The Items We Deserved | Risk of Rain 2

[@Mystery_Meat]

Can't believe Race forced Gearbox to make unstable transmitter teleport you directly to the eclipse menu

[@JCA_tm]

Gearbox showing there still is a future

[@bugjams]

Yeah dude, a roadmap for fixing a _paid DLC_ that we have to wait for. What a future.

[@peperomero8064]

​@@bugjamsOh yeah, because is waaaaay better to just leave the dlc broken and never go back right? Yeah the DLC release was really bad, but at least they are trying to fix things and a roadmap is the most transparent way to do it

[@mothlexfall1670]

@@bugjamsbro hopoo also made broke the game in the past you’re only mad because it’s gearbox

[@dontdoitdan7965]

@@mothlexfall1670 imo early access ror2 was a bit of a shitfest for any number of reasons... but the way they did what they did is the reason people have responded the way they did.

[@nicob5568]

The devs are showing a future* gearbox itself is debatable with most games

[@DenSporetrix]

Items? That are worth picking up?? In my videogame??? In this economy???? What will they think of next!

[@hekirb3382]

What's next, a balanced false son fight? A good chef? Like that's ever gonna happen...

[@bigrob9843]

@@hekirb3382chef shall never see the light of day

[@Alo-is-io]

Gearbox Apology Form To: Gearbox Studios From: The community Date: 12/10/24 ✅The media convinced me they were done ✅I hated knockback fin too much ✅I was jealous of whoever came up with sale star ✅I don't know how to do h0st skip post patch ✅Mercury was in retrograde

[@ahat4046]

wait you can do the h0st skip post patch?!

[@oleklabisch644]

i will not apologize to gearbox for reworking every item cause they sucked lol

[@EsPoReNg]

It's funny that I saw this meme when SotS released and there was a mercury retrograde then and also right now.

[@Alo-is-io]

@@ahat4046 nope, lol, and I'm still mad about it

[@leero9032]

@@Alo-is-io use the old physics mod

[@wollywog]

Race is the puppet master after all

[@thumb5225]

Honestly reassuring

[@casualbird7671]

Oh wow, the new unstable transmitter sounds like a wonderful insurance item!

[@MeloniestNeon]

As long as the effect overrides Elixers and you don't have to waste them all to trigger it, it's definitely a great emergency button.

[@b0mberr330]

​@@MeloniestNeonYes, it triggers before elixirs and watches. Even if you dont use the tp aura its essentially multi use elixir

[@MeloniestNeon]

@@b0mberr330 That's sick, I didn't even see the barrier before, I thought it was just the TP aura and bleed.

[@dry90125]

The old items really did feel like proof of concepts for these new ones, and I for one really appreciate the direction they went for all of them. Kept the cool ideas that were there and polished them and reworked ideas that didn’t translate off paper, really sick.

[@Topunito]

New Unstable Transmitter and Warped Echo sound like INSANELY powerful defensive items for their rarity, maybe a little TOO powerful, but we'll see

[@hgjfhgjh]

I think warped echo is balanced because its any hit, so tick damage included. That with the 15s cooldown makes it so its pretty rarely useful. For now I see it as a complicated tougher times on a timer. I'm just speculating though I haven't played yet.

[@yeetyiu4505]

Nah, you still have to get hit, after stage 4 usually it insta procs one shot protection, also unstable transmitter does not protect ypu from ranged attacks whuch are gonna tear trough your barrier, its good but not broken

[@MRsiniSSDT]

At least we get decents defensive items, which is great as the winning playstyle is kinda asking you to scrap these items and use them for mobility and damage

[@Iranofideaswhilewritingthis334]

​@@MRsiniSSDT Wdym, defensive items ARE important, Safer Spaces and Opal are amongst some of the best items in the game, heck, even Repulsion Armor and PSG are great on a lot of scenarios when your mobility options are scarce, they're also quite important parts of most builds and a important part to consider when making macro decisions

[@RacesVideos]

transmitter seems a little strong as it protects watches and elixirs every 45 sec lol. they're still taking feedback and this ones kinda new to me too, so we'll see if they pull back on some of the effects going forward.

