When Honkai: Star Rail launched, there was only one endgame Abyss mode — Chaos Memory (混沌回忆). Version 1.6 added Fictional Narrative (虚构叙事), which favors AoE and follow-up attacks. Now in v2.3 (currently v2.1 on live servers), a third mode called Apocalyptic Shadow (末日幻影) is incoming, focused on boss fights and single-target DPS. More modes, but the total rewards? Completely unchanged. The water temperature is rising, folks.
Some players tried to cope with irony: 'How dare you complain? They're adding content so you won't be bored, plus throwing in gacha resources as charity — and you call this raising the water temperature?' But most weren't having it — new mode, zero extra rewards, but you're expected to build more characters? That's a hard pass.
A data-minded player in the replies broke it down with cold numbers: the game went from two Abyss floors to four, with per-cycle rewards bumped from 600 to 720. Now it's jumping to six floors — but from four to six, the reward increase is precisely zero. Here's the kicker: in Star Rail, a DPS carry becomes obsolete roughly every six months, and the power gap between a newly pulled unit and an older one (Lv21 vs Lv61 equivalent) is massive.
Another player offered a more nuanced take: the Abyss still runs two sides with two locked teams of 8 characters total — it's not a simple linear scaling from 'needing 2 carries' to 'needing 6.' However, with increasingly complex elemental and mechanic checks, a comfortable clear now requires around 8-10 built main DPS units, up from the previous 8. For F2P and light spenders, that's still a brutal ask.
The most devastating observation came from a commenter who noticed a pattern: 'Last time they also dropped a new mode right when a limited male 5-star was about to go on rate-up. What a familiar scene.' Every new endgame mode seems to land suspiciously close to a new banner — coincidence or calculated water-temperature engineering?
Some zen-mode players tried to stay positive: 'More modes means more stellar jades, right? As long as I don't chase full stars, the rising water can't boil me.' They were immediately fact-checked: 'Did it actually increase though? Post your Mihoyo community stats next patch.' Another player laid it out flat: 'Sadly, not a single extra primo.'
The community sentiment boils down to this: nobody opposes new content, but zero reward increase + exponentially higher character investment requirements + suspiciously well-timed releases that always coincide with new banners — stack these three together and even the most casual player can feel the heat. One commenter nailed it: 'They just moved rewards from events into the Abyss' and 'They haven't even paid back what they gave us for the male character banners.' The message is clear: this isn't new content, it's a redistribution designed to push spending.
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