ror2-game-questions

[trim lynx]

just get the setup exe :)

[primal vector]

I would recommend sotv as the first one, because each dlc adds content in a slightly different way. SoTV adds content more integrated into a normal run while SoTS adds an alt path (an also items and other things for normal run). But you can also look at the characters of each dlc and decide the one with the survivors you like the most

[tribal island]

Alr ty mate

[jaunty furnace]

sotv definitely

[primal vector]

oh my. Lethal company on thunderstore has 1.3 billion mods downloads. It would be interesting to do a jounalistic article to tell the story of this tool. It is big

[glacial quail]

Has anyone bought seekers of the storm during the winter sale prior to jan 1st but after dec 25th?

I was checking my wishlist and I could have sworn it was more than 35% off last week. Maybe I'm imagining things.

[jaunty furnace]

wuh

steam winter sale has a couple more days left

[glacial quail]

I know. I could have sworn it was like 50% off last week.

[primal vector]

https://steamdb.info/app/2306620/

You can see in the price history it wasnt. Its not like Steam allows for those type of changes

There are cooldowns for price changes and other norms

[glacial quail]

I had no idea that website existed. Thanks

[jaunty furnace]

also has a "when is the next major steam sale" page

[sullen basin]

does brittle crown apply to engi turrets

if they get hit, will i lose money

[vague saffron]

I’ve been playing for a little bit now… I’ve beaten mithrix a handful of times now but I can’t seem to beat the dlc bosses.. anyone have any tips on who I should play? Or any tips on how to beat them?

[jaunty furnace]

is there a part youre having trouble with

[primal vector]

They will lose their money. They have their own money avcount

[quaint wagon]

Hey for the avivement captain smushed do i need to kill one of the ending bosses with that supply becaon??

[cobalt herald]

how do the pressure plates in the aquaducts work if your doing a solo run? is there a way to activate both of them or are you just locked out

[north granite]

The pots on the stage

You gotta roll em on

[cobalt herald]

ah ok, thanks

[north granite]

Np

[mellow crystal]

Mithrix specifically

[quaint wagon]

so i couldnt go kill void fiend who i find easyer QWQ

[jaunty furnace]

some characters have free button pressers (engi turrets, loader pylon, captain beacons, maybe more i dont remember) but a global solution is potrolling, as mentioned previously

dont remember if theres another non-survivor dependent way

[narrow pine]

fmp can drop a lunar coin on it lol

[jaunty furnace]

yeah

[cobalt herald]

ok cool, i am running artificer rn and am already next stage, but thanks!

ill keep that in mind for the next run

[mellow crystal]

too

[fading bolt]

Best orange for drifter?

[jaunty furnace]

...orange?

[fading bolt]

Orange

[jaunty furnace]

do you mean equipment or meal

[fading bolt]

Equip

Idk which to take

[primal vector]

Depends on what you have. But generally, since she i melee, I would say that something that hepld you deal with fast flying enemies is good

[lavish jacinth]

are always safe bets when in doubt, equipments are pretty much never character-specific and mainly depend on what you need on your run

Although note that card and recycler are both useless with command, and cube may be better off on an equipment drone

[old goblet]

whats the best legendary item for the false son surviver for damage

[lavish jacinth]

Probably due to procs double dipping on lunar ruins multiplier, but anything of the usual good ones would also work , any sots reds, networked suffering etc

[heavy gorge]

Can you explain the whole lunar ruin double dipping thing?

[lavish jacinth]

Lunar ruin directly increases the damage coefficient of an attack, instead of adding damage at the very end of the damage calculation like multipliers normally do.
So like, an atg hitting an enemy with 1 stack of ruin would deal 330% total damage instead of 300%. and that happens for all damage that hit that enemy, including procs that chain off of that atg, so lunar ruin will increase the damage of proc chains exponentially

[heavy gorge]

False Son can’t stop winning

[lavish jacinth]

It also means lunar ruin can cause bands to proc off of an attack that would normally do less than 400%, which normally shouldn't happen with multipliers

[heavy gorge]

I like how one minute they calculate lunar ruin in the most advantageous possible way but in the minute previous they calculated crit damage in the shittiest possible way

[lavish jacinth]

I mean, the way crit damage is calculated is consistent with other multipliers

It's just that crit is already an existing multiplier, so adding to it is less effective. It's like picking up a delicate watch when you already have 10 of them

[heavy gorge]

How often should I be fully holding my chef cleavers out instead of having them recall right away?

[north granite]

They have a lil indicator after a few seconds where their orange aura turns red to signify their damage is up

[heavy gorge]

No I mean how long should I be doing that instead of just throwing them out and having them come back immediately

[north granite]

If you're able to hit a stationary/slow target with the idle keep em on them but otherwise I wouldn't recommend

Then again I usually use (yes chef!) cleavers as my big dps burst on big targets and you can't control em like normal cleavers

[heavy gorge]

Yeah I feel like I lose overall DPS letting the cleavers fully charge unless the target is molasses

[north granite]

Yeag

Especially with small or nimble targets

Hitting a good spin idle on an xi construct though........ Ough

[snow spire]

does artifact of soul change how you obtain it? I havent gotten a single key drop (im using artifact of sacrifice rn if that changes anything)

[south egret]

I think you’re just unlucky, or need to look around a bit more

[snow spire]

ty\

[fading bolt]

How to get growth for false son

[steady stone]

Health boost is how you scale Growth, like or

[coarse sinew]

Would of one mind block vagrants special?

[elfin ember]

Can anyone give me a build that works really well with Railgunner? I know crowbars are the main way to go, but I want something that doesn't just depend on crowbars

[coarse sinew]

Bands? Watches? Gas + Willowisp

And a bunch of speed

[lavish jacinth]

protip, don't ever rely on just one item, you always wanna go for variety so that they multiply each other

[lavish jacinth]

this, also total damage procs are good as usual. You want as many things multiplying your damage as possible

[hoary sedge]

runic lens is also very very good on her

[coarse sinew]

What's the proc chance for railgunners secondary with runic?

I know the chances gets boosted on extra damage

[lavish jacinth]

I think so, afaik it's basically the same as Engie's bubble shield

[coarse sinew]

And does his bubble block that?

[hoary sedge]

assuming default m2 with perfect reload boost it hits the cap (75%)

[coarse sinew]

Runic lens has a cap?

[hoary sedge]

also because of the >1 proc coeff both specials are guaranteed to proc it

[hoary sedge]

yeah its capped at 7500% damage and 75% chance

[wispy magnet]

question about solus wing

when you destroy all four terminals, is his armour weakened?

[lavish jacinth]

I'm pretty sure, yeah I haven't used bubble shield in forever though lol

[lavish jacinth]

you mean its weak points?

[wispy magnet]

yes

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, each one you break reduces its armor

[wispy magnet]

ah well that explains a lot

[elfin ember]

Any red items or void items that I should be focusing on?

[lavish jacinth]

are all good, although depending on your situation you may wanna keep uke for the crowd control. AtG also synergizes with the higher proc coeff on her specials so that's something to consider too

is a pretty obvious one, but otherwise any of the usual good reds runic lens, networked suffering etc.

[hoary sedge]

lysate cell is also pretty nice with cryocharge

[elfin ember]

Thank you 👍

[river ledge]

Ive seen a few videos pre nerf, but is junk cube still better after it got nerfed?

And also does the substandard duplicator get me more items on stack or no?

[wintry swan]

yo i am tweaking out what items am i missing i have all the commens unlocked

[lavish jacinth]

dlc items

[river ledge]

Dlc items i think

[wintry swan]

i only have the first dlc

[river ledge]

Yeah those are for the other 2

[wintry swan]

aight

cheers

[river ledge]

Np

[lavish jacinth]

no, stacking it only increases the duration of temp items

[river ledge]

Ah so 13 temp of those is good but not as good as i thought

[lavish jacinth]

it's still decent but cleanup is better overall

[river ledge]

Alright thanks

[lavish jacinth]

tbh cleanup was always kinda better as an ability imo, the infinite junk exploit was kinda the main thing that made cube strong

[river ledge]

I see

Well thanks

[limpid pawn]

does squid polyp proc when picking up an item

[lavish jacinth]

no

[south egret]

plimp is not good on her, since she consistently one shots targets

[slender olive]

most proc items in general are kinda meh for her

[south egret]

definitely trolling

[lavish jacinth]

most proc items are very good on her lol

[slender olive]

im not referring to bands if thats what you're assuming

bands are obviously amazing

my bad

[lavish jacinth]

bleed, collapse and boomerang are the only ones she wouldn't care about since they're just base damage (unless you're using alt m2)

[lavish jacinth]

I know, I'm talking about total damage procs

[slender olive]

fair enough

[south egret]

shatterspleen on hh44 is nuts

also pred, but that’s a given

[lavish jacinth]

eh, depends on situation. If you're on a run where you're not oneshotting things then plimp is nice to have, especially if you don't already have atgs

[south egret]

that is true

[worldly olive]

Total Damage Proc Items are basically never bad as any survivor

[vague saffron]

Like whenever I do false son boss…. I get one taped almost instantly 😭

And voidling whenever I get to 2nd phase… idk what’s killing me but it kills me almost instantly

[lavish jacinth]

voidling's second phase has a black hole attack that instantly kills you if you touch it, similar to the other void monsters when they die. Just keep your distance from it, other than that phase 2 is basically the same as phase 1

[lavish jacinth]

the key with false son is playing defensively, use the pillars for cover as much as you can and stay near the gold pillars so you can clear lunar ruin and other debuffs as quickly as possible

[vague saffron]

Ok ok

So like don’t run in guns blazing😭

[vague saffron]

The black hole attack is probably what killed me

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, don't be as aggressive as you would with mithrix, just focus on dodging his attacks and get hits in where you can

[vague saffron]

Ok and is there any characters who’s better for false son?

