The Item Reworks are INSANE!

[@joshmayo659]

The actor you paid to lip sync in the webcam did a really good job grandpa

[@falloutb4088]

Yuh

[@SkeletoesHandle]

Yuh

[@Goblin_Hater_37]

Yuh

[@FixYourPlatformYoutube]

Yuh

[@motivationenjoyer9830]

Yuh

[@Jontohil2]

I have, I am SUPER grateful that you KZbinrs playtested this and gave feedback, resulting in these massive positive changes. You guys had a direct impact on improving the game for everyone, thank you.

[@poor_screenwriters_note]

holy shit its the spy gun man

[@urmomonion1553]

seeing you here made me imagine a ror2 video with your style of content and now i want it so bad

[@KujiArgisia]

@@urmomonion1553Finally. Truly spy with guns.

[@carnivallegf]

MR. GUNSPY?!??!?!!! in MY disputed origin comment section?!?!?! no freaking way.....

[@ShadowNemesis575]

​@@urmomonion1553 THIS IS A MUST

[@icetide9411]

Breaching fin now actually having the power to send people directly into the sky is something I adore "F*CK YOU, GO TO SPACE!"

[@FinnishArsonist]

It's also got a really fun synergy with fire band - the bounce locks them into the fire tornado *and* makes them take more damage from it.

[@Mythical_8]

"LOOK, I CAN DO THIS! I CAN DO THIS, ANYTIME I WANT!"

[@Zelose_Kitsune]

@@FinnishArsonist it does make fire bands even better, even though it only works as long as they don't get hit too far up (done that a few times)

[@thecaptain9496]

Death Mark grows in power with every update

[@vertonimal]

apt for a literal death mark. it's a threat, it's inevitable, and it only grows stronger as we ignore it.

[@MeloniestNeon]

The moment REX gets a buff (aka is allowed to actually function) in Eclipse 8, he's going to be top tier with all these debuffs

[@SoleilProductionss]

Yessir

[@motivationenjoyer9830]

Death mark collects infinity stones

[@HerMajestyVelvet]

War bonds going from "here's a pitiful amount of gold that isn't useful past stage 3" to, "here's the full strength of an empirical military" is such a welcome change because who doesn't love missles? Wait does that mean war bonds will work with ICBM? I like the sound of that

[@deadmanwillyimbothdeadandalive]

it doesnt from what i know

[@Juexis5]

ahaha omg is that aigis? hiii aigis hiii👋

[@LindsayHawkes]

If ICBM doesn't work with war bonds then I (and hopefully the rest of the ror2 community) am going to be furious with them.

[@HerMajestyVelvet]

@@Juexis5 Hiii Kasumi :3

[@HerMajestyVelvet]

@@Juexis5 Hiii Kasumi :3

[@EATZYOWAFFLEZ]

I love the silly little edits in these dev diaries. Whoever is editing them does a great job.

[@flipperjr.3822]

finally seekers of the storm is out of early access

[@ollidragon3146]

breaching fin is so fun to use now, I found a pauldron of them on the moon, got six of them, and was able to completely stun-lock mitrix to death. it was beautiful

[@liquidscreamisnomore]

kb fin went from peasant to king 💪

[@keyarth5573]

you know what's also insane? your mustache. your mustache is pretty cool.

[@Cutzz_]

low taper fade

[@brianbrian121-j9k]

agreed

[@Watercup1]

you know what's also insane? me. help.

[@xero1152]

@@Cutzz_got to it before me

[@brenotercero]

​@Watercup1did they put you in a rubber room perchance?

[@peace-and-tranq]

Brittle Crown + Warbonds is a diabolical combo now

[@ZeroSleap]

Antlers sound design on the spawns is so fucking good. It's like an addiction,trying to gather them, and the pavlovian reaction i get when i hear the sound effect of them spawning. Also growth nectar has gone insane , like the new effect is bonkers to me...

[@ezrastewart543]

I am constantly battling my friends for the orbs.

[@masterslayerable]

and its stacks WAY faster than every single other item in the game. BY far. Like even stacking a second clover is worse than stacking growth nectar now. The bonus stacks to 4x with a second growth nectar if you have enough buffs. its absolutely bonkers. It goes from 28% stats to 112% with 2 stacks. Very rarely gonna happen but that makes it absolutely busted for looping. Like a second growth nectar is multiple times better than a 100% uptime spinal tonic

[@ZeroSleap]

@@masterslayerable Yep my Acrid run had 2 Growth Nectars, it was insane...

