Risk Of Rain 2

Introduction

In the latest update, the highly anticipated patch notes for the popular game have been released, and they are nothing short of exciting. First and foremost, players can now rejoice as the game finally includes a proper ending, complete with credits and a captivating cutscene. This addition adds a whole new level of satisfaction and closure to the gaming experience. But that's not all - the developers have also listened to the players' feedback and introduced a brand new system: the Server Browser. Gone are the days of settling for a barebones Quickplay feature. With the game evolving and the need to find the perfect match becoming more crucial, the Server Browser allows players to connect with others easily while also providing a plethora of features and choices to customize their gaming experience. In addition to these major updates, the patch notes also reveal the introduction of an exciting new survivor, the Captain. This new addition brings a fresh dynamic to the game, offering players a unique and thrilling gameplay experience. And let's not forget the new final stage, which adds an element of mystery and anticipation to the game. To top it all off, the developers have treated players to four new music tracks that will undoubtedly enhance the immersive experience. From the haunting melodies of "Through a Cloud, Darkly" to the powerful and slow-paced rhythm of "...con lentitud poderosa," these tracks are sure to captivate players and further immerse them in the game's world. Last but not least, a new survivor skin has been introduced - the Captain Skin. This cosmetic addition allows players to customize their survivor and stand out from the crowd. With these exciting updates, it's clear that the developers have gone above and beyond to enhance the gaming experience for players. So grab your controller and get ready to dive into the thrilling world of the game like never before.

Added System: Game Ending
- The game now includes a proper ending, with credits and cutscene.
Added System: Server Browser
- Quickplay served an important function at launch - but the QP featureset is barebones. Not only that, but the game has evolved past needing to just find a match - you need to find the right match. We think a built-in Server Browser (and hosting) will still allow you to connect and find other players easily while also providing a lot of the features and choices you want to make before connecting to a game.
Added System: Intro Cutscene
- The game now includes an intro cutscene!
Added New Survivor
- New Survivor: Captain

* Added New Stage

New Final Stage: ???

* Added 4 New Music Tracks

New Track: Through a Cloud, Darkly
New Track: ...con lentitud poderosa
New Track: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Ukulele
New Track: Lacrimosum

* Added New Survivor Skin

New Survivor Skin: Captain Skin

* Added 2 New Monsters

New Monster: ???
New Monster: ???

* Added New Boss

New Final Boss: ???

* Added New Interactable

New Interactable: Scrapper

* Added 7 Items and 3 Equipment to the game

New Item: Item Scrap (White, Green, Red, Yellow)
New Boss Item: Molten Perforator
New Boss Item: Shatterspleen
New Boss Item: Mired Urn
New Lunar Item: Defiant Gouge
New Lunar Item: Mercurial Rachis
New Lunar Item: Purity
New Equipment: Super Massive Leech
New Equipment: Gorag’s Opus
New Equipment: Forgive Me Please

* Added 3 Character Challenges to the game

New Captain Challenge: Captain Mastery
New Captain Challenge: Wanderlust
New Captain Challenge: Worth Every Penny

* Added 3 Challenges to the game

New Challenge: I Love Dying!
New Challenge: Washed Away
New Challenge: The Calm

* Added 36 Lore Entries to the game

New Item Lore Entry: Molten Perforator
New Item Lore Entry: Shatterspleen
New Item Lore Entry: Mired Urn
New Item Lore Entry: Super Massive Leech
New Item Lore Entry: Gorag’s Opus
New Item Lore Entry: Forgive Me Please
New Item Lore Entry: Soulbound Catalyst
New Item Lore Entry: Bandolier
New Item Lore Entry: The Crowdfunder
New Item Lore Entry: Old Guillotine
New Item Lore Entry: Jade Elephant
New Item Lore Entry: Blast Shower
New Item Lore Entry: Lepton Daisy
New Item Lore Entry: Shattering Justice
New Item Lore Entry: Topaz Brooch
New Item Lore Entry: Ocular HUD
New Item Lore Entry: Unstable Tesla Coil
New Item Lore Entry: Milky Chrysalis
New Item Lore Entry: Will-o’-the-wisp
New Item Lore Entry: Gnarled Woodsprite
New Item Lore Entry: Halcyon Seed
New Item Lore Entry: Purity
New Item Lore Entry: Glowing Meteorite
New Item Lore Entry: Preon Accumulator
New Item Lore Entry: Aegis
New Monster Lore Entry: Clay Dunestrider
New Monster Lore Entry: Alloy Vulture
New Monster Lore Entry: Imp
New Monster Lore Entry: Void Reaver
New Monster Lore Entry: ???
New Monster Lore Entry: ???
New Monster Lore Entry: ???
New Stage Lore Entry: ???
New Character Lore Entry: Huntress
New Character Lore Entry: Captain
New Character Lore Entry: MUL-T

* General

Bleeds now refresh all existing bleed durations on that target. This affects both enemies and players, and is a huge change for how bleeds will work.
Increase difficulty rate over time for all difficulties by +10%.

