deep-dive-discussion

[tiny nymph]

is the edd just super difficult this week?

stage 2 has been hell

[raven carbon]

It's not too bad

[raven carbon]

Just keep moving

Exploder infestation and duck and cover mantra

[jolly herald]

i think difficulty is quite class dependent this week - engi and driller makes stage 2 and 3 a lot easier than if you try it without

terraform the cave before you start pulling eggs, the terrain is fairly awkward to navigate while you kite bugs

[raven carbon]

I did it with 2p team gunner and scout

Wasn't too bad even without that

Just needs a lot of map awareness

[vestal sapphire]

1. I dont like thinking
2. I like ammo

[jolly herald]

nice, any class can work just certain things make life a lot easier

[jolly herald]

can't argue with that

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[twilit saddle]

would i be better doing a mobile engi (aka rj250) or a damage engi (breach cutter, more than likely) for the regular deep dive?

eggs, morkite, and resonance crystals benefit mobility, but there are dreadnoughts to worry about as well, so im curious of others suggestion

[winter veldt]

Mate tbh regular deep dives are easy enough that you can try both

[chilly delta]

I usually leave the mobility part to my platforms just in case. Especially for the deep dives

[cold kindle]

That edd was ez,but only cuz we had competent driller and engie

Bunkering black box on 3rd was really nice.Duck and cover imo is the worst warning in the game

Lithophage outbreak also sucks,but at least it can't appear in deep dives

[eager atlas]

yet
dun dunn dunnnnn

[vague lantern]

ironically, for once this week the deepcore pgl is superior to the breach cutter

because on stage 3 the duck and cover bugs are all on the ceiling

the shard diffractor also ought to be good

[silent spruce]

Yes. Since spitters and the web bugs spawn all at once very closely, you can kill them very easily with something like the Fat Boy.

I already use the fat boy in my daily basis, so if i can have an excuse to use it more, i'll use it. lol

[eager atlas]

So you can kill 3 groups per resupply instead of 9 :D

[winter veldt]

OMG GUYS NEW EDD YAY

[still geode]

(except for roll control)

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[jolly herald]

roll control does bits on duck and cover tho

[jolly herald]

just saw this, my bad

[vagrant fable]

I pray for no shield disruption for the EDD

[smoky hawk]

fr man

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[austere lintel]

Pls no mini mule recovery or duck and cover

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[vagrant fable]

heres hoping

[drifting tinsel]

rotations might take a little longer than usual today, please be patient! <3

[cold kindle]

Please no aquarqs in EDD

And no elite threat/duck and cover.I hate these mutators

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 August 22 to 2024 August 29 (Week 257)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1724929200:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Defect Roof
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Low Oxygen
Stage 2: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s + Uplink + 150 Morkite | No Mutator
Stage 3: 3 Resonance Crystals + Drillevator + Twins | Rich Atmosphere Regenerative Bugs

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Evil Hold
Stage 1: 10 Aquarqs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + 2 Eggs | Low Gravity Duck and Cover
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | No Mutator

Here's your reminder that if you had Deep Rock Galactic open while the weekly assignments and dives refreshed, you'll need to restart the game to access new weeklies. Your game will still be stuck in last week's rotations otherwise!
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[cold kindle]

Let's go

[cold kindle]

OH COME ON

No aquarqs
No duck and cover
We got BOTH

[tiny marten]

hahaha

[vagrant fable]

much oblidged

[cold kindle]

Okay at least stage 3 is ez

[tiny marten]

i hate low gravity

[cold kindle]

And region is pretty good

[tiny marten]

i like jumping a lot and it throws me off

[cold kindle]

Only threat is electric crystals

[cold kindle]

Well at least fall damage is not that painful

[tiny marten]

@gleaming magnet

morkite missions with duck and cover are usually easy cause places are tight

[gleaming magnet]

Looks easy

[cold kindle]

Looks clean to me

[tiny marten]

im just thinking what i should roll with for swarmageddon PE so i wont have a lot of downtimes killing these little fuckers

prolly cryo boltshark and throw one cryo bolt behind me is what im guessing

[mystic horizon]

this EDD was like a walk in the park

[tiny marten]

anything unexpected?

[cold kindle]

And duck and cover objective is incredible short + low gravity

[mystic horizon]

stage 1 has like a barrage right on spawn

stage 2 has a scale in an inconvenient spot

stage 3 is just inconvenient cave gen

infact all 3 stages are very annoying to traverse because of how cramped they are

[cold kindle]

So driller is must have?

[mystic horizon]

sorta if you want more convenience but its not to the point where he's required

[mystic horizon]

theres a spitballer blocking it too i forgot

[cold kindle]

Kk thanks

[mystic horizon]

other than that its really not hard if your team has above average crowd control

theres far too much nitra for you to ever worry

[tiny marten]

yeah honestly none of these missions look ammo required heavy

so i bet you can do it with a couple mby 3 resups top

[mystic horizon]

the only time i was concerned for my safety during the run was when a bulk jumpscared me in stage 3 but i was gunner so

i dont think i used my shield at all until stage 3 because of some unlucky mactera spawns

[zenith ember]

i got a bulk near drop at stage 3 too

stage 2's dirt patch can be annoying if the driller doesnt know what to do, its near the rooftop hidden in a small cave

stage 1 craps out alot of nitra, 4-5 resup?

[glad basin]

Just completed my first elite deep dive🎉 it was only a 3 man team too!

[mystic horizon]

congrats

[tiny marten]

my only advice for edd this week would be, respect duck and cover and play swarms in a proper area cause there are some places in the cave that it can get ugly

on stage 2

[winter veldt]

This EDD seems easy too :3

[ancient grove]

Duck and Cover 😰

[drifting tinsel]

duck and cover 😔

[wraith shard]

ECR

[sand juniper]

Goo gun. 👍

[mellow cradle]

goo gun isn't very good for ceilings

unless you just plan to kill with direct dmg

[sand juniper]

Yes it is.

Throw a charged shot at the ceiling with some mod/OC for extra goo.

The slowdown effect from goo cripples macteras, it's not an instakill but it gets them off you + decent DoT.

Also if you're on a narrow corridor, as it can be the case on this week's EDD stage 2 (since the map gen is that of a mining expedition) the best thing you can do to maximize goo dispersal is to fire at the ceiling and let it rain down.

[mellow cradle]

by the time the projectile reaches the ceiling, fragments, and hits the macera, it might shoot

[mellow cradle]

yeah, but goo doesn't stick to ceilings

and that's where all the spitter are

unless you bunker or something

[wraith shard]

Using the goo to kill the projectile bugs instead of depending on engi or gunner sounds like a pain in the back

[sand juniper]

But if you fire at a spitter in the ceiling the fragmentation effect will fire sideways, landing goo on its friends too.

[mellow cradle]

only in a small radius, because of gravity

I find CN to be much better for Duck and Cover, because it immboilizes immedaitely, has piercing, and ice can stick to ceilings

[sand juniper]

I do it often with Disperser Compound, it's not too annoying for me and it's an effective counter I use frequently. I have a far harder time with the flamethrower for instance, or even with the cryo cannon waiting for the freeze to take effect.

If you're on an open space you also have the effect where a charged shot impacting on one flying enemy fragmentates mid air and can affect a whole flying pack.

[pallid helm]

How hard this week DD & EDD?

[mellow cradle]

easy

[winter veldt]

At least is not haunted cave on-site refinery

this one is easy

[austere lintel]

Why does the EDD stage 3 has SO MANY macteras?

Bros got lost and got on the wrong stage

[winter veldt]

cause haz5.5

[austere lintel]

Yeah but still it felt like a mini duck amd cover

[mellow cradle]

sometimes, not all special enemy slots will be occupied by unique enemies, which will lead to more spawns of fewer special enemies https://youtu.be/tLiX_GJRdWw?t=313

[austere lintel]

Hmmm

Thats good to know thx

But despite that i still got both deep dives on my firt try today (thankfully cuz i didnt have time for more tries)

Also check #drg-gallery if you wanna see me edge a bulk detonator on DD stage 2

[daring loom]

EDD this week is super friendly. Did a blind solo run through it as scout in about 40 minutes. Cave generation in the second and third phases is a tad sketchy though, so if you're going in with a team you'll benefit from a driller.

