Risk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm Dev Diary 7

[@intuix10]

Ok thank you dev for not giving up!

[@limelightsour]

2:20 War Bonds be like "Who is getting the best nuclear obliteration?"

[@invalidusername3399]

@limelightsour War Bonds may be cooler than ICBM now idk

[@massimo8408]

@@invalidusername3399 War Bonds with ICMB would be so funny tho

[@ThatNerdGuy0]

I really hope it works, they are missiles after all (though not fired by the player) Also I hope it stacks with bands

[@largefather9918]

more missile synergy for your average limelight run

[@aquaticengineer]

Limelight infiltrated the dev team for that rework

[@jevmenyt3422]

this really shows how much of the stuff in the dlc were placeholders wich were caused by rushed development, them already having some of these things partially finished says a lot of how they very much knew the items were abysmal but they couldnt finish them for the deadline

[@CallMeYuu]

Hopefully whoever was responsible for that disaster won't do it again and will give the devs some time

[@sardobi]

The video says "partially finished before the roadmap announcement", not before the DLC released ( 7:17 ). I think you're right about the DLC being rushed out with too little QA, though.

[@DtrJr]

@@sardobi yeah they def knew they fucked up when they released it and had to have planned on a day one patch or something but did not know what they were getting themselves into.

[@0002pA]

Rushed development? More likely just incompetence or at least not understanding the game.

[@timassurithro9991]

​@@0002pA are you stupid?

[@stuvu3833]

REJOICE ALL YOU SEEKERS! FOR WE ARE SO BACK!

[@bagofleavesp831]

1:32 Mithrix found dead in a ditch

[@ProitoOk]

The redemption arc has begun , good job, devs!

[@phillipthehorseking2532]

Certain Australian creators you say 4:54

[@deontetorrence3735]

Who are they talking about im not familiar with anyone from Australia I want to check out their channel

[@omeganinja9282]

​@@deontetorrence3735 Raydans made a video where he used a printer to get insane stat numbers with pray beads

[@deontetorrence3735]

@@phillipthehorseking2532 thank you

[@magentaface2750]

I've been waiting for this! Gotta say I really respect how you kept the original intent behind the majority of the items.

[@spy8388]

WE ARE SO BACK THANK YOU SEEKERS DEVS I LOVE YOU ALL

[@grfrjiglstan]

Collecting gold now serves a purpose on the moon, _and_ the thorn is now a green Shatterspleen. This is huge.

[@satel2650]

Getting dlc instantly man! Thank you so much for listening, we were and I was harsh, we were afraid the game we loved was going to be dropped. Now we see what you guys are capable of doing with time, and you deserve every single apology and praise you get. Take your time with false son and survivors, we are so glad we had this changes so soon. Again thank you so much, not only for listening but for caring even when we were harsh

[@bugjams]

The devs aren't going to come give you sloppy bro, you don't need to pull your pants down for them.

[@brenotercero]

im glad the hope i put in them didnt go to waste

[@PersonCalledErin]

@bugjams nah if even 1 dev reads this and feels encouraged, it's a win. They genuinely deserve the praise, they were thrust into this position and did exactly the best possible thing to make up for it despite it not being their fault

[@BattleBardOCE-g6v]

This is the most soy comment I’ve ever read. We were fully within our rights to be mad and the devs deserve zero praise for finally giving us what they charged full price for

[@AtomixTiger]

​@@bugjamsinternet gremlin learns about forgiveness and apology

[@Hacivat-i6r]

SALE STAR IS UNCHANGED! HELL YEAH

[@Hyperforg]

rip prayer bead printers

[@syncplayz9010]

Blame raydans for that

[@Psychobum91932]

good riddance!

[@raven_knight_076]

Yeah I expected that to happen sooner or later, was funny while it lasted though

[@ssf1500-z6n]

Wow, this update looks absolutely incredible, great stuff guys

[@hyl1an]

this makes the dlc like 10 times better. Thank you for addressing these items and the elites, and looking forward to the rest of the changes listed in the roadmap (especially the Survivor changes)

[@dexnacorn7807]

YOU ALL COOKED I told myself that i am not gonna hold my breath but if the updates were fire I'd be back on your side THIS IS ACTUAL HEAT

[@Bigmanchase]

One of the greatest developer team I have ever seen. The realized the faults of a rushed dlc and took all feedback from their fans and created the best version of the dlc so far. Thank you for all your hard work!

[@duseifert]

I feel a No man's sky energy from this video, you guys are working hard to get this DLC in a polished and fun state to play, definitely looking for the next update, keep it up Team!

