PC Update Information

Patch Notes - September 1, 2020 

Gameplay Changes

• Captain
  • Captain’s Supply Drop now presses the buttons on Abandoned Aqueduct

• Equipment Drone
  • Now recharges equipment much faster, approximately 5x as often. We don’t expect Equipment Drones to suddenly become super strong, but there may be a few cases where it is now worthwhile.

• SPOILERS! Final Boss, Last Phase. SPOILERS!
• Developer Notes: The goal with these changes is to make the final phase of the fight more consistent, fix a few softlock scenarios, and to remove a few cheeses. The expectation is that with these changes, the final phase (and only the final phase) will be much easier. We want this to be a fun phase, not a frustrating conclusion.
• Remove “unique” scaling on health and damage. This has a significant reduction on the way his health and damage scales over time, especially later into the run. Expect him to have less than half of the current live build, depending on time.
  • Lunar Shard Attack
    • Projectile Cone: 20° ⇒ 0.5°
    • Developer Notes: The intent for this change is to reduce the cone that the attacks come out of, reducing the chance you randomly get hit by a stray shot.
  • Energy Ball Attack
    • Damage Coefficient: 1000% ⇒ 700%
    •  Knockback Force: 400 ⇒ 4000%
    •  Projectile Radius: 3m ⇒ 2m
    •  Now glows with a stronger effect to make it more visually noticeable, especially when swinging around corners
  • Item Steal
    • Add immunity while channeling.
    • Can no longer use Mired Urn and Crowbars. He will take them, but will be unable to use them. This is a mechanic we already have in place for a few key items (Razorwire, Tougher Times) that can cause softlocks or impossible scenarios.
    • Now steals items from minions, like Engineer Turrets. He won’t use the items he takes from minions.
    • Minions can now retrieve items for their owner.

• Add visual effect to Tesla Coil being active

Bug Fixes

• Fix certain network prediction projectiles appearing to bounce off targets instead of disappearing as intended
• Fix Mercenary’s Blinding Assault duration scaling from attack speed 
• Fix Mercenary’s Blinding Assault having missing iframes on startup
• Reduce Mercenary’s Blinding Assault hitpause duration to 0.1 from 0.15 to match pre-1.0 hitpause values
• Fix Gorag’s Opus not working on Captain, Engi, or Equipment Drones
• Fix the fog on the last stage being entirely opaque if soft particles are disabled
• Fix Captain’s airstrike dealing 1500%/500%/500% damage into dealing 1000%/1000%/1000% damage
• Fix Wandering Vagrant’s portrait having a double red outline
• Fix Forgive Me Please not triggering Frost Relic
• Fix Forgive Me Please not triggering Berzerker’s Pauldrons
• Fix Loader Thunder Gauntlet not bouncing
• Remove luck from Artifact Key drop calculation since it can cause soft-locks with Purity
• Consumed Dio’s is now considered unremovable, and the scrapper no longer gets clogged if somehow there is an untiered item inserted
• Update some missing people in special thanks
• Fix dedicated servers not showing in game browser
• Fix game browser trying to connect to dedicated servers via steam p2p instead of ip
• Fix incorrect boss track on Sky Meadows
• Fix Titan eye glow and foliage missing
• Fix Captain’s shocking beacon missing name when pinged
• Fix unchecking "Show Started Games" in the Games Browser still showing started games
• Fix scrap interaction with cauldrons
• Fix Visions of Heresy interacting with Captain's orbital drop
• Fix Captain getting a new defense drone every time he scraps
• Fix REX being executed by freezes
• Fix Prismatic Trials counting your run in leaderboards when you die
• Fix Meat Hook causing a cascade of issues, preventing certain on-hit effects from working when it would trigger
• Fix Shadowfade not being usable by Captain in hidden realms
• Fix “Killed by: The Planet” for players who weren’t dead at the end of the run
• Fix Merc expose mechanic not awarding cooldown reduction to non-host players over the network
• Fix Captain umbra only spawning one Captain with Swarms
• Fix Captain showing up in logbook before commando
• Fix Final Boss health bar not showing for clients (including phase 2)
• Fix final boss fight sometimes not triggering
• Fix Little Disciple always triggering once as soon as it’s picked up, regardless of sprint state
• Fix Imp Overlord void spike fan firing sound not playing on non-host machines
• Fix Imp Overlord void spike fan chosen animation not being the same over the network
• Fix missing out-of-bound floor under the starting room for the final stage
• Fix Lunar Chimera (Wisp) sound loop still playing after death
• Fix a floating node in Sky Meadows
• Fix a gap in the final boss arena causing you to get stuck
• Fix the ceiling in the final boss arena not being solid for projectiles and Lunar Chimera (Wisp)
• Fix Void Fields safe zones on Eclipse 2 being larger than the actual charging radius
• Fix Server Browser not refreshing by default, only shows 1 person when you click it for the first time
• Fix custom languages from appearing in the main menu dropdown if they are missing essential files
• Fix MUL-T’s Rebar Puncher effect leaving behind objects that aren’t cleaned up until scene exit
• Fix Milky Chrysalis flight not being refreshed if used while in exhaustion descent
• Fix Void Reaver death chain reactions
• Fix Forgive Me Please not animating or playing effects on non-host machines
• Healing numbers are properly green

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Content Update 5 Hotfix - August 13, 2020

Hi. First and foremost, thank you all so much for jumping into the 1.0 Update. It has been a ton of fun for the team to watch streams, read reviews, hang out in the Discord, and even hop in some multiplayer games with the community.

