deep-dive-discussion

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[humble reef]

oh it's lethal enemies

that's why people keep going down on this first part, myself included

[humble reef]

okay beat it on my third try, helps a lot to have a communicative team that doesn't go down in first phase and rushes aquarqs

usually id prefer engi, but went with scout since i already know how to rush and pull aquarqs out of the wall

• my winning comp (and i don't recommend) was **1D **(150)/2E (33, 19)/1S (me 457).
• imo cryobolts/pheromone bolts+grenades is great if you can rely on your team to waveclear. 1 cryo bolt to barrage infectors/spitballers, 3? to breeders and goo bombers. Might be worth it to go taser just for the elim (but i preferred wave cc since i don't find elim an issue usually)
• So many goddamn naedocytes that I had to run back to driller/engi each time.
• team should have CC (stun or slow) for first and third phase of the EDD. it's insufferable without it.
• pls learn to kite in haz 5 without taking damage before attempting edd

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[novel epoch]

alright gang place your bets will we have a duck and cover this week

[steady stream]

the question is how many duck and covers

[kindred flame]

3* duck and cover

drillers dream ❤️

What are your guys loadout on driller for Duck and cover?

[manic pivot]

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New Deep Dives are now available!
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[proven plover]

what are the missions

dp you knoow

[kindred flame]

i dont know the mission 😄

[steady stream]

they should pop up here any moment now

[drifting tinsel]

rotations are gonna take a couple more minutes, thanks for the patience y'all

[proven plover]

oh ok

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 February 20 to 2025 February 27 (Week 283)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1740654000:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Gunner's Fort
Stage 1: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard & Classic) + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator
Stage 2: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Black Box | Exploder Infestation
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + Hiveguard | Parasites

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Absolute Decay
Stage 1: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 150 Morkite | Low Gravity
Stage 2: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 150 Morkite | Parasites
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Classic & Twins) + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon

👏 NO DUCK AND COVER!!! 👏

[steady stream]

BY THE BEARD

[turbid coral]

dammmm

[sand juniper]

Karl...

Hope we get four Duck and Covers next week to compensate for this travesty.

[hexed agate]

This week's edd feels somewhat challenging, well

Gonna be a headache carrying my friend

[distant cave]

No duck and cover

Can't believe it

How can I survive without my duck and cover

[novel epoch]

it's a miracle

[drifting tinsel]

six duck and covers next week, trust me my dad is ghost ship james

[novel epoch]

nah we get two duck and covers and then a mactera swarm on the last one
technically it's not 3 duck and covers

[cold forge]

John Ghost Ship if we don't get 12 Duck and Covers next week I'm uninstalling

[cold kindle]

No...No...

NO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

i'm starving

[drifting tinsel]

cj has died and gone to heaven

[cold kindle]

Off to play more duck and cover

I need sweet sweet duck and cover

Duck and cover will sustain me

[celest laurel]

not seeing any duck and cover is kinda weird atp

[frail beacon]

please tell me we got more duck and cover

NOOOOOOOOOOO

[ivory marten]

NO DUCK AND COVER.

LETS GO.

[marsh sonnet]

Today's Elite Deep Dive was generally easy. I recommend collecting plenty of Nitra because there are a lot of enemies. I finished my run with over 1k kills, haha, but I managed to complete it solo without dying, so it wasn’t one of the hardest.

In the second stage, the resupply pod from the drop pod lands on a really bad ledge. I recommend digging until it falls into the crater below. After that, make sure you create a way out of the crater before starting the resupply pod defense.

If anyone wants to check out my run, I posted it on the #drg-videos channel! 🚀🔨

[frail beacon]

Agreed! Team of 3, finished with around 400 nitra to spare. racked up around 1k kills too

[wraith shard]

wtf no DnC

its over

[deft holly]

Ladies and gentledwarves... we are finally free from Ducks and Covers.

[cold kindle]

I hope it won't last for too long

D&c is such a fun mutator!

We had definitely NOT enough!

We got only 30+ duck and covers!

We need at least 100+ duck and covers until this year ends!

[steady stream]

stockholm syndrome at its finest

[cloud tide]

BY THE BEARD

NO DUCK AND COVER?!

[chilly shore]

inconceivable

[molten forge]

Should I swap off the M1K for the EDD as scout?

Im not sure if I'll have enough swarm clear with just secondaries to get through parasites and swarmmageddon

I have the hipster and Marked For Death overclocks (was considering Marked For Death for the Dreadnoughts)

[pearl kiln]

drak or gk2 will provide more safety against the swarm and parasites, yeah

[molten forge]

sad day

[chilly shore]

if you have a team you can get away with m1k fine

or some kind of aoe secondary

[molten forge]

If I do take it I was considering zhukov as the secondary

But maybe the shotguns blast wave would be good?

If I optimize for ammo

if only chembolts worked on swarmers

I think ill just run drak

[chilly shore]

zhuks are really only aoe with cryo minelets

theres a trick you can do where you light a praet on fire with boomstick/whatever and it radiates enough heat to burn swarmers while you dance on top/around it
but obviously requires a praet or some similar bug to be available

fire bolt/cryo bolt are also good against swarmers if you have them
I find at least in multiplayer the amount of tiny enemies in swarmageddon or parasites is too much to rely on just a pinpoint primary but maybe you have better aim than me

[molten forge]

unfortunately only OC i have for boltshark is special quiver

"The specialist"

[humble reef]

oh god parasites

specialist pheromone bolts are pretty cool, maybe unnecessary

and probs not too helpful this deep dive

[next blaze]

imo, parasites are a non-threat

you have to take them out eventually, but even a pickaxe will do

if you have gas recycling zhuks, that's also an option for swarmageddon

you won't want to solo big groups of swarmers with em, but you can definitely pick off 10-15 swarmers with ease if you take the accuracy mod with that, and blowthrough too for spamming through grunt swarms when needed

but yeah, hipster m1k is great too if you have the slightest crowd control to pair with it

[molten forge]

I decided to pussy out and use hipster m1k and the pherobolts

[next blaze]

hahaha it works!

[molten forge]

LOl

[eager ingot]

Can someone tell me what time exactly DDs reset

have they already or is it in a few hours?

[molten forge]

weekly

So in like, 6 days

6 days 16 hours as of this message

[eager ingot]

oh ok so it already happened

thank you

[humble reef]

EDD Week 283 Thoughts:

• Went Engi this time, in a 1/1/1/1 comp, with classic EM Refire double damage mods and stun RC from the buildonomicon. Just versatile to deal with everything and "carry" if I needed to be and allow HVT-targetting/boss DPS.
• Little painful Driller didn't bring slow 5s+ sticky flames on CRISPR, but gunner had NTP and me RC which just dealt with parasites and small bugs with CC on top.
• The driller being active really helped to just rush crystal scans (would probs recommend using driller for this EDD unless you're certain your team DPS will suffer)
• Def worth triggering swarm nests before waves come in
• People still are scanning minimules (why)
• Had 400 nitra in stock just before calling back the mules in stage 2 then about 200 after elimination in stage 3 was done (disclaimer: NTP probs allowed us to be ammo-efficient)
• Final thoughts: mission felt like an eternity, was pretty stressful but wasn't hard. Just a lot of walking and hoping people do their part.

[chilly shore]

it is also posted in pins

[humble reef]

personal edd stats: #deep-dive-speedrunning message

[lime hollow]

I always scan at least one minimule if the cave is big. It highlights all the legs and the legs spawn around a mule so for very minimal investment you get to just beeline to each mule, even just through the wall if the mood strikes you

It's like if you could scan a morkite well and it just painted all the wells in the mission on your terrain scanner

[humble reef]

oh that's a pretty good idea

[old widget]

What’s wrong with scanning mini-mules to see the leg locations? It takes 5 seconds and you get the wave trigger whether you scan or not, its proximity based

[vague lantern]

i know that fire bolt crossbow is... shockingly decent at aoe

[burnt sandal]

What AndroidAndy is saying here has been confirmed btw
the details can be found here: #wiki-related-chatroom message
(not sure the wiki has been updated with those details yet)

[pearl kiln]

minimule mini-waves spawn when you get within 2 meters of a mini mule, and another spawns around 45 seconds after the first

only the third stage of the EDD was any trouble, swarmageddon swarms still spawn while the dread is alive and there are a lot of annoying stationaries

[sand juniper]

There's nothing wrong with it, but ideally you'd want to find the legs without scanning the mini mule, throw all 3 legs right next to it, and then insert the 3 legs and repair in a single go. This is to minimize your exposure time to the new enemy wave. (Once the mule is repaired you can run away and better handle the wave elsewhere)

[humble reef]

ah i was thinking it the wrong way

ty for the correction, didn't realize it was proximity and time-based instead

so ideally I go about the same application, just scan if you're having trouble finding legs

[vague lantern]

this week's edd has a lot of enemies and i love it

the best part: no duck and cover

[summer prairie]

on the third stage on the edd theres even betc, multiple scalebrambles, barrage infectors and the dreadnoughts ofc

some freaky caves

[deft holly]

Random food for thought: why aren't you allowed to keep jet boots between DD stages (both in-lore and game mechanics-wise)?

[mellow cradle]

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[fading light]

that last stage in the EDD is brutal

[astral halo]

I'm sure BETC would fit in the drop pod with the dwarves

[eager ingot]

DUDE

I just finished it

actually insane

[tacit jungle]

stage 3 is annoying, people keep triggering dreads and/or betc while someone is out of position

[ivory marten]

How's the regular Dive?

[past geyser]

Cyro cannon or flamethrower for this elite?

