deep-dive-discussion

[mystic horizon]

eggs and d&c

[narrow oak]

i just saw that the elite deep dive title is " the walls have eyes...!' I am scared

[candid yoke]

youll be fine

its not that bad

[mystic horizon]

hiveguard with shield disrupt

sounds fun

[restive harness]

Wall eyes literally do nothing

They only exist as props n shit

[eager atlas]

the flavour text is for the biome

[humble reef]

man im so annoyed rn, got kicked from an edd for saying ill double dip? meanwhile the host has shot me from full health twice already

and fighting duck and cover from one dwarf wide/tall diagonal tunnels

almost no communication at all when i explicitly make call outs (r, don't fight in the tunnel, have iw)

don't think im going to even bother joining people anymore for edd, such a sucky experience

there was no warning or sense of hostility prior

[raven carbon]

If there's not much response in the lobby before starting edd it's better to leave

Since you aren't joining edd midgame

[humble reef]

yeah ill try to do that first next time, it just felt ironic for someone that i recognized their name from previous games

#deep-dive-speedrunning message already just died another EDD and while my team was weaker skill-wise (gunner left during duck and cover stage), they were a lot more communicative and just more positive in general

did*

already enjoyed that game far more, unironically

[raven carbon]

Good communication multiplies the team level

As much as bad communication tanks it

[exotic belfry]

@vague lantern Here are the updated and accurate DPS values with the info Tanmar found.

Lok ERoF stats
Assuming 27 base damage, a 40% damage bonus, and hitting a x1 weakpoint.

Base Lok's ERoF at ~5.77 with T4A for 218 DPS
12 / ( (0.095 x 0.85 x 12) + 0.45 + (11 x 0.06) )
Base Lok's ERoF at ~5.66 with T4B for 213 DPS
18 / ( (0.095 x 18) + 0.45 + (17 x 0.06) )

Exe's ERoF with T4A ~6.7 for 380 DPS
8 / ( (0.095 x 0.85 x 0.5 x 8) + 0.45 + (7 x 0.06) )
Exe's ERoF with T4A ~7.1 for 405 DPS
12 / ( (0.095 x 0.5 x 12) + 0.45 + (11 x 0.06) )

For SMRT that puts it's ERoF with T4A at 6.29 for 237 DPS.
2 / ( (0.095 x 0.05 x 0.85 x 2) + 0.25 + 0.06 )
For SMRT that puts it's ERoF with T4B at 6.69 for 252 DPS.
4 / ( (0.095 x 0.05 x 4) + 0.25 + 0.149 + (3 x 0.06) )

[errant dagger]

i see the mission control relly likes duck and cover

[final urchin]

Matera Plague ❎
Ranged Enemies Plague ✅

[distant cave]

Acid spitters and trijaws are the bane of my existence

[tepid hamlet]

Acid spitters casually taking your entire shields and 1/3 of your health in 1 shot from some hidey hole on the ceiling 40m away

[mystic horizon]

ya'll said this wasn't that bad

this is horrid

some of the worst ass beating i've had since that one duck and cover dotty edd

[blissful breach]

gonna take SCC and BP on scout for DD, what are my chances?

[safe leaf]

EDD or regular DD?

[blissful breach]

DDP

DD*

ddp lol

[weak siren]

I wonder what that stands for

[summer idol]

whats the elite deep dive this week

[vague lantern]

interesting...

[distant cave]

Ass

[pliant nymph]

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[narrow oak]

the edd wasnt bad at all but to be fair i was in a pretty good tem

[mystic horizon]

my team had it rough

[frank escarp]

Shield disruption combined with hiveguard can be quite punishing and duck and cover is always a rough path but nothing too crazy

If you can get past the second stage then you're able to get past the third

Did anyone else get two bulks after killing the hiveguard in first stage

[final urchin]

nope

[autumn fractal]

LF one driller for deep dive normal

server up

[exotic belfry]

#lfg-steam / #lfg-xbox-microsoft / #lfg-playstation

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[weary walrus]

Snitches get stitches

[grizzled hill]

anybody wanna deep rive with me rn?

[humble sage]

edd was not 'easy' but went relatively smoothly. We did quite well on stage 2, solid team, and I threw down shields preemptively as the waves of 1700 mactera came in.

I think we had like a 6-minute long wave of flyers though, just constant bugs for our first two eggs 😂

[azure night]

I got a bulk in the first stage immediately after I broke open the dreadnought cocoon. So I fought a det and a dread at the same time.

[chilly shore]

optimal, use bulk to blow up the dread

[azure night]

Didn’t work, bulk did zero damage to the dread when it blew

Besides, the way dread damage works it wouldn’t have helped much anyway

Because it would’ve just burst all the hiveguard weakpoints

[candid yoke]

you can one shot dreadnoughts with a bulk detonator's death explosion if its healthbar is open

[trim crescent]

not relevant this week but caretaker explosion also works

[jolly herald]

probably one of the most satisfying things in game, using caretaker to kill both twins at the same time

[past geyser]

We played the slow game and had our driller tunnel to every egg individually.
I also panicked during a drop pod run and accidentally called supply pod when I meant to put down a shield. I was so scared I screwed us over, but we pulled through. 🥲

[humble sage]

Omg ive definitely done that at least twice!

[humble reef]

was that S02 with duck and cover, i recall using one of the tunnels as a hold, covering the back with plats (place from the top to bottom to save plats) for each egg

basically meant turrets/gunner/engi roll controll/scout grenades are a lot more usable and crowd control effective against them

also roofed the tops/sides of the tunnel opening to make sure enemies come through the standing ground

having no stun or cover to block LOS is painful for sure

*using repellant additive on plats, forgot some engis don't use that mod still, but optional if you don't roof

[mental rampart]

I've definitely had a Hiveguard tank a Bulk's explosion before

healthbar was open

I think it was EDD, like stage 2 or 3, with 4 players

took like a third of its health

[mellow cradle]

it must have been on like the very edge of the blast

because the explosion damage ramps down on the span of from 4 meters (max damage) to 8 meters (minimum damage) from 68 000 damage to 68 damage on haz 5 4 players

[jolly herald]

we did this strat, made it very comfy

pulled 3 x eggs, didnt get a swarm

pulled another 3x eggs, got a swarm

meant we had about 8 resupply pods available for stage 3

stage 1 was actually hardest of the 3 tbh, shield disrup hiveguard is spicy and we got a bulk in final morkite room swarm

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[cold kindle]

Management,listen

If next deep dive set is
DD
Duck and cover
Duck and cover
EDD
Duck and cover
Duck and cover
Any awful warning,smth like haunted cave/shield disruption
Then i'll drink 10 blackout stouts at once

And tip lloyd until i ran out of credits

[lyric harbor]

cant wait for haunted cave in rival mission

[whole frigate]

Management: "We have heard your feedback and due to the overwhelming positivity, we will be seeking more D&C caves for deep dives from here on out. Thank you for the feedback and good luck out there. Rock and Stone "

[tepid hamlet]

"We managed to find caves with even less grunts and praetorians than usual!"

"Luckily, those have been replaced with 5x the amount of spitters and spreaders!"

[worthy snow]

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[robust nexus]

Oh right it's today

[errant dagger]

bruhhh i missed this weeks dd cuz my bro didnt get on

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[royal spoke]

Please don't be d&c

[exotic belfry]

God I hope it’s D&C

[thick edge]

bro is roleplaying the devil

[royal spoke]

If it's on stage 1 or 2 I can handle it but PLEASE DONT BE ON STAGE 3.

[exotic belfry]

Stage 3 D&C after 2 nitra starved stages would be divine

[novel epoch]

plot twist all of the stages have duck and cover

[thick edge]

hell

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 December 19 to 2024 December 26 (Week 274)
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DEEP DIVE
Region: Magma Core | Code Name: Murderous Carve
Stage 1: 7 Aquarqs + Classic | Volatile Guts Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + Black Box | No Mutator
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Twins & Hiveguard) + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Shield Disruption

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Scarred Heart
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + 150 Morkite | Rich Atmosphere
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + Hiveguard | Parasites
Stage 3: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 150 Morkite | Rival Presence

[thick edge]

eh not so bad

[exotic belfry]

Whooo, another D&C DD

[thick edge]

stage one of the dd

[drifting tinsel]

may none of us have triple nemesis spawns during salvage 🙏

[thick edge]

lmao

[exotic belfry]

Exactly, hopefully everyone gets at least 4, preferably 5.

