deep-dive-discussion

[winter veldt]

It's harder than it looks for sure

Mostly cause of the horrible terrain and that azure weald is dark af

[mystic horizon]

ran a run with 3 friends

lost on stage 3 on the final stretch

my dumbass spowdered straight into the ground and died, my friends didnt make it cause of forgetting to take molly along

dumb way to die 💔

[winter veldt]

common SP L

[cerulean harness]

What a boring EDD

[winter veldt]

(got carried)

[waxen terrace]

driller slackin off huh

[copper depot]

I have found if EDD is in sand blasted it’s at least doable, that’s just my take on it, I’ve only been able to do them when it’s sandblasted

[zenith ember]

U havent seen the pit of death in sandblasted before

That week was "fun"

BB + exploders on 3rd stage in a deep ditch

[winter veldt]

all of them are doable, the team needs to be solid

you won't win if your teammates are constantly going down

or they don't support like a gunner who forgets he has a damn shield

[restive ermine]

gunner and shield is one thing, team mate always with no ammo and steals your drop is another

[jolly wing]

I mostly breezed through this EDD as engie

Despite using the wrong loadout

I LOL'd when during extraction, driller just dug towards the drop pod. Not realising it was low O2

And SOMEHOW, he was able to reach the drop pod
And finally going down at the pod

[fresh robin]

I doubt that, 2nd stage EDD was a challenge for my team, swarms spawned EVERYWHERE. But it was absolutely fun

[mellow cradle]

that would happen if everyone approached every mini mule all willy nilly

[main topaz]

just pull all 3 at the same time for the funny

[cerulean harness]

Just use driller?

[fresh robin]

swarm spawns every mini mule?

[burnt sandal]

yes

there's a delay before said swarm spawn in, and the swarms can stack up if you're not careful

there's also no announcement of any kind for those

though this is only true is mini-mules are the primary objective when it comes to deep dives, I believe

the primary objective is usually what dictates the spawn rules for the ongoing mission

[fresh robin]

I usually just go ham and pop eggs randomly in egg missions, though I do it when the risk of a team wipe is low
How do the swarms spawn anyway? The moment you free a leg or start repairing, the swarm spawns?

[burnt sandal]

Coming within 2 meters of a Mini M.U.L.E. for the first time will trigger a large wave of enemies after 12 to 30 seconds. Another, smaller wave of enemies will spawn when one of the legs that are found near each Mini M.U.L.E. is dug out. This leg is picked randomly.

for the source : https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/Salvage_Operation

[fresh robin]

dang...no wonder why Salvage Op can be tough

500 hours in this game and this is the first time knowing about this

[ivory marten]

How bad's the dive?

Black Box | Exploder Infestation

GOD NO

WHY IS IT ALL TWINS, TOO.

[burnt sandal]

yeah

that's also why the difficulty in those can be a bit all over the place sometimes

[twin cape]

Agreed. Suddenly a lot of things make a lot more sense.

[lean blade]

EDD was decent, played as a driller and no major problems though I forgot about low oxygen when drilling to drop pod but at least scout made it so yeah it was fun. In 2nd and 3rd stage its a nice touch to have driller, because it's way easier to get through these swarms

[brazen ruin]

Don’t you dare tell me it’s another swarmeggedon

It was enough with that and shield disruption one time

[mellow cradle]

there's no swarmageddon

but swarmers are in the special pool

just played today

[tulip badge]

Ngl this is actually kinda a stupid mechanic because its not transparent to players. With the event mugs you can tell finding it causes a swarm, but theres zero indication that's the case with mini mules

Very apparent players don't generally know about this either. And it just leads to 10 minute swarm times.

[tulip badge]

Also I dont really like how that suggests people should just be grouped up fixing them. I get this is a teamwork game, but splitting up and dividing a work for a mission like salvage is still teamwork

just really weird to me

[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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[warped veldt]

the waves dont become impossible if you split up

its still pretty reasonable to have people split up, repair a mule quickly then deal with a huge massive swarm

[eager atlas]

I think that's the point though, to feel like the place is just infested and you'll get attacked naturally

[tulip badge]

My issue is lack of the game telling you that mainly

[eager atlas]

mission control does say to "expect heavy infestation" so

[tulip badge]

"Enemies exist here" well yeah?

I'm just saying, egg hunts tremor and holdiay trinkets have the enemies spawn directly ontop of them. Readable situations.

[eager atlas]

I think the delayed swarm on near mule and leg digging is fine, but yeah perhaps there should be a longer delay for a 2nd/3rd one if one has been triggered and not been dealt with

[mystic horizon]

but to a realistic standpoint

what would be an indicator

the mules themselves dont emit sounds when you find them

i guess they can put a half assed explanation like glyphids are very sensitive to your digging but that wont make sense

[tulip badge]

If it worked liked the holiday trinkets that would be fine. Or make the spawn sounds louder specifically in those instances. Even just some sort of environmental decorations or glyphid eggs if you really wanted would say something.

Something to tell players who arent in the know. Cause Its super managable solo. But so many rando lobbies do just get mega massive swarms when people are not ready for it. Where egg hunt swarms people are expecting it.

Don't take my saltiness too seriously tho 😭 This is like my one and only gripe with the game.

[twin cape]

This discussion of enemy spawns have cleared up an extreme ammount of confusion.

[wraith wharf]

that's one of the fun of the game, if you always know when swarms gonna spawn it takes all the thrill out of it, this is not a tower defense game

it also encourages you to stick with your team, I mean what's the point of higher difficulties if you can just go ham without worrying about getting caught off guard

[fresh robin]

you know what, Imma just turn off my brain then rush the mini mule quickly

like how I just pop eggs immediately

[hollow raven]

Quick tip that applies to this week's normal dive, but also any other time you get this specific combo:
Defeating the caretaker instantly kills ALL enemies on the map, including dreadnaughts. This means you can get the caretaker to it's last phase, then have someone go pop the dread egg, then finish off the caretaker, and you can completely avoid the dread fight, making sabotage a bit less of a pain.
This week happens to have a primary of sabotage and a secondary of elimination on the 3rd phase, in case you want to try it out.

[vague lantern]

lmao they're all twins too

the game itself has found a loophole to the not being allowed to spam the same dread in a row

for the elite deep dive i lost once as the engineer because the team of greenbeards that had assembled couldn't perform enough, so i swapped to scout and just sniped all the spreaders because any fool can shoot grunts and praetorians

[solemn roost]

anyone aus/nz region edd

[nova tundra]

Maybe the dwarf could say something like ”oh bugger thats alot of bugs” or smthing

[mystic horizon]

when the bugs appear 30 seconds after you find the mini molly…?

[nova tundra]

It was just an idea ok

I wish there was mission where you get more than 3 minimule repairs

Give me like 10

[mystic horizon]

50 repairs

each mini mule = a swarm

[nova tundra]

Just scout your way to trigger all the waves same time

[mystic horizon]

may karl be with you

[stuck geyser]

Deep dives are fun and all but seriously every greenbeard who just promoted a dwarf seriously need to understand common etiquette like saying r before most events and checking everyones ammo (as easy as holding out pointer) before calling a resup

last deep dive I did I had 3 of these new dudes and most of the time they didnt r and they constantly called resups even when i was very sure we didnt need any

Im all for helping newer players, but really people need to understant simple teamwork before doing deep dives

btw we won so thats cool its just sometimes it annoyed me

[hollow raven]

Someone should probably make a "Etiquette for greenbeards document to help out with that.

[lime fog]

does the dreadnought have to be vulnerable?

[mellow cradle]

yes

and sufficiently close

[lime fog]

makes sense

[stuck geyser]

lowkey i might do that with sufficient research of course
most of the stuff that should be disclosed is pretty sruface level basic info and anyone could notice and playing like 3 haz 4's with randoms

[austere shale]

ive tried the DD 3 times and two ended in crashes (once the host, once me) right before we enter the leech room and the third time we all died to the unbelievable amount of leeches in that room

[winter veldt]

how do you even die to leeches once you know they are there

[tardy trench]

Does anyone have any tips for second floor of the EDD? We ran into essentially D-Day and all got demolished.