[lavish jacinth]

the gold pillars also spawn near the sides of the arena and respawn a little while after being used, so once you've used one try to make your way to the other side. Several of his attacks apply lunar ruin, which makes you take 10% more damage and receive 10% less healing per stack, so you really wanna get rid of it right away

and he has a much worse debuff he can apply in his last phase

[vague saffron]

Ok

[lavish jacinth]

anyone with good mobility tends to work

[vague saffron]

So someone who has a good movement ability

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

I had a really easy time doing it as Acrid, but I've heard other people say they struggled with him so maybe my runs were a fluke lol

[vague saffron]

Is acrid the lizard? That like shoots acid

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[vague saffron]

Ok

[lavish jacinth]

it's pretty easy to just stick poison on him and then focus on dodging

[scarlet salmon]

Yea Acrid is pretty fun its also how i got the Naturopath achivement

[vague saffron]

Ok I’ll try that on my next run

Thanks man🙏

[round olive]

I charged the ship after mythrix and after it hit 100% in the objective box it informed me to "Escape" and the ship was not leaving the moon causing me to loose the run, is this a known bug or??

[lavish jacinth]

I don't think so, at least I couldn't find any bug reports about it. Were you running any mods?

closest thing I found was this #1455963556137668799 message

[pulsar creek]

If u wanna know how to cheese false son as well there’s a video on how to get through phase 1 and 2 super easily

https://youtu.be/pKmS4wyFRAk?si=7jxkzq_Wwelg3HxF

[soft glen]

Do sale stars also affect the amount of items you get from cauldrons that are found in newts realm?

The cauldrons that say "5 rare items for 1 legendary item"

[mellow crystal]

No
It's strictly only chests

[soft glen]

Ah okay, thank you!

[dusky raven]

also to note it does work with Equipment Barrels and Rusted Lockboxes

[worldly olive]

Only affects chests

Even stuff like void cradles or void potentials do not work with it

[tardy pulsar]

There are a bunch of logbook achievements and some unlocks, like mastery colors, that don't unlock when I play with my friend. Why is that? I am hosting. I am also alive at the end (most of the time). I do what I have to, but nah. Is there any tool that can unlock everything properly? I only know of some older tools that only do achievements (which I guess most unlocks are), but they don't have alloyed dlc content.

[jaunty furnace]

you cant get dlc achievements if you dont have the dlc

but not getting base game achievements is weird

you can use realercheatunlocks if you want

https://thunderstore.io/package/prodzpod/RealerCheatUnlocks/

[tardy pulsar]

I have the dlc, but I still don't get anything. He doesn't have it, but I do.

[tardy pulsar]

thank you :)

[noble scroll]

for multiplayer, does the difficulty or health of the enemies change based on how many people are playing?

[livid wedge]

Difficulty scales faster

Which in turns means they'll be higher levels more quickly with more health

[noble scroll]

ah ok, so its expected to just have faster runs with more people?

[hoary sedge]

not necessarily, it's more that more people = more total firepower so the enemies are tougher to compensate

multiplayer stages are a little faster usually since you share gold drops and can split up but the major bottlenecks are still there

[livid wedge]

This. Thank you

[void sandal]

Day 2 of asking for engineer to have a new turret variation

[hoary sedge]

you're gonna be asking for a while lmao

gearbox really doesn't like touching hopoo content

[noble scroll]

thx for the answer

[toxic helm]

what is the difference between the marks on the expansions on the character select screen? and why are there 3? one for on, one for off, and one for wombo?

[lavish jacinth]

It's for multiplayer voting

[toxic helm]

ah thank you

[safe phoenix]

anyone got some tips for playng chef? like items and best abilities and all of that

[south egret]

proc items are nutty on Chef. One of the few characters where lost seers is better than crit in the majority of situations

[north granite]

If you use Yes CHEF with icecubes you can use a super ice AND one of the others because of a bug(?)

@safe phoenix

Unless it's patched (playing on switch myself)

[torpid frost]

Hey all, I'm doing a run with artifact of devotion (along with delusion and prestige, to clarify), and I gave 2 lemurians shipping request forms. How many are supposed to spawn from this? I am on stage 2 and I'm counting 6 entire deliveries spread out across the map. I'm assuming this isn't normal, but I don't actually know.

[steady stone]

it gives a copy to each lemurian

[torpid frost]

I see

Thanks 👍

[safe phoenix]

what items are good for mul t?

[lavish jacinth]

mostly proc items, especially bleed. Nailgun and saw also scale well with attack speed, but don't bother getting more than 1 syringe if you're using double rebar/retool

[tribal island]

With what does void fiends % meter scale (the white bar) and what if i hit 100 or worse 90 or some do i just transform and untransform?

[primal vector]

You get corruption by getting damaged and landing critical strikes and lose corruption by being healed and overtime

If you are uncorrupted, at 100 corruption you transform. If you are corrupted, at 0 corruption you tranform

[tribal island]

Ah alr ty

Idk if im doing sum wrong but its just getting higher does it scale up with atk speed or sum or maybe movement speed?

[jaunty furnace]

void items

[tribal island]

Ohhh

[jaunty furnace]

:3

[tribal island]

Alr ty

[heavy gorge]

If you hit 100% corruption from having 50 void items, you’ll be in corrupted mode forever 😳

[heavy gorge]

What happens if you kill Voidling while allies are still doing the jump puzzle?

[sullen basin]

is engi capped at 3 turrets with lysate cells

[north granite]

Yeah

[vague saffron]

How do prayer beads work? Like I get that they take some xp and convert it to increasing your health and dmg % but like… I’ve been using them and I don’t see a difference I’m not sure if I’m using it wrong or it just doesn’t make a big difference.

[zinc turtle]

You'll need to get rid of them by scrapping them or other means

[cobalt herald]

If you scrap infusion do you lose the max hp?

[left forge]

Yes, but it saves ALL the gained max hp if you pick up a new infusion.
You can pick up a shit ton of infusions but leave one on the ground/pray for a printer, scrap your infusions, then pick up one

[vague saffron]

Oh and then do I get the boosted hp and stuff?

[cobalt herald]

ah ok, thanks

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[vague saffron]

Thanks🙏

[left forge]

And solus extractor stealing counts iirc

[lavish jacinth]

prayer beads basically acts like a second xp bar that you "cash in" rather than passively gaining stats, so you have a choice of scrapping it immediately for a smaller bonus, or hanging onto it longer to build up more xp or try to get more stacks of the item to get more stats out of it

[lavish jacinth]

anything that removes it from your inventory counts, yeah

except benthic bloom (which iirc is actually a bug)

[vague saffron]

Ohh so it like takes some of my xp that I would’ve gotten and the longer I hold on to it the more xp and the higher the boost will be

And then when I want it just scrap it

[lavish jacinth]

it doesn't take your xp, you effectively get extra xp but it's stored in the beads rather than being given to you right away

[vague saffron]

Oh ok

That seems kinda broken😭

[lavish jacinth]

eh, it's not really

[cobalt herald]

how does infusion work with transendence(specfically if i get transendence then scrap infusion)

[vague saffron]

I feel like if you’re tryna loop that’d be broken to have

[lavish jacinth]

it works exactly like your regular xp bar does, which means the more levels you have, the more xp it takes to get to the next one. It tapers off pretty hard at around level 20

[vague saffron]

Oh

[lavish jacinth]

and the buff you get from beads is also only 20% of what you'd get from a normal level-up, so scrapping beads with 20 stacks of the buff is equivalent to ~4 levels.
which is still decent, but not broken

[lavish jacinth]

transc scales off of what your health would've normally been without it, so scrapping infusions will still decrease how much shield you have

[cobalt herald]

oh ok, dam

[vague saffron]

When you put it like that it seems less broken😭

[lavish jacinth]

a permanent buff to your base stats is still pretty nice, but yeah, it's not like an insane op item or anything

[vagrant rampart]

is it possible to infinitely loop? (srry if this is already answered somewhere, just got the game 5~ish days ago and just joined the server today)

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, the only limit on looping is how much your system can handle before it crashes

[dull spire]

can someone pls help me identify which 2 portals these are? they should be for stage 4 but it looks like Scorched Acres to me? The last stage was Rallypoint Delta

#ror-art-and-content message

[frail sphinx]

Is it possible to get a gold shrine while going through the Prime Meridian?