[@elivcdxv1852]

it's a neat lil sound, it's fun power-sliding into them with Driver when i end up playing with friends

[@General_C]

Anyone else think Acrid is going to go batshit crazy with Noxious Thorn?

[@iluxa-4000]

I mean, epidemic spreads poison just fine

[@alexhughes4683]

I don't know. It will definitely help the alt poison, but regular acrid's regular poison doesn't stack. So spreading 33% of it will probably round down to 0. And his playstyle doesn't encourage the rapid attacks needed to keep up a steady amount of bleed, compared to Commando or Merc. But I could see it helping any survivor when paired with gasoline or other debuffs

[@d_rock1535]

​@@alexhughes4683 I wanna see acrid blight be viable with noxious thorn, would be so cool

[@hannayapelekai1628]

@@alexhughes4683 it won't round down to 0, 1-3 debuffs always spread 1 debuff. This also applies to other non-stacking debuffs, like shattering justice and death mark, I believe.

[@hannayapelekai1628]

noxious thorn is definitely gonna make blight acrid WAY better than it used to be, not sure if it will be GOOD, but it will be better just because it's one extra way to apply a bunch of blight stacks.

[@UpToSpeed0]

War bonds going from one of the worst items in the game to one of, if the not the best item (because it works on phases 1-3 of Mithrix) is hilarious

[@jakobsonprofaned5168]

gildeds making you drop a nugget that looks similar to ghor nuggets doesnt seem like much of an issue to me, since either way it is a nugget you WANT to collect, and collecting it gives you money.

[@catpip_]

and unless its absolute chaos it'll probably be easy to tell if you got hit by the gold attack or if you killed an enemy

[@kuro._aert]

but one thing like about the gildeds before the changes is that it makes me focus on killing the enemy more, to get my gold back, rather than now, dodging the attacks (which most likely already fast enough to not get hit by the money stealing move), and trying to find the dropped gold on the ground. maybe it's just me that want to focus on the enemies more than the ground, i think it's a valid reason

[@yahkimicki236]

New noxious thorn is conceptually one of my favorite items in the game, i love the idea of an item that makes your debuffs spreadable

[@TuftyTaltan]

Big W wow, the items were the reason I wasn't going to bother with playing the update but they really outdid themselves. I might just be coming back~

[@yeetyiu4505]

Wow, gearbox messed up but dam if they are redeming themselves, for all the angry sceptics here, i teseted almoat all the items here, they are amazing and worthy of a ror2 dlc

[@TehNoobiness]

If Noxious Thorn's effect can spread Needletick stacks when a Needletick hit kills an enemy, that may singlehandedly make Needletick worth taking over Tritip every time

[@hannayapelekai1628]

okay but noxious thorn also spreads bleed? wdym?

[@bagrepensante491]

I think this item will make needletick worse: Imagine you kill someone with colapse. You won't transfer that to other enemies since you spend all the stacks, and when you go needletick, you want to kill enemies with the colapse debuff

[@bugjams]

​@bagrepensante491 No, if it works, it makes it purely better. Killing an enemy before collapse kills it is, after all, better than waiting for collapse to kill. But Noxious can spread debuffs to _multiple enemies at a time,_ so you could (if it worked) spread a huge amount of collapse to a bunch of enemies at once from a single enemy.

[@spiderjerusalem8505]

​@bagrepensante491, where's that pfp from?

[@bagrepensante491]

​@@spiderjerusalem8505 catfish man from spoonfayse. my name is "thinking catfish because of that"

[@sr.nutella9121]

Captain + Warbonds = The true Helldivers 2 experience

[@cruze_the]

I wish my grand children would face time more

[@turtleppz]

Nice to see he can still read in his old age 🥹

[@atkips7]

I'm so excited for the rest of the road map I can't wait Also super excited for new videos so keep up the good work

[@puppup7949]

can we just give some props to gearbox? there fixing there mistake after fucking it instead of leaving it broken

[@forgedbluesteel1629]

Unstable transmitter is a death sentence in the void space

[@frankguy6843]

Hopped into a Commando run yesterday and got an early dagger, 2 gas, and then a noxious thorn and damn. It outclassed Ukelele in AOE because of the burn/bleed I was applying to everything. Killing the boss with a ton of bleed stacks and watching everything around it melt immediately is so fun. So many great changes here.