[austere shale]

when you dont and your entire team dies

[mossy patio]

yo why did the 2nd stage in the Elite deep dive change

[tulip badge]

Stingtail moment maybe

[tulip badge]

It's weird because I dont see this in regular missions, but randoms in deep dives will just call them willy nilly. Usually not a big deal really. But I once saw a guy get lost on a mining objective extraction, then call a resupply at the bottom of the cave as everyone else is already at drop pod.

Also downed before he could even use it if I can recall. Plus they were Driller, so I dont know how they got stuck down there and left behind??

[eager atlas]

#Don'tKillTheLeechesChallenge

[dawn otter]

That's just like running through a field while mortars are raining on you

[stuck geyser]

I casually get rank 1000s in my regular lobbies but greenbeards be joining my deep dive
I love greenbeards, its just having 3 who've never deep dived before is a little much

not like id kick them though

[hearty surge]

can you rejoin to a deepdive

i disconnected

[vague lantern]

it's the ones you dont yet notice that getcha

[radiant oriole]

is there any loot difference in elite vs regular deep dives?

[mellow cradle]

you get slightly more exp and credits (and minerals if you get a hoarder)

but you get the same amount of cores

[radiant oriole]

sounds good thank you

[stable compass]

We dont have beer mugs and double performance points in DD, do we?

[eager atlas]

no seasonals in deep dives

other than pumpkins I believe

[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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[mystic horizon]

hope this one’s more fun

[mellow cradle]

I hope this one is spooky

[muted portal]

anybody wanna do deep dive?

[dense nebula]

oh its almost another week already

[jolly wing]

Ive done that actually.
Chipped the dread twins' health like about 1/3 left. Healing animation happened, the second caretaker explosion Only killed the lacerator tho since the arbalest was digging. Ofc, it wasnt very difficult taking out the arbalest.

[fallow dagger]

On deep dives, do beer buffs last the whole way through?

[mellow cradle]

yes

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[proper cedar]

what is up with the deep dive today?

the elite deep dive

[eager atlas]

it's a deep dive

it's elite

if you mean the missions, check pinned

[mental rampart]

the EDD this week is rough

nice thing though is there's 5 hours to the next

I got twice as many kills as the rest of my team, but everyone did their job

#drg-gallery message

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[thick edge]

can someone post the new deep dives here

i can't check in-game rn

[golden radish]

I think info about this week's deep dives will be published in like 20 minutes.

[thick edge]

ah ok

ty

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 October 10 to 2024 October 17 (Week 264)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1729162800:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Cimmerian Grin
Stage 1: Industrial Sabotage + 2 Resonance Crystals | Shield Disruption
Stage 2: On-Site Refining + 150 Morkite | Parasites
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard + Twins) + 2 Eggs | No Mutator

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Salt Pits | Code Name: Dastardly Drift
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals + Drillevator + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 250 Morkite: + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover
Stage 3: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s + Uplink + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies

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!

[zinc furnace]

[golden radish]

Oops! All duck and covers again!

Caretaker with shield disruption, it's gotta be either really fun or really painful.

[fresh robin]

Duck and Cover again

yikes

Time to try Bullet Hell with this

[exotic belfry]

Hell yeah double Duck and Cover lol

[mystic horizon]

that stage 3 seems really fun

double eggs with a salvage on lethal

[mellow cradle]

at least on mission types where it's not too bad

[winter veldt]

Seems like a normal EDD :(

[cold kindle]

It's haz 3 i don't think it's a thing to worry about

[cold kindle]

At least not fungus bogs or glacial strata

Can't wait for triple duck and cover

[wanton glade]

salt pits on last stage means tons of shellbacks, without mentioning they're lethal too

pray to karl the drop pod won't be hanging on a cliff

[mellow cradle]

their slam deals typeless damage, so it won

't be affected by lethal enemies

oops enter

[wanton glade]

oh ok

still being hit by them sends you flying

is fall damage increased on lethal?

[mellow cradle]

no

only meele damage is increased

[arctic plover]

Oh wow

This EDD looks like it blows ass

[hollow crypt]

cool new dives were today

makes my life easier

[cold kindle]

Oh...True...

Small qronars from salt pits are really annoying

They so abundant and their knockback is annoying

[arctic plover]

Update: It blows ass.

[quaint raven]

Stage 2 of the regular has the most DISGUSTING cave gen

[lusty oar]

worse than last week's stage 2 EDD?

[eager atlas]

you can argue fall damage is just meele damage you did on the floor reflected back to you

spicy looking EDD though 🙃

[arctic plover]

Stage 3 is fucking possesed

There is more bug then there is cave

The whole thing sucks

3 attempts and my mates couldn’t beat the last stage

Cave gen is somewhat decent at least

[pale stone]

Yeah i nearly left instantly when i saw it

Especially coming directly out of a sabotage mission

[winter veldt]

time to try the EDD and see what the fuss is about

[ivory marten]

@winter veldt how bad is it?

[vital epoch]

I won't spoil it, but all I'll say is prepare for Mactera.

[ivory marten]

Oh I'm not planning on doing the EDD.

I play solo, my dude.

I'm not insane enough to try it.

Fuck-

Typed too fast.

I'm not daft enough to do the EDD on my own.

[vital epoch]

Haha, I was wondering about that.

It's actually not that bad this week. I just got out, and we finished it with practically no issues if you did want to try it.

We had like... 4 deaths across the whole thing? Mactera are Mactera, but the caves are small and tight, which seems to help against them.

You probably could handle it as long as you have anti-air.

[winter veldt]

Yeah pretty usual EDD

Feels like playing haz5 duck and cover pretty much

[mystic horizon]

snowball driller time

[quartz karma]

where was the other 2 pumps in the 2nd mission of this weeks dd?

nvm just found

[cerulean harness]

YES I LOVE DUCK AND COVER

[austere kite]

anyone happen to know where the pumpjacks are for the normal deep dive

[novel shale]

underground
hope this helps

[winter veldt]

Easy EDD easier than last week's

But not boring ig

[near lynx]

Duck and covers.
Duck and covers everywhere.

[novel shale]

1. wait for it to rain
2. cover yourself in webs
3. cry

[near lynx]

last 3 weeks have been merciless on them

[fervent igloo]

I am losing my mind trying to find the darn things in this cave

[mystic horizon]

rough terrain gen on this EDD

[mystic horizon]

one of the rougher elites imo

rougher as you need like a singular competent gunner and engie

3 of my failed runs was due to team going down without any room to stabilize cause enemies kept flooding, one run was doomed due to stage 3 enemies swarming us from all directions

[arctic plover]

I had an easier time with last week's EDD then this one

[arctic plover]

Both stage 3 attempts me and my mates failed to the same thing

We got a whole tour of the bestiary

[mystic horizon]

fr

you badly need a competent engie and gunner

for stage 3

repellants can keep your worries off alot

and a shield is god like as always

[cunning walrus]

Regular deep dive super easy with driller and vim sludge

Epc with heat too

[zenith ember]

bad drop site in 2nd stage, all the way on top of a deep ditch

other than that eh

ig the first stage generation is kinda weird, have never seen so many dead ends before

oh possible bulk when scanning mini-mule on the 3rd stage

[robust zinc]

Do you Need to do deep dives or Elite deep dives to get good cores or no?

[zenith ember]

nope

[robust zinc]

Awesome!

[zenith ember]

it does give 6 cores though, 2 blank, 2 weapon, 2 cosmetics

[robust zinc]

It seems fun to do, but not many people seem to be playing(least not right now.) maybe I can try doing it solo.

Also game crashes.

[zenith ember]

there should be plenty of people during weekends

[robust zinc]

I’ll check on the weekend then. As for game crashes I can’t get around that one. If only there was join from last session option when it happens.