[novel epoch]

dwarves gaining shrimp posture with how much ducking and covering they've been having us do every week

[weak siren]

🥹

so much... d&c

[thick edge]

man wth

why is bro so mischievous

[weak siren]

fucked up and evil

[thick edge]

bro wants chaos

[fervent sand]

shield disruption..............

[vocal maple]

yeah but its just in regular dd

[fervent sand]

nah im not playing this alone 😭

[fervent sand]

yea elite is impossible for me alone xd

i did only once

guh

[vocal maple]

no need to do it alone

Its much more enjoyable in groups

I dont enjoy drg alone personally

[fervent sand]

hm well i didnt play with public ever before lol

[thick edge]

doesn't have to be public

play with people from here

[candid yoke]

how do nemesis spawns with rival presence work? is it just random chance every rival wave?

[zenith ember]

Higher chances, can appear during swarms

Idk if it replaces bulk tho

[candid yoke]

when do they spawn in the first place?

[zenith ember]

As early as the moment of landing

[candid yoke]

but thats all missions no? what about rival presence missions mid mission

[thick edge]

not all missions

i don't remember nemesis spawning outside of rival presence or sabo

[zenith ember]

Anything that spawns in a swarm? So in this week everytime you touch a mini mule or chance when breaking out a leg

[candid yoke]

theres a random chance at the start of a mission for a nemesis to be part of the cave, like how a breeder would be placed for example

[thick edge]

hm

[zenith ember]

Ye nemesis can generate alongside cave regardless

[candid yoke]

the chance is higher in s1 and s2

the chance is much lower outside of those seasons, like 1-2% or something

[zenith ember]

"Nemesis is added to the spawn pool of Rival Presence missions, and can spawn like any enemy." From wiki

[candid yoke]

ty

[cold kindle]

These warnings

Sucks

I'm glad that it's DD

Duck and cover curse still haunts us...

EDD is fine i guess

Rival presence salvage could be spicy cuz nemmy during upling but just bring driller with scorching tide or be lucky enough

[marsh sonnet]

The EDD this time wasn’t too challenging, but in my opinion, the biggest villain was the positioning of the Morkite wells. They were placed really high up, and since I played solo as an Engineer, I spent a lot of time setting up the pipes. The second mission was very easy, nothing much to comment on, and the third mission was the same. Nitra, as usual, wasn’t an issue, but I think that with a full team, the first mission might be on the edge of being manageable. If anyone wants to check out my run, I posted it on the #drg-videos channel.

[tall relic]

Oh this EDD looks fun

[humble reef]

where's the duck and cover this edd

refining and salvage (with uplink) sound pretty fun tho but rivals are tough

[royal spoke]

Kinda difficult stage even though it doesn't have d&c

[cold kindle]

Conductive thermals + jumbo shells time

Or explosive goo + burning nightmare

Or scorching tide

[torn escarp]

What are the missions?

[marsh sonnet]

It's on the thumbnail of my video, hehe.

or here #deep-dive-discussion message

[torn escarp]

Is the first one say no resupply as a modifier?

[marsh sonnet]

no ressuply as a modifier?

[torn escarp]

Why does the normal dive look harder than the elite?

Shield disruption oof

[humble reef]

eugh shield disruption with dreadnoughts, damn

[tiny dagger]

ehh atleast it's not a double warning

[pliant nymph]

Or an elite threat with mactera plague, elite grabbers scare me.

[feral stream]

[proud zealot]

Is some1 gonna pin this?

[exotic belfry]

Already is lol

[boreal portal]

anyone up for a deep dive ?

[safe lily]

Sure

[boreal portal]

join vc

[safe lily]

Let me finish this mission

[boreal portal]

epic

[safe lily]

Just realized we are on different platforms

[boreal portal]

beuh

[pliant nymph]

Stage 1 of DD had some interesting aquarq hiding places

[safe lily]

I agree, some pretty sneaky spots

It was very fun with gunner zips

[cold kindle]

Double warning is impossible in deep dives

Sadly...Or maybe not

Haunted cave + low oxygen on-site refining would be mad funny stage in EDD

[royal spoke]

Low oxygen + d&c

[tepid hamlet]

Can haunted cave roll with objectives where you have to stay in 1 spot

like mini mule salvage

Cuz that would be horrifying

[mellow cradle]

no

[pliant nymph]

IIRC escort and salvage operations can’t be haunted

[mellow cradle]

nor can any mission with a black box

[distant cave]

Thank Karl for that

[cold kindle]

Nope

As wiki says

"haunted cave cannot appear on: escort duty,industrial sabo,salvage operation,deep scan or when 2ndary objecitve of dd/edd is black box"

[chilly shore]

there should be an assignment that allows you to unlock the haunted modifier on stationary objective missions for a thicc bonus payout

[iron cedar]

the elite deep dive was hell like at 3 am #drg-gallery message

[wide sedge]

#drg-gallery message

[iron cedar]

3 am brain be like

[torpid bronze]

yo how tf do u stage 1 on the elite deep dive

[delicate coyote]

what exactly is deep dive?

[vestal sapphire]

3 missions back to back with 2 primary objectives each instead of a secondary. resources carry over between them. You get a blank core, an overclock, and a cosmetic from doing them

[delicate coyote]

ty!

[hollow cairn]

That would be one hell of an interesting modifier

[iron cedar]

We just built pipes, it took us around 45 mins(the holes on the map made me hate azure wealds, like we got done like 8 times )

[past geyser]

Both dives were easy this week, though I had good teams

[mystic horizon]

what in god's name is this stage 1 on EDD

scout and gunner abandoned the team

lovely

[mystic horizon]

quite rough without a scout and gunner jeez

[proud zealot]

When your survivability leaves

[humble reef]

we did uh four gunners this edd and got through it

it was interesting to say at the least

[royal spoke]

We did two scouts :) Pheromone nade galore. If one teammate died and got crowded, the other one just yoinked a phero in there and revived

[iron cedar]

We did one gunner and one driller(i should have gone engineer), real pain, 1st stage took us 45mins and 10 something downs(for both)

[winged grotto]

jeez, first stage of the EDD was rough as solo engie. that cave gen should be a crime

[dawn flax]

My first attempt at a EDD went well until we were on the last stage with our gunner having the most dramatic last stand ever, until he fell off a cliff.

[void quiver]

Is the EDD this week difficult?

[steady stream]

we took our friend for his ever first normal deep dive ever

and we got a random dreadnought spawn in mission 2

lmfao

what an introduction to dives

[void quiver]

Do EDDs have a chance to give a clean overclock

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[humble reef]

found it easier as engi at least with repellant plats and being able to quickly build refinery pipes

[vestal sapphire]

Yeah? Its completely random

[torn escarp]

What's the EDD rundown?

[wraith shard]

I got 24 revives as gunner, last stage spawned 2 bulks and 1 nem, fun

[raven carbon]

Yes

[void quiver]

Ik it's random, but I just thought since EDDs are pretty challenging they would rather reward you with unstable or balanced overclocks

[pliant nymph]

Ok then it’s part of the seed of the map, as it happened to me after killing the missions dreadnought.

[cold kindle]

I took one shot nemesis build (conductive thermals + jumbo shells) on scout and guess what?0 nemesis spawned during 3rd stage!

At least i paired well with our driller

Driller took cryo

We cooked dreadnought on stage 2 under 1 minute

Okay not under 1 minute but that was really fast

[summer prairie]

just failed stage 3 because our scout decided to split off and ran into the cave with 50 turrets

gotta love it

[cold kindle]

💀

Damn that sucks

[dawn flax]

Well he was doing scouting, scouting heaven.

[final urchin]

This week's edd is fine

other than the lobby I joined in

[cold kindle]

Agree

I thought 3rd stage would be bloody hell but actually that was pretty calm

Parasites did nothing on stage 2

And stage 1 wells placement SUCKS but driller and engie doing business

[final urchin]

The only issue is that someone else is driller and he did a shitty job, on the last stage he made a suicide bunker for the box, then a Nemesis spawned and ruined most of it

And he ask me to cover up the hole while he already started the box

Dude, that's a crater sized hole

[ancient lily]

I and another almost duo'd the entire thing. Got overran at the end sadly, mostly bad luck and some bad play. had a full lobby but 2 dropped out for this or that

Still wanna finish it if anybody wants to run it

[wraith shard]

I got unlucky, loud 3rd stage, lots of downs but none from me fortunately

[final urchin]

Only if the region allows, in in South East Asia

[ancient lily]

Oof

west coast murica

[final urchin]

Damn

I just need someone to play with cause I'm ready to carry as a driller

[ancient lily]

I mostly play scout, driller as a secondary. Do not ask me to play gunner or engi I am not smort with em

[wraith shard]

Oh I just finished mine from same area darn

Was playing at like 12am

[final urchin]

We are close then

At least in the same timezone

[wraith shard]

Game was determined to kill our team but I managed to pull through as gunner, 2 bulks and nem spawned, ended up with an insane amount of kills and revives

Lead burster my beloved

[ancient lily]

Going on a far region for it regardless. Wish me luck lmao

[ancient lily]

It went terribly

I am not a good gunner unless you count heat management of the leadstorm. I am very good at that

[dry parrot]

Anyone wanna run a deep dive?