Developer Notes: In this update, we’ve buffed a ton of items - and also given players way more agency over the way a run progresses. Our goal is for players to be more engaged with the game - what we don’t want is for the game to be suddenly much easier. This is a bit of a sanity check, and shouldn’t dramatically change the difficulty.

Slightly reworked OSP. The goal is to fix inconsistencies and make it actually protect you from one-shots - while also fixing some abuse cases with curse.
- The threshold for OSP is now displayed on the healthbar with a faint graphic.
- Now has a lingering 0.1s duration when activated.
- 🌧 Now is subtracted via Curse (Shaped Glass, Artifact of Glass, etc), i.e a curse of 10% will remove OSP entirely.
- 🌧 Update OSP logic so it still triggers if you receive multiple sources of damage in the same frame that go past OSP values, i.e Malachite Lesser Wisps

* Elites

Blazing, Overloading, Glacial
- 🌧Health Bonus: ~~470%~~ ⇒ 400%
Malachite, Celestine
- 🌧Health Bonus: ~~2350%~~ ⇒ 1800% Developer Notes: We’ve had a lot of feedback that elite health has always felt a bit bloated - and that subsequently, it makes the Old Guillotine feel required. Our intent is to make characters less reliant on the Old Guillotine, and to make it feel more like an elite hate item - and less of an overall DPS item.

* Survivors

* 🌧🌧🌧 Mobility skills are now considered ‘sprinting’, scaling with sprint speed multipliers and also sprinting after use.  
* Melee Survivors  

  * 🌧 Melee skills will now perform more consistently at high attack speeds.  
  * Melee skills will now scale hitpause duration with attack speed - since the pause when hitting enemies were static, melee characters actually scaled poorly with attack speed.  
  * Melee skills will now ‘hold’ you in the air better at high attack speeds.

* Added a ‘Keyword’ system. Keywords are just words to describe common repeated behavior without explaining it every time. Added the following keywords:

  * Freezing  
  * Stunning  
  * Shocking  
  * Poisonous  
  * Regenerative  
  * Agile  
  * Percent HP  
  * Sonic Boom  
  * Weaken  
  * Expose  
  * Heavy

