The official livestream for Genshin Impact update 1.5 aired earlier today, and confirmed the release of Eula and Yanfei, two previously leaked characters that players have been excited to see added to the game. Genshin Impact is still within its first year of release, and despite its relatively new status, the open-world action-RPG/gacha game has earned developer miHoYo over $1 billion in revenue in just six months.
Because of the nature of the way Genshin Impact prepares and rolls out updates, those who pay close attention to leaks tend to have a pretty good idea of what to expect from livestream announcements. That's because Genshin Impact hosts beta periods for its update versions to iron out bugs, which allows the players participating in them to glean information on what's coming in the game's future. Even with Genshin Impact leaks becoming an expected and frequent occurrence within its community, excitement for patch updates remains high each time - they introduce new characters, content, and quality-of-life changes in a way that tends to provide a sizeable amount for long-time players to do.
During the official Chinese Genshin Impact update 1.5 livestream on Bilibili earlier today (translated by ZealsAmbitions on YouTube), it was confirmed that both Eula and Yanfei will be releasing in the upcoming patch. Interestingly, Yanfei, the 4-star Pyro catalyst addition, will be available first, alongside a rerun banner for an extremely popular character in the Geo 5-star Zhongli. Following that banner, Eula will be made available, adding a 5-star Cryo claymore user to Genshin Impact that seems poised to impact team compositions moving forward.
The Genshin Impact Update 1.5 livestream provided plenty of other details on the game's future, including further changes to the way resin will work for bosses, new weekly and world bosses, new Hangouts Events, a Genshin Impact housing system, and plenty more. It's a sizeable stream of content arriving in Genshin Impact Update 1.5 and one that will help strengthen the game's appeal to its broader user demographic. The introduction of content that's less resin-dependent will help provide invested players with more to do and more consistently.
Of course, the main attraction of any Genshin Impact update is the introduction of new characters, and the confirmed release of Eula and Yanfei remains exciting in spite of their existence being leaked previously. Whether or not they end up making a big impact like Xiao or occupy much more quiet niches like Albedo remains to be seen, but with an Update 1.5 release date of April 28, 2021, fans won't need to wait long to find out.
Source: Bilibili (via ZealsAmbitions)