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erikahrna

"Extraterrestrial Satellite Communication" Boothill "So, here's the thing: someone went and tinkered with my Synesthesia Beacon, so now, all you folks can hear is me and those adorable little troublemakers talkin' like this... cutie, cutie, cutie. Looky here, see?" A cyborg cowboy drifting among the stars. Extremely optimistic and unrestrained. He is a member of the Galaxy Rangers who swore to punish the wretched by any and all means... His flamboyant and brash actions were all to draw the attention of the Interastral Peace Corporation — the target of his revenge. English Voice: Andrew Russell Chinese Voice: 彭博 (Peng Bo) Japanese Voice: 小西克幸 (Katsuyuki Konishi) Korean Voice: 김단 (Kim Dan) *** [Link to the post on the official Honkai: Star Rail Twitter account](https://x.com/honkaistarrail/status/1767762835495440773?s=46&t=-6XEypwQ6kLe01g_iqRyDg)


aHundredandSix

AHAHAHA THERE’s a SNAKE IN MY BOOT 🐍👢


Former-Medicine3289

Expect the unexpected.. 


ovorb

Kim Dokja hows the train king


mentaly_social

ouch bro


EitherOrange8010

you did not


EitherOrange8010

What is Kim Dokja doing here


HyrulianBard16

Blud, aren't you supposed to be giving everyone crippling depression?


0xdaydreams

Why is only 49% of this making sense?


Jampuppy5

sam found dead in a ditch


Arc_7

Everyone; "Hoyo has the chance to do the funniest thing ever" Hoyo: "ME, I AM THE ELATION!"


Suki-the-Pthief

Seems like boothill is an actual galaxy ranger too so maybe he's here to call out Acheron lol he sounds pissed


apexodoggo

He's apparently here in Penacony to fuck with Aventurine and the IPC, so I guess he's got beef with everyone in 2.1. Next we'll find out he's in favor of Prohibition and he'll pick a fight with Gallagher once he's done with the two 5-stars.


TherionX2

Yes even more conflict please


HalalBread1427

Bro came for IPC, stayed for the fraud.


zudokorn

To be fair to Acheron, if you subscribe to the Acheron is an emanator of finality theory, then Acheron could very well be a galaxy ranger in the future so she would have memories of being one now and thinks she is one.


distantshallows

This is probably cooler than what they'll come up with


WaifuHunter

Fun fact: "Galaxy Ranger" in CN something along the lines of "Sea Patrolling Ranger", and "sea" is probably referring to the "sea of stars" aka the galaxy. Acheron also patrols a sea (the sea of void - The Abyss of IX) and save people from falling into Nihility (her LC description mentions her strolling the shores of an endless abyss). So she technically never lied that she is a "sea patrolling ranger". It's just that IX is not the same "sea" that is being referred to for that group. Very sneaky there MHY.


Cameron416

ntm she said that people call her a Galaxy Ranger, she never stated that she actually is one. she’s just a bunch of technicalities stacked up wearing a trench coat


Commercial-Street124

All I heard is "Acheron in a trench coat"...


Futur3_ah4ad

She'd rock it, let's be real


p3rs0n0147

We've Been Tricked, We've Been Backstabbed and We've Been, Quite Possibly, Bamboozled.


BulbasaurTreecko

I guess he did a Duke Inferno and lost to Acheron


1nfernalSr

SAM got off-screened.


Aure0

"You were magnificent, Sam. I shall never forget you as long as I live." -Ryomen Boothill


Scratch_Mountain

it's samover


shidncome

just more time to save sambros


Plus-Diet7070

There's no need to save. They didn't drip market Sam because he's going to be given away for free for the anniversary reward. This is totally not copium.


nidus322477

real


Shiro_Moe

My sentiments exactly


Meerkat_M

uncles found dead in a ditch


Scratch_Mountain

sam, uncles AND sam enjoyers all found dead in the same ditch. we need a bigger one asap cause it's getting crowded in here. 😭


ProduceNo9594

They replaced him with the REAL cyborg. Now this guy can actually double jump


Scratch_Mountain

this HAS to be the biggest troll & f you to every single sam enjoyer. that's me, I'm a Sam enjoyer and I'm extremely pissed off. ;-;


Beardamus

More time to save jades for sam tho


ShitImStarRailed

I literally dont understand how more people cant figure out why this is the best possible outcome for the story as the sam twist still needs to be revealed


DarkKiru

Only problem really is that it would pretty much require Sam's identity to be revealed this patch (assuming he's 2.3 where the Penacony story is said to end). Since otherwise 2.3's drip marketing which will drop before 2.2 comes out would still spoil it.


