Honkai Star Rail 1.4: Release Date & Countdown, Characters & Banners

Honkai Star Rail has a new update coming out in a few months known as the 1.4 update. Here's a look at everything that could come in it.

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Let's take a nice look at the upcoming 1.4 update for Honkai Star Rail. |© HoYoVerse

The Honkai Star Rail universe keeps expanding with fresh new updates. This month we are going to be getting the glorious 1.3 update on August 30, and of course, later this year, there will be another wonderful update for us to enjoy.

In this article, we are going to go over some of the rumors and leaks buzzing about the Honkai Star Rail 1.4 update.

Take a quick look and potentially learn something new about one of the world's most popular gacha games.

Update: We have updated this guide on October 1, 2023.

Honkai Star Rail 1.4 Release Date & Countdown

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When will the new Honkai Star Rail update come out? | © HoYoVerse

Currently, there is no leaked or official release date for the up-and-coming Honkai Star Rail update.

Since the game is having its 1.3 update next week, we can do some deductions and make a guess that the new 1.4 update should be available in October.

Remember, Hoyoverse usually releases updates for their games every 42 days, featuring two phases, where each phase runs for 21 days.

Going by that, we can speculate that the Honkai Star Rail 1.4 update will be released on October 11, 2023.

Honkai Star Rail 1.4 New Characters

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These are the three new characters coming out for Honkai Star Rail! | © HoYoVerse

There are three characters that have been revealed to come out in the new Honkai Star Rail 1.4 update.

Jingliu

Jingliu is a 5-star Ice Element user belonging to the Destruction Path.

Described as "one of the legendary heroes making up the High-Cloud Quintet, and bestowed with the title “Transcendent Flash.” Having ascended beyond mortal concepts of victory, she chose to walk a different path to obtain the power capable of slaying gods. Thereafter, one Sword Champion of the Luofu was removed from the Xianzhou’s records, and one traitor erased from the annuals was added."

Topaz and Numby

Topaz is a 5-Star Fire element user belonging to the Hunt Path.

Topaz and his trusty companion Numby are described as "Topaz, Senior Manager of the Strategic Investment Department in the Interastral Peace Corporation, and leader of the Special Debts Picket Team. Already a member of the “Ten Stonehearts” at a young age, Topaz’s core stone is the “topaz of debt retrieval.”

Her partner, the Warp Trotter “Numby,” is also capable of acutely perceiving where “riches” are located. It can even perform jobs involving security, debt collection, and actuarial sciences."

Guinafen

Guinafen is the new 4-Star Fire element user belonging to the Nihility Path.

Guinafen is "An outworlder who ended up residing in the Xianzhou by accident. She is now a passionate and vivacious street performer."

"With her real name being Guinevere, Guinaifen is the Xianzhou name given to her by her good friend Sushang."

"Faced with a whole new life on the Loufu and relying on her adoration of Xianzhou culture, Guinaifen quickly learned skills that would keep her clothed and fed — these being eating noodles upside down, smashing large stones upon the chest of others, and catching projectiles with her bare hands, et cetera."

Honkai Star Rail 1.4 Banners

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The new banners for Honkai Star Rail are looking pretty interesting! | © HoYoVerse

As per the current leaks, we will get Jingliu's banner in the first half of the Honkai Star Rail 1.4 update, with Topaz's banner arriving in the second half.

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