[frank escarp]

Elite deep dive was fine but first stage had some wonky map generation for a morkite refinery

[jade vale]

Someone lookin for some jolly christmas elite deep dive?

[icy karma]

To anyone planning on doing a solo elite deep dive, be warned about the cave leeches on the third stage

[cold kindle]

True

[glacial sparrow]

what class would you guys recommend for a solo regular deep dive this week

[exotic belfry]

Lots of Dreads and a black Box, I would recommend Gunner with a high DPS primary. Maybe LSLS, PBM, or BB

Aquarq could be a bit of a pain as gunner, but you have bosco to get the high up ones so you should be fine.

[ancient lily]

Rare Bosco W

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[ancient lily]

I hate egg missions in depe dives

because you know either the scout or drilelr is gonna go off telling nobody and pop all of em in a minute leaving you and everyone else to die

elite deep dive this happened in

[ancient lily]

Won it regardless, now to find out what happens when it gives me a weapon oc I already have.

[pliant nymph]

As long as 1 dwarf makes it to the pod, the mission can go ahead.

[ancient lily]

Doesn't matter when we all went down twice because of the idiot driller

[pliant nymph]

Sometimes it can save quite a bit of nitra on resupplying if you skip the swarms from egg collecting.

[ancient lily]

if that's the plan

fucking communicate it

don't assume

It is literally that simple

We used way more nitra trying to survive than we would've if we took it slow

[pliant nymph]

Don’t play with people you don’t know or trust then, EDD need team cooperation and communication.

[ancient lily]

I've never had issues in DD or EDD with team com until then, and I damn near exclusively play with pubs

So you're really making a terrible arguement

[pliant nymph]

Sometimes yourself and Bosco is all you need

[ancient lily]

I'd rather not commit the cbt of solo

[pliant nymph]

Am I? what you said before is the best point in my point, rogue drillers on high hazard egg missions will get everyone killed.

[ancient lily]

Considering I've ran quite a few and this is the first time some idiot decides to go throw the mission like that, yeah. Didn't ream the guy hard enough in chat but I think they learned from almost singlehandedly killing the run

[pliant nymph]

Anyway merry Yuletide Day

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[ancient lily]

Yeh

[dreamy gate]

Nobodys talked here for 6 hours

Yes

[novel shale]

erm ackshually if you look at the times it was 5 hours and 57 minutes not 6 hours

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[humble sage]

just did the elite. I think this is the first time I've deemed the edd "unfun". The first and third levels were just massive eyerolls and it felt like a waste of 40 minutes

I think stage 2 was fun though 🤔 that was the egg hunt right?

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Weekly Deep Dives information for 2024 December 26 to 2025 January 02 (Week 275)
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DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Bitter Heart
Stage 1: Escort Duty + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 2: 2 Dreadnoughts (Classic & Hiveguard) + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Mactera Plague
Stage 3: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Eggs | No Mutator

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Frightened Force
Stage 1: 5 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 2 Eggs | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Shield Disruption
Stage 3: Escort Duty + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Volatile Guts

[steady stream]

no 🦆

[thick edge]

hell yes no duck & cover

[drifting tinsel]

mactera plague is diet duck and cover but it's regular DD so it should be fine

[thick edge]

i used to pray for edds like this

escord stage 3 looks yummy

[mystic horizon]

volatile with dotty?

[thick edge]

other than spreaders and acid spitters sniping our asses, volatile should make it very easy to deal with swarms

[drifting tinsel]

juicy breach cutter shots inbound

i think this is our first dive with five resonance scans instead of three -- let's hope the cave isn't too convoluted

[fervent sand]

just why

[thick edge]

its fine tbh

its not like its a full mule mission

just 2 mules

[fervent sand]

yea

it also put two of my most hated mutators swarm and shield disruption ughhh

[drifting tinsel]

hey it's not haunted cave

[fervent sand]

hm?

[thick edge]

swarmageddon is so ass but at least its just stage 1

shield disruption on stage 2 is also terrible

[fervent sand]

definitely

[zenith ember]

looks like a easy edd this week

[patent elk]

No duck and cover

How will I ever recover

Just when it's been starting to feel like my brother

[thick edge]

that kinda rhymed what

[cold kindle]

Am i sleeping?

No duck and cover?

God bless

[cold kindle]

Looks like HELLUVA teams failed previous deep dives

Cuz look how many mini-mules salvage present in current deep dives

2 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 2

ELEVEN! MINI-MULES

EDD stage 1 is only stage without mini-mules

Well looks like we won't be low on nitra

[drifting tinsel]

our previous crews lost their mini-mules, their mini-mules, their mini-mules, their mini-mules, and their lives

[burnt sandal]

all the mini mules !

@grave jacinth sounds like a fun dive

[grave jacinth]

https://tenor.com/view/its-been84years-titanic-rose-dawson-gif-5372593

Time to dust off the dive terminal

[buoyant gulch]

DAMN HOW MANY MINI MULES DID YOU LOSE DOWN HERE DRG?

[final urchin]

God that's lots of baby molly

[zenith pulsar]

Deep dive be like:
Stage 1 – Repair 2 mini-mules
Stage 2 – Repair another 2 mini-mules
Stage 3 – Repair 3 more mini-mules and evacuate them all

it's just Deep Salvage Operation.

[cold kindle]

Ha-ha look! It's tiny!

I found a mini-mule!

Mini-mule has seen better days!

[silver dust]

Imagine if the mini mules carried over between stages

[raven abyss]

What if you could deposit in the Mini Mules?

[cold kindle]

Probably you would die like previous teams

Why previous teams died?They had personal mini-mules

They decided to split

And died one by one

[raven carbon]

Actually a good point

The same pod takes us further down

In deep dives

So where do the docked mini mules go

The drop pod can't carry so many at once

No space in the docking bay for molly and so many minis

[plain matrix]

No duck and cover

Very happy.

[hollow cairn]

Am i the only one who thought that the cave layout on the second layer of the normal DD was absolutely fucking shit to deal with

[humble sage]

I'm reading this in george carlin's voice. "mules, mini mules, many mules, many mini mules, ..." 😂

Edd was approx 12x easier than last week , I'm so happy

Still hard, but fun

[raven carbon]

The edd stage with five scanners was also bad

Five is a lot for an edd in the first place

And it was a very big cave

[torn escarp]

How are the deep dives? What should I know/consider?

[chilly shore]

they are just multiple missions in a row but with no side events. there is a more detailed description pinned

[eager atlas]

whre do the jetboots go, you were wearing them

[graceful rock]

if anyone needs help for EDD msg me, EU region

[raven carbon]

Fuel finishes I would assume

[cold kindle]

Btw

There's jet boots on edd stage 2

But we found crate at the very end of the mission

Jet boots has very tricky spot

[raven carbon]

Yes it's mostly useless

[plain matrix]

Did the deep dive and EDD last night.

4 bulk detonators in total.

Had a leaver on the last stage of the elite.

But me and my boys won and owned that shit.

[sand juniper]

I had a lea(f lo)ver on the last stage of the regular dive. Their loss.

[manic pivot]

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

does anybody have a spreadsheet of a good rotary drive and bullet hell gunner build?

[humble reef]

what's your goal with the build?

like what would driller be running? i find i pick gunner builds usually based on what primary they have

[sacred fiber]

I only play vanilla difficulties and mostly the driller im playing with is using flame thrower

right now I have the OC i have for the Powered Minigun are Lead Storm, Rotary Overdrive, Exhaust Vectoring and Bullet Hell.

right now im running rotary overdrive 32221 idk if thats good or not.