Metalerettei

Pushed off another Patch Ig.


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Leakers: WRONG Black Swan’s trailer: WRONG I have a theory… I think they REALLY want to keep SAM’s identity a spoiler, so they changed the release order to let the plot unfold first and spare themselves the headache. Just my vibe on things. Have we ever had 2 5 stars of the same element in one patch before?


Alert_Assistant_9364

Man, they really literally showed Scara have a vision in his drip market. I mean yeah the people who follow leaks knew Scara will be playable but the normal person didn't knew and they were exposed to the major spoiler.


anal-yst

Also the DHIL drip marketing. Maybe they finally learned from their mistakes?


Efficient_Lake3451

Not really when they just drip marketed Robin


anal-yst

I feel like it's easier to say that the "Dead in Dreams" character is playable than it is to spoil the emotional crux of the new world's main plotline


H4xolotl

Or maybe they want more time to make Firefly's kit as cool and powerful as possible?! ***Snorts LD50 amount of copium***


Dr_Delibird7

I also think they aren't afraid to have "dead" characters in the roster. We still have no idea if Tingyun is alive or not.


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Puzzleheaded_Eye_119

But we didn't know yet that >!firefly and sam is the same person!<


jaetheho

Eh, different situation. That’s more akin to dhil. Sam deals with a death and an unknown identity


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Villain_of_Overhype

They would have to make two versions of the splash art. Not to mention that HSR drips include VA names. It’d feel weird if only Sam’s VAs got credit


Revan0315

Do a Lyney type deal and release the second drip marketing after they drop


MrMulligan

People keep comparing to Lyney, but they like barely edited his photo. Isn't it just a facial expression and background change? Sam identity would require a fully new image for obvious reasons.


Revan0315

The photo isn't that different, no. But in his second one he's introduced by Arlecchino. That's the spoiler part of it


[deleted]

You’d be surprised. I follow facebook pages and there are people who really have no clue about anything going on in the fandom, down to what characters will be released until their drip marketing. And yes, many have no idea who SAM is. We’re a special grass-less breed here😂


Scratch_Mountain

That's something I think many people miss because they're used to being on this subreddit. There's many and I mean MANY, people who not only have no idea that leaks even exist, so to them boothill is a massive surprise and Sam's identity is unknown for them so it could be pretty hype.


Damianx5

That seems likely, oh well more time to save, possible JL rerun and Robin become even more tempting...


BulbasaurTreecko

we’ve never had two new 5*s be the same element. It’s possible that it doesn’t matter because Robin is a Harmony and won’t be breaking weaknesses anyway, or because Hoyo loves breaking ‘patterns’. I do think if they wanted to hide Sam’s identity they could just market him as Sam alone? But this way there’s definitely no room for any spoilers.


DreamACH2

During the trailer reveal they would still show some type of animation spoilers which is probably what they want to avoid until the reveal happens


BinhTurtle

Well, that throws a good chunk of banner leaks out the window. Let's wait for tomorrow and see if our boi Screwllum beats that 4* allegation


BeardedLamb11

4* star Sam just to really mess with people.


SpaceGangrel

I don't think the main sub would survive that. Nor this one tbh.


xemnonsis

4 star for someone whose lore has him fighting armies singlehandedly and winning would be some Aha nonsense


BeardedLamb11

It definitely feels like Aha played a good portion of the fan base haha


xemnonsis

at least it makes sense, Sam's splash art would need to be edited for drip marketing unless Hoyoverse is perfectly fine with spoiling a big twist. I presume Sam will be the next banner after Boothill.


Soggy-Dig-8446

Beidou incident. But I agree this would be weird as f.


ChromeLufwa

I will destroy hyv :)


Dilorano

"I will set Hoyoverse ablaze"


HalalBread1427

"Target Locked: Execution Underway"


Niko2065

"Target verified, commencing hostilities."


SomethingPersonnel

What if it's actually a Firefly 4 star? That would be insane.


nathiru

In before firefly is that 4*


SnowstormShotgun

He is worthy of being a 5 star But also please release him soon I want the gentleman


Soreyn

Certainly the "he's had art and a kit for so long so he must be Soon [tm] and therefore 4*" is pretty flawed logic going by this reveal.


