rogue-core-chat

[faint patrol]

As dwarves are meant to be

[tardy vale]

true!

[tranquil otter]

i hope so. i havent gotten into any

hell ye. gender neutral beards

[limpid comet]

baldhead too

[rare glacier]

like $79.99

micro transactions included too why not

[faint patrol]

Gacha too?

[rare glacier]

pshh why not

loot boxes and gambling

and ads

[faint patrol]

Can't wait to never be able to do hazard 5 because I haven't been able to pull a SSR dwarf

[rare glacier]

yeah you gotta buy the $29.99 battlepass to get free legendary rockboxes

sfx not included

[tardy vale]

$10 to be able to do the rock and stone emoji

[last fern]

don't forget the 20$ to even play a run!

[burnt swan]

oop sorry your free trial of viewing the menu ran out you'll have to pay $15 an hour to continue viewing it

[limpid osprey]

k its official, the game once again avoided my grasp unless they're pumping out another wave or two in a few days

shucks

[acoustic bay]

Man I'm well over 1000 hours in DRG and still can't get an alpha invite.

[arctic hawk]

bad rng

[limpid comet]

rogue core tomorrow

[limpid osprey]

between this and waiting on pricing for the demolisher class in drgs...

kinda bleak

[obtuse wind]

dm me if u wanna play together !

[sage cradle]

Is there anywhere to spend C-Scrip yet?

[tall plume]

yeah

cosmetic sheet in the wardrobe

[sage cradle]

Ah, I was expecting it to be a standalone station you interact with like in DRG

I scoured the darkest, most unfinished dead ends of the HUB looking for some form of station to spend them at lmao

[limpid osprey]

am i wasting my energy trying to figure out what the name of the account the invite email's gonna be sent by

[rugged aurora]

does anyone know if its possible to kill those snake grabber enemies that come out of the walls?

they seem to be really tanky is there a trick to it?

[grave thistle]

fairly certain its just steam

[limpid osprey]

well ive also been mindlessly going between my library and inventory trying to see if it dropped

aint nothing like hearing about the game their next and final playtest and after all these years you still get barred, that's definitely a feeling that'll stick

[misty ledge]

Looking for a crew to play the closed alpha with

Loving what I'm seeing

[limpid osprey]

makes my mind dwell back to the fact that i submitted my request god knows how long, i think when rogue core first appeared on the steam store, it cant be a coincidence because it had to have get tripped at some point

like it had to

[knotty thunder]

It can be just bad RNG, each playtest youve had a couple percent chance at most of getting the playtest so its rare.

[knotty thunder]

Also you can check your playtest invites on steam by clicking on the dropdown of your profile in the top right > Account details > Playtests (On the sidebar on the left)

[limpid osprey]

HA nope still not there

[knotty thunder]

I've heard the invites are slowly getting sent out over the next couple days so keep checking

Other than that EA is not super far away

[hushed merlin]

Tomorrow

[hushed merlin]

Last thing I heard is that they were already sent for this wave

[boreal plume]

Two waves got sent out

[boreal plume]

No, those tentacles are invincible

You have to avoid them

[rugged aurora]

thanks, good to know. Wasnt sure if I was missing something

[boreal plume]

They only appear when your mission timer runs into the red

[rugged aurora]

that explains why two spawned right outside the elevator in my last mission XD

[boreal plume]

[next moat]

How are the keys given out for the closed alpha? I got a key but was hoping to try with friends.

[boreal plume]

#rogue-core-chat message

[limpid comet]

My friend got into the playtest and I didn’t. Did you guys do this on purpose to torment me?

Yes.

[elder tundra]

Yup

[daring owl]

is it possible to invite friends to closed alpha or give a key to someone else

[olive narwhal]

Nope

[daring owl]

i bet there steam account tradings out there bc of this

[boreal plume]

it should be mandatory to check the latest pin before sending a message in this channel

[inner granite]

People don't read

[daring owl]

sometimes asking is simpler and faster, even if english isnt your main language

[inner granite]

It is not

90% of questions were already answered in pins

Price, adding a friend, is it random, when's next alpha, what's RC... All are in the pins

[old swift]

pat responded faster though

faq is probably about a minute to read after you find it and click on it and skim through it

[daring owl]

props to pat

[old swift]

my goat

[rotund shoal]

is the an lfg for rogue core?

[elder tundra]

Pat should have delayed by a minute extra just to make it slower

[olive narwhal]

How do you select who gets invited?

It's completely random. We tell Steam to let X amount of players in, and it randomly selects a group from the list of applicants. When you requested an invite doesn't matter, you've got the same chances whether you signed up yesterday or two years ago. It also doesn't factor in how much you've played Deep Rock Galactic (and we can't even see that data anyway).

Can I invite a friend to the playtest if I get picked?

No. At the very start of the Closed Alpha, we did try an experimental Steam feature that allowed for friend invites. But it didn't work consistently, and Steam has since rolled it back. So it's no longer a thing.

I signed up for the playtest on day one but I still haven't gotten in. What gives?

That's just bad RNG, unfortunately. Like we mentioned earlier, Steam's random selection process doesn't factor in how long you've been waiting, it just pulls a number from a hat. And there are a lot of numbers in the hat.

My friend got into the playtest and I didn’t. Did you guys do this on purpose to torment me?
Yes.

[elder tundra]

True

[boreal plume]

I think you have to link your discord through the game

[olive narwhal]

Yes

[boreal plume]

then you get access to new channels, one of them being lfg for RC

[rotund shoal]

thank you

[boreal plume]

no problem

[daring owl]

I think they could have at least given priority to those who actually own Deep Rock Galactic.

[olive narwhal]

Should make it quicker to get the common questions answered

[olive narwhal]

I have 3,200 hours in Deep Rock Galactic and have been playing since 2018. Shouldn’t I have priority for getting into the playtest?

No, sorry. Of course it’s great to get feedback from people who know DRG really well, but it’s equally important to hear how the game is for people who are relatively inexperienced, or perhaps new to the franchise altogether. We’ve got to make sure the game is fun and interesting for greenbeards and graybeards alike.

[boreal plume]

that was also answered in the pinned message FAQ

[daring hill]

they want feedback from those who have never played DRG, though obviously thats a small amount

[olive narwhal]

Also first question and answer

[raven wharf]

Require users to read an intro page and copy/paste a specific sentence to a bot to gain access.

The best part is you can randomly change what to send over time while keeping the intro page the same.

[daring owl]

Will Deep Rock Galactic Normal be further developed by another team, so that, for example, new mission types will continue to be added, or is the focus on Rogue Core as a "continuation"?

[daring hill]

both

Normal DRG will continue to be supplemented by Invisible Walls, and Rogue Core happens at the same time as Season 6

[serene monolith]

is max level stil 25 for characters

[olive narwhal]

Think you can promo at 20 iirc

[tender pagoda]

how long is the playtest? is it until EA release?

[boreal plume]

yes

oh Aaron went full omega mode

[last bloom]

Did they say this regarding invisible walls? What do you mean S6 is at the same time as RC?

[boreal plume]

Yes to your first question #rogue-core-chat message

[silk sandal]

Clearly my invite has been overlooked and was an error, where do I file my complaint and have this corrected immediately?

I want to speak to the Rogue Core manager post haste

Don't you know who I am? (I am nobody)

[hollow bear]

We have received your written complaint

https://tenor.com/view/printer-shredder-fax-machine-spam-customer-service-gif-25361577

[silk sandal]

I expect a prompt reply and correction, thank you

[velvet radish]

Hmmm does scrip have a purpose as of right now?

[tender pagoda]

cosmetics

[velvet radish]

Terminal wise, where be it…

[tender pagoda]

comsemtic terminal where you equip them, theres a button on the bottom right

[velvet radish]

Ah ty

[faint patrol]

RAAAAAHHHH!!! I NEED ROGUE CORE NOWWW. PUMP IT IN MY VEINS

[rapid ridge]

Hi, can i invite people to the test? thank you

[boreal plume]

No you can't

[rotund root]

Rogue core tomorrow in 53 days

[short yacht]

Me too twin😔😔😔

[faint patrol]

If John DeepRockGalactic himself doesn't have the playtest then there's no hope for us peasants 😔

[solemn sand]

Is there any requirement to get into the alpha. I signed up when they announced it and still nothing. Am I just that unlucky lol.

[hollow bear]

Random be random

[short yacht]

No requirements except for signing up

[olive narwhal]

#rogue-core-chat message

[solemn sand]

Gotcha so like 3 people got the invite then

[boreal plume]

no, tens of thousands got in

[short yacht]

We are just unlucky souls forced to experience the torture of not getting into the playtest

[boreal plume]

you are just one of the hundreds of thousands that didn't get in

[solemn sand]

I dont believe you guys

Just 3 invites

Seriously though as soon as it launches I'm buying it regardless just want to give it a shot.