[@MrTuas]

Contacting some of the most dedicated content creators is a fantastic choice, good QA is so damn important.

[@spice2688]

Honestly some of these items are even more creative than many of the items we have in the base game/sotv. Very impressed. It really makes me wonder what exactly happened to cause the disaster of a launch that was sots, considering how good all the changes have been. It shows Gearbox is more than capable of making good stuff for Ror2.

[@MacksEFX]

They definitely just didn’t have enough time and they got rushed out the door. Very excited to see the character rebalance later.

[@luviana_]

​@@MacksEFXThat's exactly how it feels to me. Sucks too that they have to kinda act like it's their fault too, since I'm sure they can't really openly talk about what their management forced them to do. That and they work for a company, so it's on them for choosing to represent Gearbox and work for them.

[@Swift_LN]

My boyfriend and I both had the new Knockback Fin and I can tell you juggling Mithrix around in the air like it's a devil may cry game was super freaking fun, my new favorite item in the game.

[@mageferago]

I really like how Bolstering Lantern works with allies as well, not only making it good for multiplayer synergy, but also by having drones around you that will make you attack faster. It's really cool to see a small bit of love to drone synergy items that aren't run winning like spare drone parts

[@ToastyCornFlakes]

Happy about this. I've been using item blacklist for too long.

[@bowtf2347]

nice note with new warbonds: it's ALL boss events, so mithrix, voidling and false son are fair game for it, it ALSO accounts for phase changes and activates at the start of each phase of multi-phase boss, granted you have enough of its buff. Only issue with it is with voidling post phase 1 (it works as intended there) since the platforming section tends to mess with it, it can work sometimes if you're fast enough. P.S: it might have a proc coefficient too

[@soumilsingh8585]

do we know if it counts as a missile item for icbm?

[@bowtf2347]

@@soumilsingh8585 it doesn't from what I saw, it's more like captain's default utility

[@soumilsingh8585]

@@bowtf2347 that's what I figured but I still had hopes lol

[@logancamp9098]

It does have a proc coefficient, seems like it's 1.0 from my (small amount of) testing

[@odnt5529]

They definitely gotta nerf that 💀

[@RapidProbably]

These items actually seem really fun to use! I like how many of them make me play differently or think about what I should do next. All of them old seekers items made me roll my eyes (not including sale star) but now they feel like they fit in.

[@ThatLazyyGuy]

1:32 Antler Shield/Elusive Antlers 2:00 War Bonds 2:22 Knockback Fin/Breaching Fin 3:02 Noxious Thorn 3:39 Bolstering Lantern 4:01 Growth Nectar 4:30 Luminous Shot 5:07 Warped Echo 5:24 Unstable Transmitter 6:07 Chronic Expansion 6:11 Runic Lens 6:17 Prayer Beads 6:22 Sale Star

[@hooparainbowbraceypkmonand7862]

Thank goodness long standing solitude is untouched, its actually really cool when you undertand just HOW it works. It could use a buff but keep its main mechanic.

[@RacesVideos]

oh they touched it a bit but i forgot to put it in the vid lol

[@hooparainbowbraceypkmonand7862]

@@RacesVideos what were the changes?

[@JynX_G8549]

@@hooparainbowbraceypkmonand7862 made it to where the unused free chest rolls over to the next stage

[@luckyloomagu]

@@hooparainbowbraceypkmonand7862 Purely buffs. Multiplayer shops are less expensive with it and your vouchers persist between maps

[@jinh605]

Antlers might be my new favorite item to play with. They just feels so good. The orbs are never so far out of the way but at the same time require just a little bit of skill to get. They feel perfectly balanced and fill the need for more speed items while not being redundant. Blown away by this change honestly, they feel amazing.

