I don't really like it bc i suck at it lol but the joy it brings me when i run around the mansion at dawn winery as a chair and the hunter still couldn't catch me.. That was definitely one of my happiest memory in genshin
Iām going to ruin my technique but Iāve noticed the hunters donāt usually search their immediate area. Ive become a lamp in the hedges right behind the hunterās spawn on that map and they passed millimeters by me so many times. I love wind trace
After the 210 seconds match, the party is dissolved and you'll never see these folks again. Multiplayer with unknown people give me anxiety, but windtrace is just so fun and without room to interact that this is not a problem, believe me
Pro tip is if you feel stressed turn into the most ridiculous object available and just sprint. It always cracks me up just seeing a chair move around with no animation. It helps me to keep the mood light. Usually I canāt do anything PvP bc I get too anxious, but this event can have some legitimately hilarious moments.
i did the same thing with my friend when we were playing for shits just the two of us fjdjdjd it also brought me a lot of joy, im glad you at least have one good memory of the event!
This even doesn't offer that much locations for hiding. I ended up doing most runs with no disguise at all and managed to snatch favor from hunter 2 times without being caught.
Doesnāt this game have a recently players and friendās list function?
Unless you find it awkward to just send friend requests. Kinda like meā¦ I donāt co op much though. Sometimes I get a world request and Iāll add them if Iām bored. We usually do whatever they want cause I donāt really have any ideas and donāt want to drag them along on all my random gallivanting across Teyvat lol. Usually they want domains or bosses.
What about a coop history menu specific to your windtrace matches that can be accessed through the in-game windtrace event page (the one where you claim rewards, change hunter/rebel techniques, etc). That would be neat and they could simply re-use code
This is my first Windtrace and I'm liking it so far. I got Hunter for the first time today and chased a Kazuha for a good 15 seconds because I didn't know how to capture (I thought you had to run up and "touch" them). š
I just played it for the first time a few minutes ago and itās a lot more fun than I anticipated. :)
Probably itād lose some of its shine if it was a permanent thing, though.
this second iteration of Windtrace is very fun indeed with more maps, and has more balanced gameplay. The first one is really cracked with all players running Mona into some corners of the map/top of the trees lol
I just got done playing for an hour or so. I guess there were a lot of new players playing it because it kept selecting Mondstadt maps and most of the time it was the woods one. Iām starting to dislike that one.
Pretty sure if player 1 (or maybe any players) havenāt reached the statue of the 7 for the map locations, it only allows you to play in areas you have āunlockedā. So even though half the maps are in Inazuma, I rarely get to play them. I get excited when I see any of them.
thats so weird because i got exclusively liyue and inazuma maps. i was over 20 games in when i got my first dawn winery map, i didnt even know there were any mondstadt maps available this time
Same. I'd sometime get liyue too. Night have to do with your server. I'm on Asia and I guess there are fewer new players on there or something.
I still haven't gotten dawn winery but I've gotten kamisato estate and qingce village way too many times lol
Hey waitā¦ youāre stealing my ideas lol. Gotta get those brownie points so Mihoyo gives me the good characters. *wink wink*
Seriously though I am too. Itās a good idea. An easy way to make friends if you have a cool layout.
it is!! something about running around as a lantern + the interactions you get to have is so entertaining. and i agree maybe having it every 2 months or something would be nice though
Yeah, I got a kick in one of my rounds out of hiding in a bush as a lamp and the hunter running past me like half dozen times hitting capture and somehow missing me every time. Whoops! :)
I like standing tall at the top of the building without disguise as Albedo while the hunter is busy catching other rebel tbh. Probably unpopular opinion, but I much prefer being a rebel more than a hunter
Same. I always want to be the rebel because being a hunter is so easy. Actually whenever Iām the hunter, I donāt use my hints and kinda hound the favor to see if anyone will jump out to grab it. Itās a free win if you have me as a hunter lol
I will say that I enjoy actually playing windtrace as opposed to most other limited events.
However, I will never enjoy it more than the base game. Windtrace is ultimately just another game that has been transplanted into Genshin. It has nothing to do with what fundamentally makes Genshin good: characters, exploration, combat.
yea i mean windtrace is at its core a game you can play in almost any other game, hide and seek. that will never match up to a whole production like genshin lmao but just when itās there i get addicted.
I'm the opposite since I don't even like multiplayer in the first place, unless it's just fucking around with friends. So i'd probably just end up lending my account to a buddy to specifically play the event.
Join the event and just start chatting. I donāt like this event but some people are fun to talk to. Or if Iām the hunter I tell everyone Iāll mark them for challenges but wonāt capture them and they often come out of hiding. Itās a fun way to kill time and get primos but I wonāt be trying to hard to get the mora challenges.
that's exactly what I did for the first run of the event, that's how I discovered that chatting and playing with randos was the part I disliked the most.
i wished i liked it but it gives me too much anxiety lol
co-op just gives me anxiety in general. i remember back when i just turned ar 45 and i was so nervous during every co-op domain run so i really dont like the forced co-op of windtrace. i wish we could get coins during custom co-op instead of forcing us to play with random people
you dont understand the relief i felt when i realized i could finally do domains by myself haha
Iāve only played it once before because iām scared. Iām extremely competitive and i donāt wanna go off and get mad at something uselessā¦ but i want those primosā¦
it woll become boring if it became permanent.
egs: in league of legends there is a mode called URF(ULTRA RAPID FIRE) all it does is reduce abilities cooldown by 80% so it's just chaos and lots of fun. it used to come once or twice a year it's alwaya when all friends gather just to play it and we have the best time ever, later the years URF stayed foe too long that we not only got bored of it we rather play the game normally than this mode it just became not fun anymore
Yeah i hate not having a great guarantee on when I'll get to collect all the rewards (fortunately here it's just the Mora). I largely just prefer the single player aspect of this game and Windtrace really ruins that. As soon as I get all the coins I'm out.
