rogue-core-chat

[brisk mantle]

-# at least I think it's on UE5

[lavish latch]

rogue core gonna be on ue5??

[tall plume]

it is on UE5

[lavish latch]

ohno

[wheat pewter]

yeah

I trust these devs not to fuck it up

[tall plume]

same

[lavish latch]

they wont

[tall plume]

I'll be disappointed if they do 😔

[frank parcel]

UE5 isn't inherently a death sentence

[lavish latch]

-# i hope so

[lavish latch]

sorta it is

[wheat pewter]

UE5 is bad, but most devs that use it decided that optimization shortcuts are the way to go

it's bad but it doesn't have to be that bad

[lavish latch]

none has experience with UE5 so all games on it having shitty optimization

[brisk mantle]

I will be ready to set everything to low

[lavish latch]

My 1060 gonna cry i swear 🙏

[brisk mantle]

Uhd 620

[lavish latch]

🫣

[brisk mantle]

-# I am planning to build a PC in summer so might be alright there

[lavish latch]

how are u even living with that

[brisk mantle]

I consider 20 fps to be good

[lavish latch]

praying for you

[stray hound]

ASBESTOS APPLE

I am sold

[brisk mantle]

The asbestos apple must be a part of the Ramrod

This is nonnegotiable

[sharp spruce]

#announcements message brrroooooo i was so excited until thr april fools text lmao

Didn’t know april fools was today 😭🙏

[native monolith]

It is real info in joke form

[native monolith]

It’s still real!

[median sleet]

Only the asbestos apple is though

[native monolith]

Actually it’s sadly not :(

[median sleet]

Nope, the apple is the only real thing from the trailer

[native monolith]

“All assets besides rogue core equipment are not included” or something like that

I’m sure it’ll be in the ramrod

[median sleet]

That's missinfo spread by DRG to keep us confused

[stray hound]

It's just the gauntlets - on the other hand, HOLY CHIMP ITS THE GAUNTLETS

[native monolith]

Yup

All 4 class abilities confirmed yaye

Supernova, buzzard, S.P.O.T.T.E.R, Stonewall

[upbeat tiger]

That [gear add](#announcements message) reminds me of Atomic heart's upgrade showcases

It makes me think if its inspired by Atomic heart 🤔

[solid crystal]

What's with that code at the end?

[upbeat tiger]

What code?

[solid crystal]

The "phone number"

[upbeat tiger]

Maybe its some kind of joke?

[solid crystal]

Feel like it's an Easter egg

[upbeat tiger]

Or a random number ig

But considering its april fools, devs might want us to call that number :\

[violet tendon]

too long for a phone number

[solid crystal]

It's not a phone number

[native monolith]

It’s a steam key, 100%

Some randomly guy got rogue core

[solid crystal]

Possibly, I already tried and got "invalid"

[native monolith]

I might just be a random string but it could have some importance

It fits like nothing

[violet tendon]

DRG ARG time

[native monolith]

Not steam key format, not a phone number

It looks like a code

But to what I don’t know

[solid crystal]

Definitely looks like a code

We will prob find out after it's too late to use lol

[tall plume]

it's true but I've already collected it

And I can say RC is a banger

playing the game rn

[native monolith]

4800-399-1899-4891-191

THE NUMBERS, WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

[hollow bear]

The toilets on the Ramrod don't even flush. Banger, my butt.

[median sleet]

Oh, so that's why I got a 500gb game called 'rouge core' instead of rogue core

You got it first

[summer dew]

I need to get in that closed alpha, let me innn 😩😩

[violet tendon]

Tried looking at it as a cipher (numbers correspond to letters) but nothing jumps out. Lots of doubles

[native monolith]

35GB: rogue core

465GB: French language pack

[median sleet]

are you sure?

[summer dew]

are you sure?

guess who's finally getting his rouge core

[median sleet]

are you sure?

[summer dew]

pretty sure, threw a core spawn, into space at work

[ripe kestrel]

will rogue core be crossplay? 😔 👆

[tall plume]

probably not

[ripe kestrel]

sad

[hollow bear]

It'll have apples, though

[ripe kestrel]

are the apples crossed and playable?

[hollow bear]

Nope. But they're at least 70% asbestos

[silent basalt]

hmmmmm

[silent basalt]

steam codes are usually aaaaa-bbbbb-ccccc

[hollow bear]

4800 lines of code
399 crashes
1899 apples
4891 dwarves
191 frames of animation

[wheat pewter]

only 191?

[hollow bear]

GSG are cheapskates, this is common knowledge

[violet tendon]

the cryptogram route isn’t looking promising

[sacred depot]

-2580 = August 2025 confirmed

[violet tendon]

there’s too few letters, and the word lengths don’t seem right. you’d expect some 1-2 letter words or a 5-letter word in most sentences

and there would be a lot of double letters

[ripe kestrel]

from base64 it gives this MAAnW1leWQtb but idk if makes any sense

[wheat pewter]

if it was a bit shorter it would be a youtube link

[violet tendon]

number of characters in each set is interesting
4-3-4-4-3

[wheat pewter]

no idea if it actually means anything, could just be a joke that phone numbers would be ridiculously long in space

[violet tendon]

maybe!

I tried translating 192 as “lol” but it didn’t work

[ripe kestrel]

i went too far 😔 thought that the apple would mean the Alan Turing cipher

but nothing, maybe its just a joke anyways

[pale kindle]

God the ad just makes me want to play rogue core more

[silent basalt]

should we make a thread just got possible code solving

So what cipher have we used so far

Alan Turing

[violet tendon]

i’ve been trying a substitution cipher

but i don’t think that’s it

[silent basalt]

well what sucks

I wish I could add an image

but steam keys can follow a format of aaaaa-bbbbb-ccccc
aaaaa-bbbbb-ccccc-ddddd-eeeee
123abcdefghijkl45

[violet tendon]

yeah it’s not a steam key

[compact shard]

Wrist mounted sword seems really cool. I can see people trying gauntlet only challenge with it, if it makes it in

[serene tree]

Ghost ship games is fucking cooking some chef kiss stuff

[native monolith]

The gauntlets are the classes

The Supernova (sword) one is slicer

[violet tendon]

it’s not really like a weapon, it’s more like an ult ability with a long recharge time

so gauntlet only would probably be pretty tough

[compact shard]

That's interesting. I like the falconer one

[violet tendon]

falconeer

falconer + engineer

[compact shard]

People will do anything just to prove they can do it

[violet tendon]

(that’s actually what it’s called, i didn’t make that up)

[compact shard]

Enginer

[tall plume]

it's been pretty much soft confirmed that making build around your abilities will be possible

it won't be your only tool but it can be a central/big one

[odd latch]

the only thing I could wish for is putting those on both of my arms

(or mid fight hotswap, also works)
(it’s an original character schtick)

pretty sure the hotswap thing was already being done

[median yoke]

oh yeagh I wanted to ask now tho

I remember being mentioned 6 "classes" if I'm not mistaken

have they reduced it to 4?

(not saying it's a bad thing, just curious)

[tall plume]

we saw the names of 5, one got shelved until the ability for it is reworked and there has been talks of more being worked on

[fringe narwhal]

I want to throw potions (liquid meth) at the bugs

[steel hearth]

There were two more classes in development mentioned in the latest Q&A livestream: Backtracker and Nanomancer

[tall plume]

(they're not confirmed btw, just things they're trying out rn)

[native monolith]

Oh neat

Haven’t had the time to dig through that one yet

[steel hearth]

I don't think they mentioned what Backtracker's gimmick was, but Nanomancer was compared to necromancy

Pretty sure the phrase "meat golem" was used

[hollow bear]

With the introduction of the the Apple, Nanomancer has been renamed to Nannermancer

[steel hearth]

Bzzrd is very good name for shock bird drone, btw

[native monolith]

If I have time I’ll look through it to see if there’s anything interesting but usually if the info is just the name I don’t think it’s worth putting on the doc

Cool to know they’re constantly coming up with concepts though

[median sleet]

Whatever happened to the phase suit slowing down time ability?

[hollow bear]

It's gorgone

[cobalt ridge]

hey wait a minute
youre not pounce

[median sleet]

In some realities I am, this is not one of them

[native monolith]

I’m still a bit confused on what the suit ability was about

I’m wondering if it was a scrapped concept

[tall plume]

it is a scrapped concept

back then, the game didn't have classes and instead you had "phase suits" which gave you specific abilities.

