Honkai: Star Rail – Version 1.3 Livestream Announced for August 18th

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Honkai Star Rail is one of the most popular gacha games out there currently, with a growing roster of characters that you can recruit for your teams. One standout feature of Honkai Star Rail (and its sister gacha game, Genshin Impact) is its pity system, which allows you to guarantee a 5-star character after a certain number of pulls. With careful planning, you can ensure you earn the 5-star character of your dreams. Fortunately, HoYoverse has provided a method that allows you to calculate what your current pity is. Here’s how to check your pity in Honkai Star Rail.

Honkai Star Rail released its latest major content update on August 29, introducing the newest playable character Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae, while also introducing a number of quality-of-life updates, such as an increased Trailblaze Power cap and changes to the Simulated Universe. However, players have noticed a lack of new concrete features in this new update, and have taken to social media to criticize the latest update and its lack of content.

Sometimes, Honkai: Star Rail will release redemption codes outside of the version update livestreams. With the start of Version 1.3 and the start of Imbibitor Lunae’s banner, HoYoverse released a celebratory redemption code for players to claim.

HoYoverse, the developer of Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, shared an update on its next game Zenless Zone Zero during Gamescom Opening Night Live – but there was no date or confirmation of consoles. The self-described urban action RPG showed off a bunch of characters and environmental art, including several arcade-style minigames you’ll presumably be able to play to pass the time.

Update: As previously announced, HoYoverse has opened sign ups for a technical test featuring the PS5 version of Honkai: Star Rail. It sounds like if you've already started on PC or mobile, cross-save will be supported, as long as your HoYoverse account is linked to your PSN. You'll also be able to continue your progress, on either PC or mobile, once the technical test ends. You can sign up by filling in the form through here.

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Technical test recruitment for the PlayStation 5 version of Honkai: Star Rail will begin today at 7:00 p.m. PT / 10:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 JST, miHoYo announced as part of Gamescom 2023: Opening Night Live.

When I saw that Honkai: Star Rail was having a special collaboration event with Sunright Tea Studio, I was intrigued. Most HoYoverse collabs in the past have been exclusive to locations in Asia, so it’s a rare occasion for one of these to happen in the United States. On top of that, there happened to be a Sunright about 15 minutes away from me, so I decided to check it out.

miHoYo has announced that Honkai: Star Rail’s next big update, Version 1.3, “Celestial Eyes Above Mortal Ruins,” will release on August 30th for PC, iOS and Android. It adds Imbibitor Lunae, a five-star Imaginary character following the Path of the Destruction, followed by Fu Xuan, the Master Diviner of the Xianzhou and a five-star Quantum character on the Path of the Preservation.

With the Honkai: Star Rail Version 1.3 Livestream this morning, HoYoverse released three more redeem codes. Like always, you can get up to 300 Stellar Jade by using all three codes. Hurry, because these codes expire on August 19, 2023, at 12:00 (UTC+8). As of publication, that’s in about 6 hours.

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