deep-dive-discussion

[west tiger]

If you are a gunner they are never a problem

[woeful niche]

iv been playing for over 2k hours and have never seen more then 3 or 4 brundles at a time. 90% of the time the game spawns 1 or 2. They are incredibly rare

[finite vigil]

well, just my luck then as always

[woeful niche]

they aren’t a problem on any class

[woeful niche]

naw i think ur being a bit hyberbolic in general bruh

[west tiger]

As a driller they are a headache

[finite vigil]

nah I'm not kidding.

it's not just in DRG

[woeful niche]

driller is the most ammo efficient class in the game

if you run out of ammo on an edd as driller you must be doing something very wrong

[west tiger]

Why would ammo matter? Its just hard to survive a dozen of them spawning in the air close by

[woeful niche]

mactera have 100% weakness to both fire and corrosive dmg, so you can kill them pretty fast with a good build

Snowball is also an amazing oc on mactera plague if u have it

[west tiger]

Not fast enough

They will shoot

[finite vigil]

exactly what I've been saying

[woeful niche]

you have to dodge them once

[finite vigil]

they track so good though

[woeful niche]

no they don’t lol

[finite vigil]

doesn't matter if you try to dodge, they'll get you anyway

yes they fucking do

[west tiger]

Pretty sure they track mid air

[fast stratus]

they absolutely do not

[west tiger]

At least the tri ones do

Ive been out of the way and still got hit a lot of times

[woeful niche]

in the giant guide i made for you, i literally told you trijaws can be dodged by walking towards them. Not running. WALKING

[woeful niche]

it has aoe

[west tiger]

You are not just dodging one enemy though

[finite vigil]

talking about the normal Mactera btw

[neat talon]

One thing you can do against mactera swarms is not be in a wide open area with no cover when a swarm is happening.

[west tiger]

That explains it

[woeful niche]

normal mactera are way easier to dodge then trijaws, just run perpendicular

[finite vigil]

already said that they get you anyway cos the projectiles are that quick at H5.

[woeful niche]

skill issue. Run perpendicular and they will never land

hell you don’t even have to do it i refectory

[neat talon]

Sometimes it’s not just about panic shooting what’s in front of you, rather than planning ahead and putting yourself in a good position to take cover and defend yourself before there’s a problem. If there’s a mactera modifier, just keep that in mind.

[woeful niche]

you can run diagonally if you need to dodge a trijaw too

[finite vigil]

ok what if I told you that I was doing that and they still land anyway, no matter how far away I am?

[woeful niche]

i’d say you came to this chat to vent then cus that just is not the case

[neat talon]

And then have an escape plan if you get caught in the open. Cryo nade. Gunner shield. C4. Drill for your life.

[finite vigil]

oh well lucky you

[neat talon]

Etc

[woeful niche]

it’s not luck

i just have played the game long enough to know how to do it

i can do the edd with u if ur struggling

[neat talon]

Also if you can’t dodge, learn status effects. Fear, stun both work great.

[woeful niche]

i think he’s kind of dead set on minigun

which can work, but some dodging is gonna be required lol

[finite vigil]

already said I completed it

[woeful niche]

if you want to cheese the mactera bring hurricane

[finite vigil]

I wanted to do Hurricane but people said that it's for those who can't dodge or kite.

[neat talon]

LSLS Minigun, with its limited mobility, may not be ideal vs mactera swarms…

[finite vigil]

https://tenor.com/view/trash-you-are-trash-i-am-trash-when-you-know-stumble-gif-11969610

[woeful niche]

why tf wud you listen to other ppl

[neat talon]

Hurricane is fine lol

[woeful niche]

take whatever you want

[woeful niche]

hurricane isn’t fine. It’s one of the most broken weapons in the game lol

[finite vigil]

only OC I had for LS was compact feed mechanism

[neat talon]

I mean, yeah, it’s great. There’s no reason to not use it.

What does that one do again?

[finite vigil]

massively increases the ammo supply

[woeful niche]

more ammo less rof

[finite vigil]

which you can counteract with mods

[neat talon]

Hmm. Yeah, go cold as the grave, pump up damage and RoF as much as you can, and just fire for days

[woeful niche]

naw on mactera plague def go AV or hot bullets

especially when cfm neuters ur dps

it also lowers ur stun rate by proxy

plus if u take the rof on tier 1 you miss accuracy which is one of the best mods on the gun

[neat talon]

Eh, I’d happily take the sustained dps and have my secondary set for big burst damage 🤷‍♂️

That’s just me tho

[woeful niche]

minigun is already amazing sustain

cfm noticeably lowers ur dps tho

[finite vigil]

it took me a while but I eventually figured that I shouldn't have built for the dreads

literally only 2 side objectives of them through the EDD

[woeful niche]

a good rule in this game is to bring one single target weapon and one aoe weapon

especially if ur going blind into an edd

[finite vigil]

it does? didn't know that

[neat talon]

I actually don’t follow the stun rate thing. More bullets should mean more stun, yes?

[finite vigil]

it would make sense, yeah

[neat talon]

Because I don’t think CFM lowers your stun stat

Lower RoF will effect if I guess

[finite vigil]

I guess if you don't select the ROF mod then it reduces the stun buildup

[woeful niche]

less bullets per second means less chance to stun

cfm isn’t that great on edds because edds give wayyyy too much ammo anyways

[finite vigil]

true, true

byeah, I changed to scout, had a much better time

[neat talon]

I mean, ammo management in general isn’t an issue with the minigun the vast majority of the time.

So yeah CFM isn’t great.

[finite vigil]

not great but it was the only OC I had for that gun

in hindsight though, maybe I should have just kept the OC off

[neat talon]

That would be reasonable. Fully upgraded, t’s still a great weapon without OCs.

[woeful niche]

at least you didn’t bring autocannon kek

autocannon on mactera plague is a massive F

[finite vigil]

honestly I love that the Hurricane rockets stay in the air so you can swing your aim around and wait for an enemy to pop up, just fire a couple more missiles and the remaining ones in the air clean up

it's so goddamn efficient

[brisk pagoda]

for cfm take damage in teir 2 always, and stun if you want reliability and safety against mactera.

[woeful niche]

damage is the better pick on 90% of minigun builds anyways

the only time ammo feels like a decent choice to me is burning hell

[brisk pagoda]

ammo probably also worth it on bullet hell but even in the small situations that it does ok i think it still needs a buff

[woeful niche]

no even on bullet hell you need dmg

you need it so that it doesn’t have less ttk then base minigun lol

[brisk pagoda]

i mean the only situation i think bullet hell does ok is if you basically use it as an auto cannon that can hit flying. stun to stunlock everything and aggressive venting to off them with a dot.

[woeful niche]

that is a pretty fun meme build kek

[brisk pagoda]

its sort of worth considering on like dense biozone mactera plague

but even then still a bit meme

[lost jungle]

even then i rlly wouldnt take it

like

the total dmg ur doing is roughly the same

so wouldnt it just be better to do said dmg in less bullets?

[brisk spear]

more ammo means you get more fire cone cause it isnt affected by damage but still true

unless it is affected by damage in which case ive been 🚎ed

[lost jungle]

ive just never seen people take it

[fossil compass]

I take stun and ammo for burning hell

But like bh already boosts ammo eff so damage makes sense

I like moar fire

[soft shell]

@woeful niche what are your top 3 guns in the game

I know ac and cryo is up there

Maybe cspr too

[woeful niche]

hurricane, goo, and crossbow

if i had to pick ig

[soft shell]

Goo bomber is that good?

I’d argue that cspr is better but maybe I’m biased because it’s my favorite weapon

[woeful niche]

i dont use goo bomber

unless im feeling spicy

[outer plover]

💅

[soft shell]

🤪💅

[brisk pagoda]

goo bomber is a meme

[tacit merlin]

I just take it cause its fun’er than the autocannon or any minigun overclock imo

[wraith shard]

goo bomber propoganda

unacceptable

(the new trail duration buff makes it rlly good)

[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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[charred spruce]

Soon

[soft prairie]

I keep thinking it's Thursday

[safe shale]

Phew, that EDD was brutal

[queen rampart]

Soon

[queen rampart]

I hope there will be no more exploder

They really sneaky if you got distracted

[vagrant silo]

EDD was very brutal indeed

I ended on 1hr 37m with almost 1000 kills

(solo)

[burnt sandal]

now you have my attention

[safe shale]

Well, it was intense. There's several reasons that could explain it, but I feel like I wasn't able to catch a breath during the whole experience.
For the reasons, we have 100 ping, scout & engi dying 19&23 times, and last stage that's ||a rafinery with exploders,|| so the gang wanted to rush it as fast as possible, not even taking a break between phases to resupply or look for health

[burnt sandal]

few 😄

[lilac apex]

reg deep dive such a slog this week

[severe tusk]

It has 3 of the longer missions, so yeah.

