Otherworldly Armaments | Risk of Rain 2

[@RacesVideos]

this is one of those runs thats probably going to confuse newer players a lot, don't do what im doing if you dont understand why im doing it! i recommend asking questions with this one lol

[@ammonbergevin5302]

How TAF did you delay the director to spawn a boss like WHAT. I didn't know you could do that...

[@RacesVideos]

By not killing anything and having the max amount of enemies on the map, the stage builds up credits for spawning continually until I kill something. So I waited for a while, killed one thing so it dumped all of its credits into one enemy. Great way to force gun used but obviously the downside is clear so use sparingly at best

[@holynder3181]

@@ammonbergevin5302If you hang out in certain areas where enemies can’t spawn near you, they just won’t spawn. (it’s not as exploitable as it sounds) The difficulty still scales and the director still gets credits, so you can wait awhile and when you come back enemies will start spawning again and the director will have enough credits to spawn a boss.

[@dionysiosgerostamoulos4301]

Why do you prefer Desperado over Lights Out?

[@RacesVideos]

One does infinite scaling damage, one does very low damage and resets already low cooldown abilities

[@ryanrcosta]

i stand by what i said in the twitch message: everytime race gets a recycler, it turns in the most unhinged build ever seen

[@NicoTheCinderace]

True!

[@kequalspotassium2440]

Race: “you’re not picking it up even if you have a recycler either” That equipment barrel: has recycler Truly a race.dll moment

[@BuzzyBri]

I can confirm umbral final phase is so much more scary than normal. I dont like practice mode but I've played a few runs of it in eclipse 3 to test the waters and I always die right at the end when it has like 4-5k hp left so heartbreaking. I panic and normally die to the projectiles it shoots.

[@RacesVideos]

Just keep it up and you’ll get the hang of it :) if you can get that far then you can absolutely do it

[@a_cats]

31:52 echo flickers between the realms

[@hamburgerbroz6439]

so cryptic. what is this, an ARG? (A Really Gooddog)

[@NicoTheCinderace]

"Do I hate myself?" "I am not doing it." "I'm doing it." Race really do be on his suffering arc.

[@bryankopkin6869]

Wow race never watched woolies guide on monsoon! 50 minutes on stage 4? This guy has lost his marbles!!

[@MrZeldafan125]

dog jumpscare @31:52

[@TooManySams]

plimp into plute into safer spaces on stage 1 is just not fair man

[@ezrastewart543]

as a bandit main, more specifically a lights out main, this run made me happy.

[@WDGen]

Race, your voice is too soothing. Whenever I come home and see you've uploaded I find myself falling asleep halfway through 😅

[@bliss6417]

About the whole looping debate, I have like 450ish hours and I can confirm that every looper is actually just desperate FMP fan trying to get the actual FMP and failing miserably.

[@RacesVideos]

our prayers fall upon deafened gods in a land ravaged by misfortune

[@osteohiveporosis6882]

Bandit has some of the most interesting synergies as a survivor. I actually find him more interesting than engineer sometimes (though my favorite is viend)

[@viviolet7]

my favourite build in the game is stacking bandoliers on desperado

[@dynamo0098]

Maybe if looping worked like returns, I would loop in my runs. Looping just defeats the challenge of the mithrix fight, which is easily the most fun part of the run.

[@dynamo0098]

But umbral phase 4 still feels awesome. My entire body is clenched during those few seconds.

[@rndThursday]

500+ hours and love looping checking in 🫡 Two reasons: 1. Most of the time, I would rather loop than do pillars or struggle through a poopy Mithrix fight. If I'm gonna die I'll die to a gigchad malachite wisp and not to cringe mithrix 2. Half the fun in ror2 (for me at least) comes from breaking the game and seeing what ridiculous stuff happens. harder to do in one loop 3. every loop is usually quicker than the previous which means you can see way more items doing loops than if you just restart at stage 5. more items = more dopamine = more happiness in the world. therefore looping is morally superior and if u don't loop u are actually creating less happiness in the world. *[this fact was verified by DML gang]* + extra bonus p.s.: i can get FMP builds every time i loop 😏

[@RacesVideos]

I’ll give up some points for the fmp build

[@itkenz5615]

Still praying for the day Race tries blast again and realizes the error in his ways. High proc is just too fun

[@RacesVideos]

Silence kenz

[@herec0mestheCh33f]

Bandit was the first boyo that got me through monsoon. Got a lucky Hardlight and had infinite invisibility and a couple good printers. Made my run

[@RacesVideos]

big combo

[@SpicyVendingMachine]

I unlocked Blast while watching this.

