Biggest News & Reveals From The Apple Dev Showcase

At the moment, Honkai: Star Rail has 27 different characters, all of which drastically influence the game's combat system. Because of their different builds and how they operate on the field, team comps can vary considerably, and having the option to switch a few characters in and out of battle, depending on the opponent, is the most recommended. Nevertheless, obtaining them means participating in the game’s gacha system. Obtaining the desired playable character in Honkai: Star Rail can be tricky since it depends on having luck with pulls in the banners. While there is a pity system in action, players will have a limit of many pulls they get without spending mo

So this provides easier accessibility to players who have not played a turn-based combat system before but would still like to have that strategic variance with engaging combat with an enemy. I can hit the enemy, take on a defensive move, you can choose to hit multiple enemies at the same time depending on how you want to make your next move. So that will be very different from an action RPG where everything happens in real time, you're having to constantly make them. A turn-based system provides the strategic elements in the SLG game updates and are engaging and easily accessible to play

Since the launch of Apple Arcade in 2019 , subscribers have had access to over 200 games via the service across their Apple devices. There are many exciting games coming to the App Store soon alongside ports that will finally make some titles available to iOS users. A big focus of the Apple Dev Showcase was interconnectivity between devices, allowing players to access their games at home or on the go seamles

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 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

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: Yes. So we have engaging characters in the game, one of our fortes at the company is we build these characters that are very engaging and very relatable to players. My favorite character is called March 7th. March 7th. That's a character name. [Laughs] She is one of the earliest companions you would meet in the game. She's very relatable, she's very cute, as you can see from the pink hair. And as you can see from her name, she's full of mysteries. You will get to know why she's called March the 7th as you progress in the g

Michael Lin: Yes. So one of the worlds that you get to visit in the game is called the Xianzhou Luofo, which is a battleship or station for one of the alliances of the factions in the game called The Xianzhou Alliance. The whole environment of the game is based on Eastern fantasy, it's really hard for us to show it to you without the screen in front of us. But as soon as you play the game, you immediately see why that is. And we're using fantasy, we want to call it silkpunk, because it really adheres to the fantastic elements that really show in the g

Fish Ling: I do want to add something, when you say why we tried turn-based this time.