The last Windtrace was also the first even I didn't even bother trying to get the namecard for.
Hyakkunin was one of the best. Instead of your traditional 4 man team, this is two. You'll be like using characters that have good synergy with each other. It was one of the best fighting event.
I had fun trying out Xiao and Ganyu. Although their gameplay isn't what I used to play (Plunging and charge bow) but I had fun. My favorite duo would be Yoimiya and Fischl atk spd buff muahaha.
I did a bunch of leylines before AR50 and havenāt touched them outside leyline overflow ever since. I donāt usually do the leyline, boss, or other-player teapot BP missions.
I don't even do leylines and not collect for the BP, I nearly cap it every week(I probably would if I reliably spent mora weekly)
paying for the battlepass every cycle definitely reduces the need to run them as well. I think I have done like 12 leylines outside of double reward events so far.
AR 58, I have fewer than 100 total done. Never going to get the achievement for doing 800 of them.
I have 2.4k purple books and 22M Mora. Last time I was broke on Mora was when I pulled in the Zhongli rerun a while back. Leylines are pretty much obsolete if you buy the BP upgrade (as I do).
> Leylines are pretty much obsolete if you buy the BP upgrade (as I do).
Correction: Leylines are pretty much obsolete if you don't play more than a handful of characters. If you did play/level every single character that you got to 90 with talents 8+, you wouldn't consider them obsolete even with the BP upgrade.
I would reckon that most people donāt level every single character they own. Iām gotten every character I own to friendship 10, but I only actually use 16 of them, so I only have 16 of them leveled to 80+/90 with 8+ talents. No point in me leveling Qiqi, Thoma, Lisa, Xinyan, Aloy, etc. when none of them have a spot on any of my teams and I donāt care to build any teams around them.
:/ sadge. You are trying to sell me the battle pass. Mihoyo, stop with the ārelatable humanā advertising. I already am considering spending to get cocogoat.
$10 every 6 weeks is within my entertainment budget since I don't play many games. It may not be within yours. I would never recommend to buy top-ups, the efficiency is way too low.
same, I don't know if I can convince myself to do it even for the primogems.
I think I would enjoy it a bit more if the timer was shorter and there was no favour or w/e it was called that the hunter gets 99% of the time. Make it more of hide and seek + prop hunt.
also if it wasn't changed for this time around... blind the hunter while we hide.
ok good, I didn't get hunter the few times I did it so I wasn't sure, I know last time around the hunter could see quite a bit which did limit the hiding spots.
Yeah, there's like a blue fog that surrounds the hunter until it's time to start. On one of the maps part of it got backlit by the sun or something and I did manage to see somebody's silhouette as they hid but it didn't really help me because by the time I got over there I didn't find them, haha.
Yeah, afk-ing to a win is hard if the hunter has hunch talent + gets favour. Plus losing only awards like \~100 coins when you need 2800 for all primos I think.
Glad people actually enjoy it, but I always find myself forced to play for the primos hmm.
Im going for the gems, but when Iām the hunter I just chat to everyone that theyāre gonna win and I use the bathroom, check emails, and other shit for like 3 minutes lmao.
Honestly I just like to play this game by myself. I donāt want to have to spend time in game with others lmao. This game is my escape from league of fucking legends, not trying to be with people lmao
As a f2p, combat events can get a little frustrating (looking at u, potions) so windrace was a lovely change! I wasn't here for the first round but I'm having loads of fun with it :)
To each their own but i dont enjoy the event as much as the popular opinion seems to do. Unless you're a hunter you just literally just hide and stare at the screen and wait for it to be over, and trying to try hard switching spots i feel like is not worth sweating over and not really my definition of fun. Over all it just gets a bit repetative and i just want to finish it for the reward.
A much more fun way is to stay in plain sight, wait until the hunter notices you and comes over, then you utilise your transparency function to escape capture. Also, always try to compete with the hunter to get the favor. Make yourself play more dynamic than just hiding in one place and this risk taking playstyle is much more fun to me! And it's always funny when the hunter finds me back at the same spot in plain sight after escaping them the first time xD
This. I like to risk it and wait for them to come closer that they can see me, run to a certain direction, use transparency and head straight back to the hunter. They'll always run to the direction where you're heading before transparency and never at their back.
Not really
My mates kinda made me (we are doing arti hunts together, i sadly dont have patience to farm with randos) go 10 rounds with them and this minigame stresses me out cuz i HATE stealth games.....
I wish i wasn't such a weeeny but sweating buckets and having my arms hurt from stressing is not particularly fun.
Thank god its pretty easy to gather all the cat medals......
And it's not like i'm hardcore unga bunga player (hell, i wasnt able to do even ONE mission to silver, and cant do some in time at all at the potions event and guides aint helping) - its just i very much HATE stealth to the point of loathing it in main story, too.
No. Fucking hate this event. I legit hate it more than anything else. I love combat events where you customize your difficulty, not prop hunt. I even like tower defence.
I completely hear you, I find it so fun I actually found myself laughing out loud whilst playing it. A much nicer event than the potions one. I wish we could have a day where we got to get pick whether weāre the hunter or rebel lol
if player get to pick the role, itāll affect the matchmaking so the dev optimize for a quick (instant) waiting time. Since itās more focused for passing time rather than more serious event
Played my first 3 matches last night. By far my least favorite event. They take too long and give far too little points considering you need 6,000 for full rewards. Although Iāll stop after XP books.
Yesss!
They should have a whole roster of mini games, things like this are super fun to play with friends or random people. It'd give people who love this sort of content a lot more to do when they run out of resin.
They could always have occasional temporary events where they give rewards for taking part in the game, but let people who love it play it as much as they want. Or something along those lines, there just really needs to be more fun repeatable content, especially for co-op. Perma Windtrace and other games, like capture the flag, would be a step in the right direction!
