Risk of Rain 2 Developers React to 9 Minute Speedrun

[@StalwartTirith]

My favorite bit was how the devs spent the entire video _desperately_ trying to understand why anyone would choose the bauble, and missed the obvious answer which is that it was a misclick.

[@TheOwwen]

Occam's razor: the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

[@pogotf]

they were joking

[@naturalkind5591]

@@TheOwwen so bauble secret op oneshots mythrix, it clears both the mythrix issue and the bauble issue therefore solved

[@fireblast133]

@@naturalkind5591 quit spreading misinformation. It lets you skip phase 4 of the fight if you don’t also have death mark.

[@peter-lq7jo]

they only mentioned it like twice lol

[@movingtarget0867]

Can we appreciate the devs when they were talking about level design and jumping straight up to the top. They mention that they were glad that they didn't force creative players through the level using boundary walls or anything. Big shoutout to letting players find fun way to play and not punishing them for it!

[@zaifir8119]

Yeah, also i'm pretty sure it is 100% intentional that you can launch yourself up there with captains diablo strike. Its hight is basically perfect for it.

[@Miniko]

@@zaifir8119 You can do what?!

[@zaifir8119]

@@Miniko you heard me right. Take the best character in the game, find a nice spot to get a tiny bit of extra hight, place your strike and prepare for the launch.

[@slorchman672]

That’s hopoo for ya. They are one of the coolest game devs because they know that people want to try and find interesting ways to play, and then let them play that way.

[@maxkepler9088]

they should still just put walls in. like doom speed run is corny af

[@MonsterSkinMan]

"The loader is a slow but powerful bruiser"

[@literallyeurope7911]

lodr

[@Lorefunder]

lo

[@birbsmas8128]

lodr

[@maruftim]

lodr

[@pmotf2]

lo

[@yourneighbor6152]

"Our friend here has a lot of Lunar Coins" "He must have played a lot" *me sweating nervously* oh no.. they disapprove..

[@radnorio3180]

That bit had me laughing for a minute

[@captainace1277]

Nah they're fine with it, they know not everyone is interested in farming lunar coins

[@Ulvorskets]

@@captainace1277 yeah, they allowed cheats as long as it doesn't affect other player's experience and fun

[@tarnsucks1073]

*sweats in notepad*

[@renszoroquino7369]

@@Ulvorskets Just playing the game can get you more than enough though...

[@MrLaCokaNostra10]

kills mithrix and skips phase 4 Devs: "its gotta be the chronobaubble" im dead

[@AngryTheGnome]

like they don't know that swarm bugs him out

[@thefreshestdoug]

Swarm bugs him out?

[@AngryTheGnome]

The game calculates it as defeating the final phase when it kills the second one

[@thefreshestdoug]

@@AngryTheGnome and what is it you use to do that again the swarm artifact only?

[@AngryTheGnome]

@@thefreshestdougyup just the swarm artifact

[@Woolie]

wasn't engineer - doesn't count

[@Stormeyyy]

Engineer is the best imo!

[@Lorefunder]

ok

[@literallyeurope7911]

ok

[@switchi733]

true

[@MonsterSkinMan]

ok

[@Draganox25]

The chronobobble is what carried him for sure

[@catnip202xch.]

Truuuuuu

[@FlawedbyDesign777]

misclick

[@Kasumi_Tashi]

@@FlawedbyDesign777 shhh, the chonobobble is the godtier almighty item~

[@GooserMan]

@@Kasumi_Tashibetter than shattering Justice?

