i’ve seen a lot of ppl saying this

these AQ do have a lot of talking compared to the action, but if you leave you definitely don’t have to start from square one at all. I left the game after starting the AQ several times and when you hop back on it’s almost where you left it, doesn’t matter if you don’t peep the “saving” thing that appears sometimes or if you are using a trial character at the moment, you don’t have to start over even if there are no breaks in between

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pagerunner-j2026-01-16 19:37

They added the visible save points and that’s great. They may need to tweak the message you get before you start the quest, because it still does very much suggest that you’ll lose more progress than you probably will.

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 19:39

exactly, i was afraid of leaving at the beginning but i noticed it was fine eventually

easterneas2026-01-16 20:40

Exactly me as well.

When I noticed the first time I saw “Saving…” loading screen, I knew it was fine.

And it looks like HoYo saves the progress in between loading screens, when I exited when the loading screen with the same “Saving…” screen, it continue where it left off as well!

…or I was missing to notice this update the whole time—

SpellOpening78522026-01-16 22:40

Its new to this version. Almost 100% because of the complaints with rerir/nefer's quest having barely any break points.

infojb22026-01-16 20:07

Also like make the message say roughly 1-3 hours or 4-8 (of course everyone play at a different speed but it's just so different how much time some quests take)

Ririthu2026-01-16 20:59

I believe Warframe does something like this? Its definitely more convenient to know how long the quests are instead of just "This will take time" so we know how much time we should set aside for each part...

WastePermission96202026-01-16 21:03

Honkai Star Rail does this for event. It’ll give you a rough estimate on how long it takes to complete the event, I’m unsure if they had it for story missions too

Shopworn_Soul2026-01-16 21:24

Genshin has a long history of obfuscation through language, I'd be shocked if they ever come out with anything that says exactly how long something will take or exactly how you're supposed to go about it.

That's just not their style.

gameboy2242026-01-16 20:34

They really need to be more consistent with that. I think I only ever saw that Saving animation once early on and never again for the entirety of Act 7 despite there being many break points. Cause I did have to dip a couple times.

Powerful_Wombat2026-01-16 20:42

I did find it a bit annoying where the handful of times that you were actually dumped back into the world and able to move around, it was still in an isolated instance with a warning that leaving would require having to redo content.

The save points were an improvement, but it really was just endless dialog scene to dialog scene with unclear break points. Hell even the Archon quest itself IMMEDIATELY started the next chapter without an option to take a break

The story itself was fantastic, but Hoyo is obviously struggling with how best to handle what essentially was a five hour long movie with minimal interactions from the player

Cinaed2026-01-16 20:54

Starting the next chapter with no break feels like it wasn't a new chapter. Shoulda been able to save and stop between them. I don't usually watch the Livestream so I had no idea what I was in for. I'm glad I had the entire night free cus I was stuck for 4 hours

Spiritual-Station-772026-01-16 21:11

I had to play till 5 in the morning 😭😭😭

SpellOpening78522026-01-16 22:39

I force closed the game as soon as Act 7 ended, and it picked up right where I left off (putting me in the overworld with a way to enter the quest)

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 20:58

yess when they automatically started act 8 i was like no bro i’m out 🤣 i think they gave no breaks at all

lostn2026-01-16 21:10

yes but they aren't frequent enough.

I quit as soon as I regained control of my character, thinking that it saved there. It turns out I was back a very long series of cutscenes that changed POV back and forth several times, about 1 hour if not mashing through dialog.

The amount of save points is not enough. It should always save when you regain control.

pagerunner-j2026-01-16 21:23

Yeah, agreed.

rW0HgFyxoJhYka2026-01-17 01:56

There's no fucking way its an hour back of MASHING through dialogue.

No sequence was like 2 hours straight without a loading screen for saving.

I swear people are bullshitting so they can maintain some weird agenda. Its ok to ask for stopping anywhere because HSR has it when dialogue breaks. Its not ok to just...make some shit up as if there isn't a save point roughly every 20 minutes.