[short yacht]

Theres always hope

[short yacht]

Same tbh

[faint patrol]

Same, just hope it'll run smoothly on low settings on my broke laptop 😵‍💫

[short yacht]

It depends on how good drg runs on your laptop

[solemn sand]

I hope for you as well. The game looks super fun. It has two of my favorite things Rocks and rogue lite elements

[short yacht]

Since as far as I am aware it’s on Unreal Engine 5 instead of 4 that is used in DRG

Not even counting the optimization problems that might be present on launch

[faint patrol]

Without a problem on high with DLSS set to balanced but the thing is my laptop only has 6 gigs of RAM so I'm worried

Planned to upgrade the RAM last year but we all know the crazy prices of RAM these days

[tacit urchin]

6 gigs?

[faint patrol]

Ye

[faint patrol]

I'm not a big roguelike fan but I'll give it a try

[short yacht]

I might have bad news for you

[olive narwhal]

Rogue core is running better than the first alphas atleast

[faint patrol]

I've only played single player ones anyway

[short yacht]

It says 8 gigs recommended on steam page

[tacit urchin]

You have 2 hours to refund if anything

[faint patrol]

8 recommend so hopefully the minimum is 6 🙏

I should've just upgraded the RAM 2 years ago but I delayed it and now the prices are too high 😭

[short yacht]

Mistake on my end, it actually says minimum and not recommended 😭

[tacit urchin]

How mischievous

[faint patrol]

Oof, I'll still give it a try 😵‍💫

[olive narwhal]

It will likely need more power to run than than DRG

[short yacht]

Can’t blame you, not everyone could see all this RAM bullshit coming

[faint patrol]

DRG runs for me on high without a problem so I'm hoping RC atleast runs on low settings

[faint patrol]

My laptop's bottleneck is what used to be the cheapest upgrade part. It's so cooked smh

[olive narwhal]

Probably similar but some stuff might be more taxing considering you can have like double and triple swarms im not sure if it has a cap or one as low as DRG

[tacit urchin]

There wasn't a cap before

[short yacht]

AI bubble will pop soon and everything will go back to normal so you could play Rogue Core with your new RAM #hope

[tacit urchin]

The 6 swarms:

[olive narwhal]

Yeah that will probably bring your computer to its knees

[faint patrol]

Hopefully 🫡

[tacit urchin]

I can't imagine doing 6 swarms on my old PC

Would probably actually blow up

[olive narwhal]

I get 120 on High atm it does pretty much half from 220 when things get busy

[faint patrol]

RAM bottleneck isn't usually too bad right? The biggest problem seems to be if your GPU or CPU are underpowered so I dunno

[olive narwhal]

So 100 to 120 is where I might typically sit

[tacit urchin]

RAM results in stutters

Often

[olive narwhal]

Yeah i remember my old pc with 8gigs regularly blue screening on jc3

[tacit urchin]

It's really... not fun, even if you don't spy it

[olive narwhal]

But yeah probably expect slightly higher requirements than drg

[tender pagoda]

the map is probably smaller than DRG though, since each mission is split into multiple levels

[olive narwhal]

At the very list large amounts of particles dont complete destroy my frames as much as drg they spent alot of time fixing those

[tacit urchin]

Yeah-ish. I think the size is comparable to IS (It's not laid out the same though)

[olive narwhal]

Still taxing for sure but pbm use to actually destroy me

[tender pagoda]

that being said, im not too sure how the settings i have are compared to my drg settings, but framerates are a little lower

[faint patrol]

I'll still get it I think, if it stutters too much then hopefully in 2 years whenever the AI bubble pops and RAM becomes affordable

[short yacht]

AI videos of cat people doing random shit are definitely worth not being able to afford new RAM

Or whatever the fuck they are posting in YouTube shorts these days

[faint patrol]

Those cat vids annoy me the most especially cause cats have been doing random shit since the beginning of time, you don't need an AI for that 😭

[tardy vale]

for those who got access into the game: does it have accesibility options or any option to turn off the blood/change the colour of the blood?

[hollow marten]

Are all the invites for the playtest been sent or are there more coming?

[burnt swan]

Possibly one more wave is what I’ve heard

[burnt swan]

there are color blind and photosensitivity settings, and no direct settings for blood but if you turn down one of the graphic settings it'll probably be disabled.

[tardy vale]

noted, i'll make a suggestion for an accessibility option related to blood, then

[carmine pier]

There is one last alpha about a week or two before early access launch.
So we might see one or two more invite waves.

Just uh, remember to set your expectations accordingly. Chance to get in is extremely low

[limpid comet]

rogue core tomorrow

[tardy vale]

50 or so days actually

[boreal plume]

It's always tomorrow for them

[hollow comet]

Hey guys, is the ramrok boss impossible to do without ammo? I don't have any ammo but my build is melee, and I can't seem to open protective shield it put on the bubble thing I need to throw down the middle

[boreal plume]

you have to make the boss charge into the shield

[tawny moat]

Bolt tech " Sniper" is just a full auto gun?

[acoustic warren]

Does anyone want to try the weekly challenge? We need 2, have 2

It's stupid hard with 2 people

[hollow comet]

thanks! didn't save my run, had been running around for too long, but I came close haha

[regal grail]

what's up with the bars that appear over some weapons/traversal tools sometimes when selecting equipment?

like for example, I have a jury rigged boomstick and a thunderhead autocannon has two bars on it and one bar on the power drills

[daring hill]

A dev could speak more explicitly, but its an old remnant of a now non-existent system

Where weapons were defined by damage types and ranges to a much higher degree

If you hovered over a long-range upgrade, It'd put a bar on a long-range weapon

The actual gameplay system doesn't really exist anymore, but the UI hasn't been stripped out yet

[regal grail]

oh interesting, so a little bit like survivor's damage type/range system then

[daring hill]

Yeah

If mike is lurking please go more in-depth if you can, im just paraphrasing here

[ocean atlas]

hi-hello everyone , wanted to say that my brother got the closed ea invite and the game looks amazing. Does anyone know if theres a second row of invites so i can maybe play with him?

[inner granite]

Even if there was, chance you'd get in is less than 1%

[last bloom]

There seems to be very few players playing

[velvet veldt]

its an alpha so to be expected

[last bloom]

But were like 2-3x more last playtest hmm

[hushed merlin]

tomorrow

[hushed merlin]

It's a alpha playtest... im not surprised

rn there's about 172 players.
Peak hours goes around 200-300, compared to the 20-40 average since December 2025

[snow plume]

how do you do the dang deadlift mini game?

not fun lol

[reef seal]

Hey team just to make sure Ghost ship games discord isnt seperate from the DRG discord right? if so great if not its broken lmao

[tall plume]

it's not separate

[reef seal]

Great thank you

[snow plume]

anyone know what the blue money is for?

nvm

[reef seal]

The mining platforms that go down have a chance of spawning in the elevator trapping you

I cant send photos here but I would

You also have a chnace of being shot under the map when those tentacles grab you lol

idk if im meant to add bug stuff here or after in the comment thing

[rare dune]

guys is there a setting to allow more than one person to play the same class?

[burnt swan]

nope, update 0.5 removed dupe classes

[chrome basin]

Even after all these lootbug sacrifices I still don’t have rogue core

[burnt swan]

have you tried specifically gold lootbugs?

[chrome basin]

WHY isn’t it working? Is there something missing? Must more nitra be shed??

[chrome basin]

I went for the senseless slaughter approach on refinement missions

[burnt swan]

you didnt even refine your slaughter on the mission you're meant to be refining materials on?

thats your problem

[elfin kettle]

how can i get invited to early access?

[burnt swan]

click request access on the steam page and hope you get in the final 1-2 invite waves that get sent out within a few weeks

[elfin kettle]

ok thx

[chrome basin]

I see my mistake now

[marble jasper]

how do I join the playtest channel

the button in game just gives me Firefox can’t connect to the server at discord.ghostship.dk:26002

or is it just in #rogue-core-suggestions

[burnt swan]

afaik its only through the ingame button, can try asking a mod if they have perms

[marble jasper]

@spiral moth are you able to help pls?

[marble jasper]

also is there something wrong with the colours in menus with HDR on?

[limpid comet]

core tomorrow rogue

[boreal plume]

@wheat river Your help is needed, sorry for the ping

[grizzled lotus]

Hey, guys what is scrip used for in this game? I can't find any terminal for it

[tender pagoda]

cosmetic terminal

button in the bottom right

[tardy jasper]

i signed up for the rogue core playtest literally the day it was announced but i dont have access. no email or anything. is this normal?

[olive narwhal]

Yes

[tardy jasper]

zamn. my friend that signed up with me got access so i just have to watch him 😭

[olive narwhal]

#rogue-core-chat message

[boreal plume]

Can you see on Steam if one of your friends got access? Like "XXX already owns this game". I assume no because you technically don't own it during play test.