[next blaze]

honestly, that sounds completely fine

[sacred fiber]

also any tips to not use ammo quickly? i tend to use a lot of ammo in a fight and i wont be able to last long enough for most swarms

[next blaze]

and it's about the most interesting thing you can do with exhaust vectoring too, since you can overheat really fast to trigger the aoe burn + fear

[raven carbon]

Personal preference but I feel like hot bullets has more utility over aggressive venting in tier 5 but otherwise fine

[raven carbon]

The secondary should not be used for the primary's purpose and vice versa

[next blaze]

mmm that does seem to be its big downside though - if you aren't using the overheat for taking out crowds and instead trying to gun them all down individually, you're basically functioning with base minigun efficiency which isn't fantastic for that purpose

[sacred fiber]

should i use it with volatile impact?

[pliant nymph]

Isn’t this the deep dive discussion channel lol?

[sacred fiber]

ogey no more questions then 😁

[raven carbon]

You can continue on #drg-chat

[empty geyser]

Can someone enlighten me

Why did I get shot down and killed multiple times whenever I tried to mine gold, or summon a supply pod when I was out, and there were no more supply pods

"Mining gold is a waste of time" So? There weren't any glyphids, why not mine stuff in the downtime?

[mellow cradle]

because swarms and pressure waves are on a timer
still, kinda not nice of them to outright kill you, but that was probably their motivation

[empty geyser]

It wasn't even an elite

I only took damage from my own team

[mellow cradle]

oh

[empty geyser]

tbf, the driller helped me up every single time, and he never shot me

mostly just the scout and engi

[mellow cradle]

well, that's even more of a reason to laugh at the people who cared about losing time to mining gold on a normal deep dive

[empty geyser]

I like mining gold

and rare mineral

[mellow cradle]

well, the most important thing is so that everyone in the lobby is transparent about their wants and needs

if the lobby is transparent that they just want to go fast and not care about the gold, you might want to make some compromises for them, or find a different lobby if you can't get along

if that isn't announced, do what you like

[empty geyser]

There was no announcement, they said nothing, we arrived, I began mining the first room, and they started shooting me without warning

then I was out a few swarms later, called down a resupply, and they shot me dead

So I just

left

Go fuck yourself

OH YEAH! They also shot me for wanting to save Doretta's head!

[mellow cradle]

no mention of it in lobby name?

[empty geyser]

It was in russian

So

I had no idea what it said

[mellow cradle]

I see

[empty geyser]

At least I think it was russian

[mellow cradle]

that might have been a problem

[empty geyser]

Eh, whatever, I'm taking a break, I am just genuinely disappointed right now

and tilted

[steady stream]

cowards, the lot of them

[ancient lily]

Anybody down to host a DD

[humble harbor]

I personally don't mine gold myself but anyone who tries to teamkill for that in my lobby is getting kicked immediately.

[dreamy gate]

where is the second mini mule in stage 1? just wanna make sure i dont miss it

i already gott he first one

[dreamy gate]

i beat stange 1 yippe

[pure fractal]

First time? Good luck

[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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[muted portal]

oh

SHIT

[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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[tacit iris]

Oh shit I forgot to do this one

Oh well

…why the hell does it have so many mini-mules?

[chilly shore]

meanwhile me doing it right now

[dawn otter]

Not many greenbeards survived In today's dives

[lime hollow]

I just did them solo this week. Mini-mules are such a relaxing ride to victory when multiple stages have them

Felt like Santa himself delivered this week of dives

[dawn otter]

Honestly the many mini mules were more so a blessing in disguise

Since you dont really have to worry about nitra

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[cold kindle]

New year,new deep dives

New duck and cover :)))

[sweet sedge]

more mini mules like last time

[teal river]

ARIES

ALLOW ME TO LOG ON FAST ENOUGH TO LOCK IN THE EDD

AND MY LIFE

IS YOURS

[manic pivot]

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

[teal river]

I did it in time >:3

Launching pod for previous edd now

[cold kindle]

Well well well

1st stage of edd looks ez

200 morkite blackbox exploduh infestation

1st stage of dd is literally the same 💀 but 225 morkite and cave leech cluster

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 January 02 to 2025 January 09 (Week 276)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1736420400:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Salt Pits | Code Name: Illuminated Level
Stage 1: 225 Morkite + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 2: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Black Box | No Mutator
Stage 3: 7 Aquarqs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Critical Weakness Shield Disruption

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Alien Trench
Stage 1: 200 Morkite + Black Box | Exploder Infestation
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator
Stage 3: On-Site Refining + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon

[cold kindle]

Let's goooooooo

NO DUCK AND COVER

[royal spoke]

These are actually easy as hell?

[drifting tinsel]

i don't want to celebrate no duck&cover for the first new dive of the year, but i also don't want to jinx it

[uneven mist]

Whenever I go to the join list on deep dive all options are always greyed out for me. Is it just because they're already started or smth? Sorry if this is obvs, I'm still relatively new to the game

[lapis eagle]

new dives are still waiting for molly?

says "new dives in -32:-56" for me 💀

[cold kindle]

Restart lobby

[lapis eagle]

i just started right now

tho will do, thanks

[drifting tinsel]

grey lobbies have already launched. i think they show up on the menu until extraction on stage one, but i'm not 100% confident on that

[zenith ember]

edd's p easy

[tacit iris]

Shield disruption’s a bummer but it does have crit weakness

Can live with that

[sharp cradle]

Pretty easy stuff this week

I had a greenbeard on my team for the EDD, bless his heart, he died 16 times

[fleet sand]

Hello everyone!

Are elite deep dives generally difficult?

[mellow cradle]

if you can clear haz 5's, it's easy
even if you play haz 4's, it should be manageable

the difficulty of it also depends on what mutators and mission types get chosen for a given week

[steady stream]

and how fucked up the cave generation is

[lime hollow]

16 is pretty good for a greenbeard EDD. I award them one gray hair

[teal river]

The first EDD I ever did remains to be my fav, Fragile Gods. That secnod stage forced you to really focus in

[white isle]

try changing the filter for distance and see if you get join-able lobbies appear, you can change it back after join-able lobbies start appearing

[pure fractal]

Any one need help whith current DD?

[uncut rain]

was playing dd as scout last night with some friends and i was exploring a side cave alone, got snatched by a leech, and something killed it immediately, although both my friends were in a different cave o_o

wish i was recording

[white isle]

is it possible that you threw a boomerang nade right before being grabbed? Possibly took out the leech after other targets? Just a stoner thought

[uncut rain]

no, i had cryo equipped i think

[next blaze]

I think they sometimes self-destruct if they can't bring you all the way to them

or maybe you tried to power attack right as it grabbed you, so it technically got you but died to that once it registered?

oooor maybe your gunner's a god who sniped it through the wall with the coil gun on seeing you get caught haha

[uncut rain]

oo that mightve been it

and no, we were in vc and neither of them realized it took me lol

[next blaze]

ye they sometimes play that capturing animation if they die right as they get someone, and they'll pop immediately after

[uncut rain]

thats good to know

i just pinned it on karl ngl

[next blaze]

maaaaaybe! don't trust me on it, but I swear it's happened in single player sometimes to me!

[chilly shore]

if a leech dies while trying to grab you, and you are not touching the ground at the time, theres a bug where the game thinks the leech must have already grabbed you so it teleports the tentacle onto your head and lowers you down to the ground

so if you were in midair while powerattacking it would have definitely happened

[next blaze]

ohhh that might have been it!

[uncut rain]

that makes the most sense, ty for letting me know !

[graceful rock]

does anyone need help with deep dive on EU?

[dawn otter]

I do need help on a ELITE deep dive on asia

[zenith ember]

i can help if u are still looking for players

[past geyser]

Can Scout do fine on this week’s elite or is it better that my gf go Engineer?

[next wraith]

We played the EDD yesterday and had a lot of Barrage Infectors (for example 3 in the first cave of the first mission and 4 in the cave of the second mission). When I played it again today they were not there. I'm confused; Aren't the EDD always the same?

[loud nimbus]

Is anyone having issues with the morkite seed scanner on the deep dive

its going to the wrong level

[old widget]

Did you have the same number of players? Player count does affect stationary spawns

[ivory marten]

Let's see...

Double Black Box. Yeesh

[alpine trail]

holy crap.
That Elite deep dive's 5.5er mission is insane

1231238721398712398 swarmers

[wicked schooner]

looking for deep dive group

[royal wasp]

just finished my first deep dive

it was really fun

[steady stream]

good job!

now do the elite one

[royal wasp]

cant

also no idea how

[steady stream]

huh

why can't

[royal wasp]

il check again

but when i tried before my first deep dive it didnt work

[steady stream]

didnt work as in, no people were playing?

