deep-dive-discussion

[zenith ember]

mactera + shocker + rivals + natocyte

[steel python]

Well, the DD was fun

Plenty of nitra spawns and no annoying special bugs

Mostly menace and wardens, no grabbers or detonators

Stage 2 has a lot of tight tunnels so that might be a bit chaotic especially during swarms and pulling out eggs

[gusty grotto]

had nemesis spawn on stage 3 EDD but luckily it was before mission uplink

took that bastard out with 3 hyper props

[steel python]

Sounds like the EDD needs a lot of crowd control and heat damage for that rival presence

[gusty grotto]

theres a lot of macteras on that stage aswell

[fringe thistle]

Face melter time

[steel python]

Exploder infestation and naturally spawning jellies? Oh boy, time to 🪃

[gusty grotto]

its good that the dread is in spawn room on stage 3 edd so you can get started right away

[fringe thistle]

Oh that's convenient

Is it a small spawn room?

Small good for twins fight

[steel python]

I'm not sure what people's opinions on The Twins, but hey, at least it's not hiveguard

[zenith ember]

the turrets are there too though

[gusty grotto]

yeah

[fringe thistle]

[zenith ember]

right beside the egg

[fringe thistle]

Oof

[gusty grotto]

hiveguard AI makes me want to c4 a scout

[steel python]

You can instantly delete the turrets by causing them to overheat

[fringe thistle]

Tru

Kill turrets, call supply pod, spawn twins. Gaming.

[zenith ember]

hiveguard may be more tolerable if the ai doesnt bug out half the time

[steel python]

And wouldn't ya know it, Driller can carry two weapons that cause things to catch fire

[fringe thistle]

Or wave cooker for jellies and temp shock swarms

Diffusion ray good

[steel python]

Driller mains will have fun guaranteed

[gusty grotto]

ive had many many times where im luring the hiveguard through a tunnel and it straight refuses to dig, spins 180 and goes back the way it came

[zenith ember]

i got that too

[gusty grotto]

"man im out this shi"

[fringe thistle]

Very good

[zenith ember]

or chasing something despite all 4 dwarves beside it

like ???

[steel python]

At least The Twins and Classic have the BALLS to run up to your face and fucking kill you

[gusty grotto]

or, when it spawns its sentinels in a unexplored cave and gets stuck

[fringe thistle]

Heh

[zenith ember]

yeah

[fringe thistle]

Can they not dig?

[steel python]

They can

But they take their sweet time

[zenith ember]

i rather they chase me over me trying to figure out what mood they wanna be on for that day

[gusty grotto]

i sometimes run up to the arblest and pickaxe its face praying to got it doesnt do its carpet bomb attack

[fringe thistle]

XD

Crackhead drillers will drill the twins to armor crack them

[steel python]

If I had a nickel for every time the arbalest shotgun blasted me in the face instantly killing me, I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot, but it's weird how it happened only twice

[steel python]

Yes

[gusty grotto]

wishing I had ur luck rn

[fringe thistle]

[steel python]

10k armor break power babie

[fringe thistle]

LESGOOOOO

Engi gonna have fun if they bring overdrive on Laser too

[steel python]

Or triple line breach cutter

[fringe thistle]

Tru

Hyperprop time

[zenith ember]

Def breach over the others

[gusty grotto]

when I do EDD blindly, I pick the fun optin (hyperprop) or the safe option (breach cutter), and everytime I go for the fun one lmfao

[zenith ember]

But i can see hyper being real good to delete that grabbing ass

[steel python]

This EDD is like a really proper challenge for greybeards and greenbeards alike.

Stage 1 is the warmup
Stage 2 is the speedrun
Stage 3 is the durability test

[gusty grotto]

onsite refinery is a drag

[zenith ember]

S1 & 2 gives you nitra for s3

[steel python]

But remember, you have rich atmosphere to go fast

[gusty grotto]

this weeks escort is not too bad since the oil shale is easy to access

[zenith ember]

Had 500+ after s2

[gusty grotto]

true, but the cave gen for that stage is annoying

[fringe thistle]

Yeah stage 2 is gonna STACK you with nitra, perfect for abuse

[steel python]

"You have the speed and the nitra is here. Don't take too long or you will get overwhelmed"

[fringe thistle]

That's good cause you can just use whatever you need in stage 1 as-is without worrying about the next stage

Yeah

If you take too long all that nitra gonna go to waste

[steel python]

Especially because once you start refining, enemies will not stop spawning until you leave

[fringe thistle]

Yep

[steel python]

So once that quota reaches 100%, HIT THE BUTTON ASAP

[fringe thistle]

Taser bolts scout gonna make overdrive laser CRACKED on twins

[steel python]

You can deposit on stage 3, HIT THAT BUTTON NOW

[stone yacht]

Dont seem so bad. Atleast I have a shield on stage 2 lmao.

[teal summit]

Hello guys I am kinda new to the game(3 days) and recently promoted driller, did anybody want to play with me and show the ropes in a deep dive?

[fringe thistle]

Yeah, honestly this week's EDD is pretty solid, seems like a fun challenge

[gusty grotto]

Enemies stop spawning when the pipes are malfunctioning.

[fringe thistle]

The shield disruption on the deep dive sounds more annoying tbh

[steel python]

You can check in the channels #lfg-steam

[teal summit]

tnx

❤️

[steel python]

I don't think they do.

I'm pretty sure they keep spawning like how swarms do

[fringe thistle]

I don't remember, but if they do then it's just lessened.

All I know is haz 5 refinery gives a LOT of swarms

You need that nitra

[gusty grotto]

If the glyphids are attacking the pipes and you dont kill them, the enemy cap gets filled causing no more spawning

[steel python]

Also, bit of a "pro" tip I've come to notice with on-site refining: The drop pod always lands near the farthest pumpjack away from the refinery

So once the button is pressed and the rocket flies away, start grinding on the longest pipe to wait for the pod to land nearby

[fringe thistle]

Rollercoaster achievement time

[steel python]

Proof that Mission Control secretly wants you to die

[fringe thistle]

[fringe thistle]

Good luck, enjoy the torture challenge!

[stone yacht]

Would be down to do it with you later. I really like helping people! But it would be rather later in the evening (in EU).

If you do it before than no worries

Also fair points 🙏🏽

[marsh plover]

DRG lost a lot of mini mules this Thursday

[zenith ember]

good break from all the omelettes we brought in for mission control

[scenic wyvern]

so whats the dd like?

[rugged portal]

dd reset yet

[stone yacht]

Yes.

[scarlet ravine]

EDD stage 3 is practically a mactera plague warning

[swift steeple]

this deep dive... so so many menaces

[zenith ember]

now that you mentioned it

[wet sentinel]

damn

edd stage 2 is pretty fun

[rugged portal]

finally

got the war crime oc

[stone yacht]

Which?

[rugged portal]

volatile bullet

[wraith shard]

actually the war crime oc is fatboy

[azure apex]

EDD looks pretty rough

[rugged portal]

i hope you have someone that can deal with mactera

[teal summit]

I am sorry I am done it already

died on elite 2

👌

[brisk pagoda]

exploders dread and robot, y'all should bring ice storm

[thorny cargo]

Wait

Are the pinned comments automatically changed?

[burnt sandal]

it's edited manually each week

[steel python]

People report their findings live every thursday and it's really exciting

[stone yacht]

Beat Elite Deep Dive first try this week. Haha got 700 kills.

Stage 2 was probably the most fun I've had in this game, in general. 10/10 was hell and I loved it. So good!

I do think Stage 3 is the hardest of the 3 stages which is never the case from my experience. But it basically felt like Mactera Plague + Bots while defending refueling drop pod.

But didn't have to use Iron Will in all 3 stages and so much Nitra, my team ordered like 20 resupplies and had so many to spare.

Also it's funny. My team was all around level 50-60 yet they played better than the level 400-500+, legendary promoted players I had in prior weeks who would do dumb crap.

[stone yacht]

Just got Fat Boy even tho well, Engineer is my 2nd least played (but do love Turret Em Discharge and Spinning Hell OCs tho. Hyper propellant cool too)

@fast stratus that Hurricane/BRT build literally slapped that entire EDD tho ngl.

