deep-dive-discussion

[bitter hawk]

refreshing the ship for better boosts (red rock blasters my beloved)

[spiral badge]

Morkite + mules? Yeah BET-C would be of little help there if you took control of it

Not worth a no shield fight against it for sure

[limber stratus]

hiiii

if i have nitra in pocket - because mule left at end - does it count to next mission?

[dense pebble]

yes.

the drop pod also has places to put minerals into as well.

any minerals in your pocket will carry over, however anything you're holding in your hands (crafting minerals, compressed gold, etc.) will not

those must be put into the MULE or drop pod before mission end to count, on any mission type.

[turbid dawn]

the number of ppl ive seen just run towards a bet c is soo painful, even after digging a loop around

[spiral badge]

As said, pocket stuff carries over but I still like to stick everything in the deposit place on the drop pod just to be sure, if Molly is docked

[muted scroll]

what are the sages for teh elite deep dive?

yeah i found it too late

what character do you recommend for completing it solo?

what is the terrain like?

[limber stratus]

whats a sage

[muted scroll]

a person who is described as having incredible knowledge or wisdom

[muted scroll]

in other words their knees hurt real bad

[limber stratus]

:<

I know what that sort of sage is

but in the context of DRG

[muted scroll]

its whoever can answer the question of what is the best class to use for the EDD.

[limber stratus]

oh

[spiral badge]

That’s totally up to your preferences

[muted scroll]

what is the terrain like for the eggs and aquarks is my main concern. will gunners 4 ziplines cut it, do i need the platform gun for strange egg spawns on the ceiling, are there drillable shortcuts, or can I just zip arround and get bosco to do most of the work?

[spiral badge]

Also depends what the other people in your team are

[muted scroll]

solo

[spiral badge]

Well for this EDD if I was going solo I’d probably go driller

[full saddle]

there are no eggs on the edd, bosco can get just about every aquarq on stage 1 aside from 1 very easily, theres an abundance of nitra on s1 and s2, s3 is morkite so its easy

gunner works just fine

[tidal anvil]

this deep dive isn’t ass bad as last weeks

last weeks had 3 infectors in a room along with other shit

and i’m so glad its not as bad

[spiral badge]

I like going engie for escort (especially at EDD haz) as turrets really help protect dotty when you’re solo, so personally gunner would be my 3rd choice but really it’s up to you

[mellow cradle]

engi can also block rocks

[muted scroll]

good point

[spiral badge]

Block and stone!

Blockin’ stone?

[mellow cradle]

block and no more stone

[eager flame]

Should i change the pinned message so that it shows more lined up on the pinned tab? Or is it fine as it is?

Like from:

Stage 1: ** 6 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Regenerative Bugs**
Stage 2: ** 7 Aquarqs + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies**
Stage 3: ** 4 Eggs + 1 Dreadnought (Classic) | No Mutator**

to

Stage 1:
** 6 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Regenerative Bugs**
Stage 2:
** 7 Aquarqs + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies**
Stage 3:
** 4 Eggs + 1 Dreadnought (Classic) | No Mutator**

Or would it still break the lines there?

[spiral badge]

I’d say you do it whatever way works best for you. I’m thankful to have someone willing to do it every week

[eager flame]

It's because i don't know if it looks different with other screen resolutions

I'll put it for now, if it looks too weird i'll change it back

Yeah, no, it looks messy af

I'll go back

[vapid coral]

WHAT DOES HQ NEED WITH THIS MANY EGGS

[eager flame]

Making the mother of all omelettes here Jack

Exactly a dozen eggs

Damn

[mortal cliff]

it is fine as it is now

[spiral badge]

Asking the real questions

Oh it is eggzactly a dozen, huh

[tropic reef]

Chickens are protesting so replacements must be found

[autumn egret]

Anyone done this week's EDD solo?

[mellow cradle]

not yet, but I plan to

[autumn egret]

I attempted to do it with scout just now

The second stage.... did not go well for me

[bitter hawk]

whats wrong with stage 2? what makes it difficult solo?

swarms... oh no

[mellow cradle]

uhhh

scout on escort + swarmageddon is not a good idea

[bitter hawk]

i think as an engi is pretty okay for it.

swarmer drones my beloved

[mellow cradle]

I'll be planning to the the EDD solo engi with EXE + VIR

should work very well

[spiral badge]

Engie seems alright for it though turrets aren’t great against the little swarmers

[mellow cradle]

turrets are good, because they have perfect aim

besides, I have VIR

so swarmers aren't a problem

[spiral badge]

Yeah but they fire bursts and have a cool down

I really wish they fixed thorns to where the cooldown doesn’t apply to swarmers’ attacks

[woeful niche]

that was literally the reason it was added tho

[autumn egret]

Swarmageddon, haz 5, drilldozer. All those combined while trying to play scout lol.

I made it to the heartstone bug got downed trying to resupply

[bitter hawk]

let me guess. swarmers downed you?

pesky lil rats...

[spiral badge]

I mean the cooldown triggers for swarmers when it shouldn’t

[woeful niche]

no that’s intentional

that cooldown was literally added for swarmers

[spiral badge]

Should be lowered to .5s then imo

[mellow cradle]

thorns kill one swarmer when multiple attack, and I think that's balanced

[dense pebble]

lowering the cooldown would make thorns too powerful and swarmers too weak

they're supposed to be a threat

[mellow cradle]

thorns are already pretty good anyway as is

[dense pebble]

otherwise they might as well not exist

whats the point of having enemies if they aren't dangerous

[spiral badge]

They still damage you even if they’d die right after

[mellow cradle]

well, yes, because the ability is called thorns

enemies get damaged when attacking you

not when they think about attacking you

[dense pebble]

like, I don't see the issue here

the perk is meant to add an optional fringe benefit, not to automate gameplay

if you want to automate killing bugs, just play engineer.

[mellow cradle]

think about thorns as an auto pickaxe swing when something small attacks you

because that's literally what you would do if you didn't have thorns

thorns allow you to skip that process

[dense pebble]

<@&296918282403840000> a bot requires removal

thank you in advance!

[spiral badge]

So given that I think I’d do driller for a swarmageddon in EDD

[dense pebble]

assuming you have all OCs, any class can do swarm clear.

Thunderhead built for AoE, coilgun hellfire for example on gunner

[spiral badge]

I don’t have even close to all OCs lol

[mellow cradle]

but driller is easiest, yes

however, driller kinda struggles against flying rocks

keep that in mind

[dense pebble]

this is why I don't solo deep dives

I'm not that guy

[spiral badge]

I think I can probably axe the flying rocks

Or else just continually repair dotty while Bosco shoots stuff

[dense pebble]

plasma pistol

don't repair dottie through flying rocks

they will kill you too

[mellow cradle]

repairing dotty during the rock phase is a bad idea

[spiral badge]

Plasma pistol is good for rocks?

[autumn egret]

I found out the hard way

[mellow cradle]

no, but tcf is

[dense pebble]

built for damage it can be.

if you're solo, and have heavy hitter, you can feasibly kill all of them with it.

tcf requires skill I do not possess.

[autumn egret]

But if you just let them beat the dozer around how are you supposed to deal with the lazers

[dense pebble]

wdym

driller can eliminate the lasers super easy

[mellow cradle]

• bosco deals with beamers too

and they are much less dangerous for dotty than rocks

[dense pebble]

oh also tip for escort

after repairing dottie to 100%, she's invincible for like 4 seconds

[mellow cradle]

is that so?

[dense pebble]

it is

[spiral badge]

You didn’t know that?!

Even I knew that and I’m a super greenbeard

[dense pebble]

its easy to miss if you're not looking for it

repairing during the beam phase is the easiest way to see it.

