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Honkai: Star Rail version 2.0 has a release date, will add dreamy new realm Penacony to the space RPGWith quality of life changes around relics and reviewing the game’s storyline
With quality of life changes around relics and reviewing the game’s storyline
Image credit:HoYoverse
Image credit:HoYoverse
Honkai: Star Rail’s version 2.0 will arrive at the start of February, adding a new area, three playable characters and new missions to the gachaspace game, HoYoverse have revealed.
Version 2.0 Music Video — “WHITE NIGHT” | Honkai: Star RailWatch on YouTube
Version 2.0 Music Video — “WHITE NIGHT” | Honkai: Star Rail
The headline addition in version 2.0 - or If One Dreams At Midnight, as it’s also known - is the new realm of Penacony, a former prison turned holiday destination in the Asdana system.
With the new area comes new Trailblazer missions for Penacony, which will run from 2.0 through to 2.2 with epilogues in 2.3. Those missions will introduce new five-star character Black Swan, Honaki: Star Rail’s first appearance for a Memokeeper. Her basic attacks and skills will have the chance to stack an effect called Arcana onto enemies, inflicting damage over time.
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On top of the three new characters, returning characters Imbibitor Lunae and Jing Yuan will show up during 2.0’s first and second event phases.
Around the addition of new areas, missions and characters, version 2.0 will make some quality of life tweaks to Honaki: Star Rail’s user interface. New feature Fate’s Atlas will better arrange the game’s storyline for referencing back to events in chronological order. Meanwhile, enhancing relics has been changed to allow players to insert materials while upgrading to get their relic to a specific level. Characters will also have recommended relic sets that can be equipped more easily, with further improvements that aim to make sifting through your relics to mark, discard and salvage what you need that bit more convenient.
Honkai: Star Rail’s version 2.0 will release on February 6th - a day earlier than the typical Wednesday release.