[@energy837real]

This update is a great step in the right direction! Keep going! It seems that people are experiencing some bugs with this new update, but that's okay because those can be patched. Thank you for the much needed fixing of Seekers of the Storm.

[@apaolomusic]

Thank you for putting in the extra work to fix the expansion! Already, with Phase 1 out, I'm having so much more fun with the game!

[@НикитаЛисенко-и9п]

I LOVE NEW CHANGES. thanks gearbox for new fixes, seeing this game getting better is like seeing my old friend recovering from a tragic accident. So happy seeing one of my favorite game becoming great again. ;)

[@andychris6069]

6:35 whiff......but seriously, absolutely love the changes. Can't wait to see the rest of the roadmap play out!

[@Sullysully5]

Y’all are getting it, thanks Gearbox

[@GearWorks]

GOATED, THESE ARE SO AWESOME AND ARE VISUALLY INCREDIBLE

[@thomaswerner6557]

I love that you guys imported a lot of the really awesome Items from RORR to this game that feels like belong, I Love the care from the Devs for this game. (btw take notes for this please add the multiplayer drone system from RoRR to RoR2, makes multiplayer way more enjoyable)

[@grantzu]

i was not expecting this so soon thank you for the peak

[@asphere2153]

AMAZING Changes! Thank you for working on synergies with other items

[@_Dude_710]

I loved this DLC before patches because I absolutely love ROR, but I’m glad you’re putting in work into features that were rushed for release. Shows how much you care for your player’s enjoyment instead of consumption. I love you sm Gearbox for all your hard work to strive for a fun and enjoyable game.

[@skylerg8574]

Hello gearbox, I’m writing this with my voice as I’m playing this newest patch that you’ve just released to a wonderful game and me and my boys were just wondering if you would perhaps consider seeing if adding a save option would be in the realm of possibilities for the future of the game

[@BizarreBardo]

I love the item changes, hope to see next updates as cool as this. Thanks Gearbox for caring for my favorite game

[@markhumphreys4496]

I’m really excited! Thank you Gearbox team!!!!

[@davidyoshi]

The amount of effort you guys put in the dlc its commendable. Love yall!

[@Mullingamer]

Huge update, thx for the hard work

[@raylathebrave]

Props to you all with sticking to the game, I really want to see how the game will evolve!

[@Leoandfriendsgames]

What a great update. stale star our beloved

[@KomradeKrisis1701]

1000/10, keep up the good work and I can’t wait to see how these changes play!!

[@frosty6128]

WE ARE SO FREAKING BACK

[@Jerry_2118]

noxious thorn my beloved

[@Kraken-ub7qd]

This update was so good, it's gotten me even more exited for the upcoming phases. Keep up the good work Gearbox! 😁

[@errorbox0017]

Красавчики, сделали из таких себе предметов, предметы отличные, продолжайте в том же духе, мы в вас верим

[@soap6264]

You guys doing this is generally the best thing ever 🔥🔥

[@sethstoll8525]

Fantastic work!! Thank you so much, these changes are just awesome ❤❤

[@CasuaICole]

These changes are amazing! Thank you!

[@zero.zen030]

This looks great, thank you so much!

[@DtrJr]

thank you for the commitment in fixing the dlc. im so hype to play it again

[@RacesVideos]

ty guys (✿◡‿◡)

[@coltonmoiser2614]

Thank you dev this means alot

[@somedude6351]

LETS GOOOO. Thank you so much Devs. These changes are all great and with all of these changes fully done this will be a dlc that can stand next to SOTV

[@SlimeyEmeralds]

this game is in the top 10 comebacks of all time

[@jem3602]

This is awesome, never give up on this game plz cause you guys are great

[@Trashcan_Flexer_Ren]

the Risk of Rain 2 devs gave us the best Christmas present

[@scoopskicat]

Love seeing the changes! Particularly happy with the Bolstering Lantern change, that's going to be so fun on multiplayer (and I can only imagine how amazing it is with a team of Engis!)! Thank you all for your hard work!

[@fotnite_]

I've been enjoying my time with the new items. Before they made the item pool more bland, but now they actually make runs feel more dynamic than most of the items already in the game. Little touches like the Chronic Expansion "pips" make them feel more like part of the actual world. The elite changes are both pretty fun as well. All around, it's now worth recommending people to enable Seekers of the Storm for their runs. Thank you devs! It's pretty clear now that you guys care about this game.

