What changed in Risk of Rain 2 in 2019

Dramatically reduced the number of unlocks to enhance player experience.

Players are enjoying the buffs received by REX.

Released an experimental update featuring new gameplay elements.

Monitoring the threat level of Unique Bosses like Aurelionite and Alloy Worship Unit.

Monsters in the game can now be equipped with items, adding a new layer of challenge.

Planning to fix the wacky and tiring animation canceling for Acrid's primary attack.

Addressing the issue of Golems occasionally spawning as Teleporter bosses.

Watching specific Scavenger combinations to ensure they remain fun.

Monitoring feedback on Acrid's poison; unlikely to change unless damage is reduced.

Evaluating if monsters receiving a Tesla Coil is too powerful.

Added a new mini-gamemode for players to enjoy.

The first console patch will introduce gyroscopic aiming for the Nintendo Switch.

The next patch will include the Skills 2.0 content update.

The first console patch will include a few QoL updates.

The first console patch will include various bug fixes.

The first console patch will include voice chat functionality for Xbox One.

The first console patch will include performance updates.

Fixed character select always showing Commando skills when restarting a run.

Fixed 'VFX Culling Bias' not saving when closing the game.

Drone Health Regeneration increased by +150% in all difficulties.

Pre-Game Lobby now properly shakes physics objects around.

Fixed Loader disappearing when ragdolling.

Fixed flying AI wandering towards the ground.

Walk speed increased from 6 to 7 and now scales laser tick rate with attack speed.

Added missing Korean characters.

Monster Tooth heal amount increased from 6 to 8.

Dying while traveling in Volcanic Egg and Eccentric Vase no longer causes you to pop out the other end alive.

Fixed 'Warm For Life' challenge not displaying the correct value when in progress.

Fixed challenge using 25 real-time minutes instead of in-game timer.

Animation duration reduced from 1s to 0.5s and can now interrupt other abilities.

Fixed melee characters being able to infinitely strike ragdolled players.

Fixed Clay Dunestrider's Tarball attack not networking its position correctly.

Fixed a variety of typos.

Fixed Equipment Drone not firing their equipment.

Now activates by holding 'Use' (E key by default) and shows lights when ready.

Improved vacuum effect to pull towards enemies.

Added details to difficulty text to show changes between Drizzle, Rainstorm, and Monsoon.

Lemurians no longer sprint if very far away.

Player's Health Regeneration increased by +66% in Rainstorm difficulty.

Updated proc coefficient, travel speed, and fire rate to match Flame Bolt.

Fixed 'Keyed Up' challenge no longer unlocking.

Fixed Preon Accumulator and Fuel Array sometimes missing in multiplayer.

Fixed MUL-T's buzzsaw caching attack speed and crit chance on starting the attack.

Challenge text updated to be more clear.

Fixed Alloy Worship Unit preventing activation of the teleporter.

Fixed Loader's wrists spinning around during certain animations.

Fixed Quickplay matches only filling up to 3/4.

Double checking the unlock conditions for certain challenges that seem inconsistent.

First patch for Switch/Xbox/PS4 addressing outstanding bugs and performance improvements.

Fixing issues with Loader's arms turning wonky in certain animations.

Updating the difficulty text to clarify regeneration changes between Rainstorm, Drizzle, and Monsoon.

Turrets and drones will receive a regeneration buff due to previous changes making them weaker.

Loadouts allow you to mix-and-match your selected Survivor’s abilities before entering a run.

Includes new items like Focus Crystal and Lepton Daisy.

This change aims to adjust spawning behavior to be more similar to Early Access Launch.

Health regeneration boost was incorrectly applied to all difficulties.

On your behalf.

Updated Lunar Coin model to have a hole in the center.

Barrier gain from overheal is no longer capped.

Celestine are new high-tier elites that only spawn late into the game.

Changed from Tier 1 to Tier 2.

For survivors and monsters.

Truncated as 10K, 100K, 1M, etc.

Now fires more bullets with increased attack speed.

Shorter launch arcs to prevent fall damage.

Changed from 50% to 50% per stack.

Changed from 5% to 5% per stack.

Changed from 250% to 300% regen rate.

Resulting in spawns stopping after shoving enough enemies off the map.

Until you close the game.

Now arms over time to 900% damage and increased radius.

Reduces the chance of a boss spawning on the wrong side of a wall.

Changed from 20 to 15 per stack.

The Loader is a slow but powerful bruiser that can use her grappling hook to uniquely navigate the environment.

The original Risk of Rain has been ported to Xbox One and is available as a bundle with RoR2.

Risk of Rain 2 launches on Xbox One, PS4, and Switch.

