#deep-dive-discussion

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dim drift
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whats the best anti-air engi build?

stable gate
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Shotty and single turret

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You can solo any air wave with those

dim drift
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It's for a 4man edd

stable gate
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Yea same applies

dim drift
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I thought AA relied on the PGL

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3,2,1,2,1 is my setup for it

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I think it might be better to do

stable gate
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to beat this EDD you dont need to meticulously build your engi

dim drift
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1,3,1,2,1

stable gate
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Its not that brutal

dim drift
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I'm just a driller main, haven't done edds with any other classes

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drillers finally 3star gold so I wanna level the others now though lol.

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Just don't wanna be the guy that drags my team down cause I don't know how to build engi. lmao

stable gate
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Yea playing different classes is fun

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Nah dont worry

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As long as you remember to build turret and plop down some platforms you are perfect engi

dim drift
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for the turret, I'm using armor breaking. is stun better?

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and I'm assuming target prioritization > defender system

stable gate
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Stun is good but theres no black and white here

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Just experiment

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And see what you like

red marlin
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I go with the gemini and defender system.

thorn prism
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Hey I have a question: Who's Karl?

dim drift
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A Fallen Hero

willow tulip
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management's propaganda to motivate the dwarves a legend who got left behind (maybe he killed the queen?)

dim drift
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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!

thorny geyser
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There we go, EDD done.

dim drift
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grats, I felt like there are soooo many spawns in this one

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on a 3 man, we had 1k kills after failing halfway through the second mission

thorny geyser
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First stage was a tricky one.

dim drift
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how tough was the third one? the mactera?

thorny geyser
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Mactera plague stage felt in my opinion easier than previous mactera plagues.

dim drift
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thats good to hear

thorny geyser
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We had a great engineer with incendiary PGL.

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I ran around burning them down too.

potent reef
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what's the best gunner weps for the EDD

thorny geyser
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I'd probably try autocannon and revolver first.

potent reef
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aight

waxen dawn
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We got by fine with our gunner using minigun and revolver.

potent reef
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aight

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waxen dawn
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If you're just flat better by a wide margin with any weapon then just go w/ that, imo.

potent reef
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what's the final EDD stage

shut sierra
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mactera plague salvage op

potent reef
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oh COME ON

shut sierra
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just use the PGL with incendiary

potent reef
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k

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thx

thorny geyser
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Stage 3 isnt that bad. Good position in defense.

bitter garnet
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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.

thorny geyser
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Yup. Just keep moving and take out Dreadnought fast. We got two detonators when we fought dread, but they helped us in fact.

frail zodiac
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you have so much nitra by that point your team can alternate between gunner shield and phermones and be fine

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or just phermones

strange tulip
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with 2 scouts 2 gunners you can keep pheremones and shields up permanently

thorny geyser
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nitra is not a problem

pearl lance
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when exactly is the weekly reset for deep dives, and im assuming all the other weekly-restricted content?

red marlin
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Thursday at some point

sleek solar
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i got neither the achievement for completing a deep dive nor the one for doing it under 45 min...are those bugged?

willow tulip
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My EDD didn't feel like an edd this week, went pretty smoothly although we did bunker on the last stage

sleek solar
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my team died on the very last objective

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we didn't bunker

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anyway i'm not happy

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i did a deep dive under 45 min and didn't get the achievement for it

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and a friend that was playing on that same dive?

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got the achievement

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so i don't know what's up

unkempt breach
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anyone doing edd?

shut sierra
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maybe you already have it

honest bronze
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Anyone solo the edd this week? Any tips?

wind nest
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depends on which class you taking in

gusty ermine
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I made an attempt 😂

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absolutely nail the Dread first in stage 1, from there you've just got to be fast

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I used a Gunner, because the ziplines can criss-cross the vertical shaft and make it easy to avoid the ghost

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Bosco can do all the hard graft, just drop the aquarq onto the rig and deposit only when you're depositing nitra

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learn where the dead ends are, because they are certain death

honest bronze
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Sweet sweet glad to know gunner is viable

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Been using driller for soloing EDD and it’s been a doozy

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resource management and acquisition was ez pz, but dealing with lots of mactera always sucked

feral atlas
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wrong channel

hushed plinth
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Seems like having two gunners on your squad has always been the best way to run EDD because shield spam keeps you safe

thorny geyser
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Nah, I think flexibility to do every job is a strength.

feral atlas
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To be fair though, driller is rarely necessary.

harsh night
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Just did my first deep dive and it was ezpz, how much worse is elite deep dive?

feral atlas
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EDD is basically haz5

harsh night
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Never tried that but haz4 was manageable

frail zodiac
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well its harder

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and your teammates tend to be tumber

feral atlas
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ehhhh

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there is nuance

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let's put it this way

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anybody should be able to finish DD no matter how dumb the team is

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in EDD, your teammates will likely have to clutch at one moment or another

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who it is depends on the circumstance

wind nest
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Haz5 hole digging

meager topaz
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woo, edd done

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the first one is rough

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after that - pretty simple

harsh night
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EDD super fun, didn't manage to beat it this night but definitely doable. Wish there were more though

hollow flower
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more every week

thorny geyser
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@harsh night There's still time.

harsh night
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Oh yeah I know about both of those. I just meant dimultaneous DDs
. Like 3 to choose from

teal agate
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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

thorny geyser
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well damn, that sounds like a fun run!

blissful venture
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We built a sexy bunker on the last mission, I mined the entrance to hell. Was the easiest EDD experience I've ever had

wraith shard
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the EDD this week isnt so bad

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or are we getting better at them?

wind nest
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Mactera are easy to dispatch if you know how

hollow flower
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Some EDDs are going to be harder and easier than others. Just the nature of RNG

shut sierra
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best weapon against mactera is PGL with incendiary

woeful marten
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yes, they just melt like ice cream, so lovely

thorny geyser
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I dont know what kind of ice cream you eat, but can I score some?

waxen dawn
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Any ice cream put in my freezer.

