ror2-game-questions

[tepid ocean]

that's good

loader's charge punch has heavy modifier so its damage actually scales with the speed you're going as well

[snow willow]

Yeah ik that

[tepid ocean]

so if you're going really fast with grapple and release punch i think it does more damage

[snow willow]

Yeah, gotta get better with grapple for it , so i can always hit at max speed

[snow willow]

random question, do only i see a slice of cheese in artifact of sacrifice?

next one i need to know, in the expansions section, do the icon need to be surrounded in a green borded to be active? or do they just need to be not checked off?

[worldly belfry]

There's a Risk of Rain board game on Kickstarter, is it official?

[worldly belfry]

I think it have to be surrounded

[short oar]

Does anyone know why some item are temporarily

[primal vector]

The Nerdvana one yes

[worldly belfry]

Ok thank you

[primal vector]

It is just a type of item. They give you a burst of power for 80 seconds

[short oar]

Like lens %10 crit?

[primal vector]

Most items can be temporay. They have a circle over them. Their effects are the same that normal items. Temp lens will give you 10% crit for 80 seconds

[short oar]

Same goes for the bustling mushroom?

On stage

[primal vector]

Yes all temporay have the same effect that normal items just on a limited time

[short oar]

Alright thanks!

[snow willow]

bruh .w. it gets disabled everytime i close the game, and i might have spend like 5 hours trying to get false son earlier, without it on

[pseudo atlas]

does the obelisk quest still count if i didnt interact with the edges and i went for golden coast?

on the 5th stage

[jaunty furnace]

theyre on by default
the yellow border + diamond are for multiplayer voting

no such thing as green border

[snow willow]

i still cant send media, and also ill check now that its in the border will the gold portal appear lol, maybe it doesnt matter but will magically work

[jaunty furnace]

#roles for embed perms

[pseudo atlas]

you need a role lol

[solemn wind]

After a couple thousand hours in this game, I've just gotten a yellow item from a shrine of chance for the first time. Is that a bug or a new feature or just super rare?

[snow willow]

ah okay, ill check if the border is green after i complete my run

in game

[lavish jacinth]

1% chance when chance doll procs

[arctic sequoia]

Best loadout for false son?

[livid wedge]

Yeah, changes the item pool to 80% green, 19% red, and 1% yellow, I think

[lavish jacinth]

79% green and 20% red but yea

[lavish jacinth]

pretty much anything works except default special

[livid wedge]

I was close

[jaunty furnace]

there is no green border!!

[solemn wind]

Thanks

[jaunty furnace]

and you can tell if dlcs are enabled by just. yknow. seeing if dlc content is in the run lmao

[snow willow]

Ill check it after i have my fun in the game lol, got a good run on loader

And im not playing modded with proper save mod

[jaunty furnace]

^^^^^^^

send a screenshot if you really arent sure if its enabled lol

dlcs are enabled by default, you have to go out of your way to disable them

if they werent set to ❌ in the lobby then they are enabled

[rapid schooner]

Is there anything that would prevent the h3ad-5t v2 from working? I was playing with my friend and he picked it up and he couldnt jump high or slam down the whole run

[snow willow]

its a yellow, rly close to green imo but yellow

[jaunty furnace]

thats what i said

[snow willow]

i prb didnt pay that much attention

idk still why i cant find a way to activate a gold portal tho

[lavish jacinth]

protip, don't bother waiting for a natural gold portal, just visit the bazaar every stage if you've got coins to spare. Gilded coast is pretty common in lunar seers and it's way more likely than an actual gold altar

[snow willow]

in what stage do i neet to activate then newt altar? im not sure

[lavish jacinth]

apparently it's bugged atm and doesn't work on operator

[lavish jacinth]

doesn't matter, it can appear on any stage

[snow willow]

rly?

ig ill do that then

somehow earlier i was able to consistently find gold portals, now i cant

0

[jaunty furnace]

any normal stage

[steady meteor]

on some stages there's a small chance one won't spawn

[lavish jacinth]

technically any stage except the first, but you obviously can't get a newt altar before stage 1 so it doesn't matter

[lavish jacinth]

you got lucky then, gold altars are pretty rare normally

[snow willow]

ill try finding that then, also idk all the newt portal spawn so ig i will need to look online

[lavish jacinth]

the wiki has all the locations, at least for non-AC stages

[jaunty furnace]

also gilded coast isnt a dlc thing 🐱

[snow willow]

i dont have ac so it doesnt matter

btw in the bazar i will be able to easily see what is the gilded coast right?

[steady meteor]

looks like a giant chain with a yellow background iirc

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, just look for the ugly green color with the chain things

[snow willow]

thx

[steady meteor]

is there a reason why i can rarely find drone combiners? like are they locked to a select few stages or something

[lavish jacinth]

they're just really rare I think, and probably also stage-specific

yea

guaranteed on computational exchange though

[snow willow]

i dont have AC

i prb said that like 5 times and i just joined today

[lavish jacinth]

I was replying to the other guy

[snow willow]

ah mb

[livid wedge]

I'm not sure combiners are available outside of ac

[snow willow]

might be able to unlock bands rn btw, on the tar map as engi

[lavish jacinth]

yea, definitely go for it

it's completely free as engie

[snow willow]

i cant find it lol

the buttons and i think ive been walking in a circle

can i do it after i defeat the boss?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

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

[snow willow]

ill do that 1st then so its on my mao

btw 7 needleticks in stage 2

got a wax quail as a drop, will speed this up by a lot

[lavish jacinth]

neat engie does generally prefer tritip tho

[snow willow]

it was my 1st item lol

the corrupted

[lavish jacinth]

tick is still good, turrets are just good at stacking bleed

[snow willow]

yeah i will prb lose this bcs i will spend 10 minutes looking for the buttons

[lavish jacinth]

I usually hold off on picking it up if I'm playing a good bleed character and it's early stages

[snow willow]

atleast im on rainstorm difficulty

[jaunty furnace]

theres nothing the clock can do to a good build

[snow willow]

is bleed rly better than crush on some?

[lavish jacinth]

eh, it's salvageable, I've wasted more time on monsoon runs and still been fine

[lavish jacinth]

yea, collapse does more damage up front but bleed stacks better

[jaunty furnace]

also if you just look st the wiki then you wont need to spend 10 years lol

[lavish jacinth]

so if you've got someone with fast, consistent procs like engie, tick tends to be better

[snow willow]

i saw its mostly behind rocks on some video

[lavish jacinth]

there are 8 possible spots for it, the wiki has screenshots of them

[snow willow]

u mean bleed?

[lavish jacinth]

ye lol

[heavy gorge]

How many times have you all been killed by a beetle?

I think twice for me and they were DoT elites

[lavish jacinth]

exactly three

[heavy gorge]

B e e b l e

[lavish jacinth]

once was touching a malachite spike, the other two were playing inferno

and there's no shame in dying to an inferno beetle, those things are a fucking menace (unless they've been nerfed, I haven't played it in a while)

[heavy gorge]

Pop Quiz

Which update added Malachite elites?

|| scorched acres ||

[lavish jacinth]

they were in the game at launch

[heavy gorge]

No way

I swear it was scorched acres

Did I Mandela myself

I must check

[lavish jacinth]

oh it was scorched acres, nvm

[heavy gorge]

Victory is mine!!!

Unrelated question

What causes that bell noise? The “beeng baang booong” noise?

It happens a lot but I’ve yet to link it to anything

[lavish jacinth]

I think it's the setting that increases scaling effects, whatever that's called

[worldly olive]

Think that's the enemy level up noise

[lavish jacinth]

it happens every 3rd enemy level iirc, whenever the difficulty bar ticks over to the next named difficulty

[snow willow]

found 1 button but cant find the other

[worldly olive]

It played in returns and ever since SotS it plays here

[lavish jacinth]

did you look at the wiki or are you just trying to find them on your own?

[snow willow]

bruhhhhhh

i have them, i missed them like 5 times

yay :D bands

heard that they need to balance stuff around them lol

[foggy hornet]

Hello, came here to ask this one question
Is there a release date for AC bug fix patch?

[lavish jacinth]

not that we know of, but presumably soon™

[high forum]

if it's not in the next two weeks, probably just early next year

given the holidays and stuff

[lavish jacinth]

it probably couldn't be less than a couple weeks after launch due to console verification periods

and yeah, the devs also get a break for the holidays

[high forum]

oh yeah, i forgot they try to sync launches now. so prob early next year

(i'm not an official source)

[cursive yew]

hey question, how does voidling interact with eclipse? does it still end your run just without eclipse progression?