[spiral badge]

Or just looking at the wiki which is what I did

[dense pebble]

all my wiki time was spent on deciding which OCs I wanted

[mellow cradle]

good to know

[dense pebble]

and then I actually played with them and all my opinions changed

[spiral badge]

I tend to read game wikis a lot

[maiden cypress]

it hurts to do an edd with 3 player who dont know that you keep the recourses during dives

[river pumice]

lets hope you dont play risk of rain 2

[spiral badge]

Don’t even know what that is

[celest ruin]

a game, the amount of items is quite high

[velvet raptor]

engi would be so cool if i would have rj 250

[coral pond]

You can repair her from the ground, not getting hit by any of the rocks. Just a tight angle

[drowsy rapids]

Is deep dive worth it

[coral pond]

You get overclocks so

[drowsy rapids]

Is it worth

Tho

[coral pond]

You get overclocks

[drowsy rapids]

…

R there better ways or is that the best way

[coral pond]

There's core hunt assignment, which is also one weekly like the deep dive rewards, and promoting dwarves

Those are the 3 ways you get overclocks

You can get overclocks once a week from both the regular deep dive and the elite, so 6 cores total if you do both

[dense sage]

the dd and edd are each 1/3 of your weekly, regularly available core rations
and you don’t have to do the whole thing to get cores. each of the 3 stages gets you a core, in the same order as the core hunt (blank, weapon, cosmetic)
there’s no reason to not try them

[spiral badge]

At least finish stage 2 for the weapon one, cosmetic one is only if you want the drip

[ember trellis]

Is this weeks DD easy (ish)?

[wet moon]

I felt it was. Second stage got hairy for me w/ hunting aquarks, but that could have been on me. For what it's worth, I ran solo with no OC scout.

[dense pebble]

being haz 3, I would consider every DD to be easy if I'm being honest

the nitra carry-over means that aside from potential wonky terrain gen, you're gonna be just fine

[spiral badge]

When I do solo, I can always beat it by my second attempt

I’ll usually make a stupid mistake at some point the first try and use all 4 of bosco’s revives

[woeful niche]

even wonky terrain gen doesn’t matter

if ur decent at fps games and have all mods on ur gun, you shudnt ever really struggle with haz 3

[bitter hawk]

I remember my first group being so surprised when I told them that it was my first ever deep dive.

I started doing deep dives after I exclusively played gunner all the way to legend 3. And not gonna lie... I kiinda wish I did deep dives sooner lol.

My only real regret.

[valid ginkgo]

I'd probably also be surprised if you have a maxed out Gunner and have not done dives. Since overclocks. But at least you've started now. Rock and Stone!

[valid ginkgo]

There's a certain position that lets you repair during rock phase without getting hit by the AoE. Not a lot of people know though.

[brisk pagoda]

stand under the back wheel and repair from below and max distance. rock aoe
wont hit you.

[spiral badge]

Dang lol. I started DDs not long after I promoted my first class. Just got achievement for having done 5 DDs so I guess that’s what I’m at

[safe laurel]

wayyyyyyy

deep dives

fat boy does not exist

wayyyyyyyyyyy

where is my fat boy?

wyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

WHERE IS IT

[alpine mauve]

Ngl I feel like they're giving too much nitra on EDDs, haz 5.5 just doesnt feel like a challenge when you can have all the ammo you want , though maybe i'm too much of a graybeard
Less skilled people should have fun too

[woeful niche]

its been that way for a long time

im not sure how to remedy the "snowball" effect of edds

ig just download a mod that increases nitra cost if u want a challenge kek

[still geode]

you can also use a mod to have the entire EDD be haz 5.5 instead of only the last stage, that way you can experience the difficulty before you have all that nitra stockpiled and also will likely end up using more nitra and have less stockpiled at the end

[dense sage]

EDD1 is not ok wtf

[grim laurel]

how’s the EDD?

aw fuck nah

[full saddle]

its pretty simple this week, crit weakness helps a lot w/ drilldozer and theres a lot of nitra everywhere

final stage is very easy

[grim laurel]

eh me and my friend are idiots

shield disruption on final stage will fuck is up

[ancient cove]

easy this week

Had no struggle at all

Last mission is Shield Disruption, but at the same time, it's a simple mining mission

[river pumice]

the edd is definitely easy this week. Sometimes it is harder and nitra is a problem or concern. It's random afaik.

I think the nitra could be toned down on the average but considering it is rng, I dont think there is an easy solution. Imo, it's fine as it is. I dont ever want to lose because "there wasnt enough nitra." I want to lose because "damn that is hard".

[copper horizon]

damn, got into dd game with nice people... too bad host had bad internet (mcdonalds wifi as he says). Got disconnect on stage 2

[ancient cove]

You could try to reconnect

[copper horizon]

how

[ancient cove]

#deep-dive-discussion message

[copper horizon]

well its apparently for a bug. In my case, host just had bad internet
had constant lags in stage 1; I guess they just lost internet completely during stage 2

[ancient cove]

It's just my text from two weeks ago as it was a bug

but it doesn't matter

the reconnection method works always

1. After you get disconnected, go to the EDD Terminal and find the lobby you were in before (it will be grayed out)
2. Mouse Right-Click on the lobby to open the Steam Profile of the Host.
3. If Host's profile isn't private/invisible etc. there should be a green "Join" button
4. Use the Join button to rejoin the lobby.
   If host's profile is private, you can try to add him as friend.

[copper horizon]

ah ok. Tho other thing about this method is that, as usually, I completely failed to remember (or pay attention) what lobby I am in :)

[wraith shard]

i feel like stage 1 should be base 80, next 90, and 120 for the final challenge

[copper quest]

how many refuels is EDD Stage 2?

[river pumice]

i believe deep dive dorettas are always 1

[copper quest]

ty

[river pumice]

i could be wrong.

[ancient cove]

Don't know about always, but it's definitely 1 time this EDD

[dense sage]

how do you guys deal with the swarm on edd1’s black box?

[full saddle]

what class?

general advice for any bb is to have a resupply inside/accessible from the zone and pay attention to sound cues to figure out where bugs are coming from quickly

[dense sage]

tried to add cc with persistent plasma + tuned cooler driller, but they just piled on really fast
the detonator that keeps showing up didn’t help

[still geode]

if a bulk dies while frozen it only knocks ppl back, doesn't kill you or destroy tons of terrain

[dense sage]

that’s a given, but i can’t even get to the bulk to freeze it past everything else

[full saddle]

are u solo?

[dense sage]

nah, it was a balanced team with every class
the aquarqs were ok enough with some scrambling

[full saddle]

ah okay

[eager flame]

Got 2 dets on EDD first stage on that one, really rough

[full saddle]

i was gonna say for solo driller, i had a decent time with sludge + wave cooker

but group stuff is probably pretty different

[eager flame]

With no setup it can really break your team if they don't have good coordination

[dense sage]

i was thinking of black boxing first while we have all our ammo

[full saddle]

its not a bad idea, i think the important bit is just having a resupply for ability to spam high impact abilities/grenades and heal

[still geode]

id recommend getting at least one resupply worth of nitra first so that you can call it in already, that way if someone needs ammo or health during the box it's available and you'll likely need to resupply afterwards for ammo regardless

[dense sage]

haven’t tried sludge much yet, might swap to it for the next try
i do have goobomber to spread it around

[full saddle]

like for bb's a gunner using shields constantly can make it a cakewalk

[still geode]

yeah, make sure gunners are using their shields

using too many shields just costs you a bit of nitra, using too few shields costs you the mission

[full saddle]

yeah

also its worth it for players like scouts with snipers or anyone with high single target to leave in order to kill stuff like opressors before they get inside

praets are similarly damaging, a praet dying inside the zone might make the entire team just take lots of damage and snowball it

were you just dying to the bulk det mostly?

