Risk of Rain 2 (Switch): Software updates (latest: Survivors of the Void)

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On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various 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 – Survivors of the Void

Release date: November 8th 2023 (North America, Europe) / November 9th 2023 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Patch Notes

This update adds support and content for the Survivors of the Void Expansion for Risk of Rain 2 on console!

With this update, all supported platforms have the same content and bug fixes. When we developed this patch, we took a holistic approach that focused on unifying PC & console. This means we’ll reduce platform-specific bugs and bring fixes and new content to console players much faster. We’re excited about the future of Risk of Rain 2 and can’t wait for you all to join us.

There have been several previous updates to the Risk of Rain 2 PC experience. These updates include balance changes and bug fixes that had not yet been addressed in the console versions of the game. This update is also addressing those issues, and regardless if you purchase DLC all players will be receiving all the previous updates.

PC Patch v1.1.1.2

Quality of Life

•Cleansing Pool

Irradiant Pearl Chance: 4%⇒ 20%

Can no longer be pinged to reveal its contents

•Resonance Disc

Charge Buff Duration:5s⇒ 7s

Updated Logbook description for more detailed explanation

•Power Mode

Armor Buff: 200 armor (66% damage reduction)⇒ 100 armor (50% damage damage reduction)

Developer Notes: Power Mode is gated behind a difficult challenge, but its current iteration is a bit too insane. Players should be motivated to leave Power Mode every now-and-then, and this is a safe way to make it less powerful while still keeping it fun.

• Updated Bandit: B&E and Captain: Smushed challenges to have a short window of leniency

!FINAL STAGE SPOILERS! !SPOILERS!

• Update the rescue ship’s charging zone to be infinitely tall, i.e you can charge it while floating above
• Update escape portals from the final boss arena to be more portal-looking

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash during the last boss fight
• Fixed MUL-T not properly stopping its second primary in all cases when exiting Power Mode
• Fixed MUL-T’s Scrap Launcher not resetting its cooldown timer on firing, making it reload much faster
• Fixed MUL-T’s Power Saw behaving strangely with Power Mode, making it fire much slower
• Fixed stray nodes causing lockboxes to spawn midair on the final stage
• Fixed Bandit’s alternate skin not properly masking limbs for items
• Fixed Bandit’s secondary palette on character select not reflecting actual coloration
• Fixed Planula’s material not becoming invisible
• Fixed some incorrect icons displayed for pings/Radar Scanner
• Fixed Old Guillotine’s behavior for enemies with shields or barrier
• Fixed some typos in the logbook
• Fixed some typos in survivor skills
• Fixed Frost Relic applying its slow debuff even when inactive
• Fixed repeated jumping animations not being able to interrupt themselves
• Fixed Lunar Chimera (Exploder)’s icon changing with texture resolutions
• Fixed the stat screen’s pickups discovered category using achievements completed instead for its value
• Fixed Cleansing Pools not rerolling on purchase
• Fixed Deskplant and Mini Mushrum’s healing wards sometimes appearing underground
• Fixed the secret survivor dying instantly if she got the Perfected elite buff
• Fixed the tracking for the Mercenary: Flash of Blades challenge
• Fixed Loader’s Thunder Slam not working in conjunction with H3AD-ST
• Fixed Titans not showing their map-unique skins
• Fixed The Crowdfunder not working on characters without the display (i.e Heretic)
• Fixed Milky Chrysalis not working on characters without the display (i.e Heretic)
• Fixed AI sometimes getting position updates on invisible characters more frequently than intended
• Fixed drone AI following its leader too aggressively
• Updated outdated icons for Lunar Chimaera, friendly Beetle Guards, and achievements
• Updated item display on Bandit and Captain to properly display all items
• Updated Altered Siren’s Call very slightly to prevent clipping under certain terrain
• Updated Wetland Aspect with a geyser to prevent a softlock in Wetlands Aspect
• Updated some textures to better wrap on lower resolutions
• Updated Bandit with idle breathing animations
• Updated Magma Worm’s movement speed to be more consistent

PC Patch v1.1.1.4

• Fixed Artifact of Dissonance breaking monster spawns and other systems
• Fixed some of Commencement’s navigation/spawn nodes being placed underground, potentially causing a softlock loop
• Fixed the landing blast for H3AD-5T v2 not activating from non-host players
• Fixed language chosen in-game (instead of through Steam) not being correctly restored on startup
• Fixed MUL-T’s Power Mode description not accurately reflecting in-game values
• Fixed “Regenerative” keyword description not accurately reflecting in-game values

PC Patch 1.2.2

Gameplay Changes

Simulacrum

Waves now skip if nothing has spawned for 60 seconds

Waves now have a limit of how many credits can be given out at once

Waves will now spawn slightly more elites, and slightly less normal monsters

Artifact of Kin will always spawn monsters, even if they are considered ‘cheap’

Developer Notes: Simulacrum has a few edge cases where the director fails to spawn monsters – and as a result, the gamemode no longer advances. We added a few different checks to address situations where the game gets stuck. Not only that, but simulacrum tended to spam a lot more normal monsters instead of elites – so now, it’ll spawn a little bit more elite-y.

Void Seeds

Void Seeds no longer spawn monsters over time, or when the Teleporter starts

Void Seeds no longer occasionally spawns normal, non-Voidtouched monsters

Void Seeds now have a more clear area indicator

Void Seeds no longer spawn ‘naked’ Void Infestors

Void Seeds now scale a lot slower over the duration of the run

Void Seeds now spawn elite affixes (like Overloading and Mending) less frequently for its Void
monsters

🌧 Void Seeds now spawn Void Caches with Sacrifice enabled

🌧 Void Seeds now mark remaining enemies on the map if there are 3 or less

Developer Notes: Void Seeds are chaotic and strange by design – but that same chaos and strangeness can lead to a bit of frustration in what the heck is going on. We’ve clarified behavior, and fixed some weird edge-case scenarios that led to it being more confusing. We’re still taking a look at trying to reduce the frequency of it spawning right on top of you at stage start.

