Wait it doesn’t???? Shit then I ain’t bothering collecting those any time soon

Enticing you to want certain characters.

@@riotangel4701 Totally, its like any convenience you want? Oh let we put it as some character passive.

I actually thought with Fontaine, you could either dive anywhere or swimming would no longer cause drowning. But I was surprised to find that you still could. I guess that power is just limited to Fontaine.

@@Jay-ch5xu Yes, it sucks

Yea and in cutscenes THE TRAVELLER USES MORE THAN ONE AT A TIME. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE THAT WE CAN'T

He'll be a one man reaction army 😎 an actually cool and unique trait that only the Traveller would make sense to have

The problem is the only usable element for Traveler is Dendro, The rest are garbo

A quality of life change? What do you think this is? Honkai Star Rail??? 😭😭😭

@@CookieSlayerThirdJunior Yea, agree. But ever since Inazuma Archon Quest part 3, after Traveller fought Raiden Shogun, he never uses his elemental powers anymore. I like the dull blade meme, but what? Their only upgrade shown is physical strength? The last time they mixed their elemental powers is geo and anemo during the Childe fight in Liyue.

Shouldnt have said that- ive got white knighters defending the boring ass story by telling me how it should be enjoyed rather than how I want to enjoy it. Hella ironic how they are also the same people who say take it at your own pace, or play how you want to play yk

@@Frailchip oh you are weird

funny how Start Rail already getting the story replay in next version while Genshin still haven't work on that

@@Frailchipliterally

KZfaq help, they always realise main cutscene in oficial channel

Ditto. I think they can expand the game play content w/out necessarily power creeping, but these are suggestions that have been offered since 1.0-1.1, but Hoyo has proved the only voice they listen to, is themselves (with two exceptions being Zhongli and anniversary 2 IIRC). They could introduce 4* True Ascensions that could give access to different kits, they could add a floor 13 of abyss that rewards character building materials and could be replayed, but requires 3 teams or something. So many suggestions, and yet they refuse to listen. I still enjoy the game and play it quite often, but yeah, it gets stale where at times I sit there and go "Okay, I've farmed this domain for the billionth time, to improve some characters or build new teams, for what? I can already 36* abyss if I try, so what difference does it make?" It's that feeling of "whats the point" that is dangerous to games, and yet Hoyo seems willing to skate right along that thin line.

all gacha games are like that, but other gacha games have progression in their gameplay... for example, another game from Mihoyo HI3, if you compare hi3 now with when it was launched, the gameplay and character development is very noticeable... while Genshin's gameplay hasn't developed much since it was first launched...

@@caesart9264 they probably tried to avoid going in the direction that game went by doing anything they can to avoid feature/powercreep, since hi3 is pretty bad at managing it, so bad in fact that they’ve resorted to the warframe route of making you need to use certain things to clear some of the content later in the game, and some enemies are called (insert character here)’s boss

​@zaboono genshin is no different the meta in genshin has been almost the same for how long? With the same busted 4 stars meanwhile the newer 4 stars are no where near as strong and need cons for them to even be playable

It is even worse now because most 4* characters require an element for upgrade that the boss material doesn't come from. I was building Mika and it was a pain since boss dropped anemo crystals but I needed ice. I have not played on my main in over a year for a lot of reasons, but made a new account earlier this year. If I were on my og account this would have been whatever because I would probably have enough gemstones to upgrade with, but to a new player this is a pain

and weaker too. If I were to get Xingqui and Yelan around the same time, what motivation is there for me to pour any energy and time into Xingqui when Yelan takes the exact same amount of resources for better results? If 4stars were easier to max out, it would add so much incentive to build them over similar/powercrept 5* units

They knew about it and adopted it to star rail kekw

​@@monthly7846except xingqiu will yield better results most of the time

Well 4* aren't really suppose to be weaker, just more common.

​@@yumirow7487Well they are, 5 star healers, shielders and DPS are better way better than 4 star versions. Do you even play the game? When a non 1.0 version 4 star is good it's the exception, not the rule.

They could’ve also added the ability to increase the swimming stamina in Fontaine by leveling the statue

​@@barely-_-1422For Inazuma and Sumeru maybe something related to those grapling hook things?

@@barely-_-1422 it's so strange why they didn't do that, i was full on expecting it when i first leveled a fontaine statue of the seven

I wonder why stamina is used for sprinting at all.... sure, in combat. But world exploration? Being unable to run is nothing but an annoyance.

@@jadecoolness101 it's just like that because of Genshin's nature being a Breath of The Wild clone; BOTW works like that, so Genshin did the same at this point, the feature is redundant tedium, as seen by other games "copying Genshin" removing a sprint meter

We already have enemies at or above level 100. Leveling characters beyond 90 or skills beyond 10 would be huge investment, so players could only max out relatively few. It would also need a higher world level, or the game would be far too easy.

​@@henryeowens Like FGO's Grail system, for example?

​@@henryeowensYeah, WL 9 and lvl 110/ 120 enemies are sorely needed, AR 65 would be appreciated also. One thing they have to fix though is exp required to go from 55 to 60, as it is just a grindfest.

