deep-dive-discussion

[flat acorn]

skill issue?

[thorny echo]

The point is

[olive lake]

But ye chess is boring

[thorny echo]

Be quick on point extraction

We all got the same mission, some have done it, and you surely can! Good luck miners

[olive lake]

You only play chess when the power is out, your amish, or you.live off the grid in the woods

[rancid cedar]

the point i was making is why are u acting like apex rank has anything to do with drg lol

[thorny echo]

Apex is fps
Drg is fps
Therefore apex = drg!
~This guy, probably

[olive lake]

Ye im wrong ? Ok then

[thorny echo]

Thats like saying you're good at tennis if you're good at badminton since they both used rackets

[flat acorn]

xd

[thorny echo]

Both games have different plays to it lmao, different rules, heck even different guns and characters

[rancid cedar]

the mechanical skills can carry over but they are literally different genres

[flat acorn]

remember you said arguing whis me is pointless

he beat me at stubborness

[thorny echo]

Thats like saying you're DEFINITELY good at Phoenix in valorant because you can play wraith in apex legends since they both uses guns

[grand pasture]

Is someone using apex rank as a way to justify being good at DRG?

[thorny echo]

Despite both games having different mechanics

Anyway, lets not stray too far away from the channel

[flat acorn]

lets be real

if you good at OSU

you good at fps

and OSU is not fps

[thorny echo]

Tips on the crit weakness shield disruption? I cant really do industrial sabotage for the love of my life

[olive lake]

Ye me . everyone on my case now. I need to dip and see myself out. I just had to vent and rant SORRY

[flat acorn]

am i right?

[grand pasture]

It's critical weakness, that should nullify the threat for most of the mission until the boss fight

[leaden cypress]

Stage 2 has a ton of nitra so aside from avoiding major hits, no

[flat acorn]

oh dds have refreshed?

[thorny echo]

How do i avoid things when i carry 100 pounds weapons?

[flat acorn]

oh wiat no they dont

sadge

[leaden cypress]

By running

duh

[grand pasture]

The weapons don't slow you down from being held

[flat acorn]

need a carry?

[thorny echo]

I believe they refresh in a few hours

[leaden cypress]

and you have a shield m8

[grand pasture]

They refresh in 2 days

[leaden cypress]

They reset in 2 days

💀

[thorny echo]

Maybe later, its like 12 am now and i got class tomorrow lmao

[thorny echo]

....
48 HOURS! HA

[flat acorn]

you are free to afk

[grand pasture]

Confident, I like that

[thorny echo]

Nah i mean i need to sleep xD

Not a fan of running my laptop overnight

My laptop fans are probably not a fan of that either

[grand pasture]

But they are a fan

[thorny echo]

Yeah but they are also not a fan

Schrödinger's fan

[grand pasture]

You know I was wondering why we were doing this in drg chat and not deep dive discussion

And then realised I was in the wrong channel

[thorny echo]

Well why didnt anyone held me? Im still waiting to be held

[flat acorn]

in the correct channel

[dim ingot]

comrades! It has been few days since I played deep dive, but I think I saw some silica harvestors there, and since I'm on my way to slowly 100% this game I think it would be great to attempt "car pool" achievement. Anyone willing to help?

[spring mountain]

Can anyone tell me if the lost pack can be found in the public game mode or only in single player mode?

[leaden cypress]

both

[spring mountain]

Thanks a lot!

[idle nimbus]

Guys what is deep dive right now?

[burnt sandal]

check the pinned messages

[idle nimbus]

ah sorry

[cloud canopy]

Had a blast doing the EDD last night, felt very rewarding beating the second stage.
Rock And Stone! Billy Mays and... Uhh.. the other guy deserves the respect of remembering his name so I'm sorry other guy!! 🙏 Please forgive me

[abstract geyser]

Yeah, saw alot of them too, but when me ( I already got it ), and the boys attempt it, the silicate harvester keeps dying to the exploders, and the terrain for this week’s stage 1 deep dive tends to make the harvester to climb walls most of the time. I suggest egg hunt / on-site refining in dense biozone if you want to attempt it, my friends got it in on-site refining in dense biozone.

[sharp bridge]

Same here, just tried a couple of times and the amount of stuff you get thrown at you in the second mission is absurd 😬

[vocal ocean]

I didn’t get downed once

[main topaz]

use fire to kill the bots, you can light them on fire through the shield, flamethrower, minigun with heat, shard diff, scouts fucked

well scouts not fucked, you can use thermal exhaust feedback or just pure damage the sniper bots and go for an m1000 to focus shot weakpoint things down or just gk2 them

bugs will be far weaker due to crit weakness, so the second hard part, the caretaker, get your driller to c4 the caretaker vents from the top or just find a safespot where the tentacles cant reach you and dps it down you can also use engineer plats to make pillars what break line of sight with the tentacles, remember, their damage hitbox does go through walls so be sure that your safety walls are nice and juicy

(find a safespot either way btw)

[fringe thistle]

A reliable way to get the carpool achievement is to use swarmageddon

[fringe thistle]

This week’s EDD stage 2 has crit weakness, so an m1000 focus shot 1-hits the robots if you hit the head

Was extremely clutch when i was clearing turrets and robots

Electric mods from scout really help too, cause robots are weak to electric and the 0.2x slow

Furthermore, do remember that robots are weak to melee, so a cheeky power attack is always worth it

[main topaz]

our gunner was eating pizza in the pod while i full powered through the entire caretaker mission with engi equipped with ecr and vir

[fringe thistle]

200% damage for normal bots, and the ceiling snipers take 600% melee damage

[fringe thistle]

Based

Ecr + vir is one of my favorite generalist combos. It can do it all, especially with shredders and dual defender turrets

Mega dps

[main topaz]

i dont like ecr

[fringe thistle]

Is it the playstyle?

[main topaz]

but it got the slow and its faster to 3 lock ecr than it is to turret whip without turrets

[main topaz]

the lockon playstyle feels clunky

[fringe thistle]

But turret whip funni

It is

I got used to it, but took a while and thats how i felt originally so i feel u

[main topaz]

but its even more clunky mag dumping and not killing with shotty after 25m

[fringe thistle]

True

[main topaz]

ive played a lot of ecr

[fringe thistle]

Have you tried EM discharge

[main topaz]

ill never get used to it

[thorny echo]

Ngl i found deepcore gk2 with AI stabilition(was that the correct oc? The one that deal increase weakpoint dmg?) One of the easiest way to deal with the bots

It one shot grunts on weakpoint, and 2 shotted the bots

Well, 2 shot the burst and the repulsion turret

Patrol bot took 3

Fell off at sniper since it has no weakpoint, but its still decent

[main topaz]

once or twice but it doesnt fit my push heavy playstyle, i also think that engi secondaries are usually better at holding and they do it better than em

[fringe thistle]

Ai stability engine is VERY fun

[thorny echo]

Also on my last EDD run i didnt check what's the mission from 1 to 3

[fringe thistle]

Funny thing, normal gk2 actually 1-shots grunts in the face already on crit weakness

[thorny echo]

Ends up bringing NTP Thunderhead lmao

You can tell im dead on industrial sabotage

[fringe thistle]

OOF

[thorny echo]

Crit weakness is crazy lmao

[fringe thistle]

Fr

I love crit weakness

Especially when somebody brought a crit build and just fucking obliterates oppressors and praetorians

[thorny echo]

Crit weakness > rich atmosphere > low gravity > double EXP

Loved this

[main topaz]

i cant go back from tef to anything, im hard stuck

[fringe thistle]

Aggressive venting is pretty clutch

[main topaz]

that one overclock completely murdered my interest in everything else

[fringe thistle]

Shield battery booster is simply built different

[thorny echo]

Whats tef?

[main topaz]

thermal exhaust feedback

[fringe thistle]

Thermal exhaust feedback

Makes the gun do fire damage

Big pog

[thorny echo]

Whatd it do

Ahh

[main topaz]

gives it more base damage too

[thorny echo]

That one

What about shield booster?

