Risk of Rain 2 News

Risk of Rain 2 has just been updated!

Find out more about the update here.

This is the second major content update for Risk of Rain 2 on PC. Skills 2.0 brings brand new content, as well as other general changes and quality of life improvements, to the game.

This is the second major content update for Risk of Rain 2 on PC. With this update we are focusing on Skills 2.0, brand new content, as well as other general changes and quality of life improvements.

Skills 2.0 introduces a new way to play your favorite survivor! Our new “Loadout” system allows for swappable skills and skins at the beginning of each run. Each survivor will maintain their unique identity, but have some options to tinker with before jumping into a run. While some skill variants play off existing skills, some variants are entirely unique abilities available to a survivor. Each new skill and skin in your Loadout will be unlocked only with survivor-specific challenges - good luck! More skills and skins are planned to be added in future updates.

This Content Update will be coming to consoles soon - for details on how our Content Updates get ported to console versions, check out our previous Development Thoughts here!

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 feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/riskofrain2

==== Major Content and Changes ====

• Added Survivor: Loader
  
  • The Loader is a slow but powerful bruiser that can use her grappling hook to uniquely navigate the environment.
• Added Stage: Siren’s Call
  
• Added System: Loadouts
  
  • “Loadouts” are a new system that allows you to mix-and-match your selected Survivor’s abilities before entering a run.
• Added System: Alternate Skins
  
• Added 15 skill variants
  
  • New Skill Variant: Commando Secondary
    
  • New Skill Variant: Commando Special
    
  • New Skill Variant: Huntress Utility
    
  • New Skill Variant: Huntress Special
    
  • New Skill Variant: MUL-T Primary
    
  • New Skill Variant: Engineer Secondary
    
  • New Skill Variant: Engineer Special
    
  • New Skill Variant: Artificer Primary
    
  • New Skill Variant: Artificer Secondary
    
  • New Skill Variant: Artificer Special
    
  • New Skill Variant: Mercenary Secondary
    
  • New Skill Variant: Mercenary Special
    
  • New Skill Variant: REX Secondary
    
  • New Skill Variant: Loader Secondary
• Added 7 skins
  
  • New Skin: Commando
    
  • New Skin: Huntress
    
  • New Skin: MUL-T
    
  • New Skin: Artificer
    
  • New Skin: Mercenary
    
  • New Skin: REX
    
  • New Skin: Loader
• Added Elite: Celestine
  
  • Celestine are new high-tier elites that only spawn late into the game, similarly to Malachite elites.
    
  • New unique visuals and SFX that signifies a Celestine elite has entered the stage
• Added 2 bosses to the game:
  
  • New Boss: Solus Control Unit
    
  • New Boss: Alloy Worship Unit
• Added 2 monsters to the game:
  
  • New Monsters: Alloy Vulture
    
  • New Monsters: Solus Probe
• Added 6 Items and Equipment to the game
  
  • New Item: Focus Crystal
    
  • New Item: Lepton Daisy
    
  • New Item: Shattering Justice
    
  • New Equipment: Blast Shower
    
  • New Equipment: Volcanic Egg
    
  • New Lunar Item: Strides of Heresy
• Added Interactable: Lunar Seer
  
• Added 3 Challenges to the game
  
  • New Challenge: Warm For Life
    
  • New Challenge: Blockade Breaker
    
  • New Challenge: Guidance Offline
• Added 22 unique Class Challenges to the game
  
  • New Class Challenge: Commando: Rolling Thunder
    
  • New Class Challenge: Commando: Incorruptible
    
  • New Class Challenge: Commando: Mastery
    
  • New Class Challenge: MUL-T: Pest Control
    
  • New Class Challenge: MUL-T: Gotcha!
    