[@evanmann3447]

RND is probably malding at that chronic expansion change

[@dyw__]

Hes even more sad about antlers

[@bugjams]

I kinda feel bad for em. He had so much passion to see the items work as originally intended, but in a better way. I'm of the opinion that the item pool does not need to be balanced with every DLC if it means giving us more unique items. I'd rather have an item "seal" function similar to Vampire Survivors, where you can block items from appearing in a run (if you still want items to be random without using Command). There's already a mod that does this seamlessly.

[@bliss6417]

Well you got longstanding solitude buff so ups and downs.

[@DamageMaximo]

@@bugjams no, the item pool has to be balanced, this is risk of rain 2 not the binding of isaac

[@QJrocks]

New lantern seems very nice for drone builds, since it counts for allies as well as enemies. It's a bit of an indirect buff, but it's nice to have something for drones that isn't a red item.

[@RycoonGalloy]

I guess the DLC on release was just suits pushing from above to release, I'm glad it's fixed now, I'll be buying it on steam to show support

[@Koroeatspotates]

Same on switch this make sme very happy they improved the items

[@williamdargie3449]

I believe chance doll also had reworked visuals, and send a message in the in game chat saying "you offfer to the shrine and are greatly rewarded!"

[@satel2650]

Definetely buying dlc now brother!!!!! Thank you so much for helping gearbox AMAZING JOB MRRACE!!

[@megawither4714]

I am so very glad they took the communities feedback that makes me feel better about the future of this game

[@It_Is_Rival]

Truly a mistakes into miracles moment

[@savien6401]

Hey Race, this is just my stance before the video and trying out the update. Honestly congratulations on becoming a playtester for it. I am more happy than worried since i feel like i can trust you to give good feedback to make the items better. The only thing i am a little worried about is if they would feel more geared towards E8 players than just being good all around for everyone. Regardless i appreciate your work as well into helping gearbox fix their screw up and staying positive in the following months after the dlc dropped

[@savien6401]

Also about noxious thorn just a thought, since it sounds like a better tri-tip dagger sort of. Would it be better to either raise the rarity to green or make it poison instead? Just a thought

[@QJrocks]

@@savien6401 Description make it appear that the 10% bleed is just for having the item and doesn't stack (like how Predatory Instincts and Havester's Scythe give a flat 5% crit). Tri-tips are still necessary for stacking bleed to high numbers, but Thorn's base bleed allows it to be somewhat useful by itself instead of pure reliance on other items.

[@RacesVideos]

I do NOT give gameplay advice that favors my specific playstyle, in fact I do my best to make sure every playstyle is as represented as possible in my feedback, so don't worry

[@MarvelousButter]

Wow these item reworks are awesome! Love how they still feel uniquely gearbox with lots of team play elements. Before it felt like separate teams made the Survivors and the Items. Now it feels like the items have the same philosophy behind them as Seeker and Chef do. Awesome turn around Gearbox and thank you Race for helping them find their footing! ❤

[@tuukkamatikainen3389]

Goodbye, Antler shield. You may have not been useful, or fun, or cool, or good in any way, but at least you made for some funny coping memes o7

[@runaan7382]

i really really happy with what they did with all the changes so far, props to gearbox for being so open to constructive criticism and thanks to you for all the feedback you provided! all the items are super fun now and i can go back to loop runs since the twisted elites arent complete cancer. thanks a lot bro

[@breakfastforone2510]

Thank you race for providing all your fantastic feedback to the devs. They deserve praise for reaching out to the community, but so do you for acting as an ambassador for all of us. This really does give me hope for the future of this game, the loadout races, and for the community of ror2. Thank you

[@fotnite_]

The new items are actually pretty fun to pick up now. I was worried they would be "too complicated", but they actually feel pretty natural to use. Definitely worth turning SotS on for runs now.

