ror2-game-questions

[cunning gorge]

Ohh okay thank you

[shy halo]

thunder rumbling means that a green orb exists on the map

[stable cradle]

Is loader's charged gauntlet or thunder gauntlet better for general use?

[lavish jacinth]

Charged gauntlet is a little better overall, but they're both so good that you can kinda use whatever you prefer

Thunder is better suited for playing her as a melee brawler rather than going for long grapples and huge hits

But if you like playing one-punch spiderman, go with Charged

or spiderwoman I guess

[stable cradle]

thanks 👍

[ocean monolith]

Charged Gauntlet also sets up Phase 4 skips better on Mithrix

[lament veldt]

Holy shit someone from the altverz server? You know ball.

Also another thing about the gauntlets vs thunder. Thunder is good on switch version because it removes lag well

Basically a screen clear because of how many enemies spawn

[ocean monolith]

I do, in fact, know ball

[crude flame]

Yup. In my opinion loader has the most balanced kit in the game. ||other than viend ||

Ya can’t really go wrong with any of her abilities. They all fill a niche that helps her playstyle.

[dreamy sequoia]

It’s not letting me unlock artificer even though I have more than enough lunar coins anyone know a way to fix it on Xbox or a way to reset my progress atleast?

[stable cradle]

Sure thing I guess... (My best guess is that healing drone came from that one time the server lagged so bad i spawned in on drone 😭) Anyone know why that actually happened?

[lavish jacinth]

The logbook is notoriously janky

But if you played as a healing drone at some point then it was probably that

[ocean monolith]

Remote Operation maybe

[bitter steeple]

What’s the best way to get to stage three in like eight minutes?

Trying to get the accumulator but not only can I not get the stage three fast enough I can’t get rally point Delta for whatever fucking reason

[young geyser]

Railgunner on Drizzle, use a newt altar stage 2 if possible

[steel lance]

loader probably

and just go straight for tp for the first two stages, maybe check some newt altar spawn locations on stage 2 if you know them

[bitter steeple]

Tried loader and I fucking died like nine times

[steel lance]

hm okay

maybe she's just not the right character for you then

tbh though it doesn't really matter who you play, what matters is that you get to the teleporter as quickly as possible on each stage

[wet girder]

hi

i have a question

ror 2 have a max level? beacouse i cant pass the level 94 on any character

i cant earn more xp when i reach lvl 94

[south egret]

that’s because it’s hard capped

[south egret]

yes

it’s a bit silly, since there are plenty of mods that have found ways to uncap it, but vanilla has 94 as the max level

[wet girder]

ok thank you

[lavish jacinth]

at level 94 the amount of xp that you need to level up is higher than the integer limit

[errant veldt]

how dare you

[lavish jacinth]

pretty easily

[errant veldt]

your bio is a curse

[lavish jacinth]

rekt lmao

[vapid grail]

loader is just the best for this imo she has good armor and regen, just rush the teleporters

[oak sapphire]

are there any void items that are bad to take? or are all of them better than regular counterparts

[shy halo]

benithic bloom is an entirely separate item from 57 leaf clover that pretty much consumes your build
pluripotent larva eats all future dios and you may be willing to wait for a natural dios to avoid corrupting all corruptable items on revive
lysate cell is bad if your special sucks or if you have a really good equipment
plasma shrimp is generally outperformed by atg at 1 clover
singularity bands just have so much less DPS than the regular bands
newly hatched zoea eats all your yellows in exchange for infinite walking instakill landmines that can kill you. beetle guard and empathy cores are better for minions
if you're engineer then no wungus
bleed may be better than collapse(needletick) if you rely on stacking it like commando
lost seer's lens costs you crit rate although hiker's boots(alloyed collective) does provide an alternative crit rate source
safer spaces is worse than tougher times if your rex I guess? gotta spam that seed barrage
encrusted key's main use is getting the first void item to corrupt the rest, might be worth letting run out and returning to rusted keys after you get everything you want

[vapid tide]

why does ultimate meal effect void crit but clovers dont

[steady stone]

clovers do effect lost seers

[vapid tide]

damn really?

[steady stone]

yeah, it rerolls the instakill chance

[vapid tide]

i had no clue

[stuck venture]

do i take credit card or recycler?

[cobalt plover]

If you have tinker

[stuck venture]

no im playing huntress rn

[cobalt plover]

Ok then recycler

[jaunty furnace]

card the current multishops then keep recycler

unless you can only pick one

in which case if you have crazy multishops then maybe card

otherwise recycler

you may also be able to get card by recycling

[stuck venture]

i died in conduit canyon

i had great items

nvm i just got a run with capped crit stage 1

[ocean monolith]

There’s arguments for taking Wungus on Engi

[hexed jewel]

can junk drones only do this if ur playing captain

[hexed jewel]

wungus on every character even engi is better

[steel lance]

is that a junk drone thing or was it a solus extractor stealing your drone's microbots and then dropping them when it died

[hexed jewel]

lowk mightve been a solus extractor

do they drop whatever item they stole and give u back temporary versions?

idk how ts works

[mellow crystal]

solus extractors steal an item upon hitting you and share its effects with nearby enemies
it also creates temporary copies over time which are dropped alongside the original item when the extractor is killed

[hexed jewel]

oh ok ty

[ocean monolith]

It’s never bad on Engi

Even with Stationary Turrets

[hexed jewel]

bungus is just so ass ngl

and wungus is lowk one of the best healing items

[ocean monolith]

If I have 3 Bungus and I’m presented with Wungus, I’m taking it and going to Vields

[ocean monolith]

It is the best healing item

[hexed jewel]

yea

[ocean monolith]

The condition is sprinting, which you should always be doing

[hexed jewel]

wungus and slug are the only items i even get for healing

[ocean monolith]

Vields compatibility

Slug is close, loses because it doesn’t have Vields compatibility

[steel lance]

that would make a lot of sense, captain gives all his drones the microbots item so if an extractor hits your drone it can steal the microbots from them

[vapid grail]

I did not know they share it with nearby enemies wtf good to know

[vapid grail]

best use on non engineer is in void fields, especially with friends

[hexed jewel]

yea

[vapid grail]

wungus is almost a straight upgrade

healing for what you normally always do vs healing for what gets you killed

[steel lance]

yeah they run away and try to share the goods with their homies

[cunning gorge]

wait could I give a trophy hunters gun to an equipment drone for them to infinitely be able to give me boss items or no

[marble osprey]

it still gets used up

[cunning gorge]

ohh thats sad

but good they did that

[cinder summit]

Does plasma shrimp get triggered by razorwire, ceremonial dagger, little disciple or N'kuhana's opinion projectiles, or the explosions from voidsent flame or other void items?

Or is it specifically only triggered when an enemy is hit by a direct player attack?

[wheat raven]

its just proc i think

with the void shield up

[mellow crystal]

yes to everything except voidsent
it procs on anything that has a proc coefficient greater than 0.0, you can see proc coeffs for items on their respective wiki pages

[cinder summit]

Hmm. Ig I just wasn't seeing it occur from when razorwire projectiles would be shot

[marble osprey]

voidsent does have a proc coefficient though, gasoline is the one that doesn't

[steel lance]

no you get something infinitely better

ahoy drone

[young geyser]

Is there anyway to solve the issue where you don't get the achievement for skins if you're a drone?

It's annoying doing monsoon runs for false son or solus heart and if my friend dies not being able to use drone replacement

especially with false son's tendency to 1 shot you with zero counterplay on a whim

[cinder summit]

Does acrids poison or blight trigger plasma shrimp?

[marble osprey]

no, dots like those, bleed, or burn don't proc things

[raw skiff]

Are extra micro bots actually obtainable or is the description for them just lying to me

[cunning gorge]

Pretty sure they're only obtainable via captains passive

[fleet swallow]

is there a "best" way to spot drones? I'm trying to playing with operator, but only find 3 drones in the first 4 stages

[golden hollow]

why is it when i try to invite someone to my lobby the steam chat menu pops up?

[marble osprey]

they could technically be obtained in certain ways, but they're all extremely niche and unlikely to come up

[young geyser]

try to note the smoke coming out of them. Otherwise try to get a good look at the map during teleporter event for any covered by red tendrils

[fleet swallow]

alright thanks. Maybe my luck is just horrible while playing operator, because i seem to get 1-3 drones per stage when not playing operator

[young geyser]

sometimes u get runs w no drones other times u get a drone swarm that plays the game for u

[young geyser]

same deal with false son you always get 10 infusions from shrine of the mountain and bison steaks when you don't play him

[fleet swallow]

i haven't gotten false son yet so i don't get that

[young jolt]

im new and jus got mercenary, what are the main items you use with it

[raw skiff]

What are those ways though

[cunning gorge]

Focus crystal is pretty obvious as he is melee

[marble osprey]

Easiest way rn is obtaining temp copies via letting the new enemies steal it, generate copies of it for a while, and then killing them to get it back + the temp copies
You can get a permanent one on another survivor via metamorphosis as well, and you may be able to put it into spex to make it spit it out and give it to another survivor in multiplayer and then repeat that process
Not 100% sure if that works though, spex may not let you put microbots into it

Actually I'm curious now so imma test it brb

[raw skiff]

I just wanna be able to have a stack of 20 micro bots in a run and enough attack speed to effectively be pseudo bulletproof

[marble osprey]

Just stacking attack speed is a much better way to achieve that

There are also other ways to become actually invincible

[lavish jacinth]

treat him like a proc character, go for lots of different on-hit effects

his attack speed scaling is pretty bad though

[raw skiff]

But think of the poor micro bot... He can't keep up that speed alone, he needs friends to help him carry the workload of 7 elder Lemurians and 15 crabs all at once ya know?