[lavish jacinth]

killing voidling counts for eclipse, but the only way to do it is by killing mithrix first and then petting the frog

[cursive yew]

oh awesome thats what i was planning on doing anyway! ty

[foggy hornet]

Sadge
just had to scrap networked suffering cuz of no money glitch in early game

is there a mod to fix that btw?

[lavish jacinth]

not sure, but #ror2-modding would probably know

[sonic reef]

I forgot to activate the Access Node on stage 3 and then one spawned on stage 4. Didn't know it could also spawn there

How does it actually work?

[dusky raven]

Nodes pretty sure can only spawn on Repurposed Crater, but you can get an orb on Siren’s Call from AWU

Both of which will take you straight to Solus Wing

[sand osprey]

does the difficulty bar on top right keep increasing past the laughing stage?

[lavish jacinth]

yes

[sand osprey]

so i still should worry about time spent on stages when it hits that

[lavish jacinth]

enemy level caps at 99, but the game will keep spawning stronger enemies in larger numbers

[lavish jacinth]

your priority should always be full-looting efficiently rather than going fast, but yes, it does keep scaling

[hidden elk]

Optimally you should be fully looting, as fast as possible

[sand osprey]

ok thanks. Im still learning how to loot areas efficiently

[lavish jacinth]

a good rule of thumb is to full loot and get at least one item per minute, but it's okay to spend extra time using printers and scrappers and stuff

[hidden elk]

Just do everything you can to get more money on the first loop. Blood shrines, combat shrines, etc. also I often start the TP before buying the last chests near the TP

[snow willow]

i got the gold portal on stage 5?

im guessing after i leave i will loop

[lavish jacinth]

yep

[snow willow]

nice, false son unlock for me i think

[high forum]

yes, if you do anything other than take the teleporter with the wings unaligned with the moon, you'll loop back to a stage 1

[snow willow]

oki

i hope i wont die with this stuff

i say that as i almost die

bruh, ofc the golden statue spawns after i already defeated that guy

[lament light]

Is it just me or did they change how Arti’s jet pack works? If I remember right if you jump and held the button it would start working when you started falling but now I have to press and hold again after jumping

[brittle shuttle]

look in settings

[unborn nacelle]

can someone explain procs and proc chains to me and also what does proc stand for

[lavish jacinth]

it's short for 'programmed occurrence', in the context of ror2 it's usually referring to an item that activates under a specific circumstance, usually a random chance on hit like etc.

proc chaining is when one proc item activates off of another proc item, like a uke triggering from an atg missile

there's also proc coefficient, which is a hidden stat that all damage has which acts as a multiplier for proc chance, as well as debuff duration and a few other miscellaneous things

a proc coeff of 1.0 means an item will have the proc chance that's listed in it's description, whereas a coeff of 0.5 would only be give of the normal chance, for example. And a coeff of 0 means an attack won't be able to proc anything at all

it's worth mentioning that proc coeffs are important if you wanna get into the math of optimizing damage output and stuff, but if you just wanna play casually then you don't really have to care about them, they're a hidden stat for a reason. But if you do wanna know more then all the info is on the wiki https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Proc_Coefficient

[sturdy mural]

Do drones attack the Solus Heart after you kill it and go to the bottom of the tower? Me and my friend want to accept but are worried the drones we have will make that not possible

[lavish jacinth]

nah, they won't attack him

you do have to be really careful though, I'm pretty sure he literally has like 1hp

[sturdy mural]

alr tysm!

[snow willow]

Reading some reviews for alloyed collective, see that some people are talking about how previous dlcs had a rly bad launch, but this one is actually a lot better than what was before, thats its quality ect

I didnt play ror a lot before, just recently got back

[snow willow]

What happened?

What happened with other dlcs earlier?

[unborn nacelle]

ok thanks

[wintry fjord]

Is hiker boots good on rail gunner

[wanton hamlet]

hikers boots is peak on any survivor with good verticality

but you would need to stack a lot of boots for the passive to matter

[sand osprey]

i got a void and encrypted portals now after finishing solus heart.. where do i go?

is there more for this dlc if i go to the encrypted one?

[wintry fjord]

Nah it just brings you stage 5

How does armour work, like how much is 30 (from kinetic dampener)

[wanton hamlet]

its damage reduction and it goes like this

you can get more obv, the limit is like 10k armor for 99% damage reduction

[full apex]

You can think of each point as like 1% effective health up. With 100 armor that would be like 2x hp, 1/2 is 0.5 so youd be taking 50% damage. 200 armor would be 3x, so 1/3 is 33% damage taken

And ofc damage reduction is just the opposite, if you take 33% you reduce 66%

[boreal path]

whats going on with my radar?!

[snow willow]

Thought i would ask instead of googling bcs idk, how do i reach the void area where i can unlock the survivor?

[wanton hamlet]

go to the void locus thru a void portal

[snow willow]

The what now into what?

[wanton hamlet]

either you beat the 9 cells on the void fields, get it to spawn randomly post loop or find it as an option in the bazaar

this void locus

[snow willow]

The void fields?

I have almost no idea about the places that the dlc adds, i only know what happens when u go back to the starting area when u defeat mithrix

[wanton hamlet]

that method takes u directly to the planetarium where you beat the void final boss

u acces the void fields thru the bazaar its in a hidden location

[snow willow]

So in the bazaar between time ,i need to find a secret?

[wanton hamlet]

let the video load wait me a min

then u go into that cave and theres the null portal where u get to the void fields

[snow willow]

Ah okay, so i just jump down, now kinda curious whats the lore behind it being there

[jovial mica]

what was the keybind to throw drones?

[wanton hamlet]

The default special is R

[sand osprey]

is the item offered on rebirth shrine consumed when starting a run with it?

[hoary sedge]

yeah

if you start a run with the artifact empty it just gives you a random item

[sand osprey]

alright

[west lava]

so for some reason every time i pick up empathy cores my game just crashes. i have a mod that makes operator work with empathy cores but this happened on seeker as well so i dont think its the problem

-# i do have the multitudes mod but it wasnt being used on this run (the mod was enabled jsut not selected in difficulty) and idk if its the cause, could be a bug?

[jaunty furnace]

they added a toggle option and enabled it by default for some reason, you can turn it off

[jaunty furnace]

seekers of the storm was the first gearbox dlc and it entirely ruined the game

the whole game was buggy and the dlc sucked

but instead of pulling a AAA moment and abandoning the game, they went back and revamped the whole dlc

and fixed the bugs obviously

now the game is functional and sots is pretty fun

not the best dlc but its good

[jaunty furnace]

you dont need a lot of verticality

just press the spacebar and shoot

its not height = stats, its shoot while above = gain timed buff

[simple coyote]

what stats is “all stats”?
damage, attack speed, move speed, and max hp, for sure.
but does it buff armor? regen? acceleration? crit chance? cooldown speed? procs?

and again does seeker’s meditate buff give an additional 7% on top of tranquility stacks or does it not and the wiki just phrases it weird

[simple coyote]

your feet just need to be above the enemy’s midpoint, and also, you don’t need to be above the enemy to refresh the timer (it won’t increase stacks, but it will keep them going!)

[jaunty furnace]

yea

[simple coyote]

handy trick

[unborn nacelle]

is seekers or alloyed collective better

[jaunty furnace]

ac

although a particular system in ac benefits from having everything

also sots is on sale and ac isnt

so if you want a dlc right now and want to save a couple bucks in the long run, you could just get sots

-# or sotv if you havent already

[cobalt quiver]

what do you mean by this?

[jaunty furnace]

||crafting||

[hidden elk]

AC is the best but it doesn’t have a lot of items

[boreal path]

Can railgunner smart rounds get credits, or are her credits exclusively from weak points? The wiki says it has a product coefficient of one

[livid wedge]

If you mean crits, she cannot crit except by hitting a weakpoint

All crit chance is converted to crit damage

[boreal path]

I forgot proc doesn't affect crits

[livid wedge]

Correct

But that's not really relevant

Railgunner can't crit normally because she never has any crit chance

It's immediately converted to crit damage

Which means her onkill items will never crit

But her onhit stuff can because those crit as long as the triggering hit crits

[wintry crag]

is the cleaner drone and solus wing glitch still a thing

[dusky raven]

yup, there have been no patches yet

[wintry crag]

uh oh im fighting the solus wing and i have the cleaner drone

now what should i do

[dusky raven]

be careful i guess

if you are OP keep the cleanup drone close to you when it gets low

or try to let it burn up from the overheat phase

[wintry crag]

uh so i accidentally hurt SPEX and he closed us off and now i cant fight the solus heart is it possible to still fight it ?

