I don't think the game takes "layers" into account. Just basic distance in a radius.
I'm around 90% forest, and 100% desert, really cool regions, but desert can be annoying to explore if you don't have Sayu
Right? the distances are becoming quite too big, without Sayu it's 0 stamina all day long. Hopefully it's something they may add down the line.
Literally me too. I fell asleep 2 nights ago and last night trying to finish the damn thing. Why the fuck is a quest about a dancer turned into a quest about debating with scholars. It's nearing being as bad as Ayato's quest, my all time least favorite.
I had my desert vehicle
Or this beauty right hereI had my desert vehicle
Seriously though she's been great for exploration in the desert. So glad they fixed her/Ayaka getting stuck on stuff.
I've only had my commissions set to Sumeru for about 2.5 weeks and I'm already sick of the "Jump on the Mushrooms 5 times" and "Follow the Light" commissions.
To add to the fun, I've also had a couple of Sumeru desert area commissions that are no where near fast travel points:
I'm kinda pissed because I have had several days without a daily from the "story" category. Like usually you get 3 quests that are combinations of puzzles (mushroom jump, mushroom whack-a-mole), battle (defend the obelisk/kill the mushrooms or Eremites), or trials (follow the blob) and then one quest from the billion that you need to get all of the world quests and achievements. But unique to Sumeru, I have had several days that are just 4 quests from the kind that don't progress any other questlines. I still get the usual repeat BS like watering the guy's rose after I already got the achievement for that questline, but now it seems they don't even stick to the formula to guarantee you a "story" type quest every day, which is bullshit considering you're at RNG's mercy for that one quest per day already.
People were complaining about Equivalent Exchange, so they made it worse.
I'm actually somehow really hyped for Kusanali. I really like Dendro, its reactions, and the team possibilities it opens up, and she looks to be the best Dendro applicator we'll get for some time. I would wish for a Dendro healer but we all know it's gonna be snakeman who I already hate the design for unless they get rid of his stupid fucking belly shirt. Plus Kusanali can equip the Prototype Amber, so maybe she'll end up being the best Dendro healer anyways.
I mean look at this bullshit:
Awful.
Anyways, Kusanali's sweet spot looks to be C2 for me. C6 turns her into the best Dendro DPS we have by a large margin, but I am not gonna try to C6 her in her first banner, maybe down the road if I like playing her on-field. But, considering she is a munchkin catalyst with no special dash, I am not expecting to enjoy her much on-field because I thought Klee felt awful to play.
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use Candace. I not. Still learning with Nilou. Is far more than I expected.
Yea I guess Tighnari was supposed to be the initial Dendro DPS character but I dunno, he certainly amounted to nothing, and doesn't even have good Dendro application. Hopefully Kusanali helps people. Collei has been rock solid for me for creating reactions, I just need a second character for another team. Traveler's burst is actually really good, but too high energy cost and the skill is just worthless, so you only end up using him for bigger encounters and bosses instead of groups of eremites while traveling the world. Hopefully Kusanali brings up the usability of Dendro for people that don't hyper invest in Collei like I did.
I'm trying to figure out how to use her. As an on-field Hydro character, she's a fair amount worse than my Mona, Childe, and Yelan. As a support she could be fine if she had a niche I needed. She'd be a lot more usable if we had an artifact set or more weapons that just give "elemental bonus" instead of "Pyro bonus" or "Hydro bonus" specifically. I could see using her on a self-freeze comp with Shenhe for instance, but then I'd have to build Shenhe as a Hydro DPS or take the damage loss by attacking with Candace. I'm guessing MHY has some specific team in mind for her with unreleased characters that will make her usable later. Shame her elemental skill didn't hit harder, because I could see her being use as a big Vape nuke. Does polearm have a weapon that boosts elemental skill damage?
Me yoloing the event.
I really appreciate you taking the time to type out instructions and share your experiences with the Steam Deck running GI and Windows.Wanted to separate this post from my previous ones, but initial impressions are surprisingly good. It's too fucking late after all the installing and tinkering to mess with in-game settings and whatnot, but I was getting 60FPS with dips in crowded areas and during combat while using lots of skills and effects, running fullscreen at 1280x800 with the generic "medium" preset. Regardless if that sounds bad, it's night and day better over running on my Samsung Galaxy S21 phone (duh). The Deck's screen really pops and Genshin looks gorgeous on there. After the controller workaround, it plays great as well. Loading is slower than my SSD on my PC (duh) as well as my regular HDD on my PC, but faster again than the phone. I'm using a Samsung EVO Select 512 card which was one of the higher rated ones for Deck. Everything including the Windows OS is running from the card, my internal drive is not being touched for the Windows boot.
