It hasn’t been a superb week to be a Risk of Rain fan. Gearbox launched Seekers of the Storm, Risk of Rain 2’s first DLC because the writer purchased the collection from authentic builders Hopoo Games, and it is at the moment sitting at simply 21% optimistic critiques on Steam.
More than the content material of the DLC, the backlash has been in response to a regional pricing quirk that doubled its worth in some markets, in addition to PC efficiency points and bugs from an accompanying replace—so everybody, not simply DLC purchasers, have been negatively affected. Now a number of the recreation’s authentic builders have commented on the discharge.
On August 30, Risk of Rain co-creator Duncan Drummond wrote about Seekers of the Storm on X, “The Everything App,” expressing understanding for the backlash but in addition sympathy for the event group at Gearbox.
“It sucks for the followers, who misplaced performance for the sport they love,” Drummond wrote. “It additionally sucks for the builders at GBX, who’re in all probability below a ton of stress and may’t actually rejoice the win of launching a brand new DLC.
“We nonetheless imagine that Gearbox is on track, and that they’ve each intention of fixing points & listening to suggestions. I do know the folks on the GBX group—they usually care deeply about Risk of Rain. Definitely a tough state of affairs for everybody concerned.”
Speaking to PCGamesN, Risk of Rain 2 programmer Jeffrey Hunt provided the same perspective, sympathetic to the builders engaged on the sport at Gearbox. “I believe that the group engaged on the DLC did one of the best they might with what time and assets they got, which is not a stretch to guess wasn’t sufficient,” Hunt stated. “I bear in mind the group at Gearbox we labored with on the Survivors of the Void DLC was doing rather well, significantly on the brand new levels.”
Whatever Risk of Rain’s long-term future below Gearbox, the corporate is at the moment engaged on addressing gamers’ largest complaints about Seekers of the Storm. An August 30 dev diary stated that fixing the brand new bugs and efficiency points on the PC model are the highest precedence, and included an extended record of the problems Gearbox has recognized.