[dusky raven]

He kicks you out like newt

[wintry crag]

how do we go back in

[dusky raven]

you may be able to get back by taking another virtual portal

like after AWU or in Repurposed Crater

haven't tested it but I've heard it works

[wintry crag]

do i have to kill solus wing again ?

[dusky raven]

no

[wintry crag]

so if i take another virtual portal ill just take me right back ?

[dusky raven]

pretty sure

[wintry crag]

how do i find another virtual portal apart from the node

[dusky raven]

Killing AWU spawns one

[wintry crag]

thanks man

[snow willow]

I like when people can see their mistakes and fix it, if they didnt fix it, then either people wouldnt Play the game or just not use the dlc

[twin cedar]

I just unlocked my first of the new skins please tell me they all look like Bandit's

[jaunty furnace]

some accept the offer, some dont

[twin cedar]

Ohh I just picked up on that

I thought it was the same challenge for all of em

So some look like it some don't?

[jaunty furnace]

yea

[twin cedar]

That's pretty cool that there's diversity in how to unlock them though

[spark trellis]

does prayer beads buff count for growth nectar?

[livid wedge]

Yes

[spark trellis]

neat

[jaunty furnace]

will be gone after you scrap it

[spark trellis]

i see... its really interesting how bands and echo count towards it too

[tidal wren]

does artifact of evolution make it so enemys drop their item?

[livid wedge]

No

[snow willow]

why people like to play as chef? i unlocked him but didnt try him yet

[livid wedge]

Because people have preferred playstyles?

[jaunty furnace]

...then try him?

[wintry crag]

how do i get the portal on repurposed crater

[tender temple]

theres a guaranteed node spawn there somewhere thats all i know

[wintry crag]

even if i already activated it before ?

is there like a map that shows all node spawn locations or nope

[tender temple]

i think i heard someone say that its bugged at the moment and doesnt spawn after comp exchange but i could be mistaken

so realistically your only options to get back to comp exchange are either awu or false son if you havent done it that run

[wintry crag]

i didnt even get to exchange and accidentally hit SPEX

[wintry crag]

how do i get the digital portal after false son

[livid wedge]

Gotta wait like 10 seconds

After interacting with the shrine of rebirth

[wintry crag]

aight bet thanks

can you fight false son multiple times in one run

[snow willow]

question about stacking and %. for example, safer spaces recharges every 10 seconds, if i have 3 of them , it just calculates 10sec-20%?

[glacial knoll]

15 * 0.9^itemCount

[jaunty furnace]

some items dont stack linearly

[snow willow]

so some do 10sec-10%-10%?

[jaunty furnace]

because itd be insane if you could stack like 8 bears for 100% block chance

[snow willow]

Yeah it would

could prb put a cap on that too

should i complete this or go straight for portal?

(i dont have anything unlocked from here)

[lavish jacinth]

no reason to leave yet, null portal just takes you back to normal stages

[snow willow]

oh okay, so if u feel u arent strong enough u can just go back

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[snow willow]

well i dont seem weak, might complete it

[lavish jacinth]

you can only go to void fields once per run, so if you're trying to unlock stuff there, you might as well stay and try to tough it out even if it starts getting too difficult

[snow willow]

i dont mind losing anyways

not on monsoon so not missing out on skins

void broke my watches

sad

it should be easier to see them and get to them

the blackholes insta kill right?

[jaunty furnace]

perchance

[tender temple]

The void implosions?

They instakill yeah

[snow willow]

do they go thru the Safer Spaces too?

[lavish jacinth]

yep

[snow willow]

ok, thx for help, ill try to not die

[snow willow]

thx for all the help,was able to get thru everything

[lavish jacinth]

nice

[snow willow]

now only rex and false son left to unlock

rex is gonna be annoying

[snow willow]

which utility on Loader? or does it not rly matter?

[lavish jacinth]

default is a little better overall, but both are so good that it doesn't really matter

alt is good if you prefer playing her as more of a melee brawler, default is good if you like swinging around and going for huge hits

[snow willow]

swinging is all the fun, if i wanted to just melee i would play mercenary

[winter lava]

Why teleport in this map sometime not found ??

[lavish jacinth]

you just need to look harder, look for orange particles in the air and follow them. I think I actually see them in this screenshot

there's an option in settings to make them easier to see, "teleporter particle scaling" under the umbrella settings tab on the first page

[winter lava]

Ahh ok thank you

[rapid sage]

Did anyone do a duo golden road?

[lavish jacinth]

wdym

[grave solar]

why does everything start flying when i hit it with seekers of the storm survivors

[rapid sage]

All survivors on e8

[lavish jacinth]

I'd be shocked if nobody's ever done that

[lavish jacinth]

do you have breaching fin?

[rapid sage]

Well its possible

[grave solar]

thx ill make sure to scrap it in every single run i do

[lavish jacinth]

I mean, it's technically a decent item, launched enemies take 10% more damage per juggle

[grave solar]

well yeah but it annoys me

[lavish jacinth]

eclipse multiplayer has been in the game for years and the game has like 20-30k active players, no way it's never been done lol

[livid wedge]

definitely annoying on drifter

[rapid sage]

Well im asking because I didnt know

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, ofc I can't be 100% sure either, but there's been plenty of time to do it and eclipse isn't THAT hard, so it's a pretty safe assumption that it's been done

[rapid sage]

Im asking about recorded

[lavish jacinth]

might be on youtube somewhere, but not everyone records their gameplay

[rapid sage]

Yea true

Anyways thanks for the answer

[south egret]

how does gold eclipse levels work for DLC characters?
If I get gold on all vanilla chars, does it still count as golden for those characters?

[frozen gate]

hello there, what do i need to do to get the item rewards from the void portal? i completed all 9 phases with promised loot stacking and when i exit the phase i get nothing besides what i looted from the chests

[south egret]

the items pop out of the cell vents

including 5 commons, 3 uncommons, and 1 legendary

[frozen gate]

thats a 3 item choice, im assking for the ones showing in the hud

[south egret]

ss?

get one of the #roles so you can send a picture

[frozen gate]

nah i exited the phase already

[high forum]

the items in the hud are for the enemies

it's not what you get as a player

[frozen gate]

understood

[high forum]

it's what the enemies have in their own inventories when they spawn

[frozen gate]

so if they have 10x googles they have an additional 100% crit chance

[hushed harness]

doesnt happen with every item tho

[lavish jacinth]

yep

[hushed harness]

tougher times follows an ecuation to calculate the chance of blocking a hit

have in mind

quick question, do your teammates respawn on the next stage if they die?

[lavish jacinth]

yes

[hushed harness]

k

[jaunty furnace]

merc isnt truly melee either Lol

hes still a hit-and-run type character

[snow willow]

fair/

well ik there are 3 mainly melee characrters

doggo, mercenary and spiderman

[hoary sedge]

i mean the thing is none of those actually stay in melee range of enemies for very long

acrid especially can easily just circle stuff and stall with poison

id argue the only actual like MELEE melee character is drifter

[snow willow]

true melee is whatever u decide to do, can always use multi with only chainsaws

[stiff basin]

how the hell am i supposed to do 500.000% damage with sojourn
apparently it was in pins lul

[ionic igloo]

drifter can jump over enemies and juggle her cube midair which is a crazy aoe strat

[lavish jacinth]

stack a bunch of different damage multipliers, stay in sojourn as long as possible to build up damage, and hit as many enemies as you can since it counts the TOTAL amount of damage dealt, not just one hit

[stiff basin]

yeah apparently so

[ionic igloo]

stacking and also getting lucky with can make your sojurn time near infinite

[lavish jacinth]

or just use transcendence, that trick still works

another thing you can do is kin + swarms to guarantee a horde of many as a boss, that way you can take advantage of as another multiplier

[clear lark]

Is there any reward for obliteraing myself?

Like achievement or something.

[primal vector]

Yes, you unlock a character

[lavish jacinth]

it's also a way to get mastery skins if you're on monsoon

[clear lark]

Im on midded difficulty. The harder one

Btw, whats the ingame cap of engineers turrets?

[lavish jacinth]

2, or 3 if you have a lysate cell

[lavish jacinth]

midded?

[hearty ivy]

Modded probably

[lavish jacinth]

That would be my guess but "the harder one" doesn't really narrow it down lol

[clear lark]

So even lysate cell can give me more than 3? Even if i have nore than 1 charge?

