rogue-core-chat

[lilac heart]

I imagine many things can be subject to change, so having that in the early access makes more sense, but I’m more curious than anything

[meager plover]

yeah, I believe a lot will change from Alpha launch to EA launch, but that's still a big headstart to translate stuff and see how all the components are connected
The connections and consistency are crucial for good localisation imo, especially with names like weapon names (CRSPR Flamethrower), enemy names (glyphids or corespawn for RC)

Ack, I dont know how to put my thoughts in english rn

For example we had to change the name for Spitball Infector in polish once the Barrage Infector was added, because this new enemy gave us new context about Infector naming

[wheat river]

Localization won't be in place at the beginning of closed alpha at least, but will be implemented shortly after, then not sure when the crowdin will go public since there is still plenty of things to do before that is ready

[inner granite]

...
How it's called now

Kuloplujec or something?

[wheat river]

As you say, we don't want you to have to do duplicate or wasted work, so it will be closer to when things are ""more rigid "", but early access is still early access so remaking things and possibility for larger changes is the point ✌️

We want to do our best to respect your time is what I'm trying to say 😅

[meager plover]

Sure thing! Thanks for clarification!

[meager plover]

It was "Toksyczny Kuloplujec", but then we changed it to "Kuloplujec Truciciel". Here Infector was changed from adjective to noun. But it's just an example among all the attempts to keep the consistency in naming

[inner granite]

There was some similar issue with pretorian (i think cold variant?)

[meager plover]

The naming of glyphids and other creatures was a bit messed up, but we cleared it up a while ago.
Btw let's move to #babelfish-lounge I guess

[pure vessel]

We'll be primarily focusing on getting the game to where it needs to be before we are looking into translations and such.

Not sure. We talked about setting it up for translators at our standup today, so it's in the back of our minds at least. As for when, I'm not sure.

We spawn them in and sometimes cool shit spawns on top of them, other times you can also interact with them such as elevators, lights, other mechanisms.

Yes.

It's also a good chance to let us know what you think of the game as it helps us in development as well.

[median sleet]

Are there turrets?

[inner granite]

Immortal maggot

[wintry latch]

hello guys . How to play rogue core ?

[inner granite]

Pinned messages

[meager plover]

Immortal Snail 🐌

[inner granite]

Also, its now out yet

[pure vessel]

Yes

[inner granite]

Anders, favourite silly thing in the game

[amber berry]

I love DRG, i'm hoping i can help shaping Rogue Core into a gaming experience everyone can enjoy as well once the main release is out. 👍

[manic sleet]

I hope there will be a rocket-launcher type main weapon in this game, I love shooting with projectiles

[native monolith]

Take for instance this heavy caliber tripod mounted lil' old number designed by me, built by me, and you best hope... Not pointed at you.

[hollow bear]

We're getting swarmed!

[main hinge]

It’s fine now

[native monolith]

THERES ONE HELL OF A BLIP COMING YOUR WAY, GET READY

[tall plume]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[gilded rock]

we have 4... wait 6... wait 12... A LOT of aliens coming your way!

[brittle crag]

Interacting with lights?
I wonder if this is gonna end up like some of my other games where you can barely make out enemies in the shadows and they briefly pass light while approaching

Could play nicely into the horror aspect

[fluid jacinth]

That would be cool as a modifier.
Just unnatural darkness looms in a cave

[gaunt bronze]

They mentioned a modifier called “Extreme Darkness” in one of their dev streams

[fluid jacinth]

Yipee

[native monolith]

There’s an enemy in hades 2 that creates a field of darkness around it and hides enemies until you get close. Something like that would be really cool for an enemy in rogue core

[burnt flame]

thats just called holding f to turn off yer flashlight

[fluid jacinth]

True

[crystal echo]

Hopefully tomorrow with the dev stream we get some more insights to when and where guys! For rock and....

[desert sinew]

Hello fellas, any news on the alpha?

[tall plume]

second pinned message

[desert sinew]

Yeah but i was wondering if they already choose the ppl to participate in it

[mossy ruin]

#rogue-core-chat message

[young vessel]

Howdy fellas, any news on the economy? I'd like to see the stock prices of minerals like how they do on the mineral trade terminal in the spacerig.

[hollow bear]

Rocks are down, stones are up

[young vessel]

i knew my stone investment would pay off eventually

[tall plume]

it's random, they're not gonna go and handpick people one by one

[meager plover]

Warning: Darkness
"Our scanners have detected an extraordinary amount of unclassified fungus that periodically emit spores in form of a thick black mist that is hard to penetrate with classic headlights and flares. RnD recommends taking more powerful light sources on the mission to these cave systems or stay careful and learn to navigate the caves the other way than with your eyesight. DRG doesn't include supplies for this type of inconvenience at work."

[tough fulcrum]

Oooh I like that

[meager plover]

[woven briar]

Getting some big helldivers PTSD twitches here

[inner granite]

no, i don't have PTSD
PTSD has me

[north steeple]

Day 13 of waiting for rogue core alpha access

[mental lake]

It’s coming out tomorrow (it was revealed to me in a dream)

[north steeple]

Would be incredibly based of GSG ||(its my 21st tomorrow and a very large mug of beer to go with rogue core would be the best gift)||

Trying my damndest to not be impatient, though

[native monolith]

I wake up
<—>
Tomorrow rogue core comes out

[mental lake]

Trust me guys

The last time I made a prediction like this I was right

[manic sleet]

I'm playing right now

[native monolith]

Send your stream account info as proof

[north steeple]

and dont forget the password this time 👀

[chrome sundial]

If your wrong I'm showing up at your house

[tough fulcrum]

We’re going to reclaim your bs

[compact shard]

We sent the reclaimers to this chatters house, let's watch what happens when they see the ants in his walls

[chrome sundial]

Bugs... In the walls... Loads Fatboy

[native monolith]

Bugs in the walls? More like bugs in the 50 meter crater

[amber tide]

Rogue Core tomorrow

[native monolith]

I wake up

Tomorrow rogue core comes out

[rancid minnow]

if i dont get access tomorrow im gonna be so upset

[north steeple]

Rogue core tomorrow

[ocean cave]

:0

rogue core -0

:)

[gaunt bronze]

Tomorrow core rogue

[north steeple]

Core tomorrow rogue

[exotic oyster]

Core goes rogue tomorrow

We all will get access to find out why

[ocean cave]

i bet someone called it a fat core and it got angry

just a note to all dwarfs to be nice to cores

[toxic herald]

Rogue tomorrow core

[nova summit]

this rogue? core.

[ashen condor]

The Core is going to pick Rogue as its class?

[native monolith]

This (rogue) core…. To hold… me?

[nova summit]

the invincible fans are starting to look sane

rogue?

[fierce valley]

👀 wonder when will be the playtest start

[north steeple]

you wont rogue me when im core

[pseudo brook]

Rogue core in 3999

[north steeple]

hang on Ashley, this core is getting rogue

[chrome sundial]

Rouge core confirmed tommorow if it doesn't happen tmr we know who to blame

[pulsar owl]

Its tomorrow y'all, no rogue core :(

[ocean cave]

its only 9 for me.. so in like 4 hours?

:>

[pulsar owl]

We can only hope you can change the future

[north steeple]

Ive got 2 more hours

And if anything is should theoretically drop aroubd the time of the deep dive reset, if it were to drop tomorrow

Theoretically

[north steeple]

the ~~silk~~dwarfsanity is real

[fervent rover]

whats the word on this?

[daring badger]

hey um. Do you know how much it takes for getting into the beta testing?

[north steeple]

A steam store search and 2 clicks

[daring badger]

yeah I am aplied to it but I just didn't get access

[north steeple]

Noone has yet

[daring badger]

ooooooooooooh I am a dummy!

sorry!

[north steeple]

Its still Coming Soon™

[daring badger]

I know I am just inpatient as heck lmao

[meager plover]

We all are fjsjd

[chrome sundial]

It is now tommorow for the cool timezones too and still no rogue core 😞

[pure vessel]

Yeah some lights you can turn on, others can be destroyed. Just minor things for now.

