ror2-game-questions

[covert sundial]

this achivement sucksss

[slim spoke]

honestly? go for monsoon command
higher ramping -> more spawn

its a rare mob even when looping so your current situation is rather understandable

[covert sundial]

oh wait! oh my goodness they finally spawned just as i was about to give up bro 😭

i basically did razorwire + backup magazine speedrun as loader

annnd i died to a lemurian that disables healing wow....

[peak jacinth]

honestly just cheat it in bro it ain’t worth it 😭

[fresh umbra]

Or use command to get primo cube

And fuel cells

[lavish jacinth]

I don't think their items were the issue

technically you don't need any items to do it, crabs run away from you on their own. It's just really tedious no matter how you do it

[thorny minnow]

It's probably because on drizzle the scaling hasn't caught up yet

[glacial knoll]

hermit crabs only cost 25 credit, I doubt it has too much to do with scaling

but wouldnt put anything past 3x slower scaling than monsoon

[void estuary]

how i can get a lot of blue coins? to enter to the blue portals or open blue chest

[lavish jacinth]

edit your save file

or farm false son and/or mithrix on drizzle if you wanna do it legit

[marble magnet]

Really dumb question

Does cooldown reduction like

Is it basically just attack speed?

Like if you think about it

You attack quicker

[livid wedge]

Skills that have a cooldown time are reduced by whatever the reduction says

If it doesn't have a number when you use it, it doesn't have a cooldown and isn't affected

[mellow crystal]

i mean by that logic attack speed is basically just damage because you deal damage faster which means more damage

[marble magnet]

Hmm yea

[hoary sedge]

yeah cdr doesn't make the attack happen faster, it lets you use it sooner

[glacial knoll]

cooldown reduction is cooldwon reduction attack speed is animation speed

[midnight sierra]

https://medal.tv/games/ror-2/clips/kWCdIFrUZ10U4UHvN?invite=cr-MSxqWXMsNDA3MDEyMDI2&v=15
the hell happened here?

[lavish jacinth]

you got shot by another wisp that was behind you

[midnight sierra]

2k damage??? at lvl 53?

that was a non elite one as well

[lavish jacinth]

wisps hit like a truck

all of the lunar enemies do, really

plus you were crippled and took some damage from the wisp you were fighting

[midnight sierra]

there is a thing im confused about

i used shift? Doesnt it make me invulnerable

or does it take a little bit to actually affect me

[quasi topaz]

you might have been in the middle of the animation when it killed you

[lavish jacinth]

just a tiny bit too late I guess

[midnight sierra]

this game is impossible on god

[lavish jacinth]

it looks like you hit it on practically the same frame you died

[quasi topaz]

just wait until you try eclipse

[midnight sierra]

i went up to eclipse 4 on huntress i did not struggle this bad 😭

[quasi topaz]

it seems you are also in multiplayer which increases scaling on enemies

[midnight sierra]

that is true

[lavish jacinth]

^ it's around +50% difficulty per player, which is arguably harder than e4 honestly. Eclipse doesn't become truly hellish until like e7

[midnight sierra]

ahh

[lavish jacinth]

either way, let this be a lesson to never underestimate lunar wisps

they're one of the only enemies I still respect after 1000 hours lol

[quasi topaz]

awu e7

[midnight sierra]

Jesus christ man 😭

okay thank you so much you two

[quasi topaz]

number 1 target on the moon

[lavish jacinth]

more dangerous than mithrix, unironically

[midnight sierra]

they actually are

by the way is it better to do eclipse 1-8 on 1 character like I was doing on huntress or should I do 1 eclipse level each on every character

From a new player perspective + without being good at the game

[lavish jacinth]

entirely up to you, honestly. There isn't really a right way to do it

Although you probably won't wanna do rex e8 right away, lol

[midnight sierra]

ive been struggling to play rex captain and acrid so i was avoiding doing that

yeah i have no idea how those characters can be good

no mobility makes me struggle so much, or atleast weird mobility like rex

[lavish jacinth]

they're all good normally, but rex on e8 is particularly horrible

[midnight sierra]

I saw yeah it looked terrible

[lavish jacinth]

Acrid had great mobility wdym

[eager ferry]

i just bought risk of rain 2, what should i expect

[lavish jacinth]

expect to die a lot starting out, probably

[midnight sierra]

i mean yeah but to do any damage without relying on poison i gotta get upclose

[midnight sierra]

peak but a bad time

[eager ferry]

alright

[eager ferry]

i played undertale so i dont expect too hard stuff

[midnight sierra]

buy void dlc instantly like i did trust 🙏

[eager ferry]

sorry i had the money for the game not the dlc

[midnight sierra]

nah im kidding

get the feel for the game first

[eager ferry]

ill buy it next sale maybe

im so excited

[lavish jacinth]

You can get away with only using poison, but getting in close isn't so bad either. Mostly it just requires good situational awareness, knowing when to jump in and out of a fight

[midnight sierra]

I mean i thought you could play acrid like loader and then i got hard humbled

Is loader main shift better than the alternative one?

[eager ferry]

bro i was just checking how many mods there would be for risk of rain 2 and was expecting like 10, this is a little more then 10

[lavish jacinth]

technically yes, but they're both so good that it doesn't really matter

[midnight sierra]

Yeah ive been experimenting a lot and im really lost

[eager ferry]

no im not gonna mod the game just yet i wanna get a feel for it first

[midnight sierra]

I really like the first one but not needing to wait on the second one is soo good sometimes

[crisp timber]

default shift scales a bit higher than alt shift, so I'd generally recommend it more

[midnight sierra]

Yeah same

[lavish jacinth]

playing with the default charge is all about grappling and building up as much speed as possible for maximum damage, whereas the alt is more suited for brawling up close

[midnight sierra]

Thats a nice way of explaining it

[brittle imp]

Unsure where this would go, but how hard is it to make a mod for ror2?

Like a simple character mod

Or like a character skin

[lavish jacinth]

character skins aren't too hard assuming you know how to make models or have one you can use

[brittle imp]

True

[lavish jacinth]

creating characters is more complicated

best place to ask would probably be the modding discord, there's a link to it pinned in #ror2-modding

[brittle imp]

Ah, alrighty!!!!

Thank you!

[lavish jacinth]

np

[mighty temple]

Does everyone need SotS or just the host

[trim lynx]

host

[lavish jacinth]

doesn't even need to be the host, it can be anyone in the lobby

[mighty temple]

Perfect, thank you

[unborn reef]

Question for yall, what would I need to do to change the color of all lightning effects?

[lavish jacinth]

you'd need a mod for that

not sure what mod that would even be (stageaesthetic maybe? dunno if it gives manual control over lighting though) but you can ask #ror2-modding .

But if mods aren't an option then there's not much you could do besides like, messing with the settings on your monitor to adjust the colors or something

[unborn reef]

Appreciated

[onyx plume]

what huntress loadout is recognized by the ror2 community as the best one?

[lavish jacinth]

either primary, phase blink, ballista

her primary is a weird one because flurry is objectively better IF you can get decent crit chance, but it's objectively worse if you can't

[onyx plume]

what do you personally prefer, and how much crit do 1 need for flurry to be better?

[onyx plume]

tbh i think flurry is better for my case

im playing with a duo meaning higher chance to get glasses throughout the run

[lavish jacinth]

iirc the breakpoints are 20% for better dps, and 60% for better proc rate. I don't really have a strong preference personally, flurry's gimmick is fun but it's really inconsistent, especially if you have both dlc's diluting the item pool and making it harder to get crit

[quasi topaz]

Triple blink over phase blink but either one works, just a matter of preference

[lavish jacinth]

phase blink is the triple blink

[onyx plume]

the default 1-time blink is just named "blink"

and yeah phase blink is the triple blink

[quasi topaz]

Cool, always thought triple blink was the actual name because it makes sense but oh well

[pallid mirage]

Does the scrap ben spawn on every map

[lavish jacinth]

scrappers? No, they're random but decently common

probably at least a 50% chance for a stage to have one, on average

[marsh cave]

how unlucky am i 😭

[pallid mirage]

Yeah I can't find them anywhere also I can't find a gold shrine to help my life

[lavish jacinth]

If you're trying to get to gilded coast, the most reliable method is to go to the bazaar after every stage, because it has a decently high chance to show up in one of the lunar seers. 28% chance iirc, which is way more likely than getting an actual gold shrine

[glacial viper]

Will they ever make this game crossplay?

[livid wedge]

I wouldn't hold my breath

[pallid mirage]

Wdym go to the bazaar every stage, like from the newt portal

[livid wedge]

Ye

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, go there and check the portal things at the back of the shop

[pallid mirage]

Thank you sir, I now have false son

[lavish jacinth]

nice

[warm veldt]

For people who use thunderstore mods

What are some mods that you'd recomend that adds quality of life things such as no delays in 3d printers or just showing stats of items?