[@skinnywizard6351]

@@FlawedbyDesign777 shush

[@SkyFoxCode]

lmao devs trying to find a deep reason for the chronobauble but really it was probably just because the player's hand slipped and they picked it on accident

[@motivatedposter3980]

Yeah it just happens to be the item above razorwire

[@Lucky-lt7lz]

no, as the devs, they *know* its the best item in the game

[@AshAdkins22]

It was probably intentional, because one chronobauble makes Mithrix incredibly easy, because he's so slow

[@nickbananaboy]

@@AshAdkins22 but the player just one shot them

[@andrewbest7658]

@@nickbananaboy Right, because of the chronobauble obviously

[@SixCubitMan]

that is easily the least surprised i've ever seen devs in this series lmao

[@unforgettableluncheon106]

Cause it’s not glitchy, if it had some insane wallclip loader backflip ultimate speed glitch, They’d probably be surprised

[@drakonlegend4452]

@@unforgettableluncheon106 the lunar coins tho

[@OhNoTheFace]

It's a loader drizzle run. Most people could get semi close to this

[@AttacMage]

@@drakonlegend4452 pretty sure they expected that a bit lol. makes sense for speedrunning

[@l9324]

@@drakonlegend4452 they know the lunar coins bug, everyone uses it lmao

[@ssj3Zer0]

i've killed mithrix so fast on 3rd phase one time that he didn't die and the game thought he was dead, he chased me back to the ship and slaughtered me

[@Deathtank75]

That's impossible

[@Muthloveshispets]

@@Deathtank75 Yes. Glitches are impossible. You're right.

[@Deathtank75]

@@Muthloveshispets 😏

[@Steampunk_Kak]

@@Deathtank75 there is a chance the game doesn't register Mithrix as a boss when they spawn him in for some reason and it skips the phase entirely with a living mithrix because there is no boss technically.

[@alexandersh86]

@The Man Who Asked It doesn't mean that it's impossible. It means that it's actually intended behaviour and not a glitch at all.

[@lydia8226]

Cool that 1/3 of the dev team could make it

[@ianblackburn2645]

And isn't this the full Dev team for risk 1

[@BertsBalls]

@@ianblackburn2645 yes, they were also the full team for the majority of ROR2’s lifespan till around the anniversary update

[@methylmike]

Such a dumb comment. Oh a girl made it

[@kaley7127]

@@methylmike excuse me what

[@donsancho6690]

@@BertsBalls Not really, what about Ghor

[@RickBomhof]

this is the most standing around and waiting ive seen in a speedrun ever

[@Dinosaurisrex]

Looks at that one LOZ Speedrun.

[@juanmiguelfernandez7993]

"Wasn't on Monsoon , didn't count."

[@shoom7103]

@Julo Micha Not even on eclipse 1,000,287 why even watch the video?

[@blankdesktop2258]

For the devs, it's because Mithrix has an in-between moment for phase 2-3, where he can be shot before he starts taking items

[@sparoc3]

That has been patched bru

[@alvaro759]

@@sparoc3 you can still do it if you attack quickly enough

[@Oops1269]

@@sparoc3 you can still do it

[@beng2080]

he was killed by the bands AOE still being there

[@InnsannaStories]

If you have ATG's and a few clovers or enough firebands it always skips the last phase, it's hilarious.

[@olivierm2401]

They sound genuinely excited to see the speedrun, RoR2 is a great game and the devs deserve it. Also: all hail the chronobauble

[@TheXLPlays]

CHRONOBAUBLE

[@brianwilliams5154]

He was just standing there, menacingly.

[@dadiscoverychannel]

I'm so glad that the devs immediately acknowledged that Loader was the best character in the game. How is Falcon Punch Spiderman something that only exists in this game

[@noniegyachtet]

there is no best character in risk of rain... Loader has just so much base mobility that you can build dmg without being slow. Thats why speedrunners pick Loader. All characters do something else so you really cant compare them. What really depends is what character is the most fun FOR YOU to play.

[@arcanumelite4853]

@@noniegyachtet there is a worst character though... engineer... by far... the vast majority of its damage comes from uncontrollable AI... which automatically makes it the worst character (it is still my favorite character though) although a large part of this is because his primary is so bad...

[@noahvburk585]

@@arcanumelite4853 engineer is literally strongest solo class in the game

[@carleah2298]

@@arcanumelite4853 engineer is amazing

[@blujayvox87]

​​@@arcanumelite4853 Finally, another intelligent being in the RoR2 community. Can't believe that people hate on Artificer but love Engineer, when it should be the other way around.

