Drifter

Drifter

Stats

HP	120 (+ 32 per level)
Regen	0.60 (+0.18 per level) hp/s
Damage	13 (+3 per level)
Armor	0 (+4 per level)
Speed	28 km/h

Unlock

Recycle 6 drones in one playthrough.

Ending phrase

...and so she left, hands cold and still hungry.

Drifter

"The Drifter is a resourceful brawler with a uniquely supportive playstyle. Generate scrap with Blunt Force and Suffocate in order to salvage them into a powerful bundle of temporary items for you or your allies."
– In-game description

Description

The Drifter is a playable character in Risk of Rain Returns.

The Drifter is a support character who can pack a surprisingly large punch. Just Blunt Force alone can stun-lock most bosses that can be stunned, such as the Imp Overlord or Ancient Wisp, and her Secondary skills don't fall behind in damage, either. Cleanup can be used to quickly mow down crowds or bosses with multiple segments, such as the Magma Worm, while the Scrap Cube can be used top of a boss or in front of a crowd, before going wild with Blunt Force to devastating effect. She can also support herself and her team with the use of her Special skills, using either Salvage for short bursts of power or Recycle to increase overall strength over time.

Her Secondary and Special skills require a resource called scrap, which can be gained through Blunt Force or her Utility skills, which are more focused on generating scrap to fuel her abilities. She can hold up to 12 scrap at a time.

Survivor Log

Departure:	Destination:
Asteroid Substation Gamma, Sector 2, Saturnian Belt	UES Shipping Dock 0, Redview, Mars

  Travel ID: 44E454F58445145444
Passenger Details: [Civilian Class]

Luggage & Equipment: Passenger boarded with a 2023 A-series generic spacesuit rated for civilian travel and minor vaccuum resistance. Passenger was warned about their suit reaching EOL and was allowed onboard with a red stamp on their passport. For security reasons, passenger was patted down due to their coat appearing oversized*. Passenger attempted to board with 3 backpacks and 2 duffel bags. After being informed that their carry-on limit was one container, they dropped the additional bags and quickly passed through the terminal. A manual search showed that the remaining backpack contained various pieces of scrap metal, opened food containers, and multiple small tools.

[SECURITY RECALL] [Event D1] Passenger's travel ticket had it's destination markers destroyed by heavy weathering. Upon questioning, the passenger indicated that 'the full trip would be fine'. Ticket destination manually marked as Contact Light's port of origin. [Event D2] Passenger warned by ship personnel to 'stop hiding additional utensils in their pockets' during mealtimes.

Skills

Primary

Blunt Force
3-hit Combo, hit enemies in a wide range for 120% damage. The last hit deals 240% damage. Each hit in the combo has an added chance to generate scrap.

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• The chance for scrap to be generated is ~40% for the first hit, ~60% for the 2nd hit, and ~80% for the 3rd hit.
• With how Blunt Force moves Drifter forward with every swing, jumping and quickly using it afterwards can give her a slight increase in mobility. This becomes more effective and easier to perform as attack speed increases.
  • The slight forward movement doesn't apply while standing on a Scrap Cube, making it possible to "surf" indefinitely.

Secondary

Cleanup		1s CD
Toss out 2 scrap, spawning 4 bouncing, piercing projectiles for 55% damage each. Small Chance to spawn special projectiles that either bleed or slow.

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• Editor's note: Cleanup uses 2 scrap on activation.
• Editor's note: Cleanup's special projectiles have a chance to apply debuffs such as bleed and slow.
• Each projectile can crit and applies on-hit effects.

Scrap Cube		2s CD
Consume 2 scrap and toss out a large scrap cube, dealing 150% damage. The cube can be pushed and shattered, dealing 300% damage while pushed. Fragile!

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• Editor's note: The in-game description of 150% damage is inaccurate.
• Editor's note: Scrap Cube uses 2 scrap on activation.
• The Scrap Cube has 60 HP and gains +20 HP per level.
• If an enemy or the player are on top of a Scrap Cube they will move with it if it is pushed, even off of ledges.
• Enemies will be distracted by and attack Scrap Cubes similar to Artificer's Frost BarrierFrost Barrier15s CD
  Utility
  Create a wall of ice that blocks most enemies and distracts them. When broken, explodes and freezes enemies for 150% damage.
  Survivor: Artificer.