  • New Class Challenge: MUL-T: Mastery
    
  • New Class Challenge: Mercenary: Demon of the Skies
    
  • New Class Challenge: Mercenary: Ethereal
    
  • New Class Challenge: Mercenary: Mastery
    
  • New Class Challenge: Huntress: Piercing Wind
    
  • New Class Challenge: Huntress: One Shot, One Kill
    
  • New Class Challenge: Huntress: Mastery
    
  • New Class Challenge: Engineer: Better With Friends
    
  • New Class Challenge: Engineer: 100% Calculated
    
  • New Class Challenge: REX: Bushwhacked
    
  • New Class Challenge: REX: Mastery
    
  • New Class Challenge: Artificer: Chunked!
    
  • New Class Challenge: Artificer: Orbital Bombardment
    
  • New Class Challenge: Artificer: Massacre
    
  • New Class Challenge: Artificer: Mastery
    
  • New Class Challenge: Loader: Swing By
    
  • New Class Challenge: Loader: Mastery
• Added Environment Log: Siren’s Call
  
• Added 7 Lore Entries to the game
  
  • New Monster Lore Entry: Jellyfish
    
  • New Monster Lore Entry: Beetle
    
  • New Monster Lore Entry: Beetle Guard
    
  • New Boss Lore Entry: Solus Control Unit
    
  • New Boss Lore Entry: Alloy Worship Unit
    
  • New Survivor Lore Entry: REX
    
  • New Item Lore Entry: Little Disciple

==== Gameplay Changes ====

• General
  • Reduce the spawn frequency of the “aggressive” director
    
    • This should result in spawning behavior a bit more similar to Early Access Launch, where the Director will be able to save up a tiny bit more before spawning things. This doesn’t make the game easier or harder - there should just be slightly fewer small monsters, and more big monsters.
  • 🌧︎Fix health regeneration boost being applied outside of Drizzle
    
    • Drizzle difficulty is intended to have increased health regeneration of 250% for players. This was being accidentally applied to ALL difficulties since launch. Oops. We will be monitoring this closely to make sure the pacing of the game stays consistent.
  
  
  
• Survivors
  • Commando
    • 🌧︎Update Suppressive Fire (R) to fire more bullets with more attack speed
      
    • Add 2 new skill variants
      
    • Add 1 new skin
    
    
    
  • Engineer
    • 🌧︎ Bubble Shield now flashes before it expires
      
    • 🌧︎ Update Pressure Mines:
      
      • 🌧︎ Now “arms” over time to 900% damage and an increased radius
        
        • Players (including us) were mostly just using Engineer's mines as somewhat underwhelming grenades as soon as they came off cooldown. This change puts more power in strategic placement and reduces how often the skill needs to be used for it to be effective.
      • 🌧︎ Now scales max available mines with max secondary stock
        
      • Max Stock 10 ⇒ 4
        
    • Add 2 new skill variants
      
  • MUL-T
    • 🌧︎ Show both primary and alternate fire descriptions in Character Select
      
    • Move “Multifunctional” passive into “Retool”
      
      • This change was made to make the UI for MUL-T’s skills easier to read. There is no functional difference.
    • Add 2 new skill variants
      
    • Add 1 new skin
      
  • Huntress
    • Add 2 new skill variants
      
    • Add 1 new skin
      
  • Mercenary
    • Add 2 new skill variants
      
    • Add 1 new skin
      
  • REX
    • Add 2 new skill variants
      
    • Add 1 new skin
      
  • Artificer
    • Add 2 new skill variants
      
    • Add 1 new skin
      
    
    
    
• Items
  • Guillotine
    • 🌧︎Tier: 1 ⇒ 2
      
    • Update Logbook entry to properly reflect its stacking behavior
      
      • In the Logbook, it said it scaled the execute threshold by 20%(+5% per stack), but it ACTUALLY stacked by 20% (+20% per stack). Instead of reducing the threshold down to 5%, we decided to keep the current behavior and upgrade it to tier 2 instead.
  • Cautious Slug
    • Regen Rate: 250%(+250% per stack) ⇒ 300%(+300% per stack)
      
  • Sticky Bomb
    • 🌧︎Proc Chance: 5%(+2.5% per stack) ⇒ 5%(+5% per stack)
      
