#deep-dive-discussion
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It's for a 4man edd
Yea same applies
I thought AA relied on the PGL
3,2,1,2,1 is my setup for it
I think it might be better to do
to beat this EDD you dont need to meticulously build your engi
1,3,1,2,1
Its not that brutal
I'm just a driller main, haven't done edds with any other classes
drillers finally 3star gold so I wanna level the others now though lol.
Just don't wanna be the guy that drags my team down cause I don't know how to build engi. lmao
Yea playing different classes is fun
Nah dont worry
As long as you remember to build turret and plop down some platforms you are perfect engi
for the turret, I'm using armor breaking. is stun better?
and I'm assuming target prioritization > defender system
Stun is good but theres no black and white here
Just experiment
And see what you like
I go with the gemini and defender system.
Hey I have a question: Who's Karl?
A Fallen Hero
management's propaganda to motivate the dwarves a legend who got left behind (maybe he killed the queen?)
NEVER question Karl's accomplishments. He laid the path we follow today, we fight in memory of Karl. Tarnishing his name is treason and management will not tolerate it. He's a damn hero!
There we go, EDD done.
grats, I felt like there are soooo many spawns in this one
on a 3 man, we had 1k kills after failing halfway through the second mission
First stage was a tricky one.
how tough was the third one? the mactera?
Mactera plague stage felt in my opinion easier than previous mactera plagues.
thats good to hear
what's the best gunner weps for the EDD
I'd probably try autocannon and revolver first.
aight
We got by fine with our gunner using minigun and revolver.
aight
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If you're just flat better by a wide margin with any weapon then just go w/ that, imo.
what's the final EDD stage
mactera plague salvage op
oh COME ON
just use the PGL with incendiary
Stage 3 isnt that bad. Good position in defense.
Mactera plague can be very hard but the map layout that we got for this EDD was really really easy. Stage 1 is the hardest part of the EDD by far.
Yup. Just keep moving and take out Dreadnought fast. We got two detonators when we fought dread, but they helped us in fact.
you have so much nitra by that point your team can alternate between gunner shield and phermones and be fine
or just phermones
with 2 scouts 2 gunners you can keep pheremones and shields up permanently
nitra is not a problem
when exactly is the weekly reset for deep dives, and im assuming all the other weekly-restricted content?
Thursday at some point
i got neither the achievement for completing a deep dive nor the one for doing it under 45 min...are those bugged?
My EDD didn't feel like an edd this week, went pretty smoothly although we did bunker on the last stage
my team died on the very last objective
we didn't bunker
anyway i'm not happy
i did a deep dive under 45 min and didn't get the achievement for it
and a friend that was playing on that same dive?
got the achievement
so i don't know what's up
anyone doing edd?
maybe you already have it
Anyone solo the edd this week? Any tips?
depends on which class you taking in
I made an attempt 😂
absolutely nail the Dread first in stage 1, from there you've just got to be fast
I used a Gunner, because the ziplines can criss-cross the vertical shaft and make it easy to avoid the ghost
Bosco can do all the hard graft, just drop the aquarq onto the rig and deposit only when you're depositing nitra
learn where the dead ends are, because they are certain death
Sweet sweet glad to know gunner is viable
Been using driller for soloing EDD and it’s been a doozy
resource management and acquisition was ez pz, but dealing with lots of mactera always sucked
wrong channel
Seems like having two gunners on your squad has always been the best way to run EDD because shield spam keeps you safe
Nah, I think flexibility to do every job is a strength.
To be fair though, driller is rarely necessary.
Just did my first deep dive and it was ezpz, how much worse is elite deep dive?
EDD is basically haz5
Never tried that but haz4 was manageable
ehhhh
there is nuance
let's put it this way
anybody should be able to finish DD no matter how dumb the team is
in EDD, your teammates will likely have to clutch at one moment or another
who it is depends on the circumstance
Haz5 hole digging
EDD super fun, didn't manage to beat it this night but definitely doable. Wish there were more though
more every week
@harsh night There's still time.
Oh yeah I know about both of those. I just meant dimultaneous DDs
. Like 3 to choose from
went in with 3 scouts and a engineer at least one of whom had never completed an EDD fully expecting to maybe beat one level, hoping for two, but surprised to finish it out especially with a salvage mission last lmao props to them
well damn, that sounds like a fun run!
We built a sexy bunker on the last mission, I mined the entrance to hell. Was the easiest EDD experience I've ever had
Mactera are easy to dispatch if you know how
Some EDDs are going to be harder and easier than others. Just the nature of RNG
best weapon against mactera is PGL with incendiary
yes, they just melt like ice cream, so lovely
I dont know what kind of ice cream you eat, but can I score some?
Any ice cream put in my freezer.
Pre-thawed. Sorbet might take a solid of being outside before turning into goop.
Has anyone here done solo EDD with Scout?
I'm kinda struggling
I had no problems as driller and gunner though.
I did, took a while but you basically have to use the pheremone grenades to keep things away for some of the defensive bits and to make the dread and horror fight.
i did. collect nitra, spam pheromones
ignore metaslaves and spam the boomstick to clear waves
best class for solo EDD this week?
anyone for a deep dive?
scout always best class homie
how many days until the deep dive reset?
1 or 2?
