deep-dive-discussion

[mellow cradle]

the elite stage 2 has at least 2 special slots occupied by swarmers

bulks are in the disruptive pool too

[chilly shore]

i love swarmers

[wraith shard]

if you replay a deepdive, do you get the overclocks again?

[mellow cradle]

no

only credits and exp (which are inferior to if you had played 3 normal missions)

so there is no reason to reapeat them in a given week, unless for fun / carrying

[pale fossil]

I did my deep dive and got my special powder on scout 🔥

[tacit jungle]

This week's edd was pretty relaxing, pub randos had the good sense to bring swarm clear

[clever raft]

Standard deep dive was fun. Just a heads up though, I encountered a bulk detonator during stage 2 during the drillevator section

[turbid bane]

Ebonite x escort is so annoying

[keen willow]

Why did 4 detonators spawn in one mission?

This is beyond cruel deep rock

with two of them spawning at once

[mellow cradle]

I had a mission yesterday where 2 bulks spawned at once, in the very same place, and I only figured out it was 2 bulks when there were very close, so they started agrroing to the team in different ways, lol
before that, the models were like in perfect sync

[cold kindle]

Playing double xp missions is much more xp giving than replaying deep dives

So yeah i agree that you shouldn't replay deep dives for rewards. It's just not worth it

[mellow cradle]

and normal missions have machine events, seasonal events, lost packs, cargo crates, and rare spawns
so it really is not worth it

[wraith shard]

I JUST GOT 4 BULK IN OMORAN MISSION

HELP

[boreal bronze]

That's weird i just finished EDD and not a single bulk spawned in the whole of it...

[keen willow]

yeah, that was fun to deal with.

[stray thorn]

Which weapon is better to use on the shooter? A hurricane with plasma or high-explosive fragmentation missiles or an autocannon with a large bertha

[still geode]

i would recommend the hurricane

[onyx obsidian]

Hurricane with Plasma is very good

[old widget]

I just have to say that "autocannon with a large bertha" is my new favorite translated phrase for Big Bertha OC

[long matrix]

I wish it paid more

Gives credits more of a reason to exist since you aren’t earning any from stray minerals in DD’s

[alpine pulsar]

God the escort stage sucked in the edd

Ebonite glyphids wouldn't give me 2 seconds to leave the dozer

That and like 2 scale brambles and stabbed vines in the same cave

[turbid bane]

I tried it for one mission and kinda hated it

Am I just building it wrong?

As in, I dislike "having" to keep mousing over the things I want to keep DPSing after the rocket had already "hit" them (I know how plasma missiles work)

[turbid bane]

This

I love shooting into randomly spawning enemies that are sometimes invuln to bullets

[chilly shore]

no, that’s not a build issue it’s just a playstyle preference issue

[grave crescent]

no, the damage and stun can be wild but to really min-max it would require getting a feel for how many rockets are actually needed to kill every mob which is a level i haven’t attained and tent to just hold down the trigger which wastes ammo lol

[grave crescent]

building off of this, the refuel stop this week really seems to set the tone for the whole EDD

losing an engine pod early is basically a restart especially since you can bet there’s a good chance you’ll get bulk detonator’d during the heartstone

[mellow cradle]

gunner uses a shield, 2 leadbursters, and the bulk is dead where it spawned

[chilly shore]

as long as the team figures out that they shouldnt blow up the bulk on the dozer, it's a fine addition of some spice

[chilly shore]

holding down the trigger is completely fine with pbm because it has so much total output that you can afford to waste a bunch of ammo

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[raven carbon]

You can switch to secondary to allow pbm to keep hitting big targets while you shoot something else

[chilly shore]

idk the other thing is that "look at thing and click until it is dead" is how every gunner weapon works, pbm included

the big difference of pbm is that it's more awkward to look away and then go back to the first target

[raven carbon]

Yes but pbm offers this kind of not obvious dot option if you want to optimise it

Otherwise the normal approach works fine

[winged temple]

just finished this edd after 4 tries. daym

[tranquil star]

More like tunnel vision

Oh wait, everyone has tunnel vision

[raven carbon]

Edd was fun

Good difficulty without being tedious

Third stage swarmageddon is always tough

But doable because of short objectives

[simple thicket]

Anybody around to join my first ever deep dive?

[neat carbon]

still on? also would be my first deep dive too

[simple thicket]

just finished my DD!

ty tho

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[digital peak]

I JUST GOT DISCONECTED FROM A DEEP DIVE

I WAS RIGHT AT THE END OF STAGE 2

[pliant yoke]

Sorry to hear that, miner. Don’t get discouraged though, go next

[stray grove]

anyone wanna run xbox dd?

[little thorn]

Just lost connection from someone's elite deep dive and I'm so sorry bro

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[raven carbon]

Is it a bug? I got disconnected at that point too.

Had to redo it

[digital peak]

i was fine the second time

host probably had bad wifi. driller disconected earlier

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[turbid bane]

I thought it always updated at noon

Or the DD timet doesn't care about DST?

[sour frigate]

I think it doesn't care about daylight savings, probably because daylight savings are different in different countries.

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[ivory marten]

Dives are here, lets see how fucked we are.

[turbid coral]

nah nah we are gonna be fine

[nova hearth]

time to DUCK

[turbid coral]

and cover

[eager gust]

dreads as a secondary again on the first stage

[reef girder]

oh god no is duck and cover the first

[eager gust]

nah nah

mactera plague

[reef girder]

oh

[turbid coral]

awww man

[reef girder]

egg hunt is on

[turbid coral]

hell yea

[eager gust]

hiveguard on first stage

[turbid coral]

hopfully deep dives are gonna be fun tho

[turbid coral]

ooooooo

[eager gust]

i wouldnt be impressed if it was the classic one again

[turbid coral]

on god same

like classic ok but id rather not face it

[drifting tinsel]

gonna need like five more minutes for rotations

[turbid coral]

all goodd

[eager gust]

oh fuck no

10 aquarqs and a black box on stage 2

i remember there was a dive that had 10 aquarqs and a black box and trying to do the black box alone was already insanely hard

[turbid coral]

i remember that

it was fucked

[eager gust]

i think it was still all the way in season 4

like a year ago

[pliant yoke]

Was that on REZ? I think I remember that one

Very fun

[drifting tinsel]

was it in crystalline or biozone?

[eager gust]

not sure

i think crystalline

oh wow

duck and cover on stage 3

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 April 10 to 2025 April 17 (Week 290)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1744887600:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Spiked Risk
Stage 1: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Eggs | Parasites Low Gravity
Stage 2: Industrial Sabotage + Classic | No Mutator
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Bedazzled Gate
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + Hiveguard | Mactera Plague
Stage 2: 10 Aquarqs + Black Box | No Mutator
Stage 3: 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Resonance Crystals | Duck and Cover

[eager gust]

[pliant yoke]

No mutation in St3 of DD? There also Duck and Cover embedded in it

[drifting tinsel]

was too busy petting da lootbug in the template

[pliant yoke]

The lootbug is stealing pats

This is a fun set of DDs, might PUG some open lobby for both

[eager gust]

this edd seems pretty fun

[ivory marten]

Good luck with Stage 2.

[pliant yoke]

Stage 2 might necessitate some hard CC, or just good speedplay. Depends on where the Black box spawns, I guess

[drifting tinsel]

the team i did DDs with last year would send the gunner to solo the bbox while everyone else did everything else. it was questionable but it would spread out the enemies a little more so it was slightly more manageable

[turbid bane]

d&c AND Mactera plague

Also two bosses on stage 2 is wild

[pliant yoke]

It’s IS though, should be plenty of nitra scattered about

[wise aurora]

NOT THE DUCK AND COVER😭 😭 😭 🙏🙏🙏

[wise aurora]

TWISE ?

[drifting tinsel]

it's back in season, spring break is over

[pliant yoke]

It’s egg cracking season, figuratively

[cold kindle]

I'm so glad to see duck and cover in deep dive roration again!

• MACTERA PLAGUE

We're golden guys

[mellow cradle]

duck and cover for uplink
lovely

[mellow cradle]

you can kill / heavily damage the dread by the caretaker death explosion

[turbid bane]

Good luck doing that in a pub

[drifting tinsel]

as long as you can all agree to saving the dread for last, the scout can pop the cocoon and lure it over after the phase 3 nodes are taken down

[reef girder]

Can you even fight the caretaker before the dread

[alpine pulsar]

Would have to time the caretaker kill with popping the dreadnought armor tho

[pulsar kindle]

Good afternoon everyone. So I need help. For our gunners out there. I want to use the thunderhead. I can’t clear a hazard 4 - salvage mission, if my life depended on it. Any suggestions on overclocks, weapon upgrades, or secondaries to pair with the thunderhead. looking to be able to do this solo... obviously

[median jasper]

aw hell nah data rack and dreadnought

[lean tundra]

Couple builds that work for me
31121 + big bertha - good single target
12211 + carpet bomber - good wave clear
11222 + combat mobility - good survivability

In general, tier 5 suppressive fire gives a lot of a utility + survivability, whereas feedback loop is just more damage, which is never bad. Damage resistance sounds cool in theory but ideally you'd rather to kill the bugs faster to prevent them from eating you, vs taking less damage when they eat you.

I almost always take bulldog or BRT. The autocannon is a waveclear machine, so I like the secondary to have big single target damage

[pulsar kindle]

Heck yeah! Thanks gnort!

[tacit jungle]

I use NTP with 33322

[trail umbra]

Rock and Stone..?