[@Mega_Croissantamence]

Ok, Gearbox. You’ve earned our trust again. Don’t squander it this time.

[@patrickstork7517]

Shut up. They don’t owe you nothing

[@xaracen7207]

i think we need more unique and interesting debuffs to inflict on enemies, a temporary charm (or player sided void touch), some kind of temporary polymorph, a debuff that removes an enemies ability to attack for a short period of time, a vampiric debuff that makes the enemy attack other enemies to heal...

[@mailcs06]

So the Long-standing Solitude was changed to actually convert gold directly to experience now, rather than the weird method it did before where it would give you a flat percentage or progress to the next level whenever you gained any amount of gold, but on a long cooldown. So more gold equals more experience now.

[@loganroman6546]

war bonds: added to money/mr krabs build

[@Xenocide333]

seekers of the storm

[@iraidius3343]

wow

[@blitzboy2934]

Seekers of the peak

[@DiminutiveJerry]

Peakers of the storm

[@namelazz1999]

risk of rain 2

[@flowk683]

Lantern is crazy for Engineer

[@grimm_tnt_1509]

Unstable transmitter for Melee people might suck

[@vcjg287]

These changes look overall, pretty damn nice. I like how they make the new elites have new attacks, something missing to the elites compared to RoR1, where some elites have extra effects (frenzied and electric). I think the team needed more time to finish the DLC, the release we got was likely too early. It seems like the team had a lot of ambition for the expansion, and it shoes, they maybe needed more time or a faster workflow or something else. But this is great news, and just the first part out of 3

[@masterslayerable]

Most of this sound absolutely amazing. Synergistic, fun items to use now. I think the lantern should have its range massively reduced tho. 20 meters is a LOT. It would fit much better into the loot pool if its range was like 5-10 meters with slower scaling to heavily favor close range survivors and give them much needed buffs specific to them apart from focus crystal.

[@ok2094]

I agree with you on this

[@lg3nda3ryslay3r]

With these new item changes , it actullly made commado feel good to play with all the new attack speed items and aoe damaging items

[@mrsloom6686]

I have been waiting for this for a long time now Well to buy the DLC.

[@KazLordOfLightWarriors]

The Specimine relic is probably my favorite relic from Slay thr spire, granted I haven't played it in forever and never really got too good at it, but seeing that kind of ability in the new Noxious Thorns is fantastic

[@sp00n94]

Noxious thorn can essentially ukulele chain a death mark

[@asdfvevo3806]

update so good it forced grandpa to upload

[@Helperishere]

I'd actually buy this now...if It goes on sale again that is.

[@coolblubird]

I understand it's a bug, but I'll miss bleed boomerang, i wish they had just accepted it as a future and maybe built upon on the accident But i understand elsewise

[@mapel6867]

grandpa looking fly as hell.

[@OregoX]

As I've played with a friend yesterday. This update completly changes the feeling of the game. I makes so mich more fun now. The effects are cool and at least in duo the false son doesn't feel that unfair strong anymore. Very enjoyable to DLC is worth playable now imo.

[@andresgilrodriguez9249]

Just wanted to point out your good taste in music. We love Kupla.

[@ianmatheuslucas1300]

all reworked itens went from complete dogshit to S tier LMAOO

[@nicholas1173]

11:10 lmao, debuffs

[@guirus._.4958]

glad to see that you and cardboard orangutan are back and cool as aways 😎

[@Oguh608]

The items seems crazy OP right now. A single antler increases your movement speed by like 20 percent. It's very easy to keep the buff active aswell.

[@everydaysniper9390]

Love the weapon reworks so much, haven't played with them yet but the new item reworks make these previously incredibly lackluster items sound actually really cool and fun!! I am excited to give them a shot! The twisted elite rework is certainly a MASSIVE improvement, but literally any change would have been. I still think the concept of an enemy that punishes you for attacking other enemies in a game like Risk of Rain 2 is a bad idea, even if the counterattack can be dodged. It just doesn't mesh well when you often have very little control over exactly which enemies you damage.

[@xochitl2527]

I think you're overrating Elusive Antlers. It's true that they give an insane amount of speed when stacked, but if the orbs don't spawn where you want to go, you might not be able to get them without putting yourself in more danger, which is the opposite of what speed is supposed to help you do.

