Swarm Disaster Is A Nightmare (Honkai Star Rail)

Today in Honkai Star Rail we're playing the new Simulated Universe, Swarm Disaster content. Very fun, extremely hard.
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0:00 Basics of Swarm Disaster
6:08 Finishing Difficulty 3
11:53 What We Earned
13:28 Trying Stage 4
16:45 Difficulty 2
18:55 Difficulty 1 (I died)
19:59 I learned something important...

[@kenkaneki3873]

The Propogation Path unlocks for regular SU after you complete most of the content

[@emiliabaran6830]

Really? How do you exactly unlock it?

[@ammarnk9260]

​@@emiliabaran6830you need to "walk through" every path. Untill you get 13/13 on the stories

[@emiliabaran6830]

okay thank you@@ammarnk9260

[@pally3370]

@@emiliabaran6830have an audience with all the different Aeons. When it says “you have walked long enough on the path of (x)” you get an audience with the specific aeon and get +1 story bit. You need 13 to fully unlock the final quest for SUSD and unlock propagation for all SU levels.

[@FunZenCh]

​@@emiliabaran683013/13 the chapter story

[@ExGaming8K]

Seele is amazing for catching the trotters. You can abuse her invis and let them group up and get a bunch with one swing

[@minio7506]

kafka is really good too with her AoE attack

[@Yassinebuff]

imbibitor lunae be like :

[@atriyakoller136]

That's cool! I sniped them with Bronya haha but Seele sounds cool for them, I should try

[@YuTEM]

​@@Yassinebuffunless you play mobile, then it feels like you're steering a car on ice

[@PolakZ]

honestly, asta slaps hard for clearing trotters, can easily kill all of them using her

[@loyloyca]

“I’ll probably be auto-ing difficulty 3 and maybe even 4” “I don’t think the difficulty we’re at should be a problem anyway” Me: oh Moga bout to be humbled But to Moga’s credit he did auto D3 tho

[@x_Psyduck_x]

IL is just too OP, I'm scared that they're powercreeping so hard so early in the game

[@user-ex4lb5to8h]

@@x_Psyduck_x Agreed, but it was kinda obvious to many, that the powercreeping would be bad in HSR. Sad for a F2P player like me.

[@dylanfallon6720]

@@x_Psyduck_x that's true but idk, the event seem to be made to specifically sell IL and Fu Xuan. IL is kinda normal outside of SD.

[@AzureDrag0n1]

@@x_Psyduck_x I have both Jing Yuan and DHIL and the gulf between them is massive. It took me so long to build my Jing Yuan and DHIL surpassed him with so little effort. I feel like it is a bad idea to pull for too many dps characters as it feels like a waste of effort to keep building older characters. They will be powercreept real fast.

[@brainrot7956]

@@dylanfallon6720 but swarm disaster is a permanent feature, not an event or short term buff like MOC buff?

[@aladdict727]

to unlock nihility, just enter a stage then exit the run halfway through

[@Emily_Linka]

I love swarm mode! It’s a really fun addition to SU content and definitely a challenge.

[@shinisnotonfire]

well, looks like they didn't call the event "disaster" for nothing 💀

[@Raeodor]

You got incredibly lucky on that first lvl 3 run.

[@Geddu1]

01:27 "I probably will be autoing mostly trough difficulty 3 and four." Oh you sweet summer child That said I'm so happy Hoyo finally added meaningful and DEFFICULT endgame into a game since Honkai Impact.

[@Avraine13]

I read that as genshin impact and got sad. 😂 but fr difficulty 3 was easy, and then when I got to 4 I got shocked when one swat from the boss kills my character or entire team.