[dense sage]

bulk def got inside on the first try, tried to kamikaze c4 it while in IW, and we managed to kill it
second try was just the swarm overwhelming us, with the bulk imminently approaching

[full saddle]

gotcha, it kinda sounds like your comp is just lacking aoe dps for whatever reason. for that bb specifically, the only dangerous angle is the cliff, thats the only one where bugs can really surprise you and get up close quickly

you should be able to deal with other bugs relatively easily before they get too close

[dense sage]

it was a random team :/ the gambles ya take

[full saddle]

and yeah bulk dets are a real problem with those, i main gunner so i have a pretty easy time with them with leadburster + shield, but thats by no means a guarantee on your team

[still geode]

most gunners i come across don't know that you can throw your shield onto enemies to push them away

[full saddle]

yeah its so insanely good for dets in that scenario

[dense sage]

i might bring my scc shaped shells scout to deal with the big threats and let the others deal with the swarms
i’ve got some time to try different approaches
helps that i know where the ceiling aqs are now

[full saddle]

yeah its always nice to have a really good single target person, ive gotten bulk dets on s3 as well so itll definitely help there

[dense sage]

yesterday i had a haz4 mission open with both a regular and crassus det just
spawned in already
kinda f’d up ngl

s3 as in season 3, or something else?

[full saddle]

stage 3, sorry

of the edd

[stoic hearth]

what oc should i run on my autocannon for edd stage 3, i can't beat it

[tiny portal]

I like 22313 with composite drums myself, this way you can keep firing at big or small targets with 220 mag size, do good dmg and have an almost permanent 50 percent dmg reduction. Combat Mobility would probably be great with this build but I dont have that OC. Only useful for medium and short range, use your pistol for longer range.

[stoic hearth]

thank you

[dry root]

i was scout so i kited outside the zones while my teammates cycle shields and other stuff

but tbf, i had embedded dets and we had good focus fire so it went mostly alright with the bulk

ordering a resup in the zone helps too

[rose yacht]

I was scout at the time, and all i did was throw pheromones.

and the detonator killed shit for me.

I was using [The Specialist]

for extra pheromones duration coupled with duration mod pheromones.

so yeah, it lasted for quite a disgusting amount of time.

(And my team abused it.)

[spare carbon]

Completed my first edd today rock and stone

[frosty tundra]

Did my first deep dive two days ago

I really

REALLY

hate dreadnoughts

[dense pebble]

Once you know all their attacks, they’re pretty easy to deal with

Just make sure you find a decently large and flat area to fight in

[rose yacht]

this... tbh... i had a team once where scout blamed me for using bullet hell with stun mod... when clearly the driller and engi wasnt doing their job despite the poor location of the objective defense mission.

[dense pebble]

I mean, gunner's main function in stationary defense is to pop shields when the swarm gets too close

[rose yacht]

its hard to keep people alive with just shield.

[dense pebble]

if you're doing that you're already pulling your weight IMO

Scout can focus down the big targets, Engie can just turn ammo into pure dps, and driller takes care of crowds.

[rose yacht]

the area defense was poor we were inside a crater.

and driller forgot he had drills.

[dense pebble]

Unfortunate

[vague mural]

Just witnessed a 8:20 deep dive

[candid rapids]

Just joined with randoms and did my first deep dive and Elite deep dive in one sitting, I love this community :D

[spiral badge]

Like, total time?

[vague mural]

Yeah

[spiral badge]

Holy balls

[vague mural]

On yt

Just search deep dive speed run 8:20

[spiral badge]

Was it this week?

[burnt sandal]

#deep-dive-speedrunning message

there's also a youtube video of it

[spiral badge]

That’s hauling butt

[burnt yew]

what are the rewards for deep dive elite ?

[random rampart]

one weapon oc, one cosmetic core and a blank core

same as the regular dd

[burnt yew]

ok

thanks

[compact dock]

You guys got any tips for this weeks elite deep dive?

Namely the second level

[still geode]

bullet hell kills everything with ease on crit weakness while also providing u with massive safety via the stun mod and being able to deal with large quantities of swarmers

[river pumice]

it's critical weakness. Shoot them.

[spiral badge]

Cryo the little buggers to death

[celest ruin]

kill fast

first stage also has a ton of nitra, save and you'll be ok

at least no mactera this week

[still geode]

mactera plague is trivialized by hellfire

[copper horizon]

edd stage 3 had us 1) lose engie, not sure why, 2) face BET-C. Who was running away when we fought her well, and came back the moment we had 2 downed from the swarm. Welp :(

[compact dock]

Thanks guys btw your tips actually helped lol

[spiral badge]

Basically stay away from the BET-C is what I’m inferring

[spring lotus]

I still remember that moment on the Deep Dive.
We superkilled BET-C, barely made her a note on how the mission went lol.

Though i do remember emptying the flamethrower on her, and then like a good driller, just running into the nearest wall and drilling my way out.

Only to come back with the flamethrower reloaded and give her another go

[spiral badge]

I think it was last week or week before normal DD that had 2 BET-Cs in one stage. I totally got jumped by them and died

[spring lotus]

Ouch.

That's rough even by EDD standards.

let alone a normal DD-

[spiral badge]

I was able to do it solo eventually though

Only time I do co-op in DD is when there’s haunted cave cause screw that

[dense sage]

Sounds like a plan, I’ve got specialist I can toss on a build

[velvet raptor]

we got like 700 nitra entering the 2. stage

[spiral badge]

Wow I think you can dial back the nitra mining in that case 🤣

[pliant pagoda]

can cosmetic crates n stuiff spawn during deep dives?

[coral pond]

No

[wraith shard]

That EDD final stage was something else entirely

[pliant hill]

my team got wiped bc 3 oppressors spawned in the same room lmao

[faint shell]

aye, same here

[stone yacht]

trying it now - but ew shield disruption. Love that for us

[faint shell]

I got killed through gunner shield... shield disruption is the WORST

[stone yacht]

We were fine but then the engineer left because he kept dying and said 'the game is broken' (skill issue), and then an exploderer snuck up behind all 3 of us and wiped my team at the end of stage 2 (only 2 people including myself took iron will which was used on the prior wave so).

[stone yacht]

Just redid it and first no death run for EDD! And it was during shield disruption so I feels good. 1000+ kills. Was nervous trying to get back to the drop pod without dying that spawned on the other side of the map (because many other no death runs failed on return to drop pod on stage 3). And then when we were waiting at the door my teammate almost griefed me by ordering a resupply pod over me >.<

[river pumice]

absolutely gamer

[still geode]

ive had a few no death edds/missions where i got resupply podded myself, lmao

nicely done

[stone yacht]

Tyy
If my teammate boinked me with that I would have screamed internally lmao

[zenith iron]

me and 2 friends beat today's deep dive by going all fat boy
here's how that went:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1080975883516522676/1114910101304786974/Nuke.mp4

[lone crown]

What’s the difference between regular and elite deep dives? I know what it goes from 3-3.5-4 on regular but what is it on elite?

[spice herald]

4.5-5-5.5

[copper horizon]

3-3.5-3.5 on normal

[quaint holly]

anyone wanna do the edd?

[river pumice]

i dont think that's right

[coral pond]

It is right

[random rampart]

but it is

[river pumice]

3, 3.5, 3.5?

[coral pond]

Yes

[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!
_ _

[spiral badge]

Yeah yeah. Keep yer knickers on

[indigo remnant]

deep dive this week?

nvm

[bright mesa]

How do I get more cosmetics? As far as I know, the lost helmets only give pickaxe stuff, and those battery crates only give weapon frameworks. So how do I get hats and armor paintjobs?

[dense sage]

Lost packs give armor paintjobs, pickaxe parts, and Bosco cosmetics

Crates give weapon frameworks, victory moves, and Bosco cosmetics

Hats you’re thinking of are probably from infusing matrix cores.

[bright mesa]

Great to know. Thank you

[red jasper]

This EDD was crazy easy imo

[spiral badge]

Or just buy from the store lol

[grim laurel]

fuck that stage 2

double scout that shit is hell

[spiral badge]

Stage 2 was a massive pain

[rare carbon]

how long until new dives?

[pliant yoke]

Thursday.

[eager flame]

This long: <t:1686222000:R>

[rare carbon]

oh nice

thought I missed the current ones

[eager flame]

I put that timer everytime i edit the pinned message, if you want to keep track of it

[spiral badge]

I tried and failed a solo normal run twice last night as engi. Was able to do it first try as gunner

Stage 2 has like 3 oppressors, 3-4 menaces, countless praetorians and just way way too many grunts and slashers

[scarlet lark]

Are deep dives easier with fewer people?

