Weird Undocumented Changes in Genshin Impact



Genshin goes through a fair amount of changes each patch, and in the past aome have been undocumented. Some players don’t even realize these changes when Genshin version updates go live or….ever….Here’s just some of the weird ones that I’ve noticed, some more commonly known than others.

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46 thoughts on “Weird Undocumented Changes in Genshin Impact”

  1. Edit: I'm aware now that Barbara's VA didn't actually change, I was misinformed a long time ago and just never verified it myself, my baaaad.

    When I first came across the new wall by the Geo domain I thought they just patched the chest out or moved it. F to those who spent hours looking with their compasses.

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  2. There was another odd change this patch where the Loaches that drops Loach Pearls now run away from you in a back and forth motion instead of the usual straight forward run. I noticed it while gathering Artifacts in Liyue.

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  3. Terrain around Cryo Regisvine was changed a lot with Dragonspine and most of the changes are still in place, I didn't even notice they changed something back. There was a ledge that could be used to get from the domain to the crystal spot without climbing, that disappeared and is still gone. There were more other changes along the shoreline towards Dragonspine, I think most of them were intentional even though I don't understand why they needed to make them.
    Barbara's voice change was not in patch notes but was explained by Mihoyo. Multiple voiceovers were recorded for her in preparation phases, they picked one, and released another. So the change was also bug fix, regardless of players (including me) liking the "original" voice better.
    Regarding idle voicelines, I changed dialog volume to zero long ago. I still get the music, sounds, even some enemy voicelines and these annoying monologues are gone. The only thing that felt odd at the start were missing battlecries but I don't really miss them either. I only enable the dialog voices when new voiced quest is available.

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  4. Ayaka, mona, and fishl all get stuck on circles in the the domain and in the abyss when they run or do their specials but dulic’s special just goes straight though walls and boundaries unlike ayaka’s special.

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  5. Ahhh Barbara…. She used to be my fav character… Before 2.3…

    They changed her voice lines because the actress that is playing her is the same actress who plays Xianyan… They feared those two characters sound too similar.

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  6. In one of the early inazuma patches, they changed Xiangling jp voiceline when she drops Guoba, it's slower? it's odd the old one was sorta satisfying, Bennett's E skill voiceline changed too right this last patch (2.3), it used to sound different. There's also a sneakier one I just noticed : there's a friendship xp farming spot in Konda Village where pigeons spawn. Logically you could use this random event to farm infinite foal, but now in 2.3 the pigeons don't drop foal at all anymore. It doesn't really matter for players as I doubt anyone really needs to farm foal extensively but it's funny to think that someone at mihoyo was like "oh no gotta fix that, can't be having players with max amount of foal"

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  7. After the 2.0 update Amber got more climbing noises…
    Weird change honestly, and I most definitely DO NOT remember Amber panting like Lisa before.

    Speaking of which, they nerfed the duration of Lisa's climbing noise sometime after 1.5 (meaning it sounded less moan-y), but then brought back the full length in 2.0 as well… I have no idea what goes on in MiHoYo dev team sometimes.

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  8. I don't know if this was also documented but no one mentions it or knows about it recently. Albedos elevator was debuffed ages ago, his elevator used to constantly go up and down but now you need to activate it by standing on it.

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  9. The Barbara change still makes me so sad. Apparently it was because they wanted to better reflect her shy/introverted personality. But the peppy Barbara, who seemed happy to be there and ready to help? I miss her so much man…

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  10. I started genshin last week and met the cryo regisvine for the first time…I was panicking to much to even think of teleporting out and It was the first time my entire team was wiped out

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  11. Uhm… 2 of the "undocumented" changes mentioned here ARE in the patch notes, at the very bottom…. also the birds at Yaoguang Shoal have always been there. Raiden has idle voice lines in English when she released…

    Prolly more of a "Stuff People Didn't Pay Attention To" vid for me but overall, you made pretty good points~!

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  12. I feel like they've done a lot of changes to the story script and toned Paimon's voice down from what I remember and gives a better explanation of game mechanics etc. From what I remember

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  13. just my opinion about barbara: maybe because the eng va of Barbara and Xinyan are the same person, they somewhat change barbara's raspy voice so players don't confuse the voice with xinyan? as we know, xinyan is a rock star, so that kinda makes sense.

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