STOP. AUTO-STARTING. QUESTS.

I despise the fact that after over 5 years, the devs haven’t been able to figure out a way for us to choose if we wanna start a quest.

I fkn hate when I wanna enter a new region just to farm some mats and unlock teleport points and the game decides “no, no, no, it’s time for you to do a random ass quest”.

There’s not even a skip and recap button so if u wanna speedrun it, you either have to spam spacebar and hope it’s short. Or you have to stop what you wanna do and do a quest you never wanted to do.

I’ve done some Unity coding and I don’t think it’s that hard to add a proximity toggle. If there’s already a proximity auto-start, then just add a fkn toggle

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Bluetooth_Speaker12026-01-14 08:02

Yeah i went to get that new local specialty for columbina and *of course* there was a forced start quest right there smh took forever to get through that cutscene and then while running around and grabbing the specialty the game was still trying to redirect me to other stuff

Like can we just play how *we* want to?? I don't wanna be dragged into a quest or told what to do unprompted lmao

TetraNeuron2026-01-14 09:33

Even if you manage to skip the quests, you cant avoid the billion tutorials that you need to read now and forget, or read later but cant find the right tutorial

Bluetooth_Speaker12026-01-14 10:03

That too! Like i'm constantly getting those pop ups but then not reading them cause like.. i was just passing through lmao that sort of thing doesn't make me wanna stop either- if i'm set on doing something, not much can change that lol

Demmitri2026-01-14 10:43

Current GI has horrid design and community should be talking about that. It wasn't like that 3 years ago.

MilesGamerz2026-01-14 11:52

Aranara quest? Locking exploration areas behind quests isn't fun hoyo, exploring it myself is way more enjoyable

KuraiBaka2026-01-14 10:46

At least they don't grab you by the neck the second you log in like in ZZZ.

Electrical-Call-61602026-01-14 11:32

ZZZ has a skip button though at least

danivus2026-01-14 11:31

Yes, the impossible to search tutorials where later you see a glowing bug and can't find the tutorial because you don't remember it's called an Enlightened Spranglehoopler and the tutorials aren't grouped by region.

Ice-Book-732026-01-14 13:57

As a new player this is a nightmare.

I have no idea how to interact with anything in Sumeru.

Sirchipalot2026-01-14 14:24

All the flowers and stuff you can buff with electro, turn off with pyro and turn on with dendro. Anything else is dendrograna or lyre from aranara quest

Ice-Book-732026-01-14 14:44

There is also that giant sick tree in the top of the desert. I need to learn how to use the little red floating guy

Sirchipalot2026-01-14 14:46

Oh yeah that's just an item you use to collect stuff and solve the puzzles. Basically just need to hit the skill button near things

HammeredWharf2026-01-14 14:04

Isn't this something they tried to solve with a system that puts the tutorial relevant to your location at the top of the list or something like that?.. No idea how well it works, though.

Chucknasty_172026-01-14 17:45

I’ve actually found that system does work pretty in terms of giving you the tutorials relevant to the area in your in

ZeRandomPerson22222026-01-14 10:25

As much as I do enjoy Genshin this is a genuine and major issue I’ve had for a while. It feels like many design decisions are there to prevent you from playing how you want to and try to railroad or force you a certain direction , or to play a certain way.

And there’s a certain irony to an open world game which is supposed to encourage freedom and exploration… trying to not let you explore by forcing you to watch auto started cutscenes or complete tasks from auto started quests which prevent you from doing some other stuff until it’s done.

Bluetooth_Speaker12026-01-14 16:41

Well, it is kinda funny though- "make sure to explore the new area and get those *exploration rewards!! Oh but not like that, you're doing it wrong" lmao

darthsurfer2026-01-14 17:48

Not to mention the stamina system (what's wrong with unlimited running?), restricting exploration movements to certain characters (looking at you Natlan), and the horrible climbing mechanic. I wish they take some notes from Wuwa on that: wall running, unlimited stamina for sprinting (dodge sprints still consume), everyone can use grappling hooks and motorcycles, flight (in additional to just gliding), range attack for puzzles (instead of having to switch to team with arrow characters just to solve a puzzle/challenge).

A lot of modern open world gachas take inspiration from Genshin, now they really need to do the same, especially with QOL stuff...

HealthyPhilosophy12026-01-14 08:04

It is intentional. To keep players engaged. They could just add an exclamation mark like previous nations.

Ke5_Jun2026-01-14 09:44

It lowers engagement, because people are not gonna be want to be forced to start a quest when they aren’t ready for it.

