GET THE FUCK IN HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndhNZ0ue0kE

>>714942570 (OP)
Paimon stocks just pumped to the moon. If you fell for the memes and didn't buy in early, I'm sorry for you.

GDT NAILED GET NAILED GET NAILED

>>714942810
>Space
>Time
>Death
>Life
is that right?

tldr

>>714943037
Yes

>>714942872
don't know what art style this is called but it looked so good

>>714943068
the bitch that cockblocked the travelers at the beginning is MIA
Tsaritsa is gonna bomb Celestia
everyone is from fucking khanriah

>>714943068
You should have always picked the options to flatter Paimon or your days are numbered when ALLAH cleanses the Earth.

>>714942570 (OP)
Yeah yeah yeah, tell me when there's a Fischl hangout event

My femboy goddess can't be this cute

>>714942621
boy, people are gonne think fondly of the bike now lmao

>>714942621
Vgh... RVSSIFICSTION KINO... prefab Khrushchevkas and nuclear power plants in the elven forests of Genshin Finland...

BY MY HANDS, I WILL DESTROY THE HEAVENLY PRINCIPLE.
FUCK THE GODS!

>>714942570 (OP)
>People still play this game

GAS THE GODS
ARCHON WAR NOW

>>714942570 (OP)
Damn, Ronova had a glow up from being a sore vagina in the sky

>>714943503
we estonia now

After the comical shitshow that was Natlan I don't care.

>>714943578
>sticking your penis in Living Death
This will not end well for you

>>714943076
Wait, does the retard who made this really think Paimon is the space got? And not the time god, who has the same star motifs, also has a halo, and also has time powers? The one whose mantra Paimon completes every time even though she doesn't know why?

>Ronova

>>714943578
My nigga Pierro

>everyone is cute girls
NOOOOOO MUH PRIMOGEMS

>>714943728
Took them almost two years straight of men-only banners, but now they finally know that nobody rolls for males.

>>714943660
It's been fucking years since i've genuinely cared about Genshin lore, but like, wasn't there stuff from all the way back in 1.0 Mondstadt tying Paimon and Istaroth together? I feel like that's been implied since forever so don't know how this guy fucked it up lol

>>714943660
>>714943778
Check >>714943302

>>714943778
>but like, wasn't there stuff from all the way back in 1.0 Mondstadt tying Paimon and Istaroth together?
Quite a lot.

>>714943836
Okay? And? Wouldn't even be the first time a genshin character was two people with separate beings before.

witcher ahh music

>>714943717

>>714943076
>i will throw one of you into 500 years in the future for...no reason at all, and then he/she will become my new master!
i don't get it

>>714944035
>one gaze
>instantly wet

>>714944109
extremely hungry for cock
had to lock away his sisterwife to take him for herself

>>714942570 (OP)
Not playing this trash until skip button is added.

>>714944286

>>714942752
I collect primogem for she

>>714942570 (OP)
And is OP anybody or is this just random art? I don't know Genshin but she's cuter than anyone in this pic >>714942810
>>714942752
What about this, who's she?

>>714944439
OP's pic is fanart of a character that was teased years ago and is now being hinted at being released >>714942752 here. Same character btw.

>>714944439
That's Columbina (powerword: Damselette), third of the nine of the eleven Harbingers, a bit of a freak.

>>714944554
I assume we don't have any more pics of her, preferably from the front, to tell how she really looks.

>>714944621
>recall all of the harbingers to bring HER back
wtf how busted is she

>>714944659
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmaAOV4SJNQ
This is all the official imagery we had of her until OP's video.

>>714942752
>not barefoot
IT'S OVER

SIGNORA BROS, TRUST IN THE PLAN

>>714942570 (OP)
Shill thread. Gacha is not a video games

>>714944737
i-it's an anklet!

>>714944000
Astute observation.

>BY MY HANDS, I WILL DESTROY THE HEAVENLY PRINCIPLE.
>FUCK THE GODS!

>>714944871
What's nod-krai?

>>714944942
Pierro (literally me) said that.

looks fucking boring

>>714942570 (OP)
>GENSHIN STORY
Lol, lmao even

>>714944784
>shilling for a game played by 50 million people a month that has already made billions on a mongolian pottery forum full of people that don't spend money on games

>>714942570 (OP)
chink shill thread

>>714944963
Russosnezhnayan borderlands (Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltics etc.) currently under special fatui operation to be returned to the motherland. Will be a whole annual arc to do some cleaning house in their worldbuilding.

>>714945117
/thread

>Genshit

>>714942570 (OP)
>bunch of overdesigned anime girls talking to eachother
wow this sucks

>>714945186
So a filler arc year then

>>714944963
Unironic and actual unplanned filler region that they explicitly said in a behind-the-scenes video that they invented because surprisingly most people didn't read the pieces of paper on the ground and pieced together all the lore like it's Dark Souls. They decided to spend a year spoonfeeding people the lore before moving on to mainland Sneedsnaya.

>>714945297
Why are you so gay

>>714942570 (OP)
>>714944721
Who is Pierro's eng VA? He sounds pretty good honestly compared to other VAs who are from okish to shit

>>714944703
From the fragments about her in the game that we know of, everyone that knows her is very wary of her, because she's an unstable schizo and a walking natural calamity.
The interesting detail shown in this trailer is giving her a similar glitching effect to the Knave, and that implies lunar powers, which is very busted

>>714945129
>50 million people a month
If we learn anything from Steam stats, the total number of players for this game are around 30 - 50k players, which 90% of them are whales

>>714945403
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tatum

>>714945528
That's a lot of filler roles
>Arcanum
Nice

>>714945472
>the total number of players for this game are around 30 - 50k players

>>714942570 (OP)
Don't care, still saving for Robin's VA aka Albedo's Mother.

>>714945301
We'll get Columbia and the Eastern European environments and music look cool so I don't mind

Now that the strike is over, will the english dub not be muted?

>>714945639
>Robin's VA aka Albedo's Mother.
>he lacks critical information

>>714942810
I thought Rhinedottir was one of the witches. Now she's a Heavenly Principle?

>>714945626
Vocal minority exists. If IP counter is enable we can see how low the genshin fanbase (or any gacha in general) is. The reason why its so profitable is those people literally spend everything they got on this game

>>714942621
>top right
>bottom mid left
Waifei(waifu) Peninsula here i come!

>>714945720
from now on there shouldn't be any mutes anymore

>>714945737
what

>>714942621
>just a fucking space colony

>>714945528
>stage actor
welp, at least he is not some "star talent" or some youtube eceleb.
also
>voiced several Additional voices
>voiced several Countdown
the fuck is this shit?

>>714945741
WELL apparently she hijacked one of them
and she's always liked tinkering with life, so it checks out

>>714942752
All I wanted was her in her winter coat bros why are they like this

>>714945741
From Albedo's character story.
>But one day, deep in the heart of a dungeon, master and apprentice discovered an artifact known as The Heart of Naberius.

>And with that, his master disappeared, leaving naught but a note, a recommendation letter, and a classical text behind.

>Upon the note was written: "Albedo, go to Mondstadt. Find my old friend, Alice, and give her the recommendation letter. Then, complete your final assignment."
The shade of life is Naberius, Rhinedottir ate her heart and got schizo possessed by her.

>>714945720
>english dub

>>714942570 (OP)
This game has a story?

>>714945835
His mom is in this video

>>714945472
It's probably well over 1 million concurrent at all times dude. This game is fucking massive.

>>714942752
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY! ALL THE SAINTS ADORE THEE,
CASTING DOWN THEIR GOLDEN CROWNS AROUND THE GLASSY SEA;
CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM FALLING DOWN BEFORE THEE,
WHICH WERT, AND ART, AND EVERMORE SHALT BE.

>>714945720
best girl is doing all she can
give her some time

>>714945963
Yeah Robin's VA, or the twin she spoke to, right? Schizo Robin... my wife.....

>>714945431
well with all the moon shit in the lore now I wouldn't be surprised if more freaks like her are around

>>714945964
Rerolls bloats the total users. Lets be real dude. The real number is 30 - 50k

makoto killed during the cataclysm by friendly fire
ronova gives ei an apology gift

CELESTIA FUCKING SHITS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>714945894
Naberius was the one talking in her head so it was probably Rhinedottir who got possessed, not the other way around.

>>714946002
>best girl is doing all she can
i dont get it

so what happened at the start
Teyvat's neighbor got nuked?

>>714946083
>be Japanese
>have a gigantic status of DEATH overlooking your city and ruling palace
A bit on the nose don't you think?

>>714946027
lol

>>714946167
Furina's VA is running the show now
literally

>>714946220
she has autism please forgive
she didn't know how to cope

>>714946250
Hope she doesn't end up like Paimon's fired VA

>>714942810
>We want the PGR audience

>>714946220
death is eternal, I guess

>>714946083
can you explain further

>>714946294
not at this time

>>714945307
>Unironic and actual unplanned
You have to be retarded to believe this. The zone is clearly massive. They start on this stuff years in advance.

