Genshin Players Are OUTRAGED Over Imaginarium Theater!

[@ProfessorBeard]

ZZZ Livestream reaction! ► kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGPVYo2ah8ipgbc Hang out with us live ► www.twitch.tv/professorbeard I'm really enjoying the new end game mode Imaginarium Theater! What about you?

[@Hadeshi.]

I'm playing the game since day 1 too (Sept 28th, 2020) i didnt even read anything, i started the mode and started doing "things" that were possible and i beat hard mode easy. I beat dendro bird with 3 anemo characters and Xiangling. Lol. Later i managed to recover a point for Sucrose and beat Copelia with Raiden, Sara, Xiangling and Sucrose.

[@launcelotlake]

We used to custom fit the abyss which is 8 characters. Originally, our team loadout was only up to 4 teams only. Hoyoverse has later introduced that the team loadout menu to expand to more than four, encouraging you to try out more teams than what was possible. Later the complaint was that there was not enough content to make use of the variety of teams that you came up with - or for some, finds no use for making up more than 2 teams. Now that we have Imaginarium, I'm happy that there's a use for these built characters that you accumulated so far.

[@itsame7491]

Try not to get angry at mihoyo challenge, impossible

[@devolays]

I love the theater, but I hope it will evolve with time. There's a great potential for giving players some extra story regarding Hexenzirkel mages. That's how Elysian Realm worked when they first introduced it in Honkai Impact 3rd: it was designed to be replayed constantly, and after every run you'd get an extra piece of lore, dialogue, or character interaction relevant to the story.

[@Hadeshi.]

i like how the characters we choose show up in the room and we can talk to them, AND IS ALL VOICED!

[@vincdraws4742]

Yeah I agree, in the abyss its always "Why not use the tried and tested Meta/OP teams?", I'm playing teams I wouldn't even try even in the overworld and actually have fun, and actually think through what my team would look like then and after. But I do understand people having trouble with having thinking on how to manage their units cuz its a first for them with some units they haven't even consider using/building before. But as a whole I love it BUT!...They need to expand on it every or so patch that comes.

[@khaivankha7049]

As a former yugioh player i have something to say: "Read your damn card".

[@byonty886]

the only thing I hate is having random characters every turn, I completed it but I ended up with having 3 dps in some acts, I wanna do parties that makes sense

[@numaruldoi3031]

~2y old acount. built horizontally (no limited 5* cons, no weapon banner) resulting in 60-70 characters built. blitzed my way though the "hard" mode, no isues... ye, you have some restrictions, but the builds require so much less quality than what you need in abyss, its not even close...

[@benjamincastro7091]

The only thing that sucks about the character situation with Imaginarium Theater is that I don't have the time and energy to build that many characters to a decent, actually usabale level.

[@TheCsel]

Starter characters + 4 stars + trial characters + friend characters should cover 75% of the challenges

[@nobblkpraetorian5623]

It's endgame, so it's normal that new players can't finish hard mode.

[@NoNameCherry]

Well, I am building all my units one by one, so now I have even more reason to give my level 80's a glow-up. Just that I am a little lazy again at the moment. I'll get to it eventually. Especially since there's achievements to be had. I want to get to 1300 achievements before Natlan.

[@senu.]

and I'm probably not the majority but abyss was giving me so much grief seeing it back to floor 8 was just making me want to cry. it's just the same thing over and over again at least IT isn't boring, and I can finally use more characters for once.

[@Zodia195]

I hate the Abyss, I only did it to get the 2 free chars and then I was done. I definitely prefer this one, even though I am only able to do Easy mode. I am a casual player and F2P so I am in no rush to level up chars.

[@Zharque]

Personally I thought it wasn't particularly challenging, although that may be because I wasn't even allowed to play the Hard mode, which if anything is what I'm more annoyed with. I wish they removed the level restriction, it would be challenging to actually play with the level 20s on my team. At this point of genshin's lifespan I just can't be bothered to collect character materials anymore so it's unlikely I'll ever get to play Hard mode.

