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It's time to expand our discord channels again Ein :eyjamath:
get back to sniping :ghostcop:
also visit other games, bootsie is making a server
I do not think they have announced whether Genshin will be on Steam or not. Honkai has its own launcher and is not on Steam.
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I hope we'll create a nice and fun little community in the future Genshin OT. :)
More like October. ;) PC and mobile phones are September 28th and PS4 likely end of October.
For anyone who has played through the story in this game so far has there been any mention of
Honkai or Herrschers? Since one of the writers IIRC confirmed that Genshin is another leaf on the "Imaginary Tree"/part of the same universe that the Honkai would be present in some form aside from the opening segment where you choose your character.
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Here's the video of the Korean live stream that just finished. As I already thought there was not much new info in there. One of Mihoyo's bosses just explains Genshin Impact again and what they plan in the near future for the game:
Not really a spoiler, as it is something you'll notice in the first minutes of the game, but I still put it in here:
Not really a spoiler, as it is something you'll notice in the first minutes of the game, but I still put it in here:
Other than the Unknown God looking very similar to a certain Honkai character and them possessing similar powers, no. Similarly to the Final Fantasy universe some names from Honkai reappear in Genshin. For example the name Murata. It's the name of a character in Honkai and the name of a fire goddess in Genshin Impact.
Looking through the video you linked there was a part describing the gods that does sound a lot like Herrschers. I'm curious as to whether there will just mainly be references or if they will eventually have more overt elements although I guess the "Unknown God" could be considered that when you look at her appearance, abilities and voice actor. I'm really curious because HI3 lore is pretty extensive to the point that I spent hours reading through wikis before I even started playing the game so I'm interested to see how Genshin will end up fitting within everything.
I'm glad to see that they plan to support both for a long time. Honkai Impact 3rd has become my main game for now and from what I've seen of Genshin Impact it's likely to join it.
I also want to see those 5 other continents because the videos of the first two look amazing so far.
EDIT: Here's the original link I was looking at before. It's from the latest chapter of HI3.
r/Genshin_Impact - Mihoyo confirms that Genshin impact and Honkai Impact share the concept of multi-universe.
201 votes and 36 comments so far on Reddit
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I completely forgot about this image that was shown at the end of the chapter.
Bottom right is supposed to be the dragon from Genshin. No idea if that has been followed up on yet since Chapter 18 is not out yet on Global so we'll see.
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Oh that's a huge bummer. Was hoping this would be good for some occasional co-op fun, but those are the types of restrictions that are going to keep me and my friends from doing that.
For those interested, I'm creating a discord server for Genshin Impact. It's public, but it will only be advertised here on Era so the community should stay pretty tight knit. It's basically ready. I even have a little news bot that syncs with the Genshin Impact Twitter account. All that remains is the most important step: adding the discord emojis.
Not sure when I'll post the invite to the discord on here because there's not much to talk about yet. But you'll hear from me again as we near release.
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Not sure when I'll post the invite to the discord on here because there's not much to talk about yet. But you'll hear from me again as we near release.
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Is it worth joining the official discord? I tried but they wanted me to verify with a phone to use it? I don't know how that works but seems weird.
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Looking through the video you linked there was a part describing the gods that does sound a lot like Herrschers. I'm curious as to whether there will just mainly be references or if they will eventually have more overt elements although I guess the "Unknown God" could be considered that when you look at her appearance, abilities and voice actor. I'm really curious because HI3 lore is pretty extensive to the point that I spent hours reading through wikis before I even started playing the game so I'm interested to see how Genshin will end up fitting within everything.
I'm glad to see that they plan to support both for a long time. Honkai Impact 3rd has become my main game for now and from what I've seen of Genshin Impact it's likely to join it.
I also want to see those 5 other continents because the videos of the first two look amazing so far.
EDIT: Here's the original link I was looking at before. It's from the latest chapter of HI3.
r/Genshin_Impact - Mihoyo confirms that Genshin impact and Honkai Impact share the concept of multi-universe.
201 votes and 36 comments so far on Reddit
I completely forgot about this image that was shown at the end of the chapter.
Bottom right is supposed to be the dragon from Genshin. No idea if that has been followed up on yet since Chapter 18 is not out yet on Global so we'll see.
I know hardly anything about Honkai Impact 3rd. What I heard about it sounds pretty complicated and deep though. I will read up on it in the future for sure.