[coral pond]

Me and my buddies almost failed the edd multiple times during the last stage. Got a swarm before we finished the pipes, bulk spawned, our gunner's leadburster opened the hiveguard, and we all used up our iron wills throughout that time alone. Pretty sure we only won cause the bulked killed the hiveguard

[woeful niche]

at least it was only hiveguard you opened up

you can pretty much completely ignore her and look for nitra lol

[opaque hound]

Iron will is always required on EDD and DD right?

What’s another active perk usually useful, dash?

[west tiger]

Dash, first aid

You dont really need iron will, just dont die. But when you do its usually good enough if just one in the team has it

[woeful niche]

nothing is required, however dash is an insanely good perk to have in general. The low cooldown means if you know how to kite well already, you will almost never go down

[severe tusk]

Nothing is required. I personally like Dash and Heightened Senses.

[coral pond]

Nitra didn't matter, it was edd stage 3 we had like 600 nitra. We were just stuck between balancing the leftover swarm that was still ongoing, the assload of exploders that kept coming with it, hiveguard's fireballs, and avoiding the bulk

We just had a chain of going down then getting right back up for a little while until the bulk killed hiveguard

[vast yarrow]

Dash + IW/Field Medic are the best

[vagrant heron]

That's what I run except for scout, which is IW + FM. You can save the whole mission by ironwilling, grappling to the downed gunner, insta-reviving, and dying while he puts down a shield

[somber stream]

Just solod the second stage of this elite deep dive

This one hurt

a lot

hopefully third one wont be so bad, right?

nvm died 10 seconds in

yeah I dont think im going to pull through this one chief

[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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[trail pivot]

Double sandblast please

[prime girder]

Are they worth?

[weary plume]

on the 3rd stage of the normal deep dive did anyone have trouble finding Morkite?

[severe tusk]

Nope, my group had all we needed before even checking the last chamber.

There are a couple patches on the walls around the caretaker.

[queen rampart]

See you at 6 pm. deep dive

[wraith shard]

Damn how you guys finding the EDD this week

its my first one and its kicking my butt

specifically the second stage

[queen rampart]

Frist two stage is fine

But the third one is have me struggle

We almost got beaten

If teammate haven't pop instant rev and iron will

I could have to replay the edd for 1 more hours

But the saddest part is our scout (host) got down so i get out of the drop pod saving him

Then tragic struck he got down again while grinding pipeline to the pod

The bug are already closing in

I have no choice to leave him and go exit

Other 2? Well sit the drop pod and not coming out

So that my story for this week EDD

I just hope that my weekend deep dive will not be the same

💖

[wraith shard]

any tips for section 3?

nvm we got wiped at fuel cells

[queen rampart]

Oof. Sorry to heard that

[queen rampart]

In EDD stage 3. Better watch out for those exploder

Need someone to keep eye on it

[wraith shard]

yeh I think that was our last attempt

[wraith shard]

its just the insane amount of trijaws that f*cked us

[queen rampart]

No one like flying bug

That why we need class with accuracy like acout

Or engi shotgun/stuby

[frail mesa]

honostly the 2nd mission of the edd this week was much worse than the 3rd

trijaw swarms make you burn through shields on gunner like nobodys business, especially with how cramped and hard to navigate the area was on that stage

honostly though i really like to use the machine pistol for mactera\

revolver is good too, but machine pistol can handle swarms of mactera better since it has much larger magazines

good for exploder infestation too tbh since i was running leadstorm

let me safely detonate the groups of exploders from a distance instead of having to b-hop/stop moving to fire at them with minigun

[frank knoll]

solo scout mactera salvage

💀

i was trying out cryo minelets too, bad mix

[fluid turtle]

2nd stage on elite deep dive is easily the worst mission ive ever done

those macteras gave me ligma

[brisk spear]

"what the hell is mactera"

[fluid turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/ligma-balls-gif-22082587

[steel python]

I'm excited for this week's deep dives

[cobalt shadow]

Hahahahahah it's meeeeee.....I am gonna destroy ur edds and dds heheheheheheh

[sly kettle]

~Soon™

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[queen rampart]

Alright see you at 6

[queen rampart]

30m until new dd

[sly kettle]

Good luck, everyone.

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: Tainted Jewel
Stage 1: Protect the Drilldozer + 2 M.U.L.E.s | No Mutators
Stage 2: 7 Aquarq + Dreadnought Twins | Exploder Infestation
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + Dreadnought Hiveguard | Swarmageddon

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: Fearful Luck
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + 150 Morkite | No Mutators
Stage 2: 250 Morkite + Classic Dreadnought | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + Black Box | Swarmageddon

[sly kettle]

Ew, escort duty.

[quiet mortar]

It's legit the same start as last week XD
Only thing I changed was the Egg Count and Morkite instead of a Dreadnought Lmao

[oak horizon]

As long as it's not multiple escort it's fine

[candid bobcat]

Elite Deep Dive "Fearful Luck" (2023-02-16 to 2023-02-23)
Region: Glacial Strata
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + 150 Morkite
Stage 2: 225 Morkite + Classic Dreadnought | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + Black Box | Swarmageddon

[sly kettle]

Management is hungry for their eggs again, I see.

[queen rampart]

Alright

We got some breathing room on this week

[zenith ember]

someone forget to buy eggs this week again

[queen rampart]

10 eggs

Someone really forgot to buy stack of them

Time for freezing those bug

Eait

[pine sparrow]

Im still in my previous deep dives for whatever reason

[queen rampart]

Look like we need fire on EDD

It's iceland

[candid bobcat]

restart game

[candid bobcat]

Deep Dive "Tainted Jewel" (2023-02-16 to 2023-02-23)
Region: Hollow Bough
Stage 1: Escort Duty + 2 Mini-mules
Stage 2: 7 Aquarqs + Twins | Exploder Infestation
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + Hiveguard | Swarmageddon

[queen rampart]

Oh come on !

Exploder again

[candid bobcat]

should be relatively easy dives this week

[pine sparrow]

Thanks

[quiet mortar]

Def

[queen rampart]

That's it i host my own server to get Driller role myself

Those exploder not getting me again

Good luck everyone

[hollow citrus]

eh

am still seeing the old dives

[quiet mortar]

Restarting fixes it ^^

[hollow citrus]

wew DD2

[steel python]

Just finished the EDD today

All I can say is that despite the mutations being normal, you REALLY need to conserve nitra for stage 3

Otherwise, you'll get M A U L E D

Since I was playing engineer, I recommend grabbing the shredder swarm grenade if you're not using it

They chewed through so many swarmers and jellies that I ended up with 1k kills

[zenith ember]

now that you mentioned it nitra is kinda tight on edd throughout

dd has boatloads tho

[steel python]

Yup

We didn't know that when we went in, but we saved a lot of ammo on stage 1 by pulling all the eggs at once then calling the pod during the swarms

Thankfully, we made it to the pod and left with plenty of nitra and ammo for stage 2

[meager stag]

can't find the morkite on DD level 3. big sad

115/150 😦

[hollow citrus]

got kicked on EDD3. bloody idiot host

[meager stag]

found where I missed

[tiny night]

fuck. this. edd.

[azure apex]

Just read the EDD for this week, seems reasonable.

