definitely love one of my favorite games, risk of rain 2, getting bought by the studio that brought us duke nukem forever and aliens: colonial marines, pushing out brand new DLC that's so poorly thought out and coded that it has the original developer actively bemoaning the state of the game - ThreadSky

kobold.dev • 178 days ago

definitely love one of my favorite games, risk of rain 2, getting bought by the studio that brought us duke nukem forever and aliens: colonial marines, pushing out brand new DLC that's so poorly thought out and coded that it has the original developer actively bemoaning the state of the game

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dvagez.bsky.social•177 days ago

That's rough, buddy

kfarr.bsky.social•177 days ago

man Im so sad because me and my friends were so excited but the DLC was a total disaster...

slumbrrr.bsky.social•176 days ago

Still waiting for the day for everyone to collectively realize that Gearbox is boiling hot dog water and that Randy Pitchturd should be left in a cardboard box out in the rain 🤞

astrocat.bsky.social•178 days ago

Well that sucks, I would like to play it one day even though I watched the first one being played, got it then just got destroyed completely in single player

gargamellf.bsky.social•178 days ago

whyd the guy sell it

kxd.dev•178 days ago

Money?

gargamellf.bsky.social•178 days ago

ig but why would you sell it to gearbox of all companies

ender-the-avali.bsky.social•177 days ago

I think the hopoo group were a bunch of college students, and ya cant really say no to a deal like thay, but this is just stuff ive heard and have no proof

kobold.dev•177 days ago

they had finished all they wanted with the game and were planning on moving on to new projects

from what i understand, embracer bought the ip, was given to take-two and gearbox, and gearbox was later divested of embracer

ip hot potato

gargamellf.bsky.social•177 days ago

a modern tragedy honestly

kxd.dev•177 days ago

embracer, extend, extinguish

unexpected128.bsky.social•177 days ago

Wait, they screwed up so bad with the update that even if you don't buy the DLC, the game became a broken mess? Is that what happened?

herrvalto.bsky.social•177 days ago

The DLC came with a update to the base game, so even if you're not using SoTS, you're still gonna taste grubbox's 2 minutes experience with unity

unexpected128.bsky.social•177 days ago

Wow, that's awful. I'm not even a fan of the game, but I feel sorry for the fans who just had their game ruined by corporate greed x_x Hopefully it'll be fixed...

acr1d.bsky.social•178 days ago

Was really heartbreaking to see, started playing a while after sotv came out and was really excited for new content sucks to hear it’s of such low quality

mutzu.bsky.social•177 days ago

I still cannot wrap my head over the fact that anyone who used 2 controllers on Xbox would have their SAVE FILE DELETED like that's so oddly specific I highly doubt they playtested the game on Xbox or at all

kobold.dev•177 days ago

hey now, that bug would only happen with saves that had at least 40hrs on them :V

oopschromo.bsky.social•177 days ago

Oh my god I would strangle someone who tf wrote that code??

taintednode.bsky.social•173 days ago

Reading the reviews it looks like everything is based on FPS instead of delta time now. Def console brain ruining a PC masterpiece.

So GD infuriating.

nathanom.bsky.social•177 days ago

Even worse the fact that more than half the cobbled up mods in Thunderforge put it to shame.

kobold.dev•178 days ago

the new code is horrendous, breaking physics by wholly misunderstanding fixed step updates, needless client > server > client calls, and painful looking code cludges everywhere

did gearbox hire the most junior developers and take a chainsaw to this game?

i'm legitimately upset, lol

danmakudragon.bsky.social•178 days ago

RoR2 is one of my favorite games of all time and after hearing about the current state of the game I think I just have to never play it again and mourn the loss.

acr1d.bsky.social•178 days ago

You can down patch to pre dlc updates

danmakudragon.bsky.social•178 days ago

Can I play multiplayer with my friend that way?

