ror2-game-questions

[cinder pasture]

Shit I wouldn’t of caught

[south egret]

happens

[hoary sedge]

I was assuming a scenario of proccing ATG so 0.75 coeff * 10% chance

[south egret]

ohh ok

[glacial knoll]

the exact numbers don't really matter that much unless we talking alt skills

Captains just good at proccing, lower proc does hurt bleed duration but you can just spam

[cinder pasture]

And getting more than one procs makes up for it. Or at least closer

[hoary sedge]

it CAN work, the issue kinda stems from the fact that he does have good procs though. since your proc items also benefit from crits, I kinda feel like you get more value out of increasing the power of your reliable procs than banking on spamming enough of them to get the lost seers kill

wait nvm I lost the plot sorry

I thought we were still talking about captain and lost seers

[cinder pasture]

No I was speaking about tri tip, I hate lost seers

[hoary sedge]

riiight that was someone else lmao

[glacial knoll]

Needleticks good when you cant maintain bleed and lower proc coeffs factor into that kinda a lot

[cinder pasture]

I would remove it from my game if I could. Dear god great game devs give us that option

[glacial knoll]

tho on Mando it's still like 400% damage on a 100% damage attack

that's the same boost as plimp early on

[radiant frigate]

lost seer's is ok on a handful of survivors like bandit who already gets guaranteed crits

[cinder pasture]

But if you had the choice between seers and safer spaces what are you choosing

[radiant frigate]

you could say the same things about many items that are in the same tier. obviously i would pick spaces

i do kinda wish i could get rid of or "cleanse" void items somehow but idk what the balance implications of that would be

[hoary sedge]

see the thing about that is that the other one is railgunner, and if you need seers to get through a rg run then something has gone horribly wrong

[radiant frigate]

railgunner still benefits from crit chance

[glacial knoll]

her passives a downside it's fucking funny

[hoary sedge]

barely

[glacial knoll]

take lost seers on her

[hoary sedge]

it's better to just not take seers and save crit for scrap imo

[south egret]

it leads to less multiplier than crit usually gives, so I'd call that a downside

[glacial knoll]

well the passive also just removes crit from your m1 which is annoying

5% more damage on m2 and m4 is so not worth anything

[frosty reef]

being unable to crit with equip or stompers

[lavish jacinth]

You can scrap it but why would you want to

[cinder pasture]

to keep 1 attack on merc

[lavish jacinth]

?

[daring cloak]

What

[cinder pasture]

for the third m1 to util tech

[daring cloak]

You can still do that

The timing will just be a little harder

[cinder pasture]

yeah just harder the faster attack speed

[lavish jacinth]

Not even that much harder

[daring cloak]

I mean I wouldnt scrap a whole irradiant pearl just because of that

[lavish jacinth]

Pearl gives less attack speed than a syringe, and you can still do it pretty easily with 1-2 syringes

I actually find the timing easier with 1 syringe lol

Also yeah, the "invincible merc build" is basically just holding r and waiting for things to slowly die lol

bleed has higher theoretical damage potential but requires constant stacking, while collapse does a higher burst of damage up front but doesn't stack as well.

Tick really shines on survivors that get lots of procs that they don't follow up on, since it capitalizes really well on those random bits of chip damage. Since Merc has huge hitboxes and almost all of his attacks pierce, he can benefit a lot from tick

but he's also able to focus a target well enough that he can keep bleed stacks going, so he can work with both tick or tritip imo, depending on your preference

if you want the math

[brisk ravine]

Is something bugging my game? Since stage 2 I've only been getting stage 2 maps (currently at stage 7 and at wetland aspect, didnt loop or visit sky meadow)

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, that's a rare bug that can happen.
Try the usual stuff like reinstalling/verifying files, but if that doesn't work, the miscFixes mod should fix it iirc

[primal vector]

You can check the thread "Stuck in an infinite loop" where several people with the same problem discussed it

[marble magnet]

How good is Tesla coil? ;W; apparently it's really good but I literally reroll it for some reason

Maybe I need to use it more man but still

[hoary sedge]

it's a really good amount of free, passive damage

[marble magnet]

Hmm oke

[lone compass]

every time i try to play multiplayer im stuck spectating myself and others, some players are in limbo too

is there a way to fix this i wanna play the game!!!

01990161-041a-02df-03b2-dc273db8d556 modpack if its relevant

[lavish jacinth]

does it still happen if you're playing without mods?

[lone compass]

one of my friends tried on vanilla and the same happened

havent tried myself but i probably should...

[lavish jacinth]

give it a try just to rule it out

oh and obligatory, have everyone in the lobby turn crossplay OFF, if you haven't already (assuming you're all on steam)

[lone compass]

im just joining random servers so yeah everyone has it off

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, honestly not sure then. A few other people have reported the bug, but it seems to be somewhat rare and I don't know if there's a known fix.

[lone compass]

worked without mods... im suspecting these guys in particular

ill disable and test again

no, still isnt working

[lavish jacinth]

you could try #ror2-modding , give them your modlist and ask if there's anything that's known to cause issues

[lone compass]

found this mod, will try one last time before going there

yeah no,....

[cinder pasture]

how do i get better at blinding assult tech, i can do it with focused assult just not blinding

[lavish jacinth]

it should be the same for both dashes, but one trick that helps with both is to do it at point blank range so that you get a little bit of hitpause on the first frame of the hitbox coming out, which gives you a larger window to hit dash or m2

[lavish jacinth]

If you're joining random servers with non-clientside mods then it's probably just because your mods don't match the server host. UnmoddedModVersion hasn't been updated since 2020 so I doubt it still works

[cinder pasture]

my first 2 pearls were irradiant. this isnt how i wanted this run to go

[lavish jacinth]

that's not a bad thing lmao

seriously, the little bit of attack speed you get from a pearl isn't going to ruin your ability to do the expose tech

and also like, the expose tech isn't a requirement to make merc playable

[cinder pasture]

no i know, ive done complete runs without it but still, that 30% health is nice

[lavish jacinth]

you still get health from an irridiant pearl tho

[lone compass]

thats the thing all my mods should be client sided

[cinder pasture]

does blinding event benefit from it as much as focused

[lavish jacinth]

debugtoolkit isn't clientside

[lone compass]

it disabled

[lavish jacinth]

idk then

but if it works in vanilla then at least you have a workaround

[lavish jacinth]

it's about the same, arguably more since you get 3 dashes that can all apply expose (assuming you do it on each dash), whereas focused gets you 1 expose from the tech and another from the dash itself. And with blinding it's easier to follow up on the expose right away

if anything blinding is more lenient, you get 3 dashes where you can attempt it instead of just one

[cinder pasture]

do skin mods just only effect the local user in multiplayer?

[lavish jacinth]

might depend on the mod but I think so, yeah. Check if it has the client-side tag on the mod page

[cinder pasture]

do you dash right before the final m1, like on the focsed i go off sound but it doesnt work the same with blinding

[lavish jacinth]

they should be at almost exactly the same time, but m1 has to happen just slightly before the dash

like, within a couple of frames

[cinder pasture]

i can land if clicking singular but not holding

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it's a little easier to do it that way, although you can get a feel for the timing with practice

[cinder pasture]

is there a mod i can use to make a training area?

[lavish jacinth]

try debuggingplains + debugtoolkit

[steady stone]

There's built in maps for it, with aitest and testplane/testplain

i forget which form of plane haha

[lavish jacinth]

do those also have the target dummy golem and stuff? I always just use debuggingplains lol

[steady stone]

those can just be spawned in manually, anywhere

just an insanely scaled golem body id assume

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it's just convenient to have one already spawned in

[steady stone]

true

[short bolt]

Why do some of my characters have a gold outline on them that flashes and it seems to change everyday?

[lavish jacinth]

it's meant to show that you've got a new unlock on that character that you haven't looked at yet, but it seems to be kinda buggy sometimes

[short bolt]

Fax what should I play today?

[lavish jacinth]

uhhh mul-t

[short bolt]

And what should I do go for unlocking achievements, bosses or getting unlocks on characters?

[lavish jacinth]

I'd say go for unlocks, you can get other achievs and stuff done along the way

[short bolt]

okey

And what items should I be getting since il probably play on command?

[left matrix]

what character do u play? or do u want overall build? do u have both dlc? or 1? or none?

[short bolt]

Il be playing mult I got all the dlcs

I’m assuming

[lavish jacinth]

that'd be a good place to start asuming you're running nailgun, but the more proc items you can get, the better

[left matrix]

yeah

[short bolt]

What’s proc mean like activate?