Then after they mash through the initial text and then come back to it later, they’ve forgetten what it was about.

Terrible game design.

Saya-_2026-01-14 09:48

It's doing the opposite though. If I want to spend my one or two hours I have just exploring and the game forces me into a quest I automatically *do not care* and will spam through said quest until I can explore further.

This in turn makes me miss details about the quest if I wanna continue it later on, making me not care at all anymore worst case

chiggenboi2026-01-14 08:21

I hope people enjoy getting roped into a long ass wild hunt fight when they try crossing the first bridge of the new area

CanaKitty2026-01-14 08:27

I saw there was an exclamation mark at the end of the bridge and jumped off at the beginning and went up the side of the cliff instead

AdBroad67622026-01-14 08:34

Smart move cause it locked me in invisible wall cage untill I listened to all dialogue and killed all enemies while I had exploration team active with Sayu, Yelan, Varesa for traversal and Lauma to mark flowers so it was more frustrating than needed.

CanaKitty2026-01-14 08:42

Yeah I have learned the hard way in the past that exclamation marks must be given a WIDE berth

Banned-User-562026-01-14 15:28

At least Varesa is essentially a F150. Just run them over.

TheEdelBernal2026-01-14 08:51

Lol that's totally what I did. I saw that ! and was like, nope, not gonna do that right now just gonna get to the new Artifact Domain and jumped right off.

aerie_zephyr2026-01-14 08:52

I too get wary of any exclamation points so I did the same. It’s ingrained

ihateaftershockpcs2026-01-14 09:33

That’s what I did too, I hopped off the bridge and glided to the waypoint around the side instead. Funny enough, I’ve not progressed my Archon quest since Luna I but ran into Illuga while unlocking waypoints and got dragged into a mini quest?

meowmeowwarrior2026-01-14 11:57

Same, I was like, who is this, and why are the light keepers treating me like I'm captain of swordfish II

Gamer_X992026-01-14 16:41

If you mean the one on the tower, thats the same quest you bypassed at the bridge! Except it has now *permanently skipped* that opening cutscene and set a new proximity trigger on the tower for the second one!

I exclusively play open world. I hate this shit.

skyfeeshu2026-01-14 09:46

Thats why i still run around new areas with mauvika xilonen so i can nope around all the quests i dont want to start on the first few days till the new characters built

oof-eef-thats-beef2026-01-14 10:00

I was zooming with Varesa and had no time to react or process

eklatea2026-01-14 10:29

I did that, but when I got to the flower area I got dialog for another world quest T-T

notasika2026-01-14 11:46

I wanted to avoid that as well, but damn, it has a wide starting area it seems…

Ghostdriver8862026-01-14 12:19

Man jumped off a cliff to avoid a quest🗿

Few-Illustrator-53332026-01-14 08:35

One of the new fighting trial wants you to kill 99 enemies. Most of the enemies are wild hunt enemies

aRandomBlock2026-01-14 09:41

location?

Few-Illustrator-53332026-01-14 10:04

On the map, it's slightly above the Lightkeeper's headquarters, on the shore

ZekkeKeepa2026-01-14 09:22

Havent touched new content yet. Thanks for the info, gonna be careful collecting Columbina stuff.

Moon-eevee2026-01-14 09:27

I tried to dodge it but it still got me. I guess I should have just jumped off the side instead lol.

notasika2026-01-14 11:45

I just teleported away the second battle started and gone around that area

Noxiouss32026-01-14 14:04

Are you able to continue the quest now afterwards? I did the same in my frustration of only wanting to collect flowers and now when i want to actually finish the quest its bugged out and nowhere to be found. The irony

The-Local-Lucario2026-01-14 12:36

And they put the teleport waypoint *just* outside the fight border so you can’t unlock it and teleport somewhere else then back

lawlianne2026-01-14 08:28

Was dragged into a fight, and later another unvoiced yappy cutscene featuring a playable character in the background.

Not really the end of the world, but annoying I guess.
Collected nearly all the waypoints except for the sinister looking one. At least I wasnt dragged and locked into the main story quest upon logging in.

SeekingHeat2026-01-14 08:31

If I am still at natlan, will the quest auto start?

Overwatch32026-01-14 09:10

Yes

Key-Due2026-01-14 08:33

Yeah I ran into two world quests just by walking towards the artifact domain. It's really annoying.

NoKnowsPose2026-01-14 08:54

Lol I get the frustration. Personally, it doesn't bother me much as I like to collect quests in my quest log first anyway.

