I want to go back

I need a bigger map of Nod Krai for sure this new zone was too little for us

Nod Krai is great but as someone who farms overworld materials everyday, man does its exploration pale in comparison to its predecessor. The Kuhenki can be clunky to use sometimes and get stuck on stuff, and on mobile you constantly tap the wrong part of your screen to switch when you don’t want to.

Natlan wasn’t perfect but I much prefer the maps it gave us and the traversal mechanics.

I think nod krai being a part of Snezhnaya is hurting the exploration and as a sumeru desert exploration enjoyer getting the chests very easily feels weird(?), majority may like it tho

You still can do great with chasca c1 and ifa at least i spend lots time on air moving fast

Natlan was peak exploration

just make an expansion on it hoyo , mare jivari or whatever, create a new expansion never mentioned that has no reason to exist , just do it and Im an happy man

I never wanted to leave. Natlan has been my favorite region by far.

Nah let natlan go already.


We get a damn saurian event every other patch, so they don't even let u forget it anyway, you'll be fine.

Agreed. Its peak exploration. Absolutely breathtaking. Nod Krai is several steps down in that regard

I'm just tired of the small, themed, isolated islands.
They are fun for something like a summer event, but I loved the grand design that the genshin Map had in sumeru, natlan or liyue.

Yeah nod krai overworld is wayyy too busy and smushed together

you were fine before nightsoul transmission, you’ll be just fine after it too

Only thing I miss is new characters having good exploration ability.

Nah, thanks, those pokemon mechanics were pain in the ass.

For me personally I hated Natlan exploration with passion due to being tied to super clunky saurians and lots of vertical cliffs.

Yes, I didn't pull any Natlan characters how do you know?

And I actually do like Nod-Krai exploration. Feels pretty fluid.

I never cared for shit-krai so the sooner it leaves the better. However if the next nation has the same design, feel and aesteethic as Nodkrai I might just not even play it.
For me This entire region feels like mondstad but with less colors. Just dull areas in Grey and white

I play since 1.0 and I have NEVER seen posts about the whole area was 100%ed within the same day it was released! And it wasn't so unique message!

Just insane. Map srinkflation

Same, the map is small af and confusing puzzles gave me Inazuma flashbacks

As someone who only has Kachina and the free Ororon as Natlan units, I really don't miss it that much.

Continuously jumping in and out of Saurians gets tiring very fast

nodkrai just feels smaller in general. I really hope that this isnt the future direction they're going to take with exploration

One thing I hate is I want to do overworks stuff with my new fun characters but it’s so painful instead of just running Varessa overload with Mauvika and having all the traversal stuff at my fingertips

Xilonen is always on my team just for her fast exploration abilities. The Natlan characters are just race cars compared to all the other nations.

HoYo obviously has the data to support their decisions and at 5 years in player fatigue has to be a factor. I suspect there's plenty of accounts where the larger countries are barely explored, ironically Natlan probably killed larger maps as people hated the clunky dragons and seemingly a lot of the cast.

Personally I'm glad we got rid of that paywall mechanics...if you didn't pull for the characters, then the exploration was absolutely annoying...

I miss not triggering an event of some kind every ten meters.

I don't miss Natlan exploration, HOWEVER, look at the size of the world map, it is criminal that we still don't have any type of mount system AFTER ALMOST 6 YEARS. Are we supposed to just fast travel everywhere? The main reason why exploration feels bad is that you only have 2 ways of travel, you first walk your ass through the WHOOOOOOOLE region activating every waypoint, and then just fast travel wherever you need to go.

Why do I need to have a team of Chasca, Mavuika, Xilonen and Kinich for exploration to feel bearable? JUST GIVE US MOUNTS, LET US FLY, GIVE US ANY KIND OF VEHICLE, ANYTHING.

God forbid you wanna go to any islands, better dust off that Furina to walk on water, or prepare to icebridge/swim your ass over to that point to unlock the waypoint only to manually go there ever again.

The fact that they have to give us waypoints to every new area cause they KNOW walking places is annoying as fuck should be very telling.

