ror2-game-questions

[tender temple]

who?

i dont think theres a single melee character that has low mobility if we exclude double power saw mult

[lavish jacinth]

just stay close to it

[wet bison]

what does His Reassurance do

[modest tulip]

The elite effect?

[wet bison]

health earth green whatever you call it

[lavish jacinth]

gives you the same effects as a mending elite, you passively heal nearby allies

[wet bison]

thanks

[lavish jacinth]

and you spawn a healing orb thing on death, not that that's very useful lol

[modest tulip]

And when you die you spawn a heal orb

[wet bison]

so it is basicly useles in solo (without drones)

[lavish jacinth]

pretty much

[modest tulip]

Most of the aspects are other than overloaded and the fire one lol

[lavish jacinth]

you can give it to an equipment drone to turn it into a kind of bootleg healing drone I guess

but yeah, overloading and fire are the only really good ones, although perfected and twisted are decent if you can get them

[modest tulip]

It'll never heal you though those things love to be a mile away

[lavish jacinth]

the rest are weak at best and detrimental at worst

[wet bison]

thanks

[round crane]

what items are good for captain?

[modest tulip]

I love the way they look on survivors, malachite being my favorite

[modest tulip]

Speed items and feathers

[lavish jacinth]

most of the same stuff that'd be good on commando

[round crane]

how am i supposed to do dmg?

[lavish jacinth]

he's got a better band proc but worse mobility

[round crane]

never played commando

[wet bison]

i would say soldiers serenge because it also boosts your bots atackspeed

[lavish jacinth]

proc items then, especially bleed

[round crane]

needletick better?

[lavish jacinth]

nah

captain is good at stacking bleed

[wet bison]

early yes lategame no

[lavish jacinth]

^ tick isn't bad on him but bleed is ideal

[round crane]

what do i need to do to get the diablo strike?

[lavish jacinth]

kill mithrix by dropping a beacon on him

[round crane]

what

[lavish jacinth]

they deal 2,000% damage on impact

go for direct damage buffs like AP rounds and try not to get too many procs that might steal the kill

[modest tulip]

Get dmg items? I'm only saying what is necessary for him lol

[lavish jacinth]

helps too, each stack gives an extra use of your primary beacon per stage

[modest tulip]

I never knew that actually, I thought it'd be redundant tbh

[round crane]

but it doesnt do any dmg

[lavish jacinth]

^

the game doesn't mention it but they do

[round crane]

oh lol

so

if i get 10 i can just spam them and it will still count @lavish jacinth ?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, as long as the final hit is from a beacon

[round crane]

mhm

any other items than AP?

like overall items so i dont die before mithrix

[lavish jacinth]

usually what you'd wanna do is poke him with the shotgun or taser to get his health low just to make sure the beacon kills him

[round crane]

mhm

does the beacon instantly come down?

[lavish jacinth]

there's a short delay, but he's so slow in phase 4 that it's not usually an issue, especially once you've got your items back and he's pretty much harmless

[lavish jacinth]

Usual stuff like move speed, crits, attack speed, healing, etc.. Just avoid procs

[wet bison]

to unlock squid polyp you need 6 turrets does it make a diffrence if i use tha artefact that despawns chets

[trim lynx]

except like ukulele

and meathook

[round crane]

i mean items that are useful on mithrix but also useful before so i dont die

[lavish jacinth]

nope, it still counts

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, that's what I'm saying

[round crane]

so glasses

[wet bison]

i mean if more turrets spawn or is it the same

[round crane]

syringe and leeching maybe

any 1 wanna join me?

[lavish jacinth]

oh yeah, you still get turrets

[lavish jacinth]

get instead of leeching seed if you want on-hit healing but yeah

[round crane]

ah ye

@lavish jacinth ( angry packed dumpling ) would you like to play with me i swear do you even play the game

[lavish jacinth]

occasionally, I just don't do multiplayer lol

[worldly olive]

You should still be cautious of them, but to make it a bit easier the beacons don't have a proc coefficient

[round crane]

bruh then do it with me

[worldly olive]

Thus they can't proc an atg or bands even though they exceed the 400% damage threshold

[round crane]

im an awesome syringe player

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, you mainly just avoid them so that you can soften him up with the shotgun without accidentally doing too much damage

[round crane]

mhm

@lavish jacinth what do you think about huntress?

also HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO FINISH STAGE 3 WITHOUT GETTING HIT ONCE

[worldly olive]

Either glass artifact or a barrier build

Or loop until you don't get hit

[round crane]

i dont have glass

but if you do 😉

[worldly olive]

Barrier build it is then

[lavish jacinth]

or

[lavish jacinth]

what about her? She's fine, low damage but good mobility, feels good to play but not super strong

[round crane]

glass artifact or shaped glass do make it punishier

low dmg? bruh

3x900% dmg

[lavish jacinth]

I mean, you can't get hit anyway so it's not like less health matters

[lavish jacinth]

on a 12s cooldown

ballista is good but in general her dps is just low

[round crane]

ik its to make me not fucking forget that im supposed to not get fucking hit

[worldly olive]

Get command, an fmp, brooches and potentially a soulbound catalyst if you're lucky

[round crane]

fmp? brooches? soulbound catalyst?

[lavish jacinth]

damage to barrier won't fail the challenge

[round crane]

oh

[lavish jacinth]

because it's not "don't take damage", it's "don't fall below 100% health"

barrier lets you go over 100%

[worldly olive]

Forgive me please, Topaz Brooch, and Soulbound Catalyst

[round crane]

what does soulbound catalyst do

[lavish jacinth]

(shields count as max health though so you can't cheese with with if you're wondering)

[round crane]

ik

[worldly olive]

Reduces the recharge time of your equipment by 5 seconds when you kill an enemy
Meanwhile Forgive me Please activates all on kill effects for 8 seconds (with a 45 seconds cooldown)

[lavish jacinth]

*4 seconds

[round crane]

uh so

i need 12 crowbars topac broches and uh prob ukulele

with shaped glass

should i go with swarm artifact?

[modest tulip]

No, wisps will demolish you lol

[lavish jacinth]

proooobably not

[round crane]

ok

what about dissonance?

[modest tulip]

Lol you'd be fighting parents on stage one

[round crane]

uh and

[modest tulip]

Pretty tough for stage 1

[round crane]

ig

lemme enable my stageaesthetics mod

idk smth like that

[modest tulip]

I wish I had access to mods ngl

[lavish jacinth]

they might not be, they're a lot more expensive than stone golems so if they do spawn you wouldn't get very many of them

[round crane]

titanic plains sunset 😍

[modest tulip]

Yeah but a chance for that to happen(with no items) is scary ngl

[round crane]

wait what

why can i sprint and shoot at the same time?

[lavish jacinth]

most of huntress's skills are agile

[round crane]

bro

what the fuck i didint get any shit 6 times in a row from chance of shrine

[lavish jacinth]

ok but you can just

[modest tulip]

Ngl my experience is different, they teleport do the slam and I die lol

[lavish jacinth]

they still can't really hit you as long as you keep moving, the attack has a pretty long windup

[lavish jacinth]

also I literally could not get this idiot to teleport after running around for like 3 minutes lol

also cursed knowledge unlocked, one of the dots on the parents arms isn't attached properly

[swift jolt]

hey gang are there any mods to unlock eclipse?

[lavish jacinth]

realercheatunlocks

[swift jolt]

okie thx

[round crane]

bro there is 2 void seeds at stage 4

[round crane]

2 VOID SEEDS TWO TIMES IN A ROW

@lavish jacinth what are the chances

i got 2 void seeds on stage 4 and 5

i died

[quasi topaz]

You got command on and you chose gorags as the equipment 💀

[elfin mountain]

game stucks on 6% on the first loading screen (vanilla) what should i do?

[lavish jacinth]

Reinstall/verify files

[elfin mountain]

i did that a LOT of time

nothing changes and still stucks at 6%

[lavish jacinth]

Hrm

[elfin mountain]

its been like that for months now, i was waiting for a patch but i js really wanna play atp

[lavish jacinth]

You can try #ror2-tech-support but responses there are slow (also check pins first)

[elfin mountain]

alr ty

[round crane]

yes and what about it also why dont u use ping in response

[round crane]

what items are good for huntress simulacrum just the usual?

[quasi topaz]

Why not , , , , , ,

[minor nimbus]

u can do false son on loop right

or am i tweaking

[quasi topaz]

As long as you can get on the path of the colossus via lunar seers, halcyon shrines, or aurelionite you're good

[minor nimbus]

sweet

[lavish jacinth]

or the geodes in the bazaar

[kindred herald]

and disc

[ornate obsidian]

do multiplayer games also count towards unlockables?

