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No. 357984
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What have you been enjoying in the 4.4 patch? We've had:
>Chenyu Vale area added including lots of new world quests, new wildlife, a couple of new enemies>Xianyun and Gaming as new playables>New skins for Shenhe, Ganyu and Xingqiu>Xianyun's story quest>Lantern Rite quest and event>Food event happening right now>The recent battle event with trial characters>New TCG cards, including sayu, thoma, cryo cube, the electro seahorse, and action cards like jeht>Xiao and Yae re-runAnd some QoL stuff in picrel
I pulled Xianyun and have been enjoying her a lot. She breathed some new life into some characters in my roster I'd been neglecting or added more team variety for them, like Navia and Diluc. She's been a delight for traversing through Chenyu Vale with because of her jumping and I like using characters that are somewhat "canon" to explore new areas with. I do however use a mod to alter her a bit because her default is a bit much for me (
https://gamebanana.com/mods/493134). I have been slowly moving through the Vale every day until I accrue enough encounter points, so I haven't done a lot of the quests yet. Very pretty scenery as I expected.
I found the lantern rite quest pretty touching overall and appreciated the focus on family bonds, even if your family isn't blood-related. The scene between Shenhe, Xianyun, Yip Tak and Gaming sitting at the tables was very amusing. The hug at the end between Gaming and Yip Tak was sweet.
Sayu has been really fun in the TCG but I'm not sure what the new meta decks coming out on top are. I see a lot of people using Jeht now when I match with others. I prefer playing the "drafting" mode where you each have to choose three character cards from a random pool because it's refreshing not facing off against sweaty tryhard decks all the time.
The recent battle event was interesting. It used your character cons but not your weapons or artifacts and the character pools on some days were strange. I ended up with some unusual teams sometimes but still cleared it quite easily on the hardest difficulty. I wonder what the general player base experience was with it, if they found it too challenging? It makes me wonder if the devs are experimenting with making a pseudo rogue-lite mode.
No. 358018
>>357984I'm building Ga Ming and enjoying playing him, though he seems to get critically low on hp real fast. It's probably skill issue. Lantern Rite's story was pretty good this year, you can see massive improvement in the pre-rendered cutscenes from the devs over time. They did a good job incorporating Ga Ming's preexisting animations into his long dance.
The combat event was interesting, but needs some polish. The pre-made builds were appallingly bad, like laughably so. The Furina had something atrocious like 45% crit rate and 90% crit damage, anyone who ran the domain for a week could probably do better. I don't think Nilou was an appropriate character in the character pool either when the game immediately proceeded to make it near impossible to use her core mechanic by dumping electro characters on you. Overall just needed slightly better gearing on the trial characters for a smoother experience.
>>358004What the fuck are you even talking about.
No. 358036
>>358018I ended up with C6 Gaming rolling for Xianyun and need to get around to building him. His normals felt weird to me so I put him on the backburner. His kit doesn't seem as straight-forward to me as most others either when it comes to optimal rotation. I noticed a lot of HP drain in his kit but he only has this very small way to get HP back, so probably not a skill issue on your part but more of a team build issue.
>After Bestial Ascent's Plunging Attack: Charmed Cloudstrider hits an opponent, Gaming will regain 1.5% of his Max HP once every 0.2s for 0.8s.He definitely seems like he needs a healer with him, purposefully made so players want Xianyun with him.
It's funny I've seen some other people complain about the bad gearing too. I didn't even bother checking the gear at all but still found it pretty easy to clear on pro, even with not knowing how to optimally use some of the carries. The enemy HP felt really low. The one build issue that really stuck out to me was not having nearly enough ER on Xiangling for one stage. It took forever to get her burst back.
I think for the Nilou one on the last day that they really wanted you to bloom on the first two stage parts because the enemies spawned far closer together on those than the latter two. When I tried to avoid using Nilou my first time through, I ran into the issue of there not being enough electro characters. Re-doing it with her made those two parts explode quickly. It was the only one I had to re-do.
No. 358059
>>357984Personally struggled in the hardest mode but Im a retard who cant game for shit so YMMV
>>357977Haitham you beauty
No. 358090
>>357984>Chenyu ValePretty but haven't really explored it. Getting Fontaine chests while trying to finish Sumeru commissions
Gaming is cute but hate HP drain
Don't care about costumes for charas I don't have and haven't done the quest yet… Haven't even finished Wrio's story quest.
>Lantern Rite quest and eventFamily drama was dumb, but I guess it wasn't NPC drama.
>Food event happening right nowI like these kind of simple events but it makes me hungry.
>The recent battle event with trial charactersHated it. Reminded me that I hate how Furina damages the whole team not just the active character. At least you only have to beat normal for the primos and hard difficulty rewards aren't worth it.
>TCGStopped playing when I realized you don't need those points to max BP.
>Xiaogot Dehya…
No. 358475
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What do anons use to clear the Abyss? Curious as to who people main. I switch it up but I always try to use a Cyno team with Baizhu and Nahida and mono Geo whenever possible (sadly not very possible as of late). This time I did a plunge Kazuha team for the lulz then a Wriothesley first half alongside Cyno second half. I could have used Neuvillette but that would have been zero effort, he melts everything so fast.
>>358284I'm still trying for Project Baby. It's the last one the game has to give me.
No. 358512
>>358475I always have an alhaitham team on one side. It will be some mix of nahida, yaoyao, baizhu, furina, xingqiu, fischl, yae, raiden or kuki.
On the other side is usually whatever fits best to counter the enemies or whoever I got recently that I want to use. I picked up xianyun and navia on their banners, so I've been using them. Otherwise, it'll usually be another dendro team, either a hyperbloom team, a thoma burgeon team or a tighnari spread team.
No. 358528
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Okay so pic relateed is t pyro archon concept design. Which ofcourse can be changed a lot (see the old skirk and clorinde concept arts). However if you compare it to Nahida another archon concept arts, her color design didn't change at all. So I'm afraid we might be stuck with this color pallet
>>358475i pretty much always use alhaitham on one side and neuvilette on the other. Before neuv i used childe. We really need some male electro off field characters, i want to try and use teams with only male characters
No. 358530
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>>358528as comparison this is leaked nahida concept designs, again of course the pyro archon design can change, but because it won't take that long before Natlan is coming. I dont think they will change like big things. Not gonna lie im kinda sad how her design looks more Fontaine, i was hoping that we wouldnt get yet another european inspired country. Since we will also be getting Snezhnaya which is also very much eu. I think Natlan will be like Sumeru, so the educated and more civilised people will all be white and more european styled, and the people in the desert will be darker.
No. 358533
>>358528Tbf she's the fire god so it makes sense red and orange/yellow will be her main colours. Her aesthetic is what I was expecting from Fontaine at the beginning so I'd be happy to see a nomadic circus concept but if the nomadic tribes are that then where's the African inspiration going to be?
>>358530>the educated and more civilised people will all be white and more european styled, and the people in the desert will be darkerI hope they don't pull this shit again. I'm taking an unhealthy dose of copium hoping for the archon to change to having dark skin already. I thought the idea was that the entire nation is made of independent tribes anyway, so we'll have a big "civilized" city again? Guess they have to put in a giant tree somewhere.
No. 358541
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>>358534idk i at first thought it more of an italien inspo with like venetian carnival but a lot less cooler.
>>358533There are a few big tribes, so i expect the bigger tribes to be more civilized actually have buildings instead of tents ect. I don't see how this is otherwise will go, based on the design of the archon vs the design of a natlan character. You can see pic related actually has tribal inspiration, while the archon looks very different and more so like she is from fontaine. Maybe the story is that the pyro archon is actually not from natlan?
No. 358728
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>>358528I can't bring myself to get too worked up about the design either way until I see the final design and see it in 3D. For example, I liked Chevreuse's design far more in the 2D than how her model ended up looking. A character's personality can really sell a design for me, too. [spoiler]I like her big red diluc eyes. I am not a fan of the pearls, mask color or the purple hair vents. lol at at least one leaker saying the stripes are meant to be like a carnival tent.
No. 358759
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>>358528I don’t get this at all? I’m really trying to understand how this fits into a volcanic hot spring and mountainous environment. Seriously what has happened to the creative departments of Genshin
No. 358889
>>358528I think people were misled by just seeing the term "African inspiration" when it was specifically "west African" (probably specifically Morocco)
in addition to Spain and Latin America. West Africa is more influenced by Andalusian and Arab cultures than Eastern or Central African ones so I don't know why they act so surprised Natlan isn't turning out to be more like Sub-Saharan Africa.
That said, her being white skinned and wearing a spaniard-inspired outfit from colonial times really underlines the role of archons as colonizers kek.
No. 358897
>>358889We aren’t misled because of that, we’re misled by the extreme difference between this
>>358528 and this, which we have seen for years as representative of Natlan
>>358541 No. 358905
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>>358897She doesn't look African though? It's a Native Latin American style of design, similar to a traditional Aztec dress.
No. 358915
>>358528Wow I'm extremely disappointed in this. It's just boring. I was really hoping for some tribal type design like
>>358541 but more bones, skulls, body paint.
