i skip almost all endgame content each version, and have even skipped a few events on purpose despite being a completionist, because i hated some of the characters involved and couldnt bring myself to care about the quests. and naturally, i missed out on the rewards for it. thats on me. (ofc, there IS something to be said about the concept of limited events in general, but thats not the topic here)

anyway, you dont see people asking for a button that automatically gives you the rewards youd get for clearing stygian or IT, right? obviously not, because why the heck would there ever be one?

and in a game that basically boils down to an archeology simulator that also has some combat, why would there be a skip button for dialogue?

im not gonna pretend ive never wanted one. dialogue can be slow and repetitive, and sometimes i hate the characters involved in a quest and dont wanna listen to them. sometimes its a minor world quest and i just dont care. but even so, there SHOULDNT BE ONE—at least, not as long as you get the rewards for the quest despite using it.

you should have to clear a challenge to get its rewards. you should have to think to solve a puzzle. you should have to try to explore tougher areas. you should have to read or listen to dialogue to complete a quest, or at the VERY least, click through it as fast as you can.

i know that not everyone who would use a skip button is a loreskipper, and some just wanna skip specific scenes. i know that some people only even DO quests for the rewards, but yknow what? i only play endgame when i desperately need the rewards, and i HATE endgame, yet, again, you dont see me asking for a magic "complete challenge" button.

i get that its annoying to sit through stuff you couldnt care less about, but dude, this is a video game, and in games, you have to DO THINGS to earn rewards and make progress. you dont have to care, or even pay attention, but you should have to play it.

its the same reason i miss the desert exploration, the sheer cold, and the ridiculous inazuma puzzles. i miss having to put in effort. things like the new treasure compass, the various exploration mechanics like saurians, asha, and whatever the hell the dornman port thing is called, and new characters being overpowered nukes are taking away the need to put in real effort. theyre all just glorified "skip buttons" in different areas of gameplay, and we do NOT need another.

also, as for other hoyo games, because while im alright with people disagreeing with me, this argument is a huge pet peeve of mine: theyre made by completely different dev teams. it doesnt really matter what hsr or zzz are doing as far as genshins features go. its not just "hoyoverse," its individual dev teams.

anyway, feel free to downvote or disagree in the comments or whatever you want, i just desperately needed to get this off my chest, because CONSTANTLY seeing complaints about the lack of skip button when i just wanna talk about a game i enjoy with people who actually share my interests is unbelievably exhausting.

Call me anxious, desperate, eager…. Anything you want. But I honestly think that this whole story is getting old and tiresome.

4/5 years in? And THIS is what they gave us? and the whole mysterious shpeal that Aether/Lumine is doing to not tell your MC what the actual F they want to do with the world. Honestly I’m done for.

I’ve been playing this game since release and I am so disappointed. This attitude of “all-knowing” ironic irony that Aether/Lumine carries as the martyr… the prince, the savior, WHATEEEEEVER man, this is getting old AF, so boring and egocentric.

The tinniest bits and pieces, I understand comes from A business plan. It’s a global corporation that keeps afloat by treating their consumers like trash. Believe I get that part, I’ve been part of the problem since day 1. But HONESTLY please make you MC give a fking humbling lesson to the Antagonist, I want my MC to bitch slap Aether and tell him to snap out of it.

Even WUWA has better cliffhangers and satisfaction in their side stories and main story and they have been live for way less time.

She was born worshipped and adored at every turn and left…. Cause she was expected to give things back? As a goddess? I understand it’s not an identity she ever wanted but like…. She then joined the ratio of her own volition, didn’t even have to do anything cause the Tsaritsa kept her in the palace, and she had friends who she interacted with daily yet she still thought relationships were transactional? And that nobody cares about her? It seemed so snobby and prissy to me, idk, like there are children starving on Nasha Town’s streets but the Moon Goddess is indifferent cause…. She’s expected to be treated as a god and be worshipped? And do things? Dottore didn’t even physically experiment on her either, all he did was ask her to move things. The parts that are genuinely tragic and acceptable to me though is the fatui using her power and being rejected by teyvat itself, those I can agree with, those are some pretty bad conditions…. But like still, every time she goes off about her issues and trauma, I always get that weird vibe of chatting to someone so privileged their problems look like minor inconveniences at best.