Salt_Report49212026-01-17 02:33

He said 1 hour if NOT mashing through. Not everyone just stares at the game for 20 minutes to mash things through. If I have to go through the same thing again you best believe I'm leaving it run on my second screen.

OmniOnly2026-01-16 23:39

I can’t play for more than 20m at a time. The checkpoints are easily within 5-10m. The 3 moon sisters is the longest.

TzeroOcne2026-01-16 23:41

and somehow that's the moment where I'm out of time and need to close the game

Nebion6662026-01-17 00:09

My phone fucking died during that cutscene and I swear it didnt give me a battery notification so😢

Hydra2292026-01-17 02:09

Quit as soon as they change location, thats when they save your game since they need to load the new locations.

I've done this many times since I started this last quest and haven't lost a thing

Meettherubbish2026-01-17 02:02

Yeah I've closed the game around 6 times or so during this archon quest line, and none of the times did I have to restart anything. Always got back where i left off.

Civil-Cauliflower3772026-01-16 19:37

If only they tried quitting once, I took many breaks while doing the AQ

(I actually don't like this cc's content anymore all she does is complain about genshin from a long time)

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 19:41

is that the girl from the video? i just saw it on reels and wondered why so many people were agreeing

Civil-Cauliflower3772026-01-16 20:02

Personally I feel insta has more dumb kids than twitter, they will nod their heads whenever the narrative suits them

Rhodynit2026-01-16 20:14

Tbh any plataform has dumb people if you dig enough, youtube has the biggest btw, 90% of its Content is shit talk, im not going to say who btw

Speak not their name.
For even utterance grants clout,
and that is a power they shall never wield.

Excellent-Suspect-112026-01-16 20:03

Hey_Raoin I believe on YouTube. definitely spelled that wrong but type that into YouTube with genshin infront and you should find her

Gregamonster2026-01-16 20:31

If recognizing a QoL feature exists requires first doing something you know would be harmful without said feature, then you've failed to properly introduce it and it may as well not existm

Civil-Cauliflower3772026-01-16 20:33

It's not that difficult to find when the game is saving if you have played till Nod Krai's AQ

WeWildOnes2026-01-16 21:01

But when you try to quit it either
A) literally won't let you open the menu because you're in some special game mode, or
B) gives you a big scary warning about having to restart with no clarity about how much that actually means

It isn't sufficiently clear as a player how much progress we'll lose, and they don't provide enough clearly safe exit points instead of just launching you into the next cut scene

raideneiswife2026-01-16 23:16

her videos are hilariously misinformed, im not even sure she plays atp, it's like vars 2, is he fr? also genshin dies for them every year, will natlan save genshin? will nod krai save genshin? bffr

HallyMiao2026-01-16 19:38

There is a saving thing flashing at bottom right corner when you reach a save point.

Certain sections have up to 30 mins of dialogue between such points.

ChaHa_alt2026-01-16 20:10

it saves at every single loading screen

bigdick4sluts2026-01-16 20:18

which is somewhat far apart, definitely more than it should be .
HUGE SPOILERS FOR ACT 8 >!I had to take a break to do some other stuff and ended up stopping right after Nefer jumps in the past through Luonnutar , and you gain control of Columbina again to speak with the 3 sisters. When i returned , the game re-started from when i met Sonnet for the first time , having to do all those dialogues again.!<

This patch has been peak, the storytelling and lore is amazing, and it's great that there are \*some\* save spots but game definitely needs more if they want to do this long stretches of cutscenes- which again, i'm all for it they're great just you never know when you might have to stop so having somewhat frequent autosaves would just be positives .

ChaHa_alt2026-01-16 20:29

Damn, really? The few times I've left when having control of a character during the quest, it brought me right back to that spot when I came back to it. I'm not sure if I just got lucky when it comes to where I chose to take a break, but I'm surprised it brought you so far back :/

bigdick4sluts2026-01-16 20:37

yeah i might have been particularly unlucky and have picked the worst spot possible to stop aswell xD but i feel like having an autosave every time you have control of a character would be a good middle ground. it's why i stopped where i did, i thought having agency meant i could go back without issues (even without seeing the "saving" thingy) \^

rW0HgFyxoJhYka2026-01-17 01:57

It can definitely be better but some people here are claiming they had to click through dialogue for an hour to get back to their save point which is clearly bullshit.