[raw quartz]

does anyone know if you can re enter path of the colossus if you leave

[lavish jacinth]

on-hit effects, yeah

atg, uke, etc

[lavish jacinth]

you can as long as you haven't killed false son yet

[short bolt]

Oooo ok

[raw quartz]

perfect, thanks

[short bolt]

Thanks fax 👏🏽

[lavish jacinth]

np

[cinder pasture]

ive never seen a clearer sign not to go transcendence

[lone compass]

scrap everything and get transendance anyway

[cinder pasture]

thats what i did

[opaque anvil]

how do i do the huntress secondery m1 challenge?

[cinder pasture]

"As Huntress, land a killing blow with every possible hit of a single glaive."?

[quasi topaz]

Artifact of glass and artifact of swarms

[opaque anvil]

ye i tried it with wisps but after it killed one of em it just dint bounce

[cinder pasture]

was there something near it?

[opaque anvil]

yeah other wisps

[mellow crystal]

Are you sure they were close enough

[north rover]

why cant i see any servers

[opaque anvil]

like hugging distance from each other

[stoic bobcat]

What's good on acrid like honorable ones ?
From what I done I assume it's crystal ?

[blazing perch]

i got the game a few days ago and i watched a video on how to get the false son and i cant for the life of me get gold portals to show up, how do yall get gold portals to spawn???

[steady stone]

Sacrifice and command will make the shrine spawn more, as chests and such stop spawning, and the Bazaar can have Gilded Coast as a Lunar Seer

[weak timber]

Hey, what is the best way 2 do railgunner: anihhilator?

[steady stone]

Most commonly is the Lunar Seer, though, although you'll need lunar

[steady stone]

Pure damage mults, such as especially, instead of things that would hit separately like

also works well to stack, as it stacks extremely well

[weak timber]

how many stacks would i need aproximately

[steady stone]

Ideally mix everything together, so it varies, but this is the table for glass

Your level also plays into how much you will do

128 glass will kill you, though

[weak timber]

ok

[plain birch]

enemies stop spawning when the teleporter hits 99% right?

[steady stone]

Yeah

[blazing perch]

thanks!

[lavish jacinth]

assuming you're on steam, turn off crossplay

[lavish jacinth]

damage multipliers like are great for boosting poison damage, DoTs and drones can help finish off enemies at low health, and total damage procs are good as always

[stoic bobcat]

I thought watch isn't great with acrid since it breaks or he gotta melee and might die

[lavish jacinth]

I mean, it's not like it's guaranteed that you'll break it, just jump away if you're taking too much damage

(or if you're lazy, just don't melee at all and let poison do all the work while you run in circles)

[brave cedar]

Did you buy the Seekers of the Storm dlc?

[quasi topaz]

I only really see people melee stage 3 and before, anything past that and it's usually a risk outside of certain situations

[lavish jacinth]

it's viable after stage 3 but you do have to be really careful about it

[blazing perch]

i have al the dlc

all*

[short bolt]

How much should I stack leach seed and does lucky clover stack?

[lavish jacinth]

1. approximately zero
2. yes

leeching seed is just kinda trash and is completely outperformed by + crit

and stacking clover gives rolls more chances to succeed

[blazing perch]

i got the false son yall now i just have to get rex 🫡

[timber dove]

same here pal

[dawn dagger]

is there like a build/guide compendium/compellation or google doc put together that holds all the builds/guide etc?

[lavish jacinth]

pretty sure there isn't

[dawn dagger]

aw, okay

[lavish jacinth]

builds in ror2 aren't really complex enough to be worth making a huge guide for anyway

like, there might be a few things that synergize with your character, or basic setups like infinite tonic, but usually you end up just wanting a bit of everything

[hoary sedge]

there also aren't that many dedicated specific 'builds', it's more about knowing what items generally work well together and what types of things each survivor benefits from the most

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[dawn dagger]

ah okay,

[hoary sedge]

the closest thing to set builds you'll get are equipment focused runs, like or

[lavish jacinth]

for the most part I think they're fairly intuitive to figure out as long as you understand the basic mechanics behind how items work, and for that the wiki probably has all the info you need https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/

[stoic bobcat]

kk
o been wondering r they additive or multiplactive

like crystal and watch

[lavish jacinth]

different multipliers are always multiplicative with each other

[short bolt]

Wsp guys

So I should prolly not get leach seed

[lavish jacinth]

nah

if you want on-hit healing, get a scythe and crit chance

[short bolt]

What’s it look like?

[lavish jacinth]

[short bolt]

It’s locked behind a achievement

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

beat a prismatic trial

[short bolt]

Ah

[ebon fern]

prismatic trials arent that hard to beat, when i did one for the achievement i think it took 20 mins or so

[slim spoke]

5 minutes.

get in, get out.

[short bolt]

Yeah it took my 3 stages

Not bad

[turbid whale]

is the sawblade on multi actually good or nah?

[lavish jacinth]

it's hard to use but technically good, 1000% dps and the highest proc rate in the game

[turbid whale]

now what if i used dual sawblades with power mode?

[lavish jacinth]

kind of a meme build but it's effective once it gets going

early game is rough until you find a way to deal with flying enemies though

[viral sorrel]

can you fight false son multiple times in one run

[lavish jacinth]

saw+nailgun powermode is a good compromise, and it makes nailgun perfectly accurate thanks to a funny quirk of powermode

the accuracy of the primary weapon affects the secondary for some reason

[turbid whale]

oh that sounds fun

well thank you very much :D

[lavish jacinth]

you're not supposed to be able to, but I think it's possible by getting one of the colossus stages in a lunar seer

[viral sorrel]

okay cool thanks

[knotty nova]

Does anyone know if the aspects of elites still drop with the artifact of command + artifact of horror?

[lavish jacinth]

They do, yeah

[knotty nova]

That's awesome ty for letting me know 🫰

[limpid anchor]

is it worth getting the dlcs? last time i properly played the game was when mythrix and captain came out and have been getting into it recently

[lavish jacinth]

If you're enjoying the game then yeah, they're both worth it

[limpid anchor]

okay thank you!

[short bolt]

What’s the item that drops more items white or green I rember getting it

Playing heritc to btw

[tender temple]

probably sonorous whispers

[short bolt]

Ah yeah

[tender temple]

it drops guaranteed items from bosses(enemies not specifically tp events) and a small chance to drop items from elites

[brisk ravine]

Thanks for the help guys!

[olive narwhal]

What is War Bonds name in code? I wanna blacklist it for Scavengers (I have enough of hearing this goddamn trumpet every 5s)

[glacial knoll]

BarrageOnBoss is already blacklisted for scavs

[olive narwhal]

Ok, found it, it's "BarrageOnBoss"

Hm, then why have I heard the trumpt so often?

Maybe mine procced so much

[glacial knoll]

because it activates when a scavenger spawns

[olive narwhal]

Context: I was playing witch Chir from SS2, I charmed a Scav and had Scepter so it persisted. But I swear the Scav kept spamming the trumpet. Unless it was mine. Hm.

[glacial knoll]

any time I scav spawns or gets an item yours activates

[olive narwhal]

Wait, any time Scavs get an item? That's weird, why?
(That would explain it, Scav inherited my cooldown items and went on a scavenging spree)

[glacial knoll]

because the coding is stupid

its not even meant for regular scavs its meant for twisted scavs

[olive narwhal]

Lol

You think it would play the sound for ally Scavs too? Or was it coded so that it only procs when it's an enemy?

[glacial knoll]

it will activate on ally scavs yes

[olive narwhal]

Lmao bruh

[glacial knoll]

ill forward it ig

[solar roost]

I've heard mixed things about the DLCs over the years, are either of them worth picking up since they're on sale right now?

[gaunt bay]

yes 🎉

[olive narwhal]

Yeah, I'd say

[olive narwhal]

Oh, forgot to say thanks. Thanks Wolfo!

[young sequoia]

hi guys, i am need advice about alt mines on a engineer, how did unlock them? what tactic?

[silver lantern]

I'm experiencing an issue where specifically my music is cutting out for a second or two every few seconds, does anyone know the cause or the fix?

[silver lantern]

if you play on drizzle with artifact of command and just stack aoe and loop you'll eventually get it

[leaden hazel]

what?

[silver lantern]

?

[tender temple]

which one was that again

is the finish tp with no enemies alive the mines or the harpoon unlock

genuinely dont remember

[silver lantern]

the first one

wait no

[tender temple]

no its apparently the same as the artificer one

the quick boss kill

[silver lantern]

just go on command and get a tricorn

[lavish jacinth]

[silver lantern]

use it stage 1 tp

[lavish jacinth]

Or if you don't have SotV

[shy flower]

Hey is there a reason I can't seem to paste images here? Wanted to ask a question with a screenshot

[scarlet dagger]

Yeah no image perms so people can't spam or smth

[tender temple]

image perms are tied to roles

you have no roles so you dont have image perms

#roles get literally any role

[shy flower]

Ahh alright

That worked thank you!