That has morphed back into classes instead and phase suit got discarded

[native monolith]

Oh that screenshot is very old then

Id assume that’s why it was removed from the store page

Barrage infector bobble head

[fringe narwhal]

Baramge imfemctor

[finite laurel]

Wait now I'm confused as to how the game works, do the classes have more built-in kit than their gauntlet ability?

[neat acorn]

I dont think we will truly know until it releases

they might still change things around

[native monolith]

We don’t know

They had passives planned at one point but I think that got scrapped with the suit abilities

But they might make a comeback

We do know they all have a core ability that can presumably be upgraded

That’s the core of the classes

[neat acorn]

the core of the rogue

[median sleet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dukpdPprMOc Song from commercial according to Shazam and my badly trained ears

[unreal swift]

"Incapacitated employee"... Karl?

[tame veldt]

How does an apple end up with 70% asbestos? Was it part of a test to weaponize them? Was the intention to leave them around, for the local fauna to find and eat so they then would di of an asbestos indigestion? I'd bet $$$ the plan backfired, as the Hoxxes IV wildlife ended up gobbling those up as if they were expensive chocolate candies.

I gotta wonder if Steeve will... appreciate... my apple collection, then. 🤔

[native monolith]

It IS still April fools

[tame veldt]

I know. I'm taking the joke and running with it (and scissors).

A barrel of (non-spoiled) asbestos apples would be a rather important find whenever setting up defenses against a large crowd.

[fringe narwhal]

Would make for good burnable projectiles

[tame veldt]

Oh, that's even worse than was I was thinking of.

[molten nimbus]

theres a hawk too

[native monolith]

Uhhh, are you sure?

[earnest fulcrum]

Wait I just realized

Are these wrist things they announced just April fools jokes?

[tall plume]

the ad is the april fool's joke, the wrist thing are the only part that are actual info

[earnest fulcrum]

Oh ok

[mossy ruin]

they already appeared in pre alpha footage

so they are real

[earnest fulcrum]

Oh I didn’t notice that

[olive narwhal]

It is our first time seeing 2 of them in full form iirc

[tall plume]

they've been significantly reworked and improved for sure

[olive narwhal]

Well i assume the shield gauntlet is guardian

[pseudo ocean]

The real question is, will the testing robot be real?

[olive narwhal]

No

Well not yet anyways

[pseudo ocean]

Bahumbug

[tall plume]

no

[olive narwhal]

And probably never since its a EU5 asset

[tall plume]

the abestos apple won't be either 😔

[pseudo ocean]

GIVE US THE APPLES!

[tame veldt]

Well, dammit, there goes my defense area strategy.

[olive narwhal]

You think the sword bot was also a UE5 asset

[tall plume]

if there's no apples in the ramrod, I riot

[olive narwhal]

Anyways the tech behind the armblade is cool

[native monolith]

Yeah, guardian and spotter are new

Well not “new” but we know what they do now

[native monolith]

It was Ronin Titanfall

100%

[median sleet]

Pretty sure.

Threw a trashbag, into space, at work

[violet tendon]

wait really?

i guess that makes sense

doesn’t fit DRG’s art style

[median sleet]

check the flashing text on the bottom of the trailer

only the gauntlets are real

[olive narwhal]

Its an april fools presentation with some truth in it

[violet tendon]

i assumed they wouldn’t put all that effort into making a robot and then not put it in the game. turns out I was right but not in the way I thought

[native monolith]

its a UE5 asset

i could go check i guess but the way it looks upon inspect i would bet 127 bismor on it

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1166496590672953428/1356704196665282743/image.png?ex=67ed88be&is=67ec373e&hm=b62841bdef29231bcfaafd1ca4b399923ac10af66b2aa46effe3e27dc262ad4e&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1848&height=680
this gun still interests me

it looks like a carbine but I wonder if it shoots bullets or something else

it has a tubular mag

[molten nimbus]

i like the hawk too

[near leaf]

Out of curiosity I’m not 100% familiar with closed alphas.
Will the closed alpha be available for sign up or is it a test done by developers

[median sleet]

Some form of sign up probably yeah

[latent gale]

Nahh🤠

[hollow bear]

someone's out 127 bismor

[median sleet]

Was it a bought asset? or actually made at GSG?

[latent gale]

Everything in the video is 100% Sterling Club Plus-certified homemade stuff. Well, except for the music

[tidal crane]

If I can't flashbang enemies with the Shield Gauntlets I will be disappointed

[hollow bear]

Who modeled the star of the ad, the apple?

[native monolith]

;-;

[steel swan]

they need mor bismor

[late bolt]

doom sword in rogue core

[carmine zenith]

Doom core in rogue sword

[median sleet]

Just for the video? Or the secret third game you guys are working on?

[fresh jetty]

The robot did throw me off a bit as well, doesn’t seem to fit the artstyle (this is not a complaint btw, looks very school)

[latent gale]

I can only say that the robot was basically just hanging around like a freeloader, so I gave him a pity part in the video. The real money went into the apple. The apple sells the whole thing, it’s really the meat of the video. The last year of allocated man-hours were put into that apple in a studio wide effort. There were bloody creative clashes, severed limbs, cold shoulders, but I think the results speak for themselves 😌🙏

🍎

[young vessel]

the apple was a good touch given the recent rise of "asbestos" being said in this server

[carmine spire]

Asbestos

[raven wharf]

An Apple made out of meat? Sign me up!

[south wigeon]

That trailer was awesome. I'm stoked for the wrist weapons.

Anyone else notice the Railgun looking rifle the dwarf was holding?

[silent basalt]

honestly I did

everything looks so cool

[south wigeon]

It really does.

Especially the Barrage Infector with eyes

[silent basalt]

totally forgot about that for like 5 seconds until I remembered

do you think I can mail some banana bread gsg to ask for a playtest?

[south wigeon]

Anything for banana bread

[silent basalt]

honestly

let me look at how much it would cost actually

[south wigeon]

My guy has goals

Depending on where you're mailing from I'm not sure the bread would survive the trip tbh.

[silent basalt]

I don't think it would, but I would at least send some other goodies

[south wigeon]

They get banana bread powder

I mean if they allow it some international sweets would be a good gift.

[silent basalt]

24 to 100 which isn't bad at all

Definitely but I have no idea how different their taste buds are

[south wigeon]

Send them some and you get a letter back that just says "that sucked"

But that's what makes trying international candy so fun

[silent basalt]

God I would laugh till I died, honestly though

I gotta go to bed for now

[south wigeon]

G'night miner. Enjoy your company regulated 4 hours of sleep.

[silent basalt]

may your inbox be with filled with a playtest invite

[south wigeon]

you as well

[latent gale]

Oh by the way

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/441514182718783488/1356695780571746334/TheFlopper.gif

[wary tiger]

silly_spoot.webm

[visual latch]

Cleaned up... Extended version...

[long breach]

I LOVE HIM SO MUCH OH MY GOD

Who's idea was it to even put a silly spoot at the start of the video?? 😂 😂

[fringe narwhal]

Okay mobile does not like that gif lmao

[long breach]

Yeah i think its file size is larger and mobile sputters trying to load it

[cinder quail]

Silly

[finite laurel]

Truly the fruit of your labor

[native monolith]

Yeah, I’m interested what it does. It was a little hard to see what he loaded it with but it could be a magnetic spike

Or it’s a carbine with a tubular mag

[median sleet]

Rogue Core development fund:
10% videogame making
90% googly eye spoot video

[tall plume]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2605790/view/534345939582715197?l=english

[native monolith]

There we go

I think this means triple iii could be characters then

Ayyy we know what gets them through the barrier now

[frigid path]

https://tenor.com/bVrC7.gif

[finite laurel]

Guess we'll have to wait an see, but I still can't figure out if the class is designated "only" by the gauntlet, or if the whole character will have unique designs like the classes in DRG

[native monolith]

There might be more elements but it’s just the gauntlets + upgrades for them (maybe) so far I think

Weapons, movement tools, and exponite perks are universal

We don’t have any concrete evidence of upgrades for the class stuff but there’s a lot of talk around building out your class ability so I think it’s almost confirmed

[atomic ruin]

its peam

[silent summit]

Kinda confused on how to interpret the latest announcement. Do they mean the wrist mounted gear will be in rougue core only, or also in deep rock?

