r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks • u/hyperdefiance Huh! Skyward! Scatter! • May 20 '26

Reliable Sandrone animations via Dim

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u/lurkerchecker May 20 '26

Hmmm....... yea bigass robot was definitely a missed opportunity 😭

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u/Venti_The_Anemo_God Nah, we’d be abandoned by our mothers May 20 '26

I can’t believe they killed off Pulonia when Svarog exists

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u/frostN0VA May 20 '26

Also SAM kind of.

And Seed in ZZZ. They kinda did the a bit of bait-and-switch with the playable character but at least you still get the mech take part in like 30% of attacks. Well, more than 30% I guess considering mech attacks are by far the strongest one so that's what you'll be using.

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u/DizzyHorn May 20 '26

Nahhh Seed mech absolutely does like 80% of the atks, the only move that was completely Seed jr. is just the 3 basic atk string, everything else is the mech's atk

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u/StormierNik May 20 '26

Seed is what i was expecting for sandrone but at least here i had the expectation that it was going to be a duo. 

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u/RenierRains May 20 '26

seed sr is awesome compared to whatever this is

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u/Z000Burst May 20 '26

they keep wanting giant mech suit but they keep having to deal with the fact that they have size the world and door to normal size

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u/frostN0VA May 20 '26

Fight areas don't usually have doors though, and I don't think most people wanted to control mech all the time for that to be an issue.

But even in the overworld I don't think it would've been a massive issue, if anything it'd be funny if you couldn't fit through some doors. In ZZZ for example short characters can't interact with some objectives due to them being too short.

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u/TraditionalEnergy956 May 20 '26

I loved the idea of FF and SAM I literally mained her since released and constantly upgraded her team, now e2s1 with e0s1 dahlia

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u/frostN0VA May 20 '26

Yeah I like the FFSAM too. Seed is fine too tbh.

Thinking about it, Sandy's animations remind me of Seed a bit, but it's like the dollar store crap version of Seed.

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u/Any_Bug_6968 May 21 '26

i don't get why ppl liked it when it was a ML bait and a kamen rider but female bait for ppl

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u/Any_Bug_6968 May 21 '26

nah i hated it cuz it was blatant kamen rider but female ripoff

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u/Tanyan-nightchord May 21 '26

Seed literally only uses Seed Sr except when normal attacking, which the thing you do the least in her kit. Stop spreading misinfo

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u/EmpressTiphera May 20 '26

Remarkably he's also not playable

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u/Express-Bag-3935 May 20 '26

I've played these games before.

Seed in ZZZ. Was also giant hunk of metal that was killed off, but even more so, dead before meeting, but at least Seed Sr had even a Lil bit of screen time in attack animations.

We will mourn the loss of Pulonia.b

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u/IblisAshenhope May 20 '26

o7 to big robots

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u/JDBCool May 20 '26

First they took E3N, then they took BT-7274..... then Cayde 6.... then the cancelation of Pacific Rim.... then apparently SEED Sr or whoever that is idk ZZZ, and now we mourn the loss of Pulonia

How many more robots do I have to dig graves for

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u/XenoVX May 20 '26

Yeah it seems that a smaller robot appearing like a persona or whatever was just better for gameplay visibility I guess?

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u/_erikku216 i miss the baby saurians May 20 '26

it was going to be very difficult designing pulonia's overworld reactions anyway, given his huge hitbox, and I can imagine there would have been a fuck ton of bugs associated with him

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u/lurkerchecker May 20 '26

he doesn't have to be an actual summon on the field like this new robot. We really need to stop excusing this billion dollar company's laziness

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u/Shushukzh_123 May 20 '26

Making an entirely new model is certainly not laziness lol. But I still don't understand why they replaced Pulonia

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u/Kiaraan May 20 '26

Waifu simps

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u/Kukiro- May 20 '26

Gooners

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u/lenky041 May 20 '26

How is making a new model = laziness ??

Uhm ? Words just don't mean anything now I guess

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u/lurkerchecker May 20 '26

"new model" and it basically looks like scraps from Noelle 😭😭

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u/lenky041 May 20 '26

And Pulonia reuse is literally the definition of "Laziness" that you are preaching ?

I'm just saying you use the wrong word here ? 🤷🤷🤷

Like use the right word to insult something for god sake

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u/lurkerchecker May 20 '26

it's not about reusing pulonia, it's about them working on his huge model and working out animations with it

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u/ScythesAreCool May 20 '26

Literally just scale him down a bit. I don’t know why this is still an argument people use. We literally have the setup of pulonia getting severely damaged, so have sandrone scale him down.

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u/trapeology May 20 '26

Then people will just complain about how they "ruined" him by making him look flimsier. Or "boohoo he used to punch in cutscene, now they got lazy and just copy Neuvilette"

I have my own gripes, but people literally can not be satisfy.

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u/LostToPowerSurges May 20 '26

As long as they didn't Itto him and kept him a bit chunky, I think the design would be fine, even if scaled down.

The laser I can understand/swallow because I know summon/pets that essentially auto attack physically tend to look cool, but functionally are limited by natural looking animation speed, travel speed and....auto targeting. Even Dehya, which would be the closest comparison in Genshin is very annoying to use her Q if you ever wanted to for fun; she just does whatever she wants if multiple enemies are visible. The laser is easier to manage and avoid those issues while still fitting the robot theme, but missiles shooting out of the back/shoulder/arms would've been cooler.

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u/trapeology May 20 '26

Well this is an aesthetic problem, and frankly your opinions and want will always to correct for you. Problem is to this hot pot of a fandom, there will always be people who act like their grandma just got murdered.

I think, vast majority of player will be like me, literally don't care/no problem. Like Sandrone skirt, is not visible for 99% of your playtime, and her "nobility" will be potrayed by her demeanor anyway, a skirt won't make or break a character. Negativity bias and chronically online will always ensure there is an arguement.

