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Version 8.5

Last updated 2026-05-08

Version 8.5
Debut Info
GLB:
NA: 05:00, OCT 23, 2025[1]
EU: 11:00, OCT 23, 2025[1]
SEA: 16:00, OCT 23, 2025[1]
CN: 11:00, SEP 25, 2025[2]
JP: 17:00, OCT 23, 2025[3]
KR: 17:00, OCT 23, 2025[4]
TW/HK/MO: 16:00, OCT 23, 2025[5]
Previous Update
Version 8.4
Next Update
Version 8.6

Plant a wish in the garden of love, and it shall bloom in serenity.

Welcome to v8.5 [A Lightful Love]!

Update Content

※※※※※Story※※※※※

Main Story Part 2 Chapter X: Reunited Under the Light of Faith

How long must one endure the darkness to glimpse a single star?

※※※※※Battlesuits※※※※※
※※※※※Outfits※※※※※
※※※※※Weapons※※※※※
※※※※※Stigmata※※※※※
※※※※※Events※※※※※
Whispers of Love (Banner)Battle Pass (v8.5) (Banner)Dreamland Treasures (Banner)Carnival Spend Bonuses (v8.5) (Banner)With You! Youthful Dreams (Banner)Ellie in Wonderland (Banner)Glimmering Revelry (Banner)Time Capsule (v8.5) (Banner)Autumn Outing (Banner)Princess of Silver Snow and Dreams (Banner)Secret Garden's Enchantment (Banner)Part 2 Chapter X Debut (Banner)Love's Blessed Gifts (Banner)Yippee Arcade (Banner)Feather Leaves from the Night (v8.5) (Banner)Go All Out! Ultimate Battles Across Dreams! (Banner)Pink Branch (v8.5) (Banner)Powered Duo (v8.5) (Banner)

Game Adjustments & Optimizations

Battlesuits

The following data are at max skill level:

Behold! Fate-Defying Dragon (Icon) Behold! Fate-Defying Dragon
  1. Edited the skill description of Evil Dragon's Dogma from "when Stellar Outburst ends" to "after Stellar Outburst ends". This is only a text correction, and it does not affect the actual skill effects.
Planar Armament - Warped Spacetime (Icon) Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime
  1. Adjusted the Astral Ring skill effects of Sky Arc Star: Homing Pigeon: When she is not the leader and during Stellar Outburst, the first QTE of Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime will fully restore Scorch. Added the effect where her next Ultimate will cast Condensed Thunder. The condition for restoring 140/128 SP has been edited from after the first hit of Pierced Sun/Rainless Skies to after the first hit of Pierced Sun/Rainless Skies/Condensed Thunder.
  2. Fixed an issue where the skill "Fearless" sometimes restored incorrect Astral Ring Intensity values.
  3. Fixed an issue where the Drifting Edge model sometimes glitched in the Valkyrie screen's Appreciation Mode.
Thousand-Faced Maestro - Cameo! (Icon) Thousand-Faced Maestro: Cameo!
  1. Fixed an issue where her animation sometimes glitched when taking hits in Part 2's Open World.
Mad Pleasure - Shadowbringer (Icon) Mad Pleasure: Shadowbringer
  1. Fixed an issue where with Wheel of Destiny activated, players sometimes were unable to tap and trigger Phantom support attacks during Stellar Outburst.
Valkyrie Blastmetal (Icon) Valkyrie Blastmetal
  1. Fixed an issue with abnormal eyebrow color in her default outfit.
Herrscher of Human - Ego (Icon) Herrscher of Human: Ego
  1. Fixed an issue where voice lines sometime repeated abnormally during finalization animation.
Miss Pink Elf♪ (Icon) Miss Pink Elf♪
  1. Fixed an issue where error messages sometimes abnormally appeared when she was equipped with Flawless Benediction or Flawless Benediction: Legacy and being hit by certain enemies' throws.
Divine Prayer (Icon) Divine Prayer
  1. Fixed an issue with clipping of the Winter Princess (Icon) Winter Princess outfit on the Valkyrie screen.
◆ Others
  1. Added the character trait tag "Summoned Entity" to the Valkyrie system.
  2. Fixed an issue where some Valkyries' pupil highlight rendering sometimes glitched.