Cause i don't understand half of the items status effects until i pick it up or if its a syringe

[lavish jacinth]

there's a setting for that in vanilla, "enable inspect" under that umbrella settings thing on the first page. But for other qol mods, #ror2-modding would be the place to ask

[warm veldt]

oh- I didn't realize it was just 2 channels down. Ty

The only fax machine id trust

[pallid mirage]

Someone give me a crash course on lunar items helpful or not

[lavish jacinth]

helpful if you know how to use them, but usually very situational

[pallid mirage]

So far I only know convergence and shaped glass

[lavish jacinth]

is the only really "free" lunar as its downside is negligible on most equipment except for
are all pretty strong and their downsides are manageable, but still take with caution
are also good but have much more severe downsides, basically only take if you know what you're doing
are extremely survivor-specific, ranging from a straight upgrade to potentially run-ending depending on survivor
just kinda exist, they're fine and the downsides aren't bad but nobody uses them lol
idk how to classify these, they're just weird. Use as needed ig
bad 99% of the time except on false son and maybe loader if you know what you're doing

[pallid mirage]

So with the meteorite when it says all does that include A L L

[lavish jacinth]

yep

damages enemies and allies, yourself included

[hoary sedge]

and are also extremely survivor specific

there's only a few characters that will really consider taking them usually

also fun thing about is that it can press the buttons on aqueduct

[pallid mirage]

So the whole point of lunar items is just Risk/reward, Gambling, artifacts without actually being artifacts

[glacial knoll]

most are either you find it stage 1-2 and it's like cool sure why not or you have a run that sucks and it fixes the run

[lavish jacinth]

pretty much this
they're not really meant to be items that you always take if you find them like normal items

[glacial knoll]

sometimes you also get a free blue portal i forget what the chance is but like yknow sometimes you just grab one to see what happens

[lavish jacinth]

or you can just ignore them entirely, they're never required

but if you wanna use them and have a run that can support them, then sure

[pallid mirage]

Yeah I just ignore them but they seem fun and chaotic buuuuut I like having my lunar coins ( I'm not PC)

[keen wedge]

Question, if Big M (you know the one) is standing OUTSIDE my engineer shield, and charges up a big hammer swing that aims to connect with my cranium which is currently INSIDE the shield, am I safe?

[mellow crystal]

No

Shield strictly only blocks projectiles and hitscans originating from outside of it afaik

[keen wedge]

Does it block pizza cutter?

Or the shockwaves?

[mellow crystal]

The damage comes from below you technically so I'd assume not

[keen wedge]

Then what good is it for M-money?

[mellow crystal]

Prrrobably
You'd have to test but they do get blocked by surfaces so I'd assume so

[keen wedge]

Actually no don't tell me

I haven't finished the fight yet I don't want to be spoiled on future phases

[livid wedge]

Shockwaves are also underground

It is funny that captains microbots can stop the shockwave as they are a projectile

[supple yoke]

Do multishops spawn when using artifact of command

[lavish jacinth]

no

[supple yoke]

Beads of feality can be used at cleansing pools right?

-# also what is that pfp

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[supple yoke]

Ty

[lavish jacinth]

don't worry about it

[lavish jacinth]

*oh, might be worth mentioning that cleansing pools also don't spawn with command

I think because they're considered a type of printer

[livid wedge]

That would also be dumb broken

Not that you choose which pearl because each has their own item set

[livid wedge]

I figured that question might come up next but I decided they could cross that bridge when they come to it

[keen wedge]

I assume picking up a lunar coin doesn't invalidate a incorruptible run? Seeing as it isn't really an item?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, you're allowed to pick up coins and spend them

it's just lunar items/equipment that you can't touch

[keen wedge]

Sounds about right

Wait there's lunar equipment? Don't tell me no spoilers

But it sounds cool

[lavish jacinth]

....do you want to know if lunar equipment exists or not? because ||it does exist|| but you asked and then said not to tell you lol

[inland tide]

So this game interested me and a bro of mine , just installed do I need to know something or juste go totally blind?

[lavish jacinth]

if the game asks you to enable steam/epic crossplay, say no

(assuming you're both on steam)

crossplay is super glitchy and should be turned off unless you actually need it

it might force it on when you first install but you can turn it off in settings

[inland tide]

Good it uncheck

[lavish jacinth]

other than that you can pretty much go in blind, although if you want gameplay advice then the #1 tip would be to not panic over the timer, get as much loot as you can from each stage and don't rush

[inland tide]

Okay go into this new adventure

[queen ether]

Hey Just downloaded risk of rain 2 today did few runs but can't seem to win any reached stage 8 on one of em but still didn't win
There's anything I do in order to win?

[marble magnet]

Do vengeance clones carry desparado stacks?

Like say you have 30 do they have 30?

[quasi topaz]

On stage 5 make sure to use the Primordial teleporter and make sure it points to the moon

[lavish jacinth]

either beat the final boss (which you can reach from stage 5) or go through the celestial portal that spawns on the third stage of every loop, (so you would've gotten one on stage 8)

[lavish jacinth]

afaik no

[marble magnet]

Ight thanks

[queen ether]

Ah I did that but I don't remember if it pointed to the moon or not tbh
But it did send me to the first area again

[lavish jacinth]

it always points to the moon by default, so you might've realigned it. Or you left through a portal instead of the teleporter

you realign it by interacting with the prong things around its edge before starting it

[queen ether]

Oh I think I did realign them by accident

I saw the thing move Abit before activating it

[lavish jacinth]

yep

[queen ether]

Damn at least I know how to win now ty

[marble magnet]

Dude what the hell is the back of a vagrant lmao

I actually have no clue
.I thought it was the underside but I got crits when hitting the top side?

[lavish jacinth]

there's a small red marking on the "front"

the back isn't a specific spot you have to hit, you just have to be roughly behind it with it facing away from you

[marble magnet]

Huh

By uh red marking

Do you mean on the actual model or a UI thing? Sorry

[lavish jacinth]

on the model, it's like a little red triangle iirc

[marble magnet]

These uh bumps?

Sorry if I sound like a dumbass 😭

[lavish jacinth]

on the underside, where the tentacles meet the body

[marble magnet]

I see it

Feels more like a little texture messup than a tell that it's facing you tho

[lavish jacinth]

nah, it's intentional, but it was kind of an afterthought on the model. iirc they specifically added it when bandit was added to the game, since there was no way to tell which side was the front before that

[marble magnet]

Ah

I've literally never noticed that its really small

They could've changed it so you crit the very undercircle of the van grant

It feels more like where it'd be y'know

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, that's not really how bandit's backstabs work tho

it's not a specific part of the hitbox like railgunner's weakpoints are

the game just checks if you're behind the enemy and facing its back

[livid wedge]

It's also dependent on only that, so if something damages their back but you're facing them, it won't crit

[marble magnet]

Ah

I mean for most enemys it's fine

Vagrant is just a exception I guess

[lavish jacinth]

and tbf, vagrants do turn to face you ingame, so if you just run behind them you'll probably hit the back

and it's easier than backstabbing the worm bosses lol

[marble magnet]

Wait the worm bosses can be backstabbed?

[lavish jacinth]

...I think so?
I thought for a long time that they were immune to it, but recently I've seen people saying that they can be backstabbed, but it's so absurdly inconsistent that they might as well be immune

(it's also possible that they WERE immune but sots broke it lol)

[glacial knoll]

all the backstab immune things are weird things like pots and eggs

[keen wedge]

I have been running from stem to stern of the aqueduct and cannot for the life of me find the second button for opening the tomb thing

Do they spawn near each other?

[quasi topaz]

https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Abandoned_Aqueduct#Pressure_Plate_Locations

[keen wedge]

Fandom makes me hurl

But I'll do what I must

[quasi topaz]

changed it to .gg

[keen wedge]

Is there a reliable way to get the flawless achievement?

It seems easy enough, except for the fact that wisps exist

And engineers shield only stays up for so long

[lavish jacinth]

either being good at dodging, and/or having enough dps that you can kill stuff before it gets close to you

[keen wedge]

I'll try bandit, he can go invisible to deter wisps

And kill things fairly quickly

[lavish jacinth]

or just use smoke bomb's aoe to kill them outright

having some drones to take aggro also helps

[keen wedge]

Well things were going great, killed vagrant near instantly, kept my guard up, teleporter at 60%, oh no a wisp decided to spawn, oh well

[lavish jacinth]

rip

[keen wedge]

Guess I'll try the second one

[lavish jacinth]

are you playing with headphones? wisps have a pretty noticeable sound cue when they spawn and attack, it helps a lot

[keen wedge]

Well it went perfectly, except for one jellyfish spawning in the single place I wasn't looking and bombing me

Can I increase my fov to 360

And learn how to play like that

Headphones are a good idea though

[quasi topaz]

play with artifact of glass, if you get hit you die regardless

[brittle imp]

is needletick good on chef?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[dusky raven]

needletick isn't exactly bad on anyone, some characters just use bleed better. Chef is probably better served to bleed because of his high proc co

again though, both are good

[lavish jacinth]

chef does well with both tritip and needletick imo

needletick really shines on survivors that get a lot of procs on multiple targets but don't follow up on them, or get big bursts or procs all at once. Tritip is more suited to survivors that can focus procs on a single target for a long time

but chef can kinda do both, especially with the extra proc co on boosted dice

[supple yoke]

Do cleansing pools spawn with artifact of command on?