[lavish jacinth]

it is, but if you're going for the false son unlock, then the best way to get to gilded coast is through the bazaar. There's a ~30% chance for it to appear in either of the lunar seers, and if you go there on stage 1-3 of the current loop then there'll be a guaranteed green portal there as well

[frail sphinx]

Thank you very much!

[livid wedge]

It's weird. That doesn't link to a specific message for me

[dull spire]

i deleted it, but ty :)

didnt want to leave it in the art channel

is there any way to restore corrupted save files? i 100%ed the game but had to start from scratch now

[livid wedge]

Dunno about recovery but you can reunlock everything with realercheatunlocks

[river ledge]

With lysate cells, what is the max engi turrets i can have? So like how many do i need for maximum output

[lavish jacinth]

max is 3, so you only need one lysate cell. More stacks give the skill more charges but won't raise the cap any further

[river ledge]

I see

[wanton lotus]

Yeah someone on youtube made it to 1000 stages

https://youtu.be/A2ad6_FVHp8?si=Zf7wJX6rjX6mp2qs

On cap no less

[chrome mist]

can you do the Alloyed bosses in eclipse?

[livid wedge]

Ye, just can't end your run there

Solus heart is automatically rejected

[south egret]

oh damn

well, at least they thought about it somewhat

[neon crystal]

i got a quick question if anyone is around

basically i killed the solus heart, then went back and have been looping trying to get a gold portal to spawn with the halycon shrines but even tho i charge it to full and kill the golden mini bosses that spawn its only giving me green portals

so i cant get the halycon seed

idk if theres a way to get a golden portal to spawn or if im just stuck

[lavish jacinth]

Best way to get there is actually through the bazaar, lunar seers each have a 15% chance to have gilded coast

Way more reliable than hoping for a gold shrine

[neon crystal]

oh aight, thanks for the heads up

[analog brook]

Does anyone know exactly how many lunar coins each ending gives? Specifically FS and heart? I know mithrix and voiding is 10, obliterating is 5 (?), scavs is 15 total but I have no idea about the other two

[livid wedge]

10 for mithrix, 5 for everything else

[dusky raven]

I believe Voidling also gives 10, and the Twisted Scavengers drop 10+5 for obliterating

False Son and Solus Heart just give 5

[ionic sundial]

Wait wait wait

Endings give coins??

[jaunty furnace]

yeap

[pastel epoch]

I keep forgetting to play close attention but do you still get the coins from those two even if you continue the run? Or only if you end the run immediately after those fights?

[river ledge]

which artifacts would be the best to get first?

[random panther]

Do vengeance clones not get ? Because they did not even try activating them, I was utterly horrified of my mistake when I picked one up

[random panther]

If you want free unlocks and free runs, go with command, sacrifice, swarms, and delusion.

If you want goofy as fuck runs, swarms, vengeance, devotion, prestige, chaos, and metamorphosis

If you want to stack artifacts together to create really difficult combinations that surpass eclipse 8 by multiple times, honor, swarms, soul, spite, dissonance, frailty, evolution, vengeance, prestige, chaos, death

If you want super mid artifacts, kin and enigma

[river ledge]

thanks

[plucky trout]

what to do when you accidentally attack the eyeball in computational exchange?

[jaunty furnace]

cry

then go to siren's call or repurposed crater if you want to go there again

[strong thunder]

does anybody know what that "woop woop" sound is? my partner and i have been scratching our heads over what it could be

[round olive]

I wasn't running any mods, in the hard lock video, when the player gets the "escape prompt" after charging the ship nothing would happen instead of allowing the player to escape, I'm assuming it was a bug considering how many times I've completed the game via mythrix but I wanted to see if anyone else also has this issue

[void fossil]

Genuinely why can’t you save runs to get back to later is there a reason why because runs in this game take hours bare minimum and not having the ability to save a run really gets annoying

Like have an auto save in between levels or something please

[plucky trout]

too much work

[void fossil]

There’s no way that’s actually the reason

[lavish jacinth]

No idea why the devs refuse to add it, but the game definitely doesn't take "hours bare minimum"

Most runs are an hour or less if you don't loop

[void fossil]

Takes hours for me but that’s normally because I’m messing around with my friend while playing

[jaunty furnace]

🐱

an hour is quite fast compared to my runs

[heavy gorge]

Faulty Conductor?

[jaunty furnace]

ive been hearing that shit for like 2 years

i dont think thats it

[lavish jacinth]

It happens right as tesla coil shuts off

[strong thunder]

it seems to happen every few seconds so that could be it

is that what the purple lightning symbol is too?

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah

[strong thunder]

ohhhh right

doing some testing rn and it's NOT tesla coil

not any void items either
my first guess was safer spaces but i've heard it without it equipped

i've also looked through the sound files and found nothing

[primal vector]

You have several mod items, so difficult to know what else

[strong thunder]

heard this in basegame too

[dusky raven]

Late response but yeah you get them even if you continue, except for Mithrix, you gotta reach the credits to get them

[zinc pollen]

||does killing the alloyed collectives boss give you a way to loop||

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah, a portal spawns after rejecting the offer

[simple halo]

best way to get a gold portal?

Should I follow SOTS path?

[north granite]

Probably since not only could you get the gold shrines, the sots shrine thingy can spawn with a gold portal orb instead

(on the sots path stages except skip False Son's stage)

You can find the SOTS shrine on Helminth Hatchery though with gold portal orb

Haven't seen it on sky meadow or any normal stage 4

[lavish jacinth]

best way is through the bazaar

[north granite]

True

[lavish jacinth]

there's around a 30% chance that gilded coast will be in one of the lunar seers any time you visit, which is way higher than a random gold altar or halcyon shrine

and if you're on stage 1-3 of the current loop, beating gilded coast will spawn a guaranteed green portal, so you can get the halcyon seed and go straight to the sots path

[quaint wagon]

if i stack 20 stun gernades does that = 100 percent stun for 2 secounds?

-# i know that dont apply to tougher times

[lavish jacinth]

Stun grenade actually stacks hyperbolically like tougher times does, so 20 stacks would be 50% stun chance

[quaint wagon]

ok thank you!

[lavish jacinth]

Although realistically it's not an item you'd wanna stack a lot anyway

[quaint wagon]

true just wondered

[tepid storm]

Can bottle chaos activate equipment even w/o the dlc with the equipment active? I hav void dlc on but not sots

[high forum]

I think that it actually can

[heavy gorge]

Do you receive lunar coins for doing the Rebirth ending? Do you receive them for the Collective ending? I keep forgetting to check! But I will later if needed.

[high forum]

you get lunar coins for every ending!

[upbeat coyote]

what do you use lunar coins for?

[high forum]

to purchase Lunar-tier items (blue), and when you're just starting out, there's something you can purchase one time in the Bazaar that's very cool

[upbeat coyote]

thanks

[lavish coral]

can someone explan me how to play mercenary but i suck at him complet

[lavish jacinth]

here's a link to a merc guide (and some others) #ror2-game-questions message it's a little old but mostly still correct, I think the only thing that's changed is that the slam tech no longer works

also just noticed that it still links the old fandom wiki, we don't use that one anymore lol

[lavish coral]

okay thank u very much

[upbeat coyote]

is there like a guide for the wave gamemode?

[lavish jacinth]

anyway tl;dr be aggressive, use expose as much as you can and abuse your iframes

[lavish jacinth]

there are probably a few on youtube but it's not too different from the normal mode tbh. Only real difference is that it's a bit harder early on, there's less emphasis on movement and more on crowd control

[upbeat coyote]

oh ok thank you because i wanted to get the new character i just bought today

[lavish jacinth]

if you're doing the 50 wave thing I'd recommend using engineer, he's practically built for that mode

[upbeat coyote]

thank you

[sullen basin]

how do people have billions of lunar coins in videos

[high forum]

editing their save files on PC

[sullen basin]

is that allowed or is it bannable?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah it's fine

it's not even possible to get banned in ror2 lol
and either way, it's not like it hurts anyone and the devs don't care

[sullen basin]

can plasma shrimp do the proc chain that runic lens and atgs do

[lavish jacinth]

it has a proc coeff of 0.2, so it can technically proc other things, but it's a lot less likely and the low damage on the missiles means it'll be much weaker than an atg

but shrimp is good at contributing damage to existing proc chains since it's guaranteed to proc as long as you have shields up

[simple coyote]

is there a way to newt from conduit to avoid wing?

[lavish jacinth]

it doesn't have newt altars afaik, so probably not unless it's possible to get a random blue portal

[sinful sail]

Do we know when the new DLC is coming to Switch?