[austere lintel]

I also played solo as a driller and can confirm that it is nice (especially the C4 helps)

[austere lintel]

Btw how did you deal with the bulk in the DD stage 2? Out of curiosity

[winter veldt]

you kill it

[winter veldt]

also bulks are random unless is a crassus

[austere lintel]

We are talking solo

[winter veldt]

so if you got one others might not

[austere lintel]

Really? How about the nemesis

In the last weeks EDD i got on in the same stage every single run

[winter veldt]

also random

I didnt get a nemesis at all in the past EDD

[austere lintel]

Wierd

[mellow cradle]

no

the disruptive and special slots are the same across all players playing the same seed (so a deep dive)

so a bulk always can spawn at stage 2

but others might simply finish the stage quickly enough so that it doesn't spawn

[winter veldt]

[silent spruce]

Another Duck and Cover mission? 😩

[winter veldt]

Yass

[austere lintel]

This one isnt that bad tbh

[fresh robin]

This elite deep dive looks relatively easy today. Duck and Cover wont be a problem, time to bring in bullet hell

[rustic pike]

elite deep dive is CRAZY this week

[rustic pike]

i hope this is satire LOL

[eager atlas]

the duality of #deep-dive-discussion

[rustic pike]

fr

[winter veldt]

Just did the EDD

Very easy

Normal haz5 stuff tbh

[light hazel]

fr

my engi kept on selling tho which was weird becase he was lvl 713

like for example he Iron willed when the team was down then called a resup shot some bugs then went down again

we were all close to each as well

[tiny marten]

engi has the worst IW out of all dwarves, mby he wasnt seeing an option of staying alive and set up a resup for the next IW xd

[austere lintel]

Wait

Each dwarf has a diffrent IW?

[eager atlas]

no

calling a resupply isn't bad, but you should really revive someone, specially if you don't have vampire

[tiny marten]

no as in, it's the less effective, has to meet more requirements than other dwarves'

[austere lintel]

Ok

[jolly herald]

people run IW without vampire???

[tiny marten]

my friend who plays better than me never runs IW

even on edd

[jolly herald]

i mean at a certain point you are good enough to never go down so thats a valid approach for some people

[tiny marten]

he is playing good enough to solo some haz5a

but for instance in this edd we died first time at the second stage 😂

also there are a lot of ppl 150+ level that join my lobbies and play shockwave instead of breathing room on suit

even on edds

[jolly herald]

guy that solos haz5+ died on 2nd stage of EDD with no IW? Woops!

yeah i see a shockwave occasionally, some people just dont care for meta i guess

for me I play with friends, one rank 25, other rank 80 - IW is just the insurance policy if things go south. Can solo most stuff but occasionally it gets out of hand

[tiny marten]

we just didnt respect duck and cover and stayed in the middle of that awkward cave that was wide enough to be cancerous

[tough acorn]

What are the objectives ?

[tiny marten]

check pinned messages

[tough acorn]

Thank you

[austere lintel]

Yup me for example

[jolly herald]

y tho

[austere lintel]

Idk

I just never find it nessesary

Even if i have a empty slot like for my eni and driller i just put on +15 more minerals perk instead of vampire

I just never find it nessesary most of the time

[fervent heath]

How do you stay alive when you iw though

[jolly herald]

15 minerals instead of vampire 💀

[fervent heath]

Usually when im down, theres not any resup or red sugar around for me to get

[jolly herald]

pressing IW with no vamp = guaranteed 10 seconds of panic into immediate down

[austere lintel]

Find red sugar

Ressuply pods

I revive the gunner first so he can shield and so on

its all about positioning and decition making which i find more fun then simply usin vampire

[austere lintel]

I mean if thats how most people view it then i can see why everyone is scared of haz 5

I just see it as a 5th life on solo missions tbh

Cuz its easy to pull off if you know what youre doing

[jolly herald]

ok but what if

you have no red sugar

no resup

no gunner

[austere lintel]

I DO have resup and red sugar like 95% of the time

[jolly herald]

yeah but what if you don't

GG

[austere lintel]

Then i let bosco revive me

[jolly herald]

but at least you got 15 extra gold

its also the amount of health you can farm with the perk outside of IW

[austere lintel]

I mean if i can solo EDD's with 15+ minerals instead of vampire then i think i have some experience

I just get gud

And im more rich

[jolly herald]

so what you are saying is I use bosco to revive me when i go down instead of vampire IW

this doesnt mean you are better it just means you go down 3 times instead of once lol

[austere lintel]

I mean whats the diffrence? Both result in me getting back up and having 5 lifes

[austere lintel]

No?

[jolly herald]

I don't really play solo, outside of a few game types it feels too easy when everything dies in 1 bullet and you have 4 resupply for 1 person

i would probably not take vampire if i was solo as you have so many resupply

so i understand your reasoning

[austere lintel]

Youre really calling solo easier then a 4 stack?

Or even a duo

I can see that you dont play it too much

I really can

[mellow cradle]

I'd say solo is rather easy

with bosco

[jolly herald]

solo is joke status my man

with bosco

unlimited resupply

[mellow cradle]

true solo is another matter

[austere lintel]

And b4 i forget i also dont use bosco rockets

Cuz i dont know how XD

[jolly herald]

i mostly play haz5+ with more bugs, sometimes aggro bugs

[mellow cradle]

ping with right click

[austere lintel]

Im console

[jolly herald]

lol

[mellow cradle]

then idk

[austere lintel]

?

[jolly herald]

no wonder you find solo hard, playing on a controller

outside of scout, meta builds on engi driller and gunner absolutely crush haz5 solo

[austere lintel]

?

I never said i find things hard

Quite the opposite i just said that solo is harder then a 4 stack or a duo

What are you on about?

[jolly herald]

i havent play 5+ solo because as i said, it doesnt interest me

[austere lintel]

I didnt mention haz +5 i talked about EDD cuz its what this channel is about in case you didnt notice

You started talking about it

[jolly herald]

you say you find solo harder than 4p, I say 4p is harder than solo. You said you play on a controller, I said that might be why you find solo harder than 4p

[austere lintel]

Thats why i dont use them.

This whole discussion started about me not runnin meta stuff youre twisting things up

[jolly herald]

i personally dont understand how you can find solo harder than 4player just because of bug count and scaling

lol okay now i get it

[jolly herald]

i just think its a bit cringe to say ' i just get gud' when actually you have a full map of sugar and resupply to use yourself

and bosco revives

in 4p its kind of grief to yoink someone resupply because you dont run vampire when you IW

outside of sabotage and escort, solo is very very easy

maybe point extract too tbh

[austere lintel]

4x the firepower not to even mention the abilities of diffrent classes you dont get with solo give you quite the advantage dont you think?

Also it can be 4 REAL people in 4 diffren places something you cant do with bosco which pretty much means all objectices are done around 2x faster which also means less swarms

Sound seasier then 1 player with 1 braindead AI but OK whatever you say

[jolly herald]

yeah thats why i play haz5+ to make it harder while still being on max scaling

as 1p scaling feels to easy to me

everyone is entitled to their opinion

of course

im just saying

'git gud' is a bit cringe

anyway

this is EDD channel

not debate difficulty channel

[austere lintel]

You admitted b4 you dont play solo so you dont even know how much less enemies there is compare to solo or if sometimes there is even any less enemies

Yet you talk like you know everything

[jolly herald]

[austere lintel]

I didnt start the debate and im not the one continuing it

Stop twisting things up

[burnt sandal]

time for everyone to drop the topic right now and move on before things get unnecessarily heated up

[austere lintel]

Thats what im doing

[jolly herald]

sorry i thought EDD stood for elite difficulty discussion

[next pebble]

You fool, it stands for Eepy Digging Dwarves

[jolly herald]

Damn I thought I was here to discuss the exceptionally deep dive

[austere lintel]

You buffoon

It stands for Epic Dwarven Dubstep

[steep whale]

this edd is absolute aids

[winter veldt]

it isnt

it's pretty standard

[austere lintel]

Nah

What platform are you on maybe i can help?