The idea is to make it natural andd in-world but I feel like a quest marker on their heads should be enough, not auto-starting

Quanku8882026-01-14 09:05

Yeah personally, I prefer to get dragged into quest and complete them early when I’m still in the mood before returning to “do dailies, log out” routine

IxravenxI2026-01-14 08:55

I remember i unknowingly triggered a world quest anf I followed whatever it said thinking it was part of the archon quest. i was wondering why it was suddenly mute and thought maybe the game glitch and failed to load voicelines.

Soloking_Itachi2026-01-14 08:57

Oh they know,it's really not that hard,but...they don't...give a shi*

Triquetrums2026-01-14 11:22

This is not Genshin Impact's chat. You can write shit here.

Thicc_AllMight2026-01-14 09:02

You can ask someone to join and leave immediately to put you in coop mode, some quests won't start that way

ProfileBest74442026-01-14 09:54

im very thankful for the advice but im still very bothered that its 1. "some" 2. we need to jump through hoops like that

(not at you ofc)

Professional_Tea6372026-01-14 09:04

Very fucking annoying.

HiroNase2026-01-14 09:05

I hate that also. At some point I auto started so many quest that I had some kind of lock like I need to finish quest B before I can do quest A, but I need to do quest C before quest B, and so on

guylovesleep2026-01-14 09:08

i quit after collecting flowers because of the rage

TheSceptileen2026-01-14 09:13

I would have loved Natlan exploration much more if my gameplay wasn't interrupted every 10 mins for a 5 minute quest introdution

RoyalJanissary2026-01-14 09:14

Auto 👏trigger 👏quests 👏need 👏to 👏die

HumsterMKI2026-01-14 09:38

*"insert sinister Hoyo laugher here"*

AKAFallow2026-01-14 10:39

That and waypoints that are 30 meters away from you and you can literally see it shining, but has a effective zone 10 times wider than the effect

northernoverture2026-01-14 11:33

while we're at it can mihoyo stop triggering quest cutscenes or taking away player control while im in the air? lost count over the years of how many times my characters have fallen to their deaths because of it.

Laithoron2026-01-14 13:32

I literally complained about this each of the last 2 surveys (plus multiple times using the feedback function). It's so damned ignorant of them to allow that to happen!

darkdill2026-01-14 16:24

It's not ignorance. It's "WORKING AS INTENDED".

(*facepalms at Hoyo*)

HammeredWharf2026-01-14 14:02

I don't understand why Hoyo can't just do what every other studio does and make you invulnerable during cutscenes.

Shahadem2026-01-14 18:13

The reason is simple. Mihoyo is worried that players will find a way to use that to become invulnerable and have an easier time in the struggle modes.

Treyspurlock2026-01-14 19:10

That's never gonna happen

Also even if it DID happen invulnerability would not change all that much

Mikauren2026-01-14 15:00

I also hate cutscenes mid combat that force me to stare at the enemy for 10+ seconds. My skills like Flins are just running and ticking down while I can't do anything, then going on a long ass cooldown. -1 rotation.

rW0HgFyxoJhYka2026-01-14 11:33

Hoyo: "What are ya gonna do? Abandon Columbina? YEAH RIGHT"

UsefulDependent98932026-01-14 09:14

It really wouldn’t be so bad if there was a skip button. It’s genuinely insane that they have yet to add a skip button to a game with insanely bloated dialogue. It’s just bad design.

Demmitri2026-01-14 10:45

It's community's fault. I made a post some time ago on this sub on how desperately we needed a skip button. I got 30 comments telling me it was skill issue and death threats on my inbox- If Genshin keeps getting bad is because we allow it.

TotallyImpractical2026-01-14 13:10

I will never understand *why* people get so upset when someone asks for a skip button. It isn't like by requesting it, you're demanding everyone uses it. It's a completely optional button input, like in ZZZ, or WuWa. I've skipped several times in both games because the summaries can be easier to understand personally (that's just a me issue though 😂) and other times, I just want to progress and can't until I get past whatever story is being presented.

nightimestars2026-01-14 13:21

I don’t know why people get so butthurt about it. Literally every other game like this has a skip button, including hoyo games. Star Rail is newer than Genshin and they got a skip feature at some point. The fact they refuse to do it for Genshin seems malicious at this point, because that is still one of the most consistent demands for people who just wanna play this game for the combat and character building.

kuhaku15102026-01-14 09:15

I actually dont think it would be that bad if there was a goddamn skip button. The issue is that without, you get stuck in a cutscene of a autostart quest for a solid 5mins.

