ror2-game-questions

[river ledge]

might be cooked

[high sedge]

this is why we use the more userfriendly client

[river ledge]

yup

my mod manager also no longer turns the fuck on

[high sedge]

okay now i'm surprised

that's more of a fuck up than i expected

[river ledge]

i have now undid the editing i did to the file

my mod manager still no longer turns the fuck on

welp, migration it is

do i download the top r2modman or the bottom r2modman

hmmmm

[solar plover]

If I have the fuel array and I have 30 shield am i able to use the shrine of blood or no?

[high sedge]

no

[solar plover]

Alright

[high sedge]

i went for the bottom one but i don't think it matters

[river ledge]

ok so bottom one it is

it infact shat itself

[lavish jacinth]

they stop spawning once you've killed solus wing, the only way to get back to comp exchange is to kill Alloy Worship Unit or False Son for a guaranteed portal

[river ledge]

top one it is

[high sedge]

have you tried restarting your computer since fucking with files

[river ledge]

nooo cause my pc takes 45 billion years (like an hour and a half) to load everything

idk why

it just refuses

so i just kinda dont turn it off

i cannot open these files anyway

it keeps trying to get me to open them with windows media player

and says "uncomfirmed (random numbers)"

wait no im good i got it i think

[high sedge]

[river ledge]

nope

man FUCK IT

FUCK THIS STUPID MOD MANAGER

IM GOING INTO THE MINES

IM MAKING MY OWN MOD MANAGER

[solar plover]

IM SO FUCKING UPSET

I JUST GOT TO THE PLACE THAT I NEED THE FUEL ARRAY FOR AND I EXPLODE 20 METERS FROM THE GUY LIKE WHYYY

[high sedge]

lmao

[river ledge]

WHY ARE MY ITEMS ROLLING AWAY

like i buy an item and it just. rolls away

ITS ROLLING AWAY

[high sedge]

lmao

[rough socket]

How many safer spaces would it take to be functionally immortal?

[river ledge]

65, thats the limit, and you get 1 shield every frame, near immortal, but not completely

[rough socket]

I'm at like 36 rn

[river ledge]

doesnt stack after 65

just hardcaps

[river ledge]

command run i presume?

[rough socket]

Nopers

False Son

[river ledge]

36 safer spaces. NOT ON COMMAND?

what stage are you on

[rough socket]

It's at the point in the run where I don't even get to see any enemies they all just die

16, tryna unlock clover

[river ledge]

ohhhh, that makes sense

AND YOU DONT EVEN HAVE CLOVER?

[rough socket]

I'm only 60 hrs in 😭

Just lucky runs ig

[ripe elm]

I have a question for consol ror2: How much players are there for Xbox? I am thinking about buying the game but I am concerned I won't have anyone to play with

[solar plover]

From my knowledge not very many people play like peak amount of groups for it was like 7

I would be willing to play with you though

[ripe elm]

I mean like people in total not groups but I could just be fumb

[young bane]

before attempting my next monsoon win on Seeker, should i go for more move unlocks? the only alt ability i have rn is soul spiral. I am relatively good but dont have much monsoon experience and im playing with all 3 DLC

[young bane]

oh and i have artifact of command but i prefer not to use it

[high sedge]

Seeker is busted as shit i'm sure soul spiral can take you to a win on monsoon

[young bane]

to be real my main issue on monsoon is that i dont know when to stop looting

[high sedge]

The other alts are quite nice, although they're not clearly better than their alternatives

[young bane]

and when a good time is to use meditate

[rough socket]

You stop looting when you stop finding loot.

[rough socket]

When it comes off cooldown

[young bane]

but game gets hard i i take too long

[high sedge]

If you dont loot all the stuff you're doing it wrong
Items scale you A LOT faster than time scales enemies

[rough socket]

1 item per minute tells you you're on a good pace

[young bane]

so what youre telling me is

ive been unnecesarily stressing about time wasting

my entire ror2 experience

[high sedge]

~1 item a minute as a minimum is a good target, very easy to overcome with all the DLCs on, and most of the strong characters can deal with less

[high sedge]

Yeah
Entirely

[rough socket]

Pretty much, the sooner you accept this the better.

[young bane]

you fellas are smart

[rough socket]

It also might do to find a null portal, since time doesnt move when doing those and you can get a ton of items in the challenge

[young bane]

this server is awesome because sometimes guides just dont tell me what i need to hear

[young bane]

is the null portal the one that goes to void fields?

[high sedge]

Most of the guides were made in like 2019 or are parroted rhetoric from people who have outdated understandings of the game

[rough socket]

The one to unlock acrid, if you don't go through the void portal at the end you continue your run as if you were never there. Essentially it's free items with no detriment if you know what you're doing.

Bottom of BBT

[young bane]

yah void fields

wait no

maybe

[high sedge]

Yes
Void fields is a pretty alright way to get an extra stage worth of loot before mithrix
The most important thing to know about it is that you can leave at any point, so you should try looting before the enemies get too many items

[rough socket]

Yes void fields

[rough socket]

Plus a guaranteed red

There's really no reason not to do them, the only downside is that it's a little boring

[high sedge]

It's not guaranteed since you actually have to make it through all the shit, which can be an issue if you have insufficient healing/speed or if the enemies get cursed item combos

If you're comfortable taking the risk it's maybe the biggest boon you can get pre loop, but only if you're comfortable

Doing 1/2 vents and grabbing chests is much safer

[lyric silo]

honestly dont bother thinking abt items per minute, just try get everything efficiently

[lyric silo]

me when i get tougher times, shuriken, band and dios

(happened to me)

[jaunty furnace]

what the fuck is this site

[lavish jacinth]

you might wanna like... run a virus scan or something

or at least check startup processes in task manager, that isn't normal

[lone finch]

This is not a legitimate site. Only GitHub and Thunderstore are actual sources

[ripe elm]

Can someone give me an estimate on how much people play on Xbox? I am wanting to buy the game but afraid there won't be people to play with

[wanton lotus]

I play on xbox.ive talked to like maybe 5 other people in this discord that play on xbox

Public lobbies are trash tho

[ripe elm]

Guh

[ripe elm]

So I'd have a better time playing alone

[wanton lotus]

Most of the time probably, but if you find some good people its fun

Hell I'll play with you if you get it

[ripe elm]

I have a pc at my other parents house I just don't know cuz I don't play anything else besides 1 game for the most part

[wanton lotus]

I would get it on pc

The mods are incredible

[ripe elm]

I hardly play anything else but like 1 game on it

I mean I have other games I just play 1 for the most part

Also why isn't ror2 Xbox and PC crossplay? Since Sony is strict about the usernames why not just make it Xbox and PC? (I'm probably missing a lot but y'know)

[primal vector]

That is a matter of development cost. It would take a ton of time and remade part of the code (+ setting up and paying for servers I think). It is the most requested feature and both the current team of devs and the original one have said that they would love being able to offer it but the scope is too big

Probably someone else can explain more correctly the technical stuff

[glacial knoll]

I imagine P2P Crossplatform would exist to some extent but if they do that it'd be after a long time

[wanton lotus]

Gearbox is stupid. Think about it no further

[ripe elm]

Fair point

The decision Is killing me

[primal vector]

Nuance, information, thoughtful considerations < Quick answers. The news these days... Jokes aside, I dont even think it would be a great bussisness decision. I dont believe it would bring over that many new players. It would make the mp more lively thogh

[glacial knoll]

Adding crossplay would definitely be past 2-3 more dlcs and probably some quality updates for the whole game because I can't imagine it makes much money

Wonder how small games like Splunky 2 get crossplay

[high forum]

Because the game’s networking relies on peer to peer connections, and implementing crossplay would require them to 1) add servers 2) redo the entire networking backend for each individual version of the game

[ripe elm]

Ah

[high forum]

And the likelihood of a company doing all that for a 7 year old game…

A hypothetical RoR3 would probably have it but I wouldn’t hold my breath about them adding it to 2

[glacial knoll]

It's both like, this game is ancient but it's also like getting bigger in the international (China) market

[primal vector]

I would see a case if they find out that people that play multiplayer have difficulty finding a games and that people stop playing the game and thus dont buy DLCs. But that would have to be a big chunk of people

[primal vector]

Oh yeah, we leant about that last year. This game keeps evolving

[ripe elm]

Xbox or PC

[primal vector]

I think most people would say PC. But its up to your setup

[high forum]

pc

[glacial knoll]

unless you have a friend on xbox only, pc

[sturdy ferry]

bro i'm tryna get mercerneries second alt but i can't do this prismatic challenge without even dying. how do i deal with all of the lesser wisps

[glacial knoll]

use the invul of your special or wait for a easier trial

If there's a shield anywhere that should help

[primal vector]

Shield and barrier. And also check this channel #prismatic-trials cabbage posts there an optimal run for every trial

The wiki says that shield invalidates the challenge

[heavy gorge]

Cabbage has three herniated discs from carrying that entire game mode

[scarlet vine]

Is there anyone out there that can help me get the command artifact?