[young geyser]

he likes all the items everyone likes,

He makes good use of focus crystal for obvious reasons.

Make sure you get defensive items esp while you're newer to him, he isn't that tanky and you'll be taking a lot of dmg until you get used to his kit.

Try to incorporate animation m1(3) cancels into your rotation and you will find cooldowns are up way more often and you do more dmg. See below vid

https://youtu.be/tWp85Fl3njo?si=dqtNhPMYVdvdagUQ

This works on all of his specials

[marble osprey]

Ok it is possible to do it with spex, just tested

So if you want to do it for the bit, it is possible, just not efficient at all

[young jolt]

is artifact of command the best artifact or are there better ones

[marble osprey]

It makes the game the easiest, yeah. Sacrifice is also up there, but not really close

[marble osprey]

After further testing: after giving away your microbots as captain, you don't get them back via rolling back into captain with metamorphosis
So at most you could have a 4 player game, all run captain, and have all of them give their microbots to one person so they have 4
But I think that's the limit, outside of using mods or talking about temp copies

[severe tide]

siren’s call (stage 4) tends to have more drone spawn. mainly missile drones but also other types so if ur building around drones make sure to get there on stage 4

[fleet swallow]

unfortunately i keep getting the hell map

[severe tide]

use newt altar on stage 3 to try getting sirens

its pretty common to spawn on the bazaar as an option

[fleet swallow]

alright ill try that tomorrow

[severe tide]

also stage 2 reformed altar (seekers of the storm) also has good drone spawn usually via multishops if u have AC

i normally get a bunch of drones when i get to reformed altar

easily 4-5 in that stage alone

[fleet swallow]

alrighty

[severe tide]

if u are drone-building then reformed altar (stage 2), rallypoint delta (stage 3, chance for tc-280 prototype) and sirens call (stage 4) and sky meadows (stage 5 with also many missile, incinerators and even freeze drone chance) are the way to go

[fleet swallow]

thank you for the tips

[severe tide]

youre welcome

[golden hollow]

im new to the game, how do i do mul-t seventh day because for me the boss spawns on stage 6

[severe tide]

by looping

on stage five change the teleporter position

so it aligns with planet instead of the moon

so when ur on stage 6 on a stage 1 map (titanic plains, distant roost etc) make sure u get a blue orb by interacting with newt altar

once u clear the map go to bazaar and do the void fields

this way u get power mode

[golden hollow]

ahhh

tysm

[severe tide]

youre welcome 🥂 if ur in doubts about the tp thingy, just observe that on stage 5 (either sky meadows or helminth hatchery) you will see that the teleporter is different, it has rings around it

and u can interact with those rings/spikes

so u simply shift them and then activate the tp normally to fight the boss

then instead of going to commencement u will loop back to stage one

and it will count as stage 6 even though its not the moon

good luck🥂

[severe tide]

focus crystals are good on him cuz ur gonna go melee anyways. delicate watches, armor piercing rounds, lens makers glasses are all his bread and butter for damage, chronic expansion as well. all this damage-wise. as for voids go for plasma shrimp and polylute, very good on his offence aspect

he has good inbuilt mobility so even though energy drinks and goathoofs are still very good, u can go more relaxed about it if u need to choose between damage and mobility go for damage

he has 1.0 proc coefficient so any percentual items are good on him (bleed via tri tip daggers or noxius thorn, atgs, electric boomerang, runic lens… ur gonna find urself proccing those often with Mercenary)

again he has very good mobility and iframes so hes usually good for dodging/avoiding damage but still things like tougher times/safer spaces, opals etc help u save your ass in those unusual situations where u cant dodge the incoming damage

also gasoline is a must regardless of the survivor tbh. if u find gasoline prioritize it for AoE control

also unless u are using his alt utility (focused assault) then attack speed is gonna be good on him (mocchas, soldier syringes). but if u are using focused assault, then try to actively avoid those items because the usefulness of focusdd assault comes from a technique called expose transfer (you can search on youtube about it for tutorials)

because that tech requires good timing, bonus attack speed narrows the window for you to pull out expose transfer effectively, so in that scenario more attack speed just sabotages you

so its wise to scrap those mocchas and syringes whenever u get the chance if theyre already in your inventory

overall, make sure your damage is prioritized with merc as he already has good mobility like i said earlier. where other survivors like engineer or captain really need to prioritize speed and mobility items, merc can be more lax about it cuz of his dashes, but really struggles with damage as time passes so its always better to prioritize damage with him

[young jolt]

aside from what u mentioned earlier like i frames and collecting opals do i need to worry about other healing items

[lavish jacinth]

healing should always be your lowest priority, basically just get as much as you need to stay alive and then focus on other things

[severe tide]

not really, if i recall correctly he is one of the survivors with the highest natural hp regen

so if ur avoiding hits then u will find urself recovering health consistently with time

[severe tide]

yep

[lavish jacinth]

a couple of slugs or healing drones can carry your healing for a run assuming you're decent at avoiding damage, but you might end up needing more

[young jolt]

would it be worth having a couple of the leeching seeds that give lifesteal?

[lavish jacinth]

leeching seed is trash

[severe tide]

healing is low priority. ur priority is damage and mobility and bc merc has good mobility but low damage u should always prioritize damage with him

[lavish jacinth]

only 1hp per hit, it's one of the worst items in the game lol

[marble osprey]

Harvester's scythe is pretty much just always a better version of that

[severe tide]

its a terrible item. if u want healing go for cautious slug and medkits

or harversters scythe

[young jolt]

alright thanks for the help guys

[severe tide]

np. im an eclipse 8 merc main so if u want some tips at some point with him let me know

all his skills have good usecases and merc is the highest skill ceiling survivor so u will have to learn how to play him with practice

so take ur time is my advice

focus on understanding his expose mechanic and use it as often as u can via combos

[young jolt]

alright and final thing, what skills would you recomend to use

[severe tide]

which ones have you unlocked?

[young jolt]

just not the special one

[lavish jacinth]

It's hard to go wrong with merc loadouts tbh

[severe tide]

its fine. slicing winds is good but also tricky and hard to learn, it gives him range and more expose but its not as ground breaking as they portray it. ur good to go without it if u dont unlock it

u use blinding assault or focused assault?

[young jolt]

blinding assault

[severe tide]

aight. with blinding u can do dash cancel (if u use whirlwind immediately after the dash u will hit the enemy but stay in place), which allows u to keep doing combos on the target without going away

[verbal knot]

does the star affect Captain's beacon?

[severe tide]

so u do blinding > whirlwind immediately after, then 3 hits of the primary, and it leaves u enough time to do a second blinding

[lavish jacinth]

What star

[severe tide]

then repeat

it also stunlocks the target ur doing this onto

[verbal knot]

Sale Star

[young jolt]

thanks bro imma try it

[lavish jacinth]

Like if you hack a chest, you mean? I'm pretty sure it should

[verbal knot]

Yes. I have a red chest on Stage 4 and thinking if I should use a beacon and will it use my Star...

[severe tide]

youre welcome, imma share a video on #ror-streams-and-videos of a run i did with default loadout so u see what i mean

[lavish jacinth]

I think so, hacking beacon functions exactly like buying the chest yourself afaik

[verbal knot]

Gonna find out I guess 🙂
brb with the answer

[verbal knot]

Yep 🙂

[cunning gorge]

does the run history have a limit or will it show all my runs forever?

[verbal knot]

You are forever marked, only new account will save ya🫡

[light oyster]

WHO WANTS TO PLAY

[raw skiff]

Wrong channel

I think

Assuming that your looking for a game

[jaunty furnace]

limit

and the removal is random or something

its dumb

[analog brook]

You're quite good, will be a great showcase to people who think Merc is bad :)
Didn't watch the whole thing, just skimmed through it, but you're awesome

[severe tide]

thank you🥂

[idle sphinx]

to unlock false son do i have to do the shrine exclusively in the first area to start the green portal sequence or i can just start from the 2nd one

[cinder summit]

Are there any items that give enemies poison when hit? (Like voidsent flame triggering from venemous spit)

[ocean monolith]

Nope

It’s exclusive to Acrid as of AC

[cinder summit]

Does spare drone parts lower drone cooldowns completely with multiple of them, or is there a minimum time it will lower to?

[ocean monolith]

I’d like to believe that they, like all other skills, can only go done to .5 seconds

Not that you’ll ever need them to go that low

1 stack is perfect

[lavish jacinth]

You just need to keep taking green portals and you'll get to him eventually, it doesn't matter where you start from

[severe tide]

u can from the second one

u gotta get to gilded coast to obtain halcyon seed from aurelionite tho, if u dont bring it to the fight u wont unlock him

[steel lance]

to unlock the character you have to bring the item you get from the gold portal area to the false son fight, if you ever go to said area before stage 4 in a run it guarantees a green portal which puts you at the relative stage on the false son path

[young jolt]

Does monsoon give you more loot and money? I’m new so I’ve played the easiest but I’ve seen some crazy amounts of items in video

[steel lance]

no, monsoon just has the listed effects on the difficulty select (reduced health regen and faster difficulty scaling) - it could just be that you're watching videos of longer runs or they're more efficient at finding loot than you

[young jolt]

It’s probably just a skill diff but I just don’t see how they manage to collect all that stuff in 40 minutes

[steel lance]

quite possibly just an efficiency thing yea

[crude flame]

monsoon has faster difficulty scaling -> more enemies -> more money -> faster chests

also they probably are much better at item macro than you considering how long that takes to master

[cunning gorge]

Do the scanner things to unlock environmental logs have a random chance to spawn or do they always spawn on maps you haven't unlocked the logs for

If not, what's the best way to grind environmental logs? Looping?