[@adrianpaul6159]

I cant beat difficulty 3 bruh idk what path to use i always get bombed by kafka i cant even pass her. I use imbibitor lunae but still my weak ass cant pass her

[@reformeddoomer6777]

​@adrianpaul6159 abundance path and getting lucky with your blessings. Get both interplay for the path (nihility and propogation). Stick to abundance, elation/ hunt and nihility blessings in the start. When you get op go for propagation blessing. Save your cosming fragments for the boost CRITDMG curio ( every 100 cosming fragments turns into +24 CRITDMG). Good luck 👍! Between hunt and elation, you go for what you're main dps does. I have Jing yuan, so maybe it's not a good stategy for you 🤔 . Edited some mistake because I'm dumb.

[@adrianpaul6159]

@@reformeddoomer6777 YO THANK YOU BRO i never used that curio in my life. It went perfectly difficulty 3 became a joke

[@reformeddoomer6777]

@@adrianpaul6159 good to hear! Congratulations I'm stuck at difficulty 4 😭

[@catz_ee]

Remembrance path is actually all about duplicating those highlighted domains using dice effects. You can duplicate the Adventure domains and get a ton of rewards.

[@FugiYo]

You dont have to pick abundance path but that abundance 3 star card where it blasts all types of healing (it even includes blade's healing) to all allies. If you accumulated enough one heal skill from bailu or any healer could heal up everyone. And that path can cleanse too if you pick it.

[@ericx6969]

they need fix path of preservation because it bugged I had od buffs and perks for damage negation and boss and enemy literally negate it wtf

[@CarelessChalant]

Kafkas technique is so wide, it captures a massive group of them when you sprint between a bunch

[@ALL_FOR_NOTHING_]

also astra have long range attack before troller can notice you they are all dead

[@Flor334]

I hate the fact i got this notification as soon as my whole team got clapped😭

[@loveellen6755]

literally same 😭 (love your pfp btw!)

[@poofeh]

i had to use gepard and bailu to finish difficulty 2 and 3. i took way too many tries to finish difficulty 3 using gepard seele bronya and bailu

[@gearavien2784]

now we gotta have a swarm disaster series, i strangely really enjoyed watching this

[@Chinese_Spy]

Remembrance path is the most useful in the case of brute forcing stuff managed to beat difficult 4 with remembrance with march pela gepard and natasha because if they cant move you wont take damage

[@mohamedm.elnour9300]

Clara to the moon ❤ I have kafka and seele fully build and failed to clear dif4 But I assembled my TANK team Clara as a cannon + march7 +mc fire + bailu .. elation path God dam i obliterate those shitty bugs Dif5 is another story💀😭

[@Zeon081]

replace mc with a buffer or debuffer and go on preservation path. Clara and March alone will cover most of damage and tanking.

[@droppeh5712]

Finally , I was waiting for this. I was the one asking in stream about when the video is releasing

[@Devilboy_1029]

I am scared sh*tless looking at the title. If moga is scared of this what am I supposed to be?

[@halaylover6867]

I mean moga usually doesnt know his sfuff anyway, also you can always make a team with herta and rememberance path to consistenly freeze the enemies to win. Thats what I have been doing personally Also you know, you have a third option *intense credit card sounds*

[@Engineering_is_fun_they_said]

Best nightmare I ever had... Yeah, it took me 4 hours to beat difficulty 4. Had to get lucky with the RNG lol. Was fun doing a million dmg with DHIL tho

[@eden5560]

If y'all are having problems getting through, play destruction with Match, Trailblazer and any healer. It has to be March, since she works so well with the special joint resonance with follow-up attacks. Your characters will not take any damage. Just stack destruction, elation and preservation and ur set for an easy, but super slow, clear. Abundance is also very nice.

[@ericx6969]

bruh preservation is bugged I had more than 100% damage reduction and still got negated

[@rhysespieces.]

honestly, i’m loving the challenge. it took me quite a few times to beat difficulty two, but probably cuz my character are at max lvl 75. i’m saving for fu xuan, then everyone can level up. my only downside is, i tend to spend a short time (an hour or less) per account, but with this new mode i have no issue sitting there for hours playing it over and over….