35 hours, 4 minutes.
anyone for a deep dive?
this deep dive is hedll
i haven't completed the first one, i really reeally really need a full team
i will check back in an hr
ill help you @tribal lark
@tribal lark im alive to
EDD sucks this week, im not a fan of these "Aquarq with Ghost, Bulk and Dreadnaught" missions
First stage is the hardest, it really opens up after that
DD was EZ compared to EDD.... but EDD was more fun lol
I mean EDD is meant to be harder, it is elite after all :P
nothing like being a scout with the horror targetting you.. you forget about it for 30 seconds... turn around and theres a bulk detonator, the horror and your teamate just opened the dreadnaught cocoon....
I zipped out of that death triangle so fast my beard almost got torn out of my face
It's perfect if the ghost bulk targets you as scout, you're the best to juke it
factus cactus.
I lived. then turned around revived the gunner and we killed the both of the fleshy ones.. the horror wanted me giblets tho
I like to think im not total trash at this game but the ONLY 2 elite deep dives ive been unable to complete with my regular group are the Ghost, Bulk, Dreadnaught Aquark Missions
We are getting smacked around by the goddamn Big Boy Brigade the entire mission and the room shape isnt conducive for it.
the strat is to have the person that is being targetted to isolate themselves from the group whilst giving themselves achievable things to do whilst keeping the ghost bulk away @copper oasis
that tends to help
argh
I want a minigun overclock so bad
I've got 4 for the burt, 1 for the revolver and 2 for the autocannon, but still no minigun mods
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Is it possible the game gives you loot for the class you're doing the DD with with higher priority?
Because I've got so many scout stuffz, and been playing with him mostly
I think I've used only gunner in DDs and have only gotten a handful of BRT overclocks which makes me a sad
It does not
RNGesus has not been kind to me when it comes to the overclocks I want 😦
k
you will get it this time
I promise
Okay, I can't promise that, but I'm rooting for you.
Freeman just wants even more carve radius for a C4 OC.
Local man yearns for prenerf super cooling for m1000.

people keep trying to tell me c4 mining only gives you 10% of the resources but I think that’s just gross overestimation and the latest in misheard rumors
plus im not going to stand there bashing gold for an hour
It used to be true, it was fixed in recent updates
Same with mining the base of a mineral and breaking the rest off
I THINK shooting off ore is inefficient
Ie with minigun
But mining the connections to ore/c4 is basically 100 efficient from my experiences
The real satchelkino is breaking off those HUGE pillars in PE, cave coral caves.
"Worthless but fun to destroy"
I don't think it's 100% efficiency. If you hit like specs of minerals, and you're full, it will just say "inventory full" and it'll disappear. There's a minimum threshold.
Wait is deep dive resetting in 21 hours?
About 20 now but yes
yep, the weekly reset is almost up
The promised time approaches
randomly created every thursday
ppl prob got a week to build strats then ig?
I would not view it that way.
If you're planning on trying to complete it in a pub from Monday to the refresh.
It's not really needed unless you're speed running.
You're going to have a bad time.
The good players tend to finish it on the 1st try, blind.
Most higher skilled players complete them the first couple of days.
And completions are probably already done by the end of Sunday for that player popl.
Monday to the refresh, it's hell.
ah aight, least my first try was a win
Idiots everywhere.
cuz the scout got to the pod
when in doubt, solo it
Hot dang. . .I might as well stop playing now. Ran the EDD with a friend and two mid-level randos. Fought our way to the final stage, got the drop pod refueled, were out of nitra, and everyone went down
I kited like a bat, but got iron-willed just as the pod opened
Grappled in on my last three seconds of Iron Will
The clutch!
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uh oh
Glad I finally finished it last night. That first stage was a major doosey. Managed to find a great team of high level randos. We saved up enough nitra to spam resups for the win at the end of stage three. I spammed pheremones like a motherfucker.
Ran it again earlier today for fun. Think I found the second cheater I've ever met during it. He was some crazy high level, like 3346 or something. Seemed to never run out of ammo on his EPC even though he was spamming the charged shot.
Please, devs. Please no haunted on the next reroll
Pls. Pls no haunted >_>
Sad that people cheat on this game...
Really sad.
I actually encountered an aim botter one time
He was flicking around instantly and immidiately turned and shot his weapon when a Glyphid turned the corner to get him
wow, who the hell cheats in a pve game lol
leaf lovers
The first cheater I met was an engi with unlimited ammo in a point extraction. He made giant staircases with his platform gun all across the map.
Anyone still need to do the EDD
EDD just takes one gunner one scout if you want to try 2 manning it fyi
gunner does the dread objectives, scout does the other stuff
yep, in theory 2-manning is the easiest bracket because the game doesn't get much harder compared to solo. That's deliberate because the second player replaces Bosco, but players have much higher DPS than Bosco does and they can effectively target dread weakpoints
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Ohhhh shit boys. What's it gonna be?
My work week is over in an hour. Gonna celebrate with a bottle of the cheap stuff and these new fucking deep dives. A drunk dwarf is a happy dwarf.
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perfect
but engy kept dying n would strafe off like a lone wolf n ignore us talking to him
What’s the warnings?
they're pretty tame tbh
crit hit on the first one n i forgot the warning, second is exploder infestation n third is regen
first stage was mactera plague + critical weakness
Oh boi time to one shot those bitches with subata
Ok so mactera, exploding bugs and regen
There is a bit of scaling between 1 and 2 players, but not much, according to the wiki
same, just finished with ~600 nitra entering stage 3
without the mules being the primary obj. there wasn't much "oh crap we better prep". Also... only 4 eggs with 3 clustered so close together...
easiest edd so far
its a shame that you cant just upload images, you have to upload it to a site to throw it in here
but yea normal deep dive is parasites n nothing second n third is lethal enemies
yeah elite was easier, but man, those earthquakes made moving around difficult; without a good engineer we'd be stuck and swarmed
I am glad I can relax and enjoy deep dives without tryharding 🙂
we managed to do the elite even tho our engy was afk most of the time n garbage teammate over all
shame you dont get exp for minerals mined and enemies defeated on deep dive
or a survival bonus for each stage
All three deepdive stages complete
0/3 completed...
