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Incoming Risk of Rain 2 update will stop blazing enemies from insta-melting you

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Blazing enemies will be toned down, and Blazing Stone Titans will be fixed

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Risk of Rain 2 is all about hoarding items and decimating increasingly ridiculous numbers of enemies, but ever since the game's launch last month, one enemy type has been spoiling some of the fun: blazing enemies. Happily, Hopoo co-founder Paul Morse tells me that a blazing rebalance is on the way.

For the unfamiliar: blazing enemies in Risk of Rain 2 deal ticking fire damage whenever they hit you, and this stuff ticks like a baseball card in the spokes of the fastest bicycle on the planet. It absolutely melts - to the point that a single hit from a blazing enemy can spell certain death on higher difficulties. This can abruptly ruin an otherwise enjoyable run, so players have been asking for blazing enemies to be nerfed for over a week. 

Those players will be happy to hear that an upcoming Risk of Rain 2 update will not only tone them down, it'll also fix a bug affecting one of the greatest offenders. One blazing enemy, the Stone Titan, was apparently dealing 2400% more damage than it was supposed to, just in case you were wondering how those things were deleting you. So yeah, that's going to be fixed. 

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"We also made the blazing in general more balanced and fair going forward in all cases," Morse explained. "And we now show the number of stacks of [fire damage] you have as a debuff so players can see why they are getting hurt over time." 

As a Huntress main who's seen way more than one promising run go up in flames, I can't wait for these changes to take effect. 

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