That’s technology for ya. 🥲

[mellow cradle]

you sure it's a crash, and not internet issues?

[robust zinc]

For sure a crash. The game froze and it went back to the dashboard on my Series X.

[mellow cradle]

mhm

[robust zinc]

I called a resupply pod then it froze lol.

I was on the second mission with some randoms last night when it happened.

Maybe it just did it on there. I am sure it won’t be the last crash as not only DRG, but other games do crash too on other platforms too as well technology for ya. Hopefully it won’t crash for me when I do the deep dive again.

I am for sure though going to keep doing it, because I love Rocking and Stoning!

[serene belfry]

Honestly I never had any crash issues really on my Xbox when I played there so not sure what would cause

[vague lantern]

i agree with this, our team only made it through because me (and the engi) were extremely experienced and were running some of our best loadouts for crowd clear

and for once i finally got a team to agree with me on picking bullet hell rather than getting flamed for using a 'bad' oc

[robust zinc]

Yeah I am sure it was just something happened, but I don’t mind I just run it up again. I’ve completed them before(DD and EDD) on my series X, just curious since it’s happened twice but rare.

[rancid parrot]

good god do NOT do the edd as solo scout

[eager atlas]

is that a challenge

[novel shale]

yes

[rancid parrot]

actually maybe, idk if i was having a skill issue or not

up to you, but if you do it i wanna know how it goes

i should probably mention i had bosco with me too so do yourself a favor and bring him along

[eager atlas]

I'll give it a shot in a couple hours

[rancid parrot]

alright good luck

[fresh robin]

damn, this EDD was quite a challenge

1st stage and 2nd stage were fairly easy

3rd stage however with the lethal enemies was tough

[rancid parrot]

thats what im sayin

[eager atlas]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/565850434376302613/1294541393116532746/24-10-12_06-03-02_493.jpg

kinda rough but doable

and a reminder of how strong pheromones are

[rancid parrot]

thats actually exactly how i got through it

[eager atlas]

I think the last stage without pheromones would be a real show stopper 🙃

[rancid parrot]

i chose to bring pheromones instead of cryo

[eager atlas]

apparently there's detonators in that level too

as if the rolly pollies kicking me out of the circle weren't enough

[rancid parrot]

didnt run into em thankfully

the detonators i mean

[eager atlas]

fun stuff 🙃

[rancid parrot]

but yeah glad to see its not entirely a skill issue

[main topaz]

tef db phermones old reliable

[rancid parrot]

yeah on my first run i slowly but surely realized i needed to adjust my loadout

[mystic horizon]

this normal deep dive is cursed for me

both runs i reach stage 3 i crash

[fresh robin]

this normal deep dive I carried a team full of greenbeards on probably their first deep dive

[radiant oriole]

I just did an elite Deep dive but my rewards were grey, why is that?

[winter veldt]

You can only get the rewards once

[radiant oriole]

once out of

a day a week

[exotic belfry]

Week

It resets once per week, on Thursday

[radiant oriole]

can you get 1 reward from regular and elite or are they connected?

[exotic belfry]

Separate rewards

The deep dive wiki page is pinned here, feel free to go read it if you wanna learn more

[radiant oriole]

I like asking people better, less and more direct information

[weak siren]

I want to try a deep dive, tho I have seen some differences between the normal mission types and the secondary primaries in DDs but don't really know what they are
(idk if that was a good way to explain that)

anyone able to help

?

[eager atlas]

DDs only have "primaries" as objectives

I assume you mean the blackbox maybe?

it's just the uplink from salvage, but without the rest of salvage

[weak siren]

yeah
but the second ones I mean
they seem smaller then usual primaries

I kinda saw what the refinery one was
normal: 3 refineries. DD secondary: 1 small one

I think I am currect

idk tho

[old nexus]

Pretty much
Deep Dives have smaller primary objectives as their secondary objectives

[weak siren]

well what is IS for the DDs

[old nexus]

what

[weak siren]

(this is what I think people mean by IS)
industrial sabotage

[eager atlas]

Industrial sabotage doesn't have a smaller version

it's only a primary

[old nexus]

None

No secondary variant for industrial sabotage

[weak siren]

so just the full mission type?

caretaker n' all?

[eager atlas]

yes

[weak siren]

bru 🥹

[eager atlas]

only secondaries are smaller, the primary is the entire mission

[weak siren]

great...

(as you can see, I clearly dislike industrial sabotage)

[robust zinc]

Awww yeah I was able to complete both deep dives! :D

[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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[slow vapor]

bro I hate industrial sabotage

[eager atlas]

and stating it here will change that

[slow vapor]

na

I just wanted to state it

[vague lantern]

this week's deep dive is actually quite kind for starting on the shield disruption caretaker since that means it's true haz 3 and the time waste if you manage to somehow fail is minimal

and the caretaker cave gen is really simple too

[plain matrix]

Real

[eternal needle]

what on earth is this DD

second mission is actual pumpjack hell

what sins have i commited to land here

where are the morkite wells

i think i summoned a demon trying to link the first one up and now the other 2 are gone

[eternal needle]

ok it was a tiny tunnel leading to a cave

all good

dreadnought time

[sharp lotus]

Yeah hacking beacon right behind caretaker

[austere kite]

So my friends and I were wondering just how difficult the elite deep dives were since we're getting fed up not getting the overclocks we want despite the 100 hours in we've got

We've only got a team of 3 so it's more just is it possible while being down a person and not having good overclocks

(shout-out to me having 13 gunner pistol overclocks when I play scout)

[mellow cradle]

having a smaller team is better if everyone can pull their weight

as for going overclock less, there are some guns which are good without overclocks
for scout that would probably be the m1k and boomstick

[eager atlas]

the game scales with players, there's a reason some do dives solo

[gray bough]

Boomstick is only good with special powder

But mk1 is good with just basic or no oc’s

I personally use bullets of mercy and stun sweepers

And the boomstick to fly

[vague lantern]

short answer, as hard as 3 haz 5-ish misions in a row

[tacit jungle]

This week's EDD is pretty relaxing, though my rando pub team did bring the heat. Bulk spawned on stage 3 during first salvage stage and got melted without doing anything useful

[winged grotto]

got my first solo EDD under my belt today. looks like i picked a good week for it

[hollow coyote]

For us, it was hell. Stage 1 was fine, but the map gen was horrible stage 2

[fresh robin]

Do you think its a good idea to hack both power stations at the same time in an industrial sabotage?

Last deep dive, I joined a lobby with some greenbeard, I went to the 2nd power station and connected the hacking pod
Greenbeard kept telling me to come but I insisted that we both hack the power stations and I was already in a good defending position, and the deep dive was just haz 3, super easy to handle

Greenbeard kicked me out 🙃

I do think that hacking both power stations at the same time is good as long as the risk is super low, the teammates are competent, and it saves both time and one supply pod being used

[mystic horizon]

depends

i do it if im gunner and the driller is at the other one

ofc only on lower haz levels like normal deep dives

unless the team is competent

[fresh robin]

Well i was engineer at that time

You know, the dwarf that thrives in defense

[eager atlas]

that's a lot of ifs
it's potentially a good idea but you need to agree with your team first

[timber flicker]

Just because you're comfortable doing both at the same time doesn't mean everyone will be. Especially a greenbeard with Shield disruption.

Also it's a team game, I can understand going separate ways to discover/mine someway but generally doing your own thing separate from the team indicates not a good team player.

[lusty oar]

guys uh, i know i'm super late to the party but what about that little bit of lore in the EDD this week?

is there more information about it anywehere?

[mystic horizon]

well

terrain gen is rather tough on this

very tight and cramped

stage 3 without a good engie and gunner your team can get shut down very fast

[random rampart]

what lore

[muted turtle]

Imagine deep dives having lore

[median agate]

when the lore is deep

[lusty oar]

" 'Leave no dwarf behind' is rumored to originate from this region. Anyone who's seen what prolonged exposure to the salts will do, understands why"

[random rampart]

thats just pregenerated random text to each biome. it got no real "lore", per se

[zenith ember]

Yes, even on haz 5(+)

Oh that was hours ago

[lusty oar]

sadge

[inner patrol]

Anyone know what the elite deep dive has?