[primal vector]

They never announced the change, with Wolfo being the only person to discover that

[glacial knoll]

I can change the wiki tho it'd be good to have second hand confirmation yeah

Like I tested it with debug toolkit that worked fine

[primal vector]

Yes, I dont shout out the shield thing because it is like so weirdly secret. It would be really frustating if I tell that to people only to not be 100% true

[primal vector]

have you tried on the lfg channels? i see it is quite lively today on the voice groups

[pastel epoch]

does artifact of sacrifice still increase the odds of an environment scanner appearing?

[young bane]

thank you cyanide and numskull

i did it

[lavish jacinth]

it should

[sturdy ferry]

2 questions:

1. is there a way to only scrap one item when you have more than 2 of that item?
2. do lens maker glasses do anything past 10 stacks?

[glacial knoll]

no and no

[wintry crag]

Is purity really worth it if it’s just a reverse 57 leaf clover

I never really picked it up or used it

But what if I had like six purities

[heavy gorge]

It’s even worse than you think it is

[wintry crag]

What if I had a bunch

[heavy gorge]

You’ve pretty much disabled every proc item after grabbing 2

[jaunty furnace]

depends on if you want to use luck items

[wintry crag]

Ahh so depends on my run and what items I’m using

[heavy gorge]

Mainly it depends on your character

[hoary sedge]

yeah if you're on like loader and most of your damage is coming from big band procs and raw damage multiplier items then purity isn't a bad idea

the issue is just that chance procs are generally more common and most characters use them well enough to not want purity

[high sedge]

also cooldown reduction is a deceptively weak stat

[hoary sedge]

yes that too

which is also part of the reason why light flux is so ass

[trim lynx]

i think people underestimate it

light flux isnt great though

[sturdy ferry]

does mercenary have an optimal loadout (seconddary, utility, special) or is it mostly up to preference/style of play you're going for

[high sedge]

pretty much entirely preference

slicing winds has better DPS than eviscerate, but you can always skip itemless with eviscerate

rising thunder has less ability to gain height than whirlwind, but does more damage

[sturdy ferry]

what's itemless?

[high sedge]

with no items

skipping here refers to pillar skipping on commencement, where you get to mithrix without charging pillars

[mossy flare]

What can I do about the robots who apply the effect that just removes all your items for a bit, I keep dying to them

[high sedge]

the spherical enemies that do it are called invalidators, those ones have incredibly long wind up to their attacks and very slow projectiles
if you keep your distance and stop moving in straight lines they just can't hit you, because they struggle hitting you even when you stand still

[fading zodiac]

Hey, not sure where to post this but is anyone trading a Gift copy of Risk of rain 2? Willing to trade for a copy of Tabletop Simulator on steam. Let me know. Thanks!

[young bane]

Is meditate’s alt skill worth using?

(Palm blast)

[high sedge]

pretty much all of seeker's stuff is worth using

she's incredibly strong at a baseline

meditate is probably better objectively but if you enjoy the dynamic nature of lining enemies up more than DDR then you should use it

[trim ice]

ermm why did i get an update for ro2 but theres no patch notes?

[lavish jacinth]

probably just steam backend stuff

[real plaza]

does desperato stack last inbetween stages?

[worldly olive]

Does it last when you go to a new stage? No
Otherwise it doesn't decay

[sullen basin]

do captain microbots only apply to captain recruited drones

or will it work for teammates too

[lavish jacinth]

only his drones

[south egret]

50% cdr is pretty nice in all situations.
Wish it was also equipment cdr, but I guess then it’d be stepping on gesture’s toes

[high sedge]

this is not 50% cdr

[south egret]

Oh, I thought y’all were talking about light flux

[south egret]

:/

[full apex]

Light flux is based

On a lot of chars its pretty sus but can be nice if you get lots of AS, but when its good its GOOD. Like on acrid or seeker its almost insta win if you stack a few

With balls especially basically nothing in seekers kit is AS dependent so you just get infinite uptime on everything, free iframes, healing, barrier, the whole shebang. Acrid it just makes for EZ blight stacking but also spamming leaps is insanely mobile and prints stuns, and spamming epidemic gets a whooooooole lot of proc chains

[south egret]

if you have 200% attack speed (7 syringes, or equivalent) a light flux is an easy take imo

[full apex]

Its also favorable in terms of its effects, like the benefit is exponential but the AS down is not

[south egret]

same with stone flux, although going from 14+m/s back to 7m/s feels like an immense drop

[full apex]

So you gain CDR faster than you lose AS with stacking, though thats not insanely impactful since multiple stacks is really hard on the attack speed lol.

Having visions reload before shooting again is very funny

[south egret]

I’m pretty sure both are linear dividers. Both are dividing their respective stat by 2(+1 per stack)

[full apex]

lux halves CD each time so like 50%/25%/12.5% etc, but AS reduction is 1/stacks+1 so 50%, 33%, 25% etc

[south egret]

alright, I believe it

[mellow kiln]

What can and can't transporter drones pick up?;; or deal damage to?
I haven't seen this listed anywhere, doing the Captain challenge where you need to bonk Mythrix on the head with a supply beacon so I don't want attacker drones to mess it up but have no idea if they can interact with him

If they can't they'd just be nice to get for other enemies on the way is all

[mellow crystal]

non-champion enemies
so essentially anything that doesn't spawn as a tp boss or a final boss (hordes of many excluded obv)

[mellow kiln]

Thanks!

[toxic echo]

is there a point at which difficulty no longer scales?

[hoary vine]

Hello. I’m sorry for my poor English — I am Japanese.
I would like to ask one thing:
Do you know when “Alloyed Collective / DLC3” will be released for the Nintendo Switch version of Risk of Rain 2?
I really enjoy the game on Switch, so I am very much looking forward to it.
Thank you very much.

[jaunty furnace]

theres a monster level cap of 99

[jaunty furnace]

all we know is this
(q1 means quarter 1)

[hoary vine]

Thank you very much for letting me know.
I understand that it is planned for Q1 2026, so I will wait patiently and look forward to the release.
I really appreciate the update. Thank you!

[dusky raven]

If you want a conspiracy theory answer I’m putting all my chips on a first Friday of February

[high forum]

(DLC always drop on Tuesdays)

[north granite]

Alloyed Collective tomorrow..

[high sedge]

[foggy portal]

can someone explain to me the joke "risk of rain 6" ? is it like a ref to btd6 ?

[meager pecan]

no this is serious they made four more games without telling anyone and dropped all of them simultaneously

(i have no idea)

[foggy portal]

that must be it 🤣

[primal gyro]

What's the collective skin for REX? Do i accept or reject the offering

[high sedge]

accept

[primal gyro]

Thank

[jaunty furnace]

i have never heard of "risk of rain 6"

[jaunty furnace]

you can check the logbook ingame

[lavish jacinth]

Enemy level caps at 99, but the game will keeps spawning stronger enemies in larger numbers past that point. The effective cap is when you're getting nothing but elite scavengers

I think final bosses also have infinite scaling

[sour dove]

https://cdn.steamusercontent.com/ugc/14791105896195968954/C1E7822E706E4DADD1F6EF2451AADC0FAF722B9B/

what happened 😭

the skill i used is modded, launches me up and then in the direction i'm looking, damage on impact scales with fall speed

i think it uses thunderslam as a base?

[lavish jacinth]

I mean... it just sounds like a bug with the mod

[sour dove]

yeah that makes sense

sorry for bothering you

[lavish jacinth]

You weren't bothering me lol

[shy palm]

how do i 1 million damage as railgunner?

[lavish jacinth]

artifact of glass + stacking lots of different damage multipliers
or just a bunch of shaped glass if you've got the coins for it, it stacks exponentially

[shy palm]

6 crowbars on stage 1 is a big ask

but i'll try and see about accomplishing it tomorrow

thanks for reminding me of shaped glass. Cheers man!

[shy palm]

oh wait i forgot about the artifact of command. I should get that.

[trim ice]

Is there a way to give yourself items for testing using vanilla dev command window or do you absolutely need mods

[lavish jacinth]

you need mods, the vanilla console barely does anything

[trim ice]

Damnit

Do you recommend any?

[lavish jacinth]

Debugtoolkit

lookingglass and hitboxviewer are also helpful

[forest elbow]

is huntress black?