[tender temple]

no problem its a relatively common question

[shy flower]

This halcyon shrine dropped its item directly inside the green portal, is there any way to interact with it? No mater where I position or aim it just says "Enter Green Portal" lol

[tender temple]

well the only way to get it would be trying to position soo

try to get really close to it

it can differ with distance and not just camera position

[lavish jacinth]

if you're really quick, you might also be able to hit the portal first and then interact with the fragment before it teleports you

[tender temple]

i guess that too

[shy flower]

Oh that's a good idea. The time pressure to make the choices though 😅

I got it, just needed this whack angle haha. Thank you

[cinder pasture]

killed the halyconite and i didnt get a 3 thign?

nvm

[hoary ocean]

Hi guys im just beginning risk of rain 2 lowk i know games been out for hella long but could someone like show me the basics maybe play a few

[fierce bluff]

Play a few-

[lavish jacinth]

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

[stoic bobcat]

if i die as heretic or the heresy bird
do i respawn as my previous survivor if i had a dio bear?
like do i turn back bandit?

[boreal moat]

No, because transforming into heretic is based on owning all the ability changing lunar items

[stoic bobcat]

kk

i assumed it'd work like that but also assumed theres lore reason that doesnt let u respawn as em

[weak timber]

So, what do i need for the Mul-Truck build?

[cinder pasture]

I would find a character you like and then win a few runs before you dive too deep

[lavish jacinth]

the what now

like, building around transport mode?

[weak timber]

yeah

how ow do i it

please

[lavish jacinth]

I guess to start you'd want afterburner and other cooldown reduction to keep it active, light flux would probably be good since you probably wouldn't care about attack speed anyway

and then more obvious stuff like movement speed and damage multipliers

ngl I've been around this community for years and this is literally the only time I've heard the words "Mul-Truck build", it's not something people usually build around lol

If you're planning to do most of your damage with transport mode then you'd probably also want feathers to reach flying enemies

best loadout would probably be double rebar/retool if you end up using light flux, since retool is mostly unaffected by attack speed I think

or maybe powermode would be better? Both specials can cancel the reload animation on rebar but I'd have to actually try it to see which is better. Probably doesn't matter if you're mostly using transport mode tho

Overall I think you'd basically build it the same way you'd build Loader, but with more movespeed items to boost transport mode's damage

[weak timber]

I also discovered hitting enemies with it doesnt count on entering combat

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it's not considered a combat skill for some reason so it won't cancel red whip

[weak timber]

guess it would be good for this build

[lavish jacinth]

there would probably be better uses for green items tbh

atg or bands would give you another multiplier instead of an additive bonus to speed

is silly with transport mode but it's horrible to control

[short bolt]

Voiding should dropped his log when I kill it smh

[dawn dagger]

any guides for Huntress, Seeker, Artificer (I think i found one for this in the pins), Bandit, and Captain?

[lavish jacinth]

I can write up a quick summary for each of them if you want, there are guides on youtube but I'd have to watch them to know if they're actually worth recommending or not lol

[short bolt]

Is 10 crit glasses enough to crit every hit?

[lavish jacinth]

yes

technically you only need 8 or 9 since most other crit-related items give 5% on their first stack

[short bolt]

Should I stack sythes?

[lavish jacinth]

if you're playing a character that has good proc rate, you shouldn't need more than 1 or 2

[short bolt]

I’m playing acrid

[lavish jacinth]

it's better to stack attack speed or more proc items, since that'll improve your dps while also indirectly helping scythe by giving more procs

[short bolt]

I have lots of

Proc items like sticky and atg?

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah
(although only AtG would help scythe specifically because sticky doesn't have a proc coef)

[short bolt]

Ohh

[lavish jacinth]

but you should still get proc items anyway because they're really damn good

like in general

Scythe can help Acrid if you're actually playing him really aggressively, but if not then his best healing items are the usuals and maybe

[short bolt]

Yeah I’m going full Agro with lots of

[lavish jacinth]

mkay

might be another good thing to get a stack or two of, it pairs well with scythe and high crit and basically becomes a better version of , letting you tank small hits while dealing damage back in return

[short bolt]

[short bolt]

How are you supposed to chase the crabs off the map?

[lavish jacinth]

just get close to them, they run away from you

[deep sparrow]

i modded my game then unmooded it and now everytiem i play after the first map i get stuck on the desert map anyone know the fix

[short bolt]

I am but he’s not moving

[lavish jacinth]

can also work, or a non-damaging knockback move like railgunner mines, but you don't really need them

[lavish jacinth]

it should, smack it and see if it wakes up or something

[deep sparrow]

anyone got a solution

[short bolt]

Uh my smacks kinda insta kill him

[lavish jacinth]

You can try the usual fixes of reinstalling and verifying files, but if that doesn't work then the miscFixes mod should do it iirc. Unfortunately I don't know if there's a reliable way to fix it in vanilla

a few other people have reported that problem but afaik there isn't a known fix

[lavish jacinth]

try , if you can get one ?
And you ARE looking at the right kind of crab, right? The ones that shoot mortars at you?

[short bolt]

Yea

Alr il see

[lavish jacinth]

no idea, they should just run if you get close to them. Maybe that specific one is just stuck somehow, unles it's happening with all of them

[short bolt]

How does the charge the teleporter at 10% work do I have to constantly be at 10 or do I just have to press it at 10

[lavish jacinth]

just finish it at 10%

easy way to do it is to get to 99%, jump off a cliff to get down to 1hp, then run back and finish it before your health regenerates

[knotty nova]

Does huntress get a new mastery skin with survivors of the void and if so how do you unlock it?

[lavish jacinth]

not with SotV, but seekers of the storm adds one for beating False Son

[uneven crow]

So I know about Proc Coeffs, but I still don't know how to determine if a Survivor is a Proc, Crit, Burst or Bleed. Maybe I'm thinking too hard

[lavish jacinth]

well, crit survivors aren't really a thing, anyone can benefit from crit except railgunner and maybe bandit.

Otherwise it's pretty straightforward, if most of your damage comes from high procs per second with low damage then they're a proc survivor. If they mostly deal damage in large, single hits, then they're burst

most survivors are somewhere on a spectrum between the two, with and sorta being the most extreme ends of the spectrum

And to be clear, most proc items deal total damage, meaning it's a % of the hit that procced it. So Everyone can benefit from them, some survivors just prioritize them more than others

bleed is the one thing that's pretty much only useful for proc survivors because it deals fixed damage and needs to be constantly stacked, so a high proc rate is a hard requirement for bleed builds. Burst survivors usually attack too slowly to keep stacks going, and their damage is so high that they'd get more out of a multiplier like crowbar or watch

[uneven crow]

Yeah for example Chef has high proc but kinda hard to stack Bleed imo

Is there a reason Race likes crit more than usual for Merc?

He doesn't really look for crit on any Survivor except Merc iirc

[lavish jacinth]

no idea, merc doesn't have any specific synergy with it

crit is kinda just generally good

[uneven crow]

He runs default Merc to be clear

[lavish jacinth]

still, no reason merc in particular would need crit more than anyone else

the only other thing about crit is that most of the crit synergy items ( ) are good on proc survivors, so they do get a little more from it than usual.

But that's not specific to merc, so maybe Race is just weird lol

[uneven crow]

yeah he plays so much so maybe he just do it for fun at this point

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

I'd just say to take youtuber/streamers opinions with a grain of salt

[uneven crow]

So is Merc a proc Survivor then?

[lavish jacinth]

yep, most of his damage is from fast, weak hits

And I should stress again that there isn't really a hard line between proc and burst survivors where you HAVE to build them a certain way. It's more of a general guideline on what items to prioritize

[dawn dagger]

Ah okay, gooot it. it would be helpful. I'm mostly trying to figure out best items to go for each. when i get scapper and 3d printer, i really dont know what needs to be scrapped and what should be used to get from the 3d printer

Or like when the triple option chest if there, i dunno which ones i should be grabbing lol

[lavish jacinth]

mkay, gimme a bit
though as an easy general rule, pretty much anything that multiplies damage in some way is almost universally good, either with direct multipliers like crit or etc., or total damage procs like

and it's best to mix different items rather than stacking a handful of "optimal" items, because items tend to multiply each other's effects (especially damage items)

[dawn dagger]

ah okay sounds good thank you

[lavish jacinth]

oh yeah, are you aware of stuff like proc coefficient and the difference between proc and burst survivors?

[oblique harbor]

Anyone know what’s the minimum for fighting voidling?

[lavish jacinth]

minimum what

[oblique harbor]

Items

[lavish jacinth]

you'll at least want good mobility and a way to heal, and ideally have really good damage

[oblique harbor]

I’ve never beaten voidling and am horrible at item choices, so could I have an example please?

