deep-dive-discussion

[midnight parrot]

ghost detonator MMmMM soo cool for spawn with no ammo and hell amount of bugs

[steep yacht]

That's when i found out that the ghost can just yeet everyone inside the pod

[midnight parrot]

find out it too on this edd

haven't made it far of a start of 2nd stage yet

seems like sniper is crucial there

[hazy comet]

ammo management is crucial on this EDD, which is a breath of fresh air. we havent had an ammo starve one in a long time

gotta get head poppin

[midnight parrot]

it's obvious with this amount of nitra

[hazy comet]

did mine on thursday with pubs. used nuke+lure to group em up and save ammo

[nova sundial]

omfg that EDD though. JFC! But.. Completed!!!

7th attempt is the charm

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Even after reading the tales here, watching a video of someone’s stage 2 start, and having someone on our team who had tried it before, we were still unprepared for the level of chaos that was EDD stage 2. Got it second time after drilling a tunnel literally from drop pod up to the cliff top behind the drop pod

Then slowly picking off the spitballers and stabber vines and breeders and the random bulk that also spawned in

The ammo crunch was real too, we ended up out of nitra with 2 eggs left on stage 2, and pulled / deposited both eggs simultaneously then immediately called the pod

Stage 1 was the only part of entire EDD where anyone had full ammo. Was quite the added bit of tension.

[uncut raptor]

i'm glad we got another difficult EDD though

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It was a good challenge

[subtle epoch]

So uhhhh

2nd stage of the EDD this week

😳😳😳

wowwwww

[random path]

[hushed sequoia]

i must have just gotten lucky on the edd with randoms then because i did it first try with a player rank 300 and a rank 400

[vapid roost]

Im sad me and my buddy didnt struggle that hard with it lol, cleared on 2nd attempt and 1st wipe was stupid BS

[snow steppe]

Yeah that edd was hard as fuck lol

Definitely the hardest in a while

Very nitra starved

I guess it's nice that the eggs are all mostly in the same place

We had two bulks spawn on stage 2

[uncut raptor]

We had 3 lol

2 spawned at the same time

[elfin falcon]

Same but it was hanging by a thread too often

[uncut raptor]

I think that's how this EDD is meant to feel like

[radiant granite]

There's nitra near the top of the stage 2 room that I think a lot of teams are missing

[leaden cypress]

yup

there's a ton of nitra on stage 2

[elfin falcon]

I think we found enough on S2 for 3 resupps, but that wasn't a whole lot since we went in at like 25% ammo

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I did read that here ahead of time and told our scout/engi, maybe we still didn’t find it because Hollow Bough

[dreamy dragon]

Hollow Bogus*

[elfin falcon]

Hollow bOW

[radiant obsidian]

The correct pronunciation is "hollow Boff"

[elfin falcon]

It's actually hollow boo

Rhyming with through

Especially when it's haunted cave

[hazy comet]

hollow bug

[chrome quiver]

Hollow knight

[covert plaza]

Bollow Hough

[calm kernel]

the actual fuck is this EDD

just no nitra

as far as the eye can see

[fringe kettle]

It's living up to its name

[calm kernel]

my entire team was kitted for max ammo effientcy

we still ran out

every single level

[radiant obsidian]

oh no the elite deep dive is hard for once

[tender thunder]

EDD, made it to the last level, one dreadnought left to finish the mission, no ammo, and only needed 10 more Nitra. Couldn't find it and just got slowly chipped down... ouch!

[hazy comet]

^ praying for the lootbug spawn 😂

[woeful bolt]

Just finished EDD, had enough Nitra at the end for an extra resupply. Stage 2 has a lot of Nitra on the ceiling and in odd corners up high

[quick glacier]

Rough edd, but also that second room is super fun as a scout. Fast base movement bc of the mod, easy to light up, real nice

[shut cypress]

4 player pickaxe combat against last dreads on stage 3, almost worked... almost

[minor burrow]

died to first stage EDD cuz no oxigen. when my teammates went to revive me a bulk spawned. We lost.

pretty fun tho. beat it second attempt

[wraith shard]

edds gotta be as hard as tht, made it fun

2nd level was aids , but once you kill the wave at spawn ezpz

[burnt turtle]

that moment when your driller pulls out 3 eggs at the same time when no one has ammo

[severe tusk]

Don't worry, his drill fuel tanks are probably full. He's got this.

[burnt turtle]

Haha, he did not

[dreamy dragon]

So

Just did edd

and i can see why people think stage 2 is giga hard

i will post WHY in #drg-gallery

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[upbeat obsidian]

Man, Low O2 with randoms is a nightmare.

[calm kernel]

its not partiucularly hard

its just completely ammo dry

I had 3 runs at the max ammount of resups we got was a grand total of 5

[dreamy dragon]

tumbleweed tho

But i'd say for a haunted cave modifier, that mission was very tame. Rich atmosphere on top of one single large room to easily bait the ghost around?

could've been worse

[calm kernel]

Could be a lot better too

[dreamy dragon]

Ofc

[calm kernel]

is there not a minimum amount of nitra check on cave gen?

I feel like that shoudl be a thing

[upbeat obsidian]

I found that stage itself not too dangerous, but the problem for the teams I played with was ammo. Second run, we ended up with everyone down except the scout, zero nitra, and no one with any ammo except the scout who was trying to clear the stage solo

[dreamy dragon]

The more players, the more ammo is being used yea

It was definitely way less nitra than the last edd's but as a duo we managed to always have ammo filled up and at least 1 supply pod rdy to spawn

[calm kernel]

my team died ont eh last one and MAN did it piss me off

we barely made it out of the second one on low ammo, got to the third and just bolted for ammo

[dreamy dragon]

I bet

[calm kernel]

decided to get the dred because we figured if we didnt do it now, backtracking would cause another swarm

got enough ammo for a restock, killed the dred, everyone was on 1 bar of ammo or less

then a swarm of swarmers hit

[dreamy dragon]

After the dread, the swarm we got in the next big room during 3rd stage happened to be a grunt swarm

[calm kernel]

everyone went down and I as the driller was fucking bolting down the caves looking for ammo

3 different chambers and nothing

[dreamy dragon]

And grunt swarms are probably the worst one imo

[calm kernel]

then I finally fell to about 50 swarmers

[dreamy dragon]

hundreds of grunts, guards and slashers but waaaay more than normal swarms

[calm kernel]

swarmer swarm hit us as the dred died

which was such shit

[dreamy dragon]

i think there was one nitra vein in the next big room or something?

but rushing in a hurry whilst having 34245 swarmers on you is never fun lol

[calm kernel]

there was but it had 40 nitra

we had a whole 2 in reserve

[dreamy dragon]

well

🫂

[calm kernel]

its not the worst EDD

one a few months back took 6 tries

bit that felt legitimate, as there was by death

not this ammo starvation shit

[upbeat obsidian]

I've done a few that took several tries, but at least we weren't dying because no one had ammo. It's good to know it wasn't just my team not gathering it this time lol

[dreamy dragon]

also imagine stage 2 withotu a scout

getting those 3 nitra veins at the ceiling

[calm kernel]

my scout was kinda of a dick

[upbeat obsidian]

if you go double gunner, you can zipline ceiling nitra

[calm kernel]

level 500 something, but refused the concept of 'ammo effeintcy'

[upbeat obsidian]

nitra low stages are not kind to teams who have a Scout, as much as the scout provides a lot of luxury through light and being able to get inconvenient places

[dreamy dragon]

stage 2 rly tested my patience with the flare gun lol

[radiant granite]

they are if the scout isn't needlessly trigger happy

really learning when not to shoot is one of the biggest differences between good and bad players

don't have to waste ammo on the grunts walking thru sticky flame, or the neuro'd grunts, or the mactera the driller is freezing, grunts walking into an engie's mine, etc

but most players still do

they see bug they click on bug

[severe tusk]

Gotta increase that kill count.