[left kernel]

how does delicate watch work with engi turrets

[forest elbow]

how does delicate watch work with engi turrets

+2
Delicate Watches (Survivor of the Void DLC) provide a 20% (+20% per stack) damage boost to Engineer turrets in Risk of Rain 2. Because Engineer turrets inherit the player's inventory, each turret gets its own set of watches. If a turret drops below 25% health, its watches break, but the player's watches remain intact.
Independent Tracking: A turret's watch breaking does not break your personal watches, nor does your personal watch breaking affect the turrets.
Damage Boosting: The 20% bonus is highly beneficial for turrets, particularly when stacked with other damage items.
Survivability Risk: If a turret takes damage, its watch can break independently of yours. Because turrets often take significant aggro, this means they may lose their damage bonus faster than the player.
Strategy: Keeping turrets healed (e.g., via Bustling Fungus) is critical to maintaining the damage bonus.

[left kernel]

ok ic

[south egret]

indeterminate

[south egret]

just as it does for engi

[lavish jacinth]

worth noting that building a new turret will restore its copy of consumable/breakable items like watch and elixir, even if they were broken on the previous turret, as long as engie himself doesn't lose the items

each turret you build is a totally new entity

[jaunty furnace]

why did you just call up gpt

[forest elbow]

i didnt

its google gemini

[forest elbow]

no shit sherlock

[high sedge]

that's not any better

[forest elbow]

ye but if he typed that exact message on google he'd get the answer

now lets get to the serious questions

is seeker indian?

[livid wedge]

What

[lavish jacinth]

they came here instead of asking google, because presumably they wanted an actual answer and not AI

although amazingly it was more or less correct for once

[jaunty furnace]

a usually shitty one yeah

surprisingly, this time it wasnt really wrong

[forest elbow]

its always right vro it gets answers from the wiki

and if u dont wanna use the ai just check the wiki

[forest elbow]

when u have an obvious question u ask google

[high sedge]

it oft pulls from the fandom which is outdated and not held to a standard like the wiki.gg

[forest elbow]

i didnt specifically ask ai either i just google searched

now tell me

is huntress black

[lavish jacinth]

It might even pull from reddit, which is even worse

I know chatgpt does

[mellow crystal]

moment

[primal vector]

Dont they also pull from youtube?

[high sedge]

youtube doesn't have a lot of easily scrapable substantive text so probably not

videos aren't often transcripited properly and the comments are youtube comments

[primal vector]

I would think google trust their autogenerated subtitles. Its not like the AI revolution is based on quality data anyways. As a non English native, autogenerated subtitles have improved a ton on recent years

[jaunty furnace]

oh dont worry youtube is hard at work implementing ai subtitles on everything

and removing the subtitles the video author made

[pearl hill]

as well as its very "good" ai voice dubbing

[quasi crystal]

where will blue portal in conduit canyon lead?

[livid wedge]

To the newt

[quasi crystal]

i means where when exitting newt

[livid wedge]

Back to the normal, nonAC path

[quasi crystal]

sad

[livid wedge]

So, if you want to continue to solus heart, don't take it

[quasi crystal]

rekt

[heavy gorge]

Asking AI about something as niche as video game tips is just asking for hallucinations

Also the entire ocean dissolves by 14.21% each time you do it

[viral creek]

hi im pretty new to the game but is there a way to guarantee to get sirens call as teh 4th stage so i can get loader?

[north granite]

Go to the lunar bazaar after the stage 3 teleporter and hope that the stage is in one of the dream things

(the two lil portal things beside the item soups and newt, they show the stage's look inside them)

Though ofc you can just get siren's call eventually

[spark roost]

how do i get artifact of command

[toxic echo]

which items have a stack limit? or some point where stacking them does barely anything anymore?

[toxic echo]

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

For any artifact you unlock it by just going here, then go to sky meadow and input the code shown on the wiki

Can also find the codes manually, they're all located on different stages

[mellow crystal]

Focused convergence is the only item with a stacking limit (3 stacks), sentry key and prison matrix have no extra effect on stacking them
Crit items cap at 100% crit, so 10 for crit glasses notably but you're better off just stacking 8 or 9 instead
Medkit effectively caps at 40 stacks since it heals based on max HP but that's basically irrelevant

[north granite]

I know safer spaces has 65 for a frame long cooldown

[mellow crystal]

Monster tooth has a similar situation to medkit

A lot of the hyperbolic stacking items have a point where you don't wanna bother stacking them unless you wanna do something like the safer spaces thing

[toxic echo]

Actually doesn't solitude also have a stacking limit of 3?

[north granite]

Eulogy has 20 since it's 5% each time

[hoary sedge]

bleed/needletick and sticky bomb both have a limit determined by your proc coeff

[mellow crystal]

Every proc item does really

[hoary sedge]

well those are the only ones that stack activation chance iirc

i guess runic lens technically has a limit if you stack it so much you hit the chance and damage cap on a 100% damage hit but that's basically never gonna happen

[viral creek]

are the moons altars at every stage or can u get it at the first stage and then only enter the protal at stage 3

[lavish jacinth]

10
10*
20*
25
254
3
20
127 (you die instantly at 128 stacks. Other health reductions like tonic affliction may affect this)
10*
65
200*
-all passive minion-summoning items share a cap of 20 allies at a time. Players, drones, engineer turrets, and minions spawned by equipment count towards the ally cap but are not limited by it.

• etc. all ability cooldowns have a minimum of 0.5s
• Attack speed has a cap but it varies immensely for each ability, and the effects are inconsistent due to frame-rounding issues. You can just stop picking them up when you stop noticing a difference.

*affected by proc coefficient, the cap will be higher with lower coeffs.

I gotta update that for SotS and AC at some point

[toxic echo]

Thanks

Though it's missing longstanding solitude i think

[livid wedge]

Which is a sots item

[toxic echo]

Yeah i can't keep track of which item belongs to which dlc

Also I keep seeing tierlists that say that soldier's syringe and attack speed in general aren't great, is there a reason why?

[livid wedge]

The frame speed rounding thing that fax mentioned

[toxic echo]

Tbh i don't really know what that means

[livid wedge]

AS increases increase the total attack speed with each stack

Like, having 10 increases your total attack speed by 150%. Adding 10 more only increases the attack speed from 10 by 60%

And can only have an attack happen once every 60th of a second

[toxic echo]

Is that just another way of saying it's additive?

[livid wedge]

Diminishing returns but yes

[toxic echo]

But isn't that more of an argument against stacking soldier's syringe?

Also doesn't delicate watch or AP rounds have the same kind of thing where it's diminishing returns

[livid wedge]

No, because getting from 1 attack every 30 frames is going to take more than it took to get from 1 attack every 31 frames

From the speed lower

[toxic echo]

Ok nvm I see what you mean

[livid wedge]

Because everything in the game happens, at most, 60 times a second

[toxic echo]

Does it not matter how fast you're running the game at?

[livid wedge]

If we get a fraction, it rounds to the lower value

Correct, the game is not, (anymore) tied to framerate

[toxic echo]

Alright thanks for explaining

[lavish jacinth]

it also means that you can sometimes pick up an attack speed item and it'll literally do nothing, even if you're not at the cap, because your AS isn't high enough to round down to the next frame

[heavy gorge]

Can the conduit canyon TP still get orbs sometimes?

[livid wedge]

Yes

[heavy gorge]

!!!!!!

[bold locust]

hey,we tried to play ror 2 and when we try to turn on crossplay it crashes my game after restart,and when i start it second time it is still not on

can somebody help me please

doesn't redirect me to epic games at all

[hoary sedge]

crossplay is horrendously broken and basically doesn't function

really the only solution is turning it off unfortunately

[toxic echo]

does mercurial rachis on engineer cause the turrets to also spawn wards of power?

[lavish jacinth]

pretty sure it does

[heavy gorge]

Holy crap, Lois! This is just like the time you needed Hamachi to play ror1 coop!

[gloomy pulsar]

Good way to unlock seeker alternate sojourn?

[dreamy helm]

Hello, I'm new to the game and I just got mercenary, I keep dying to blowing up by himself? What exactly happens?

[primal vector]

#ror2-game-questions message you can find it on the SotS FAQ

[gloomy pulsar]

Thx dood

[primal vector]

Umm, that is weird. If you have footage you can post it after getting a #roles . Other than getting hit without realizing are you getting the equipment from the starting pod maybe?

[dreamy helm]

I do have the fuel thing, is that the problem?

[primal vector]

Well, it has its function. You can use it to unlock a character, but if you get below 50% HP, you blow up

[dreamy helm]

Oh my bad, it was because of fuel array, I didn't read what it did

[lavish jacinth]

check pins, there are some tips for it

[dreamy helm]

Can I cheese the challenge by picking up the equipment before ending each stage?

[primal vector]

Absolutelly

[sullen basin]

are all backshots from bandit critical?

