Reconstituent

And let you serve a new purpose?

Reconstituent is a comprehensive overhaul of Risk of Rain 2. It reduces or removes input-RNG, improves enemy aggression, unifies mechanics, and introduces a host of new elements.

Compatibility with other game-state mods is not a prime concern for early versions. Utility mods (like BetterUI) should work.

Changes

Renamed elements have their former name listed in italics.

Global

Item Acquisition

Items are now further segregated into the broad categories of Offense, Defense, and Utility.
Chests no longer spawn items, and instead spawn tokens. Tokens earned in the previous stage are spent at the beginning of each stage.

This rework can be reverted by activating the new Artifact of Avarice.

All chests now belong to one of the above categories, and spawn item tokens of the corresponding category.
All chests now have tiers and will always spawn item tokens of the same tier.

For every Uncommon chest, there will always be at least two Common chests.
Legendary chests are exclusive to specific stages:

Abyssal Depths and Sundered Grove (guaranteed)
Sky Meadow (not guaranteed)

Lunar Buds and Void Cradles inherit the chest changes, spawning in clear tiers and categories instead of being identical to each other.
Multishops always offer one item token of each category.
Artifact of Command now sorts Command Essences into these categories.

For example, you may encounter White Utility Command Essences, instead of simply White Command Essences.

Monsters gather around chests, with more powerful chests attracting monsters of greater power and number.

Scaling

Drop pod on initial stage is removed.
Unless Artifact of Avarice is enabled...

Environment scaling during a stage is disabled.
Player level and ambient level increments at the beginning of each stage, in accordance with how much time has passed at that point.
Experience points are removed.

Damage and On-Hit Effects

Weak Points

No longer limited to Railgunner.
No longer visible, and many weak point sizes and locations have changed.
Hitting weak points always deals +100% damage.

Critical Strikes

No longer proc based on RNG.
Now always proc when an attack deals 200% of its base damage.

Bleeding Strikes

No longer proc based on RNG.
Now always proc when an attack is a backstab.
Bleeding strikes deal 100% damage over 5 seconds.

Cloaking

Now always expires when using a combat skill.

Survivors

Commando

Primary: Double Tap

No longer gains inaccuracy.

Secondary: Phase Round

Cooldown now 4s, from 3s.
Cooldown reduced by 1s for every enemy hit.

Utility: Tactical Dive

Now gain 25% attack speed for 2s after completing the roll.

Huntress

Primary: Strafe

No longer locks on.
Projectile speed significantly increased.

Primary: Flurry

No longer locks on.
Now has slight projectile homing.

Secondary: Laser Glaive

No longer locks on.
No longer fires a conventional projectile.
Now fires a laser bolt with a brief delay between "bounces".

Utility: Phase Shift | formerly Blink

Now teleports the same distance as Phase Blink.
Now grants cloaking and 25% increased movement speed for 5 seconds or until your next attack.
Cooldown now 5s, from 7s.

Special: Arrow Rain

Radius now 50% larger.
Damage now 300% per second, from 330%.

Items

Void items are now known as Rotting items.
Rotting items and command essences are now tinted darker based on their tier.

Commons

Shaped Lenses | formerly Lens-Maker's Glasses

No longer gives critical strike chance.
Now boosts weak point damage by 10% (+10% per stack).
Now increases weak point size by 5% (+5% per stack).

Paul's Goat Hoof

Now gives 15% movement speed (+15% per stack), from 14% (+14%).

Bustling Fungus

Now remains active as long as you remain on the ground.

Tri-Tip Dagger

No longer gives bleed chance.
Now boosts bleed damage by 20% (+20% per stack).

Warbanner

Removed.

Cautious Slug

Now begins regenerating after 5 seconds of no damage, from 7.

Personal Shield Generator

Now begins regenerating after 5 seconds of no damage, from 7.

Dizzy Bomb | formerly Stun Grenade

No longer gives stun chance.
Now dizzies on critical strike. Dizzy enemies have their attack speed reduced by 10% (+5% per stack).
Effect duration now 1 second, from 2.

Bundle of Fireworks

No longer procs on interactable use.
Now procs on secondary skill uses.
Damage now 100%, from 300%.
Proc coefficient now 0.34, from 0.2.
Firework count and stack bonus unchanged.

Sticky Bomb

No longer tied to RNG.
Now procs on every attack.
Damage now 20%, +20% per stack, to a maximum of 10 stacks.
Radius is still 10m, but now gains +1m per stack.
The bomb now explodes immediately at 10 stacks or after 2 seconds of not being refreshed.
The bomb now also explodes immediately if the enemy they are attached to is killed.

Rusty Key

Hidden Caches now always provide Uncommon items.
After acquiring three stacks of the item, Power Caches will appear, and spawn a Legendary or Boss item in exchange for three item stacks.
Unlike Hidden Caches, Power Caches attract monsters - and lots of 'em.

Bison Steak

Now also provides +0.25 HP/s (+0.1 HP/s per stack).

Mocha

Now provides 7.5% (+7.5% per stack) movement speed, from 7% (+7% per stack).

Delicate Watch

Damage increase now +10% (+10% per stack), from +20% (+20% per stack).
Now break one at a time with each attack sustained when below 25% life.

Broken Watch

Now restored to Delicate Watches at the beginning of each stage.

Oddly-Shaped Opal

When charged, now reduces incoming damage by 50% from 1 attack, +1 attack per stack.
Cooldown now 5 seconds of no damage, from 7.

Rotting Commons

Encrusted Key

Encrusted Caches now always provide Uncommon Rotting items.
As with the Rusty Key rework, Entropic Caches will appear after acquiring three stacks, and cost three stacks to open.
Entropic Caches drop Legendary or Boss Rotting items, and attract powerful Rotting elites.

Uncommons

Innocent Eyes | formerly Tougher Times

Now Uncommon (green), from Common (white).
No longer gives block chance.
Now reflects projectiles back at the attacker, for 100% damage (+25% per stack).

Power Elixir

Now Uncommon (green), from Common (white).
When used, now goes on cooldown for 30 seconds, -1 second per stack, to a minimum of 1 second.
Now used at 30% life, -1% life per stack, to a minimum of 1% life.
No longer expires on use. Stacks beyond 29 do nothing.

Underbarrel Launcher | formerly AtG Missile Mk. 1

No longer procs based on RNG.
Now procs on critical strike.
Now deals 250% damage (+250% per stack), from 300% (+300% per stack).

Ukulele

No longer procs based on RNG.
Now procs on critical strike.

Predatory Instincts

No longer provides critical strike chance.

Red Whip

Bonus now ramps up over 5 seconds of being out of combat.
Bonus now falls off over 1 second after entering combat.

New War Stealthkit | formerly Old War Stealthkit

Now cloaks for 0.5 seconds on kill, +0.25 seconds per stack.
No longer cloaks on low life.

Bandolier

No longer has vanilla functionality.
Critical strikes now reduce skill cooldowns by 0.5s, +0.5s per stack.

Old Guillotine

Execution threshold now starts at 10% and gains 10% per stack, from 13%, +13%.

Lepton Daisy

No longer has vanilla functionality.
Now summons 1 Mending Orb (+1 per stack) every 10 seconds.

Ghor's Tome

No longer procs based on RNG or drops treasure.
Now gives +1 gold on kill, +1 gold per stack.
Reward still scales over time.

Squid Polyp

No longer procs on interactable use.
Now procs on every special skill use.
Turret health no longer decays over time.

Death Mike | formerly Death Mark

Now boosts damage by 1% (+1% per stack) per debuff.
No longer requires debuffs to be unique.
Now expires when all other debuffs expire.

Shipping Request Form

Removed.

Rotting Uncommons

Safer Spaces

Now Rotting Uncommon (green), from Rotting Common (white).
Now blocks an additional attack per stack.
Recharges one block every 5 seconds.
No longer reduces charge time with each stack.