[wraith shard]

depends on the number of people to player skill ratio

[scarlet lark]

But it scales differently right?

[wraith shard]

yeah

[spiral badge]

Unless you’re with a fairly terrible person, more dwarves are better. Bosco can only do so much

[scarlet lark]

I usually solo normal deep dives

Im not even attempting elite deep dives rn

[spiral badge]

I usually do too

[pliant tartan]

also, the stage 2 regular dive seems easier solo than anything

[shy osprey]

Which beer makes you small?

[distant dragon]

Underhill deluxe

[rose yacht]

regular deep dives are easier solo... faster in a party.

elite deep dives however... yer gotta prepare yer booty.

they can be quite unfair.

[spiral badge]

You become a hobbit

[shut sage]

the clip is hilarious

[lilac glade]

Hello, what is the regular deep dive this week,

?

[burnt sandal]

check the pinned messages

[lilac glade]

Ty ty

[steel lava]

Guys, is there anyway to reduce the amount of mobs spawning during elite deep dives? I've watched some gameplays of this week elite deep dives and every one of them had less mobs spawning than when I try it, starting by the first wave

[mellow cradle]

the amount of mobs depends on party size

[steel lava]

In the videos I saw posted on this server, the players always had some time mobs free to do the tasks. With me, every single time I finish cleaning the wave, almost imidiatly spawns a new one

[steel lava]

I didn't know that, but it makes no difference since I'm playing solo and the videos I saw were solo too

[mellow cradle]

first of all, the game decides randomly how much time to give you between each swarm, there are numerous time values with certain wieght

so you might have gotten unlucky

second of all, and this is the more probable version, you don't kill the bugs fast enough

@steel lava besides, which stage of the edd are we talking about?

is it perhaps the first, aquarks?

[steel lava]

The stage 1

[mellow cradle]

ah

then it's all clear now

point extarction mini waves get bigger as more time passes

[steel lava]

Yes, I sure need to impruve my combat skills. And by suspecting that was the case, I saw again the videos and there really was a difference in the amount of the bugs, from the start

[mellow cradle]

if you don't complete the first stage within like 20 minutes, you're done for

[wraith shard]

Imagine if escort and point extraction could be on the same mission

[mellow cradle]

aw hell nah

[steel lava]

Thanks, I'll try to clean faster every wave and impruve my time and see what happens

[mellow cradle]

for reference, I played this edd solo today, and only got one announced swarm on the first stage, because I completed it in around 10 minutes

[steel lava]

I was getting 2 announced swarms, but was dying during the blackbox every time

[mellow cradle]

yeah, bosco can dig pretty much all aquarks for you, and the one that is missing can be found in a side tunnel

[dense vessel]

Anyone willing to run an Elite Deep Dive w me, it’ll be my first but I’m confident I got the builds for it.

I’m player level 44 and got P3 Driller and P1 Scout

[wind crag]

whats this elite deep dive?

[river pumice]

if you mean what's this week's elite deep dive, it's in the pinned

[wind crag]

Oh nice thanks

[sleek verge]

if you still need tomorrow, ill be on

[dense vessel]

Nah it’s alright I joined a random one and we got it

Dude named Boy_is_Tired carried us mostly, but it went semi smoothly

[sleek verge]

awesome! hope you enjoyed!

[dense vessel]

It was definitely a fun experience lol, reminds me of Grand Masters in Destiny 2 except more intense

[deft kindle]

Every mission can be in deep dives right

Even escort?

[spiral badge]

Oh yeah, last week there was escort in DD

[dense vessel]

Escort in Elite was rough

[river pumice]

i believe so

Though the secondary is limited to mining a material, egg hunt, salvage mules, and dreadnaught killing. I think. Oh and black boxes.

[woeful patrol]

Escort is pain in EDD

Especially coupled with Elites Ennemis or Shield Disruption

[fossil cipher]

No sabatoge or lithophage as far as I know

[zenith ember]

<@&296918282403840000> ^

[fossil cipher]

Somebody got hacked

[hidden venture]

bye

[zenith ember]

its the flash pog

[fossil cipher]

We got through the second stage pretty well, swarmers were annoying.

Had more trouble in the third stage, no shields on 5.5 is always rough

Quite a few bulks in the seed too

Woke up the betc in a tunnel, then a swarm, then fun times ensued.

[woeful patrol]

Sabotage can be in it but not lithophage

[zenith ember]

bring back double sabotage

[fossil cipher]

Did that give you two caretaker bosses? Only started playing in season 3

[zenith ember]

nah i meant 2 sabo stages

[twilit birch]

Yeah no IS can fk right off and stay where it is

[rose yacht]

never wake up bet c unless you have a gun with solid single target dps.

like lead spray

[placid musk]

any sludge build kills

i ran HIA and soloed one H5

i mean just ring around the rosie with open terrain

[dense vessel]

I just set my flame thrower up to have sticky flames and that did the trick

There are so many tiny ass bugs in the Elite Deep Dive

[placid musk]

sticky flames i have not

i just go tuned cooler or disperser compound

most of the time

[dense vessel]

Sticky flames are pretty great even if you don’t run the Overclock for it (I don’t have it yet)

I cleared a whole wave in the Elite Deep Dive with only 120 ammo while I was alone

[stray lintel]

nuerotoxin/sludge damage over time does pretty insane work vs charge suckers, bonus value for not having to peak her more than a few times too

[rose yacht]

sludge always works.

bet C's problems in high haz like elite deep dives is that it runs so fast that its hard to hit its freaking weak spots.

also [even worse with shield disruption debuff.]

getting 2 shotted actually happens.

[spiral badge]

Circle of death?

[coral pond]

That's when you iron will her down

[placid musk]

run in circles around her

[spiral badge]

Yes I tend to use BattleTech terminology

Well MechWarrior

[candid hollow]

Wait is it true that beers don’t carry into deep dives?

[coral pond]

They do

[ruby wolf]

they carry throughout all 3 missions.

[velvet sonnet]

what's black box on the elite deep dive?

[quiet wyvern]

have you not encountered these before?

[velvet sonnet]

no

I've only done a few deep dives

but nevermind, checked the wiki

[quiet wyvern]

ok

[ruby wolf]

A miniature version of the end of Salvage Operation.

Should make that more clear despite the wiki-check.

You just protect the black box once it's built and then it's over.

[velvet sonnet]

yeah I figured it out

[ruby wolf]

However, Salvage Operation is still in Deep Dives.

there's just no drop pod sequence for them specifically.

[tidal prairie]

How does one promote?

[spiral badge]

https://youtu.be/G9j-vFLriuA

[digital onyx]

Dude, I just died to a fucking shellback... ON TOP OF RED SUGAR!!!

[wraith shard]

https://tenor.com/view/tf2-salute-team-fortress-pay-respects-gif-14913746

[digital onyx]

I'm gonna go smoke a joint now

Fuck that, I was on part two by myself too

[willow dawn]

I need a team for an edd on playstation, I'll be running driller, add me at spiderwitch666 and dm me your playstation username so I can invite you. Any load out and level welcome, no class overlap tho. Please be nice to each other. My special is pots of gold but I don't have enough bulbs unfortunately.

[spiral badge]

Normal DD?

[willow dawn]

Yo wanna hit up an edd with me?

I'm on playstation

[spiral badge]

I’m on Xbox

[willow dawn]

Bruh

We need cross platform with Xbox/pc over here on playstation bro.
Ghost ship could do something like Ubisoft connect.
Or just do the miner's union thing.

[spiral badge]

There’s a lot of reasons it’s hard to do crossplay with PS and Xbox

[dense pebble]

and Ubisoft is likely to create more problems than it solves.

[spiral badge]

I don’t think he meant leveraging ubisoft to do crossplay, but something like their service

[stray orchid]

Anyone got any season ideas?
Heres mine
Temple raiding
Solve puzzles and get relics guarded by giant reptilian beasts, which can be slayed by a team built giant robot

[dense vessel]

Have a tab showing all missions that have active Hazard amplifiers.