[lavish jacinth]

yeah, they're just random. Best way is to loop with sacrifice and command enabled, they'll both slightly increase the chances of a scanner spawning

[cunning gorge]

Perfect, thank you!

[jaunty furnace]

there are ways to get more items

like sale star etc

its either that or youre skipping a lot of loot

[idle sphinx]

got to it like twice but died lol but I figured it out yeah

[ocean monolith]

I LOVE FALSE SON

[bitter steeple]

Does rally point Delta have a lower spawn rate because I swear every time I’ve actually tried to do the quest I don’t get it

[steel lance]

no you're just getting unlucky, if you go to a newt altar on stage 2 you can choose your stage 3 from two options in the bazaar tho which gives you a higher chance of getting rpd

[bitter steeple]

I have only been able to find one and it’s the one under the bridge on Ophelia sanctuary, and I accidentally hit the teleporter beforehand

[agile path]

What’s the best way to find items for chef?

[bitter steeple]

Opening chests

[idle sphinx]

I got like 44 lunar coins where do I spend them
I thought that's what I was using to open those pods containing lunar items

[bitter steeple]

What’s the best way to do the solus heart boss

[lavish jacinth]

in the bazaar, mainly

[steep quail]

how long does it take for the alloyed collective portal to appear after defeating false son??

[ocean monolith]

10 seconds or so

[jaunty furnace]

does it even have a timer

[livid wedge]

Gotta interact with the shrine but not the green portal

It spawns after that after a few seconds

[bitter steeple]

Does going to the moon count towards your stage count, asking because I genuinely don’t remember and I’m trying to do the commando 20 stages

[marble osprey]

shouldn't really matter, right? each loop is 5 stages, so you'd be at 20 on the stage before the moon, moon would be 21

[livid wedge]

Yes

[bitter steeple]

I’m just asking cause I had an issue in the past where I thought it was four stages on the path to Solus Heart

[rancid arch]

is there a way to infinitely stay in sojourn? not almost infinitely, like infinitely thru some sort of barrier / health / armor farm

and also is longstanding solitude capped at 3?

[jaunty furnace]

stupid ass item

oh you said infinitely infinitely

tough luck then probably

[vapid quarry]

You get 65 safer spaces and then it's infinite

[rancid arch]

65 is enough to tank sojourn ticks?

alr thanks

[vapid quarry]

Pretty sure that's the number when it refreshes every frame

[steel lance]

i'm pretty sure there's guaranteed to be one on every map

[steel lance]

the lunar buds you mentioned, but there's also a little blue altar hidden on each stage that you can offer a lunar coin to which lets you visit a special shop after completing the teleporter

[cold falcon]

Does the alloyed Hunter drop its logbook or is it placed somewhere?

[steel lance]

it drops it

the only enemy whose monster log isn't dropped from said enemy is solus wing

since the boss falls down and kills anything underneath it when it dies

[livid wedge]

Depends on how fast sojourn damage ticks

[marble osprey]

It's very close to guaranteed, but for some reason distant roost specifically is not guaranteed to spawn one
Should also mention it's possible on a few maps to spawn in an inaccessible location, like inside the cave in abyssal depths while the doors are closed

[severe tide]

newts? not on distant roost iirc

on one of the versions of it they rarely spawn

[cunning gorge]

whats the chance that voidling drops its log book? Also I heard somewhere theres a chance it drops it after every phase - is that true?

[lavish jacinth]

3% like other bosses, and yeah, each phase can drop it

[cunning gorge]

thank you

[young jolt]

I don’t what it’s called but the green item that gives a sale it looks like a clipboard, where do I actually get the supplies it says

[left trellis]

on each stage (except the one where you got the item), one of these things will be present at a random location

you pick one of the two items to receive for free. and getting more copies of increases the likelihood of getting rarer items from it

[frail garden]

Does anyone have any tips for drifter fighting bosses every other survivor is perfectly fine for me but she just feels way more item dependent which would normally be fine but in the bosses its hard to get a ton of junk while keeping up dmg

Specifically mithrix, false son ,etc

[hearty lagoon]

how do I get these characters as easily as possible (I'm new to the game)

[worldly olive]

First one: Get to the back of your pod and then you'll be able to get an equipment, and take that to one of the upper plates of abyssal depths and interact with a certain broken robot and you'll get the character
Do note 2 things though: Holding that equipment whilst you're on 50% or less hp causes you to explode and will basically kill you
Another thing is that the specific plate that you need to go to might require a bit of mobility
Anyways Second One: Simply go to Sirens call and break as many eggs as you can see, once you break enough a boss will spawn and after you kill it you should get the character
Final One: Go to the void fields (mainly accessed by going to the bazzar and going through a cave hidden near the bottom of the stage) and simply complete it (Void Fields are different compared to most areas but I'll let you discover that for yourself)

[hearty lagoon]

abyssal depths?

[worldly olive]

The Red Stage 4

I'd actually recommend unlocking the second character first since they're one of the best at doing the first character imo (Namely because they're really good, but they're also fairly tanky and also have a boatload of mobility)

[hearty lagoon]

ok

[hearty lagoon]

the red stage?

[worldly olive]

This one

[hearty lagoon]

oh right

[cinder summit]

Does alien head reduce the cooldown of hungering gaze both for the player and their engineer turrets?

[trim lynx]

yeah

[cinder summit]

Dope

[cinder summit]

Does the new yellow item that can give crits when hitting an enemy with an electric item, attack or ability do the same thing for any equipment bots with royal capacitor?

[marble osprey]

it should, although I havent personally tested it

[ocean monolith]

It affects everything that's labeled electric

[livid wedge]

More than that but royal capacitor does get crits

[bitter steeple]

Does trophy hunters tricorn work for that one Artificer quest

[lavish jacinth]

It does, but you have to damage the boss first for it to count

[bitter steeple]

I’ve done it three times and it hasn’t worked

[lavish jacinth]

Are you actually dealing damage to the boss? Like, just hit them with your primary and then immediately tricorn

Tricorn doesn't trigger the achievement by itself because it doesn't actually deal damage

[bitter steeple]

Ohhhhhh

[sinful moth]

i just started and only have one post teleporter 3 run i really like huntress so far does anyone have tips for her?

[lavish jacinth]

Huntress is pretty basic so there's not a lot of tips for her beyond basics that wouldn't apply to every survivor. Full-loot every stage as efficiently as you can, prioritize damage items, try to pay attention to enemy attack patterns and sound cues, and never stop moving

It's worth trying to unlock her alt utility and special, the special can be kinda difficult to get but it's a huge upgrade over arrow rain

[sinful moth]

thank you

[jovial valley]

Best post-nerf drifter loadout for tackling no command monsoon?

not looping

[lavish jacinth]

cleanup, reposess, tinker

but anything is viable ofc

[quiet thistle]

yo, im broke and donnt have any dlc but i wanan get one, which one should i get first/which is the most fun or strongest

[lavish jacinth]

SotV is the best one to get first

all of them are good but SotV expands on the base game the most

[quiet thistle]

dope, ty

[ocean monolith]

I would say get AC after Void, and then end with SotS

[lavish jacinth]

yep

[cinder summit]

What is the point in using CMD SWARM over admin override? Like, you're trading the ability to use unique drone abilities for what??

[jovial valley]

!solved

[jovial valley]

I don't get the hype, either. Mainly higher and consistent damage potential is the claim. I find override with just gunner and missile drones does just as well if not better. Plus override is an agile (or effectively agile) move which is pretty huge considering the overwhelming importance of mobility, whereas swarm slows you down.

[lavish jacinth]

swarm kinda sucks, I think the only reason to use it is if you hate the idea of having a bunch of different drone abilities and just want them to all do the same thing

...not that you really even need to care that much about managing drone abilities since you just spam m2, but still

[cinder summit]

Does swarm at least have greater aoe?

[jovial valley]

It has a decent aoe. About the size of your default projectile's aoe

However I believe override also give you more freedom to call drones for chaining your jumps

[dusk geyser]

My big issue with CMD SWARM is how janky the targeting is 😭

It’s so wonky

[young jolt]

Is there an actual tierlist everyone agrees on for survivors or are they all equally good in the right hands

[torpid oar]

They're all equally good with whoever is playing them, but some certainly are better than others

[mellow crystal]

they're all good but it's pretty much objective fact that seeker and false son are miles above the rest of the cast

aside from that everyone has their own placements

[mellow crystal]

this is pretty much what it tends to look like in my experience but again everyone has their own placements
and for that exact reason i wouldn't care about this list's left-to-right placements

[south egret]

chef is rarely talked about because his original version was abysmal (at least, that's what I expect to be the reason). Post-sots buffs, I agree that he's really strong. Probably the only character that I take lost seers on regardless of how much crit I currently have, because his proc rate is nuts.

