Honkai Star Rail 2.6 server downtime and maintenance duration
Honkai Star Rail 2.6 is set to be released on October 23, 2024. Before the new update becomes available, the game servers will undergo maintenance for a few hours. HoYoverse officially announced on their social media platforms that the server maintenance for version 2.6 will take place on October 23, 2024, at 6 am (UTC+8) and will last for about five hours.
You can log in and enjoy the new content in the Honkai Star Rail 2.6 update once the maintenance is over. Furthermore, a mail containing 300 Stellar Jades will also be sent out as compensation for the server downtime once the update goes live.
This article will contain a detailed maintenance schedule for the Honkai Star Rail 2.6 update for some of the major regions and also include a release countdown for the new update.
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Honkai Star Rail 2.6 maintenance schedule and server downtime
As previously stated, Honkai Star Rail's servers will undergo maintenance on October 23, 2024, starting at 6 am (UTC+8), which will last for approximately five hours. Since the servers will be busy downloading the latest updates, you can't access their games during this period. To get all the new content that version 2.6 of Honkai Star Rail offers, you must update your game to the most recent version after the maintenance is over.
You may encounter varying maintenance schedules and release times for the latest version due to different time zones. In light of this, the Honkai Star Rail 2.6 update maintenance schedules for some of the major regions are as follows:
NA (October 22, 2024)
- Pacific Daylight Time: 3 pm - 8 pm
- Mountain Daylight Time: 4 pm - 9 pm
- Central Daylight Time: 5 pm - 10 pm
- Eastern Daylight Time: 6 pm - 11 pm
EU (October 22-23, 2024)
- Western European Summer Time: 11 pm - 4 am
- Central European Summer Time: 12 am - 5 am
- Eastern European Summer Time: 1 am - 6 am
Asia (October 23, 2024)
- India Standard Time: 3:30 am - 8:30 am
- China Standard Time: 6 am - 11 am
- Japanese Standard Time: 7 am - 12 pm
- Korea Standard Time: 7 am - 12 pm
Here is a universal countdown for the release of the Honkai Star Rail 2.6 update across all servers:
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Compensation for server maintenance and how to claim it
Players across all the servers will receive 300 Stellar Jades as compensation for the server maintenance and downtime. To be eligible to claim these rewards, you must be at least Trailblaze Level 4 or above before the servers go under maintenance. The compensation rewards will be distributed to eligible players via the in-game mail within five hours after the new update goes live and will expire once version 2.6 ends. So make sure to claim your free Stellar Jades before they expire.
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