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I love the way you never know what you're going to get. Here's an icon that's Jean, except you select it and it's actually Yaoyao, except you go into gameplay and it's actually Klee, except you attack and it's actually Barbara. Really keeps you on your toes.
Yeah, you should get an Adventurer's Guild outfit (not the default NPC one but the same colour scheme) and then you should get one specific to each region, like an Honorary Knight outfit for Mondstadt, etc!
I'm just happy to know that the body shape models didn't have any of the bits modeled in, since most models for a game or animation are completely nude as a base, with often the bits included.
Impressive Yaoyao was readily available since the beginning (she was even featured in official artwork and some voicelines) yet she wasn't released because Dendro element wasn't ready at the time...
thye wanted to release her at the chinese year of the rabbit... dendro element was ready from the very start.. they just didnt intorduce it to the game until sumeru
@@CheeslingI hope it gets fixed soon, had a similar situation this summer (but also no mobile network and water, since the whole city lost power) and it was terrifying
I love that about early game production. Someone should just make a game where it's totally screwed up and unfinished on purpose with loads of bugs and the playerbase can find new exploits and scary glitches the developer didn't notice or intend
It feels creepy cus this isn't the Genshin we're supposed to see. Look at how developed Genshin is today vs. this video with barely any textures and animations. It oddly feels like some Stanley Parable stuff.
The reason why there's an adventurer there because in CBT1, we can only change your team members when you visit a nation and meet with that NPC responsible for the party change, reminiscent of some old RPG games. It was changed in CBT2 where we can change team members everywhere. Imagine us having to stop on a city everytime we wanted to change members.
@horribllydrawenbaldamber8968 bruh traveler don't travel to statues in the middle of the fight, he absorbs it and can use any everywhere, that's no explanation
I think Kate was a remnant from when this game was supposed to be a honkai spinoff, hence the futuristic outfit. Originally you were supposed to play as a traveler from other world arriving in a spaceship, you can even see it in CBT1 intro where it clearly shown that traveler exiting some sort of a futuristic door, supposedly said spaceship. This stuff deserves it's own video, because the story and the game itself was supposed to be completely different during the development, writing team was changed several times along the way.
watched the cbt1 intro and even at one moment there were circles similiar to those from herrscher of the void, interesting that we meet her "expy" at the current beggining. gosh i wish there was more of itttttt😭
@@crushed_starto this day dataminers keep finding hidden and unused dialogs for different characters that have various purposes, their contains suggest that the story course was completely different at some point. Unfortunately, by the time of CBT1 they already made the decision to rework genshin into it's own independent thing, even though some remains were still left there. The new proposed story was also different from what we have now, writing team wanted it to be a bit dark yet interesting and non-generic (for example CBT1 story ends with mondstadt arc conclusion where Venti dies). Interestingly enough, they went somewhat far with it. The mondstadt arc (with a little bit of liyue arc) is still a perfect example of what they tried to achieve, the pacing of it's story is completely different from the rest of the game, you're introduced to the story and it's world, level up your AR to unlock more of it, and meet other characters of this region while doing so, experiencing story in a fast and organic matter, where main and side objectives are kinda stitched together. Unfortunately other than that, we don't know much about that second version of story, because after the initial 1.0 release and it's success mihoyo shifted their focus once again, this time they decided they want genshin to be a family friendly gacha so they asked to simplify a story and make it as linear and cliche as possible. This is the reason why Inazuma's story arc ended up short, unfinished and lackluster, mainly because the new writing team was brought in, and they had too little time to workout something. From what we know from leakers, originally by the time of us arriving at Inazuma it's archon was supposed to be dead, and it's story arc would involve about competition to become a new archon where Ayaka would win (this is the reason why she was one of the first designed characters, her role in the story was planned to be much bigger). We know all of that because of information from in-house testers who already played the build with almost finished early Inazuma from around CBT3 - 1.2 era, where it was made by a singular island. This is because initially mihoyo never expected genshin to end up this profitable so the scale of development plan was smaller but the releases were supposed to be faster, the old rumour about inazuma release in 1.4 wasn't really a rumour at all, they planned for new regions to be released not once per year like now, but once per 6 months, in interview before 1.0 mihoyo CEO said that they planned to finish the story in 5 years, since then after 1.0 success, all plans were reworked and rescaled, and now we have bigger regions that takes twice longer to release, and mihoyo have to intentionally stretch the releases of new regions to several versions because otherwise we would end up with majority of updates featuring just one new character, their personal quest and some QoL. Interestingly enough, the story being changed causes official travail trailer to be completely wrong about story, as Zhongli never signed a contract to end all contracts, there are no bakufu who rule eternity in Inazuma, the god of wisdom doesn't have wisdom itself as her enemy, god of justice doesn't judge other gods in Fountain, and probably more to come, because that trailer was made with previous story version in mind. There are also reasons to suggest that some story parts were changed again, mainly we have evidence for Fontain, there are lots of npc dialogs, in-game books, official concepts as well as couple of pre 4.0 events that picture Fontain as a region that suffers from energy crisis, ecology disasters (there are mentions of polluted air and water), society being divided by several inequal factions, yet in reality none of that appeared to be true. Considering that little to no stuff from before those story changes was anyhow altered, it's almost impossible to say for sure which lore bits and story hints makes sense and what doesn't. To summarise, genshin nowadays is a weird Frankenstein-like mess full of wasted potential that suffers from mihoyos incompetence and mismanagement.