[opaque hound]

Swagarmedon

[compact vector]

question

to reset the deep dives, do you need to restart the game?

it seems like DRG is still showing me the last week's ones since they're lit up

[zenith ember]

yeh

[old widget]

or at least reset the space rig

"disband team" should be enough to do that, IIRC (even if you're not in a team)

[compact vector]

yea disband team wasn't working for me I needed to restart the game

managed to pull off EDD first try because we agreed to do the first 2 stages semi-fast

it's almost mandatory with how rough stage 3 is

I would say the first 2 stages optimally should take no longer than 25-30 minutes because they're not that bad at all

but it's not a hard requirement, ammo management is

time to do DD and chill

[vernal nymph]

blimey

DD stage 1 really shoves in the fact its hollow bough

[vernal nymph]

stage 2 also shoves it in you

[vernal nymph]

genuinely the most hilarious stage start ive witnessed, by far.

[ionic cliff]

Guys, what are your opinions on deepdive stage 2?

[vernal nymph]

its so good

[ionic cliff]

Best deepdive ever

[vernal nymph]

definitely cheered me up after i got mauled by stabber vines in start room stage 1

[ionic cliff]

Devs should make that you always land on specific spots if there arr any

[vernal nymph]

i feel bad for the greenies that want to try and solo their first DD though

definitely not a warm welcome

[ionic cliff]

It's a hot welcome

[vernal nymph]

imagine how hilarious it would be if this was EDD though

[ionic cliff]

Stage 1 too

With no supply

[vernal nymph]

stage 1 is bearable because youre on full ammo at the start

stage 2 you might be a little bit short

now i wasnt, but i definitely wouldnt want to be in the place of a dwarf that isnt on full ammo entering stage 2

speaking of stage 2, i got executioner from it. very funny, game.

[ionic cliff]

Got tuned something for drak from dd today

[vernal nymph]

OPA?

[ionic cliff]

Havent done edd yet

[ionic cliff]

Eh?

[vernal nymph]

overtuned particle accelerator

[ionic cliff]

Yeah, that one

[vernal nymph]

ok i just entered stage 3

this DD really marks that its in hollow bough

i already can hear the vines trying to stab me... come on i didnt even LEAVE THE POD!!!

hoarder though

[vernal nymph]

the interaction was weird

it was... stuck?

it didnt even start screaming when i attacked it

[verbal pecan]

Weird

[sly raven]

This sounds like a long deep dive

[steel python]

Deep dive, yes
Elite deep dive, definitely gotta go fast

mauling guaranteed

[sly raven]

Cave Leech cluster with dread 🤯

[coral pond]

eh that deep dive isn't as long looking as the one we just had before it

[sly raven]

Last week took my pug group way too like, I think 1h20m for the normal DD?

[fossil juniper]

the minehead breaking the dread egg on stage 2 is pretty funny

classic

[verbal pecan]

I didn't take that long to do the first DD, probably an hour ish, give or take a bit

Think I just had a good team tho

[static hornet]

What is blackbox?

[drowsy holly]

i know people hate bunkers but you can build a shallow bunker under the black box in edd stage 3 and do 4 eggs and the blackbox from the safety of it.

and since that map one egg is like 100 swarmers and 10 grunts its nice

i dont use em normally but it helped alot

or you can just clear the stalagmites outs of that same room and have a big ole death pit where everything comes from the same way

[languid jungle]

How can i promote my character and what will it do for me?

[brisk spear]

This channel is specifically for discussing the deep dives just for future reference, but to answer your question:

1. Get a class to lvl 25
2. Complete the promotion assignment which is unlocked once you reach class lvl 25
3. Visit the memorial hall and promote at the far terminal, it will cost you some credits and minerals.

[tawdry widget]

quick little question: is this weeks deep dive good for someone who is ass at the game and new to deep dives?

[brisk spear]

You gain access to deep dives, elite deep dives, and overclocks

[languid jungle]

thanks for answer also where should i ask something if i need to?

[tawdry widget]

id have to guess #drg-chat

[languid jungle]

ok thanks

[vernal nymph]

not if solo

[tawdry widget]

welp

thats not good news for me

[vernal nymph]

this week is just really unlucky

especially stage 2

[tawdry widget]

i dont play solo generally, and my group doesnt really do deep dives since we got an unpromoted person so

guess im screwed

[vernal nymph]

you can try with randos

[tawdry widget]

i got 4 options: suffer solo, dont do it, do it with randos or do ti with people here

and none of those options are great for me

[vernal nymph]

are you in europe by any chance

[tawdry widget]

no

[vernal nymph]

damnit

well good luck to you then

[tawdry widget]

eh im prob not gonna do it

i hate hollow bough with a passion anyways

[vernal nymph]

i mean the entire point is, theres an unorthodox amount of stabber vines

and stage 2 is just the equivalent of getting hit by a truck if youre not ready to fight twins and the mobs already in the cave at the same time.

[tawdry widget]

yea im not exactly preped to beat the hell that si the deep dive

twins are generally alright, stabber vines i SUCK at fighting, and stager 3 just looks annoyign

[vernal nymph]

the funny yellow thing before the stabber's blade is the weakpoint.

stage 3 honestly was fine to me but swarmageddon is generally not pleasant when playing scout... and when you get a swarmer swarm. that happened to me.

[sly raven]

fwiw deep dives solo are generally fine? Bosco is unironically great

[vernal nymph]

^^^^^

bosco carries stage 2 when it comes to aquarq fetching

but still this weeks dd is just plain unlucky for greenies imo

[vernal nymph]

its pretty much the peak hollow bough experience.

[sly raven]

Bringing hoverclock

[iron niche]

is it possible to hot join a deep dive?

haven't been able to find any deep dive pugs

[umbral nacelle]

are deep dive rewards different for everyone?

[vernal nymph]

if by "hot joining" you mean mid dive, no. you can join only while everyone's on the rig.

[vernal nymph]

the general rule is stage 1 gives a blank, stage 2 gives a weapon oc and stage 3 gives a cosmetic core
but the weapon oc and cosmetic are unique to everyone.

[sly raven]

The only thing certain is the OC will be something you don't want for a role you don't play

[verbal pecan]

I have gained a distaste for the borrows, more often than not spend more time looking for objective than doing it but later will plan on doing the EDD so hope it goes well

[woeful niche]

play all the classes then?

they are all amazing. Don’t blame the game cus you don’t get ocs for the one class you play lol

[sly raven]

You made quite a few leaps there my friend

[warm raft]

gunner 🤮

[woeful niche]

the chances of you getting an oc you want just aren’t that good if u only play 1 or 2 classes

[deft holly]

lmao deep dive second phase

[wide linden]

Welp, losed on stage 3 of the EDD because I was playing with a gunner that wasn't very cooperative and didn't knew eggs trigger enemies

At least I got the matrix core and overcloak

[verbal pecan]

Oof, that sucks, suprised a person doing a deep dive hadn't even figured out the eggs trigger

[wooden lily]

just play cryo driller then

[wide linden]

I mean, I love playing cryo driller as much as the next dwarf but it can't really save you from a teamate that isn't helping much. But that's fine, it's the first time that I lose an EDD because of some one. Though I prefer losing when I did a mistake, at least I can learn from it.

[sonic shuttle]

You sure it was because he didn't know eggs spawned enemies? Pulling multiple eggs at once is way faster than pulling one egg at a time. He might have been trying to go fast.

[worn laurel]

Stage 2 of the standard DD was a jumpscare.

Boss spawns when lifter drops over it

[brazen walrus]

I just completed that stage 2 and it took me by surprise lmao

[brazen walrus]

Can dev pick the seed for deep dive or do they usually leave it random?

[verbal pecan]

Yea XD, my team was suprised and oh boy I'm glad we restocked before going into that stage

[worn laurel]

Seeds are usually random. IIRC the last time the seeds were picked was just to show off new mission types.

[brazen walrus]

ah okay

[tiny night]

oh so it wasnt the engineer that popped the egg

i even thought of kicking him

[jovial scaffold]

can u get cargo/lost helmets in deep dives?

[woeful niche]

no

[verbal pecan]

yeah just bad gen\

[drowsy fog]

Nah it would be too easy to farm

[supple bramble]

what's the best class to beat the new deep dives this week?

*solo

[stone coyote]

Anyone able to help me on an elite dive at all?