[@R0salance]

I’ve been out of the loop since the dlc but this confirmed how my friend group felt about a lot of the new items. Really felt like they had ideas for other things in the dlc and just threw in some random item ideas without really putting much time or thought into them. It’s great to see that they were willing to work on them

[@frankguy6843]

I never blacklisted or downpatched, just lazy I guess, and I am so excited to play again to see how it feels. Been working through eclipse runs and wondering how much more consistent it will feel without so many useless items in the pool. Great changes and it's great to hear Gearbox are reaching out to players like you to test and give feedback. On top of the end product being better it just builds trust. Hope that continues into the future after they address all the issues with this DLC

[@ajhintleman215]

Wow. This is actually incredible all around. Very happy to see this stuff, and thank you for helping them with testing and such, Race!

[@Sogudu]

Lets gooo! Really thankful for the hard work all around. Ty devs for working with the community once again. And also ty to you too Race and the other involved community members, i know you guys straight up wrote books addressing all the issues with balance. Can't wait to try this out later today

[@buddydixon3826]

Well, my schedule has been decided today, lol

[@cake2806]

I'm very thankful the devs continued to work on this. This makes it very worth the money. I'm hopeful that they will continue to optimize the game

[@ClairvoyantLastrus]

As someone that has been waiting for mods to be updated and is still waiting, these changes are neat. Can't wait to play again after all the updates are done with

[@griffithtopna]

0:02 like the low taper fade meme

[@ghosterino]

I feel that Growth Nectar was OK and that there was no need for a change. And they decided to turn Warbonds into the old Classified Access Codes?

[@pnkeo]

something I've noticed with Gearbox is that there's a bit of a trend of them screwing things up but also being pretty good at fixing what they screw up

[@night_san03]

Warped echo engineer gonna be scary.

[@natekite7532]

Wow these are massive improvements. I held off on buying the DLC when it came out, but now I'm going to consider it. Some of these new items are AWESOME.

[@jacobattia1210]

I played a false son run with the new luminous shot, and it was insanely good - the reduced cooldown on the secondary lets you pump out massive lightning damage

[@3l1uk0]

this is amazing, I held off on buying the DLC, now I will go buy it, partially because excited for these, and partially because I want to support this fantastic first step

[@ChandlerRobinsonCRV]

This is awesome, Im ngl I was certified gearbox hater but Im very glad they didnt abandon the game or criticize the fans for wanting the game improved.

[@Pufftarot]

