Honkai: Star Rail 1.4 characters will be Jingliu, Topaz, and Guinaifen

The trio of fresh faces for update 1.4 is complete

Marco Wutz | Aug 17, 2023

Honkai: Star Rail 1.4 characters will be Jingliu, Topaz, and Guinaifen /

There we have it: All three upcoming characters for Honkai: Star Rail update 1.4 have been revealed by HoYoverse. Guinaifen, the 4-Star unit arriving with the patch, has been the final reveal. She’s another follower of the Path of The Nihility and deals Fire Damage.

Guinaifen appears to be a friend of Sushang and is not a Xianzhou native despite living on the Luofu as a street performer. Here’s her official description:

"Would you like to see me break that stone slab with my chest?"

An outworlder who ended up residing on the Xianzhou by accident. She is now a passionate and vivacious street performer. Faced with a whole new life on the Loufu and relying on her adoration of Xianzhou culture, Guinaifen quickly learned skills that would keep her clothed and fed – these being eating noodles upside down, smashing large stone upon the chest of others, and catching projectiles with her bare hands, et cetera.

Morgan Lauré is voicing Guinaifen in the English version of the game. She’s an experienced VA with many past anime series and video game performances under her belt.

Guinaifen has embraced the Xianzhou lifestyle and earns her keep as a street performer / HoYoverse

Guinaifen completes the trio of playable characters that’ll be available in the update 1.4 banners in Honkai: Star Rail. Jingliu and Topaz, two 5-Star units, have been revealed over the previous two days. Suffice to say, it’s going to be another strong version in terms of new characters, with the Stellar Jade reserves of many players pushed to the brink – there hasn’t been a single update yet which could be considered a miss in this department and the soaring income numbers definitely reflect that.

Speaking of strong characters: Imbibitor Lunae, the 5-Star form of Dan Heng, Fu Xuan, the person seeking to replace Jing Yuan as the Luofu’s general, and Lynx, the younger sister of Serval and Gepard, are going to be released in Honkai: Star Rail update 1.3. A livestream with details on the upcoming version is scheduled for this Friday, so check out the start times.

Published Aug 17, 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