@@henryeowensIt wouldnt be bad to even get 2 more world levels beyond the current one. Abyss could also get an update that brings enemies to level 110. The grinding wont be too bad because ascension and levelling is nothing compared to artifacts, which could give higher difficulty domains for us to get 1 more guaranteed 5 star artifact per use of condensed resin.

the talent cap is there for a reason, it's to account for future possible buffs. in 1.0, the maximum talent level was 13, either a skill or a burst crowned with c3 or c5. with 4.0, the maximum talent level is 14 now, because +3 normal attack level constellations became a thing, and childe has a passive that increases na levels. also, increasing the level cap to 100 with no change other than bigger stat and talent numbers wouldn't do much. spiral abyss is already easy enough to where most teams that have some investment can beat it. genshin's not a hard game. so a simple level cap increase would either make the game too easy or it'd make hoyo have to buff spiral abyss enemies stronger to balance it out. so yeah, characters not being able to get one more stat boost isn't really an issue that needs solving

EXACTLY!!!! without resin you basically can't make progress on making your characters and weapons stronger,it's HELLA annoying, ESPECIALLY when you wanna hurry up and be able to 36 star the abyss,I love genshin but mihoyo should rlly focus on improving old features and gameplay before adding new regions every update,it's like they're ignoring our suggestions tf 🤦🏻

Welcome to gacha I guess

@@Hyeinniii i completely agree, but genshin was originally made for people coming back from school, work, ect to wind down and play casually, even though its a very grindy game... its just sad honestly, 1.0 had 120 resin and star rail had 180 MORE than what we have currently, which just says a lot.

​@@Haze4743which gacha game sir that give small amount of atamina like this sir? Gbf, fgo, onmyoji, gfl, azur lane,even f*kin love live give u huge amount of stamina and resource to keep playin, so u're saying welcome to gacha game doesn't even make sense

​@@PandaHero-yi8pqyou haven't played enough gachas then. Not defending the resin system but there are waaaay more worse stamina systems out there

@boyishdude1234 those character bonuses cap at 20%, and you need to have the character on the team for it. Idk about you, but my usual teams don't end up using characters with stamina reduction unless it's gliding stamina, and that's entirely useless in combat I'm not sure exactly what hoyo themselves want from the stamina bar, but considering players have asked for more for a while, I think they're hesitant to increase the cap further, because desynchronized attack spam and heavily spaced out enemies (overly inflated health and damage numbers too but that doesn't directly correlate to stamina) are the only ways they know how to make difficulty in abyss 12, and that's because it places a large drain on your stamina trying to dodge and reach the enemies. Different percent reductions would provide progression reasons to upgrade the statues, make certain characters with inefficient charged attack playstyles (like my poor keqing) more usable, and also allow for more team building options/creativity if they allow the character talent reductions add their 20% to whatever percent we end up with, as well as potentially adding characters that offer charged attack consumption reduction (which, don't get me wrong, they still could right now, and should, but it would still synergize) I want either one, increased cap or more reduction, but hoyo doesn't seem to want to increase the cap, and splitting up reduction into specific categories gives them easy rewards to give us for the next like 3 areas

Yeah the reduction of stamina while sprinting would be so much better like i can't run enough I mean i have yelan but when im on other teams i can not run enough

Not even true, because another level may mean another passive/talent for characters. This can funamentally change the way said characters play and/or revive characters that no one uses.

You could make it meaningful. Imagine that you could "limit break" a character to increase their level cap to 100, but it requires a special item from events and you need Friendship level 10 and when you actually get to level 100 you unlock a color swap of the character's default outfit. Now you have multiple things to work towards and you get something you can show off at the end.

Descriptions on C3 and C5 constellations definitely tells us we will be getting 2 more levels for our skill and burst (or Normal attack for Lyney and others). So yeah, probably there will be an increase in level cap after Snezhnaya or after Khaenri'ah, or after Celestia.

@@thedead073 Considering Hoyo have never wanted to add any buffs or nerfs to already existing characters, I'm not so sure they'd ever be willing to add new talents to character kits like that. But even assuming they would, that still doesn't have to mean you have to increase the level cap, you could just as well add those hypothetical new talents to lvl 90 directly if so The extra 10 levels themselves are still pointless, all that does is drastically increase the amount of resin you need to spend on your account before you reach endgame without adding any additional strategic complexity, and in turn is going to be a big problem for new players

​@@Kuddochanexactly. Stamina is already spread thin between all you need to farm to raise one chatacter, let alone 4, let alone 8 for abyss, let alone more than that for having choices. And now add to that 1 more ascension that will be costly, all the exp/gold you'll need to farm because it's gonna take a lot of it and you get a worse game experience. Not even mentioning the artifacts that are what actually matters, you can be level 100 all you want if your artifacts suck your character is useless. Meanwhile you can be level 80 and cope woth good artifacts, soecially if the character is not the main DPS. I think level 100 should come eventually, but mihoyo needs to prime their game for it, not dump the update on us just because. Ascencion mats/weapons ascenion mats/artifacts and skill books need to cost less stamina or they need to give us more stamina. The amount of farm you can do daily is incredibly limited specially as time goes on and you have more and more characters to built.