[dreamy dragon]

backed up

[tough sun]

im very glad I went into this weeks EDD with an very ammo effecient build.

[dreamy dragon]

Did you duo or full team?

[tough sun]

full team

[dreamy dragon]

pog

[tough sun]

I was gunner with 31311 Burning hell OC Minigun build

that thing is super effecient with ammo

hell, I even let the engi have 2 doubles from me, and I still had the second most kills

[dreamy dragon]

My engi mate was asking if he should bring hyperpropellant cuz every stage had a bossfight

i was like nah dude, i got this, better bring some aoe on ur BC lol

[tough sun]

Hyper propellet would be nice. lol

though honestly AoE BC wouldnt be bad either. those waves get bad

but... 4 Dreads

[dreamy dragon]

Nitra more scarce than other edds?!? Well we still go in with our usual edd builds because even when nitra is low, the way deep dives work with carrying nitra to next stages has always worked very fine with us being ammo inefficient

[tough sun]

Nitra is super scarce, yea

[dreamy dragon]

4 dreads and none of them was the classic one. Twins can get bad if you deall too much dmg at once on one of them or miss the shot and hiveguard is almost harmless

so more reasons to not go with hyperprop lol

[tough sun]

something btw that is on par with Hyperpropellent PGL is the Jumboshells Boomstick

and hey, just don't miss the shot

[dreamy dragon]

fine, just dont get hit by waves lol

[tough sun]

Exactly!

[dreamy dragon]

[tough sun]

but honestly, HP PGL would be really nice due to the 4 dreads. more so vs the hiveguard, but still nice for the twins

I do say that as someone who has yet to actually get HP*

[dreamy dragon]

Thing is, elimination is like our fav. mission type and we got used to them so well that long before he got or tried hyperprop. Didn't wanna risk sacrificing our only AoE for some more burst on dreads tbh

[tough sun]

eh, fair enough

[dreamy dragon]

Went smooth enough tho

and last stage is asking for even more aoe with the parasites modifier basically

[tough sun]

I always just take thorns, and parasites are basicly a non-issue

[dreamy dragon]

Welllll you don't wanna do that on haz 5 lol. 2 parasite attacks and i lost already a bit of hp

[tough sun]

I mean, still what I did. lol. I just don;t have issue with parasites

[dreamy dragon]

I got PTSD from a certain drilldozer mission with parasites

[frank halo]

any tips for EDD 2nd stage this week>

[tough sun]

Do the dread first. and make sure you keep saving as much ammo as possable on stage one

[dreamy dragon]

Go behind the pod, clear everything thats on the map and bothers you, collect the nitra on one side of the map around the ceiling, clap the dread, grab the eggs, ???, profit

and ofc make sure you're not grabbing an egg while the ghost is sniffing ur butt

[upbeat obsidian]

Yeah, I took Hyper Prop for my first run in this week's EDD simply because there are so many Dreads. Discharge Stubby for turret AOE. It didn't work well, with nitra low levels, you can't resupply Hyper Prop fast enough to make the best use of it, and the levels are all either too winding or too open to abuse turret discharge bursts

[dreamy dragon]

if you're playing with others, BC does a fine enough job as is against the dreads tbh

[upbeat obsidian]

Just made a really good run at it with a buddy doing double gunner duo; it was his first time setting foot in an EDD. We took our time and went slow and careful on the first two stages. It took a while, but went really well.
Last stage we paid for going hard into single target for the Dreads, and should have had one AC for the parasites stage.

[dreamy dragon]

come to think of it...if you're a full squad, hyperprop might as well be worth using when gunner and driller got the masses covered

was your first run also a duo?

[upbeat obsidian]

That's the theory I went into it with, tbh the problem with my first run wasn't my hyper prop. I don't want to bash anyone, but for a Low O2 mission, it's important to work together, and we had players suffocating across the map and needing revive just because they wouldn't stick together.

[upbeat obsidian]

Full team public lobby

I had two instances where I got in position for the hiveguard to open up to hit it with hyper prop, obviously standing still, aiming PGL at it, and driller ran in front of me to try to axe it when it opened and wasted the Hyper Prop (and missed with his axe)

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We cheesed out and drilled a continuous tunnel from the drop pod up to the cliff top behind the pod. Worked pretty well, though it was quite the hectic tunneling session

From there, away from the stabber vines and with a nice zip line/tunnel loop to kite the ghost, it was pretty easy to regain control

[dreamy dragon]

just beware of the deadly tumbleweed

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Oh jeez I wish those things could be outright destroyed

All those tumblethings

[dreamy dragon]

u saw my clip?

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Naw, in gallery?

[dreamy dragon]

yea

and then tell me if u ever seen that before lol

[old widget]

Hahah wow

What caused the down? I just assumed you got nibbled because of mobility problems around those things

[dreamy dragon]

Nothing was around

So i assume it's the funky physics similar to the barrels in the space rig

when u jump on them sometimes u get yeeted with sonic speed

i somehow probably got yeeted into the floor

[upbeat obsidian]

The tumbleweeds are deadly killers if you have over 100 ping

[dreamy dragon]

yea well i was the host

🙂

[upbeat obsidian]

In your screen cap, there's an explosion going off on the pod to the left, not sure what it is, but maybe that's what got you? 🤷‍♂️

[dreamy dragon]

Screen cap?

you mean the screenshot with the bulk det at the pod? THat was a while ago

[upbeat obsidian]

oh I see

[dreamy dragon]

he spawned in our face and basically took our entire pride and stomped on it

iron will clutched tho

kek

no im talking about this

#drg-gallery message

[upbeat obsidian]

ok that's hilarious

[dreamy dragon]

imagine if that happened during a swarm and my mate couldnt rez me

🙂

thankfully it was all good tho

[upbeat obsidian]

My buddy died the other day while frozen from a beer on the space rig after getting hit by a barrel; just shattered, and both of us going WTF

[dreamy dragon]

did he respawn?

[upbeat obsidian]

Yeah, you always do in the med bay if you die on the space rig

it was a big WTF moment, though

[dreamy dragon]

(i better not tell him about the blackout stout...)

