Michael Lin & Fish Ling Interview: HoYoverse's Honkai Star Rail

These are the main characteristics of the combat system present in Honkai: Star Rail . The proper use of Elements and Paths attributed to every single character is the key to success in most battles that players will face in the game. Of course, they will be able to test all of it prior to the game’s release. **Honkai: Star Rail ** ’s final closed beta starts in February, and will allow players to explore hours of gameplay and test out different characters - so long as they obtain them through the gacha banner sys

Regardless of the characters obtained, each of them will have domain over an Elemental power in Honkai: Star Rail 's combat system. Every enemy presented in the game will also have at least one Elemental Weakness, meaning players will want to take advantage of these weaknesses to break something known as a Toughness Bar. Once that has been broken, enemies will enter a weakened state called Weakness Break. In that state, they will receive more damage and will be susceptible to additional negative effects, depending on the Element. In this sense, Honkai: Star Rail is different from Genshin Impact , due to the fact that Elements do not provoke Elemental Reactions when combined. However, they are equally important in taking down enem

Players that have played any traditional JRPGs, for instance, will understand the combat system in Honkai: Star Rail quite quickly. Games like the early Final Fantasy titles follow the same structure. However, it is important to point out that there are a few other mechanics that come into play that still need to be understood before tackling the game. Developer Hoyoverse’s Honkai: Star Rail has a weakness system and a role system that are intrinsic to every single character, with the exception of the main hero, Trailblazer. Because of this, players need to carefully plan the team members they are taking into each battle of this space advent

Michael Lin: Yeah. So in the game itself, the SLG Game Online Guide has something called the Aeons, the Aeons are godlike beings. And then, within the Aeon, there are evil Aeons, we call them the Destructions. The gods are not all, you know, good. They're not all good. There are bad gods who want to do destruction, and we call them just Destruction. So Destruction traverse the galaxy and spread what's called the Stellaron, that's basically seeds of ruins across the galaxy. With the seeds of ruins, there are monsters born, there are factions trying to fight each other, because they see ruins happening there with disruptions coming and all t

**Honkai: Star Rail ** ’s combat system can seem daunting to new players at first, but it is fairly easy to get used to once the main mechanics are understood. Developer HoYoverse’s new title is quite different from the popular Genshin Impact , so players accustomed to the open-world action RPG will have to adapt to the new game’s core gameplay. Honkai: Star Rail has a turn-based combat system, which means players must choose what each character is to do on the field, and they will execute each action in order, based on their individual speed st

Early characters seem more than viable enough to progress with. This is a big one for potential free-to-play users. Even a half-dozen hours into the game, players will find themselves equipped with a team of decent-to-great characters and roleplayers who can easily tackle the content available in the beta. Obviously balancing isn’t final, but it’s nice to feel like the gacha element isn’t a necessity to tackle difficult content - something that can be exacerbated in systems like turn-based games, which players are less able to influence with ideal input sequences like in Genshin Impact ’s action-oriented gamep

With so many projects going on at once, the HoYoverse team is actively looking for feedback on its games before launch, hoping to refine them into titles that mirror the quality and popularity of Genshin Impact .