[wraith shard]

Twf still not flame oc for autocannon

Napalm shells never

It’s joever

TBF what we got was hilariously awesome and wouldn’t want it another way

But man, perk and maybe overclock rework one day

Would love to see a lot of the bad or even mediocre ones or outdated ones get updated

[near lynx]

Oh boy here we go again with the stage 3 duck and covers

[distant cave]

Quack

[eager merlin]

I did this week deep dive with the tunnel rat and I think I died to a fall I knew I could take it, Does anyone know if the double buff of beers was patched yet?

[mellow cradle]

it wasn't patched

[eager merlin]

Thanks

[ivory marten]

I don't think it's ever getting patched.

[burnt sandal]

it's safe to assume it is never getting patched

it's been literal years

[elfin berry]

Sure is fun when the game spawns two oppressors, a menace, some acid spitters, and a swarm of regular bugs while you're trying to do the EDD black box solo. Can't stay in the circle without being mulched by an oppressor, or killed by a gas cloud, or peppered by ranged enemies.

[burnt sierra]

I wonder how people do eeds in solo

because my ass was completely dissolved in acide on last part of current edd

hmmmm maybe it's because my overheating rotary overdrive build can't do its main effect on acid spitters

[old widget]

Don’t forget that you can fail the black box without failing the mission

[burnt sierra]

wait you can too?
god that's awful

[old widget]

(Though wasted time and ammo is its own problem)

Yeah. Unlike salvage, BB secondaries can be failed and restarted

So if stuff really goes sideways and the team can’t hold, sometimes bail and reset is the way

[burnt sierra]

I did not know that

lol

after that edd I hate duck and cover even more

[eager merlin]

I did this deep dive with 1 player leaving each stage, so I think single player it's pretty doable but it's close,

Second stage driller was gone, third was gunner

for the aquarcs gunner had a safenet over the minehead, plataform repellent and gunner shield during BB made easy, we had rocky mountain so we did quick case of the aquarcs
And during salvage we literally covered the ceiling in platforms, if the bugs wanted to shoot us they would have to be at a fart distance from us, making the last part a breeze

[fading light]

TIL

[elfin berry]

Took a second kick at the can. A little more strategy and more luck saw me through the black box.
Good lord though, stage 3 was just bullet hell. Had like 15 spitters shooting at me all at once. Managed to complete it in the brief periods when I wasn't getting machine gunned. Also had a septic spreader that did crack and was just zipping around the area at the speed of sound.

[wraith shard]

Solo deep dives sound like an experience

[proper creek]

just had a natural dreadnought on the first stage of this weeks EDD and it was hiveguard. Then the ACTUAL dreadnought was also a hiveguard. This is 2 essential properties of regular (not deep dive) dreadnought missions being broken. Found it interesting

[elfin berry]

They're usually not bad, potentially easier than doing it with randoms. They just get hard when you have to be in two places at once.
Last week's ebonite mutation escort stage was a bit of pain of juggling dealing with the ebonite glyphids on Dotty and refueling canisters

[bitter phoenix]

Hello, does anyone wanna do the deep dive / elite deep dive with me? I'm a scout main but can flex; also I'm Australian

[alpine pulsar]

^^^

The ebonites are rat bastards

[lean tundra]

1k hours and I did not know this

[old widget]

In fairness, it’s better to not need the knowledge and just beat the black box.

[inner parrot]

When do deep dives reset so we can get cores from them again.
I did my first one yesterday.
I noticed it said next dives in 4 hrs at the top right of the deep dives screen, was that when the cores reset and we can earn them again?

[mellow cradle]

are you sure you read that remaining time right?

deep dives and weekly assignments reset every thursday at 1pm CET

[wraith jackal]

Stage 2 of this week's reg deep dive is kinda funny lol

Double boss

[mellow cradle]

friendly reminder that both caretaker death explosions deal about 3500 damage

[forest rivet]

Just finished my first Deep Dive

[rare topaz]

Nice

[rough sequoia]

Any1 wanna run Elite Deepdive?

I wanna Scout

[inner parrot]

If you fail second mission of deep dive elite can you go styraight to second mission on retry or have to start at first mission?

[wispy viper]

Retry from the start

[grave crescent]

you retry from the start but the cave layout and vein composition doesn’t change so you can optimize

[inner parrot]

Can people join during deep dive elite? Or only before mission start.

[grave crescent]

only before, although the in-game message says people who disconnect can rejoin but i’ve never tested it

and only promoted dwarves can go, not just restricted to the host

[sour frigate]

I have reconnected to a deep dive once but it usually hasn't offered when I disconnect.

[turbid bane]

It only offers when you crash or altf4 iirc

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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 jackal]

Beat the edd with 4 randoms

I had to be the sacrifice at the end of mission 3 cause we trapped ourselves in a buker

Bunker

[vague lantern]

the edd went pretty well for me and the team i ended up on, but there were two greenbeards and it only went smoothly because i got 300 kills mroe than any other person

the uplink was in a pit of sorts and i used platforms to cover it with an extensive roof to force the bugs to approach from location about 20 meters away

[grave crescent]

yeah i did the edd with randoms and we made heavy use this week of bunkers, which i'm not used to tbh

i was running engie and it was a learning experience

[inner parrot]

Are you talking about the black box on the second mission of elite deep dive? We’ve failed it twice there and can’t get through it.

I’m thinking one reason is our engineer didn’t have a roof where our bunker was so they were above us too much.

[drifting tinsel]

when the two objectives are paired together, do bbox first always. if you're waiting around for aquarqs first, the passive swarm scaler gets worse the longer you're in the mission and it makes the bbox way worse to get through

[inner parrot]

Thank you

[vague lantern]

Yeah that one probably

I also got 300 more kills than anyone else so I kind of carried the combat too

Also no wait I remember it was definitely an uplink, since it's mini mules as the primary on stage 3

The black box for me was so normal that I don't even remember what the stage looked like

lmao

The only tip I could give aside from get a decent team is to use a loadout that makes it easy to kill macteras and ranged bugs

[tight zealot]

how valuable is born ready on gunner when running autocannon?

also what are pros & cons of revolver vs coil gun?

[tepid hamlet]

Born ready is really nice imo, lets you keep dealing with bugs instead of spending 5 years reloading the autocannon

[cold kindle]

Wait what

With 4 randoms?

You consider yourself random too?

[elfin berry]

Clearly he had a random login to his account and play for him

[turbid bane]

Born ready is mandatory on both autocannon and hurricane imo

Especially if you run something with a longer reload penalty as your sidearm (Six shooter, Triple tech)

[wraith shard]

Born ready is huge on Gunner

[pliant yoke]

It’s less important if you have the minigun, but otherwise it’s handy

[wraith shard]

Oh definitely it's like driller where you can get away with not running it buy it's still.huge

[jovial oasis]

On the topic of minigun, which one is better, AB or blowthrough?

Imo AB is more consistent and feels better, but the lack of cc really bites sometimes.

[pliant yoke]

I really like AB - it’s generalist, you risk FF less, you still maintain very solid horde clear

[jovial oasis]

How gud? Except if u bring override then spam venting sure

But for example LSLS then, u will have to rely on coil fear to cc most of the time

Just my experience

[pliant yoke]

And Gunner is one of the better classes to kill armoured bugs with, so having the ability to kill spitters, shellbacks, and stingtails, and Prae, and spreaders with less effort is a good value proposition

[jovial oasis]

TRUE

Bro's built to kill

[pliant yoke]

IDK, depends on how good your eye-hand coordination is lol

[jovial oasis]

hmmmm imma stick with AB, still it's consistent and like u said, generalist

Gunner is many tools for cc anyways

[quasi sleet]

I appreciate counting yourself as one of the randoms

I should do that too

[quasi sleet]

Do egg secondaries ever have swarm eggs?

[mellow cradle]

yes, 1

[ember sapphire]

I still need to do the EDD for this week, was only able to complete stage 1 because every attempt we either had two sub-level 50 greenbeards or disconnectors

[raven carbon]

This edd can be tough with greenbeards

Third stage can be tricky

And second stage is black box and aquarqs so speed is of the essence

[ember sapphire]

I can get all the arquarks in 5 minutes tops, thats no issue. But first attempt we had at black box driller decided to nuke it into a hole and engi covered it up, then we had 2 bulks spawn. Yeah...

Second attempt was better but instead of going to the drop pod and securing the W, I threw and tried to res everyone when I very much didnt have the resources to do so.

Stage 1 took ages to complete just because mactera hurt like hell for no reason and we ended up leaving there with less than 80 nitra the one time we completed it, despite it being our third attempts and I made sure to get all 410 nitra or whatever it was in there

[raven carbon]

Oof

Second stage has lots of bulks the longer you stay

Bunker is a bad idea

[ember sapphire]

Yeah, I very much dont like doing bunker on black box or salvage missions, but it was already made before I even realized

[raven carbon]

Just a bad team then

[ember sapphire]

I may try and throw together a crew to get through it tomorrow (if I wake up before it ends) but Ive never tried to do something like that in this server before

[raven carbon]

First stage has enough nitra to finish the edd

[ember sapphire]

I at least want to complete stage 2, the cosmetic would be nice but I would still consider it unnecessary until I max out my overclock collection

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[weary walrus]

We had a ton of fun as 3 engineers doing the EDD. Went fast #drg-gallery message

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[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 April 17 to 2025 April 24 (Week 291)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1745492400:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Hollow Bough | Code Name: Fractured Tunnel
Stage 1: 7 Aquarqs + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | No Mutator
Stage 3: 7 Aquarqs + Liquid Morkite Well | Rival Presence

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Unrobed Killing
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + 2 Eggs | Low Gravity Haunted Cave
Stage 2: 2 Dreadnoughts (Twins & Classic) + 2 Resonance Crystals | Swarmageddon
Stage 3: On-Site Refining + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator

[pliant yoke]

EDD randomly generated name brings me joy

[turbid bane]

haunted cave refining

🤢

[wraith shard]

regular dd is worse

2 fucking extractions on bough

🤢

[turbid bane]

Oh god

Oh my fucking god

Plus eggs

[raven carbon]

2 eggs is easy

No duck and cover this time

[distant cave]

Meth rocks

[novel epoch]

wow that's a lotta aquarqs

[inner parrot]

What builds you guys thinking for the DD and EDD this week?