[high forum]

Nope

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, 3 is the hard cap. Stacking lysate gives the skill more charges so you can replace them easier, but you can't get more than 3 at a time

[hearty ivy]

You can get more than 3 with funny bugs if you really want to though

[lavish jacinth]

technically you can also get more by killing your own turrets somehow and then turning them into a ghost with happiest mask, but that isn't very practical lol

[hearty ivy]

Worth it fr

[clear lark]

With a mod item and lysate cell max is 4.... i kinda wanted to make an army

[high forum]

if you have the latest dlc there's a bug...

[clear lark]

Sadly, idont own it yet

[high forum]

😔 then three will be the max (and it's supposed to be the max lol)

[frozen lava]

I've come across this thing a few times, what is it?

I can interact with it but nothing happens

[primal vector]

It takes (cleanses) lunar items and gives you a pearl in return

[frozen lava]

ohhhh, cool thank you!

[wanton hamlet]

also has a rare chance it gives you an irradiant pearl

[frozen lava]

whats that?

[wanton hamlet]

is monsoon + modifiers depending on the level

[wanton hamlet]

+10% on ALL of your stats

[frozen lava]

oh, thats awesome

[wanton hamlet]

yeah but cleansing pools are so rare its more of a novelty item

its like finding an elite aspect

[frozen lava]

ohhh, okay

i find them every so often

[wanton hamlet]

they tend to spawn more often on stage 3's and 4's

[frozen lava]

that makes sense

[wanton hamlet]

it has fixed maps where it spawn but aphelian sanctuary has a higher chance out of them all for some reason

[frozen lava]

iinteresting

youre awesome, thank you for helping me :)

[wanton hamlet]

np

[high forum]

it's an alternate game mode where the base difficulty is monsoon, and then additional modifiers are added

[lethal oracle]

which special is better for commando suppressive fire or frag grenade?

[lavish jacinth]

frag grenade imo, but both are pretty mid

is his best special

[lethal oracle]

thank you

[jaunty furnace]

frag grenade is an actual ability, suppressive fire is just a couple bullets with stun

ig on demand stun isnt bad but frag grenade is cooler

[lavish jacinth]

suppressive fire becomes pretty much obsolete if you pick up

[last field]

lore (aphelian sanctuary was used as a cleansing place of the lunars to lessen the influence of mithrix)

[livid wedge]

Also a place to cleanse tar

Not that that worked out too well

[frozen lava]

whats the best way i can stack hemorrhage with bandit?

[steady meteor]

backup mags and cd reduction

[primal vector]

backup magazines and attack speed

[livid wedge]

Backup mags

[frozen lava]

okayy, thank you!

[full apex]

Purity

Probably just for the unlock tho lol

[steady meteor]

it does work

[radiant frigate]

why did my unstable transmitters not proc?

does it take a few frames to activate or something? or does it just not save me from death at all?

[pseudo hemlock]

Could someone give me tips for eclipse? I'm pretty new to the game but was wanting a challenge.

[primal vector]

Idk if this was the reason but transmitter indeed gives not one shot protection

[livid wedge]

Yeah, purity is actually good idea

Since you have guaranteed crits behind them

[frozen lava]

purity?

[wanton hamlet]

lunar item

[primal vector]

[frozen lava]

oh

[livid wedge]

[frozen lava]

i dont think ive gotten that one yet

[livid wedge]

Yeah, gotta leave the moon on monsoon

[frozen lava]

oh

yeah i cant get past stage 4 on monsoon alone

[livid wedge]

Alien head, luminous shot, and backup mags work in a pinch still

[lavish jacinth]

Tbh, the strats for eclipse are pretty much the same as monsoon, you just have to play really well. So full-loot every stage and be as efficient as you can, vary your items and never stop moving. It also doesn't really start getting harder until about eclipse 4, so the first 3 levels are basically a warmup

[lavish jacinth]

iirc transmitter follows the same rule as elixir, it'll only activate if you would actually survive the hit. If it could prevent you from dying then it'd basically be a reusable Dio

[mellow crystal]

Yeah eclipse can best be thought of as monsoon but it properly punishes bad gameplay instead of having you learn those habits passively

[radiant frigate]

i seeeeee. guess they aren't as op as i thought. (still a little op though lmao)

[mellow crystal]

Don't get hit
Don't over-rely on healing
Don't try to stay in the teleporter radius the entire time
Avoid fall damage

[thick veldt]

guys I have an issue about game loading screen

it stucks at 2%

I tried everything

[lavish jacinth]

are you running any mods?

[thick veldt]

nope.

I reiinstalled it

[lavish jacinth]

I know a few people have had that issue but unfortunately I don't know of a consistent fix, idk if they ever found one either. But if you google the issue you'll find a bunch of threads on reddit and steam with things you can try

[thick veldt]

As I said I tried everyting bro

[river sandal]

Does my friend also needs to be in the air to get operator not so different or is just me flying ok?

[thick veldt]

But thanks for your help

[high forum]

if you're unlocking it, only you need to do it

[lavish jacinth]

if your friend wants the unlock then they also have to be in the air

also, riding the conduits counts as touching the ground for some reason, jsyk

[river sandal]

I was planning on getting the milky equipment, flying and my friend just shooting it with tricorn

[river sandal]

thanks

[tepid storm]

Y does lil d and retort work with faulty conductor? They not electric themed. Is it cuz of "energy" or smthn?

[lavish jacinth]

I guess?

no idea honestly

[livid wedge]

What

[lavish jacinth]

afaik riding them fails the challenge

[livid wedge]

[snow willow]

how

[primal vector]

no hit and also barrier helps. You can get hit with barrier and still get it. Shiel however doesnt count. You can check the optimal way to beat each trial in #prismatic-trials

[vague oracle]

eya

someone know how to have the console, i mean, the multiplayer one that u can use to revive yourself and its on the chat

?

[snow willow]

saw, tried, didnt even got close lol

im prb never gonna do it

[primal vector]

What most people do is wait until a good seed. Some are a piece of cake

[snow willow]

this seemed easy

isnt

[primal vector]

Some have the artifact of command that allows you to choose the items. With that you take a bunch of barrier items and you are set

[snow willow]

mostly bcs its almost bullet hell, those piraminds shoot u, the wisps spawn and also shoot u, and blind pests also shoot u

cant even get to the 1st barrier item, i could take it slower always

[crude flame]

hardest achievement in the game easily. wait for glass + command and it should be pretty easy. get some topaz brooch then gasoline for aoe and make sure you’re always building barrier with your brooches

Even with a perfect seed it took me like 50 tries probably so just be resilient. get used to the seed cause if you can learn it it’ll be easier as welll

[snow willow]

prb some masochist or gambler made this one lol

the unlock

[lusty tartan]

Does Deus Ex parry Rex self damage skills?
If I have guaranteed proc by Deus Ex and use Rex's M1 or Green M2, it'll still have the 0,5 proc coef effects even if guaranteed?

Like half duration, half damage, etc

[lavish jacinth]

proc coeff doesn't affect damage

but deus ex does work with self-damage, and I'd assume proc coeff does still affect debuff duration but I'm not sure

[unborn nacelle]

ok

[craggy cloud]

Does artificer accept or reject to get her new skin?

[lavish jacinth]

accept iirc
you can check ingame with the logbook, under challenges

[craggy cloud]

Ooh true, ty for the reminder!

[deft ridge]

does anyone know where the legendary chest could be in this map? first time in it

[lavish jacinth]

it has multiple spots, look for trees with gold leaves

[deft ridge]

found it

[glass nebula]

I gave the elephant equipment thing to an equipment drone, is it regularly applying the armor to myself or to enemies lol?

[lavish jacinth]

to itself

why would it apply it to enemies lol

[glass nebula]

The popup said that

[lavish jacinth]

wat

[glass nebula]

I may have quickly read the "The drone automatically activates the provided equipment when it sees an enemy" that the wiki states and thats where I thought it might have been applying to enemies

[lavish jacinth]

ah lol

[glass nebula]

He can just be my useless little buddy now

[left forge]

Still good aggro draw

[livid wedge]

Can also be useful if you get box of dynamite or sdp

[olive agate]

question for enginner there any items i would not wanna take ? what should i take

[lavish jacinth]

is the obvious synergy for him, but are also notable, along with usual good stuff like procs. Engie synergizes with a ton of stuff honestly

only thing to really avoid would be , and maybe

[olive agate]

what skill should i use

[lavish jacinth]

I'd recommend alt m2, alt ultility, both turrets are decent but probably default

[olive agate]

thermnal bolt or bubble shield?