[@Zharque]

On second thought I just played and it does look like I have some old characters with enough character materials so I should be able to raise them to level 70 and meet the requirements so in that regard genshin is actually making me care about characters that I've forgotten about. However after being spoiled with HSR, the whole wait 2 days to get more materials for this or that character is just insanely tedious on top of the already tedious daily grind so that's still the biggest thing I wish genshin did more to address.

[@BlazeSwigglePlayzMc]

I honestly still believe the best endgame for genshin would be a seasonal infinite tower reset per patch (basically abyss but longer since its kind of what most of the endgame players want) with a shop to gett resources or get unique artifacts/weapons that are semi good and universal for all characters but are locked behind currency give to you depending on how high you can actually go through the tower. Since its catter towards engame the only restriction I would have would literally be that once a character dies they are out, and maybe add the multiple character limitation (That way casuals and story players can understand that you NEED to build more characters besides just "your favs" like dear god the amount of people complaining they don't have characters built makes me wonder what the fuck you do with resin then)

[@yukirinchan]

Genshin pleb: me can't read, me can't build characters, I monkey only hit things.

[@DLH112]

The thing I really don't like about it is the difficulty curve. It seems like it goes from unavailable to near impossible with a minimum amount of characters, but then if you have characters, really quickly there is 0 challenge to it at all., electro/pyro healers are like shinobu and bennett and that's it. most healers are dendro or hydro which are unavailable. and yeah most of the boons seemed really useless, especially compared to curios and blessings in SU.

[@effortlessfury]

Given that they've tested Vigor while allowing you to use less than four characters and still chose to enforce a full team in IT tells me that they think that makes it too easy. It allows you to more safely spread out your vertical invested characters to reduce the load on a weak horizontal investment.

[@ozzcoremidmx8287]

I personally wouldn't say it's bad but I would assume it was not the idea people have about endgame. The fact the mode utterly blocks you on just 2 uses makes you think twice if you want to use a character or not. I'd enormously rather to have a card that let's you replenish the uses by selection instead of randomness (and if it exists I think I didn't get one) because the difficulty remains in how bad the rooms are designed and how much screwed you are if you don't have a proper backup.

[@Oltrya]

ahh that's why i hate it. it's meant to be similar to a roguelike. that is why. i hate roguelikes

[@mob7242]

genshin players when endgame content is ENDGAME content 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@GLoLChibs]

"Not like that!"

[@idyotako]

Well first off... it's a reddit post, so the negative take is already expected. Now I will say, my main account has all the characters, most of which are built and I cleared it in less than 8 minutes total. My F2P account is a bit of a different story since not every character I have in there is built but I have a good amount that are usable in this mode. I haven't done the hard mode on it yet, but I know I should be able to beat it as long as I proceed strategically. I actually enjoy this mode much more than spiral. Anyone that's complaining about this mode just wants to be a negative Nancy.

[@senu.]

it really isn't that hard to understand, also how can you play for two whole years and not have more characters built what are you even doing, leveling up only two teams for two years?

[@fa14bi-78]

Spending 100k resin in the same domain so their 3 Year old hu tao does 0.2% more damage

[@blaze_burn]

I actually don’t get the hate for it bro 😂 you just need lvled characters

[@SirSaif93]

I don't understand this community some time who did lie to them in 4 years and said you opinion matters to hoyo

[@MelaKaden]

These people cried and moaned about nothing in the game that actually challenged them or let them use their characters. Now that a new mode is added, they cry that it's not the exact thing they wanted. I'm glad Hoyo (smartly) doesn't try and cater their game to the vocal minority of complainers, and keeps adding the kind of casual, story-based content that made the game popular in the first place.

[@numaruldoi3031]

How are you so sure the ones complaining this time are the ones that were complaining it was nothing in the game before? From what i see, the ones complaining are the ones that did not care to build their characters and dont like chalenges, or reading the new mode rules for the matter... not the meta players. I enjoy the new stuff and i want more, thank you very much :)

[@benjamincastro7091]

Average Genshin Impact player and reading/reading comprehension abilities do not go together, fr.