как-то у нее не особо и футуристический наряд, имхо, похож на форму ордо Фавониуса только в красном цвете. Я согласна с вашим вторым комментарием, про то, что геншин похож на Франкенштейна, но для меня это из-за линий повествования, которые они начинают, но не заканчивают, и за вписание в лор некоторых персонажей, которых нормально не списали в лор, но зато какого-нибудь НПС они впишут, лол. I apologize, I accidentally wrote my comment in my language, since I was on a computer, and everything is translated automatically.
Even crazier is that having the model they could have had her be an npc we could interact with same as baizhu who also wasn't playable for 2 years due to lack of dendro but still present in world quests and stuff especially seeing as they used her in official art a good bit...
@@NinaEliane-cf2kk Woahh Baizhu was present like that even before he became a playable character?? Sorta like Scara? (started playing Oct-Dec last year)
I could be absolutely wrong, but at 18:56 that could be a prototype for the kimono that ayaka give to us during inazuma archon quest, that fabric reminds me of Yae miko arm sleeves...
And considering how ayaka and premise of inazuma is done already at this point.. not suprising they intended to give us free outfits for the traveler at first, but they decided not to
devs say they’re still praying to the artifacts in the newer one, that’s how they get the power of the artifacts. it looks more obvious in the old one, though
@@sugoish9461 In an old interview, one of the devs talked about the lore surrounding artifacts. upload-os-bbs.hoyolab.com/upload/2022/05/17/89614614/9acda711d6684ad622e8e37b3641ca93_3535246204888193599.png?x-oss-process=image%2Fresize%2Cs_1000%2Fauto-orient%2C0%2Finterlace%2C1%2Fformat%2Cwebp%2Fquality%2Cq_70 Characters need to pray for their blessings.
Dunno who'll see this, but as someone who's been datamining since Genshin's launch and has datamined all the closed betas, let me clear some stuff up. Yaoyao, Thoma, Ayaka, Sayu and I think a couple of others, all had models and textures in CBT1. Ayaka was the only one of the Inazuma cast that was playable, having a very different kit to what she has now. She's also ID 002 , being the second character after Kate, who was supposedly the original idea for the Traveler, however Kate was eventually scrapped when Genshin moved away from being a side-story in the Honkai-verse. For those who want to know, ID-3 is Jean, ID-4 doesn't exist to this day, ID-5 is Aether, ID-6 is Lisa and then ID-7 is Lumine. There's currently 110 IDs, with there being a ton of empty spots prior to Mona (ID 41), however only 1 gap since then which is ID 109 (theorised to be Ifa). Aquaria was initially thought to be the beta's version of Razor or Albedo, however after much digging by the likes of people like Ubatcha and Lumie, it was found out that it was actually the initial version of Xingqiu (as far as I remember). A lot of the other testing stuff is still in the game today and in fact, probably used in the Dev environment to test animation sets and make sure the models work in the world.
that's how it is with big games. Things are planned often a year+ before it gets released. Most likely they are already working on snezhnaya now, and possibly even further as well
@@oh-noeTbh I think they already finished everything until the very end of the game. They're just releasing it periodically to preserve the hype and also for the gacha system to prolonge.
13:25 i think what these 4 things are test for the weapon that stays/float behind the character's back cuz the direct translation of the name is back weapon test (a/b/c/d) so they're prob testing the placement/sound/duration of it (im a chinese so i kinda understand what it says)
Pretty sure the skill at 16:22 got put into Geo traveler's burst. Repels enemies and has that ground punch. Aether has the punch, Lumine has the stomp.
@@MaliUrum no no, i mean for the more finished/developed characters they actually fold their hands instead of the 🙏 pose, and i just think that looks better
@@jelloeeeee I remembered reading somewhere (an official interview in a magazine with devs) that changing artifacts was akin to praying to the stars for blessings. That's why you can't change your artifacts in the middle of a fight (besides being a game mechanic).
"Unfinished Beidou isn't real, she can't hurt you" Unfinished Beidou: 12:20 But honestly, made me think how cool it would be if she was a one-legged pirate. A physically disabled character would be cool to see.
An electro vision on his back, a hydro bubble elemental burst, a pyro explosion in his skill, and still a cryo vision in his character menu. Razor was really exploring his elements huh
@@DANA-so3krwhy r yall saying its jean?? its a placeholder that uses ONE of jeans animations, uses a POLEARM and is PYRO + jean already WAS released as a character in cbt1 i strongly think its albedo’s kit.