[winter veldt]

check the pinned message

[winter veldt]

nvm it's not pinned anymore

[mental rampart]

Have you ever used Scout's shotgun with the Double Barrel OC and the 'Improved Blast Wave' upgrade on tier 4?

It is really, really good for clearing bug swarms

I usually run it with both ammo upgrades to get more shots

the damage is still significant

it's like Breach Cutter but for Scout

[gray bough]

special powder

[mental rampart]

I'm just saying that because there's more than one viable OC for it

[gray bough]

no

[mental rampart]

Your in-depth reply has convinced me

Good day

[gray bough]

you can go weeeeeeeee

and you choose to be engineer

[vague lantern]

i see double barrel as more of the option you take for a well rounded, combat oriented build for efficiently defending yourself (as well as other uses such as murdering brundles, stingtails, and point blank spreaders that refuse to show any amount of backside)

which is essentially 100% of the time for me because i lowkey do not have enough faith in random teammates

[tacit jungle]

I don't think well roundedness is a good thing to aim for. I don't want to be a crappier engineer, I want to maximize my niche. I run embedded dets for deleting oppressors and bulks

[vague lantern]

my primary weapon is good enough for both big bugs and HVT's, so i carry double barrel to deal with heavily armored or disruptive bugs and just to increase my carry potential if my team is dying

I guess we're the opposite of each other; i actually think over-specialization isn't a good thing to aim for since i won't always be near enough to the teammates that do cover the weakness of an overspecialized build

i've always wondered if running self sufficient builds makes me a team player or a selfish player

[tacit jungle]

depends if you're trying to get consistent outcomes on average or be spectacularly efficient when you get lucky with a competent team

I run hoverclock because it maximizes survival and mountain goat stuff so my team doesn't have to babysit me

[vague lantern]

my thought process is that it's impossible to always both be near my teammates and be in a situation where the enemies before me are optimal for my build

i play with randoms most of the time so i prepare for the worst

[tacit jungle]

if I get too many enemies to lovingly click one by one, I just go do something else somewhere else

[vague lantern]

i'm quite an aggressive scout then, because when enemies are in the way of my objective my answer is to remove them

[vague lantern]

are you an m1000 enjoyer?

as much as i would love to say that i too am one, i'm actually a pleb ar main

[tacit jungle]

eh, it's good enough. I'd have to run hipster to truly enjoy it. I just use it for hoverclock and have the settings tuned for specific breakpoints on haz 5 against grunts and spiders

hoverclock really should just be a regular mod

or even a scout builtin

[vague lantern]

i was thinking about how to get the m1000 to the point where it can be effective against haz 4-5 spreaders, but the only solution i could come up with was to run damage instead of ammo

or just get close

[tacit jungle]

focus shot kills them in one shot in the side, but they're too wiggly to do that consistently

[vague lantern]

which was what i was already doing with the boomstick if i'm too lazy to aim at a spreader that's staring right at me and strafing

[tacit jungle]

embedded dets one-clips a spreader of course if you're going to hump it anyway

[vague lantern]

lmfao i love that you called them wiggly

[manic pivot]

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

That EDD was spicy.

6 tries

And every try was ending at stage 3

Salvage lethal enemies stage 3 is rough

We had to build bunker to beat stage 3

Otherwise say hello to qronars that will push you around

[cold kindle]

Previous tries was bunkerless,and we was losing on fuel cells

It feels really painful when you spend around 35-45 mins and fail at the very end

[manic pivot]

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

you can just build a trench around the zone to counter shellbacks
they will just crash into the trenchwall and cant knock you
you just drill 1 dwarf deep (so you reach the platform by jumping) and taper it to the outside, so when rolling in they go in smooth but once in the trench they just hit the wall and bounce off

[gentle path]

Find us somewhere with more nitra next time!!!

[jolly herald]

I just put a roof over the drop pod and we had so much nitra left we had like 5 resup pods to get through before the roller boys could do anything bad

[mystic horizon]

i just used pheromones in conjunction with gunner and engie

if shield’s down and bugs suddenly swarmed us i chucked one at em

[manic pivot]

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[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
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[mystic horizon]

should be out

yep

down we go

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 October 17 to 2024 October 24 (Week 265)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1729767600:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: Covetous Gate
Stage 1: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard & Classic) + 2 Eggs | No Mutator
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Critical Weakness Haunted Cave
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Insane Sorrow
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + Black Box | No Mutator
Stage 2: 10 Aquarqs + Liquid Morkite Well | Rival Presence
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard & Twins) + 2 Resonance Crystals | Critical Weakness Duck and Cover

four consecutive EDDs with duck and cover is quite the streak

[mystic horizon]

the terrain on stage 1 is horrible

heaven pump stage 1

[brittle ruin]

the best streak was that time when we had sabotage DD and EDDs back and forth with the peak being double sabotage in an EDD

[weak siren]

I never tried haunted cave...
I don't want to
but I'll try it ig

[mystic horizon]

crit weakness on dreadnoughts?

hot diggly damn

516 nitra (so far) just from stage 1

[fresh robin]

I kinda want that, double sabotage EDD

[brittle ruin]

with no shield too D:

[mystic horizon]

hey

stage 2

on the EDD

i recommend having a person that can take down the controller

fast

made an insanely risky play and shielded myself on it and took it down right as my shield disappeared

saved my team the hell that is the amount of rival tech there

[fresh robin]

That's what I'd usually do, once there is a rival presence, just rush turret controller, shield then hack

However there are cases where the repulsion turret can still damage me

[zenith ember]

Oh yeah edd

[mystic horizon]

the arbalest on my stage 3 went on an adventure

while his twin was being

bullied

[cold kindle]

Sounds good

Thanks for giving advices

Rock and stone

[cold kindle]

They gonna be freaking kidding us

[cold kindle]

Maganement knows we LOVE being covered in alien goo,acid,etc.

[winter veldt]

Oooh

EDD stage 2 seems like a challenge

Point extraction means constant waves of rival tech

[nova tundra]

Duck and cover is fun mutator

[winter veldt]

Better to take fire for it

[nova tundra]

Scorching tide sounds good

[winter veldt]

Scorching tide for bots it's kinda meh

Maybe FSD?

Hellfire and hot bullets lead storm :3

[jolly herald]

Stage 2 looking grim

At least secondary is comfy

[zenith ember]

Crispr for 2nd stage means doing nothing for 3rd stage

But ice is asscheeks against bots, goo is decent at most

[mellow cradle]

vim deals respectable damage to bots

and to dreads too

[zenith ember]

Thats 1 option yeah

Forgot about vim

Suicide rushing controller prob still better

To save ammo and stuff

[mellow cradle]

ye

kill nearby repulsors, and dig into the ground next to it

[zenith ember]

Good old underground cheese

[vague lantern]

with a good scout, there should be more than enough nitra unless things go really poorly

[vague lantern]

me and my team ended each stage with over 300 nitra each time, aside from the last one where we called all of them in celebration of succeeding

[vague lantern]

the robots are vulnerable to corrosion anyway, so it's probably alright to run normal dot sludge

[cold kindle]

Pro tip: never hack patrol bots if you didn't hacked turret controller yet. I remember i was doing solo mission and hacked 2 patrol bots,found turret controller,i tried to disable it from underground but bloody hacked patrol bots was provoking repulsion turrets

As i result i had to kill a lot of turrets to disable turret controller

Maybe i have skill issue but yeah that's my rival presence experience

[vague lantern]

that's... actually really good to know

i never knew that interaction could happen

[dusk nova]

I hate haunted cave

[lusty oar]

why? it's so fun

[dusk nova]

I can't shoot ghosts

[peak edge]

just have 1 player stay back to kite the invisible horror till mission completion

[tawdry geode]

Doing it in solo is hard when you’re not scout

[novel shale]

the pub i joined just speedran the entire mission in like 5 minutes, ghost did nothing but give us a free straight tunnel all the way to the drop pod

spawned in as we left the starting room, didn't see it again until it popped through the wall as we called the pod in the last room

[vague lantern]

yeah the ghost ended up just making a tunnel straight to the drop pod for us

[zealous veldt]

What's a deep dive

[lusty oar]

endgame content

[tacit jungle]

What's the spice level of this week's EDD? I like to rawdog them without looking up the exact details

[winter veldt]

rival point extraction

[lusty oar]

ah, irreverent banana

you live up to your name

[lusty oar]

i'd say mild spice honestly

it's been worse

[vague lantern]

considering the fact that it unlocks after a promotion and an assignment, i dont know if i could call that endgame, but i guess nothing else really unlocks past it

aside from haz 5+ maybe

[vague lantern]

not too bad, we've had worse but it's not to be taken lightly either.

on a scale of one to ten, ten being a drop zone of a high ground ring of spitballers on all sides with a sheer cliff as the only way out, i'd say this week is probably somewhere around a 5.

