems for hard pity so I can save til 4.0.
I currently have 3.5 pities calculated at 80 pulls. But... eh... her gameplay is kinda cool and I lack a proper cryo DPS, but I really don't want to waste time in building another character.
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Saber

Gold Member
I currently have 3.5 pities calculated at 80 pulls. But... eh... her gameplay is kinda cool and I lack a proper cryo DPS, but I really don't want to waste time in building another character.
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I'm gonna be honest...leveling her up sucks real ass. Any leveling from Inazuma is really depressing to farm and mostly unfun boredom. Shes a pretty great character though.
 
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Ayaka is one of the coolest characters in the game IMO. Unless you're waiting for other reruns, I don't think it'd be a mistake to pull for her. Especially with how dodgy new characters have been recently.

One downside is that you can't use her in the Blizzard Strayer domain. So if you're gonna farm that you can't even use your new character. On the upside Blizzard Strayer is strongbox-able, so you should be able to get a decent set a bit quicker.
 

Saber

Gold Member
Strangely her food in this art doesn't look that best.

That unofficial on the other hand is super awesome.
 
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Pejo

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For those of us that don't have over 9000 crystal chunks, Ningguang's AA has the same strength as a claymore against crystals.
Outclassed in DPS, but still the #1 miner.

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Fuz Fuz
So they just released a dev letter on the upcoming 2.4 version next week. Looks like they're making some positive changes. Not sure if it'll be enough to save the game for me personally, but they do address a lot of my complaints:

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My TL;DR highights:
  • Too hard to gear the new slots that have been added in Vera - New special research (trade-in shop) to get more pieces.
  • Claudia/Nem/Cobalt/Frigg - not in standard banner until 2.5, but they're giving us a selector in 2.4 to pick one of them for free for doing the story/exploration
  • More free DC and Red nucs
  • Some sort of Matrix pity system for banner matrices.
  • Newest content is too hard solo - Adjustments
  • PC Controller fixes
  • VIT cap up from 180 to 360 (1 login per 1-2 days will be fine now)
  • Less bullshittery around time gating for new/returning players.

Not bad, but they've said they were going to be giving more F2P resources for like 4 patches in a row now and we're still getting jack shit. And most recently they have been locking the free stuff behind absolutely HORRIBLE events. I dunno if you tried to play Hide and Seek but it was a colossal waste of time. It was the first time I didn't even get all the DC and red nucs because it was not fun and took for-fucking-ever. I'm not a fan of this new race event either.
 
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Fuz

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Claudia/Nem/Cobalt/Frigg - not in standard banner until 2.5, but they're giving us a selector in 2.4 to pick one of them for free for doing the story/exploration
They're wording it as "chance", though.
I dunno if you tried to play Hide and Seek but it was a colossal waste of time. It was the first time I didn't even get all the DC and red nucs because it was not fun and took for-fucking-ever. I'm not a fan of this new race event either.
Same. I had a good hiding spot, hid there then just alt-tabbed away. Got the good rewards then NOPEd the fuck outta there.

Race is WAAAAAAAAAAAY worse. It's one of the worst game events I've ever seen in my life. And worst thing is... it would have been great if not for the bugs and design shortcomings, like floaty cars and instant stop when hitting a popped in monster. And let's not forget time gating. Got 3 red nucs and not sure if I'm gonna go for the red matrix too, too annoying... and also I keep forgetting the time of race start.
 
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Pejo

Member
Ah just another terminally online mentally ill reddit moment.




The worst part is that they're so fucked in the head in the comments that they're supporting the fictional characters relationship instead of realizing how retarded making them a couple is.

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Fuz

Banned
Ah just another terminally online mentally ill reddit moment.




The worst part is that they're so fucked in the head in the comments that they're supporting the fictional characters relationship instead of realizing how retarded making them a couple is.

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Removed, what was that?
 

Pejo

Member
Removed, what was that?
One redditor was complaining that people didn't respect his Collei/Sucrose "ship" (based on the Windblume event) because they felt that Collei was underage, and he was mad that they were labeling Sucrose as a pedo.

Then the comments went full on mentally ill people living in some other reality.
 

Saber

Gold Member
Fuck that, too old to reading that bullcrap.
Those mentally ill weirdos should keep their stupid fantasies to their heads.
 
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crumbs

Member
Guys, if we didn't have GI reddit community, where could we go for creepy life-sized papercraft versions of your favorite characters?
 
New survey about Windblume.

I don't get why Windblume is such a constant in this game seeing how forgettable it is. The theme is generic and boring and has nothing to do with western Europe. I live there, so I should know. Still waiting for Ludi Harpastum too. Klee talked about that in 1.0 and it's supposedly an annual festival.

I also wrote that any event without combat is boring.
 

Pejo

Member
New survey about Windblume.

