deep-dive-discussion

[spring cobalt]

yeah good time

at least BETC helps out a little

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[abstract pasture]

hi

[devout solstice]

Wew, soloed EDD as scout, and absolutely could not have done it without abusing pheromones lmao

[quasi saddle]

is there any class in DRG that often get blamed like healer role in some fps/moba games? I want to avoid using class with high responsibility.

[daring imp]

Okay I see whare you're coming from since I'm familiar with those games myself but I'd really recommend that you play what you want to. If you want to sweat, go do that. If you want to run into the enemy without planning then go do that ^^

This is not a competitive moba or shooter. This game is about creating a experience that you enjoy and mostly not to compete.

In any online game you will find people who will flame and blame you no matter what you do and which class you pick. But here's the pro tip: In this game you can host sessions yourself and if someone can't behave you as the host can just kick them. And another player may fill the open spot at any time during the mission. Like I said: Create the experience that you enjoy. ^^

That's what this game is about

[quasi saddle]

I see, thanks a lot. I was a bit hesitate to pick flamethrower guy since his kit seem important, though I enjoy using the weapon.

[daring imp]

And if you suck with a class, what does it matter? You just say in the hub "hey guys I'm new ^^ " so that your teammates know to select the right mission difficulty. Or you just host and pick what you think feels right 👍

[coral pond]

each dwarf has their importance, that's why multiplayer works best with one of each even if it's memey as hell to have all of one of them

[quasi saddle]

noted

[daring imp]

Yo Driller is very cool. Also very unique gameplay that especially fits the gameplay of drg.

And yes of course you will be missing out on things that would support your team (but that is true with every class even the scout who is relatively self sufficient) and that is okay. If your teammates are true miners they will share what they know

Or you just figure stuff out yourself, that is fun too ^^

[young yew]

I don't think there is. Just don't be an ass with C4 and don't press mission buttons too early 😉

DRG culture is much more relaxed than other games

[quasi saddle]

okie

[severe tusk]

People are pretty chill in DRG, yeah. Gunner might be the easiest to start with since it's mostly just about killing bugs and reviving people with your shield (or better yet placing it preemptively right before your team would take lots of damage). But really play whatever you like, and if you're confused about anything just ask.

[candid cypress]

another surprisingly easy EDD this week, anyone feel the same?

[torn verge]

honestly scout

if scout doesn't shoot the flare gun that causes a lot of problems

fortunately all you need to do is remember the flare gun exists and shoot it

[hearty abyss]

All of them have a job to do so they all get blamed

Only gunner is impervious to this

Unless you are stupid

We all get a little silly now and then

[sage fossil]

if ye aint using your role 'properly' but then again gunner is the only role who is supposed to just keep shooting

aint a soul who forgets gunner has guns to my knowledge

I feel driller can be yelled at for doing too much drilling too XD twas my favorite class just for the drilling

[quasi saddle]

I'll try driller first after I get home, yesterday the server was down after I bought the game so I didnt have a chance to try multiplayer mode.

[jolly obsidian]

Driller is fun i went back to engi after getting fat boy and it just didnt feel the same

[candid cypress]

fat boy is overrated, if you wanted to teamkill, just stay as driller. so long as you put the highest priority on scouts

[jolly obsidian]

Oh i dont bother with teamkilling i just heard a lot about fat boy
I cant give up the cancer gun with the blister overclock and my 20 metre flamethrower build

[twilit portal]

Two naedocytes, spitballer and brood nexus immediately after a dreadnought

Why does GSG test me like this

[hard palm]

why are bulk detonators allowed to spawn on black box stages

[candid cypress]

the trick is start black box soon as you kill one

provided you had one earlier, you'd know another one is coming at some point

[hard palm]

it just spawned during the black box’s swarm

there were so many slashers so my team got wiped too

[young yew]

As driller make sure to dig a straight tunnel to the exiting drop pod if possible. It can be a real boon.

[storm axle]

Why does a pod in a deep dive not stay in place, because we are on it and go lower, it would be more convenient if it remained standing and it would be possible to put resources into it.

[young yew]

Same as with Bosco sticking around. It's too expensive, management wants the pod elsewhere while you're digging.

What's really mean though is that they don't open the gates for you until the Mule has docked

[storm axle]

So if you constantly drive the pod to up and down, then fuel consumption increases, and these are extra costs, and the mule as in a rescue mission can safely follow us until the drop is called.

[fathom hazel]

It's weird that they do that

[young yew]

Don't ask me I just work here

[fleet mauve]

why would the pod be immune to damage in universe? it's big and loud. bug magnet

[austere dust]

It’s made out of reclaimed oppressor armour

Or DRG has amazing shield tech that they install on drop pod, bosco and molly, but we are disposable so we only get a tiny watered down version on gunner

[honest root]

Feels accurate

[umbral bough]

Dont forget bet-c
Which worked halfway

[bold patio]

I finished my first elite deep dive, that was super fun

is this week's elite deep dive easier?

[paper oasis]

this weeks edd was kinda tame..right until the 2 bulks showed up with a Mactera wave at the end. especially since we were cocky running driller/scout duo

[bold patio]

you guys lost the run?

the bulks are scary but thankfully we had a digger running with the goop gun

[paper oasis]

nah we did it, but bulks are no fun with facemelter

[bold patio]

a scout can thankfully snipe those weakpoints

though I run with GK2 with AI stability core so those bulks aren't too bad

[paper oasis]

which is exactly what my scout did

tbf i only resumed doing deep dives because i somehow ran out of blank cores to convert into moustaches. now i ran out of money to craft them bc i just pumped 220k into promotions. send help

[bold patio]

typical that we have to pay for a promotion lmao

[patent verge]

I finished my first deep dive solo last night

Got a bit dull on the first part, thanks to horrible Morkite placement.

[devout solstice]

I love doing DD/EDD solo honestly, it can be difficult, but there's something satisfying about being responsible for everything; If I fail, it's on me, and if I get through it, I also get full credit

Plus no worrying about early objective calls, communication, teammates awkwardly pulling trains into bad spots during swarms... Just me vibing

[west tiger]

Spawns are smaller solo, right?

[devout solstice]

Yep! Difficulty adjusts per player

[deft sage]

ELITE
everyone has same map?
i have black box quest in very strange place (no room space) where u need to dig upside in sand
https://paste.pics/166a5edcb9d178da43bec9cce9078db8

[untold saddle]

I've seen someone else with this issue before. I think it's caused by mods

[devout solstice]

Strange, yeah I play vanilla only, no mods, and it spawned in the cave on the ground as intended for me

[tranquil condor]

I think that might have been me, I'm so so sorry about that I thought I would just have been dead weight

[violet root]

does anyone know anything about the blue monolith???

i saw it yesterday and i can’t find it online anywhere

[trail pivot]

Shield Rock

everything in it's range gets a huge damage resist

[quick compass]

to test out a build you go into haz 5 and just sick bosco on the nearest rock and try to survive right?

[vital sluice]

Or just whatever kind of mission you're comfortable with

[quick compass]

well, id say ive gotten the hang of minelayers then.

these are crazy efficient when it comes to damage per rocket

[jolly obsidian]

Can just turn off bosco in his customization terminal

[quasi saddle]

why did I die a lot when playing Scout last night? does he have weaker defense or is it because poor waves clear?

[jolly obsidian]

Just need to down a couple glyphid slammers then toss yourself on the drop pod
I swear it makes you a better fighter

[quick compass]

He’s the most different from the bunch, could just not be used to him

I know im not. I play far more as gunner and driller than i do as engi or scout

[jolly obsidian]

Yea to be fair scout is quite tough he suffers from poor swarm management so you get overwhelmed easily
Im still trying to figure out a build that offers a good mix of crowd control and single tsrget for engi

[trail pivot]

you get less time to aim on higher haz, their on you before you can aim for the weakpoint most of the time especially stage 2/3 edd

[quick compass]

thats why your movement and aim needs to be muscle memory if you wanna master the game

other builds are more forgiving. sticky flame doesnt need aim, just good movement and positioning, same with minelayer for gunner.

whatever build you go with for whoever theres something new to learn and get used to. just gotta keep at it

[severe tusk]

Scout is actually the most unkillable dwarf in the game once you get used to using his grappling hook effectively.

[barren beacon]

You definitely want to have a good deal of distance between you and the bugs with scout, and the grappling hook is the best distance creator. Get a good 10-15m range on the swarm, then start popping their weak points with your primary. Cryo grenades are great for swarms and pretorians. Throw one in there then just mow them down.

[hot smelt]

It's true that Scout is the only one that doesn't have an innate damage reduction built into their armor; they get fall damage reduction instead.

[severe tusk]

My go-to Scout build is 11222 Impact Deflection DRAK and 11232 Embedded Detonators Zhukovs with IFG grenades. You have the AoE to handle swarms fine with ID DRAK (aim under the glyphids for maximum splash and bounce benefits) and can still delete big stuff with ED Zhukovs. Use IFGs as needed for both swarm management and extra damage on dreads and other big stuff.

And it's really hard to go wrong with Engi. I personally go for more of a generalist AoE build, but it can still handle big things and even dreads well enough too.

[jolly obsidian]

Zhukovs with embedded detonators im addicted to

I drain the ammo super fast though because i forget not every grunt needs a clip dedicated to it

[barren beacon]

Detonators look cool. Praying to RNGesus to get the overclock

[severe tusk]

They are kind of sleeper OP, to be honest.

[jolly obsidian]

Engi though im still figuring out theres that unstable grenade launcher mod that offers insane single target damage but i cant integrate it with the smart rifle

Fat boy doesnt carry enough ammo but i like it

[barren beacon]

IMO it's best to move off the boomstick for your secondary ASAP. I don't know how good it is with overclocks, but I can't seem to make it work as it is. It doesn't do a spectacular amount of single target damage compared to weak point build GK2. And I feel like it's too inaccurate to hit a decent amount of swarms. The Nuks feel like a mini gk2 without overclocks, and the pheromone bolts on the crossbow slowly but surely whittle down a swarm and occupy tanks.

