With the release of 's 1.1 update,, the game will also receive new banners, which will run separately throughout the roughly six weeks before the 's next update. As per usual with HoYoverse gacha games, the patch will be divided into two distinct «phases,» with one character and one weapon banner running during the first phase and another of each during the second phase, with each phase lasting about three weeks and (probably) having no overlap between them.
Off the back of a successful launch period, 's first major update is something of a «breather» patch for the main story and will instead be expanding on the New Eridu Public Security faction, which appeared only in an intermission story in the release patch. The 1.1 update will round out the faction's roster, introducing Qingyi, Seth Lowell, and Jane Doe as playable characters, while also adding a new Public Security Bangboo to support the faction. However, each new playable character and their associated W-Engines will be spread across four different banners running throughout the patch.
A recent Zenless Zone Zero leak confirms a new NPC is in development and he looks very similar to a familiar Honkai Star Rail character.
The first phase banners of 1.1 focus primarily on Qingyi, an S-rank Electric Stun Agent who, despite appearing in the release version of the game, was not previously playable. The character banner, Untainted Jade, will feature Qingyi as its limited S-rank, and Corin and Billy as its rate-up A-ranks. For her part, Qingyi is valuable as the game's first limited Stun character and synergizes especially well with Zhu Yuan, but Corin and Billy may hold the highest value as A-rank agents for most players, making Untainted Jade a slightly less valuable banner to pull on.
Along with Qingyi herself, the Dissonant Sonata W-Engine banner for the first phase of 1.1 will feature increased rates for her signature W-Engine, Ice-Jade Teapot, and the signature W-Engines for Corin and Billy, Housekeeper and
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