[eager ingot]

Pretty easy imo, had 0 struggle with it

[lean thistle]

No duck and cover this regular deep dive at least

[sharp cradle]

That third EDD stage

Phew

What a gauntlet

Room after room of Barrage Infectors, Scalebrambles and Breeders

[fading light]

Easy, but can take a little while.

[topaz wren]

what missions are on the elite deep dive??

[onyx obsidian]

📌

[lunar terrace]

long time since EDD in glacial strata

like 5 months I think?

[rough lark]

I've never done a deep dive

IS it that different from a common mission or

Is this the correct place to ask for someone to deep dive with or

[fading light]

you'd want the LFG (Looking For Group) chat of whatever platform you're on

[fading light]

Deep Dives are a sequence of 3 missions. There are no crafting resources or map events. Your ammo, Nitra/Gold, and health carry over between missions, and the missions scale up in difficulty as you progress.

Regular Deep Dives start at the equivalent of Hazard 3 difficulty, and the following 2 missions are Hazard 3.5
Elite Deep Dives start at 4.5, then 5, then 5.5

The map layouts are predetermined in Deep Dives as well, so you can prep better if you fail a run.

[grizzled warren]

Each stage also rewards you overclocks, Stage 1 gives a blank core (which can be cashed in from machine events from normal maps), Stage 2 gives a weapon overclock, and stage 3 gives cosmetics

Machine events are basically those side objectives you may stumble upon (Kursite, OMEN, Sprinkler) which upon completion uses up a blank core to provide 3 options; 2 weapon overclocks and a cosmetic Overclock

As a newcomer I recommend always choosing weapon overclocks even for classes you wouldn't be interested in

[steady stream]

we did the normal dive with 4 gunners, on account of it being named Gunner's Fort

pretty good, save for having to do some spiderman shit to get the last couple of eggs in stage 3

[hearty ginkgo]

current EDD gives you some ridiculously inflated kill numbers bc of parasites and swarmageddon damn

almost hit 1.5k on my run

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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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[thin quiver]

Ok I'm never doing deep dives again

I've had multiple people abandon ship twice. Can't rely on anyone smh

Like, I opened a lobby, 4 people came, and 2 people left right after popping a dreadnought cocoon

Asshole behavior

I'm genuinely upset because I wanted to do a deep dive but none of the lobbies were open to guests so I set up my own

[olive flicker]

Solo is more consistent than pubs.

[grizzled warren]

Unfortunately leaving during a deep dive happens from time to time

Though I wouldn't cross it off immediately, gotta get those overclocks after all

But hey, if you want to do a deep dive, you can ask me

I can assure you I won't leave midgame (unless that is my internet suddenly bricks but that's not gonna happen, trust)

[outer halo]

Occasionally 1 person would leave my pub dds/edds but I've never finished one with less than 3 people

[outer halo]

What do you guys suggest bringing to this edd for scout? Adclear or single target damage? Read some nightmare stories about swarmagheddon this edd

[raven carbon]

Just finished the edd

Quite easy

Third stage can be troublesome

Bulks

Betc

Swarmageddon

Lots of enemies

[raven carbon]

If you have a team to manage swarmers then you'll be fine

Otherwise I think electric bolts on boltshark could help

It'll help on the drillevator stage and the uplink stage too

[vague lantern]

Also maybe fire bolts

If you MUST solo on scout, you'll need all the swarmer clear you can get

[raven carbon]

Solo scout is a bad idea on this edd

[vague lantern]

Obviously

[raven carbon]

Point defence on two stages and swarmageddon on third

[cloud tide]

Next deep dive will have 3 duck and cover stages in a row

[cold kindle]

5 duck and covers pls 🥺

🙏

I'm hungry

I need to satisfy my duck and cover hugner

If next deep dive rotation won't contain any duck and covers i'm gonna

I dunno.

[lyric zenith]

duck and cover isn't much of a problem, people just don't want to bunker up. they prefer being shot at from 7 different angles apparently

[buoyant gulch]

crazy? i was crazy once...

but not THAT crazy

[outer halo]

just did the edd with a legendary gunner that had been on his 5th or 6th attempt

tough edd

[vague lantern]

i did it first try, but to be fair i was playing driller and the driller has some of the greatest impact on horde management

[buoyant star]

My first deep dive was a brutal one, right on the last part a massive detonator triggered a dreadnought fight, we were 18 nitra short for a resupply.... A teammate rolled the dice on getting one last alien egg and we got snake eyes with a massive swarm...

But we managed to pull through somehow... KARL WAS WATCHING OVER US

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

oohrah gimme deep dive

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[visual garnet]

Not sure where to post this, but: I just hosted a game and FIVE other players joined. I was very confused because I don't use any mods. One of the Drillers said it was his mod that made the lobby bigger.

I kinda freaked out because how is it possible that another player can alter the lobby I host with non-clientside mods?

First time this happened to me. Has that always been a thing?

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New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[steady stream]

Will we be ducking and covering

[little hazel]

i hope so

[manic pivot]

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New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 February 27 to 2025 March 06 (Week 284)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1741258800:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Fungus Bogs | Code Name: Fractured Head
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + Black Box | Shield Disruption
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + Twins | Parasites
Stage 3: On-Site Refining + Classic | No Mutator

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Gangrenous Memorial
Stage 1: 7 Aquarqs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: Industrial Sabotage + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies
Stage 3: 7 Aquarqs + 150 Morkite | Parasites

👏 NO DUCK AND COVER!!! 👏

[steady stream]

Lmao

[burnt sandal]

double on-site and double PE? interesting setup

[steady stream]

Cj will be heartbroken

[drifting tinsel]

i gotta admit the double sandwich setup funny as hell

[cold kindle]

I'm uninstalling DRG

[burnt sandal]

double PE with ton of extra enemies too 👌

[steady stream]

😔

[cold kindle]

Fun setup

[steady stream]

I love PE, sign me tf up

[cold kindle]

Dives starts and ends with the same mission type

[steady stream]

@drifting tinsel normal dive stage 2 just says 'anomaly'?

[drifting tinsel]

oh my bad

forgor to remove from template

[steady stream]

Seems like there was an

Anomaly

[fresh robin]

interesting setup ngl

[cursive spoke]

Seems like Parasites is the new D&C. 2 last time and 2 here

[frail beacon]

where is my duck and cover

[patent elk]

No duck and cover

Life is cruel

[sick coyote]

What?

Your crazy

[patent elk]

I need my fix

[steady stream]

Stockholm syndrome

[drifting tinsel]

devs saw us complaining about its frequency and secretly patched it out of deep dives altogether /j

[cloud tide]

How am I supposed to live without duck and cover?

[old widget]

Lethal enemies + shredders does not sound like a good time

[sand juniper]

Where the hell is my duck and cover?

[drifting tinsel]

on paternity leave

[next blaze]

oh hell yeah, finally another sabotage EDD

[cold kindle]

We didn't bring a mule! Well,that was stupid!

Molly is on the space rig! Maybe R&D finally fixing that glitch in her nogging?

MOLLY! Oh right,we didn't bring her for this one.

[main jewel]

On site refineries were one of all time ngl

[muted creek]

Droppod landed on the black box... lol

[weary walrus]

Best Deep Diver for drillers ever

[lofty parcel]

stage 3 PE after the time it takes to do an Indie will be interesting

[mellow cradle]

Point Extraction doesn't scale with the total time of the dive, only with the time on that particular stage

[lofty parcel]

interesting, was that always the case or has that been changed at some point?

[mellow cradle]

I am pretty sure that was always the case

[chilly shore]

if pe scaled with dive time it would be quite interesting

[fading light]

lethal enemies Industrial Sabo oh lord

[lilac mason]

how the heck do people do high hazard caretaker fights constintally

it took me 3 tries to get past stage 2

[old widget]

what parts of the caretaker fight do you find challenging? what ends up killing you? there's usually counters to most things

single most important bit of advice I can think of is to kill the patrol bots ASAP when they spawn, and pinging them can help you and the team keep track of them and take them down

[fading light]

tbf Lethal Enemies is like, THE worst possible mutator on Sabo

and the layout is pretty rough for the satchel strat too; the ceiling is way too high for a tunnel and there's like only one good spot to make a platform bridge up to the Caretaker's head

[humble reef]

i think im adding a minimum level to my edds for the first time lol

point extraction with randoms has to be one of the most painful experiences ive had

but double PE? oh god

id rather do triple industrial sabotage with randies given the option

[lilac mason]

I am dying to everything lol, every part of the fight is the hardest. I really suck at the game

[next blaze]

if you have increased damage on your power attacks, use them to one-shot the tentacles

if everyone has it, you can wipe out all tentacles every phase and never have to worry about em

but it's very rare for everyone to be that coordinated

or without increased damage, tap it once with your pickaxe and then power attack it to take it out

[old widget]

If you are struggling to stay alive, I would find a spot pretty far back from the caretaker but with enough space to move around and dodge the shields, and just stay in that area and focus on the corners and arms and bots from a distance. The whole fight is a definite exercise in multitasking.

What class were you playing when you beat stage 2?

[lilac mason]

engineer

[tacit jungle]

solo EDD sounds annoying as heck

[weary walrus]

It can be tedious but you control all of the actions. Something group projects are more annoying

[humble reef]

Group Random EDD Week 284 Thoughts (2025 February 27 to 2025 March 06)

• Won in first attempt 38:04 with level 100+ (required) randoms 1/1/1/1
• Hosted; was debating on not having level reqs, but didn't want to reset; Point Extraction (PE), especially, in multiplayer is difficult if someone is going down a lot (it's actively bad for the team) or not actively doing objective. In PE, enemies scale with time in the stage.