[native monolith]

This is a rogue core thing (below the decks are rogue core dev logs)

The gauntlets are the design gimmick for the class abilities

[silent summit]

Oh, I see. Don't know that much about rogue core, but seems cool!

[native monolith]

The pins in this channel has most of the rogue core info, minus dev streams

I still need to add a little more but most of the big strokes are in this

And this is where most of it is from

[silent matrix]

hm

[forest quail]

man those gauntlets are giving me some DOOM 2016/eternal vibes

[soft locust]

If the weapon animations from the trailer are similar to the ones in the game its gonna be fire

[median sleet]

Reclaimer disclaimer, I am the only Rogue Core player, killing all these mobs they call me a slayer

The reclaimers should rap

[sturdy matrix]

I have a question... Will the twerking dance also be in this game? Is extremely important for me

[random dragon]

That sword is fucking SICK

[warm badge]

We already have information on when the Alpha testing will start.

[oak locust]

These look sick, I thought there was a 5th class though?

[tall plume]

there is, and there will be more than 5 in the future too

but rn they're talking about playable classes

[steel hearth]

I propose that the barrier drone NOT be called Barry or anything similar

[oak locust]

Oooh nice

Also will these dwarves be as jovial as the DRG ones? Because, y'know, they're military

[tall plume]

last stream, they were talking about concepts they were toying with (so not something that is confirmed, just something they're trying)

#rogue-core-chat message

[tall plume]

apparently they'll be more serious overall

though there will be humor still, it's not going to be all dark and gloom

[oak locust]

Ooh those sound cool too

[thin spire]

What enemy is this supposed to be?

[hollow bear]

Barrage infector

[native monolith]

Gorgon was shelved in favor of polishing the other classes, probably for better alpha testing

And then there’s lot of concepts

[tight cargo]

any idea how much the game will cost around release

atleast around what

[median sleet]

probably close to DRGs price

[flat plaza]

I'm going to need two mirrored SuperNova gauntlets, jet boots, and a loooot of red sugar.

[native monolith]

Don’t think you can have two, but hey, we can dream

[flat plaza]

Trust me, I'm Engineer.
I'll make it work. /j

[icy nebula]

I hope pre-order will be soon

[ashen condor]

I doubt it

[barren stone]

Wow those gauntlets are amazing

[glossy heath]

pre-order is not bad, but if we can play it, it will be perfect

[twilit shore]

I am senseing a lightsaber meta coming up
Que starwars theme

[paper schooner]

At the moment the meta is all about electric robot birds. Stacking Falconeer like it's the only freaking class... 😑

[paper schooner]

I hope not...

[tall plume]

Mike about to nerf the class:

https://tenor.com/view/banned-hammer-smash-explode-hit-gif-17254200

[hollow bear]

no twerkclaimers

[steel hearth]

The rest of them smuggled twerking past him once, they can do it again!

[paper schooner]

Literally what keeps me up at night.

[median sleet]

Good, it's my favorite class. Don't dare nerf him

[paper schooner]

Too late

[median sleet]

Well now I am not buying Rogue Core

I will be missed!

[regal knot]

the 4 classes discussed in the below decks aren't the only ones right?

I remember there being a gauntlet that was teased to be able to slow time or smth

[tall plume]

nope

those are just from the "currently playable classes", basically

[ocean cave]

WAIT

A BIRD CLASS

I LVOE BIRDS

already got a main in this game that has yet to come out

ha

[vague orchid]

idk who gorgon is but imma main him

hes mine

[ocean cave]

wait so

if this game was not separated.. there would be new classes in the base drg game?

[native monolith]

I have unfortunate news

Gorgon is currently shelved

[barren stone]

I wonder if he's going to come out on launch

Or will add him later

[barren stone]

My source is that I made it up

[native monolith]

Probably not, but maybe

I’d say definitely not in the alpha at this point

[barren stone]

NOOOOOOO I was preety excited having 5 options for characters

[native monolith]

They’re gonna add more

[barren stone]

Awesome

[native monolith]

This is just the first batch

[barren stone]

MORE GAUNTLETS

MORE

[oak locust]

Guardian looks soooo fun to main that's my kinda gameplay

That or the sword one

heck all of them

How much is the game estimated to be?

CAD or USD if you can please :)

[barren stone]

I would also love to see reclaimer voicelines mentionioning the og dwarves

[barren stone]

SONIC BOOM

[oak locust]

Offtopic but your heroforge scout pfp looks pretty sick, nice job on that

[barren stone]

Ah thank you

[oak locust]

I really hope we get more types of turrets in this game

[barren stone]

This is my fav armor set

[barren stone]

Rocket turrets

[oak locust]

Yeah, also like turrets you can operate

And an electric fence gun might be fun

[barren stone]

Does he know 😏

[oak locust]

👀

What

[oak locust]

Do they have one already? ?

[barren stone]

Engie was going to have this tool

[oak locust]

Like drg engie? It'll be nice if it coudl make a comeback in this game

[barren stone]

Oh for sure it sounded really sweet

[hidden reef]

So I’m confused what rogue core is, will it be a new update to deep rock galactic or will it be a whole new game it’s self

[paper schooner]

Robot-Bird

[supple pike]

how will the closed alpha test work?

[ocean cave]

i lvoe it

robo birdyyy

[paper schooner]

No. Rogue Core classes are very different from DRG classes. One thing we are trying with Rogue Core is to make it easier for us to make more classes.

in DRG a class consists of:

• Primary and secondary weapons with upgrade trees and OCs
• Traversal Tool
• Class Tool
• Grenades

in RC a class is:

• A gauntlet "ability"
• 2 "decks" of personal upgrades (we call those bio boosters right now)
• a class perk or two

[ocean cave]

neatoi

can we play as karl yet?

[paper schooner]

we're not 100% sure yet but at some point we'll open up a signup thing via steam. And then probably give people access in batches.

[ocean cave]

im really genuinely exited to see the bata

hope i can get in even

[paper schooner]

alpha

[ocean cave]

oh alpha

-# keep forgeeting what is that for that stuff

[paper schooner]

Please set your expectations accordingly, this is us kicking off the open development process. It will not be an almost finished game with some stuff missing and a few bugs. It will be playable but raw as hell.

[ocean cave]

i expect to play a game that is not yet finished, yet with en amazing community behind said game

also with my luck im sure it will crash meany times

XD

[neat acorn]

let me iiiiiiiin

[paper schooner]

But this way your feedback can influence the game at a time when it is still flexible

[neat acorn]

yea I'm glad you're taking this approach

different genre, but slay the spire's success is massively influenced by the fact that they took peoples feedback to heart

[paper schooner]

soon(tm)

ish

[neat acorn]

ye

When It's Ready™️

[ocean cave]

i do wish for one thing

[paper schooner]

When it's not on fire

[neat acorn]

lol

[ocean cave]

for the ability to have the biggest wild-ist hair and beard possible to the point it barely counts\ as actually game clutter

or at the very least just stupidly long and bushy

like the dwarf from delishus in dungion show!

[paper schooner]

🙉

[ocean cave]

mmmonkey

-# wait.. is that supposed to mean something

[neat acorn]

🙈

[ocean cave]

i like hair smh

i want to show that in the game!

[neat acorn]

ok but what if reclaimers are all BALD

bald core

[ocean cave]

SCREEEEEE

un-install

remove from library

i aint no elf

xP

[median sleet]

So no colloseum fights?

[neat acorn]

yeah I was really hoping for the trial by combat

[ocean cave]

WAIT WAIT WAIT

has anyone even asked this one yet?

what will be changed about the resupply pod?

[neat acorn]

...I dont think we will even have a resup pod?

unless I misunderstand, I think we'll be working with the resources and equipment we find on site

[ocean cave]

really?

no sort of ore into ammo thing?

[neat acorn]

we dont really know the details

but from the snippets that have been shown, it seems there will be locations where we get to upgrade our gear and - presumably - refill on ammo?

again, this is just me theorizing

I only really have experience with a fps roguelite from like.. Gunfire Reborn

[ocean cave]

i see..