[fringe thistle]

Its a mess, thats what it is

I love it

[main topaz]

makes you hit as hard as a fully revved up minigun with lead storm with more mobility and less armor break

[thorny echo]

I uses that but i forgot to tweak the build to suit it lmao

Oh wait no

Im bad

Thats the oc

[fringe thistle]

It gives you +1 firerate and +100 ammo at base. Then, IF you have full shield you do +5.5 damage and x2 proj velocity

[main topaz]

shield battery booster is take 1 damage, welcome back to the tutorial miner gk2 dps

[thorny echo]

Im thinking of the modification 🤡

Mb

[fringe thistle]

But if you overheat it breaks shield

BUT

[thorny echo]

Damnnn

[fringe thistle]

it reduces shield recharge by -5

[thorny echo]

Thats insane

[fringe thistle]

MEANING

[thorny echo]

WE JUST NEED MORE GUNNERS 👏

[fringe thistle]

that if you go shield reduction on t1 armor, you gwt a 1 second shield recharge

[thorny echo]

OH WAIT IT REDUCES IT LMAO

[main topaz]

truly the best way to use it is to rely on its health benefits and secondary only

[thorny echo]

My brain lagged and thought it adds it by 5

THATS ACTUALLY INSANE AHAHAHA

[fringe thistle]

LOL

[thorny echo]

Is it on leadstorm?

[fringe thistle]

Yeah its fucking cracked i love it

[main topaz]

no

drak

[fringe thistle]

Nah its the plasma rifle for scout

You geta hyper accurate mega dps gun

Thatyou can fire for 0.3 seconds

[main topaz]

makes your shield start insta regenning, but if you dont have full shield then you deal omega bad dmg

[thorny echo]

My

My brain lagged again

I thought u were talking about gunners and that his shield utility recharge time became 1 second

[main topaz]

nah, personal shield

[thorny echo]

Thatd be hilarious tho

1 second shield

Didnt help that shield t1 upgrade also has a recharge time lmao, makes me more confused

[fringe thistle]

It literally is 1 second shield

Just dont be afraid to shoot bug if you dont have full shield

(If you are in panic or backed against a wall)

Otherwise i recommend a good swarm secondary

[main topaz]

shield regeneration rate = how long it goes from 0 to 100%
shield delay = how long it takes to start regening in the first place

[fringe thistle]

Firebolts and/or pheromone bolts do wonders

[fringe thistle]

Ah, yeAh thats the right terms. It makes shield DELAY 1 second

[main topaz]

i could never sbb, all i ever do is stay on sub 10 shields on scout

[fringe thistle]

Still, really cracked if your ankles just got bit by a swarmer. You just gotta wait like3 or 4 seconds instead of 8+ for full dps

[fringe thistle]

Real

[main topaz]

whenever that shit hits max, i start tanking fall damage from grapples

[fringe thistle]

If you dont want the upkeep, overcharged particle accelerator is also a VERY funny onethat pretty much acts like a leadstorm spread

[chilly shore]

yeah sbb either makes your weapon better or keeps you safer
basically the only real downside is the heat penalty

[fringe thistle]

OPA and TEF are more reliable imo if you arent used to a hit-and-run playstyle

[chilly shore]

opa is like boomstick part 2 but with no fire

[fringe thistle]

Just bring splash ez

[main topaz]

i dont like the spread on opa

[fringe thistle]

Or go electric and cryo zhukovs

Opa spread is hell

I like having range

[main topaz]

its just tef for me, forever

[chilly shore]

tef is very rewarding once you get good at managing the heat

[fringe thistle]

Ye

[chilly shore]

it’s like double damage

more against mactera and spitballers

[main topaz]

besides if you are perf edging tef then you hit as hard as opa, harder than sbb and you got fire

[fringe thistle]

True

Its very micro-managy tho

Althoughso is SBB

[main topaz]

mag dumping spitballer body, my beloved

[fringe thistle]

[main topaz]

they are different micro manage

[fringe thistle]

Tru

[chilly shore]

I have a sbb loadout slot but I never select it lmao

[main topaz]

🙏

[eager atlas]

The main thing with EMD is that it has virtually infinite ammo and with both turrets you can spam each in less than a sec, while secondaries have limited ammo and long reload for breach cutter
but then you need to have the turrets built so it's a very static playstyle

That said, EMD can kill the vents p quickly, very good if you don't have a driller or your driller doesn't know to C4 the vents

[main topaz]

holding territory is never really a problem for me even if i gotta hold for 4 so it feels useless

and if i do wanna hold territory then ill just spawncamp with vir

[fringe thistle]

Vir is king for territory lockdown

Well, that and fatboy

[eager atlas]

eh

[main topaz]

emd goes into the same territory of why i dont really use things like electrifying focus shots, reload, turret arc, fire bolts and im out, they are all very efficient but slow, you gotta wait for a status to kill or in the case of emd, the bugs to get to you

[fringe thistle]

Thats a good point on emd, but i would like to pointout that electric focus shot is hella good at locking down an HVT

[chilly shore]

my holding style is like 80% dominated by repellent so emd works with it
and I find it fun to use emd in a well made choke but it’s very subjective

efs is my main scout primary lol

[fringe thistle]

Armorbreak, stun, electric. The bug no longer gets to play the game

I love efs

Gtg tho, class start cya

[main topaz]

repellent makes any holding style go hard from breach cutter to turret whip

[fringe thistle]

(On break) Speaking of repellant, hold on i have a tech video

https://youtu.be/MXgD_GIMxlc?si=18y6QNrGqZJJeGAf

This guy made me realize that platforms dont actually have to be touching when making walls and floors for repellant

Good video, 9min highly recommend

[thorny echo]

Fellas, would pbm be good on industrial sabotage? or does leadstorm(the gun) is better?

[fringe thistle]

In general, pbm is great for single target, so it should be good for all the individually high HP robots and turrets

However, leadstorm can have hot bullets, which would let you more reliably get fire on the robots

The fire mod on hurricane is decent, but doesnt compared to hot bullets on minigun

Although, i havent actually tested hot bullets against robots so im not entirely sure if its even worth it anyways

[chilly shore]

hot bullets is pretty good on them and makes lsls my go to on sabotage

a lot of pbm’s power is stun which is not as good against bots, but there are still other bugs in sabo missions anyway

[fringe thistle]

Yeah

Plus, especially for the EDD, industrial is only stage 2 anyways so the stun cloud that is pbm will still be really useful

If you really want a good aoe+fire option to counter the lack of aoe potential on pbm, take hellfire with wide trail radius

I actually run 22112 hellfire with pbm cause i can quickly pop a 10-ammo cloud to kill swarmers for cheap

Well, specifically i run that on mole

Honestly, t5a is better with hellfire so you can just use it to kill an entire swarm

[leaden cypress]

I don't really get why y'all are bothering with fire when stage 2 has critical weakness honestly

You're already annihilating everything in sight

and stage 3 is a non-issue since you'll eventually start it with 400+ nitra

[fringe thistle]

Thats why i didnt bring fire lol

[leaden cypress]

which will easily compensate any lack of fire build

[fringe thistle]

For normal industrial tho its gud

[eager atlas]

but what if you're driller D:

[leaden cypress]

Unless you're doing it solo i doubt that's a problem

And even if you're solo, sludge blast & necrosis will gladly profit off CW

[rancid cedar]

neither of those get weakpoint dmg tho

[leaden cypress]

All good lemme misinform them

[manic pivot]

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

[fathom coral]

was always wondering, what's the most optimal digging angle for Driller? heard 45 commonly, but something about 81 degrees or something (in reference going to Drop Pod)?

[grand pasture]

There's never an optimal one, aside from whatever angle the drop pod is at from you, give a couple extra though, always goove to aim right above the drop pod tooltip

[old widget]

Nah real drillers go right up the ramp

[cunning kelp]

How do I talk outside this room

[random rampart]

read #welcome-and-rules and get a role or two

[cunning kelp]

How (I'm a leaf lover 4 dwarfcord)

[random rampart]

read #welcome-and-rules

[cunning kelp]

The react thingy ain't showing up

[random rampart]

wdym?

[lavish creek]

Rock and Stone guys(?)

[zenith ember]

whatever the max angle is on the UI (should be 45), assuming the question is about going up and down only

[random rampart]

do #deep-dive-discussion message too

[cunning kelp]

Idk
I'm not discord savvy
I'll figure it out

[random rampart]

just react to the messages with emotes

they'll get you roles

[zenith ember]

but maybe a little less(+-5 to 10 degree) so other members dont need to keep doing the climbing animation, also ideal for pipes

if you need to go straight up do a spiral at 45

[cunning kelp]

That's the thing
The emotes aren't showing up

[burnt sandal]

what platform are you on ?

[cunning kelp]

Mobile

[burnt sandal]

for the game

[cunning kelp]

Oh Xbox

[burnt sandal]

microsoft/steam/playstation ?

thanks

there you go, gave you the roles

[cunning kelp]

Ty

[old widget]

#suggestions

[heavy viper]

oop, cheers.

[devout forge]

[worthy hinge]

I know this isn’t the right chat to be using, but I can’t access like 90% of the chat channels here. I just got in, how do I gain access?

