Climber Survivor

A melee survivor for Risk of Rain 2, inspired by the Climber from White Knuckle. Grip is the resource: you spend it to throw yourself around the map, and you get it back by having your feet on something.

Original kit, model and text. No files from either game are included.

Kit

Grip sits under the crosshair. It returns quickly on the ground and slowly in the air. Spending it with empty hands slips you for a moment.

• Hammer (primary) — slow, heavy swing for 200% damage.
• Piton (secondary) — stunning thrust for 420% damage. Sets a piton only in a wall, floor or ceiling, never in an enemy. Press E on one to launch upward. Up to your piton charges.
• Grab-Jump (utility) — spend 30 grip to launch toward your aim. Chain them, then land.
• Rho Spear (special) — one charge. Spend 36 grip to hurl the spear for 560% damage. It pierces enemies, pins only in the map, and the throw recoils you backward. Press E on the planted spear to launch upward. One spear per charge, so items granting charges let you plant more. Each returns when its charge recharges.

Install

Use a mod manager (r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager) and the dependencies install themselves. That is the recommended route.

Installing by hand: put Climber.dll and its wk folder together in BepInEx/plugins/Climber/, and install the dependencies listed on this package's page. The wk folder must stay beside the DLL, since that is where the mod looks for its models.

On Linux or Proton the game needs WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp=n,b".

What ships, and what does not

Its own body. The Climber is a custom mesh, skeleton, hurtboxes and animator in wk/climber_assets.bundle, cloned onto a Commando body prefab so Risk of Rain 2's own movement, item displays and skill machinery keep working. If the bundle is missing the mod still loads and falls back to the Commando mesh.

Its own art. The Rho Spear, piton and hammer are modelled in Blender for this mod and ship with it. The spear and hammer carry an albedo and a tangent-space normal map; the piton carries an albedo and takes its surface detail from the cloned vanilla material. The Hammer and Grab-Jump skill icons are drawn in code.

No audio. Risk of Rain 2 disables Unity audio, so everything goes through Wwise. The Climber posts the game's own Loader and MUL-T attack events by name at runtime. It ships no sound files and copies none.

Optional, and not included. The wk folder also accepts two files you may extract from your own White Knuckle install, piton.png and rebar.png, for the Piton and Rho Spear skill icons. They are not distributed here. Without them the mod uses its own drawn icons and works fully.

Licence

• Code: MIT.
• Art: CC BY 4.0, except the animations, which are retargeted Mixamo clips under Adobe's terms and may not be redistributed as standalone assets.

Source, full licence text and the development notes: https://github.com/L1QU1D-D14M0ND/Climber_Survivor

Risk of Rain 2 is a trademark of Hopoo Games and Gearbox Publishing. White Knuckle is a trademark of Dark Machine Games. This mod is unaffiliated with and unendorsed by either.

Credits

Built with BepInEx, R2API and the Risk of Rain 2 modding toolchain. Animations retargeted from Mixamo. Made with AI assistance.