And does the artifact of honour pair well with sonorous whispers

[livid wedge]

It does not

[solid harbor]

Hey so ive got to be doing something wrong, ive been told false son is really good but I jsut cant seem to survive with him very long. Is there a major techor item Im just completely missing? It also is possibly im just bad

[clear whale]

false son benefits greatly from max hp items

more max hp = more powerful

shield DOES NOT count

items that gives max hp:

[solid harbor]

are there other specific items besides just normal damage items that I should be on the lookout for? Or is his whole playstyle to just tank through stages with sheer HP numbers and kill before they can kill you

[clear whale]

can be kinda goog...

invest in mobility items if you can

[cunning elbow]

is getting artifacts easy or hard?

[dusky raven]

fairly easy if you can consistently get to stage 5

[cunning elbow]

What i gotta do after tho?

[old trail]

What is the recommended way to unlock Desperado for Bandit?

[dusky raven]

you need to find an artifact code on a stage (most stages have them) and then on stage 5 you gotta input the code Infront to the giant teleporter under/above the map

[cunning elbow]

A artifact code?

[dusky raven]

yeah they are 9x9 grid on a stone tablet with shapes

[cunning elbow]

I need to exactly run around the map to find that certain code? Can’t do any codes online?

[dusky raven]

https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Artifacts

[cunning elbow]

And I’m able to obtain that artifact code and stuff even on the easiest mode or have to be a different mode?

[dusky raven]

you can always look up the codes if you don't feel like exploring

[dusky raven]

yeah any difficulty

inputting the code into the compound generator will open a portal to that artifact

[cunning elbow]

Can I do it infinite times with many codes after I completed that one?

[dusky raven]

I should mention 1 dlc artifact is obtained through a different methods

[dusky raven]

yeah but it is its own stage, so you have to loop every time to get back to stage 5

[cunning elbow]

So I have to do it every single time getting to stage 5 and finding diff codes? Or I can input certain codes?

[dusky raven]

the codes will always work so if you want to skip finding them you can just look up what they are

So you will go to stage 5, find the artifact portal, input the codes to open the portal to the Bulwark's Ambry, which will have the artifact.

completing the trial inside will get you the artifact and plop you back out at a stage 1

[cunning elbow]

it don’t gotta be the certain code during that map, can be any?

[dusky raven]

most stages have a code to find like this

you just gotta input the pattern of whatever code you want and it will open a portal to that artifact

[cunning elbow]

Only in stage 5 right?

[dusky raven]

yes

[cunning elbow]

Alr thx, this sounds like a long grind

[dusky raven]

yeah if you want all artifacts it'll take a bit

[cunning elbow]

I’m tryna get certain ones for now, which can be better during the run

Thx for the link, it shows the codes for each artifact. I’ll prob have to watch a vid of the location for the better understanding since I’m new

[grim osprey]

hi noob here. is this a good first longest run?

[daring cloak]

Sure

[celest lark]

so this says "or" right... like why does it say "or" when it sould be "on"

like am i dumb or did it glitch so that i didntg get the skin. (beat it on normal diff)

[iron elbow]

you gotta do it on monsoon, the 'or' is saying you can either beat the game on monsoon or obliterate on monsoon

anyone know what this monster was?
its not the Xi contruct, nor the alpha construct

spawned as a weird tower enemy and left these long corpses

[pale talon]

Is this supposed to happen?-

[clear whale]

Major Construct

They are scrapped enemies that somehow got spawned

[iron elbow]

oh dang i see

nice thanks for letting me know i was surprised to see something new

[glacial knoll]

beta xi thats kinda buggy

[cunning elbow]

There’s more then 6 stages?

[iron elbow]

yeah there is

theres the main 5 stages into final boss, or if u interact with the portal on stage 5 you can 'loop' through more stages

takes you back through the 5 stages with ur items and new/harder enemies

before they introduced the final boss, the game used to loop through stages endlessly so this is a call back to that

[clear whale]

If you look closely at the Stage 5 teleporter you can see these little pieces forming a ring around it
Interact with it to either go to the moon (fight the final boss) or go to the earth (loop)

Looping gives access to some new stages (most of them are variations), new enemy (they can get the same items as you), new elite types and other stuff

You also unlock a new way to end your run safely when looping

[marble magnet]

Devotion lumerians share items right?

Say 1 lumerian has a atg and another has a ICBM

The atg lumerian can use the ICBM?

[livid wedge]

Yes

[cunning elbow]

How can I have the option to choose either or from portal if only one spawn?

[cunning elbow]

But portal take me to stage 6

[iron elbow]

the teleporter that brings you the moon right?

if you walk close to it near the edge, theres an option to redirect the portal,
itll do a small animation and when thats done, taking this portal will loop you back through the first stages again

if you interact with those horns, you can adjust the portal

[cunning elbow]

U gotta do that before starting the portal to 100% or after it spawns?

[iron elbow]

do it before u start the event

[cunning elbow]

And u keep all ur items and stuff from past run?

[iron elbow]

and once you complete it, itll send you to the new location instead

yes yes its the same run, it just keeps the run going

[cunning elbow]

I see, I’ll try to see if I’m able to figure it out

[iron elbow]

awesome lmk if you get it to work

[cunning elbow]

I won’t be doing it rn

I need to do the artifact to unlock them

Busy grind for a new person

[marble magnet]

Alr

Another question about devotion

What happens with drone parts and lumerians

Lemurians

[cunning elbow]

Isn’t the new upcoming dlc a lot of new drones or smt?

[clear whale]

Lemurians are flesh automations so no funny miniguns or stuff

[marble magnet]

Aw

So they don't like spawn there own uh

Droneman

[glacial knoll]

Spare Drone Parts is intended to work on Lemurians but does not due to a bug

you cannot give them minion items

[marble magnet]

Awh

[glacial knoll]

dlc is like 15ish items and 7 drones

[cunning elbow]

Better to get it on sale whenever that happens?

[glacial knoll]

probaby launches on a 10% sale but do what you want

[cunning elbow]

10% isn’t a lot compared to these current one

[high forum]

Well yeah, one DLC is 3 1/2 years old and the other is a year old

[livid wedge]

Damn, is sotv really over three years old?

[high forum]

March ‘22

[livid wedge]

Guess it doesn't feel as old since the console release was a bit later

[peak prairie]

How do I actually enable an artifact I discovered and now have? clicking on it in the menu does nothing.

[mellow crystal]

Click on the "artifacts" title thing

[peak prairie]

Thanks. Also, what's the difference between default expansion icon (white border) and if i click on it once highlighted in gold?

[pallid mirage]

Anyway to farm lunar coins

Console btw

[steady stone]

mostly a multiplayer thing, but you can vote to have something on (gold) or off (red X)

it's not too useful to have a "vote yes" in singleplayer though

[peak prairie]

nope, its white (default) gold (highlight) lock (off)

I unfortunately can't post a picture of it

[steady stone]

yeah, that's like the voting system tho

[steady stone]

any #roles will let ya!

[high forum]

yes, that's the voting system

[peak prairie]

Weird that its available in solo too

[steady stone]

true, but probably simpler to program one method for all

[steady stone]

in an AFK way, you can setup to drop lunar coins, however the chance of a drop halves each time it happens, so it's not too reasonable past a point

other than that, beating the game always gives you 10, doing challenges gives you a varying amount, Moment Whole gives you 15

[peak prairie]

Is there any way to make sure the blue worm spawns in the 5th level meadows, or anywhere? I want commando's alternative secondary

[steady stone]

he typically won't spawn in early stages since his credit cost is so high, but looping and making sure to hit as many shrines of the mountain as possible will help

and if youre going for the mando achievement, you most likely will find one while doing his Stage 20 no lunars unlock

[tender temple]

Go monsoon take your sweet ass time before stage 5 and then hope there's a combat shrine and that it spawns an overloading worm

[supple yoke]

With acrid's thing of killing 50 enemies that have 1 hp with epidemic, does it have to be in 1 go or throughout the run?

[void estuary]

if i brake all the eggs in the stage number 4, what happens?

[tender temple]

Sirens call?

[void estuary]

i mean, the people told me "appear a special boss" but appear when i activated the event or appear automatically

[tender temple]

It spawns a boss

[void estuary]

yeah sirens call

[tender temple]

It just spawns, not related to tp

[void estuary]

how many eggs i need to brake?

