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How the three-of-five directed selection works, the full list of featured 5-star Memories, why you should rotate your selection after each pull, what rank 1 unlocks for outfits, and the parallel event schedule including Promise 17 and Ten Days With You 18.

Pearl's role, the two new 4.6 Relic sets with exact set bonuses, the Nameless Honor reward list, and the Currency War season reset checklist, plus which accounts should skip Pearl entirely.

A cycle-by-cycle breakdown of the Wuthering Waves 3.6 Tower of Adversity buffs, mid-tower team recommendations, the right-tower Yangyang · Xuanling rotation, and left-tower boss mechanics, with the 3.6 version timeline and banner windows.

A phase-by-phase breakdown of Zenless Zone Zero 3.2 Critical Node buffs, plus the Fengyu ascension material path for Kelailei, Drive Disc and W-Engine choices for Luoxi, Deadly Assault enemy rotation, and the new tactical prisms in Maze Domain: Bagel Plan II.

This guide breaks down the Arknights Zhuying Jiqu event dates, the Mid-Autumn and Wentai Ceding check-in reward lists, the outfit store rotation, and the closing checklist for the BanG Dream! Ave Mujica collaboration event, with sanity planning for the National Day holiday.

This guide covers the official site's published version data for Reverse: 1999 4.0 "Gatekeeper", the Camelot castle story setting revealed in the developers' broadcast, the Insanity and Flux upgrade system and which characters it touches, and where the Red Crossbow and Urd sit in this cycle's banners.

This Love and Deepspace guide covers the combat build layers: the difference between Solar and Lunar Memories, how the six Core colors and the α/β/γ/δ shapes constrain what you can equip, what the δ Core crit main stat is worth when maxed, and why Hunter Tournament teams should be built by hand.

Version 4.6, "Before the Moon Rises, Dance with Beasts", enters maintenance on 28 September 2026 at 06:00, with pre-download opening 24 September at 14:00. This guide covers the Currency War: Zero-Sum Game V4.6 double promotion points update, the exact list of resets and safe items, the two new Cavern Relic sets from the new Cavern of Corrosion, and the Planar Ornament double-drop window.

Genshin Impact version 7.1, "Requiem to the Underworld", went live on 23 September 2026 and added Visner (5-star Anemo Sword) and Voyanissa (5-star Hydro Catalyst). Visner lets the party trigger Stellar Swirl and deal Stellar Swirl damage; Voyanissa covers healing and support in Freeze and Stellar Swirl teams. This guide breaks down the two new 5-star weapons, the Abyss Floor 11 and 12 ley line disorders, and how to crack the ice coffin on Frostplague Peak's new boss.

This guide walks through the Tower of Adversity in Wuthering Waves 3.6. Check the floor resistances first, then choose a carry. Jingran, the 5-star Fusion Broadblade heavy-attack carry, wants 35,000 HP and then pure ATK roll conversion; his Echo set is genuinely disputed across community sources. Included are the Jingran/Yuno/Shorekeeper team, a three-Fusion variant and a budget route, with rotation order .

Version 3.2 "Their Secret Histories" launched 9 September 2026 with the Armorer specialty and two new S-Rank agents, Claret (Electric, first half) and Roxy (Wind Stun, second half). This guide covers the 4-piece plus 2-piece drive disc framework, the main stats to lock on slots 4, 5 and 6, how Claret's DEF-based kit changes your rolls, and the farming order for Nangong Yu and Promeia reruns. Sources are HoYoverse special program coverage plus community guide sites.

This guide covers the closing weekend of Arknights' Persona 3 Reload collaboration Side Story "Moon Over Water", which ends on 25 September 2026 at 03:59, and the overlapping "Shadow Chase" limited event that runs until 03 October. It lists the campus shop redemption order, compares the September stage efficiency numbers, and lays out what to do with the Mid-Selection banner featuring Eyjafjalla and Bagpipe.

Reverse: 1999's current version is 3.9, titled "Rekindled! Games of the Summer-Gold Sea", with an update date of 13 August 2026. This guide covers the 3.9 character rhythm, Narcissus's role inside Ritual teams and where he stops working, how to filter psychubes, resonance and portraits for him, a full team-comp table for the four mainstream systems plus the four Electric systems, and how to approach the patch's high-difficulty stages.