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Pre-thawed. Sorbet might take a solid of being outside before turning into goop.

covert parcel
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bruh outer worlds

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i keep trying to like it but its a bit boring imo

thorny geyser
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Has anyone here done solo EDD with Scout?

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I'm kinda struggling

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I had no problems as driller and gunner though.

patent orchid
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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.

wraith shard
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i did. collect nitra, spam pheromones

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ignore metaslaves and spam the boomstick to clear waves

dusty cedar
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best class for solo EDD this week?

tribal lark
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anyone for a deep dive?

strange tulip
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scout always best class homie

chilly flicker
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how many days until the deep dive reset?

willow tulip
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1 or 2?

river turret
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35 hours, 4 minutes.

tribal lark
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anyone for a deep dive?

tribal lark
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this deep dive is hedll

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i haven't completed the first one, i really reeally really need a full team

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i will check back in an hr

tired pawn
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ill help you @tribal lark

dark lark
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@tribal lark im alive to

copper oasis
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EDD sucks this week, im not a fan of these "Aquarq with Ghost, Bulk and Dreadnaught" missions

slender crown
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^

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regarding that.....

hollow flower
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First stage is the hardest, it really opens up after that

slender crown
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DD was EZ compared to EDD.... but EDD was more fun lol

hollow flower
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I mean EDD is meant to be harder, it is elite after all :P

slender crown
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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....

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I zipped out of that death triangle so fast my beard almost got torn out of my face

hollow flower
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It's perfect if the ghost bulk targets you as scout, you're the best to juke it

slender crown
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factus cactus.

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I lived. then turned around revived the gunner and we killed the both of the fleshy ones.. the horror wanted me giblets tho

copper oasis
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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

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We are getting smacked around by the goddamn Big Boy Brigade the entire mission and the room shape isnt conducive for it.

tired pawn
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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

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that tends to help

inner void
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argh

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I want a minigun overclock so bad

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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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tardy pier
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Is it possible the game gives you loot for the class you're doing the DD with with higher priority?

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Because I've got so many scout stuffz, and been playing with him mostly

serene vessel
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I think I've used only gunner in DDs and have only gotten a handful of BRT overclocks which makes me a sad

harsh steppe
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It does not

serene vessel
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RNGesus has not been kind to me when it comes to the overclocks I want 😦

wraith shard
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I want fatman

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gibe fatman

harsh steppe
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k

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you will get it this time

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I promise

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Okay, I can't promise that, but I'm rooting for you.

dense obsidian
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Freeman just wants even more carve radius for a C4 OC.

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Local man yearns for prenerf super cooling for m1000.

wraith shard
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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

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plus im not going to stand there bashing gold for an hour

dense obsidian
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It used to be true, it was fixed in recent updates

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Same with mining the base of a mineral and breaking the rest off

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I THINK shooting off ore is inefficient

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Ie with minigun

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But mining the connections to ore/c4 is basically 100 efficient from my experiences

wraith shard
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ye of anything id still satchelmine just to spite them

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take the satchelminer pill

dense obsidian
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The real satchelkino is breaking off those HUGE pillars in PE, cave coral caves.

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"Worthless but fun to destroy"

blissful matrix
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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.

fathom horizon
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Wait is deep dive resetting in 21 hours?

next pebble
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About 20 now but yes

inner void
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yep, the weekly reset is almost up

lavish spindle
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The promised time approaches

wraith shard
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is there a schedule for these deep dives?

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or are they randomly generated?

fringe kettle
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randomly created every thursday

wraith shard
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ppl prob got a week to build strats then ig?

feral atlas
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I would not view it that way.

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If you're planning on trying to complete it in a pub from Monday to the refresh.

fringe kettle
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It's not really needed unless you're speed running.

feral atlas
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You're going to have a bad time.

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The good players tend to finish it on the 1st try, blind.

fringe kettle
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Most higher skilled players complete them the first couple of days.

feral atlas
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And completions are probably already done by the end of Sunday for that player popl.

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Monday to the refresh, it's hell.

wraith shard
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ah aight, least my first try was a win

feral atlas
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Idiots everywhere.

wraith shard
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cuz the scout got to the pod

fringe kettle
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when in doubt, solo it

graceful radish
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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

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I kited like a bat, but got iron-willed just as the pod opened

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Grappled in on my last three seconds of Iron Will

hybrid wing
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The clutch!

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frail horizon
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uh oh

hushed plinth
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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.

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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.

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Please, devs. Please no haunted on the next reroll

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Pls. Pls no haunted >_>

hybrid wing
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Sad that people cheat on this game...

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Really sad.

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I actually encountered an aim botter one time

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He was flicking around instantly and immidiately turned and shot his weapon when a Glyphid turned the corner to get him

violet glacier
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wow, who the hell cheats in a pve game lol

strange helm
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leaf lovers

hushed plinth
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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.

chilly flicker
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Anyone still need to do the EDD

strange tulip
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EDD just takes one gunner one scout if you want to try 2 manning it fyi

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gunner does the dread objectives, scout does the other stuff

inner void
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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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hushed plinth
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Ohhhh shit boys. What's it gonna be?

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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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umbral panther
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LETS ROLL

hushed plinth
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FUUUUUCK I WISH I WERE HOME RIGHT NOW

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TIME NEEDS TO MOVE FASTER FOR THE NEXT 50 MINUTES

vital peak
fierce jacinth
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perfect

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but engy kept dying n would strafe off like a lone wolf n ignore us talking to him

hollow flower
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What’s the warnings?

fierce jacinth
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they're pretty tame tbh

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crit hit on the first one n i forgot the warning, second is exploder infestation n third is regen

warm knoll
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first stage was mactera plague + critical weakness

zenith trail
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Oh boi time to one shot those bitches with subata

half stump
hollow flower
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Ok so mactera, exploding bugs and regen

half stump
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so easy with ~600 nitra

latent hamlet
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@inner void no scaling at all between 1 and 2 players

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unless it was changed again

azure terrace
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There is a bit of scaling between 1 and 2 players, but not much, according to the wiki

dreamy nacelle
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same, just finished with ~600 nitra entering stage 3