[daring hill]

if there is a mobile resupply i suspect it will be dramatically less useful

maybe even only for one person

[neat acorn]

can't double dip if there's only one dip

[ocean cave]

ill do it anyways

:)

[neat acorn]

mods, order this person a round of leaf lovers

[ocean cave]

gladly

i drink mustard al lthe time

and look at my iq it's only -0

[neat acorn]

lol

[barren stone]

I hope they reclaimers have some voicelines mentioning the miners

[barren stone]

NO NITRA?

Impossible

[finite laurel]

Has any dev tried the game out on Steam Deck?

DRG runs amazingly on SD despite not being verified, wondering if Rogue Core is any different

[native monolith]

Oooo have the bio-boosters been reworked? They’re class specific now?

[finite laurel]

Interesting, guess it makes sense to have them specific so they can synergize directly with the gauntlet, a guardian needs different buffs compared to a spotter

[native monolith]

Seems like a good idea to have it be a different set of upgrades

Because the exponite upgrades kinda overlapped from what we saw in the OTH

[paper schooner]

Yes-ish the idea is for you to be able to move the bio booster decks around. Like maybe after you max level a class that classes bio boosters become available for use in other classes... that part still only lives on paper

[paper schooner]

We're actually not making them directly related to the gauntlets but instead focus on a class theme.

For example one of Slicer's decks has melee focused boosts. But it's still very usable by another class with stuff like the pickaxe and the drills.

[finite laurel]

I see, that's cool

[native monolith]

That sounds interesting. I guess the closest comparison would be how roboclass does upgrades, but now you can mix them between classes?

[finite laurel]

Nice to have a true melee class in RC, that was such a common suggestion for DRG but didn't quite fit there

[paper schooner]

Not sure if I would really call it a true melee class though. You can't play with the blade alone. You need another weapon as well.

[native monolith]

Yeah, it seems to be a melee asset instead of the whole build

But I’d imagine running shotguns as the slicer and going for cooldowns on the ability would be pretty damn close

[tall plume]

while you're here, can I annoy with something about the gauntlet ?
Why does guardian seemingly have two abilities (a push and a barrier) but other classes seemingly don't ?

[native monolith]

Good point

I didn’t really think about that but could this imply ability alternates?

[paper schooner]

1. It's not a barrier, more of a repulsion zone

2. It felt too passive and I wanted Guardian to have a more active ability

But the repulsion field was still cool so we kept that as well

[finite laurel]

Of course, I moreso just meant a dedicated melee weapon

[paper schooner]

It does nothing against ranged threats

I'm very open to expanding the other classes to have different stuff on RMB and LMB when the gauntlet is out...

maybe Slicer could reflect projectiles with the blade back to their shooter

or something

[native monolith]

Spotter could have like a radius ping that highlights enemies? Like titanfalls pulse blade if anyone gets that

[median sleet]

falcon drones could self destruct with a big explosion

BZZRD it's called right?

or something

[native monolith]

Buzzard gauntlet yeah

I don’t think the bird has a name

I elect to name it Corbin

[paper schooner]

Just a heads up that the names from the April 1st video are not canon

at least not yet

[native monolith]

Oh good to know

[median sleet]

They sounded good

[hollow bear]

I bet SPOTTER is legit . Aaron put too much effort into that in the advertising

[native monolith]

Creating an realistic acronym for that deserves applause

[tall plume]

Idk, maybe it's balanced/can be balanced somewhere else, it just feels weird to have 2 abilities for one class but the others don't get the same thing/the same love.

[gaunt bronze]

I’m curious about how gauntlets will behave in the game. Will they be sorta like other weapons/tools where you can pull them out whenever you want although they might run out of ammo/charges that need to be replenished, or will they be like abilities that can be activated by pushing a button and only lasts for a period of time before they go to cooldown?

[paper schooner]

I mean the spotter's darts also do two things. Leaving a zone if hitting terrain or sticking to enemies if hitting directly.

[paper schooner]

A mix of both

Hold Q to bring up gauntlet (LMB/RMB) for various effects.

release Q to return to previous item

on some gauntlets tapping q quickly triggers the ability

but most need to be aimed

[finite laurel]

Ideas for secondary abilities of the other classes:
Spotter: fires a single explosive projectile similar to the projectile launch system in Cyberpunk 2077
Bzzrd: Autonomous roaming mode
Supernova: energy stab, launches the beam in a straight line

[paper schooner]

Buzzrd already has a roaming mode if you launch it without looking at a target. RMB to recall.

[median sleet]

Changed my mind, I'll be buying Rogue Core after all

[paper schooner]

Yay!

[median sleet]

I am very easy to influence

[hollow bear]

Bzzzrd also picks up small rodents and brings them back so you can eat it

[median sleet]

My cat does that already

[latent gale]

Oh yes that is very much true. Aaron and I were absolutely freestyling when we came up with the names. In fact, most of the stuff in there was generally something I pulled out of my ass. Well, except for the ACTUAL gauntlets and what they do

[median sleet]

Too late, they're canon now

[paper schooner]

Where did you pull those out of then?

[hollow bear]

Aaron's ass

[finite laurel]

Ok ok. Two drones

It drops an egg that hatches a smaller drone

[latent gale]

From my spurt hole 😌 🙏

[median sleet]

Screenshotted

second questionble dev screenshot for my library

[finite laurel]

Honestly though those names are really good, I figured they were legit

[latent gale]

Well he DID come up with the SPOTTER acronym. I didn't even know "enfeebling" was a word

Also, I gave the robot the name AL_bot (Artificial Liaison_bot). Even though he's NOT canon, he still needed a name I feel ✊ 😔

[hollow bear]

There must be room for bro on the Ramrod

[latent gale]

I mean, SOMEONE needs to clean the place 🤔

Also, just to deflate Robotgate a bit, it is actually just a model I made five years ago for a portfolio piece. I needed some goofy character in there for the video, and just looked through my old junk pile. So sorry guys, it wasn’t really made for Rogue Core. - https://vimeo.com/1071551068

But who knows, maybe he could get a job as a janitor on the space ship at some point, if he goes on a diet and cuts down on those polygons

[tall plume]

CashMahal Magic Hole

[latent gale]

I feel the Holey Spirit entering me 😊🙏

[ripe kestrel]

just by curiosity since when u guys were developing rogue core?

[native monolith]

Like when did they start?

[wheat pewter]

you're meaning to tell me the robot that doesn't fit drg's art style whatsoever wont be in the actual game? unsubscribed 👎

[wheat pewter]

roughly started in early 2023

[latent gale]

I know, it’s absurd! 😭

[pallid beacon]

tbh I didn't expect the robot to be in the game, but it was absolutely the perfect lil guy for the video, amazing work guys

honestly when I saw the video, even though I knew it was apr 1st I was surprised at how good it was

[acoustic shell]

I hope that the trailer that’s coming on the 10th of April will be both gameplay but also a release trailer. As the roadmap last year said that we’d get early access launch in November 2024.

[tall plume]

the new roadmap has been pinned in this channel, you should check it out

[acoustic shell]

Where?

And when?

[tall plume]

#rogue-core-chat message

[acoustic shell]

Ty

I mean I’m fine with waiting for Rogue Core.
I’m excited for the game just like I was when I saw DRG in early development.

[chrome sundial]

Oh so the upgrades will work somewhat like roboquest

Love that game

[latent gale]

well honestly, there is a bit of a tendency in here where, if someone made something cool, no matter if it was part of the original plan or not, it has a chance of being put in at some point because people at the office get hyped about a thing. So who knows, maybe we'll have apples one day

[tall plume]

I want at least one apple in the ramrod, as an easter egg

plz ? 🥺

[latent gale]

But really, that whole video was made because Aaron needed some footage for the Below Decks article. Then someone said something about a video on Instagram of Trump hawking Teslas in front of the white house where someone put cheesy 80's TV-commercial music over it. And then, one and a half week later, badabing! - goofy Reclaimer video

[astral dome]

What do we think the requirements for rogue core play testing will be?