[@NicoTheCinderace]

You also forget that this can apply to everyone in Multiplayer, too.

[@linear1224]

What? They like to spawn in the direction you're running in, their spawning AI isn't that bad, not perfect but not bad either.

[@UnstoppableSmooze]

I'm my experience this orbs spawn pretty liberally and they make a nice charm noise when they do, it's easy to keep going without realizing

[@stanman3192]

I'm a bit disappointed with war bonds, I really wish it was changed instead to be a better version of what it already was. I believe it should have just made the first few purchases on a stage be completely free, like 3 then +2 per stack. I really love items like pennies and tome which can heavily increase pacing of a run since waiting for gold is my least fav aspect of this game, and by far my least favorite modifier in eclipse is the 20% less gold from enemies, it just makes a run slower without being interesting in any way

[@OregoX]

But without the change we won't have gotten the war horn sound on every Boss encounter. + the busted dmg on the boss as a side effect.

[@stanman3192]

@OregoX killing the boss fast doesn't really meanifh when you spend so much time waiting for the tp to charge after you kill.the boss already that it doesn't mean much.

[@DukeofRats]

The bridge four poster was a mental flashbang. You been reading Wind and Truth this weekend?

[@erikmolique5416]

second nectar stack caps out at >100% stat buff. it’s still synergistic, but that seems a bit broken

[@the2ndvillageidiot134]

Cant wait to try it out with perma tonic

[@Reveur_Lucide]

Alrighty, as someone who very much disliked the launch state of the DLC, consider me thoroughly impressed. I'll keep an eye on how the next two updates go, but the improvements to the items alone have definitely made me want the DLC a lot more now. Fixing the goofy ahh elites was icing on the cake. The lantern item that boosts attack speed based on enemies/allies nearby should be a green. I feel like greens aren't just more potent than whites, but also more complex in their activation and usage. Whites are like simple stat boosts or weak effects that stack easily. Greens are like procs and more synergy/build oriented items. Reds are super powerful, but seem to be more effectively utilized depending on the survivor using them. Blues are similar, but with the added consideration of the negative effects. Yellows are also very build oriented, generally powerful items that are rare like reds but a bit harder to collect. Purples are usually trades that allow you to tweak certain effects based on your playstyle or character choice, some are direct upgrades, others are more conditional.

[@RampagingRice]

SniperWolf catching the stray LMAO 😭

[@jimmykeochinda1173]

Omg. Infectious space pup going crazy with thorns

[@diananer]

The sheer glowup between this update and the DLC release shows that they care, and that’s the best I could ask for

[@hankhill5895]

You seriously need to voice act this video reinforced how unique your voice is for me. Good luck grandpa

[@liegegaia8376]

The new War Bonds effect kinda reminds me of Classified Access Codes from ROR:R! I'm excited to see how strong it actually is in-game because on paper it sounds really good

[@mattsigl3211]

Babe wake up disputed origin posted

[@expakun]

Unstable Transmitter is going to be amazing against Inferno Beetles. Inferno is a difficulty mod btw in case you don't know.

[@china_sickness7005]

I feel like breaching fin will be great to have with mercenary now with the attack damage boost with airborne enemies

[@thomassam9235]

Its gonna take a second for me to pick up war bonds and not be instantly conditioned into thinking “hooray red scrap”

[@RealCat222]

Not sure if this is from this update or the original dlc update, but something i've noticed is that molotov is kinda busted now. Most, if not all of the projectiles will end up where you aim them now, one ignition tank will let you walk up to a boss and put a puddle of death right under its feet. Also, i love this update, im gonna be playing this game nonstop

[@TheHappyDays-k5j]

Blah blah blah… yap yap yap… so they basically just buffed merc

[@jimmykeochinda1173]

Here’s hoping breaching find with behemoths will send them up twice as fast

[@prettythejellycat]

It's a pity that the game and DLS were blocked in our region… :

[@morganpryde9125]

Rare Gearbox W on this one, and hopefully the start of a trend of W's. Looking forward to Phase 1 and 2, though I'm hoping they don't alter FS too much, he feels nice to use once you get used to him, though I'm personally unaware if people consider him bad and OP so 🤷‍♂️

[@macaroniisnice]

And this, people, is why I was hyped🔥🔥🔥

[@Tivallia9010]

Luminous Shot is absolutely broken on Survivors with low m2 cooldowns. I tried this on Rebar Mul-T with one stack and it hits so damn hard. Luminous is my favorite change of all

[@torgash_gnilju]

Disputed Origin , Behind you !!!