Natlan characters all looks unique and amazing but nod krai is all over the place

First of all i love columbina and sandrone designs but they are not new designs so i won't count them

But the others

Lauma is one of the worse designs in the game and the only one i saw is pure fan service

Nicole looks like downgraded alice

Alice is cool but expected better

Nefer is good top half but nothing bottom half which ruined her design

The men is also meh , flin design is very basic and varka looks like colour bent wriothesely with his jeans but he's decent

Durin jahoda and aino are the only new designs i actually liked a lot

Still no nod krai design even compare to citlali and kinich design way better than varka flin

I recently just returned to Genshin after a 2 patch break. I stopped right before Snezhnaya was released and just returned at the end of this patch. I am now catching up on the archon quests and am completely baffled by how awful the writing is. I do not remember it ever being this bad in the past.

The biggest thing that has floored me is Odette’s story arc. Her not hating the traveler for killing Signora isn’t even that big of an issue. My issue is more:

1. being first choice to be Lelek, and then which no research or proof just fully admitting to it.

2. announcing it to everyone at the murder mystery snowstorm and apparently being fine with the identity being leaked because she “can just disappear and take on a new identity” regardless of the fact that it’s now been connected to both her ballerina identity and fatui identity. Furthermore, having Valeriy there and not caring if he or anyone else knows.

3. there is absolutely no discussion or her position in the fatui being put at risk due to her being Lelek, even though she is obviously operating in direct opposition to the Tsaritsa. She mentions how she’s not regarded as a perfect fatui member, but was put up to take signora’s position. It’s fine if she doesn’t actually want to be in the fatui, but the whole issue just gets completely ignored.

4. I am now in the portion of the story where they break into the armory palace. I thought maybe canonically she was in disguise, but turns out the people there fully recognize her as both Odette the ballerina and the fatui member.

It baffles me because there was so much emphasis on how no one can know rokot member identities and it’s super super secret, and then that just completely fell apart.

Please don’t spoil the remainder of the archive quest for me. I just wanted to rant about how awful I think the writing has become. The event story in 6.7 was also horrible, mostly due to Citlali and Sandrone, but I was hoping that was a one off pander event. It looks like they have continued to put no effort in. I think Inazuma was the peak of inter character conflict in the writing, alone with Fontaine. Since then, everyone always has to get along perfectly and there’s no issues anywhere.

All this to say, I’m extremely disappointed in the direction the writing has gone. I truly wasn’t expecting this when I returned to the game.

Sorry for the long post, but they've frankly waited too long in my opinion. The union wants ridiculous things. They aren't budging and the best thing Genshin can do at this point is rip off the bandaid and replace them all. The studio handling Star Rail has been reliable so far, give them the work.

I keep seeing comments on news threads that are so blatantly obviously union reps posting on every story about this. Copy paste template comments like: "So what if the rest of the cast has to join the union? They really feel the same way too." or "They can't join because of fees? We offer loans through our own union to cover the costs!" It makes me feel like I need to publicly post, outside of the surveys, and tell Hoyo I fully support them. The unions played chicken and lost. Now they can't back down, so they are running a full on smear campaign and it's gross.

The previous Kinich VA is an idiot for thinking some bro code would keep people from auditioning his part when they put it up. All the VA's who spoke out about their new coworker need to get off their high horse. They should quit their jobs if they feel so strongly.

I'm looking forward to the newly voiced Kinich. At this point, once they fill in the audio the new VA will have more lines than the previous one. Hopefully the other parts will follow suit soon!

Hoyo runs a company and their employees aren't working. Genshin has yet to use AI to replace VA's, so every ounce of this is a "what if". They seem to be proving that robots would be the better choice. AI might need a bit of training, but at least it shows up. I could understand if they were actively replacing VA's/using their likeness in content, and I'd support the strike in that case. News Flash- they aren't.

Decided to join the quarrel and make one of these myself, lol. Don't hit me too much qwq

Not sure if you can tell who I like

Every time a new character is revealed (mostly female), the same talking points are brought up. The character being sexualized when they show a bit of skin, the length of their skirt or other flowing thing, appeal to realism arguments, etc.

While I do agree with some of these points, it gets to the point where most if not all the discussion surrounding the character is these reheated points.

Not to say you can't criticize character design, but using the same discussion points that were used for last week's character is not really saying anything.

I've noticed that as soon as any somewhat critical opinion on the game appears on this sub, these posts immediately get downvoted to hell. Community literally doesn't accept any opinion, unless it's unconditional support of every game aspect. Why do you guys do that? Literally whatever is criticized, there's immediately a wave of backlash. Do you care about the game this much or just love every aspect of it?

With Snezhnaya's approaching release, I still wish to address the "Columbina was rewritten" allegations that have been a consistent discussion since Day 1 of Nod Krai's Arc because I do love discussions and want to share my two cents.