[leaden cypress]

#welcome-and-rules get a role here

[manic pivot]

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

[granite pine]

asd

[echo swan]

ay bruh how come i cant join the vc's

whu are they locked????

makes no sense

[next pebble]

ay bruh how come you couldn't read the welcome channel and pick a role

[high carbon]

😭

[visual gull]

This just randomly popped up in my head. Wat if, DRG has a moddifer that increase the amount of enemy present based on how much noise the players make? Like walking, mining, shooting, and shouting?

would be cool tho

[grand roost]

As gunner however, it would be annoying.

[visual gull]

No, there'd be a meter showing how much noise has been made and how close it is to trigger a swarm. If the meter is filled and the swarm has already been triggered, then there will be no further noise accumulation, and the meter will go back to 0 once the wave is over. It's like normal swarm wave but depend on how noisy the whole team is.

[eager atlas]

I think it would be hard to balance it in a fun way, it's a horde shooter not so much a stealth game, but the concept is certainly interesting

[past brook]

That would be probably better for something like rogue core

[tiny marten]

how's edd this week?

[raven carbon]

Stage 2 is a challenge, rest of it easy

[tiny marten]

another challenging stage 2?

[leaden cypress]

stage 2 has critical weakness and sabotage gives you plenty of nitra

it's at most a fake challenge

[tiny marten]

last week's was critical weakness industrial sabotage and shield disruption

[dark blade]

Are deep dives dificult? I just unlocked them idk what they're about

[tiny marten]

this one is the same without shield distruption?

[leaden cypress]

You know dds didn't update yet right

it's still the same till in 3h

[tiny marten]

ah right

nvm

[leaden cypress]

3 missions in a row with nitra and gold (and minerals if you find a huuli) carrying over between stages

[tiny marten]

it was a challenging one tho

[leaden cypress]

DDs are haz 3/3.5/3.5

EDDs are 4.5/5/5.5

[leaden cypress]

dunno i cleared it with a surplus of 600 nitra

[dark blade]

So it's more exp than normal missions too?

[leaden cypress]

not that much, but much longer as well

[pure cliff]

if no double exp you can do that

[leaden cypress]

wot

who is willing to spend 40 min / 1h into an EDD when you get the same xp in 20 min with 2 PEs

[pure cliff]

you can get EDDs done in 20 min to

much more given they are not random seeds

[raven carbon]

Shield disruption can be tricky

[grand pasture]

Ehh, not too much. Increased red sugar spawning, 30% less damage taken from enemies, vampire becoming more useful cause of this

[tiny marten]

i havent played a single haz5 yet, so clearing it was a challenge even with surplus nitra

which i didnt end up having just because we threw a lot around the boss in 2nd stage

[leaden cypress]

it doesn't affect red sugar's spawn rates

but 30% less damage (FF and self damage aren't affected by it xd) is still tru

[grand pasture]

The latter is true, but from what Ser Pounce has shown me, it apparently does affect red sugar spawn rate

[leaden cypress]

I'll have to see that

[solar skiff]

anyone having trouble loading EDDs?

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[sly kettle]

Soon™

[pale orbit]

waits in the corner

[gentle wraith]

Sup dudes

[main topaz]

you can get deep dives down to 1k-1.5k xp/min

but why would anyone want to run a set seed for xp idk

[leaden cypress]

Idk in what world you can get over 40k XP per edd but sure

[manic pivot]

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

[wraith wharf]

why would anyone want to play for xp

[gentle wraith]

Season pass

Btw anyone up for some games?

[exotic belfry]

#lfg-steam or the LFG of whatever platform you on

[gentle wraith]

Have no idea what that means and I can’t chat there anyways

[wraith wharf]

they're the same as performance points?

[exotic belfry]

Grab a role from #welcome-and-rules

[gentle wraith]

Oh aight

[main topaz]

there are quite a couple people whove posted runs like that into dd speedrunning

but it doesnt change the fact that running the same deep dive gets stale fast

[ivory marten]

ok. dive time.

[drifting tinsel]

Happy leap day, and more importantly, happy sixth anniversary to Deep Rock Galactic! A new year in orbit brings us new Deep Dives!

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 February 29 to 2024 March 07 (Week 232)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1709809200:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: True Blackout
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + Black Box | No Mutator
Stage 2: 7 Aquarqs + Classic | Mactera Plague
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Low Oxygen

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Ancient Wasteland
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 2: Industrial Sabotage + 150 Morkite | Elite Threat
Stage 3: 7 Aquarqs + Black Box | Critical Weakness Shield Disruption

Time for your weekly newsletter thing!:

• Deep Rock Galactic's sixth anniversary celebration began on <t:1709121600:f>! All anniversary-related events run until <t:1710414000:f>, so you've got about two weeks to get those limited-time assignments and double performance points if those are things that interest you.
• The February Maintenance Update has now landed on all platforms! If you haven't already seen what's changed, you can check the patch notes channel for your respective platform, or dive straight into the game if that's what you prefer.

One more gentle reminder that if you launched Deep Rock Galactic before the weekly refresh hit, you'll need to restart the game before accessing new dives -- they'll still be stuck in last week's dives otherwise!
If you're new to the server and can't access any of the other channels, please drop by #welcome-and-rules and grab a role by reacting to a message, thank you!

Here's to a gorgeously gilded Space Rig, and to more golden riches in the mines -- Rock and Stone!

[naive beacon]

elite sabo......

[ivory marten]

Oh thank god the mactera plague isn't on Black Box.

[barren pond]

Just played another class than the Scout for the first time since starting DRG. DAMN, how do people deal with the lack of mobility? Drove me crazy...

Do the other classes gain mobility later on in the game?

[burnt sandal]

no

also read #welcome-and-rules and pick roles

[barren pond]

Just did

[naive beacon]

dash perk

[barren pond]

True!

[naive beacon]

is basically mandatory on high haz non scout

[wraith wharf]

oh come on EDD Critical Weakness stage 3 is gonna be piss easy

I remember one Aquarqs + Black Box Mactera Plague mission, it was nightmare

[drifting tinsel]

the dash perk is really fun and it does have its uses, but after having enough experience with each class, you learn how to move around in ways that work without needing to use up an active perk slot :)
of course, it's still helpful for things like carrying heavy objects or jumping across big chasms, but there isn't exactly a way to guarantee that you'll see either of those in your next mission

[sacred oak]

I’m scared cuz I got 100 hours and all of those are with scout

I wanna get fat boy so I play engineer

[wraith wharf]

scout runs when surrounded

other classes just melt everything around them

[steel python]

Elite threat sabo on EDD

[hearty geyser]

I'll take any modifier on edd sabo after my first one that had mactera plague

[wraith shard]

hi

[hearty geyser]

hey
grab a role in #welcome-and-rules

[flat parcel]

hi

[cerulean dove]

how are the dives this week?

[oak dirge]

DD is pretty fun but quite easy

Getting a double swarm with low ogygen on the final stage was a blast

Gonna do the EDD later

[sage gulch]

rock and stone⛏️

[autumn drift]

can I ask the contents of this week's DD

[burnt sandal]

pinned messages

[autumn drift]

the last pinned message is 3mo

[burnt sandal]

the first pin is updated every week with the current dive

[autumn drift]

oh

mb thanks

[gloomy dome]

Do you use wide or narrow beams on blistering necrosis?

[leaden cypress]

neither

[exotic belfry]

Beam size usually isn't a priority on BN. With a tiny 10% chance to proc, ROF and ammo are what you want to focus on.

[gloomy dome]

Thank you. I need a single target dps to pair with my fragile

Im guessing blistering necrosis gives melee and the beam itself a dmg bonus + pop dmg

[exotic belfry]

Blistering isn't really for DPS, its a synergy OC meant to increase your primaries overall power.

[gloomy dome]

Hmm I don't have a lot of options. Explosive reload of subata isn't cutting it for me

[exotic belfry]

If you want DPS Subata or EPC tend to work better

What are you running on your primary?

[gloomy dome]

And i suck at tcf epc especially on hit n runs

[gloomy dome]

Probably the oc ammo one or the oc that increases the dmg tho i find myself eating my ammo reserves with that oc

A quick spray even with ammo oc instakills grunts and slashers anyway

I just need a secondary for guards and praets

[exotic belfry]

Are you running CRSPR, Cryo, Or the Sludge Pump. Driller has specific builds for each that don't translate due to certain mods needing certain status effects.

