Risk of Rain 2 Dev Tracker

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: {LINK REMOVED}https://www.google.com/url?q=https://steamcommunity.com/g... Read more

Hey everyone, it's that time of the season when we look back at the year and settle on favorites. 2019's been amazing for games, but if Risk of Rain 2's been a source of fun, challenge, and joy for you and your friends, please consider nominating us for a Steam Award. We'd be truly grateful.

it's been an incredible year since launch and we're genuinely thankful for your support, feedback, ideas, and precious game time. We're looking forward to dropping another big content update in December and shipping 1.0 in 2020. Stick around, because there's much more to come :)

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Hey everyone! It's been a bit, and we wanted to give a big update on WHEN future updates will be landing on both PC and console. There has been lots of excitement and questions so we thought would clarify those now.

**=== PC Update ===**

Since Early Access release, we’ve gotten into very a solid rhythm of development. CU3 has us really excited - we think players will enjoy all of the content we are adding. We took notice that some of the content we added into CU2 might be a bit difficult for players to unlock, and felt like a bit of a grind for players who have been with us since Early Access launch. For CU3, we are focusing on adding a lot of BASE content to the game to make every run feel fresh and exciting for all players. Not only that, but we plan on revisiting some old content and making sure they're hitting the same quality level as our newest content.

It's also no secret that the Fall update landed veeeery close to the end of fall, same... Read more

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The past few weeks we have been watching the feedback from Skills 2.0 and we're so excited with the reception of the update! Overall we're happy with the balance and design of the content we included, but we reduced health regen too much. This patch includes changes to health regen, a few items updates, some slight changes to Survivors, QOL updates and bug fixes.

We will be doing another Dev Thoughts in a week or two going into detail on more future content plans and console updates.

 === Gameplay Changes ===

• Health Regeneration
  • Increase Player's Health Regeneration by +66% in Rainstorm difficulty.
  • Increase Drone Health Regeneration by +150% in ALL difficulties
    • All these regeneration changes have been highly confusing and affecting difficulty ...

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This week, we released Skills 2.0 CU, an update we've been working hard at. We're excited to see everyone unlocking the new skills, and hope that they become viable alternatives to select from in each run. We're listening closely to our community to make sure that the content that comes out is rewarding and fun. Also huge shoutout to Ghostpunch for the whiteboxing of our new map, Siren’s Call!

We're also super thrilled to see Loader's great reception! She's GRAPPLING with excitement to SWING into your game LOADED with excitement hahahahheahehaehaeaheahuasdhuasdfgd

Compiled below is a list of major feedback that we've received for CU2. We've been working on a patch internally that should address a majority of these points, available (hopefully) either next week or the week after.

===Major Points for CU 2===
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This is the second major content update for Risk of Rain 2 on PC. With this update we are focusing on Skills 2.0, brand new content, as well as other general changes and quality of life improvements.

Skills 2.0 introduces a new way to play your favorite survivor! Our new “Loadout” system allows for swappable skills and skins at the beginning of each run. Each survivor will maintain their unique identity, but have some options to tinker with before jumping into a run. While some skill variants play off existing skills, some variants are entirely unique abilities available to a survivor. Each new skill and skin in your Loadout will be unlocked only with survivor-specific challenges - good luck! More skills and skins are planned to be added in future updates.

This Content Update will be coming to consoles soo... Read more

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=== Risk of Rain 2 Console Launch ===

We’re very excited to work with both Gearbox Publishing and PlayEveryWare to bring Risk of Rain 2 to the Xbox One, PS4, and Switch, launching today! Thanks to their fantastic efforts, we’ve been able to turn around a console release very quickly.

A unique challenge that we’re facing is that Early Access games don’t really exist on all the consoles. To help smooth over that confusion, we are launching a console-specific roadmap, outlining the timeline of when the consoles will be updated to match the PC version of the game. Note- the PC roadmap remains the same and we will maintain two roadmaps (see below).



Outlined below is our intended development plan for Content Updates (CU) going forward:

-Hopoo Games begins and develops the CU
-Submit to Gearbox QA o... Read more

Hi!

As we work between major Content Updates, we still want to make sure we're communicating with our fans. While there isn't a whole ton to talk about, we will try our best to make sure everyone knows we have not died (yet).

