Risk of Rain 2 News

The Embracer Group's second quarter interim report has been a real barnburner for old Gearbox. Not only has the studio been handed oversight of Saints Row developer Volition, but the report also quietly announced that Gearbox has gone and bought up the Risk of Rain series too...
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Gearbox Entertainment has purchased the Risk of Rain IP originally developed by Hopoo Games, which most recently released the Survivors of the Void DLC for Risk of Rain 2...
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[h3]Risk of Rain 2: Survivors of the Void PC Patch v1.2.4 (Build ID #8796679)[/h3]



Changes with the ‘🌧’ icon in front of them are changes or additions suggested by the community. As always, if you want to stay up to date on the game or give us feedback feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/riskofrain2



The goal of this patch is to address lower-level bugs, while also taking a look at some content changes and more long-standing bugs that have existed in RoR2. In addition to that, you can now sign up for our mailing list in game to stay updated on our latest announcements!

(Steam version only)

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• General

• Void Fields
• 🌧 Interactables now spawn in the stage
  Developer Notes: With SotV, we wanted to make the Void Fields a more compelling choice by increasing the value of the reward and introducing a cost (time). However, we felt that the risk outweighed the reward, so we’ve added interactables to the stage, much like the interactables in Simulacrum stages.
  
  
• Artificer
• 🌧 Flame Bolt damage: 220% ⇒ 280%
  
• Plasma Bolt damage: 220% ⇒ 280%
  Developer Notes: As we iterated on the way that burns work during development of SotV, we unintentionally reduced the damage of Artificer’s Flame Bolt indirectly by reducing the burn damage. To compensate, we’re buffing the initial damage of Flame Bolt so that the overall damage returns to pre-SotV levels. Plasma Bolt is receiving the same buff to ensure it doesn’t fall behind.
  
  
• Captain
• 🌧 Lysate Cell now increases the stocks of Captain’s first beacon
  
• Captain is now limited to 2 deployed beacons at a time
  Developer Notes: It was kind of lame that Lysate Cell did absolutely nothing for Captain, but it was hard to find a solution that wasn’t completely game-breaking. Limiting the beacons to 2 at a time keeps the power of the item under control (as well as fixes some exploits in Simulacrum multiplayer).
  
  
• Newly Hatched Zoea
• 🌧 Fresh new skins to help differentiate allies from enemies
  
  
• Defense Nucleus
• Alpha Construct Ally Damage Bonus: +0% ⇒+300%
  
• Alpha Construct Ally Health Bonus: +0% ⇒ +300%
  Developer Notes: During development, we experimented with what conditions would trigger this item. Initially, this item was exceptionally strong due to how frequently it triggered. It proved to be too strong, so we changed the trigger, but we forgot to compensate by buffing the spawned Alpha Construct as we had intended.
  
  
• Squid Polyp
• Squid Turret Ally Base Damage: 20 ⇒ 4
  
• Squid Turret Ally Primary Skill Damage Coefficient: 1 ⇒ 5
  
• Squid Turret Allies Primary Skill Proc Coefficient: 1 ⇒ 0.1
  
• Squid Turret Allies Primary Skill Knockback Force: 0 ⇒ 2000
  
• Squid Turret Allies can now be stunned by “stunning” skills
  
• Squid Turret Allies can now be frozen
  Developer Notes: An important part of the balance of the Void Cradles is the risk from the Void Infestors it spawns, so we wanted to lower the risk with Squid Polyp without completely removing it. These changes to Squid Polyp are overall a slight buff in the hands of the player (the knockback especially defends the turrets against infestation), but they mainly reduce the damage from Collapse when Voidtouched. And believe it or not, they’re actually pretty good at killing the Void Infestors.
  
  
• Blind Vermin
• 🌧 Director Credits for default variant: 20 ⇒ 14
  
• 🌧 Director Credits for snowy variant: 8 ⇒ 14
  Developer Notes: The difference in Director Credits between the variants of Blind Vermin was unintentional, so we just split the difference.

• 🌧 Swapping between skills on cooldown no longer resets the timer to max
  
• 🌧 Improved some exception handling for modders
  
• 🌧 Fixing a bug for modders where stages wouldn’t spawn monsters properly unless the deprecated DirectorCardCategorySelection field was assigned
  

• 🌧 Fixed nodes in Distant Roost, Titanic Plains, Wetland Aspect, and Simulacrum’s Rally Point Delta
  
• 🌧 Finally fixed Volcanic Egg desynchronizing its position
  
• 🌧 Fixed Loader’s pylon traveling different distances depending on whether the player is a host or a client
  
• 🌧 Fixed various typos and logbook descriptions
  
• 🌧 Fixed various null reference exceptions
  
• 🌧 Fixed Ben’s Raincoat, Shuriken, Oddly-Shaped Opal, Red Whip, and Unstable Tesla Coil to properly clean up their buffs when the item is removed
  
