look at me... I AM THE CAPTA- nevermind... too easy

1:41 I believe killing the doppelganger gives an additional one if you don't have anything equipped, very useful tech i know

i find that soilder syringes are SOO... POWERFUL with captain... you can immediately feel the effects with a couple.

I'm just gonna start maining him because he looks badass

I actually really like his stun pylon. If you place it in a strategic spot (especially when you get the teleporter in an area with really clear bottleneck approaches) it lets you just entirely focus on the boss, then occasionally look down and go "Oh hey, like 40 dudes trapped in my circle that's conveniently about the same size as an orbital strike"

I've found bleeds to be quite effective as the captain - you can stack up an absolutely ridiculous amount of them very quickly and they will cause everything to melt.

Community: Please, give us the Sniper Other part of the community: Please, give us the Enforcer Hopoo: What if they had a child?

Honestly, I think the captain is one of the best, most balanced characters in the game. He has the most versatility in the game with his primary(except for mul-t), a decent crowd control option, an insanely powerful "utility", and the supply beacons are just crazy. The reason he isnt overpowered is because of how dependent on items he is. He has one of the slowest primaries in the game, a pretty meh secondary, and ALL of his mobility comes from items.

Most players before 1.0: *Used Lunar to go to Siren’s Call because it’s an easier red item than Abyssal Depths* Players after 1.0: *Slickity slackity gold chest go hackity*

Great video and advice! I just wanted to add a few comments. 1. Additional stacks of the defensive microbots can be obtained by killing your doppelganger from artifact of vengeance, this is how you unlock the item for your logbook 2. The Visions of Heresy lunar item gives him 12 orbital probe shots, similar to the huntress ballista glitch (Fixed in 1.0 ) 3. For some reason the new equipment Gorag’s Opus does not work at all with the Captain (Fixed in 1.0 ) 4. The hacking beacon only works on interactables that cost gold, so you can't hack lunar pods and 3d printers Edit: 5. Only the first shot from orbital probe does 1500% damage, the second two do only 500% damage each (Fixed in 1.0, now does 1000% on all three attacks )

captain arrives at abyssal depths: legendary chest: why do i hear boss music?

I would imagine Brainstalks + Orbital strike would be insane.

It would be badass if he got some alternate abilities when he's in the Hidden Realms for when he can't use the usuals. Maybe a movement ability or self buff in place of the orbital strike and like a flurry attack with his passive in place of the special.

8:41 He forgot to study for his sign language test so he just practiced during the game.

He may need some buffs/tweaks (so I can't use my abilities without connection to the ship, but my orbital strikes can reach the abyssal depths???) but man. As someone who usually plays Merc he's my favorite non-mobile character. Likely because of the pimp coat.

One thing I found about the Captain is that the Shock Beacon is good for crowd you can't quite deal with at the moment. It constantly lets out shocks at a rate that makes it effectively stun-locks enemies as long as they are in the area. This also helps if you can lead enemies INTO the beacon, they can't escape.

He feels like a Leeroy Jenkins. Captain definitely said"Hold my beer" before droping. Loving him. It's visceral gameplay.

started watching this as I am in the middle of a captain run lol

I love the captain, and feel like I have a new appreciation for playing Risk of Rain 2, given the effectiveness of scooping up emergency drones and healing drones with the microbots. He's SO Fun to play with artifact of glass just from how much work the microbots put in alone, let alone how hard the orbital actions kick ass. Also, with the reduced health, I'm less likely to go into void fields and feel sad.

Damn, I was kind of disappointed that we didn't get Paladin, but now that I've seen everything he can do I'm completely fine with this

I'd say overall healing and emergency drones on captain are jolly good. Heals AND projectile deleting is amazing. I don't like the fact that drones dont really work after more than a few stages, but the Captain makes it work.

Captain should be able to rocket jump with his shotgun imo

the 1 dislike is from the salty wandering vagrant who got absolutely destroyed on stage one in 5 seconds

I have to disagree with the shocking beacon. In a run where you’re melting everything yeah it does nothing, but if it’s a struggling run you can place it in a choke point and completely neutralize all ground enemies coming that way... which lets you deal with his arch nemesis the lesser wisp

Damn, literally a free Abyssal depths red item right away

just drizzle command to get captain mr streamer

“Yeah, nice utility, Captain.” *Diablo Strike: ...*

Dude I haven't checked this channel in months. If Woolie is still playing this game I can't imagine how good he has gotten.

The shotgun combined with the new boss item from the imo overlord (bleed on crit) is amazing because when captain gets a crit, all his projectiles and not just some of them will be crits, means you can stack pretty insane numbers of bleed on enemies with just little crit chance.