Only the 1st stage is pretty hard and the other 2 you can pretty much speedrun

[light hazel]

maybe but he also did other weird shit when i was spectating

[vague lantern]

i usually fail solo missions because the sheer number of bugs and/or objectives take so long to get through that i barely get a fraction of the way through the cave before a swarm starts and i'm out of ammo because i didn't have time to go further into the cave and acquire the necessary nitra for a resupply

[fresh robin]

this EDD was relatively manageable
Using Carpet Bomber was fun in this, really dealt perfectly against Swarmadeggon and Duck & Cover

[mystic horizon]

using cluster charges in this EDD was some of the most fun i’ve had lol

cramped caves my beloved

[drowsy solstice]

DD was pretty uneventful

had to remake lobby cuz idjits wanted to play cowboy with alien eggs

but with new (more communicative) people, things went smooth as can be

lets see what the EDD has in store for me

sees Low Grav+D&C

https://tenor.com/view/vietnam-flashback-traumatized-cat-gif-7852054576948114551

[mystic horizon]

normal deep dive i found more difficult than EDD ngl

the gigantic cave systems wasnt the most fun to navigate even with a scout

[drowsy solstice]

hte good news is its a Mining expedition not something like point extraction or refining

that would be actual hell with that mutator

ill probably lock it down in a couple days

[mystic horizon]

escort duty

[drowsy solstice]

escort depends a bit

just defending dotty as its digging its ez peasy

during heartstone extract is where it gets dicey

[mystic horizon]

i had the absolute misfortune of having to put up with an escort duty with d&c + shield disrupt

[drowsy solstice]

low grav with escort would suck balls tho

[mystic horizon]

not the most fun

[drowsy solstice]

bless your heart

[mystic horizon]

there was a deep dive before

with duck and cover escort

actual hellscape

pretty sure it was one of the hardest deep dives

[drowsy solstice]

I think I remember that DD

first time I ran d&c

was cackling the entire time over how stupid it was

20 acid spitters turning the game into a bullet hell

[mystic horizon]

leave dotty unchecked for a bit

and hear 50 shots fired at her

[icy hollow]

i wish we could have started the drillevator and fought the dread on the way down QQ

[silent spruce]

An EDD that was enjoyable and fun for once, and not a complete disgrace as last week

Turns out duck and cover is a lot easier to deal with in confined caves. I thought it would be a lot harder stage 2.

[austere lintel]

Agreed

The tighter space also allows driller to reach the spitters on the ceiling with his AOE's which he couldnt b4 cuz they were too high

[vague lantern]

this week's deep dive felt pretty easy and simple

probably a good one to introduce to a greenbeard

[amber venture]

EDD was harder then I expected but didn’t feel oppressive, just nasty

First mission is just a rough start, 2nd was just normal and 3rd while not hard felt absurd

2nd did have the rude scale bramble which spawned all of its nodes in the cave it was after the mouth choke it was in

That was more funny than hard tho as the biomass spawns were good cover once you dashed in

3rd mission was only slightly harder then normal, but the nem found us in the middle of like an double oppressor spawn a bulk and still cleaning up goobombers

[rose shore]

don't know what's gonna be in the dd-edd bit i don't wanna look up, gonna go blind

[amber venture]

Why where then?

[random jungle]

awesome, i just did my first promotion

[raven carbon]

First is easy with a good team, horrible with a bad one

Had an attempt where two greenbeards sat inside the pod too terrified to come out

Believing that point extraction edd swarms will subside

Third one sat on the minehead doing the same

Safe to say mission failed

[fresh robin]

3rd was a little unfair when 2 barrage infectors spawncamped the drop pod
had to waste one IW just to kill both of those barrage infectors :/

[amber venture]

I mean my rando team just had me (engi) and scout suicide bomb out, and have gunner rez us after killing.

then again I was using PA WH and PCC SD, so my dmg output was pretty good to take out a infector

[winter veldt]

Pro tip: on a duck and cover EDD use your shredder granades as soon as you land, there's probably a lot of long range enemies

[mellow cradle]

no...

that missions is a mining expedition, so there won't be enemies at spawn

[winter veldt]

Well you can hear the enemies, if you know there's enemies use it

Instead of jumping out and dying

[boreal sentinel]

that stage 2 sure was something

the last stage ended up being the easiest

[exotic comet]

i just started the game and got auto cannon whats the best build i can do on it?

[burnt sandal]

you'll want to ask this in #drg-chat instead

[drowsy solstice]

So EDD

On paper not a bad set of events

but jesus christ that cave gen

for all stages

so cursed

[jagged rapids]

Hey folks, we’re running deep dives back to back for the next few hours. Let’s get it done miners!
#lfg-playstation message

[amber venture]

all 3 landing points have a sheer cliff right out of spawn, and there is an entrance to a cave system with a resonance crystal right below the landing point.

[rose shore]

Finished the dd and edd, besides the bulk spawning next to the mini mules it went well... and screw swarmageddon...

[rose shore]

Def, thankfully gave gen aint much of an issue as a solo scout.

gk2 with elec reload made sure everything dies while slowed down and jumbo boomstick to make sure myy path is clear

the resonance scanner positions were hell though in the edd...

the dreadnaught one was so easy i opened the egg as soon as i left the droppod

punished the twins

[manic pivot]

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

for the duck and cover, somehow i got away with sprinting at the spitters to get them in range of my flamethrower

apparently i was moving fast enough or just sideways enough that they missed

[vague lantern]

one day we will have a week where every person who owns a copy will finish both deep dives, and surely then the bot will say something different

[lyric harbor]

im doing a deep dive run on solo, i wonder if iron will have extended duratuion if i have breathing room perk on my armor

so i have longe rtime to get resup

[mellow cradle]

no, because 12 seconds > 5 seconds

[eager atlas]

you can resupply twice if you're running resupplier

[onyx dirge]

join my edd, Karl would want it

[tender halo]

oh damn

[vague lantern]

no, breathing room while solo only really means that anything that could potentially hurt you cant

so like

a spitter outside of bosco's revive fear range and cave urchins and stuff

[somber pike]

AUS elite deep dive up rn join pls

[neon spear]

Well, this week, I learnt I’m good enough to solo standard deep dives

[paper ingot]

that is very rock and also very stone!

[neon spear]

Granted the first try I immediately restarted, that dang trawler literally instantly knocked me into a lethal fall, the moment I exited the drop pod

[golden radish]

True solo?

[leaden spoke]

Looking for help on the elite deep dive

[manic pivot]

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

earlier did EDD with brother and randos, gotta say that stage 2 wasnt as bad (for me) as expected. didnt die til stage 3 because I decided to unga bunga the spoots...not one of my better moments. stage 2 had nice cavegen for dodging between rocks

[tiny delta]

So I know I’m not good enough for EDDs yet, but I thought I could finish the first part for a matrix core. Swarmageddon on point extraction where every tunnel was blocked. I couldn’t even finish half the mission before losing on solo. I guess I just suck.

[muted iron]

What do you think of Sticky Fuel overclock for driller?

[winter veldt]

you can ask on #drg-chat

[muted iron]

I thought it would be weird to ask there, but I will find a moment

Do you think it supports the team well in Deep Dive and Elite Deep Dive though?

The loss of freezing and making targets a weakspot for the sheer killing power of sticky fuel, I've argued with a friend endlessly lol

I think a good Sticky Fuel fire driller can pretty much lock a whole horde down, and kite them around until they're dead, it's a successfully very independent horde clearer in practice

[warped veldt]

flamethrower in general is better than cryo cannon

[muted iron]

I often heard the contrary

[warped veldt]

well often people have no idea what theyre talking about

[muted iron]

When you first get the cryo cannon it's like, whoa, freeze it and finish it off with secondary easy

[warped veldt]

imagine having a primary that does exactly the same thing but without needing the followup

[muted iron]

Yeah my thinking is you can take more heat off your teammates if you wipe hordes

[mellow cradle]

people like cryo because it doesn't require them to kite the bugs

and crispr can just kill the bugs, but they don't become harmless

[muted iron]

So even if they have to shoot the praetorian butt rather than shooting the frozen one in the armour, cryo still kind of leaves them dealing with more bugs

[warped veldt]

flamer also has an upside of far more effective range

[muted iron]

Cryo has its place but I've spent so long with Sticky Fuel, it's really cool to me

[warped veldt]

cryo cannon kinda doesnt do much without radiance

[muted iron]

Ah well I don't mind having to get in close, you can dodge and tank a few hits and get a good sense of that

I like both

[brisk spear]

sticky fuel is like top 3 swarm clear in the entire game

[muted iron]

"this is brilliant but I like this"

[brisk spear]

still feels silly that people argue that cryo is better

[warped veldt]

well the harder a mission gets, the less you want to rely on getting within kissing distance of the bugs

especially when there are also ranged enemies you need to pay attention to

[muted iron]

True and you can also get in the way of teammates trying to shoot bugs when you have to get up close and personal to do something

They were generous with the flamethrower range, a lot of games say it's like 5 meters or something

[warped veldt]

there is a 5 meter flamethrower build but its quite bad lol

[muted iron]

I imagine engie as a point-blank shotgunner would be better

[warped veldt]

engi is a lot better at long range

or at least his best options are

[muted iron]

The full auto warthog that increases spread, practically a melee weapon but pretty good damage

I know, I've been stuck to magnetic pellets all this time

[warped veldt]

magnetic pellets is better honestly

[muted iron]

When I first tried it and saw the tiny spread on the wall far away

And weakspot damage can get pretty strong

I wonder about pump action, haven't got it yet

Reload speed and such is no issue to me

[brisk spear]

#drg-chat would be a better place for all this as someone said previously

[muted iron]

True at this point

At first I was thinking for high level gameplay, so deep dive makes sense

[mellow cradle]

should've asked in #modded-drg-chat then

[warped veldt]

im sorry to disappoint but deep dives arnt really high level gameplay

theres a good argument for them being easier than standard missions

[jolly herald]

what class/build are you running?