• 🌧 Fixed Distant Roost and Wetland Aspect to properly spawn monsters and interactables from SotV
  
• 🌧 Fixed Little Disciple becoming disabled for the remainder of the stage after the character is rooted
  
• Updated Safer Spaces’ cooldown to no longer round up to the nearest second
  
• 🌧 [!!SPOILER!!] Fixed the music not progressing properly for clients during the new final boss fight
• 🌧 Fixed Overheat (the debuff applied by Grandparents) to be properly marked as a debuff
  
• 🌧 Fixed bugs with Happiest Mask and Xi Construct
  
• 🌧 [!!SPOILER!!] Fixed a bug where the players could lose after teleporting off of the moon
• 🌧 Fixed some collision on Commencement, Sundered Grove, and Sulfur Pools to prevent softlocks
  
• 🌧 Fixed bugs with Happiest Mask and Xi Construct
  
• 🌧 Updated Spare Drone Parts to be blacklisted for enemies
  
• 🌧 Improved the logic for where we spawn the item from Trophy Hunter’s Tricorn to reduce the odds that the item is inaccessible
  
• 🌧 Singularity Bands can no longer proc themselves
  
• 🌧 Fixed issues with players desynching with cross-play enabled
  
• 🌧 Fixed the logbook icon for Void Barnacle sometimes being pixelated
  
• 🌧 Fixed allies sometimes displaying healthbar indicators for items they didn’t have
  
• 🌧 Fixed Artifact of Sacrifice’s interactable credit reduction not working in Simulacrum
  
• 🌧 Fixed Void Fiend sometimes being partially invisible
  
• 🌧 Helfire Tincture’s self-inflicted burn will now remain non-lethal, even if upgraded by Ignition Tank
  
• 🌧 Helfire Tincture’s burn tick damage cap now considers shields, preventing issues with the burns becoming very long
  
• 🌧 Updated Bandit’s displays for 57 Leaf Clover, Benthic Bloom, Ocular Hud, and Focus Crystal
  
• 🌧 Updated Railgunner’s displays for Charged Perforator and Disposable Missile Launcher
  
• 🌧 Updated Equipment Drone’s display for Remote Caffeinator
  
• 🌧 Updated Void Reaver’s display for the Mending elite affix
  
• 🌧 Fixed issue where upward momentum wasn’t reset when teleporting back into bounds
  
• Slicing Maelstrom, Shadowfade, and Ruin skills no longer reset their stocks when assigned
  
• Fixed Naturopath achievement to trigger at the correct time
  
• Updated Strike Drone’s display for Spare Drone Parts
  
• 🌧 Fixed bug where Recycler sometimes had difficulty targeting certain pickups
  
• Fixed a tree on Aphelian Sanctuary that would disappear if the LOD settings were restricted
  
• 🌧 Fixed kick_steam and ban_steam console commands to properly find the associated account
  
• Fixed a bug where Egocentrism’s projectiles would collide but not destroy on terrain, causing explosion spam with Brilliant Behemoth
  
• 🌧 Fixed vertical alignment of skills in the lobby
  
• 🌧 Now clients in multiplayer will receive notifications for when one of their items or equipment is transformed
  
• We now send a pickup message when a player receives a Tonic Affliction
  

We are also expecting to push another very small patch (1.2.4.2) within the next couple of weeks which will fix the following issues:

• 🌧 Fixed prices in multiplayer sometimes being too cheap on the first stage
  
• 🌧 Fixed Captain sometimes not having stocks of his beacons on the first stage
  

This patch introduces a bug whereby playing a singleplayer game after a multiplayer game will cause the difficulty and prices to remain at multiplayer levels. As a temporary fix simply restart the game - we will have a permanent solution in place for the next patch!

Enjoy the increased difficulty while you can, challenge hunters!



As ever - thank you to everyone who has given us feedback and reported bugs since the launch of the expansion, we appreciate each and every one of you! To keep up to date with any further updates please follow us on Twitter or join our Discord. Also don't forget the new Mailing List you can sign up for from the in-game menu, and for those of you not able to access that we're going to have a web-based sign-up soon!

-Hopoo Games

Hello again everyone! It’s been a while since our pre-release Dev Thoughts and we’ve got a few new thoughts to share with you!

I strongly recommend watching the video version of the Dev Thoughts this month as it includes all the below content as well as a lengthy Community Q&A Interview with the co-founders of Hopoo Games - Duncan and Paul.

• Where did the name “Hopoo” come from?
  
  
• Who is to blame for Captain’s abilities not being available in hidden realms?
  
  
• DEADBOLT 2 WHEN?
  

Find out the answers to these questions and many more by watching the below video!

