Genshin Impact: Update 2.0 Inazuma Region, Open World JRPG on consoles inspired by Breath of the Wild.

Balladeer wrote:Today I learned about kernel-level anti-cheat.

How did he go from delicious fried chicken to this?

(Hot take: I’ve had KFC exactly twice because it’s awful.)

Victor Mildew wrote:
Jenuall wrote:You wish you had that much hair

I have got hair like yours, just not on my head.

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This is free to play! That's unusual for this genre isn't it? It's a great way to get people to try it.

Venom wrote:This is free to play! That's unusual for this genre isn't it? It's a great way to get people to try it.

I'm sure it's going to be full to the gunnels with microtransactions, but worth a try.

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Trelliz, of course! I forgot about all that. Push Square says there is an £8.99 starter pack. I guess it all depends how unobtrusive they are.

Balladeer wrote:Today I learned about kernel-level anti-cheat.

I don't really know what this is, but it sounds bad, so guess I won't be playing this.

Knoyleo wrote:
Balladeer wrote:Today I learned about kernel-level anti-cheat.

I don't really know what this is, but it sounds bad, so guess I won't be playing this.

It's not inherently bad. The worry is that it's not been well implemented in this game. If it's buggy it could allow malicious attackers to bypass your anti-virus software, basically. The risk is increased because by default it doesn't turn off when the game closes (though you can close it manually).

I would just give it two or three weeks for nerds in various Discords and Reddits to check it out.

Or play it on console.

Karl_ wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:
Balladeer wrote:Today I learned about kernel-level anti-cheat.

I don't really know what this is, but it sounds bad, so guess I won't be playing this.

It's not inherently bad. The worry is that it's not been well implemented in this game. If it's buggy it could allow malicious attackers to bypass your anti-virus software, basically. The risk is increased because by default it doesn't turn off when the game closes (though you can close it manually).

I would just give it two or three weeks for nerds in various Discords and Reddits to check it out.

Or play it on console.

But why is there corn in my computer?

Tried loading this up on my tablet, but need to clear some stuff off as it needs nearly 6GB of space. Think I'll just wait until there's some more long term reviews of the PC version.

Knoyleo wrote:
Balladeer wrote:Today I learned about kernel-level anti-cheat.

I don't really know what this is, but it sounds bad, so guess I won't be playing this.

This is what Google returned. Karl or somebody can tell me how accurate that is. The data surveillance bit’s pretty worrying.

twitter.com/CrankyVT/status/1310586549734604803

Good news. I'll give this a try once it's fixed!

Tried this out yesterday on PS4. The production values are almost strangely impressive for FTP (even if in aping BOTW so blatantly the lack of animations for e.g. picking up ingredients is jarring). The party system/switching characters is cool but also where the FTP comes into it as there is a character and weapon gacha, with a very stupid three layers of in-game currency between real world money and a gacha roll.

The game's biggest crime is in throwing a million concepts and systems at you almost immediately, so many that instead of learning them I'm just ignoring them. It's very badly tutorialised and keeps interrupting with text to read. That'll probably cause problems further down the line but I'm expecting to hit a FTP wall at some point anyway at which point I'll drop it.

The navi character is also the worst thing, especially for her voice acting, so much so that the monetisation strategy should just be paid alternatives to her.

Definitely give the game a go if you're interested anyway, it's much more polished than anyone could reasonably expect from a FTP chinese anemo. It's not quite BOTW but it's also setting itself apart enough for that to not matter too much, a jarring lack of animation work aside!

PCG have some handy tips for this, mainly don't open the 'wishes' in anything less than groups of 10, apparently.

Trelliz wrote:PCG have some handy tips for this, mainly don't open the 'wishes' in anything less than groups of 10, apparently.

Absolutely true, but I was a jambag and did a single wish roll, managed to get Diluc, a 5* very rare character :slol:

Loving this a lot. Just thirsting for some 5" weapons now which do seem truly rare.

Some rumours of rebalancing going around so I might save my wishes for that.

I've just been roaming the land, I think I'm Adventure Level 12 or 13. See a lot of advice to leave rolling wishes until you're above Adventure Level 10.

My party, Amber :wub:

, Lisa

and Diluc. Managed to roll the healing character too from one of the banners but haven't tried her yet.

I gave this is a brief go today.

My first impression is actually quite positive! It looks very pretty and feels well polished. The combat isn't super deep but seems varied and fun. I definitely feel the urge to go climbing up mountains and so on, so the open world design has succeeded in that respect!

This is a pretty nerdy point, but I think much like in Breath of the Wild the English voice acting could be improved upon. By contrast, both the Japanese and Chinese voice packs are pretty good! (And you can still have English subtitles.) The Japanese voice pack gives it a strong anime vibe, obviously, whereas the original Chinese pack I think gives the characters a more, kind of, fantasy-adventure feel, if that makes sense. I like them both, but I'll probably use the Japanese pack because the main two characters are voiced by Koga Aoi (Kaguya-sama) and Yuuki Aoi (Madoka Magica) and that's obviously a big draw if you're a ridiculous dork like me.

Genshin Impact: 17 Million Downloads on Mobile Alone, Estimated $50 Million in Revenue Since Launch

https://www.ign.com/articles/genshin-im ... nce-launch

That huge early uptake means that the game is already a top grossing mobile title in across Asia, and in the US. Speaking to IGN, Daniel Ahmad, Senior Analyst at Niko Partners, estimates that the game has grossed $50 million in its first week, with the majority of that revenue coming from China, Japan, and the US.

"The game had more than 20 million pre-registrations prior to launch, of which more than 5 million were from outside China", explains Ahmad. "This is a huge achievement not just for a Chinese developed game, but for a new original IP too."

The strawberry floating VOICE of this companion character my goodness.

OrangeRKN doesn't think there is anything wrong with her!

OrangeRKN wrote:OrangeRKN doesn't think there is anything wrong with her!

We can always eat her as a snack.

Genshin Impact: Update 2.0 Inazuma Region, Open World JRPG on consoles inspired by Breath of the Wild.

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