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 20:35

oh well, thank you for sharing it

NarutoRoll2026-01-16 20:38

I did exactly this thinking it saved since it worked in similar situations. That was like 30 minutes wasted...

bigdick4sluts2026-01-16 20:42

i think that's how it works in HSR (but don't quote me on that xD) cause i thought exactly the same so maybe we got the same experiences ?
but yeah , hope it's not seen just a blind critique but as feedback \^ the system works it just rightfully needs refinement

NarutoRoll2026-01-16 20:44

It's not terrible but each save point needs to be 10 minutes or less. Too much is pointless but 30 minutes is insane.

IDevKSha2026-01-16 20:43

Same! I left the game thinking I could just restart from where I left as I already did about few times before and they perfectly resumed from where I left but this particular one started from Sonnet again for me... I think it's because of the lore.

lostn2026-01-16 21:13

that is the exact part when I left too. Shockingly, you had to start a very long way back and watch a chain of cutscenes that changed POV between different parties multiple times. Columbina had 3 POV segments that went unsaved!

hxwkmoth2026-01-16 21:36

Ooof I was running on mobile and had to take a phone call right at that same moment and when I came back I was extremely miffed to see where it reloaded. Lost a ton of time there. I need a skip dialogue button for these things.

LiamStyler2026-01-16 19:39

You can leave after every single “act.” It will make the same sound when you complete a normal quest. I just started in 5.2 and I have NEVER finished an archon quest in one sitting. I just did 6.2 over a two week period and left multiple times. I’ve left the new 6.3 quest 3 times already and haven’t had a single issue.

Why are we giving credence to “complaints” that are flat out wrong, disingenuous, and flat out lies lol.

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 19:44

idk why a lot of people are agreeing to it, and i’ve seen this a lot lately. i would be overwhelmed if i played 6 hrs straight just because

MofoPro2026-01-16 19:41

I did it over 3 days with no issues and repeated nothing, people are spreading fake news without any proof. Not sure who she is but know she’s a moron for saying this

Dovvienya2026-01-16 20:18

Are you still prevented from doing dailies and stuff until it’s all completed ?

MofoPro2026-01-16 20:20

No you can stop at the save points and do your thing and come back later exactly where you left off

Blosszu2026-01-16 20:22

Not at all. You can leave the special story mode and go back to normal gameplay. Then when you want to pick the story back up, there's a special rift like interactable that puts you back into the special mode pretty much in the same spot in which you left.

MalaMerigold2026-01-16 20:23

No. If you leave the game while in AQ, upon logging back in, you stand in front of a blue-blobby-thingy that you can interact with to go back to the story. But you dont have to go back immidiately, you can freely tp and do your stuff.

nelflyn2026-01-16 19:48

I'm sorry what? it saves after almost every scene? I did the quest in short 20 minute bits mostly. or is that a platform difference maybe

FingerlongFish2026-01-16 20:10

There almost always isn’t going to be differences like that between platforms, especially so in Genshin’s case. People just wanna farm engagement is all

nelflyn2026-01-16 20:12

i would have been surprised if it was, but thats like the only option in that regard i could think of.

youarenotthatguybruh2026-01-16 19:53

Genshin cc trying to not complain and spread misinformation to get engagement: mission impossible

Physical-Command21302026-01-16 20:07

I watch doro and jonathan only

youarenotthatguybruh2026-01-16 20:14

I don’t watch any of them anymore, they either regurgitate heard things on twitter because they want to be on the “right side” of doomposters or straight up cringe stuff with nothing added to it

Looking at some of them , they are just pulling, doing archon quests with 0 understanding of what they are looking at (literally saying random stuff during livestream that makes no sense lmao ) and with almost 0 exploration , terrible builds and full skill issue gameplay

