Game studio Gearbox Software has released the 1.0 Update for video game Risk of Rain 2 for consoles.

The newest update for consoles has finally arrived. The PC version was way back in August, and now it is time for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch to enjoy the update.

Check out the full patch notes here:

Risk of Rain 2 Console 1.0 Update

Hey there!

This is the fifth major content update for Risk of Rain 2 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, marking the 1.0 version of the game. With this update we are focusing on the ending sequence of the game and promoting player agency + build diversity.

==== Major Content and Changes ====

• Added System: Game Ending
  • The game now includes a proper ending, with credits and cutscene.
• Added System: Intro Cutscene
  • The game now includes an intro cutscene!
• Added New Survivor
  • New Survivor: Captain
• Added New Stage
  • New Final Stage: ???
• Added 4 New Music Tracks
  • New Track: Through a Cloud, Darkly
  • New Track: …con lentitud poderosa
  • New Track: You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Ukulele
  • New Track: Lacrimosum
• Added New Survivor Skin
  • New Survivor Skin: Captain Skin
• Added 2 New Monsters
  • New Monster: ???
  • New Monster: ???
• Added New Boss
  • New Final Boss: ???
• Added New Interactable
  • New Interactable: Scrapper
• Added 7 Items and 3 Equipment to the game
  • New Item: Item Scrap (White, Green, Red, Yellow)
  • New Boss Item: Molten Perforator
  • New Boss Item: Shatterspleen
  • New Boss Item: Mired Urn
  • New Lunar Item: Defiant Gouge
  • New Lunar Item: Mercurial Rachis
  • New Lunar Item: Purity
  • New Equipment: Super Massive Leech
  • New Equipment: Gorag’s Opus
  • New Equipment: Forgive Me Please
• Added 3 Character Challenges to the game
• New Captain Challenge: Captain Mastery
• New Captain Challenge: Wanderlust
• New Captain Challenge: Worth Every Penny
• Added 3 Challenges to the game
  • New Challenge: I Love Dying!
  • New Challenge: Washed Away
  • New Challenge: The Calm
• Added 36 Lore Entries to the game
  • New Item Lore Entry: Molten Perforator
  • New Item Lore Entry: Shatterspleen
  • New Item Lore Entry: Mired Urn
  • New Item Lore Entry: Super Massive Leech
  • New Item Lore Entry: Gorag’s Opus
  • New Item Lore Entry: Forgive Me Please
  • New Item Lore Entry: Soulbound Catalyst
  • New Item Lore Entry: Bandolier
  • New Item Lore Entry: The Crowdfunder
  • New Item Lore Entry: Old Guillotine
  • New Item Lore Entry: Jade Elephant
  • New Item Lore Entry: Blast Shower
  • New Item Lore Entry: Lepton Daisy
  • New Item Lore Entry: Shattering Justice
  • New Item Lore Entry: Topaz Brooch
  • New Item Lore Entry: Ocular HUD
  • New Item Lore Entry: Unstable Tesla Coil
  • New Item Lore Entry: Milky Chrysalis
  • New Item Lore Entry: Will-o’-the-wisp
  • New Item Lore Entry: Gnarled Woodsprite
  • New Item Lore Entry: Halcyon Seed
  • New Item Lore Entry: Purity
  • New Item Lore Entry: Glowing Meteorite
  • New Item Lore Entry: Preon Accumulator
  • New Item Lore Entry: Aegis
  • New Monster Lore Entry: Clay Dunestrider
  • New Monster Lore Entry: Alloy Vulture
  • New Monster Lore Entry: Imp
  • New Monster Lore Entry: Void Reaver
  • New Monster Lore Entry: ???
  • New Monster Lore Entry: ???
  • New Monster Lore Entry: ???
  • New Stage Lore Entry: ???
  • New Character Lore Entry: Huntress
  • New Character Lore Entry: Captain
  • New Character Lore Entry: MUL-T

==== Gameplay Changes ====

General

• Bleeds now refresh all existing bleed durations on that target. This affects both enemies and players, and is a huge change for how bleeds will work.
• Increased difficulty rate over time for all difficulties by +10%.
• Developer Notes: In this update, we’ve buffed a ton of items – and also given players way more agency over the way a run progresses. Our goal is for players to be more engaged with the game – what we don’t want is for the game to be suddenly much easier. This is a bit of a sanity check, and shouldn’t dramatically change the difficulty.
• Slightly reworked OSP. The goal is to fix inconsistencies – and make it actually protect you from one-shots – while also fixing some abuse cases with curse.
  • The threshold for OSP is now displayed on the healthbar with a faint graphic.
  • Now has a lingering 0.1s duration when activated.
  • Now is subtracted via Curse (Shaped Glass, Artifact of Glass, etc), i.e a curse of 10% will remove OSP entirely.
  • Update OSP logic so it still triggers if you receive multiple sources of damage in the same frame that go past OSP values, i.e Malachite Lesser Wisps

Elites

• Blazing, Overloading, Glacial
• Health Bonus: 470% ⇒ 400%
• Malachite, Celestine
• Health Bonus: 2350% ⇒ 1800%
  Developer Notes: We’ve had a lot of feedback that elite health has always felt a bit bloated – and that subsequently, it makes the Old Guillotine feel required. Our intent is to make characters less reliant on the Old Guillotine, and to make it feel more like an elite hate item – and less of an overall DPS item.

