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Time of India
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Is Phainon the next Irontomb? Full breakdown of Honkai Star Rail's Latest Trailer
Honkai Star Rail Phainon Trailer Breakdown Phainon Trailer — "Coronal Radiance" | Honkai: Star Rail The brand-new trailer of the game, the Coronal Radiance trailer of Honkai Star Rail Version 3.4, aroused heated debate among players, and for good reason. Instead of putting it all on spectacular fights or mechanics, the emphasis is placed on a strange being named Phainon, who lives in a simulation of reality, Amphoreus, with no exits to be found. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Being more than 33 million cycles old, Phainon's life is not so easy. The trailer brings up identity, failure, and an unavoidable change, and all this is done with a hint of a chilling possibility: that Phainon is becoming the feared Lord Ravager, Irontomb. The Irontomb Connection and the Fate of Phainon The core of the trailer is a haunting question of whether Phainon still remains himself or whether he has turned into something much worse. Many hints point towards his transformation into Irontomb: Infinite Loops and Erosion of Emotions The counter 33,550,336 is something more than a background detail. It is a pain record. Phainon failed, he survived, and he saw the annihilation of the world over millions of cycles. This repetition over and over again is cumbersome and saps his humanity and willpower. Following the numerous resets, even the strongest sense of self starts to fall apart. The Flame Reaver's Blade and Golden Ichor When Phainon holds the weapon of the Flame Reaver, golden ichor flows from his hand, a substance commonly associated with Ravager corruption. It is later found out that this weapon is Dawnmaker, his own sword. This scene represents the protagonist and antagonist completely overlapping, where Phainon may no longer be fighting the enemy but becoming it. Monstrous Transformation As the trailer advances, the body of Phainon is mutated—having clawed hands, breaking effects of light, and ethereal fragments of the other Chrysos Heirs. His mutated body harshly resembles that of Irontomb, a Ravager that ruins civilizations by the systematic breakdown of the system instead of conquering them by brute force. Such a visual transformation has a suggestion of something irreversible. Reality Falling Apart
Time of India
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
5 beginner mistakes to avoid in Honkai Star Rail
(Image via miHoYo) HoYoverse's Honkai: Star Rail's immersive deep progression systems and turn-based combat make it an exciting experience. While it's thrilling, the intricate systems can trip up the newcomers, slowing their progress. Avoiding these early missteps is the key to a smooth journey and understanding core mechanics, which helps prevent frustration and any wasted effort. Here are the 5 common Honkai Star Rail mistakes to avoid which every new trailblazer must steer clear of for a smoother journey across the stars. Ignoring pre-farming materials Waiting too long for Honkai Star Rail farming materials could stall your progress. Honkai: Star Rail demands consistent upgrades to tackle mid-game challenges. Spend your Trailblaze Power on Trace materials, Character EXP, and the Light Cone upgrades early on. You will be able to start farming five-star Relics by Trailblaze Level 40. Do not fall behind, trying to hoard resources, or you will continue hitting walls within Forgotten Hall and Simulated Universe. Honkai Star Rail Beginner's Guide - 15 BEST Tips to Progress Smoothly! HSR Beginner Guide, HSR Guide As a smart player, always anticipate your needs. As soon as your desired character gets announced, ensure that they farm their boss drops proactively and trace components and Kaix Taff. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Livguard Lithium-X: The Future of Power Backup Livguard Buy Now Undo Such preparation would guarantee your new powerhouse to remain battle-ready, with maximized impact right from the moment they join the crew. Spreading resources without strategy A quick way to stall progress is pouring all the valuable materials into too many characters at once. While the temptation for leveling up all-new units remains strong, scattering limited resources will leave you with the underpowered core team. So, always ensure Honkai Star Rail team composition to be strategized. Keep your focus on building two to three synergistic teams that are capable of handling diverse challenges. Concentrating upgrades on the key damage supports, dealers, and sustain units would ensure you have needed resilience and firepower for demanding endgame models like the Memory of Chaos from the start. Overlooking stellar starting crew Resist your urge to bench all the initially free characters for some shiny gacha pulls. The starter roster of Honkai: Star Rail—Dan Heng, Trailblazer, Natasha, and March 7th are surprisingly robust. Honkai Star Rail character upgrades remain tailored for early successes and offer essential roles like healing, solid damage, and shielding. The early enemies quite often share weaknesses that are aligned with elements of characters, making them effective. Natasha and March 7th particularly offer crucial cleansing and are able to sustain. It remains viable in the mid-game content, too. Investing in them will ensure you have a reliable core team while you gradually continue building others. They are far more than the placeholders. Not targeting enemies with Honkai Star Rail combat strategies