Weapons

Draconic Sky-Scorching Fury & Draconic Sky-Scorching Fury: Ultra!
  1. Improved weapon active's text description: "Enhanced Weapon Skill" changed to "Rampant Dragon Claws". This is only a text correction, and it does not affect the actual effects.
  2. Optimized weapon visual effects.

Stigmata

Phantom of the Fog Set
  1. Fixed an issue where recommended characters were not available for the stigmata.

AstralOps

Chenxue (Icon) Chenxue
  1. Edited the skill description for SP recovery skill "Luminous Echo": "With Grail of Infinitude activated: after enabling Stellar Outburst, when the character uses Ultimate, gains 10 Astral Ring Intensity (CD: 12s; calculated independently for each character; can trigger up to 3 times for a team, and the trigger count is reset after enabling Stellar Outburst)." This is only a text correction, and it does not affect the actual effects.

Gameplay

◆ Part 2 Main Story
  1. New map: Difeng.
  2. Fixed an issue in Part 2 Main Story Interlude: Yet the Stars Still Sparkle where Planar Armament - Warped Spacetime (Icon) Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime sometimes could not enter Stellar Outburst during the mission "Keep looking for the entrance to the First Sector."
Superstring Dimension
  1. New stage: Meltdown: Perilous, featuring Meteoroid: Paros as the main enemy.
  2. New stage: Dominance: Perilous, featuring Fu Hua as the main enemy.
  3. New stage: Frosthelm: Perilous, featuring Meteroid: Epernay as the main enemy.
  4. New stage: Meltdown: Perilous, featuring Flying Fish: Patrol Force as the main enemy.
  5. Fixed an issue in Quantum: Perilous (main enemy: Valrahal) where Behold! Fate-Defying Dragon (Icon) Behold! Fate-Defying Dragon sometimes moved outside the camera view.
  6. Fixed an issue where boss Jade Knight in Thunderbane: Perilous might wrongly get attacked during entry animation.
Memorial Arena
  1. New SSS-rank boss: Meteoroid: Paros
  2. Optimized the voice frequency of SS boss Masked Fool Sampo when hit.
  3. Fixed an issue where the model of SSS boss Bygone Deliverance sometimes did not disappear after phase change.
  4. Fixed an issue where obstructions sometimes occurred during SSS boss Litost · Cinders of the Night's phase change when frame rates were low.
Elysian Realm
  1. Added special adjustments and exclusive signets to Herrscher of Rebirth (Icon) Herrscher of Rebirth when she is equipped with Sea-Cleansing Floret or Sea-Cleansing Floret: Reciprocity.
  2. Made special adjustment to Stygian Nymph (Icon) Stygian Nymph: Crit Rate increases by 30%, Total DMG dealt increases by 70%.
  3. Fixed an issue where Herrscher of Rebirth (Icon) Herrscher of Rebirth's exclusive Signet Blessing of Decay sometimes abnormally dealt additional damage for each hit of Combo ATK and Joint Combo ATK.
  4. Adjusted Herrscher of Rebirth (Icon) Herrscher of Rebirth's Special Adjustment: Passive Skill Adjustment: When not equipped with Divine Key "Sea-Cleansing Floret" or PRI-ARM "Sea-Cleansing Floret: Reciprocity", she remains in Soul Shaper form. Otherwise, she remains in Life Binder form. Added effect: In Life Binder Form, Combo and Joint Combo deal an additional 1060% ATK of Physical DMG.
  5. Adjusted the values of Stygian Nymph (Icon) Stygian Nymph's exclusive Signet.

