Honkai Star Rail Banwave (Patreon)

Edit

OK, so it looks like Hoyo are specifically targeting Star Rail mods. They've DMCA'd the Game Banana Star Rail site, so it won't be long until the community retreats from Star Rail modding.

My advice to anyone that can live without Star Rail mods - is to not use mods.

To those that can't live without them - it's been an honour! We'll sink with this ship! :sailorsalute 🫡

I'll be leaving my Star Rail mods up for prosterity, but won't be making new Star Rail mods going forwards unfortunately. I probably won't even be playing the game unless we have good confirmation that they no longer care about SR modding (possibly - but will be a while from now - like it was for Genshin).

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So there's a decent amount of talk going on about the ban wave that has hit Star Rail in the last day. If you read my edit to the Trailblazer release, you'll see me reacting to that.

Here's what we know.

A reasonable percentage of users have been banned for some reason.

Many of them are stating the reason provided is 'for using a 3rd party program'.

The majority of users are unbanned - including those on AGMG that used 3DM.

Some of those banned used 3DM for modding.

Some of those banned did not use 3DM for modding.

Some used other 3rd party programs like FPS unlocker (or registry hack to unlock), some say they didn't do anything but 3DM. Some used VPN.

Some claim to have participated in account rerolling.

Many that used/did those things also didn't get banned.

The ban wave seemed to have hit a chunk of users around the same time.

The bans are for 7 days (for first time ban/infraction on Hoyo games - next one is 5 years).

At this point, it could be related to all these things, or none of them - e.g. their anticheat system is producing false positives that cause random users to get banned with eroneous messages.

My recommendation is as before - if you value your account beyond modding, don't mod your game, or do anything else weird. Sit tight, wait for more information.

For me who values the game only if it's moddable, I'll continue to play modded and will report to you all if I am banned.

But also for now, I'll be putting Star Rail modding on hold until the situation clarifies - little point in putting a lot of effort into making Star Rail content only to find out later it's getting people banned or not been used because people are scared of getting banned.

Apologies to those looking forward to my Star Rail mods - I'm definetly the one most annoyed by the situation here though!