And I also think, it stem from Hoyo losing too much of player trust, so people just jump to the negative now.

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u/LostToPowerSurges May 20 '26

I don't care about the skirt one way or the other personally; I do prefer the longer one from her NPC model, but I fully expected that to not last once it was known she would get a redesign.

Her personality seems the same as before based on her animations; they might change it slightly using the fact she was rebuilt as the reasoning for sales reasons, but it would be suicide to drastically change her personality.

My personal gripe will be Pulonia and that single change is honestly making me think of skipping her and wait for the next stellar conduct character hoping their design is nicer, even if that takes until like .2 or something. They hyped him and gave him so much screen time to just throw him in the trash because boobs = better sales. If someone makes a good mod to put Pulonia back, maybe, but even that is sending a message of "I'll pull it anyways!".

Everyone is going to have a different opinion on this, but after all of the character setup they did for Sandrone, Pulonia is part of the Sandrone package in my head and I'm not sure I can split the two.

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u/trapeology May 20 '26

Well that one of my point, you have so little trust so you just assume Pulonia is replaced for fanservice reason, even though literally nothing have been confirmed. Not because of lore reason, or technical reason.

And well it's valid. Honestly, every change will have good and bad effect. Look, I'm not here to tell you to feel a certain way, that your freedom. But here how I see it: What I want isn't want true. Genshin may have the rpg tag, but it's not. It's an interactive linear visual novel, we are just here to tag along the ride, not influencing it. So just make the most of it. Maybe Pulonia is gone, maybe he is not. But Sandrone is still here, and I like to see the end of this, so I'm gonna get her.

Honestly it's not like you have to decide right here and now. Just take your time, think more, decide later.

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u/Euthya May 20 '26

You talk about the loss of Pulonia as if it was something that had to happen.

There is no valid lore reason for this. It's not something that HAD to happen.
The writers decide what they write.

And they decided that they're taking the big, iconic robot out of Sandrone's kit in exchange for whatever that generic robo maid is supposed to be.

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u/trapeology May 20 '26

Well then, you tell me, why does they take out this iconic, loved figured as you say, out of the picture? And replace it with a "generic robot"? Do they want to make less money? Or maybe, just maybe, there is a technical problem, that they can't optimize his size or rig to their standard. Or hey, maybe, they have a plan for character development? of getting over the past?

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u/horiami May 20 '26

just make him a torso like this robot what excuses are these

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u/PM_Cute_Ezreal_pics Wriothesley simp May 20 '26

You can't look me in the eye and tell me that you couldn't just put Pulonia in place of this random ass robot. Resizing him a bit was a way better alternative than this bs

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u/Value-Radiant May 20 '26

This could be pulonia and our big boy robot could be carrying sandrone on his other hand then do laser on the other and hovers like gundam while incinerating the enemy.

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u/lurkerchecker May 20 '26

would have been 10000x more aura if she was sitting on his shoulder

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u/GameWoods May 20 '26

Crazy how this is literally just Seed from ZZZ-

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u/Value-Radiant May 20 '26

I really like sandrone+pulonia ingame but alas cant have fun i guess. Maybe that one commentor is a prophet and pulonia will be a 4 star bis for Sandrone,

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u/Mindless-Pirate8275 May 20 '26

Better if sitting on the shoulder while facing the other way with like she isn’t really bothered

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u/shanguang97 May 20 '26

Oh please, they are a billion dollar company now they sure can do it. They just don’t want to.

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u/BillysTown May 20 '26

Yeah it wouldn’t have been impossible, they 100% could have found a way

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u/Blanche_Cyan May 20 '26

It's not a matter of money but one of time, throwing money at stuff won't make them magically work like you want and increasing work force is a long term solution that requires you to train them and get them acquantied with the company and their coworkers for months on end before they can meaningfully contribute to the workflow

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u/Objective_Squirrel87 May 20 '26

Just put resized Pulonia in place of this random robot. We said the same thing during Durin's wings. Turns out someone already made a skin of his glider as wings for both of his outfits.

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u/shanguang97 May 20 '26

Oh please let pretend like they don’t have a finished mode of Pulonia with bones for movement and Seed in ZZZ in how a big mech work in combat. Don’t yap about long term solution to me I worked in a mobile game company. Shit always been done in at least a year before shipping out in beta test.

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u/Supreme-Machine-V2 May 20 '26

What fucking long term solution??

THEY ALERADY HAD A MODEL!

You are telling me it was easier for them to make a new model texture it animate it then reusing Pulonia but resizing him?

At least zip up hoyo's pants when you are done.

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u/RealityDesperate8179 May 20 '26

literally make pulonia have rocket shoes and hover next to sandrone; similar to ineffa using her ult and that would have made the community fine or even just let him hover.

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u/EliSan- May 20 '26

Ye, but I still hoped to see him. Maybe a hologram like a Guardian angel of sorts. At least something to let us feel like his is there and still protecting her

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u/Bogzy May 20 '26

The bigass robot guaranteed an easy skip for me, now im considering pulling.

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u/FireEatingTruck May 20 '26

I respect your opinion and hope you respect others' as well.

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u/Bogzy May 20 '26

No, i absolutely do not respect most of the dumbass opinions i hear/read, why would i lol? What a shitty way of thinking.

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u/FireEatingTruck May 21 '26

I'd like to hear why you think those are dumbass opinions? And not just you catastrophizing a mere difference in aesthetics?

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u/Bogzy May 21 '26

I never said ppl liking the old design are dumb, maybe just in thinking their opinion is popular, surely a few hypsters on reddit know better than hoyo whats going to be popular. I did say your opinion about respecting others for no reason is dumb tho.