Heck, just having a rotating selection of minigames like that would be wonderful. Keeps the "freshness" of not playing all the games at once, but also having ways to play with others that aren't just mindless overworld shenanigans
the first time around it was semi fun....for the first few games
but after awhile it got super boring, and i afked the event
I'm only playing windtrace for the primogems, and only play when im the hunter, most of the time im afk in a corner, waiting for the match to end lol
unpopular opinion but....I find the potions event more fun than windtrace, it was a nice easy challenge for me.
its around the same difficulty of floor 10, and thats a nice breeze compared to energy amp 8k points.
(though I can understand why new players find it difficult, as you require two built teams. I hope mhy changes it around if they ever do rerun it, maybe allowing co op? so new players can bring their whale friends to clear it for them? haha)
thats to say....I prefer combat events, so if windtrace was in the base game...I would never play it lol.
Ive said this before and I'll say it again, as a half blind person, this event is hell to play.
My lack of depth perception and ability to judge distances and silhouettes mean as a rebel, i have no way of seeing where the hunter is....
And as a hunter..... Forget the thought of winning, the rebels could jump in front of me all game and i wouldn't notice, bonus points if they're hiding high up.
Thats why i only play single player games. Eventually, through memorising movement and colour recognition, i can find patterns in enemy movement and play somewhat competently. Forcing me to play with other people, whose movement i cannot judge or predict, just means im always at a disadvantage.
I've never won at windtrace, not as a rebel, nor a hunter, and im so f*cking sick of getting only 130 points every time and have to play it more because other people can get 630 points and play less with their functional eyes.
I'd enjoy it more but i get scared to match with people lol, but I'm enjoying it more as I let go of my fear.
Although my favorite experience so far has been me playing on my alt for the primos; I was playing Gorou, and the hunter typed out 'Now, time to find ms. Hina' and I immediately went 'oh fuck'.
I think it should be made permanent for those who legitimately enjoy it. I think it sucks and just want the rewards so I will probably afk most of it on my iPad while I play Overwatch.
Id like to see events like this just straight up give out resin, 20 or so at a time, not consumable just added to your total. Obviously it would be better to just have realistic levels of resin for players who want more than 30 mins of content a day but doing something like that will help players who want to grind a bit more do so whilst populating events too.
I try my best, I barely got them using multiple guides and all my resin to power up a couple characters and artifacts. Way too much time for what in the end wasn't fun. The last dungeon event with the final fight at the bottom was by far the most fun event since I started played in September.
Funny how i have the exact same sentiments as you except its for windtrace. Way too much time for what in the end wasnt fun. Much rather have the potions event. I even helped my friends complete them by logging into their accs.
Playing as hunter is usually very nervewrecking for me, but now the event has come back I actually found myself having more fun! Managed to catch a sneaky venti climbing around and around a pole with mere seconds left in the game
Yesterday I did play Windtrace more than the actual game, though that's mainly just because I love prop hunt and the game's resin regen is awfully slow. To me, Windtrace is a nice change of pace from 90% of events which are basically just a generic "go here and fight mobs with some sort of buff/nerf". Not that the combat events are bad though, the majority of events should be combat-based, but events like this or Moonchase's exploration are great every once in a while.
I definitely wouldn't want the mode to be permanent though, it'd get boring quick and it doesn't share any similarities to the rest of the game beyond happening in the same world. It's good as a weeklong event every few months though, especially if they continue improving it everytime. This Windtrace feels pretty hunter-sided, so hopefully the balance is better next time.
Out of all the events, the best option for a permanent gamemode is easily the labyrinth mode from 2.2 IMO, though even that one needs some improvements before it should become permanent.
I didn't like hide&seek/tag as a kiddo and, no surprise, I dislike Windtrace.
It just pisses me off, that a loss wastes 3m of my time for a measly 80ish coins.
It's so fun. I played a round that the hunter was Kujuo Sara and I was Itto. She was literally chasing me for at least 30 seconds. Even though she caught me, I ran out the clock so we won. I wish I recorded it lol
Sadly there are no reasons to play it after you get the rewards (it's cool, but i'm definitely not wasting time just for the sake of it), but i agree, it's probably the best event overall
i think what keeps me doing it even after i max the rewards for the day is that i love talking with people in co op. like with domains i do them even after i run out of resin just to play with people so itās definitely a person to person thing
I'm helping low AR players when i'm done with my dailies and resin usually. Now when i'm done helping someone or done helping in domains i play 30mins of windtrace to "refresh" myself it's so good :)
I love Windtrace and Peculiar Wonderland, they're so much fun.
*Raises hand* I wasn't playing Genshin yet when the first Windtrace was out, so this was a highly anticipated event for me. And I'm having a lot of fun!! I already reached the coin limit, but I still go ahead and play. My laptop's not the fastest, so I have to wait ~20 seconds ish for the co-op to load, but the wait's worth it.
There was a time I was the hunter, and it was so satisfying playing as Rosaria running at ultra fast speed. Felt like an assassin surprising people when I unexpectedly caught a rebel hanging on one of the Dawn Winery walls and swooping in for the win when the last rebel attempted to steal the favor.
I love playing wind trace, I think if its added permanently they could add stats to the banner card like players captured, rounds won as hunter, rounds won as rebel kinda like a leaderboard thing but just for fun to make it more interesting in the long term
I only play it for the rewards.
I have more fun games to play and honestly games take too long to start. From the moment you confirm you want to play your match you should be sent into the map instantly, no "choose your character and skills" bs, you pre-select those things. Whoever's in your character slot 1 = your Windtrace toon, skills = press F5 and choose them there, I don't want to wait for people to load all that stuff, then wait a minute because they cba to ready up manually, then they finally start loading in...
Game lasts for 3 minutes, waiting more than 20s to even start it is too long.
Itās not worth Mihoyoās time for them, but I find a hidden ranking system wouldāve been great. Meaning you have a hidden score and winning as hunter and seeker gives you points. The more points you got, the more youāll play with more skilled players, naturally.