>>358905Why couldn't they make the archon look sort of like this design? Mihoyo why… I know people would dump money into her with a cooler traditional tribe design.
No. 358964
>>358917Are you thinking about North Africa like Libya and Egypt because East Africa consists of Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania which aren't really that Arab influenced compared to North/West Africa. Bottom line Natlan was always implied to be more South American/Mesoamerican including using the names from the Maya Hero Twins tales and the entire region's name being an Aztec word, people just got so hung up on that one mention of West Africa that now they're disappointed beyond repair that it's not full on African themed due to building up things that were never going to happen.
>>358915I don't know if they're really going for the colonizer narrative seeing how she's wearing a dress more inspired by Spanish royalty kek but I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. Initial leaks are saying that the pyro archon isn't the main character of the story but instead there's some male character who's supposedly going to be the hero. I also have a feeling that we're going to turn against the archons after learning about the sovereigns in Fontaine and other leaks saying that Venti will be relevant in Natlan's story chapter and that there will be other sovereigns introduced. Take it with a grain of salt though.
No. 359108
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>>358889kek could you imagine if they gave her a whole ass Dutch outfit because of south Africa being colonized by Netherlands.
No. 359243
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>Wanna know what this is? Hehe, it's a birthday present from another member of Benny's Adventure Team!
>As luck would have it, I just so happened to slip over, so it came in handy after all!
>My dads are right, a birthday that only comes around once every four years is bound to be a day of unexpected good fortune!
>Well, that's my partner calling, so I better be off! I wish you a lucky day too — hope you finally manage to find that huge pile of pinecones you're after!
Happy Birthday Bennett!
No. 359250
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>>358528Kek wtffffffffffff. Holy shit. Is this bitch the god of WAR?
No. 359314
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>>359243I love you Bennyyyyyyyy
No. 359320
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>>359243Happy birthday Benny!
No. 359383
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>>359349These are the builds I'm happiest with.
I had a top 3 Neuvi at some point but haven't gotten any upgrades for a while and people have caught up to me. Cyno's EM looks low but it's absolutely worth the tradeoff of being able to comfortably burst all the time. Akasha has no idea why my Kokomi's like this which make me lol.
No. 359509
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Livestream sucked ass. Another easy skip filler patch. New wish banner though
No. 359513
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>>359349I dont really have to much to flex, my Childe is in the top 7% thats it the other characters are all pretty bad kek, but i have no hard time clearing abyss content and that is the only end game stuff so idc to much about artifact grinding.
>>359509Here are the codes:
DAKTDBWTZTYR
AT3BDSWTYBKD
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Pic related is a quick summary i have stolen from reddit about the new banner system
No. 359627
>>359383Loving the EM kokomi and very nice zhongli, plus making top 3 at any point in time is really impressive so big kudos there. As for me, I've got <5% on two of my mains and I'm aiming to get top ranks on an upcoming character!
>>359509I don't know what they're doing with this pacing. 4.3 was filler, 4.4 was only saved from full filler status by chenyu, and 4.5 is so dry it makes the latter half of sumeru look like an oasis. Sure 4.6 will be a content nuke, but they could have spread it out over two patches for a much less agonizing result.
No. 359636
I feel like they could add in 4* character stories to fill empty patches like this, we're only getting Lynette for the first time in a while but they added 2 every patch or every other patch when it was a new thing. I don't actually want to play it 6 times for the characters I don't like but it wouldn't feel that empty at least.
>>359627>4.5 is so dry it makes the latter half of sumeru look like an oasisKEK
No. 359646
Whenever I get annoyed at genshin's designs I remember that star rail has even shittier designs. One of the upcoming characters has extremely short low waisted 2000s hot pants that you'd only see in a porn magazine and a lot of characters are dressed almost the same. Idc what anyone else says, genshin got better art direction. It's not stellar cause we still get some shitty designs but
>>358530 just looking at this there'a quite a lot of creativity that goes in the character creations. We do get the watered down versions, but it's an upgrade to star rail or wuthering waves. Also, unlike the other games, at least genshin characters have unique eyeshapes, star rail has more blatant sameface in comparison
No. 359748
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>>359592Genshin definitely tries to be a normal live service game more than being a typical gacha though. Which is why I think it’s weird to kill the game with 3 years of the same formula and pacing.
>>359627Exactly. It’s weird to have that much filler between 4.2-4.6. I get that some anons like the previous anon I replied to above like to whiteknight this but we’re getting pure shit filler. Not even charming events like Windblume kind of filler. 4.5 even lacks that. Hangouts have lessened, reoccurring events with world building storytelling (Venti and windblume, albedo in dragonspine etc) aren’t happening, and the last Dain quest was a wet fart. The quality has gone down and the pacing has gotten worse. Time to freshen the game up a bit. At least they’ve understood that with the new permanent banner.
No. 360501
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>>360489They are and irl I'd kinda agree with
>>360491 but I also see the rivals to lovers appeal. I'd like to see more regular couples in npcs tbh, they can be really cute if their interactions are paced properly.
No. 360535
>>359646I have such a hard time keeping up with Star Rail solely because the female designs are so repugnant, way worse than in Genshin. In Genshin they have coomer elements but for the most part they're fairly inoffensive and mundane (sans the armpit fetish) but in Star Rail they just look ugly and porny all the time. Most of them aren't given actual clothes, you can't tell half of what the hell they're wearing but the male characters look fine so it's clearly a conscious choice. This isn't just me either because even scrotes complained about all the Xianzhou Luofu girls having lazy, patronizing designs. But that said, Wuthering Waves on the other hand has no redeemable features because both the female and male characters look like dogshit.
I guess it boils down to what aesthetics you prefer to be fair but what I'm trying to say is that personally I just like Genshin's designs the best. Actual pornified characters like Yelan, Shenhe and Xianyun happen only occasionally and aren't given very remarkable roles while in Star Rail you have to stare at Seele's and Acheron's crotches and boob windows for long parts of the story.
No. 360554
>>360542>the rest of the communityYes, why wouldn't moids and trannies love HSR and Wuwa? They're full of half-naked women and safe mode men.
If you don't want to talk about something in this thread no one's making you. Just go to any other thread.
>>360535Anon here is right. The porny characters are pretty rare all things considered. There are stupid decisions made like Jean's armpits being out when they shouldn't be but they're much less than HSR or Wuwa's.
No. 360809
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Any thoughts? Spoilered to reduce possible seething. I didn't have the heart to make any of them handmaidens. I also wanted to focus on the reactions of female characters, but feel free to make one for the males.
No. 360817
>>360809To be honest, I would put Barbara, Nahida and Yoimiya as handmaidens.
Nilou and Amber as pure clueless normies.
Kokomi would definetly we crypto. And I like the thought of Ayaka being crypto too, lmao.
Also, I feel like Layla's sleeping personality would be a
terf or easily peaked, while her regular personality is a normie or a handmaiden, lel.
No. 360827
>>360809I think that Lynette should be a crypto, she dealt with ugly bastards before and in her voice lines it is obvious that she is very observational and independent. She is not an open
terf because she needs to stay non-controversial for her spying job
No. 361056
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>>361054Kek what the fuck is this? Now I kind of want to roll for her just to piss chincels off. Like is her hiding her pits and being rude enough for them to ree about evil feminist agenda or something? This is why Mihoyo games never have mean girls, Chinese moids will legitimately piss their pants if a girl isn't subservient and smiling all the time.
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>>361057Don't forget about Furina's designer being a feminist causing Korean gachacels to have a meltdown to the point they rented a fucking advertisement blimp to place in front of Mihoyo's Korean HQ.
No. 361703
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there are clearly different art teams working on this game and all i can really say is mhy picked the wrong one for arlecchino's drip marketing. barely even looks like the same woman. shame on them.
No. 361764
>>361724ntayrt, but i made my original post in a rush and realize i could have been unclear: i was talking about how moidgazey the drip looks. even in comparison to her character sheet, she's depicted in a particularly coomerish and overfeminized way here, almost as if they're trying to "compensate" for her not showing skin. it's such a disservice to her character, and an additional spit in the face to those of us who wanted a less sexualized female character.
>>361708>>361754fully agreed with you both. mark my words, if arle ever gets any more concept art leaks, we'll see exactly how much we were robbed of a more gnc look.
No. 361788
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>>361703Maybe I'm retarded but I still love her. I love feminine suits, I love her arm and pant ruffles. My only criticism is she didn't really need a ponytail but it doesn't overly bother me either. She looks great, especially compared to most of the other waifus of late.
No. 361806
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arlefuri is peak
No. 361812
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>>361801not delusional, factual. there was almost certainly coomer sabotage at play.
>inb4 haha leakerif some people still doubt syp after everything then there's not much i can do for them.
No. 361817
>>361812Jesus just what kind of her is "princely" at this point? She ended up being a generic dommy mommy bi4anime straight girls are begging to be strapped by. I'm just so disappointed in everything about her, she even had literally zero plot relevance in the entire Fontaine archon quest. A letdown of depressing proportions.