Utility

Suffocate		7s CD
Slam enemies with your bag for 200% damage, and stunning them. If the enemy is under 20% health, Consume them; converting them into 4 scrap.

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• Editor's note: Suffocate's Consume effect gives 4 scrap.
• Suffocate can Consume any enemy, including bosses and the final boss, giving it incredibly high damage potential (which can be used to complete Macho (Deal 5000 damage in one shot.))
• Drifter can regain 1 scrap if Suffocate is used to destroy a Scrap Cube.

Tornado Slam		8s CD
Spin around wildly, slamming enemies with your bag for 100% damage and generating scrap. Increases your speed by 50% and lowers your gravity. Number of hits increases with attack speed.

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• Editor's note: Although not mentioned in the in-game description, the value of the movement speed boost is 50%.
• Editor's note: Deals damage 6 times. Attack speed increases the duration of Tornado Slam, thus increasing the number of total hits.
• Editor's note: Each hit of Tornado Slam has a ~30% chance to generate scrap.
• Running into Geysers while Tornado Slam is active will substantially increase the height gained, due to the reduced gravity.

Special

Salvage		30s CD
Consume 8 scrap to spawn 4 temporary items.
Ancient Scepter Upgrade your special skill. Upgrade your special skill. Unique to each character. Reduces special skill cooldown by 30% per stack. Recover Consume 8 scrap to spawn 6 temporary items.

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• Editor's note: Salvage uses 8 scrap on activation.
• Items generated have a duration of 80 seconds.
• Stacking a large amount of temporary items in one spot before picking them up is an easy, though time-consuming, way to unlock Loader and Tornado Slam.
• Salvage can be used while jumping, and Drifter is free to jump during the animations. This can be utilized to avoid enemies during the animation by repeatedly hopping forward.

Recycle		30s CD
Consume 8 scrap to re-roll a pickup.
Ancient Scepter Upgrade your special skill. Upgrade your special skill. Unique to each character. Reduces special skill cooldown by 30% per stack. Rebuild Consume 8 scrap to re-roll a pickup, and an additional temporary copy.

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• Editor's note: Recycle uses 8 scrap on activation.
• Pickups are always re-rolled into a pickup of the same rarity.
• Recycle can be used while jumping, and Drifter is free to jump during the animations. This can be utilized to avoid enemies during the animation by repeatedly hopping forward.

Associated Challenges

Name	Unlocks	Requirement	Alt
Recycled	Drifter	Recycle 6 drones in one playthrough.
"...Ask Questions Later"	Tornado SlamTornado Slam8s CD Utility Spin around wildly, slamming enemies with your bag for 100% damage and generating scrap. Increases your speed by 50% and lowers your gravity. Number of hits increases with attack speed. Survivor: Drifter	Drifter: Get 20 temporary items at once.
By Design	Substandard DuplicatorSubstandard Duplicator Picked up items yield an additional temporary copy. Picking up an item gives you a temporary copy of itself. Temporary items last an additional 10 (+10 per stack) seconds	Complete the Providence Trial "A Duplicator?!".
Trash Compactor	Scrap CubeScrap Cube2s CD Secondary Consume 2 scrap and toss out a large scrap cube, dealing 150% damage. The cube can be pushed and shattered, dealing 300% damage while pushed. Fragile! Survivor: Drifter	Complete the Providence Trial "Perilous Descent".	Collect 300 items as Drifter.
Biodegradabler	RecycleRecycle30s CD Special Consume 8 scrap to re-roll a pickup. Survivor: Drifter	Complete the Providence Trial "Equivalent Exchange".	Complete 25 stages as Drifter.

• "...Ask Questions Later" can easily be unlocked with the Substandard DuplicatorSubstandard Duplicator
  Picked up items yield an additional temporary copy.
  Picking up an item gives you a temporary copy of itself. Temporary items last an additional 10 (+10 per stack) seconds or stashing a pile of temporary items in one corner of the map and picking them up later.

Secret

Name	Unlocks	Requirement
Drifter's Spirit	New Drifter Skin (Providence)	Complete the final Providence Trial as Drifter.

Strategy

• Drifter collects and spends scrap for her abilities, which are produced mainly by Blunt Force and Suffocate. Similar to other melee-range survivors, caution should be exercised when attacking, as many enemies are more dangerous in close range.