[@koalabro6118]

I like Blast. I exclusively use Blast when playing Bandit. One good shot, nice and ranged. I can evade all attacks because I am always very far away from my foe.

[@jamesgorospe990]

Watching you do stage four of umbral is actually mesmerizing every time

[@herthozan1395]

This is trully an race

[@elischrader8882]

I have about 450 hours and I loop pretty much every time. I LOVE looping, I just like being overpowered :3

[@RacesVideos]

im happy for you

[@isaiahseals6014]

Bro is race-ing through the run

[@metalurgent]

Buff lights out by giving it blast shower effect

[@skylarea]

thats kinda hype probably just remove the skill cooldown reduction too though cause then you could just entirely spam lights out n have infinite blast shower

[@erenshaw]

thank you race for risking the rain once again

[@doohp]

20:54 the illusion of choice 😔

[@deelegend2473]

Would love to see some pre DLC runs, I've been doing them and have read enjoyed it

[@hamburgerbroz6439]

what was the reason for hiding behind the pillar at the beginning of phase 3 on this one?

[@RacesVideos]

Good catch! Empathy cores don’t die to mithrixs “kill drone” attack once phase 3 begins, which means the invincible clone mithrix will aggro on to them if he sees them first, giving me a lot of time and space to work with

[@hamburgerbroz6439]

@ideos oh wicked!!! i love your in-depth knowledge :] will be using this when i can hahaha thank you!

[@mickeyboi1921]

Echo cameo near the end.

[@RiverWilliamson]

There's no way I'm going to try for the hemorrhage challenge artefact-less

[@qiang6016]

Umbral phase four is so hard but you make it look like so easy

[@ima44]

22:54 i have 320 hours in risk of rain 2, and im mainly a looper, also haven't really done eclipse climbing because i never got used to beating the game like that i just really enjoy getting as powerful as i can and stomping through level after level

[@drxavier1870]

Been enjoying these videos as i get into the purgatory that is Console RoR2. Praying that Console Pot Rolling gets fixed in the next decade

[@deux_cents]

I recommend abusing Newt Altar and Effigy of Grief as much as you can when the character doesn’t have a built in way to press buttons (Cap, Loader, RGunner (with patience) and Engineer are able to do it). Runs can get really hard really fast on console, there’s no shame in using a currency you can’t mod in in absurd amounts to get an equipment you’ll drop after the deed is done

[@Iranofideaswhilewritingthis334]

1:19 Small PSA for everyone that actually thinks RNG works like that: No, it's just typical RNG shenanigans in action, sometimes you just don't get an item for 20 straight runs aaand then the other 5 ones have like three of that item in a cradle or a multishop lol

[@zephyroswest3823]

Off-topic question, why do you never fight Voidling? I assume it's either too easy, too buggy, or you just prefer Umbral Mithrix as an endpoint to runs. I bring this up because at 4:55 you said that you don't play vanilla Mithrix because he's too weak, but there is a modded version of voidling (FathomlessVoidling) by the same mod author who made Umbral Mithrix (not sure if there are issues with that mod). Just curious.

[@RacesVideos]

Fathomless is fun but at the end of the day it’s still too similar to voidling and I don’t think voidling is something I want to spend my time doing lol I think there were some issues with using both in the past I’m not sure those are fixed

[@zephyroswest3823]

@@RacesVideos fair and valid, thanks for the quick reply. :)

[@totallytoasted5243]

that guy saying phase 4 umbral is easier than vanilla had to be smoking that pack. To be fair though, in this run you DID make it look easy. ggs

[@everydaysniper9390]

On "do you think using command to get achievements is immoral" I straight up save edited the achievements for items and survivors. And I'd do it again. I hate having to unlock things, I'm incredibly happy that it was so easy to skip it.

[@forlackofawetterbird]

band first chest, recycler first equipment, yep its a race youtube video

[@forlackofawetterbird]

if only i knew how bad it really was

[@RacesVideos]

lol

[@solaraloe]

I never loop because it takes too long and I can usually just win on stage 5 anyways also I've been watching your content a lot and it's inspired me to get back on the eclipse grind, currently have gold e2 + e7 commando e8 loader

[@theethnicrainbow2984]

Thoughts on the Augmentum mod?

