There are so many things to unlock in Risk of Rain Returns, but there is a problem. Sometimes, it can get really irritating to wander around maps to unlock characters and artifacts in order to progress further.
That is why, there are some things you can do on your own through the save file to make the process easier. In that regard, the following guide will help players in unlocking characters, skins, abilities, and more.
Risk of Rain Returns: How To Unlock Characters, Abilities, Skins, and Artifacts
Players have to make their way to the save.json file through the following path:
- ProgamFiles (x86)/Steam/userdata/1337520/remote/save.json
You can open the save file with any program, and it only works after entering with “flags.” That is why make sure you are in the right place before hitting the save file to work.
Unlocking Characters
Players have to type “challenge_unlock_[charactername]_completed” like:
- Enforcer: “challenge_unlock_enforcer_completed”
- Sniper: “challenge_unlock_sniper_completed”
- Artificer: “challenge_unlock_arti_completed”
- Mercenary: “challenge_unlock_mercenary_completed”
- Engineer: “challenge_unlock_engineer_completed”
- Han–d: “challenge_unlock_hand_completed”
- Chef: “challenge_unlock_chef_completed”
- Drifter: “challenge_unlock_drifter_completed”
- Bandit: “challenge_unlock_bandit_completed”
- Acrid: “challenge_unlock_acrid_completed”
- Pilot: “challenge_unlock_pilot_completed”
- Loader: “challenge_unlock_loader_completed”
- Miner: “challenge_unlock_miner_completed”
Unlocking Abilities
Players wanting to unlock alternative abilities can differentiate between them through the following:
- Primary ability: z
- Secondary ability: x
- Utility ability: c
- Special ability: v
Here are the abilities to be unlocked for each character in the game:
- Enforcer: “challenge_unlock_enforcer_z2_completed”,”challenge_unlock_enforcer_x2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_enforcer_v2_completed”
- Miner: “challenge_unlock_miner_z2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_miner_x2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_miner_c2_completed”
- Artificer: “challenge_unlock_arti_x2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_arti_c2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_arti_v2_completed”
- Engineer: “challenge_unlock_engi_x2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_engi_c2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_engi_v2_completed”
- Pilot: “challenge_unlock_pilot_z2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_pilot_c2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_pilot_v2_completed”
- Sniper: “challenge_unlock_sniper_z2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_sniper_x2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_sniper_c2_completed”
- Bandit: “challenge_unlock_bandit_z2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_bandit_c2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_bandit_v2_completed”
- Drifter: “challenge_unlock_drifter_x2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_drifter_c2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_drifter_v2_completed”
- Han-d: “challenge_unlock_hand_x2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_hand_x3_completed”, “challenge_unlock_hand_v2_completed”
- Loader: “challenge_unlock_loader_z2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_loader_x2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_loader_v2_completed”
- Mercenary: “challenge_unlock_mercenary_x2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_mercenary_c2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_mercenary_v2_completed”
- Acrid: “challenge_unlock_acrid_z2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_acrid_x2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_acrid_c2_completed”
- Chef: “challenge_unlock_chef_z2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_chef_c2_completed”, “challenge_unlock_chef_v2_completed”
Unlocking Skins
There are three kinds of skins in the Risk of Rain Returns, namely, trial skins, prism skins, and completing the last providence trial skin, the last of which every character has unlike the other two.
Trial skin:
- Sniper: “challenge_unlock_sniper_skin_a_completed”
- Pilot: “challenge_unlock_pilot_skin_a_completed”
- Commando: “challenge_unlock_commando_skin_a_completed”
- Miner: “challenge_unlock_miner_skin_a_completed”
- Enforcer: “challenge_unlock_enforcer_skin_a_completed”
- Han-d: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_a_completed”
Prism skin:
- Huntress: “challenge_unlock_huntress_skin_s_completed”
- Acrid: “challenge_unlock_acrid_skin_s_completed”
- Loader: “challenge_unlock_loader_skin_s_completed”
- Artificer: “challenge_unlock_artificer_skin_s_completed”
- Bandit: “challenge_unlock_bandit_skin_s_completed”
- Mercenary: “challenge_unlock_mercenary_skin_s_completed”
- Commando: “challenge_unlock_commando_skin_s_completed”
- Drifter: “challenge_unlock_drifter_skin_s_completed”
Final providence trial skins:
- Han-d: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Engineer: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Enforcer: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Bandit: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Drifter: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Loader: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Artificer: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Pilot: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Acrid: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Mercenary: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Chef: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Sniper: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Miner: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Commando: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
- Huntress: “challenge_unlock_hand_skin_p_completed”
Unlocking Artifacts
You will encounter a total of 14 artifacts in the game. While 12 artifacts are on the map, the artifact of prestige can be acquired by having 15 trials with a golden medal, and the artifact of dissonance is gathered through gathering its pieces.
- Artifact of temporary: “challenge_unlock_artifact_temporary_completed”
- Artifact of glass: “challenge_unlock_artifact_glass_completed”
- Artifact of distortion: “challenge_unlock_artifact_temporary_completed”
- Artifact of honor: “challenge_unlock_artifact_honor_completed”
- Artifact of cognition: “challenge_unlock_artifact_cognation_completed”
- Artifact of origin: “challenge_unlock_artifact_origin_completed”
- Artifact of enigma: “challenge_unlock_artifact_enigma_completed”
- Artifact of spirit: “challenge_unlock_artifact_temporary_completed”
- Artifact of mountain: “challenge_unlock_artifact_mountain_completed”
- Artifact of kin: “challenge_unlock_artifact_kin_completed”
- Artifact of spite: “challenge_unlock_artifact_spite_completed”
- Artifact of command: “challenge_unlock_artifact_command_completed”
- Artifact of dissonance: “challenge_unlock_artifact_dissonance_completed”
Thus, that is all the information players will need when it comes to unlocking all different kinds of things in the game. This will save you a lot of time, literally, and allow you to explore the full gaming experience.
Last Updated on November 13, 2023
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