Item Interactions

• Gigantic AmethystGigantic Amethyst8s CD
  Resets all your cooldowns.
  Reset all your cooldowns. is extremely powerful with Drifter. Salvage can be used in quick succession with careful scrap management, allowing Drifter to accumulate items faster than any other survivor. This is especially useful in the Judgement Trial, where the equipment can be a starting item.
• With enough attack speed from items such as Soldier's SyringeSoldier's Syringe
  Increases attack speed.
  Increases attack speed by 12% (+12% per stack). and Predatory InstinctsPredatory Instincts
  Critical strikes increase attack speed. Buff stacks 5 times.
  Gain 5% critical chance. Critical strikes increase attack speed by 10% (+7% per stack). Maximum cap of 30% (+21% per stack) attack speed., Blunt Force's stun can effectively render any non-ranged enemy harmless. Couple that with Scrap Cube, and Drifter becomes an unstoppable killing machine.

Notes

• Despite not granting items, recycling the drones given by Drone Repair KitDrone Repair Kit45s CD
  Repair and empower all active drones. Summons a unique drone to assist.
  All drones are repaired to full health and empowered for 8 seconds. Summons a unique drone. will count towards the unlock for Drifter, and can even be used multiple times for this purpose.

Gallery

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Unlocked by default.
Complete the final Providence Trial as Drifter.	Collect the Prismatic Shard in the Ancient Valley.

Crudely-Drawn Buddy Decoy

Multiplayer Drone

Version History

Patch 1.0.5

• Drifter's default Special skill no longer gets stuck when attack speed is really high.
• Drifter's alternate Utility skill now pushes cubes spawned by the alternate Secondary.
• Drifter's Primary skill no longer pulls the player forward if standing on a cube.
• Drifter's cubes now interact with geysers.
• Loader and Drifter can now turn while executing their Primary skill combos.

Patch 1.0.4

• Heaven CrackerHeaven Cracker
  Every 4 basic attacks pierce through enemies.
  Every 4 (-1 per stack) basic attacks pierce through enemies. now allows Miner to gain heat and Drifter to generate scrap.

Trivia

• Selecting Drifter on the character select screen plays an animation of a random item popping out of her bag. Items that can appear from her bag include Mortar TubeMortar Tube
  Chance to launch a mortar.
  9% chance on hit to fire a mortar for 170% (+170% per stack) TOTAL damage., Bundle of FireworksBundle of Fireworks
  Activating an interactable launches fireworks at nearby enemies.
  Activating an interactable launches 6 (+3 per stack) fireworks that deal 300% base damage., AtG Missile Mk. 1AtG Missile Mk. 1
  Chance to fire a missile.
  10% (+10% per stack) chance on hit to fire a missile that deals 300% TOTAL damage., UkuleleUkulele
  ..and his music was electric.
  20% chance on hit to fire chain lightning for 66% (+66% per stack) TOTAL damage on up to 3 targets., and Dio's Best FriendDio's Best Friend
  Cheat death once.
  Taking fatal damage consumes this item and revives you with 40% health and 2 seconds of invulnerability..
  • The frequency that these items appear also seems to be determined by the item's rarity, with the common tier Mortar Tube and Bundle of Fireworks appearing much more often than the rare tier Dio's Best Friend.
• Drifter and Pilot are the two brand new survivors added in Risk of Returns and is unique to both the original 2013 game and Risk of Rain 2.
• In her portrait, a pair of Lens Maker's GlassesLens Maker's Glasses
  Chance to deal double damage.
  Your attacks have a 8% (+8% per stack) chance to 'Critically Strike', dealing double damage., the Jar of SoulsJar of Souls45s CD
  Summon a ghost for every enemy in the screen.
  Duplicate every enemy as a ghost to fight on your side. Ghosts last 15 seconds and have 70% damage., a Drone Repair KitDrone Repair Kit45s CD
  Repair and empower all active drones. Summons a unique drone to assist.
  All drones are repaired to full health and empowered for 8 seconds. Summons a unique drone., and the Safeguard LanternSafeguard Lantern45s CD
  Drop a lantern that fears and damages enemies for 10 seconds.
  Drop a lantern for 10 seconds. Fears and damages enemies for 100% damage. are all scattered around Drifter.