[pallid beacon]

Absolutely love that kinda goofiness, the name cashmahal is peak too, I didnt realize it till now lol

[hollow comet]

A computer is a solid start

[astral dome]

Yes

Let's go

[native monolith]

1. comptuar that can run rouge coer
2. stem accuont
3. we dont know

[astral dome]

Alright

Good to know

[median yoke]

I'm pretty curious that like

up untill when rogue core's setting were announced

I thought the miners from drg were very heavily equipped

and to think these reclaimers are supposed to be a "elite in combat" thing

like a swat

[median yoke]

and eager to see what equipments could top off a mini atomic bomb fot example lel

nonetheless I really liek it

[vivid token]

what exactly is rouge core?

[visual latch]

Spinoff in development

Check pins for more

[chrome sundial]

A not mini atomic bomb

[daring hill]

id reckon having a decent amount of gameplay in DRG would be one

not letting anyone who played it once and dropped it get access

[old swift]

i'd imagine it will be the same as drg survivor, you request access on the steam page and people are randomly picked

[astral dome]

thats true ok thanks

[wintry cliff]

for drg the closed beta was open to pretty much anyone, but the playerbase was just like 100 people worldwide then

which is a bit ironic

hoping to get into this playtest too, tho. Ive played so much drg that even modded lost its spark

[ocean cave]

let us hope that rogue core is a fresh new beer for them gray beards

or.. something liek that

[plain grove]

what da heck a rogue core

[long breach]

new separate game from DRG. Read the pinned messages in this channel and check out the steam store page for more info

[final narwhal]

Okay but what is a rogue core
Is the core of hoxxes rebellious?
Or will it sneak attack me for 1d8 peircing?

[finite laurel]

Idk, but I wanna try it out on Steam Deck

[tall plume]

Yes

[finite laurel]

No it's just a new DRG update all the dwarves will get outfits with hoods and pickaxes that look like daggers

So they're totally rogue core

[cerulean shuttle]

do you think they're gonna do more classes post release

[tall plume]

yes

they've pretty much confirmed they're gonna add more classes

I expect the game to sit around like 6-8 classes when hitting 1.0 (just a personal assumption, though)

[cerulean shuttle]

epic

they should also add paid lootboxes and gambling

and cigars

[visual latch]

Paid skins (can in theory be grinded for, practically not)

[native monolith]

Rogue core is soft confirming the “hoxxes is alive” theory

[ripe kestrel]

are we going to get some karl gameplay in the rogue core?

[tall plume]

no

[ripe kestrel]

😔 ✊

[neat acorn]

Karl became the planets core

Rogue Kore

[subtle frigate]

rokarl kare

[compact shard]

The surgeon general doesn't like smoking, so that might prevent the game from being available in the us

[neat acorn]

prob much like in DRG - there will be alcohol, but adding cigs would bump the age rating too high

[vapid robin]

I'm pretty sure they've confirmed beers, so it won't happen, but it'd be funny if they went the opposite direction and had a smoking lounge/bar with cigars that the dwarves smoke for buffs/funny effects instead

beers are obviously more dwarvish anyway

[random laurel]

Did this get a release date?

[random laurel]

I don't think they'd want to promote smoking idk

[vapid robin]

for sure, I agree. I think it'd be a funny parallel to the gunner being the only dwarf depicted with a cigar, and he's the most obvious military one like the reclaimers are going to be

no release date yet, too. still Q2 alpha and late this year EA planned as far as we know

[random laurel]

Thanks g

[random laurel]

Yeah I too think it'd be cool because "yeah dwarves drink, smoke cool for rock n stone", but I have conflicting thoughts because both are bad for you. Idk just thoughts

[tall plume]

Q4 2025 for early access is the best thing we got

[random laurel]

I have so many expectations, I think it's gonna be great

[native monolith]

Not like chugging your body weight in alcohol is any better but yeah

They can’t add cigarettes due to ratings in a couple places

But in the art is ok I guess

[native monolith]

Well, also the Q2 alpha but not everyone will get in

[tall plume]

and it's not really a release so those are the 2 reasons for me to not really talk about it when they ask for a release date ^^

[native monolith]

Fair enough

[median sleet]

Or getting bit by giant bugs

[keen shuttle]

[paper schooner]

Can confirm that this is still the plan

[native monolith]

i was gonna say "last i checked we cant do this in real life" but then i remembered australia

[wintry cliff]

playing any shooter on steamdeck feels like hell

tried to play drg on the deck, impossible

[finite laurel]

I’ve been playing it, honestly I got into it

It helps that most enemies aren’t super fast

[median sleet]

was the gun from the april fools trailer also just a model they had laying around?

[wheat pewter]

good point

might be a real rogue core weapon, maybe a cut one?

[native monolith]

I put it on the doc anyway but they did say that anything besides the gauntlets isn’t part of the announcement

[wheat pewter]

can mean anything, early weapon model, maybe not actually implemented in the game right now? they forgot that weapon was in the video? we'll see

[native monolith]

So far I think we have seen only 2-3 weapons actually in rogue core and not just concepts or in selection screens

Might only be two actually, the charge blaster and this one

[olive narwhal]

The names in the vid also were apparently not the actual ones which is a shame cause S.P.O.T.T.E.R was great

[latent gale]

https://tenor.com/view/howdy-tom-and-jerry-tom-the-cat-jerry-the-mouse-cowboy-gif-16144582

[median sleet]

Is... Is that a yes?

Are you flirting with me?

[finite laurel]

I hope it’s real it looks cool

[finite laurel]

This would be #4 if it’s real and also the first non-pistol, we’ve seen the blue pistol, the charge pistol and an orange revolver-looking one in the stream when they showed off Ellis

[tall plume]

the style of the gun is definitely feeling like DRG to me

[latent gale]

Well, we got stuff. Bits and bobs ya know. But unfortunately I can’t post any images on this channel, so you’ll just have to imagine

[native monolith]

I’m thinking the orange revolver was an early version of the charge blaster we see in the OTH

But yeah the blue pistol makes 3

[median sleet]

Trinkets, odds and ends, that sort of thing?

[tall plume]

Trinkets, jewels and baubbles, paid for in blood.

[latent gale]

Lets just say you might be able to feel like an Astartes, a tiny bit. Somewhere. Maybe.

[dapper crescent]

Dwarf, Astartes and DoomGuy all rolled into a Beer chugging package?

[summer tiger]

We gonna become yet another Primaris Lieutenant Space Marine model?

[autumn yoke]

FOR THE EMPEROR KARL!

[latent gale]

YOU WILL TAKE ANOTHER ULTRA MARINE SLOP PIECE, AND YOU WILL LIKE IT

[neat acorn]

maybe they put Karl in the dreadnought

...the 40k one

not the drg one

[vague orchid]

I have a theory, a GAME THEORY

So I was rewatching the rogue core dev stream, and saw the spawnmenu for all the critters. Mainly I was focusing on the "Krizzok Boomtick Spawner" and the "Rafkan Augmentor spawner"

I bet the booktick is a little bug that suicide bombs you, and the augmentor must be a smaller version of the thrasher. (Obv)

Their spawns are most likely similar to the Brood Nexus and Naedocyte Breeder, as one is grounded and one is flying

[native monolith]

im thinking the augmentor might be a buffer

boomticks are probably like exploders

[vague orchid]

if its being spawned then it might be similar to a shocker

like a swarmer

but yeah like i said the boomtick is obviously a mini exploder lol

but now that i think about it, it could be because there was a cut naedocyte called the plover that gave warden buffs

[ashen condor]

I know I'm 100% wrong, but I'm picturing a cross between the skin chunk enemies that swarm you in Dead Space, and the needler from Halo. Let too many get on you and BOOM

[steel swan]

"face my boomstick, boomtick!" -some dwarf after killing the krizzok with the sawed-off shotgun

[gaunt bronze]

I hope boomticks would latch on to dwarves for a few seconds before they explode, as they are “ticks”

[sand vale]

Like the azure weald exploders from survivor maybe

[thin siren]

It is Unreal engine 5 for Rogue core?

[median sleet]

yes

[daring hill]

oh what

that's news to me, i though it was still UE4

[median sleet]

I'll try to find the source

or maybe I'll find out I hallucinated that

https://youtu.be/x4_YBtV71IU?t=3124 Thank you for the google doc @native monolith

[frank helm]

The trailer better be banging

[violet tendon]

i have no doubt it will be

[glad sonnet]

I hope it shows off a boss, Im curious how they will be designed

[vague orchid]

hell yeah

its all ive been thinking about when it comes to drg, cant wait to see more enemies!