[lavish jacinth]

thermal harpoons

[olive agate]

moving turrents

[lavish jacinth]

stationaries are a little better, but mobile turrets are fine if you prefer them

[hallow stratus]

why does merc's default M2 make him stop sprinting whereas his other abilities don't? is there a mod to stop this? Preferably not auto sprint either because sometimes i don't want to sprint esp on bandit

[ornate tangle]

does deus ex ensure lost seers lenses?

[worldly olive]

Yes

[ornate tangle]

holy guac

[kindred wadi]

is there a working mod to display stats on screen?

[lavish jacinth]

lookingglass

[kindred wadi]

thank you very much

[wheat otter]

am i right in saying that stacking atg doesn't increase its chance of firing? like is it purely proc coefficient based

[mellow crystal]

Yes
Only the damage is increased by stacking

[shrewd scaffold]

Does having 20 glasses really do more than 10?

[livid wedge]

Only on railgunner

[hoary sedge]

and even then you shouldn't have 20 glasses to begin with bc they're more helpful as white scrap on her

but yeah no stacking crit past 100% chance doesn't do anything

[foggy vessel]

does iron auroras open up any new areas in iron alluvium like viscous falls or nah

[hollow field]

i think so but idk which

[left forge]

You cannot do double crit like in Warframe or DRG Rouge Core. It only affects railgunner, but the extra crit dmg is dogshit

[shrewd scaffold]

Tks 😁

[molten pebble]

did they ever make pot rolling less annoying with the physics engine update

[wanton hamlet]

(no)

[left forge]

Yw. Also, not so fun fact:
is lying, it's 50% extra crit damage. It gives an ADDITIVE +100% crit damage instead of multiplicative. This means, with the base crit damage being 200% + 100% from = 300%.

[mellow crystal]

This also applies to railgunner passive

[jaunty furnace]

its a mixed bag

pot rolling is simpler but sometimes you just wont be able to push shit uphill

also they fucked being able to use stuff like railgunner mines and rex shift to move them

(railgunner sends them to the 4th dimension and rex launches them straight up)

[molten pebble]

dam thats sad

[jaunty furnace]

i dont hate it

[twin cedar]

Does Pocket ICBM affect scrap launcher in any way or is it only items?

[dusky raven]

Scrap launcher just fire projectiles not 'missiles' despite the wording

ICBM will work on skills like Engi's Thermal Harpoons and thats about it

[twin cedar]

Man then I picked the wrong first Legendary >.>

I was assuming it at least got the damage buff

[dusky raven]

nope 😔

I believe the full list is and 's harpoons

[twin cedar]

Yeaaa

Yea upon looking into it I straight up just picked his worst weapon

[steady meteor]

do higher tier drones count as multiple for bolstering lantern

[lethal notch]

Hey guys, after defeating the eyeball bot boss, where does one go to escape? I cannot find a portal anywhere. I found Drifter, a bunch of stuff, but I could not find the portal.

Never mind. It was in the most obvious of places.

After the secret Alloyed Collective boss (the with with data and ???), do I go through Void Portal or Encrypted Portal?

Are there any more secrets, or do we just end it there?

[steady meteor]

void portal takes you to void locus if you want to kill voidling, encrypted takes you back to normal stages

[lethal notch]

I already beat Void boy. If I want to obliterate myself, how do I do it, and will it count toward the skin unlock for Monsoon?

[steady meteor]

obliteration is through celestial portal which spawns a bit after looping, monsoon skins are "beat the game or obliterate" so yeah it'll work

[lethal notch]

Sweet. So, how do I find a celestial portal after looping?

[steady meteor]

spawns after a few teleporters

[lethal notch]

Cool. Last question, is there a way to loop beside the weird Artifact unlock portal?

[steady meteor]

if you interact with the outer edge of the teleporter on stage 5 before activating it, it will loop instead of taking you to the moon

[lethal notch]

Ah, yeah! I forgot this does it as well, as I have done it once accidentally. Thank you so much, man!

[charred sequoia]

does anyone know if you can kill solus wing then loop and kill it again?

[steady meteor]

can't, trying to enter again will just take you to exchange

anyone know if stage variants can appear in simulacrum

[brittle junco]

best artificer loadout?

[steady meteor]

base primary, secondary is up to preference, ion surge special

[broken swan]

do empathy cores lose damage when you combine drones

[steady meteor]

would assume so since it's fewer allies, but if you get too many drones then empathy cores (along with other item-based allies like droneboy/droneman) will stop spawning at the start of a stage

[broken swan]

yes i'm currently trying to work out how many that is

because you can keep buying drones past that limit but you can't have item allies

[mellow crystal]

20 is the ally limit iirc

[polar kestrel]

What is the BEST and most EFFECTIVE way to get environment and monster logs in the new dlc

[glacial knoll]

i dont think empathy cores and captain got any adjustments for tiering

[old stump]

i can't be the only one to think drifter's damage is extremely weak, am i?

i've played drifter for over 50 hours now and i still end up doing ~5x less damage than my teammates who aren't even building anything specific

[runic jungle]

Anyone know if you can unlock Desperado off of bosses other than Mithrix? Like if I do it to False Son, Voidling, or Solus Heart? And other similar "Final Boss" related achievements

Wonering also because of False Son's "Have an Aurelionite kill the final boss while the final boss is inflicted with at least one lunar ruin" achievement

Cause idk how that would happen on anyone other than False Son, but idk if that then means all 4 of those major bosses count for all final boss achievements

[livid wedge]

Has to be mithrix

[primal vector]

Environment: command and sacrifice artifacts
Monsters: stacking clovers

[runic jungle]

so False Son's is an exception? Or does Aurelionite spawn there and I never knew?

[livid wedge]

Yes, she spawns during the last phase

Mithrix even has special text referring to her

[runic jungle]

Peak but also that's gonna make this so much more annoying to do

Would be so fire if I could just do all bosses runs to get multiple attempts at it incase I mess it up or to just do it faster in the case of False Son

[jaunty furnace]

try to avoid items that could steal the kill

so just focus on raw stat items

[runic jungle]

yeahh

[fresh sail]

Does captain nuke strike have falloff from the center or does it do 40k percent anywhere in the circle?

[worldly olive]

It has "Sweet Spot Falloff"
In which the inner blast deals a normal amount of damage, however the blast outside of it deals only 25% of the damage

Which mind you: That still equates to 10k% damage, which is still a fuckton

[fresh sail]

Ohh I see, thanks

Yeah either way still good to hit lol

I'll take 10k gladly

[snow willow]

why are they both in piss yellow? and is any of them Wetland Aspect?

[primal vector]

None

[snow willow]

what are they then? i cant see

i see a stick on the left, and a ball on the right

[primal vector]

Abandoned Aqueduct and Aphelian Sanctuary?

[jaunty furnace]

its the tar waterfall of abandoned aqueduct and the sun(???) of aphelian sanctuary

[snow willow]

okay thx

[slender ferry]

was Warped Echo fixed with the AC update or is it still super bugged?

[lavish jacinth]

Nope, still totally broken

[slender ferry]

awesome

[fallow harbor]

What's wrong with it?

[lavish jacinth]

It currently ignores armor and osp, so you can actually end up taking MORE damage with it

[fallow harbor]

Noted

[lavish jacinth]

Only upside is that it also doesn't cancel out-of-danger, so shields immediately regenerate. But that's only really useful with transcendence or a lot of psgs

[fallow harbor]

Interesting

[slender ferry]

yeah I've lost multiple runs getting hit by Mithrix pizza and Echo just kills me lol

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah, it's generally best to just avoid it atm

[fallow harbor]

Interesting

Question: If an enemy that is frozen gets hit by another attack that would induce freeze, does the timer get reset on the freeze?

[slender ferry]

I'm pretty sure it doesn't
might be wrong tho

[lavish jacinth]

I don't think so? Freeze is super finicky

[steady meteor]

does anyone have a "rule" for chance shrines
like how many tries until you just give up

[jaunty furnace]

ror2 is not a spreadsheet

[steady meteor]

i'm not asking for a spreadsheet

[jaunty furnace]

i just stop if it gets to a price i literally cant afford without spending an extra 30min

[steady meteor]

so ~legendary value

[jaunty furnace]

but i will try to grind them out

[jaunty furnace]

ive paid for twice the price of legendary chests before

[willow iris]

Do ||sentry keys|| and the ||prison matrix|| only apply their effect on the first stack, with any additional stacks giving no stat benefits?

[steady meteor]

pretty sure it's first stack only
also apparently ||prison matrix|| only affects base armor so it does literally nothing on survivors without base armor, which is most of them

[sand osprey]

is there a consistent way of unlocking seeker's other utility?

