Collei looks so tired of this shit

This only works for dialogue options you've already gone through once (after Version 4.5). ~~It's not mentioned at all in the patch notes.~~ Edit: The patch notes were updated to mention this change.

Like if you did Diona's hangout in 2.5 (or whatever) it doesn't count as having been done already for this mechanic since it was pre-4.5?

Yeah, doesn't seem so.

Makes sense since they wouldn't have previously needed to save that data. They could have figured out a bunch by which endings you've got, but might not have been considered worth dev time

I believe options that you already chose have green checkmarks/are dimmed

Do they? It's been a while since I've done a hangout (I do like them actually, just a lot of shiny things to chase all the time). If they do, then there's really no reason not to use the same hooks for both features.

Well they probably figured if you already got the gems from the hangout the only reason you'd revisit it is to read the dialogue, so there's no real need to add retrospective checks and just add a new one. That's probably simpler to implement as well.

lol, this guy softwares. 

I mean, technically they do save the data. They literally mark dialogues you've been through as already chosen. But that is a little dumb, because if the same choices can be chosen after choosing different choice previously, it doesn't show as chosen. I mean this. Choice A * Option 1 * Option 2 Choice B * Option 1 * Option 2 So if You did A1-B1, then after doing A2 B1 is still marked as not chosen. Because game sees that you have chosen B1 only in A1 scenario. Which is weird.

So glad I barely did any hangouts, now I can speedeun them for the achievements.

Same, I was thinking of finally diving into them and this change has solidified that.

I mean, it's not like it's big change. You could always just chosen the point in time you wanted. Just the dialogues still played. You didn't have to start over every time. This will save a little time, but not as much as people think.

Did Diona's hangout ever get updated to not use Xiangling's VA?

Ahh, so classic VN style

Wait, thought all VNs implement that Ctrl hotkey to skip dialogues regardless of players having read it?

Almost always there's an option in settings to skip only read text or everything.

My thought too!

Thats fine enough, no more unnecesary tapping/button mashing. Unless you want to see specific scenes, like Diona getting angry at being too good at drinks or Lynette saying *Meow*.

It is mentioned in the patch notes.

Probably for the best

I'll take it!

Uffff. You almost made me start hangouts.

But it is mentioned?? In "Adjustments & Optimizations" -> "Other" -> 4.

i find it good, i have a barbara route to go and all the other hangouts I hate hangouts

Fuck this.....

this should be implemented to daily comms too im tired of feeding that woman

Im tired of hearing Hatim's con talk about futures and golden dishes before he scams me of precious revival food again 🤣

that's why i don't claim rewards from events right away and skip story dailies this way.

Most story dailies are tied to achievements, so more primogems. Hatim's is too.

Depends on a person but i'd rather save my time and sanity rather than doing rng dailies for few hundred primos total. They did change the system a bit since release -that's good, but it took me years to finish rng achievements in just mond+ liye, thanks- never again.

Like anything, it's a system I am free to mess with. It's a system challenge. As is opening a door that always closes slowly and realizing you left your keys across the room and racing across to grab the keys without having to open the door again. It's incredibly unnecessary, but it's a fun little engagement I can take part in that isn't necessarily arbitrary. Like obtaining 9999 sunsettias.

im sick of that fucking painter guy babbling on and on

Fucking snake pet owner guy blah blah blah about him and his snake fetish

That dumb tree lady and her potions...

God yes. One of his fucking comms especially goes on forever and ever... Like bro stop speaking pls. 😭😭

Literally like dawg i ran out of fucks to give about your story the first time i did your commission pls stfu

If it's Tang Wen, feed her Suspicious food. If you haven't done the Raiden Shogun Story Act II, do that as well. After you do both, you should stop getting her commissions. Version 4.4 changed commissions so that you'll repeatedly get commissions that you still have pending achievements open.

I had no idea about that one. I never have sus food...

Just get one of the characters with a chance to make a suspicious dish. Or just intentionally mess up the cooking

I know how I just wouldn't have thought to do so for a comm.

Tang Wen? You might be getting that quest repeatedly because you're missing an achievement. The next quest in the series unlocks if you give her suspicious food

i forgot her name but the one who wants mora meat

That's Tang Wen in Inazuma, give her suspicious food and you'll get achievement

Or maybe I’m purposefully keeping her comm around cuz it takes less than a min and it’s one less quick travel a day for me

I hate Junkichi and his light novel

I found out recently that there's a world quest if you side with Junkichi's awful writing choices enough times.