I haven't unlocked the hacking beacon yet, but just his first 3 skills + red item feel like only a fifth of a step down from a full character. I love him, and have the headcanon that he adopts Acrid, Rex, and MUL-T after the events of the game.

FUN FACT: The doppleganger artifact is another way where you can potentially get microbots! They can drop as an item for you to pick up :)

I think the shock beacon works pretty well with the healing beacon to create a space where you can heal and fight the boss safely as the shocking beacon stops all the smaller enemies from getting close. That works incredibly well when combined with an engineer and his shield and turrets

My friend and I were playing with the Captain with the artifact turned on so that you pick your items. My friend found out that if you get a Vision of Heresy it will make your Orbital Probe have 12 shots instead of 3. So he started up picking up every lunar pod, and ended up with over 70 shots of Orbital Probe on a single use.

There is not many people that can be comedic and provide essential info at the same time, but this guy is one of those people, keep up the great work!

Just found this channel. This dude rocks! Thanks Woolie

I like the character in general, I just wish we had a way to auto-fire with him so I don't destroy my hand/mouse by trying to fire shots.

Early enough to say I love your content, pure quality.

I tried doing double shocking beacons for a few runs...and actually kind of loved it. The ability to trap all the ground enemies in a TP event simply by running circles around both beacons is extremely fun and then BOOM you can blow them all up in one orbital strike. Makes a horde of elite elder lemurians a cakewalk.

A fun interaction with Orbital Probe is with Visions of Heresy is that the number of shots will actually go from 3 to however many shots you have from Visions, so with 1 you get 12 shots, 2 you get 24, all doing the 1500% damage PoG

have you tried the interaction with visions of heresy and his "utility"? starcraft levels of ship bombardment

2 healing beacons in the same spot makes tp fights super easy, especially in early game

1:03 The Pog face Mr.Streamer pulls really shows off the power of the Passive

DO NOT SCRAP THE MICROBOT, YOU DON'T GET IT BACK.

Oh, and there's currently a little trick with beacons: 1. Get backup mag. If you go to the beacon call-in mode you will see a "1" above your M2 beacon. 2. When in beacon call-in mode, pick up a bandolier ammo pack 3. You now have two M2 beacons. 4. You can get as many extra M2 beacons as you have backup mags. Trick will not work if you place your last M2 beacon, so don't expend it. I'm sure I don't have to explain to the synergy between equipment beacon, kill dolls spawning bandolier, squids, and firecracker.

I really can't wait for this update to arrive to console, i've been playing monsoon lately and having a lot of fun (3 masteries BOIII), i wanted to try Mul-T but he felt... well... you know. The captain looks like a ton of fun regardless of his not so fun (lose half your kit un certain areas) problems, can't wait to blast some enemies in the face!

Hack chest also can be used on gold shrines btw

Hey Woolie quick note; You can actually get extra Microbots from the Umbra of Captain if you have the Artifact of Vengeance enabled. When you kill one of the Umbras, it will always drop an item from your inventory. This includes Captain's Microbots. At time of writing, this is the only way to get their logbook entry.

Visions of Heresy is an arguably good item for Captain aswell: When you use your utility it replaces your normal attack to enable you to select targets, Visions of Heresy gives 12 charges to your normal attack, Suddenly you have 12 shots of your utility.

If his secondary wasn't just to facilitate his utility I could see disabling half of his kit for lore but since taser really doesn't hold any weight on it's own you're just stuck with his primary fire. Also how the heck can we summon support drones in pocket dimensions but not his killstreaks? They come from the same place.

I recently picked up this game, and my friends said I'd love it because Captain is the nickname they gave me and that there's an actual character called Captain. Here now after beating mithrix to learn some tricks so we can beat monsoon as a 4 man group. Wish me luck and never forget the shrines of the mountain

Hey dude - Been playing Ror/Ror2 since release off and on - really was waiting for 1.0 and have recently stumbled on your channel. REALLY liking the content, dude. I appreciate all the knowledge you drop throughout videos - it really is helpful. Keep up the awesome work!!!!

The shattering justice legendary item is very good with this character. He can shatter armor of enemies in 1 shot (depending on the range)

woolie, you are to risk of rain what Mogamu was to warframe. and i thank you for your service in teaching us how the world all fits together.

I’ve been playin him since the update and I gotta say he’s definitely my favorite survivor

Been waiting for this video.

