Honkai: Star Rail unlock times and release date
Here’s when Hoyoverse’s next game Honkai: Star Rail unlocks globally on release day.
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Update:It looks like Honkai: Star Rail servers are online for a bunch of people. We hopped into the North American servers, but can’t verify the others.
The next gacha game from Hoyoverse has nearly left the station: theHonkai: Star Raillaunch time is happening on Tuesday, April 25 and April 26 depending on your time zone. This new game fromGenshin Impact’s developer is another character-driven game of magical attacks and combos but this time everything’s slowing down with turn-based battles instead of action combat.
Honkai: Star Rail unlock time
Hoyoverse has announced the launch time for Honkai: Star Rail as 10 am, April 26 (UTC+8)which equates to 3 am in London and 7 pm on Tuesday, April 25 in California. Here’s how the global launch time converts to other timezones:
Preloading for Honkai: Star Rail has already started, which you can begin downloading over on theHonkai: Star Rail website. It’s a 10GB download on PC, so it shouldn’t take terribly long. Honkai will also be available on theEpic Games Storebut doesn’t offer preloading. It’s also available for mobile on the Google Play Store and App Store.
There will also be a launch day livestream that starts 30 minutes before the global launch time over on theHonkai: Star Rail YouTube channel.
We are expecting this to be a busy launch for Hoyoverse, as it announcedover two million pre-registrationshad been made as of February. That number’s sure to have ballooned as launch gets ever closer.
Honkai: Star Rail codes:Redeem for free currencyTrailblaze EXP farming:Easy ways to level upTrailblazer builds:Strengthen your main character upMarch 7th builds:Power up the pink archerDan Heng builds:Sharpen that spear
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