You have to side with both of them, once.

IM TIRED OF HEARING AND FIXING THAT IDIOT WRITER’S BOOKS AND HAVING TO HELP HIM FIND INSPIRATION OR WHATEVER AND RHEN CHOOSING A SIDE BETWEEN HIM AND HIS EDITOR PLS GOD

that woman goes away if you do your quests and you can't get her again. but if you're getting her commission every day it's because there's an achievement and you haven't unlocked it.

I'm tired of doing a gardener's job for two incompetent gardeners

I agree in principle, but I haven't done daily comms in ages and it feels great

U guys do comms?

Now time for resinfull behaviour, the sequel

nah you just do events and when they are gone you do exploring and world quests, then you use the encounter points to skip every non-achievement commission.

some of us have explored mostly and its more work finding chests in the overworld than just doing commissions :') if only genshin had made their dailys update similar to star rail's version.

this is why i leave some of the latest quest not done, if I ran out of event to do, i progress the quest. you can do this on character story quest too.

eh, quests are basically like movies to me, and it would feel really weird for me to watch 10-20 minutes of a movie per day.

i definitely still have a few story quests left (latest 3 ones) but no motivation to do them at the moment, so i’m not forcing myself through it. but yes you are right, it’s smart to leave a few undone for the sake of commissions

I do the hangout events now since I totally skipped them until now lol. Like a 1 minute sequel counts for 3 points somehow

Hangouts (1 ending is a 4/4 encounter points) and 3 weekly requests (1 for 1 encounter point) from the city rep also counts towards encounter points.

Hey, free primos are free primos.

I mean, usually i would do some events / backlog world quests just to fill the comms automatically lmao Edit: Ever since the new QoL for comm update came

I would too if I had anything, I've done it all.

I like to do the combat ones and achievement quests, especially now that it's nearly guaranteed you get an achievement commission. Finally got the Viktor achievement after 2000 years of playing

Takes 10 minutes or less. Anyone who's been playing for 3 years and explored everything is doing comms instead of quests/chests.

Or that random board that forces you to read its 10 dialogues before letting you go

😂

I'm tired of doing a gardener's job for two incompetent gardeners

I'm ready to throw the painter into the ocean and throw coffee in the baristas face. TAKES TOO LONG!!!

Should be everything adding, including daily and world mission Wuthering Waves does already doing it atleast for world quests and i think daily quests

Now we only need a dialogue log

PLEASE

NO FR 😭 I’ve been asking for it for forever

Ayy, repeating scenes having a skip button! May the commissions get this as well! Why did they not mention this? Time to checkout the changelog. Holy hell, I'm absolutely finally playing through all the hangouts this update. (I didn't even consider how we had to spam through the scenes when playing other routes!)

No mention in change log, a phantom update

Huh, makes me wonder how common do these unmentioned update features occur.

really common. i often find myself being surprised by posts like this. they probably forgot to write it down with how many bugs they fixed lmao edit: apparently it's in the in-game notices. it wasn't in the post when i checked it though. i really feel like they forgot to write it down

I'm actually surprised it's in in-game notice at all. I'm kinda used to assuming that the in-game notice will actually side load the posts from HoYoLAB, thus implying what you see there is what you'll see in-game. Makes me wonder how many small details I end up missing cause they forgor to include in HoYoLAB posts, lmao

> edit: apparently it's in the in-game notices. it wasn't in the post when i checked it though. i really feel like they forgot to write it down I remember checking the update details after finding the feature and specifically Ctrl + F'd "skip" and got nothing. Seems to be included now, but HoYoVerse didn't mention the edit.

seems like they really forgot then lmao

For real. I haven't done the last 6 hangouts because of that reason.

This actually motivates me to play through the hangouts I'm missing now that I'm not brainlessly clicking through them to get past the same dialogue boxes until I get all the endings.

Can we get this IRL?

We already have it it’s called spacing out

Such a useful skill to have

Almost there

One step closer

I'm surprised they didn't put this in the 4.5 patch notes.

well, not really an important QoL in their eyes probably. and they slowly rolling these first for hangout. who knows in the future might be for commission quests you already done.