[tardy jasper]

im watching him play the game in call right now

but no i cant see if he owns it

[olive narwhal]

That do be how random selection works

[tender pagoda]

i think if you have access you can see other friends who have acces

[wheat river]

Hmm, everything looks fine here. @marble jasper I should have added you manually now

[inner granite]

server gained consciousness and is going on a strike

[agile hawk]

(｡•́︿•̀｡)

[velvet radish]

I do not like this depth 2 boss. >:[

[agile hawk]

૮ • ﻌ - ა thats my next mission but dont like doing solo and theres no free squads rn for it so imma do that one later

idk if my friend has playtest he had the 5th one but idk if it transfers, shall see if i can drag him on

[summer tiger]

rammok?

[limpid comet]

when will the next invitation wave be?

[boreal plume]

Yes it transfers

You only have to get invited once

[agile hawk]

gotcha

[full sleet]

Man i finally received an invite after applying eons ago, testing on Steamdeck oled, so far stable as a rock 60fps on medium settings, a lot of UI text is damn near illegible, will provide pictures later. Controller controlls are great minus menuing with a 'cursor' using a stick.

Unrelated to the deck: text that teaches you to use class ability says 'While holding LT press RT' which is wrong. During weapon upgrade '+50% ricochet' has a blank box instead of a description

[smoky salmon]

How to revive dwarfs with Falconer's drone? i need to unlock that or is this just don't work for now?

[boreal plume]

Have you tried pinging a downed dwarf

[smoky salmon]

Only with lmb+Q, not from ping device. Is that how drone revives?

[boreal plume]

nvm you have to look at a dwarf while pressing those buttons

While looking at a downed teammate, hold [ABILITY] and press [USE] to order your Shock Drone to revive them.

from the wiki

[full sleet]

Extreme fps drops on character selection screen, 60->30fps

[smoky salmon]

i'll try that, ty!

[tame jacinth]

Is it possible to have 1 friend of mine invited to rogue core alpha? He is a veteran of deep rock and I would love to play with him on the alpha. I think he would provide quick good feedbacks as well

[boreal plume]

no it's not possible

[tame jacinth]

Thanks anyway 🙂

[round jasper]

So far, the alpha runs stable. I had no issues.

[wintry mountain]

hey folks im not really keeping up with Rogue Core but i have a question are there Gunner primaries?

[mossy ruin]

yes

[wintry mountain]

Curious what they'd do with Autocannon in the newer game

[tall plume]

it's still the same autocannon

except this one can get stuff like ricochet

[round jasper]

Some extra weapons.

[tall plume]

or elemental infusion

[sleek timber]

so excited for the game holy moly

[wintry mountain]

Same as in same stats?

[tall plume]

yeah

the ROF is cranked up at base though

[wintry mountain]

I assumed the game has entirely new numbers & balancing

[summer tiger]

it now has more recoil and less spread

[boreal plume]

isn't the reload also slightly better

on thunderhead

[hushed merlin]

tomorrow

[feral palm]

Game where thunderhead is good????

Goty

[snow plume]

i was hoping for a new boss BUT the fact the game is like real stable is great

[north oriole]

Hey I've trying to find access to the rogue core bug chat but when I click on the discord link in game it just redirects me to my friends list or something and doesnt give me access. Is there a specific clickable in game or is it any of the discord buttons?

[hollow bear]

might be something for @wheat river to check

(sorry for ping)

[boreal plume]

there's a third one afaik

[snow plume]

there is?

[boreal plume]

yup

[north oriole]

I found yet another bug lol, the weights get very buggy when you drink certain beers

[boreal plume]

I'm trying not to spoil myself on that one but I know it's in alpha 6

I guess you have to reach higher difficulties though

[north oriole]

is there a place I could post my findings for now or should I wait? I've been able to recreate the bugs I found

[wheat river]

It's the one on the startup/info screen

Just above the live dev message feed

[hollow bear]

Sorry, I thought you were having trouble with the linking. The channel you want is https://discord.com/channels/257785731072786435/1367042923954176010

[alpine pulsar]

yall got any more of those early access slots *imagine there's the Tyrone meme here

[raven wharf]

How much cash you got?

[alpine pulsar]

Compressed Gold only

[sharp cape]

Are save files currently uploaded to the steam cloud?

[agile hawk]

I've found my #1 enemy in this game
Finding cameras

corespawn is chill, fuck those cameras

[hollow bear]

sounds like a job for Anti-grav emitter

[pale roost]

Man, translating RC is hella fun

[steel eagle]

probably already ask but i have a question about rogue core did i see right that the trailer video showing the dwarf character that some of them are dwarf female ? i ask that question because i want to be sure if it is true

[hollow bear]

there are 2 female dwarves

Retcon and Falconer

[forest rain]

hi guys its me scott pilgrim

im in need of a team

[boreal plume]

That's great to hear

Thank you for translating the game

[pale roost]

Hope at least something that i translated would be used in game
I may take a break, but won't stop c:

[tardy vale]

same, although even if my translations arent used, i'll still be happy to have helped translate the game somehow

[boreal plume]

Bringing the game to as much languages as possible is very important, and I'm glad the devs made the choice of crowdsourcing their translations. There might not be enough budget to translate hundreds of thousands of words but at least they aren't firing their translators to replace them with AI (looking at Warhorse Studios). Keep going, I'm sure there will be a player out there that appreciates your work.

[tardy vale]

yee, human work will always be better than AI work

[limpid comet]

Dwarf lines are especially fun to translate

[tardy vale]

i'm not creative enough to translate their jokes/puns/slangs, so i'm focusing on translating OMEGA lines cause of how direct and literal he is

[limpid comet]

That, if anything, is another good point

Omega reacts really strongly to all the chaos, which makes it fun

[wheat river]

I think so, they are at least uploaded to our own save backup that you can find in game

[exotic remnant]

Same

[boreal plume]

At this point I would just be patient and wait for early access

[spark vine]

why cant i got into the playtest but my friend can,and he play way less

they even get skins,the playtesters

[boreal plume]

They need feedback from new players too

And anything you get during play test won't carry over to early access.

You will start with a fresh save anyways

[quaint sinew]

There's last question in FAQ for Steam
It says there that it's to torment you

[rocky plover]

they should add hatsune miku to rogue core

[tall plume]

playtesters don't get anything special outside of a bugged early access to the game

[daring hill]

actually we get 5000 million us dollar! (this is not true)

[tardy vale]

actually OMEGA will personally kill you if you dont get in the playtest /j

[boreal plume]

oh there are lines for the Gorgon class in the translation files

I guess it was forgotten

[exotic remnant]

what is the gorgon ?

we will get more than 5 classes ?

[tall plume]

a cut class

we will get more than 5 classes ?

yes

[exotic remnant]

oh god that is nice

any idea if we will get more than 5 on early acess release ?

[tall plume]

probably not on early access release, no

but later, most likely

[boreal plume]

unlikely on EA release

[daring hill]

fwiw I doubt they will ever add more than like

2-3 more classes

and 3 is pushing it honestly

[exotic remnant]

i mean yeah

but they need new stuff for dlc and to keep the players coming back

so who knows

[tall plume]

I think 8 is a good number total

[exotic remnant]

yeah

double drg anyway

[daring hill]

definitely no content dlcs

I also do not see rogue core getting supported with new content past 1.0 beyond a year or so

[exotic remnant]

i mean look at survivors

it is smaller but still got updates and dlcs

[daring hill]

not by GSG though

[exotic remnant]

fair

[tall plume]

I think that's more likely to happen with RC than DRG

[exotic remnant]

i think that too, maybe new maps and weapons, characters, something like gunfire reborn

[tardy vale]

i'd be fine with not much content updates after 1.0 tbh, its a roguelike, its probably filled with content already

[pallid stream]

The gordon sounds like he‘d a free man

[dull plume]

DO NOT START AN ELEVATOR RIGHT BEFORE A SWARM!!!! Worst mistake of my life :,3

[tardy vale]

HELLO GORDON

[solar dock]

i thought rogue core was just going to be DRG2

[olive narwhal]

Its a spin off

[solar dock]

And a roguelike

apparently

[olive narwhal]

Roguelite spin off

[solar dock]

I dont like the word roguelite

I think classic roguelike and roguelike are way more understandable

[rotund root]

Rogue core tomorrow in 51 days

[olive narwhal]

It has meta progression which is why it is a roguelite

Or something like that

Some people are pretty particular about the distinction

[echo gale]

like me

[solar dock]

No no I know what those words mean

I know the distinction

I just think those specific terms are annoying to use

[tardy vale]

whats the progression between missions btw? like, the permanent upgrades

the trailers and the steam info dont make it clear

[olive narwhal]

enhancements so far outside of general progression like access to deeper depths,number of stages, access to more thingies in the stages

your first run does not allow you to access the xp events

yourself anyways

[summer tiger]

you can unlock enhancements like more ammo, more health, more armour, more weakpoint damage and so on. Each enhancement has 4 tiers and they are situated in a neat skill tree. After each facility reclaimed you are awarded with chips that allow you to unlock enhancements. You can have up to 8 enhancements on a character and they stack meanin you can put all 4 armour enhancements but for diminishng returns. But you can.

