If a release date for Genshin Impact’s next update isn’t enough, miHoYo has also announced a date for Honkai: Star Rail’s next Special Program. It will focus on Version 1.6, “Crown of the Mundane and Divine”, and air on December 15th at 3:30 AM PST.
22.11.2023 - 15:29 / destructoid.com / Honkai
Check any HoYoverse social media thread, and I guarantee you’ll find a microcosm of netizens communicating in the infinite languages of online slang, memes, and pop culture references. Those conversations are often some painful mixture of absurdly awkward, endearing, or aggressive, and the writing in Honkai: Star Rail’s latest event perfectly captures that spirit.
The flagship event for Honkai: Star Rail Version 1.5, A Foxian Tale of the Haunted, follows a streamer named Guinaifen, who investigates ghost sighting claims. You and a few other characters work together to put these rumors to rest and grow Guinaifen’s social media presence. It’s a lesson in ghost-hunting and clout-chasing, basically.
The event has you join a paranormal activity forum where people post about various supernatural events around the Luofu. These forum posts become leads to investigate, starting a short quest for each one. When finishing an investigation, you make a forum post of your own to share your findings and put the public at ease.
Every post on the forum garners comments from various netizens. The comments range from thoughtful discussion to, well, this.
There’s even someone barking. What’s extra fun is that Honkai: Star Rail has a race of fox-people called Foxians. Maybe the barking is real? Is it possible that Foxians in Honkai: Star Rail actually do bark at each other to express thirst?
Of course, there are also people using the posts to get attention for themselves. There’s one guy begging Guinaifen to reply to their DMs. Even Guinaifen’s brother uses her posts to try to get more followers himself. Or maybe he’s not even her brother, just someone fishing for followers.
There’s also a nod to the rise of generative AI to churn out low-effort content, with one commenter accusing us of using a similar tool to create our posts.
We even have haters and white knights. Someone makes a post criticizing our content, and people come to our defense in the comments. The top comment has been removed by a moderator, and another has been censored for profanity. Yikes.
Aside from the painfully accurate internet “discourse,” I actually like the event as a whole. I haven’t played Honkai: Star Rail in earnest for some time, and this is the event that got me to download it again. There’s a new event story with unique dungeon puzzles, the featured characters have some fun dialogue, and the cutscenes are great. The combat portions of the event have unique mechanics that are actually fun to play around. You get a light cone as part of the event rewards, and unlike Genshin Impact, it appears you’ll be able to partake in the event storyline even after the event concludes.
I’m impressed at how much effort was put into creating an immersive
If a release date for Genshin Impact’s next update isn’t enough, miHoYo has also announced a date for Honkai: Star Rail’s next Special Program. It will focus on Version 1.6, “Crown of the Mundane and Divine”, and air on December 15th at 3:30 AM PST.
Being able to utilize the best team comps and builds for Hanya in is recommended, as this can unlock the character’s potential as a support unit in parties. Hanya is known for being a judge of the Ten-Lords Commission of the Xianzhou Alliance – she is also the sister of Xueyi, another judge for the Commission. Hanya is one of the characters added with 1.5, along with Argenti and Huohuo. Contrary to the other two, however, she is a 4-star unit. Hanya uses Physical DMG in battle and follows the Path of the Harmony.
HoYoverse’s gacha turn-based gacha RPG Honkai: Star Rail will introduce a new character named Argenti in the second phase of version 1.5.
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A healer and battery in one.
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As someone jealously eyeing Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail’s food collaborations with other countries, I’m pleased to report that the United States is finally getting some love. Honkai: Star Rail is collaborating with Pelicana Chicken in a new event, and I’m coming hungry.