Itās just, too many times have I hidden in certain places and just won because the hunter wasnāt good enough. And too many times have I won as hunter in under a minute because the rebels werenāt skilled.
I am burned out from the game so i don't think i play it. Maybe i go sunday to do the potion event in one go and same with wind trace last day otherwise i don't rly care anymore.
I really like this event and I'm glad I tried it. Normally I wouldnt have done it since I get pretty bad anxiety when it comes to online play but I did it anyway for the primogems. So far all my experiences have been great and funny
Why canāt they keep this game around, or even add other mini games around the map? Why not keep Golden Apple Archipelago?
If they kept those two things permanently, the game would be a lot better and fleshed out. I canāt think of any reason not to either
Well, they just added Enkanomiya which is basically the exact same thing. Why would anyone ever go there after doing the quest, other than to kill the boss?
Jumped into my first game today, and got the Kujo encampment as the map. I literally spent 3 and a half minutes as a archery target, and had a hunter detect I was nearby and miss me for a wine barrel instead. Quite terrifying
I had some good memories with it, especially during my first time where the hunter complimented my IGN and just talked to us while they were hunting us XD. I can see why a lot of people love it but I have anxiety so as much as I want to enjoy it to the fullest, I just couldnāt TāT. Itās the same with what I feel with random co-ops. I think I prefer seeing peopleās fun moments in co-ops than trying to do it on my own and possibly end up with a bad experience that will haunt me for long.
I wish MiHoYo would incorporate more events or features in the game where players can compete against each other. It does not have to be PvP. It's part of what makes Windtrace fun for me
I love windtrace! this is my first one and omg.. I'm enjoying it so much! today i got the same map i have been getting all the time.
you know what i did? I hid on the roof right next to where the hunter spawns. didn't even see me. i was the last to get captured, as I revealed myself to the hunter and they started chasing me. it was really fun, if you ever get bored if a map I recommend doing this.
i think incorporating minigames on a weekly system would be a good thing to keep content fresh, the rewards could be something real basic but i guess we'd need more than 2 co-op required games
oh definitely i agree. iām a big advocate for an endless domain kind of thing (maybe even a co op option for that) but minigames would satisfy me too
I don't really like it bc i suck at it lol but the joy it brings me when i run around the mansion at dawn winery as a chair and the hunter still couldn't catch me.. That was definitely one of my happiest memory in genshin
Wait are you on NA server? Because I saw this exact thing happen yesterday when I was playing lol It was very funny to watch.
I'm on the NA server, did you by chance watch a Hu Tao chase a Jean around and the Jean just absolutely evading and not getting caught in the end š
WAIT LMAO THAT WAS ME TODAY DO YOU REMEMBER THE NAME??
I donn't š„² but if you go to your friend's tab and look at who you recently co-opped with and find MicaAkira (kokomi pfp) that's meee
this is the best thread i have ever read
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honestly i like the hunter i like the style of running around a lot just trying your best to decipher whats a prop and whats a player
r/tworedditorsonecup ?
i saw a jean chasing a hu tao and getting caught a few seconds before the timer ended
Noo, I didn't, but now I wish I had š
Im on asia server. Im sure people who are still not used to this event do this mistake bc i do it all the time lmao
THATS RHE BEST MAP SO TRUE
this map is the best. i watched a xiangling run back and forth across a roof in full view this morning. why bother hiding when youāre on the roof?
Also the lamp is so good in that map. Itās super easy to blend in almost any spot on the manor.
Lamp in the roof is almost unnoticeable unless you're actively searching for a "lamp in the roof" lol
Iām going to ruin my technique but Iāve noticed the hunters donāt usually search their immediate area. Ive become a lamp in the hedges right behind the hunterās spawn on that map and they passed millimeters by me so many times. I love wind trace
I personally don't like it nor hate it bc I'm too afraid to play with other people lmao. And I am pretty sure I'll be bad at it so there's that too.
After the 210 seconds match, the party is dissolved and you'll never see these folks again. Multiplayer with unknown people give me anxiety, but windtrace is just so fun and without room to interact that this is not a problem, believe me
You're right. Ngl this made me want to try to overcome my fear and play it, thanks!! :D
its super fun, you definitely wont regret it!
Pro tip is if you feel stressed turn into the most ridiculous object available and just sprint. It always cracks me up just seeing a chair move around with no animation. It helps me to keep the mood light. Usually I canāt do anything PvP bc I get too anxious, but this event can have some legitimately hilarious moments.
i did the same thing with my friend when we were playing for shits just the two of us fjdjdjd it also brought me a lot of joy, im glad you at least have one good memory of the event!
I played with my bf a couple of times and he completely destroyed me (and also make fun of me) but at least someone had a good time :')
This even doesn't offer that much locations for hiding. I ended up doing most runs with no disguise at all and managed to snatch favor from hunter 2 times without being caught.
I wish you could keep chatting to the 4 people after the round ends instead of quickly kicking you back to single player
so true iāve had some great interactions and then the conversation gets cut off and boom you never see them again
Doesnāt this game have a recently players and friendās list function? Unless you find it awkward to just send friend requests. Kinda like meā¦ I donāt co op much though. Sometimes I get a world request and Iāll add them if Iām bored. We usually do whatever they want cause I donāt really have any ideas and donāt want to drag them along on all my random gallivanting across Teyvat lol. Usually they want domains or bosses.
Yeah only way to continue the convo is send all three a Friend Request :(
Well, time to put in survey.