[eager atlas]

killing all trash is a good way to support, yes

[winter veldt]

deep dives are easier than haz4 and haz5

elite deep dives are usually normal haz5

[mellow cradle]

not really

there's no events, no mini bosses, and you have carry over nitra

[winter veldt]

so even easier gotcha

[mellow cradle]

yes

[jolly herald]

Hoping devs add elite dive+ in future maintenence patch with randomised haz5+ modifiers

[eager atlas]

I wish you could get korloks in dives

would make stuff extra spicy

[dim palm]

More ways to get cores I’m on board with, but a marginally harder deep dive seems kinda low effort

[marsh lagoon]

question! are deep dives hand-made or randomly generated or a mix of the two? (carefully choosing cave presets and then rolling up caves to see what fits best)

or like something else entirely

[manic pivot]

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

they’re randomized, rarely do the devs interfere with them

[amber venture]

Devs will interfere if there is a terribly repetitive seed gets picked, but that has only happend like once, when iirc it was 2 sabos in a row on both.

Besides that there are some events and mechanics disabled from generating in DD, namely minerals, Crassus and any sort of event (seasonal or machine)

[jolly herald]

of course its low effort, thats the point - adding already existing difficulty into already existing game mode is a low cost, easy to implement addition to the game when we've just had season 5 drop

[austere lintel]

If you dont mind me joining i also have a question

What combinations of missions are disabled completely? cuz they would take too long? Ik there is the scaled down version of the refinery cuz doin both refinery and sabotage would prob take lime 1 hour. But what are the others

Other question thats kind of related is what is currently the longest combination of missions that possible in the deep dives? My guess would probably be refinery/doretta escort + 8 Eggs to collect

[amber venture]

I don’t actually know, but iirc no specific mission are disabled, but there are scaled down sub objective versions of OSR and Salvage, and deep scan (and those, PE and OSR have restrictions on what sub missions they spawn with)
For main missions, I’d guess
OSR Salvage Sabo
With sub eggs eggs and black box (mini salvage)
But I don’t actually know the restriction off the top of my head

@austere lintel

[austere lintel]

Aight thx

[manic pivot]

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

[mystic horizon]

hoping for a fun one this time around

[rocky quest]

The secondary is always a scaled down version of the main mission, so you can't get 8 eggs as a secondary, it would be more like 2.

As for an answer, I guess just something like 3 industrial sabotage missions in a row with I guess 3 dreadnought secondaries would probably be around the longest? That or on site refinery.

[mellow cradle]

not really, because the dreads could be instakilled by the caretaker death explosion

[rocky quest]

Well, that would be tricky setup though, which would add on some time.

[mellow cradle]

black box would probably take more time

idk

[rocky quest]

Alternatively, see on site refinery.

[mellow cradle]

I can see that being long

[rocky quest]

If we're worried about the caretaker explosion making dreads easy, on site refinery would get rid of that possibility.

I'm not sure which is longer between the two missions.

But on site refinery plus dreads would probably be longest.

Ah, and add on triple haunted cave.

[quiet kettle]

ok here comes the low O2 Aquarq mission

[rocky quest]

Low oxygen too maybe.

Those are still very quick to be honest.

Aquarq missions are always quick, and low oxygen doesn't make them that much worse since you're normally dashing back and forth from the bulkhead anyway..

[quiet kettle]

or another duck and cover would be fun

[manic pivot]

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

[jolly herald]

[quiet kettle]

[mystic horizon]

refinery first stage

with black box

elite threat

[jolly herald]

spicy

[mystic horizon]

EDD oops

forgot to say

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 August 29 to 2024 September 05 (Week 258)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1725534000:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Carnal Grin
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals + Drillevator + 150 Morkite | Regenerative Bugs
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + Classic | No Mutator
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + Hiveguard | Rich Atmosphere Ebonite Outbreak

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Gutless Grave
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + Black Box | Elite Threat
Stage 2: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s + Uplink + 2 Resonance Crystals | Shield Disruption
Stage 3: 10 Aquarqs + Classic | Haunted Cave

Here's your reminder that if you had Deep Rock Galactic open while the weekly assignments and dives refreshed, you'll need to restart the game to access new weeklies. Your game will still be stuck in last week's rotations otherwise!
If you're new to the Discord, please remember to drop by #welcome-and-rules and grab a platform role by reacting to a message. Thanks -- Rock and Stone!

[mellow cradle]

sounds interesting

[jolly herald]

Black box no shield, haunted cave dread and extract, elite threat osr and black box

Ay yo we got a spicy one boys

[golden radish]

Edd looks like hell.

Dd is fine.

[jolly herald]

At least edd is sandblasted

Makes point extract a lot easier

[mystic horizon]

10 aquargs with a horror

sounds fun

got an unholy amount of septics on my stage 1 EDD smh

stage 2 is already shaping up to be hella fun

[mystic horizon]

something happened and the stage 3 just bugged for my team

unknown horror and dread broke themselves

dread is stuck and horror stopped functioning

[jolly herald]

How did you do this, asking for a friend

[mellow cradle]

I had that happen some time ago with the horror on some other dive

it was sliding at a really slow speed

barely moved at all

[jolly herald]

Personally just glad its a vanilla dread, haunted cave + hiveguard is not something i'm in a hurry to repeat after the recent EDD...

[frail charm]

this EDD is extremely roomy

[outer cloud]

last stage aquarqs are incredibly easy to get on special powder scout

can probably do it in a few minutes

[frail charm]

you can also do it with hoverclock, since you can gain height with it

[fresh robin]

EDD looks fairly balanced

[smoky hawk]

where is morkite in 1st stage of dd help XD

[fresh robin]

missions are hard but sandblasted corridors makes it extra roomy

[zenith ember]

sandblasted without mactera or duck & cover is usually easy

[winter veldt]

This EDD seems interesting

[amber venture]

shield disruption on salvage sounds like ass.

I'll have to try this tommrow, since I work 11 hours today.

[marsh lagoon]

this regular dive is like

way easier than last one

[eager atlas]

I remember my first shield disruption ever, it was a salvage mission in magma core, I had never been so tense in this game before

[frail charm]

third stage is pretty hard because of the layout. Half of the nitra is on the ceiling

every cave on the EDD is big

[neon spear]

The heck does true solo mean?

[spring onyx]

Solo without Bosco

iirc

[neon spear]

Well, I didn’t need him to revive me but being a gunner, kinda needed his help with mining high up minerals

[silent spruce]

Jesus. EDD this week looks disgusting. I'll try it later.

[idle jacinth]

Technically true solo is 4player scaled without Bosco

[eager atlas]

not sure I ever heard that definition

[wraith shard]

This EDD was fun but brutal. We had double additional bulk spawn at the end, unfortunately I had to abandon my teammates at the end

[winter veldt]

gonna try the feared EDD, hopefully it is a challange

[dim palm]

I had the ghost constantly dome my team on stage 3. ended at me saying in chat "ghost behind you" as the last engi up looks around, can't see it, jumps forward, and gets decked by the ghost immediately and rage quits

[pulsar osprey]

Is no one deep diving right now?

[winter veldt]

Ok it was extremely fun to just bash the hiveguard with power attacks on the DD stage 3

[pulsar osprey]

I always wondered why elite deepdives are so empty

[winter veldt]

Cause people fear them

[pulsar osprey]

Makes it a pain to find a match to atleast try it

[winter veldt]

Yeah i'm going solo on this EDD ig

[winter veldt]

Ok stage 1 done

Not a single down so that's good

[golden radish]

Well done anyway.