[upbeat obsidian]

Haha it wouldn't have been surprise if he'd had enough beers his dwarf might just die. Was pretty funny, though

[calm kernel]

I curse this edd

may it rest in hell

[molten tapir]

Dude the elite deep dive was actual hell

The team I played with was pretty good so we won but boy it wasnt easy

For the 3rd part we ran out of ammo in all out guns so we had to wack the last dread with our pickaxes

Dumbest shit ever

I think the whole thing took us almost 2 hours

That shit was intense

We played a full squad with all four classes (I was the engineer)

I think our strategy revoleved around using the shield boost and the quick revive perks

Two of us used shield boost the other two used iron will

But we all used quick revive

Honestly I think quick revive carried us

Stage 2 is easy if you can get past the initial ass and spam

[tough sun]

Yea, the weeks EDD is very scarce on ammo. so you have to be extra careful to conserve it

[molten tapir]

Also those 4 spitballers that are just chilling right next to eachother infront of the dread

[gleaming wren]

huh, I one heck of an EDD to do my first ever solo run

Surprised I actually managed it, all things considered

Guess I have the power of the grappling hook to thank for that

[upbeat obsidian]

How did you equip to play this EDD solo?

I guess it's a lot of eggs and Dreads, and Bosco makes a lot of that easier

I did a duo run with a buddy earlier, and the hardest thing on Stage 2 was getting the eggs down from high up.

[gleaming wren]

I had used the m1000 with hipster and modded with full damage, and the boomstick with special powder

I can boot up the game and get screenshots of my build actually

[upbeat obsidian]

I figured something like that most likely, makes sense

It's all good, the basics work for me lol

I might try it with Minimal Clips and see if I can stretch my ammo far enough and how the Dread fights are

[gleaming wren]

ah, I found minimal clips a bit meh personally, I don't find much value in reload speed or magazine size

[upbeat obsidian]

I haven't picked up Hipster yet, so I'll tinker around and see what works for me, but this might be a good opportunity to make a proper attempt at solo EDD.

[gleaming wren]

I've found Hipster to be incredibly powerful with full damage, it has just enough damage to one tap regular grunts in the head, and has a lot of ammo to use up

it also comes with good burst damage against larger enemies due to it's fast firerate

honestly might be a little too good, but still, pretty fun to play with

[burnt sandal]

@gleaming wren using bosco btw ?

[lucid trellis]

I decided to run hyper to snipe all the spitballers

Bad thing was

I got downed 25 times always being the one out of ammo

It was so tempting to call a supply but I knew I had to just kill myself most of the time to preserve ammo

But hey my team carried and I helped massively with dps

[spark cipher]

What’s the EDD like this week?

[leaden cypress]

spitballers

[spark cipher]

[hollow latch]

hey I joined the DRG discord solely to ask devs to make the 2nd map of the current EDD a permanent thing, somehow, I don't know, but it's an AMAZING and challenging level to play, most fun I ever had with this game so far

also, thank you for making the game 🙂

so here's an I idea I just had: besides the weekly DDs, each biome would have a very challenging unique level that never changes, and there's a reward for completing them all... I'd say you already have the level for Hollow Bough

[burnt sandal]

if you want to make suggestions, you can do so in the #suggestions channel (the devs read the channel)
You can also use the #suggestion-discussion beforehand to discuss about the idea and get feedback from people before posting it

[hollow latch]

will do, thank you

[burnt sandal]

Also, you might want to get a role in #welcome-and-rules as well as reading the server's rules

Welcome among us miner !

[raven grove]

The idea of being able to go back and play previous deep dives is interesting

[worn bramble]

i'm so sad

[upbeat obsidian]

Don't be sad

[worn bramble]

got past the second stage but my computer just said naw imma crash

[upbeat obsidian]

Ok that is a bit sad

[worn bramble]

and i was the host so 3 other people are also really sad

[fringe kettle]

It has been a requested feature for a while now. The issue is the cave generation algorithm is different now in U34 compared to when deep dives released in U25. Things change on the backend and with the same seed it'd produce a different cave than the one experienced.

[gleaming wren]

Sorry for late response, but yes.

[regal mango]

So I’m out of town until with limited time to solo the EDD before it resets, and apparently this one is pretty brutal? Anything to watch out for to maximize my chances of getting in done on my first go

[radiant obsidian]

it's actually easiest solo tbh

[regal mango]

oh rlly?

[radiant obsidian]

yea, less enemies like spitballs, etc

[regal mango]

ahhhh

[radiant obsidian]

and all the ammo for yourself

[dreamy dragon]

duo was pretty alright too

in case that you have a friend tagging with ya

[regal mango]

nah im on shitty wifi, thats why im going solo

Dont usually do solos at all

[dreamy dragon]

well that's considered discussed then lol

[regal mango]

Welp if solo is easier anyway, I’ll just give it a go

ty

[dreamy dragon]

i mean that or losing out 😄

[regal mango]

cant miss a week

that’d be wrong

[wet vault]

I’ve been wondering, now ping me if you answer but for the gunner. What would his best primary be for…just general use? I mean I’m sure there are ones for deep dives and others but I wanted to know as a rookie gunner what would be better suited for all around applications

[brisk pagoda]

breach cutter, ice spear, and tcf are all more ammo efficient at it, though they cant one shot.

[regal mango]

I’d say AC has more room for error because of the AoE. Idk if you have any overclocks, but Neurotoxin payload, carpet bomber, splintering shells, combat mobility all solid

[wet vault]

Sadly no overclocks yet for the AC. I’d like to know what sort of OC’s they have though. Carpet bomber and neurotoxin sound fun

[lucid trellis]

scout couldn't freeze the far off spitballers cuz he used up all his cryo grenades so I had to take care of far off spitballers

I thought the breach cutter couldn't get far enough to take them out in time

[brisk pagoda]

breach cant deal with them if theyre super far. it will disappear after a few seconds

[lucid trellis]

exactly

[brisk pagoda]

but a scout should be able to handle a spit no matter what loadout. hes got the gk and the m1

[lucid trellis]

I ended up dying to swarms more cuz I only had smg and plasma to take it out

lmao I was that one who ended up killing the spit ballers

[brisk pagoda]

you carried your scout

[lucid trellis]

laughs in 26 downs

I killed the most bugs with 500 but I was downed the most with everyone else only getting downed 1-6 times

[brisk pagoda]

the life of engy

guns are good at killing, bad at protecting yourself

[lucid trellis]

yeahh, we finished all stages though

so win is a win

[brisk pagoda]

also sentries tend to give you a lot of aggro

[lucid trellis]

Shoulda ran turret whip

Figured em refire with the extended electronic field would help with swarms

idk what it's actually called it's the final mod next to magazine capacity

[brisk pagoda]

only time i use smg instead of shotgun is if i bring the em discharge. its a lot more spamable than whip and works even at 0 sentry ammo

[lucid trellis]

Funny

I unlocked it in the edd

[brisk pagoda]

but thats mainly because i dont like the smg at all personally

[lucid trellis]

the main reason my ammo was so bad was

i was using my elim build

So rather than double ammo capacity I used more damage

[brisk pagoda]

does a damage spec smg do much to a dread?

[lucid trellis]

em refire, the electric damage does work to weaken it's armour

[brisk pagoda]

doesnt it resist shock

[lucid trellis]

It slows

[brisk pagoda]

yeah but the dot damage

[lucid trellis]

it worked fine with me

[brisk pagoda]

ok

[lucid trellis]

taking out the armour

then hyper to do health chips

[brisk pagoda]

how does the dot compare to poison for dread?