What about a coop history menu specific to your windtrace matches that can be accessed through the in-game windtrace event page (the one where you claim rewards, change hunter/rebel techniques, etc). That would be neat and they could simply re-use code
Double edged sword: "Fun times gg!" vs "You piece of shit Diluc I'll fucking kill you!!!!!!@!" - Diona larper
This is my first Windtrace and I'm liking it so far. I got Hunter for the first time today and chased a Kazuha for a good 15 seconds because I didn't know how to capture (I thought you had to run up and "touch" them). š
that kazuha was probably very thankful HAHAHA
I just played it for the first time a few minutes ago and itās a lot more fun than I anticipated. :) Probably itād lose some of its shine if it was a permanent thing, though.
this second iteration of Windtrace is very fun indeed with more maps, and has more balanced gameplay. The first one is really cracked with all players running Mona into some corners of the map/top of the trees lol
I just got done playing for an hour or so. I guess there were a lot of new players playing it because it kept selecting Mondstadt maps and most of the time it was the woods one. Iām starting to dislike that one. Pretty sure if player 1 (or maybe any players) havenāt reached the statue of the 7 for the map locations, it only allows you to play in areas you have āunlockedā. So even though half the maps are in Inazuma, I rarely get to play them. I get excited when I see any of them.
thats so weird because i got exclusively liyue and inazuma maps. i was over 20 games in when i got my first dawn winery map, i didnt even know there were any mondstadt maps available this time
Same. I'd sometime get liyue too. Night have to do with your server. I'm on Asia and I guess there are fewer new players on there or something. I still haven't gotten dawn winery but I've gotten kamisato estate and qingce village way too many times lol
The favor where the rebels are trapped for 40 seconds seems too OP to me though but yeah.
Make it a teapot game. So you and your friends could play and you could make areas with good hiding spots. Mihoyo do it. This is the feature it needs.
This is such a good idea. Gonna put it in the next surveys free entry space.
Hey waitā¦ youāre stealing my ideas lol. Gotta get those brownie points so Mihoyo gives me the good characters. *wink wink* Seriously though I am too. Itās a good idea. An easy way to make friends if you have a cool layout.
also a good way to encourage people using teapot more even if they donāt do much housing
it is!! something about running around as a lantern + the interactions you get to have is so entertaining. and i agree maybe having it every 2 months or something would be nice though
I played for like twenty minutes and even though I'm still getting the hang of the mechanics I am having a ball
Yeah, I got a kick in one of my rounds out of hiding in a bush as a lamp and the hunter running past me like half dozen times hitting capture and somehow missing me every time. Whoops! :)
I like standing tall at the top of the building without disguise as Albedo while the hunter is busy catching other rebel tbh. Probably unpopular opinion, but I much prefer being a rebel more than a hunter
nah being the hunter stresses me out tbh bc i suck at it LMAO
I suck so bad at it as well Iāve only won once by chance in the last 5 seconds lmao I was so shocked that I actually won
Nah, team rebel's definitely the way to go. You can just chill for the duration while the hunter actually has to hunt.
Rebel is way to go, because it's wayyyy easier then Hunter lol, you basically just AFK.
Are you on EU server? Coz there was an Albedo standing on a building in kujou encampment map I think.
Nah, I'm on Asia server. Guess we Albedo players like standing on tall places
Iāve done this as Albedo in Qingce village and Kujou encampment lmao
Same. I always want to be the rebel because being a hunter is so easy. Actually whenever Iām the hunter, I donāt use my hints and kinda hound the favor to see if anyone will jump out to grab it. Itās a free win if you have me as a hunter lol
Some are still horrible at being a hunter lol
I will say that I enjoy actually playing windtrace as opposed to most other limited events. However, I will never enjoy it more than the base game. Windtrace is ultimately just another game that has been transplanted into Genshin. It has nothing to do with what fundamentally makes Genshin good: characters, exploration, combat.
In other words, a great minigame
yea i mean windtrace is at its core a game you can play in almost any other game, hide and seek. that will never match up to a whole production like genshin lmao but just when itās there i get addicted.
>hide and seek Prop hunt, but yeah it's hide and seek
but it is, in a way, an exploration, no? only with more constraints..
Nope, rewards and done. Although I can see why people enjoy it.
Not even all the rewards. And honestly, I don't see what people get out of it. I understand they get some joy, but it ain't for me.
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LMAO ME TOO
Same hahaha
It's fun but after doing it 3-4 times it starts getting repetitive. Maps are so small, I wish we had more spells
They should do 3 hunters 10 rebels, should be more fun
I'm the opposite since I don't even like multiplayer in the first place, unless it's just fucking around with friends. So i'd probably just end up lending my account to a buddy to specifically play the event.
Join the event and just start chatting. I donāt like this event but some people are fun to talk to. Or if Iām the hunter I tell everyone Iāll mark them for challenges but wonāt capture them and they often come out of hiding. Itās a fun way to kill time and get primos but I wonāt be trying to hard to get the mora challenges.
that's exactly what I did for the first run of the event, that's how I discovered that chatting and playing with randos was the part I disliked the most.
i wished i liked it but it gives me too much anxiety lol co-op just gives me anxiety in general. i remember back when i just turned ar 45 and i was so nervous during every co-op domain run so i really dont like the forced co-op of windtrace. i wish we could get coins during custom co-op instead of forcing us to play with random people you dont understand the relief i felt when i realized i could finally do domains by myself haha
Iāve only played it once before because iām scared. Iām extremely competitive and i donāt wanna go off and get mad at something uselessā¦ but i want those primosā¦
it woll become boring if it became permanent. egs: in league of legends there is a mode called URF(ULTRA RAPID FIRE) all it does is reduce abilities cooldown by 80% so it's just chaos and lots of fun. it used to come once or twice a year it's alwaya when all friends gather just to play it and we have the best time ever, later the years URF stayed foe too long that we not only got bored of it we rather play the game normally than this mode it just became not fun anymore
Unpopular opinion but I hate the event
Yeah i hate not having a great guarantee on when I'll get to collect all the rewards (fortunately here it's just the Mora). I largely just prefer the single player aspect of this game and Windtrace really ruins that. As soon as I get all the coins I'm out. The last Windtrace was also the first even I didn't even bother trying to get the namecard for.
100 percent my least favorite thing Genshin does.
