Genshin Impact has a large pool of characters that can form several teams for different needs throughout the story. The roster has also opened up doors for Genshin Impact to come up with fun game modes, like Genius Invokation TCG, which incorporate the characters' skills and other elements. Most recently, the HoYoverse title introduced the "Exercise Surging Storm" event in Version 5.2, which is its version of an auto-battler.
Genshin Impact's Exercise Surging Storm lets players engage in "wargames" using various units with different abilities and traits they can use to beat their opponents. During the preparation phase, players will choose the strongest units to deploy on the battlefield, and the units fight automatically until the opposing team falls. This auto-battler is only a limited-time event, but a recent Genshin Impact leak teased that HoYoverse might turn the auto-battler into a permanent game mode, like Genius Invokation. Considering the size of the current roster, this might just be the natural progression for the game.
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Genshin Impact's Rumored Permanent Auto-Chess Battler Could Make the Most of Its Characters
In a report shared by prominent HoYoverse leaker HomDGCat, Genshin Impact's rumored auto-battler might come out in Version 5.6, and is said to have PvP and PvE elements featuring exploration and combat gameplay. Players could reportedly power up their characters using equipment and Artifacts, and they could sell the items to get currency for leveling up their units' talents. It's still unknown which Genshin Impact characters and how many of them will be featured in the new mode, but it might likely follow a similar format to the Exercise Surging Storm event and other popular auto-battler titles, like Riot Games' Teamfight Tactics.
Auto-battler games require players to strategize their actions and engage in automatic combat with other players in the lobby. They have to choose the best team compositions and items to power up their characters. In each round, players also have to make sure to fortify their teams, activate the right characteristics, equip the right items with the right units, and choose the ideal power-ups, so they can survive until the end of the game. In Teamfight Tactics, Riot Games maximizes League of Legends' large pool of champions and even its diverse skin lines to go with different set themes. The gameplay mechanics and strategies also switch up with each themed set to give players more variety.
Genshin Impact has nearly 100 characters and counting, and many players are likely not using the majority of the roster, either due to the ever-changing meta or simply because of their preferred playstyle. Although HoYoverse hasn't officially confirmed the auto-battler mode, it could be the natural progression for Genshin Impact to fully maximize their favorite characters and their abilities in a different format. At the same time, they could create powerful and unexpected team-ups, especially with characters that they might not be familiar with.
If the rumored auto-battler is anything similar to the Exercise Surging Storm event, where players can choose different units and Strategems to strengthen their teams in 10 rounds of wargames, then Genshin Impact is already off to a great start in terms of the basics. It could still retain the event's mechanic of random players facing each other in battle. Plus, since it's said to have PvE elements with exploration, it could either add "creep" rounds, or rounds where they face NPC monsters to get additional items and coins; or it could feel like Honkai: Star Rail's Divergent Universe when choosing the next route to take before engaging in wargames.
The possibility of a Genshin Impact auto-battler is exciting because it gives fans a new game mode to participate in outside main quests. Just like the Genius Invokation TCG, it's likely that the rumored auto-battler will be built into the original game, but if it becomes successful, Genshin Impact could consider making a standalone title for it to encourage potential players to dive into its lore.
Genshin Impact
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 81 /100 Critics Rec: 87%
- Released
- September 28, 2020
- ESRB
- Teen / Alcohol Reference, Fantasy Violence, In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items), Users Interact
- Developer(s)
- HoYoverse (Formerly miHoYo)
- Publisher(s)
- HoYoverse (Formerly miHoYo)
WHERE TO PLAY
Step into Teyvat, a vast world teeming with life and flowing with elemental energy.
You and your sibling arrived here from another world. Separated by an unknown god, stripped of your powers, and cast into a deep slumber, you now awake to a world very different from when you first arrived.
Thus begins your journey across Teyvat to seek answers from The Seven — the gods of each element. Along the way, prepare to explore every inch of this wondrous world, join forces with a diverse range of characters, and unravel the countless mysteries that Teyvat holds...
MASSIVE OPEN WORLD
Climb any mountain, swim across any river, and glide over the world below, taking in the jaw-dropping scenery each step of the way. And if you stop to investigate a wandering Seelie or strange mechanism, who knows what you might discover?
ELEMENTAL COMBAT SYSTEM
Harness the seven elements to unleash elemental reactions. Anemo, Electro, Hydro, Pyro, Cryo, Dendro, and Geo interact in all sorts of ways, and Vision wielders have the power to turn this to their advantage.
Will you vaporize Hydro with Pyro, electro-charge it with Electro, or freeze it with Cryo? Your mastery of the elements will give you the upper hand in battle and exploration.
BEAUTIFUL VISUALS
Feast your eyes on the world around you, with a stunning art style, real-time rendering, and finely tuned character animations delivering you a truly immersive visual experience. Lighting and weather all change naturally over time, bringing every detail of this world to life.
SOOTHING SOUNDTRACK
Let the beautiful sounds of Teyvat draw you in as you explore the expansive world around you. Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the soundtrack changes seamlessly with the time and gameplay to match the mood.
BUILD YOUR DREAM TEAM
Team up with a diverse cast of characters in Teyvat, each with their own unique personalities, stories, and abilities. Discover your favorite party combinations and level up your characters to help you conquer even the most daunting of enemies and domains.
JOURNEY WITH FRIENDS
Team up with friends across various platforms to trigger more elemental action, tackle tricky boss fights, and conquer challenging domains together to reap rich rewards.
As you stand atop the peaks of Jueyun Karst and take in the rolling clouds and vast terrain stretching out before you, you may wish to stay in Teyvat a little longer... But until you are reunited with your lost sibling, how can you rest? Go forth, Traveler, and begin your adventure!
- Engine
- Unity
- Multiplayer
- Online Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
- All platforms
- Cross Save
- All platforms
- PC Release Date
- September 28, 2020
- Xbox Series X|S Release Date
- November 20, 2024
- PS5 Release Date
- April 28, 2021
- Genre(s)
- RPG, Action, Adventure, Gacha, Open-World
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC, iOS, Android
- X|S Optimized
- yes
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
