Honkai Star Rail 1.2 maintenance times mean free goodies galore

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Honkai Star Rail is going offline to prepare for the Honkai Star Rail 1.2 release date, so you can look forward to free Stellar Jade as compensation for the downtime. The next major Honkai Star Rail update is almost here, but with the servers set to be down for an estimated five hours, you won’t be able to play the turn-based anime game during this time, so make sure you plan ahead.

Honkai Star Rail 1.2 is planning to continue the main story with its Trailblaze missions, with some key players coming into action after the 1.1 update largely focused on side content. We’re expecting to see the Xianzhou Luofu storyline brought to a close, and HoYoverse is promising a rather dramatic showdown against one of the biggest antagonists yet.

It also marks the arrival of several hotly anticipated new Honkai Star Rail characters – the death-defying Blade is set to arrive first in the initial phase of the Honkai Star Rail 1.2 banners, while four-star newcomer Luka joins the collective Honkai community’s mommy herself as Kafka headlines the phase two banner, finally making her a playable character beyond the game’s tutorial.

We’ll also see a number of events in 1.2, including an underground treasure hunt with some extremely valuable resources up for grabs – the Self-Modeling Resin helps you synthesize relics to your exact desires, meaning you won’t want to skip out on it. There will also be additional Xianzhou Luofu stages for the Forgotten Hall challenge mode, doubling the number of floors on offer, while the Abundant Ebon Deer boss fight returns elsewhere.

Honkai Star Rail maintenance begins on Wednesday July 19, 2023 at 6am (UTC+8), and is expected to last for approximately five hours. You can see the times for your region in the