[royal wasp]

i think i just needed to do my first regular one before the elite one

regardless i can now

[steady stream]

huh, odd

[royal wasp]

but its late and i got school tommorow so goodnight

[steady stream]

gn

[manic pivot]

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

[fresh glen]

any1 up for a dd?

[dreamy gate]

I would do a deep dive, but I would need a team to play one

[eager atlas]

but you don't

[pure fractal]

EDD looks fine to solo'd

[scarlet sand]

anyone for a deep dive?

[dim comet]

Anyone for a deep dive

[paper ingot]

sure @dim comet

[dim comet]

I think I’m the only open

And if you got anyone else to bring along all the better

[paper ingot]

@dim comet can't find you

[dim comet]

Check now

You got vioce chat?

[paper ingot]

ye

[dim comet]

Join pod 4

HAVING MIC PROBLEMS

[paper ingot]

@dim comet ty for dd

[dim comet]

👍

[dim comet]

Yo petri wanna be friends on discord

[lime hollow]

Got around to the EDD this week, super chill dive. Super glad I've been in a Breach Cutter mood lately. That plasma trail really cleaned house

If I could make one change to my loadout it would probably be taking LURE's or Plasma Bursters. The shredders get too overwhelmed with the exploders and swarmers.

[clever galleon]

How is Elite different compared to regular Deep Dive?

[mellow cradle]

the stages of an elite deep dive are hazards 4.5, 5, 5.5, as opposed to the regular dives hazard 3, 3.5, 3.5
also, the elite can have either 2 or 3 mutators across the stages, meanwhile the normal deep dive only ever has 2 mutators

this week, the EDD has 2 mutators though

[clever galleon]

Oh

Ok I might stick with regular then, I haven't done Haz 5

[mellow cradle]

if you can do haz 4, I would give the EDD a try

[clever galleon]

Ok

[clever galleon]

This Elite dive seems pretty hard, both times I've tried we died on the Black Box objective from septic spreaders and an Oppressor

With all the other bugs swarming we got trapped by the exploders

[clever galleon]

Okay I got an Elite Deep Dive but our Scout carried so hard. He was the last alive at least once every mission, and he was absolutely flying around with the grappling hook, knockback shotgun, and hover boots. He was also the only one to make it out during the last mission, after going back for me in the last minute. I couldn't make it to the zip I set up before the swarmers jumped me. The ship wouldn't take off because someone wouldn't use their Iron Will, but after the Scout got back it did since I think they had. So he basically clutched running to the pod twice in the same mission.

[mellow cradle]

nice

[clever galleon]

I feel bad because I was absolutely the weakest link, I accidentally had the wrong secondary equipped for my loadout and it was complete hell

I'm going to hear swarmer noises all the time now I've developed swarmer paranoia

[lime hollow]

Feel accomplished, EDD is hard work. And if it makes you feel any better, I guarantee that Scout was loving it. There is no greater dopamine rush on Scout than saving the dive by sliding under the Drop Pod doors like Indiana Jones

It is actually what Scout players live for

[clever galleon]

He had to do it every single time

Forget breaking your back carrying the team, he's gonna need spinal reconstruction cybernetics

[lime hollow]

Even better tbh. I've been in a couple rough dives where I was put in the drivers seat of the team and it always feels good. We're all in this together after all

[clever galleon]

I have a mix of emotions, I'm proud we did it but feel bad for accidentally handicapping myself

And the team by extension

It's evened out to neutrality, I did it but I didn't really do it

[lime hollow]

Elite dives are tough but your beard gets a little grayer every time

Don't be afraid to send it in the future even if this one felt a little on the rough side. Sometimes you just get a dive that doesn't work for your favorite build

I've been carried many times because my playstyle didn't suit the dive but as long as you're shooting bugs and building pipes the only thing that matters is getting that sweet, sweet core payout

[clever galleon]

Thanks, I feel a bit better now

[chilly shore]

Don’t worry eventually you might be like me purposely taking silly builds into dives to spice it up

[final urchin]

I usually went in with a usual build

[vague lantern]

i've played enough that i'm comfortable with a multitude of builds for most situations

[vague lantern]

the multitude of builds being bullet hell and sludge pump

[desert sonnet]

That's why i prefer to do hard stuff solo, i might just let the team down and i will feel bad about it

Good thing edd is not that hard than i expected

[dawn otter]

I fcking hate swarmers in the last mission

Note to every driller out there wanting to do this week's EDD

BRING. STICKY. FUEL

If you just want to beat it

[mental rampart]

I used sticky cryo. Killed like 650 bugs in the 3rd stage alone, 1020 bugs by the end

The Engie killed 1080

[manic pivot]

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

[tiny portal]

Non-sticky cryo will freeze swarmers just fine when sprayed on the ground

When they freeze they die

[manic pivot]

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

[final urchin]

I accidently did this week's EDD and realized it's a new EDD of the week, then I did DD aswell. In one gaming session

(fyi I also did it solo as engineer on edd)

This hits so hard when I realized it

[manic pivot]

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

[manic pivot]

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

[drifting tinsel]

might take another 5-ish minutes for rotations, please be patient 🙏 ty

[distant cave]

Patience is for the weak

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 January 09 to 2025 January 16 (Week 277)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1737025200:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Covetous Track
Stage 1: 200 Morkite + Black Box | No Mutator
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard & Twins) + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.S | Shield Disruption

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Fungus Bogs | Code Name: Bitter End
Stage 1: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 150 Morkite | Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Mactera Plague
Stage 3: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator

[distant cave]

Two duck and cover

My life is over

[exotic belfry]

Duck and Cover my beloved! It has returned 🎉

[cold forge]

Died 2024, born 2025. Welcome back duck and cover curse.

[fresh robin]

Ah, a duck and cover

Also, EDD, we repairing a lot of mini mules on this one

[steady stream]

Oh, double salvage op

Damn

Could be a lenghty one

Lots of nitra from the mule repairs tho

So thats nice

[azure night]

That’s a lot of mini mules in the EDD

[zenith ember]

d&c + mactera, warzone in edd

[cold kindle]

Welcome,lambs

TO THE SLAUGHTER

I swear to god

Chances of duck and cover appearing are increased

Ebonite outbreak - new warning as well as duck and cover

But it made it's appereance...5 times?

I understand that it has restrictions

Can't appear on PE,OSR,SO but come on

Unbelievable

We got almost on every deep dive that disgusting warning

[marsh sonnet]

I managed to do it without dying even once! 😄 This week's EDD was actually pretty easy. The Mactera Plague in the second stage was the most challenging, but it was manageable too. If anyone wants to check out my run, I posted it here on #drg-videos

[distant cave]

Duck and cover is just mactera plague+

[marsh sonnet]

Duck and cover < mactera plague

Mactera Plague is harder.

[distant cave]

Is it?

From what I have experienced Duck and Cover is just mactera plague with added spitters

[marsh sonnet]

I consider it to be, yes, because the Macteras keep moving, chasing you at high speed—it’s a nightmare. On the other hand, with Duck and Cover, you’ve got acid spitters and web spitters to deal with, but they’re much slower, and you can just navigate around more easily.

[distant cave]

Hm

I suppose so

[alpine trail]

This week's elite is hell

[alpine trail]

nvm just the first

[pure fractal]

EDD looks fun

Tiny mollys

[uneven mist]

Last stage of EDD was so fun after getting the mules fixed. My driller made a crater around the uplink and the fuel cells and i platformed everywhere except this tiny little hole and we just kept shooting into it while defending. Most fun I've had doing a salvage mission!!

[sharp cradle]

moar duck and cover

[humble reef]

omg double salvage operation with duck and cover again, let's go

[sand juniper]

Fun dives this week. My stubborn ass brought CN driller to duck & cover EDD but we pulled through. All three stages can be bunkered with little issue.

[teal idol]

oh this chat exists lol

quick question if i may,
i'm working on the first promotion assignment for my driller, do yall think it's possible to finish the promotion assignment and the deep dive for this week in one sitting?
also how long is this deep dive? doesn't seem too bad from what i can tell in the pins (minus the shield disruption on elimination)

[exotic belfry]

Dives are usually 30m to 1 hour. So it really just depends on how long a "sitting" is to you.

[teal idol]

I can spare two

so yeah, maybe

we'll see

[fleet needle]

wait does stage 2 have refining as a secondary

[forest tendon]

Yep

Basically a small temporary refining thing drills down which you connect the pipe to

it's super fast

[fleet needle]

yoo that sounds sick

[marsh quest]

The eternal gunner suffering of giving your all and having your engi dead for half the last level and still getting one upped on kills

[sand juniper]

Our backs hurt so much all the time from all the carrying. 😔

[marsh quest]

Did anyone else get like 6 billion macterae on the last stage of the edd (non duck and cover) for no reason at all?