Got only the first reward
Nothing on 2 and 3
buggerd
Given that this is the internet, I'm going to ask if that's you being an elitist MLG snob, or if you're genuinely comparing this EDD to the previous ones and calling it easy
Having looked up at the hazards for this one... yeah, I can see it. Mactera swarm with Crit Weakness? Might as well be clay pidgeons
Crit weakness is cheat mode. Stage 2 are the two easiest objectives you can get, and stage 3 is a 1/1 egghunt
Stage 1 you won't even need to resupply
Stuff dies if you breathe on it.
I'm not gonna complain, that's just how it is
Random generation, baby
Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's the most ballbustingest unfair dogshit you've ever seen.
I mean, if people here are just gonna scream "git gud" at me when I complain about Point Extraction scaling issues, I feel like it's only fair I can tell you to just enjoy the casual killing stroll
a little preachy there
Too bad 🙂
Question
Does anyone know if the "Kill 2 Dreadnoughts within 30 seconds in a Hazard 3 or higher" achievement is obtainable in the Deep Dive?
I already got it so I can't test it
But I have friends who want it and maybe this might be the best time to get it assuming it is possible
I don’t see why it wouldn’t be.
Me neither
But you never know
Maybe it only works on regular missions
For some reason
But that's why I am asking if someone tried testing it
it's pretty easy to just lower the hz level, pop eggs, lure them together, and kill them
wouldn't rely on this week's edd for that but then again, if you can get it at the same time, might as well
another week without lead storm, carpet bomber, fat boy / clean sweep, any CRSPR OC 
but yeah I'm about to finish the OC collection on bulldog and BRT thank you very much rng jesus
not like I use the BRT at all as I already have the elephant rounds on the bulldog
I really feel there should be a harder way to get specific OCs
i love how 3 of the pgl upgrades i have pretty much leads to same build
This weeks EDD is surprisingly really easy
hmmm to solo or RNG team it
I think grinding edd would be a good source of xp
Wuts this week’s edd
Elimination, + Salvage, Mactera + Critical Weakness
Mining + Salvage, Exploder Infestation
Egg + Mining, Regen Bugs
Hmm
LF1M Deep Dive, preferably gunner or scout , Pod 10
@wind nest you could RNG team with a bunch of noobs and be fine tbh
Always assumed Critical weakness didn't affect dreads
1 Elephant rounds shot with armour broken = ded
Easiest deepdive yet
Damn that's my first deep dive and swarms won't stop coming. I did the first one solo tho
Well the bugs start coming
And they don't stop coming
Fed as a scout and I hit the ground running
Didn't make sense
Not to live for fun
Your engie gets smart but your head gets dumb
So much to do
So much to see
well that was an easy EDD with randos lol
any1 having a hard time finding morkite on the last stage of the deep dive?
we need 9 more and the map is cleared
When the deepdive times out and you start the new weekly without completing the first one, you complete it after the time out and you can carry over the reward to the next weeks cave...bug ?
Anyone else miss the elite deep dive struggle? I feel like they're getting easier and easier over the weeks
just rng i think

yeah its all random
when did the bulk turn up for you lot on Mission 1? for me it was the 3 swarm wave, by then we had already done both primary and secondary objectives
Easy with randoms
is it on magma core?
plenty of Nitra - and yes
oooh boy. my faaavvorrrite environment
so any pointers?
critical weakness is pretty great
Stick together and you'll survive - Macteras always an issue but a good team should be able to get rid of them
im in for a good deep dive. got a vet and a silver 3
there is an exploder infestation on Mission 2 but its not too bad
there is a bulk on mission 1 - though it appeared on the 3rd swarm wave, by then we done all the objectives and just stripping the cave for nitra/gold
it might appear sooner - though tends to be rng
tbh - just go into it, felt like all 3 missions were Haz4
stage one was the smoothest it has ever been for me
somebody said the edd was easy, proceeds to blow up within 5 mins of the second stage
hmmmm
It's one of the easier ones they've released
it's the easiest by far
I'm just glad there's weakness on the macteras, should help a lot
i wouldnt say easiest but its in the lower half
it was super hard for me in the first room
but once i got proper setup(as engi) it was easy
when do deep dives reset?
exploder infestation stage 2 should only down people who are deaf, or get themselves stuck in holes they're digging
we need a sticky for the reset question
lol
oof
Dreadnought and mactera, but with critical weakness? That seems easy... for EDD anyways
Oh fuck yes. I got Carpet Bomber, boys!
Carpet Bomber is a sick upgrade
Carpet Bomber is lit, but you basically tickle Praetorians to death.
However, that's not a bad...thing.
you can wield the bulldog like a pro and just kill 'em that way.
Carpet is what makes the gunner a fun as hell class to do pubs with. Especially on exploding guts you feel like a badass.
Wish more oc's were as cool as it.
