New F2P Open World Action RPG Genshin Impact

[Ryoku]

Hey everyone Genshin Impact recently Released for PC/PS4/Mobile and its a pretty good game, its got some Breath of the Wild Vibes clearly took some inspiration from it (glider, climbing, stamina bar, cell shader graphics).  It's pretty shocking how high quality of a game this is for a free to play game.

 

Some quick pros and cons:

 

Pros:

1. Free to Play so doesn't hurt to try it out.

2. Nice Cell shade anime graphics.

3. Runs smooth haven't run into any glitches, bugs, or crashes yet (knocks on wood).

4. Very nice sound track, the game has a lot of Asian styling and the music also follows this (game is made by a chinese developer).

5. Interesting combat system, rather then just playing one character you create a team of 4 and you can switch them with the press of a button at any time.  This plays into the elemental combo system where you prime the enemy with an ability and then detonate it with another characters ability (water + ice = frozen solid enemy).

6. Large open world will remind you of Breath of the Wild.

7. Cross Platform Play, you can play with people from PC/PS4/Mobile (need to hit adventurer rank 16 before you can play co-op) and your account is playable on any of them without any extra work, just login with your email and password and your good to go (edit except for Playstation sony wont allow account linking to share progress between PS4 and PC/Mobile).

8. Multiple Language choices.

 

Cons:

1. Uses Gatcha monetization model (lootbox, random content), though the currency is earnable in game and given to you at a pretty fast rate will likely slow down once you have most of the achievements done. They call them wishes in this game and they reward weapons and characters. The are ranks 1-5 Stars seems like the lowest Star rated item you can get from them is 3 and seems like all characters are 4 or 5 star. 5 stars are very rare as you would expect. As you progress through the story some characters are given to you for free and equipment is dropped from chests and (mini) boss fights.

 

2.  Current download speed for the game is garbage went like 300kbps to 1.1mbps, luckly the game doesn't take up a lot of space was only like 10gb + or - a bit of PC, like 5.8 gb on mobile. Edit: @Skiiwee29 said that he read on discord that running the launcher as an admin may increase the download speed to max.

 

3. Potential for false positive bans,  they don't allow VPN connections so if you use a ping reducing tunneling service like exit lag or similar program its possible it will flag you as using a vpn and ban you.

 

That's about all that i can think of for negatives the game is pretty solid, check it out!

 

Minimum System requirements:

 

• Operating System: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64bit versions only)
• CPU: Intel Core i5 or equivalent
• RAM: 8 GB
• Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 1030 and higher
• DirectX: Version 11
• Storage: 30 GB of available space

 

Recommended System requirements:

 

• Operating System: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64bit versions only)
• CPU: Intel Core i7 (equivalent) or higher
• RAM: 16 GB
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and higher
• DirectX: Version 11
• Storage: 30 GB of available space

Note* it says 30gb required but my game is only taking up 13.8gb currently.

 

 

 

[Skiiwee29]

One tip I saw with the download is to run it as Admin in windows and it pops at full speed. I havent tired it personally, just a tip I saw in Discord the other day on launch. 

[Ryoku]

Just now, Skiiwee29 said:

One tip I saw with the download is to run it as Admin in windows and it pops at full speed. I havent tired it personally, just a tip I saw in Discord the other day on launch. 

cool ill add that to the post

[Suika]

anime breath of the wild

 

Download speeds have presumably normalized because I'm running it at 2.5MB/s rn. Was definitely running slow on mobile yesterday around 300-500KB/s.

[Ryoku]

Just now, Suika said:

anime breath of the wild

 

Download speeds have presumably normalized because I'm running it at 2.5MB/s rn. Was definitely running slow on mobile yesterday around 300-500KB/s.

i just finished downloading it on my phone and it was still between 300kbps and 1mbps. might just be distance to server or your internet is way better then mine (which caps out at like 3.2mpbs )

[porina]

40 minutes ago, Ryoku said:

1. Uses Gatcha monetization model (lootbox, random content)

This is my biggest concern for the long term prospects for the game as a (mostly) f2p player. I have seen in other gacha games they make it easy to start with, and after they hook you in start ramping up the difficulty. So you either have to pay2win or you grind forever to progress. I hope they don't do that, but time will tell.

