#2.7 livestream

[generalsdiary]

Sunday mannerisms I noticed during the 2.7 livestream

when he finds something funny or amusing but doesn't laugh out loud - his right wing twitches

when he is happy or joyous - his left wing twitches

when he is flustered, shy or laughing out loud - both wings twitch

[overdressedcarp]

As much as it kills me to see 7 patches go by with no Ratio rerun even as all of his best teammates get at least 2 banners in the same span of time... honestly it's pretty in-character for him to hang back and let everyone else have the spotlight. He's a teacher at heart; he'd want his allies and students to find ways to shine on their own without relying on him for success. Why clamor for banner space when he could hype up his boyfriend Strategic Partner instead?

There's no rush, after all.

[littlekiara96]

MYDEI

MORE LIKE

MY DEUS

(yes, I see that door. yes, I'll take it.)

My dumb shenanigans undercut

His colour palette. Why so pretty.

The white hair tainted with (not actual, but that's the aesthetic) blood and the golden eyes...

Mydei lacks the actual red hair but now, I would BET MY ASS he fights with his fists. He's dressed like an RPG Monk and shows no actual weapon (also, his pose). And that lion/wolf (more wolf but that's clearly too much of a mane) looks like a summon. So basically a JoJo Stand. Which is not helping me in this.

Now, I don't think he'll be a Mama's Boy. But we can still be surprised.

WAIT. Could he be a ref to Achilles? Because he's presented in the middle of a battlefield, but he seems unarmed and lacking pretty vital armour... and yet, he's alright. Scratchless.

What does Wikipedia have to say about his name? Anything there?

... well, can't say that doesn't make sense, if that's the ref.

[baeshijima]

i cant do this rn im so overwhelmed gO BACK GO BACK THERES TOO MUCH THERE GRGGRGGFGFHH

[hxkerwxlf]

Honkai Star Rail Livestream 2.7 Redeem Codes!

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[sevenarbitergenerals]

nanook is that you?? well I assume it’s this world’s version of ichor but I do wonder about whether the aeon of destruction had anything to with it!

[onceuponaladye]

*slams fists on the table*

WE'RE PULLING AN ALL NIGHTER FOR THE SPECIAL PROGRAM COMING UP THIS WEEK LETS GOOOOOOO

[the-astral-express-archive]

Honkai: Star Rail | Story & New Area Screenshots From Version 2.7 "A New Venture on the Eighth Dawn" Preview Livestream

Source: Gematsu

[generalsdiary]

SUNDAY

im not normal about him, not one bit.

[omenlight]

in honor of 2.7 livestream lel

[neapenning]

Real footage of the 2.7 livestream greenroom

[chilledpixl]

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[toptophat]

FORK YEAH!!! 2.7 LIVESTREAM!!!

Sadly no Boothill, but we have been eating well in the past two updates so it's fair!

Anyways....

They tried to be very subtle about it, but we kinda already guessed that Sunday would join the express, honestly I'd be glad to have him on both the express team and my team (those floaty light things are gonna be on my side now MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!) don't worry buddy, we'll take good care of you!!

Welcome back Miss Tingyun (or Fugue) glad to see you "snapped" back into action! But I wanna know, wtf is she doing here on the train??? I'm definitely excited to know!

HERTA!!! I wonder, what could be so important that she'd have to get involved in person?

Also AMPHOREUS!!!! I know Penacony was peak and all but I'm a sucker for ancient greece stuff so this is gonna be peak to me!! (Do you think Dr Ratio has some connection to this planet?)

Imagine if le Argenti just shows up out of nowhere on this planet not even Akivili went to? Who am I kidding, he's mr worldwide of course he's gonna be there!!

Ooooh

Ahhhh (there had to be a cat girl at some point, didn't there? 😂)

AHHHHHH!!! SHE'S GORGEOUS!!! I'D PULL FOR HER IF I HAD ENOUGH TICKETS 😭😭😭

maybe for the rerun 🥲

I don't know why I thought The Herta was gonna be an old lady (that would've been sick af honestly! But I think I vibe with this goddess 😍)

Ok, I had a blast with 2.6! My goats got their overdue spotlight, it's my new favourite quest, completed the side quests and have more than enough for Sunday and hopefully a certain lightcone when the time comes! (Or maybe I'd have more than enough if I win Sunday's 50/50?) In fact the 2.X journey in general was just amazing!!! But now that's all gone and done with... GIMME THAT 2.7!!! I NEED THAT CHICKEN BOI AND I NEED 3.X IMMEDIATELY TOO!!! So long Penacony, Next stop Amphoreus!!!

It's gonna be a wild ride for sure! One that hopefully, my tablet can handle until I get to university!!

Oh yeah, redeem codes!! DSJKDYQF82J3 MTJ2CG9XRK2F and UAJJDY9E8JJT

[krawlernyannyan]

VERSION 2.7 UPDATE LIVESTREAM INFO ROUND-UP

Big stream tonight! This version will be the last before the new planet and there's a ton to look forward to here:

PLOT: A NEW VENTURE ON THE EIGHTH DAWN

This patch's Trailblaze Mission acts both as the epilogue to Penacony's story and the prologue to Amphoreus.