[mellow crystal]

yes

[ornate obsidian]

🗣️

[dusty pilot]

ive been sitting in an artifact waiting for the keys to spawn for like 10 minutes is this bugged ;_;

[quasi topaz]

Just keep killing stuff, you'll get it eventually

[dusty pilot]

ok, spawn rate is painfully low.. 😆

there it is 🙂

[glacial knoll]

5% iirc

[rapid current]

Funny things to do with engineer and infinite reds on stage 20+

[crisp timber]

Obliterate

[rapid current]

What about spawn 300 knifes on motrix

Mitrix

I have 43 cerimonial daggers

[onyx plume]

damn solitude is very good item already

[crisp timber]

That works

[onyx plume]

and its super broken on false son

its TOO broken perhaps

[frosty reef]

That's kinda just the majority of lunars now so follows suit i guess

[brittle shuttle]

Yeah honestly i dont rly hate solitude because no lunar is trying to be balanced

And i like how solitude flips the game on its head

Its interesting

[kindred herald]

I hate all lunars equally

except for mercurial rachis and glowing meteorite

[frosty reef]

i only like cus it makes you feel bad

[vale plaza]

How good is boomtick on bandit compared to daggers?

[keen rose]

I just beat level 20 looping on rainstorm with commando and his achievement did not unlock, is this a known bug?

[vale plaza]

*needletick

[keen rose]

Took no lunar items

[drowsy trench]

If I beat the game playing monsoon ill get the characters mastery skin?

[ornate obsidian]

is the teleporter rng trackable

like where it spawns, is that something you can actually determine off of starting a stage

[fallen bridge]

nop, though its particles can be seen throughout most/all the map

[high forum]

yes

[twin valley]

does the game remember the stage you chose in the bazaar if you do vields after

[ornate obsidian]

i have something in my game currently where i just fucking explode randomly. anyone know what that item could be

its like a blue electrical field explosion

[steady stone]

could be

it procs an AoE blast when you fall under a certain hp threshold like vagrant

[ornate obsidian]

thats exactly what it was

good mind thank you

[cursive hound]

Are all the items already prepicked by the game in the chests when the round starts?

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah

[lavish jacinth]

It generally tries to spawn far from where the player spawns, so with experience you can narrow down where it'll probably be based on where you spawn into the stage. But looking for the particles is the most reliable method

There's a setting to make them easier to see, under that umbrella features thing on the first page

[dry cloak]

What are good items to prioritize for captain?

[lavish jacinth]

Most of the same stuff you'd look for on commando, mainly proc effects, particularly bleed

And mobility items are extra important

[fallen bridge]

nop

[rapid current]

Does egocentrism steal blue items ( like heretic items )

[fallen bridge]

i'm reasonably sure?

[lavish jacinth]

Yep

The only things ego won't eat are equipment and gray items (used consumables and tonic afflictions)

[kindred herald]

no

[spice swan]

hey is the artifact that makes the enemies drop items worth using in a 4 player lobby? Or will the amount of chests scale with player count

cuz one player is new and I'd like em to play with chests, but idk if the loot pool will be too small across 4 people

[lavish jacinth]

you do get more chests with more players (about +50% per player), but more players also increases difficulty scaling by about the same amount, so you get more enemies too

and considering you can effectively farm for infinite items with sacrifice it'll basically always be better except maybe very early on

[autumn moon]

i had 5 sale star and opened a rusted box in prime meridian, and it only gave me 2 items? was that supposed to happen?

shouldnt it gave me 6 instead?

[fallen bridge]

yah, more sale stars only increases odds of more items, up to 5

[autumn moon]

oh

[fallen bridge]

it doesn't add 1 item per stack of sale star

[autumn moon]

also if you beat false son with halcyon seed, does the portal that usually appear not appear??

[fallen bridge]

it does, but you must touch the rebirth shrine for it to spawn

[autumn moon]

oh

[fallen bridge]

... that goes for whether you have the seed or not

[autumn moon]

sorry i forgot , and thanks

i thought it forces you to rebirth

[keen rose]

Update on this, i did the get achievement when I unpaused my game and waited a few moments

[jagged lava]

So I heard there might be a way to get to the Void from Commencement

[round crane]

what do syringes do on captain ( basic skills ) ? @lavish jacinth

[lavish jacinth]

there is
After beating mithrix, if you run past the escape ship and go back to the room you started in, there'll be a glass frog that you can pet. Pet it 10 times and it'll open a void portal

[jagged lava]

Hopefully my in-game legs are fast enough lol

[lavish jacinth]

shotgun fires and charges faster, the other skills aren't affected very much. Faster casting animations but it doesn't make his orbital strikes drop any faster

[round crane]

okay thanks

[lavish jacinth]

oh, and his microbots shoot faster

[round crane]

the 2 misc things are to the R ability?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[round crane]

okay so R is stun

but nah ima do heal

@lavish jacinth also i got a question

how the fuck did the game turn me and @mellow crystal into diffrent characters i went from multi into huntress and acrid and the waves counted into acrid and she went from uh i think seeker into engineer and railgunner

we didint die so the enigma artifact could work or smth + it wasnt enabled

[lavish jacinth]

artifact of metamorphosis

oh wait, can you even get metamorphosis in simulacrum

wiki says no so idk
that's the only thing that can change your survivor mid-run though, not counting heretic

[round crane]

bruh

[lavish jacinth]

unless it was something mod-related

[round crane]

instead of 88 waves on multi it went into acrid

no we playing vanilla

at least me

i mean huntress was pretty cracked

but acrid no

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah I have no idea

[round crane]

damn the shift is crazy on cap tho

what common void @lavish jacinth ?

needletick you said is worse so what should i get key maybe?

[lavish jacinth]

are pretty much always good choices

[round crane]

i guess ill go with key and pray its close to the field

[wet bison]

are there any tips for looping

[round crane]

is this a normal thing for mobs to do @lavish jacinth bros going into the void

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, ror2's AI isn't especially bright

[lavish jacinth]

Never stop moving
You should already be doing that, but it's even more important in loops- just assume that any damage will oneshot you and that enemies will be constantly spawning near you, because they probably will

[wet bison]

the problem is i cant dogde with 1 fps

[lavish jacinth]

You should still keep full looting like normal though

[lavish jacinth]

uhhhh
good luck with that

you can try to bottom out your graphics settings to get better frames but if you're playing on a potato then there's only so much you can do

[wet bison]

my run is over for 1 min and my frames are just 23

[round crane]

i think that i know why
bro skipped leg day and cant climb up

@lavish jacinth what do you think of my items right now?

[lavish jacinth]

They're all good items, I dunno what you want me to say about them lol

[round crane]

how do you rate my inv 0 to 10

a solid 2 out of 10 because no movement speed

[lavish jacinth]

In terms of item quality it's at least a 9, no speed or healing but it's simulacrum and I assume you have healing beacons

[round crane]

ye

[lavish jacinth]

if you got that in a non-command, non simulacrum run that'd basically be a near-guaranteed win on any difficulty lol

[round crane]

ye

why the fuck am i saying the same thin 2 times in a row

[round crane]

BRO

I FELL INTO THE VOID AND THEN @ MINIGUN GUYS SPAWNED

@lavish jacinth

does the headlight afterburner do smth like +2 shift abilities and like its 6 booms total?

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah, it's good on him

[round crane]

DAMN ITS CRAZY

FUCK THIS GAME IS SO ABD I DIED ALREDY FROM VOID

[wet bison]

does the bizzare out of time count to comandos stage mission?

[round crane]

idk never played commando

@lavish jacinth does each shot from captain burst activate plasma shrimp

[warm badger]

How does stuff like bungus work for N’kahunah when you have transcendence? Is it just a percentage of 1 or does it calculate based off of max shield “health”?

[round crane]

wait what

why the fuck microbots work on chimera pools?

[warm badger]

Cuz its just a red item isn’t it?

[round crane]

ye its a red and

[warm badger]

You mean the ones that give white items for reds right?

[round crane]

???

dis

[warm badger]

Yeah

Sorry words are hard. I meant to ask if by chimera pools you meant the ones on the moon that take a red item and give you three white ones

My b

[round crane]

the pools that lunar chimeras leave after death

[steady stone]

I'm assuming you mean lunar chimera exploder, which it works because it's just a lingering projectile not attached to the original enemy

[warm badger]

Oh I’m stupid

[round crane]

mhm

[steady stone]

it doesn't have to be moving per se to be deleted

[round crane]

@steady stone do u wanna play also captain is so awesome

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, %health stuff will be a % of 1

[spark scroll]

is tri tip dagger good on engineer?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[spark scroll]

tuff

is artifact of swarms good on long looping runs?

I mean combined with sacrifice

[lavish jacinth]

with sacrifice it's very good

and just by itself it tends to make the game easier on average, except maybe for final bosses

[spark scroll]

kk thanks

[vale gulch]

Is it possible to do the portal event and after finishing it instead of going through it you do a prismatic trial?