[lucid trellis]

Driller ran cryo so I do 1/3 of it's health

Hmm haven't tested, never poisoned a dread

I only ever use cryo driller, big bertha gunner for elims

[brisk pagoda]

i been running poison on my revolver and its not completely horrible considering the hp values

which is even weirder to me why they decided to nerf drillers poison grenade

considering that was 1 out of 2 use cases for it

the biggest benefit was the one time i was fighting a hivegaurd and he wouldnt stop spinning when he was at like 1% hp so i finished him off with the dot

[lucid trellis]

I usually ignite my grenades after the poison sets in

I usually save a grenade for that moment

or use beserker to finish off weak dreads

the serrated edge does the job well

[regal mango]

isnt the extra “electric damage” on em refire just the same as a normal +2 damage tacked on?

I remember it being weird like that

[brisk pagoda]

i dont usually go for melee on dreads anymore since they would usually bite me with their ass

[pale dust]

Yeah, it's +2 damage. That's electric. It doesn't increase the chance of the netting the Electrocution status

..the insane rate of fire boost, on the other hand 🙂

[regal mango]

so is it subject to elec resist or is that only for the status?

[pale dust]

Yes, subject to electrical resistance

it's one of the things about Engie - they have a lot of electricity damage. But some key targets resist that specific damage type

Or rather - if you can get fire into a build, it's often better because things often have more weakness versus/take more damage (Inferno OC on the BC has its place, for example)

[brisk pagoda]

a good general use minigun build is t1 personal preference, t2 damage, t3 stun (optionally armor break if you hate shellbacks and brundles), t4 damage, t5 grave. with compact feed mechanism overclock. has 65% of the dps compared to leadstorm overclock, with the same exact total damage for your entire ammo capacity. the lower dps is only meaningful against dreads, praetorians, and brundles (if you dont have armor break), while being far more ammo efficient compared to LS at killing anything else.

[raven grove]

Well that EDD was about what I expected. Don't think I'll bother retrying, ammo starvation sucks.

[vast mirage]

I got a bulk when I did it solo at the end of the first stage which I used to kill the dreads so I was fine on ammo for the whole run. I'm guessing people are using all their resups in first stage?

[severe tusk]

Ammo should not be an issue if you run it solo, but it can be a problem for 4 man teams.

[severe tusk]

I tried the EDD last night for the first time with a full group. We only collected enough nitra for 2 resupplies and someone took one of mine when we were fighting the twins. We fought them in a small, bad place and had a lot of downs, so I don't blame them for taking the ammo to try to survive. We got rolled early on the 2nd stage though.

I decided to retry it solo with Gunner. The 1st stage has enough nitra for 3 resupplies, but I only needed 1. 2nd stage was much more manageable solo and with extra nitra stored up. Most of the nitra was hard to get to so I didn't mine much of it. I had to kite back and forth in that large room a lot because of the unknown horror, but it is easy to avoid. Still, it wasn't too bad, and I left the stage full on ammo and with enough nitra for another resupply. On the 3rd stage I took out the twins at the start, but I kind of messed up the fight and used 3/4 of the resupplies from the pod I called. In that little pit where you have to tunnel to the next room it spawned a nasty wave on me with a roller, oppressor, 2 praetorians and some spitters. Survived that, went to mine nitra in the room, then went back to dig the tunnel in that same spot and had another tough spawn of glyphids as I was doing it and went down.

I could probably complete the EDD if I tried again solo, but it's kind of tedious. I prefer to play with groups anyway, but this EDD isn't great for playing with random groups due to nitra scarcity and being a harder than usual EDD. At least I got the blank matrix core and weapon OC.

[cinder hull]

is it a good strat to down someone so they comeback with half the health?

[wet shale]

I think the minimum health threshold is the same

[quiet wyvern]

well stage 2 EDD was, "Fun?" I guess

[solid void]

It's likely been said, buuuuuut
This EDD is a real pain in the ass!

[quiet wyvern]

yea last stage me and my pal got swarmed with a surprise battalion of bugs while fighting the twins, we almost failed, Twice!

[flat dirge]

Pretty sure every week someone will say that the EDD is: Easy, Hard, Fun, not fun.

[severe tusk]

Well, yeah, but if you say this week's EDD is easy, you're a real pro at the game.

[wet shale]

what an easy game, haz 6 pls 😎

[quiet wyvern]

Like Overkill or Deathwish from Payday 2, but space bug version O.O

[calm kernel]

fifth fucking attempt at this edd

in the middle of second tier

my game bloody crashes

this is some absolute dong

[oak plinth]

fuck this edd tbh

[severe tusk]

I don't feel like doing it solo again, but I might try another few runs with a group.

[dreamy dragon]

Did u play without bosco?

You talk about getting downed once and that was it

[severe tusk]

No, I used Bosco. I messed up the fight with the twins and went down once, then that big swarm that spawned on me when I was in the pit knocked me down twice more in quick succession. Couldn't get out of there with the shellback and oppressor knocking me around. Was just bad timing. In retrospect, I should have just throw a shield down and finished digging to the other side to get some breathing room.

[dreamy dragon]

Ah

[severe tusk]

Yeah, I'm not a pro at DRG or anything, I could not do this particular EDD without Bosco, although I watched a video of someone doing it as scout with no Bosco, OCs, or perks 😄

[dreamy dragon]

They've probably also spent many more hours into this game than you so don't feel too upset about it

[severe tusk]

Yeah, but my reflexes and aim aren't as good as theirs are either. I can get better for sure, but mostly through increased game knowledge, not so much mechanics.

[vast mirage]

When i did it solo i just ignored the twins and mined out all the morkite, it prevents normal spawns so you only have to focus on dodging the twins shots and whatever pre-spawned in the cave. Then you dont need to resupply for the whole mission.

In mining missions with lots of twisty hallways I find its very difficult for the twins to actually ever hit you

[dreamy dragon]

That's new.

Edd secondary eliminations could Still spawn swarms on you.

[vast mirage]

Hrm I only ran into 3 or so praetorians

[severe tusk]

That's a neat idea.

[upbeat obsidian]

I did an attempt at this week's EDD solo as Scout a few days ago, but found that (without hipster) I didn't have enough ammo to beat the twins without resupplying more than once. My aim is fine, and I'm good at hitting the spots where I already broke their armour. Maybe I'll try again as Gunner

[vast mirage]

I had a super lucky bulk, it literally dug to me right under the twins egg.

[severe tusk]

I used Big Bertha and Magic Bullets as Gunner and did not have any issues with ammo, even though I skipped most of the nitra on stage 2.

[flat pivot]

What's stage 3 of this week's edd

[vast mirage]

#deep-dive-discussion message

[upbeat obsidian]

Morkite and one Dredd egg

[severe tusk]

You can check the pins in this channel too to see DD and EDD details for the week.

[dusty meadow]

That stage 2 landing. Felt like dday in the movie saving private ryan.

