HoYoverse Announces Enhancements To Honkai Star Rail Older Characters
This post covers the latest updates aimed at improving the viability of older characters in Honkai Star Rail. Explore balance changes, potential meta shifts, and how these enhancements might impact all players.
Honkai Star Rail players will have a new spring.
As more and more new characters appear in Honkai Star Rail, players' demand for older characters has become lower. But at the same time, the pressure on players is also increasing. After all, they need to ensure that each new character can be obtained in order to guarantee a place in the game. In response to this situation, HoYoverse announced that it will enhance the older characters in this turn-based RPG to increase the appearance rate of these characters. This is also the first attempt of HoYoverse.
The cause of the incident was that some players criticized the trend of new characters completely surpassing and replacing older characters too quickly. Many players could not adapt to this rhythm, which reduced the fun of the game. This phenomenon is also called "Powercreep", which is not a good sign for a game. Therefore, in order to prevent this phenomenon, the official Honkai Star Rail also made an exception and started to enhance the older characters.
As we all know, HoYoverse never adjusts a character after it is released, which is also a taboo in turn-based RPGs. After all, any new character will be released to the official server only after being tested and balanced enough. And making changes after the release is an unfair move for all players.
Therefore, when HSR officially announced this matter, I was still very worried that it would have a bad impact. Fortunately, the players in the community basically agree and support the move to enhance the older characters, and some talented players have also given their own suggestions.
Of course, the specific changes still need to be seen in the official instructions, mainly to increase the value, or to redesign the active and passive skills. Or, create some items that can only be equipped by certain specific characters, and enhance the character attributes or grant other abilities by equipping these items. I personally recommend the former, after all, the latter is still a disguised weakening for some players. Only the designated enhancement of an older character is reasonable and balanced for players.
If you have any opinions on HoYoverse's actions, or have any good suggestions for the enhancement of an older character, you are also welcome to discuss.