Risk of Rain 2 (Switch): Software updates (latest: Ver. ??? – 1.0 Update)

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On this page, you will find all there is to know about the Software updates for Risk of Rain 2 on Nintendo Switch (originally released on August 30th 2019 in Europe and North America, and August 31st 2019 in Japan)

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Risk of Rain 2 – Ver. ??? (1.0 Update)

Release date: October 20th 2020 (North America, Europe) / October 21st 2020 (Japan)
Patch notes:

==== Major Content and Changes ====

Added System: Game Ending

The game now includes a proper ending, with credits and cutscene.

Added System: Intro Cutscene

The game now includes an intro cutscene!

Added New Survivor

New Survivor: Captain

Added New Stage

New Final Stage: ???

Added 4 New Music Tracks

New Track: Through a Cloud, Darkly

New Track: …con lentitud poderosa

New Track: You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Ukulele

New Track: Lacrimosum

Added New Survivor Skin

New Survivor Skin: Captain Skin

Added 2 New Monsters

New Monster: ???

New Monster: ???

Added New Boss

New Final Boss: ???

Added New Interactable

New Interactable: Scrapper

Added 7 Items and 3 Equipment to the game

New Item: Item Scrap (White, Green, Red, Yellow)

New Boss Item: Molten Perforator

New Boss Item: Shatterspleen

New Boss Item: Mired Urn

New Lunar Item: Defiant Gouge

New Lunar Item: Mercurial Rachis

New Lunar Item: Purity

New Equipment: Super Massive Leech

New Equipment: Gorag’s Opus

New Equipment: Forgive Me Please

Added 3 Character Challenges to the game

New Captain Challenge: Captain Mastery

New Captain Challenge: Wanderlust

New Captain Challenge: Worth Every Penny

Added 3 Challenges to the game

New Challenge: I Love Dying!

New Challenge: Washed Away

New Challenge: The Calm

Added 36 Lore Entries to the game

New Item Lore Entry: Molten Perforator

New Item Lore Entry: Shatterspleen

New Item Lore Entry: Mired Urn

New Item Lore Entry: Super Massive Leech

New Item Lore Entry: Gorag’s Opus

New Item Lore Entry: Forgive Me Please

New Item Lore Entry: Soulbound Catalyst

New Item Lore Entry: Bandolier

New Item Lore Entry: The Crowdfunder

New Item Lore Entry: Old Guillotine

New Item Lore Entry: Jade Elephant

New Item Lore Entry: Blast Shower

New Item Lore Entry: Lepton Daisy

New Item Lore Entry: Shattering Justice

New Item Lore Entry: Topaz Brooch

New Item Lore Entry: Ocular HUD

New Item Lore Entry: Unstable Tesla Coil

New Item Lore Entry: Milky Chrysalis

New Item Lore Entry: Will-o’-the-wisp

New Item Lore Entry: Gnarled Woodsprite

New Item Lore Entry: Halcyon Seed

New Item Lore Entry: Purity

New Item Lore Entry: Glowing Meteorite

New Item Lore Entry: Preon Accumulator

New Item Lore Entry: Aegis

New Monster Lore Entry: Clay Dunestrider

New Monster Lore Entry: Alloy Vulture

New Monster Lore Entry: Imp

New Monster Lore Entry: Void Reaver

New Monster Lore Entry: ???

New Monster Lore Entry: ???

New Monster Lore Entry: ???

New Stage Lore Entry: ???

New Character Lore Entry: Huntress

New Character Lore Entry: Captain

New Character Lore Entry: MUL-T

==== Gameplay Changes ====

General

Bleeds now refresh all existing bleed durations on that target. This affects both enemies and players, and is a huge change for how bleeds will work.

Increased difficulty rate over time for all difficulties by +10%.

Developer Notes: In this update, we’ve buffed a ton of items – and also given players way more agency over the way a run progresses. Our goal is for players to be more engaged with the game – what we don’t want is for the game to be suddenly much easier. This is a bit of a sanity check, and shouldn’t dramatically change the difficulty.