[hoary wren]

How did you guys manage edd stage 3

The amount of enemies was insane

[gusty grotto]

you gotta take the last stage slow and steady

[old widget]

Salvage missions have two triggers for enemy waves beyond the time-based triggers, so if you rush around and touch all the mini-mules and dig up all the legs right away you can get a /lot/ of bugs, particularly if you're /also/ dealing with all the bugs that spawned with the cave to begin with

coming in the proximity of a mini-mule for the first time will always spawn a wave (after a delay), and one out of each set of four mini-mule legs is "boobytrapped" and will also generate a wave when you dig it out

the safe, conservative approach on high haz salvage is to stay away from the mini-mules and legs in the main chamber until you've drained off all the existing bugs in the chamber that spawned with the map, and cleared the stationaries

[untold saddle]

Very long deep dive but a pretty fun one, especially last stage

[stone yacht]

Everything @old widget said. Meanwhile my team spawned everything at once. It was wild but we got out alive 😩

We were all relatively in proximity of each other (and 200 resupply pods) so it helped a lot

But definitely don't do what my team did with the spawning 😅

[dull stag]

Alright, this week's deep dive was really easy

I ended up with 8 supply pods at the hommoram heartstone

Bunkering in the second(?) mission at the droppod saved a lot of ammo

[stone yacht]

Is Turret Whip even worth running when EM Discharge is a thing?

[burnt sandal]

that's a very weird question to ask considering EM discharge is not for the warthog but turret whip is

[stone yacht]

EM Discharge is for Stubby

[coral pond]

they serve different purposes

[azure thunder]

People without overclocks are a thing

[stone yacht]

clear to explain>

?

I don't know much about Turret Arc, I usually us EM discharge tho

[burnt sandal]

yes, I'm aware but why would you compare a warthog mod to a stubby OC ?

[coral pond]

you said turret whip, not arc...

[stone yacht]

OH

sorry I meant arc

[burnt sandal]

make more sense that way

[stone yacht]

my bad I meant Arc, and I read ur original sentence incorrectly and thought u were saying EM discharge is not on Stubby haha

[burnt sandal]

EM discharge is more damage oriented while turret arc is more CC oriented.

Also turret arc doesn't gut the gun's offensive capabilities. Just the ammo.

[grim wadi]

ive been having a hard time relying on em discharge, fails to trigger too often i have to keep shooting it, might just need to practice more

but it does show up in high crowd control builds

[coral pond]

i like discharge most on the stationary defense objectives(which is like half the missions tbh) if i use stubby

[left void]

what dread on stage 3?

[old widget]

Make sure you’re taking the higher chance to electrify mod on stubby, that affects discharge chance. Also the discharge effect has a cooldown I think

[grim wadi]

mmmm will double check that ty, and yeah theres a couple second cooldown, surprised how often you can trigger it

[burnt sandal]

it's easy enough to trigger once you pick the T1 mod for electrocution chance : 50% chance is plenty

[stone yacht]

I usually run EM Discharge but just tried Turret Arc for the first time..Hm, not sure how I feel about it yet. Will keep running it but feels like more of a challenge to execute effectively managing crowds with it. Quite simply, EM just feels easier and more reliable, but this was only my first shot.

[stone yacht]

Although it's simple, Light Weight Cases seem like such a good OC for Breachcutter, an already strong weapon to begin with.

Also I swear this game will never give me 1 sludge pump OC haha, meanwhile I have like all cryo now xD, just got tuned cooler

[stone yacht]

Turret Arc + Spinning Death is kinda funny lmao. Just got 500 kills pairing both

I mean its a flawed pairing for many reasons (lack of single target + long-ranged issues + ammo issues) but is fun against swarms LOL. And with lure.

[burnt sandal]

Spinning death is pretty good for single target

[stone yacht]

true true

[quasi quest]

I just got my first sub 10 point extraction with randos yay

[vast yarrow]

You gotta get scouts man

4 scout is so fast

[quiet lark]

EDD done, this week was wack

at least they hand you 400 nitra per floor

did gunner solo and managed to oneshot it, although the last mission got kind of spooky

[hollow stratus]

Failed this EDD. I was not ready for the Rival Presence. Ugh...

[queen rampart]

Look like we gonna need hurricane gunner and Driller with flamethrower to control the drone

[hoary wren]

Damn, almost 500 hours in and I didn't know any of this. No wonder my pub team died easily. We all pretty much went in four different directions and probably triggered every wave in doing so. Seems taking it slow is the way to go.

The naedocyte breeder constantly spawning enemies from god knows where didn't help too

[coral pond]

nemesis spawn on refueling stage 3 really let everything spiral into failure in an otherwise great run :)

[olive flicker]

Great info, thanks.

I was subconsciously doing this, but it really explains my last week stage 2 experience.

[young yew]

Machine event? Never

Neither will the regular DD

[hoary wren]

Boltshark is goated

Phero bolts helped me a lot in finally clearing the 3rd stage

[novel spruce]

shield disruption on a deep dive is actually so toxic lol

[runic relic]

It was half the Challenge in last edd

[novel spruce]

yeah this week's stage 2 is the "try not to get styled on by the double oppressor spawn" challenge

[wraith shard]

dawg its haz 3.5, doesn't matter what modifiers you throw on it, it's always gonna be piss easy

[novel spruce]

yeah well some of us suck

[wraith shard]

😭

[olive flicker]

Just run berserk to style on oppressors instead.

[young yew]

I didn't even notice

[supple bramble]

what should I bring for this weeks elite deep dive?

I've failed like 3 times on 2nd stage

[young yew]

If you're Scout just use Nuk with Thermal Dets or m1k. Zip around it and shoot that green butt

[supple bramble]

reckon scout is the way to go?

all 3 times we didnt have a scout

what's a good drak-25 build?

[young yew]

Sorry, I was replying to @novel spruce

Didn't do this week's edd yet

In this week's EDD2 a driller might help

[oblique iron]

Getting cooked in this week EDD stage 3 with rivals present, pub trigger 2 horde and a nemesis.

[neat pasture]

we had the twins get triggered whilst we struggled with the turret room

smooth sailing from there thankfully

[kindred tangle]

why the hell 3 mules

i tot they fixed the objective thing

[split grove]

Did you guys have the black box spawn in a little tiny room next to and beneath the drop pod in stage 3 EDD as well this week?

[deft jay]

recently finished my first elite deep dive

[wild wyvern]

wrong chat mb

[noble storm]

whats up with new EDD ?

any screwed stages ?

[hollow wasp]

third stages has alot of turrets, spittballers and a nemesis

apart from that its fine

[wraith shard]

very easy EDD

[vague phoenix]

Deep Dive | Creeping Field | Sandblasted Corridors
Stage Primary Secondary Anomaly Warning
1 3 Mini-Mules 2 Eggs None Lethal Enemies
2 4 Eggs 1 Mini-Mule None Shield Disruption
3 Escort Duty 2 Mini-Mules None None

Elite Deep Dive | Open Killing | Dense Biozone
Stage Primary Secondary Anomaly Warning
1 Escort Duty 2 Mini-Mules None None
2 On-Site Refinery 150 Morkite Rich Atmosphere Exploder Infestation
3 3 Mini-Mules Twins None Rival Presence

^ can be found on reddit

[fast stratus]

Mf pinned messages

[vague phoenix]

and yet people ask

so i try to help, thx

[fast stratus]

Direct them to pins then, no need to flood the chat

[vague phoenix]

dont see a flood here, but hey, thats my opinion, report me i guess

[short oar]

Loved this deep dive

Chaotic as hell and everybody had to be on their A game for the surprise detonator on morkite refinery

[hybrid grail]

gonna go attempt my first one now

wish me luck

[round forum]

nemesis at blackbox, very nice design

and he just spawn right in front of you xD

[grim wadi]

hrm i guess if youre fast enough on stage 3 the nemesis doesnt spawn or something, didnt show up in APFs run from the drg-videos cannel

[steel python]

My guess is that enemy spawns are somewhat randomized, but the pool stays the same.

Like, if a dive has a bulk detonator, it can spawn early or late into the dive, but there is a chance for it to spawn

[tulip narwhal]

Decided to buy the game, anyone got any tips for a new player?

specifically some for scout since I find myself playing him more out of the other three

[runic relic]

have fun, but for scout, mark reasources for engi to put platforms under, focus on hard to reach stuff overall, careful with suicide-grapples

[tulip narwhal]

of course, so far my game's been swell with no toxic players and they were all understanding when I said I was new

[tulip narwhal]

suicide grapples?

is that like a failed grapple?

or

[runic relic]

grappling if youre not sure you can stand somehwere and got no plan b

also theres a perk to prevent grabs, its gonna save your life a lot early on

[tulip narwhal]

alright got it

cheers

oh yeah one more thing

I saw my friend use some other type of weapon

do I unlock those or are they bought?