Like , you don’t play for exploration, you dont pay attention to the story because you have the attention span of a rock , you don’t make guides (because you are terrible at it )

I can’t blame them , because at end of the day , Genshin is an easy “gather the attention of the public and make profit out of it”

I just find them “annoying” to watch

Accomplished_Lab89452026-01-16 21:21

Just watch Arnold. Literally the only one who’s not insufferable.

youarenotthatguybruh2026-01-16 21:32

I was wrong , there is one exception, you stole the words from my mouth

RiskyTen2026-01-16 23:43

This reminds me of how doro found out he didn't resonate with electro until he did the current AQ lol

Hageshii012026-01-16 20:42

I'm getting tired of this shit.

I've been trying to figure out how to toggle Columbina's eye mask on and off. Nothing I could find explained in detail how to do it. Most say just go to the Silvermoon Hall with zero explanation after that (presumably it should just trigger the cutscene somehow). I've done that with her numerous times but it's always just the Traveler running around in that space. And there's no interactable or something to trigger the cutscene that I can find. I've since figured maybe the Selenic Chronicles needs to be at a certain progression, and I'm behind on those, which might be why it's not working for me. But again, no info confirming or denying that I could find.

Anyway, my whole point in explaining this is to complain about one YouTube short I stumbled upon in my research. Don't even remember the creator, frankly don't want to. It was made a few days before the patch dropped, when most of the info about the patch had already been leaked. Video explained that "you can take Columbina's mask off in a cutscene, but everyone hates her without her mask, and if you do it you can't undo it so you'll 'brick your account.'" And all the comments are people complaining about Hoyo hating its players and screwing the mover.

And it's just so much shitty attitude, misinformation; this is what passes for content and community in today's world. 1) Not everyone hates her without her mask on, I personally like her more without her mask. 2) You CAN toggle it freely whenever you want, you aren't "bricking your account." Love the alarmist language, though. 3) I'm not sure we knew it could be toggled 100% at the time of that video being made, but that just reinforces NOT SPREADING THAT AS FACT WHEN WE DON'T KNOW. 4) Not trying to defend the multibillion dollar company, but again just annoying seeing people dogpiling on a decision that wasn't actually even made. The video is mostly incorrect.

entryjyt2026-01-16 19:54

im currently relying on xbox's quick resume to "pause", which is probably not the best idea

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 19:56

oh i don’t play on xbox, but really if you just leave it’s ok, when you get back it won’t be far off where you left it

entryjyt2026-01-16 20:26

yeah, but im saying it's not the best idea because it breaks the save on other devices. for some reason if the xbox is in "quick resume" mode for genshin, then if i launch the game on lets say my pc, it starts from the beginning. So i have to fully close out of it on xbox before playing on another platform, which can get annoying sometimes.

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 20:39

omg that has to be so annoying, better finish it on one device then since the AQ is so long

AlaindeshoGT2026-01-16 19:57

Yeah, that's simply not true. I've quit several times and you basically continue in the segment you left it.

Gregamonster2026-01-16 19:57

I don't care if you can save, going straight from one chapter to another without a break is insane.

They should have dropped you back into the game after the rescue, and informed you you could start the next chapter by returning to the Curatorium of Secrets.

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 20:43

yeah they can give breaks or at least highlight the autosave thing better

LOwOJ2026-01-16 19:58

straight up lies lol.. people didnt even realized they can stop on anypoints aslong the save prompts are activatad.. i literally do break on the middle of the quest and it bring me back like 1-2 mins to the last save points.

Sabishi19852026-01-16 20:01

Yeeeah.. They warned us, but I didn't expected the cutscenes to be THIS long. At some point it felt like watching some (really good) anime. 😄

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 20:44

frr i can’t wait to see the actual anime

kytti_bott2026-01-16 20:05

You literally can leave and come back tho lol I've done it twice and didnt lose progress

KingOfTheKitsune2026-01-16 20:20

Yeah exactly. Like I went back maybe 3 mins worth of dialogue. It was absolutely fine.

Witty-sitty-kitty2026-01-16 20:34

But can you spend resin and turn in dailies when you leave? Or are you locked into only doing the quest until it finishes even if you can log out without losing progress?