[lavish jacinth]

It's sorta hard to give specifics since you can fight voidling at basically any point in a run, and it'll depend on your survivor and how good at the game you are

but you'll want enough movement speed and vertical movement to consistently dodge the beam attack and homing missiles, and get through the parkour sections without dying. Idk what the exact amounts would be, probably at least like 4-5 goat hooves and a hopoo feather (or equivalent).
Healing should be enough to quickly get you back to full health, a few stacks of wungus or medkit will usually be enough

damage is the hard one to quantify, you really just want as much single-target dps as you can get. When in doubt, stack a bunch of different total damage procs and damage multipliers. (Or just be Acrid and kill him with poison)

[oblique harbor]

Armour piercing or crowbar?

[lavish jacinth]

If you're a burst damage survivor then you want both, but I'd say focus on AP rounds

[oblique harbor]

How many loops roughly?

[lavish jacinth]

you never wanna go all in on crowbars, because if that first shot doesn't kill, then you have no other damage multipliers. and voidling has such a disgusting amount of health that you probably won't one shot him unless you're already on a completely broken run

[oblique harbor]

What equipment is recommended?

[lavish jacinth]

it could probably be done without looping at all, but I'd probably do at least one. If in doubt just go until you feel like you're sufficiently overpowered

[oblique harbor]

Are you online 24-7?

[lavish jacinth]

Sleep is for the strong

[oblique harbor]

?

[lavish jacinth]

are solid boss killers, is too but it's kinda hard to get gold in the voidling fight
is great if you can get 100% uptime (4 gestures minimum, or 1 gesture and 3 fuel cells)
if you're building around on-kill items
Seed of Life is good if you're confident in your damage without an equipment but still want some insurance

[dawn dagger]

So, in understand how proc coefficient works, but i'm not sure what the difference between proc and burst survivors are and which survivors are better for procs

[lavish jacinth]

If you scroll up a bit I actually explained it to someone else a little earlier, but it's basically just survivors that deal damage through lots of rapid hits vs. slow heavy hitters

[dawn dagger]

ah okay. i see it. so huntress, artificer, seeker, and captain would be proc and bandit burst?

[lavish jacinth]

Huntress and Captain are proc, Arti and Bandit are flexible but lean more into burst, and Seeker is just kinda good at everything

The wiki also lists some notable synergies for each survivor, if that helps https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Survivors

And admittedly, splitting characters into just proc or burst is oversimplifying them a little, it's just a loose way to categorize what they're good at, not a hard rule for how they should be built

[solar roost]

How can I find a Scavenger?

[glacial knoll]

loop

[hoary sedge]

or go to sundered grove but it's pretty rare to find one there pre-loop

[coarse fox]

30+ minutes on Monsoon usually gets you a natural* Scavenger on Sundered Grove pre-loop

[hoary sedge]

yeah ik that's the time cutoff but even then scavs cost so many credits to spawn that it has to be basically the first thing it chooses for the initial pool

[drowsy forge]

Hi! I'm a returning player from console, and instead of sticking to playing Acrid, I've been trying to play some Mercenary instead. Does anyone have any tips when it comes gameplay, items, etc? Thank you!

[slim spoke]

your primary skill's third hit has a lingering hitbox BOUND TO YOU (e.g. you move, it moves) so you can use that in combination with your ultility (3rd skill) to inflict Expose to enemies farther than your reach and profit on that sweet sweet cooldown cutout
your alternative special skill has a ~1s foreswing before it finally shoots so account for that too when you aim (especially for flying mobs)

[uneven crow]

Does Crit affect Poison?

[wide parrot]

no

[hoary sedge]

no but other flat damage multipliers do

so like will all boost poison damage

[drowsy forge]

:o

Interesting, I never took the Armor Piercing Rounds on Acrid

[lavish jacinth]

there's a link to a detailed merc guide in the pins

it's a little old but still pretty accurate, I think the only thing that's changed is that the slam tech no longer works

[nimble moth]

Hi does anybody know what the 2 bottom locations are in the 8th page of the environment logbook? I would send a screenshot but I am unable to

[lavish jacinth]

you can send a pic if you get a role, #roles

[nimble moth]

thank you

does anybody know what those 2 locations are?

[lavish jacinth]

I think those are the other variants of bulwark's ambry that SotS adds

[nimble moth]

ohh I see, since I dont go there a lot I never noticed much difference lol. Thanks!

[fierce bluff]

What's left in the game to do when you've fully completed the logbook andgot the golden E8 badge?

[steady stone]

Sometimes runs can open themselves up by just starting something, that you've never done before
Some odd build that shouldn't work but just does
With that much completion you have enough skill to add wiggle room to bad builds and just mess around, have fun

[fierce bluff]

Actually, that's a very good suggestion. Thanks!

[quasi topaz]

I got relatively consistent at e8 and then once I was bored of base mithrix I resorted to mods

[stoic bobcat]

recommended client side quality of life mods? [ i got looker glass and qol chest]

[lavish jacinth]

propersave is nice to have, #ror2-modding can probably recommend more

[stoic bobcat]

ty

[tepid gate]

Wtf slam no work? I thought I was just rusty, how long has this been gone?

[lavish jacinth]

not sure when exactly it got patched out, but it was probably part of the physics changes that came with SotS

[tepid gate]

Mmmmmmmm I see

[cinder pasture]

HOW DO I NOT GET DISTANT ROOST AS SPAWNING ON MERC, ITS BEEN LIKE 9 TIMES IN A ROW

best possible start

[quasi canopy]

Can I launch ror2 if it's on a USB stick?

[brave cedar]

Yes

[primal vector]

Disable DLCs to increase your chances

[tender temple]

how is making distant roost more common going to make it appear less

[quasi canopy]

thank you very much

[thick garden]

Is there a downside to corrupted items they seem kinda broken to me

[glacial knoll]

you cant get the original and they cant be scrapped

but they are meant to be strong so like yeah usually worth getting

[thick garden]

ok cool

also wich portal lead to the false son ?

[crisp timber]

green

[thick garden]

thanks

[quasi topaz]

What wolfo said but try to stay away from and on most characters

[thick garden]

alright

I got the lense but I didn't get much normal glasses anyway

and is there any benefit in exploring the prime meridian or do I just rush straight to the boss ?

[primal vector]

There are 4 big chests

And if you activate all the beacons, you get an item in the area under the boss

[thick garden]

ok thanks

[fair crescent]

This is one of the missing ones.

[uncut geyser]

"Open cloaked chest" im sorry what when did this exist

Ive never in my life seen a cloaked chest

[glacial knoll]

yeah they're invisible

[uncut geyser]

... I coulda worded that better

Well like how long have they existed?

[tender temple]

since forever

cloaked chests have always been a thing as long as i can remember

[uncut geyser]

Thats actually crazy sauce I've never once heard of them or interacted with it

[hoary sedge]

yeah they've always been a thing

basically the only ways to find them are randomly walking over them or looking for the teleporter interactable cage thing

but the second one is less reliable after sots bc now the cages just appear over absolutely nothing sometimes lmao

[primal vector]

And using the radar scanner

[oblique harbor]

Are they good?

Which maps do they spawn?

[crisp timber]

all of them. They're literally just normal chests that are invisible and open for free

[frosty reef]

Cheaper to spawn as well I believe

[shy cape]

so i bought the survivors of the void dlc and im wondering what things does it add/change to the game?

i know there are some items and maps and i've even encountered a large purple half orb that does damage to me while im inside but i don't know its purpose

[quasi topaz]

Items, maps, enemies mainly. The large purple orb is called a void seed, you must kill the amount of void enemies listed on the top right to break it and access the interactables inside

[cinder pasture]

i dont think that is how that works

[primal vector]

I did not read the "not"

[primal vector]

Also a new final boss

[marble magnet]

Can you still pillar skip with thunder gauntlet?

[kindred herald]

You can pillar skip with loader on any loadout

[marble magnet]

Alright thanks :3

[marble magnet]

I suck at Loader Mithrix

😭 holy shit it was going so well but I can't help but greed

Any tips

[steady stone]

Grapple into punch works for hit and run

You can punch past him and land out of range

Your default m1 isn't too rewarding anyhow

[marble magnet]

It's kinda uncomfy on controller

Also I prefer thunder gauntlet so the window is smaller

Alright

[steady stone]

You could probably rebind, if something else is easier

But grapple and punch have the same cooldown, she was built for doin that

[marble magnet]

Too much effort for a character I bearly even play !W;

I guess

I've always had the feeling that loader just wasn't built for console

Especially with her base charge punch

[steady stone]

She's very high speed, console will always struggle as you get faster

Mostly camera things

An unfortunate limitation of the joystick, but makes it more accessible and portable

[marble magnet]

Yea

Also when grappling before punching you don't have a option to stop your velocity from what I've seen

Backup mag actually makes her feel playable with base charge punch

[steady stone]

Im not sure i understand that one, grappling before punching with no option to stop

You could grapple in front of an enemy to stop before them, but you wouldn't want to since punch scales with speed

[marble magnet]

Whenever I grapple while charge punching when I hit the enemy I then get flung alot of distance and it's just really annoying having to walk slowly back

[lavish jacinth]

if you angle the punch downward, you'll hit the ground and won't slide as far

[steady stone]

Oh that, you have downtime until your cooldown is done to reposition, can punch down, or use thunderslam

[lavish jacinth]

or just don't let go of the grapple so you immediately spring back towards them

[marble magnet]

😭 my brain never thinks of that

[steady stone]

You'll have to wait a little longer on the cooldown though, if you stay attached while your punch lowers you'll be in that weird orbit state

[marble magnet]

Yea

Idk I mean obviously I can always use her easier punch but

Apparently she's incredibly busted with her base kit which I don't understand

Because she feels so terrible to play

But with her easy punch (alt) she feels like how people describe her

But alt punch is the worst one? 😭 I feel like I'm missing out

[steady stone]

What do you struggle with on default kit?