HI3’s story is a far cry from genshins. There’s a reason it used to be called “depression impact”. Lol

​@@Space_Jockey426 Only that? 😲💀

the issue with hi3 is that the story is in multiple areas outside of the game with the mangas and videos

Im convinced hoyo hates genshin cause its not a honkai game and does better than honkai games

​@@domb.1522u mean the oppsite like the dialoge is weird in hi3rd but its releveant genshin story sucks ass

I am also the same. I felt I paid enough for what I have played and can't justify the BP even now with being too broke in game to level anyone. I need more reason to spend money past what a normal AAA titles $rrp is. I am happy running around and collecting materials still. But the resin to level is non existent

Former Dolphin here. 🐬 . 1.0 player as well. I still do Welkin and BP but stopped paying for anything else. Got multiple 36* spiral Abyss teams. And pretty much also only save for Archons and Harbingers now. Sitting on 400 pulls rn.

@@Goro_Maj1ma eyyy a fellow furina wanter then! Welcome aboard

@@kirigherkins especially when they are annoying af to find like baizu's violet grass and cyno scarab and lately the detection unit bug thing for wrio lol

hoyo literally stab themselves for not giving an actual meaningful end game contents 😂😂 me too stop spending welkins since last year

You're really not suggesting anything miraculous or hard to implement - they can just give the players extra world levels for those who want to enjoy the overworld's combat more. They don't even need to give us rewards and extra AR levels for it, just give us the option

they backed themselves into a corner when they made XQ, XL, and Bennett tbh

@@softjytsu I blame players who accrue all these level up materials, deciding to just use those character and never raise anyone else.

@@jackreacher7495yea, surely you want to raise a character u don’t like in a gacha game where people play to the game to get their favorite character I get people like Amber despite her in game value but who the fk would want to level up Aloy when they can just pull for a Ganyu that looks 100x better

Think this is easily solved with one more world tier. One more world tier that brings things closer to the way the Abyss is. Level 95-100 enemies in the open world and maybe even less healing from the statue. Quests can still be capped at the old world level of difficulty for the sake of not progression gating for someone who is already AR 60 but makes it not as easy to steam roll commissions or bounties or anything else in the open world. Maybe even max difficulty for domains that can give a guarenteed third artifact or something. Bigger rewards if you can complete the harder challenge.

I actually love this idea! I’ve been routinely cycling through characters in my teapot and daily commission party so as to get friendship level 10 with all of them. As of now, I have about 50 characters I believe, and max friendship level with 30 of them. It also gives me an incentive to use all that mora and materials I have an overflow of by now to roughly build most of my characters. Like they won’t all have great artefacts, but if they’re all at least a4, triple 6 talents and have decent weapons, they do their job in the overworld no problem.

or maybe if you reached level 10 friendship for a character you unlock a new special avatar for that character on your profile

The chasm event is also an interlude chapter now

So true. In my dream hoyo says: we have made enough money from the players of genshin. So now lets transform gi into the friggin best game without these bullshit gacha mechanics. Sadly this will be forever a dream.

if i may say something, i've read people say that Genshin is a "cash cow"; basically generates the most/steady income. i understand and can see why they call Genshin that and there's nothing wrong.. but.. if the cow (Genshin) is producing the most high-quality milk (Money) out of every cows (Games) in the barn, shouldn't the farmer (Hoyo) do everything in their power to maintain the cow's longevity/health so it can continuously & consistently produce more high-quality milk for them? or maybe i'm stupid and my way of thinking is completely wrong.

That event sucked. Custom domain building is way better event.

@@Goujiki no

@@rb8258 lol that 2.2 event was piss easy and boring as fuck, but okay

@@Goujiki wrong

@@rb8258 lol, bro you're delusional, that event was dogshit. Custom domain event where anyone can make their own custom dungeon and adjust the difficulty of enemies was 100x better than that dumbass Childe/Xinyan event that was super easy, zero challenge.

