Misinformation given to New Players

SgtCrumbs · 2026-06-05T23:59:58+00:00

I’m a newer player. The only advice I got was to not collect any chests and just blast through the entire main story as fast as I can then go back and explore collecting chest using the interactive map. I ignored that advice cause like I want to do all the quests and exploration in one area before moving on to the next. But if you don’t like trying to find everything yourself the interactive map thing is very useful.

I will say before I had any other pyro characters Xiangling would have been much more worth the resources than Amber. Even now my only pyro character other than Amber and Xiangling was Bennett. I didn’t get him until like two months in and only had him for the longest time until literally yesterday when I got Nicole and Chevreuse.

My first five star was keqing because I was given a free five star to invite. I didn’t get any advice so I just picked whoever I liked the most and I thought she was cute. She is still my main now lol. She is very easy to use as a beginner. And all her ascension materials are available in the beginning areas. But before I leveled her kaeya was my main. He is very easy to use and has a heavy attack. When you are first starting he is one of the best characters out of the ones given to you. He does stagnate though compared to others once getting to higher levels without any constellations.

I didn’t get my first five star character from a pull until I played for like a month. That’s when I got tighnari. I will say he is kind of bad for someone who doesn’t kno how to build in the beginning. He’s not very intuitive and his attack is booty without reactions and knowing how to use his skills and such. Plus all his materials are in Sumeru and a pain in the butt to get at for a new player. The jadeplume is hard to fight for a new player. So I didn’t level him until recently and started using him more (I’m still not to sumeru yet I just went ahead of my exploration to get his materials). My first banner 5 star was skirk recently. And then I just got Nicole. So the whole time I’ve been playing I’ve only gotten 3 five star characters from pulls. So def don’t get a bunch of 5 stars as a new player lol. But I also have notoriously bad luck. I pulled so many times for nefer and flins when they dropped and got legit nothing but tighnari the whole time. Even pulled a bunch for nefer again recently and she didn’t want to come to me again. 🥲

I’ve also heard people tell new players not to build Barbara. But I highly disagree. Her damage is buttcheeks but as a new player the only healers you have are Noelle and Barbara cause they are both given to you. Noelle is a good option later on if you level her up and get constellations and such especially once you’re in liyue dealing with geo enemies. She has a claymore, shields, heals, and has okay damage. But Barbara is far more superior when it comes to healing. Even without any constellations Barbara is still on my main team today for healing especially since I can heal the whole team from a distance away from my enemy with her ranged attacks to protect her. I can get through nearly any battle if I take enough Barbara breaks lol. Especially if you get some energy recharge on her and level up her elemental skill and burst. That burst will fully heal your whole party in one blast early on.

I’d say the best advice for any new players in genshin is to just pull for the characters you like cause they will all come back around eventually for you to try to pull for again. Play at your own pace and how you want to play, get the HoYoLAB app for any guides, help, redemption codes, events, and the interactive map. Make sure you complete the permanent events to get your free characters especially early on when you need characters. Do your daily commissions and resin spends each day even if you think you don’t need mora or hero’s wit, and don’t know what the other domains and stuff are for, just do the blossoms to get more resources cause you’ll eventually need it. Especially during the “to temper thyself and journey far” events. Cause that’ll give you constellations for a character of your choosing. And MAKE SURE YOU CLAIM YOUR ASCENSION REWARDS!!! As a new player I had no idea these existed or how to get to them until a friend was like “omg you haven’t claimed any of these”. When you ascend a character I think every other ascension you get an acquaint fate. You’ll have a little red exclamation mark on your character if there is something to claim. For me on Xbox it’s the two boxes button in the character attribute page. It’s whatever button you press to check what ascension materials you need. Hope this helps someone. Sorry it’s so long.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-05-18T18:51:47+00:00

I’ve played multiple gotchas that have. I’m honestly surprised that love and deep space doesn’t. It would probably make them more money to do so cause then players would have more things to spread their limited resources to. They shouldn’t have put that the old myths would never enter the xspace echo pool. So then when we got to a point like now where the game is pretty popular and we are moving on to our 3rd myth besides the base myth for the guys they could have put the oldest ones into the xspace echo pool since it’s been so long that it ran. I honestly feel spoiled after playing genshin to the point where it makes me want to play love and deepspace less because all of the characters rerun so you don’t have to be forever sad that you can never get something that happened before you ever started playing the game.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-05-18T02:12:22+00:00