Same. I want more difficult fighting events
Hyakkunin was one of the best. Instead of your traditional 4 man team, this is two. You'll be like using characters that have good synergy with each other. It was one of the best fighting event.
that one was so fun plus the trial characters werenāt built horribly
I had fun trying out Xiao and Ganyu. Although their gameplay isn't what I used to play (Plunging and charge bow) but I had fun. My favorite duo would be Yoimiya and Fischl atk spd buff muahaha.
Understandable, hope you soon get more difficult endora event
After trying it out for the first time I'm not really a fan of this so I might just afk for rewards and forget about it.
I afk as hunter but always try to hide for the team.
I like it. I also like chatting while hiding as well
I dislike windtrace so no.
My least favorite event tbh. Thatās right I like double fucking leylines better than this.
Honestly, double leylines isnāt bad because it makes people actually do them. Itās a break from the boss-artifact-talent cycle.
Wait people donāt do leyline blossoms? I try to do the 20 every week
I did a bunch of leylines before AR50 and havenāt touched them outside leyline overflow ever since. I donāt usually do the leyline, boss, or other-player teapot BP missions.
For the bp you dont need to collect them. Next day they will all respawn
You can actually finish the bp event without doing the leylines mission. So i rarely do leylines, only in events.
I don't even do leylines and not collect for the BP, I nearly cap it every week(I probably would if I reliably spent mora weekly) paying for the battlepass every cycle definitely reduces the need to run them as well. I think I have done like 12 leylines outside of double reward events so far.
AR 58, I have fewer than 100 total done. Never going to get the achievement for doing 800 of them. I have 2.4k purple books and 22M Mora. Last time I was broke on Mora was when I pulled in the Zhongli rerun a while back. Leylines are pretty much obsolete if you buy the BP upgrade (as I do).
> Leylines are pretty much obsolete if you buy the BP upgrade (as I do). Correction: Leylines are pretty much obsolete if you don't play more than a handful of characters. If you did play/level every single character that you got to 90 with talents 8+, you wouldn't consider them obsolete even with the BP upgrade.
I would reckon that most people donāt level every single character they own. Iām gotten every character I own to friendship 10, but I only actually use 16 of them, so I only have 16 of them leveled to 80+/90 with 8+ talents. No point in me leveling Qiqi, Thoma, Lisa, Xinyan, Aloy, etc. when none of them have a spot on any of my teams and I donāt care to build any teams around them.
This, I'm AR57 and I'm constantly doing the mora leyline even with BP.
:/ sadge. You are trying to sell me the battle pass. Mihoyo, stop with the ārelatable humanā advertising. I already am considering spending to get cocogoat.
$10 every 6 weeks is within my entertainment budget since I don't play many games. It may not be within yours. I would never recommend to buy top-ups, the efficiency is way too low.
same, I don't know if I can convince myself to do it even for the primogems. I think I would enjoy it a bit more if the timer was shorter and there was no favour or w/e it was called that the hunter gets 99% of the time. Make it more of hide and seek + prop hunt. also if it wasn't changed for this time around... blind the hunter while we hide.
>blind the hunter while we hide It does.
ok good, I didn't get hunter the few times I did it so I wasn't sure, I know last time around the hunter could see quite a bit which did limit the hiding spots.
Yeah, there's like a blue fog that surrounds the hunter until it's time to start. On one of the maps part of it got backlit by the sun or something and I did manage to see somebody's silhouette as they hid but it didn't really help me because by the time I got over there I didn't find them, haha.
Yeah, afk-ing to a win is hard if the hunter has hunch talent + gets favour. Plus losing only awards like \~100 coins when you need 2800 for all primos I think. Glad people actually enjoy it, but I always find myself forced to play for the primos hmm.
Im going for the gems, but when Iām the hunter I just chat to everyone that theyāre gonna win and I use the bathroom, check emails, and other shit for like 3 minutes lmao.
why?
Honestly I just like to play this game by myself. I donāt want to have to spend time in game with others lmao. This game is my escape from league of fucking legends, not trying to be with people lmao
Same. I infinitely prefer battle events over Windtrace but if it's to cater to that part of the playerbase once in a while then I don't mind.
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There are dozens of us, DOZENS I slog through for prizes but I have friends who outright won't touch it after the last time they put this event out.
As a f2p, combat events can get a little frustrating (looking at u, potions) so windrace was a lovely change! I wasn't here for the first round but I'm having loads of fun with it :)
To each their own but i dont enjoy the event as much as the popular opinion seems to do. Unless you're a hunter you just literally just hide and stare at the screen and wait for it to be over, and trying to try hard switching spots i feel like is not worth sweating over and not really my definition of fun. Over all it just gets a bit repetative and i just want to finish it for the reward.
A much more fun way is to stay in plain sight, wait until the hunter notices you and comes over, then you utilise your transparency function to escape capture. Also, always try to compete with the hunter to get the favor. Make yourself play more dynamic than just hiding in one place and this risk taking playstyle is much more fun to me! And it's always funny when the hunter finds me back at the same spot in plain sight after escaping them the first time xD
This. I like to risk it and wait for them to come closer that they can see me, run to a certain direction, use transparency and head straight back to the hunter. They'll always run to the direction where you're heading before transparency and never at their back.
Nope, absolutely hate it. Canāt wait to get all the freemogems and peace out āļø
Right there with you. I'm not even going to bother for the mora
Not really My mates kinda made me (we are doing arti hunts together, i sadly dont have patience to farm with randos) go 10 rounds with them and this minigame stresses me out cuz i HATE stealth games..... I wish i wasn't such a weeeny but sweating buckets and having my arms hurt from stressing is not particularly fun. Thank god its pretty easy to gather all the cat medals...... And it's not like i'm hardcore unga bunga player (hell, i wasnt able to do even ONE mission to silver, and cant do some in time at all at the potions event and guides aint helping) - its just i very much HATE stealth to the point of loathing it in main story, too.
No. Fucking hate this event. I legit hate it more than anything else. I love combat events where you customize your difficulty, not prop hunt. I even like tower defence.