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[h3]Expansion Reception[/h3]

First off let’s start off with the reception of Survivors of the Void. We have been absolutely blown away with the positive reaction to the expansion! We are thrilled that you’re loving the DLC, and despite some early balance/bug issues that we have adjusted as quickly as possible, you stuck with us and are playing Risk of Rain 2 in record numbers!

So once again, from the bottom of our hearts, a huge thank you from everyone here at Hopoo Games for being part of this - we couldn’t do it without you!



[h3]Console Release[/h3]

Since the PC release of Survivors of the Void we have been busy ironing out all the bugs and balance changes needed to get the expansion - and Risk of Rain 2 as a whole - up to the best standard. In order to release the console versions simultaneously to this same standard, including all the improvements we’ve already made to the PC version, we have made the decision to move the Console release of Survivors of the Void to later this year in early Q4.

This was not an easy choice to make however we want to ensure your experience playing Risk of Rain 2 is the same regardless of the platform you chose, moving the date will allow us to deliver the game on all Console platforms in the state you deserve. We know this will be disappointing news for some of you however we know that in the long run this is the best move to make for the future of the game.



[h3]Merch Update[/h3]

Just a quick update here - you may have seen on Twitter or Discord a couple of months ago that I asked what you’d like to see as far as Hopoo Games merchandise is concerned and I’ve taken that feedback and we are well on our way to opening a merch store for you!

We have secured a partner to bring this merch to you and we are finalising designs right now - but don’t worry we will absolutely let you know when we’re ready to open!

As you can tell from this secret snippet of an email - we have something special in store for you!

oooh



[h3]Survivors of the Void Patch 1.2.4[/h3]

We have already updated Survivors of the Void twice since release and we are planning on at least one more bug fix patch before we consider Survivors of the Void completed on PC. This patch mainly focuses on bugs so there will not be much in the way of balance or content changes this time - however one change we’ve made is to recolor any ally Void creatures on your team to make them easier to identify in the chaos of combat.

Your special blue crabbos.

Another big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to report any gameplay or bug issues to us over the last couple of months - this is incredibly valuable information for us to improve the game and we really appreciate it! There is still time to report any bugs you may have experienced since the 1.2.3 Patch - let us know by joining our Discord and reporting them in the #bug-reports-pc channel

https://discord.gg/riskofrain2



Thanks again to everyone for making the Survivors of the Void launch an amazing experience - don't forget to check out the video dev thoughts above for the Q&A with Duncan and Paul - and I'll see you next time, we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been cooking up!



Jonathan
Community Manager
Hopoo Games

[h3]Risk of Rain 2: Survivors of the Void PC Patch v1.2.3 (Build ID #8537997)[/h3]



Changes with the ‘🌧’ icon in front of them are changes or additions suggested by the community. As always, if you want to stay up to date on the game or give us feedback feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/riskofrain2



The goal of this patch is to address lower-level bugs, while also taking a look at some content changes and more long-standing bugs that have existed in RoR2.

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Simulacrum

• Slightly updated visuals of Void Focus
  
• Now has an indicator for the Void Focus’ position
  

Void Seeds

• 🌧 Now cap at a maximum of 3 per map
  
• 🌧 Spawn less frequently with Artifact of Sacrifice enabled
  
• 🌧 Spawn less frequently on top of you when starting a new stage
  

Void Fiend

• 🌧 Corrupted skills are now lower priority than Heresy items, allowing Heresy items to override both versions of skills
  

Goobo Jr.

• 🌧 Damage Bonus: +70% ⇒+200%
  
• 🌧 Health Bonus: +70% ⇒ +200%
  
• 🌧 Fix description in logbook being wrong
  
• Developer Notes: Goobo was designed to be +600%. It was +70%. +600% was actually waaay too strong when we fixed it, so we set it to a more reasonable value.

Brittle Crown

• 🌧 No longer grants gold to the enemy who hits you while wearing the item (but still shows the visuals)
  
• Developer Notes: We thought it would be a cute behavior if when losing money from Brittle Crown, it granted that money to the attacker - for use in stuff like a Scavenger’s Crowd Funder. However, this resulted in you gaining all the money back when you killed the enemy, making Brittle Crown have (essentially) no downside.

Ben’s Raincoat

• Rework behavior - Now has an internal cooldown of 5 seconds
  
• Now blocks 1 (+1 per stack) debuffs before going on cooldown
  
• Now grants 10% of your health as barrier when blocking a debuff
  
• Now has the ‘Healing’ tag
  
• No longer grants maximum health
  
• 🌧 No longer blocks non-timed debuffs, like Eclipse 8 and skills like Power Mode
  
• Developer Notes: Ben’s Raincoat was a very binary item, resulting in unsatisfying stacking behavior and frustrations when given to monsters (like in Simulacrum). The item also trivialized Eclipse 8. Now, it has a bit of downtime for when it can block debuffs - and since we didn’t want this to be just a net nerf, we also added a large barrier when blocking a debuff with the coat.