The Thousand Armed Hundred Eyed God is Istaroth though, not Ronova. It doesn't make sense for it to be Ronova.

>>714946292
yeah all 3 of them

>>714946294
now begins the search for FORESHADOWING in every fucking corner of the game

>>714946385
I like the lore but it's too CHINESE for me to hold it in this puny brian

>>714946250
>Furina's VA is running the show now
MY STACY WIFE

>>714946364
we're way down the pipeline but they did say that Nod-Krai was somerhing they came up with along the way
I guess there's too many loose threads to tie up before going to Snezhnaya

>>714946290
>Furina's studio is in charge of voicing ZZZ
>now she is in charge of saving the genshin eng VA after all the shit drama that happened in the last months
i dont think she'll be fired, at least not anytime soon
Don't know if i should feel happy for her or worried because all the stuff she has to fix

btw is it true HuTao's VA got fired as well?

>>714942810
rolling for paimon
rolling
skipping
rolling

>>714946364
It wasn't in the Travail trailer and we know they usually work one region in advance.
Nod Krai definitely wasn't planned back in 2020 but they didn't decide on it last month or anything, it's at least a year or two ago.

>>714943186
>You should have always picked the options to flatter Paimon
Always did.
It's only retarded redditors who like the shitty "emergency food" joke that was never funny.

>>714946495
the story in genshin is a fucking mess after Liyue

>>714946453
I just get annoyed when people say it's like a filler region when I'm pretty sure Natlan was always going to be the laid back region in terms of content, they probably had this planned at least 2 years ago.

>>714946515
>this could be canon
neat

>Columbina, Angelic Envoy

They gave Ronova a really bad case of Frieren pouty face

>>714946606
I wonder if we can make shit like that in the new gamemode lmao

>>714943186
I always bully her.

>>714945902
You'll get the Asuka hospital molestation robes and like it.

>>714946639
actually it's going to be something like
>Yuri, Janitor of Frozen Parks
or some shit

>>714942570 (OP)
mint pickers go back to vg

>>714946364
They fucking TOLD us straight up that it wasn't in their original plans in that behind the scenes video. Now, they could have lied, but why would they lie about something like that?

>>714946495
welp, i guess the following patches will be filler patches to visit other areas like the Black Castle in Mondo or the Mari Jivari in Natlan, areas close to Snezhnaya

>>714946684
No, you'll only see high quality content like
>Mualani tralalero tralala platforming
>Klee Sex 2, navigate a maze as Albedo and collect children
>Grow a Teapot Garden 2

>>714945903
So one of the shades just had her core or something just laying in some dungeon, and she just hoped no one would find it and chug it down to gain her powers?
So I'm assuming the other three also have their shit just buried somewhere, and anyone can just find it and attain godhood just by fucking eating it.

>>714942570 (OP)
Wow and it only took 5 years after everyone already moved on! lol

Who are those girls? I am not rushing Natlan, but sure these deities were mentioned before in 1.0 or 2.0 or 3.0 story, right?

>>714947025
Because they wanted people to care about the story. Like no one cares why the archon macguffins look like chess pieces and the last world boss Alice hands out are chess pieces

>>714947119
It's a very Chinese type of writing, you find a god's discarded ballsack and by consuming it you immediately ascend three large cultivation realms ahead.

>>714942810
I will fuck Albedo's mother!

>>714945307
More like retconning the good story we had three years ago because they hired new team and they didn't like it.

>>714947342
Three years ago was fucking Inazuma
>good story

>>714945307
is it out yet? i havnt played since natlan, because natlan sucks dick and i hate it

>>714945307
It will be very interesting to see how they try to make the normcore crowd care about shades and sinners and shit. Most players only care about the colorful and charming World Tour, and don't give a single shit about the science fantasy dramatic backstory hullabaloo.

>>714947253
>eat everything you find until you become a god
Explains a lot actually.

>>714947415
The new region will be out in around two months.

>>714946538
nod krai is attacked because it's the band-aid solution to their fuckup

>>714947119
The body we see is Rhinedottir's, Naberius was talking through her. So probably her body died/got lost at some point and she needed a new vessel to inhabit. She put her phylactery somewhere dangerous so it would only be found by a high powerlevel individual and not get some jobber's body to inhabit. Not a bad deal.

>>714947384
Yes, that was a good story about region in place called Teyvat. I have no idea where Natlan or Nod Kraj is but is surely isn't the same place. Did you look at the teaser? They have fucking hologram computer screens now. What cliche we get next? Time travel? Space lords? Phaser gun?

>>714947453
normcore audience is completely captured by "content creators". they watch a deep dive lore video and they get caught up

>>714947453
>It will be very interesting to see how they try to make the normcore crowd care about shades and sinners and shit.

what? go look at any social media since the trailer dropped

>>714946538
That still counts as unplanned. Not in Travail = not in their initial plans.

>>714947453
The Dark Souls of gacha.

>>714947523
i guess thats enough time to force myself though SHATlan

>>714947601
>normcore audience is completely captured by "content creators"

kek all the grifters that come back to do a reaction on this trailer

>>714947585
>I have no idea where Natlan is
Natlan was teased on the Travail trailer a week after the game released
>They have fucking hologram computer screens now.
We've seen computer screens in Khaenrian bots for years now
>Time travel
Raiden's story quest is about time travel lmao

>>714947228
They're shades of the God who created Teyvat and we've known their names since Enkanomiya (though there were side quests in 1.0 mentioning them). This is the first time we actually see their faces though.

>>714942570 (OP)
Can i skip paimon's dialog?

nod krai will be kino

>>714947608
>what? go look at any social media since the trailer dropped
Why the fuck would I do that? What makes you think people excitedly posting on social media immediately after the trailer dropped are the normcore crowd I'm talking about?

>>714947585
You've had 3 years to climb into the cockpit of a giant ruin machine, manipulate it via the computer & screens inside, and shoot missiles.

>>714947884
genshin is the most normie of gacha games bro

>>714947727
>Natlan was teased on the Travail trailer a week after the game released
As a Nation of War and Fire. Not beach resorts and cowboys.
>We've seen computer screens in Khaenrian bots for years now
We did not see any hologram computer screens in any of khaenrian technology. They very clearly used analogue technology. Fontaine is based on it with their clockwork engines.
>Raiden's story quest is about time travel lmao
No, it isn't. It's about time relativity.

>>714942570 (OP)
I dropped Genshin around the start of 2.0.
Can anyone spoil it and tell me what the fuck is going on with the lore?

so which one of these sluts is paimon (forma real)?

>>714947829
It's part of the experience (filler) so no.

>>714947965
Fuck you got me with your argument, I concede.

>>714948007
My money on Asmoday. Not Istaroth, too predictable.

>>714948024
Shame, still a 0/10 until then. Enjoy your anime my weebs.

>>714943302
fuck do I have to reinstall anons

If you didn't love her as a lovecraftian abomination, you don't deserve her as an anime girl. Simple as.

>>714947993
(You) and your twin are ancient aliens that actually landed on a ship on Teyvat. Your sibling got out of cryo early and became the leader of a country that got nuked. Now he/she wants to revive that country because they wuz gud boys despite fucking with forbidden shit.

It went to shit.

>>714947993
the lore is mysterious but pretty cool

>>714947796
So they were just part of some folklore writings, but turned into marketable assets. Because i really don't see why suddenly we get them. I am not a skip reader, but i did not read every single note and book I found and took notes from them, and i forgot most of it, the only thing that stays in my memory is upside down statue, and dains being khanerian and abyss mages wanting to make some kind of a weapon or tool for something i don't remember. I just thought Celestia are not in fact gods, but just more capable people, false gods, and fatui know or believe that's the case. You know, it being more grounded and bit less... creationism magics. And i thought the world was first 100% dragons.

>>714945856
I agree, Finland is an alien planet.

>>714948157
>Your sibling got out of cryo early
Fairly sure the cryo thing was a CBT thing that got dropped. Instead you're now kicked to the curb by the heavenly principles and your sibling just happens to wake up before you (if they ever slept at all).

>>714948157
Yeah, had a feeling it was gonna go to shit eventually. Chinks can't write stories without filling them with disjointed crap or over complicating it.
The original hook (finding your sibling and beating the shit out of God) seemed more solid.

>>714948401
I think I only remember learning about shades and this stuff from Nahida in Sumeru and in Natlan.

>>714946083
staff of homa, master of the night wind's architecture and iktomisaur
what else?

>>714948401
>So they were just part of some folklore writings
Sort of, Istaroth spoke to the players in quests as early as 1.0, and then later in Sumeru. Half of Natlan's questline was about Ronova.

>>714947981
>We did not see any hologram computer screens in any of khaenrian technology.
what about those big ruin guards' interiors?

>>714948461
>Instead you're now kicked to the curb by the heavenly principles and your sibling just happens to wake up before you (if they ever slept at all).
That got forgotten and/or ignored and retconned. In the last story quest you find your sibling's literal cryopod key and they flat out tell you they got out of cryo early.