I wasn't expecting much, and I'm just so glad they haven't just listened to feedback, but understood it. The new items are now fun, interactive, and NEW. New things, from a new DLC, and that's really cool! My current concerns are still to do with the price of the DLC, as it currently sits at about half the content (ignoring quality) of Survivors of the Void, and yet is the same price. I will NEVER agree with this decision, unless they significantly increase the actual amount of content included. This is top priority for me. Either lower the price, or increase the amount of stuff in the DLC. Onto the False Son boss, I fundamentally disagree with False Son as a concept. Not as the broken, boring Mithrix knockoff he is, but as a concept. The brothers' story was done, and the Void had its story explored in SotV. Bringing it back to the brothers is just so unimaginative to me. I understand liking the lore of Risk of Rain 2, but this game thrives on its diversity. Many items, enemies, stages and stories from places all over the universe and dimensions, culminating on Petrichor V. Having three of the new stages sharing an aesthetic is REALLY frustrating to me, even more so that they're more of "greenish with ruins about". Worse is how you do them IN A ROW, like 20 times for the new skins (assuming you win every run). The music of the DLC is banger after banger, but when the songs use similar instruments and all have massive guitar solos, they stop being "holy shit, that's awesome!" and become "that's pretty cool!". Still good, but still, the only track that drilled itself into my brain is the one with the Rhodes Piano that went all jazzy and stuff. THAT was new, it was unexpected, and it's really good (as is all of Chris' music). Anyways, this issue with diversity comes to False Son, whose boss fight is not diverse in the slightest. It's a big fella, with a big stick, who moves slow but dashes to you and tosses needles as he runs, slams his big stick down and makes blue pillars of fire, spawns minions on phase 2, and removes an integral part of the game for the final phase. I've written about how it's poorly executed before, but I want to point to something else. There's a massive Providence statue in Prime Meridian, and literally everyone I know who has played SotS had this experience: does the path, gets to the fight, sees the statue turn to face them and says "HOLY SHIT, I GET TO FIGHT THE BIG STATUE! THAT'S AWESOME!"; and then it's budget Mithrix. Ignoring how terrible the fight's design is, I'd like to focus on False Son. Every other part of Risk of Rain 2 has the character you get from beating the final boss be related to the story of beating said boss, but not literally them. Captain for Mithrix (the one who brought all the survivors and items to Petrichor V), Void Fiend for Voidling (the commando who escaped the Simulacrum), and now... False Son, for False Son. It's really boring, and I was incredibly disappointed when I unlocked him. His physical design is that of a kind of fan character you get from "Providence but he's all edgy..." or in the words of the reveal trailer "a bit of a sad boy" if I recall correctly. I know they won't remove False Son entirely, I assume they're heavily invested in keeping everything already in the DLC in the DLC. But it would be nice if they at least changed the BOSS to the statue, then you unlock False Son as a character. Either that, or remove the statue, and replace the survivor you gain from beating False Son with a new one. Not an old one from RoR1 or something, a new character with interesting lore. Speaking of lore, that's another fundamental failure of the DLC. There isn't any variety, it's all linked with the military aesthetic they've poured into certain parts of the DLC. A chunk of the new skins (which are my least favourite, along with the grey ones (who the fuck thought grey and camo skins were an interesting idea)) are militaristic as well, but the log entries are mainly from the perspective of people looking at the items the entry is for and having poorly written (but kind of entertaining in a 'gay fanfiction written by a 13 year old' kind of way) thoughts or interactions with other members of the military or whatever. The logbook entries from before SotS? Incredibly varied. The ones that aren't are written from one character's perspective (can't remember his name, but he's the guy who checks out the environment) and are creative and, I can't stress this enough, well written. The other through lines are loose but coherent, giving the entries room to breathe and be themselves while still connecting to the others of their type. I just genuinely don't think the base ideas for the story of the Seekers of the Storm DLC were good from the concept stage. It feels like we have the brothers' story, and a bunch of bloat filling the cracks that is uninteresting and wasteful. But again, I doubt Gearbox will change any of that, as it's integral to the identity they built for and marketed with for the DLC. I desperately hope they change up at least the colour schemes of the new stages, maybe giving seasonal looks to the first three of the Path of the Colossus (I know they kind of have that with looped variants, but I'm never looping so fml (also if they did do this, then make new variants for them because that'd be cool)), changing Prime Meridian's colour scheme from fucking GREY, and switching Helminth to an icy mountain theme, with ice crystals and stuff growing, the lava instead a freezing cold lava-like turquoise substance, the enemies having icy themes similar to the enemies on Siphoned Forest; heck, we could even make the Magma Worms on the stage bright blue to match the new ice lava or something! The DLC's stuff is unoriginal and bland, and is way to connected and themed in ways that intrude on the atmosphere the game creates. SotV had the special zones, new item type (helping with item pool bloat creatively), enemies, boss, new gamemode, new survivor and void seeds that were 'themed'; leaving the parts that NEED to be varied, varied. We still got Railgunner, a normal survivor. A BUNCH of normal items, a chunk of normal enemies to fit new levels and themes AND old levels and themes, varied music, and new stages that did NOT blend together. This was integral to the DLCs success as a Risk of Rain 2 DLC in my opinion. But, I digress. Every time I start typing a comment here I swear I end up writing a thesis, but it's honestly pretty fun and interesting to put my thoughts and opinions down like this, I quite like breaking down what makes the things I like work or things I don't like not work; and sometimes I find they're the opposite of my opinions, it's cool. I really am glad they've made such incredible changes to the items they added. I'm optimistic for their future changes, but I still don't think that Seekers of the Storm can (with the current content included IGNORING the quality) be anywhere as close to Survivors of the Void in how well it fit in with Risk of Rain 2 as a whole. SotS is just missing a lot of what makes Risk of Rain Risk of Rain for me, and that makes me sad. Thanks for reading if you did, means a bunch. Go off, Gearbox! Change everything, nothing, or even the entire game; the world's your oyster.