[limber cedar]

What demons do I have to unleash to get let into the play test for rogue core

[summer tiger]

The daemon of time and wait untill he works untill may 20

[tardy vale]

ooh thats really cool

[hushed merlin]

tomorrow

[left bridge]

i hope there is going to be a Demo for Rogue Core during the EA launch even if that's unlikely it would let players test to see if they like game since the gameplay loop and difficulty is different from DRG .

[hushed merlin]

Steam does give you two hour window for refund

[wary prairie]

will classes stay gender locked?

[hushed merlin]

I'm going to guess yes

[wary prairie]

why? was it difficult to let us customise and then choose class?

[hushed merlin]

#rogue-core-suggestions

[summer tiger]

It's more of decision to make classes as "heroes". Same way did Blizzard choose that Tracer is a woman, not a twink.

[wary prairie]

Well if story wise it is ONLY those 5 saving Hoxxes

then ok makes sense

but there arent 5, we are thousands

[summer tiger]

Nothing outside of voice and face changes, all customisation options are the same as in DRG

[wary prairie]

plus i dont think there is only 1 class per mission

[summer tiger]

possibly more classes icoming and there is a class lock

[wary prairie]

ah i see

[summer tiger]

So there can only be one slicer, one falconeer, one guardian, one retcon or one spotter

Nope, don't think it's coming

[left bridge]

Yeah but the problem whit the 2h refund window is that personally i don't feel like it's enough time for me to experience the game fully enough to see if i like playing it, i think the only issue whit the game that i currently have as seen from streams and videos is that the missions look somewhat repetitive.

[summer tiger]

weren't they when DRG was lauching in 2018?

EA is there so GSG can get more money and get a point from which they will expand. The current loop now has 4 difficulty levels, 4 different lenghts, 3 diffferent bosses wit 4th on the way and two gauntlets. I'd say that's a really good amount of content mission-wise.

[elder tundra]

Isn't it four hours?

[vestal patio]

Yeah its not

[hushed merlin]

https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/#:~:text=within two weeks of purchase and with less than two hours of playtime%2C

[wide ether]

PEAK

[elder tundra]

I see

[left bridge]

Hmm true this is a early access launch, but the deep dive style missions is maybe my other issue whit it the missions can be lengthy if you don't rush to the elevator and have played the game before, but what ive seen from the dev streams is that you go into the mission you grab gear you mine exp get upgrades don't die from a wave do a event if you feel like it and leave and do this for a few stages and do the boss, this is the problem i have whit the missions the optional events personally are good they add a change of variety to the missions but i feel like there should be something else to do maybe a different kind of level exit or random event or maybe even special waves like a scorcher wave or something. Ofc this is what i would hope to see in the future for this game.

[tardy vale]

funny how no one has a problem with main DRG forcing you to play as male dwarfs, but the moment female dwarfs are introduced, its a problem lol

[summer tiger]

The devs tend to die a lot from what I've seen on streams so they are not the best showing the typical pace of experienced players. But also everyone needs to be reminded that RC is a different game than DRG. Sometimes if you don't keep up the pace you gonna get overrun. Sometimes you have to make a decision to leave behind that event you saw. It's a different game that requires to have different mindset. If you didn't try doing everything as fast as possible in DRG aka speedrunning, you will not like this game.

[tardy vale]

doing stuff as fast as possible with scout is very funny ngl

the speed/physics of the grapping hook are so funny

[summer tiger]

I'm not talking about scout specific, I'm talking all classes. I'm talking about the situation when without any words all team members know what is their task and what they are supposed to be doing at the moment. RC is more fast paced so it requires fast decision making and constantly moving. When to upgrade, when to start and if to start the event, picking right upgrades- all of those aspects play more crucial role than what you'd be normally doing in DRG.

[daring hill]

You and me both, ive been saying since the start that the thing rogue core needs more than anything in early access is in-run variety

There is zero meaningful variety to what you do in a run. No, skipping an event here and there isnt variety

Risk Vectors particularly aren't enough, there needs to be something more to change how each floor plays

[summer tiger]

Mike said they will work on this when the game is launched into EA, now they need to optimise everything and balance as much as possible. The creative and fun work will come later.

[left bridge]

Yes the devs die a lot on streams but this sorta shows how difficult the game can be, ofc this varies a lot depending on multiple things, and i know that RC is a different game than DRG but since i have not gotten access to the game i don't know how different the game really is and have only seen how different it is from streams and videos so im going based off that, i do like the shorter level style but ofc the problem i have whit the levels is the variety problem, the bosses are amazing and i really hope there are going to be more in the future.

[summer tiger]

If we were to compare DRG of 2018 and DRG od 2026 you'd see how big of a change that is. Multiple cave rooms, new mission, new enemies etc. With how nearly spotless GSG's credit is, I'd say we have to wait and see. It might seem like I'm overtly enthusiastic but trust me, I'm often first to see problems and leave all of this and move on.

[left bridge]

The risk vectors are not really there to add more variety its just to make the missions more difficult and ofc the reward from it but i hope there will be different kind of waves, level exits and maybe even an optional objective that only gives exp at the end of the mission like kill x amount of Edgestalkers in the future.

[old swift]

yeah i posted some feedback on this yesterday

there's not a lot of cavegen variety either

[solar dock]

😭

I need to hear for myself

Its important

[wary prairie]

Maybe walk through on Youtube. The tutorial forces a female class on ya

[solar dock]

It sounds very different between different voicelines

Idk

The sick to the core one is genuine peak

But some others get a bit weird

[wary prairie]

Like come on

[solar dock]

Oh you cant?

[wary prairie]

Nope

[solar dock]

I thought it was a cosmetic option

Damn

[worldly sundial]

peeks head in

Oh I ain't touching that.

[solar dock]

Its over

Millions must uninstall

[burnt swan]

who knows, maybe we might get individual voice acting per dwarf

[solar dock]

Why no same class

Does it break the game

Or is it just cuz they're different people

And not just random dwarf working x job

[burnt swan]

they removed dupe classes like update .5 so maybe just balancing aspect

[solar dock]

1984

[teal mica]

https://www.youtube.com/live/fZczuPYS5ms?si=EYr8Ob3nwPOOE1-6&t=6252
Timestamp will start at the relevant section of the stream.

[raven wharf]

Bigotry and sexism is always so entertaining

[tall plume]

I'm sure they'll find it entertaining where they are now

which is : not in here

[teal mica]

Nice.

[hushed merlin]

Tomorrow

[limpid comet]

invite wave (plz)

[serene monolith]

dose anyone know if the over kill damage perk can crit. like if i have 10k overkill stored then i crit do i just get 5k more that seems like a crazy snowballing effect

and i wonder if it will keep appling to the overkill stat in the end screen you could ez get some millions of overkill damage.

[shrewd flame]

As a person who has avoided all rogue core videos and content until I can play it, that sounds like it should be a thing even if it isn’t

[boreal plume]

I think it does

(Timestamped) At 39:15 you can see Snowingfate deal 16k damage even though his overkill damage was 7k. And the damage number being orange means it was a crit iirc. https://youtu.be/hvS2qcr139M?si=5Kqe0ZoLqU4e8wYR&t=2355

[fresh patio]

misogynistic men when they cant play as a fat beer drinking dwarf and instead have to play as a fat beer drinking dwarf:

[serene monolith]

i see but it dosent count the 16k as overkill damage and give it back to him. thats what i was wondering

if it worked that way it would snowball like crazy

[boreal plume]

yeah no, overkill damage from the perk doesn't count as overkill damage

that would be crazy :D

imagine stacking it on low hp enemies and then just one shotting the boss

[serene monolith]

it might be balanced if applied overkill damage dosent go through damage calc agen

it would then let you maintain/ build up overkill damage if you keep one shotting creeps with your base attack(based meaning without the extra overkill damage)

i would like to try out that version of the buff

mythic rarity perk??

[heady storm]

Why did I just realise I got access like 4 days ago? 😭
Either way, the game is so fun rn I love it.

I particularly love Falconer right now, it's a nice breath of fresh air to hear a new voice actor, but she's in general just very good on Solo missions as far as I've experienced.

[short yacht]

Rogue core tomorrow

[regal tree]

Rogue core never

[wise heath]

Is it normal that first cutscenes were laggy?