[hushed sequoia]

firespread from t5 phosphorous and blowthrough can work quite well

and jumbo shells is pretty high damage

but it's my least favorite secondary too

[jolly void]

damn, just tried the EDD. That was an experience

[severe tusk]

How far did you get?

[shadow crater]

𝗔𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲?

[shadow crater]

This probably wont change it but still, It could do with one

[main parcel]

For crowds on Scout I've been trying out pairing boomerang with zhukov's, tuned with Conductive Bullets (T5A), Blowthrough rounds (T4A) and Gas Recycling OC. It shreds through swarms (but through ammo too sadly) and lets you tune primary for single target applications.
Not like you can clear big crowds EZ Clap, but it can help clutch some tight situations.

No IFG for bosses though, they don't seem to slow both crowds and bosses down as well as I want them to (while boomerangs stop grunts dead, slow down praes and shred swarmers, not to mention that you get 8 of them iirc), but it's a trade off everyone has to decide for themselves - crowd control or increased dmg on a utility.

[hushed sequoia]

ifg makes bugs 33% or 30% weaker so it's going to be much better for any sort of crowd clearing

[turbid cedar]

so when is a good time to start doing elite deep dives i’ve promoted 2 classes so far i love deep dives but i’m terrified of elite deep dives like 1-10 how hard is it

[main parcel]

Not exactly any, but I get your point.

[hushed sequoia]

elite deep dive is the hardest base game content technically

you can't get stuff like korloks so a normal haz 5 mission could be harder

i'd probably do a few haz 5 missions before trying

[severe tusk]

If Haz 4 missions are easy for you and you almost always win, then EDDs shouldn't be a problem. Either way, I just recommend jumping in with a team and trying it out.

If you enjoy using boomerangs, that's fine, but I think that they are pretty clearly the least impactful Scout "grenade" in most situations.

[main parcel]

Depends on how you use it. They do what I want them to way better than IFGs for example. I'm using IFGs only on dreads since rangs just don't work on them, and 30% dmg boost is not a thing to forget about

Imo all of scouts utils are good, you have the room for adjustments to your playstyle and current mission objectives

I don't know what you guys mean by "least impactful", for me the needed impact is "preventing the death by that crowd". By no means I'm saying they're the best "objectively" (most things in the game are subjective), but I find that rangs are underrated, they do their small job well, and I'm enjoying how they fit my playstyle.

I'm not playing solo, so there're usually better options in dealing with crowds on the team. Scout shouldn't find himself surrounded by a horde except blackbox and salvage. But in case that happens, I usually use boomerangs for panic reaction - you face a sudden swarm behind your back, throw a rang to stop it, and either run/hook away or just kill the swarm if you see that you can do it (here the zhukov's setup I described comes in handy). They stun, they electrocute (and the bonus dmg for stun and electrocution can be applied), they deal damage, and to actually use them you don't have to throw them precisely, just in general direction of the enemy and they will find their way. And the sheer amount of them gives you a kind of luxury of not thinking much "should I save it for later and tryhard it for now", you just use them anyway.

In this regard, for me they pretty clearly work better for clearing crowds than any other scouts utils, probably tied with cryos. But cryos are not that versatile imo, you can freeze a fellow dwarf accidentally, they have an impact radius, and you have to aim with them properly, and sweepers are just better against hatchlings and shredders.

Oppressors and mactera are a different story, pretty sadly, but that's a said trade-off. Rangs do slow down and damage mactera, but cryos are just better. But all in all, I think having twice as more rangs for more universal use is better.

Initially this was a reply to "scout's crowd clearing options" comment (which I contributed by suggesting the setup) and not an "are rangs good" one.

Come to think of it, the IFG is the only util I'm using having some strat in mind, all the rest are purely reaction-based.

[stuck burrow]

Boomerangs least impactful? they can stun a wider crowd than cryos and you get 8 of them and you get them back if you miss!

• they can buff the zhukov damage to very noticable levels using the damage to shocked targets mod in tier 5 (at least imo)

just did DD and EDD with combination of crossbow + phero bolts with specialist OC and the boomerangs. literally shut the bugs down. highly recommend for scout focused on crowd control. (and watching bugs fight each other lol)

[tulip idol]

IFG buffs Zhukov better tbh and against far more enemies, and Cryo Grenade not just stuns, it also either takes down targets (macteras, small bugs) or gives x2.(6)-x3 damage or allows for T-Shock - it leads to fast targets removal which is better than continuous stun

[austere dust]

Play a decent bit of haz 5 first, and when you feel you can handle that without going down constantly then you are probably in a position where you won’t just be dead weight to whoever you run with... me and a buddy started duoing EDD when we were around level 100 and it was still pretty rough but we manage to complete it, but we also only play haz 4 or 5 normally so it wasn’t a horrible leap up... haz 2 or 3 will not prepare you for the intensity

[random rampart]

Idk how this is related to deep dives, can you elaborate?

Is this about the deep dive joining system?

[plucky bane]

I ran it solo yesterday and I died to a grunt swarm 1 hour in on the last stage

😭

[fast stratus]

That's classic

On the first EDD everyone dies on the last stage

[austere dust]

oof :(

[hard socket]

just did a deep dive in 39 mins to get the achievment, diddent give me

[astral ore]

what biome is this weeks EDD?

[coral pond]

pins

[jolly void]

so, the nemesis spawn in the last stage of the EDD, is that fixed this week or was I just unlucky

[brisk pagoda]

spawns are based on playercount. going in with the same number of players will give you mostly the same enemies at mostly the same locations, but its not always 100% the same

[jolly void]

Ah

Friend and I had the EDD end last stage to the breeder, nemesis, like 9 praetorians and approximately a shitton of grunts.

[stuck burrow]

idk if this is falling of dd discussion or if it's still relevant but does ifg apply a stronger electrical field? or more electrical fields? cuz the zukovs get the buff from electricity regardless of it's source. missing how it applies the buff better.

[brisk pagoda]

ifg has a unique shock debuff that gives a 30% damage vulnerability. so youre getting 30% damage bonus on every weapon, and any gun with a shock damage bonus gets both the 30% from the ifg, and whatever shock damage bonus upgrade that gun is using at the same time

[stuck burrow]

ohhhhhhhhh ok i see now that's big

wish there was a damage counter at the end of missions to see the math

[brisk pagoda]

there are mods for it

[stuck burrow]

yeah soon as i typed that i thought "that prolly exists"

[brisk pagoda]

theres "damage text" for seeing hp lost as it happens

[stuck burrow]

yeah i have that one it just crushes my fps and is kindi of meaninglesss once there's 100+ enemies on screen lol

[brisk pagoda]

and "motd + stat track" will total up everyones damage at the end of the match, though it hasnt been updated in a while and cause crashes sometimes

[stuck burrow]

ooof

[dark dock]

I am looking for a Deep Dive Scout build that uses the GK5 + Shotgun (I only have the Compact Shells overclock for shotgun), whats the optimal build?

[stuck burrow]

I like just taking the whole second collumn all the way down and using AI stability engine/ if you're more ammo efficient than me (the bar is very low) you could build damage and weakspot damage instead of the extra ammo and armor breaking

[brisk spear]

what overclocks do you have for the gk2

[drowsy finch]

What haz level is 2nd stage of DD?
I killed the detonator in a second with critical weakness, never seen this

[brisk pagoda]

crit weakness is a massive massive damage increase. crit weakness is a x5 that stacks multiplicatively with bug weakpoint (bulk has x3 at base) and any crit damage bonuses on your guns (such as the built in 20% on subata or the 80% with its crit upgrade)

[coral pond]

regular deep dive is 3/3.5/3.5

elite is 4.5/5/5.5

[drowsy finch]

This week EDD was easier than DD imo, probably because of better cave generation

And looking for morkite in Azure Weald is torture by itself

[wraith shard]

im on my first dd if anyone wants to join

[short zephyr]

DD NA

[fast lark]

hello -)

[dark dock]

I have 0

[balmy axle]

you cant get double hazards

lethal rivals haz 5 would be harder than basically any 5.5 roll

[quick compass]

Gotta love the rival’s bloated stats and auto aim just to see heat driller make them all obsolete, i have an iffy relationship with rivals. As cool of an idea as it is its kind of meh

But in a game like this where even at its worst its still fun its not a super huge complaint, but rivals is brutal on edd

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[fleet stream]

at least it's a stage 1 rival

plus you can get a very large amount of nitra thanks to mules + dread and control panel are in a huge fuckoff area

[quiet junco]

What was the reward for this deep dive?

[fleet stream]

the usual, 1 blank matrix / 1 weapon matrix / 1 cosmetic core

[queen rampart]

Also gold and exp

[plucky bane]

oh yeah it's almost Thursday

new dd

[hollow citrus]

I can sense all the sabos coming tmr

it's inevitable

[fleet stream]

At least the worst case scenario is getting max 2 sabos

(1 in dd 1 in edd)

[mighty fox]

anyone doing Deep dive rn?

[mighty fox]

well ,steam?

[young yew]

Sabo is toughest?

[hollow citrus]

eh... it's repetitive and combat heavy

but witha good team it's not hard

[young yew]

Omen hits harder than Caretaker 🤘

Would be great to have different caretakers for variety and surprise

[scenic jetty]

Illuminaty caretaker

[full dust]

are deep dives hard to solo? I just unlocked them, so idk... I usually play on hazard lvl 2 but if I really give it my best I can get through a lvl 3

[fleet mauve]

if that's the case, it will be challenging. it will be at haz 3 and go to haz 3.5

[charred spruce]

Deep dives are challenging at solo, yes. Normal wants are haz 3-3.5, the elite versions go 4.5-5-5.5

But you have the ability to take your time and get through. Each stage of a deep dive your perk usages and Bosco’s revives get replenished.