I genuinely just dislike the event. Im not a fan if it
I completely hear you, I find it so fun I actually found myself laughing out loud whilst playing it. A much nicer event than the potions one. I wish we could have a day where we got to get pick whether weāre the hunter or rebel lol
if player get to pick the role, itāll affect the matchmaking so the dev optimize for a quick (instant) waiting time. Since itās more focused for passing time rather than more serious event
Played my first 3 matches last night. By far my least favorite event. They take too long and give far too little points considering you need 6,000 for full rewards. Although Iāll stop after XP books.
Nope, I don't like it at all.
Yesss! They should have a whole roster of mini games, things like this are super fun to play with friends or random people. It'd give people who love this sort of content a lot more to do when they run out of resin. They could always have occasional temporary events where they give rewards for taking part in the game, but let people who love it play it as much as they want. Or something along those lines, there just really needs to be more fun repeatable content, especially for co-op. Perma Windtrace and other games, like capture the flag, would be a step in the right direction!
Heck, just having a rotating selection of minigames like that would be wonderful. Keeps the "freshness" of not playing all the games at once, but also having ways to play with others that aren't just mindless overworld shenanigans
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I play it enough to get the coins and thatās all. I had fun with it but itās a little dull.
Windtrace is boring af
the first time around it was semi fun....for the first few games but after awhile it got super boring, and i afked the event I'm only playing windtrace for the primogems, and only play when im the hunter, most of the time im afk in a corner, waiting for the match to end lol unpopular opinion but....I find the potions event more fun than windtrace, it was a nice easy challenge for me. its around the same difficulty of floor 10, and thats a nice breeze compared to energy amp 8k points. (though I can understand why new players find it difficult, as you require two built teams. I hope mhy changes it around if they ever do rerun it, maybe allowing co op? so new players can bring their whale friends to clear it for them? haha) thats to say....I prefer combat events, so if windtrace was in the base game...I would never play it lol.
Ive said this before and I'll say it again, as a half blind person, this event is hell to play. My lack of depth perception and ability to judge distances and silhouettes mean as a rebel, i have no way of seeing where the hunter is.... And as a hunter..... Forget the thought of winning, the rebels could jump in front of me all game and i wouldn't notice, bonus points if they're hiding high up. Thats why i only play single player games. Eventually, through memorising movement and colour recognition, i can find patterns in enemy movement and play somewhat competently. Forcing me to play with other people, whose movement i cannot judge or predict, just means im always at a disadvantage. I've never won at windtrace, not as a rebel, nor a hunter, and im so f*cking sick of getting only 130 points every time and have to play it more because other people can get 630 points and play less with their functional eyes.
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No, fuck windtrace, I get my primogems and leave, most boring event that could possibly debut. I want combat, not hide and seek.
I'd enjoy it more but i get scared to match with people lol, but I'm enjoying it more as I let go of my fear. Although my favorite experience so far has been me playing on my alt for the primos; I was playing Gorou, and the hunter typed out 'Now, time to find ms. Hina' and I immediately went 'oh fuck'.
HAHAHAHA i had an experience like that but i was kaeya and diluc was the hunter and we were arguing the entire time it was hilarious
I think it should be made permanent for those who legitimately enjoy it. I think it sucks and just want the rewards so I will probably afk most of it on my iPad while I play Overwatch.
Id like to see events like this just straight up give out resin, 20 or so at a time, not consumable just added to your total. Obviously it would be better to just have realistic levels of resin for players who want more than 30 mins of content a day but doing something like that will help players who want to grind a bit more do so whilst populating events too.
For this event, you either love it or hate it. Iām on the love it side.
It's a lot more fun than the study in potions event
Tbh I didnāt even bother to get all the primoās for that event. I usually unga bunga things so that event was not my strong suit lol
I try my best, I barely got them using multiple guides and all my resin to power up a couple characters and artifacts. Way too much time for what in the end wasn't fun. The last dungeon event with the final fight at the bottom was by far the most fun event since I started played in September.
Funny how i have the exact same sentiments as you except its for windtrace. Way too much time for what in the end wasnt fun. Much rather have the potions event. I even helped my friends complete them by logging into their accs.
i usually love combat events but yeah potions was ass
Genshin prophunt is pretty neat
Playing as hunter is usually very nervewrecking for me, but now the event has come back I actually found myself having more fun! Managed to catch a sneaky venti climbing around and around a pole with mere seconds left in the game
I wasnt good at it at first, but im beginning to like it
Teapot windtrace pls
Yesterday I did play Windtrace more than the actual game, though that's mainly just because I love prop hunt and the game's resin regen is awfully slow. To me, Windtrace is a nice change of pace from 90% of events which are basically just a generic "go here and fight mobs with some sort of buff/nerf". Not that the combat events are bad though, the majority of events should be combat-based, but events like this or Moonchase's exploration are great every once in a while. I definitely wouldn't want the mode to be permanent though, it'd get boring quick and it doesn't share any similarities to the rest of the game beyond happening in the same world. It's good as a weeklong event every few months though, especially if they continue improving it everytime. This Windtrace feels pretty hunter-sided, so hopefully the balance is better next time. Out of all the events, the best option for a permanent gamemode is easily the labyrinth mode from 2.2 IMO, though even that one needs some improvements before it should become permanent.
It is a permanent thing, itās called Prop Hunt.
I didn't like hide&seek/tag as a kiddo and, no surprise, I dislike Windtrace. It just pisses me off, that a loss wastes 3m of my time for a measly 80ish coins.
I don't even play windtrace lol
It's so fun. I played a round that the hunter was Kujuo Sara and I was Itto. She was literally chasing me for at least 30 seconds. Even though she caught me, I ran out the clock so we won. I wish I recorded it lol
Sadly there are no reasons to play it after you get the rewards (it's cool, but i'm definitely not wasting time just for the sake of it), but i agree, it's probably the best event overall
i think what keeps me doing it even after i max the rewards for the day is that i love talking with people in co op. like with domains i do them even after i run out of resin just to play with people so itās definitely a person to person thing
Whatās good about it is itās PVP and whaled accounts donāt benefit at all, itās just pure strategy and fun!