Also, game is looking great already.

[limpid comet]

Rogue core comes

[wise heath]

Also... I need the playtest for my friend. 🙁

He wanted it so badly and now i understand why. It would be great to play together.

[boreal plume]

Sadly your friend most likely will have to wait for early access

[wise heath]

Is there a button to report a bug? Like a hot button, not in menu.

Cause when i press it there it just makes a screenshot of a menu, not a thing i see in game.

[wise heath]

Oh... Game just crashed and now its not working...

yappy

[olive narwhal]

I don't believe your the only that cannot open the game rn

[boreal plume]

If I were you, I would link Discord account to RC in order to gain access to the tester channels. Maybe you could report your crash issue and share your PC specs there.

[wise heath]

Ok, i opened it.

Also, strange that i cant link my account to discord.

Like, it says that i dont have a permission to view that page.

Maybe somebody knows whats up with that?

[boreal plume]

@wheat river 🙏

[wise heath]

I wouldve sent a screenshot, but i cant.

Maybe its somehow correlating with my location?

[wheat river]

Have you perhaps linked another discord account already?

[wise heath]

Eh... Fuck, maybe i somehow linked my second account. I dont even use it.

But in-game it says "no account linked"

[wheat river]

Yeah, the in-game thing was supposed to be able to unlink another account but for some reason it's very unstable. Can you dm me your steam id and I'll fix it for you

[inner granite]

in-game thingy requires sacrifice of 1.35 greenbeards

For it to work

[raw pendant]

I only sacrificed a singular greenbeard; will his sacrifice be in vain or do I just need to sacrifice some more?

[inner granite]

Some more

One arm should be enough

[raw pendant]

One arm never hurt nobody

he won't miss it

Surely!

[cobalt ridge]

Hes just gonna grow a new one

[nova gazelle]

And a leg. (Those who understand the reference tell me).

[raw pendant]

"Don't be such a baby, ribs grow back!"

"no zhey don't..."

[wanton skiff]

What are Altered Sites?

[hollow bear]

Basically the anomaly/warning system like in drg

Different flavor, but the same thing

[hushed merlin]

Tomorrow

[limpid comet]

EROC EUGOR

[craggy sage]

Does the weird 3d visual effect go away after the tutorial ? it's really tiring my eyes

[tall plume]

yes

it's just in the tutorial

[craggy sage]

Cool thanks !

[craggy sage]

Im i really the only one online or is it a bug ?

(EU)

[craggy sage]

nvm

[wanton skiff]

I feel like a similar effect should be presented during gauntlets

[near sigil]

is there a way to share the rogue core invite with a friend

[tall plume]

nope

[clear oasis]

did i see correctly that there is a way to get alot of stuff for free during this test?

[mossy ruin]

wdym?
you do have a cheat terminal at your disposal iirc, since this is useful for testing, but none of the progress will carry over, nor will you get anything special for participating

[clear oasis]

thats the one i mean, looking for that one xD

[mossy ruin]

you should probably ask in the actual testing channel
I am not even 100% sure the cheat terminal is a thing still

[clear oasis]

prob ye

[boreal plume]

they removed the cheat terminal when they sent out the invite waves for alpha 6

[mossy ruin]

oh, is that so?

[boreal plume]

yup, they wanted people to progress the intended way

[clear oasis]

its all good though just wanted to see what was in store for us but i dont mind fidning out the correct way

[zenith rock]

Can I have the game

Pretty please Ive been a good corporate slave

[abstract charm]

No

[zenith rock]

7,000 fucking pit jaws

Eat this man

[abstract charm]

Nan
Id win

[ebon bear]

I really want to participate in the Alpha test

[heady storm]

7000 fucking SCARABS, eat this man

[zenith rock]

7,000 fucking STALKERS eat this man

[heady storm]

God please no they always appear in normal drg solo runs for me

😭

[frank void]

Give me 500 glyphids

[formal solar]

500 huuli hoarders

[peak sorrel]

500 bulk detonators

[tardy vale]

500 Nemesis

[near sigil]

is there a way to change your dwarf faceshape ?

[tall plume]

no

[near sigil]

thanks for the fast answer

[vestal patio]

If the next playtest doesn't come soon I'm gonna explode

[limpid comet]

tomorrow naver be comes

[waxen hamlet]

I don't think there are anymore playtests untill the Alpha release. Which is a shame because people like me did not get in but thats Ok, it is only about 2ish months away.

[cobalt ridge]

There is another playtest coming

Theyve already mentioned a few times its likely coming a week or two before early access launch

[snow plume]

was there a 3 boss added?

[deep agate]

ya there are 3

[snow plume]

whats the third one...

[limpid comet]

molaktula gate keeper

or gate keeper vi

[royal maple]

Hi ! I didnt get the core tester role, how do I get it ? I have access to Alpha and all channels, but dont have the role it seems

[snow plume]

oh geez

[tall plume]

there's a discord button you can click in the main menu

[chrome basin]

Oh, Ghostship... Søren... Somebody help me... Release it please, anybody... I've had enough of this wait... The hype blocks all sight... Oh, somebody, please...

[waxen hamlet]

So true, man. The wait is painful.

[tardy vale]

inb4 someone makes the nintendo early release letter but for roguecore

[heady storm]

So when I do Depth 4 am I not gonna get a new boss?

[summer tiger]

You have to pick right run. Each Icon represents different boss. One that looks like mouth pointing downwards is gotoorak, star shaped is Rammok, pillars with head is molaktula

[eager ermine]

Guessing there no preorders for rogue core?

[finite karma]

okay so what are the criticism of Rogue core?

just askin so i can grasp the idea

[limpid comet]

gsg is not invite me

[inner granite]

Steam won't run out of virtual copies

[summer tiger]

Some people say that roguelite mechanics sort of clash with DRG DNA, where one requites to be fast and other promotes methodical approach. Other people say that enemies are nothing special and very frustrating to play against. Imo those two arguments are skill issue.

[eager ermine]

i know that lol

[potent flame]

hey im sure someone already asked it, but are we allowed to stream the rogue core playtest on twitch? couldn´t find any info on that. thanks!

[lilac heart]

The FAQ in pins of this channel has that info, but yes, just make sure it’s properly indicated in the stream that the game is in closed alpha state/feature incomplete

Also: Hey.

[potent flame]

ahh thanks, didn´t check the pins here haha

[fresh patio]

better to keep an open mind to criticism methinks

[wheat river]

<yj

[inner granite]

<

[wheat river]

I was lurking, my birds decided they wanted to chat

https://tenor.com/view/please-disperse-explosions-nonchalant-calm-gif-5120778

[primal knoll]

we all doing our best to help translate the game?
well I sure am.

[tacit urchin]

Birds? :>

[chrome basin]

Tbh the “slow pace” is a bad faith argument, drg already has a wave timer and it heavily incentivizes clearing tasks fast or lose the war of attrition

You are not rewarded while standing in one cave, the game wants you to keep a steady pace

[feral palm]

Thats why they said skill issue

[chrome basin]

Those videos also mention ror2 but in the worst way possible, they mention that in that game the timer succeeds in making you go fast but it’s not true. The game rewards far more the player that ignores the timer and bulks the highest amount of items possible

[olive hound]

My only complaint with what i have seen on others playthroughs is that the game could use more "unique" upgrades.

[chrome basin]

Yeah and if you would tell me that the timer in rogue core needs a buff I would believe it, is just that most ppl are communicating these ideas using wrong comparisons and arguments

[boreal plume]

One thing I would like to see is some changes to the Core Biome, it should feel more "alien" and right now it just looks ugly. One thing that made me fall in love with DRG were the different biomes. I hope the Core Biome gets more love down the line, but I guess it doesn't need to be a priority.

[feral palm]

It probably will

[chrome basin]

Biomes should suffer more drastic changes as you progress

[olive hound]

Like, i can understand the time complaints, fair and square the game could present modifiers to time/difficulty scaling if you so desire.

[feral palm]

Cause a lot of love has gone into each biome in drg

[olive hound]

But i want to see more weapon modifications/attachments/general upgrades outside just "more attack speed"

[feral palm]

More wacky shit please ghost ship

So we can combine the wacky shit for wackier shit

[tardy vale]

every roguelike needs wacky shit

[feral palm]

True

[chrome basin]

But not all wacky shit needs a rogue like

[feral palm]

The whole point of roguelikes and roguelites is to either barely scrape by or nuclear bomb the entire game making it a cakewalk

[olive hound]

Yes

[feral palm]

[boreal plume]

Criticisms aside, I have heard many times that the game has a good foundation and a lot of potential. Considering what they have achieved with DRG, I'm very excited for the future of the game.