K0KA422026-01-14 09:15

Another overlooked negative of auto starting quests: it is highly unlikely I will play through a whole quest after witnessing the first cutscene. In fact, if I am just going around farming the new flowers and a quest auto triggers, I am probably not paying much attention to the dialogue. This means that, later down the road when I do want to finish up side quests in the area, I will have forgotten important information about the quest that is conveyed in that first cutscene, so I am not gonna be as invested in the rest of the quest as I would be if I could play through it in its entirety when I choose to

Charity1t2026-01-14 09:50

It was one of biggest complains since Natlan.

Seems dev really don't give a shit about opinion of normal players.

LetEdgeTheseLords-2026-01-14 10:44

Since Natlan? It has been there since basically the start of game

kazerniel2026-01-14 12:34

Yeah I remember that time in Sumeru when you first get pulled into the dream. I was like, ok I'm just gonna talk to this NPC for a minute then go to bed - nope, I'm suddenly in a half hour long quest domain >.>

ProfileBest74442026-01-14 09:57

yes i would have loved the alot of the natlan quests especially in that ancient forge area

sadly i only remember that part of that the map as "where chasca's flowers grow"

Electrical-Call-61602026-01-14 10:15

This so much, you're not gonna get me curious with the quest's story if you just blare it to my face whilst I wanted to do something else.

BubbleBruja2026-01-14 13:15

Nothing kills narrative interest faster than forced cutscenes when you’re mentally in “farm mode,” not “story mode.”

rW0HgFyxoJhYka2026-01-15 09:59

Yeah this thread might be upvoted because this sub basically doesnt do the quest immediately/is extremely vocal about auto starting quests...

But the bigger issue is that I think this quest literally starts...and then very early on it just goes for like 3-4 hours....without stopping. There's no breaks. Internet disconnect or needing to quit is a rollback of like 20 minutes in some parts.

Ban_Means_NewAccount2026-01-14 10:16

This is literally why I haven't paid much attention to lore outside the main story. I end up starting quests I didn't mean to, only getting a little bit of time to play the game here and there, and prioritizing the story when I do. Then when I finish the story and decide to pick away at other stuff, I end up trying to do quests where I've long since forgotten any relevant information. Sometimes I can piece it together from whatever happens next. Other times I'm completely lost. Really ruins side quests for me and makes me less interested in doing them at all.

_Zekken2026-01-14 12:13

I do the same thing with some side quests or non voiced quests.

I remember stumbling completely by accident into the original Jhet quest. And it was so god damn long and long winded I ended up pretty quickly just spamming skip through the whole thing. It was so tedious that even to this day I have not started any of the next quest in that big Storm area of Sumeru, or the other area past it.

I also ended up doing it through a lot of the Aranara quest as well.

Reality_LB2026-01-14 11:46

One of the reasons I just spam next on those world quest. It's already not voiced and on top of that, I don't even remember how it started

ElricaLavandula2026-01-14 12:30

Yes, this is exactly the reason why I lost the motivation to do most side quests or just don't care about what happens anymore.

I used to like them until it became the norm to constantly force them upon me when I just want to do some exploration, gathering materials, doing dailies or *doing other quests*.

Sometimes I just have a few minutes and just want to get some materials. Then I have to spam click through the quests that auto-triggered. If I ever come back to it (or auto-trigger the next part...) I don't remember what it was about anyway. So how should I even care about its story?

I feel like the auto-starting quests happen way more frequently than in the past. No idea if it's true or it just feels like it though.

RLLRRR2026-01-14 13:07

This 1,000x.

There was some shit at the Columbina statue near the Fatui base. Dunno what it was, I rushed through it so I could *unlock the map*. That's it.

Didn't do the WQ for weeks later and totally forgot what I was doing.

leo_sousav2026-01-14 15:13

Yuuup, in reality the first interaction with the quest just pisses me off cause I was in a mindset of doing something (specifically if it’s something fast and short before I have to leave) but the quest bodies me and leaves me spamming the space bar in frustration.

Impossible-Bison80552026-01-14 17:23

I deliberately went a weird away around the bridge from the first statue to avoid triggering a world quest

K0KA422026-01-14 21:28

Smart. I did that when I saw Illuga standing near that northern part. As soon as I saw him I was like "oh HELL NO. I ain't triggering that"

RandomGuy9282026-01-14 18:20

The quest design in Genshin is very entirely at odds with the persistent online daily progression mechanics.

Quests take hours. Both story quests and major world quests are substantial time commitments to the point where many people are unlikely to get through everything in one sitting. I'll usually find time on a weekend or something to sit down and knock out an hour or two of story content when I can sit and focus on what's going on.

