Risk of Rain: Beginner's Guide
Channel: Artrexdenthur
Date: 2015-04-02

A guide to getting started with Risk of Rain, an awesome sci-fi roguelite by Hopoo Games. Site: http://riskofraingame.com/

For lots more game info and tips, check out this great fan wiki: http://riskofrain.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

A couple things I should have mentioned (also included via annotation):

- Your second ability, Full Metal Jacket, damages all enemies in the line you're facing. Use it to whittle down crowds.

- There are lots of small grey containers around. They contain experience, gold and health. Definitely open them, they're free!

- Item drops are generally random, but cheap $25 chests generally drop white-bordered common items (but can drop better ones), while more expensive $50 chests are guaranteed to drop at least green-bordered uncommons or red-bordered rares.

- There are items that say *USE* on them. When you pick up one of these, it will be added to your loadout and you can press the appropriate key (default G for keyboard, B for 360 controller) to activate it. They have long cooldowns but are powerful.

- You can only have ONE *USE* item at a time, whereas all other items can be collected and stacked without limit. If you find another, you can swap it for your old one by pressing Q on keyboard, Y on 360 pad.

Also, apologies for the somewhat wonky quality, I'll rectify that if/when I make more vids.

Thanks for watching!