All the details about Honkai: Star Rail 2.5, including the patchs release date, new characters, banner structure (and a new banner type), story updates, and more have been revealed ahead of its arrival in September. Version 2.5 is the next big update for HoYoverses hit turn-based RPG. The patch will continue the story arc initiated with the quests from Version 2.4, which sees the Astral Express crew visiting the Xianzhou Luofu to attend the Wardance Ceremony and getting involved in a prisoners escape. The details, many of which had leaked, were revealed during the Honkai: Star Rail 2.5 livestream.

Three new characters will be released during the patch, two of which are 5-star units, whereas one is a 4-star character. Feixiao, Lingsha, and Moze have all been seen as NPCs in the games story quests, but will now be fully controllable. Additionally, the story on the Xianzhou Luofu should continue to develop as players...