Please

[hoary viper]

Driller

[frail mesa]

Real nice deep dives this week tbh, dunno how bad the cave layouts will be, but all things considered it doesnt look that bad

Swarmegeddan can suck though

But how much it screws you over really depends on your class

Much prefer it over mactera plague or lethal enemies 💀

[ionic marsh]

just did my first EDD and didn't get the achievement :C

[robust depot]

Sometimes the deep dive can make you feel that the production team can give you ideas about love (I'm talking about those bugs, endless)

Maybe a few powerful bosses?

[queen rampart]

That's strange

[queen rampart]

Imo. I think the bug is the boss

Cuz they came with many type of it

[tiny night]

do you have approved mods on

[ionic marsh]

Nope, i even double checked when it happened

[tiny night]

ion know then

redo it

[ionic marsh]

😿

[queen rampart]

Try reset the pc maybe internet not connect to steam yet

[ionic marsh]

it was an online lobby tho...

[queen rampart]

Ummm. Try host one yourself

[soft elbow]

A toxic host can kick a player at the very end of the third stage of an elite deep dive? And there is no penalty for this? It's rofl?

[short haven]

Swarmageddon is the worst modifier.

god I hate it so much

[charred spruce]

Finally through the EDD

Swarmageddon stage 3 on haz 5.5 is a scout's biggest nightmare

[vernal nymph]

true

[wide linden]

He actually didn't knew , we talked with him after we failed. To give you an idea he didn't even knew you can't play in deep dives if your class isn't promoted. And the fact that he placed our last resupply far away from the black box didn't help.

[fleet mauve]

why the hell does the minehead open the egg lmao

[cinder rover]

DD or EDD

Ah nvm only DD has a minehead this week

[plush bane]

918 kills in edd 💪

[regal flame]

Hi. What's this week stage 2 overclock in EDD?

[wide linden]

It's random

[near imp]

I picked my single target build on public EDD

The last stage didnt go so well

[long sequoia]

AHAHAHA I GOT NEUROTOXIN PAYLOAD FROM EDD

:D

[steel python]

I might consider joining EDDs with NTP just to breeze through stage 3

Because as much as I like not having to deal with sabotage, I hate getting mauled

[charred spruce]

As a scout I suffer from the mauling

it’s a peaceful life

[trim pike]

what is this week's deep dive like?

[vernal nymph]

basically

its the peak hollow bough experience

stage 1 greets you with stabber vines but otherwise uneventful
stage 3 also greets you with stabber vines but otherwise uneventful

stage 2 however

[verbal pecan]

Prepare for the twins to insta spawn

[vernal nymph]

^^^^

the minehead pops the egg

[trim pike]

oh what

[verbal pecan]

So at the end of stage one resupply

[trim pike]

good to know

[vernal nymph]

if you dont resupply in stage one, you WILL get killed if youre inexperienced and solo.

[trim pike]

and for twins you want to try and whittle down health bars equally?

[verbal pecan]

Where the egg spawns the aquark minehead pops it

[vernal nymph]

i went into the DD blind as scout and it even caught me off guard

[vernal nymph]

yes

be aware of this though, seems to have happened to more than one dwarf.

[trim pike]

oh shit

[verbal pecan]

Mhm mhm, as they will regen to equal health if you don't

[trim pike]

alright

so one tunnels around and the other throws stuff at you?

[vernal nymph]

the EDD is less chaotic than the DD if you ignore the difficulty jump aside from last stage's black box being a meatgrinder

[vernal nymph]

one melees you the other tries to snipe you yeah

[verbal pecan]

They arnt too bad tbh, yeah the red one is melee and the yellow one us ranged

[trim pike]

ok

[verbal pecan]

Best to focus the red one

[trim pike]

good to know

[vernal nymph]

focus both.

[trim pike]

thank you for the help

[vernal nymph]

you need to pay attention to both really

you dont pay attention to one of them they will punish you

stage 2 is also very vertical fyi

bosco helps a lot if youre going solo

[pallid dome]

edd2 kicked my ass twice

first stage is such a cakewalk too

[wraith flame]

Stage two is a bit tricky. Tight spaces and deep drops. Terrain is pretty awful. Same goes to stage 3 a bit. My first run we had a cryo driller, not a good idea here.

[random rampart]

Thats a rule of thumb, not only restricted to deep dives. At least it should be imo

[fringe thistle]

just wait for a bulk to spawn and nuke one with it ezclap

[vagrant cipher]

When I play deep dive and play scout, always got one build with super cooling chamber to deal with the annoying robots in one or two shots

[trim pike]

got the dive done

clearing out space for the dread on stage 3 is a lifesaver

[brisk pagoda]

what do you run for secondary and grenade for self defense?

[vagrant cipher]

Zhukovs and ifg

[oak blaze]

never done a deep dive before. Is anyone interested in jumping in one? I'm level 24 with a promoted driller

[trail pivot]

just joined one oops

one with 400 ping

[brisk pagoda]

what upgrades and oc on zuk?

[vagrant cipher]

13211 gas recycling

[whole grove]

3rd stage edd only gives blank matrix core right?

[verbal pecan]

No

That's stage 1

[whole grove]

what does it give then

[brisk spear]

randomly infused cosmetic core

[whole grove]

ty

[fringe thistle]

so if you dont care too much about cosmetics, failing the 3rd stage isnt the worst

[whole grove]

2 weeks in a row failing on 3rd stage cause someone wants to wander off and die in the most inconvenient place 😭

[tacit jungle]

I misread and thought EDD stage 2 would have mine head popping egg 😦

[trail pivot]

it did for us

[wraith shard]

Did for me as well

Was pretty funny

[trail pivot]

surprised we didn't get clapped by the gank sqaud during the fight

[wraith shard]

I (scoot) was on distraction duty on the dread while the rest of the squad cleared the rest of the cave

No swarms that way

Wait no PE was on the regular DD

Still did the distraction strat in the EDD

[frigid moth]

what's the stage and conditions on edd? i heard there was low oxygen this week but not sure if it's confirmed

[tacit jungle]

check the pins

no low o2

[frigid moth]

oh alright htank you

[uneven pewter]

This EDD sucks

[uneven pewter]

With two different teams we fail at stage 2. The cave layout is way too small and cramped

[frigid moth]

it's not too bad tbh

just settle back at spawn base on stage 2 as cryo driller for edd, have zipline set up too. gunner, scout and engineer does all the damage for you in your place as crowd control driller. just don't take up too much eggs on third round though, at least 1 or 2 the first swarm. we tried taking in all eggs at once and it didn't turn out very well with all 4 eggs at once 😂

first 2 we finished in sub 15 mins the last one we could've gotten it done earlier without a loss if it wasn't for those cringey cancerous shockers tbh

[hoary viper]

This week's edd was not as hard as i expected

Was pretty chill

[uneven pewter]

Well I just went down like 15 times with a couple level 500s then told the host they could kick me if they wanted at the third stage cuz I felt I was leeching

After this week and last I don’t think I’m going to attempt an EDD again. Guess I’m just not good enough for them because they just aren’t fun

[flint orchid]

When youre playing with greenbeards who think Hazard 3 is too hard, the EDD is way harder 💀

[flint orchid]

You're gonna miss out on overclocks, just saying

[hoary viper]

💀

Tho this can be fixed with 1 thing

Ntp

[flint orchid]

Hmm?

[hoary viper]

Neurotoxin payload

[uneven pewter]

I have pretty much all the good ones I want already so I don’t really care all that much. Plus I can just do the core hunt glitch

[flint orchid]

Doesn't that require you promote a miner?

[flint orchid]

How is that gonna help

[hoary viper]

Solo gunner carry

[uneven pewter]

Yea but I usually tend to keep one around level 25 at the end of each week

[flint orchid]

Not only do I not have it, but those 2 guys play gunner and driller only sooooooo

[flint orchid]

Sounds like a chore but you do you

[hoary viper]

Then i guess go driller carry

[uneven pewter]

EDD is way more of a chore imo

[flint orchid]

I like the challenge tbh

[hoary viper]

You can clear the swarms while other goobers kill fat bois

[flint orchid]

No it's just they're not sweaty at all

Very very casual

I'm not kidding when I say one of them got downed 3 times on a haz 3

[flint orchid]

Volatile impact reactor for me lol

[frail mesa]

When it comes to EDD's i tend to avoid anyone who is like, under player level 75-50

[uneven pewter]

I don’t really care about that part. I just want the rewards

[flint orchid]

That's excessive

[frail mesa]

Usually works out better, dont care with normal DD's, but with an EDD i really dont wanna have to waste my time redoing it if possibly

[flint orchid]

Generally someone 35 or above is ok

[frail mesa]

I mean its in the interest of my own time tbh

[frosty wyvern]

What is this weeks dd?

i haven t had any time to check

[flint orchid]

Check the pins!

