The large Honkai: Star Rail model 3.4 livestream came about earlier at the moment, proper on schedule. As with each main new iteration of the extremely common HoYoverse recreation, the primary factor folks have been wanting ahead to has been, after all, the brand new characters. The livestream did, certainly, exhibit the brand new characters that will likely be arriving within the free-to-play RPG quickly.
The large information from this system is, after all, the approaching arrival of the Destiny/keep night time collab occasion. A collaboration between Honkai: Star Rail and genre-defining fantasy visible novel Destiny/keep night time was first introduced in August of final 12 months, concurrently the latter acquired its long-overdue official English localisation and trendy remaster. It was obvious on the time that the Star Rail crossover was going to be within the oven for some time longer; and certainly, 10 months down the road, the wait is sort of over.
New characters launched in Model 3.4 will embrace Destiny sequence favourites Saber (as a 5-Star Wind/Destruction character who’ll be receiving her personal banner within the gacha) and Archer (a 5-Star Quantum/Hunt character who will likely be claimable free of charge by everybody who logs into HSR throughout the collaboration). Each are anticipated to be out there for longer than is common in HSR, with the collab confirmed as lasting from Model 3.4 proper by way of to the tip of Model 3.6 (anticipated circa November of this 12 months).
Moreover, Phainon — who’s been a serious NPC since Model 3.0 launched early this 12 months and was the primary new character you met on Amphoreus — will lastly be added as a playable unit, an honour already granted to a number of of his fellow Chrysos Heirs over the previous few months. He’ll even be a 5-Star character, armed with a Bodily/Destruction package. For the reason that Destiny collab characters exist exterior of the same old banner cycle, all three new characters will likely be releasing in Section 1.
Not solely that, however the model will function a grand whole of six rerun banners, with Tribbie, Sunday, and Sparkle making a limited-time return to the gacha in Section 1, whereas Firefly, Jingliu, and Blade all return throughout Section 2. Which means the latter half of this replace will likely be a uncommon event when HSR receives no new characters, however contemplating how packed that line-up already is, I do not assume it is precisely truthful to complain.
And final however not least, everybody’s favorite Stellaron Hunters are getting some love in V3.4, with enhancements coming to the battle mechanics and Eidolon results for Kafka, Silver Wolf, and Blade, in addition to a brand new various outfit for Firefly. Jingliu can even be getting a package enhancement of her personal, which hopefully does not imply this troubled Luofu loyalist is becoming a member of Elio’s morally-gray crew of mercenaries now… though truly that might be reasonably cool.
Honkai: Star Rail 3.4 is scheduled to go dwell on July 2nd, with its changeover to the second banner section anticipated on July twenty third. You’ll be able to watch the entire particular program livestream on the VOD under:
Again in Might, Honkai: Star Rail’s model 3.3 replace launched Hyacine to the sport, and introduced again The Herta for the primary time as a part of its first section. The banner’s second section, alternatively, kicked off simply final week and introduced new character – Cipher – to the sport, alongside a couple of returning favourites.
It additionally featured the controversial recasting of the English-language voice actors for the playable protagonists, the feminine and male Trailblazers (canonically named Stelle and Caelus). This adopted the actors’ participation in solidarity motion with SAG-AFTRA, who lately suspended their long-running online game voice actor strike after the association of a tentative settlement with a number of main studios. The standing of a number of different characters whose actors have been taking part within the motion — which incorporates two different principal characters, Dan Heng and Himeko — stay unclear.
