Risk of Rain 2: How to Find The Beads of Fealty (& What They Do) (2024)

Risk of Rain 2 has some fairly recent additions that include secrets and a handful of surprises. One of which are the Beads of Fealty that held quite an interesting secret for quite a while. With a number of new dimensions, items, and playable characters, the mayhem continues to grow.

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A few hefty changes have been made including the system where the game continues to progress stage after stage until players perish. While this is still the case, players must initiate the process them selves since run's are designed to cycle through 5 stages and 6th being the final boss stage. Repeating stages is essential to fully utilize the Beads of Fealty and this guide will provide players the means to use them.

Obtaining the Beads of Fealty in Risk of Rain 2

There seems to be a bit of variety as to how many ways there actually are for obtaining the Beads of Fealty. While some say it is possible to obtain the Beads of Fealty by purchasing them at the Bazaar between time, picking them up as a random world drops, or opening lunar pods, players can also obtain the Beads of Fealty after completing the "True Respite" challenge. This is also how players obtain the Mercenary. At the start of any run in Risk of Rain, stages used to be set to rotate in some order after each subsequent completion. Now, before finishing the fifth level, players have the opportunity to reset the levels themselves and cause them to "loop". So, while players would be continuing as if it were level 6, 7, then 8, they are starting from the beginning with the first level being the new sixth. Due to the games recent biggest update, the game no longer loops automatically so players have to manually initiate the process. On stage 5 there will be a prompt that pops up next to the teleporter that takes players to the boss stage after finishing the current stage. Clicking that prompt will allow players to realign the teleporter from the moon to the planet forcing the loop to engage after clearing the stage.

After players have initiated the loop, they need to complete 3 more stages where a celestial portal will appear. Not to be confused with blue portals that lead to the Bazaar Between Time. The portal leading to the Bazaar is called a blue portal and takes players to an entirely different dimension. The Celestial portal appears every 3 stages after the first loop and takes players to "A Moment, Fractured", one of the games few hidden realms. There are floating islands that will spawn rocks if players step in the correct spots and lead them down a few other floating islands until they make their way to an Obelisk. This Obelisk allows players to completely obliterate themselves, ending the run completely and reward players with lunar coins. Doing this for the first time is how the Mercenary is unlocked. This should award players the Beads of Fealty where they will have to repeat this same process with the Beads on hand. When the Beads are present, and players go to obliterate themselves, rather than that actually happening they are instead teleported to a new realm "A Moment, Whole" where a secret Twisted Scavenger boss lies in wait to be defeated. Defeating it earns players Lunar Coins and completion of their run.

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Risk of Rain 2 is available on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.