Top 10 Tips To Improve In Risk of Rain 2! 

absolutely needed to start with that. Easily the biggest misconception in the game

especially when you get to stage 4, where you start to get confused on whether to get more items or end it quick. i keep dying on stage 5 because of "5 minutes per stage" mindset, after i let go of that. i could finally get my first ever win.

Fr, that tip SAVES a lot of copium runs as you can actually catch a break and loot

As a not new player, if I bit off a bit more than I chewed I'll try to clutch by getting it to 99 so I can still make it to the next stage lol

I thought everybody knew this? Ever since my first playthrough I already noticed that

if you stop enemy spawns and then discover there's like 3 more chests ina place you haven't looked, you can't get more money

hey there, this definitely covers most if not all of the essentials to doing well in my opinion, I know that race has already made a macro itemization guide, but i think you could include a few tips about it, ex: waiting for a recycler, or what items to scrap

I would love to see a guide for items, or what you believe to be the fundamental ones, at the very least (because I know there's a lot of items). I feel like knowing what items to get in the early stages compared to the later stages, build-specific items, and/or even the lunar items, would be a huge help to a lot of new players, and possibly some experienced players as well. Regardless, I learned a couple new things with this video even after 140 hours in the game. Thank you!

another thing you could do, is survivor specific tips, on many of your streams I see questions about how to play certain survivors or what is good on certain survivors, (I’ve also asked a few of them) and I think it would help a lot for people who are comfortable with only a few survivors. If you plan to make more than just 2 guides, I think on later guides you could teach about techs and more complicated stuff to. Also congrats on 25k Subscribers🎉

I feel like one thing you missed out on a bit is building around items instead of just picking them up. Ie getting items that help you specific character the most, and the basics of macro itemization.

Who knew he was trying to help us get better all this time?

:)

except for when you get 4 red whips from killing overloaded worm....

@@plvto1 Worth

yeah that's actually a super good point, that would have made it clearer for sure. And yeah I need to add an edit to that too. Definitely messed up the maths

yeah considering he showcases many examples of waiting for cards & recyclers, I think he will

yeah I want to keep it basic to start and get into more and more adavnced stuff as it goes

yes definitely adding this to the list

Yeah I got killed by the planet on a great railgunner run by being booped into a corner by a worm.

honestly watching others is what helped me improve the most the fastest. Super helpful

yeah I did the exact same thing. Just bum rushed tp and hated life

unfortunately there is a lot of eliteism that surrounds these guides so I'm glad mine didn't come across that way. People just wanna have fun :)

He might be trying to emulate disputed’s introless strategy

always competing with the zoomer tik tok brain, gotta start fast unfortunately lol

yeah big big agree

yeah super good note actually. Ghors tome being consistent is super helpful

Engineer + roll of pennies go cachingg

oh yeah nice I like this

it tooke me so damn long to realise lol

yeah this is absolutely on my part 2 of this

Honestly had no clue there was a separate sprint button, just thought some characters sprinted after their shift ability while others did not. Now that's nice to know. Lol, probably should have looked at the key bindings just to check.

oof lol

yes there are definitely some times where deaths are just straight up the games fault, but whenever it isn’t those deaths, and even sometimes when it is, it thinking of ways you could avoid dying or improve your runs never hurts

yeah definitely stuff like that is just unfair but at the end of the day you do at least learn to not do that one thing again lol

I also just started around the time you commented this lol

Though I should mention it also depends on your survivors mobility skills and other mobility items, if you have any feathers for example you will have a lot safer opportunities to get value from crystal. But regardless I still do think crystal is still a good investment to keep more often than not, even if just a stack or two.

yeah I absolutely agree with this. Commando is a great example of this

@@raydans giving the elder lemarian a back massage before sliding away

knowing you could have done better is enough. Accepting you can improve is an amazing catalyst to actually improving

I think it really is that simple - whenever anyone gets an item, don't just pick it up, give it to the person that needs it the most The hard part isn't knowing what to do, it's convincing your friends to share lol

this is a really good idea actually. I like this :)

@@a_cats I think part of the problem comes from people not understanding what items are good for what characters. First step is obviously not to take the item immediately upon looting, but the 2nd step is how would one actually determine what items they should maybe skip (at least for now), and which ones they can take freely. The 3rd step is determining tiebreakers (i.e. Bands for Railgunner, Artificer or Loader?) When I ask for specific items (usually a feather, ATG or Uke) I tend to get responses that are very RNG-centric, like it's not their responsibility to bend over for the RNG and not pick up items that "they paid for" and are traditionally seen as good on everyone. They seem to not see that the items are there to power up the team and are instead focused on getting stronger themselves. It's one of the reasons why I mostly play Railgunner when I play with others, since she scales very good with relatively few damage items and just a few movement items too.