Boss Trophies

Shatterspleen

No longer gives crit chance.
Exploding enemies now transfer their bleed stacks to all enemies within 16m.

Legendaries

Soulbound Catalyst

No longer reduces equipment cooldown on kill.
Killing an elite, boss, or invader now instantly refills an equipment charge (+1 per stack).

Lunar Relics

Egocentrism

Now gains 2 stacks for consuming Uncommon or Lunar items, or 3 stacks for consuming Boss or Legendary items.

Monsters

AI:

The following changes broadly apply to most enemies:

Aggro range increased by 50%.
Now checks for combat or aggro'd monsters within 25m.

Stats:

The following changes broadly apply to most enemies:

Speed increased by 125%.
Maximum life decreased by 25%.
Director cost decreased by 25%.

Elite Types:

Cinder | formerly Blazing

Trailblazer trail behavior:

Now applies an ignite stack.
No longer deals separate damage.

Glacial

Biting Embrace on-hit behavior:

Now slows movement speed by 50%, from 80%.
Ice Bomb death behavior:

Radius halved.
Now explodes after 1 second, from 2.
Now applies a 33% movement and attack speed slow that lasts 1.5 seconds.
No longer stuns.

Overloading

Supercharged shield behavior:

Now replaces 25% of monster health, from 50%.
Now begins recharging after 2 seconds of no damage, from 7.

Umbras:

No longer meme the screen with visual effects while alive.

Summons

Maverick Drone | formerly Gunner Drone

Four-Shot Burst skill:

Now fires at all targets in range.

Cleric Drone | formerly Healing Drone

Heal skill:

No longer has a cooldown.
Now heals in a continuous beam.

Interactables

Lunar Gifts

Lunar Coins

Now treated as a secondary currency.
No longer preserved between runs. This does not change your profile's Lunar Coin count - instead, profile counts are hidden and per-run counts take their place.
No longer drop at random.
One Lunar Coin is now granted to each player upon teleporter completion.
Mountain Shrines increase the number of Lunar Coins granted by 1 per activated shrine.
Shrines of Combat grant one Lunar Coin when their summons have been defeated.

Teleporter

Charging

No longer creates a charge zone.
No longer charges over time.
Now charges based on monsters killed. Bigger monsters provide greater charge.

Completion

No longer requires bosses to be defeated in order to escape... but surviving bosses will invade the next zone.
Now provides 1 Lunar Coin to all players.
Upon interacting with a fully-charged teleporter, portals to all possible destinations appear, allowing players to select their next stage.
In multiplayer, each selection acts as a vote, with ties being decided at random.
Players may also throw their vote away at the teleporter if they wish for their next stage to be randomized.

Travel

No longer comes after a delay; instead, players instantly begin teleporting when all votes are cast.

Shrines

All shrines are now significantly larger, in order to better stand out in the environment.
Shrine of Blood:

Now caps at two uses.
Fully satisfying a Shrine of Blood spawns an Uncommon Offense item.

Shrine of Chance:

Removed.

Shrine of Combat:

Now provides 1 Lunar Coin to all players after the summoned monsters have been defeated.

Shrine of the Mountain:

Now guarantees one Boss item for every activated shrine.
Now provides 1 additional Lunar Coin to all players for every activated shrine after the teleporter is charged.
(Should we increase difficulty further than what vanilla does, to make sure that the challenge is preserved?)

Shrine of Order:

No longer has vanilla functionality.
Now prompts the player to donate a Common item, in addition to a Lunar Coin. Once donated to, the shrine summons monsters akin to Shrines of Combat.
Once the summoned monsters have been defeated, the donated item is returned, and another copy of it is made.
This process can occur three times per shrine, with the challenge and item tier increasing each time.

Shrine of the Woods:

Now caps at two uses.
Fully restoring a Shrine of the Woods spawns an Uncommon Defense item.

Additions

Artifacts

Artifact of Avarice

Reverts the item acquisition rework, allowing the difficulty to scale as normal and allowing chests to drop items instead of tokens.