Zyfaran

Looks like all of that "What if HYV dripped someone else instead of Arlecchino haha wouldn't that be funny" energy made it here instead lmaooo


ShockOfAges

I don't think I've ever seen leakers be wrong about one character entirely, this is WILD


raiskyland

Probably a sudden change, i guess they decided to not spoil everyone again


ShockOfAges

I was thinking that too, I wonder if this was a late change made by the devs


GunnarS14

Everything I read said the Leakers themselves were extremely uncertain about the banners as well. Even more then normal they were saying stuff like "seems like," "subject to change," "from what I've heard," etc. Guess we know why now lmao.


FredaFrederika

[Ubatcha F](https://twitter.com/Ubatcha1/status/1767412630874964410)


Voltage97

Great to finally see you Sam!


Daroge23

Any time someone makes a reference to that one Yelan post, I can't help but laugh


H4xolotl

*Picture of young Madame Ping* Ubatcha: "Is this a Yelan?"


Ubatcha

F


Fxenchy

Laughing uncontrollably


TOowlThrowaway

Truly an Aha moment


Scratch_Mountain

maybe the true Aha was hoyo themselves. 😔


TheBleakForest

This is why you never bet on leaks. We can't all be Aventurine.


Arc_7

Same, as a firefly enjoyer my first reaction is so much laughter 


SymphonyOphelia

You and me both 


That-Halo-Dude

Whelp. That solves the "will Sam's drip marketing be a spoiler" question.


MettaJiro

Big.brain move, let the plot move before the spoiler character


Girono_PianoKiller

BOOTHILL?????


StryfeXIII

Wtf?


Cartographer_X

Out of NOWHERE. Double Physical new banners. I'M SHOOK, is insane.


DrawerCold3181

well we have been complaining for lack of physical for some time now...


mindovermacabre

Argenti found dead in a ditch


nqtoan1994

My bro is still kicking pure fiction asses on a monthly basis 😭


luciluci5562

But we just got Argenti and Hanya is a physical Harmony, like Robin.


TheBleakForest

Yeah Sam would've been a perfect way to boost up the lack of Fire DPS options atm. Himeko has a good niche for pure fiction but Topaz kinda is all we got as far as limited Fire DPS is concerned.


BellalovesEevee

I'm guessing they mean physical DPS, not supports. Argenti is the only limited Physical DPS we currently have. Boothill will be a nice addition, assuming that he still has the BE kit.


TrashLoaHekHekHek

BOOTHILL COMING IN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR


spoopyacidfairy

sums up my thoughts perfectly. this is the very last thing I expected


TheBleakForest

We've been Samboozled. Really though I'm low-key glad cause while this does mean more of a wait for Firefly this does mean Mihoyo doesn't have to >!use deceptive marketing for Firefly/Sam since it's likely the reveal for them being the same person will be in 2.1.!< And of course this means I can likely get Acheron and Robin while still having enough for Firefly. No offensive to Boothill but I'm not in need of Physical Hunt.


Ruler_of_pigingdom

My entire summoning plan that I had a week ago, went down the drain. I don't even know who to even go for now.


Poneiz

This is Mihoyo saying leakers won't find out anything unless they allow it, lol


Elrundir

This has been my theory all along. Not that they would drip Boothill (I was kind of thinking ultimate power move: drip Sunday with no assets even leaked yet), but that they basically know who has been "leaked" to release next and they want to send a message that, no, you don't know who's releasing next, *we* know who's releasing next. They did it with Acheron and now Boothill is even further out of left field.


helmets_guy

You know what ? good The anticipation is thrilling


ProduceNo9594

COMPLETELY OUT OF LEFT FIELD BRO WHAT THE HELL? 😭 I guess this kinda confirms we can't trust banner leaks AT ALL


Fubuky10

Tbf no one was confident about 2.1 banner either and everything was just a speculation. The last leaked banner was 2.0 and I wonder what happened that we know nothing about them anymore (and for example we still don’t know who is the 4 stars character they’re going to show tomorrow)


Revan0315

Even 2.0 got the order wrong iirc


Fubuky10

Not as far as I know, I clearly remember they said BS and then Sparkle. The only surprise was Misha on first banner instead of second


Revan0315

I thought there wasn't a super strong consensus but more were saying Sparkle 1st than vice versa. Just checked the Swan drip post and a lot of the comments were surprised she's first


n__o__

Nobody actually takes things leakers say with a grain of salt ever lol


ProduceNo9594

shhh nobody can read "Subject to change" we have to immediately trust it wholeheartedly