WHERE SIMULATED IRMINSUL

@@ametistakikiki2328 level 100 means NOTHING..thats a freaking drop of water on a burning hot stone.. it goes POOF and you feel absolutely ZERO difference ... the cap increase MUST be a significantly higher, 120 is the best next Step they can do with AR90, because then you have exactly 6x 5 AR Steps in order to increase your Max Level exactly 6x+5 from 90 to 120, which makes it easy for the Game UI to simply change the colors of the Stars as a visible change of your progression. A change from 90 to 120 is definetely a significant change, that you would absolutely feel as a player, because with 30 Levels more, you'd have significantly higher Stats than with level 90. Fightign as lvl 90 vs. a lvl 130 (Abyss has always +10 more at the end) enemy has to feel like such a big difference, that enemies will easily wipe the floor with you, unless you progress with your character and close the Level Cap to at least 110, unless you get your characters upgeared and equipped with new Equipment thats avaiable from AR61+ onwards like Armors, like Boots, like Accessoires and like 6th Artefacts (Shields) in order to have a significant Stat Boost over your Status Quo how you were at AR60 with just level 90 and without all the new equipment thats there then now in order to rebalance all Characters aroudn that new Status Quo past Ascension State, a State which requires to activate the Awakening Stage ofg your Characters in order to be strong enough to deal with the Game Content past AR61, so that the game reaches a stage, where its again challenging and more rewarding for everyone, than ever before in the last 3 years... its about time that MHY finally implements the Abyss Part 2 basically with Floors 13 to 25 so to say, where you have to fight then Enemies, that are ranging betwween level 101 and 130!!! where you won#t come far AT ALL, even not with C6 R5 characters, as long you keep them at Lvl 90 with just low equipment state of AR60 niveau... The game needs to enforce all players from AR61 onwards, to develop their characters again fuerther and progress with them, to keep you busy, to keep you incentivized to play the game for the next 3+ years. its about time, that MHY hangs finally out a new Progression Carrot, we can chase after, that is hanging on a now much higher position, than before the last 3 years, that basically all day 1 players have reached already YEARS AGO and play since then in a content draught with no new progression.

And it’s version of ‘Swarm Disaster’ would be called ‘Apocalyptic Calamity’ where we go deep into the very roots of Irminsul which both it and the information stored is hidden from Teyvat and even Nahida and we’ll get major lore bombs there cause we’ll be going into the events of Teyvat’s Birth and its Planet’s Birth as well as the Era of the Dragon Sovereigns, the Descent of Phanes and The Shades, the Arrival of the Second One, The Archon War, The Cataclysm of Teyvat and any information that has been hidden/‘erased’ from Teyvat.

I believe Genshin have own SU when Alice release.

​@@ChristianKessler4185 basically a cheap way to raise difficulty as always. Why not just raising them to lv200 if that's what's fun for you? Mind you, genshin abyss today does exactly that by beefing up stats and that's it. We all know player's feedback on that one. Even better, make your character with 10 HP in total while fighting abyss. So even being hit with DoT can instantly kill you. How about that? -_-

Thing is, Traveller sucks balls with all elements except dendro, so just use dendro and forger abouth others, is basicaly same as your idea

​@@masajus1Except using the hydro travelers skill with the Dendro burst is better than just Dendro traveler.

​@@masajus1just imagine doing quicken or aggravate with only one character, not needing anyone else but the traveller to do it. It would be insane to do elemental reactions on a non elemental enemy with one singular character

Imo, the ER regen on electro traveller could work really fine with the dendro burst's cost, the mix and matching of skills really would make traveller feel like a 7 star instead of a 4 star

the problem is the artifact sets

It's so funny because the problem Genshin has is that it's wide as ocean, but shallow as puddle. Judging by your profile picture, you must understand it very well, since you must be a fan of Castlevania. This problem is not affect just combat, it's everything about the game. For combat, Genshin need some "real" progession. Every thing that fans consider "deep" is just a way to make beeg pp damage. It doesn't help you do damage in a different way, it's just damage. For example, fire+electro would be much, much, much more interesting if the reaction deals a neglectible amount of damage, but it'll push other enemies away from the target (imaging Pain's push ability in Naruto) it'll help a character who focus on dealing a single target damage avoid damage. And Electro+Water will pull enemies together (imagine Pain's pull ability from Naruto) or making enemies sharing damage received. This way it'll help a character with small aoe. But what the game actually offer is just a dozen reactions that do the same thing. Even tho the game gave players multiple choice to kill enemies, but it's an illusion. It's not even like DMC5 design philosophy that each enemy has at least two ways to deal with them. For example, Dante's close up moves. Every one of Dante's weapons has a form to get close to enemy with different property. One will knock enemy outward, one has high stun value but very slow, one is fast but low stun, one is fast and high stun, but if you mess up, it'll leave you vulnerable. For exploration, a medtroidvania fan should get this well. Genshin is wide, but you have no reason to go back to the same area again. A new area is fun, but only the first time, like, the underwater section is great but only once. But the game also did some pretty good job with dragon's spine. I've replayed it exactly 4 times, and I still think it's great. It's not like Genshin usual "go to point a to b to c." It felt like an actual sense of adventuring. Because there are tons of stuff in dragon's spine, and the quest lines are "there are stuff going on around here, can you do *** for me?" And because it's so dense, you'll do other stuff in the way. The things that have some impact (open an area, or remove barrier) not some random dopamine spike (chests). I never felt anything like this in other area in Genshin. It doesn't felt scripted. It's not a single straight line that unlock as you progress in a story quests. It's not like aranara where you can only do things after the game tell you to. The only reason you can't do things is because you haven't unlock it yet. You haven't gain the ability to do it yet. Not because some random NPC tells you that you can't. You do it because you've earned it. You didn't earned it because some random NPC gave you the permission after you do the things they told you to do. But you earned it through your adventure, you put your own effort into the game. Even in fontaine. It looks great, but that's it, it never felt this way. Genshin want to spoon feeds player. It's the reason why the game is so popular. Because player never have to do things for themselves. Even the story is this way. It's not interactive story. Players are just little birds waiting for whatever the game will give them. The game will never improved, because of this.