[marble magnet]

Getting launched into the air with no way to stop it

Hence why backup mag makes her more fun because she has another hook right after to stop velocity

But obviously you can't get mag every run so

[steady stone]

That's part of the good part, if anything, but generally you can solve that by thinking of what angle you'll be at when you come out of an enemy

But loader with no items can cross the entire map with one hook into punch

[marble magnet]

Yea

It's fun when not in combat but

It's so annoying when in combat y'know?

[lavish jacinth]

controlling the angle is kinda just something you have to practice

although I imagine it is a lot harder on console

[steady stone]

Punching earlier too, can make you hit the enemy later and not fly away

[marble magnet]

It is

I don't have the brain to suddenly switch my punch angle into the ground with controller

[marble magnet]

Like less charge or further away?

[steady stone]

I'd wonder if aim assist also makes you go higher, which could be annoying

[steady stone]

Releasing from further

You never have to release point blank

[marble magnet]

I guess but

Isn't she more powerful when at point blank?

Idk I kinda have no idea how the speed = power thing works

Like in terms of how fast

[lavish jacinth]

nah, you don't lose speed while actively punching

[lavish jacinth]

it directly converts her current velocity to damage
iirc it's +30% base damage per m/s

and the angle DOES matter, if you're swinging one way and then turn and punch in the opposite direction, it's basically the same as punching from a standstill

[steady stone]

learning when to release your grapple can help, to always go the angle you want

[marble magnet]

I see

I usually just release when facing the enemy directly, meaning I go flying but

I always just thought that was more damage than facing into the ground?

[steady stone]

from a topdown for example, releasing while swinging in an arc around a pillar can do this instead of orbiting

this can gain more speed than just the ground in front of an enemy, and easier than hitting the enemy itself if it's fast

[lavish jacinth]

nah, punching downward wouldn't affect it, as long as you're moving roughly in that direction

if you haven't seen this, I recommend it https://youtu.be/zeRRJGfzuSw only 5 minutes and covers all the important stuff

[marble magnet]

Alr

Thank you :) I gotta go now but

I'll try loader out base kit (except pylon I get I can grapple onto it but thunderslam is funner)

[lavish jacinth]

loader gets crazy strong once you really get good at her movement (clip courtesy of Jazzboat, no way I could do this shit lol)

[daring cloak]

God every time I look at that clip im just dazzled

Its so majestic

[devout lichen]

is diablo for captain able to be sped up? and if so, best items for it?

[lavish jacinth]

nope, it always takes 20 seconds to drop

[devout lichen]

dang

ty <3

[zealous cave]

will void fiend get unlockable new abilities? like everyone else

[lavish jacinth]

we don't know, but probably not

[thick garden]

Any tips for the commando ? I tried some other character and they all felt way stronger than him for some reasons

[zealous cave]

its because commando is honestly kinda mid.

[thick garden]

Ok fair enough

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, commando's definitely on the weaker end, especially if you're comparing him to seeker and railgunner

unlocking his alt skills does help tho

[thick garden]

I guess I will drop him after beating the false son

[lavish jacinth]

tbh the best way to get better at Commando is really just to get better at the game as a whole. He works decently well with most items (mainly procs) but he's so basic that any tips for him would just be general gameplay tips that apply to pretty much every survivor

[tender temple]

🤖

droid comment

[thick garden]

Well any general tips then ?

Im really new I played like 10 hours

[lavish jacinth]

full loot stages as efficiently as you can and try to memorize stage layouts so you can get around quickly without backtracking. A good rule of thumb is to get all the loot from a stage and leave with more items than minutes, but it's ok to spend time on stuff like printers and scrappers.

learn enemy sound cues and attack patterns so you can dodge them consistently (protip, like 90% of enemies can be avoided just by strafing or jumping)

learn what items do and how they synergize with each other, and which ones to prioritize depending on your survivor and build. In general, Damage>Speed>Healing/Defense

[thick garden]

I wasn't paying attention and though the layouts were randomly generated

And by speed do you mean mouvements in general or just speed ?

[lavish jacinth]

stages do have small variations like the doors on distant roost randomly being open or whatever, but the overall layouts are fixed

[thick garden]

Alright

[lavish jacinth]

anything that gives mobility, so mainly movement speed but stuff like work too

[thick garden]

Ok

Didn't knew it's so important

[lavish jacinth]

absolutely

being fast means you can get around stages quicker and dodge better

[thick garden]

Ok

And how much harder does the game get over time ?

Like is that a big deal to take too much time or not ?

[past monolith]

dont worry about time that much

[lavish jacinth]

as long as you keep collecting items and aren't wasting time, you can keep up pretty easily

[past monolith]

usually the items you get from full looting outscale the difficulty timer

[thick garden]

Alright

[past monolith]

ok outscale is not a good word for that i feel like

[thick garden]

So I full clear anyway

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[thick garden]

Alright thanks for the tips

Have a nice day yall

[lavish jacinth]

np

[lavish jacinth]

If chatGPT wrote it then it's pretty likely to be extremely wrong lol

[tranquil herald]

https://tenor.com/view/shannon-sharpe-shay-nope-nah-nuhuh-gif-13720863833457886904

[lavish jacinth]

I'm already noticing some stuff that's really far off lmao

[dawn dagger]

dammit

[lavish jacinth]

this is why we use link checkers

[tranquil herald]

no idea what that is

[lavish jacinth]

it's exactly what it sounds like

just google it

[dawn dagger]

oh well,

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it's probably faster to list all of the things it got right lol

like, it's telling you to scrap void items, which you literally can't even do

[dawn dagger]

oh whoops

[lavish jacinth]

...and it thinks shuriken is a void item apparently

[dawn dagger]

well dang, i'll just trash it lol

[lavish jacinth]

that would probably be best, AI doesn't know shit about games (or much of anything tbh)

[scarlet dagger]

Ai can help with a very small amount of things... video games are not one

[dawn dagger]

mmmmm. okay well dang.

hard to find the info for the things i was asking it tho, but i guess thats just how it is

[vernal granite]

I Got this game like a week ago. How does the whole multiplayer work, I'm on Xbox And how do the codes work?

[steady stone]

Multiplayer works peer to peer, and not cross-platform
The codes can be copied and used to join other jobbies as a way of making private lobbies

[vernal granite]

Ohhhhhh thx

[lavish jacinth]

the wiki is your friend, and we can help if there's anything specific you wanna know

[dawn dagger]

I mainly just get confused on which items to keep/trash/most important items to look for.

it doesnt help that the game doesnt tell you what the item does before buying like at the triple chest where i can only see the icons

[lavish jacinth]

there's actually a setting for that, turn on 'enable inspect' in settings, under that umbrella settings thing

I really wish that was on by default

[dawn dagger]

oh wut

that SHOULD be on by default lol

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, I even made a feedback post about it a while back but it never happened

It's a recent feature too, up until about a year ago you needed to install mods if you wanted better item descriptions

[lavish jacinth]

also if you want a quick list of stuff that's nearly always scrap:

(red and boss printers are super rare so it might be worth it to hang onto em since the scrap will probably be useless, but if you've got better items that you don't wanna risk losing, it's safe to get rid of those)

[high forum]

...let's not share ai generated garbage here

[lavish jacinth]

and red cauldrons are decently common on prime meridian and commencement, so you may get some use out of red scrap near the end of a run

[dawn dagger]

got it, thnx

I guess the hard part is since drops are so randomized, you kinda just have to use what you get and know enough on what synergizes adn what doesnt with which survivor and i'm kinda struggling with that now.