Slightly reworked OSP. The goal is to fix inconsistencies – and make it actually protect you from one-shots – while also fixing some abuse cases with curse.

The threshold for OSP is now displayed on the healthbar with a faint graphic.

Now has a lingering 0.1s duration when activated.

Now is subtracted via Curse (Shaped Glass, Artifact of Glass, etc), i.e a curse of 10% will remove OSP entirely.

Update OSP logic so it still triggers if you receive multiple sources of damage in the same frame that go past OSP values, i.e Malachite Lesser Wisps

Elites

Blazing, Overloading, Glacial

Health Bonus: 470% ⇒ 400%

Malachite, Celestine

Health Bonus: 2350% ⇒ 1800%
Developer Notes: We’ve had a lot of feedback that elite health has always felt a bit bloated – and that subsequently, it makes the Old Guillotine feel required. Our intent is to make characters less reliant on the Old Guillotine, and to make it feel more like an elite hate item – and less of an overall DPS item.

Survivors

Mobility skills are now considered ‘sprinting’, scaling with sprint speed multipliers and also sprinting after use.

Melee Survivors

Melee skills will now perform more consistently at high attack speeds.

Melee skills will now scale hitpause duration with attack speed – since the pause when hitting enemies were static, melee characters actually scaled poorly with attack speed.

Melee skills will now ‘hold’ you in the air better at high attack speeds.

Added a ‘Keyword’ system. Keywords are just words to describe common repeated behavior without explaining it every time. Added the following keywords:

Freezing

Stunning

Shocking

Poisonous

Regenerative

Agile

Percent HP

Sonic Boom

Weaken

Expose

Heavy

MUL-T
Developer Notes: MUL-T has gotten some love from this patch to really push forward the idea that his weapons are strong in specific roles. Faster swap time and more responsive actions for the weapons will (hopefully) make weapon swapping feel better. We’ve also admittedly creeped cooldowns down over time, and MUL-T felt a bit left behind.

Base Acceleration: 25 ⇒ 30

Rebar Puncher

Now charges after firing, rather than before

Scrap Launcher

Now behaves like a rocket instead of a grenade

Lifetime: 3s ⇒ 4s

Explosion Radius: 5m ⇒ 7m

Velocity: 70 m/s⇒ 100 m/s

Nail Gun

No longer has an initial shotgun of 6 nails

Now has a final shotgun of 12 nails

Now fires in a consistent corkscrew pattern

Proc Coefficient: 0.4 ⇒ 0.6

Damage: 60% ⇒ 70%

Wind-down duration: 0s ⇒ 1.152s

Retool

Swap duration: 0.7s ⇒ 0.4s

Transport Mode

Cooldown: 8s ⇒ 6s

Mercenary
Developer Notes: The Mercenary was always supposed to be the highest skill-cap survivor. However, in actual gameplay he became very flow-charty, using abilities directly off cooldown while holding down M1. The intent for all these changes is to allow skill expression, dynamic cooldowns, and higher risk vs reward in fights with the new ‘Exposed’ debuff. The hope is that the character will be stronger for advanced players, but weaker for new players.

Base Health: 140 (+42 per level) ⇒ 110 (+33 per level)

Base Regeneration: 2.5 health / second ⇒ 1 health / second

NEW Debuff: Exposed

Striking an Exposed target reduces all cooldowns by 1 second and deals an additional +350% base damage

Laser Sword

Third Strike Damage: 300% ⇒ 130%

Third hit now applies ‘Exposed’ debuff

The second and third hit of the combo can no longer be started in the middle of other attacks

Whirlwind

Ground Speed Multiplier: 6 ⇒ 8

Blinding Assault

Cooldown: 7s ⇒ 8s

Can now be canceled mid-attack by both Whirlwind and Rising Thunder

Slicing Winds

Last hit now applies ‘Exposed’ debuff

Acrid
Developer Notes: Acrid has always been a melee-ranged hybrid. We want greater rewards for engaging in melee and completing your M1 combo for players who enjoy a more aggressive playstyle.