[cunning gorge]

Mul-t COULD be in High but people are sleeeeping on him

[slim grail]

why is my goat controversal 😭

[mellow crystal]

evil and scary eclipse elitists

and also people are just bad at him

like a disproportionate amount of people it's kind of crazy

[slim grail]

but rex is like, not hard to play

[mellow crystal]

you'd be surprised

[slim grail]

yes, i think i would be

that's like being bad at wanda in marvel rivals. rex is the wanda of ror2

[south egret]

lmao

I understand where you’re coming from, but I heavily disagree

[acoustic lynx]

why does eclipse 8 say "allies recieve permanent damage" when you do as well... shouldn't it say something like "you and allies recieve permanent damage" then, and not just specify allies?

[south egret]

think it means drones/minions as well

don’t know if they actually do, though

[acoustic lynx]

well yeah. that's what I assumed it did. wasn't expecting it to actually do the player as well, as that isn't in the definition of "allies"

[young jolt]

What about void fiend makes him good

[trim lynx]

100 armour in one mode, free heals in the other

and great damage

[steep bloom]

Which one is a better purchase since I’m not buying multiple dlcs:
seekers of the storm or the void dlc?

[jaunty furnace]

void by a mile squared lol

[steep bloom]

Sounds good but I thought seekers of the storm has more content?

[jaunty furnace]

not really

i guess sots has skins and an extra survivor but thats pretty much it

[steep bloom]

Alr thanks for your advice man

[cinder summit]

Which version of the conduit canyon boss do I need to kill to unlock operators ability?

[lavish jacinth]

alloy hunter

[cinder summit]

And does trophy hunter equipment instakill work for it?

[lavish jacinth]

yep

also fyi, riding the conduit things counts as touching the ground for some reason

[cinder summit]

I had just tried jumping in the air (single jump) and then using trophy hunter

Apparently I must have hit the ground before it went off.

[lavish jacinth]

ngl, I have no idea when it actually starts counting being "off the ground", I think that unlock is just kinda jank

Like, I tried it twice, and on the second attempt I had chrysalis active before even starting the teleporter, and kept it going through the entire fight, and still didn't get the unlock

I just used cheatunlocks after that lol

but it seems to work for other people 🤷‍♂️

[ocean monolith]

You technically count as an ally

[ocean monolith]

I mean if you have a lot of drones you can just stay in Ascend Protocol the whole time

[vapid quarry]

This is kind of a random question, but does the +50% armor item after the solus wing count towards false sons' additional armor with his secondary charges?

[trim lynx]

no unfortunately

[jaunty furnace]

that description is bullshit btw

it only affects base armor

so its only useful on like. mul-t or something

[vapid quarry]

I'm aware

[ocean monolith]

MUL-T and the melees

[vapid quarry]

I was just wondering if the extra armor from the secondaries counted as "base" armor

[ocean monolith]

Nope

[trim lynx]

and seeker, as a treat

[vapid quarry]

That's a shame

Well I mean at least false son has the 20 base armor

[ocean monolith]

Fucking WHY

[trim lynx]

because otherwise she could maybe die

[ocean monolith]

This shit fucking sucks

[vapid quarry]

She really doesn't need the extra armor

[lavish jacinth]

The fact that Seeker's healthbar can reach 0 should be considered a bug at this point

[hearty lagoon]

I tried to get thew second one I broke all the beggs and dint get the character

[lavish jacinth]

did you fight the secret boss? If not, you didn't break enough eggs

you need to break 6

[hearty lagoon]

oh darn

[acoustic lynx]

An ally to whom? Because I don't think thats how the definition of ally works...

[high forum]

it's kind of semantics, you're on the same 'team' as all the drones/summons/etc, so anything that says allies also applies to you

[tardy dune]

What does "reject the offering of the collective" mean? (I've already beaten Solus Heart, but it just sent me to Sky Meadow afterwards)

[high forum]

What happened when you defeated Solus Heart?

[tardy dune]

They died, and then an encrypted portal and a void portal appeared

[fiery estuary]

If you have a 100% crit chance and shatterspleen, do you need tri tip daggers for bleed chance? or does 100% bleed chance as well means you're applying 2 bleed debuffs per hit?

[lavish jacinth]

were you on eclipse?

[tardy dune]

No

[lavish jacinth]

you can't apply two bleed stacks at a time, so tritipse are useless

scrap them or get needletick

[fiery estuary]

alr cool, tyty

[lavish jacinth]

he might've been finished off by a stray projectile or something then

you're supposed to get an option to accept an offer or reject it by finishing him off

[tardy dune]

Damn

[fiery estuary]

oh, also, sometimes when hitting tab i have to left click to get the game to recapture my mouse, is that just on my end or is that a global issue?

[lavish jacinth]

I think that's just you

[livid wedge]

I thought solus heart was immune to nonskill damage

So that you couldn't kill them accidentally

[lavish jacinth]

Is he? I'm pretty sure he can take damage from anything

I swear I've seen a clip of him dying to a leftover atg missile after the fight

[livid wedge]

Yeah, when it first came out

Positive one of the patches did something about that

[lavish jacinth]

I don't remember it in the patch notes but maybe it was an unlisted fix

[livid wedge]

Yeah, I don't see it. I'll see if I can test it with at least something like disposable missile launcher

[steel lance]

i killed a solus heart a couple of days ago with tesla so i would assume he's not

[livid wedge]

Guess I was mistaken then

[midnight pine]

how would i understand more of the game ive played the game for 80 hours but stil dont know like anything about what im doing just learnt there is a loop mechanic

[young geyser]

there is a loop mechanic also watch good players/commentary helps a lot

[lavish jacinth]

https://riskofresources.com/guides may be helpful, and there's also the wiki (make sure you use the wiki.gg one, not fandom)

[gloomy void]

So like is solus wing bugged regarding teleports or something? I had a crazy huntress run going and used blink to dodge through the wave attack which caused the wave to damage me 3 times in a fraction of a second. Ive never had that move hit me more than once, let alone hit me so many times I get one shot through a safer spaces bubble

[marble osprey]

if I had to guess you ended up inside of the wave attack, causing you to get hit by multiple different hitboxes simultaneously whereas you usually just get hit by the first one and then get knocked back out of it before hitting any other ones. I'm not aware of any bugs relating to that

[gloomy void]

That’s brutal lol. I had a stage 1 specs printer on flurry and got 4 reds from small chests. It was going so well

[young jolt]

Best void fiend items?

[steel lance]

crit is good because it helps you get into and maintain corrupt form, voids are good because they permanently increase your minimum corruption, too much healing is bad because it makes it harder to get into corrupt form and brings you out of it faster

[jovial valley]

Why do people keep talking about Predatory Instincts and Harvester's Scythe as if they're snap-picks for Railgunner?

I've played plenty of alt primary Huntress with these weapons, and I see the synergies, but Railgunner just seems like she's ultimately antithetical to the kinds of characters both these items want to be on. If her primary could crit, it would be a different story. But she has to be the single slowest character in the game in terms of critical hits-per-second.

By the time you get her rolling, it's already done. Then you have to start from square one. What am I missing?

[young geyser]

I don't know who is, they're both not great on her, Instincts atleast gives higher dps if Ur good at the reload mechanic

Scythe healing is negligible imo like litterally leeching seed + 2.5% dmg done

[jovial valley]

At least the leeching seed works with her primary. I'd imagine you could get more health out of a Monster Tooth than Railgunner with a Scythe. And then literally anything else that gives you damage is better lol

[young geyser]

for sure, I mean 8 hp per shot is leechseed tier

but nah neither are v good on her but I'd keep predatory just bc I like m2 w a lil more spd

[young jolt]

why doesnt everyone use artifact of command it seems so OP no?

[jovial valley]

Personally, at some point I got tired of having to manually select every pickup. After unlocking everything else, playing without command started to feel like "unlocking" part of the game. There are lots of objects that don't spawn when command is on, and you basically don't get to play with them.

It also became apparent that it isn't too difficult to pick up an S-tier loot equipment (radar, recycler, card) and there are usually quite a good number of multi-shops, so you still get decisions, and it isn't too difficult to guide a build. Besides, stacking is OP, but you get a lot of consistent stats multiplying on stats when you pick up random things. 10% bleed and 10% crit will always be stronger than just two of one or the other from a mathematical standpoint.

All of that is to say, it isn't too hard to do what you want to do, and you get to engage in a lot more aspects of the game. Plus you'll actually learn a thing or two about the items you don't ever pick when playing command

Edit: Oh yeah, and I love void items. For whatever reason, having command on lowers the spawn rate for the stuff that you get void items from. cradles and that big area

[young jolt]

really quickly i saw artifact of sacrifice is suppose to be pretty good but it feels like it can only make good use on monsoon, is that right?

[jovial valley]

If you're thinking that Monsoon spawns more enemies like I did, you should know that it doesn't. It doesn't affect drop rate either. You get just as many items with sacrifice as you do on Drizzle.

With that said, it's very powerful. It's just that in general enemies don't spawn in big enough numbers to match chests for like the first 10-20 minutes. Your early game will be much harder to get going, but by the time you reach Mithrix, you're probably drowning in items

You can marginally up the chance through artifact of swarms, but that's about it. No 57 leaf clover. Sonorous Whispers is your best bet.

.. But the secret is, you can just pick up a sonorous whispers and loop. By stage 7 you'll be getting the same amount of drops as Sacrifice, but you'll also get to open chests and whatnot

[young jolt]

alright thanks man

[sullen basin]

when was the DLC announced and what details do we have on it other than it releases 3 survivors

[jaunty furnace]

idk who told you it has 3 survivors

[jaunty furnace]

because it makes every run easy and replaces the whole build-making aspect with "click on the thing"

[daring summit]

If I use drone upgrader will the upgraded drone hold more defensive microbots when I'm playing as Captain?