[pure vessel]

We tried it. It doesn't work very well unfortunately.

[median sleet]

I actually already got access, but I don't have time to play as I am too busy playing Silksong and Half-Life 3

[severe nymph]

It's funny cus at least on of those things are real

[olive narwhal]

Its half life 3

[severe nymph]

Yes ofc

[fluid jacinth]

Unfortunate indeed. Technical issues or just unfun?

[pure vessel]

Unfun.

[fluid jacinth]

But I like suffering

[chrome sundial]

Turn the brightness on your monitor down

[severe nymph]

Should just make the silent hill fog instead

[fluid jacinth]

Thats kinda what I was expecting. Just gloomy

[young vale]

how do I get into the closed alpha?

[fluid jacinth]

Click the button in rogue core steam page and pray

[severe nymph]

Answer our riddles three

[fluid jacinth]

I mean riddles yeah

[severe nymph]

Then the alpha will belong to thee

[young vale]

ok great

[chrome sundial]

Excited for the key in my inbox when I wake up tommorow morning 🙏🙏 (I am coping)

[north steeple]

Now I know youre lying, half life 3 is a myth

Next game will be half life 235

[inner granite]

1, 2, alyx

3 isn't real

it can't hurt you

[bold hawk]

Well have it so you can only see a max range away

[astral sluice]

considering a lot of DRG content will be reused in RC, will RC be a much bigger game by the end of EA? since presumably there will be a lot of added content on top of the reused DRG stuff (weapons, cosmetics, equipment, etc) or will the size of the game be offset by a more limited amount of gamemodes due to the roguelite aspect?

[mossy ruin]

we don't know if cosmetics will be reused

but yeah, there for sure will be more weapons and classes

and this is not confirmed by any means, but I would agree with you that there will be like one or maybe just a few gamemodes

[native monolith]

There is currently 9 new weapons, 4 new classes, with more of both basically guaranteed

[tall plume]

the only reused content so far is biomes, part of the equipment, and 1-2 enemies. Ofc there's the graphic style and cave generation but I don't consider this to be "content".

That's not really a lot.

[native monolith]

Even biomes isn’t exactly reused

They slowly all become core biomes

[tall plume]

still partly used so it counts in my book

[native monolith]

Fair enough

But yeah there’s really not much besides weapons and biomes

I’d assume some cosmetics

[tall plume]

hey, there's the crawler too !

[native monolith]

Like I doubt we don’t get stuff like clean shaven and the basic drg beards

[native monolith]

In a way that’s a rogue core to DRG and not a DRG to rogue core

[mossy ruin]

idk if I would assume that
weapon paintjobs, maybe
but the dwarf models seem pretty different

and some cosmetics wouldn't fit the tone

[tall plume]

yeah but it came to DRG first (for players) so good enough to call it reused content

[native monolith]

Hard to say, we have no idea how cosmetics work yet

All weapons are in like rustic ocean deepcore

[astral sluice]

that's fair

[tall plume]

as for the rest, it's way too early to know where RC will end

[astral sluice]

I thought most weapons were being reused

[tall plume]

maybe it will get much bigger, maybe it won't

[mossy ruin]

I mean, they are

[tall plume]

I assume that's the end goal, with more weapons on top ofc

[astral sluice]

I do hope the cosmetics won't all be "badass" to fit the tone

[tall plume]

I don't think you'll see many silly cosmetics

or at all

assuming we get cosmetics in the same way we did in DRG

[hollow bear]

If we don't have jiggly cosmetics at the very least

[native monolith]

All of them

[hollow bear]

It's pitchfork time

[native monolith]

We’ve seen every drg weapon in rogue core besides I think the microwave and coilgun

But if we have over half it’s pretty obvious they’ll all be there

Oh also haven’t seen the ommoran

[astral sluice]

hmm that's kind of sad, I like my silly dwarves

hope there'll be some variety of badassery at least

[native monolith]

So I guess just the three alt secondaries, maybe they aren’t in yet or none were in the footage

[astral sluice]

if that's their vision so be it

[tall plume]

probably but it's too early to tell nowadays

they're not really thinking of cosmetics rn it seems

[astral sluice]

understandable

[native monolith]

There’s a high likelyhood the alpha won’t even have them

[olive hound]

i would like to know if the inventory of the Reclaimers only accept certain kind of guns

[mossy ruin]

no

[olive hound]

Like 1 primary, 1 secondary, 1 utility

[mossy ruin]

oh

[astral sluice]

the movement equipment from DRG is in as well right? but it's decoupled from classes?

[olive hound]

And if ammo/health pack consume an inventory slot

[tall plume]

yes

[mossy ruin]

no grappling hook

[tall plume]

grappling hook is in RC

[astral sluice]

that's really great, probably the thing I look most forward to

[mossy ruin]

huh, that's weird
because I am pretty sure I saw some dev here say it isn't

[astral sluice]

decoupled equipment already makes for a lot of build variety

[native monolith]

Again: every drg weapon has been seen besides the three final secondaries

[astral sluice]

I'm really excited haha

[native monolith]

Including movement

[tall plume]

#rogue-core-chat message

[mossy ruin]

yeah, that

not in at the moment

[young vessel]

#rogue-core-chat message

[tall plume]

that was in february though

[mossy ruin]

honestly I think it would be best if it wasn't in

[wheat pewter]

you can still find it but it's a rare

[tall plume]

yeah it's pretty rare

you're not gonna see it often

[mossy ruin]

1. everyone will pick it
2. it's overpowered when you can grapple around with a minigun or something

[young vessel]

its a "rare high moment" as developers say

[rancid minnow]

have people been giving access yet?

[lilac heart]

Rare… how? Like rocket boots in DRG type of rare; rarer, less rare?

[astral sluice]

it's fine for a roguelite imo

[mossy ruin]

it's a coop roguelite

[rancid minnow]

Thank you

[mossy ruin]

I don't think having instapick items is a good idea

[wheat pewter]

there are so many layers of assumptions here lol

[astral sluice]

why are you so sure it's an instapick item?

I prefer drills over grapple

for example

[young vessel]

fast

[tall plume]

it's pretty normal coming from DRG to have this vision, but no, the grappling hook isn't an instapick

[wheat pewter]

chances are you will only see one grapple hook show up in the list anyway

[frigid path]

Rare? I prefer my grabbling hook medium well

[mossy ruin]

my assumptions are: it works like in drg

[young vessel]

its certainly an instapick for me, im soooooo impatient

[native monolith]

People complain about grapple being op and there’s probably currently an enemy that just eats you out of the sky

[olive hound]

Cheese platform > hook

[young vessel]

now THAT is balancing!

[mossy ruin]

because it gives insane survivability and mobility without consuming any resource

[quartz zephyr]

I think you are just mad because you dont know how to use a grappling gun:)))

Jkjk

[mossy ruin]

huh

[lilac heart]

There’s ways to solve this. Just give it limited uses per level.

[young vessel]

wrong bad and banned

[native monolith]

Ammo for the grappling hook

[tall plume]

https://tenor.com/view/deep-rock-galactic-banished-meme-funny-bye-gif-27015086

[native monolith]

Cursed

I think making balance assumptions is very stupid when we don’t have the game

And, considering how soon we’re gonna get it and it’s going to be very open, we may as well shelve this conversation for like 2 weeks and then come back lol

[mossy ruin]

maybe

[lilac heart]

This is the right approach

[frigid path]

Just give the grappling hook the same speed as ziplines

[gaunt bronze]

It’s a roguelite. People on occasions ARE going to find op weapons or builds. Not a valid reason for it to not be in the game

[mossy ruin]

I understand this, I played my fair share
but this is a coop roguelite
I don't think it's going to be fun when your one teammate is op, and the rest isn't

but yeah, we might shelve this discussion for later

when we actually know how the grapple operates

[astral sluice]

I don't think a grapple hook is enough to make one dwarf OP compared to teammates

[mossy ruin]

imagine if you gave gunner in drg a grappling hook

[astral sluice]

it's not DRG

[mossy ruin]

yes, hence ^

I was just assuming, since the detached equipment and all, it might be a problem

but we will see

[astral sluice]

GOAT Ship Games will figure it out

[gaunt bronze]

Yeah. There could be weapons and upgrades that are so strong you might not even need the mobility. The person with the grappling hook might just end up mining for the whole team. But yeah, still too early to discuss this

I sincerely hope it is in RC tho

[inner granite]

just to make sure, there will be @ everyone at alpha access?