A larger than anticipated Content Update including Skills 2.0 is slated for release in September.

Immune characters can no longer block 'armor piercing' health costs (Blood Shrines, REX abilities)

Fix the Artificer's Oculur HUD being stretched

Fuel Array no longer pierces armor

Fix execute threshold for being frozen showing up on player healthbars

Hitting Immune characters or blocked attacks no longer applies on-hit effects

Increase damage of Fuel Array's explosion from 100% of your health to 300% of your health

Fix high overlay counts causing monsters and players to go pink and invisible

Reduce maximum number of overlay effects (burning, shielded, glass, etc) to 6 from 8 for performance

Add new graphics to Fuel Array to clarify that it is not a Sticky Bomb

Fix Mercenary's Blinding Assault sometimes having double cooldowns

Improve performance on REX's entangle graphics

Fix Tonic Affliction reducing maximum health and also applying curse health reduction on top of it

Blood Shrines now take into account shields and barriers to make it more consistent

Fix typos and formatting errors

Reduce horizontal jump distance to reduce chance he yotes himself off the stage

Noticed unintended changes in spawn frequency and game difficulty.

Addressing confusion between Fuel Array behavior and Sticky Bomb.

The visual cap of 9999 damage may be too low.

Monitoring the difficulty of Cave TP spawns in Abyssal Depths.

The team plans to observe current balance before making changes.

Surprised by low utilization of REX's Shift ability.

Noticing performance issues possibly related to higher spawn counts.

Community feedback suggests the Brooch may be overpowered.

The barrier concept is seen as a great tool for designing defensive items.

Working on issues with Mercenary's Blinding Assault having double cooldowns.

REX has received polarizing views, and the balance of the game is being monitored.

The new update Scorched Acres has gone live.

Malachite enemies are perceived as scary, with a need for clearer anti-heal debuff indicators.

Working on a bug where everything turns pink and invisible.

The permanent uptime on Spinel Tonic was intended by design.

Monitoring enemy behavior to ensure they are not too bullet-spongy.

Refactored projectiles with seeking behavior to not target dead enemies.

Removed unnecessary character logic from running on clients.

Challenges include Cut Down, Warmonger, Cosmic Explorer, Blackout, and Power Plant.

Categories include Damage, Healing, and Utility.

Now performs write-to-disk on the main thread to prevent profile corruption.

Includes Topaz Brooch, Old Guillotine, Warhorn, Aegis, Eccentric Vase, Fuel Array, Spinel Tonic, Little Disciple, and Halcyon Seed.

New logs for Scorched Acres and Gilded Coast.

Now grows in size for every kill, with updated damage scaling.

Malachites are new high-tier elites that only spawn late and possess unique abilities including disabling healing.

Critical Strikes no longer double/triple/quadruple through the proc chain.

Lore entries include Brittle Crown, Soldier’s Syringe, Firework, Rejuvenation Rack, War Horn, and Abyssal Depths.

Turret Base Damage changed from 19 to 16.

Increased from 1 minute to 5 minutes.

Specifically on Wetland Aspect.

Official translations for Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Russian, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, and Japanese.

Includes Character Select, Main Menu, etc.

Specifically on the Gilded Coast.

No longer fires every frame.

Includes various fixes for alignment, wrapping, and missing token strings.

Aims to fix issues with server reporting false fall damage hits.

This can be turned off in the settings to help with certain GPUs.

Bleed and burn duration from that attack is now longer.

Fixing Gesture of the Drowned firing equipment every frame.

The game should ideally keep the difficulty that was chosen in the character select for the next run.

Announcement of the first content update in development.

Noting sometimes settings are reset after closing and relaunching the game.

Changes made to freezing affixes are welcome.

General feedback about drone / TC-280 AI needing to be improved.

Changes made to blazing affixed monsters seem to be positive and feel more balanced.

Noting some players having trouble readying up in multiplayer and private games.

Players want the number of Stages Complete displayed on the HUD.

Addressing game stutters when picking up items for the first time.

Some players are still affected by save file corruption, especially after unexpected shutdowns.

Players expressed concerns about specific white items feeling weak, indicating a need to avoid power creep.

Updating the Director to ensure monsters don't stop spawning late into the game.

Working on adding official localization for multiple languages including French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Addressing pinging issues.

Players want to include the Engineer turret damage into the end report screen.

Preventing monsters and bosses from spawning behind closed gates on certain stages.

Fixing Wake of Vultures granting weird overshields.

Noting the Mercenary sometimes launches Greater Wisps / Brass Contraptions into space.

Reduced proc coefficient of mortar attack from 3 to 0.5.