It was a clever jump cut transition. If you look at the timer during the dash it jumps like 10 seconds.

just editor magic

hearing stuff like this is so nice. Glad another person escaped the trap

just taking notes for a friend bro :)

so many people have commented this exact same thing. You aren't alone lol

there is literally no meta time to hit the tp or complete a stage. The only thing you ever ever need to worry about if you want consistent runs is to full loot the stage efficiently.

stacking backup mags, alien heads and purity is obviously great. but just find a big target like aureleonite or a titan to stack it on :)

you'd be surprised how many people disagree with these points

when you get eclipse 8 on every survivor it shows gold

@@beanboi2719 I'm aware, it doesn't show as gold in run though

oh I see yeah I’m wrong sorry about that, but his discord server does have a mod in the #unreleased-mods channel

@@beanboi2719 oh yea, assumed those were all content mods, thanks!

it's a mod that Nux made for me that isn't public unfortunately but yeah there are mods out there to do it too apparently

did you know it's also based off proc coefficient. So people like multi nailgun it only heals 0.6 health per shot. Then you add eclipse 5 to that and it's only 0.3 per shot :)

@@raydans I did know that! I still think it's ok on mul-t cause the fire rate is fine, but yeah leeching seed is just such a bad item haha.

it's a shame because that's the one I wanted to get across the most. Time has some elements in game but there is no time restriction per stage that will help you win. Full loot efficiently and ignore the timer

Yeah I guess it depends on how fast you can full loot, time probably matters for the person that's doing 12+ min a stage since they don't know good pathing.

the only way to fix that is by learning to loot efficiently though, any time restraints will just make it harder. I'd much rather spend 15 minutes on a stage and full loot instead of 5 minutes and not full loot

Honestly even if you do everything right, skill comes from experience & practice, keep doing runs and you'll get better

yeah that absolutely tracks lol

I've been thinking about this actually. Could be a cool, streak lol

I actually got it all myself...it hurt to turn them on

@@raydans Don't lie to me Raymond, it said "Kami connected" in chat at 4:55 How you mistreat them can't be kept secret forever

nope, just full loot efficiently. No time watching. Just loot efficiently. This will generally get you off stages between 8-10 minutes but if it's less or more it doesn't matter in comparison to getting items

@@raydans I agree. A time:item ratio is a measure of efficiency. By spending a reasonable amount of time to fully loot the stage you'd be looting efficiently (reasonable means not 20 minutes on stage 1). If the stage only has 4 items (like the recent stage 1 I had with 11 drones and a mountain shrine) you want to be out of there a bit quicker than if the stage has 12 items. I rarely leave a stage in under 10 minutes, almost never before 8. I aim for 1:1 item:minute (measured when I leave the stage) in the early stages and by the time I'm at stage 4 it's barely a consideration at all (largely cause it's impractical to count the items at that point). If I have about 8 items leaving stage 1 at about 10 minutes then I consider the run well started (4:5 isn't terrible or too far off 1:1). Granted, I'm still early in my eclipse climb.

im not raydans but i do win like 90% of my runs and play a lot of multiplayer and id say that yes it definitely still applies there

absolutely :) but there are a lot of niche things to help with coop too

you're not gonna like the answer...

@@raydans I'm gonna have to get off Command aren't I.

It's Dan Aesthetic from Nux but it's not a released mod. It is in my discord though if you want it :)

@@raydans thank you

I see yellow but I've been told otherwise by many sources lol

I kinda disagree on your stage 3 scenario. What if you rush tp and end up getting bad yellow/green items? Those chests you skipped skipped along the way could've had bands or an ATG. I'm not a veteran by a long shot, but imo, not full looting every stage has led to me having less control over my runs.

I couldn't disagree more. If I'm lacking damage literally the only thing that is going to pull me out of that hole is more items that give me damage.

@@raydans i suppose I see your point. Not to discount your experience at all, love you and your content, but in my experience it works out most every time. Such is the duality of roguelikes I guess :/

I think that might be fine if moving to a new stage didn't multiply difficulty and rate of difficulty increase Since it does, there is a noticable advantage to getting stronger without moving to a new stage if you're falling behind

@@a_cats the next step in fabricated scenario was to loot the stage after with your residual money. The choice proposed is to cut your losses rather gamble the whole stage

at the end of the day, sometimes the rng just doesn't hit lol

nope, moving to a new stage increases difficulty and rate of difficulty increase so maximising the amount of items per stage is better Edit: This is good advice for Risk of Rain 1/Returns though, in those games difficulty is not affected by stage count so getting items faster is usually best

nope hard hard disgaree. If you're looting efficiently, you'll sweep throught the map and clear it properly and even if you do mis a chest the 30 seconds to walk over there after tp is worth it

@@raydans but that takes like a minute or mire for 1 item. You could just go to the next stage and get more items there, increasing your items per minute.

I think you've latched onto this item per minute concept a little too hard. The difficulty increasing for the time walking to get that chest is very small where as the difficulty multiplies each time you go to the next stage. And even if that one item was rubbish, you've now got scrap to send into a printer later that will make you stronger than the time has made the enemies stronger.

TIME DOES NOT MATTER

also the console version has a million bugs