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Genshin Impact |OT| 5.0 (Natlan) - Everything Changed When the Fire Nation Arrived

Well now I'm curious. What is it?
NTR stories usually involve a female character who is taken from the protagonist by some kind of bad guy. He forces her into a sexual relationship that she learns to enjoy over time and ultimately picks the bad guy over the protagonist. Now try to fit Nahida and Scara into this story and look at it from the perspective of someone who idolizes Nahida. You'll get the gist of it.
 
NTR stories usually involve a female character who is taken from the protagonist by some kind of bad guy. He forces her into a sexual relationship that she learns to enjoy over time and ultimately picks the bad guy over the protagonist. Now try to fit Nahida and Scara into this story and look at it from the perspective of someone who idolizes Nahida. You'll get the gist of it.

Is there a way to erase this knowledge I gained by reading that post?
 
Is there a way to erase this knowledge I gained by reading that post?
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Pejo

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First thing I'm doing is finding out how to remove that fart bubble. Ain't no way I'm exploring that much underwater area with that distracting weird fucking thing in the center of the screen.
 

Pejo

Member
Holy shit, they actually listened to some of my feedback and it sounds like they are introducing ultra strong overworld world bosses roaming around Fontaine.



Now if they add in weekly raid content instead of just a boss grind, I'll be really happy.
 

Fuz

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First thing I'm doing is finding out how to remove that fart bubble. Ain't no way I'm exploring that much underwater area with that distracting weird fucking thing in the center of the screen.
Underwater feels it will be a pointless, boring chore, since there won't be any combat.
 
I just wrapped up Liyue last night (for the most part) but going forward I will have less free time, so it was fun grinding all these games the last 2 weeks.

All my characters are around the 60-70 level range and I’m definitely starting to feel things slow down. The amount of mats, mora, and energy requirements are definitely becoming a bottle neck. I’ve saved most of my resin for the most part, but I think I may start burning through some of it just to speed things up.

Also it’s great that I got Kokomi, but can’t take her past 40 because she needs stuff from Inazuma which I’ve yet to even see lol.
 
I've seen a couple of these pictures floating around comparing Lyney and Freminet to characters from adult comics.

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I don't know which comics these are or when they were released, so it's hard to say whether those two characters were based on actual porn, but they look similar enough that it wouldn't be surprising. Might give an indication of what audience they're targeting.
 

Pejo

Member
I don't know which comics these are or when they were released, so it's hard to say whether those two characters were based on actual porn, but they look similar enough that it wouldn't be surprising. Might give an indication of what audience they're targeting.
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I mean you didn't need it to be really spelled out to see which audience they're chasing with those designs though, to be fair. I don't think there's a straight man playing the game that's like "fuck yea gimme that little boy in garter belts!"

That 2nd image reminds me more of the leak of the Mondstadt twink vampire with the tabard on than Femininet though.
 
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Dregnel

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I've seen a couple of these pictures floating around comparing Lyney and Freminet to characters from adult comics.

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I don't know which comics these are or when they were released, so it's hard to say whether those two characters were based on actual porn, but they look similar enough that it wouldn't be surprising. Might give an indication of what audience they're targeting.
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I mean you didn't need it to be really spelled out to see which audience they're chasing with those designs though, to be fair. I don't think there's a straight man playing the game that's like "fuck yea gimme that little boy in garter belts!"

That 2nd image reminds me more of the leak of the Mondstadt twink vampire with the tabard on than Femininet though.
You'd be surprised how many people online are claiming these are completely normal designs and that you're crazy for thinking otherwise. Still thought those similarities were striking though.

I don't remember the twink vampire. Might have erased that from my memory.
 
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Pejo

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You'd be surprised how many people online are claiming these are completely normal designs and that you're crazy for thinking otherwise. Still thought those similarities were striking though.
That's the world we live in today. Yet you better not objectify the female fictional characters, OR ELSE! But you better support OnlyFans, but only RESPECTFULLY, OR ELSE!
I don't remember the twink vampire. Might have erased that from my memory.
Even in the concept art he only had a tabard and boots on with nothing under it. MHY did a pretty good job of killing all of the leak albums and mirrors I had bookmarked, so I can't find the pics anymore.
 
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Pejo

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Anybody remember how to get back up to the top of the Vourukasha tree in northwest Sumeru? I have the teleport to the bottom but I can't fucking remember how to get back up to the top and there's apparently an dendroculus up there.

*edit*

Nevermind, I just climbed a high cliff and glided over.

Down to my last 5% completion to go in the desert tornado area, then I'm finished with Sumeru. Boy that area sucks.