>>361813>The pose sort of emphasises her ass/more "feminine" side and I also think it was done as some sort of "compensation" for her outfit being fully covered.According to leaks she has her jacket removed during her burst stance making her pits and tits fully visible. Absolutely obliterated by coom.
No. 361818
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>>361814welp, Arlecchino has 2 hands, though I guess it would be too good if they also gave us her in Natlan
No. 361820
>>361812she was going to end up in heels anyway cause the tall female model was made only for heels and they weren't going to change that
>>361817ew i hope that leak is fake
No. 361823
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the problem is that her vision is on her jacket so why would she undress in the burst animation? is she gonna put her jacket on again when it ends? and isn't she wearing multiple layers underneath the jacket anyway?
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Freminet also has his no jacket version in design sheet but sadly he doesn't undress
No. 361825
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>>361824it was made for this scene. we've already seen arlecchino without her jacket in game
No. 361826
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>>361822KEK yeah most of that was all the same guy too (uncle k), absolute insanity. for now the only reliable leaker who's spoken up is foul in picrel, but as always take leaker TCing with a grain of salt. also, apparently the c6 ayato think is a joke among CN leakers and not meant to be taken seriously.
>>361823exactly. and arle switching between having her jacket on/off during fast-paced fighting would be really convoluted animation-wise. it's already a wonder they managed to make it work with furina, although even thats not 100% fluid.
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here
No. 361829
>>361825yeah I think his burst would be better if he put the helmet on and lost his jacket lol
>>361826Arlecchino on the other hand should just be shown as a powerful mastermind, I like the way she's clicking her fingers in the trailer for example
No. 361832
>>361817Everything from that leaker has been incorrect about her so far. He said her constellation was going to be a black widow spider. He's a clown and should be ignored.
>>361826To be fair Cyno "gains" arms and a helm during his burst and that looks fine because there's the burst cutscene that gives the game time to replace the model, so she could lose the jacket in burst. I just don't really see what that would achieve, her Vision's on her jacket and that imo is a good indicator she'll probably keep it on.
No. 361833
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this is a bit autistic but do you guys have any height headcanons for the characters? according to this official pic the in game heights don't reflect their real heights cause raiden is way taller than yae
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>>361833and either zhongli is very tall or ningguang is more on the shorter side
No. 361836
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venti taller than jean
No. 361855
>>361847It's a shitty travel guide made by a Japanese travel agency, not an actual HYV product
>>361845I think they just scaled them depending on their heels and general vibes. Venti's watermelon head compared to Jean and Kaeya looks funny though. Genshin head proportions between the different models are so fucked kek the lolis are the worst offenders but the short models also have such giant heads when put next to the tall ones
No. 362016
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Am I fucking crazy for thinking, other than her stripper heels and nails, Arlecchino isn't all that coomer? She's covered from head to toe, is wearing actual pants, and has no retarded titty cutouts or anything. She stands in that stupid as fuck pigeon toed stance and has a thigh gap, but that's because she's using the generic tall female model. It's not like she's Eula or Cloud Retainer.
Obviously she's somewhat sexualized but that's because every character in Genshin is sexualized lol. The only one I can think of who has 0 sex appeal is Neuvillette.
I don't know why anyone would think she would turn out to be a flat chested, androgynous character anyway considering she has always had a feminine face, long hair, sheer material on her chest and even lipstick on during her very first appearance in that Fatui trailer. If they had teased us with a butch and delivered something like Clorinde I'd also be pissed, but that's not what happened.
No. 362030
>>362016>feminine facewhat does that even mean? it's an anime game, every woman has the same face.
>long hairnobody knew she would have long hair during lazzo. the "proof" was shaky at best and most people thought it was just strands of hair from the back.
>sheer materialif thats sheer, its the most opaque sheer i've ever seen.
>lipstick eh. unfortunately granted, albeit this is one of the tamer cases of lipstick.
sorry, but lazzo did bait us. many people were expecting more, and we weren't wrong to do so. was she going to be the world's most hardcore butch? obviously not. but she did feel "more" gnc from the outset than other genshin women, and by the looks of it the art direction
>>361812 wanted to go for that too. it's not unreasonable to be disappointed.
No. 362054
>>362016I swear that one anon is baiting hard. She's way less sexualized than most of the female roster.
Also her kit's been leaked. She
Puts a Bond of Life on herself and enemies and when it maxes out gains a huge burst of damage. She gets a Pyro infusion and is about normal and charged attacks. No Overload shenanigans and no sign of taking off her coat. No. 362071
>>362016she really isn't, this one anon claiming yoimiya is less sexualized even though her tits are literally spilling out and her coochie is almost out… you guys just want to be mad. arlecchino looks like a character that myself i would design and i think she looks badass, like that's her appeal, to be badass and cool and dark and edgy. saying that she's nothing but a dommy mommy for moids is plain stupid, she's not like kafka from star rail, or yelan, or yae, or raiden. her "children" call her father, not mother. you're also exaggerating about her pose looking too feminine when she just has her back turned on the audience and it doesn't show any butt crack. this would be a pretty cool design and drawing anywhere else but because it's genshin you must complain and nitpick
you should check path to nowhere, that game panders to a gay female audience and the coom is off the charts, it makes arlecchino look super tame by comparison. also fun fact, arlecchino chinese va voices ling wen in heaven officials blessings
No. 362084
>>362064Right. Whenever nonas talk about liking a (female) character they always get hit with "Noo that character was clearly made for moids!!!" as if they should care. I get that you can't complain about coomerish designs as freely in other spaces, but I don't get the need to argue with anons who still like them despite that.
>>362080Kek didn't that game have to remove a character because her outfit was just lingerie
No. 362085
>>362071Yeah, I like Yoimiya but I'd never claim she's less sexualized than Arlecchino because there's no universe in which that's true. It's not even comparable.
>>362072Same anon, she reminds me
of characters I'd design as a teenager. Even most of the liked fanart I'm seeing of her is more edgy than coom. Women love her.
No. 362101
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I couldn't care less about what coomers think about Arlecchino, I've been daydreaming about being her right hand woman for months and I'm so happy that she'll be playable now. As long as she doesn't change her character completely I'll be happy to have her and build her to her full potential. I hope she gets more content after Fontaine as well.
People were speculating that we should be getting 2 harbingers per region from Fontaine on to make all of them playable during region expansions but I guess that won't be the case. Does anynonnie have an idea what story content we'll get after Khaenri'ah? The only other lsg I play regularly has a wider world and unlimited potential for world building but Genshin has limited map space for most nations and they limited the number of nations to 7+1 at the beginning. It seemed absurd to think about this in the beginning but it feels like Inazuma dropped yesterday, we'll get to the end so soon.
No. 362107
>>362101I feel like there's no way all of them will be made playable. Dottore is too difficult to redeem at this point and that small old guy shouldn't be made because he's ugly. If anything they'll continue with one per patch and put all the rest into Snezhnaya.
And once all regions are unlocked it should be over, they'll probably continue to make boring events for a few years and then they could make the traveller go to another world with their sibling. Or they reboot it completely. Did they do something similar with Honkai? I have no idea what's going on in those games at all or if they even have a similarly clear endpoint. What if they just make Genshin 2 set another few centuries in the future or past kek
No. 362113
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>>361703Rough sketch of her splash art. She has an edgy angel wing (I'm guessing as part of her burst).
No. 362115
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>>362113Also her wing kind of looks like Dvalin's based on the sketch? She has a Vision and didn't recognize Neuvillette so I doubt she's a Primordial Dragon but man that probably means something.
No. 362121
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>>362114>Fontaine's swansThey always made me think Neuvillette and Wriothesley but they might as well be Arlecchino and Furina
No. 362220
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gambling is good ig
No. 362354
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>>362320None of the reliable leaks have alluded to this, but it's always possible, I suppose. They seem to be suggesting she has more of a 6-winged motif like picrel, but it's hardly very descriptive kek. We'll find out more soon now that the beta is out. Overall, I don't see why they'd bother doing this. People have been losing their mind over Arlecchino as she is. Her mystique and relative lack of sexualization is the appeal. They just don't need to do it. There will always be moids who scream and cry over stuff like this, but if HYV capitulated to every male tantrum, we'd have no yume or fujobait at all.
No. 362397
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>>362393Yes, it's so good. File is too big to embed here but I'll add the link
https://streamable.com/5m9e57 and a screencap Ubatcha shared. Everything is much better than I expected.
No. 362400
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splash art
No. 362402
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>>362397I am so intrigued by her glitching. Can't wait to see her story. Also the ponytail hides her ass even with the ass cutout on her jacket.
No. 362410
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looks like a whole cleavage the rest of the outfit is fine however it looks kinda weird as if it was AI generated
No. 362456
File: 1710387468122.mp4 (11.2 MB, 1920x1080, tvmybd(1).mp4)
Video of Arlecchino's burst.
No. 362469
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Rise up Enjou girlies
No. 362470
File: 1710390094928.jpeg (626.61 KB, 2048x2048, IMG_1397.jpeg)
>>362469Same with you Lyney lovers
No. 362478
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>>362469I forgot Baizhu. Lyney, Baizhu and Enjou were just posted by Hoyo for White day.
