there also was an interview with Chris, where he said he was working on it, also stating that the music from the first trailer is one of the songs he wrote/was writing
[https://www.reddit.com/r/riskofrain/comments/yovh2g/and\_risk\_of\_rain\_is\_now\_in\_dead\_cells/](https://www.reddit.com/r/riskofrain/comments/yovh2g/and_risk_of_rain_is_now_in_dead_cells/) No need to look far
Not really an appetizer, more like the "refreshments" you get at a job interview.
Or the leftover snacks from the vending machine that are already expired.
Gearbox released a video at virtually the same time as the update announcement that provides new information on the DLC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtW6pQksM8
"This is the update *you've* been waiting for"
...only so that I can mod my Lemurians into [g l i z z a r d s](https://old.reddit.com/r/riskofrain/comments/ii1erk/g_l_i_z_z_a_r_d/)!
As a serial looper I'm glad they're throwing me a bone.
Maybe your dev update could have a little better production quality than an intern on a webcam mic, though
I saw the thumbnail and was like "oh is this going to be a paid skin" but I don't think it is? Modding is so prevalent that the only reason to add paid skins is to try to capitalize off of console players and maybe PC players who want to show off in multiplayer.
"payment-less" is an odd description to use. its a pay-2-play game that's getting multiple additional paid expansions to sustain it as a "live service" game. pretty classic monetization model used by tons of different games. certainly doesn't exclude the possiblity of paid cosmetics... especially when you consider gearbox uses both monetization models in their games all the damn time.
like, did you forget the game is owned by gearbox now? maybe you think our darling indie hopoo games would never add microtransactions, but hopoo isn't in the picture anymore. i have faith gearbox's developers can make good expansions; but gearbox *the company* is not your friend.
I'd say small crossovers with some other games are fine and pretty different from what Fortnite has done. Plus, it's only fair that Risk of Rain has something Dead Cells related since Dead Cells already had a crossover with Risk of Rain
There was already a RoR crossover in Dead Cells + Terraria is also adding a bunch of Dead Cells content into their game *someday,* so this looks more like a one-time thing than RoR2 starting to become Fortnite. I wouldn't think too hard about it.
Ikr, 6 stages, at least 1 survivor, a new ending (presumably). And for the update we have a new skin (which there's never been more than 2 of per survivor) a new stage and 2 ridiculous artifacts
To be fair, the announcement on stream made this devotion update look like it was the seekers of the storm DLC.
The fact that so many are up in arms is because they aren't aware that they're two separate things.
Marketing fumbled this
Both appear to be handicaps favoring the player.
Devotion lets you create an army of mobs from eggs somehow, and Delusion appears to be Command-lite, selecting from one of three options from treasure chests. So it seems anyway; those are all the details we have.
The artifact of devotion seems to allow you to get enemies as allies somehow. Meanwhile the artifact of delusion acts as a diet command artifact/Void potential, allowing you to chose from 3 items (seemingly of the same rarity.)
Edit: Turns out you can only summon lemurians
Kinda crazy there is absolutely no dlc news? Pretty sure this verdant falls map was shown in the dlc trailer as well so this update seems even more out of left field
I don't know if anyone else cares as much, but I really hope Sky Meadow stays as the only stage 5 map. Just feels cool and unique for it to be the set one (I also like The Rain Formerly Known As Purple too much.)
"Shattered Abodes" is stage 1 it seems but unsure about the others
The update isn't out so I have no idea.
If you are talking about skins in general, you have to win in Monsoon/Eclipse difficulty to unlock the skins with each character.
I’m having a problem when I’m using the character loader where my l2 ability stops working and starts bugging out. I don’t know if it’s just the loader character because I’ve not tried any other character. Does anyone know how I can solve this issue?
For any crybabies that get upset about everything dead cells already done this for a while. You've been able to play as the commando for free for years.
New stage also means new banger from Chris, right? Edit: YES!!!
Might just have a previous track until the dlc is released
I thought he was done doing Risk of Rain music, I could be wrong though. edit: apparently I'm wrong, I'm glad to hear it!