Mostly so vanilla/console players can find Double XP missions easier

[languid rune]

Rancor's Rig Hud does this

[dense vessel]

That’s why I said it lol, sadly I’m only on PlayStation

[alpine spade]

anyone wanna do elite with me (scout) and an engineer, no vc

[dense vessel]

What platform

[alpine spade]

pc, found people tho ty

[manic pivot]

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

[wraith shard]

I’m genuinely curious, have the Devs of DRG ever done, or have ever planned to do, a sponsor with a craft beer company to make some of their in-game beers?
I’d totally buy a case or two, and i don’t even drink much.

[river pumice]

there is a guy on youtube that has a series where he makes the game's drinks IRL. Doesn't answer your question but you might be interested

[wraith shard]

@river pumice yeah, i saw them, kinda the reason I asked in the first place. I'm curious as to how those drinks would taste.

[bitter canyon]

Who

[burnt sandal]

#suggestions is this way

[burnt sandal]

no and no

[coral pond]

ah, send him to the hole where nothing gets read kek

[river pumice]

I dont know. Look it up.

[bitter canyon]

Ebonuts

[river heath]

Going on my first elite, perk recommendations?

Going Driller with Cryo and EPC

[still geode]

resupplier, vampire, dash, iron will

usually i'd recommend born ready, but it does nothing with that weapon combo, so sweet tooth is a solid option

since the elite deep dive this week is in fungus bogs, you can also consider unstoppable, and if you're solo, you can consider strong arm to see ceilings more easily

[dense pebble]

Dash more or less fills in for unstoppable IMO

strong arm or sweet tooth would be good for solo QOL

[manic pivot]

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

[wraith shard]

I did my very first elite deep dive today with three randoms and it was a lot of fun

[tawny terrace]

i am going to kick all the barrels into the launch bay

[spiral badge]

And throw empty beer mugs into the barrel hoop

[river heath]

sludge pump build for EDD?

[rose yacht]

sluuudge pumpin time.

[echo dawn]

AUS deep dive anyone?

elite

[zenith ember]

Cant go wrong with vim imo

[orchid stratus]

Nothing quite like the director deciding to spawn a bulk detonator literally right as I a started the black box

[fluid aurora]

21212 VIM

reserve secondary for big targets but feel free to single-shot big boys for the dot and slowdown before unloading

[still geode]

disperser compound always good

just shoot charged shots into the air and coat the entire cave

[spiral badge]

Ooooof

[orchid stratus]

while I was solo

no shame in saying I literally rage quit

[grim orchid]

anyone down for EDD

[jovial garden]

EDD solo 3rd stage is a bit relatively calming.
Until Bet-C, unloaded my un-OC'd Breach Cutter.
Then it's calmer again

[restive gate]

someone wanna help me throw together a gunner build for solo edd?

weapons wise at least

ive tried it like

a good handful of times

i do fine but die on second stage everytime

[full saddle]

lots of stuff is viable but i usually run hurricane (fragmentation missiles) and BRT (lead spray), minigun also really solid here because of crit weakness

i ran it with the burning minigun/revolver build and it worked fine too

big bertha autocannon is also quite nice for solo, and obviously NTP is crazy good in all cases

hurricane is really nice because it can deal with everything that the event throws at you, you can shoot the pillar tips to destroy them instantly and also its good against rocks

burst fire is also great against rocks

[leaden cypress]

What build are you using ?

[restive gate]

i got a new one with more success

[restive gate]

i also like that combo

frag missiles are awesome

im using autocannon and elephant rounds

composite drums

seeing more success, just got to omoran, kinda scary :0

[full saddle]

you're dying in the tunnels then?

[restive gate]

nope

made it to 3rd stage

i think im home bound

[full saddle]

💯

[uneven finch]

what is this weekend 's Elite Deep Dive Mission?

[burnt sandal]

check pins

[uneven finch]

oh, i see

thx bro

[burnt sandal]

it's going to change in two hours though

with the weekly reset

[uneven finch]

ok, got it

[restive gate]

omg follow molly came on i felt like a goddamn action hero during that extract

[manic pivot]

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

[sly kettle]

Soon™

[royal oak]

Good luck to all miners going into Normal and Elite Deep Dives

Rock and Stone

[manic pivot]

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

[sly kettle]

Good luck, everyone!

[nova hearth]

EDD Stage 2: 2 mules, 1 dreadnought, cave leech cluster, critical weakness

dreadnought is hiveguard

[cold veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/gif-gif-19494014

good to know tho

[small idol]

EDD stage 1: 250 morkite, black box and mactera plague

biome is azure weald

[cold veldt]

not mactera plague 😦

this sounds like thelead storm minigun build 😄

[nova hearth]

EDD Stage 3: 6 eggs, 1 black box, no modifiers

[zenith ember]

Sounds pretty tame

Thx for the info

[teal tundra]

what haz level are elite deep dives?

[hexed narwhal]

4.5

[zenith ember]

,5.0,5.5

[teal tundra]

ok makes sense

[mellow cradle]

@teal tundra read this message though ^

[teal tundra]

thanks

[zenith ember]

Worth a try for this week, doesnt seem bad if you are new

[teal tundra]

just did my first one but haven't unlockedd haz 5 yet so wasn't sure where edd fits in

yeah it didn't feel too difficult other than the dotty mission as i was playign solo scout. freeze carried me through tho

[neat moat]

deep dives are dead atm. no one joining. probably did not check/relog yet

[dry root]

oh man the edd is going to be rough

[mellow cradle]

doesn't seem like a hard one to me

[dry root]

matera plague

[mellow cradle]

we get mactera plague on the first stage (better than later)

[neat moat]

seems ez. Mactera one a while ago was much harder with randoms

[dry root]

yeah thats true

[neat moat]

the one before had it on 2nd stage

so its easier

[mellow cradle]

and the next two stages might as well have no modifiers

[teal tundra]

lol got the negative timer on the current edd do i need to reload?

[neat moat]

relog

[teal tundra]

ty

[zenith ember]

escort on scout is pretty masochist if you are relatively green tbh

[mellow cradle]

other than that, it's just 3x uplink

[small idol]

stage 1 mactera plague is pretty easy

[dry root]

whats the deep dive this week

[mellow cradle]

if you did the last week's edd as solo scout, then congratulations to you

you are ready

[zenith ember]

unsure, EDD is up thanks to wouw though

[teal tundra]

thanks

[teal tundra]

i honestly have no idea whats green, i'm lvl 75 with 140 hours

[nova hearth]

just cleared it as solo scout

[dry root]

dd or edd

[nova hearth]

EDD

[teal tundra]

W

[velvet condor]

+1 what's on deep dive now?

[zenith ember]

nah i mean new player, but if u did last week's edd as solo scout you arent really new lol

[dry root]

oh woah, congrats

[velvet condor]

I mean what's mission are here

[teal tundra]

ahh i get you now

well i got tunnel rat may aswell try the edd

[lethal sage]

DD Stage 1: 2 Mini-Mules, 2 Eggs, Regenerative Bugs

[dry root]

oh that sounds comfy

[sly kettle]

DD Stage 2: On-Site Refinery, Black Box, Mactera Plague.

DD Stage 3: 6 Eggs, 150 Morkite, Low Gravity.

[lethal sage]

https://i.imgur.com/t1Op3oG.png

[copper horizon]

are other ppl also getting betc at stage 1 of dd?

[little halo]

This DD round seems just as easy as last week

[sly kettle]

Nope. But I played solo.

Sometimes there's small differences inbetween player amounts.

