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Honkai: Star Rail Kafka likely arrives in update 1.2

The Kafka hype-train has left the station, so save your Special Passes

Marco Wutz

Honkai: Star Rail Kafka likely arrives in update 1.2
Honkai: Star Rail Kafka likely arrives in update 1.2 /

Kafka’s release in Honkai: Star Rail is finally on the horizon: HoYoverse has confirmed that this femme fatale from the Stellaron Hunters will become playable with the likeliest release window being update 1.2. She’s a 5-Star character, deals Lightning Damage, and follows the Path of the Nihility – of course everyone has already gotten a taste of how she plays during the game’s prologue, when she breaks into Herta Space Station with Silver Wolf to awaken the Trailblazer. Her accomplice is set to be released a bit earlier, coming during update 1.1.

Another Stellaron Hunter, the edgy Blade, has recently been revealed as well and will likely be the other 5-Star character to become available during version 1.2. If the reveal order is anything to go by, Kafka will likely be on 1.2’s second half’s banner, which would move her release date to early August 2023.

HoYoverse describes the mysterious Kafka in the following way: “On the Interastral Peace Corporation's wanted list, Kafka's entry only has two things – her name, and a single sentence: ‘Likes collecting coats.’ Little is known about this Stellaron Hunter aside from her being one of Destiny's Slave Elio's most trusted members. In order to achieve Elio's envisioned future, Kafka gets to work.”

Kafka is probably the most anticipated character in Honkai: Star Rail at this point and with her release actually being on the horizon now, you could definitely start saving Stellar Jade and Special Star Rail Tickets to pull for her – of course, that would mean giving up on a bunch of other upcoming characters, about which we’ll learn more during the update 1.1 livestream.

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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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