Honkai: Star Rail 1.6 introduces 'Cosmic Simulation 2.0', ramping up difficulty and adding extra Starlight Gems rewards.

If you're a player who loves challenges, Honkai: Star Rail 1.6 proves to be the version for you. miHoYo will comprehensively upgrade the difficulty of end-game features in the game with this update.

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New VTMP Mode: Gold And Gears

Similar to the Insect Concert Catastrophe mode, Gold And Gears is a new update for the Cosmic Simulation set to debut in patch 1.6 of Honkai: Star Rail. It includes the new destiny, Knowledge, the Dice Faces feature, and the brand-new Intra-Cognition system.

In terms of gameplay, Gold And Gears will be very similar to the Insect Concert Catastrophe, as players traverse a grid of hexagonal tiles and encounter various events, from battling formidable monsters to receiving rewards. It's also a permanent mode in the game, so you don't need to worry about missing out on Starlight Gems.

To unlock this destiny, all you need to do is play the new Gold And Gears mode. Similar to the previous Vitality destiny, once unlocked, players can use it in regular mode to earn weekly points.

The effects that Knowledge brings focus on AOE attacks and damage buffs for ultimate skills. Players will be able to effectively utilize their favorite Knowledge characters in the Cosmic Simulation with these buffs.

In Gold And Gears, players can roll a die to receive different effects depending on the outcome. What's special is that Honkai: Star Rail allows us to freely choose which effects will appear on the 6 faces of this die, so you can easily create suitable buffs for the lineup you often use.

To earn new die faces, players need to collect Trailblaze Secrets and complete various challenges in Gold And Gears. The collection method will be mentioned below.

Honkai: Star Rail introduces another new skill tree to buff players' lineups in Gold And Gears, similar to in the original VTMP mode. It has various different buff effects that you can unlock with Neural Impulse, a special kind of currency received when completing rounds of Gold And Gears.

This is also a new feature for Gold and Gear, activated randomly as you move across the grid of hexagonal tiles. It brings unique stories that you can complete to receive Trailblaze Secrets, and learn about the secrets of the Aeons.

According to available information, Mytour has learned that this will be a hidden mode containing up to 4,000 Starlight Gems, a large amount of relic fragments, 4 regular banner gacha rolls, 2 Self-Fabricating Plastic, and 2 Destiny Footprints.

miHoYo not only adds floors 11 and 12 to the Abyss Corridor but also increases the difficulty for the Cosmic Simulation through two new features: 'destiny banning' and new beacons. With the destiny banning feature, players can prevent blessings from appearing in the game, but can only ban a maximum of 2 destinies. Meanwhile, the new Double beacon will double the number of 'elite' monsters in the high-level areas, and Select allows players to choose one of 3 random events in event areas.

Conundrum Difficulty

miHoYo stated that recently, they have received numerous complaints that Honkai: Star Rail is too easy. To appease this group of challenge-seeking players, the Conundrum mode was introduced, aiming to 'usurp' the Shoe Squeeze Difficulty in VTMP.

In this mode, players can choose between two different challenge paths: Stats and Auxiliary, each with 6 levels, totaling 12 new difficulty levels. miHoYo did not disclose details about how the game will change as players increase difficulty along these paths, but it can be speculated that monster stats will be buffed. Mytour readers will be able to try it out on December 27, 2023, when patch 1.6 of Honkai: Star Rail is officially updated.