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Genshin Impact 5.1 will bring Spiral Abyss skip feature and big crafting optimizations

Honkai: Star Rail once again sends its regards

Marco Wutz

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HoYoverse has not only announced the Genshin Impact 5.1 livestream start times, but already revealed a few of the feature additions and optimizations we can expect to benefit from in the upcoming version of the open-world RPG. Inspired by fellow HoYoverse title Honkai: Star Rail, Genshin Impact 5.1 will include a change to the Spiral Abyss endgame mode that allows users to skip some of the floors if they previously cleared the mode up to a certain milestone.

Clearing Floor 12 while getting all stars allows you to directly start from Floor 11 during the next rotation and claim the rewards for Floors 9 and 10 without having to challenge them. Likewise, clearing Floor 11 with all stars allows you to start from Floor 10 and claim Floor 9’s rewards.

Players will get access to this feature starting on October 16, 2024, with the next Lunar Phase.

In addition, you’ll be able to open multiple Artifact Chests at the same time.

Speaking of quality-of-life improvements, update 5.1 has an immense one for crafting in store. You will have access to a new function called the Enhancement Progression Calculator at the Crafting Bench, which allows you to select a character and then displays all the materials you need to level up themselves, their Talents, and their weapon, allowing you to craft the required amount of the materials right then and there. That’s right: No more frantic switching between different screens and forgetting what exactly that material was you needed.

Finally, the developers announced that update 5.1 will bring additional time-limited exploration rewards to the game – a change that will influence future versions as well. Whenever a new region is added to the map, time-limited exploration rewards associated with it will be added. These will be available for two versions, so a total span of three months.

Such exploration rewards will be retroactively added for the new areas of version 5.0 as well, meaning you can probably claim a few Primogems directly if you’ve been busy discovering the secrets of Natlan.

Genshin Impact 5.1 is set to be released in early October 2024.

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Marco Wutz
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

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