[unique plover]

Betc spawn is random

Bruh, mactera plague on the edd

[copper horizon]

well we saw her so early, I've thought rng for spawning her might be relatively common

hey cool, no o2low or shield disrupt, in fact none in stage 3 of edd

stage 1 should be tame, being haz4.5

[zenith ember]

i got nemesis on dd stage 1 & 2 somehow

so thats a thing ig

[pearl leaf]

yeah I got it stage 2

[tranquil warren]

why am I forced to do the noob dive to get overclocks wasted 40 min

[wraith shard]

aww man, I’m a noob

[tranquil warren]

elite deep dive should be infinite

@gritty cove can we make EDD infinite would be nice to die to stage 15

pls

[lean thistle]

Noone's forcing you, you can still do the elite deep dive or the core hunt assignments

[spiral badge]

8 eggs this time in DD?! Management wasn’t done making egg salad sandwiches apparently

[eager flame]

no memtransmute dd info? sad

well there is still the bot

brb

Alright, updated

[tranquil warren]

I'm kind of forced if I want overclocks

once I finished core hunt and edd

[lean thistle]

You're not forced, it just takes slightly longer to get all of them

[odd peak]

how do you rejoin a dd after getting disconnected for lost connection?

[violet raptor]

I don’t think you can

[quasi sleet]

Code Name: Open Ceiling
Stage 2: Cave Leech Cluster

[odd peak]

it does say in the info guide thingy at the bottom left corner that lost connection player can rejoin

[dense pebble]

If you have a steam invite from the host, you can

[coral pond]

Sounds like a skill issue if it's taking you 40 minutes

[odd peak]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

[tranquil warren]

???

how is it a skill issue I do it whithout even dying once or paying attention

[coral pond]

Skill issue

[tranquil warren]

idiot troll

[coral pond]

Lmao ok

[forest spire]

The normal deep dive can take 30 with a competent team and that’s not too long

[spiral badge]

It takes me 40 or longer in solo

[brisk spear]

competence complication

[wraith shard]

real

[ruby wolf]

You literally pinged a game developer because of your overarching "this game is too easy" ego.

You have no place to talk here, actual troll.

[tranquil warren]

I pinged so they can make edd infinite

easy change that would improve the game greatly

it's not ego if you have decent team hazard 5 IS easy

except some rare caves

[coral pond]

Skill issue

[tranquil warren]

bot

[sacred plover]

have you tried posting to #suggestions ?

[burnt sandal]

that won't happen, and don't go pinging the devs just for random suggestions.

[spiral badge]

Probably don’t ping the devs at all

[tranquil warren]

😢

[faint comet]

🕋

[coral pond]

Damn that's crazy bro

[foggy wigeon]

What are the DD and EDD tasks this week?

[coral pond]

They're pinned

[foggy wigeon]

Oh

Ty!

[woeful niche]

“easy change” lmao. As if you have any idea how game development works. They can’t just rework an entire game mode overnight, while literally getting ready for a new update

[woeful niche]

go play modded instead of crying here then

[river pumice]

@tranquil warren you have absolutely no respect and talk like a spoiled brat. Not everyone is terminally online like you, so no haz 5 is not easy for everyone. Grow up.

[dense sage]

the smell of cope is ripe in the air when everyone who disagrees is a bot/troll

anyway
god, finally a week with no swarmageddon 🙏

[celest ruin]

this edd doesn't seem too bad

[half ridge]

just me or does DD seem harder than EDD this week?

[wraith shard]

EDD cavegen made this week a lot more manageable than usual. DD caves were a little wonky

That and critical weakness on stage 2 makes snowballing into stage 3 a lot easier

[agile venture]

i'm about to head to my first deep dive; will this do?

Engineer
Stubby with Super Slim Rounds (23222)
Breach Cutter (22223)
SSG and Turret (1221)
Resupplier, Born Ready, Vampire, Field Medic, and Dash

seems like edd is pretty easy this time? can i start with that?

[spiral badge]

EDD is still like haz 4-5 so probably not if it’s your first

[flint vector]

unless you doing solo, take iron will instead of dash

its an extract revive if you heal

easier to proc if you have vampire

[agile venture]

i mostly do haz 4 missions, but i guess haz 5.5 is really hard for first timers, huh

[spiral badge]

Oh yeah I didn’t notice, always take IW

[flint vector]

not really, there are sometimes easy haz 5.5 and sometimes hellish hazard 4s

[coral pond]

Honestly i'd drop field medic before dropping dash. Dash is a much stronger perk in general

[agile venture]

i'm doing it with a team. public match making

[flint vector]

wanna do it together? , im just leveling up characters

[agile venture]

i won't be in vc btw

you want to do it with randoms too?

[flint vector]

yeah i dont care, we dont have to vc

i have already done it

[agile venture]

i'll let you know when i'm ready

[flint vector]

i just do them to level up and pass the time

[agile venture]

got to do dishes

[flint vector]

aight

[spiral badge]

Toss the dishes in the barrel hoop, done

[agile venture]

so IW and dash?

[agile venture]

i'm done

[flint vector]

aight

[icy ledge]

aight

[zenith ember]

WeirdChamp

[tacit jungle]

pretty relaxing EDD this week

[dense vessel]

Nitra was kinda scarce but for the most part yea

[quartz hazel]

Can someone explain what black box is

[spiral badge]

Are you familiar with the mini mule part where you fix the uplink thing next to the drop pod and have to stay in the green area?

[quartz hazel]

Yeah ofc

[zenith ember]

its just that without the 2nd part

the uplink box

[quartz hazel]

Okie thanks

[rapid totem]

mactera plague?

[wraith shard]

almost did it first try

died to fall damage

[faint comet]

🕋

[delicate saffron]

Always a cringeguard

[terse wind]

tried playing a scout for today's DD. that was a mistake.

[placid steeple]

Cave leech jumpscare

[terse wind]

The stage 2 black box is uh

something

[placid steeple]

PS. bring an engineer for reasons mentioned above

[terse wind]

i was solo

[flint orchid]

i love it when molly decides to go to the pod through a hole made by a supply drop

i love it so much

[visual gull]

hi, anyone interested playing EDD with me?

It's rly hard to look for m8s

[river pumice]

theres an lfg place in the server just to lyk

[plain hollow]

hey guys my friends and i are trying to do this week's regular deep dive on hazard 7, but we straight up cant find much nitra, only around 180. is anyone else getting better luck?

[rose yacht]

I refuse

[bitter hawk]

Who dropped their black boxes this week huh

[tranquil warren]

Yeah no idea, not like I'm a software engineer and do gamedev as a hobby.
There's nothing to add, they have all assets already, of course they won't do it "overnight" but it's still easy to make the change.

Depending on how they programmed it, they might already have the possibility to add more levels.

The only "hard thing" would be to balance deeper levels because obviously just making monsters do more damage and have more HP would not be the best solution (as far as I'm concerned it would probably be better than now, atleast until a certain depth).
Some easy things they could do is add more mods per map like lethal enemies, mactera plague, shield disruption and spawn harder monsters (triclaws, etc).

As you can see all these changes are already in the game the only thing needed is to code the logic, how easy to implement depends on the quality of their codebase so I can't say for sure but in theory yes, it should be easy to implement, there's no new assets or behaviours to implement, just more of the same.

[tranquil warren]

Are you ok ? I just asked if they could make EDD infinite, and suddenly I have a skill issue and I'm crying ? Please show me where I said that haz 5 is for everyone ?
I'm forced to do the noob dive and waste 30 to 40 min playing boring content just to farm overclocks, I made a fair suggestion.

[river pumice]

still at it i guess.

[still geode]

if the noob dive takes u 30 to 40 minutes that sounds like skill issue

some of the screenshots in #deep-dive-speedrunning show times of like 15 minutes or less, after all

[mellow cradle]

but these runs aren't blind

[civic yoke]

I mean I wouldn't call it farming If u do it 30 minutes every week lol

[final leaf]

how are you all

[dawn oxide]

Nobody is forcing you.

[wraith shard]

What up homie

[dawn oxide]

greetings. did you know there is a boardgame? #drg-board-game

[tranquil warren]

1st. these are not blind runs, 2nd I'm not speedrunning

[still geode]

maybe if ud speedrun you wouldn't spend 30-40 minutes 🤷‍♀️

[tranquil warren]

I play for fun I don't care of speedrunning

[still geode]

so why are you complaining?

[hoary trout]

How do you guys think, what is the best thing that can ruin dd?