[@Ghost5665]

I wonder how crazy a run where you only used the new items would be. They all look insane and extremely fun

[@kuronya3582]

My biggest problem with all this reworks is what items should be like this from start, people are praising gearbox for fixes but forgetting who broke everything in first place

[@iluxa-4000]

I am a little on the fence about runs being too easy now, since none of the dlc items are bad now, but only time will tell. And I guess I would rather have an almost guaranteed win every run rather than completely rekt 50% of my games. Good change overall

[@Paradox1012]

Well the problem before was that the item pool was clogged with items that did bassicaly nothing. Keep in mind that since the item pool is now relatively chunky like risk of rain ones item pool, you aren't super likely to see every item in e every run and must make do with what you have. unless you loop a ton of course, but at that point you can typically win at any time no matter what anyway.

[@ar.71944]

Nice to see gramps can still remmeber this game even with alzheimers

[@Crowanor]

I might actually go get the DLC now

[@lee-yt3wf]

It's really worth it. I'd rate it 10/10

[@LilyTheMentallyInsane]

The seekers of the storm situation is INSANE

[@hyperionthelast4239]

Ah I may actually buy the dlc now. Nervously speaking I am now a believer

[@sebasulgc6629]

"sniperwolf style reaction" bro 😭😭😭😭😭

[@Phink-x2m]

What is the character with the rifle featured in noxious thorn? Seems new although I have every character..

[@looki4561]

Oh my god I love almost everything about this. Only complaint that the new items feel just a bit too overloaded/strong, which I have to test out myself though. Like did unstable transmitter really need a bleed attack AND extend the duration?

[@doommoregames9304]

I wonder if they changed luminous shots weird effect where if you didn’t hit an enemie with your primary you could use it’s damage huff on any of your abilities not just your primary

[@TheZiiFamily]

antlers giving my silent realm flashbacks o.o

[@FredHarris-wr6de]

I think lantern should only give 2/3% attack speed bonus otherwise syringe would become useless. Or if they want to stick with 10% it should become a green

[@Warble132]

I for one am extremely happy with the gilded elite changes. Gilded elites effectively punish late game cope runs for no reason by siphoning more money than you can get back via low DPS, which makes you need to loop and then that would get punished by tier 3 elites+ gilded. Its better off this new way, the old gilded is just extremely poor on gamefeel and pacing slowdown

[@MrDialga6678]

i just tried boomerang and sawmerang and it still worked for me? I think its far less powerful then before although

[@clownofhonk]

for a while now, i haven't bought the DLC because of all the backlash, and i am glad to know that it worked! thank you disputed for stelling me this information, and to all other gamers, this is PROOF it works.

[@masonguyman3074]

These changes are FIRE

[@randomxgen6167]

As someone who stopped playing risk of rain after the expansion dropped, thank you for going over the changes as well as your experiences playtesting them. In future videos though, could you move your camera so it's not blocking the text? I find it especially weird that you recognized it was a problem, moved your camera for a few moments to show the text, then put it back in the way afterwards.

[@noobylad]

Close enough, welcome back classified access codes

[@Bubby0304]

Yo they kinda cooked here. Good work fixing the issues with the items imo

[@TWGatorade]

ah yes! a bit more hopeful content.. very welcome.. please get into my brain, hopeful content...

[@kracktart1508]

They need to update some of the older useless items, like bison steak or Topaz brooch

[@ExImperialDragon]

I actually haven't played RoR2 since the DLC dropped, after hearing everyone say incredibly negative things about almost all of the changes it brought. I take it that it's finally time to pick up the DLC and give it a whirl

[@baltland4477]

The update is FANTASTIC

[@williamwhite8667]

Wish they would add an item that increases damage over time the longer it's on any enemy.

[@andro_king]

I think I'll get the expansion next time it goes on sale

[@fish6087]

You could say the update is MASSIVE

[@literum7474]

new noxios thorn + acrid will be amazing sinde the bleed kills while poison does not and it will spread=passive epidemic

[@Gekk66]

sniperwolf style lmao