== Development Progress ==

Internally, our September content update is chugging along great, and is slated to be better than Scorched Acres (in my opinion :))

The feedback from the community on the types of content and how much of each different content style we added were great to hear. We want to continue our next content in a similar fashion by adding another character, stage, map, monster, items and lots of achievements along with Skills 2.0!

This Update is also refreshing coming off of Scorched Acres because it contains some recurring content from Risk of Rain 1, as shown below. I wonder who could the next survivor be...? (hint: it's not the Miner)

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This is a bug fix patch to address critical issues that came up in the first week of Scorched Acres. This patch explicitly does NOT contain balance fixes, since we want to make sure players have enough time to figure out new strategies and preferences with the new content.


=== Gameplay Changes ===

• Fuel Array
  
  • Increase damage of Fuel Array's explosion from 100% of your health to 300% of your health
    
  • Fuel Array no longer pierces armor
    
  • Add new graphics to Fuel Array to clarify that it is not a Sticky Bomb
• Grovetender
  
  • Reduce horizontal jump distance to reduce chance he yotes himself off the stage
• Misc
  
  • Blood Shrines now take into account shields and barriers to make it more consistent
    
  • Reduce maximum number of overlay effects (burning, shielded, glass, etc) to 6 from 8 f...

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This week Scorched Acres went live, and we're thrilled with the reception of the update. This was a big nervous moment for us internally, since it essentially sets the pace for the rest of Early Access.

Overall we're very happy with the balance and design of the content we included, and we're glad the community feels that way too! There are a lot of moving parts with each Content Update, so we're keeping our ears to the ground for anything that felt like it moved too much.

With the release of Scorched Acres, our Roadmap has now progressed forward! Our next update lands in September - and it's loaded with content. Check it out below:




===**Major Points**===
• Very excited about REX's reception! We're seeing a lot of polarizing views, which is super awesome and exciting. We don't want everyone to fe... Read more

This is the first content update for Risk of Rain 2. With this update there is a bunch of new content as well as other general changes and quality of life improvements.

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 Official Risk of Rain 2 Discord[discord.gg].


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

• Added New Survivor: REX
  
• Added New Stage: Scorched Acres
  
• Added New Boss: Grovetender
  
• Added New Elite: Malachite
  
  • Malachites are new high-tier elit...

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Early Access Patch (Build ID #3830295)



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Welcome to all the new players who have picked up RoR 2 in the last couple weeks, we are glad to have you join the community!

In this patch we are adding full localization support! We now have official translations for Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Russian, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, and Japanese.

These can be enabled by Right-clicking on "Risk of Rain 2" in your Steam Library and going to the language tab at the top. Select from the dropdown what language you want to start the game in and hit close.

There are also bug fixes associated with this patch below:

==== Bug Fixes ====

• Director no longer stops spawning monsters late in the game
  
• Dir...

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First off, we are very excited to announce that Risk of Rain 2 passed over 1 million sales on Steam alone in a month since our Early Access launch! To give you guys a little bit of context, it took us almost 5 years to hit that same number ... Read more

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It has been nearly 1 month since we launched Risk of Rain 2 in Early Access, and I think we can safely say it has been a crazy time for us. We have lots of exciting news that we will be sharing - lets dive in!

NOTE: Developer Thoughts is a way for us to touch base with the community - consider these to be candid thoughts from the development team. We will be breaking down our thoughts into Major and Minor Points, along with things we have been working on internally. A lot of these are community... Read more

**Early Access Hotfix Patch (Build ID #3743353)**
This hotfix patch is to address a bug added in Build ID #3731106.

==== **Bug Fixes** ==== • Fixed an issue where enemies executed from freezing didn't call the correct events, leading to no money, on-kill procs, and potentially a stalled Teleporter event.

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**Early Access Patch (Build ID #3731106)**
This patch is to address a ton of the more severe bugs we couldn't safely patch in the first week, especially associated with connection or desync issues. It also comes alongside some balancing, and also a slight reworking of some Elite affix behaviors to try to make them all equally threatening.

==== **Gameplay Changes** ==== • **Fire Elites**
○ [Community Suggestion] Rework burning calculation with unique new burning damage type
○ Number of stacks of Burning on the player are now visible i... Read more