Survivors

• Mobility skills are now considered ‘sprinting’, scaling with sprint speed multipliers and also sprinting after use.
• Melee Survivors
  • Melee skills will now perform more consistently at high attack speeds.
  • Melee skills will now scale hitpause duration with attack speed – since the pause when hitting enemies were static, melee characters actually scaled poorly with attack speed.
  • Melee skills will now ‘hold’ you in the air better at high attack speeds.
• Added a ‘Keyword’ system. Keywords are just words to describe common repeated behavior without explaining it every time. Added the following keywords:
  • Freezing
  • Stunning
  • Shocking
  • Poisonous
  • Regenerative
  • Agile
  • Percent HP
  • Sonic Boom
  • Weaken
  • Expose
  • Heavy

MUL-T
Developer Notes: MUL-T has gotten some love from this patch to really push forward the idea that his weapons are strong in specific roles. Faster swap time and more responsive actions for the weapons will (hopefully) make weapon swapping feel better. We’ve also admittedly creeped cooldowns down over time, and MUL-T felt a bit left behind.

• Base Acceleration: 25 ⇒ 30
• Rebar Puncher
  • Now charges after firing, rather than before
• Scrap Launcher
  • Now behaves like a rocket instead of a grenade
  • Lifetime: 3s ⇒ 4s
  • Explosion Radius: 5m ⇒ 7m
  • Velocity: 70 m/s⇒ 100 m/s
• Nail Gun
  • No longer has an initial shotgun of 6 nails
  • Now has a final shotgun of 12 nails
  • Now fires in a consistent corkscrew pattern
  • Proc Coefficient: 0.4 ⇒ 0.6
  • Damage: 60% ⇒ 70%
  • Wind-down duration: 0s ⇒ 1.152s
• Retool
  • Swap duration: 0.7s ⇒ 0.4s
• Transport Mode
  • Cooldown: 8s ⇒ 6s

Mercenary
Developer Notes: The Mercenary was always supposed to be the highest skill-cap survivor. However, in actual gameplay he became very flow-charty, using abilities directly off cooldown while holding down M1. The intent for all these changes is to allow skill expression, dynamic cooldowns, and higher risk vs reward in fights with the new ‘Exposed’ debuff. The hope is that the character will be stronger for advanced players, but weaker for new players.

• Base Health: 140 (+42 per level) ⇒ 110 (+33 per level)
• Base Regeneration: 2.5 health / second ⇒ 1 health / second
• NEW Debuff: Exposed
  • Striking an Exposed target reduces all cooldowns by 1 second and deals an additional +350% base damage
• Laser Sword
  • Third Strike Damage: 300% ⇒ 130%
  • Third hit now applies ‘Exposed’ debuff
  • The second and third hit of the combo can no longer be started in the middle of other attacks
• Whirlwind
  • Ground Speed Multiplier: 6 ⇒ 8
• Blinding Assault
  • Cooldown: 7s ⇒ 8s
  • Can now be canceled mid-attack by both Whirlwind and Rising Thunder
• Slicing Winds
  • Last hit now applies ‘Exposed’ debuff

Acrid
Developer Notes: Acrid has always been a melee-ranged hybrid. We want greater rewards for engaging in melee and completing your M1 combo for players who enjoy a more aggressive playstyle.

• NEW Buff: Regenerate
  • Regenerate for 10% health over 0.5 seconds.
• Vicious Wounds
  • Third hit of the combo now grants ‘Regenerate’ buff
• Ravenous Bite
  • Now grants ‘Regenerate’ buff
• Frenzied Leap
  • Now (properly) stuns

Artificer
Developer Notes: We want to enforce the Artificer’s role as a high-damage, high AoE character. Nano-Bomb in general was core to the fantasy, but was pretty much inferior to Nano-Spear in every way.