[chrome basin]

Hand it over that thing… your rogue core key…

[boreal plume]

I wish I had one

[daring hill]

I think the only thing that has disappointed me about rogue core is the complete shutdown to the idea of autorun

it's still very at odds with the fast pace they want

[tardy vale]

is there still a desginated rock and stone button

[boreal plume]

you mean V? If so, yes

[tardy vale]

thank god

[boreal plume]

reclaimers have new voice lines too

[tardy vale]

being able to mix grenades would be funny, imagine mixing boomerang with other grenades

[boreal plume]

sorry but what does autorun mean

[daring hill]

not having to manually sprint

[boreal plume]

ooh that would be cool

[daring hill]

either sprint is a toggle and you will always sprint when you move until you toggle it off, or you just permanently sprint

[feral palm]

Boomeranging leadburster

[feral palm]

Yknow that was never in drg right

[boreal plume]

boomerang + incendiary = ignite + electrocute every enemy it hits

[daring hill]

yes, and rogue core is not DRG and is intended to have a faster pace

[feral palm]

Yah

I mean why would they change a arbitrary control from the previous game

Just press the sprint button

[daring hill]

yeah why would they change things that are from DRG? it's not like autosprint would only ever help the intended fast-pace

[boreal plume]

I've been trying out ror2 the past few weeks and I didn't like the sprinting controls in that game at all

[daring hill]

when you make a spin-off/sequel to something, you should always arbitrarily keep random things the exact same, even if it's a bad idea

[feral palm]

I mean they could just add auto sprint as a toggle

So people can choose

More settings is always good

🤷‍♀️

[daring hill]

thats the point, they've said multiple times that its not happening

not even a toggle

and quite frankly it was a strange and imo poor decision to not have it in DRG either (yes theres mods for it, I don't think those count)

at least rogue core has some reasons for it that have been added over time

[tall plume]

honestly

it's just a Mikkel thing

Mikkel doesn't like autosprint for some reason so he's against adding it to the games and he has the final word. Seems he can't be convinced either.

Reminds me of PoE ex-game director being against offline trading.
He left since, and PoE got offline trading added - and both games are SO MUCH BETTER with it.

There were arguments for online trading only - but it often ended up being void and null in the face of reality, and it was even actually harmful in many places (still is but not quite to the same degree).

Mikkel probably has his own reasons but I wouldn't know what they are

[inner granite]

time to mod out mikkel out of the game

[boreal plume]

I mean, it's a playtest, why not try it out? They could remove it if it was too strong or didn't fit the game, same as the grappling hook. Players should at least get to try it.

But yeah it's the decision of the Devs at the end of the day

[tall plume]

Making a video game is also making compromises.

You're working with many different people and a lot of them have their own vision about things. It's a lot of time spent in discussions to model something out everyone's opinion. And then, there's the public eye. No every studio go about it the same way.

Some don't do a whole lot of compromising, others fully take on that feedback and orient the direction of the game around it. Usually though, it's a matter of balance.
But at the end of the day, the vision you have of the game is simply not gonna exist - unless you work in solo like some devs. And even then, it means cutting you off from a lot of the player's feedback.

All this to say : sometimes, people cling to the smallest thing, for a lot of different reasons (not gonna do the psychological inventory, it's just a thing we see often - and everywhere).

[daring hill]

On a related note, I suspect they'll shift from treating early access updates the same as closed alpha updates, and start instead treating updates like they would for a finished game

Like, you arent going to see placeholder content or unfinished models

[tall plume]

I don't think the autosprint pushback is warranted but there isn't much we can do about it outside of voicing our opinions - and we did.

[cursive roost]

When alt tab out of the game very often, the game hust switches to a lower resolution and I have to manually go back to the max res. Trough the menus, any fix in the pipe for this???

[daring hill]

I get why, rogue core early access is going to be a far cry from DRG early access with thousands upon thousands of players pouring in. But its a shame

[boreal plume]

What's the in-game screen mode? Is it Fullscreen?

[hushed merlin]

Tomorrow

[olive hound]

There are some characters who can still attack while sprinting, wich makes me feel like maybe they could make it so some RC characters can/have that as a perk

I am still iffy about slowing down while melee attacking with the pickaxe for no slicer characters

This also impact the pace when you "slow down" during combat, how about you can only upgrade during "no horde timing"?

[waxen hamlet]

Huh?

[teal mica]

Run the game in Windowed or Borderless.

[boreal plume]

It's a meme at this point

rogue core tomorrow

in 49 days

[hushed merlin]

Yes tomorrow

[burnt swan]

If rogue core is always tomorrow itll never be today

😔

[hushed merlin]

Exactly

You get it

[waxen hamlet]

Ugh a month and 20 days is going to feel like forever.

[last bloom]

Why do you think that it won’t have that many players

[boreal plume]

the 19 days since the EA release date trailer have passed relatively quickly for me

[daring hill]

To be clear: by thousands upon thousands I mean in the 10s of thousands, easily

DRG in early access only had a few thousand for a good while

[last bloom]

Wait maybe my english sucks, you think Rogue Core will have in the 10s of thousands easily while DRG didn't have it in EA launch?

[daring hill]

Yep

[last bloom]

Ah gotcha!

What CCU do you guys think at EA relase of Rogue Core? DRG just had 38k peak in february when S06 released

[daring hill]

And because itll have such a massive number of players on launch, I reckon GSG will treat updates in early access as "real updates", and avoid including as much obviously unfinished content as possible

[daring hill]

More than DRG's own all-time peak of 50k with the release of Season 5

Im betting 60k, maybe getting close to 70k

[waxen hamlet]

I know they won't but Imagine if they shadow dropped it a month earlier then may 20th. That would be wild.

[last bloom]

Question to playtesters: are all past playtestinvitees allowed to play or is it only new ones for each playtest?

[tall plume]

all

[last bloom]

Any idea why there are so few CCU wise?

[tall plume]

CCU wise ?

[last bloom]

Concurrent Current Users, it's roughly 73 atm according to Steamdb. Was 600 4 months ago at last playtest

[tall plume]

• lots of invite snatched by bots, people who are actually not playing the game, people who requested it for fun, etc.
• lots of people that would rather play with friends but nobody else but them got it.
• still an alpha so a lot of things are missing. Even if the game is getting there, it's still pretty barebones compared to a lot of existing roguelites.

I think these are the main reasons

[tacit urchin]

I've seen quite a lot of people from point 2 . Wasn't expecting that much tbf

[boreal plume]

yeah many people joining the server just to ask if they can invite their friends lol

which is understandable since you can do it with deadlock and some other games

also I think the player count is relatively low because playtest 6 is more polish oriented

people that got in before playtest 6 have probably seen most of the content already, aside from the new boss and some other things, so they wouldn't have much reason to come back

not that polish lol

[last bloom]

I would think still that earlier playtesters would want to still play the game even though there’s not much new content hmm

[daring hill]

my sources are telling me that another invite wave just went out...

[tall plume]

well, everyone plays at different pace

[tacit urchin]

"My sources"

[last bloom]

Maybe im reading too much into recent reddit negativity

[boreal plume]

the birds

[daring hill]

this information was LEAKED directly from THE GOVERNMENT

[boreal plume]

there's also the fact that you will lose all your progress 49 days from now, which might put off some earlier testers from playing more than it is needed for testing purposes

It did put me off during the drg:s playtest

[last bloom]

Guess that is relevant for a roguelite

[tacit urchin]

Ehh, kinda

[upbeat sparrow]

do the invites still come with a +1? my friend got one but can't check rn

[boreal plume]

no

[tacit urchin]

The enhancements are hard to get, other stuff is decent

[hollow bear]

They may take my progress, but they'll never take my memories ✊ 😭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[upbeat sparrow]

f

[median sleet]

also not every invite wave is the same size, the last playtest might've come with more invites

[vestal bridge]

my friend who started the game a week ago got rogue core but me with 800 hrs didn’t get it, so nah!

[tall plume]

there's also the crashes due to instability

that put me off from Rogue Core multiple times

[vestal bridge]

So so excited for rogue core

[boreal plume]

yeah that would have the same effect on me if my game crashed 40 minutes in

[vestal bridge]

Ugjjhhjhj

[boreal plume]

when did your friend get invited btw, if you don't mind

today?

[upbeat sparrow]

yuh

i mean they only just told me and i doubt they'd sit on it lol

they don't want to solo so it's a bit peak that they got it 😔

[boreal plume]

yeah must've been the new wave

[upbeat sparrow]

guess i'll keep prayin to be in the next wave so we can get on together lol

[next crater]

We just sent out a new bunch of invites.

[steady parrot]

[glacial owl]

just got invited

stoked

[deep temple]

I hope to try Core before May

[ashen forum]

ooh i just got invited to rogue core playtest

where is the "exclusive playtest channel"? 🤔

[mossy ruin]

you join it through the game

[formal magnet]

W, I just got one

[next crater]

You get a role through the invite link

[ashen forum]

ah, i got it, thanks!