Void Portal

Minimum Stage Count: 3 ⇒ 6

Developer Notes: It’s pretty much impossible to beat The Planetarium at stage 3, so it was just bait. Now it only spawns when a player could reasonably beat the objectives.

Prismatic Trials (Live with SotV release)

Prismatic Trials now has Survivors of the Void permanently enabled, even for non-DLC owners

Eclipse (Live with SotV release)

Eclipse is now available in multiplayer

Ignite (Live with SotV release)

Ignite effects, like Blazing elites and Artificer’s Flame Bolt, now deal 50% of its damage over time as ignite

Developer Notes: Previously, ignite damage was calculated off of a weird version of base damage, which was inconsistent across enemies. Not only that, but Artificer’s ignite was handled quite differently than the Blazing elites. Now, ignite effects always deal half the damage of the impact – which makes it match Overloading elite damage as well.

Void Fog (Live with SotV release)

Void fog damage now ignores armor, Tougher Times, Armor Plating, and Planula

Void fog damage now slowly ramps up over time as long as you remain in the fog

Developer Notes: The Void Fog is important for a lot of content, especially in SotV – and has to remain threatening for the events to work. We found that Tougher Times, Armor Plating, and Planula made some of this content arbitrarily too easy. We also wanted to avoid being able to go ‘infinite’ in the fog with a lot of healing-over-time, so now it ramps up slowly.

Artificer

‘Flamethrower’ now scales the number of damage ticks with attack speed

Void Fiend

‘Drown (Corrupted)’ now scales the number of damage ticks with attack speed

‘Suppress (Corrupted)’ no longer marks you as the attacker for its self-damage – meaning it won’t proc items on yourself like Crowbar, etc.

Transitioning into Corrupted mode now grants 0.5 seconds of invincibility

Void Fields

Percent Health Damage: 5% per second ⇒ 2.5% per second

Developer Notes: We wanted to make Void Fields more oppressive in SotV, as a mobility/heal check before you can access the guaranteed portal into the Planetarium. It was too much, so we are reducing it.

Stages

Planetarium music now advances every phase

Void Infestors

Void Infestors now slowly decay health over 30 seconds

Void Infestors no longer can convert ‘mechanical’ targets, like Drones or Engineer Turrets

Developer Notes: While it was cool the first time, having Void Infestors instantly kill your hard-earned drones made drones even worse. Now, they’re a decent ally to help pick off those bugs. Not only that, but an infestor that’s stuck running around the edge of a map would prevent you from finishing the Void Seed, which was annoying – now they slowly lose health over time.

Items

Spare Drone Parts no longer grants Col. Droneman to Engineer Turrets

Bug Fixes

Fixed ‘Remote Caffeinator’ DLC equipment being locked permanently

Fixed weird momentum/velocity behavior after falling out-of-bounds and teleporting back

Fixed ignite effects from Fire affixes and the ‘ignite’ damage type dealing 2x the damage over 4x the duration

Fixed Volcanic Egg disjointing its position over time

Fixed clients who disconnect and then reconnect being stuck spectating

Fixed Railgunner’s Goobo Jr. AI using only its Primary ability

Fixed Ignition Tank’s descriptions being inaccurate to its behavior

Fixed hosts not being able to create new multiplayer games if they disconnect and reconnect their internet

Fixed Merc’s expose being consumed by non-Mercs

Fixed Simulacrum’s Enigma wave having the wrong strings

Fixed Void Devastator not having its boss item assigned, causing it to not drop or be targetable by Trophy Hunter’s Tricorn

Fixed Newly Hatched Zoea not consuming Defense Nucleus

Fixed a stray jump pad in Sulfur Pools that leads nowhere

Fixed ‘crusty’ pixels around buff icons

Fixed Distant Roost having less interactable credits than Titanic Plains, causing it to spawn less interactables

Fixed Rusted Key always granting a red item

Fixed consecutive weak point tracking resetting whenever ANY player missed, not just the player trying to earn the achievement

Fixed Will-o-the-wisp/Voidsent Flame having reversed damage coefficients

Fixed Prismatic Trials being playable in multiplayer by starting a singleplayer prismatic trial, backing out, and then hosting a multiplayer game

Fixed cans not animating properly with Remote Caffeinator

Fixed Snowy, Natural, and Sandy Golem skins not being fully implemented

PC Patch 1.2.3

Gameplay Changes

Simulacrum

Slightly updated visuals of Void Focus

Now has an indicator for the Void Focus’ position

Void Seeds

Now cap at a maximum of 3 per map

Spawn less frequently with Artifact of Sacrifice enabled

Spawn less frequently on top of you when starting a new stage

Void Fiend

Corrupted skills are now lower priority than Heresy items, allowing Heresy items to override both versions of skills

Goobo Jr.

Damage Bonus: +70% ⇒+200%

Health Bonus: +70% ⇒ +200%

Fix description in logbook being wrong

Developer Notes: Goobo was designed to be +600%. It was +70%. +600% was actually waaay too strong when we fixed it, so we set it to a more reasonable value.

Brittle Crown

No longer grants gold to the enemy who hits you while wearing the item (but still shows the visuals)

Developer Notes: We thought it would be a cute behavior if when losing money from Brittle Crown, it granted that money to the attacker – for use in stuff like a Scavenger’s Crowd Funder. However, this resulted in you gaining all the money back when you killed the enemy, making Brittle Crown have (essentially) no downside.