A male electro bow user that jumps back and leaves some kind of explosive. Prototype Sethos! The burst is more reminiscent of seggewinne tho with the water bursts.
Neat seeing all the weird testing stuff and how they reused assets to get a feel for what theyre going for, even with the weird animations and other incomplete stuff you're able to tell of what most these assets ended up becoming.
Kate looks futuristic because the early concept of Genshin was for it to be honkai 4. the premise still stays similar tho. Traveler arriving to teyvat from another world. It's still there in a way. It gets even more fascinating once HSR and fontaine 4.2 released. Basically giving us an idea of what the world outside of the small teyvat planet might look like.
8:30 this is ayaka's beta skill animation, it was the same on the future cbts but the animation became shorter on ayaka's release because it was too long
I like this, I feel like we are in the developer's perspective. As a programming student, I can absolutely look at the bugs, character templating with existing ones, experimenting with the options like Razor with a bow & Jean with a spear, placeholder models, the naming convention 😂, lack of skills, decent voice, no weird feelings about it, in fact this is relateable in some degree, I mean its part of the process from which the users does not see
Razor is really complete and mindblowing in skills and weapon. The first traveler design looks like Furina. Xiangling electro and Jean with lance. Fascinating.
Kate and her numerous glitchy models freak me out for some reason. Why is she always walking. Why was she never added and just relegated to a testing dummy
Because she's from a different stage in development where the game had an entirely different concept and vision. Kate was created for that vision (as she is the first character created for Genshin), but they decided to abandon it for the one we have now. Since they had the model made, no reason in trashing it when they can just use it for testing purposes
@@Odyssey__ I know but it just creeps me out. It's a very "I was only created to be a prototype?" type of story like how it made wanderer into who he is
@@Odyssey__as true as that is, it would not surprise me if Genshin still reused her into a new character in some way, especially since we are now starting to branch out in Genshin that Teyvat isn't alone
25:00 if i think about it, a month ago my cousins ripped my ipad out of my hands and when i went to see the genshin tab i had something similiar,i had a 0/0 hp bar, 0 lvl, a freezing icon on the right, a sword icon and the mining icon, and the burst was a white square,but my character icon was aether when i had chosen lumine,a weird experience indeed because i was fighting electro hypostasis and it was in the original released game!
I find it really interesting that they used old animations that were originally from different characters. Beidou's skill is like ayaka's last normal attack or ayato's charged attack, the ayaka model burst was supposedly the beta skill (I think), 10:50 is just ayaka but lady_claymore with jean animations, 16:20 mc wind vortex is like the geo mc skill,
B I G thanks to youtube.com/@qckeische for the help in launching the server emulator and the game. If you want to play CBT1 on your own, more information will appear on a new channel:
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This is not cbt1 I remember that in cbt1 or it was 2 ayaka used to wear pants and we could explore the map normally, this looks more like alpha
@@lucasp-max343this is cbt1. the version is literally called CB1.0.0 (closed beta 1.0)
I love the way you never know what you're going to get. Here's an icon that's Jean, except you select it and it's actually Yaoyao, except you go into gameplay and it's actually Klee, except you attack and it's actually Barbara. Really keeps you on your toes.
LMAO
Never let em know your next move
i thought you were exaggerating but no, it's really there
@@thatweirdodanielsame
Yeah, you should get an Adventurer's Guild outfit (not the default NPC one but the same colour scheme) and then you should get one specific to each region, like an Honorary Knight outfit for Mondstadt, etc!
This feels like a creepypasta. Playing Genshin at 3am gone wrong
Reminds me of those piracy warning videos 😭
So true tho😭😭
especially when kate kaslana's model is involved 😭😭
Have you seen the albedo glitch?
I'M GLAD I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE FREAKED OUT😭
I feel like “adult male shape test” really puts into perspective how much extra effort was put into Wriothesley’s… assets.
I'm just happy to know that the body shape models didn't have any of the bits modeled in, since most models for a game or animation are completely nude as a base, with often the bits included.
ASSets
but they didnt put effort into my boy itto when in the official arts he's canonically beef
@@amgelio3399bru
If only they add the traveller with customizeable costume
Those unfinished travelers with extra fabric tell me they were thinking about giving the traveler new skins for every region, i wish they did thta :(
Same :(
Doesnt give them any money, so they dont waste time on that, same goes for how dogshit traveler is, they dont get a cent from traveler.
I thinks its probably for testing the physics of fabrics tbh
not getting money from something is no excuse for being lazy @@brussailpook8213
Idts. The traveler is supposed to look out of place not fit in.
this feels like a fever dream 😭😭
true
The music in the background could've definitely been less creepy 😅 it is barely even there but omg was it giving me the chills
@@atriyakoller136 Like , is giving silent hill ambience 😭😭
@@atriyakoller136there’s no Music it’s like wind
@@ZAE04Fragile there’s no Music it’s like wind
Impressive Yaoyao was readily available since the beginning (she was even featured in official artwork and some voicelines) yet she wasn't released because Dendro element wasn't ready at the time...