[lavish jacinth]

prismatic trials are a totally separate gamemode

or are you thinking of the artifact trial thing

[vale gulch]

Oh crap yeah my bad

[lavish jacinth]

lol

[vale gulch]

I meant the trial 😭

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, you can still unlock artifacts after doing the tp

[vale gulch]

so I can get the rewards from tp and then get the artifact nice

[honest sluice]

if i have shatter spleen do i need tri tipped daggers

[lavish jacinth]

nope, you can't apply two stacks of bleed with one hit, so once you've got decent crit chance you can scrap tritips or pick up

[honest sluice]

ok ty

[dark yarrow]

Yo, I just got the game for my man but I suck at it. Does anyone wanna play with someone who kinda sucks ass?

[boreal raven]

You're gonna suck and die a lot, practice makes perfect

[boreal raven]

Are you struggling with anything specific?

[lavish jacinth]

you can try #lfg-pc-ror2 (or whatever platform you're on) if you specifically want someone to play with, but we can help if you just want advice

[quasi topaz]

You spend most of your time dead in games like this so just keep playing

[spark scroll]

how do I start a prismatic trial?

[daring cloak]

You go into alternate game modes and click on prismatic trials

[spark scroll]

thanks#

[topaz berry]

do multiple lockbox/encrusted keys spawn multiple chests

[quasi topaz]

No, only one per stage

[topaz berry]

man

ive got 22 for nothing

[zinc flame]

Is there an artifact like command except having a smaller pool? I feel like itv seen one that has you able to pick from like 3 items

[high forum]

That’s from SotV, the Void capsules

Or Simulacrum, which rewards you at the end of the round by letting you pick from a few items

[crisp timber]

Or Aurelionite Fragments from SotS

Or Artifact of Delusion, which is a memory game instead letting you actually choose the item

[scenic raven]

Is anyone having a sudden problem where RoR2 stutters HEAVILY on pc, the whole pc, not just the game, and it started randomly?

[kind ravine]

Was playing RoR Returns yesterday and sharing screen on discord call, when I opened RoR2 my pc turned off by itself. But it happened only once

[round crane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4xnNJsHF2E how do i turn dubbing off 🙏😭

i want to actually know what bros saying

[steady stone]

the settings should have an "audio track" section

[round crane]

got it alredy

wanna play 😉

i forgor that i changed my username and avatar

[ancient iron]

Guys, do some items( like the red glasses, that give 10% crit) even do smth beyond an amount of 10? Won't it just be 100% proc chance anyway?

[glacial knoll]

no they wont

[steady stone]

certain things can be multiplied by your proc coeff, so like viend laser (0.625 proc) will make 10+ tritips usable, but luck wont affect over 100%

[lavish jacinth]

crit specifically won't though as it's unaffected by proc coeff, 10 lensmakers will always be 100% crit chance

[cunning jay]

how does repulsion plate interact with bleed?

if an enemy has repulsion plate and you have bleed

[steady stone]

i can hop into a debug rq to test that, not sure if it would be accounted for

or wolfo will beat me, we'll see

[cunning jay]

who is wolfo

[steady stone]

nvm, i saw him typing lol

[glacial knoll]

Nah I was just thinking

Like 1 bleed obviously rap reduces each tick of bleeds damage so it's really strong

but idk how it works on multiple dots

It's probably cummalitive so like 100 bleed doing a 100 bleed damage would be -5 not -500

[steady stone]

18 per tick with no RAPs

13 with, so yeah it's normal

(15 stacks of bleed sample size)

[round crane]

@steady stone who should i do a run with

simulacrum btw

[cunning jay]

How does warped echo synergize with oddly shaped opal?

[quasi topaz]

If the bug is still up it actually ignores opal rendering it useless

Wecho also ignores osp (this still exists)

I usually don't pick them up unless I see a scrapper

[cunning jay]

Wdym

[lavish jacinth]

normally, the split damage from WE would be based on the final amount of damage taken after armor (including opal)
but currently, echo ignores armor and basically every other damage-related mechanic, so opal stays active but echo gets no benefit from it

it's also just buggy as hell in general atm and sometimes its damage over time never goes away, causing you to take infinite damage

the only damage reduction it seems to interact with it repulsion armor plate and tougher times, and I think that's just because it's hard-coded to work with them

nvm wolfo is typing which means I'm probably wrong lmao

[quasi topaz]

Wecho in a worse tier than bison steak imo

[lavish jacinth]

at the moment yeah

[glacial knoll]

dw about it

Echo is still good unless you're void fiend/mult power mode, ignoring armor isn't the biggest deal

[lavish jacinth]

I'm more concerned about the fact that it seems to have a chance to randomly deal infinite damage lol

did we ever figure out what actually causes that?

[glacial knoll]

I think it's multiplayer only but no I don't know what causes it

[lavish jacinth]

hmm

[glacial knoll]

someone said it has something to do with a dead chef I doubt it but

never got around to testing it ig

its an anti syngery with opal so if you really like opal you should scrap it but warped + rap is still pretty good and also +tougher times, but then it's also beneficial for shield gens so like

it's quite something

[quasi topaz]

The ignoring osp thing is the bigger problem

[glacial knoll]

Not really pre loop and post loop I wanna die anyways

I guess for like Diablo that is really important to scrap

[quasi topaz]

Complete skill issue on my part but mithrix pizza is basically a garunteed death if hit unless you have certain items

[glacial knoll]

it does do a bunch of damage but idk Wecho just gave me time to heal or block it but yeah worth considering

[quasi topaz]

I think it was double warped echo and a healing vial that can save you

[lavish jacinth]

I feel like it's kinda neutral with opal tbh, it doesn't reduce echo's damage but it also keeps the shield up, so you could potentially tank another hit after echo takes the first one. Probably less useful than being able to eat one really big hit but I dunno if I'd call it an anti synergy

idk, it's a weird ass item even when it works correctly lol

[brittle shuttle]

osp is a notoriously dogshit mechanic that does not exist when you need it 99% of the time

and the damage reduction from wecho from my experience is more than enough for pizza

[quasi topaz]

Pizza always seems to get the kill on e5 and up if hit with wecho

[glacial knoll]

I play with fixes anyways, really hope the DLC fixes these issues tho

the no longer putting you into danger just straight up looks intended from the decompiled code but like why did they change that??

well really why did they change it at all is confusing but ah well

[lavish jacinth]

I stand by my belief that echo would've been infinitely easier to design if they'd just made it a lunar item lol

[quasi topaz]

All damage is split into multiple delayed hits but you lose all armor

Or something like that

Could be interesting if switched from current to the one I stated

[lavish jacinth]

I was just gonna say you take slightly more damage overall but it's split into multiple hits

you can keep all the benefits of converting all damage to DoT and don't have to care about antisynergies

[vivid harbor]

Does sonorous whispers work with fmp?

[glacial knoll]

it is neither a boss nor a elite so no

[vivid harbor]

Fair

[glass flicker]

Are the alt maps for treetop and shattered abodes still broken? I can't find the radar scanner on them.

[daring cloak]

Ohly treeborn and dieback

[glass flicker]

Oh... is there a way to fix? Or do we just gotta wait for patch?

I've gotten treeborn.

Just not it's alt, dieback

[daring cloak]

You kinda just gotta wait

Unless you can find someone to play that hasnt gotten the (iirc) aphelian sanctuary log

[glass flicker]

Nah everyone's got it. Thx tho bro!

[rapid current]

How many ego bombs can u have at 1 time

[glacial knoll]

2 + ego amount

[rapid current]

Is there any limit ?

[glacial knoll]

Well yeah that, unless mean to like stacking which no

[kindred herald]

why would I ever take this m item except when I have raps

[tawny shale]

Would X amount of roll of pennies remove the down side of brittle crown?

[steady stone]

it's not very viable though since pennies is linear and brittle is percent based

but eventually you could cancel it out, depending on your current gold

just stack damage negation or reduction instead

[lavish jacinth]

it synergizes with other things like tougher times and razorwire, and taking damage over time means you can potentially heal off the damage as it's happening

[quasi topaz]

Anyone know what monster is in the highlighted slot

[steady stone]

voidling

[quasi topaz]

thanks

[mellow crystal]

aside from what fax mentioned you can also i-frame the death hit which isn't that useful but it is funny

[inland lake]

Damnnnnn, no matter how many stacks of chronic expansion you have, if on False son, it will constantly count up.

Just noticed it now. MIGHT have to check another run to see if it actually is that way or not

[steady stone]

it could also be Forgive Me Please (or bhaos doing FMP)

[inland lake]

Im just killing things, i dont have an FMP

Just realized that i said NOT a question in the channel about questions

I feel I should specify, the item itself isn't stacking more than allowed, just the item when on his model. The counter shows more than the max but the actual item doesn't buff more

[steady stone]

seems to work fine to me
just hopped in a debug and gave myself a chronic and killed some stuff, on both skins

[crisp timber]

does it not do this for all survivors

[steady stone]

it goes up visually on kill only

[inland lake]

Must Just be a thing happening in this run

[inland lake]

I've never seen it go beyond it's max (visually) on anyone else

[crisp timber]

I'm in a run and I just saw it go to 25 with only one chransion

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to happen

[inland lake]

Strange

This dude is genuinely the only guy I have seen that happen to

[steady stone]

oh, you meant the cap? i assumed you meant the count was just rising on it's own

for consistensy, what false son skin are you using?

