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On Friday night, "Honkai Impact 3rd" held a live preview of version 2.4. In addition to the massive amount of new version content, what surprised players the most was the announcement of a new collaboration. Honkai Impact 3rd will collaborate with FateUBW in the summer of 2025. When this news was announced, players were immediately excited.

The Fate series has a great influence in the two-dimensional circle, and its works cover multiple types such as games, animations, visual novels, etc. The derivative mobile game FGO is also an evergreen among the two-dimensional games. The fan base of the entire series is very large, and there is a lot of overlap with the player base of Star Railroad. Therefore, after seeing the news of the linkage, many players expressed their ecstasy.

During the discussion about the collaboration, some players discovered a blind spot. In March of this year, David Chiang, the producer of Star Railway, had a conversation with Nasu Kinoko, the author of the Fate series. The two sides not only exchanged creative experiences, but also expressed appreciation for each other's works. Does this mean that the collaboration has been confirmed through this conversation?

When the conversation between the two parties was released, many players were surprised that Fate and Fate, two completely cross-generational works, had so many similar production concepts. For example, in the production of the game, both sides focused on the plot, and used a large amount of text content to give players an immersive gaming experience.

In character creation, the "allotrope" method is adopted, that is, in a series of works, the same character will appear in different works with different personalities and appearances, but with the character's iconic characteristics. Saber in the Fate series is such an example.

There are many such characters in Star Railroad, and they are nicknamed "famous actresses of miHoYo" by players. For example, Huang Quan, who was launched in version 2.1. When this character first appeared, players recognized her as Mei from the Honkai series. However, only their appearance is similar, and their personality and experience are completely different.

If you don’t understand this setting, you might think it’s a “shortcut” design method, but in fact it’s a way to strengthen its own IP. Judging from the results, both Fate and Star Railroad are very successful.

Through this conversation, players discovered that Star Railroad and Fate share the same production concept, so there were voices hoping that the two sides could collaborate. So after the official announcement of the collaboration, players became even more excited, as this was completely what they wanted!

The work that Star Railroad is about to collaborate with is FateUBW, which is the UBW line of the Fate series. This work has a visual novel and an adapted animated film. If it is collaborated with this work, the collaboration may be that the protagonist of the work joins the Star Rail universe and fights alongside the pioneers.

Moreover, the linkage time is the summer of 2025, and the linkage news was announced a year in advance. It can be seen that it is going to be a big deal. It is even possible to make the Holy Grail War a separate plot line. After all, the cosmic background setting of Star Sky Rail is very large and inclusive, so it is not impossible to add an independent line to the linkage.

However, the above ideas are just speculations. At present, the official has only revealed that the two sides have confirmed the linkage, and no detailed information has been released. The specific content is subject to the official. What do you think about this linkage? What are your guesses?