Himeko is out looking into Amphoreus more to be safe while the crew resupplies at Penacony before the big trip. In the process, they catch a fugitive Sunday.

Sunday's fate may change based on Trailblazer decisions.

Tingyun-as-Fugue boarded the Express after the Crew's Xianzhou adventure, courtesy of Ruan Mei. She'll be returning to the Xianzhou soon but wanted to stop somewhere else to gather her thoughts first and will be joining the Crew's adventures in Penacony.

This is a main story mission, not a continuance, and a story recap feature has been added to keep you caught up with the Penacony plot to that point.

Along with these details, the Amphoreus teaser has been released!

CHARACTERS: SUNDAY AND FUGUE

Sunday is a five-star Imaginary unit following the Path of Harmony. When he uses his Skill, a targeted ally and their summons will immediately act and be buffed (with the buff increasing if they have a summon at all). This Skill will fail to advance actions when used on Harmony units. His Ultimate and Technique likewise buff teammates. (Teammates with a summon include Topaz, Jing Yuan, and Lingsha.)

Fugue is a five-star Fire unit following the Path of Nihility. Her presence on the battlefield allows teammates to deal Super Break damage to Weakness Broken enemies, with her Skill enhancing a targeted teammates' Break Effect for a set number of attacks and causing their attacks to reduce enemy defense. While this buff is applied, Fugue's Basic Attack is enhanced. Her Ultimate deals Fire damage to all enemies and ignores Weakness Type to reduce Toughness.

BANNERS

The first half of v2.7 features Sunday and Jing Yuan as the featured five-stars with Qingque, Arlan, and Tingyun as the accompanying four-stars. Four-star LCs included are x, y, and Swordplay.

In the second half, Fugue and Firefly are the featured five-stars and Gallagher, Yukong, and Misha are the featured four-stars. Four-star LCs partnered with these banners are x, y, and z.

MAPS: THE PARTY CAR

The Astral Express opens up a new car! Pivotal to this car is the Trailblazer's room on the second floor, modified from an old storage room. Features an extensive bar with robot bartender.

NEW PATH: REMEMBRANCE

The new playable Path, Remembrance, focuses around special summoned teammates called Memo Sprites, which act as additional teammates in battle tied to their owners.

New materials for the Path will be added shortly in v3.0. Emphasis was made to point out that we wouldn't see "new materials for other Paths" added for a while after this.

EVENTS

Cosmic Home Decor Guide sees the Trailblazers renovating their room, and having to help out Pom-Pom around the Express using teams to earn the funding to make it the perfect luxurious relaxation space. Crew meetings will require strategy and planning to earn the most funding. Completing this mode will also unlock the ability to change Pom-Pom's outfit!

Between the Frames sees the Trailblazer become March's photography assist at Paperfold University. Photographing scenes will fulfill goals set by Mr. Reca, and afterwards a special photo spot will open up where players can invite characters and friends for snapshots.

Gift of Odyssey will naturally be returning.

Planar Fissure (Ornaments) and Realm of the Strange (Relics) are the double drop events of this patch.

A new Express Gift provides the Trailblazers the choice of a free standard 5-star character!

MODE UPDATES

The Divergent Universe will be updated in v2.7. This comes with new Equations, Curios, and Occurrences, and the refresh on save files is being extended from one week to once every DU update. 3.0 will features ways of obtaining Synchronicity Points faster to reduce grind time for rewards.

Pure Fiction will be adding a new Grit mechanic to buff teammates once activated. There are no longer a set number of enemies to defeat, but Normal Enemies will respawn infinitely until the boss is defeated (and defeating the runts will deplete the boss' HP.)

The Forgotten Hall will now allow players to start new runs at Floor 9 instead of Floor 7.

RELICS

New Wishful Resin will allow players to modify Relic substats when crafting in addition to using materials to determine main stats. 1 Resin will allow one substat to be chosen, 4 will allow 2. Wishful Resin can be obtained by breaking down Self-Modeling Resin. Further details will be announced later.

Variable Dice can be used on fully-leveled 5-star equipment to reallocate stat buffs and further control a Relic's desired output.

[baeshijima]

2.7 LIVESTREAM ON FRIDAY

AND THEN THE CN, KR AND JP VERSIONS

THRIWS UP

[revserrayyu]

2.7 Penacony thoughts [part 1]

**Spoiler warning** for everything up until we finish our little shopping trip with Fugue. At the time of writing this, I’ve already finished all of the 2.7 story and may reference events that happen a bit later, so just be wary of that.

As much as I believe Sunday to be an intelligent man, I thought there was no way the people of Penacony wouldn’t recognize his handsome face and pierced wing just because of a simple outfit change, but call me a fool since he manages to leisurely waltz through the dreamscape undetected thanks to the power of Harmony so he can fiddle with everyone’s minds to help disguise himself.

Knowing now that Wonweek was just Sunday’s older self disguised, this moment doesn’t feel as comical as it did upon first experiencing it, but he sounded so calm and sincere here that I have no doubt Sunday would actually say this to a real pepeshi, and for that I love him.

