Summary
- Honkai: Star Rail version 2.0 introduces Black Swan, a Wind unit with powerful skills that deal significant damage to enemies.
- Players in Honkai: Star Rail can unlock and build teams with a large roster of playable characters, with updates introducing new characters periodically.
- The upcoming version 2.0 update of Honkai: Star Rail will bring optimizations to the relic system and showcase events in Fate's Atlas, enhancing the overall gameplay experience.
Honkai: Star Rail introduces players to Black Swan, revealing all the details about the character's kit. Honkai: Star Rail's main story will span once Penacony, a new explorable area that holds many secrets, is released in version 2.0 this month. The first phase of the update will see the debut of some new characters, such as Sparkle and Black Swan, who have left fans in awe of their standout designs.
Honkai: Star Rail features a large roster of playable characters that have their own stories. Every update allows players to unlock some of these units, upon which they can build an entire team. As in Genshin Impact, characters receive their banner in random versions and remain available for a few weeks. Therefore, players spend their Special Passes when their favorite units are featured on a banner phase, which changes every three weeks.
Honkai: Star Rail has confirmed that Black Swan is a Wind unit that belongs to the Path of Nihility. She takes advantage of a powerful skill set, which lets her deal a significant amount of damage to enemies. Using her primary skill, Honkai: Star Rail's Black Swan deals Wind damage to enemies on the battlefield, with a chance of reducing their defense for a few turns. The character's technique inflicts a stack of Arcana passive, while the ultimate applies the Epiphany effect that allows the character to deal more damage.
Honkai: Star Rail Black Swan Kit
- Rarity: Five-star
- Element: Wind
- Path: Nihility
- Skill: Decadence, False Twilight
- Ultimate: Bliss of Otherworld's Embrace
- Talent: Loom of Fate's Caprice
Using her powerful talent, Black Swan can trigger useful effects when Arcana stacks cause damage at the beginning of the round. Moreover, she inflicts DoT (damage over time) on enemies and ignores an amount of their DEF by applying Arcana stacks. As for her ascension, Trailblazers will consume Ascendant Debris and Extinguished Core materials to upgrade Black Swan.
Once version 2.0 is released, Black Swan will be featured in the first phase alongside a five-star rerun character, Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae. Then, another Penacony-based character, Sparkle, will finally be introduced to Honkai: Star Rail in the second phase, which will reportedly run from February 29 to March 26.
As Honkai: Star Rail update 2.0 draws near, leaks about the upcoming content surfaced online, revealing that a number of optimizations will be added to the relic system. Players will filter their valuable relics based on their state and salvage them much faster than before. Besides, Fate's Atlas will now showcase events that occur in the game and the navigational menu will be represented in 3D in certain places.
Honkai: Star Rail
- Released
- April 26, 2023
WHERE TO PLAY
They call them, "Aeons" in this galaxy. They construct reality, erase stars, and leave their marks on countless worlds. Together with your companions you'll travel across the galaxy on the Astral Express, following the path once traveled by the Aeons. From here, you will explore new civilizations, meet new comrades, and begin new adventures among countless fantastical worlds. All the answers you seek will be uncovered among the stars.
Well what're you waiting for? Are you ready to begin this trailblazing journey?
Honkai: Star Rail is a new HoYoverse space fantasy RPG. Hop aboard the Astral Express and experience the galaxy's infinite wonders filled with adventure and thrills.
Players will meet new companions across various worlds and maybe even run into some familiar faces. Overcome the struggles together caused by Stellaron and unravel the hidden truths behind it! May this journey lead us starward!
- ESRB
- Teen / Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes, Simulated Gambling, In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items), Users Interact
- Developer(s)
- HoYoverse (Formerly miHoYo)
- Publisher(s)
- HoYoverse (Formerly miHoYo)
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, PC, Android, iOS
- Genre(s)
- RPG, Turn-Based RPG