I don't get why Windblume is such a constant in this game seeing how forgettable it is. The theme is generic and boring and has nothing to do with western Europe. I live there, so I should know. Still waiting for Ludi Harpastum too. Klee talked about that in 1.0 and it's supposedly an annual festival.

I also wrote that any event without combat is boring.
I liked Ludi Harpastum the most out of Mondstadt events, then Weinlesefest probably 2nd overall. I agree that Windblume is lame, thematically. I think Genshin chose it to be their "valentines"-esque event though, so that's why we keep getting it. That poor blind girl never gets resolution of her boyfriend that's been hanging out in the bushes outside of Mondstadt to avoid disappointing her for 3 fucking years, lol. Instead we got Timeaus' bullshit story.

I like the music minigame, the picture stuff is fine, but I was really disappointed in the pacman mode. I wish it was a 2d top down view instead of just regular character control. Character movement is too sloppy and the hallways are too large to make players use any actual strategy, so you could just dodge/jump your way out of most situations.

Also, for any bros that are still with me with the Dehya disappointment, they buried a Dehya specific feedback in the "feedback" menu asking for specific notes on various parts of her kit. I encourage anybody that has a few minutes to go fill it out, this is probably the last time they'll entertain giving her buffs/fixes.

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Fake

Member
IMO none of the feedbacks I send since the BETA was listenning.

Remove the forced auto target should be their priority.
 

Saber

Gold Member
I mostly ignore almost everything windblume had to offer:

- Rhytm music mini game was way too forced and chaotic to even be fun. Easy difficulties didn't solve this
- Pacman game was boring as fuck
- Photo has an interesting idea but
ruined by forced position and demented requeriments. I though I had to found out the place for myself, which kinda look cool. But no, you are forced to reveal and to interact with the exact place
- Oh yeah the story about blowjobing the club of witch bitches

This only shows to me people inside there don't test and rellies on their stupid community for feedback. And if the community doesn't care or don't speak then theres no problem in their eyes.
Look what they are doing with the monster mini-game and tell me they have any clue about what works.
 

Pejo

Member
Looks like you have to do the new world quest next patch (in 3.6) to participate in the new event.

Fellow slackers probably want to start working on the Jeht quest if you haven't finished it. I've been on a break from the game for a while, but I'll probably go through it this weekend. I'm not sure if it's a requirement to get the 3.6 quest, but better safe than sorry.

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Saber

Gold Member
I have a better idea, just show my middle finger against this demented pre-requesites quests. The guy behind it should be fired.
 
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Pejo

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A little interesting read with some links about how the commission system works in Genshin. If any of you are hunting specific commissions for achievements, check out the links.

first of all you need to know how comm cycle works, effectively you basically have a pool of commisions(every commision is in there, some has multiple tries like good sign example is 3 tries) and each day you basically pick out of that pool, the pool is only refilled(with the exact full pool again) when you only have no comms in there or the ones you haven't reached pre-req for so they are inaccessible.

https://www.hoyolab.com/article/16634545

here is a sheet of datamined comm counts in a cycle

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1IPrc2Hr-8lar-PnQfAcOea0HCyN49eqRLf97LBtm3nU/htmlview#

Skipping is you do not finish a commision(e.g you do not receive a quest completed/receive rewards), when you do this the comm is back into the pool and thus you will not exhaust a try, see the hoyolab link for proof of skipping, you can do coop for a 4th commision to get your rewards for the day so no primos is being lost, this is often used to get a different commision version (e.g you want letter in pigeons go awol)

Now the thing with good sign is, good sign doesn't count the signs for when you complete the commision, it instead counts for when you talk to him and submit them if you disconnect when the option to select that's all for now and run/teleport away immediately you will have not completed the commision but still got your counters for the achievement.

If you want a video example there is one in this discord server + message link

https://discord.gg/ftSsaXFQ

https://discord.com/channels/1012502275635286036/1012503560245747873/1058000521425858630

Essentially this allows you to complete all good sign achievements, without actually finishing the commision even once(you need to submit the signs and still disconnect/run away however)
 

deanote666

Member
A little interesting read with some links about how the commission system works in Genshin. If any of you are hunting specific commissions for achievements, check out the links.
But how do I get the commission to give Anna medicine!?!?

Should I ever do get it, should I do option 1 and then abort during the final dialog like the good signs?
 
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Pejo

Member
But how do I get the commission to give Anna medicine!?!?

Should I ever do get it, should I do option 1 and then abort during the final dialog like the good signs?
The idea is to empty the "bag" of available quests. I think the 2nd part with abandoning the dialogue is mostly for dailies that have multiple outcomes/choices like the one where you have to give the guy in Liyue the specialty item like 8 times. You give it, fuck up the conversation, then the commission counts it towards the achievement, but stays in the "bag".

I don't personally care enough to do this myself, but I know a few of you guys were doing achievement hunting related to daily commissions.
 
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