[inland lake]

The second style

But yeah, it's not the actual item increasing, just the visual counter on the skin itself

[steady stone]

seems to just happen on anyone, but it is just tracking kills so i kinda dont even know if it would be a bug

[inland lake]

I see

That's interesting to know

[shadow geode]

Hey quick question does the energy drink effect little disciples attack speed?

Cause its specifically sprint speed

Id assume yes but im not fully sure

[quasi crystal]

ror2 game question- why does my father hit me with a stick and make me dance

[mellow crystal]

it should yea since energy drink is just a conditional/temporary movement speed increase

[shadow geode]

Ah thanks

[frank sparrow]

does dispossible missle launcher proc?

[mellow crystal]

with a 1.0 proc coeff per missile yea

[frank sparrow]

holy

[frank sparrow]

do the missles scale of your damage?

also can you fight false son multiple times in one run like if you get green portal can i get it again?

[left trellis]

1. missiles do 300% base damage, so they scale off of your damage stat; the same way as most other things
2. yes, though i believe this may be a bug in the current version. you might need to use lunar seers rather than green portals but the path can be completed multiple times in one run

[frank sparrow]

ok cool thanks

[cosmic lintel]

has anyone else just taken massive performance hits recently? im on a laptop running linux, and my performance went wrom fine to near unplayable randomly and i have no i dea why

[glacial knoll]

This is intentional

[shadow girder]

hello yesterday i played seeker in classic map. but i can revive infinity after i reach 7. my teammate keep die and i meditate and they revive and today i play again its just one per in map. is this or bug or what item buff give me revive like that?

[lavish jacinth]

Seeker is only supposed to get 1 revive per stage, so probably just a bug

[distant stream]

Can you 100% the game without DLCs ?

[tender temple]

well dlcs add unlockable content so its not really fair to say that

you can 100% the base game yes

but that doesnt mean you get all the possible content in the game

[distant stream]

Oh okay

[analog brook]

How does DIRECTIVE disperse work mechanically speaking? Like what is the code for it, how much momentum does it give you?

[slim spoke]

i think it gives the same momentum as a quail

[marble magnet]

Any tips for uh

REX meridian?

;W; it's literally the only challenge I have left

Should I just like loop or should I do it in the first 5 stages?

[fallen bridge]

looping will make it easier, but tangling growth is very good at making phase 1 less of a threat

[brittle shuttle]

Rex in general is just good for fs

Good mobility to get away whenever need be

Passive that slows him down

Tangling growth that give him a middle finger

Infinite healing

[humble kiln]

Hello i have a question about the beads of fealty. i should have them unlocked since i ||obliterated myself before(i have merc)|| and they arent locked in the logbook. But no matter what i do i cant seem to get them. Basically i rerolled like 50 times total in multiple bazzar shops and never got them. Coudl it be a bug or just terrible luck: I have both DLC's and some basic QOL mods which shouldnt change lunars or items in general

[lavish jacinth]

probably just horrible luck tbh

[humble kiln]

🥲

[lavish jacinth]

it could be a bug with one of your mods but it's unlikely

[humble kiln]

oh wait. cant obliterate in eclipse. probably cant get beads then too. welp i think i figured it out now

[lavish jacinth]

oh, yeah that would explain it lol

[unkempt blaze]

i have a question. how?

[lavish jacinth]

did you pick up the fuel array?

[unkempt blaze]

yea i grabbed the thing from the pod

[steady stone]

Your turrets inherit that fuel cell, meaning they blow up when under 50% hp, and the explosion hits all teams

[lavish jacinth]

^

[lavish jacinth]

fuel array is a passive equipment so turrets will gain its effect

[unkempt blaze]

Ah. i didn’t know what it did i just grab it every run till i can replace it

[lavish jacinth]

it explodes if you fall under 50% hp lol

[unkempt blaze]

so i shouldn’t grab it

[steady stone]

It's just used for an unlock, ||taking it to Abyssal Planes stage 4 to unlock ||

[lavish jacinth]

it's for unlocking a character, it's not useful for anything else other than meme strats with engineer

[steady stone]

but it can make for an interesting engineer run if you manage it well, fun mobile turret experience

[granite bronze]

this is for the dev, can you buff the turret?

I feel that it's underpowered

[fallen bridge]

a. probably better off putting that in #ror2-feedback-and-ideas since this channel is mainly for getting help w/ the game
b. all of the turrets are actually quite strong (gunner turret included) so i do not see why they need a buff

[lavish jacinth]

devs don't really look at this channel for feedback (or at all really)

[lavish jacinth]

^^^

all of the turrets in the game are pretty decent

unless we're counting defense nucleus constructs as turrets

[daring cloak]

I mean those fellas arent too bad either

[lavish jacinth]

a pale imitation of squid polyp

[mellow crystal]

yeah the issue is moreso that it's a yellow item than anything

nucleus would actually be pretty solid if it was like green
but then we just have alt squid polyp

[wet bison]

if i have as engy a used dio will my turrets get the used one or an "new one"

[lavish jacinth]

they'll get the used one

they get an exact copy of whatever's in your inventory when you build them (minus a few blacklisted items) so if you burn your own consumables, your turrets will stop getting them too

[primal vector]

could have been void polyp

[wet bison]

what are the blacklisted ones

[lavish jacinth]

mostly items that passively spawn minions, items that stack across all players like lepton daisy, or things that wouldn't work correctly anyway like rusted key

the wiki lists them but I think it might be missing a few things, I'm not sure https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Category:TurretBlacklist_Items

(also drone parts being blacklisted doesn't mean they won't benefit from it, they just won't get the item itself)

[humble kiln]

Can you only use ||the artifact reliqueary|| in non-eclipse runs or is there some mechanic preventing me from using it, like finishing the tp event

[daring cloak]

Yeah during the tp event you cant put in the code

After you beat it you should be able to though

[humble kiln]

cant

[daring cloak]

Oh odd

[humble kiln]

dunno why. maybe a bug cuz afaik it should let me

more specifically im talking about ||entering a code and activating the laptop to go through the tp|| if that helps. otherwise eclipse 1 and just wanna ||loop|| to complete some mul-t challenges

maybe a normal bug or some of my mods. though they shouldnt change tp/||ambry|| behavior

[daring cloak]

Oh no thats just an eclipse thing

You cant go there in eclipse

[humble kiln]

ah alright

[woven reef]

Whats the best way to fight false son with merc?

[mellow crystal]

phase 1, if you don't have any mobility items then try to stick near the pillars and use them to block line of sight while your dashes are on cooldown; this'll delay his dash + slams so he can't autohit you since dash + slam is kinda just undodgeable without mobility items or movement/i-frame skills

also it isn't shown in the clip but if you make him start the dash, then move behind a pillar, he'll bump into it which blocks the dash completely

for phase 2 and 3 it's mostly just the typical routine of baiting/avoiding slams, sticking near pillars when you think his laser is nearly off cooldown, starting phase 3 near a geode to instantly clear ability steal, and so on

[woven reef]

Thanks i appreciate it

So for damage its just dash trough him and then slicing winds

[mellow crystal]

yup
you can technically m1 in a circle around him if you know his slam behavior well enough but in phase 1 specifically i would not risk it since spike shotgun can instakill at that range if you don't react to it immediately

[woven reef]

Alright

[cursive hound]

Why do I sometimes get a different amount of gold from two of the same monsters?

I really only notice it in the first stage, sometimes a beetle will give me 3 gold, sometimes 2, sometimes 4

[lavish jacinth]

Gold drops change over time and in certain contexts

World-spawned enemies and enemies spawned during the teleporter fight are worth less

[cursive hound]

Oh I didn't know that

Why are they worth less?

[lavish jacinth]

For the tp fight I think it's to balance out the increased spawn rate and to encourage looting the stage first

For world-spawned monsters I'm not really sure

It may just be that they're worth less because they're the first ones to spawn and will have less scaling

The wiki mentions directors having reward multipliers but I can't find what those multipliers actually are

[fresh umbra]

But don’t they scale over time anyway? Like how they gain health as enemy level increases

[lavish jacinth]

They do, but they're not spawned by the same director that spawns stuff during the stage. That's why I was trying to find out if the multiplier was different for the scene director

If it is then they could still be worth less even after scaling

[fresh umbra]

Interesting

[dark delta]

Hey, so, the gold portal takes me to gilded coast, right?
Where does it take me if the gold portal shows up at the end of the gilded coast itself?