[mellow cradle]

yes

they are in the special pool

[buoyant gulch]

explain spawn pools (or tell me that its on the wiki and im being stoobid)

[mellow cradle]

I am kinda in the middle of something, so take this video: https://youtu.be/tLiX_GJRdWw

[buoyant gulch]

yay

[mellow cradle]

it's a bit old, but still mostly accurate

[chilly shore]

the key is to realize that it is actually the lowest kill count that is the best
then you will finally be freed from suffering and become enlightened

[buoyant gulch]

aww its just a rick roll

im kidding

[azure night]

Your mom is just a rick roll

[icy karma]

Didn't know enabling mods prevented achievement progress

There goes my 28 min solo deep dive

[void quiver]

Man I hate EDD, I have to rip my balls and asshole just to get a clean overclock that increases the magazine capacity

[marsh quest]

We WORK, to earn the right to WORK

[lime hollow]

Did both dives last night, EDD is very enemy-rich but mini mules once again save the day. I drew the Engineer spot for the team again. Had Roll Control Breach and EM Discharge Stubby and it worked really well. Roofing up for Duck and Cover is my preferred strategy and the EM turrets just make the foxhole feel a lot safer. Breach performed great as always but the enemy spam made it very ammo hungry which was probably not at all helped by the abnormal density of Brundle Fly spawns eating my entire kit for breakfast. If I was going to run this again I'd definitely take the PGL instead.

[sour frigate]

Approved mods do, verified ones don't.

[burnt sandal]

I wish the modding categories guideline was a little more apparent when going on mod.io, so people would actually know this a lot more easily

[acoustic skiff]

No fucking way dude. We failed on the fuel cells part of the 3rd part maaaaaaaaaan, that took voer an hourrrrrr

See this is why you dont trust chinese people with your life

[steady stream]

is EDD experience always set at 20250?

[mellow cradle]

yeah

[vague lantern]

my friend was too impatient to wait for a team so we dove into the edd duo lmao
it actually went really well, just a driller and a scout

ai stability engine double barrel and an AG pellet sludge pump kind of just killed everything

[terse breach]

this edd has roughly 4 billion nitra

[crimson crane]

How long does it take before deep dives refresh?

[exotic belfry]

They refresh weekly

11am UTC each Thursday

[teal river]

Hyper propellant PGL?

I've alwasys found breach to still be quite good against high-armour HTVs like Stingtails and brundleflies

but I use high voltage crossover

[lime hollow]

Nah, just big fire boi PGL with the RJ250 ammo. I did end up sending the dive again with it and had a much easier time ammo-wise. It's a quick and dirty way to just yeet the Duck and Cover swarms off the ceiling and mactera burn real good

not that ammo is a big problem on this weeks dive. I just get annoyed if I have to dip too often lol

[lime hollow]

This is also true but I brought stun instead of armor breaking on the breach which was certainly a choice. Idk, it's tough. Duck and Cover and Mactera Plague both have the ability to just dump a massive swarm of trijaws on your team with little warning and if there's no gunner shield that huge aoe stun is really handy

which I guess is just what my PGL build did but it was faster and had a lot more ammo

[teal river]

I always agree with stun over armour breaking on the breach

it has awesome armour breaking anyway

Its always good to have a stun option in your aresnal, no matter what it is

[lime hollow]

I am certainly lacking some finesse with the roll control, I've only recently started my obsession with it lol

I have a habit of just missing against all odds sometimes

[teal river]

XD

Roll is certainly cool, but I sometimes find it lacking in damage?

I need to test it out more

[crimson crane]

ah ok

[lime hollow]

big plasma trail tube is where the crowd control really is. But yeah, direct damage and armor tend to sort of take a day off sometimes lmao

which I guess is why I didn't use it much before but it certainly has its moments now that I'm putting it play

[teal river]

Bro where is the uplink on the first stage of this edd

[lime hollow]

I have no idea where it is originally, I just know when our driller saw it he said "nah, bunker time"

[teal river]

oh this is a w spot

yeah

back to compressed dirt, one way cave

[lime hollow]

the other uplink is in a very silly spot too

[teal river]

pre built bunker

[teal river]

good or bad XD

[lime hollow]

It's rough but some platforms can make it pretty alright

EM discharge was definitely doing extreme work for me lmao

[teal river]

Don't have it, but I'll pull through 💪

this is a very engi-heavy edd

Mule Egg Mule

[lime hollow]

Good luck, I believe

[teal river]

this whole edd is engi glaze XD

[lime hollow]

I felt very fortunate to get thrown into the engie role lmao

[teal river]

finished, very easy solo edd, all the nitra from the mules simplifies it even further

[lime hollow]

Yeah my solo run was a lot of fun. I love a dive where you can just go guns blazing the entire time

[teal river]

mhmhmhm

Roll Control is growing on me

[gaunt loom]

is there a link to what the maps are like in the current week's deep dive?

[dreamy gate]

I've been wanting to play a deep dive for my first time but there are never lobbies I can join :(

[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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[teal river]

Well I was gonna offer to play but that message was 10 hours ago XD

[raven carbon]

Fairly easy edd

Appears harder on paper

[raven carbon]

Unfortunately our engi left after the first down in first stage

Idk why people do this in deep dives of all games

Scout followed suit in 2 minutes

I had crystal nucleation driller pretty bad choice in hindsight but went in blind

[teal river]

Not very rock and stone of them

[obtuse eagle]

Little late message, but you can always just host your own!

[surreal estuary]

Any advice for mission 3 of the Edd? Me and my team died on mission 3 due to the mactera swarm

[sand juniper]

Have the engi build a low hanging roof over the holdout point. Or bunker it up.

[surreal estuary]

I built a bunker as gunner but my 2 scouts and engi died while I was building it

[sand juniper]

Gunner and scout can't terraform fast enough with the pickaxe. Leave bunkers to the engi and driller.

The quickest option is a roof of platforms over the uplink/fuel, and it's very effective too.

Waste did a very good video on platform usage on YT, it's a must watch.

[pure fractal]

bezerker fast tunnel on your feet.

[sand juniper]

Doesn't beat driller or engi ngl.

[exotic oxide]

Haven't watched waste's video but I'm not a fan of a low roof over the defense zones

[mellow cradle]

it usually sucks big time

but for ranged enemies it can be fine

I personally wouldn't do that on stage 3, as that is not duck and cover

[eager atlas]

yeah low roof is situational, only useful for mactera stuff and such

and even then it's not a need, but it can be helpful, it depends what the team is doing anyway

[white isle]

if you are not geting any lobbies at all, change filter for distance and back again and should populate your lists

[mellow cradle]

I think it's much better to host your own instead of coping with a 150 ping lobby

[white isle]

i play on 250+ pings frequently 🤷‍♂️

[mellow cradle]

god damn

[eager atlas]

ping isn't much of an issue as long as it's consistent, and not horribly high

[lime hollow]

low roof's biggest problem is most people make it far too low or way too big. You don't need much and it doesn't have to be a pancake hat to be effective shelter. A good roof is one you can use when you need to but doesn't outright block your range for shooting when there's nothing to hide from

Think more food truck awning and less stadium roof

[sand juniper]

It only needs to cover half of the uplink radius to be good. I am for low hanging roofs, they completely neutralize all macteras, acid spitters, septic spreaders and even shellbacks. They also force stingtails to descend to ground level.

As long as engi/driller make some sort of terraforming on salvage I don't mind what it is. The most cost effective is probably firing plats around the high drop pod roofs to prevent bugs from spawning up there at all.

[chilly shore]

i think low roofs are generally a very bad idea
by low i mean a grunt on the roof is able to bite your head
blocking the sightlines with a higher roof is fine, but if the roof is too low then you have just made a shelter that melee bugs can use to avoid your sightlines until they are right on top of you
if you feel the urge to run off as soon as the bubble is done vs stay in the area, that's a good way to gauge if your setup was good

[exotic belfry]

Roofs should be at least 2, preferably 3 dwarves tall.

And they only work in caves with incredibly high ceilings, or big holes in the ceiling (like in salvage). If the cave itself isn't that tall then the roof wont actually do much

[eager atlas]

repellent always works

[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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[sand juniper]

Roofs with repellent will force bugs to descend to ground level and will pack them around the sides where the roof touches the walls of the cave. Easy killzones.

