Easter Eggs & References in Risk of Rain 2 - DPadGamer 

Tbh I’ve personally opened about 3 to 4 cloaked chest, completely on accident. I see the message “open” and I’m like “oh shit what”. I often forgot about them lmao.

Lore Dump: Mithrix and Providence are estranged brothers whose attitudes towards the world and creatures around them differed too much. As nearly deific beings, Mithrix's aloof and uncaring attitude was at odds with Providence's empathic nature. Mithrix and Providence were trapped on Petrichor V, the planet you, the player, have crashlanded on. Mithrix's powers allow him to easily design creatures and structures, but because of his innate lack of empathy, he cannot imbue his creations with true life, with Soul. Eventually Mithrix created the teleporter gates, and as a test, placed one on the moon and used it. Providence sealed the gate on Petrichor behind Mithrix, trapping him on the moon, as the two are unable to travel in Space without succumbing to an illness caused by space. Providence and Mithrix are now eternally at odds, Mithrix has stewed with rage and hatred for millennia alone on the moon, and Providence has solemnly gathered species of creatures from doomed planets across space using teleporters to traverse the cosmos. But both brothers deep down longed for reconciliation. Purity represents their shared memory of being children, and it's description feels like a memory. Too bad you crashland on the planet in the first game and slaughter Providence, before later returning on a rescue mission and end up finishing what you started by killing Mithrix. Two brothers are now reunited in death. Something interesting to note. Aurelionite is a stone titan made with an abundance of soul. Providence let his own artistic vision take over instead of following Mithrix's formulaic design. Mithrix sealed Aurelionite in the Gilded Coast, gave him a few friends to keep him company, and left him there because Aurelionite's abundance of soul gave him not only great power, but also free will which meant he might turn on Mithrix and Providence. By paying money to the shrines, you have unlocked the Gilded Coast, and freed him. When you defeat him, he joins you and fights with you during teleporter events, seeking to find the brothers and destroy them. Too bad you killed Providence.

Heads up I don't know if you were implying this, but the pressure plates for abandoned aqueduct aren't entirely random, but more have a set list of about 8 locations they randomly choose. getting to know those locations makes finding the buttons much faster

I love the lore of both risk of rain games it's a blast reading all the logs and you should read them too

With the newest DLC, the glass frog now gives access to another ending

Fun fact: the level right after the last Gilded Coast I went to spawned me directly facing *two* gold altars right next to each other. It was kind of ridiculous.

There’s one item that I think you’ve missed - the red whip. The red whip is probably a reference to maplestory, as the item in both games gives speed. This isn’t the first time maplestory has been mentioned, the pig beach secret map in ror1 is also a reference to ms.

It's such a fun game! So satisfying when you get a good run (or get a good roll with the shrine of order)

If you go for Heretic, you should also pick up the Blue Item Transcendence, the one that looks like a beetle. It converts your health into shields that restore themselves when your out of combat for 7 seconds, and it will stop your health draining. On top of that, it grants a large percentage max health benefit based on your current base health, which the heretic gets 133 per level, more than 5 times any other survivor. you can easily get 5k+ Shielding by stacking transcendence, and even get enough to make the half health effect of Shattered glass seem trivial. (I was able to still have 3k shield in a run after grabbing 3 shaped glass, fun times) Edit: it also let's you focus your build immensely since healing items won't work anymore with transcendence , so you can scrap all of them and start picking up everything else

The boss item empathy cores gives 2 (4 with swarms on) Solus probe allies One has the same robes as the heretic And the colours are the same as the twins from Terraria ( I think)

"This glass frog probably means nothing?" *New DLC comes out where you have to pet the glass frog.*

I was literally just rewatching some of your recent videos. Fantastic, thank you Mr D. Pad!

I did not expect dpad to cover this game, but I am excited to watch!

I thought everyone's favourite artifact code location was the Artifact of Glass. It's litterally emblazoned on the Twisted Scavengers forehead.

Awesome video! but you forgot to mention the ukelele of Chris the composer. "And his music was electric..."

One of the best games, and i have barely played it.

The 'glass frogs' part in the logbook is building off the lore of Mithrix and Providence, just more exposition on their early years, and Mithrix also has special dialogue for breaking engineer turrets.