[winter veldt]

Extremely easy DD and EDD

Nothing special at all

EDD has an excessive amount of nitra

Critical weakness dread dies if you look at it too long

[astral pelican]

A what play? 😈

[vague lantern]

dreadnoughts no longer get affected by critical weakness for reasons that should be fairly obvious, but yeah the edd is quite simple

idk for other bosses though

the caretaker is also probably exempt from the critical weakness modifier... but i dont know how it works with other miscellaneous bosses like betc, the tyrant weed, and Harold

[fervent elk]

How easy the elite ones were

[main topaz]

when you gotta kill the dreads in stage 3 you have 4 resupplies left over after getting it sloppily in previous stages

[zenith ember]

crap stage 1 map generation compensated with generous amounts of nitra (had 6 resups with lootbug kills)

controller position in stage 2 allows for cheesing after killing just 1 repulsor

[cold kindle]

But critical weakness doesn't applies to dreads

Aren't it?

[zenith ember]

the sentinels are affected

so partially true

[prime shore]

Easy edd this week?

[lusty oar]

the banana guy thinks so

[prime shore]

Yeah I was seeing if other people had opinions

[zenith ember]

easy enough

[winter veldt]

it has so much nitra

like

we had 560 or something like that

[random rain]

fellers

is there a world record for a deep dive?

[burnt sandal]

yes

https://www.speedrun.com/deep_rock_galactic/leaderboards

[outer bloom]

Regular DD is 6:51. EDD is 6:29

[random rain]

The elite being shorter than reg is crazy work

[tacit jungle]

Probably got luckier with objectives and map. DRG difficulty scaling is in bug health/damage/quantity which doesn't matter if you there just to press the buttons and peace out

[eager atlas]

bug speed is a factor too, but yeah

[desert breach]

When I try to dig the black box down in deep dive elite first map, it stays in the air whatever we try

does anyone know why this happen?

[novel shale]

still issue

[tacit jungle]

one of the easiest EDDs I can recall playing

had like 500 nitra left over despite my teammates dropping 3 resupplies for the last dread

[raven carbon]

Was there a piece stuck in the corner anywhere

[raven carbon]

Yeah lots of excess nitra

[raven carbon]

Very easy

[prime shore]

yeah i just finished and damn that was easy

so much nitra

[wraith shard]

Anyone wanna vc?

In pod 8

[worthy snow]

This weeks edd was fun

[raven carbon]

Critical weakness also nullified duck and cover to a large extent

[prime shore]

Yeah I one shot mactera with zukovs

[main topaz]

its due to refinery hitbox

[arctic plover]

Yo, how we feeling about these dives

They don't look so bad

[leaden steeple]

seems simple enough

[limber dirge]

Mission control really out here trying to kill us with this edd

[cold kindle]

I thought 2nd stage of edd would be hell on the earth

But actually it wasn't

Turret controller spawned in really nice spot

Kill 1-2 turrets,fight off bugs and all turrets is gone

Nemesis spawned and i almost one shot'd him with conductive thermals but naedocytes took some pellets and i run out of ammo so we had to kill him in usual way

Comparing to may edd with 10 aquarqs rival presence that edd was breeze

Nitra is abundant as hell

Warnings looks stressful but actually not so

Stage 3 was fast cuz we got like 400 nitra from previous stages

And we just speedrun'd dreads

• critical weakness on hiveguard sentinels

[dusty grail]

I joined some rando mod EDD (+more dwarf reduce req nitra) lobby and we still get rekt for hr in first stage lol
i quit after hr don't know if that lobby finally passed stage 1 or not

how are this week DD, planned to play it tomorrow

[vague lantern]

with so many dwarves, i can see how the first stage could get quite chaotic

[inner flint]

i once joined into a modded lobby and it was just a bunch of engis with fat boys that crashed the lobby eventually lol

[inner flint]

wow that was the most unfun dd i have ever done

haunted cave and then swarmageddon jellyfish

so lame

[coral tangle]

true

first ever DD ive done first ever DD i failed

was already sweating because of haunted and then swarmageddon and betc killed me

[lusty oar]

OH

ah

it's best to have a designated tag player with haunted cave

[serene belfry]

I had never done a haunted caves before as a solo and definitely the scariest deep dive I've done so far only having started the last month ish on them

[lusty oar]

solo it's pain

[spring herald]

i just failed this weeks deep dive and it was because betc blew me up

after i restart her

[pine dagger]

Deep dive elite was pretty easy this week

[feral cedar]

where is the 3rd pumpjack in edd this week

[zenith ember]

all the way at the top, in a corner

[feral cedar]

found it

dumb spot

[zealous scroll]

Why can't I take my non promoted scout to DD??

[mellow cradle]

only promoted dwarves can enter DD's

the permission is not account-wide, it's character-wide

[zealous scroll]

Since when

[mellow cradle]

since always

[zealous scroll]

I went in there with my scout a few weeks ago

[zenith ember]

it has never been possible, are you certain you used scout?

[burnt sandal]

since forever

it's always been a thing

[zealous scroll]

Whaa

[zealous scroll]

Tbh idk

[manic pivot]

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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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[red widget]

Good lord this deep dive is hard as a solo

[solemn roost]

elite deep dive aus anyone?

[inner flint]

that edd was...

something

[vague lantern]

this week's edd was easy enough that i was able to bring a bunch of greenbeards and one player level 20 newbie and get a win

[faint isle]

So I gotta know. What is the Haz on a Normal and Elite Deep Dive?

Also is there ALWAYS a Duck n Cover on Elite Deep Dive, or is it just bad luck?

[sour frigate]

Hazards: https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/Deep_Dives#Difficulty

[raven carbon]

Random warnings, just bad luck in the last couple of weeks

But this week was easy

Because of critical weakness

[faint isle]

Difficulty... 5.5

[vague lantern]

dreadnought missions have few to no spawns past whatever was there from the beginning, so this week it's alright

[faint isle]

How did I survive the Elite of this week?

Specially that Liquid Morkite extraction, taht cave really sucks

[raven carbon]

It is usually easier than what you would expect for 5.5 depending on the warnings because at stage 3 you would have an excess of nitra to start with

So the starting waves can be dealt with in peace without worrying about hunting for nitra immediately

[chilly shore]

they call it 5.5 but numerically it is more like 5.05

[slender heart]

5.00001.

[short dirge]

The deep dive is whoopping me so bad, the solo haunted cave is pain

[unreal sierra]

is Neurotonxin payload any good?

and if so what mods should i run it with?

[burnt sandal]

• yes, very
• fear on T5, everything else doesn't matter much

also for build question, #drg-chat is more appropriate of a place

[unreal sierra]

thx

[rough gyro]

Which class is best for this week's dd?

