Screenshot by PC Invasion You’ll fight in a lot of battles as you advance through the Honkai Star Rail campaign. Sometimes, your enemies will be weak enough that everything feels quite rote. You might wish you could just activate an auto-battle mode to speed things up a little. Fortunately, the game’s developers anticipated that need. Here is our guide on how to turn on auto-battle in Honkai Star Rail. Note We’ll have a Honkai Star Rail guides and features hub soon, so stay tuned. You won’t be able to activate auto-battle when you first start playing the game. Diving through the various menus will get you nowhere. That’s because the mode only becomes available once you advance far enough within the campaign. To turn on auto-battle in Honkai Star Rail, you must first clear the Simulated Universe First Closed Beta mission. This is a Trailblaze mission. As the plot progresses, it will naturally lead you to the mission. Screenshot by PC Invasion The Simulated Universe First Closed Beta mission becomes available shortly after you finally meet Herta. That meeting happens just after the first big boss battle. You will talk to her a few times and then join her in her office, where she makes a portal available to the Simulated Universe. Inside that universe, you can toggle auto-battle on and off even in the middle of a battle. Your party members will burn through skills quickly, but this can also improve the pace of combat substantially. Even after you gain access to auto-battle, you won’t be able to use it on every mission. As you complete a lot of Trailblaze and story missions, you’ll typically have to issue orders yourself. However, you can use auto-battle on simpler missions where you might be grinding for resources, which is a welcome convenience. Honkai Star Rail is available via its official website.

Sit back, relax and let the game play itself Honkai Star Rail’s combat system differs greatly from Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact 3rd. Unlike these two, where you fight in the overworld in real-time, HSR has a traditional turn-based system with skills reminiscent of both games. However, with turn-based combat comes a fun little feature that can make or break an experience auto-battling! If you would like to learn more, continue reading to discover how to turn on auto-battling in Honkai Star Rail. How to Turn on Auto Battle in Honkai Star Rail To briefly summarize auto-battling, it’s a feature in turn-based combat systems that lets your characters automatically attack and activate abilities. While their moves aren’t always optimal for specific situations, it’s a nice way to sit back and relax if you’re struggling with a fight or just want to focus on something else and let the game play itself for a bit. You can even spend some time looking into the lore of March 7th’s name if you want. During Honkai Star Rail’s first Simulated Universe storyline quest, you’ll learn how to initiate auto-battling through a brief tutorial detailing the following In the top corner of your combat screen, you’ll see three buttons fast forward, auto-battle and pause. Click the button with two arrows pointing toward each other to start auto-battling. To deactivate it and manually select skills again, press this button again. Related Does Honkai Star Rail Have Controller Support on Mobile? – Answered By activating auto-battle, your character will automatically use their basic attacks, skills and ultimates without you having to do anything. However, if you don’t like this system, you can always keep it off and do everything manually. In my experiences with using this, it’s a decent system that made some helpful decisions I otherwise wouldn’t have considered. Honkai Star Rail is available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Android, and iOS. If you want to learn more about the game, check out our complete Honkai Star Rail content list by clicking the tag below. About The Author Madison Benson Madison is a writer who has played video games for over twenty years. When she isn't playing games on her PC, she's hanging out with her dogs and rabbits. More Stories by Madison Benson