Ben’s Raincoat

Rework behavior – Now has an internal cooldown of 5 seconds

Now blocks 1 (+1 per stack) debuffs before going on cooldown

Now grants 10% of your health as barrier when blocking a debuff

Now has the ‘Healing’ tag

No longer grants maximum health

No longer blocks non-timed debuffs, like Eclipse 8 and skills like Power Mode

Developer Notes: Ben’s Raincoat was a very binary item, resulting in unsatisfying stacking behavior and frustrations when given to monsters (like in Simulacrum). The item also trivialized Eclipse 8. Now, it has a bit of downtime for when it can block debuffs – and since we didn’t want this to be just a net nerf, we also added a large barrier when blocking a debuff with the coat.

Void Devastator

Max Health: 2100 (+630 per level) ⇒ 2800 (+840 per level)

Armor: 10 ⇒ 20

Developer Notes: Despite being a boss monster, the Void Devastator had strangely low stats for its cost, especially when compared to same-cost monsters like the Imp Overlord

Gup

No longer splits if killed from a ‘Void Death’, like from Lost Seer’s Lenses

Voidtouched Gups and Geeps will now split into Voidtouched Geeps and Gips (respectively)

Quality of Life

Altered some planets in the Planetarium

Updated Captain’s Defense Matrix log to be granted by playing Captain

Updated Shipping Request Form to be blacklisted for enemies

Updated inventories to work with more than 255 items for mods with many items

Made it easier for mods to register custom achievements

Updated localization to allow mods to properly utilize the system

Extended systems to support mods adding custom item tiers

Pluripotent Larva will no longer convert into items that are not available in the current run

Updated a deep pool in the Planetarium causing you to get stuck inside if you had no jump boosts

Updated Heretic to receive Heresy items, even if spawned from Goobo Jr, so it can use abilities

Fixed Korean language files having a malformed format, resulting in errors

Bug Fixes

Fixed Category Chests dropping a much smaller subset of items

Fixed Beetle Guard summoned from Queen’s Gland no longer being a fresh green color

Fixed a variety of issues relating to Heresy items losing or gaining stocks when swapping skills with other skills

Fixed Simulacrum referring to Rainstorm as Normal

Removed nodes in Simulacrum’s Titanic Plains, Sulfur Pools, and Rallypoint Delta that were inside walls

Removed nodes in Aphelian Sanctuary and Sulfur Pools that were inside walls

Fixed tag requirements of Vengeance and Void Fields

Fixed a bunch of NRE’s, causing a potential variety of issues

Fixed profiles not being able to be deleted in the main menu

Fixed out-of-bound zones for Aphelian Sanctuary, Void Fields, Distant Roost, Titanic Plains, and Sky Meadows not properly culling monsters

Fixed Siphoned Forest being called Snowy Forest in the logbook

[!!SPOILER!!] Fixed the frog not spawning a deep void portal

Fixed text for Blast Shower not clarifying that it also removes freezes and stuns

Fixed visible back faces in Siphoned Forest

Fixed Void Fiend’s Trespass continually playing the sound if you quit in the middle of the skill

Fixed Disposable Missile Launcher and Fireworks not triggering other missile effects, like AtG Missile and Plasma Shrimp

Fixed a few bugs with state-controlled debuffs (like Void Fiend’s Corrupted Flood) and Ben’s Raincoat causing those debuffs to be permanent

Fixed REX’s core position being lowered while sprinting, causing AI issues and some projectiles appearing in the floor while sprinting

Fixed Bulwark’s Ambry entry missing in logbook

Fixed Heretic’s head hurtbox causing issues when hit

Fixed Xi Construct and Void Jailer appearing with Artifact of Dissonance enabled, even with the DLC disabled

Fixed Simulacrum button being there even if the DLC is disabled

Fixed Pluripotent Larva not corrupting all items that map many-to-one (i.e., Runald’s Band + yellow items)

Fixed Railgunner seeing her own Weak Points while Chaos is enabled

Fixed camera issues with Frost Relic while using Railgunner’s scopes or Mul-T’s Power Mode

Fixed issues with Gup / Geep / Gip and Dio’s Best Friend

Fixed Collapse counting as two separate debuffs

Fixed Geep and Gip receiving items from Evolution and Simulacrum multiple times

Potentially fixing more cases where Simulacrum would fail to spawn enemies

Fixed various typos

PC Patch 1.2.4

Gameplay Changes

General

Void Fields

Interactables now spawn in the stage

Developer Notes: With SotV, we wanted to make the Void Fields a more compelling choice by increasing the value of the reward and introducing a cost (time). However, we felt that the risk outweighed the reward, so we’ve added interactables to the stage, much like the interactables in Simulacrum stages.

Artificer

Flame Bolt damage: 220% ⇒ 280%

Plasma Bolt damage: 220% ⇒ 280%

Developer Notes: As we iterated on the way that burns work during development of SotV, we unintentionally reduced the damage of Artificer’s Flame Bolt indirectly by reducing the burn damage. To compensate, we’re buffing the initial damage of Flame Bolt so that the overall damage returns to pre-SotV levels. Plasma Bolt is receiving the same buff to ensure it doesn’t fall behind.

Captain

Lysate Cell now increases the stocks of Captain’s first beacon

Captain is now limited to 2 deployed beacons at a time

Developer Notes: It was kind of lame that Lysate Cell did absolutely nothing for Captain, but it was hard to find a solution that wasn’t completely game-breaking. Limiting the beacons to 2 at a time keeps the power of the item under control (as well as fixes some exploits in Simulacrum multiplayer).