[dusky raven]

All we know is Q1 2026, so in the next few months

probably Feb/March release

[sullen basin]

how rare are aspect items and are any of them any good?

[primal vector]

1/4000 drop chance on killing an elite

The fire and electric ones are good since they increase your damage

The others are meh. The one from the 3º DLC elites if you have it gives you a nice shield and cd reduction

[stray kayak]

Hello does anyone know how to fix:
[Error : Unity Log] There is already a player at that playerControllerId for this connection, conn = hostId: 0 connectionId: 1 isReady: True channel count: 8, playerControllerId = 0. ?

My girlfriend is trying to join me however this keeps popping off and she keeps getting disconnected

[primal vector]

Are you using mods?

[stray kayak]

Yes

She and I are using both mods since it came from my profile

Everything's updated aswell

[primal vector]

I dont have any more info sorry. Just if you figure out wich is the problematic mod, send the creator the error log. Only 4 people including you have posted the same error message in the server, so it seems like a very rare thing #ror2-tech-support message

[stray kayak]

I've checked this one and I don't think it was fixed.

I managed to fix it with a VPN however it's too laggy to even be playable.

^ this could very well be an internet thing, although just an assumption.

[primal vector]

VPN dont mesh well with the p2p nature of the mp

Isnt playing unmodded or with less mods an option?

[stray kayak]

unfortunately we've tried unmodded aswell it gave the same problem

tried reinstalling the game, verifying game integrities etc

[glacial knoll]

How are you joining each other

[simple coyote]

given how engi turrets inherit equipments but just don’t use them, does gesture allow/force them to use it?

[glacial knoll]

No, due to technical stuff

[brisk lintel]

This is awesome... but I feels like "I" am not doing enough damage... if the drones fall apart I am ded

how do i improve it

[golden spoke]

How do I play artificer and loader properly?

[jaunty furnace]

for arti i dont have many tips but i recommend disabling hover toggle (unless youre on controller or something)

for loader, she isnt a point-blank m1 spammer, shes a high speed hit and run one-shot character
grapple to gain speed, and deal giga damage with the charged punch. get damage multipliers like (etc) and a bunch of bands

but characters dont have a strict single way to play them, you can also just build around your pylon to zap lots of enemies

[weary cloud]

Is hikers boots good on railgunner

[floral ridge]

It's low-key a watch iirc, cause the damage increase and critics chance both increase damage, so it might be okay

[jaunty furnace]

doesnt sound very good on paper

a different damage item would probably be better

damage aside, it would also be tedious to charge up the boots before every encounter

and would ruin crowbar if you do it against the enemy you want to snipe

[glacial knoll]

2 -> 2.2 on crit is 10% damage increase, for just your crit spot shots

[river ledge]

yo so uhh is desperado stacks permanent?

like untill you die or when do they end?

[lavish jacinth]

you keep them for the rest of the stage

[heavy gorge]

How much does Heavy add to damage on loader skills?

[river ledge]

oh so thats where they went

still better than lights out ig

[lavish jacinth]

+30% base damage per m/s
based on your actual velocity, not just your speed stat

[lavish jacinth]

definitely

[heavy gorge]

How much does this actually help day to day combat?

30% seems low but I'm not good at this kind of math with m/s

and how dynamic it is

[lavish jacinth]

a lot, literally all of the damage from her gauntlets comes from the heavy bonus

[heavy gorge]

So should I swing away from enemies and get a high speed punch every time?

[lavish jacinth]

well almost all, I think they do like 100% base damage on their own or something. But other than that, the rest of the damage is the gauntlet launching you forward + grapple speed

[lavish jacinth]

yep, you constantly accelerate in the direction you're holding while grappled, so the longer the swing, the better

[heavy gorge]

even for thunder gauntlet?

[lavish jacinth]

yep

[heavy gorge]

argh she feels so hard to figure out

[lavish jacinth]

the movement has a learning curve yeah

and direction DOES matter, if you're swinging really fast in one direction then turn around and punch in the opposite direction, then it's basically the same as punching from a standstill. So you wanna aim your swings as best you can

this might be helpful https://youtu.be/zeRRJGfzuSw loader movement 101

[heavy gorge]

Interesting

Can you revisit conduit canyon?

[lavish jacinth]

nope

[worldly olive]

Its useable as a damage up

Slightly better than a sticky bomb for secondary crits but still on the weaker side

[worldly olive]

Its half a watch

[floral ridge]

+10 percent crit damage from hikers innate crit boost, and then another +10 percent from rail gunner converting chance to crit to bonus damage on secondary and special l

20 percent overall

[worldly olive]

That aint how it works

[lavish jacinth]

except that crit damage increases at a 2:1 ratio, since the multiplier starts at 200%

[worldly olive]

Because it only upgrades the crit damage which is usually 200%, it only adds 20% to that

So 10% damage overall

Again, not bad if you're starving for damage but I don't think it'd be an amazing idea to go all in on a printer unless you're desperate

[lavish jacinth]

there's also this, you need to hit things to keep the boots active

[worldly olive]

I have printed a bunch of boots as railgunner before and the damage was okayish admittidley
But once again that's because I basically didn't have any damage that run so lmao

Tbf that's not too bad to do

With smart rounds you can get it up decently quickly and you should be able to maintain the boost unless the enemies have a lot of downtime

So basically just solus heart with their phase transitions

[mellow crystal]

half a watch

the effective damage increase of +crit damage is half of what's listed

laser scope is effectively +50% damage, hiker's is effectively +5% (or +10% on railgunner), etc

[river ledge]

yo, i just unlocked mercenary and i got the skin that my friend told me you needed to own dead cells for but i dont own dead cells?

is it jsut free or like what

[mellow crystal]

it is free yeah idk where they got that info

[river ledge]

ah neat

so my game is not shitting itself good to know

[quaint wagon]

why wont the game let me make a multi player lobby-??

NVM fixed it self afhter asking that

[sullen basin]

what dlc is runic lens?

[floral ridge]

sots

[lucid haven]

How do heat vent and coolant distributor works?

[mellow crystal]

Coolants clear you of all burn and overheat stacks when you enter their area, killing them extends their radius and allows Solus wing to take heat damage
Heat vents apply overheat and burn to you, overheat essentially makes it so burn doesn't run out

Destroying a heat vent disables ALL heat vents temporarily

[trim lynx]

ohhhhh

(im clueless i just shoot them all)

[lucid haven]

Thanks. Just not that intuitive that destroying the coolant distributor makes its area larger.

Strange.

[sharp sundial]

I mean, it's normally shooting the coolant at the wing if you're looking. when you break it, it spews it around itself instead

if anything it doesnt make sense that it has an area before being broken

[lavish jacinth]

all of his skills except his primary involve using his drones in various ways, and his secondary in particular gets extra charges for every drone that you have

[sullen basin]

do engi turrets inherit equipment?

[wispy cloud]

like card

??

[sullen basin]

like seed or fuel array

[lavish jacinth]

they only get the effects from passive equipments, like elite aspects

[sullen basin]

i was thinking if i could make exploding turrets with fuel array

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, fuel array works on them

[sullen basin]

how about seed?

[lavish jacinth]

but the explosion can still damage you if you're close to them since it has friendly fire enabled

[lavish jacinth]

iirc yeah

[sullen basin]

yup

learned that while playing with a friend, he had the fuel array and was next to me—ended our run very quick

[wispy cloud]

Tips on fighting swing as acrid, or any other melee based character

[sullen basin]

does egocentrism also eat lunar items

[lavish jacinth]

yep, it eats everything

(except equipment)

[jaunty furnace]

merc - hit & run, just like any other enemy
loader - hit & run, just like any other enemy
acrid - poison
drifter - im sorry

[wispy cloud]

I got fried on drifter e1

maybe just should skip

[jaunty furnace]

you can turn anyone into commando with

also youre not forced to fight the ac bosses

[sullen basin]

any tips for fighting aerial enemies as melee characters?

[lavish jacinth]

with drifter you can spam m2 at wing and get junk from the adds (or just smack the boss if you're willing to tank some hits)

[jaunty furnace]

hitting it with m2 was painful

junk cube never reached

dont quite remember how cleanup went

[lavish jacinth]

either use your ranged attack if you have one and/or use your mobility to reach them

unless you're doing double saw mul-t, then you're on your own lol

use your m2 and pray that you find shurikens or something

[lavish jacinth]

yeah cube sucked, cleanup wasn't too bad when I did it though

still wasn't a smooth fight either way though

[lucid haven]

You can stay on top of the boss and use cube. It will 100% hit.

[wispy cloud]

but remember barely any gold in swing

[jaunty furnace]

true

then

or similar equipment

[lavish jacinth]

drones will also put in a lot of work, although they are prone to dying in its later phases

[sullen basin]

can plasma shrimp and polylute chain proc each other?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[wispy cloud]

polylute can proc shrimp

[lavish jacinth]

if an attack has a non-zero proc coeff, then it can trigger any other proc item

[sullen basin]

both of which are 0.2 tho, yeah?

