I like that they kept the part where you are motivated to explore by accumulating points, so players who actually "play" the game will almost never have to worry about dailies.

The dailies accumulation is big for me. i dont have to plan out how many rewards to claim when doing an event now, and dont need to stress when an event is close to finishing and i wont be able to log on again before it ends and claim everything in one sitting. Huge w for hoyo

Encounter Points is the biggest QoL to me. Others are the nice to haves.

this dev discussion felt so rewarding. Almost everything on it was part of the things I mention on every survey. Especially love the encounter point change because as someone who doesn't touch grass and has done every quest, world quest, hangout and 100%'d every area, I could never get encounter points since I've finished everything that grants them and thus felt almost punished for being someone who put a lot of time into the game.

A tip new players should know is that building Traveler to 70 is a smart idea. No matter what the elemental conditions are, they can be used in the new endgame. Plus, dendro mc is actually pretty good so it isn't a waste of resources.

That's why competition is good not just 10 years old trashing on competitors just coz they love their game

I wish they added ability to spend condensed resin on normal bosses. But I am super excited about all quality of life improvements that they are gonna implement.

I always saw the situation with HSR as them being more cautious with any changes to Genshin since it was the established money maker, but they were willing to see how these changes did in the newer game first for proof of concept.

It's unironically been 87 years since I've last received a weapon billet. I need a catalyst and I have like 5 swords and claymores and a few bows and spears...

They lowered our standards so much that even a minuscule change feels like a game changing feature now

Fontaine update had that huge code optimization. Being from FGO whose spaghetti code interferes with QoL frequently, that big update is itself a big reason for the qol now.

My biggest change I would love for the theater, is just allowing us to not be forced to use a full team. Edit: People keep mentioning: “ Having full teams and choosing characters, is part of the strategy for the theater “. For one, everyone has their likes and dislikes and we all have opinions. Second, it’s not like what I asked for is so game breaking. Hoyo could easily implement a penalty for using less characters in a team and we still have the restriction, of only being able to use random support characters, with only two uses. Also, what you call “ strategy “, I call annoying. I completed Act 8 on my first try, so it’s not about difficulty for me. Also if we’re gonna fill the team, with random characters, we won’t use, then it won’t be any different to using 1-2 characters.

Doing a drinking game for how many times wuwa was mentioned in these comments is basically a death wish

I completely forgot that divisions compete against each other , good point jello .

Now all we need is an easy way to get better artifacts

I thought I was the only one "saving events" so I could skip doing the commissions. Yeah, I like that we could accumulate points to skip future commissions.

i actually screamed when they said "oh and bosses spawn now in 10s"

The hide UI feature for overworld and exploration is incredible

The main thing I want to see brought over from HSR/ZZZ is the 5-star selector at 300 standard banner pulls. In fact I'd take it a step further and add a 4-star selector every 75 pulls. (And having the counts be retroactive for existing players would be awesome, but probably too much to ask.)

The only part that I personally want the most and I’m sure it was heavily demanding is the Event Archive. What they showed the upcoming event and the previous ones were put much into effort and I don’t like when it’s locked behind limited time event especially the critical lore that was in there.

The Mechanic to "push specific characters" is one of the options inside the IT. You spend your points to get one of the characters on your roster, but it's like 1 out of 3 and only one element. I feel like they will flesh it out and have something like "Sub-DPS, Main-DPS, and Support" so its not literally just random element

Things that would somewhat fix the game: 1 free permanent 5 star and a path to get it sometime. Posibility to obtain past event weapons. Rerun of past events for people who didn't do them.

These changes started back in 3.7, and were directly linked with Honkai release.. Example being the thing when you click on a given quest/daily, and it'd open the map, and show you exactly where it is(which HSR had, Genshin didn't), followed, not that long after, by the new dailies system(a copy of Honkai's, but improved). As far as the IT goes, there are already leaks coming out talking about two new acts, and more monthly rewards(basically even-ing it with the Abyss). What a lovely video! It's nice to see someone not just assume that it's all to do with WuWa as updates are planned ahead - not to mention certification on ps4/ps5 :3

I'm with Jello on the competition part. On the 11th of June WuWa celebrated 30 mio downloads. That was around 3 weeks after the release. Today zzz celebrated 50 mio downloads. Only two days after the release! Never underestimate internal competition.

