Thanks again everyone for the amazing reception for Alloyed Collective, today we have a big ol’ update for Risk of Rain 2 which includes a bunch of fixes, updates and balance changes.

For our Nintendo Switch fans the changes in this patch will be built into the day 1 release of the Switch version which is due in Q1 2026 (we’ll get it to you as fast as possible!)

This is the only planned update to Alloyed Collective but that doesn't mean you shouldn't report any issues to us - we can always include any fixes into future releases… our plans for Risk of Rain 2 are far, far from over.

Note: There are Alloyed Collective spoilers in these notes!

• Solus Heart base health increased by 25% from 6000 -> 7500 and base damage increased (from 10 to 11.)

• Alloy Hunter base health increased by 20% from 3000 -> 3600.

• Solus Wing weak points take 25% less damage from proc chains.

• Solus Wing weak points now have half the adaptive armor (we fixed an issue where they unintentionally had 2x adaptive armor.)

• Damage shared from Networked Suffering reduced from 50% - > 45%

• Best Buddy will now ignore the ally cap and always spawn when collecting the Orphaned Core.

• A Drifter repossessing another Drifter in multiplayer who is encumbered by having already repossessed a heavy object will now correctly inherit being encumbered.

• Solus Wing’s logbook no longer drops from the boss - can you find it??

Community Manager Note: HUGE NERF - Players failing to grab it under dying Wing was the best thing in the DLC.

• Warbonds now work with Pocket ICBM (but is intentionally not as large an increase as stacking multiple Warbonds.) 

• Repossess no longer generates scrap when damaging a Junk Cube.

• Increased Tornado Slam’s damage from 170% -> 220% and increased final hit damage from 400% -> 600%, and greatly increased junk production.

• Ending Tornado Slam early by jumping no longer consumes a jump.

• Solus Distributor spawning cooldown increased from 10 -> 11 and mine health 60 -> 20

• Added custom pickup highlights for Boss, Void, and Food items.

• Shrine of the Mountain will correctly spawn on Conduit Canyon when the Artifact of Prestige is active.

• When Artifact of Prestige is active the visual indicator on the Mountain Shrine and Teleporter is now pink.

Community Manager Note: As it was written, so shall it be done.

• Equipment (Regular and Lunar) now get highlights when picked up.

• "Follower" type item displays now get highlighted when picked up (for example Focused Convergence, Tricorn's ghostly gun etc.)

• Mithrix now has item displays for Boss tier and DLC items (he only had the little spikes in him for base game items.)

• Mithrix can use Meal Items (except Sautéed Worms, that would be insane.)

• Gold obtained by Solus Extractor while holding a Roll of Pennies will no longer transfer to the player.

• Solus Heart loot pool has been updated to include Hardlight Afterburner, Orphaned Core and Spare Drone Parts.

• Conduit Canyon's "Intrusion Detected" line is now pink to match with other world event messages.

• Alloy Hunter's message when spawning is correctly labeled as her speaking.

• Collective Elites now have their shield bubble temporarily disabled after being dealt damage, and damage against the shield is labelled as “Immune” to better communicate the lack of damage. We have also updated the visuals of the bubble to reduce visual clutter.

• Solus Scorchers now have a glassy material on their tank.

• Pocket ICBM now affects Missile Drones when Operator uses Admin-Override.

• Prison Matrix and Longstanding Solitude are now properly disabled when hit with an item-disabling attack.

• Umbra of MUL-T event on Solutional Haunt can now only be triggered by a live player and not any Remote Operated drones by dead players.

• Fixed Solus Wing’s corpse being cleaned up by Cleanup Drones, soft-locking the run.

• Multiple instances of brief framerate “hitches” fixed across all platforms.

• Fixed rare instances of Repossess splitting multi-option interactables (such as Multi-Shops) into separate parts.

• Repossess will now correctly only highlight the base of a targeted Multi-Shop. Additionally some objects with tiny or seemingly missing highlights should now correctly display the targeting highlight.

• Certain purchased Drones should no longer get stuck when thrown off cliffs using Repossess.

• Tougher Times, Mired Urn & Meal-Tier items can now be placed in the Shrine of Rebirth.

• Removed instances of Drifter’s Junk Cube VFX remaining after being destroyed, primarily on XBOX.

• On XBOX Solus Amalgamators that are killed almost instantly on spawning will correctly despawn during multiplayer

• Drifter will now correctly knock back enemies when using Tornado Slam in multiplayer.

• Voidsent Flame will correctly proc itself when the explosion hits full health enemies.

• Hiker’s Boots on hit bonus is now guaranteed when hitting enemies from a higher elevation and is no longer affected by proc coefficient.

• The additional COMMAND text when buying a Drone as Operator will no longer display when using alt-secondary ability CMD-SWARM.

• Solus Amalgamator can now spawn as a teleporter boss on Iron Aroras (loop variant) without requiring a Node to be activated.

• Missile and Strike Drone propellers are correctly animated in both gameplay and when viewed in the Logbook.

• There are no longer any incorrect fight-starting triggers on Solutional Haunt outside of entering the tunnel.

• Longstanding Solitude should no longer increase the amount of Lunar Coins required to interact with Lunar Buds.

• Price of a chest will no longer appear when pinged while holding Longstanding Solitude.

• Operator no longer gains extra stacks of Bolstering Lantern when using ADMIN-OVERRIDE.