I feel like you should have separated this into two videos, there was some cool stuff in here that i bet alot of people dont know, but the free preon and the sercret lemurians are really common knowledge at this point and it.

once I found out that one of the artifact codes is in an enviornment log, I just kinda gave up on finding them all, and reverted to the wiki

So glad you covered this game. It's such an amazing game.

Fun fact, on Commencement (the moon level where you fight mithrix) three weapons can be found, Swords similar to Providences, Hammers, similar to MIthrix and an prop called "halberd" that has no associated character.

Thx for the artifacts!

0:29 I love HAN-D’s little hat

I have 400 hours in this game. I knew about the Heretic & the Aurelionite dialogue, but didn't know there was special lines for when you had the Aurelionite as the Heretic! Just, amazing how many small details and easter eggs they have hidden in this game. @10:35

Great video. Actually had a lot of stuff i didnt know, and ive been playing RoR2 since it came out lol

Fun fact: now that SoTV is out, you can pet the glass frog to access the void

Great video : ) There's a reference to Gotcha Force in the next DLC that i bet no one will ever figure out :P

this is a video i didnt know i needed

When you play as the Railgunner if you pick the first ultimate and use it, when the pack is fully charged it makes the same sound as the Proton Power packs from Ghostbusters.

Tip for the Pressure Plates in Aqueduct: Their spawn places aren't completely random. They either spawn near objects like rocks or the pillars (or the feet) of the aqueducts or they spawn near or in patches of grass/plants. they are never out in the open.

love this video

Some additional ways to press down the Abandoned Aquaduct buttons solo are either the pots, or the Captain. The Captain's beacons can press them down, though doing so obviously means using up one of your two beacons(though I argue spending a hacking beacon to get 2 guaranteed band items is worth it on stage 2, less so on loops if you already have the bands). Otherwise you can roll the pots onto the plates to press them down, which is extremely annoying on its own, but non-damaging movement abilities like Rex's basic shockwave or the black hole cube can do a good job on it.

Also worth noting that the huntress, Artificer, and the secret ball boss all seem to be references/inspired by the Destiny universe, the huntresses name, design, and abilities all resemble the Hunters. The floating orb looks and behaves like a servitor, and the Artificers jump glide and entire theme (locked in a Vault of Glass until you free them?) Is absolutely a warlock.

Oh man, the cloaked chests are so rare that when I found one by chance on my first run with railgunner, I assumed it was something new added in SotV since I had never encountered one before, interesting to find out they were in the base game

captain's beacons also work if you aren't engineer, you could also try your luck with loader's pylon but it despawns fairly quickly and it's hard to get it to stay on the pressure plate cause it can bounce off

One of the best youtubers is making a video about the best Rouge like game your the best dpad keep it up 👍

"What's updog?" "Not much, what's up with you?" Thanks The Office

5:22 Captain's beacons also hold down the pressure plates.

Amazing video

glas frog now has a use in the new dlc!

I didn’t know this game had so much Easter eggs

omg i never thought to put a turret on the pressure plate!

I'm so glad I'm not alone with trying this game and instantly getting addicted.

Fun fact about heretic: if you have the lunar item that turns all your health into shields, Heretic don’t have to deal with the constant health drain

Dont know if anyone else caught this but the bandits mastery outfit is most likely a reference to oneof hopoo's earier games deadbolt

2:23 And he was freakin' amazing!

You should do one on the new dlc, and you can also take a look at things you missed in the original video

I've actually found the cloak chest before is when I was doing a rerun or something

You also have the cursed king in rallypoint delta, if you go to the island across from the main area you fight a tainted version of yourself and if you win, you get the legendary cursed ring which you can't get anywhere else

I spent around an hour trying to get a pot onto one of those pressure plates but i had bought too many drones and they kept pushing the pot.... I feel like doing that could count as torture

That glass frog you can now pet to get to the other final boss in the void

Fun Fact: For some reason, Void Fields no longer pause time. This makes the rewards from them... not really worth the time spent.

In the final boss stage you can find a small island with providences sword imbedded in the ground.

11:05 you pet the glass frog. you pet the glass frog. you pet the glass frog. you pet the glass frog. you pet the glass frog. you pet the glass frog. you pet the glass frog. you pet the glass frog. you pet the glass frog. you pet the glass frog. A deeply purple portal appears...

the amount of drones at the start of the video

fun fact as of the survivors of the void update if you own the SOTV DLC you can pay lunar coins to pet the frog and upon petting it ten times the frog will open a purple portal to enter the alternate final boss which is sooooooooooooooooooooooo annoying to fight

Pretty sure the red drops are also a callback to Phantasy Star Online, as well.