HonkaiNews Network @marisahonkai Honkai 5.8 v1 Overview - New valk Griseo, Skill Translation, Beginner event, Battle Pass, Chapter 30 new area, Honkai auto-chess and more https:// #HonkaiImpact3rd #Griseo #Hoyoverse In the official Honkai Impact 3rd game, there is a Combat System present when battling. There are some mechanics that are unique to certain characters and some powerful skills that can change the tide of battle in-game. Basic Attack[] Pretty self-explanatory. Evade / Block / Parry / Throw Counterattack[] Evade[] Evade can be used to avoid enemy hits, the effect of evasion skill is depending on battlesuit used. Pressing the Evade button will make player roll or slide depending on the valkyrja used Cooldown is around 1s Perfect Evasion will launch Active Evasion skill against purple glowing attacks and you will have to wait it to recharge before can continue launching another one, recover EP and activate Passive Evasion regardless of Active Evasion cooldown. Some characters may have multiple Active Evasion charges. Some valkyrja can activate Branch Attacks if they used a Evade or Perfect Evasion skill without the need to use normal attacks. Block[] Some characters like Yamabuki Armor, Dimension Breaker or Bright Knight - Excelsis does replace evade with the block function and vice versa. On Bronya, player can press and hold block button will make character block all damages in front as long as the shield does not break, can also recharge shield instantly by releasing the block button. On Bronya, if you release the block button within a second after receiving damage then you will release both Active Block and [Block Counterattack]. On Bright Knight - Excelsis, Block will react normally just like evasions except entire Block duration have both i-Frames and p-Frames. Only Bronya's shield is able to deflect enemy projectiles, Bright Knight - Excelsis shield does not! Parry[] Added in version with Liliya Blueberry Blitz's Battlesuit, the mechanic is similar to Evade but have few differences Using Ultimate button to Parry Parry any type of enemies even yellow glowing one Additional Evade / Block Mechanics[] Evade / Block have 4 types Evade / Block animation, Perfect Evade / Block, Passive Evasion / Block Counterattack and Active Evasion or Ultimate Evasion / Active Block skills. Evade animation is usually 1s and there is around i-Frame invincible-Frame and p-Frame perfect-Frame. Block have infinite i-Frame and p-Frame as long as shield is not broken and enemies hit the shield. If player sucessfully triggers a P-Frame, the Valkyrja will have seconds slow down, receive 2 EP, triggering Active Evasion skill by default and guarantee activate Passive Evasion skill if available. Some characters have special skill that doesn't require p-Frame to activate Passive Evasion. Perfect Evasion doesn't trigger Active Evasion if evaded enemies glowing yellow eyes, even if the character have special skill that activate Active Evasion at any time like White Knight - Moonlight or Herrscher of the Void, however will still guarantee to activate Passive Evasion if available. Active Block on Bronya doesn't require Perfect Block but Perfect Unblock instead, also guarantee triggering Active skill regardless of enemies glowing yellow eyes or nope. Perfect Block on Bronya will deflect all of projectiles but not unchangable projectiles or hitscan one Fu Hua boss and Black Nucleus "round ball shots" for example. Throw Counterattack[] Introduced in version with lance users, certain enemy attacks are opened for counterattack. The Throw Attack button will be overwritten with Counterattack button and peform a special animations unlike the normal Throw. Throw Counterattack can be activated regardless of Throw Attack cooldown as long as there is a prompt. Branch Attack / Charge Attack / Chase Attack[] Branch Attack[] When you attack using Basic Attacks or Evade - and hold the attack button for a while, your Valkyrja will have light appear around them and then make a special sound, pressing the attack button again will launch a Branch Attack. Some characters like Valkyrja Strike or White Knight - Moonlight will require continuous attack button pressing after doing a Branch Attack to keep the Valkyrja on attacking the target. Charge Attack[] Branch attack will be replaced with Charge attack when using some characters like any playable Murata Himeko or Bronya Zaychik. Just hold the normal attack button to charge and release the button to attack enemies. Tag-In Attack / QTE Attack[] Tag-In Attack[] Tag-in attacks will be launched when you switch character, it can be a strong attack or a branch attack depending on the valkryja used. QTE Attack[] QTE skill is a special skill that can be launched by tag-in if your Valkyrja has been triggered by a special conditions; float, frozen, stun, etc... Weapon skill / Ultimate[] Weapon skill[] Depending on weapons, it may have passive skills or active skills or even both. If your weapon has an active skill then it will appear on the screen, and mostly will require EP to use. Throw Attack[] Durandal perform Throw Attack at HoV Throw Attack is a permanent Weapon skill for all Lance-type weapons. All lances does not consume EP Using same animation regardless of lances. Ultimate[] Ultimate skills are the most powerful skills in the game but requires a huge amount of EP. One-time Usage Ultimate[] Mostly use a large amount of EP. This type of ultimate usually grants invincibility to all types of damage in a short time i-Frame. It's the most simple type of Ultimate and is usually used to avoid enemy attacks. Burst Mode Ultimate[] This type of ultimate can be found when using some specific characters which their normal attack is replaced with more powerful "Burst Attacks" when using Burst Mode. The only exception is Scarlet Knight which use One-time Usage Ultimate but still count as Burst Mode. This type of ultimate is basically an upgrade or enhanced normal attack function at the cost of losing EP/HP. Normal / Branch / Charge Attack Damage does apply to "Burst Attacks" during Burst Mode. Player still receives damage from any sources. Button Replace[] Fu Hua[] This type was first introduced in version on Valkyrja Accipiter. This will change the Ultimate button with attack buttons and acts as its combo trigger. For more information on playable characters visit their standalone battlesuit page. Post-Houkai Odyssey Avatars[] Introduced in version when using Avatars, the Ultimate button will be replaced with Jump button and Weapon skill button will be replaced with Ultimate button. . 95 75 309 333 298 180 186 451

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