[@Snakesrcool2003account]

its interesting how a speedrun does not include a single speed item

[@unlimited971]

speed items implies according to the limitations of the system. So too slow...

[@Akshay-Gupta]

There goes the loaderrrr

[@leebard9335]

Backup mags count as a speed item for Loader.

[@OhNoTheFace]

Loader exists

[@GuyWhoWatchesStuff]

You forget that he picked Loader, so they already have max speed

[@jehffvredition2026]

being a ror1 player since 2014 it makes me so happy to see risk of rain 2 becoming as popular as it is

[@brettpayne8409]

I’ve always thought that the fourth phase mithrix skip was because you killed him so hard that he gave up on living.

[@senpaihinotama]

Anyone else put hours into this game without even realizing it?

[@elderbaza06]

Yea considering 1 run takes me more than an hour each, time flies

[@toomay609]

Lmao yeah

[@drftr6073]

i'd go for 5 hour runs when online classes first started

[@senpaihinotama]

@@elderbaza06 time really does fly lol

[@senpaihinotama]

@@drftr6073 5 hours? Thoomin yessir get that game time in!

[@quadpictures]

I'm pretty sure that Chronobauble was a missclick @4:57

[@catnip202xch.]

Wdym Chronobauble is the best item in the game. It was intentional lol 4head

[@dogtato]

yeah, amazing item, clearly OP, also right above razor wire

[@timklafke4712]

@@catnip202xch. Honestly, OP is drunk if he doesn't realize this fact.

[@noblehawkins9506]

no it saved the run

[@Spiralem]

Clearly is the key to this 9min speedrun.

[@el_goku9987]

They are so chill, they intended some of the shortcuts and strats to

[@ElectricalSwift]

To what?

[@narwhalguy3829]

Well not intended but expected. With a momentum based character of course there’s gonna be huge time cuts

[@bravepart]

Such a phenomenal game with the crunchiest soundtrack everrr

[@jojoshfgc]

LOL THE REACTIONS TO THE LUNAR COINS...

[@crazycrk5081]

My guess is that in the coding, Mithrix doesnt have the invulnerability for just a single frame or two, but because of how much damage the fire band puts out, it might be enough at that low of a level to just instantly murder Mithrix, thus skipping the whole third phase.

[@shadeofthelamp1218]

It also works on very high levels once you’ve picked up a lot of items; doesn’t really work well between low and high levels though

[@loremipsum8103]

Can’t believe they got 2/3rds of the whole dev team to react to this.

[@yukio9400]

Actually its just 1/3rd

[@Niaka_]

What an honor to have the devs clapping for your speedrun of their games !!

[@williamdargie3449]

It's funny how they think the chronobauble wasn't accidentally chosen. It's one space up from the razorwire in the item selection pop-up.

[@aboveaverageidiot4950]

“It’s gotta be chronobauble” These guys are comedic geniuses

[@veralium]

Loader go brrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@Idontlikeanyonehere]

The fact even the devs didn’t know you could choose your destination after using the portal in the newts zone astounds me

[@mola3558]

hey they forgot to go see the secret frog at the teleporter on the final stage after you kill mithrix this speedrun shouldn't be official

[@Angelsylvexian]

secret frog? what?

[@BigChimpEnergy]

@@Angelsylvexian if you go back to where you spawned in on the final stage after killing Mithrix there will be a crystal frog there for some reason. It's an easter egg of some sort .

[@mola3558]

@@Angelsylvexian look up "risk of rain 2 frog easter egg" and the 3rd image across should explain

[@burritodog3634]

It looks like starseed, tanning in dirt. It smells like hot stone, and tall grass. It tastes like spiced fruit, sweet and hot. It feels like solar winds, and solar chimes. It sounds like two brothers, chasing glass frogs in the sun.

[@orb9760]

@@burritodog3634 Purity item log?

[@JJ-rp3ny]

surprised there was no artifact of dissonance in this speedrun *winkwink*

[@tygill7401]

@@rjtom2623 no sir

[@ToolboxMotley]

What I'm curious about is how they knew where the teleporters were every time. Are teleporter locations paired with spawn locations, perhaps?