Same with Ayaka, she was finished by the time the trailer for the game released but they waited for ages
she has been mentioned in ningguang's "about" since 1.1
thye wanted to release her at the chinese year of the rabbit... dendro element was ready from the very start.. they just didnt intorduce it to the game until sumeru
But did you see how ugly yueguei looked at this point? lol
I think dendro is the weakest element, sorry if you don’t think the same. What do you think is the STRONGEST? I think pyro or anemo (perhaps cryo?).
This is weirdly eerie
exactly 😭😭 specially with the fact it’s storming outside my house rn and my power is our lol
@@CheeslingI hope it gets fixed soon, had a similar situation this summer (but also no mobile network and water, since the whole city lost power) and it was terrifying
I love that about early game production. Someone should just make a game where it's totally screwed up and unfinished on purpose with loads of bugs and the playerbase can find new exploits and scary glitches the developer didn't notice or intend
No but rlly, when I see unfinished gameplay similar to this, even if it's not meant to be, it feels creepy
It feels creepy cus this isn't the Genshin we're supposed to see. Look at how developed Genshin is today vs. this video with barely any textures and animations. It oddly feels like some Stanley Parable stuff.
12:40 someone's gotta make a horror story about that unfinished beidou model. Gotta one-up faceless ayato with textureless beidou!
YES! and the "Avatar_BoyT_Sword_Common_Boy" at 17:08 ITS ACTUALLY TERRIFYING? 😭😭😭🙏🙏
@@wPhiaand the lady one
That looks more like some sort of shadow demon Beidou
She became a Shade from NieR
That dumb ahh ayato copypasta, why its even a thing
The reason why there's an adventurer there because in CBT1, we can only change your team members when you visit a nation and meet with that NPC responsible for the party change, reminiscent of some old RPG games. It was changed in CBT2 where we can change team members everywhere. Imagine us having to stop on a city everytime we wanted to change members.
Oh! (😵)
So true, imagine having to stop at a statue to change element
@@_._shinonome_._ ..because the statues have the elements...?
@@SazleDazzlePazel doesnt the main character uses both anemo and geo in the same fight vs childe?
@horribllydrawenbaldamber8968 bruh traveler don't travel to statues in the middle of the fight, he absorbs it and can use any everywhere, that's no explanation
I think Kate was a remnant from when this game was supposed to be a honkai spinoff, hence the futuristic outfit. Originally you were supposed to play as a traveler from other world arriving in a spaceship, you can even see it in CBT1 intro where it clearly shown that traveler exiting some sort of a futuristic door, supposedly said spaceship. This stuff deserves it's own video, because the story and the game itself was supposed to be completely different during the development, writing team was changed several times along the way.
watched the cbt1 intro and even at one moment there were circles similiar to those from herrscher of the void, interesting that we meet her "expy" at the current beggining. gosh i wish there was more of itttttt😭
@@crushed_starto this day dataminers keep finding hidden and unused dialogs for different characters that have various purposes, their contains suggest that the story course was completely different at some point. Unfortunately, by the time of CBT1 they already made the decision to rework genshin into it's own independent thing, even though some remains were still left there. The new proposed story was also different from what we have now, writing team wanted it to be a bit dark yet interesting and non-generic (for example CBT1 story ends with mondstadt arc conclusion where Venti dies). Interestingly enough, they went somewhat far with it. The mondstadt arc (with a little bit of liyue arc) is still a perfect example of what they tried to achieve, the pacing of it's story is completely different from the rest of the game, you're introduced to the story and it's world, level up your AR to unlock more of it, and meet other characters of this region while doing so, experiencing story in a fast and organic matter, where main and side objectives are kinda stitched together. Unfortunately other than that, we don't know much about that second version of story, because after the initial 1.0 release and it's success mihoyo shifted their focus once again, this time they decided they want genshin to be a family friendly gacha so they asked to simplify a story and make it as linear and cliche as possible. This is the reason why Inazuma's story arc ended up short, unfinished and lackluster, mainly because the new writing team was brought in, and they had too little time to workout something. From what we know from leakers, originally by the time of us arriving at Inazuma it's archon was supposed to be dead, and it's story arc would involve about competition to become a new archon where Ayaka would win (this is the reason why she was one of the first designed characters, her role in the story was planned to be much bigger). We know all of that because of information from in-house testers who already played the build with almost finished early Inazuma from around CBT3 - 1.2 era, where it was made by a singular island. This is because initially mihoyo never expected genshin to end up this profitable so the scale of development plan was smaller but the releases were supposed to be faster, the old rumour about inazuma release in 1.4 wasn't really a rumour at all, they planned for new regions to be released not once per year like now, but once per 6 months, in interview before 1.0 mihoyo CEO said that they planned to finish the story in 5 years, since then after 1.0 success, all plans were reworked and rescaled, and now we have bigger regions that takes twice longer to release, and mihoyo have to intentionally stretch the releases of new regions to several versions because otherwise we would end up with majority of updates featuring just one new character, their personal quest and some QoL. Interestingly enough, the story being changed causes official travail trailer to be completely wrong about story, as Zhongli never signed a contract to end all contracts, there are no bakufu who rule eternity in Inazuma, the god of wisdom doesn't have wisdom itself as her enemy, god of justice doesn't judge other gods in Fountain, and probably more to come, because that trailer was made with previous story version in mind. There are also reasons to suggest that some story parts were changed again, mainly we have evidence for Fontain, there are lots of npc dialogs, in-game books, official concepts as well as couple of pre 4.0 events that picture Fontain as a region that suffers from energy crisis, ecology disasters (there are mentions of polluted air and water), society being divided by several inequal factions, yet in reality none of that appeared to be true. Considering that little to no stuff from before those story changes was anyhow altered, it's almost impossible to say for sure which lore bits and story hints makes sense and what doesn't.