[high sedge]

bandit will always crit if he is at an angle behind the target

so stuff like fireworks can crit this way

[late nexus]

If I hit the vulture thingy after giving it the cerebellum thingy, can I come back

[lavish jacinth]

yes, but the only way to get another portal is to kill alloy worship unit or false son, access nodes won't spawn once solus wing is dead

[late nexus]

Thanks, I was about to loop for the 3rd time after it

[spark roost]

can i do this multiple times or do i gotta loop

[toxic echo]

When you perform a trial you’re basically gonna be forced to loop

So you can only do one trial per loop

[spark roost]

i see

[vapid grail]

wait can you fight solus wing again or does it just bring you to chef again?

[amber sentinel]

whats the easiest way to get the gesture achievement

[livid wedge]

You can't fight solus wing a second time. If you killed it, you go straight to the chef zone

[near spindle]

anyone know if I can still get monsoon skins in simulacrum?

[north granite]

Nah, no end

[near spindle]

thank you john 🙏

[limber beacon]

uhhh okay I didn't knew where to ask but there is a roblox game that copied 1:1 mythrix design and named him differently and then added him in game and I am 100% permission to use mythrix wasn't asked so what should I do now

they also made a skin for that character which is basically just false son

I kinda feel like that's not a good thing to do so maybe I should report it to someone or smth idk

[random ravine]

Hi, I am new to the game. Does anyone have any suggestions on what mod I should install?

[high forum]

gearbox is not going to issue a cease and desist to roblox

[high forum]

maybe lookingglass for some 'quality of life' stuff, but otherwise i wouldn't change the game too much. i'd focus on learning it first, and then you can expand the game with mods 'n stuff.

[limber beacon]

fair enough but I still feel like what they did is wrong...

[high forum]

you're technically right that it is,

but like a lot of things, the case of 'wrongness' is so small that most companies simply don't care, because it's not worth the effort to go after it

you could report it to roblox but the company that makes it isn't exactly the best company either and probably doesn't care lol

[limber beacon]

yeah but the funny thing is when I confronted a dev about it they banned me lol

[high forum]

well, "dev" in that case is just some kid who made it right?

it's not a person who actually works for roblox

[limber beacon]

yeah

[limber beacon]

I guess I could try

[high forum]

it's genuinely not worth your time

it's a children's game

[limber beacon]

anyways thanks for help

wish they wouldn't monetize of this at least

[south egret]

[amber sentinel]

nah but they arent spawning for some reason

i been running around for 15 minutes and not seen a single one

[lavish jacinth]

Do you have artifact of dissonance on?

[amber sentinel]

nah im on new slot only have artifacts of command and sacrifice so far

[lavish jacinth]

Alright, they should just spawn eventually then, assuming you're on stage 6+ titanic plains

[amber sentinel]

yh

oki ill wait then ig

[heavy gorge]

Gearbox isn’t gonna care about some 13 year old ripping off a design for a Roblox game

Roblox as a whole is probably violating thousands if not millions of copyrights right now

[crimson ibex]

what items should i prioritize while using captain with command?

[lavish jacinth]

he does really well with proc items, notably bleed. You basically build him the same way you'd build commando.

Remember that it's always better to get a wide variety of items instead of just prioritizing a few things though

if you're running diablo strike then bands, backup mags, and maybe lysate cell will also be good (assuming you're running a shock beacon in your first beacon slot, which you should always do with diablo)

[heavy gorge]

If engineer throws a mine onto a survivor and then that survivor gets bagged by drifter will they still have the mine attached when they're thrown

[calm elk]

how come i cant get the false son: family bonding achievement?

i just let aurelionite kill mythix with 4 stacks of lunar ruin

but for some reason i didnt get the achievement

[lavish jacinth]

that unlock is notoriously terrible, you have be really careful to make sure nothing else steals the kill.
and lunar ruin itself actually has a very slow, weak DoT, so it's possible for mithrix to die to that instead of auri

and sometimes it just kinda doesn't work at all for some reason, although that's rare

[calm elk]

i have a clip of what i did im very sure that nothing else could have done damage

[lavish jacinth]

you can post it if you have a role, #roles

[calm elk]

had to loop because game didnt show me a gold portal but i made sure not to pick up any dot or on kill stuff with command

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, looks like you did it and the it just didn't register

in that case, might as well use this https://thunderstore.io/package/prodzpod/RealerCheatUnlocks/

[calm elk]

aw well, ty for the info i thought i might have messed something up

[lavish jacinth]

I don't think anyone would blame you for cheating on that unlock honestly, it's the worst one in the game imo

[calm elk]

wasnt that bad to do with drizzle and command it just sucks it was bugged

[north sinew]

is it lucky that i got it first try on rainstorm with no artifacts

[south egret]

eh, sorta

[charred swift]

Can i reset my game somehow.
Had anrun where i was dead the entire time and got a lot of achievements without doing anything.

I want to achieve them myself

[jaunty furnace]

cant (easily) undo steam achievements but you can make a new ingame save

ive heard of something called steam achievement manager but i have no idea how it works

[thorny plaza]

If i get 30 soldier syringes on engineer is it still better to go visions of heresy

[jaunty furnace]

..wouldnt it replace turret m1's too?

[obsidian mountain]

Is there a mod that removes iron aluvium my last 6 runs had it and im starting to lose my mind

[jaunty furnace]

weightwrite

[spiral rampart]

Definitely not. Remember that your turret get your items and so they can’t use their OP default attack

[spark tusk]

are lunar items good at all? every single one ive gotten just seems to nerf me

[primal vector]

They range on their usefulness. This become more apparent when stacking them. From very bad (stone pauldrom) to situational (brittle crown) to very good (trascendence and gesture as their downside doesnt stack, shaped glass if you get to the point where everything instantly dies). They are all over the place and quite unbalanced. You may find it fun to add them to your build from time to time. Some people abuse them some never ever thouch the tier.

Nice Soi fong picture btw

[heavy gorge]

Is the vending machine behind wandering chef just there for fun?

[livid wedge]

Probably for ambience

[spark tusk]

alr good to know, ive only gotten stuff like Egocentrism and Eulogy that kinda just completely ruin my run

also ty, i like Soi Fon a lot lol

[primal vector]

Oh yeah, those are on the "weird" category. For when you want to do a run with different rules

[heavy gorge]

How useful in general is Mul-T's rocket launcher?

[trim lynx]

its pretty good

nice damage and CC

its better with retool, but still okay with powermode

[jaunty furnace]

some are run-ruining, some are op as fuckj

overall i just dont really interact with them

to make runs more balanced (harder)

[frosty reef]

Tis better in powermode if you get luminous

[jaunty furnace]

wonder if it has eclipse lite synergy

[primal vector]

I think so, yes. You get the amount of each individual CD when rechanging all of them

[hidden siren]

Anyone elses multiplayer bugged?

[kind estuary]

For the piercing wind achievement on huntress will using transcendence count for it?

[livid wedge]

Shield counts as health for the purpose of that achievement. However, barrier puts you over 100% health so taking barrier damage won't cancel the achievement

[kindred herald]

No. Barrier from topaz brooch, aegis, and eclipse lite wworks, though.

If you want to command it up: forgive me please, soulbound catalyst, a couple fuel cells, topaz brooches, and ceremonial daggers and/or lots of wisps and gas gives you full barrier uptime

[honest ravine]

Going forward, will the Switch 2 get updates or a port of RoR2?

[edgy tusk]

Will there be any final bug fixes for the old gen (Gen 8) console ports?

I don’t play the old gen console ports anyways just wondering

[lilac wolf]

is emergency drone just a more expensive healing drone?

[livid wedge]

It heals more allies at once but heals very slightly less each, I think

[lilac wolf]

thank you

[glacial knoll]

it heals 25% more than a healing drone and can heal up to 8 things at once

[livid wedge]

Oh, my bad

I dunno why I thought less

[glacial knoll]

the log words one as 200% and one as 50% per second

which is 200% over 5s and 250% over 5s

hopoo descriptions never left us

[ember forge]

Has there been any word about cross-platform play? Console to pc/console brand to console brand

[lavish jacinth]

nope

[ember forge]

Rip. Thanks

[thorny plaza]

did death do us apart with command artifact why don't I have the item do I have to do it without the artifact or do I only get to use it next run?

[heavy gorge]

Items and artifacts you unlock cannot be used until your next game

This is also true for survivors unless you do the metamorphosis artifact trial.

[thorny plaza]

That sucks, spent 20 minutes in aqueduct for an item that would've been amazing on this build 😩

[chrome mist]

Why does the of left of the screen not show a buff on the turrets from the box of dynamite when it still looks different on the model

[high sedge]

Because turrets dont use the box of dynamite since they can't be above a target

[north gulch]

Anyone still struggling to connect Switch controllers to the in game button mapping. It works fine in menu and starting up games. But nothing I do fixes the issue. Any tips?

I noticed this during the first two roadmap updates for SoTS and ever since I can't use Switch controllers.

