HoYoverse shared extensive details about Honkai: Star Rail during the Gaming at Apple Dev Showcase about the game's story and combat. The turn-based sci-fi game is inspired by Eastern fantasy, which lends itself to the title's overall silkpunk aesthetic. Honkai centers around Aeons, which are godlike beings inhabiting the SLG Game Tips's universe. Among them are evil Aeons called Destructions who travel throughout space to spread Stellaron, which were described as " seeds of rui
Players will travel the galaxy on the Astral Express, taking on enemies with Honkai: Star Rail 's turn-based combat as they work to uncover the mysteries of the Stellaron after being injected with one. Smaller fights have the option of auto-battling while boss battles do not, and victory will require the utilization of each team member's different elemental moves. As players explore the map, they'll also solve puzzles and gather materials to upgrade their character. The build featured at the Apple Showcase was centered on exploring the Xianzhou Luofu, a battleship for the Xianzhou Allia
Michael Lin: Sure. So the game is a space fantasy RPG. So a bunch of the development, consisting of 500 people for the game itself, are big fans of sci-fi, and are big fans of turn-based RPGs. And we felt that the turn-based combat system is something we have not done before in the company yet, in all our previous games. It's still a viable genre to base the game on, and we felt that it's something that we would really like to give it a try, and our players are really feeling for it, and that's why we developed something like t
Character designs are gorgeous. Unsurprisingly, HoYoverse has already managed to stock Honkai Star Rail with a roster of equally appealing, well-designed heroes that will tax players’ willpower and wallets, if they’re so incli
The Simulated Universe is a complete gamechanger. The roguelike dungeon element of Honkai Star Rail was the first thing I really took to early on, and it’s remained fun since then. It’s the kind of thing each gacha game in 2022 and onward needs - an excuse to test multiple teams (moreso than something like the Spiral Abyss, even) and more reason to potentially look into expanding a roster. Plus, roguelikes are just fun. It’s not rocket science, though the in-game character behind the Simulated Universe would likely be extremely upset by that assert
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
Honkai Star Rail Team: We really appreciate all the attention to Honkai: Star Rail and Genshin Impact. We’re still adjusting the core gameplay at this stage, so it's a bit too early to discuss crossovers. We will share with you once we have more concrete pl
The Star Rail is the perfect vehicle for staggered content releases. Even more than Genshin Impact ’s ever-expanding map, Honkai Star Rail ’s gradually growing world(s) are traversable on a space ship - which means wildly different biomes, easy isolation of story beats, and an excuse for why people aren’t familiar with the Trailblazer when they turn up in an area after having defeated an ancient e
While a few of the Elements in Honkai: Star Rail ’s combat system merely deal damage over time to opponents, a few others can affect how the enemies behave on the field. When dealing Quantum or Imaginary damage to an opponent in the Weakness Break state, their actions will be delayed, meaning characters owned by the player have a better chance at striking first. This is extremely advantageous in any turn-based game, and Honkai: Star Rail is not an exception.