>>714948492
ayo gibsmedat shiet nigga

>>714948401
The folklore writings were basically teasers for people who actually did read the notes, but it was obvious that they're going to be relevant at some point since they're related to Celestia.

>And i thought the world was first 100% dragons.
It was, but then others came and fucked them up

teyvat basically has no stakes right
the whole planet is just a plaything for the gods

>>714948401
>So they were just part of some folklore writings, but turned into marketable assets
Genshin is genuinely pretty sincere with writing characters and stories that would make for great products to sell, then just not doing it, because the sanctity of worldbuilding and whatnot. We never got Deshret or Malikata for example, or Guizhong, or Signora.

>>714948628
That was true since day 1

>>714948628
Just like real life!

>>714948628
>the whole planet is just a plaything for the gods
True
>teyvat basically has no stakes right
Not necessarily, if you value the lives of its people, death and erosion is still finality.

>>714948801
they couldve added something like if the abyss takes over this planet it can threaten the creator something i dunno shit im just a dog

>>714948845
My powercrept, good for nothing wife, surpassed even in her daily output of milk

>>714948583
Ok, I just checked. The sibling never told you that she woke up from cryo. In fact she quite literally says she woke up in Teyvat went on a trip around the place before she thought to check on the pods where he/she found you.

>>714948719
Kazuha's friend was cool too. And best girl.
This + skins make me think Mihoyo doesn't really want money.

>>714948897
She's still your wife at least...even if powercrept

>>714948628
>teyvat basically has no stakes right
they spent like 30-40 years fighting dragon lords for it, use the leylines to weave a shield to protect it from the abyss, suppress any sign of abyssal corruption (at least when the principles was still awake)
we dont really know what their true goal is, but I dont think that they would give up teyvat easily

>>714944621
>powerword
man I remember discovering encyclopedia dramatica. those were the good old days.

>>714944286
This, but I am playing, just not as much as before, seriously add a fucking skip button, I don't want to stumble upon unvoiced quests on accident and read that shit for hours.

>>714948849
The obvious direction the story will go is that the Abyss Order are correct, and humans are abyss/darkness/matter aligned beings, unwittingly marked as servants and surrendering their fate to the foreign Light/high Gods by accepting their mark (Visions). Remember that the Order is lead by Apostles and Heralds, and speak of sharing the Truth and the "words of joy" (the evangelion)

>>714948138
I hoped that thing will be an anime girl. Still hoping for Lord of the Night too

>>714948524
I ... did not like Natlan story that much because everything felt so ... out of place. Nation of war being peaceful paradise with all the comfort of modernity and wrestlin and then there is dark purple eye in the sky and then there dark red eye in the sky. And all i can make out of it, that it's just some cosmic horror thingy and we defeat it with power of friendship and screaming out loud. I just couldn't place these events and scenes in what i saw in genshin story before. The nails, the upside down statue, the field tiller heart, abyss mages scheming, and fatui being antagonists and celestians sleeping through Focalor's death... >>714948610
Yeah, they came and dragons lost, but like it obviously wasn't knights killing dragons like in some medieval fantasy because those dragons are bit alien looking. I did have some idea what is happening inside Teyvat and i felt it's little bit like Discworld, but Discworld is very explicitly floating in space of backs of multiple animals, Teyvat always felt more like and hollow sphere with abyss on the outside and celestia overseeing those heavenly principles and otherwise ignoring everyting. But i am not sure anymore.

>>714949180
Obvious, Khaenriah was smacked by heaven's jannies for digging too deep.

>>714948628
Yep. Kinda how I feel about it too. No stakes at all Teyvat is just insignificant after the latest new lore drops. Everyone is shaping up to be some multidimensional universe jumping giganigger too.

>>714948043
Istaroth is Venti anyway

>>714949180
>gods take over the world after killing dragons
>gods are scared of the dark/abyss and will do horrible shits to suppress it
>circle of fire- samsara

>>714949316
Does that mean that Venti was actually a girl all along or that Istaroth has a penis?

>>714949354
Yes

>>714949354
Yes

>>714949068
why is he doing that??

>>714949354
Yes.

>>714949254
>Yeah, they came and dragons lost, but like it obviously wasn't knights killing dragons like in some medieval fantasy because those dragons are bit alien looking
Well yeah, but I'm not sure why you would think that when in Liyue you learn that Zhongli was literally dropping mountain sized spears on the place. The game was never really a simple medieval fantasy even if Mondstadt looked like it would fit in one.

>>714947238
If they want to care about the story, then they should stop putting so much shitty annoying filler in between real good shit.
I'm tired of reading boring chink wordslop for hours to get to the good parts of the story, that's the main reason I haven't even done story in last few patches. I don't know why chinks love padding up their story so much.

CAST DOWN THE GODS FROM THE FALSE HEAVENS
WE CAN NOW RAPE THEM TOO

>>714943539
it's the best gacha game out there

>istaroth was cucked by a manlet Twink
Lmao

>>714949467
nta but have you tried that in the game before? the animation is fucking smooth it's satisfying

>>714949257
Khaenriah, Enkanomiya, etc.
All slapped for knowing too much.

>>714949257
>THE GOYIM KNOW
>SHUT IT DOWN

>>714949467
NTA but the transition animation for going through water tickles my brain

>>714949467
He's just showing off something he thinks looks cool. It's a nice little bit of detail for something you only encounter like 4 times.

haven't played this since the end of 2020
what's the story so far? is it still paimom yapping endlessly?

>>714948967
wife

>>714942935
isn't this just robin kek

Still mad that they wasted such a cool design and only made him job to shill Mavuika.

>>714949794
but with a cute feminine girlcock

>>714949817
if it's actually venti 2 I'll reinstall

>>714949595
pretty Enka got sink there because of the 2nd descender vs celestia fight, then Istaroth taught that dude how to make the artificial sun
dragonspine's sal vindagnyr, that city in the chasm, tsurumi island got the nail

>>714949867
Remember the snake from Enka learned something about the Heavenly Principles he wasn't meant to know, and got told "get yourself killed".

>>714949758
> what's the story so far?
It's about food
> is it still paimom yapping endlessly?
Yes she's still talking about how hungry she is

>>714949467
It's just a simple WebM.
It's pretty to look at and much better than that useless one that used to be spammed constantly that's just Signora turning around and walking away.

>>714949493
>The game was never really a simple medieval fantasy even if Mondstadt looked like it would fit in one.
Oh, no that doesn't mean it has to be realistic. Chinese medieval folklore is full of mountain sized things, that's ok. We saw what Venti did to mondstadt and how he created Golden Apple Archipelago or what Ei did when she fought the serpent. But we don't exactly get that, right? No heroes fighting dragons. No matter the scale. It is just stated there was some kind of war of unknown nature and dragons lost it and lost their "sovereignty". And i believe they weren't wiped out, just subdued. Me saying they were alien looking is that dragons usually don't build civilisations, they are just dragons, like... lion king. In Natlan is read something about fucking with the forbidden knowledge, that was also dragon, right? But i am not sure about the context of ... teyvat under rule of dragons and the abyss... Argh... I think i am asking right questions, but i should know all of this already if i remembered everything i read in the game. I am just stupidly waiting for the story to pick up the upside down statue and i thought abyss order was at the centre of everything. I did not expect abyss to overshadow the story like this, since it's supposedly something that ought to be very well kept outside by the authority of heavenly principles. Things confuse me.

>>714949807
Hated that he wasn't even a boss fight. Burnt jobber got more screentime than him

>>714949807
Overcorrection for a certain brand of Asian ricecel, they pulled all the stops for Mavuika and was still middling. At least they won't fuck up Pierro.

>>714949849
Venti is just one of her clones/child(ren)

>>714942687
If there was any character that warrants CHURL'd shitpost porn...

>>714950145
what the fuck

>>714949990
I think that's fine. The game has a lot of story threads that are going on at the same time and unless you really bother to go through all of the material it can definitely be confusing. The whole point of the next region (at least according to Hoyo) is to sort that out and streamline the story.

>>714950290
Venti was a speck of Istaroth farts, so yeah that technically it's checked out

there is no way hoyo would add a hermaphrodite to their games

>>714950076
>At least they won't fuck up Pierro.
I wish I had this positive mentality but I don't have many hopes for his future because HoYo will treat the character like as a disposable unless they're waifu bait or a young pretty man, and he's none of them.
Has there ever been a playable character with facial hair in a HoYo game?

>>714949180
The Skirk artifact lore confirms this.
>It was an age when the unknowing masses still bowed to the sky's decrees, when the dawn star's royal court still hung high above the clouds.
>Magnificent, noble creations descended from the light itself, and the mortals — unable to look upon their true visages — called them angels.
>Their pale silver wings shimmered like moonlit flames; their heads were adorned with crowns of sevenfold radiance, wrought of the bones of the earth and the stars of the sky.
>The name upon those crowns was the love promised unto all creatures by the heavenly god, or perhaps a mandate to rule over the nations of the earth.
The Seele were literal Hyperborean Angels who were bound by the Heavens, until Literally Lucifer told the First Angel about the sinful birth of the world and got nailed.