[quick lagoon]

Switch Controllers with steam are terrible tbh, 3rd party are the only consistent ones and if you buy new ones, they just stop working

[north gulch]

Darn. Mine worked fine up to that point. I suppose if its my only option ill find a cheap xbox or third party controller

[quick lagoon]

I'd say check r2modman or something for any mod fixes, that usually can so something

[north gulch]

hmm good point

[lament light]

how does halcyon shrine interact with teleporter? does tp lock it like chests?

[bold maple]

Can you keep looping after beating the alloyed collective energy boss thing?

[dusky raven]

The devs forgot to give non-drone allies the buff indicator, but they do use box of dynamite

[mighty falcon]

Recently got into ror2 and I dunno which dlc to buy first I’m thinking void but i actually dunno. What dlc makes the most difference in gameplay cus that’s probably the deciding factor for me

[lavish jacinth]

go with void then, it's the most basegame-focused (and it's the one I'd recommend getting first anyway)

[mighty falcon]

Alright thanks for the help

Uh if I download ror2 on my pc through Microsoft store can I play with people on console or am I stuck with people that also downloaded it on Microsoft store

[jaunty furnace]

sotv

[jaunty furnace]

didnt even know that was a thing 😭

[mighty falcon]

Me either but my gamepass ran out but I still wanna play with my friend 😭😭😭

And pc doesn’t need it to play online

[jaunty furnace]

just wait for a steam sale

is it free on microsoft or something?

[mighty falcon]

Nah but I bought it on Xbox and i can download it on my pc too from dat cu Microsoft store but my gamepass ran out so I can’t play online now. on pc I can play online without having gamepass

But ion know if I can play wit my friend on Xbox or not cus it is still connected to Xbox

[jaunty furnace]

no idea tbh

[mighty falcon]

Google was no help either it just said some bs about epic and steam

I’m guessing probably not though 😭

[jaunty furnace]

either way there is no crossplay

[mighty falcon]

So yeah probably not

[jaunty furnace]

unless the microsoft store version fully emulates xbox games for some reason???? but i doubt thats the case

[primal vector]

Only drones show the buff icon but it does work when an enemy gets near

[hollow phoenix]

I don't have any of the DLC, I'm really stubborn, and I want to unlock MUL-T's Power Mode (Void Fields Stage 7+) on Monsoon but I have lost the past 44 runs either at or before the Void field, closest I got was 48% before dying. Is there like something I might be missing where I could make runs more reliable?

[jaunty furnace]

think about your deaths and what you couldve done to avoid them

did you have enough speed to avoid attacks? did you have enough healing? did you have enough damage and aoe? did you have enough defense? etc

and thats just the item build part

[glacial knoll]

Hud checks for drone, Item checks for Mechanical, resulting in confusion. Turrets can use it and activate it just fine

[slow dagger]

can you finish an eclipse run by beating false son

[jaunty furnace]

eclipse runs have to end with mithrix

or mithrix -> voidling

[slow dagger]

rip okay thanks

[high forum]

No

[versed seal]

you could just loop the extent you get so strong that void fields isnt a threat dont forget it says after stage 7

[hollow phoenix]

Tysm, I ended up beating it on stage 9 somehow

[obsidian mountain]

is the new host skip unpatched?

[surreal socket]

having an issue where everyrun is a "god run" and i know it sounds weird to complain about but with the game not only adding so many good items with the dlc but then ways to get good items via vields, false son path and now the most impactful one wandering chef the game has gotten too easy. I play basically only on e8 ive done infernal e8 and armmageddon ( or however you spell it ) and ive tried just playing without the dlcs but that also isn't very fun im worried after 1000+ hours im finally getting "done" with the game. 🤧 😭

[high forum]

honest question: why does it matter if you're 'done' with a game? it's not a live service game. you own it. just play something else, and come back when you feel like playing it.

1000+ hours is an insanely good amount of time to get out of a game that costs <$70 over the course of 6 years

[surreal socket]

that probably the best answer i just have the problem of not knowing what to buy everything feels so expensive

Ive just not found anything that feels like risk

i really played it alot i got those 1000 hours in just over 1.5 year(s) the biggest issue is probably im trying to replace risk instead of trying to find something different/new

[jaunty furnace]

have you tried umbral

by your name im guessing youve heard of it

[surreal socket]

yeah i "main" it i guess haha

cant play without it

[primal vector]

You are not losing the game. After some time doing other things you will enjoy doing some runs again. It is an opportunity to explore other flavours and things to enjoy. Not necessarily video game related even

[sullen basin]

frost relic is base game, right?

[livid wedge]

Ye

[onyx plume]

my friend and i are playing on new dlc together (modded) and apparently he can't ping? "You must wait before issuing more pings" even though he hasn't pinged once previously

apparently friend can't see my pings too?

[dry glen]

this might be a stupid question but... does deus ex machina work on salestar?

since it works for sonorous

[lavish jacinth]

sale star isn't an on-hit or on-kill effect

[reef skiff]

I had been searching for the teleporter for 20 mins on stage 1, what should I do except uninstall the game

[lavish jacinth]

1. look for orange particles in the air and follow them
2. turn on 'teleporter particle scaling' in settings, under the umbrella settings thing

[spare rapids]

how does the drifter scrap buffs stacks?

[high sedge]

drifter scrap buffs stack linearly, or at least it does for white, green & red scrap

this means scrapping a bunch of garbage for stats will be worth it

[heavy gorge]

Scrapping Leeching Seed is literally a direct upgrade as Drifter 😛

Has anybody done mathematics to determine how many items you get on average from Sacri-Swarms as opposed to Sacrifice?

[full apex]

This is old but you get the idea

New stuff you'd just compare credit costs to old mobs with the same or similar cost. tldr is you get like 50% more stuff ish but it depends on what youre killing

[chilly dust]

Which character should I be using? I am new to the game

How do u survive the first teleporter place? There always are alot of mobs so I die instantly, how do I avoid this and I do way too little dmg to the boss

[livid wedge]

Honestly, commando is a great starter. You want to make sure you're getting as many items on the stage as you can, full looting

Learning and dealing with enemies will be easier with items

[jaunty furnace]

whoever you want

check em all out

[jaunty furnace]

loot the whole stage

items are your strength and build

[mellow crystal]

also keep moving
a lot of enemies in this game, especially stage 1 enemies, just cannot hit a moving and jumping player

[primal vector]

The game is intended to be difficult at first, dont get discouraged for not going further than the first level in the first runs. Dying, learning and getting better is part of the design

[chilly dust]

Ok ty guys

[chilly dust]

I keep jumping and moving but I get hit most of time. How do u do it?

[jaunty furnace]

be aware of the shit around you

holding A alone will not make you dodge things

[chilly dust]

Ic, do i need to jump to my left or right to not get hit? Or can I do back and forward?

[jaunty furnace]

dodging is not a "press button to instantly become invincible" type action

different enemies (usually) require atleast slightly different strategies

[chilly dust]

Ic, I thought it was.....

So is some moves unavoidable?

I mean by jumping side to side

[jaunty furnace]

when we say "dodge" were not usually talking about a skill like dark souls dodgeroll or something, we mean the act of moving consciously to avoid attacks

stone golem lasers, for example, can be dodged by moving in circles around them and staying away from the ground because its explosive

[chilly dust]

Ic, ty. How do u dodge the floating fire balls? I get hit by them the most

[jaunty furnace]

which fireballs? you mean the ones lemurians throw? or the floating mask guys?

[chilly dust]

Lesser wisps or smthing. I have not gone past the 1st stage

[mellow crystal]

their gimmick is kind of that they are nigh undodgeable but deal very little damage
better off to just focus them when they're on screen

you can dodge them by sprinting and jumping around them but i wouldn't try that as a new player

[jaunty furnace]

wisps are not undodgeable lol, unless you have abysmal speed

[chilly dust]

Ic ty, they usually spawn behind me so I don't notice them

[primal vector]

To add to this, some attacks, specially attacks from bosses can be avoided by using the terrain. Getting behind something can protect you from lasers or jellyfish explosions

[chilly dust]

What items give u speed?

[chilly dust]

Ic ty

[jaunty furnace]

theres a bunch of stuff that can give you speed, but the main juice is

and from dlc2

[trim lynx]

even base speed is usually enough to dodge them, but a few are

[mellow crystal]

i'd also mention faraday spur from dlc3 and, though it technically doesn't increase the movespeed stat,

wax quail is very good for just general movement and evasion

[wanton lotus]

Faraday spur, goat hoof, hunters harpoon, energy drink, antler, irradiant pearl , red whip, wax quail

[wanton lotus]

I think this is all

[chilly dust]

Ic, do I need to sprint jump for most of my dodges? Cause I don't do that

[trim lynx]

growth nectar

[wanton lotus]

Fuck growth nectar

[chilly dust]

Ic ty guys. Do I prioritize getting them?