Battle Pass

  1. Added the following purchasable items to v8.5 BP Materials (Knight BP/Paladin BP required):
    1. [Character Card/Rank-Up Stamps] Mad Pleasure - Shadowbringer (Icon) Mad Pleasure: Shadowbringer Character Card/Rank-Up Stamps, Mad Pleasure - Shadowbringer Rank-up Stamp (Icon) Mad Pleasure: Shadowbringer Rank-up Stamps
    2. [Weapon] Banquet Rose
  2. Added the following purchasable items to Reserve Works:
    1. [Character Card/Rank-Up Stamps] Herrscher of Truth (Icon) Herrscher of Truth Character Card/Rank-Up Stamps, Herrscher of Truth Rank-Up Stamp (Small) Herrscher of Truth Rank-Up Stamps
    2. [Weapons] Key of Ascension, Twirling Glaze
    3. [Stigmata] In the Name of Truth Set, Exotic Lamp Set
  3. Unlock Paladin BP to get Arrow of Love Ribbon (Icon) Arrow of Love Ribbon.
  4. Updated character Fragment rewards in Knight BP and Paladin BP to Mad Pleasure - Shadowbringer Fragment (Icon) Mad Pleasure: Shadowbringer Fragments.
  5. Unlock Knight BP/Paladin BP to get File:V8.5 BP Robevyom (Icon).png v8.5 BP Robevyom. Open it to receive one of the following: Simply Orange (Icon) Simply Orange (outfit), Everdream (Icon) Everdream (outfit), Indelible Memories (Icon) Indelible Memories (outfit), Sandy Coast (Icon) Sandy Coast (outfit), or Asterite (Small) Asterite ×8,000.

Returnee Support

  1. New battlesuits obtainable in Valkyrie Reinforcements:
    1. Target Battlesuits: S-rank battlesuit Lone Destruction - Shadowchaser (Icon) Lone Destruction: Shadowchaser, A-rank battlesuit Valkyrie Blastmetal (Icon) Valkyrie Blastmetal
    2. Other Battlesuits: A-rank battlesuit Sündenjäger (Icon) Sündenjäger, A-rank battlesuit Wolf's Dawn (Icon) Wolf's Dawn, A-rank battlesuit Valkyrie Triumph (Icon) Valkyrie Triumph
  2. New equipment obtainable in Equipment Reinforcements:
    1. 4★ Weapon: Rapid-Shot Crossbow Burn the Long Night
    2. 4★ Stigmata: A Forged Light Set

Shop

Exchange House (Icon) Exchange House
  1. Added weapon Astral Rend: White Dwarf, weapon Purana Phantasma, stigma set Schicksal Mentor, and stigma set Feline Guardian.
Witch's Corridor (Icon) Supply Shop
  1. Replaced Herrscher of Human - Ego Rank-Up Stamp (Small) Herrscher of Human: Ego Rank-Up Stamps with Deepspace Anchor - First Light Rank-up Stamp (Icon) Deepspace Anchor: First Light Rank-up Stamps.
War Treasury (Icon) War Treasury
  1. Added Silverwing - N-EX (Icon) Silverwing: N-EX Character Card and Fragments, Palatinus Equinox (Icon) Palatinus Equinox Character Card and Souls, and Spina Astera (Icon) Spina Astera Character Card and Fragments.
  2. Changed the purchase currency for Dea Anchora (Icon) Dea Anchora Character Card and Fragments, Herrscher of Thunder (Icon) Herrscher of Thunder Character Card and Souls, Bright Knight - Excelsis (Icon) Bright Knight: Excelsis Character Card and Fragments, Azure Empyrea (Icon) Azure Empyrea Character Card and Souls, Jade Knight (Icon) Jade Knight Character Card and Fragments to Ancient Willpower (Small) Ancient Willpower.

