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Whether you’re familiar with Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail has been a delight for many to play. It seems HoYoverse listened to the complaints about Genshin and corrected them in Honkai Star Rail. For instance, HoYoverse has fine-tuned many menus, resource systems, and quests, making for an optimal playing experience. With each Honkai Star Rail update releasing exciting new content, now is a great time to be a HoYoverse fan. However, despite its positive qualities, Honkai Star Rail is far from a perfect game. Some elements, similar to Genshin Impact, can be tedious and leave a bad taste in the player’s mouth. Here are five frustrating parts of Honkai Star Rail that can ruin one’s Trailblazing experience.
4. Fighting With The Wrong Type
Forming creative and inventive parties in the gacha games of Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail is something many players enjoy. We love the idea of a Mono-Type or near Mono-Type party that focuses on having one element. However, it can be difficult to level more than one main party, especially when players are starting. Both of these situations can lead to encounters where players lack the correct element to deal with a certain foe. This can be an extremely frustrating scenario due to the amount of extra time fights will take. When using the wrong type, players will no longer be able to Break enemies and will only be able to slowly whittle them away. There are solutions to this problem, however. Ensuring to level a diverse group of characters will help you avoid this frustrating scenario.
3. Some Honkai Star Rail Enemies And Bosses Can Lead To Frustrating Fights
Another frustrating element from Honkai Star Rail can come from certain enemies. While many of the encounters seem reasonably balanced, a few are much harder than they appear to be. One such enemy is the Automaton Grizzly found on Jarilo-VI in Honkai Star Rail. The Automaton Grizzly is an Elite that boasts some powerful attacks and unique abilities. One of the most annoying abilities they use summons two Automaton Spiders. These units will explode if they are not destroyed in time, dealing huge damage. Another frustrating enemy, Svarog, is a Boss that can use a move that removes a character from combat. If the character isn’t rescued in time, with the player only using three characters now, the captured character will be one shot. To help ease frustration, adapting to these special moves is a key strategy.
2. Unskippable Dialogue Can Be A Frustrating Pace-Killer In Honkai Star Rail
Like Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail features a frustrating amount of unskippable dialogue. While this amount of story is great for the game’s quality overall, there are times when you might want to get the gameplay. Especially for less important side-content, many quests boil down to clicking through a lot of text, doing an objective, and repeating. Much of your time playing Honkai Star Rail is more or less spent clicking through droves of dialogue. If the game were to include a skip dialogue button, that might just be the perfect fix for the fans who don’t have enough time to sit through the story.
1. Leveling Light Cones Is More Tedious Than Genshin Impact
The most frustrating thing in Honkai Star Rail is leveling Light Cones. In Honkai Star Rail, Light Cones function the same as weapons in Genshin Impact. However, whereas Genshin Impact had a different and arguably easier system to level weapons, leveling Light Cones in Honkai Star Rail functions like leveling characters. In Genshin Impact, obtaining material to level weapons is extremely easy. Overall, in Genshin, you never really need to spend your daily Resin to get weapon crystals. For Honkai Star Rail, on the other hand, Assignments only provide a small amount of the Light Cone level-up material. This means that to fully level up your Light Cones, you will need to spend a good chunk of Trailblaze Power. Although this change may seem small, even tiny details can create large frustrations in Honkai Star Rail.