Everyone say thank you to Jade for setting our angel free. A part of me wished we would see more of his rescue other than just the same 2.3 scene in a flashback, but oh well. Guess she really just freed him from his chains and disappeared among a sea of butterflies. Oh, wrong quantum character, tee-hee~

Breaking news: red text is still powerful enough to make me pause and send subtle fear into my heart, no matter how silly the situation appears.

He said the thing.

This was honestly so cute to hear about. Yeah he tells us it was one of his first failures but just picturing a young Sunday trying to fly is adorable. I read his character stories before starting the quest (which means I was spoiled about him joining the Express) and his first one also showed that playful side to him and while I know it’s mainly because he was a child when writing that letter but it made him feel more human to me. He seemed so closed off and seemingly perfect as a npc but now I feel like we’re getting to see more of his true emotions since he doesn’t have this huge pressure of being the Oak Family head anymore and I love that for him.

Out of all the possible disguises he could’ve possibly chosen, he decided on a lady intellitron. At least this shows how believable his disguise is to others.

For a moment I thought Sunday managed to fool Welt and slipped away unnoticed, which would’ve been quite a surprise, but thankfully Welt managed to pick up on the suspicious vibes this angel was giving off. Sunday admits he has no ill intent but Welt decides to make doubly sure of that by keeping a close eye on him throughout the remainder of this story.

I originally thought that part of Robin’s deal with Jade would be that the siblings could no longer see each other again, but since they did cross paths later on, I suppose I could rule that out, even if Sunday was still disguised. For fun, let’s just say she gave up her voice in exchange, since none of her lines were actually spoken (which I assume is due to the voice actor strike still going on.)

I wish I had the HI3 knowledge to know what happened to our dear grandpa. I seriously need to dive into some lore.. maybe watch a couple videos. Eventually.

Behold! All the Tingyun eidolons everyone received while pulling for Sunday! This is around the time I realized that Tingyun’s voice actor did indeed get switched. I know from the 2.7 livestream that Fugue had Anya listed instead of Laci, which didn’t seem too outlandish to me at first, considering the characters themselves had different names, but to replace the old va completely with Tingyun’s four star form too? Eh, that doesn’t really sit right with me. I get Tingyun and Fugue are essentially the same person, but they’re different enough that they could’ve made it work with both. If Ruan Mei could rework the girl’s body and give her more tails, I could believe her voice got messed up a little during whatever experiments she endured so we could have two different actors.

Again, I’m just gonna assume the replacement was due to the strike and I’m gonna believe that to be the reason why Himeko, Dan Heng & Stelle (& maybe Caelus, I dunno) didn’t speak either. Still a shame since I love hearing them whenever the story updates, but I can imagine their voices in my head if I try hard enough. Anyways, I’m sure Remembrance has gotta be one other paths influencing Amphoreus; as for the last one, who knows. Place your bets.

Can’t blame Wonweek for passing out after witnessing this while tuning. Evil and controlled Tingyun is on par with a nightmare.

His efforts weren’t in vain though because all the Tingyun eidolons did some fancy showcase and allowed the gorgeous Fugue to finally make her grand return! Or grand debut I guess since this is technically our first time meeting this version of her. Confusion aside, I seriously love this updated design for her. She’s so elegant! And now with the fire element and even more tails she literal became a Ninetales

Waking up with now memories is giving me Promised Neverland flashbacks and I’m suddenly so sad for our girl. And I know she’s constantly referred to as “Tingyun” throughout the entire story by other characters and even the text, but I’m still gonna call her Fugue.

Everyone say thank you to Ruan Mei for saving our pretty fox lady. Ain’t this fun? Knowing that someone like her and Jade, two characters people openly dislike, managed to both bring back another beloved character? Jokes on y’all because I’ve always enjoyed these ladies and now I can appreciate them even more~

I can’t hear “traveling merchant” and not think of Luocha. Just the mere thought of him makes me nervous, especially now since we learned at the end of 2.5 that his coffin contained a piece of Tayzzyronth’s body and if our mad scientist manages to get that in her possession I fear what else she’ll cook up in this lab.

After the sad flashbacks, we take Fugue on a little shopping trip to lighten the mood and we assist picking out gifts for Fu Xuan, Jung Yuan and Bailu and it was at this moment where I thought “oh no, she doesn’t remember Yukong?!” and started to freak out. Thankfully I worried for nothing as our beloved ace pilot shows up in person later once we meet up with Himeko again on the Radiant Feldspar.

Once again this whole reunion giving me Promised Neverland vibes, especially ch181 with knowing deep within your heart that you know these new people somehow from a past that you can’t quite remember as vividly as them but they still make you feel safe and complete. I really do wonder when Phantylia took control, or if we possibly never knew the old Tingyun at all and she was controlled by Phantylia from the moment we met. The story quest was a long time ago, so if there were any hints, the odds that I’ve forgotten are high.

It does warm my heart to hear her call us benefactors again. Whether it be a Phantylia thing or an old Tingyun thing to call us that, it just feels right coming from her.

To be honest, the 2.7 story didn’t feel all that long when compared to the last couple patches, but I’m gonna cut it short here and finish the rest in another two posts. Probably.