BODY: HoYoverse announced on August 28, 2026, that the next major update for its stylish action RPG Zenless Zone Zero will arrive on September 9. Titled "Secrets, the Past, and Her," Ver. 3.2 leans hard into character-driven storytelling — and, as ever, into a fresh wave of playable agents built around new combat mechanics.
Headlining the update is Claretta, who arrives on the first-half exclusive banner. Claretta introduces a brand-new specialty the developers are calling "Sharp Guard" (鋭御), a defensive-flavored trait that promises to shake up how players approach New Eridu's tougher encounters. New specialties in ZZZ tend to reshuffle the meta, so theorycrafters are already dissecting what "Sharp Guard" might mean for team composition.
The update's second half brings Roxy, a Wind-element agent who specializes in the Rupture combat style. Splitting two banners across a single version is standard HoYoverse cadence, giving free-to-play players time to save premium currency between pulls and keeping the update's content flowing across its full six-week run.
The subtitle — "Secrets, the Past, and Her" — signals a story chapter digging into character backstory, consistent with ZZZ's move toward deeper narrative arcs as it matures well into its second year.
The insider take
From Tokyo, ZZZ occupies an interesting niche in HoYoverse's stable. It has never matched the mainstream footprint of Genshin Impact or Honkai: Star Rail here, but its urban-cool aesthetic and arcade-style combat have earned it a devoted core audience — the kind that packs Akihabara collaboration cafés and drives brisk figure sales. Japanese players, in particular, prize the game's animation quality and voice cast, so a story-heavy update like 3.2 tends to land well with the local base even when the gacha lineup is a mixed bag. Expect the usual social-media surge the moment Claretta's kit details leak ahead of launch.
Originally reported by 4Gamer.net − 最新記事 (Japanese).