[wispy cloud]

iirc plimp is 0

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, although shrimp doesn't care about proc coeff, only that it isn't 0 and that your shields are up

[lavish jacinth]

plimp is 0.2

[wispy cloud]

my bad

[sullen basin]

actually i'm still not 100% sure how proc coefficient works

[lavish jacinth]

so you're unlikely to proc polylute off of shrimp, but shrimp will always proc off of polylute as long as you have shield

[lavish jacinth]

it's essentially just a multiplier for proc chance

take the proc chance of an item, multiply it by the proc coeff of an attack, and that's the chance that the item will proc

[wispy cloud]

if an item says 10% multiply that off the proc, f.e commando is 1.0 so all the chances are accurate, but false sons slam is 3.0 so your item chances are multiplied by 3

[lavish jacinth]

it also affects a few other miscellaneous things like debuff duration, but it's mainly proc chance

[lavish jacinth]

slam isn't 3.0 anymore, it's 1.5 if you a midair slam and fall for at least half a second

[quick rampart]

Can I do the offering challenges with people or does it only count for one person?

[heavy gorge]

Which bandit m2 is most ideal?

[worldly olive]

Theres some preference but 9/10 I just pick shiv

[lavish jacinth]

the main reason to use his m2 is just hemorrhage, and the throwing dagger lets you do that from more than like 2 feet away

[rare fox]

Due to a strange amount of chance, I had a run with 4 Pluripotent Larvae over the course of a run. Burned through a few, went to Conduit Canyon, and died to the Alloy Hunter. Run ended with two Pluripotent Larvae in my inventory. How's that work?

[worldly olive]

The laser disables your items

[rare fox]

Ah

Thanks

[cerulean lance]

Does proc chance effect crit or is crit a flat chance of happening?

[slim spoke]

flat

[cerulean lance]

goated

[icy path]

Does trajectory aim assist do anything by itself of do I need to enabl aim assist? I want to see if it'll help deal with wisps on artificer

[lavish jacinth]

it's separate from regular aim assist, iirc it gives projectiles a small offset to help line up better with the third person camera

[heavy gorge]

I am a user of that feature. It makes a bunch of projectile skills home in on enemies if they’re close enough

It is an incredible feature

[icy path]

Thank god it got real old how bulky artificer crosshair was and how off you had to aim to hit wisps

[icy path]

I never had it before seekers on console, I wish I knew this before

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it wasn't a thing until seekers added it

I've never really used it much, I'm used to how projectile aiming works lol

but it might be different on controller, idk

[gleaming wind]

Generally, which is better for aoe will-o-the-wisp or ukulele?

[lavish jacinth]

ideally you want both

but usually I find uke a bit more useful initially, but wisp gets better the more you stack it

[north granite]

Wisp has more funny factor to me therefore I like it more (not at all objective)

[lavish jacinth]

then again you can turn uke into polylute, which rules it out as an aoe option entirely if you do

but that's why you get both lol

[north granite]

Ideal run for me with voidsent:

[south egret]

amazing profile picture

[sullen basin]

is this good? (Of One Mind aspect)

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it reduces cooldowns for yourself and allies by 20% and gives you a 30m bubble shield that blocks projectiles

it's one of the better aspects

[sullen basin]

oh it blocks projectiles completely?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, it's basically a permanent version of engineer's shield

[sullen basin]

and it applies to the turrets?

[lavish jacinth]

they inherit elite aspects, yeah

[vital marsh]

Would there ever be crossplay between steam and Xbox? I have ror2 on my laptop but it refuses to start 90 percent of the time

Idk where to ask about this but I just wanna know if this is possible

[lavish jacinth]

pretty unlikely, at least not any time soon

[vital marsh]

Agony

Perhaps the devs could be awesome and make that and then hire me and then just let me take over the game and then I'll run it into the ground because I dont know how to do that stuff and then everyone will dislike me

No rush ofc, if we could get crossplay I would rather it be good and late than buggy and soon

[trim flame]

guys is the server browser bugged for me or does no one actually host multiplayer servers anymore?

cannot find game :(

[zinc turtle]

most people play in private rooms with friends

[trim flame]

ah ok i c

[sullen basin]

what's seeker's specialty in terms of gameplay and what items are recommended on her?

[cinder pasture]

doesn anyone get what i mean there arent enough enemies at the start of the game? i just feel like its a slow start. is there a good artifact or something else to help with that?

[cobalt quiver]

swarms might mitigate it a bit but its still there

youd still have to stand around for a while at the beginning of each stage

[cinder pasture]

is there a good mod for it? i just wish the game didnt have such a slow start. it is my only problem with it

just downloaded inferno

wow ok. this is hard

yep im getting over swarmed as merc and cant deal enough damage

the gips over whelm so easily

yeah i wont do that mod if not all characters are usable though. kinda ruins the point of having options

with the amount of enemies loader would be op

WORST MAP IN GMAE

[south egret]

I really quite like shattered abode 😅

disturbed impact is better, though

[cinder pasture]

just not enough chests and i spend too much time running aorund

[south egret]

that's true

I wish it was baked into the code that there was something every 45m maximum

[cinder pasture]

omg i just learned how to play acrid

never run towards the enemy

[south egret]

lol
... kinda

[river ledge]

I have been ON A ROLE RECENTLY

In the last 2 days ive gotten 40 achievments

Wait wrong chat

[river ledge]

I should prolly sleep but i got school

[marble magnet]

Hey guys so my friend on console is doing eclipse but their wins aren't counting

Like it's not upping the modifier

Anyone have any clue of what's going on I can @ you to the message

[sullen basin]

how rare is this?

[primal vector]

20%

[signal path]

I read that for mul-t's nailgun its accuracy is affected by the primary weapon so if you put rebar as primary and nailgun as secondary it increases the nailguns accuracy by a lot? Is this true?

[sullen basin]

can hellfire tincture crit?

[chrome mist]

do newt alters spawn in conduit canyon?

[wind kiln]

From this angle I genuinely thought this was a shot of Birmingham for just a split second…

[mellow crystal]

last i checked no since rebar is weird
power-saw, however, does increase its accuracy to 100%

[signal path]

Ah okay
One more question. Is the fire rate of rebar affected by syringes? And is it enough to be noticeable by like 3 syringes?

[mellow crystal]

It is yeah

Generally everything that should reasonably be affected by attack speed is

...except laser of the father, since it has such horrible attack speed scaling it might as well have none

[signal path]

Alr

[hallow hound]

What is this? I'm not sure it's a video card issue, because when my friend died, she saw the same thing while watching me, even though everything was fine before.

I apologize if there are any mistakes in the text, I am not a native speaker and do not know English very well.

This happened when teleporting to stage 6

[jagged coral]

recently had an issue with ror2.... whenever i plug in my microphone it just stops playing sounds from ror2 SPECIFICALLY ror2 but everything else works perfectly fine...????? has anyone had the same problem?

[quick rampart]

how do you get those stats on your screen?

[cinder pasture]

looking glass mod

[quick rampart]

i see

[warm condor]

I’m quite new to ror2 but I got all the DLC and just now finished the false son what is the altar for? Like it says you can give an offering like is there something you’re meant to give?

[lavish jacinth]

you can give it any item, using it will give you an artifact that lets you start with that item on your next run

it's a one-time thing though, if you want to choose another starting item you'll have to beat false son and offer an item again

[warm condor]

Thank you so much that’s really helpful🙏

[vital marsh]

Should I stack 50 stoneflux pauldrons and beam every boss

Decision Decision

[vital marsh]

Overloading worm spawned

[lavish jacinth]

Only if you never want to move again

[vital marsh]

Its okay I can do really small leaps as acrid

[zinc turtle]

do drones get the bonus gold from brittle crown?

[marble magnet]

Like uh

Co op or just in general

I don't really know but if it's co op I don't think player drones can use their items until they're revived next stage

[zinc turtle]

like say one of my drones hits an enemy, does it boost the gold it gets from that? or does brittle crown only apply do hits done by my player specifically?

[lavish jacinth]

drones don't inherit items

[zinc turtle]

ok so brittle crown and spare drone parts can be seen as anti synergy since a lot of the times they'd kill the enemies before I can get hits on them

[lavish jacinth]

...I guess? not exactly a big tradeoff though

[marble magnet]

Does eclipse lite interact with lights out?