[@KC9IUX17]

The craziest part to me about this is when I read the read the dev thoughts I was like "I can't believe they did so good, they should have had streamers and the community help with item effects" and it turns out they did have streamers help lmao

[@bushwagg_YT]

Even though this is probably going to be the last hurrah for the RoR2 dlcs, I really do appreciate the team going back to fix the mistakes with the dlc. The developers of this game is the thing that keeps it alive

[@CharlotteMcclay]

The facts, are that modern day game design has crazy high expectations. They did a great job of making good content and keeping up with it

[@bakerdarcy6001]

Luminous shot being total damage instead of base damage is also a huge change

[@stragepinetree]

Thank you for helping gearbox cook with the new items

[@AutistiCat2406]

A bit worried about the lack of healing items Antler shield on mobile turret engi might go crazy!??! If the turrets spawn orbs everyone goes zoom. And unstable transmitter on turrets will be super funny to see I'm glad to see knockback fin kept its gimmick and just improved it, i think its super funny and cool but was just lacking a way to capitalize on it, now its awesome

[@123456Luck10]

Healing sucks in Eclipse

[@linear1224]

Were there any healing items before the rework?

[@RacesVideos]

the thing is, healing drones always have more opportunity to spawn making healing still more common than most things just in different ways

[@luk4aaaa]

huge props to the dev team at Gearbox, they stepped up to fix the mess.

[@im_incredibly_bored]

Wow, I'm really impressed with how good these items sound. I haven't bought the dlc yet since I heard about all the bugs and issues with it, and I didn't want so many bad items diluting the pool. Might pick it up after Christmas if all these items change and the bugs get fixed!

[@antipastamony]

Man, these are some fantastic changes. While they’re still accepting feedback, I’d really like to see the description for bolstering lantern rewritten to better describe what it does. Without you explaining how it worked, I may have avoided it thinking that it granted attack speed TO allies and enemies within the radius and stacked in an almost purely detrimental way. The actual effect makes WAY more sense, it just needs to be worded more clearly.

[@rod0fdiscord]

it makes sense that all the items are good now now that i know that you were involved in their design process good shit

[@cambutler9]

war bonds redemption arc

[@mailcs06]

They did wonderfully with the item reworks. They're all so fun now!

[@duppythepuppy2636]

yay! just realized there was an update and all the items were awesome. made a video about it, its so cool.

[@thehazellator]

this video should prolly be dropped on the RoR2 youtube channel Edit: watched the gear box video and they did a really good job of showcasing it too

[@Zelose_Kitsune]

Watching this video I had the realization that warped echo probably has synergy with things like barbed wire and repulsion plates! (Needs some testing to confirm this but it’s something to try) and if it does work how I think it does then that makes it one of the best whites that isn’t just a stat buff

[@grantzu]

i did not expect them to get this out so fast holy goat wtf

[@JynX_G8549]

W double agent

[@davishmayo1643]

Played this game after not playing for a few months and holy shit the game was actually kinda fun again

[@frogmanxbl7129]

These changes are all awesome, I'm a BIT worried that all the new items are actually too good (i.e. there wasn't enough "junk" added), but hey maybe that's fair for what we endured lol. The best thing in the entire video to me though, was that they ACTUALLY reached out to a well-respected community member (and maybe more, idk) for feedback and testing. This is something that devs should have been doing since forever and it's truly amazing to see it finally happening. I mean really, they have all these people sinking THOUSANDS of hours into their game and whose livelihoods/careers depend on the game doing well - why would you possibly NOT reach out to them, especially when most will probably help you out for free???