Because I'm there & I've got both a green and gold portal to pick from.

[high forum]

it just takes you to the next stage

it's just always a gold portal instead of the normal color.

[crude sequoia]

what is the lore of the newt, like I cant find any videos on it

[steady stone]

there isn't too much (this will auto-timestamp to a grovetender section for the Bazaar)
https://youtu.be/sKY5sn7Pa4Q?si=4UYCFMAoPUTlSYmd&t=2128

grovetender also has a video on kurr skan, nkuhana, but importantly Artificer too, which might shine a bit more

[crude sequoia]

Alright thanks for helping

[viral cairn]

hey its me. while this video isnt wrong that we have no real information about the newt (as there is literally 1 log about them) there is some theories since this video that could explain a bit more. i wrote this a long while ago which is why its in picture form, but i hope this helps a bit more.

also if u have more lore questions, would recommend going to #theorycrafting

[strong comet]

hi guys! i just returned to playing ror2 and just bought the seekers of the void dlc. I was thrilled to play railgunner and now i beat mithrix with her in 70mins. i was hoping to unlock the skin but its still locked can anyone help me with this?

[gritty galleon]

Are you certain you were playing on Monsoon

[lament veldt]

-# you have to play on monsoon?

[strong comet]

oh.. i wasn't on monsoon xD

[gritty galleon]

it’s a mastery skin
yes

[strong comet]

i just thought it was beat the game or obliterate on monsoon

my bad

[lament veldt]

Oh... sorry I haven't played in 3 years

[gritty galleon]

Both options require being on monsoon yeah

[strong comet]

ah i see.. tysm!

[clear whale]

Seekers of the Void

Survivors of the Storm

[icy topaz]

There's new variant for Bulwark's Ambry now?

or it's from starstorm2/fogbound lagoon?

[lavish jacinth]

SotS added 3 new ones

[icy topaz]

damn nice

[lavish jacinth]

We all know arti is frozen because she's the sheriff, smh

[humble kiln]

Is the duration of bleed from shatterspleen affected by proc coeficients like a normal tri tip dagger and stuff?

Actually since it appareantly uses the same bleed as tri tip ig its safe to say it is affected. Sadge

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah, it is. Although crit chance is unaffected by proc coeff so overall it's still easier to stack bleed with spleen, assuming you have decent crit chance

[past monolith]

where does the ancient gate appear? i got all the plates but now ive been looking for it like 20 minutes and its really boring.

[lavish jacinth]

at the far end of the map, on the side that doesn't have the aqueduct running over it

[past monolith]

i finally found it surely i wont die

[lavish jacinth]

you won't, the miniboss there is a pushover lol

they always have level 1 stats regardless of the timer

and they can't leave the cave so you can just treat it like a skyrim boss and camp in the doorway

[past monolith]

yeah the fight was kinda free

[lavish jacinth]

they accidentally got nerfed in the band rework and nobody ever bothered to fix them

they each have like 10 clovers in their inventory along with their respective band, because bands used to be a random proc

so they were basically guaranteed to proc if they actually hit you (not that they ever really did, since the door cheese was always a thing).
But after the rework they have no way to proc them so they're just useless lol

[fast ledge]

So I was trying to unlock false son alt secondary with the longstanding solitude strat in a command run but I hit the level cap and decided to go get a spinel tonic to push me over the threshold but when I got to the newt shop the spinel tonic was locked even though I have its log entry, is there something else I need to do to unlock it for command runs?

[daring cloak]

No

[fast ledge]

Any idea why it would be locked?

I finished the challenge anyway by just getting another Pauldron but it’s still weird that happened

[lavish jacinth]

just to rule out the obvious, you were picking from an equipment lunar and not a passive, right? they have different item pools

[fast ledge]

I’m not entirely sure bc I’m fairly new to the game but it seems like that may have been the issue lol

Thanks 🙏

[lavish jacinth]

how many options were there in the command menu? if there were more than 4 then it wasn't the right one

[fast ledge]

Ah, noted

[wet bison]

Does 57 leaf clover rerole chests

[clear whale]

no

[brave cedar]

Is there any way to roll this over

[lavish jacinth]

you can use your mines, try to place one so that the pot gets hit by the very edge of the blast

that should hopefully nudge it over without launching it too far

[brave cedar]

...gone

Welp, thanks for the idea

[lavish jacinth]

rip

yeah, potrolling is really hard now with the physics changes

[brave cedar]

Tried to do the other one. Gone as well

[tawny raft]

bro, this guy is regenerating hp waaayy too much ... I just can't finish it 😐

yeah it's just impossible ... I even cheased it by being on the top and just kept shooting nonstop ... idk how it heals ...
or maybe I just needed better items ...

[shy otter]

just wondering, how can i see this stats ?

[daring cloak]

Mods

[shy otter]

so how can i add this mod ?

[daring cloak]

All I know is that the mod's name is lookingglass but #ror2-modding should be able to tell you how to install it

[shy otter]

thx ❤️

[vale wraith]

r2modman can help

[lavish jacinth]

maybe getting healed by a mending elite? really hard to tell from that screenshot

you were a little light on meaningful damage items but not to the point that you can't kill a stage 4 boss, although being 50 minutes in on stage 4 probably wasn't doing you any favors

[jaunty merlin]

hey guys! what is this status effecT? ive been noticing it when im on prime medirian and if i go into the boss fihgt with it i pretty much get one shot lol... what is it and how do i cleanse it?

[lavish jacinth]

lunar ruin probably, if you activate one of the gold pillar things it'll cleanse it (and other debuffs)

[jaunty merlin]

ah i cant post pics but my health is like fractured blue and theres a heart with a blue spike in it

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[jaunty merlin]

gotcha yeah, what does that do?

make you take more damage?

[sacred mortar]

slows ya down

[lavish jacinth]

yep, you take 10% more damage and receive 20% less healing per stack

[lavish jacinth]

not anymore

[jaunty merlin]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[sacred mortar]

oh myb

[lavish jacinth]

it used to but now it's just damage vulnerability

[jaunty merlin]

no wonder i keep getting one shot going into this fuckin fgihgt.... i have like 3-5 stacks every time lol...

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, you really gotta stay on top of that and cleanse it asap

protip, the gold pillars also cleanse another nasty debuff that'll show up in the last phase of the fight

[lavish jacinth]

oh yeah, and for future reference if you get stuck like this again, don't neglect hemorrhage on bandit.
It's normally a lot less effective than just shooting an enemy in the back, but it does refresh its duration when stacked like bleed, so technically you do have a slow but infinitely rampable source of damage

[marble osprey]

Isn't it just the fact that it's overloading? You can see in the first image the individual boss's red health is down, it's probably just that it keeps regenerating the shield and that looks like healing on the big boss healthbar
@tawny raft overloading elites have shields like you can get from psgs or transcendence, if you ever don't deal damage to it for 7 seconds it regens

[shadow girder]

can someone give me a build can i do 500000% dmg sojorn 😦

[lavish jacinth]

they did say that they kept hitting it so I assumed that wasn't it

[lavish jacinth]

stack for more damage and get or to stay in sojourn as long as possible (there's currently a bug where sojourn only does 1 self-damage with transcendence), then hit as many enemies as you can

swarms and kin will help, kin guarantees a big horde of many as a boss so you can use for another multiplier

[shadow girder]

but the shield still help scale hp with sojourn?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

oh and max out tranquility stacks too to give it a bigger blast radius

it has to deal 500k% TOTAL in one blast, not just in a single hit, so you wanna hit multiple enemies with the explosion

[jaunty merlin]

hey! im trying to unlock false son, do i just need to keep rerunning until i see gilded coast and then rerun so i can get the green portals? or is there a simpler way

[mellow crystal]

you kinda just have to yea
tho it is made slightly easier since gilded coast spawns a green portal as long as the next stage can be a green portal stage

[jaunty merlin]

Gotchaaaa

[tawny raft]

yea I did try hemorrhage a few times, it was a bit hard specially when it got low, cause of the supernova attack

[kindred herald]

overloading enemies regenerate their shields after not being hit for a certain period time (i think 8 secnds?)

[tawny raft]

I'm not sure, I touched 1 mountain shrine ... and have never had this exact boss before.
and ty for the tip, at low HP I always tried to play it safe and hide of it's LOS cause of supernova ...
I did a looot more damage after the first pic ... just kept shooting

[glacial knoll]

Shield starts regen after 7s and then fully fills up in 2s

[tawny raft]

yea, I didn't know that. I'll try to keep that in mind the next time

[glacial knoll]

Enemies HP may go up from leveling up

[tawny raft]

oh like their hp extends when I level up?

[glacial knoll]

when the enemies level up

but yeah the HP they gain from leveling up will be full so that's why it might look weird sometimes

[tawny raft]

all of them do?