No. 362488
>>362469This one and the jeht one for valentines day were very unexpected but I like the inclusion of beloved NPCs
>>362470My boyfriend
No. 362539
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>>362469Took me a second to realize he’s winking kek
>>362470Lyney’s official art is always so nice
No. 362568
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>The only Sumeru rep for White Day is commission art reposted on the various genshin art accounts>https://twitter.com/Paimon2theMoon/status/1768109798719881561Why are they like this about Sumeru? I'm happy he looks as sexy and cute as he always does.
Were they afraid of male players having a melty if they made the cutest taller guys the official arts? Wriothesley got a commission too. Why in the world did they choose Baizhu?
>https://twitter.com/Paimon2theMoon/status/1768117348517429510 No. 362569
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>>362568Wriothesley's art for the curious.
No. 362570
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>>362469>81k likes>others getting ~25-70kEnjou Nation rise up
forgive my retardation anons I'm just excited, make him playable Hoyoverse No. 362574
>>362572I don't know, there were husbando banners almost back to back for a while and leaks for Natlan can't be trustworthy at this point. Remember how the first Inazuma line-up only showed Thoma for example. But I understand you, I dropped the game for most of Inazuma and Sumeru because I just didn' care about the characters getting released and logging in to grind dailies and events felt pointless because of it.
I also wonder what they are doing with HSR, if they wanted more players they should've just made a game that doesn't suck. The turn-based combat is so boring and there's no jumping or gliding so movement feels restricted compared to genshin. All around not a very fun experience
No. 362576
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I wish Neuvillette's kit wasn't so overpowered so his fanbase wouldn't be overrun by moids who decided to turn a casual gacha game into a big numbers dick measuring contest.
No. 362582
>>362574Well the Inazuma version did end up with only two male 5-stars (Three if you count Kazuha) and two 4-stars with like 8 female 5-stars.
>I also wonder what they are doing with HSR, if they wanted more players they should've just made a game that doesn't suck. They fumbled so hard with Star Rail, it never reached the hype Genshin did despite a massive advertising budget because it lacked the casual-friendly exploration and the combat heavily forces you into rolling for new units that get released because the old characters you have constantly get powercrept. That's why I'm wondering if they're trying to pressure female players into it since it was obvious the userbase is heavily male and there's already a ton of competition for their wallets.
No. 362595
>>362586There's an article dissecting Star Rail's nature as a game that also mentions Mihoyo's business strategy.
https://naavik.co/how-honkai-star-rail-reveals-cracks-in-the-hoyoverse/Most of it is just autism over the game design choices in HSR but some key parts reveal that Star Rail had a huge burst of popularity in downloads during launch, but it staggered quite early on and after month 3 it only had half of the downloads Genshin's launch did. Some other interesting parts are as follows:
>On a portfolio level, HSR isn’t driving incremental revenue for miHoYo. Even though miHoYo did see record revenue levels during HSR’s launch months, the total monthly portfolio revenue has come down to pre-HSR levels. In other words, HSR has clearly cannibalized Genshin Impact, and quite majorly at that.>As covered previously, this cannibalization is in large part driven by miHoYo heavily promoting HSR to Genshin Impact’s audience, plus working with many Genshin Impact influencers to stream HSR instead. While it’s generally wise to lean on your portfolio’s audience to drive future product success, the fact is that HSR and Genshin Impact are both time-consuming with insane spend depth, and players have both limited time and budgets for gaming.>Even though HSR’s first two months saw 1.5x more downloads than Genshin Impact’s first two months, it only saw a marginally higher cumulative revenue over the same time period ($256M vs $235M for Genshin Impact). And by month five, HSR’s cumulative revenue is slightly lower than that of Genshin Impact’s ($390M vs $420M), even though cumulative downloads are still 1.3x higher.>Clearly, HSR is not as revenue efficient as Genshin Impact, as evidenced by comparing the two games’ RPD curves. At month five, HSR’s iOS US RPD is -40% lower than that of Genshin Impact’s ($3.32 vs $5.48), and this RPD difference is consistent across regions.HSR also isn't generating enough revenue in the western servers.
>It is also interesting to note that HSR does not monetize as well as Genshin Impact in the West. Looking at the revenue splits by region, HSR is the only game that doesn’t generate a proportionate amount of US revenue versus US downloads:>HSR: 70% East, 30% West → US is 30% of downloads, but only 15% of revenue>Genshin Impact: 60% East, 40% West → US is 15% of downloads and 20% of revenueAlso Genshin is still making much more money in the iOS store in both US and Asia than Star Rail.
This isn't the Star Rail thread but I found the number crunching in that article quite interesting, and it's inevitably going to connect back to how Mihoyo treats Genshin and what choices they make with it. All in all they wanted to bring Genshin players to Star Rail in hopes of them giving money to both HSR and Genshin but the strategy failed, now they're playing Star Rail but not putting any money in it
or Genshin. Maybe that's why they're suddenly pushing out new 5-star after 5-star, testing the waters perhaps?
No. 362598
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>>362596I'm guessing Albedo based off that description? I'm sorry anon, he didn't deserve to have another character steal his entire kit but with better constellations.
No. 362601
>>362586According to activeplayer.io hsr had 21m players in the last 30 days while genshin had 62m, but both numbers have been on the decline.
>>362595Very interesting to see, thanks for sharing nona. I feel like another part of it is that HSR just doesn't have the same mass appeal. Genshin doesn't only have an okay ratio of male:female characters but also takes inspiration from multiple different cultures while HSR seems to mostly lean chinese, so I can see why it's not as popular in the west. I get the feeling ZZZ will be even less popular because it doesn't even have the trademark hoyo style to carry it and the only somewhat cute male character is a fucking furry kek
No. 362605
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>>362598Being an Albedo fan is so painful lately…He just got directly powercrept even when he was already a very replaceable niche support and it's been forever since he's had a lore event. I had been so hopeful thinking he would for sure get a good lore event in Fontaine since there's obviously lots of possible material with Elynas and the melusines. I figured he had gone so long without a rerun because they were holding off til said cool lore event happened but…clearly that was not the case. I miss my cute and smug manlet husbando so much. Anyone happen to know if being insane and getting his C4 would actually make for a damage increase on any of the plunge teams with Xianyun, or if having Bennett or Furina in the other support slots would always be better than even a C4 Albedo?
No. 362609
>>362601>>362604HSR is clearly meant for a domestic audience in China with the
heavy emphasis on the Chinese-inspired characters and the game mechanics being a very generic turn based RPG with no exploration on maps that make your phone blow up. Most Chinese players play on mobile and like speculated the mobile first approach it makes it less appealing to the west which prefers PC as a platform. Compared to Genshin Star Rail is a pretty boring experience since you don't get to explore the world that much and you can put all battles on autoplay and only check in occasionally, it lacks the charm of the open world that drew in people with Genshin and made them curious about the world of the game. I don't know if it was a conscious decision on Mihoyo's part but seeing how much they've been shilling HSR with huge advertising campaigns for Penacony and paying popular Genshin CCs play it I don't think so.
No. 362611
>>362605Honestly anon I think the only hope is if his brother is released as a new unit or if one day characters get an additional awakening and passives like in many other gacha games to give old units a needed overhaul. Chiori's sword helps him so you're not screwed out of damage if you use his burst (crit is by far the best stat to focus on for split scalers like him) but his kit is just so all over the place and his constellations are horrible. Even just reworking his constellations to make them fit modern kit standards would be a blessing.
He'll never replace Furina or Benny, they're just too good at what they do.
No. 362731
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Arle's boss design has been leaked and I'm honestly disappointed. Hate the boob window with all my heart. It could definitely be worse, but I just feel like it's so underwhelming? It looks like a skin, not a full-blown transformation. All the Harbringers, even Signora, have had way more interesting transformations thus far. Sad.
No. 362749
>>362746Just watched this
https://streamable.com/w1dzyk and definitely agree it looks cooler in motion.
No. 362857
>>362850I find a certain amount of cringe to be charming, but the glitching on top of everything else is so incredibly ridiculous it's too much even for me.
>nephelim angel wings in boss form>but also has a spider motif>but her arms also turn into scythes >half winged angel as playable character>super strong and evil!!1!1>glitching around in a world that doesn't even have TVs or computers>shhhhhh (it's mysterious and absolutely not on the nose guise)>instead of normal orange, her pyro is blood red>apparently secretly not actually from Teyvat and also not humanLike God damn, they really threw anything edgy they could think of at her and Twitterfags are eating it up kek.
No. 362987
File: 1710573223182.png (Spoiler Image,1.05 MB, 1157x1785, sethos.png)
We're getting a sneak peak at a male playable character in 4.6. His name is Sethos and he has a character model in the beta files but so far it's untextured so we don't have a good look at him besides knowing he's a medium male who'll be showing up in Cyno's second character quest. It's hard to tell if he's Sumerian or Natlanian but possible Natlan rep.
