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Genshin Impact has dropped its latest 3.8 update, bringing along with it a ton of tweaks as well as the game’s latest seasonal event in the form of the Secret Summer Paradise.
The highlights of the new update, as previously promised, include a limited time area known as the Veluriyum Mirage, which takes place in a glass bottle. You’ll have to be Rank 18 or above to take part, and bear in mind this story is also time limited and only available for the duration of this patch. Elsewhere, the update also includes a new outfit for Klee – the Blossoming Starlight – which is available in the Character Outfit Shop, with a discount for launch. They’re not the only character getting new duds either, as there’s also a new Sailwind Shadow outfit for Kaeya based on their role as the Dagger Bandit. This one however doesn’t require a purchase, and can be obtained through the event.
There’s also new quests, and some brand new achievements for players to earn and plenty more to discover, which you can see in the patch notes below. The next patch for Genshin Impact is expected to be 4.0 Fontaine, which got a fresh tease earlier this week in a new video. You can read up more on the event requirements here, but you can get the technical patch notes below.
Genshin Impact 3.8 patch notes
Adjustments and Optimisations
System
- Optimizes the “Hold to select multiple items” function operation range and instructions on the Enhancement and Destroy interfaces in the Artifact and Weapon pages.
- For Hangout Events, upon reaching the end of the event and obtaining the Hangout Memory menu, you can use the newly-added “Review Invitation” button to view the narrative checkpoints.
- Optimizes the Quest-tracking process: When the objective is a certain distance from Travelers, clicking Navigate will open the Map.
- The objectives for Archon Quests and certain World Quests will now be listed on the map.
- Optimizes the sorting rules for Archon Quests and certain World Quests.
- Optimizes the display logic for red dots in the Quest Menu.
- Commissions can now be tracked persistently. After your tracked Commission Quest comes to an end, the next Commission Quest will automatically be tracked.
Enemies
- Adjusts the AoE of the Consecrated Fanged Beast’s Lunging Slash skill so that it stays the same as the area of the visual effect.
Audio
- Adjusts sound effects for Kirara by softening the effect heard when moving around in the Urgent Neko Parcel state after holding her Elemental Skill.
- Optimizes certain sound effects in “Genius Invokation TCG.”
- Optimizes the Korean and English voice-over for certain characters and quests.
Genius Invokation TCG
- Adjusts the text description for Large Wind Spirits summoned by Elemental Bursts after the Character Card “Sucrose” has equipped a Talent Card in Genius Invokation TCG (to differentiate these from Large Wind Spirits summoned when a Talent Card hasn’t been equipped).
- Adjusts the text description for the Talent Card “I Got Your Back” of the Character Card “Noelle” in Genius Invokation TCG (actual effect remains unchanged).
- Adjusts the effect of the Equipment Card “Gambler’s Earrings” in Genius Invokation TCG: this effect is now limited to 3 times per match.
- Adjusts the number of Elemental Dice required and DMG dealt by the Elemental Burst of the Character Card “Yoimiya” in Genius Invokation TCG: the number of dice required has decreased from 4 Pyro Dice to 3, and “Deals 4 Pyro DMG” has been adjusted to “Deals 3 Pyro DMG.”
- Adjusts the Elemental Skill DMG of the Character Card “Beidou” as well as the number of Elemental Dice required and DMG dealt by her Elemental Burst in Genius Invokation TCG: for Wavestrider of her Elemental Skill, “Deals 2 Electro DMG” has been adjusted to “Deals 3 Electro DMG”; the number of dice required for her Elemental Burst has decreased from 4 Electro Dice to 3, and “Deals 3 Electro DMG” has been adjusted to “Deals 2 Electro DMG”.
- Adjusts the Elemental Burst DMG of the Character Card “Xiangling” in Genius Invokation TCG: “Deals 2 Pyro DMG” has been adjusted to “Deals 3 Pyro DMG.”
- Adjusts the Energy required and DMG dealt by the Elemental Burst of Character Card “Razor” in Genius Invokation TCG: the Energy required for the Burst has been decreased from 3 to 2, and “Deals 5 Electro DMG” has been adjusted to “Deals 3 Electro DMG.”
- Adjusts the Elemental Skill DMG and Elemental Burst DMG of the Character Card “Eula” in Genius Invokation TCG: for Grimheart of her Elemental Skill, “DMG +2 for this instance” has been adjusted to “DMG +3 for this instance”; for Lightfall Sword of her Elemental Burst, “End Phase: Discard this card and deal 2 Physical DMG” has been adjusted to “End Phase: Discard this card and deal 3 Physical DMG.”
Other
- Adjusts the collision size of the Spiral Abyss’s floor whereby there was a small chance that it would hamper character movements and attacks.
- Optimizes the display location and size of special effects of certain Elemental applications and Elemental Reactions on enemies.
- Adjusts visual effects when Dendro Cores appear and burst to reduce the load on system performance.
Bug Fixes
Quests
- Fixes an issue whereby Paimon’s voice line was missing in the Story Quest “Into the Hinterland.”