[gloomy dome]

I am running cryo with fragile mod. It feels right up my alley compared to the other t5 mod

[exotic belfry]

Cool, I would recommend running a DPS build on the EPC. Heavy Hitter 12322 has around ~300 DPS, which in of itself is solid. When paired with the frozen status's 3x damage multiplier it's damage skyrockets. 300*3=900, and a H5 4P Pret has 1125 HP, letting you kill it in under 2 seconds (If frozen).

[gloomy dome]

Isnt epc a fire dmg type? Or was it the t5 mod. I'll try this one out. And i didn't know the 3x dmg worked on it. Thank you!

[exotic belfry]

Without T5A "Burning Nightmare" the EPC deals Kinetic and Electric type damage, and applies no heat.

[exotic belfry]

Frozen Status works on all direct type damage, meaning anything that's not an AOE (A grenade would be an AOE, while a Bullet is Direct). Most weapons display AOE damage as "Area Damage".

If its called "Direct Damage" or just "Damage" in the terminal you can assume Frozen's damage bonus applies to it.

[gloomy dome]

That's neat. Can't wait to try this yellow name driller main certified build!

I'm trying out driller now. Ive been using engi for 80% of the time. Imma explore

[naive beacon]

ignore charge shots and try out heavy hitter singleshot dmg build, that thing hurts

[tiny marten]

what's this week's stages of edd?

[naive beacon]

yeah mandatory was an exaggeration but its still best in slot by far imo

[burnt sandal]

pinned messages

[olive lake]

Why cant i type in the drg chat

[burnt sandal]

read #welcome-and-rules and pick roles

[olive lake]

And by the way, i complained about what i thought was a bug in PE mission about endless swarms a couple days ago but i realized they need to actually explain in the game that its basically a timed mission because swarms grow with time.

[burnt sandal]

not a bug

[olive lake]

And people were calling me a noob and stuff in this chat about it

I know

[burnt sandal]

and it's hinted by mission control but yeah, it's not amazing. Feel free to make a suggestion about it in #suggestions

[olive lake]

They need to make it clearer in game

Ty btw

[thorny echo]

I just want to point out that the last normal deep dive cave generation is so goofy

I like it

[drifting tinsel]

the cave gen on all stages of the regular dive is funny as hell

i'm so glad i brought rj250 because literally what the hell was that lol

[tiny marten]

generally speaking it's good to mention how waves work in each different mission in a "how to survive" guide book like they have all the rest

like for instance, 4 eggs = x amount of waves, yk, etc etc

[grand pasture]

YEAH, SABOTAGE AGAIN OORAH

AND NOT PAINFULLY EASY THIS TIME

[fathom coral]

it was pretty easy this week, Neme off EDD lvl 3 spawn with crit dmg mod was funny seeing get knocked out

Shard Diffractor is so satisfying popping the sniper turrets

[tiny marten]

it's literally what they deserve

[leaden cypress]

or you could simply play the game or ask people here

What is the fun in explaining everything right from the start

[chilly shore]

youre so right, mission control should just not say anything ever

in fact the game should not be able to render text

[leaden cypress]

real and true

as if mission control is gonna explain to you how spawnpools work

i was gonna ping

[burnt sandal]

too slow

[vocal ocean]

Had a nerd team was a bit ruff and nitra starved

Thankfully I was downed the least with lsls too

[celest ice]

The EDD felt like a war, we got overwhelmed at the blackbox in the end though

[vocal ocean]

Thé driller was running cryo and was particularly unhelpful

[wraith shard]

anyone wanna play?

[grand pasture]

Wish there was a way to play previous deep dives, I love this week's elite one and would love to play again in the future as a fun little challenge

[eager atlas]

the pinned document lists the seeds they had,. though not sure how to use that

[jolly wing]

I had this thought last week

Tho I'd understand there wont be the same rewards

I'm still dissatisfied since I couldn't clear the EDD of august 2023 in azure weald

[outer bloom]

There’s a mod called Mission Selector that allows you to input a specific seed and replay old deep dives. I haven’t tested it in a while and it can sometimes be buggy, but it’s worked for me in the past

[raven carbon]

Edd was fun

Not too hard

A few well placed ziplines on the last one with someone covering from the top of the cliff can completely negate shield disruption

Aquarqs are comfortably placed

The room for caretaker fight is good for fighting too

[high carbon]

Good to know, thank you!

[coarse grove]

i know that deep dives are pre-seeded but does this apply to stationary enemies such as spitball infectors?

[unique ore]

yes, some static spawns change based on number of players, I dont remember if that was one of em

[eager atlas]

you do get more with more players

[rough warren]

Hey

Guys how are yall

[grand pasture]

It does affect spitballers

Spitballers, leeches, certain "boss" enemies like nemesis, crassus

[thorny gull]

what

That was a response to a twitch link

I frogot to remove it lmao

[grand pasture]

Wait what? Oh sorry

[burnt sandal]

there, did it for you

[grand pasture]

Ser Pounce the kinda guy to break into your house and wash your dishes

[eager atlas]

that reminds, that nemesis on stage 3 really caught us off guard

[shadow temple]

Definitely came unexpected, but critical weakness definitely made easy work of it

[hidden void]

Hay

[wintry dagger]

Why is this one of the only channels I can participate in?

[burnt sandal]

read #welcome-and-rules, pick roles

[wintry dagger]

Tyvm. Is this new? I was able to chat fine a few months ago. But that was months ago lol

[burnt sandal]

not really recent, no

[wintry dagger]

Understood, ty sorry for posting in wrong topic

[obsidian widget]

im new if i fail an elite deep dive can i retry it

[rancid cedar]

yes

[jolly wing]

You can retry an EDD as many times as ya want

[spiral badge]

You can retry even if you complete it (you just don’t get any rewards for stages you’ve already gotten rewards for)

[raven carbon]

Yes but you begin from stage 1 and not the stage where you died

Also if you're new you should get used to hazard 5 first before trying Elite deep dives

Standard ones are pretty easy but if you can't get past hazard 4 and 5 then Elite deep dive is not possible

[boreal sentinel]

got to stage 3 then died during uplink 💔

which was my first death actually for the entire thing

(i was running SBB and forgot stage 3 has disruption)

pretty good for my second ever attempted EDD

[fringe thistle]

Dont let this week’s EDD distract you from remembering that one time we had “Cave Leech Cluster” on stage 2 EDD, and there wasnt a single cave leech

[tight gulch]

good, no one likes leeches

[eager atlas]

I hate leeches, they are coarse, rough, and they get everywhere

[hot sphinx]

ok, putting shield disruption on stage 3 of EDD is just sadistic, especially with that welcoming comitee there

Even normal deep dive felt insane with stage 2 that for some reason only spawned like 2 nitra deposits. Very fun to fight a dreadnaught with constantly spawning enemies and no ammo XD

[raven carbon]

If you have a good team then stage 3 will be done in a few minutes

No need to stay for too long

And the uplink is close to the minehead

Can utilise the minehead defences

Draw some bugs to the minehead

[hot sphinx]

well, we got wiped out by the army of bugs that was there from the start. plus the nemesis of course

[vocal ocean]

Assuming the minehead has useful dps

[dry cave]

Dealing with haz 5 and EDD requires moving pretty fast and efficiently and thus conserving your ammo. Every supply drop should be tapped only when you can fit all of the ammo in your pockets etc. It's not only about killing more and tougher bugs, other skills play a huge role in a succesfull team.

[chilly shore]

I think ideal play actually involves knowing when to go for max ammo economy vs when to burn resupplies on health
EDD especially tends to have excess nitra in later stages, so sometimes using a resup as a health pack becomes a good option for increasing mission success chance

[dry cave]

True.

[coarse grove]

and the direct opposite, 2 nexuses and 3 spitballers in one room in stage 3 dd without cave leech cluster

[abstract geyser]

The supply part, yes. Let’s say, when I play as a gunner, I carry 4 shields. When my teammates called resup, and I still have 3 shield and plenty of ammo (around 30% left max), I will resup later when I use my shield again (which make me have 2 shield in the end), so that I have maximum shield after resup in case of emergency.

[dry cave]

Can't remember, do you need haz 5 license to take part in EDD?

Or is it just promoted and completing normal DD once?

[primal vessel]

just promoted dwarves

[dry cave]

That's what I thought. Haha, GL with EDD with a freshly promoted skillset

[jaunty forum]

I had to complete 1 DD in order to unlock EDD

[primal vessel]

you ll get used to it eventually

[dry cave]

Yeah it's one promotion + one completed DD

[edgy topaz]

Any idea why I still can't talk in the main channels I've picked my roles but nothings happened

[flat minnow]

I had the same, I noticed. I just now went back to the welcome thread, removed and re-added my role and platform, and that fixed it.