[@TH3W0LF100]

They have a very noticable particle effect.

[@oldbot64]

They spawn on the opposite side of the map from where you spawn.

[@tob._.]

@@oldbot64 that is not true

[@5bars3g36]

The teleporters have fixed spawn regions within which they have a minor random offset in specific placement, which means if you know where these areas are and how they correlate to the player spawn locations, you can run straight to them.

[@LeperEnjoyer]

If you have more than 5 hours in the game you can accurately guess where the teleporter might be. Even without the particles

[@Bacchus325]

What an amazing game. Shout-out to whoever set this up

[@who3730]

It’s so funny hearing the developers not know something works the way it does, like with how they left the bazaar

[@madmanmax120]

That's a fun thing with a game built around having interesting mechanics. There's usually tons of interactions that the devs would never even consider, but happen anyway because of how the game was built.

[@BallisticAero]

I've always said the more restrictions the Devs make on the experience for the player the less of a GAME it becomes. Leaving more power and decisions to the player is what really makes a game great imo

[@Pizza_Box]

Love everything you guys are doing with the game. It's amazing 👍🏼👍🏼 Thank you for making it

[@skylerlewis2422]

My favorite part is that the devs one year later still have no idea why you can skip the phase where mithrix takes your items. And it is because they didn’t account for over damaging mithrix, so you take take her health bar all the way to 0 before her invincibility triggers

[@Church_of_the_broken_God]

Her? Don't you mean his

[@bradleylandy1250]

His*

[@tadferd4340]

It's not over damaging, but dealing at least 105 damage on the first frame the hitbox exists.

[@austinthunder69]

+413M Lunar Coins. Okay.

[@Tomato6]

"He must've played the game alot."

[@drodi7320]

He just grinded dude don’t hate aha

[@godhand2018]

You can just edit one of the game files and put in any number you want. Makes the game way more fun since you can just spend as many coins as you like.

[@StompyRoA]

@@godhand2018 no he just played the game a lot

[@BSAnime]

@@StompyRoA 413314268 coins. So let's say he got a lunar coin per second [seems like an insanely aggressive assumption but sure why not]. That would take 4783 days or 13 years of gameplay time. Now tell me which method sound more reasonable for a 2 year old game.

[@avoncalling9703]

11 months later the mithrix 1 shot to skip the last phase is still in game, my friend got it with rail gunner last week

[@1Chitus]

As a person who has no experience with this game, it looks like he's just standing there and winning

[@GuerillaBunny]

They're playing on the lowest difficulty, so enemy health and damage scale up with time very slowly, keeping it all very low. They also have a game modifier that doubles the number of enemies, but halves their hp. Then they just stack nothing but reflect damage, so when he gets hit, enemies take damage, and die.

[@themeow-sician1664]

One of the coolest games

[@Largentina.]

One of my favorite games of the generation.

[@HitPointX]

^^^^^^^^^ we need more rogue-likes/lites feels like they're severely lacking this gen, last gen they were popping off like crazy.

[@Largentina.]

@@HitPointX We need more 3D roguelites/likes with co-op.

[@eggward7203]

@@HitPointX there's plenty of rougelikes (enter the gungeon, hades, dead cells, spelunky 2, ect.), but we need more 3d rougelikes.

[@qwsxedcrfv]

nah, what made me go razorwire in the anniversary update was the fact that it now procs other items

[@ShadowSlith789]

It always did

[@GreasiestGuido]

*"The Chronobaubble must be a meme"*

[@eestep2155]

dude love the reactions to the lunar coins xD gotta give em credit for keeping everything chill

[@thejat-manskitity-scat5328]

Finally! Risk of Rain 2 is such an underrated game, it’s really sad.

[@assassineagle1]

100k overwhelming positive reviews on steam "underrated"

[@ben-wq4ix]

@@assassineagle1 STILL UNDERRATED

[@partydah]

@@ben-wq4ix it's one of the most well known modern roguelike

[@ben-wq4ix]

@@partydah ik

[@averyhonestnintendofanboy7624]

@@assassineagle1 it’s underrated lad

[@jrrtt25]

Yooooooo Risk of Rain 2 let’s gooooooo. Cannot wait for the update!