[tender temple]

It should be 4 or 5 I don't remember exactly

It says things in chat when you get to last two eggs

You hear distant whirring on second to last and the whirring grows loud when its gonna spawn

Something like that

[north nexus]

Can someone give me a sumamry of the Storm DLC? The vid DLC was for me some enemy types, Void Bubbles and mutated mods and the Void Boss. Is the storm DLC similar?

[mellow crystal]

Storm DLC is three new survivors (which are very fun imo), an alternate path leading to the final boss, a lunar/storm-themed final boss which is more difficult than mithrix, a new shrine that leads you on the alt path, and a couple new items

[tender temple]

3 enemies, 1 final boss(or you can continue the run), a decent amount of items, 3 survivors, an alternate path(just new stages really)

[mellow crystal]

Also has a new stage 1 and stage 5
The stage 2, 3, and 3.5(???) stages are on the alt path

[tender temple]

Something something it's cool

[north nexus]

Void kinda made the game easier, is there more imba stuff in storm?

[tender temple]

Oh yeah how could I forget the 3 Bulwarks ambry variants

The clearly important part of the dlc

[tender temple]

Yeah

A lot of self revive sources and and the items are on average better than the sotv ones

Sotv has more items but half of them are worse so sots has less items but almost all of them are good

[mellow crystal]

Yeah
It does kinda make up for it by having a difficult final boss and stages with more difficult enemy pools, but the survivors are suuuper strong

[tender temple]

So it's kind of on par

[north nexus]

ok

thanks a lot

[tender temple]

The stages don't really have more difficult enemy pools imo

Treeborn unironically feels easier than the other stage 3s

And it leads to pm which makes it an even better option

And it has grovetender so its EVEN more awesome

And it has an awesome track on top of that

[north nexus]

so its a must buy for you,huh?^^

[tender temple]

Well anything ror related is a day 1 must buy for me personally

[mellow crystal]

Sots is absolutely a must buy to me tbh
False son is the only final boss I find genuinely challenging or at least nerve-wracking after the first few fights

[tender temple]

I bought sots day 1 without regional pricing and didn't even refund it

[mellow crystal]

Chef is also absolute peak to play always

[tender temple]

The only thing making sots not as good as it could be for me is the lack of tp bosses

Not even 1 new boss

Also no ancient scepter in the providence themed dlc it's over scepterfans

I find it funny that we have 2 misplaced dlc items now

Sdp not in the drone dlc and deus ex machina not in the providence dlc

[marble magnet]

Why does one of the soul spiral balls like fill up with yellow stuff?

Like filled up with energy I have no idea what it does or how to achieve it it just happens

[livid wedge]

That means it's almost used up as many times it can hit an enemt

Each orb hits a specific amount of times before it expires

[hoary sedge]

they should honestly probably swap the colors for that ngl

the yellow makes it look like it's getting stronger

[marble magnet]

Ah

[marble magnet]

That's what I thought too

[lavish jacinth]

the final hit does do 2x damage so it kinda is in a way

[brittle shuttle]

yeah its like that cus it is getting stronger

supercharges for one more hit

[frigid vapor]

Do achivements and progression still count if i have a modifier on (like trial of command?)

[livid wedge]

Yes, there are no restrictions on artifact usage for challenges

[frigid vapor]

ah alright. Thank you

[autumn monolith]

Do golems have aoe damage in their laser? Like if I stand behind a thin wall, very close, and the golem shoots the wall, will I get damaged? I rq from my last run, and wanna figure out why I died

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it has a small aoe

[autumn monolith]

Thanks

[void estuary]

broo how i can return to the normal world? i enter to the celestial portal

but i dont want death xd i have the perfect build tod defeat mitrhix

[lavish jacinth]

hit the altar once, when it asks if you're sure a portal will spawn over to your right

that'll take you back to normal stages

[void estuary]

thanks it works

[past monolith]

is there a specific way of obtaining the executive card?
i literally have played like 20 hours with sotv dlc and i literally never seen it once

[lavish jacinth]

nope, it's unlocked by default, you just randomly get it from equipment barrels

[past monolith]

i see
me never finding a specific item in a roguelite/like is a common theme for me

[turbid whale]

can you still get achievements if the game is modded?

[lavish jacinth]

yes

[turbid whale]

thank you :D

[bleak dew]

what is growth? it says false son gains more lunar spikes through growth

[steady stone]

It lets him scale with max health, more health is more growth, so more spikes

[bleak dew]

alr ty

im assuming its every 100 max hp since i have 860 max hp rn and i have 8 max spikes

also is there a kind of indicator to let me know when laser of the father is fully charged?

[dusky raven]

There is but I don’t remember what it is off the top of my head I haven’t played with that ability in a while

I think it’s an audio queue

[sweet ibex]

There is a small flash infront of the False Son’s face alongside a faint audio cue.

[bleak dew]

i think i figured it out

yeah that little particle effect

cant hear the audio cue at all though

[dusky raven]

Also the spike gain through growth isn’t linear

[bleak dew]

interesting

[dusky raven]

Its about how much more max hp you have than expected at your current level

So and prayer beads work good but the juicy stuff is % hp ups like and growth nectar

[bleak dew]

only health items i got are growth nectar, and prayer beads

actually got growth nectar first stage

from a regular chest too

[marble magnet]

Does clover simpily role again or does it increase chance?

Roll*

[lavish jacinth]

it just rerolls

[bleak dew]

just rolls again

still extremely good tho

[marble magnet]

And in turn that increases chance?

[lavish jacinth]

indirectly yes

[marble magnet]

I've always imagined it as a doubling to chances so uh

[bleak dew]

well yeah but you just have two chances of hitting that percentage chance

[lavish jacinth]

the actual chance stays the same, but the odds of success are higher because you get more chances to succeed

[marble magnet]

I see

[lavish jacinth]

you can think of it like rolling physical dice, if you don't get the number you want on the first roll, clover lets you roll again

so it's not exactly doubling your chances but it's pretty close

[tepid gate]

The closer the chance is to 0% the closer it is to effectively doubling the chance

[marble magnet]

I see

[tepid gate]

5% turns into like 9.5% but 50% goes to like 75%

[lavish jacinth]

the higher the chance is, the less it's affected by luck (that also applies to negative luck from purity)

[tepid gate]

Purity turning atg into a 1% :D

[bleak dew]

yall think ima win?

first ever run with false son too

[tender temple]

You're false son it's an autowin

[tepid gate]

Skill issue if not

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, you'll be fine

[bleak dew]

yeah that was extremely easy

[fierce meadow]

Hello, so I've been playing on rainstorm diff all the while and I've been asking myself if I should try playing the game on monsoon straight away, even though I still haven't beaten a run. I thought that doing so would ease me into the harder difficulties in the game and let me get used to them. Should I? I've gotten to mithrix twice and I've also gotten to stage 9 a few times on rainstorm diff

I also started playing for real like a week ago so please be nice lol

[frosty reef]

I personally just started with monsoon/eclipse climb so I didn't build any habits that the lower difficulties develop if you're wanting to play the harder difficulties

[lavish jacinth]

Entirely up to you, monsoon is noticeably harder than rainstorm but the strategy for it is basically the same (full loot and be as efficient as you can)

If you feel like you've got the basics down and want to get better then I'd say go for it

[fierce meadow]

Okay thx!

[onyx oyster]

How many energy drinks and hoofs do yall take until you stop?

[crisp timber]

5/5 equivalent

[onyx oyster]

❔

[uneven crow]

Are drones/turrets useful at all?

[tender temple]

they take up aggro and can kill some fodder enemies

they can also get pretty good with drone based items like spare drone parts or empathy cores

they are also decently useful on the first 2 stages

heal drones are good if you dont have any healing yet and gunner drones can help with flying enemies early on

they are useful on final bosses cause they soak up a lot of their aggro

they arent like item-tier useful but they are decent

[uneven crow]

oh ok, I watch some Eclipse run and people barely take any drones/turrets.

[tender temple]

dont take eclipse into account for other difficulties

it has very different item meta and it takes longer to actually get cash so drones arent nearly as important

[glacial knoll]

healing is considerably less good and getting money takes longer so it's just kinda annoying

but drones always pretty useful

[uneven crow]

Gotcha, speaking of healing. What's usually the main source of healing/survivability in this game? Like what item, I heard Leeching Seed is bad

[glacial knoll]

monster tooth and medkit are both really solid, with dlcs it's more so because we have a lot of defense items too

Slug and Healing drone both useful too of course

Seed and Scythe are flat, so if you dont play as someone with fast fire rate they're not gonna activate a lot but Leech Seed is fine on commando

[celest valve]

I feel that leeching seed is over hated, ofc it isn't wonderful but it can work with someone like Mul-T.
Also rejuvenation rack is a nice thing to unlock since it doubles all healing to the player

[glacial knoll]

it's definitely not a instant scrap on all survivors that's just absurd

[uneven crow]

Ok thanks. When I was playing Artifact of Command, I wasn’t sure which defensive item was worth picking lol. There are a lot of guides on how to deal dmg, but not much on how to survive besides just dodging.