[@why-so-toxic_1413]

I gotta admit this is actually difficult contact I like it it brings a really hard challenge

[@thepancakethathasnoname7826]

Kafka's skill can easily do the mini game where you kil trotters

[@f2psue38]

Always glad to have a hard challenge to get through

[@fishtonk5506]

16:15 These permanent upgrades are cracked as high hell, I went from struggling at n the 2nd stage in diff 2 to nearly beating diff 3 just from lving destruction ( not my main path btw)

[@el.gato.]

i can’t do difficulty 3 my whole team gets get shot on the second phase.

[@adrianpaul6159]

Same bro i cant pass kafka

[@el.gato.]

@@adrianpaul6159i redid the run and i took fire mc this time. My team was dragon dan heng, tingyun, mc, and luocha. I got gepard this time and i still couldn’t beat at first. But i learn a trick!! if you exist out of the game during a fight it resets your battle!! so when you login you can start the battle again. I kept using this trick because my tingyun kept on dying 😭 but after 4 tries i managed to win.

[@RomnilWater]

I adore this mode and I'm so glad that it's permanent. There's no way i could beat it in 2 weeks while still touching grass lol. Level 4 is kicking my ass but that might be because I'm over ambitious and going for every swarm tile. With the strengthened ones they're a pure DPS check and I just can't kill them fast enough.

[@AzureDrag0n1]

Strongly recommend you pick the Hunt story options. They are the most rare.

[@zackarybumbaugh9677]

I haven't finished the video but felt the need to say ting is prob the best supp for dan if you have both of there ults up you can use dan then ting ult to fill it back up and not lose any of his stacks since ults do not count as turns so after dan attacks he will have near 100 percent of his ult back already

[@avlAretsiM]

i've been waiting for this

[@Zeon081]

this mode is awesome. just enough challenge without cheap "stat check" walls. really good rogue-lite.

[@Satchiidesu]

gotta love elation just be a ranomizer and everytime i ve unlocked more elation story ive been screwed over by the lotto tickets

[@orochi_sama6679]

I cleared diff 5 easily using the remembrance path I had a completely perfect run like all the blessings and I had the 2 boss give the -30% debuf res and it was still nerve wracking very fun event tho

[@reubenprasanth271]

19:19 😐😐 says the guy who didnt use any ice characters on that run

[@kook_bunny17]

i was able to do difficulty 1 but at the 2nd one i died so fast it was ridiculous. i'm at trailblazer level 67 and i was struggling! idk how others can do those so easily😭😭😭😭 edit: i finally did the 2nd difficulty and had dan heng, yukong, fire mc and bailu in my team and had the hunt path. i had like 5 close calls during the last boss fight but fortunately, i got to beat them before they nihilated me💀

[@vanitas9837]

Same man I can't get past the second boss, I used Welt Hunt Path died and tried preservation and died then tried remeberence and died

[@kook_bunny17]

@vanitas9837 i used dan heng il, yukong, tingyun (or fire mc can't remember) and bailu I was doing one of the bosses (i think the first one out of 3) and i was ended so quick😭

[@DonQ0]

This game mode is heavy on rng which is bad design imo. Just keep trying and pray you get good blessing card and unlock most of the buffs.

[@ericx6969]

bruh I had perfect damage reduction and it got negated or buffs where bugged dont work also boss stun is too op needs a nerf it should only be apply 1 character and never healer

[@ericx6969]

@@DonQ0 it not only that but final boss is bugged some stuff are not proccing and it stun is way too op

[@zheik2866]

Swarm mode is so fun, i love it, there are so many new things, it’s a great addition to the game, specially for the variarity

[@moranstein7668]

You know it’s bad when moga doesn’t put a beep over the what the f*ck

[@thahirshibu5042]

I interrupted my run by accident by spawning IX at the end of phase 2. I had a cracked build of remembrance going so that stung

[@pottop880]

I only got to the last phase of the difficulty 4 boss. Will try again and improve my characters

[@hannahshi8484]

The beginning looks like hero wars.