[runic relic]

well both, you unlock the assignements for them between lvl 10-21, then buy them but theyre cheap as hell anyways

[tulip narwhal]

okay I see

he mentioned something about how the game isn't p2w so that's good

[runic relic]

buy with ingame resources*

[graceful sonnet]

EDD stage 2 is pain

[quaint fox]

Remember grappling to the ground cancels your fall damage

[tulip narwhal]

oh didn't know that

thanks

[quaint fox]

And also that grappling moves faster than running so you can grapple the ground ahead of you to get more space between you and glyphids

[brisk pagoda]

i would say dont bring drak if you have teammates. drak is good at what its designed to do, but the issue is that it does not fit with scouts role inside of a team. in a team environment scouts role is to kill disruptive enemies and long range enemies before they have a chance to cause problems. sure the drak CAN kill stuff like acid spitters and mactera, but m1k and gk2 are miles better at it. drak is great for grunts and swarmers, but if you have teammates, grunts and swarmers are their job, not yours.

[rugged portal]

or he can just run it with boltshark with the damage upgrade

[noble storm]

can I still overheat Nemi in one SD overdrive burst ?

[brisk pagoda]

i dont think anything has changed this since it was posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h7o-VDt8b4

[noble storm]

noice, if it will become a pain in the ass might use this build

[grim wadi]

yeah feels about right

[graceful sonnet]

2 bulk dets edd stage 2

mega bruh

[brisk pagoda]

free wave clear

[graceful sonnet]

not with the wonky cave generation

[graceful sonnet]

nemmy on stage 3 why

[wraith shard]

We didnt get a nemmy

Maybe cos 2 players?

[olive flicker]

The stage 3 final cave is pretty crazy.

Playing solo got rekt by the multiple leeches, despite spotting some.

[lavish stirrup]

Nothing in the game is bought with real money, not even the battle pass (completely free) ; the only thing you can get with money is cosmetic DLCs

[olive flicker]

Cave leeches being instant death on high haz is kinda boring.

[narrow marsh]

nothing is bought with real money besides the stuff that is

[lavish stirrup]

That's... True? But not really helpful though lol

[lone monolith]

nothing FUNCTIONAL is bought with real money, if you have a problem with cosmetic dlc sales that's a different story entirely (and a bad take lol)

[lavish stirrup]

Well I could get behind the whole "cosmetics are part of the experience" but we have a lot for free already, and I was specifically responding to someone asking about P2W so eh.

Anyhow, lets get back to DD xd

[narrow marsh]

idc about cosmetic dlcs but why is there 2 supporter dlcs when there's already 70 dollars of actual dlc

[burnt sandal]

they're also just cosmetics

[brisk pagoda]

theres a chunk of the playerbase that asks for the dlc to be made specifically because they want to pay the devs

[narrow marsh]

why are 2 cosmetic dlcs called supporter dlc

[lavish stirrup]

If there's one dev you can't blame for greed it's GSG imho

[lavish stirrup]

Actual popular demand to support dev further

[untold saddle]

Because 1 released long ago and now they've decided to release another

[burnt sandal]

Like our previous Supporter Upgrade, this pack is for those of you who really want to support Ghost Ship Games and our future developments, while getting your hands on a load of exclusive treats.

[next blaze]

The first was their very first paid dlc, right?

[lavish stirrup]

I think so

[next blaze]

yeah yeah, hence it being called that, for people who want to support them

[narrow marsh]

I would buy the dlc but for me it would make finding new cosmetics less exciting because I already have ones that are deliberately higher quality than the stuff you can find

[untold saddle]

I wouldn't say they're all higher quality

There's a lot of good looking free cosmetics imo

But this is DD thread so anyway

Anyone else had 2 bulks on stage 3 of the EDD? Was very fun

[rugged portal]

stage 2

no bulk on stage 3 for me

[untold saddle]

Might've been stage 2, can't remember

Yeah it was stage 2

[lavish stirrup]

Only thing I remember this EDD was spamming IFGs like a madman on stage 2

[violet warren]

Wait, so is stage 2 of the DD bugged since it only spawned 1 mule?

Those objectives are usually supposed to be 2 mules, at least it completed after doing the 1

[burnt sandal]

not when it's a secondary

it's not 2 guaranteed

[violet warren]

Didn't know it was a 1-2 mule secondary, thought it was always 2

[olive flicker]

I had 1 bulk 2 oppressors at once in stage 2.

[untold saddle]

Sounds like an easy way to kill 2 opressors

[olive flicker]

Luckily no nemesis on stage 3.

There is a comical amount of nitra in the edd.

Got facemelter from edd

[grim wadi]

going into stage 3 EDD and were stuck like this fml https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/529674786620571658/1083862589295046756/image.png

any way to kick them?

that same person was being an absolute wildcard and endlessly going down without helping and now this, lil suspicious

guess ill report it as a bug afterwards

i think this just killed our run

[wide linden]

Well I have learned something with this week EDD, nemesis can spawn during the fuel cell.

[devout willow]

Is the edd ridiculously difficult this week

[wide linden]

stage 1 and 2 arn't too bad, I just find stage 3 absurd.

[umbral wind]

i found stage 3 the easiest

[grim wadi]

theres certainly a lot to kill on stage 3, handled it well with my gunner bullet hell elephant rounds oc build

on the second try that didnt die on 3rd map load that is

no nemesis for us as well

[vast yarrow]

I love bullet hellephant

[coral pond]

nemesis has a chance to spawn at any time in a mission with rival presence

[olive flicker]

Take your time with stage 3, don't rush it.

Rest is easy, nitra for days.

It's actually pretty easy edd compared to last 2 weeks.

[round cedar]

If you let a mission re-roll, does it have a chance to pick a different zone?

Or is it stuck there, and you will just re-roll the mission's objectives?

[ashen bobcat]

just finished my first ever solo deep dive

[tulip idol]

deep dive's missions are fixed

[torn kayak]

mission 3 is probably absurd from the mech turrents and nedocyte breeder from far away. always bring down that breeder, it gets in the way

[stone yacht]

Just got Clean Sweep for the grenade launcher which seems like just nice OC that adds further AoE without the ammo cut, which I can appreciate despite having stuff like Fat Boy and Hyper Propellant already, which are arguably strong.

Light Weight Cases for ammo efficient Breach Cutter is so nice too, but I can't put down spinning death ngl lmao.

[thorny cargo]

Its those fucking trijaw and electric nedocyte

[coral pond]

Honestly stage 3 is fine unless a nemesis spawns during uplink/refuel. Driller can easily take care of the turrets by digging to the turret controller and hacking it from below. Brood Nexuses go down easily with cryo cannon or cryo nades, same with the breeder. A poorly timed spawn of a nemesis is really the run killer

Persistent plasma tcf epc takes care of naedocytes and mactera with ease

[zenith ember]

Its fine until you get swarmed by everything possible in the giant hole of a cave, which was my experience

[cursive fulcrum]

good idea to do a deep dive solo? or

[olive flicker]

It's fine to do them solo.

[round cedar]

elite solo?

[olive flicker]

I ran burning hell + volatile bull dog, burning hell took care of the naedocytes and I sniped breeder and nexus with bull dog.

[olive flicker]

Also fine, depending on the generation some are easier solo some are easier with a team.

Generally if nitra is very lacking solo is easier.

[quick steppe]

Bro I'm so sad 😦 we got to the final part of the 3rd stage, refueling, after that long hard ass dive, and my driller decided to blow us up with C4 😦 right on the fuel too there wasn't anywhere we could've gone

[primal venture]

Should I run a EDD solo

[quick steppe]

Waste of an hour or 2 or however long that took

I got 1.2k kills tho with Enji so thats a record breaker at least

[olive flicker]

Usually about an hour.

[wraith shard]

EDD is like 40-hour depending on mission types

DD you can do in half an hour

[static condor]

is there a page where I can see info on the current DD's like mission types and what not?

[last dawn]

There's one on the deep rock reddit

[quick steppe]

It was EDD

[static condor]

ok thank you

[zenith ember]

pinned message on this channel, updated weekly

[limpid aurora]

finished my first deep dive

[static condor]

ah ok thank you

[static condor]

good work. shaving off that green

[limpid aurora]

thanks

little sad only promoted players can do it was gonna do it with my greenbeard squad lol

[noble yoke]

Administrator, you can redesign the desktop icon because the current desktop icon is not beautiful

[queen rampart]

There is a problem about this week elite deep dive
In 1 of the 4 player. That's player can't load the game in stage 2 or stage 3 of the game

This is the same thing that Corosus encounter

[umbral wind]

its to ensure youre ready for it

and the first promotion isnt too bad to get

[open abyss]

It takes quite a while

[umbral wind]

not really

[open abyss]

I just promoted for the first time

Yesterday

It took a while

Not too long tho

But defo a while

[young yew]

EDD done. Had a decent pub team and difficulty was reasonable. Luckily, no Nemesis spawn during uplink 🥴

Stage 2 refining cavegen was a bit icky

[queen rampart]

Same

[queen rampart]

I just a lot of annoying exploder

Good thing i bring my flamethrower

And tight small cave

[grim wadi]

yeah the exit from the drop pod was a clusterfuck both times, second time i made sure to resupply the end of the previous mission whew

thats when i also learned exploders on the outside of the drop pod can kill you when youre on the inside if youre against one of its inner walls

downed 2 of 3 of us still in the pod, thankfully the rezed us before it got bad

[wraith flame]

Finally finished this EDD. A bit tricky with two notable parts. Stage 2 in its entirety and the big pit of stage 3. Stage 2 is just a giant clusterfk. Really just speedrun it because it pours on the enemies and will drain your nitra. Stage 3 pit is a giant pit full of enemies. Just stay topside and pick them off from a distance before going in.
The saving grace of this EDD is that there is tons of nitra. As long as you be careful you have the ammo to survive.