No. 363116
>>362456She’s so fucking cooool
>>362731 but this makes me wanna kms
No. 363281
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Arlecchino‘s signature dish made me laugh it’s just raw meat on toast.
No. 363592
>>363580It runs pretty poorly and I can't recommend it to anyone. Load times are long so playing in co-op is painful, let alone the length of the initial log-in. I usually have to ask the host to re-send the invite.
Lots of texture pop-in. Sometimes frames will drop and the game will temporarily freeze when you have too much happening in combat at once. I usually notice this in my dendro teams that have a lot of reactions happening to groups of enemies within a short time period. The overall performance got noticeably worse since the start of 3.0 and I'd been playing since around 1.4
Additionally, every time you update the game, the PS4 has to basically redownload the entire game so that takes forever. You also can't pre-install before the servers go down like you can on desktop (and mobile I believe?). You have to wait until the servers are down to be allowed to install the update and it's random when it decides to let you. It doesn't allow you to start the download straight away. I'd usually have to wait at least an hour.
Another pain point is if you buy any welkins or crystals through the playstation store. Those genesis crystals will be held hostage on your playstation log-in. You won't see them on mobile or desktop.
I had to make the switch from PS4 to PC around 4.0 because I just couldn't take how shitty it ran anymore.
No. 363606
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>>363595>>363592Why the fuck is genshin so heavy? It's insane, I couldn't play for like 2 years because I refuse to buy a whole ass new PC to play a Chinese game.
I need to know, when did you all buy your PCs? Because mine is from 2020 and it stopped running Genshin after the sumeru update, right in the middle of the archon quest when Scaramouche appeared. It isn't the most amazing gaming PC but hell, you would think that a game that's supposed to run on a phone would be smooth as fuck on a fucking PC, and would be updateable a bunch of times, specially considering how the game isn't that detailed.
No. 363803
>>363689Nope, I tried to play it home alone, with no other programs open in the background and even with my phone disconnected from the wifi in case it was the bad internet quality, I even prioritized the game on my PC and nothing, the game froze horribly and died on me.
Idk, I will try cleaning my pc up and adding some cooling paste to it, maybe that's what it needs.
For reference, I can't even open cookie run kingdom on my PC nowadays.
But at this point I'm honestly giving up on playing genshin impact on a PC until I buy a new one in like 4 years or so, the game will continue getting updates until it ends the plot and dies forever.
Which makes me wonder, is genshin impact going to continue existing even after the whole archon stuff is over? Or are they going to just create more and more reasons why the twins can't go back to their true world until the game stops being profitable?
No. 363865
>>363803Yeah, clean your fans and such, that definitely sounds like your computer is clogged with dust if it had such a rapid downhill decline.
I've wondered about that too. After Natlan, there's really only Snezhnaya and Celestia left, right? That's two more years at most, unless the devs tack on some convoluted bullshit to stretch out the story
No. 363920
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>>363865We already know we're going to Khaenri'ah after Snezhnaya. So Natlan, Snezhnaya, Khaenri'ah, Celestia, then maybe the Abyss somehow? That doesn't count any subregions we can go to either like Enkanomiya, the Chasm, and Remuria.
No. 364127
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>>364090Leaks are saying he's running in the second half of 4.6, good luck anon.
No. 364225
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Am I tripping or is Sucrose blushing way too much? She didn't use to have this permanently blushing face before.
No. 364497
>>364453Eimiko is
abusive? that's news lol.is it from the fanfiction since all the fanart i've seen of the ship are normally pretty tame.
>>364491Question for y'all, what's the difference between a legit lesbian and a fake one in fandom?
No. 365460
>>364497>what's the difference between a legit lesbian and a fake one in fandom?Apparently whether you agree with her posts or not kek
>>365424At least it doesn't have a boring quest tied to it
No. 365747
>>364453I don't give a shit about muh
problematic dynamics but Hoyoverse (Genshin, HSR, Honkai) yurifags are extremely insufferable coomers with a really horrible taste in characters and genuinely think a woman wearing pants = GNC masc butch lesbian. I often feel like Beigguang is the only f/f ship with actual cis lesbian fans in the entirety of Hoyoverse because they're two balanced, normal women and not a rehash of homura/madoka oneitis or apebrained cooming and even that hetfags were trying to wreck with spamming the tag with corrective rape fics and trying to force the "Ningguang is Guizhong reborn" to ship her with Zhongli.
No. 368075
>>368033I don't husbando Alhaitham by any means, but it still annoys me how he can't be his own character. There isn't even hope this will be another Tartali situation where they have three conversations and then never talk again since Kaveh is so glued to his side.
I'm not sure what's worse, the in-your-face yaoibaiting of Haikaveh, or whatever the hell lazy shit Neuvillette and Wriothesley were supposed to be.
IMO the only popular yaoi ship that doesn't feel incredibly forced is Cyonari, but even that is somewhat ruined because they flanderized Cyno to only care about TCG and make dad jokes.
No. 368284
>>368048Yeah, because it's definitely a me problem when ppl who just can't keep their traps shut about their uwu ship infesting even meta discussions about Alhaitham.
Look, I enjoy shipping myself, but I keep it to the respective threads and communities and not feel the need to go all retarded in discussions that have nothing to do with it.
No. 368344
>>368312All I'm reading here is that their characters are so reliant on each other, they basically don't exist as individuals anymore. Alhaitham was interesting in the AQ, but as soon as Kaveh released they both started revolving only around their ship.
And yes it is yaoibait, sometimes there's nothing wrong with that, but it's annoying when they lose their individual personalities and every time they appear on screen there has to be some kind of ship tease because the devs want to cater to fujos for the whalebux.
Idk what your point about straight ships is supposed to be, they don't exist in gachas because all the scrotes want their waifus to remain single and pure. Having same sex ships is more palatable for them because they can pretend they're just best friends instead of a couple (self insert into the other female character ew).
TLDR there's no need to get this mad because one person is annoyed with your ship kek
No. 368491
>>368320Ayrt and I feel you, I just also feel like it's par for the course at this point and it's been this way for years now. I think a lot of younger fandom people in general really don't understand proper fandom etiquette, like understanding time/place, tagging properly, etc. and it is annoying. I've just made my peace with it with a lot of blocking and ignoring because there's nothing much to be done about it.
>>368312It's still definitely fujobaiting. It's the definition of a shiptease. It's not canon. It's the most heavy-handed they've been with their fujobait but it's still, at the very most, hinted at. No one is saying fujos were duped or "got good," just calling a spade a spade. This game attempts to pander to yumes, fujos, himes, and waifufags all at the same time while leaving enough plausible deniability so that anyone offended can deny its presence, that's their profit model.
No. 369261
>>368320>say Alhaitham artifacts and someone starts sperging about them fucking at night. That's my only complaint and for some reason I only ever see it with Haikaveh.Lol, I feel this so hard. I never had issues with other fujos until this ship. Sometimes they make me want to start fresh media accounts to start with a completely non-fujo feed. It's always a Haikaveh one when I run into one that's particularly rabid or annoying.
For example, I like to browse most Alhaitham content, including most ships, so this one time I was looking at this post about a straight Alhaitham wedding art and there were all sorts of Haikaveh fujos throwing a fit in the comments about it. Why? You would know from the title of the post exactly what it was going to be. They appear to dominate the fandom side for both characters but still sperg out about some content not catering to them. It's very rude and obnoxious. Not to say it NEVER happens, but I've never ran across this kind of behaviour from other genshin ships except those that like Aether harem shipping.
Kavetham, on the other hand, has a problem of me coming across too much cuntboy Alhaitham but I much prefer the way they don't flanderdize Kaveh's personality nearly as much as Haikaveh fans tend to.
My favorite types of fans to discuss fandom stuff with are those that know most of what we like to pretend about isn't canon and it's all for fun.
Personally, I think they're written in canon as estranged best friends but how can you not have some fun imagining them as more?
No. 369588
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>>368320What kind of artifact help do you need for Alhaitham, anon? Aren't there only really two options for him, Gilded Dreams or FLOP? I feel you that shipping inserted in unrelated discussions is really annoying, though.
No. 369654
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>Itto event in 2.7
>Itto event in 3.3
>Itto event in 3.4
>Itto event in 4.3
>Itto event in 4.6
>Itto appearance in 4.4 event
>Itto appearance in 3.7 event
>Itto appearance in Chasm AQ interlude for literally no fucking reason
>Itto appearance in livestreams because devs can't stop sucking off Max Mittelman or whatever his EN VA scrote is called
I'm so sick and tired of this stupid fucking flanderized imbecile I swear to God can they just come up with ANY other "funny" characters so this dumbass doesn't have to have events centered around him every other version. I can't believe this next patch is going to have ANOTHER Itto event where he has 50+ lines and the other characters featured in it all have like 3. Can't wait for 50 lines of "THIS IS ARATAKI ITTO, YOUR ONE AND ONLY BRONI HAHAAHAHAHAHAHA GET IT, BRO AND ONI. ANYWHO WHAT'S UP COMPADRE AMIGO? HOW'S IT HANGIN FELLOW KIDDOS (beatboxes)".