Builds:

• 460G (Me) Burning Hell+Volatile Bullets)

• 156S Hipster+Special Powder

• 543E Pump Action_RJ250

• 471D Crystal Nucleation+LCS Colette

• Unironically more than glad to see both Engi and Scout run mobility OCs. We pretty much blitzed through Point Extraction stages with "groups of 2" mostly. It's generally important you're not 4-stacking the same part of the biome or crystal scan unless there's a wave, it's unnecessary.

• Me, gunner, running heat was fine when driller went freeze was fine. I mainly wanted having solo utility, for sabotage turrets and damage (in a sense both me and driller can clear waves independent of each other). It's just a versatile build. I "tried" to not temp shock on bigger targets with some success (freeze grants x3 damage mult > 200 dmg on temp shock).

• Scout started second hacking station simultaneous to the first to our surprise; we succeeded. Grabber and us not splitting properly to adjust was dangerous.

• For caretaker, it was "alright". Driller did usual C4 strat. But Karl forsaken, please play behind the "hill" towards spawn. Playing in the open in front of a caretaker does not go well. I should've used my shields to do eye damage tbh as my main role.

Nothing really particular to mention besides nitra feeling lower than usual (end of stage ~160/80/150). Feels really nice I didn't have to carry at all besides mic callouts on concurrent hacking pod hacks.

Tips

• +1 damage C4's
• Bring crowd control
• Comms will help
• Soft rule to do PE obectives within 10 minutes
• Scout should focus on resource collecting

#deep-dive-speedrunning message

[clear slate]

wow deep dives this week are stinky poopy

[outer bough]

What's going on with the EDD today ?

[tacit jungle]

that was pretty relaxing

what's so bad about PE?

[patent elk]

Finish it quick or you're gonna have a bad time

Though it's actually not that bad unless cave gen screws you

[simple island]

EDD this week is horrible, PE map has next to no nitra and it's mostly on the ceiling

[turbid bane]

regular dd is also cancer

2 pumpjack missions in the most vertical point extraction ass caves

[wind zephyr]

I did regular DD with sludge (volital impact) driller and didn't have issues, it was just long. The second mission has 2 cave leeches right beside each other and they both made bosco revive me

Driller helps a lot with pumps

[steady stream]

we played the regular dive with 3 engies, it was mad fun

[sand juniper]

Did both dives a while earlier. EDD was a breeze; everyone except me (scout) brought sabotage builds. Honestly the DD was more annoying for me (solo, gunner) with the tricky mork well placements.

[nova yacht]

Best EDD i just had for a long time, simply amazing !

[wanton sandal]

Just did solo EDD, failed in the first part about 4 times; second part once. I tihnk I got pretty lucky; almost zero acid spitters the whole run, no Bulks wasting my ammo. If you manage ammo well in the first two parts, it's pretty manageable. Third part has more than enough easy nitra for as many resupps as you need; if you don't take too long. For a solo attempt, anyway - bigger team with more spawn prolly drains ammo much faster.

[cold kindle]

As dwarves say

"Ten out of ten! Would play again!"

[sturdy cape]

42

[earnest pilot]

what is stage 3 of EDD?

[old widget]

there's a pinned message that always has this week's dive details...it's updated in place so the post date looks old but it's not

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

despite having two aquarq missions, this edd took me over an hour to beat due to 2 greenbeards joining

you know things aren't going to be easy when the engi brings warthog fat boy to an edd with swarmageddon and parasites point extractions

[granite spire]

I love helping greenbeards with the dds

Still can't beat an edd though

[outer halo]

This dd was insane

It wasn't hard but holy hell those refinery caves 💀

it was so fun (as a hoverclock special powder scout)

[cerulean harness]

flamethrower plus c4 on top of the caretaker

i have a vid for it but i don't think i can send yt links here

[sour frigate]

The host quit as stage 3 of my DD started and I was like, I'm good with the OC, not doing those caves again by choice.

[sand juniper]

The caves on the 3rd stage are even worse than the 1st stage lmao.

[cold kindle]

Put up a few pipes they said, it'll be easy they said...raaargh!

[granite spire]

I like to play lead storm lead storm gunner and stand far enough away so the tentacles can't stab me, and shoot the vents with the armskore. Them when the eye opens, I go in, place a shield on the edge of the platform, and hammer away at the eye until it moves, rinse and repeat. If I'm going driller, scorching tide and ecp, I get on top and c4 the vents, come down and use the tide and axes on the eye. If I'm scout, I kinda just shoot whatever I see first and engi, I use the breach cutter to destroy the vents and my pump action shot gun for the eye

[granite spire]

Refining is my favorite mission type

[teal light]

i had quite the experience today (regular dive)
One driller, lvl 70, and a gunner, 50.
Driller gets downed after a while, ragequits.
Gunner starts whining on how it's impossible and it's just him and me.
Downed, ragequits.
Is there anything more of a certified leaf lover behaviour?
I still completed the mission (as scout, 2 onsite refining, pain...).

[low pebble]

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the snek goes into the mines

alone......

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my first elite deep dive victory, solo engineer

[granite spire]

There is. I had a deep dive once where the gunner was full on trying to kill us. Kicked him within the first 10 minutes

[outer halo]

edd stage 1
LF nitra 💀

[outer halo]

I'm never playing an edd with sabo ever again
that shit was miserable

[chilly shore]

don’t worry next time we will have sabotage with duck and cover surely

[sand juniper]

Just make a roof. 💀

[cold kindle]

HELL YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I want to have duck and covers in deep dives once again

I'm starving for 2 weeks

Please we need more duck and cover

[sudden root]

anyone wanna join me in a deep dive?

[ivory marten]

The Snek survived.

[fading light]

@flint orchid check way up above the refinery platform, it's basically across from the Dread egg

the other two are more or less ground level so I assume it's the high-up one you're missing

[flint orchid]

What???

There's a dread egg??

I'm talking about regular DD btw

[fading light]

i know, but i assumed you were talking about the last stage

[flint orchid]

No

Very first

[fading light]

ah

[flint orchid]

Cannot find the last pump Jack

[fading light]

yeah first stage has a brutal layout

which ones have you found so far

[fading light]

#modded-gallery message
@flint orchid assuming it's this well, tucked in a cave. Look around roughly the middle ground between the Black Box and the refinery

added a second pic pointing my laser into said cave

[grizzled warren]

The hidden well in the first stage is actually kinda close

Go to the refinery and open the scanner, look for a cave nearby they goes under

[grave crescent]

finished the elite deep dive on the 4th or so try with a team of real g's, (even the one who went down 13 times, you're a member of the team) and god that second mission was mean

my first elite done !

[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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[molten perch]

life saver mate i was searching forever

[novel epoch]

why is that one morkite well in the third stage of the deep dive all the way up there

least we had a driller

[grizzled warren]

Drillers are almost always a must for OSR as they can cut distance sharply

[steady stream]

Idk, i had an absolute blast getting to it with engi plats

[jovial mortar]

i agree

[manic pivot]

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

Praying for 5x D&C tomorrow

Please ghostship make the dream come true 🙏

[wind zephyr]

Didn't they patch the D&C chances or did I imagine that?

[muted thistle]

Doing morkite refining missions by drilling is practically cheating.

[wind zephyr]

I always bring driller to refining missions unless there already is one heh. Too important!

[cold kindle]

Same

If next deep dive rotation doesn't contain AT LEAST ONE duck and cover then i'm gonna die due to lacking duck and cover in blood

DUCK AND COVER! SWEET SWEET DUCK AND COVER! I SUMMON YOU!

[little halo]

putting morkite well on an isolated ceiling cavity 60m immediately above the refinery is practically cheating

anyway, half the fun of defense missions is terraforming

[novel epoch]

you get mactera swarm instead

[manic pivot]

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New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[weary walrus]

[drifting tinsel]

may karl bless us

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[cold kindle]

Aight

[drifting tinsel]

i have some bad news for cj

[cold kindle]

No

No....

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 March 06 to 2025 March 13 (Week 285)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1741863600:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Salt Pits | Code Name: Gangrenous Axe
Stage 1: 7 Aquarqs + 150 Morkite | Low Oxygen
Stage 2: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator
Stage 3: 225 Morkite + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Carnal Perfection
Stage 1: 200 Morkite + 2 Eggs | Low Oxygen
Stage 2: 5 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator
Stage 3: 10 Aquarqs + Twins | Haunted Cave

Daylight savings is happening in my region this week, but DK won't start daylights savings for another three weeks. I promise to check if the timestamp is off my an hour after it hits :P

[burnt sandal]

double low O2

ew

[cold kindle]

Looks like they finally patched duck and cover spawn chance

Well

But look

Haunted cave!

Finally!

20 weeks without haunted cave

Impressive

[burnt sandal]

I didn't miss it

[cold kindle]

Well edd looks straight up disgusting. Low oxygen,long deep scan,long aquarqs,haunted cave

[novel epoch]

damn they really don't want us to breathe down there

[teal light]

Can we go back? Please.

[distant cave]

Ah, no deep dives for me this week

I refuse to play haunted cave missions out of principle

I have not seen a ghost bulk for over a year now

[patent elk]

I'm in shambles.

But still, that edd looks like it's gonna be hell

[zenith pulsar]

welp, for last edd stage my only hope for horizontal cave generation, not vertical how it was the last time (sandblasted corridors, stage 3, aquarqs, dreadnought, haunted cave)

[steady stream]

Oh this looks mad fun

[cloud tide]

After 20 weeks…
Haunted cave…

At least the low oxygen mission is a mining mission

Those are the easiest for low oxygen due to how cave gen works in those missions

Smaller caves means less distance to mule

[cold kindle]

Stop whining you making me ears hurt!