I’m either going to run Driller or Scout for my team

[turbid bane]

JFH + hellfire on regular worked well for me

[cold kindle]

No mule available on this mission! Gotta deposit somewhere else!

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

MOOLLLYY!Oh wait... We didn't bring her for this one

4 stages out of 6 don't have mule. I hate walking

[worldly valley]

Good thing that we all scouts. Oh wait...

[misty osprey]

hallow

[cosmic chasm]

Randomweiser

[weary walrus]

Rival Presence, sweet!

[safe leaf]

I'm used to this; Bough, Glacial and Biozone are PE group biomes
Aquarqs are at least clearly visible in the bough
Mining Expedition might be worse in this regard, though at least 200 mork will go fast

If anything Rival Presence on PE is obnoxious because to dispose of the turrets you want to be slow, methodical and use cover, while PE wants you to rush for the minerals and gives open terrain generation with a hot drop

In any case, it's going to be maybe difficult but fast to do
Haunted OSR though...

And bloody Swarmageddon Elim, in Sandblasted...
...by the beard...
...
I'm already recalling operation Absolute Decay back in February
I was the Scout
In swarmageddon
Without AV
aaaaa

[safe leaf]

For DD I'd think of a high mobility team with precision or incendiary weapons; RJ250 should do great, CRSPR, M1000, Coilgun, Hurricane, Shard excellent for robot mulch and apart from first one great in open space

As of EDD, here's some thoughts

Scout:

• AV (swarmerclear and elec ghost slow) + e-dets/jumbo shells (dread killer)
• CT (dread weakener) + FB/CB (depending on what driller takes; either clears swarmers and tazerbolt slows ghost)
• Both IFG and Phero can come handy, pick wisely; IFG works on ghost

Driller:

• Flamer absent unless either scout is CT or it's direct flame ammomaxxing Scorching Tide
• Ice Storm good to consider; best rounded for stage 2 but won't slow ghostdet much
• Disperser Compound can massively slow ghostdet and dreads, though Low Gravity will make it weird at first and it's slightly less safe against swarmers
• Blistering Necrosis CWC is going to shine, so will Hardened Drill Tips
• Friendly reminder neurotox doesn't work in fire oriented team builds

Gunner:

• Electric UMC sounds useful for both swarmer clear and ghostdet slowdown spam, to lesser extent other coilgun or electrominelets respectively
• Mole can do high dread damage in right conditions and either swarmerwipe with AoE mod or slow with elec mod but not both
• TTC can do consistent dread damage with swarmerwipe
• Most minigun builds, PBM, JFH, Big Bertha should do great against dreads
• Burning Hell and Cluster Charges are great swarmer clear and OK vs dreads; Bullet Hell good swarmer delete but weak vs dread
• Friendly reminder to handle leadbursters with care near cocoons

Engineer:

• EMRB, Hyperalloy all offer dread mulch and ghost slow, VIR is excellent swarmer clear
• Exec + trail breach is more limited in slow or full swarmer clear, can still work
• STOS+RJ250 can dodge ghost easily but beware ammo hunger, rest like exec+breach
• Inverted ECR/EMD (swarmer and slow) + Overdrive Booster (anti dread) should work fine
• Shredders will shine here

[elfin berry]

Did both deep dives as solo engineer. Honestly wasn't that bad; the haunted cave stage wasn't hard because it also has low grav, so you can just fly away from it. Swarmaggedon got taken care of by my sentry and shredders (though this was the stage that gave me the most trouble). Rival presence didn't make any difference at the end of the regular deep dive; I just had Bosco grab any aquarks by turrets. They never even activated

[alpine pulsar]

No hiveguard is good already...
Honestly probably gonna run driller with an engy for the edd dreads
Also dont think 2 point extractions for the regular dd is that bad (oh wait its fucking hollow)

[vague lantern]

the swarmageddon stage was really funny for me and my team

there was a dozen swarmer tunnels and two brood nexuses on top of it all

i dont think we avoided a single swarmer tunnel

but that was just for the fun of padding our stats i think

[oak pecan]

How are the morkite well locations on the EDD? Is it something you need an engi/driller for?

[hasty hamlet]

Not really, if you're creative enough you can do without

[oak pecan]

Ok nice, I was wanting to get back into soloing EDDs, I have been taking a break for a bit to play other games.

[robust badge]

How bad is sabotage on a dd

[mellow cradle]

not bad at all

you get a guaranteed lifetime supply of nitra for the dive if it's present

[robust badge]

Mm

Another thing I assume not but can dwarves join mid dd

[mellow cradle]

no

unless they were disconnected from that same session while it was running

then they will have a chance to rejoin

[robust badge]

I figured

I learned that hurricane is not great for dives

[mellow cradle]

why?

[robust badge]

That might just be because I was using a stinky overclock

But I didn't really enjoy using it

[mellow cradle]

well, different folks different strokes
but like 90% of people will tell you hurricane is great
myself included

[robust badge]

No it's good on single missions I love it

But I kept running out of ammo and it didn't feel too powerful

[mellow cradle]

did you use rocket barrage perhaps?

[robust badge]

Thankfully having 2 dwarves left a lot of ammo to go around

[robust badge]

No hold on let me find it

[mellow cradle]

also arguably it's harder to run out of ammo on a DD, since you have leftover nitra from previous levels

[robust badge]

Jet fuel homebrew

Not great

I lost all manoeuverability

[robust badge]

There was this really funny bit where I had no bullets for anything except my shield

[mellow cradle]

it's a good one, but it heavily leans into single target damage
so if you didn't have a good crowd clear secondary, such as coilgun (possibly with hellfire of triple tech overclocks), then I could see you running out of ammo

[robust badge]

Yeah I have 0 overclocks

That's I lie I have 2

[mellow cradle]

base coilgun is still very much good for clear (because the competition is not great for clear)

[robust badge]

Aforementioned j.f.hb

And something for flamethrower

However I have a blank core

Hoping for fat boy(for the funny)

[robust badge]

I was running bulldog

[mellow cradle]

so you were running 2 single target weapons

so yeah, I understand the situation

[robust badge]

Yeah

And we had to kill a dreadnought once lmfao

I was bait I think

[safe leaf]

To prevent being caught without crowd control, always have either
A) Coilgun or Magic Bullets Bulldog or Electro Minelets BRT
B) Hurricane (non JFH/non PBM) or NTP/Mortar Autocannon or Burning Hell/Bullet Hell/(aggvent) Rotary Overdrive Minigun

[robust badge]

it was my first deep dive i just kinda goed on it

it worked

mostly because the other person was good but still

i did at least one thing

[wraith shard]

Thank karl

This is going to be so much easier than the last one

Duck and cover + mactera plague is not my cup of beer (tea is for suckers)

[wraith shard]

TLDR always make sure either your primary or secondary can do crowd and never go all into crowd or damage

[sand juniper]

I can echo the sentiment. I feel it's because the most popular OCs for it can be troublesome if the dive has certain missions/modifiers. For dives you often want a do-it-all gun and overclocks like CC or MS aren't the best for sabotages, dreads, D&C...

The best solution is to just go PBM on Hurricane. PBM does it all.

[robust badge]

ill see when i get it

gotta play a machine event to find it

[burnt sandal]

or just play minigun

[robust badge]

i intended to do that

[vestal sapphire]

But minigun is yucky gross no good don't like it at all

[robust badge]

hey dont diss my boy minigun

consistent dps is hard to come by in drg

reloads and stuff

especially paired with cool on kill

perfection

[tacit jungle]

EDDs are getting very easy, stage 3 had fewer enemies than regular haz 5

[tulip perch]

deep dives are hard and bad (first time deep dive hater)

cores pretty good tho

[wise aurora]

I can say the we need a burning hell at elite deep dive

[turbid bane]

Tbf anything past the first stage edd was a cakewalk

Think our team got 10-20 downs split amongst 4 of us, half owed to the ghost by itself

[vague canyon]

edd was easy

🦭

[robust badge]

Can you have a double warning on a dd or edd

[burnt sandal]

no

[robust badge]

Ok

It would be really funny to get haunted cave+d.a.c in one misson

[vestal sapphire]

I prioritize ammo efficiency over pretty much any stat
Love my splash damage too much

[cobalt light]

can machine events spawn in deep dives?

(or elite dd)

[distant cave]

I think so?

