The GodRun Theory Compatibility

Pack-specific compatibility and numerical balance patch for Risk of Rain 2.

Source and releases: https://github.com/lcnbns/TheGodRunTheoryCompat

This package is intended for The God Run Theory r2modman profile. Thunderstore installs the DLL and its required content mods automatically; the profile export supplies the pack's matching configuration choices.

Version 2.0.0

• Keeps the Oppressive elite's gravity and jump-lock mechanics while changing its 200 m-tall capsule into a visible 13 m spherical bubble.
• Restores twelve ClassicItemsReturns items and rebalances their existing numbers without replacing their triggers or identities.
• Restores Artifact of Clovers with 56 Leaf Clover reduced to 0.5% per elite plus 0.1 percentage point per extra stack.
• Restores Cloudburst's five finished items at a 50% numerical scale. Blast Boot remains disabled.
• Keeps Hex3 Shard of Glass disabled because it is an effective duplicate of Starstorm 2 Fork.
• Keeps VanillaVoid Clockwork Mechanism and Enhancement Vials disabled so Nautilus owns those two corruption ingredients.
• Guards the reproduced Crystalline Lotus null reference without disabling valid Lotus behavior.
• Uses startup patches and existing game events; it performs no per-frame inventory polling.

All gameplay values are configurable in BepInEx/config/com.lucie.thegodruntheorycompat.cfg. Changes to IL-patched values require restarting the game.

Every multiplayer participant should use the same DLL, item-enable configuration, and gameplay values.

Installation

Install this package through r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager, then import the current The God Run Theory profile code. Do not install a second manual copy of the DLL. After updating, launch once so BepInEx/config/com.lucie.thegodruntheorycompat.cfg is generated.

The two intentionally disabled VanillaVoid items and the other pack-wide enable/disable choices are controlled by the profile configuration, not by this package's dependency list.

Known upstream limitations

• ClassicItemsReturns 3.6.26 calculates Thallium's extra-stack duration but does not use it when applying the dot. This patch preserves that behavior and reduces the working base duration to two seconds.
• Cloudburst 0.4.6 has no separate Enigmatic Keycard shock-duration parameter. This patch reduces its proc chance and complete damage expression only.
• Modded Empyrean and Sandswept construct VFX are not generically suppressed in this build because broad effect filtering could hide gameplay telegraphs.

Changelog

2.0.2

• Corrected every ClassicItemsReturns language token used by the balance layer so logbook, Cookbook, and tooltip descriptions show the actual configured values.
• Synchronized 56 Leaf Clover's visible values with its gameplay roll and added strict replacement-count verification to every constant-based ClassicItemsReturns and Cloudburst patch so an upstream method change can no longer be reported as successfully patched.
• Made missing R2API language registration fail visibly instead of silently leaving stale descriptions.
• Added an optional client performance module with Risk of Options controls for effect renderer optimization, particle caps, corpse retention, damage-number limits, and effect-light shadows.
• Reused RoR2's existing effect pooling and avoided per-frame inventory or scene scans.

2.0.1

• Replaced global assembly type scans with cached exact-name lookups, removing the startup stall caused by broken optional compatibility types in other mods.
• Added a guard for uninitialized equipment slots, which previously produced more than 100,000 repeated exceptions during a long run.
• Added a null-safe Drone Vendor dispatch path that preserves valid terminal purchases while skipping malformed terminal data.
• Added a targeted Delusion Chest startup guard that disables only a malformed controller after its required component is missing.
• Exposed each runtime guard as a separate Stability configuration option.

2.0.0

• Restored and numerically rebalanced the approved ClassicItemsReturns set.
• Restored and scaled Cloudburst's five finished items.
• Added a targeted Crystalline Lotus null guard.
• Retained the Oppressive spherical aura patch.
• Kept exact duplicates and the two rejected VanillaVoid corruptions disabled through the profile configuration.