Honkai Impact 3rd

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Honkai Impact 3rd

Developers
	miHoYo
Publishers
	miHoYo
	PWB Play
Engines
	Unity 5.3
	Unity 2017
Release dates
Windows	September 5, 2019
Taxonomy
Monetization	DLC, Free-to-play, Subscription
Microtransactions	Boost, Cosmetic, Currency, , Free-to-grind, Loot box, Unlock

Warnings

This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Key points

Also titled as Honkai Impact 3 for SEA server and Honkai Impact 3rd for Global server.

Ported from mobile platform.

Cross-platform play between mobile and PC.

Game running much more stable on PC than Android devices.

Has better textures than mobile version.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website		CN server
Official website		SEA server
Official website		NA/EU server
Official website		KR server
Official website		TW server

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Xuanyuan	Free, year 1 DLC
Chiyou	Free, year 1 DLC
Sakura Samsara	Free, year 1 DLC
Theresa "Eternal Memory"	Free, year 1 DLC
Bronya "The Awakening"	Free, year 1 DLC
Kallen Fantasy VII	Free, year 1 DLC
Sakura Samsara "Jizo Soul"	Free, year 2 DLC
Fu Hua "The Forgotten"	Free, year 2 DLC
Schicksal Headquarters	Free, year 2 DLC
Reburn (Event)	Free, limited 2 Year Anniversary DLC
The Twin "Dream of Gemina"	Free, year 3 DLC
Post-Houkai Odyssey	Free, year 3 DLC

Microtransactions

• Currency:
  Crystals are a real money purchase but can be earned as in-game rewards over time. Crystals can be used to purchase supplies, cosmetics and unlock characters, which are frequently added into the game at regular intervals.
  Bundle Coins are a real money purchase and can't be earned in-game, can be used to purchase items that require real money or bundles that have lower cost than paying with Crystals.
• Loot box: Crystals can be spent on Supplies which are loot boxes that may drop Epic items, and guarantees a Epic quality characters or items every 10 pulls.
• Boost: Every Season, a new Battle Pass is released which temporarily boosts the speed at which these currencies are gained as well as giving items that only available in BP. The Battle Pass can be purchased using Bundle Coins.
• Pay-to-skip: It is possible to pay-to-skip in early game by purchase "new captain bundle" which give lots of crystals in early levels and may allow player to gain massive grind advantage.
• Infinite cap: Bundles sold with Bundle Coins usually have finite cap; otherwise, no practical limit to how much real money can be spent in the game.
• Free-to-grind: Crystals can be earned through most missions, events, and daily activities(such as Q-Singularis), allowing the player to gather enough to pull and unlock new characters(or get items to rank them up) through loot boxes, level up the Battle Pass, Stamina to play for longer or spend in event-limited items to progress.

Essential improvements

Exclusive fullscreen

Enable exclusive fullscreen
Use the -window-mode exclusive command line arguments. Notes May improve FPS Cause minor blackscreen.

Unifairy.sys Denial

Deny Unifairy.sys from creating itself in system32

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1873-unifairysys-denialbat/ Notes Safeguard player from some conflicts involved within system32. Reduce conflict chance between multiple clients as well as multiple games from miHoYo installed on 1 system. AC can be uninstalled along with the game if it was placed in game folder instead. If game crashed, output error (21, 40003,81) or just want to revert option 1, run second option to revert. Does not prevent the AC from accessing ring 0 (as you already granted them admin permission btw). Does not prevent the AC from BSOD the system as it already have ring 0 access.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\miHoYo\

Video settings

Video Settings

Display Image Settings

Input settings

Auxiliary Settings (Sensitivity)

Operation Settings (Remap)

Audio settings

Audio Settings

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Only available in SEA and NA/EU client
Simplified Chinese				CG audio and subtitles only available in CN client
Japanese				JP interface and subtitles only available in JP client
Korean				KR interface only available in KR client

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play		3	Co-op, Versus Up to 4 groups
Asynchronous multiplayer		Default PvP type

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking		Allows for invite-only, friend-only, and open matchmaking based on mission selected. Always online.
Peer-to-peer		All of damage and score calculations are done from host.
Dedicated		Dedicated server is only for offload network packages.
Self-hosting		Leader of a mission is the host. All of damage and score calculations are done from host. In case host get lagged, damage numbers will not appear and both hosts and mobs will appear not responding. Other players still able to move and see each other while host is not responding. Leaving a game as a host will cause the mission to be failed.
Direct IP

Issues fixed

Game crashing issues

Missing mhyprotect.Sys
Restore mhyprotect.Sys from your Anti-Virus and add it to exclusion list

Error (3, 1020, 143008) Test Mode Activated
Make sure that: You have disabled Test Mode. Notes Most of Anti-Cheats doesn't like Test Mode so better disable that.

