TIL Durin's Story Quest Time-Gating also has lore relevancy
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Me_to_Dazai2026-01-04 14:39
Hoyo and their commitment to putting in an absolutely psychotic amount of attention to detail strikes again! (Although not surprised considering the whole Phainon E6 = 33 million ultimates shenanigans)
RoseIgnis2026-01-04 15:10
I love that they technically lie in the description for the sake of lore accuracy
Silver-Kale59552026-01-04 15:36
He gains coreflames, just like how georios, imperator and cerydra gave their coreflames first before aglea takes in charge.
Pollsmor2026-01-04 15:45
My favorite 33550336 connection is that with Sunday's skill at talent level **12**, it provides a **33%** damage boost, an additional **55%** boost if the target has a summon, and his ultimate increases the target's Crit DMG by **33.6%** of Sunday's CDMG.
Me_to_Dazai2026-01-04 15:54
I remember that lol that was when there was no shred of doubt that Sunday would be Phainon's BiS (+ the identical colours schemes). My favourite one is where if you convert octal 33550336 to Hexadecimal code, you'd get the Hex colour code for Phainon's eyes in base form and if you convert from decimal 33550336 to Hex, you'd get the colour code for Khaslana's eyes 💀
And the real kicker : If you convert 33550336 to binary you get 13 1s and 12 0s AKA 12 dead Chrysos Heirs with one sole survivor AKA the Trailblazer 💀 I'm hoping all that was just one massive coincidence cause I cannot fathom anyone putting in that much detail into one number but it honestly could be intentional considering Amphoreus and the Heirs as a whole are a bunch of lines of code
HorribleDat2026-01-04 18:26
I mean, it's far easier to just go from 'what can we do off this one thing' than trying to figure out some of the logic behind those ARG puzzles people have made.
Aaela_Reddit2026-01-05 03:08
exactly, reverse engineer it, the start can be the end instead
Stormer23452026-01-04 20:32
Allat just to get replaced by RMC, Cyrene and Cerydra in Phainon’s BiS team
Draconic_Legends2026-01-04 15:50
I fucking love finding out bits and pieces like these
PassionateVeronica2026-01-04 16:00
makes sense since it takes them like 6 months to a year to do a version update apparently
UglyB4stard2026-01-04 20:12
Hoyo inventing Gregorian calendar system just for their game.
NoOne2152026-01-04 22:06
Pssst, Blade needing 5 stacks because there are 5 members of the Quintet.
Babi_Guling4202026-01-04 14:43
I’d prefer it if they spent that 'attention to detail' energy elsewhere. Why not just release the whole story quest on december 7th?
Weaponmaster4702026-01-04 15:33
They need those funds for more ingame feasts
Low_Artist_76632026-01-04 15:55
Because the quests are always accessible at the start of the patch?
geigerz2026-01-04 17:18
if they paid that attention to detail durin would actually use his WINGS
IgniteTheBoard2026-01-04 14:51
Mental gymnastics final boss
Breaky_Online2026-01-04 16:39
Mf's the ringmaster of the Mental Trapeze Circus
geigerz2026-01-04 17:16
easier to do all that than to accept hoyoverse wanted to stretch content thin due to the lack of it
people saying "attention to detail" when durin has wings and don't use them to glide, yeah selective attention to detail or massive stretch, call it
still think stygian robbing one event place was absurd, but no outrage=they won't move
so we stuck with one less event for the possibility of funsies, now it's only some Natlan collect coins for the 10th time
Sad_Cauliflower57592026-01-04 18:14
Ive been saying this the whole time along with the obvious dialogue bloat but I just get downvoted. This is the real reason tbh.
ziraelphantom2026-01-04 18:55
Same here, ive been telling people that the bloating is getting out of hand and all that happens is im getting downvoted and some dude tries to say "i like it so you are wrong".
Like come on, do we really need soo many slow walking across places, follow the slow npc around and soo many "kuzco's poison" kind of dialogue?
Cant we just get a story that doesnt sound like its been made by a high school kid who realized that hes 300 words away from finishing the essay but has nothing more to say?
Sad_Cauliflower57592026-01-04 19:04
Exactly sis preach. If youre really that hesitant to not add a skip button then dont do that 300 words required ass dialogue or just add a skip button.
ziraelphantom2026-01-04 20:52
The worst thing is that in the begining there was no delay on the dialogue skip then around Liyue or maybe Inazuma they added it making it even slower to slog throught the endless rabble.
