The massive Honkai: Star Rail model 3.4 livestream passed off earlier in the present day, proper on schedule. As with each main new iteration of the extremely well-liked HoYoverse recreation, the primary factor folks have been trying ahead to has been, in fact, the brand new characters. The livestream did, certainly, showcase the brand new characters that shall be arriving within the free-to-play RPG quickly.

The massive information from this system is, in fact, the upcoming 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 obtained its long-overdue official English localisation and fashionable 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 nearly over.

New characters launched in Model 3.4 will embrace Destiny collection 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 shall be claimable without spending a dime 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 top of Model 3.6 (anticipated circa November of this 12 months).

Moreover, Phainon — who’s been a significant 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 standard banner cycle, all three new characters shall be releasing in Part 1.

Not solely that, however the model will function a grand complete of six rerun banners, with Tribbie, Sunday, and Sparkle making a limited-time return to the gacha in Part 1, whereas Firefly, Jingliu, and Blade all return throughout Part 2. Which means the latter half of this replace shall 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 different outfit for Firefly. Jingliu will 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 part anticipated on July twenty third. You’ll be able to watch the entire particular program livestream on the VOD beneath:

Again in Could, 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 part. The banner’s second part, then again, kicked off simply final week and introduced new character – Cipher – to the sport, alongside a number 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 collaborating within the motion — which incorporates two different predominant characters, Dan Heng and Himeko — stay unclear.