[edgy topaz]

Thank you very much dude that fixed it

[sand vigil]

hello!

[cunning horizon]

anyone know how i can access the vc's and other channels ?

[candid bobcat]

see this

[vocal ocean]

Sometimes I’m too stingy cuz of that

[fair ingot]

Guys, I know this message is supposed to go to the non drg chat, but for some reason I can't send messages in almost any chat and can't enter voice chats either, I have been a member of this channel for more than a month (someone said that this is important detail) I need help, please don't ban me

[burnt sandal]

#deep-dive-discussion message

[heavy beacon]

How do I join a pod? It won’t allow me.

[random rampart]

Read #welcome-and-rules, pick a role or two

[heavy beacon]

Thank you

[rigid sorrel]

Ugh Industrial Sabotage

[ember kiln]

how do you recommend doing a deep dive for the first time

[fringe kestrel]

Make sure you're comfortable playing Hazard 3 or even better Haz 4. If you do, you're good to go for the normal Deep Dive

[ember kiln]

nice

do you need to have a team?

[fringe kestrel]

Not really, you can play alone, host a public game and wait until randoms join or join a game yourself

[grand pasture]

Alright then

I'm not sure if the mods need to do something about that, I have no idea where that stands

[valid fractal]

buddy went a little crazy

[nimble swift]

yes

[sonic wing]

Maybe automod stepped in idk

[valid fractal]

who gave that guy a key board

[rancid harbor]

Has anyone actually done EDD stage 3?

[velvet saddle]

I was not expecting to see that wall of spam when opening this chat

[grand pasture]

Yes

[cyan birch]

My theory is that cave leech cluster amplifies the number of cave leeches only if they get chosen for the enemy pool of that specific mission, or who knows, maybe it's just a weird bug

[fringe thistle]

Well it IS a weird bug, it lives on the ceiling afterall

[cyan birch]

Opened myself up for that one

[grand pasture]

I'd imagine it's a multiplier of the amount, but the base amount doesn't get affected, explains why I once did a mineral mania in a region with scarce Jadiz and only found one Crystal of it in the entire thing

[dark ermine]

hi

[soft token]

any good caretaker builds for driller?

he doesnt have much direct/weakpoint damage

[leaden cypress]

sludge blast, VIM, TCF EPC, etc

[soft token]

whats vim

[naive beacon]

volatile impact mixture

[naive beacon]

are u trying to solo him or something?
in a team its usually much better for driller to c4 vents and burn adds than to dps caretaker

[soft token]

i was asking because i ended up in a team of 3/4 drillers on the EDD

[unique ore]

depends on your builds, just 2 drillers is enough to insta get you to the eye phase with c4s, and axes are pretty good against the eye if everyone starts spamming into it

[naive beacon]

ye axes, weakpoint subata, heavy hitter epc and sludge blast or vim sludge pump can work

[rancid cedar]

you can also just tcf spam the eye

[floral spear]

drg

[untold saddle]

correct!

[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!
_ _

[modern forum]

To whoever was doing an elite deep dive with TheDjCurryRapper just now I’m so sorry I had to disconnect, parents came home unexpectedly and I had to help them w smthng that couldn’t wait. Again, I’m sorry I had to dc like that in the middle of caretaker but I hope u guys were able to complete it and that u guys were able to finish the elite deep dive.

[wraith shard]

Is it worth doing solo DD?

[foggy wharf]

Hell yeah

[worthy hawk]

Yep, it's pretty difficulty but not imposible. I think the Engineer it's the best class, because the turrets and grenades can save you from being catched by enemies, and you have a nice movility with the platforms

[mellow geode]

matrixcore trading system

please 🥺 🥺 🥺

[burnt sandal]

#suggestions
likely not happening regardless though.

[thorny gull]

leek?

[grand pasture]

Pinged the mods already

Cause they did it in #suggestions too

[buoyant wing]

It may or may not take your longer soloing, depending on how well you play with bosco, but the biggest difference is that you can pause your game. Not that big a deal most of the time but (E)DDs I find it to be a very good QoL since they can take a while sometimes

[mental gorge]

How many OCs do you get from each reg deep dive

[sonic wing]

1 blank 1 oc 1 cosmetic

So technically 2

[mental gorge]

my first OC was beard for gunner this is not what i needed

[leaden cypress]

so you didn't pick an OC

[rancid cedar]

can’t wait to give away my 500 matrix cores for 1 bismor each

[kindred field]

whats up with stage 2 dd ive been loading for 3 mins

[tight yarrow]

ROCK AND STONE

[sharp bridge]

guys, do you know if in the 2nd mission of this weeks EDD it is possible to find the main turret that deactivates the others?

[naive beacon]

thats only in rival presence warning, not in sabotage

[sharp bridge]

ok so in the last one

thanks

[sharp brook]

why cant i speak in drg chat

i can speak nowe

[naive beacon]

there is no rival presence this week

[foggy sapphire]

man this weeks EDD is a killer

[obtuse flame]

hey, sorry, I just joined this server and for some reason I cant send messages in #drg-chat and stuff, is there a second timer to be able to talk in there?

[leaden cypress]

#welcome-and-rules read the rules

[wheat gull]

It's always a pity when I'm running the DD with the wife and we have a random driller join and try to speedrun it from under us. :/ If folks are in that much of a hurry they should really host their own instead of hijacking somebody elses.

[steady robin]

Love when WiFi goes out at the very end of stage 3 deep dive

[balmy sedge]

It kinda sucks, I only play gunner and I’ve gotten two OC for gunner, both for the coilgun. Besides that I’ve got 3 weapon skins, 2 cosmetics, and 4 OC for driller, 2 cosmetics for Scout, and 3 cosmetics and 5 OC for engineer.

[kind bridge]

I was on the third stage of this week’s deep dive and my scout teammate tried to revive me while I was surrounded by three praetorians

Forgot to mention we lost the mission because of that

[balmy sedge]

That sucks man

[unique ore]

if you're hosting, you can change the room name to say something like casual run, and you can make the game private if you dont want people to join

[raven carbon]

It's random

[balmy sedge]

Yuh, I’ve just been so unlucky

[sonic wing]

That edd sucked

First stage was pretty easy second stage came down to the wire and 3rd uplink did a murder

[exotic belfry]

<@&296918282403840000>

[grand pasture]

I quite enjoyed the challenge

[wheat gull]

I know. My room name is something akin to " we train greenbeards here settle down " (I forget exactly), and we wanted a full group for the dive. It doesn't happen often, just a pity that it did. We had the greenest of beards with us, and I usually try to make sure they have a positive first dive.

[unborn turtle]

Any idea why I can't access DRG chat? Lol. This is the only channel I can type in for some reason?

[burnt sandal]

read #welcome-and-rules, pick roles

[lavish crown]

I did

Huh

That was weird

Oh my phone was bugging out

[ruby sapphire]

Is it worth playing the game if I got no one to play with(just installed it)

[burnt sandal]

the game can be played and enjoyed in solo fully 🙂

and randoms are fine too

[unique ore]

You can match with other people in game, it’s fine to play with solo, but generally more fun in coop

[limpid rose]

Rock

[obtuse flame]

And

[ruby cave]

Stone

[brittle quartz]

Did I hear a rock and stone??? ⛏️

[shy halo]

Someone want to play an (US) Elite Deep Dive? there are 2 spots available.

[weak quail]

should have checked this weeks edd before chosing to go driller solo. Why the fuck did they add sabotage to deep dives?

[patent elk]

To make it challenging and fun

[unborn perch]

What are the objectives of this weeks deep dives

[patent elk]

It's in the pins

[weak quail]

They really made it challenging, my sludge pump had no chance

You know what i shouldnt be a winy baby because of this

[delicate bramble]

hello can someone tell me what missions are in weelly deep dive?

[old widget]

check the pinned messages, it's always up to date

[delicate bramble]

ty bro ❤️

[grand pasture]

Yeah, cause driller actually shreds sabotage, even without his handy flamethrower. Ground turrets can easily be dealt with by actuallly just drilling the floor right under them, your combat axes insta-kill appendages if thrown at them, drills lay waste to shredders and anything melee related will help against patrol bots, then there's the infamous C4 strat on the caretaker

[elfin oyster]

You still have to shoot his eyes, which is the painful part

[grand pasture]

Yeah but that's not gonna change regardless of your primary, and the pain comes from how slow it usually is rather than difficulty, since you easily remove any other threat in the fight, you could even get by with a base wave cooker, let alone explosive reload subata

[weak quail]

You see, my build didnt have no flamethrower nor any impact axe

It was built to kill bugs not robots

Guess i shouldnt use it anymore

[patent elk]

There's nothing really wrong with what you had before. It's just that pyro driller is so hilariously good for IS/RP that it makes it worth using it for when you get bots on top of standard bug killing

[rancid cedar]

most driller builds are better with axes anyways. You also don’t need to bring fire. VIM, sludge blast, ice storm and ice spear all do fine on sabotage

[grand pasture]

Yeah honestly nothing beats axes when it comes to driller, grenades do what your primary already does, neurotoxin mostly the same but reliant on your team not using any incendiary or just killing everything in it anyway, and the rippers.......well most players don't wanna think when it comes to this game, not to mention their friendly fire...