[olive flicker]

People found stage 2 hard really?

How many players did you attempt it with?

[narrow urchin]

I had double bulks roll up on the refinery just as we all bunched up in a corner on the mactera wave

It was epic

[grim wadi]

yeah the mactera and sploders was fairly consistent on stage 2

[tranquil sentinel]

Ngl this week was pretty easy considering that I went in with an experimental build and still won with no casualties on solo and minimal when grouped (gigachads jumped in bulk for the powerswing kill lmao)

[queen rampart]

I have no how people saying stage 2 is hard?
Is this because about Exploder Infestation?

I told ya. Exploder gave me PTSD

Also it not even Mactera Plauge

[fallow swallow]

The hearthstone cave is stupidly big in stage 3 of the DD this week

Like
I've never seen a cave as big

[brisk pagoda]

back when azure weald was new i once got a refining mission that was about 2.5 times the height of this weeks dd omoran room

was literally so tall that you couldnt see the ceiling even with scout flares

and of course the minehead was at the very top

[nimble bison]

just did my first elite deep dive

didn't get anything for scout though

[young yew]

Can be really tough as Scout, depending on mission types and modifiers

[brisk pagoda]

scout isnt built for solo unless youre in the mindset of being untouchable and doing objective super fast. which doesnt exactly pair well with salvage and escort where you need to stand still at some points

[young yew]

This week's should be okay. Mind to stay in the drop pod at stage 3 until you cleared out everything

Engie

[brisk pagoda]

gunner or driller would be easiest depending on your playstyle

[young yew]

Anything but Scout basically heh

[buoyant wing]

I find driller to be best just because I can ignore the terrain

good mix of mobility and power

[tulip idol]

there's hardly any bugs in solo, so scout might be the quickest if you know how to play it

[brisk pagoda]

dont know what youre talking about, when i go solo i end up with even higher enemy count than duo like 80% of the time

[tulip idol]

duo is easier in terms of dividing attention to things

[grim wadi]

yeah and duo difficulty doesnt go up much compared to solo cause of 'compensating for the loss of bosco' according the the wiki and numbers

[brisk pagoda]

its a big difference when the total enemy count at the end is like 30% higher and bosco's damage is so abysmal on h5 that he only got 10% of the total kills

[young yew]

Solo point ex haz4 and above can be bug hell

Might be ok with Scout if you can extract the Aquarqs quickly, but take too long and the passive swarm will drown you

[coral pond]

having done haz5 PE solo scout, it's not horrible since you can kinda just run from everything and only have to kill things like mactera or acid and web spitters

[grim wadi]

yeah, did it as driller, lot of sweaty running while bosco delivers

couldnt afford to kill anymore lol

[woeful niche]

shud be about the same. Scaling is similiar

[brisk pagoda]

well the rng clearly hates me

[woeful niche]

it prob feels like more cus the scaling is essentially the same but aggro is being split

[brisk pagoda]

because i almost always get more

looking at the enemy count on the end screen

the total number is higher almost always

[tulip idol]

if it's true solo, then yeah it might take some time, but with bosco carrying aquarqs from another end of cave - doubt

[short chasm]

is there any benefit of doing more than one deep dive a week?

talking about matrix cores

[brisk spear]

no

the only reward you get from repeating the same dive is the credits and xp

[slender citrus]

Wow that elite deep dive was tough, buckled in and finally got it on my 3rd try. Made some friends along the way and had a blast. Rock and stone miners

[ivory mango]

why is Nemesis spawn during uplink a thing?

[burnt sandal]

why not ?

[wet sentinel]

stages 2 and 3 in the edd are the funnest stages I've done out of every edd I've played so far

stage 2 especially mostly the rich atmosphere

[young yew]

Bosco helps a ton for sure. But he's slow, and you gotta find them first before he can mine

10 of those can take a long time in a big cave

I don't have much experience in Solo with Bosco though, so maybe that's another problem

[sick lake]

6 mules in the DD? Wow

[plucky yarrow]

I loaded up 10 resupply pods on the heartstone. It’s was a glorious sight.

[flat moth]

I just did a 4 gunner EDD

[wild sail]

Sounds fun

[flat moth]

sure was. second wave was brutal for us

err second stage*

[wild sail]

yeah exploders trying to bump you lot out of the shields wasnt it

[flat moth]

that, and 2 bulk detonators

[olive flicker]

Volatile bull dog eats bulks for dinner.

[flat moth]

good to know

[tulip narwhal]

I need help on vc, when I press my keybind it won't show anything to tell me it's on nor can my friend hear me

I had Xs on both voice chat and push to talk

[kindred tangle]

slept through most of this weeks edd

i think only the nemesis spawn was exhilarating

[wraith shard]

can poeple join a deep doive once it has started?

[coral pond]

No, only while you're in the rig waiting to start

[dapper moth]

This week's edd looks kinda fun ngl

[young yew]

Yeah it's cool

[empty hedge]

wtf is that last stage....

[primal nest]

what gunner build is good for this edd?

[rugged portal]

anything good against mactera and robot

[olive flicker]

Burning hell hot bullets is pretty good this week.

[woeful niche]

any weapon with good accuracy and weakpoint dmg

also goo

[proper dew]

@terse yew

[terse yew]

It somehow dissapeared for me and reapeared after you pinged me

Ty

[primal nest]

oh boy

last stage is hell

3rd time failed it 😭 😭 😭

[upper tartan]

Is it just me or are the level in the sandblasted zone deep dive realy short

[plucky cradle]

can anyone share a good scout setup

[upper tartan]

Oof, i dont have my stuff memorised rn, but roughly

Passivs:
supply bonus
Faster movement thru terrain debuffs
Sprint bonus

Active: hoverboots and Dash
Main gun Riffle
Off Shotgun
And the shock boomerangs

And the grappling on max reach and faster recharge time

[plucky cradle]

and what are some good quests for fast xp

to rank up fast

[upper tartan]

Thats a good question

[jolly orchid]

Kill glyphids. Behead glyphids. Roundhouse kick a glyphid into the concrete. Slam dunk a glyphid hatchling into the trashcan. Crucify filthy bugs. Defecate in a glyphids food. Launch glyphids into the sun. Stir fry glyphids in a wok. Toss glyphids into active volcanoes. Urinate into a glyphids gas tank. Judo throw glyphids into a wood chipper. Twist glyphids heads off. Report glyphids to the IRS. Karate chop glyphids in half. Curb stomp pregnant black glyphids. Trap glyphids in quicksand. Crush glyphids in the trash compactor. Liquefy glyphids in a vat of acid. Eat glyphids. Dissect glyphids. Exterminate glyphids in the gas chamber. Stomp glyphid skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate glyphids in the oven. Lobotomize glyphids. Mandatory abortions for glyphids. Grind glyphid fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown glyphids in fried chicken grease. Vaporize glyphids with a ray gun. Kick old glyphids down the stairs. Feed glyphids to alligators. Slice glyphids with a katana.

[random rampart]

?

[random rampart]

i heard egg hunts and point extractions can help

[random rampart]

also, wrong chat. this is the place for deep dives

[cosmic pier]

be me
first deep dive, does it solo
having lotsa fun with first two missions, good challenge but I’m actually doing it
start final drill dozer stage
immediately is clipped into the drop pod, and has to die twice to escape
upon starting my crossbow stops swapping ammo types and reloading or allowing me to even switch weapons
I hate this stupid dozer

[somber bobcat]

Does the anniversary trophy appear in deep dives?