My favorite is definitely Fontaine, but it shares a similar, huge problem with Sumeru. A shit ton of long-ass quests with so much dialog that I go brain dead halfway through the quest, and so many puzzles that have *terrible* hints or explanations. Think Natlan fixed the quest issues for sure by making them a bit more compact and making all of these expansive hidden maps that dont feel like a slog. But Nod Krai? They *really* condensed everything. Like I could literally see 4-5 waypoints in a single glance, and could get to *all* of them in 3 minutes.

natlan characters have spoiled my game experience i just can't use any other characters than natlan one they make exploration so easy 🫠🫠🫠

I use kinich while whole nod krai exploration

I enjoyed most exploration in this game at their own time. Mondstadt was new and welcoming, and even if it has nothing really special, it's still my favorite place. Liyue has better puzzles, and even if there was too much climbing, I never found that troublesome.

I remember everyone hated Inazuma, because their puzzles were harder, but it was a welcome change from the obvious ones we had before. Thankfully, I skipped a good portion of Sumeru, and when I came back, they had underground maps already. So I liked the desert exploration.

Fontaine was really cool, good balance of puzzles and I enjoyed swimming. Natlan was weird at first, but I got used fast, and I like that you don't actually need the characters for exploration. I don't think there is any zone in this game I didn't like to explore.

As 1.x player who likes exploring and doesn't want to speedrun everything I want to go back to Inazuma and Sumeru exploration

I miss natlan as a whole

I really disliked exploration in Natlan, but maybe it's that I didn't roll for the premium characters immediately.

**If you were forced to use the dinosaurs** *(instead of e.g., Mavuika or Chasca)*, exploration in Natlan felt endlessly clunky and slow. I feel like Natlan had the least fun riddles as well (find nearest dinosaur, do what ever the dinosaur does, get out of dinosaur), and all the vertical traversal (again, without the corresponding premium characters) was incredibly exhausting. I have to say, more than once I got a very strong suspicion, that the poor QoL and clunkiness of dinosaurs was *intended* to make corresponding premium characters "more attractive".

It didn't really help that the generic enemies we had to farm were the cute dinosaurs that we had to bond with in essentially all world quests or the tribes that fought on our side during the Abyss invasion.

Nod Krai does seem a tad colorless in comparison, but I am honestly glad that I do not feel forced into playing overly specific traversal squads anymore, and that I do not have to use the clunky dinosaurs to solve puzzles or get from A to B.

Natlan was peak!! Nod Krai exploration pales in comparison 

Jokes on you i still haven't finished Natalan and hate it but its better than Fontaine, Sumeru Supremacy

I suppose you explore everything? I usually take a general look around as the game progresses, but I don't explore everything at once. Sometimes I go back to previous nations and find places I hadn't seen before.



But I understand if you're talking about how it was more fun adventuring through Natlan because of the mobility of the Natlan characters. At least Nodkrai wasn't a huge desert or those giant craters at the entrance to the Chasm because that was quite difficult to traverse.

Nope. It relied on too many gimmicks that compromised the immersive experience.

I always miss thoes Natlan days i was so sad when it finished , i wish we get some Natlan expansion soon cuz i just love that damn region

I miss it sm💔💔

Cant relate, I had to use a autistic animals..

My copium theory for this is that since the devs have basically confirmed that nod krai was not originally planned, whatever they did end up making was a little bit more hurried on a developmental scale.im hoping and guessing that shneznaya is going to be a huge change of pace given that its based on russia .

the new zone took me like three hours to explore 💔💔💔

I hated Natlan but the exploration was the best part. I disliked most of the region's aesthetics except for some amazing places, but them adding different tribes was great bc they all came with new areas and that's literally all I could've ever asked for

Uuugh

But Nodkrai is a bit of a "filler" patch. It was supposed to be ricchi in lore but not huge. So.. yeah..

ngl I haven’t left natlan since it released because I got really attached to running around as a dinosaur doing parkour that I just couldn’t leave.

All the recent/post Natlan characters have been pretty lackluster kit and animation wise for me honestly

How bro Natlan exploration sucked imo. Felt like it was made solely for kids. Sumeru exploration tho... it has to be the best experience I had in this game.

