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, Infinite spend, Free-to-grind, Loot box, Unlock
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Hack and slash, JRPG, MMO
Art styles	Anime
Themes	Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi, Supernatural
Series	Houkai

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

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 boxes, 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 items, and guarantees a Epic quality characters or items every 10 pulls.

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.

Uncap FPS

Unlimited FPS

Go to game registry location Look for GENERAL_DATA_V2_PersonalGraphicsSetting 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.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\miHoYo\

Video

Video Settings

Display Image Settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Make sure to turn on and off the Resolution button so it can recognize new monitor resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		In Settings/More, there's a "Ultrawide Compatible" button, though what it does is unknown.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Off by default but can be changed to borderless with Alt+Tab ↹.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		On by default but can be changed to windowed with Alt+Tab ↹.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA only
Vertical sync (Vsync)		There is no VSync option, but due to DWM, the game will not tearing when rendered.
60 FPS		The game can be capped at 30 / 60FPS by default. 90 / 120 FPS option only available if the monitor support those frame rates.
120+ FPS		Use Uncap FPS to unlock unlimited FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		Game has a "HDR" option in Video Settings, but what it actually do is "HDR rendering" + "Bloom".

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

Input

Auxiliary Settings (Sensitivity)

Operation Settings (Remap)

Keyboard and mouse, touch	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		Holding Alt creates a dot that mirrors your mouse movements and allow "pinching" gestures like a phone.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Touchscreen optimised		The game is designed for mobile devices with extra KB/M and Controller support, all touchscreen buttons appeared on the screen can be used with them.
Controller
Controller support		Officially support XBO and DS4 controller
Full controller support		Navigate with mouse cursor
Controller remapping		Default XBO and DS4 controller
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Currently only support XBO controller
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Player is unable to switch characters during combat with keyboard

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

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. 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.

Uninstall UniFairy.sys (Tencent Anti-Cheat)
Use Unifairy.sys Denial and select the second option to remove it from system32

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
Cutscenes	x264 running on AVPro Video
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)	1 GB VRAM	4 GB 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.