Meanwhile, I'm heavily encouraged to keep up with my daily/weekly/monthly content and general progression. Resin usage, events, weekly bosses, endgame stuff (SO/IT/SA), etc. I'm encouraged to farm for materials to use my new characters, and if I have any random chunk of 15 minutes on a random day to play, I'd much rather spend that time exploring areas (something I can put down whenever I need to) than doing scripted story content.

So why do I get jumpscared by story content when trying to do my daily/routine stuff? If I'm sitting on the toilet burning resin before work, do you really think jumpscaring me with a quest when I try to turn in commissions is going to improve my experience? Do you think I'm going to *not* skip the dialogue in that conversation? Do you think I'm going to actually *remember* what's going on when I inevitably go back and do that quest properly?

Heck, last patch was over the holidays so I was super busy. Minute one of the story content for last patch was a quest counter jumpscare in Nod Krai that also disabled the quest counter until you went and did a bunch of cutscenes. Well, given I was super busy for the holidays, it took me weeks for an opportunity to sit down and actually start knocking out the cutscenes for the story which meant *I couldn't use the quest counter in Nod Krai for most of the month of December*! I never would have started the quests until I had time to do them, but the quests started themselves!

noveltycatfigurine2026-01-14 22:18

The same thing happened to me! Who on EARTH thought disabling the counter like that was a good idea!

aphirst2026-01-15 04:53

I imagine a lot of this could be improved if you could simply more easily view the past log of any current open quests or quest lines, maybe by just directly clicking on them

Previous-Ad-93222026-01-14 09:16

Yup. Every single time.

"Hey, let me go unlock that artifact domain...get a few flowers that are fucking timegated for some reason..."

PAIMON ENTERS THE GAME

Electrical-Call-61602026-01-14 16:48

Me whenever I see Paimon say anything

"Howabout we explore that place later?"

yvrelna2026-01-14 09:19

I haven't used it yet, but there's [focused experience mode](https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Focused_Experience_Mode), right? IIUC, that's supposed to prevent other quests from triggering while doing one quest.

Ichi_00012026-01-14 09:37

focused experience mode only works for AQ and story quests or certain side quests that involve characters from those two. world quests will still trigger even if you have this turned on.

je11yfiish2026-01-14 09:21

what's funny is this is how it used to be 😭 i started a new account recently and all the old world quests are marked on the map and only trigger when you talk to an npc, it's this way all the way up to fontaine idk why they thought it was a good idea to change something that already worked well

Opposite-Cheetah-5532026-01-14 10:39

Probably because less people play overworld quest so they start forcing people to play.

Though it not really effective and more rage inducing.

But Hoyo is the one that has real stats so who know, since they keep doing it, then maybe it does work on some people.

rW0HgFyxoJhYka2026-01-14 11:40

Its kind of concerning how much rage there is in this thread

CityKay2026-01-14 09:31

Just keep on hammering it in the surveys. It just does suck to know stuff like this was basically solved since the early GTA days. Or even...a glowing point where you can click to start?

Electrical-Call-61602026-01-14 10:21

Surveys that they don't ever read

aikuaivenchorr2026-01-14 09:32

If you explore new region, then you explore new region and face new events and stories. If you do not want to face new adventures, then simply do not explore new region.

ProfileBest74442026-01-14 09:50

you see characters need funny stones that are exclusively found in specific parts of specific regions and banners dont care where you are in progression

hackenclaw2026-01-14 09:38

let me tell you the one trick on how to collect flowers without auto start quest.

You collect other player's flowers in another world. He will collect yours.

AkiraN192026-01-14 09:38

Last time I called this an objectively bad feature I got downvoted lmao. As if it hasn't been pretty much THE most complained about feature for like 3 years in a row. I mean, remember when this literally spoiled the Fontaine AQ for people because of that event that auto started right next to Fotnaine Katheyne?

Altair_wrs2026-01-14 09:49

If you mention a "skip button" this sub will burry you underground.
I like this game,i really do,but being locked in a 4 hours quest while you trying to explore e collect things is not fun. It makes me wanna play less knowing is become worse with new updates...

newplayer1352026-01-14 09:39

went to collect some flowers for columbina, collected 5 world quests instead

Demmitri2026-01-14 10:36

I got sucked into the AQ without knowing it was gonna be atrocious long and no time to actually play.

Mindilvias2026-01-14 11:50

There's a warning before heading off into the Archon Quest saying it's going to take a while and lock you out of stuff though?

