Update log
Full Risk of Rain 2 update
The complete published notes, normalized for clean reading and source attribution.
Extracted changes
- Compatibility
- Balance
- Store
- Gameplay
Welcome to the 4th and final pre-release Devlog for Alloyed Collective - before we take a closer look at Drifter and her abilities let’s get into that release info you’ve all been patiently waiting for.
Release Details
Alloyed Collective will release on the 18th November 2025, for the same cost as the previous DLCs at an SRP of $14.99 in the USA (as far as regional prices - whatever the SRP that Seekers of the Storm is in your location right now, that’s the price Alloyed Collective will be!)
Is it worth wishlisting Alloyed Collective now you know when the release date is? ABSOLUTELY, DO IT RIGHT NOW so you know the INSTANT it's dropped!
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A quick note for our Nintendo Switch players — the team has a couple additional improvements we want to make before releasing Alloyed Collective on Switch. Unfortunately, those changes couldn’t be completed in time for our original target, so the Switch version will arrive a bit later.
Alloyed Collective will launch on PC & both generations of Xbox and PlayStation on November 18, with the Nintendo Switch release date to be confirmed once we’ve completed the final round of optimizations.
Drifter
Introduced in Risk of Rain Returns, Drifter is making the leap into 3D landing with the best of her Brawler-Support kit from Returns. But worry not, there will also be some brand new exciting additions to her kit - the likes of which we’ve never seen in Risk of Rain before, and probably thought we never would!
Key to mastery of Drifter and her abilities is managing her unique resource: Scrap Junk. Yea... so we were gonna call it scrap like in Returns. But scrap is already a thing in ROR2. So it’s junk now, just go with it… Generated by attacking enemies, Junk litters the battlefield until you collect it, it’s up to you to choose if you use it up quickly to empower your attacks - or max out the meter, unlocking the full potential of Drifter's most powerful abilities.
Her most reliable source of Junk is her primary attack Blunt Force.
Blunt Force
With Blunt Force Drifter does a triple-melee-swing with her massive sack dealing 170% damage per swipe. The third attack in the sequence is a larger 350% damage slam which also stuns enemies. Each one of these attacks has a chance of beating some junk out of your foe.
There are some more special features of Blunt Force. But they involve her other abilities so we’ll be talking about those as they come up further in the Dev Diary. One such interaction involves her unlockable Secondary attack…
Junk Cube
Usually in these Dev Diaries I focus on the Survivor’s base kit and let you discover the unlockable skills for yourself, but with it being a fan favorite from Returns and being featured so prominently in the reveal trailer how could I not switch things up and highlight her unlockable secondary ability: Junk Cube.
Slam down a huge cube of Junk for 400% damage which you can then whack with Blunt Force a further 3 times before the cube blows up for a final 800% damage.
You can even cast aside the laws of physics and ride the cube while you slap it with Blunt Force turning Drifter into a guided missile of death and destruction.
If you’ve got a lot of junk in the… uhhh… sack you can bypass
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