In a bit of good news, I bought the monthly 5 blue wishes from the stardust shop and got a Kirara constellation. I'd like to get her to C4 someday for the coordinated attacks while shielded, but she's only had that one banner and I sniped her successfully, so I'll try later. Leakers are saying the snail girl from the Fontaine teaser is 4* and so is Chiori, the side ponytail Inazuma girl that supposedly lives in Fontaine.

That's kind of a bummer, she was one of the very few designs I really liked.
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Leakers are saying the snail girl from the Fontaine teaser is 4* and so is Chiori, the side ponytail Inazuma girl that supposedly lives in Fontaine.
Well that's lame. I was hoping she'd be a 5-star anemo.

I've seen so many banner leaks by this point that I don't know what's true anymore.
 

Pejo

Member
Well that's lame. I was hoping she'd be a 5-star anemo.

I've seen so many banner leaks by this point that I don't know what's true anymore.
yea who really knows. Leakers have been in shambles ever since the mega-leak ruined their 6~ months of material to drip feed. Probably just making shit up to get that sweet sweet attention.
 

deanote666

Member
I just wrapped up Liyue last night (for the most part) but going forward I will have less free time, so it was fun grinding all these games the last 2 weeks.

All my characters are around the 60-70 level range and I’m definitely starting to feel things slow down. The amount of mats, mora, and energy requirements are definitely becoming a bottle neck. I’ve saved most of my resin for the most part, but I think I may start burning through some of it just to speed things up.

Also it’s great that I got Kokomi, but can’t take her past 40 because she needs stuff from Inazuma which I’ve yet to even see lol.
Pearls and floaters are on Watatsumi Island and floaters on Seirai Island. Water cube is on Watatsumi Island.

Most of Seirai Island exploration is locked behind a quest, fyi.
 
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Dregnel

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The livestream for 4.0 should happen this week on Friday. Don't they reveal the full banners there nowadays?
I didn't know it was this Friday, the publicity is concentrated in honkai star rail apparently, I remember that I wasn't even playing the genshin I got inazuma publicity everywhere on the internet.
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I didn't know it was this Friday, the publicity is concentrated in honkai star rail apparently, I remember that I wasn't even playing the genshin I got inazuma publicity everywhere on the internet.
Star Rail is doing better right now, but from what I understand they're also constantly introducing new characters to pull for. From that perspective, the dip in revenue is interesting.
Genshin is in its rerun season now with nothing much of note going on. Considering that, I think it's doing decently well.

I'm not sure what their plan is for promoting Genshin and 4.0, but I assume that'll start relatively soon.
 
So not including reruns, but I guess all new 5* characters for 5 patches are gonna be female?

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What a strange sales strategy, huh? Maybe they're hoping people will splurge the primos they've been saving for months on cons early on? I can't imagine this makes them more money. People are gonna get burnt out too when they can't pull for a long time. I don't get it.
 

Pejo

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What a strange sales strategy, huh? Maybe they're hoping people will splurge the primos they've been saving for months on cons early on? I can't imagine this makes them more money. People are gonna get burnt out too when they can't pull for a long time. I don't get it.
I think it's strange that the first patch from the new version features a very divisive twink as the main gacha focus and that they only release 2 (mostly lame) costumes every 6 months. But then again, between me and MHY only one of us is sitting here with billions of dollars, so what the fuck do I know apparently.

Nice Dehya art:
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I think it's strange that the first patch from the new version features a very divisive twink as the main gacha focus and that they only release 2 (mostly lame) costumes every 6 months. But then again, between me and MHY only one of us is sitting here with billions of dollars, so what the fuck do I know apparently.
Sure, but it was weird for them to launch Sumeru with Tighnari too, especially since he went to the standard pool after that.

Those who pull for husbandos won't have any to look forward to for six whole updates either. How does it make sense to have these long droughts alternate between genders?
 

Pejo

Member
Sure, but it was weird for them to launch Sumeru with Tighnari too, especially since he went to the standard pool after that.

Those who pull for husbandos won't have any to look forward to for six whole updates either. How does it make sense to have these long droughts alternate between genders?
There's also a non-zero chance that this is just another case of "leaker talking out his ass for attention" so I wouldn't put too much thought into it.
 
There's also a non-zero chance that this is just another case of "leaker talking out his ass for attention" so I wouldn't put too much thought into it.
Well, the first part pretty much came true already with the lack of female characters these past months. It wouldn't surprise me if they pulled that stunt again.
 