>>714947342
>muh brother/sister
>whu? brother/sister??

the story was always shit

>>714950435
looking some shit up,
>Decarabian's Mondstadt
>Istaroth was worshipped alongside the Anemo Archon in the early days of Barbatos' Mondstadt
jesus fuck I really know nothing in terms of genshin lore

>>714950506
shes coming back

>Reveal all the shades
>Reveal who attacked the twins in the beginning after keeping it a mystery in game this whole time (and the traveler still doesn't know which god was responsible)
>Basically straight up say Asmoday is Paimon
>Reveal Heavenly Principles is sleeping (implied to be absent beforehand, but now we know why)
>Reveal the Tsaritsa wants to attack the Heavenly Principles after keeping her and the Fatuis goal a secret in game this entire time (people had guessed obviously, but it was never stated directly)
Would have been fucking great to save all these major lore bombs for the actual game, especially after teasing them for years, instead of just dropping them onto youtube. I hope the twins Abyss plotline isn't treated the same way.

>>714950534
>met an unnamed youth
>star-like pupils
Damn, your sibling really is to blame for everything.

>>714942810
I hope we kill Rhinedottir and free Naberius

>>714950506
perish

>>714950506
>Don't call me a witch
Based hexenzirkel hater

Kneel to Rhinedottir Naberius
one of the five sinners of Khaenriah
Hexenzirkel member "R"
Shade of Life

Part of all the important factions

>>714950964
OC fanfiction tier.

>>714950964
isn't this just yaoshi

ok, but Ronova granting death to erase a whole fucking space is so fucking busted, + Istaroth time manipulation
how is anyone in Teyvat going to fight them without abyssal power?

>>714950609
If you didn't dwelve to the lore it's fine not everyone play the game for the lore
Just like the previous hoyo game, most of the extended lore are behind books and stuff
I guess if you want an easiest way to catch up you can check several loretubers

Father and son?

>>714951140
probably, I wanted to play as Danslief for so long now.

>>714949807
In the story, he overshadowed Mavuika, though. Won the gamble with Death, saved Natlan and his comrades.

>>714950534
>"If sin comes from the pursuit of knowledge, then ignorance is the true doctrine; if from rebellion, then only the lamb is truly righteous."
>"If sin must be atoned for with blood, why is it said to stem from humanity? If the laws are perfect and flawless, why fear the act of inquiry?"
>The bones of the earth had been bound beneath fourfold shackles, and the soft white radiance of the sky had been split into seven immutable hues.
There's some good stuff in that set.
>In that silent chamber, the chief priest who wore the white-branched crown finally dismissed the guards who had rushed in.
>"O heretical speaker — if, as your eloquent words would suggest, you truly hold that grievous sin is but the delusion of mere mortals..."
>"...Then let you be the one to drink from this cup of burning wrath. Go to the ashen-silver tree and plead your case before the very envoys who have cast judgment upon us."
So Cryo has always been the reddit atheist skeptic element.

I just hope the Traveler arc ends after this
I know it wont, even when they add the OC donut characters

>>714949807
It would have been dumb as fuck if he could defeat the war archon 1v1

>>714951365
they will NEVER make Genshin Part 2

>>714951274
>the chief priest who wore the white-branched crown
Snezhnaya hard carrying this slave planet since the very start.

>>714942810
Welp, I guess I'm skipping Mavuika again and saving for these sluts

>>714951460
Adam WILL escape APHO and finally has his own full game
>Genshin Impact: Part 2 Chapter ADAM

>>714951460
Honkai impact 3 is running part 2

>>714950715
>traveler and dain get to fuck up gold and Vedrfolnir
>traveler and skirk get to fuck up the foul
It'd be damn amazing if we actually get to beat the ever living crap out of the throw Khaenri'ah under the bus gang. Of course that's implying if traveler is even able to get crazy dbz tier power scaling without resorting to abyss powers. Also Ronova best shade.

So are we still going to Russia next or are we taking a detour?

>>714950645
>Damn, your sibling really is to blame for everything.
Weird how the stellar traveler who first met Nibelung is referred to as a female, but when breaking the Prime Directive and spread the word of reddit atheism they took the form of a male (and so he could make the Seele Dawn Maiden's pussy tremble for the first time).
Trying to make both MCs canon maybe?

>>714951567
>Adam
kek he's dead anon
>test tube adam
wwwwait kino incoming
>>714951579
yeah and that's shit

>>714950424
Will they make previous events playable?

>>714951661
>So are we still going to Russia next or are we taking a detour?
No, Russia is coming to us.

>>714951460
>one of the first trailer called genshin story "Teyvat chapter"
yeah, I dont think it will end anytime soon

>>714951747
honestly theres no space for them unless you could download them seperately
right now on pc the game is 117gb

Have they shown the cryo archon yet? God I hope she's a sexy hag.

>>714951787
I forgot about that honestly

I don't care about the lore. I want Mirror Maiden sized woman to sit on me!

>>714951895

>>714951747
>>714951841
I've played their other games after Genshin on occasion, and I've noticed that their events either don't change their overworld environment much (Star Rail) or any changes they make are permanently (ZZZ). I'd bet that with the way Genshin's open world is coded, they'd have issues with selectively overwriting an area to let you replay an event.

>>714951857
nope, still nothing
and I hope that they will keep it that way until her release. If they can troll the leakers so that they dont know anything about her until then it would be even better

>>714951895
>>714951923
Excellent posts.

So.
Is Paimon a fragment of Asmoday, or a fragment of Istaroth?
Paimon's chest displays Istaroth's symbol, and she also has a miniature version of Istaroth's crown/halo.
BUT, Paimon also displays Asmoday's black star on her head.
What's the fuckin deal here?

>>714951895
>>714951923
I prefer ice and electro cicin mages.

>>714949467
it's satisfying

>>714952060
paimon is a fragment of my cock
she belongs to it

>>714952081
4 u

>>714949657
it's a shame the swimming stuff isn't a core mechanic of the game since those transitions and the dolphin jumping are so cool

>>714952081
That's just Sucrose After Dark

>>714952081

>>714943382
Bike?

>>714952060
shes neither I believe, even in the trailer its said that the ruler of space is MIA but it dosent really imply that shes paimon, theyre different enteties, also paimon is a moon

>>714952060
Istaroth feel like that type of character who's always scheming behind the scene to me, I wouldnt be surprised if she helped Asmoday disappear

>>714952171
what the FUCK is her problem?

>>714948401
>don't play the game in years
>don't pay attention to the game when you were playing it originally
>get mad
tourist

>>714949807
>everyone wants signora
>she is has huge boobs and kino lore
>they kill her
>everyone wants capitano
>he is cool and has kino lore
>they ??? him

>>714951923
>>714952016
What do they feed Snezhnayan women?

>>714952260
My cum
help, anon. I'm dying

>caring about the lore of a skinner box slot machine

>>714952260
semen

>>714948849
what's wrong with fighting for the people you love, what does it add by making it le super duper THIS WILL DESTROY THE UNIVERSE IF PLANET GO BOOM

>>714952285
>caring about how a videogame is monetised
I know this site is populated by american-educated midwits, but you don't have to announce your arrival.
inb4 the seething reply of "obsessed"

>>714952171
Sex with NPCs

>>714949068
pretty wild to think natlan came after fontaine

>>714952343

>>714942810
Guess this proves that Paimon isn't any of the four Shades. She does bare a strong resemblance to them, though.

>>714943076
Wrong. Paimon is the primordial one. These 4 are the shining shades who are clones of paimon.

>>714942810
Which ones are you going to roll? To me is Ronova.

>>714952458
>roll
>He doesn't know

>>714952372
From a technical standpoint it's definitely more advanced, they even made new models. But I understand why the aesthetics were a turn off for many, they were clearly trying something new to revitalize a stale game, new style for drip marketing cards and all.

I started playing like 3 days ago and pulled Jean on the standard banner, should I start over?

Since I have clearly missed a shitload of lore hidden around the world, who is some good loretubers to listen to?

>>714952260
grechka

>>714952661
>7 pages of standard pulls in 3 days
Don't tell me you were putting primogems on the standard banner, right?

>>714951747
They haven't said anything about that unfortunately. The latest patches did include the mechanism for downloading only the quest data that you need, so they might leverage that mechanism for replayable events in the future as well. But considering how slow hoyo is at implementing QoL stuff it might be years off.

>>714950964
Which shade did that qt slave girl from Natlan who ascended to Celestia become?

>Once your Enemy, now your lover
Games for this feel?

>>714952661
She is fine I guess.
Not the worst pull certainly.
Dunno who would be the best of the standard banners right now though.

>>714952661
>I started playing like 3 days ago and pulled Jean on the standard banner, should I start over?
Nah jeans great for starting accounts. I can't think of anyone else on the standard banner I'd want for my first unit honestly.

