Huntress

Huntress



20 Apr

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The goal of this minor patch is to address bugs.



• Fixed Artifact of Dissonance breaking monster spawns and other systems
• Fixed some of Commencement’s navigation/spawn nodes being placed underground, potentially causing a softlock loop
• Fixed the landing blast for H3AD-5T v2 not activating from non-host players
• Fixed language chosen in-game (instead of through Steam) not being correctly restored on startup
• Fixed MUL-T’s Power Mode description not accurately reflecting in-game values
• Fixed “Regenerative” keyword description not accurately reflecting in-game values

12 Apr

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The goal of this minor patch is to address balance and bugs.



Cleansing Pool
  • Irradiant Pearl Chance: 4% ⇒ 20%
  • Can no longer be pinged to reveal its contents
Resonance Disc
  • Charge Buff Duration: 5s ⇒ 7s
  • Updated Logbook description for more detailed explanation
Power Mode
  • Armor Buff: 200 armor (66% damage reduction) ⇒ 100 armor (50% damage damage reduction)
  • Developer Notes: Power Mode is gated behind a difficult challenge...
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26 Mar

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25 Mar

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Our goal with this update is to upgrade and round out the game as a whole, and also be a ‘thanks!’ to all our fans that supported us through Early Access. This patch includes both new content and updated old content. Let us know if you like it!

Changes with the 🌧 icon in front of them are changes or additions suggested by the community. As always, if you want to stay up to date on the game feel free to join the discord at https://discord.gg/riskofrain2

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22 Mar

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From Launch To Now
As we prepare to launch the Anniversary Update - more on that below - we’ve also been looking back at our journey with Risk of Rain 2. On March 28, 2019, Paul swaggered onto stage at PAX East and we launched Risk of Rain 2 on Early Access - to wonderful reception from all our fans.

Since then, we have (yes this is about to be a huge flex)
  • Sold over 4,000,000 copies on Steam alone
  • Launched and grown to over 180,000 users in our official Discord
  • Received ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ from over 137,000 Steam Reviews alongside an 85% on Metacritic
  • Gained new community members with 88% of players playing for more than 1 hour - and 57% of players playing for more than 10, numbers we are extremely proud of
So, yeah. We’ve grown a l... Read more

15 Dec

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Hey!

Believe it or not - we’re still here, and we haven’t fled the country with all our earnings. At least, not yet.

All of us at Hopoo Games have been keeping ourselves very busy these past few months - and we’re excited to catch everyone up on what we’ve been doing.

Hopoo Games Expanding
After the success of RoR2, we knew that we’d eventually expand Hopoo Games to better support RoR2 long term. During Early Access, we simply didn’t have the time or resources to find, hire, and onboard new members to our team.

Now that we hit 1.0 - and got a bit of a breather - we’re happy to announce that we have expanded the core Hopoo Games Team from 3 to 6.

Ben Schofield
My name is Ben, and I’m here to say
I’m the newest programmer at Hopoo Ga... (mes)

In my eight years in the game ind... Read more
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The goal of this minor patch is to fix bugs.



• Fixed Sundered Grove’s outer bounds being inconsistent and super far
• Fixed Sundered Grove's geometry having a hole
• Fixed Sundered Grove’s floating pink mushrooms
• Fixed Sundered Grove boss spawns being extra far for Titans and Vagrants
• Fixed Sundered Grove having locations where the map disappears if you move the camera into nooks and crannies
• Fixed the Environmental Log of Sundered Grove not spawning if you had Abyssal Depths' Environmental Log unlocked
• Mitigated additional causes of Brass Contraption corpses still causing endless hitstop on melee attacks
• Properly synchronize open-and-closed doors and o... Read more

30 Nov

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Hey everyone, 2020's been a tough year for many of us as we all navigated the global pandemic, but also an amazing year for games and we are proud that Risk of Rain 2 continued on its journey of delivering robust content to players with our official launch of 1.0! If Risk of Rain 2 has been a source of fun, challenge, and joy for you and your friends, please consider nominating us for a Steam Award. We'd be truly grateful.

It's been an incredible year for the game and we're genuinely thankful for your support, feedback, ideas, and precious game time. We look forward to sharing more with you in the future!

-Hopoo Games

03 Nov

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The goal of this minor patch is to add Sundered Grove into the game, and fix a few bugs.



• New Stage: Sundered Grove



• Fixed Eclipse 3 modifiers applying to enemies
• Fixed the final boss’ shockwaves being fired an extra time for each remote client in the game
• Fixed some floating nodes in Sundered Grove
• Restored the cursor for gamepad users while in the info/scoreboard menu
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12 Sep

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Hey! Since we released 1.0 on PC (and continue on-going efforts to get 1.0 on consoles), our team at Hopoo Games has finally had time to evaluate our development over the last year-and-a-bit. It has given us insight on how RoR2 has gone so far - and where we want to take it going forward.

Here’s the plan:

Early Access Post-Mortem Since we’ve officially left Early Access, we thought some players may be curious as to how the whole thing went. RoR2 was our first ever Early Access project, and so there were many lessons to learn.

Overall, Early Access was a fantastic way to get feedback, spread news of the game, and engage with players. However, it came at a cost of creativity and quality to meet deadlines.

The Early Access Roadmap kept us honest and on track - and as a result, we created a g... Read more

01 Sep

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The goal of this quality of life + bugfix patch is to address a variety of bugs, fix a few unintended changes to Merc, and to make the final fight a bit more engaging and a bit less cheesy.



