Honkai: Star Rail – Dr. Ratio will be free in update 1.6

HoYoverse celebrates a triumphant awards season

Marco Wutz | Dec 15, 2023

Honkai: Star Rail – Dr. Ratio will be free in update 1.6 /

All Honkai: Star Rail players can look forward to receiving the free 5-Star character Dr. Ratio in the coming update 1.6. Giving out a copy of the damage dealer following the Path of The Hunt and dealing Imaginary Damage is HoYoverse’s way of thanking the community for its support during the game’s launch year as well as celebrating the title’s victories during award season.

Update 1.6 of Honkai: Star Rail will launch on December 27, 2023, for PC, PS5, iOS, and Android.

Dr. Ratio called into the show to announce the news himself / HoYoverse

Dr. Ratio is scheduled to join the Honkai: Star Rail characters during the second half of the version 1.6 banners, which is set to begin on January 17, 2024. You’ll have time from this point until the end of version 2.1 to claim the free Dr. Ratio that’ll appear in your in-game mail.

This surprising present is all the better as Dr. Ratio’s banner is looking rather weak and runs alongside Kafka, who is going to draw a lot of attention away from him. This way, players are able to add Dr. Ratio to their roster, potentially filling a role they could not fill before, and use their Stellar Jade on characters like Ruan Mei, Blade, or Kafka available in update 1.6 as well.

Honkai: Star Rail won trophies at The Game Awards 2023 as well as Apple’s and Google’s own award shows. Players already received 1,600 Stellar Jade for free to celebrate, which you need to claim in-game before they expire.

Version 1.6 is going to be another huge patch, expanding Herta Space Station and the Simulated Universe, adding a brand-new permanent game mode, delivering fresh events, and increasing the amount of Stellar Jade players can earn through challenge content.

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Published Dec 15, 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