[tender temple]

isnt leeching seed based on proc coef

[glacial knoll]

like first items as command i'd rather go; bear, slug, opal

Leech Seed is affected by Proc Coeff yeah

Part of it is just Power Mode Armor being busted as fuck

[tender temple]

honestly no idea why that had to be a thing

[glacial knoll]

like Mired Urn Power Mode can make a run like unlosable

[tender temple]

if it was just flat +1 per stack itd be better methinks

though i do think it probably should have been higher than 1 but its fine

[glacial knoll]

idk if returns had proc coeffs there it was just 2 + 1

common mod idea pre sotv to just make it always 1 even on dots but that'd be a bit much

[tender temple]

its just decent on like stage 1 maybe 2 but after that its a nothingburger

1 hp per hit on average is just a nothing when your hp is like 800 on average

you need like 3 or 4 of those for it to be doing anything meaningful and at that point its like do i really want THIS green item stacked so much

[glacial knoll]

it adds up a fine amount against infrequent hits

it's just okay, i dont get the scrap everything mentallity is all

[uneven crow]

So which item would you stack?

[tender temple]

if i have more than 2 of a mediocre green i usually scrap it even if it isnt necessarily bad

just cause that could be 4 other greens

[glacial knoll]

idk I dont play command it's boring

you get those 3 items and you're basically unkillable if you're at all good at the game

[tender temple]

opal with 2 slugs is all survivability you would need

[glacial knoll]

just go whatever, atg ukulele both bands 2 sticky bombs whatever

[tender temple]

one wungus if you have sotv and its even better

[uneven crow]

yeah I'm really aware of good offensive items/combos but not so much defense. Gotcha, you don't need a lot of defensive items. Thanks

[tender temple]

if we are talking pure vanilla just a couple of bears and RAPs is fine

[glacial knoll]

choosing to stack a item early into command makes your run actively worse, diversity is always better

[tender temple]

unless its polylute

[dapper bison]

When it comes to leeching seed, yeah it’s fine. You heal down to some decimal positions too, even though the game doesn’t show it. Better than nothing for sure

Scythe struggles more in a sense I’d say. I believe it’s a flat 8 no matter what?

[glacial knoll]

both are proc multiplied

[dapper bison]

Seed also would be stronger on multi hit characters if it had just flat +1, but I kinda doubt it’d be game breaking. Would make nailgun significantly stronger though

[dapper bison]

Ah rip lol

Yeh, I think I recall some mods just buffed seed by adding .2 healing, and that also adding a minumum heal per hit or something like it, which buffed it enough without making it useless with low proc

[peak jacinth]

nah scythe is a lot better in most cases, with 15% crit you’re already healing more on average per hit than with leeching seed and it only goes up from there. Additionally it has strong synergies with bandit and void fiend

[dapper bison]

Oh huh true. It technically does start at 6% without any other items, but that’s not a tall order to get.
Oh and bandit’s the best at it for sure. I tend to actively avoid it on viend but I’m also a loser that only prioritizes corrupted :>

[peak jacinth]

yea I’m not gonna argue that scythe is better at max crit cuz randomness but it’s pretty common to be able to get 1
On viend it’s really good to take 1 scythe because you get 10% corruption for a crit and lose 8% from the healing, so it’s one of the few healing items that doesn’t ruin your corruption

[dapper bison]

Ohhhh I never noted that. 2% gain still is nice, I’ll have to keep that in mind. Def not more than that though rip

[peak jacinth]

yep, it’s a pretty useful synergy

[dapper bison]

I usually gremlin hard with

And that works out

[void estuary]

how i can find the white chest?

[quasi topaz]

wdym by white chest?

https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Chests

[elfin zodiac]

https://tenor.com/view/flight-gif-15944648704967844559

[queen ether]

Is it better to rush the stages so the difficulty doesn't scale much or to take ur time with it?

[lavish jacinth]

take your time and full loot, but be efficient

a good rule of thumb is to try to get at least one item per minute, but it's okay to spend time on printers and scrappers or whatever

[quasi topaz]

try to have more items than minutes spent

[queen ether]

Alright

[tropic gale]

yoo chat i want to play more than 4 people only am i need to setup the mod or others should too?

[lavish jacinth]

I'm guessing only the host needs it but #ror2-modding would be the best place to ask

[tropic gale]

oh i see thanks

[light pendant]

Does anybody know what causes and how to fix the multiplayer Disconnect bug on steam?

[lavish jacinth]

most likely caused by crossplay, just turn it off, and have anyone you're playing with do the same

(assuming you're all on steam)

[light pendant]

We are, thank you, trying it right away

[bright marsh]

hi can i ask howi can install that mod dev kit or what ever its called maybe some link to tutorial and will i be ablle to play multyplayer?

[lavish jacinth]

installing mods is pretty simple, just go to thunderstore.io and download and install r2modman. Then use that to install whatever mods you want, either through r2modman directly or from thunderstore

assuming you mean debugtoolkit, it isn't clientside, so it can be used in multiplayer but everyone you're playing with will also have to have the mod installed

#ror2-modding can also help

[bright marsh]

nah no need you are beast in this game thx a lot how many hours do you have btw : D

[lavish jacinth]

a little over a thousand

[bright marsh]

damn nice do have 100% ?

[lavish jacinth]

I did at one point but a while back there was a bug that wiped a lot of my logbook progress, I haven't gotten around to getting everything back

I don't play nearly as often as I used to

[bright marsh]

thats cool : D

btw is there any way to get pearls with tha chose ur items

basicli just get rid of lunar items

[odd kernel]

anyone know some early game synergies i could pull off to quickly get monsoon skins?

[quasi topaz]

with monsoon instead of drizzle

grab your usual items of movement, crit, damage, healing

[odd kernel]

bruh

[lavish jacinth]

not with command, no. Cleansing pools don't spawn and there's no other way to get rid of them

[odd kernel]

unless you decide to do ego, awful time in general lol

[lavish jacinth]

I mean ego is good if you play around it

[odd kernel]

if you need pearls for whatever reason, use sacifice

[lavish jacinth]

but yeah, there's no way to actually remove lunars to get a pearl

[odd kernel]

since it makes the cleansing pools go to like 30%

[lavish jacinth]

it doesn't buff their spawn rates THAT much, but they are much more common on certain maps

[odd kernel]

well it’s definitely just better in general, i dont remember the bame but you know the one that makes lunar items drop more?

[lavish jacinth]

?

[odd kernel]

i had a few of those and it made a printer lunar

so i had a white item printer make beads

so i had like 100 pearls

and i left that stage as heretic with like 400k hp

[lavish jacinth]

proc chain items and damage multipliers are always reliable, on-kill builds with , getting a few stacks of on proc survivors for consistent bleed

for anyone with high burst
protip, can push the buttons on abandoned aqueduct so you can get bands semi-reliably if you're willing to spend some coins

and just in general always full loot and be as efficient as you can

[odd kernel]

bro i never knew that thank you so much, i just thought it was 2 player or engineer only

[lavish jacinth]

there are a few ways to do it, captain beacons and loader's pylon can also press them

clay pots also work but it's pretty hard to move them around atm, after the physics changes

[odd kernel]

i was gonna day black hole but i think that damages it

[lavish jacinth]

nah, cube doesn't do damage

[odd kernel]

has it ever done damage?

[lavish jacinth]

nope

[odd kernel]

oh

ive softlocked myself with that before

launced a worm to space on sky meadows

had to use royal capacitor to kill it

took me like half an hour

now i always load the artifact portal before doing portal

[lavish jacinth]

how tf did you move a worm with cube

[odd kernel]

before the patch

you could stack cubes and jt would fling anything

worms aren’t supposed to be affected but i had that many

something that really annoys me is the worms dont have eyes, its a symbiotic relationship between something that gives it vision. in rorr, you get worm eyes

[lavish jacinth]

they do though?

pretty sure that's an eye, anyway. Kinda hard to tell

pretty sure they count as a weakpoint for railgunner

[odd kernel]

in the lore description

[lavish jacinth]

oh

why is that annoying then

[odd kernel]

It appears that the worm is classically blind – what appear to be eyes are revealed to be symbiotes that grant the worm vision in exchange for protection against predators. How fascinating! I wonder how this relationship came about.

because in rorr, thered an item for the eye

which doesn’t make sense

i suppose it could have eyes that dont work

but like why

[lavish jacinth]

I still don't see the problem lol

the item is the eye creature thing that it has a symbiotic relationship with

the worm itself doesn't have any eyes, or at least not working ones

and symbiosis like that does sorta exist in real life, in case you're questioning whether a game with giant rock monsters has realistic biology, lol

[rigid tree]

does shaped glass work for the rex m2 achievement

it says you have to beat a teleporter without going above half health

[daring cloak]

Nah

[queen ether]

Uhh I just entered a Celestial portal by accident and the only thing I can do here is to kill myself can I get out?