NEW Buff: Regenerate

Regenerate for 10% health over 0.5 seconds.

Vicious Wounds

Third hit of the combo now grants ‘Regenerate’ buff

Ravenous Bite

Now grants ‘Regenerate’ buff

Frenzied Leap

Now (properly) stuns

Artificer
Developer Notes: We want to enforce the Artificer’s role as a high-damage, high AoE character. Nano-Bomb in general was core to the fantasy, but was pretty much inferior to Nano-Spear in every way.

Plasma Bolt

Blast Radius: 4m ⇒ 6m

Charged Nano-Bomb

Now has slight gravity

Blast Radius: 10m ⇒ 14m

Blast Damage, Max Charge: 1200% ⇒ 2000%

Blast Force: 1300 ⇒ 3000

Lifetime: 5s ⇒ 10s

Improved FX for clarity

Ion Surge

No longer has -75% damage falloff at the edge of the blast

Items

Monster Tooth

Healing: 8 (+8 per stack) ⇒ 8

Now also heals for 2% (+2% per stack) of maximum health

Medkit

Healing: 24 (+24 per stack) ⇒ 20

Now also heals for 5% (+5% per stack) of maximum health

Repulsion Armor Plate

Now properly reduces damage from environmental effects

Warbanner

Now also places a Warbanner when activating the Teleporter

Improve VFX to be less opaque, since it will always be near the Teleporter

Death Mark

Debuff Duration: 7s ⇒ 7s (+7s per stack)

Remove text stating that the damage bonus scaled with stacks

Old Guillotine

Execute Threshold: ~20% (+20% per stack) ⇒ 13% (+13% per stack)
Developer Notes: Since we’ve re-tuned the health of elites across the board, the Guillotine should be appropriately re-tuned as well.

Runald’s/Kjaro’s Band
Developer Notes: The two rings have undergone a bit of a rework, working off of an internal cooldown rather than a chance on-hit. We’re hoping that this can help diversify one of our “on-hit” items to be more than just attacking enemies and hoping things activate. We’ve also changed the behavior of Kjaro’s to be more of the AoE option, while Runald’s is the single target option.

Proc Chance: 8% ⇒ 100%

Now has an internal cooldown of 10 seconds

Now has a minimum threshold of only triggering on attacks that deal 400% or greater damage

Runald’s Band

Ice Blast Damage: 250% (+125% per stack) ⇒ 250% (+250% per stack)

Ice Debuff Duration: 3s ⇒ 3s (+3s per stack)

Kjaro’s Band

Fire Tornado Damage: 500% (+250% per stack) ⇒ 300% (+300% per stack)

Fire Tornado Hitbox Width: 4.8m ⇒ 13m

No longer moves

H3AD-5T v2

Reworked logic for calculating fall speed so it scales better while falling farther. Now has the following behavior:

Damage Coefficient: 1000% – 10,000% at maximum speed

Explosion Radius: 5m – 100m at maximum speed

Improved FX

Interstellar Desk Plant

Healing Radius: 3m (+1.5m per stack) ⇒ 5m (+5m per stack)

Healing: 5% max health every 1 second ⇒ 5% max health every 0.5 second

Milky Chrysalis

Now grants true flight and antigravity instead of jump-to-hover.

Pressing jump now performs a short dash in the direction of movement with a 0.5s cooldown.

Strides of Heresy

No longer puts you in combat

Helfire Tincture

Helfire Radius: 10m ⇒ 15m

Helfire Duration: 8s ⇒ 12s

Improve VFX and SFX

Effigy of Grief

Now placed at where you’re aiming, rather than at your feet

No longer is consumed on use.

Now limited to 5 per map per character.

