Dev Thoughts 29 - Risk of Rain Returns - Alternate Survivor Abilities
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Everyone asks for Dev Thoughts but never for Dev Feels. How's life?
Praying they make my Mercenary boi stronger
Everyone asks who is the impostor. But no one asks how is the impostor.
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@@fv4202x why is the imposter?
I'll do you one better. Why is dev thoughts?
I'll do even better: Whom dev thoughts?
I am so excited for the remaster to drop....I am also extremely terrified to learn what "Providence Trials" are.
Probably another eclipse!
Or prismatic trials
"remaster" sells it quite short i think
IT'S A REMAKE! NEW SURVIVORS, NEW ABILITIES, NEW VISUALS, NEW MODES, NEW MULTIPLAYER, (possible) NEW LORE, NEW ITEMS, NEW EVERYTHING!
remake
Nobody's gonna talk about the two dogs and the rat in the survivor select screen ?
It actually got me good ngl.
Love you Hopoo, i can't wait for RoR Returns to be released !
They're just placeholders
its so we dont get a super sneak peak of the 3 new characters
@@emazinglyawesome6428 Probably :
1) the psychic character on the trailer
2) the captain on the trailer
3) ...a secret character. ^^
This isn't the first time they've done this. They promise us amazing characters like Pug and Corgi, only for us to get lame characters like railgunner. Well, at least we got one doggo to play as.
@@coconuts5792 the psychic character is Artificer
Super hyped for the new Rat character. I wonder what kind of abilities they'd have
there is no rat
I love how chef can now be a support character. When I played ror1 I always wanted that to be an ability of his. Glad I'll be able to play more support as chef now
reminds me of the kirby final smash
Hol up... let him cook
I already mained CHEF back in RoR1, now I can be supportive on my main? Awww ye I'm eating good tonight.
One of the new survivors is obviously Artificer - they even put her in the trailer!
We might have also seen another in the trailer as well, a scrapped character for ror2 called Warden, in the scene where people are running to the drop pods we can see their exact legs running by
ok but the icons are right there and I don't see any Artificer, buddy
@@VenoMantis didn t you see the 3 icons whith pictures lol, surely placeholder for other character
@@bastienlahetjuzan1075 nah man those *are* the new characters. i'm totally gonna be a Rat main
@@navivan768 gotta admit that it s intriguing
This all actually looks incredible, the only nitpick, and it is a nitpick, is that the alt skins are just simple pallet swaps (so far), it'd be nice to see some more significant changes to skins as unlocks, like the samurai armour for merc, or the deadbolt helmet for bandit in ror2
I super agree with this one, simple palette swaps are boring. Ones that they can sneak in nice lil touches to the alternate skins (like Deadbolt Helmet for Bandit) is cool.
to be fair, the graphics of the game are VERY simple, so i don't think we could ask for more than that.
@@heronvitor6886 you underestimate sprite work in general, they could defo do more with it. Don't get me wrong, I know why they're palette swaps, means they just have to change colours and don't need to reanimate anything, but I'm just saying it'd be nice. Still a nitpick tho
@@jakeberry5036 Problem with that would be they would have to make new versions of every animation for every skill for every unique skin. It's not as simple as it is with a color swap. It gets even more problematic when official modding is introduced and modders make their own alt skills with their own animations
@@TheGreenDigi just replied to some other dude and I said the same thing, I understand the extra workload alternate skins and animations put on, I've done enough sprite work myself to recognise it first hand, but it's not unattainable, and could defo be done relatively quickly (I.e. 1 custom skin + animations per character would fine). It's just a nitpick anyway, but bringing up modding is interesting, as people will prolly be making custom skins and characters regardless. I just think it'd be nice to bring back the monsoon rewards from ror2 (beat monsoon with a character, get their cool skin)
im so exited, jumped from my seat just to realize its scheduled for tomorrow, oh well
Can't wait to see everyone back in action
I fell in love with Risk of Rain Classic,
I enjoyed the ride in Risk of Rain 2,
I now cry joyful tears for Risk of Rain: Return
No amount of waiting will stop me from going back to Petrichor V.
Please take as long as you need, Hopoo! The longer you take, the more you can perfect.
Cheers for a game that never got boring!
Mercenary is the monsoon that is approaching.
Thanks for bringing back the ancient scepter, i cant wait to test it on every special ability!
Still gonna be a bit of a bitch to unlock though. I cheated and enabled Glass and Command when I unlocked it originally. I’m not too great with Mercenary so it was my only chance.
@@SmoothTurtle840 probably RoR returns may be more fun and balanced than the first RoR, so I hope that the artifact of glass isn't a "must" for the game like the first one.
