Genshin Impact Update 1.3 Festive Lantern Light. Full Description of Changes!

Five Shades of Fortune

◆ Event period: 2021/02/03 04:00:00 - 2021/02/10 03:59:59

◆ During this event, Ji Tong will give you a special "camera". Put it on, take pictures of the indicated objects to get pictures of different colors. Exchange photo collections of 5 different colors for the Treasure of Fortune, where you can expect Source Stones, Hero Experience, Magic Enhancement Ore and other rewards!

In version 1.3, other events are waiting for you. Follow the news!

V. New story

1. New Legend Quest

After Update 1.3, the Xiao Legends quest “Golden-winged Bird. Chapter I".

◆ More legend quests will become available later. Follow the news!

2. New World Quests

◆ During the Sea Lantern Festival, a total of 26 world quests will be available, which can be found in the "Sea Lantern Festival Stories" on the event page.

◆ In addition, the world quest "Branch Keeper: Dainsleif" will become available.

VI. Other innovations

• Gameplay

1. New monsters: geowishap, ancient geowishap.

2. New tool:

The "Parametric Converter" allows you to convert the power-up materials placed in it into character experience materials, character development materials, and weapon elevation materials.

3. New achievement: Nuclide Transmutation

4. New consumable item: Nitrogen Dust. Can change the elemental stat of a character's ascension material.

5. New Recipes: Full Moon Fried Eggs, Vegetarian Mussels, Rocky Harbor Delights.

• System

1. New section of the Archive "Creatures": Information about defeated enemies and captured or discovered creatures is collected here. In this section, players can find out how many times they have defeated a particular enemy and re-read hints about some of them.

2. Ability to convert materials at the workbench: By combining some of the character's Ascension materials with Nitrogen Dust at the alchemy workbench, it is possible to change their elemental type.

3. "View Achievements" and "Character Stand" appeared on the personal information page.

4. Added support for gamepads on devices with iOS 14 and above. Currently supported: Xbox Wireless Controller (Bluetooth version), Xbox Elite Series 2 Wireless Controller, PlayStation DualShock 4 Wireless Controller, and Bluetooth Controllers for iOS (partially).

5. On the weapon upgrade screen, you can quickly add the selected material with a long press.

6. In the mail, the possibility of quick deletion has appeared. Unread letters and letters with attachments will not be deleted.

7. A new way to take photos has been added to PS4. Now the captured photo can be immediately saved to the PS4 memory.

VII. Changes and improvements

• Characters

1. Fixes related to Zhong Li:

1) Changed the effect of long pressing the elemental skill "Power over the stone":

◇ Initial effect:

Explodes nearby Geo energy with the following effects:

· Creates a jasper shield, the absorption of which depends on the max. HP Zhong Li. Absorbs Geo damage 250% more effectively.

Deals Geo damage in an area.

· If there are Geo element targets nearby, then drains the Geo element from them (up to two targets). This effect does not deal damage.

◆ Effect after changes:

Explodes nearby Geo energy with the following effects:

· If the number of Geo Columns has not reached the maximum, then creates a Geo Column.

· Creates a jasper shield, the absorption of which depends on the max. HP Zhong Li. Absorbs elemental damage and physical damage 150% more effectively.

· The elemental and physical resistance of enemies within a certain radius of a character with a Jasper Shield will be reduced by 20%. The effect does not stack.

Deals Geo damage in an area.

· If there are Geo element targets nearby, then drains the Geo element from them (up to two targets). This effect does not deal damage.

2）The effect of the second ascension talent "Earth Dominance" has been changed:

◇ Initial effect:

Comet Impact deals additional damage equal to 33% of max. HP Zhong Li.

◆ Effect after changes:

Depending on max. HP increases the damage of Zhong Li's following attacks:

· Normal attack, charged attack and falling attack damage is increased by 1,39% of max. HP.

・Geo Pillar Damage of Stone Hold, Resonance Damage and Long Press Damage increased by 1,9% of max. HP.

Comet Impact damage increased by 33% of max. HP.

2. Improved Mona's Illusory Stream skill. Illusory Flux can now be used faster when Mona gets hit (just like the normal sprint of other characters).

3. New Keii waiting animation.

4. Improved the animation of Zhong Li in the "Weapons" tab of the character menu.

5. An issue has been fixed where characters with a bow could experience jitter and inaccurate shooting when aiming near an obstacle.

6. Increased accuracy of shooting at moving targets.

7. An issue has been fixed where some characters' clothes or the character model itself could twitch when walking, attacking, using skills, or sitting.