>>714952745
She didn't become a shade she ended up in an endless prison I think. Shades are basically angels to the god who made teyvat and were created by him. You can't become one. Unless you're Gold and eat an artifact I guess.

>>714952724
na I got like 20 of the blue guys in the mail

>>714952665
https://www.youtube.com/@Ashikai

i found her to be the most entertaining and informative one to listen to

>>714952789
>I can't think of anyone else on the standard banner I'd want for my first unit honestly.
Tighnari with Fischl could carry you far because Dendro has a high damage floor

>>714952756
How would the Aether/Lumine/Asmodey threesome go down?

>>714952893
>Shades are basically angels to the god who made teyvat and were created by him. You can't become one.
Pretty sure they got appointed to the role, much like archons.

>>714952916
Yeah tighnari might be good. But early game I'm more concerned with healing and crowd control more than damage. There's a few walls that can be rough to get through going through the ascension trials as a newer player that made me wish I had Jean around.

>>714946515
If only redditors think that's funny, why did Mihoyo put allusion to it into the game where you don't have a choice and Paimon says it on her own?

>>714952661
>>714952895
If I were starting now I'd have probably bought an account with 50k primogems and 100+ pulls for 20 bucks or so, you get two years of dripfeed pulls all at once, it takes the pain from having to pull so many characters from the start. And that amount of currency would be 50x more expensive if you wanted to buy it later instead of buying a farmed account from the start.
But if you really don't care and just want your honest adventure without taking a shortcut, you can continue, Jean is good for a new account.

>>714953064
buy an account and rolling for one of the banner units to start off with is the way to go honestly.

>>714952981
No they were made by the primordial one when they fought the second throne of the heavens. Ekanomiya has a ton of lore on it. The four shades are clones of the primordial one who disappeared after fighting the second throne of the heavens.

>>714946749
How come Fatui girls are so cute when we have to constantly murder them?

>>714953129
Uhh if they're clones how come they all look different STUPID

>>714952661
Honestly getting any anemo is super useful for doing the first couple areas since it lets you set Traveler to geo for all the puzzles that need constructs and still have someone for all the anemo shit.

>>714942752
Columbinabros, status report, on my desk, NOW!

Come to think of it, Paimon really can't be anything BUT the Primordial One at this point, can she? Either that or she's closely linked. Anything else wouldn't make narrative sense.

>>714942570 (OP)
>>714942810
genshit literally copying pokemon

>>714952661
jean is good for starter accounts

>>714952789
I felt very blessed to get a C1 Fischl from my initial pulls because with a Slingshot she carried my ass for a long time.

>>714953321
How come she's getting singled out so hard lately? Did Hoyo run a survey and see she's by far the most popular?

>>714942621
Wuwa copied this

>>714951923
I just realized I haven't done those surveys in ages.

>>714952667
I wonder why nobody eats buckwheat outside of Russia.

>>714953331
But the Primordial One / Phanes are just different names for Celestia/Heavens/CEO of Taoism, at least according to Before Sun and Moon. The one we don't know shit about is the Second Throne of the Heavens / Second Who Came.

>>714953292
Because mihoyo has to sell them retard.
Primordial one comes to teyvat from outer space.
Creates four shining shades of itself. (Shade as in shadows of itself or clones idiot).
Defeats dragon sovereigns.
Creates humans.
Another being from outer space comes to teyvat called the second throne of the heavens.
Primordial one and it fight.
Humanity wiped out except in enkanomiya which the primordial one puts underground to protect it.
Primordial one and second throne are never heard from again.
Shining shades help enkamomiya go back onto the surface.
Normal timeline begins.

>>714952661
Jean's great for starters, as not only is having Anemo useful, but she's a party-healer with her ultimate, so you've got heals for days.
Holding her skill lets you pick up smaller enemies and toss em off cliffs/up in the air for fall damage, too, which is still viable into other regions.

>>714953464
I don't think I've ever had it, is it anything like barley? Love me some homemade beef barley soup.

>>714953349

>>714953392
Fischl was my first unit, she's always had top tier artifacts, and was my first c6 but I barely ever used her lol

>>714953396
Schizokino is great.

>>714953674
Really? She was my top most used unit like 3 years running.

>>714953396
they always knew that

>>714953331
Last we hear of the primordial one is when it fought the second who came and both vanished.
When rukhadevata used all of her power up she turned from a MILF into a loli.
The primordial one defeated the second who came but used all her power up and turned into Paimon.
The primordial one is described as wearing a crown and there is only one character in the game who wears a crown. It's the same crown on the genshin logo.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Coam3vuoG5s

>>714953768
Yeah. Electro has always just been kinda weak I guess. It's funny because I like how she feels to play too but never had a team where she felt great in. And now she's basically powercrept so rip.

>>714953820
Meant to put the logo as the image. The crown on it is paimons.

If I wanted to play genshin for the story and exploration alone how hard would it be, without spending money on it?

>>714953039
Because Mihoyo thinks its own jokes are so funny the devs spam them everywhere in game.

Money is being poured back into Genshin. Big advertisement campaigns again with Skirk. A new cinematic we haven't seen since Lazzo and Arlecchino. Leakschizos keep talking about how 6.0 will have incredible production quality.

They're going to make this anniversary big. Announce the anime. Maybe a Switch 2 version for the wretched souls that don't have a PC. Get people to play Nod Krai to be spoonfed and be ready for Snez next year.

>>714953510
Thing is, being linked with the second entity doesn't seem like it would make for a particularly satisfying outcome. The Primordial One is the one who first arrived with humanity. The Second Who Came was the one who fought with the Primordial One. Regardless of their reason, it seems to me that the Second is unlikely to be humanity's ally.

Paimon has four key possibilities:
1) She's the Primordial One.
2) She's related to the Primordial One in some important way.
3) She's the Second Who Came
4) She's related to the Abyss
5) She's a third party

We can knock 5 out because it's a retarded conclusion. And we can knock 4 out as well because she's shown negative reactions to the Abyss before. That leaves the first three. 1 would be the most narratively satisfying. 2 could work as well depending on how it works out. 3 would mean that she has no inherent ties to humanity, which doesn't make sense considering her track record of sympathizing with humans.

>>714953973
You can beat the game with 4 stars easily.

>Istaroth bestows history up "them"
Who is them, and what is this shit about bestowing history? Is she the tree?

>>714953575
Buckwheat has a bit stronger, earthy taste. Try it, it's tasty. You can cook it as a side dish for stewed meat or pour milk in it and add a bit of sugar/condensed milk/butter.

>>714953832
Have 4* seen much power creep? At best newer ones are usually only good for very specific match-ups with certain 5*.

>>714954042
But would it be a miserable experience requiring lots of grinding and waiting or could I actually just take it leisurely and enjoy it?

>>714953881
Also the literal Chinese translation of genshin over which paimons crown is displayed is ORIGINAL GOD.

>>714953973
It's not hard at all. You could use the 4 starting characters you get the first hour of the game and beat the whole game with them without ever engaging with the character gacha system. It's only there for endgame autismos/getting to "own" a character you like/gambling addicts/collectors.

Always thought Asmoday was a member of the Heavenly Principles, but is just a Shade aka henchmen.

>>714953820
Sure is looking more likely. But does that make the whole moon thing nothing but a big red herring? Or was the moon the first descender all along?

>>714954004
>Maybe a Switch 2 version
I really hope so, that would stop the jannies from deleting the threads probably. And botw fans would like it.

>>714947585
>Inazuma was good
>What cliche we get next? Time travel?
So Inazuma?

>>714954126
Nah. Genshin is popular because it's fun. You don't need to grind any more than anyone else when starting out. Youre not going to be doing endgame or anything for months and months.

>>714953973
Nothing stopping you at all. Can do most of the game with a team of 4 randoms. Hell some guy made it his lifes goal to beat the entire game with only the Main character.

>>714954126
The story content's difficulty is pretty low. And you can control how hard you want it to be, you'll just lower material rewards, that you won't care for anyway if you play casually.

>>714942687
>goddess of DEATH
>huge tits and hips
Umm those symbolize life, Hoyo. Goddess of death should be perfectly flat...

>>714954029
What about her being one of the moon sisters? Hasn't that been heavily hinted at lately?

>>714954127
They introduced genshin as a term at the end of 1.0 and it means human achieving divinity

>>714954256
if they actually cared it'd be a man

>>714954301
>What about her being one of the moon sisters? Hasn't that been heavily hinted at lately?
From Skirk's lines.
>I once saw the three moons of Teyvat when I was passing through the false sky. Two are utterly destroyed, their lifeless remains drifting aimlessly through space. The one that remains intact shows no signs of life either, but its will has not faded completely. Maybe there's a chance that one day, a glimmer of truth will emerge in the false sky — a truth belonging to this world alone.
And from Moonpiercer
>Long before Aramuhukunda had been born from the pomegranate, and before a great and noble race and your ancestors walked the earth together,
There were once three sisters. When night came, they would leave the pearl-colored palace to roam the desert, and Nilotpala Lotuses would bloom at their feet.
>Ultimately, two moon-wheels shattered into dust and disappeared. The last of the sisters was so overcome with sorrow that she would never leave her palace again.
So one Moon Sister is hinted as still being alive

>>714954169
I'm fairly certain Columbina is a surviving moon sister. But paimon has always had far more links to Phanes than the moons. All the shades have white hair like her and the shades are clones of the primordial one literally made from it. We have the story of rukkhadevata and her turning smaller when she exceeded her power. The crown I feel is the strongest argument for me. No one else in the game wears a crown and hers is plastered over the Genshin logo.
The ties to the moon sisters never really had anything to back it up and was a theory pre enkanomiya when we learned a lot about the shining shades and phanes. We thought istaroth was just some normal goddess until enkanomiya said she was a shade.
So the seelie theory never really held much weight for me.