[open valve]

nah dont think so

[burnt sandal]

no

[cobalt light]

thanks for the answer lol

makes sense

[tulip rampart]

no event related things can spawn in deep dives

so for example the easter bunny from the current event wont spawn

[cold kindle]

NOTHING but nitra and gold and objectives can spawn in deep dives

Oh well

One exception. New year gifts and halloween pumpkins

These things will generate in caves and spawn swarmers, loot bugs and extremely unlikely error cubes (idk about pumpkins but gifts indeed do)

[wraith shard]

Huuli horders

[cold kindle]

Oh. Yeah. I forgot that they exist

[hardy wigeon]

oh god

embended deto + mark for death

is not the way to go on this edd

[hardy wigeon]

suffering

[tranquil gulch]

mfd is probably just not the way to go for most edds unless your team is always grouped together

[elfin berry]

Yeah, probably best to not go all in on half of one stage of the EDD at the cost of the other five sixths

[grave crescent]

i like MFD if you have a grouped team or some way of following through with your secondary but embedded detonators haemorrhages ammo which is not great in a deep dive

[slender portal]

Ez pz

[inner parrot]

Like 4 times to beat the EDD. First one ever

Yal lyin about it being easy lol

Once we figured out how to distract horror and I got good at killing swarms when they spawn with sludge we did a lot better

[cold kindle]

Tbh stage 1 was annoying cuz one of the best warnings in the game + sandblasted corridors

Stage 2 was also annoying thanks to swarmageddon

And stage 3 is easy as pie

Tons of nitra

Warning free

[dull agate]

This week's EDD was nice, expect for the biome ahah.
59:02 minutes, first time. 3 premade + a random player

[elfin berry]

I found it not that hard, but solo probably helps with stage 1. Don't need to stand around building the pipes as the ghost climbs up your backside, Bosco can take care of that while you jump around

Engineer made short work of the swarmers as well, so that mitigated stage 2 somewhat

[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!
_ _

[open ginkgo]

someone rage quit the elite deep dive because I died right in front of one of those sand storm cracks

He kept trying to revive me instead of just surviving the swarm, but then just ragequit when he died

I like, NEVER see people rage quit

[leaden steeple]

2 on site refining 🫠

[misty osprey]

what is the purpose for some people choose to fight Dreadnoughts in small open area include a height will fall to injure than a big open area in beginning player spawn?

[indigo ether]

anyone have any tips for deep dive elite, me and my 2 mates cant complete one for the life of us and we are usually quite good

[misty osprey]

which stage you guys failed?

[indigo ether]

1 and we sometimes get to 2 😭

[misty osprey]

do driller using ice?

[indigo ether]

what do you mean sorry

[misty osprey]

driller primary weapon

[indigo ether]

oh right idk i dont play the driller but i dont think so actually, would that actually help alot?

[misty osprey]

good grunts controller is freeze them up

[indigo ether]

yeah, my driller usually plays engineer so hes not that high of a level

[misty osprey]

the failure is caused by get beated by swarms or ?

[grave crescent]

this week’s EDD is front loaded, the first stage is kind of a bitch with a team that isn’t used to dodging ghost bulks. make sure your driller is drilling right to the wells, keep pinging the bulk so people can see it, and keep track of who it’s following so they don’t kite it into the team or the minehead

[misty osprey]

I feel low gravity can allow players jump to opposite side from ghost, otherwise it really tough especially the map code given

[inner parrot]

I did driller for EDD this week. I ran sludge pump.

Stage 1: Slow down the horror as much as possible. Slow down everything and only focus things I can kill quick. Focus on drilling pipes.

Stage 2: Charge shot on sludge to kill swarmers when they spawn. Constantly slow the dreads down with sludge.

Took us several tries because we’re kinda noobs but we got it.

Scout was crushing it on the team. He planned a rotation to use our IWs which I can’t believe I didn’t think about. That was the biggest thing for our success.

Third stage is going to be easy, just stay focused and move efficiently.

[indigo ether]

thankyou, pinging the detonator is a really good idea i dont know why we didnt think of that

[indigo ether]

thanks, some good tips there

[misty osprey]

always ping ghost is must to prevent someone get hit ( one hit down ) suddenly when everyone losing sight on it

low gravity makes it easier to dodge than non low gravity

[inner parrot]

@indigo ether oh and part of scouts job is to distract the horror. While gathering nitra and collecting eggs at the same time 😅

[obsidian flicker]

You surely use mods.. cause marking the ghost does nothing, or I'm missing something 🤔

[indigo ether]

yeah thats one thing i did when we tried, basically just gotta speedrun the mission

[inner parrot]

With your scanner out it shows it?

[misty osprey]

????

pinging it = modding

[inner parrot]

Honestly you should go as fast as you can without losing control. Swarms get worse over time and notes is finite.

[obsidian flicker]

Ok, will test that out next time. Cause it's not how the laser works for anyrhing else... so will see.
Thanks for the info.

[obsidian flicker]

Yeah I failed solo at stage 2... damn swarmers. Even with my gunner semi-swarmer build (auto-cannon)

[elfin berry]

Engineer exists. Why kill swarmers when you have bots to do it for you

[obsidian flicker]

Gunner is the best for random stuff. Engi will run out of ammo anyways... at least for my build.

[elfin berry]

I finished with a mountain of nitra

[obsidian flicker]

YOU... yep keyword

[elfin berry]

Technically I never said "you" :^)

[obsidian flicker]

you said 'I'.. meaning you

[elfin berry]

But anyway, stubby with either hyperalloy or EM refire, and breach cutter

Oh, and 1 sentry with extra ammo and stun, and SSGs

[obsidian flicker]

I'm not an adhd kid. I play solo haz3 to relax... haz5 max with a team

[elfin berry]

Careful, we'll turn this into that scene from the Simpsons where Bart is asked only who can prevent forest fires

[obsidian flicker]

Yep.. you're fast. I'm not lol.

[elfin berry]

I normally play haz 4. I can play 5, I just prefer 4

[inner parrot]

I just don’t like solo at all. I love teamwork in a game and DRG does it flawlessly

[elfin berry]

I like playing solo because it's the most consistent. Bosco never starts drillevators when I'm on the other side of the map

And for this week's EDD, Bosco makes building the pipelines a non-issue

[obsidian flicker]

Similar. But it's hard to find teammates. Might have come accross like a handful of 'decent' teammates since I play DRG... over 800 hours. With half solo probably.

[obsidian flicker]

That why I always play new games solo... consistency that helps me figure out how a game works. And going at your own pace to learn it.

[inner parrot]

Maybe I got lucky yesterday but I met several people in the discord and a couple randoms that were great to play with

[elfin berry]

Only two of my friends have DRG as far as I know, one played the tutorial and hasn't touched it since, and the other doesn't have much time for gaming anymore (and only got to play DRG twice before that). My only options for deep dives are randos and solo

[obsidian flicker]

With the hundreds of hours I expect more than filler teammates. Rarely I had a team that could use synergy.

If I play Driller, for sure 1 teammate will use fire to prevent me to freeze the bugs.. they shoot at the frozen one instead of the other threats, etc.
From Bronze to legends it doesn't matter usually.

I even started to play haz5 thinking the teamplay would be better, but no.

Just the fact that I've heard maybe 5 players only using comms is something IMO.

There too much carrying in general. Not a fan of the infinite revives for that reason.

[inner parrot]

Sometimes I want to start a discord community to resolve things like this

[obsidian flicker]

I don't use Discord.
I play randomly for random amount of time, so I don't have time to wait for others to answer... and at the end we (I)might not be a good fit

[elfin berry]

I don't like to rely on randoms working together, especially when one person can goober it. I'd like to do deep dives with some of the guys I play TF2 with; 4 man deep dives with comms and proper strategizing are probably fun

[obsidian flicker]

I'm not sure if it's because it is somewhat rare, but just having one teammate that really cooperates makes this really more fun. You know that you can get more creative by using minimal comms... text that is. As I said there isn't enough mic users in this game.

I don't even bother anymore to try finding people for the DD, and I will try the EDD before joining others to know what type of teammates I want. To keep.it fun for me. I'm not having fun if I feel I'm solo completly... could be with the best players that 100% gas success rate I don't care. I don't want to be carried and I never carry...

[wintry thunder]

It's good that you can find your own fun. I find teammates in this game largely irrelevant for my personal success, so I don't mind their randomness. It's like an extra modifier to work around

[hexed pulsar]

anyone know hhow to deal with that ghost bug?

[pliant yoke]

Kite it. Bait it into tunnels that go at least two ways, circle it, proceed. Try not to get cornered (Driller can’t really be cornered by it). With good pace, it’s no problem on most maps.

[inner parrot]

One of scouts responsibilities is to draw it away from teammates. Especially driller so he can set pipe rails

[pliant yoke]

Some things can also slow its advance, notably Scout’s Boltshark electro bolts

[inner parrot]

I ran sludge and shot it everytime I saw it

[pliant yoke]

Sludge is also solid, yeah

[hexed pulsar]

i have the cryo doesnt seem to affect it

[inner parrot]

I don’t recommend Cryo for the EDD this week.

Sludge is better for dreads than cryo

I love sludge too lol

[hexed pulsar]

ye its our first time doing EDD

[obsidian flicker]

If the map isn't good, you will need a Driller with minimal brain. Last time I did a DD with a ghost the driller wasn't making paths to go in circle... they even started the dreads where the ghost was instead of the one at the complete opposite of the map. Useless to say they didn't ready-check.

[hexed pulsar]

ye i was the one kiting it the entire time

i asked if our scout could do it apparently they wanted to focus on grabbing the nitra

so ig next time imma bring a sludge build

[obsidian flicker]

Yeah, it's hard to know who it will follow... and nitra is mostly a priority.

[hexed pulsar]

ye doesnt help the map is small

so i cant kite it far away

[inner parrot]

Engi is honestly probably the best to distract the horror now that I think about it. He can easily build platforms in that cave and just move horror away from driller. Now scout can focus on nitra and HVTs.

[hexed pulsar]

hmmm do people get the same map and it rotates weekly or is it all rng?

[inner parrot]

Same nap for everyone

And if you fail it it’s the same too.

[hexed pulsar]

ah i see

[inner parrot]

Weekly change.

[obsidian flicker]

Don't go with build you're not comfortable with though... The sludge works really differently than the flame and cryo.. so if you're not used to it you might just run out of ammo more than anything else. So it's a damage over time and sludge isn't hit scan so you need to lead your shots too.

[hexed pulsar]

ye that low grav map is too small

[hexed pulsar]

ye...