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, and that's something that does come with experience

but builds are also a lot more flexible than you might think. Items are kinda designed with the randomness in mind, so you can usually put together something that works with whatever random junk the game gives you

[paper isle]

that exists? and here I am using lookingglass to ping for item descriptions lmao

not that i would ever stop using lookingglass

[lavish jacinth]

in fact, mixing a bunch of things together is pretty much always better than just having stacks of a handful of "optimal" items

[lavish jacinth]

yep, it got added when sots came out

[drowsy forge]

Any tips for Merc? :)

[oblique harbor]

What’s the best way to do a skin run?

[dawn dagger]

got it, i'll just keep playing around with it

[lavish jacinth]

#ror2-game-questions message merc guide

[dawn dagger]

side question, how in gods name are we supposed to unlock Huntress' Ballista? Lots of build online are recommending it and i've tried, but dear lord its annoying

[lavish jacinth]

well, command/sacrifice/swarms if you wanna make it easy

otherwise you don't really need to do anything special, just play monsoon

[oblique harbor]

Mithrix?

[paper isle]

i personally just played monsoon and went to false son to get the mastery and prime meridian skins at once since i started playing after sots

[lavish jacinth]

you still have to be on monsoon to get mastery skins, regardless of what ending you get

I also have some tips for mithrix in the pins

[oblique harbor]

Pins?

[lavish jacinth]

you do have to git gud at least a little bit, but artifact of glass or make it a lot easier, also stacking some since taking damage to barrier doesn't fail the challenge.

The wiki also has some more info on it https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Huntress:_Piercing_Wind

[lavish jacinth]

little pin icon in the top right, or if you're on mobile you have to tap the bar at the top iirc

[oblique harbor]

I got luck and found an ageis on stage 2

[oblique harbor]

Ok

[dawn dagger]

gooot it ill take a look

[oblique harbor]

Thanks @lavish jacinth

[lavish jacinth]

oh yeah, and it doesn't necessarily have to be stage 3, just those maps. So you can also get it by looping until you're overpowered enough to do it without even trying

[lavish jacinth]

np

[dawn dagger]

oooooh okay i havent gotten that far enough to loop yet

[wintry fjord]

That's not lucky

[quasi topaz]

I think they mean red scrap

[tranquil herald]

@edgy gulch ?

[uneven crow]

I’m having trouble understanding what Acrid's Poison benefits from. For example I don't think you get heals from Leeching Seed with Poison

[lavish jacinth]

nope, DoTs never proc anything

but it gets boosted by direct damage multipliers like watch or ap rounds

or damage vulnerability from death mark and shattering justice and stuff

it also does a minimum of 1% of the target's health per second, so it essentially scales by itself even without multipliers

[uneven crow]

So besides huge benefit from AOE like Gas, just build like any other Survivor?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[uneven crow]

You don't really care about the dmg of the ability itself right? You can't really build to fight Mithrix

[lavish jacinth]

I mean, it does matter, damage is damage. And the direct hits are able to proc, just not the poison DoT

if you specifically wanted to build for mithrix then would be the way to go

but Acrid is one of the less item-reliant survivors in the game because poison is so consistent, plus he has decent built-in mobility and a little bit of healing

...he's also a survivor that can be incredibly lazy if you want, you can literally just run in circles and let poison do most of the work lol.

Playing him aggressively is more fun but it's technically optional

[uneven crow]

Is this true for any DoT like Bleed?

[lavish jacinth]

yep

damage-multiplying items affect ANY damage you deal, as long as it meets the condition for that item

they're also multiplicative with each other, so + + would deal more damage than + + even though they're all +20% damage, with the tradeoff that you have to satisfy 3 different conditions at once

[static kindle]

This may be me but i have absolutely negative idea of how ror2 works

Ive played roguelikes before, tried to watch a few guides, but Im struggling to understand the lack of minimap, the ginormous maps with minuscule movement speed

Synergies will just come by themselves with time but those 2 things i do not understand

[lavish jacinth]

I mean, there isn't a lot to understand, really. The maps are big but the layouts are consistent aside from some small variations, so you can learn the layout and come up with a route around the stage that'll let you full-clear stages quickly

and honestly the maps don't really feel that big once you get used to them

[high forum]

yeah they're not actually that big lol. they can look kind of 'tall' but there's not a lot to most of them

[static kindle]

I mean, i tried i think its stage 6, where you fight mister dude, and it took me like 5 minutes to get from one side to the other

This is on drizzle, dont know if it matters

[lavish jacinth]

...you are sprinting, right?

[static kindle]

Yeah, and spamming dash

[lavish jacinth]

commencement is big but even at base movement speed it shouldn't take 5 minutes to get through it, unless you get stuck fighting enemies

[static kindle]

Maybe i just got lost

[lavish jacinth]

maybe

[static kindle]

50 minutes a run to die to mister guy is kinda sad

[lavish jacinth]

and if you're full clearing stages (which you should be doing btw, don't rush stages) then you'll probably find some speed items, unless you're horribly unlucky

[lavish jacinth]

honestly that's pretty normal if you're new

[static kindle]

Yeah, i saw that on some non guide videos because most guides are like 17 years old

[lavish jacinth]

roguelikes just be like that

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, if any guide suggests the "Five minute rule", ignore it lol

it's a super old meta that carried over from ror1 and hung around a lot longer than it probably should have

[static kindle]

I saw, classic pre-datamine to post-datamine type thing

There were some specifics i heard i hsve no idea what they meant tho

"I didnt like X boss item so i went for the green"

What that mean

[lavish jacinth]

uhhh I don't know either lol
like, teleporter bosses have a chance to drop a boss item, and boss items range from god-tier to complete garbage, so sometimes a green item would be preferable depending on the boss

but there's no way to "go for" a green item

unless maybe they were talking about ? but that's still a weird way to phrase it

[static kindle]

Hmmm i may have misunderstood then

And the last one was about this whole looting thing, do people on run 1 just get the same amount of items?

Or do i just have less dice rolls essentially?

[signal atlas]

if i do not enter the void locus portal when it appears can it still appear on a later stage from rng?

[static kindle]

Idk how the credit system works so yea

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[lavish jacinth]

sooorta, the exact amount of loot you can get per stage is random, but it tends to average out to similar amounts of items per loop

[static kindle]

Oh okay, less variety due to unlocks, but you can technically get the same amount then

On average

[lavish jacinth]

generally yeah. If you're full clearing you can probably expect to have like 60-70ish items by the end of stage 5

[static kindle]

Oh okay ive just been missing a casual 50 items i guess

[lavish jacinth]

if you're on stage 5 with 10 items then yeah, you're not looting nearly enough lol

[static kindle]

Yeah, i mean, ive gotten 10x crit glasses and a few other things, but i think im getting around 20 or so items by stage 5

Tbf that run had like 6 turrets so yeahh

[lavish jacinth]

yeah that's pretty low

[lavish jacinth]

gunner turrets would use up interactable credits so you'd get fewer chests, but not by THAT much

Don't be afraid to spend more time exploring and looking for loot

[static kindle]

Sure thing

Do the difficulties matter at all?

[lavish jacinth]

difficulty only affects how fast enemies scale, and your health regeneration (which barely matters because healing items and drones exist, and most of them aren't affected by it)

but the amount of chests and stuff you get doesn't change

[static kindle]

Alright so just go max diff, loot faster, lot it all, wham bam

[lavish jacinth]

yep

[static kindle]

Also theres a few mods im concerned with, mainly whatever the heck save and the did you get every chest reminder, are these bannable, flagable so you cant do multiplayer anymore, anything like that

[lavish jacinth]

ironically, looting is actually faster on the highest difficulty, because enemy spawn rates ramp up faster

[static kindle]

Lol makes sense

[lavish jacinth]

nope, mods are totally allowed.
Only thing is that if you have a mod that isn't client-side, you can only play with people who also have that same mod

[static kindle]

Oh so like minecraft

Okay im glad this isnt like bloond td6 in which you can lose access to multiplayer forever if you play with mods lmao

[lavish jacinth]

yeah nah

honestly I'm not even sure if you CAN get banned in this game lol

[static kindle]

Wdym

Surely if you say gg 5 times youd get banned

[lavish jacinth]

multiplayer hosting is peer2peer, there aren't like official servers that you could get banned from

[static kindle]

Oh

Im so intrigued that everything seems to be p2p

I remember playing minecraft snd having to watch an hour of tutorials back in 2015, now you just press multiplayer

[tepid gate]

the jank hamachi setup

[lavish jacinth]

in this case I think it's just due to the game originally being developed by like 3 people, they didn't have the resources for official servers and never expected the game to be popular enough to need em, lol

[static kindle]

Those were the times man

[static kindle]

I honestly prefer it, lower latencies due to same region etc

And the modding stuff

[lavish jacinth]

and they can't shut down the servers so that everyone has to buy risk of rain 3 lmao

[static kindle]

Also ive heard about dlc, my friend said "once i play with him i should get it" what does that mean lol

[lavish jacinth]

although it would be nice if gearbox finally added some improvements to how multiplayer works, it's kinda bare bones

[static kindle]

Why so?