[@AmeyaShikhare_RR]

I wish hoyo would add something like this in genshin as well. Its a complete optional content so people who get anxious can avoid.

[@karu1569]

You can use Kafka to clear a horde if you have her

[@natanaelperez1042]

19:20 remembrance is actually broken

[@Engineering_is_fun_they_said]

1:27 ''I probably will be auto'ing thorugh difficulty 3 and 4'' LMAO this guy has no clue what he's about to get into

[@BlueBerryGintako]

Preservation needed Both Gepard n Fire MC to work n Luka or Kafka to trigger the Bleed

[@luhaguilar]

I can’t even get through Difficulty 3 hahahahaha *laughing through the pain*

[@mementonori7532]

Fun and games until the Communing Trail missions requires you to beat Diffculty 5 with 3 different paths

[@teldarin7557]

Oh god, I'm still an absolute noob in HSR (account is roughly 2 weeks old) and when I hear how hard this new content seems to be even for veterans, my hope just vanishes. I guess I won't be playing this stuff for a looong time. xD

[@qtkeys]

Once you get started to farming a good set of gold relics you'll be fine lol. Just pick abundance path and get a few hunt blessings for more dmg.

[@teldarin7557]

​@@qtkeysYeah, Abundance is my most used choice for regular SU anyway, good to know it's also viable in the new mode. Thanks for the advice.

[@Lukz243]

Talk about challenge D: And yeah, it's a very fun mode.

[@doro5630]

19:11 Yes.

[@TheyCallMeDio]

Pro tip: Kafka can kill a bunch of trotters with her AoE

[@joelo8673]

world iv was so hard for me and i breezed through MoC lol

[@LA3100_]

This happen to me too I finish difficulty 3 easily then died at difficulty 1 and 2 😅 and now I'm struggling to finish difficulty 4😢

[@dugs2308]

You can fulfill some missions without completing the difficulty.

[@painn7591]

Remembrance is OP but you need at least one ice character and a lot of EHR.

[@Weaponxkp21]

It's funny watching the beginning of this video with u talking like this gonna be a cakewalk 😂

[@sammy4735]

ITS SO HARDDD

[@good-cl6pt]

This is super fun tho😂

[@shiroyasha9623]

Playing this game mode it's like doing that game with your hand and a knife. One slip and you lose. *For real* (Also Moga don't know if already saw that but the lvl 5 final boss has 9M HP)

[@Chino-Kafu]

Anyone know if I stay in level 1 until I unlock more perks and boosts? I can't seem to do level 2 with maxed out characters and no matter what aeon I choose....

[@amakiscool9537]

Diffulty 2 one shotted my nat

[@spicedavid1751]

People be talking about imbibitor for the trotters...but have you tried Kafka's technique....I got all in just 3 tries

[@soola1404]

I'm level 65, saw the new mode and was like meh I will probably auto difficulty 3, 5 runs on it, then 2 runs on difficultly 2, until I finally accepted it and did it on difficulty 1, shit is hard, but then again I only have two decent build characters...

[@ericx6969]

I dont get wtf is boss stun that so op and annoying also I had so many damage reduction buffs that for some reason got negated like what point path of buffs if it dont work and nihility not doing proper damage and my dan heng inhubitor lunae was suppose have 400% crit damage buff and my team but none buffs where applied or is there a cap limit

[@Vivekkumar-bm6mi]

I am literally in story of this event like i can't win 😂

[@goatcatofchaos]

Anybody else be doing a really good run and somehow choose the nihility post-boss choice thing and it just ended my run with a snarky comment from herta going "idiot chose black hole aeon"

[@agungs8557]

i hate this mode so much, i was 30 - 40 minutes in, and they just decided "screw you" and the last boss just randomly 1 shotted me

[@MattVascud]

just go destruction less hp you have less dmg u take and more dmg u done :D perfect for this content

[@kitsune747]

Except when you get fucking one shot even at almost full hp

[@MattVascud]