Used the captains ult spell (2 healing stations ) together with a friend who played engineer stacking N'kuhana's Opinion and also used 2Rejuvenation Rack turned out quite fun if you consider standing right where you spawn and killing everything fun

I love the captain for his primary alone, a shotgun that does big damage, what's not to love? I saw the complaint on the Reddit post from your last video about spam clicking but that personally is not an issue for me. The orbital probe is also great. With that out of the way, the rest of his kit is lackluster. You basically forget his M2 and beacons exist late game (I haven't been able to unlock the hacking probe cause rng fucks me, but while it's powerful it's still not very interesting game-play wise edit: I've unlocked it now but haven't used it in a run). Although you could argue this is a "problem" most survivors have in general since items eventually take over for pretty much everything. I was hoping we'd be getting a survivor with actual substantial support abilities, while many (me included) mainly play solo it'd certainly encourage co-op play more if a character could benefit more from having other players around. His beacons don't really scale at all, I'm not sure which stat to attach it to but it'd be nice if they got a range increase from something at least. If you are playing co-op, an engineer turret with fungus is just an infinity better healing beacon because it does scale *and* isn't once or twice per stage. Shock beacon can lockdown an area pretty well but that area is too small. Resupply beacon I'd personally never use because it's not that important to have a limited refill for my equipment item most of the time. and again I haven't been able to use his hack beacon but it sounds useful yet boring.

i had a monsoon game that i ran as captain where i went so long it crashed my computer. i mainly used crit based items and attack speed items. it's literally so insane how strong he is

it should be noted, as i had this tested during one of my runs, that the orbital strike is based off of the number of your attacks of your basic attack, minimum being 3, BUT this can be changed and can scale by 'Visions of Heresy', a lunar item that replaces your basic attack with stacks of rechargeable projectiles with the starting stack being 12, so as long as its recharged to max stacks the orbital strike can fire literally 12 shots of orbital strikes because of visions, this also means it scales, a second visions will grant you 24 shots and so on, pretty niche compared to most builds but honestly purely fun

What's everyone's thoughts on captain losing his orbital beacon and bombardment in hidden realms? Feel like there should at least be alternate abilities to use in those locations instead of just straight up losing abilities

I've found that by getting the preon on stage 3 and using the ressuply beacon you can almost always cheese the final boss on the last phase, which is hella nice for some free wins

I think you underated the shock beacon, my preference is a shock and hack, as the shock beacon keeps enemies permanently stunned, if you just slap it in the teleporter it makes it much easier to manage and you really only need 1 hacking beacon

Woolie: to unlock the captain u need to simply beat the boss Me:one does not simply beat the final boss

I've never played this game in my life, but it was recommended, here i am...

I kind of like how you can’t use utility/ultimate on some stages. It adds to the whole “risk” vs reward theme. Also it just wouldn’t make sense to be able to use those abilities without the orbiter (as that is literally where the attacks come from).

I was extremely underwhelmed by the Captain at first... and then I unlocked the free item pod and picked up a few tri-tip daggers. The captain scales very very well into the late game with a proc game capable of competing with Mul-T. Also if anyone is having trouble landing the orbital cannon shots, just fire it at your feet while running away and all the enemies following you will get annihilated by it. Really good for dealing with Lesser Imps, Crabs etc etc

Great video as always, really helpful

Captain is hands down one of the most fun characters theyve added to the game. Ive been enjoying the hell out of him

“And just to put some icing on the death cake”

I honestly think the chemist sounded like an awesome character idea, mixing potions to get different abilities etc.

I love the Captain, and I didn't expect to. I usually don't love spam-click characters that I can't just hold down the button to spray and pray but they did a really good job with this one. He's quickly becoming my new main. Also while he greatly prefers gettin Abyssal Depths because of his hacking beacon getting Siren's Call isn't even that bad since with his ridiculous base DPS and ability to completely negate the ground pound ability of the Alloy you can very quickly kill it even with mediocre items.

I love going Hardlight Afterburner with captain to obliterate everything with my air strikes.

Some of the things I love about this guy are: 1.) His shotgun can pretty consistently one-shot elite wisps on stage 1 2.) He has a 100-0 true combo against golems on stage 1 (taser, triple airstrike, and sometimes a shotgun blast or two) 3.) Free Legendary Chests, baby 4.) IMO best primary skill in the game 5.) His passive is nuts, as is the stun duration on his taser

Not sure if this has been noted anywhere yet, but I did this with a friend and it worked. Using artifacts of sacrifice and vengeance, and then not grabbing any items until 10 minutes, you can kill your own clones and they will drop the microbots. It's possible for them to drop it later on, but if you have any other item, the chance is instantly reduced to the normal 1%. I did this with a friend at the start of a run giving him microbots as well and it's a very fun way to start, although it does corner you into having these 2 artifacts and not having command

the shattering justice is also pretty good because all those shots like the guy said are individual so hit an enemy with one charged shot activates it instantly.

now i'm wondering how broken hacking would be in mods that increase the amount of "players" there are, while still playing solo. loot would be so clustered together that one beacon could easily net you a big score.

syringes + bleed, such an easy life when you can stack 100-300 bleeds so fast O_o

Scrapping the Microbots and then it popping back into your inventory at the start of the next stage has been fixed. Just tried that and it no longer comes back.