Man the past month we got the best QOLS Surly wuwa doesn't have anything to do with it

3:17 I'm fairly sure they will add 5 star constellations to get from the shop with star dust.

EDIT: now it’s been added, sadly its not as useful as i hoped :( u have to go out of your way to hide the hud and you still can’t hide the UID im actually most excited for the hide UI, i like to play on the steam deck OLED and having the UID constantly on the screen makes me worry about burn-in. If it lets you turn that off it would be amazing

Plot Twist they are encouraging player to give feedback to implement it on HSR (again)

This dev discussion, IT, and the Natlan teasers actually got my hype back about the game. I hope Hoyo keeps going like this

I like the envisaged echo mode, I hope it can turn into a way of "practicing" how to play the characters w/o the pressure of it being in endgame modes - it reminded me of the Domains meant to teach us game mechanics in the beginning, very cute

This optimization of the gameplay will be a benefit for the company and players a win win

Fantastic vid as always!

The next QoL feature I'd like to see is more deterministic artifact farming and leveling.

This new Genshin could ever arc is SICK. Hopefully they will keep it going

13:17 i was thinking, yeaaaa BUT THEN i thought MAYBE THEY CONSIDER THAT THHEY DID GIVE AWAY ALOY AS A FREE 5STAR hahahah

Did they finally let the communications team out of the cage from the company cellars??

we got Aloy as a free 5 star and they're likely too hesitant to do another one because whether we like it or not, she is on our accounts and they will count it as a free 5 star even tho she's a 3 star

I think by ‘lack of sufficient positive responses for various party lineups during battle’ they mean ‘okay yeah some of the individual round criteria can be a _little_ tricky to get the hang of depending on what characters you can use’, like say having to slot Faruzan into a team with no Anemo DPS simply because you haven’t gotten access to one yet (ik Wanderer is available by default but it’s not always the best to use him in act 1)

Really love your videos~ Keep them up! >v

ZZZ dailies are like a minute todo just login, scratch the card, buy coffee and open store but that new system for dailies might accually force me to do some exploration tbh free 5 star damn that's a lot of coppium

Wuwa's impact. lol

I was the one who repeatedly suggest have a recorded dialogue feature along with a skipable button. I heard nothing about adding a skip button. 1 of 2 is good enough for me. I also suggested adding a poop icon just like a lockpad icon on artifacts so we can seek faster without looking at it twice.

honestly i believe that every patch just becomes a better and better time to start playing. the game's on the up and up and i'd be shocked if they stopped any time soon

Wakeing up 2am in the morning for watching this video 😅. Just got the notification and it wakes me up ,so why not watching the video. The main thing I need is all domains should be open every day in the week . And the 200 resin should be regenerate faster. That's all

3:15 i think they're saying that, right now in the game there's a "push specific character" mechanic in game but doesn't work like they want or is bad by default. The enconuter points and 10secs respawn are really nice

all hoyo games should have one free standard banner 5 star per year

Some waves hit hoyoverse

The new resin-to-encounter points system is huge, really like that. MORE OF THAT GENSHIN PLZ

I actually DON'T want Imaginarium Theater to be based off of the normal elemental reactions & teams we already use for Spiral if that's the direction they're taking... I WANT a reason to play the less ideal characters so it would've been so cool if there were special mechanics/buffs that create a synergy between characters you'd normally not put on a team together It is a character collecting & building game, I want a reason to use them all but if it's just based on the elemental reactions and synergies we already have, then it feels just like an event game, to me at least.

The only thing I need for genshin is a reserved resin system like in Honkai Star Rail, you can save up to 2400 resin that way, that you can later use whatever you want, while in Genshin you have to spend resin everyday in case of "fear" of missing out :/, it's a pain in the ass

Still waiting for saved artifact loadouts, but I'm so happy with these updates, especially the one on encounter points~ I can clean out my map now from all the chest pins.

