Genshin Impact’s Fontaine looks magnificent in new trailer

Victorian London meets an alpine ocean paradise

Marco Wutz | Jun 23, 2023

Genshin Impact’s Fontaine looks magnificent in new trailer /

Genshin Impact’s latest livestream showcased the upcoming character banners and events for update 3.8, but ended with a magnificent teaser for what’s going to follow after this next version: the brand-new region of Fontaine, which is set to be released in August 2023 with patch 4.0.

We already knew that Fontaine was technologically advanced and inspired by Victorian England and Revolutionary France, and this newest trailer confirmed all that. It seems like the Fontaine’s main city is located inside an alpine looking landscape with high mountains, but instead of green and lush valleys in-between these heights, we’ll find a deep ocean.

It had already been teased previously that we’d get to dive around in these waters, and that has now been confirmed: The Traveler gets to dive below the waves and it seems like their Hydro attunement has some useful abilities for the exploration of that underwater area. The video had the Traveler cut apart underwater plants enclosing treasure chests, for example.

Genshin Impact Fontaine city. — HoYoverse

The rich surface of Fontaine.

Genshin Impact Fontaine sewers. — HoYoverse

The dark underbelly of Fontaine.

Genshin Impact Fontaine court. — HoYoverse

This might be Fontaine's famous court.

Genshin Impact Fontaine underwater. — HoYoverse

A large part of the exploration of Fontaine seems to happen underwater.

The city of Fontaine itself seems to be cut in two, with a clean and rich surface area full of fountains and waterways, which are used by transport vehicles and colorfully dressed people as well as the occasional automaton, and a sewage-like underbelly that looks seedy and dark.

The voice-over indicates that the Traveler will run into a misunderstanding upon their arrival in Fontaine, which brings them into conflict with the authorities of the land of justice – and eventually in front of the nation's famous court, over which the Hydro Archon presides.

You can find the Fontaine trailer right at the end of the 3.8 special program.

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