I used to read what the characters had to say because it was coherent and interesting but nowadays i just zone out or read the news during quests ocassionally hitting F because half of it is fanfiction level mess while the other half doesnt matter anymore as the previous already soured the mood.
GigaEel2026-01-04 20:56
The least they could do is make dialogue auto skip instead of having to mash x. Auto play waits too long to skip
Sad_Cauliflower57592026-01-04 20:59
Worst thing is they dont do this on their other games. Strictly genshin only problem.
beautheschmo2026-01-05 01:01
Also since it's the topic anyways: Durin's Quest forces you to listen to about 1/4th of its spoken dialogue in its entirety (all the storybook narration where you are just watching words appear slowly one at a time with no animation) and i really hope they never, ever do that again (outside of choreographed/prerendered cutscenes of course).
i normally just go at my normal reading speed (spoiler: i read *much* faster than the characters talk, and normally a lot faster than you can F through dialogue too) and don't actively listen to dialogue, so it was like really not a fun experience to have to do that so frequently for the SQ.
ziraelphantom2026-01-05 15:20
Im sure they will repeat it, ever since inazuma's lazy black screen "storm survived" start these things started to multiply.
I especially hated how we couldnt just skip to the one ending in the story that mattered same with the columbina quest, i dont want more minigames in quests, i want to go on to play the actual game and not see some weak narration.
Elysium_Chronicle2026-01-05 01:23
The reason there are skip barriers is because some voice lines are tied to animations, aka acting. You can only skip after the animation is completed, or else the cinematography of the sequence breaks.
HSR and ZZZ don't have the same issue because they still use static dialogue cameras and limited animations.
TheWitcherMigs2026-01-04 18:44
Stygian takes the place of the combats events, coin collecting has nothing to do with that.
But it's hilarious the meltdown people had with combat events gimmicks before, only to meltdown about Stygian removing them
LiDragonLo2026-01-04 19:26
Um bro, u do know we got combat events during so right?
TheWitcherMigs2026-01-04 19:32
We didn't. The only combat events left are the ones inside the main events, instead of dedicated ones. The key difference is that these kind of combat event are considerably more easy/braindead than the dedicated combat events Stygian took place
LiDragonLo2026-01-04 19:39
If ur talking abt the stuff like the one event we had in 5.5 with the fighting championship, u do know we RARELY get those. Grand total of 7 in the history of the game. (Hell 2.x didn't even have one). So its likely possible to see em
TheWitcherMigs2026-01-04 19:46
I'm talking about Hyakunin Ikki, Vagabond, and such.
Genshin always had this structure of events
Main/Flagship - 1000 gems
Exploration/Alternative Gameplay - 300-420 gems
Combat 300-420 gems
Coop/Gameplay 300-420 gems
Double Talent/Ley Line/Artifact or Liben (300-420 gems)
Stygian took the place of the Combat event, and this is a straight fact. So, this patch we had a Finch Pinball as the Alternative Gameplay, Main with Soulblazers storyline and Winter Activities, Saurian Coin Coop and Liben next week.
Stygian took the place of the combat event, as it always did since it was released.
geigerz2026-01-04 19:43
I'd rather have an event that I can play differently than a copy of time gated endgames
it's not about the rewards, it's about the fun of it, events are there to fill the time between patches, and I have zero desire to touch stygian after I finish it cause it's boring and whalebait
TheWitcherMigs2026-01-04 19:48
I'm just stating the fact that blaming stygian for another collect coin coop event is simply wrong.
You can blame Stygian for not having more gimmick combat events, yes.
ziraelphantom2026-01-04 19:00
Have you guys noticed how quests seems to have more and more of these "heres some barebones, long dialogue story about something. Spend half a hour on the first one" kind of parts?
Like the last event at dragonspine not only there was a 3 part questline but several individual small quests that all seemed to serve no other purpose than to further pad the playtime out.
