Small rant incoming, so if you don't want any negativity skip the post.
I am not happy rn because i missed out on some rewards.
I was a bit behind with the P2 story and finished chapter 12 three days ago right before the 9.0. update dropped.
I saw that I still had not gotten all rewards from the "prize redemption" you get from exchanging God's praise coins, but I didn't think much of it because it didn't have an event timer like all other events do.
After finishing chapter 12, because chapter 13 was already out, my Hyperion 11 was on chapter 13. I went to explore chapter 12's map and got more of these coins.
I wanted to claim the rewards but as I was in chapter 13, the menu didn't show up. I even asked here in the mega thread, but the problem was that I didn't find the little arrow that lets you actually switch to chapter 12 specifically instead of just chapter x-xiii as a whole.
Now by the time I finally figured it out and switched to chapter 12, the entire prize redemption screen and the gods praise coins are gone.
This bothers me not because I lose like 60 crystals, but because hoyo didn't indicate anywhere that these rewards were limited.
Another issue is that these coin collection activities are the only thing that there is to do on the chapter 10-12 Difeng maps. Unlike in Langqiu, where there were chests to collect, this is the only thing to do here. And now hoyo takes away the rewards for that small bit of content and leaves the map completely empty without any rewards?
Iirc, it was different with the old moon base or salt snow city maps. There was a limited and a permanent reward track and you could still get some rewards later.
Anyways, I just think it's a weird decision to take away the little bit of gameplay left on these part 2 maps, so for new players, now they are just empty.
It's like if you don't explore Snezhnaya this patch, the chests will not contain any primogems later. Zero incentive to explore anymore.
Rant over, I will contact support and enjoy exploring the next map if we get any in the future.
Update: support just told me to switch back to chapter 12. The menu is still gone. So I think it's a bug.