[short snow]

Somebody needlessly ordering resupplies right before you’re about to leave

[amber wharf]

Dying

[solar terrace]

Midjourney AMOR

[tranquil warren]

because doing the noob dive is not fun

[still geode]

but u said you were playing for fun

why are you playing if its not fun

[tranquil warren]

to get the overclocks

did you read anything ?

[still geode]

so you want to do it to get overclocks

but ur not having fun

and u dont like how long it takes

[tranquil warren]

exactly

[still geode]

but u dont want to speedrun it

because you're playing for fun?

[tranquil warren]

yes

[formal walrus]

more game = more fun imo

[still geode]

so you're choosing to spend more time doing something that's not fun in order to have fun, while also complaining about it taking too long, because doing it faster isn't fun

?????????

[tranquil warren]

I'm doing it because I want to unlock all overclocks ???????

[still geode]

so why are you taking 30-40 minutes

instead of just speedrunning it

[tranquil warren]

I didn't even watch a single speedrun don't know how it's done, and I want to play the class that I want not be forced into scout or whatever they use for speed run

why ? because I play for fun not to try hard speedrun

[still geode]

but u said urself ur not having fun

[tranquil warren]

indeed that's why I'm complaining

[still geode]

and that its taking too long

so ud rather be bored for a long time playing the class u want to play, despite the fact that you're clearly still bored and not having fun as that class, instead of doing the mission faster so you can go and play something u want to play on a difficulty u want to play

[formal walrus]

Are you saying it takes too long to get all the overclocks because you can only get 4 per week? or that the act of doing the deep dives take too long?

Because those are two different things.

If it's the first, speedrunning would indeed not help.

And if it's the second, it would.

[tranquil warren]

neither I'm saying that the noob dive is boring and I'd rather do 2 EDDs

[still geode]

u could get a mod that makes the dd haz5

[tranquil warren]

but I'm forced to do it for overclocks

[formal walrus]

You can get a mod to get all the overclocks. I fail to see the issue.

[tranquil warren]

didn't know

isn't that cheating

[formal walrus]

No, modding is fully encouraged, as far as I know.

I mean if there are save files on Mod.io for all gold dwarves then I don't see why you can't find one for overclocks.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[still geode]

as long as you're not ruining the experience for someone else, i see no issue with using mods to get an advantage to save yourself time if you're not having fun unlocking stuff the standard way

[formal walrus]

As for the whole "too easy" bit, play the regular deep dive on controller with your feet. That should fix your issue.

But seriously, the game has different skill levels for different folks

More people playing DRG = win

[tranquil warren]

https://tenor.com/view/black-cock-cockerel-rooster-chicken-gif-16625787

I usually play with my

[cerulean harness]

someone has the EDD and DD of this week???

[formal walrus]

it's pinned

[cerulean harness]

thx

[gentle path]

Anyone up for a deep dive tomorrow?

[brazen cosmos]

what is the fastest way to lvl up

[river pumice]

youre a genius lmfao

[wraith shard]

double exp industrial sabotage

probably

[umbral mirage]

what time?

[gentle path]

about noon West COast time

[spiral badge]

So <t:1686423600:R>

[solemn dust]

Thinking of taking elephant rounds for the EDD, Good idea or nah?

[full saddle]

just depends on primary but it seems good here, good with crit weakness and good at taking out mactera

[solemn dust]

[shut cave]

Wanting to congratulate Employee of the Month, @torpid matrix !!!

[ripe arrow]

I'm wondering if the deep rock galactic developers have considered reaching out to games workshop to possibly have squat costumes in the game. In my opinion this game is already the closest I'm getting to squats vs tyrranids, something to consider.

I know all the 40k fans would appreciate it.

[foggy harness]

This week's EDD is a God damn nightmare

[quaint gate]

I forgot Edd before vacation

Nooooo

[scarlet lark]

Whats the theoretical best class to solo EDD?

[empty lodge]

I am not an expert, but probably scout. They can get to anywhere, can deal high damage to dreads, escape really easily, and light up the place with flares. If you need to, you can always retreat from a swarm to pick them off one by one, and maybe grab red sugar.

And the cryo grenade is always pretty good

Again, not really an expert so take my word with a grain of salt, and ask some others

[turbid dawn]

TheAway is correct imo. Apart from the options for builds for different situations speed running is determined my movement speed and scout is the fastest

[bright dagger]

Driller IMO, way better control of massed enemies than scout + can ultimately get anywhere with drills and can skip tunnels by drilling straight between rooms.

[gilded cave]

Just finished my first EDD. Good God that was stressful.

[scarlet lark]

Im currently soloing one

First one too

Just started part 2

Dreadnought

[thorn timber]

have fun

[scarlet lark]

Part 2 done

[scarlet lark]

LETS GO!

Rock and Stone!

[real mason]

rock and stone you beautiful dwarf

[cedar beacon]

Can anyone fill me in on why I've been black-screened from the last 7 final missions of deep dives and then not able to rejoin my friends?

[exotic belfry]

7?

[cedar beacon]

Every week every deep dive I get a black screen in the drop ship on the very last mission

So now I'm owed 7 cosmetic missions... I'm not replaying the entire deep dive just to get black screened again

[exotic belfry]

oh, thats really weird, ive never heard about anythting like that so idk if i can help, maybe make a bug report?

[cedar beacon]

Yea its tilting man...

[placid steeple]

I just wanna point out the triple brood, another nexus far off and a naedocyte on EDD m2

[strong plume]

have you checked mods?

[placid steeple]

Open ceiling is a very fitting name for the EDD

[cedar beacon]

I'm using the same mods as my friends yet I am the one routinely black screen in the drop ship and they can't continue to final mission unless I DC or close the game.

[burnt sandal]

- Disable your mods (can do so by using the Safe mode launch option)

• Update your GPU drivers
• Try launching with dx11 (Steam only)
• Verify the game's files
• Try to install the game on another drive
  - Make sure your save is not corrupted (back it up somewhere, then delete it from the game's folder)
• For more troubleshooting, see the FAQ : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2559182673

[cedar beacon]

Alright thanks for the quick solutions I will try 🙏🏾 love DRG & community

[devout peak]

How's the cave generation this week for the EDD? Any bad spitball infectors or is the dread room bad?

[mellow cradle]

spitball / brood nexus spawns are random

as for the dread room layout, it was fine

two steep pits, but the driller can fix that for you

[dense pebble]

It wasn’t all that hard tbh

Just be careful with the dread, ours got set off early somehow and we had to deal with it and the mini mule waves simultaneously

[placid musk]

not hard

got into a greenbeard lobby and failed to carry as scout

[dense pebble]

Also had a greenbeard team

They activated the black box during an egg swarm stage 3

But as long as I get stage 2 I’m honestly not tripping

[placid musk]

my team had 20 downs collectively on S1 alone

and i forgot about cave leech cluster

me and the host driller hauled ass

[naive wraith]

how deep is the dive

[dense sage]

wow that’s a lot of leeches on edd2

we were at like 99% on the fuel cell and we just couldn’t last
pretty sure gunner host forgot about their shields

[placid musk]

i fucking know right

[dense sage]

i put up a flare preemptively
forgot my heightened senses, so i got grabbed immediately
see 3 more while waiting to be saved
go on a leech hunt, find like a dozen and a half more all over the dang room
“i think that’s the last one”
get grabbed by the actual last one

oh and the hiveguard fight was going on at the same time for some reason

i can’t have been the only one who got a twins spawn on edd1, right?

[silent cargo]

If you had to pick 3 classes for EDD, who would you leave out?

[mellow cradle]

as much as I like seeing things, I would leave out the scout, since there are two black boxes, and an uplink mission

so you have to hold down in a small area a total of 4 times this week

[still geode]

scout does fine for hold objectives in a team if you build for it, IFGs and pheros are both really good and you can focus on killing priority targets like mactera and acid spitters while yoru teammates kill the grunts and such

[mellow cradle]

true

but what other class would you replace then?

[vast cliff]

does the 3rd stage of the edd have more nitra or is it all low nitra?