To summarise, genshin nowadays is a weird Frankenstein-like mess full of wasted potential that suffers from mihoyos incompetence and mismanagement.
как-то у нее не особо и футуристический наряд, имхо, похож на форму ордо Фавониуса только в красном цвете.
Я согласна с вашим вторым комментарием, про то, что геншин похож на Франкенштейна, но для меня это из-за линий повествования, которые они начинают, но не заканчивают, и за вписание в лор некоторых персонажей, которых нормально не списали в лор, но зато какого-нибудь НПС они впишут, лол.
I apologize, I accidentally wrote my comment in my language, since I was on a computer, and everything is translated automatically.
@@TimArcHikthat is why if possible stop spending so much in this game. And they seems to have the tendency to start to milking this branding
@@TimArcHikthis explains every problem I have with genshin lore. Thank you
its crazy how yaoyao and ayaka were planned so early on. i mean ayaka only had from 1.0-2.0 but yaoyao wasnt in the game for 2 whole years.
Even crazier is that having the model they could have had her be an npc we could interact with same as baizhu who also wasn't playable for 2 years due to lack of dendro but still present in world quests and stuff especially seeing as they used her in official art a good bit...
@@NinaEliane-cf2kk Woahh Baizhu was present like that even before he became a playable character?? Sorta like Scara? (started playing Oct-Dec last year)
some people say that Ayaka was even the first character to have her model finished and that's why her birthday is the same as the game's
Imagine if they discarded yaoyao
I remember Yayao was on old illustrations before she dropped
27:52 she's seen stuff hoyo doesn't want us to see💀
Forbidden knowledge
@@persephonehades7547 Forbidden knowledge from the king of Desrhet (i don't remember Sumeru lore well btw)
@@Starryeyyed67 Close enough!
That's Pyro archon
Oh no, she is Alice
razor using a bow looks cute
That make him looks like a hunter
3:09 BRO DID NOT WANT TO BE A PART OF THE VIDEO LMAOOO
his attack looks like a mix of sethos and lyney
"Nu-uh"
That’s Venti’s attack animation. They only showed the first one, but I recognize it. He also has an anemo charged attack.
@@ray-ee5pb oooh i see thanks for clarifying!
@@Jun_Vanitas and Venti's C1 also has +2 arrows so, those are pretty much Venti's attacks lol
now we know the big bubble is sigewinne
I could be absolutely wrong, but at 18:56 that could be a prototype for the kimono that ayaka give to us during inazuma archon quest, that fabric reminds me of Yae miko arm sleeves...
it has bell sounds too lol
And considering how ayaka and premise of inazuma is done already at this point.. not suprising they intended to give us free outfits for the traveler at first, but they decided not to
7:14 bro got some beef to settle with you.
Lmao
avatar
pole arm jean can't hurt your
pole arm jean: 2:20
male polearm jean:
me: mom i want varka
mom: we have varka at home
varka at home:
Durandal lmao
jeanlee isn't real, it can't hurt you-
jeanlee:
That explains why her normal attacks feel so… heavy I guess.
Kate be like:
👁👁
👁️ 👁️
More like 🟢⚪️ ⚪️🟢
🌒 🌘
👄
@@mabiroiro LMAO accurate 😂
"of course it won't be without bugs" *yao yao's hair proceeds to have a seizure*
I just checked and what is that like number-
@@yourlocaldritten
"aww she's almost finished!"
"Oh, OH!"
I lost it when he showed Klee lmao
The hair is alive!!!! :O
Kate's dress having a magnetic pull and her eye bulging 😭
@@SophRockz I didn't even realize that 😭😭
18:57 the real abyss sibling
Real 😂
She looks a bit like Hua with those colors.
Shes pretty
That's some manly voice you have there, Jean
That ain't Jean, that's Gene 💀
16:30 this would have been a BETTER anemo mc skill tbh
i think it would be better if it groups up enemies instead
@@Beammmmmmmmmmmeisnt that just the current skill?