[@Cytryz]

The only thing I agree with is forcing to use 4. It’s a good mode. It rewards building horizontally and not just being a failbot that only clears abyss with 8-10 characters. I always advised building many chars with a wide elemental diversity. It was very obvious a mode like this would eventually come. Just like it’s always bad to put all your eggs in one basket. you actually have to play the game. You can’t just load in with your OP teams and do so much dmg that you not only ignore the mechanics but the existence of the enemies beyond their HP go brrrr. It’s also endgame. Not just endgame but endgame post the original endgame so it might as well be endgame +. ofc new players are going to struggle with it. htat’s like loading into an MMO and complaining you can’t clear the hardest content to get the max rewards everytime. If you could do that you’d bitch and complain how it’s so easy and the game has no content because you cleared it all.

[@celestialgoddessgaming]

I'm personally really enjoying Imaginarium Theatre! I love that it's not all meta and that you can have so many great times. I love that this end game content pushes me to level my characters because I plan to get them all the 90 and the best they can be! I also enjoy how the characters are voiced in the lobby and it's just overall a fun experience for me. I can't wait to play more of it!

[@celestialgoddessgaming]

teams not times lol

[@Sonnenschein404]

I like the theater, Wölfchen is absolutly cute, the room and the battle domains backgrounds look absolut gorgouse and it is really cool that you can talk with the characters in the theatre and that you can try out characters you dont have and maybe want to pull them😊 Yes i have, until now, not every level cleared, but thats not because it is too hard, but rather a skill issue on my part😅 I still not really know which character has which role, talents and with which other character they work good. Also a lot of my characters are not build, because i only really started playing when sumeru got in. But this only motivaits me my characters to build, not around a specific team but on there own and thats sounds more relaxing as always trying to build the perfect team. Also it is endgame content, of course it is harder and it is out for the first time, the probably will fix somethings

[@TheGwilwileth]

Well I’m not outraged 😂 It’s fun….

[@snappyc_bg8697]

I actually don’t get the hate for it i had no problems with it

[@TheCsel]

I love the new game mode. A lot of Abyss players only focus on Meta characters and DPS, and don't bother leveling more than 1/4 of their characters. I like playing off-meta characters, and I like switching up my teams for leveling their friendship. So most of my characters are at least level 70, and most have their talents at least semi-built. That said, I am still struggling because I dont have enough quality artifacts for all these characters and it still takes strategy rationing your characters. So now I have to work on getting them equipped. (another reason Hoyo should add actual equipment loadouts). I think people are just complaining because its new. In a couple months people will have adapted and have alternate characters built up to compensate.

[@GLoLChibs]

Genshin players need to chill. I'm pretty casual but like Imaginarium. The rest of the game caters to casuals, Abyss to meta... Imaginarium for players that like a challenge. The same people complaining about this are the same ones complaining there's nothing to do- BUILD YOUR CHARACTERS! or crap on pulling non-archons or non-meta. I really enjoyed having to try new combinations and managing using characters. New players shouldn't worry about it because it's endgame for older players. There's still two endgame modes coming, and they aren't going to be hits with absolutely everyone.

[@Geneva1906]

This game mode is not for early players. It is End game content! And for that you have to build your characters. Its not very different from Star Rail. So I dont get the point of being mad. Also, you can just skip it if you dont wanna do it...

[@mrgg1475]

Lesson learned, never skip school 👍

[@maltorramus2997]

I dislike it for 2 reason... first of it should be called "Imaginarium Theatrum" go Latin or don't but don't mix english and latin that just insultingly weird..... second: its basically Spiral Abyss but they force you to use specific character you may not want to play as or build... also send the message "pull for all the character or lose" type things ps: I only play character I like regardless of meta...so if I don't like the character I'm not going to build it or play with it.