ungus has always in RoR2 been alright. Useful on Engineer and if you wanted to restore a little health here and there. It worked because you could genuinely find some downtime, an instance where enemies weren't always up in your face. The biggest enemy of ungus in RoR2 is wisp, but it never felt like the item was useless, it felt like there was a good balance between having good healing and having a difficult time to use it. However in RoR Returns ungus is just kind of useless, a little helpful for shrines and engineer. In RoR Returns you have a really hard time finding time without monsters on you, it's a 2D game with less space to run off to, making it almost impossible with some flying enemies to get ANY healing done. As well ungus doesn't work at all when attacking, even if that survivor or drone DOESN'T MOVE when attacking. This hardcore nerf'd Engineer's turrets and pretty much ruins any chance for the ungus to work on any other survivor. In RoR2 using ungus with Engineer was a clever little exploit, it was OP but not much more than many other item combinations you could have gotten; it was a reward to the player for synergizing item mechanics with survivor's quirks. ungus turned Engineers turrets -which, were often very expensive time wise, and died very quickly due to them being still- into healing beacons capable of holding there own. Even if you did get ungus rarely did this ever make Turrets OP; it isn't much when you're stuck in the mud, being flamed by an Elder Lumerian. ungus went from a somewhat useful item to maybe later scrap for better healing that could become broken on one survivor to an item that fills a small niche in a game where we no longer can scrap items making it often times a waste of a drop. ungus in ROR Returns should be revamped, maybe lessen healing but allow survivors to use while attacking- it wouldn't break anything, survivors would still be VERY vulnerable, it would just add a little healing to hold ground.
#Bungus revamp
surreal temple
Apprently Bungus, or Bustling Fungus is blocked on the discord.
It wouldn't let me send so I tried removing all the Bs.
I'll delete upon request of the mods, but please next time can we get some kind of post saying what is blocked content?
surreal temple
wdym
frosty vector
weird
surreal temple
About Bungus revamp?
surreal temple
Ah
Yeah I get not wanting it to be god tier on Engineer but in Returns it's just so obsurdly useless
I've had a handful of times where it was nice to have
but other than that Returns is SO packed with enemies that it becomes almost impossible at times to use it without being chased down by flying packs of mobs.
frosty vector
Engineer turrets are also pretty squishy late game
so unless you have like, some wacky silly build that turns them into death auras (too many barbed wires), then they kind of start to fall off
surreal temple
yeah
I'm hestitant to say they're terrible, but they've bumped Engineer from a A to S tier survivor in RoR2 (Turrets didn't inherite items in RoR1 so they were literally useless) to a C tier survivor. They definitely are fun at times though.
frosty vector
Engineer is at least a ton more fun on command runs I will give 'em that
I like figuring out new ways to make the turrets into comically stupid weapons
surreal temple
i'll have to try that out sounds absurd lol
surreal temple
Bungus revamp
compact quartz
Bungus is fine as is. It is one of the biggest sources of healing in the game.
Its genuinely good on mobile survivors who have a way to GTFO.
Nerfing the healing but allowing it to work when attacking would buff it for Engineer and Enforcer and nerf it for every other character.
It does not need a change.
long nexus
I feel like maybe they could reduce the activation delay slightly
It's definitely tough to find down time to get even a single bungus proc off in late game
warped pike
Its genuinely good on mobile survivors who have a way to GTFO.
sprouting egg should be the item for that tho