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Honkai Star Rail Fans Desperate After Gachapon Fail

Feb 12, 2024 12:14 PM

The gaming community is currently grappling with the gachapon system in the popular RPG Honkai Star Rail, with players expressing frustration at the lack of a pity system that makes securing top prizes such as the light cone and Clockie icon a challenge. Unlike the main character gacha, which has no roll limit and is generous with free tries, the gachapon machine offers limited chances to win – only ten tokens or five attempts per week. Completionists are further tested as they attempt to save up 77 tokens to unlock an achievement. Despite these difficulties, the recent version 2.0 update brings an abundance of side activities and events, including a welcoming event for returning players.

What new side content does Honkai Star Rail version 2.0 offer besides the gachapon machines?
nVersion 2.0 of Honkai Star Rail introduces an array of side quests, new events, additional uses for daily trailblaze points, numerous chests scattered for discovery, and a special event designed to welcome back players who have not logged in for some time.

Honkai Star Rail is an action-adventure RPG developed by HoYoverse, previously known as miHoYo, which is also known for creating the highly successful Genshin Impact. As part of the larger "Honkai" series, Honkai Star Rail allows players to explore fantastical worlds, engage in strategic turn-based combat, and collect a variety of characters through a gacha system. It follows the traditional free-to-play model with in-game purchases, leveraging the gacha mechanics to incentivize players to spend money for the chance to obtain rare and powerful items and characters.



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