Carpet Bomber is an overclock for the autocannon
How's the EDD this week?
pretty easy
Too easy or just sort of like, just right?
one of the easier ones
the only thing is that one of the stages is a detonator infestation
pretty tame otherwise
EDD smells like bacon
Exploder infestation,ew.And TBH I prefer a bit too easy to too hard
Last part was the roughest but I did it with really new players so made it even more challenging.
EDD is pretty easy this week
aye, critical weakness is hilarious
I'm pretty sure it multiplies off of any existing weakpoint bonuses you have, my stubby was killing macteras in 3 shots
Easiest EDD so far, in my opinion.
It's x5 damage
on weakspots
so with hollow point, damage, and elephant rounds
you're doing upwards of 1000+ per shot
b
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M1k wishes it was half as awesome.
Yeah.
Goo bombers took less than 1 clip to dispatch
yeah its more, but its not a revolver
(not including any damage upgrades, but max focus)
I wish you could fan the hammer with bulldog
I used it
or feather trigger
Its really fun to drop 5 mactera with 5 bullets extremely fast
I should try out magic bullets sometime
with neurotoxin and blowthrough
see how many enemies I can hit with one hsot
shot'
also
I have homebrew powder for all the weapons that get it now
whee
good on everything but the revolver
I only got it for bulldog and subata
great on subata
It's really nice for subata
ye
I just want carpet bomber
very spunky little gun with lots of ammo
I'd try out neurotoxin payload
I got face melter from EDD, didnt try it yet
It deals a really surprising amount of DoT
holy shit
that one deals lots of damage
The engineer main I play with is trying to get fatboy, I'm scared.
Gotta try that one out tomorrow
But yeah, consider this @thorny geyser
the flamethrower damage upgrade is a multiplier
so 12 becomes 18
(excluding the RoF bonus damage)
which is even more
I'd def take the 'explode on death' upgrade
and both the ammo ones
and the clip size
and obs, damge
its more like plasma torch than flamethrower
looking for (E)DD group
any one wanna do an edd?
@tardy wyvern see 06:37 🙂
doing an edd already
The bulldog has homebrew powder?
Wtf?
Doesn't that ruin like all it's break points? Lol
Basically, yes.
Carpet Bomber is my new favorite overclock. I love obliterating groups. Move over, drillers >_>
Damn cores still won't give me Elephant Round though. Hnnnnnng!
Lead Storm is pretty great on the gunner
Just go for the faster spinup and keep jumping and you can still move while shooting
Don't have bulletstorm yet. Maybe next week
And I remember Glacial Strata being extremely annoying for one DD, but, that was because one mission was a haunted Point Extraction. Trying to kite that stupid invulnerable bulk is even more annoying when there;s thicc snow slowing you down.
Magma Core also sucks because the ground hurts you.
the worst EDD on my memory was in sand caverns
those fucking sand sharks dude.
Swooping through the god damn mine head and carrying you off a mile even though the mine head is made out of metal
and grabbing you out of the gunner's shield
dumbest shit.
Magma core PE, enjoy having ouchie ground all around the mine head
Bonus points for getting a random chasm or two next to it as well
What does the Thin Containment Field mod for the EPC do?
it explodes when it comes to in contact with anything
doesn't it do that already?
yeah, it decreases the heat generated so if you let it go immediately after epc doesnt overheat
and a bigger aoe explosion i think if you dont shoot it too far
actually not sure about the latter
nvm, if you shoot it it explodes and makes a big crater
good for mining stuff actually
you can follow up with an axe if you hold it for long and overheat the EPC
breddy ez
ez
I generally dont mind a EDD where you have to try a couple times to get familiar with the maps and find good defensive spots
Last EDDs have all been first try
Yes, the hardest EDD we ever had was in Sandblasted corridors due to Elimination Shield disruption and Mactera Plague Salvage. Second hardest was in Magma Core due to Lethal Salvage.
Nayakas can just ruin your day really hard.
is it just me or is one of the levels the same as last week's?
I think it is just you, which one?
I dunno the lethal magma core was probably the hardest for most :P
To be fair, I finished that one first try.
Only one I've failed the first attempted was the sandblasted one with shield disrupt stage 2. And that's because the engi was using a nuke.
fucking hell
I came into the EDD with people telling me it wasn't that bad
walled into the 3rd stage, 2 spitballers, 2 bulks in 1 room
and a bunch of mactera
was this on immediate entry?
your own fault then
I remember the spitballers
you clear them from the entrance
shouldn't be a problem
you should have 500+ nitra entering the 3rd stage
team bad then
🤷
exploders in cramped corridors
it's only a hindsight issue if the players have never done exploder infestation before
we haven't
or at least, no more then a few times
you actually haven't done that mutator before?
once
we didn't make it out of the first room
so we never went back to attempt it again lmao
that was basically our 2nd ever time doing exploder infestation
I'm pretty happy we cleared it
considering we basically threw ourself off the deep end
my group goes out of its way to wait out even assignment missions if they're shield disruption or exploder infestation
hey you'll get used to all that stuff if you just play em more
shield disruption really isnt that bad
just play a bit more careful, you know?
exploder infestation isn't bad at all
are you guys drowning out your game sounds or something
yeah, exploders are pretty chill most of the time, just dont get stuck in pits lol
game volume automatically lowers when someone's talking if that counts
I mean, this is kinda your own doing.
By avoiding any experience with the mutators, then throwing yourself into a raid where it's highly likely said mutators would appear.