My favourite red item for sure, super cool, some were maybe a lil underwhelming, but super cool item idea, hope they make the upgrade a bit more noticeable this time around
My favorite survivors were always the hyperrealistic animals
Seeing the remaster made me cry a bit, just seeing how much fresh life being brought back into an already amazing game. This is the only game that I've bought over 10 copies (for friends) of because I believe it's an amazing game. Love you Hopoo
Risk of rain 1 was one of the first indie games I bought and one of the first indie games made me go wow this is actually really cool.
so excited to see the rat survivor in the release of the game. I hope an entire dev thoughts is dedicated to them
Super excited for the mercenary and chef abilities. The ability to parry an attack fits so well with mercenary.
This will probably never be seen but... back with the first game I reached out to you on Chucklefish about the secret level based on MapleStory. We had a small chat which was nice, and you said something about that I was the first to point it out. Needless to say, I am VERY excited to see that Pigs Beach is also coming back!
I'm a massive fan of the original.. and to say I am happy about this remaster would be a grave understatement. I love you for doing this!!
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Is that a new Chris track in the background? If so, I really like the atmosphere it gives off. Feels real cave-y.
Thanks for all your hard work, looking forward for more updates in the future!
It seems to be a slightly changed version of “Risk of Rain,” the title music screen music for the original game.
Can't wait for the new soundtrack
All of these new abilities look great, along with the updates to the game visually! I'm gonna take a long shot and assume one of those hidden characters is gonna be captain or some alternative to him
It's already been confirmed that only 1 of the 3 new characters will be from ror2. And we've seen in both the trailer, and they've teased on twitter, that it'll be artificer.
Though it's almost a gurantee that people will mod in the other ror2 characters into returns eventually, especially since official modding support will be a thing later on for pc.
@@TheGreenDigi damn, still cool though
@@TheGreenDigi Oh shit, they confirmed official modding support? That’s awesome. Not gonna lie, RoRML was a little confusing to use at times, so hopefully this will be better.
@@SmoothTurtle840 hopefully it uses r2modman
Acrid's bubble and Chef's meals are pretty cool, I'm down for more mechanics that can benefit teammates!
I am so exited for this game to release all of the new abilities look like very well designed side-grades
One of the big things I wanted Sniper to Do that I thought would make him WAY better would be if he could pierce enemies in the way of his shot. Similar to what the Railgunner does in Risk 2. It could do less damage as it went through enemies or something, but do extra damage if it hits the intended Target.
As a Sniper Main it just always felt like he couldn't really deal with multiple targets at later stages, at all. Really fun until you actually play long enough.
thanks for staying in touch. its hard to communicate in these very tough times.
THEY ARE GONNA LET HIM COOK THANK YOU HOPOO
The new sprites and animations look so cool! Can't wait for to play this game!
Love the Castlevania-esque whip on bandit. Super excited to get this, thank you!
I genuinely can't wait to hear "Precipitation" in this.
I absolutely cannot wait for this game. Hopoo has been and will continue to be my favorite video game developer. Y'all just know how to make games fun.
I literally cannot express how fucking excited i am for this
Just unlocked Engi’s V0.2 Laser Turret today, and it is SO FUN! I love using it to destroy both hordes and single targets. It’s especially potent with Unstable Watch’s time stop to give it time to charge, and with Time Keeper’s Secret, which makes it stop time briefly as it expires.
Incredibly excited for this!
HAN-D saw, a heat bar, a sword character parry secondary, and royal medallion? Looks like Neik has some say in the new content
Also the Molten Coin has been added, you can see its sprite in some of the footage.
There also seems to be that one plant white item, the one that increased all sources of healing by a little. I can’t tell for sure that’s what that sprite is, though.
Got mods to work for ror1 and been playing starstorm for a few days, and some of these seem really inspired by that, but the creator of the mod is working full time in the team on RoRR so that explains, super cool to see him in the team
Ah yes
His electronic music
Thay should actually use a ukulele in one of the songs.
Can't wait. RoR1 is one of my favourite roguelikes. New content for the game and classes is always welcome. Always thought the Huntress, Miner and Sniper could be rebalanced to make them more fun. Glad that is being worked on.
While I'm still not happy that Ror2 has just been dumped for this I still think it will be a fun play. Alt skills are one of my favorite things in Ror2 but what I hate the most about it is when it doesn't cover my most disliked skill.
I hope maybe not on launch but you can add more alt skills to try and give every skill an alt version allowing players to enjoy characters they otherwise might not.
RoR2 didn't get dumped. It'll still be updated and worked on, they have another dlc planned after all. I imagine it just has taken a lot of time transferring the work to Gearbox studios and getting them all setup to work on it
@Ben May I know, it's the same people who are in charge of the console version. The extremely buggy yet to get the DLC console version. I have no faith in gearbox, and they are yet to prove they're willing to work on ror2 with any quality or speed.