The superior salvage terraforming is still a drilled bunker under the uplink/fuel radius with a horizontal tunnel out. Trivializes the holdout and the only thing that can force you out is a bulk, which forces you out of any holdout anyways.

[bronze cave]

Ngl just got the game like last week, an those missions where we do a bunker holdout is always fun asf

[trim crescent]

the best terraforming for salvage is open sightlines cause you have guns and the enemies dont, and if they have range, they need to get far closer than your effective shooting range

you can make an argument for a roof against duck and cover but mactera just kinda fly through it and pound you from melee

with repellant you still want to keep the open sightlines, just route the melee into chokes

[sand juniper]

They really don't, they don't fly through roof but under it and then their "bug AI" takes forever to take a shot at you. Macteras already take 3 million years to calculate their shots as they normally are.
Then bugs like spitters/spreaders literally just give up on you, they stand idle waiting for the dwarves to get out.

[sand juniper]

Funneling your enemies into a section of your whole 360° will always allow for easier aiming and crowd clearing. Hell it even enables things like Goo Bomber Special to be more useful lmao.

That being said I will restate I am comfortable with any kind of terraforming as long as something gets done.

[trim crescent]

unless you fuck up the roof what a lot of people do, they crawl under and insta shoot right when they hit los

[sand juniper]

They never insta shoot, that's the one weakness of macteras.

[trim crescent]

i was talking about spitters

and mactera can dome you pretty fast as well

[sand juniper]

Oh yeah. That's what happens when they don't bring repellent.

[trim crescent]

i personally dont even run rep on engi

anymore

[sand juniper]

I only ditch repellent if I'm using the MCAO build.

Otherwise it's way too useful to pass up on.

[trim crescent]

i like more ammo over repellant for most missions and id only take repellant for salvage

but i wont swap my loadout just for salvage so its +ammo for me always

i used to run rep what made salvage very easy, of course, no roofs, just routing

but i dont really see the point

[chilly shore]

If your roof is too low the bugs may ignore repellent because crawling along the repel roof to bite your head is still lower pathing cost than going around the roof to bite your feet

with a higher roof or open sightline repellent this is much less likely to happen

[cold kindle]

Well these dives was fine

1st of EDD is just disgusting cuz mutator

2nd stage is alright

3rd is alright

[acoustic skiff]

did the deep dives reset yet? cant remember if its in the morning or evening in PST

[burnt sandal]

they reset tomorrow

in about 15 hours

[acoustic skiff]

ah okay

I didnt bother finishing this weeks, got to stage 3 with one team and we failed at the feul refill lol

[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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[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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[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 January 16 to 2025 January 23 (Week 278)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1737630000:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Fungus Bogs | Code Name: Bloodstained Cap
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + 2 Resonance Crystals | Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Resonance Crystals | Mactera Plague
Stage 3: 250 Morkite + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Radioactive Exclusion Zone | Code Name: Corrosive Tomb
Stage 1: 5 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Black Box | Duck and Cover
Stage 2: Escort Duty + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs
Stage 3: Industrial Sabotage + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | No Mutator

i'm sorry everyone

[lime hollow]

Now that's an Elite Deep Dive. Ho-ly

[mighty raptor]

Duck and Cover happening in almost every week is a weird phenomenon

While warning like Ebonite Outbreak, I've only seen like 1-2 times in Dives across season 5 release

[zenith ember]

D&C + IS sigh

• escort wtf

[zenith ember]

Its looking like the IS apocalypse again

Prob gonna take 1 week with 2 d&c warnings to make them notice the abnormal frequency

[mighty raptor]

I havent never seen a single dive with two same warning before

I doubt it will be a case here

[zenith ember]

That isnt possible?

Crap

[mighty raptor]

Dives with two same main mission types are possible

But not for warnings, iirc

[zenith ember]

Actually no its possible:
#deep-dive-discussion message

And it can happen consecutively unlike primary objectives

[mighty raptor]

Oh nevermind, i'm wrong

My menory has always been hazy

[drifting tinsel]

i think this has already happened twice -- once in the regular, and once in the elite

EDIT: turns out, it's twice for BOTH elite and regular dives!
#deep-dive-discussion message week 248, regular dive
#deep-dive-discussion message week 255, regular dive
#deep-dive-discussion message week 262, elite dive (honourable mention -- one d&c in regular dive too)
#deep-dive-discussion message week 264, elite dive

[zenith ember]

It happened on dd too?

You are right damn:
#deep-dive-discussion message

Too bad they are both really early in the patch for ppl to take notice of the frequency

[scenic smelt]

This week’s EDD is miserable

Genuinely hurts to play

[celest laurel]

am I insane if I've never completed an EDD but I wanna do this one solo? (probably yes)

[burnt sandal]

yes but also: why shouldn't you try it ?

[celest laurel]

I WILL

[burnt sandal]

that's the spirit!

[cold forge]

This EDD seems like absolute misery

[cold kindle]

Disgusting

Yo GSG we understand that you added new cool mutator

But we can you like...stop putting it every single freaking dd?

Or can you like...show 2nd mutator which is appeared literally FIVE TIMES SINCE IT WAS ADDED

[steady stream]

[cold kindle]

Ebonite outbreak is much less disgusting than dac.

I wouldn't mind ebonite outbreak apocalypse

[sand juniper]

Haz 4 duck and cover deep scan is still easier than Haz 5 sabotage.

This week's EDD is tough but not because of D&C, it's because you get 2 boss runs as stages 2 and 3.

[cold kindle]

Well agreeable but imo sabo is alright

If deep dive doesn't feature swarm missions/mutators

Such as PE or swarmageddon

[burnt sandal]

it's random

[ancient lily]

Had a weird glitch with another dude where our deepdive/edd never updated but we didn't care, ran em both. Time for massive profits with these two new ones after I just finished the EDD and DD

[marsh sonnet]

This week's Elite Deep Dive in Deep Rock Galactic was the longest one I've ever done! I died once in every mission (hehe), but I managed to complete it solo. It was challenging but definitely doable. If anyone wants to check out my run, I posted it in the #drg-videos channel. I played as Engineer! 🚀🛠️ Rock and Stone!

[golden radish]

What the actual leaf loving hell with these duck and covers?

[patent elk]

This EDD was made for those that say EDDs are too easy. Speedrunners are also def not gonna have fun with this one

[mellow cradle]

bonus ducks

[quiet wyvern]

Jeez i know a couple of people who are not gonna like this pair of dives today

D&C sucks on anything, even OSR missions

[next blaze]

hell yeah, sabo on the last mission!

it's been too long

[exotic belfry]

Hell yeah, D&C again!

[fresh robin]

OMG MOONLIGHTORI, BIG FAN OF YOUUUUUUUU
Love your deep dives :D

[mighty raptor]

ty!

[buoyant gulch]

well

at least the duck and cover warnings are on the first stage

imagine if we got another d&c on an escort cuz i remember the last time, d&c escort last stage (haz 5.5)

[mellow cradle]

yeah

but at least on that particular stage, the roof was very high, so you had a chance to shoot them down, before they shot you back

shout outs to our driller, who got rid of all the crystals, so they couldn't come down on us from them

[buoyant gulch]

also regen bugs stev time

yea we didnt have a chance to clear the crystals before the bugs came

[mellow cradle]

?

just don't press the button

[tawdry geode]

that was a fun one, especially with the cursed crystal lattice structure in the hearthstone room

[chilly shore]

i forget if waves can still spawn before you press the button

[mellow cradle]

they can

pressure ones, not announced ones

when the drill is parked next to the ommoran

[chilly shore]

oh yoeah i literally added that to the escort page a few days ago my memory is cooked

[pearl kiln]

fun edd this week i see

[wise meadow]

KLEYBOARD M LIGHT FLIASHING

ah sorry

keyboard malfunction

it burned an old search into a hot key for some reason and when i hit it it just, cycles through my tabs and tries to type it

i have no idea why

[acoustic skiff]

When the elite deep dive team is just right

But no srsly, if it wasnt for the fact my first team was rly good, this one would have been such hell

A freaking MAZE cave system for drill rig mission with duck and cover was just mean.
Escort mission with the threat of BETC if you didnt do her before starting.
And a data one was just icing on the proverbial cake.
Sabotage and Escort are by far the hardest mission types in the game, prove me wrong. And this week was definitely a rough one. I died so many times on engineer, but racked up almost 1000 kills

[raven carbon]