[fleet mauve]

I still can't get over the fact that this week's dd is named scout's face

[severe hornet]

This is some leaf lovin' BS right here 🤣
(this text, in addition to the name scout's face, makes me laugh every time someone brings it up)

[delicate remnant]

i love the text

im gonna use it, its just that good

also, any advice on this weeks EDD?

[severe hornet]

I found this week's EDD very approachable and I am not that great a player. The opening wave of the 2nd mission could easily take folks new to EDDs by surprise. That's a possible failure point if your team isn't careful.

[fleet mauve]

one time the opening wave had 2 spitballers and a betc

good thing that wasn't the case 2nd time around

[drowsy holly]

i just did the edd the opening round of wave 2 is hard but 1 and 3 are kinda easy. we even had a nemisis spawn under me and grab me through the wall while i was seperated from the team and i managed to kite it when it was half dead either i or a menace popped the hiveguard cocoon and i managed to kite that and the nemisis to my team once i figured out which way to go to get to them

honestly if map 2 wasnt in there ide say it was easier then the dd

[abstract harbor]

I'm new to deep rock and I was wondering if there was a channel/content creator/etc. where I could check out builds?

[woeful niche]

they are much easier to deal with post nerf at least

[brisk pagoda]

lazymaybe does a decent job covering how things actually work and important breakpoints for making a good build

[rustic saffron]

yo, what time does the deep dive reset each week
i am new and don't know when it resets

[quick compass]

in about 13 hours

[brisk pagoda]

thursday morning at like 7 am est

[quick compass]

theres a countdown on the weekly as well

[rustic saffron]

hell yeah

[proud axle]

What level do you need to be to unlock deep dives?

[rustic saffron]

prestige any character and then you can play on your prestiged character

[proud axle]

My scout got one star, is that prestige?

[rustic saffron]

yeah

[proud axle]

oh sick, thanks mate

[rustic saffron]

np bro rock and stone

[proud axle]

ROCK AND STONE!

[peak dove]

rock and stone or you ain't coming home

[jolly obsidian]

DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?

[lime meteor]

leaf and moss🙏

[jolly obsidian]

Sounding like a pointy eared leaf lover to me... you sure you're feeling ok?

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[tranquil condor]

This game has single handedly made me refer to elves in any context as leaf lovers

[young yew]

Karl.gg

[vast yarrow]

just did a 55 minute DDE and lost connection as we were at the pod, extremely frustrating that you get absolutely nothing when that happens. Surely there's a way to get a percentage of what you'd have gotten if you get DCed

[quick compass]

Just did a deep dive with some good ol silent dwarves(joined a matchmaking match) and me and engi cleaned house cause the driller created some solid choke points

Minelayer oc is way more ammo efficient than i gave it credit for initially. That thing is mad. It does one thing, but it does it super well

[quick compass]

On the other hand, im having a hard time with plasma burster missiles. They tend to detonate at the ground after about 2 bursts. Has anyone been able to use em in a deep dive? I find myself running out of ammo with them quick

[brisk spear]

minelayer is fucking busted yeah

[brisk spear]

thats pretty much the plasma burster missiles experience

[quick compass]

Theyre really good vs flying and dreadnoughts as they dont have this issue, but man. Kinda wish they just bounced off terrain.

I suppose thats the point though. One oc is super good on ground level. Other one is super good in the air.

[toxic crest]

can anybody explain how to clear the spawn room on the 2nd mission of the Elite deep dive? Just got team wiped by it

[quick compass]

Stay in pod, kill it all, or everyone move at once somewhere and hunker down with some crazy aoe

[toxic crest]

thank you

[quick compass]

Its just a matter of getting better at managing ENORMOUS hordes as a team. Gets hectic

[toxic crest]

yeah, that'd help, we mainly got ganked by the bet-c cause we accidently triggered it, and it just kind of dominoed from there

[quick compass]

Yeah dont go near her. She’s brutal there, learned that the hard way

[toxic crest]

so did we lol

[quick compass]

Lol

[dusky cedar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/862139802315915294/921926040371204166/caption.gif

[toxic crest]

management wanted to lay off a few employees this week with that elite deep dive

[noble rover]

Wow that doesn't belong here. You should delete that.

[jolly obsidian]

Average pointy eared leaf lover behaviour

[queen rampart]

By sending them to kill 2 dreadnoughts, get 2 mules and 2 morkite missions

Better than protect doretta

[trail pivot]

dd was a vacation

[toxic crest]

That's true

It was prolly my teams luck with enemy spawns

But it was brutal for me and my squad

Just had so much spawning constantly

10 oppressors on the 3rd mission of the EDD

[queen rampart]

10 as same time?

Or 1 by 1

[toxic crest]

More like

3 at once

Than 4 at once

Than 3 at once

Wave clusters

[queen rampart]

Oh that's normal spawn

[toxic crest]

I've never gotten that before then

Wacky

Most of the time oppressors spawn in solo for me

The Normal Deep Dive was a breeze tho

But oh well, hopefully there's some good deep dives for this upcoming week

[queen rampart]

Wonder what it could be?

[charred spruce]

Watch it be sabotages

🙂

[jolly obsidian]

Triple industrial sabotage, low nitra stage one with low o2, shield disruption stage 2, and mactera plague stage 3

Each one also has a dreadnought cocoon containing hiveguard

[balmy axle]

cant have 2 of the same in a row

[jolly obsidian]

I know but one can dream

[balmy axle]

go down 4 times on stage 1
go down 2 times on stage 2
go down 0 times on stage 3

make it make sense

[brisk spear]

user issue

[tulip hornet]

why haven't the deep dives reset? they're meant to reset on thursday right?

[candid bobcat]

in an hour

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
_ _

[paper rapids]

Alright boys

turns out if you do the interact exploit during the drop pod cutscene to walk out of it, it doesn't count as a victory xd

1.5 hrs of solo and failed to get the final overclock because of it

[sly kettle]

Soon™

[tame sinew]

5 minutes fellas

[candid bobcat]

please no sabo please no sabo

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
_ _

[fossil tulip]

[tame sinew]

[hollow citrus]

edd is magma core oh no

[sly kettle]

Good luck, everyone.

[tame sinew]

Pain.

[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Hideous Claw
Stage 1: 2 M.U.L.E.s + Dreadnought Hiveguard | Exploder Infestation
Stage 2: Protect the Drilldozer + 150 Morkite | Elite Threat
Stage 3: Refine Liquid Morkite + Dreadnought Hiveguard | Volatile Guts

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Magma Core | Code Name: Mad Covert
Stage 1: 7 Aquarq + 2 Eggs | No Mutators
Stage 2: 225 Morkite + 2 Eggs | Low Gravity Shield Disruption
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + Classic Dreadnought | Low Oxygen

[tame sinew]

alright folks

see you on the other side

[marble veldt]

IT'S MUFFIN TIME

Ah shit I'm late

[fossil tulip]

Stage 1 - Hiveguard

[dense escarp]

deep dives came in and said "its deep divin time" and deep dived all over the place

[fossil tulip]

Stage 2 NDD - Escort + 150 Morkite w/ Elite Threat

[tiny night]

why arent mine updating

the counter is on -14 already

[quiet mortar]

Restart your game

[tiny night]

ok

oh fuck this deep dive's gonna be garbage

exploder infestation

[candid bobcat]

Elite Deep Dive "Mad Covert" (2023-02-02 to 2023-02-09)
Region: Magma Core
Stage 1: 7 Aquarqs + 2 Egg
Stage 2: 225 Morkite + 2 Eggs | Shield Disruption, Low Gravity
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + Classic Dreadnought | Low O2
{"Seed":3730492959,"SeedV2":2292833010,"ExpirationTime":"2023-02-09T11:00:00Z"}

[balmy axle]

you know i think we harassed the devs too hard

shouldve been at least one indy sabotage in the last 3 weeks

yeah sure it was meme worthy when it was 3 of the 6 missions but having it be 0 out of 18 is also not great

[quiet mortar]

Could just be luck to be fair, it is only 1 mission of 8 lol

(And it can only be chosen for Primary Mission)

[candid bobcat]

Deep Dive "Hideous Claw"
Region: Sandblasted Corridors
Stage 1: 2 Mini-mules + Hiveguard | Exploder Infestation
Stage 2: Escort Duty + 150 Morkite | Elite Threat
Stage 3: Refinery + Hiveguard | Volatile Guts

[hollow citrus]

someone completed it already wow

[candid bobcat]

sandbox

[tiny night]

no

0

fuck industrial sabotage

[heavy girder]

It would be extremely cruel if the 3rd stage EDD spawned a Dreadnaught

[nova hearth]

eggciting EDD

[waxen terrace]

mfw my team keeps dying cause the gunner placed a zipline on top of a volcano vent

[plucky bane]

oh God it's escort duty this week

the EDD looks easy as hell

[balmy axle]

low oxygen classic dreadnought

OOF

[karmic rose]

Greenbeard here, is deep dive a weekly reward thing? Or is it just the maps/mission that changes weekly and you can just keep running it?

[zenith ember]

yes, it resets weekly

its also the same for everyone

[south stag]

You can run it over and over again but you only get each reward once.

[karmic rose]

Thanks for the info.

[tame sinew]

man

this week's deep dive is way easier than i expected

[dapper moth]

How did it go? :D

[hollow citrus]

oof this edd

typically lavaland nonsense

there is a LOT of hot rock

[zenith ember]

horrendous rng on dd stage 2, 3 bulks + constant mactera swarms on escort isnt fun lol

edd was much harder than it needs to be with a fat boy engi...

as though the hot rocks weren't enough

[grim wadi]

yeah probably not the best biome to be making random holes

[zenith ember]

i dont get pub engis, most of them seem to run fat boy?

