Genshin Impact 7.1 Opens the Underworld and Hands Players a Free Five-Star

Genshin Impact Version 7.1, A Rekviem for the Underworld, is live across iOS, Android, PC and PlayStation, continuing HoYoverse's Snezhnaya storyline while beginning the game's sixth-anniversary celebrations with considerably more generosity than the average gacha player has learned to expect. The update adds two new five-star characters, Vesna and Vodyanitsa, alongside new Archon Quest chapters, bosses and events.

More unusually, the Tabletop Troupe event allows eligible players to select a free limited five-star from Tartaglia, Nilou, Baizhu, Chiori, Clorinde and Varesa after meeting the required progression conditions. Anniversary rewards beginning September 28 add 1,600 Primogems through mail and ten Intertwined Fates through a login event. Mobile players faced an approximately 4GB pre-install download, modest by Genshin standards but still enough to make an ageing 64GB phone contemplate early retirement. Version 7.

1 matters beyond its reward pile because Genshin remains one of the defining cross-platform mobile games: an update simultaneously landing on phones and higher-end hardware without treating the mobile edition as a side project. Six years after launch, HoYoverse is still expanding the world rather than simply maintaining it. The Traveller's luggage must by now require its own extradimensional storage licence.