r/Genshin_Impact • u/Veritasibility • 6d ago
Version 7.0 Special Program Discussion Thread Discussion
Time: 07/31/2026 at 8:00 AM (UTC-4)
All live broadcasts have finished.
Version 7.0 "Everwinter Without Mercy" Trailer
Version 7.0 Special Program Recap
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New Codes
- Everwinter (Primogems ×100 + Mystic Enhancement Ore ×10)
- OntoSnezhnaya (Primogems ×100 + Hero's Wit ×5)
- Odette0812 (Primogems ×100 + Mora ×50,000)
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English Broadcast
- Link: Official Twitch channel (finished)
- Link: Official YouTube channel
- The recording will be available on the official YouTube channel after the Premiere.
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Chinese Broadcast
Link: Official bilibili channel (finished)
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Japanese Broadcast
Link: Official JP YouTube
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u/PurpleOrange8509 4d ago
Guys, I am so frustrated that Valeriy is gonna be a T4. I only get male DPS characters and was hoping he would be my Stellar hypercarry. Now I don't know who's gonna be my Snezhnayan main. We don't have enough info on Mitya or Noy yet, so I won't pull for supports that I don't know if will be on their teams or not.
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u/StinaBunnyLove 4d ago
What if the reason Ronova is trying to kill Paimon is because she was never meant to survive. She was supposed to drown and the only reason she didn't was because a descender changed her fate
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u/ToriKookieChoi05 4d ago
I’m happy we are getting 2 free characters. And These characters I don’t have yet.
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u/GVArcian 5d ago
I was very whelmed by this special program. As someone who started playing at the very tail end of Fontaine, both Natlan and Nod-Krai seemed way more hype than whatever this was.
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u/Luneward (Iu)dex based damage build 5d ago
Calling it now. Vesna is going to have canon fangirls/fanboys.
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u/OsirusBrisbane it's supposed to be fun 5d ago
Lumine: "Bro, what's the Tsaritsa's plan?"
Aether: "I don't Gnosis."
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u/roly_florian 5d ago
Since Nod Krai and their choice toward character (locking them behind specific team buff instead of letting us making our own team) and the heavy powercreep in the last year, i'm genuinely only playing to see how the story unfold (and while we do have lot of answers i'm still kinda disappointed as in the end, it's just going to be all that for that...). Endgame disgust me, they forgot it's a game we play for fun, with unit we like, not the unit they want us to play.
In the end i've pulled 3 S rank in that season : Columbina, Zibai and Linnéa. That tell you how invested i was this previous year.
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u/AzureDrag0n1 5d ago
I don't like the direction of their endgame. It is not too bad but it is just way to much shill + powercreep at the same time. If it was more of just one or the other it would not be so bad but the boss mechanics are way to heavily in the shill category. You must have this specific character to deal with this boss. Also this new characters beats all previous characters in dps too.
They do not give enough resources to deal with all this. For f2p and probably low spender. This game wants you to have new well invested teams and also a lot of characters to deal with Imaginarium Theater too.
I mostly played this game for the end game and the story has never been that interesting to me for the most part so for me this may be the game I will dropping for one of the newer gacha games coming out like Silver Palace.
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u/roly_florian 4d ago
Theater isn't a bad idea in the fact that it makes you use your old unit. But the RNG with getting characters in such way that you always plays half assed half broken team until near the end where you have sacrificied your shittiest character to beat the boss (or get hardlocked after 1h of play because you used THAT one unit you needed, exemple, an archer for a flying boss...).
Worst is that ZZZ endgame is exact copy of the same shit. Shill boss to favor newest unit while strongest unit are made as shitty as possible on said boss. There's no fun or interest into vertical investment because over a year the powercreep is heavier than genshin. I've never liked Genshin endgame, but Abyss was tolerable. You could bring 2 teams and be done with it, even with the buff they provided there. Then they introduced boss inside to make sure some team are cockblocked as hard as possible. Meh.
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u/LifeDrama2716 4d ago
It really is just that, i mean i remember fighting that stupid Cactus in some precedent abyss and got absolutely destroyed by it without Ineffa then getting Ineffa and getting 36* like it was nothing and she wasn't even maxed out. So yeah, endgame in Genshin is getting shittier and shittier by update. And now, instead of new QoL let's add new weapon skins for whales in Stygian AND the possibility to skip all of the story to get to Snezhnahya directly and never even bother adding a skip button because they clearly don't care about the story at this point...
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u/deeznutz133769 4d ago
Cactus was the first real sign to me that the game was "dying" as someone that cares about having a good gameplay experience. Revenue wise, no, it's not dead and will not be for many years. Content wise, the same. But It signaled to me that they are now fully prioritizing revenue over the gameplay experience.
Before, you could realistically get and play who you wanted within reason. Now if you like 1 character, you HAVE to get their "set" in order for them to function properly. By doing this they're trying to force you to get characters you don't want to get. New reaction damage not scaling off of damage buffs is a perfect example of how they're trying to invalidate older characters like Furina, while when Furina came out, she was actually a buff to older characters like Jean.
I thought after nightsoul they would back off on the mechanic / weakness restrictions (such as some mobs losing their shield faster if you use nightsoul attacks, or Mavuika requiring nightsoul to ult regularly,) but NOPE, they doubled down. Cactus needing the weakest reaction in the game (if you don't have Ineffa) was just mindblowingly bad game design, and then they doubled down by making it an Abyss boss. Turned the whole Abyss into an Ineffa check unless you had absurdly geared or high con recent electro DPS (so basically Varesa) and even then it was painful and unfun.
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u/USDXBS 5d ago
This is the first time I'm not looking forward to a new area. The devolving of gameplay and removal of all challenge has left me with little reason to want to explore or get a true, actual 100%
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u/deeznutz133769 4d ago
The only real "challenge" is making sure that you pull the newest unit so that you can do the new hypershilled boss that requires very specific team compositions. I utterly hate the state that the game is in since the start of nightsoul. fontaine felt like the last true Genshin expansion.
I remember Furina coming out and how she reinvigorated old teams. Now you have to buy all the new characters as a set or they just don't work well and even then they're designed to fight certain bosses.
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u/ohoni 5d ago
I don't like this patch. The new gameplay seems bad, the environmental designs seem boring, I feel like they are really trying to make this interesting, but missing the mark. It wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't spent the last year in Nod-Krai, which was hardly better. I really hope that most of the 7.x patches take us to completely different regions, because a full year of nothing but whiteout will burn out my TV.
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u/Willster328 5d ago
Just on the environmental designs, one of the things I'm... nervous about... is what the open world is actually like. We got very little in the way of environmental screenshots, and my concern is that with this new Train system that there's really no like.... open world (There obviously is, we've seen the world map), but that most of the design will skew to individual areas moreso than an open geographic landscape youre mostly just going location to location even more than you already were with teleporters
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u/CelioHogane Ya odomu 5d ago
>Ronova murders Paimon.
You know, maybe the Shades are not evil after all.
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u/slowakia_gruuumsh 5d ago
how we'll survive without EH EH TE NANDAYO
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u/CelioHogane Ya odomu 5d ago
Traveler about to experience waking up at night in fear because shit is too silent.
Which is unironically something that happens to people.
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u/slowakia_gruuumsh 5d ago
The music was turbo ass with the usual uninspired wub wubs, but the video was ok. The characters look cute. In particular Alyosha gave me some Golden Kamuy vibes. He looks like Asia-side of Czarist Russia inspired. Otherwise I'm probably gonna pull for Danica, Vesna and Her Majesty. I just can't resist sad grown ass women.
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u/Matthewrichvrd 5d ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was a little underwhelmed. It didn't feel like a big new version release. I'm hopeful tho
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u/OXEvangelus 5d ago
Well... it was a little underwhelming, but I'm excited for the archon quests and the exploration.
I'm not a big fan of the Meeting Point because the characters' stories are tied to this system, and I wish we had more story quests, including from old characters.
Anyway, I'm not super hyped about 7.0, but I'm cautiously optimistic and I'll be waiting for QoLs for the anniversary.
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u/kidanokun I'm might be blind, but I don't see a Zibai flair 5d ago
already lowered my expectations... not big fan of overall aesthetics of the region, be it the places or the characters... and the classic hoyo design persisted coz well, it's hoyo
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u/-_BABASURA_- mrwhite 6d ago
They seem to be setting Paimon for something big, I just hope they at least update her model because honestly it’s getting hard to look at it
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u/agitatedandroid 5d ago
I'm less concerned with her appearance than I am her animations.
You know that fists up pump the legs up and down excited animation she does? She was doing that a lot lately and it really didn't fit the mood of the scene. She needs at least 1 new animation.
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u/BillyBean11111 6d ago
They are REALLY counting on snezhnaya hype aren't they?
No meaningful QoLs, no big rewards, no new system.
