[ Guide ] Genshin Impact Windtrace Overview

It’s prop hunt Windtrace season in Genshin Impact, so here’s a quick overview guide on how the event works. You know what this event is like?

Let’s get into it.

STARTING THE EVENT

You’ll need to speak to Gygax in Mondstadt. After a primer behind the history of the game, you’ll then be able to start the game.

WINDWARD ART

Prior to heading into the games, you should check out your Windward Arts. This affects the skill you obtain through the Favors, and your active skill.

HUNTERS

Choose between:

• Sensor Aura: Scout a fixed area around yourself. You will be notified if a Rebel is in the area.
• Mysterious Hunch: Briefly show the direction in which all the Rebels can be found.

Skills active only when you obtain a Favor:

• Imprisoning Curse: Randomly dispels the disguise of one Rebel and restrains them for a time. During this time, the target will be unable to leave the restraining area. 40 seconds.
• Insight: Dispels disguises of all Rebels and briefly marks their location on the minimap while showing the position of nearby Rebels with a pillar of light. Rebels cannot disguise during this time. 20 seconds.
• Hunter’s Intuition: Randomly dispels the disguise of one Rebel and marks their location on the mini map for a long time. If target is nearby, location will be marked by a pillar of light. Target cannot disguise during this time. 60 seconds.

REBELS

Choose between:

• Lay Bait: Place Bait that can take the same disguise as you in the area ahead. Hunters capturing the Bait will get their vision briefly obscured.
• Transparency: Temporarily hidden where you cannot be seen by the Hunter. Will dispel current disguise. Hunter Windward Arts can still take effect

DURING A MATCH

Matches last 3:30 if the Hunter does not manage to capture all by timer’s end.

REBEL SIDE

At the top left corner, you can choose as any character you own to control. As far as we’re aware, this is cosmetic since skills are not usable. The arrows in a circle symbol indicate you can swap to a different character or skill where relevant.

Depending on what skill the Hunter has, you’ll be marked as such.

If you are caught, you will enter the Tacit Observer mode. You will not be able to interact with anything but can still spectate until the round ends. You can’t really have a guide tell you where to hide in Windtrace, unfortunately…

HUNTER SIDE

You won’t be able to move until the preparation phase begins. You can see where the Rebels run off to perhaps narrow down y our search area faster. The rerun event completely blocks out your vision.

The Capture command has charges as you can see here, with skills having their respective cooldowns as well.

ZONES

The first run had 5 Zones:

• Small Town Guerilla War: Hay rolls, wooden crates
• Winery Confrontation Winery Clash: Wine barrels, street lamps, chairs
• Drifters in the Terrace Depths Terrace Patrol: Dead wood, scarecrows
• Ghost-Fire Stream: Wine kegs, wooden crates
• Ice-Sealed Maze: Wine kegs, wooden crates

The rerun adds:

• Central Hall Shadow-Chasers: Wooden basins, wooden barrels, lamps
• Amidst Autumn Trees: Wooden basins, vases, water tanks
• The Hidden Trials: Archery targets, wine barrels, Otogi wood boxes
• Ritou Runaround: Storage sacks, wine barrels, short stools
• Searching the Silent Woods: Old wooden boxes, old wooden barrels
• In a City of Yore Concealed: Old wooden boxes, old wooden barrels, stone lamps

The areas have a clear boundary, and will have the various props scattered about specially for the event.

That’s it for a quick overview guide for Genshin Impact‘s Windtrace event. Good luck hiding, or capturing!

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Genshin Impact

Publisher: miHoYo

Developer: miHoYo

Release Date: 2020-09-28

Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5

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