Void Devastator

• Max Health: 2100 (+630 per level) ⇒ 2800 (+840 per level)
  
• Armor: 10 ⇒ 20
  
• Developer Notes: Despite being a boss monster, the Void Devastator had strangely low stats for its cost, especially when compared to same-cost monsters like the Imp Overlord

Gup

• 🌧 No longer splits if killed from a ‘Void Death’, like from Lost Seer’s Lenses
  
• Voidtouched Gups and Geeps will now split into Voidtouched Geeps and Gips (respectively)

• Altered some planets in the Planetarium
  
• Updated Captain’s Defense Matrix log to be granted by playing Captain
  
• 🌧 Updated Shipping Request Form to be blacklisted for enemies
  
• 🌧 Updated inventories to work with more than 255 items for mods with many items
  
• 🌧 Made it easier for mods to register custom achievements
  
• 🌧 Updated localization to allow mods to properly utilize the system
  
• 🌧 Extended systems to support mods adding custom item tiers
  
• 🌧 Pluripotent Larva will no longer convert into items that are not available in the current run
  
• 🌧 Updated a deep pool in the Planetarium causing you to get stuck inside if you had no jump boosts
  
• 🌧 Updated Heretic to receive Heresy items, even if spawned from Goobo Jr, so it can use abilities
  
• 🌧 Fixed Korean language files having a malformed format, resulting in errors

• 🌧 Fixed Category Chests dropping a much smaller subset of items
  
• 🌧 Fixed Beetle Guard summoned from Queen’s Gland no longer being a fresh green color
  
• 🌧 Fixed a variety of issues relating to Heresy items losing or gaining stocks when swapping skills with other skills
  
• 🌧 Fixed Simulacrum referring to Rainstorm as Normal
  
• 🌧 Removed nodes in Simulacrum’s Titanic Plains, Sulfur Pools, and Rallypoint Delta that were inside walls
  
• 🌧 Removed nodes in Aphelian Sanctuary and Sulfur Pools that were inside walls
  
• Fixed tag requirements of Vengeance and Void Fields
  
• Fixed a bunch of NRE’s, causing a potential variety of issues
  
• 🌧 Fixed profiles not being able to be deleted in the main menu
  
• 🌧 Fixed out-of-bound zones for Aphelian Sanctuary, Void Fields, Distant Roost, Titanic Plains, and Sky Meadows not properly culling monsters
  
• 🌧 Fixed Siphoned Forest being called Snowy Forest in the logbook
  
• 🌧 [!!SPOILER!!]Fixed the frog not spawning a deep void portal
• Fixed text for Blast Shower not clarifying that it also removes freezes and stuns
  
• 🌧 Fixed visible back faces in Siphoned Forest
  
• 🌧 Fixed Void Fiend’s Trespass continually playing the sound if you quit in the middle of the skill
  
• 🌧 Fixed Disposable Missile Launcher and Fireworks not triggering other missile effects, like AtG Missile and Plasma Shrimp
  
• 🌧 Fixed a few bugs with state-controlled debuffs (like Void Fiend’s Corrupted Flood) and Ben’s Raincoat causing those debuffs to be permanent
  
• 🌧 Fixed REX’s core position being lowered while sprinting, causing AI issues and some projectiles appearing in the floor while sprinting
  
• 🌧 Fixed Bulwark’s Ambry entry missing in logbook
  
• Fixed Heretic’s head hurtbox causing issues when hit
  
• Fixed Xi Construct and Void Jailer appearing with Artifact of Dissonance enabled, even with the DLC disabled
  
• 🌧 Fixed Simulacrum button being there even if the DLC is disabled
  
• 🌧 Fixed Pluripotent Larva not corrupting all items that map many-to-one (i.e., Runald’s Band + yellow items)
  
• 🌧 Fixed Railgunner seeing her own Weak Points while Chaos is enabled
  
• 🌧 Fixed camera issues with Frost Relic while using Railgunner’s scopes or Mul-T’s Power Mode
  
• 🌧 Fixed issues with Gup / Geep / Gip and Dio’s Best Friend
  
• 🌧 Fixed Collapse counting as two separate debuffs
  
• Fixed Geep and Gip receiving items from Evolution and Simulacrum multiple times
  
• Potentially fixing more cases where Simulacrum would fail to spawn enemies
  
• Fixed various typos

Once again thanks very much for everyone who has jumped in and played Survivors of the Void and especially everyone that has reported these bugs! We're planning on at least one more bugfix/balance patch for the expansion so If you have any further issues with any of the above, or find any new bugs (impossible) please keep letting us know!

-Hopoo Games