[brazen ruin]

What even is this weeks EDD

[winter veldt]

Holy shit

That last stage

#deep-dive-speedrunning message

almost 2 hours

but I made it

[rose shore]

mini mules and resonance scanner... with no shields....... WTF

[winter veldt]

Not too bad

There's 2 vartoks on stage 2

The caves are pretty tall so the vartoks spawn super high up

Stage 3 is the hardest, there's not much space in the cave even tho is super tall

So you need to move quite a lot to avoid the ghost

And reach super high for the aquarqs

[rose shore]

movement won't be an issue for me, it's the second stage asking me to baby sit the refuel and uplink...

i usually try to solo scout the edd whenever possible

[winter veldt]

It's going to be tough

I did solo it but with a driller

[rose shore]

bosses even with a ghost can be dealt with... but asking a scout to stand still is death

[winter veldt]

Yeah second stage also has lots of swarmers

And 2 brood nexus

[rose shore]

absolutely lovely, gonna be taking the bouncy drak guarantee

ill drop on damage but I'll take it over bug barage

maybe embed deto as secondary to cove that side up

and a frick tonne of resupplies to pheromone the circles

theres also black box in the 1st stage

[winter veldt]

Not too bad, elite enemies are kinda tough

[rose shore]

RRB is also mandatory i assume

[rose shore]

true, its the circle defense with elites is what worries me...

[winter veldt]

I got an elite menace

With a driller

I used the leaks from the refinery as lures

Managed to kill the menace like that

Also there's like 3 leeches so keep looking up

Lots of sand sharks too lol

[tacit jungle]

joined a pub game with some high level players, played some missions, then the host scheduled a deep dive and I thought why not

it seemed way too spicy for a regular deep dive

dear reader, it was not, in fact, a regular deep dive (we won anyway)

[ancient grove]

been a while since I saw an EDD on Sandblasted Corridors

in fact, I can't remember when I last saw one

seems like a good EDD for driller, whom I play most

[gentle hinge]

This EDD stage 2 is insane

Not sure how we get in

2 cave leeches, 3 broods, 2 brambles, 2 of those electric jellyfish spawners

I died 3 times so far

[boreal sentinel]

we lost stage 3 💔

[leaden oxide]

@ember stag Idk if u'll see this but it was rude of you to leave at the last mission of the edd, we lost 'cause of that, I hope you had a good reason for doing it and not just wanting to troll us

( apologies if this isn't the right channel to say it )

[ember stag]

I am actually sorry i was actually forced to go

and i had no clue that i would be forced to go at the end

[leaden oxide]

I see, no worries then

[ember stag]

sorry

[fresh robin]

gosh I hate playing with randoes sometimes
we lost an EDD cause driller kept DYING

[mystic horizon]

had a solid run going with randoms and a friend

until stage 2 hit us with a terrible sand storm as we’re doing fuel battery

and magically 2 septics spawned in and barraged us to death

gunner didnt shield for some reason

[jolly herald]

the classic 'i'm saving my shield till we really need it'

[wraith wharf]

did it with 3 randoms, downed 20+ each, good EDD

[next pebble]

Broked

Look what you did pounce, it's a void in here

[buoyant halo]

what the fu

[winter veldt]

guys did you saw: #deep-dive-speedrunning message

[buoyant halo]

what happened

we had a conversation going

gcsadn

[next pebble]

Solo with 5 downs

Wot

[burnt sandal]

bosco + iron will

[next pebble]

Hmmmm

Perhaps

Does iron will regen between deep dive stages? I thought it was a one-off

[winter veldt]

no

bosco + iron will

[next pebble]

I've never used it, so I'm not familiar

[winter veldt]

all my downs were on the last stage

:(

but I made it

[gentle hinge]

Finally got it lads

All I needed was a very good team

[buoyant halo]

the power of friendship prevails

[exotic belfry]

All perks reset between stages, so yes it does.

[young sand]

This edd sucks

To everyone seeing this when you go to stage 3 please start with the dreadnought immidietly

Me and my crew died 20+ times each trying to res each other while being constantly chased by glyobids that kept spawning

[winter veldt]

[tiny marten]

how was this week's edd?

[winter veldt]

nice

challanging

if your team (or you) is bad then hard

and it sucks

[tiny marten]

is it hard prior to stage 3?

[winter veldt]

Stage 2 has 2 vartoks pretty high up the cave

So it's hard at the beginning

[crystal forge]

this weeks deep dive is unbelievably tough

elite one*

and i ain't even greenbeard

[woeful pivot]

ugh tell me about it

[tiny marten]

i'll give it a shot in two days that i come back from my vacation, let's see

[gentle hinge]

You need a locked in team

[jagged rapids]

It's Deep Dive time miners. Hosting ALL-welcome public Playstation lobby
#lfg-playstation message
Edit: FULL

[nova egret]

Cave Crawlers 🍺

[eager atlas]

both bosco revives and one-time perks reset between stages

[heady silo]

whats the point of this game

[next pebble]

Eat mineral, grow beard

[heady silo]

I feel like im doing the same things over and over like im working a 9-5 job

[next pebble]

Yep

[jagged rapids]

Same point as playing Helldivers, l4d2 or any other horde shooter.

Win, upgrade, promote, win some more repeat and have a good time doing it

There's no plot, just nonsensical fun, chaos and time with the homies

[next pebble]

Is called a gameplay loop

[jagged rapids]

Si

[eager atlas]

if you don't find the missions themselves fun then not sure what else is there

arguably no games have a point 🙃

[vestal sapphire]

At least its better than "log in, do the randomly generated dailies consisting of engaging quests such as 'kill 25 of x enemy' and 'deal 5000 damage' then log out"

[flat gust]

This elite deep dive, i'm sorry, but, fucking sucsk

Never had one as hard as this

[jagged rapids]

Destiny 2 about to kick in your front door for slander 🤣

[jagged rapids]

Which stage is the killer. Sounds like fun to me but I could see some absolute grief happening on stage 1 and 2 during the hold your ground sections with those modifiers. Or just the annoyance of ghost with dread on s3

[flat gust]

there is a ghost?

I only made it to stage 2

[jagged rapids]

Yee. You can always check the dives ahead of time by checking the pinned posts in this channel. It's updated shortly after the dives go live every Thursday
#deep-dive-discussion message

But there nothing wrong with going in blind either

Checking ahead can let you plan a class and/or build ahead of time but it's required. Just helpful sometimes (especially for newer players)

[flat gust]

never knew you could know

[jagged rapids]

Yes indeed. You'll find folks in here talking about it too and I THINK it's also still posted on the subreddit every week. Comments section is a great way to get a preview of what folks are experiencing

I haven't checked the reddit in like a year tho but I'm pretty sure it's still a weekly post

All in all tho, sorry you're having a rough time with it. I'd offer to help but I'm on PlayStation. You can likely use #lfg-steam to find a team to help tho

[flat gust]

Does DRG not have crossplay?

[jagged rapids]

Nooope

🥲

[flat gust]

creazy ngl

[jagged rapids]

Yea. But the games are slightly differently so it's hard to do I believe. Steam has mods, union, bigger caves, more enemies etc compared to consoles bc of hardware limits and whatnot

[flat gust]

Failed a second time lol

Stage 2 is kicking our ass.

Just gonna try again 2morrow.

[neon spear]

soloed the normal deep dive, seems last weeks success wasn't a fluke, that last segment, so many dang exploders.....

[lavish orbit]

what are good missions to use the spinning death oc on? and what build should I use for it

[eager atlas]

time, ammo, deploy, stun and either trail or triple line, which is kind of a normal BC build anyway

for missions, anything that requires defensiveness

I like it on tight blackboxes

[silent spruce]

Bro, the second stage was a nightmare. Cave leech, 2 brood nexus, 2 bulk detonators, stalkers, THREE VARTOK SCALEBRAMBLES, spitters all the time, oppressors all the time... At least the cave was somewhat easy to navigate.

Stage 1 was a joke and stage 3 was not as bad, just a little stressful thanks to the Horror.

[jagged rapids]

You'll have better luck in #drg-chat with these questions tbh. But Konato covered it pretty well. Any sort of mission where you need to hold your ground/not travelling too much. Honestly only morkite and industrial are the least ideal picks for it imho 🤣 but even morkite isn't that bad bc it can be nice during swarms

But those "nice" moments in morkite will be few and far between so still not a great pick

[amber venture]

Mission 2 of the EDD is so annoying

like nothing hard, persay

but what

[brittle ruin]

I havent played it yet, whats up there

[amber venture]

salvage, + shield disruption with a seed that generates at least 2 bulks

also like a million swarmers and brood nexus

[mystic horizon]

yeah no stage 3 it becomes rage inducing how many swarmers spawn

[amber venture]

PE is always PE, espeically with haunted cave

I've not made it past stage 2 with randos yet

[nova egret]

how was the EDD guys?