@@charadreemur8884 kinda, but the skill literally throws enemies to the other side of the map
They wanted people to pull kazoohah
Basically Kazuha but he can't Plunge
there's a reason why it was hidden, you let the Demon out and now it's haunting me in my sleep.
i love their artifact animation sm, especially kaeyas, theyre praying fr
devs say they’re still praying to the artifacts in the newer one, that’s how they get the power of the artifacts. it looks more obvious in the old one, though
They were praying with us
"NO DEF NO DEF NO DEF NO DEF"🙏🛐🛐🛐
@@toko-gen Wait?! Canonically they pray to the artifacts they equip, to gain their powers???
@@sugoish9461 In an old interview, one of the devs talked about the lore surrounding artifacts. upload-os-bbs.hoyolab.com/upload/2022/05/17/89614614/9acda711d6684ad622e8e37b3641ca93_3535246204888193599.png?x-oss-process=image%2Fresize%2Cs_1000%2Fauto-orient%2C0%2Finterlace%2C1%2Fformat%2Cwebp%2Fquality%2Cq_70 Characters need to pray for their blessings.
Yes@@sugoish9461
Dunno who'll see this, but as someone who's been datamining since Genshin's launch and has datamined all the closed betas, let me clear some stuff up.
Yaoyao, Thoma, Ayaka, Sayu and I think a couple of others, all had models and textures in CBT1. Ayaka was the only one of the Inazuma cast that was playable, having a very different kit to what she has now. She's also ID 002 , being the second character after Kate, who was supposedly the original idea for the Traveler, however Kate was eventually scrapped when Genshin moved away from being a side-story in the Honkai-verse. For those who want to know, ID-3 is Jean, ID-4 doesn't exist to this day, ID-5 is Aether, ID-6 is Lisa and then ID-7 is Lumine. There's currently 110 IDs, with there being a ton of empty spots prior to Mona (ID 41), however only 1 gap since then which is ID 109 (theorised to be Ifa).
Aquaria was initially thought to be the beta's version of Razor or Albedo, however after much digging by the likes of people like Ubatcha and Lumie, it was found out that it was actually the initial version of Xingqiu (as far as I remember).
A lot of the other testing stuff is still in the game today and in fact, probably used in the Dev environment to test animation sets and make sure the models work in the world.
Kate's skirt just having a mind of its own is wayyyy too funny than it should be.
0:50 damn they probably were just waiting for dendro to release
yeah probably lol
that's how it is with big games. Things are planned often a year+ before it gets released. Most likely they are already working on snezhnaya now, and possibly even further as well
and year of the rabbit
@@oh-noeTbh I think they already finished everything until the very end of the game. They're just releasing it periodically to preserve the hype and also for the gacha system to prolonge.
pokemon treatment
27:54 Me when it’s almost midnight and I remember I had a PowerPoint work to do:
💀💀💀
I think the aim skill at 9:03 would be really cool for a four star character! They could throw their spear like a javelin!!!
Candace and Thoma kinda do that in their normal attacks
Natlan characters could be good with a mechanic like that, with them being tribal and hunting and stuff.
orisa
polearm Ifa Jumpscare
@@CalmestRaccoonOh honey you were so wrong about them being primitive 😭😭
Razor: electro vision, cryo charged attack, possibly dendro skill when it released, pyro explosion from the skill, and hydro burst.
Mr international
Step aside Childe, this is the real Mr worldwide
13:25 i think what these 4 things are test for the weapon that stays/float behind the character's back cuz the direct translation of the name is back weapon test (a/b/c/d) so they're prob testing the placement/sound/duration of it
(im a chinese so i kinda understand what it says)
17:20 thats a whole ass pigeon
WE EATIN GUD TONITE
@@jmeow1598 Timmie's pigeons will never be safe, even in beta tests
@@1_DMAY LMAO
LMAOO
2:45 Xiangling was meant to be the Polearm Archon from the beginning I see
OPPA ICANT
@@yoisakikanade_Oppa? 😭
@@yoisakikanade_i know what you are.
This feels like watching an archeology documentary.
bro give us a tour of the maze that was around u frfr
from a top view it kinda looks like the city of mondstat without the stairs. i wanna guess that this is where the fountain is?
ruclips.net/video/F8O4Z7D5OkI/видео.html
Pretty sure the skill at 16:22 got put into Geo traveler's burst. Repels enemies and has that ground punch.
Aether has the punch, Lumine has the stomp.
3:38 Tighnari
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no wonder it looked so familliar
@@Chiski_Kanacheshkato be honest its more of diona skills
Way More Ganyu I Think?