Then again, it's also the dev's fault for tempting you to do so.
@thick ridge blimeh on Mission 3 only got one detonator - though we kinda sped through it - rng all the way
Unless the exploders glitch out and follow you while in their exploding animation
so they're inescapable unless you're scout
Sliding exploders
Try 2 manning it @thick ridge It's really easy, only one breeder per stage, like one or two leeches tops, one or two spitballers, dreadnaught on stage 1 can get two shotted, there's a huuli hoarder on stage 1...
It's really easy this EDD to 2man it. Go engi + gunner and Gg.
is the dd harder than the edd this week
If you somehow die, it'll only be on stage 2 of EDD due to exploder infestation and certain combinations that may slow you down. That's about t
its pretty hard for EDD to be easier than DD tbh
but this EDD is as easy as it gets i guess
you mean the other way around?
If I can beat the EDD while on pain killers, it's a walk in the park.
one of the easiest yet
The exploder mutator screwed me over because I was engineer and an exploder wave spawned at the same time as an earthquake and basically the game just told me to die.
But otherwise yeah the EDD was no problem
falls in magma crack
sees exploder swarm come over both edges
"Guess I'll die now"
seems like we got two DDs this week.
hmmm?
can i have an engi for edd plz
how is the EDD this week?
nice lol
followup question: who wants to carry me through it? taking applications now
If you can complete a regular DD then you can do this weeks EDD.
I'm currently rather drunk irl, and my team beat it in one go, and I never went down once, not even to Iron Will, so the EDD was a joke this week.
This week's EDD is a snoozefest compared to the last two weeks.
Critical weakness on the first level is hilarious because even my smg could kill macteras in 3 bullets.
Last magma core EDD has people ripping their hair out
damn, with critical weakness, the gunner's pistol with elephant gun overclock can two shot dreadnaughts
Can someone tell me what the objectives for the edd are and the mutators for each stage?
Uuh... so..are elite deep dives soloable?
I mean, they technically are but I didn't manage to
which is cool since I don't want my end game stuff to be too easy, especially considering I don't have any overclocks n stuff
PS don't play with Stevos[RU]. he died 16 times in 10 minutes and quit when I called him out on being maxed rank cheating.
During EDD
Yeah I've met a few triple golds/silvers like that.
Easiest EDD was weeks ago
but this one looks fairly doable as well
sadly, we wiped because it was 2 am and we were drunk 😄
the cave is a bit annoying though
fire caves are UUUGH
magma caves are definitely the hardest biome
earthquake stagger, fire geysers, hot terrain etc.
With exploders added on it might as well be a noshield map because the ground will burn you too often to let the shields recharge
"I heard that this week's EDD is easy" you said "I'm going back to get a resupply brb" you said
My deep dive started out with that first quote from one of my teammates. We get to stage 2 after almost failing stage 1 in which our Gunner got dc. Exploders by the dozens with just seconds in-between waves. We're halfway down the cave when the driller decided to backtrack to a resupply pod. Engi kept moving on and I tried to wait for the driller in case something happened to him. The driller went the wrong way past the resupply and a large wave of bugs spawned on him. I as the scout foresaw this and went to pick up his ass while avoiding exploders and shit. Meanwhile the majority of the wave moves down the cave to the engineer and he goes down. I save the driller with the help of phermones, help him clear the immediate area of hostilities, and then I go to save the enginner, who thankfully took most of the wave out before going down.
We get to the bottom of the cave where the eggs are and my team goes down several times while getting the eggs. Thankfully we had a generous amount of nitra, i dont think we would of pulled through without the Olympic swimming pool of phermones i chucked at the swarms. At one clutch point I go down after reviving the enginner while the driller is down. I was out of phermones but there was a resupply next to me, but I would of not been able to revive the enginner. The enginner runs around avoiding mactera and acid spit with a swarm on his ass, and he gets back to me and revives by the time my iron will refreshes. I use that iron will to resupply and spray the bugs. I revive the engi and drill and we clear the rest of that wave.
@honest snow Yeah EDD's are soloable
When we finished the objective a swarm was announced, but someone called for the drop pod. Meaning we had to get through the escape waves and the swarm waves. At that moment a large number of exploders came in, and they kept coming steadily. The driller goes down and is unsaveable because of how far back he was, and the enginner got a little further, but I had to leave him too. I get lost in the cave in my panic to get out and because I didn't have time to check the scanner. I get hit by an acid spitter and that put my health so low I couldn't see the health bar. In my panic and rage I toss my last phermones and it hits some bugs, letting me get past the ranged bugs. Finally after that I get to the drop pod and fling myself into it with another wave of Exploders chasing me.
tl;dr: Gunner gets dc, driller's backtracking almost costed the game, and I made it out within an inch of my life
Edit: mistook stage 2 as stage 3
Sooo I am pretty sure this has been asked before but how long is a game?
Does it depend on the map or how fast you mine or whats the deal? 🙂
Been looking at getting the game and I am about to take the dive any minute now, but yeah is it a casual game or do you have to play everyday (thinking of if there is any lvl'ing or unlocks etc)
I'd say,if you rush a normal mission, you could do under a 10 minute run. Otherwise, if you're talking about DD, or DDE, you have #deep-dive-speedrunning where you see that the fastest people posting are respectively around 30 mins for DD(E)s.
Depends if you want to rush or discover maps, or if you need certain minerals and/or need to do secondary objectives.