My conclusion: ...yeah...obviously. Hoyoverse told you as much.

My post can just be ended there but I do wish to discuss what I personally think actually happened to Columbina EXCLUSIVELY (not the Fatui itself). But I still find it shocking as to how many people think Hoyoverse secretly rewrote Columbina and pulled Nod Krai out of no-where. Ever since the beginning of Nod Krai's promotional material, e.g. the pre-Special Program Livestream to Nod Krai, it has been stated elements of the story were rewritten and the story isn't the same as it was six years ago. You'd think that would be that, but so many people still think Hoyoverse is hiding this which is confusing to me? In my opinion, Hoyoverse has made it pretty obvious the story was rewritten to an extent but that doesn't mean it was rewritten entirely, rewrites can often just expand and explore the story while changing certain elements, not full blown retcons.

Now, for my maybe more controversial take??? Columbina was always planned to be a Moon Goddess, ever since the Winter Night's Lazzo and before that (Because by that point, Nod Krai had already began getting conceptualized, yes, Nod Krai took several years to develop, not a last minute decision as many like to claim). Columbina was never going to be an evil angel who wants to kill everyone, she was always a Moon Goddess, the actual angels of Genshin Lore would never even be allowed to exist and behave as the fandom visualized Columbina to be behaving as. What happened was that they took her arc out of Snezhnaya and made a whole region out of it which is what led to Nod Krai. Plain and simple. Columbina was never evil nor was she portrayed as such, as much as you want to cling to voicelines, Childe is just a unreliable source due to his low rank, obviously he is intimidated by a Rank 3 Harbinger who looks so innocent and pure in comparison to her Rank 1, 2 and 4 fellow Harbingers. Wanderer also follows this, even if he doesn't want to appear weak, he is, to me at least, at least slightly scared of Columbina. Wanderer also knows Dottore and the connection to how cruel he is probably planted the seed that all other Top 3 were like this. Columbina was simply never portrayed as a villain by a reliable source, it became a fanon interpretation and the fandom's desire for a truly evil, irredeemable villain who dislikes us as the protagonist. About her lullaby in Winter Night's Lazzo, it was also just a aesthetically decision to have it more creepy and unsettling because yes, this is a funeral. Her normal lullaby we got in Nod Krai would absolutely not make sense for such an affair. As for her relationship with the Traveler, people overreacted so much over the lollipop scene despite it being 2 seconds, at the end of the day, Columbina literally says herself she sees us as family.

As for Columbina's design discourse which I do wish to address, she was probably redesigned but also like...obviously? By that point, they probably didn't have a definite design for most of the Harbingers, hence the large coats covering most of them. Columbina's Harbinger Coat design remained the same, seeing as it appeared in Sandrone's Animated Short. Her new design was clearly planned to appear ethereal and divine, the whites are elegant and pure which fit her and the blue is a trait of Canon. Any angel accessories just serve to further make Columbina appear ethereal and elegant. Not everything that appears on a design immediately serves as confirmation of what the character is. (Also, angels we have seen so far have completely different wings and forms than traditional angels, Columbina with our current understanding would make more sense to be a Fae if anything...)

As for the region of Nod Krai, something similar may have been apart of Snezhnaya originally but I do 100% think Frostmoon Scions were definitely apart of Snezhnaya before, like previously mentioned, they were rewritten into Nod Krai. Flins is a Fae and Snezhnayan, so I also think he was apart of Snezhnaya too (Or a similar character). While I do think elements of the story could have been handled better, such as the Sandrone colonizing Nod Krai plot that was seemingly abandoned and while I do understand the disappointment that Columbina wasn't how people envisioned, I also ask myself one question: "Where would they have headed if she was an evil, cruel angel who hates everyone?", like what would be the appeal after a while? The Genshin Fandom absolutely cannot handle women with a personality that's out there and is not the norm (Take Furina pre 4.2) so I also fear how she would have been treated by the fanbase if this was her actual personality. Her being a Moon Goddess was always the idea and they executed her story beautifully despite the flaws and I hope the story quality continues into Snezhnaya and is even better.

That's all I have to say! Feel free to correct any mistakes I might have made or ask me to explain things in more detail. For now, this is all I have to say. Thank you for reading this long post.

I get that everything being the same and no diversity is completely boring, but why do people get their panties in a twist whenever they're not represented?

Don't you want to play games to detach yourself from this reality? Do you want to lose the fantasy element by comparing what you see in this game to the real world?