Plus, don't forget the synergy with vampire

[serene parcel]

hola a todos algun latino

[burnt sandal]

#fan-communities

[tacit surge]

hola

alguien juega?

no puedo hablar nada mas que en este canal alguien me puede decir porque?, no doy con la tecla.... 😕

[pure cliff]

have to choose a role in #welcome-and-rules , also for the spanish server you head to #fan-communities

[honest spade]

What are the names of the new deep dives?

[pure cliff]

you can check on the pin comments

[honest spade]

Where's that? I can't talk anywhere but here

Found it

[primal nebula]

i need help i cant finnish the tutorial without my screen disconnecting and it doesnt appear to be an pc issue as it is only with drg so anyone know how to fix that

[primal nebula]

idk how but i fixed it

[random rampart]

For that, read #welcome-and-rules and pick a role or two

[fair holly]

.

[grand pasture]

I agree

[manic pivot]

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

[plucky island]

Is it possible to solo elite deep dive?

Soloing deep dive was a headache as a newbie kek

[wraith shard]

yes absolutely

optimal class would depend on which objectives the EDD has but gunner is never not a good pick

[plucky island]

Ig i tried driller solo

Thank fuck i didnt get any robot related missions imo

[shadow temple]

Yea.... in some cases, it might actually be easier than with a team

You don't get so much enemy scaling, you are free to take 100% of the resupplies, you've got Bosco that is basically a hard carry for Aquarq and Egg missions, etc.

You just need to know which class would do best in the EDD's missions for the week

[plucky island]

Fair enough

Ahhh ic , so the missions are fixed for deep dives

[minor bane]

Hello!

[wraith shard]

Yeah, playing with friends is more fun of course but I find that when I solo EDD I am more likely to beat it

Bosco is great for egg and aquarqs

[grand pasture]

Driller shreds robots, wdym?

[wraith shard]

How has the EDD this week been treating you all?

[brave pebble]

anyone doing deep dive?

[limber isle]

hey anyone doing deep dive and could I join

[compact otter]

Good

[brave pebble]

yess

anyone doing elite deep dive?

[old widget]

Welcome, new miner. Please go to #welcome-and-rules and react to posts there to select one or more roles, which will give you access to the other channels. Then use the appropriate #928582985559736360 channel, for example #lfg-steam, to find other dwarves to team up with.

[zenith sand]

My team always wipes on the third elite deep dive mission

[plucky island]

HA???

How , his flamethrower/cryo doesnt do anything tho

[zenith sand]

Long range flamethrower kills everything

excpet caretaker

[grand pasture]

HA???

Overheating any robot insta kills them, use the heat upgrade

[plucky island]

.....

[grand pasture]

Anything made by rival tech has a massive weakness to melee damage, which your drills and axes do

[zenith sand]

Long range overclock allows you to snipe them from a distance

[chilly shore]

bots also have corrosion and ice damage vulnerability
which driller has plenty of

[plucky island]

[zenith sand]

corrosion and ice dmaage?

whats your source on that?

[grand pasture]

The wiki

[zenith sand]

It should be only fire

[plucky island]

Haven't tried fire , but ice does jack shit to the robots

[grand pasture]

Ice damage is increased, not cold

You can't freeze them basically

But ice storm will shred them

[chilly shore]

yea it's from the wiki

[grand pasture]

But base cryo cannon? Well, even with double damage, not gonna do a lot of DPS

[chilly shore]

is there even another weapon in the game that does ice damage

or corrosion
i think these weaknesses were designed specifically for driller

[grand pasture]

Probably

[zenith sand]

Wiki says they are resistant to corrosion

https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/Rival_Caretaker

[chilly shore]

they are negatively resistant

which is a vulnerability

[zenith sand]

ah I see what you said

interesting

[grand pasture]

Green numbers good, orange bad

[spiral badge]

Not resistant to bullets dakka dakka

[manic pivot]

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

[eager atlas]

it does ok, equipvalent to some random builds from other classes, definitely not as good as overheating but it means the cryo isn't entirely useless if you bring it

[trim sapphire]

Did they do something to the current edd? There’s non stop waves of 50+ swarmers and grunts

[buoyant wing]

what stage

[trim sapphire]

3rd

[outer sable]

you mightve been in the mission too long

that ramps up the spawn rates

[buoyant wing]

yeah that's just PE

10-15 minutes into PE it turns into chaos

hazard 5.5 doesn't help

[trim sapphire]

But even at the earlier unofficial swarm waves they would spawn like 100 swarmers and 50 grunts

[trim sapphire]

Oh

[outer sable]

yeah the game also just does that sometimes lmfao

[buoyant wing]

blackbox+PE is always a bit of a crapshoot if you don't do it exactly right

[trim sapphire]

We didn’t get a black box objective tho

We had gunk seed, aquarq, and dread

[rain pebble]

yo

whts good

[trim sapphire]

Sup

[still lantern]

I was warned that this Elite Deep Dive was pretty hellish.

[shadow temple]

Usually if the deep dive decides to throw a black box in a PE mission, your best bet is to do the black box once you spawn in

Delay a bit too long and you will get a swarm during the black box

Delay even longer and u have to deal with increased spawnrates

Just better to get it done with, then it's just a normal PE mission after

[still lantern]

I'm moreso meaning the Sabotage. Lol

[shadow temple]

Ah soz I was referring to an earlier comment ahaha

[still lantern]

Ah, I gotcha.

[shadow temple]

Sabotage can be rough, didn't help that there's elite threat as well

But it went okayish for me, was a gunner solo

[still lantern]

I decided Gunner, solo with suppressive fire on the Autocannon.

[shadow temple]

Nice, I went with LSLS minigun and BRT7 LS

[still lantern]

What'd you use on the burst fire?

I went with the six shooter on the revolver.

[shadow temple]

Not on PC rn so I can't check

All I know is I specced it mainly for damage and more magazine size

Usually use it for shredding down Praets and Opps

[still lantern]

Prob lead spray. That adds quite a bit of DMG.

[stuck bloom]

I’m trying to find a group to play with but discord won’t let me type in any of the LFG chats

[exotic belfry]

Grab a role in #welcome-and-rules

[zenith sand]

Got kicked of 2 elite deep dives because I called out people that jsut had 1 promoted class

[exotic belfry]

WDYM called people out? Are new players not allowed to play an EDD?

If you want to enforce an arbitrary level requirement then host the lobby, and don't force it onto random people.

[zenith sand]

We can't play an EDD if you jsut have 1 promoted class and cant swap to other classes

Probably getting wiped anyway

Would you do an EDD with 2 people that barely has 1 class promtoed?

[exotic belfry]

Yes? I dont need a perfect team to do an EDD, and new players have the capacity to be really skilled, even if less common.

[zenith sand]

At least have a second one?

Can't we ask for that much?

[exotic belfry]

I mean if you want to enforce that host the lobby lol, let other people play how they want

[zenith sand]

Sure

[rancid cedar]

ye i do all the time

[zenith sand]

You'll remember this convo.

[rancid cedar]

i sure hate it when green beards have the audacity to try an edd without having at least 100 hours in the game smh my head

[exotic belfry]

Only if your the host. You dont know the people you are joining. They might be a group of friends wanting to do the EDD for the first time. They could be experienced in other games, so they already have the skills to play DRG well. And they might be freakishly skilled for no reason. They also could suck, and need to be carried.

The point being you don't know who these people are or why they are there, so you can choose to leave anytime if you don't want to play with them, you cant force them to leave. The only exception is when you are the host, as then you can't just leave, so its more acceptable to enforce your personal rules.

[zenith sand]

You'll rememeber this conversation.

[rancid cedar]

if ur host you can just kick who you don’t want anways

And all the ppl that want to have fun with newer players don’t have to deal with you complaining about them

it’s a win win

[zenith sand]

I do agree, hwoever with EDD maybe there should be a notch higher due to the difficulty

[rancid cedar]

edd is easier then most haz 5s tho lol

I don’t see why there shud be even more of a barrier then there already is when it’s one of the main ways to get cores

[zenith sand]

🤷🏻‍♂️

All I'm saying @exotic belfry will remember this 30 minutes in an EDD, maybe he will remember he was right. Maybe he won't, who knows.