[inner parrot]

I love the sludge and I used it for EDD. Don’t focus one target, shoot every target once or twice. Only focus what you can kill quickly.

But yea if you haven’t used it or don’t like it the flamethrower would be my second pick for EDD

[obsidian flicker]

I wouldn't try the sludge for EDD. Unless you're a fast thinker maybe. Aside the time to learn what weapon upgrade fits you well with what secondary

[inner parrot]

Sludge is really good against dreads which is why I took it

[obsidian flicker]

Fair enough.
For me the dreads aren't an issue at all. I can barely tell a difference between haz3 or haz5 compared to other bugs in general.

[inner parrot]

Swarmers were the problem really

[obsidian flicker]

In this EDD, for sure... they got me good those damn little basta

[crystal apex]

Hey what region are the Dives this week?

[quasi sleet]

check the pins

[winter heath]

Does anybody wanna deep dive with me

[alpine pulsar]

Literally every 10 seconds... And Bosco is too incompetent so I had to waste shredders and shard ammo

[misty osprey]

swram nest with swarmageddon and they are in the only tunnel to next area is real

[inner parrot]

The sludge charge shot is nasty if you’re looking out for swarmed spawns

Same thing with snowball on cryo but cryo sucks against dreads compared

[manic pivot]

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

[winter heath]

Anybody want to help me unlock 11 blank cores 0/12 today

[vague lantern]

here's a little tip: machine events and cosmetics like the lost gear or cargo crates spawn most often on 8 egg missions and 400 morkite missions, so you could theoretically maximize those by hopping into 8 egg missions, zipping around, and aborting if none

i don't do it personally out of laziness though, it's really not necessary if you don't want to

hazard level has nothing to do with them either 🙂

[inner parrot]

Who has enough blank cores that this is even worth it though? Lol I feel like I’m grinding to get promoted but I never carry blanks for long because I just end up finding machine events.

[obsidian flicker]

I'm at 29 right now... can't barely get Machine Events lately.

But I got only Cosmetics left... So I don't care much though

[inner parrot]

How many hours did it take you to get all the weapon overclocks? I just got TEF yesterday and I’m too excited lol

[obsidian flicker]

I don't really remember... without talking about Steam's playtime being wrong since it doesn't take into account when I'm AFK. But between 400 and 600 hours probably. I'm at over 800 or so at the moment.

[inner parrot]

400-600 isn’t that bad

[obsidian flicker]

Steam says 1000 btw

[inner parrot]

I have barely over 100 so I’m a noob still lol

[obsidian flicker]

Btw... in-game playtime is in Days, hours so I need to convert it if I want the real hours

[obsidian flicker]

Totally useless info... I've seen better level 30 than legend at 1000. So if you watched tutorials, played solo at your own pace to learn well the game mechanics, read the beastiary, etc.. you're already above 70% of the player base.

[copper lark]

man 1st stage of edd is such a endurance test

[elfin berry]

Just call the Ghostbusters to get rid of the spooky bulk

[manic pivot]

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

[inner parrot]

1st stage was brutal. Swarms are almost as bad in the second one if you aren’t ready for it

[manic pivot]

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

[lucid frost]

1st stage thank god for low grav at least

2nd stage... swarmers... 🚮

solo driller sticky flame... not bad but

[manic pivot]

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

[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 April 24 to 2025 May 01 (Week 292)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1746097200:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Magma Core | Code Name: Clean Heart
Stage 1: 7 Aquarqs + 150 Morkite | No Mutator
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + Hiveguard | Rich Atmosphere Exploder Infestation
Stage 3: 3 Resonance Crystals & Drillevator + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Awful Axe
Stage 1: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 150 Morkite | Parasites
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + Black Box | Ebonite Outbreak
Stage 3: Escort Duty + 150 Morkite | No Mutator

dreadnought TBA give me like 5 mins

[ancient pewter]

Lots of morkite all around this week

[cold kindle]

MORKITE!

I found some morkite!

Morkite found!

[inner parrot]

Ughhh the black box

I’m building a bunker on that

[reef pine]

I have a fever

And the only cure

Is Morkite

[cold kindle]

We got nemesus on stage 3 of normal dd

[clever raft]

Thanks for the heads up CJ!

[tight grove]

aight, so if you have a driller, they need to bring scorching tide to deal with it quickly, got it

[inner parrot]

“If”?

[void night]

Not gonna lie, code name for this week's DD should be "The Nether"

[robust badge]

Do you take daily special with you into a dd

[fading light]

yes

[robust badge]

Stellar

[inner parrot]

This weeks EDD is so easy compared to last weeks

[winter heath]

Yea it was a. Breeze I got to level 2 with a pub that I carried I got 4 deaths they got 17-14 each

[grave crescent]

me when i report spam by being a spammer (i am very intelligent)

[hushed sequoia]

in every single channel too hmm

[lucid frost]

it wasnt so bad

the fact that i can solo it says a lot

surely next week is going to be like th-

[vague lantern]

This week... It would have been easy but on stage two things went wrong when the one greenbeard scout turned on the black box as engi fell in a deep hole and was dead the whole long black box and we spent another ten minutes fighting off residual bugs and ebonites

[obsidian flicker]

If it's a greenbeard and Scout.. that's called an additional Warning

[reef pine]

Those were some fun fast paced deep dives

Only real problem was during the black box when a bulk spawned and our gunner fat fingered our last resupply, game developed into chaos for a moment

[obsidian flicker]

So you're gonna play them again ? 😉

[reef pine]

Maybe

Having 3 'hold the line' missions in a row can be a bit tiresome though

[obsidian flicker]

Yeah... the reason I don't really like the DDs format.
Aside the rewards it doesn't really bring much IMO.

[zenith juniper]

surprisingly easy elite this week. did it first try! Usually they take at least two attempts. Not gonna complain :>

[obsidian flicker]

Someone should think about sterilizing the Bulks... 2 almost every 3-5 missions and 2 in the EDD Stage 2...
that's annoying ngl.

[earnest cargo]

i got 4...heh

The Regular DD is chill while EDD is pure agony...Mini Swarms the size of regular swarms

[deft apex]

Should I try to do a solo Deep Dive?

[wraith shard]

Go for it

[deft apex]

Alright

I'll keep you updated on my journey

Oh boys, aquarqs!!!

[deft apex]

I've been backed into a corner on the first mission, all because I needed Aquarqs and Morkite

I'm actually cooked..

I've found a safe spot where the Glyphids pathing breaks, although one Bulk detonator and I'm dead

Aquarqs collected, Morkite time

ALL OF THE MORKITE IS IN THE CEILING--

This might be it, I'm running out of ammo, no nitra for resupply, AND NO REACHABLE MORKITE

WE'RE SO BACK!!! I BARELY GOT ENOUGH NITRA FOR A RESUPPLY!!

[deft apex]

One vane of Morkite,.,., that's all I ask for DRG,.,.,

Welp,.,.,

[robust badge]

I assume it ended poorly

[obsidian flicker]

4.. we've been lucky for the biome and rooms size.

[obsidian flicker]

Always try them first IMO.

DD was fine solo.
Not sure if EDD would have been easier or harder with teammates... I used a lot of resupplies 🤔
Running around a lot too.
Pretty surw I heard Bosco say 'give me a break'...

[main quiver]

anyone wanna do the deep dive?

[obsidian flicker]

Late, but try #lfg-steam next time

[deft apex]

Got cornered by a swarm of glyphid grunts and accidentally walked off the exge

Edge*

[obsidian flicker]

I'm also good at finding holes

[deft apex]

Worst part about this was, I almost had all the morkite I needed, just didn't have any ammo

[obsidian flicker]

Yeah nitra is priority #1 for me. If you mine anything else while there is no nitra.. I'll leave.
So I do them solo lately.

[deft apex]

Unfortunately for me, all the resources were in the ceiling...

[deft apex]

It is time to try the Solo DD again...

[dull agate]

EDD - Felt it was easier this week than the last one, but still a fairly easy one (56:49 with a random squad).
I definitely hate Drilldozer on DD tho

[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!
_ _

[obsidian flicker]

And it's gonna be there next week... so calm down

[elfin berry]

Don't back talk Mission Control; he'll stop sending drop pods for you

[obsidian flicker]

EDD was for sure. I try them solo.
Last week I failed at Stage 2... overwhelmed by swarmers mostly.
This week was a success 1h36 or so.

[obsidian flicker]

He's already sending me 2 Bulks per mission that Elf in disguise 😉

[elfin berry]

Just finished both deep dives myself. Did it as engineer with hyperalloy and spinning death; it was pretty manageable solo

[obsidian flicker]

I just ping everything in-game because of it.

[elfin berry]

Got three bulks in the EDD

[obsidian flicker]

I got 2.. probably cause I was solo

[robust badge]

We're rich or Mushroom

[elfin berry]

We're Mushroom!

[obsidian flicker]

All of them.. Goo in the sack. Gunk Seeds.. He loves balls

[robust badge]

Goo sac

There is goo in the sac

There is goo in the sac

It's a goo sac

[obsidian flicker]

I think someone else loves balls more than Mission Control

[robust badge]

Goo sac my beloved

[obsidian flicker]

Goobusters

[cyan holly]

i played the EDD deep dive of this week with some greenbeards

dear god

im kinda sure they wont be able to go to an EDD deep dive anymore

we won

but our engi died like 10 times

and those bulks were unexpected

[obsidian flicker]

There's no way to not have at least 1 greenbeard in most missions.
Almost all Haz5 missions do.

So they'll redo EDD for the Cores.

I don't come from games that allows infinite revives,
but I feel those new players don't care about deaths.. often even typing "EZ" lol. When you know it was painful and could have been way easier with some more knowledge or communications.

[bleak niche]

got hit with a "fuck you idiots" from our greenbeard engi who died 11 times in our EDD last night after we told him (after stage 3) that starting objectives without asking is a bad idea 🤣

our bad I guess lol

[wraith wharf]

i'd wait until drop pod on stage 3 then

zero tolerance for toxicity in DRG

[obsidian flicker]

Recently I do the dived solo... this kind of stuff happens way too often and I end up leaving before the end.
Like you ask the team to stay 'close' or to ready check and they are already sending insults. No time for that.

It can happen to me to play somewhat bad and play dumb when I dislike a team in Normal mission to help me get kicked and get some of my XP if I've been in for a time.

There is no point to do so in Dives, but some players are mean and might enjoy giving their team a little extra work.

[bleak niche]

this was in the space rig after lol

he didnt talk at all prior to that 😂

[obsidian flicker]

That's toxic too and disrespectful to the other teammates IMO

[bleak niche]

ye he sucked but he still got like 300 kills that we would have had to make up ourselves without him 🤣

[obsidian flicker]

I don't host missions cause I would kick out probably non-stop. I would not give 2nd warnings

[bleak niche]

gunner had 700 for comparison

ah i only host because i cba dealing with idiots kicking me

only had to kick 2 or 3 times in like 1000 missions

[wraith wharf]

how can it affect anyone beside that one when it's the end of stage 3

[obsidian flicker]

Well I'm picky for sure.
Communication is really important for me.
Just asking if someone picked the last Apoca and not getting answer... you ask them to ping but they don't so you were searching for nothing anmoys me in a 'coop' game.

Sometimes I don't feel communicating, so I play solo.

[wraith wharf]

I call it retaliation

[obsidian flicker]

Keeping longer than necessary someone like that and of course the difficulty scaling with numbers of teammates.

[wraith wharf]

I assumed shutson was already in mission, but if just space rig then I wouldn't have that kind of play on the team

[obsidian flicker]

Retaliation is IMO just as bad. It's an excuse to be a jerk or show your worse side.
You get pleasure doing it, so in my book you're mostly just as mad.

[wraith wharf]

that's why the law exist, and there are punishment

but it's outside of the scope

[obsidian flicker]

I know well lol

[wraith wharf]

I have no problem playing with 3 greenbeards so I don't really care what every one does lol

since haz5x4 came out EDD became trivial for me

[wraith shard]

Honestly that's so funny

[bleak niche]

theres an approved mod called combined resources, which shows if others are holding resources, its SO good

[mellow cradle]

it's not approved, but verified

[bleak niche]

ah i forget which way round they are

whatever the ones are that are checked by GSG

verified ig

honestly top 3 qol mods

as a scout main, i cant live without it

[wraith wharf]

might I inquire about the remaining two?

[obsidian flicker]

Ok thanks.
I will never use or join on purpose modded missions.

And I play multiplayer for the communication and team work.
If they can't type a number in the chat when asked if someone has nitra or apoca, etc, then I'm not enjoying the rest. Shooting bugs and doing the missions is somewhat linear. Especially after hundreds of hour in solo.

[bleak niche]

Hmm it was kind of a figure of speech but if I had to nail down a top 3 I would go with...auto sprint to save my pinky finger from crumbling, combined resources and better spectator. But there's a bunch I love

[lean veldt]

Serious question is there a way to go back and play old deep dives I’m looking to play some throwback dives just like how they had the throwback alpha build you could play

[old widget]

Mission Selector mod will do this, yes.

https://mod.io/g/drg/m/mission-selector

But note that Deep Dive seeds that were released for earlier builds of the game (which is most of them) may generate completely different dives. YMMV

[lean veldt]

Is there a deep dive seed database?

[old widget]

yes, the dive tracking spreadsheet in pinned messages here has seed values #deep-dive-discussion message

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[glad cipher]

If I do a DD a second time will I get XP and credits again?

[mellow cradle]

yes

[glad cipher]

Ok so it's just the cores that are one time

[cold kindle]

Yeah but it's not worth it

It's much more effective to play 3 double xp missions instead of replaying dd

[glad cipher]

But you get more credits, 3 missions will bag maximum if done well 15k whereas DDs collect about 20k or more

[burnt sandal]

that only works if you're fast enough to finish the DD quicker than one mission.

[glad cipher]

I think it's about even in terms of worth you can do a few regular missions or a DD and depending on skill and speed come out with similar results, the biggest benefit to reg missions are upgrade material

[mellow cradle]

and machine events

and seasonal events, and random bosses, and beneficial anomalies

DD's aren't worth at all to run outside of cores

[obsidian flicker]

DD and EDD gives XP and credits... You must be loving it to do them a 2nd time just for it ngl.

[cold kindle]

Legally speaking

If you hate yourself- i mean,if you don't care about having fun and it's okay for you to do the same thing again and again

And if dive is short

Let's imagine for a second

That we got 4 eggs + 150 morkite,200 morkite + 2 eggs,4 eggs + 150 morkite

Shortest missions possible

Then you can speedrun that deep dive

Memorise everything

And be golden

[ancient pewter]

Honestly, yeah, given the last two points, if you get into a rhythm with it you can run through the same deep dive several times pretty fast

[obsidian flicker]

Is there any bonuses in DD or EDD ? For mission length, cave complexity and scaling difficulty ?

Cause I still don't see how this is profitable in most ways.
Not sure if having too much money because you don't level up fast enough is a thing 🤔
Is it not better to chase the XP missions instead ? With Minerals, materials, Machine Events, etc.

[worthy ember]

You use DD for overclocks and nothing else

[obsidian flicker]

Yeah... it's useless otherwise. Being stuck for an hour with randoms isn't my thing neither.

[old widget]

I love doing dives with randoms. IMO the game gets a lot more fun when the mindset shifts away from "gotta get the shiny OC or my time is wasted" and towards "wow this co-op game is well designed and fun to play even if we fail". Play because it's fun!

[hardy wigeon]

anyone edd rn?

[obsidian flicker]

IMO that's stupid to think that some players don't play to have "fun".
I don't play haz4 and haz5 solo cause it's just non-stop bugs... but it doesn't mean it difficult... so finding people to play haz5 and having fun without having t babysit others is almost impossible, since there is always at least one dwarf that needs to be carried.

A lot of you probably get some kind of reward by reviving others... a way to think that you're better than others. (not everyone, calm down).
Anyone can revive others... not all can prevent a teammates fall. That's where I get my fun... improving and exchanging those moments with others.

[obsidian flicker]

You tried in #lfg-steam ?

Well nvm.. I saw that you did 1 mins before posting in here

[old widget]

It’s OK to find fun in different things. I personally don’t find “carrying” to be that onerous (and kinda hate the term TBH). Communicating with others and helping them improve is how you build a community of people that are nice to each other and are fun to play with.

Thankfully most people in the community fit that bill.

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[worldly valley]

... Rocking is more legal than stoning. Eh? Eh?
||Sorry||

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[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 May 01 to 2025 May 08 (Week 293)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1746702000:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Radiactive Exclusion Zone | Code Name: Feral Wilderness
Stage 1: 200 Morkite + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator
Stage 2: Escort Duty + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 2 Mini-M.U.L.E.s | Mactera Plague

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Magma Core | Code Name: Petrified Agony
Stage 1: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 150 Morkite | Parasites
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | Duck and Cover
Stage 3: 3 Mini-M.U.L.E.s & Uplink + 2 Eggs | Low Gravity Swarmageddon

[steady stream]

we ducking and covering with this one

[worldly valley]

Duck

[reef pine]

Double Duck and Cover is back babyyyy

[drifting tinsel]

evil and intimidating three-hit terrain

[alpine pulsar]

No dreads pog

I can finally play something other than engy!

[inner parrot]

Low gravity almost cancels out the swarm

[worldly valley]

Low gravity makes almost any mission easier

[cold kindle]

Wonderful

I'm satisfied

Duck and coveh

And ctera plag

[misty osprey]

is mactera plague already continue in multiple DD/EDD recently?

[inner parrot]

This week’s dives look fun

[obsidian flicker]

Oof... This DD description looks almost like my first ever DD, but mine was in Magma Core.

[glad ore]

oh man "last week's" deep dive is brutal

[obsidian flicker]

Not if matched with Duck and Cover or Mactera Plague... we're an easy floating target then.

[glad ore]

just completed it solo and uh

those were some tough mission modifiers

dreadnaught + exploder swarm is tough business

how much harder is edd compared to dd

[obsidian flicker]

In general or this week particularly ?

[glad ore]

in general i suppose

are the "rules" (3 missions back to back, two objectives, conserve resources between missions) the same?

[wet knoll]

deep dives: haz 3 -> haz 3.5 -> haz 3.5

[obsidian flicker]

Haz means nothing usually ^

[wet knoll]

elite deep dives: haz 4.5 -> haz 5 -> haz 5.5

[wet knoll]

? hazard 5.5 is a huge leap from hazard 3.5

[glad ore]

bruh i don't even have haz 5 unlocked 😭

my ass will get cooked instantly

[pliant yoke]

It won't. Just give it a try

[glad ore]

surely i will not troll my pug

i completed a solo deep dive on my first try how hard could it possibly be clueless

[obsidian flicker]

If you would get the same DD and EDD.. EDD would be just slightly harder.

What makes the big difference is your teammates, the Warnings / mutators and the map. Magma Core being a tougher one obviously.
Resource are pretty much the same, there isn't less nitra in EDD than in DD... just RNG.