There are a number of references to other games like the peon accumulater for instance, the soldier's syringe and and engi's spider mines are both references to StarCraft 1 syringe to stimpak an ability used by marines that granted increased attack and movement speed at the cost of a couple HP, and the spider mines are in reference to... uh... spider mines both are functionally identical the only difference is scail

7:44 me and my friends also got teleported after surviving a bit which ended the game without killing us.

You can kinda see them if you're right next to them (especially with the outline) also the "Lead & Jerry" chest (3:22) is my favorite storage container

Frog meme got into the game. Noice. Now I'm hoping for lemdog. Lemdogs for all.

I ran across two cloaked chests on the same level once. Didn't know they were rare lol

11:00 and then the void DLC hits

I think my favourite risk of rain 2 moment was when I spawned in and immediately summoned the sirens call secret boss ( I forgot it’s name) then I died because I got malachited

A reference you missed on an item is the trophys hunter tricorn, the notes is a reference of the most dangerous game (a book i think you probably have read in english class)

Woohoo!

Dunno if anyone has said this but there is also one of those code things in the Abyssal Plains, the red level

If you want a glitch you know if the starting character Commando if you roll and jump at the same time you can do a super jump LOL that's what I call it

For the null portal below the cave on bazaar you can see a bunch of void reavers get stuck in crystal just like artificier its because they chasing newt but failure and let the portal open and for the new DLC if you go to void portal it lead you to void locus and on the below there is name (cell xvix----) so i think all the void creatures is like space cops they will chasing you for being overpower like after you defeat mithix they will spawn just for chasing you for killing god

You make me happy

in survivors of the void you can pet the frog :3

If you have Survivors of the Void, you can pet the glass frog 10 times to open a portal to the Planetarium.

2:00 How could you forget Cris' ukalele for RoR2 music?! His music was electric man :(

You forgot the Mithrix arena stone cicles represent the Bipi-Circles of the scouts with the fire in the centre

I found a cloaked chest today! I now feel better!

This video is a bit old, but now, if you pet the frog a number of times you are teleported to what is now considered “true ending” and fight a boss with multiple stages again

The glowing pink mushroom does not show up in sundered grove if you use low graphic setting. I don't know which setting is responsible for this, but it makes it so I have to check every possible location which is annoying

2:03 I was just thinking that

4:26 i fount it once randomly

I found the culturist before because did my game was glitched and it was casting the shadow but there was no chest in there

Idk if this is true or not but the blade that’s in the ground when going to face Mithrix I always think that the blade is Providence’s sword stating back to the first game

Another easter egg is a big chunk of this game's ost, particularly "The rain formerly known as purple", which has a throwback to... Purple rain

6:53 how is huntress gliding like the arti? Which item does that??

Fun fact you can play_as HAN-D by using consoles. He is buggy but playable, even with hes own hammer swing animation.

4:29 oh so that wasn’t my game messing up from being on level 99 in that case I got like 4 of the in a 25 stage loop (I got bored and decided to cut my losses before my game crashed)

I never knew the grove legendary chests have mushrooms surrounding it

So, you know how hopoo are very aware of their modding community? There is a sword in on the moon that looks suspiciously like paladin's.

I love risk of rain 2. It’s so fun.

There are actually 7 set locations for the pressure plates on abandonned aqueduct

They better bring my boy HAN-D back or I'm going to go ballistic.

0:50 It's also a reference to a bible story about pigs possessed by demons being chased off a cliff

the demons and the crabs is incredibly annoying because hopoo was like "f*** hermit crabs in particular" when designing the artifact of dissonance. it also doesn't help that abyssal depths, one of the only two maps that they can spawn on has no edge

Lets gooo Risk Of Rain 2 is a dope ass game lets goooo

I've only found one cloaked chest and until today I thought it was just a bug or something

4:10 I actually found a Cloaked Chest randomly during a Teleporter Event I was fighting and then "Open Cloaked Chest" appeared on my screen :v

I found a cloaked chest once during a prismatic trial

ah yes, risk rain 2 my favorite game

You can now pet the frog with the void dlc

Homie you also forgot Captain's Beacons also press down on switches. Which I love because engineer is boring to play. So I was happy his beacons still worked for the plates.

I found two invisible chest right next to each other on monsoon