I can't take this anymore, I'd even prefer seeing Ei or Sara or some other neglected annoying waifushit characters to spice things up. I liked him in his personal quest but these past years of non stop events featuring him and his retarded beetles have turned me into Itto hater #1
No. 369666
>>369654same. I am also completely sick of him at this point.
Also, when will we have a Sumeru festival again?
No. 369697
>>369654He's not that bad, but then I'm playing with JP voices and like looking at his design.
But not playing as him cause Geo is boring.
No. 369702
>>369697I play with CN which is his most palatable voice imo but even then I can't stand how he has the most unfitting dialogue translation ever because someone at Genshin HQ decided to let Mittelman turn Itto into his self insert OC. No other character in the whole game talks like him, it' so incredibly cringe.
>>369689I wouldn't put it past the devs to come up with an Inazuma housekeeping event and still focus it around Itto instead of Thoma.
No. 369727
>>369654I swear TMR must be paying the devs to get Itto featured more. People always claim Ei doesn't get really any lines because of how much her JP VA is alleged to cost but you'd think such a notable name as TMR would be somewhat pricey too.
I feel bad for those that don't care for him at all. He's one of my favorites, triple crowned, but holy cow I really can't understand why he gets featured so much. He doesn't even seem particularly popular. I only see more and more people getting irritated about his existence as Hoyo shoves him into more events and appearances.
Maybe it's an issue of the Inazuma cast as a whole. They wrote Ei into the NEET corner so who else is popular? Ayato? Boring. Ayaka? Also a snoozefest. Yae? She's got to be the most featured Inazuman behind Itto. Everyone else is pretty forgettable.
>>369689I wish they'd show Thoma more too. He's the perfect mix of brave and sweet, while having a cute design.
No. 369734
>>369727The voice actor thing is kind of weird to me because Kaeya's voice actor can't be cheap, considering he's to voice of Mikazuki Munechika in JP, yet he kind of appears from time to time in events and stories.
But tbh, Itto is still getting cosplays made by people, even though he was released a long time ago, meanwhile it's difficult to see someone cosplaying venti, ei, or even zhongli, or at least it's like that in my country. I also haven't seen people cosplaying most characters of genshin that aren't the flavor of the month characters (with a recent gacha release). But again, it's probably just a matter of my small country, I'm still curious about how it works at other cons.
Because maybe Mihoyo uses cons as another way to figure out who is liked and who isn't that liked, because what I've noticed is that in social media, people create micro-communities of characters and ships, so it's not the best indicator for what the general public actually wants to see, specially if they just want more normies to join.
So like, you can use the silly oni character as your unofficial mascot, or maybe you can use the character with a screechy voice who has an insane enby voice actress, or the way too cool and serious representation of China, or the many girls that have more porn made of them than sfw art.
I guess in the end, Itto is some sort of "safe" choice.
No. 369752
>>369734>zhongli and ventiZhongli and Venti are some of the most common male Genshin characters to see cosplayed here. Ei isn't as popular but there's a few around. I expect Furina will be popular this con season. Itto is a lot rarer because you need to be ripped or wear a chest piece to not look ridiculous. He's relegated to thotty men and androgynous women who will actually bother to wear a chest piece.
It's funny to me that Itto is the new Mr. Worldwide but it is kind of ridiculous they can't figure out how to incorporate any of the other Inazuman characters in naturally. I'd like to see Thoma again too and Heizou would have been nice in that detective event. Let Itto rest for a bit and actually learn with Cloud Retainer.
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>>369703>>369727>Why does Itto get so much screen timeIt's because he's their crutch character that they use whenever they run out of ideas for events. "Itto does something random and dumb because he's unemployed xd" plotlines are easy to shit out.
While most of the Inazuma cast really is boring as fuck, Yoimiya, Heizou, and even stupid ass Kirara aren't uber serious. I think events focused on them would be more fun than Itto event #63874. I also liked Kuki when she came out but unfortunately she has turned out to be nothing more than a satellite character to Itto.
And hey, we are getting Heizou in the 4.6 Itto event. His third ever appearance after his hangout, which features Itto pretty heavily
(he even appears in two of the ending pictures and gives us some ugly fucking onikabuto teapot furniture - why we got that for HEIZOU's hangout is beyond me), and that one yokai event where Itto was also the main character.
Yay. Heizou fans are eating so good.
No. 369792
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>>369654I love Itto so I'm enjoying this kek. All the haters here can keep on seething.
No. 369847
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>>369792We ain’t listening to the haters, anon. He’s a beautiful himbo that can do no wrong
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>>369792>>369847Excellent taste anons.
>>369836Imagine not wanting more underwater. Couldn't be me.
No. 369904
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Sethos is a cutie, he seems to be electro. I hope he is offield since i really want a male offield electro character
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No. 369910
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>>369772>hile most of the Inazuma cast really is boring as fuck, Yoimiya, Heizou, and even stupid ass Kirara aren't uber serious. I think events focused on them would be more fun than Itto event #63874What you really want even more Yoimiya events? She is serieusly in a lot of them for no reason. Like that one fontaine event. I get your point about Heizou and Kirara, but Yoimiya is just so boring to me. Really dislike her design too.
>>369907it seems like he kept the glowing cat eyes from his previous design. Rip another cat boy, maybe one day we will get one?
No. 369951
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>arlecchino coming out
>itto and yoimiya are finally gonna interact on screen
>cyno second story quest
>remuria
This patch is hella dead but I'm really looking forward to 4.6. I hope they manage to breathe a little life into 4.7 as unlikely as it is.
No. 369955
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I couldn't give less fucks about Arlecchino and the hype around her annoys me to no end but I'm extremely happy to return to Sumeru and meet the new cute boy and all the old familiar faces. Going to savor it.
No. 369963
>>369954Maybe you are right. I feel like she has has to much screen time, maybe its because she got a second second story quest which i also thought was a drag. On the wiki it shows how many quests she has been in
https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Yoimiya_Appearances >>369951I didnt even realise that Itto and her never interacted on screen before. Man there is just something about inazuma characters. I feel like the other regional characters interact a lot more with eachother
No. 370064
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Still the cutest ship imo
No. 370262
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>>370235I'd be grateful for any help. This is my roster. So you can see I have a lot of main dps characters and a lot of Mondstadt 5* despite only starting in 4.0. Neuvillette and Kazuha I only got this banner, so they still need to be ascended past 80.
My plan now is to get Cyno’s premium team (with Baizhu and Furina coming up) down the line, but it requires Nahida and I honestly don't know who to best use until her rerun.
My other best bet is probably a team with Kazuha and Neuvillette, since I have none of the other characters required for his premium team.
But this is where I'm hurting myself because there are three characters I'd rather not level/put in my teams: MC, Fischl and Faruzan. I'm willing to level everyone else, but it still feels hopeless. :/
(And again, I know I'm probably just bad too, but 9* at floor 11 is at least no problem at all for me.)
(no emoticons) No. 370327
>>370262Since you are a new player i wouldnt worry to much about clearing the abyss. Also you really dont need any 5 star female characters to make any of the male dpses work, but nahida def helps with Cyno long on field time. The only 5 star female character i actually got was nahida for my al haitham, but its not a must.
A team with Kazuha or Venti and Neuv is indeed a good choice. For your team with Neuv and Kazuha I would recommend a shielder, Layla or Beidou will work nicely. You can put them together if you like or swap one of them (pref swap Beidou since Layla has better shield) for an off field damage character like Albedo. If the other team needs Kazuha just swap him for Venti. Venti and Neuv also work well together.
For your second team here a some multiple suggestions on characters that you can build and use.
Cyno, Kuki, Collei and Xingqui. If you like you could also swap Kuki with Thoma or another Dendro character like Yaoyao. You also maybe swap Kuki with Yaoyao and then swap Xingqui with Lisa but that seems like a damage loss. Do keep in mind that if you use Cyno as the only electro character his ER needs to be a lot higher.
For Xiao, you will need an anemo character. Best option would be Sucrose because you can put Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers on her, however if you dont like her you can just use venti/kazuha/lynette/Jean. Use him with Bennet for healing and atk buff. You could also use 2 anemo supps if you only want him to be the main damage dealer and if you think he can do enough damage. Otherwise just the last spot for an offield dps like Albedo. Xiangling can also work but there her burst wont be up the whole time while Xiao is on field.
Diluc can be used with Bennet, Kazuha and Xingqui. You can also swap out Xingqui with Kaeya as alternative. Another team you try is mono pyro with Venti, Kazuha, Bennet and Xiangling.
These are only some suggestions, there are many more team options however it will cost time to level all your characters and build them. I hope some of my suggestions might help you out!
No. 370526
>>370327Thank you so much! I'll definitely be investing heavily in that Neuvillette team with Kazuha, Layla and Beidou then since that's actually what I've been trying out in the overworld for now.
As for Cyno, I guess I'll play around a bit once I've got Baizhu and see what feels best/most fun.
Most of the time I actually don't care that I can't clear the Abyss and just want to run around with my cute boys, but sometimes my tryhard side comes out and makes me miserable for being "bad". Rn, my goal is to simply clear floor 12 even if it's with zero stars, we'll see if I'll eventually make it.