>>714954301
There are still a lot of mysteries concerning the moons. For one, Kukulkan claims that the moons were created by dragons. It seems unlikely to me that Paimon's a dragon. Her star-related imagery is far too strong. Though it's possible that there are further secrets regarding the moons that we haven't learned yet, and that Kukulkan wasn't telling the whole story.

>>714947585
>They have fucking hologram computer screens now.
you realize Inazuma is about fighting a literal cyborg right

>>714942570 (OP)
>overarching story and setting is good
>most of the "day to day" story when playing is just useless generic NPCs talking about their problems and dumping entire novels of text on you
Literally have to wade through a novel worth of meaningless bullshit to get 1 page of stuff that's actually interesting.

>>714954256
>goddess of LIFE
>huge tits and hips
Umm why is an old hag symbolizing life? Goddess of life should be young and perfectly flat

Reminder that the undoing of the Heaven's Order over the planet was the fairest maiden among their angelic envoys being introduced to BHC.

>>714954361
Yes I've heard that before and it's never been built upon in 4 years. Also I'm unsure if that's what genshin is supposed to mean or it's a localisation issue.
However the literal translation of Genshin is ORIGINAL GOD or PRIMORDIAL GOD.
I feel that's so on the nose with paimons crown on it I don't know what else to tell you.

>>714945301
It is the opposite of filler; we will finally get to advance the actual plot of the game. Since the beginning of the game, we have been getting filler on the AQs. The focus was on solving the nation of the year problem with almost zero development about Celestia, Abyss, Shades, Paimon, or anything else outside that nation. It was only in Natlan that they finally included a little bit about the Shades and the Abyss in the AQ.

>>714954473
Puppet. She's a very fancy puppet. God she would be so much hotter with doll joints.

>>714942810
>change one letter from the names of the 72 demons of the lesser key
>except paimon, kept the name straight up.

>>714954575
>or it's a localisation issue
The removed it completely in ENG localization lmao, it's only in jap and chinese
>literal translation
anon that's not how kanji works. you don't "translate" each kanji and combine them to get the meaning of the word. Sometimes that works but most of the time it doesn't. In the case of Genshin it's probably more like "origin of godhood" than "original god". Attaining divinity = origin of godhood, makes sense right

>>714954708
Most of the demonic names are unchanged though (Barbatos, Buer, Beelzebub, Amy)

Do we know why Khaenri'ah was cursed with immortality? Was it just some weird punishment, or was there something more to it?

>>714953973
>If I wanted to play genshin for the story
Don't

>>714954657
Yes and guns are just very fancy bows.

>>714954813

not bad for a video that came unannounced at midnite est

>>714942570 (OP)
QRD for someone who never played? I'm already familiar with the intro and have general knowledge of what the archons are.

>>714954838
Ronova doing the needful I guess. It's the "greater punishment" compared to the curse of wilderness.

>>714954787
Genshin is Chinese not Japanese.

>>714955202
>QRD for someone who never played?

>>714955202
They're basically the greater gods while archons are just lesser gods.

>>714954838
Strongest theory is that they needed to prevent Khaenri'ans from re-integrating with the Leylines. They were all probably "infected" with the Abyss, and since the Abyss corrodes Teyvat's Leylines, if that many infected Khaenri'ans died, it would probably cause irreparable damage.

>>714955396
OP called this a Tsar Bomba because they've never been seen before?

>>714942570 (OP)
Dumb question : I haven't done the current patch's story with Skirk yet, can I watch this new lore trailer or will I get spoiled?

>>714954787
It originally referred to the idea of nascent gods like vision holders becoming gods. However that is never referenced in the story. Venti, ZhongLi, Raiden shogun etc, all of them don't use visions and aren't humans either. The shades aren't humans or vision users and are basically clones. If it was an original idea I think they dropped it very quickly. The other bit of info I know about is that genshin was going to be linked to the honkaiverse and the thrones from the sky were going to be herscherrs but I think that's also dropped.
>kanji
Genshin is Yuanshen in chinese and which means original god or primordial god. It's not a Japanese game.

>>714955402
That would make sense. Could also explain why the wilderness curse caused prolonged life. That would allow the lesser corrupted people to slowly trickle back into the leylines.

Do we know where all these immortal people are hanging out though? Surely there must have been quite a few of them. Are they all just chilling in the abyss somewhere?

>>714954498
This. The world-building and plot have great potential and it is well done, but much of it is wasted by a watered-down, unfocused, and safe narrative. Most of the time, the Archon Quests feel like filler.

The game have us chasing a wild goose and dropping crucial bombs like "Rhinedottir has fused with the shade of life" in the middle of it as if it were a matter of fact.

I would also like to see the Archons interacting more with each other, it is like there is no communication or relationship between them.

>>714955449
We went from basically no knowledge of the 4 Shades, other than lore snippets in text and quests, to a fucking straight video reveal.

>>714955475
You can watch it no problem. Not really connected.

>>714955202
>archons are lesser gods
>the 4 (only 3 present in the video) barefoot anime girls are greater gods
If I recall correctly there's also one top level god or even outright God but I don't recall since I haven't played since Nahida.

>>714955621
They are the slavers for the Heavens

>>714955475
you're good bro

>>714955576
The game would be a lot better if it cut down on the useless NPC side of things and focused on the actual main story, but that doesn't mesh well with the gacha system of keeping the addicts playing and rolling.

>>714953575
>I don't think I've ever had it, is it anything like barley?
Very nutty, I like it. Boil some in chicken stock with some sauteed onions and carrots.

>>714955568
No. Pureblooded Khaenri'ans got pure immortality, while mixed-blooded Khaenri'ans became Hilichurls.

Most pure-blooded Khaenri'ans probably joined the Abyss Order.

>>714955202
It's the same generic gnostic isekai plot you've seen in every fantasy themed anime

The hero is the good guy fighting the bad guy, but the actual good guy is the bad guy because he's fighting the actual bad guy which is reality itself

>>714955568
>That would make sense. Could also explain why the wilderness curse caused prolonged life. That would allow the lesser corrupted people to slowly trickle back into the leylines.
Unless I'm heavily misremembering the story in the inverted city (it was in Mondstadt so forever ago) hilichurls can't die either, their body can get dismembered and destroyed and reduced to particles taken by the wind but their mind is still trapped in the world.

>>714955835
I feel like it's several layers deeper than that but yeah.
I think eventually the main villain will be the second throne from the heavens who is the source of the abyss.

Pregnant Columbina (by me).

reminder

>>714942810
Wasn't Istaroth supposed to be a good guy (girl)? I expected her to be the one not working with the other 3.

>Asmoday is missing
>"maybe she loves her new master more"
...Paimon?

>>714949054
I remember using that term all the time back in the day, and then out of nowhere got called a newfag for using it. This place is strange, innit?

>traveler's sibling, tsaritsa, and pierro want to overthrow the heavens
>all of them seem to ignore the giant elephants in the room that are the multiple immensely powerful pure abyssal entities similar to Gosoythoth in act 5 of Natlan
Even if any of them succeed how the hell are any of them gonna deal with the tidal wave of abyssal monsters and corruption that will pour out when the protection of Celestia is gone? We literally see for ourselves in act four of Natlan what happens when a single one of them launches a full scale invasion, not to mention the entities in question only care for the destruction of everything and can't be reasoned with.

>>714956225
>Wasn't Istaroth supposed to be a good guy (girl)?
Nigga we worked with Ronova in Natlan and she was the one who skullfucked Khaenri'ah at the behest of the Heavens. There's no good people here.

>>714956270
I have the funny Paimon portrait in my teapot so I'm fucked

Haven't played since Inazuma so I have no fucking idea what's going on

>>714956373
>There's no good people here.

celestia had no problems with that godless nation until they started fucking with forbidden knowledge, then they had to be put down

>>714954004
it doesn't matter, my account will be gone by the 18th

Making trailers is the only thing mihomo knows how to do. And the in the actual game it's fucking black screen city and presented in the flattest way possible.

>>714956373
Wasn't the main reason she even destroyed Khaenri'ah that they where fucking everything up like what Deshret did thousands of years ago?