This game saves your progress. So playing it everyday is for the moment not a requirement (there's no daily bonus, but they are weekly deep dives/missions)
@ember creek So you can play for fun and have a blast 🙂
Looks like a game for me kinda tired of L4D and wanted something new so thought why not give this a go now
You can play for fun and have a 1h run for a simple mission if that's what you're looking for 😂
Well no I am looking to give this game a good go 😛
Going for the motherload edition so yeah
Purchase confirmed
Cant wait 😄
there's a few things to unlock, but it's very casual play
you can take 1 hour or 10mn to finish a mission depending of your playstyle
weekly quests and deep dives are here to push you to play at least 2h weekly to get every rewards, but that's all 🙂
and even if you don't do them, you won't be at a disadvantage.
Awesome thx.... Wish me luck I am going in 😄
well, the community is very helpful with greenbeards
i hope you will match with kind brothas that will help you in your first missions
you might want to try haz 2 or 3 depending of how good you are in fps game
haz 4 will need some augmentations first
Well I am a old Doom player and quake and l4d so
what hazard level would you compare the edd to
4-5.5
this week it's pretty easy though
yeah
maybe 4.5 max
only way to get wiped is getting stuck in second stage
everything else is relatively easy
Well I must admit this game is fun as hell
I am a green beard so yeah 😛
But I think I got the hang of it
@olive kelp I gotta hand it to you guys you sure hit the spot
The game is absolutly amazing
Just FYI this channel is meant to be for deep dives (which you'll be able to do once you promote a class)
Check out #drg-chat for general discussion 
Is it just me or were last week's and this week's EDD easy?
Not sure if it's that or because I started playing them on scout, ensuring my team can survive
last week had a really hard first level
it was sort of like jumping puzzle where you have to do some steps in order, get out of the drop pod, kill the breeder, kill the dreadnought
Once you get that done it becomes a regular PE mission again, but if you FAIL to do those things quickly enough you will become overwhelmed because the naedocytes keep coming and PE missions have constant spawns that ramp up over time
so if you dick around mining gold and nitra at the start or try to do the dreadnought last after getting all of the aquarqs you're gonna die
The rest of the EDD was a cakewalk in comparison "just" macteras on hazard 5 isn't much of a threat for experienced parties
hello...sorry if im a little late to the party but I finally got my gunner promoted
And I did try a deep dive....died....but still learning


Hey Jacob. Love the game mate. Really gives a meaning to teamwork in it!

Glad to hear you like it! Stick to it, and the Deep Dives will feel easier.
Practice makes perfect. AND MAY YOU BREADS STAY THICK! 😂

Hmmm so how do you know when there is a big chunk of material near you?
Is it when there are smaller pieces around the area and you just have to dig to find it?
Hey, I'm trying to get through an elite deep dive, and am having terrible luck playing with randos. Played for 3 hours last night, and never got through it all. It's tough because there isn't that direct line of communication. What sucks is that the harder this game gets, the more I like it... BUT I feel like a team that is communicating has a MUCH better chance of getting through an EDD. Any way to start or join a group of 4 miners here for an elite deep dive so I can experience it with a team that can speak to each other?
#lfg-steam fam
Yes! I did it. FINNALY completed a deep dive....now for elit DD....FFFFFUUUU-
Where does it explain how you can announce a hosted game on discord?
Nvm, it was all about "display currently running game"
@rotund raptor you go into "looking-for-group"
and there you select the arrow in the left side of chat
not arrow, sry, plus
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ATTENTION MINERS!
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks
Deep Dives
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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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Why did they decide to put static map layout for Deep Dives instead of procedural like the normal missions?
so #deep-dive-speedrunning would be a thing
also to let people repeatedly reattempt the same layout and improve
otherwise people would repeatedly spam it until they got a good layout
It's procedural, it's just that it's one map that you can try over and over for one week and then it changes.
Wouldn’t it be cool if deep dives reset every half a week?
No
Why though?
Becuase it would be fr cooler if they reset every day
Daily Deep Dives
Idk about daily, but each Dive lasting half a week could be great
because I barely have time to finish them weekly
I would just love several at once. Like three DD's available to farm overclocks. Then again, they probably want to slow down progression a bit.
I guess if they do it daily, people would just farm overclocks in no time. The game would be finished in a 2-weeks time, leaving no time for development, while overwhelming non-elitist players. :/
I do other things then DRG, I know, I am sorry, so daily would be no go, but old DDs could became available for ppl who missed them
If deep dives were generated daily, the only people who would miss out are those who have a fear of missing out. That, and veterans can't get all the mods they want as fast (which I think is a dick move, but many MMOs do the same).
As it stands, with upwards of 60 total OCs per class (240+ total) and you can realistically earn 7 OCs a week, 6 from DDs/core hunt, 1 more from forge mastery. That's 34 weeks to earn all the OCs, which is over 6 months. I do not see how changing them to be daily would meaningfully hurt the game except for the developers.
You don't have to play every day, as even I don't. However, I still insist that those who would have the perceived need to play every day if they were daily instead have fear of missing out.
I seriously hope noone is thinking about making ANYTHING daily in this game
Monthly and Weekly is the best we can have.
Daily will do nothing but hurt the game
Howso?
Dailies will burn the players, a lot.
It will become more of a "I'm forced to do this" instead of "I feel like enjoying my time"
There will be less lobbies for normal gameplay and instead it will be for the dailies
Elitism will be bigger since people don't want to lose time, they will want dailies fast, kicking anyone at the bare minimum.