[@vorpal176]

It came out several weeks ago...

[@eden1738]

@@vorpal176 maybe console player

[@NOTIAREPANDA]

@@vorpal176 sorry PC bro, but console is still a thing, and it’s not out yet for console. The console updates take a little extra time to get to console.

[@FalseOrbit]

An underrated game, I've sunk so many hours into this

[@cazador8744]

It has hundred thousand positive comments and still on top selling lol but no one even talk about it

[@user-cs1tp1ep9m]

underrated?

[@UnluckiestJester]

Bro beat the game before the security chest closed.

[@ruien6912]

"People going to start playing with Hellfire Tincture." *Laughs in my go to command build of Hellfire tincture + Razorwire + Soulbound + Gesture.*

[@RobloxLevelDude]

no repulsion plates? they make the damage from tincture 1 with a few of them.

[@HowlingShabriri]

Not sure if the devs will see this but the "timestamps" are called "splits" in the speedrunning community

[@lorirootes876]

Swarms and Sacrifice go well together, more items while easier to kill

[@DaltonGoesSlow]

1.2k hours in, 4 different profile my favorite equip always been hell fire

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

6:05 "splits" is the word you're looking for

[@paxvaxen]

Its surprising not even the devs dont know about the Mithrix phase skip

[@cripz1436]

Wow I'm soo glad to see this, didnt expect it but love it

[@ninja666gaming]

the fire band can skip the last phase because if you hit mithrix just before he gets immunity in the last phase he doesnt steal your items, you can do it with continuous dmg mostly like fireband

[@tobi_versace]

He clearly had it modded to know where the TP was. He didn't even look for it at all, just straight to it.

[@spartanbegginner909]

these devs sound rly fun, was cool to listen to

[@Raintu]

I've used the hellfire tincture build with razorwire so many times, amazing build 💯

[@gook4dubb843]

To the devs: Awesome game! Looking forward to the dlc on consoles! Keep up the great work!

[@benchedmelon9992]

Still looking forward to it

[@IanEast001]

Everybody talking about the Chronobauble misclick when the Lunar Coins joke (2:35) is way funnier XD

[@harmoen]

Hellfire + armor plates + razor wire = yes

[@CaliStyle7]

“He’s just standing there…….MENACINGLY!”

[@hoofhearted4]

2:40 - best part "hes a speed runner, of course hes played the game a lot". so many people think speed runners pick the game up, beat it in 20 minutes the first try, then put it down.

[@psy-fi64]

@@hoofhearted4 Steam refund speedruns be like:

[@TrueLimeyhoney]

They thought the bug was due to the fire band, or the chronobauble. Little do they know, phase 4 mithrix is skipped through swarms.

[@thegrunch6448]

swarms?

[@TrueLimeyhoney]

the Grunch double Mithrix kills himself in phase 4 for whatever reason.

[@thegrunch6448]

@@TrueLimeyhoney oh huh, thanks for explaining

[@SSM24_]

I've definitely seen phase 4 get skipped without Swarms before. It might've contributed in some way, but it's definitely not necessary.

[@LeomanG]

I've played this game and have no clue what's going on, but I'm here for it.

[@atillafiliz6591]

Took all the artifacts to lower the difficulty, and did the combo: razorwire shoots enemies around you when you are hurt + hellfire tincture damages everyone in a radius, including yourself.

[@ojhat]

There's a fascinating irony that a "casual" run of RoR2 is one of the most teeth-clenching, heart-pumping, dramatic thrills to experience, but the speedrun is... Exceptionally boring, over half of it is waiting around for timers.

[@naryosh_]

loader always intimidated me but now I'm just scared shitless of her

[@Kokonutzlz]

Pretty sure the runner just accidentally clicked Chronobauble instead of Razorwire 1 space lower

[@eveninglion137]

@IGN This was added to the wrong playlist btw, should be in Devs React instead of Experts React.