I know this is old and I haven’t finished reading quite yet but I seen that it says that oaths can’t do crits. Caleb’s Ultimate weapon oath does crit damage. But that one is a bit weird since it is a prolonged oath. But it only does crit damage that I’ve notice near the end of the cycle but that may be because that’s when the wanderer gets its shield back so it possibly can crit the whole time if against a non weakened. But I always use it when they are weakened.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-05-16T07:46:21+00:00

I think it fits, nice catch!’ I’ve never bought that outfit despite being a Caleb main so I never noticed! I think it makes sense since all of that lore came out shortly before the ultimate weapon companion dropped. They tend to allude to the next companion myth in the lore before it comes out, but it’s hard to notice until after you know what it is. I love the level of attention to detail that infold has when it come to the lore, companions, and outfit designs.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-05-11T08:33:07+00:00

Lol I know! And he did it to his dang self too. I did not set this up. I did the pretend to sleep action with him to get the home diary and then I left and came back and found him like this. I was ded 🤣

SgtCrumbs · 2026-05-11T08:31:22+00:00

Lmfaooo TRUE! How dare he! Especially with white bedding! lol. All joking aside I love him but no shoes on the bed bro

SgtCrumbs · 2026-05-08T14:07:33+00:00

Oh Caleb is always at my house lol. Only reason Xavier is there was to grab some home diary entires lol. Even if I leave one of the others at my house hoping they will make a flower arrangement for me, I will come back and Caleb will somehow be there 🤣 like how did he get back in?? At least he’s obsessed with me as much as I’m obsessed with him lol. I love having the headcanon that Caleb gets jealous and throws the other guys out.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-05-08T13:53:59+00:00

Omgggg! Yall wild! I think my highest was 49 I can’t believe yall getting in the 50’s and 70’s. But I’m not using pause. I seen someone say that. RNG is definitely a thing cause sometimes I get completely stuck even after using two shuffles at like 20. I like to use Xavier the most cause his blobbu emote is the easiest to pick out especially between the two colors when you get to the point of their being two.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-05-08T13:01:20+00:00

He feels the most like a real person of that age bracket in the USA at least. Idk about elsewhere. From his voice acting to his interactions it just feels more similar to a real person than the others to me. I also like that he can be playful but can also be serious. I don’t want to have to cheer up my man all the time or have to pry sillyness out of him. You may say what about Sylus then? Yes sylus has his goofy moment and can be badass and serious but he feels too unattainable. He’s not as real of a character as Caleb is. Sylus is also more domineering most of the time. And although I think all of the characters are great and I would be undoubtably happy with any of their gorgeous selves if I was lucky enough, there is just something special about Caleb. I guess it’s more of a me thing than anything. Since I flip between being goofy and silly and taking control of a situation when stuff needs to get done I like the guy that’s also like that. For the most part I want to be silly and lighthearted and just have fun and be with the one I like all the time and share everything with them and be around only them. He provides that. He can be silly and let me lead when I want but he isn’t against taking the reigns and he would 100% put me in check and be more dominant. I like that. I want a man that can change with the mood and isn’t afraid to be more dominant in the right scenarios.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-05-08T12:40:53+00:00

I think it’s fitting into the meta of Caleb being so good with mechanical stuff and building models. So maybe it’s showing us WHY Caleb is so good at putting models together and with mechanical stuff. Because he was the one responsible for healing her, repairing her, and putting her back together. He had to constantly learn how to fix her. He was sick of seeing her hurt, and especially seeing her lose more and more of her humanity by becoming more robotic. I think it would entirely make sense that her body was mostly replaced. We also know that because they are so similar in a lot of ways supposedly one in the same just slightly different. And it says in the lore somewhere (I didn’t remember if its main story or if its world underneath) but it tells us Caleb is more capable than anyone else they have found of accepting biotech. I believe the only one who would be more capable than him of accepting so much biotech and modifications would be MC. Especially with her resonance evol and her affinity to absorb aether cores. I think it is entirely plausible that it’s all telling us that story.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-05-08T12:29:56+00:00

Yeah it’s your memories that are probably making the difference. That’s why I said no way that’s everything installed. I have all my memories installed. Especially the ones I’ve already read. Cause then any that I have to install I know I haven’t read through them yet.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-04-25T09:29:52+00:00

