Risk of Rain: Beginner's Guide

A couple things I should have mentioned (also included via annotation):

- Your second ability, Full Metal Jacket, damages all enemies in the line you're facing. Use it to whittle down crowds.

- There are lots of small grey containers around. They contain experience, gold and health. Definitely open them, they're free!

- Item drops are generally random, but cheap $25 chests generally drop white-bordered common items (but can drop better ones), while more expensive $50 chests are guaranteed to drop at least green-bordered uncommons or red-bordered rares.

- There are items that say *USE* on them. When you pick up one of these, it will be added to your loadout and you can press the appropriate key (default G for keyboard, B for 360 controller) to activate it. They have long cooldowns but are powerful.

- You can only have ONE *USE* item at a time, whereas all other items can be collected and stacked without limit. If you find another, you can swap it for your old one by pressing Q on keyboard, Y on 360 pad.

Also, apologies for the somewhat wonky quality, I'll rectify that if/when I make more vids.

Thanks for watching!

[LethinGabbins]

I've been playing this game for years... finally decided to look up a guide to get some things I may be missing.

[LichBane]

LOL the intro is great y’all been tripping

[Noen]

Bro havent upload for 7 years but yet still like peoples comment, respect fr

[yodaboyisreal]

I just played my 5th game with your advice, I won, got good items, got bandit loader and sniper, thanks!

[lima_]

Thank you for the guide, I just picked up Risk of Rain Returns and this video still holds up :)

[spugediwestern]

Who else is here for a refresher before ROR Return drops?

[maelstromofmemes]

I love the intro, hilarious. Am I NORMAL?

[DJbirfday]

this game has been kicking my ass non stop lol I cant get past a single boss on normal difficulty

[ArtrexDenthur]

Melted Pumpkin, the normal options for gamepad worked fine for me (using a wireless XBox 360 controller): from the main menu, click Options (or from any screen press escape), then click Controls (Gamepad) and toggle Gamepad Support to On. This will also disable the keyboard in single player mode. According to the wiki (link below) There is partial support for other types of controllers; as both destruction74 and the wiki point out, there's no problem with using JoyToKey as there is no analog component to any of the controls.

[Razzoid]

Literally the worst intro I've ever seen.

[arrrnora]

Brother: Hey I looked at the opening uh what anime is this?
me: the best one it even shows you how to play games.

[drnrqsldch]

spending 3 bars of difficulty on level 1 is not a good beggining tip

[rebent]

thanks for posting this video. I'm taking a sick day and wanted to replay this game, but remembered that I had a really bad time when I tried a couple weeks ago.

[AmbroseFluff]

Thanks! This really helped me get started and I recently beat the game on Monsoon difficulty >:)

[ungabungus]

Great video, way more informative than the "Guide to Brilliantism."

[UnNormieCualquiera]

I can't believe this, i almost beat the game on my second run and made the studip mistake of going to a previous level on the final portal TWICE, then died. GOD FKN DAMNIT.

[johnblayn]

Lel i've started playing ror cuz I enjoy Ror2 soooo much
I'm si Bad at that one, but I have, Indeed, beaten the game on my second run (alright I was on drizzle but hey, that man does say that this game is VERY difficult )

[aariuswins]

Thanks for the quick and helpful guide

[malaco__]

i need to see a video of this guy playing risk of rain 2 with that intro ngl

[cubanwhiteman]

Love your intro, made me laugh.
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