Audapaupadopolis2026-01-14 09:49

As long as CN isn’t complaining about it, it will not be fixed.

Demmitri2026-01-14 10:40

It's the same with Korean games, if KR don't bat an eye then game stays in precarious situation. I wonder whats up with asian community, don't they complain? Or do they just give up because they know they are gonna be ignored?

Sepulchh2026-01-14 12:57

They're focused on different things.

I used to play a ton of Black Desert Online, a Korean MMO. One of the classes (Berserker) was incredibly strong for multiple years and they kept buffing it again and again which caused a lot of players on NA, EU and RU servers to voice complaints, it wasn't fun to have the devs mandate your guild war compositions and to lose out on 40% more loot by using another class.

The reason they did it? On the KR server Berserkers usage rate was incredibly low because it looked ugly and didn't have a lot of cosmetics that the Koreans liked. The KR community subsequently didn't complain as nobody wanted to play the ugly class so it being OP wasn't an issue.

After about 3-4 years of this it got powercrept by other classes and I guess the devs just kind of gave up on making Zerk popular since it's not that strong anymore compared to the new classes, who all very much look like Kpop stars, they learned their lesson. Zerks usage rate on KR remains in the mud.

What the KR community did complain about was open world PvP and PKers, which subsequently got tackled hard by the devs and the game that was originally marketed as free for all open world PvP now let's you opt out of PvP completely, letting you harass players while being invulnerable to any and all retaliation. This was something the EU and NA communities weren't complaining about, and it resulted in much of the PvP and high end guild scene withering and dying to a large extent on the servers.

TLDR: They complain, they just have different priorities. Their priorities can (often) be deduced by what the devs end up doing, or by grabbing a translator and hopping to their side of the internet.

Wild_ColaPenguin2026-01-14 17:49

As a non CN player I stopped caring about writing the survey long time ago. It's a waste of time, I know they don't care.

Zorandercho2026-01-14 09:58

Ah yes, I also hit that quest wall. I just wanted some flowers for Columbina but hey it's environmental and situational storytelling. Like it's the best way to lead you to the quest hub/area.

oof-eef-thats-beef2026-01-14 09:59

Ive skipped basically all World Quests because of all these years of frustration. Like if you force me into a quest when I dont want to be in it, I’m spamming the dialogue. And if I spam a little at the start - because I was DOING SOMETHING AND DIDNT WANT OR EXPECT A QUEST - then I have to just keep spamming because Ive lost context or intrigue.

Zakkimatsu2026-01-14 10:00

Unskippable content + timed content + SPAM SPACE/NEXT BUTTON!!

They are essentially incentivizing us to spam skip the dialog when they gate rewards behind doing it quickly

kuhaku15102026-01-14 22:10

Yea its fked. Like the entire problem gets solve if they just give us a skip button. Also the time padding is disgusting. They make us walk with a character at 0.5 times speed just to make the quest longer.

MorganTaoVT2026-01-14 10:10

Remember the time outside the Knights of Favonius HQ when there was a thing you had to interact with to actually start the quest?
Good times.

ThrowawayAdvice18002026-01-14 19:55

> Remember the time outside the Knights of Favonius HQ when there was a thing you had to interact with to actually start the quest? Good times.

That seems like the easiest possible solution to this and I have no idea why they won't do it. Just put an object with a ! over it in the world near where the world quest will start. Players will know interacting with the object will start a quest, so they can avoid it if they don't want to start the quest right now.

The functionality is literally already part of the game! Why on earth won't they use it???

MorganTaoVT2026-01-14 23:41

Wanna know the funniest part?
When you do the Luna VI Questline and decide to quit out of story mode before finishing it all up, you get that very same "object" placed in the world and you have to interact with it to continue.

Electrical-Call-61602026-01-14 10:14

Yup, it's annoying af, like one minute I'm trying to do something else and boom, an in your face unskippable cutscene.

Quests should only be started intentionally.

also Skip Button please. Why tf Genshin the only Hoyo game without a skip button, and afaik the only gacha game without it.

Ok-Ease24592026-01-14 10:23

I hate this so much. I am a returning player and just unlocked new regions. I can’t count how many new quests Ive just unlocked per region. Let me just explore 😩 I am already overwhelmed with so many quests ffs

SirSilhouette2026-01-14 10:25

ALSO - DO. NOT. PUT. QUEST. TRIGGERS. ON/NEAR. GODDESS STATUES!!!

FFS I WANNA UNLOCK THE WHOLE @$$ MAP NOT START 485839758592749595837373+ FLIPPING QUESTS!

