Rifter v0.3.0

Adds Rifter, a positional-based character that utilizes sweet-spots and teleportation to deal massive damage. This is an alpha build, mostly for playtesting.

So what's the build?

Passives:

Shatter

Rifts shatter armor and total health, up to 60 armor, and 50% health.

Rift/Fracture

Your shots consist of Rifts and Fracture Lines. Rift are sweet-spot damage at the end of your shot. Primary and Secondary shots are connected by weaker Fracture Lines that deal 80% damage that are unable to activate item effects. Rifts are weakened if they hit the ground before max distance.

Overcharge

Overcharge teleports enemies hit by a skill to your far-range rifts.

Primary:

Rift Gauntlet Ranged

Shoot a far-ranged rift for 420% damage.

Secondaries:

Rift Gauntlet

Shoot a mid-range rift for 300% damage. Incurs no cooldown.

Rapidfire Gauntlet

Shoot a mid-range rift for 300% damage. Hold up to 3. Last shot is overcharged.

Refraction

Shoot a spread of 3 mid-range rifts for 300% damage each. Always overcharged.

Utilities:

Slipstream

Teleport a short distance, briefly turning invulnerable. Your next shot is overcharged.

Rift Rider

Travel through your primary rift. Hit enemies are teleported to your previous location.

Special

Recursion

Position 5 stacked rifts, dealing 2200% total damage. note: the first rift starts at 300% damage and a radius of 10m. Subsequent rifts are 20% stronger and larger than the last.

Chained Worlds

Charge and shoot 5 rifts in a line, dealing 500% damage per rift. Each rift teleports enemies to the next.

Ending Notes

Discord exists! link is https://discord.gg/5ckGhPy5nJ. If it ain't Hippo Mods, I have lied and let me know in the RoR2 Modding discord (@Hippo).

Special thanks to a lot of people. Tsuyoikenko, S***ter, TRYAGAIN211, TimeSweeper, Chinchi, MotherEgg, Wavy, Randomly Awesome, and other people I forgot. Thanks a bunch!

ChangeLog

ver 0.5.8

• wip icons. Anartoast is goated.
• that's it, I think. Small update.

ver 0.5.7

• double heh. Unlockable should display correctly now (thanks Mightysmallfy for the fix!)
• portal input adjustments
• PORTAL IS NOT MULTIPLAYER FRIENDLY. LIFE WILL BE TERRIBLE IF TWO PEOPLE PLAY RIFTER AND HAVE PORTALS. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE. I'm gonna fix that.

ver 0.5.6

• portals should not proc on use. Blast around portal still procs.
• fixed spelling error that TryAgain pointed out, but I couldn't find it again until now.
• log has minor revisions.

ver 0.5.5

• New Utility: Quantum Portals. Have fun with it. If it's a hit, I might phase out slipstream

• Complete rework of teleportation mechanic (totally did not steal Kenko Seamstress code without permission. Thx tho lol)

• Back vent display mesh removed. It looks much cleaner now.

• roadmap for those interested:

• Alt abilities, unlock abilities

• hit effects (and sfx???)

• skill icons... eventually. Soon or late idk

• expect at least 3 months for animations to even start

ver 0.5.4

• heh

ver 0.5.3

• updated unlockable token

ver 0.5.2

• Bug fixes
• Overlays scale correctly
• Distance assist logic should be improved, with a midrange color swap
• Updated skill texts (TryAgain being a goat once again)
• Added lore
• Scattered Rift should be an unlcockable now
• Teleportation is still buggy. Working on it
• Back vent display improvement

ver 0.5.1

• Bug fix: rifts now teleport enemies to Timelock if there is one out.
• Fracture shots recharging if all shots connected was a silly idea. Too silly, even.
• Removing Chained Worlds for now -- too buggy right now. I want to look at it and fix it in my own time.
• Figured out why Buckshot wasn't working. It's now working.
• Some text adjustments.

ver 0.5.0

• Major Rework!
• SOTS Compatible!
• Primary now has a long-range and mid-range distance. Hold Primary and Secondary for the mid-range distance.
• All New Secondaries!!!
• Secondary: Fracture Shot - shoot 3 consecutive fracture lines that teleport hit enemies.
• Secondary Alt: Chained Worlds - shoot up to 5 rifts that teleport enemies to the next. You may recall this used to be a special.
• All New Special!
• Special: Timelock - create a space which nullifies all enemies within. If present, enemies will be teleported to the Timelock instead of primary distance. Shooting the Timelock with a Rift will cause it to explode!
• Should be networked. Though it might be finicky.
• Teleports are inconsistent. I will wait to see if Gearbox update will help with this.
• I have removed a lot of alts and abilities for this build. If it seems like it's working better, I'll start adding some alts back in and new alts.
• There is no longer ancient scepter items :(
• Cripple chance is removed for the time being.

ver 0.4.6

• RiskOfOptions Support!
• AncientScepter Support!
• Shatter reworked. Cripple is our friend now.
• Updated descriptions.
• Slipstream and Rift Rider now cleanse debuffs. I kept forgetting to do this. I also didn't test if this works.
• Gauntlet 25, Scattering has a new mechanic. I will not elaborate.
• Rifts and Fractures vfx changed once again. This is a neverending story.
• Distance assist beam should no longer spawn at world 0,0,0 if not in use
• I should really make this a 0.5.0 update. But I'm reserving that for bigger changes, aka, animations or sfx.