[waxen terrace]

haha funni nuke

me running lava shard

[waxen terrace]

the cavegen for stage 3 is really small so not that bad for low 02

1 resupp in spawn and 1 ressup at the egg "chamber" where all 4 eggs are located together

[wraith shard]

Any advice for someone's first dive

[young yew]

Just go for it, you can always retry

Otherwise I'd say all the advice for your class and normal games apply

Don't forget when hosting a DD that people can only join on the space rig

[wraith shard]

Oh i didn't know that part I usallay just start and let people join in game

Thanks

[wheat laurel]

someone for deepdive

[mellow vale]

The new deepdives

seem fairly relaxed?

[scenic jetty]

all depends on the map

[uneven pewter]

EDD seems like it sucks ngl. Shield disruption and low oxygen on magma core. Lots of chip damage

[alpine carbon]

we did Edd casually in 39 mins

and i am not even a bad player

it seems bad but in reality it really isnt that bad

[charred spruce]

So for those who have done the EDD, how is it

Not a big fan of Magma core but I expect it not to be that bad

[gusty grotto]

just did EDD stage 2

it is annoying

stage 3 gonna be the same tbh

[tiny night]

fuck stage 1 and 2

stage 3 has everything in 1 room

the 4 eggs and the dreadnought cocoon are in just 1 big room

quite handy

[charred spruce]

Dayum

[short haven]

Just looking at the pinned details and wow current week's edd looks easy as hell

might even be worth doing solo for the aquarqs alone

only way I can see it being bad is if cave gen is horrible

[thorny cargo]

What is the current list of the Deep Dive?

[earnest fox]

the elite dive this week is actually disgusting

didnt even reach stage 3 in 3 attempts

why magma core

on one side i want the weapon overclock but i dont want to do this edd

[worn bramble]

you should get a weapon oc as long as you finish stage 2

[earnest fox]

yeah its guaranteed on stage 2

well damn it ima try once more

asm uch as i hate it

[lapis osprey]

EDD stage 2 and 3 are free cavegens

[earnest fox]

Its still magma core tho

[austere dust]

Today is my lucky day, got NTP from weekly core hunt then Burning Hell and AISE from dives XD

aaand now Elephant Rounds as my forge level up

[fresh coral]

Hello to everyone reading this:

im prowd to admit that i just won my first ever deep dive first try!

[earnest fox]

got past stage 2, died on 3 not gonna try again just for a cosmetic core

[barren tide]

whats so rough about stage 3

[earnest fox]

1 and 2 are disgusting

in 3 we just all died randomly

and i dont think its worth to try again

[steel python]

Guess this week's EDD is an EGG

Good thing I chose the DD this week

Took ages because it's literally all the long objectives, but it sure is better than whatever is going on in the EDD

[gray hemlock]

No sabo?

Big W

[serene stratus]

EDD doesn't seem hard, sure you got Low Oxy but it's not on osr/pe and yeah shield disruption can be pain but you get low gravity so...

[woeful patrol]

Another week without any Sabo and there is no Twins...

I can feel a disturbance in the force

[quick compass]

Living my dream. Id do unspeakable things for the ever elusive burning hell.

Like…..go to magma core.

(Why so people hate magma core so much)

[austere dust]

just about to test it! Already had VB so really wanted it

[quick compass]

Volatile was my first oc unlock. It was gnarly using it for the first time with napalm hurricane/fire boolet leadstorm

[buoyant wing]

exploding maggots tbh

nothing else is really bothersome compared to other biomes but that's just me

oh and I guess if you like to use environments it makes the exploding plants a liability/shoot on sight

earthquakes instantly blow them up if the ground opens on them

it also has the legacy reputation of being king of hide and seek when ebonuts didn't glow and they would be well-camoflauged by the environment color+darkness

[austere dust]

It was a little irritating for shield disruption in this week’s EDD lol, generally it is far from my most hated biome in general personally though

[shy coyote]

edd mission 3 had such an easy cave gen lol

[jolly obsidian]

Regular dd was a nitra hellhole we had nothing and kept getting low on ammo
Then the host disbanded the team during OSR so we didnt even get the cosmetic OC

[trail pivot]

Didn't know earthquakes could trigger the bomb zits

[buoyant wing]

it's the same reason the ice-zits blow up when the naturally-generated ice fissures occur, no ground=instant blow-up

also very hazardous for drillers going up

[quick compass]

Now see, knowing that its a shield disruptor makes it make sense for me

[obtuse dust]

yo does anyone know what a good mod setup for the Lead Storm OC is?

[quick compass]

Honestly, anything you take will help

[obtuse dust]

someone in main chat just helped me too LOL

how does like

22122 sound?

[quick compass]

Yeah, solid. That rate of fire can help, i personally take accuracy on the lead-storm oc with fire bullets, because im already pretty good at fire management i dont need cold as the grave.

[obtuse dust]

maybe i shouldnt do cold as the grave

i rarely overheat too myself

[quick compass]

But cold as the grave comes in clutch sometimes

[obtuse dust]

hm

[obtuse dust]

improved accuracy in which tier?

[quick compass]

Forst

First* lol

[obtuse dust]

oh its only in the first

hm alr

[quick compass]

Yeah but it contends with the raye of fire which COULD mean losing 72dps(assuming all hits count)

[obtuse dust]

alr i got 32123, should do fine

[obtuse dust]

wait what

oh i see what you mean

[quick compass]

16 damage per bullet 30 bullets a second

Yerp

Was about to do a breakdown

[obtuse dust]

XD

eh i'll try accuracy and see how it goes

0 movement gang incoming

ngl who needs to move when you can just shoot? moving is overrated

[quick compass]

But yeah with the leadstorm oc i run accuracy, damage or ammo(both are solid and i pick whatever im feeling), blowthrough rounds, variable chamber and fire bullets. Its a fun one for me

Oh dude, bunny hop

As the gunner you should be bunny hopping with all your primaries since they all slow you down

[obtuse dust]

wait, ive heard of that

how is it don e again?

just jump and shoot continuously?

[quick compass]

Yeah just jump, fire while in the air and stop just before you land to keep sprinting rinse repeat

[obtuse dust]

oh i got it

ok

[glossy walrus]

on our dd stage one (2p on psn), we found 2 old resupply pods with 2 uses each, how nice of them to give us a full resupply's worth at the start of a run

not that it's needed on a dd since it's not even haz4

I'll take that on edd any day, not that it mattered this time since we found it on the easier side

[icy ledge]

So I have a bit of a funny story. I was doing a deep dive and one of the objectives was to kill a dreadnaught, and rival presence was on the mission too. I found an area to fight the dreadnaughts, and started it. It was the twins, which I’m pretty confident with. About halfway through the fight though, I’m resupplying and hear a: “THREAT DETECTED. ELIMINATE.” And a freaking nemesis spawned on my head. So now I’m fighting three bosses with about 300 ammo on my rifle left. I ended the fight with 12 shots and a sliver of hp

That was my first deep dive >.>

[austere dust]

Was that last week’s EDD in sandblasted? Because that happened to me and my duo buddy there lol, dreadnaught battle with added nemesis, we only just survived too

[icy ledge]

Nah it was the reg in azure Weald, but that sounds even worse lol

The funniest part is that right after surviving that a cave leech ate me in the next room

[austere dust]

oh noooo

Goddamn leeches

[icy ledge]

Cave leech in a nutshell

[austere dust]

Had an escort with leech cluster earlier today and leeches plucked me off the top of moving Dotty 4 times, lol

Scout was busy shooting at the swarm too and not looking up of course

[icy ledge]

Man cave leech cluster is such a mixed bag

Sometimes you get like, 2, and other times you get 20

[vagrant heron]

Cave leeches exist for the sole purpose of reminding the scout he has a flare gun.

[icy ledge]

And death

Death is pretty big

[austere dust]

Yeah those bastards should cluster more consistently dammit, just another reason to despise them greasy meatballs

[icy ledge]

The worse part of it for me is that for those few frames were youre recovering another is probably about to grab you

[young yew]

If you joined someone else's game they were prob using a mod

[austere dust]

I did see three of them all reaching down for the scout in the distance too that game, haha, they looked like they were racing to see which could grab the tasty snack first

[glossy walrus]

this was on psn, and this is a feature of salvage missions

you can find old supply pods from the last set of dwarves who came through (and died), you just have to know the signs to look for

[young yew]

Huh. Never found any. So what's the trick?

[glossy walrus]

they're really easy to miss, but look for the same signs as normal resupply pods, namely that tunnel from above

just they're basically always almost completely buried so you can only see a part of their top

I found the second one going into the main cave looking for leeches, then I see an indent on the ceiling and check for a leech, but nothing. then I get closer and see it's actually a tunnel so check below, and yep there was the 2nd old resupply pod

they have a random number of uses on them after you repair them, I've seen 0 1 and 2 in the few I've found

[snow sparrow]

I haven’t done a deep dive yet, what’s different apart from 3 in a row with extra rewards ?

[magic nova]

Extra weekly blank core and weapon oc.

[jagged plaza]

No biome resources (unless you get a Huuli Horder), just gold and nitra, no random events, bonus objective is mandatory and it's from it's own special deep dive secondary objective pool.

[snow sparrow]

Oh okay

[magic nova]

Its also the same seed over n over.

[jagged plaza]

That too

[magic nova]

So if u fail you can go back threw and its the same

[jagged plaza]

Gold, nitra, health, and ammo is kept between stages.

There's a pinned comment in this chat channel that gets updated every time deep dives are reset weekly. It shows the primary and secondary objectives, modifiers, and warnings for all three stages in both normal and elite deep dives, as well as the biome.

I would make a reply to it so you can jump quickly but I'd rather not ping the person who made it.

I just don't like to ping needlessly.