2nd Jello release in 24 hours and I'm all for it! Great summary as always. It would be really cool if they kept this new direction and introduced a whole host of QoL updates.

I got enough good characters for imaginarium just by the time i get to 6 on normal i cant kill them

Wish most of the quality of life stuff wasn't about taking pictures

Hi, i did read a lot of comments about the competition and different code issues that were lowering the frequency for QoL changes but i think a lot of people misunderstand how a game development cycle works, and what role the directors take in it. Games like Wuthering waves have been looming theirs arival for quite a while, so internal work on better QoL changes was already in full swing for around 4 months at very least. Please remember that we know that CCP did allow both ZZZ and WUWA to be released not later then the end of 2024, so by the time of the bill the games were already done around 70%, and this bill was like 6 or 8 months ago. Devs in genshin are good, yes, there are some questionable things that they have done but the overall quality is good to say the least. On the other hand we have the director board that has to approve all the game changes, and here might have been the problem. Since Genshin was earning then money and there was no real competition in the genre ( i do not count HSR since it's like a completely different audience), so they were hesitant to push anything that might lower their income ( i know , true loot goblins just like the directors at Bungie ). But since both ZZZ and especially WuWa did look promising at the times of their betas this year, the directors had to swallow the pill and take some decisions, such as releasing some QoL changes early even if they were planned for 5.x version or not planned at all since they were "too drastic". And the success of WuWa did aid in it. If you thinks it didn’t, then us as a community faild miserably at the aspect of making devs listen, 3 wishes for example of their hane directors respect towards us. ZZZ is still lacking in my opinion, however i think the devs will cook up something and that the directs are already being spanked by shareholders. As for me, i will keep playing wuwa since i like their combat system more, however for you all wuwa haters i can say only one thing:" the only one to kill a game is their developer" - by Bungie. CYA STARSIDE.

Damn, losing a crown is kind of brutal

My gripe about the storage management thing is that you can KNOW about the clear the past quests button, but if you get locked out from even logging into the game to access it after an update, there's nothing you can do. I think that button should also be accessible from the home screen, and returning players should have an option to automatically not download past quest resources. This is my idea after I got locked out of my account a year ago because of an update (that I would've had enough storage for had I been able to clear the past quests I had done a few days before the update) and had to give up on Genshin for a year before I found geforce now

Hear me out- the free 5 star is the sibling.

i already loved genshin, so all these quality of life improvements since Fontaine started have been icing on the cake! i love the direction its going in! Especially that news that they wanted to hire ppl who could help work on endgame modes (hopefully some co-op stuff like fall guys ehehe)

I am impressed that they recognised issue with players spreading their events and content to avoid doing commisions. With these points it makes me feel less restrictive and be able to plan my journey with more convenient pace.

Honestly, i think these changes have been in the works even before wuwa

good take on the internal competition, also my take for the future is that the Mare Jivari will be an endgame domain too but i expect this region to be one of the last versions like 5.6

Now the best thing to do next is to make some of the commission quest to be world quests. We used to ask to be able to pick commission quest for those pesky ones that just won't appear. But now that commission quests are basically almost never used by midgame and late game players, it might be a good idea to just turn them into world quests.

The theatre is great, I did it within a week and I’ve never cleared the abyss with every star

it's like they can't afford to keep being a subpar game with all the competition that has been coming

TOGGLEABLE CONSTELLATIONS PLEASE HOYO

I pray for the day we get to replay the story without having to make a new account

Thank God, I no longer have to worry that I may accidentally unalive the cryo regisvine when damage testing

Once they implement faster refresh time for resin and add an overcap storage, I’ll be happy. Because if you miss a day, you lose out on resin. It’s so dumb that they haven’t done this yet Edit: Since this is attracting salty people for whatever reason, let me say this: It will not affect you at all if you play every day and stay on top of your resin. I personally play every day myself because I don’t have a life (don’t really have a choice either), but it *would be nice* to have some storage if you already have 5 condensed resin and can’t play right away when your resin is about to cap. If you want to be toxic about it, go somewhere else. Really unnecessary, good lord

10:50 I don't think they that as much of internal competition as they do of the deluge of openworld gachas that are coming this and next year. Azure Promilia probably scares hoyo much more than WuWa does, Azure Lane (made by the same company) apparently is extremely F2P friendly, making most of their monetization through skins rather than characters. And there are more of this sorts of games incoming.