IceAdam662026-01-16 20:37

You can, there will be a teleport where you can resume the AQ.

kytti_bott2026-01-16 21:30

You can play the game as normal when you leave and won't lose progress. Just try to leave before entering dungeons and things like that

jibbycanoe2026-01-16 20:39

I've left like 6 times now. Just goes back right where I left. I was worried at first but it got late the first night and I just shut the game down and was happy to see the best day I was right back where I started (after doing my dailies)

__mymelody2026-01-16 20:05

Yeah no you can pretty much just leave after each loading screen. I left multiple times and didn't get set back at all

lostn2026-01-16 21:16

what do you define as a loading screen?

does it have to have the 7 element symbols running across the middle to count as a loading screen? Or does a brief black screen and then a switch to a different location with different characters count as a loading screen? If the latter is the case, it definitely does not save between every loading screen.

Fennezu2026-01-16 21:48

The black screen with the corner element symbols should save your progress (edit: nvm, it doesn't), and whenever the POV change shows the map background it also saves. There are some points where you get to control your character (in the open world, idk about that other place), and it let me come back to that scene if I left the story mode.

Hoyo should've done better job with this though, there are too many people who thought they'd have to sit through 8 hours straight. They should've used the "saving..." notification a lot more, it appeared like every 2 hours at most, while the quest definitely had multiple save points coded.

OmniOnly2026-01-16 23:47

Saving symbol, elemental symbols in the middle and even on the lower right corner. All auto saves. It’s part of what they tell you when you first start the game.

Iskaru2026-01-16 20:08

A lot of people are saying it saves, but I haven't seen anyone clarify if it locks you in? Are there points in the story where I can leave and go exploring or whatever, or does it put you right back into the quest if you quit after a save point?

Vanthraa2026-01-16 20:18

Yes exactly. It does save during loading screen but then it usually locks you in dialogue so you can't manually quit immediately, you have to wait for a breakpoint and depending on where you are in the story it can feel very long lol

ChaHa_alt2026-01-16 20:20

It saves at every loading screen (when you log back in, it puts right back in the quest though)

If you want to go do dailies, explore, or w/e, you can do that whenever you get control of a character during the quest. Just press "escape", it will prompt you like "are you sure you want to leave". I checked, and you get that opportunity every 20 min or so. And I've never lost any progress doing that.

(edit: apparently depending on where in the story you are, you \*can\* lose some progress by quitting, but nothing a few minutes of spam clicking dialogue can't solve)

PassionIll32812026-01-16 20:20

So usually when you "quit" you go outside of the little domain thing that they added during Paralogism (5.6 I think). When you leave, there's a pop up that says that you might lose progress, but you can usually ignore that since unless you quit during the middle of the dialogue it won't make you repeat anything. Then, you go do your dailies/irl or whatever and when you want to go back to the quest go to the domain. The domain is in the form of a tiny sliver on the map.

Surviving20212026-01-16 20:08

You're right that you don't have to start over, but some parts if you leave can set you back at least half an hour. They also don't break it up into smaller quests like previously which IMO makes people think they are stuck when the teleporters are missing. People will definitely be leaving feedback on this one.

Overall I enjoyed it and the ending was borderline peak, but there where also 20 minute sections that were totally not needed and didn't add anything to the quest they could have cut.

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 20:49

yeah i agree, it was very enjoyable to me too but since it’s that long they should improve the save points

TunaTunaLeeks2026-01-16 20:08

Big “SAVING” text in bottom right corner with an animation during loading screens.

Genshin players: I’m just going to ignore that and complain!

Ok-Will-1682026-01-17 01:56

U know, there are a reason for quote “gacha player can’t read”

markcan_killua2026-01-16 20:11

yeah this cc’s whole content is nothing but misinformation and drama farming so im not surprised lol

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 20:38

i see, i didn’t know actually. killua is the goat btw

kifune892026-01-16 20:13

New Quest has auto saving point, I'm using phone so I Cut 3 - 4 times.

