Recently, Gearbox dropped the Seekers of the Storm update toRisk of Rain 2, which among other unwelcome additions, broke many legacy mods with the reworked codebase.
This means the best mods you’re able to get on the latest version of Risk of Rain 2 have changed quite a bit from just a few months ago.
Risk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm 2.0 Roadmap Video
Gearbox is rolling out updates and changes to Risk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm in the coming months, and here’s a preview.
I’ll be breaking down this guide into a few categories:improvements on the Seekers of the Storm content, mods that are for fun or aesthetics, quality of life, and some content mods.
There are a ton of other, more silly mods you can find onR2ModMan, but I think these constitute the basis of a great modpack.
Visual and Silly Mods
This section is dedicated entirely to mods that don’t add anything gameplay-wise, and are just for fun, a different flavor of visuals, or to install into the modpack without telling your friends.
These mods range from stage mods that give you a sleeker aesthetic, to funny noises to accompany you on your safe flight to Petrichor V.
Description
Lets Go Gambling SFX Mod
If you’re looking for the silliest mod ever, this one makes it so whenever you come across a Shrine of Chance, pinging it will play the “Let’s Go Gambling” sound clipfrom the raxdflipnote video. It also changes the audio for winning or losing, and plays for everyone in a lobby, and it’s so funny.
StageAesthetic
This mod gives you a taste of some brand-new looks for each stage, with all of them getting 2 or 3 different variants that look unique and interesting. It can be a bit abrasive at times, and some of the stage themes are a bit odd, but if you want variety, this is pretty great.
Custom Emotes APIandBadAssEmotes
These mods work together, giving you a custom emote wheel. you’re able to do just about any dance inFortnite, as well as sillier ones, like the dumb Specialist dance from Persona 4 Dancing. It’s great, especially if you play with friends, and it’s bound to enhance the experience.
VerdantFallsReshaded
Verdant Falls, by default, looks like Vaseline got smeared onto the screen, and I hate it. This just improves it by putting it in line with the rest of the stages, giving it that clean, cel-shaded look we all know and love, and it’s an absolute necessity while playing modern updates.
WolfoAlternateSkins
This mod gives you 3+ skins for almost every character in the game, which includes a bevy of modded survivors, and what I love about it is that it doesn’t just hand these to you. These skins require you to go through an alternate ending to unlock them, which is a very neat idea, and the skins are cool, too.
Why Breaking Risk of Rain 2 Is So Much Fun
Can’t stop me now!
Seekers of the Storm Improvements
Though Gearboxhas given us a proper roadmapfor fixing the very broken, bad DLC, that set of changes and patches is pretty far off into the future, so we have to rely on mods. This can be anything from balance changes, to full on character reworks, to just outright removing the worst of it from the game.
KCCDownpatcher
This one is a bit more for the nerds who miss the pre-Seekers of the Storm speedrun skips, funny quirks about the physics, and the little details about how the game played. This mod restores that, and namely allows you to H0st skip once again, and I doubt Gearbox will add this stuff back in.
BetterChefPrimary
For some reason, Chef’s cleaver goes out, stays in midair without doing any extra damage, and then makes you click again to recall it, which makes it feel kinda bad, and this mod fixes that. It lets you hold down the button and throw out a ton of cleavers, on top of buffing it nicely, making Chef much better.
RemoveTwistedandRemoveGilded
The absolutely unanimously hated, worst addition to Seekers of the Storm are the new Elite types, those being Twisted and Gilded elites, and both being awful to fight. Gildeds have massive health bars and steal your money, and Twisteds can kill you from all the way across the map, and these mods just remove both.
FalseSon Boss Tweaks
The False Son boss was somehow simultaneously overwhelming and underwhelming, his laser dealing far too much damage and sometimes killing you in under a second, even after a loop. This mod nerfs his laser, normalizing the damage, and preventing him from moving while using it, which is a godsend.
SeekingItemReworks
If you’re just as disappointed by most Seekers of the Storm items as most people are, then this mod is a godsend. It fully reworks most items added by the DLC, with Antler Shield giving you armor and movement speed, War Bonds giving you free items, and Unstable Transmitter being usable. It’s great stuff.
Quality of Life
These mods aim to tweak one or two aspects of the game, and don’t add in any particularly heavy aspects like stages, characters, modes, etc. These just make the game feel a little bit nicer to play and otherwise, keep the experience as close to vanilla as possible, with some minor but much-appreciated changes.
LookingGlass
This mod does a ton, and if you hate the vague descriptions in this game, it’s a necessity. It gives you the full item description whenever you hover over or ping it, it tells you the stats like cooldowns and proc chance, and sorts your inventory automatically. you may also get a nice stat sheet on the side, if you want.
Drop Item lets you, get this: drop items. You can easily click on them when hovering over them in your inventory, instantly give them to other players in multiplayer, and it’s balanced enough to force you to keep Lunars and Debuffs. It’s quite a nice mod, and while I understand this feature not existing in vanilla is for balancing, it’s still fun.
Reduce Recycler
This mod reduces the Recycler cooldown and is great for speedrunners or competitive players. The Recycler is a piece of great equipment, but that massive cooldown sucks, and this mod pretty much removes it, adding the cooldown to the timer instead. This means the game can get way harder faster, but you won’t slow down.
Actually Faster
If you’re a big fan of mashing, then this one is for you. It reduces the cooldown on things like shrines, printers and recyclers, and lets you get right back to whatever else you were doing. This mod just improves the pacing and is very funny when you get 5 failed shrine messages in chat in a row, on top of being satisfying.
ProperSave
If you’ve ever been frustrated by Risk of Rain 2’s lack of a save system, then it is perfect for you. It’ll automatically save at the start of each level, so if your game crashes, or you just want to take a break, it’ll be right there when you get back. It also works wonders in Multiplayer, as an added little bonus.
Risk Of Rain 2: Every Lunar Item & What They Do
The mysterious Newt offers you its wares… Here’s a guide on the best Lunar Items in Risk of Rain 2 so you can make informed purchases.
These are the mods you’d probably see out in the wild in funny posts on the internet, usually containing characters, stages, items, artifacts, and/or enemies, with the best of the best giving you all of the above.
There’s a ton of content mods out there, but a lot of them are characters that feel even less polished than False Son, so I’ve picked the very best.
If you’re a big fan of games where you pickup tons of different weapons and have to use whatever you can get, then Driver is the character for you. He gets special drops across the entire map just for him, all of them being unique and fun weapons, and he’s one of the most unique original characters I’ve ever seen added to the game.
Pilot is a fan-favorite character who’s been trapped inthe 2nd dimension in Risk of Rain Returns, and playing as him in Risk of Rain 2 is awesome. It’s still in beta, but what we’ve got makes for a really fun character. He can fly around on his parachute, rain fire from up above, and air stall for what feels like forever.
ZetAspects
Aspects in Risk of Rain are typically super rare drops that give you varying and usually middling effects, while also stealing your Equipment slot. This changes that and makes them fun, on top of being cross-compatible with most mods that add new elites. They drop more frequently, can stack, and feel awesome to pick up.
This mod adds a heap of new items and artifacts, all of which mesh with the base game quite nicely. The items range from just getting more armor when you have shield, to an item with the longest description I’ve ever seen. The artifacts are cool shakeups, with randomized stages, meteor showers, or Blazing Mithrix.
Starstorm 2
If you want a good update that adds cool characters, tons of new items, some new drones, a neat weather system, enemies, and an even higher difficulty, then this is the GOAT. It feels genuinely more polished than SoTS at times, the characters are unique and fun, and none of the items feel out of place or unbalanced.