FigJumpy88212026-01-05 04:45
The comment is from a lore CC's audience there is no reason they are trying to come up with an excuse
Kardiackon2026-01-08 00:00
>people saying "attention to detail" when durin has wings and don't use them to glide, yeah selective attention to detail or massive stretch, call it
comparing apples to oranges lmao, i literally don't see how the two connect, im pretty sure the people who work on those two things are also completely different
these things are not mutually exclusive, it sucks that durin didn't get his wings, but it's also equally true that Hoyo has a ridiculous attention to detail that can easily be proven everywhere else, and trying to downplay that because of one irrelevant problem is weird.
VenjoyBg472026-01-04 18:15
It's not a coincidence there are no gymnastics
Hatarakumaou2026-01-04 14:51
I kinda doubt this is actually the reason tbh lol
redbossman1232026-01-04 16:16
Meh, look at how much they did with the Phainon numbers, Hoyoverse is on that shit
KaTsuMi26512026-01-04 14:55
Well, would be neat if this is true but all of this sounds like a massive coincidence lol.
anxientdesu2026-01-04 15:21
this is like those "hoyoverse marketing campaign" memes except someone's taking it completely straight
Low_Artist_76632026-01-04 15:44
Keep in mind that after Just Ayaka they shortened 3 patches by 1 week just so Scara's drip marketing fell on Bohemian Rhapsody day
and, iirc, they broke somekind of national mourning by posting it
ollyeyo2026-01-04 22:26
Wasn't it because of the Shanghai covid lockdowns in April of that year?, had to get the timeline for the anniversary back on schedule, hence the patch delays.
TempestRime2026-01-04 15:53
Not even a massive coincidence, take any number and look hard enough and you can find something to pretend it's related to.
GigaEel2026-01-04 21:02
Zoomers trying to find a way to connect every number to 6 7
*Insert Always Sunny Pinboard meme*
NA_0_10_never_forget2026-01-04 19:17
nah this is average mhy lunacy, it's nothing unusual for them.
markcan_killua2026-01-04 14:58
seems abit of a stretch but whether it’s true or not i personally hope they never do this format again since id rather to do it in one go than to wait a week
TheBirdNamedSparrow2026-01-04 14:59
Yeah me too
After-Syrup12902026-01-04 16:01
Bam, you're hit with a selenic chronicles type thing instead where each is seperated out by a week, and is probs maybe has some lore things related to the phases of the moon 🫠
I don't mind the chronicles but man were they a bit something to finish up with - i play the game so I don't gotta schedule things and take breaks from other work... Not the other way round
RaguraX2026-01-05 16:27
But it’s like 5 minutes per week. And that’s not something you HAVE to do but rather be looking forward to. Doesn’t matter if you miss it by a day or two either. I’m still stuck having to finish the last one or part 2 but I can’t even continue because I finished the AQ. Which is think is cool actually! Would have been silly otherwise…
Adventurous-Fuel28172026-01-04 16:32
Honestly they can fix it easily by time-gating irl to the specific date but then you can do the whole quest in one go after that. It would work the same as their event format which idk why they didnt do it.
Fun-Performer-34412026-01-04 17:24
I agree
killuasrealmama2026-01-04 22:22
Cause it is a stretch
Honestly I think hyv extended it so we get to explore the book more until the daily reset but the first and second day was too short and had nothing major for it so wish it was a 3 day quest instead
Z4D02026-01-04 14:59
the unnecessary yapping in quests to turn a 1 hour gameplay to 4+ have lore relevancy too?
PoetryIllustrious3922026-01-04 15:03
Do they (Hovoverse) did with other game, or jus genshin impact?
youarenotthatguybruh2026-01-04 15:03
Hoyo : let’s make it lore accurate for the love of game
KaedeP_222026-01-04 15:07
insane lore tying at the expense of user convenience is definitely a hoyo thing to do.
Havier_Gacha2026-01-04 16:41
Exhibit A: Selenic Chronicles
Zeroshiki60982026-01-04 19:29
It's hard to even call it lore because what if you start the quest on some random Tuesday in April
KaedeP_222026-01-05 03:38
doesn't matter, its first available date doesn't change afterall.
OrionsBeltAlone2026-01-04 15:07
And I just remembered this was a 5 day quest which I haven't started yet. Fuck.
uptodown122026-01-04 15:09
Why not just do the usual "everything will be available on the nth day"?