Turn-based combat is not just about spamming attacks. Positioning matters, too. There are some skills, like the AoE strike of Trailblazer, that deal extra toughness damage to the primary target. To hit the enemy in the middle could break multiple foes all at once, while to attack a flanked target would just hit an extra. Trailblazer's Skill can deal equal damage to all the hit enemies, but the primary target will be suffering a greater depletion of Toughness. In the same way, Ultimate of Arlan would inflict the greatest damage on some specifically targeted enemies. So, always ensure to check the attack ranges and give priority to enemies, which can maximize the efficiency of the team. Neglecting the Light Cone power, use, and compatibility Complete Beginners Guide to Honkai: Star Rail - HSR Guide for Genshin Players Light Cones are quite powerful but do not be dazzled just by their raw stats or rarity. To equip high-rarity Light Cones can seem like a no-brainer, but the passives only get activated if the character matches the Path of the Cone. Destruction characters using the Hunt Light Cone can lose out on some crucial bonuses. Note: The 5-star Light Cone might look like an instant upgrade. If the passives, though, do not align with the role of the wielder, it's wasted. Always ensure to check Path alignment before you assign gear. Herta's Store free five-star Cones are powerful, but only when they are used correctly. In short, you must always ensure to match the Path Symbol on the Light Cone to the Path of the characters for Full power. Only then will you get maximum efficiency. Avoiding the above-said simple mistakes early on would ensure you have a smooth journey through the cosmos. Just keep your focus on Honkai Star Rail resource management, balanced teams, and smarter pulls, and you will maximize progress with ease. Endgame in Honkai: Star Rail demands strategy and not just your style to dominate the toughest battles. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Time of India
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Everything We Know About Elysium in Genshin Impact
Image via: HoYoverse Genshin Impact has made its fame on secrets, clues, and speculation and HoYoverse is aware. The new fuel to the fire of the community's long-standing and hopeful theory came from a most unexpected place, Yae Miko's birthday on June 27th, 2025. On the surface, this post seemed pretty normal, that was until one word, Elysium triggered every lore masters' sense. Considering Yae Miko's previous role in foreshadowing big story arcs, this wasn't merely poetic flourish. Is this the first actual hint leading to the mysterious territory of Nod-Krai? A Word Heavy with Significance 'Elysium' isn't an arbitrary selection. In myth, it is sometimes called a paradise—a final home for heroes. In HoYoverse's narrative cosmos, the word means something much more. Titles such as Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai: Star Rail have employed 'Elysium' to connote utopias woven with trickery or calamity. So when Genshin Impact adopts this term, it's probably not just for show. Or perhaps it's a sly allusion to the mood and mysteries of what's ahead, on deck next. Yae Miko's History of Hints Yae Miko's inscrutable casual birthday messages have turned out to be anything but trivial. Prior to Sumeru's release, she teasers about her involvement with a manuscript detailing a time loop—what would later become the region's primary narrative mechanism, the samsara. With her finally acknowledging Elysium, fans are lamenting the flourish not as an ending, but as a breadcrumb along HoYoverse's long narrative path. Nod-Krai and the Pattern of Deception If Elysium is an indication, players can expect to visit Nod-Krai to experience much more than just a beautiful new setting. Instead, we could be walking into a surreal utopia veiling a more sinister reality as an artificial Eden, or one constructed on erased martyrdom. In English, 'Elysium' suggests reward and seclusion, paradise and separation. HoYoverse has never had much patience for objectivity, the divine perfected at the human expense. By calling forth 'Elysium,' they're probably getting us ready for another land of hu-mongous contradictions where the utopia is an illusion and paradise costs a fortune. 5 NEW FEATURES IN GENSHIN IMPACT 5.7 UPDATE (CONDENSED LIVESTREAM) One word in Yae Miko's text might not validate all we've ever hoped for, but it sure does go a long way. To HoYoverse's credit, they're laying the foundation for Nod-Krai, and players should be attuned to these story murmurs. Elysium might be the most mainstream culture's first echo of a region built on dreams and cursed by the reality lying below them. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Time of India
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
stay night crossover in 3.4 trailer