[pale lichen]

not to my knowledge, never seen one

[somber bobcat]

Didnt think they did couldnt find anything online about it either

[burnt sandal]

no

[somber bobcat]

thank you

[lone monolith]

WHEW this week's EDD is the hardest one in a long while haha

[rugged portal]

had easier time with this one compare to last week

the funny mactera is definitely annoying to deal with tho

[brisk pagoda]

[rugged portal]

tfc won't help you from bad teammate

😍

[brisk pagoda]

[wraith shard]

rock and stone

[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!
_ _

[main idol]

if you aint rock and stone you aint going home

[young yew]

Did it on first attempt. Tried last week's Thorny Thorns edition twice and gave up. But my pub mates were better this time too.

[young yew]

Hey don't blame Little Dotty if drop pod and crossbow are giving you shits

[young yew]

M1k hover and stun, nuks w/ embedded dets and electro, zapperang

[wraith shard]

💀

[sick lake]

DD is a good one to speedrun rn. Got 47 minutes and change. If a damn cave leech didnt nab me and my driller spent way too long trying to figure out how to get me out of there without getting grabbed just for me to have to IW and get em out of the leech myself.....

Didnt need a resup til stage 2 and even then with all the mini mules i had such a surplus of nitra that karl got like 5 free resups before i left

[bright spindle]

Did my first solo DD and I got special powder, today has been a good day

[round cedar]

Is Magic Bullets OC any good?

I'm currently using the burning hell OC w/ mini gun as it's the only primary gun I have w/ OC

not sure if i should equip that on the bull dogh

[old widget]

magic bullets + explosive + neurotoxin on bulldog is a pretty popular and OP build for that secondary, yeah

[round cedar]

are you sure you are not thinking of Vilotile Bullets?

[round cedar]

I'm not sure how magic bullets is any good. I am using it and it seems to make the gun not able to clear trash. I was able to one shot small spiders before

now it takes three shots

maybe I am missing something

the poison doesn't seem to do much either. My mini guns fire seems to be more powerful in regards to DoTs (w/ burning hell)

[frail patrol]

build it 13212, and shoot the ground next to your target.

[unreal moat]

Question: Can you get rewards for doing a Deep Dive & a Deep Dive ELITE in the same week? I know you can only get DD rewards once per week, but it occurred to me that Deep Dive Elite might be considered separate.

[coral pond]

yes the edd is separate

[unreal moat]

Thank you!

[coral pond]

just note that edd is generally harder, considering it's higher haz levels than the regular dd

[fossil compass]

A single poison dot is 120 dmg for 10 sec on average enough to kill a grunt on a proc

[round cedar]

oh ,that's the issue the

n

[fossil compass]

Just apply it in a swarm and wait

[round cedar]

I kill them before 10s

[fossil compass]

Yeah you just spread it on a grunt swarm and aim down chunckier stuff with your primary

If you dont like that you can always build primary on aoe and seconday on single target

[tacit jungle]

feeling kinda racist against level 40 players hosting public EDD lobbies today

[fossil compass]

Wat

[round cedar]

huh? A character's level isn't a race

[tacit jungle]

yeah you are right, and yet 😦

it's not their fault

[kindred tangle]

dont get your point

[tacit jungle]

I just don't want to play a potentially spicy game mode with random people who probably don't know what they're doing 😄

[inner rover]

Stage 3 edd was just an onslaught of bugs Jesus Christ

[lavish jackal]

Stage 3 EDD this week is especially cracked

fought BET-C, Nemesis, shit ton of turrets, cave leeches

not including 50+ bugs

[rapid copper]

lol damn that sounds punishing at a minimum

[soft shell]

Is salvo module the best hurricane overclock

On paper it sounds absolutely insane

[plain meadow]

was this regular dd especially easy?

[olive flicker]

DD is always easy.

[fossil compass]

The spread is bigger than you think
So no dont work like on paper

[tacit jungle]

yeah EDD was a little intense, got lucky and was hard carried by a gunner while low level scout and driller weren't doing much

[soft shell]

So it’s ass?

[brisk spear]

no, its pretty good. the spread makes the salvo mechanic not very helpful at medium-long range but the benefit of being able to basically delete anything in close range is pretty worth it. plus you can still tapfire the weapon to have guided rockets like normal, albeit with a noticable dps decrease. as for the best OC for hurricane, that goes to minelayer

[wanton sandal]

Anyone else have the final uplink bug out? All four of us in the zone; but the uplink progress tracker kept going up & down till we lost

[soft shell]

Got it ty

[runic relic]

We got neither betsy nor Nemesis so it was kinda free

[mystic thorn]

Question from a greenbeard here, what is "required" to do EDD's? Are high level overclocks a must have, good weapon setups etc etc. Or is it something that your average player can complete with just a decent setup?

[coral pond]

Decent setup will work, it mostly takes skill and practice. Being used to haz 5 mission will help a lot

[runic relic]

Its much more down to skill, even if some oc`s are busted. Also you can always get carried

[narrow urchin]

Basically get gud, most of the time you die because you walked into too many hits or wasted too much time staring at a wall.

[vivid light]

i find it funny that in deep dives, when you are like, in stage 2, and you get rescue mission, you left all of your nitra and gold in the other capsule

[narrow urchin]

Just give it a try, the first stage tends to be pretty easy and arguably gives you more than half of the total weekly reward

[vivid light]

and even more fun is the fact that you dont recover the mini mules if they are a secondary objective XD

[brisk pagoda]

the only thing the game requires is at least one promotion on the current class of each teammate. the droppod will completely refuse to launch if anyone is not on a promoted class. beyond that, i would strongly reccomend you double check that you unlocked all your upgrades and have 145hp. and then check the pinned message in this channel to see what youre fighting and adjust your build as needed to cover any upcoming potential problem enemies.

[tame sleet]

Hey been playin for 2-3 weeks now promoted all my guys so I could use all overclocks only have 2 good ones outa 25 was looking for any tips to do a deep dive before I lfg do I NEED overclocks

Don’t want to waste ppls time and be efficient

[brisk pagoda]

regular or elite dive?

[tame sleet]

Just regular for now

[brisk pagoda]

regular is basically haz 3 so its easily clapped even without oc

[tame sleet]

Cool I’ve been doin a lot of h4 and h5 stuff just to get like ready lol been kinda rough

Like I said I don’t wanna waste ppls time

[foggy lichen]

you do not need overclocks for anything even EDD, you are not wasting anyones time, skill and aim will get you further than overclocks will

[brisk pagoda]

the regular dive is haz 3 , 3.5, 3.5 difficulty for the stages. elite is haz 4.5 , 5 , 5.5

[foggy lichen]

if someone is so concerned about overclocks and levels, they can put it in their lobby title

otherwise its assumed people are chill otherwise

[brisk pagoda]

if you can handle 3 you can do dd just fine. if you can clear 5 most of the time, youre ready to at least attempt edd.

[tame sleet]

Let’s just say when I’m in a lobby I’m makin the difference on whatever toon I’m on been working towards these deep dives big time I figured they were like destiny’s grandmaster nightfalls

Practicing on h4-5

Ok well I guess my next step is to figure out this discords lfg lol thanks for the info

I see it’s 3 missions in one that’s sick. What are the rewards?

[runic relic]

Screw wasting peoples time get in there

[tame sleet]

I did everything in my power to not be “that guy” lol

[mystic thorn]

A blank matrix core for use in machine events, one weapon overclock matrix and one cosmetic matrix

for the normal dd atleast

[tame sleet]

Siiiiick

Ima try tonight I think

And I wanna say too everybody that plays this game has been a absolute beauties and helpfull in gaming communities that is just unheard of so thanks again for all the info I’ll give it the old college try tonight

[brisk pagoda]

the dd, edd, and core hunt all each give 1 blank, 1 weapon, and 1 cosmetic each week. so if you do all 3 each week thats 3 blanks, 3 weapons, and 3 cosmetic per weeek.

[mystic thorn]

ah, the more you know

[brisk pagoda]

and then doing a promotion now also gives 1 blank, 1 weapon, and 1 cosmetic, with no weekly resctriction. so doing your promotions will really help you get through the endgame grind faster

[tame sleet]

That’s what I did I seen that was a change

And I did 2 weeklies core hunts still nothing amazing

[wintry geode]

there are simply so many OCs, so I suggest you establish a priority ladder so you can focus more on some class than others

[wraith shard]

Wdym?