The quest always saving mostly during loading screen.

sunburntkamel2026-01-16 20:14

I shouldn't have to quit the game to leave the quest, it's so crap

gabrielique2026-01-16 20:16

There is a nice SAVING flashing in the bottom right corner basically everytime we switch POVs.

Plus if you just exit the game, there is a re-enter point next to the statue of the seven in nasha town. Like, you could leave at ANY segmet and it was fine.

People are spreading misinformation just to shit on hoyo instead of actually complain about legit points....

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 20:41

frr some people have said that this cc usually does that to get attention, i just wanted to share it because i’ve seen players on instagram and tiktok complaining about it for no reason

jibbycanoe2026-01-16 20:44

Not disagreeing but that re-enter point does move depending on where in the quest you exit from. Mine is outside Nefer's place rn

svenirde2026-01-16 20:18

The misuse of POV is enough to make me discard that original video as trash.

TyriaPhoenix2026-01-16 20:19

Worse. You were just trying to farm ascension materials before sleep, then ended up in a 2 hour cutscene...

MIMINOSEC2026-01-16 20:20

Nah, we just need a skip button

Gray_Tower2026-01-16 20:24

We're never beating the illiterate allegations, are we?

CityKay2026-01-16 20:26

Thank god for those save points. They were always there, yes, but to have an clear indicator did give me that piece of mind. (I recall in Sumeru, there were times where I thought I was safe, but it sent me back further than I thought. Learning pains, man.) What I would've liked is an option between Acts if I want to continue or not. In the last patch, they kinda did that, from what I remember, only missing the first cutscene of the next act. But for this, I know it is due to story reasons, which I don't want to spoil. This is what I would mean "the game's adherence and dedication to its lore and such can be annoying".

malshapen2026-01-16 20:27

Nightly rollover hit while my bf was in cutscene and it reset and set him back about 2hrs

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 20:52

ok no that’s crazy 😭 i loved the aq but damn that’s a lot

Out_Absentia2026-01-16 20:27

That's why they need to add a "pause story mode" option.

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 21:05

i think it would be awesome honestly

QWERTYAF12412026-01-16 20:29

There are save points? Every 15 minutes or so of quest gameplay, it auto saves. You can just close out of the game and then come back to the normal game. There'll be a spot on the map where you can rejoin the story mode at whatever point it auto saved which you can re-enter when you're free. At most, you just have to spam skip like 20 lines of dialogue if you're unlucky. Idk why so many people seem to think there aren't save points. Like literally just try leaving.

Shazali992026-01-16 20:29

Idk why they started making such quests. I have shitty Internet connection that disconnects itself randomly, so sometimes i have to repeat a particular segment of the quest again and again...

Amil_Shahoriar2026-01-16 20:30

I did it in alot of sittings. Never had to redo anything. The save points are very easy to spot imo.

naarcx2026-01-16 20:30

The save points were actually really good in this one, but they didn't TELL you about them, which was sort of an L

Also, it not stopping at organic points is kind of crazy, like when Chapter 7 ends and it immediately forces you into Chapter 8, that felt weird

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 21:04

ikr i immediately got off when i saw that 🤣 they were gatekeeping them breaks

FlatisJustice1770132026-01-16 20:32

That's literally just a straight up lie. I've closed the game multiple times because I had other stuff to do, and I lost like 1 min. of progress at most, most of the time I am back exactly where I quit.

mizukis_ribbon2026-01-16 20:33

They actually added the save points as some people asked in Natlan though, it literally says "Saving..." when you are doing the quest.

Defiant_Office2026-01-16 22:22

I guess they want Hoyo to use the Wuwa method where if you press ESC it shows a message saying that your progress is saved and you can resume back at any time when they are ready. I'm going to assume the worry here is that the next time they open the game in genshin it would continue the story or replay the part again and they would be locked out to do their dailies until they fully completed the AQ.

