The turn-based combat itself is also an immediate joy, with seamless animations making the initial battles feel flashy and impactful even while they're largely getting players up to speed on Star Rail 's gameplay systems. There are seven elements that serve as means to break enemy weaknesses, and balancing a team that's spread out with these elements while also functional represents a significant challenge. Traditional roles like tank and healer are somewhat subverted here - though there's obvious representations of both - and flexibility seems to be the name of the game when it comes to Honkai: Star Rail. The ability to swap teammates after previewing an enemy's weaknesses on the map helps ensure there are a minimum of ill-prepared fights that feel unwinna

As players get later into the game, however, the Fire Preservation Trailblazer starts to become much more valuable to a party than their Physical counterpart, with constant party-wide shields, respectable damage output, and stellar weakness-breaking capabilities. Additionally, both versions of the Trailblazer are the only characters to be able to obtain Eidolon levels for free, making their strengths even more pronounced compared to the other free characters, and ensuring that either variant has a place on almost any party se

**Honkai: Star Rail ** is a video game built on years of experience in the limelight of live-service gaming. Developer HoYoverse certainly isn't a stranger to high-profile, ongoing titles - Genshin Impact remains one of the most popular and Constance hsr influential titles in its space. While Star Rail is a dramatically different experience overall, the similarities between the two games are almost entirely positives, with a polished cast of characters, intriguing story, and incredible depth of gameplay pushing the 1.0 launch into rarefied territ

Before Dawn increases the user’s CRIT, Skill, and Ultimate DMG. After they use a Skill or Ultimate, they get a buff called Somnus Corpus, which is consumed when the user triggers a follow-up attack, boosting the attack’s dam

Honkai: Star Rail follows the Trailblazer, a player-controlled character who awakes under mysterious circumstances. They're quickly burdened with a power that is either highly sought-after or vilified by denizens of the game's universe, and rescued by the Astral Express - a group of world-jumping heroes who chase after Stellarons, the protagonist's power that also functions as a cancerous presence on any planet it's fo

Another vital aspect of the game is being able to boost your own team. Tingyun, who follows The Harmony Path, does exactly this and is one of the best 4-star characters in Honkai: Star Rail . The hero with fox-like features is a support hero capable of boosting party members’ attack power while granting them a buff to outgoing Lightning

HoYoverse’s RPG is not all about offensive measures, and Gepard is one of the best 5-star Honkai: Star Rail characters because of that. The captain of the Silvermane Guards in Belobog follows The Preservation Path, meaning he is a shielder – and a great one at that. The character also uses Ice as an element, and due to how his shields work, he is effectively better than the F2P (free-to-play) opt

For PC, Honkai: Star Rail ’s system requirements are a bit different. To run the game on the platform, players will need a Windows 7 64-bit OS, an Intel Core i5 equivalent processor, 8 GB of RAM memory, a GPU equal or equivalent to NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970, and 12 GB for storage. When it comes to the PC version, the game is a bit more demanding, but most PCs that run Genshin Impact should be able to run **Honkai: Star Rail

Finally, the Trailblazer is Honkai: Star Rail 's main protagonist and pseudo-avatar for the player, similar to Genshin Impact 's Traveler. Uniquely among Star Rail 's playable characters, the Trailblazer essentially comes as a two-in-one package, being able to serve as either Physical Destruction or (after a certain point in the story) Fire Preservation. While the versatility is already a major plus, The Trailblazer is effective in either role, with Physical Destruction being especially valuable for exploiting common Physical weaknesses in the early game, and for its versatility in dealing single-target or multi-target dam

As such, Himeko’s best build in Honkai: Star Rail will require her to equip an Erudition Path Light Cone. On top of that, in order to optimize her abilities, the Light Cone should also intensify her damage output through increased ATK stats or boost the power of her follow-up Talent Att

Tingyun is shooting to the top of most Honkai: Star Rail character tier lists and this is down to her effectively being seen as Honkai's version of Bennett from Genshin Impact. Soothing Melody is a skill that increases the damage of any chosen ally while imbuing their attacks with an extra instance of lightning dam

While Frostbite only removes one buff and targets one person, it is invaluable to any party. Without Pela, you'll find that some enemies are a huge hassle to deal with through their consistent attack buffs or one pesky mob that can self-rev