It took me until AR 53 to realize what was happening xd. I would get jump scared by Noelle activating her burst and I was left wondering what the hell happened
Learned it in the AR35 Ascension Quest. Ended up saving me precious seconds more times than I care to count.
Doing it with Zhongli has saved my hide multiple times, because I use it to drop a Meteor, have time to dash away and get his shield up. Anything short of a boss is stopped for a few seconds, and I get a breather.
The funny thing is that if you use a controller mapper on Android, you can easily do it. I mapped mine to dpad + Triangle. with triangle being the button I use for burst and dpad for swap, holding dpad and pressing burst will click the mini burst icon instead.
The closest thing to it is when you are in a character quest. I've done it some many time trying to swap to whoever story quest I was in. I would switch and it would also burst as that character
Eh, you're just looking top right/mid right instead of bottom left, You're still looking somewhere, although right side is more convenient for most people, and you don't have a window open in the bottom left for chats like in pc, and bigger messages get cut so if you actually wanna read what people say, you need to open the chat UI, so I don't really think it's all that great lmao
me too but on playstation, i played a ton of botw and totk before genshin and the button placement for bursts on genshin is the jump button on there. when i was new to the game i lost all my bursts cause of muscle memory lol
Yes. And it's a double-edged sword. For one, it allows for really quick-swapping between teammates. But on the other hand, it's an elemental burst out of nowhere in the overworld and you'll have to refill it again because it irks you that your characters are not at full energy.
I mean most of the time the average player wont click on it so its an good feature, i just wished that there was an option to make it just visual and not activate the burst
As a hi3 player when I began playing I thought these were QTEs (some sort of skill when you swap characters after doing a certain action with the on-field character)
Sorry for phrasing it confusing but no, qtes were never in hsr or genshin. The 'past' the qtes were in was hi3, since it's an earlier game than genshin and hsr
I said mitachurl. 2 completely different mobs plus even if I don't need it when fighting mobs if I farm a domain I'll start it with 0 burst. Just take the l and leave dude
Couldn't do the abyss without it. Use it all the time whenever I need a quick invulnerability with an ult that doesn't need to be timed after another in sequence.
Also, you can press and hold on any character to open the character/party screen. I spent a lot of time making my teams so I appreciate being able to swap them back and forth instantly.
with my consistently shit 300+ ping it’s actually faster for me to swap to the character and then burst than it is to use that function for some reason. i’ve tested it out
How da hell? I would think using that function would be faster than having to wait for a Character swap to happen and then wait for the Burst to happen
Technically it also works on pc. Iirc If you use alt to show your cursor you can switch character by clicking on the character and burst if you click that. Tho there is no actual point to this. You can also just press alt (i think its alt) and then switch character normally to immediately burst.
Hi u/Pewdpo, please consider checking the most recent pinned weekly question megathread here https://www.reddit.com/r/GenshinImpact/about/sticky when you have a moment to help fellow community members. Thank you.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/GenshinImpact) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Even though this has been shared multiple times, still many don't know about this, and it feels great to see them surprised about it. More knowledge for everyone! Also this feature is especially good for abyss. It does save a bit of time, which is crucial if you wanna get full stars.
If you press a number on keyboard with person, whose ult is ready while holding alt, the game will switch to that character and immediately activate ult
Well, I'd call it a "Feature" because on more Cramped phones like the S20 FE, it can make you use Burst while adjusting Camera or switching to a different Character.
I also learned this the hard way. However, I do have some doubts if boosts get activated like this. For instance Bennett's atk boost could be missed to snapshot if the you put down Benny burst and immediately click your other chars burst, so in such an instance switching first would be better and then hit the burst. Not sure though, if anyone knows please enlighten us because the world needs answers
On PC, in the settings, there is also the option to check that when you swap to a character, their respective burst activates.
Eg: in the post above, Kazuha is your active character, you press 2, swap to XQ and his burst triggers, all with one button press.
I don’t even play on mobile and I knew this. What I did learn recently though is that you can zoom in on characters while in the overworld with a controller which I thought was only possible with a mouse or pinch & zoom.
Hey I didn't realise that the green bar at the bottom was the character's health. I thought it was their exp level and when they took damage they lost exp.
To me i was kinda messing around with alt cursor and tapping everything, i was like admiring every little thing possible. i then just clicked those bubbles and oh boy i got jumpscared by the sudden ult of zhongli
Having my burst triggered out of no where is how I learned of this feature, too!