[dreamy dragon]

Embedded dets works wonders against twins

can shoot the butt open with AB M1k and then dets go brrrrrrt

or just dets in the face directly

just be aware that you dont overdamage one of them

[upbeat obsidian]

That's a thought. I was running Special Powder, but it didn't bring much to the first stage.
The second stage is so open, I kind of wanted to play around flying everywhere xD

[dreamy dragon]

yea everyone runs special powder cuz yay funny flying and then wonders they have no ammo lol

[upbeat obsidian]

That's a hard truth lmao

Not relevant to this week's EDD, but I've been impressed lately with Gas Recycling with cryo 'nades

[dreamy dragon]

oh yea make sure you include every ammo mod for embedded dets if you do so since the dmg mods are negligible

[upbeat obsidian]

With blowthrough and well timed freezing, Gas Recycling Zuks can chew through a horde or a group of Praetorians like nothing

[dreamy dragon]

true but that only works for so long as you have cryo nades

If you're getting a special glyphid grunt swarm, you wish you had 8 cryo nades

[burnt sandal]

you just need IFG and any blowthrough weapon to start clearing

[dreamy dragon]

you just need IFG*

[quick glacier]

I love blowthrough shotty for these purposes since often, if grunts are aggrod, they'll all face you anyway

Like Ser says, ifg is truly your friend, but it's hard to forsake freezing. I usually take freezing in the end, I feel it let's the scout do something they can't do Vs something they could already do, but better

[upbeat obsidian]

I was squeamish about trying to use Gas Recycling, because in general, giving up weakpoint bonus isn't something I like, but coupled with Freezing, you end up losing nothing, and gaining a bunch of damage; and then facing doesn't matter for those times you just can't get to the back of an Oppressor that has decided to clip its butt into the ground

[quick glacier]

That's fair, but you are reliant on those nades, or a friendly driller. If you work together well with a local driller, or simply can afford the nades, then it works fantastic, but for me I like the flexibility of the scout more, and these strengths I fear compromise the flexibility of the shotty

[brisk pagoda]

mark the nitra with your laser and bosco will mine it for you, even if it on the ceiling, he can fly.

[elfin falcon]

yea i used to run with BoM + cryos + cryo minelet zhukovs for a long time but now IFG + Armour break / blowthrough M1k + blowthrough boomstick just feels so much stronger

[upbeat obsidian]

I'm having another go at it as solo Gunner. I was inspired a little by reading peoples' experiences, and I'm taking it as an opportunity to learn to get better. If I don't clear the third stage, I don't have anymore cores to get, but this EDD is really good practice of different elements

I'm running NTP and Lead Spray BRT with the idea that ammo economy is key. I'm using NTP to break Dread armour and mow down waves, and BRT for heavy damage (obviously.)
Best run so far, and ammo has been no problem

It's also been a good opportunity to shed misconceptions I have about damage types and resistances. If you focus on dodging, NTP alone is fine for clearing the Twins, given enough time

[severe tusk]

Yeah, I played my first dozen or so games of DRG solo and figured that out, but thanks. Maybe it helps someone else out 😄 I just had a hard time even seeing it on stage 2.

[brisk pagoda]

if you mark the terrain, bosco will aim a light at it. good for seeing the ceiling if youre not scout

[upbeat obsidian]

I'm going into stage 2 with full ammo and heaps of nitra. So far so good

[severe tusk]

Yes, the problem was the ceiling was just so high and I think some of the nitra was in little caves half way up some cliffs that I couldn't see or easily get to as gunner. Or maybe I was just blind.

[severe tusk]

I have been liking Big Bertha. It's ammo efficient vs. the weaker glyphids yet can still do decent damage vs. big stuff. I just finished the EDD in a 3 man group, and the one extra ammo per resupply pod made it a lot easier. We were never completely starved for ammo. Although on stage 2 we one shot the hiveguard using a bulk detonator, so that helped a lot too 😄

Stage 2 was still pretty damn tense though.

[upbeat obsidian]

I like BB for the Dreads, but I don't love it for wave clear on EDDs because it's a bit slow. I could rebuild fire rate and mag size, but I never do xD

Stage 2 is really interesting because it's an insanely tense start, and then it's slow and calm once the initial cave is cleared out

[severe tusk]

I am running BB 33121, which is the same spec I used for Splintering Shells before I replaced it.

[brisk pagoda]

bertha is really strong if youve got an ice driller to combo with it

[severe tusk]

I don't have a huge problem clearing normal bugs. I also run Magic Bullets on the Bulldog though.

Yeah, cryo driller is a welcome sight for most Gunner builds, I think.

We had a flame driller though. And a scout, no engi.

[elfin falcon]

having been playing exclusively burning hell + vb build for gunner recently, flame driller is my friend

[weak dune]

am i the only one that can't find morkite on the deep dive

not-elite

[hazy comet]

unfortunately cryo driller is just so broken OP that the flamer has been relatively useless as of the last several updates

[weak dune]

wanted to chill and im annoyed, 10 minutes running around and theres no morkite around lol

the third stage

[hazy comet]

there is plenty of morkite but it may be hidden from immediate view in the folds of the ceiling

also a chance you're missing a room that has a lot of morkite

[weak dune]

i know

i just wanted to know im not alone in this suffering

normal deep dive 0/10 dont recommend too much morkite

[hazy comet]

you can try waiting for dark morkite buff beer to help out before attempting it again.

[outer bloom]

There's two very large veins of Morkite on a lower level room - just to the left of the Glyphid Brood Nexus

[weak dune]

i found one at the top

[weak dune]

nah, got plenty of ammo to kill for 30-40 minutes 😛

[upbeat obsidian]

I always feel a bit bad if I have any AC other than BB if there is a Cryo Driller. So much wasted potential

and then BB is doing triple damage

[hazy comet]

you should think more like it fixes the weaknesses of aoe flak builds

which, imo, is more useful than a bit more damage on an already good single target build

[upbeat obsidian]

On the third stage, does the drop pod come back near the top or deep down?

[elfin falcon]

depends on player count i think?

[upbeat obsidian]

I was sure it's seeded. I've never done a deep dive more than once and had the drop pod come down to a different location before

OMFG I did it, never thought I had it in me

[gleaming wren]

nice job brother

[upbeat obsidian]

I got Dark Morkite before the mission, so I was like "for two plants, might as well to help make the last stage faster" and then only went into two rooms in stage 3 xD

[gleaming wren]

Nice xD

[severe tusk]

We had to do all of the rooms, so that's nice.

[gleaming wren]

Sadly I only ever get dark morkite when there's no morkite missions lol

you know in retrospect, I probably should've taken the tunnel rats drink for my solo EDD, ended up not needing it but still had some close calls with gravity in stage 2

[upbeat obsidian]

I had some downs, and almost all of them were due to falling off of ziplines. Tunnel Rat probably would have made my run safer, but Morkite made it a lot easier on stage 3 overall 🤔
If Tunnel Rat is at the bar, I will almost always buy it, one of the best special beers.