Items

Rotting Commons

Widow's Wardrobe

Catharsis for those left behind.
Consumes all Soldier's Syringes.
Grants an additional attack that deals 25% damage (+25% per stack). At 100% damage, the next stack grants another attack.

Brightside Bomb

One of few.
Consumes all Dizzy Bombs.
Flashes on critical strike for 0.25 seconds (+0.25 per stack). Flashed enemies always attack the nearest target, regardless of allegiance.

Mild Molasses

Wade to me, and die.
Consumes all Energy Drinks.
While sprinting, slow the movement and attack speeds of all enemies in a 5m radius (+1m per stack) by 25% (+5% per stack).

Striga's Gem

In all directions!
Corrupts all Focus Crystals.
Increase damage to enemies beyond 13m by 20%, +20% per stack.

Spent Cheddar

Burning a hole in your pocket?
Consumes all Rolls of Pennies
Spending money restores life at a rate of 1 HP (+1 HP per stack) for every dollar spent.

Uncommons

Knockout Driver

Where's the weigh-in?
On critical strike, knock enemies back by 2m (+2m per stack).

Rotting Uncommons

Crow Call

Squawk a triumphant reply!
Consumes all War Horns.
Landing an attack reduces your equipment cooldown by 0.5 seconds, +0.5 seconds per stack.

Hollowed Head

Always knew there was nothing in there.
Consumes all Death Mikes.
Landing an attack consumes one unique debuff, dealing 200% damage. This damage is increased by 5% (+5% per stack) for each stack of the consumed debuff.

Legendaries

Cosmic Carcass

Now, you are wrong twice.
Your on-kill effects trigger 1 more time, +1 trigger per stack.

Derelict Jawbone

Origin unknown.
On critical strike, reduce item cooldowns by 1 second, +1 second per stack.

Lunar Relics

Historic Quill

Might makes right.
Increase the spawn rate of Elites by 50% (+50% per stack).

Fore Castle

Face your opponent!
Gain 50 armor (+50 per stack) when facing incoming attacks, but lose 50 armor (-50 per stack) from backstabs.

Fourteenth Letter

And a very happy birthday.
Taking damage causes you to explode, dealing 100% damage (+100% per stack) in a 10m radius (+5m per stack).

Monsters

Elite Types:

Bombastic - Attacks explode in a 5m radius around the impact site.
Hypocrite - Reflects incoming projectiles.
Siphoned - Attacks steal life for 50% of damage dealt.
Oozing - Leaves a trail that slows enemy movement and attack speeds by 25%.

Interactables

Magnetic Shroud:

When purchased, creates a cloaking field that affects all entities within 10m.
Can be purchased a second time to add 10m to the effect radius.
Fully rebuilding a Magnetic Shroud spawns an Uncommon Utility item.

Silent Library:

When purchased, creates an energizing field that reduces the ability and equipment cooldowns by 25% of all entities within 10m.
Can be purchased a second time to add 10m to the effect radius and 25% to the cooldown reduction.
Fully charging a Silent Library spawns an Equipment.

Wayward Lure:

A tiered structure that can be used four times.
Each use spawns an increasingly-difficult host of enemies.
Trial One:

A pack of low-tier enemies, lead by a boss.

Trial Two:

A pack of low-tier elites, lead by an elite boss.

Trial Three:

A pack of elites, lead by an umbra.

Trial Four:

A pair of elite umbras.

Each trial drops items of increasing value, starting with Common and concluding with Legendary.

Credits

Personnel

Pr0nogo - lead design
Veeq7 - programming, associate design, and testing
Mikemed - testing
Groove_Salad, KingEnderBrine, Twiner, joseph, RandomlyAwesome, Anreol, iDeathHD - API assistance

Assets

Knockout Driver

"Boxing Glove" by Pedro Perim is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.

Cosmic Carcass

"Organic Armor Torso" by Ploobert is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial.

Derelict Jawbone

"Mandible CT" by Chair_Digital_Anatomy is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.

Changelog

0.0.3

Caw.