[glad ore]

ok so it's primarily just haz difference, and actual seed differences

[worldly valley]

Any cave duable with a companions

[glad ore]

which is about what i expected

dd don't have minerals other than morkite, nitra, and gold right

i didn't notice any on my run

[wet knoll]

yep

[obsidian flicker]

Only if you don't know what you're doing. It's not that much "harder".
Sure I won't suggest to start with Point Extraction missions or Escort where it's easy to fail even a Haz3 with incompetent teammates

[glad ore]

i mean the first mission of last week's dd was point extraction and i completed it

granted the platform guns ran dry but still

[obsidian flicker]

Hopefully... Not in DD and EDD to mine minerals tbh. It's already taking on average 45 mins, so I try to limit the mining and just get over with.

[glad ore]

what happens to dwarves that don't reach the shuttle

[obsidian flicker]

Spawn back next Stage

[worldly valley]

Platform gun is the greatest gun in the game. Proof me wrong.

[glad ore]

it truly is

never lets ya down

(until it's out of ammo)

[worldly valley]

Cheese! For everyone!

https://tenor.com/view/cheese-for-everyone-celebration-sheogorath-oblivion-cheese-gif-17388331

[inner parrot]

Only need one dwarf to get out for everyone to get the rewards

[vague lantern]

that's correct. only a huuli hoarder can provide special minerals in a dd

when they do show up, it's hard seeded and will always be at that spot on that stage every time

[turbid bane]

@drifting tinsel is drg-deep-dive-tracker site maintained by you / your team in any shape, way or form or is it completely unaffiliated

[drifting tinsel]

unaffiliated

my only extension is github/vioxynteris/drg-mission-gen (and it's a fork lol)
i also have a spreadsheet somewhere, but it's nothing major

[raven carbon]

This edd was pretty good

Fun one

Last week was very easy

Third stage requires some planning to avoid dying

It is also a bulk spawn stage on uplink

Got 3 bulks

Low gravity makes it fun

[balmy nacelle]

I guess rejoin was a lie huh

love how when you are laggy enough it just kicked you out of the server and there is no way for me to rejoin a pub :(

[raven carbon]

You can go to recently played with menu on steam

It doesn't always work though

[balmy nacelle]

nvm it was the host who leave lol

[rich beacon]

this weeks EDD was hard, thankfully i was gunner but it was tough

im guessing most people just playing them solo since there aren't many lobbies for DD/EDD

[balmy nacelle]

atleast having low gravity on the last one was a breather tho

[glad cipher]

Is the EDD as bad as I hear

[static lichen]

this edd is pretty nasty ngl

[glad cipher]

I suppose not all jobs can be fun

[timber tree]

I just did it, it wasn't THAT bad

I mean, maybe I'm just saying that because I was the only person on my squad that didn't die a single time

Stage 3 had ||like 5 barrage infectors|| but I somehow managed

[static lichen]

it shouldn't be that bad in a full squad tbh

i was doing it solo, and between 50 acid spitters per minute on stage 2 and the stationary gank squad on stage 3 it was pretty brutal

i sure love not being able to do anything half the time since those red bozos start sniping me all at once the moment i take out my pickaxe

[obsidian flicker]

If the team isn't sticking together... that's often just worse than being solo 🤔
I've done the DD yesterday.. should try the EDD today... will see how it goes, but I'm not a fan of Magma Core nor Duck and Cover 🥹

[warm horizon]

most of stage 2 was me wishing upon a bright star for bosco to shoot the bugs on the ceiling

duck and cover wasn't fun but i expected it to be much worse, i was expecting to find alot more trijaws

time for stage 3 of the deep dive

now i'm seeing the trijaws

completed in 44 minutes (didn't get downed once btw) :D wasn't too hard honestly, the hardest part was stage 2 and stage 3 felt pretty easy, barely any bugs

[fathom portal]

The EDD this week is really hard

I usually do them solo but I legit just couldnt this week

[sand juniper]

Just did the EDD with randoms. I played fire driller. Honestly I found it to be very easy via bunkering. Uplinks and fuel pods can be bunkered, and the cave layout for stage 2 also allows for making a small cave to hold off duck and cover bugs.

[inner parrot]

I just got sticky fuel yesterday so I’m thinking of running that for DD and EDD myself

[inner parrot]

Harder this week but not too bad with a good team

[lost mica]

fuccking hell this weeks EDD is brutal

Second stage is basically a fucking touhou game with how many projectiles there are

[glad ore]

seems like i chose a bad week to unlock dd lmao

[grave crescent]

it’s a little spicy, but with a good team you can pull through. like with most duck and covers, i’d recommend having some crowd control though since the clusters of enemies usually spawn together

[kind yacht]

how do i get a team for deep dive nobody is joining?

[old widget]

Looks like you managed, but #lfg-steam is a good place to get a full team, especially when the dives recently changed

[low gate]

yeah, it's great fun tho'

failed stage two four times now

I think on my first or second attempt, we couldn't even get out of the drop pod...

[obsidian flicker]

Well, not sure I'm even gonna try to join randoms for the EDD then 🤔

[sand juniper]

Literally just dig bunkies for the holdouts, this week's EDD is quite easy as driller.

Duck and cover bugs on a low hanging roof get deleted with any driller primary.

[low gate]

damn... my 5th attempt was so close

was at the fueling part in stage 3

🥲

went furthest I've ever been with a bunch of greenbeards

greenbeard gang rise up

stage 3 is much easier than stage 2 tho'

[mossy wharf]

Maybe dumb question, If I was a member of a deep dive I did today with friends, and then my computer decides to spontaneously combust and shut down, does the game still register me as in the DD before and let me join back?

[kind yacht]

how do i unlock my other passive perk slots ?

[obsidian flicker]

Probably through an Assignment. I don't remember.
It's Deep Dives here btw.
Better chance to have more answers in the general chat #drg-chat

[kind yacht]

yep found my answer i thought drg chat was for like general

ty

[obsidian flicker]

I never got a successful reconnect in a regular Mission.. I don't think you would be able to reconnect on a DD or EDD. I could be wrong though.

[obsidian flicker]

General genral is #non-drg-chat 🤔

[kind yacht]

im new to the server xD

i didnt see that

[low gate]

but you asked that question in both chatrooms

[obsidian flicker]

Yeah np. I've already posted about a game in a different game's server once.

[obsidian flicker]

And he probably joins Haz5 lobbies 🤷‍♂️

[low gate]

we should get him drunk at the Abyss Bar

[obsidian flicker]

I have some materials to craft some

[old widget]

Welcome, new miner - another good place for info is the wiki:
https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg as it covers a lot of the basics.

[mossy wharf]

figured. my friends have been able to join if they were suddenly disconnected due to internet issues or something. mine randomly decided to blue screen and shut off

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

i cant :(

im getting my ass kicked in the EDD

second phase is just insane

acid spitter swarm is wild

[gaunt loom]

Engineer with loki and shard diffractor helps a lot with duck and cover.

[ancient pewter]

PGL also takes good care of roof bugs

[elfin berry]

Hyperalloy is also good; anything hiding on the roof can be melted easily enough

[gaunt loom]

whats hyperalloy?

[elfin berry]

The Stubby overclock that makes it more accurate and gives it a weakpoint bonus

[gaunt loom]

eh, you can take them out a lot quicker with the loki

I can see using PGL to take out a cluster of them, and then taking out the stragglers with loki, but picking them off with the stubby sounds tedious.

[mellow cradle]

the most effective way to clear duck and cover spitter swarm for engi is VIR most likely

[gaunt loom]

whats vir

[mellow cradle]

Volatile Impact Reactor

[gaunt loom]

ah yea, thats what I use

[elfin berry]

With 30% spread the Stubby's pretty accurate; as long as your aim is on point it's easy to clear the roof. That said, my main reason for not using the Lok-1 is because I just don't like to have the game do the aiming for me. Just not the gameplay I want

[gaunt loom]

You will be banished to the negative zone for not playing the way that I want to play. Your sentence is final.

[elfin berry]

Fugg

[fierce gate]

damn last edd mission is kinda rough

mule as scout solo is not it

[pulsar kindle]

Hey Nobuh, yes if you drop from any deep dive you can rejoin your party. It'll actuallly ask you if you would like to reconnect when you reboot DRG

[granite spire]

Shut up ms I already have all my overclocks I don't need to do them

[blissful breach]

give me some then, you‘ll have something to do and I‘ll be closer to getting all of em

[low gate]

yeah took me like 5 tries to get through it 🤣

[hot socket]

🙏🏻 my team carried me and i did my first edd first try

[regal pendant]

I tried to play an Elite Deep Dive just now, first thing i see is 25 trijaws

[night oxide]

Did the EDD first try solo. The second stage is an absolute nightmare if you are anything other than driller. Stage three wasn't so bad.

[golden field]

I did it yesterday using cryo driller and a gunner with mortar oc

[west bane]

2nd mission on the dd is kinda annoying

Escort with duck and cover

[misty osprey]

i feel duck and cover harder than mactera , because they have the maximum range

[sour frigate]

Did the DD with two drillers and no gunners yesterday, that was an experience with all the bugs above us.