[@RedHJUF]

fun fact: risk of rain commando was a tower in roblox tower defense simulator in the 2019 area 51 event if you beaten it on normal or hard you would get the commando tower!

[@PeeJaay03]

best soundtrack in any game

[@Largentina.]

@@stevea1089 This is truly an adorable comment.

[@Killer_Bee150]

2 games that come to mind immediately that beat this in soundtrack imo is hollow knight and path of exile

[@Acidrain-nt3ih]

This is prob my 2nd fav 1st fav soundtrack is persona 3

[@coldshoulder14]

Of COURSE they used Loader lmao. Great game btw. :)

[@duncanhawk4500]

When you hear only the 2nd other person to have your name in your life

[@darktetor]

Read the Dune series, Duncan Idaho is a pretty important character in the later books.

[@everydayispain6121]

'he must really love the game to have that many lunar coins' meanwhile I'm sitting on -2,581,560,062 coins

[@OMGlvl86turtlepilot]

yeesh how many hours?

[@baconbitz7804]

@@OMGlvl86turtlepilot about 45 minutes changing the lunar coin value

[@jarlock2734]

The last 100 times i've played, Mithtix hasnt bothered to take my items

[@juliandiazpascielli2383]

2:35 every risk of rain player xdd

[@maliketh420]

PLEASE UPDATE CONSOLE WERE STARVING

[@jameselling5402]

Waiting for Chris to comment

[@evanporter5610]

The devs wondering what the chronobauble was for while everyone else thinks the speed runner misclicked

[@frozi1541]

Razor wire goes BRRR

[@wonderful-paperz]

This is my favorite series on this channel

[@Tuku]

the music of this gaaaaaaaaaaaame

[@HitPointX]

Agreed, perfect rogue-like music to mindlessly get lost in

[@elitecommando1234]

@@HitPointX lmao I've actually just stopped playing and started air guitaring right before fighting mithrix once, this soundtrack is sooooo godly

[@barkz_xyz]

the lunar coin joke aged really well...

[@lazyliam7402]

Could cronobauble just be a miss click as it sits right above razorwire?

[@Harrissssonn]

To the devs. during the first days of the game, my blue luna coins bugged out also and it gave me millions. lots online about this :D

[@baconbitz7804]

Damn they really got 2/3 of the dev team to react

[@AubriannaPutman]

When you forget that you made the fire band DOT

[@1334agony]

imagine making a game for years then a random dude just finished it in 9 minutes

[@Nauriek]

On the bright side, said guy played the game like 2000 times to get that 9 minute speedrun, soo...

[@drunkenmuse]

With how many games have years spent on them to not be played at all 9 minutes is hugely preferable

[@khite1954]

@@VoraciousSergal yeah tbh

[@Terranova339]

This game can be run too many time with many differnet chars, comps, rng, maps etc, to be run in only 9 minutes. He just killed the boss with 1 char and 1 comp, but there are many many different ones to explore and do that with

[@averagefailboatenjoyer9940]

'what was the chronobauble for' it was an accident, friends

[@ciaranpatrick6859]

2:36 had me laughing

[@This.island.earth.bandofficial]

GIVE THE SOUND AND MUSIC GUY AN AWARD ❤🔥

[@vid2ification]

Pc speed runs are always legit. The lunar coins seen here clearly indicates an honest and legitimate player who is skilled enough to accomplish challenges in the game as devs intended. Must Reboot Sarcasm Module

[@fotnite_]

Those lunar coins are totally from playing a lot and totally not from editing save files lmao

[@finisherofwar]

Please do a Devs React of Dying Light. It's a great speed game.

[@arealnibbaa9929]

Dead game lmao

[@finisherofwar]

@@arealnibbaa9929 They've already done plenty of "Dead Games" like new vegas so they wouldn't be breaking new ground there.

[@KodyLapointe]

@@finisherofwar new vegas and dying light aren’t on the same level

[@TheNightTyrant]

I shed a tear when a character died it that game man, storytelling was emotional

[@Sir_Sheep]

my man is spiderman