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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...

eternal whale
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easiest edd so far

fierce jacinth
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its a shame that you cant just upload images, you have to upload it to a site to throw it in here

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but yea normal deep dive is parasites n nothing second n third is lethal enemies

willow salmon
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Yeah, EDD looks tame

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Although it's in magma core so anything can happen

bleak sierra
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yeah elite was easier, but man, those earthquakes made moving around difficult; without a good engineer we'd be stuck and swarmed

woeful marten
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I am glad I can relax and enjoy deep dives without tryharding 🙂

fierce jacinth
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we managed to do the elite even tho our engy was afk most of the time n garbage teammate over all

eternal whale
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edd was so easy only 1 guy went down once'

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yeet

fierce jacinth
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ez pz n doneso

wraith shard
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shame you dont get exp for minerals mined and enemies defeated on deep dive

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or a survival bonus for each stage

latent trail
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All three deepdive stages complete

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0/3 completed...

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Got only the first reward

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Nothing on 2 and 3

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buggerd

feral atlas
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This is the easiest EDD I've seen yet.

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A lobotomized lemming could do it.

jaunty river
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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

feral atlas
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Yes.

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This is a haz3 level ish edd

jaunty river
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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

feral atlas
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Crit weakness is cheat mode. Stage 2 are the two easiest objectives you can get, and stage 3 is a 1/1 egghunt

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Stage 1 you won't even need to resupply

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Stuff dies if you breathe on it.

jaunty river
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I'm not gonna complain, that's just how it is

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Random generation, baby

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Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's the most ballbustingest unfair dogshit you've ever seen.

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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

eternal whale
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a little preachy there

jaunty river
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Too bad 🙂

wraith shard
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become proficient

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I live for the challenge

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defeat only bolsters my determination

hybrid wing
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Question

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Does anyone know if the "Kill 2 Dreadnoughts within 30 seconds in a Hazard 3 or higher" achievement is obtainable in the Deep Dive?

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I already got it so I can't test it

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But I have friends who want it and maybe this might be the best time to get it assuming it is possible

fringe kettle
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I don’t see why it wouldn’t be.

hybrid wing
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Me neither

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But you never know

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Maybe it only works on regular missions

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For some reason

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But that's why I am asking if someone tried testing it

eternal whale
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it's pretty easy to just lower the hz level, pop eggs, lure them together, and kill them

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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

brave dune
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another week without lead storm, carpet bomber, fat boy / clean sweep, any CRSPR OC tothebone

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but yeah I'm about to finish the OC collection on bulldog and BRT thank you very much rng jesus

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not like I use the BRT at all as I already have the elephant rounds on the bulldog

buoyant glade
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I really feel there should be a harder way to get specific OCs

frail zodiac
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i love how 3 of the pgl upgrades i have pretty much leads to same build

amber lance
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This weeks EDD is surprisingly really easy

wind nest
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hmmm to solo or RNG team it

fathom horizon
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I think grinding edd would be a good source of xp

thick ridge
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Wuts this week’s edd

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Elimination, + Salvage, Mactera + Critical Weakness
Mining + Salvage, Exploder Infestation
Egg + Mining, Regen Bugs

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Hmm

fathom horizon
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Close to minimum on each requirement though

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And no salvage on mules, only repair

wraith shard
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LF1M Deep Dive, preferably gunner or scout , Pod 10

amber lance
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@wind nest you could RNG team with a bunch of noobs and be fine tbh

stiff harness
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Always assumed Critical weakness didn't affect dreads

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1 Elephant rounds shot with armour broken = ded

wind nest
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Mission 1 was EASY lol

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with rng players

ashen sigil
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Easiest deepdive yet

wind nest
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actually enjoyable lol

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with randoms that is

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;0)

wraith shard
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Damn that's my first deep dive and swarms won't stop coming. I did the first one solo tho

thorny geyser
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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

wind nest
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well that was an easy EDD with randos lol

zenith trail
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any1 having a hard time finding morkite on the last stage of the deep dive?

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we need 9 more and the map is cleared

wind nest
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found it all

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some are located up above - some platforms + scout should resolve that

steady tangle
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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 ?

tacit patio
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Anyone else miss the elite deep dive struggle? I feel like they're getting easier and easier over the weeks

full saddle
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just rng i think

hybrid wing
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Yup

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Rng

tacit patio
wind nest
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yeah its all random

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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

knotty rampart
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how is the elite

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heard it was on magma core

wind nest
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Easy with randoms

knotty rampart
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is it on magma core?

wind nest
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plenty of Nitra - and yes

knotty rampart
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oooh boy. my faaavvorrrite environment

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so any pointers?

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critical weakness is pretty great

wind nest
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Stick together and you'll survive - Macteras always an issue but a good team should be able to get rid of them

knotty rampart
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im in for a good deep dive. got a vet and a silver 3

wind nest
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there is an exploder infestation on Mission 2 but its not too bad

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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

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it might appear sooner - though tends to be rng

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tbh - just go into it, felt like all 3 missions were Haz4

feral atlas
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bulk showed up stage 1

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it literally died in 3 shots

knotty rampart
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stage one was the smoothest it has ever been for me

white mauve
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somebody said the edd was easy, proceeds to blow up within 5 mins of the second stage

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hmmmm

red marlin
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It's one of the easier ones they've released

amber lance
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it's the easiest by far

scarlet anchor
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I'm just glad there's weakness on the macteras, should help a lot

lavish spindle
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i wouldnt say easiest but its in the lower half

amber lance
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as someone who's done every EDD with randoms

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it's the easiest

lavish spindle
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same

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but the exploder infestation was really annoying stage 2

amber lance
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it was super hard for me in the first room

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but once i got proper setup(as engi) it was easy

wraith shard
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when do deep dives reset?

feral atlas
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exploder infestation stage 2 should only down people who are deaf, or get themselves stuck in holes they're digging

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we need a sticky for the reset question

wraith shard
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lol

feral atlas
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They reset 12 hours ago

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same time every week

lapis ermine
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oof

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Dreadnought and mactera, but with critical weakness? That seems easy... for EDD anyways

hushed plinth
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Oh fuck yes. I got Carpet Bomber, boys!

steady magnet
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Carpet Bomber is a sick upgrade

red marlin
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Carpet Bomber is lit, but you basically tickle Praetorians to death.