Little Disciple

Fire Rate: 0.5s ⇒ 1.6s

Damage Coefficient: 100% (+100% per stack) ⇒ 300% (+300% per stack)

Fire Rate now scales with movement speed

Stages
*3D Printers will appear more often on all stages, ~50% more

3D Printers will cost less to spawn on all stages, ~50% less

The new interactable, the Scrapper, can now appear on all stages

Titanic Plains

Update with new visuals to make it depressing
*** Sky Meadow**

Update with new visuals and functionality that leads to the final stage

Bazaar Between Time

Base Portal Chance: 25% for the first portal ⇒ 37.5% for the first portal

Lunar Buds: 4 ⇒ 5

Monsters & Bosses

Mini Mushrum

Base Health: 360 (+108 per level) ⇒ 290 (+87 per level)

Parent

Base Health: 1200 (+360 per level) ⇒ 900 (+270 per level)

Lesser Wisp

Now properly stops charging attack sound when interrupted

Imp Overlord

Maximum Blink Distance: 600m ⇒ 300m

Now throws Void Spikes in a staggered fashion, rather than all at once

Magma Worm

Maximum “Blink” Distance: 600m ⇒ 300m

Now considerably more aggressive and better able to hit targets
Developer Notes: The blink behavior of both the Imp Overlord and the Magma Worm allows it to follow players between platforms, but it leads a lot of the times to the bosses blinking across the map to attack drones and turrets. While they may still do that, it’ll be a bit less pronounced.

Void Reaver

Now attempts to lead its Void Bombs in a straight line against its target

Updated AI to fire more aggressively and backpedal when its target is too close

AI now has 360° vision

Bison

Add spawn effect and animation (finally!)

Additional notes: none
Source: Gearbox

Risk of Rain 2 – Ver. 1.0.7

Release date: June 23rd 2020 (North America, Europe) / June 24th 2020 (Japan)
Patch notes:

==== Major Content and Changes ====

Added System: Artifacts

The hunt is on! Be the first to explore the planet and find the secret to unlock 16 powerful and mysterious Artifacts that will dramatically change the way you play. We expect Artifacts to be the biggest feature to date in terms of replayability to all players.

Added 16 Artifacts

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Honor

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Enigma

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Spite

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Soul

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Death

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Vengeance

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Metamorphosis

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Dissonance

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Chaos

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Frailty

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Kin

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Sacrifice

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Evolution

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Glass

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Command

○ New Artifact: Artifact of Swarms

Added New Stage

New Stage: Sky Meadow

Added 2 New Music Tracks

New Stage Track: The Rain Previously Known as Purple

New Boss Track: Antarctic Oscillation

Added New Hidden Realm

New Hidden Realm: ???

Added 5 Skill Variants

New Skill Variant: Commando Utility

New Skill Variant: Huntress Primary

New Skill Variant: Acrid Utility

New Skill Variant: Acrid Passive

New Skill Variant: Engineer Utility

Added New Skin

New Skin: Engineer Skin

Added 2 New Monsters

New Monster: Mini Mushrum

New Monster: Parent

Added New Boss

New Boss: ???

Added 6 Items and 2 Equipment to the game

New Item: Repulsion Armor Plate

New Item: Squid Polyp

New Item: Death Mark

New Item: Interstellar Desk Plant

New Equipment: Sawmerang

New Equipment: Recycler

New Lunar Item: Focused Convergence

New Boss Item: ???

Added New Chest

New Chest: Equipment Triple Shop

Added 5 Character Challenges to the game

New Commando Challenge: Godspeed

New Huntress Challenge: Finishing Touch

New Engineer Challenge: Zero Sum

New Engineer Challenge: Engineer Mastery

New Acrid Challenge: Easy Prey

New Acrid Challenge: Bad Medicine

Added 3 Challenges to the game

New Challenge: Automation Activation

New Challenge: Cleanup Duty

New Challenge: Never Back Down

Added 3 New Environment Logs

New Environment Log: Sky Meadow

New Environment Log: A Moment, Fractured

New Environment Log: ???