[eager atlas]

the one you're most used to

[atomic grove]

any1 know what this week's edd

[mellow cradle]

check pins

[atomic grove]

wow

[worthy snow]

Easy

[atomic grove]

lol not with this group im with

we had a guy rage quit on us

cuz i accidently double dipped

when i was carrying the whole team

[worthy snow]

And when there was thousands of nitra in that cave

[atomic grove]

....

whatever

[real bough]

what are you guys doing for this edd to call it easy me and my mate are struggling hard? is it just cause we're a duo

[signal leaf]

can yall kindly prevent haunted cave from appearing in deep dives?

im saying kindly cause i know my partner wont be

[mellow cradle]

maybe you aren't finding all the nitra?

especially if you don't have a scout

[real bough]

400+ seems like enough to me

[signal leaf]

quick question? do the devs manually make the deep dive's selection or is it randomly generated?

[eager atlas]

random

[quasi idol]

yes as if they manually picked haunted cave for a mining expedition/salvage op., that would just be sadistic and cruel

also, I'm here to be the 1,031st message about haunted caves in #deep-dive-discussion and I know I won't be the last, as this warning isn't great in concept and the execution is worse.

unkillable, invulnerable, constant, and instakilling

that's a recipe for player frustration, and damn is it frustrating to deal with

and seemingly, not a single damn thing has been changed since Update 25

[novel shale]

it should probably be slower for solo players like og dread

in teams it's normally no problem

[quasi idol]

or just not exist to begin with

[novel shale]

this deep dive i had a pub team that speedran that haunted cave so fast that the first time i saw the ghost was when it popped through the wall as we called the pod in the last room

nice convenient tunnel straight back

[quasi idol]

because that thing is why @signal leaf and I failed deep dive, is the instakilling, unstunnable, invincible motherfucker called the unknown horror

[signal leaf]

i think a stun or something would be better just in general
just atleast some way to deal with it other than running into a wall cause the area is too small to escape

[quasi idol]

Precisely.

[signal leaf]

like for example Nemesis from that ror2 mod we use
if you deal enough damage it will be stunned for awhile

[quasi idol]

Nemesis also exists in the original context of Resident Evil, who also does that, and i think that's probably what they were going for, the pursuer type enemy, but it doesnt work because it's unstunnable

immortal? fine, go for it. invulnerable? no, you are crazy

[novel shale]

eh unknown horror doesn't deal enough damage to instakill, especially on h3.5
you can also slow it with any status effect that deals slow like electricity, neurotoxin, sludge
and id recommend against standing in dead ends while the horror is aggro'd on you

[fervent heath]

Unknown horror is pretty slow, especially with slowdowns

[signal leaf]

"doesnt deal enough damage to instakill" i'd like to call blasphemy

[fervent heath]

And for scouts, unknown horror is a pretty good crowd clear

[signal leaf]

the cave was too small to go anywhere so it didnt matter reguardless

[quasi idol]

lies. that thing instadowns you.

and it doesnt stop instadowning you because it never goes away

[signal leaf]

we literally stood no chance cause the cave size + the amount of damage that mf deals

[quasi idol]

precisely!

[novel shale]

just tested it, it only instakills you if you're literally inside of it, at any reasonable "im trying to get away from this thing" distance it deals 40-155 damage including the fire, which is very much survivable at full health w/ healthy armor upgrade. this damage is also halved against gunner, and the fire aftereffect is halved against driller
(max health is 145+25 shield for 170 total health, no buff beers)

[eager atlas]

haunted mining exped is easy since it's a mobile missioni
haunted salvage isn't even possible at all

the ghost definitely doesn't down you in a single hit

I'm gonna say it does like half but I never truly paid attention

the ghost actually gets slown down by electricity and goo, not that that's particularly useful, unless you have something like turret arc, and even then

[mellow cradle]

it's quite useful if you have a sludge driller

or tazer bolts scout

[eager atlas]

right, sludge

[zenith ember]

Cryo stuff works for slowing too, even freezing it

[solid oyster]

Okay, real talk haunted cave deep dive is gonna feature heavily in my supervillian origin story

[raven carbon]

It can be shocked to slow it

Also scout kiting in general is useful

If it's a morkite mission like this week's then as long as you maintain a good pace through the caves it'll never catch up to you as you don't need to track back until you finish the mission

[raven carbon]

Depends on where you are in the radius

[raven carbon]

Haunted Cave cannot appear on Salvage Operation, Escort Duty, Industrial Sabotage or Deep Scan missions. As well as Deep Dive missions with a Black Box as the secondary objective.

[quasi idol]

hey go look at the current 2nd stage deep dive

it's a mining expedition/salvage operation

[signal leaf]

also that cave was HELLA small

[quasi idol]

yeah

[raven carbon]

Secondary as mule repair doesn't count as salvage

[raven carbon]

The logic behind this is that objectives needing you to stay in one place shouldn't occur with haunted cave

Uplink needs that, mule repair doesn't

[quasi idol]

it has the objective of it.

[raven carbon]

It doesn't have uplink

[raven carbon]

So it doesn't violate the exclusion logic

Deep dives with primary as salvage specifically mention uplink in addition to mule repair for that reason

[signal leaf]

ok but the caves were small as hell!

[short dirge]

I give up on this one

[humble birch]

Literally making my first post to agree that the haunted mining/salvage is horrific

[trim crescent]

whats getting you killed?

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

Just kited the ghost solo in that room like a crackhead

Drew him to the opposite side, went back to repair, repeat

[vague lantern]

haunted caves in general are god awful unless everything just happens to go smoothly

[serene belfry]

Yeah don't get me wrong was stressful as fuck and I used up my Bosco revives lmao

[weak siren]

should I wait for the new deep dives or try to get through it (the non elite one)

due to the haunted cave hazard

[muted turtle]

Do it

[weak siren]

I may try...

[muted turtle]

Karl is on your side

You probably will win

[weak siren]

first ever deep dive moment

[manic pivot]

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Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 October 24 to 2024 October 31 (Week 266)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1730368800:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Fungus Bogs | Code Name: Mythic Inland
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Elite Threat
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Shield Disruption

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Broken Return
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + Black Box | Shield Disruption
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Low Gravity
Stage 3: On-Site Refining + Black Box | Elite Threat

i know EU has daylight savings this week, but i'm a little paranoid that i got the reset hour wrong (；・∀・) if someone knows, please let me know ty

[muted turtle]

Theses deep dives sound easy

[drifting tinsel]

duck and cover curse is gone 🙏

[golden radish]

It'll be back at October31st.

[burnt sandal]

full haunted caves for the 31st 🙏

[fresh robin]

Looks like Liquid Morkite has been flowing this EDD

[golden radish]

Full sabo shield disruption for 31, it sounds scarier.

[eager atlas]

game bugs out and gives us the fabled double warning deep dives

[raven carbon]

If this information helps, my country doesn't have daylight savings and the reset time has moved an hour back for me.

[mystic horizon]

quite the handful of nitra stage 1

about 3-4 resups worth if you dont kill lootbugs

tread very lightly on stage 2 of the elite

good lord

like 1 ramble, 3? barrages, around 4-5 spitballers

[cold kindle]

Guess we're on-site refining now

[torpid berry]

How was i able to get 2 blank ones from last weeks elite?

[burnt sandal]

you probably got all weapon OCs

[torpid berry]

Damn you evil corporation for stealing so much of my life xD

[winged grotto]

it's deep dive time. rock and stone

[dusk nova]

so you wipe on a Deep Dive and you have to start all over? who thought that was a good idea?

[eager atlas]

well it's meant to be a challenge and the most valuable rewards are in the first couple levels so

[dusk nova]

i know. i just don't like my time being wasted for nothing

but eh, it's whatever. i'm over the loss. it's fresh in the week. i'll get it next time

[serene belfry]

Bosco the goat

Solo revives refresh

[novel hazel]

Thought on the mine system OC for the gunner?