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However, that's not a bad...thing.

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you can wield the bulldog like a pro and just kill 'em that way.

white mauve
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Carpet is what makes the gunner a fun as hell class to do pubs with. Especially on exploding guts you feel like a badass.

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Wish more oc's were as cool as it.

tribal lark
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so EE isn't terrible today?

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carpet???

red marlin
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Carpet Bomber is an overclock for the autocannon

hollow iris
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How's the EDD this week?

full saddle
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pretty easy

hollow iris
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Too easy or just sort of like, just right?

steady magnet
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one of the easier ones

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the only thing is that one of the stages is a detonator infestation

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pretty tame otherwise

wind nest
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EDD smells like bacon

hollow iris
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Exploder infestation,ew.And TBH I prefer a bit too easy to too hard

white mauve
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Last part was the roughest but I did it with really new players so made it even more challenging.

red marlin
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EDD is pretty easy this week

inner void
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aye, critical weakness is hilarious

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I'm pretty sure it multiplies off of any existing weakpoint bonuses you have, my stubby was killing macteras in 3 shots

thorny geyser
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Easiest EDD so far, in my opinion.

shut sierra
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elephant rounds and critical weakness are disgusting

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one-shot a bulk

thorny geyser
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ikr

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I just got elephant rounds and tried it out

shut sierra
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It's x5 damage

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on weakspots

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so with hollow point, damage, and elephant rounds

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you're doing upwards of 1000+ per shot

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b

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r

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u

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h

thorny geyser
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M1k wishes it was half as awesome.

shut sierra
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I mean

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240% from supercooling and 50% from hollowpoint

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deals..

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(math time)

red marlin
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My Subata was 1-shotting mactera on the EDD today

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Felt good.

thorny geyser
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Yeah.

shut sierra
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280 on weakspot

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so it's more

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on the supercooling

red marlin
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Goo bombers took less than 1 clip to dispatch

thorny geyser
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yeah its more, but its not a revolver

shut sierra
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(not including any damage upgrades, but max focus)

thorny geyser
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I wish you could fan the hammer with bulldog

shut sierra
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you can

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5-shooter

thorny geyser
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I used it

shut sierra
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or feather trigger

thorny geyser
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Its really fun to drop 5 mactera with 5 bullets extremely fast

shut sierra
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I should try out magic bullets sometime

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with neurotoxin and blowthrough

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see how many enemies I can hit with one hsot

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shot'

shut sierra
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also

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I have homebrew powder for all the weapons that get it now

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whee

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good on everything but the revolver

thorny geyser
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I only got it for bulldog and subata

shut sierra
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great on subata

thorny geyser
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It's really nice for subata

shut sierra
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ye

buoyant stream
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I just want carpet bomber

thorny geyser
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very spunky little gun with lots of ammo

shut sierra
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I'd try out neurotoxin payload

thorny geyser
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I got face melter from EDD, didnt try it yet

shut sierra
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It deals a really surprising amount of DoT

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holy shit

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that one deals lots of damage

buoyant stream
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The engineer main I play with is trying to get fatboy, I'm scared.

thorny geyser
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Gotta try that one out tomorrow

shut sierra
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But yeah, consider this @thorny geyser

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the flamethrower damage upgrade is a multiplier

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so 12 becomes 18

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(excluding the RoF bonus damage)

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which is even more

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I'd def take the 'explode on death' upgrade

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and both the ammo ones

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and the clip size

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and obs, damge

thorny geyser
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its more like plasma torch than flamethrower

shut sierra
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f w o o s h

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that gives me an OC idea

thick ridge
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looking for (E)DD group

shut sierra
tardy wyvern
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any one wanna do an edd?

woeful marten
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@tardy wyvern see 06:37 🙂

tardy wyvern
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doing an edd already

tender axle
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The bulldog has homebrew powder?

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Wtf?

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Doesn't that ruin like all it's break points? Lol

feral atlas
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Basically, yes.

hushed plinth
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Carpet Bomber is my new favorite overclock. I love obliterating groups. Move over, drillers >_>

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Damn cores still won't give me Elephant Round though. Hnnnnnng!

lapis ermine
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Lead Storm is pretty great on the gunner

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Just go for the faster spinup and keep jumping and you can still move while shooting

tulip idol
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what's the worst biome for EDDs?

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glacial strata, right?

hushed plinth
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Don't have bulletstorm yet. Maybe next week

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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.

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Magma Core also sucks because the ground hurts you.

tulip idol
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the worst EDD on my memory was in sand caverns

hushed plinth
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those fucking sand sharks dude.

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Swooping through the god damn mine head and carrying you off a mile even though the mine head is made out of metal

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and grabbing you out of the gunner's shield

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dumbest shit.

abstract shell
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magma core

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worst on everything

azure terrace
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Magma core PE, enjoy having ouchie ground all around the mine head

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Bonus points for getting a random chasm or two next to it as well

blissful matrix
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What does the Thin Containment Field mod for the EPC do?

frail zodiac
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it explodes when it comes to in contact with anything

blissful matrix
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doesn't it do that already?

frail zodiac
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yeah, it decreases the heat generated so if you let it go immediately after epc doesnt overheat

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and a bigger aoe explosion i think if you dont shoot it too far

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actually not sure about the latter

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nvm, if you shoot it it explodes and makes a big crater

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good for mining stuff actually

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you can follow up with an axe if you hold it for long and overheat the EPC

stable gate
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Hows the EDD this week

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They've been easy lately

frail zodiac
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breddy ez

iron totem
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ez

woeful marten
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I wouldn't say ez

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they are relaxing

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I enjoy that for a change 🙂

stable gate
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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

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Last EDDs have all been first try

bitter garnet
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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.