I've found that the shocking beacons can be great for defending teammates who go AFK in bad spots (or yourself if the need arises) as it just keeps reapplying the shock and depending on where the player is, can even shock and interrupt flying enemies.

I only unlocked the captain to play with my friends and only say "I Am The Captain"

If you use the Back-up do those temporary drones get the microbots? Or just purchased drones?

Shatterspleen feels so good on captain I don't know how efficient it is but seeing 8 bleed procs per shot of your shotgun just feels good

When you crit all pellets crit, its pretty fun with the item that increases attack speed when you crit 3 times because if you do it instantly stacks it

I was just watching one of ur videos lol

The first time i picked him up was more like : WTF AM I DOING?! WHY DOES IT DO THIS??? OHHHHH!!!! And this? ... OHHHH!!! haha. Very fun character. I didn't know about attack speed increasing his nano bot. As always, thank you for your videos! :)

Dont know if anyone alradeay posted this but i have cool bug.. ah ammm features for you, if you switch out Captains Primary Attack throw this one lunar item (yea you gotte loos his M1) and then use ur shift/ utility ability while having your m1 up (all 12) you get 12 uses of ur shift. (it also stacks, i got 60 shifts with one use instead only 3 in one of my runs today)

I am loving captain. My fave survivor by far. However, there are a few items i think are absolute god tier on him with his shotgun primary. The new way bleed stacks, tri-tip dagger and the new shatterspleen boss item are absolutely amazing on captain, as well as the shattering justice. One shot from his primary and it shreds their armor. Shattering justice is my favorite item to get on captain. It’s absolutely amazing on him.

"nooo you cant just have the best m1 in the game and get a gold chest for free!!!!" "haha hacking go brrrrr"

can the, hacking beacon reach the red chest thats on the hell levels when it's underground?

My favorite thing to do with captain is to use command to get drone parts and then pick up every drone I can, then just watch as nothing can touch me but hit-scan, and nothing can get near me because drones go brr

"what do you think of the captain? A bit clunky or too op?" LETS JUST SAY that using him has been the first and ONLY character that I have his Alt skin for. He made it SO MUCH easier to get to the end on monsoon because i had 1 healing drop and 1 hacker bot And hes the only one i have made it with. Ive gotten SO CLOSE with the others and SO MANY TIMES with my girl Artificer but none yet (I will only do it with artifacts off)

He feels a bit op. Especially since he counters the whole Vagrant attack-set and his heal is so strong that you could easily stand still for the 5 seconds the early bosses will take him

Though the shocking beacon isn't great at killing stuff, I find its good for setting up orbital strikes, also if placed correctly it can stop smaller enemies from overwhelming you

I find that the stun beacons are useful in the teleporter events, use both of them at the same time near each other and they perma stun most enemies in the teleporter radius

You didn't outline the fact that the hacking beacon will unlock all purchasables within range, so if there are 3 chests, all 3 will become $0 one after the other.

I just thought about this. Could you get Captain's beacons to land on the buttons in Abandoned Aqueduct? The ones you use to open the gate to fight the two elite Elder Lemurians.

(I don't know if this is a glitch or not) if you have visions of heresy as captain it makes it so you shoot TWELVE orbital strikes instead of three, and yes, this increases with more visions of heresy. It's SUPER OP and absolutely SHREDS enemies

I found out yesterday that using the Orbital Strikes with Visions of Heresy actually gives you TWELVE STRIKES IN ONE USE, so long as VoH is off cooldown. No reduction in damage either. Now if you could get a Hardlight Afterburner...

please take some time before doing the tier list for items, all the other ones always kinda felt uninformed and with just a little to less of experience especially regarding the new items. please take your time and explore the new items in every aspect!

This guide brings up a major issue with his kit I noticed while playing him. He has two skills. Shotgun, and orbital strike. Tazer is a joke, the debuff drops off without player interaction once any sort of DoT comes into play or on death effects. And his Beacons are practically a consumed Use item. He needs tweaking.