Genshin Impact version 6.7 Luna 8 release times and what's new

Genshin Impact version 6.7, titled Luna 8, launches on June 30 or July 1 depending on your time zone. Maintenance kicks off Tuesday, June 30 at 3 p.m. PDT / 6 p.m. EDT / 11 p.m. BST, with servers going dark for roughly five hours. Western Europe gets the downtime at midnight CEST on July 1.

The patch goes live approximately five hours after maintenance starts — that's 8 p.m. PDT / 11 p.m. EDT on June 30, or 4 a.m. BST / 5 a.m. CEST on July 1. Japan and Australia see it at noon JST and 1 p.m. AEST respectively on July 1. Hoyoverse typically sticks close to its maintenance windows, and servers occasionally come back early.

Luna 8 continues the Nod-Krai story arc with a genuinely wild premise: the Traveler boards a spaceship and heads to the moon, which has apparently been turned into a weapon. On the character side, Sandrone — one of the Fatui Harbingers and a new five-star Cryo unit — becomes playable for the first time, making this patch essential for anyone trying to collect the full Harbinger roster. Citali also gets a rerun banner. A second banner runs a mixed lineup of returning characters: Yumemizuki Mizuki, Wriothesley, Cyno, Yae Miko, and Qiqi, along with their weapons.

Genshin Impact has been running since 2020 and version 6.7 marks how far the game's story has drifted from its original fantasy-RPG roots — moon weapons and spaceships are a long way from Mondstadt. Players eager for Sandrone should log in early; first-phase banners typically run for about three weeks before the patch's second half begins.