Genshin Impact 3.8 will feature a new time-limited zone, a free Kaeya skin, and a Layla invite

This year’s summer event has something fresh in store

Marco Wutz | Jun 23, 2023

Genshin Impact 3.8 will feature a new time-limited zone, a free Kaeya skin, and a Layla invite /

The annual summer event in Genshin Impact is fast approaching: Update 3.8 will feature the new time-limited region of Bottleland, which will have many adventures for players in store. While the usual summer vacation destination, the Golden Apple Archipelago, will be missed, this new area looks quite fun as well: It’ll be full of exploration mechanics – like the Choo-Choo Cart, a train/roller coaster you can ride, or the 2D world of Preprint mode – and minigames to enjoy.

Naturally, there will be rewards as well: Finding Joyeux Vouchers, which are hidden all around Bottleland, will enable you to exchange them for valuable items such as a Crown of Insight. In addition, you’ll be able to trade them in for a new skin for Kaeya, who’ll get a new Hangout Event, too. Klee will get a skin as well, dressing her up as a little witch, though you’ll have to purchase this one in the in-game shop.

Participating in the activities of Bottleland will unlock an invitation for Layla, so you can add her to your roster or boost her Constellation another level.

Genshin Impact 3.8 will feature the following minigames as part of the summer event:

Spino Blaster
Dance of Flashing Thought
Sojourns of the Barking Fox
Bing-Bang Finchball

Additional events outside of Bottleland are planned as well, such as the continuation of the Adventurer Trials.

The Genshin Impact TCG, Genius Invokation, will be expanded with a new PvE mode that sees you battle it out against an endless horde of enemies as well as new character cards: Yanfei, Candace, and Kazuha join the fray.

On top of these announcements, the 3.8 livestream revealed the new version’s character banners and contained a trailer for the region of Fontaine, which is set to arrive with update 4.0 following 3.8. You should also not forget to grab those Genshin Impact codes from the stream while you can still redeem them.

Published Jun 23, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg