How Risk of Rain 2 makes good on a major controversy

After Risk of rain 2s first DLC, Survivors of the Void, launched to generally positive reviews in 2022, expectations for the game's future DLC were naturally high. But when Risk of rain 2the next DLC that finally launched in 2024, it turned out to be quite controversial, at least initially.

What was expected to be a cause for celebration quickly turned out to be a real controversy for Risk of rain 2 when the Seekers of the Storm DLC was released and introduced several game-breaking bugs into the game. However, at this point, the development team has already solved some of the major technical issues that this DLC faced, while revealing plans for future updates that will continue to steer this new era of the game in a favorable direction.

Risk of Rain 2's Seekers of the Storm DLC controversy explained

Based on early previews and sneak peeks ahead of the DLC's release, Risk of rain 2's Seekers of the Storm DLC was poised to be a game changer, introducing a new level of items, new Survivor playable characters, survivor skins, and new maps among other content, all of which were things the game undoubtedly needed at this point in its life cycle. Unfortunately, despite all the fun new building tools this DLC introduced to the game, a handful of technical issues quickly stole the spotlight from this DLC, leading to player review bombing of the DLC on Steam.

Ultimately, this DLC introduced several bugs into the game, but three bugs in particular proved particularly troublesome:

• Low frame rates can negatively affect player movement speed, attack animations, damage output, and health.
• Exchange objects may become unable to interact with.
• The final boss Mithrax can become invincible.

What made things such a controversy is that these bugs affected the game regardless of whether players owned the new Seekers of the Storm DLC.

What to expect from Risk of Rain 2's Seekers of the Storm 2.0 Roadmap

In a video posted on the Gearbox YouTube channel, the development team acknowledged the controversy behind the Seekers of the Storm DLC and claimed that the first bugs have already been fixed with Risk of rain 2s latest update and that player feedback will continue to shape this new era of the game into what fans originally expected. Dubbed the Seekers of the Storm 2.0 updates, these future updates will come in three phases, with a host of additional bug fixes throughout the roadmap.

Seekers of the Storm 2.0 Phase One: Items and Elites

This first part of Risk of rain 2s roadmap will consist of reworks of some of the new items, as well as some enemy balancing changes, specifically for the Twisted and Gilded Elite enemy types. The items that will be rebalanced in this update are said to include all but one of the new items introduced in the Seekers of the Storm DLC, with some receiving minor buffs, while others will receive complete overhauls.

Seekers of the Storm 2.0 Phase 2: The False Son Boss

Details for the phase two and phase three updates are currently sparse as the studio is currently focusing on the phase one update, but it has been revealed that this update will focus on rebalancing the False Son boss fight, including the arena layout, enemy density, and adjustments of the False Son's defenses and attacks. This update is also said to rebalance several additional bosses Risk of rain 2 also.

Seekers of the Storm 2.0 Phase 3: Survivors

The final phase of the new roadmap aims to rebalance the three new survivors added Risk of rain 2's Seekers of the Storm DLC. Again, details of this future update are still uncertain at this time, but players should expect buffs across all three characters.