The second major content update for Risk of Rain 2 is available now on PC in Early Access!
With this update, we are focusing on Skills 2.0, brand new content, as well as other general changes and quality of life improvements. Playing Risk of Rain 2 on console? This Content Update will be coming to consoles soon! You can read more about what the process looks like in Hopoo’s Dev Thought’s #7!
Skills 2.0 introduces a new way to play your favorite survivor! Our new “Loadout” system allows for swappable skills and skins at the beginning of each run. Each survivor will maintain their unique identity, but have some options to tinker with before jumping into a run. While some skill variants play off existing skills, some variants are entirely unique abilities available to a survivor. Each new skill and skin in your Loadout will be unlocked only with survivor-specific challenges – good luck! More skills and skins are planned to be added in future updates.
What’s New?
- Added Survivor: Loader
- The Loader is a slow but powerful bruiser that can use her grappling hook to uniquely navigate the environment.
- Added Stage: Siren’s Call
- Added System: Loadouts
- “Loadouts” are a new system that allows you to mix-and-match your selected Survivor’s abilities before entering a run.
- Added System: Alternate Skins
- Added 15 skill variants
- New Skill Variant: Commando Secondary
- New Skill Variant: Commando Special
- New Skill Variant: Huntress Utility
- New Skill Variant: Huntress Special
- New Skill Variant: MUL-T Primary
- New Skill Variant: Engineer Secondary
- New Skill Variant: Engineer Special
- New Skill Variant: Artificer Primary
- New Skill Variant: Artificer Secondary
- New Skill Variant: Artificer Special
- New Skill Variant: Mercenary Secondary
- New Skill Variant: Mercenary Special
- New Skill Variant: REX Secondary
- New Skill Variant: Loader Secondary
- Added 7 skins
- New Skin: Commando
- New Skin: Huntress
- New Skin: MUL-T
- New Skin: Artificer
- New Skin: Mercenary
- New Skin: REX
- New Skin: Loader
- Added Elite: Celestine
- Celestine are new high-tier elites that only spawn late into the game, similarly to Malachite elites.
- Added 2 bosses to the game:
- New Boss: Solus Control Unit
- New Boss: Alloy Worship Unit
- Added 2 monsters to the game:
- New Monsters: Alloy Vulture
- New Monsters: Solus Probe
- Added 6 Items and Equipment to the game
- New Item: Focus Crystal
- New Item: Lepton Daisy
- New Item: Shattering Justice
- New Equipment: Blast Shower
- New Equipment: Volcanic Egg
- New Lunar Item: Strides of Heresy
- Added Interactable: Lunar Seer
- Added 3 Challenges to the game
- New Challenge: Warm For Life
- New Challenge: Blockade Breaker
- New Challenge: Guidance Offline
- Added 22 unique Class Challenges to the game
- New Class Challenge: Commando: Rolling Thunder
- New Class Challenge: Commando: Incorruptible
- New Class Challenge: Commando: Mastery
- New Class Challenge: MUL-T: Pest Control
- New Class Challenge: MUL-T: Gotcha!
- New Class Challenge: MUL-T: Mastery
- New Class Challenge: Mercenary: Demon of the Skies
- New Class Challenge: Mercenary: Ethereal
- New Class Challenge: Mercenary: Mastery
- New Class Challenge: Huntress: Piercing Wind
- New Class Challenge: Huntress: One Shot, One Kill
- New Class Challenge: Huntress: Mastery
- New Class Challenge: Engineer: Better With Friends
- New Class Challenge: Engineer: 100% Calculated
- New Class Challenge: REX: Bushwhacked
- New Class Challenge: REX: Mastery
- New Class Challenge: Artificer: Chunked!
- New Class Challenge: Artificer: Orbital Bombardment
- New Class Challenge: Artificer: Massacre
- New Class Challenge: Artificer: Mastery
- New Class Challenge: Loader: Swing By
- New Class Challenge: Loader: Mastery
- Added Environment Log: Siren’s Call
- Added 7 Lore Entries to the game
- New Monster Lore Entry: Jellyfish
- New Monster Lore Entry: Beetle
- New Monster Lore Entry: Beetle Guard
- New Boss Lore Entry: Solus Control Unit
- New Boss Lore Entry: Alloy Worship Unit
- New Survivor Lore Entry: REX
- New Item Lore Entry: Little Disciple
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