Tips and Tricks for Honkai: Star Rail

MiHoYo's latest upcoming turn-based RPG Honkai: Star Rail, is now available globally. With the Astral Express departing soon, we have taken the liberty to prepare an overview to get you well-informed on your upcoming adventure through the stars. Click here to view how to play Honkai: Star Rail on your MuMu Player 12!>>Honkai: Star Rail Operation Guide

 

In Honkai: Star Rail your character is known as the Trailblazer who is implanted with a seed of ruin. After a daring rescue by the crew of the Astral Express, you decide to join in with them and travel across the stars uncovering the many unknowns of the universe as well as their stories along the way.

 

Being A Star Crossed Voyager

Honkai Star Rail is not an Open World exploration type game, but more of a Sandbox type similar to that of Dragon Age Inquisition or Mass Effect Andromeda. It has players travelling to different areas and allows players to explore and adventure as they see fit within that particular area.

 

Within the overworld, players will find a ton of content to do, such as pick up treasure chests, explore different areas as well as beat up enemies. Furthermore, similar to that of Genshin Impact, players can choose any character in the party to become the active member that players will control when exploring the overworld.

 

In terms of combat, Honkai Star Rail takes an approach similar to that of a Turn-based RPG like Octopath Traveller 2, where you can see the monsters and enemies walking about in the overworld and if spotted, will chase you and trigger a battle sequence if caught. Players can hit an enemy first with a Basic Attack to prevent them from starting in an "Ambushed State" that puts the player at a disadvantage.

 

Additionally, if the monster is hit with a character that is a Type that counters the monster's Type (Icons will be shown at the top that highlights which Type the monster is weak too), monsters will start the battle with their "Toughness" bar reduced.

 

When a monster's "Toughness" bar is reduced to 0 (by hitting it with a Type that it is weak to) the monster will then start to take additional effects from attack Types such as Burn, Bleed, Freeze and so forth. During battle, the turn order is wholly determined by the characters Speed, similar to that of Epic Seven where if your character has a higher Speed stat, the shorter the interval is between the turns taken.

 

 

Additonal Side Content

Aside from exploration there will also be additional content to clear such as the Forgotten Hall, which has you battling foes and completing stages within certain requirements (the more requirements you satisfy the greater your reward). The Forgotten Hall also comes in two types of stages, Memory and Memory of Chaos with hard mode being the latter of which that provides better rewards. Completing a special stage in Forgotten Hall will also reward you with the 4* hero Qingque.

 

Players can also try out Simulated Universe which has the characters going through a gauntlet with multiple modifiers, and as they progresses further, random events will happen. You may also enhance your characters as you aim to complete the Simulated Universe, this mode is similar to that of Goddess of Victory: Nikke's "Simulated Room" or Higan: Eruthyll's "Mesmerizing Labyrinth".

 

 

The Friends We Meet Along The Way

During your time as the Trailblazer, you will meet many characters as you journey across the stars. This section aims to help you understand these characters better and give you an idea of what they can do for you as a party member.

 

Characters will always have both a Type and Paths that they follow, which is Honkai Star Rail's version of Elements and character Classes. For Types these are the ones that are present at this current time:

• Physical
• Fire
• Ice
• Lightning
• Wind
• Quantum
• Imaginary

 

It is important to take note that each Type also deals additional effects based on their corresponding Type (Lightning may cause Shock) that generally does additional damage over time.

 

Paths however are broken down into the following:

• Destruction (excel at attacking enemies head on, bruiser class)
• The Hunt (good single target dps class)
• Erudition (exceptional AoE DMG class)
• Harmony (support buffer class)
• Nihility (debuff class)
• Preservation (defensive buffer class)
• Abundance (healer class)

 

These paths determine what a characters overall performance would be like in combat situations as well as the overworld. For example, the recently revealed character Himeko, is a Fire Type character following the path of Erudition. This makes her overall kit more geared towards multi-target attacks and doing tons of damage with it.