[steady meteor]

loop a bunch

[sand osprey]

thats a great idea

[steady meteor]

also these

tougher times specifically, safer spaces won't do much

someone asked which turret is better
stationary is probably better but mobile turrets are more fun to use imo

[lavish jacinth]

Check pins, there are some tips for it

[sand osprey]

think my mistake was trying to do it on a single target

didn't know multi target counts, thanks

[lavish jacinth]

depends on situation but my strat is to play them once or twice while they're cheap, and if they keep scamming me I'll just clear the rest of the stage and come back to them later.
Enemy gold drops scale in real time but price scaling is only determined at the start of the stage, so gold farming will be more efficient if you've been on the stage longer

[flint lark]

do temporary items start ticking down once theyre spawned or picked up? can i leave one on the ground for later or is that pointless?

[livid wedge]

Picked up

[spark dirge]

what's the best legendary item for false son?

[hoary sedge]

clover is funny bc it lets you abuse the lunar ruin total damage proc bug even more

[lethal notch]

Why is Void Fiend so easy and hard at the same time? At times, I feel like I am breezing through the game and others, I feel like I cannot compete. It just feels difficult for me to beat it when I reach higher stages (4+).

[wise vault]

what are the 2 monster logs between greater wisp and elder lemurian, what is the one log between solus amalgam and grandparent ,what are the 2 logs between scavenger and overloading worm

[sweet ibex]

Solus transporter and Lunar chimera (Wisp variant), Alloy hunter, Solus heart and Solus wing.

[severe summit]

hey i wanna unlock false son so i go in this portal right? or blue?

[lavish jacinth]

yep, that one

[severe summit]

alr thanks man

go in that portal and beat the boss false son right?

[severe summit]

or smth else too

[lavish jacinth]

go through gold portal, kill aurelionite and get the halcyon seed, then go through the green portal that spawns

[severe summit]

got the seed

[tidal pewter]

You gotta kill false son while having halcyon seed

[severe summit]

wdym can i loose it somehow

[tidal pewter]

So when phase 3 happens aurelionite will spawn and you’ll lose the halcyon seed

You just gotta kill both of them

What matters is going into the fight with the seed

[jaunty furnace]

no

best strat is to spawn her on the other side of the map and teleport to the start to avoid her laser by walking off and then moving towards the center while falling

[vital timber]

So I haven’t gotten Deus in a run yet is it good and if it is how does it actually work after parries

[molten pebble]

id say its pretty good, has some insane synergies with items so basically if you parry successfully before getting hit you turn invincible for a bit and get the blessed buff which guarentees on hit effects and on kill effects on enemies

that also means that sonorus whisper always spawns an item with deus ex machina successful parry

[vital timber]

So if I parry with an ATG and wisp, a missile is sent at the parried enemy while the wisp explosion happens?

[severe summit]

uhmmmm i wanted to unlock false sun i have seed but i end up here so what do i do go to blue portal to loop back right?

after that green portal ?

[viral zephyr]

New player here is there any way to tell where a portal is easier or is it just explore and find?

[vital timber]

Virtual, golden, Green, Celestial, and purple portals all have some prerequisites

Blue can be activated BEFORE the teleporter as long as you donate lunar coins (a donut you can find randomly by killing or beating the game in some ways, or achievements) to a newt randomly found in the map

[lavish jacinth]

by 'portal' do you mean an actual portal or just the teleporter? Because they're different things

[jaunty furnace]

if you mean teleporter then look for red/yellow/white/whateverthefuckyouwannanamethem particles in the sky around them

[molten pebble]

i believe so? i couldnt fully see cuz enemies just die instantly but thats what i heard youtubers talk about in videos and other thing i noticed was deus ex machina spawns a lot of atg missiles it might spawn 1 atg for every stack of that item you have

[viral zephyr]

telaporter my bad on that one

cheers for the help tough

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, look for orangish particles in the air, there's also a setting to make them easier to see

[severe summit]

help me anyone 😔

[lavish jacinth]

"teleporter particle scaling" under that umbrella settings tab on the first page

[vital timber]

Oops well that’s a different thing, portals are super important tho, start looking for this

[viral zephyr]

k thanks

[molten pebble]

blue portal takes you to stage 5 the other one takes you to the void to fight voidling that ends the run so yeah loop and get a green portal

[jaunty furnace]

youre gonna have to loop

[lavish jacinth]

go through the blue portal, you'll need to find another green portal to get back to false son

if you go to the bazaar on stage 1-3 of a loop, you'll be able to find hidden geodes that you can break to spawn a guaranteed portal

[vital timber]

I think it’s a product of the missilie legendary and then parrying a bunch of damage, idk tho

[severe summit]

i see thanks man blue portal it is

[lavish jacinth]

just keep following the green portals and you'll reach false son eventually

[vital timber]

You can also try to get golden portals

[molten pebble]

probably, one things for sure the new equipment is very strong

[vital timber]

If you beat Aureonlite it will show up at the end of the stage

Green portal stages can also be dreamed (bazaar warp)

[molten pebble]

dont you need halcyon seed to unlock false son or is that just for one of his skill

[lavish jacinth]

procs aren't sent directly back at the enemy you parried, it gives you an effect that will guarantee procs on the next attack that you perform

[vital timber]

Yes, not to fight him

[molten pebble]

so if you have skills such as engi harpoon that can shoot 4 missiles with 1 skill use that means each missile will have effects of parry

[vital timber]

I don’t think so?

[lavish jacinth]

I'm pretty sure it's just the next instance of damage, so it'd only be the first missile that hits something

[vital timber]

^

[molten pebble]

ic

[heavy gorge]

When do we get eulogy one

[marble magnet]

Telsa coil and shit can't kill solus heart when deciding to spare or kill right?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, pretty sure it can

[marble magnet]

💔

[lavish jacinth]

you gotta be super careful when you accept lol

keep your distance and wait for tesla to turn off, then run up and accept

[marble magnet]

That should be the only thing proccing after so

Wait

What about drones n shit

[lavish jacinth]

nah, drones won't attack him, thankfully

[marble magnet]

Alr

[steady meteor]

do equipment drones know how to use egg or are they stupid

[lavish jacinth]

they won't detonate it, but they'll fly around and hit stuff

[severe summit]

what do i here

[lavish jacinth]

it's for unlocking artifacts, you need to input a code into the machine and then use the laptop to activate a portal

there's one code next to it as an example and the rest are hidden throughout the game (or you can just look them up)

[grave solar]

does Sear stack with attack speed

[lavish jacinth]

yes

it's guaranteed on both stage 5 maps

if you get helminth hatchery then the portal will be at the very top

[grave solar]

ignition tank is the best on chef right?

[lavish jacinth]

it's pretty good on him, but he basically has a stack of it built-in when hitting an oiled enemy

and it'll only boost sear or other sources of burn, not his other skills

[wicked magnet]

where are the newts on pretenders precipice?

[lavish jacinth]

https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Pretender's_Precipice#Newt_Altars

[heavy gorge]

And we all know that ice box is the superior m2

[jovial ivy]

Got any tips to getting better, I can consistently beat drizzle any I want to take the next step onto medium then monsoon, but any suggestions would be great

[lavish jacinth]

if you aren't already, make sure you're full-looting every stage and not rushing, that's probably the biggest thing

[jovial ivy]

I try to get as geared as possible but i do rush so ill take that into consideration

[lavish jacinth]

and get in the habit of constantly moving and dodging, drizzle lets you get away with tanking hits that you really need to avoid on higher difficulties

[jovial ivy]

I do need to work on that as well

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, you always wanna full-clear stages, even if it feels like it's taking too long. Items are how you get stronger and you can't outrun the timer

getting at least one item per minute is a good rule of thumb, but that's a pretty loose guideline. It's also fine to spend time farming for expensive loot or messing with printers and scrappers and stuff

You should also use blood and combat shrines to get gold quickly, whenever possible. The idea is to get everything but be efficient

[severe summit]

man i could reach the false son maybe not this time but what do i do now?

[lavish jacinth]

jump into one of the blue portals and run back to the escape ship

[severe summit]

huh they keep getting away

[lavish jacinth]

...so go after them?

[severe summit]

oh it worked

[supple crater]

how do i get the prison matrix ?

[lavish jacinth]

After killing solus wing there are some doors that'll open up to new areas where you can get them

[supple crater]

alr thx

can i get more than 2 in a run ?