[ancient pewter]

Ahhh... Low O2 Point Extraction, how I loathe thee

[cosmic valley]

I'm having trouble with this one 😭

Elite)

Can't get past stage 1

[torpid turret]

Typo in "Low Oxygen". @drifting tinsel

[cloud tide]

They forgot the caps!

[torpid turret]

Yes.

[mental rampart]

Are you masochistic

[torpid turret]

But there is no mule...

[mental rampart]

Low oxygen Deep Scan is its own layer of hell

[cold kindle]

Yes i am

Actually no. That was joke about duck and cover that was appearing TOO OFTEN in deep dives

And when it stopped appearing/was barely appearing i started this joke

Looks like now chance of d&c appearing is equal to any other warning

[sand juniper]

2 Low O2
Haunted Cave
D&C complainers: enjoy something much worse now.

[mellow cradle]

haunted cave on aquarqs is like whatever

[cloud tide]

I don’t get it
Haunted cave isn’t that bad
Well it depends on the mission

[sand juniper]

D&C wasn't bad.

[next blaze]

I don't feel like haunted cave is much of a threat in general, but it's at its worst when combined with a dread fight

then you add in point extraction's grunt spawns that still happen while you're facing the dread

[daring sandal]

man, industrial sabotage in an elite deep dive is brutal

from yesterday's game

stage 2, 40+ minutes later, ded with a full team

nonstop swarms

[weary walrus]

D&C wasn't bad, it just got tiring.
Still better than low O2~

That Stage 3 EDD gonna piss off a lotta people.

[daring sandal]

I don't look at what the new normal deep dives are because i like surprises

but elite i'll always have a peek

[cold kindle]

I still remember edd stage 2 or 3 with haunted cave

Dreadnought hunt

That edd was spicy as heck!

[wind zephyr]

I am glad the ghost is on stage 3 EDD cause I don't care if I don't get the cosmetic infuser lol. It will be painful but at least I won't feel like I lose much if we wipe :P

The stage 2 EDD drillevator with no mutators + 1 morkite pump.... htat's basically just a normal haz5 drill mission lol. Maybe more convienient cause you don't have to search for fossils

[buoyant gulch]

they were talking about the elete deep dive

[cloud tide]

Correct

[buoyant gulch]

i read that as plankton shouting CORRECT!!!

[cold kindle]

I have all ocs (except cosmetic) so i have to suffer through all 3 stages

[cold kindle]

Ten out of ten! Best hat hunting simulator ever!

[flint widget]

Point Extraction with the horror and twins

fun fun fun

[clever raft]

Just did my first ever Deep Dive solo! I'm a little upset I didn't get it done in under 45 minutes for the achievement, but I blame that on the two bulk detonators I got on the second mission. Either way, I'm going to go get hammered on Glyphid Slammers to celebrate! Rock and Stone brothers!! Here are the results:

[wind zephyr]

Gotta post in gallery I guess?

[clever raft]

I think so, I can't seem to send it here for some reason

[amber basalt]

Solo deep dive was so insanely hard because a dumb bulk detonator spawned while I was doing the fueling step on the second mission

[clever raft]

The exact same thing happened to me except I got two. Might just be an inevitable part of the dive

[tepid hound]

Rock and Stone !!

[fading light]

I also got two bulk dets during the second stage of the basic DD, thankfully though they were during MULE scavenging and right at the end of the Uplink

[jagged abyss]

<@&296918282403840000>

[deft holly]

That's lucky, I only got the surprise bulk at the Uplink as Solo Scout, cost me the run.

Honestly, Bulk Detonators being an enemy in this game should alone have been the reason to have Salvage Operation's uplink and refuelling sequences not fail you the mission if you can't stay inside them (aka, like the second primary Blackbox)

[sand juniper]

Warning: this week's EDD is low on nitra. My team called 1 pod on stage 1, another one on 2, and about 3 on stage 3.

[humble reef]

time to get my NTP build out

[mental rampart]

Me and my team did fine on Nitra personally. It's there, just gotta look for it

Nitra was a little tight, but I wouldn't say we were low on it

[thin quiver]

Are some times of day better for opening a DDE

I ask because when I tried getting people on today, I didn't get much

[old widget]

They are usually busiest the day of the mid-week refresh, peak times depend on your time zone/region. You can also have a go at hosting one in #lfg-steam

[low pebble]

I lost the final stage of the EDD solo as gunner. Got sniped by the lacerator line attack after a dash, since it was firing through a barrier. Didn't see it, lost my last down just short of completing it on my first try.

I wanted the insanity of the first clear attempt, but I'll be going back through it tomorrow to just beat it faster.

My main question is, solo: do aquarqs or twins first?

which of those is harder under the later point extraction swarms?

im actually torn. i feel like dreads should probably go earlier so i can use downtime to concentrate on them, but aquarq digging gets slower later

[fading light]

definitely do the dreads ASAP, you cannot afford to have your attention split between them and mook hordes

[narrow oak]

Agreed

I am in one rn

“Currently down”

We collected the aquarqs first

We’re swarmed up barely came see the difference between the twins and glyphids

[tacit jungle]

EDD wasn't too hard, even when a bulk showed up on stage 3 just before the pod arrived

[grave crescent]

terrain on EDD stage 3 is just awful for exfil, but overall it wasn’t terrible this week

have a scout ready to clutch the pod if necessary, this week is a bit more vulnerable than normal to last minute team wipes, especially with late game bulks during the pod wait

either that or stay close to driller, i wouldn’t trust platforms or a zipline to get you away from the minehead and over that crater

[sand juniper]

Repellant gaming goes hard to hold the EDD stage 3 minehead. I was engi.

[low pebble]

Thanks for the advice ya'll, I took my Solo Gunner in using some of the first OCs ive unlocked, and i cleared the EDD on the second try

It really did boil down to just clearing the dreads when it was low intensity. Bosco helped all the insane aquarq positions.

this is my second EDD ever, and I dunno why i do it solo. im pretty sure im ready for team runs. i just have a middling in-game level and people were acting wary before.

i also got to experience this heart-pounding comedy moment, courtesy of a stingtail during the final extraction

ah nvm no video in this server. i got pulled onto a high bough instead of to my doom, just as i shouted "No!"

[old widget]

Congrats on the clear! You can post videos in #drg-gallery btw (or #modded-gallery if running mods)

[sterile knot]

anyone keen to join me and the mrs on EDD?

aus server

[low pebble]

thanks a lot andy. i posted it there for a comedy / horror moment from a stingtail. i even shouted a loud "no!" when i thought it'd yanked me back to my doom :3

rock n stone tho, what a great run

[lilac mason]

this weeks twin fight with the ghost bulk is actual hell

-# I also just suck at the game

[wraith shard]

wow this week's EDD was not as bad as I thought with 2 greenbeards despite the low O2 and whatever was on stage 3

although I think having my team unknowingly somehow brought a full pyro team helped in some way

[narrow oak]

I love a 30 min deep dive

[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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[lunar terrace]

hi did anyone else have a bugged out ghost on stage 3 EDD

it was slow, and then it got stuck a few times. like didn't move. though this was actually annoying in our particular playthrough due to .... circumstances.

[safe perch]

Carnal Perfection huh, Slaanesh got to Hoxxes again then?

[paper zephyr]

Yo can someone help me with the dd

[patent elk]

This EDD was so bs annoying between the terrain and nitra idk how I managed to finish it but I pulled through in the end.

10/10 loved it, would dive again

[lunar terrace]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18-Aeh7bypU5S-LqDpFjL-KEZFQjngdwW/view?usp=drive_link our group's playthrough (been doing it for years) --- just in case it helps. don't judge harshly lol

ghost bugged out, but scout err'd a little and died near it. so not sure if the buggy'ness was good or bad. whatever

i've been trying to get better at TCF

[raven carbon]

The minehead height makes it a bit tricky but you can use the height difference between the cliff and minehead to kite and slow the ghost down

[hushed sequoia]

if driller was running sludge, there is a bug atm where the slow effect in t5 won't wear off

so it will continually stack

[lunar terrace]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[chilly shore]

nice ghost you got there. however,

🧪 Protein Disruption Mix 😱 🗯️ 🦥 +Stronger Slowdown Effect 🔥 🔥 ⏬ 👈 "Disrupting the protein molecules in the goo mix has made it more rigid and harder for creatures to move through." 😈 😈 🚷 🤣 Icon Upgrade MovementSpeed.png 👢 💨 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

[oak geyser]

:0
Is this a Mission Control tupper??

[sand juniper]

Yes. I'm not sure if that's the Tupperbox bot, however.

[raven carbon]

Goo prison for ghost

[alpine mauve]

Oh that's why it was so slow when I gooped it..

[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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[cold kindle]

EDD was disgusting.
Low oxygen on 1st stage blocking your movement is pain in the ass
Long ass deep scan
And 10 aquarqs + unknown horror is peak.

It wasn't hard,1st try

It's just annoying

[paper lotus]

Nah, i love when molly run to the droppod at the end. If somebody dies and you want to help him, you cant save yourself because of oxygen

[cold kindle]

True

You can try calling resupply BUT it's deep dives and nitra carries over stages

So it's option but very expensive

[paper lotus]

Actually one time we came with driller who drilled to droppod, but we forgot about oxygen by whole team and supply saved us

[gentle plover]

Fuck this week's EDD

[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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[weary walrus]

Sludge on Stage 3 is amazing. Tough map though

[austere lake]

I know dude

It took me like 5 tries and I kept getting violated

Glad it’s over

[wraith shard]

Just on the ghost or all bugs???