[uneven pewter]

Nah people are dumb up into the 70s. I’m over 100 and got kicked from the EDD for leeching lol

[frosty wyvern]

thanks

[flint orchid]

I mean I'm 45 but I also played on PS4 before so

[frosty wyvern]

ps4 i pretty chill

[flint orchid]

The FPS was pretty bad tho

[frosty wyvern]

i only get like kicked for no reason in 1 of 100 games

[frosty wyvern]

i have prtty good fps

[uneven pewter]

I asked the host if they wanted to kick me because I kept dying without doing much

[flint orchid]

I got kicked immediately for calling in a resupply once

We were literally next to the boss

[frosty wyvern]

well

[flint orchid]

During swarms it would drop to like 15

[frosty wyvern]

that sucks

[flint orchid]

Do you have a Pro

[frosty wyvern]

yes @flint orchid

i do

[soft elbow]

Why didn't anyone answer? Are you going to fix it?

[timid elbow]

we had 2 bulks spawn on top of each other on stage 2 of the EDD. Good time to be running pheromone bolts.

[hushed sequoia]

there's nothing anyone in this channel can do to fix that & there's no real good way to identify "toxic hosts" through the game

[hoary viper]

Just host yourself

[flint orchid]

Probably why

[frigid moth]

on edd?

[queen rampart]

Another EDD bite the dust

[orchid stone]

idk if anyone experienced this but in deep dive stage 2 the minehead just passed thru a dreadnought egg and instantly killed the Lacerator, leaving only Arbalest but after i killed the Arbalest with my friend, the music still plays and the killing dreadnought objective still reads as 0/1

[queen rampart]

Second stage many down a lot

But damn it was fun

mirco wave is really ez to clean up the swamer, flying jellyfish and matera

[night island]

Report as a bug on the official please fix website

[orchid stone]

will try ty

[verbal pecan]

A lot of people have been having this issue

[queen mist]

Yeah I had this, best way to get around it is to rush out drop pod and pop egg before minehead

[burnt sandal]

#1063014927020867635 message

[orchid stone]

yeah someone reported this already so im contributing the evidence to it
https://drg.pleasefix.gg/projects/DEEP-ROCK-GALACTIC/issues/DRG-396?contributionId=aab7b83b-0c1f-477f-9218-b5dac13113e6

[pure pawn]

what in the world with the dread right on the start of stage 2

[verbal pecan]

Hot damn stage 3 of EDD is rough but god if you do the two cave eggs at the same time you can just make a wave of glifid corpses

[hollow ice]

can we start to pin these again?

[quiet mortar]

It is pinned? I edit the Pin each week lol

[hollow ice]

oh I see. I saw the date and thought it was old

[uneven pewter]

Yes. I won’t do another at this point. I’m not good enough and they aren’t fun

[pure pawn]

i not gonna touch edd anytime soon, need to grind up all my class first

[uneven pewter]

I’m over player level 100 with nearly 200 hours of mission time exclusively playing haz 4-5 with a bunch of god overclocks and I still can’t do them consistently lol

[verbal pecan]

Need a good team tbh, especialy with edd, and a good place to hold when a swarm hits

[pure pawn]

is this week drill hit dread egg in dd stage 2? it come out right after i touch down

[uneven pewter]

With this one last night I had that and still died 14 times. Asked the host if they wanted to kick me because I felt I was leeching and they did. I’m not doing that shit anymore

[verbal pecan]

Fair enough

[verbal pecan]

Yeah

[pure pawn]

edd give same reward as dd right?

[verbal pecan]

Yeah ish, think it's more gold and exp

[olive flicker]

The insta dreadnought on dd stage 2 was amusing, luckily didn't bug out for me.

[finite vigil]

welp, Hiveguard's bugged in the last DD mission

ain't spawning the Sentinels

https://tenor.com/view/hello-mcfly-gif-11271548

he's gone to sleep now

lul

unstuck him with some C4

[verbal pecan]

Ah yes, the answer for everything PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES

[queen rampart]

EDD stage 2 this week took me 2 - 3 try to get thing done right

Until i pick Driller role

And I critical thinking about it. the main road is too dangerous due to no ground to approach the breeder and already defeated in that same road by swarm

So i check the map and tunnel to the nearest cave that avoid the high round as possible

Which is a huge success remove both breeder and BroodNexus

quickly go deeper and created few more shortcut here and there to make the escape part go smoothly

Load out:

• flamethrower - sticky additive oc
• wave cooker - mega power supply oc
• Grenade: Impact axe
• Drill: drill faster combo
  --> I'm using temperature shock combo to low the health of the bug faster. Using wave cooker with bigger len to clean up Swamer and Naedocyte Shocker that approaching the team.

[woeful niche]

sticky additive doesn’t really do anything

[queen rampart]

Ị just like the after burn

I do got the lighter tank oc

More gasoline

More fire

[woeful niche]

i’d say take lighter tanks. 1 second of extra sticky fuel is basically nothing

[queen rampart]

I think i stay. I let the sticky do the job with a bit more ammo and flexibility for quick damage

[woeful niche]

i mean it’s not a bad oc, but it is literally just the base gun imo

like the buff is essentially nothing in a practical situation

[queen rampart]

No offend, using cryo not gave me the same satisfied as flamethrower

Or it just i haven't found a good combo yet

[jade elk]

Fully agreed. The flamethrower gives a satisfying gun play. „MORNING SMELLS Some People Like Coffee. Some People Like Napalm.“

[main topaz]

what helped me was some config settings

reducing clutter and "pretty" stuff helped a lot

there are a bunch of clutter reducing mods too

[frigid moth]

idk i think edd is pretty easy tbh. what about regular dd though can you do that still? also i spent more than 200h and im around lv 70-80. also i don't mind if you stay uncapped for a while since all i need is 1 or 2 other teams to join up with me and DD will be easily done in sub 60 mins

[spiral depot]

Is there a natural spawn dreadnaught in this dd

[untold saddle]

Every DD the waves are different. Some people will get a random dread, some won't.

I have heard that the minehead pops open a cocoon on this DD though.

[spiral depot]

Well we got one

[untold saddle]

Sounds like fun

[uneven pewter]

Regular DD is relatively easy for me. I’ll still do those but I’m done with EDDs

[frigid moth]

what if i offer to carry as cryo driller though?

[daring veldt]

the last sentinel is not spawning for the dreadnaught

its been like 10 minutes

[untold saddle]

melee his face, drop shields on him

[daring veldt]

wdym

[untold saddle]

The hiveguard, does he still attack?

[daring veldt]

oooo

it worked ig lol

thanks

[scenic jetty]

dd was fine. failed at third stage edd since one fell on that steep hole and each one of us tried to save but no room to juggle the swarm :v

6 eggs, swarmageddon and blackbox is one of the worst combo ive seen

[vital sluice]

well, the eggs aren't too hard but yeah the black box is rough if you don't make a bunker

[jolly obsidian]

Bunker enabled me as a gunner to basically just spam machine gun and mow down all our "guests"

[timid elbow]

played it last night with randoms, didn't bunker & it went fine.

to be fair, the area with the black box (on Steam at least) generates with plenty of choke points

[timid elbow]

which class are you picking for EDD?