[lavish jacinth]

I don't think so, but they don't stack and you shouldn't really need more than two

[supple crater]

so i can't unlock a skin for a character and unlock drifter in the same run ?

wanted to unlock engineer skin & unlock drifter

[lavish jacinth]

if you're talking about decrypting the cerebellum to fight solus heart, you can use other items besides the prison matrix

[supple crater]

a alr

[lavish jacinth]

sentry keys, rusted/encrusted key, empathy cores and orphaned cores can all be used

[supple crater]

oh thank god

tysm

[glacial knoll]

not that prison matrix does anything

[worldly olive]

Nah you can

[supple crater]

thought prison matrix was the only thing to decrypt the cerebellum

[worldly olive]

Plus there are 2 prison matrixes

Oh wait I forgot you need the 2nd one to unlock drifter, mb

Though either way, you can unlock them with just prison keys

• Its not like you'll hinder your speed (Prison Keys do not stack)

[cinder jay]

hello ive beeten the game should i grind and unlock all the abilities and items or should i buy a dlc and which dlc should i buy first if so

[heavy gorge]

Bonus armor, no?

[glacial knoll]

engi dont got no base armor

[dusky raven]

% increase in armor

[lavish jacinth]

both, you might as well get everything unlocked and the dlcs are all really good.
I generally recommend Survivors of the Void first since it mostly expands on base-game content, but all 3 of them are worth getting so you can't really go wrong

[lavish jacinth]

it only works with the base armor that some survivors have, it won't do anything for armor gained from items

[heavy gorge]

Wtf I hate prison matrix now

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah it's dumb

Irradiant pearl is supposed to increase armor too but it has the same issue

[leaden crescent]

with spare parts is it better to upgrade a drone or keep an extra?

[alpine edge]

which is a good character for newbs and how do i get them

[south egret]

Huntress isn’t horrible for new players, but I’d say she is overall weak. She’s unlocked by default

Bandit is a pretty good character to learn the importance of burst vs proc builds, and he’s automatically unlocked after stage 3

[alpine edge]

cool ty

[unborn nacelle]

what items synergize well with void fiend

[primal vector]

Crit items allows to fill the gauge. Slug allows you to heal without reducing the gauge

[leaden crescent]

also proc and defense also works well if your playing on the aggressive side

[unborn nacelle]

ok

[teal fern]

Anyone knows if hearty stew and ultimate meal work on eclipse 8 when you have curse?

[crude flame]

is there any way to get rid of egocentrism in the current game? (Aside from cleansing pools)

[amber swan]

shrine of order

[worldly olive]

If you get that item, the item will instead turn into the version that corrupts those items

So if you got a Runalds/Kjaros Band and have a Singularity Band, those will turn into a Singularity Band

[nimble night]

Every shield item

Because healing isn't good for void fiend

Transcendence especially

[amber swan]

Transcendence lowkey goated on viend because you just pick up essence of heresy and go with the flow of life

[nimble night]

Transcendence + whatever the void atg item is called

And the new shield thing from the AC dlc

[sour dove]

has anyone else found drifter to be

incredibly buggy

i've been finding new out of bounds clips every run i swear

i just managed to put myself in the bag

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/13378315031123541498/F2D44B530A0AE6F69006BC512FCA8965CE394599/

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/13679547803847483678/6484039F0C653BF5754063D89C7874143A65BAF0/

[hollow garden]

in a run with a friend, does the digital portal respawn if you've killed Spex

or will it no longer spawn

[brittle junco]

is captain's solus heart skin accepting or denying I forgot and im in the middle of the run

[molten pebble]

how does network suffering work for damage, like if i have a crowbar and hit an enemy for 100 damage after crowbar is 50 damage sent to the cloud to deal to every enemy its affecting? or does it not take into account items, what about atg damage, and can it proc when damaging networked enemies

[wanton hamlet]

it takes base damage

[wanton hamlet]

you can check logbook mid run and also its accepting

[boreal path]

do spite bombs do damage to bad guys also?

or is that only with chaos?

[livid wedge]

Presumably only with chaos

[deft ridge]

do I just kill the run?

it actually just sent me back after almost killing me lol, bye watches

[boreal path]

i just dont use watches

[night radish]

Does purity, the lunar item affect proc items?

[delicate ermine]

Which turret is the best?

[livid wedge]

Yes, that's it's whole shtick. The opposite of the clover. All proc chances that succeed are rolled for another fail chance

[night radish]

Oh hmm, is visions of heresy good with proc items?

(Im trying to experiment with acrid)

[livid wedge]

Uhh, that I don't really know

I don't grab the heresy items

[night radish]

Ahh, thanks for the answers anyways, helpful

[oblique pilot]

Hi, what are these two locked bosses?

[flint lark]

you can't kill spex

[pure bridge]

voidling and solus heart

anyone know if you have to purge solus heart for the monster log or does it drop directly after the fight?

[severe summit]

hey i wanna install the save mode to save my run incase i have to go will my friend would also have to install to play with me?

[lavish jacinth]

iirc propersave is server-side, so you'll be able to play together but the game will only save if the host has the mod, I think

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah, it's decent, at least for acrid

But proc items are always good

[quasi crystal]

hello peoples, may i ask if unlocking chef in multiplayer locks other players out from unlocking him? Friend 1 just unlocked chef but in the same session, seconds later, Friend 2 obtained the exact items needed but couldnt feed it to the thing needed to unlock the character

just a lil confused on what to do, because we all wanted to unlock chef but as soon as one of us did the thing we couldn't do it too

[lavish jacinth]

Afaik only one player at a time can unlock him in multiplayer

It might reset if you loop and go back to reformed altar, but I'm not totally sure and it's pretty easy to just do it in singleplayer with command

[broken swan]

do we know if drifter is the same drifter from rorr? she is dressed identically

[dusky raven]

Judging by the lore entry for her, I’d bet the same

[clear whale]

Probably is

Canon wise she messed around with Solus Wing

[dusky raven]

Especially with dead HAN-D as her cellmate

[pure bridge]

i just got it, can confirm you can get it and still decompile

[lavish jacinth]

I'm late but whatever
It's always better to upgrade drones, it increases their stats exponentially and buffs their skills

[simple halo]

For huntress, what does strafe do better than flurry?

[lavish jacinth]

just consistency, mainly

flurry is worse initially but gets better the more crit chance you have, iirc it starts surpassing strafe at around 30% crit chance

[simple halo]

Doesnt strafe have a better proc coefficient or something?

[lavish jacinth]

slightly, strafe is 1.0 while flurry is 0.7 per arrow

but flurry's proc dps does get better with crit chance as well

the wiki has the math, if you're interested https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Huntress#Strafe_vs._Flurry

[simple halo]

Where do I find the chef to combine items in alloyed collective?

[lavish jacinth]

in computational exchange, in a little room to the left of spex

[simple halo]

Is it worth going to the AC secret realm just to combine items?

And unrelated question, when do yall usually loop?

Looping sounds fun in concept but I feel like it would get boring after a bit when you have a build that can stomp anything

[lavish jacinth]

I usually don't bother looping unless I need to for an unlock

[simple halo]

Such as?

[lavish jacinth]

Technically it's worth it, crafting can be insanely strong if you've got the right items for it. It's more a question of whether it's actually worth the effort since you'd need to kill solus wing to get there

[lavish jacinth]

well the most relevant example would be going to kill solus heart for a skin, I've had a few runs that were kinda garbage on stage 3 so I decided to go for a loop

but there are also a fair amount of unlocks that require looping to complete, like anything related to obliteration or killing a post-loop enemy

[pure bridge]

there are also the environments that only show up once you loop, so if you want their logs you need to for those

[grave solar]

what are the best items for chef?

[jovial ivy]

Do I have the drone buff without buying the alloyed collective dlc?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it's a basegame change

[jovial ivy]

Does that make engineer drone worth running?

[lavish jacinth]

you mean the mobile turrets?

they're still a little worse than the default ones but they've always been good enough to be worth running

[lavish jacinth]

Chef is flexible but does really well with proc items, the extra proc coeff on cleavers goes crazy with Yes Chef

is also basically free on him, he's got a ton of built-in debuffs

[robust flint]

do rusted keys/encrusted keys spawn on solutional haunt?

[lavish jacinth]

no

[pure bridge]

does oil not count for death mark? doing a run rn and i've got shatterspleen and chrono but fire/oil arent proccing it

[lavish jacinth]

I think it counts as a debuff, but igniting an oiled enemy removes the oil

[potent briar]

can i use captain's stuff in the planetarium

man that sucks

[oblique crane]

does anyone have a mod that disables the enemies that turn off my items

[lavish jacinth]

#ror2-modding would know

[oblique crane]

oops

[heavy gorge]

So drifter's alt utility is pretty crappy, right?