[wintry geode]

when opening blanks

also bonus in crafting

[tame sleet]

I’ve been dumping them on scout or engin my question is will it give you duplicates

[neon mountain]

You cannot get duplicate OCs

[narrow urchin]

Don't give them ideas

[tame sleet]

Lol

Perfect cuz that’s what I had the most in so I was just picking thos 2

Gotta look up the good ones again I seen some red ones in Reddit’s s teir list make sure I’m not sleepin on a good one

[zenith ember]

Yeah thats a good plan

[tame sleet]

I know I’m new and I can’t say shit but it would be sick if you could take a core that is buts and be able to blank it with mats at one of thos mission terminals

[narrow urchin]

You'd just have people spam rerolling for the meta overclocks and never trying any of the others and that doesn't seem very fun

[tame sleet]

You right n that’s exactly wat I’m gettin at

[brisk pagoda]

the teir lists on the reddit are either jokes, or very uninformed

[tame sleet]

Lol ok good to know can you recommend a good one?

[brisk pagoda]

which weapon

[tame sleet]

All lol

I plan on making them all viable

[wintry geode]

I think currently there is merely any not-usable OC

[brisk pagoda]

i mean most oc aree at least usable at least some of the time

[wintry geode]

some are situational, yeah

[tame sleet]

Alright so just read it and use it to my play stoyle

[wintry geode]

also try different tier build on karl.gg

[tame sleet]

Sick I’ll check it out

[brisk pagoda]

theres only a very small handful that are either actively detrimental or just not worth slotting in over having no oc. heat pipe (epc), double barrel (boomstick), roll control (breach cutter), automated beam controller (shard diffractor), manual guidance cutoff (hurricane)

everything else is at least usable in some situation, even if its not the best pick

[celest kernel]

Rest in peace heat pipe

[brisk pagoda]

i still dont understand why they thought it needed a nerf when it was a sidegrade to energy rerouting

[celest kernel]

it used to be so good with thin containment field. 4 energy for charged shots that would one shot a lot of enemies

and the mined materials wouldn't get flung everywhere

[thorn silo]

Hey everyone!
If I completed an EDD once, will I have the same map with the same mission again until deep dives get refreshed?
And if so, does anyone know why deep dives aren't just generated as all the normal missions are?

[burnt sandal]

yeah, it's the same maps
deep dives just reuse the same seed over the week instead of getting a new one

[brisk pagoda]

the seed is the same for 1 week. so the map layout and objectives will always be exactly the same (unless an update happens midweek which might tweak things slightly). the enemies will be mostly the same but are subjected to rng and are influenced by both playercount and map seed.

[silk granite]

Can I get a rock and stone?

[full ledge]

Did i hear a rock and stone?

[merry pilot]

ROCK and STONE

[tough skiff]

rock and stone

[open abyss]

Stone and Rock! Wait...

[agile gull]

Rock and roll and stone!

[open dirge]

Anyone up for an elite deep dive?

[heady harness]

havent unlocked elite yet but im down for a normal one

@open dirge

[coral pond]

If you can access the normal, you have access to the elite

[heady harness]

nope

you have to do the normal one 1 time

[coral pond]

[open dirge]

nah all good got a party

[ivory spire]

how "prepared" does one need to be to actually not drag down the team on Elite dives ?

[icy ledge]

Usually you wanna have some OCs and a decent build, an understanding of how to use your support tools to benefit the team, and also VC helps a ton

Single player actually helps a lot to prepare for deep dives; as you need to do everything in solo. This makes it so when you play a deep dive, your able to do everything incase others can’t. For example, your the engi and the scout can’t mine nirta. Instead of leaving it you place some platforms and mine it yourself.

[ivory spire]

well thats sad i havent played anything but engi but the game wont give me any Engi overclocks

[icy ledge]

Eh, happens. Turret whip or some stubby build are both still good base

Lok1 as well, but I find it too ammo draining for a deep dive

You don’t really need OCs (especially for the base deep dive) but the elite one is pretty rough without some

Unless your a god gaemr

[icy ledge]

Also, you should play with the other classes. I only played scout for my first week or so, but I fell in love with all the classes equally as I played them

[ivory spire]

i know

but all my friends are in lost ark jail so im currently solo playing and engi just feels comfy

[outer lion]

hi 🙂 I have never done a deep dive. What hassard level do they compare to?

[atomic cipher]

Normal is maximum 3.5

Elite is maximum 5.5

[outer lion]

cheers, I think I can do normal then

[atomic cipher]

Are u on ps?

[outer lion]

nope, pc

[lethal oyster]

This weeks elite Deep Dive, is it just me or did the nemesis spawn

[coral pond]

Nemmy spawned on mine too

[broken turret]

does deep diives give u overclocks faster than regular missons?

[lethal oyster]

Mine spawned it while I was doing the twin dreadnaughts

[lethal oyster]

It's a more reliable way to get them

[coral pond]

Mine was during fueling

[broken turret]

so its better than waiting for the weekly event

[coral pond]

Huh?

[lethal oyster]

Just do them both

[broken turret]

tru

[lethal oyster]

Deep dive is more for tryhards

[coral pond]

You only get cores from the dives once a week as well

[lethal oyster]

Same thing for the mission

[broken turret]

oky

[broken turret]

did not know that huh

okay thx

[lethal oyster]

Also there's no minerals on deep dives

[broken turret]

😦

[lethal oyster]

Unless you happen to find a hauli hoarder

[coral pond]

If you've already finished the core hunts and deep dives for the week, just gotta pray to find a machine event for more OCs

[outer lion]

yay first deep dive done 😄

[lethal oyster]

How was it, friend?

[dusk kestrel]

was it fun?

[outer lion]

yeah 🙂 I might have been carried a bit. There was two with account 100+. 🙂

But 3.5 wasn't too bad

Think we had 500 nit for the last bit of area 3

[ivory spire]

i think im gonna try my first elite dive

[coral pond]

good luck

[ivory spire]

it did not go well

at all

😄

[wraith shard]

what went wrong

[little turtle]

how do i report a bug in deep dive

there was a one of the heart stone pillars that kept shooting laser at doretta after we destroyed it

first time i've seen anything like that

[lethal oyster]

That's just a general bug

[true sage]

How hard would deep dives be for me? For context i have 58 hours on the game, three dwarves promoted (scout, engineer, driller) and only really play haz 3 with randoms

[wraith shard]

deep dive is piss easy

elite deep dive you would struggle if you have no haz 5 experience

[true sage]

Really? The deep dives seem really intimidating

[wraith shard]

deep dive is haz 3/3.5/3.5

unless you fail haz 3 missions you'll be fine

elite deep dive difficulty varies massively depending on the week

mainly depending on mix of modifiers, mission type and spawn pool

If you have a good build and good mechanical skill you can adapt to it fast

I recommend playing with a good team tho

pub EDDs are super hit or miss

[true sage]

Thats gonna be the real challenge i guess

None of my friends have drg so im gonna have to rely on this server to offer up teammates

[wraith shard]

the best way to go is make friends through pubs

that you can play with regularly

[true sage]

Nobody has mics in any of my games tho, and if they do their speaking a foreign language with a potato mic

[wraith shard]

lfg channel

lfg is pubs

[true sage]

Ohh my bad😭

[wraith shard]

😭

[wraith shard]

😭

[grim wadi]

you made progress, by learning \o/

[young yew]

I do pub dives with silent or Chinese typing dwarves most of the time and I'm fine. You're good mate. What do you have to lose, just get in there

[humble flame]

the V button is all you ever need

[stoic wharf]

hey i have a question about the assignment "objective: breach the core"

not really a deep dive but

when i did my first mission of the assignment i played scout and got a matrix core for scout, the next time i played gunner and got a core for gunner

is this just a fluke? the wiki doesnt say whether or not the class played affects the reward

[frank sundial]

the reward is random, you just had a coincidence

[stoic wharf]

yeah thats what i figured lol

[frank sundial]

yeah\

[frank sundial]

how is the nitra on the edd

is it a problem? or is it easy

[olive flicker]

There is more nitra than you'll know what to do with.

[frank sundial]

on the edd?

[olive flicker]

Yes.

[frank sundial]

ok thanks

[digital wing]

does each union chapter get the same objectives?

[untold saddle]

They're all taken from the same pool. All the union chapters are pretty much the same.

[delicate aurora]

anyone up for the EDD ? I'm level 600

[random rampart]

#lfg-steam

[plucky island]

How often do the game have limited time assignments?

Like the current one has the party hat skin

[old widget]

Several times a year

[delicate aurora]

Last year were DRG anniversary, Lunar festival, summer hats, oktoberfest, halloween and christmas if I don't forget any

[icy ledge]

Christmas got one called yuletide, and I believe Easter got a small one too

[long nova]

is deep dive and elite deep dive's difference only in difficulty?

[delicate aurora]

pretty much, they also don't have the same layout of course

[runic relic]

And seperate rewards so you can do both

[ionic vigil]

Anyone need a driller for a deep?