Managed to get 0 downs on the edd (on my dwarf but other dwarfs got downed) as goo driller, impressive but it still took 48 minutes and other players still died alot

[next cove]

Uh oh, I forgot to do my weekly dive... I've still got time 😅

anyone for a quick DD? not gonna bother with the EDD
Made it with myself as driller, a scout and engi that were both like level 30, and a gunner who left as soon as he saw "Low Oxygen"

[manic pivot]

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New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[hushed sequoia]

all bugs, but only tanks can survive enough DOT for it to matter

[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 March 13 to 2025 March 20 (Week 286)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1742468400:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Covetous Impact
Stage 1: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard & Twins) + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: 3 Mini-M.U.L.Es & Uplink + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + Black Box | Exploder Infestation

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: First Slope
Stage 1: Industrial Sabotage + Liquid Morkite Well | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 3: 7 Aquarqs + Twins | No Mutator

sorry cj

[sand juniper]

Where the hell is my duck and cover?

[thick edge]

no mutator stage 3 is amazing

i love you deep rock galactic

[distant cave]

Swarmageddon week, not too bad

[clever raft]

I am nowhere skilled enough to take on an EDD, but the DD seems pretty fun in my opinion.

[cold kindle]

I can't believe it

No duck and covers

AGAIN

That's impossible!

[cold kindle]

Well that looks alright

Industrial sabo isn't that hard imo
4 eggs is incredible fast
7 aquarqs isn't 10 aquarqs + no warning so i won't complain

[zenith pulsar]

rollercoaster around caretaker

[steady stream]

...don't give me stupid ideas

[fading light]

swarmageddons on Elim and Sabo missions, oof

EDD final mission being a runback of Aquarqs + Twins is hilarious tho

[safe leaf]

So it's exactly like last EDD last phase
Except this time way more survivable because no ghostdet

Stage 2 CLC
Spicy

Hmmm

Looks like it's gonna be neat to take 22331 or 23231 scorching tide for this
Or ice storm

Or go engie with diffractor

[wind zephyr]

fewer aquarqs too! They just decided it was too hard last time hahah

I would like to see the stats on the failure rate of each section

[fading light]

can confirm Shart Engie works well this week, Caretaker and Twins are prime Overdrive Booster stonks

roughest stage on the EDD was the first one if only because we didn't have a Driller for the swarmers or Caretaker C4s

[safe leaf]

ECR+VIR worked like a charm two weeks ago for swarmers and parasites
Also did quite a lot of hurt to caretaker

Though I'd be more doubtful in their potential vs Twins, back then there was no dread to fight of any sort

[trim crescent]

breach cutter also good option

with trail

[safe leaf]

Breach has a bit limited granularity vs swarmers and range vs arbalest or caretaker

Hits lacerator hard and barges through repulsion fields though, so still ample pick

[trim crescent]

if you opt for conductive thermals team then you can get close to one shotting the twins on spawn

if you 4 man though then gunner with minigun is already good enough for arb and you can take it easier

[rustic shoal]

How long do peeps in EU need to wait for deep dive group

[outer bloom]

If you shoot the cocoon fast enough, the minehead will fall on the twins instantly killing them. It’s in a tough spot but I tested it and it can be done 👍

[gusty dune]

That would’ve been useful to know the first few times

[next blaze]

someone has to be crazy enough to bumrush and pop the dread egg on touchdown

to find that one out

[grave crescent]

magma difractor on the EDD this week was lovely, evaporated the swarmer clusters and let the team focus on important things like the caretaker

also for the first time i didn't go down on the EDD or the DD (although there's an asterisk there as the EDD was shielded by red rock blaster)

[tacit jungle]

very smooth EDD this week

didn't manage to hit the egg early though, it's really jammed up in the ceiling

Also did regular DD for once, extremely chill vibe. Pop both dreads, get all the eggs and the blackbox, it's all good bro

[trim crescent]

did you route the dreads some specific way or just stood in a way where the minehead just drops between you and the coccoon

[outer bloom]

I went up to the top where the coccoon is, popped it, then stood at the edge of where the mine head comes down and makes a hole. I waited until the dreads showed up then dodged the mine head at the last second

[trim crescent]

i ended up doing like 50 resets and the only consistent way i got was baiting the dreads from the left of the stalk infront of the egg and then routing them straight in

biggest trouble is getting the arbalest to tank minehead for me

[outer bloom]

I can send you a video of what I'm doing - I've only tried it a couple times but got it each time

[austere lake]

Is this weeks EDD better than the last one?

[grave crescent]

yes

no low oxygen, no lethal enemies sabo in a terrible room, no modifier on stage 3

[hasty hamlet]

Is the spot to stand precise? I've been able to only get the lacerator killed by the minehead

[fading light]

absolutely

[austere lake]

Thank fuck

[trim crescent]

i think its just rng

at least my brain doesnt comprehend how you hit it 100%

[hasty hamlet]

could be rng, and there's probably a way to mitigate it

[outer bloom]

Try tempting the Arbalest with a handful of Barley Bulbs. They are generally shy but may approach if intrigued

[hasty hamlet]

Ah, that might be the strat. Got a bunch of those. I've been trying to lure it with my laser pointer like those cat videos. Thanks, I'll try that out

[trim crescent]

barley bulb sub 15 duo possible

[thorny lark]

nah, too broken

[cosmic valley]

No spoilers is sludge good here?

For edd

[turbid bane]

anyone EU wanna do regular DD?

[fading light]

i wouldn't recommend sludge for it, no

[cosmic valley]

Already finished it with sludge

[fading light]

nice

[next cove]

Yo why does the EDD look easier than the DD?

What a great week without any Duck & Cover

[onyx obsidian]

Cheers to the four Engi team I just did the EDD with. No clue if you're on here, but that was the most fun I've for a while

[cerulean harness]

it was just me or this edd is very low on nitra?

[drifting tinsel]

i feel like it was pretty normal for nitra, starting stage is sabo after all

and plenty more near the initial drop on stage 3

[royal spoke]

For me it was plenty. Got like...350 nitra on just the first stage, then about another 200 on stage 2 which was more than enough

[cerulean harness]

Me and my team did a poor job finding nitra at stage 1 then

[fresh robin]

finished the EDD

[fervent sand]

last stage had a lot tho

[fervent sand]

^

[lean tundra]

Had the same experience, didn’t find a whole lot on stage 1. We still made it through but didn’t have tons of extra

[quasi bluff]

so i am looking for some people to do a deep dive with my server code (if i set it up right) is DRG all i want is some overclocks

[snow kettle]

hi guys i just bought the game with my friend a couple of days ago and we got this cube with random letters, and just wanted to ask what is it?

[ancient pewter]

Far as I know, its only uses is being mysterious and giving exp for minerals mined

[burnt sandal]

#drg-gallery pinned messages

[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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[sly hamlet]

Can my friend who didnt promote any dwarf play deep dives with me if I promote a dwarf?

[burnt sandal]

no

[sly hamlet]

ok thanks

[trim silo]

Everyone in the deep dive must be playing a class that is promoted

[hardy wigeon]

Does conductive thermal amplify the splash dmg

Since i read somewhere that its fire dmg

[near lynx]

Hot damn the stage 2 EDD hoarder is a slippery little bastard

if you play it cautious you'll wake it up since its based on proximity and not on LoS
if you play it aggressive you gotta go to where all the map control is, where it turtles

[cold kindle]

If the weapon has the Plasma Splash upgrade enabled, it will apply these effects individually with both the direct damage and area damage, meaning it can apply it to multiple targets at a time and apply it twice per shot on targets hit by the projectiles directly.

Source: https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/wiki/DRAK-25_Plasma_Carbine

[mellow cradle]

while that's true, that wasn't exactly their question

but yes, plasma splash deals 5 damage, which is 50-50 disintegrate and fire damage
so half of it's damage will be amplified

[austere lake]

Why is it always dense bio one

[alpine pulsar]

They had to ,ake up for their being no duck and cover. So now there's dense biozone again

[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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[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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[lyric harbor]

is this week's elite dep dive hard? (the unrefreshed one)

or just anything special

[manic pivot]

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[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 March 20 to 2025 March 27 (Week 287)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1743073200:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Magma Core | Code Name: Crimson Citadel
Stage 1: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Liquid Morkite Well | Blood Sugar Mactera Plague
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster
Stage 3: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblaster Corridors | Code Name: Mighty Face
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + Classic | Haunted Cave
Stage 2: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Classic | Exploder Infestation
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Mactera Plague

[steady stream]

Poor cj

[drifting tinsel]

forgor dreadnought on edd 2

hold on

[distant cave]

No ducks this week

[drifting tinsel]

either it's been silently patched or we just had a really lucky streak

[forest sapphire]

I guess cryo cannon is the way

[safe leaf]

Pheromones bolts for phase 2

Free bombings on the dreadnought

...unless?

[ancient pewter]

Haunted Cave, my beloathed

[steady stream]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepRockGalactic/s/0Iud5koJbi

Huh

Wonder if its like that for everyone

[drifting tinsel]

my team got lucky and didn't have that issue, but our morkite well was on the far side of the cave, away from the drop pod

i think some objective locations are slightly mixed in solo play compared to with a team, but the cave shape stays the same. bit of a silly bug when it happens but there's really not many people playing in the same cave more than once lol

[burnt sandal]

might have more to do with cave gen on different platforms

[sand juniper]

I believe it should be preventable by having platforms above the pumpjack, after the pumpjack itself is called, and before the uplink is called. That would have the game consider the platforms in mind when selecting a position for the fuel pod. I'll try it myself later and see if that works.

[cold kindle]

Damn it!