Tighnari plus sigewinne? Dang they had sigewinne long time before released
aw i actually like that artifact pose animation way better
you mean the lack of the poses? they just stand there like 🧍
@@MaliUrum no no, i mean for the more finished/developed characters they actually fold their hands instead of the 🙏 pose, and i just think that looks better
@@jelloeeeee I remembered reading somewhere (an official interview in a magazine with devs) that changing artifacts was akin to praying to the stars for blessings. That's why you can't change your artifacts in the middle of a fight (besides being a game mechanic).
Real but i also like the special prayer pose for artifacts…
same tbh
27:52 her eyes wtf💀🙏
She must have seen some Weird stuff in MiHoyo💀
She knew too much and was expunged 😭
👁️👁️
she saw things
Theyre literally sticking out 😂
i like to see unfinished and hidden projects of games, it's really interesting and fun especially when there are bugs/glitches!! is that just me?😅
Xangling being an electro from mondstadt
It is later shown that she has an actual model with her actual name written in Chinese. She has the whole pyro thing with cons buttons
15:52 not the “goofy ahh aether”
LMAOOO
Built like Punch or whatever from sonic the hedgehog 😭
"Unfinished Beidou isn't real, she can't hurt you"
Unfinished Beidou: 12:20
But honestly, made me think how cool it would be if she was a one-legged pirate. A physically disabled character would be cool to see.
Qiqi is physically disabled iirc! But you'd have to read a bit of her lore
disabled characters aren't allowed in China. I'm sure the ccp would like to euthanize all disabled people if they could.
@@candace219 i think shes just a zombie, not physically disabled
Qiqi, Baizhu, Collei…
more physically, which means a visible one such as a missing eye or leg, or a prosthetic
I feel like Razor being a bow user makes sense.
Not really, he wouldn’t have places to buy arrows from as he was a social outcast and didn’t have much contact with humans
@@white_tulip2189 he could just use wood and stone/ make it himself that’s why I said it made sense lol but I understand what you mean.
YOU COULD AIM WITH A SPEAR??? HOW COOL IS THAT
An electro vision on his back, a hydro bubble elemental burst, a pyro explosion in his skill, and still a cryo vision in his character menu. Razor was really exploring his elements huh
Ayaka sitting on the floor with jean’s skill is sending me. I wish her skill did that twirl she does in the burst though.
11:08 it’s because the actual translation of the name is claymore girl instead of big sword girl, as 大剑means claymore!
this shit looks very scary
"God left me unfinished.."
-Beidou
8:21 i think its albedo kit because of the aiming mode for skill and the 3 constructs that disappear immediately
It's definitely Jean
It's jean, albedo doesn't kneel
Its jean
The animations are jeans, but that’s probably as a placeholder.
@@DANA-so3krwhy r yall saying its jean?? its a placeholder that uses ONE of jeans animations, uses a POLEARM and is PYRO
+ jean already WAS released as a character in cbt1
i strongly think its albedo’s kit.
1:37 the abience theme sounds so chill 💨❄🧊 😌
A male electro bow user that jumps back and leaves some kind of explosive. Prototype Sethos!
The burst is more reminiscent of seggewinne tho with the water bursts.
The way they just slap stuff together to test it is hilarious.
11:48 new genshin creepypasta unlocked : cbt1 beidou
17:13 columbina leaks look sick
27:50 when i wake up at 9AM
And remember my exams were supposed to start at 8:30AM
Who is this char what do u think?
@@zorg6020her name is Kate Kaslana, she was cut out of the game when they re-write the story
Nightmare Bedio can’t hurt you! She ain’t real!
Nightmare Beido under my bed at 3 am: 11:57
the way yao yao was already there before release is crazy
Neat seeing all the weird testing stuff and how they reused assets to get a feel for what theyre going for, even with the weird animations and other incomplete stuff you're able to tell of what most these assets ended up becoming.
Kate looks futuristic because the early concept of Genshin was for it to be honkai 4. the premise still stays similar tho. Traveler arriving to teyvat from another world. It's still there in a way. It gets even more fascinating once HSR and fontaine 4.2 released. Basically giving us an idea of what the world outside of the small teyvat planet might look like.
Well, anyone looking to make a Genshin horror game idea, just have it be "Kate.exe"
My name is Kate so I’d love that 😭
beidou's unfinished model out here looking like a shade from nier replicant
4:02 Akuilia(Razor with a bow named 阿葵利亚) is still appearing in the current version of Genshin Impact(Although he appears in 4.5).
8:30 this is ayaka's beta skill animation, it was the same on the future cbts but the animation became shorter on ayaka's release because it was too long
2:28 i think this character is Rosaria ( because of the attack anims. )
It’s very similar, but I used to be a Rosaria main and it is not. It’s Jean, just with a spear and weird voice.