Since the update on Tuesday, we’ve been working and compiling the first targeted hotfix patch. There will also be another more comprehensive patch to follow, as with all of our previous Content Updates

• Players are getting marooned on a remote island on the final stage. 
• Players can create infinite loops with Forgive Me Please and Soulbound Catalyst 

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Early Access Content Update 5 – August 11, 2020

This is the fifth major content update for Risk of Rain 2 on PC, marking the 1.0 version of the game. With this update we are focusing on the ending sequence of the game and promoting player agency + build diversity.

 

This Content Update will be coming to consoles in the near future - for details on how our Content Updates get ported to console versions, check out our previous Development Thoughts here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/632360/announcements/detail/1588003708938246571

 

Changes with the ‘🌧’ icon in front of them are changes or additions suggested by the community. As always, if you want to stay up to date on the game feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/riskofrain2

Major Content

• Added System: Game Ending
  • The game now includes a proper ending, with credits and cutscene.
• Added System: Server Browser
  • Quickplay served an important function at launch, but the QP featureset is barebones. Not only that, but the game has evolved past needing to just find a match - you need to find the right match. We think a built-in Server Browser (and hosting) will still allow you to connect and find other players easily, while also providing a lot of the features and choices you want to make before connecting to a game.

• 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
  • ExposeHeavy

 

• 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!)

Quality of Life

• 🌧 Added a language dropdown menu to the main menu
• Audio has received an overall mix pass
• Reduced the audio levels of the Magma Worm, Imp Overlord, and Clay Dunestrider
• Updated the Teleporter model
• Updated the Ukulele model
• Improved Infusion vfx to be more noticeable
• Reduced brightness of some Mercenary effects so they are less white and have more color
• Fixed dithering for several on-character item displays
• Updated the kick system to be able to supply detailed messages and enforce version matching when connecting to a server
• Added functionality for servers and lobbies to provide mod info and reject players for mismatches
• Servers can now define behavior to run upon entering character select by supplying a “server_pregame.cfg” config file
• Updated “MUL-T: Gotcha!” challenge to allow Preon tendrils to count toward completion
• A bunch of other stuff we probably forgot!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with spread from bloom being applied to both minimum and maximum spread (ie you could never have a bullet travel dead-center when your spread bloom is at maximum) for Commando’s Phase Blast, Huntress’ Ballista, and MUL-T’s Rebar Puncher
• Fixed potential physics crash that could occur if a character attempts to use a melee attack after crossfading into a new animation from a paused animation
• Fixed immobilization from Void Reavers and REX’s Tangling Growth becoming permanent if using Wax Quail while affected, which would also sometimes lead to a crash upon getting killed
• Fixed Repulsion Armor Plate not applying against posthumously dealt damage
• Fixed Visions of Heresy allowing Huntress’ Ballista to exceed three shots
• All gameplay stats are now forced to update before generating the final run report to make sure all values are up-to-date at the end screen
• Fixed MUL-T’s Nailgun not properly animating over the network
• Fixed some projectiles not playing their pre-expiration sounds over the network
• Fixed several sounds not being played over the network
• Fixed a timing issue in which lobby player count would not update immediately after a player leaves the lobby
• Fixed a variety of other bugs we also probably forgot!

Known Issues

• There are none, this game is perfect

 

And… scene. This patch is enormous for us, and we really tried hard - I hope you all like it. As always, we’re listening to feedback and tracking any bugs that we find for 1.0 release. We’ll do a Dev Thoughts later this week to compile everyone’s feedback. See you on the planet.

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Early Access Patch - April 21, 2020

Hi!

This is a bug fix patch to address issues that came up in the first week of the Artifacts 2.0 Update most of which were reported by the community. As we mentioned in the Artifacts 2.0 Patch Notes, this was our biggest and most complex update so far and we are very happy to see so many players enjoying the new content. The number of new players joining in on Risk of Rain 2 and our community have been insane the last couple weeks, so thank you all so much. 