Nvm I see the portal now

[opaque anvil]

I keep freezing like getting stuck in the black screens in the middle teleporting to another world I've lowered all of my graphic settings to the minimum but this still happens is there any fix?

[primal vector]

On PC? And if so any mods installed at any point?

[copper forge]

Is crossplay ever gonna be in this game’s future? I feel like with gearbox heading things and all ports being on the same version, it could be possible

[high forum]

it's not coming soon

[pallid mirage]

Did they nerf the drops of scavengers cause now I only get one bag per stage

[lavish jacinth]

it's always been like that

[pallid mirage]

I swear before I used to get multiple bags but I guess not

[mellow crystal]

Shapes glass visually reduces you to 50% HP but that's still 100%

[heavy cave]

how did i get to prime meridian at stage 2

[mellow crystal]

There's a bug that allows you to immediately enter prime meridian
I forgot the specifics but iirc it was like
Activate teleporter (after beating it), wait for gold to reach 0, then activate green portal

[livid niche]

does anyone know if the radio tower spawns on the alternate new stage variants? (vicious falls, disturbed impact, etc.) ive been trying for awhile and have only gotten golden dieback. im playing with artifact of command and sacrifice to optimize the radio tower's spawn chance. pls help

[old trail]

For those who have gotten the ‘Loader: Swing By’ advancement with and without SotV and SotS, should I turn off the DLCs or is it more of a boon overall to keep them on?

[glacial knoll]

treeborn and loop variant are bugged rn

[livid niche]

how long have they been bugged for

[glacial knoll]

idk last 2 patches so like whole this year

[livid niche]

jeez

this 99% profile is bugging me lol

just missing those logs

[past monolith]

is sots like bugfixed and playable now? im considering buying it since its on sale

[trim lynx]

yup

[glacial knoll]

good to great, some aspects better than sotv

[trim lynx]

still has a few flaws, but as does sotv

id say its definitely worth it now

[fallen chasm]

I did it with both on but didnt do anything exclusive to them, i just played a normal run but rushed teleporter

i dont see how turning them off could be better, cuz sale star/ watches are really nice to have

[mellow crystal]

I'd argue it's better or at least on par with sotv now yeah

It's fully playable and whether or not it's better than sotv depends entirely on if you prefer items or final bosses and survivors

[civic plover]

not sure what i'm doing wrong? trying to get the command artifact, i had gotten to the 3rd piece but then it disappeared and i have nothing to dunk at the boss, is it bugged?

[clear whale]

Keep killing

[barren glacier]

does obliterating count as a win for eclipse?

[stray gazelle]

if i buy the dlc can my friend play them with me without owning the dlc?

[hoary sedge]

celestial portals don't spawn in eclipse

[quasi topaz]

Yes

[hoary sedge]

the only way to end the run in eclipse is mithrix

you can go to voidling after if you want but idk why you'd do that

[hoary sedge]

yes if anyone in the lobby has the dlc everyone can access all of the content, except for the survivors

[mental zephyr]

What items are good for false son i keep getting cooked i wanna be as tanky as possible but im so insanely slow with the pauldrons and still die

[lone topaz]

what log is this i dont have either dlc

[lavish jacinth]

possibly false son, iirc there's a bug where his logbook appears locked even if you don't own sots

[lone topaz]

does it affect my completion

[lavish jacinth]

not sure

[lavish jacinth]

if you're using stone pauldron on him, you have to constantly be using your lunar spikes, as you only get a movespeed bonus from spent ones. Other %-based health buffs like pearls and growth nectar and defensive items like etc will help his survivability too, but it's really best not to try to outright tank damage all the time, even on FS.

Other than that, damn near anything works on him, total damage procs and multipliers are a safe bet as always but he's very flexible

[tender temple]

Well generally you always want to spend spikes for speed but that might just be me

[lavish jacinth]

that and the fact that lunar ruin is broken, figuratively and literally

but if you're using stone pauldron then using them is practically a requirement, unless you stack enough speed items to get back to normal

[marble magnet]

Is it better to tackle Eclipse 1 by one modifier by modifier or should I do one character fully

I've been kinda doing a mix of both with my highest level at 3 (the highest level I've beaten is 2) with MUL-T

[lavish jacinth]

up to you, either way works

[marble magnet]

Alrighty thank you :3

Is there like any basic tips I should know for eclipse aside from the basic "rewire the entire way you play"

[lavish jacinth]

honestly the basics don't change that much from monsoon, you still want to full loot and stuff. The game is just more punishing in general

so you don't necessarily have to change the way you play, you just have to play really well. Unless the way you play involves getting hit a lot, then you might want to change that lol

[marble magnet]

I would say I uh

Either don't get hit aton

Or I get hit because I didn't look around myself

[lavish jacinth]

oh yeah, and avoid siren's call like the plague once you get to e7, unless you have tricorn or are willing to potentially give up the free red. AWU is a nightmare to kill on e7+

[nimble panther]

uh, question do you need both dlc to play with another person who has them?

[lavish jacinth]

nope

if anyone in the lobby has dlc, then the dlc content will be available to everyone, except characters

[marble magnet]

Awe but I don't like spending my lunar coins unless it's a lunar pod

I think ive spent collectively like 15 lunar coins on lunar dream portals (the 3 coin one) as a whole

[lavish jacinth]

I mean technically you don't HAVE to avoid it, just be ready for a painful fight or to give up a red

awu spams its shield like every 5 seconds, you barely get a window to attack it

[marble magnet]

Ohh

I thought the problem was gonna be how it attacks fast

Yea I forgot that was a thing lmao

[kindred herald]

Also sirens call is the worse stage 4 because you can’t use sale Star on the legendary chest

[rotund flare]

if you have friends its goated though

[lavish jacinth]

and it likes to waste credits on woods shrines

[mental zephyr]

Whats lunar ruin

[lavish jacinth]

the debuff that his secondary applies

it makes the target take 10% more damage per stack

but due to a bug, it allows proc chains to double dip on that multiplier, essentially making procs exponentially more powerful for each one that hits that enemy

[umbral knot]

any tips on how to not die immediately on monsoon

[lavish jacinth]

never stop moving, be aware of what's around you, learn enemy sound cues

[umbral knot]

what survivors would be good for it

[lavish jacinth]

ideally you wanna be strafing and jumping a lot, most enemies have terrible aim and limited turn speed so as long as you aren't standing still and running directly at them, they'll probably miss

[lavish jacinth]

anyone

[umbral knot]

okay

[lavish jacinth]

just start with whoever you're most comfortable with

oh and just obligatory, and always full loot stages and don't rush

[mental zephyr]

Also is there an overall build thats op for him or is it just those items

[lavish jacinth]

he's just kind of op in general, tbh. Like I said, almost anything works on him (but total dmg procs are especially strong) but there's nothing specific that he need to do build-wise

Although I wouldn't recommend trying to only build him as a tank

as a general rule, item priority is always damage > speed > healing/defense

get a bit of everything but damage is king

[mellow crystal]

for spikes yeah but for stakes i would not recommend

[iron elbow]

Finding a luminous shot will do wonders for false son early game

[wraith raft]

What's the character that you can obtain in the lunar portal shop? I see one encased in crystal

[twin valley]

is it normal to just not have a teleporter boss/horde spawn sometimes. i can think of like at least a dozen occasions where i started tp and the entire boss part of it was absent, health bar and everything, no item drop either

[tender temple]

artificer

[wraith raft]

Oh ok, do i have to fight the lizard guy for that character or no?

[past monolith]

no just spend 10 lunar coins

[wraith raft]

Ok

[past monolith]

how does sale star work with adaptive chests? (assuming it does)

[crisp timber]

doubles the item you select

[past monolith]

that makes sense

[uneven crow]

Sometimes I see streamers on E8 farm excessive amount of money like 50k money left before going to next stage, any reason why?

[lethal delta]

what does the term looping mean im new and havent finished a full run yet

[clear whale]

Money is converted to xp after teleporter

[uneven crow]

yeah I know but that but it's actually worth it?

[clear whale]

Looping basically means going back to stage 1

New enemies, new elites, unlocks a new ending

[clear whale]

Dunno

[lethal delta]

i see, so its just another term for rebirth or do i get to keep all items from previous run

sorry for bad english :p

[iron elbow]

its still the same run, it lets you keep going to new stages rather than ending the run at the final boss

you can still fight the final boss later if you choose

[lethal delta]

ooh okay thanks!

[lavish jacinth]

Not really, no

[lavish jacinth]

Unless you mean they just farm normally and accidentally wind up with more gold than they need, its easy for that to happen on later stages

[uneven crow]

Hmm if that's the case I guess they just on autopilot and talking to their chat. They had like 50k left lol

[lavish jacinth]

Probably

[hollow sable]

how to remove Lunar Items?

