Zenless Zone Zero is going through some changes. After a successful launch and a few good characters, Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse's latest game, a gorgeously animated urban action RPG with a decidedly more mature veneer than the likes of Genshin or Honkai, is approaching update 1.4. The patch is due later this month, and along with new playable Agents and hotly requested features like the option to walk around with more of those Agents, it's packing a foundational change to a core and controversial element: TV mode.
TV mode has become everyone's way to refer to the minigame that comes up during and between many combat and story sections in ZZZ, even catching on among the devs themselves. A maze of lo-fi TV screens appears and you navigate around it, collecting items for your run and solving light puzzles. To many players, TV mode is less fun than proper combat. Enough players complained about getting bogged down by this minigame that HoYo is actively dialing back the prevalence of TV mode in many sections, most notably story content. This has been an ongoing process, but update 1.4 represents an especially big jump away, though it's not disappearing entirely.