[marble osprey]

They do not

[steel lance]

some people think it has three survivors because the clip gearbox posted has three landing pods, we don't actually know this for sure yet - all we know is that there's going to be a new stage called tenebrous quagmire

[high forum]

Cuz it’s not the way the game was made to be played?

[steel lance]

command is op and that's kinda why - for a lot of people it's fun for a few runs but the novelty of just always getting the perfect item wears off quickly and a lot of people enjoy the game much more when you don't have perfect control over how your run goes

[lost summit]

I lowkey like command because whenever I do base runs i always get shitty items

[sleek oriole]

I like command because it feels like you’re actually playing the game. Especially paired with sacrifice

Like without it you’re just at the whims of whatever the chests gives you

Feels like you don’t have much input

[lavish jacinth]

Figuring out how to work with whatever the game gives you is what keeps it interesting and fun

[jaunty furnace]

you have quite a lot of input

sometimes you can just get giga fucked but 99% of runs are winnable

gotta learn how to better strategize your item macro

[lavish jacinth]

With command you just pick the same good items every time

[sleek oriole]

And winning is fun

[jaunty furnace]

even more fun if you work for it

[sleek oriole]

My input is click chest and rush teleporter like man.

[jaunty furnace]

Lol

[lavish jacinth]

Don't rush the teleporter

[sleek oriole]

With sacrifice/command it’s the same thing but faster

Specially since killing the boss gives like 2 greens (assume prestige)

[jaunty furnace]

is this all you think there is to item macro

[sleek oriole]

There are limited chests in a level without sacrifice so yeah

Plus you have to find them and it’s a hassle

[lavish jacinth]

Printers and scrappers also exist

And cauldrons in the bazaar

[sleek oriole]

Like the things in the bazaar

[jaunty furnace]

• tri shops
• scrappers
• printers
• cauldrons
• adaptive chests
• recycler
• card
• gun
• sale star

[sleek oriole]

It’s only really accessible if you have the radar tho since you can’t find the shrine otherwise

[jaunty furnace]

just some elements off the top of my head

[lavish jacinth]

They spawn in predetermined locations, you can just learn where they are

[lavish jacinth]

I guess if you only play command then you would never have seen a printer lol

[sleek oriole]

As predetermined as the teleporters xd

[lavish jacinth]

No?

[jaunty furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/domgcat-donkeycat-gif-24380643

[lavish jacinth]

There are like 3 or 4 locations per map where they can spawn

They're on the wiki

Some maps even have guaranteed ones that always spawn in the same place

Anyway

[sleek oriole]

Pain

[lavish jacinth]

How is that pain, you can literally just know where they are every time

Or where they can be at least

[sleek oriole]

Also is there a way to refill the prime meridian artifact without ending the loop

[lavish jacinth]

No

[sleek oriole]

Or do I always have to end there if I want to

Buh.
Mods it is :p

[lavish jacinth]

Anyway, enjoy the game however you want, but it does sound like you're really underestimating what you can do without command

[sleek oriole]

I love playing muck without interacting with the survival mechanics aughhhh

[ocean monolith]

Part of it is that it defeats the point of the game being a roguelike

You already get a lot of agency with Newt, Multishops, Printers, Scrappers, Soups, and more. To get rid of the last bit of RNG is to kill the thing that makes you want to come back to the game

Not gonna explain further cause I don’t feel like it

Someone else can pick it up

[mellow crystal]

on top of what ignited said a lot of people also just play roguelikes for the difficulty and replayability

and command makes those two things run out SIGNIFICANTLY faster

[ocean monolith]

Oh also the game wasn’t designed around it

ie.

It’s also God Build Simulator, which is only fun for 5 minutes tops
I’ll say the same about looping

Once you discover every god build, you’ve already done everything with Command

[stuck venture]

i keep dying to the last phase of solus wing, any tips?

[lavish jacinth]

At the bottom of the arena there are cooling hydrant things that you can destroy to create a safe zone from the heat, and it'll give you heat immunity for a while after you leave.
You can stop the burn attack entirely if you destroy all of the heat vents on the upper levels, but if you leave them alive and instead destroy all of the hydrants, the boss will lose its heat immunity and microwave itself to death

[stuck venture]

so destroy cooling hydrants?

[lavish jacinth]

depends on what strat you wanna go for

destroying the heat vents is safer, but then you'll have to finish off solus wing yourself

[stuck venture]

i mostly die because he fires a laser when he starts heating up the arena then i have no time to get to a safe place

[lavish jacinth]

you can ride the conduit things to get away from the laser

[stuck venture]

yeah i do that but i am vulnerable

and the heat deals damage to me

then i cant go to a hydrant in time

[ocean monolith]

Speed is war

[lavish jacinth]

if you need to get to the hydrants quickly, just jump down to them

the heat builds up pretty slowly, it doesn't instantly fry you like the grandparent sun

[stuck venture]

i am doing that but also there are lasers coming from the ground

[lavish jacinth]

and remember that you don't need to stay in the safe zone permanently, it cleanses the burn instantly and gives you temporary immunity after leaving

[stuck venture]

ok thanks

[vapid grail]

Only pain moment is when the newt altar is in a blocked off cave, or if you cant reach the one up on siphoned forest

[jaunty furnace]

you should have more than enough time to get to one

if you have a bit of speed you can just sprint to avoid the laser

the laser is one of those attacks that slow down when theyre close to you

[stuck venture]

i did it, if i have maxed crit, do i go for or

[steel lance]

who are you playing?

if you're on a burst survivor i'd say cherf still, otherwise spleen

[stuck venture]

artificer and i have 2 and sauteed worms

and

i can also go for any other yellow item ( i have a recycler and a yellow printer)

solus heart in about 30/45 seconds

[rapid current]

does lost seers and brittle crown give me a ton of money

[soft vault]

any tips for a newbie? played the game so far, got it 2 days ago

[lavish jacinth]

#1 tip would be to full-loot every stage and don't rush to the teleporter

items are how you get stronger, and you can't outrun the timer, so just focus on clearing everything as efficiently as you can

[lavish jacinth]

if would give you less if anything, if seers instakills an enemy then you can't keep hitting them for more crown procs

[cunning gorge]

where can I find what each lunar seer portal leads to? I want to start learning them but I checked the wiki for the bazaar between time and an individual environment and couldn't find anything

[livid wedge]

If you give me a day or so, I could probably grab a picture of each one though they may just be in the game files somewhere

[cunning gorge]

no you dont have to

i'll learn through trial and error

[jaunty furnace]

they take you to whats pictured

theres not much to it

[livid wedge]

Yeah, but the portals are kind of filmy looking and hard to tell. Some will be obvious, like abyssal depths but there are some that are similar in color. In that event, see if you can pick out the architecture in the background

[ocean monolith]

Honestly its just pattern recognition

[jaunty furnace]

walk behind and place your camera close to the seer

[livid wedge]

Like abandoned aqueduct and aphelian sanctuary have similar color schemes in the seers portals but you should be able to see sandy ground in aqueducts image

In aphelians, I think you can see the sun on the horizon

[jaunty furnace]

aqueducts has the giant tar waterfall
sanctuary has Green and stuff

[livid wedge]

Also, context clues. It can't be a stage 4 if your next stage is a stage 5, obviously

[livid timber]

Guys how the hell do you unlock artificer, I have over 60 lunar coins and the game is refusing to take my lunar coins for artificer

Am i missing something

[ocean monolith]

Are you on Xbox or whatever console is having that issue?

[livid timber]

PC

[ocean monolith]

Oh hmm

Honestly just go on Thunderstore and download RealerCheatUnlocks and just right click her

[livid timber]

Yeah i think ill just do that ty

[ocean monolith]

Yeaaaaa

[quiet thistle]

can i post a ss?

idk how to describe the thing i have a question abt, its like a bowl with murky water and grass in it, what is it for? it has an interaction highlight on it but i cant click it

[steady stone]

with any #roles !

you're probably looking at a cleansing pool too; you can ping for names

it turns lunar items into pearls, 90% of the time into and 10% into

pearls boost hp, irradiant pearls boost base stats

irradiant is a pretty good item

[ocean monolith]

80% 20%

[steady stone]

oh right, mixed up the chance with the 10% boost

[dim notch]

youre telling me i couldve made my false son into god and i didnt know about pearl hp boosting?