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Nayakas can just ruin your day really hard.

wraith shard
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is it just me or is one of the levels the same as last week's?

woeful marten
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I think it is just you, which one?

hollow flower
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I dunno the lethal magma core was probably the hardest for most :P

feral atlas
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To be fair, I finished that one first try.

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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.

thick ridge
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fucking hell

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I came into the EDD with people telling me it wasn't that bad

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walled into the 3rd stage, 2 spitballers, 2 bulks in 1 room

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and a bunch of mactera

feral atlas
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was this on immediate entry?

thick ridge
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a minute in

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we walked into the 2nd room

feral atlas
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your own fault then

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I remember the spitballers

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you clear them from the entrance

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shouldn't be a problem

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you should have 500+ nitra entering the 3rd stage

thick ridge
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nop

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got fucked on the 2nd stage

feral atlas
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team bad then

thick ridge
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🤷

thick ridge
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exploders in cramped corridors

feral atlas
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well, don't get stuck in holes then

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if you have room to jump, you have room to juke

thick ridge
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yes yes

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hindsight 20/20

feral atlas
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it's only a hindsight issue if the players have never done exploder infestation before

thick ridge
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we haven't

feral atlas
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which, in all fairness, is possible

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wait

thick ridge
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or at least, no more then a few times

feral atlas
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you actually haven't done that mutator before?

thick ridge
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once

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we didn't make it out of the first room

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so we never went back to attempt it again lmao

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that was basically our 2nd ever time doing exploder infestation

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I'm pretty happy we cleared it

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considering we basically threw ourself off the deep end

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my group goes out of its way to wait out even assignment missions if they're shield disruption or exploder infestation

full saddle
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hey you'll get used to all that stuff if you just play em more

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shield disruption really isnt that bad

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just play a bit more careful, you know?

dusty finch
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exploder infestation isn't bad at all

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are you guys drowning out your game sounds or something

full saddle
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yeah, exploders are pretty chill most of the time, just dont get stuck in pits lol

thick ridge
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game volume automatically lowers when someone's talking if that counts

feral atlas
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I mean, this is kinda your own doing.

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By avoiding any experience with the mutators, then throwing yourself into a raid where it's highly likely said mutators would appear.

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Then again, it's also the dev's fault for tempting you to do so.

wind nest
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@thick ridge blimeh on Mission 3 only got one detonator - though we kinda sped through it - rng all the way

blissful matrix
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Unless the exploders glitch out and follow you while in their exploding animation

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so they're inescapable unless you're scout

bitter garnet
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Sliding exploders

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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...

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It's really easy this EDD to 2man it. Go engi + gunner and Gg.

fathom horizon
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is the dd harder than the edd this week

bitter garnet
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nah, the edd is harder

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It's still easy

fathom horizon
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aigh

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t

bitter garnet
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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

fathom horizon
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ye already beat but just was wondering

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did edd before dd :P

frail zodiac
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its pretty hard for EDD to be easier than DD tbh

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but this EDD is as easy as it gets i guess

fathom horizon
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you mean the other way around?

fringe kettle
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If I can beat the EDD while on pain killers, it's a walk in the park.

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one of the easiest yet

lavish spindle
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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

coral tulip
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falls in magma crack

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sees exploder swarm come over both edges

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"Guess I'll die now"

rough vessel
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seems like we got two DDs this week.

red marlin
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hmmm?

gaunt mason
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anyone not being able to start a deep dive?

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nvm turning off and on fixed it

knotty rampart
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can i have an engi for edd plz

misty sleet
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how is the EDD this week?

fathom horizon
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easiest sofar @misty sleet

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really easy

misty sleet
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nice lol

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followup question: who wants to carry me through it? taking applications now

fathom horizon
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not me, sorry

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maybe tommorow

fringe kettle
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If you can complete a regular DD then you can do this weeks EDD.

austere pond
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You can prob solo this EDD easily

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It's the easiest so far I think

heavy lichen
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Decided to try soloing it since you guys were saying it was easy

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succeeded <:)

wraith shard
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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.

inner void
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This week's EDD is a snoozefest compared to the last two weeks.

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Critical weakness on the first level is hilarious because even my smg could kill macteras in 3 bullets.

hollow flower
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Last magma core EDD has people ripping their hair out

fleet charm
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damn, with critical weakness, the gunner's pistol with elephant gun overclock can two shot dreadnaughts

unique spoke
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Can someone tell me what the objectives for the edd are and the mutators for each stage?

hollow flower
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It’s right there a few messages above

honest snow
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Uuh... so..are elite deep dives soloable?

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I mean, they technically are but I didn't manage to

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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

prime mango
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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.

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During EDD

inner void
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Yeah I've met a few triple golds/silvers like that.

outer pasture
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Easiest EDD was weeks ago

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but this one looks fairly doable as well

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sadly, we wiped because it was 2 am and we were drunk 😄

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the cave is a bit annoying though

honest snow
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fire caves are UUUGH

inner void
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magma caves are definitely the hardest biome

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earthquake stagger, fire geysers, hot terrain etc.

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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

keen crescent
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"I heard that this week's EDD is easy" you said "I'm going back to get a resupply brb" you said

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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.

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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.

worthy bronze
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@honest snow Yeah EDD's are soloable

keen crescent
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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.

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tl;dr: Gunner gets dc, driller's backtracking almost costed the game, and I made it out within an inch of my life

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Edit: mistook stage 2 as stage 3

tough vapor
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Sooo I am pretty sure this has been asked before but how long is a game?