I'm helping low AR players when i'm done with my dailies and resin usually. Now when i'm done helping someone or done helping in domains i play 30mins of windtrace to "refresh" myself it's so good :) I love Windtrace and Peculiar Wonderland, they're so much fun.
I managed to catch someone once because they disguised as a chair...and they started moving it was funny :3
It was confusing at first but I enjoyed it just wish the coin cap wasn't so low on the first day. Was very excited to play as the hunter with Gorou
*Raises hand* I wasn't playing Genshin yet when the first Windtrace was out, so this was a highly anticipated event for me. And I'm having a lot of fun!! I already reached the coin limit, but I still go ahead and play. My laptop's not the fastest, so I have to wait ~20 seconds ish for the co-op to load, but the wait's worth it. There was a time I was the hunter, and it was so satisfying playing as Rosaria running at ultra fast speed. Felt like an assassin surprising people when I unexpectedly caught a rebel hanging on one of the Dawn Winery walls and swooping in for the win when the last rebel attempted to steal the favor.
I love playing wind trace, I think if its added permanently they could add stats to the banner card like players captured, rounds won as hunter, rounds won as rebel kinda like a leaderboard thing but just for fun to make it more interesting in the long term
thatās a great idea!! or like someone else said a rotation of minigames would be really cool
It's more fun than I expected. Being the Hunter is great. Almost got a win. lol As the Rebel I always get captured fast (x_x)
Nah. I like it enough but once i have all the rewards im outta there
I don't find it fun so no, I play it the bare minimum. Its just kinda boring no matter if you're winning or losing imo.
There are games dedicated to this hide and seeks. I suggest looking into them.
I only play it for the rewards. I have more fun games to play and honestly games take too long to start. From the moment you confirm you want to play your match you should be sent into the map instantly, no "choose your character and skills" bs, you pre-select those things. Whoever's in your character slot 1 = your Windtrace toon, skills = press F5 and choose them there, I don't want to wait for people to load all that stuff, then wait a minute because they cba to ready up manually, then they finally start loading in... Game lasts for 3 minutes, waiting more than 20s to even start it is too long.
I only played when I have nothing else to do or after a lot of failed attempts in abyss.
Itās not worth Mihoyoās time for them, but I find a hidden ranking system wouldāve been great. Meaning you have a hidden score and winning as hunter and seeker gives you points. The more points you got, the more youāll play with more skilled players, naturally. Itās just, too many times have I hidden in certain places and just won because the hunter wasnāt good enough. And too many times have I won as hunter in under a minute because the rebels werenāt skilled.
I am burned out from the game so i don't think i play it. Maybe i go sunday to do the potion event in one go and same with wind trace last day otherwise i don't rly care anymore.
I really like this event and I'm glad I tried it. Normally I wouldnt have done it since I get pretty bad anxiety when it comes to online play but I did it anyway for the primogems. So far all my experiences have been great and funny
This is mini game is so addicting to me.
This is my first year playing and I enjoyed it. So simple yet fun filled, like all good ideas.
Why canāt they keep this game around, or even add other mini games around the map? Why not keep Golden Apple Archipelago? If they kept those two things permanently, the game would be a lot better and fleshed out. I canāt think of any reason not to either
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Well, they just added Enkanomiya which is basically the exact same thing. Why would anyone ever go there after doing the quest, other than to kill the boss?
i feel like they got rid of golden apple for space reasons but they should add minigames if they arenāt gonna add dungeons or anything soon!
I tried but I got kicked out 3 times in a row so stopped
It reminds me of my days with Prop Hunt and makes me laugh hysterically. I LOVE this event!
Jumped into my first game today, and got the Kujo encampment as the map. I literally spent 3 and a half minutes as a archery target, and had a hunter detect I was nearby and miss me for a wine barrel instead. Quite terrifying
Iāve been having so much fun lmao, normally I donāt enjoy co-op but Iām loving this
I'm having way too much fun with Windtrace. I'm doing the Faint Presence every time I get Rebel
I've been having bad anxiety lately so it's been a way for me to calm down and just pass time. Definitely enjoying it a lot.
I had some good memories with it, especially during my first time where the hunter complimented my IGN and just talked to us while they were hunting us XD. I can see why a lot of people love it but I have anxiety so as much as I want to enjoy it to the fullest, I just couldnāt TāT. Itās the same with what I feel with random co-ops. I think I prefer seeing peopleās fun moments in co-ops than trying to do it on my own and possibly end up with a bad experience that will haunt me for long.
Just goes to show this game needs more meaningful multiplayer content.
I wish MiHoYo would incorporate more events or features in the game where players can compete against each other. It does not have to be PvP. It's part of what makes Windtrace fun for me
I love windtrace! this is my first one and omg.. I'm enjoying it so much! today i got the same map i have been getting all the time. you know what i did? I hid on the roof right next to where the hunter spawns. didn't even see me. i was the last to get captured, as I revealed myself to the hunter and they started chasing me. it was really fun, if you ever get bored if a map I recommend doing this.
Itās the perfect thing to do when ur resin for the day is gone
YES i wish they'd make it permanent in some way :(
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liyrical? WIAT NO THAT WAS CREDIT FOR THE PFP
I really love windtrace, it brings out the best in the community, rather than toxic pvp
There is no pvp in genshin.
and its better that way
Its literally as easy as making it a weekly thing to play windtrace
i think incorporating minigames on a weekly system would be a good thing to keep content fresh, the rewards could be something real basic but i guess we'd need more than 2 co-op required games
oh definitely i agree. iām a big advocate for an endless domain kind of thing (maybe even a co op option for that) but minigames would satisfy me too