Hoyo needs to find a better balance to respect players time. The new update is a welcoming change but it's not enough

Kingpimpy2026-01-16 20:34

people say around all types of shit that makes them look more interesting

i generally feel like a lot of people say they play the game but actually dont

enrap932026-01-16 20:38

Are they stupid? You can reset the game after any scene and there is a portal on Nasha town to continue the quest, meanwhile you can do anything else

Asleep_Assistance_562026-01-16 20:45

This is a lie

Xnub2026-01-16 20:46

Very little player interaction or choices as well ..... genshin story gameplay is trash lvl .... they dont even try

fredy312026-01-16 20:54

I mean at that point in AQ, even if you were to start from scratch and go direct through the whole AQ until Nod'krai... you would be full build. Maxxed out.

Very hard for them to put down a new boss that is a challenge except if they were to just with each region give you 10 more levels.

ZombiePiggy242026-01-16 20:58

I love standing still talking for 6 hours straight

shaqkage2026-01-16 20:58

Yeah I don't mind the AQ being mostly talking, I enjoy the story, but I wish they would stop putting us straight into the next mission without letting us take a breather.

That's my only complaint really

MaJuV2026-01-16 20:59

I spread it over three days, and never had an issue. The game's pretty clear on when the save points happen in my opinion.

There definitely could've been a few more. And the warning message that you had to replay stuff when you quit even at those save points certainly weren't optimal though.

MightySamMcClain2026-01-16 21:00

I've never had to start all over. It usually picks up within a few minutes of where I left off

RuRu042026-01-16 21:01

i start to think most Genshin players are dumb(if you believe the crap these CC says) or are not even Genshin players, like is their first game ever or something,

You can leave Archon quest in almost any moment without losing your progress,there are 'checkpoint' which often coincide with loading black screens and i am not talking about only the ones where a 'saving' note is present , every black loading screen saves your progress,

even in the past NK ones where they did not implemented the 'saving in progress' note yet,people are just 'scared' about the message when you try to leave probably :)

You do not need to be a genius to see when you can leave without losing progress .

damn ,i would like to see these players playing PS1 and older games where you had to save manually and in precise spot ,just to see their reaction :P

Also all what these CC do is complain about everything just to get views,but this is just misinformation ,is bad lot of people believe them,you all should not even give views to them .

iamterpsichora2026-01-16 21:15

i think it’s kinda obvious when you can leave too, archon quests have been this long for a while now. And there’s a lot of ppl saying that there’s no save points, i wanna think they’re trolling or something bc there’s no way

MightySamMcClain2026-01-16 21:02

What's with them saying Act x is over and Act y is beginning if there's no option to quit or any differentiation? At least when they act is over you should have to minimally talk to someone to trigger the next act

lostn2026-01-16 21:09

yep.. if you get to 5 hours 59 mins and have to leave, you start back at 0 the very beginning.

Careless_Actuary36142026-01-16 21:16

didn't sleep that day...

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..totally worth it

Prudent-Ad45092026-01-16 21:16

The real kicker is that if you just quit you won't really have to wait all that much the next time. But nobody believes that and stays up until 6am just because.

parrotandpeacock2026-01-16 21:20

Eww not this cc

Pi-Alamode2026-01-16 21:20

Them telling you when the game saves is nice but I still wish for a few stopping points between scenes. What if I want to take a break from the AQ and go fight a boss or something?

Informal_Position1662026-01-16 21:21

Jesus why are ppl just lying lmao

Orphis_DxD2026-01-16 21:23

Even though it's not square one it's still bad. Let me share my experience. I was at the point where Columbina starts to sing and the cutscene happens. I got a call or something so I left the game. I came back. It started from where Columbina meets 3 important figures. Meaning I had to play that part and Nefer part and back to that part again instead of just playing from right before the cutscene.

Superior_Lancers2026-01-16 21:25

Hmm... I hadn't played since middle of Natlan and I just started playing again. Haven't even started this archon quest, how long do you reckon it'll take me to finish everything?

proxy19c2026-01-16 21:26

That's just not true tho, there are TWO quests that are indeed 6 hours long combined, but not one singular quest. Once you get to the end of the chapter just leave what's the problem with that? Besides it actually saves, many people already pointed it out, some people just seem to not know that for some reason despite the icon appearing on the bottom right.