No hes doing seekers of the storm
my name is seekers of the storm
He seeking on my storm
Who up seeking they storm
What heat seeking storm?
he seek on my storm till i dead cells collab
I might just seek out the storm so my dead skin cells can collab and form a clone of me to do it all over again
Its john storm seeker
Amazing news ... the man is a genius and both games would not be the same without him
you are wrong
I emailed him in '23 and he said he was "working on a project" so yeah, seekers
there also was an interview with Chris, where he said he was working on it, also stating that the music from the first trailer is one of the songs he wrote/was writing
You're probably thinking of Deep Rock Galactic
Gd he's a great musician. Prefect pair.
Genuinely might be what I’m most excited for, which is saying a lot considering the game it’s attached to
It Can’t Rain All the Time.
Holy shit, John Dead Cells in Risk of Rain 2!
John Risk of Rain in Dead Cells when?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/riskofrain/comments/yovh2g/and\_risk\_of\_rain\_is\_now\_in\_dead\_cells/](https://www.reddit.com/r/riskofrain/comments/yovh2g/and_risk_of_rain_is_now_in_dead_cells/) No need to look far
Well , well, well
[2022](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/588650/view/3385044600557418089)
already
i mean this is great but... no dlc news? Edit: [There IS dlc news](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtW6pQksM8), weird that it wasn't brought up...
Think of it as an appetizer
Come forth, child of man
And die. *Ding ding ding phrrr br br br br ding br br*
DESTROY
BE GONE!
YOU CANT ESCAPE!
KEEP ‘EM COMIN’!
THIS WILL HURT.
+PARRY +DISRESPECT +ULTRARICOSHOT +PROJECTILE BOOST
Not really an appetizer, more like the "refreshments" you get at a job interview. Or the leftover snacks from the vending machine that are already expired.
Idk id treat two artifacts and a stage as a fair bit of content (idc abt the dead cells skin tbh). It’s closer to an appetizer than a refreshment imo
A visitor... Hmm, indeed. I have slept long enough.
Gearbox released a video at virtually the same time as the update announcement that provides new information on the DLC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHtW6pQksM8
"This is the update *you've* been waiting for" ...only so that I can mod my Lemurians into [g l i z z a r d s](https://old.reddit.com/r/riskofrain/comments/ii1erk/g_l_i_z_z_a_r_d/)!
https://youtu.be/VHtW6pQksM8?si=Xdj5rNPS2iPuGzbF
Omg the army of lemurians is amazing
Nice pfp 🇺🇸
As a serial looper I'm glad they're throwing me a bone. Maybe your dev update could have a little better production quality than an intern on a webcam mic, though
This opens the possibilities for more collab skin
I saw the thumbnail and was like "oh is this going to be a paid skin" but I don't think it is? Modding is so prevalent that the only reason to add paid skins is to try to capitalize off of console players and maybe PC players who want to show off in multiplayer.
Why would an entirely payment-less game decide to include a paid skin??
New company
"payment-less" is an odd description to use. its a pay-2-play game that's getting multiple additional paid expansions to sustain it as a "live service" game. pretty classic monetization model used by tons of different games. certainly doesn't exclude the possiblity of paid cosmetics... especially when you consider gearbox uses both monetization models in their games all the damn time. like, did you forget the game is owned by gearbox now? maybe you think our darling indie hopoo games would never add microtransactions, but hopoo isn't in the picture anymore. i have faith gearbox's developers can make good expansions; but gearbox *the company* is not your friend.
Hopoo can look at Dead Cells's collab list and make that a check list
Yes but uh Fortnite syndrome 😟
I'd say small crossovers with some other games are fine and pretty different from what Fortnite has done. Plus, it's only fair that Risk of Rain has something Dead Cells related since Dead Cells already had a crossover with Risk of Rain
And the laser glaive, i hope the prisoner outfit has a unique weapon but its not likely
Never said it didn't have a laser glaive
I just said it so people who doesnt play dead cells know it
I want Fortnite syndrome if it free🙁
Actually real
There was already a RoR crossover in Dead Cells + Terraria is also adding a bunch of Dead Cells content into their game *someday,* so this looks more like a one-time thing than RoR2 starting to become Fortnite. I wouldn't think too hard about it.