Taking a break for a day, will make you think you "lost" something and that feeling will be following you.
You will only be free when you uninstall.
Yes, dailies will hurt the game.
yes that is exactly how I feel in games that do this, it feels forced, weekly is just okay
I think that's just fear of missing out.
of course if I would only play DRG and nothing else and sit at the PC all day, then daily would be awesome
call it what you want, it puts me off big time
That's fine, I just think that it taking 6 months for any 1 player to get all the OCs is unreasonable
And that's if a player doesn't get bored
next update will increase the amount of OCs that we get
at least it is varried, if it wasn't then most gunners would run carpet bomber etc.
It will become more of a "I'm forced to do this" instead of "I feel like enjoying my time"
In my experience, weeklies can already produce this to some extent
But you have a lot of room with weeklies, there's no drowning
That's true but I still feel burnt out after doing them
It's like after they are done I sometimes don't have much interest in actually playing the game until it all resets
exactly, I feel the same, but I guess it has to be weeklies to please others who want dailies
most of the games set these kind of objectives so if you enjoy other games and do reallife(tm) activities/family/etc. then you barely manage to complete it
From a community perspective, the weekly seeds also works as a great base for weekly discussion and feedback.
yes
I would prefer bi-weekly but I understand this reasoning, would love to see actual numbers of current players and DD attempts player numbers and percentage of success
I feel DDs need some other incentive to do them. Maybe increase the base reward, and have something like an extra bonus if you do it x% faster than the average.
Or have a separate randomly generated DD mission type people can play.
DW I bet you can solo it
How is this week for difficulty?
ez
I only bothered attempting to solo an EDD once and that was... week 2 or 3? The sand caverns one.
It’s fairly chill but then everything is chill for me as an elite gamer
Jokes aside it is fairy tame
With the awkwardly-placed dread in the morkite mission. I managed as engi. Was not fun.
stage 1 is simple, stage 2 is going to be a long stage if it's your first time i think, so expect probably 2 swarms, and stage 3 just take slow
you'll have an abundance of nitra due to all the mules
Awesome. What's it like in the way of dreads?
Should I pack shotty rather than stubby?
Oh OK nice.
stage 2, you won't have a lot of room to kite bugs around, as well as there being exploder infestation. if you fail any stage i imagine it'll be that one
but it's definitely doable
EDD this week is really easy
you can only really fail if you get unlucky grabs or get stuck in geometry
My first attempt sailed through all the stages and then, on that room with all the pillars with 3 eggs, we all just
Died
It fell apart too quick to salvage
So my advice is to not be shy about those resupplies, especially when on 3
@harsh axle try duos
the edd with the haunted cave at the start was really easy for me doing it with only 2
never finished with 4
Duo is easiest, solo is the least variable
haven't gotten that one yet
I need to master DD solo on scout
Elite dives scare me.
this week elite DD wont scare you much
somehow yes, even despite magma core, it's alright.
This has been my first DDs since a long hiatus, is this baby tier?
Oh god
Cause the EDD stage 2 was downright evil
Is there a benefit to doing an elite deep drive versus an normal one?
Other than a bigger reward at the end, AFAIK no
They both have the same reward pool
Gotcha, thanks
Yeah it's the idea of farming more stuff
appart from that you are not gated from any content
Man this week's elite honestly felt easier than the basic one
Which is fine because last week was hell imo
I remember talking to people about magma core saying it was initially scary cause it’s magma core
But in the end it was easier than the majority of what we had before
Yeah
Hell, the dreads with the weakness modifier
Were easier than most regular dread hunts
3rd stage of the edd was pretty rough, but you can spam resupplies
Yeah nitra was rich
It was really only rough in that one big room though
Which had like four eggs in it
I main engie and I received nothing related to him
If you displease RNGsus, it's your own fault. Protip: self-flagellation.
See: my usual teammate who mains scout
Has not gotten a single scout overclock
See also me who does not main scout: gets all the OCs that should go to him
Only thing im a little bummed about is zero OCs for boomstick
Otherwise I've gotten a nice collection, even if most of them are engineer OCs.
I only just got a single overclock for the burst pistol
I was so happy
It took me forever
Which one? Flechettes?
Nah it was the clean one, I forget the name
Lower cooldown between bursts
Or faster repeated shooting however you want to phrase it
That's pretty decent one for burst spam builds.
Yeah I like it
I got flechettes some time ago, never running out of ammo again.
Hell I'm just glad I finally got one
I think it's the only gunner sidearm one I've gotten
Instead been getting Scout and Driller ones
Not that I mind, Driller's my second choice
I mostly play heavy dwarves, but I dont mind towering mountain of engie OCs at all.
ye this week EDD is so easy, last week EDD was also easy
i dont think there can be edd harder than Loud Impact
like ever
doesn't matter if it was easy, as long as it is fun I don't care about the difficulty and I really enjoyed this week as well
@hoary gust Was that the terrible Magma Core one?
or the one with the bulk in that super small cave
those two were annoying
The one in Biozone with the ghost and the near vertical point extraction was so goddamn annoying
Or was it bogs....doesn't really matter
Ugh, stage 2 was a pain
Well you could have an identical EDD except the salvage + lethal enemies is on stage 3
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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new
Deep Dives
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Don't kick mission control please.