MUL-T Developer Notes: MUL-T has gotten some love from this patch to really push forward the idea that his weapons are strong in specific roles. Faster swap time and more responsive actions for the weapons will (hopefully) make weapon swapping feel better. We’ve also admittedly creeped cooldowns down over time, and MUL-T felt a bit left behind.
- Base Acceleration: 25 ⇒ 30
- Rebar Puncher
  - Now charges after firing, rather than before.
- Scrap Launcher
  - Now behaves like a rocket instead of a grenade
  - Lifetime: 3s ⇒ 4s
  - Explosion Radius: 5m ⇒ 7m
  - Velocity: ~~70 m/s~~ ⇒ 100 m/s
- Nail Gun
  - No longer has an initial shotgun of 6 nails.
  - Now has a final shotgun of 12 nails.
  - Now fires in a consistent corkscrew pattern
  - Proc Coefficient: ~~0.4~~ ⇒ 0.6
  - Damage: ~~60%~~ ⇒ 70%
  - Wind-down duration: 0s ⇒ 1.152s
- Retool
  - Swap duration: ~~0.7s~~ ⇒ 0.4s
- Transport Mode
  - Cooldown: 8s ⇒ 6s
Mercenary Developer Notes: The Mercenary was always supposed to be the highest skill-cap survivor. However, in actual gameplay he became very flow-charty, using abilities directly off cooldown while holding down M1. The intent for all these changes is to allow skill expression, dynamic cooldowns, and higher risk vs reward in fight with the new ‘Exposed’ debuff. The hope is that the character will be stronger for advanced players, but weaker for new players.
- Base Health: ~~140 (+42 per level)~~ ⇒ 110 (+33 per level)
- Base Regeneration: ~~2.5 health / second~~ ⇒ 1 health / second
- NEW Debuff: Exposed
  - Striking an Exposed target reduces all cooldowns by 1 second and deals an additional +350% base damage
- Laser Sword
  - Third Strike Damage: ~~300%~~ ⇒ 130%
  - Third hit now applies ‘Exposed’ debuff
  - The second and third hit of the combo can no longer be started in the middle of other attacks
- Whirlwind
  - Ground Speed Multiplier: 6 ⇒ 8
- Blinding Assault
  - Cooldown: 7s ⇒ 8s
  - Can now be canceled mid-attack by both Whirlwind and Rising Thunder
- Slicing Winds
  - Last hit now applies ‘Exposed’ debuff
Acrid Developer Notes: Acrid has always been a melee-ranged hybrid. We want greater rewards for engaging in melee and completing your M1 combo for players who enjoy a more aggressive playstyle.
- NEW Buff: Regenerate
  - Regenerate for 10% health over 0.5 seconds.
- Vicious Wounds
  - Third hit of the combo now grants ‘Regenerate’ buff
- Ravenous Bite
  - Now grants ‘Regenerate’ buff
- Frenzied Leap
  - 🌧Now (properly) stuns
Artificer Developer Notes: We want to enforce the Artificer’s role as a high-damage, high AoE character. Nano-Bomb in general was core to the fantasy, but was pretty much inferior to Nano-Spear in every way.
- Plasma Bolt
  - Blast Radius: 4m ⇒ 6m
- Charged Nano-Bomb
  - Now has slight gravity
  - Blast Radius: ~~10m~~ ⇒ 14m
  - Blast Damage, Max Charge: ~~1200%~~ ⇒ 2000%
  - Blast Force: ~~1300~~ ⇒ 3000
  - Lifetime: 5s ⇒ 10s
  - Improved FX for clarity
- Ion Surge
  - No longer has -75% damage falloff at the edge of the blast

* Items

Monster Tooth
- Healing: ~~8 (+8 per stack)~~ ⇒ 8
- 🌧Now also heals for 2% (+2% per stack) of maximum health
Medkit
- Healing: ~~24 (+24 per stack)~~ ⇒ 20
- 🌧Now also heals for 5% (+5% per stack) of maximum health
Repulsion Armor Plate
- Now properly reduces damage from environmental effects
Warbanner
- 🌧 Now also places a Warbanner when activating the Teleporter
- Improve VFX to be less opaque, since it will always be near the Teleporter
Death Mark
- Debuff Duration: 7s ⇒ 7s (+7s per stack)
- 🌧Remove text stating that the damage bonus scaled with stacks
Old Guillotine
- Execute Threshold: ~~~20% (+20% per stack)~~ ⇒ 13% (+13% per stack) Developer Notes: Since we’ve re-tuned the health of elites across the board, the Guillotine should be appropriately re-tuned as well.
Runald’s/Kjaro’s Band Developer Notes: The two rings have undergone a bit of a rework, working off of an internal cooldown rather than a chance on-hit. We’re hoping that this can help diversify one of our “on-hit” items to be more than just attacking enemies and hoping things activate. We’ve also changed the behavior of Kjaro’s to be more of the AoE option, while Runald’s is the single target option.
- Proc Chance: 8% ⇒ 100%
- Now has an internal cooldown of 10 seconds
- Now has a minimum threshold of only triggering on attacks that deal 400% or greater damage
- Runald’s Band
  - Ice Blast Damage: ~~250% (+125% per stack)~~ ⇒ 250% (+250% per stack)
  - Ice Debuff Duration: 3s ⇒ 3s (+3s per stack)
- Kjaro's Band
  - Fire Tornado Damage: ~~500% (+250% per stack)~~ ⇒ 300% (+300% per stack)
  - Fire Tornado Hitbox Width: ~~4.8m~~ ⇒ 13m
  - No longer moves
H3AD-5T v2
- Reworked logic for calculating fall speed so it scales better while falling farther. Now has the following behavior:
  - Damage Coefficient: 1000% - 10,000% at maximum speed
  - Explosion Radius: 5m - 100m at maximum speed
  - Improved FX
Interstellar Desk Plant
- Healing Radius: ~~3m (+1.5m per stack)~~ ⇒ 5m (+5m per stack)
- Healing: ~~5% max health every 1 second~~ ⇒ 5% max health every 0.5 second
Milky Chrysalis
- Now grants true flight and antigravity instead of jump-to-hover.
- Pressing jump now performs a short dash in the direction of movement with a 0.5s cooldown.
Strides of Heresy
- No longer puts you in combat
Helfire Tincture
- Helfire Radius: ~~10m~~ ⇒ 15m
- Helfire Duration: 8s ⇒ 12s
- Improve VFX and SFX
Effigy of Grief
- Now placed at where you’re aiming, rather than at your feet
- No longer is consumed on use.
- Now limited to 5 per map per character.
Little Disciple
- Fire Rate: ~~0.5s~~ ⇒ 1.6s
- Damage Coefficient: ~~100% (+100% per stack~~) ⇒ 300% (+300% per stack)
- 🌧Fire Rate now scales with movement speed