Mactera plague is not equal to duck and cover

[obsidian echo]

Mactera plague + Duck and cover would be so peak

[weary walrus]

Haunted cave? I think you mean Slime Time

[cold kindle]

Hold up

Is this really true

That we finally got

Blood sugar anomaly?

It makes it's appearence...3rd time in deep dives? iirc

[cold kindle]

No way

And haunted cave

Unbelievable!

[buoyant gulch]

oh no mactera plague is gonna suuuuuuucccckkkk

at least there's no hiveguard

[buoyant gulch]

duckncover spawns mactera ye'know

or every time i've gotten DnC i just got unlucky

[tepid hamlet]

Supposedly it does, but it feels like 90% spitters

[raven carbon]

It is a special experience to see the ceiling crawling with spitters

The feeling of terror and anticipating a bunch of poison shots that will down you from full hp

[errant dagger]

that edd was damn insane

[mellow cradle]

was it?
didn't feel like it to me

the second stage had a good amount of stationaries, but I was cryo bolt scout, so

[lean tundra]

We got a dread spawn on the last stage

But we had 4 death laser engis so it worked out lol

[magic mirage]

Just out of curiosity, does everyone get different weekly deep dives or do we all get the same? :3

[burnt sandal]

we all get the same

[magic mirage]

Ah okay cool :3

[burnt sandal]

with minor differences between Steam and all other versions, due to cave gen being a bit more complex on the Steam version

[buoyant gulch]

will they ever fix the miners union bot?

[next pebble]

@buoyant gulch probably not, no.

It was made by a dev who no longer works for gsg, and it was a pet project.

[buoyant gulch]

[humble reef]

pretty sure you can c4 the surface below this and it'll drop but the oil well won't, akin to how reuspply pods go through caretaker platform or other objects

like you can see the fuel pod's bottom would be about where the bottom of the oil well would be too

[burnt sandal]

no

[jolly wing]

Genuinely Curious. What's stopping them from fixing it
Legal? Not in the field of expertise? Or just not in priority list?

[mellow cradle]

probably 2 and/or 3 if I had to guess

[burnt sandal]

personal project means they don't know much about its inner working
and it's really not on the priority list. Main interest for it was growing the discord - which it did. it worked so well, there's over 650 000 people in the discord, that puts it among the biggest gaming oriented discords.

[solid marsh]

oof that's unfortunate
So its the forbidden spaghetti code now for the devs

[visual sparrow]

Love it on my first deep dive when a fuel charge pod drops in the same place as a liquid morkite vein :')))

Meaning i couldnt reach it

[vague lantern]

that'd be because it is. the grunts get replaced by spitters pretty much, and the other stuff has an unavoidably high spawnrate

i'd say my least favorite part about it is that i cant accurately shoot their faces most of the time due to a lack of them looking at me until they're already firing

duck and cover is a straight up middle finger to the ammo econ of most builds

but i'm probably the only person that sees it that way lmfao

[solid marsh]

and also even shooting their face they have more hp than a grunt
so some things that can 1-tap grunts have to shoot 2 times to kill an acid spitter

[vague lantern]

for the acid bois yeah, the web spitters thankfully fall over to anything stronger than a singular microwave particle

[solid marsh]

but there always seems to be more acid spitters than web

[chilly shore]

funniest part of duck and cover is when you end up treating the spitters as grunts and kill them with trash clear weapons like sticky flames

[granite spire]

I saw this once. Didn't do the mission though

[clever raft]

So, I'm thinking of doing the DD soon, anything I should know going in solo? I am worried about the first stage where the fuel cells clips into the morkite well.

[mellow cradle]

it doesn't on steam

at least it didn't for me

[clever raft]

That's good to know as I also play on steam

[wind zephyr]

Dang I see what people mean about the bugged Deep dive now :c

I am on steam and the fuel cells definitely did clip into the morkite well

Just impossible to connect :c (definitely bring an engineer and place a platform Above the pump before summoning fuel cells)

[thin quiver]

I'm waiting for 3 more peeps if y'all are game for a DDE

[wind zephyr]

ok I dug under the fuel cell and it fell through. I used c4, I don't know if that's needed or not but I got the mission to work now

[lunar terrace]

re-placing things is always an important considerations. I think the RNG being naughty in this case just helps pple learn that

some things can be moved. some things cannot

though GSG does great things with incorporating hints within the audio and stuff. this--- not sure pple ever get in-game hints on over time hah

this EDD though... nitra wasn't that great over the first 2 stages... and we had 2 bulks in stage 2

first time my team tried, we lost in stage 2 --- nitra was an issue and bulk occurred DURING the defend-the-area phase. we haven't lost in a while. we were using classes with new builds we weren't used to. oh well. then we reverted to builds we had used before.

[mortal cliff]

or just dig underneath as driller/ use c4

they should fall

[granite spire]

Thinking of doing the DD, how is it this week

[wind zephyr]

Not bad but the first mission can have the drop pod recovery fuel cell land inside a morkite well and you may need drills/c4 to dig the terrain inside the well so the fuel cell falls through

not everyone has it land there though. I did solo driller on steam and it landed there and I was able to dig the fuel cell down and complete it

Other than that, it went smoothly. Lots of nitra

[tender halo]

mission management have been going soft on elite deep dive recently

it alsmost felt like a normal deep dive

completed with 300+ left over nitra

[ember sky]

i had my first elite deep dive this week, ended up with 19 downs

still got hard carried to the end though

[tall meadow]

this one was a rougher one for new folks

I did some runs for some randoms

my back got sore a bit after each dwarf went down 25+ times

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[wind zephyr]

Just did EDD with solo driller [Volitale Impact Mixture sludge pump | wave cooker with some clean overclock I dunno]. I decided to give it a go cause red rock blasters were in the bar and the extra hp was a big help. VIM is nice for dreadnaughts because you can just hit them from any angle, don't have to hit weakpoints. Just spam fire and they go down relatively quickly, can use c4 a bit to save on primary ammo if you wish.

Stage 1: 4 Eggs + Classic | Haunted Cave

Ghost was very very annoying solo. I died once to depositing while the ghost crept up on me heh. Otherwise wasn't too bad. Menaces were annoying. Drills helped shape terrain so I could travel around in a big circle in the central room kiting ghost/dreadnaught/meance/waves. Enough nitra to start the next mission with an extra resupply.

Stage 2: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Classic | Exploder Infestation

Wave Cooker pops packs of exploders without damaging terrain which helps. There were a lot of menaces on this mission, 5? That's probably just luck though. 1 bulk detonator too. Lots of nitra on this mission; enough to do the next mission without nitra mining if you really wanted for some reason.

Stage 3: 200 Morkite + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Mactera Plague

The 2 mini mules are in a large open area and that's the worst place to fight mactera. Would recommend getting that part done quickly (don't bother mining nitra here you should have plenty). Mactera were much easier to fight in tunnels where you have a corner to hide around and they are clustered together. Once I dug my own tunnel/corner. I probably would have failed the DD in the open area with mactera were it not for the +69% hp from buff booze.

[vast cypress]

Sounds like an epic dd

Love haunted cave

[wind zephyr]

See I find haunted cave mostly tedious haha. It can definitely increase pressure though especially on point extraction

(for the most part it just means you might mine something and come back to pick it up later or make laying pipes really annoying. It can be bad when everything you want is in one spot and/or point extraction means the wasted time translates to much more enemies spawning)

[clever raft]

Just a heads up for my fellow dwarves doing the standard deep dive, I encountered a Nemesis on stage 1 which caught me off guard, but it wasn't too bad to deal with. Also, regarding the fuel cells, it doesn't always get stuck in the morkite well as mine landed basically right next to the drop pod. Rock and Stone!

[granite spire]

I did too

Encounter a nemesis

[halcyon carbon]

I just recently started playing the game and am very hesitant to do a Deep Dive lol

worried I’ll get rolled

[granite spire]

Wait until you're better before trying a deep dive

It's not much worse then haz 4 though, if you can handle those you'll be fine

[wind zephyr]

I get nervous about joining DD groups too so I solo about half the time

Normal DD is haz 3, then 3.5 then 3.5 and there's no secondaries to worry about and nitra carries over so it's actually easier in some ways than normal missions

[halcyon carbon]

wait you can’t use secondaries?

[wind zephyr]

I mean there's not the normal secondary objectives like collecting fossils to distract you

[clever raft]

No, he means there are no secondary objectives, just two primary objectives per stage of the deep dive. You can still use your primary and secondary weaponsa s well as all your other gear and equipment

[halcyon carbon]

OH sorry I’m dumb

[clever raft]

Also, the only minerals that spawn are Nitra and Gold if I'm correct

[clever raft]

Don't stress, I also had to learn

[fading light]

basic Deep Dives are quite doable, I'd definitely give em a shot

Elite Deep Dives are the ones you definitely want to do later, after getting used to Haz 5

[jovial portal]

Is anyone doing a dep dive right now? i haven't done this weeks, and no one wants to join my lobby

Er

Planning to do a deep dive, doesn't help me much if you're already in one lol

[plush rock]

Any tips on how to do this deep dive? Done like 7 runs at this point with a random 4-stack but every time we barely scrape through the first level and the get hard rolled on the second

Elite

I'm also relatively new to the game so I only have Gunner promotion with base weapons

[fading light]

stage 1 is helped a lot if you have Engi and Driller terraform the room for easy traversal to kite the Horror around

stage 2 you'll want to avoid traveling alone while exploring the Drop Pod room; it simply helps to have another pair of eyes on the lookout for surprise Exploder gangs (little bastards are fast on Haz 5)

[clever raft]

As someone who has never played Haz 5 and also dislikes Exploders for how silent they are (until they are about to explode behind you), thanks for the tip as I am trying to get good enouhg to play Haz 5

[lunar terrace]

just use headset.

ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

normal buffs for fps

[royal spoke]

Even with a headset I can't hear em (I blasted dwarf metal in my ears for a bit too long and got kinda deaf)

[lunar terrace]

ooooooo

[long matrix]

Yeah exploiters are a reaction time check. You need to be able to pinpoint where they are as soon as you hear the sound. You’ve got a full 1.5 seconds to move out of the way before they pop.

Or just check your surroundings often. Good thing they glow in the dark.

[wind zephyr]

I mean if you can't see them but you hear them, you just move forward

[surreal finch]

Ive never done an Elite Deep Dive, would anyone be willing to carry help me through my first one?

[thin quiver]

Ok tried the deep drive elite

FUCK

THAT

We all died by round 2

Multiple bulk dets

And multiple menaces

It sucked

Never doing DDE again

[chilly shore]

sounds like fun

[tacit jungle]

common mistake: thinking the big bug is someone else's problem and ignoring it

solution: shoot it

[thin quiver]

It was actually exhausting

[lean tundra]

Yeah this one’s a doozy

We got 2 rounds of double bulk spawns on stage 2 😂

[thin quiver]

The challenge goes from fun to bullshit fast

[lean tundra]

I think the hardest part is pushing into that crazy main room on stage 2, and you don’t have much nitra up until that point

[fading light]

multiple bulks sounds like horrendous luck

[solid marsh]

they seem to be almost guaranteed, got bulks every time I got to that stage (which is to say 3 attempts)

[tacit jungle]

you only ever need to kill one of double bulks!

[glass hearth]

guys im gonna go attempt an elite deep dive after i finish the normal

[lunar terrace]

nice

[raven carbon]

You might get someone on the lfg channels

[cursive thicket]

Is it just me that thinks it dumb how you can't farm deep dives for overclocks and blank cores

At least get a blank core for a re running it cuz I've been running out of them lately

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[mental rampart]

EDD this week is rough

[mental rampart]

Honestly I consider it a good excuse to step away from the game, take a break. Do wish there was a way to go for a specific Overclock though

[mental rampart]

EDD this week is really rough even for veterans. I'd wait a day for the new roll

An EDD host will fill quick too if you do it on the first day

[surreal finch]

Yeah but I still wanna give it a shot 😄 managed to do Stage 1 relatively easily yesterday but then we had someone dc and we ran out of ammo on the second stage

Stage 3 is the hardest I assume?

[mental rampart]

No, first stage was easily the hardest cause of having to deal with a dreadnought and haunted cave at the same time. So nitra scarce

Only enough nitra for one resup from what we could find, on the first stage

[surreal finch]

Yep it was rough

Can you still join someone elses EDD if you have already done yours?

[mental rampart]

Ye

If you haven't gotten to the 2nd/3rd stage reward, you can still do another if you want to try for it again

[surreal finch]

Is the map generation the exact same for each weeks deep dives?

[mental rampart]

Yes

It is randomly generated, but the map and bugs are the same that whole week for the DD/EDD

It's why people speedrun it. You can just try again and again the whole week

[turbid bane]

It's smooth sailing after that problem room in stage 2

Tbh

Stage 1 is really rough for nitra, 160 if you really look for it

[faint crag]

Yeah me and some guys got rolled cause we couldn't get a second resupply. Sucks I wanted to finish the elite

[vague lantern]

i ran ntp just for the maintenance, and by god was the ammo efficiency required

a bunch of greenbeards joined me (driller ran subata with cryo and the engi had warthog spinning death, like really?)

i swear their combined deaths were nearly 50

no, possibly over 60

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[hybrid pier]

I cleared the EDD a couple hours ago and one dude had like 37 deaths, this was a rough one lol

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[distant cave]

Lets see what we get today

I hope lots of ducks :3

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[drifting tinsel]

i have good news for cj

[turbid coral]

oh

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 March 27 to 2025 April 03 (Week 288)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1743674400:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Magma Core | Code Name: Useless Carve
Stage 1: 225 Morkite + 2 Eggs | No Mutator
Stage 2: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Salt Pits | Code Name: Fierce Basin
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + Classic | Parasites
Stage 2: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + Classic | No Mutator
Stage 3: Escort Duty + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Exploder Infestation

[burnt sandal]

Liwuid morkite well

[turbid coral]

hahhaha

[drifting tinsel]

one of these days i will learn how to type

[burnt sandal]

all good, was just funny

[steady stream]

@cold kindle we ducking and covering with this one

[drifting tinsel]

this is our first set of dives in 20 weeks in which we haven't had a resonance scan objective in some form, kinda huge

if we get one more liquid morkite secondary in the next rotation + no resonance scan objectives, then those two will be tied for most frequently-occurring secondary

[thorny gull]

Liuwuid

[torpid vigil]

Can't wait to play this one

[cold kindle]

Today i'm gonna spend all my credits in the bar

It's duck and cover time

[steady stream]

[sharp cradle]

Only Classic Dreadnoughts oh blessed day

[zenith pulsar]

again two classic dreads at edd lol

[distant cave]

We got ducks again

Yay

[turbid bane]

lets fucking gooo

I love looking up at the ceiling to reveal a horrifying sea of acid spitters ready to oneshot me into the next dimension

[austere lintel]

At east duck and cover isnt on escord duty

I dont want to re live the menace incident

[plain matrix]

Duck and cover is back

yay..?

[vale citrus]

agony

[finite bobcat]

No swarmageddon? Guess I'm not running bullet hell

[turbid bane]

Why would you run bullet hell ever

[chilly shore]

smh bullet hell haters

[vague lantern]

Bullet hell is good fun

Just run it with a good single target burt build for macteras and big bugs and you're golden

[hexed fulcrum]

Can we rock and stone

Or is it core and stone

[rigid flax]

Swarmer type mutators, cryo comp, stun support.

Duck and cover.

[finite bobcat]

it's always fun when you are just spraying into a gigantic horde of swarmers and the bullets are just ricocheting everywhere

[turbid bane]

Burt always felt terrible, I have no clue if I'm misbuilding it or just not using it right

[clever raft]

I could be wrong, but didn't we get 3 resonance crystals + drillevator last week in the standard deep dive (Stage 3 1st Primary Objective)?

[drifting tinsel]

correct, but it's been 20 weeks since we didn't have resonance crystals for primary and/or secondary

deep scan has been the highest-frequency secondary for... uhhhh i'm not going to count lol
but it's becoming very, very close to getting taken over

[clever raft]

Ohhh, I see. Thanks for clarifying as I got a little bit confused I think. I'm just happy that Duck & Cover is on the last stage as I'd hate to have them weaken you severely early on

[urban scarab]

i hate deeps scan so much, that radar is mocking me

"you're close.. you're close.... aaaaaand you lost it, idiot"

[fading light]

basic Deep Dive this week is Eggs all the way down lol

[urban scarab]

classic omelette deep dive

[buoyant gulch]

exploder infestation escort? last stage!?!?!?? ohhh noooo...

[clever raft]

I am willing to bet a round of Oily Oafs that those eggs are all going to Management to eat for a while. Do you think the eggs would taste good? I think they might IF prepared properly

[buoyant gulch]

i don't care what they are doing with the eggs (cuz they are just eggs the only thing you can do with em is science stuff and food ) i want to know what kind of eggs they are, glyphid eggs? dreadnaught? stalker? what is it????

[clever raft]

Those... are very good questions. I doubt they'd be Dreadnought and Swarmer eggs (technically cocoons for the dreadnought) as we know what they look like. Maybe general Grunt eggs? Very valid questions indeed... Management has some explaining to do

[buoyant gulch]

nononono the cocoons aren't dreadnaught eggs its like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly the dreadnaughts wrap themselves in a cocoon and we have to go stop them from turning into a mega dreadnaught

[wind zephyr]

maybe the eggs grow bigger, absorbing the nutrient-rich biomatter around them until they become dreadnaught eggs?

[clever raft]

What are Dreadnoughts again? I know some bugs were getting bigger and we stopped them hence dreadnoughts. What were they before they pupate in their cocoon?

[clever raft]

Very fair point. I need to brush up on my knowledge of the bugs again x)

[clever raft]

Makes sense why they'd be in that fleshy material

[buoyant gulch]

possible but its not gonna turn into a cocoon cuz of what i just said (cool theory tho)

[wind zephyr]

yeah I forgot those were cacoons not eggs haha

[buoyant gulch]

cacoons

cocoon

[clever raft]

Don't stress, it happens x)

I have to say, I am a little bit worried that this weeks deep dive is in the Magma Core again. I hardly go there and now for a second week I'm being thrown in there

[buoyant gulch]

hey is there a different disruptive and special enemy pool pull for each stage or is it just the same for the whole deep dive?

[mellow cradle]

the pools are different between stages

[buoyant gulch]

k

[haughty light]

the eggs aren't glyphid eggs i think

it was written somewhere in game that it was not glyphid eggs

[clever raft]

Really? Any idea what they could be then?

[grave crescent]

i would say be a little conservative with your ziplines (or liberal with your resupplies) and navigation for all 3 maps of the normal deep dive should be totally fine, even without a driller

the last map’s central room can be a bit of a mess if people are popping eggs out of the walls like candy

[dire flame]

do you get rewards for doing elite and regular dives or does doing one get everything

[fading light]

they have seperate rewards

[dire flame]

thank you :D

[tacit jungle]

Well that wasn't too bad. We brought conductive thermals/cryo minelets, sludge, NTP, EM discharge so the dreads on first two stages just... didn't do anything. Someone call the feds, we're abusing the wildlife

[clever raft]

Thanks for the advice!

