Possibility of reviving CBT1/2/3?

[SMNFXCN]

Title.
Documenting as well as being able to play pre-release versions of Genshin would be interesting.
Even if it's not a high priority would it be done someday?

[4Benj]

As far as I know, definitely not with CBT1, idk about other releases.

[4Benj]

iirc CBT1 network protocol and the way packets are sent and received are entirely different.
Note: This is not based on my research but on the research of another who shared their results in the GC discord server.

[Dasutein]

Doesn't Lumie have a private server for CBT1? I thought that was how they were able to get footage of Yaoyao in the game.

[somnisomni]

Curious about why not CBT1 specifically?

I did a small, simple-simple personal investigation about how CBT1 communicates with the server (I'm also one who want to play these early beta versions...XD). As I'm not a member of GC discord and I don't know how the one explained this, so I'm going to explain in my way:

At least, the endpoint (dispatch)/query_region_list, should return the region list data in plain JSON format for CBT1, not protobuf-encoded string or something else used in later versions.

Also in the same endpoint should not contain some properties like clientSecretKey which also can be found in later versions. (The game will throw an exception if there are some 'unknown' properties in response.)

So it will be a challenging thing to make CBT1 works with the private server, since the version requires existing server logic to be rewritten, I think.

(BTW I really looking forward for any private server gonna support CBT1 and other early test versions in sometime XD)

[FeroxAmarokk]

i know its been more than 1 year but i wanted to know if you were able to find more stuff. i would love to experience cbt1. im not knowledgeable in private servers or just servers in general but it would be amazing to play it.

[4Benj]

i know its been more than 1 year but i wanted to know if you were able to find more stuff. i would love to experience cbt1. im not knowledgeable in private servers or just servers in general but it would be amazing to play it.

cough cough soggy cough cough