[hollow bear]

They will announce it, I'd imagine

[wheat pewter]

I imagine they will announce it, although if they'll just shadow drop it be sure to have requested access on Steam!

[verbal bobcat]

We will hire the town crier announce it from our balcony

[wheat pewter]

you heard it here first, be sure to check-up on their offices on a daily basis

[hollow bear]

Whoever cries the most at gsg has to do it

[pure vessel]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-crying-sad-emotional-sentimental-gif-20646670

[pure vessel]

It's hard to say, but I don't think so. We are using some content, true, but there's still tons of new gameplay stuff we need to make that takes up time and resources.

The DRG content just gives us the luxury of doing that 🙂

[pure vessel]

I don't think it will

[pure vessel]

If they play nice with our upgrades, they go in. Otherwise they're put on pause or reworked. Or just cut.

[pure vessel]

Yes

[astral sluice]

no reused cosmetics is pretty crazy, that makes me very curious about the dwarf aesthetics in this one :)

[pure vessel]

The dwarf models you've seen in the recent trailer are not the final ones. The art department have cooked up something super epic, but it's not ready to go in yet

[astral sluice]

interesting

[pure vessel]

They look more battle-worn

[hollow bear]

Gimme a dwarf thickness slider

[burnt yew]

So with the ‘permanent class equipment’ going from traversal equipment to the reclaimer gear (if I understand correctly?), does this mean the primary gameplay loop is less traversal based and more focused on combat?

[astral sluice]

that makes me think customizable scars and stuff

[gaunt bronze]

All of the traversal tools?

[pure vessel]

You still have traversal gameplay, but the reclaimers just have to choose what kind of traversal tool they want at the beginning of the run

so you can end up with the drills, or maybe grapple hook. Whatever you feel like.

[pure vessel]

So far yes, but we'll likely have new ones too.

[burnt yew]

Oh, so you still have a guaranteed traversal tool, it’s just not class restricted? Very cool

[astral sluice]

are there in-run upgrades for the traversal tools as well? I'm thinking faster drilling, lower cooldown, etc

[pure vessel]

No, the only thing decided by your class is the ability you have.

[pure vessel]

No, but the tools you find come with different stats.

[astral sluice]

wow I didnt expect new traversal tools, thats cool

[pure vessel]

Some could utilize upgrades, such as ammo ones or on damage ones, but not all tools can utilize them.

[pure vessel]

We don't have any prototypes yet, but we'll have a look at it at some point in the future.

[astral sluice]

like, you can pick the drills but sometimes they might have a higher damage value or something?

[pure vessel]

It's surprisingly difficult to come up with new ones that fit into the pool

[pure vessel]

Yeah something like that

or paltformgun with bigger platforms

[astral sluice]

sweet

[mossy ruin]

we saw this in some trailers I think

[astral sluice]

honestly this is shaping up to be even better than I expected

[burnt yew]

Grappling hook that transfers velocity into greater power attack damage 🙏

[gaunt bronze]

Thank you. I’m more than satisfied to just have all the traversal tools in DRG. Looking forward to the potential new ones

[hollow bear]

Wonder if bouncy pads could be possible.

I would never troll with those

"rubberized additive" for the cheese plats

[mossy ruin]

or just a passive in general which gives you more damage on everything based on velocity

kind of like Loader

[burnt yew]

Yeah I hope we get some more weird ass passives/abilities

The sticky flame trail one shown off in the trailer sounds cool, I hope there’s more of those

[pure vessel]

There is

[astral sluice]

my biggest fear for RC was having boring upgrades (5% more damage type upgrades) which kills a lot of roguelites for me

but there seems to be a lot of build variety

[pure vessel]

We do have those, but that is in the weapon ugprade pool, not the level up pool

level ups tweak your dwarf and their abilities, not flat value upgrades such as ammo, damage, etc.

Weapon upgrades will have those though

[astral sluice]

right

[pure vessel]

so we try to seperate them

[astral sluice]

are there wacky weapon upgrades as well?

[pure vessel]

Yes. Lots.

[astral sluice]

yesss

[pure vessel]

well depends on what you mean by wacky, but some are just plain game magic

[astral sluice]

by wacky I mean how some OC's in DRG change up the weapon

[pure vessel]

oh yeah sure. They don't change anything, they just add some fun abilities/effects

[astral sluice]

👍 👍

really appreciate the openness displayed here even before the alpha tests

[median sleet]

Can the class abilities be upgraded? Do they also have upgrades that change them a lot?

[burnt yew]

That sounds great. And I’m sure the nature of the upgrades allows pretty easy development of new ones

[mossy ruin]

I am pretty sure it was said there will be meta progression for the classes

[pure vessel]

Yes

[pure vessel]

Not yet.

[fluid temple]

what's the enemy diversity looking like compared to drg? more? less?

[burnt yew]

I imagine it’s probably a bit less for the time being, since all the enemies are being made from scratch

[young vessel]

they got big guys, they got small guys, they got smaller guys, they got flying guys, they got screaming guys, they got tough-shelled guys

[astral sluice]

they did a showcase of some of the new enemies a few months back

[fluid temple]

"less, for now" is a completely valid answer yeah

[burnt yew]

Plus bosses too, which I imagine are going to be a pretty core part of the gameplay loop as well

[astral sluice]

core

[native monolith]

What a rogue comment

[rancid minnow]

at work but all I can think of is rogue core

[olive hound]

Are your slots for specific weapons?
Could you have a 2 primary guns equipped? or are there "primary" slot / "secondary" slot?

[pure vessel]

They're generic, so you can pick two primaries if you want

[olive hound]

Oooh

-# dual flamethrowers

[olive hound]

What about ammo/health pick ups/kits/boxes?
Do they have their special slot or key?

[pure vessel]

We don't have those

[misty ravine]

I have a question, with dwarves engaged in operations close to Hoxxes' core will this prevent further engagement of core spawn in the upper crust of Hoxxes where the regular crews work?

[thin apex]

Doubt

The planet is ever changing

We've still yet to know why the core stones form in the upperr layers

But that doesn't mean the Corespawns won't be able to get to us

[misty ravine]

Management has deduced that core stones are pushed to surface by tectonic activity but what causes the rifts to allow core spawn to come to the surface eludes R&D

[thin apex]

I mean yeah

The planet is ever changing

Places are never the same

[misty ravine]

Only time will reveal

[thin apex]

Massive tectonic shifts occur ever so often in the planet causing these corestones to form in the upper layers. It doesn't mean we won't deal with Corestones and Corespawns when the reclaimers are in the core thought, because we might just recover the power of one of the several different mining facilities that are in Hoxxes, perhaps away from the Corestones already formed

[vagrant scaffold]

Small correction: everyone works underground, just at different layers. The surface of Hoxxes IV itself is probably scorching hot and uninhabitable.

Hoxxes IV is tidally locked around Creus. This means half of the planet is boiling hot and the other half is freezing cold. Both prevent the formation of life.
Underground it is a different matter, evidently.

[fickle abyss]

Has anyone gotten invites yet? (Sorry for increasing the wait by a week)

[misty ravine]

I signed up for the alpha but haven't gotten any news, though I understand that getting into the alpha is a long shot

[raven wharf]

Because a grand total of zero invites have been sent out.

Patience. They’ll make an announcement when the first wave goes out.

[tall plume]

pinned messages

[native monolith]

I think it’s a little baffling people think they would just not announce or say anything and just ship the invites

[fringe narwhal]

sneaks an invitation into your mailbox

[pulsar owl]

ISAT enthusiast 👍

[north steeple]

No invites yet? Day ruined

Anyway, day 14 of waiting for invites

[native monolith]

Siffarooni :3

[native monolith]

Aw dang I burned it as kindling

[pulsar owl]

Linguine o.o

[vagrant scaffold]

Patience.