• Plasma Bolt
  • Blast Radius: 4m ⇒ 6m
• Charged Nano-Bomb
  • Now has slight gravity
  • Blast Radius: 10m ⇒ 14m
  • Blast Damage, Max Charge: 1200% ⇒ 2000%
  • Blast Force: 1300 ⇒ 3000
  • Lifetime: 5s ⇒ 10s
  • Improved FX for clarity

Ion Surge

• No longer has -75% damage falloff at the edge of the blast

Items

• Monster Tooth
  • Healing: 8 (+8 per stack) ⇒ 8
  • Now also heals for 2% (+2% per stack) of maximum health
• Medkit
  • Healing: 24 (+24 per stack) ⇒ 20
  • Now also heals for 5% (+5% per stack) of maximum health
• Repulsion Armor Plate
  • Now properly reduces damage from environmental effects
• Warbanner
  • Now also places a Warbanner when activating the Teleporter
  • Improve VFX to be less opaque, since it will always be near the Teleporter
• Death Mark
  • Debuff Duration: 7s ⇒ 7s (+7s per stack)
  • Remove text stating that the damage bonus scaled with stacks
• Old Guillotine
  • Execute Threshold: ~20% (+20% per stack) ⇒ 13% (+13% per stack)
    Developer Notes: Since we’ve re-tuned the health of elites across the board, the Guillotine should be appropriately re-tuned as well.
• Runald’s/Kjaro’s Band
  Developer Notes: The two rings have undergone a bit of a rework, working off of an internal cooldown rather than a chance on-hit. We’re hoping that this can help diversify one of our “on-hit” items to be more than just attacking enemies and hoping things activate. We’ve also changed the behavior of Kjaro’s to be more of the AoE option, while Runald’s is the single target option.
  • Proc Chance: 8% ⇒ 100%
  • Now has an internal cooldown of 10 seconds
  • Now has a minimum threshold of only triggering on attacks that deal 400% or greater damage
  • Runald’s Band
    • Ice Blast Damage: 250% (+125% per stack) ⇒ 250% (+250% per stack)
    • Ice Debuff Duration: 3s ⇒ 3s (+3s per stack)
  • Kjaro’s Band
    • Fire Tornado Damage: 500% (+250% per stack) ⇒ 300% (+300% per stack)
    • Fire Tornado Hitbox Width: 4.8m ⇒ 13m
    • No longer moves
• H3AD-5T v2
  • Reworked logic for calculating fall speed so it scales better while falling farther. Now has the following behavior:
    • Damage Coefficient: 1000% – 10,000% at maximum speed
    • Explosion Radius: 5m – 100m at maximum speed
    • Improved FX
• Interstellar Desk Plant
  • Healing Radius: 3m (+1.5m per stack) ⇒ 5m (+5m per stack)
  • Healing: 5% max health every 1 second ⇒ 5% max health every 0.5 second
• Milky Chrysalis
  • Now grants true flight and antigravity instead of jump-to-hover.
  • Pressing jump now performs a short dash in the direction of movement with a 0.5s cooldown.
• Strides of Heresy
  • No longer puts you in combat
• Helfire Tincture
  • Helfire Radius: 10m ⇒ 15m
  • Helfire Duration: 8s ⇒ 12s
  • Improve VFX and SFX
• Effigy of Grief
  • Now placed at where you’re aiming, rather than at your feet
  • No longer is consumed on use.
  • Now limited to 5 per map per character.
• Little Disciple
  • Fire Rate: 0.5s ⇒ 1.6s
  • Damage Coefficient: 100% (+100% per stack) ⇒ 300% (+300% per stack)
  • Fire Rate now scales with movement speed

Stages
*3D Printers will appear more often on all stages, ~50% more

• 3D Printers will cost less to spawn on all stages, ~50% less
• The new interactable, the Scrapper, can now appear on all stages
• Titanic Plains
  • Update with new visuals to make it depressing
    *** Sky Meadow**
  • Update with new visuals and functionality that leads to the final stage
• Bazaar Between Time
  • Base Portal Chance: 25% for the first portal ⇒ 37.5% for the first portal
  • Lunar Buds: 4 ⇒ 5

Monsters & Bosses

• Mini Mushrum
  • Base Health: 360 (+108 per level) ⇒ 290 (+87 per level)
• Parent
  • Base Health: 1200 (+360 per level) ⇒ 900 (+270 per level)
• Lesser Wisp
  • Now properly stops charging attack sound when interrupted
• Imp Overlord
  • Maximum Blink Distance: 600m ⇒ 300m
  • Now throws Void Spikes in a staggered fashion, rather than all at once
• Magma Worm
  • Maximum “Blink” Distance: 600m ⇒ 300m
  • Now considerably more aggressive and better able to hit targets
    Developer Notes: The blink behavior of both the Imp Overlord and the Magma Worm allows it to follow players between platforms, but it leads a lot of the times to the bosses blinking across the map to attack drones and turrets. While they may still do that, it’ll be a bit less pronounced.
• Void Reaver
  • Now attempts to lead its Void Bombs in a straight line against its target
  • Updated AI to fire more aggressively and backpedal when its target is too close
  • AI now has 360° vision
• Bison
  • Add spawn effect and animation (finally!)

Source: Official Website