While miHoYo’s free-to-play open world RPGGenshin Impacthas proven to be quite popular over the past month, that doesn’t mean the game is free of flaws or blemishes. In particular, players have been incredibly vocal of how certain systems,like Resin, don’t work properly or in a way that is beneficial to higher level players. However, now it seems that players have begun discovering something that’s likely even more important than the lack of Resin: incorrect weapon and Artifact descriptions.
Typos and incorrect descriptions aren’t uncommon within the world of video games. Even games likeSuper Mario 3D All-Starsfeature typos. And while it isn’t uncommon, typos, mistranslations, or wrong item descriptions have more severe consequences in an RPG likeGenshin Impactthan the dialogue of aMariogame.
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Tectone, a YouTube and Twitch streamer that specializes in gacha games, took to his YouTube channel outlining and going into great detail how three items inGenshin Impactdo not work the way their English descriptions say they do. First, he goes into detail aboutthe catalyst weapon known as The Widsith. Considered by several players to be one of the best catalyst weapons in the game, The Widsith features a unique ability based on various musical terms and, according to its description, is supposed to passively apply various buffs to all of a player’s party members. This does not seem to be the case, however, as Tectone demonstrates that the book actually only applies the buffs to the character to which it is equipped.
It turns out some Artifact sets don’t work quite the way their descriptions read, either. The Instructor’s set, which isa fairly common Artifact setplayers can find inGenshin Impact, focuses on increasing character’s Elemental Mastery stat. According to the description, when player’s equip four pieces of The Instructor’s set to one of their characters, it should give a party-wide buff to Elemental Mastery when the character triggers their Elemental Skill. In reality, the effect will only activate after the character equipped with the set triggers an Elemental Reaction with their Elemental Skill, and it will only apply it to the two characters that created the Reaction.
Finally, there is theArchaic Petra Artifact set located in the Domain of Guyun. While this set claims to give players a buff to Elemental RES following the Crystallize Reaction, it actually will give players a buff to Elemental DMG following the same Reaction. And while this inaccurate description is far smaller than the other two, it completely changes how players think about the set.
It’s unclear if there will be more of these mistakes are hidden within the detailed world ofGenshin Impact. Hopefully if there are, they won’t be nearly as gigantic as these three are.
Genshin Impactis available now on PC, PS4, and mobile devices, with a Switch version also in development.