But the whole process itself of awaiting invites, getting selected in waves (if at all), I think it's exciting.

[native monolith]

Be a stone, everyone

Unmoving for millions of years

Then melt down when rogue core comes out

[rancid minnow]

I'm so patient! I CAN wait for rogue core (everyday is harder than the last, I don't know how much longer I can take)

[young vessel]

just hold out a little longer, dont let yourself become Rogue to the Core!

[vagrant scaffold]

We're gonna roleplay being magma core lootbugs in here.

[rancid minnow]

its too late I'm rogueing all over the place

[chrome sundial]

10 devs online.. that must mean theyre opening access right?!? (I am having a psycotic break)

[inner granite]

Mental break: Valor
Final reason was: no alpha access

[median sleet]

I don't think they're gonna do it at 9 pm

[chrome sundial]

The only real timezone is the one im in

[median sleet]

also 10 devs online isn't a lot compared to working hours

[inner granite]

How big is GSG anyway

[median sleet]

their site says 44 people but I think it might be more

[tall plume]

something between 40 to 50 people

[median sleet]

somewhere else on their site it says 47

[radiant comet]

Seems about right

[inner granite]

Not a lot

[median sleet]

https://ghostship.dk/about/ 48 names here

[inner granite]

Especialy after we look at quality of the game, that's pretty small team

[median sleet]

You aren't on the site yet, (unless your actual names isn't daniel) so assuming everyone on the site still works at GSG: 48+1 employees

[brittle crag]

i wonder what the cave variety is gonna look like in rogue core

[radiant comet]

Yeah 🥲😅 there’s also a couple of freelancers I dont see on the webpage. I’m also in a weird spot myself. Starter as a freelancer, took over for a paternity leave and might hang around after that ends

[median sleet]

yea, I noticed Sophus isn't either. I assume his work also counts as freelance, so freelancers aren't included

[radiant comet]

Ah yeah that’s right, he’s not there either! I think he works freelance/part time as well

[median sleet]

Thanks for the info, hope you enjoy working at GSG and decide to stay!

[radiant comet]

I love it! Such a great company,and don’t even get me started on the lunch menu 🥗🥙🍕

[north steeple]

well I can confidently say that you and the rest of the audio people have done fantastic work with DRG; every sound in game just makes sense, with nothing ever standing out as 'oh that doesnt sound like it looks like it should'. And I just wanna say thanks for the hard work and dedication to that. I have zero doubts that rogue core will have equal if not better quality as well

[median sleet]

Now I am hungry

[raven wharf]

I only get leftover snacks from first class 😠

[radiant comet]

Thank you! I have a such humble and new part in the game so far, but the lead designer Joachim is simply a fantastic beast in his field. What he has done to Rogue Core so far is really great quality in my ears

[inner granite]

Only soumd that i would complain about is springtail... roar ig

It sounds bit weird, compared to other bugs

[north steeple]

I believe it! Im really looking forward to the new soundtrack as well. Ive heard good words said about it from some of the mods and devs already, and it has me hyped

[inner granite]

But outside of that, sound desing is awsome

[north steeple]

I like it. its very distinct, and means I need to ve more careful with special powder and grapple. ive died an unfortunate number of times from gravity because a poorly timed stingtail grab

and while they are still glyphids, they are distinct enough down the evolution tree or whatever hoxxes uses to warrent having a different call

[radiant comet]

Yeah, Sophus has made some banger music for sure

[native monolith]

Sophus is cooking with rogue cores soundtrack already

[rancid minnow]

can't believe I fooled myself into believing i'd be playing rogue core today
phooey

[north steeple]

I know

worst birthday ever

||(this is a joke I swear)||

[toxic herald]

Rogue core yesterday!!

[rancid minnow]

Yippie!!!

[vague orchid]

agreed

the trailer music was BANGIN

I like the darker, more serious horror style they are going for in general

also, ill probably main spotter, as i also main scout

plus his armor looks sick, love the little radar dish on it and his goggles

[north steeple]

as long as I still have my grapple hook!

[tiny oxide]

do we have eta for alpha release keys?

[north steeple]

Soon ™

[tall plume]

https://tenor.com/view/check-the-pins-kowalski-penguin-gif-20219688

[ashen condor]

It's been like two weeks; when are the keys to GSG's offices being sent out?

[chrome sundial]

Im placing bets it's this monday

[native monolith]

23 magnite on Tuesday

[misty ravine]

50 umanite on Thursday next week

[rancid minnow]

they're gonna release the keys as soon as i go to bed

[fervent rover]

What if instead of Rogue Core it was 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 Core

[ashen condor]

I'd ᶠʳᵉᵃᵏ out

[ripe maple]

ROCK AND TUAH STONE ON THAT THANG

[gaunt bronze]

I place 180 error cubes on Wednesday

[ashen condor]

I bet 180 of allforkarl's error cubes on Rogue Core's alpha dropping mid May

[north steeple]

please dont make me wait that long 😭

[chrome sundial]

I hope they add gambling to rc

[median sleet]

just dm a moderator instead of spamming this in every channel

@deep agate this is suspicious right? They also send it in #drg-memes-no-talk

[deep agate]

uh, ya, but how does that tie to larina @dawn solstice you got dms from them?

and ya you literally had to spam that in every single channel instead of just messaging a mod once?

[lavish lily]

thra craving is diabolical

[leaden idol]

Yessss. They should add a slot machine right next to lloyd

[native monolith]

They cannot sadly

Without changing the rating

Same reason it’s not in drg

actually it’s a new game so they could without causing problems, maybe? But they still might not want to

[median sleet]

Rogue core is already a gambling simulator, you're gambling for good upgrades

[inner granite]

oc:

there is gambling in 99% of games

maybe only chess don't have some sort of ga,bling mechanics

[south whale]

When am I able to gamble away all my credits and enor pearls and get in crippling gambling debts

[native monolith]

As in like actual cards or slots though

There could be like, drg poker and that might be ok? Idk how it works

[inner granite]

we have gwent in wither 3

something like space gwent should be okay

[inner granite]

okay, wrong example
-# wither is 18+

[quiet parcel]

Shrine of Chance but instead of nothing it can give you leaf lovers

[native monolith]

I would be very happy with a set space poker table but i doubt it happens

[rancid minnow]

Well, Balatro had their age rating changed to 12+ so there's a chance they could get it now.
"New rules will mean gambling themes do not automatically lead to an 18+ rating. Instead, it will be limited to games that simulate casinos and betting halls."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd654qy89evo
It would be pretty cool as I do love gambling (only when it's not real money)

"The Complaints Board concluded that, although the game explains the various hands of poker, the roguelike deck-building game contained mitigating fantastical elements that warranted a PEGI 12 rating,"
I think deep rock has plenty of fantastical elements tbh

https://pegi.info/news/pegi-complaints-board-amends-classifications-balatro-and-luck-be-landlord-pegi-12

[inner granite]

simulate casinos
Baltro not in that category

How they define casino?

Baltro is the most casino like game for the few last years

[mental lake]

i apologize

[rancid minnow]

Yes.

I think since balatro is more just a poker game and not a gambling casino game? Like maybe you can take the poker out of a casino gambling environment. Like my grandpa always said, you cant take the casino out of the poker, but you can take the poker out of the casino.