[amber venture]

stage 1 isn't that bad

stage 2 is BS but normal, Stage 3 is haunted caves on PE

take a guess

[marble hinge]

"save a full magazine for yourself" bad?

[amber venture]

?

[marble hinge]

yknow that saying "save a bullet for yourself" for stuff like a zombie outbreak? well, a full magazine for this, instead. is it that bad?

[amber venture]

ah

[little viper]

Holy moly stage 2 elite deep dive is so hard

[little viper]

Our entire team was wiped within 3 mins lmfao

The entrance chokepoint is just too much

You literally cannot get enough ammo to get out of it unless you get lucky it seems

[twin cape]

I had to attempt three times. I only won the third because I didn't have to deal with a pair of breeders in addition to all of the stationaries.

[little viper]

That leech is downright evil btw

[twin cape]

Hot damn, this week was intense, even for an EDD.

[little viper]

Bonus points for a detonator spawning in my run

Detonator plus all that shit is not a good time

[amber venture]

eh I never had a prolem with my teams there, then again I was the engi, so I just blocked the back tunnel, 2 proxy mines, turrets and PC explosions

[raven carbon]

3 bulks on stage 3 ended the game

Manageable without them

[amber venture]

This EDD loves those bulks

Well OSR didn’t have any

[mystic horizon]

my first run on it was a barely functional team and somehow we beat it first try despite having 2 green beards lol

subsequent runs werent so lucky

one was a bad sand storm followed by 2 septics in two different spots raining hell on us

[amber venture]

Need to find a team tomorrow during peak hours

Can’t find a team right now

[mystic horizon]

another was due to a random leadburster bullet popping a dread and causing several issues which lead to our death

and the last one i was forced to bring out the TTC fear coil gun to keep my team safe

won atleast

[hollow sequoia]

why there is 4 days for the other deep dive?

[ancient grove]

y'all seen that big-ass cave in stage 2 of the EDD?

it had like every enemy in the game in there

[rose shore]

just finished the 2nd level of the edd

can you guess how any resupplies it took to finish it?

P.S im running solo scout

||5||

[rose shore]

finished the edd, 3rd stage is rather simple for a scout thanks to cave verticality

bosco collected gems while i immediately started the Dreadnaught fight as soon as i got cave layout set

it stopped ay big waves from hitting letting me focus on kiting and collecting gems

[ancient grove]

I wish we had you, our scout never used his flare 😔

[amber venture]

I've found people just don't notice when I use my flares

like I'll be lighting up the cave for a while, and then they ask why I don't flare

for not lighting up black box when I was wiating for us to finish repairing first

[rose shore]

i see that very often whenever I'm playing as another class, it's usually very dark until I request for it in random lobbies.

i mean it makes sense when we're outta flares, but that's not normally the case

[woeful pivot]

its time to try rj250, how should i build it

[eager atlas]

ammo, area, stun maybe

[mellow cradle]

and ignition

that's the most important one

[outer cloud]

i like 11131

[eager atlas]

ah yes, fire

always fire unless fatboy or non-robot hyperprop

[rancid moat]

Guys what's in this week Edd

[random jungle]

pinned

[rancid moat]

Oh ty

[rose shore]

big caves in the edd
breeder, scale bramble, brood nexus and tentacles in 2nd level.
that's the most important bit, rest is manageable

[languid pumice]

how do you deal with bulk on 2nd level in elite dive?

[eager atlas]

you kill it

[wind arch]

Gun

2nd stage is brutal

Try 4 now

[vivid hornet]

i cant find ppl to play deep dive with

only 3-4 lobbies

whys that

and some lobbies are grey

[wind arch]

Completed on a technicality because somehow someone managed to iw to the pod

[vital epoch]

This is the week to be or bring a Special Powder Scout. Nice for stage 1, but great for stage 3; aquarq is super visible, just extremely high up, and that mobility is unmatched.

[wind arch]

Our scout ditched us and left the game mid stage 2

Less enemies saved the run but no scout meant 3 was doomed from the start

I don't think I have the will to run it back to finish it tmr after 5 tries

Magic bullets on the minigun was the savior for 2

[eager atlas]

can't join started dives, just host and people will join you

[little viper]

People will join your lobby after 3 hours of waiting 😂

[eager atlas]

depending on where you are and the time you play, maybe

[little viper]

Australia is a long wait 99% of the time

Shortest wait I've had is 45mins

[eager atlas]

rip

asking in the #928582985559736360 channels may or may not lead to better results

[little viper]

Best way I've found is to do a haz5 mission, then afterwards convince them to do a DD

[mystic horizon]

a competent gunner is like a must have on this EDD tbh

especially stage 2 if you get an unlucky sand storm

outside of that a scout thats hyper active in getting nitra and running objectives is also very nice to have around

saves driller alot of time in stage 2 and stage 3

[silent spruce]

Yeah, a gunner on stage 2 it's something that is very good to have. Otherwise you will have a hard time even for entering the cave.

[mystic horizon]

i always push into it quick as scout

the room lets scout excel at his mobility, he just has to act quick

zoom in with your hook or special powder, make quick work of the rambles then take down the breeders asap before they start overwhelming your team with their eggs

[silent spruce]

Yes. It's not a bad cave to navigate, it is just huge.

I played engi solo. Second stage i spent 5 minutes at the entrance, fighting swarms and trying to kill the scalebrambles and the brood nexus. I didn't bring a shard.

[mystic horizon]

i cant imagine solo on this EDD, thing’s a nightmare with a team

let alone solo

[eager atlas]

solo has less bugs

and less statics

[silent spruce]

I think it's actually a lot easier solo. The pace is more under your control. It's much harder with a full party. Even harder if you have some greenbeards with you.

[mystic horizon]

hm

[silent spruce]

I mean, a full party with randoms. if you have friends to play with, you can even do a speedrun.

[mystic horizon]

i have yet to have a satisfying smooth run on this EDD yet so i might try out solo

[exotic belfry]

Solo is much more susceptible to bad builds. A bad build in team and your fine, whereas in solo you are fucked

[eager atlas]

I mean, yes but fixing the bad build is entirely under your control

[silent spruce]

Also, you have Bosco. Little guy is a MVP.

[eager atlas]

you can't fix your teammates

[silent spruce]

Stage 3 solo, thanks to Bosco, makes your life MUCH easier.

[eager atlas]

when I grow up I want to be a bosco

[silent spruce]

Bad builds can make your life a living hell with teammates. A engi nukeing the entire team with fatboy... or using the Micro-Conductor Add-On OC (not a bad OC by any means, it's just too situational for an EDD).

[winter veldt]

Not too bad to solo

[rose shore]

I personally found this Edd easy as a solo scout, sure the 2nd level was rough due to the repair part of the mission, but the rest was easy. I think it's easy as a solo driller too, just need the wave cooker or subata for long range

heck i won 1st try

thats probably why i dont look at build guides unless im new to the weapon, i rather see what each upgrade provides for the weapon, letting me know what can synergise with what oc. A.k.a my own builds

[manic pivot]

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

Hurry up with the next one

[unkempt dew]

Idk what y’all are talking about with the edd this week tbh

Logged into Drg after like a month off and had fun with it

[fallow niche]

attention devs!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still being fucking booted out of an EDD by the game for no reason and not allowed to rejoin!
pls fix jesus christ.

also

10 aquarq stage 3
suffer

[vague lantern]

by killing them, really i just fired at them until they died

there's a perfectly long corridor back to spawn to fire and retreat before the main room gets cleared

i was playing sort of a 'supportive' role as driller by mowing down naedocite shockers from afar with the colette, pinging spreaders, clearing swarmers by carpeting the ground with sludge, and slowing bulk detonators to a crawl

[vague lantern]

it's called bullet hell on the lead storm, and generally it's a bit too niche to bring on edd's with no guarantee that there'll be fewer than 2 dreadnoughts to fight

[wind arch]

Yeah that one

I got the name wrong

It saved second stage personally

Because we had no scout for the breeders

[vague lantern]

unlike with the actual magic bullets on teh bulldog, it only has a 75% chance to ricochet but it also bounces off of enemies

so you'll want to take accuracy and load as many bullets into the nearest enemy as possible for maximum ammo efficiency

you'll need it since its single target ammo economy is around as bad as rocket barrage

[vague lantern]

our gunner took neurotoxin payload on the autocannon

[wind arch]

I used mortar for the first two

I don't like neurotoxin

[vague lantern]

which worked really well in general but it was rough because either the engi wasn't running bug repellant or he didn't know how to make it work

[wind arch]

Ik how to build it yeah

[vague lantern]

it does feel almost cheesy with how good it is with fear yeah

[wind arch]

Trivial

But bullet hell and mortar are probably my favourite

But mortar didn't work for it at all

[merry hinge]

I am on my first deep time and is there a certain way to find the drillovator, it’s not popping up on my scanner

[mint zealot]

I JUST SPENT 30 MINUTES RUNNING FROM THE DREANOUGHT ON STAGE 3 AND THE GHOST DETONATOR, THAT WAS GENUINELY THE MOST HORRIFYING EXPERIENCE OF MY ENTIRE LIFE.