[tardy girder]

pretty much: deep dives are haz 3/3.5/3.5 while elite dives are haz 4.5/5/5.5. both work under the same rules and give the same rewards

[hybrid grail]

just did my first edd with 4 gunners

ended up being a lot easier than I imagined

[wind dirge]

hey, i completed my first regular dd. what does the timer under the "launch" button mean? is it when i can claim rewards again from it?

[lethal oyster]

No, you can't claim cores from them again, not until they reset

Also could you show the picture? I honestly forgot what it looks like

[wind dirge]

i cant post images here 😅

[hybrid grail]

i put one in #drg-gallery

[lethal oyster]

Alr ty

@wind dirge That's the timer for when they reset I think

[wind dirge]

isn't that the timer on the top right?

[lethal oyster]

Wait no it's not

[fringe thistle]

That's just telling you the shortest time you completed that specific dive

[fringe thistle]

Yep

[lethal oyster]

I'm confused

OH

Ty Miz

[fringe thistle]

XD

[wind dirge]

oh cool, yeah i didnt notice it doesnt count down

[lethal oyster]

I learned something new

[fringe thistle]

No prob lol

Took me a few deep dives before I even realized it

[worthy jungle]

anybody interested in a mid-day EDD?

[brisk spear]

#lfg-steam

[worthy jungle]

yee

[tough skiff]

i just Ctrl+Click things and it works every time 60% of the time

[solemn kiln]

question, im in a deep dive public session right now as host, were all in the shuttle but the mission won't start

is this because there is a unpromoted character?

(he has another character that is promoted, but this driller isnt)

ah nevermind

[scarlet ravine]

has to be promoted on the currently selected class

[solemn kiln]

oh you're right

he switched

thanks 🙂

[ivory spire]

attempt number 2 at elite dives

[wraith shard]

best of luck!

[ivory spire]

to asnwer the very late quesiton

the exploders

on stage 2

[wraith shard]

sadge

[unique jasper]

Me and @rigid girder doing our first deep dive any tips?

[wraith shard]

dont die

[supple remnant]

Kill bugs

[unique jasper]

Thank you

[supple remnant]

Np

But like fr there’s not too much to say about a dd

I’m sure you’ve done missions that are just as hard before but if you haven’t it’s still not bad

Just communicate and have fun

[unique jasper]

Fair enough

[coral pond]

Nitra is saved between missions so be cautious of your resupply usage

[wraith shard]

there is enough nitra on each stage for that stage so if you end up with 0 at the end of each stage is does not matter

carrying over extra is just a bonus

[dull narwhal]

who wanna do deep dives?

[wind dirge]

you wanna edd?

just lost my first attempt at edd at stage 3

we were fighting twin dreads and guess who decides to show up

a nemesis 🥲

[dull narwhal]

your talking to me?

[wind dirge]

yes

[dull narwhal]

oh sure we can do it, but you play from xbox acc?

on pc

[wind dirge]

no, pc

[dull narwhal]

no i mean not from steam

[wind dirge]

only have steam, sorry

[dull narwhal]

bruh

[wind dirge]

😔

[wraith shard]

🥹

[dull narwhal]

ey hecate do you play from xbox acc?

[wraith shard]

nosir

[dull narwhal]

aww

[coral pond]

Can always #lfg-xbox-microsoft

[wraith shard]

try #lfg-xbox-microsoft

ya

[coral pond]

Kek

[ivory spire]

well

our host disconnected

middle of stage 2

[rigid girder]

We died, round three 2/3rds of the way in. Got one tapped by something random

Didn’t see it coming

[wraith shard]

😭

[unique jasper]

Very unfortunate so close to the end

[mild ice]

man this weeks elite deep dive is nuts

great fun with a good team 😄

[noble bolt]

Is it me or is this week's elite deep dive incredibly difficult ?

[ivory spire]

i just cant seem to finish the elite dive

[pliant yoke]

Myself and the boys didn't have too much trouble with it, but that's not to say it's a condescending statement. Rival modifier is a pain in the butt most of the time, as it's just launching timed threats at you, even during events such as Dreadnaughts encounter in Stage 3

I imagine this is even worse if you're attempting to complete the EDD in pick-up lobbies instead of with the help of organised group of friends, like myself

IIRC Stage 2 has particularly difficult terrain to navigate, despite the general abundance of basic resources

[swift aspen]

sorry if this is an obvious question, but since reddit is down are the deep dive missions posted anywhere in this discord

[pliant yoke]

As in, what to expect in each stage?

[swift aspen]

correct

[pliant yoke]

Check the pins for this channel

[swift aspen]

ty so much sir

[lament yacht]

Not clear how to find a competent grp for elite DDs.

[swift aspen]

I consider myself pretty greybeardish if you wanna run one

[quiet lark]

you at least get a ton of nitra for this EDD

can afford to run some pretty ammo hungry loadouts if you want

[noble bolt]

Yeah I've tried twice with 1 friend and 2 randoms, failed on the 2cd and 3rd stages

We just need to get good I guess

[pliant yoke]

Duos are generally easier than full stacks

[noble bolt]

we ran out of nitra in the 3rd stage and just died against 5 Preatorians

[pliant yoke]

I obviously cannot tell what hazard you are usually playing, although if you can handle regular Haz 5 missions (or Haz 4 - all things considered, the gap between the two difficulty levels is not that big) in duos, you should almost certainly be able to handle an EDD with good understanding of what you two should be doing

[noble bolt]

haz 4 most of the time

Maybe I should try haz 5 more often

[wraith shard]

yes

[civic shadow]

Hey I just did a Deep Dive with my friend but I didn't get any of the rewards and he did, has this happened to anyone else?

[wraith shard]

thats weird

the rewards appear after each stage btw not at the end, did you check the forge?

[wind dirge]

^^^^^

[wraith shard]

also you only get one set of rewards each week

[civic shadow]

OOOOhhhhhh

Maybe that was it

I did one a few days ago

[wraith shard]

yeah if you do the same one again you wont get any new cores

you still get the xp and credits tho

[civic shadow]

What about Elite Dive?

[wind dirge]

same deal

you get rewards once a week for regular dives and elite deep dives

[civic shadow]

One reward *each or combined?

xD sorry I can read your answer either way

[wraith shard]

each

9 cores per week, 3 from DD, 3 from EDD, 3 from core hunt

and ofc you can get cores from promo

[humble flame]

Wait that’s it??

Also 3 of those are cosmetics

So basically 6 per week

[noble bolt]

yup, that's it

[eternal flame]

Anyone from Aus/NZ here? I'm going to do my first elite deep dive today if anybody's down :).

[wraith shard]

if it wasnt dozer I would have said yes

also im on like 0 sleep

but another time I'll give you the hard carry

[eternal flame]

all good :). i tried to solo it a few days ago and it was fine until the heartstone - too much DPS to repair through - couldn't do both with killing the tentacles

haha cheers!

I don't think I'm too bad but I certainly don't think my builds are optimized at all for it.

Wasn't necessarily thinking right away, right now, but some time before the reset.

[wraith shard]

try find some pubs maybe tho chances of you finding a team that will win is pretty slim but gl

[eternal flame]

not many people on right now.

for aus/nz at least.

[wraith shard]

yeah but you can play to other regions, its laggy but it works

rn is like prime NA hours

[eternal flame]

and that's fine for edd difficulty?

[wraith shard]

yeah if your team is good

EDD really isnt nearly as hard as people make it out to be IF your team has good builds and is atleast semi competent

good build meaning good perk selection, good weapon/mod choice for the mission types, good overclocks

[eternal flame]

right :). i dont know my level - i think im capable but havent really been pushed and practiced edd's either so 🤷‍♂️ . also not so sure about my builds.

[wraith shard]

I can help you out with that if/when we play

[eternal flame]

sounds perfect, cheers. ive done all my class promotions but intended on using it to find my favourite. probably scout.

[green trench]

What’s the best class to solo run a deep dive?

[wraith shard]

probably gunner

[green trench]

Ok thanks

I will try that

[wraith shard]

I mean every class is perfectly viable for solo DD/EDD but gunner prob easiest

[young yew]

Turrets and explosions guy

[noble bolt]

best loadout on explosions guy ?

I can't get a single good overclock on him, it's all gunner and driller >:(

[grim wadi]

a high swarm clear build for him is shard diffractor Volatile Impact Reactor OC with stubby EM discharge

i was also happy with turret whip shotgun + rocket jumping grenade launcher, pretty easy to just launch away from danger and platform cusion your landing

[noble bolt]

gotta get lucky with OCs now

[wraith shard]

getting oc's you don't want rly sucks but at the same time it makes the feeling of getting one you want even better

[honest eagle]

i just attempted my first elite deep dive, are they usually this hard????

cause this weeks deep dive is the most painful thing im experiencing rn

[olive flicker]

This week's edd is actually pretty easy.