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Does it depend on the map or how fast you mine or whats the deal? 🙂

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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)

ember creek
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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)

tough vapor
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@ember creek So you can play for fun and have a blast 🙂

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Looks like a game for me kinda tired of L4D and wanted something new so thought why not give this a go now

ember creek
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You can play for fun and have a 1h run for a simple mission if that's what you're looking for 😂

tough vapor
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Well no I am looking to give this game a good go 😛

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Going for the motherload edition so yeah

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Purchase confirmed

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Cant wait 😄

queen orchid
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there's a few things to unlock, but it's very casual play

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you can take 1 hour or 10mn to finish a mission depending of your playstyle

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weekly quests and deep dives are here to push you to play at least 2h weekly to get every rewards, but that's all 🙂

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and even if you don't do them, you won't be at a disadvantage.

tough vapor
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Awesome thx.... Wish me luck I am going in 😄

queen orchid
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well, the community is very helpful with greenbeards

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i hope you will match with kind brothas that will help you in your first missions

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you might want to try haz 2 or 3 depending of how good you are in fps game

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haz 4 will need some augmentations first

tough vapor
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Well I am a old Doom player and quake and l4d so

lofty pollen
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what hazard level would you compare the edd to

thorny geyser
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4-5.5

wraith shard
#

this week it's pretty easy though

thorny geyser
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yeah

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maybe 4.5 max

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only way to get wiped is getting stuck in second stage

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everything else is relatively easy

tough vapor
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Well I must admit this game is fun as hell

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I am a green beard so yeah 😛

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But I think I got the hang of it

tough vapor
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@olive kelp I gotta hand it to you guys you sure hit the spot

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The game is absolutly amazing

exotic oxide
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Just FYI this channel is meant to be for deep dives (which you'll be able to do once you promote a class)

wide dove
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Is it just me or were last week's and this week's EDD easy?

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Not sure if it's that or because I started playing them on scout, ensuring my team can survive

inner void
#

last week had a really hard first level

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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

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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

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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

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The rest of the EDD was a cakewalk in comparison "just" macteras on hazard 5 isn't much of a threat for experienced parties

vital pewter
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hello...sorry if im a little late to the party but I finally got my gunner promoted

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And I did try a deep dive....died....but still learning

harsh steppe
vital pewter
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Hey Jacob. Love the game mate. Really gives a meaning to teamwork in it!rocknstone tothebone

harsh steppe
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Glad to hear you like it! Stick to it, and the Deep Dives will feel easier.

vital pewter
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Practice makes perfect. AND MAY YOU BREADS STAY THICK! 😂 beard beard beard

tough vapor
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Hmmm so how do you know when there is a big chunk of material near you?

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Is it when there are smaller pieces around the area and you just have to dig to find it?

red marlin
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Like gold chunks or Jadiz chunks?

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Or bittergem/enor pearls?

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(And aquarqs)

tough vapor
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Well everything 😛

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But I found out ^^

flint fable
#

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?

frail zodiac
vital pewter
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Yes! I did it. FINNALY completed a deep dive....now for elit DD....FFFFFUUUU-

rotund raptor
#

Where does it explain how you can announce a hosted game on discord?

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Nvm, it was all about "display currently running game"

finite bay
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@rotund raptor you go into "looking-for-group"

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and there you select the arrow in the left side of chat

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not arrow, sry, plus

manic pivotBOT
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rocknstoneATTENTION MINERS!rocknstone
We are hearing rumors that some dwarves are still not done with this weeks Deep_DiveDeep DivesDeep_Dive!
We want to remind you that there's only half a week left until our scanners pick up new missions!
_ _

wispy mantle
#

Why did they decide to put static map layout for Deep Dives instead of procedural like the normal missions?

thick ridge
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also to let people repeatedly reattempt the same layout and improve

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otherwise people would repeatedly spam it until they got a good layout

hollow geyser
#

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.

terse river
#

Wouldn’t it be cool if deep dives reset every half a week?

next pebble
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No

terse river
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Why though?

dark lark
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Becuase it would be fr cooler if they reset every day

hollow flower
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Daily Deep Dives

thick steeple
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Idk about daily, but each Dive lasting half a week could be great

woeful marten
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because I barely have time to finish them weekly

errant verge
#

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.

ember creek
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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. :/

woeful marten
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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

red marlin
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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).

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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.

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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.

dark lark
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I was kidding btw

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Just so everybody’s clear I don’t think they should be daily XD

bitter garnet
#

I seriously hope noone is thinking about making ANYTHING daily in this game

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Monthly and Weekly is the best we can have.

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Daily will do nothing but hurt the game

red marlin
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Howso?

bitter garnet
#

Dailies will burn the players, a lot.

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It will become more of a "I'm forced to do this" instead of "I feel like enjoying my time"

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There will be less lobbies for normal gameplay and instead it will be for the dailies

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Elitism will be bigger since people don't want to lose time, they will want dailies fast, kicking anyone at the bare minimum.

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Taking a break for a day, will make you think you "lost" something and that feeling will be following you.

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You will only be free when you uninstall.

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Yes, dailies will hurt the game.

woeful marten
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yes that is exactly how I feel in games that do this, it feels forced, weekly is just okay

red marlin
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I think that's just fear of missing out.

woeful marten
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of course if I would only play DRG and nothing else and sit at the PC all day, then daily would be awesome

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call it what you want, it puts me off big time

red marlin
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That's fine, I just think that it taking 6 months for any 1 player to get all the OCs is unreasonable

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And that's if a player doesn't get bored

bitter garnet
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next update will increase the amount of OCs that we get

woeful marten
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at least it is varried, if it wasn't then most gunners would run carpet bomber etc.

austere pond
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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

bitter garnet
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But you have a lot of room with weeklies, there's no drowning

austere pond
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That's true but I still feel burnt out after doing them

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It's like after they are done I sometimes don't have much interest in actually playing the game until it all resets

woeful marten
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exactly, I feel the same, but I guess it has to be weeklies to please others who want dailies

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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

harsh steppe
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From a community perspective, the weekly seeds also works as a great base for weekly discussion and feedback.

woeful marten
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yes

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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

dense obsidian
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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.

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Or have a separate randomly generated DD mission type people can play.

waxen dawn
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My friends started the EDD without me :<

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They'll beat it this time too, seemingly.

dark lark
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DW I bet you can solo it

waxen dawn
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How is this week for difficulty?

brave dune
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ez

waxen dawn
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I only bothered attempting to solo an EDD once and that was... week 2 or 3? The sand caverns one.

dark lark
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It’s fairly chill but then everything is chill for me as an elite gamer

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Jokes aside it is fairy tame

waxen dawn
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With the awkwardly-placed dread in the morkite mission. I managed as engi. Was not fun.

full saddle
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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

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you'll have an abundance of nitra due to all the mules

waxen dawn
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Awesome. What's it like in the way of dreads?