 

I've done two 10 pulls each on the noob and featured banner, no 5 star anything so far.

 

40 minutes ago, Ryoku said:

2.  Current download speed for the game is garbage

On PC this was the case as recently as yesterday. I did a download on my laptop and it was as bad as launch day, with rates mostly varying 0.2 to 0.6 MB/s. A trick I heard was to pause/resume the download. It took a lot of attempts but I eventually got a "good" one averaging 6 MB/s, much better although still not fast. I didn't hear of the admin trick, if I still have problems in future (reinstall on other systems) I'll try that.

 

I downloaded mobile version on Play store also, that seemed to be faster but still not fast by any measure. Haven't actually used it yet since playing mostly on PC.

[Ryoku]

4 minutes ago, porina said:

This is my biggest concern for the long term prospects for the game as a (mostly) f2p player. I have seen in other gacha games they make it easy to start with, and after they hook you in start ramping up the difficulty. So you either have to pay2win or you grind forever to progress. I hope they don't do that, but time will tell.

 

I've done two 10 pulls each on the noob and featured banner, no 5 star anything so far.

 

On PC this was the case as recently as yesterday. I did a download on my laptop and it was as bad as launch day, with rates mostly varying 0.2 to 0.6 MB/s. A trick I heard was to pause/resume the download. It took a lot of attempts but I eventually got a "good" one averaging 6 MB/s, much better although still not fast. I didn't hear of the admin trick, if I still have problems in future (reinstall on other systems) I'll try that.

 

I downloaded mobile version on Play store also, that seemed to be faster but still not fast by any measure. Haven't actually used it yet since playing mostly on PC.

I've down about 50 pulls so far and got 1 5 star character Diluc and probably about 10 4 star characters/items.  One of my friends got a 5 star character (Diluc) on his very first wish. the rest of us were all like .

 

the play store just downloaded the installer, after that it downloads from the server.

[porina]

Just now, Ryoku said:

I've down about 50 pulls so far and got 1 5 star character Diluc and probably about 10 4 star characters/items.  One of my friends got a 5 star character (Diluc) on his very first wish. the rest of us were all like

I am not in favour with the RNG gods at the moment. One of my other gacha timesinks Azur Lane, there's a 1.2% rate up with 200 build pity. I got her on 198th build. Maths work out 95% chance to get with 191 builds I think. Got 2nd copy at 200 and calling it a day on that one!

 

On that note, I say I'm "mostly" f2p, but if I like a game I do want to give the devs some return for their efforts. So at some point I will probably throw some cash in their direction, but not a regular thing. I did spend more on Azur Lane while I had a job, but gotta watch the cashflow these days.

[Ryoku]

4 minutes ago, porina said:

I am not in favour with the RNG gods at the moment. One of my other gacha timesinks Azur Lane, there's a 1.2% rate up with 200 build pity. I got her on 198th build. Maths work out 95% chance to get with 191 builds I think. Got 2nd copy at 200 and calling it a day on that one!

 

On that note, I say I'm "mostly" f2p, but if I like a game I do want to give the devs some return for their efforts. So at some point I will probably throw some cash in their direction, but not a regular thing. I did spend more on Azur Lane while I had a job, but gotta watch the cashflow these days.

So far with the free characters from the story and the currency given for free i haven't had any issues completing content so its likely the 5 star character aren't needed just make things easier. so its not so bad not getting them easy, so far I've bought the Blessing of the Welkin Moon it gives you 300 currency right away and then another 2700 of 30 days for $6.99 CAD if you compare that to straight buying 3000 currency its $63 CAD cheaper.  Pretty worth it imo.

[Kanna]

Anime yes, I might get this looks cool but not sure how much I can trust it since it has it’s own launcher meaning it could not have gone thru security steps but otherwise looks good

[Skiiwee29]

Downloading it now and im getting full speed without needing to put it into admin mode:

 

[Tyuzo]

Installed the game on PC yesterday and so far I’m having a blast. The game is beautiful visually too. 

[Praesi]

You lost me at "Mobile"