Honkai: Star Rail 1.2 banners to feature Kafka, Blade, and Luka

New characters for the Honkai: Star Rail 1.2 banners revealed

Marco Wutz | May 25, 2023

Honkai: Star Rail 1.2 banners to feature Kafka, Blade, and Luka /

After three days of teasing reveals, we finally have a complete overview of the Honkai: Star Rail 1.2 banners: Kafka, Blade, and Luka will be the new playable characters joining the RPG from July to August.

After separate reveals for Blade and Kafka, two highly anticipated 5-Star characters, HoYoverse revealed the identity of version 1.2’s new 4-Star character, Luka, on Chinese social media site Weibo.

Luka is another follower of the Path of Nihility, which Kafka belongs to as well, but deals Physical Damage. He is a member of Wildfire, the organization from Belobog’s Underworld. He’s a boxer with a mechanical arm, who is always ready to leave the ring for a real battlefield to protect his fellow citizens. His nature is said to be bright and optimistic at all times. Before you say that this clashes with his Nihility affiliation, optimistic nihilism is a philosophy that exists.

Luka deals Physical Damage despite the fiery outfit / HoYoverse

Update 1.2 for Honkai: Star Rail, should start on July 19, 2023, and run until the end of August. If the release order of social media teasers is an indicator for the order of 1.2’s banners, Blade is going to be available during the first three weeks and Kafka during the second half.

First, however, update 1.1 for Honkai: Star Rail will bring Silver Wolf, Luocha, and Yukong into the game. A livestream scheduled to air on May 26, 2023, will provide additional details on the upcoming patch.

Published May 25, 2023

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