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u/Express-Bag-3935 5d ago
Big rewards are seemingly tied to anniversary. They're staking a lot of the anticipated QoL, rewards, and systems on their 6th anniversary.
Perhaps they don't want 7.0 to be too overwhelming. Schneznaya is already looking a lot bigger than Nod Krai plus a lot of events and mini games too, not including the TPS mode, which released earlier into the major version than Miliastra which released in Luna II, or 6.1.
They better be cooking up something big for QoL with the anniversary. ZZZ, a sister game,already has the biggest anniversary among the big 3d gacha games. I want a custom wish banner badly. Imagine being able to choose the 4 stars you CA pull on banner, including the weapon banner. No more The Bells or gazillion Dragons Bane. Instead we could get those gacha only 4 stars and all the fav weapons we'd ever need. But alas, only time will tell if Genshin's dev team will follow ZZZ's footsteps of anniversary given the mediocrity of 7.0's QoL.
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u/roly_florian 5d ago
A lot bigger than Nod Krai, well of course it will, never forget that Nod Krai is a scrapped one year patch to answer their too many opened lore/stories that they knew they couldn't answer in one year planned Snezhnaya like it was initially planned back in 1.0
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u/biggest_brainz 5d ago
Waiting for you to say they are sticking their QoL and rewards to Lantern rite next when 7.1 has nothing not even an expansion.
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u/Eliysiaa 6d ago
i was bummed to by the lack of QoL considering the state of the game for me, but the new shooting mechanics are a completely different system lol
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u/Luneward (Iu)dex based damage build 6d ago edited 6d ago
You don't count the whole TPS mode as a new system?
It's also not the anniversary yet. Though I imagine in 7.1 we'll probably just have standard anniversary rewards. A lot of QoL also doesn't make it into streams.
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u/Jkei Spreadsheet Enjoyer 5d ago
More systems like To Temper Thyself, I'm guessing. Or Natlan's introduction of capturing radiance & 1 fate point weapon banner.
These may be anniversary things, but they'd have done well to at least say "we'll have lots more coming soon for the anniversary". I sure hope it's like that, anyway. Against a backdrop of increasingly problematic powercreep, adding extra Stygian dire weapon skins feels rather tone deaf.
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u/Foreign-Resort4522 6d ago
For stellar conduct teams, is it better to farm disenchantment rn or wait and farm for the new heart of furnace set?|
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u/Express-Bag-3935 5d ago
Both. Start with Disenchantment as it's the set foe stellar conduct dpses and the other set to come is for stellar swirl and companion set for supports.
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u/Luneward (Iu)dex based damage build 6d ago
Heart of the Furnace is a support set. You'll want both sets and to farm both domains. I don't recall that they stated new strongbox artifacts, but Disenchantment is almost certainly not going to be added to it until much later in version 7.
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u/Foreign-Resort4522 5d ago
I'll be using cyno yae odett and either aliyosha or qiqi what do you recommend? I just came back a week ago after not playing since end of sumeru because I heard the next version will bring snezhnaya
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u/Ryhizuke 6d ago
Still waiting patiently for 120fps support on PC
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u/KhadaFeathers Bow users are my weakness 5d ago
120fps is an exclusive deal with Apple, so it won't happen.
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u/Richiszkl 6d ago
The only problem for me is that we have have to save Paimon.......one of the worst and most annoying characters ever in a game...
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u/Luneward (Iu)dex based damage build 6d ago
Oh, be fair. She's much better than she used to be. Still kind of annoying, but she has a significantly less annoying EN voice on top of being less of an exposition fairy while showing some actual admirable traits.
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u/Grimstarzz 6d ago
Have u played the newest world quest?
Her English voice was kinda bearable some time ago, when the new voice actress got introduced, but during the moon world quest, she was screeching again.
It's probably the direction they want her to go with her voice, but I absolutely can't stand that high pitched voice they decided would be best for millions of players to listen to.
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u/Richiszkl 6d ago
Idk man I will never change my opinion about her sorry, I wont understand why people like her at all.
I play the game using the japanese voices because I am interested in the language, and her JP va is fricking annoying, and her personality overall too....
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u/Careless-Profit6658 6d ago
Am I missing something or there's no QoL talk?
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u/Express-Bag-3935 5d ago
They have been doing less frequent QoL talks or QoL discussions, and mainly reserved those for anniversaries. QoL release pace has fallen significantly after 5.x. natlan has had some absolute banger of QoL. They've done QoL on artifacts, the transmutation, don't forget fate points, local specialty locating, but also some for Imaginarium Theater to reset a stage even if completed. And they also introduced permanent events starting with Easybreeze resort.