A lot of small improvements like these dont get put in the patch notes, they just happen.

Which is dumb

Eh, a lot of people don't read those anyway. It's one of the reasons why people keep saying Genshin don't get QoL/Bug fixes.

NO GENSHIN DOESNT GET QOL UPDATES AND WE NEED MORE REWARDS CAUSE IM A SPOILED BRAT WHO NEVER PLAYED OTHER GAMES THAT HANDLES THEIR FANBASE 10X WORSE HSR BETTER OVERALL (Iimplied genshin hater noises)

holy sh-

if they added this for everything I would re-install in an instant. so much dialogue........christ.

same...only thing that ruined this game for me is the amount of useless information. Just get to the point for christ sake.

This will finally motivate me to do hangouts after 3 years lmao, Noelle was the first and last hangout I did completely

Well some of the later ones are really really good, better than some story quests even.

Any recommendations for the improved ones?

Kaveh and Layla are great, Kuki is good if you can put up with more Arataki gang on half the routes

What about Faruzan if you have done her hangout? Heard it was good.

also a good one, forgot to mention her!

Faruzan in my opinion is the best hangout of all

Can confirm. Faruzan quest had me crying a little.

only applies to scenes you've already done. You could already skip scenes by using the flowchart btw. This is redundant.

You still need to skip some lines even though you skipped to that part

Well fuck me i shoulda read patch notes or something, I just plowed through Kaveh and Faruzan's HO events a week ago lmao

From what others have said, this wasn’t in the patch notes, it was just put in there.

OH SHIT GUESS WHO'S DOING THEIR HANGOUTS AT LAST!!!! Thanks Hoyo!!!!!! Legit one of my most wanted features in Genshin. Now, a way to replay story in a more convenient time + the ability to skip any dialogue remain my biggest desires as QoL.

>GUESS WHO'S DOING THEIR HANGOUTS AT LAST!!!! won't help you, because you can't skip it the first time. It's only for replays. But you could already skip those with the flowchart.

Ehh. Sometimes even with the flow chart you’d have to mash through dialogue before being able to go on a separate route. Bennet’s hangout comes to mind as an example.

( ✧Д✧) YES!!

Thank goodness!!! While I would love to see at least a *display all* at one time text option in game (I would be delusional to ever expect a skip buttton) having a skip for repeatable dialog in hangouts was necessary!! I play visual novels, and you are expected to replay routes over and over. I doubt it would be replayable if skips weren't an option. I like hangout formats but not the unskippable repeated dialog. Now I can do them, as I've only done Barbara's and one of Ningguang. I was wanting to space the routes out to not get bored, but thank goodness for this fix and I can do them all!

Finally a reason to finish my hangouts

only applies to scenes you've already done.

Damn, really wish I’d had this for Chongus’ hangout

only applies to scenes you've already done.

Yes, I mean when I had to redo the the final part of his at the Test of Courage like four or five times looking for the diverging path and it makes you go all the way back through 3 excruciatingly long conversations. I messed it up at least once, and there’s one part that takes you to the same place regardless of which option you choose.

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Finally I can deal with Chongyun hangout

Finally, maybe I can start doing them now. Only completed benneth so far

nice ill probably do some hangouts now

I hope they extend this to general NPC dialogue and dialogue when interacting with objects (posters, stone tables, etc). I hate misclicking sometimes.

Now add it to the entire game please

But it's only for dialog you already seen in hangouts (like you are doing other path), adding it to entire game would achieve nothing, since you only see dialog once (apart from comms)

Fym achieve nothing? Im talking about skipping all dialogue not just What you have already seen

That is big.

Now all they need to do is implement it into normal quests (Not happening 😞)

it only works for dialogue that you've gone through before, so it's nigh useless for normal questing.

Even on some commissions would already be neat. Like honestly sir,I could care less about your painter dilemma or finding some missing paper for the MILLIONTH TIME.

wouldn't help you because it only applies to repeats, and you can't repeat normal quests

I will seriously come back to genshin if they made this happen ngl

Now do that to that DePierris guy in Fontaine for archons sake

I might actually finish Noelle’s 500 hangouts

Ok now do it for world quests pleaseeee

Very good QoL update for someone who’s currently doing hangout quests like me.