 

=== Gameplay Changes ===

• Change the way Artifact of Sacrifice works with initial spawns
• Remove Metamorphosis from being selected in Prismatic Trials
• Change the amount of Hordes of Many that were spawning as the teleporter boss
• Change the wording for challenge ‘Huntress: Finishing Touch’
• Change challenge ‘Commando: Godspeed’ completion requirement from completing the first stage to charging the first teleporter
• Recycler will no longer consume an equipment charge when activated without a target
• Perform Swarms artifact max health reduction after all other max health calculations (elite monsters will have less health than before)

 

=== Bug Fixes ===

• Fix the Recycler rolling the same item twice
• Fix Artificer being able to hit herself with projectiles when backed up against a wall
• Fix Artifact of Sacrifice working on allies
• Remove Overgrown 3D Printers from Hidden Realm: Bulwark’s Ambry
• Fix Focus Convergence from stacking with Engineer Turrets
• Fix a couple stuck spots on the Sky Meadow
• Fix some portals being tilted randomly
• Fix Automation Activation Challenge progress carrying over between runs
• Fix a typo in the Repulsion Armor log entry
• Fix an issue that caused the Pressure/Spider Mines cooldown to restart when opening the Thermal Harpoons target menu
• Fix an issue with Squid Polyps sometimes spawning underground
• Fix an issue with the challenge ‘Cleanup Duty’ not properly working online
• Fix the teleporter not instantly reaching full charge on killing the Prismatic Trials boss
• Fix and cleanup some SFX issues that were causing performance degradation over time
• Fix a floating Newt Altar spawn on the Stage Variant for Distant Roost
• Fix challenge ‘MUL-T: Pest Control’ not being properly awarded
• Fix enemies benefiting from Repulsion Armor more than players
• Fix the initial monster spawn on Hidden Realm: Void Fields not populating the HUD
• Fix the Hungering Gaze being reset by Thermal Harpoons
• Fix the Huntress being able to target herself with Artifact of Chaos on
• Fix the Artifact of Command drops not using the same collision behavior as pickups and getting stuck in walls/ceilings
• Fix an issue preventing Stone Titan regional skins from being used
• Fix MUL-T’s Power Saw skill not performing self-pull force on non-host clients
• Fix Void Reaver’s attack proc coefficient not actually being updated

Thanks again for everyone's enthusiasm and feedback on our latest update. With this patch out in the wild we are now transitioning to working full time on our 1.0 launch update! 

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Early Access Content Update 4 – March 31, 2020

 

This is the fourth major content update for Risk of Rain 2 on PC. With this update we are focusing on long-term content, replayability, and flexibility in the way you play.

 

This Content Update will be coming to consoles in the near future - for details on how our Content Updates get ported to console versions, check out our previous Development Thoughts here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/632360/announcements/detail/1588003708938246571

 

Changes with the ‘🌧’ icon in front of them are changes or additions suggested by the community. As always, if you want to stay up to date on the game feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/riskofrain2

 

==== Major Content====

• 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 System: UI Overhaul
  • This is something we have been looking forward to doing since the launch of Early Access. We primarily wanted to improve the visuals of the UI and finally get rid of the on-screen cursor for gamepad users. There are about a million changes with this change. Did anyone ask for this? No. Did it take a bunch of time? Yes. Was it worth it? No. Am I writing the patch notes? Yes. Is it at the top so you have to read it? Yes.

• Updated System: Unity 2018.4.16f1
  • Update project to Unity 2018.4.16f1. This will help with a bunch of things, but the major reason for upgrading was to fix late game crashes. It may also be our imagination, but we’ve also noticed general performance improvements.

• 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

 

==== Gameplay Changes ==== 

General

• Initial Monster Spawns
• 🌧 Allow initial monster spawns on the first stage
• Update spawn logic so initial monsters spawns aren’t nearby players
• Update spawn logic to allow elite monsters
• 🌧 Update how AOE falloff is calculated to be more accurate
  • Developer Notes: This affects AOE attacks that did less damage at the edges, like Commando’s Grenade and MUL-T’s Scrap Launcher. They should now do full damage with a direct impact - however, this also affects enemies as well!
• Characters with damage interrupt thresholds like Lesser Wisp and Lemurian now use total damage received instead of incoming damage with a crit modifier when determining whether or not they should be interrupted when hit. This makes these interrupts more likely when using items that modify damage like Crowbar and Focus Crystal.

Survivors

• Huntress
  • Add 1 New Skill Variant
  • Improve Huntress tracker visuals to be a bit more clear
  • Arrow Rain / Ballista
    • 🌧 Cooldown: 17s ⇒ 12s
  • Strafe
    • Fire Rate: 0.6s ⇒ 0.5s
    • Travel Speed: 60m/s ⇒ 120m/s
    • Improve VFX
• Commando
  • Add 1 New Skill Variant
  • Phase Round
    • 🌧 Damage: 200% ⇒ 300%
• REX
  • Bramble Volley
    • Cooldown: 2.0s ⇒ 5.0s
    • Proc Coefficient: 0 ⇒ 0.5 
    • Developer Notes: Cooldowns aren’t displayed anywhere in character select, and are generally a lame way to balance Skill Variants 
• Mercenary
  • Slicing Winds
    • Cooldown: 7.0s ⇒ 6.0s
    • Developer Notes: Cooldowns aren’t displayed anywhere in character select, and are generally a lame way to balance similar Skill Variants 
• Acrid
  • Add 2 New Skill Variants
  • Improve Acrid’s poison VFX
  • Caustic Leap
    • The damage from the acid pool is no longer non-lethal