So people can play it day per day or binge play it on the 5th day
pawgchamp4202026-01-04 15:57
Yeah, maybe this lore thing was the reasoning behind it, but it literally only works if you started when the quest came out. Otherwise it’s pointless.
killuasrealmama2026-01-04 22:20
If you're on NA server you could've finished in 6th instead of 7th so this "lore" sounds like schizo shit
ziraelphantom2026-01-04 20:55
Its just content padding so your playtime on average increases.
V1nnieSousa2026-01-04 15:13
yea nice details that no one would have known if wasn't for reddit
Scarlett-Chan122026-01-04 15:20
Honestly this feels lile a stretch but I probably wouldn't doubt it as much, it's hoyo after all
anxientdesu2026-01-04 15:22
fuck "doing my own research to fact-check information"
imma start believing people
Attractive_Sock2026-01-04 15:24
Or it's all in this guy's head. lol
Amnom6662026-01-04 15:25
I don't care,i would have preferred playing the quest on my own time and terms rather then a small bit when i could make time.
Out_Absentia2026-01-04 15:33
Mental gymnastics 101
CatOfBoredom2026-01-04 15:33
They are aware that most of their player base doesn’t play daily nor on release? For most of them, it didn’t even happen on that day, and they could’ve just released the whole thing ON that day in the first place.
(This comes from someone who does actually play daily since the game was release btw)
bigdick4sluts2026-01-04 15:34
based Arnold viewer spotted.
that being said , i hope it remains as a one of thing rather than the new standard. Same as with Bina and her weekly quests on a 7 days timer, they're good systems in theory but in practise it just makes playing it awkward.
They got it right by making the expeditions 20 instead of 24 h long so you have a certain degree of error to still claim them daily, idk why they made Bina not a weekly event instead if they wanted to spread her out through all the Lunas.
And for Durin it's a very nice detail - which would have been there if they just made it for the 1st week the quest was out , "unlocking it" later on. Not that i think many did it day one since it's recommended to do it after the AQ that released the same day so i feel like a lot of people waited at least one more day to do it (especially those who care for this kind of details, and because of it would not just rush through the quests but take their time to do them).
TLDR nice experient hoyo, never again please hoyo imagine if Zibai quests needs us to wait for a full moon night to complete /s
LiDragonLo2026-01-04 19:30
My ONLY complaint is that theres no notice saying bina is open to having a convo. I am like 2 weeks behind (prior to this patch) the chronicles bc of it
beinginthere2026-01-04 15:34
Most of the players: "I don't care," and other kinds of disappointment and complaints.
Meanwhile, Hoyo: "Nice. Then go suffer (enjoy) with no skip button ever. Have a nice day."
TheSavvySkunk2026-01-04 15:37
The time-gating of Durin’s story also draws a parallel to the birth of Scaramouche/Wanderer, who grew an unconditional familial bond with Durin ever since Simulanka. Scaramouche was thrown away on the fifth day of his life, before he could even get a name or a happy family life. He saw aspects of his childhood self within Durin and decided to help raise him well and avoid repeating the same mistake of his childhood.
banfern11112026-01-04 15:37
Oda foreskinning levels of copium
Silver-Kale59552026-01-04 15:38
Also, the five day quest remind me of scaramouche's five day struggle. Each day representing each version of him.
> scaramouche
>balladeer
> kunikuzhishi
> shouki no kami
> wanderer
His boss theme has this line :
# " Why did you abandoned me on fifth day"
5th day is when a person gets their name coined. And considering how important names are in genshin, I won't blame him.
Panty-Sniffer-122026-01-04 15:40
Yeahh sure buddy, whatever you think but it will always be " hoyo trying to extend their limited content to 5 days so it looks big" for me
RowanWinterlace2026-01-04 15:41
Cope.
salty_bismuth2026-01-04 15:42
So, does that mean they're gonna remove the time gate now? I haven't even started the quest yet.
TuneACan2026-01-04 15:42
this is a massive stretch
i dont think this is hoyo playing 4d chess as much as it is that commenter making up random chess rules
Stormer23452026-01-04 20:34
Hoyo absolutely can and do.
Just look and the insane number symbolism in Amphoreus. Like the first patch starts on 1/15/2025 and the last patch starts on 11/5/2025 so everything in the end is just 1152025 which is cyclical. That’s not even the beginning of how deeply well thought out everything in their games is.
Low-Voice-8872026-01-04 15:50
And meanwhile they break the new Liyue 4s for Lantern Rite selector rule...