Enemies
- Fixes an issue whereby the enemy “Shadowy Husk: Line Breaker” could not restore HP for “Black Serpent Knight: Windcutter” and “Black Serpent Knight: Rockbreaker Ax” as per normal after its attack hit a character protected by a shield.
- Fixes an issue whereby switching characters did not work normally after moving close to an Elemental Ring when challenging the boss monster “Iniquitous Baptist.”
- Fixes an issue whereby the Consecrated Fanged Beast and the Consecrated Horned Crocodile would continue pursuing the character even after hitting them with the Savage Roll and Subnautical Hunter skills under certain circumstances.
Characters
- Fixes an issue whereby when Barbara is in her “Summertime Sparkle” outfit and Jean is in her “Sea Breeze Dandelion” outfit, their avatars will be inconsistent with their actual appearances (their avatars have been fixed).
- Fixes an issue whereby the special effects of certain Plunging Attacks performed by Kirara and Kuki Shinobu are abnormally absent.
- Fixes an issue whereby in specific situations, Kirara’s Cat Grass Cardamoms, Klee’s bombs, and Aloy’s Chillwater Bomblets will not go off upon contacting opponents.
- Fixes an issue in Co-Op Mode whereby when Barbara casts her Elemental Burst, it will abnormally heal extremely distant allies.
- Fixes an issue whereby the special effects of attacks would abnormally follow Baizhu if he jumped immediately after unleashing his Normal Attack (attack radius remains the same regardless if the character jumped).
- Fixes an issue whereby characters’ standing poses will behave abnormally and also allow them to walk on air in certain situations.
System
- Fixes an issue whereby when Travelers are flying as Sorush, when the game disconnects and reconnects to the server, their character will erroneously be moved to the position occupied by Sorush while flying.
- Fixes an issue whereby after the same shortcut key was set for both Quick-Use Gadget and for a particular Gadget in the Quickswap Menu, the user was unable to use that button to switch to the corresponding Gadget from the Quickswap Menu.
- Fixes an issue whereby food items that had been added to the NRE (Menu 30) gadget would still appear in the list of foods that could be added (but in fact could not be selected) even after having been completely used up.
Audio
- Fixes an issue whereby environment sound effects were missing in some areas of Sumeru City.
- Fixes an issue with Collei whereby her “When the Sun Is Out” voice-over would not trigger properly.
- Fixes an issue with Kirara whereby, after holding her Elemental Skill and entering the Urgent Neko Parcel state, voice-over lines for other states would be triggered abnormally.
- Fixes an issue whereby some Japanese voice-overs in Kamisato Ayato’s Story Quest “Cypressus Custos Chapter: Act I” would not trigger properly in Travel Log > Story Quests.
Genius Invokation TCG
- Fixes an issue in Genius Invokation TCG whereby the player’s hand would display abnormally when using Elemental Tuning after inflicting damage with Yae Miko’s Character Card Combat Status “Tenko Thunderbolts.”
- Fixes an issue with “Genius Invokation TCG” whereby the corresponding elimination special effects could not be displayed normally when a Character Card was eliminated under certain circumstances.
Other
- Fixes an issue whereby the tutorial of the Launch Tube gadget doesn’t trigger properly under certain circumstances (Travelers who encounter said problem should log into the game after the version update. The related tutorial should automatically be triggered thereafter).
- Fixes an issue whereby it was possible to use the Waverider Repair Toolbox gadget on Sorush abnormally and restore her HP.
- Fixes an issue whereby the camera angle would suddenly change when some characters used their Normal Attacks or moved while unleashing their Elemental Burst.
- Fixes an issue whereby the treasure’s appearance near a non-outdoor Teleport Waypoint in Hangeh Afrasiyab located within Gavireh Lajavard is erroneously displayed.
- Fixes an issue whereby the shadows of Polearms, Swords, and Claymores are unable to be displayed properly under certain brightness conditions.
- Fixes an issue whereby there was a chance that the achievement “Dolorous Stroke” could not be completed normally.
- Fixes an issue whereby after disconnecting from the server and then reconnecting, characters or certain opponents that were Frozen only remained in this state for abnormally short periods.
- Fixes some text errors in 15 languages and optimizes text. (Note: Related in-game functions have not changed. Travelers can view the changes in different languages by going to the Paimon Menu > Settings > Language and changing the Game Language.)
- Text-related fixes and optimizations in English include:
- Unifies the capitalization formatting for the “More About Character” showcase.
- Optimizes inconsistencies for certain voice-overs in Chongyun > Profile > Voice-Over.
- Optimizes inconsistencies between voice-overs and their corresponding lines in the Archon Quest “Caribert.”
- Optimizes inconsistencies between voice-overs and their corresponding lines in Kaveh’s Hangout Event.
- Optimizes the voice-over for Albedo > Voice-Over > About Sucrose: Habits.
- Optimizes the description for “Elemental Resonance: Sprawling Greenery.”
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