[signal atlas]

do the void bombs dropped by killing enemies in the void locus oneshot you regardless of skills? i made the mistake of grabbing two of the lunar items that shrink the teleporter size so i’m currently struggling

[static kindle]

I heard you can loot steal tf out of your friends

[lavish jacinth]

you'll see once you try it, multiplayer tends to feel less like co-op and more like a bunch of singleplayer runs happening at the same time

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, the explosions are always an instant kill and they ignore iframes. The only thing that dodges them is and void fiend's dash

[signal atlas]

even through safer spaces and dio’s?

[lavish jacinth]

yup

[signal atlas]

well shit

[lavish jacinth]

those two dashes only work because they completely remove your hitbox instead of making you invincible

so the implosion literally can't hit you

[lavish jacinth]

dunno what they meant exactly but the dlc's are worth getting if you like the game

if your friend has them, then you'll be able to try out most of the dlc content by playing with him, except for characters

or you could play prismatic trials, they also have dlc content unlocked so they're sorta like a free trial of the dlc

[static kindle]

I see

[worthy slate]

Question does the false son thing have to be done on normal difficulty to get him

[lavish jacinth]

any difficulty works

[pallid mirage]

How good are both bands, just unlocked them

[mellow crystal]

Very very good

On the level of ATG if not better

They're essentially if ATG always procced on 400%+ damage attacks but had a 10s cooldown

One is AoE and one is single target + slow

[hoary sedge]

the exact level of power is character dependent but they're always at least pretty decent extra damage

[finite plinth]

Hello. Just started playing this week, and currently learning huntress. About the game timer, does it matter if I activate the teleporter and spawn the boss asap during Easy (given I already have a decent items equipped)? Or should I prioritize clearing the whole map first?

Also when you guys say “clear”, that means just getting all the items in the map right?

[charred heron]

In my runs, I typically prioritize getting as many items as I can first. I try to get an item per minute or at least have the same amount of items with how many minutes has passed for example have 4 items at 4 minutes. Just know so you know if you complete the tp early enemies will stop spawning once you complete it so you won't get extra gold if you need it after the tp.

[mellow crystal]

Yeah in general full looting is always better than trying to keep up with time
Unless you're doing REAAALLLY bad on time and are at like 90 minutes by stage 5

[finite plinth]

I… I haven’t reached stage 5 yet. 😂 thank you both for the tips!

[unkempt ocean]

What unlocks are the best to go for? Played the game for about 800 hours and lost my save so for funzies seeing how much I can get in one run

[soft blade]

Well the most ever was 91 or 96. There's a video on that

Idk tho I'd say u go for characters the deaths and all the relics

[unkempt ocean]

Fair enough then I kinda have a plan now

[gentle sparrow]

https://medal.tv/games/ror-2/clips/l27d3z80ZyXw7vdQo?invite=cr-MSxDMWQsMjI4MzIwMDYx

why is he healing here, i looked at his items on the wiki and there is no reason he should be randomly healing to full over and over

[soft blade]

Are u playing honor?

[gentle sparrow]

dont even know what that is so im gonna assume not

[soft blade]

Cause if he has elite shields than that will let him heal

[soft blade]

It's a relic

[gentle sparrow]

a relic?

[glacial knoll]

monster tooth

[soft blade]

Ty wolfo also is it relic or is it a different word

[gentle sparrow]

yeah i know he has monster tooth but hes not killing anything

[soft blade]

I can't sleep so thinking is hard

[gentle sparrow]

why is his monster tooth randomly activating

he shoots some yellow goo at the ground and then the monster tooth activates like 30 times

i just let him kill me cause idk hes so far at the edge of the map that when i try to fight him it teleports me back to the middle

but does anyone have any clue why he would randomly get a ton of monster tooth healing for no reason?

[glacial knoll]

that's how scavs work they activate on kills

[gentle sparrow]

yeah but hes literally not killing anything

you can see it in the clip theres not a soul within 30 miles

[glacial knoll]

Scavs just do that

[soft blade]

Ya thier secondary activates on kills

I forgot about that thanks again wolfo ur awesome

[gentle sparrow]

im so confused

ur saying activates on kill but he's not killing anything

[soft blade]

Yes

Think the voodoo doll equipment

They do that over and over again

[paper isle]

fmp is very fun and awesome

[gentle sparrow]

you're breaking my brain here

so the scavenger's secondary ability is to activate on kill effects?

[soft blade]

Yes

[gentle sparrow]

okay okay

that makes sense

[soft blade]

There is an equipment that does that too. That's what I was trying to say

[gentle sparrow]

i dont know about that equipment lol ive got like maybe half the stuff unlocked

probably less

[soft blade]

Ah. It's the one u get for dieing 20 times

Sorry for being confusing

[gentle sparrow]

no ur good man i just dont know much and it's a hard thing to explain

[soft blade]

I've been trying to sleep for 2 hours but I'm still pumped on adrenaline

So that doesn't help

[gentle sparrow]

i would would have been much more confusing in your position lol

[soft blade]

Lol

I mean I used relics which is mb I didn't know how far u were

As an earlier example

K I'm sorry

[gentle sparrow]

what is a relic?

[soft blade]

My brain isn't braining

[soft blade]

It's something u can unlock. At the end of the challenges in the logbook it will have a page for them

They make the game different

[gentle sparrow]

oh the artifacts

[soft blade]

Yes

Thank you

[gentle sparrow]

ive got the one you get by finding the thingy

[soft blade]

The thingy?

[gentle sparrow]

the code right next to the nine shapes

[soft blade]

Ohh ya

I forgot there's one there

I think that one is honor of I'm not wrong

[gentle sparrow]

theres actually a code on the scavenger i fought i should probably go do that

do all of em have a code on their bodies?

[soft blade]

I don't think so

I also didn't do most of my artifacts traditionaly

So I'm not the greatest one to ask for that

[gentle sparrow]

no problem

thanks for answering all of my questions

[soft blade]

Ya I gotchu.

[gentle sparrow]

ive learned that scavengers are stupid enemies

[soft blade]

Yes

I've lost to many god runs to them

[gentle sparrow]

actually ive got one more question for you

[soft blade]

What's up

[gentle sparrow]

ive cleared a rainstorm with all the non dlc characters, and idk what to do next. i did a monsoon with engineer, and i did a couple other monsoon runs, but i feel like the runs take forever just for them to feel very similar?

like the items become so strong they vastly overshadow the uniqueness of the character

is how it feels

[soft blade]

Yes that's the thing with looping

[gentle sparrow]

I feel like playing the game more but idk what to even do lol

any ideas?

[soft blade]

everyone will be boring so far into the game

I'd say try to get all characters to eclipse 8

[gentle sparrow]

what is that

[soft blade]

That's pain itself I haven't even beaten a monsoon

[soft blade]

Click alternative game modes

It will be under eclipse

[gentle sparrow]

pick engineer and full loot every stage

tedious but you cannot lose

[soft blade]

Ya my brain doesn't do that Lol. I play loader for zoomies

And I play sacrifice swarming lol

[gentle sparrow]

i dont understand what that means but im gonna assume it means you're jacked and handsome and cool

[soft blade]

Loll I doubt anyone u ask other than my girlfriend will say that about me lol

Do you have all the characters unlocked?

[gentle sparrow]

other than the dlcs yeah, havent bought them yet

gonna play the shit out of silksong and then once i am done with that i will return to this game

and do the dlc stuff

[soft blade]

Lol that's fair

Ive played like 4 hours of hollow knight

So I won't lol

[gentle sparrow]

300 hours for me

couple more

[soft blade]

My buddy 106%ed it in 2 weeks

Like first touched the game 2 weeks ago leading up to ss

[gentle sparrow]

that's awesome lol

ive seen a bunch of people last minute playing through hollow knight to prep for silk song

[soft blade]

What it means is I like to pretend to be spider man and kill things with momentum and direction

[soft blade]

Ya it's supposed to be a game of the year contender

[soft blade]

Magnitude*

[gentle sparrow]

yeah loader is a lot of fun, one of the more unique feeling characters to me

same with mercenary, hes probably my favorite so far

[soft blade]

That's why I love playing her lol

[soft blade]

Idk why I just can't get the hang of mercs kit

And he doesn't feel the same as loader lol

Also I grind prismatic trails so there's that. I'm one of the ones who prefer loader to Merc in that

[gentle sparrow]

they definitely feel very different, and as far as getting a hang of his kit it's definitely unique, idk just try different ways to combo your abilities and hit the blue circle thing

expose

[soft blade]

That's fair ur supposed to farm expose

I just like speed into 1punch lol

[gentle sparrow]

me too man

anyway, it's 330am for me and ive got work in six hours

[soft blade]

Ya I've got to be up in like 4 hours for school

So have a good one

[gentle sparrow]

you too man have a nice night, hope you get some decent sleep

[soft blade]

Ik prismatic trails isn't super competitive but I'm still pumped on adrenaline so we will see if I get any sleep

I somehow got wr

[soft blade]

Agreed sleep good man

[gentle sparrow]

hell yeah dude

[soft blade]

Thank God cabbage showed me the tech

I would've failed without it

Cause I needed to save like 30 seconds

K no more

It's sleep time have a good one

[gentle sparrow]

oh yeah i got mercenaries special unlock thanks to that dude

the goat

[gentle sparrow]

you too

[quick halo]

what does equipment drone do

it just took my exec card and flew awat

[lavish jacinth]

you give it your equipment and it'll use it as its weapon

and it has 80% equipment cooldown reduction built in

[quick halo]

can you change the equipment

[lavish jacinth]

card is completely useless on it though

[lavish jacinth]

only if it dies

if you can get it killed it'll lose the one it's holding and you can give it a new one

they're really good with the right items

are great on them, very roughly in that order
are also good but only if you have

[unkempt ocean]

What’s the best way to keep the game from lagging? Just stay away from too many effects like fireworks?