[gleaming wren]

I personally don't take it that much when I see it, I find it easy enough to avoid fall damage usually, though for the times where I don't, it could have made the difference xD

Still a good drink though

[dreamy dragon]

✌️

gg lad

[burnt sandal]

my turn to go solo now

[gleaming wren]

Good luck brother

[burnt sandal]

thanks

[atomic anchor]

Doing the DD solo as a face melter driller wasn't bad. The mactera were annoying but when are they not

[burnt sandal]

welp; couldn't make it. This room on the 3rd stage with the 3 leeches was my death when I choose to step in at the same moment a swarm got announced

[upbeat obsidian]

I got grabbed by two of those leeches in my run, and it accounted for two downs. It was stupid, because I knew they were there, but I had it my head they were further in the room, and I couldn't get Bosco to stop mining and come help >.>

[dreamy dragon]

lol just look up ez /s

[brisk pagoda]

if only it couldnt still grab you through the wall or floor

[upbeat obsidian]

Also, because I was taking my time and being (probably a bit too) thorough, I found that one of the problems people are having with lack of Nitra is in part because the second stage has a side cave up near the ceiling with two large veins of Nitra up in it. Probably added 100 to my total from that stage just from that space alone

So there are at least four veins of Nitra in the second stage up above or on the ceiling, and almost none below

[burnt sandal]

yeah

I found them too

[dreamy dragon]

May i ask where the 3 cave leeches have been? I can't seem to remember to have seen 3 leeches in one room

[odd comet]

Map spawns (like leeches, spitballers, breeders, BET-C, etc.) change depending on the number of players in the game

[dreamy dragon]

well nvm then lol

[upbeat obsidian]

There's one in the second stage as well, but it's in a really strange place you are unlikely to even find. The ones in the third stage are clustered above/before the Brood Nexus. The first one is just past the short cliff in front of the Nexus, close enough that it will grab you if you move to the edge to shoot down at the Nexus.

[gleaming wren]

I believe the leech is above the spitballer you see in stage 2

[upbeat obsidian]

Yeah, it's near the Spitballer way up high

[obtuse ingot]

I'm fairly new to EDD, but I thought this weeks was pretty tough! Took my friend and I a few times to beat it, but it was very satisfying!

Second stage is a lot of fun

[oak plinth]

this week's EDD is one of the more difficult ones imo

[severe tusk]

Yeah, I was fortunate to get into a good 3 man group. Glad I tried it again.

[manic pivot]

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

[pale dust]

I'm gunna drill that dive to the ends! To the ends, I says!

[thorny geyser]

this week's EDD was fun and I got to play with dev

[severe tusk]

Just randomly?

[spark epoch]

This weeks EDD is ridiculous

[scarlet jewel]

ridiculous how

[woeful bolt]

It's not too bad if you know what you're getting into on stage 2. Focus vines and spitballers you'll be ok

Scout needs to scout properly and get all the Nitra

[radiant obsidian]

amen

[spark epoch]

as soon as you drop its nothing but mactera, spitballers, a ghost, and vines

[radiant obsidian]

you mean it's good fun?

[uncut swan]

yo can people stop DC'ing the EDD?

[agile pasture]

how are people dealing with the second stage of this weeks EDD?

my teams keeps getting wiped out within the first like 2 mins

it's brutal

[opaque glacier]

We survived 😂

Idk how

[upbeat obsidian]

In the second stage, there are very minimal random/timed spawns, the hardest thing is dealing with initial landing. If you immediately go, as a team, to the end away from the spitballers/eggs, you can safely deal with the stuff already in the cave, the stabber vines, and the spitballers, and then you are basically golden until the Scout finds the leech high up and needs rescue in a stupid place

[manic pivot]

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

[sullen zealot]

@agile pasture Stay in the drop pod for a bit but not too long that the haunted dread kills you. While in the pod attract macteras to you and have your scout cryo nade most of them. After that deal with any spitballers you can from the pod and by this point it should be safe enough for the team to exit. Finally have your scout prioritize the nanocyte breeders by 1 shotting them with cryo nades (there are 2 breeders so don't waste all your cryo nades on macteras). Just make sure to do all the pod stuff before haunted dread reaches you.

[woeful bolt]

Stay in pod to start clearing vines and mactera but don't stay too long because the ghost. Either avoid or immediately deal with the spitballers. As scout I just flew straight to them, froze em with a cryo nade, and killed them

[upbeat obsidian]

If you don't have a full team or don't have a scout with cryo, it's useful to know that the spitballers and vines both basically cannot hit you if you keep moving. It's a lot safer in that cave than it looks to go down to the bottom and clear stuff as you move around, as long as you don't stay still too much.

[gleaming wren]

Aye, the second stage isn't too bad if you keep moving

[vast mirage]

Gonna run the EDD again, im gonna miss stage 2 when its gone

[hushed sequoia]

i thought the edd was actually fun but i also played with a player rank 300 and player rank 400 and rank 70 myself

[calm kernel]

attempt 7 of edd has once again

failed

[upbeat obsidian]

I think one thing that's so fascinating about this EDD is that it's one of the only ones I can think of where its contents and layout has had me say: "Yeah, I should try this solo."

[potent ermine]

wrong week to finally get the courage to attempt my first EDD

[tough sun]

Yea, this weeks EDD is rough

Gotta be super careful on ammo

[cunning arrow]

The issue with the EDD is stage two. Nearly all nitra is on the ceiling.

[tough sun]

A scout can fairly easily get them. but you should also do the dread before the eggs

Also, not technally directly related to the EDD, but doesnt this weeks EDD give us more info on karl? lol

[cunning arrow]

I personally had no problems doing this weeks EDD but I understand why so many were struggling

[tough sun]

yea, I did it first try as well. I just happened to bring a super ammo effecient build

[cunning arrow]

I played Scout with hipster

[tough sun]

I went Burning hell minigun. does nice single target, and good AoE too.

also Agressive venting is honestly pretty good with Burning hell

[toxic carbon]

so the elite deep dive, second room, WTF

second level first room I should say'

a dozen spitballers or so it seems, 2 breeders, a detonator, and the ghost coming at you with a swarm, what fresh hell is this?

[burnt sandal]

RNG being mean

[manic pivot]

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

[upbeat obsidian]

If you do it solo, there's only one spitballer, no breeders, no detonator...

[uncut raptor]

okay predictions, is the EDD this week going to be easier or harder than last week's?

[opaque lintel]

we go deep

[uncut raptor]

also can't wait for triple escort in magma core

[upbeat obsidian]

Escort in EDD normally isn't too bad. It's only a primary, and it forces the team to stick together...

[burnt sandal]

easier

[uncut raptor]

i'd like to think it would still be challenging, but not with a giant wall like stage 2

[wanton knoll]

More eggs/dreads coming right up

[severe tusk]

If you've been struggling with this week's EDD and want to give it one last try, I recommend doing it with less than 4 players because of ammo considerations. My 3 man team wasn't exactly flush with ammo, but we were never completely starved of it either, and I don't think we even got some of the nitra on stage 2. We did manage to one shot the hiveguard using a bulk detonator and saved a good deal of ammo that way though. That was one of the best feelings I have had playing DRG, especially since that stage of the EDD was so challenging.

[severe tusk]

Management needs their omelettes.

[copper summit]

We did the same lol

[severe tusk]

Nice!