[@brimp4989]

Ok I like a lot of these. Luminous shots effect is still eh but that 20% secondary cooldown is massive so it definitely can be worth a pickup in some multi shops.

[@CyberCat45]

I got unstable transmitter in a run last night, and it was busted. I would have died so many times without it. Epic.

[@Skelebo]

I remember feeling almost lost when the DLC came out. I thought it was truly over. I’m so so so glad they’ve stepped up and listened to us to put in the work that they’ve done. I’m sorry for saying such mean things about you Gearbox team. Thank you for your hard work. Maybe I should tell them directly instead of under a Race video…

[@Le_runtus4000]

They fucking did it 🥲

[@dirtinator]

I think most of these are amazing changes (i didn't see chance doll so I'm assuming no changes) but i noticed that some of these have incredibly nice effects but only upon initial pickup or only the first few. items like bolstering lantern, breaching fin, unstable transmitter (i know the cd is lowered but no hp increase on the shield is kinda weird to me) or growth nectar (which will probably be stronger with mods that add buffs but in base game there are only so many unique buffs). that on its own is fine but feels strange where most items may not scale well but still have noticeable impact even when you have 50 and then get 100. with bolstering lantern you would never really notice because there can only be so many entities spawned at once. im not expecting a stacking like 10 + (10 per stack) but something like 10 + (2.5/stack) or even 10 +(1/stack) would be nice since these eventually stop scaling entirely late game.

[@lucg4005]

Only time will tell if they can pull it off, but so far I'm hopeful they can do it. Gives me similar vibes to the no mans sky devs. They made an absolute mess and everyone was rightfully mad. So they listen to all that feedback and just work on making it right. No drawn out apology and single patch fixing bugs, and moving on like nothing happened. No blaming fans for being entitled. Just admit it released poorly, hear exactly what criticisms people have about it, and work to fix those and then some. Actions speak infinitely louder than any essay long apology can even convey. To also hear they are reaching out directly to Content creators for constructive feedback makes me happy as well. I look forward to trying out the balance patch during Christmas break.

[@Gale42]

The future is bright friends

[@thesolargamer9751]

we are so back lads! now the false son boss is next. keep cooking gearbox!

[@tacemiko3849]

Future of Risk of Rain 2 looks bright

[@Nomadic_Gaming]

luminous w acrid is gunna go crazy now also could that and thorns make blight acrid great finally?!?

[@legolorian3271]

Nice to see someone so positive about the game after watching *cough* Woolie *cough*

[@Helperishere]

Ill definitely buy the dlc now....once on sale. 😅

[@zyke612]

I'm excited to try Growth Nectar with Wake of Vultures and Death Mark!!! LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!!

[@petrikillos]

The ACTUALLY made good fucking items this is insane

[@DamageMaximo]

Now every item is great! Amazing update!

[@SumRndmPenguin]

I love the changes. Looks like I'll actually buy the dlc soon. I will say unstable transmitter kinda feels like a red item. Maybe it could have a shorter cooldown for that.