[zinc turtle]

it is a bigger problem early game since there's way less enemies spawn, and if you have enough drones i straight up can't get hits in lmao

not a problem on later stages since the strength u get from SDP is more than enough to make up for whatever gold you're lacking, this is just a minor nitpick

[dusky raven]

You still get gold from the monsters that drones kill

[signal path]

did chef get buffed or is he still bad

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, he got buffed like a year ago

[signal path]

what did they buff to make him better

[lavish jacinth]

basically everything

[signal path]

any tips to play him? wanna try him out

[lavish jacinth]

I'd recommend getting his alt special as soon as you can

and the other alts too, but the alt R is easy to unlock and really good

[signal path]

got it so get his alts
what abt items and playstyle

[lavish jacinth]

he's not too hard to figure out, his playstyle is based around skill combos and he works with most items, but procs are especially good

[signal path]

got it thank you :)

[lavish jacinth]

you may also wanna read the wiki since his skills have a lot of details and interactions that aren't explained super well in the game https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/CHEF

[signal path]

alrrr

also i didnt really understand the lunar spikes on false son?

the buffs it gives are they like permanent or do you get them as long as the enemy has the spikes on them

[lavish jacinth]

it's based on how many charges the skill currently has vs. how many it can hold in total

[signal path]

ah okay

[lavish jacinth]

so like, if you shoot one spike, you'd lose some of the attack speed and armor, but would gain move speed and regen until the spike comes off cooldown and you regain the charge

[manic plank]

what does combining drones actually do? I have tried looking up breakdown videos on how drone combining works but I keep finding nothing on yt
I want to know if combining drones has any pros/cons, or if combining drones just makes the resulting drone have the same potential output as the two drones would have before combining them (if that makes any sense)
-# P.S. pls ping me I have the server set to @ mentions only lol

[lavish jacinth]

@manic plank the wiki explains it in detail, tl;dr combining drones increases their stats exponentially and is pretty much entirely beneficial https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Drone_Combiner_Station

[south egret]

the only con is that you no longer have two separate drones. Everything else is a pro

[manic plank]

ok that makes sense, thank you!
does that impact operator's abilities outside of increasing the amount of secondary skill charges you can hold?

[livid wedge]

Your secondary charges will always be equal to the amount drones you have as if they were not combined

[manic plank]

ok thank you all!
all this definitely helps a lot in my understanding of drone combining, thank you!

[south egret]

on a similar note, I got four medi drones in a row and had my first tier 3 ever yesterday

[naive raven]

ok so i’m very confused i’ve beaten solus heart like 30 times now trying to get a skin and it never asks me to accept or deny a offering thing does anyone know what im doing wrong?

[lavish jacinth]

you can't accept if you're playing eclipse

[naive raven]

i was on monsoon

skin for huntress

[lavish jacinth]

iirc huntress denies the offering, so you should've gotten it either way then. Normally after you kill it, it'll drop down to the ground and you can either finish it off or interact with it to accept

[naive raven]

it turned into like a blue thing after i killed it

i had a lot of missles so they prob killed it

[lavish jacinth]

it's possible but it still shouldn't matter

[naive raven]

it’s happend like every time i’ve tried to do it

the only skin i want is for huntress idc about the others but the game doesn’t want me to have it

[lavish jacinth]

yeah idk

the game does have some jank with unlocks not triggering correctly, this might be related

[naive raven]

guess i’ll try again tmrw then

thx for trying to help

[lavish jacinth]

could try it with a different character ig, just to see if it's specifically huntress or if the unlock is just broken in general somehow

[naive raven]

what character has a skin like hers? i really like it bc it looks like a bird

[lavish jacinth]

all of the 'deny' characters have bird and/or solus-themed skins

[primal vector]

Engineer is the second most birdlike i would say

[naive raven]

oh ok thx

[lavish jacinth]

ngl most of them are kinda ugly imo

[naive raven]

how dare you

[lavish jacinth]

huntress and merc have the best ones, although merc isn't really birdlike

[naive raven]

huntress is amazing best skin out of EVERY skin for EVERY character.

[lavish jacinth]

I said MOST are ugly

huntress is an exception

[naive raven]

well i didn’t read that part.

i stand by my previous statement.

[livid wedge]

I like all the AC skins I've gotten so far

Mults is great

[kind wedge]

Is there a way to change Railgunner's scoping sensitivity? (Dont think I see it in settings, gonna cry with how fast its gonna swing with normal sensitivity)

[livid wedge]

You can do it on pc/steam

[kind wedge]

Supposedly easier to snipe from really afar but apparently not without separate scope sensitivity

[rare flame]

wait does chef ability tracker thing work for death mark

[mellow crystal]

No

They're neutral status effects iirc

[rare flame]

does steam cloud between multiple devices work well for ror2?

considering how profile data is stored

[jaunty furnace]

it saves settings :/

which is probably annoying

[glacial knoll]

Solus Heart can only take player skill damage in his offering state

[south egret]

I recommend rushing with railgunner ngl

quickscope as often as possible. Don’t act like a traditional sniper

[kind wedge]

Can do that but my actual problem is sprinting away from teleporter area swarms then suddenly turning 180 walking backwards to strike the weak spot of a Wandering Vagrant/s or any other bosses either charging an attack or slightly moving up terrains (add into the fact I am walking backwards on possibly uneven terrain, minor inconvenience but can change a lot with lower scope sensitivity)

[south egret]

that’ll all come with practice

also, word of advice: skip vagrant weak points. Same with worms. Not worth it. They’re so small and move so (relatively) fast, that you’re going to have better dps output by aiming for the meat of the model and just spamming boosted reloaded shots

[jaunty furnace]

vagrant weakpoints are easy thoug

just hit the end of the tails

if its in the spin animation or theyre obstructed then yeah skip em

[signal path]

does anyone have a youtube video or smth thats like just a general guide to creating builds for different types of survivors? Like an overall concept type guide not a survivor-specific guide

[lilac mountain]

am i bugged? in the artifact reliquary rn and nothings spawning now, its the artifact of chaos

[sullen basin]

how tf do you unlock serrated shiv 😭

[signal path]

20 backup mags and I think you can do the challenge on the guy in the bazaar

not too sure tho. If you cant do it on him then probably like a stage 5 boss or smth

[sullen basin]

you need the kill

[signal path]

yeah then probably just a strong boss grandparent would probs work

purity also helps

[livid wedge]

AWU is also a good choice

Very tanky boss that has a refreshing 100% shield skill

[signal path]

true true

[cobalt quiver]

might help
#ror2-game-questions message

[signal path]

Definitely helps thank you :)

[sullen basin]

does sonorous increase chances for boss item drops?

[cobalt quiver]

doesnt look like it
https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Sonorous_Whispers

[sullen basin]

do fuel cells grant more uses of trophy hunter tricorn

[primal vector]

nope

[daring hatch]

For engineer is the gauss autoturret or carbonizer turret better both sound really good

[sullen basin]

the static one

[jaunty furnace]

standard slightly outclasses it i think but you can live with both

[sullen basin]

generally the default is good because of

[jaunty furnace]

healing aint everything

[marble magnet]

Does eclipse lite interact with lights out?

[jaunty furnace]

the damage is better, the proc coefficient is better, the range is better, it doesnt walk straight at enemies, etc

its not all

[marble magnet]

Stationary if you want a pretty good run

Moving turret if you want a fun little guy who does stuff

That's what I kinda think of for them

[marble magnet]

Lowk I take wungus on stationary turrets

[jaunty furnace]

vields ticket

[marble magnet]

Also

Idk I'm just wondering and I'm on a bus and can't test it out

Yea

[woven onyx]

Does the Artificer Bug have a known fix? Just curious, since its literally the only thing in my save I’ve yet to do.

[jaunty furnace]

the unlock one?

[woven onyx]

yeah.

Basically since day one i’ve been unable to get em.

[jaunty furnace]

https://thunderstore.io/package/prodzpod/RealerCheatUnlocks/

ah youre on xbox

nvm then

[woven onyx]

Yeaahhh. Thats why Im praying a hotfix is on the way for us console users

I mean I have PC, but I use that mostly for modded exploration.

[signal path]

i just spent 10 minutes trying to get the pot on the pressure plate on abandoned aqueduct

im genuinely about to crash out

[woven onyx]

i just dont go for hidden room solo, not worth the time.

[signal path]

but bandsss mannn the bandsss

[jaunty furnace]

you value time too much

bands are insane

[woven onyx]

1 minute an item, if im slow, i go. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[signal path]

i feel like i should be able to do this much man maybe its just a skill issue

just taking it up even a slight hill literally feels impossible 😭

[woven onyx]

go up the right side of the hill

its shallower

[jaunty furnace]

@lavish jacinth this is why i dont tell people that minute shit

[signal path]

yeah i tried every side bro right left middle back this aitnt it

[jaunty furnace]

try going around

[woven onyx]

move on then unfortunately. Your difficulty has probably stacked up alot on this time waste.

[woven onyx]

I mean its not a bad strategy. If you are efficent you can still full clear, especially if you get some lucky pulls on chance shrine to extend your time.

Pretty much its like pizza tower for me. Every item I get gives me another minute to wander around to find more stuff, but If i drop below that, Im wasting unnessacery time, it usually isn’t worth wandering around for 5 minutes trying to find that last chest buried in 2 feet of water and raising my difficulty another level.