Artifacts farming changess!!

It means what I wanted. An option to only pull supports for instance, and it will probably fix that mode single handedly.

"Thank you kuro" we all say in unison cuz we all know wuwa is the only reason they listening to us

Four years late

"The devs listened" after 4 years LOL

They don't and never cared about what players really want, the release of WuWa hurt them. For most of veterans or new players, Genshin become the standby game where WuWa is growing in our hearts day by day.

This is seriously a great trend we’ve been seeing more of. It will help to uphold genshins longevity, and bring the game and hoyos future games to their furthest potential. I’m glad they realized this.

They should rework physical damage, Mihoyo just basically gave up on this

Let me just pick the teams I already set up for abyss. I can't believe this isn't a thing. And 10 teams?! Come on.

its not competition, its natlan coming out, they have to go back into the code and might as well brush stuff up rather than leave it. natlan is going to be an update and a half and since youre there, might as well fix some code

Resin cap changed basically nothing, recharge rate is what matters

Do we dare hope once again

I agree with everything you're saying, and you got me super hyped for the future!!!!!

Actual artifact loadouts when?

I mean, before Wuwa, HSR was basically the "actual Genshin killer" since it took a lot of the Genshin playerbase which keept the Genshin could never move shoved in Genshin players with each update or notice, so yea I agree about the internal competition.Genshin is also still missing the 10x pull per update though, it is insane how they just don't do it after being clowned for years and now even by his sister game HSR.

I still miss a Skip Story Button, I wouldn't use it on things I like to see, but story parts i don't like or daylies I really want to skip away. Please respect our time Hoyo

I love the encounter points system change so much. I hated it that when doing quests, I had to split it for like three days for dailies, now I can finally play them in one day and collect the encounter points for the next days

My opinion is, they should do some changes with resin because I'm kinda a new player. I started last November. So I'm playing for 7 months. I have 13 Lv90 characters and only 3 of them are good built. Some of them are average built, some aren't even built yet. Artifacts system is so RNG and resin is too low for the players who wants to play this game. I completed all the other Archon, world, story and hangout quests already. Maxed out every statue, %100 exploration on every region. Now I wanna focus on improving my characters but I can't, even if I want to because resin is too low. Gathering boss materials for level up takes 4 or 5 days, then you have to grind their talent books on 2 or 3 different days, then you should level up their weapon which takes 2 different days, you'll also need exp books and mora for all of this that means you should grind those for 1 week too, then here comes the hard part which is Artifacts. I know it will be a short period of time for many players but I've been grinding on Marechaussee/Golden Troupe domain for 2 months and still my Neuvillette and Furina is in between bad and average. When will I get a time to improve my other characters? To me, it's just frustrating. They think if I get everything in short period of time then there will be no reason for me to play and I disagree with that but I can understand it. Thing is every week I want to play Genshin less and less because there is no improving, here is no progress, there is no step forward for me for 2 months. They should do some changes about that imo so we can play the game we like more. I mean I want to play Genshin Impact. :D It's okay if I have bad luck, I'll try more until I get what I want but I can't even try without resin. It's just stupid.

Wuwa effect?

My biggest complaint about the theater as someone who didn't have enough characters built is the trial characters. I just didn't find them very useful at all. I don't expect them to allow me to clear hard completely but I was unable to clear Floor 6 because my remaining characters just weren't good enough. On the other hand, Normal got absolutely steam rolled by my characters.

