Version 3.9 should reach Global on November 5, 2026. That is a projection, not an announcement, and the rest of this page is mostly about how much weight the number can carry.
The case for it runs like this. Bluepoch has now officially dated Version 3.8 "The Temporal Scale" to September 24 (UTC-5), and 3.8 runs the standard two banner phases, which is six weeks. Six weeks from September 24 is November 5. Separately, Hedone opened Version 3.9 on the Chinese server on August 13, and August 13 plus the 84-day CN-to-Global gap that held for ten consecutive units through spring is also November 5. Two methods, one date.
Why the arithmetic is worth trusting this time
Because it was just tested in public. We projected September 24 for Version 3.8 on this site four days before Bluepoch announced it, using the same two methods, and the announcement matched. The full working, every 6-star debut since October 2024 with both release dates and the gap in days, is in the CN to Global gap breakdown.
The caveat that matters is not the arithmetic. It is that Global's calendar, not CN's, is what moves. CN's release cadence has been close to metronomic for two years; every meaningful wobble in the gap traces back to Global stretching a version. Four units in mid-2025 slipped six weeks each because Global's Version 2.8 arrived eleven weeks after 2.7 instead of six. If Bluepoch stretches 3.8 the same way, November 5 slides with it, and nothing about CN will have changed.
So treat November 5 as the default, and treat the 3.9 developers' broadcast, which normally airs about a week before a version, as the thing that settles it.
CN has already played this patch
This is the part that has changed most since this page first went up in July. Back then 3.9 was a rumour and this post was a map of the rumour. It is not a rumour now: CN ran Version 3.9 starting August 13, 2026, and the banner lineup is on the record.
| Phase | 6-star debut | 5-star rate-ups |
|---|---|---|
| 3.9 Phase 1 | Hedone | Blonney, Ulu |
| 3.9 Phase 2 | Narcissus | Avgust, X |
Phase 2 also carried a Ms. Stranger rerun alongside Bkornblume and Charlie. Global players will already have Ms. Stranger from her 3.7 anniversary run, so that channel is a rerun of a rerun here and is the easy one to ignore.
One structural note before you plan around this. Global's version order has not matched CN's since the Atomic Heart crossover, which CN bundled inside its own 3.8 and Global ran standalone in July ahead of 3.7. That is why the gap sat at 105 days for three units instead of 84. Global's 3.8 has two phases where CN's had three, which is exactly what pulls the gap back down to 84 by the time 3.9 lands. The banner contents have tracked CN faithfully; it is the calendar that has been doing the drifting.
What is actually known about Hedone
Hedone is a 6-star Mineral Arcanist, confirmed by Bluepoch's own CN character trailer. That is where the confirmed part stops as far as Global goes.
Her kit exists and has been played on CN for a month, so it is not secret, but nothing about her Global release has been announced and kits do occasionally receive balance passes between servers. We are not going to publish a build page built on CN footage and call it verified. When the 3.9 broadcast airs and her kit locks for Global, she gets a proper entry and a link from the Reverse: 1999 tier list.
What you can act on now is the Afflatus. Mineral is the column your current roster either covers or does not, and that is knowable today. If your Limbo teams are already leaning on Mineral, a second 6-star in that Afflatus is a depth pick rather than a fix. If Mineral is the hole in your roster, this is the patch to save through. The Afflatus combat guide covers why the wheel punishes a missing column more than a missing carry.
The six weeks in between
3.9 is two versions away, which makes this a saving window rather than a decision window. Four things are worth doing with it, and two of them expire.
- Claim the 3.8 broadcast gift before September 23. 120 Clear Drops and a Jar of Picrasma Candy for logging in, gone when the version turns over. This is the most free currency available for the least effort right now.
- Decide on Everecho, not on Hedone. Version 3.8 opens September 24 with the new Mineral 6-star Everecho, and Cornerstone is confirmed for Phase 2. Two Mineral 6-stars in consecutive versions is the actual shape of the next three months, and if you want one of them you probably should not chase both.
- Bank through the lull, not through the banner. The current banner schedule and the active codes are the two pages worth rechecking weekly; between them they carry the free pulls that decide whether you enter 3.9 with a full pity or half of one.
- Do not pre-invest in a CN kit. Psychube and resonance choices can shift with a Global balance pass. Hold materials for anything that has not shipped here.
What this page used to say, and why
Until September this post projected 3.9 for early-to-mid September 2026. That was wrong, and the reason is worth keeping rather than quietly deleting. The count was six weeks forward from the Atomic Heart collaboration, on the assumption that Global's collab sat inside Version 3.8. It did not: "Polymerized Dreams" ran globally from July 23 to August 13 as a standalone synchronized version, ahead of 3.7 rather than after 3.8. The anchor was wrong, so everything measured from it was wrong by about two months.
The fix was not a better guess. It was building the measured gap table so the projection runs off recorded release dates instead of an assumed version order, which is the same method that then called September 24 correctly.
Sources: Version 3.8's September 24 (UTC-5) Global date is from Bluepoch's developers' broadcast. CN's Version 3.9 start date and banner lineup are from CN banner trackers and Bluepoch's CN character trailer for Hedone; no Global date, kit or banner order for 3.9 has been officially announced, and November 5 is our projection from the measured CN-to-Global gap. Last rechecked September 15, 2026.
