HoYoverse starts to plan new Honkai game with multiplayer aspects

HoYoverse, the company behind Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, and the soon-to-be-released Zenless Zone Zero, is already beginning to plan out another game set in the Honkai IP, as spotted and translated by Reddit user Alternative-Duty-532. Listings for positions the studio seeks to fill are titled with “Honkai IP pre-research” and indicate that the project is envisioned as another cross-platform title for PC, iOS, Android, and consoles with 3D visuals. Candidates for the position as level designer are required to bring understanding and insight into “mainstream open-world RPGs” while those looking to come on board as gameplay planners will have to have “experience in online project operations” and  a “deep understanding of gameplay and commercialization systems for multiplayer games with extensive experience as a user of MMOs, action online games, or multiplayer games.” Furthermore, experience in multiplayer game projects with a large number of unique daily active users – examples given are MOBAs, battle