8.3 Honkai Impact 3rd Release Date Set for Next Week

HoYoverse shared the 8.3 Honkai Impact 3rd update notice and maintenance details ahead of the release date for the patch. Everything arrives on June 26, 2025. That includes a new Main Story Part 2 chapter, the Erdos Helia Battlesuit, and a Bon Voyage event. Players also get 600 Crystals after maintenance to make up for the time. More details will come up about this version in the Hyperion Lounge showcase held at 7pm PT/10pm ET on June 19, 2025.

To go along with the new Battlesuit, it looks like the story update in Honkai Impact 3rd will focus on Helia too. Chapter IX: If Destiny Concludes Today will take us to the Dragon Ruins. Helia and Coralie both look to be major players for this portion of the adventure. We’ll also get the Space Voyage Stigma and Crystals for completing it. Crystals will also be a part of the reward for the Kiana Kaslana event Bon Voyage: Toward Blessings and Wishes. Two of the other rewards for completing that are a Star-Speckled Blue costume for the Griseo Battlesuit Cosmic Expression and a Promise of St. Freya Emblem. 

We already know the featured character who will debut in 8.3, as Honkai Impact 3rd will get the Helia Battlesuit Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime the moment the release date for the patch arrives. She’s the second one for the character to appear. The first showed up when 7.2 arrived. This one is an S-rank BIO heroine with Lightning element attacks.  

Here’s the latest trailer for Planar Armament: Warped Spacetime, to offer an idea of what to expect. English subtitles are available if you turn on closed captions. Members of HoYoVerse also talk about her design between showing gameplay segments.