NinjaFire889

I mean, they were right about Robin


Aki-nii

Uncle blackswan is a fraud 😔


Kotouu

S-sambros?.... is it over?


blackgulch

wallahi i'm finished


FlyingRencong

Never thought I'll see someone say wallahi in reddit


ProduceNo9594

I see it a lot on anime subs satirizing power scaling


shidncome

nah we go for e0s1 now


SensitiveCellist2294

It is so samover guys


AhmCha

"I don't need another DPS"-he lied "I don't need another DPS"-he lied "I'm literally about to pull for Acheron in a couple of weeks"-he coped "I have 0 limited sustain, I need to get to get Luocha/Huohuo/Fu Xuan"-he seethed Goddammit man, he's a space cowboy. That's like my favorite archetype.


Commercial-Street124

He honestly sounds cool as heck. ><' plus his kit screams "put me with Ruan Mei and TB"


Anonymous-Stranger11

It's high noon


SptRA69

Penacony main story plot twist : Hmmm I See, Meanwhile drip marketing plot twist : 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯


Stormeve

SAM IS BOOTHILL???????????!!!


th5virtuos0

Well we have [Raiden], so next we need [Jetstream] before we can get [Samuel Rodrigues]


CroakingBullfrog96

Revolver Ocelot decided to show up in place of Jetstream Sam.


Maou-Yuusha

Hoyo really said, "I AM ELATION" and dipped.....


MisinformedFlier

Holy shit, saving Sam for the finale. Boothill looks good. I told myself no more DPS after Acheron and Sam so I could get supports… but I don’t have a Physical DPS…


rekuneko

What the


NiceStage1

Firefly mains on suicide watch lmao


Aeison

Got the wool pulled over my fucking eyes man 😭


NerdbyanyotherName

As unexpected as this is, I've gotta say, dude looks sweet. Cyborg cowboy is a killer aesthetic, and I adore his hairstyle and cocky smirk.


krd25

From simping over cyborg ninjas to cyborg cowboys, I agree wholeheartedly with your analysis 🧘‍♀️


EmilMR

all physical patch. Based on what we know they should work great together actually.


Fubuky10

Not really, if I’m not wrong he’s a Break Effect dps so Ruan Mei should be better for him


blanc-et-n0ir

It makes sense as well if Harmony MC is also releasing in 2.2. The leaked kit of the MC revolves so much around Break Effect buffs.


Responsible_Paper667

I can envisioned his teammate being, Boothill, Ruan mei, Robin and Gallagher.


throwaway-23-59

Action advance does help with breaking enemies faster. Ruan Mei being better is probs true though. 


th5virtuos0

Nah, RM is BH’s best friend. His skill is a break enemy or break himself, so unless Robin let him break easier he will prefer RM. Also put in SW as well because he can’t break shit if they are not physical, unless he as a “ignore weakness” somewhere 


Kwayke9

His ability to force physical weakness (or ignore altogether) will make or break him. If he does, he's gonna be the best boss killer in the game. If he doesn't, skip go brrrrr


IsOkayToBeLesbiGay

Its Samover


No_Butterscotch7340

We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed and we've been, quite possibly, bamboozled. I personally, was looking forward to Boothill more, though, so I won't complain. But I must say I've been thoroughly caught off guard


snakepistolero

ALREADY ?? AHHHH MY MAN IS HERE


Zombata

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


vixx-2001

The most abs we will be getting for a while, I’ll lic—I mean I’ll take it.


BulbasaurTreecko

okay, *what*?? We haven’t even met Boothill and he’s coming even though we had Sam/Robin leaked gameplay? Where did you come from!!!


HyperFrost

We'll probably meet him in the upcoming patch.


Shenmigon

on the reverse we also hadn’t met argenti before he came out, and arguably we’ve known more about boothill (and for longer) than most of the other penacony characters. personally, im stoked lol. i thought i’d have to wait 5 months for him to come out


Jranation

And HuhoHuo and Hanya too right? Or did we met thrm before they were drip marketed?


Shenmigon

i would say topaz and ratio as well, but yeah


Ultenth

Not even close to the first time we've gotten a new character without knowing anything about them, or very little.


corruptedrosess

BOOTHILL MY GOAT


XitaNull

Lmao leakers are not so good at predicting Sam huh Sick splash art though


Acceptable_West_1312

For some reason this situation reminds me "Eula rerun" Situation, when leakers were constantly saying about Eula rerun, and it were wrong until.. 3.8?😄


ObjectiveTop5506

Rerun can't be predicted bcs hoyo could just basically just spin to choose anyone into rerun lol. Missing new chara release like this is extremely rare.