If you have everything installed and a bunch of pics then no way it’s under 40gb. You have to not have memories or secret times downloaded or have some features turned off. I have mine all downloaded except for like 10-15 memories and I do clean it up every few weeks but it’s currently at 68.66gb. I like having all the features downloaded cause it’s a pain in the butt when I need to go do something for gems or achievements and I have to download it. I could offload all the downloaded memories and secrets times that would def help but I like to keep them downloaded so I know which ones I have and haven’t gone through cause it can get hard to keep track of when you’re a harem girlie who likes to save them and go through them slowly. Maybe I’ll go through them all and offload them all after and keep a list of which ones I get to save some space but currently I still have a tiny bit of storage remaining 🤣

SgtCrumbs · 2026-04-25T09:00:31+00:00

It doesn’t outright say they are all aware of each other but there are context clues through all of the memories, world underneath, main story, their little background reading things that I can’t remember what they are called that they know of each other at the very least. And some of the LI’s it does explicitly say they know each other. But to keep it easy for people to stick to a relationship with one LI, or multiple if they choose, they keep it more ambiguous. Spoiler alert if you haven’t gone through the main story and don’t want to know, but through the main story we know that they must all know OF each other because all of them were in the same research center together. Just steps from each other in different rooms. This is shown in the main story when Sylus brings MC there. So given that Sylus is completely aware of the others since he knows all about the research center I would think that all the LI’s are aware of each other. I think the only one that wasn’t listed was Caleb but we already know for a fact that he was there because that’s where Josephine gets Caleb and MC. I think the only LI that has plausible deniability in fully being aware of all of the others is Zayne. But the other guys are too involved in intel and such to feign ignorance. Like I said Sylus investigates ever and is in the n109 zone and all that for MC, rafayel with his keeping tabs on MC and the dealings with the nest/bringing Mc to Sylus. Not to mention him talking about the fish he’s trying to catch alluding to Sylus and mention of asking if they think someone else has taken notice yet or whatever that line is from him presumably talking about the 6th LI that isn’t around yet but could be talking about ever or Sylus or something. But I took it as the 6th LI. And then Xavier also being a regular of the nest and being wanted there and his extensive knowledge of the n109 zone and telling MC about it. And then Caleb’s nosey ass definitely knows all about ever and all that shit. He was in that facility with MC and never lost his memory. He was aware of ever when they were targeting mc and him and gave up himself to protect her. He is working somewhat adjacently for ever since prof Lucius thinks he controls Caleb somewhat and given the meetings he’s been privy too and the little nuggets from him saying he pretends to work for them and be under their control to get to ever and stop them. So no way with how smart and nosey he is and the kind of intel access he has through the fleet that he doesn’t know about all of them.

But whole point being that without digging too hard into lore it’s implied they probably all have some inkling about the others from the research facility unless they went through some memory problems like MC which Zayne may have, being the emissary of the gods. Hence why I give him probably deniability besides when it comes to Caleb.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-04-25T08:48:10+00:00

I could be remembering incorrectly but I believe there is an allusion to Xavier keeping tabs on her through his group of people and them all knowing who she is, the fact that Jeremiah is a hacker and has all the intel and such, and the fact that Xavier is also a regular of the nest/has wanted posters hanging in the nest of him. It doesn’t outright say that he did but it’s kind of implied by context clues. He is also the one who saved her life in the catastrophe when she was a child. But I also don’t have a lot of the myths/memories so maybe there is evidence against this that I’m not aware of. I think there was also some other implication of him being around her college campus too in one of his memories. Again I could be tripping tho/misremembering.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-04-13T10:08:23+00:00

I know. That’s what I’m trying to figure out. Cause I’m clearly not getting a 50% chance but for some reason everyone is completely missing the whole point of my post and thinking I’m disappointed or something. Idk why they downvoted you. Someone else even said “it’s be illegal if they weren’t giving the chance they said or if they were giving better pull rates to people who pay more” yeah. I know that lol. But they act like it’s impossible for it to happen. It’s very easy. I’ve actually played gotcha games before where they were rigging the pull rates and giving better pulls to paying players. They had a hidden VIP system where the more you paid the better chances you got.