Again, thank you for your detailed advice!
>>370329You're right, but that's where my need to git gud comes in. But I hope that once I've built him he'll do some heavy lifting for me.
No. 370551
>>370262You can use Dendro MC with Cyno in the absence of Nahida. It's very copium but better than any of your other options currently. Baizhu feels good with Cyno but does not replace Nahida with him imo. Ideally you want both of them.
How do you feel about Alhaitham? He's Kuki's best teammate. Him + Kuki + Xingqiu + any defensive option is very meta. Neuvillette is obviously very strong and doesn't really rely on specific teammates.
No. 370571
>>370569>>370551My dislike for the MC is admittedly irrational, but if she is the only one that works until I get Nahida, I guess I'll have to consider. I know it would be easier to just build an Alhaitham team since I'll try to get him on his next rerun too, but Cyno just has a special place in my heart and is actually relatively well built (even dual crowned), so I'd love to make him work.
Again, thank you all for your input!
No. 370837
>>370819I agree
>>370833 about Star Rail. Even in Genshin I stopped caring and let the quest run in the desert after a while and watched a summary with theories to real life references. Felt more engaging lol I let the story run without watching and occasionally click a dialogue option when I hate/don't care about the character too. But I get that they don't add a skip option so f2ps can't farm a bunch of primos in new accounts and have every character for free across multiple accounts.
No. 371456
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>>371453It seems she's doing it to not be anything like the "mother" she's replacing. Also saw someone say she's taking the cold father role to not show her weakness which is the kids. Really curious to see how the fight between her and the kids will play out!
I personally like when women use masculine names or terms but
twitter will probably ruin it and make her a gendie No. 371460
>>371456another character ruined by moids, you can't try to enforce so badly the idea that arlecchino is GNC, and then shove her tiddies in our face. baby arlecchino looks like a boy and adult arlecchino prefers masculine terms so in the context of the game she's clearly supposed to be a very masculine woman, but it falls flat when the genshin team still needs validation from male coomers
>>371458but i think his latest quests showed that he is making more friends? like yelan, hutao, venti
No. 371516
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>>371455I thought this was a random rant then logged into the game… I don't dislike the female player pandering though
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As much as I do like his character design, I wish he had an adult body in game.
No. 371571
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>>371567Lyney's at least in his late 20s and likely in his 30s based off the recent Arle animation. You are retarded.
No. 371580
>>371571To elaborate on this:
>freminet was in the previous director's care for a long time, enough to be terrified of her and develop serious mental illness>freminet was old enough to vividly remember his mother when she gave him away>arlecchino killed the director as an older teenager and has obviously aged up quite a bit since becoming the knave, at least 7-10 years and maybe more>lyney and lynette never met the previous Director>freminet is a "young man">lyney is explicitly older than freminet and being trained to replace arlecchino, so he must have been adopted by arle as an older teenager (supported by his character story where the other teenagers distrusted him and lynette) and he's been stated to have been working for her for a long timeLogically he is at least in his mid twenties now and probably older.
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>>371710She still seems evil to me though, like she clearly has some screws loose, and did you guys forget what happened to scara? If anything he's the one that got woobified
No. 371785
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>>371784I can't wait to finally have her. Good luck to all nonnies that are going to pull on either of the banners
No. 371788
>>371715Kek, true. I mean, I was neutral about arlecchino, but having an edgelord girl that wears pants and makes my husbando seem normal makes me happy. I wonder if they would get along.
I think they tried to write her like a man at first, but then they got scared and decided to tone it down a bit.
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>>371678I know the step is for coomers but stomping on someone's head so hard their blood hits you in the face is badass.
>>371715>>371788Edgelords are fun.
No. 371963
>>371914We know because of that animated short. Freminet was a child and knew the previous orphanage mother, and the battle royal took place when Arlecchino was below or exactly 18 years old. Freminet seems to be about 15 to 18 now, so that means not much more than 10 years could have passed since Arlecchino took over the orphanage, making her about 25 to 28. Maybe 30 if Freminet is an extremely young looking 20 year old, but I doubt that.
This also gives us kind of a clue about Childe's age since I don't think he's as old as Arle, so he's probably early to mid 20s.
I really hate how nobody in anime adjecent media is allowed to be older than 25.
No. 372065
>>372026How in the world could Freminet be early 20s? I'm not talking about his appearance bc all the boy models look young, but his behaviour. Even if you account for his trauma I find it impossible to believe that a guy in his early 20s behaves like that. Not dissing Freminet here, I like him okay, but he comes across as very immature. If you told me he was like 12 I'd believe you.
>>371966This post is a work of art. You tell them,
nonnie.
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>>372026I poked around a bit more and found out that this flashback (youtu.be/0jNkfHOBBBc?si=M_iyMcqgI3YEA-FY - can't embed since I'm uploading picrel) shows the twins at around the age of 9 to 12. At that point they had already been part of the Fatui. They only trained under that guy - who died 10 years ago - for 10 days, so they are 19 to 22, meaning Freminet is likely in his mid to late teens. He couldn't have been a toddler while the previous orphanage owner was still running things because he was being sent out to do assassination missions under her command. This means he was at least ~6 when the battle royale took place.
Taking all of this into consideration and assuming she was older than 16 in the animated short, Arlecchino has to be somewhere in her late 20s to, at most, 31. If she wasn't yet 16, she would be even younger than this, putting her at closer to 25 years old.
Ugh… even if she is in her late 20s, it's so cringe how the twins aren't that much younger than her. I thought they'd at least make her 35 or something.
But yeah, Lyney and Lynette being 20, Freminet 18, and Arlecchino 28 seems the most accurate to me.
I also found this list made by some hyperautist on Reddit in case anyone's curious about the estimated canon ages of the remaining Genshin characters.
And yes I realize I'm also being a hyperautist by putting time into this kek No. 372076
>>372065I don't think you realize how immature men are, especially mentally ill ones.
>>372067I don't disbelieve you but it's insane and unrealistic that a teenager could take on and groom orphans for being secret agents kek. I think Arlecchino could have realistically been in her early 20s when the killing game happened and Freminet should have been much older than this autist estimates when the previous Knave was around since he has such vivid and clear memories of his former family. Street children will also look younger and malnourished compared to healthy cared for children but that's my own autism going on so I'll shut up.
No. 372084
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>>372076Anon I understand the copium but be for real, she wasn't in her early 20s here. She's a tall woman and here she looks like she's 155cm. Female puberty doesn't work this way.
>he has such vivid and clear memories of his former familyI don't see why a 6 to 10 year old wouldn't have these. I wouldn't be surprised if the devs retcon that Freminet knew the orphanage owner before Arlecchino, but as of right now, the ages I calculated are canon.
>>372081Yeah, they are? They're canonically about 22.
No. 372087
>>372085shit twitter tier taste, hope you all grow out of your "zomg
toxic yuri dommy mommy fotm!!" himelarp phases soon
(infighting) No. 372090
>>372011I thought there was a new character with his ass out ffs
>>372067>Diluc and Jean younger than Lyney and LynetteI read all of this but am choosing to ignore it. Fuck men and their obsession with keeping everyone vaguely-almost underage. If Wrio was a woman he would be a 16 year old that renovated the prison system in the last 2 years.
>>372088This is an anonymous thread, no one's gaining yuri points for liking a character. Can nonnies really not fathom that women that like female characters exist?
No. 372096
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>>372084A bit of projection maybe but I don't really have any solid memories before age 8, and even those are pretty fuzzy.
If Freminet was 10 when he was given up he'd have to be at least 20-22 since Arlecchino's been the Knave for at least 10 years.
>>372085>>372090It's probably the same screeching moron who tries to start infights every time anons mention liking a female character. Just ignore the bait, it's not worth responding to.
No. 372135
>>371966What really gets me is that she gets a fucking
anime short despite her story being completely irrelevant to the story but someone really wanted to flex their yuribait edgelord because a special scythe wasn't enough. Fuck, they finally drop a bigger budget animated short instead of those flat flash animations and it's like an entirely different game dedicated to a character that has no real plot relevancy besides just being a ~crazy killer maniac~ grooming child soldiers. Fuck the Scaramouche clothing sets, I wanted to see his Kabukimono storyline animated instead. Fuck the waifufag who was responsible for this.
No. 372346
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I haven't been enthusiastic for a long time for a character in Genshin after the snoozefest this patch was. I can't wait to spend my primos for her.
No. 372781
>>372774I just don't understand why she's a 5
? She didn't play a memorable role in the AQ (imo), but she'll also be the third 5 hydro bow user while we're only have three hydro 4*s in total.
I'm not interested in any of the characters they revealed today though, so unless they'll rerun Furina or Alhaitham in 4.7, I'll skip those banners.
No. 372795
>>372786a playable melusine would be cute
>>372781fontaine barely has any 4 stars so i don't get it either, nothing about her screams 5 star and yet she's so popular because of her interaction with wrio
No. 372806
>>372795>she's so popular because of her interaction with wrioIs she though? I only see her mentioned when the topic is Wrio being good with kids. I really don't get what popularity she has to be 5
. Is anyone other than lolicons pulling for her? I like children characters but I still wouldn't pull for a 5 specifically. Agreeing with
>>372786 though.