I’m about to do a really long ass run later tonight and don’t want to crash

[quasi topaz]

Lower graphics settings and download the propersave mod. Probably the best method

[unkempt ocean]

I am unfortunately on console otherwise yeah I would

[quasi topaz]

Prioritize instant damage over more projectiles then along with the lowered graphics

[unkempt ocean]

I lost my 800 hour save so for funzies doing one run where I unlock every character and item I can

[unkempt ocean]

Fair enough so yeah not much other than just don’t get spammy shit like fireworks or just scrap when I can

[quasi topaz]

One graphics setting will get rid of some projectiles due to rendering but idk which

[unkempt ocean]

Ik I can get rid of exp and money but after that I think console is kind of slim pickings

I’ll check when I’m off work and just have hopes and prayers ig

[quasi topaz]

Amount of corpses on the map can be reduced as well

[unkempt ocean]

That I will need

Hopefully something I can access on console

[quasi topaz]

Go through each setting and see what you can reduce

[unkempt ocean]

Fair enough so really is just that and then don’t have a bunch of spammy shit

[quasi topaz]

Not much else you can do without mods

[unkempt ocean]

Also there a good way to guarantee the stage you unlock Rex on? Or just rng and popping bazar stage 3?

Because tried a few times now and I’ll finally make it to bazar stage 3, not get the portal for Rex’s stage then just not get the stage

[unkempt ocean]

Fair enough then

[quasi topaz]

Bazaar is the only way to garuntee it

[humble epoch]

is there an end to simulactum or is it really endless?

[wide parrot]

It’s called the endless mode for a reason

[half bear]

Even god faces the end

[unkempt ocean]

So hopes and prayers bazar the bazar has the option to select it, well about all I figured but worth a try asking

[supple yoke]

Do the black holes from Zoea also kill you even though its an ally?

[wide parrot]

Yes

[marble nebula]

im trying to play multipayer with my friend but any time the person who GOT invited joins it just shows a horizon in space that never goes away and we have to just restart our game

[lavish jacinth]

assuming you're both on steam, make sure you both have crossplay disabled

[signal atlas]

any clue what dying by “the planet” is? i was having a solid run before getting butchered by nothing i could see

[quasi topaz]

Usually a status or fall damage or when the game cant tell what killed you

[sonic birch]

Do you guys think alloyed collective will add crossplay

[scarlet dagger]

No

Crossplay isnt coming unless they scrap half the multi-player code

[lyric lynx]

is the survivor getting revealed new or the returning one

[soft blade]

i have no clue

[lyric lynx]

its the all new one

[distant stream]

Is the game way harder without any dlcs?

[honest blade]

When today is the trailer coming? Any link?

[lyric lynx]

Not WAY harder but still a bit harder without dlc

if your askin because you wanna play ror2, you dont need the dlc's to enjoy the game

[distant stream]

I have 80 hours already

I see some videos of ppl playing with both dlcs and they get strong so easily

[peak jacinth]

both DLCs introduce very strong items and don’t add a lot that makes the game more difficult

basically the strong outweighs what makes you weak

[distant stream]

Yea that sounds right

[rustic forum]

Any ideas when we think alloyed collective is coming to console

[peak jacinth]

it’ll likely be the same time as the PC release as the codebases are aligned now. That is to say, sometime later this year but we don’t know exactly when

[dusky raven]

We will know in 2 hours

[livid wedge]

It will happen at the same time

[jaunty pollen]

is there gonna be a mac silicon native version

[uneven trellis]

Are the new survivors only getting mastery skins like last DLC

[karmic tangle]

Do the developers have plans to port the game to Mac? I think even the less powerful Macs would be able to run the game quite well

[karmic tangle]

what mac do you have?

[knotty nova]

How do you dodge the giant beam that false son uses in his second phase?

[crisp timber]

You just have to get behind cover

[idle sun]

What are engineer best items? I like this dude a lot but I'm struggling to survive once one of my turrets is gone

[vale pawn]

bungus

bleed and proc is good

some attack speed is also useful

are you playing with artifacts? or are you doing eclipse or something

[idle sun]

I always prioritize mushrooms, daggers, and 3 ukeleles. Thing is enemies get too strong and they do more damage than my turrets can heal themselves

[vale pawn]

also what skills do you have unlocked

[idle sun]

Artifacts

All basic, I have none unlocked

[vale pawn]

ah ok

[idle sun]

I play on the 3rd difficulty

[vale pawn]

do you have any dlcs?

[idle sun]

All of them

[vale pawn]

ok cool

so you want to build survivability ideally. stuff like safer spaces, opal, warped echo is good synergy with bungus too

power elixir works pretty well with turrets early game

[idle sun]

What's the order of items after like 10 mushrooms?

[vale pawn]

and then for damage you mostly need attack speed and proc items, like uke, atg, get a runic lens (red item) if you can

[vale pawn]

it doesn't really matter, but balance it between getting 1 survivability item, then 1 damage OR utility item

engi has no mobility so you'll want some heef or NRG drinks for movement speed too

[idle sun]

oh okay got it

[vale pawn]

good luck 👍

[idle sun]

what if I get cornered with the bosses at the portal, do I just stay with my turrets and survive?

[lavish jacinth]

just run and find a better spot like you would with any other survivor, it's fine if you need to sacrifice your turrets

you can build more turrets, you can't rebuild yourself

[lavish jacinth]

along with stuff that's generally good like procs and speed

[lavish jacinth]

you definitely don't need 10 lol

like 3 is fine, or even just 1 if that's all you can get. You can help your turrets survive by positioning them better, usually you want them on high ground in spots where enemies won't reach them easily (or clip them into a wall, if you're feeling cheesy)

oh and protip, unlock his alt secondary and utility as soon as you can

[acoustic grail]

do prayer beads give more if you scrap them all at once? or can i put one in and still get the same

[signal atlas]

if i give an equipment drone a trophy hunters tricorn do they get infinite boss one shots? or does it just not work

[tepid beacon]

I presume its just a one time use like normal

[hoary sedge]

it'll just use it on the first boss it aggros on and then become an ahoy drone

[tropic barn]

Will drifter be added in the new ror2 dlc?

[hoary sedge]

maybe

we don't know who the returning character is yet

[lavish jacinth]

pretty sure it's better to scrap them all at once

assuming you already have some levels saved up

[lavish jacinth]

possibly, but they'd be a weird choice considering they weren't even in ror1

[hoary sedge]

yeah as much as I want pilot the rorr original characters seem kinda unlikely to be brought back

[short bolt]

What’s the most I should stack focus crystal

[old trail]

♾️

[vital parrot]

can you not go past level 94?

[livid wedge]

Nope

[static kindle]

how do I make the early game suck less

I don't mean early onto a run, I mean early into a profile, like, watchless type shi

[quasi topaz]

play for fun ig

[static kindle]

winning is fun

[quasi topaz]

if you had your file wiped for some reason you can use the realercheatsunlocks mod to unlock everything

[static kindle]

I didn't no

I'mjust a legit new player :P

[quasi topaz]

if you need certain items to win then you should play better

[static kindle]

wdym

[quasi topaz]

learn the game

I recommend playing casually and if you notice items are still locked take a look at what achievement unlocks them

[static kindle]

i've been playing casually , are watches exclusesive to dlc?

[crude flame]

sotv, yes

[static kindle]

:(

[quasi topaz]

https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Items

[crude flame]

dont worry, plenty of items better than watch anyways lal

[quasi topaz]

if there is a symbol on the name its dlc

[static kindle]

nevermind then, I do have all greys

[quasi topaz]

watches are usually great but one bad mood and whoopsie

[static kindle]

well, no items can make up for watch tbh

since it's all multiplicative