Genshin Impact, the massively successful RPG from miHoYo revealed Genshin Impact 2.0 today and confirmed the new version will arrive on 21 July.
Titled ‘The Immovable God and the Eternal Euthymia’, the latest entry into Genshin Impact will roll out in barely a few weeks, adding an entirely new city as part of a huge content update on 21 July. The brand new update to the anime themed RPG will unlock the third of the game’s seven major cities, provide quality of life updates, and introduce plenty of new characters for players to interact with.
Players ready to make the leap into the unknown will venture out across the sea and explore the Inazuma region this month. This new territory is surrounded by the sea on all sides and consists of six main islands. These spots in the ocean are often battered by a strong sea breeze and thunderstorms and are ruled over by the Electro Archon. Like Mondstadt and Liyue, this new region has its own people and culture, stories and secrets for players to figure out.
Plenty of new characters join the current roster of NPCs, as well as three playable characters. Kamisato Ayaka, the daughter of the Yashiro Commission’s Kamisato Clan, is often conceived as dignified, elegant, wise, and strong by the locals. She has been familiar to many fans and players since closed beta testing and will be added as a five-star Cryo sword user. Yoimiya is the other five-star character joining in Version 2.0. She’s a Pyro archer and an expert in fireworks. Known as the “Queen of the Summer Festival,” Yoimiya excels in her craft of creating fireworks that symbolize people’s hopes and dreams. The last character, Sayu is a new four-star ninja character who wields an Anemo Vision and a giant claymore bigger than herself.
Genshin Impact Version 2.0 will bring more than just new stories and an expanded world. It will also include more new features to enhance the player experience. A new cross platform save function will allow pick up and play between PlayStation, PC, and mobile. The update will also add more refined character shading, Haptic Feedback support for the PlayStation®5 DualSense Controller, among other quality of life enhancements.
Frankly, there’s too much to cram in a news post and more can be glimpsed in the official announcement video above, or over on the Genshin Impact website between now and 21 July.