 

• Engineer
  • Add 1 new Skill Variant
  • Add 1 new Skin
  • 🌧 Update animations on falling, landing, sprinting, walking and jumping
  • Bubble Shield
    • Increase shield warning flash by 0.5 second and tweak visuals to be softer
  • Now displays selected mine and turret variants in the Character Select screen

Items

• Infusion
  • Max Health per kill: 1 hp ⇒ 1 hp (+1 per stack)
    • Developer Notes: The cap remains unchanged, but it will fill up faster.
• Medkit
  • Heal: 15 hp (+15 per stack) ⇒ 25 hp (+25 per stack)
  • Heal delay: 2.0s ⇒ 3.0s
• Royal Capacitor
  • Lightning now strikes where the target was 0.3s before the strike lands, instead of where they currently are. 
  • Add new visuals warning before lightning strikes
  • Add glow and improve visuals so it’s more noticeable (hmm…)
• Spectral Circlet
  • 🌧 Is no longer invisible and missing an icon
• Stun Grenade
  • Chance to trigger now scales by proc coefficient
• Gasoline
  • Now checks against hurtboxes in a sphere instead of against root-level character positions, resulting in it hitting more often

Stages

• Scorched Acres
  • 🌧’Radar Towers’ will now properly appear
  • Can now spawn ‘Equipment Triple Shop’
• Siren’s Call
  • 🌧’Radar Towers’ will now properly appear
  • Improve overall stage performance
  • Update rock formations in certain caves
• Stage Variant: Distant Roost
  • Improve overall stage performance and monster pathfinding
• Stage Variant: Titanic Plains
  • Improve overall stage performance and monster pathfinding 
• Hidden Realm: Void Fields
  • 🌧 Time is now stopped in ‘Void Fields’
  • 🌧 Update ‘Cell Vents’ to only charge while the player remains inside the bubble
  • 🌧 Fix health degeneration not running on the final round of Cells
  • Enemy item indicator on the HUD now displays the number of item stacks
• Abandoned Aqueduct
  • 🌧 Disable Ice & Fire Elder Lemurians from spawning if the gate isn’t legitimately opened. We see you, Mr Streamer.

 

Monsters & Bosses

• Lesser Wisp
  • Improve performance
  • Increase size of fire effect so they look fuller
• Lemurian
  • Update mesh and textures
• Imp Overlord
  • Improve performance
• Greater Wisp
  • 🌧Base Armor: 1 ⇒ 0
• Bighorn Bison
  • Max Health: 600 (+180 per level) ⇒ 480 (+144 per level)
    • Developer Notes: We aim for monsters to have, depending on their role, an approximate “health per director point” ratio. Some outliers had significantly higher health for what they cost to spawn, so we’re aiming to normalize these outliers.
• Beetle Guard
  • Max Health: 600 (+180 per level) ⇒ 480 (+144 per level)
    • Developer Notes: We aim for monsters to have, depending on their role, an approximate “health per director point” ratio. Some outliers had significantly higher health for what they cost to spawn, so we’re aiming to normalize these outliers.
• Imp
  • Max Health: 200 (+60 per level) ⇒ 140 (+42 per level)
    • Developer Notes: We aim for monsters to have, depending on their role, an approximate “health per director point” ratio. Some outliers had significantly higher health for what they cost to spawn, so we’re aiming to normalize these outliers.
• Alloy Vulture
  • Max Health: 200 (+60 per level) ⇒ 140 (+42 per level)
    • Developer Notes: We aim for monsters to have, depending on their role, an approximate “health per director point” ratio. Some outliers had significantly higher health for what they cost to spawn, so we’re aiming to normalize these outliers.
• Beetle
  • 🌧Change bullseye hurtbox from the chest to the head so Huntress can attack earlier during the spawn animation
• Void Reaver
  • Nullifier Bomb
    • 🌧Proc Coefficient: 0 ⇒ 1
    • Delay Time: 2s ⇒ 1s
  • Add missing animations and elite displays
  • Change AI movement behavior
• Grovetender
  • 🌧 Improve accuracy of hurtboxes
  • 🌧 Fix corpse continuing to play idle sound loop after death
• Clay Dunestrider
  • 🌧Improve accuracy of hurtboxes
• Scavenger
  • 🌧 Can no longer spawn with Ceremonial Daggers
    • Developer Notes: We’re comfortable with Scavengers being a bit BS at times - as long as it’s fun. Preon Accumulator, Capacitor, Disposable Missile Launchers, etc are crazy strong but still fun and have moments of cooldown. Ceremonial Daggers had no downtime, had infinite range, and had no cooldown.
• Twisted Scavenger
  • Max Health: 3800 (+1140 per level) ⇒ 3230 (+969 per level)
  • Now properly spawns with unique boss health and damage scaling (Aurelionite, Alloy Worship Unit)
    • Developer Notes: This is an enormous change, but was always intended. Expect the Twisted Scavengers to be SIGNIFICANTLY more challenging - Beads of Fealty should now be a significant risk vs reward. They should be treated as a powerful optional boss.
• Twiptwip the Devotee
  • Remove 3 ‘Tougher Times’
  • Remove 3 ‘Personal Shield Generators’
  • Add 2 ‘Gasoline’
  • Add 3 ‘Chronobauble’
  • Add 3 ‘Lens-maker’s Glasses’