@@superpnutbutter8608 Exactly. I actually dislike this video because Vars didn’t expand on this fact - a few years ago, casuals and whales alike basically have been enabling Mihoyo to treat us badly because they still spend money on the game or still get the characters and play the events with the badly designed/incomplete character kits that only get fixed with constellations, and the meager crumbs we get for event rewards. In a way I feel like it’s also successful because it kinda reflects the current economy and how a lot of jobs very often underpay people way less than their actual value to a company, but that’s another discussion regarding the psychology of Genshin’s success besides a gambling addiction.

Yeah going to level 100 means a lot of books and mora, nothing interesting at all. It would be actually bad. I wish they play more with meta in the abyss. Like 13th floor with 5 chars team. or substitutions like we have in some events with benched players.

What if they raised the drop rate of mora and exp leylines .

Fr give me skip button

[Screen fades to black] [Several walls of unimportant text about how the NPC breathes and sips water that tend to get longer each time] [Fade back to bloated dialogue followed by Paimon repeating 99% of it] [You now finally get to move a few meters before it all restarts again] [Quest completed]

Thats only on the presumtion yhat yhey can make it interesting make this char get 2 passive make ir easier to get to that lvl make the game play better with them yes hoyo is so trash at mantaining a game that im.sure they would faik but that mean that others devs of other games didnt

Also known as a game play loop. Sounds fun to me.

Three characters now have a normal attack constellation, which means that the new max is level 14, with Childe's talent. It'll probably only be one level, if ever at this point.

It says 15, because there are events that buff your talents, and 15 is the limit.

Youd eventually get other harbingers that boosts your skill or burst by one, and whaling lets you get to 13 talent levels. Maybe the other +1 is probably from an event buff.

It's 14 actually. Lyney cons put his NA to 13 and Childe has a +1 for the whole team.

i wish the playable harbingers could have a talent passive just like childe's. They could've easily given the passive to wanderer ( though the passive is pretty similar to raiden and a good one that too ) and future harbingers like arlecchino down the line, but with skills and bursts

I would love that! Integrating story with mechanic progression

Raising the level cap on characters would be horrible. To ascend a character and their talents to the current max you already have to repeat the same tasks so many times that at the end it's a punishment not a reward. It's weird that in the beginning of the video he says "too much repetitiveness is as bad as no content" and yet the solution is more repetitiveness.

Don't want to build level 24 artifacts? Introduce new system on high AR that lets you buff the numbers on substats your artifacts get (it'll also bypass one of the level of randomness nobody likes) Dont want the level 100? Introduce some (sorry for using overused term) new passive talent, that will shake-off a feeling of a character, that'll add some kind of QoL change (especially the charas that was left out by many). Now to the counter-point. We have these upgraded characters and the abyss 12 is a joke. What now? Add more levels with more intense play (no, not the 11-1) to test our fresh teams. There's way too much of ways to make the game more sustainable, not only just releasing us from a hell of a Resin, but add just few more things, so our day won't be just "complete commissions, take rewards, send expeditions, burn resin, get out", we already can get commisions off by opening random chests or clearing dusty quests we forgor. our day now is even shorter.

"...simply making numbers bigger really is not healthy and will kill the playerbase faster than avoiding 'progression' by means of powercreep. Powercreep renders old units completely useless." Honestly this is what burned me out with tof. I took a break for a few months due to unversity, and when I came back I found that my C6 Tian Lang was pretty well unusable. The speed and degree of powercreep makes me not even want to play half the end game gamemodes because any new character I build will be useless in 4 months.... so why even bother?? In genshin, I built Itto the day he came out. I still use him. The current abyss wants hp changes, elemental reactions, it REALLY disfavors Itto. But, he DOES still carry, my effort in building him was not rendered a waste of time through power creep. Other units are faster, but he's not USELESS. I can say that for every unit I've built too, aside from Freeze Kaeya because nothing can be frozen anymore, regrettably. My time feels more respected because the characters it is spent on are not being rendered completely obsolete. Side Point but this is also why terrible units like Dehya, Amber, and Xinyan feel so insulting to me. Dehya especially is a GOOD character in lore, many people like her. So making her that abysmally weak feels so insulting. It is ultimately a waste of my time to build her, because she was obsolete on release, but I like her, so if I want to use her in any way I am put in a position where I HAVE to "waste my time" as far as the meta is concerned.

​@@ScarfmonsterWRno it wouldn't lmao. Just increase the XP books you get. It ain't that hard.

Cool, also wrong. Being able to get to 100 would hardly kill the game.