LiDragonLo2026-01-04 19:28
Um...
1.3, no free liyue 4* despite being lantern rite
TempestRime2026-01-04 15:56
No, it took 5 days because 5 days is equal to 120 hours and 120 is just 40 less than the number of primogems in a wish, and if you divide 120 by 40 you get... 3! HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!!1
bob_is_best2026-01-04 15:58
Sounds like a reach but It would just be weird if It wasnt intencional lol
Everyoneheresamoron2026-01-04 16:02
I started it last week. The date has 0 meaning for most players. Typical Hoyo doing.
Pitiful_Feedback_7562026-01-04 16:06
Omg my heart just got attacked by cuteness...they're so precious my babies 😭🥺🥺🥺
Whilyam2026-01-04 16:08
I'm glad that the retention bait worked out for their silly date bullshit, but I'd rather I get to play the quest without the stupid time gate.
Shahadem2026-01-04 16:13
No it does not.
Plenty of quests take place over multiple in game days. There is no real time gating for those quests.
Heck the story quest itself is stupid beyond belief anyways. It defies all logic and believability. It is just the writer saying Durin fails because I declared Durin failed. If we actually let you the player ROLEPLAY through those segments you would have succeeded so I did not let you roleplay.
wweeeeeeeeeeeeee2026-01-04 16:20
jokes on them im lazy asf, im only starting durin’s quest probably tommorow
fjaoaoaoao2026-01-04 16:25
Too bad the quest was mindnumbingly boring. I liked the idea of a childhood story quest but they made it just as exciting as one.
imanilife2026-01-04 16:39
Aaaaand all is forgiven (but don't do that shit again)
NikaLav_art2026-01-04 16:40
I suppose there is alot of snow so its covering the grass some people need to touch.
On a serious note, I doubt its that.
I-am-a-jerk2026-01-04 16:53
People saying its a reach(could be) but its still an insane coincidence for it to be the exact day. And yes, you could technically finish his story quest by dec 7th if you started the day the version dropped so that part is true even if you specifically didnt do it that day. I see no harm, after all, they really are inseparable as Durin is doomed to fall without Wanderer and is extremely important to him
erosugiru2026-01-04 16:56
Man, they're mega autistic about their own game as well that's awesome
TMXsB2026-01-04 16:57
but did anyone actually start the quest the day it dropped when we had 2 whole archon quests to finish before?
also if they wanted people to finish it by Dec 7th they could have unlocked a chapter per day, so that if you skipped 2 days then on the third you can do three chapters, just like they do all their events.
Blackmore5432026-01-04 17:08
They got sick of people saying the stories were too long so they forced you to do Durin's story in 40 minute chunks. I hope they don't normalize that, I'd much rather spend a whole day getting the new "content" out of the way.
RaiStarBits2026-01-04 17:40
I’m sorry but no matter what reason they may or may not have timegates suck
CryoStrange2026-01-04 18:09
Ok then explain Flins. How is a Fae, with a lamp, with cold fire theme a lightning unit dependent on lunar charged.
nero-potato2026-01-04 18:11
This is all Istaroth's fault. fck Istaroth
jns7012026-01-04 18:54
olympic gold medalist in mental gymnastics
mraz_syah2026-01-04 18:55
cool, but stop doing it
wait2late2026-01-04 18:58
So in the end it does not fucking matter. Just unlock the quest on the said date instead of ruining everyone.
KoolArtzzz2026-01-04 19:29
Durin's time gated quest was very annoying cause you can't finish it in one go. I think this is a "test" quest, to extend the version playtime to increase hours played so HOYO employees can pat themselves on the back for increased player engagement time.
I hope they never do this ever again. A lot of us with jobs don't have the free time to play this game 100+ hours a week. However, HOYO has already said in their latest version livestream that they are making future quests to be more immersive. Immersive to me means more time gating.
Kronman5902026-01-04 20:02
Nah screw that if they wanted to do something like this then let ppl skip all the waiting after starting the quest after dec 7
Slight-Tone43652026-01-04 20:09
Mental Gymnast, the tenth Fatui Harbinger
AL-KY2026-01-04 20:17
They could have just make a time gate like event that gradually contents. I don't see any point in making players that couldn't start the quest on the day of launch like me to wait for 5 days.