* Stages

3D Printers will appear more often on all stages, ~50% more
3D Printers will cost less to spawn on all stages, ~50% less
The new interactable, the Scrapper, can now appear on all stages
Titanic Plains
- 🌧 Update with new visuals to make it depressing
Sky Meadow
- Update with new visuals and functionality that leads to the final stage
Bazaar Between Time
- Base Portal Chance: ~~25% for the first portal~~ ⇒ 37.5% for the first portal
- Lunar Buds: 4 ⇒ 5

* Monsters & Bosses

Mini Mushrum
- 🌧 Base Health: ~~360 (+108 per level)~~ ⇒ 290 (+87 per level)
Parent
- 🌧 Base Health: ~~1200 (+360 per level)~~ ⇒ 900 (+270 per level)
Lesser Wisp
- Now properly stops charging attack sound when interrupted
Imp Overlord
- 🌧Maximum Blink Distance: ~~600m~~ ⇒ 300m
- Now throws Void Spikes in a staggered fashion, rather than all at once
Magma Worm
- 🌧Maximum “Blink” Distance: ~~600m~~ ⇒ 300m
- Now considerably more aggressive and better able to hit targets Developer Notes: The blink behavior of both the Imp Overlord and the Magma Worm allows it to follow players between platforms, but it leads a lot of the times to the bosses blinking across the map to attack drones and turrets. While they may still do that, it’ll be a bit less pronounced.
Void Reaver
- Now attempts to lead its Void Bombs in a straight line against its target
- Updated AI to fire more aggressively and backpedal when its target is too close
- AI now has 360° vision
Bison
- 🌧 Add spawn effect and animation (finally!)

🌧 Added a language dropdown menu to the Main Menu
Audio has received an overall mix pass
Reduced the audio levels of the Magma Worm, Imp Overlord, and Clay Dunestrider
Updated the Teleporter model
Updated the Ukulele model
Improved Infusion VFX to be more noticeable
Reduced brightness of some Mercenary effects to they are less white and have more color
Fixed dithering for several on-character item displays
Updated the kick system to be able to supply detailed messages and enforce version matching when connecting to a server
Added functionality for servers and lobbies to provide mod info and reject players for mismatches
Servers can now define behavior to run upon entering character select by supplying a "server_pregame.cfg" config file
Updated “MUL-T: Gotcha!” challenge to allow Preon tendrils to count toward completion
A bunch of other stuff we probably forgot!

Fixed an issue with spread from bloom being applied to both minimum and maximum spread (ie you could never have a bullet travel dead-center when your spread bloom is at maximum) for Commando’s Phase Blast, Huntress’ Ballista, and MUL-T’s Rebar Puncher
Fixed potential physics crash that could occur if a character attempts to use a melee attack after crossfading into a new animation from a paused animation
Fixed immobilization from Void Reavers and REX’s Tangling Growth becoming permanent if using Wax Quail while affected, which would also sometimes lead to a crash upon getting killed
Fixed Repulsion Armor Plate not applying against posthumously dealt damage
Fixed Visions of Heresy allowing Huntress’ Ballista to exceed three shots
All gameplay stats are now forced to update before generating the final run report to make sure all values are up-to-date at the end screen
Fixed MUL-T’s Nailgun not properly animating over the network
Fixed some projectiles not playing their pre-expiration sounds over the network
Fixed several sounds not being played over the network
Fixed a timing issue in which lobby player count would not update immediately after a player leaves the lobby
Fixed a variety of other bugs we also probably forgot!

There are none, this game is perfect

And… scene. This patch is enormous for us, and we really tried hard - I hope you all like it. As always, we’re listening to feedback and tracking any bugs that we find for 1.0 release. We’ll do a Dev Thoughts later this week to compile everyone’s feedback. See you on the planet.