In case you’ve ever fearful that HoYoverse may run out of concepts, you may be happy to know that the builders of Honkai: Star Rail have loads of unreleased characters to fall again on.
Since launching in 2023 with 23 playable characters, the cellular RPG has ballooned in measurement to a complete of 93 on the time of writing.
At a media occasion in Seoul forward of the discharge of Model 4.7, we requested lead recreation designer Chengnan An how far upfront the group plans such updates and what their method to growth is.
“It is nearly not possible to make a recreation if we simply look into one replace solely,” he started.
“We at all times wish to present content material with top quality, and our tales and characters are carefully linked, so we’ve got to play forward of time.
“If we wish to design an entire new world, it takes greater than 15 months to dig into the ideas and based mostly on the core idea we will then design our characters.”
Contemplating how character-driven the sport is, it is maybe no shock that this can be a core focus of growth, with loads of characters at the moment in growth with an eye fixed towards future updates.
“We’ve over 10 unreleased characters at one time and characters in several manufacturing pipelines,” he defined. “We even have very particular plans for them.”
After asking if there have been any characters that they have not discovered the precise event to introduce but, he coyly teased that “within the subsequent yr, you may be capable of see a number of the characters that gamers have been wanting for a very long time, however no spoilers proper now”.
Within the meantime, the Model 4.7 replace dubbed ‘Now, Lay Laughter to All Stars’ will introduce Aha because the 94th playable character.
Her addition will mark the primary time that an Aeon – a race of gods who preside over the sport’s universe – shall be out there as a playable character in Honkai: Star Rail.
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