[vague orchid]

sounds likely, or maybe they are like swarmers that burst on your ankles

[native monolith]

Swarmers but their only goal is to get inside your boots

[random laurel]

This looks so good, but I'm kind of concerned about how you need to decide who gets which upgrade every time. Feels like it might get sucky with some people

[vague orchid]

definitely, you need to communicate with your team and decide who needs an upgrade the most. sometimes, it might be first come first serve

[steel swan]

I can see one player acting as the dedicated "take what's left" player (probably will be me)

[vague orchid]

hopefully players know what game they signed up for, so they dont get mad when upgrades are taken

[steel swan]

in early access I have a feeling everyone will be trying to grab the new weapons not in base drg first

and at least there are 5 options so the 4th player doesn't have to be forced to pick an option

[vague orchid]

yeah im going for the new weapons for sure, and my beloved deepcore AR

I found the spawn console for enemies, imma post it in gallery

[native monolith]

It’s in the doc as well

[vague orchid]

doc?? what doc

[native monolith]

.

Been working on this for a while

[vague orchid]

i see

[steel hearth]

Which player chooses first rotates after each choice, and the number of weapons/upgrades to choose from will be the number of players + 1

[dreamy vigil]

interesting.

[paper schooner]

It doesn't. We're still exploring the whole "What is an RC boss fight"

[ashen condor]

I think that's where you beat up the CEO of RC Cola

[paper schooner]

Go on...

[ashen condor]

I guess the dwarf squad will wait out in the parking lot and ambush anyone walking out who's dressed fancy enough

Just need RC Cola to move their main office into the depths of Hoxxes, I guess

[paper schooner]

That and an always-available option as well.
For weapons this is to increase your total ammo capacity.
For upgrades this is to increase your total HP

[tiny depot]

So Next update is November? That’s too long 😭

[paper schooner]

Update?

[sand vale]

I want there to be at least one massive boss. I want something absolutely titanic. Massive thing. Beast.

[median sleet]

I want there to be at least one minuscule boss. I want something absolutely tiny. minuscule thing. Bacteria.

[wheat pewter]

I want there to be at least one average boss. I want something absolutely normal. Standard thing. Creature.

[finite laurel]

Will Rogue Core have its own soundtrack? Or is it going to use the same music as DRG

[wheat pewter]

new ost

[finite laurel]

It'll be interesting to hear from a new composer

[wheat pewter]

I think they brought back the same one

you can hear the supposed style of the ost during the Core Stone event

[frank helm]

Good

Never change a working system

[median sleet]

Same one is coming back, but the sound engineer? (IDK what his job was called) who helped with the DRG tracks is no longer working at GSG

[wheat pewter]

sound designer is new, everything in Season 5 and Rogue Core is the new guy

maybe Season 4 as well? don't remember

[median sleet]

According to his youtube description he's a sound designer and composer. Here's an example of how he helped with 'in the belly of the beast'. https://youtu.be/2boPUegwO5M?si=tAVxvHLTdTTHvjFo

[tall plume]

Troels left last year IIRC, replaced with Joachim (new sound designer onward)

[median sleet]

I wonder if he'll also help with the new ost like TRJ

[tall plume]

No idea if he has any background in music like Troels does so IDK 😄

[neat acorn]

Maybe we will get the core stone track on streaming platforms after RC drops

I need iiiit

[daring hill]

I hope they upload it youtube themselves at least, but there are rips floating around, and I ripped it from the files myself months ago

sadly most of those rips are from the experimental build, which had a version that was 4 minutes long, compared to the 2 minutes in the final game

[rare quarry]

We have Sophus on board again as our composer to make some new sick music. He's really good

[finite laurel]

Oh sweet, am I misremembering who left GSG?

I just remember someone sound and/or music related leaving

[rare quarry]

Troels was our audio engineer, but I believe Sophus was the music composer

Troels left last year, so you're not misremembering

[finite laurel]

Ah right

BTW on the topic of Rogue Core, can I ask if anyone has tested it on Steam Deck yet? just curious if it currently runs

[rare quarry]

On our side, it's a bit early for these things. We are currently 100% focused on prototyping and iterating on the game, but at some point we will probably start looking at console ports and such

[olive hound]

Will there be real "Darkness"?

[young vessel]

or real "Danger"? or real "Dwarves"?

[neat acorn]

Safety. Light. Elves

[proven solstice]

One question I still have is around the roguelike elements. Like, obviously equipment/perks will be per run, in contrast to DRG, but given the co-op nature of the game, I'm assuming the meta progression will still have certain things like Promotion levels, cosmetics (obviously), etc. Will there also be things like weapon mastery? Will I need to make 4 characters, one for each of the classes, or is the class chosen at the start of the mission?

[daring hill]

That actually raises a good question: What will be the "default" reclaimer outside of any mission look like? There wouldn't be value in letting you pick a class in the ramrod, and they definitely won't be adding a shooting range or any way to test things outside of a run, for the same reasons you can't do that in DRG: so you can test things in a live environment. (It was never technical limitations)

But anyway I definitely don't think you'll need 4 profiles, that'd be silly

[native monolith]

SAFTEY??? OSHA??? RUN

[daring hill]

Any progress that's permanent and for a specific class will simply get saved

But weapon mastery specifically will never be class specific

A class in rogue core is simply a starting ability and nothing else

[finite laurel]

Apparently it’s more than that now

The class governs what perks you can equip

[ripe kestrel]

there will be any stealth mechanic or class related? i would love to see like the ability to turn transparent and making the enemies not able to see you for a moment so u can grab a important resource or heal an ally

[median sleet]

Have you ever seen a stealthy dwarf? I have, and I think that tells you all you need to know.

[ripe kestrel]

i mean its the future on drg there is spaceships, why not like a cloak that make u transparent

[neat acorn]

stealth armour made out of a living glyphid stalker

[ripe kestrel]

true like u get the carcass of one in your armor and gives a eletric shock making it activate when u need it

[daring hill]

Stealth mechanic or a cloaking device would be cool, but I can't think of a use case

Without content explicitly made where that could be valuable

Maybe some scenario with a ton of corespawn eggs, and you need to be really careful or they'll hatch

[olive hound]

Revive or moving to HVT without being attacked/seen

[neat acorn]

mess with your teammates while they can't see you

RC will have a random match finder, right? as in, same idea as drg?

doubt I'm getting my buddies to play this if I couldnt get em to play deep rock

[chrome basin]

Is there any news on posible bosses??

[tall plume]

no

[chrome basin]

[native monolith]

They exist

[severe nymph]

i wonder if the robots will still exist

i doubt they would shelf a whole faction like that

[native monolith]

They can and they will

I heavily doubt the rivals will be in rogue core

[severe nymph]

aw

any reason or do you just hate robots

[native monolith]

I don’t get why people are sad that all the DRG factions are not making appearances

Because to me that would be really boring

[severe nymph]

i think if they did add old factions it could add a new breath of life

and i want lore

[native monolith]

I don’t think it would, I think it would do the opposite in fact

A breath of… stale air because we’ve had them for years now

Now we shall get the new cool corespawn and shatterclaws and rafkan and what not

[severe nymph]

that is true

i just think if robots returned they could do cooler stuff with them cus frankly as of right now there, okay? i guess

not huge on them

[ocean cave]

if so then why continue playing the old drg game then?

might also be why

[severe nymph]

Thays actually a fair point

If core has only new creatures that'd be kinda sick

[ocean cave]

yeah

besides i think the whole core gameplay is so diffrent (if what i know is right) that if say.. the rongue core thingy of purple portals (in the normal drg) was also in here it would not really fit

also no gunner shield/ziplines

soo..

[severe nymph]

True true

[ocean cave]

also iv heard one of them dwarfs in this new game has a robo bird

I LOVE BIRDS

:>

[ocean cave]

will rogue core have a rongue core?

[severe nymph]

The bird looks so awesome o hope if there's grenades you can use both the bird and shredders and just never worry about bugs again

[pure vessel]

No weapon mastery as of now, but it's not unlikely that we'll explore those options. For now the meta progression we have are enhancements that you can equip before a run.

In terms of classes, you choose the one you want to use for the run before you head out.

[pure vessel]

We're looking into being able to upgrade and mod your special ability and bio boosters.