[@pogchampion476]

Blast should've something more akin to a primary lights out instead of the mess it is now

[@Iranofideaswhilewritingthis334]

Now that's an interesting rework, having both Lights out AND Desperado basically on your would be innately busted AF, i love it

[@TokitaMitsuru]

The fact that you got double bands and a recycler stage 1 is just cheating to the max XD

[@PoipoiFR]

OK I'd like your opinion on this: On your stage 5 you had a plute printer with 10+ plimps. I have this feeling that it would have been worth scrapping your Kjaros for more plutes to put out even more of those high dmg plimps consistently, rather than have 1 plimp missile proc 3 Kjaros once every 10s. With runalds maybe I'd feel different because I think Kjaros are kinda wasted on mithrix who runs out of the tornado in a split second, but even then I think I would have prioritized the plutes. That being said, why did you choose the bands over the plutes?

[@RacesVideos]

I didn’t, I chose feather

[@PoipoiFR]

​What? I meant, end of stage 5, you scrapped your greens for more plutes but kept the bands. Wouldn't it have been worth scrapping them too for more plute/plimp combo? Also you kept the bauble? ​@@RacesVideos

[@RacesVideos]

Did I have a scrapper that run? If not (which I assumed when responding) I kept it for feather, if I did then idk, it could be more damage by a bit but I’m a fan of multiplicative damage sources whenever possible, especially considering I had headset as well

[@hambourje]

When i unlocked arti i hated flamethrower on the first run, the range just doesn't cut it for me

[@Shhhhh183]

Flamethrower is easily one of the worst abilities imo, ion surge is way better

[@Phantompuff]

I love blast. It's what I use on bandit for e8 nowadays.

[@RacesVideos]

prison

[@nerithma9646]

I enjoy lights out just because it's fun to infinitely ladder combo shift+R on weak shit and climb to the sky. It actually changes how the character plays instead of just adding damage. I think it's more fun as kit, personally.

[@nikkoho6476]

Bandit makes me powerful.

[@phrog9641]

Whenever I use command for achievements it’s the ones I have zero clue how to get otherwise. Like the million damage railgunner cuz I don’t want to loop so much that I have to spend 7 hours nor am I lucky enough to get a good run for it fast. I also did it for huntress on the staying above 100% health and artificer on chunking bosses

[@metalurgent]

I do not understand why they gave blast spread. I feel like that kinda defeats the whole purpose of having a precision rifle over a shotgun

[@CHOKKYMILK_VR]

I have just over 800 hours but usually loop just once then mithrix, if I want to cut it short I do and a few days ago I did no loop E8 huntress and I did have a tough time because I didn't get any scrappers so there was no control and still won

[@Mimikium778]

not quite 500h, but 450h, i mostly use looping as a way to go for more mobility if a run was really stingy about it even with full looting, or sometimes a build really comes together on stage 5 and i wanna play with it for longer than mithrix. full looping does get extremely boring and looping gives more chances for the game to be dumb and decide to stop working properly. so all in all, im about a middle ground, im neither always moon immediately nor full looping.

[@flutterdrive4286]

is that skin coloring mod out yet?

[@electrozauzage9615]

Yes, it's called SkinTuner

[@jafsrob]

by shot 3 blast cant hit the broad side of a barn

[@Senshi64]

How tf does Race somehow pull a recycler first equipment barrel he opens😆💀

[@triax5440]

can someone please explain the reason behind not taking/scrapping crit glasses? Is it to avoid them turning into void glasses on death?

[@a_cats]

bandit crits for free if you go behind enemies so other items are usually better

[@triax5440]

@@a_cats damn I haven't played bandit in 2 years, I forgor

[@CrimsoniteSP]

30mins on stage 2 sounds insane until you actually start full looting and optimizing for yourself. I used to be the guy that would get to stage 4 before 15 minutes. Just bomb rushed the teleporter cuz early on I was told that early game loot wasn't worth it. Now it's pretty much just taking my time, I'll reach the next stage when I get there. Until then, focus on optimizing the items I'm getting.

[@Topunito]

I once got to 40 minutes on stage 2 on Railgunner just to get bands (was just starting to learn pot rolling) and won the run. I did it again with an Artificer run and also won that one

[@CrimsoniteSP]

@@Topunito I've definitely hit 50 minutes on stage 2 once just trying to pot roll.

