I KNEW you could turn off the special effects, what I DID NOT know is which were the special effects because honestly I didnt see any differences until this video pointed them
In cASe sOmEonE diDNT knOw…brother you said 98% of players don’t know (even tho there’s a literal tutorial on it at the beginning of the game) cringe content 💀
HEY WAIT IS THIS THE REASON WHY KOLEDA'S HAIR TURN RED FOR ME WHEN I USE EMPOWERED ATTACKS!? i had her W-weapon LMAO I just realized the reason why it happens.
Was looking for the change and could never see it lol. Feel like they coulda gone for something more significant like a shader change on the whole body or aura like effects.
Kind of, it doesn't say what exactly is changing about them, just that there's a change. I pretty much exclusively had played with characters that had their signature W Engine so I wasn't sure what it was either lol
@@Just-An-Average-Guy Yes, to this day I still dont understand why they didnt do that with characters in Genshin, HI3rd also has a few battlesuits that dont have a "signature" weapon, but those are only the really old ones, so every character also has a signature there aswell Meanwhile over half of the characters in Genshin have no personal / signature weapon, instead just unrelated weapons that just fit their stats
@@3xclusive_Z12 as long as i remember, a lot of "signatures" (the cones in which the character appears mainly in the picture) in hsr are worse on their characters than other cones, especially the 4 star ones
@@derpdudtennoherelol4053I’m pretty sure Genshin does let every character have their signature weapon. It’s what the weapon banner is for. Unless you mean the equipment
@@TheLovedUnbound Last time i played genshin the only signature difference is only on The Knave, other than that its just glowing weapons when procs. on HSR other hand...
@@derpdudtennoherelol4053 it may not be the only one but in this case it is a Genshin reference since only Archon's hair tips glow and its also from the same company
@@pranktoreapNichole and ben are both free characters, but their signatures may not be the same thing but still, Nicholes and ben's are both noticeable, that's stupid to say 'its because she's free' so by that logic anything thats free doesn't deserve to be cool okay, then don't download a single free thing in your life
@@SpikeTheWolf The exclaimation mark at the bottom of the W-Engine when looking at it with View will indicate a character if it's their Signature. Also if you have the character's signature, there will be a switch on the W-Engine screen below where the W-Engine would "slot in". If you can see red there, you have their signature.
@@SpikeTheWolfyou can also generally tell by the appearance, effect synergy, and there's usually info on the upgrade screen that implies who it belongs to. Also, if you equip it on the respective character, there will be a stamp on the bottom right of the info panel reading "Exclusive Special W-Engine".
I rly dont know why hoyo went through this effort if nearly all the effects are impossible to see without slowing down to 0.1x with a side by side comparison lol They should all be crazy like Corins, especially if you can turn it on and off
I was looking for exactly what the special effect of signature weapons are, you should do it for all the characters. Most of them are barely noticeable , with Ben and Soukaku you almost never look at them from the front while you're fighting so its hard to see tbh
I don't get why they'd make a skin system, tied to specific weapons, but have the effect so weak that you can barely notice it, and is only visible while you're probably distracted with the combat...
It's probably so you won't feel as gimped when using an arguably better W-Engine in the future for your older characters. Future banner units might have more apparent differences to attract more Engine banner pulls.
In case anyone wants to say Billy doesn't have one. His is the starlight engine replica, not to be confused with the starlight engine. Idk why they did that, it's just a little confusing
@@Ivy64_ they should've named it "pseudo starlight engine" or something to imply it was a fake since that's the lore on it. and then billy modifying it into the starlight engine replica
The game tells you that signature weapons have special effects, but I kept trying to find that in the equipment screen and I never noticed a difference in the weapon, I never knew the difference happens in combat, it's kinda cool how they took Arlecchino's weapon idea from Genshin (how only her signature weapon turns into a scythe, while other weapons just added a glow in the shape of a scythe) and made it possible for all characters
Thanks for this vid, for the characters signature weapons I do got, I was literally only noticing corins cause it was so obvious. This vid was exactly what I as looking for!