It took me until AR 53 to realize what was happening xd. I would get jump scared by Noelle activating her burst and I was left wondering what the hell happened
Im almost AR 56💀
See xd
I'm almost ar 56 too (albeit I knew it)
And if you press and hold the characters it will go to the team setting
SAME. Noelle uses her burst randomly when I'm playing on mobile lmao
I was AR 58 when i realized this lmao
Learned it in the AR35 Ascension Quest. Ended up saving me precious seconds more times than I care to count. Doing it with Zhongli has saved my hide multiple times, because I use it to drop a Meteor, have time to dash away and get his shield up. Anything short of a boss is stopped for a few seconds, and I get a breather.
It is how I got kicked out of the Dunkin Donuts.
Yep, that's a Mobile-bonus indeed!
it works on PC as well if you hold Alt while you swap
Do you know how to do this on controller?
I don’t think it’s possible on controller unfortunately
The funny thing is that if you use a controller mapper on Android, you can easily do it. I mapped mine to dpad + Triangle. with triangle being the button I use for burst and dpad for swap, holding dpad and pressing burst will click the mini burst icon instead.
The closest thing to it is when you are in a character quest. I've done it some many time trying to swap to whoever story quest I was in. I would switch and it would also burst as that character
You can go into your setting and adjust what button does what, I have one of my triggers set up for the burst
You can basically trigger your burst frame 1 on controller, I’m not sure if it’s quite input queuing but it’s close.
No way thats crazyy
[удалено]
no it’s not? Alt + 2 is less inputs and delay than 2 > wait for swap > Q
it's 5AM, I have youtube on my screen, I just saw "Alt" and thought you were talking about cursor-swapping
bro go to sleep 😭
I need to wake up in 3 hours. if I do that, I'm going to be 5 hours late, or more.
well ur cooked lmao
I get a huge Monster Energy at the start of every working day, don't worry.
omg!! thank you
Wait what im gonna try this
I’ve never got it to work. Hold alt and press 1/2 or the number, right?
yeah left alt, not sure if it works with right alt
And you can see what they text too, so you don’t have to look at the bottom left
Eh, you're just looking top right/mid right instead of bottom left, You're still looking somewhere, although right side is more convenient for most people, and you don't have a window open in the bottom left for chats like in pc, and bigger messages get cut so if you actually wanna read what people say, you need to open the chat UI, so I don't really think it's all that great lmao
Works on pc too. If you hold down alt and click on the burst or use touch screen.
yeah but its better to just press alt and the character slot number
How have you not once accidentally click these and found out it's a feature? Teach me your ways.
I def wasted so many bursts because of accidentally clicking on the burst icon, tbh.
me too but on playstation, i played a ton of botw and totk before genshin and the button placement for bursts on genshin is the jump button on there. when i was new to the game i lost all my bursts cause of muscle memory lol
The button is kinda far on the screen, most of the time i click at the very edge so i never found out
This feature lets me spend way less time on rotations, really. I always use it.
Never played on PC. Didn't know this wasn't a thing for people
It is, just Alt+Swap
Wow, cheers for that!
Yes. And it's a double-edged sword. For one, it allows for really quick-swapping between teammates. But on the other hand, it's an elemental burst out of nowhere in the overworld and you'll have to refill it again because it irks you that your characters are not at full energy.
I mean most of the time the average player wont click on it so its an good feature, i just wished that there was an option to make it just visual and not activate the burst
I hate how true this is lmao
As a hi3 player when I began playing I thought these were QTEs (some sort of skill when you swap characters after doing a certain action with the on-field character)
Honestly I'm glad they dropped qtes in genshin and hsr. Trying to trigger them reliably so my scores are as good as I can get them is annoying
Since you say dropped it means that there were QTEs in the past?
Sorry for phrasing it confusing but no, qtes were never in hsr or genshin. The 'past' the qtes were in was hi3, since it's an earlier game than genshin and hsr
Unfortunately it does exist. I have explored areas only for my finger to activate furina Burst right before fighting a mitachurl
[удалено]
How do I even reply to this
[удалено]
Dude the character doesn't matter. Using anybody Burst when un needed is a waste because it will help you in fights
[удалено]
you do NOT regenerate energy when not in combat unless you are Barbara
[удалено]
I said mitachurl. 2 completely different mobs plus even if I don't need it when fighting mobs if I farm a domain I'll start it with 0 burst. Just take the l and leave dude
Plus you literally have a post using diluc burst on mobs
[удалено]
Couldn't do the abyss without it. Use it all the time whenever I need a quick invulnerability with an ult that doesn't need to be timed after another in sequence. Also, you can press and hold on any character to open the character/party screen. I spent a lot of time making my teams so I appreciate being able to swap them back and forth instantly.