[rotund root]

Rogue core tomorrow in uh

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I forgor days

[tawdry shoal]

BIG THANK for the access!!! I can finally play with friends!!
but my other friend still didn't get one.
so we are without fourth.
AlterGott his nickname

is it possible to somehow get one for him?

it was possible before to invite one player but now this option is off, so maybe someone know some way

[tall plume]

No

[tawdry shoal]

so you can't invite anyone anyway?

[tall plume]

nope

[knotty geyser]

playtest hype
rock and stone gamers

[tawdry shoal]

of course it is, it's so much harder than before and much more team game

[cobalt ridge]

theres already been another wave of invites?

[knotty geyser]

I just got the email earlier today yeh

[tall plume]

yeah

[cobalt ridge]

i remain unlucky, it seems

maybe next time

[halcyon canyon]

Btw does anyone of you know can I stream this on discord to my friends? (they don't have the access)

[tacit urchin]

Yes

[halcyon canyon]

oh alr, ty tho. Not taking risks lol this is awesome game

[tall plume]

Can I stream the Closed Alpha or make videos from my gameplay?

You sure can. We just ask that you make it clear that this is Closed Alpha gameplay, and not the finished, polished product. We'll probably add some little 'Closed Alpha' watermark in the HUD, but we'd be glad if you mention it too.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2605790/view/574879683755115309?l=english

[ashen forum]

is it just me or is the filter during the introduction mission just painful to look at? i legit couldn't finish it

[knotty geyser]

toss flares. itll light it up

[ashen forum]

nah nah that's not what i am talking about

[burnt swan]

yea the VR filter definitely was wonky to deal with

[tall plume]

yeah, you're not the only one disliking/having issues with the weird "simulation filter"

[ashen forum]

the rest of the game doesn't have it, right?

[tacit urchin]

No

Just the tutorial

[boreal plume]

I'm curious how bad it looks lol

I've seen some other people mention it

Seen one picture but that's it

[quiet lodge]

i just got an invite thank you so much devs

[boreal plume]

Anyways they will probably change how it looks

[ornate frost]

where do you get the drg rc tag?

[boreal plume]

In game, you have to link your discord account

[wise pelican]

did it work?

[ornate frost]

Not to sound like an idiot but where is the menu that I connect them at?

[boreal plume]

Wait Jacob said this #rogue-core-chat message

[ornate frost]

Got it nice.

[halcyon canyon]

Have you guys had issues with the audio? Its broken on usually first stage and lobby.

[celest hill]

ive been having those issues too, was really jarring to hear

[odd kestrel]

I did

[keen topaz]

they want me to play the game with my friends but none of my friends got in 😔

[royal maple]

Hello everyone ! Is there ANY way to get a friend in to play with me ? ><

I know a lot of people
Might already be asking but I’m trying my luck haha

Are more people going to be chosen as well?

[tall plume]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2605790/view/517489783702817396

[tall plume]

nope

[ornate cipher]

heyyy is this where i put feedback or do i just do it thru the game

[odd kestrel]

Does anyone know what security levels and overrides are?

[halcyon canyon]

I think they are based on your level. I got level 2 and I got access level alpha. Also the mission Board got some missions, dont know if they are Linked to them.

[tall plume]

there are alpha testing channels for that purpose

click the ingame button in the main menu to get access

[ornate cipher]

ahhh ok!

ty

[tall plume]

they're just meta progression systems, you'll unlock them pretty fast

[ashen forum]

in the tutorial, i mined and deposited expenite to craft an upgrade but it didn't register it, what should i do now?

[tall plume]

did you try getting more expenite ?

[ashen forum]

yeah but it isn't enough for a second upgrade

[tall plume]

uh
all 3 veins weren't enough for one upgrade ? 👀

could you send me a screenshot if you took one ?

[tacit urchin]

Waiting for a "There were 3?" message

[mild aurora]

anyone wanna play together ? just finished the tutorial

[tall plume]

there are natural lights everywhere, the place ain't dark and they're bright green

i think it should be fine

and 3 veins is overkill

[ashen forum]

i got one upgrade but it didn't register and now i am stuck, i thought that if i did a second upgrade, it might do it but there wasn't enough for that

[ashen forum]

...

[tacit urchin]

Sorry...

[ashen forum]

i forgive you for now

[tacit urchin]

Yay!

[eternal fractal]

guys im getting error like a invalid_params

[inner granite]

Server's on strike again

[eternal fractal]

when they gonna available?

[inner granite]

I assume you mean when you try to link discord account?

[summer tiger]

extended tutorial and gatekeeping mechanic so unexperienced players dont join high difficulty missions and throw

[eternal fractal]

no i can get in game tho

im just getting invalid_params

[inner granite]

Then game's on strike
For a difference

[eternal fractal]

Logging in
[1.1.9] invalid_params

[inner granite]

Guessing that steam api refused to connect to network but i am no expert

[oak trail]

most likely

[mild aurora]

are we allowed to go live on yt or twitch for this alpha test ?

[tall plume]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2605790/view/574879683755115309?l=english

[inner granite]

Yes, but you have to clearly state that this is early alpha and nothing's in finished state

[mild aurora]

i mean ill just go live on twitch im new to all this ill just put on the video name that its alpha test

[eternal fractal]

can you connect to game?

[oak trail]

Yeah

[ornate cipher]

oof game is definitely tough but i beat my first run :) that boss is super cool

[fierce inlet]

Just played the tutorial. Are the enemies supposed to spawn infinitely or is this a bug? I was blasting away having fun till I ran out of ammo...!

[summer tiger]

did you get into the elevator?

[ornate cipher]

the final elevator event seems to be infinite

[tall plume]

sometimes the elevator break down and need your attention for a little while

[ornate cipher]

yeah ik that, i was talkign about the spawns

[fierce inlet]

I did manage to get to the elevator. I had an infinite wave from the first tutorial wave

[ornate cipher]

if you just don't get in the elevator they keep spawning

oh

[fierce inlet]

I completed the mission but only thanks to infinite revives!

And alot of melee!

[ornate cipher]

i didn't notice it the first time i had an elevator event in a real run and i just dicked around hahaha

[dense lava]

i have arrived and received peak.

hello everyone

[ornate cipher]

howdy!

[fierce bone]

did another batch of rogue core invites go out today?

[tacit urchin]

Yes

[fierce bone]

Steam missed my inbox again

maybe this postal service is the guy who keeps losing the seasonal item for events on the space rig

[waxen hamlet]

I still am no lucky dwarf. Thought I was but it was the newspaper in my emails.

[atomic lake]

Guys, I've been waiting since this game was announced to play it with my friends. One of them finally got the Rogue Core beta yesterday, but it won't let him invite us to the beta. I was pretty sure that at least when it was announced it was possible does anyone know why, or if it's no longer possible?

[tall plume]

there is no invite system (anymore), check the pinned FAQ

[atomic lake]

I'm going to it

So ive been waiting this long to have 1 of my friends the access and now it dosnt work anymore

fuck

[karmic basalt]

just less than 2 month to wait brother

[eternal fractal]

why is there so freezes

is there any optimization

[karmic basalt]

don't have freez problems

[ornate cipher]

thats gotta be on your side cuz the game runs wonderfully on my side

[upbeat mist]

Can anyone remind me what the fusion power rod is supposed to do? I cant tell what its supposed to do, I picked it up because it said I wouldn't have to reload anymore or something and now my gun just cant reload at all and I am going to die

[tacit urchin]

Your spare ammo is transferred directly into the mag

No reloads basically

[atomic lake]

I probably won't buy it for this reason, I'm not that big a fan of the Deep Rock series, and I only became interested in this one because I could try it for free before it came out, my friends like it and I'm a big fan of roguelikes, but it doesn't appeal to me enough to buy it without trying it first

[upbeat mist]

Ah okay so its broken for me, cool

[tacit urchin]

Are you sure?

I mean, how

[upbeat mist]

Its not feeding any ammo in and I have ammo

[tacit urchin]

Devastator, right?

[upbeat mist]

yes

[tacit urchin]

So, you have spare ammo instead of it saying 0?

[upbeat mist]

00/90

[tacit urchin]

That's worthy a report

Supposed to be the opposite, 90/00

[upbeat mist]

Yeah I made one, kinda sucks cos I was excited to try the combo and now I have to sacrifice the run

I could try and find a different gun I guess but I dont know if I'm good enough to survive without one😅

[tacit urchin]

Workbench always offers one

[summer tiger]

People ask all the time about it and the answer is always the same. This system was in place for several hours and was turned off fast.