Prismatic Trials

• 🌧 Now spawns with a random selection of Artifacts!
• 🌧 Fix stage object rotation randomization not being seeded

Achievements

• Huntress: Piercing Wind can now also be achieved on Scorched Acres

 

==== SFX Updates ====

• Fix Foreign Fruit not playing its activation SFX correctly over the network
• Fix The Back-up equipment not playing activation SFX correctly over the network
• Fix Engineer Bouncing Grenades firing SFX and effects not playing for anyone but the client playing as the Engineer
• Fix Mercenary Whirlwind not playing SFX for anyone but the client playing as Mercenary and not applying forward self-force when playing as a non-host client
• Clean up explosion sound setups for several projectiles allowing them to play their explosion SFX correctly over the network
• Update SFX setup for several effects that could fail to play if the VFX budget is exceeded

 

==== QOL ====

• 🌧 Update AI so they don’t strafe off cliffs as much
• Update AI pathfinding so they are less likely to backtrack to positions along their path that they overshot
• 🌧 Move ‘Unlimited’ option to far right of FPS limit in settings
• Add optional MSAA (Default to 2x) in Options menu for UI ‘jaggies’
• Add a new death visual effect for players so it’s clearer when they die
• Update Quickplay icon
• Update Ally Indicator to make it more useful when trying to find allies
• Update Boss position indicators to show a fading marker when reentering the center of the screen to help locate bosses behind objects
• 🌧 Update ‘Time Crystals’ and ‘Explosive Pots’ to have proper character model setup and proper strings so they are highlighted and named when pinged
• 🌧 Update ‘Cell Vent’ safe icon to a shield so it's not the same as the Void Reaver’s debuff
• 🌧 Add new glyphs for DualShock controller from PEW's PS4 Port (woo!)
• 🌧 Update Game End Report to use special strings and icon if no killer is found
• 🌧 Update Fusion Cells and Explosive Pots so they can detonate each other
• Add portrait icon for Newt
• 🌧 Change mouse sensitivity from 1-10 instead of 0.01-1
• Change 'Steam Build ID' string to 'ver' string so its smaller
• Change "Killed by" text to be right-aligned so it can fit longer names
• Change 'Exit' in Title Menu to 'Quit to Desktop'
• Update ping functionality to use the same method of raycast modification used for object interaction to make it more likely to hit what you’re looking at

==== Bug Fixes====

• 🌧 Fix for "black screen" issue by preventing a host player from trying to connect to itself when lobby ownership is somehow lost
• 🌧 Fix ‘Alloy Worship Unit’ boss event not beginning if multiple eggs are destroyed in 1 frame
• 🌧 Fix 1-frame flash when changing loadout panels from different survivors
• 🌧 Fix inverted checkmark/no checkmark on Fullscreen setting in SettingsPanel
• 🌧 Fix issue which caused blast attacks to calculate hit distance based on the center of the hit hurtbox instead of the closest point. The overall effect of this is that blast attacks with falloff will do more damage since objects will now be considered closer than they were, especially against monsters with large hurtboxes like the Stone Titan. 
• 🌧 Fix ‘Cosmic Explorer’ not counting the portal to the Void Fields
• 🌧 Fix ‘Old Guillotine’ item not checking if the victim body is immune to executes (no more instantly killing yourself with Old Guillotine, Wake of Vultures, and Glowing Meteorite/Helfire Tincture)
• 🌧 Remove stray backslash from Lunar Dagger description English string
• Fix issue where running up against walls would cause the camerato get extremely close
• Fix some sprites being on the wrong z-plane in the Game End Report causing weird distortions
• Fix ‘Disable HUD’ setting not saving when closing the game
• 🌧 Fix Scavenger gaining a permanent armor buff if interrupted while searching its bag for an item, like when activating Volcanic Egg
• Unhook window flashing on dedicated servers, which causes a weird window to be created
• 🌧 Fix spectators earning achievements
• 🌧 Fix MUL-T’s dash impact with heavy enemies not stunning and dealing bonus damage for clients
• Fix MUL-T’s dash impact with heavy enemies not triggering on-hit effects
• 🌧 Fix Scavenger Backpack not dropping items if it’s activated too quickly
• Fix Loadouts being lost when reconnecting to an online game
• Fix missing borders on some Commando skill icons
• 🌧 Fix REX: Mastery achievement icon using old Smoothie skin colors
• 🌧 Clarify description of Suppressive Fire to be a bit more accurate
• 🌧 Clarify REX’s passive description to be a bit more accurate
• Fix dithering on a variety of materials so it fades if the camera gets very close
• Fix wrong death sound on Acrid
• 🌧 Fix a variety of effects still showing when using Volcanic Egg and Strides of Heresy
• 🌧 Fix Chunked! challenge granting on non-teleporter boss kills
• Fix Teleporters not using the correct decal layer
• 🌧 Fix Magma Worms and similar monsters from spawning as an elite version in Prismatic Trials. Goodbye Overloading Overloading Worm.
• 🌧 Fix a variety of typos in logbook descriptions
• Fix Genesis Loop area indicator being half the actual size of the blast
• Ghosts with curse no longer have shortened lifespans
• Fix monsters always spawning facing the same direction
• Interactables that spawn outside the Teleporter radius after it begins charging (like destroyed drones) now become locked until the end of the Teleporter event
• Fix Stun Grenade being able to stun certain characters with stun immunity (mainly survivors)
• Fix non-Teleporter boss encounters counting toward the Keyed Up achievement
• Fix characters hidden by Spectral Circlet still being visible to AI
• Fix being able to ping the sky
• Fix description of Spinel Tonic incorrectly providing the effect duration as 15 seconds instead of the 20 seconds it is in-game
• Fix a variety of other bugs we probably forgot…

