Brass Contraption

The  is a bell-like airborne monster introduced in Risk of Rain 2.

Skill & Behavior
Brass Contraptions float steadily in the air and pursue targets slowly.

Primary: Spiked Multishot
The Brass Contraption's only attack is to summon 3 spiked balls above itself heralded by a clanging sound, which lasts 2 seconds (scales with attack speed). It hurls the balls at its target one after another over 3 seconds, which also scales with attack speed. Each spike ball travels at 80 m/s and deals 500% damage with a proc coefficient of 1.0. The balls will disappear after 6 seconds from being launched, so if they have stuck in the ground, they will remain there cosmetically without dealing any damage if touched.

can block the balls, even when they are stuck in the ground.

This skill has a 5 second cooldown.

Behaviors

 * 1) Use primary and flee: the Brass Contraption must be within 25m from its target. The primary isn't necessary to be off cooldown. This behavior will be active for 0.5 seconds.
 * 2) Use primary and strafe: the Brass Contraption must be within 25-50m from its target. This behavior will be active for 1 second.
 * 3) Chase: no requirements.

Tips

 * It's recommended when fighting Brass Contraptions to always strafe around them clockwise. Since Brass Contraptions always fire the spike balls from their right to left, moving this way will make avoiding the last two shots easier.
 * The Brass Contraption's spike balls travel quickly, are deadly accurate, and deal heavy damage. Players must remain vigilant to avoid being blindsided or struck from a long distance.
 * Being stunned, frozen, or shocked only prevents a Brass Contraption from summoning new spike balls; if it already has prepared them when it is afflicted by the status, the spike balls will be launched regardless.

Version History

 * PS4 & Xbox One Patch
 * Bug Fixes
 * Increased the size of the Brass Contraption hitbox.


 * Anniversary Update
 * Major Content
 * Added New Lore Entry: Brass Contraption


 * PC Patch v1.0.3.1
 * Bug Fixes
 * Mitigated additional causes of Brass Contraption corpses still causing endless hitstop on melee attacks


 * PC Patch v1.0.2.0
 * Bug Fixes
 * Fixed ragdolling causing the hurtboxes of dead characters to become re-enabled (yes, the brass contraption ragdoll + melee bug is finally dead!)


 * Early Access Scorched Acres Content Update
 * Bug Fixes
 * Fix the on Brass Contraptions hanging in the air after death


 * Early Access Patch (Build ID No.3731106)
 * Bug Fixes
 * [Community Found] Brass Contraption bodies can no longer be targetted by clients

Trivia

 * Brass Contraptions have several unused behaviors:
 * The spike balls have unused behavior where they explode on impact with a radius of 6m, dealing 100% damage with a proc coefficient of 1.0 with sweet spot falloff. After exploding, the spike ball would spawn 4 tiny spike balls.
 * There is a spike ball projectile named "bellDevice" which is larger and rounder, with similar properties to the spike ball that is currently used.
 * There is an unused entity state for the Brass Contraption in which it would aim a beam at a nearby ally and grant them invincibility, which would wear off when the Brass Contraption died.
 * In the game's credits, a sketch of a Brass Contraption shooting a laser from its bell appears. It is possible that this behavior was the original attack of the Brass Contraption and was changed later in development.