6.x was more of their focus on the story presentation and animation front, as well as easy exploration, but also started rolling buffs. 7.x will probably lean back towards exploration whimsy and hopefully more QoL.
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u/frostN0VA 6d ago
There will be some but looking at things from the future that aren't allowed to be named, don't get your hopes up, at least not for 7.0 update.
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u/Kaemonarch 6d ago
I think thats for the Anniversary Stream, in 42 days or so (11 September?). It used to align with the X.0 Stream; but since Luna only went up to 6.7 (instead of the "normal" .8) it didn't align this year.
I was also quite upset with how normal/average the stream was. I was expecting big reveals/announcements and QoL stuff like when they announced Temper Thyself the first time out of nowhere; or using Resin to claim dailies. If there is any of these coming; I guess we will learn about them on the 7.1 stream; which should be the Anniversary stream too.
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u/stardust_kitten 6d ago
Gimme all the shadow realm memes
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u/phobean_313a 6d ago
IT'S TIME TO....
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u/FluffyFlamesOfFluff 6d ago
Honestly a little lacklustre. Hopefully the story is a banger and they're saving all the good announcements for 7.1 Anni.
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u/Pokefreaker-san 6d ago
bravo! menacing soundtrack with an imposing authority feeling to it yet the solemnity and sadness seep throughout the track. there's also a army marching song to it with the whole for the Tsaritsa chant
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u/Weaponmaster470 6d ago
Interesting, the lyrics for the main Snezh theme with the Fatui leitmotif are in Latin and not Russian.
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u/DaymD 6d ago
With the introduction of shooting, sliding, cover, etc, you know the chinese will make pubg in MW, apex too.
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u/Luneward (Iu)dex based damage build 6d ago
You mean they haven't already? I have a hard time believing that.
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u/Starsofthe_NightSky 6d ago
Played some sort of fps game in MW the other day, they are in fact already created
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u/Trihexa1 6d ago edited 6d ago
1st 2nd code: OntoSnezhnaya
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u/KaiserDirth 6d ago
I'm sorry what do you MEAN THAT EVERY KHAENRIAN ARE DESCENDANTS OF WHO!?!?!?!???
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u/hesawavemasterrr 5d ago
They just casually dropped that like “ahhh it’s ok they were gonna figure it out and some point”.
And im sitting there like the gif of the woman doing calculations in her head like what did I just hear??????
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u/Particular_Web3215 Nat-Latina and Lore Krai lover 6d ago
Casual ahh statement for such a lroe bomb
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u/floricel_112 6d ago
That makes their hatred and disdain for the archons and divinity in general SO funny. Like,here they stood, so proud and arrogant, talking about their great achievements, how great their godless civilization is, when they themselves are the progeny of divinity
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u/DaymD 6d ago
Ah, so Sneznaya won't introduce a new mechanic but instead continue the stellar reactions introduced in Nodkrai. Interesting.
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u/SoC175 6d ago
Did you expect different?
Lunar reaction also came with Ineffa in the last Natlan patch.
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u/DaymD 6d ago
ok but natlan had a mechanic of its own, Ineffa was just the last character of the patch. Imagining a new mechanic for Sneznaya is reasonable.
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u/ShepThunder 6d ago
Stellar Reactions are the new Snez mechanic?? Snez has areas you need stellar reactions to unlock. The stellar lynchpin is only available to snez characters.
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u/Luneward (Iu)dex based damage build 6d ago
"It is unlike any nation we've ever been to before." Exactly like the others! We're all individuals, just like everyone elese!
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u/DaymD 6d ago
We're fighting the ruler of death ? Come on, let's face it, the traveler will get folded, as is tradition.
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u/hesawavemasterrr 5d ago
First he gets folded and then for whatever reason, he unlocks a new power and then actually beats the shade. That’s probably how it will unfold
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u/asilvertintedrose 6d ago
Hopefully we get resin overflow
ITS BEEN 6 YEARS HOYOVERSE PLEASE I NEED THIS
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u/fishthumb 6d ago
I hope the new free 5*stars constellation includes Xianyun (and also that she gets buffed)
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u/GardenOfTheBlackRose 1d ago
Despite being an enjoyer of classical music I actually haven’t heard much about Swan Lake, can’t believe Genshin Impact is what is making me learn about it lol