[lavish jacinth]

find a cleansing pool

they're fairly rare though, only spawning on a few stages with a pretty low chance. Aphelian Sanctuary and Treeborn Colony have the highest chances for them

also they don't spawn if you have command enabled

[kindred herald]

They’re not intentionally farming money. You just get a lot of gold leftover after stages at a certain point

[cunning elbow]

Is it better to try to get multiple artifacts in a single run or diff runs? Whichever one is easier

[daring summit]

When Seekers of the Storm first came out I grabbed every single log book from the new artifact maps but for some reason they still appear as locked, I tried modifying my save data but I couldn't unlock them that way either, is there any solution to this?

[quasi topaz]

I personally did all of them (except command) in one run but its up to preference

[cunning elbow]

I see

[lone compass]

i did one 85 stage run for 17 of em, took 3 and a half hours and i got both skins for my character

[lavish jacinth]

you could try the RealerCheatUnlocks mod, it might be more reliable than editing save data

[cunning elbow]

Damn that’s a long time and there’s skins??

[lone compass]

yes? its in the loadouts

unless you dont have any dlcs

[lavish jacinth]

you might start running into issues with enemies not spawning in bulwark's ambry on late stages

[eager belfry]

How good are the seekers of the storm survivors? I heard false son is really overpowered

[lone compass]

oh yeah thats true

[lavish jacinth]

all of them are really good

[quasi topaz]

Seeker and false son are free wins and chef holds reality together by existing

[lone compass]

they're all really op

[cunning elbow]

I see

[eager belfry]

Sweet, I plan on grabbing it when it goes on sale, I alr have survivors of the void, so that’s my next plan

[cunning elbow]

Is the double enemy spawn artifact good?

[eager belfry]

Yes and no

[lavish jacinth]

depends on how you define "good"
it makes the game easier overall, for the most part

[eager belfry]

more items if you have the artifact that allows Enemies to drop items on kill instead of grabbing chests

[lavish jacinth]

final bosses are kinda weird with swarms tho

[eager belfry]

I run double enemies on every difficulty expect monsoon, because it’s just a swarm

[cunning elbow]

That gives a lot more items when using that?

[eager belfry]

Yes

[cunning elbow]

I see

[eager belfry]

More like at a faster rate

Then without it

[cunning elbow]

How about item loadout? Which is best to keep items a lot pics wise

[eager belfry]

I do swarms, command, and drop item when killed, so I know exactly what I’m building

[eager belfry]

Depends on survivor really

Someone like void fiend really likes fire rate for corruption mode

[cunning elbow]

Tbh idk which void chest items are better then the other

[eager belfry]

But always build crit chance, with 10x lens makers
And if you build 10x daggers with shatterspleen, its basically death for everyone around you, with a mix of gasoline, ignition tank and will o wisp

[cunning elbow]

If I run a mod that shows the items descriptions then it not showing anything, will I still progress and earn achievements/characters and stuff?

[cunning elbow]

I see

[lavish jacinth]

as a general rule, most survivors fall into the category of either burst or proc

proc survivors have high fire rate and generally low damage, like commando, they mostly favor on-hit effects, with bleed being really notable

burst survivors are the opposite with high damage and low attack speed, like loader or Railgunner. They prefer reliable damage multipliers like

but as a general rule, multipliers and total damage procs like tend to be very good on everyone, although they do slightly favor proc survivors

[cunning elbow]

I see

That missle don’t I need a shield for it to activate or was that a diff item

[lavish jacinth]

also, it's always better to get a mix of things rather than focusing on just one or two "optimal" items for your survivor, since items tend to build on each other's effects (especially damage items)

[lavish jacinth]

that's , and it does give you some shield on its own

[cunning elbow]

Ah

[cunning elbow]

Isn’t damage items those?

[lavish jacinth]

and no, mods don't disable achievements.
(although you don't need a mod to see better item descriptions, you can do it in vanilla if you turn on the inspect option in settings, under that umbrella settings thing)

[lavish jacinth]

anything that does damage, yeah

[cunning elbow]

Alright

[cunning elbow]

Let’s say if I were to get the artifact to choose my own item, the game don’t show info on them

[lavish jacinth]

ah true

you can still check the ingame logbook or look at it on the tab menu but it's not as convenient

[cunning elbow]

Alright

[lavish jacinth]

but yeah I don't think inspect shows you descriptions on the command menu idk I never play with command lol

[cunning elbow]

It would be a nice quality of life update if they add that info option

[quasi topaz]

Play without artifacts and pick up items to unlock it in the logbook. Then refer to that during command

[lavish jacinth]

you don't need to play without artifacts to get it in the logbook

[quasi topaz]

At least pick them up to begin with

[daring summit]

Thank you so much it worked!

[winter knot]

Hello I just got Risk of Rain 2 and Setup a dedicated server using Pterodactyl. But now me or my wife cannot find the server from the game browser, anyone know how to get our server to show up for us? It looks like only Lobbies show up and no dedicated servers show up for us both.

[glacial knoll]

i think dedicated servers dont work atm

[raw stump]

i said earlier, but you should just be able to join eachother if you make a multiplayer lobby as long as you are on the same platform 👍

just go here, then use the shift+tab to open the friends list, go to the person, click the arrow and click invite to game

id also make sure you make it private

[winter knot]

I do prefer to host using dedicated when possible, do you happen to know if dedicated servers are gone for good or temporarily?

[raw stump]

im not sure if im honest, but for me the non-dedicated ones work superbly

i've never used a dedicated for this game

[glacial knoll]

Devs have shown interest in fixing it but I don't really know the details of it

idk if there's any work around to making it work again because most people just host in game

[raw stump]

wolfo ive got a question

are you working directly with the devs like some modders?

or are you just reporting bugs and stuff like that

[glacial knoll]

I do not work on the game

[raw stump]

okay just wondering

[glacial knoll]

idk how much of a difference it makes a from just reporting stuff here

[raw stump]

i just assumed you would because your mods are quite popular

[glacial knoll]

i do what I can and the, people who look at bug reports to flag them do flag a lot of it so idk it gets passed along

not familiar with unity, or work, or work politics, im just the annoying guy who makes useful bug reports

[timber dove]

why is it such a awesome game?

[fading plover]

bc the gaming gods wantet to bless us

[timber dove]

WOOF

[queen ether]

Do I need to stop attacking for the cautious slug to work or do I just have to not get hit?

[hoary sedge]

just don't get hit

'out of combat' is kind of inconsistently defined though

like attacking doesn't break it for slug or opal, but it does for red whip

[lavish jacinth]

"out of combat" and "out of danger" are two different things

[glacial knoll]

out of combat is correctly defined, slugs log is just lying lol

[lavish jacinth]

^

[glacial knoll]

or pickup quote one of them

[lavish jacinth]

specifically, out of danger means you take no damage for 7 seconds, out of combat means you don't use a combat skill for 5 seconds

but yeah, slug's logbook description is just wrong

[bright dune]

When I open up the menu to join a game, it sayss min 1 player, max 16 players, how do you get a lobby for 16 people?

[ebon fern]

hey just wondering if i should try and fight mithrix with this loadout atm or try and loop if im missing anything i should try and add

i use artifact of swarms usually so i like to make sure im better prepared

[lavish jacinth]

you should probably look for

[ebon fern]

since its 2 of him

[steady stone]

you dont have many damage items, especially for single target

it would take a while

[lavish jacinth]

you have 16 gasoline and on-kills are useless against mithrix without FMP

[lavish jacinth]

they do have bleed

[steady stone]

true, that's about it though

[ebon fern]

so i should loop..?

[mellow crystal]

100% crit shatterspleen and 100% tritip is also a waste of items iirc, just giving advice for future runs

[lavish jacinth]

oh yeah, and you should swap tritip for if you can

[steady stone]

a few more proc items for chains, especially with plasma shrimp, would help

[lavish jacinth]

tritips are useless since you have max crit and spleen

[lavish jacinth]

if there aren't any chests left on that stage then yeah

[ebon fern]

im using sacrifice, command and swarms - so no chests

[lavish jacinth]

i'm dumb

in that case just farm more enemies

[mellow crystal]

can probably just farm enemies then

[ebon fern]

alr

[lavish jacinth]

you haven't done the teleporter yet

[ebon fern]

so i should aim and get what again?