Same, I literally take off my artifacts or play with low level characters just to have fun and make the fight last longer. I use my skill once on a built character and everything's dead in a second. It's getting annoying

​@@boyishdude1234it feels rewarding for, say, 1 month of having said megacarry. Playing with him for years is another thing entirely

​​@@boyishdude1234single-player game with a visible end-point? Yes, your point stands For a gachagame, that must last for 12 years... Eh? Edit: unless these 12 years means every year they'll collect another pull of players. But then the question is how

You do realize that people play video games for other reasons than making characters overpowered, right? Not only do people play for the storytelling or exploration, but for the enjoyment of actually fighting and experimenting with different playstyles. Do you really think games would be any fun if every single enemy was defeated in a single punch? The whole reason things like boss fights exist is to pose as a challenge, not to be overpowered in half a millisecond.. @@boyishdude1234

@@boyishdude1234 okay, but with said "custom difficulties" there must be a valid point, like at least 1 primogem. You can't say the game is interesting if the challenge is a "challenge" when YOU ADD SAID CHALLENGE. We can't redo old content, we can't wait for another content beside 100%ing areas.

And even then, current events already contain massive lore drops. 3.5 Windblume gave us insane Hexenzirkel lore. 3.6 Akademiya Festival gave us massive Kaveh backstory.

No.

Likely not. I've been slacking on opening chests in Sumeru and Fontaine for that reason. Don't need the primos/mats/AR xp that gets converted to mora, anyways. Might as well wait to see if the cap ever gets moved.

Yep, amazing idea, people will rush through the story to get the ability

Honestly i think people would just complain there isn't a skip button even more and completely rush the story just to get the rewards, if people don't care for the story, then they just don't care for the story, it'd only be another chore for them, there's only so much you can do to incentivize someone to actually enjoy the game ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

@@sallya.921 that is because of how all genshin stories are structured. Our character has almost nothing to do with most of it. This is a fundamental problem with genshin. People want the skip button because paimon does most of the talking anyway. It is boring to just click next for 2 to 4 hours. Easiest solution: give traveller more dialogue options and more often and also let him speak it aloud ( what is the point of having a VA anyway)

Why? They lock talent level 10 behind crowns.

@@jadecoolness101crowns are accessible to all when doing events, they aren’t hard to get either and they give it somewhat generously

​@@tekko7yearsago28and....you think level 100 items would be any different? The other dudes point stands. 😊

Not really, just make the item something you get after beating a story chapter and it’s fine

He wants the game to be more grindy and more FOMO inducing, let's say the quiet part out loud.

Not only that, but every accessory comes with a brand new relationship story. I remember spending a ridiculous amount of gifts on Eimi to get her portable fan, just because I wanted to read the story behind it. I've never even used her, but when I got the fan, I felt satisfied. Genshin doesn't just need more progression, it also needs a goal that is satisfying to reach. Also, president, please get out of the NPC jail.

based blue archive senseis we keep winning

The problem is we get as many archon quest in 8 patches as we get events in 1 patch

Genshin is like 80% filler and 20% main story

@@softlocker5941 unfortunately if they want to release archon quests in a similar rate as other quests, we'd have to be in a new region every 4 months give or take, which considering how long it takes to actually build an open world, is just not feasible.

@@sanjeethmahendrakar true

Fr star rail feels so much better and the way they keep adding stuff every now and then just shows that they really respect you .

I’ll TAKE A POTATO CHIP, AND EAT IT

Same fanbase reached/or will reach ar60 and level 90 characters.. I'm fairly sure they can handle few higher levels. No?

Funny that, because when I was a kid games on sega and PS1 where much harder. The bar is too low now considering all the other effort they put into making the game. At least put in a game setting to make it hard. Hard in all its puzzles, mini challenged and games they do. Combat difficult is a hard topic but at least make the rest of the game difficult, I don't need 300 seconds to collect 5 orb challenges they get completed in 20 seconds.

​@@realrahzz no, those people have lv90 characters Ar60 and can't clear Floor 11, GI knows the game better than the players

but the events aren't fillers because the issue is that they hint back to it in the original lore which sucks. Like Scaramouche as a character comes back from his event., Charlotte as a character comes back from her event

Yea but its kinda of trash one with the ammount of filler

@@softjytsu i edited the word i used so that you would understand what i wanted to say.

@@softlocker5941 naruto and one piece had tons of fillers too.. let's take the 4.0 archon quests as examples. they're approximately 4 hrs each act or 8 hours in total. that's equivalent to more or less 24 canon episodes of anime.

@@kirigherkins perhaps that would be possible in a future patch because honkai star rail has it already.

If they lock that behind an ar increase then nobody could rush through it in a week. It would give veterans a reason to keep progressing.

​@@hendrik6156 they are still gonna rush. it's a slippery slope

Sir a normal game dev shoukd ever make such a mistake u just think so low of hoyo and believe that will happen

@@bbajr Of course they are gonna rush. Because giving them the ability to make further progress will give them a reason to play the game more Idk whats so bad about this

Star rail is garbage.