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Should I pack shotty rather than stubby?

full saddle
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stage 1 is the only dread mission and it's crit weakness

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so very easy

waxen dawn
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Oh OK nice.

full saddle
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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

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but it's definitely doable

thorny geyser
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EDD this week is really easy

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you can only really fail if you get unlucky grabs or get stuck in geometry

burnt oasis
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My first attempt sailed through all the stages and then, on that room with all the pillars with 3 eggs, we all just

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Died

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It fell apart too quick to salvage

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So my advice is to not be shy about those resupplies, especially when on 3

thorny geyser
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oh definitely

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just splurge on resupplies

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nitra aint no problem

harsh axle
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Is it better to do EDD on solo?

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I've only ever tried them in groups

abstract shell
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@harsh axle try duos

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the edd with the haunted cave at the start was really easy for me doing it with only 2

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never finished with 4

rotund ivy
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Duo is easiest, solo is the least variable

tribal lark
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haven't gotten that one yet

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I need to master DD solo on scout

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Elite dives scare me.

worldly fern
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this week elite DD wont scare you much

austere pond
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Elite dd this week is baby tier

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Nothing like previous weeks

clever crest
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somehow yes, even despite magma core, it's alright.

thick steeple
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This has been my first DDs since a long hiatus, is this baby tier?

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Oh god

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Cause the EDD stage 2 was downright evil

dense seal
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Is there a benefit to doing an elite deep drive versus an normal one?

thick steeple
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Other than a bigger reward at the end, AFAIK no

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They both have the same reward pool

dense seal
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Gotcha, thanks

clever crest
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benefit lies in doing both.

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so in that regard, gotta do elite one anyway.

storm bison
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Yeah it's the idea of farming more stuff

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appart from that you are not gated from any content

crisp escarp
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Man this week's elite honestly felt easier than the basic one

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Which is fine because last week was hell imo

verbal violet
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I remember talking to people about magma core saying it was initially scary cause it’s magma core

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But in the end it was easier than the majority of what we had before

crisp escarp
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Yeah

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Hell, the dreads with the weakness modifier

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Were easier than most regular dread hunts

willow tulip
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3rd stage of the edd was pretty rough, but you can spam resupplies

crisp escarp
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Yeah nitra was rich

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It was really only rough in that one big room though

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Which had like four eggs in it

wraith shard
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I main engie and I received nothing related to him

bitter garnet
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It has nothing to do what class you play

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The reward is pure RNG

thorny geyser
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If you displease RNGsus, it's your own fault. Protip: self-flagellation.

crisp escarp
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See: my usual teammate who mains scout

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Has not gotten a single scout overclock

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See also me who does not main scout: gets all the OCs that should go to him

thorny geyser
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Only thing im a little bummed about is zero OCs for boomstick

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Otherwise I've gotten a nice collection, even if most of them are engineer OCs.

crisp escarp
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I only just got a single overclock for the burst pistol

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I was so happy

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It took me forever

thorny geyser
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Which one? Flechettes?

crisp escarp
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Nah it was the clean one, I forget the name

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Lower cooldown between bursts

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Or faster repeated shooting however you want to phrase it

thorny geyser
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That's pretty decent one for burst spam builds.

crisp escarp
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Yeah I like it

thorny geyser
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I got flechettes some time ago, never running out of ammo again.

crisp escarp
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Hell I'm just glad I finally got one

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I think it's the only gunner sidearm one I've gotten

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Instead been getting Scout and Driller ones

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Not that I mind, Driller's my second choice

thorny geyser
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I mostly play heavy dwarves, but I dont mind towering mountain of engie OCs at all.

hoary gust
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ye this week EDD is so easy, last week EDD was also easy

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i dont think there can be edd harder than Loud Impact

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like ever

woeful marten
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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

outer pasture
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@hoary gust Was that the terrible Magma Core one?

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or the one with the bulk in that super small cave

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those two were annoying

crisp escarp
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The one in Biozone with the ghost and the near vertical point extraction was so goddamn annoying

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Or was it bogs....doesn't really matter

hoary gust
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@outer pasture yes the magma core one

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with mules on 2nd stage

outer pasture
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Ugh, stage 2 was a pain

exotic oxide
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Well you could have an identical EDD except the salvage + lethal enemies is on stage 3

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harsh steppe
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Don't kick mission control please.

hasty scarab
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I don't know why, but playing Daft Punk (alive 2007 - especially) in background, while playing this game feels just amazing.

orchid merlin
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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

feral atlas
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you know

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this is why you just don't join such teams

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if you know you can carry, be the host

orchid merlin
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iam just grinding through DDs for gold

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the fastest and most reliable way

feral atlas
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oh, well, that's different

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I'm past the point where I care about gold or credits

orchid merlin
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I haven't unlocked every cosmetic yet to get to that point

feral atlas
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I've bought everything buyable

orchid merlin
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I feel like cheated cause getting kicked in stage 3 without beeing rewarded

feral atlas
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done every EDD/DD/Core hunt, forged everthing

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and still have 3 mil credits

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they should let me accumulate interest

orchid merlin
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global level 400+?

feral atlas
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probably close to it

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380 or 390 something

orchid merlin
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currently at 250

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nah more like 225 just checked

feral atlas
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honestly, you could just edit you resources file

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grind for the sake of grind ends up making your unhappy

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I'm not against grind as a probationary mechanism to make you learn a class before you progress to new tools

orchid merlin
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honestly, you could just edit you resources file <<

feral atlas
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but if you're past that point, I see no purpose

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I just personally don't like grind that makes you feel like you're obligated to risk it with bad teams for the resources.

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Which is what it sounds like is happening with you.

orchid merlin
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i want to unlock all cosmetics at one point

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still missing some mods that i really want to have

feral atlas
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?