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

Rock and stone

[vague lantern]

VIR is good for duck and cover, and you can pair it with the smart rifle with status boosted damage and full lock damage for more ranged supremecy

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[hardy wigeon]

NEED PPLS TO DO EDD WITH FAST

[drifting tinsel]

it's thursday

let's dance

[little hazel]

let us pray for duck and cover

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New Deep Dives are now available!
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[drifting tinsel]

Weekly Deep Dives information for 2025 May 08 to 2025 May 15 (Week 294)
Deep Dives will reset <t:1747306800:f>

DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Rocky Sorrow
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + Black Box | Exploder Infestation
Stage 2: 225 Morkite + 2 Resonance Crystals | No Mutator
Stage 3: On-Site Refining + 2 Eggs | Low Oxygen

ELITE DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Mild Crib
Stage 1: On-Site Refining + 150 Morkite | Rich Atmosphere Duck and Cover
Stage 2: 4 Eggs + Liquid Morkite Well | No Mutator
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + Hiveguard | Haunted Cave

need like five minutes for dreadnought, thanks for the patience <3

[mellow cradle]

less go

[pliant yoke]

D&C in EDD1

[mellow cradle]

when the crib is mild

[turbid bane]

O2 on refining

bleh

[pliant yoke]

Just place resupplies all over the cave, you should have plenty of nitra by that point anyway

[turbid bane]

fair, at least its not something like morkite

[mellow cradle]

short objectives for both dives, speedrun time

[turbid bane]

where the gameplay consists of hugging molly

[fresh robin]

duck and cover again...

alright

time to pick bullet hell

[ancient pewter]

Haunted mining expedition 😩

[turbid bane]

accidentally hit windows key during extraction

game froze and BSOD'd my computer

no attempt to reconnect

no matrix core

no nothing

nada

:/

[low gate]

😍

[ancient pewter]

Oof, sorry to hear that.

[old widget]

Haunted mining my beloved
“Best” combo for HC warning IMO, makes for a fun pace

[mellow cradle]

in my experience HC barely matter in mining, because you are always ahead of it

[old widget]

On the right pace, for sure, yeah.

[turbid bane]

got a little sweaty during the hiveguard, but I put myself on kiting duty

[cold kindle]

WONDERFUL deep dives

Cover and duck is back

As well as haunted cave

[ancient pewter]

Didn't even think about how you also need to slog through a hiveguard on the way down, yeesh

[foggy sapphire]

pretty chill dives tbh

[lucid frost]

walks in

war zone

[balmy nacelle]

right at the start of edd and it is fricking ww2 💀

[low gate]

this EDD was a lot more manageable than last week's

got it done in one shot

I was in charge of baby duty on the ghost (kited him at spawn endlessly for my homies)... right at the start of the Hiveguard fight he digs himself a hole and disappears. 💀

the hiveguard fight got real saucy after that

[elfin berry]

Might be a scout EDD this week. Probably a lot easier to run circles around the ghost that way

[golden field]

Should have a holy beer

That let us to hit the ghost with our pickaxes

[elfin berry]

Just call the Ghostbusters prior to starting the stage

[cold kindle]

Who ya gonna Karl?

[distant cave]

Karl eats the ghost

[hoary shale]

hi guys, first time writing... I'm having a lot of trouble tryng to finish the first Deep Dive cause everytime I join a lobby a crash mid dive. Anybody wanna join?

[grave crescent]

this EDD feels rougher to me than last week, a bet-c on stage 2 with no space to maneuver sent our down counts through the roof

[old widget]

Are you crashing, or is the host crashing? If you are crashing, hosting will probably make it worse, host PC does a lot more heavy lifting 😅

[hoary shale]

i guess the host crashes then

cause it only happens when i join dd

[mellow cradle]

does this happen during the transition to the second stage?

[hoary shale]

nope during missions

[obsidian flicker]

DRG's error messages aren't really clear or accurate. Often I disconnect and it.just says the same as when a host close the game... 'Multiplayer session ended' or something. So it's pretty hard to know what's rwally happening.

[old widget]

If you are just getting disconnected and your game isn’t actually crashing, that could be a lot of things, and yes it’s tough to pinpoint. Hosting might be a good experiment. You can also follow up in #bug-discussion where there are some pinned checklists of things to try for disconnect issues. Good luck

[obsidian flicker]

I wish there was a reminder of the Warnings and Anomalies when we land. Like huge icons taking all the screen.

Died straight away doing the 3rd stage of DD cause of the O2 warning 😦 And a second time and last revive from Bosco.
Really not a fan of O2 warnings.

[sand juniper]

It's written on the upper left corner of the HUD, isn't it?

You also have an O2 gauge on display at all times.

[obsidian flicker]

Hey thanks. I didn't know all that.
I love so much having to look for hints about that warning in particular.

I just click to play and watch something else while loading.

I can't focus.. that's why I use the M1K when playing Scout

[jolly gulch]

What’s this week’s EDD like?

Just so i know what to expect

[sand juniper]

No problem dude. Don't hesitate to ask about any other things you might have trouble with.

[obsidian flicker]

Find the description above somewhere. Otherwise some said it is easier than last week. If it can helps

The description is in the pins btw.

[elfin berry]

Assuming you took EricR's advice; stage 1 feels like the beach scene out of Saving Private Ryan, stage 2 is relatively easy, and stage 3 just demands that you can kite

[torpid lava]

what should i expect when doing deep dive for the first time?

[stray compass]

hell.

[mellow cradle]

get some water and snacks at the ready

[torpid lava]

i got no friends to do it with tho

[elfin berry]

Regular deep dives really aren't that bad. Stage 3 is just haz 3.5, so if you regularly do 4+ then it's just an easy but usually long mission.

EDDs are more difficult of course, but if you can do haz 5 you can do an EDD

[torpid lava]

how long?

[elfin berry]

I usually see newer players post like 60-90 minute times

[torpid lava]

thats nothing

[elfin berry]

Yeah, it's not really "plan your day around it" levels of long

[torpid lava]

i was expecting like 6 hours

[mellow cradle]

I'd say if you can do a haz 4, then you can do an EDD

or at least an easy EDD

or maybe with some company

[elfin berry]

I did this week's DD in 33:35 blind, got slowed down in stage 3

[elfin berry]

Yeah, an easy EDD could be doable by someone who doesn't do haz 5. If you can build up nitra early then you can be set for the rest

[torpid lava]

i only just unnlocked haz5 and haz4 is pretty easy for me as long as i dont jump off a cliff or my teamates shoot my c4

[elfin berry]

You may not have much trouble then

Of course the difficulty varies between weeks, and by stage. This week, I'd say you're fine if you can beat stage 1. The other two EDD stages were easier for me

[torpid lava]

ok

i just gotta find ppl to play with now

[elfin berry]

I do mine solo. Some weeks it's probably easier because you can have Bosco do things that players would find harder

[torpid lava]

i dont like playing games solo

[glad ore]

edd stage 1 spawn is ridiculous lmao

[obsidian flicker]

First DD. Try to join a server with "welcome all / greenbeards" first, if there is any of course.
And if you have ANY question about something, use the chat.

Other than that... there isn't enough servers to be really picky if you don't want to play solo.

[low gate]

last week's EDD was a lot harder for me than this week's

[misty osprey]

actually low Oxygen will play a sound effect that wont hear outside of this mutator

never feel fighting a hiveguard in another level outside of non ghost mutator

[vagrant tulip]

Someone broke the dreadnought cocoon in EDD stage 3 when a bulk spawned 😭🙏

[mellow cradle]

they had a plan

(probably)

[vagrant tulip]

no we all died

[chilly shore]

bulk + dread is a classic plan but having a ghost in the same room as well can get a little crowded

[obsidian flicker]

Just tried it.. I've quitted during Stage 1. Running in circle, nothing is getting done.
I could probably have done it, but I wasn't having fun at all.
The map is chaotic without talking about that ScaleBramble with 1 pod that I wasn't able to see. And I feel Bosco is getting worse every time I play solo.

Last week I managed to get to stage 2.

[chilly shore]

stage 1 is very "fun" this week

not sure if stationary spawns are deterministic but we had like 3 barragers and 8 spitballers, it was a good time

[obsidian flicker]

Then you must be bored playing regular missions

[obsidian flicker]

Solo I think I had 1 barrage and 3 or 4 Spitballers.

[low gate]

Last week's stage 2 is this week's stage 1, but a bit easier cause the haz is lower.

[obsidian flicker]

Stage 1 and 2 are haz5... Stage 3 is 5.5 I believe

[low gate]

stage 1 is 4.5

[obsidian flicker]

They should really have added that info in the ESC menu as for regular missions IMO.

[low gate]

yeah I get it mixed up too

stage 3 is 5.5

[obsidian flicker]

It's not as if .5 would make the real difference neither.
4.5 with Duck and Cover or a 5 without.. etc.

[low gate]

not just that though, you gotta take in the context

last week stage 1 was a salvage with basically a straight into the drop pod ending, not much time or nitra to resupply in preparation. So you come into stage 2 on low fuel and get greeted with ton of spitters and goobers.

at least with this week's you are playing on the hardest stage straight away

[obsidian flicker]

Indeed.. wasn't feeling going through all

[low gate]

I did this week's EDD in a single shot, last week took me 5 attempts and all cause of stage 2.

but I'm built diff, so you can't really take my experience as what you'll face.

[obsidian flicker]

Well I give 2 attempts max if the first time I died for having played badly.
If it's non-stop jumping, running, shooting, etc. I won't. I'm really not a try hard.

[low gate]

The more times I lose, the more motivated I am to go again.

[obsidian flicker]

Sounds right for most players in this game I believe.

[sharp canyon]

dwarves are stubborn

[weary walrus]

Diverse stubborn, though

Some are rocks, some stones

[regal blade]

Get it deep dive?

[hoary shale]

wth guys, i got an OC that i already posessed form an EDD... is it a bug or it can happen?

[wraith shard]

Which oc

[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!
_ _

[rancid parrot]

"mild crib" my ass i basically had double haunted cave because a bulk spawned on the third stage

at least i got to skip the hiveguard fight with it

[noble maple]

Holy FUCK

What is that start

[obsidian flicker]

This never happened to me. So or it's a bug or your save got 'reverted' I would guess.

[sand juniper]

Is the overclock in question Micro Conductor Add-On?