IT FELT LIKE I WAS A VICTIM IN A HORROR MOVIE THAT I WASNT GIVEN THE SCRIPT FOR

[tacit jungle]

didn't seem too bad on my run, scout make a neat little pile of them by the first wave

[warped veldt]

you generally dont want to use magic bullets for single targets, running bulldog without ocs will end up being better for that

[vague lantern]

obviously you dont want to shoot it at a big single target

[warped veldt]

what makes the overclock decent is having the explosion + neurotoxin which dont get scaled down despite the bounce

[vague lantern]

but it's 75% more effective if you shoot it at bugs directly when there's more than one bug

because it bounces off of them too

oh wait, magiv bullets?

my bad

[warped veldt]

well the direct damage is so bad it hardly even matters at that point

[exotic belfry]

On magic bullets take Ammo, AOE and Neuro for NTP lite

[vague lantern]

with magic bullets i sometimes just shoot it at a singular grunt to get neuro on it and forget about it

[warped veldt]

you just spam shots aimlessly into crowds and itll end up killing a bunch of them

[vague lantern]

i was talking about bullet hell lol

[warped veldt]

yeah bullet hell you shoot directly

but i find that damage mod is more valuable

[vague lantern]

in all honesty i treat magic bullets neuro bulldog as cleanup for the most part, and sometimes for highly concentrated crowds when it consists of mostly grunts and slashers

[vague lantern]

than ammo? i agree

[raven carbon]

Stage 3 is suffering

It's a hidden double warning with swarmageddon and haunted cave

And if you want you can also count 3 bulk spawns as the third warning

And the minehead being in a pit does not help

[vague lantern]

ghost, practical swarmageddon, the worst aquarq map type, bulks

a recipe for a hell of a time

[rotund imp]

Woah woah no need for all the caps I can only scream in text form!anyways..

[mystic horizon]

went to solo this

forgot to enable bosco

guess im doing a true solo

stage 1 wasn't too bad since i just ran from the enemies

black box just abused phero

[jolly wing]

You should try a double warning of haunted cave and low oxygen on a 3 complexity 3 length elimination

[mystic horizon]

got really close to winning that true solo but swarms ate me alive with the unknown horror :(

[silent spruce]

Calm down, Satan

[olive olive]

Hi, my friends and I are new to EDD, we have only completed last week's but we have already tried this week's 3 times losing on the last stage. We managed to deposit the aquarcs but we couldn't even wake up the Dreadnought because at that point we had a sea of bugs on the map and we died, Any advice for the final stage? are EDDs usually this difficult? We're just getting started.

[mystic horizon]

it usually isn't this hard, if you guys duo i recommend splitting the roles, a task runner that does objectives and specializes more into single target damage whilst the other handles the swarm

i recommend something like scout phero nades + fire bolts to deal with bugs and keep them busy at the same time

[olive olive]

The thing is that no matter how many overclocks or crowd control things we equip ourselves with, we can't control them. It becomes a world of bugs no matter how many insects we kill. I just don't understand it.

[mystic horizon]

my best advice is just run two scouts lol

[silent spruce]

When playing point extraction missions, you must be fast, fast, fast. As time goes by, the mission becomes progressively more difficult, because you are going to get more swarms.

[mystic horizon]

if you cant deal with the swarm its better to just constantly evade them

(the logic i basically used on my solo run lol)

[olive olive]

Well, now that you mention it, before we lost we lasted 30 minutes in the last stage.

[silent spruce]

Dude, when point extraction gets to that point (30+ minutes) it's pretty much impossible to do it.

[olive olive]

It's not that we're doing anything, but we're spending time killing everything that appears.

If we want to be fast, the bugs flank us in 2 seconds, how do you do both at the same time?

Thanks for the answers by the way, I'm already getting an idea

[silent spruce]

Scout for speed, engi to deal with the swamers (shredders + turrets) and also platforms.

[olive olive]

We will try again on Tuesday, thank you very much, and I hope we can do it, and if not, too bad, life goes on.

[silent spruce]

That's the spirit. EDD is supposed to be very hard anyway.

[jolly herald]

Resupply before you leave stage 2 so you are topped up with ammo and health when you get into stage 3.
Pop the egg as soon as you reasonably can, you need to kill the dread before the pressure waves become too frequent.

[rose shore]

my advice is to do the boss 1st, have one member collect the aquarks, a scout or a driller can do that since most of them are high up.
second is to have 1 person separate the ghost and Dreadnaught (the aquark hunter can do that). 3rd scouts sre op this edd the is so much space to move in.
4th tip is to take tunnel rats drink cause the large caves.
gl on your future attempts

the reason to pull the boss 1st is that it stops all big waves, small waves do spawn but are in less density early on

[rose shore]

if your having swarmer issues, take a driller with you, all swarms melt under a sticky flame/ice/sludge build. using pheromones is important too, gives a lot of breathing space. how many members do you run an edd with 2, 3, 4?

[rose shore]

what characters and build are you planning to run with?

[vale ravine]

If you’re struggling with pacing on stage 3 you can always just pop the dread and keep him around

[silent spruce]

You can even try to smash him with the mine head

It's actually very funny when that works

[fervent hedge]

how hard is the stage 3 of edd compared to stage 2? tried it solo with scout and lost all my revives during uplink. the spreader and goo bomber were hella annoying

[silent spruce]

This stage 3 or the stage 3 in general?

Since you are playing scout, if we are talking about this week's EDD, you will find it a little easier i guess. It's a point extraction mission.

[olive olive]

I've been running the engineer with shotgun, breach cutter and drones, but I think I'll switch to scout with Gk2, shotgun and pheromones.

A friend of mine will also take scout and my other two friends only have engineer and driller promoted.

[modern chasm]

I have engineer promoted

I’m new to deep dives though

Is anyone doing a deep dive or wanting to?

[olive olive]

We are 4

[young cove]

I keep being kicked out of elite deep dives just because I'm low level 😭

[winter veldt]

start your own

[mystic horizon]

or run solo

[raven carbon]

Stage 3 this time is an exception they aren't so difficult usually

[mystic horizon]

duck and cover escort duty

[pure fractal]

trying EDD?
We did it with 2 Engies (Platform Fortress for 2nd stage and Platforms Bridges for 3rd)/ 1 Scout (Me, with ice nades and Crossbow for those Naedocytes)/ 1 Gunner (for shields and firepower).

If u can remember where those 10 Aquars are, 1 person can go for them while the other 3 are killing the dreadnought right away

Sludge can also be use for the Ghost (sometimes he bugs out and stays in place)

[olive olive]

Good Idea

We'll try it today, let's see how it turns out.

[pure fractal]

If u need help i will be available later too 👍

[clear slate]

dread twins spawned first stage of EDD, three scrambles, two breeders, several honeycombs all on second stage EDD, fun EDD

truly felt like a proper elite deep dive

[jovial portal]

Holy shit the EDD was hell

The stalkers had it out for me those last two stages. I think I got downed by them like 10 times

Not even mentioning the 10 praetorians guarding the drop pod (and no, that's not an exaggeration, I counted them while I was down)

[chilly shore]

stalkers do be stalkers

[sand juniper]

Got double bulks + Unknown Horror on the EDD 3rd stage, absolutely hellish. Never placed so many ziplines in my life.

[mystic horizon]

got double bulks on the last stage of my solo run and nudged the dreadnought towards them as i detonated the bulks

after that it was honestly smooth sailing

[jolly herald]

We had a rough time in stage 3

wiffed the bulk explosion on the dread, just got his armour off

then by the time we got the dread down the pressure waves were pretty heavy, our scout went down on the roof and there was too many bugs and not enough nitra to get him up + the aquarqs

think we had 7 aquarqs, just needed the 3 on the roof

Super fun EDD though, nice combination of cave gen/objectives/difficulty

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[mystic horizon]

if its anything like last week’s EDD this oughta be good

[winter veldt]

YESS

[cinder geyser]

This deep dive was hard, I couldn't find Morkite much and I gave up at the first mission

Is this even possible?