Newly Hatched Zoea

Fresh new skins to help differentiate allies from enemies

Defense Nucleus

Alpha Construct Ally Damage Bonus: +0% ⇒+300%

Alpha Construct Ally Health Bonus: +0% ⇒ +300%

Developer Notes: During development, we experimented with what conditions would trigger this item. Initially, this item was exceptionally strong due to how frequently it triggered. It proved to be too strong, so we changed the trigger, but we forgot to compensate by buffing the spawned Alpha Construct as we had intended.

Squid Polyp

Squid Turret Ally Base Damage: 20 ⇒ 4

Squid Turret Ally Primary Skill Damage Coefficient: 1 ⇒ 5

Squid Turret Allies Primary Skill Proc Coefficient: 1 ⇒ 0.1

Squid Turret Allies Primary Skill Knockback Force: 0 ⇒ 2000

Squid Turret Allies can now be stunned by “stunning” skills

Squid Turret Allies can now be frozen

Developer Notes: An important part of the balance of the Void Cradles is the risk from the Void Infestors it spawns, so we wanted to lower the risk with Squid Polyp without completely removing it. These changes to Squid Polyp are overall a slight buff in the hands of the player (the knockback especially defends the turrets against infestation), but they mainly reduce the damage from Collapse when Voidtouched. And believe it or not, they’re actually pretty good at killing the Void Infestors.

Blind Vermin

Director Credits for default variant: 20 ⇒ 14

Director Credits for snowy variant: 8 ⇒ 14

Developer Notes: The difference in Director Credits between the variants of Blind Vermin was unintentional, so we just split the difference.

Quality of Life

Swapping between skills on cooldown no longer resets the timer to max

Improved some exception handling for modders

Fixing a bug for modders where stages wouldn’t spawn monsters properly unless the deprecated DirectorCardCategorySelection field was assigned

Bug Fixes

Fixed nodes in Distant Roost, Titanic Plains, Wetland Aspect, and Simulacrum’s Rally Point Delta

Finallyfixed Volcanic Egg desynchronizing its position

Fixed Loader’s pylon traveling different distances depending on whether the player is a host or a client

Fixed various typos and logbook descriptions

Fixed various null reference exceptions

Fixed Ben’s Raincoat, Shuriken, Oddly-Shaped Opal, Red Whip, and Unstable Tesla Coil to properly clean up their buffs when the item is removed

Fixed Distant Roost and Wetland Aspect to properly spawn monsters and interactables from SotV

Fixed Little Disciple becoming disabled for the remainder of the stage after the character is rooted

Updated Safer Spaces’ cooldown to no longer round up to the nearest second

[!!SPOILER!!] Fixed the music not progressing properly for clients during the new final boss fight

Fixed Overheat (the debuff applied by Grandparents) to be properly marked as a debuff

Fixed bugs with Happiest Mask and Xi Construct

[!!SPOILER!!] Fixed a bug where the players could lose after teleporting off of the moon

Fixed some collision on Commencement, Sundered Grove, and Sulfur Pools to prevent softlocks

Fixed bugs with Happiest Mask and Xi Construct

Updated Spare Drone Parts to be blacklisted for enemies

Improved the logic for where we spawn the item from Trophy Hunter’s Tricorn to reduce the odds that the item is inaccessible

Singularity Bands can no longer proc themselves

Fixed issues with players desynching with cross-play enabled

Fixed the logbook icon for Void Barnacle sometimes being pixelated

Fixed allies sometimes displaying healthbar indicators for items they didn’t have

Fixed Artifact of Sacrifice’s interactable credit reduction not working in Simulacrum

Fixed Void Fiend sometimes being partially invisible

Helfire Tincture’s self-inflicted burn will now remain non-lethal, even if upgraded by Ignition Tank

Helfire Tincture’s burn tick damage cap now considers shields, preventing issues with the burns becoming very long

Updated Bandit’s displays for 57 Leaf Clover, Benthic Bloom, Ocular Hud, and Focus Crystal

Updated Railgunner’s displays for Charged Perforator and Disposable Missile Launcher

Updated Equipment Drone’s display for Remote Caffeinator

Updated Void Reaver’s display for the Mending elite affix

Fixed issue where upward momentum wasn’t reset when teleporting back into bounds

Slicing Maelstrom, Shadowfade, and Ruin skills no longer reset their stocks when assigned

Fixed Naturopath achievement to trigger at the correct time

Updated Strike Drone’s display for Spare Drone Parts

Fixed bug where Recycler sometimes had difficulty targeting certain pickups

Fixed a tree on Aphelian Sanctuary that would disappear if the LOD settings were restricted

Fixed kick_steam and ban_steam console commands to properly find the associated account

Fixed a bug where Egocentrism’s projectiles would collide but not destroy on terrain, causing explosion spam with Brilliant Behemoth

Fixed vertical alignment of skills in the lobby

Now clients in multiplayer will receive notifications for when one of their items or equipment is transformed

We now send a pickup message when a player receives a Tonic Affliction

PC Patch 1.2.4.2

Fixed prices in multiplayer sometimes being too cheap on the first stage

Fixed Captain sometimes not having stocks of his beacons on the first stage

Major Content Changes

The changes below will be applied to owners of the Survivors of the Void Expansion. For players that have miraculously avoided any spoilers, and would like to continue doing so, we suggest not reading the patch notes below.

When jumping into multiplayer, remember that only one player in the lobby needs to own the expansion to enable that content for everyone. However, only players that own the expansion will be able to unlock and play as the new Survivors.

Added Game Mode:

New Game Mode: Simulacrum

The Simulacrum is a wave-based arena mode set within a Void simulation. It can be played in both single-player and multiplayer modes and includes any unlocked artifacts for use. It is an endless mode that can conclude only in your simulated demise.