[north steeple]

We have gambling in DRG in the form of the perks and overclocks that change damage to between 80% and 140% every shot

Obligatory day 15 of waiting for rogue core

And I hope the mods and devs realize I do this not to be annoying but because im genuinely excited for the game, and the first thing I do when I wake everyday is check to see if the alpha is here yet

[ashen condor]

I did it to be genuinely annoying to them, up until they sent me blackmail photos of me drinking a Leaf Lover's. Lesson learned

[olive hound]

Can we get Rogue Core this Saturday?
So we have plenty of time to pla- erm i mean, test the game 😅

[south whale]

Balatro uses poker hands as a template and as an aesthetic but otherwise it has practically nothing to do with actual poker games

Nor could it even function as an actual casino game in practice

[native monolith]

I can’t stop winning! I can’t stop winning! I can’t sto-

fails to one shot a trijaw and gets obliterated

[south whale]

You can't really translate balatro into an actual gambling poker game without completely making a different game vaguely balatro-like

[native monolith]

There’s nothing you could really gamble on balatro with

It’s not really “poker based” it’s just card based

[north steeple]

then you severely underestimate gambling addicts

or poker players

[native monolith]

It’s actually not possible

The creator has it written into their will that this game can never be used for actual gambling

[north steeple]

not officially

[native monolith]

A balatro casino is impossible

[north steeple]

I never said anything about a casino?

you can absolutely gamble off balatro through "a frienly wager between friends" and the versus mode

[native monolith]

Well yeah

But that doesn’t really work

Who can beat the game the fastest? You can do that with anything

Anyways, back to the point but compared to what they would presumably add to DRG or rogue core it’s not “gambling”

A game having cards doesn’t instantly mean it’s gambling

[native sequoia]

is the playtest out for everyone already?

[native monolith]

P i n s

[native sequoia]

tamam sry

[north steeple]

no, the versus mode, i dont know if its a mod or not, but its a set seed run where you fight to get the highest score on each boss blind instead of a normal boss blind

loss equals loose a life

4 lives each

[native monolith]

That’s just like a competition though

[north steeple]

could absolutely gamble off it though

[native monolith]

Again you can gamble everything that way though

I could gamble a same seeded drg mission

[north steeple]

yeah

but nothing is ever 'impossible to gamble'

thats moreso my point than anything

[native monolith]

Speaking of which I’m adding 40 more bismor to my rogue core alpha news bet

God damnit, SWARM

[desert sinew]

Hey ppl, any news about the alpha test keys?

[pulsar owl]

Check pins, no news in particular

You'll absolutely know when it happens :)

[chrome sundial]

I BET 100 DOUBLOONS ON MONDAY

[south whale]

Exactly

[inner granite]

+1 week

[south whale]

There is nothing to bet on

And more importantly there is even less things that can be manipulated to make a profit off of which quite literally every casino game is built around

[desert sinew]

X_X

[south whale]

Yeah but that isn't

That isn't gambling

Because it isn't RNG

You can't luck out with versus mode because the other player has the same RNG and run as you

[north steeple]

its still very much RNG

[south whale]

So it's just who can minmax better

[north steeple]

because your hand each game is still random, and you might refresh the shop one mor time than your opponent and get that tasty blueprint

[south whale]

The hands are identical iirc

Unless you have fixed your hand

[north steeple]

they end up very not identical very fast

the second you modify, delete, or add a card then theres no more symetry

[south whale]

Yeah but that's still just minmaxxing

If both players played optimally it would just be an eternal tie

[north steeple]

no

only way you could both get to that level of optimization is if you both played that exact seed before many many times. its a random seed but set the same between you both, is what I mean by set seed

[south whale]

It's still primarily optimization

Same as like, betting money on beating someone in smash bros or something

[north steeple]

theres still an element of skill yes, but its still primarilly luck

[south whale]

But it wouldn't really function as a casino game as there isn't any massive luck based parts about it

There's some RNG but it isn't left entirely up to RNG

[pulsar owl]

A difference in decisions leading to expected deviation is kind of expected

[young vessel]

what if you get bad team mates or your internet goes out or your neighborhood gets a blackout or your save file is corrupted

[pulsar owl]

Those events are caused by factors not even remotely related to the game

[young vessel]

and yet it affects the game

[south whale]

It's balatro

Versus

[young vessel]

versus what

rogue core?

its an odd comparison

[inner granite]

Okay guys, i'm sorry, i shouldn't have started baltro discussion

[young vessel]

banned from playtest

[inner granite]

:RWcry:

[dusty laurel]

Where is recent rogue core trailer?

[native monolith]

Pins

[dusty laurel]

Announcements?

[thin siren]

Has the playtest started?

[inner granite]

Guess

[ashen prairie]

Most likely some time in may

[native monolith]

Channel pins

I’ve been told if we get 1000 people to ask if they playtest has started a bot will instantly send playtest keys trust

[ashen condor]

I heard if you give an apple core a dagger and +5 to stealth you unlock the secret Rogue Core alpha key

[modern belfry]

Has the playtest started?

it's a challenge?

anyway, i would accept it, if it were true

[astral sluice]

I'm not sure if it's been asked before but have the playtests started 😀😀😀😀😀

[round zodiac]

is there an eta on the rogue core closed alpha?

[wheat pewter]

boils down to may or june at this point

[olive hound]

-# please no Monday...

[wheat pewter]

allergic to persons?

[simple cloak]

May 1st 👉 👈

[pulsar owl]

Here's hoping for 2025 at the latest

[rancid minnow]

Today i found out that I can play galactic on my pc and survivor on my steam deck at the same time to simulate Rogue core
Unfortunately, it's not very practical

[stray salmon]

vote to have croppa as the only resource in rugged core

[chrome sundial]

It's gotta be this Monday trust

[daring hill]

i see people are falling to the "X is surely tomorrow" illenss

[north steeple]

Illness? its the truth, not an illness!

[daring hill]

anyway its definitely not april

the devs said at least two weeks on the april 22nd stream, which would put it at may

may 6th at absolute minimum but definitely not that day

june feels way too long, and if that happens then something has likely gone very wrong

however, im still expecting a blog post before the month is out

roadmap says one every month until october

note that this is not referring to the newsletter

oh wait no nevermind im simply dumb

theres already a checkmark next to april

in that case im awaiting the normal newsletter

[north steeple]

one-day alpha test on april first

first wave is 6 people

[white patio]

how rogue will the core be, real talk

[ashen condor]

6

[vagrant jay]

I think it'd start at a 5 then work it's way up to a 7 or 8 when you near the end

[ashen condor]

If it hits 8 rogue I'm calling the cops

[chrome sundial]

Thought they said two weeks when the trailer came out

[daring hill]

when the trailer came out they said within a month

and the trailer came out 2 weeks ago, so waiting 2 more weeks checks out

[pulsar owl]

But that logic can also mean rogue core tomorrow

[astral dome]

Copium

[simple cloak]

playing rogue core in spirit

[chrome sundial]

my only coping mechanism is playing rogue core 😔

[median sleet]

If I don't get access to Rogue Core

[cobalt ridge]

Whatll you do then

[brittle crag]

I know what ill do if i dont

Ill get hammered [responsibly] and play drg while jamming to ost that is inevitably going to be released by someone within 5 minutes

Win win for me, if i get in or not

[cunning palm]

I want rogue core now!

[eternal cairn]

I want to be patient for rogue core, there's a lot of moving pieces to make a whole new game

[chrome sundial]

If you think about it you can play rogue core right now

And by think about it I mean literally

Use your imagination

I have 10 hours already

[feral tulip]

Only 10 hours wow? I'm racking up 8h a night playing in my dreams.

[hollow bear]

Rookie numbers

[median sleet]

Rogue Core gift: suslink

[errant kiln]

me wat core rogue

[elder tide]

how do you guys even have an hour in the game at all

[hollow bear]

The closed, closed test

[native monolith]

I’ve stolen playtime from the testers

If you grab some right as they stop playing a few minutes drop out of their pockets

[inner granite]

closed sqare alpha

[robust marlin]

I was just talking to a friend yesterday about how the worst part of game announcements is wanting to play it already

[fickle abyss]

i will type "rigged core" in chat every time my teammates steal the good items

[neat acorn]

still better than rouge core tbh

[ashen condor]

Rough Core best core

[daring hill]

I had a prophecy dream about rogue core

[errant kiln]

if i see a ledgendary quality item (its red) it will type rouge core

get it like the color red

[daring hill]

Ser Pounce specifically added a "denial" role that made steam tell you the exact alpha start date

Then he announced that GSG was helping other companies make 3 TV shows?