System

Foundry
  1. You can now craft G4 stigma Li Sushang: Shenzhou Reminiscence, Prism Stigma set Blissful Days, Prism Stigma set Serrated Comedy, PRI-ARM Pure Love's Whisper: Heart's Wish, and PRI-ARM Sea-Cleansing Floret: Reciprocity directly.
Dorm Supply
  1. Added S-rank Character Cards for Helical Contraption (Icon) Helical Contraption, Herrscher of Human - Ego (Icon) Herrscher of Human: Ego, Jade Knight (Icon) Jade Knight, Herrscher of Truth (Icon) Herrscher of Truth, Herrscher of Finality (Icon) Herrscher of Finality, and Dreamweaver (Icon) Dreamweaver.
◆ Bridge Interactions
  1. Added interactive animations and voice lines for Hi♪ Love Elf♥ (Icon) Hi♪ Love Elf♥.
Achievements
  1. Added the achievement for obtaining Hi♪ Love Elf♥ (Icon) Hi♪ Love Elf♥.
Dorm
  1. Hi♪ Love Elf♥ (Icon) Hi♪ Love Elf♥ can now move into the Dorm. Added her interactions and events.
◆ Others
  1. Reset the rewards for regular invitation events on the Share Invitation page.
  2. Added 2700-day login rewards for Login Emblem.
  3. Added the V-Sync setting to the graphics settings for PC.
  4. Fixed an issue in Main Story Chapter VI, stage 6-3 "Act 1: Tower of Babel" where items sometimes fell off the map.
  5. Fixed an issue in Main Story Chapter VI, stage 6-5 "Act 2: Underground Prisoner" where the enemy Girl in the Incubator sometimes moved out of the map.
  6. Fixed an issue in Main Story Chapter XI, stage 11-1 "Act 1: Myriad Sea" where a black screen sometimes occurred during stage finalization.
  7. Fixed an issue where water surface rendering glitched in some scenes.
  8. Optimized the size of packages downloaded during version updates for PC.

Notes

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 @HonkaiImpact3rd, X (Twitter), 02:00, Oct 15, 2025 (UTC -9) (Wayback Machine archive missing)

    v8.5 Maintenance Announcement and New Events Preview

    Dear Captains, to provide a better gaming experience, Battleship Hyperion will undergo server maintenance.
    SEA:10:00 ~ 16:00, OCT 23 (UTC+8)
    GLB:23:00, OCT 22 ~ 05:00, OCT 23 (UTC-5, Americas Server)/05:00 ~ 11:00, OCT 23 (UTC+1, Europe Server)

    Hyperion will ascend to v8.5 A Lightful Love after the maintenance.

    The maintenance is scheduled to last approximately 6 hours, but please note that the actual duration may vary. Captains will not be able to log in during the maintenance hours, so be sure to spread the word to avoid unnecessary losses! Ai-chan apologizes for any inconvenience.

    ☆☆☆☆☆ Compensation Details ☆☆☆☆☆
    600 Crystals

    Eligibility: Captains who have reached Lv. 9 before the version update.

    Please claim the Crystals after the v8.5 update and before 04:00, NOV 6.

    #HiElysia
    #HonkaiImpact3rd
    #Elysia

  2. (CN) Honkai Impact 3 Official Site
    亲爱的舰长:
    为了给舰长带来更好的游戏体验,《崩坏3》将在9月25日(周四)进行版本更新维护,维护完成后将更新为8.5版本——「爱愿偕光」

    =====8.5版本维护通知=====
    >>维护时间

    9月25日06:00~11:00
  • @houkai3rd, X (Twitter), 02:00, Oct 15, 2025 (UTC -9) (Wayback Machine archive missing)

    艦長、より快適な戦艦生活を送れるよう、ハイペリオン号は10月23日11:00~17:00にてメンテナンスを行います。
    メンテナンス終了後はVer.8.5「#愛は光と共に」へ切り替わります。
    メンテナンス予定時間は約6時間となり、メンテナンス中、戦艦へはアクセスできなくなります。また、終了時間が前後する可能性がございますので、何卒ご了承ください。

    #崩壊3rd
    #HiElysia

  • @HonkaiImpact3kr, X (Twitter), 02:00, Oct 15, 2025 (UTC -9) (Wayback Machine archive missing)

    8.5 버전 점검 공지, 신규 이벤트 예고

    친애하는 함장에게: 더 나은 게임 환경을 만들기 위해, 히페리온 호는 10월 23일 11:00~17:00 (UTC+9)에 업데이트 점검에 들어갈 예정이야. 서버 점검이 끝나면 8.5 버전——[사랑은 빛과 함께]가 업데이트될 거야.

  • bh3tw, Facebook
    8.5版本維護通知、新活動預告
    親愛的艦長,為了給艦長更好的遊戲體驗,休伯利安號將在10月23日10:00~16:00(UTC+8)進行停服更新維護,維護完成後戰艦將更新為8.5版本——「愛願偕光」。