@@kitsune747 not if u get blessing that make you share all the dmg with everyone in your team :D

[@szonjaf.8110]

I tried it and the boss just hit me until I died LMAO

[@kuyarence]

Good Luck with 1-Shot Massive Attacks + Big Wind Shear Damage for that one

[@dancingjulio]

I haven’t done it but I have seen so many people struggle and my builds are really, so that title is worrying me a LOT 😭😭

[@dafuqgusdafrey60]

Because it indeed hard, you gotta need to play-replay to unlock path bonuses Also need to read the conditions to unlock it otherwise it's a waste of time run

[@ericx6969]

@@dafuqgusdafrey60 do all path bonus stack and connected?

[@iamcool544]

A good tip is when you are losing and dying, maybe STOP leaving it on auto

[@user-qc1it2kv4p]

Try to go diff 4 without gepard and you will appreciate him going forward.

[@GenshinCouldNever97]

So sad who skip luocha or DHIL 😢

[@kurizu007]

so am lucky one who did clear difficult 4 without had farm buff? like i had done 3 run in total xD 1 on difficult 3 and clear, 1 lost on difficult 4, and a complete on difficult 4

[@Lloyd-water798]

Not a nightmare it's worse than nightmare

[@rolleploey6959]

WHERE IS MY GOD MODE KAFKAAAAAA

[@weeb3726]

As a f2p and very unlucky and only with seele Help im using clara and the only way i can beat it if i get like 10 things that i want

[@GenshinCouldNever97]

Only lvl 5 is hard for me. My team dhil E0 luocha E0 blade E2 MC fire E6

[@jinxxed1883]

Should i start playing it or is it too laye

[@m0narch1000]

Yes, not too late

[@bubbles000]

Never too late + there are permanent events that don’t depend on trailblaze power with a LOT of stellar jades so you can pull for characters you want. We’re also just in the second planet so you’re still in time to not fee left behind

[@jinxxed1883]

@@bubbles000 what characters are good Should i pull for the current one idk his name the dragon guy Or should i wait

[@veraoliva972]

​@@jinxxed1883pull for the dragon guy aka imbabitor lunae he's the most powerful dps Right now and also the next character who's probably gonna be the best tank in game

[@TwistedFate123]

While I really like this new content. The difference on clearing it with DIL vs other units leaves a bad taste personally. I don't mind it being hard and that other units may clear it easier than others, but when you clear it with DIL vs the other units is like night and day. From the final boss weakness and even the adventure domains is biased towards him. But overall its good content I just wished it was balanced across all units and not make it so blatant that they have their bias on a unit.

[@jepeman]

Especially since its such a huge time sink of a content. Makes me worried about the constant power creep and tailoring content for new chars.

[@stevenviljoen160]

The final boss is always Quontum and Imaginary, Seele, Qinque and Silver wolf are also very beneficial here. The swarm attacks buffs are definitely made for Blade and Dan Heng but you can avoid them and focus on the paths like Remembrence, destruction and abundance to clear it easily enough.

[@ericx6969]

@@stevenviljoen160 not if boss stuns and depending how long u wanted dps buffs they hit hard

[@werenb3628]

nya

[@dinoscafe4856]

can someone explain to me what happened to dan heng? (i stopped playing before kafka's release) what's the lore? is there two dan hengs or he just evolved?

[@ShinHakumen]

It's his Vidyadhara form. He is the reincarnation of the previous Vidyadhara High Elder Dan Feng who was banished from the Luofu because of commiting a great sin. Basically, he got stabbed by Blade and awakened, much like Trailblazer getting stabbed during the Belobog arc. Now I'm just waiting for March to get stabbed too so she can also have an alternate form XD.

[@brokenbuttrfly]

Lol pls record a lot of this content

[@tsundilemma9952]

Is this mode permanent?

[@regerts744]

The skill tree grind is just terrible.