I don't know why, but playing Daft Punk (alive 2007 - especially) in background, while playing this game feels just amazing.
when you carry coppers on your and getting kicked about 30mins into the dive just because you took two pips of a supply because you had the topped the combined kills of the rest of your 3 evles. No XP no Money. I love it what a damn waste of time
you know
this is why you just don't join such teams
if you know you can carry, be the host
I haven't unlocked every cosmetic yet to get to that point
I've bought everything buyable
I feel like cheated cause getting kicked in stage 3 without beeing rewarded
done every EDD/DD/Core hunt, forged everthing
and still have 3 mil credits
they should let me accumulate interest
global level 400+?
honestly, you could just edit you resources file
grind for the sake of grind ends up making your unhappy
I'm not against grind as a probationary mechanism to make you learn a class before you progress to new tools
honestly, you could just edit you resources file <<
but if you're past that point, I see no purpose
I just personally don't like grind that makes you feel like you're obligated to risk it with bad teams for the resources.
Which is what it sounds like is happening with you.
i want to unlock all cosmetics at one point
still missing some mods that i really want to have
Fat Boi for the engie and i got the best engie build for trash and biggies
nah was talking about the time investment
you can get both playing missions you actually enjoy, with players actually worth playing with
now its just for the sake of gold grinding
fat boy is pretty niche
and typically just outright bad
it has a very select few situations where I would see taking it as being the informed choice
o rock an almost slug like shotgun build able to one shot any medium bug to the face
BC is hot garbage to use on trash even with clean OCs
Magnetic Pellet Alignment OC 1 2 2 3 2
i would rather use the fatboy in combination with the hologram again then the unreliable plasma burster
I don''t think spamming DDs is the best for gold right?
depends how fast you do it
i soloed a regular deep dive last night and did it in an hour and 20 minutes
obviously you guys can do better
since youre good players
so might be more viable for you all
with a full team it'll go much faster
You can probably get the EDD in 35 or fewer minutes if you hustle with a team
it does tend to generate more credits/time than normal haz5
but then again, I strip mine on haz5, which isn't the best for grinding efficiency
EDD is 16500 for 3
that isnt bad
EDD is probably worth grinding if grinding were worth it
but, overall, you will eventually get to a place where grinding means nothing
which is where I'm at
@inland wraith If you play normal missions and sell minerals, you can easily reach around 8000 credits for a mission
Just got 8k for a mission in 8 mins.
Probably. But I don't play missions for credits or minerals at this point.
I mean, a simple mienral mania would be a massivbe bank balance
i mean if youre a veteran i guess
And if you're being bottlenecked by credits you should sell tbh.
true
But here's the thing
You don't get any minerals for DDs anyway lmao
So either way you're not hoarding anything.
Waste of ammo either way, but yes, they exist in both
why a waste?
Better used to create a margin of error for the mission, but this is coming form a guy that doesn't need minerals and only plays haz5
So my opinion is not necessarily relevant for your situatuon
A mineral mania gave me 25000 credits worth of mineral, +2500 actual bonus on haz4.
In 23 mins. So in non DDs you can easily average 1000 credits a minute.
I still think the best credit farming mission is parasites + golden bugs
But that's not super common
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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new
Deep Dives
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RNG?
both a pro and con for procedurally generated maps
Never understand why people get so surprised. With how much RNG changes in this game is it really any surprise when the difficulty varies so much?
I mean, what's interesting is that these are the same spawn rates, the same enemy damage and health values, the same modifiers, and yet it's a world of difference
theres a few things going into making this one easy, not having any sort of defense style mission helps
less time you spend in a level the better, and haz 5 salvages can get kinda rough
none of the negative mutators really matter at all
and crit weakness on stage 1 is incredible
the double mules on stage 1 and 2 also mean you have a lot more nitra than normal
Was there crit weakness? I never noticed
yep
i think thats a pretty big part of it lol
what's the diff level on EDD? was it 4/5/5?
4.5/5/5.5
If you've promoted once you should be fine
I attempted solo-ing the EDD I got past stage 1
but at stage 2 I just found myself fending off swarms rather than doing the objective 😦
Duo it with someone, makes it easier
haha i'd try it again with someone before the reset, I'm sure you can do it :)
well finding someone where we'll both have stable connection is another challenge
I feel like my best bet for solo play would be the driller... I usually do fine with big mobs but when I get overwhelmed with swarms I just panic
Depends on how bad ping is, honestly would just ask around
Im down to try to do it
I'm use to playing large ping, since I often play with americans and zweiz's terrible internet ;P
you wanna carry me?
I mean I'll try and carry my weight as much as I can but I already failed once haha
better stream your POV mushu
hells yea, I'll join if it does
ditched
Are you EU, mushu?
👀
ah, just trying to figure out who I could connect to on the discord with a reasonable ping
learned the other day I can get less than 50 listed ping to UK players
so now i can annoy half the world
No
🤔
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New
Deep Dives
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ATTENTION MINERS!
New
Deep Dives
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no they aren;t
You just did not hold E for long enough then
any info on new DD/EDD?
Cancer Caves and EDD finally Cristaline Caverns
its the first time that biome showed up
I think they spoke about the normal DD. It's the radioactive one
The EDD is pretty easy expect maybe the last stage. It's the salvage mission with Shield disruption
Yes cancer caves xD I mean radioactive
Although I think the swamp is much worse. I had a pretty shitty cave in that today. Green slow-mo shit on the whole ground, everywhere (and I mean everywhere) the poison plants, it was very dark and the rolling bugs came on every wave. THAT was cancer lol
That third stage is a dousy