Added Alternate Ending:

[REDACTED]

Added 2 Survivors:

Void Fiend

Railgunner

Added 2 Survivor Skins:

Railgunner Skin: Marksman

Void Fiend Skin: Purified

Added 5 Stages:

Siphoned Forest (Stage 1)

Aphelian Sanctuary (Stage 2)

Sulfur Pools (Stage 3)

Void Locus (Hidden Realm)

The Planetarium (Boss Stage)

Added 9 New Music Tracks:

Added 6 Stage Tracks:

Prelude in D flat major

A Placid Island of Ignorance

Out of Whose Womb Came the Ice?

Once in a Lullaby

A Boat Made from a Sheet of Newspaper

Who Can Fathom the Soundless Depths?

Added 3 Boss Tracks:

Having Fallen, It Was Blood

The Face of the Deep

They Might as Well Be Dead

Added 9 Monsters:

Blind Pest

Alpha Construct

Blind Vermin

Clay Apothecary

Gup (and Geep and Gip, obviously)

Larva

Void Barnacle

Void Infester

Void Jailer

Added 2 Elite Types:

Mending

Voidtouched

Added 3 Bosses:

Void Devastator

Voidling

Xi Construct

Added Interactables:

Void Cradle

Void Potential

Large Category Chest

Crashed Multishop

Added Item Tier:

Void Tier Items

Added 41 Pickups:

18 Standard Items:

Delicate Watch

Mocha

Oddly-shaped Opal

Power Elixir

Roll of Pennies

Hunter’s Harpoon

Ignition Tank

Regenerating Scrap

Shipping Request Form

Shuriken

Defense Nucleus

Ben’s Raincoat

Bottled Chaos

Laser Scope

Pocket I.C.B.M

Spare Drone Parts

Symbiotic Scorpion

His Reassurance (Aspect Item)

14 Void Items:

Benthic Bloom

Encrusted Key

Lost Seer’s Lense

Lysate Cell

Needletick

Newly Hatched Zoea

Plasma Shrimp

Pluripotent Larva

Polylute

Safer Spaces

Singularity Band

Tentabauble

Voidsent Flame

Weeping Fungus

4 Lunar Items:

Egocentrism

Eulogy Zero

Light Flux Pauldron

Stone Flux Pauldron

5 Equipment Items:

Executive Card

Goobo Jr.

Molotov (6-Pack)

Trophy Hunter’s Tricorn

Remote Caffeinator

Risk of Rain 2: Console Update

The game has undergone an overhaul to improve physics, damage calculations, networking, performance, AI logic, and more.

Added Game Mode: Eclipse

This game mode adds stacking challenge modifiers to your run. Each time you beat the game, your Eclipse level permanently increases with that Survivor, up to a maximum of 8 times.

This mode is available to players playing solo. Multiplayer Eclipse mode is not currently supported on the console version of Risk of Rain 2. This feature will be added in a future patch.

Added support for the Survivors of the Void expansion.

Addressed clipping issues, especially notable with players passing through walls.

Improved knockback mechanics, and adjusted air velocity.

Adjusted certain textures that were overly opaque, resulting in obscured vision.

A new trophy has been introduced for players that defeat a new threat within the expansion.

‘Ignite’ effects are now all calculated the same way and always will deal half their damage over time.

Introduced large variants of damage, healing, and utility chests.

Cleansing pools are more common.

Artificer’s ‘Flamethrower’ now scales its damage ticks with attack speed.

Addressed an imbalance where Distant Roost had fewer interactable credits than Titanic Plains, leading to fewer interactable spawns.

Golems and Shrines can now appear snowy or sandy, in addition to their regular look.

The game’s difficulty timer will no longer halt upon entering the Void Fields.

Void fog damage now scales with level and ignores armor, Tougher Times, Armor Plating, and Planula.

D-pad navigation within game menus is now active!

Updated various item descriptions, tooltips, and visuals to improve clarity.

Bug fixes.

Additional notes: none
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Risk of Rain 2 – Ver. 1.0.10 (Anniversary Update)

Release date: August 17th 2021 (North America, Europe) / August 18th 2021 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Console Specific:

New Map added: Sundered Grove

Major Content:

Added System: Morgue + Account Stats

Browse past runs and all of your account stats – like favorite survivors, progress to completion, or your favorite equipment – now in the Logbook!

Added New Survivor

New Survivor: Bandit

Added New Survivor Skin

New Survivor Skin: Bandit Skin

Added 5 New Items

New Lunar Item: Hooks of Heresy

New Lunar Item: Essence of Heresy

New Boss Item: Empathy Cores

New Boss Item: Charged Perforator

New Boss Item: Planula

Added 5 New Skill Variants

New Skill Variant: MUL-T Special

New Skill Variant: Mercenary Utility

New Skill Variant: REX Special

New Skill Variant: Loader Special

New Skill Variant: Captain Utility

Added 1 New Monster

New Monster: Lunar Chimera (Exploder)