• Bolstering Lantern will now correctly give its buff when collected while enemies/allies are already within the buff zone.

• Engi Turrets now correctly display the cute antennae when holding the Collective Elite aspect “Of One Mind.”

• Best Buddy and Solus Invalidator’s hanging cables should have the correct degree of floppyness now.

• False Son’s Club of the Forsaken now has the correct description.

• Xi Construct should no longer become unaligned with its various parts when playing at high FPS levels.

• Networked Suffering gives kill credit to the character that applied the debuff, correctly granting money and exp, as well as activating on kill effects

• Fixed issue where picking up a single temporary item would sometimes incorrectly state that the player collected 2 items

• Item displays are no longer removed when your items are disabled (you still have them, they just don't work!)

• Functional Coupler no longer drops all extra equipments when your items are disabled.

• Functional Coupler’s equipment slots no longer have their cooldown reset when your items are disabled.

• Fixed the equipment cooldown timer briefly being incorrect when being un-Item Disabled

• Consumable equipments are correctly consumed when used with an empty bonus equipment slot from Functional Coupler (no more infinity Engi turrets, exploit enjoyers.)

• Fixed certain items (H3AD-5T v2, Resonance Disk, Mired Urn, and Neutronium Weight) not working on Operator after stage transition

• Added item displays for Box of Dynamite and Spare Drone Parts to Best Buddy and Empathy Cores.

• Drifter's Bludgeon (Primary while an object is in her bag) no longer occasionally misses damaging objects in the bag with high attack speed.

• Tweaked the slam animation of Drifter's Bludgeon to no longer have the bag phase through her.

• Tweaked Drifter's jump animation to fix her arms suddenly lurching forward.

• Fixed Repossess not being able to throw characters correctly in Solutional Haunt.

• Fixed some of Operator's queued drones not being Repossess-able.

• Fixed Droneboy's hat appearing when Repossessed, along with several other visual bugs with other objects being held in the sack.

• Temporary Item Distributor's smoke VFX remains attached to the model when thrown via Repossess.

• Fixed a bug where Drifter's Junk Cube wouldn't always spawn a cube if too close to some objects.

• Void and Food “Command” pickups had their VFX updated to better match items of their tier.

• Many items, equipment, enemies, drones, and stages had their logbook previews adjusted to better frame them.

• Fixed some missing periods, spaces, as well as extra periods and spaces across several item descriptions in the logbook.

• Fixed some phrasing inconsistencies related to health regeneration - all effects that scale with level are now written as "base health regeneration."

• Fixed Railgunner's M99 Sniper’s Active Reload description incorrectly describing the bonus damage on a perfect reload as 100%, instead of 500%.

• Fixed False Son’s Club of the Forsaken having incorrect damage values for Xbox.

• Reduced the recoil of Operator’s H3-11 OCR Custom when fired at non-full stocks.

• Objectives are given more space depending on the length of their text, fixing overlapping and squished text in Conduit Canyon's objectives.

• Fixed Safer Spaces' shield being wasted when hit while invulnerable (for example during Mercenary's Eviscerate.)

• Ultimate Meal's buff disappears 3s after falling under full health instead of instantly, which significantly reduces the negative interaction between reduced healing effects, Ultimate Meal, and Growth Nectar.

• Computational Exchange no longer has printers while Artifact of Command is enabled.

• Wandering Chef can no longer be used to "duplicate" items that are corrupted into void items while the menu is open, due to exploits by Australian YouTubers - yet again.

• Printers can no longer be used while items are disabled, fixing an issue that led to item duping.

• Fixes an item duplication glitch relating to rescaling a disabled hud on console.

• Fixed False Son’s Lunar Ruin and Networked Suffering causing Solus Wing to die extremely quickly after a weak point is defeated.

• Alpha Constructs are correctly killed when thrown out of the map via Drifter's Repossess.

• Amalgamator's broken hatches no longer have extremely bright internals.

• Fixed Scrapper UI including temporary items in displayed item counts.

• Fixed Collective Elites not having an elite icon.

• Fixed Remote Caffeinator’s flare VFX being oversized.

• Added an extra jump pad to Conduit Canyon’s first section.

• False Son (Boss) should be better at targeting players.

• Fireworks should no longer clip into Best Buddy when interacted with.

• Fixed many items and equipment not being dithered when near the camera.

• Now only gold-orb Halcyon Shrines spawn after killing False Son when looping.

• Prismatic Trials will now start with the correct player spawn animation. Cabbage is over the moon.

• Made slight alteration to the Sautéed Worms log entry as to not contradict existing lore. Grovetender is over the moon.

• Under rare circumstances you could die during the “decompiling scene” when you’ve accepted Solus Heart’s offer - this no longer occurs.

Hello!

Thanks to everyone who has played and left reviews for Alloyed Collective! We rocketed up to the top rating on Steam of OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE which is an amazing result for any game, so thank you very much!

Earlier this year we have also released three improvement phases for the Seekers of the Storm DLC which pushed the recent reviews for that DLC up to Very Positive - Overall it's been a fantastic year for Risk of Rain 2 and we couldn't have done it without you all!

Now through December 1 at 10AM PT, we invite anyone who’s joined us on the journey to continue to make improvements and additions to Risk of Rain 2 to nominate it for Labor of Love n the 2025 Steam Awards.
And if you haven’t had a chance to try out the latest addition to Risk of Rain 2, check out Alloyed Collective now:

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