[@spongmoid842]

might get back on the eclipse climb with this lets go

[@wisp9856]

Lantern has made me cry with the change

[@popcore5579]

Surprisingly one of my new favorite items to play around is chronic expansion, the little beeps it gives give the item way more QOL, and it's no longer infinite scaling with FMP so it feels way more balanced--only thing is that I wish you didn't hear the engi turrets beeping in addition to yourself.... I feel like you should only be able to hear your own timer

[@yeahyeah5338]

My first run i got bolstering lantern, bungus, squallup, vending machine and had such a high fire rate

[@Valbertoog]

Im proud of you race my boy

[@Smallpupp]

i think this goes to show that no one actually wanted to release the dlc when they did, they probably were forced to, and now they are actually doing the work they wanted to do and making sots what they wanted, hope they keep making good changes like this! my only worry is some of these items seem a little too good and might mess up the balance of the game, but we will see

[@DirtyPurpz]

a roadmap for dlc patch notes is insane

[@RacesVideos]

and yet its the best thing they couldve done after we got the mess we did (✿◡‿◡)

[@bercl]

My friend and i, have always tought that Gearbox should hire/ask you to help with the DLC. Great to hear that it actually happened! Im really hoping that this game can bounce back, it really deserves it.

[@MaxGaming-gp6ij]

I personally liked the antler shield. Get enough of them, and it's essentially a "No u" button for enemy damage that scaled really well in my runs.

[@kaylaoneill4863]

Yea I don't really like this rework for antler while the returned damage could've gotten a buff they made getting hit with random high bursts of damage less deadly

[@MaxGaming-gp6ij]

@@kaylaoneill4863 See, here's my take on it. If you got enough of them, not only is it a guaranteed reflect, but it also increased the damage you're reflecting. Which also increased with the various damage buffs you have, last I checked. I've had long loop runs with false son where I decided to pick up 100 of them, and I was doing ungodly damage to anything that hit me. Reflecting attacks with 10x the damage dealt to me helped more times than I could count, especially with the random wisps, lemurians, or golems that popped out of nowhere that I just couldn't find. At basically any distance, no less. razorwire had its uses in close range, but antlers were perfect in my opinion.

[@KimeraJin]

I like how some of this items reminds me modded items wich wa made before all this haha

[@KhangAJ]

I trusted Gearbox at first, got disappointed but they really are trying to fix the DLC, so maybe a little bit of my trust was restored, hope they can keep restoring my trust in those future updates.

[@Eddiember]

Oh god. I didn't think Acrid with the new Noxious Thorn. Admittedly, I alway did pick it up with Acrid pre-patch, but now its an S-Tier.

[@NoahGreen-z9x]

All these items sound so fun!

[@RealCat222]

Holy bungus

[@lesliejacoby9137]

I believed gearbox would get out of the hole they dug themselves into (I mean for what was good from the dlc it didn't seem like whether if they cared or not was an issue) and I look forward for after all these dlc changes to see them differ themselves from Hopo by bringing balance changes and life into specifically some older survivor abilities and some older items. Also bolstering latern looks really fun for melee characters but for the boy engineer do allies include his turrets and drones because you left the ally part out when talking about it?

[@RacesVideos]

yeah the allies thing is something i forgot about sorry!

[@Ironsnowman7]

Never did I think I’d trade 5 greens for a war bond until today, straight up NUKED Mithrix 💀

[@flemlius3507]

Releasing content before it's ready, well thought out and tested is a big issue and will always keep me cautious about buying anything new, even from a game is really like. Fixing a patch long after its initial release does not fix the launch. That said, it is a big relief that this game still sees the love and attention it deserves, and just because I won't forget past mistakes doesn't mean I'll overlook the work they put in now.

[@fish6087]

These actually seem like great changes

[@grantzu]

aw man i wish they didnt blacklist prayer beads from printers it wasnt like regen scrap where u just had to give up one green item and you got infinite you actually ahd to go all in for it to be good and its so rare youd almost never see it anyway

[@Topunito]

I mean the "you have to go all in" thing doesn't mean much when going all in literally means instant win lmao

[@grantzu]

@ Don’t care

[@Onefishygal]

I feel like having a chance to find a printer that is just an auto win in almost all scenarios isn't good game balance. if you want prayer bead printers then mod the game.

[@grantzu]

@@Onefishygal Nope

[@prettyradhandle]

and by going all in you mean killing a few guys and then scrapping all of them for gongo stats