[steady stone]

if you want false son as god, go for

[dim notch]

rarely do i find cleansing pools, but still

[dim notch]

but wouldnt hp boosts make that item way better too?

or is the 50% boost scaling with the increasing health too?

idk if my question was straightforward

[steady stone]

Pauldron is 100% and pearl is 10%

So pauldron just kinda clears

The downside of lowering your speed an insane amount is nullified by expending your lunar spikes

[dim notch]

does 's 100% boost only benefit the health BEFORE future hp boosts, like 25 extra health from Bison Steak... or does it keep boosting paralel to incoming future boosts, same example

[steady stone]

Whether it takes steak into account first I dunno, but I'd doubt it; i can't test it currently

[mossy ledge]

hello you cool people, I’ve got a question about environment logs if I may…

a long time ago I read somewhere that the logbooks, like those that appear in hidden realms, only stay there for five minutes after you enter? I can’t find this info on the wiki. but does anyone know if that is actually true? I definitely want to go looking for the Void Fields logbook (dont spoil location please hahhah) but its definitely easier after you stabilize it and that certainly takes more than 5 minutes 😔

I would preferably not look for that book in The Evil Mist That Kills Me(TM)

[cunning gorge]

Yeah they do dissapear after 5 minutes💔💔

There was one that didn't but I don't remember where

[steel lance]

they do despawn after 5 minutes! except for gilded coast's logbook, which i believe stays there forever

[high forum]

yup, gotta do it while the evil fog is there

[mossy ledge]

aaahhhh shit so into the evil mist I go

[high forum]

but it's always in the same place

[mossy ledge]

thank you guys

[steel lance]

and technically some of the dlc3 ones, which only spawn after the area's respective boss is defeated

[mossy ledge]

OH ALSO

[steel lance]

good luck, it's a pretty tough one to find imo

[mossy ledge]

Commencement, radio tower or logbook?

[steel lance]

logbook

[high forum]

logbook

also disappears after 5 mins

[steel lance]

does despawn after 5 minutes

heck you sai how dare you type faster than me

[high forum]

i stay typing

[mossy ledge]

NAURR ITS SUCH A BIG PLACE TOO❗️❗️ im gonna need like bazillion movespeed and Artificer idk

[steel lance]

if the timer is paused or the stage has a final boss, it has a logbook

[mossy ledge]

oh, that actually helps a lot, I assume this applies to the DLC because I just got survivors of the void and was wondering about those new places

[steel lance]

could be worth fully clearing vields and exploring a bit to get an idea of the layout and maybe lab out some spots you think the logbook could be in?

[mossy ledge]

ahh I see! will do, thank you. I usually trust my platformer game secret instincts when looking for the stone tablets or logbooks ahhahha

[steel lance]

just double checked to make sure i was giving you accurate information and yea this applies, any regular stages that were added have a chance of spawning a radio tower and any hidden realms (paused timer and/or alternate final boss) that were added have a fixed logbook spawn

[mossy ledge]

RAAAAHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH!! if I may bother you for one more thing…. do you happen to know which levels had bugged radio towers? like the ”if you have titanic plains radio tower, you can’t get it in level X unless you play with someone who doesn’t have the titanic plains one”

(bugs that prevent game completion my hated…)

[steel lance]

no idea 🤷‍♀️ sorry

[mossy ledge]

okey, thank you regardless! I’m sure I’ll find the information again since people must have complained about these bugs on the internet xD

[lavish jacinth]

afaik those bugs have all been fixed

[marble osprey]

it was only on the alternate version of shattered abodes, disturbed impact. Supposedly it was fixed in update 1.3.9, but I've heard of people having issues with it since then, although they may just have been getting unlucky and it not spawning due to bad luck rather than a bug

all other stages definitely work fine though

well now im curious so imma go test it for myself brb

[marble osprey]

ok yep can confirm it works now, common AFaxMachine w

and if anyone is curious I did a bit more testing, it spawns about 20% of the time if you're playing command+sacrifice with only sots dlc enabled based on 20 visits to the stage with a radar scanner

[cunning gorge]

omg thank you so much

thats one of the last environment logs i need and ig im just unlucky

[marble osprey]

probably ig

if it helps, it's pinged with the chest icon if you have a radar scanner

makes it super easy to find on command/sacrifice

also did anyone else know disturbed impact has a guaranteed large chest spawn that ignores sacrifice, like the one on verdant falls? bc I didnt

[cunning gorge]

yeah its in one of the houses

one of them will open up with fire outside

[summer spade]

an enemy appears to have spawned outside the mithrix arena. uhhhh what do i do

[marble osprey]

if you and all other players have already entered the arena, I don't think there is anything you can do. I've had the same thing happen, I think it's caused by a player being outside of the arena during phase 2 causing enemies to spawn on them rather than in the arena, so if you happen to die pre-fight and then get revived during, make sure you don't enter the arena until phase 2 is done

[summer spade]

damn i didnt realize that could happen

unlucky

[cunning gorge]

best way to get all lunar item logs without wasting all my lunar items?

[pearl pelican]

Probably command or just playing long enough and picking up new ones

[cunning gorge]

not lunar items - coins mb

[cunning gorge]

yeah i was tempted to reroll repeatedly but I just felt like that would cost too much

[pearl pelican]

Probably, I would just play until you find them all

[cunning gorge]

alright thank you

[pearl pelican]

Yeppers

[young jolt]

What is proc coefficient

[tight basalt]

how likely an attack is to trigger your items' on hit effects

[marble osprey]

It's a number attached to a hit that affects several things relating to triggering other items, including the chance of triggering any chance-based effects, the duration of any debuffs applied by that attack, the healing from the attack for things like leeching seed, and other similar things

1.0 is the most common, meaning it procs things at a normal rate, lower than that has decreased probability/duration/etc, higher is the opposite, no/0 proc coefficient cannot trigger anything else

[pearl pelican]

You know, the name checks out

[marble osprey]

I have it for good reason lmao

[pearl pelican]

Thats valid it took me like a week to understand proc coefficient

[marble osprey]

Yeah the game doesn't really like to explain anything about how it works

[pearl pelican]

Yeah, I had a friend who was super good at that atuff

[tight basalt]

i didnt even know what proc meant for the longest time

[pearl pelican]

Valid

[vivid egret]

Does anyone already have the 5 new items?

[cunning gorge]

How do you unlock items in logbook vs command because I have some items I can't use in command but have the logbook for and vice versa

[jaunty furnace]

?

[jaunty furnace]

do you have the dlcs

[lavish jacinth]

[vital ibex]

Depends on if it is dlc dependent and if you completed the challenge

If the item needs to have a challenge completed in the first place, and I also don’t know if you have to have found it first to be able to get it through command

[lavish jacinth]

You don't need to find it first

[rare mesa]

hi

[hazy igloo]

Where are the prismatic trials?

[ocean monolith]

If you’re on a modded client, you can’t do them

[hazy igloo]

Oh right duh

[ocean monolith]

Unless you download mods that force it in

[hazy igloo]

Yeah I've only got the fast interactions and stage recap so I kinda just forgot I was using mods

[cunning gorge]

The first two, noAC

[errant veldt]

what is a good proc survivor?

[lavish jacinth]

basically anyone with a decently high fire rate who can deal consistent dps

[knotty badger]

Yall I have a question if I wanna play ror2 on my pc I have it on my Xbox is there a way to play ror2 on my pc since I own it on Xbox????

[lavish jacinth]

nope

[knotty badger]

Aww alright

[jaunty furnace]

on the bright side, steam has pretty frequent sales

dunno if consoles have them

[rapid current]

they have at least on ps5 but the price is way worse if u live in some places

sometimes its better just to buy the dlcs in pc

[jaunty furnace]

"sometimes"

[errant veldt]

would that include Void Fiend in the corrupted form

[north crystal]

Does anyone have the Spotify picture of the rain formerly known as purple?

The art genuinely looks insane and I’d love it as a wallpaper

[cunning gorge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/riskofrain/comments/qa5v64/this_is_a_follow_up_post_with_the_new_spotify/

This is all I could find, you'll need to crop the bottom out though

[brittle isle]

does ror 2 have an endless mode ?

[high forum]

you just interact with the teleporter on stage 5 to loop back to stage 1

[honest ravine]

At least on the Switch it goes on sale often enough

[brittle isle]

Das peak

[cunning gorge]

There's also the Simulacrum (part of SotV) that's endless waves of enemies

[brittle isle]

Yeah but that one does not have items

or does it? idk

[cunning gorge]

I have no clue I haven't played it yet

[high forum]

it doesn't work the same way as the base game mode

but it is endless

[marble osprey]

it does have items yeah

[brittle isle]

cool

[lavish jacinth]

Yea

[dusk geyser]

It's kinda like endless Void Fields from what I remember except taking place in regular environments (albeit filled with void fog)

[orchid kelp]

has there been any buff for Acrid?

[torpid oar]

they're already strong enough as is

[lavish jacinth]

he's never really needed one, other than blight and maybe frenzied leap

[jovial valley]

Is there a point to the death count on the end screen? It doesn't seem to increment in value nor score even if you've died and revived

[young jolt]

Poison or blight for acrid

[lavish jacinth]

poison

[tight basalt]

Either lowkey

[livid wedge]

It does for me

But it's also relevant in multiplayer

[wind kernel]

Poison

However Blight can be better if youre playing as another acrid in multiplayer (when the other is using poison)

[steel lance]

poison is stronger but both are fun

[craggy sage]

I'd say the engineer or MUL-T is the best proc survivors because of engineer's turrets and Mul-T's nailgun launcher and powermode.

[lavish jacinth]

mul-t has the highest proc rates overall, but engineer, commando and captain are all pretty similar

commando has the most consistent proc rate though

[craggy sage]

If engineer's turrets die your cooked ig

[lavish jacinth]

they also won't always be focusing on the same target and don't really have any sense of target priority

[keen thistle]

bungus

[cinder summit]

How do I determine what items can trigger other items?

[hexed spire]

what is the gold portal

[lavish jacinth]

It's based on proc coefficient, easiest way to see that is riskofresources.com or the wiki (specifically wiki.gg, not the fandom one)

[lavish jacinth]

It spawns from gold altars, they take you to a secret boss

[orchid kelp]

Is acrid default layout his best loadout and anyone got tips on how to play as him?

