Honkai Impact 3rd

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Honkai Impact 3rd

Developers
	miHoYo
Publishers
Overseas (2021-present)	HoYoverse
China, Overseas (2019-2021)	miHoYo
Engines
	Unity 5.3
	Unity 2017
Release dates
Windows	September 5, 2019
Taxonomy
Monetization	DLC, Free-to-play, Subscription
Microtransactions	Boost, Cosmetic, Currency, Infinite spend, Free-to-grind, Loot box, Unlock, Time-limited
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Hack and slash, JRPG
Art styles	Anime
Themes	Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi, Supernatural
Series	Honkai

Honkai
Honkai Impact 3rd	2019
Honkai: Star Rail	2023

Warnings

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

Honkai Impact 3rd is a hack and slash JRPG game developed and published by miHoYo.

With the exception of the Steam releases, the PC versions have cross-play compatibility with the mobile versions of the game.

Initially released for Android and iOS in China on October 16, 2016 and then the rest of the world throughout 2017 to 2018, the PC version was released as an open beta in China on September 5, 2019, followed by the releases in North America and Europe on December 26, 2019 and then in Southeast Asia on February 13, 2020. It was later released on Steam and Epic Games Store on October 20, 2021 and October 27, 2022 respectively.

Since December 2021, miHoYo's subsidiary Cognosphere took over as the publisher of the game outside of China.

On February 2nd, 2024, the game updated to v7.3 with the Part 2, which introduced native mouse controls and several improvements to PC experience overall.

It should be noted that the Steam releases doesn't support HoYoverse account, meaning that progress made on the launcher versions with HoYoverse account cannot be carried over to Steam releases and vice versa.

General Infomation

Steam Community Discussions for Global server

Steam Community Discussions for Chinese server

Steam Community Discussions for Japanese server

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website		Chinese server
Official website		Southeast Asia server
Official website		Global server
Official website		Korean server
Official website		Taiwan server
Official website		Japanese server
Epic Games Store		Global server
Steam		Global server
Steam		Japanese server
Steam		Chinese server

All versions require a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Requires a HoYoverse account on the Global, Southeast Asia, Korean, Taiwan and Japanese servers and a MiHoYo account on the Chinese server.

The game is also downloadable on PC via Google Play Games on the Global, Southeast Asia, Korean, Taiwan and Japanese servers (this application downloads the native pc version, instead of the emulated Android version).

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

Type	Notes
Boost	In early levels, it is possible to purchase "new captain bundle" which contains lots of Crystals til level 50 and this may allow players to gain massive grind advantage. Every Season, a new Battle Pass is released which temporarily boosts the speed at grinding crystals, Epic crafting items, as well as giving special items that are only available in BP. The Battle Pass can be purchased using Bundle Coins.
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.
Free-to-grind	Crystals can be earned through most missions, events, and daily activities(such as Q-Singularis/Dirac), allowing the player to gather enough to pull and unlock new characters(or get items to rank them up) through loot box, level up the Battle Pass, Stamina to play for longer or spend in event-limited items to progress.
Infinite spend	Bundles sold with Bundle Coins usually have finite cap; otherwise, no practical limit to how much real money can be spent in the game.
Loot box	Crystals can be spent on Supplies which are loot boxes that may drop Epic or Legendary items, and guarantees a Epic quality characters or items every 10 pulls and, usually, a Legendary quality character or item every 100 (some supplies may have different conditions).

Essential improvements

Unifairy.sys Denial

Deny Unifairy.sys from creating itself in system32[citation needed]

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. Anti-Cheat (AC) can be uninstalled along with the game if created in game folder via system32 denial. 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 obtaining ring 0 access permissions due to requiring admin permission to run. Does not prevent the AC from causing a system-wide Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) due to existing ring 0 access.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\miHoYo\Honkai Impact 3rd\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1671200/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Cross-save is available with the mobile version of the game if not playing via Steam.