[woeful niche]

very weird cus to me most edds feel like they are easier then reg haz 5 missions

[uneven pewter]

For this one I tried once as gunner (my main), once as scout, and once as driller. If you’ve seen the rest of what I’ve said, the run I gave up on was driller. I usually play as gunner and the past couple weeks I’ve been unable to beat stage 3 with any team. This week I barely made it past 2 but was practically leeching so I asked the host if they wanted to just kick me

[uneven pewter]

The past couple weeks haven’t imo. Haz 5 is only excessively difficult when something like a bet-c or tyrant weed spawns. I swear tyrant weed is the number one cause of haz 5 mission wipes lol

[woeful niche]

this weeks edd felt very speed run able

[woeful niche]

yes and edds are the same difficulty as haz 5 but with extra nitra in later stages and no korlocks

[uneven pewter]

The last stage is higher than 5 I thought

[woeful niche]

haz 5.5 is barely any harder then haz 5. Hell most edds hardest stage isn’t even the last stage, cus by then you usually have more ammo then you can even use

[uneven pewter]

Well I still died 14 times in my last attempt at this one. I’m just not good at them. The combination of all the mutators and objectives combined with the difficulty is to the point where I don’t enjoy them. A 1-2 length/complexity haz 5 mission with no mutators is way easier than an EDD imo

[woeful niche]

the mutators this week are easy tho

no mutator stage 1. Stage 2 is cave leach cluster which is very easy as long as ur careful when entering a new caves. Only hard one is swarmegeddon

[uneven pewter]

My first and second attempts were ended by leeches in phase 2. The bet-c that spawned all 3 times didn’t help

Swarmeggedon is what made me give up

Look they just aren’t for me. I don’t enjoy doing them and I won’t anymore

[woeful niche]

i just don’t see how they are harder then haz 5

most edds iv done over the past couple years, iv ended with at least 2 resupplies extra

what build were you using when you made it to stage 3?

[uneven pewter]

Because they’re 3 times as long with 3 times more shit you have to do, and I only play with randoms without direct coms so we can’t coordinate anything. Again, I’d take a 1-2 length/complexity haz 5 mission over an EDD any day.

[uneven pewter]

VIM driller. I was getting hard carried by two level 500s with legendary promotions

At stage 3 after the 14th death I messaged the host saying I felt I was leeching and they could kick me if they wanted. They did. I got my oc so don’t really care

[woeful niche]

Ye Vim my favorite oc in the game but for swarmegeddon you prob need something like boiler ray or persistent plasma to help

[woeful niche]

wdym leaching. Literally most my time in this game is carrying new players. A true grey beard shudnt mind

[uneven pewter]

Well I felt bad and they went through with kicking me so I guess they did mind

Again, I don’t really care. I got the reward I give a shit about

[woeful niche]

if everyone in the lobby is comfortable with the game, it actually makes things way more boring imo. I wud never do an edd unless someone in the lobby actually needed help doing it

[uneven pewter]

They didn’t feel the same way lol

[woeful niche]

that’s stupid lol. 14 deaths isn’t even that bad at all

my record is 40 revives over the course of an edd. It was fun and chaotic af

[brisk pagoda]

ice becomes exponentially stronger the higher the hazard, the more teammates you have, and the better their builds are. completely locking things in place and giving them triple damage is really strong on good teams and will outperform fire in those cases.

[uneven pewter]

They didn’t feel like continuing to carry me and I didn’t really feel like getting carried

[woeful niche]

lame

ppl like that aren’t fun

if i see a lobby like “be certain level to join this edd” ik immediately the player is bad at the game

[uneven pewter]

Well I did say it was fine. If I didn’t say anything they would’ve probably just kept it going

[uneven pewter]

I’m on console so I don’t have those

[woeful niche]

i’m pretty sure console has lobby descriptions too

[uneven pewter]

Nope

[woeful niche]

i cuda sworn the last time i was on playstation it let me type out lobby descriptions

[uneven pewter]

Well if they are a thing no one uses them

[woeful niche]

maybe ppl don’t do it cus it’s kind of a pain with controller

[past gust]

second stage of normal deepdive, dropod opens a dred egg

[earnest barn]

.-.

[pure pawn]

the mad run to safety is fun

[past gust]

yeah

[frail kiln]

we got twins

it was chaos

[timid elbow]

I warned my team of randoms it would happen when we were finishing stage 1, they were like "OMG how do you know these secrets?"
Me: uh I read the deep dive channel in the official DRG discord which is linked in game?

[zenith ember]

Its not well known unless you are kinda into the game or active on discord in general

Plenty of people play games in a more casual way nowadays

[stone coyote]

I only want to complete one EDD just to get the trophy on PlayStation. We got towards the end of stage 2 and they kicked me 😥

[zenith ember]

go agane

ignore them

[stone coyote]

Hard to find people who are actually willing to let newbies be part of their team

[woeful niche]

most grey beards are usually willing to help in my experience

[zenith ember]

my first edd was with greybeards who are willing to give a lvl30 a try, most are pretty chill imo

[charred spruce]

My first EDD was with friends
We all are yet green beards

[short haven]

Just lost again to this EDD because some random scout decided it would be a good idea to immediately grab an egg on last stage, starting a swarm, without even making sure everyone was ready

i stg

swarmageddon is the worst modifier ever

To add insult to injury we had a dreadnought spawn event in the second stage on top of the default one

and we only used like 3 resups total before stage 3 so we were loaded on nitra

[south oak]

unless the team is comprised of 3 greys and you being a green, I don't see much of a problem carrying though.
The hard part, is the PS community...

[mental charm]

@median gazelle

check the pins

[median gazelle]

Ok

[verbal pecan]

I found that doing the last eggs that are secluded in the corner near the black box the easiest to defend, we grabbed the two that caused swarms at the same time and just., the stream of death that we kept going as they were all forced to spawn and walk through the small opening, it was a good place to just lay down a storm of boolets

[steep blaze]

Same

[zenith jackal]

Ive been doing deep dives for a while now but I only play scout and I keep getting matrix cores for everything but scout. Can matrix cores have duplicates so I have a higher chance of getting a scout core.

[past gust]

yeah

[old widget]

Cores are 100% random, no dupes, you’ll get what you want eventually.

[torn kayak]

and yet I got two of the same clean overclock small dmg boost on a minigun for gunner. Either a bug.... or a feature

[woeful niche]

nope it’s because you refuse to play any other classes, your odds of getting the ocs you want are significantly lower then the ppl that actual bother to try all the classes

[old widget]

That would be a bug. Check #1037308906516521010 for how to submit.

[dense cargo]

Hello fellow miners, anyone interested in doing the elite deep dive ?

[woeful niche]

try #lfg-steam

[dense cargo]

thank you

[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!
_ _

[hot smelt]

Had 5 bulks spawn in EDD stage 2 and we ran out of ammo. rip

[last vigil]

kill the dread early and they don't show up iirc

I think there was only 1 during escape which was pretty late in

[safe gulch]

Minehead popping the twin cocoon early, and a welcoming committee after getting out of the drop pod, now that's a nasty surprise, even for a DD

[verbal pecan]

Yeah from what I've experienced at least these two deep dives have been rough

[pure pawn]

well at least the drill head is nearby, it help

[verbal pecan]

Mmm, it's suprising but not imposible lol, at least it's just the twins which, at least in my opinion is the easiest

[young yew]

Hollow Bough biome is annoying, especially stage 2 this week. But hard? Eh, not really

[spring cobalt]

i was not expecting the random dreadnought to appear in the EDD

and of course it was twins

good time

[true ibex]

I still can’t beat the elite deep dive

been trying for days

Should I just try to solo it with bosco

As gunner

[graceful wing]

How do I do a deep dive and what are deep dives

I just got the promotion

[spiral niche]

Find the deep dives terminal

It's near the forge

Remember you can't continue deep dive if failed on progress, all three missions need to be done in a row

[brisk pagoda]

its free wave clear

[young yew]

What's your schedule? I'll try the edd later today

I'm in Asia though, so if you're US ping might be bad

[true ibex]

ah dang I am in US west coast

[tall meadow]

come

are you on now?

I can rerun the EDD with you

am US west so should not be bad ping at all

[true ibex]

ah sorry I cannot now I have to sleep. Thank you very much !

[tall meadow]

no problem mate

if you need assistance still, just let me know and I can maybe find time to run one with you

[bitter epoch]

do events for overclocks spawn more frequent in deep dives?

[fast stratus]

If you mean machine events, they can't spawn inside deep dives iirc

[bitter epoch]

ok thank youi

[wraith shard]

have deep dives reset today?

