Honkai: Star Rail Reveals New Character Acheron as Version 2.0 Reveal Is Coming This Week

Today Honkai: Star Rail developer HoYoverse announced the date of the next big update reveal and a new playable character coming down the line. 

We learn that update 2.0, which will introduce the new planet Penacony, will be revealed on Friday, January 26, 2024, at 19:30 UTC+8. That translates into 3:30 a.m. PST, 6:30 a.m. EST, 11:30 a.m. GMT, or 12:30 p.m. CET, depending on where you live. 

Since it’s a big milestone, the event will be livestreamed and introduced directly by CEO Lu “Dawei” Wei. 

We also get the reveal of a brand new character, Acheron. We don’t know whether she’ll come for 2.0 or afterward, but she’s a 5-star Lightning character following the path of Nihility affiliated with the Galaxy Rangers.

Here’s how she’s described:

“Lone voyagers in the cosmos are driven by two desires: to tread in the trails of the past, and to forge their own way. But under Their scrutiny… most end up adhering to the former.”

A drifter claiming to be a Galaxy Ranger. Her true name is unknown, and she walks the cosmos alone, carrying with her a long sword. Though aloof and taciturn, her blade flicks out like lashing lightning. And yet, she always strikes with her scabbard, never drawing the sword free.

She’s voiced by Allegra Clark in English and Miyuki Sawashiro in Japanese. You may be familiar with her as the voice of Raiden Shogun in Genshin Impact, Katalina in Granblue Fantasy, Aranea in Final Fantasy XV, Minfilia in Final Fantasy XIV, and many more big roles.

She’s not the first playable character we see that we’ll meet on Penacony, as HoYoverse already introduced Black Swan a while ago.  

While we don’t know whether they’ll be playable, we’ll also run into the Ever-Flaming Mansion family of the Annihilation Gang, who we just met in their own trailer a few days ago. Apparently, they want to destroy the whole planet. 

Below you can find the livestream for the 2.0 reveal, if you’d like to follow along. 

Honkai: Star Rail is available on PC, PS5, iOS, and Android. It’s available for free but with the usual microtransactions for those who want to partake. 

Speaking of updates to HoYoverse’s games‘ we also recently got the reveal of the next update for Honkai’s older brother, Genshin Impact.