Added 1 New Elite

New Elite: Perfected

Added 1 New Boss

New Boss: Grandparent

Added New Interactable

New Interactable: Lunar Shop Refresher

Added 9 New Challenges

New Class Challenge: Bandit: Sadist

New Class Challenge: Bandit: Classic Man

New Class Challenge: Bandit: B&E

New Class Challenge: Bandit: Mastery

New Class Challenge: MUL-T: Seventh Day

New Class Challenge: Mercenary: Flash of Blades

New Class Challenge: REX: Full of Life

New Class Challenge: Loader: The Thunderdome

New Class Challenge: Captain: Smushed

Added 93 New Lore Entries

New Lore Entry: Monster Tooth

New Lore Entry: Lens-Maker’s Glasses

New Lore Entry: Paul’s Goat Hoof

New Lore Entry: Bustling Fungus

New Lore Entry: Crowbar

New Lore Entry: Tri-Tip Dagger

New Lore Entry: Warbanner

New Lore Entry: Cautious Slug

New Lore Entry: Stun Grenade

New Lore Entry: Backup Magazine

New Lore Entry: Armor-Piercing Rounds

New Lore Entry: Bison Steak

New Lore Entry: Focus Crystal

New Lore Entry: Item Scrap, White

New Lore Entry: AtG Missile Mk. 1

New Lore Entry: Infusion

New Lore Entry: Hopoo Feather

New Lore Entry: Ukulele

New Lore Entry: Leeching Seed

New Lore Entry: Red Whip

New Lore Entry: Harvester’s Scythe

New Lore Entry: Berzerker’s Pauldron

New Lore Entry: Razorwire

New Lore Entry: Brilliant Behemoth

New Lore Entry: Frost Relic

New Lore Entry: Happiest Mask

New Lore Entry: 57 Leaf Clover

New Lore Entry: Dio’s Best Friend

New Lore Entry: Wake of Vultures

New Lore Entry: Resonance Disc

New Lore Entry: Defensive Microbots

New Lore Entry: Titanic Knurl

New Lore Entry: Pearl

New Lore Entry: Irradiant Pearl

New Lore Entry: Genesis Loop

New Lore Entry: Artifact Key

New Lore Entry: Corpsebloom

New Lore Entry: Gesture of the Drowned

New Lore Entry: Beads of Fealty

New Lore Entry: Defiant Gouge

New Lore Entry: Mercurial Rachis

New Lore Entry: Empathy Cores

New Lore Entry: Essence of Heresy

New Lore Entry: Effigy of Grief

New Lore Entry: Spinel Tonic

New Lore Entry: Disposable Missile Launcher

New Lore Entry: Foreign Fruit

New Lore Entry: Primordial Cube

New Lore Entry: Royal Capacitor

New Lore Entry: Radar Scanner

New Lore Entry: Eccentric Vase

New Lore Entry: Volcanic Egg

New Lore Item: Hooks of Heresy

New Lore Item: Essence of Heresy

New Lore Item: Empathy Cores

New Lore Item: Charged Perforator

New Lore Item: Planula

New Lore Entry: Lesser Wisp

New Lore Entry: Lemurian

New Lore Entry: Hermit Crab

New Lore Entry: Solus Probe

New Lore Entry: Brass Contraption

New Lore Entry: Bighorn Bison

New Lore Entry: Stone Golem

New Lore Entry: Clay Templar

New Lore Entry: Greater Wisp

New Lore Entry: Elder Lemurian

New Lore Entry: Lunar Chimera (Exploder)

New Lore Entry: Beetle Queen

New Lore Entry: Stone Titan

New Lore Entry: Aurelionite

New Lore Entry: Wandering Vagrant

New Lore Entry: Magma Worm

New Lore Entry: Grovetender

New Lore Entry: Imp Overlord

New Lore Entry: Scavenger

New Lore Entry: Overloading Worm

New Lore Entry: Grandparent

New Lore Entry: Distant Roost

New Lore Entry: Rallypoint Delta

New Lore Entry: Scorched Acres

New Lore Entry: Siren’s Call

New Lore Entry: Hidden Realm: Gilded Coast

New Lore Entry: Hidden Realm: Void Fields

New Lore Entry: Hidden Realm: Bazaar Between Time

New Lore Entry: Hidden Realm: A Moment, Whole

New Lore Entry: Sundered Grove

New Lore Entry: Commando

New Lore Entry: Engineer

New Lore Entry: Acrid

New Lore Entry: Loader

New Lore Entry: Mercenary

New Lore Entry: Bandit

Gameplay Changes:

• General

• Final Stage

• The final stage has been redone entirely, with unique objectives and a new, large arena to play in. We won’t spoil it. Please let us know how you feel!

• Low Health Threshold

• 20%⇒ 25%

• NPC AI

• All AI now have dramatically improved pathfinding

• All AI now gets position updates on targets who are invisible only every few seconds, rather than losing the target entirely

• Minions

• Drones no longer have resistance to AOE attacks

• All minions now teleport to their owner if they stray past 400m

• All Minions now scale to the ‘ambient level’ of the run

• Developer’s Notes: The ‘ambient level’ is the level of the run that grows over time. Previously, the enemy team used the ‘ambient level’ to set their level. Now, all enemies AND minions are at ambient level. The result of this is that player minions, like ghosts from Happiest Mask, purchased Drones, and yes – the Squid Polyp – will scale much better over time. This matches drone scaling in RoR1.

• Survivor

• Commando

• Update VFX of Double Tap, Phase Round, and Suppressive Fire

• Double Tap

○ * Now fires a single bullet per click

○ Bloom Reset Time: 1s ⇒0.7s

○ Damage: 90% ⇒ 100%

○ Duration: 0.2s ⇒ 0.15s

• Tactical Dive

○ Duration: 0.5s ⇒ 0.4s

• Phase Round

○ Now deals 40% more damage every time it passes through an enemy

• Huntress

• Now unlocked by default alongside the Commando! Her previous unlock condition (beat the 3rd stage) now unlocks the Bandit.

• Engineer

• Both Gauss Auto-Turret and Carbonizer Turret now also inherit your equipment. They won’t activate it, but they will hold it.

• Grenades now have slight anti-gravity.