_Eltanin_2026-01-14 12:23

Also auto-starting quests by being near any Katherine. I just wanna turn in my daily rewards, I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR A FULL QUEST RIGHT NOW.

zuriel452026-01-14 13:21

Adding to this, don't disable/put the triggers at Katherine, especially since you force us to fucking talk to her everyday.

I swear having Katherine disabled in nod krai for two weeks because i started a quest but actually have, you know, a fucking life, just angered me so much

xMachii2026-01-15 01:07

I hated it when Nod-Krai Katherine didn't have her usual dialogue after that certain quest, I needed to teleport away to claim my dailies. It's so stupid.

commietaku2026-01-14 18:28

This was the worst. I’m not one to complain much about in-game stuff when I love the overall game, but I always run to collect as many waypoints and statues as possible at the start of an update. One of the statues for the new region is in range of a character interaction for Illuga (he’s just standing there in the open world, so I don’t think that’s a spoiler), a character I had not met before that point. The game showed the little newbie introduction panel and then acted like we were old friends. That’s bad design. People usually like to be able to see where they’re going before they go and do things. I doubt I’m in a very small minority of people who did/will not meet him before unlocking that statue.

RitoOuma2026-01-14 10:25

What do you mean you can't sit through the sudden quests. Its for immersion you swine. It also takes only like 5min.

Why do you even play the game?

/s

StrongFaithlessness52026-01-14 10:27

I feel you. I had to walk on the water using Furina to make sure to reach the new artifact domain without triggering any world quest. At this point I also think it's more convenient to farm objects/flowers in other players' worlds, to be able to farm in peace with no obstacles.

tuskel3732026-01-14 12:23

That's what I'm planning to do. Furina for the water, and sneak around 😄

get_on_with_life2026-01-14 10:36

I was just tryna unlock a waypoint. Do NOT make me start a stupid quest that wants me to go halfway across the map to unlock it. Don’t lock me in combat and *put up a barrier* so I’m forced to fight with my bloody exploration team.

Difficult_Star44772026-01-14 10:36

Oh new map! Cant wait to expl-UNSKIPABLLE DIALOGUE

darktrooper1192026-01-14 10:44

For real

I'm still not halfway through natlan (I play very infrequently and in short bursts), hell, I haven't even done all the monstadt/liyue 1.0 quests. And I have so, so many little side quests I've forgotten all the context for because I'm trying to do one specific thing and the game keeps yanking me in them.

It's like, when I was unlocking areas in natlan and it breaks my neck whipping the camera around to try and say 'hey look at this!' I DONT CARE

Fuck I started like four quests just going straight for the statues in nod krai. And imma be real hoyo... I ain't gonna be getting to nod krai for another year at least.

For the love of god, just mark them when we're close and let us start them manually. Stop playing cutscenes or free-roam dialogue from proximity

ArchonT32026-01-14 18:42

>hey look at this

Especially that one which triggers above the pool of lava. Mid fucking jump.

delayedreactionkline2026-01-14 10:48

i hate this so much...

I come back from a long hiatus for genshin, and I get a quest triggering as soon as I log back in that's related to events further ahead from my actual story progression. and it even has objectives in regions i haven't even gotten to yet. so WTF. Not allowing a player the agency of choosing when to engage in a quest is a turn off... especially when MY time is limited and I wanted to do SOMETHING ELSE that isn't the quest that I'm automatically forced in.

wh1tebrother2026-01-14 10:55

I met a certain Illugi who already knew my character. Either I have amnesia, or the Hoyo developers need to change their approach to work and stop making things "off the cuff." 🤬

Unicorn00792026-01-14 10:59

Hoyo: you know what, im gonna auto start quests even harder

Narissis2026-01-14 11:00

The fact that there are already plenty of quests that launch on interaction with locations demonstrates that it's 100% possible to set them up that way, and that having them trigger by proximity is entirely a design choice.

And one about which I complain on just about every survey.

Cathrao2026-01-14 11:25

Spam them about it in surveys/feedback. Make it clear how much dissatisfaction it brings you. We gotta keep trying.

Oki052026-01-14 11:31

I'm so glad in Zenless they tell you that you're about to enter immersive story mode and you can cancel out of it before getting stuck in story mode.

kyuven872026-01-14 11:37

Don't let the auto-starting quests distract you from the fact they'd be less of an issue if we had a skip button.

Seriously, HSR, ZZZ, and WuWa all have skip buttons now. Genshin doesn't have a good excuse anymore.

