HoYoverse has posted a brand new builders dialogue detailing some quality-of-life adjustments coming quickly to Genshin Affect in Model 4.2. Whereas the builders word they’re “nonetheless engaged on many different optimizations,” the fixes revealed under ought to streamline a number of issues for long-time gamers.

Skip stipulations for weekly bosses

First on the checklist is a change to how weekly bosses are unlocked in Genshin Affect. Some weekly boss domains are usually unlocked by progressing by way of sure quests. If you happen to don’t have time to finish these quests, these domains stay inaccessible in your world, that means you don’t have easy accessibility to beneficial weekly drops.

With a brand new change to the weekly domains, now you can entry the boss fights by way of the Adventurer’s Handbook ranging from Journey Rank 40, bypassing the quests fully! You’ll nonetheless need to do the quests if you need the domains to be accessible from the overworld, however you’ll now not need to depend on discovering a co-op host to combat these particular bosses.

Accepting story quests

Beneath the present system, while you unlock character Story Quests, the brand new quests are robotically added to your energetic quests checklist. This will generally result in conflicts with different quests that characteristic the identical characters.

Beginning in Model 4.2, you’ll be capable of unlock Story Quests however not activate them instantly. This allows you to save these quests for later when you may have the time to play by way of them. It additionally makes it simpler to spend your Story Keys so you may get again to incomes extra. You’ll additionally be capable of examine stipulations for Story Quests and Hangouts from a brand new menu.

Extra map pins

Are you working out of customized map pins? I ran out mid-Sumeru. Fortunately, the most variety of pins is being elevated from 150 to 200. You’ll additionally be capable of batch choose current pins to delete them extra effectively. Fairly good of them, contemplating the dimensions of Teyvat’s map has greater than doubled over the previous couple of years.

TCG options

If you happen to get pleasure from Genius Invokation TCG, there’s excellent news. There can be a speed-up operate that will increase animation velocity for cube rolling and different interface animations throughout duels. HoYoverse didn’t specify whether or not character assault animations can be affected. Both method, this could make duels really feel snappier.

You’ll additionally be capable of share TCG decks you’ve created with different gamers utilizing a code. Conversely, you may as well use one other participant’s code to import their deck. This can be good for gamers seeking to attempt new decks however don’t need to spend time making one from scratch. Or for gamers like me, who’re unhealthy at TCG and simply need to use a pre-made deck.

None of those adjustments are big, however they’re nonetheless welcome additions. It’s good to see that the Genshin Affect workforce nonetheless cares about consumer expertise as a substitute of focusing solely on new content material.

The discharge date for Model 4.2 of Genshin Affect has not been formally confirmed at the moment. Nonetheless, a “particular program” showcasing the replace will go stay on Twitch on October 27.