Bussy_Wrecker2026-01-16 21:26

Im pretty sure all the loading scenes are ckeckpoints, because I quit when a scene changed but it didn't mention the "saving" dialogue and when I came back it started from where I quit

Malschaun22026-01-16 21:35

I quit several times at points where I figured taking a break would not lead to any issues. And it didn't lead to any issues. Didn't hear a dialogue twice. Just quit when you feel it makes sense.

Lorellya2026-01-16 21:40

I want LONGER with MORE CUTSCENES and CINEMATICS!

What tf else are you even doing in this game? Endgame is done in 10 minutes and goes on a 30day cooldown, exploration takes less than a couple of days as well, GIVE ME LOTS OF THE DEEP LORE

MikaAndroid2026-01-16 21:40

I think they should just add a "save and quit" button on the menu when doing long archon quests like this. Because:

1. People who don't realize it has autosaved because they weren't paying attention when the screen goes blank

2. People who are paranoid of autosave not working. You know how when presented with the option, a lot of us still manually save even when the game just finishes its autosave?

what42702026-01-16 22:07

I think the time where I decided to log off is during the post-investigation of the energy shield with Durin, Albedo, and Wanderer.

It didn’t lose any progress, thank god, but I do agree that we need some ‘break’. It’s nice that Hoyo gives us a warning at first, but a ‘break’ is nice to have.

Anadaere2026-01-16 22:08

Id rather have cutscene skips, every now and then I'd rather watch someone else do the scenes at like 1.5 speed, shits too slow sometimes

Lisa_DHstudent2026-01-16 22:22

I have a long way to go. I’m still trying to seal the wild hunt 😭

BuilderAura2026-01-16 22:24

I streamed this last one.... including my pulls for Columbina after I finished the Archon Quest it was almost a 9 hour stream....

skullzrothxx6662026-01-16 22:28

same!! I took some breaks and it actually saves to the part I was at. theres gonna be some repetitive dialogue, from where you stopped at but once you go back, it's fine

Glittering-Ad-16262026-01-16 22:36

I think what frustrated me about the quest was the way that it always ended and it never tells you’re starting the next quest until like 30 minutes in. And you still can’t escape unless you hard quit. And if it’s a hard quit in the middle of cutscene you gotta skip some dialogue to catch up to the point you left off. It’s the most exhausting form of storytelling I’ve ever played.

CodeSouls2026-01-16 22:37

Im definitely not a huge fan of these new AQ’s that do pretty much demand a very very long period of time, it makes playing the game so much more daunting than it needs to be, dont get me wrong the story has been incredible in Nod Krai, but they definitely need to trim these continuous “special story mode” sections

TzeroOcne2026-01-16 22:41

On another topic, I think they shouldn't start the next cutscene automatically, I mean I can just close the game but still, wait does closing the game put you out of the quest mode?

lunachappell2026-01-16 22:49

There was a couple times where during my playthrough of the new quest I play on a very old tablet so it lags a lot and sometimes I just have to like restart my entire tablet. Luckily there are new save points that are like visually there that show you and a lot of times. It just restarts from the last like little part and sometimes it just restarts the cutscene

dozenofroses2026-01-16 22:49

I just wish they'd let us walk to a place once in an hour instead of always instateleporting straight to the cutscene that starts 5 fights in a row without chance to pause. I exaggerate but the first act of this patch was so exhausting for me.

I really just need to take a breather at times and condense resin of go to teapot and ruminate what just happened in the quest, especially now that lore bombs come from left and right all the time.

Sorry-Candidate-51922026-01-16 22:53

lore unenjoyers will always complain about having to go through one dialogue again

Ok-Maintenance-94642026-01-16 22:59

I’ve left a bunch of times mid quest and was fine though? Why are ppl saying it isn’t?

Hot-Ad-92252026-01-16 23:52

I just want to be sure about something, were you able to do normal stuff when you exited in the middle? Like doing dailies, farming domains, going to teapot/coop etc?

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