      • Tier 1 items are the most commonly stacked, and should therefore linearly stack without diminishing returns in most cases.
  • Crowbar
    • Damage Boost: 50%(+30% per stack) ⇒ 50%(+50% per stack)
      
      • Tier 1 items are the most commonly stacked, and should therefore linearly stack without diminishing returns in most cases
  • Topaz Brooch
    • 🌧︎Barrier Gain: 20(+20 per stack) ⇒ 15(+15 per stack)
      
  • Aegis
    • 🌧︎Has been reworked in functionality
      
      • Barrier gain from overheal is no longer capped
        
      • Now grants barrier for 50% (+50% per stack) of the amount you overheal
        
  • Halcyon Seed
    • 🌧︎ Friendly Aurelionite now has special AI to be more aggressive
      
  • Crowfunder
    • Proc Coefficient: 0.2 ⇒ 1
      
    
    
    
  
  
  
• Stage
  • Bazaar Between Time
    • 🌧︎ Add Lunar Seers
      
      • Lunar Seers allow you to, at a price, determine the next upcoming stage. The intent for this is to allow us to continue adding content that is stage dependent (Timed Security Chest on Rallypoint Delta, Broken Robot in Abyssal Depths, etc) without it becoming frustrating in the future to actually land on those maps.
  • Abyssal Depths
    • 🌧︎ Brighten ambient lighting
      
    • 🌧︎ Ambient lighting is no longer extra dark inside the cave portions
      
• Elites
  • Malachite
    • 🌧︎ Health Bonus Percentage: 2820% ⇒ 2350%
      
• Drones
  • 🌧︎Drones can now be repurchased after they die, excluding TC-280
    
  • TC-280
    • Base Cost: $500 ⇒ $350
      

==== Music & SFX ====

• Add new stage track
  
• A bunch of other tweaks and updates to SFX
  
  

==== QOL ====

• 🌧︎ Damage numbers can now support up to 998,000,000 damage (truncated as 10K, 100K, 1M, etc)
  
• 🌧︎ Money values in the HUD now have commas
  
• 🌧︎ Newt Shrines, Shrine of the Mountain, and Altar of Gold now become unavailable once the Teleporter starts charging
  
• 🌧︎ Game now remembers your preferred difficulty until you close the game
  
• 🌧︎ Update geysers on Scorched Acres to have shorter launch arcs so they don’t cause fall damage
  
• 🌧︎ Add cost of purchasables to their chat message when pinged
  
• 🌧︎ Add unique shrine icon for Altar of Gold
  
• 🌧︎ Add new unique UI sprite for Lunar Coins. Update Lunar Coin model to have a hole in the center to match new icon.
  
• 🌧︎ Add equipment cooldown to logbook
  
• 🌧︎ Add stats for regen and armor to logbook entries for survivors and monsters
  
• 🌧︎ Minion kills can now spawn Lunar Coins on your behalf
  
• 🌧︎ Damage dealt by your minions is now reported in the post-game screen
  
• 🌧︎ Minion healthbars are now nested below their leader’s
  
• Dead players now remain in the allied healthbar area
  
• Update level up effects
  
  

==== Bug Fixes====

• 🌧︎Update skill icon not accounting for cooldown scale when calculating the display value for the cooldown progress indicator
  
• 🌧︎Fix Flamethrower Drone creating two flamethrower effects
  
• 🌧︎Fix floating trees in Gilded Shores
  
• 🌧︎Fix trees in Scorched Acres and Rallypoint Delta not having collision
  
• 🌧︎Fix stuck spawn location in Scorched Acres
  
• 🌧︎Fix AI pathing in Wetland Aspect to reduce the chance of a boss spawning on the wrong side of a wall
  
• Update Wandering Vagrant’s Nova attack to properly apply on-hits
  
• Fix Aurelonite firing more projectiles for every connected player in the game
  
• Fix water splashes being oriented 90 degrees in the wrong way
  
• Update ambient sound in the Celestial Portal to not include insects
  
• Canceling Artificer’s Nova Bomb early now properly stops the sound
  
• Fix some spots in maps that could cause you to be stuck
  
• 🌧︎Fix Asian characters being clipped in ally healthbar
  
• 🌧︎MUL-T’s Transport Mode now properly applies crits
  
• 🌧︎Replace instances of unknown deaths (pots, out-of-bounds, etc) having a white box and a blank entry with a generic “mystery” attacker
  