• Artificer

• Nano-Bomb

○ Tendril Damage: 20% of explosion ⇒ 10% of explosion

○ Tendril Fire Frequency: 0.25s ⇒ 0.125s

○ Tendril Same Target Frequency: 2s ⇒ 1s

○ Developer Notes: This change is made specifically to avoid the Artificer’s Nano-Bomb tendrils proccing Ice and Fire Bands. The tendrils will now fire twice as often, but at half the damage.

• Mercenary

• Blinding Assault

Now has a lingering 0.2s invincibility to help chain together Blinding Assaults in high-latency online games

• Items

• Bustling Fungus

• Start Delay: 2s ⇒ 1s

• Now heals at a higher tick rate – overall healing is the same, but the healing is smoother over time

• Now has small visual mushrooms that grow over the area

• Energy Drink

• Speed Boost: 30% (+20% per stack) ⇒ 25% (+25% per stack)

• Developer Notes: Mathematically, the Energy Drink was worse than the Goat Hoof for speed after the first pickup, even while sprinting. This change will consistently make Energy Drink stronger when sprinting, and also makes its stacking behavior more consistent. This may make the Energy Drink too strong, but it’ll at least make a bit more sense now.

• AP Rounds

• Improve visual effects to be more noticeable

• Focus Crystal

• Damage Boost: 15% (+15% per stack) ⇒ 20% (+20% per stack)

• Now shows radius for ‘nearby’ distance

• Now causes numbers to be pink when active

• Developer Notes: There are many characters and builds where the Focus Crystal should shine through – however, it never seems to be quite high priority enough for the effort required. We’re hoping that by making it both flashier and stronger, players will prioritize it.

• Rusted Key

• Now subtly glows and pulses

• Now grants items at the same rarity as a Large Chest

• Now spawns a Lockbox per player with a Rusted Key

• Now consumes a Rusted Key when a lockbox is opened, and requires a Rusted Key to open

• No longer scales reward chance with the number of Keys in your inventory

• Developer Notes: People have always been a bit confused about the behavior of the Rusted Key, so we made it make a bit more sense by actually consuming a key to open. 1 Key = 1 Box. Since the item no longer gives ‘infinite’ items, we can also make it a bit stronger and make the lockbox more noticeable.

• Crowbar

• Damage Boost: +50%(+50% per stack) ⇒ +75% (+75% per stack)

• Improve visual effects to be more noticeable

• Update pickup text to include the damage threshold

• Developer Notes: Same reasoning as Focus Crystal – there are many heavy-hitter builds and characters, but Crowbars aren’t prioritized.

• Gasoline

• Now deals 150% base damage on detonation alongside the burn effect

• Stun Grenade

• Added visual effect when the item procs

• Bison Steak (New! Yum!)

• Replaced ‘Fresh Meat’ item

• No longer grants regeneration on kill

• Now grants 25 (+25 per stack) max health

• Tri-Tip Dagger

• Bleed Chance: 15% (+15% per stack) ⇒ 10% (+10% per stack)

• Developer Notes: Right now, bleed is okay until you can stack it infinitely, in which case it becomes incredibly strong. We want to smooth out the power curve a bit, increasing the number of daggers required for ‘infinite’ bleed to match the number of Glasses required for 100% crit.

• Lepton Daisy

• Now activates in all ‘holdout zones’, like Void Fields, and not just during the Teleporter Event

• Old War Stealthkit

• Now activates when falling to low health, rather than as a chance when hurt

• Stealth Duration: 3s (+1.5s per stack) ⇒ 5s

• Stealth Cooldown: 0s ⇒ 30s (-50% per stack)

• Bandolier

• Packs now restocks skills by the amount a full cooldown would

• Packs now also apply to stashed skills, like MUL-T’s second primary

• Radar Scanner

• Now details if an interactable is a Barrel, Chest, Drone, Shrine, or something unknown

• Frost Relic

• Now applies ice slow debuff

• Now has a softer visual

• Damage Coefficient: 150% ⇒ 300%

• Radius: 3m (+1.5m per kill) ⇒ 6m (+3m per kill)

• H3AD-5T v2

• Now calculates damage from distance traveled, not speed on impact

• Developer Notes: Even though this makes less sense from a physics standpoint, it will align better with player expectations. Super long fall = big boom.

• Resonance Disk

• Redo firing logic to be more understandable

• Now grants 1 stacking buff per kill, lasting 5 seconds

• Now fires the Disk at 4 stacks, resetting all stacks

• Defiant Gouge

• Monster Spawn Points: 100 (+100 per stack) ⇒ 40 (+40 per stack)

• Developer Notes: A single Gouge would spawn way too many monsters. Now, having 1 or 2 Gouges should be a reasonable option.

• Focused Convergence

• Now activates in all ‘holdout zones’, like Void Fields, and not just during the Teleporter Event

• Queen’s Gland

• Limit of deployed Beetle Guards now doubles for Artifact of Swarms

• Halcyon Seed

• Changed summoned Aurelionite pre-stack scaling from current-difficulty-based hp + damage bonuses to leveling up to the ambient level like other summoned characters

• Summoned Aurelionite attention span: 5s ⇒ 15s

• Developer Notes: Aurelionite’s raised attention span should make it less likely to get distracted by weaker monsters attacking it so it’s more likely to spend its time fighting stronger monsters.

• Mired Urn

• No longer capable of targeting and healing from allies

• Monster

• Hermit Crab

• Base Damage: 4 (+0.8 per level) ⇒ 12 (+2.4 per level)

• Mortar Projectile Count: 3 ⇒ 1

• Mortar Projectile now has more visible trail

• Developer Notes: When fighting Hermit Crabs, it’s always been difficult to parse where and how many there are. To help clarify their behavior, we made it clearer so 1 mortar = 1 crab.