[trim lynx]

sprint whenever you arent attacking

[wanton lotus]

Doesn't count

[jaunty furnace]

sprinting is important, youll want to sprint alot

[chilly dust]

Ok ty

[wanton lotus]

Better yet sprint all the time, whenever you can

Only time you stop sprinting is when using skills that aren't agile

[chilly dust]

Ic ty

[livid wedge]

Dissing my sweet sweet nectar

[jaunty furnace]

speed is very important, dodging things entirely is the best form of survivability, if you only invest in healing you will die

[wanton lotus]

On longer range survivors keeping distance is important but also remember about damage falloff

1. Damage
2. Speed
3. Healing

[chilly dust]

Ic ty

[wanton lotus]

In that order

[mellow crystal]

yeah healing and defensive items are more of an if you get hit thing rather than a when you get hit thing
you don't wanna rely on them

[chilly dust]

Is commander a long range?

[jaunty furnace]

1. damage
2. speed
3. defense
4. healing

[chilly dust]

Ok ty

[wanton lotus]

Defense and healing are kinda the same in my book but yeah

[chilly dust]

Ic ty

[mellow crystal]

he is best at mid range but he is very much capable of firing from longer ranges, his damage just gets lower with distance

[wanton lotus]

Commando is best a medium range, as he has abysmal damage falloff

[jaunty furnace]

his bullet spread and heavy damage falloff makes him more of a medium-low range character

[trim lynx]

you dont need to strictly adhere to that to find success, but its pretty reliable to build that way

[chilly dust]

Ic ty, is huntress a medium range as well?

[mellow crystal]

i normally play mando mid-close range and just move to long range if i think i'm in a dangerous situation and closer ranges are a death sentence

[wanton lotus]

I just find it hard to move with mand9

[mellow crystal]

her autoaim has limited range so she's kind of forced to be a mid-ish lower range character

[trim lynx]

phase round is the only good real long range option

[wanton lotus]

He's slow

[jaunty furnace]

well her m1 and m2 force you to be in range in order to target things so

[wanton lotus]

Sure slide is a great movement skill but he has nothing else to compliment it

[chilly dust]

Ic ty

[wanton lotus]

You of course can use her specials for long range, but i wouldnt advise it

[trim lynx]

idk commando is pretty mobile

[wanton lotus]

Arrow rain is about the worst skill in the game due to its terrible damage and proc

[trim lynx]

polar mines

[chilly dust]

Oh...I kept spamming it....

[mellow crystal]

this is why i think mando is probably the best character for teaching newer players to dodge tbh
he has enough mobility to be comfortable but not so much that he makes you reliant on it

[trim lynx]

still use it ofc

[jaunty furnace]

no reason not to use it but its not gonna be your main source of damage ever

[chilly dust]

How do u slide?

[wanton lotus]

Its just very bad in comparison to other things, you can still use ut

[chilly dust]

Ok ty

[jaunty furnace]

characters have alternate skills you can unlock
check out the loadout button in the character select

[primal vector]

And you do well. A skill being more or less damage is only relevant if you choose an alternative one on the loadout

[wanton lotus]

Alt utility skill iirc

[mellow crystal]

it's an unlockable skill for him, fills the utility (third) skill slot

[chilly dust]

Oh ic ty

Tysm, I will try getting further this time

[wanton lotus]

For melee survivors tho id think false son would be a great one to learn to circle enemies correctly

Step of the brothers is my favorite utility in the game and I really like how you can use it to plow through a mob

[mellow crystal]

honestly kinda true which is kind of insane to me because what do you mean the 2nd most op character in the game is any kind of good at teaching 😭

[wanton lotus]

His club swing is just so good to use to figure out how to turn midair and attack

[chilly dust]

Do I have to clock wise or anti clock wise? Cause most souls like require different usage. Or Is it different for different mobs?

[mellow crystal]

it generally doesn't matter i would say, enemies don't have particularly directional attacks

[jaunty furnace]

doesnt matter

[mellow crystal]

well there's brass contraptions i guess but those are the exception

[jaunty furnace]

yeah

[chilly dust]

Ic ty, do I need to be very close to them to circle properly?

[primal vector]

It is a design space yet to exploit in this game

[wanton lotus]

Yeah, have you made it to mithrix yet?

[wanton lotus]

Only on some enemies tho

[mellow crystal]

for most enemies no but there are some where you do want to stick close to them
a big example of this you can probably apply next run or two is the stone titan boss because its laser is worse at tracking you if you're closer to it

[jaunty furnace]

they have not beaten the first stage

[wanton lotus]

Dang

[mellow crystal]

there's also some where sticking close to them is bad since they're melee or projectile based but that's more of a thing you learn by encountering them yourself

[wanton lotus]

Yeah some enemies turn very slowly and you can use it to your advantage

[jaunty furnace]

it literally cannot activate the laser if youre either close to it or it hasnt been damaged

[chilly dust]

Who is mithrix?

[jaunty furnace]

dont worry about it youll see

[primal vector]

I think the information should be contained to the neccesary amount for someone on the first stage. To avoid information overloading

[mellow crystal]

-# and there's also mithrix who is melee but bad at hitting close ranged targets but that's a thing to worry about far in the future

[chilly dust]

Ic ty

[chilly dust]

Ok ty

[wanton lotus]

No one special

Really a nobody

Whole lot of nothing

[livid wedge]

The king of nothing, you might say

[warm condor]

I got to spek after I accidentally attacked him and he locked me out, but I got back in but now I don’t have Encrypted Cerebellum for some reason is there any way I can get it? I have already defeated the boss to get it

Like is there any possible way to defeat the Solus Wing again like I have been playing for three hours and I’m on a really good run. I really don’t wanna screw it up.😭

[jaunty furnace]

any run is a god run if you loop for three hours lol

[hoary sedge]

if you already gave spex the cerebellum and then got kicked out you can't get to solus heart unfortunately

you can go back to exchange by killing awu on sirens call or going through false son but iirc the portal won't be there

[warm condor]

I didn’t give it to him. That’s the problem. Like it just magically disappeared.

Do you know if it gets used by 3-D printers?

Like I didn’t give it to spec maybe I didn’t pick it up but I swear I did

[steep swallow]

Howdy, how does the blue star work with the relic “Enemies drop items but no chest spawns”

[hoary sedge]

no it's in a separate pool, can't be printed

[steep swallow]

nvm

[hoary sedge]

you can use it on fixed spawns (stage 4 legendary chests and the large chest on shattered abodes and verdant falls) and rusty lockboxes

otherwise does nothing

[steep swallow]

ok

[chilly dust]

how do u deal with the swarm mother/queen of smthing? I keep dying to her and I always get her

and how do 3d printers work? are the items it takes from me random?

[trim lynx]

they are random unless you have scrap

[hoary sedge]

yes they take a random item of the same rarity, unless you have item scrap which will always be used first

[chilly dust]

ic ty

for the swarm mother, do I need to kill its guards first or her? does killing her kill her guards?

[warm condor]

I genuinely don’t know what’s happened to it then😭

[hoary sedge]

it doesn't really matter, killing her doesn't despawn guards but it is still good to focus the queen so they stop spawning

[chilly dust]

ic ty, how do u dodge the guards? I try dashing but the cooldown is too long

[hoary sedge]

you can avoid the guard's attacks by running in a circle pretty reliably, you mainly just want to keep some distance from the queen so you don't get shotgunned by the projectiles

[chilly dust]

oh ic, do I go in a circle around the guard?

[hoary sedge]

no it's more like find a good spot on the stage to kite them in a large circle

since their projectiles only ever go straight they can't hit you if youre just always turning

[chilly dust]

do have them be behind me and I should go in a circle?

[hoary sedge]

yeah

[chilly dust]

ok tysm

[hoary sedge]

that's a good thing to learn to do bc that lets you dodge like 90% of the enemies in the game btw lol

[chilly dust]

ic ty

[mellow crystal]

their slams literally cannot hit airborne targets so jumping helps lots

[chilly dust]

ic ty

[heavy gorge]

Do you get more gold on drizzle?

[cinder pasture]

now that ac has been out for a while. which do people prefer tinker or salvage on drifter?

[heavy gorge]

Tinker 10000000000000000000%

Diet Command

[cinder pasture]

how so?

[heavy gorge]

Drifter gets buffs from scrap. Tinker turns items into scrap. Not only do you have really good buffs, but you have much greater reign over printers

[cinder pasture]

you arent wrong

i just feel like most of the buffs are meh

[trim lynx]

the buffs are very much not meh

[cinder pasture]

white is movement speed like 3 per white. green is regen speed (pointless if you ) 30%+ attack speed is nice but a red is valuable but yeah yellow is great

[mellow crystal]

white movespeed is 7% which is half a hoof
which doesn't seem like much but do consider you can turn ANY white you want, good or bad, into it with tinker

same with the green regen
which is significantly easier to megastack because a lot of greens are not that great

on the average tinker drifter run you end up with more than enough movespeed, on top of enough regen to uh
facetank double solus wing????