[burnt sandal]

they reset every thursday

we're monday

[wraith shard]

I see, thank you

[burnt sandal]

[fresh dragon]

Do you get rewards after doing deep dive twice

[coarse locust]

Just the money & minerals, I think

[fresh dragon]

Thx

[fresh dragon]

Are there any minerals in deep dives?

[ivory marten]

You only get deep dive rewards once a week, after that any subsequent deep dive nets you gold and if you're lucky enough to find a huuli or prospector, minerals.

[burnt sandal]

no

[ivory marten]

Machine Events, Crates, Lost Packs and Minerals will not spawn in a deep dive.

Likely to prevent them being farmed for that exact reason.

[fresh dragon]

Okay thx

[ivory marten]

no problem

[bitter epoch]

do i get other rewards if i do both deep dives? like 1 get an overclock each

[burnt sandal]

each dive has its own set of rewards

so yeah

[bitter epoch]

thx

[upper raft]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011223379988185220/1076990603969179688/boosted.mp4
this happened on accident with my friend last night, mabye it could be helpful in some really niché cases?

[pure pawn]

well he have wizard hat, nice magic trick

[heavy girder]

Bug jumpscare

[brisk pagoda]

you landed on his head while he grappled. being on the head of another player forces you off like a jump, and doing it on someone who is moving adds their velocity to yours so doing to a scout mid grapple can get a very large speed increase.

[upper raft]

im the one grappling here

[glass pecan]

I do it a lot to launch my friends higher up

When Driller ran out of fuel, Engi had no plat left, Gunner's Zipline in an awkward spot

[chilly swift]

Does anybody know if it the game will be on some sale soon? :>

[weary narwhal]

Why isnt elite deep dive called "deeper dive"?

[scenic garden]

Because such perfection could not be handled by the eyes of man

[weary narwhal]

thats fair. everyone would need to be drunk on smart stout to even begin to understand

[untold saddle]

Probably for the anniversary in early march

[cold sparrow]

jesus christ the last EDD stage was annoying

[lilac falcon]

Wasnt too bad

Just bunker w/ blackbox

[verbal pecan]

Honestly, if you set up where the black box is you can easily do the egg swarms at the same time

[azure wasp]

Hey what’s this week’s EDD

My buddy and I are gonna run it in a sec

Here

Oh wiat nvm

[verbal pecan]

Its easy if your prepared for chaos

though the last stage is hard at the begining if your driller

just

vanishes

[hot smelt]

If there was a "deeper dive" then everyone would want to know where the "deepest dive" is.

[peak geyser]

Just finished this week's EDD

So many swarmers...

[verbal pecan]

tis a stream of D E A T H

[fathom python]

finished it? my friends and i got fucked on stage 2 by the cave leech in the 3rd room. plus a swarm.

[azure compass]

This weeks elite is EASY

But the normal one

Thats hell

[hybrid umbra]

I solod the elite, save most of your nitra for the last mission, cause that cave generation is straight whack.

The easy one had the worst mission though, the Aquarqs mission (Which I believe was stage 2) was incredibly gruesome to navigate.

[orchid stone]

finally finished normal deep dive
thankfully this time, no glitches

stage 2 still got them headache inducing layout though, and playing with a team without engineer here can be quite a chore

[lost night]

Wait a sec, second stage on DD instant boss fight?

[orchid stone]

you know that Point Extraction minehead comes like drop pod right

it goes straight to a dreadnough cocoon above.

[lost night]

Yep

Thx god it's the twins

cuz Big Berta and Burst pistol are demolish them

[orchid stone]

not so thank god if it kills one of em at start

theres gonna be a chance for a game to be glitched after that moment

[lost night]

I've got distracted by Hoarded and then finish lacorator

[woeful niche]

normal deep dive is always easy, it doesn’t even hit haz 4

[pale lichen]

how hard is elite compared to normal deep dives? i just finished my first normal deep dive after getting constantly kicked for being low levelled

it wasn't hard at all 🤔

[peak geyser]

EDD is comparable to playing on Haz 5

[shut cosmos]

is EDD not literally haz 4.5 to 5.5

[peak geyser]

Yeah what I'm saying is the 5.5 stage doesn't feel that different, if you can handle Haz 5 you can probably handle an EDD

[queen rampart]

I got defeated 3 time at stage 2

The swarm got us

I manage to pick everyone up this time and leave no one hehind

Improved. I am

[somber stream]

I think managment forgot to put up "stabber vine infestation" for the 3rd stage of the normal deepdive

[queen rampart]

The tree fight back

[somber stream]

Good thing i had rj compound

just flew past all of them

[queen rampart]

Cya sucker

[queen rampart]

Oh look the guy with a stand name hustle

[somber stream]

Paco

[queen rampart]

November rain is big

Real big

[meager osprey]

God the lack of Nitra after the boss on tier two is so depressing

[nocturne geyser]

Don't know why everyone's complaining about the DD stage 2, i finished it in about 5 minutes

[fathom python]

It’s the fact that it instantly spawns the twins is the reason why. My friends and I did it with out our engineer so it was just me ( driller, scout, and gunner) I leave the drop pod see the cocoon on the felling remember seeing something about this DD and then the mine had popped it. We all freaked out

[copper surge]

is it possible to do the elite deep dive with 2 ppl?

[coral pond]

It's possible to solo it, so yeah 2 people works. Will just be harder, especially if you're not used to haz 5

[copper surge]

hm ;< we opend a game and noone joins at all. my wife and me would love to do the EDD too xD

[coral pond]

If i wasn't sucked into wild hearts atm i'd join y'all :\

[copper surge]

Brother. Thanks anyways 😄

[meager osprey]

are you playing on steam?

[dusky mauve]

You sure you didnt open it private by accident?

[meager osprey]

Ill join you guys if you are playing on Xbox 😄

[severe tusk]

Sometimes it takes several minutes for people to join, but you could also have it set to private on accident like Akmandor said.

[outer beacon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/565850434376302613/1077704862030102668/20230221182614_1.jpg?width=1202&height=676

Decided to do a pub EDD with a Driller that would waste their C4s on digging dirt and a Gunner that seldom used their shield. Was still fun and they were chill players so I don't mean to harp on em.
That last stage was a bitch though.

[severe tusk]

The Driller in my random EDD intentionally hit me with his saw blades twice when no enemies were around, but the host kicked him at least before he would have inevitably tried to C4 us all.

[worthy spindle]

Just did my first Deep Dive and it went really well, was quite worried about it and not letting down the other dwarves. Should I immediately move on to the Elite Deep Dive or is there some serious information I should know about? The Miner's Manual is pretty brief.

New player that just promoted my first dwarf and all.

[coral pond]

if you're not used to haz 5 it's going to be a trip

[worthy spindle]

I've done a haz 4 mission successfully before - but it was a doozy. I haven't even played in Haz 5 yet, so quite worried. Not worried about losing, mind you (it happens, and the largest loss is just my time), just worried I'll be letting the other teammates down.

[severe tusk]

Just try it, worse case you lose and have to try again.

[neat relic]

I've run out of morkite on the 2nd stage of the elite deep dive. I'm 15 short and there are no more or veins

Fuck this fucking deep dive. Nothing but bulk detts and swarms when I'm trying to scrounge together everything I've got.

Hopefully the next one is better

I blame the detts and the final area having jack shit

[severe tusk]

There was a vein near the ceiling kind of deep into stage 2.

[neat relic]

I got that one. Literally nothing else past that.

So fucking pissed. Spent half an hour just trying to find anything

[severe tusk]

I assure you that there is enough because my group managed. I wasn't the scout though, so I didn't see all of the morkite veins.

You can probably watch someone's EDD solo run on YouTube to see where all the morkite is.

[neat relic]

The bulk detonators kept blowing up the veins and reducing the amount that dropped. I played solo so I had to go slow

How the fuck did 4 of the damn things spawn within 45 minutes?

[severe tusk]

I was not aware that bulks blowing up veins reduced the amount of minerals, but maybe that is a thing.

[neat relic]

It is, unfortunately. It fucked me over

I was 15 FUCKING MORKITE SHORT. There was a vein in spawn that I forgot about that got blown to shit

[clear bolt]

So long as you keep your head about you, stick with your team and stick to the objectives/Nitra then you should be fine.

Making sure you have plenty of space to move about is great too, alongside having AoE options.