[glossy walrus]

you can make a reply without pinging, I do so all the time

[jagged plaza]

:O

[cobalt moat]

You could also send message link #deep-dive-discussion message

[glossy walrus]

like so

[jagged plaza]

Ok cool, that works too.

:D Thanks!

[fleet mauve]

the deep dive was stupidly easy but the 3rd stage threw 5 bulks at us
I demolished each one with leadbursters

[young yew]

Got kicked during DD round 2 for double dip and extra supply pod mistakes 🙄

That'll teach me I guess

What's a good way to know anyway that there will be a left over supply slot? As Engy I find myself often quite a bit short with only one supply use

And you gotta move fast usually so there's a narrow window to double dip correctly

[fleet mauve]

mayhaps you should ask before dipping instead of rushing for ammo like a goblin
and also modify your playstyle if you're burning ammo

[young yew]

The drill dozer was already leaving the site. It's not like didn't give the guy time

Not saying the blame is not on me, but honestly wondering what I could've done better

[hushed sequoia]

use pointer to track how much ammo your teammates have

but kicking someone on a normal deep dive for that is just dumb really

90% of the time deep dives will have plenty of nitra but for normal missions it's good to watch how much ammo your teammates have

the 4 bars that i believe are below their name track how much total ammo they have

[fleet mauve]

ok, when you say that the ban doesn't make sense

I would say ask next time, but that was unwarranted

[young yew]

Darn yeah I totally forgot about that

I'll check up on that next time

[young yew]

The second mistake of calling in an extra pod before the need arose was a legit stupid mistake, though I don't think it'd have mattered for the DD result. But yeah some ppl are more prickly than others. Yesterday I went on a couple runs with total greenbeards which was a tad frustrating, but it was all good in the end and for me it's just something to be expected in pub games

[young yew]

On that, you're prob playing EU or NA. I'm on Asian servers and it's mostly Chinese, and there was a Korean in there too. The English levels around there you can't be sure about 😅

I sometimes ping the pod and wait before emptying it, but that's when there's time.

Checking for the other folks' ammo is a cool tip, thanks guys

[quick compass]

I will say this, anyone that kicks for simple stuff like that is just a prude

Im happy to say that this is one of the most fun communities ive been in but even here i find some people that make me chuckle

I was just in an edd with an engie that kept nuking teammates and everyone was laughing every time it happened

Needless to say that engie also had as many kills as the three of us combined . Dwarves make good bait

Stage two was rough. No shield + fire hazards just hurt

[young yew]

I'm already very happy that DRG has a different kind of culture than most other online games. 99% of folks here are chill and nice

[young yew]

😂

[quick compass]

Yeah. The only thing i condone kicking for is someone who orders leaf lovers. If youre too drunk either drink more or play like that

Lol

[young yew]

The trick is to go all the way with Blackout Stout, but stagger it a bit so you can revive each other in the bar

[quick compass]

But seriously i see way more dwarves laugh at stupid stuff than kick players, which only enforces how much of this player base truly are long beared drunks. Truly a glorious hive mind

[young yew]

To continue quaffing

[quick compass]

Yup

[young yew]

Honestly the stupid stuff we do sometimes is the salt in the soup

😂

[quick compass]

The stupid stuff that makes ya laugh just makes life a little sweeter in the desolate mines ruled by bugs and money hungry corporates

[young yew]

Maybe that's one reason I enjoy DRG more than other online games. People wanna succeed and do well, but neither the game nor the most players take themselves too seriously in the end

[quick compass]

Which is true in life too. Laugh at the dumb stuff, they make good memories that’ll last a lifetime of conversation while having a beer with some mates

[young yew]

Exactly

[quick compass]

Literally a game that embodies the vibe of hanging around and talking about nothing for hours for the sake of being around good people

And then once in a while you get kicked cause you double dipped even though one of the players had full ammo lol

But yeah that engie cleaned house, and the nukes were to die for

Certainly one of the silliest over clocks ive seen

[fathom hazel]

I've had people swipe my supplies while I'm full ammo and then when I go to get some I can't

Shit sucks

Usually as scout cause I run out of ammo pretty fast

[quick compass]

I dunno, be more like karl i guess. Karl was a generous guy who just used his pick

Oh yeah, i feel that pain, scout(and engie) run out quick

The duality of man

“YOUR AMMO WAS FULL”

“Yeah but im scout”

[fathom hazel]

Ammo go bye bye

[quick compass]

Less ammo in your gun means more ammo in da bugz

[young yew]

A big challenge for me as Engie is to balance all the ammo to get the resupply maxed out

[fathom hazel]

I only double dip if people are ditching the supply pod and going somewhere far from it

Or if there's a bunch of them

[quick compass]

You can get the ammo percentage mod, shows at what percent you’re at with whatevers equipped

[quick compass]

Thats what i was mainly referring to, shoulda been more clear

[fathom hazel]

Supply pod spam near the start of heartstone drilling is glorious

[quick compass]

If we’re in a mid swarm or whatever i only take one cause i know some people save it for after or during either to min max ammo or health

[fathom hazel]

Brings me pain to watch people who have like 90% of their ammo grab a supply simply because it's there

I usually use every last bullet before I grab a resup

[quick compass]

Brings me pain when i have 90% ammo and theres one left unnused….my lizard brain likes nice numbers and 90% just doesnt look as nice

THE NUMBERS MASON

[young yew]

I hear ya lol

But the worst is if I'm well stocked or full overall but one can is empty 😭

[quick compass]

Or when repairing the pod

[young yew]

Usually grens or turret

[quick compass]

Yerp

But yeah as engie i try to use my turrets a ton as well. Really cant wait to unlock turret arc to force myself to be more proactive with em

Until then full auto shotgun goes brrrr

[young yew]

Tell me what it's like when you get it. I'm used to one Hawkeye so I probs won't try it

[scenic jetty]

After finishing this dd. All I can think for rn is “That’s it lads. Rock n stone“

[bright ice]

does anybod know why in deep dive special events spawn no longer?

[torn verge]

to prevent speedrun farming of the same event over and over

[bright ice]

the can add random spawn

pitty

[wet yoke]

Yo whats the DD this week again?

[jolly obsidian]

I didnt like it because turret arc hurts you, drilldozer and other stuff as well as the bugs

[jolly obsidian]

Check pins

[wet yoke]

Aight

Thanks

[jolly obsidian]

I ended up addicted to the smart lok rifle as one of the OCs sends an explosive round after enemies if you have 3 locks on a single target

[wet yoke]

Explosive chem rounds is fun

[jolly obsidian]

Stack with electrocution when there are 3 locks and it gets pretty good

[wet yoke]

Its carried ne through many hordes solo

[jolly obsidian]

Yea i need to get more ocs on engi

Gunner is 100% neglected though when i use matrix cores

Should start getting his if it comes down to him or scout though tbh

[quick compass]

Only if you stand in its way.

[austere dust]

had a host legit get mad at us for spamming all the pods there the other day GUYS WHY ARE YOU WASTING ALL THE NITRA

he wanted to save that nitra for his mineral collection I guess :(

[void mason]

Hank Schrader momen

[fathom hazel]

I was playing with a friend whos sorta new and he asked why I was wasting pods lol

I'd rather use all the nitra and have an excess of ammo than not use it and have to wait

[crisp steeple]

I need help with deep dive elite, I is new (ASIA)

[ashen path]

One message removed from a suspended account.

One message removed from a suspended account.

[young yew]

DD was a breeze. How's the new EDD?

[short haven]

after playing it, rough

it would be easy if it werent for it being magma core

once you get to stage 3 its pretty easy though

just gotta be careful

[young yew]

1 or 2 is the roughest in your opinion?

[short haven]

2 cause of shield disrup

[young yew]

Got it, thanks

[stuck pine]

did edd in 37 mins with 4 gunners

pretty fun

can i do DD after EDD and still get a core?

[short haven]

did it with 4 gunners as well lmao

also you get cores from both dds only once

[tiny night]

bro am i the only one who uses supply pods as heals even when i have 90% of ammo

i cant be the only one

[wraith shard]

Same

[fathom hazel]

🗿

Maybe some dwarves left behind

[glass pecan]

Man, that last stage in EDD was nerve-wracking

bulk every horde

[dense escarp]

yeah when we have like 200 nitra left or its obvious we arent coming back to said resupply

[fast stratus]

Meanwhile my friend constantly yells at me to "go heal up!" and I'm like "bbbut I'm at 55% ammo on my secondary"

[dense escarp]

thats me lmao

[old widget]

sweet tooth my beloved

[south anchor]

So i just premoted and finhed my big core hunt missions along with my weekly and was about to go onto a deep dive now that i have some overclocks anything i should know before hand ?