[errant kiln]

epic dream fr fr

[daring hill]

Also 1 person got access every day until the alpha started

[errant kiln]

that an awusome way to do it but instead of 1 person its 10

[inner granite]

Guys i have an idea
When we say "when alpha" it's +1 week, right?
So when we say "when was alpha" (as in opposit form) it will be -1 week

[errant kiln]

keep prayin

[tall plume]

legendary items are yellow

[errant kiln]

not in DRG survivor

[inner granite]

Add new tier, rouge tier items

[tall plume]

https://tenor.com/view/pernalonga-meme-pernalonga-no-no-não-nao-gif-27211143

[errant kiln]

i assume they use the same color code

[tall plume]

it's not DRG survivor

[inner granite]

-# never liked common-legendary tier limits anyway

[young vessel]

hey what about those red-colored upgrades in the trailer

[tall plume]

that's something different

[young vessel]

yeah they have negatives to them

like, upgrades that are different from the norm

like................... rogue upgrades............?

[inner granite]

something something negative items
They make your gun shoot worse, but enemies are less lethal

Like downgrade yourself and enemes

Would be pretty good: one guy takes a punch so 3 others have eaiser life

[young vessel]

they have those

[daring hill]

Those seem to be from that floating rock in the exact previous shot

[young vessel]

the iconic berzerk upgrade

take more and deal more damage

[daring hill]

Chase it down, deposit the orb, and get the upgrade

[inner granite]

Devs, rename it to glass cannon

[young vessel]

it stacks with more kills

[inner granite]

Also, not what i ment
I ment, it's flat downgrade for a dwarfs/enemies

[young vessel]

👨‍🦱

[median sleet]

They're unstable upgrades obviously

You have clean, balanced and unstable upgrades

[glossy heath]

Why isn't the practice of early access to testing for money being used? I see that many people don't shy away from this

[ashen condor]

Are you talking about how games normally do Early Access on Steam? I'm 99% sure they'll still do that, the alpha is just early early access.

[astral sluice]

the game is coming to early access late 2025 I think

[tall plume]

indeed

[inner granite]

Beacuse (not in case of GSG) some games just don't fit EA
For example, how would you do a lore based game in EA, without spoiling said lore?

[daring hill]

The main difference between closed alpha and early access is (I think) you will be expected to report bugs and provide feedback

I don't think you'll lose access if you don't but that is the general expectation I feel, and IMO you definitely should even if it's not

[tall plume]

closed alpha is also not considered "finished" enough to be sold

[inner granite]

side eye at other games that relase 1.0 in even worse state

-# mostly at cyberpunk to be honest

[raven wharf]

GSG has standards

[inner granite]

Professionals have standards
Be polite
Be efficient
Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

[lethal acorn]

-the sniper

[north steeple]

I'd still buy it right now, full price

Let me at those corespawn! I'll show them what it means to be a dwarf!

[chrome sundial]

I'd pay double price to get access

Fiending

[pulsar owl]

The main principle is that this early access is to help with development, it would be unhelpful if we had to pay to provide feedback

[rare dune]

yo is there a rogue core discord? or just think chat for now?

[median sleet]

This is the discord

[tall plume]

just this chat for now, but I'm sure we'll get more once the game hits early access

[median sleet]

They'll probably add more chats

[rare dune]

cant wait 🫡

[median sleet]

which means more channels for free $50 steam gift messages

[rare dune]

I hope they keep the salute button. thats my only wish

[median sleet]

they will

They've said so

[rare dune]

will it be the usual rock and stone? i think a new saying could be cool

like "Skull and bone!"

[median sleet]

It'll stay rock and stone AFAIK

[rare dune]

as like a continuation

[hollow bear]

Sucks for pounce

[tall plume]

I can confirm we have the salute button still

[tall plume]

😭

[rare dune]

lmao

[rare dune]

is it still gonna be the usual rock and stone, or some new variation?

[pulsar owl]

I'm inclined to believe it'll be the usual

[rare dune]

cuz either way it'd be good. a timely classic or a fresh new saying

[brittle crag]

i wonder how being drunk is going to work in-game, since that degrades over time

will we be unable to do a mission while drunk the whole time?

[tall plume]

https://tenor.com/view/the-road-to-el-dorado-both-both-is-good-gif-8304204

[rare dune]

both is good 👍

[north steeple]

same though

[radiant comet]

There’s a bunch of new ones included as well

[rare dune]

Daniel in the flesh? I trust your judgement without question

[wheat pewter]

what if someone called you danny would you care?

[radiant comet]

Lol, I do get called that from time to time but I always feel like they are referring to a mirrored version of myself, that I didn’t know existed. Kinda like Severance-vibes. Know what I mean?

[desert sinew]

Hey ppl, any news about the keys?

[tall plume]

pinned messages for FAQ

[native monolith]

It’s like upping the hazard level

[errant kiln]

Are those specific to rouge core or will they also be in drg

[tall plume]

specific to RC

[rancid minnow]

awesome, feel like it'd be weird if they all had the same voicelines as they're different characters, i wonder how different they are compared to the dwarves we've been playing

are there class specific voicelines by any chance?

do you still update this?

[pliant radish]

There's gonna be a bar right? These are dwarves we're talking about...

[carmine zenith]

There's no bar, the rogue core dwarves are all sober

[gaunt bronze]

Why tho? It’s such an interesting mechanic

[pulsar owl]

Maybe they can get some beer down the levels as upgrades

But they still can't get drunk, for very reasonable reasons

Something reminiscent of perk-colas from cod zombies

[gaunt bronze]

Makes sense. Hope there are things like what you’ve said and it’s not completely cut

[pulsar owl]

I sure hope so as well, wouldn't be deep rock without beer

[subtle lily]

Have there already been people approved for the alpha?

[carmine zenith]

no

[subtle lily]

Can't wait 😄

[daring hill]

this is just a rumour but... im hearing ghost ship games was given access...

but you didn't hear that from me

[subtle lily]

That sounds like it is under NDA, better delete that 😮

[carmine zenith]

mods and testers have had access for a little bit, but there has been no public release build as of yet

it takes time to create a build that the devs feel is suitable for public testing

[daring hill]

only real news so far is a general estimate of 2 weeks as of the stream on the 22nd

which firmly puts anything to happening in may

[subtle lily]

That completely makes sense. Even though it would be a closed alpha, you would want to get the most out of the feedback, so having obvious technical or game-play issues that you already know about in that build doesn't really help. They should take the time they need, GSG didn't really rush anything just to throw it out half baked in the past and they should keep that practice.

[warped edge]

thank god its after my finals

[north steeple]

so may 6th at the latest? I guess I can wait that long if I have to...

and obligatory day 16 of being stupidly hyped for Rogue Core

[rustic ferry]

Honestly that's pretty darn close. despite having been obsessed over Rogue Core ever since the teaser

[north steeple]

they also said they dont want to be ready to release it, because then they would be further down the build train and less likely to accept larger suggestions and criticism

but yeah thats understandable

[fathom depot]

what do you guys think switching to unreal engine 5 will make graphics performance worse?

[olive narwhal]

#rogue-core-chat message

I would just lean on the side of the minimum requirements being higher than drg atleast for now

#rogue-core-chat message

Dev response for the fancy lighting and spec requirements(its 3 months old so things could have changed)

[inner granite]

if it can't run on rotten potato, i ain't buying it
-# who am i kidding, i'll buy it anyway

[glossy heath]

and play 100+ hours in early access only

[simple cloak]

log 1000hrs to have 1000hrs on drg and rogue core

[compact shard]

At the earliest, I would think

[south kiln]

Rogue core is

Good

[median sleet]

I don't believe you, send me 10 hours of unedited Rogue Core footage

[fathom kite]

just discovered this game in delopment today, this could be considered as DRG 2?

[young vessel]

nuh uh

[tall plume]

no

[inner granite]

I would consider it game unrelated to DRG, just in same universe and same theme

Maybe same as Subnautica and Subnautica BZ?

-# BZ is a standalone dlc tho...

