DirectorStageFixes

This Risk of Rain 2 mod aims to improve balance and game feel, by adjusting stage interactable budgets, spawn caps, selection weights, and director credit costs.

Current changes

All values below are defaults. Director credits are the budget used to place objects, not the gold or other currency players pay to use them.

Stage interactable budgets

Note these are the solo base budgets. The game scales them by 1x / 1.5x / 2x / 2.5x for 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 participating players, then adds enabled conditional bonus credits. For example, a configured 280-credit budget becomes 420 with two players and 700 with four. Later population modifiers still apply.

Other stages retain their existing stage-credit budgets.

Maximum spawns per stage

Caps count successful SceneDirector spawns and reset for each stage. They are maximums, not guaranteed spawn counts. Manually placed objects and objects spawned outside SceneDirector population are not included. Drone scrappers are separate from item scrappers.

Director credit costs

These values have been adjusted to reflect the interactables value. Their stage weight has been adjusted as well, which is documented lower.

Shrine of Chance retry prices

Failed attempts keep the current gold price. Successful rewards still increase the next price by 1.4x, rounded down. The 17-gold base price, initial difficulty scaling, reward odds, and two-success limit remain unchanged.

Shrine of Order reward

Using Shrine of Order performs its normal item shuffle, then grants one Irradiant Pearl directly to the activating player's inventory.

Lunar Pod rewards

Lunar Pods drop a regular Pearl instead of a lunar item or equipment.

Gold purchase costs

Temporary items are bad and legendary items are not worth more than 10x the price of a green.

Selection weights and availability

Weights are relative selection values, not fixed per-stage spawn percentages. Affordability, eligibility, repeated selections, and placement failures affect actual spawns. Lower credit costs can allow more objects to fit into a budget even when their selection weights are reduced.

For reference, when all relevant cards are eligible and affordable:

• TC-280 has a 20% share of Rallypoint Delta's Drones category, compared with 33.3% originally.
• Shrine of Order has about a 2.17% share of Rallypoint Delta's Shrines category, compared with 10% originally.
• Void Stalk has a 40% share of the normal Void Seed interactable pool, compared with 50% originally.

Configuration

Launch the mod once to generate BepInEx/config/westonkl.DirectorStageFixes.cfg. Restart the game after editing it.

TC-280's effective weight, Shrine of Order's effective weight, Shaping's 0.5 multiplier, and Void Stalk's weight are currently defined in code.

Build and test

1. Open DirectorStageFixes.sln in Visual Studio and build in Debug mode.
2. Install BepInExPack, HookGenPatcher, and RoR2BepInExPack in a separate r2modman development profile.
3. Copy DirectorStageFixes/bin/Debug/netstandard2.1/DirectorStageFixes.dll and .pdb into the profile's BepInEx/plugins/DirectorStageFixes/ folder. Remove old StageDirectorBalancing.dll or ExamplePlugin.dll copies when switching to this build.
4. Launch with Start modded, start a fresh run, and inspect the console logs for budget changes, costs, weights, and spawn counts.

The active implementation is DirectorStageFixes/StageCreditPlugin.cs, targeting .NET Standard 2.1. Build outputs and local backups are ignored by Git. Adjusted cards and spawn assets are copied so the original game assets retain their values.

See development notes, the original interactable credit-cost table, its CSV, and inspected original red-printer weights.