[old widget]

Nitra carries over between stages, consumable perks refill after each stage…beyond that, not much you /need/ to know beyond “shoot bug, do objectives”

[hazy lily]

Uhhh

Killing the first hiveguard on the DD gave me the double dread in 30 secs achievement

[thorny lichen]

Killed that one using a Bulk Detonator that spawned at the same time. Popped it right as her last armor went down. Full health to no health instantly

Very satisfying

[drowsy holly]

it barely hits dorreta its like 1% every 5s and you honestly shouldnt position your turrets so that would happen because turret arc hits like multiple times a second so dorettas distress noise will deafen you. that and you generally want your two turrets each guarding a side of doretta with no overlap and the best way to do that is to put them behind her so now your arc is also killing spawns if any come that way.

with that said its best use is actually in dreadnaut missions because if your team works with you to keep the dread on your arc its super slowed down and if you stack two more slows you can root the classic dread

[jolly obsidian]

Yea i get that just wasnt quite for me, i did reposition it but then your teammates have to work around an active damage dealer

Its got utility its just i would be more inclined to use it on a solo mission

Smart lok with the 3 lock explosive OC plus the grenade launcher with the insane single target damage seems to work pretty well for me so im running that rn

[drowsy holly]

yeah thats a build i use alot as well

i swap off turret arc for pe sabo and minimules

and i generally use that build or magnetic align + fatboy

or magnetic align and lazer pointer

[jolly obsidian]

Havent got magnetic align yet i dont think

Still got some ocs to collect

Fat boy is fun but being capped at 5 ammo at most is tough

[drowsy holly]

i mostly use fatboy in sabo

a c4 + fatboy or 2 fatboy kills the shields if you hit it right in the middle of the top

[jolly obsidian]

Yea thats its ideal use case

Oh does it? I dont get up top but maybe i should start doing that

[drowsy holly]

but magnet allign makes the shotgun basically single target

i just build a platform bridge up to it while its starting up

[jolly obsidian]

Yea i dont like the shotgun too much feels unpleasant to use honestly

[drowsy holly]

or if im drilling ill drill my own bridge

[jolly obsidian]

Driller is fun but ive hit a point where im not getting any overly fun or potent OCs

I made a 20 metre flamethrower but it just doesnt really do enough outside of crowd control

Colette wave cooker with blister oc is fine but the primary i just cant find something i like

[drowsy holly]

i like all 3 primaries and 2/3 driller secondaries

but i get why people wouldnt like them

[brisk pagoda]

try ice spear cryo or hydrogen ion addative sludge

[jolly obsidian]

I tried ice spear cryo i keep accidentally firing it though

[drowsy holly]

just like i dont like scouts primaries exccept for bouncy drak and explosive reload for 2ndary

[jolly obsidian]

Like when i use a rail in OSR i keep firing the cannon without thinking

[brisk pagoda]

you can weapon switch to cancel the charge

[old widget]

AG mixture on sludge can be fun also

[jolly obsidian]

Oh can you? Maybe I'll give it another go

[old widget]

Goo sniper

[brisk pagoda]

yeah just like swing pickaxe and it will cancel it

[jolly obsidian]

Sludge cannon i dont like really

Mostly just because i cant get the ceiling bugs easily with it

Im sure its good but i need more ocs first

[brisk pagoda]

taking the projectile speed in teir 1 is a noticable upgrade

[jolly obsidian]

Yea i noticed that with engis grenade launcher figure thats the same story here

[brisk pagoda]

makes it real easy to bukake web spitters

[jolly obsidian]

Oh those guys are fine i just give them cancer

They die before the wave cooker overheats normally

[brisk pagoda]

i think goo has slightly faster ttk on acid spitters than most wave builds but i dont like using wave

[jolly obsidian]

I love wave
The plasma one i forgot the name of is fine but during swarmer infestations getting rid of them before they can get anywhere near me is really handy

Even if the cryo cannon or flamethrower offers the same

[hushed sequoia]

ag mixture with blistering necrosis is like the only build i use

[brisk spear]

you were on ag mixture? damn

[hushed sequoia]

yup

[agile hare]

i had 6 bulks on the normal deep dive
2 of them on the transport

one of them was a elite bulk

[brisk pagoda]

free wave clear

[short zephyr]

EDD lobby for NA players

[cobalt moat]

Post it in #lfg-steam / #lfg-modded-steam / #lfg-xbox-microsoft / #lfg-playstation whichever suits your platform.

[unkempt lava]

aus server, elite deep dive

[robust saffron]

The EDD looks pretty manageable this week

[bitter trout]

Petition to add more Magnite??

its like the only thing i ever need

stock market hurt

[severe tusk]

You can just play more in biomes that give it to even things out, and look for the Mineral Mania modifier. I think just about everyone has had a mineral or two that has been sparse for them compared to the others during their course of play.

[zenith ember]

Keep doing the zone(s) with them, its a grind but way better than buying without deals

Also what ryan said, different minerals are super sparse for each player, im always screwed over enor and bismor

[severe tusk]

Promotions might have something to do with it. I would like to think that the minerals you spend to promote are evenly distributed over time, but perhaps it is random. Does anyone know? I guess the same could be said for weapon and item unlocks.

[burnt sandal]

I'm not sure i get your question ?

[severe tusk]

When you promote, you spend 3 different mineral types and credits to do so. I am asking if the type of minerals you spend is random each promotion or if there is a system in place that ensures each mineral type gets spent evenly, given enough promotions over time.

[burnt sandal]

Each class spend different minerals

on promotion

can't tell you if it's evenly distributed though

[severe tusk]

So does engi, for example, always spend minerals A, B, and C and never anything else?

[burnt sandal]

yeah

[severe tusk]

Alright, assuming you play all 4 classes evenly, then I am guessing that the developers have it balance out, since there are 6 different crafting minerals used for promotion and there are 4 classes who always use the same 3 mineral types to promote. So I assume each of the 6 mineral types gets used twice when promoting each class at roughly the same pace (3x4=12). If you're someone who doesn't play all classes relatively evenly, then you can fall way behind on certain mineral types.

[zenith ember]

that might be partially the issue, i have scout on silver 3 while the rest are bronze 2-3

but i feel that a bigger part might be subconsciously crafting the OCs that also burn the same types of minerals since they are so important in the latter part of the game 😅

[austere dust]

Magnite chunks in walls would be nice

[young yew]

Came out of a crazy EDD

[quartz otter]

I beat it yesterday on my sixth attempt, I tried four times on Thursday and twice yesterday (Although one or two of them don’t count because they ended early by crash disconnections). On the final attempt yesterday morning, I was gunner with neurotoxin payload and there was this amazing bronze II engineer who lasted all the way with me despite the scout and driller leaving during the second and third stages. Stage 2 and 3 were us desperately running back and forth and reviving each other, and the final dreadnought at the end of the third stage took, like, eight minutes. I couldn’t do shit to it since I was using neurotoxin payload, so I ran around the fiery room shooting burst pistol fire at it and reviving the engineer over and over so he could resupply and get shots in with his shard diffractor. One of the most tense moments in my 7 months and 680 hours (So far) of playing. Not necessarily a useful story, but whatever. It was insane.

[young yew]

Yep, round 3 was totally crazy.

3 guys clutch reving each other while running from a dreadnought, in a fiery magma pit left behind by a bulk det

Pure madness

I didn't think we would make it, but we did

That was on my second attempt

First was with two scout and one driller newbies

Failed not even halfway thru first round. One scout guy said sorry afterwards and that he wasn't ready for it 😅

[quartz otter]

and i had to do it with neurotoxin payload and a single bronze promo engie 💀💀💀💀

[old widget]

NTP is great support against H5+ dreads, provided you have other weapons/dwarves who can deal damage. Slowing H5 dreads is huge

[earnest thunder]

i gotfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

come in pls😍

[tulip idol]

huge is only against classic dreadnought and only when it's 50%+ slowdown, while toxin is just 30% one

great support weapon would be re-atomizer, when talking about debuffing dreads

[jagged plaza]

I was hosting a deep dive and as soon as we loaded in my power cut out for a minute

[untold pivot]

Hello

[untold saddle]

How do u use reatomizer against dreads? You have to pierce another target first right?

[torn verge]

correct
reatomizer is generally too hard to setup to be practically useful

however if you do set it up properly you can break the game

for example, if an effect's duration is external, it lasts forever when applied with reatomizer
e.g. sludge puddle effect lasts forever, as long as the bug is standing in the sludge puddle
but when applied with reatomizer it lasts forever full stop

and if you apply that to a dread it will slowly die over like 10 minutes without you doing anything
you need a coordinated team to get actual use out of it, but if you have a coordinated team you can just shoot the dread to death normally and it's much faster

if your gunner is running reatomizer specifically to meme on large single targets, that means he's not running lead spray brt to kill large single targets

[gray hemlock]

wait

reatomizer works with puddle’s slow/dot and doesn’t have a timer?

that’s funny as shit

I would’ve thought there’d be a built in timer so it lasts like a max of 30 seconds or smth

[tulip idol]

all you need to do is to let driller walk over a puddle and go through epc's persistent plasma field, then shoot through him, while doing damage to his health, and transfer both infinite effects on dreadnought, though it's only half-useful on hiveguard

[gray hemlock]

hold on, reatomizer works on teammates?

damn that overclock is a lot funnier than I realized

[tulip idol]

only 2 effects I mentioned

[gray hemlock]

ah

so driller could stand in a persistent plasma field and on a puddle, get shot by reatomizer, and transfer both effects to a dread?

[tulip idol]

• health dmg condition

both on driller and dreadnought (classic one without shell)

hiveguard can be re-atomized whenever iirc

[gray hemlock]

hm

is there a video demonstrating this anywhere

[tulip idol]

uhmm, perhaps some day

I did it once with mates in multiplayer, but it was just about we did it and we go walk for 10 mins somewhere else until it dies on its own

not like there was much to show

[gray hemlock]

I mean just the setup specifically

After it’s set up and the dread is taking damage there’s not much point

[fickle nova]

is this weeks edd harder then last weeks?

[white ginkgo]

Where can we see what the deep dive mission every week are on this server?

In advance

[fickle nova]

i think you might just have to ask here

[white ginkgo]

Does the regular deep dive have morkite?

[wraith shard]

Check pinned messages

[white ginkgo]

I got it now

Very good

[balmy stone]

I didn’t do last week’s but this week wasn’t too bad, first stage was annoying though

I had 12 rezzes and 0 downs on a pub, get all that nitra and have dash on unless you’re scout

The hardest part is the terrain which is exceptionally bad on stage 1

I had to throw an aquarq straight up and grab it midair after grappling with high ping which was a pain in the butt

[trail pivot]

Could reatomizer turn a ghost into an infinite nuerotoxin cloud cow?

[young yew]

Yes Sir

[humble lodge]

you only get the blank core 1x on deep dive?

until reset?