ToDo/Next update, expect:

• adjust model to be more accurate to vision (the backlight is still being mean to me)
• unlockables!
• hitEffects

ver 0.4.5

• MODEL

ver 0.4.4

• HUD should work only when you're Rifter now.

ver 0.4.3

• rift redesign #3.
• all rifts have been shrunken a little bit.
• tracer redesign #2.
• Experimental HUD overlay added to keep track of overcharge stacks. I have not tested if it is multiplayer compatible. You can disable it in the config (HUD).

ver 0.4.2

• Small rifts in Buckshot Rift do not apply shatter.
• No longer destroys tracer is an enemy is teleported or teleporting with Rift Rider.
• Shatter Icon added
• small fixes here and there. Hopefully some major fixes... got fixed this time.

ver 0.4.1

• CONFIG OPTIONS. I have not fully tested if they work entirely, but they exist now.
• Added "Distance Assist" laser to help visualize primary distance.
• Buckshot Rift logic improved on small rifts.
• Buckshot Rift adds more rifts if overcharged.
• Slipstream angle in air reduced.
• Temp VFX for Tracer (Woo! Could look terrible)
• Rift Rider now can stack overcharge if hits enemies.
• Recursion damage increased from 2200% to 2600%
• Mild fixes here and there

ver 0.4.0

• New Primary! Buckshot Rifts
• Slipstream now moves at an upwards angle if airborne
• Color scheme on loadout screen
• bug fixes that I don't remember what they were before
• Beginning of VFX rework

ver 0.3.0

• Description changes
• Specials reworked! Recursion is now a ranged tool, and Chained Worlds acts as god intended (or so I hope).
• Enemy healthbar now shows the amount of health shattered.
• May or may not have fixed shatter being applied by non-rifter characters. This needs to be playtested.

ver 0.2.3

• forgot dll whoops

ver 0.2.2

• description fixes and changes. (Special thanks to TRYAGAIN211 for the constant help with this!)
• many a nerf, to compensate for shatter's strengths.
• secondaries are all at 300%. Changes to percentage will be based on which feels the weakest from here on out.
• specials were lowered to 280% base damage.
• this should be the last update for a hot minute. Will be working on VFX, getting a model, etc. Have fun, and let me know how the damage %s feel!

ver 0.2.1

• Networked!
• Some slight fixes, Rapidfire is reverted to base stocks of 3, not 4 (it was a mistake)
• Cooldown increases were made, this was from the last update, forgot to mention
• Chained Worlds logic is pretty screwy at times. I will work on this, but in the meantime, either avoid it or let me know what situations make it worse.

ver 0.2.0

• Bug Fix: Rift Rider teleports enemies again.
• Some Networking has been done. Yay! Not fully networked.

Major Changes

• Base damage has been increased from 12 to 14. This means ALL ability percentages have been tweaked.
• Rift radius has been reduced for primary and secondary.
• Added a new experimental passive: Shatter. Currently a hidden debuff (will not count toawrds Deathmark rn).
• Shatter reduces armor and total health of enemies. Stacks up to 20 times, for a max of 60 armor and 50% health reduction.
• Armor reduction for shatter is NOT linear; this is used to assist with bosses and spongy enemies.
• health reduction IS linear. Not that you needed to know either of these.
• Shatter is not networked currently

ver 0.1.0

• Bug Fix: Added R2API_DamageType as a dependency. LMK if this isn't working correctly still
• Bug Fix: Rifts no longer permanently Friendly Fire
• Bug Fix: All Refraction Rifts now teleport
• primary rift size slightly increased. Distance slightly decreased.
• overcharge now stacks (I actually tested it and it works now)
• Chained Worlds might be buggy, but I think I reverted it
• issues: Teleporting enemies does not activate if you are not the host player. Working on it.
• future changes: vfx overhaul, model, anims, you know, the pretty stuff.
• I only changed it to 0.1.0 cuz I felt like it.

ver 0.0.6

• slight change. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn't.

ver 0.0.5

• Yippee! Blacklisting works (lunar is not blacklisted as of currently - for research purposes)
• Slipstream stacks overcharges (I was lazy, I did not double check, let me know if I'm lying)

buffs/nerfs

• Refraction cooldown changed to 3s.
• Refraction damage reduced from 375% to 325%. It seems fairly balanced now.
• Refraction side rifts might not teleport enemies? This is a bug if so. Will change. Let me know.

ver 0.0.4 Eventual Changes:

• blacklisting of lunar enemies, void barnacles, and minor constructs from being teleported
• possible slipstream changes

Changes:

• Added another special: Chained Worlds
• Added basic vfx. Ideas or help welcome. I don't like it.

buffs/nerfs

• primary buffed from 550% to 600%
• refraction now always teleports
• recursion buffed to 350% base damage

ver 0.0.3

• Got rid of my lazy implementation of passives that aren't showing up anyways (they were breaking things, apparently (hopefully))

ver 0.0.2

• I intended to add basic vfx for visual clarity. I am leaving that for later (if you want to do this, let me know!)
• Made it so other skills cannot be used during Recursion.
• Fixed Rift Rider getting cancelled by everything.

  buffs/nerfs

• primary buffed from 450% to 550%
• Refraction buffed from 375% to 475% (I'm too lazy to change the logic right now, so I'm testing this first)
• Recursion charge-up time has been increased from .5s to .8s.

ver 0.0.1

• Initial build