[sweet bloom]

Fun Fact Bello Zero was oryginally supposed to be a dlc for subnautica

[inner granite]

Ik

It still feels like it

[fathom kite]

ok I just saw the trailer, 4 dwarves mining stuff, killing bugs etc, just looked the same but better graphics

[median sleet]

check the pinned messages, it's a roguelike game, so the gameplay loop will be vastly different

[pulsar owl]

I'd consider it more like, drg: rogue core

[north steeple]

Day 17 of failing to find something to do while waiting on rogue core alpha

[median sleet]

frolic

[native monolith]

Play risk of rain

It’s a very cool roguelike

[north steeple]

I actually just picked it back up yesterday, somehow between the time I left it and came back my mods folder jumped from 125 to 307 mods

[glossy heath]

Is there any information about mini-quests? For example, cargo for cosmetics or a mechanical flying crap to speed up the season rewards?

[gaunt bronze]

Play DRG

[north steeple]

Been doing that too, ive gained probably 100 hours this last week and a half

[gaunt bronze]

Damn that’s a lot

[vagrant gate]

guys can chorus stones not be deposited into the mule??

[midnight totem]

No, neither chorus stones nor corestones. After the core stone fight a deposit point comes down to collect it.

[gaunt bronze]

Have they mentioned how late joining would work in RC?

[north steeple]

not to my knowledge, but im also dumb so dont take my word for it

[steel hearth]

A while back they said there would be no late joining

But that could have changed, idk

[gaunt ingot]

am i the only one who thinks therell just be 4 classes? unless theres smth i dont know
i do know about the supposedly maybe very likely scrapped gorgon class

[gaunt ingot]

not sure how late joining would work

seems like itd be challenging to implement

[hybrid mist]

They said there's gonna be 4 in the alpha but they plan doing more than 4

[gaunt ingot]

oh sweet :)

[forest rain]

gorgon?
wa

[gaunt bronze]

Will our progress in alpha be carried over into EA?

[forest rain]

-# sport

[native monolith]

At alpha? Yes

There will be more

[gaunt ingot]

got it

[gaunt ingot]

was in the pre alpha showcase many months ago

we saw falconeer and slicer being played a bit in the showcase, and also knew of guardian and spotter

gorgon was also listed, but in a dev stream someone claimed there was talk of scrapping the class
thats all i know

[olive narwhal]

Gorgone 😔

Its potentially getting a rework at somepoint

[tall plume]

its ability didn't play nice with the gameplay so it's put on the shelves, might or might not be reworked one day

[ashen condor]

Is it known if there will be a Rogue class?

[errant kiln]

i hope theres just a dude with just like a bomb

or liek a guy who just pulls a kratos

[azure crescent]

Wonder why the office is split on female dwarves. As long as they can have beards too, I'm 100% on board.

[daring hill]

have they said what it did?

[olive narwhal]

yes

[gaunt bronze]

The ability to freeze enemies and make them invulnerable iirc. I could be very wrong because I don’t remember where I read it

[chrome sundial]

Ok guys. I'm going to wake up to a ping from this discord server and a email in my inbox

[inner granite]

At least one checks out

If you give me your email, i'll send you some cat pictures

[pure vessel]

Ofc

[pure vessel]

It is

[tall plume]

https://tenor.com/view/homer-simpson-whoo-hoo-yes-yay-gif-9848298218460771056

[severe nymph]

Is loyd still gona be serving 🥺

[glacial trout]

Dev team rly missed the oportunity to call it Deep Rogue Galactic 😭

[severe nymph]

No they like having unique names

[pure vessel]

No, he has to serve the dwarves on pace rig 17

[inner granite]

We still work for DRG

[severe nymph]

Aw

[inner granite]

Name him Dyol

[severe nymph]

I wonder if the robot woukd still be the same model 🤔

Or would rogue core introduce new silly robots

We've already seen the Molly replacement (forget the name)

[pure vessel]

probably

they already did

[severe nymph]

Ofc ofc

[nova cloak]

when started beta?

[inner granite]

Pins

+1 week

[severe nymph]

Start a someone asks when the beta is jar

[fringe narwhal]

[median sleet]

They started yesterday, but forgot to send invites

[fringe narwhal]

No rouge corn

[median sleet]

Rogue Core? More like Rogue BORE! (I am bored because I can't play the game)

[hollow bear]

Rogue SNORE

[verbal bobcat]

Napping until Closed Alpha ✨

[thin siren]

[vagrant mesa]

Can't wait for early access tho

[astral sluice]

why is it called expenite and not Rogue Ore, are GSG stupid?

[wheat pewter]

very good question

[olive hound]

Rouguenite

There

[timber lark]

Someone prestigious please @ everyone (or me) when the alpha keys are unleashed

[pure vessel]

https://tenor.com/view/annoyed-fuck-frustrated-gif-15331740

[vagrant mesa]

They didn't thought through

[azure crescent]

Is customization still something that will be pretty limited in the new game? (I remember reading that in an interview) I know that was a big part of the replayability of DRG was all the unlockables. Will the focus be more on the roguelite unlocks with minimal customization?

[pure vessel]

Customization in what sense

[azure crescent]

Sorry, I mean cosmetics. I'm half asleep.

[pure vessel]

No we're not limiting that. We just don't have a plan for it yet, but it could look different from drg.

[azure crescent]

Cool thanks!

[magic isle]

On the topic of cosmetics, we need a hat/mask that is just a straight up rock

[uncut bronze]

the alpha already launched?

[tall plume]

no
pinned messages for info

[inner granite]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[vagrant scaffold]

We gotta keep track of how many weeks would we add to the release timeframe thanks to all the people asking.

[astral sluice]

there is no alpha test in Ba Sing Se

[wheat pewter]

😵

[native monolith]

We’d be at atleast half a year by now

So the alpha would almost be at actual release

[compact shard]

Rogue knight (a la shovel knight)

[compact shard]

Sign-ups for the alpha are available on the rogue core steam page

[icy vapor]

Implying we're not still working through the one day added for each time someone misspelled 'rogue' as 'rouge' in this channel alone...

[pulsar owl]

May the backlog extend eternally

[vagrant scaffold]

Misspelling the name of the game they themselves want to play will surely translate into bad luck for their testing applications.

[north steeple]

English is hard :(

[olive hound]

Rouge sounds like French

[inner granite]

It's #A23B6C color

Pink

[chrome sundial]

You have demolished my mental state

[inner granite]

at your service

[chrome sundial]

Not recovering from this one tbh

[olive hound]

Maybe RC beta release is behind that HEX color code...

[inner granite]

Cause mental damage for free since 1900

[inner granite]

We are not silksong

Nor LNF

[chrome sundial]

Guys I bet rogue core release next monday

Trust

[olive hound]

Better to be the 1st of May... so we have plenty of time on the weekend for play test.

[fierce valley]

Hopefully

[azure crescent]

Rouge core? Makeup confirmed.

[solar umbra]

Man, the number of people complaining that Helldivers 2 is dying because there hasn't been a major update in a few weeks.

[vagrant mesa]

Well lucky us we are still strong

Because we and

It never gets old

[solar umbra]

It's just stupid. Do modern gamers need a content drop every week and be dripfed content in order to maintain an interest in a game? When I was a kid, we bought our games from a store and played them and there were no post launch updates

[vagrant mesa]

Yes, they kinda want weekly updates

[solar umbra]

We'd be lucky to get expansions on separate discs and shit

[old swift]

buying a complete game helps in that regard

[solar umbra]

Even with newer games under a live service model I have NEVER seen such vitriol against a developer taking time

[native monolith]

“Helldivers 2 is dying” when they have a guy whose job is to literally feed the community new things every week:

[vagrant mesa]

As long as drg rogue core gets any news to share all i will say "let them cook as long as they need"

[solar umbra]

Oh I'm in the wrong chat lmao

[vagrant mesa]

Da

[solar umbra]

Yeah no I can't wait for Rogue Core either

[vagrant mesa]

You finally figured it bird thing

[solar umbra]

I want to help test that shit

[vagrant mesa]

[solar umbra]

In my defence I seldom leave the furry chat.

I don't know how I'm here

BUT YES ROGUE. CORE.

[vagrant scaffold]

The answer to your question seems to be "yes". I don't like it either but oh well.

[vagrant mesa]

I will buy it as soon as it will be on early access

[solar umbra]

Give me the deep. I wish to fight a Balrog Balor.

