Risk of Rain 2’slatest major expansion, Seekers of the Storm, hasn’t been received well by fans after introducing a plethora of bugs that weren’t in the game before. While the new characters are fun, it’s become quite difficult to enjoy the excellent rogue-lite without running into a bug in every other run that takes away from its long-established quality. If you want to downpatch Risk of Rain 2 to its pre-Seekers of the Storm state, here is how you’re able to do that.
Downpatch Risk of Rain 2 to Pre-Seekers of the Storm State
Downpatching sounds exactly what it sounds like. You are downloading a previous version of the game through Steam and playing that instead of the current one. This is completely safe, and the method to do this has been pinned by a moderator in the official Risk of Rain 2 discord as well.
After this, you can take two approaches. You can keep this older version a separate installation from the newer version or replace the newer version entirely.
Separate Older Version
Keep in mind that this will impact Steam integration and potentially stop it from working.
Replace Newer Version
Similarly, you can replace the current version (Seekers of the Storm) with the older version. Copy the content from thedepot_632361folder and paste it whereRisk of Rain 2is installed.
No matter what approach you take above, you will be able to play the Devotion update, which was before Seekers of the Storm. Here is a screenshot showing the survivor select screen without any content from the Seekers of the Storm expansion.
This obviously means you won’t be able to play with new survivors likeChef,Seeker, or theFalse Son, and none of the stages or items from the expansion will show up.
Thank you to Discord user Leviathan and Reddit userSuperSupermario24for writing up instructions to achieve this.
Revert to the Latest Version
If you want to go back to the latest version, simply verify the game files in Steam, and all the new content will be automatically added.
Ali Hashmi
Ali has been writing about video games for the past six years and is always on the lookout for the next indie game to obsess over and recommend to everyone in sight. When he isn’t spending an unhealthy amount of time in Slay the Spire, he’s probably trying out yet another retro-shooter or playing Dark Souls for the 50th time.
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