AllBollywoodCelebscoopHollywoodOriginalsBinge Saber is coming to Honkai Star Rail in update 3.4 | Credit: YouTube Honkai Star Rail, the highly successful RPG title released by Hoyoverse, showcased its 3.4 update in a livestream today, and provided a sneak peek into its much-anticipated crossover with Fate/stay night. Hoyoverse have become one of the pioneers in free-to-play gaming ever since the runaway success of Genshin Impact, which launched in 2020 and garnered a devoted fanbase for its immersive fantasy setting and distinctive character designs. Honkai: Star Rail × Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Collaboration Benefits OverviewCome check out the benefits from the Fate[UBW] collaboration event~ Learn More: — Honkai: Star Rail (@honkaistarrail) June 20, 2025 Honkai Star Rail, released in 2023, continues Hoyoverse's dominance of the F2P market, with a storyline focusing more on a sci-fi setting and including call-backs and references to the company's earlier Honkai titles such as Honkai Impact 3rd. The 3.4 update, titled 'For the Sun is Set to Die', features a crossover story arc with the Trailblazer, and prominent characters from the Fate/stay night franchise, such as Archer, Lancer and Saber. They will be featured in the patch storyline, and will have dedicated banner events. HSR's 3.4 collaboration features Saber and Archer Honkai Star Rail's 3.4 event introduces Saber and Archer as Collaboration Warps and as part of a Collaboration Storyline. The collaboration event will launch on July 11 at 12:00 (server time) and will allow players to pull for Saber and Archer as playable characters. The event also offers two unique Light Cones, with Saber's being called 'A Thankless Coronation.', and Archer's being called 'The Hell Where Ideals Burn'. Both the characters and their Light Cones have a 5-star rating. Players with a Trailblaze level of 3 or higher can also get Archer as a free login bonus. Aside from their availability in the Collaboration Warps, Saber and Archer will also appear in 3.4's crossover storyline event titled 'Sweet Dreams and the Holy Grail'. Going by the 3.4 trailer visuals, this crossover storyline may also feature appearances from Lancer and Gilgamesh. Aside from the iconic characters of Fate/stay night, version 3.4 also features a new locale called Aedes Elyse, as well as a new character native to the Honkai Star Rail universe known as Phainon. Phainon has a 5-star rarity, and comes with a 5-star Light Cone known as 'Thus Burns The Dawn'. Many of the bonuses of the HSR and Fate/Stay night collaboration event will remain available until the end of update 3.6, per Hoyoverse's official social media. For more news and updates from the world of OTT, and celebrities from Bollywood and Hollywood, keep reading Indiatimes Entertainment. First Published: Jun 20, 2025, 21:40 IST Pulak Kumar is an entertainment and current events writer who got his start with bylines in Sportskeeda and Koi Moi. He's immensely passionate about understanding and analyzing the latest happenings in Hollywood, anime, gaming and pop culture. Read More 20/6/2025 22:1:45
Time of India
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Hysilens in Honkai Star Rail 3.5, Release Date, Abilities, and More
Image via: X/honkaistarrail With Honkai: Star Rail preparing to launch its Version 3.4 update, excitement is already brewing for what's yet to come and it begins with Hysilens, the first officially revealed 5-star character set to arrive in Version 3.5. Marking a climactic development in the winding tale of the Chrysos Heirs, Hysilens are set to deliver, with their potential ubiquitous presence, a unique character narrative and game play role likely to redefine team compositions for quite some time. The Ocean's Coreflame: A New Chrysos Heir Hysilens isn't another high-rarity unit, she is the Knight Commander of Okhema, and is the newest Chrysos Heir to join the playable roster. With her immaculate design, black locks, a shell caliper, an ocean-themed color palette,she easily fits within the 'Ocean's Coreflame' concept that HoYoverse previously hinted at in their latest character drip marketing. Her background, deeply tied to the history-rich city of Amphoreus, makes her a natural choice to assume a main story figure after the 3.3 story arc cliffhanger that had players thirsting for resolution. Path of Nihility and Physical Power Hysilens will use the Physical element and walk the Path of Nihility, making her the second Physical Nihility character, following Luka. This makes her different from the majority of Physical characters, as they usually favor the Destruction or Hunt trees. Whether it's layering their debuffs to maximize effect, extending or preventing the positive effects of damage or damage over time, or even destabilizing entire enemy teams, Nihility Path characters are all about reigning enemies in. HoYoverse hasn't released her kit yet, theories and leaks from the community point to her likely being the game's third 5-star Damage-over-Time (DoT) specialist. That'd put her in the same company as Kafka and Black Swan while providing a Physical option in teams which is particularly handy for disposal of bosses with Physical Weakness. Tactical Value and Team Chemistry If Hysilens does indeed go down the narrow DoT route, she might have a good potential to provide players with new tactical flexibility. Physical DoT damage has been sorely lacking until now, and her introduction would permit exciting new mono-Physical teams or cross-element debuff builds. When combined with support units such as Pela or Silver Wolf, she can provide consistent, increasing damage and interrupt enemy strategy with debuffs. NEW UPDATE! ALL BANNERS FROM 3.4 TO 3.7! Hysilens, March SP, Dan Heng SP, Cyrene - Honkai: Star Rail As for Honkai: Star Rail, the next V. 3.5 should release in the weeks following the 3.4 cycle that looks to be just as loaded with new characters, including Phainon, Saber, and Archer. As narrative arcs of Amphoreus and the Chrysos Heirs get richer, Hysilens will surely not only deliver meta-shifting gameplay but more emotional gravitas to an epic tale in the making. Whether you're a fan of debuff-focused strategies, or character-driven storytelling, Hysilens is turning out to be one of the most intriguing additions to Honkai: Star Rail so far.