[cinder pasture]

i honestly think artifact of prestige should of been in the game since the start

only once it was added did is miss not having it before

[cinder pasture]

wait overloading wyrm is possible pre loop?

[livid wedge]

Yes

[heavy gorge]

Can you repeat the aqueduct pressure plate thing on future loops?

[livid wedge]

Yes

[heavy gorge]

Excellent. I’ve been playing characters with aqueduct cheese recently

[thorny plaza]

How does halcyon shrine spawn? I'm tryna get false son but halcyon shrine seems to only spawn once in my run and I can't find it after getting the seed

[lavish jacinth]

don't bother looking for an actual shrine, the easiest way to get both the seed and a green portal is through the bazaar

lunar seers have a decently high chance of having gilded coast as an option, and if you're on a valid stage then there'll be 3 hidden geodes you can break to spawn a green portal

[thorny plaza]

Green geodes that's a new one 🤔

[lavish jacinth]

they're gold but yeah

[heavy gorge]

If I’m going to try Retool on Multi, is double rebar the far and away best choice?

[south egret]

beetle queens are fairly predictible if you know their (three) attacks, and two of those are spawning enemies.
The best medicine to deal with her is on-kill/AoE items, like gasoline and will of the wisp, but if you don't have anything like that, get yourself out of harms way and focus the queen herself.
If that's not an option, you kinda just gotta deal with it and kill some ads before focusing her.

[chilly dust]

ic ty

[chrome mist]

what do gilded elites do

[primal vector]

Exactly this

Basically make you drop gold and from time to time create little danger zones

[mellow walrus]

so, i've just done a round with my friends and a void barnacle somehow infinitely started spawning, tanking our fps and our game is kinda permanently messed up, is this normal at all?

[primal vector]

Were any of you playing as operator who had a transport drone?

[mellow walrus]

ok that checks out

it was really funny and we were only at stage 2 so not much lost

it got that bad our friend who was hosting had to restart his pc LOL

i asked and my friend picked up the void barnacle with the transport drone

[primal vector]

It is a know bug, but yes, it is terrible. It can happen if you use the default operator m2 on a stationary enemy, not just barnacles

[primal vector]

That is awful

[mellow walrus]

oh

[primal vector]

So either pick up transport drones and the alt m2 or the default m2 and not transport drones

And you are safe

[mellow walrus]

chances are my friend wont be playing oeprator again so

[chilly dust]

Should I be changing my settings? Like the aim assist sensitivity or is it not required? I play on pc

[trim lynx]

preference

personally would highly recommend disabling sprint sensitivity reduction though

[chilly dust]

Ok ty

[chilly dust]

I don't understand what it does, could u explain me?

[sullen basin]

how does wecho work with shield ?

[broken sparrow]

whats wecho

[sullen basin]

warped echo

[broken sparrow]

sorry i dont know 🙁

[primal vector]

I cannot look at it now, but the wiki probably has information on the interaction

[chilly dust]

yeah, Idk what that means

[trim lynx]

just means that while sprinting you need to make bigger movements with your mouse

most people dont find it helpful

and instead a hindrance

[jaunty furnace]

why is this a thing

[sullen basin]

wtf is the drop chance for artifact keys bro

[chilly dust]

Oh ic ty

[edgy wyvern]

What does the snowball do

Biting her embrace

[primal vector]

You do the same thing glacial elites do, slow enemies on hit

[lavish jacinth]

Same way it normally does

The tick damage doesn't count against out-of-danger though, so it won't prevent shields from recharging after the initial hit

[toxic echo]

does Lysate Cell have any benefit for void fiend?

[primal vector]

Technically yes, but I mean

Maybe if you are trying to do something specific with corruption

[toxic echo]

Tbh that seems like it'd be bad either way

[primal vector]

I didnt even know corrupted supress was charge based

[toxic echo]

These are all kinda just bad tbh

Wungus makes it much harder to enter corrupted form

[glacial knoll]

you have no bands so band is fine

[jaunty furnace]

you can get others later

[primal vector]

The game shoul make you play a mandatory run with vands when buying sotv to teach you not to be afraid of them

[toxic echo]

What would you scrap? Playing mando and only printer currently on map is mocha

Also eclipse 1

[crisp timber]

Lite, Brooch, Pennies, Tooth, Daisy, Luminous

[toxic echo]

Seems reasonable

Though I was thinking it'd be either brooch or lite, not both

is there a particular reason you think brooch is bad here?

[surreal socket]

what diff was this

[toxic echo]

Lvl 15 difficulty rn, eclipse 1

[surreal socket]

either case id say medkit, lite, tooth and daisy people that think lumi is only good on fs are delusional its pretty good on almost anyone

lumi is pretty good even on mando

[toxic echo]

There is also band which I can only proc with grenade

[lavish jacinth]

Don't scrap the band

There are plenty of items that can proc it, and even having it on the nade is still decent

[toxic echo]

Actually i just got another stack of missiles

Will that do it?

[lavish jacinth]

Yep

[toxic echo]

Cool

[lament light]

outside of faraday, what other items can attack the npc in the alloyed collective bazaar? I've had something else hit it but i didnt know what it was

[lavish jacinth]

might've been tesla coil, or your equipment if you had gesture

pretty much anything that deals damage automatically can hit spex, although minions won't target him

[rugged elk]

im moving from console to pc but the game does not have cross progression is there a way for me to go in the files and adjust it how itr was on my console?

[primal vector]

Yes, absolutely

[rugged elk]

is there like a tutorial in reddit or youtube for it ?

can anyone teach me

[primal vector]

I am looking for the exact link

[rugged elk]

because i want to play mods but i wont have anything

[primal vector]

Oh, you are on the right track then, because the easiest way to have your savefile how you want is with a mod

Do you know already how to install and use mods?

[rugged elk]

really so i just use a mod to alter the save file?

no i dont have the game yet but i will in thwe future

[primal vector]

Yes, it is called realcheatengine or something similar

[rugged elk]

okay here ill add you and if you wnat you can walk me through it

[primal vector]

I think I found it

[rugged elk]

okay

[primal vector]

This is the mod manager. With tutorial https://thunderstore.io/package/ebkr/r2modman/
And here the unlock stuff mod https://thunderstore.io/package/prodzpod/RealerCheatUnlocks/

It is all very user friendly

[rugged elk]

they dont work

nvm thanks

[toxic echo]

which of rex's skills are generally better?

[lavish jacinth]

the self-damaging ones, easily

[livid wedge]

Ye

[lavish jacinth]

unless you're on e8

for e8 you want drill, disperse, and tangling growth
(harvest is such utter dogshit that it's not worth using even on e8, it's better to hope for so you can use growth safely, or just tank the curse damage)

or go for

[toxic echo]

Oh yeah. Why is that even a thing? Rex is just utterly nerfed on eclipse 8 because he has self damaging...?

Like shouldn't self-damage be temporary damage rather than permanent damage?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, rex gets fucked on e8

I guess the excuse is that eclipse isn't supposed to be fair

[toxic echo]

Bruh

[lavish jacinth]

but even for an unfair gamemode it's kinda bullshit lol

[toxic echo]

It's dumb to design a gamemode that is inherently unfair

Like with Slay the Spire, there are 20 ascension levels and each one makes the game significantly harder, but never unfair

[lavish jacinth]

that's why I don't like eclipse lol

[toxic echo]

Eclipse is probably good for improving at the game though

[lavish jacinth]

almost all of the modifiers are based around nerfing the player rather than making the rest of the game harder

[lavish jacinth]

ngl, I think "intentionally unfair" is hopoo's way of saying "we didn't feel like balancing it"

[high forum]

i think this is pretty much it cuz as far as we know it was a project done over a weekend on his free time

[lavish jacinth]

that wouldn't surprise me

[high forum]

#gd1-nullified message

ooh i don't know if people can see that message lol

[toxic echo]

if you give seed of life to an equipment drone does it try to revive players periodically?

[heavy gorge]

It revives itself

[lavish jacinth]

it does, but it's not really useful in singleplayer

it would have to activate it in the short time between you dying and the death screen appearing

[toxic echo]

Oh ok. And it doesn't get consumed when used by a drone?

If so that's really good

[lavish jacinth]

no, it still gets consumed

[heavy gorge]

Do the quiet and delighted orbs fight any differently?

[lavish jacinth]

nah

[worldly olive]

Tbf there were goofier things

Engie and Cap lost if they couldn't find any way to negate fall damage which was awesome

[wispy vigil]

Does the drone that flies directly next to Operator have a hitbox?