[jaunty furnace]

default is the best yeah

poison is very powerful, it scales with enemy hp

when in doubt, just spam poison and stay safe

[orchid kelp]

Do he still do a lot in multiplayer?

[jaunty furnace]

dont see why not

[livid wedge]

Does better, even

Poison scales with the increased health enemies get because they level faster due to increasing difficulty

And more allies means more potential for enough debuffs to proc death mark

[orchid kelp]

Beside gasoline are there good item I should look out for

[jaunty furnace]

survivability and damage multipliers

[orchid kelp]

Do damage multiples affect poison damage?

[livid wedge]

Bleed is also good

Yes

The only thing that doesn't affect it is stuff that increases base damage

Since, for the most part, it doesn't really matter after the first stage or two

[jaunty furnace]

..on acrid?

[livid wedge]

If you've got enough. It can finish off what poison doesn't

But gas is better

[jaunty furnace]

10 whites just to guarantee finishing them off...

[lavish jacinth]

Multipliers affect ANY damage you deal, as long as it meets the condition for that multiplier

[quiet thistle]

how many times has the server pfp changed tdy, wasn't it a book not that long ago?

[quiet thistle]

i found that the little ammo box thing actually works well for him bc lets you have epidemic more

[quiet thistle]

gas is always good for him to help start a chain reaction once everythings at 1, also dont bother much with the melee, on my god run i just use epidemic and neurotoxin to get everything poisoned, and caustic leap once into a crowd once everthing is low, and found that also saving one leap incase u needa run also helps

[jaunty furnace]

bandolier?

[quiet thistle]

yuh

[jaunty furnace]

the humble

[quiet thistle]

i hab no dlc 💔

[jaunty furnace]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/957715360948318358/1120492631915511910/squish.gif

[quiet thistle]

p o o r

[quiet thistle]

is it worth replacing engineers m1 with eyes of heresy?

its better no?

[woeful halo]

It will change the turret’s attack

And it is worse for them

[full apex]

Visions is an upgrade for the turrets, as long as you don't dislike how it behaves

[quiet thistle]

i did it and ngl its hitting harder then regular

think it might make it easier for bands to proc too no? bc it causes an explosion after they all stick to wont it add up past 300% dmg?

[placid tundra]

I just purchased alloyed collective and seekers of the storm and for some reason when I launched the game I immediately unlocked these does any one know why or how

[jaunty furnace]

functional video game

[native vale]

Stop asking stupid questions

Just enjoy your life before it ends

[placid tundra]

:(

[livid wedge]

That seemed unnecessarily negative

[full apex]

They all blow up individually so it won't add to bigger hits for bands. It is better dps for them in general though

[full apex]

Please be nice, that's not a dumb question at all lol. And this channel is specifically for questions.

[native vale]

Wait this isnt general

How did i get here

[full apex]

[high forum]

stop asking stupid questions

[quiet thistle]

yea, just noticed, question, why does boomerange trigger bands then? i might be trippin but i did see it trigger after bouncing so-

[full apex]

Electric boomerang the red item?

[quiet thistle]

no, huntress boomerang

[full apex]

Ah her glaive deals increased damage per bounce

So it can get a strong enough individual hit to count

[quiet thistle]

ohhhhhh, i read the description wrong i thought it decreased dmg % per bounce

[cunning gorge]

do clovers increase drop rates of lunar coins?

[lavish jacinth]

iirc yeah

[cunning gorge]

oh bet

thank you

[lavish jacinth]

fyi tho, every time a coin drops, it cuts the drop chance in half for the rest of the run

[cunning gorge]

oh thats weird

[lavish jacinth]

it's to prevent you from farming infinite coins

[full apex]

I didn't think clovers helped, but I don't remember.

I don't remember a ton spawning when testing out lots of clovers for stuff like aspects, but it's been a while since I've done that lol

[lavish jacinth]

I'm not 100% sure either tbh

[cunning gorge]

yeah checks out

[full apex]

Forgive me please can drop them

So fmp gesture soul bound and afk in the bazaar is infinite coins already, but the actual income is pretty bad because of the chance cut. If it didn't decrease just running the game overnight or even playing normally with that, you'd get sooooooo many for free

As is drizzle rushing mithrix is probably the best farming method, fast and easy with like loader

[plain trout]

are there going to be new survivors for the new dlc?

[lavish jacinth]

they haven't announced any, but it's probably a safe bet that there will

[high forum]

2

[plain trout]

let’s gooooo

[high forum]

"Explore these new stages and more as two new Survivors in Hallowed Concepts."

[hoary sedge]

do we know if 'two new' means two entirely new characters so no returners? or is it unclear still

[high forum]

we have literally zero idea or any way of knowing

but they've never done an expansion without a returning survivor in some form

[north granite]

They're new to ror2

[high forum]

right

[slow ember]

What is the best yellow drop for loader?

[lavish jacinth]

(these are the best for any survivor in most cases)

is also top-tier but it's not great on loader

[normal oriole]

You think this DLC gives us Miner?

[hoary sedge]

i mean if there is a returner him and enforcer are really the only reasonable picks, unless they really heavily rework sniper or han-d

[bronze cosmos]

They're saving enforcer for red plane so probably

[bitter steeple]

Recommended number of loop before Commencement?

[ocean monolith]

Uh

None?

[bitter steeple]

Well

None

Isn’t really working lol

[ocean monolith]

Well

No offense, but that must mean a skill issue is hindering you from beating Commencement

Even bad builds can get past Mithrix

You just gotta make that final push

[fiery estuary]

does artifact of swarms affect monster log drop rate?

[atomic badge]

hey so i saw this thing in my run
its called a void angler
is this new or do i have some random ass mod installed [i dont have any enemy mods]

[cunning gorge]

yeah youll have double the chance cuz its double the enemies

rn im using it to get voidling log

[livid wedge]

That's a mod

[atomic badge]

i dont have any enemy mods installed though

[fiery estuary]

alr tyty, wasn't sure if it was like artifact of sacrifice where it halves the chance of items

[cunning gorge]

Not to my knowledge

[fiery estuary]

alr tyty

[lavish jacinth]

well it's not vanilla

[livid wedge]

Yeah, I can guarantee that's not vanilla as well

[icy sedge]

anyone done the unlocks for nemesis mercenary (ss2)?

[lavish jacinth]

#ror2-modding would be the place to ask

[supple crater]

how much will the next dlc cost ?

[supple crater]

also this may be late but just go to void fields as mercenary to get the void mark, and then progress through the game like nomally, loop if nem mercenary doesnt spawn after like idk 8 stages or smt like that

[cunning gorge]

Probably the same as every other one

[plain dune]

can gummy operator use my drones too

[fickle oxide]

is there any other horde of many events other than the solus ones that can drop boss items

[wise dirge]

Is there some guide explaining all the portals, interactable props and whatnot? Haven't played in over 2 years and theres so much new stuff on the runs

[jaunty furnace]

https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg

or you can just. try to figure stuff out yourself

[wise dirge]

Not a fan of not knowing, its ok I like reading

[lavish jacinth]

You can also turn on "enable inspect" in settings, under the umbrella settings thing

It'll let you see what stuff does before you use it

[stuck venture]

is it better to stack gas or lensmakers?

[lavish jacinth]

kinda depends on your situation

If you have and/or , probably gas. But remember that gas without FMP is near-useless against mithrix if you plan to fight him

[stuck venture]

stage 1

[lavish jacinth]

Crit is a safe bet if youre anyone but bandit or railgunner

And ofc remember that it's always better to mix items instead of stacking one thing

[stuck venture]

playin operator

[ocean monolith]

If you don’t already have Gas, grab at least 1

[lavish jacinth]

Yea

[ocean monolith]

If you get forced into Sulfur Pools or Iron Alluvium, the enemies will fuck you raw

[jaunty furnace]

very much depends

usually 1 gas is enough

[stuck venture]

i left with 1 lensmaker and 3 gas

[ocean monolith]

Good call

[jaunty furnace]

but if you want to go on a giga burn build, stack gas

[ocean monolith]

You shouldn’t need anymore Gas for the rest of the run

[jaunty furnace]

otherwise crit is good

[stuck venture]

how do i kickflip with pots

i hate potrolling but bands are bands

[jaunty furnace]

kickflip is kinda fucked since sots

iirc

[ocean monolith]

You can’t kickflip anymore

You have to rawdog the pots

That is to say, unless you get the god spots, you can kiss your bands goodbye

Usually

[stuck venture]

i got the worst fukcing bands spots, one next to the hole and one behind the bridge

[ocean monolith]

Pack it up

Unless you’re cracked at SotS-Physics Potrolling

[urban terrace]

Hey guys, am I doing something wrong:

So I tried to escape the moon on multiplayer with my friends, they died and I had to charge up the ship alone, but for some reason the cutscene wont trigger after reaching 100%?

Like, do the dead people also need to get to the ship? I havent played the game after a while, so I am confused since this wasnt an issue back then. No crossplay btw, steam.

[ocean monolith]

If someone was Remote Operating a drone, they have to reach the ship too

[urban terrace]

I see, thanks.

[jaunty furnace]

it was either because someone was a drone and didnt go to the ship or you were too high up for the end to trigger (the charge zone is taller than the win zone)

or some other bullshit

[pliant valve]

Hi i have problem, i want to get "Newly Hatched Zoea" how can i get one without playing ultralong run and killing Void devastator with trophy hunter equipment?
(Playing with artifact of command)

[lavish jacinth]

if you want the item for the logbook, then that's kinda the only way to do it

[pliant valve]

And if i want to just get it?