[still geode]

id probably go driller/gunner/scout, though that assumes your team is working together pretty well

driller kills all the weak enemies, gunner kills the bigger stuff, scout kills dangerous things like spitters

nitra veins generally can be acquired without plats if the scout knows what they're doing and you can use ziplines for ones in really inconvenient spots, or driller can tcf them

[sinful steppe]

I usually end dd with less than 45 mins

Is this gud

[mellow cradle]

blind?
I'd say that's good

[river pumice]

Depends on the mission, really. Drilldozer and salvage mules will take way longer than eggs or mining morkite. But hey a win is a win. Dont let the terminally online min max speedrunning efficiency anti fun elitists say otherwise.

[sinful steppe]

Thanks :)

[spiral badge]

It takes you as long as it takes you, who cares, just do your best

[still idol]

alright hear me out

[scarlet lark]

I only saw 5 leeches in all 3

[still idol]

elite deep dive, max sensitivity, no nitra, bullet hell only, AND if you're a real madlad, no red sugar

[lean trellis]

🥲

[tacit jungle]

emptied my flare launcher obsessively checking every corner of that cave

[atomic echo]

How can i boost my shard diffractor with the overdrive boost overclock?

[mellow cradle]

you press "r" (or any button that you have bound to "reload") while firing

[atomic echo]

k thanks

[burnt sandal]

press R while firing, as the description details

[spiral badge]

Reload is like the mode change for a lot of weapons without ammo

[tawdry widget]

hey is the elite deep dive this week absolut crap for people who arent amazing or is it still doable even if you sort of suck

[mellow cradle]

it's certainly not bad

you just have to be prepared for quadruple objective defense

[wraith shard]

Issue is building for both mactera and a dreadnought but I guess you can just have like a scout focus on mactera and everyone else just bringing generalist stuff making sure to can handle a dread

[tacit jungle]

I don't think you can build your way out of mactera plague. It's more about game sense, if you see or hear a mactera it's your job to shoot it no matter class, role or build

[turbid dawn]

shield with nearby freeze is great

[tacit jungle]

What do you do after four waves?

[full saddle]

i guess you just use your leadburster

i think more importantly its best to not build yourself out of being able to deal with MP effectively which is pretty easy to do if you, for some reason, dont realize its coming

[turbid dawn]

you shouldnt be around in caves for 4 waves

there are tons of things that work against MP. you just have to be able to finish ur objectives fast. most of the times dwarves just be ambling through shit

[still geode]

something like LSLS hellfire does fine

LSLS to mow down anything with a lot of HP and hellfire's fear + ignition can incinerate crowds of enemies and keep you safe

[dense sage]

I ran big Bertha + magic bullets and managed to shoot down plenty of mactera. driller brought plenty of flame

With how dense the swarms were, pointing and shooting often worked out

[unkempt dew]

Dread was hardly a problem with crit weakness

Like yeah it’s hiveguard but you know. Guns

[fresh sedge]

Honestly one of the more approachable EDDs this week imo

[raven carbon]

Yeah it felt fairly doable, last stage had no warnings. Last week the final stage had shield disruption, that was rough.

[fresh sedge]

Yeah it was

[bitter canyon]

Do dreads get affected with crit weakness

[mellow cradle]

no they don't

but the sentinels do

[barren citrus]

Any good loadout suggestions for engi with the current edd?

Was thinking of going with a loadout using the Lok-1, with maybe trying out executioner

[mellow cradle]

executioner will always be a good choice

but make sure to take amp area denial, as there are 4x objective defense on this EDD

so take some good AoE secondary with it

[barren citrus]

Explosive chemical rounds definitely pulled it's weight while I was running the normal deep dive

Especially with the stage 2

[mellow cradle]

that is a very good oc as well

so in the end it's up to you to decide whether you want to have AoE on your primary, or secondary

[barren citrus]

But yeah was opting for the loki due to the mactera plague on stage 1 & also for cave leech cluster on stage 2

[mellow cradle]

if you took ECR, then you could afford to take some more single target damage for your secondary

[barren citrus]

My current executioner loadout has the RJ250 compound deepcore for a secondary, but I wasn't entirely sure if that'd be a good choice

[mellow cradle]

while rj250 is good, I wouldn't recommend it this time
mobility doesn't do much when you are staing inside an uplink / black box, and when you get overwhelmed inside it, you want things to be dead now, which rj250 doesn't provide

[barren citrus]

I'm thinking either LWC breach cutter, or the VIR shard diffractor for this one

[mellow cradle]

fine choices for executioner

I would take something like that as well

[barren citrus]

Now if I were to try ECR with the loki as an option, I'd probably just have to go with hyper propellant with the deepcore

[mellow cradle]

that's a very popular pairing, yeah

[barren citrus]

Looks like I should be all set to try tackling this week's edd then

Pretty sure I also swapped out beast master for iron will too, cause I'm likely gonna have to try tackling this one with a group

Plus this'll be my first edd, so I can't say I'm quite confident with it when I'm more used to the haz 3 & 3.5 difficulty setting on normal deep dives

[mellow cradle]

what hazard do you usually play on normal missions?

[barren citrus]

If it's like earlier in the day I usually settle for haz 2, but haz 3 for the most part is also something I can handle clearing runs on

[mellow cradle]

mhmm

well, haz 5 is quite different, but I wish you luck nontheless

[barren citrus]

Yeah I honestly haven't unlocked haz 5 for myself yet, since I still have to do the assignment to unlock it

But I have at least a good idea as to what haz 5 is like

[mellow cradle]

EDD is haz 4.5, 5, and 5.5, as you probably know

[barren citrus]

Mhm

But yeah this edd is definitely on my to do list, as this'll be the last week I'll be able to enjoy defense oriented objectives like salvage & black boxes before season 4 brings forth the stingtails

Plus tbf I'm also aiming to check off the elite deep dive clear achievement as well

Since I managed to get the achievement done for clearing a deep dive under 45 minutes on the last weekly deep dive run I did

Particularly the "egg hunt with extra steps" one in the salt pits

[mellow cradle]

this week is reasonable to do it

[barren citrus]

Also question what engi grenade to go with on this, since I generally just default to the shredder drones one

[coral pond]

Shredders are always good

[barren citrus]

Like I know proximity mines are a fairly solid choice for things like salvage & the black box, but I've never really found myself using them tbh

[coral pond]

Prox mines are a really solid option as well, given the static objectives and zone defenses you'll be in basically, could get some great value out of those

Lure helps get some of the heat off you, especially since you're not used to haz 5

And plasma bursters help out your secondary with swarm clear

Engi really has some of the best grenade balance out there, along with scout. Any of them will serve you well

Personally I'd probably go shredders cause of ease of use

[mellow cradle]

and self defence

something that engie lacks normally

[barren citrus]

Yeah generally speaking if a swarm pops up, I usually just toss out a shredder drone package & those happen to help with defensive purposes

But yeah will likely have to go to the #lfg-steam channel to see if I can get a group together to do the edd

Have a friend group but the problem is either they don't have promoted dwarves, or they've only really done the normal deep dives in terms of difficulty setting

[barren citrus]

Anyways ty for the helpful suggestions & advice in regards to getting prepared for tackling this weeks edd

Rock and stone!

[dense pebble]

don't trigger double swarms

other than that its pretty easy

[barren citrus]

So basically don't focus on eggs when you're doing black box

Noted

[round lynx]

i finished a deep dive and i won a blank matrix core but i dont have it

[spiral badge]

Top right in the rig is where it shows your blanks

[round lynx]

yes but i dont have it

[spiral badge]

Must be a glitch

[round lynx]

my friend too has this problem

[burnt sandal]

did you do the DD before ?

[round lynx]

yes

[burnt sandal]

this week ?

[round lynx]

in the deep dive me and my friend won a blank matrix core but we dont have it in the rig

[round lynx]

just 2hours ago

[burnt sandal]

because deep dives only reward you once per week

so if you've already done it this week, you're not getting more blanks by redoing it

[round lynx]

oooh ok

but we get the matrix core with overclocks ?

[burnt sandal]

no either

it's once a week

for everything you get from it