[@johnwheel2591]

Totally broken mode. Ive just died on 2d difficulty, coz my kafka was 1 shoted and i had no way to save here. And this is with 11 nihility buffs...

[@Gummeyy]

all these videos showcasing IL is really hard 😭 i have enough pulls for guarantee and LC but i need to save for fu xuan (specifically lynx tbh) since i don’t have luocha/gepard/bailu. I still can’t clear MoC, shield mc and march 7th are enough to keep me alive but costs me a lot of wasted cycles since the team lacks dps.

[@pumpkinjar4625]

this new SU is tempting me but then i remember how shitty DhIL skill point management is if u don’t have his E2 and then i become sane again

[@Yassinebuff]

not really . its really easy to play around his skill points . by using skill points friendly units like (loucha ,gepard) he is indeed one of the best units to use in this mode . but still any dps can clear it with the right blessings .but they guy is actualy right cause he needs a sustain unit and a healer to fill his roster@@pumpkinjar4625

[@dafuqgusdafrey60]

If you don't have loucha then don't bother They release swarm just so to temp people pulling Daniel

[@nevaeh-]

losing my sanity over this sim U update

[@potassiumsulphate4802]

Genshin could never

[@Xgil2Play]

Why is your Dan ill?

[@husseinhassan1055]

End game for genshin when?

[@ZeonZenes]

Ignore the countdown thing in the corner, just try to get as many buffs and such as you can. You will outdamage the boss on every difficulty except 5.

[@Roihclem871]

W4 seems impossible without IL

[@stevenviljoen160]

Just use remembrance with Fire TB, March and any healer/Shielder you have. It's not pretty but it works.

[@lusoclement3787]

now we know why fu xuan's kit is broken, it to sell her for this content

[@TCGunsha]

DAY 52 of waiting moga to upload the random gacha abyss video

[@rahilpatel4655]

Oh trigger warning!! Moga has posted 😂

[@fluttershygaming2428]

Genshin would never.

[@SoraZenichi]

I cant even play on auto mode with my trash build😂

[@nickussy.]

why are you autoing though????

[@Felony10]

Bruh i didn't like SU before (cuz if my shitty character builds) and now we get this...

[@ctran1955]

I’m glad everyone’s been enjoying this content, but as HSR goes on I realize it’s not for me. I’m playing just to keep up with my friends and bc I’m bored. I’m surprised people don’t find this tedious the way I do. I’ve sunk in too much time for me to want to quit now, but I kinda wish I did. I also hate hearing it constantly being compared to genshin. Clearly, it’s different gameplay.

[@jepeman]

Same for me, but FOMO and sunk cost fallacy (time spent) keeps me playing, for now. At least Im not spending any more money on it. Bought the battle pass once when the game launched, not spent a penny since then. Not enjoying it enough to justify spending. My main issue is everything takes so long to do, despite playing on 2x speed basically ever since it unlocked. These simulated universe runs taking about an hour each is just insane and bad RNG can just ruin the whole run, wasting more time. If I were to compare to Genshin regardless, the Spiral Abyss is lot faster to clear than the Star Rail equivalent. Nevermind even being able to clear it entirely, for not having whaled and bad luck with gamba. So yeah, tedious is a good way to describe it.

[@naungyoe3215]

​@@jepemanthe question is why are you comparing simulated universe with Abyss. They are totally different. One is timer base dps check and one is rougelike game mode. If you want to compare, compare Abyss with memory of chaos. There is no equivalent of SU in genshin.

[@jepeman]

@@naungyoe3215 I was comparing Abyss with Memory of Chaos, is why I said the Abyss equivalent of Star Rail. Maybe wasn't clear. Memory of Chaos battles take a lot longer than Abyss battles. MoC also basically forces you to do 4 chambers at once without checkpoints, opposed to Genshin's 2 chambers per checkpoint. Making failure even worse, taking even more time. Also thank god Genshin doesn't have Simulated Universe equivalent. Though it might work better with its shorter battle times and it has flirted with the idea with some events.