Summary
A recent leak fromHonkai: Star Railis hinting at a major change coming to the game’s limited gacha banner, making losing the 50/50 more rewarding for players. While the popular sci-fi RPG from HoYoverse occasionally gives out free characters through various events, the game’s gacha system serves as its main way of adding new party members. Each update typically introduces one to two new five-star characters to the limited banner, with fans often needing to spenda significant amount of Stellar Jades. Now, a new change may help fans with one of the gacha’s more frustrating elements.
WhileHonkai: Star Rail’s gacha banners feature one main character as the highlight, fans are not always guaranteed to acquire that character when pulling a five-star unit.Star Rail’s banners work off a “50/50” system wherein, if players pull the featured unit, the next five-star character will only have a 50% chance of being the limited character. The standard rotation is often made the butt of jokes as well, joking about pulling less desirable characters like Yanqing and Bailu. However,Honkai: Star Railmay be looking to change the narrative on losing the 50/50.
Honkai: Star Rail Making Change to 50/50s
A new update shared by prominentHonkai: Star Railleaker Sakura Haven is hinting at ahelpful change to the limited gacha banner. According to the leak, the game’s anniversary update will change the system for “losing the 50/50,” with players selecting seven specific characters for their 50/50 pool instead of just using the standard rotation. The leak suggests thatbothHonkai: Star Rail’s standard charactersand a small selection of limited characters will be available to choose from. The change to the limited gacha banners is currently expected to launch with Version 3.2 on April 8.
The gacha banner change looks to be an extremely helpful update for both newer and longtimeHonkai: Star Railfans. The inclusion of limited characters in the 50/50 pool will make picking up some of the game’s most popular limited units far easier than waiting for a re-run banner. The leak did not mention any specific characters within the group, though it will likely includeolder limited characters like Seele, Silver Wolf, and Jing Yuan.
Honkai: Star Rail’s exciting update to the 50/50 comes as leaks have teased another new way for players to acquire five-star characters. A previous leak suggested thatStar Railwill be addinga new five-star character “shop"in-game for players who have maxed out a five-star character’s Eidolons. After pulling a dupe of a maxed-out character, players will reportedly receive a special currency used to acquire a different five-star unit.Honkai: Star Raillooks to be bringing plenty of new ways for players to pick up its most coveted characters for the game’s second anniversary.