Usually I only apply this ration to solo, just because of the reliability of not being the center of attention constantly makes it easier, plus more accessible chests to go around

[frosty reef]

Yeah this is exactly why any minute per stage or minute per item "rule" isn't helpful and only hurts people. Gotta remember that the two people who came up with those are not great at the game

[signal path]

on chef when you hit someone with your primary you see a clever sign above them is this some debuff?

[steady swallow]

anything that drifter can do to hold down the buttons? on the dessert stage 2?

[sullen basin]

what happens if you go through the green portal after beating false son

[frosty reef]

Cube, repossess, salvage

[primal vector]

Go back to normal stages

[steady swallow]

oh the cube works? ok

[woven onyx]

Okay- But wym.

I never said it was a rule, just a strat I like to use in solo, keeps me on pace and my difficulty low while still letting me clear if Im efficient. Like Im not trying to push the ideal on others, but how is it not helpful or hurting me?

[frosty reef]

Other people say they're rules not saying specifically you are, but any idea that leads to people skipping items because they're "taking too much time" just actively goes against the most effective way to play/win.

Skipping items = bad for win consistency

Disputed Origin's eclipse guide really should be pinned here. Explains the whole time conversation very well

[woven onyx]

ah. Okay i gotcha. Didn’t know it was such a heated topic.

[frosty reef]

It's led to 100s of thousands of people giving up on the game probably lol

[primal vector]

it would be really funny if they launched a patch that just annihilates the meta so people can go back to just play the game

"Optimal ways to play" = "Fun factor destruction"

[vapid grail]

ever since the "5 minutes a stage" incident..

[livid wedge]

The current rule of thumb is 1 minute per item. However, you should always try to full clear a stages items as even with that rule, difficulty scaling from time isn't as difficult as it seems

[frosty reef]

Again. That's a bad "rule" made by someone who doesn't know enough about the game. I guess people clung onto it because it's better than 5 minutes a stage but it's still the same concept lol

Just get all the items

[woven onyx]

ok thats kinda absurd, who would even do that.

Like i used the pizza tower example as mine because it makes sense 😭 if you just keep getting items, stay like what

[vapid grail]

youtuber named woolie several years ago made a video about it

[woven onyx]

ah yes. The humble woolie.

[jaunty furnace]

just tell people to full loot bruh

what is the point in having a rule

[woven onyx]

there aint, just play the damn game, full clear or dont 🥀

[north granite]

I play the game the same I do life

Bullshit until I win

[marble magnet]

Rule to follow:

It's suggested not to take 30 minutes on stage 1

[livid wedge]

Just to help keep people aware of the time as it still matter eventually

[marble magnet]

(I usually take like 8-10 minutes)

[woven onyx]

(optional in drizzle)

[marble magnet]

Oh also
I've asked this like 3 times but no one answered

Does lights out interact with eclipse lite?

😭 4th times the charm

[woven onyx]

i think not

[lavish jacinth]

Tbf I always tell people to full loot and that it's fine to spend time on other stuff

I only ever bring it up as a loose guideline for what's considered a good pace, not a hard rule

[marble magnet]

Alright then

Dumb question

How easy is it for the game to out scale you I feel like sometimes I've gotten out scaled a bit

Still dying to soley my own actions but yes

[lavish jacinth]

Kinda depends on your own skill tbh

There's never a point where the enemies are actually impossible to kill

[marble magnet]

On average I would get 2-3-4 wins per run tab screen

But I took a week or two break from ror2 so I'm more rusty

[lavish jacinth]

I don't even know what my actual winrate is, my stats are completely fucked up from testing stuff lol

But I win pretty consistently on runs where I'm actually trying

[marble magnet]

I'll get semi consistent wins if I start playing more again

I got a 5 win streak once

Twice actually

[sullen basin]

is corpsebloom good on seeker

[marble magnet]

Might be idk

Can we encourage RoR2 question vague posting

[lavish jacinth]

Yeah, it should be alright

[sullen basin]

does unstable transmitter res you??

[lavish jacinth]

no

it works like elixir, it only works if you would survive the hit

otherwise it would just be a free dio every stage (but if you're playing seeker then you have that anyway lol)

[sullen basin]

wait wtf revived me then

[lavish jacinth]

did you have max tranquility?

[sullen basin]

my larva is already consumed, no tranq

[lavish jacinth]

shrine of shaping?

[sullen basin]

ohhh right

i forgot i clicked on that mb

a bit sleep deprived lmao

[heavy gorge]

SOTS adds so many new ways to revive that it’s possible to forget all the layers of safety you can get now 😂

[sullen basin]

if you die with pluripotent larva and it gets consumed, will all future item pickups that can be corrupted turn corrupted or does it just mean any corruptable items that you had as of dying would get corrupted

[lavish jacinth]

only corruptible items that you had when you died, future items won't be affected

[warm condor]

When it says you can boost chefs attacks how do you actually do that

?

[lavish jacinth]

his alt special

[warm condor]

What’s that?

[warm condor]

Thank you so much. I was so confused by this for some reason.😭

[solid plover]

is a gold shrine gauranteed after stage 1 halcyon green portals?

[lavish jacinth]

nope, gold shrines are always really rare. If you're trying to get to gilded coast then the best way is through the bazaar, it's got a decent chance of appearing in one of the lunar seers

[solid plover]

okay right on thank you!

[solid plover]

i assuming more halcyon shrines after the first are also pretty rare?

[lavish jacinth]

yep, although the bazaar has a solution for that too

if you're on stage 1-3 of your current loop then there'll be 3 hidden geodes that you can break for a green portal

gilded coast also always spawns a green portal after completing it if you're on a valid stage

[solid plover]

thanks a lot for the info o7

[heavy gorge]

You also get the geodes if you enter the bazaar from a stage 5 but the gilded coast won’t give the green portal

Likely an oversight but it’s true

[sullen basin]

if you have 10 spare drone parts, does that mean your drones just always proc their own AtGs?

[lavish jacinth]

stacking drone parts doesn't affect the missile at all, it just gives drones +25% attack speed and cooldown reduction

[sullen basin]

ohh okay

[coarse sinew]

Is iripearl crit stacking multiplicative or additive

[lavish jacinth]

additive

[sullen basin]

is the scorpion just outright better than shustice?

[lavish jacinth]

not necessarily

shustice hits its max bonus a lot faster with fewer hits

[sullen basin]

i know they have different but similar effects but how different is it exactly

also, if you have both it counts as separate statuses to proc right?

[lavish jacinth]

scorpion is best on survivors with high fire rate and against enemies with a lot of hp, where you can actually get a larger bonus than shustice before the enemy dies. It's also better against adaptive armor, but only final bosses have that

someone did the math ages ago and I forget the exact numbers, but shustice tends to be better in most cases

[lavish jacinth]

yep, although there's not a lot of point in having both besides the death mark proc, since they both do essentially the same thing

[sullen basin]

i see

[lavish jacinth]

also, negative armor has diminishing returns and can't give more than a 100% damage bonus, so having huge stacks of scorpion's debuff isn't as strong as you'd think

[sullen basin]

does affect

[hoary sedge]

yes, both the self damage and the damage to enemies

[heavy gorge]

Suffering from success

[strange venture]

if I go to the Void Fields thru Bazaar, do my drones just stay out or they just all die in the poisoned air ?

[lavish jacinth]

they won't follow you in

[heavy gorge]

They get to chill in the green room and reapply their makeup

[sullen basin]

with the exception of , is there any other way to get crits while having ?

[lavish jacinth]

hiker's boots, any item that increases all stats, most crit synergy items (except )

crit synergy items only give crit chance on the first stack though

[atomic copper]

Tips for new player who likes rail gunner

[south egret]

Be more aggressive than you think you'd need to be for a bolt-action scope character.
Railgunner is not a sniper. Quick scope often

[sullen basin]

doesn't spleen give crits too?

[south egret]

that's in the list of "crit synergy items"

[sullen basin]

ah

[atomic copper]

Alr

[south egret]

oh, and backup mags are useless on railgunner

detrimental / useless for the two secondaries respectively

[sullen basin]

other than prayer beads, what items increase all stats?

[lavish jacinth]

get good at quickscoping and using mines for movement, you can detonate a mine instantly by throwing both at the same time

look for items that reliably multiply damage, are the big ones but most on-hit procs are good too since they deal a % of the hit that procced them. AoE items like are also nice to get

[south egret]

, growth nectar

I think that's it

[lavish jacinth]

collectors compulsion

[south egret]

oh, true

[lavish jacinth]

also prayer beads aren't technically an all stats up

[atomic copper]

Alr

[lavish jacinth]

they only affect health, damage and regen

[sullen basin]

oh right

[jaunty furnace]

it might not be a good idea to exclusively play railgunner

[sullen basin]

is wecho good on seeker?

[atomic copper]

Yes but rail gun is a cool gun

[sullen basin]

specifically for sojourn

[lavish jacinth]

no

it'll only work for the first tick of sojourn's self-damage

[south egret]

don't listen to Vlad. Runner is an amazing character you should definitely main. Come to the dark side ...