>>372781I'm also only waiting for Furina in the next update.
No. 373079
>>372812ship thing as in shipping her with wrio. check tanuki_nishi on twitter, she says in her profile she ships oniichan x loli
wrio is the most popular character among japanese yumes so i wouldn't be surprised if this is some sort of weird projection but it's still weird as fuck to make your husbando a depraved lolicon/pedo. the art looks tame enough so onlookers might thing "oh it's father daughter relationship" but most of the fanartists admit that they ship them romantically too. probably the same weirdos who were shipping alhaitham x nahida. it's weird cause you'd think the yumes would ship wrio x lumine or wrio x clorinde (another barf ship but at least it doesn't involve a loli) but they all latched onto sigewinne instead ew
No. 373155
>>373079Honestly, I kind of blame the Genshin writers for making Sigewinne so oddly… adult for a little girl model. Nahida has the same issue, I've never seen her shipped with Alhaitham but Scara/Nahida is really popular in Asian countries. Dori would also get shipped with adult characters if she wasn't ugly and irrelevant.
Qiqi or Klee don't get this treatment because they actually somewhat act their age, but Sigewinne has an entire fulltime job in a prison of all places lol and there's constantly a point being made about how melusines aren't animals or children but intelligent creatures. It doesn't help that she has that gross Sanrio pastel vomit uwu so smol type of aesthetic which ddlg retards flock to. They seriously should have made her a full melusine or a short female model.
And ngl I don't care about Wriothesley/Clorinde or any Genshin ships in general, but I actually prefer them over Wriolette. At least they seem to have a somewhat fun best friends "deadpan & laidback" dynamic compared to Neuvillette and Wrio which is the most boring ship I've ever seen. Neuv is basically asexual to me, I can't envision him fucking anything or anyone
No. 373277
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I wish they'd stop giving bad kits to cool-looking characters. 4 star DPS are dead on arrival.
He plays like Tighnari. That would be fine but it's never worth choosing a 4 star over a 5 star DPS. Sigewinne should have been the 4 star.
No. 373328
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>>371784just one more hour for me… feels like an eternity.
i play since 1.0 and have never even done any hangout quest until 6 days ago, just for this cringe ass edgelord emo bitch
No. 373367
>>373355Yeah me too I got Dehya on my 50/50. Part of me wants to roll for Lyney instead.
What do we think of the update so far? I think it’s pretty but too much water.
No. 373547
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>megane doctor with snake theme
>one of the most interesting backstory and lore in the game
>decide to ruin everything by dressing him like a fucking grandma
I'll never get over this, how could they fumble such a COOL concept for a character so badly why why add the stupid purple yogs pants, the ugly anklet, the ugly croptop, the grandma glasses why he had so much potential!
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>>373547I feel like the only person ever to like his design even though I prefer short males, but I might be delusional
>>373549Yeah, his creepiness being nerfed is much more tragic. I hope his fatui twin can compensate for that in the future
No. 373562
Spoilers for Arle story quest
You nonnies reminded me how disappointed I was with Baizhu being tame. They nerfed even Arle's personality hard, she's mentally sound and has an actual moral compass. Despite all the previous times other characters called her evil and unpredictable. Don't know if we should expect that wolf side to emerge in the next quest they mentioned and this quest was just showing the sheep clothing. She was a sheep in wolf clothing if anything. Even Tartag was so chill but then again this is probably leading to him being gullible and betrayed by the Rooster.>>373558Nta but damn. I remember not seeing Fischl anywhere for months because of that, glad Kaveh is back soon.
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>>373545Her VAs might be easier to hire than others, plus she's never had a story quest or hangout. I'm guessing VA availability affects more than we know, such as in Kaveh's example. I like her a lot so I won't complain. Wish he kit sucked less ass.
No. 373573
>>373562I fucking hate how they moralfagify every single playable character. Inb4 Dottore releases in 3 years and they give us some lame ass clone of his who's an innocent little baby.
>she's mentally sound and has an actual moral compassEither Scaramouche has 0 social skills for believing she's deranged when she's such a normie, or they retconned her. Probably the former, but still a shame. She had the potential to be really cool.
No. 373662
>>373562She's still evil though
completely wiping memories like that is barely different from death. And what about those guys in Sumeru and the shrine maiden. That was after she took over.
But really were we supposed to feel sorry for the psychopath kid who killed his pets? Fucking China.I really hate this part of the plot because I have a bad feeling that the Fadui will end up being 'good guys' in the end.
>>373549Was he ever really 'creepy' though. That just felt like fans thinking stupid shit cause of QiQi.
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>awakens childe's whale from outer space that's been sealed for a millenia in an unvoiced world quest led by a cat
No. 373726
>>373662That's my take on it too. It was just a headcanon based on one voiceline people ran with. How anyone could believe that Baizhu was evil/a creep when even the supposed baddies of the game can't actually be evil because they might be misguided but actually have honourable motives is beyond me.
That said, I like his design even though ever since a friend pointed out that his belly button is too high I can't unsee it. Will definitely get him on his rerun.
No. 373727
>>373662>>373726it was that line about how he was manipulating qiqi by claiming to love her, in order to study her. of course,the weird snake doctor that makes deals with the fatui came off as creepy.
you're right though, they won't allow any playable character to remain even morally gray. i can't take childe serious at all sometimes, it feels like mihoyo doesn't know whether to settle on keeping a character antagonistic or making them retarded.
No. 373742
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>>373719Scylla is actually a totally different purple glittering fish, you can tell by the missing horn, size difference, personality and by the way literally no one alludes to having seen him before
>>373573I get the feeling he's talking about her second stage appearance since it probably is a rare sight, especially for work collegues that she most likely doesn't fight with, but I don't know if it's that crazy or true to her. Maybe there's another more emotional layer to her but she's been shown to have been cold and restrained since childhood. Childe says she'd betray anyone and that's why she's insane but that also sounds like the wrong word to use. I'm choosing to believe that they both just don't know her at all kek
No. 373764
>>373662No, Arlecchino didn't have anything to do with the shrine maiden. Look up Efim Snezhevich in the wiki, he's the bad guy who took over Inazuma orphans after Crucabena was killed. And, as far as I can tell, the Sumeru guys weren't even orphans.
>>373742I guess her cold exterior could make people believe she's a bad person, but it's not like she would be able to hide how radically and positively the orphanage changed since she took over. The harbingers should be informed enough about what's happening in their organization to realize she genuinely cares about those children. Scara is a nihilist little emo boy who sees the worst in people, but Childe should be all over her for killing the evil director and treating the kids better
No. 374029
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>>374020All the recent 5 stars have been classified as SS or S tier so of course they have to start making some that suck ass. Another easy skip.
>>373764Childe had no clue about anything until Arlecchino talked a bit about it in her storyquest if you remember, so his "About the Knave" is really just based on workplace gossip that he never looked into kek
No. 374854
>>374846I maintain that she shouldn't have been a 5
to begin with. Like, why have two new 5 that late into the expansion anyway? And then a hydro one at that when we already have much more hydro 5
than 4.
Doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.
No. 374891
>>374854Fontaine has made almost every character a 5-star for some reason. Lyney, Neuvillette, Wriothesley, Navia, Clorinde, Furina, Sigewinne, Arlecchino and according to rumors Emilie will be one too (and arguably Chiori counts since she's only been relevant in Fontaine so far). Freminet, Lynette, Chevreuse and Charlotte are the only 4-stars. Compare that to Sumeru which had 7 5-stars and 6 4-stars. But the actual issue to me is that a lot of the 5-stars just aren't that good, you need them to be at least c1-c2 to actually get a true 5-star experience out of them while the 4-stars are just lackluster on-field DPS units nobody wants to use. Navia's kit was so trash that waifufags were put on suicide watch because geo has been nerfed years ago and they can't fix it anymore.
>>374857Don't worry, I think her design is pretty cute too even though I hate the other little girl characters No. 374929
>>374854The sad thing is if she was a 4 star no one would have cared that she was dogshit and only really usable with Furina. Some 4 stars being bad is expected, like Candace or Freminet. But giving her and her weapon the chance to ruin your pulls as a 5 star fucking sucks.
>>374857>>374891I think she's cute and her laser reminds me of Chibi Moon's Rainbow Sugar Heart Attack. But she's not nearly cute enough to make me want to pull for a junk unit.
No. 374933
>>374891I think them releasing that many more 5 stars than 4 stars, which, as you said, increasingly require you to have C1/C2 just doesn't bode well for the game's future. I'm not naive, I'm well aware that gachas just want to squeeze their users dry, but it feels like they're getting more blatant now while in the past it wasn't quite as bad in Genshin as it is in other gachas. Same with the power creep, they've amped him up with Neuvillette and Arlecchino.
I'm content with several units that are badmouthed, but too many people are meta slaves that can't function without the latest FOMO unit.