Finally, this is the video I've been waiting for and searching for a long time. Thank you so much! 😍//If possible, I would like to see All character special effects, because I really can't tell what special effects there are It's very hard to notice 😭
I have Ellen and her signature weapon and I thought it was just her ult like how archons do in Genshin but I guess not lol. For those wondering the pink streaks in her hair become a little more noticeable and glow
What doesn't help is that Anby is the one used in the tutorial, and her change is subtle, cause most wouldn't be paying attention to the lighting of her hair.
It makes sense that the agents would get a Hollow-like glow since their W-Engines are modified for exploration compared to normal toy ones. All that ether getting soaked up has to manifest somehow
I watched this video and I still didn't notice. Seriously though, I knew it existed from the in-game tutorial, but it's so minor that they may as well have not wasted time implementing it.
I’ve unlocked so many of these and see the little switch on the W-engine but for the life of me could not tell the difference so thank you for this. I think this is a genuinely cool idea that could be implemented but in the future I think the changes should be a bit more drastic bc this game is so fast paced and visual (well when you even get to battle unless it’s all tvs)
That's what I was hoping for when I got his weapon. Sadly, it's just his scar which we won't see very often since our camera will mostly be behind him.
So basically super saiyan. In the tutorial with the W-engines they said visual changes would be applied when equipping signature w-engines but it was so subtle that I couldn't even notice it and thought it was a scam
Didn't know it that what their signature was changing, only knew something changed. Now I know where Koleda's hair glow was coming from and now I wish I had her weapon
There's also an option to turn it off without changing the stats in case that you don't like this, it's the little switch below the W-engine in the equipment screen. You can do this separately for each individual character.
They really need to update the ones who have pure white hair. Maybe match thier glow color to their element so Anby could turn blue, Billy could glow gold, etc
I first realized this with Corrin, she has one of the more noticeable differences, I read the tutorial for the effect but didn't really realize what it did untill I saw Corrin's hair
The red part of Ellen's hair is glowing when she uses her signature weapon. I realised it back then but i thought i was tripping. It is actually part of the game
Ok so I found this out today: When you unlock their sig weapon, and equip the character with it, it will unlock a switch at the base of the gear wheel that allows you to both 1. Use the unlocked cosmetic permanently (even when their sig W-engine isn’t equipped they still have the effect.) And 2. Enable and disable the effect. (This is for ppl who have a better w-engine like a s-tier who want to use the cosmetic, but the w-engine there using is bad/under-leveled.) Pretty cool tbh.
it's barely noticeable in such a fast moving game :/ Hopefully at some point we get more prominent alt weapon/character re-skins to customize the agents appearance more
Since I read it in the tutorial I've been trying to find the special effects but I cannot see them even with a side by side comparison lol, thank u for explaining in text the differences.
The game does tell you about this but it's so subtle in most cases that it's really hard to notice, the only one I caught was Ben's and that's only because of the Wipeout screen tipping me off
FINALLY someone makes a video on this. It's not just signature weapons, though. Both Anby's signature and Lycaon's count for Anby. Roaring Ride, Weeping Gemini, and Rainforest Gourmet ALL count for Piper. It seems like it might let you turn it on just for HAVING that character's signature even if it's not the one that is equipped. I can use any of my A rank engines with it on Nicole but not on Lucy. I have Nicole's signature but not Lucy's. Maybe someone else can try to confirm based on what they have?
Didn’t know their hair does that, I’ve had Corin’s signature on her since i always like to have the character and their assigned weapon, and I’ve always thought that the glowing hair was because of the lighting
It's a great extra detail for sure, but low-key if i didn't see it from this video i would've just thought the hair color change was a graphical bug lol
So THAT'S why the hair of some of the characters I use was suddenly glowing, that's actually such a nice little thing, and now I at least know what the option beneath the W-Engine actually turns on/off