[atomic copper]

Rail gun is good cuz it's cool

[lavish jacinth]

oh also
despite what her passive implies, crit chance not good on her at all, it converts to damage at a 2:1 ratio so you're getting a 5% damage bonus per

[south egret]

also she still starts out with 1% crit chance, so her crits really do 201% damage lol

[lavish jacinth]

*200.5%
But yeah

a whole 0.5% more damage for free, very op pls nerf

[south egret]

wait, why is it halved 😭

[lavish jacinth]

wait nvm I'm stupid lol

was thinking of 0.5 because that's the effective damage increase, but 201% is the actual multiplier

[south egret]

ah ok, cool

[heavy gorge]

Crit damage is casually calculated as shittily as possible

We’ve never seen anything like it

[hoary sedge]

the calculation is fine multiplier increases are just unintuitive

and basically every crit damage source is kinda poorly worded

[heavy gorge]

This kinda reminds me how the game never tells you directly about proc coefficients

[sullen basin]

does palm blast grant you the revive or nah?

[pulsar creek]

Nah

[azure current]

is there any mod to save multiplayer ?

[lavish jacinth]

propersave

[sullen basin]

does sale star apply to hacked chests from captain

[livid wedge]

Yes

[fierce sierra]

im trying to unlock gesture and the crabs are not spawning. Im i doing something wrong?

i just realized that i cannot post images

stage 6 titanic plains drizzle w/ command

[hoary sedge]

you should be fine they just take a while sometimes

command is the only artifact right?

[fierce sierra]

i'be been waitin g for over 10 mins

[fierce sierra]

yes

[hoary sedge]

ok yeah no reason it shouldnt work then

[fierce sierra]

i have void dlc only turned on

should i turn on like swarm and switch to monsoon?

just so more monsters can spawn

[hoary sedge]

if you want

[fierce sierra]

but i dunno if its better

[hoary sedge]

this run will work eventually so you dont have to, but doing swarms will probably be faster

[dusky raven]

What was the timer when you got there?

I don’t know if this is an actual mechanic but when I was getting it I was going really fast to get to stage 6 and none spawned so I had to loop again

Maybe there’s a limit on time idk

[sullen basin]

does affect sojourn and

like does the AoE explode

[lavish jacinth]

yes for sojourn, no for tincture since it has 0 proc coeff

[sullen basin]

okie thanks

[warm condor]

Is there any specific/optimal way to build chef I don’t really know what items I should pick up and stuff as him

[lavish jacinth]

he's flexible but does very well with proc items

[warm condor]

Yeah, but like is there any specific items that are good on him or any specific items that are terrible on him

[lavish jacinth]

not really, characters aren't typically designed to require specific items since the game is balanced around items being random.
and it's always better to go for a variety of items anyway, since they often multiply each other's effects

[sullen basin]

can sojourn crit

[warm condor]

Fair enough, thank you

[lavish jacinth]

(although one noteworthy thing for chef is since he's got like six different debuffs)

[daring hatch]

I got aspect of command what is a good build for clearing void fields i cant anymorw with this bs 😭 😭

The ticking goes up to like double digits how is 11 clugs going to compete 😭 😭 😭 😭

Maybe 11 clugs was the problem...

More clugs.....

[lavish jacinth]

yeah uh
cautious slug isn't gonna do a whole lot if you're constantly taking damage from void fog lol

[daring hatch]

Wait a minute could rex work?

[lavish jacinth]

and you really never need that much healing anyway

[lavish jacinth]

that's one option

[daring hatch]

Hmm im gonna try and see if i can unlock acrid w rex brb

[lavish jacinth]

but really all you need is enough mobility to safely make it between safe zones without dying (which is like a couple of goat hooves at most tbh) and some way to heal yourself once you're safe

then just a lot of damage as usual

[daring hatch]

Honestly rex just seems weird to me, cool but weird he feels like engineer + huntress

[daring hatch]

Thx!

Sorry for making you practically spell it out for me btw 😭 😭 😭

[lavish jacinth]

it's fine lol

[simple coyote]

I miss the days when slug would work in the fog

[simple coyote]

void fiend’s suppress is actually probably better if you want healing sustain

rex would need enemies to heal

[daring hatch]

Dont have dlc...

[simple coyote]

I eated it

[daring hatch]

Does 5 goat hooves (and 5 red whips) make good

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, that's more than enough

you probably could've made it with just the hooves, it's not too hard to make it between safe zones if your survivor has any mobility at all

[serene flare]

what happens when you get more than 10

[lavish jacinth]

nothing

[kind wedge]

Is it necessary not to miss a shot?

Killed too many lizards atp until a I missed a weak point 😭

[lavish jacinth]

yep

iirc it also counts as a miss if you pierce multiple enemies and one of the collateral hits doesn't hit a weak point

[kind wedge]

And accidentally just pierced one rn lmao

[daring hatch]

I DIED WITH 90% ON THE 9TH

BUT LIKE THE PHOENIX I CAME BACK TO LIFE AND GOT ITT!!!!! thx @lavish jacinth

I never once realized that it wasn't a combat challenge but a survival challenge

[woven onyx]

just turn on Kin and swarm and hope for wisps on stage one, should be pretty easy

[simple coyote]

I’m totally blanking do vradles spawn in vields, either like at all or more than a normal rate

[livid wedge]

Normal amount, I believe

But they do spawn

[sinful burrow]

hey there fellas, im new at the game and i was wondering if there was a way to get more turrets as the engie

[left trellis]

Lysate Cell gives you exactly one more

aside from that I think there might be some really niche and inconsistent tech with Dio's Best Friend where you let them die and build another turret before they respawn... but it's usually a lot more effort than it's worth

[lavish jacinth]

you can kill turrets with or chaos and potentially have them revive as ghosts with , and if they have 1-2 bungus they'll outheal the health decay and be invincible with a 15x damage bonus

and ghost turrets don't count towards the normal turret cap, so you can have as many as you want (up to the ally limit of 20)

but good luck actually setting that up in a normal run lol

[noble plinth]

Is the legendary chest at conduit canyon a guaranteed spawn?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah

[inner sphinx]

why can't i play multiplayer now when yesterday i could?

[hollow falcon]

if you get a void item then a temporary version of the non void equivalent, will that temporary item be corrupted and kept permanently or not

[polar wedge]

i'm having the same exact issue rn

loading into the lobby just fine

[trim sage]

Turns to a temp corrupt item

[polar wedge]

just will not bring anyone other than the host into the select screen

tried even just random lobbies

both me and my friend

its working for neither of us

[limpid arch]

theres a steam discussion about this issue

multiplayer doesnt work for some reason

[polar wedge]

how odd

[hybrid lotus]

is there any problem in sever of asia?

[primal vector]

This game is p2p, not servers

[tawny jewel]

Not working here also

[primal vector]

Idk about steam as an intermediary though

[proven cargo]

you have to fix the multiplayer game now

[primal vector]

So many people talking about it makes it clearly something has happened

[signal path]

Does the double ability use on yes chef with ice still work?

[primal vector]

No one is talking about the multiplayer anymore so I guess it is fixed?

[inner sphinx]

it isn't i just tried cause no one was talking about it

[primal vector]

In which region are you based on?

It seems like a genional issue

[inner sphinx]

middle east

[primal vector]

This is the only status report site with regional data that I have found https://steamstat.us/

[sullen basin]

can remote caffeinator press the abandoned aqueduct buttons

[glacial knoll]

No.

[sullen basin]

:(

[mighty jetty]

😦

[sullen basin]

how do crit items affect railgunner

[glacial knoll]

All crit chance is turned into crit damage.

CritDamage starts at 201%, so glasses would increase it to 211%

This is a 5% damage total increase

This makes it bad

lol

[sullen basin]

how about laser scope?

[glacial knoll]

Same way it works always, +100% crit damage.

200% -> 300%, for total 50% damage increase on crit hits

It's quite nice since you got a innate way to crit as her or with bandit

[cobalt cobalt]

in eclipse i tried inviting my friends why do they get autokicked after a black screen

[grand ore]

Hello I have a problem here
See some textures aren´t showing, specifically 2

1. Oil stains, for example the ones left in the ground by chef or the black ones left by solus incinerators
2. Artifact Codes: I had to play the entire game looking for the codes in the wiki as ALL tablets that contain artifact for codes doesn't show them

[empty lantern]

Okay so in the Character Select and the Wiki, the SotS logo is Providence, the AC logo is Solus Wing... but I've never been able to tell what the SotV logo is?

[glacial knoll]

Horseshoe crab

[empty lantern]

Like a Void Infestor?

[glacial knoll]

I dont know if a Infestor is based on one of those but i guess

[next holly]

Which dlc is best to buy first

[jaunty furnace]

sotv

[vapid grail]

are the minions from newly hatched zoea good?