Miyazaki’s Slave

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Have not played the game in over a year and 1/2 but I always stop by to catch the reactions to the new content/updates.

Thanks for keeping an old man "hip and with it".
 

Pejo

Member
Boooooooring.
Well we already know Wriothesley is in the group somewhere there, so either he won't run until 4.7 or he's 4* or some other fuckery is going on. I guess maybe he runs in 4.1. If he's physical polearm he's already DoA though.

Most of the Fontaine shown designs are kinda lame anyways, even if they are female, so I'm still gonna be picking and choosing. I know I want Skirk and Cloud Retainer if leaks about them being playable is true, but neither of them are Fontaine characters.

Have not played the game in over a year and 1/2 but I always stop by to catch the reactions to the new content/updates.

Thanks for keeping an old man "hip and with it".
We're currently on the back half of the "summer" patch. Instead of tropical islands this time they gave us a forest amusement park. It was kinda juvenile, but it had a few moments. Next patch is 4.0 in the water region. They haven't done hardly any promotion for it yet despite it coming in a few weeks, which is surprising. New features are some sort of "light/dark" mechanic and underwater swimming/puzzles/simplified combat. If you have any questions in specific, feel free to ask!
 
Nice choice. Both top notch picks. I can even say "must" picks
Ya but who I really want now is raiden shogun.
Keep looking through the character archive in game and keep coming back to her. Would love to see a rerun for her soonish.

Edit. I’ll settle for Dehya too
 
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Starting to realize that I’m gonna have to game the system with the teapot if I ever hope to unlock the later trust ranks. So much for a beautiful and intentional space lol.


EDIT
Also if any of you were playing Punishing Gray Raven, use my code!
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Pejo

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Guys, I fucking did it. My god what a shit area, but that's "100%" in every area in the game. This one was down to the wire, the last Dendroculus in that area let me open the last Shrine of Depths to hit the 100%. I'm sure I'm missing a ton of stuff here but it's so fucking painful to navigate. Maybe after 4.0 when we get the underground maps, I'll go back and do a sweep.

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Speaking of the area, I'm so torn about it in general. It was an absolute chore to explore and "complete", but the lore was some of the darkest and best written stuff we got. Unfortunately again, however, all of that lore was presented in text-heavy books/plaques/statues/murals instead of in an organic way. Well most of it.

The story of Gurabad and Liloupar and Deshret is crazy up and down, and I like that they aren't afraid to show the ugly side of Sumeru's past. It goes a long way to make the world feel believable, and this is one of the things I appreciate most about Genshin. But DAMN, they need to present it just a bit better.

This little sequence was pretty "adult" for a game that just had us riding rollercoasters around a Hydro Disneyland and speaking baby language to some brothers having a pretty pedestrian argument.
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Fuz

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Starting to realize that I’m gonna have to game the system with the teapot if I ever hope to unlock the later trust ranks. So much for a beautiful and intentional space lol.


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Also if any of you were playing Punishing Gray Raven, use my code!
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You can clutter a teapot setting then change to a different setting to use as your main and decorate it as you please. The score still counts even if it's inactive.
 

deanote666

Member
Oh man, I remember the Serenateacoin mining in early teapot days. That's hilarious that you still do that.
Think we had to reach the max in 3 different layouts for an achievement. Let them that way though. Those are old screenshots but the screens are still there.

Make sure you take a close look at the 2nd screenshot at the first screen on the right end. ;)
 
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Some highlights:
  • You can get to Fontaine early without having to go through the entirety of Sumeru's story.
  • Roughly half the map is underwater.
  • Underwater gameplay involves a grappling hook used to steal abilities from sea life.
  • Light/dark (or perhaps more accurately positive/negative) mechanic seems to be exclusive to Fontaine Visions.
  • Dancing robot boss.
  • Angry fire crab boss.
  • Childe is involved in the archon quest. :messenger_unamused:
  • Free Bennett from rhythm event.
  • Free Lynette from a special webpage.
  • Lyney, Yelan & Zhongli, Childe banners.
  • 5 new BP weapons, old ones also still available.
  • Releasing August 16th.
Looks okay overall, but the banners are a major bummer. I want them to start new update cycles with a bang, and these banners don't bring that. Underwater gameplay looks novel, but it's hard to say for how long this'll be fun. Do I want to spend half my time underwater where normal combat doesn't exist? The storyline seems to involve getting framed for a crime you didn't commit. A bit too similar to previous archon quests. Character designs could be better, but we're still missing a lot of leaked characters.

New areas are always exciting though. Visually and thematically Fontaine seems appealing enough. Looking forward to it.
 
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