Sabotage swings between easy and hard depending on the team and the caretaker room layout

But the annoying part is fairly constant

[tepid hamlet]

Tiny caretaker rooms are brutal

[wraith wharf]

what do you guys suggest for gunner primary for EDD? I'm thinking of PBM hurricane for the flying rocks but don't know how will it perform vs care taker

[mellow cradle]

PBM generally performs well against the caretaker

[trim crescent]

hot bullets minigun with lead storm oc

its good for duck and cover, kills patrol bots very fast along turrets and makes caretaker pretty easy

[mellow cradle]

yeah, I probably should mention that killing patrol bots with PBM is rather hard, as you constantly have to keep the crosshair at them

[raven carbon]

Even burning hell can do well

With good positioning burning hell can make quick work of turrets

[trim crescent]

burning hell is kinda ass for caretaker

[raven carbon]

Yes but works well for everything otherwise

[mellow cradle]

naaaah

that only really works well on the regular bugs

[lean thistle]

Why is duck and cover on so many deep dives? :(

[lime hollow]

I haven't played this week yet but for carrying long, holdout or escort missions and terrible hazards like these I'm all about the minigun. Taking Cold as the Grave in T5 will easily solo the rock and beamer phases of the escort if you see it being a problem for the team

[lime hollow]

I'd just roll with boring old Lead Storm for the OC but anything will work really. The sustained fire is what will prop up the long-haul missions. If something like Burning Hell is your jam let it fly. I do love it against the shredder swarms myself.

[wraith wharf]

thanks everyone for the suggestions, I was looking for a balance option to between caretaker and escort's flying rock stage since I think they're equally dangerous, it seems the trusty LSLS might be the way to go

I'll catch yall on Hoxxes

[blissful breach]

is there any place for rj250 in the current dd and edd

[chilly shore]

there’s always a place for rj as long as you are comfortable enough with the difficulty to make up for the low damage output

[short charm]

Before starting the EDD, I had two shots of rum, then I went at it with three others. We failed the uplink because someone, I, started it the moent a mactera plague started. But we re-did it and then finished it. Then we drilled, our gunner went down and somehow got stuck on the drillerdozer shaft wall and the rest of us kept going down, down down...

Our driller left, but not the gunner who was stuck haflway up the shaft. So we kept going. Second stage, went down on the final stage of the drilldozer when about 8 laser towers spawned and also a bulk. And we previously also had a bulk. So it was a loss. I like that, it means I get to try again tomorrow.

The EDDs are rarely challenging these days so I welcome it.

Duck and Cover is so hilariously overtuned compared to other warnings, its not like GSG to keep it like this, but they did. Its weird but I like it. I kinda wish other warnings had similarly severe effects on the mission.

[sand juniper]

I think Low O2, Haunted Cave and sometimes Blood Sugar can also provide a challenge.

[short charm]

Depending on the mission, yes. I've had low 02 with 8 eggs, 400 morkite and so on. That's a lot of fun. Blood Sugar... Hrmm, undecided on that one. I havent found it to be the fun type of challenge, even though its been challenging at times.

[ancient lily]

EDD stage 2 3/3 on bulk spawns.

[sand juniper]

ngl I don't like playing Blood Sugar.

[ancient lily]

Bloodsugar is only ok if its +2 on the enemies

[short charm]

Blood Sugar is like, its challenging up to a point, then you suddenly become invincible due ot the huge amounts of red sugar on the ground.

I do feel sorry for non-Scout classes on Blood Sugar who cant feast on the Scout sugar in the ceiling if things get bad.

[ancient lily]

Also I wanna note

guy in lobby pops second egg, mission control alerts of a swarm

4 praets, 3 opps

and the bulk

We were fucked

[short charm]

I mean it depends! There are some builds that absolutely crap on that composition, but good luck getting someone with that.

Im talking Nishanka Crossbow with tazer bolts, conductive thermals on the DRAK and a tight group of enemies where the tazers can arc between them.

[raven carbon]

This is a problem

[raven carbon]

This is the solution

[mellow cradle]

actually true

[ancient lily]

Agro didnt want it

Bulk was the literal only thing not on Doretya

And whoever had aggro on the bulk went to otherside of sto e.

[trim crescent]

duck and cover has some pretty big weaknesses

i did 75% of black box solo on scout without shooting a bullet because it was only spitters

[teal river]

That deepscan mission was crazy

[acoustic skiff]

I genuinely got lost at some point trying to find which tunnel led to the black box

[sand juniper]

Just did the EDD. It's not as difficult as it looks like... because there's massive amounts of nitra. My team reached stage 3 with +400 nitra and the Caretaker fight with +600. It is however a very long dive, took us about 1 hour 10 min.

[solar skiff]

faken 3 bulks on stage 2

scary stuff

nevermind 4

another spawned at the heartstone

[hearty hill]

anyone wanna do a deep dive?

[teal river]

I had two bulks on the escort mission :(

[digital peak]

Very big cave on the final stage of the normal deep dive

[sly basalt]

balls

[ebon oak]

Kinda new to the game are deep dives pugable off coms?

[exotic belfry]

Yes

Nothing in the game requires direct communication, just general competence and the ping tool is enough for 99% of players, normal Dives are around H3 difficulty, so all players should be able to complete them. Though if you have no idea what you are getting into, I would avoid an EDD until you get a few normal DD under your belt, as they are ~H5 difficulty. Additionally if you are lost or confused do use coms/chat to ask for help, most players would be happy to.

[ancient lily]

Yknow what I love

people who don't listen

"hey drill here so we can take potshots at the nexus"

drills an entire fuckin boomerang around it at angle that it's impossible to take shots at the first nexus

thanks driller, you're fucking braindead

[ancient lily]

some edds more than others, I'd say this weeks is borderline

[ancient lily]

So is it normal for dd extractions to not auto go if everybody but one is down

and the one is in the pod

cause this is a fun 2:30 where I cant do anything elst I fuck the mission

also

[mellow cradle]

they must have had iron will unspent

[ancient lily]

SIX FUCKING BULK DETS

[ancient lily]

I guess. Or the gy who dc'd is ghosting

Either way stage 2 is a shit

3 fucking double bulk spawns

Yeah one of em had iw but refused to use it because I guess they're blind

oh well I ain't touching this edd again

[lofty parcel]

This EDD was very interesting for me, it's my third after a break of a bit more than 2 years and I didn't know Nemesis, Bet-Cs and Hoverboots can spawn in em, or that you can get Indie Sabotage as main objective.

[hearty ginkgo]

did anyone else get a double bulk spawn during ommoran? is that a fixed encounter

I know nemesis, jet boots, and bet-c are all fixed

(or are they?)

[quasi veldt]

I had 3 bulks, but they were before and after main mission

[hearty ginkgo]

I meant like, a single spawn wave that has 2 bulks at once

[quasi veldt]

It's random

[hearty ginkgo]

I see

unlucky for my mission then LOL

[mellow cradle]

the spawns are random, but the disruptive and special enemy slots are static

[raven carbon]

Jetboots are a new addition. They can randomly spawn in normal missions and deep dives. Can make it pretty fun.

[alpine trail]

Screw this week's Elite Deep Dive XD took us 87 minutes with 2 players

[naive tide]

what stuff fully replenishes between stages?

[alpine trail]

just your perks I think? if they are limited use

We did use iron will in the first two missions and then again in the last

[alpine trail]

We had only 1 bulk, is the BET-C in that mission fixed though? It quickly destroyed one of dotty's healthbars lol

[celest laurel]

one time use perks and bosco's revives if I'm not mistaken

[celest laurel]

yes, everyone got the bet-c I think, I also had 3 bulks

[alpine trail]

I guess my friend and I got lucky with the bulks lmao, since we only had 1 at the end

[celest laurel]

I got one mid quest and two at the core

[alpine trail]

dang that sounds annoying lmao

Were you playing solo or how many players

[celest laurel]

I was literally shaking trying to get the bulks out of Doretta lol

solo

[alpine trail]

jeeez xD

we were lucky with our bulk it 100% focused me so I could lure it far away from the dozer

[celest laurel]

this edd definitely was a challenge lol

let's see what we get next week

[drifting tinsel]

next week we get the same lineup but every stage is duck and cover /j

[eager atlas]

I think you can't get it twice in a row

but it can still be in 1st and 3rd stage

[drifting tinsel]

EDD week 264 had duck and cover on 1st and 2nd

same for regular DD week 255

[eager atlas]

oh

interesting

well I guess it's just a matter of time then 🙃