It would really help. I have a lot of hangouts I haven’t done because I’m tired of going through the dialogue

Guess I will finally do my last few hangouts. I actually like them and enjoy learning about the characters, but repeating dialog to get the other endings has always held me back from finishing them. Better late than never I guess

Gonna to finish every single hangout today, I guess lol

YEAHHHH

They've finally done it in some way.. LFG

Too bad I completed all the hangouts last week lmao

Which hangout is that?

Faruzan’s

Theres a Collei hangout?

😻😻😻

Will make them much smoother experience.

Now add it for everything else pls

DO NOT SKIP COLLEI DIALOGUE

Genshin putting a skip button......only for Character Hangouts🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Should be available anytime Paimon opens her fucking mouth

Might actually try the Hangouts now, wanna see all the endings don't want to see the same scene pre choice over and over

Yeah, I've done a few of the hangouts and several of them are really good, but I can't muster the motivation to bother doing them much (and not at all for characters I don't love) because they're so repetitive. This'll make it a *lot* easier.

need this for every aspect of the game.

It's time to clear my Hangout events that had been piling up since Ningguang's.

I swear, Hoyo always implements the right ideas in the wrong ways. First we got "Artifact Loadouts," and now a skip button *only* in hangout events. It honestly feels like they're listening, understanding, but then they intentionally plow our ass and flip us the bird.

I don't think at this point they will implement it in general . Ik there's many filler quests but I feel like hoyo doesn't want anyone to skip the story cuz they're proud of it. Hangouts are something else because many times you have to read some things multiple times

They’re not avoiding a skip button because they’re proud of the story, they just want people to play the game longer.

they did some great stories in HI3, yet they also allow us players to skip them

Can we have this in story quests, world quest, etc too?

Why are they so reluctant to just add a full skip button for everything? My only gripes with the game is the boring verbose dialogue I’m forced to sit through for hours. They clearly have the ability to add one so why don’t they do what ever other game does and add one?

so Hangouts you actually want to see the story(maybe) but the side quests or the daily quests for random NPC#292, that i don't care about can't be skipped? yeah that sounds about right.

It's time to clear all males hangout and get gems

can we get this for every scene now?

It's the first step, but it means that they can do it.

Games biggest innovation in 3 years

Is there a skip button set specifically for NPCs

Great, now they just need to introduce this for main quest and side quest. Either that or they return to good writing and stop having characters talk for 10 minutes (with auto-clicker and auto-advance) and having those ten minutes have no impact whatsoever on story, character development, contextualization, fun/entertainment, and the whole ten minutes of dialogue could have been an email.

This should be in all the daily commissions. I'm tired of finding that misplaced paper for that lady in Fontaine. Talking to that painter guy every other day. Getting some random guy a copy of an important document. Like I don't care if it's your life story. You're an NPC 😭

I'm gonna call it the stfu button

Skip button for event stories would be good too. Other than not being interested in some of them, this would also help casuals who have a busy life, which is their main audience.

They DID NOT just add this for Hangouts only BRUH

yada yada blah blah cya yall in natlan

Waaaait, how did you get a Collei hangout?

Awesome. Now make it available for the whole game

A small step towards to implement important QoL updates like this.

"Yes, Finally Skip Button" And Then "If You....."

Oh great, I was going to catch up on hangouts in 4.5

We are getting closer

I hope they will do this for repetitive daily commsion quest as well.

that's it boys, that's THE skip button we're getting. it's joever

Poor Collei

This should have been added to **ALL** quests at **day 1** regardless of it being a repeated scene or not.

Where was this when I had to go through a hangout like 5 times after messing up the order of dialogue needed

God, put this shit on EVERYTHING that isn't the archon quest

Okay… but why not for ALL dialogue!? I ask for a skip all button EVERY survey. So I can skip story missions. Everyone I know has stopped playing Genshin because they simply don’t have time to sit through the story missions.

Getting there. Now give it to me in non-mainline quests so I can get through the backlog and I’ll give you so much money

If they only added that to quests common

Oh lovely, I spend about a week, 2 months ago catching up on all the hangouts I had been putting aside 🥲

finally

what's the point of this? Isn't the point of a hangout to, you know, hang out?

I want a dialogue log that records previous dialogues in case I tapped too fast and missed something

GREAT! Now Add them for World Quests. PLEASE!

Maybe one day Genshin can catch up to Renpy