On the on hand it takes setup and has practically no direct damage, on the other hand it's 60 damage and 252 ammo with aoe

[serene belfry]

Goes hard

[novel shale]

ridiculously overpowered and boring playstyle, yawn

[muted turtle]

Mines

Very fun

Not boring

[serene belfry]

[warped veldt]

thats how all missions work

you might also be surprised to learn that enemies deal damage if they hit you

[dusk nova]

Like how you would be surprised to know the cave layout changes every time?

Listen. I said my peace about it. I want to move on and try again later. I'm not looking for a debate. Just leave me alone a out it pleass

[warped veldt]

of all the things you could say...

cave layout not changing is one of the unique things about deep dives lol

[dusk nova]

I meant regular missions but I digress

[lone palm]

Is there a way I can tell if I got a reward for a deep dive stage already

[dull leaf]

hows edd today chat

[dull leaf]

if you completed a stage already, the stage number should glow yellow

[lone palm]

Uhh say I DC and rejoin during the transition from stage 1 to 2...

(dog cut out pc power)

[dull leaf]

oh then you should already completed it

[dusk nova]

think you should have the rewards for the week

[dull leaf]

yea

[dusk nova]

like i died on Stage 3 and the first two are yellow for me

[lone palm]

Oh right because I had 1 blank core before the two deep dives, now I have 3

[dull leaf]

nothing traumatized me more than that stage 2 sabotage with exploders last month

[dusk nova]

god i hate the pyramid

[lone palm]

Last week I had the black box float on me (and it was above the refinery)

It was annoying having to build up

[peak edge]

Not horrible, you start with a morkite refining so plenty of nitra. Shield Disruption though which sucks and so the first mission was kinda bad. 2nd and 3rd missions were pretty chill, low gravity on mission 2 is great, and mission 3 morkite refining has good layout

helps that after mission 1 my team just called in nitra whenever we felt like it and didn't sweat, because you'll have like 400 nitra

[main topaz]

edd is ggez 30 minutes

[hoary totem]

I am coming back to DRG and i was wondering what is a deepest dive

(havent played properly in like 3 years 😭 )

[zenith ember]

diving deep to explore the holes

[eager atlas]

don't use fandom

[exotic belfry]

Here's a link to the official wiki, pinned in #drg-chat.

[dense cove]

Guys, is there a mod that can do deep dives?

[novel hazel]

Is there a way to turn off Bosco?
I'm trying to do a full passive run and I don't want him to help

[zenith ember]

easy edd, way too much nitra to fail

reaching stage 3 with 600 in reserve is definitely an edd of the time

[burnt sandal]

you can turn him off in the bosco terminal

bottem left corner, just uncheck the box

[novel hazel]

Thx

[obtuse nest]

The last 2 deep dives I've been on I've inexplicably lost connection in the middle of the 3rd stage. If I'm friends with one of the members of the dive, would I be able to rejoin?

[novel shale]

unless you got a good coin flip and got the "last session ended unexpectedly" prompt immediately after disconnecting, unfortunately no

[obtuse nest]

oof, I guess I'll just host then

[left timber]

Who hates duck and cover?

[prime shore]

Who doesn't

[eager atlas]

ducks

and mactera

and the orangepurple ceiling

[prime shore]

another week another easy edd

gsg handing them out like candy

[vague lantern]

meanwhile i ended up with 1100+ kills by the end of it lol

it was a somewhat simple edd but boy did i have to murder a lot of bugs really fast for long periods of time

second most kills was around 550 i think, from the sticky fuel driller

[glacial sail]

can people join mid deep dive?

[vague lantern]

nope

the only exception would be someone who was in then disconnected and the game let them reconnect

[nova tundra]

Bullet hell gunner was a good pick by me for this weeks edd so much shit to kill

[errant abyss]

ok where is the last pumpjack in the EDD's mission 1
i've been searching for nearly half an hour where tf is it???

[fervent heath]

its directly west of the refinery. its in another cave with a very small tunnel connecting it to the main room. the entrance to the room from the refinery is 230 degrees, at -844 m depth. its right next to the cave coral mushroom-looking thing

[tulip badge]

I have a question about Deep Dives. I know the terrain and everything is preseeded for the week, and so are dreadnaughts. But are the wave types preseeded, or did we just get lucky/unlucky with a dreadnaught spawn on on the normal deep dive

Was kinda cool doing the escape sequence with a hiveguard chasing us

[mellow cradle]

swarm types are not seeded

[tulip badge]

Thought so, that was just pretty cool to happen then

[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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[brazen ruin]

Bro what

As a team we died around 100 times before getting out lmao

[timber flicker]

Died at 3rd stage

They can keep that cosmetic

[brazen ruin]

Cosmetics always mid anyway

[prime shore]

Hey as long as you got out

Just with the amount of nitra you get it felt a little easy

[raven carbon]

Edd was pretty easy this week

Lots of nitra

No particularly bad mission and warning combinations

Shield disruption had the potential to be bad but it was first stage so no issues

[brazen ruin]

I think it’s because we were messing around for half of it

Had like 3 swarms in 5 mins on stage 5 lmao

[nova tundra]

I think we had like 300 or so nitra left over when we finished

[crystal rampart]

yo

i reached level 25 on my gunner
i still cant promote him 😦

[unique stream]

hi

if my dwarves are silver 1 star, 1 star, 1 star and 2 stars, how long will it take for me to reach all 4 gold

[exotic belfry]

Whats your playtime so far?

[unique stream]

307hrs

wait i'm not in general

sorry

[exotic belfry]

Silver 1 is 4 promotions, and Silver 2 is 5. Meaning you have 4 * 3 + 5 = 17 promotions. Dividing your playtime by that number gets your average hours to promotion, 307 / 17 = ~18

Gold 1 is 7 promotions, or 28 total for all 4 classes. Subtracting your current promotions total from the goal you see how many more you need, 28 - 17 = 11.

11 times 18 is ~198 hours.

So assuming you have a similar playstyle until you reach your goal, it should take you a bit under 200 hours.

[unique stream]

man

i just want my achievement

[sonic wing]

Im at silver 3 all at around 460hours

[unique stream]

oh my god

xp gain is so slow tbh

[sonic wing]

If promos are your game farm double xp missions if you haven't already

[unique stream]

yeah i am

[eager atlas]

if you really like the game you'll get it eventually

[raven carbon]

Do the promotion assignment then the memorial hall will allow you to buy the promotion

[vague lantern]

this week's edd was easy for a team that knows how to kill lots of bugs really fast

for anyone who isn't on a strong team it might feel like hell lol

[raven carbon]

EDDs like this have gotten easier since they added custom difficulty

[vague lantern]

custom difficulty?

[raven carbon]

After playing hazard 5+ with level 2 increased bugs 5.5 hazard doesn't feel so bad

Unless it's shield disruption on stage 3

[vague lantern]

you have a point, haz 5+ makes most edd's seem easy by comparison

[vague lantern]

meanwhile me casually accruing more than 2x the kills of a 550 kill sticky fuel driller

idk if it was easy because of my hyper optimized build or the team just being really good

[raven carbon]

With engineer?

[vague lantern]

yup

[raven carbon]

Sticky fuel driller and engineer with ssg and gemini turrets match each other in kills

[vague lantern]

i know right

sticky fuel is amazing

somehow, whatever tf i was doing really worked

[raven carbon]

I had a game last week with double bugs swarmageddon and golden bugs with sticky fuel driller

It was glorious

Piles of gold left behind once the flames die down

[vague lantern]

swarmageddon haz 5 escort golden bugs is the dream

a literal rain of gold to walk back and collect in between drilling phases

[raven carbon]

Golden rain once the heartstone fight is concluded too

[vague lantern]

yeah

lmfao by the final phase, the ground is covered in gold if your team is too busy to deposit it

[raven carbon]

And it's nice to have molly

Point extraction golden bugs is a waste since there's barely time to make the trips

Even though lots of kills

[tame vector]

does someone have a build for flamethrower with scorching tide overclock and colette cooker?

[exotic belfry]

For Scorching Tide I run 23231, then for CWC you can run something like 222x3 Diffusion Ray.