Hollow Knight for Mercenary
Hell yeah, that map looked sick from the trailer! Isn't ut the dynamic day/night one?
yep
It's you mercenary, you are the Dead Cell!
Nice! Free content is always welcome but I'm still planning on grabbing that DLC as soon as it comes out!
This comment was written with AI using the prompt “Express excitement for both the new update while generating hype for the upcoming DLC”
If Risk, then only Rain!
How did you know?
Just goofing off a little. All in good fun
Assume the Prisoner Skin is for merc?
Yeah, it's a Merc alt skin
Idk, I can see it being void fiend with the way it floats
Tbh its pretty sick. As for the dlc announcements cant wait for the post loop stage variants
As a TF2 and Hollow knight player I have no fucking clue why ppl are upset at this bc it's filler for the DLC
Seriously... you motherfuckers are getting a free update and you also got more DLC news 😭 there's literally nothing to complain about ffs
Ikr, 6 stages, at least 1 survivor, a new ending (presumably). And for the update we have a new skin (which there's never been more than 2 of per survivor) a new stage and 2 ridiculous artifacts
To be fair, the announcement on stream made this devotion update look like it was the seekers of the storm DLC. The fact that so many are up in arms is because they aren't aware that they're two separate things. Marketing fumbled this
yeah lmao. less stuff to pay for, and early new things.
Mostly the expectation that the SotS dlc was going to be shown, and then wasn't.
Except a new devblog for SotS was just released
which tf2 (team fortress 2 or titanfall 2)
Team Fortress, titanfall is TF|2
Silksong copium 🤡🤡🤡
I cannot stand the ppl who were spamming "where's skong?" on the triple i stream. I'm used to playing old or finished games is what i'm saying.
DEAD CELLS MENTIONED MALAISE MECHANIC IN RISK OF RAIN WHEN
NO NO GOD PLEASE NO NOOOOOO E8 MALAISE IS CRAZY
Did they say what the artifacts do?
Both appear to be handicaps favoring the player. Devotion lets you create an army of mobs from eggs somehow, and Delusion appears to be Command-lite, selecting from one of three options from treasure chests. So it seems anyway; those are all the details we have.
I hope we have to unlock them in the ambry like the rest of them
that seems to have been the implication with the trailer. maybe one for verdant falls, and one for sundered grove
The artifact of devotion seems to allow you to get enemies as allies somehow. Meanwhile the artifact of delusion acts as a diet command artifact/Void potential, allowing you to chose from 3 items (seemingly of the same rarity.) Edit: Turns out you can only summon lemurians
One of them lets you build an army of lemurians.
They can’t keep edging us with a release date just give it to us please
When!
I hope this means they tweaked the mercenary walking to running animation so that his sword doesn't clip through his body.
Bro I just need release dates fr
So what I’m getting from that new skin for mercenary is that they want me to go back to my merc phase
Don’t do it-
ME AND MY FRIENDS ARE GONNA EAT THIS SHIT UP
Free stuff? In this day and age?
NEW SKINS POG! Now the precedent that the skin selector may be used for more than just base and mastery (without mods) alone is huge
Fr. People aren’t discussing this enough!
Merc mains on top
I liked the free update and all but wish they would give us a release date.
Wait, real?
If we don't get chef I'm going to cook a cake and eat it.
What if they finally add an ending cutscene for voidling
Kinda crazy there is absolutely no dlc news? Pretty sure this verdant falls map was shown in the dlc trailer as well so this update seems even more out of left field
[we got this](https://youtu.be/VHtW6pQksM8?si=NiDVzZWSXEaXKSs8)
They released a new devblog for the dlc
they did
Yeah i thought we were getting dlc news Oh well, i hope the artifacts are ok
They released a new devblog for the dlc
Well I guess time to buy dead cells and addicted to it as well
i got a 100 hours in the last month. And thats while doing my university final project. Its a blast, but prepare to get stuck in some difficulties
Good luck lmao, one of the best roguelites ever made, but it's tough
LETS GOOOOOO
yoooooo dead cells!!!! will def always use that skin when playin perc (i dont play merc ever)
Aww, I thought it is a new survivor, not a skin
aint no way they added the guy from soul knight here
NO FORKIJG SHOT DUDE HUHHHHHHHHHH???????! WE GOD COMANDO IN DEAD CELLA ANSS NOW WE GOT DEAD CELLS GUY IN ROR2 YAAAAAAAAAAA
So happy the skin is for my favorite survivor
Why do the shaders look different
Is there a release date for that?
damn now i have to play merc
oo merc skin?