[lavish jacinth]

yep

[tender temple]

Honestly should have just been an alt psv

Drifter doesn't really have anything that encourages using temp items so salvage feels a bit unsynergetic with the kit

Not only do you have less junk to use on m2 but you also just don't really have any benefit of using temp items over other characters

[heavy gorge]

When I steal an enemy, do I get more or less junk if I immediately throw them back out?

compared to if I just bludgeoned them

[tender temple]

I might be mistaken but I think throwing gives about as much as the last hit of bludgeoning but you also get a piece every normal hit so it might be better

Throwing is faster but bludgeoning does more damage

And you don't get junk from throwing ground objects

[heavy gorge]

I see

btw am I just stubborn or is cleanup still a good skill? I've never had much luck with the cube

[tender temple]

Personally I like cleanup more cause it has a ton more item synergies

[lavish jacinth]

cleanup is definitely good, maybe even better than cube honestly

[tender temple]

Junk cube is great but it just feels more boring for me cause of that

Cleanup also has better time hitting flying bosses imo

[lavish jacinth]

cube is fun to use, and maybe there's tech I don't know about, but cleanup is more spammable and gets insane utility with all the random projectiles

[tender temple]

The sole fact cleanup makes use of on-kills and on-interacts already puts it leagues above cube for me

[heavy gorge]

it does?

[tender temple]

There's a couple of special projectiles that trigger those items

[tender temple]

At least 2 variants of thqwibs and one barrel

You also get extra synergy with crit and ignition tank I guess

The random aure fragment CAN roll early on stage 1 and speed things up a lot too

I got it twice as my first item

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, cleanup is crazy

meanwhile cube just has... damage

[tender temple]

Cube just doesn't have the utility it had in returns so it's not really that great imo

Like an ability could do 5 gazillion damage but if the alternative has more utility I'm picking that

[gloomy flint]

I have enough spike to unlock the secondary ability but it doesn't open, why is this happening?

[brittle shuttle]

44 spikes in total

[lavish jacinth]

you need a total of 44, it doesn't count the 4 that you start with

[gloomy flint]

44 in total including 2 backup magazines but still not working

[jaunty furnace]

mags dont count

[lavish jacinth]

you specifically need to gain them through growth, like the unlock says

[gloomy flint]

uh okey thanks

[lavish jacinth]

at this point you could probably get like, one more stack of stone flux and it'd work, or use tonic or something

[gloomy flint]

i am gonna use tonic i think

thanks again

[warped walrus]

Is there a time when alloyed collective will be on switch

[high forum]

early next year, but no confirmed date

[eternal storm]

Does the parry make void glasses instakill guaranteed

[high forum]

i think that's a bug right now, yes

[eternal storm]

dang that’s op

[wanton hamlet]

nah it works as intended

[high forum]

oh yeah? maybe I'm misremembering the specific effects of the equipment, but I coulda sworn it was more of an oversight/bug

lemme go re-read :)

[lavish jacinth]

it is supposed to guarantee ALL on-hit effects, it'd be weird if lost seers didn't work

[pure bridge]

it says all of your on hit effects, and void glasses are an on hit, just with a really low chance

[wanton hamlet]

"A successful parry nullifies incoming damage, reduces your equipment cooldown by 75%, and grants Blessing, causing your next attack to ALWAYS activate your on-hit effects."

[high forum]

oh for some reason i thought it only activated the on-hit effects if it killed

[glacial blaze]

are guides from 2022 relevant? for base game achievements and character builds

or there are new guides in this server maybe?

[wanton hamlet]

nah, too many updates and they dont take new dlc into account

[sharp bough]

can networked suffering transfer the damage from lost seer’s lenses to bosses?

[lavish jacinth]

pretty sure lost seers lenses doesn't deal actual damage

[wanton hamlet]

also doesnt networked suffering have a 0 proc

[lavish jacinth]

the "9999999" thing is just visual, I think it just sets the enemy's health to 0

[sharp bough]

ah dang ok

[lavish jacinth]

yea

[sharp bough]

yeah but i mean hit a boss to get it in the networked suffering thing, then kill an enemy with lenses

[lavish jacinth]

the wiki is pretty useful for that kind of thing, and it's much more up-to-date (as long as you're using wiki.gg and not fandom)

[wanton hamlet]

no cus seers glasses dont deal any actual damage and they dont work on enemies with red healtbars

[lavish jacinth]

"character build guides" can be a little iffy anyway imo, builds in ror2 are pretty loosely defined

like, when in doubt you can just get a bunch of total damage procs and multipliers and that'll work on anybody lol

[lavish jacinth]

well technically they sorta can but not through networked suffering

[wanton hamlet]

really

[lavish jacinth]

the only way to do it is to have , have lost seers proc on an enemy, and then have a boss get caught in the blast from behemoth, since it inherits the instakill damage type.
Most bosses (except final bosses) don't actually have immunity to the instakill, lost seers itself just won't proc when hitting them

[wanton hamlet]

lol

[glacial blaze]

I already played the game back in 2020 on my PS5. Now I want to return and go for 100% completion on Steam, so I could use a guide to help me catch up.

or any strategy I can follow to make it more time efficient.

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, the wiki has tips for pretty much every achievement in the game https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Challenges

[grave solar]

do i have to scrap prayer beads for the bonus stats to apply or do they automatically removes themselves

[lavish jacinth]

you have to get rid of them yourself somehow

[severe summit]

man i was engineer and some lame as lunar item blocked my turret still i survived till wave 48😭 😭 how do i remove if next time happens

[lavish jacinth]

the only way to get rid of lunars is with a cleansing pool

they're pretty rare and only spawn on specific maps though https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Cleansing_Pool

[severe summit]

i see

[pure bridge]

don't necessarily have to scrap them but you do have to remove them yourself some way

they are blacklisted from being picked by a printer so that doesn't work, but if mithrix takes them or egocentrism consumes them you'll also get the stats

[sharp sundial]

can also give them to spex, get the buff and the item back

[lavish jacinth]

they can be taken by printers

they just can't be IN a printer

[pure bridge]

ohhhhh i misunderstood then

i saw the blacklisted from item printers on the wiki and thought that meant they couldn't take them. side note, has the bug with benthic bloom been fixed? wiki.gg doesn't list what counts as removing the items, and fandom lists a glitch where benthic bloom would eat your item and not give the stats, but obv fandom is outdated

[lavish jacinth]

not sure, it wasn't in the patch notes but they tend to forget things

[pure bridge]

fair enough

[lavish jacinth]

wouldn't surprise me if it's still in the game, it's a pretty minor oversight and idk how well-known it was

[mossy marsh]

headshot 223

[ionic igloo]

Does Noxious Thorn transfer timers?

If an enemy with Collapse dies and Collapse had 1 second left, does the new enemy have 1 second left or does it refresh to 3s

[lavish jacinth]

it refreshes

[ionic igloo]

ty

[vital ether]

does faraday spur and orphaned core interact the way i think they do?

[pure bridge]

it is. just checked

[heavy gorge]

If you spam cleanup too fast does it bug out the attack? I swear the projectiles disappear

[simple coyote]

does expose proc on DoT (gas)

[lavish jacinth]

no

[simple coyote]

must have proc coeff ig ok ty

[ionic igloo]

Is Computationa Exchange closed after killing Solus Heart? I assume it is but the wiki doesn't say

[heavy gorge]

Can you get prison matrixes while the wing is still alive?

[alpine edge]

how do i get a skin for bandit?

[lavish jacinth]

depends on which skin you're trying to get
for the mastery skin just win the game on monsoon difficulty, doesn't matter which ending
for prime meridian, ||kill False Son, pretty self explanatory||
for the AC skin, ||kill solus heart, but instead of finishing it off after the fight, just hit E on it to accept||

[lavish jacinth]

no, the doors don't open until it dies

[heavy gorge]

Excellent to know

[ionic igloo]

It is not closed

[simple coyote]

is it always worth sacrificing EVERYTHING for sautéed worms
-# (everything that you need to make it, at least.)

and if it’s not, when is it not?

[wanton hamlet]

peak item so yes

[jovial ferry]

is having problems with crossplay enabled common? can't see any multiplayer servers but when i disable servers appear

[wanton hamlet]

yes, if you have crossplay enabled all the people you play with also need it enabled

also crossplay is really buggy

[jovial ferry]

got it. yeah i was playing in a random lobby with crossplay enabled then dc'd, now i can't see any crossplay servers when i used to see tons before

[opaque path]

Wait when was there cross play?

[lavish jacinth]

the only crossplay is between steam and epic games, on PC