Honor Royale update adds early respawns and a slower safe zone
The global game’s official overview details changes to elimination, the safe zone and map resources.
Honor of Kings has updated Honor Royale so a death during the first four minutes no longer eliminates a player: they respawn at a random location. An official graphic published on November 9 also outlines changes to the safe zone and map resources, giving pairs more room to regroup early in a match.
The safe zone now shrinks toward a random location and does so more slowly, while more monsters appear on the map. Because the respawn location is random rather than fixed beside a teammate, a surviving player and their returning partner still need to keep track of each other and the zone boundary.
Creator Shadow HOK also discussed these changes in a November 4 global-update video, pointing to the extra room for error in the early game. The official graphic confirms the four-minute respawn period, random shrinking zone and additional monsters; other details in the video need separate verification.
Honor Royale originally launched as a beta for four teams of two. The new overview does not state a fixed match length or every detail of later elimination, so the original three-minute format should not be assumed to describe the updated match.