Abnormal game enviroment
Code (21, 40007, 149) Make sure that: You don't run any cheat program No program conflict with the Anti-Cheat (conflicts can be caused by Anti-Virus, OSD, etc...) Program must have write permission. Code (21, 40003,81) Make sure that: The game is able to create UniFairy.sys in either the game folder or system32

InControlNative.dll caused an Access Violation
You can choose one of these solutions: Run game as administrator Delete InControlNative.dll in <path-to-game>\Plugins Notes Delete InControlNative.dll will cause game to not detect controllers

BSOD or crashes caused by UniFairy.sys

Make sure that: Installed official OEM drivers. There is no applications or anything else that try to hook into the game. UniFairy.sys is not in the game folder (may cause conflict with the Anti-Cheat itself) Have enough RAM for the game (seems like the Anti-Cheat doesn't like being disk cached or getting compressed) Notes RAM Compression feature is only available on Windows 10 and only happens when the machine ran out of RAM.

Dualshock 4 issues

Not working properly

Make sure that: Your controller version is v2 Use new Bluetooth version (recommend using Bluetooth 4.0 adapter or higher) If still not working, add BH3.exe to Steam and run game on Steam with controller detected on Steam If still not working on 3, you can use controller wrappers like DS4Windows or XOutput If still not working on 4, you can try using wired mode Check if your controller even working properly by using online controller test

No Haptic feedback
Run game through XInput wrappers like DS4Windows or XOutput In the game switch prompt button from XInput to DS4

Other issues

UI and HUD not working properly with Ultrawidescreen resolutions
Make sure that you have enabled Ultrawide Compatible in Settings/More and to restart the game once. Notes Changing the resolution from widescreen to ultrawidescreen while in a stage may make the HUD stay in widescreen mode.

Zip format not supported.
Make sure that: The network is stable and able to contact miHoYo server. Users can bypass client check by running the game through game client, not game launcher. Notes If network is unstable, the Start button will becomes Update button and players will see the above text although there is no new update.

CG doesn't have subtitles

Extract any .srt from the .zip files manually in <path-to-game>\BH3_Data\StreamingAssets\Video to the same folder. Note BH3 in BH3_Data may have different name depending on the server. In-game, you can download all CGs(and also subtitles) of the game by pressing the Download button on the top left in Phone\Collection\Cutscene, letting you extract all subtitles at once without revisiting the folder frequently.

CG not rendering properly
This usually happens on Windows N, make sure you have installed Windows Media Feature Pack

Unable to interact with Valkyrie on the bridge
Go to Control Panel\Region\Formats and change the Format to English(US) or English(UK) Note This can also fix other issues, like the giant models in in-game events like Cybernet.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows			Launcher is 32-bit but the game does not.

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Audiokinetic Wwise
Anti-cheat	miHoYo Protect + Tencent Anti-Cheat	Invasive Anti-Cheat, may cause "IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL" BSOD with UniFairy.sys by corrupting the memory.

System requirements

Official system requirements

This is the official specs since the first beta release on CN server, do not use this as reference due to newer requirements.

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	7, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel® CoreTM Duo CPU E4600 @2.40GHz / Pentium ® Dual-Core CPU E2210@2.20 GHz	Intel® CoreTM i5 5675C @ 3.10GHz
System memory (RAM)	4GB	8GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10GB	10GB
Video card (GPU)	1GB VRAM	4GB VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Community system requirements

This system requirement is applied for version 3.8 and later (Post-Honkai Odyssey), guarantee to be playable with 60FPS Max Settings and at least medium resolution.

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel® Core™ i3-7100	Intel® Core™ i7 8750H / AMD Ryzen™ 5 2600 @ 3.6GHz single-threaded and higher
System memory (RAM)	4GB	6GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10GB	10GB
Video card (GPU)	NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1050 2GB (or AMD equivalent) and higher.	NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 3GB (or AMD equivalent) and higher.

A 64-bit operating system is required.

The game is heavily single-threaded, CPU with higher single-threaded performance runs much better.