When will Honkai: Star Rail 2.2 be released?

By James On May 6, 2024

Honkai: Starrail‘s 2.2 patch is coming soon and brings new characters and story. Most players will be looking forward to the release of Robin and Boothill as playable characters, but the patch will also include a lot of other content.

Below we explain when Honkai: Starrail maintenance begins and ends, next to the release time of version 2.2. We’ve also added some details about what you can expect from it Honkai: Starrail version 2.2.

What time is Honkai: Star Rail offline for maintenance?

Honkai: Starrail goes offline for maintenance Tuesday May 7 or Wednesday May 8 (depending on your time zone), at the following times and will be unavailable for approximately five hours:

May 7 at 3pm PDT off the west coast of North America
May 7 at 6pm EDT off the east coast of North America
May 7 at 10pm GMT for Great Britain
May 7 at 11:00 PM CET for Western Europe/Paris
May 8 at 7am JST for Japan/Tokyo
May 8 at 8am AEST for Australia/Sydney

The patch for version 2.2 is now available for pre-download. Be sure to burn your fuel before maintenance begins, if you wish.

What time does Honkai: Star Rail version 2.2 start?

Honkai: Starrail must return from maintenance with version 2.2 at the following times:

May 7 at 8pm PDT off the west coast of North America
May 7 at 11pm EDT off the east coast of North America
May 8 at 3am GMT for Great Britain
May 8 at 4am CET for Western Europe/Paris
May 8 at 12:00 JST for Japan/Tokyo
May 8 at 1pm AEST for Australia/Sydney

The servers may become available sooner or later depending on how maintenance goes, but these are approximate times when 2.2 should go live. Normally Hooverse is quite good at adhering to maintenance times. Normally we don’t get extensive maintenance, but sometimes it ends prematurely!

What’s new in Honkai: Star Rail version 2.2?

The crown jewels of the new patch are Robin and Boothill, the new five-star characters. Robin, a Physical Harmony character, will launch in the first half of the patch and Boothill, a Physical Hunt character, will launch in the second half of the patch.

While 2.2 probably won’t feature the full conclusion to the Penacony story, the big boss fight seems to imply that we’re nearing the end. In the trailer above we see the return of two characters from the Xianzhou Luofu as everyone works together to take down a big baddie, so it’s probably safe to say things are starting to wrap up here. (Unless… they go bigger than this for a while taller bad guy?)

The patch will also have some quality of life changes, such as the ability to favorite characters and switch character paths (like when you switch Trailblazer from Destruction to Preservation) while keeping the light cones and relics you want.