If you made it this far into the patch notes... congratulations! This update was our most challenging yet, for so many reasons. We truly hope you all enjoy the update - and good luck! 

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Early Access Content Update 3 – December 17, 2019

This is the third major content update for Risk of Rain 2 on PC. With this update we are focusing on expanding the base game with fun and exciting content that the player will see right when the update lands. While Skills 2.0 had a bunch of challenges and unlocks, some players preferred to have content unlocked in the base game, and we’ve heard the feedback!

 

This Content Update will be coming to consoles in the near future - for details on how our Content Updates get ported to console versions, check out our previous Development Thoughts here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/632360/announcements/detail/1588003708938246571

 

Changes with the ‘🌧’ icon in front of them are changes or additions suggested by the community. As always, if you want to stay up to date on the game feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/riskofrain2

 

==== Major Content====

• Added Tool: Dedicated Server Tool
  • We’ve been working hard to support the growing community we have for Risk of Rain 2. We’ve seen many players play together with rulesets they enjoy the most - this tool allows community servers to be hosted and connected to, similar to other games. Please note that this Tool is still in Alpha! A tutorial on how to use the tool is available below: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1938378081

 

• Added Survivor: Acrid
  • Acrid is a melee-range hybrid who uses powerful poisons to melt tanky enemies.

 

• Added 2 Stage Variants
  • ‘Stage Variants’ is a new system for CU3 that allows stages to have multiple layouts. We chose the first stages as a test ground for Stage Variants since they are the maps you see most often - our hope is that this system can help keep the game fresh, even when entering the same maps!
  • Titanic Plains Variant
  • Distant Roost Variant

 

• Added 2 Hidden Realms
  • New Hidden Realm: Void Fields
  • New Hidden Realm: Secret Hidden Realm

 

• Added 3 Skill Variants
  • New Skill Variant: REX Utility
  • New Skill Variant: Loader Utility
  • New Skill Variant: Acrid Utility

 

• 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
  • New Item: Razorwire
  • New Item: Fresh Meat
  • New Item: Ghor’s Tome
  • New Item: Resonance Disc
  • New Equipment: Jade Elephant
  • New Lunar Item: Visions of Heresy
  • New Lunar Item: Beads of Fealty
  • New Boss Item: Genesis Loop
  • New Boss Item: Pearl
  • New Boss Item: Irradiant Pearl 

 

Added Chest: Adaptive Chest

• Added Chest: Overgrown 3D Printer
• Added Shrine: Cleansing Pool
• Added Drone: Emergency Drone
• Added 3 Challenges to the game
  • New Challenge: ...To Be Left Alone
  • New Class Challenge: REX: Dunked
  • New Class Challenge: Loader: Earthshatter

 

• Added 2 Environment Logs to the game
  • New Environment Log: Void Fields
  • New Environment Log: Secret Stage

 

• Added 6 Lore Entries to the game
  • New Item Lore Entry: Sticky Bomb
  • New Item Lore Entry: Visions of Heresy
  • New Item Lore Entry: Strides of Heresy
  • New Item Lore Entry: Gasoline
  • New Item Lore Entry: Personal Shield Generator
  • New Item Lore Entry: Brainstalks

 

==== Gameplay Changes ==== 

• General
  • Update regens to not be multipliers, but scaling flat bonuses to decouple benefits of regen items from base regen
    • The result of this is that all characters regardless of their baseline regeneration all benefit the same from regen items. This will only affect melee characters WITH regen items - nobody else is affected.
  • Reduce Boss Encounter (Aurelionite, Alloy Worship Unit, etc) health scaling by ~20%
  • Reduce Boss Encounter (Aurelionite, Alloy Worship Unit, etc) damage scaling by ~75%
  • Change ‘One Shot Protection’ calculation to include barrier 
    • Our intent in changing OSP in this manner is to make sure that it is a hidden mechanic, not a reliable one to build a strategy around. We know there’s still edge cases that are abusable - but as long as it’s not ALWAYS the best strategy, we don’t mind having some end-game builds that are extremely powerful.
    • If you have 100% Health and 100% Barrier and take a billion damage, previously you would remain at 100% Health and 10% Barrier. You will now be at 10% Health, as intended before the inclusion of barrier in Scorched Acres.