Ginkiba2026-01-14 11:48

Genshin is very good at making situations where you're frustrated and want to mash through cutscenes as fast as possible, but yet still doesn't have a god damn skip button. Genshin dialogue can be a slog at the best of times, but over the years there have been many times when I've actively wanted to listen to everything, only to have the quest interrupted because the NPC and/or location is "busy" because Hoyo didn't fucking implement a way to refresh the world state, and thus I'm now on a quest I didn't want to do, but can't skip faster than mashing space does.

It's absolutely shoddy UX design. It's shocking they still have so many glaring issues that create way more friction than needed, particularly when they're issues solved in their other games.

tuskel3732026-01-14 12:28

Omg, the really annoying totally pointless "oh, so that's how it is" reply from Paimon I've been forced to see about 20000000 times in almost every quest when you talk to a new person about something 🤦‍♀️

Plus yeah, the character/location is involved in another quest?? That you made me auto start earlier? Well damn. 🙄

reallygoodbee2026-01-14 11:48

It's especially frustrating in Nod-Krai because they love hiding the cutscene triggers right under the shiny collectibles.

dxonxisus2026-01-14 11:52

> I’ve done some Unity coding and I don’t think it’s that hard to add a proximity toggle.

sorry but no matter the circumstance, people saying things like this never fails to make me laugh. there’s a massive difference between “doing some unity coding” and being a part of a large studio developing a game on the scale of genshin lol

E17Omm2026-01-14 12:14

Auto-starting quests is genuinely a major problem for Genshin. I was playing the Archon Quest, in Focused Story Mode, and while following Lauma and Varka to where the spirits were playing drums, the main quest guides me through the quest trigger for a World Quest and STARTS IT. IM IN FOCUSED STORY MODE selected on the Archon Quest.

Auto-starting quests kills my vibe, be that doing any other quest or just exploring, and makes me skip through the dialogue, and then makes me not remember the quest outside of it being annoying.

While *sneaking* into the Akademiya in Sumeru during the Archon Quest, in FSM, I entered range of a World Quest with a trigger spanning half the room and it triggered and the Traveler just walks up as if nothing else is going on.

The best comparison I can make is that auto-triggers feels like mid-episode *ads* for other shit I dont care about right now.

How hard is it for Hoyo to just make an exclaimation mark above NPC's and then trigger the quest opening cutscene when I interact with them? I genuinely dont care if the cutscene warps me backwards 20 meters to walk into the camp or whatever situation it is. Make world events happen like the volcano in Natlan erupting and then give me a marker for the quest NPC to start the quest but dont force me into it just by walking past!

just_a_dragonace2026-01-15 11:06

Worst part is, the exclamation mark above an npc is how a lot of Fontanian world quests started. Even some of the less big/less important world quests in Nod Krai had it in the first expansion we got. Why not just implement it for every. single. quest?? They clearly know how to do it.

Also I feel like the trigger span for these quests get bigger and bigger, especially for big quests. Like I have to do a really big circle around any kind of quest marker on the map because if I only get 20m in-game distance close to it, I get sucked I to it

bae_is_young2026-01-14 12:26

I WAS JUST GONNA GET SOME FLOWERS FOR COLUMBINA AND SO I WENT TO OPEN THE STATUES

BOOM

I DID NOT JUST CRASH INTO 5 DIFFERENT QUESTS WHEN I WAS RUNNING QUITE FAR AWAY FROM YOU QUEST MARKERS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

bae_is_young2026-01-14 12:27

There's this wild hunt fight that also has a barrier preventing you from running away to open that teleport :)

nakorurukami2026-01-14 13:02

Hate the forced camera. I was in free fall and couldn't open the glider.

nightimestars2026-01-14 13:10

It was so fucking infuriating trying to get to the flowers and then the camera forcefully slowing me down to pull my attention everywhere else. Now I got a hundred side quests auto started and I have no idea which is which.

If you are going to put a new released characters mats in a new region, give us the courtesy of being able to farm for it in peace. I would enjoy the other quests more if I can give my full attention when I am ready, not automatically thrust into it.

UnicornRises2026-01-14 13:19

Reminds me why I ragedquitted a few weeks ago. I just wanted to farm for my Durin and auto-started three or more quests.

Spamming keys don't even do much anymore because I need to wait until they're finished with some tiny animation movements before I can skip their text. It's super annoying

ReaperAerix2026-01-14 13:35

Them putting it right at the end of a bridge is goddamn evil.

Rdddss2026-01-14 14:15

omg so glad to see this so high up; it was so fucking annoying trying to get materials on the area