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Honkai Impact 3rd changes
Welcome to v8.8 Adrift in the Sea of Data (APR 30 ~ JUN 25)!
Update Content
★ New AstralOp: Bailu Youyun
Bailu Youyun is an AstralOp recommended for World Star teams. Upon entering Stellar Outburst, she can perform Synergy Attack to pull in surrounding enemies and deal Lightning DMG.
While World Star is active, she increases the fielded character's Crit Rate, converts Crit Rate into Crit DMG proportionally, and increases the cap on Stellar Surplus's Surplus Intensity. While World Star or Wheel of Destiny is active, she increases the Elemental DMG and Physical DMG taken by enemies on the field, reduces Stellar Outburst CD when Astral Ring Intensity reaches its cap, and upon entering Stellar Outburst, converts Stellar Surplus's Surplus Intensity into Astral Ring Intensity proportionally.
*You can obtain the new AstralOp in the following ways:
AstralOp Supply is available for a limited time. You are guaranteed to get AstralOp Bailu Youyun in 60 AstralOp Supply drops. Plus, every 10 drops of the first 60 drops reward Equipment Supply Card x2, meaning you can obtain up to Equipment Supply Card x12!
★ New equipment recommended for Silverwing: N-EX: Divine Key "Blue Thunder Shuttle EX19" and "Almagest" Stigma Set
Silverwing
N-EX's recommended Divine Key "Blue Thunder Shuttle EX19" and PRI-ARM "Blue Thunder Shuttle: Protocol One" debut!
When Silverwing
N-EX is equipped with them, she can activate Astral Ring Specialization: World Star and use different Weapon Skills.
*You can obtain her recommended equipment in the following ways:
- Equipment Supply is open for a limited time! SilverwingN-EX's recommended equipment Divine Key Blue Thunder Shuttle EX19 and Almagest stigma set are available with increased drop rates!
Participate in the login event to get Almagest Stigma Option x1. Open it to choose one from the new stigma set recommended for Silverwing: N-EX.
Almagest stigma set is craftable. Crafting a stigma requires Source Prism x2 and Ether Fuel x600.
★ Featured Event: Project Sea of Data: Thesis Crisis
Right before the research makes major progress, a crucial instrument unexpectedly goes "Boom!" ...An operation to save a thesis and Oxia begins!
Featured event "Project Sea of Data
Thesis Crisis" is now available.
Participate in this event to get Silverwing
N-EX's outfit "Maximum Velocity", Crystals, Ace Your Thesis Emblem, Source Prisms, Honkai Shards, and more~
★ Main Story Part 2 Chapter XII: With You, Whom I Never Knew
At a dusk yet to turn to night, to whom has time bid farewell?
New main chapter "With You, Whom I Never Knew" is coming soon. Experience the new chapter to get Crystals, Source Prisms, AE Imaginon, and more.
★ Featured Event Rerun: Starry Voyage: Strike Back!
What do I see when I look up at the starry sky?
Do I see shining stars... or boundless night?
Featured event "Starry Voyage: Strike Back!" returns in v8.8. Play the event to obtain Crystals, Starbound Dream Outfit Option, Source Prisms, Honkai Shards, and more!
Open Starbound Dream Outfit Option to choose one from the following: Mercurial Hatter (outfit), Campus Detective (outfit), Dreamseeker (outfit), and 8000 Asterite.
★ Bonuses Event: First Light Before Dawn
Bonuses event "First Light Before Dawn" is now available. During the event, complete 4 out of 5 event missions to claim a Deepspace Anchor: First Light Character Card.
★ Limited-time Top-up Bonuses: Starry Wishes
During the event, accumulate top-ups to claim a Weapon Direct Level-Up Coupon, Lone Planetfarer / Schicksal's Imperative Rank-Up Stamps, Source Prisms, Supply Cards, HOHO Vacation Tickets, and more!
★ Hyperion Arsenal
New weapons: heavy cannon Blue Thunder Shuttle EX19, PRI heavy cannon Blue Thunder Shuttle: Protocol One
New stigmata: Almagest stigma set
Game Adjustments & Optimizations
☆☆☆☆☆ Battlesuits ☆☆☆☆☆
◆ Xentinel · Dawnbearing Crescent
Fixed an issue where, when she was equipped with a blade weapon whose Weapon Skill did not cost 0 SP, the SP cost of her Weapon Skill was sometimes incorrectly displayed after she cast World-Splitting Light.
Fixed an issue where, when her SP was below 150, her Basic ATK SEQ 3 sometimes incorrectly restored SP to 300.
Fixed an issue where, when Grail of Infinitude had been activated and she was not the leader, her first QTE sometimes incorrectly restored 2 stacks of Blade Force after Stellar Outburst ended.
◆ Ba-Dum! Fiery Wishing Star
Fixed an issue where, when she was in the outfit "Wintery Wishes", the progress bar visual effects sometimes glitched after Fortune was maxed out.
◆ Lunar Vow: Crimson Love
Fixed an issue where, when she was equipped with the weapons "Pact of Companionship" or "Pact of Companionship: Evermore", after activating Stellar Outburst during Hunting Time slashing, tapping [Weapon] sometimes incorrectly cast "In the Name of Protection".
Fixed an issue where, when she was equipped with the weapons "Pact of Companionship" or "Pact of Companionship: Evermore", tapping [Weapon] in the Frenzy state during Stellar Outburst sometimes incorrectly cast "In the Name of Protection".
Fixed an issue where, when she was equipped with the weapons "Pact of Companionship" or "Pact of Companionship: Evermore", her model sometimes glitched during casting Ultimate "Resolve to Protect Her Beloved".