Genshin will probably be just as deep. I mentioned it in here before, but the depth of Genshin Impact's lore is astonishing to me. There's so much interesting stuff to learn by just exploring the game world. It's almost on an The Elder Scrolls game level. Every place has a meaning and a history. You come across a ruin for example and it's not just a pretty prop like in most other games. There will be an interesting story behind it.
So it always annoys me when I hear others, that literally just noticed GI and just watched a single trailer, sneer at it and call it a cheap BotW rip-off without anything special or any imagination of its own.
During the recent State of Play I was tagged in a Nintendo-focused thread here on Era and checking it out there were a couple guys ripping into the game and I remember one being like: "Why do these clones never have 1/10 of the original's charm?" I wonder if they'll ever learn how ignorant they were and what they are missing out on. ;)
To be perfectly honest, other than hearing news from the community managers directly there, the GI Discord is pretty hmm...I don't want to say anything negative, because there are only nice people there...it's often a bit chaotic and a bit immature. I guess, many GI fans are just literally very young. There's hardly any deeper discussion possible. Every time I tried to discuss the game in the past it quickly devolved again into just walls of waifu talk and Paimon memes and gifs. I bet that's what they are doing right now as I type this. (Edit: No, they have a proper game discussion at the moment, lol.) The GI Discord being what it usually is was the main reason I opened this thread. ;)
Aww...why though? :( It'd be awesome if the discussion kept on going here and in the future OT.
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Worry not! Having a discord isn't going to detract from the discussion that takes place here. It's just nice to have options regarding your social media platform of choice - and a devoted discord offers different benefits that a message board like this doesn't necessarily provide. I'll be posting on both :)
Also, like you mentioned earlier, big official discords often attract chaos and immaturity...which isn't to say that smaller ones don't (the current ERA gacha discord I'm a part of has a notorious amount of memers - myself included), but the sense of community and respect develps a lot more nicely when everyone knows each other. I'm creating this server specifically because I'm not a fan of the genshin impact official discord and because I want a server where everyone's voice won't get drowned out by a huge population of active users. Plus, smaller discords are a lot more fun :D
To anyone wondering about GI and HI3 connections, they are connected. As mentioned above by VanillaCakeIsBurning, mihoyo is setting up a multiverse of sorts.
But HI3 lore and story is still ongoing and pretty complicated with multiple timelines/time-travel and characters that are 50,000+ years old. yeah, it goes maximum anime and beyond. The biggest takeaways I would suggest if you are interested is to familiarize yourself with houkai, herrschers, and Schicksal. From there you can piece together the broad story and i'm willing to bet will be enough to recognize things in GI.
But HI3 lore and story is still ongoing and pretty complicated with multiple timelines/time-travel and characters that are 50,000+ years old. yeah, it goes maximum anime and beyond. The biggest takeaways I would suggest if you are interested is to familiarize yourself with houkai, herrschers, and Schicksal. From there you can piece together the broad story and i'm willing to bet will be enough to recognize things in GI.
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No idea, but they have a lot of affinity for western history in general. There's another group in HI universe called Anti-Entropy that's based in America and is lead by gender-bent versions of Tesla and Einstein. In fact, there are tons of gender-bent classical/historical figures in HI, from Monet to Dracula... it gets pretty crazy
That's something I can get behind. On big servers I feel it's impossible to keep up with anything.
Big discord servers + anime avatars are usually a safe place for the kind of bigots i'd like not to talk to on the internet (aka racist / sexist ones). So yeah i enjoy small discord servers a lot more.
To be honest I think I am a member on a few big servers but I tucked them away in some folder so I have no idea what's going on there. I probably should clean out my Discord servers sometimes, most of them are for games I intended to play but never got around to, I'm not surprised that a bad community can form around them :/
But yeah small and "slow" communities is where it's at, everything else feels tiring.
Agreed! The GenshinERA discord I'm making will only be advertised on the OT and maybe the gacha hangout thread, so it won't get too big.
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Strange... It seems as if they didn't just took the gacha out, but also all extra characters other than the MC, Amber, Kaeya and Lisa. Normally there would be an event in one of the dungeons that'll reward you with Xiangling.
But I guess this proves the game is playable fine with just the base character roster and weapons you find and upgrade playing the game. :)
No PvP planned. Other endgame activities, sure!
By the way, there's a character in the game that's called Ganyu, which is very close to your name. :)
While there have been big news recently about the dates for the PC and mobile version and the confirmed Fall release for PS4, we've not seen any news of new game content for a while. Normally I had something new to share several times per week. Now I'm sitting here like...
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Which dungeon would she be in though? I've only done a few so far. I assume one in Liyue.
