Honkai: Star Rail players shocked as download size almost doubles for 2.0 update

The latest Penacony update for Honkai: Star Rail will increase the game’s mobile file size further, almost doubling its previous size.

Hoyolab’s latest update to Honkai: Star Rail is set to hit your screens on February 5. However, the Penacony update has already surprised the game’s mobile community as the pre-install files take the game from a little over 18 GB of data to 31 GB. 

As the Penacony update entails introducing a whole new Planet to the game, many players expected a significant increase in the game’s file size.

However, what surprised the mobile player base is how the game seems to reach Genshin Impact’s, another Hoyolab world-famous multi-platform game, file size less than a year after its release.

i downloaded the new hsr pre-install for penacony and… y’all 😭 pic.twitter.com/Xy7PDuFdNB

Honkai: Star Rail 2.0 update has mobile players “hanging on for dear life” 

In one of the replies, one Honkai: Star Rail player remarks that their phone is “hanging on for dear life” with only 64 GB of internal data. While other players commented that they had to buy another gadget to accommodate the size of the game. 

One reply on the original X post details that after the update installation, mobile players of Honkai: Star Rail can expect a portion of their storage to free up. 

it’s like that because it’s a update file, so it includes all files, including some that will get replaced on the save file on your device, so the actual final size on your phone will be much lesser, dw!