• Parent

• Health: 900(+270 per level) ⇒ 585 (+176 per level)

• Update visuals to match closer to RoR1 design

• Update animations

• Greater Wisp

• Can now be stunned and frozen

• Lunar Chimera (Golem)

• Health: 1900 (+570 per level) ⇒ 1615 (+485 per level)

• Twinshot Attack

○ * Total Shots: 4 ⇒ 10

○ Damage Coefficient: 2 ⇒ 1

○ Force: 8000 ⇒ 1000

○ Now fires in series, rather than all at once

○ Update visuals to be less noisy

• Raised the aim origin to be closer to its cannons so it can fire more accurately

• Lunar Chimera (Wisp)

• Tracking Bomb

○ Damage Coefficient: 6 ⇒ 5

○ Speed: 90 m/s ⇒ 60 m/s

○ Update visuals to be less noisy

• Beetle Queen

• Summon Beetles

○ Beetle Count: 5 ⇒ 2

○ Now summons Beetle Guards instead of Beetles

• Scavenger

• Now properly spawn as elites

• Developer Notes: Apparently, Scavengers were already spawning as elites – with their health and damage buff – but did not have their elite equipment (Burning, Glacial, etc). Now they will.

• Void Reaver

• Added a minimum distance between bombs

•SPOILERS! Final Boss, Last Phase. SPOILERS!

• Base Health: 1000 (+300 per level) ⇒ 1400 (+420 per level)

• Added stagger state triggered by taking high damage

• Item Steal

○ * Now consistently returns items as you deal damage, rather than randomly, i.e if you have him at 50% health, you will have 50% of your items back

○ Now consistently returns items to players in multiplayer in order (1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4) rather than per-player damage

○ Now returns items in the order that you found them, rather than in reverse order

○ Now utilizes Crowbars

• Stages

• Bazaar Between Time

• Now allows you to reroll shop contents, at the cost of 1/2/4/8… lunar coins

• Wetland Aspect

• Altered stage layout to add more identifiable landmark areas

• Sky Meadows

• Reduce initial map monster spawns by -24%

Bug Fixes:

Fixed boss items spawning more frequently than intended, especially when more items drop from multiplayer or Mountain Shrine bonuses

Fixed large rocks in Titanic Plains clipping into the camera

Altered geometry slightly to make more difficult to accidentally go out of bounds on many stages

Abandoned Aqueduct now has defensive tar fully circling outside of the play area

Fixed korean language characters missing in certain cases

Fixed some animation issues on the Loader

Fixed physics issues with Commando’s Frag Grenades

Fixed certain drones not having 360° vision, causing them to attack or heal less

Fixed Lunar Chimera’s death animations not matching the sound timings

Fixed more occlusion issues in Sundered Grove and other maps that cause objects to disappear at certain camera angles

Fixed certain survivors not removing their limbs when picking up Paul’s Goat Hoof or the Royal Capacitor

Fixed Helfire Tincture’s burning effect being offset

Fixed Chain Lightning and Razorwire making trail renderers that were not being cleaned up, potentially causing infinite objects in the scene

Fixed Mini Mushrums making hitboxes that were not being cleaned up, potentially causing infinite objects in the scene

Fixed certain effects incorrectly rendering while the player has invisibility

Fixed enemy Beetle Guards not appearing in Void Fields or with Artifact of Dissonance

Fixed Vultures having base health regeneration

Fixed the ending sequence explosions missing an authority check, causing it to fire additional projectiles for every client in the game

Fixed Stone Titan and Aurelionite missing an authority check, causing them to fire an additional projectile for every client in the game

Fixed broken drones spawning underground

Fixed several monsters playing death sounds and creating the usual visual effects when vanished by Void Reavers

Engi Grenades now properly play impact sounds

Fixed Alien Head particles not being affected by invisibility

Fixed Titan’s laser lock-on only being calculated once, rather than continuously re-evaluating

Fixed Titan’s laser lock-on not respecting invisibility

Fixed clients not being able to use the exit portal in A Moment, Fractured

Fixed the final boss’s crystals not being correctly colored

Enemies who are stunned, frozen, or shocked no longer continue to turn

Fixed dedicated server sometimes capturing the mouse cursor

Fixed transparent blue spawn point debug visualizers for certain map objects (like explosive pots) being visible to non-host players

Fixed game browser not filtering out lobbies and servers running on a different version of the game

Fixed Solus Control Unit not being selected as a boss due to a misconfigured spawn card

Solved an issue where Captain’s secondary would not stun the enemy.

Solved an issue where the Malachite Urchin enemies would remain visible after defeating them.

Increased the size of the Brass Contraption hitbox.

Solved an issue where the game would freeze during the last Mithrix phase as the Heretic.

Solved an issue where the Ravenous Bite healing passive would not activate.

Solved an issue where the Mercenary Focused alternative utility skill would not apply the expose debuff.

Solved an issue with the ending cinematic not fading out properly.

Solved an issue where the UI would not display in the ‘Music & More’ menu.

Solved an issue when pressing the Info Screen button on the main menu would lock character selection.

Solved an issue where destroying rocks, pots, or vulture eggs would cause infinite missiles to spawn.

Solved an issue where the Sticky Bomb item would not correctly deal 180% damage.

Solved an issue where Huntress would die after blinking out of AOE damage.

Solved an issue where the Sawmerang would not deal damage upon hit.

Solved an issue where Captain’s Orbital Supply Beacons cannot be called on the Commencement stage.

Solved an issue where Profile Stats would not display localized text.

Additional notes: none
Source: Gearbox

Risk of Rain 2 – Ver. 1.0.8 (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.