Fixed an issue where, when she was equipped with the weapons "Pact of Companionship" or "Pact of Companionship: Evermore", the effect "Resolve to Protect Her Beloved only costs 60 SP on first cast" of the Weapon Skills "Writing the Next Chapter Together" or "Heading Into the Future Together" did not take effect under certain circumstances.
Fixed an issue where, when she was equipped with the weapons "Pact of Companionship" or "Pact of Companionship: Evermore", the CD of Ultimate "Resolve to Protect Her Beloved" glitched under certain circumstances.
◆ Herrscher of Thunder
Fixed an issue where, when she was equipped with the weapons "Seven Thunders of Retribution: Rumble" or "Seven Thunders of Retribution: Narukami", she sometimes fell outside the map for immediately casting Weapon Skills "Thunderbolt Call" or "Narukami Divinity" after casting Ultimate Finisher.
☆☆☆☆☆ Gameplay ☆☆☆☆☆
◆ Main Story Part 2
Fixed an issue where the dialogue history screen might have obstructions during the mission Dawn Shines at the Dream's End in main story Part 2 Chapter XI-EX: The Night Which the Light Dreams Of.
Fixed an issue in Part 2's open world Difeng: Seaside Town, where the environment sometimes glitched on some Android devices.
Optimized the interface presentation and interactive experience of Adventure Notes.
◆ Main Story Part 1
Fixed an issue where weapon visual effects sometimes glitched during the cinematics in Story Stage 38-2: Ascending the Tower.
Fixed an issue where weapon visual effects sometimes glitched during the cinematics in Story Stage 38-15: Construction.
Fixed an issue where the camera sometimes glitched during the cinematics in Story Stage 38-17: Susannah.
◆ Memorial Arena
Added SSS-rank boss Flame-Chaser: Kalpas.
◆ Superstring Dimension
Added stage Resonance: Perilous, featuring Herrscher of Corruption as the boss.
Added stage Resonance: Perilous, featuring Sa: Wheel of Transcendence as the boss.
Added stage Purgatory: Perilous, featuring Valrahal as the boss.
Fixed an issue where enemies sometimes fell outside the map in Bloodbane: Fringe.
◆ Elysian Realm
Added special adjustments and exclusive signets to Silverwing: N-EX when she is equipped with Divine Key Blue Thunder Shuttle EX19 or PRI-ARM Blue Thunder Shuttle: Protocol One.
Added enemy Assaka to Floor 17 of Deep Sequence.
Updated the stage effects and buff effects of Deep Sequence.
Fixed an issue where, when Cosmic Expression was equipped with the weapons "Pact of Companionship" or "Pact of Companionship: Evermore", the exclusive signets "Blessing of Anchor" and "Blessing of Meteorite" could not deploy crosses.
◆ Voyage Anecdotes
Increased the material acquisition limit in the Inventory for the event Assemble! Summer Friendship Resort.
☆☆☆☆☆ Battle Pass ☆☆☆☆☆
Added the following purchasable items to v8.8 BP Materials (Knight BP / Paladin BP required):
Character Cards & Rank-Up Stamps: Schicksal's Imperative Character Card / Rank-Up Stamps, Schicksal's Imperative Rank-Up Stamps
Weapon: Vacation Notice
Added the following purchasable items to Reserve Works:
Character Cards & Rank-Up Stamps: Deepspace Anchor: First Light Character Card / Rank-Up Stamps, Miracle ☆ Magical Girl Character Card / Rank-Up Stamps, Deepspace Anchor: First Light Rank-Up Stamps, Miracle ☆ Magical Girl Rank-Up Stamps
Weapons: Red Star Thunderbolt, Dream Cutter
Stigmata: Little Joys stigma set
Unlock Paladin BP to get Peeking Fawn Ribbon.
Updated the battlesuit fragment rewards in Knight BP and Paladin BP to Schicksal's Imperative Fragments.
Unlock Knight BP/Paladin BP to obtain BP Robevyom v8.8. Open it to choose one from the following: Dreamy Melody (outfit), Everdream (outfit), Indelible Memories (outfit), Sandy Coast (outfit), and 8000 Asterite.
☆☆☆☆☆ Returnee Support ☆☆☆☆☆
New battlesuits obtainable in Valkyrie Reinforcements:
Target battlesuits: Lone Planetfarer (S-rank), Gyakushinn Miko (A-rank)
Other battlesuits: Snowy Sniper (A-rank), Arctic Kriegsmesser (A-rank), Shadow Dash (A-rank)
New equipment obtainable in Equipment Reinforcements:
4★ weapon: drive core Skyveil Feathers
4★ stigmata: Across Planets Alone stigma set
☆☆☆☆☆ Shop ☆☆☆☆☆
◆ Dawei's Villa
Added weapon Blue Thunder Shuttle EX19.
◆ Exchange House
Added weapon Key of Ego, weapon Nocturnal Stealth, stigma set Flower of Origin, and stigma set Eternal Moon.
◆ Supply Shop
Added Mad Pleasure: Shadowbringer Rank-Up Stamps.
◆ Witch's Corridor
Added Lunar Vow: Crimson Love Rank-Up Stamps.
☆☆☆☆☆ System ☆☆☆☆☆
◆ Foundry
You can now craft G4 stigma set MOTHs Days, Prism stigma set Almagest, and PRI-ARM Blue Thunder Shuttle: Protocol One directly.
◆ Bridge Interactions
Added interactive animations and voice lines for Bailu Youyun.
◆ Other
Fixed an issue on the PC client where pressing the Esc key at the same time as claiming Monthly Card bonuses would immediately close the Monthly Card bonuses interface.
Adjusted the display of some in-game text.
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