[fiery plover]

Is this a modded dpg chat?

[grave crescent]

no, there’s a separate section for that

[vague lantern]

the edd wasn't bad this time

the team ran random loadouts like big bertha and ecr+fat boy and everything still went well

a bulk spawned right at the start of stage one and my entire team unanimously decided to kill the dreadnought with it lmao

idk if ommorran phases are consistent in deep dives, but if it is then the scariest part might just be the 4th phase flying rocks on stage 3.

[rough sequoia]

Some1 wanna run the Elite DD?

[ebon frigate]

Is there a reason why people will skip doing the core stone event?

[wind zephyr]

I always skip events in deep dives (because there are no events in deep dive :P)

[elfin berry]

I've never skipped one. Still going strong at 0/0 deep dive events completed

[nocturne bolt]

do anyone want to help with deep dive ?

[cyan holly]

i havent played deep rock on a while and damn the edd of this week was awesome

[cold kindle]

Why everyone is so excited about current edd?

Like really

We saw much more digusting deep dives than this one

Duck and cover drilldozer in last stage for example

[vast anvil]

anyone has advice for the regular deep dives last stage?

[cursive thicket]

I think it's rng cuz when I did it with 4 Randoms we no lie walked out of the pod into a nemesis, 2 spitball infectors on either side of the pod, another further away, an oppressor which isn't much but he had a massive swarm with him off the bat for some reason, but I did it with jus one other and it was chill so idk

[cursive thicket]

What's the last stage of it I already forgor

[vast anvil]

duck and cover, 6 eggs, point exctraction

[cursive thicket]

O yea, honestly I jus do the normal deep dives solo on scout but whatever class ur most comfortable with

If ur solo it's alot less enemies and Bosco freeze missles can carry in a decent size swarm

Maybe engi auto lock gun to help with multiple flyers at once since you play him

And Bosco has 4 rez that reset every stage AND you can still iron will near a resupply or red sugar

[lime hollow]

I haven't ran it yet but salvage before it is a huge buff. If you run it solo and have trouble on the last stage I'd drop supplies early in a safe spot with room to maneuver and a chokepoint to take cover and let Bosco do the heavy lifting for egg recovery and pipe construction.

If I'm solo and there's a morkite well sometimes I like to make a long pipe for an easy "highway" to move around an open space. Bosco doesn't care how silly your pipe is but it can be a huge asset to get around a room when there's 500 spitters shooting at you

[vocal hearth]

this edd was very exhausting. Got around 1100 killed bugs because of sweating

3rd stage was the most devious

[granite spire]

This goes for all refining missions, I always ask if it's okay and usually people are fine with slightly longer pipes for better defense. Once we wound the pipe around a core stone

[wind zephyr]

For duck and cover on solo driller I just dug a tunnel with a corner to hide behind every wave lol

Tunnel digging also massively helpful for that morkite well since the pipe node landed far away

[grave crescent]

having an experienced gunner who uses their shield for not only revives but also cleaning up the mactera clusters can take a lot of the pressure off

duck and cover in that map is kind of like an arena fight in the doom games lol, standing still for more than a second or two means your shield’ll get popped by an acid spitter from 70 meters away

building stun or freeze will also help since those hard counter mactera spawns and menaces

[faint crag]

How the deep dives looking? Haven't gotten to touch them yet

[wind zephyr]

Exploder infestation on escort duty in the last stage of EDD sounds fun :P

[faint crag]

👁️ 👄 👁️

[teal light]

i'm doing a solo regular dive and it's unreal how boring they are

actually falling asleep

[opaque canyon]

i had 3 detonators back to back on the second stage of this week deep dive, is it normal ?

[royal spoke]

Normal or Elite?

[opaque canyon]

normal

i know that for deep dive the cave layout and the spawn of huuli hoarder is not random between each run but is it the case for detonator ?

[royal spoke]

Oh I had that happen on the Elite for me. Got two bulks on stage 2

[wind zephyr]

Huuli hoarder is generated, not spawned after the mission starts. I assume that's why it's not random between runs.

[solid marsh]

My host had a really unfortunate internet issue before the last stage of this week's elite dive finished, first the gunner and driller lost connection but somehow I didn't, but eventually the same happened to me
I'm not too upset about it but I do feel sorry for the other 2 who also couldn't finish the dive and the host whose internet was probably out of their control

[drifting tinsel]

weirdly enough my lobby had the same issue (and i was the gunner lol). i was stuck on the loading screen and my loading bar never moved from fully black until i restarted the game and rejoined

[gleaming laurel]

The team I was just on lost the EDD at the final mission, last stage of the heart stone

I'm not upset about it but the host kicked everybody from the game after we got back to the med bay 😅

[wind zephyr]

Like kicked everyone specifically? Not just disbanded? I can understand disbanding after an hour long+ mission weather it succeeds or fails haha

Or even normal length missions. Sometimes people just got other things to do and don't want to spend more time hanging around

[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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[wraith shard]

I just finish the elite deep dive (2 player) what a nightmare

[wind zephyr]

All the way through or was just the last level a nightmare?

[wraith shard]

The omoran one particulary

[vivid haven]

just did deep dive for the week (first time) and i got blank cosmetic for first and second mission... what??

[vivid haven]

blank core not cosmetic

is this something that happens when you get close to having all the overclocks?? I got the cosmetic finishing the final DD mission.

[sour frigate]

You get a blank core instead of a weapon overclock if you have them all.

[vivid haven]

but i dont have them all (about 15 away)

feels like it tries to find one (like random roll) but if it retries a few times it gives up!!

[sour frigate]

I just recently finished getting all of the overclocks and never had this happen 🤷

[burnt sandal]

aren't there already in your forge, waiting to be forged ?

by any chance ?

[vivid haven]

no, i am very nerdy and have a s.sheet 😄

[burnt sandal]

first time hearing about this then 👀

[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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[mellow cradle]

are you sure your sheet is correct?
did your sheet take into account overclocks from holday assingments for example?
I would check with this site if you have them all
https://drg-completionist.com

[drifting tinsel]

^ the drg-completionist site hasn't been updated in a while, and some cosmetic overclocks have been missing from the site for a long time
i made my own spreadsheet out of frustration with the site lol https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hwDFUw2JajSxesau-dFbR0FUIOL7IxL5NgTFeJRfB18/edit?usp=sharing
maybe you started your spreadsheet before a bunch of overclocks got moved back into their respective season passes, and that would be where the unaccounted ones have gone

[mellow cradle]

oh

neat

[humble reef]

tysm, made a copy for myself

really love the gruvbox linux style color scheme you got there

[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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[thorny berry]

Rock and Stone!

[raven carbon]

No OCs got moved to season passes

Only cosmetics

[drifting tinsel]

cosmetic overclocks are still overclocks

[raven carbon]

But the person who posted said they're getting blanks in slot two

Which means weapon OCs are over

Cosmetic slot is replaced by mineral containers not blanks

[raven carbon]

It shouldn't happen. Getting a blank in slot two in the deep dive happens only after all OCs are over.

[vivid haven]

so.... my spreadsheet was a work of f*!king fiction and whilst i thought i had 10 left i have them all (after checking the forge history) FML.... apols!

[burnt sandal]

well, better this than a bug

did you base your spreadsheet on the fandom wiki per chance ?

[vivid haven]

not sure, there was an issue i had before when the resource i had used didnt have them all but this was simply down to me being an idiot....

[burnt sandal]

ah well, it happens. At least it's cleared.
Congrats on finishing up all the weapon OCs though

[vivid haven]

thanks!

[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 April 03 to 2025 April 10 (Week 289)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1744282800:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Leaf Lover's Pit
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + 2 Eggs | No Mutator
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Twins & Hiveguard) + Black Box | Ebonite Outbreak

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: Hard Shroud
Stage 1: 200 Morkite + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator
Stage 2: Escort Duty + 150 Morkite | Ebonite Outbreak
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon

[clever raft]

I bet CJ is happy again for this weeks Deep Dive

[clever raft]

Just want to ask, is this just on my game or are others experiencing it, I have last weeks deep dives available at the terminal and not the new ones. Any idea why?

Nevermind, restarting the game fixed it

[drifting tinsel]

yeah the weeklies don't reset if you started your game before the second the refresh actually happens, i wish disbanding lobby would fix it but it doesn't :/

[clever raft]

Ohhh, I see. Thanks for confirming

[pure sonnet]

Can anyone explain Deep Dives to me and how difficult they are?

Are each stages progressed one after another in the same zone or are there pauses like loading into a newly generated biome or getting back to the Spacerig?

[lament coral]

each stage is basically like a normal mission

you do objectives, then call the mule/send the rocket or refinery back up and go to the drop pod to progress to the next stage

they're not too difficult, especially if you check the pins in this channel before you do them to get a warning on what's gonna show up

if you can handle regular haz5 missions you should be able to do dd and edd with little issue

[lament coral]

oh, nitra also carries over between stages

[mellow cradle]

#deep-dive-discussion message

[cold kindle]

Let's fucking go

Duck and cover is so back

Paired with ebonite outbreak

Hell yeah!

[pure sonnet]

Nice, thank you guys!

[chilly shore]

double ebonite no way

rarest warning of all dd history

[plain matrix]

Cannot wait for duck and cover to be constant all over again

[elder cobalt]

ok so I just unlocked deep dives, are they a thing I can just jump into or are they like super hard?

[burnt sandal]

they're not super, normal deep dives are like haz 3 and elite deep dives are like haz 5

[elder cobalt]

I've never done a haz 5 mission so I think I'll avoid the elite ones

thanks

[burnt sandal]

np