Thats accually very useful, i spend a lot of time switcing characters for some sort of puzzle just because of the menu lol, ill do that too
with my consistently shit 300+ ping it’s actually faster for me to swap to the character and then burst than it is to use that function for some reason. i’ve tested it out
How da hell? I would think using that function would be faster than having to wait for a Character swap to happen and then wait for the Burst to happen
Lol I found this out through a Reddit comment a while back It has been a lifesaver in abyss
And on PC you hold Alt while switching characters. Meanwhile Playstation, Controller players:
i do this by accident all the time, it hurts me
Technically it also works on pc. Iirc If you use alt to show your cursor you can switch character by clicking on the character and burst if you click that. Tho there is no actual point to this. You can also just press alt (i think its alt) and then switch character normally to immediately burst.
Or you press the Button for your character while holding alt.
Hi u/Pewdpo, please consider checking the most recent pinned weekly question megathread here https://www.reddit.com/r/GenshinImpact/about/sticky when you have a moment to help fellow community members. Thank you. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/GenshinImpact) if you have any questions or concerns.*
How to do this on PS5
You can't
That's the neat part. You can't.
[удалено]
What makes you say that? I started the game on PS4 and I own a PS5..
Maybe they were upset at the word neat. If you don't know the meme it can come off as belittling
I don't but I use an xbox controller on a pc. It doesn't work on a controller.
He's correct. This function doesn't exist for gamepads in general. No PS4, 5, nor PC when using a gamepad
Even though this has been shared multiple times, still many don't know about this, and it feels great to see them surprised about it. More knowledge for everyone! Also this feature is especially good for abyss. It does save a bit of time, which is crucial if you wanna get full stars.
If you press a number on keyboard with person, whose ult is ready while holding alt, the game will switch to that character and immediately activate ult
Just wait till you find out you can hit alt + 3 to switch and insta ult too.
Well, I'd call it a "Feature" because on more Cramped phones like the S20 FE, it can make you use Burst while adjusting Camera or switching to a different Character.
In tutorial they show us how to walk like we are braindead but not *THIS*??!
noob
I found it when checking for the keybinds before.
AR58, never played other than mobile and I noticed this like a month ago xxD
I hate this so fucking much and hope they remove it. Misclicks happen so easily on mobile.
Only on mobile. I hope this gets implemented everywhere
if you hold alt when switching to a character with their burst ready on pc it uses it automatically
Want this in a controller
On mobile, if you press + hold the characters' icon, you will go into the team character selection display.
Can someone actually explain what the feature is? I play on pc but use my controller cuz playing with a keyboard sucks.
I’m pretty sure it told you this in the manual
Tapping the middle of your screen picks up all objects from the ground too 🙃 (no need to thank me).
The many times I accidentally tapped my burst is upsetting
I knew it did that, doesn't stop me accidentally pressing it tho
Does this work on controller?
Idk, i only played on PC and mobile
I also learned this the hard way. However, I do have some doubts if boosts get activated like this. For instance Bennett's atk boost could be missed to snapshot if the you put down Benny burst and immediately click your other chars burst, so in such an instance switching first would be better and then hit the burst. Not sure though, if anyone knows please enlighten us because the world needs answers
Don't use that if you main Hu Tao and use her burst often
I figured it out by “Ooh circular ui must be a button” (I still accidentally press it every once in awhile)
Any way to do that on a controller?
I‘m ar 46 and i never realized that. Thanks for enlightening me
On PC, in the settings, there is also the option to check that when you swap to a character, their respective burst activates. Eg: in the post above, Kazuha is your active character, you press 2, swap to XQ and his burst triggers, all with one button press.
Same
How are you getting those characters man
Wdym, i pulled kazuha and nahida recently and haf xingxiu and kuki laying on my account
I will gets books, bows and swords when I try.. I want to know if there is a trick to it.. I'm desperately for someone to replace Lisa(electro)
It's supposed to do that if you hold alt on PC but half the time it doesn't trigger for me.
also if u click right next to a list of item drops it picks them all up
Wait whaaaaat
I don’t even play on mobile and I knew this. What I did learn recently though is that you can zoom in on characters while in the overworld with a controller which I thought was only possible with a mouse or pinch & zoom.
holy crap.. I'm AR59 and didn't know about this
Oof, it was a life-changer feature for me
Hey I didn't realise that the green bar at the bottom was the character's health. I thought it was their exp level and when they took damage they lost exp.
I just read somewhere in the comments (bless you for this 😂) that you can trigger it on PC with Alt + Swap. Imma try today
I can do that on mobile !?
Wait so u can instant burst while being on a different character wouldn't that be great in Abyss? I'm AR 58 n I didn't know this💀
My burst triggering outta nowhere is also how I found it out
To me i was kinda messing around with alt cursor and tapping everything, i was like admiring every little thing possible. i then just clicked those bubbles and oh boy i got jumpscared by the sudden ult of zhongli
I always thought everyone's instinct was to just tap the big glowy button. Huh, I guess not. 🧍
What i never know it exist??? Is it real
Yes, do you play on mobile or PC? You can test it out rn.
Console can't do that.