>>714956475
Oz, NO

>>714956225
>he thinks the heavenly principles are evil
Khaenriah basically opened a hole into the abyss and flooded the entire world with a zombie apocalypse that killed off several archons.
When the shining shades intervene the world is basically fucked. Asmodey destroys Khaenriah because it's a gigantic entry way into literal hell. Istaroth places a curse of immortality on the people of khaenriah presumably because they opened a hole into hell and are militant atheists.
Khaenriah deserved everything it got.
Istaroth is also the only reason human beings exist on Teyvat. After the war with the second throne the surface of Teyvat was ash and with Phanes gone no one could bring the Enkanomiyans back to the surface to start again. Istaroth was the one who eventually helped released them.

>>714956536
>they where fucking everything up
More like breaking the ruse.
Same thing in Remuria, Sal Vindagnyr, the Golden City...

>>714956515
>And the in the actual game it's fucking black screen city

>What is the price of killing a god?

>>714956616
>oh shit dain is gonna fight his brother
>black screen lmao
dishonest cunt

>>714956664
please let pierro job so hard it would be so fucking funny

>>714956371
In Khaenri'ah, utilizing the Abyss was a pretty everyday thing. Learning how to use the Abyss was apparently part of their schools' curriculum, so the Abyss was pretty much a normal part of everyone's lives. It apparently is possible to safely use the Abyss, but it's also volatile enough that if the slightest thing goes wrong, you run the risk of thoroughly nuking your surroundings. Perhaps they're hoping that once Khaenri'ah's out of the picture, they can create a new golden age using the Abyss.

We don't exactly know what the Fatui are planning to achieve, but my guess is that the Tsaritsa thinks she can probably do better.

The Abyss Order is right.

>>714942570 (OP)
Rheindottir eating out Naberius pussy...

>>714956475

>Fixes an issue whereby Iansan could move horizontally through the air under certain circumstances.
>Fixes an issue whereby Paimon would occasionally speak aloud the Player's full social security number, current address and legal name during pause menu

glad they finally patched that last one

>>714956728
>1 black screen in a 2 hour quest is black screen city

>>714956916
My nigga Halfdan didn't have that issue.

>>714956742
Doubt it. Not even the most virginal self gender hating repulsive Chinese ricecel was happy with Capitano not being playable.

>>714950625
>Basically straight up say Asmoday is Paimon
Huh?

>>714956373
Are we playing the same game? It's impossible for them to make her the "bad guy," especially with that design and how safe Genshin is. They'll never put an straight up "evil" character in the gacha and she will certainly be there with that design. Look what they did with Arlecchino.
I am 100% sure that they will portray the curse of immortality and all that they did as the lesser of two evils in order to avoid something so much worse.

>>714957014
>>714956270

>>714956950
they don't want to show what either Dain or his brother can do because they may change their abilities by the time they are palyable

>>714957005
In retrospect, we shouldn't have expected it. It was far too obvious that he was never meant to be playable. His design especially.

Still, if I'm being completely honest, I don't actually mind him not being playable. What actually pisses me off is that he'll never fucking get to be a boss fight. He deserved that at least.

The real twist will be that the Traveler isn't Paimon's new master and she will change sides again.
It came to me in a dream.

>>714955576
>>714955694
Thanks to vocal shippers specially yuritroons who have a heart attack if 2 characters interact

I'm really behind when it comes to Genshin lore. Though I really liked it when they introduced more of it in Enkinomiya. Since then though, I feel like I've been distracted too much with regional sublore to the point I've lost my way, back again with the end of Natlan's chapter.
Any good up-to-date well done video delving into the Genshin lore, the one that really matters, the one featured in today's trailer? I don't care much about old pyramid sand kings other than the lore about history being rewritten and ancient knowledge being banned, I want something retracing the lore regarding the principles, the shades, Albedo, Khaenri'ah, the Fatuis, Teyvat's rules, and all that jazz.

bina region
bina year
bina game
bina world

>>714957050
>will portray
Haven't they been doing that all along? Been pretty clear that the gods of Teyvat really don't want anything to do with the Abyss gaining entry to the world.

>>714956916
>d-d-doesn't count
yeah fuck off

Rheidottir eats Asmoday to become Asmongold

>>714952361
Why my ingame 60fps doesnt look as good as 60fps I see on 4chan?

>>714957115
Minsleif is alright. She's nice to look at too.

>>714957005
its moreso that hes picking a fight with the shades, they need to pull some collosal bullshit to make it so that he wins somehow. Ronova could literally just remove him, fuck theyre probably powerful enough to sneeze in thier direction and the fatui get shit on

>>714957089
Of course the traveler isn't her master. The abyss sibling is. That is why Paimon is a guide. She is guiding us through the steps the abyss sibling took so that we can get to understand them.

>>714957168
you're not on a ps5

>>714957167
I believe you.

>>714956270
>>714950625
>>714957014
What makes little sense is that she's the shade of space, not time.
>pause game
>everything freezes
>except Paimon, she's moving around on the screen
It would have made so much more sense if she were the shade of time.

>>714951270
>Won the gamble with Death
>won
It was planned.

>>714944225
What a SLUT
What's the price for fucking Death itself?

>>714957180
Makes you wonder why they want the gnosis so badly. A gnosis made from someone higher up than the shades.

>>714957295
The Gnoses were created from the corpse of the Third Descender. Perhaps they're trying to create an artificial Descender.

>>714957287
>What's the price for fucking Death itself?
Death. She'll keep your soul as a sex toy though.

>>714944871
>They appear to be searching for something of extreme significance in the area
PALE PRINCESS AND 6 PYGMIES BROS, IT'S OUR TIME, FINALLY

>>714942570 (OP)
Simpathetic re

>>714957119
Are 'Bina and 'Cchino besties?

>>714945741
She "ate" Naberius.
Don't forget the Sinners gained unimaginable power.
With one of them moving around the universe gaining even more strength and being effectively unbeatable right now.
In terms of HSR power levels he could even probably be an Emanator

>>714942570 (OP)
Post the normal version, you fat autistic nigger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXVmvW8ZQw

>>714943578
what if that is her vagina

>>714957465
It has English subtitles.

>>714957465
Dubswine should be banned on sight.

>>714956515
the actual game is outdated as fuck, the npc's look so horrible
average zzz npc you randomly find vs literal founder of the abyss order, main antagonist faction in the whole game

genshin is a dogshit lazy game, they don't even try they never tried they never will

they are fucking lying like they always lie, they promise you the world for 6.0 but it's the same lazy shit they always make.

genshin is best when it's not considered as a game, just treat it as an animation studio and watch the animations of youtube.

>>714957487
But the normal one is actually IN english

>>714957276
Sure it was, Ronova

Call me when they add skip button

Saintontas video title: Its over! Genshin is completely ruined!

>>714957406
Kill yourself, subhuman pajeet spammer.

>>714957529
Genshin is 4+ years old bro. ZZZ came out last year. ZZZ characters put HSR characters to shame. Partly because it's newer and uses better tech.

>>714949807
It is quite obvious that he will come back. Unlike Signora, he has not turned to dust. They are saving him for a moment when there is no way out and he will come like the cavalry to save everyone.

>>714957504
Japanese dub is also a dub

>>714942810
What's this band called?
FGO's Rejects?

So main question - where is a Honkai connection in new lore?

>>714957529
>5 year old game with a huge world that can run on cheap phones is visually behind a new game with instanced corridors that somehow has a larger filesize
wow

>>714956776
>the Tsaritsa thinks she can probably do better
>she hires some of the emotionally volatile people imaginable to lead her people and armies
All it takes is five to six of those fuckheads to throw her and the entirety of Teyvat under the bus for cool transcendent powers, pop the abyssal soda can powering everything, and release abyss cataclysm 2 electric boogaloo.

>>714957585
they made billions, why did they not update the models?
fortnite used to look like shit, but they update it regularly, you can see the evolution when you compare new skins to old ones.
in genshin the npc's from 2020 look as bad as those in 2025

>>714957529
>genshin is a dogshit lazy game, they don't even try they never tried they never will
Yes I do want them to make an improvement to all in game graphics.
No genshin is not lazy.
Genshin was made when the studio was far smaller.

>>714957702
It's the engine. It's a heavily modified unity engine. Also a lot of talent has been drained from the genshin team to hsr and zzz. Especially zzz where most of the creative talent seems to have gone. However they have said they are going to improve animations and NPC reactions in the newer versions.

>>714957702
because its mobile game

ZZZ runs like shit on mobile, and hence is worst performing Mihoyo game

>>714957486
She has many.

Is C1 Mavuika worth it? I just want to get some of the 4* constellations from her banner.

whats the relevance of istaroth and venti having the same VA? i refuse to regularly play a game that has 1 interesting story revelation every 6-12 months but im still interested in the main story of teyvat

>>714957702
Isn't fortnite also the testbed for new unreal engine versions?
Unlike that I believe Genshin is built with custom components on top of Unity 2017

I do agree they should upgrade the models though.