Plus, these devs, the ones that owned ror2, have dumped it for this
IMO it's not "dumping" it if they finished it, game could've had no DLC at all and still would be a complete package. it's not like it's a live service.
6:22 they really just put kirby's old final smash as chef's alt special.
I love it
I actually liked the quest to unlock the Huntress, but it's not too bad to get it easy ig
It was really frustrating for new players to only have commando
For those of us who hate using the commando I love the fact that she comes pre-loaded now
Maybe the quest can unlock a different ability/skin.
@@henpaidesu that would be almost a good enough replacement
@@good-sofa i think its plenty good. Honestly the unlock condition is so rng and grindy which I'm ok but to put it beside Commando is like putting it with the basic characters. I actually got her last.
Yo, new rat survivor? I've been asking for that for literal years
I can’t believe they’re gonna be putting rat physics in this game. I always said that I’m gonna stop playing games when they add rat physics.
Neik survivor real
My boy Bandit turned into a Castlevania character with that whip
Loving chef on the select screen. Just look at that portrait
1:06 Just from those Pet icons alone I could see you're adding new survivors
Looking forward to it
Ah yes, JetStream Mercenary
Can't wait for modders to mod these new abilities into RoR2 :D
Wow, what a cute dog. Surely nothing nefarious is behind it.
P.S The game looks great and I appreciate the updates. I'll definitely wishlist it.
Wait wait wait...I can already wich list it!?
Awesome!! Great video! Hope to see more of the balancing/development in the future Hopoo😁👍
These all look really amazing! My only concern is with the Engineer's new turret.
Overwhelming power can be fun but this also reminds me of the Pyro in TF2 and how the Gas Passer frustrates allies in Co-op since they are unable to contribute in a meaningful way. It is so powerful that it can feel like a requirement.
It is cool to see an turret which is making use of the low health items in RoR1. This can lead to a very opposite builds for Engineer compared to what you're normally after which is really nice. I'm just afraid it will be way too strong or way too weak since it deals purely in extremes.
I hope you can find a healthy balance for it.
It is gonna be the same has the captain's Diablo strike, OP but very niche
Good to know that kirby's old smash from super smash bros is now a chef ability
I’ve been enjoying my time playing as the Commando running around toxic sewers, fractured shrines, and dilapidated distilleries, so I can’t wait to get back out in space.
Unfortunately there is no 2-handed boss that you can shred with Laser Glaive in RoRR :(
@@SmoothTurtle840alot of bosses have 2 hands smh
@@k90v85 Colossus, Ancient Wisp, Imp Overlord, Providence, and Ifrit (maybe?)
I guess you’re right 🤔
5:20 Jetstream Sam style attack, nice
Never played risk 1, but started 2 pretty early on in early access. Quickly became one of my favorite games. Especially after a 2 month span where I had no internet and it was one of the few games I could play. So I'm super excited for risk of rain returns. It looks stunning, and incredibly fun.
Those new animations look so adorable lol. Their legs are so short, like a chibi figure or something
So hyped for Coalescence 2
Yooooo! A parry on my boy!? Lets GO!
just casually glancing over the fact that engis turrets now inherit items
i mean it was to be expected but still
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the other passive details (ex Loader getting temp barrier from hitting enemies) from their RoR2 counterparts make their way too.
@@vermilionshadow The Loader thing is unlikely, since he’s got his Debris Shield as an ability from the original game already.
Haven't they always inherited them?
@@HallowedPurple In 1 they only took into account of certain items if the character had them (ex: Soldier's Syringe for attack speed), items such as Behemoth did NOT apply to the turrets. The whole inheriting all items the user also has started from 2.
In 1 the turrets were more of a footnote to his kit, you primarily used his other moves to attack the enemy and kite around attacks.
@vermilionbshadow9833 ah i see, I remembered wrong then
when i first heard about Chef through the new ROR2 Survivor polls, i looked him up and i was wondering why Chef could never actually COOK and make food out of his enem- i mean, customers. i saw it as kind of a missed opportunity.
glad to see it now, though. 👍
i am so eager to play this. Thank you for putting in the work to do something like this
i like how he hovers over the providence trials at the end, cant wait to play it
I'm so ready for this. Love Duncan's style
Keep up the good work! I love seeing the positive energy from fans
Finally, Chef can cook. The inhabitants of the planet were too raw.
I love the chef update!
Wait, is this the new title music, too? Oh im so excited
As somebody who just recently picked up risk of rain 2, I am really looking forward to this remaster!
gorgeous pixel art. really out here showing models isn't the future to every game
Holy shit, I'm hyped!
i'm so happy seeing this, thanks hopoo games! AND PLS FULL CONTROLLER SUPPORT!