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@@onlywrongaexthetics6181 At least be creative with it if you're gonna troll people... Or make it funny :/

@@miraqen7801 many people play honkai for the freebies... get out of it and see if this game will keeps the same player count. Apart from the tactical combat feature, which is interesting, it doesn't have much to offer. I don't see anything extraordinary about this little star.

right it feels like hoyo didnt care enough to implement player feedback into genshin so they just made another game with all of these improvements

Yeah I think genshin could take a page from honkai star rail tbh like special permnat events or endgames

I wonder if adding a 13th floor (or a new game mode) where you swap between teams could be fun. There are so many characters in this game, but ultimately, you only need 8. I forget what the event was called, but there's an event where you have to rotate through 6-8 (can't remember exactly how many) teams of two and defeat as many enemies as possible in a given time limit. If they did something like that, but with teams of four, it'd give us reason to build more than 8-12 characters. If they do 6-8 teams to rotate through, that's up to 24-32 needed units right there. And if it's a changing domain like the abyss, even MORE units because different metas want different plays. Early players don't have many characters built, but this isn't an early game gamemode. I'm no game designer though

@@jadecoolness101 that seems cool unfortunately genshin said last year they ain't adding anything

@@shadow0974 yeah... we don't want players to get anxious after all. It's just that hoyo's approach to avoiding powercreep is simply make more characters for more roles. To complement this approach, they could give people a reason to build multiple characters of similar roles. We have Neuvillette, Childe, and Ayato... one of them is ultimately going to be benched, because abyss only needs two teams. Usually, the two sides of the abyss don't even favor the same element, so ultimately you only "need" ONE of these three built. If we were given a "floor 13" that had a lot of pyro enemies and forced us to rotate through 6 teams, all three of them, AND even more hydro dps units in the future would have build incentive.

@@jadecoolness101 Fr fr ofc

I feel like they’ve been experimenting with this stuff since inazuma, though it’s always been with region related things that are unblockable with the region’s badges, something combat related could be nice in the future though

@@zaboono Uh, not sure what you mean in reference to the regional sigils, but insofar as my idea for a new progression system is concerned I would like to clarify that, for this hypothetical new equipment, they wouldn't have to just relate to combat. They could also improve exploration, such as by improving how quickly stamina regenerates outside of combat or by reducing the rate at which sheer cold/heat builds up. Seeing as combat and exploration are the primary ways in which players interact with the game, having these module-esque items affect those two aspects of the game the most seems like a sensible idea to me. Maybe a little basic and something that would quickly wear thin if not regulated in some manner, but it'd be a start at least.

u mean 13?

If they ever add a 13th floor they would need to rework entirely on the abyss because Hoyoverse idea of difficulty is by stalling the player with many waves of tanky enemies or with ridiculous amounts of animations where enemies are invincible or they are out of reach for damage.

tbf give star rail 2 years and it could end up like genshin

@@cultok 100% in the cards yep

@@cultokit’s either that or the powercreep just keeps getting worse and worse until you need to be pulling for the newest characters or have multiple copies of older ones to be able to challenge the endgame

They need to make the world exploration more fun for sure, or get actual good drops from the million useless mobs you run into. Adding horses or some shit at least, so I don't just tp everywhere.

Apart from farming for material I feel it also isnt enough. I would hope you could at least earn resin when you kill enemies to encourage players to re explore, also adding more chests with each patch so we can continue to explore and earn more/xp books while farming materials for new characters.

I should add that, unfortunately and fortunately, Genshin's most enjoyable gameplay experience is exploring new areas. And those take a long time to make. The combat isn't enjoyable enough on its own to make people travel the world just for the combat, at least not with the enemies we have right now. I think we could benefit from a major enemy revamp for the older regions. They've added some newer enemies to older regions, but not nearly enough. And then on top of that I think there should be a world level 9, maybe even 10 for the mad lads among us. But we would stay at level 90. Because currently at world level 8, enemies die before you even do a full party rotation, given you're power crept enough. And that doesn't feel very good when the reason you enjoyed the game in the first place was because you weren't power crept, and you could actually feel the satisfaction of the power you gain from doing combos with all of your party members. This was the core gameplay design of this game, and Mihoyo have let it take a backseat in the game's open world combat after you've become too strong through power creep. By saying this, I don't mean to make the game harder, but rather just more satisfying. I want to group up all enemies with Venti's burst, and then mark them with All Schemes to Know, followed up by a hydro attack to spawn blooms, to finally pop Raiden Shogun's burst on all of them, watching them all die in one hit from Musou No Hitotachi and the hyper blooms. But instead, what happens is all the enemies die by Venti's burst before anything else can happen.