[burnt sandal]

yes

[quick compass]

1 blank, one weapon, one cosmetic on both deep dives. But if you can rank up to promo fast enough you get weekly core reset every promo

Specifically on the weekly assignment.

[humble lodge]

ah ok, so no point in doing it 2x +

[quick compass]

There is, a tonna xp and credits

And also its fun. But as for cores, no

[burnt sandal]

not really

you'll get more out of 3 normal missions

[quick compass]

Especially if its over haz 5 (ran some custom difficult ones with 3 grey beards, most hectic 6 levels ove ever gained over 3 missions)

That many bugs really cut into the fps, cant wait till i have all the parts to finally build my 3080ti rig.

[burnt sandal]

the GPU won't help with bug count

that's a good CPU you'll want for that

[quick compass]

I know, its gonna have a much better cpu as well. Need it for both 2d and 3d art, the game running better is just a bonus

[frail mesa]

god that EDD was not fun lmao

shield disruption magma core was somehow less painful than the last mission

[young yew]

Fun, but in a stressful way

[frail mesa]

got like 4 bulks on the 1st mission

one right at drop pod as it landed

[young yew]

Damn

I played that twice and didn't get any

Game saved them all for round 3

[frail mesa]

actually my bad, the 4 bulks were on the 2nd mission

shield disruption

chip damage my beloathed

got through it in the most scuffed way though

even lost a player on the 2nd mission lmao

[young yew]

Funnily enough, somehow mt health was always at comfy levels in that one

Lost? You mean they quit?

[frail mesa]

ye

they had to go for dinner or something

[young yew]

I see

[frail mesa]

more resups for the rest of us

[young yew]

Haha

[frail mesa]

(we absolutely needed those extra resups)

and to top it all off, i brought the wrong build lmao

[quick compass]

yeah this edd was bulks galore

[frail mesa]

ended up bringing an un-overclocked LOK-1 and Light Weight Cases breach setup instead of my Cycle overload warthog PGL RJ250 build

funnily enough im pretty sure it was the player without iron will on their build that ended up saving the mission in the end

two of us were down and we already burned our irons

gotta give respect to the field medic/dash combo tbh

[flint orchid]

I will never understand why people don't run iron will on high hazard missions

You would assume a player with 3 stars on his profile would know how essential it is

[thorn jewel]

Its not essential on every person

[spiral depot]

I don't run IW because I like other perks

[frail mesa]

To be fair its not 100% essential

good to have at least 2 people in a group of 4 with it

but on say engineer, id rather run dash or something

since engineer isnt really the best for getting around to res teammates unless you have rj250

[burnt sandal]

Iron Will is not essential at all, no perk is

[woeful niche]

i don’t use iron will at all anymore, cus if i go down the mission is probably beyond saving

[flint orchid]

Hmm maybe

[flint orchid]

Nah man. I can't count the number of times we've saved a deep dive run just because we were running iron will and vampire.

[south anchor]

My fist elite deep dive was rough bet-c kept killing me lol

[woeful niche]

once i stopped using it, i realized how little i ever need it

most of the time ppl use it when they die away from the team

[flint orchid]

Sometimes I like playing with my monitor speakers and I get jumped

[south anchor]

Also yeah i realized i need iron will after my first one especially as gunner

[woeful niche]

if you really need 4 iron wills to save a mission, you are either very bad at the game or the mission is fucked beyond belief

[woeful niche]

engi is amazing at traversing once you know how to plat well

[flint orchid]

Nah man

There was a deep dive back in my PS4 days where we spawned next to multiple turrets along with sandstorms, it took us forever to do it but iron will made it a whole lot easier

I play this game semi-casually, I don't have the energy to sweat lmao

And tbh, not everyone on our team is gonna be really good at the game

[woeful niche]

this ain’t about sweating. 90% of missions do not require 4 iron wills. In the event you do need 4 iron wills, chances are that you are still gonna die m8

[tacit jungle]

I've had occasional games where we were just bad enough to need all 4 to make it to the end

[woeful niche]

there is bullshit that can happen in this game, like dotty drilling into a crassus. Or korlock on top of the refinery preventing you from depositing nitra. But in those cases i’d honestly just rather restart cus it can be cancer and take forever to actually finish the mission

[tacit jungle]

I only run it on scout, dash+field medic on others

[south anchor]

Tbh it only takes one good res to be able to stableize to Get things back on track

[frail mesa]

Still much slower than a driller or scout tbh, especially when you only have 15 seconds

Dash can help circumvent that, but if im running dash, iim not running iron will with it since dash is already a very good get out of jail free card sorta perk

At least on engie

[woeful niche]

engi is faster going down and horizontally across a wall assuming u use animation cancelling to maintain sprint

i dont see any reason to use iron will over dash

but it isnt even needed for my point

[frail mesa]

I mean that depends on terrain gen tbh, some biomes can be pretty unfriendly with engie platforms tbh
(cough cough magma core cough cough)

Hate those weird grooved caves

[woeful niche]

ye but thats mainly the ceiling

the only time that really matters is for scout trying to get minerals

[tacit jungle]

they should just make hoverclock a scout builtin

[frail mesa]

Idk honostly, with engie im better of focussing on my own survivability rather than trying to clutch with iron

Iron can help save a mission if it goes tits up, but honostly i prefer field medic since an instant revive can get you out of a bad situation before it gets worse

Faster revives in general are nice, especially on engie who can get swarmed pretty easy if they arent careful

Granted engie has some meaty crowd clearing options, but sometimes shooting a nuke at your own feet isnt the best idea lol

[woeful niche]

thats part of the reason rj250 is so broken

[frail mesa]

Yeah i like rj

Running RJ with something like cycle overload or minishells is comfy

Minishells is usually my go to for deep dives tbh

Since its just so god damn efficient at what it does

You can tap fire headshot grunts to clear them for very little cost, or just unload a full mag in to a praetorians ass

Lightweight casings on breach goes well with it too since its really good crowd clearing/single target at very little ammo expendature

[woeful niche]

being ammo efficient is nice, but it isnt really that needed tbh

especially in most edds

[frail mesa]

I mean on engie its kinda nice to not have to rely so hard on resupplies

Especially when you arent really sacrificing much at all to be so good on mileage

Kinda helps to combat that "i gotta save it for when i need it" mentality

Its real nice to just be able to empty a full clip of breach cutter lmao

[woeful niche]

i usually end edds with at least 3 resups to spare, which means i gotta spend my ammo faster

[frail mesa]

You talking solo or with groups?

Since solo, ammo efficiency becomes a lot less viable

Better to get stuff done quick and have more up front power since youll be getting more value from each resuply solo

With a group though i find it hard to really keep up with engineers demand for ammo with some builds

[woeful niche]

i play in groups but dude its the complete opposite

groups eat ammo way faster because solo means you get 4x resupplies

ammo is pretty much never an issue in solo regardless of game mode

[frail mesa]

Yeah thats literally what i said

[woeful niche]

ohh thats what u meant by "less viable"

[frail mesa]

Yeah, like i wouldnt run uhhh

Thw one OC for minigun on solo, would prefer something like burning hell or leadstorm in that case

Gives you like 800 more ammo but slower firing

Forget the name atm, but thats my goto if im gonna do a deeo dive as gunner, since it literally lets me skip resupplies

Thus letting say, a scout or engie take it

Since they need it much more

3800 rounds of minigun ammo damn near lasts an entire mission sometimes

And you really dont lost much damage from the slightly slower rate of fire

Just lose a bit of immediate killing power in favor of gaining better sustained killing power

Neuro rounds sorta scratches that itch too though

Dont think ive ever run out of ammo on autocannon

Can just drag your mouse across a swarm of grunts once or twice and most of them end up dying before they can even get to you

Really comfy

But yeah, honostly i like playing engie with more ammo efficient builds since it makes it harder to get caught with your pants down

Real nice to just be able to unload breach cutter on a swarm without having to worry about whether or not youll have enough to spare

Or just dump mags of mini shells in to stuff

[lost jungle]

exec/inferno and ecr/hyper are both pretty good all-round builds

[brisk pagoda]

personally I'd recommend using the damage upgrade instead of ammo on t2 if you're running compact feed mechanism. going absolute max ammo is rather overkill, and the extra bullet damage helps offset the fire rate penalty. cfm with damage ends up with the same total base damage per 100% ammo reserve as lead storm with damage.

[woeful niche]

more ammo does not always = more ammo efficiency btw

compact feed mechanism has almost the same total damage as lsls with significantly less dps

so in this case, isn’t lsls just better?

[lean mantle]

Just did my 1st deep dive, didn't go too horribly, only had like 5 deaths

Most from fall damage, 1 from digging into a platoon of exploders

[fleet stream]

to be fair lsls has to be one of the better gunner OCs

40% extra damage with meaningless debuffs

[harsh oracle]

Sup.
Have one question.
Was disconected from deep dive this night for two times and could not rejoin at all. Its little pain that last stage was almost finished amd i just dissapeared without any possibility to cpme back again.
Just want to be shure that its normal practice, right?

I know that u cant join already played dive sessions, but imho it little pain that random malfunction destroys your and other's run.
As far as i remember in pub missions if u disconect and rejoin fast, u will even have same ammo and health, why deep dive dont have it?

Got 2-3 random disconnect (dont have it before so much in one day) and "boom", have to start again from scratch.

[thorn jewel]

Connection issue on your part or the host?

[night island]

tips for first ever deep dive?

[fleet stream]

get lots of nitra, get a build / class you are comfortable with

[harsh oracle]

Dont waste nitra, loot it everywhere and end mission only when you shure that nothing left.
Kill. All. Lootbug. or u may end in situation like me with 79 nitra and 0 ammo, trying to kill elite dredd by pickaxe. (I won, but spent 1 hour to make it)

All stage makes hazard level to 0.5 stronger. (Got updated to classic deep dive by people)

In classic it lvl1- 3haz, lvl2 - 3,5haz, lvl3 - 3.5haz.

