After a shocking leak suggesting that there would be a Honkai Star Rail crossover coming to Fortnite, the details have just been unearthed. The HSR 4.0 livestream announced that our fave husbando Blade and icon Kafka have skins and will be added to the game on February 26.
On January 30, the Epic Games Store posted this image on X, showing two swords stuck into the ground with the caption "Who's trailblazing their way to Fortnite? 👀". If you've played Honkai Star Rail, you may recognize the swords as HSR's Blade and HSR's Kafka's weapons. He uses the cracked one on the left, while she wields the right.
After much speculation and excitement, especially on our end here at Pocket Tactics, the 4.0 Honkai Star Rail update special programme ended with a splash, announcing the collaboration and displaying art of Kafka and Blade. Our anime besties are arriving very soon, and you can even grab Blade's skin for free when you participate in the HSR top-up event in the Epic Store.
While these skins are the only announced items in the collaboration so far, we hope to see other items and skins arrive at some point. Given that this was announced with Blade and Kafka's swords, we expect Epic to at least consider a melee skin or two, and we can also imagine that other characters - like the Trailblazer themselves - would be popular. Maybe soon we'll have Dan Heng x Blade shippers living out their dreams in Fortnite. Anyone else want a Pom-Pom sidekick, too?
We don't yet know how much the skins will cost, or if there are any other Hoyoverse collaborations on the horizon - but now that HSR is involved, a door has certainly been opened for other games. Maybe that Zhongli skin I'm desperate for will one day make its way onto the Battle Bus.