• 🌧︎Update a bunch of typos for stacking behavior and skill damage that were inconsistent with in-game values
  
• 🌧︎Fix friendly Aurelionites dropping Logbooks when they expire
  
• 🌧︎Fix falling enemies never properly being removed, resulting in spawns stopping after shoving enough enemies off the map
  
• 🌧︎Fix Follower-type items still remaining before and after entering a stage
  
• 🌧Update Dio’s Best Friend on Huntress to no longer clip into her scarf
  
• Remove word wrapping in a few instances
  
• Fix enemy team level-up sound effect playing simultaneously for every instance of a monster in the map
  
• Fix cropping issues on Warbanner and Tri-Tip Dagger icons

Thanks for SWINGING into this update - we hope you all enjoy the new build!

=== Risk of Rain 2 Console Launch ===

We’re very excited to work with both Gearbox Publishing and PlayEveryWare to bring Risk of Rain 2 to the Xbox One, PS4, and Switch, launching today! Thanks to their fantastic efforts, we’ve been able to turn around a console release very quickly.

A unique challenge that we’re facing is that Early Access games don’t really exist on all the consoles. To help smooth over that confusion, we are launching a console-specific roadmap, outlining the timeline of when the consoles will be updated to match the PC version of the game. Note- the PC roadmap remains the same and we will maintain two roadmaps (see below).



Outlined below is our intended development plan for Content Updates (CU) going forward:

-Hopoo Games begins and develops the CU
-Submit to Gearbox QA once the CU is content locked
-Launch the CU on PC
-Address any Week 1 feedback + bugs with a small patch

After the first week is over and we’ve gathered all the information and feedback we can, we then share everything with PlayEveryWare for the consoles.

-Submit our Content Update + Week 1 Patch to PlayEveryWare
-PlayEveryWare takes over to begin porting the CU for Switch, Xbox One, and PS4
-Submit console version to QA
-Pass certification on Switch, Xbox One, and PS4
-Release on all consoles simultaneously

Our intent is to turn around Content Updates as soon as we can for consoles. Not only that, but consoles will get some features specific to its hardware that will also be included in the roadmap as it grows - ad hoc multiplayer for the Switch as an example. We’re also keeping our ears to the ground to make sure that the console version of the game is of the same quality as the PC version - please let us know if you run into any issues!

=== Risk of Rain for Xbox One ===



As a bonus, fans of Risk of Rain will also be happy to know that the original Risk of Rain has been ported to Xbox One, and can be purchased as a bundle along side RoR2. We are thrilled to bring the Risk of Rain universe to the Xbox Community for the first time. Check it out!

=== September Content Update ===

For our PC Risk of Rain 2 community, don’t worry! PlayEveryWare and Gearbox have done a fantastic job sandboxing the development of the consoles, meaning that internally we’ve spent all of our time working on our next Content Update, slated to come out in September. We’re very proud of the next update - including Skills 2.0 - that we will show off as soon as all the madness from console launch settles down. Our September update ended up a lot larger than we previously anticipated, and we hope you will enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed making it.






We’re all excited for the future of Risk of Rain 2, and we hope that the console release is another step towards reaching out to fans across the world. Thanks again to everyone who’s supported us - and to all our new fans, we hope you enjoy your stay.

-Hopoo Games Team

Hi!

As we work between major Content Updates, we still want to make sure we're communicating with our fans. While there isn't a whole ton to talk about, we will try our best to make sure everyone knows we have not died (yet).

== Development Progress ==

Internally, our September content update is chugging along great, and is slated to be better than Scorched Acres (in my opinion :))

The feedback from the community on the types of content and how much of each different content style we added were great to hear. We want to continue our next content in a similar fashion by adding another character, stage, map, monster, items and lots of achievements along with Skills 2.0!