 

• Survivors
  • MUL-T
    • Scrap Launcher
      • Cooldown: 3s ⇒ 1.5s.
      • Animation Duration: 0.4s ⇒ 0.3s. 
      • Grenade Speed: 50m/s ⇒ 70m/s.
  • REX
    • Update “Smoothie” skin to have fall colors and unique textures
    • DIRECTIVE: Inject
      • Burst Duration: 0.3s ⇒ 0.2s 
      • Animation Duration: 1s ⇒ 0.6s
      • Heal Percentage: 30% ⇒ 60%
    • Seed Volley
      • Renamed DIRECTIVE: Drill
      • HP Cost: 30% ⇒ 0%
      • Tweak visuals and icons so its more mechanical and less flowery
  • Loader
    • Knuckleboom
      • Add small forward lunge
      • Extend size of hurtbox and effect
    • Grapple/Spiked Fist
      • Minimum Length: 5m ⇒ 1m
        • This just means that the tether won’t break as easily from being really close to the grapple point

• Items
  • Predatory Instincts
    • Remove proc effect growing in size for each stack.
    • Buff Duration: 2s ⇒ 3s
  • Happiest Mask
    • Ghost Damage Boost: 300% ⇒ 1500%
    • Ghost Proc Chance: 10% ⇒ 7%
  • Eccentric Vase
    • 🌧Thicken zipline visuals
      • 🌧Zipline Acceleration: 20 ⇒ 30
      • Cooldown: 100s ⇒ 45s
  • Personal Shield Generator
    • Shield Health: 25(+25 per stack) ⇒ 8% (+8% per stack) maximum health
  • Shaped Glass
    • 🌧Add special death message for dying while carrying Shaped Glass
  • Brainstalks
    • Buff Duration: 3s (+2s per stack) ⇒ 4s (+4s per stack)
    • 🌧Add slick camera effect when buff is active
  • Queen’s Gland
    • Spawns all possible guards at once when stacked, rather than one at a time
  • The Backup
    • Increase size of Backup Drones
  • Frost Relic
    • 🌧Add area sphere to to clarify that it does damage in a sphere, not a disk
  • Red Whip
    • 🌧Getting hurt no longer disables the buff
    • 🌧Update whip model, texture, and icon
    • Move whip movespeed over to a buff so it shows up in the bar
  • Brittle Crown
    • Remove flat gold reduction on Brittle Crown
  • Warbanner
    • 🌧Remove ‘Damage’ tag so it no longer spawns in Damage Chests
  • Rusted Key
    • Increase lockbox size by 50% and make slightly shinier

• Stages
  • Abandoned Aqueduct
    • Reduce spawn cost of Clay Templars to match other maps with Clay Templars
    • Fix some collisions
  • Scorched Acres
    • Add Alloy Vultures to the spawn list post-loop
    • 🌧Reduce spawn distance of Imp Overlord
  • Bazaar Between Time
    • Update shop visuals
  • Rallypoint Delta
    • Double frequency of Drones spawning in the map
    • 🌧Reduce spawn distance of Imp Overlord and Magma Worms
  • Monsters
    • 🌧 Add Grovetender to Wisp Family Event
  • Wisp
    • Spawn Cost: 9 ⇒ 10
    • Base Damage: 4 ⇒3.5

• Elites
  • Malachite
    • 🌧Add visual effect and overlay when affected by Malachite Debuff
  • Drones
    • 🌧 Make all Drones resistant to AOE attacks, reducing their incoming damage by ~70%
    • 🌧 Purchased Gunner Turrets now persist between stages

 

==== QOL ====

• Update a ton of old particle effects to match new visual quality since release
• 🌧Prevent Golems from ever being chosen as a Teleporter boss
• 🌧Force Teleporter Boss to initially target the player who activated it
• 🌧Add ‘Are you sure you want to quit?’ confirmation dialogs
• 🌧Add selected difficulty to the stat sheet at the end of a run
• 🌧Prevent multishop terminals all having question marks
• 🌧Bypass ping cooldown for single player games
• 🌧Add option to enable/disable exp and money effects in the settings
• 🌧Add "Total Minion Kills’ on end of game report
• 🌧Add execution damage to Total Damage stat
• 🌧Update the visuals for items taken during 3D printing to be a bit clearer
• 🌧Add collider on Loader’s pylon to trigger pressure plates
• 🌧Raise wwise max memory pools from 32 to 64 to accommodate additional sound banks
• 🌧Force loadout button to always be visible even if you have no skills unlocked
• 🌧Update right edge of execution threshold bar not lining up with the actual value
• 🌧Shift Radar Tower/Scanner effect closer to green to make it not confusing with Vagrant Nova
• Fix inconsistent prices across maps for Missile Drones, Clay Templars, Beetle Guards, and Elder Lemurians
• Update Golem to match new visual quality since release
• Update a bunch of item displays that were too big or too small
• Add pickup droplet for Boss items
• Increase highlight threshold to increase outline clarity of items near walls
• Fix some items having incorrect outlines