TzeroOcne2026-01-04 20:30
still doesn't change the fact it's kinda annoying
PantheraAuroris2026-01-04 21:09
They are also doing their best to make sure people log in daily, such as with To Temper Thyself.
I_am_not_Serabia2026-01-04 21:11
Yea, sounds like Illuminati
Kojow2026-01-04 21:29
That’s cool and all but wouldn’t the in-game time skip feature give the same result?
Tifas-abs-enjoyer2026-01-04 21:30
It all falls apart if you didn’t start the quest on patch release day
Seriously guys we don’t have to do some mental gymnastics to explain it, we can just admit that it was a dumb decision by hoyo
thelovelypenguin2026-01-04 22:43
I really did not appreciate this quest being time gated, and all for a detail that only makes sense if you started it on exactly one certain day. For most people who did the quest any day after that, we have to suffer through a time gate for no reason.
SigmundFreud1012026-01-04 23:30
I realized it very early and kept thinking "Nah, some popular CC would post about this". Imagine my surprise when three weeks later, people are still oblivious to this fun fact...
CrumblingReality5052026-01-05 00:21
Doesn't this completely fall apart if you didn't start the quest that day
neat-NEAT2026-01-05 02:37
Thought it was just Alice breaking the 4th wall by doing things on OUR time rather than in game days.
Which I didn't actually believe but it's a funny thought.
AlkaliPineapple2026-01-05 05:09
They could also have just released it on that day so we didn't have to play it like an instalment plan and I didn't have to delay the final part for a week because I had to travel after starting it
ElricaLavandula2026-01-05 08:16
So they wanted us to either rush through the main story without any breaks as soon as the servers went up, or use the quick start function to do Durin's quest first? Yeah, no.
starmadeshadows2026-01-05 10:08
That's neat, though I doubt it was that intentional.
I feel like it's realistic in terms of pacing for Durin to have a week-long existential breakdown, but I kinda wish they'd just handled it with the ingame clock...
h2odragon002026-01-05 11:03
Sad to say, I started Durin's quest late.
I blame the length of the AQ.
hollyherring2026-01-05 13:50
Ain’t no way I was gonna do the new Archon Quest acts *and* start Durin’s story quest all in the same day
CorrectOlive43842026-01-05 16:11
Wether or not this be the reason, it negatively impacted my experience with an an otherwise good quest
One-Marionberry49582026-01-05 21:26
Hoyos is doing it again!!! they’re using this cringe bait to draw audience space and their attention span which is very short physiologiclally
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And the real kicker : If you convert 33550336 to binary you get 13 1s and 12 0s AKA 12 dead Chrysos Heirs with one sole survivor AKA the Trailblazer 💀 I'm hoping all that was just one massive coincidence cause I cannot fathom anyone putting in that much detail into one number but it honestly could be intentional considering Amphoreus and the Heirs as a whole are a bunch of lines of code
people saying "attention to detail" when durin has wings and don't use them to glide, yeah selective attention to detail or massive stretch, call it
still think stygian robbing one event place was absurd, but no outrage=they won't move
so we stuck with one less event for the possibility of funsies, now it's only some Natlan collect coins for the 10th time
Like come on, do we really need soo many slow walking across places, follow the slow npc around and soo many "kuzco's poison" kind of dialogue?
Cant we just get a story that doesnt sound like its been made by a high school kid who realized that hes 300 words away from finishing the essay but has nothing more to say?
I used to read what the characters had to say because it was coherent and interesting but nowadays i just zone out or read the news during quests ocassionally hitting F because half of it is fanfiction level mess while the other half doesnt matter anymore as the previous already soured the mood.
i normally just go at my normal reading speed (spoiler: i read *much* faster than the characters talk, and normally a lot faster than you can F through dialogue too) and don't actively listen to dialogue, so it was like really not a fun experience to have to do that so frequently for the SQ.
I especially hated how we couldnt just skip to the one ending in the story that mattered same with the columbina quest, i dont want more minigames in quests, i want to go on to play the actual game and not see some weak narration.
HSR and ZZZ don't have the same issue because they still use static dialogue cameras and limited animations.
