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Honkai: Star Rail reveals Blade, a likely update 1.2 addition

Another Stellaron Hunter is set to join the fray

Marco Wutz

Honkai: Star Rail reveals Blade, a likely update 1.2 addition
Honkai: Star Rail reveals Blade, a likely update 1.2 addition /

HoYoverse just keeps dropping good news for Honkai: Star Rail players – and bad ones for their wallets: Blade has been revealed as an upcoming character for the RPG. His likeliest window of release is update 1.2, which is set to launch in July 2023. He may share this version with Kafka, a fellow member of the Stellaron Hunters and no less highly anticipated than Blade himself.

Blade is going to be a 5-Star character following the Path of the Destruction and dealing Wind Damage. HoYoverse describes him as such: “A swordsman who abandoned his body to become a blade. Birth name unknown. He pledges loyalty to Destiny's Slave, and possesses a terrifying self-healing ability. Blade wields an ancient sword riddled with cracks, just like his body and his mind.”

In short, he’s a sword-wielding edgelord with great looks, so he’s guaranteed to be incredibly popular among the player base.

That’s not all, however: In the final closed beta test, where Blade was already playable, he was absolutely cracked – a very powerful character that was hard to kill and dished out an amazing amount of damage. We’re definitely expecting his release version to be a little less potent in the interest of balance.

Before Blade – or Kafka, for that matter – will see the light of day, version 1.1 will have to come and go. A livestream revealing details around this upcoming update, which will feature Silver Wolf, Luocha, and Yukong as new playable characters, is scheduled to air on May 26, 2023.

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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

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