  • Captain
    • Captain’s Supply Drop now presses the buttons on Abandoned Aqueduct
  • Equipment Drone
    • Now recharges equipment much faster, approximately 5x as often. We don’t expect Equipment Drones to suddenly become super strong, but th...
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13 Aug

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Hi. First and foremost, thank you all so much for jumping into the 1.0 Update. It has been a ton of fun for the team to watch streams, read reviews, hang out in the Discord, and even hop in some multiplayer games with the community.

Since the update on Tuesday, we’ve been working and compiling the first targeted hotfix patch. There will also be another more comprehensive patch to follow, as with all of our previous Content Updates. Apparently, the game is not perfect. This is a collection of community responses and feedback from a variety of channels - keep 'em coming!

=== What We’re Workin On ===

Some of the things we’re checking out right now are:

• Players are getting marooned on a remote island on the final stage. This has been addressed in a hotfix today.
• Players can crea... Read more

04 Aug

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Hey! Being the final Dev Thoughts before 1.0 release, we thought it’d be fun if we got into a bit of the details of how we design stuff. This is a long one, so buckle up.

=== Player Agency===

‘Player Agency’ is a term that we use to describe how much influence a player has over the result of their game. Internally, we refer to player agency, or player choice, to be on a ‘micro’ or ‘macro’ level.

On a micro level (using abilities, dodging enemies, hitting attacks, etc), player agency is high in RoR2. You have many opportunities to land good hits, or to dodge powerful attacks.

On a macro level (what build you’re doing, how quickly you want to progress, etc), RoR2 has always been a little lacking - and we’ve received feedback on that. Although it is a roguelite - and therefore random to a ... Read more

21 Jul

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Hello gamers,

It’s finally time -we are super excited to announce that we are launching the 1.0 version of Risk of Rain 2 on Steam on August 11th.

Early Access has felt like a crazy ride through uncharted space, and we can’t thank you all enough for supporting us over the last year and a half. We’ve had great fun steering through Early Access together, and we will always be thankful for the patience and excitement our community has displayed. We will have more information on the Console launch of 1.0 in the future - but it should follow a very similar cadence to the previous console launches.

As always, thanks for the amazing support - and we can’t wait to share the 1.0 update with everyone. See you then!

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02 Jul

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Hey!

We have a variety of topics to cover in this Dev Thoughts so we gotta go fast NOW

Let's dive right in!

=== Hopoo Games is hiring! ===

As the title might suggest, we are hiring! This is big news for us, since we’ve always been an incredibly small company.

We’ve launched our new website http://hopoogames.com, where we’re hoping to start adding job listings over time. We also have a new official twitter https://twitter.com/hopoogames for Hopoo Games, where we will tweet company-related stuff. Our first listing is for a Lead Pixel Artist on a non-disclosed game. Stay tuned for that :-)

=== Console Update ===

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22 May

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Hey!

As we all know, the next update is 1.0, the last update until we leave Early Access. Earlier this month, I ran a quick tweet to get some feedback on what RoR2 1.0 may look like to you.



From that tweet, we not only learned that there’s quite a few areas of improvement we could work on, but also that you guys are passionate about what RoR2 1.0 could be - with many fantastic suggestions and ideas of things that weren’t in the original roadmap.

=== Updated Roadmap ===



We don’t take 1.0 lightly - we know a lot of players have been waiting for the full release to play the game, or have joined us early on in EA and are now holding off for the full rel... Read more

21 Apr

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Hi!

This is a bug fix patch to address issues that came up in the first week of the Artifacts 2.0 Update most of which were reported by the community. As we mentioned in the Artifacts 2.0 Patch Notes, this was our biggest and most complex update so far and we are very happy to see so many players enjoying the new content. The number of new players joining in on Risk of Rain 2 and our community have been insane the last couple weeks, so thank you all so much.


  • Change the way Artifact of Sacrifice works with initial spawns
  • Remove Metamorphosis from being selected in Prismatic Trials
  • Change the amount of Hordes of Many that w...
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08 Apr

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And the Winner of the Survivor Vote Is...

The votes have been cast, and you’ve made your voices heard! This past week, we tasked you with an important decision--Risk of Rain 2’s next survivor--and you came out in droves. Some of you even got creative with your own campaigning!
After a whopping 124,000+ votes, we’re happy to announce that the survivor making its way to the 1.0 launch is…

A Brand New Survivor!

It looks like you, the amazing community, want something completely different and new! Actually, we were caught by surprise with this choice as we assumed it would be either CHEF or Sniper, but love that the community continues to push us in new directions! This is certainly exciting, and something that allows us to think creatively, in new and innovative ways! With this in mind, we are goi... Read more

03 Apr

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Hello video gamers. We wanted to give an update on how things have been going since the launch of the Artifacts Update - spoiler alert, it's been one of our largest and most successful updates yet! It has been a ton of fun for us to watch players work together on finding the Artifact codes and testing new combinations to alter the way they play. Apparently we should’ve hidden the codes better, since the community as a whole has discovered them all in like 4 hours.

=== Artifact Designs ===

One of the biggest topics when we were working on Artifacts 2.0 was “how are we going to balance Artifacts?” They require no resource, the trials require no investment of in-game time, and have wildly varying power. We’ve also seen some discussion about the balance of Artifacts in the community.

In development, there wer... Read more

31 Mar

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This is the fourth major content update for Risk of Rain 2 on PC. With this update we are focusing on long-term content, replayability, and flexibility in the way you play.

This Content Update will be coming to consoles in the near future - for details on how our Content Updates get ported to console versions, check out our previous Development Thoughts here: ... Read more