Survivors

Survivors

Pick a Risk of Rain 2 survivor in the Muck lobby. Your survivor changes your max HP, damage, armor and jumps, gives you the survivor's own weapon in hotbar slot 1, and adds ability keys. Every ability has its own visual effect, and players who all run the mod see each other's.

Survivors

Survivor — Max HP — Damage — Armor — Weapon (left click) — Abilities

Commando — 100 — x1.00 — 0 — Commando's Pistols: Double Tap, 100% shots five times a second — Q Tactical Dive (4 s): a quick dash. F Phase Round (3 s): a piercing shot for 300%, +40% per enemy pierced, stopped by terrain.

Mercenary — 100 — x1.00 — 20 — Mercenary's Katana: cleaves for 180%. Later targets in the same swing take half — Double jump. Q Blinding Assault (5 s): a dash for 400%, longer with move speed. If it hits, you have 1.5 s to dash again, up to 3 times. F Parry (5 s): blocks damage for 1 s. Both cooldowns shorten with attack speed, and the parry lasts longer. Also starts with a Wood Axe.

MUL-T — 182 — x0.92 — 12 — MUL-T's Drill: swings for 150% every 0.4 s and mines Wood Pickaxe tiers about 3x as fast — Q Transport Mode (6 s): 1.5 s of 220% speed and +200 armor, ramming enemies for 250%. F Blast Canister (6 s): a shot that bursts for 220% where it lands, then drops 5 bomblets around it for 44% each.

Bandit — 100 — x1.00 — 0 — Bandit's Revolver: Burst, a shotgun, 5x100%, 4 shells — Attacks from behind crit for 2x. F Serrated Dagger: a lunge for 360%; a backstab bleeds for 2000% over 15 s. Q Smoke Bomb: 200%, a 3 s cloak that hides you from modded players, then 200% again. C Lights Out: a 600% revolver; a kill resets your cooldowns. Also starts with a Wood Axe.

Huntress — 82 — x1.00 — 0 — Huntress's Bow: Strafe, 150% at the nearest mob in view every 0.5 s, no arrows needed — F Laser Glaive: 250%, bouncing up to 6 times and growing 10% per bounce. Q Blink: teleport 10 m along the camera. C Arrow Rain: 110% ticks in a 7.5 m zone, 19 times over 6 s.

Engineer — 118 — x1.17 — 0 — Engineer's Grenade Launcher: Bouncing Grenades, hold to charge up to 8, release to fire, 100% each — F Pressure Mines (8 s): up to 4 mines, 300%, armed after 1 s, set off by an enemy nearby. Q Bubble Shield (25 s): a 10 m dome for 10 s that destroys enemy projectiles entering it. C TR12 Gauss Auto-Turret (30 s): up to 2 turrets that shoot the nearest enemy for 100%. Also starts with a Wood Axe.

No survivor — 100 — x1.00 — 0 — none — none (vanilla)

Stats are RoR2's base stats scaled to Muck: RoR2's 110 HP is Muck's 100, and RoR2's 12 damage is Muck's x1.0. Armor works like RoR2: damage x 100 / (100 + armor).

Ability and weapon damage is based on the best weapon you carry, not the one in your hand: a weapon's damage, a bow's damage times the arrows in your arrow slot, or 10 if you have nothing better (a Wood Axe is 15). So holding your survivor weapon never weakens your skills. Your strength powerups apply.

Your survivor's weapon

Your survivor's weapon is a real item. It starts in hotbar slot 1, so it is in your hand when you spawn, and you can move it around your inventory and hotbar like any item. It is bound to you: it can't be dropped, put in a chest, furnace or cauldron, sold or crafted, and if you die it comes back to slot 1 when you respawn.

Left click with the pistols, revolver, bow or grenade launcher fires your survivor's primary instead of swinging. The katana and drill swing like vanilla weapons, so on-hit items work with them. Your other skills (Q, F, C) work with anything in your hand, so you can gather with an axe and still dash away.

Players without the mod see an empty hand while you hold it. Players with the mod see your survivor's own pistol, katana, revolver or bow.

Effects

Every ability has a short low-poly effect: tracers and muzzle flashes for the guns, a flying cyan bolt for Phase Round, slash arcs for the katana, drill and Serrated Dagger, trails for every dash, a ring around MUL-T while he charges, a burst and bomblet pops for Blast Canister, a cloud of light grey smoke for Smoke Bomb with dark screen edges while you are cloaked, dark screen edges and a wider view while Mercenary's parry is up, a spinning blade for the Serrated Shiv, a spinning disc for Laser Glaive, dark drops falling off a bleeding mob, and sparks where your hits land.

When everyone in the lobby runs Survivors 0.5 or later, you see each other's effects. They travel as hidden chat lines that never show in chat. If anyone in the lobby doesn't have the mod, effects stay on your own screen, so they never see a line. ShowSkillFx turns effects off on your screen, and ShareSkillFx stops sending and receiving them. Neither changes damage.

How to pick

Open or join a lobby. A panel on the left lists the survivors and every player's pick. Click one. Your pick is saved in BepInEx/config/evan.muck.survivors.cfg (SelectedSurvivor), so it also works in solo worlds and non-Steam lobbies.

The panel shows [config XXXXXXXX] next to players whose ability settings differ from the host's, [version ...] for a different mod version, and "no Survivors mod" for players without it. It never blocks the Start button.

Multiplayer

• Everyone should install the mod. Each player's survivor runs on their own machine, and ability damage goes through Muck's normal hit packets, so the host doesn't need special code.
• A player without the mod plays vanilla. This is expected to work but hasn't been tested.
• Survivor weapons never travel to other players as items, so a player without the mod can't be broken by them.

Bandit

Bandit is the RoR2 kit adapted to Muck. Hold left click with Bandit's Revolver for Burst or, in the config, Blast. When the revolver is empty it reloads every shell before it can fire again, and letting go of left click does not cut that reloa