[upbeat mist]

How did you know I had a devastator

[atomic lake]

With all due respect, I think it's normal that they're asking because it's quite strange that a game for 4 people requires each person to get the beta separately when it previously had that feature that almost every other betas that also require more players has

especially considering how rare it is to get one

[tacit urchin]

That upgrade is only for that gun

[upbeat mist]

Ahhh

[ornate cipher]

the hammer caster is awesome

[dense lava]

okay well. jumping into a first run

and my audio's completely broken

[wispy anchor]

im guessing i am not the only one with audio issues and cant hear anything aside from Omega?

[dense lava]

for me everything is extremely distant

[wispy anchor]

same

the only thing that isn't is omega the prideful ai

[summer tiger]

The main point of alpha is to get feedback and test stuuf before early Access, not playing with your friends. That's a secondary or tertiary thing. What devs need is a steadily growing group of people who will test their ideas and leave extensive feedback in discord. You can reserve playing for the sake of playing untill EA launches on May 20th.

It might sound harsh but that's the truth

[atomic lake]

I understand your point, but it seems pretty stupid to want feedback on a game designed to be played with others and only give one beta per person. Many people will end up leaving it in their gallery without playing it, as will happen to my group of friends, precisely by not fulfilling your point of giving feedback

I don't want it to sound aggressive or anything, but I think it's a bad idea.

[summer tiger]

Then play with randoms like many other do. Never understood the problem with people not wanting to play DRG/ RC without friends.

[atomic lake]

I think it's more than understandable that if there's a game made for 4 players, people want to play it with their usual group of friends and not with a random person with which they will not have the same experience

In any case, if that's how they've decided to go about it, it's not my business, but I'd bet my life that more than one person is in the same situation as me

And I think it's normal that people have come to complain or ask about it

as long as it's not done in an aggressive way

[old swift]

lack of a solid playerbase has made it hard to give feedback on some things

and randoms just aren't the same even in a closed alpha

[upbeat cliff]

I just got in today and didn't any invites to send. I am with @old swift

[limpid comet]

Every. Time. I am going to kill that shuttle pilot.

[west juniper]

yo

guys can i invite my friend to closed alpha ?

[limpid comet]

cant

[west juniper]

damn that sucks

[limpid comet]

.

[west juniper]

he is big fan but i got the invite okay thanks

[jovial mirage]

the discord invite in game to the closed channel doesnt work how do I get access? I got the invite today.

[graceful flume]

I too am curious

[teal mica]

What's not working?

You should click on that, it will open your browser, and then you either need to login to discord there or redirect to the desktop app.

It it bugged in that it will never say linked.

[waxen hamlet]

Dumb question but when the open Alpha comes out, will it stay out until full release or is it a limited thing? Also if you play the open alpha in may will your progress stay?

[graceful flume]

It pulls up the discord app to give access to ghost ship and then when it goes back to the browser it basically 404's

Unless this is the hidden channel lol

[lost tapir]

really not a fan of bosses knocking you 500 miles away seemingly at random

[dry canyon]

same issue, it points me to http://discord.ghostship.dk:26002/?code= and then a lot of digits, and that doesnt resolve

[lost tapir]

also, what's up with hitting the ground from more than 2 feet up stopping you completely? just feels like a weird change

[trim pelican]

My friend got a rogue core invite, can he not invite me anymore?

[lost tapir]

small nitpicks aside, i feel like i'm still waiting on this game to justify its existence. right now all i'm getting from the playtest is "what if drg only had Industrial Sabotage deep dives"

[teal mica]

@wheat river This one might be for you to solve.

Ya'll might just have to wait until GSG staff are up and awake.

[dry canyon]

No worries. I can provide the full string in DM's if it would help, just dont want to do it publicly in case there's something personally identifiable in there

[teal mica]

For sure. I wouldn't either.

[teal mica]

Not since the first alpha.

[trim pelican]

https://klipy.com/gifs/emoji-upset

[teal mica]

The alpha is out. anyone with access can play at any time. It will be pulled from Steam completely just before the Early Access release on May 20th.

Progress played now will not carry over.

[waxen hamlet]

Yeah but I meant the May 20th Open Alpha. If you make progress in that one, will it stay?

[pseudo jungle]

It might be a dumb question, but is there a limit to how many players can be invited to the current playtest ?

[cloud sluice]

the link to the rogue core feedback channel didn't seem to work for me, is the site for authentication down?

[teal mica]

Ah. Just to get the language right - that will not be an alpha. That is technically now Early Access to the beta.

In short, unknown if progress there will carry over to the full release.

[waxen hamlet]

Right, fair enough. Thanks for the response.

[ornate whale]

Is this the chat that the discord link leads to?

[lost tapir]

the current classes also all feel kind of iffy. i get that they can't be too powerful or they'd risk overshadowing the roguelike elements (random guns and gear), but they mostly just come across as kind of weak. like, ok, i get to be a little stronger than usual or kill 2-3 of the 20 enemies on me once every minute or so. neat.

[teal mica]

No.

[ornate whale]

The link is dead for me, doesnt do anything

[teal mica]

Seems to be for a lot of people.

[ornate whale]

Seems like discord is still not a good idea for a primary interaction platform for games and whatnot

[mild aurora]

ik i asked once is it okay if i do a live stream of rogue core ? on twitch or yt eith clesrly stating its a closed alpha ?

[limpid comet]

yes

[boreal plume]

That's the height you would normally take fall damage in DRG

[heady storm]

https://medal.tv/games/deep-rock-galactic-rogue-core/clips/mq48KeT41CZIPWhvc?invite=cr-MSxNYXQsMTg5MzY0NzIw&v=17

HUH??????

It may not embed but

Click it anyways, it's just a medal video.

Of something STUPID that happened

[tall plume]

yeah it's a bug with the new build

[heady storm]

Where I just die once and despite Cooper reviving me, I don't continue?

Dude I feel cheated 😭

[rotund venture]

My spouse got invited to the alpha but I didn't, this is low-key cruel

[prisma bobcat]

Just got access to the closed alpha and corroborating that the link to join the playtest channel breaks after the authorisation step

[hexed tide]

Same!

[stone orbit]

Same. Not working for me

[lapis spire]

I am so happy I have gotten to try out closed test

[edgy chasm]

doesnt work for me either

after i authorize the app it sends me to "discord.ghostship.dk" but that page doesnt load

[amber chasm]

yeah same problem for me too

[manic pond]

Having the same issue with discord invite

[fleet sapphire]

same here

[inner granite]

Hello @wheat river
It seems that server is once again on strike
Please pacify it

[pure condor]

Having difficulty logging into the playtest. Is there somewhere or someone who might be able to help me? I can provide the error code if that helps

[boreal plume]

lots of greenbeards have to be sacrificed today

[pallid bloom]

is it possible to invite my friend to playtest drg rogue core? or did that get removed

[boreal plume]

I don't think they are that similar aside from a boss battle at the end. I don't know any roguelite game that has no boss at the end. The different upgrades you take on the go and how broken you can make your builds will be what defines RC. A comparison to Hades, Dead Cells, Nightreign etc. with elements from DRG would be better. Expecting RC to be purely DRG 2 will probably bring disappointment, so I would set my expectations right.

[boreal plume]

no, it got removed

[lost tapir]

eh if it works for you then so be it, but i'd wager it'll be a couple more years in the oven before it's something i'd be interested in

[boreal plume]

that's okay, it's in alpha after all

[lost tapir]

mmmhm, just pointing out some of the issues i've had with it so far

[boreal plume]

I liked hades very much but only got interested in Hades 2 after it left early access

[pallid bloom]

💔

[sleek swallow]

I feel like being interested in the game personally yourself and the game having "justifications" for existing are two different things

this game will absolutely not be for everyone who plays drg

and vice versa

it's entirely separate and already has "justification" to exist

[lost tapir]

it's all just opinions

[sleek swallow]

why the game is separate from drg isn't an opinion

it's a different product, that plays differently, that is for a different audience

[lost tapir]

ok? lol

if you're enjoying the game that's good

[sleek swallow]

not what I am saying but ok

[lost tapir]

what i'm really saying is it's hard to really gauge how i feel about a lot of the game because of how content light it is in this alpha

and that i don't feel the roguelike elements add enough for me to get a meaningfully different experience than some of my least favorite mission types in drg

[lost tapir]

if you want more specific critique:

i played for a couple hours and every objective i experienced was just "defend the point", so i'm hoping updates bring more objective variety

class abilities don't feel particularly integrated with the systems that govern gear/effects, hopefully these things become more connected in the future

i mentioned earlier, but the fact that you completely stop moving after falling a short distance really kills momentum

bosses knocking you around feels pretty awful

i'm not here to hate on the game, i'm looking forward to seeing it improve, i'm just also really not enjoying the alpha

[sleek swallow]

I was mostly just commenting on the "justification" part since a lot of people shadow the idea that rogue core has no point being its own game and they should just have added it as an expansion to drg or whatever