[@Professor_Utonium_]

Rare community engagement W. This looks a lot more fun

[@AutistiCat2406]

One thing that worries me a bit is the lack of healing items still, everything has been reworked in such an incredible and useful manner to give it strong niches and ideas, but there's no healing items :( If antlers or lantern gave small buffs to hp regen because of their effects i feel like thatd be a good way to introduce some healing, but they're already so powerful

[@vlad980]

i dont think we need more healing, all you really need is like 2 wungus and a couple slugs

[@SilentJheck]

Just don't get hit.

[@spacebar-vx7ck]

warped echo is so strong now, who needs healing

[@mailcs06]

Amazing item changes! Great job!

[@expakun]

Honestly better than I expected

[@dafinch221]

Great update! YOU YOU DEVS

[@SirDavid290]

This is really good, thank you !

[@crangejo]

we seeking the storm with this one

[@wollywog]

kinda pog, I'm sure there are still issues but some really nice changes in here

[@lucifertheceoofhell1254]

the items update seems incredible, congratulations to the team I'm still sad that the false son boss battle is getting changed, I found it refreshing to have a harder but still fair boss and really like his boss fight ( and I'm probably one of the few )

[@spacebar-vx7ck]

"fair"

[@spamtonspamton3403]

I’ve played around with this a little bit now, and I feel like things could use a little tweaking still. Everything is so much better now, but somethings are too good. Elusive antlers is too fast, unstable transmitter does too many things at once, and war Bonds shreds through boss health. You’ve always gotta be careful when you allow some thing to stack in more than one place. but this is an amazing start, thank you.

[@cameronmatthewson]

I completely agree, power creep is a huge issue with this and I hope people realize in the next couple of days that while it’s nice that the game is easy, it’s just not really fun when they’re too good you know. People are excited that gearbox is giving us candy for dinner, but we’re gonna have a tummy ache soon. The concepts are great I think the numbers need to be tweaked though, maybe except for unstable transmitter. The fact that this item is essentially a recharging elixir makes actual elixirs basically useless and this item amazing, I do agree this one tries to do too much at once making it insane. Except for that though, tweaking the numbers should fix a lot of the power creep because I think the overall concepts are pretty good.

[@RealCat222]

Hell yeah, amazing work

[@MeloniestNeon]

Funny enough, I had a similar idea for the Unstable Transmitter, albeit a one-time activation rather than a continuous field: While out of danger, gain a shield that triggers on hit. When triggered, creates an explosion around the player for 400% damage (+200% per stack) and teleports the nearest 3 non-boss enemies (+1 per stack) up to 30m away from the player. Has a cooldown of 60 seconds. (Considered reducing the cooldown per stack if the damage/damage stacking was removed?) Overall, pretty solid changes! I hope Noxious Thorn's old "Debuff doubling" effect becomes a new item some day, I previously had the idea of a "Weighted Dice" item that has a chance to double any debuff inflicted, without the annoying activation method that Noxious Thorn used to have.

[@elijahbarfknecht4056]

Getting Jonathan back is what really fixed everything. I don’t have anything against Bruno, but dev news isn’t the same without Jonathan ❤️

[@LoveYourself-318]

we are so back, i'm buying the dlc now. well, i've gotta hope the survivor update is good but the new items have had a really positive change

[@adon155]

Feel like this confirms the devs do know what they are doing with the game, just got rushed. Thanks for the hard work to improve sots!

[@frostburning]

Watching this made me much more confident with the state of the game. I actually really like the new elite mechanics, seem much more fun and interactive

[@DamageMaximo]

Thank you Risk of Rain 2 Team for fixing the DLC and listening to feedback, God bless all of you! I firmly believe we are only going uphill from here! Thank you Thank you Thank you!

[@cheesewheelies]

huge steps foward. thanks gearbox! (i am especially quite a fan of the war bonds rework👍)

[@ZenotoXOfficial]

Looks like I’m buying the dlc again. I’m happy to see the game is getting worked on and is actually being substantially fixed! Much love to the devs!

[@RapidProbably]

This fixed a lot of problems. I can now enjoy the game much more now! Thank you gearbox!

[@RiskofRing]

I appreciate you guys trying to fix the mess your shareholders made

[@li2tera]

these changes are perfect, good stuff

[@Moonlight-sigma]

Thank you so much, I kind of fell out of love out of the game after the dlc came out but now I actually want to buy the game and play more. It just looks really fun

[@FictionalCookie]

Friendship with itemblacklist ended

[@Random_game2-h8m]

I'm really happy that instead of saying "This is the way things are, deal with it." Gearbox is working to fix their mistakes and are willing to completely rework items to achieve this. I didn't consider buying the seekers of the storm DLC before since I heard how bad it was, but with this rework, I think that I'll buy it soon. Keep up the good work!