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repeating EDD doesn't gives anything other than xp and credits

orchid merlin
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Fat Boi for the engie and i got the best engie build for trash and biggies

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nah was talking about the time investment

feral atlas
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you can get both playing missions you actually enjoy, with players actually worth playing with

orchid merlin
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now its just for the sake of gold grinding

feral atlas
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fat boy is pretty niche

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and typically just outright bad

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it has a very select few situations where I would see taking it as being the informed choice

orchid merlin
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o rock an almost slug like shotgun build able to one shot any medium bug to the face

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BC is hot garbage to use on trash even with clean OCs

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Magnetic Pellet Alignment OC 1 2 2 3 2

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i would rather use the fatboy in combination with the hologram again then the unreliable plasma burster

dark lark
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I don''t think spamming DDs is the best for gold right?

inland wraith
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depends how fast you do it

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i soloed a regular deep dive last night and did it in an hour and 20 minutes

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obviously you guys can do better

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since youre good players

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so might be more viable for you all

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with a full team it'll go much faster

dark lark
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But 12000 gold is 4000 gold a pop

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I think youcan do far better.

feral atlas
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You can probably get the EDD in 35 or fewer minutes if you hustle with a team

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it does tend to generate more credits/time than normal haz5

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but then again, I strip mine on haz5, which isn't the best for grinding efficiency

dark lark
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EDD is 16500 for 3

inland wraith
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that isnt bad

feral atlas
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EDD is probably worth grinding if grinding were worth it

inland wraith
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easier to play

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you get it with due time

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just save up

feral atlas
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but, overall, you will eventually get to a place where grinding means nothing

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which is where I'm at

dark lark
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@inland wraith If you play normal missions and sell minerals, you can easily reach around 8000 credits for a mission

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Just got 8k for a mission in 8 mins.

inland wraith
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i dont like selling stuff

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rates are bad

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I hoard everything

feral atlas
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Probably. But I don't play missions for credits or minerals at this point.

dark lark
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I mean, a simple mienral mania would be a massivbe bank balance

inland wraith
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i mean if youre a veteran i guess

dark lark
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And if you're being bottlenecked by credits you should sell tbh.

inland wraith
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true

dark lark
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But here's the thing

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You don't get any minerals for DDs anyway lmao

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So either way you're not hoarding anything.

feral atlas
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The hoarder

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DD has the sreaming purple slug

inland wraith
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dont they have those in regular maps?

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runs away fast if you dont kill it ?

feral atlas
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Waste of ammo either way, but yes, they exist in both

inland wraith
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why a waste?

feral atlas
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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

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So my opinion is not necessarily relevant for your situatuon

dark lark
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A mineral mania gave me 25000 credits worth of mineral, +2500 actual bonus on haz4.

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In 23 mins. So in non DDs you can easily average 1000 credits a minute.

exotic oxide
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I still think the best credit farming mission is parasites + golden bugs

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But that's not super common

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kindred ferry
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Why was this week's EDD so much easier?

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It's wack

hollow flower
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RNG?

kindred ferry
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Yeah I guess

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Still, night and day

fringe kettle
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both a pro and con for procedurally generated maps

hollow flower
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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?

kindred ferry
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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

full saddle
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theres a few things going into making this one easy, not having any sort of defense style mission helps

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less time you spend in a level the better, and haz 5 salvages can get kinda rough

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none of the negative mutators really matter at all

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and crit weakness on stage 1 is incredible

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the double mules on stage 1 and 2 also mean you have a lot more nitra than normal

kindred ferry
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Was there crit weakness? I never noticed

full saddle
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yep

kindred ferry
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So the key, as always, is fuck salvage

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Seriously, dreadful mission type

full saddle
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i think thats a pretty big part of it lol

rancid quail
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what's the diff level on EDD? was it 4/5/5?

carmine bronze
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4.5/5/5.5

rancid quail
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dang

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guess I'm not ready yet

hollow flower
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If you've promoted once you should be fine

rancid quail
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I attempted solo-ing the EDD I got past stage 1

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but at stage 2 I just found myself fending off swarms rather than doing the objective 😦

hollow flower
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Duo it with someone, makes it easier

rancid quail
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my body is pumped with adrenaline from all the fighting to stay alive

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I'm shaking

hollow flower
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haha i'd try it again with someone before the reset, I'm sure you can do it :)

rancid quail
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well finding someone where we'll both have stable connection is another challenge

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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

hollow flower
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Depends on how bad ping is, honestly would just ask around

dark lark
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Im down to try to do it

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I'm use to playing large ping, since I often play with americans and zweiz's terrible internet ;P

rancid quail
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you wanna carry me?

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I mean I'll try and carry my weight as much as I can but I already failed once haha

dark lark
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@rancid quail sure

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Whats the name of the lobby

hollow flower
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better stream your POV mushu

dark lark
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alright im in abyss bar streaming it

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If they respond

hollow flower
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hells yea, I'll join if it does

dark lark
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ditched

carmine bronze
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Are you EU, mushu?

next pebble
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👀

dark lark
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No, I'm hard brexit

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Yes, I'm from the UK lmao

carmine bronze
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ah, just trying to figure out who I could connect to on the discord with a reasonable ping

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learned the other day I can get less than 50 listed ping to UK players

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so now i can annoy half the world

austere pond
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Did the DD update?

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How is it?

hollow flower
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No

wraith shard
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🤔

crisp escarp
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Hour and a half

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Until new ones

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hollow flower
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no they aren;t

buoyant token
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You just did not hold E for long enough then

woeful marten
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any info on new DD/EDD?

pure portal
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Cancer Caves and EDD finally Cristaline Caverns

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its the first time that biome showed up

woeful marten
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Cancer Caves?

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I ❤️ Crystaline

torn wagon
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I think they spoke about the normal DD. It's the radioactive one

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The EDD is pretty easy expect maybe the last stage. It's the salvage mission with Shield disruption

pure portal
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Yes cancer caves xD I mean radioactive

torn wagon
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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

slate pine
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That third stage is a dousy