I understand and I'm exited for the information on risk of rain returns but I do hope we get a small update for survivors of the void for console
Isn't gearbox suposed to tell us that? I mean they own now ror2
That’s Gearbox’s problem. Not Hopoo. Gearbox took over for the console port
Oh yeahhh I totally forgot about that. My bad
@@chilledsoul1064 all good mate, now yk
I love the direct reference to Cook Kirby with Chef's alternate ability.
love to see Merc getting a Jetstream Sam move, now i can finally roleplay properly
and he'll have the right color scheme too
Sounds great! I know more about a remaster that isn't out yet than an update for a 4 year old game that's still almost unplayable!
What game is unplayable? I’m interested
@@lol_fennec console Risk of Rain 2
@@henrytalley3739 how’s it unplayable?
@@lol_fennec im not a console player but ive heard its just very buggy. devs announced that theyre working on a massive patch thatll release with the dlc for console but i think theyve been kinda quiet on that
@@lol_fennec buggy af
6:03 PRECIOUS
I think I love you guys
Honestly, same
Love the Short Circuit reference. 2:50
I hope the project goes well! I was never a fan of the first game but hopeful this game can change my mind.
Oh man, wether returns comes out next month or in October, this is gonna be a fuckin' bang-up game
Finally the funny cooking robot is back
Didn't know a remaster was coming until just this video. Super excited to play it since I haven't played a 2D platformer rogue-like yet.
based on how far hopoo got with development before gearbox took over ROR2, do we atleast have an estimate for survivors of the void for consoles release date?
good question
I adored the OG risk of rain but the game is pretty much dead on console so im glad its getting a remaster and now i can finally convince all my friends to play this game
this video already sold me. i am a confirmed buy now
Hopoo literally said hol up, let him cook
This was an amazing dev talk!!
Can not wait for the game no matter what!!!
The new additions sound realy nice. Cant wait to get that game 😊
I’m so excited for this game, I especially appreciate what y’all are doing with loader. He feels much more in line with ror2 loader with his aimable grapple and the dive punch. In ror2 she is one of my favorite characters due to her high mobility but in ror1 he always felt a bit boring, sure he’s strong with invincibility and high damage punches but he never felt nearly as fun. Game looks great 👍
Wow this looks INCREDIBLE! Easily one of my favorite rogue-likes ever and this remaster is looking insane.
Also, all of the abilities are looking dope but can we talk about the UI glow up???
Just A Thought But I Think It Would Be Really Cool to Have Local Co-op Beside That I Am More Then Excited to See How The The Release Will Turn Out!!.
2:30 seeing the bandit using Gigantic Amethyst gave me flashbacks.
Very excited, game looks phenomenal
Looking absolutely fantastic! Totally loved RoR (and RoR 2), and RoR Returns looks to be jam-packed with really well-conceived new ideas and mechanics (plus sumptuous visuals). Can't wait, chaps! :)
Everything looks so goddanm good, i cannot wait!! Keep up the awesome job guys!
Honestly I liked the 1st game's art style and the cut characters more. 100% likely just my nostalgia talking but I always got rather "meh" with 2. Glad that a lot of good choices from RoR2 (skins, new abilities) are coming back!
I agree. Dunno if it's just rose tinted glasses but ror1 had something special that got missed in the second game. Maybe the mystery element..
@@groovis1462 I personally just liked dodging more in ror1. it felt nice being in the fray and weaving left and right rather than dodging in ror2 being just "get behind an object or use your movement ability"
@@groovis1462 IMO these might not be "good" reasons but I feel they're worthy or might be why some people feel this way
-In a game where you just shoot/beat up enemies, it is much easier to focus and see in 2D rather than 3D
-Risk of Rain 2 kind of just favors ranged characters, reason why melee acrid has kinda always been bad and why HAN-D never made it back, in the first game, it was much more mixed and both range and melee felt fairly viable. Which makes this a little same-y with the characters.
Can we get a release date so I can book that week off work
I expect the same general time of year the original released, since we're closing in on the 10th anniversary of the original (November 2013)
Not sure if you thought or been told this. But risk of rain 1 I love. But it doesn't adjust to screens well. It needs a zoom or player / enemy large marker feature to turn on and off so when there is 30 enemies on screen it is easier to track player
Another cool idea would be arena local or online pvp mode. With options to turn on and off enemies / items. I could see gettinf 2-8 guys online and replacing smash bros with this with all the items
Man im so hyped, the game looks so good. I love how everything looks so smooth and how it keeps the original game feel.
This is just amazing, every new detail we get excites me more and more! Can't wait to pour hundreds of hours into it! o7
I just beat risk of rain 1 cause i wanted to before risk of rain returns released but, in said run i got 4 characters i rlly like. Now im excited to get them all over again
PLEASE GOD PLEASE I NEED THE CONSOLE UPDATE PLEASE CMON MAN ITS A BRAND NEW YEAR PLEASE
i like the new ui and i can see there are already mods up and running which is huge