[pure vessel]

We have ideas for a " sneak fear build" of upgrades that allows you to reduce detection, be undetected momentarily, scare tactics and surprise attacks of sorts. Not sure where that will go yet, since it would maybe not work so great in solo.

I'm thinking along the lines of Reaper from overwatch or a Rogue / assassin Class from DnD. Could be that we need a class instead of a build, but nothing is set in stone.

[severe nymph]

Wooah they actually respond to stuff no way

[daring hill]

honestly i'd figure something like that would be more useful in solo. that build in co-op would just have the enemies target someone else, while in solo they wouldn't target anyone

I am really curious to see what application a sneak build could have in RC, when just killing the enemies would be largely a better option. Maybe it can force bugs to outright despawn?

[manic sleet]

Will there be gadgets or skills for advanced movement techniques?
I like to go fast and learn difficult mechanics for that

[native monolith]

This is how we get a third of our info

[native monolith]

Meh, despawning enemies sound a little lame. I think the reason it would be more useful in multiplayer is because there’s other people for enemies to focus on, not just you, allowing you to be more sneaky or run after important things that need to die

That’s the main job for scout in a team dynamic so I’d imagine that’s what they’d go for

[pure vessel]

Sure, if you have questions, I can try to answer 🙂

[pure vessel]

Oh, let me rephrase. The way our AI works, makes the player less targetable difficult when solo, if I remember correctly. However there will likely be options to make it work. We'll see! I haven't had a chance to work on it yet, it's all just ideas.

[pure vessel]

I mean there's an upgrade that makes you run fast and damage enemies you run into, but not sure there will be any advanced techniques are involved in using it.

[fringe narwhal]

"I'm the juggernaut, brother!"

[pure vessel]

The game changes a lot sometimes, so some of these upgrades will probably change 😭

[fringe narwhal]

Juggerdwarf

:p

[fringe narwhal]

As it goes with game development lol

[violet tendon]

oh yeah, are there grenades?

[native monolith]

We actually know of 0 grenades so far

I’m sure they exist

[gaunt bronze]

Are weapon overclocks from Deep Rock Galactic gonna be added to Rogue Core? And if they are, do they show up as random traits on weapons?

[native monolith]

We don’t know too much about OCs right now. Some might get turned into unique weapons though, like fat boy

[ripe kestrel]

i was surprised too usually devs don't reach their community to answers and interaction directly, so far the 1st dev company that i see doing this

[pure vessel]

Yes

[pure vessel]

Yes and no. It will not be a 1:1 addition. For instance, I imagine some of them will not be added because they're just stat changes, which are now just random attributes a weapon can get. But something like the Hyper Propellant OC has been turned into a weapon instead, because the gameplay is fun.

Overall if an OC changes or offers new cool mechanics, they can become weapons, if they're stat changes only they'll end up as attributes. Ricochet bullets is one of the mechanics that can be an attribute.

Also I don't think we want negative attributes on weapons. That's reserved for the artifacts.

[lilac heart]

So, say, weapon functionality „game changers” would/could be something like having a special ability tied to a reload button, like some OCs do, right?

[pure vessel]

Yeah something like that. But I think explosive reload could easily be an attribute or level up

so we have to look at it on a case by case basis

[lilac heart]

Cool. Thanks for the insight!

[gaunt bronze]

Thank you! By “turned into a weapon”, do you mean a different weapon from the PGL? And also what are artifacts? Are they gonna have their own slots?

[pure vessel]

but something like the fatboy or hyper propellant changes the PGL so significantly and are so powerful they need huge downsides. So by making new weapons we don't have to be "too careful" with balancing.

[pure vessel]

I think this term might be something we use internally. Often the uinstable overclocks change weapons so drastically they almost turn into different weapons. Like the Cluster OC for Thundercannon for instance.

In Rogue Core that could then be a different weapon, if we wanted it to be. It's easier to do that at least, but not impossible to just add to the thunderhead if you find it.

I imagine it would be best to have cluster charges or salvo module as OCs on the missile launcher if you find it, rather than turning into a new weapon. But again, having a new kind of shotgun could be an option instead of having salvo module as an OC.

So yeah there's a lot of stuff we can do.

Right now we're not focusing on that too much, instead working on some other systems that the weapons can utilize instead.

one of those being the elemental system, which is getting a redesign.

Giving the weapons random attributes and elements and all that will generate so many options for weapons, that OCs probably aren't needed very much.

[lilac heart]

Oh, so weapons with predetermined damage components like Fire/Radiation for Colette Wave Cooker could roll different % damages instead? Say Electric/Kinetic or Piercing/Radiation?

[pure vessel]

Yeah something like that. We're still working out the details, but you could find a Blowthrough Fire Shotgun

or a Richochet Poison Subata

then you can upgrade it as you play. Also a WIP.

but the idea is that as you ugprade it, it levels up and they also come with rarities.

a lot of these things are up in the air and being discussed.

[gaunt bronze]

That makes a lot of sense, thank you for your answers!

I have one last question tho, will players be able to drop weapons for others to pick up?

[pure vessel]

No

Maybe if we introduce "found weapons", but that's not on the table at all.

[violet tendon]

Will they be the same ones from DRG, new ones, or a mix? and how do they work with classes? do you pick grenade type before dropping or does everyone start with like frag grenades and you can change them as the game goes on?

(oops sorry for ping)

[pure vessel]

Likely a mix. Nothing has been decided yet.

Also you find grenades in the caves, you don't bring them with you, but you'll be able to switch them out for other ones. Or carry different types. 🙂

[violet tendon]

thanks!

[tall plume]

that only engage my opinion but this sounds cool

[lilac heart]

It’s huuuge for providing more means of engaging with the rogue-like elements. I’m only a little worried, at least the way it sounds now, that it might be a little too random with all the options available

But I trust in GSG to come up with a solution to that

It’s just a lot of complexity that may backfire, is what I’m worried about

[native monolith]

What exactly are artifacts? I don’t remember them being discussed anywhere

Are they similar to unstable overclocks with an upside and a downside, but for you instead of a weapon?

[pure vessel]

It's a type of upgrade 🙂

[pure vessel]

Yes and no. They'll come in a lot of shapes and sizes.

[pure vessel]

Yeah maybe. We spot these things as they come and will try to address it as we go. However we do have certain rules of what kinds of things you'll get from each pool of upgrades, and we'll expand on those if things are not working out.

Our process is extremely agile, so we'll nip the buds or tweak as soon as such problems arise.

[lilac heart]

Yeah, first thing that came to me as a potential solution would be „well let’s assume that weapons would have certain element buckets they could get elements from, so that the pool is not too diluted, especially with say, less intuitive element options”

[pure vessel]

sure that's a way to do it, but right now I don't think it's a problem that all weappons can get all elements. As long as it's not everything at once.

A limitation would be that they won't come with two elements at once, or that no all weapon options presented have elements. There's tons of ways.

However, sometimes we do want some element combinations because we are working on synergies between them.

such as ice + fire = temp shock

but at this point it's too early to say what happens, we'll have to adress it as we go

[lilac heart]

In any case, I’m looking forward to whatever you brew.

[olive hound]

Sounds like a cocktail of fun to me.

[ocean cave]

will there be items/oc or such that are jokes, like very rare to get, but do nothing if anything make things terriblely funny say.. bullets turn to confetti but the nockback is x45

[lilac heart]

It reads antithetical to the design philosophy GSG follow

[ocean cave]

ah, still though it would be funny i suppose

[lilac heart]

But who’s to say, really

The matter of fact is, they don’t have anything planned in advance for S6 of DRG until Rogue Core is out of the door for early access

And it probably will be in a hyper care period for at least a few months post release

[ocean cave]

cant wait to play rogue core

but i guess ill just wait

[median sleet]

Yeah, they're adding micro flechettes

[pure vessel]

No

[ocean cave]

darn

[hollow bear]

Rogue Core is srs

[pure vessel]

but not TOO serious

[hollow bear]

I expect goofs and gaffs. Yall are still Ghostship

[median sleet]

I only expect gaffs

[ocean cave]

i expect... uhhh a neat new game ig

[fringe narwhal]

I expect a rogued core

[ocean cave]

ok, but what about a docile core?