[vagrant mesa]

Shame i didn't participated to be the tester but I'm no good at giving a proper feedback anyway unless if it's something i am curious about

[young vessel]

are you not curious as to why the core is rogue?

[vagrant mesa]

I just wait for early access release

[solar umbra]

It likely wished to have ALL the skills, potbelly

Hahaha Pathfinder reference

[vagrant mesa]

If i knew the reference anyway

[young vessel]

[carmine zenith]

https://tenor.com/view/balloony-gif-27571681

[solar umbra]

The Rogue class in good TTRPGs is known for having all the skills.

[carmine zenith]

You get to fight balloonie

[vagrant mesa]

So far from what i can tell, we fight with not Glyphid

[solar umbra]

Tater that thing is fucked

[vagrant mesa]

But with those core abominations

[young vessel]

and more!

[vagrant mesa]

moar?

[solar umbra]

Yeah it's those crawlers at minimum. What the fuck is Hoxxes IV.

[young vessel]

we've also seen flying rammers and small scuddler spider things

[vagrant mesa]

[young vessel]

or "shatterclaw swarmer" apparently

[vagrant mesa]

Feels like hoxxes got something more ominous than we thought

Something very ancient

And is not happy

[solar umbra]

Not defeating the "planet is alive and hates us" conspiracy

[vagrant mesa]

Maybe that's why everything is trying to kill you despite the differences

Even rivals tech doesn't attack Glyphids (though technically and theoretically speaking they should)

Unless if I'm missing the lore outside of "Devs aren't fond of making infighting system"

But i digress

[wicked anvil]

BALLOONYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[north steeple]

Day 18 of waiting on rogue core, I think engi sent my company mail password to the rivals again

[split glacier]

I forgot, did the key started to be distributed for rogue core or not ?

[young vessel]

no, also 1 more week delay for that

[split glacier]

I see, thanks pal ! I haven't been able to follow what is happening around it, hopefully we get a key for it !

[vagrant scaffold]

The Rivals aren't being as disruptive of the ecosystem as we are. The most they do is collecting data and storing it.

[vagrant mesa]

Fair enough

[young vessel]

will they have kursite at the core site

[frozen minnow]

so is it one week from now or is it a general delay?

[young vessel]

general, we're still counting the other times people have asked

[frozen minnow]

I see thanks, suppose there is going to be a big announcement once people start getting keys

hope I'm one of the lucky ones

[daring hill]

not getting access isn't a huge deal thankfully, as footage can be freely shared and GSG will be streaming the game as soon as they can

i do still hope we'll get a number for how many more people get access each time a test happens, though

[chrome sundial]

An upgrade that let bullets eat dirt would be cool

Mini gun walking through the wall that no longer exists

[gaunt bronze]

That’s the power drill’s job

[near leaf]

Hear me out, Cave Leech Larry, a fun new friend for Steeve

[pliant radish]

@pure vessel Might be a bit late but, what about bars in the abandoned facilities the Reclaimers are going through? There gonna be beers between the chaos?

[young vessel]

the double ping 😨

[hollow bear]

https://tenor.com/view/bold-strategy-cotton-dodgeball-cotton-pepper-espn-the-ocho-jason-bateman-gif-5533366060954481945

[gaunt ingot]

idk maybe drg canonically has extremely sexist hiring practices

[gaunt ingot]

thats cool as hell as a concept
though youd have to give it an additional reason to exist alongside cryo and/or make the effect and cryo work off each other somehow so coexisting isnt really awkward

imo

[ocean hamlet]

probably it'd just be much harder CC than cryo.

[old swift]

yeah it'll have negative movement speed instead of zero

[pure vessel]

I love the mineral beard idea that's been floating around on the DRG Reddit. Not sure it might be too goody, but I think that ship has sailed long ago.

Would love something that that, but stone.

[pure vessel]

I don't think DRG would allow for goofin' around at work

[pure vessel]

We are?

[pure vessel]

We'll be changing this

[delicate flax]

I hope there are a billion puns about rouge core in rogue core

[severe nymph]

Huh I guess this core sure had gotten rogue

[severe nymph]

To add on to this topic I definitely think female dwarves would be sick the inclusion would very likely bring more women to play

I'm sure there woukd be a hand full of dorks who would complain that drg went "woke" or some bullshit but other then that I see no reason not to

[quiet ravine]

One issue i could see is the art team having to figure out a new body model type and how every skin now fits on it, for most there won't be much of any changes i imagine but unique skins to the female body would be cool and I'm pretty sure there are some shirtless skins that just can't be directly carried over, but besides just a bit more work for a healthy new variety and potentially really cool unique skins down the line i would like to see the change but also understand if it doesn't come around

[severe nymph]

I'm pretty sure for the most part female dwarves have very similar builds to male dwarves

And most the armor of figure woukd carry over

I think the only potential issue is getting some one to voice the.

Them

[ashen condor]

I doubt it would inspire that many more people to play. The market for roguelites inspired by Left 4 Dead and Minecraft is not so saturated that a lack of female dwarves is make or break

[quiet ravine]

Yeh i can see that being an issue, but yet again nothing that more work by the dev team can't fix just a matter of dealing with them

Yet again for a game with what 5 voice actors adding 4 others is kinda a big ask

[severe nymph]

No the dwarves are all one dude

Just pitched up and down

[quiet ravine]

ALL OF THEM?

[severe nymph]

Yes lmao

[ashen condor]

Is Mission Control the same guy?

[quiet ravine]

Dang how did i not know that

[severe nymph]

Deep rock as a franchise js very male centered I feel and I just think it'd be cool to toss in some inclusiveness

[severe nymph]

I dunno bout him

Just know the dwarves are the same guy

[inner granite]

Or it can be done as in Discworld: you don't know the gender of a dwarf, it's all hidden under the beard

As there are females and males, but all look the same, with some diffrend details

[severe nymph]

Exactly what I'm thinking

It doesn't have to be a huge endeavor I literally just think new voices woukd be perfect

[pure vessel]

No that's Robert Friis 🙂 The dwarves are voices by Javier.

[ashen condor]

Ah, okay. Thanks

[neat acorn]

[solemn ore]

I'm not sure if alr asked but are we gonna have a rock and stone button in rogue core too

[ashen condor]

Yeah

[hollow bear]

Robert, my beloved

[pure vessel]

Yes

[solemn ore]

YYYYEEAAAAAHHHH

[vagrant scaffold]

As a "woke complainer" I find no problem at all with female dwarves. I do want them to look like older ladies, just like our current dwarves don't look too young either. It looks very comical and quite fitting with the low poly art in some way.

I imagine female dwarf models do represent quite a bit of work though. New face model, and making slight alterations of all ingame armors to fit the new body type. While the beards can stay, you'd also have to come up with many new feminine looking sets of hairstyles, possibly sideburns too? And, yeah, a voice actress for the lady miners.

[astral sluice]

can't wait for Woke Core alpha test

[azure crescent]

I thought it would be funny if they shared nearly all cosmetics and the voices and a slight model change were the only difference.

Beards for everyone.

[native monolith]

It’s decently important for the reclaimers to have visibly distinct models

Via colors

I’m interested what they will do with voice pitch once they have more than 4 though

Because there’s only so many ways you can remix Javier’s voice to make it unique and recognizable

[olive hound]

Maybe we get a dwarf with a mechanical voice

If the Reclaimers go to dangerous places i guess they would need prosthetics replacements

"Ha ha the core crawler got your tongue"

[karmic pulsar]

i just watched my steve get crushed by a supply pod

[thin apex]

Doubt we're getting Cyborg dwarves

Aside from cosmetics

DRG already has some cyborg-esque cosmetics

I wanna hear some of the killcries though

[pliant radish]

Damn, not even a bar in the break rooms, Management's lost their minds

[thin apex]

Also gorgon class freezing enemies and somehow making them invulnerable sounds really familiar to a bug I reported when Season 5 came out lol

Heavy armor from Corespawns while frozen made them totally immune to attacks

[olive hound]

the reason of the blackout, not having beer.

[lost hedge]

Is there not going to be bugs in rouge core? Just core spawn?