[glacial knoll]

cmon

Unless you mean live leveling up which yeah they do

this is your level

[tawny raft]

ahhh

[glacial knoll]

Time, Stages and Player count yeah

[lavish jacinth]

hemorrhage lasts 15s and refreshes its timer with every stack, and the nova has a 15s cooldown, so you'd get plenty of time to apply a new stack between novas

not those exact numbers but yeah

[glacial knoll]

Like on stage 1 it'd be easy to nice on a teleporter because it'd go from like 2000 to 2600 and suddenly he healed 600 hp

on a later stage it'd be like 20000 to 20600 that's a lot smaller of a fraction

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it only goes up by a flat amount each level, and it's always by 30% of the starting value

same with damage and regen (if they have any) only it's 20%

and it's the same with survivors, generally

[tawny raft]

ohh I see what you mean, that's a really nice tip! ty!

nice, tyvm for the help regarding leveling up affecting stats!

[lavish jacinth]

np

[dry cloak]

What are good items to try and get with acrid?

(Solo)

[lavish jacinth]

Acrid isn't very item dependent, but damage multipliers like are nice for boosting poison damage, and DoT like etc to finish off poisoned enemies.
And ofc usual stuff like move speed and healing, and procs are good as always

his skills are also very spammable so cooldown reduction and items that give extra charges are nice too

[dry cloak]

alr, thanks

[vapid cave]

I nvm when this start but when I unlock new ability/character/item and after rejoin in the game I just lost my progress. I'll give an example: I opened the chef and after rejoin he disappears, but all the other characters are not from the DLC and their abilities do not disappear.

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, that's a really annoying known bug atm. At least on PC you can use the realercheatunlocks mod to get your progress back

[vapid cave]

That doesn't fix?

[lavish jacinth]

No, but it'll let you re-unlock stuff quickly without having to do the challenge again. If there's a mod that specifically fixes the bug then #ror2-modding will know

[kindred herald]

is it true that halyconite blessings are guaranteed to give a sots item

I heard that somewhere but it’s not on wiki

[lavish jacinth]

are you looking at the right wiki? https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Halcyon_Shrine

[kindred herald]

OH

my phone screen cut off the part of the table that said “guaranteed sots items@

[lavish jacinth]

oh lol

[kindred herald]

Ok now I am allowed to complain

[brave cedar]

Any tips for beating monsoon with railgunner? Stuff like is mithrix easier than looping?

[lavish jacinth]

although I remember seeing some bug reports that it wasn't always giving sots items like it's supposed to, I feel like I always see them but that could just be luck. Or just me not paying attention lol

[kindred herald]

90% of railgunner is being good at aiming quickly

[lavish jacinth]

Railgunner usually handles mithrix without much trouble, but whether it's easier will kinda depend on how comfortable you are with the fight and how your run is going

[kindred herald]

If yoh cna consistently do that that then the rest of the run is having good situational awareness and being good at circling enemies
railgunner handles Mithrix pretty easily— especially with cryocharge

crowbars and bands are your best items

get all loot from every stage irrespective of time

[lavish jacinth]

well don't ignore the timer but full looting is always priority

just be efficient, try to get at least one item per minute, or be spending time on other stuff that'll make you stronger like using printers and scrappers

[lavish jacinth]

AoE items are also pretty nice to get with railgunner, especially if you tend to struggle with crowds

uke or meat hook in particular are great since they'll scale off of the damage of her shots and synergize with the high proc coeffs on her specials

[kindred herald]

it’s kind of crazy how rg’s m1 homes

ig it’s to make it not a copy of commandos primary but she did not need that

[lavish jacinth]

I mean, it's not like her primary is that good

or that the homing matters very much, it's not like aiming in ror2 is that hard. If anything it's just annoying if there's a specific enemy you're trying to hit but the shots are locking onto something else

it does help a bit with mobility though

[brave cedar]

The homing is nice, but yeah sometimes it doesn't go the way I want it to

[brave cedar]

I hit 80-90% of my shots. Tho after looping I realized I was too busy dodging to even scope and just shoot cryocharge in the general direction of the enemies without much aiming

Anyway, thanks you two. I'll try again later today 👍

[lavish jacinth]

if you aren't already, it would probably also help to buy drones whenever you can, just so they can take some aggro and give you a little breathing room

[brave cedar]

I did. All of them died at some point b4 the tp. I didn't even realize until there was nothing on the allies' hp bar

[lavish jacinth]

ah

yeah, you do have to keep an eye on them a little bit when looping, they still help out though

[brave cedar]

They go on the ground and can be bought again, right?

[lavish jacinth]

yep

well, except the tc-280

[brave cedar]

I had 11 safer places, which was why I decided to loop. In hindsight, it probably would've been fine

[kindred herald]

11 safer spaces sounds like a easy mithrix fight

a bit annoying on phase 4 but very doable

[brave cedar]

Yeahhhh

Oh well

I learn smth every run

[kindred herald]

90% of mithrixs hits are in the form of very large single pieces of damage so safer spaces is one of the best items against him

the major exception is the downward hammer swing which can double hit you

[lavish jacinth]

he can't even use safer spaces in phase 4 anymore

[ocean badger]

Recently got ROR2, base game going to get DLC next week since the game has already become a massive fixation.

But I’m wondering- is there a meta? Any items to prioritize for different characters? Things I should look out for that I’m more or less oblivious too? I’ve “beaten” the game twice now escaping off the moon- and once via universal deletion.

But I guess I’m just curious in general about- everything. I find the game doesn’t tell you much, like what’s the giant thing at the bottom of the purple area??? Either way- sorry for the mini rant.

Any info is super welcome.

[quasi topaz]

Look out for anything that gives speed like . As well as different offensive items like . Some good defense and healing items include .
In general items that you will scrap when given the option would be . Items that are usually scrapped can differ from person to person but those are the main ones (for example I always scrap ) (Information given does not touch on DLC items).
The point of the game is to learn by playing and every character likes and dislikes certain items so keep that in mind. The giant thing under sky meadows is the artifact portal. Input a code and you will do a trial to unlock the artifact that matches the code

[ocean badger]

I’ve been using the Huntress and the Mercenary a lot

So I’ll keep an eye out for those ones you listed

[quasi topaz]

focus on completing achievements and challenges within the game

a lot of items and abilities are locked behind those

[ocean badger]

Gotcha.

[mellow crystal]

alongside what glitcheddusk said there's also generally two types of characters that determine what items you decide to keep
there's proc characters, like and with nailgun, who want to take %-chance on-hit effects like (aka proc items) because of their high firerate and good proc coefficient
and there's burst characters, like and , who want to take big damage multipliers like , and anything that deals "TOTAL damage" like

note that proc characters can still use burst items and burst characters can (usually) still use non-total damage proc items but their ability to use them is weaker than the other archetype

and some characters are also in a sort of midpoint where they don't particularly prefer one or the other but still benefit from both

[fallen bridge]

total dmg items like are universally good & massively contribute to dmg ...
they can also trigger each other's effects & cause "proc chains," where their dmg multiplies off each other leading to some huge numbers

[ocean badger]

I managed to just do three loops using the bazaar to send me back each time. But, died before making it to the moon.

I mainly used a combo of along with Will O’ Wisp on

Which worked really well

[fallen bridge]

yah those are some pretty good items

[quasi topaz]

if you haven't already go to #prismatic-trials and find the most recent video to unlock alternate special

makes him feel a bit better to play imo

[ocean badger]

Will do thank you.

Is there a noticeable difference from the base difficulty to monsoon? Or should I just send it

[fallen bridge]

most of merc's abilities are very close in power & are mostly just preference, so don't stress about his alternate special unlock as it's one of the hardest unlocks

[quasi topaz]

depends on the prismatic trial

[fallen bridge]

not a huge difference, monsoon can be tough to adjust to but it's fairly forgiving

[quasi topaz]

I had glass, command, and a red item when I got the ability so I picked up and let the chain begin

[mellow crystal]

monsoon mostly just punishes you more for inefficient looting so for newer players still learning the stages and how to full loot it's bad but if you're able to loot and/or navigate efficiently then it's fine

[ocean badger]

I did manage to figure out how to get an artifact, so I can choose which items I pick up now.

[mellow crystal]

and "efficiently" doesn't have to be too efficient anyway

just enough to catch up to enemy scaling

[fallen bridge]

a good rule of thumb is to have 1 item per minute on the clock, but as long as you're doing good item macro (which doesn't apply to ) time doesn't really matter

[ocean badger]

Gotcha gotcha

[fallen bridge]

generally stages will take around 8-10 minutes on monsoon but it varies a lot

[blissful prairie]

my steam sync didn't work from a different device but shows i got the achievments for unlock void fiend engineer and the chef class, What do i do i went through previous save files but to no avail

[cobalt quiver]

is it generally worth it to enter the green portal for the 2 extra red items? stage 2 and 3 of the portal usually has less items than normal path right?