@@f1zzzzz0oo ohhh okay then
@@f1zzzzz0oo The voice is Diluc's 😭
@@naxzed_it 😭
Its diluc atk slash (the yellow one), with jean atk animation, using polearm (okay kinda confusing 😂😂)
unfinished Beidou is truly smth
I like this, I feel like we are in the developer's perspective. As a programming student, I can absolutely look at the bugs, character templating with existing ones, experimenting with the options like Razor with a bow & Jean with a spear, placeholder models, the naming convention 😂, lack of skills, decent voice, no weird feelings about it, in fact this is relateable in some degree, I mean its part of the process from which the users does not see
8:13 The only thing i can think of is geo female traveler ( e-skill for aiming the rocks maybe? and ult for the crystals appearing )
that’s jeans e if you wanted to know=)
some of them are not exactly "unfinished", but can be corrupt by some files already was replaced with current things in game.
I have seen horrors beyond human comprehension in this video
Razor is really complete and mindblowing in skills and weapon.
The first traveler design looks like Furina.
Xiangling electro and Jean with lance. Fascinating.
oh wow that klee burst would've been crazy if they kept it
Looks like Ruin Hunter burst
Black and white Lumine can't hurt you.
Black and white Lumine: 18:52
Im scared
Razor really should have been a bow user. And Yaoyao has been with us all along. Damn
The real Genshin is the Impact we made along the way.
I agree. Bow is more matching for him, way better than claymore.
2:39 The voice is male but what comes out is Xiangling and the game play is Jean 😂
why were the sounds so crunchy and bubbly lmao i love it tho
jean w a polearm kinda ate ngl she suits it
Kate and her numerous glitchy models freak me out for some reason. Why is she always walking. Why was she never added and just relegated to a testing dummy
Because she's from a different stage in development where the game had an entirely different concept and vision. Kate was created for that vision (as she is the first character created for Genshin), but they decided to abandon it for the one we have now. Since they had the model made, no reason in trashing it when they can just use it for testing purposes
@@Odyssey__ I know but it just creeps me out. It's a very "I was only created to be a prototype?" type of story like how it made wanderer into who he is
REAL, IT FEELS SO EERIE AND CREEPY TO WATCH, LIKE IM WATCHING SOMETHING I WAS NEVER MEANT TO SEE. 😭😭
@@Odyssey__as true as that is, it would not surprise me if Genshin still reused her into a new character in some way, especially since we are now starting to branch out in Genshin that Teyvat isn't alone
12:28 LMAO THIS REMINDS ME OF ROBLOX AVATARS😭
You Mean Korblox?
i love looking at things like this, getting insight to the design and ev process
3:09 the head twitch gave me goosebumps LMAO
25:00 if i think about it, a month ago my cousins ripped my ipad out of my hands and when i went to see the genshin tab i had something similiar,i had a 0/0 hp bar, 0 lvl, a freezing icon on the right, a sword icon and the mining icon, and the burst was a white square,but my character icon was aether when i had chosen lumine,a weird experience indeed because i was fighting electro hypostasis and it was in the original released game!
7:47 that pose actually looks so much better on her than the actual one
Yao Yao was in cbt? I had no idea
4:06 ice razor with amber and hydro mc animations...
With venti C1(3 arrows), skill and burst icons
The huge breasts of the adult female base model reminded me of what was Rosaria's original chest model that debuted in the Dragonspine update.
is that all you took from this video
@@cuddIepupavg male genshin player
@@cuddIepup the only thing that matters
@@cuddIepup yes! Now the Rosaria 'nerf' made sense, it was borrowing a lot from the default model which was clearly out of proportion.
@@4kinyaa Yes, it says that he play gacha games for the proper reason.
The red version of Kate's outfit is gorgeous I want that
I hope not with the sentient skirt included.
As a past-Razor main, I find it very interesting to see Razor using a bow. I'm used to him using a Claymore...
So jean not only was supposed to have a different neck piece that still wasn't changed in the official game but also a back tattoo? Interesting
0:49 this yaoyao surprised me in a good way
Why is character selection menu theme so ethereal
I honestly love the artifact / prayer animation so much
8:22 that one made me laugh)
Kate model is the same one of a very old mihoyo game
what very old mihoyo game?
@@lotiis is one of their 2d era, don't know the game name exacly, but you will see Kate with a black armor and very chibi style if you search.
@@mauli00098i think its gun girls z
@@sqwurrxyeah , but I think it’s now only available to China
@@mauli00098 Do you mean legend of saha?
I find it really interesting that they used old animations that were originally from different characters.
Beidou's skill is like ayaka's last normal attack or ayato's charged attack, the ayaka model burst was supposedly the beta skill (I think), 10:50 is just ayaka but lady_claymore with jean animations, 16:20 mc wind vortex is like the geo mc skill,
Why did this suddenly blew up
BRO WE GOT HYDRO AND ELECTRO TRAVELER BEFORE MONSDADT
13:29 the name 😭😭😭
rice cake
PutA😭😭😭
Mori
Now it got me curious how they got that translation because what was written in Chinese is "back weapon test A"
putA bro IM LAUGHING SO MUCH
Bow Razor's attacks look like a mix of Venti and Tighnari
WAIT AND A BARON BUNNY EXPLOSION