On elite: lvl1- 4.5haz, lvl2 - 5haz, lvl3 - 5.5haz.

Think thats all

[quartz otter]

And stay close to your teammates

[burnt sandal]

normal DD caps out at 3.5

it doesn't reach haz 4

[harsh oracle]

Think its from me, cos my region little unstable, also i can find those match in "running" status when opening deep dive tab

[harsh oracle]

Welp, even easier

[harsh oracle]

U mean it starts woth 2.5haz?

First mission

[burnt sandal]

3/3.5/3.5

[harsh oracle]

Ah

Lol

[sly vapor]

dd nitra experience
FIRST STAGE-DUDE WE MUST NOT WASTE NITRA WE MUST ONLY RESUPPLY ON NEXT STAGE
SECOND STAGE-OK DUDE ONE RESUPPLY FOR THIS STAGE, WE MUST GATHER RESOURCES FOR THE LAST STAGE
THIRD STAGE-276 nitra with one resupply on egg hunt

[lost wing]

Only one resupply for doretta is rough...

[pure pawn]

What the best class to do deep dive solo?

[burnt sandal]

anything you're comfortable with

you can solo with any class and they all have pros and cons

there's no best really

[torn verge]

driller is probably the easiest
lots of swarmclear and good mobility, only problem is efficiently dealing with spitters and such

and maybe killing dreads

[burnt sandal]

I personally like gunner in solo.
On-site might be tough but everything else is a piece of cake and you're particularly safe in most situations, because gunner (and the shield)

and bosco can take care of a lot of stuff for you

[brisk pagoda]

ls is stronger against anything praetorian or larger, anything smaller doesn't have enough hp for cfm slower ttk to be of any significance. cfm is more ammo efficient against the smaller stuff, and is safer against hordes, since you can reliably stun everything before it gets close and finish them off before the stun ends. you can also dodge attacks without interrupting your fire or having to jostle your aim with bunny hopping. the slower fire rate also means you waste less ammo when readjusting your aim between targets.

[woeful niche]

umm yes it does? the difference between lsls killing a swarm and cfm killing a swarm is fucking massive

[brisk pagoda]

ls is faster but cfm is safer

[woeful niche]

1 grunt doesn’t have that different of a ttk but when you are in a swarm the difference is vey noticing

you can bunny hop with lsls

[brisk pagoda]

bunny hop is annoying and impacts your aim

[woeful niche]

barely

it’s not that hard to learn at all

[brisk pagoda]

just because you can "work around" the downsides doesn't mean they're non existent

[woeful niche]

the game just doesn’t require the amount of ammo or “ammo efficiency” cfm provides

[brisk pagoda]

the game doesn't require the overkill of ls either

[woeful niche]

when lsls has almost the exact same total dmg with massive dps

[woeful niche]

yes the game is easy enough on haz 5 that you can use bad ocs, but that doesn’t mean the oc isn’t bad

if u want something more comfy, just take a little more oomph or exhaust vectoring

there’s a reason most ppl recommend taking damage over ammo on minigun, cus being able to kill things faster and with less bullets is just way more impactful then a measly extra 300 bullets

[burnt sandal]

total damage is a terrible stat to even brought up and should be forgotten all together

[woeful niche]

the fact that they are so close is pretty notable tho given how much extra dps lsls has

it’s just such a strong oc compared to most minigun ocs imo. Even if you wanted something more “comfy” i wudnt recommend cfm cus the lower rof really hurts ur dps, especially against things with high hp. You might as well just take exhaust vectoring or a little more oomph if you don’t like bunny hopping

[burnt sandal]

CFM is not bad at all. The T1 mod completely neuter the downside and nobody's gonna say no to more ammo. It allows you to remain safe ammo wise even in the most dire situations.

It doesn't have the power of LS but it brings something else to the table.

[olive flicker]

By your logic if the game is easy enough then the higher qol option is better.

Because you achieve the same with less effort.

[woeful niche]

the higher qol isn’t always better when you can completely negate lsls’s biggest downside by learning to bunny hop

[woeful niche]

maybe it’s my own fault then cus i fucking hate the minigun without t1 accuracy

it’s not bad on it’s own, but i still think it’s just a lot worse then lsls

[burnt sandal]

to each his own.
i think it's just down to personal preferences. Both have their merit.

[olive flicker]

It also depends on what you run as secondary.

[woeful niche]

why wud it

lsls kills both swarms and big targets faster

you can run either single target or aoe on ur secondary and lsls will still out dps it while having the same ammo

[olive flicker]

I run brst with the high damage low acc OC, so having something for range is important.

And cfm is significantly more ammo efficient if I need to snipe a few targets at range.

[woeful niche]

except lsls can justify taking t1 accuracy, while cfm has to choose between rof (so ur dps isn’t shit) or accuracy

so lsls can both kill the spitter faster, and with more accuracy

[quartz wing]

can you unlock overclocks to weapons you have not unlocked yet?

[burnt sandal]

yes

[quartz wing]

alright

[brisk pagoda]

also there is protection against getting duplicates, so once you have something in your inventory waiting to be crafted, or already crafted, you will have it forever and won't get a duplicate, meaning even if you didn't want that specific oc, there's less rng each time you get something new if you're after something specific

[pulsar stream]

With my lack of skill I only manage to do the first stage of EDD solo, but with it being PE primary Egg secondary in MC biome, i didnt even get 3 aquarqs deposited

any tips for EDD solo?

[elfin rose]

you cannot get duplicates in this game at all, the chance to get an oc for each character is always the same, it works as chance to get an oc for a character instead of, chance to get specific oc, hop that explains it well enough

[shy cosmos]

how do deep dives work i just promoted gunner

[burnt sandal]

https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/Deep_Dives

[stuck pine]

is 37min EDD good?

i believe it was last weeks one

[balmy stone]

Get bosco to mine and carry ceiling aquarqs for you and the ones that fall in the pit. If you’re gunner you can shoot ziplines to go up and down and across

[wraith shard]

This week's EDD has taught me how horrible Magma Core is. Especially with shield disruption

[balmy stone]

Some of the aquarqs are pretty hidden so look around the back and across the chasm

On stage you have low grav so if you use dash you can launch yourself as any class

If you jump right before hitting the ground again while going fast you can keep your momentum

I kept dash jumping across that big pit on stage 2

[balmy stone]

Yeah the lava geysers and hot rocks were atrocious

[wraith shard]

The second stage had a natocyte breeder, Nexus, Cave Leech and Spitballer in every single big room

[austere drift]

Anyone else hearing wierd voices in the edd stage 2?

Oh that’s nemesis

[scenic jetty]

edd was done in 39mins even tho it was kinda hard

[short haven]

Assuming objectives arent uplink or black box and you can just constantly move around, I'd argue Scout is best, since instead of needing to attack, you can just run and let Bosco do the heavy lifting. And take out macteras when they appear. Use boomerang to stop enemies and stun them for a long time too

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep Dives!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
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[short haven]

As for Uplink or Black Box, I'd be willing to bet Gunner might be even better than Driller. Cause sure, Driller has good swarm clear, but doesn't have great single-target damage, meanwhile Gunner has both of those, and has 4 emergency shields if you absolutely need to avoid taking damage

Going for double shield duration would also be the best for upgrades assuming you know you're using them for that purpose

[severe tusk]

Driller C4 terraforming can really make a huge difference with point defense sometimes though.

[short haven]

I mean if it really came down to it you could just dig out the area yourself, if its really that necessary

I suppose my point is that Gunner is better overall while Driller is a bit situational in comparison

[fleet mauve]

well, that was kinda rough, going into an edd with 3 level 38s
as a level 81 I am the last person who should carry the team
we really shouldn't have seperated in stage 2

[quick compass]

Welp, another week, another case of only getting one gunner oc……and it was flechette rounds for brt7. Gonna crie man,

Maybe next deep dive ill get the oc’s i want…..maybe not

PROBABLY not.

[woeful niche]

naw, fake news

[neon shadow]

This weeks edd as a rookie, was horrible

We had to utilize timing of res to grind it down bit by bit lmao

[charred spruce]

This EDD was better than the last EDD for me

Except throwing two bulk detonators at the second stage because why not

[short haven]

It's really stage 2 and the fact its on magma core that makes it a difficult edd

everything else was manageable

on edd hell I'd even take hollow bough over magma core

[quick compass]

is it worth taking napalm with minelayer or is stun just the blatantly better choice

(been using stun this whole time wanna know if napalm is worth for volatile bulldog)

[severe tusk]

All I get are blank cores and minerals. Greybeard life.

[short haven]

If you have all OCs you just get blank cores? thats actually kinda cool, huge supply of blank cores lol

if only you could use multiple cores on one machine though

I wonder, is there any special prompt if you attempt to use a core on a machine event despite having everything?

or is it the same as if you had no cores where no text appears

[severe tusk]

I have about 180 blank cores right now, I think. When you use a blank core on a finished machine event, you get a core that gives a stash of 120 random minerals that you can speed 600 credits to unlock.

[short haven]

ooooh, interesting that there's actually something for that

[quick compass]

hmmm......kinda weird how after you have everything unlocked they give you stuff that makes it easier to unlock stuff

we need an in game money sink

[short haven]

tipping lloyd

[quick compass]

takes too long

but rig customizations would be cool, i know theres a mod where you can spend resources to craft a custom mission

[severe tusk]

Yeah, I was hoping that they would at least add some more cosmetic cores by now. We could use some blue and yellow colored gems as beard jewelry, for instance, and that wouldn't take much work to do.

[short haven]

That's really just about the only use for credits if you have everything I suppose

[severe tusk]

Yeah, I am player level 961 and have 4.2 million credits and 30k+ of each mineral.

[woeful niche]

i don’t mind it