[kindred herald]

the red items from false son?

[fallen bridge]

stage 2 actually has more credits & stage 3 has roughly the same amount iirc

[cobalt quiver]

yes

[trim lynx]

<@&559786374228738069>

[compact wolf]

da hell

[forest depot]

satsumajeff was banned.

[proven prairie]

Best voids for engi?

[trim lynx]

[crisp timber]

plute, plimp, key, lysate, spaces.

wungus is bad for once

[lavish jacinth]

wungus isn't bad on engie but it's more situational

[lavish jacinth]

Prime meridian doesn't count as a stage, so it's technically "free" and worth doing for the extra items as long as you think you can beat FS

and yeah, reformed altar has more loot than the other stage 2's so it's worth doing

all of the stage 3's have the same amount, but treeborn/dieback do have halcyon shrines in their spawn pool while the others don't, so I guess they're very slightly better

[glacial knoll]

all stages have halcyon shrine in the spawn pool

[lavish jacinth]

they do? the wiki is lying then

[shadow girder]

can i ask do 2 seeker stack tranquility?

stack 2 golden revive?

[mellow crystal]

Seeker only gets one revive per stage

But you can get multiple with her meditate revive + or seed of life

[shadow girder]

no i mean if 2 seeker play in lobby do they stack more revive?

[mellow crystal]

That I'm not sure about

[hasty tinsel]

Which wiki are you even using anyways?

[lavish jacinth]

wiki.gg

[hasty tinsel]

Oh right, halcyon shrines!

Well the main purpose of those is spawning a green portal, but if said portal would take you to stage 4 or 5 then the shrine cannot spawn I believe.

[lavish jacinth]

I know how halcyon shrines work lol

but the wiki doesn't list them as part of the spawn pool for most of the non-sots stages

[tender temple]

i still cant tell if people are lying here or on the .gg about twisted stats

does it have less health and more damage or is it the exact same as the other tier 2s

[fallen bridge]

they can, it will just spawn a gold portal instead

[hasty tinsel]

Huh okay, that makes sense then.

[lavish jacinth]

wiki.gg says they're the same, fandom says they're different lol

I'm gonna assume that .gg is the correct one since fandom is uh

it needs hlep

[fallen bridge]

(no-one hlep it)

[lavish jacinth]

I don't get why people still update it at all tbh

there are even a few cases where fandom has better info than .gg, like the giant essay explaining how sojourn works that's missing from the .gg page

[jagged lava]

So a question: Does the game do the whole "Unique quote for each character" thing on the ending for the Void path or is that just for Mithrix Path/Escaping The Planet?

[fallen bridge]

just for mithrix

[jagged lava]

Okay so there's probably not really gonna be much of an incentive for me to beat Voidling more than once, even counting that example unless I want to just see how well I can turn it's skull concaved with Goku or something lol

[real whale]

Does anyone know what revived me here?

[fallen bridge]

shrine of shaping

[lavish jacinth]

shrine of shaping gives you a temporary revive for the stage at the cost of 30% max hp

that's what the +1 above your healthbar is

[real whale]

Oh I see

[jagged lava]

Yeah it probably is either Shaping effect or you had a hidden revive passive on the character.

Willing to believe the former

[real whale]

I thought that thing boosted your stats

[fallen bridge]

nop

just an extra life

[jagged lava]

Straight up auto-life for the stage

[real whale]

Huh

Interesting

Anyways, thanks

[viral phoenix]

hello when I try to join my friend via Steam or a Steam invite, it just shows me a frozen background, connects me, then disconnects me from the game. Does anyone have a solution?

[lavish jacinth]

A few easy things you can try, first make sure you and the person you're joining both have crossplay disabled (it'll be on the first page of settings). If either of you are using a VPN, try turning that off too

[viral phoenix]

thanks

[fallen bridge]

i am not faxmachine but yah, he has very strong crowd control & iframes

[lavish jacinth]

sure

[fallen bridge]

one of the harder survivors to learn but he has a very fun gameplay loop

[lavish jacinth]

I mean you might as well unlock every survivor to try them out

[lavish jacinth]

basically this yeah

[fallen bridge]

not really, balancing hp isn't too tricky

probably would be better than all-green skills was ...

on =< e4 you can pretty much full-heal by using your self-dmg utility, & m1 healing scales w/ dmg dealt so dmg multipliers proportionally increase healing

[swift raven]

Hey if I buy my friend the base game without the dlcs can he still play them if I host the lobby?

[fallen bridge]

yah, as long as you own the dlcs they can play the dlc content (excluding survivors)

[swift raven]

bet, thanks mate

[marble magnet]

How does trophy gun and equipment Drone work?

Does it actually shoot the boss or

[lavish jacinth]

it'll just shoot the first boss it sees

and then it'll spam ahoy! in chat forever

[marble magnet]

Ight

Yayy

[kindred herald]

Yeah equipment drones work by moving towards enemies and using the equipment iirc

so once it selects a boss to attack, it’ll shoot it

[marble magnet]

Either the item dropped off the edge or

[lavish jacinth]

I think it's basically just gunner drone AI but it uses its equipment as an attack

[lavish jacinth]

and yeah that can happen, one of the risks of giving tricorn to a drone

[wet bison]

What does the invisibility Effekt from even do stone golems and lumerian Stil aim at me from 20 m away?

[lavish jacinth]

cloaking makes it so that enemies only get updates on your position once every second instead of seeing you constantly, and they're much more likely to switch targets if there's anything else for them to shoot (like a drone or something)

stealthkit just kinda sucks overall though

[past monolith]

how does multiplayer handle each person having different unlocks?
for example if i have an unlocked item that host doesnt have can it show up?

[lavish jacinth]

unlocks are shared in multiplayer, so if one person has an item unlocked then it can show up for everyone

same goes for dlc content, the only things that aren't shared are character unlocks

[cobalt quiver]

where can i find this? the credit pool of each map i mean. couldnt find anything on the wiki

of wait nvm i saw it sorry

[woven sigil]

can the game loop more than 1 time?

[fallen bridge]

yah, it can loop as far as your pc can handle pretty much

though during extremely far loops (stage ~40+) enemies will just ... stop spawning

[clear whale]

all players share the same unlocks, if a player has an unlocked item all other players will have that item in the loot pool too
same with dlcs but not survivors
achievement earned are per player
picking up a logbook will also unlock the logbook entry for all other players

[brave cedar]

Do you get free lunar coins? I left with 9 yesterday but when I logged in today I have 25

[reef venture]

Is there an end to Simulacrum besides exiting the match?

[slim spoke]

i think you got achievements

[slim spoke]

no

[brave cedar]

Oh, those give coins too? Cool

[slim spoke]

as of seekers of the storm update, yea

[strange vale]

Hello guys, im a new player, a bit overwhelmed by the game and dying A LOT. Watched a vid yesterday where guy explained getting different items instead of stacking same ones does more since they multiply instead of add up, and that made my damage quite better, so I'm wondering if theres an easy to follow building guide in case I got something else wrong. Im currently using the perk to pick my own items and was almost always building 10x crit glasses and then 10x crowbars and than wisp+gasoline+gas tank thing.

And it would be nice to know roughly whats the order of priority when picking defensive/offensive/mobility items, when playing with friends I find myself getting one shot at haha difficulty even when my damage is good

[fallen bridge]

"proc items" like etc. (& ) will make extremely short work of all enemies; they are all powerful in their own right but together they cause "proc chains", where their dmg multiplies off each other to get insane values

as for survivability? mobility items like allow you to avoid dmg entirely ... enemies deal a ton of dmg in the late-game & it's best to dodge it outright rather than outheal or tank it

though dmg reduction like also help a ton w/ the hits you will take

in particular is very effective against since his attacks are slow & you can negate most of them since bubble will be up by the time you take another hit

(as for order of priority, dmg >= mobility > dmg reduction > healing)

[honest sail]

is there a known bug with getting false son secondary ultimate (the burst laser) with goobo? i just got it while not having used my charge laser for like a solid minute but my goobo did lol

or is that a feature

where if goobo does something u get the achievement

[left trellis]

wait that's really funny

hey. hey wait a second.
goobo starts with 300% max HP

does gummy false son have a fuckton of growth??? is he cracked???

that would also explain why he could theoretically fire the laser for long enough to get the achievement

[fallen bridge]

yah i think so, goobo son was nutty when i used him

[strange vale]

Thanks, that clears a lot of things up, now when it comes to stacking items, is there a case where I should get only 1 of one item and stack other one multiple times? Should I get 1 of each, glasses,crystal,crowbar,watch before I stack one?

[fallen bridge]

generally dmg multipliers should be distributed equally, though crowbars & watches should be prioritized since they're most consistent

(especially crowbars on & despy )

[strange vale]

Are dmg multipliers only white items? What greens are best early? Double jumb and mobility?