[main topaz]

damn you just typed the same build i was gonna drop

[exotic belfry]

lol

[main topaz]

worth mentioning that the burst you get from cooker is also given by tide so might as well slam the epc on or go for a standalone cooker dmg build with 221x2 blistering/mps/diff

[waxen heron]

The dive is deep with this one

[mossy patio]

im at diamond all at 900

[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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[timber flicker]

That's interesting to know. I've reached all Silver at 240 hours. Now that I have no assignments left I do look for xp modifiers first if non exist I go with whatever

It's kinda sad. I wish there were more assignments. Even with little to no rewards, it feels nice to complete stuff.

[raven carbon]

Do the daily assignments on the season terminal

Completing all 5 season passes is a long reward hunt

[timber flicker]

They're always on timer on mine cuz they usually take 2-3 missions

[raven carbon]

You can change seasons

The timers for each mission in each season are separate

Lots of options

[timber flicker]

Wait a minute that's genius!

I'll do both S3 & S4 together

[raven carbon]

You can even do all 5 together that's a lot of missions

I recommend doing different themed seasons together for variety

3 and 4 are fairly similar so are 1 and 2

So you can do 3 and 1 for example

One rockpox and one robot

[timber flicker]

Yeah I finished 1&2 already so doing 3&4 together would be fine it'll be like a very long season with the same theme

[misty quail]

why does no one do deep dives

[novel shale]

less than a day until they reset, most people have probably done them already

[coral tangle]

i failed edd at last stage extraction

and it was my first one

[misty quail]

ive checked everyday since the 2nd day and no public lobbies. i hosted aswell and only on 1 day did a single person join then leave

[novel shale]

skill issue ig

[misty quail]

these damm intergalactic goats, not wanting to play deep dives

[timber flicker]

There will be lobbies last day

Lots of lobbies on first day and last days it feels like

[vague lantern]

there'll be plenty of last minute deep divers later today

[crisp hearth]

anyone trying to do the elite deep dive?

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[gusty tinsel]

What’s the best class in your guys opinion to go as on solo deep dives?

[fresh robin]

Oh boi, I wonder what the next EDD will be

[inner flint]

gunner or engi probably

[raven carbon]

Check your range, it's not possible to have no lobbies for the entire week

Thursday to Sunday has the maximum lobbies

There's a bug sometimes you need to change range, refresh, go back to previous range, and refresh again

Then the lobbies will be visible

[raven carbon]

Gunner as all rounder

[silver shore]

personal opinion, if you're going in without any knowledge of what you're going to face in the deep dive, driller is great cuz of the utilities, you have enough cc with your primary and some great secondary options for single target (i like taking axes as throwables for singles as well), c4s for the occasional utility and crowd clearing, drills are great for traversal, mining, and an extra weapon if needed (picking up vampire as a perk here would be great to get some health back)

i usually like primaries with overclocks for both single target and cc, like the sludge pump with sludge blast, or flamethrower with scorching tide

but going with any class you feel good playing is great too, have fun while you're at it, making and testing builds is part of the enjoyment

[raven carbon]

That's also a good argument

Solo scout edd is hardest imo

Depends on mission luck

If you get area defence objectives then it's really bad

[silver shore]

or liquid morkite, the terrain might screw with you without engie or driller

[raven carbon]

Yes

Pickaxing through 50m Rock in magma core

[silver shore]

it'll be faster for me to just abort and change to another class at that point

[vague lantern]

you'd think that good game design requires there to always be a direct path to every pumpjack, but the caves of hoxxes aren't always so kind

[jovial light]

edd went well

the elite guards on 5.5 are total bastards tho

[raven carbon]

Eh I like the creativity needed sometimes with a non driller team

[vague lantern]

driller is definitely one of the top classes to bring in terms of utility, along with scout. the combat capability of a scout/driller duo is slightly questionable but at least the objective is 100% going to get done fast lol

[polar vessel]

what's a deepdive ? never played it

and i play as a gunner, viable?

[timber flicker]

Deep dives are 3 consecutive dives that are accessible to at least once promoted dwarves.

[polar vessel]

and what do i get from them? i got gunner promotion 2 but never went for a deep dive

[timber flicker]

1st stage gives you a blank core, 2nd stage a weapon overclock, 3rd gives you a cosmetic core. So even if you couldn't survive all 3 stages you still keep the rewards of the ones you did.

[polar vessel]

nice, thanks

and a diff between normal and elite?

[burnt sandal]

difficulty

[timber flicker]

Normal Deep Dive (DD) has a difficulty level between Hazard 3-3.5, Elite Deep Dive (EDD) has Hazard 4.5 to 5.5 (according to wiki)

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[sour oak]

WHAT IS IT I NEED TO KNOW

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 October 31 to 2024 November 07 (Week 267)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1730977200:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: First Hand
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Lethal Enemies
Stage 2: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + Black Box | Volatile Guts Regenerative Bugs

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Absolute Hook
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + 150 Morkite | Parasites
Stage 2: 250 Morkite + Hiveguard | Low Oxygen
Stage 3: 7 Aquarqs + Liquid Morkite Well | Elite Threat

[nova tundra]

Morkite mission with low oxygen + dread

[drifting tinsel]

daylight savings is happening in my timezone this week, so i am (once again) concerned that i may have the wrong timestamp. if someone wants to double-check, i would appreciate it

[zenith ember]

EDD is correct

[mellow cradle]

the timestamp says November 7, 2024 12:00 PM for me, but daylight savings just happened to me this week, so maybe wait for some more responses

[nova tundra]

the edd was easy af

last stage 2 bulks was fun too

[zenith ember]

all info is correct, ty for your work

[raven carbon]

Both the deep dives are very easy and quick

[raven carbon]

It has moved ahead by an hour for me from last week

No daylight savings in my country it had moved back by an hour last week and now back to regular time

[raven carbon]

Dread is in the first room no issues

[nova tundra]

Yep was very easy edd

[cold kindle]

At least not 10 aquarqs

[alpine sparrow]

Bruh is it normal theres players with 1k player level?

[lunar path]

no, that person probably only lives on DRG
@alpine sparrow

[alpine sparrow]

Makes sense

[novel shale]

yea
wait until you start seeing the guys with 3k+, those beards are so white they've started producing light on their own

[alpine sparrow]

They became one with the rock and stone

[muted portal]

dang 2 bulks resped on my normal deep five in first stage xddd

[misty quail]

why dont oce players play deep dives 😭

[old widget]

A crude rule of thumb is about 1 blue player level every 2 hours played, at least for players that end up playing at haz4 or higher. So yeah, for as long as DRG has been out, there's plenty of players out there with 2000+ hours in the game

[silver shore]

1 or 2 weeks ago, there was a deep dive with haunted caves on the 2nd stage, had to deal with 2 bulks and a horror

[muted portal]

dang

thats suck

[burnt sandal]

yes

[raven carbon]

What is oce players?

[next pebble]

oceania

[raven carbon]

Oh ok

You can increase the search radius

Tbh even 200 ping is playable

250 above is where it gets noticeably bad

But not completely unplayable

More than 350 or so starts becoming unplayable

[misty quail]

200 ping on a swarmageddon elite deep dive is crazy

[alpine sparrow]

Screw it we keep it pushin

[raven carbon]

Not really I've played it

Also because I don't get enough players in my region to get ping below 50 or 100

I have played on 500 too and that is like an added hazard level. Sometimes you drop dead for no reason or a projectile magically appears out of nowhere.

[zenith ember]

200+ is p bad on scout

you just go splat randomly and die

[novel shale]

ive played on ~1200 before when my internet company was doing maintenance, that hit different

you essentially become engineer sentry gun

otherwise you get extendo armed from across the observable universe

[raven carbon]

Yeah for grappling it is tricky

[raven carbon]

1200 is chess at this point, you make a move and then wait for things to happen

[timber flicker]

I played with 190 or so couple of times tbh not that bad but the jitter is the real killer

Sometimes it shoots up to 300-400 at the bad time and you're cooked