Late last month, miHoYo revealed details for the massive first major update to Genshin Impact (Free) on all platforms including iOS and Android. If you’ve not played Genshin Impact yet, it is a gorgeous magical adventure RPG with an easy contender for my soundtrack of 2020. It is also coming to Nintendo Switch at a later date. Genshin Impact 1.1 titled ‘A New Star Approaches’ has rolled out worldwide on all platforms now. This update brings four new playable characters, a new set of quests, the first seasonal event, new systems, and more. Tartaglia, Zhongli, Diona, and Xinyan are the new characters with today’s update. The new systems include City Reputation, Archive, Exploration Progress, and more. Detailed patch notes for the update are here. Details for PS5 support are here. Watch the Genshin Impact version 1.1 update trailer below:

As a compensation for maintenance, players get Primogems x 300 (50 gems per hour servers are down) and Primogems x 300 as a compensation for bug fixes. You need to have reached adventure rank 5 or above for this. Genshin Impact 1.1 also concludes the Liyue chapter of the story. More update details are here. If you’re interested in checking it out, you can download Genshin Impact on the App Store for iOS here and on Google Play for Android here for free. The PC version is available on the official website here. It is just under 12GB on PC. If you want to play across different platforms, read this. We featured Genshin Impact as our Game of the Week when it released. Have you been playing Genshin Impact regularly since release?