Added 8 Lore Entries to the game

New Item Lore Entry: Repulsion Armor Plate

New Item Lore Entry: Squid Polyp

New Item Lore Entry: Death Mark

New Item Lore Entry: Interstellar Desk Plant

New Item Lore Entry: Sawmerang

New Item Lore Entry: Recycler

New Item Lore Entry: Focused Convergence

New Item Lore Entry: Ghor’s Tome

Various performance & stability improvements

UI Overhaul

Various Bug Fixes

Additional notes: none
Source: Gearbox

Risk of Rain 2 – Ver. ??? (Hidden Realms Update)

Release date: March 24th 2020 (North America, Europe) / March 25th 2020 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Added Survivor: Acrid

Added 2 Stage Variants

Added 2 Hidden Realms

Added 3 Skill Variants

Added New Skin: Acrid Skin

Added New Monster: Void Reaver

Added New Boss: Scavenger

Added New Boss: Secret Boss

Added 9 Items and 1 Equipment to the game

Added Chest: Adaptive Chest

Added Chest: Overgrown 3D Printer

Added Shrine: Cleansing Pool

Added Drone: Emergency Drone

Added 3 Challenges to the game

Added 2 Environment Logs to the game

Added 6 Lore Entries to the game

Various performance & stability improvements

Various Bug Fixes

Additional notes: none
Source: Gearbox

Risk of Rain 2 – Ver. ??? (Skills 2.0 Update)

Release date: December 10th 2019 (North America, Europe) / December 11th 2019 (Japan)
Patch notes:

=== New Console Specific Features ===

Local ad-hoc wireless multiplayer support – Nintendo Switch

==== Major Content and Changes ====

Added new Survivor: Loader

Added new Stage: Siren’s Call

Added new System: Loadouts

Added new System: Alternate Skins

Added 15 new skill variants

Added 7 new skins

Added new Elite: Celestine

Added 2 new bosses to the game

Added 2 new monsters to the game

Added 6 new Items and Equipment to the game

Added new Interactable: Lunar Seer

Added 3 new challenges to the game

Added 22 new unique class challenges to the game

Added Environment Log: Siren’s Call

Added 7 new Lore Entries to the game

Various performance & stability improvements

Various Bug Fixes

Additional notes: none
Source: Gearbox

Risk of Rain 2 – Ver. 1.0.3

Release date: November 12th 2019 (North America, Europe) / November 13th 2019 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed an issue where players were unable to start a game directly from a private match

Fixed the ability to navigate the menu using touch-screen

Gyroscopic aiming now works when you use a wireless controller while keeping the Joy-Cons attached to the system

Fixed an issue where players would sometimes become invisible

Further navigation improvements have been made when using the D-pad

Additional notes: none
Source: Gearbox

Risk of Rain 2 – Ver. 1.0.2

Release date: October 29th 2019 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

=== New Features ===

Nintendo Switch now supports gyro aim

All consoles can now navigate the menu using the D-pad

=== Bug Fixes ===

Fixed an issue where audio settings were not remaining saved

Fixed an issue with framerate when 1 or more drone is present on some maps

Fixed an issue where drones would get stuck at the beginning of a level

Fixed an issue where players were not able to unlock Artificer upon completing “pause” challenge

Fixed an issue with Commando’s phase rounds not registering damage

Fixed an issue where players were not able to join or invite a multiplayers lobby after the host had disconnected

Fixed an issue for Rex when using disperse on a Newt causing him to disappear and prevent activation of interactables

Fixed various maps where enemies would fall through the ground

Fixed an issue on Switch where airplane mode displays continuously

Fixed a bug where Buffs and Debuffs last about half of the intended duration

Combat shrines are now functional

Unlocking challenges no longer causes a hitch

Fixed a hitch from happening when dropping the Warbanner

Various performance & stability improvements

Additional notes: none
Source: Gearbox

How to download updates for Risk of Rain 2 for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Risk of Rain 2, you have three options:

let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.