[@Snow22224]

All I ask is that it Phase 3, the 3 new survivors get Prime Meridian skins. Pls

[@vlad980]

i would rather have them become playable than just get new cosmetics 🫠

[@patrickwarstler2658]

we are so back

[@abra_escaped]

These changes are amazing, antler and lantern remind me of starstorm 2 where some items like needles and coffee bag are all about giving the standard base stat buffs but in a more interesting way!

[@AK_GENIESSER]

We are so back...

[@genokugel]

Noxious Thorn is now a Ukulele that does bleed?? BASED

[@tacemiko3849]

Thank you for the update, I hope you wont abandon the game after this tho. This game deserves much more additions and content

[@baltland4477]

THANK YOU SO MUCH 🙏

[@JackizTrash]

Gonna play with the homies tn. Thank you!

[@fezman7927]

I was running a mod since the third day of the launch and its problems which removed the items and elites. That’s all it did. Safe to say, I no longer need those mods anymore. These seem a lot more balanced, clear and most of all fun. Gold isn’t just taken away for doing a necessary action anymore and actually rewards players who dodge effectively! And the new way of making a high priority damaging elite is much better! Glad you guys aren’t throwing the towel. Still not happy the way it released but progress is being made and that’s what matters now!

[@wojtekpiasecki1298]

This might make me buy the dlc after all the strugle, thanks gearbox (can't belive you didn't drop the ball)

[@Chamucokiddo]

Hopoo games had roadmaps for the things they were going to add to the game, not for the bugs they had to resolve. I realize this may sound inflammatory, still I stand by it. Not that Hopoo never had to deal with bugs but definitely there is a difference to the quality of released content.

[@vlad980]

this is not a bug roadmap i did not hear the word "bug" while watching this video

[@bugjams]

​@vlad980 the message still stands. It's a roadmap for fixing things that never should've gone wrong in the first place. This is like if the Soviets tried to spin the chernobyl disaster by propagandizing, "Look how good of a job our proud citizens are doing by helping to clean up this disaster! Truly, we are a great country!" (oh wait, they did just that)

[@EvilNinja182]

Fair enough, it definitely seems like the team struggled a bit and didn’t meet their deadline which is on them but they’re at least considerate enough the make good on their promises as best they can even if it’s a little late. Hopefully, if they release content again, they will be familiar enough with developing rhis game that we won’t face these issues again. They’re not hoppo for sure, but they’re not close to the worst we could’ve gotten either. They’ll get there if they show this level of dedication going forward.

[@brenotercero]

last time i checked hopoo was never owned by any company and didnt really have any set deadlines to release updates. The ror gearbox team is really trying their best, and seeing how they care about the game, they probably wouldnt have launched the dlc in this state if they werent forced

[@brenotercero]

@@bugjams that comparation is beyond insane.

[@StaticIsJustOkAtGames]

twisteds charging a fucking spirit bomb is such a cool idea tho-

[@kujalanville]

Definitely a step in the right direction, You got this

[@thebean6415]

just played the update and got most of the new items they were really fun and cool my new fav red is war bonds now thanks

[@Forspeedruns]

It shows that maybe higher ups wanted it rushed out but the people working on it had better ideas in mind and care about this game, which is hopeful, atleast from what I can tell.

[@sumbuddy4088]

The knockback fin might actually be useful now!? Wowee!!!

[@quino711]

This is amazing! I'll pressure and force, I mean... invite kindly, all my friends to play even more RoR2. Thanks you very much for all your hard work on improving a game a love so much :)

[@texasred8424]

they made the balancing people play the game 🙌

[@texasred8424]

i mean like seriously i know the development was rushed but there's no way that people that actually played the game designed any of the items that got the big reworks

[@PersonCalledErin]

​@@texasred8424they didn't really get to! They were forced to rush out an undertested underbaked version of the game. This time around they had time to get help with testing and feedback from creators, which is huge

[@IcyFlame606]

This means a lot

[@NosirrahVorex]

I still want a couch co-op split screen update.

[@mochamitzu]

were so back gang

[@NotDuckRBLX]

Thank god! i felt some of the items just didnt feel like risk of rain items. (also, i wouldnt complain if some older items got some changes, mainly opal and steak)

[@NotDuckRBLX]

furthermore here are some ideas for reworking/changing some items bison steak: either a percentage increase (i.e +10% max health) or if it were to increase level max health (i.e +15 max health per level) opal: incoming damage worth more than 20% of your max health is decreased by 20% (+20 * 90%/stack) to combat near-one shots late game, or provide more than one barrier per recharge/ stack