Improved FMJ impact graphics.

Added localized formatting for numbers in the scoreboard.

Magma Worm now switches between leaping and grounded movement modes, with reduced armor from 20 to 15.

Names for reconnected players will now appear correctly instead of ???.

Cleaned up Engineer Turret skill drivers to fix their AI not working sometimes.

Increased proc coefficients on Flame Bolt from 0.2 to 1 and Snap Freeze pillars from 0 to 1.

Added 3 second invincibility period when first spawning into a map.

MUL-T's secondary Equipment will no longer inherit the cooldown of the first when picking up Equipment off the floor.

Increased radius from 6m to 9m.

Fixed issues with preplaced networked objects affecting clients.

Obliteration now grants all participating players 5 lunar coins.

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.

Improved spawn logic to reduce chances of spawning through the floor.

Reduced particle system noise quality to improve performance.

Improved collision detection of Helfire aura.

Lightning bombs now properly attach to players and Lightning elites always spawn at full shields.

Reduced base health from 250 to 200.

Corrected some typos in the game.

Time now pauses in intermission stages.

Extended timeout duration to recast Blinding Assault from 2s to 3s.

Burning is now capped at 5% of health per second per stack, with visible stacks in the buff bar.

Arrow Rain proc coefficient raised from 0.1 to 0.2 per tick.

Reduced proc coefficient per tick of his laser from 1 to 0.15.

Ice bomb damage reduced from 350% to 150% and now freezes characters in the radius for 1.5 seconds.

Resolving the issue where some Equipment activate multiple times over the network.

Addressing the issue where higher tier monsters and affixes are not spawning correctly.

Fixing the bug where players fall through the floor on level startup.

Enhancing the way data is saved to prevent save file corruption.

Addressing issues with MUL-T's movement on specific slopes.

Working on localized text support for players whose primary language isn't English.

Addressing inconsistent proc coefficients for certain survivor abilities.

Addressing the issue where the Ice affix explosion on death is not noticeable.

Adjusting the difficulty of blazing affixes due to player feedback.

Changing the calculation for burning effects.

Making the Worm fight more enjoyable.

Adding a feature to show the number of stages completed on the HUD.

Resolving the issue where the Mercenary sometimes launches Greater Wisps into space.

Removed collision from Teleporter nub to prevent monsters getting stuck.

Healing orbs now match the description for Monster Tooth.

Selecting the 'Quit to Menu' option from Prismatic Trials no longer shows the main menu temporarily.

The Mercenary is now properly targeted by enemies after using a non-primary skill.

Added slight rim glow and increased teleporter passive particle radius from 38 to 60.

Environment logs now count towards the 10 logs challenge.

Back button in character select no longer returns to the main menu.

Add Friends-Only Leaderboard and update Global Leaderboard to reflect current position.

Revert button text now properly becomes highlighted when functional.

Reduced base damage from 12 to 11.

Increased Transport Mode speed boost from 200% to 220% to compensate for lost base movement speed.

Reduced base movement speed from 9 to 7 to match all other Survivors.

Quickplay launch time is now properly Time Zone independent.

Large profile names can no longer overlap the Back button.

Characters no longer come back to life after dying in a multiplayer game.

Equipment now requires line of sight to use.

Holding the Primary Skill Button while activating Ocular HUD no longer deals infinite critical damage.

Acquired items now properly show up in the Item bar after leaving and joining a multiplayer game.

Refactored Multiplayer connection setup for more stability.

Pressing confirm button at the main menu no longer selects the last hovered option.

Falloff models for delayed blast attacks are now properly assigned.

Challenge can no longer be completed by starting 30 levels without finishing them.

Names can no longer extend beyond the profile text box in the main menu.

Corrupted save files no longer prevent the game from initializing past the first splash screen.

Error messages now indicate when the host is shut down.

Enter Quickplay button no longer needs to be pressed twice to start searching a lobby with a controller.

Removed passive regen and increased base damage from 13 to 16 to make the boss fight more intense.

Players want the ability to automatically continue sprinting after rolling.

Investigating why the game runs poorly on some high-end machines despite positive feedback on performance.

Players are having difficulty noticing the Teleporter; adjustments will be made to improve visibility.

Noting that sometimes monsters get stuck behind a closed door on Wetland Aspect.

Noting feedback about 4+ player lobbies and considering a private game only option.

MUL-T is considered a tad too strong; adjustments may be made based on proc coefficient analysis.

Addressing corrupted save file preventing players from playing, scheduled for the patch next week.

Addressing strange issues with HDR sound causing certain sounds to be too quiet or music volume fluctuations.