But it's hilarious the meltdown people had with combat events gimmicks before, only to meltdown about Stygian removing them
Genshin always had this structure of events
Main/Flagship - 1000 gems
Exploration/Alternative Gameplay - 300-420 gems
Combat 300-420 gems
Coop/Gameplay 300-420 gems
Double Talent/Ley Line/Artifact or Liben (300-420 gems)
Stygian took the place of the Combat event, and this is a straight fact. So, this patch we had a Finch Pinball as the Alternative Gameplay, Main with Soulblazers storyline and Winter Activities, Saurian Coin Coop and Liben next week.
Stygian took the place of the combat event, as it always did since it was released.
it's not about the rewards, it's about the fun of it, events are there to fill the time between patches, and I have zero desire to touch stygian after I finish it cause it's boring and whalebait
You can blame Stygian for not having more gimmick combat events, yes.
Like the last event at dragonspine not only there was a 3 part questline but several individual small quests that all seemed to serve no other purpose than to further pad the playtime out.
comparing apples to oranges lmao, i literally don't see how the two connect, im pretty sure the people who work on those two things are also completely different
these things are not mutually exclusive, it sucks that durin didn't get his wings, but it's also equally true that Hoyo has a ridiculous attention to detail that can easily be proven everywhere else, and trying to downplay that because of one irrelevant problem is weird.
and, iirc, they broke somekind of national mourning by posting it
*Insert Always Sunny Pinboard meme*
I don't mind the chronicles but man were they a bit something to finish up with - i play the game so I don't gotta schedule things and take breaks from other work... Not the other way round
Honestly I think hyv extended it so we get to explore the book more until the daily reset but the first and second day was too short and had nothing major for it so wish it was a 3 day quest instead
So people can play it day per day or binge play it on the 5th day
imma start believing people
(This comes from someone who does actually play daily since the game was release btw)
that being said , i hope it remains as a one of thing rather than the new standard. Same as with Bina and her weekly quests on a 7 days timer, they're good systems in theory but in practise it just makes playing it awkward.
They got it right by making the expeditions 20 instead of 24 h long so you have a certain degree of error to still claim them daily, idk why they made Bina not a weekly event instead if they wanted to spread her out through all the Lunas.
And for Durin it's a very nice detail - which would have been there if they just made it for the 1st week the quest was out , "unlocking it" later on. Not that i think many did it day one since it's recommended to do it after the AQ that released the same day so i feel like a lot of people waited at least one more day to do it (especially those who care for this kind of details, and because of it would not just rush through the quests but take their time to do them).
TLDR nice experient hoyo, never again please hoyo imagine if Zibai quests needs us to wait for a full moon night to complete /s
Meanwhile, Hoyo: "Nice. Then go suffer (enjoy) with no skip button ever. Have a nice day."
> scaramouche
>balladeer
> kunikuzhishi
> shouki no kami
> wanderer
His boss theme has this line :
# " Why did you abandoned me on fifth day"
5th day is when a person gets their name coined. And considering how important names are in genshin, I won't blame him.
i dont think this is hoyo playing 4d chess as much as it is that commenter making up random chess rules
Just look and the insane number symbolism in Amphoreus. Like the first patch starts on 1/15/2025 and the last patch starts on 11/5/2025 so everything in the end is just 1152025 which is cyclical. That’s not even the beginning of how deeply well thought out everything in their games is.
1.3, no free liyue 4* despite being lantern rite
Plenty of quests take place over multiple in game days. There is no real time gating for those quests.
Heck the story quest itself is stupid beyond belief anyways. It defies all logic and believability. It is just the writer saying Durin fails because I declared Durin failed. If we actually let you the player ROLEPLAY through those segments you would have succeeded so I did not let you roleplay.
On a serious note, I doubt its that.
also if they wanted people to finish it by Dec 7th they could have unlocked a chapter per day, so that if you skipped 2 days then on the third you can do three chapters, just like they do all their events.
I hope they never do this ever again. A lot of us with jobs don't have the free time to play this game 100+ hours a week. However, HOYO has already said in their latest version livestream that they are making future quests to be more immersive. Immersive to me means more time gating.
Seriously guys we don’t have to do some mental gymnastics to explain it, we can just admit that it was a dumb decision by hoyo
Which I didn't actually believe but it's a funny thought.
I feel like it's realistic in terms of pacing for Durin to have a week-long existential breakdown, but I kinda wish they'd just handled it with the ingame clock...
I blame the length of the AQ.