[past brook]

If you don’t like newer players who haven’t promoted more the 1 class don’t join a random lobby expecting them to all have every dwarf promoted

[zenith sand]

At least one more could be a good courtesy to the team

[rancid cedar]

you say that as if it’s a decision they make lol

they just haven’t played the game long enough yet and want cores

[zenith sand]

It's jsut a bit harsh that you come prepared and everything and they kick you because the other person its not flexible/was not prepared

When you are flexible and prepared

[past brook]

But if you joined later and as you say flexible and prepared why can’t you just change class

[zenith sand]

Because I'm bringing a class that cna make the run easier with a specific overclock

Instead we have to leave that behidn ebcause someone didnt come prepared

[past brook]

Couldn’t you just have 2 of the same class

[zenith sand]

Sure, but again, why me and not him?

Why do I have to do all the work and he couldnt be bothered to at least be another class?

[rancid cedar]

because he doesn’t have the choice and you do?

[past brook]

How is changing class that much work

[rancid cedar]

because he only has 1 or 2 classes promoted

[exotic belfry]

What does this mean? Is it a threat? I’m genuinely confused.

[zenith sand]

Can't replicate a fuel stream difuser with another class, instead we get a maybe non-overlcock greenbeard that was not ready for the challenge

Just because we are nice and did what he could not

[exotic belfry]

If you have an issue with them then kick them? Like you can just kick people you don’t want to play with.

[rancid cedar]

in approximately 31 days, 4 hours, 3 minutes, and 12 seconds, a greenbeard will die during one of ur edds and mildly inconvenience you. That’s when you’ll realize D. love craft was right all along

[zenith sand]

No just karma. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong.

[past brook]

Karma for having a different opinion to you?

[exotic belfry]

OH NO! How could they put such a terrible curse upon me 😭😭😭 I’m gonna die a horrible death and have to redo a EDD.

[zenith sand]

I mean maybe he is right!

We don't need to worry about it.

I'm just very happy everyone is open to receive said green beards in your runs.

[eager atlas]

carrying players is what makes EDD interesting after a while

if we just stomp the entire thing it's a little eh

not that stomping isn't fun, but it gets old fast

[zenith sand]

True but not at the cost of waiting more time.

[grand pasture]

I run lobbies specifically to carry these people

[grand pasture]

What is gonna make him wrong in this instance? His lobby fails? That's always going to happen, and it won't make you right

[rancid cedar]

if i fail an edd that’s a skill issue on my part (unless someone is trolling / friendly firing me)

[zenith sand]

Well the problem is that I'm trying to contribute but jsut because another person does not want to contribute I'm punished

[rancid cedar]

That being said there’s nothing wrong with not being comfortable enough to carry ppl, but don’t push that on other lobbies who can carry / don’t mind losing

[zenith sand]

How I'm I suppossed to know one person just has one promoted class?

[rancid cedar]

probably their level

or just ask

[grand pasture]

Who said they don't want to contribute?

[rancid cedar]

ye somone having 1 promo doesn’t mean they aren’t contributing lol

[zenith sand]

So we all need to adapt to that person and not the challenge per se?

[eager atlas]

3 decently players can perfectly make up for a greenbeard

even 2

[grand pasture]

Adapt? No, just work with it

[zenith sand]

I agree, but I'm being kicked for questioning it the slightest.

Not refuse

Not changing

[grand pasture]

Were you though?

What exactly did you say?

[zenith sand]

Yeah, I just thought, "hey perhaps he might not be ready for an elite deep dive" = insta-kick.

To add the cherry on top

said person tried to change class to a non-promoted and we had to explain him he can't do an EDD with that class

All I said was that in response.

No argument, no tangent, nor anything

A simple "Hey you might not be ready for this yet"

[rancid cedar]

A lot of hosts are just like that. You’ll get kicked for more unreasonable things than just that. At least it wasn’t mid mission

[zenith sand]

One time I saw that happened to someone and he was kicked by the host

[rancid cedar]

saw what

[zenith sand]

In exchange we had a gunner that called 2 resuplies in the first mission

Same thing

And that wasted all of his shields in the drop pod.

Someone said "Hey, he might not be ready yet"

I didn't really payed it much attention until it happened to me today

And was a bit infuriating

[grand pasture]

Banned someone the other day for kill thirsting severely, like mission started, he ignored the starting cave minerals and went straight for enemies, and died, while we were mining starting minerals

[rancid cedar]

ngl iv done dummer shit then that on an edd

[grand pasture]

Oh it wasn't an EDD

[zenith sand]

Look I'm not agaisnt you guys or agaisnt greenbeards in deep dives

But about unfairness when someone is giving or asking for something

and then he is denied and kicked

[rancid cedar]

i was talking to lovecraft

that’s just the nature of joining somone who else’s lobby lol

they kick for all sorts of dum reasons

they have level requirements for haz 3 lobbies

none of this shit makes sense but if you join you gotta expect some shenanigans occasionally

Or just host and make ur own rules

[grand pasture]

Only thing I try to do what push in other lobbies is being allowed to double dip when you're clearly using more ammo than someone else

I love getting lectured by Timmy who's been mining the last ten minutes and still has 90% of his ammo while I've done all the killing

This reminds me actually, need to get the seed for this EDD before the reset so I can do it again in the future

[zenith sand]

Can you collect seeds?

[grand pasture]

Yes

[restive glen]

hi

which channel is to find miners to play with?

[exotic belfry]

Read #welcome-and-rules and grab a role, then head to the LFG chat for your platform

[restive glen]

thank you

[lilac wing]

2 questions
1 does anyone know why i cant post in half of the threads?
2 does anyone know how you are supposed to get the promised credits to sync

[pure cliff]

Read ⁠welcome and grab a role

[lilac wing]

thank you i didn't realize i needed to pick which platform i was on and glossed over it

[lilac wing]

and when i just popped on the second one worked soit was a 2 for 1 solution thank you again

[jade spruce]

hmm

[manic pivot]

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[sly kettle]

Soon™

[manic pivot]

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[drifting tinsel]

It's another Thursday afternoon, which means we are once again graced with new Deep Dives!

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 March 07 to 2024 March 14 (Week 233)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1710414000:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Defect Earth
Stage 1: Escort Duty + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Shield Disruption
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + Black Box | Volatile Guts Rival Presence
Stage 3: On-Site Refining + 2 Eggs | No Mutator

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Salt Pits | Code Name: Devil's Run
Stage 1: 2 Dreadnoughts (Classic + Twins) + 2 Eggs | Low Gravity
Stage 2: 250 Morkite + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + Hiveguard | Cave Leech Cluster

Time for your weekly newsletter thing!:

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[grand pasture]

Ooooooh, lethal enemies and cave leech cluster, noice

[ivory marten]

Escort Shield Disruption

That fuckin' sucks lmao

[leaden cypress]

Haz 3

💤

EDD S3's cave gen is kinda goofy tho

[gentle plover]

when EDD looks better then RDD you know somethings up

(yes i see the 3 dreadnaughts but their fine)

[leaden cypress]

tf is RDD

[gentle plover]

regular deep dive

i just call it that

[pliant crypt]

i like bosco

[frail rapids]

second stage of EDD looks rough

[sonic wing]

Morkite and eggs dont look tobad

[leaden cypress]

nah the objectives are relatively easy

it's mostly the cave gen that's annoying

[sonic wing]

I will know when i find time to do them

Gotta finish my engie promo than i shall get murdered in the edd as scoot

[grand pasture]

What makes it look better?

[gentle plover]

regular having 2 kinda lenghtly missions compared to elite, yes dreadnoughts can be long if not taken care of properly, and eggs are just easy to snag]

[grand pasture]

Fair enough, thought you meant the modifiers

[raven swallow]

Rate classes in the game

Who would you put first on tier list?

I know it's hard to choose,bc it's team game

But who would you put first on tier list

[patent elk]

Whoever you're most comfortable with is the best.

[tidal robin]

Depends on context

[honest flame]

First is gunner bc lead storm OC plus zip lines is goated, as is lead spray brt

Second is driller because of great crowd control, especially with sticky flames, and the drills making extraction easy, as well as speeding up egg and aquarq missions

Third is scout, necessary for mining high on walls, reviving teammates quick, and generally being the last one alive.