I searched for morkite for 30 minutes yet I couldn't find enough Morkite

[exotic belfry]

There hasn't been a DD where not enough of the objective spawns in a long long time, so I assume you just missed it

[cinder geyser]

yeah I think

i was doing it in Solo and it is late night, so yeah I'm just too tired to do DD

😪

Imma do this DD tomorrow

[mellow cradle]

you have 21 hours

[cinder geyser]

yeah it's 23:37

[rose shore]

my suggestion for getting morkite, would be to keep resetting the lobby till you get the drink you want (or use a mod for it) and then enter the deep dive

I personally soloed it and didn't have too much of an issue finding morkite...

[cinder geyser]

Or I just use Scout instead of Engineer

the lack of light was bad

[royal plume]

Blue 80 here is the EDD 2nd stage of this week supposed to be hard?

No shields is kicking my asshole

[mystic horizon]

i found it pretty chill in both solo and team play

[twilit saddle]

did you respec your armor to not have any shield perks?

[mellow cradle]

you shouldn't have any shield related perks to begin with

[royal plume]

Yeah

I use 3212 on my armor

[mystic horizon]

the only part i find extremely unfun about stage 2 is the breach

if your team cant keep up its very easy to be pushed back into that hole you came from

[royal plume]

At most I've made it to the uplink part and we all die in the tiny lil bubble

I should say I'm a Scout first acc

[mystic horizon]

could ask your engie to set up repellants or guide him on doing that if he doesnt know and have gunner have his shield at the ready 24/7

[burnt sandal]

yes, EDD are supposed to be hard. Usually, stage 2 is the hardest part for most people - you don't have yet a ton of nitra so you can't spam resupplies everywhere, and the game is starting to scale up, as there is a quite the difficulty jump between haz 4/4.5 and haz 5.

[mystic horizon]

or yknow

request a bunky service from your local driller

[royal plume]

I'll remind my engie on that and will have to read up on bunker service for driller incase I play that instead

[mystic horizon]

(very popular with team runs i’ve been apart of)

if you do play scout dont be scared to deviate from the bubble, your job is to manage the trouble bugs that pepper your team from afar, especially septic spreaders

they’re oddly rampant this time around

[royal plume]

I had a sneaking suspicion I should've been doing that

[mystic horizon]

alot of the runs that i was apart of, most run ends were caused by those buggers

they hide behind terrain or other bugs and spray their septic crap all over you

[twilit saddle]

how much nitra is in stage one of the DD?

[royal plume]

Time to try again

[mystic horizon]

from my runs i average 330 ish?

quite alot of nitra to go around

stage 2 should yield around maybe 2 resups worth of nitra

and stage 3 gives around enough for 3-4 resups

though stage 3 is a bit of a rough estimate cause i was always running on left over nitra from stage 1 and 2

[cunning walrus]

Thanks for the 2 engies tip, I found a great random team my second time around and I insisted they use 2 engies and we beat the Edd. Luckily the team was very competent in general and they remembered where all the aquaraqs were from their previous run. The platforms really helped for stage 2 and were useful for stage 3. Stage 2 was harder than 3 imo

[pure fractal]

Glad it worked for you too, you are welcome friend

This EDD was nuts

[cunning walrus]

They happened to be a very good 3 man team and I joined as the last engy. Luckily they listened to me about going 2 engies. In stage 2 when you come out if the large tunnel opening to where the drop pod is and there is a huge cavern with tons of enemies on the roof, the gunner threw a shield and luckily everyone understood that as a cue to get inside and shoot the stuff on the roof. We had 2 shards which really helped

[pure fractal]

Yes you can use that cave for cover and the tunnel for a retreat if detonator dares to spawn

[cunning walrus]

Stage 3 was a breeze actually, tons of resupps, tons of rooms for the dread to run around and tons of platforms and zips to traverse the terrain

2 engies really worked a charm

[pure fractal]

Sandblasted corridor is a nightmare because of range enemies, lots of open space and angles everywhere

[cunning walrus]

And the nayaka trawlers omg

[pure fractal]

I think a previous EDD with Duck and Cover on Refinery mission in Sand Corridors was so obnoxious i only played it once.

[ionic lark]

the EDD stage 2 sucks

[flat dune]

anyone giving the edd a try rn?

[eager atlas]

may have more luck asking in the #928582985559736360 channels

[flat dune]

tyvm

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Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[clear slate]

Thank you Mission Control

[fallow dagger]

the last two levels of the EDD felt like such a scout-check

Absolutely brutal

[eager atlas]

funny enough the last level is a breeze solo

you can see all aquarqs from the middle so you just send bosco over and over while you spin in circles and eat resupplies like there's no tomorrow

[fossil cipher]

We managed the second stage, but we died in the third

Dread + ghost is quite a combo

[olive olive]

WE DID IT! THANKS FOR YOUR ADVICE GUYS! ROCK AND STONE!

[jolly herald]

also got it done - was a mess at the end with constant pressure waves and 1 dwarf left running laps of the cave until the drop pod turned up

[cinder geyser]

ok I completed DD

being Scout makes everything easier, at least in Solo

[manic pivot]

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[manic pivot]

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New Deep Dives are now available!
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[mystic horizon]

hows the new deep dive if anyone's delved into it

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 September 05 to 2024 September 12 (Week 259)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1726138800:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Strange Wilderness
Stage 1: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s + Uplink + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator
Stage 2: Industrial Sabotage + 2 Resonance Crystals | Shield Disruption
Stage 3: Escort Duty + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Salt Pits | Code Name: Forgotten Patrol
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals + Drillevator + Liquid Morkite Well | Ebonite Outbreak
Stage 2: 2 Dreadnoughts (Twins + Classic) + 150 Morkite | Low Oxygen
Stage 3: On-Site Refining + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs

Here's your reminder that if you had Deep Rock Galactic open while the weekly assignments and dives refreshed, you'll need to restart the game to access new weeklies. Your game will still be stuck in last week's rotations otherwise!
If you're new to the Discord, please remember to drop by #welcome-and-rules and grab a platform role by reacting to a message. Thanks -- Rock and Stone!

[mystic horizon]

sabotage with shield disrupt...

gonna be one hell of a normal dive

wow looking as a whole the normal deep dive just doesn't seem like much fun

[mellow cradle]

all 3 main objectives involve waiting

[steel python]

What is even going on with that EDD first stage??

[eager atlas]

it's haz 3.5, it's fine

[zenith ember]

fking greenbeard engi made a giant rollercoaster in edd

instead of plating for scout or killing the 1 million rolling bugs on refinery

love extended runs for no reason

wouldnt even be mad if the pipes were on the ground instead of in the air for 1/4 of the whole thing

Didnt help that the pumps are in bad positions

[eager atlas]

probably wanted the achievement

[mystic horizon]

my EDD was pretty smooth

well except for the initial breach of stage 3

those barrage infectors were brutal on my poor driller

[jolly herald]

how is cave gen on stage 2 EDD

salt pit dreads can be annoying if its super cramped

[zenith ember]

the spawn is always an option

[jolly herald]

this is true actually

[golden radish]

DD looks harder than usual.

Shield disruption sabotage and lethal enemies escort are looking tough.

But EDD is pretty nice apart from low o2 dreads.

[tiny marten]

i lost both plates of doreta during the stop cause i was farming/filling the batteries and never even crossed my mind theyd die so fast, forgot the fact that it was lethal enemies

[golden radish]

Yeah, I think Bosco and Gemini + defender system sentries not gonna make it.

[tiny marten]

i was scout and i had bosco carrying my other battery xd

[golden radish]

I usually command Bosco to protect Doretta.

[tiny marten]

ig i shouldve done that too, but i never had trouble with dd so it never crossed my mind

[wraith sparrow]

is edd server down?

[outer halo]

salvage, sabo, escort dd
...I didn't want those cores that badly anyway

[eager atlas]

the games aren't on servers, they are peer to peer

[mystic horizon]

this DD was more tedious than hard tbh

a whole lota waiting simulator

[fervent heath]

wow edd stage 3's well placement is kinda diabolical

had to do some pipe placing war crimes to get to them

[winter veldt]

Very easy edd

Fun but easy