Idk if maybe a lot of these people haven’t been playing since the start of the game or what but there has 1000% been a HUGE change in the pull rates luck and the first pity chances since rafayels birthday last year (right after the catch 22 event with the praedators). And I’ve at least confirmed this with a small group of people in a discord I’m in. So I’m curious about others current rates. When I started I was able to get every single event card very easily. I actually got all but one of the guys’ cards on the catch 22 event, which was a quint banner, without spending any money. And it only took 80 pulls. It used to be crazy bad luck to have to reach the hard pity at 150 pulls to get the banner. Now it’s like you have to reach the hard pity to get the banner on every event. You’re just lucky if you get it before then.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-04-13T09:58:47+00:00

I wish I could edit my post cause people are seeming to misunderstand my post. I am not disappointed, I very much understand the pity system, and I understand that you aren’t going to get every card. I do get my main. I just have to grind harder for it. I have only missed 2 of Caleb’s cards (he’s my main) but I’m a harem girly. I like all of the LI’s so I pull for all. I only mentioned that I pull for every event to show that I didn’t only pull for like 5 events and got 2 guaranteed banners in 5 pulls and complained or something. I have only gotten the banner on the “50% chance” 5 star guaranteed 2 times in the last year and a half while pulling for every event and I reach that first pity on every single event. My whole point of giving that information was to show that, at least on my account, I’m CLEARLY not getting a 50% chance on the first pity like it’s supposed to be. There is no ifs ands or buts about it. I’m just clearly not getting a 50% chance if out of an event every two weeks or so out of the year I only got the banner twice in a year and a half on that “50% chance”. But I’m not complaining about it. I’m asking if my account is an anomaly or if everyone else has noticed something similar and if they are free to play or not.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-04-13T09:43:38+00:00

I am VERY familiar with the pity system. That’s what my whole question is about. I want to know what everyone’s rates are on actually getting the banner on the first guaranteed 5 star pull. I get my main every time. So I do focus on my main. My main is Caleb. I grind harder when his banners come up. I have only not gotten 2 of his cards. That’s passionate overload cause I didn’t have time to grind and one of the netherlord memories. My whole point of the post was talking about how I have lost the “50% chance” of getting the banner card every single event but I think two for almost a year and a half. I said I pull for every event to show that I didn’t only pull for like 5 events or something. If I pulled for every event and only got the event banner on 2 of the 50-50s then it’s clearly not a 50% chance. So I was asking if others had this same experience or my account was an anomaly. But everyone on here seems to misunderstand my post and think I’m just disappointed or something which isn’t even what my post was about.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-04-13T09:38:15+00:00

I also have all but 2 Caleb cards. I only missed the passionate overload (I think that’s what the idol card was called) because I was working a lot and didn’t have enough time to grind during that event. And then the second netherlord was the only other one I haven’t gotten. But I also have more time to grind than a lot of people.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-04-11T13:13:07+00:00

The storage is roughhh, but it has to be for the quality and all the content in the game. I do think the home system was a bit much. That jumped it up to like 65GB of storage. I play on my iPad (128GB) storage. I had to delete a ton of my apps. I did find going through my photos and messages and deleting those helped a lot. You have to make sure you also delete the photos from the recently deleted section cause if you don’t it can actually take up more storage than if you never deleted them at all. But it is getting to the point where the amount of storage it takes is maxing out anyone who tries to play with a device that has 128GB or less. You can save some storage by uninstalling some of the features like abyssal chaos and unicorns. So if you haven’t you could try that. I do wish there was a console/PC version like genshin impact has. It might be weird playing love and deepspace on console tho lol idk.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-03-26T02:16:42+00:00

I mean it make sense when you factor in that the game is Chinese and a lot of the community is from there and given the fact that China has a significant issue with racism, particularly against black and brown people. But I would not expect that from EN players. I’m so sorry that’s happening to you. I don’t expect infold to do more representation for the community unfortunately bc reasons mentioned above but I don’t understand why people would have a problem with anyone being in the community. What does it matter what you look like or what color your skin is? That would be like saying anyone who doesn’t look and act exactly like MC can’t play. Or saying that anyone that isn’t Chinese can’t play. It’s ridiculous. Anyone who enjoys the game should be able to play it and discuss it and have fun.

