Like many other live-service games, Honkai Star Rail Relics Guide: Star Rail _ provides a number of free characters, some as in-game starter characters and others as rewards for the game's launch, providing a good foundation for new players to supplement with characters pulled from the game's gacha system. Diverging from the real-time action combat of previous HoYoverse games, like _Genshin Impact , Star Rail instead takes the form of a turn-based RPG - although, despite the drastic change in gameplay, many of the game's features and characters will be familiar to players moving over from other games by the same develo

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

Obviously it's far too early to pass judgment on the title, which doesn't even have a release date yet - but there's still plenty to be gleaned from its current systems. What's present during the test is a game that very much sticks to the designs that have made other HoYoverse projects popular, whether that be exploring well-designed maps or craving a new, powerful 5-Star character to add to an ever-growing roster of heroes. That's not a bad thing, though, and Honkai Star Rail seems like it's the most refined HoYoverse-style experience

Run Legends is a new title from Talofa Games that aims to combine fitness and gameplay. Run Legends centers around battles against monsters called Sappers, wherein players will be on a team either with friends, matched players, or bots. The game utilizes a movement tracking technology that at first conjures images of titles like Pokémon GO - however, instead of gameplay centered around locations on a map, Run Legends is all about player sp

Honkai: Star Rail is cross-platform and cross-save compatible, letting players seamlessly switch between devices. Upon release, capable Apple devices will also have an exclusive 120 hertz refresh rate when it comes to the game's graphics. While the final beta for Honkai: Star Rail has ended, the game can be preregistered for now - however, the release date of April 26 shown in the store hasn't been officially confirmed by HoYove

A Fire Harmony character, Asta's skills primarily center around buffing allies, granting a stacking attack boost whenever she hits an enemy, with extra stacks being granted against fire weaknesses. Although the stacks fall off quickly, the boost is still consistent and useful for increasing a team's damage output, especially in combination with Asta's speed-boosting ultimate. As a slight downside, however, Asta is one of the few free characters in the live service Honkai: Star Rail whose element overlaps with another, which has her competing somewhat for a team slot with Fire Trailblazer - although, on the other hand, one of her ascensions does increase the fire damage of other characters, further increasing her usefulness against fire-weak enem

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

The Apple Dev Showcase highlighted both exciting new titles and the possibilities of new technology. From what was offered at the showcase, it's clear 2023 will be a year of fresh mobile experiences and enhanced versions of popular titles. While not much information has been given regarding the release dates of these games, the Gaming at Apple Dev Showcase still offered a clear vision of what's to come this y

Screen Rant gained access to the closed beta test and, since launch, I've logged several hours into Honkai Star Rail to see how it measures up to more traditional representations of turn-based combat (think Final Fantasy ) and games in the gacha space that have similar pacing (something like Fate/Grand Orde

The main stats of March 7th's Relics and Planetary Ornaments in her Shield build should all focus on DEF%. When combined with Eidolon level three, this will make March 7th's Counters potent and her shields sturdy in Honkai: Star Rail . A Frozen build has more variety, however. Her Body Relic would focus on Effect Hit Rate, while her Feet would benefit from ATK%. Her Planar Sphere would give an Ice DMG bonus, and her Link Rope could be either ATK% or Energy Regen R