This Update is also refreshing coming off of Scorched Acres because it contains some recurring content from Risk of Rain 1, as shown below. I wonder who could the next survivor be...? (hint: it's not the Miner)



We're also doing a bit of reviewing of how the Scorched Acres update went overall. We are looking at how things improved (new content!), but also at some things did not (no longer guaranteeing Rally Point Delta makes it frustrating to try to earn the Preon Accumulator). We will spend time doing more QoL and improvements on previous content in our next update as well. We want to make sure that all content lives up to the high standard we have set since launching in Early Access.

Not only that, but players have had enough time to test content, and we have a better idea of not only what's balanced, but what's enjoyable.



== Skills 2.0 ==

We have been very hard at work at "Skills 2.0" teased in our roadmap, and a lot of people have been wondering what that means for their favorite characters. While the system is still in progress, we know this!

Our main design goals with Skills 2.0 are to:
1. Give players a reason to play other characters they might not normally pick, or return to old characters
2. Give players who REALLY love and are proficient at a certain character a way to earn some in-game rewards

This is based on feedback that we've seen from the Community since launch. We will provide a full run-down on this as we get closer to September!



== Modding ==

It's no secret that Risk of Rain 2 has fostered an absolutely awesome modding community. While we have no direct mod support, our intent is to avoid breaking mods with our updates, and to not do any changes that would hamper the community. Maybe you'll see us popping into the modding community in the future!

If you're interested in Risk of Rain 2 modding, check out the Thunderstore to see the awesome content people have already been making! As always when modding ANY game, please download and install mods at your own risk! We can't check every mod that gets uploaded or guarantee that they are safe and won't break your save files.

Check it out here! https://thunderstore.io/

NOTE: We will be releasing an updated EULA for RoR2 very soon. The ONLY intent for this EULA is to make sure that if modders make content (like say, a returning Survivor), we aren't locked out of making similar content in the future. For the modding community: please actually read the EULA, and PLEASE let us know if this is not reflected in what we wrote. We know a lot of companies sneak stuff into their EULA, and that truly is not the intent here.


Sorry if this sounds like "Soon TM hehe" and that there isn't very much concrete information, but I hope some people enjoy this post anyways. Thanks again so much for all your continued support!

-Hopoo Games Team

Hi!

This is a bug fix patch to address critical issues that came up in the first week of Scorched Acres. This patch explicitly does NOT contain balance fixes, since we want to make sure players have enough time to figure out new strategies and preferences with the new content.


=== Gameplay Changes ===

• Fuel Array
  
  • Increase damage of Fuel Array's explosion from 100% of your health to 300% of your health
    
  • Fuel Array no longer pierces armor
    
  • Add new graphics to Fuel Array to clarify that it is not a Sticky Bomb
    
• Grovetender
  
  • Reduce horizontal jump distance to reduce chance he yotes himself off the stage
    
• Misc
  
  • Blood Shrines now take into account shields and barriers to make it more consistent
    
  • Reduce maximum number of overlay effects (burning, shielded, glass, etc) to 6 from 8 for performance
    

=== Bug Fixes ===

• Fix Mercenary's Blinding Assault sometimes having double cooldowns
  
• Hitting Immune characters or blocked attacks no longer applies on-hit effects
  
  • This is especially important for Mercenary, who was previously recieving debuffs like burning and malachite poisoning while Immune
    
    
• Immune characters can no longer block "armor piercing" health costs (Blood Shrines, REX abilities)
  
• Fix Tonic Affliction reducing maximum health and also applying curse health reduction on top of it
  
• Improve performance on REX's entangle graphics
  
• Fix execute threshold for being frozen showing up on player healthbars
  
• Fix high overlay counts causing monsters and players to go pink and invisible
  
• Fix the Artificer's Oculur HUD being stretched
  
• Fix typos and formatting errors
  

Thanks again for everyone's enthusiasm in our new content update. We're very happy with the reception and are excited for our next content updates to come!

You can all now go back to stacking guillotines :)

-hopoo