[manic pivot]

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

[uncut raptor]

it's time

[copper summit]

no

[scarlet jewel]

Yes

[copper summit]

new deep dives in negative time

[gray palm]

let us be cursed by stage two no more

[scarlet jewel]

Try restarting your game?

Obvious solution but it should work

[uncut raptor]

doing DD now, will post what dread it is shortly

oh it's right in the starting room lol

it's the twins

[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Rapid Gate
Stage 1: 2 M.U.L.E.s + Dreadnought Twins | Critical Weakness
Stage 2: ⛽ Refine Liquid Morkite + Dreadnought Twins | Exploder Infestation
Stage 3: Escort the Drilldozer + 150 Morkite | Parasites

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Fungus Bogs | Code Name: Warrior's Fissure
Stage 1: 250 Morkite + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs
Stage 2: 3 M.U.L.E.s + 2 Eggs | No Mutators!
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 2 M.U.L.E.s | Elite Threat

[uncut raptor]

god i hate the twins so much

[raven grove]

I wish the twins weren't invunerable during healing

[void moss]

twins are ok tbh

[severe tusk]

Just wait until they release the triplets.

[waxen lake]

pls no

[keen bronze]

another week, more pain

[void moss]

worst IMO is the glyphid dreadnought

[night dune]

ay, managed to lock in shattered armpit before it changed. Why does it do that anyway? My timer is at -11minutes

[keen bronze]

crit weakness tho

[keen bronze]

need to restart session

[wanton knoll]

Hoping for a more spicer round 2 or 3 for this week EDD

[night dune]

ah, can I still get the cores from shattered armpit?

[past drum]

aw hell nah chungus bogs it is

[quiet mortar]

If you haven't got them yet, yes

[night dune]

litty, wish me luck on my solo then

[wanton knoll]

Wow, lookin like a smooth run for this week EDD if the third stage doesn't have any surprises

[uncut raptor]

2nd stage stage of DD is refinery + dread and exploder infestation

will post the dread shortly

TWINS AGAIN

[quiet mortar]

XD

[severe tusk]

Sounds like a fun 2nd stage for the regular DD.

[valid phoenix]

inb4 twins on all stages of regular deep dive

[uncut raptor]

bout to find out

final stage of DD is escort with 150 morkite and parasites

[quiet mortar]

Ouch

[quaint lake]

twins are very manageable once you actually put yourself into a situation where you have to learn their attacks and patterns

hiveguard is the stupid one, with broken hitboxes and AOEs

[mossy jacinth]

Oof, elite threat.

[uncut raptor]

i don't mind hiveguard as much, it's just the sentinels that it spawns can sometimes spawn in a tunnel that isn't properly connected to the cave you're fighting in

[wanton knoll]

Well, management sure love eggs and it seems to continue this weeks EDD. No dreads though

[uncut raptor]

morkite on last stage of DD is hiding somewhere, but there's plenty of nitra

[quiet mortar]

It's Azure it's always hiding

[eager parcel]

we have a lot of eggs on this week's edd lol

[copper summit]

morkite is hard to get

[uncut raptor]

dark morkite recommended tbh

any tips for the EDD?

[copper summit]

0 deaths dd :)

[maiden osprey]

Where is the morkite in Deep Dive?

we got 125 so far

Doretta grew her head back

[uncut raptor]

there's a vein in the starting room above doretta

i somehow missed that lol

[maiden osprey]

THATS THE ONE!

[uncut raptor]

yeah this EDD was ezpz compared to last week lol

[opal minnow]

Remember the one a month and a half ago or so in sandblasted?

that one was pretty painless

[uncut raptor]

idk if i came back to play the game for that one so i'm not sure

[opal minnow]

Last weeks stage 2 was up there with the worst

[hallow pollen]

Cant find the morkite. Any other spots, like the one above doretta?

Endless nitra, but I need 30 more morkite

Right above the spot, where doretta refueled. Finally.

[night dune]

phew, did it. my findings from last weeks EDD: Stunner overclock is not that bad. Do not let me speak ill of it ever again. Tried hyper propellant for the first time and it was amazing for all the dreadnoughts. Second stage wasn't that bad. I only got downed on the first stage when the arbalest shotgun blasted me at point blank. my first solo EDD too :3

[past drum]

any updates on this weeks edd

[burnt sandal]

pinned message

[past drum]

nvm i see now

yeah

thanks

[dark raven]

so how's this week EDD?

fungus bogs? hmmm many of those slime dispensers flying there?

[uncut raptor]

much easier than stage 2 of last week

[craggy tulip]

i love looking for morkite in azure weald 🙂

[night dune]

hardest DD I've had in a while... searching for morkite endlessly

[quiet wyvern]

it's a big pain

[craggy tulip]

still looking lmao

[viral kayak]

this reg deep dive stage 3 is dumb

[hallow pollen]

hard to find morkite, but otherwise good^^

[craggy tulip]

ive done it

that was mind numbing

[viral kayak]

so dumb

[hallow pollen]

yeah, it was super easy, but just annoying to walk around and look for morkite

[night dune]

oh hey lobster. Yea, absolutely mind boggingly silly how hard it is to find this morkite

[viral kayak]

LMAO

FINALLY BRUH

my brain is fried

[craggy tulip]

it was hell

took me 30 mins to just get 50 morkite

[scarlet fulcrum]

I watched the entire thing and was just laughing at ya'll

[viral kayak]

very much ded

[scarlet fulcrum]

yep

Schema was streaming and complaining about it the entire time to me

[hazy comet]

lol looking for last morkite piece for 30 mins

finally found a bigass vein

[night dune]

people were hoping for an even harder EDD this week, when in actuality the DD was waiting... watching...

[hazy comet]

no kidding lol

[silent kettle]

135 morkite

cant find any more

[hazy comet]

scour the planes of existence and you might find a paltry sum

[silent kettle]

found some

[keen raptor]

ngl ive been finding EDD stage 2 pretty hard, dunno if its a solo thing lol

[uncut raptor]

the cave said you needed a ton of nitra and nothing else

[dreamy dragon]

the DD looks tedious and the EDD looks free

[uncut raptor]

pretty much

[cunning herald]

After finishing the DD, i had to rush over discord to see if anyone got also issue looking for morkite.
I'm not disappointed

[covert plaza]

this EDD was really drenched in nitra

we ended with 650 and we could have spared at least one pod

[cunning herald]

Yeah, too much of it really

[raven grove]

That’ll be nice after the last one. I only attempted that once.

Wasn’t worth the frustration.

[uncut raptor]

making up for last week

[grand surge]

Anyone having the problem of not finding morkite in the last DD

stage

Legit 149/150 and can't find any more

[outer bloom]

Yes, took me about 30 minutes to find all the Morkite

[shadow shoal]

Aw man, is it another super easy EDD?

Last week’s was great

[steady ledge]

we were 132/150 for like 20+ mins just searching

[grand surge]

For once I'm wishing I had Dark Morkite xD

[burnt sandal]

like most of the time

[burnt sandal]

last week had plenty. People just never bothered looking in the ceiling and wasted a lot on the dreads

[shadow shoal]

Ooh, crit weakness dreads though, thats always fun

[raven grove]

For April 1 next year just have the EDD in a cave made entirely of nitra.

