Honkai: Star Rail 1.1 livestream: how to watch the special program

Catch a sneak peak at what’s coming in Honkai: Star Rail
Honkai: Star Rail 1.1 livestream: how to watch the special program
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Update #2 (May 26, 2023): HoYoverse has now announced a new date for the Honkai: Star Rail 1.1 livestream, moving it to Saturday, May 27, 2023. The livestream was initially planned to be aired on May 26, but had to be delayed due to unforeseen technical difficulties. HoYoverse will give out 100 Stellar Jade to players as an apology.


Update #1 (May 26, 2023): Looks like the Honkai: Star Rail 1.1 livestream is delayed for technical reasons, according to a Tweet sent out by HoYoverse. We've already collected all the information about 1.1's character banners from the Chinese stream for you, but we'll have to wait for the English stream to commence for any promo codes.


Original (May 22, 2023): After a launch that could not have been more successful, Honkai: Star Rail is about to get its first update – version 1.1 is scheduled for early June. HoYoverse is following the playbook established by Genshin Impact to a tee, which includes not just a strict and frequent patch cycle, but also the traditional livestreams to give people a taste of what’s to come.

Honkai: Star Rail’s first special program, which details the content of update 1.1, has now been announced for May 26, 2023. It looks like the VA’s of the three upcoming characters Silver Wolf, Yukong, and Luocha will lead us through the show. Aside from information about this trio, you’re guaranteed to find some promo codes granting you free items during the stream.

Here’s where and when you can catch the Honkai: Star Rail 1.1 livestream.

Honkai: Star Rail 1.1 livestream: start time

The Honkai: Star Rail 1.1 livestream will take place on May 26, 2023, at 4:30am PT. Here is what that means for your timezone:

  • 4:30am PT
  • 7:30 am ET
  • 12:30pm BST
  • 1:30pm CEST
  • 5pm IST
  • 7:30pm CST
  • 10:30pm AEDT

Honkai: Star Rail 1.1 livestream: where to watch

You can watch the Honkai: Star Rail special program on Twitch or YouTube simultaneously, with the VOD being available on YouTube later on in case you can’t watch live. We have embedded the YouTube stream below for your convenience:

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Honkai: Star Rail 1.1 livestream: what to expect

We already mentioned Silver Wolf, Yukong, and Luocha, who are confirmed to join the playable roster in version 1.1 as new characters. That’s not all, however. We can expect the continuation of the main story line as well as new companion missions, for which the livestream will have additional details in store.

There will be a series of fresh events as well, one of which is apparently called Starhunt Game and allows you to earn Stellar Jade and a 4-Star Light Cone for the Nihility. Other time-limited events enable you to earn double rewards from Calyxes and the Simulated Universe. A total of six events seems to be planned for update 1.1, so one per week of the version’s runtime.

In terms of features, it looks like Honkai: Star Rail may receive a chat function in update 1.1, which allows you to message people on your friend list.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg