Genshin Impact

Fairly chill game, but also very much a gacha game. You get access to 4 free characters via the main story, then 1 more via an achievement, none of them is a healer. All the healers are locked behind gacha. Some characters only become strong once you rank them up via getting them in a gacha roll. Made by the same company that makes / runs Honkai Impact, so there business model is pure mobile focused. Combat is good and becomes really good once you start switching characters to fire off elemental combos.

The game has various currencies for you to use. You can get the gacha currency by doing achievements, leveling up, hitting story milestones.. which is all limited once you've done those things. There is a currency that lets you enter the various dungeons (small things, usually just 1 room with like a horde mode mechanic). Then there is a currency that allows you to open the world boss chests. You get a set amount of those currencies each day. Though you can buy more, of course. ;p

This game is suppose to come out soon and it does look like a fun BoTW clone. Not into gatcha games but hopefully can just play through the story without focusing on gatcha while I wait for Cyberpunk to come out.

Need to know more about it before actually even attempting to play it.

What is the deal with the character switching thing....why do that?

Chersk said:

What is the deal with the character switching thing....why do that?

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You can have 4 characters at a time and they have different element affinities. Switching between them you do combos with the different elements.

Yeah its just funky how you instantly switch on top of yourself. Asian thing?

Quick playstyle to get you to want to unlock more characters via gatcha maybe.

The dev's lowered the amount of gacha currency that players can earn by a noticeable amount from the final closed beta to the current CN open beta. If you play, you'll have a pretty quick start in the first month as you collect most of the one time only currency rewards, but going forward you'll earn less and less, while also being able to play less and less (for loot dropping activities). This is a full on 100% cash grab, but you can do all content with the free characters they give you, but the higher end content could become quite difficult without $$ or very good luck.

I intend to play until I feel pressured into spending, since the whole exploration aspect of the game is pretty nice.

Some newer information with the release later tonight / tomorrow. They will be giving out enough of the gacha currency to make 30 or so rolls, depending on what you want to roll on. There will be 3 Character Banners, and maybe a 4th for weapons. These will be the Beginner Banner, limited to 20 rolls, but guaranteed to reward the character Noelle, only has Characters and 3* weapons (any character you get will be a 4*), so with 20 rolls max, you're guaranteed at least 2 Characters (Noelle + Another).

Then there will be a Standard Banner that has several characters (5* & 4*), but also weapons. This Banner sucks, avoid it. The next banner is a limited rate up banner for the Character Venti, with 3 other 4*, and weapons. There could be another limited banner strictly for weapons, with several 5* weapons to try for.

So by the time you reach Adventure Level 10, you'll get all the free currency from pre launch events: 20 Acquaint Fates (used for Beginner / Standard Banners) and 1600 Primogems (can be used to buy more Acquaint Fates, or the Intwined Fates used for the Limited Venti / Weapon Banners). This doesn't include the Primogems you'll earn via exploration, leveling up, and Story rewards. With all that currency, you'll be able to get at least 2 characters, and 1character or weapon. Not bad.

They have also made a release event where you can get the character Barbara for free if you hit Adventure Rank 20 before the v1.1 patch hits (probably 2 weeks), which is really nice since she is the only dedicated healer (there are other characters which can do group heals, but they are 5*) and hitting AR20 should be pretty easy. In total, you'll end up with a good set of characters for free: Amber (fire archer), Lisa (electro mage), Kaeya (ice melee), Xingxiang (fire melee), Noelle (geo melee), Barbara (water mage), and at least 1 more 4*.

Intrinsic said:

Just finished my preload on phone. Need to figure out the desktop client when I get home. And do some research on characters/ pulls to keep.

Is there a reload for rerolls or is that necessary here?

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Rerolls require different emails, though the "salting" method seems to work. There is some fear of being banned due to a lot of CN accounts getting nuked, but those were mostly from 3rd party software use, and account selling with 5* (the 5* accounts were inactive for more than 24hrs, so they got nuked). I wouldn't be too afraid of rerolling if that is what you want to do, so you can just do "[email protected]" then use [email protected], example.2, etc.

I plan on playing PS4 at first to see how the controller works and hit AR10 for all the freebies, if controls are fine I'll hit PC. It seems you still cannot customize keybinds, so you'll be stuck with the default setup on PC, which sucks for me, thus the controller use. I would only reroll if you really really want to try for a 5*, the line up you'll get for free is more than capable of clearing all content up to the late floors in Spiral Abyss, but it will take a bit to get there anyway.

The current 5* characters that a lot of people are drooling for are: Venti, Keqing, Qiqi, and Mona. Just keep in mind that no character is as good as it can be without getting several dupes of it to gain perks from their "Constellation". So a 4* with a couple dupes will outperform any 5*.