acr1d.bsky.social•178 days ago

I think so since it works by one of you hosts the session but you would both need to be on the same version with the same mod list, and on pc (not 100% sure tho)

oku.mow.haus•178 days ago

I have no doubt in my mind that Pitchford looked at RoR2, went “these stupid indies did it and made a bunch of money, so can we lmao” and then just threw juniors on the project and told them get the DLC out by a strict deadline or they’re all fired.

kobold.dev•178 days ago

hey, at least now if you want a damage boost you can just up the games running fps, it's like having one of those IBM PCs from the mid 80s that came with a "turbo" button :D

oku.mow.haus•178 days ago

Oh no

I didn’t hear that

Did they change the game’s timing to be on a per-frame basis

kobold.dev•177 days ago

they merged the physics fixed timestep with the regular delta-time derived update

physics are entirely inconsistent and most abilities are now affected by fps in weird ways

pandoxic.bsky.social•177 days ago

Reminds me of how apparently in helldivers you deal more dmg by walking forward bc for some reason ur dmg is based on ur momentum

oku.mow.haus•177 days ago

Faster bullet means more bullet per bullet

neonidol.bsky.social•177 days ago

Money that's why

qteku.bsky.social•178 days ago

Made me so sad bc even without the bugs the new additions range from bad to ok. Most the new items are redundant or just flat out awful

oopschromo.bsky.social•177 days ago

I saw people defending it hard I mean, tongue on boot dying on that hill saying it was only the bugs that made it bad and that people need to stop complaining and let them fix it because otherwise they won't make more dlc and praising the hell out of it. Either people hate it or love it, it seems.

qteku.bsky.social•177 days ago

seeker is fun but I don’t like false son or chef at all. boss had an issue every time I played so I didn’t care for him either. Also the area leading to him is so awful if you didn’t pick up 50 goat hooves. Unstable transmitter (shit stealth kit) transported me into another lighting insta killing me

oopschromo.bsky.social•177 days ago

Damn. I'm new to the game (60 hours but I feel like I know nothing) and I have no clue what half of that means but it doesn't sound fun at all

qteku.bsky.social•177 days ago

If you’re new I think it’s harder to see but a lot of stuff that worked before is wonky or broken bc a lot of stuff (like physics and damage calc) got tied to frame rate. A lot of the movement feels off from how it used to and some characters moves broke bc of this. I really hope it gets fixed soon

oopschromo.bsky.social•177 days ago

It's so sluggish it feels like it's playing at 30-40hz... I can't describe it, but it makes me not want to play at all and it fucks with my eyes. I'm used to low framerate in some games (not this one), but this feels like a low refresh rate, and makes movement and aim hard... Was super disappointed.

terrasucks.bsky.social•178 days ago

aren't they trying to fix the dlc? have they already fixed anything or is it still poopoo?

kobold.dev•177 days ago

it's not just bugs, they fundamentally altered the structure of the game to where existing mechanics all behave differently, it plays more like a rough fan-port now

to say nothing of level progression and balance, they just beat the original codebase over the head with a metal bat

terrasucks.bsky.social•177 days ago

???? 💀 why did they do that? they could at least try the dlc before launch, i'm sure that they would find something wrong, idk about coding a game but i'm sure that breaking the whole code of the game isn't the best way to add something

woshua.bsky.social•177 days ago

it's likely because gearbox devs have no experience with unity because they use unreal. they probably put like 2 or 3 devs on the code and told them to figure it out which led to the entire game being destroyed

kobold.dev•177 days ago

they also merged the console and pc versions of the game into one unified codebase, while having zero knowledge on why any of it was split out the way it was

the xbox version couldn't even launch when the dlc first released, entirely unplayable

dystope.bsky.social•178 days ago

Risk of Ruin

cookieface678.bsky.social•177 days ago

Question, the game is on sale rn should I buy it still?

herrvalto.bsky.social•177 days ago

Acquire the game by " other means " and see for yourself tbh

oopschromo.bsky.social•177 days ago

Is this affecting those without the DLC? I'm nowhere near competing the game so I haven't got the dlc but my game feels so sluggish it makes me not want to play at all. :(

piber.me•176 days ago

They updated the game to support the mechanics and add a toggle, so yes.

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