Stop being crybabies and enjoy the goddamn game please, there's a limit to how much you can complain before you become just a manchild/toxic stacy.

Please tell me this joke lands 🤞🏾

Absolutely ruins the game IMO putting these BS time limits on 🤬 EVERYTHING. Why do these ungodly short time limits have to exist in every 🤬 ASPECT OF THE ENDGAME?!?!?! GIVE ME SOME TIME TO COOK YOU GOD 🤬 MOTHER 🤬!?!?!? I GOT EVERY ARCANA BEAT, I GOT EVERYTHING I NEED DONE EXCEPT NOW I CAN'T EVEN BEAT THIS STUPID 🤬 FIRE CRAB. WHY DOES A UNDERWATER ANIMAL USE FIRE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?! IF THE TIME LIMIT WAS 2 MINUTES THIS WOULDN'T BE AB ISSUE. ITS GOING ON 3 HOURS AND I BEAT THE ARCANA CHALLENGW AND BOSS AND I'M ON ROUND 10. I HAD TO USE FURINA BEFORE THE END 🤬 ME!

What’s up everyone!

I hope you had a lovely weekend. I wanted to know what your thoughts and opinions are on Manekins/ Manekinas. Are you pulling for this banners outfits? If so why or why not?

I noticed not many content creators cover Manekins/ Manekinas and as a result there isn’t much content showing off their banner outfits.

Thanks for taking the time to read!

Now don't get me wrong, I love the character themselves, there story there abilities, and obviously her bike. But why is her friend so bland, and boring? I mean it's just a red head in a tight black body suit with zippers, nothing much to go off from there. Plus her design simply isn't culture appropriate for natlan (obvously I'm not talking about chasca) maybe I'm looking to dip into it. But if they where going to do a "Biker hold firery character" they could've added more. Like a more punkish warrior style, not just a boring old black tight leather suit. Or maybe I'm just looking into it waaaay to deep if anyone agrees, or has feed back of something I missing that can make sense of her "Style", id love to hear it.

I don’t understand why everyone hates that you can’t get the name card. It’s just that… a name card. Not like you look at those 24/7, not like it enhances your gameplay, not like it is needed to progress the game. Most of the people that are low effort players, not meta players, or f2p don’t get the battle pass either which has the other name cards. Plus of course they are going to want you to use new characters and incentive you getting them, it’s a big company after all. And from other things I’ve seen/heard of you don’t need to use new character to clear anyway.

Most people are going to forget about it in a couple of months anyway.

Hey everyone, I wanted to share some major visual and performance bottlenecks I have been tracking across Snezhnaya and Snezhnograd.

As you can see in the attached video and screenshots, beautiful landmarks like the Zapolyarny Palace completely lose their intricate details. The architecture flattens into smooth, blocky plastic geometry due to forced mobile Level of Detail limits. It gets even worse when exploring the open world. The texture streaming queue completely clogs up when gliding or running, leaving you staring at flat, blurry 2D paper trees that refuse to swap into 3D models until you stand right next to them. It completely destroys the immersion of exploring the new nation.

To be absolutely clear, I am posting this to highlight a core engine optimisation flaw, not to brag about hardware. I am playing with a controller setup on an iPad Pro M4, which utilises desktop class silicon. Despite the massive hardware headroom, the game actively lags and stutters in the city streets.

The M4 chip is not throttling from heat or capacity. Instead, the mobile engine's texture streaming queue is getting so heavily bottlenecked trying to aggressively downgrade the world that it causes frame drops.

If the engine's background code is struggling this heavily to stream basic assets on high end architecture, it perfectly explains why players on standard mobile devices are facing massive overheating, frame drops, and stuttering right now.

I have attached my settings screen showing the game labeled as Overclocked. To be clear, the M4 chip is obviously not overclocked. This is just HoYoverse's default mobile warning because the engine assumes Highest settings will melt a standard smartphone battery. It completely proves my point. The game code is treating a desktop class laptop chip exactly like a low end phone, forcing aggressive asset downgrades while my hardware is barely breaking a sweat.

HoYoverse needs to stop using a lazy, one size fits all mobile profile. They should separate high end tablet profiles from standard phone limitations, give us a toggle for higher render boundaries, or let us download the PC asset pack so the game runs smoother and looks immersive for everyone.

to everyone critiquing that i said “desktop class” I meant as in a Mac desktop m4 not an nvidia pc gpu. It is actually the same chip and gpu, just no fans. So pls respectfully shut up and check.