[dull oxide]

Ok so how do I end this? XD

Ah ofc can't send screenshots

[primal vector]

You need a #roles to post images

[high sedge]

go to #roles and pick something to be able to send images

[dull oxide]

Anyway, im on stage 8, game time is 76 min, was planning to end a little earlier lol How long does it take? XD

[high sedge]

after stage 8 TP you have a celestial portal which you can end your run in the room that takes you to

[dull oxide]

Gotcha thank you

[high sedge]

final boss can be accessed after stage 5 if you use the primordial teleporter without changing alignment

the DLCs add other endings too

[jaunty furnace]

on every stage 5 you can choose to go to the final boss, but on 8 you should be able to end it a different way

[dull oxide]

Uhm idk

mightve clicked another portal

Just wanted a test run for Rex sisnce I just unlocked it

prolonged for much longer xd

[high sedge]

using blue portal, the artifact portal, or even interacting with the outer rim of the TP will prevent you from going to the moon for the final boss

[dull oxide]

But I kinda liked it

[chrome mist]

can the solus heart get frozen by artificer

[high sedge]

No, it's just Mithrix and False Son (boss) that are able to be frozen when it comes to bosses

and void devastator too i guess

[spiral rampart]

Void devastator or voidling?

[high sedge]

devastator

can't freeze voidling

[spiral rampart]

Very odd inclusion to have devastator be freezable as well

[high sedge]

only TP boss that's freezable

[spiral rampart]

And it’s barely a tp boss haha

[high sedge]

It's a TP boss, it's just rare
can only spawn for the TP during family events; you can always point a gun at it and get zoea

[spiral rampart]

I’m aware, i thought zoea only counts in logbook if u get it as a teleporter boss drop?

[high sedge]

You have to pick it up from the ground; you can't use plarva to make it from yellows

tricorn works for this afaik

[spiral rampart]

That’s good to know

[spark tusk]

for Monsoon, how fast should I be going / how much should I be looting? I've seen people say 5 mins / stage or 1 item / min

[wispy wyvern]

1 item per min is a generally good strat. stage 1 usually has 6-13 items, and it usually takes 10 minutes to loot for me. as long as you can efficiently full loot the stage, you should be fine

5 min per stage is kinda outdated advice and id recommend you dont do that

[jaunty furnace]

always full loot

i dont see the point in having a "x per y" guideline, just get everything in an optimal way that improves your build

[spark tusk]

is that still the case with lower mobility survivors like Bandit?

[jaunty furnace]

bandit has good mobility Lol

shift gives you a small speed boost and he kinda has a triple jump by default

(shift bounces you up twice and m2 also airstalls)

[spark tusk]

i mean like compared to other survivors like Loader

[jaunty furnace]

loader is loader

[spark tusk]

cause playing Bandit I feel I spend too much time going from chest to chest to full loot and the enemies kinda out scale my damage

[spark tusk]

also if im spending too much time trying to full loot should i just ditch the few chests left to go to the next stage?

[jaunty furnace]

no

that final chest could hold the legendary item that will glue your build together

only time i leave stuff behind is if a chance shrine gets to a ridiculously stupid price

that will genuinely take like 10 minutes of boring grinding to complete

[spark tusk]

alr good to know ty!

[pale schooner]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[wispy wyvern]

you dont need to charge more halcyon shrines, you just need to complete the tele and go into the green portal after youre done charging it

[surreal forum]

So can you go though the green Portal after defeating false son

[lavish jacinth]

if you've been to path of the colossus already, halcyon shrines can still spawn but they'll spawn a gold portal instead

[surreal forum]

If so how do you get false son by getting the seed then going though it

[lavish jacinth]

go to gilded coast first, easiest way to get it is by having it show up in a lunar seer

[surreal forum]

I thought that is rare

[lavish jacinth]

if you're on stage 1-3 then completing gilded coast will always spawn a green portal as well

[lavish jacinth]

not anymore

[surreal forum]

So you don't need to loop

[lavish jacinth]

nope

[surreal forum]

Thank you

[lavish jacinth]

the chance of getting coast in either seer is like 15% now with SotS, so it's a little less than 30% to get it any time you go to the bazaar

[chilly dust]

Is there anyway to dodge the big aoe attack by the wandering Vagrant_

other than to run away from the aoe? because I am not that fast

[mellow crystal]

get behind cover

[livid wedge]

Any cover, there'll be visible shadows showing where is covered

[chilly dust]

Oh ic ty

[pale schooner]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[lavish jacinth]

well, you can also get a green portal if you go to the bazaar from any stage except 4 and break the 3 hidden geodes that spawn

having a third player shouldn't affect it afaik, if anything it should make them more common by increasing loot spawns, but that may just be bad luck

or the stupid "2 dlcs per stage" thing

[chilly dust]

what is this area where u get constant dmg in? I think it is related to the void dlc. How do I get out of it?

[jaunty furnace]

there are multiple places where you can find void fog if you have sotv

but void fields is base game

could you be a lil more specific

[chilly dust]

I keep getting dmged when I enter the field and there a lot of mobs there w the purple symbol. when they die they shoot out a purple thing(IDK what it does).

I also get them at stage 2 or 3 i think

[jaunty furnace]

that is a void seed

they spawn randomly

to get out, just get out lol

its a bubble

to clear it and unlock its contents, kill all the void enemies it spawned

[chilly dust]

oh ic ty

[chilly dust]

what does the void seed do

?

[jaunty furnace]

spawns a bunch of void enemies and (hopefully) a bunch of void items

[chilly dust]

oh what is the thing that comes out of the void enemies?

[jaunty furnace]

void infestor

jumps at other enemies and corrupts them into void elites

[chilly dust]

oh ic ty, is it worth the time to clear the void seed?

[lavish jacinth]

you'll want to kill those things immediately btw, void elites are nasty and they'll be a constant problem if you don't deal with infestors

[chilly dust]

ic ty

[jaunty furnace]

unless you mean actual void enemies, in which case Stay Away From The Black Holes.

[chilly dust]

the black holes?

[jaunty furnace]

youll see

[lavish jacinth]

definitely, there's usually a decent amount of loot in there

and it's very common for them to have void cradles

[kindred herald]

whenever certain void enemies die (not the purple versions of regular enemies: The crab guys) theyll spawn a large black explosion with a distinct noise. dont stand in that explosion

[jaunty furnace]

theres never a reason to skip loot

[kindred herald]

void seeds are VERY worth to clear. you should be getting all loot from every stage and void seeds can have some of the best lo0ot in the game

[jaunty furnace]

unless theres an impossibly high priced chance shrine or something

[chilly dust]

oh ic ty

[jaunty furnace]

items are more important than time

[chilly dust]

void chest are the ones where u lose 50% of ur health right?

[kindred herald]

yea

[chilly dust]

ok ty, I always avoided them cause I lose my health

[jaunty furnace]

theres void cradles and void potentials. both take 50% hp but drop different types of items

[kindred herald]

its not a loss of maximuim health, its just damage to you

u should alwayssss do them

[jaunty furnace]

just heal back up

[chilly dust]

Ok I will get them the next time ty

[chilly dust]

are cradles the small cylinder ones?

[jaunty furnace]

yea

[chilly dust]

oh ty

[lavish jacinth]

they'll also usually spawn some void infestors when you activate them, so be prepared for those. It's best to open them when there aren't any dangerous enemies nearby for them to infect

[chilly dust]

ok ty

[simple verge]

How am Isupposed to ask my question If i can't show what I need to show u guys 🥲

[jaunty furnace]

#roles

[simple verge]

I just saw

thank u

[simple verge]

so can someone tell me what this is please ?

[jaunty furnace]

modded artifact

[simple verge]

ah

[simple verge]

thank u a lot

[jaunty furnace]

no idea what it is though

[simple verge]

I saw it in a video about someone experimenting with an insane amout of soldier syringe

and If im not wrong I think it doubles the amount of the item you're picking

like at first u pick 1 soldier syringe

but then you drop 2

and then 4 and 8 and 16

until u reach stupid amounts

and i didn't know if it was from a dlc or not

[elder osprey]

Any good guides for the game?

[primal vector]

Sure, starter guide or for something specific like a survivor or eclipse?

[elder osprey]

I've only done a few runs and only made it to the final boss once so a starter guide would be super helpful

[primal vector]

I have seen a video shared here several times for this. Let me see if I find it

i have seen both of these recommended. This with a lot of different guides to the right, including "Top 10 tips to improve"
https://www.riskofresources.com/guides

And this channel
https://www.youtube.com/@RacesVideos/videos

[elder osprey]

@primal vector thank you!!

[hollow phoenix]

@crude vapor

[hazy wedge]

best dlc to get?

[lavish jacinth]

all of them, but if you can only get one, get sotv first

[mellow kestrel]

hey does anyone know if you autoloop if you take a gold portal in stage 5?

[toxic echo]

Yes

[mellow kestrel]

damn alright tysm

[toxic echo]

You do

[slate stone]

Exponentially multiplying items?

I’ve seen a few videos about that mod by Race iirc

I’ll see if I can find the mod link