Because Haz 5 will throw many grunts at you

[lone monolith]

MANY GRUNTS, HANDLE THEM!!!!

[verbal pecan]

Make a funnel of sorts, helps a lot when all of them are forced to cram in a small space easy to spam bullets into

[young yew]

Yeah, Don't lettem flank you!!

[clear bolt]

[fervent kite]

Yo is there a easy way to get overclocks fast cause I just finished a deep dive and got sideburns for gunner lol how do I get them faster?

[clear bolt]

You can get 9 total overclocks per week

3 blank, 3 weapon, 3 cosmetic

That's from doing the weekly assignment and both Deep Dive and Elite Deep Dive

[severe tusk]

Every time you promote the Weekly Core Hunt mission resets.

[hearty mica]

shout out to my last crew that managed to clutch a full crew evac on elite

there was like 7 revives during the final return to the droppod

[olive siren]

Did anyone had the dreadnought eggs popped instantly when the minehead drops on Stage 2 of normal Deep Dive or is it just me?

[thorn jewel]

Yes, everyone who had the dive did I believe

[queen rampart]

Not me

It still intact

Safe and sound for a while....

evil smug

[thorn jewel]

Weird

[hearty mica]

tried that dive like 4 times, never popped on its own

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
_ _

[buoyant wing]

yes, the minehead tunnels through the cocoon

[dusk cedar]

wsp

[fervent kite]

Yo anyone got a good build for scout with the drak and no oc?

[wet sentinel]

whats a good primary and secondary scout build for this edd?

with oc

[ashen trail]

made it to the last stage 5 times now, died each attempt

oog

[wet sentinel]

love swarmageddon

love not being able to do anything for more than 3 seconds before the next swarmer wave

[coral pond]

Tbh i'd probably just go AISE gk2 with gas recycling zhukovs

[round snow]

So the wiki says that the deep dive is the same every time, does that rotate/change at a certain interval? Or is it just the same forever with random modifiers?

[azure spoke]

It changes every week on thursday at 7:00 EST

@round snow

[coral pond]

It's 6am EST

[round snow]

Is it a set rotation or is it fairly random each time? I just started and am just learning/absorbing while I am at work. It seems like an interesting system.

[azure spoke]

It's different each week. It remains the same seed for a week, then, as far as I know, never returns.

So it gives yo ua week to practice until you get it, then gives yo ua new challenge for hte next week.

Bear in mind, not everything in the dive is identical. THere are still some random spawns and stuff

We had a bulk generate in one round this week, and not in the next run

but cave layout, mineral locations, objectives, biome, all that stuff is identical each time throughout the week

[round snow]

interesting, I am just curious how things change up at "endgame"

The only person I know who I might be able to convince to play the game is worried about repetitiveness and I feel like it's fairly varied from the 10-11 missions I've done so far. But I can also see it feeling very samey after awhile

[azure spoke]

Hmm. Well, for one, there is the increase in difficulty for later hazards. Plus, the devs are still actively adding to the game in the form of seasonal content that adds new things, like biomes, mission types, enemies, weapons, and cosmetics

Your friend should, even if he gets bored by smaneness, get at least a couple hundred hours playtime out of it.

As for you, there is a decent enough community of players that you should be able to find random lobbies that are fun to be in farly regularly.

You might even find regulars to play with through this Discord server.

But I feel like we might be getting a bit off topic of "Deep Dives" and more into regular DRG chat territory

Still, well worth the buying price, even if he gets tired of it after "endgame."

[brazen hatch]

the progression is very evenly paced and rewarding

(imo)

even if its not infinite replayability it has a lot of value and if you have friends that increases the replayability a lot

[round snow]

Thanks, didnt mean to go off topic or anything. Definitely hoping to make friends as I play more. So far most of the lobbies I've had have been good. Looking forward to diving into deep dives at some point and hoping for a cool new season this spring.

[placid hinge]

Just did the EDD in the fourth run. Tough third mission with the Swarmageddon, I was happy about bringing thorns.

[inland phoenix]

Sup

I have a question i main scout currently but I’m considering changing Caus i don’t really think he is to good my friend plays engi and I’m pretty early game level (15scout) should I switch to driller or gunner?

[hushed sequoia]

nothing stopping you

though generally engi and scout will be the easiest duo class

[inland phoenix]

Ok what are some upsides and downsides of scout?

[teal tiger]

I jump around to all the classes tbh. I mean it's the most efficient way of leveling your account so might as well test the waters!

[hushed sequoia]

plats and grapple makes minerals quite easy and flaregun is nice ofc

but you can deal with groups of stuff less efficiently

[inland phoenix]

But engi is good with that right?

[hushed sequoia]

not really many downsides to taking any other class

yea

[inland phoenix]

I don’t know much about late or mid game does scout have better crowd control later on?

[hushed sequoia]

stuff you unlock helps

[inland phoenix]

Ok

Wanne hop on an call maybe later on?

[hushed sequoia]

any class combination will be able to do anything with varying levels of effectiveness

[inland phoenix]

Caus it’s like 1am here and I’m tired

Ok

[hushed sequoia]

prob not today

[teal tiger]

Scout has a lot of stunning capabilities late game

[inland phoenix]

How about 1pm CEST

[inland phoenix]

K

[inland phoenix]

How much?

[teal tiger]

boomerang and the m1000 has an overclock for it

plus the new crossbow electric bolt

[inland phoenix]

K

Ima think about it @hushed sequoia hit me up when you can talk

[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
_ _

[queen rampart]

6 Pm

Got it control

Cya at night

[buoyant wing]

m1k's is a mod actually, much easier to access

[fervent kite]

How often do the deep dives reset?

[verbal pecan]

Every week on Thursday at I belive 6 am

[young yew]

No, it's quick and simple to just grapple away

[untold garnet]

scout players when confronted with a minor problem

[sly kettle]

Oh crap, it's Thursday!

[knotty hazel]

Thursday haters be like:

[merry folio]

Almost Friday for me

[hot yew]

Same here

[merry folio]

Ayo, I wonder if we're in the same country?

[sly kettle]

Soon™

[manic pivot]

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

[sly kettle]

Any moment now.

[boreal torrent]

new deep dives yay

[sly kettle]

Good luck, everyone.

[manic pivot]

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

[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Salt Pits | Code Name: Useless Overlook
Stage 1: 250 Morkite + 2 Eggs | No Mutators
Stage 2: 3 M.U.L.E.s + 2 Eggs | Elite Threat
Stage 3: Protect the Drilldozer + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies

🎮 Console Stage 3!!! 🎮 ^Steam had an update that changed the Deep Dive code^
Stage 3: Steal Data Rack + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Radioactive Exclusion Zone | Code Name: Dreadful Rage
Stage 1: 2 Dreadnoughts (Twins + Hiveguard) + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 2: 7 Aquarq + Black Box | Mactera Plague
Stage 3: 250 Morkite + Black Box | Rival Presence

[sly kettle]

Alright, alright. Not too bad.

[candid bobcat]

ah yes, triple blackbox edd

[candid bobcat]

Elite Deep Dive "Dreadful Rage" (2023-02-23 to 2023-03-02)
Region: Radioactive Exclusion Zone
Stage 1: 2 Dreadnoughts (Twins + Hiveguard) + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 2: 7 Aquarqs + Black Box | Mactera Plague
Stage 3: 250 Morkite + Black Box | Rival Presence

[tired wedge]

lol 3 blackboxes

[fossil tulip]

💀

[sly kettle]

..that feels like a first time event.

[candid bobcat]

Deep Dive "Useless Overlook" (2023-02-23 to 2023-03-02)
Region: Salt Pits
Stage 1: 250 Morkite + 2 Eggs
Stage 2: 3 Mini-mules + 2 Eggs | Elite Threat
Stage 3: Industrial Sabotage + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs

management wants a lot of eggs again, also sabotage

[near imp]

Eggs and boxes

[boreal torrent]

sad

[keen ocean]

how often can you receive rewards from deep dives?

[near imp]

A maximum of 6 cores

And only once

[keen ocean]

so 6 cores a week?

then another 6 from elites

or do u mean 3 on each

[modern phoenix]

3 on each

[queen rampart]

Dear lord

This week is not gonna be easy