[lavish jacinth]

in that case you can get plurpotent larva and any boss item, and die so that larva converts all your boss items to zoea

[steel lance]

zoea doesn't get unlocked in the logbook if you corrupt a boss item into it though!!! the only way to get it in your logbook is as a void devastator boss drop (ik you kinda said this already fax just wanted to make it clear)

[marble osprey]

To add to this, you don't have to do an ultra-long run, you can just go into the void portal in the newt area and complete the void fields at any time to get to void locus, where they spawn naturally

Or play with artifact of dissonance on, which lets them spawn anywhere

You can even get lucky and have them as the teleporter boss and have it drop as the reward, although it's not very likely

[cinder crow]

how to reject / accept the offering of the collective? (DLC)

[lavish jacinth]

have you made it to solus heart yet?

[cinder crow]

killed it but turned into a drone at t he time it died

[lavish jacinth]

ah

after the fight, you'll get an option to either accept its offering, or reject it by finishing it off

be careful not to kill it accidentally, it has like 1hp

You also can't accept the offering in eclipse because it ends the run

[cinder crow]

so i need to bring it low

[lavish jacinth]

nah, just kill it like normal, there's an animation that plays after it "dies" and then you can accept or reject

[cinder crow]

do i have to kill it or can my teammate do it too

[lavish jacinth]

I'm actually not sure how it works in multiplayer, it might only give the skin to the person who got the killing blow

there's also a bug you don't get mastery skins if you end the run as a drone, that might apply here too

[marble osprey]

Yeah that's correct, controlling a drone means you won't get it. You don't need to be the one to kill it though, just need to be alive

[steel lance]

everyone gets the skins as long as they're alive and the appropriate decision is made

so like if you're playing arti for example and your teammate kills the boss for their mul-t skin unlock, you won't get the reward because arti has to accept

[lavish jacinth]

good to know

[lavish jacinth]

I asssumed this would be the case, I just wasn't sure about the reject thing since "Kill a thing with X" achievements usually only to the person who got the kill

[steel lance]

i know the reject one works because a friend and i got acrid's and merc's skins at the same time

[cinder crow]

zcan someone check if on bandit i have to reject / accept the offering of the collective? (DLC)

[lavish jacinth]

iirc bandit accepts, but you can check the challenges section in the ingame logbook

[rare mesa]

hi

[lavish jacinth]

hello

[rare mesa]

can someone give me opinions on my item choices and what should I improve as a loader

[lavish jacinth]

that looks pretty much fine, honestly

the only mistake is 5 stacks of infusion, infusion is okay but damage should always be your top priority, and Loader has good survivability already

bungus, tritips, chronobauble, stun grenade and leeching seed are scrap, unless you wanted to use the tritips and chrono for death mark. Brooch, syringe and red whip aren't super useful for Loader, you could skip those

mercurial rachis isn't amazing either considering loader pretty much never stays in one place for long

[steel lance]

red whip is useless on loader when you're good with movement imo because using any ability cancels it

[lavish jacinth]

any combat ability

but loader's grapple doesn't scale with movement speed anyway

[rare mesa]

i thought i needed more health, and for damage whats the best to stack?

[lavish jacinth]

are fantastic for burst characters and just in general, if you don't have them, unlock them asap

[steel lance]

loader's grapple ends it no?

i swear whenever i used it on her i'd grapple and lose the whip bonus

[lavish jacinth]

for characters like Loader who attack slowly with high damage, it's good to look for reliable multipliers like . But most on-hit effects deal a % of the hit that procced them, so stuff like are also very solid

remember that it's always better to mix damage items instead of just stacking one thing, because damage items multiply each other

[lavish jacinth]

I don't remember tbh
but it doesn't matter either way

[steel lance]

they're really weird on what counts for red whip

bubble shield ends it early but harpoons don't

[lavish jacinth]

if you want more survivability I'd go for , and if you have SotV.
X armor = +X% effective health, so buckler is basically a 30% health boost that'll be active almost constantly on Loader

(movement abilities count as sprinting btw)

[steel lance]

armour in ror2 is not % effective health

[lavish jacinth]

yes it is

[steel lance]

damage reduction is 100/(100+armour)

so with 30 armour you're taking 10/13 damage

[lavish jacinth]

if you have 100 armor, you have 50% resistance, effectively 100% more health
200 armor is ~66% resistance, effectively 200% more
and so on

[steel lance]

wait is that the same as effective health and i'm being a fool

yeah you're right i'm just having a moment

[rare mesa]

hidden chamber in aqueduct smh

[lavish jacinth]

it's easy to do with engineer

[rare mesa]

behind the water i suppose

[steel lance]

my bad i forgot how numbers work

[lavish jacinth]

nah, it's a door
do you know how the unlock works? idk if you want it spoiled

[rare mesa]

well is it hard?

[lavish jacinth]

with engie or captain, not at all

[rare mesa]

how about loader

[lavish jacinth]

technically loader can also do it solo but it's finnicky

there are two pressure plates that have to be weighed down at the same time

[rare mesa]

so i have to have a specific survivor

[lavish jacinth]

there are a lot of ways to do it

loader's pylon can press them, but it's annoying to get it to hover at the right spot

engineer turrets and captain's beacons can press them

they don't need to stay held, just pressed at the same time and then the gate stays open

[steel lance]

anyone can do it by pushing a pot onto one of the buttons

[lavish jacinth]

that works too, it's just really annoying

oh yeah, and can press them

[steel lance]

but that's not easy especially considering there are 8 possible spawns so sometimes they're in a really annoying spot for potrolling

[lavish jacinth]

if you've got lunar coins to spare, you can go to the bazaar from stage 1, and use the lunar seers to pick abandoned aqueduct. Should take less than 10 minutes and is worth every second, the items it unlocks are fantastic

the wiki also has tips for it, and the possible button locations https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Abandoned_Aqueduct

[rare mesa]

yeah ima try to speedrun that rn

whats best red for loader

[steel lance]

easiest on engineer, easy on captain too but if you use your beacons elsewhere without thinking you're kinda screwed

[steel lance]

any good red is good on loader tbh except maybe scorpion

i like networked suffering for aoe or runic lens for more burst

[lavish jacinth]

[steel lance]

headstompers are easy to get full damage from but you already have fall damage immunity and high burst so they're not super necessary imo

[rare mesa]

thank you(idk the names)

[steel lance]

oh hey it's the one i was talking about

[lavish jacinth]

I mean, 10,000% damage in a 100m radius is pretty nice to have

[steel lance]

chat cap disagrees with me do i uninstall

[lavish jacinth]

and when in doubt, are hard to go wrong with, along with SotS reds or networked suffering

[rare mesa]

are newts altars guraranteed

[lavish jacinth]

pretty much always

[rare mesa]

wdymmmm

[lavish jacinth]

for some reason distant roost doesn't always have one

[rare mesa]

yes or no

[lavish jacinth]

and it's possible for them to be in inaccessible areas, like the cave on abyssal depths if the door is closed

but other than roost, there's always at least one

[steel lance]

yes except on one specific map

[rare mesa]

omg i have distant roost

but its my fav map

cleanest map ever

[lavish jacinth]

there might still be one, it's just the only map where it's not guaranteed to spawn somewhere (no idea why)

[rare mesa]

wetland nooooooooooo

[lavish jacinth]

reset time

[rare mesa]

how

[lavish jacinth]

just quit back to menu

[rare mesa]

i have to just end the run

[lavish jacinth]

I mean, unless you wanna loop and try to get it next time around, but it's faster to just reset

[rare mesa]

so can loader do it? ive never used engineer so the bosses may be difficult for me

[lavish jacinth]

^

Engie's not so hard though, just get some and procs and let your turrets do the work

[rare mesa]

cant seem to find one on titanic

[lavish jacinth]

the wiki knows all https://riskofrain2.wiki.gg/wiki/Titanic_Plains

[vernal oasis]

Question for yall: I’m running eclipse with friends, but they’re asking me to switch off drifter for mithrix

Is there anything I can do to make the character more helpful during the fight? My damage is pretty minimal and it’s difficult to stay close without getting pummeled

[woeful halo]

Do you have any of her alternative skills?

[rare mesa]

its good i got aqueduct

[vernal oasis]

I use tinker

I also have junk cube but I usually don’t use it

[woeful halo]

Junk cube is a very busted skill and will likely allow you to contribute to the mithrix fight if you know how to use it

[vernal oasis]

Isn’t that really risky to use though?

[jaunty furnace]

ditching a character just for one character is kinda crazy

tinker can massively improve your items

[woeful halo]

Only if you are constantly riding on top of it

[vernal oasis]

I’m just trying to accommodate for my teammates lol, that’s what I said

[steel lance]

i don't think drifter needs to be helpful during mithrix tbh considering how useful she is in literally every other aspect of the game

[vernal oasis]

I also said that lol

[vernal oasis]

I have yet to learn to but I believe you

[woeful halo]

You can pile them on the ground and hit them towards enemies, it is basically difter’s only natural range

[steel lance]

the drifter player could sit in a corner reading yaoi while the rest of us fought mithrix for all i care, they did their part for the team already

[woeful halo]

Also drifter can bring turrets into the fight, not very useful but very funny

[vernal oasis]

Lmao I didn’t know that

From where?