According to the official 6.0 version description, Love and Deepspace 6.0 is live with a reworked Home module (rooms, cooking, home crafting, design mode, pose mode, mood, weather and gardening changes), a redesigned photo system, wardrobe randomisation controls, three new desktop widgets, a raised Bond level cap, new Confide content and a refreshed Lemo Surprise House pool. This guide maps the Home Diamond route, the Bond and Confide order, and the limited-banner "pick three" rule with its cumulative wish tiers.

The 4.6 version update notes went live on 23 September 2026, and the official character art contest for Pearl opened the same day. Per the 4.6 Special Program, Pearl's banner runs 28 September to 4 November across the entire patch. This guide covers the DEF thresholds, the "Fold Suffering into Grace" talent that converts a capped resource into a damage-absorption pool, relic and light cone priorities, the full material list, an all-Elation team, and what resets when 4.6 ends.

Genshin Impact 7.1 "Requiem for the Underworld" went live on 23 September 2026 at 06:00 server time, adding two 5-star characters — Vesna (Anemo sword) and Voyanisha (Hydro catalyst) — plus the limited weapons "Metamorphosis" and "Whirlpool Anthem". This guide covers the official compensation, banner structure, the Stellar Swirl trigger logic, the new boss "Guardblade of Drifting Snow" and its ice-coffin mechanic, Abyss floor 12 team builds, and the anniversary reward order. English spellings for the two new characters follow the Chinese version; check the in-game English names after the global release.

Zenless Zone Zero 3.2 "Her Secret Past" went live on 09 September 2026 with two new S-rank agents and two matching S-rank W-Engines: the new fengyu class holder (Electric) and nangongyu (Ether, Stun). This guide breaks down the Rui-neng resource loop, the Crimson Inscription empowered state, why crit damage is not the priority stat this time, drive disc main and sub stat order, W-Engine trade-offs, a budget team using standard-pool supports, and whether to pull mindscapes or the signature engine first.

Version 3.6 "Lamplight in Mirage, Sword's Resolve in Heart" launched on 20 August 2026 on the CN server and runs until the 30 September maintenance . This guide totals Jingran's ascension, Forte and weapon materials, explains why HP-scaling changes every stat priority compared to an ATK-scaling DPS, sets out an echo screening method instead of a copy-pasted set list.

Moon Over Water is Arknights' Persona 3 Reload collaboration Side Story, set in the "Hour of Shadows" hall in Laterano. Its combat loop is three mechanics stacked together: knock down enemies by matching their damage-type weakness, trigger a field-wide total attack when every enemy is down, and use relay tiles to redeploy operators almost instantly.

Version 4.5 went live on August 26, 2026 with three new Thousand-Star City areas and two limited events. This guide breaks down both new kits, the team logic behind each, light cone choices, event deadlines, and what 4.6 changes.

Patch 3.9 is a standard 42-day patch running August 13 to September 23, with the next version arriving September 24. This guide covers Hedone's card-store mechanic, Echo Ballad's role, three team templates, psychube and resonance principles, and what to finish before the patch rolls over.

Love and Deepspace added version 6.0 "Wan Lai Ju Qi" on July 9, 2026, and the subsequent content has leaned on rerun banners, the home mode and system polish. This guide covers card set priorities, how star charts force per-character investment, banner odds, daily resource routes and a second-half-of-2026 wish plan.

Version 7.1 is the anniversary patch, so the reward density is higher than a normal update. This guide covers the banner schedule, both new characters, the selector conditions, a pick-priority table, and the checklist for closing out 7.0 before the switch.

Wuthering Waves 3.6 launched on August 20, 2026 and runs to the September 30 maintenance, about five weeks. Two new 5-star Resonators, Qingxiao and Jingran, arrived with two new 5-star weapons, Cloud Jade and Qiandu, and reruns for Dania, Feixue and Moning. This guide covers the mechanics that actually gate Qingxiao's damage, the weapon math, four team templates, Tower of Adversity handling, and substat priorities.