The push specific character means you can reuse those character that has zero vigor, from the mystery boon(or whatever its call) you can have a chance to get that. Its good that they notice its quite hard for some players to get that, i had issues getting that in my alt acc 😂

As a person who loves the aesthethic aspects of exploring and taking a lot of pics in-game I love the idea where the screen can be clean, esp in mobile where the real estate is small and smothered by huge buttons shrouded around the screen space. I can't wait!

They are about to casualize the shit out of Imaginarium theater. I don't see them making it more challenging, when the main complaint is. It's too hard, Cuz i don't wanna build new characters. Where was this reaction when Pure Fiction released in HSR?! It's an even worse character check for a game not even a year old! 😒

Hoyoverse doesn't feel threatened by wuthering waves but they are not going to sleep on their laurels either I think the know gamers too well and that's why they are successful

Some good changes, though they still have a long way to go. My thoughts: 1) Theater changes - good, but honestly, as long as it is once and done, monthly reset, I pretty much don't care that much. It's just a monthly 15 minute event, rather than an actual game mode. That said, no mention of the 15 usage cap for friend characters... hopefully that's one aspect they address. 2) Daily commission skipping good, for newer players, but, when it comes to commissions, as a long time player, it, again, isn't something I really care about, and has the potential to be the reverse. It shortens the daily game play for a game that already has jack all for me to do. And it doesn't help with the daily commission aspect that annoys me the most, and that's things locked behind commissions, like achievements and certain quests. Worst of those, the Sumeru ones that lock quests in both Sumeru and Fontaine. Although being able to skip some of those really bad/annoying commissions Sumeru has will definitely be nice. And they definitely still have a long way to go, QoL-wise. To list just a few things: 1) Artifact RNG... too much of it. 2) 2 sets drop per domain... means 50% are garbage drops on so many domains, makes so many domains inefficient to farm. This just needs to go not just for "too much RNG" reasons, but also to open up what domains we run. 3) 3 types of talent books, 3 types of weapon mat drops, 3 different drops per weekly boss... just annoyances that don't need to exist. Just give us a single drop instead of three for all of these. 4) Weekly bosses... make the first 3 free, and let us run the same boss 3 times for rewards if we want. It's stupid that the first character to use a new boss is so gated talent-level wise. 5) No end game worth speaking of. For example, can't even voluntarily up my WL above 8, despite WL 8 being so trivial in most of the over world that my Ning can one shot most camps with a single elemental skill. 6) With WuWa out, climbing speed needs to go up. 7) Four star character access. There are so many now, that getting them, getting cons for them, is just a pain. The whole "c6 for 4 stars" a lot of CC use for videos and stuff is basically invalid at this point. For newer players, you can't assume that, and how much time passes before a "newer player" isn't that as far as this goes keeps extending. For older players, you can't assume it for newer four stars or the ones tied to certain 5 stars. 8) Access to past events/event-weapons for newer players. I have all the weapons and stuff, but it sucks for newer players. Either re-run the events as they were, re-run them in a shortened version with some reduced overall rewards, or add the ability to play past expired events for at least the key stuff like the event weapons and gizmos. 9) Still cannot use condensed resin to pay for ascension bosses, despite them costing 40 resin. Suffice it to say, while the quantity of changes is better than it used to be (because it isn't hard to top "basically none"), they can definitely keep making obvious/badly-needed change after obvious/badly-needed change for quite a while still. As to changes often being borrowed from HSR, I think a lot of that also has to do with shared code base. They know it is possible with their underlying code, and they can share knowledge.

The encounter points thing is huge if you have an unlimited cap, super helpful for people who like to rush all the freemogems from exploration as soon as a new area drops! Also happy they realized that Imaginarium Theatre was undercooked. I can't imagine that their beta testers didn't tell them this so it could have been avoided, but correction after the fact is better than no correction at all!

Ig still no skip button, all it took was one good competitor like wuwa to make en pissed

Why do everyone thinks that “the devs listened”? I work with devs and let me tell you they only execute what they are told to by the people above.

I hope we get a standard 5* selector at some point. Still want a Mona and Jean.

3:15 they mean that the current "push certain characters" effect is so subtle that the outcome isn't ideal at all meaning the push isn't actually significant enough to really influence character selection