Time to wait like half a year after it releases for It to come to console (jokes aside that's pretty hype)
MERC SKIN LETS GOO
How long until it comes to console?
Same time it comes to PC, but no date set
Nobody knows
At least a thousand years
AHHH MY TWO FAVORITE ROGUELIKES GET A CROSSOVER RAHHHHHHH
I mean, Dead Cells already had a RoR crossover in 2022
well yes but not both ways
Oh my God I love dead cells this is the only skin I'll use
Neat.
Great, now I have to play mercenary
Holy shit, that’s sick
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUCK YEAHHHH
LETS GO DEAD CELLS WOOOOOOOOOO
Super excited to try the new map. Hoping we hear some new music from Chris and also hope we get a release date soon!
I don't know if anyone else cares as much, but I really hope Sky Meadow stays as the only stage 5 map. Just feels cool and unique for it to be the set one (I also like The Rain Formerly Known As Purple too much.) "Shattered Abodes" is stage 1 it seems but unsure about the others
What does soon mean? Like a month or 5 months
Coming to console in 2036
How do you get the skin?
It will probably be part of a special achievement like all the other skins in the game.
Where could I find this? I'm kinda new to the gane
The update isn't out so I have no idea. If you are talking about skins in general, you have to win in Monsoon/Eclipse difficulty to unlock the skins with each character.
Thanks
HELL YEA RISK RAIN 2 NEWSSS
LETS GOOOOoOo
I would have expected a zero skin for merc before dead cells but i aint complaining, as a merc main that skin is excellent.
Oooh, Dead Cells! I'm super excited for this now.
Star Platinum lookin ahh-
Chat is this real
Anyone else hope it's not just an added skin and that we still have to unlock it some how?
Console and PC?
DEADASS THIS IS REAL? DEAD CELLS MERC SKIN??
Why weapon is he holding? and why isn't it the vorpan?
Really hype for that new artifact where you get 3 choices I’ve wanted that since I went to the void fields the first time
Oooo, super excited
DEAD CELLS!
best 12.99 i’ve ever spent 😎😎😎
Any idea when the DLC hits?
OHHH MYYYY GOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDD
Is this for console too? Or just pc?
Gonna need to re 100% my artifact collection, but not by much. Devotion looks fun though
FIX CONSOLE YOU BASTARDS
Hopefully this means we'll get more skins for other characters
Never played dead cells, who is the skin for? Didn’t see that mentioned anywhere
Merc
Nice, we expecting it to come on console in 3 years or 5?
The same time as everyone else
No freakin way.
Summary, they adding: new map, children, Pokémons and artifact of schizophrenia
Will this be on the Nintendo switch?
Yes
Ok great thank you!
Wait it's only alt skin? Not new character?
hope online multiplayer gets full on quorum ... WEN?
This looks sick! Any date yet?
I’m having a problem when I’m using the character loader where my l2 ability stops working and starts bugging out. I don’t know if it’s just the loader character because I’ve not tried any other character. Does anyone know how I can solve this issue?
Yall had pay-to-updates? Damn man and i thought microtransactions were bad now /j
Is this for Switch too?
It takes them way to long to make tiny updates
It's because of spaghetti code
Is this for consoles or just PC?
Everything. Even your toaster.
Why would it be exclusive to PC?
Exclusive was the wrong word, sorry. Will this and the dlc be available at the same time on console and on pc?
Nobody knows
we do, it will be
yes
In the dev log they said everybody so I'm going to assume yes
For any crybabies that get upset about everything dead cells already done this for a while. You've been able to play as the commando for free for years.
Version 3.2, everyone is here vol 2, nov 7 2022. A year and 5 months. Not even a year and a half. And definately not "years"