#Make Judgement a unique weekly challenge

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vestal dawn
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This one is a long one, so strap in kiddies.

For context, I just 100% the judgement trials and with that, all the Steam achievements. I had a fkin blast. It was brutally challenging in the best way. That being said... I kinda wish there was more, which brings me to my pretty hefty suggestion: Have aspects of the Judgement trials be randomized on a weekly basis. I'm kinda taking inspiration from the Prismatic Trials from ROR2 but hear me out:

  1. Stage variants:

The stages will still go in the order they appear, but maybe there are different variants to each stage (kinda like how it is just in a normal run). The terrain in some of the levels is super abusable, and the one for the Ancient Valley is lazy as fuck (like come on, Final Destination? in my Risk of Rain? Get outta here, you could have at least made it Battlefield)

  1. Multishop items:

Ok, dont make them completely random. I think we should keep the same pattern of 1 equipment, 2 reds and 2 greens for the beginning. And the frequency of whites/greens/reds should still be the same. But, lets spice up the runs a bit! Obviously some of the items need to be blacklisted such as Snake Eyes, Locked Jewels, Arcane Blades, etc. There are over 100 items in Risk of Rain Returns, why are we only given like, 40??? Everyone and the mother's dog is using the Unstable Watch! What if it was a Thqwib?? Give me my Thqwib!! I want my Thqwib!!! The beauty of Risk of Rain is the item variety, let us use it to express our skills in the ultimate challenge.

  1. Artifacts

Pretty self explanatory, every week has different artifacts active, spice things up.

  1. Leaderboards:

Every week, we have a leaderboard for each character based on the time to complete. No rewards obv, except for bragging rights. Maybe you get a cool skin but idk if they'll add that just for a stupid suggestion. Let's support the speedrunning community! They cool!

I'm running out of character, plz giv feedback, I rly luv this game

vestal dawn
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Make Judgement a unique weekly challenge

vestal dawn
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hm, maybe don't have artifacts

deep bone
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idk, I'd like to see a mode like that with artifacts. Maybe only have a 50% chance that the mode has an artifact that week

autumn niche
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have an artifact free variant and an artifact+modifier variant?

molten pecan
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I would totally be down with this if we could still play Judgement as it is now. The only reason many people have been able to beat Judgement was because they learned everything there is to learn: Monster spawns, item pick, when to heal. If this changed every week to be something random the difficulty would be dramatically increased, and most people wouldn’t be able to do it! The main reason people take the Watch is because it’s their only chance of survival, if it changed every week people would often skip weeks at a time until they got a golden generation for the character they want to get. And if they fail to beat it before the weeks up, what then? Wait 3 months to get a good generation again and possibly lose more?
If this was its own separate thing from Judgement that would be fun and I’m all for it, but keep Judgement the way it is now.

vestal dawn
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Hm, in that case, it could be a mode that is only unlocked after you beat vanilla judgement

terse pewter
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Isn't the whole point of Judgement over a regular run that it doesn't change

You can solve Judgement. You can't solve regular runs. You can play regular runs for the infinite replayability, and you can up the challenge level by using artifacts or messing with the rules tab.