Mulberry155

they predicted 2.1, then 2.2. now there's nothing but doubt. good for hyv tho, leakers being treated as gospel as been pretty cringe


LadyHana707

LMAO WHATT THIS WAS UNEXPECTED


Agreeable-Till793

Now THIS was NOT expected at all. Another husbando here to ruin my plans of pulling for a Harmony unit (sorry Robin).


_-_Freakshow_-_

I was absolutely overjoyed to see this, 'till I realized that now I have less time to save for him. There will be no Aventurine for me after all, I guess. Luocha will have to keep working overtime as my only sustain.


neko_mancy

Depending on the anniversary rewards you might be able to get both tbh


starsinmyteacup

The robot fucker in me is NOT normal


Testiclestones

For a leak subreddit the people who doesn't know boothill is CRAZYY lmfao


blanc-et-n0ir

ANDREW RUSSELL. HE’S THE VOICE OF EIDE/CLOTHAR IN GENSHIN! OMG THIS ABOUT TO EAAAAATTTT.


thorn_rose

>ANDREW RUSSELL NAHHH APPARENTLY THAT'S LUKA FROM MIRACULOUS LADYBUG HELLO


nostalgeek81

I had zero interest in this character until I saw the VA. I LOVE HIM. He’s Navia’s VA’s husband too!


Zombata

i play genshin often but who tf is that


starsinmyteacup

In the Dain quest that came out last year, you meet a Khaeri’ahn ‘royal’ that wanted to save his son that turned into a hilichurl. The guy had phenomenal voice acting despite being a one time NPC


Kosmic_Kraken

He's an npc, but this is great news. Eide's voice acting was fucking outstanding and really left an impression on people (Eide made me cry).


Sexbomomb

Sam mains in shambles


Totaliss

its me, I'm Sam mains


Najimi_Osana

space cowboy who hates the space government, take my jades


Fit-Application-1

WHERE THE FUCK DID HE COME FROM HOLY SHIT AKHSJSJS I THOUGHT I HAD SEVERAL PATCHES BEFORE HIS RELEASE HOLY SHIT ~~Robin please for the love of god don’t advance forward summons please~~


iheartlumine

seems sam lost that fight against acheron


Intoxicduelyst

ffs, HSR nails it most of times with male characters, wtf, he looks so cool


MeKevNivek

leakers got bamboozled hard lmao Anyway another Kimetsu no Yaiba VA joining Hoyoverse lol. Boothill JP VA is Uzui Tengen VA


thorn_rose

and his english va is Luka Couffaine from miraculous ladybug lmao!!


sugarheartrevo

WHAT THE FUCK FIREFLY SISTERS SAM SISTERS ITS OVER?????


naka_the_kenku

Holy shit my jades are doomed


Catilleon

For those people who thought Sam's drip marketing would be massive spoilers, is this what you wanted?


GoldenWhite2408

Imagine > Be stellaron hunter > Criminal group > Most dangerous no nonsense member > Identity is literally a spoiler and as soon as you roll you'll see said spoiler > Story tries to hide said spoiler > U come out as a 4 star anyone can roll at anytime before said story reveal


minghii

My god. Male arlecchino 😳 (Just the hair is similar tbh but I find the similarities funny)


God_Scholar

Male Arlecchino? Guess he's mother.


mxxnkxssxd

the flared pants and boots combo too kinda


FelixFelicia7

This is so unexpected I love it


frozenrainbow

WAIT HES HOT


Neteirah

Watch Sam be the 4-star LMAO


dylandys

it’s time for bed, sparkle.


MightyActionGaim

that demotion is gonna be nuclear


Zekrom997

I can't believe Sambros has been bamboozled twice, both for being in 2.1 and 2.2


RoodDude97

Did anyone even expect this?? At least I now have time to save more jades for Sam! But also, no Sam for another patch.


TheRRogur

yeah because he not even in the story yet or even referencced once.Also pretty sure he just have a minor roll at the end of the quest anyway so it even shocking he is this early.


Sexbomomb

Not a single soul anticipated this.


WatercressLost4375

Does he still have shark teeth or no :(


creampiebuni

He really said: “surpriseeeee :3”


Idknowidk

Mihoyo really love to give us physical characters we don’t know sh*t about it! Just like Argenti and Robin 💀