Should I get 2 stacks of multipliers before buying move speed items?

[fallen bridge]

most items stack reasonably well but some items ( luminous shot) have an extra benefit but only on first stack

[fallen bridge]

1. yah
2. depends, but i'm always happy to see on stage 1/2
3. feather is the only consistent mobility green, & you really want consistent mobility (why is pretty bad & why is situational)

[fallen bridge]

i'd invest fairly equally, but generally having a 35-40 speed stat while sprinting is great, if a little much (only way to see this is through qol mods unfortunately)

[strange vale]

Any other items that are considered bad?

[fallen bridge]

most healing items, barring & maybe
items that affect hp are not super helpful
a handful of boss items aren't great either, except for (but beeble #1 in my heart)

that is a very non-exhaustive list, but lots of "weak" items can have extremely powerful builds built on them

as an example

items are very survivor-specific as well so it's hard to definitively enumerate "bad" items

[strange vale]

Good to know, thanks!!

[south egret]

Best example: bungus

[kindred herald]

I would advise against rejuvenation rack

[fallen bridge]

that is why it is in "maybe"

if you somehow lack any consistent healing item it's worth keeping but mostly scrap

[elfin zodiac]

bungus

[swift raven]

I've played the game 6 times ever since getting the seekers of the storm dlc and finished the dlc thrice and have yet to find an altar of gold so i can unlock the false sun survivor, did they remove or change the altar of gold?

[cobalt quiver]

you can increase the spawn chance by using artifact of command and sacrifice

[swift raven]

Ill do that now, is the shape of it still unchanged?

[cobalt quiver]

i think so?
https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Altar_of_Gold

[swift raven]

the image there still looks the same as i remember, it was just never this rare when i played before so im confused

[cobalt quiver]

you can also rebirth with the halcyon seed right after unlocking him so you can use it again to unlock his second utility

[mellow crystal]

Something that also helps is checking the bazaar every stage since the seers have a chance to be gilded coast

[swift raven]

yup this strat worked, didnt even take that long, thanks mate

[swift raven]

wait you can just go to that place as a stage through the bazaar?

[mellow crystal]

Yes

[swift raven]

nearly 700 hours on this game and i didnt know that

[swift raven]

thanks mate

[frosty reef]

I'd advise you to read the mod's readme on thunderstore

[peak jacinth]

ctrl+alt+~

` also works afaik, but you still need ctrl+alt pressed

[clear whale]

where do you even download your mods

r2modman downloads from thunderstore

To view a readme of a mod, press Website

[shadow girder]

captain is have passive have red item in first and all drone can get microbot too but engineer all drone have all items engineer have then if engineer pick microbot all drone gonna have all microbot right? is it unfair to captain?

[daring cloak]

No, only engi's own turrets get items

[shadow girder]

ohh tks

[lavish jacinth]

Engineer can't get microbots anyway, they don't spawn as a normal red item

[woven sigil]

is there a way i can skip to the moon for testing purposes? i saw a video of a guy boosting to mithrix arena with like a rock and wanted to test it out without have to do a 30 minute run

[lavish jacinth]

if you're on pc you can use the debugtoolkit mod

the command should be "next_stage moon2" or something like that

but if you're on console then there's no way to skip straight there

[woven sigil]

i just unlocked kjaro bands and runalds bands from the achievement so im wondering if i play with friends that dont have the achievement will they get the bands from chests or am i only able to get bands from chests

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, they'll be able to get it. Unlocks are shared in multiplayer

[pale bramble]

Can the final boss use the tesla coil?

[glacial knoll]

no

[high forum]

no, i'm pretty sure it's blacklisted

he'll still take it from you, but he can't use it

[pale bramble]

No way, they've fixed it

[daring cloak]

Yeah they finally fixed it

The same goes for void fields, no more tesla coil there either

[tight dragon]

the wiki page for artifact of sacrifice (https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Artifacts#Sacrifice) mentions creditCost and rewardMultiplier, but the hyperlinks don't link to explanations of what these terms mean. could someone explain what these values are?

[pale bramble]

Has safer spaces been blacklisted btw?

[daring cloak]

Yes

[pale bramble]

Victory

[lavish jacinth]

They're explained more on the directors page, but tl;dr each monster costs a certain amount of credits to spawn, and there are various AI directors that "buy" monsters using a credit budget that increases over time. The reward multiplier changes depending on which director is active (for example monsters have lower rewards during the teleporter fight to balance the increased spawn rate)

Tl;dr for the tl;dr, stronger monsters are more likely to drop items with sacrifice, that's all you really need to know

The exact values aren't super important

[woven sigil]

did they patch the captain double diablo strike i saw a video of someone using diablo strike and holding m1 and waiting 40 seconds he could shoot two diablos at the same time

[crisp timber]

no

[tight dragon]

thanks!

[daring cloak]

Im getting spawncamped

Hmmmm I'd say wave 70

Well actually

Could go to 100

And if it goes beyond that I have no idea

It might go higher but at that point I'll be unable to predict when you'll die because it becomes so unpredictable

[lavish jacinth]

Boredom is usually the leading cause of death in simulacrum

[humble kiln]

is it normal that turning off DLC's doesnt remove the dlc environments? Trying for some achievements (20 hermit crabs) and would help if i had less options for ||newt altar||

[real whale]

Is there a log book for the Voidling arena map?

[hoary sedge]

yep, it spawns in the center of the arena in the first area

[gleaming lagoon]

Question, can you fight False Son numerous times in one run?

[lavish jacinth]

you can but I think it's technically a bug, after killing him once you can only get back to the alt path using lunar seers

[crystal blade]

anyone know what the hell this thing is

[fallen bridge]

if you destroy 3 of them, a green portal will spawn & put you on path of the colossus

[crystal blade]

3 in one lunar shop or throughout the run?

[fallen bridge]

3 in one shop visit

3 of them will be randomly scattered throughout the main column cavern & void fields cave

[crystal blade]

Woah that's pretty cool idk how i never heard of that

thx

does anyone ever actually do path of the colossus besides green portal stage 1

i feel like stage 3 has so little loot i just go there for the banger

[fallen bridge]

sometimes, false son is very brutal in eclipse but i go if my run is strong enough

[crystal blade]

For the red/yellow or for funsies

[fallen bridge]

both, plus the soups & chests

[lavish jacinth]

all of the stage 3's have the same amount of loot

[fallen bridge]

treeborn colony actually has the same amount of credits as the other stage 3s, but it does sometimes waste credits on cleansing pools

[crystal blade]

no way really it's so much smaller
and i don't mind cleansing pools

[lavish jacinth]

i mean, the size of the map doesn't really affect how many things can spawn on it

[crystal blade]

i know but it would make sense like distant roost has less chests

[lavish jacinth]

nah, it's just based on how many interactable credits the map has

[crystal blade]

i just assumed less credits

[lavish jacinth]

I guess map size does matter in theory but only if the map is so small that it physically can't fit enough chests on it, but none of the maps are that small lol

[crystal blade]

but now im gonna go there all the time

[pearl cloud]

Oh my god you are still active in this channel

That's crazy

[cerulean robin]

Why does when i play false son my game crashes I can't play longer than 5 minutes without it crashing multiple times

[hasty willow]

anyone know the "accivement code" for the false son family bonding like "FalseSonGrowthChallenge" but for the family bonding one

[cinder pasture]

blinding assault or focused assault on merc?
i keep seeing mixed opinions on it
blinding is 3dashs but focused can do the exposed tech with m1s

[mellow crystal]

They both can do expose tech, the difference is focused automatically triggers it due to the delayed hit

They're both good tbh, just try them both and pick whichever one you like more

[cinder pasture]

wdym automatically. with blind wouldnt you need to do it again?

[quasi topaz]

Up to preference. I like blinding for its versatility but I have friends who like focused for the damage

[mellow crystal]

Expose only triggers its extra damage + cooldown reduction when you hit the enemy while it has Expose

[hasty willow]

anyone know the "accivement code" for the false son family bonding like "FalseSonGrowthChallenge" but for the family bonding one

[fallen bridge]

golden gal

[hasty willow]

your the greatest

ive given this crap 12 attempts and i dont want to do it anymore

[cinder pasture]

is there a different window. i can do the tech on command with focused but im having a lot of difficulties with blinded

[lapis yew]

me and the homie playing monsoon rn and theres like a trumpet fanfare sound before each boss

neither of us can figure out what it is

[mellow crystal]

The window should be the same

[mellow crystal]

War Bonds item

[shadow girder]

do seeker m2 secondary skill still count a hit?

[mellow crystal]

As in for on-hit effects?

Because if so yes

I'm pretty sure everything that does damage and isn't a debuff can proc, except some things with a 0.0 proc co

[shadow girder]

im trying pick item have chance on hit to build seeker ball run around

[pulsar creek]

Then yes, each of those balls have a 1.0 proc coeff I believe