[ebon fern]

not yet

and what else should i add

if you think is more useful than in my situation

[lavish jacinth]

at the very least

[lavish jacinth]

absolutely, blast shower is kinda crap

[ebon fern]

id have to loop again, the void seed is already cleared on this level

[lavish jacinth]

instantly resetting cooldown on bands and safer spaces is nice but super useful for a survivor with terrible burst damage

[mellow crystal]

fmp with 16 gasolines and 2 ignition tanks is quite possibly the strongest (non-economy) equip you could have rn

[lavish jacinth]

that's optional then

the tritips aren't doing anything for you, but it's command+sac+swarms so you can afford to not have an optimal build lol

[ebon fern]

yeah

i can add more if that would help more with single target

[lavish jacinth]

nah, not useful for commando

crowbar is for large single hits, like railgunner or loader

[mellow crystal]

also wouldn't really help for mithrix

[lavish jacinth]

bleed is good for single target on commando though, which you already have set up

plus shrimp and icbm so you're getting a ton of bleed damage

[ebon fern]

yes

[lavish jacinth]

technically that's more than enough for mithrix, but you might as well get the FMP so that you have an actually useful equip and aren't wasting all the gasolines

[ebon fern]

alright

i got a random legendary drop, not sure what i should get from it

still waiting on the equipment drop

[lavish jacinth]

would all be pretty good in your case, or if you happened to pick up any more drones

or more icbm

[ebon fern]

oh wow i got 2

[lavish jacinth]

any of the SotS reds would also be good if you have it

[ebon fern]

i sadly dont have the dlc

i only have sotv

is affective against mithrix?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it's great against him

[ebon fern]

i got so i was wondering if i should get that one instead of my usual pick

[lavish jacinth]

counters his adaptive armor

[ebon fern]

gotcha

oh and i just picked up

[lavish jacinth]

scorpion might be better honestly, since you've got a bleed build going too

armor reduction will increase the damage from both bleed and burn

[ebon fern]

might get a bit more stuff and then just go to the boss

i dont think ive used before

doesnt it just throw like after death damage effects on a doll

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[ebon fern]

ah

[lavish jacinth]

it's very strong if you have a lot of on-kill items

[south egret]

do false son spikes increase damage exponentially or multiplicatively?

[lavish jacinth]

it's supposed to be multiplicative like death mark

but due to a bug, proc chains can double dip on the multiplier, effectively making it exponential

so it's kinda both

[south egret]

ah, ok

so without items, it's multiplicative, and with items it's exponential

[mellow crystal]

total damage items yea

[south egret]

right, ok

[wintry fjord]

When's the new dlc coming

[quasi topaz]

release date is being announced on the 29th

[mellow crystal]

release date release date

[quasi topaz]

exactly

[wintry fjord]

Wow they really were fast on this dlc

[lavish jacinth]

It was in development for about a year iirc

I think they started a little after sots launched, they just had a separate team working on it during the big rework

[old trail]

Hope it’s not too fucked up this time around at launch, as a Borderlands guy imma prolly wait a lil bit for GBX to cook it a lil bit longer

[mellow crystal]

i hope you're aware that this sounds like you're acting based on how much yaoi you read 😭

[old trail]

How tf else do I succinctly abbreviate Borderlands?

[high forum]

i think you're just too online

literally nobody in the world who isn't terminally online reads it like that

[mellow crystal]

idk i've never seen anyone abbreviate borderlands

[trim lynx]

bland

[trim lynx]

ive seen bl1, bl2 and bl3

[old trail]

That’s what most peeps on blcord do

[minor rover]

https://medal.tv/games/ror-2/clips/kYFMsgsW7LajsahR-?invite=cr-MSx6ODEsMzAwMDU5NzQ4 can someone tell me what the hell happened to him? ||skipped straight to 3rd phase||

[uneven crow]

So enemies spawn all over the place, is it better to stay in a certain part of the map or running around?

For farming money

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, I think that's a bug that can happen with swarms where they get launched out of the arena and die instantly when they jump. You can actually see the boss indicator falling at the top of the screen around 7 seconds in

[lavish jacinth]

better to move around, at least move from chest to chest as you save up for them

or if farming is really slow you can run around and look for a blood or combat shrine for some quick gold, or look for the teleporter so you know where it is for later

[uneven crow]

Does enemies always move to your position no matter where you are? If you run around too much, enemies that spawn far away might not catch up with you no?

[lavish jacinth]

generally they'll move towards you, yeah. And you don't need to run across the entire map, just scout the stage a bit and figure out where stuff is

[loud summit]

shouldnt this be a thread channel, where we make threads that are the questions...?

[lavish jacinth]

and that mostly applies to early stages when farming actually takes a while. Later on enemies will drop enough gold and spawn fast enough that you can just keep moving and killing things, and you'll probably be able to afford chests as you go

[lavish jacinth]

if it was, there would be about a million threads, and like 95% of them would be questions that could be answered in like one sentence

it's just easier to have it work like a discussion channel

[loud summit]

then they just delete the thread idk

[lavish jacinth]

What difference would it make lol

[loud summit]

fair

[minor rover]

oof so basically got deleted by getting out of arena, thanks

[woeful fog]

can i unlock dlc chars without dlcs? My friend owns the dlcs but i dont, is it possible people?

[lavish jacinth]

no

[uneven crow]

oh ok, how about shrine of chance? What's the thought process on when to use them?

[woeful fog]

What bout the challenges, cannot i do these to unlock dlc chars like chef and void fiend

they are unlocked with a mission arent they

like for chef i can see the green portal too

[lavish jacinth]

I dunno if there's really a defined "meta" for them, but my usual strat is to play them once, maybe twice if they pay out the first time or I've got a lot of extra gold, then move on. Then later after buying everything else I might come back and spend the rest of my gold on them, if they're not too far from the teleporter

[lavish jacinth]

you can only make progress on the unlock challenges if you own the dlcs

[lavish jacinth]

all of the other dlc content is available if you're playing with someone who has the dlc, so you can do all the green portal stuff, you just can't get any dlc unlocks

[woeful fog]

I see thx

[uneven crow]

how about Halcyon shrine

[lavish jacinth]

with halcyon I prefer to do them later in the stage once I've got some gold already stored up. It costs 300 gold (or 12 small chests worth) in total, so ideally you don't wanna start them until you're already most of the way there, since the golems that it spawns may not drop enough to completely charge it

enemy gold drops also scale in real time, meaning gold-farming actually gets more efficient the longer you're on a stage, so it's also a lot easier to farm for halcyon shrines after you've been on the stage for a few minutes instead of doing them right away

[uneven crow]

hmm ok, I guess you also want to save Shrine of Chance in chase you get Chance Doll from Halcyon

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, that wouldn't be a bad idea, especially if there are multiple chance shrines on the stage

[uneven crow]

I heard if you want to go for Mithirix you want to get rid of AOE because of the last phase right?

[quasi topaz]

Aoe is fine to have just make sure you have enough single target damage

[uneven crow]

Heard it can be deadly if he procs from killing your drones and you don't need AOE on Stage 6 anyway

[lavish jacinth]

a trick with that is to stay near him until the end of the item steal and run away at the last second, that way your drones stay behind and aggro to him when he's vulnerable instead of following you, which also gets you some free damage on him

but yeah, aoe is going to be more useful as scrap when you get to mithrix

[uneven crow]

Does jumping while sprinting increase or reduce movement speed?

[quasi topaz]

usually an increase but it also helps with generally avoiding attacks. Enemies tend to have a hard time with vertical movement on the players end

[worthy crest]

Is there any easy way to get Rex: dunked or is it just luck??

I’ve been trying for a long while

[quasi topaz]

hope and pray

you could use a save file editor or the unlocks mod but getting it legit is just rng

[worthy crest]

Okay thank you I’ll keep praying then😭

[quasi topaz]

good luck soldier 🫡

[worthy crest]

🫡

[short bolt]

Could I complete the prime meridian event andddd do the a moment whole event to?

On a loop

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[short bolt]

preciate it

[proven verge]

You do want to get rid of aoe, but not for phase 4. You wanna use as much scrap as possible for pools, becuase aoe items dont help you on the moon nearly as much as they do in the stages (unless you have fmp). This is especially true when you have a pillar skip. Even if pools end up not having a useful item, it doesnt cost much to you on the moon to remove 6 gasoline for the chance of getting 2 atgs or somethin

Also dont be afraid to scrap reds. Even good ones like smooks, caggers, and swispers for the common pools that can spawn.

[proven verge]

The classic stuff like dreaming for aquaduct, but other than that, a lot of time and dedication lmao

[mossy dagger]

ive been trying to get bandit BE for a while, but i end up killing mithrix too fast.

same for captain smushed acheivement

what items do i get and not get with command

[lavish jacinth]

mostly focus on direct damage multipliers like etc., avoid proc items that could steal the kill (although specifically are safe as there's a tiny grace period to allow for them)

for bandit, just try to only damage him with your revolver in his last phase and it should go pretty smoothly

with captain, soften him up with with the shotgun or taser from a distance and then drop a beacon on him when he's low. will also give you extra uses on your primary beacon

[lethal delta]

how does the sale star work in simulacrum?

[modern kiln]

does anyone know why i keep not spawning when going to some stages

just bought the new dlc cause family wanted to play but i keep not spawning randomly on some stages

[raw stump]

Most likely every time you go to a different stage it resets

Not after each wave

[broken garden]

is there smt going on rn becasuse every single eclipse game ive had, ive had very frequent stone titan bosses that almost always drop yellows as for other bosses too, plus 99 percent of drones ive picked up have been medic drones