>>714948504
Neato

>>714957797
>Especially zzz where most of the creative talent seems to have gone.
Huh? ZZZ is explicitly all new hires. And they're getting pounded hard and their budget cut for months now.

>>714957529
>massive open world game is lazy
>hallway mook simulator isn't

>>714957465
Kill yourself dubtard

>>714957702
They made billions. Why would they invest it back into the game when it's making money anyway?
They have a second nuclear reactor to build

Should I try getting Mavuika's sword? I got like 180 wishes but I want the upcoming robowife.

>>714957807
hand pussy

>>714957768
>Genshin was made when the studio was far smaller.
they invested hundreds of millions when making genshin, that's the kind of numbers you see in AAA game development.

the truth you don't want to admit is that they aren't trying because they know for a fact people won't stop playing and mobile players have no standards, so the billions of dollars they made were all invested into making other games, zzz and the honkai bullshit like star rail and the new pokemon ripoff

they never tried to make genshin better, they just do the same old shit

>>714957702
My favorite game still has the best story and best animated story, I'm content with it

>>714957845
A lot are new hires but it has a base of people from genshin and hsr that made up the genshin team. Especially the lead devs. I think the ex animation lead from genshin is now the zzz animation lead.

>Genshin has no effort
>Also Genshin puts everything in it

>>714957702
>why did they not update the models?

it's a massive open world game that has to play on shitty phones, use your fucking head

>>714957702
Bruh, genshin came out as 12gb game in PC and now its over 112 GB, ZZZ literally launch as 50+ GB game.
5,0 Genshin and ZZZ 1.0 literally on the same file size in mobile

>>714957797
>most of the creative talent seems to have gone
It was mostly new devs and interns with heavy supervision from the start.
You can see the design shift in the past few patches as they cannibalized the ZZZ team into other divisions and put the oldfags on it instead.

>>714957702
>they made billions, why did they not update the models?
Genshin can't even run on PS4 anymore so they took it off, even most phones can't run Genshin well.

>>714942570 (OP)
>english version 1m views in 6 hours
dead game btw

>>714957824
venti is related to her, something about him being 1 of the 1000 winds istaroth made or something like that

>>714957983
>Genshin can't even run on PS4 anymore so they took it off,

it still works on ps4, what are you on about

>>714957879
I still do not know why they are doing that.
>>714957903
Fair compared to that ZZZ got effectively an entire make over in terms of gameplay removing the TV sections.
HSR keeps powercreeping to an insane degree but even they at least test the waters with the characters they make(plus i find their permanent game modes much more fun than the GI ones)

I do wish they actually try to improve it because I like it, and based on some leaks for Genshin 6.X it might actually change a lot.

>>714957990
30-50k players btw

Genshin has the most expansive lore in vidya, FACT. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

>>714958095
Thank you based paimon.

>>714957702
It is literally impossible for them to update the models, add seamless mouse-to-controller detection, a visible pity count, a skip button, replayable events, excess energy savings, and lift domain day restrictions, as well as implement artifact loadouts.
There is no way this is possible.

>>714946475
>>714951546
they will be 6 star characters

>>714958095
*mwah*
Thanks Paimon

>>714958095
Turn back into your adult form and show feet, wench.

>>714958130
>a visible pity count

this retard can't so simple multiplication

>>714957914
show me 1 genshin animation that ever came close to the production value and dramatic intensity of picrel

>>714957812
It's her best constellation besides 6. Gives her an enormous attack boost, and makes her generate more ult charge and makes her skill last longer. But yeh, you're also shooting for more Iansan constellations so it's double worth.

>>714958095
SEX with Paimon!

>>714958095
You forgot to never go full retard.

>Asmoday
This sounds so fucking dumb, like what is that, some webstore Prime day? Couldn't they go with Asmodeus as they should

>>714958202
>left
Point taken.
>right
lmao

>>714958202
Funny you say that as their team who used to do the 3D honkai animations are currently working on one for Nod Krai

>>714948761
Real life is even a gacha when you think about it Your parents rolled a 50/50 on getting the daughter they wanted, but they got (You) instead. But you can always roll more!

>>714957881
Mauvika's true weapon is one of the best claymores to use on like 90% of characters in the game. Robowife looks boring, and not strong enough to save electro/water teams. Up to you, but getting the sword unironically gives you better team building options than robot.

play real videogames

>>714958202
I loved both of them too so what's your point? They were made by the same company
Are you okay anon? Does the internet mind broken you so much you need to compete two franchises that their money goes into the same company?
What next, you going to compare apple laptop with their tablet too next?

>>714957802
>>714957945
>>714957949
>>714957983

>>714958258
deep lore connected to the Austin Powers films, Xiao Luohao confirmed this in interview

>>714958390
eat shit tranny

>>714958479
>genpedos calling anyone a tranny
pottery

>>714958194
Kill yourself disgusting faggot. ZZZ has it and is just nice to have a visual count right there for you.

>>714958519
>faggot kike sitting in goldshire all day trying to do futanari erp with kids calling anyone a pedo
kys maye

>>714957168
Maybe your game is capped at like 59fps or something.

>>714957245
>implying ps5 gets 60fps

>>714942810
why are they so addicted to making female characters with long flowing hair? the first 3 look like the same girl in different times of the day

>>714958479
You play genshin

>>714958447
i just don't like that they use genshin money to finance other shit, i play genshin i pay for shit to make genshin better not for them to waste MY MONEY on other kusoge i don't care about

>>714958454
A 10 years old PC still can play ZZZ, a new $200 phone that came out last year can't even launch ZZZ after beta because they restricted the chip after launch due to performance issue.
imagine beta testing your phone then they blocked it completely during launch

>>714958640
you "play" wow (sit in goldshire all day trying to do gay erp with kids)

>>714958638
They have said they want something to flow and move around on the back of characters while they walk around, to be visually interesting.
Hence the rattails, or doodads, or ribbons on the back
>>714958665
>i just don't like that they use genshin money to finance other shit
If it makes you feel better, Star Rail autoplayers in China pay more, and ZZZ's production quality has fallen significantly since launch. We're all funding Chinese nuclear reactors.

>>714958258
Honestly, all these lesse key names are cringe as fuck. Also, it's weird to give demon names to characters who are morally gray or even straight-up goody two-shoes, like most of the Archons.

>>714958727
any other projections?

>>714958665
They using fusion reactor money, once the promised 2030 VR brain dive MMO came out all of those hoyo gachashittery will be the one whose getting fund injection.

>>714958772
that's not what projection means maye

Tl;dr me/remind me about hose hexenzirkel witches again
Why are they so powerful, though I think at least a few of them are Descenders as well? I think?
There's honestly too many powerful beings. You're supposed to articulate your story over a low number of them or else it doesn't make sense.

>>714958684
>A 10 years old PC still can play ZZZ, a new $200 phone that came out last year can't even launch ZZZ
ARM chip is a mistake.

>>714958882
rhinedottir is a sinner from kaenri'ah, she stole a part of the abyss twin's abyssal power during the cataclysm, then she got the power of a shade.

i don't know why thr rest are strong, alice is from another world i think but the rest aren't explained, just magic bullshit.

>>714951131
This guy thinks like a Khaenri'ahn.
Remove him.

>>714958882
It's mostly just Alice and maybe N that are strong. Nobody knows why Alice is so powerful. lol sick lore

>>714951131
Pay attention, retard-coon. Pierre in the video outright states that the single and only advantage you have when fighting a god, is that the god fully believes they cannot be killed. You basically get one free surprise attack on them, so if it kills it kills bigly.

>>714959174
>Sonora weakness is nut allergy.

>>714959341
Holy shit, it's been years since I made that gif!

>>714958202
>Hi3
on par with genshin
>HSR
they didn't do kevin justice with out of place music. compared to TruE, HSR butchered it

>>714959417
I lost all of my 2008 and under folders.

This thread was fucking great, nanodesu

Why didn't they get Ufotable to animate it

>>714951140
nah, khaenri'ans just have a thing for eyepatches

>>714956664
Why is the trope of killing god always so fucking kino? I don't care how every jRPG does this (they actually don't), it's just fucking cool in a MANKIND FUCK YEAH.
much like mankind stomping powerful aliens, it just fucking works.

>deity(ies) appear
drop a genshillion names you might've read in a note dropped in the corner of the map
>left in a rock you have to swim to by eating 5000 stamina soups and beating the assfucker of the abyss 2000+ lvl boss
>"ok now you get it please look forward 1 more note in another 2 years"
>"oh btw here's 50 quests so you know how many pubes random NPC girl has and what the color of her pee looks like"
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

>>714957702
they care about me being able to still play their game on my toaster pc

ENTER

>>714959720
All Columbina threads are.

>>714957807
Man she sure can pleasure herself quite deep with such fingers

>>714960563
first 2 make good combo
last 2 make good combo in bed

>>714960353

>>714960936
my exact face when I have to google my way out of a migraine to remember names and characters from these trailers

>>714960353
I mean, what would be easier to come across, lore about a god only the Archons and SOME researchers know about or info about some NPC girl's pubes?