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Nah, it is in Mondstadt and it is called the Abyss dungeon or tower. Also from CBT3 I remember her event being promoted from the start in the menu.
BTW, question, in the betas, how long was it roughly, between starting the game and being able to gacha?
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Yeah, BotW's art style is more Ghibi anime: a bit more mature, moody and grounded, while GI art style is typically fantasy anime: cute, colorful, fantastical.
I agree that GI has a more interesting looking world. It has more detail and is denser in landmarks/sights. Especially in Liyue you can't really turn any corner without being awe-inspired by something: A valley full of waterfalls, a beautiful bamboo forest, the prettiest little village or a uniquely shaped mountain covered in mist...
You are asking because of rerolling, aren't ya? XD
It took about half an hour for the wish aka gacha system to unlock. If we reach all the pre-registration rewards you should at that point also have enough acquaint fates for a 10 pull.
I'm willing to bet I just didn't go there or need to go back at a higher AR or something. There was that promotion in the start menu and I did her cooking quest for the cookoff in Springvale and that involved doing a dungeon with her as a guest, too.
It's funny how little info there is on this online.
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Not really, because the CBT you are playing is pretty different to other CBTs and it is under NDA (for some reason), so it's only normal you don't find much yet.
Here is a video of where and how you had to unlock Xiangling in prior CBTs:
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I totally get you, lol. Did you already pre-register and followed GI on Youtube and Facebook? Because only if we reach all the goals you are sure to have a 10 pull ready right when the gacha unlocks.
How does rerolling actually work? Is it considered cheating/hacking? Would one be able to do it on PS4 as well (just asking for a friend!)? Playing the beta I didn't see an option to delete my current progress and to start anew. Would I even get 10 pulls again or is it a one time gift for each account, do you have to make a completely new account?
Anyway, I just saw they reached 1 million pre-registers already! :D
The jist of it, is you basically throw away your account and make a new one. You don't have to necessarily hack anything for it, but it can often be against TOS, where they like to specify "one account per person". More convenient way to reroll on mobile, however, tend to involve using ROOT to delete account files and technically that does involve accessing files you aren't supposed to,
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That is good to know. I guess, I won't be rerolling then. ;) I don't want to go through all that trouble and I don't want to get into any trouble.
Sunnuva... I looked up so many... damn.
K, so it looks like the PS4 beta doesn't have her in there yet for this event. The one that was there before was just the cooking mission not the Spiral Abyss (which I did start doing last night!). I'll have to wait and see if this shows up as an event a little later. It sucks this version has the NDA but I'm sure it's because of the changes to it.
I can't find it anywhere, or maybe I saw it but glanced right over it. But when is the open beta? Is it going to be before launch or after?
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There is no open beta planned. The game already releases in a little of a month. And after release you don't really need an open beta for a F2P game, do you?
I might actually give up myself. 30 minutes + whatever time it takes to install and blah, sound like I might have to take an L
Looking at some of the comments about this game here, particularly in the Black Myth Wukong Thread, makes me think that Mihoyo made a good business decision in making this a F2P gacha. There seems to be strong prejudice against anime (or cartoon in general) aesthetic games, deriding them as cheap and low tech compared to realistic games. Rather unfair, since you cannot make assets, animation, and effects like Genshin on the cheap.
But the prejudice is there. The best selling anime aesthetic games are what? Dragon Quest at 5 million, Persona 5 at 4 million, Fire Emblem 3H at 2 million, and Xenoblade 2 at 2 million? These are all known franchises with large publishers backing them. Because this is a new IP without an existing fanbase, and because they based the game aesthetics on BotW, I do not think they would have gotten enough sales to justify making this game a one-time purchase, even with expansion packs for the other regions sold separately.
But hey, that just means I get to play a beautiful game for free (or little money).
But the prejudice is there. The best selling anime aesthetic games are what? Dragon Quest at 5 million, Persona 5 at 4 million, Fire Emblem 3H at 2 million, and Xenoblade 2 at 2 million? These are all known franchises with large publishers backing them. Because this is a new IP without an existing fanbase, and because they based the game aesthetics on BotW, I do not think they would have gotten enough sales to justify making this game a one-time purchase, even with expansion packs for the other regions sold separately.
But hey, that just means I get to play a beautiful game for free (or little money).
Oops, I meant an open beta for just ps4 and after mobile/pc launch, should have specified my bad.
I'm tempted to re-roll in this game too, but the process looks like it's going to be super rough, especially on top of the low rates. I think I'll preserve my sanity and just play with the hand I'm dealt with (and then whale for the rest lol).
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