Last stage is a bit of work, but the final cave is big enough to slowly chip at and you have the nitra for it as well.

[honest eagle]

honestly the second stage is what really bums up my attempts cause there is one spit ball infector that everyone notices just a bit too late that is behind the starting drop
and the fact fact it has rich atmo with exploder infest it gets stressful real quick cause of the cramp area

my last run was the first time to reach third stage, its just that we ran out of ammo at a very tall cliff face and swarm came just then

[olive flicker]

Yea a lot of people have complained about stage 2 start this week, personally I didn't find it to be an issue.

Gunner helps to get a bit of time to clear things up, but it is also possible to run towards the refinery at the start and then clear from there.

[honest eagle]

yeah, thats what I had to do for my last attempt, worked cause I tossed down a resupply soon as i reached the refinery

worked aight actually

[olive flicker]

Honestly the area around the refinery is the only nice bit of that cave, the rest of it is atrocious to navigate.

The only time I left it was to set up.

There is a bit of area to the right (around the closest pump jack) and a very convenient tunnel to the left.

[honest eagle]

yeah, now that i actually found some time to explore the area a bit stage 2 got easier this time around but when we fumbled on stage 3 i lost any more mental capacity to attempt any more edd today

[olive flicker]

Took me 2 attempts solo and the first one I failed on stage 3 to cave leeches, that was annoying.

[steel python]

So close to new dives

[runic relic]

Weekly load of new oc's and drip inc

[red rover]

I haven't finished any deepdives yet. What's a fool proof plan for finishing one??? I'm just a noob but have promoted my gunner and driller, so still very low level and not enough overclocks

[wraith shard]

the foolproof way is get carried by 3 good players

[runic relic]

Regular deep dive is pretty much free, no stress

[manic pivot]

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

[fast stream]

All you really need is 2 players with AoE damage (eg. driller with well, anything and gunner with bullet hell or neurotoxin. Engineer can do both like executioner and inferno Ocs)

But if you have like a scout with m1000 + boltshark (no ocs), engineer with shotty and GL and gunner with minigun for single target damage and no good secondary then you're dead

Even if you have a good balance between AoE and single target, you wont be able to fight a "buffed" swarm on your own

By buffed i mean they're scaled up because of 4 dwarves

[steady peak]

hii

I´m kinda new, and I was looking with people to do my first deep dive with, since my friends are not enough level yet

[untold saddle]

#lfg-steam

[tough skiff]

hoard nitra before everything else

[upper harness]

I got disconnected in the middle of an edd

[rugged portal]

literally me fr

[upper harness]

If only we can reconnect somehow. I feel bad for who gets left behind in there when it happens.

[supple remnant]

Unless you got disconnected too then you can add them back to the game thru steam iirc

But meh

[grim wadi]

you cant reconnect if youre not friends? damn, iirc the game will prompt you to reconnect if your game crashes at least, not sure if its just a normal disconnect tho

[old widget]

Reconnect doesn’t require being friends, the game has its own “oops you got disconnected” detection that will try to get you back into the same game if it triggers. But…it’s not very reliable/consistent.

[wind rock]

i just started and have been using engi (currently red level 11, blue level 5); I would like to use scout or gunner instead due to mobility differences; should i keep leveling my engi and promote him once to unlock features or is it not too much time lost and its ok to just start playing another class?

[olive flicker]

I think it's fine to play another class. Fun comes first.

[olive flicker]

Engi has great mobility fwiw

[ivory spire]

another day another attempt at my first elite dive

[reef sequoia]

Don’t be scared to use nitra for health

[neon thicket]

RIght.. I'm New Here... And Hello

Hello... The Game is Only 9.89$ On Stream... Anyone Buying?

[olive flicker]

Can't buy it when I already own it

[neon thicket]

hehehe good one... well hello... i'm new here... and didn't get to play or buy it yet...

so any review?

[grim wadi]

best thing since sliced zombies

[rugged portal]

you can gift it to people

😍

[silver condor]

yeeeee

[pseudo condor]

if youve completed the deep dive can you do it again and receive rewards?

[rugged portal]

you can but you won't receive additional core

[brisk pagoda]

dd, edd, and core hunt reset each week on thursday. they each give 1 blank core, 1 weapon core, and 1 cosmetic core. so doing all 3 each week will give you 3 blanks, 3 weapons, and 3 cosmetics per week.

[robust pelican]

how much time until reset?

[scarlet ravine]

if you infuse and craft all nine cores you can get another weapon and cosmetic every week as well

from crafting mastery

[brisk pagoda]

thursday 7am est, so 14 hours 15 minutes

[robust pelican]

thanks

[ivory spire]

atleast i finished my first elite dive

[stone yacht]

When does the anniversary end? I do wanna try out legacy DRG before it's gone.

[steel python]

March 16th

[stone yacht]

Ty. Sorry if this is a consistent question. Couldn't find an answer when I scrolled up

[grim wadi]

oh shi does legacy go away after that?

[manic pivot]

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

[grim wadi]

i feel like it should stay

[spring lotus]

Oh boy

I really need to give the Elite Deep Dive a try before it goes away but aint got a team capable of probably carrying my freshly promoted beard.

[turbid wasp]

This week's EDD made me hate Naedocytes even more

[brisk sinew]

That second area can go straight to the fucking dick

[quick dome]

Promoted my scout, did the deep dive, then found a random EDD and finished it first try

Was I just really lucky with my team 💀

[zenith ember]

You can try finding public groups, most are generally decent

[tender finch]

stage 2 of the elite deep dive is HELL

[turbid wasp]

My friend and I struggled more in the 3rd stage

We had a surprise Nemesis ambush when we were fighting the Dreads

[peak grove]

the trick is to kill the spitballer as soon as u spawn and get as close as possible to the refinery station. after around 5 min a bulk detonator will spawn. if you survive that you can get to making the pipelines. if you dont split up and keep in teams of 2 you should survive

[wraith shard]

Haha gunner go brrr and make everything dead.

Typically how i take out bulkies with little trouble is aim for the weakspots and when it gets close drop a shield pushing it back and spam it with grenades while opening fire again, typically kills it within 30-40 seconds tops.

[olive flicker]

You should try volatile bulldog against bulks.

[fading scroll]

This is the goat

[manic pivot]

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

[sly kettle]

Soon™

[steel python]

Excitement

[half ermine]

inb4 drilldozer + hiveguard + shield disruption + radioactive exclusion zone

[wraith shard]

can't wait for double escort

[queen rampart]

Fully update run on 7pm

So later hom

[steel python]

Almost 15 minutes boys

[sly kettle]

Good luck, everyone

[zenith ember]

All the best for the blind runners 🙂

[manic pivot]

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

[steel python]

Deep Dive Blue Desert Glacial Strata
EDD Deadman's Elevation Azure Weald

[magic spoke]

Imagine not running blind

[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: Blue Desert
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + Black Box | No Mutators
Stage 2: 3 M.U.L.E.s + Dreadnought Classic | Shield Disruption
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + 2 M.U.L.E.s | Rival Presence

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Deadman's Elevation
Stage 1: Refine Liquid Morkite + Dreadnought Classic | Volatile Guts Exploder Infestation
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + 2 M.U.L.E.s | Elite Threat
Stage 3: Escort the Drilldozer + 150 Morkite | Low Oxygen

[zenith ember]

Because im working

[steel python]

oh boy this EDD looking fun already

[tall fog]

Volatile guts pretty much cancels out exploders

[steel python]

Classic dreadnought

[steel python]

fir EDD

[candid bobcat]

EDD "Deadman's Elevation" (2023-03-16 to 2023-03-23)
Region: Azure Weald
Stage 1: Refinery + Classic Dreadnought | Exploder Infestation + Volatile Guts
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + 2 Mini-mules | Elite Threat
Stage 3: Escort Duty + 150 Morkite | Low O2

[steep finch]

EDD doesn't look too bad this time

[candid bobcat]

DD "Blue Desert" (2023-03-16 to 2023-03-23)
Region: Glacial Strata
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + Blackbox
Stage 2: 3 Mini-mules + Classic Dreadnought | Shield Disruption
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + 2 Mini-mules | Rival Presence

[wraith shard]

hi mem

[harsh pendant]

Much obliged

[steel python]

Sheesh that was fast reporting

We're just going to stage 2 now lol

[wraith shard]

mem's just cracked at the game

[steel python]

Here we go stage 3...

low o2 escort 😩

GG we did it

So many exploders even without the infestation

[onyx bridge]

about to do a deepdive normal in oce region. join blazingfires300 or message me