@@Irizathylia I have decided to make use of my un played characters for overworld. Or I might make overworld gear (ER focused less damage builds). Though it sucks I can't play my main teams now because they are just too strong. Might just give them all lvl 1 weapons lol

@@liiich6175 Yeah, that's an option. But I feel like that removes the satisfaction from all the time you invested into the game. And it's also bad game design when the player has to play the game in an unintended way just to make the game play as it was intended.

exactly this. i was an ex-competitive gamer who really loves chasing the leaderboard thingy. but in genshin, i can finally enjoy a game without feeling the need to taking things too seriously. yes, i still play the meta teams but only for the abyss. for the overworld, i have a bunch different chars ranging from the very bad ones like eula, to someone as good as ayato. i merely got them for the sake of their looks, personality, their part in the story of teyvat, and sometimes their combat animation look very cool (like ayato slash). and i will absolutely love genshin to be a visual novel game tbh. this game is my final resting place, i can just hop on and enjoy, and relax, turn my brain off. i merely farm artifacts too. i only have around 300 artifacts on my inventory (but still can clear the abyss 36* constantly lmao)

I agree with the pneumousia reactions, but it could be a fragments/hints of light/void elements (just like what dain used). Ngl tho, ive never cared to use it on enemies, especially if your team is strong enough

4.0 was more about adding the underwater mechanics then The Pneumousia stuff in my eyes but yeah i get what your saying as its the part that actually made into abyss I know they Won’t (made excuses already) but having some limited Diving Areas in older areas would be so good, Imagine Diving Around Gueyun Stone Forest or Cider Lake! I can also imagine some very fun mini dungeons in like Dragonspine’s Water pool or in one of the Sumeru Desert Oasis keeping it just limited to Fontaine just feels lazy and shortsighted

life is the biggest game of all. and as many might agree on, it is also the most unfun and unfair game of all. some have evem decided on, or are deciding on, uhh... "quitting" early before the game's natural ending.

​@remixtheidiot5771 speak for yourself, most peoples problems is their own mindset and lack of healthy balance combined with living in an echo chamber online. I grew up as a Black man in America without a father and in generational poverty in a major city. Mother worked 2 jobs to support me and my brother. By all accounts the easy thing to do is to join a gang and be apart of a "family". Luckily I was blessed with a sharp mind and realized all of that crap was self inflicted. Mom chose to have unprotected sex with a man that wasn't stable and put herself in a situation to raise 2 kids alone. Growing up my brother "escaped" reality by playing WoW and LoL for 14-16 hours a day. I on the other hand enjoyed coding, and sports so I would limit my playing time on video games to just a couple of hours but only after my real life sports and study were complete. I worked my ass off doing things I enjoyed while maintaining a healthy balance with video games. I went to college on a athletic scholarship bc I prioritized real life over video games bc you have more to show for it at the end of the day. That's the problem with youth nowadays is they prioritize the wrong things like my brother did. Long story short my life is great today. I have a beautiful wife, 2 kids I enjoy gaming with, and a high paying job that I love to do bc I set out early in life to do what I enjoy. My brother on the other hand is 42, unemployed, lives at home with my mother still and plays games to this day for 16 hours a day and is completely miserable. Moral of the story is healthy balance and priorities, I love genshin impact as a game its super fun and I enjoy playing it with my kids. Been playing it for a few hours a week since release. At the end of the day I prioritize real life hobbies over Genshin such as sports, working out, hiking, fishing, etc bc at the end of the day there's something to show for it. If you spend 16 hours a day playing games congrats you have 20, C6, 5 star heroes! You get some clout and praise online but then you return to your empty, meaningless real life and get depressed when you could have spent all that time you wasted "getting good" at real life. South Park hit the nail on the head in their freemium episode. Games today prey on the addicts to fuel their revenue like the alchohol industry does with alcoholics and its sad to see. Anyways like my brother I'm sure most reading this it will trigger them and solicit a defense mechanism in most but my aim is even if this helps 1 person reconsider and make healthier life choices and realize your problems are most likley self inflicted then it's good. I won't respond to any replies bc my poop is almost done and imma go out hiking with my daughter and I don't spend hours online every day.

Maybe go touch some grass

Tuners ?

genshin will never listen to the fans as long as it knows it can make money with the way they are doing now, we're talking to a gigantic wall

I don't agree with the character banner gacha system. It's the difficulty of obtaining them that makes it all the more worthwhile. This is just my opinion but I love how unfair this game is. The tiring grind and unpleasant frustrating experiences make the game alot more memorable and fun. I've been an f2p all the way and looking back on everything Ive achieved gives me great pleasure.

they will not read it here, you need to write this to support

These would be awesome if Hoyoverse would be focused on player experience, however they are exclusively focused on money and unfortunately it's working so I don't expect any meaningful QoL changes anytime soon.

​@@AverageHuman127 I suggest you travel to the north pole in your underwear cause it's gonna be so memorable and fun when you come back.

Always has been-meme Insert here

it's was a story based game with gacha elements but now it's an gacha game with story elements. It's so sad to watch

What’s the “sunk cost”?

I can still 36 star abyss with 1.0 characters so why should I even bother to build new ones? Horizontal progression is cool but if you dont even need it to make progress then it isnt really progress.

Is combat really evolving tho? I feel like with dendro you just mix and match elements as what you would normally do with any team comps. It just same gameplay with different outcomes.

Bro i 36 star abyss with my 50% xiao what are u on genshin is ez af cause u only have one option and its farming artifact until u oneshot everything