I should have given in, but I would also recommend you use a physical keyboard either through the USB port or via bluetooth. The Win10 OS onscreen keyboard sucks major donkey dicks and made everything so much more difficult, along with trying to use the touchscreen to interact with tiny Windows buttons and menus.
Tomorrow I'll piss around with the game settings and see if I can get a nice smooth 60 without dips while still looking good. I could get a bit of performance leeway just by setting the resolution to 720p instead of 1280x800 which is apparently the native Deck resolution.
I took a pic just for proof that I got it working, but it's hardly indicative of the quality when you're playing the game.
It doesn't seem like it would, but just getting all of this configured and set up wore me the fuck out, so I'm done for tonight. Despite my grumblings though, I am very pleased so far and had quite a bit of fun getting things to work, but that's a personal thing of mine.
The support wasn't actually THAT bad. No network drivers out of the box was the worst one. Windows Update picked up the vast majority once you could get it to run. The Deck specific drivers replaced the generic ones that Windows Update installed, which are for the important parts like the APU. I imagine it was a worse experience before those were available.
I'll be dead honest with you. If it's not something you plan on using at home and you don't like to tinker, I'd just forego the headache and get a gaming capable laptop. I like breaking through various limitations to get stuff running like this, but there's a fair amount of frustration to go along with it.
They stopped this from running after the game is closed like a few weeks after launch. Not that I support intrusive anti-cheat, but it's been verified to be "safe" for quite a while.
Yea Windows 11 so far is a skip for me just like Windows 8 was.
I don't want it running when the game is running either.
You have to use her elemental skill that gives the water puddle surrounding your characters, which gives a 30 second buff to generate Bountiful Cores for the whole party. If you use the water slash attack version, you don't get bountiful cores. I also can't find a visual cue of when the buff runs out, but it lasts for at least 2 full rotations.
Yea the version of her skill that causes the water aura. When you use that, you have 30 seconds to create Bountiful Cores for anybody in the party (if it's Dendro/Hydro only). You can keep refreshing it indefinitely if you want, or when the coodown is up, you can go into the attack variation of the skill and it will still create Bountiful Cores until the buff runs out.
The amount of high quality fanart for Candace is such a pleasant surprise for me.
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Finally finished the Nilou story quest. Holy shit it sucked. Still ended up not being quite as bad as Ayato's though.
I kinda felt for the dad. It'd be similar to finding out your kid wants to go to art school or get a degree in gender studies, but in Genshin terms.
This bitch's whole thing is dancing, and we only get like 3 seconds of her dancing off center of frame in the corner of the screen.
Is it just me, or did that NPC girl remind you of anyone with different colored hair?
Anyways, I've been feeling the Genshin burnout lately. I still have like 4 of the Ikki battle event things to do and I haven't even started whatever the wind one is. To be fair though, the thought of slogging through Nilou's quest was making me not even want to open the game, so maybe I'll get it done it tomorrow.
I dunno what to say about that. It was basically one of those anime "nothing personnel kid" moves where he was leading us as the player around by the nose the whole time for basically all of the Inazuma arc from behind the scenes. And the whole active part of the quest was about breaking up some random NPCs wedding who admittedly were already happy with each other just because of 'muh tenryou commission'.
Actually happens fairly frequently, always obviously and annoyingly.
Nah usually it's us injecting ourselves into other people's shit. He was the first one actively manipulating us for his own gain, and then through the book festival and other story quests, we find out through a post-written asspull he was the whole reason we showed up in Inazuma to begin with and got involved in the vision hunt bullshit, not through our own choices or whatever. Then the whole bit that the book festival was all his doing so Kazuha would find out about his family legacy stuff. It felt like all of it was written after the fact to make Ayato seem like some genius tactician shadow agent.
Yea it's clearly been a minute since you played that quest because it's literally ALL blablabla with even more back and forth traveling. The only thing it didn't have was "wait 2 days" twice like Nilou's which is just a waste of everybody's time when you usually have to wait and roll the clock forward 2 separate times just to be annoying. Anyways, apparently I'm the odd one out here, but that quest set the bar for worst voiced quest in the game for me personally.