 

==== Bug Fixes====

• Fix Teleporters not using the correct decal layer
• Reduce chance of camera clipping into walls
• Reduce particle count on Beetle Queen spit FX
• Fix vulture attacks creating particle systems that wouldn't clean up themselves
• Fix Crowbar sound not playing over the network
• Fix Medkit sound not playing over the network
• Fix Guillotine sound not playing over the network
• Fix Shattering Justice buildup sound not playing over the network
• Fix Predatory Instincts effects not playing over the network
• Fix Merc Blinding Assault sound not playing over the network
• Fix Greater Wisp Death transmitting explosion effect for each client in multiplayer
• Fix a bunch of items not fading when close to the camera
• Update Engineer Turret not destroying itself for clients
• Add check to make sure a monster spawn is valid before adding to weighted selection (could affect early game spawn frequencies to be higher)
• Ensure Nano-Bomb state stops charging animation if interrupted
• Add missing Korean characters that previously defaulted to ‘?’
• Add missing French characters that previously defaulted to ‘?’
• Add "IMMUNE" hitmarker for translation
• Add extra life "REVIVED!" text for translation
• Add scoreboard headers for translation
• Add "Lv:" HUD text for translation
• Add "BLOCKED!" damage hitmarker message for translation

 

Thanks for clawing your way through our patch notes - we hope you all enjoy the Hidden Realms Update!

• Prismatic Trials
  • Add Friends-Only Leaderboard
  • Update Global Leaderboard to be around your current position in the Leaderboard

• MUL-T
  • Reduce base movement speed from 9 to 7 to match all other Survivors
  • Reduce base damage from 12 to 11
  • Increase Transport Mode speed boost from 200% to 220% to compensate for his lost base movement speed.
  • We really really don't like to nerf characters in general - these are very light touches, and the movement speed being higher was an oversight. We also want to make sure that MUL-T's big success isn't coming from its ability to abuse Ocular HUD for infinite crits.

• Imp Overlord
  • Remove passive regen
  • Increase base damage from 13 to 16
  • The boss fight was a big of a slog if you had lower DPS because of the boss' natural regen. Higher damage should make the boss fight more intense.

• Teleporter
  • Add slight rim glow
  • Increase teleporter passive particle radius from 38 to 60. Increase particle count so density remains the same.
  • A lot of players are having issues finding the Teleporter. Players are starting to notice the passive particles indicating the teleporter is around - we will try increasing the radius to see if it helps. The rim glow will help distinguish it from identically colored surfaces. This is intended to be a fairly big change - if it turns out we jumped the gun and the community was simply learning, we can approach a middle ground.

Bug Fixes

• Corrupted save files no longer prevent the game from initializing past the first splash screen. We will continue to figure out why exactly they are being corrupted in the first place.
• Refactor Multiplayer connection setup to be more stable - hopefully less weird half-states on connecting to other players.
• Selecting the "Quit to Menu" pause menu option from the Prismatic trials no longer temporarily shows the main menu.
• Engineering Perfection challenge can no longer be completed by starting 30 levels without finishing them.
• Environment logs now count towards the 10 logs challenge.
• Equipment - Royal Capacitor now requires line of sight to use.
• When playing with a controller, pressing the confirm button at the main menu will no longer choose the last option that was hovered onto.
• Revert button text now properly becomes highlighted when functional.
• The Mercenary is now properly targeted by enemies after he uses a non-primary skill.
• Multiplayer: Characters no longer come back to life after dying in a multiplayer game, leaving it and joining it back.
• Monster Tooth: The Monster Tooth healing orbs heal amount now match the description.
• Multiplayer: Acquired Items now properly show up in the Item bar or the Info Screen after leaving a multiplayer game and joining it back.
• Names can no longer extend beyond the profile text box in the main menu
• Large profile names can no longer overlap the Back button and run off of the screen
• The Enter Quickplay button of the Multiplayer Menu no longer needs to be pressed twice to start searching a lobby when using a controller.
• Holding the Primary Skill Button down while activating Ocular HUD and shooting with Mul-T Auto-Nailgun no longer deals infinite critical damage.
• Back button in Prismatic Trials' character select no longer returns you to the main menu
• Falloff models for delayed blast attacks (Titan Fist, Ice Affix Death, Willowisp) are now properly assigned. This may cause them to do more damage than before.
• Quickplay launch time is now properly Time Zone independent

QOL 

• Error messages now tell you when the host is shut down
• Remove collision from Teleporter nub to prevent monsters getting stuck