Video

Graphics Settings

Image Settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		In Settings/More, there's a "Ultrawide Compatible" button, which moves the UI to the edges of the screen.[citation needed]
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Available as an option of the Resolution setting.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Available as an option of the Resolution setting - titled as Fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA and TAA available. SSAA 1.5x when setting Rendering Accuracy to Very High.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		There is no VSync option, but due to DWM, the game will not be tearing when rendered.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Up to 120 FPS is available in combat and 60 FPS outside of combat. Use Uncap FPS to unlock unlimited FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unity page for more details.

Exclusive fullscreen

Enable exclusive fullscreen
Use the -window-mode exclusive command line arguments.

Uncap FPS

Unlimited FPS[citation needed]

Go to game registry location Look for GENERAL_DATA_V2_PersonalGraphicsSettingV2 Right click and click "Modify", on the right side of the hex editor there are readable texts Find TargetFramerateForInLevel and TargetFramerateForOthers, change them to any framerates you like. Notes It is recommended to cap TargetFramerateForOthers at 30 or 60 to reduce heat and improve loading time. It is recommended to Cap Framerate using AMD Max FPS / Nvidia Max Frame Rate / RivaTuner Framerate limit to provide best frametime.

Input

In v7.3, the game introduced native mouse controls.

Assist/controls settings

Keyboard and mouse, touch	State	Notes
Remapping		Mouse actions can not be remapped.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Holding Alt allows to use mouse for menus in-game when using keyboard&mouse mode.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Touchscreen optimised		The game is designed for mobile devices with extra KB/M and Controller support, all touchscreen buttons that show up on the screen can be used with a touchscreen device.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Menus have to be navigated with a virtual mouse cursor controller using right stick.
Controller remapping		Sticks, some D-Pad controls and Pause cannot be remapped.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

Generic/other controllers		The game vaguely detects certain buttons in reverse. It does not work to run Steam Big Picture, and if the game is added to the catalog, it will generate the blue screen of death when running.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Currently only supports XBO controller.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

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  Key remapping (keyboard&mouse mode)

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  Layout settings

Audio

Audio Settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles		Subtitles are softcoded in .srt format for SEA / Global clients
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Southeast Asia and Global servers only
Simplified Chinese
Japanese				Japanese server only for the Japanese text
Korean				Korean server only
French
German

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play		30	Sometimes during events, a Lobby mode is available where up to 30 players can interact with eachother. Global chat available. Online Co-Op modes were removed on February 29th, 2024.
Asynchronous multiplayer		Several Challenge modes are available which feature online ranked leaderboards.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
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 environment

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) If windows debug or signed BCM options are turned on, make sure to disable them, otherwise the anticheat will think that you are trying to bypass driver signature. Open command prompt (cmd) as administrator and run the following commands: bcdedit /set debug no bcdedit /set testsigning off Also make sure you don't have installed VMWare tools. It has been noted that BH3.EXE looks for any driver named "VMware SVGA 3D" and return the same error message to prevent the game from running in a VM. This approach causes false positives because the game will flag an error even if your system is not using this driver. Make sure to uninstall this driver under Windows 10 "Device Manager". You may need to click on "View->Show Hidden Devices" to see all drivers installed, but not used. Then, look for any vmware driver under "Display Adapters" and uninstall it. Notes Latest Honkai 3rd 5.0 does not seem to install UniFairy.sys anymore If everything else fails, 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

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

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Audiokinetic Wwise
Cutscenes	x264 running on AVPro Video
Anti-cheat	Tencent Anti-Cheat Expert

System requirements

Due to the nature of the game a live service game, some requirements may become or are already out of date.

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-6100 AMD FX-6300	Intel Core i5-8400 AMD Ryzen 5 1600
System memory (RAM)	8GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	30GB	40GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Radeon HD 7870	Nvidia GeForce GT 1060 Radeon RX 480

A 64-bit operating system is required.