[olive hound]

Even the earth's core is not docile

[ocean cave]

well... then you can blame the elfs for that too on earth

[buoyant cairn]

ok new gauntlet tier list based purely on vibes
S: spotter(S is literally in it's name and extremely simple abilities tend to be stronger)
A: force field(seems extremely versatile)
B: sword(high single target on demand dmage)
C: bird(idk but I feel like it's not gonna scale well late game)

[olive narwhal]

Heard in one of the streams the falconer was actually extremely strong

[tall plume]

on full team of falconeer, specifically

[olive narwhal]

That sounds like a good time to me

[fringe narwhal]

The corespawn are about to experience the Birds

[native monolith]

We’ve seen the falconeer and slicer in the OTH stream

I can definitely see why falconeer was said to be op

I would imagine it has been nerfed by now though

[median sleet]

#rogue-core-chat message

[native monolith]

[raven wharf]

If there isn't a voiceline about your falcon punching things then I'm going to be disappointed.

[glad sonnet]

Im late but thanks for responding :). Im still thrilled* for the trailer! It also just makes me excited behind the underlying RC boss fight philosophy

Also since the devs are pretty active on this channel I wanted to take the opportunity to ask one more question (*or I guess technically 2). I understand if it gets ignored because its kind of a big one. Do enemy niches get expressed radically different from Classic DRG? Like multi-enemy roles to compensate for the fact that you are more powerful or something, like more range and melee hybrids for instance? Also if you don't want to spoil the surprise I understand, but how diverse is the enemy roster in comparison to the first game? We got a glimpse and it seemed pretty big but I imagine what we saw still isn't the full list.

[vital shale]

We better be getting the energy blade

[native monolith]

We are

[vital shale]

Yeaaa

Is there no Release dates yet?

[steel hearth]

No hard date, but there's a trailer coming on the 10th

[tall plume]

#rogue-core-chat message

that's the best thing we got for the moment

[vital shale]

I hope this game isnt going to cost 60 dollsrs

[raven wharf]

It's probably going to be inline with what DRG cost when it released onto early access

[tall plume]

very unlikely

[fossil marsh]

Can we pin this in the chat

[tall plume]

it's already pinned

[fossil marsh]

my b

[severe nymph]

considering what we've seen for rogue core and in drg what do you guys think would be some fun builds

like having the bird with engis shredders alone sounds silly

also did they ever explain how the gauntlet things work

like are they infinite

[glad sonnet]

afaik, no they didnt explain, but we might get a more in depth look in 2 days

I imagine its probably not finite, they probably just have a cooldown

[severe nymph]

Right o was thinking that as well at least for the sword bird and those Shockwave things

The stun gun seems like it'd need actual ammo

[glad sonnet]

Maybe, I'd imagine for consistency they might have a universal cooldown, but you could be right. Maybe a dev will come in and answer, Im actually curious too.

[severe nymph]

Oh great dev here our plea

[native monolith]

They are abilities

Each gauntlet is basically a class

They also have perks though

The classes, I mean

I think that’s all we have on classes right now but if we have more it was somewhere in this channel cuz the OTH just showed gauntlets

[random laurel]

And that's why it's concerning, I've rarely met people with voice enabled. In the time it takes you to ask in chat then the upgrade is already gone

[vague orchid]

yeah it sucks, its basically your only option

[severe nymph]

I feel that hopefully people will begin to actually ask and take time to pick their upgrades, the drg community is pretty good so I don't think it'd be that bad

[random laurel]

We'll know when we get there but I'm not hopeful. I guess there's always premade but I also like playing with randoms

[forest quail]

that sounds a lot like multiplayer in risk of rain 2

without VC it's kind of a free for all in terms of items usually

[tall plume]

@random laurel @forest quail

#rogue-core-chat message
hopefully this put your minds at ease

at least partially

[random laurel]

Haha yeah I saw that

[native monolith]

Me watching the commando pick up his third ignition tank: (I am playing flamethrower artificer)

[tender parrot]

what's the age rating gonna be for rogue core? is it gonna be MA15 like normal deep rock?

[rare quarry]

Same as Deep Rock I'm pretty sure

[lilac heart]

I figure I’d ask here, since I didn’t see the question answered in some places I looked.

Is this going to be a thing, or is Rogue Core going to reinvent the cosmetic item roster?

[fringe narwhal]

Probably, since it's not in the same engine I'm pretty sure

[pure vessel]

Reinvent the cosmetic item roster?

[lilac heart]

As in, say, will some of the cosmetic item sets that were featured in DRG make a reappearance in RC or be available to people that bought the DLC in the main game?

Like the Decontaminator, Skullcrusher, Robot Rebellion sets, etc.

Or is it going to feature completely new items sets/DLC/what have you

[wheat pewter]

add a wilhelm scream to rogued core and make a lip sync animation for it

[pure vessel]

I don't think so. The Miner dwarves and Reclaimer dwarves are very different. Not to say never, but I think we really want to keep the games seperate in that sense.

[pure vessel]

Yes, I think so.

[ripe kestrel]

do you guys think in making a pvp gamemode someday? either for rogue core or deep rock

[wheat pewter]

no

[ripe kestrel]

😔 👍

[native monolith]

Coop game = no pvp

The only pvp is the helldivers mentally of “friendly fire is funny”

[thin spire]

So, what consoles will Rogue Core go to?

[pure vessel]

No idea.

[tall plume]

Ghost Ship Games decided to focus on co-op games so that's highly unlikely

[pure vessel]

No

[hollow bear]

Hopefully the Okama Gamesphere

[sand vale]

Also i dont think steam and definitely not consoles can check if you own the dlc for other games

Mayyyybe the game could try to read your drg save file but idk, especially on console

[green belfry]

let's go fuckin' rogue

[chrome sundial]

Pretty sure it's going to the GameCube exclusively

[wheat pewter]

for 80$

[ashen condor]

Are the devs planning a SNES release?

[native monolith]

Can we expect this on the Wii?

[dapper crescent]

I've heard that it's a Game Gear exclusive title, any comment on this?

[raven wharf]

It'll likely run on the Steam Deck. Performance remains to be seen.

[forest rain]

My dad works at gsg he said it'll only be available for gg in Europe

[olive hound]

Rogue Core Trailer tomorrow

[chrome sundial]

Excited to read 500 messages in this chat tmr 😌

[native monolith]

Schools gonna make me unable to view it live sadly

[gaunt bronze]

How long is the trailer roughly going to be, seems like a lot of games are being showcased in 45 minutes

[chrome sundial]

You can probably fit the rc trailer into a washroom break >:)

[daring hill]

Maybe a bit foolish but I still think this will be the closed alpha announcement

The time is right, and its really the only possible guess to make in Q2 beyond a random announcement

wait no

may 13th is another good date too

it'd be the 5th anniversary of the 1.0 release

Still curious as to how they will be handling it. The amount of people who have access will be undoubtedly bigger than DRG, at least. I wonder if they will go the deadlock route and slowly increase who has access over time?

[chrome sundial]

I dont actually think there will be a date

We shall see tmr though

[daring hill]

at minimum I hope they start sharing footage more and/or streaming the game

Really want to see raw gameplay

[chrome sundial]

Ya same

[quaint cairn]

you want it................ ........... raw?

🫡

[balmy garden]

The stream is 45 minutes and shows off many games, the trailer might be super short for all we know

[pure vessel]

We will. It's scary and exciting at the same time.

[severe nymph]

Will there be any returning factions like robots or any of the glyphids or will it be purely new critters

[daring hill]

Glyphids are currently a no-go afaik

And many of the roles glyphids fill have their own RC equivalent

[severe nymph]

What's afaik why are you speaking dead tongues

Also I figured as such but was mostly curious

I also wonder if some less represented groups could get more like the infectors

[daring hill]

It'd be fun to have glyphids as a rare possible enemy wave

Maybe some biomes are high enough to still be in their territories

[severe nymph]

That'd be sick actually

It's like "hey guys remember us?"

[tall plume]

afaik=as far as I know

[severe nymph]

Oooh thanks

[pure vessel]

Purely new enemies

[wheat pewter]

is it more satisfying to kill a glyphid or a crawler?

[lilac heart]

Both is good

[eternal fractal]

rogue core coming this year?

[chrome sundial]

Check pins for roadmap

[eternal fractal]

oh i see

[chrome sundial]

Early access this year unless delays