• Monsters

1. Fixed the logic of Dendro slime combat. Now, when the Dendro slime hides relatively far from the player, the character will not enter combat mode.

• System

1. Twisted Abyss:

The composition of monsters on the 12th floor of the Twisted Abyss has been updated.

Changed ground artery anomalies on the 12th floor:

• For this floor only, the flow of the earth's arteries will be normal.

• No anomalies of the arteries of the earth.

After the first moon phase update in version 1.3, the three moon phases will be as follows:

Phase 1:

When the active character's HP is below 70%, attack power is increased by 20% and attack speed by 15%.

When the active character's HP is below 35%, and he is protected by a shield, the crit chance. hit is increased by 20%, and crit. damage - by 40%.

Phase 2:

Every ten seconds there is a charge of energy, but at the same time there can not be more than three. If the HP of a character on the battlefield is below 50%, then when he hits an enemy with a normal attack, he spends a charge to create an unstable sphere of energy at the place of the enemy, which explodes a second after the appearance. Only one sphere can be created every two seconds.

Phase 3:

When a character's HP is below 50% on the battlefield, for ten seconds after hitting an enemy with a normal or charged attack, that character's damage is increased by 2%. This effect stacks up to ten times, and each character in the party can have an individual duration and amount of the effect. When the amount or duration of the effect is refreshed, there is a 50% chance to release an energy blast. An energy blast can only be launched once every ten seconds.

2. Deleted chats will no longer be displayed in the chat list.

3. Improved the behavior of the chat tabs: now when you enter the joint mode, the chat automatically switches to the team tab.

4. Improved display of labels on the map when layering.

5. Improved the transparency of the interface in the aiming mode in the Twisted Abyss.

6. Improved use of the Cameras tool on PS4. Now, during use, a screenshot without an interface is immediately saved to local memory.

7. Starting from version 1.3, weak resin rewards will be added to the BP:

The Wanderer Battle Pass and Pearl Anthem for every ten levels, starting from the fifth, will instead of Magic Enhancement Ore give Weak Resin ×1. The total amount of Magic Enhancement Ore obtained from BP will not change. Magic ore of enhancement from these levels will be distributed among other levels.

8. The "Delete" button has been removed from the menu of the pocket teleporter on the map;

9. Optimized the size of the glider in the wardrobe of some characters.

10. Increased the refresh rate when switching between the tabs of the Paimon Store using a controller;

11. Optimized the aiming process at low frame rates.

• Audio

1. Sound optimization:

a) a reverb effect has been added to the internal monologue part of the story dialogues;

b) a character's combat voiceover may override the standby voiceover;

2. Changed the voice actor for the character Amber. Changes will take effect after updating the game to version 1.4;

3. Added Chinese voiceover for some characters;

4. Added voice acting in Japanese for some characters;

5. Adjusted the mixing effect of some sound effects on mobile phones and PC.

• Other

1. Geo Strength Elemental Resonance Changes:

◇ Initial effect:

Increases interrupt resistance. When protected by a shield, increases attack damage by 15%.

◆ Effect after changes:

Shield strength is increased by 15%. If the character's shield is active, then attack damage is increased by 15%, and when dealing damage to an enemy, his Geo resistance for 15 seconds. is reduced by 20%.

2. Change the balance of the Geo shield:

Geo Shield now "absorbs elemental damage and physical damage 150% more effectively" instead of "absorbs Geo damage 250% more effectively".

The changes will affect:

• Geo shield elemental skill Zhong Li;

• Geo shield elemental skill Noelle;

• Geo Shield from Geo Crystals dropped from Geowishap babies.

3. The tab of the standard Prayer has been fixed (The content of the Prayer and its rules remained unchanged. Only the tab has changed.).

4. Fixed the description of the location of misty grass pollen, misty grass pouches, and misty grass tufts.

5. Text descriptions of the following resources have been corrected: fragile remains, strong remains and petrified remains, and their sources have been added;

6. A description of the rules for obtaining elemental spheres has been added to the instructions for the Test Run event (there are no actual changes).

*Additional Instructions: In order for Adventurers to quickly use elemental burst and quickly become familiar with the effects of character skills, enemies in the event generate more elemental spheres than usual. But due to our oversight, this mechanism was not mentioned in the description of the event, which led to the wrong opinion about the test characters for some players. We apologize for the inconvenience caused. After this update, the corresponding rules will be added to the event description, and in the next versions we will continue to improve the test levels.