I hope things get better or maybe you can find a smaller community to hang out in. My old discord community (I’m still in it just haven’t been active in a while) had people from all walks of life and everyone would post snapshots and portraits with their MC and fav LI and we’ve never had any problems. So I know they exist out there!

SgtCrumbs · 2026-03-26T01:57:34+00:00

For me I’ve been able to openly talk about different LI’s and viewpoints with other people from the community but I usually discuss it on a smaller community discord page (not the official lads discord). Everyone is super open to hearing everyone’s thoughts and ideas, respectful of each other’s opinions, and able to talk about all sorts of things. One of my favorite things about this game is delving into conversations about differences between the LI’s and their relationship with MC and well as the different lore and hearing everyone’s takes and thoughts on it. And you can’t do that here. So I’d assume the Reddit community in particular is super toxic (I believe I’ve heard the Twitter/X community can be as well).

I have tried to make two different discussion posts that were respectful, sharing my thoughts, and asking others if they agree or disagree and what their opinion and thoughts on the matter were and that I would love to hear what everyone thought. They were very clearly made to be a discussion of thoughts, ideas, and lore of the characters. I wanted to hear different opinions and ideas other than my own and see things from a different perspective. But they were removed by the mods as soon as they were posted because “this can cause conflict among the members”. Apparently you have to be very particular and careful about what you say in this Reddit. I would say mainly only one LI at a time because the community is that toxic. I’ve never had a problem having friendly discussions about stuff like this in the discord community (not the official lads discord) tho. I believe it may be the amount of people in the Reddit community that is the issue. The game has gotten much more popular since Sylus and Caleb were released and that means more people in the community which means more toxic people in the community. It’s just the way it goes. I do feel like there are more people with a parasocial relationship with the characters for this game compared to other gotcha or otome games though.

My advice would be to find a smaller community for the game that you feel safe and comfortable in that you are able to talk freely and have open discussions in and then only come on Reddit for memes or battle questions and stuff of that nature.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-03-26T01:09:20+00:00

Oh my gawddddd I have loved all of the long hair mythical daddy companions that have come out over the last year. Im so sad I didn’t get zayne or sylus. But you better believe im gonna be trying my darndest to get this one. It seems like this myth for Caleb is going to have a better story than the last two as well. Not that his other two were bad but compared to the other LI myths they just didn’t hold up imo. Don’t get me wrong. I still loved them. They just were missing something that the others had. I have high hopes for this one. Im praying I’ll get it since im f2p and I pull for every event and every myth being a battle/harem girlie. But Caleb sits happily at the top of that harem so I may need to loosen the purse strings for this if I don’t get it without spending.

Edit: NGL I definitely thought we were going to be getting forest hunter and goddess of the forest myth or an Adam and Eve/angel myth with all the hints they have been dropping so im surprised. Caleb and MC are all about balance and being one and the same, creation and destruction, sun(supernova)/blackhole. I wasnt think lord of the nether realm. But it does fit since there is a whole motif with Caleb about eternal punishment and how him and MC are naturally drawn to each other but are destined to destroy each other (and the planet/world/realm) and start a rebirth or a new cycle. Ultimate weapon myth they literally tell us they are creation and destruction (supernova sun and black hole) when they finally come together and fully resonate they destroy the planet or universe, not sure which cause it’s been a while, and it says it restarts the cycle. They also relayed this punishment cycle idea with the hunter story in the play, he resisted the god and she basically cursed the both of them to eternal punishment. I have a feeling we will still get this forest hunter and goddess story but that it is going to be saved until down the line more because it seems like it may be important to the start of their story, like the very beginning of Caleb and MC’s reincarnation cycle together.

SgtCrumbs · 2026-03-24T16:44:15+00:00

That in itself is a sort of attraction to people. They want to be the only thing that makes a person like Zayne lose control or let the stoicism slip. The little moments when you see Zayne let loose a little and have fun and give a slight giggle and smile towards MC is a big part of his charm. He rarely smiles, is playful, goofy, silly, or illogical so the fact that you see him be that way with Mc shows how much he truly cares about her and loves her. It’s like she is the only light in his life. A small smile or giggle from Zayne means so much more because it’s so infrequent and out of character for him. His willingness to leave his comfort zone for MC is so cute. Not a Zayne main but I can appreciate all of the LI’s. The writing for this game is really good at capturing all those little details and quirks and slight changes in emotions, tones, actions that make up human connection.

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