[north axle]

Their all S tier

[honest flame]

Finally engie, turrets are great for crowd control, allowing the rest of the team to stay focused on the objective. Platforms are useful in combo with scout. Shard diffractor helps you draw an amogus on walls. But a combo of low DPS and my engie teammates always nuking me puts engie in last place.

[cosmic umbra]

6 alien eggs + dreadnought will be such a pain

[sonic wing]

Personal preference if you play pubs and you dont have 1 of the 4 you generaly find your self missing them

[compact otter]

Zipgunning bad

[honest flame]

It's so OP it should genuinely be nerfed for balancing reasons

[rancid cedar]

engi is generally considered the weakest on super high haz due to low survivablity, but he can def still do great work with competent repellent usage and a good burst dmg

[compact otter]

Its not op
Its bad for your team

[rancid cedar]

zip gunning is fine if ur actually putting in work while on it

[compact otter]

You effectively leave a swarm supposed for 4 people on 3 people

And if you get hit by ranged attacks you fall off

Its dumb

[rancid cedar]

just target ranged enemies

and be ready to use the zip down fast for dodging

[honest flame]

Nah, you have a better angle to do crowd control, drop shields, throw grenades farther, and target dreads

[wraith shard]

you literally get a worse angle for crowd control lmao what

[compact otter]

You can’t because of your bad mobility

[drifting tinsel]

i personally think zipgunning with lead storm is fine because there's no other choice for mobility unless you have jet boots

[wraith shard]

jumping

[drifting tinsel]

it definitely has its scenarios; i only use it for dreads though

[compact otter]

False

You can bhop

Burs shoot while in the air

[drifting tinsel]

i did say personally

[hearty geyser]

is the nemesis on stage 3 of regular dive common?

dealt with it without problem, but kinda surprised me. Was expecting the guy at stage 2

[drifting tinsel]

just a coincidence like any other

[compact otter]

Sure its your subjective opinion but its objectively false

There is the choice of bhopping for movement

[zenith sand]

Remember the gunner I said that called 2 resups in mission 1? His excuse was that he needed them for ziplines

The guy was aply named clown too

[rancid cedar]

how exactly is the zipline stopping you from hitting mactera and spitters lol

Especially when you have a better view of the area then from the ground and can completely ignore all melee units

[chilly lotus]

Play haz 5, then back here again

[honest flame]

I use it almost exclusively on haz 5

[rancid cedar]

you say this as if most ppl on this server don’t already play haz 5 and find it piss easy lol

[next pebble]

Who is most

There's a crapload of people here, and most don't talk

[rancid cedar]

i shud say the vocal minority then. Although imo this discord definitely contains way more ppl that play haz 5 compared to the rest of the playerbase

regardless zip camping is fine, the game doesn’t spawn enough ranged units to punish you if you have decent awareness

[chilly lotus]

Go zipgunning on haz 5 with another 3 classes, do 300 haz5 missions with gunner (all of them must be coop)

[rancid cedar]

Dam didn’t realize i needed to do a whole checklist of things for my opinion to be valid

[chilly lotus]

After that, i dont care what is your opinion anymore, DRG teach everyone how to self-correct

Its a good game

[rancid cedar]

you can get away with a bunch of bad habits the game is pretty casual

Also do you have an actual reason you think zipgunning is bad besides “lmao try haz 5”

[patent elk]

Man and I thought Iron Will started the most heated debates

[chilly lotus]

Nah, its never a debate in the first place

[sonic wing]

Nah thats boomerang

[chilly lotus]

Players needs is just different for unlimited scenarios
Specially ppls who talk so high into the cloud, but not even played hardest difficulty available pretty often
There's no points taking a side on such debates

You could lower your IQ to -300
Very bad for health

[rancid cedar]

especially when you don’t even bring up any points for your opinion

[compact otter]

You might not get an angle

[rancid cedar]

you are signifantly more likely to have an angle on ranged enemies from the air then on the ground

[compact otter]

Not in a cave

[rancid cedar]

yes in a cave

[compact otter]

How?

[compact otter]

A cave is to small for being stuck in the air to be an advantage

Its not like you can see over the horizon in a cave

The septic spreader can even hide and still hit you

And its a common enemy

And spitters hang around the ceiling most of the time anyway

[rancid cedar]

Spitters and menaces need direct line of sight to attack you. They literally can only attack when they are visible

All mactera variants always attack you from a set distance of a few meters, so you will always be able to hit them from the air where they have 0 cover

The only enemy in the game that can actual hit you consistently without you actually seeing it are spreaders, but this happens primarily when they have the high ground and shoot over a cliff in an arc. This is means it’s actually EASIER to spot from the air on average since they will not have terrain to arc over

[compact otter]

And by being attackable from 360 degrees on 2 planes mactera have it very easy to be out of your vision

[rancid cedar]

that’s just a skill issue, you just focus mactera and spitters first lol

[compact otter]

Thats just a skill issue
Play haz 6x2 with zipgunning

[rancid cedar]

Also the bigger the cave the less threatening spitters become due to projectile travel time. I’m not saying you shud always zip camp but saying it can never work is blatantly false lol

[rancid cedar]

First off this isnt a modded channel and second off yes iv been on ziplines in 6x2

[compact otter]

Still doesnt solve that you arent distracting a quater of the swarm so you are handicapping your team

[compact otter]

Youre the type of drawf to use ntp

[rancid cedar]

You are distracting hvts which are infinitely more important then fodder. Less attention on you means more fodder going into driller sticky flames

[rancid cedar]

naw autocannon isn’t my speed. I like lsls and vb

[compact otter]

Thats scouts role and he is bad at swarmclear

You are handicapping your team

Period

[rancid cedar]

no hvts is everyone’s role lol. Besides probably driller

[compact otter]

Smh he forgot about ice spear

[rancid cedar]

Scout is really good for hvts but he is not killing 4 menaces by himself on 6x2 lol

[compact otter]

Or

Sticky fuel nemesis

[wraith shard]

@compact otter nice pfp

[compact otter]

Besides that

[rancid cedar]

that’s different tho? If driller is using cryo then obvously gunner shud stick by him lol. I’m not arguing you shud always zip camp, just that it can work

[compact otter]

Still
Zipgunning is a bad strategy because you make yourself an easy target (in simple terms: mobility on zipgun bad and high haz levels rely on your mobility a lot) and you handicap your teammates (at least a quater of the swarm is not distracted by you)

[compact otter]

It can work but is bad

[rancid cedar]

No it def depends

being able to ignore all melee units is far from bad lol

[compact otter]

You are essentially handicapping you and / or your team

[compact otter]

Thank you

[rancid cedar]

you are not

This is like claiming using bug repellent or bunkering handicaps ur team somehow lol

[compact otter]

How is not distracting at least a quater of a swarm not a handicap for the team

Especially with such a vital support character as gunner

[rancid cedar]

your distracting enemies that actually matter

you can support from on a zip lol

unless ur hard bunkering but in that case you already won the game

[compact otter]

How? You cant throw a shield that far
And 2 of 3 primaries have bad accuracy
Especially while you are moving wich you are constantly on the zipline

[compact otter]

Like spitters? I think that there are more important enemies

[rancid cedar]

Only 1 of gunners primaries have bad accuracy and it just so happens to be the worst one lol. And if ur aim is thrown off by the tiny movement speed of zips idk how tf you aim while bhopping

[rancid cedar]

Like literally every ranged enemy in the game? Which is like most hvts

[compact otter]

You dont know how to aim while bhopping?

Its like any other gun

[rancid cedar]

No my point was how is the zipline throwing off ur aim

it’s slower then bhopping

[compact otter]

And where can they be if you are suspended in the air? All around you
If you are on the ground they cant be below you

[rancid cedar]

Again this is just solved by good awareness. You completely ignored my point that you are still drawing the aggro of important targets. You also aren’t forced to just hang on the zip. You can always zip down or even between zips if threatened

[elfin oyster]

Doesn’t good awareness also solve the issues your proposing to fix, like ranged enemies

[jade spruce]

why i can't chat on other channels

[rancid cedar]

i think you need a role from #welcome-and-rules

[next pebble]

https://tenor.com/view/bruh-gif-24935909

[jade spruce]

🫰

[grand pasture]

This gotta be the stupidest debater ever

[rancid cedar]

ofc you don’t need zips to do well, especially on haz 5. You don’t need to bunker or use repellent either. However all of those things will definitely help you out

[grand pasture]

Legitimate points being fought with "do it on haz 5"/"I think that's stupid"/"Scout can already do that"

[tacit iris]

Lots of eggs for this EDD

[compact otter]

Then you arent zipgunning