[@ztirom2267]

I can see how looping could be fun But like Just the looping i had to do for achievements makes me not wsnt to anymore Everything just dies in 1 shot anyway

[@Pinesample]

What is the mod that allows you to edit the color of skins?

[@RacesVideos]

Skin tuner

[@Pinesample]

@@RacesVideos thanks!

[@phenel]

why is the footage sped up?

[@RacesVideos]

Huh

[@phenel]

@@RacesVideos at the very start you're moving maybe 10-15% faster than normal.

[@jamesjdog]

Blight Acrid next, then? 😂

[@RacesVideos]

Let’s relax

[@konradnemeth9789]

Ive fallen asleep,to this on Twitch

[@spacelime7579]

Is there a time frame for when the director can start spawning bossess or is it just at anypoint if it has enough coins it can spawn one? Like say wtage one 5 minutes in if i had just let everything spawn and the director somehow built up enough coins would it try to spawn a boss?

[@RacesVideos]

From what I understand that you’re saying, yes

[@tazone253.theworst2]

I am a serial looper

[@fishcati5620]

I really think they should get remove the spread on blast and add way more spread on burst. Burst is too effective at range and way too effective at proccing shatterspleen. You should have to get right up in there to get crits with burst

[@DarthVictious]

what class is mandr? lmao

[@RacesVideos]

the best

[@Gamesrock22]

Why do you dislike Predatory Instincts?

[@RacesVideos]

Bandit doesn’t benefit from attack speed in enough of a positive way over just having another green or scrap for a red

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

Why do you hate Lights Out? I always thought Desperado was the underwhelming skill.

[@RacesVideos]

One has infinite scaling damage the other one resets cooldowns that are already about 4 seconds with low impact

[@Lee-qz1mv]

normal gup is mango flavored 100% just had to state my case

[@RacesVideos]

how do you know..

[@Lee-qz1mv]

@@RacesVideos the particular shade of orange looks like the color mango fruit gummies/candies look. also mango good

[@saeriel2310]

[Raises hand] Meee I have like 800+ hours and 95% of my runs are looped lmaoo

[@jamesbm7978]

lights out would be way better if it reset band cooldowns

[@RacesVideos]

what if it could blow up the sun

[@mxdusza]

To be fair, it's not like Light's out is straight out bad, it's the Desperado that's stupidly overpowered. Literally 70% of Bandit's power budget went into Desperado alone. I wish it worked more similarly to Bandit's Special from RorR, where the on-kill dmg buff is still stackable, but over a 15s period, not over the whole stage. It's the sole reason why I don't like playing Bandit; without Desperado he feels ass and with it he feels cheesy af.

[@crycatena]

lol

[@themeepanaught]

Does this mean you will play Terraria?

[@RacesVideos]

Already did! It’s on the vods playlist

[@DILLIGER90]

the only thing that should not be socially acceptable in this community is the people thinking flamethrower is better, the rest doesn't matter, use lunars, use artifacts, play on drizzle, use mods. Just try Ion Surge trust me bro. p.s. *oh also saying commando=bad, punishable by public stoning*

[@RacesVideos]

CIA level gaslighting by the discords to try and convince players theyre stupid for not liking the shitty flame ability

[@skylarea]

unluckiest race run😞

[@jw6673]

Yo

[@MrStrides]

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww lights out gameplay ewww

[@iceshardz1]

On the note of the “using command drizzle to unlock stuff” I find the fact that someone even has to feel somewhat bad about doing that in A GAME THEY PAID FOR THAT IS ALSO PVE is fucking STUPID. Any goof that says that has no concept of reality. I work a full time job and play games to unwind. Reality of the situation is I don’t have the time to sit down and do tedious bullshit just to enjoy the game properly. I used unlock all like 5-10 hours into the game and don’t regret a fraction of it because I saved SO MUCH TIME. And unlike the losers that talk shit on stuff like that I value my time

[@a_cats]

to be entirely fair the reason why most people do the unlocks is because they find the process fun

[@iceshardz1]

@@a_cats oh I completely understand I used to love achievement hunting when I had a lot more spare time as well. But now that I don’t have as much time anymore the shortcuts are very appreciated. What’s not appreciated is how gate keepy the community is about anything they don’t like