Using character exclusive mobility and regional mechanics to aid exploration is fine but I wish the basic movement wasn't so terrible. Sprinting is slow and inefficient, and climbing is even worse.

Same I miss Natlan exploration.

Nod krai is visual good in map but I feel the map little bit smaller maybe because, so many teleport waypoint. I feel nod krai chest drop between 2 or most of the time 3, maybe we feel the nod krai smaller because of compass.

hell no! The saurians were a disaster

Ewwww absolutely hate natlan’s exploration with all the gimmicks. It peaked at sumeru and inazuma

Nod krai is just the little trash theyre feeding us as a filler with minimal content so they can work on shneznaya they better make it good tho.

Nod Krai has S tier story beats with C tier world exploration.

Natlan has C tier story and S tier exploration.

Choose your poison.

I miss inazuma exploration. The last time the map felt actively hostile to the player. Endless thunder aiming for YOU? Sure. Fog that will cause you to lose your place in the map? Lovely. Chernobyl? Sign me up!

Natlan only feels good when you have 5 stars, which is another bag of problems. I hated exploration in it so so much, and only after getting Chasca was it bearable

The amount of posts about the maps being small gives me hope, people are starting to notice now. Guys make sure you mention this in the survey. We need old exploration back.

I know right. It feels primitive to have to sprint and climb 🥲

Agreed. Open world exploration is why i play genshin and Natlan was just perfect. We where spoiled with fontaines underwater exploration and then Natlans exploration focused map and characters for the last two years. Good thing Nod Krais story is goated.

I long for fontaine exploration so much, i miss being underwater

>I've been going back to Natlan to collect Ineffa's materials and using my **Natlan quick-swap characters**, and it feels so fluid traversing the map.

That's the main issue with Natlan and why it seems to split people. It's exploration feels AMAZING if you have the characters. But without them, you're left with saurians, who feel SO much less smoother to explore with to the point that it feels like the enviroment is built to work against you. You need both Horizontal and Vertical mobility characters, and the one they give you for free isn't great at either.

I really don’t, Natlan exploration felt way too involved and I got tired of the Saurian stuff. Nod Krai while smaller I found to be a lot more enjoyable and less of a headache

And here I'm the only one who misses Sumeru exploration. Not the way we moved trough the region in particular but the sheer amount of content to discover.

I miss fontaine underwater. So far most immersive exploration imo. As for rewarding exploration nod krai takes the cake.

I miss Sumeru

I don't completely hate it, but open world exploration is getting more and more tied to quests, which can be a pain sometimes. Also, puzzles aren't that hard, and as someone who LOVED pre-fontaine exploration when you actually had to use your brain, it's disappointing. QoLs like underground maps and compasses are great, I choose not to use the compass before 100% roughly anyway. But these puzzles are too goddamn easy man, I feel lobotomized atp. There's something about running into a random common chest in Liyue that Nod Krai exploration can't bring, and I think that's really sad.

Yup, feeling the same

Yeah natlan exploration is the best one

Sometimes it feels like a puzzle, like that saurian cant fly too high so you need to figure your own way out of the box lol

Or the feeling when you in the top of each island in ochkanatlan, and didnt find waypoints so you just going more further instead going back

I really remember that. Because at that time i dont even have kachina (new player, stuck at liyue archon quest)

Way more fun imo

The character mechanics? Sure. The clunky dinosaurs? Hell nah.

I wish that after 5.3 you could use them outside Natlan for the quick-swap

Yeah I kinda miss Natlan. Nod-Krai just seems a bit dull and lifeless compared to the vibrant colour of Natlan. Even the Nod-Krai characters seem a little bit dull.

I also miss the underwater exploration we had in Fontaine too! It's weird that they added such a major new mechanic that people were asking for, and then seemingly abandoned it in subsequent regions! It's like, did our characters just suddenly forget that we can breathe underwater? There's SO MUCH water in Nod-Krai, too!

Natlan exploration was best

I miss Natlan. Everything was so colorful, the characters have fun exploration mechanics…

SAME! Natlan was the region that made me really love exploring the map, and was the first nation I 100% every part of.

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