[shadow shoal]

Yeah, lots of people missed the 3 massive veins high up on stage 2

[burnt sandal]

yeah

I found them by just looking at the scanner and being like "wait, there's a whole floor up there"

I guess many people felt they were on a timer for some reason ?

[shadow shoal]

To be fair, ghost is a pain in the butt

[uncut raptor]

we did have a lot on my first (and only) attempt but we used them all up because people kept going down

think we used 6 resups in stage 2

can't remember

[shadow shoal]

Yikes

[uncut raptor]

we managed to only use 3 resups on stage 3 since we had dark morkite and got all the morkite early

just having enough nitra for 3 resups

[burnt sandal]

that's definitely not an ammo issue then 😄

Granted a few veins were well hidden in both stage 1 and 2

I remember one being literally in a corner and half in the big thorny vines

[tidal sleet]

Jesus Christ i can't find any morkite in stage 3 of this dd

[uncut raptor]

well it was for me and my team 😅

[burnt sandal]

getting down was the issue I mean 😛

[uncut raptor]

thankfully we all did it first try so we just did it and never looked back lmao

[burnt sandal]

GG on the try anyway

[uncut raptor]

i posted the results in gallery a while back, i had 30 revives i think? lol

[burnt sandal]

holy shit 🤣

[grand surge]

See we got them and we're still short

[uncut raptor]

oh i almost had 40 revives

#drg-gallery message

[burnt sandal]

damn 🤣

making the gunners proud tho

well done

[uncut raptor]

always proud to be a gunner main

[covert plaza]

or maybe the legendary magma core triple escort with exploder infestation and bulks all over

[severe tusk]

I guess I was lucky with this week's DD. My teammates found all the morkite as we went on the drilldozer, and we never had to go back and look for it. I actually had 50+ in my pocket without knowing it.

[dreamy dragon]

dang

i can't even keep more than 45 of each 🙃

[covert plaza]

morkite secondary on weald is warcrime level of illegal

[knotty lava]

oh, right

everything is blue

[covert plaza]

and since its a secondary there's not really a lot spare

[knotty lava]

this will be "fun"

[quiet wyvern]

it is just nearly impossible to find Morkite in this biome

[knotty lava]

just promoted for my first time, lets see how this will go

[lone canopy]

I like mass bulls

[molten rune]

is the morkite on the DD broken

we got 4 vets here and we cant find the last 8 morkite, 30 mins of just searching

[rough kite]

On the DD, our scout had to go back and look for Morkite while the rest of us were defending the dozer. They said they found a vein in the first room that we just flat out missed the first time round.

[molten rune]

yeah theres a high flat one there

[hushed sequoia]

it took us like half an hour to get morkite on stage 3

we got to the end and needed 120 morkite

theres morkite behind the ommoran area in the last room right on the ground

[molten rune]

yeah thats the one

the stone

35 units

[hushed sequoia]

we had 149 morkite and had to spend another 10 minutes trying to find the last of it

[molten rune]

we were missing 7

[hushed sequoia]

all of that for a beard that costs 21000 credits

[dark aurora]

does somebody finished 3rd map in dd this week? we are crazy looking for morkite

yeah, behind the ommoran

disgusting this map

[wraith shard]

What do blank cores do?

[dark aurora]

U can use it after events to get charged cores

and get overcloks

[outer bloom]

Yeah a lot of people are expressing the same frustration. Took me about 30 minutes. There's a large vein at the start near the ceiling, one directly above where the drilldozer refuels, and then they seem to be sprinkled in a few small locations. I found a couple near the swarmer spawns

[wraith shard]

Are you able to choose which overclocks you unlock or is it random? I’m new at this, thanks

[dark aurora]

Yeah, we got it right now. But we had to look for 20 or 30 minutes . probably more than the rest of the dive

@wraith shard U have 3 choices. right now in my game, u can choose 2 overclocks and 1 cosmetic. but each of those are for different classes

and after your choice u get something random

[outer bloom]

I had the bright idea "I'll do the solo deep dive quickly before work" Ended up spending over an hour on the Dive. Damn Morkite.

[hazy comet]

@wraith shard overclocks from deep dives/elite deep dives are (1st stage = blank core, 2nd stage = random weapon overclock core, 3rd stage = random cosmetic core). There are no repeats so eventually you'll unlock the one you want.

[lean fox]

so how does this weeks EDD compare to the last one?

[covert plaza]

much easier

plenty of ammo throughout

only one bulk

[lean fox]

cool, I'll give it a shot then.

[idle heart]

Just did my first deep dive, feeling good

[gleaming stratus]

morkite in azure weald
I am in extreme pain

[wraith shard]

Yeah just aborted that mission 30 mins of searching for morkite after the finishing the drilldozer, last 10 morkite nowhere to be found.

[tough sun]

yea... the morkite is just... annoying

its there, but a pain to find

[wraith shard]

Possibly but Azure Weald is pretty buggy, more than once Molly has just refused to go to the drop pod when it arrives

[gleaming wren]

Oh cool new deep dive

Gonna have to try it out later

[wheat ridge]

what is the best primary for the engineer?

because i dont like the smg

but it feels weird that its harder to get than base shotgun

[severe tusk]

I don't love either the SMG or the Shotgun. Hopefully the new primary weapon will be better.

Engineer's secondary weapons are great though.

[wheat ridge]

tru

[upbeat obsidian]

The Warthog is excellent once you get an Overclock that makes it do what you prefer. Whether that's fixing its range, giving more ammo, or just super high fire rate, there's an OC for all of those things

[dreamy dragon]

I like the warthog but i can't deny that coming from an m1k gamer, the warthog feels like a vastly inferior m1k

[upbeat obsidian]

They're... really not similar, that's a strange comparison

Other than being semi-automatic, I suppose?

[dreamy dragon]

they play very similar to me

except the m1k can hit reliably with all its dmg from afar as well

[late scarab]

Can I mark a message here as spoiler?

I wrote a guide to find all the morkite in DD stage 3

[upbeat obsidian]

Highlight the text and select or right-click it and you can tag it as spoiler

[late scarab]

Hmm, it only gives me Spellcheck, Cut, Copy, Paste options

[upbeat obsidian]

My bad, if you are on PC, hover mouse, but don't click after highlighting.

[late scarab]

||test||

Thanks!

Guide to find all the Morkite in DD this week - Stage 3 - below

||First Room (43)
directly Southeast of cage, beside swarmer holes
above cage, high, northeast
Intermediate Room 1 (11)
In Southeast lower area of cave (left as you breach), in south/southwest wall beside a swarmer tunnel, ground level
Refuel Room (75)
Above Doretta, south, in the ceiling
Above Doretta, west, in the ceiling
Intermediate Room 2 (8)
Lower area of the room (northwest)
Heartstone Room (30)
Almost directly west of Heartstone (295), close to ground
Almost directly south of Heartstone (210), close to ground||

Sorry for the awful format but it's readable I think 🙂

[high garden]

Those leeches on 2nd stage edd are cheeky as hell

[karmic spade]

3rd mission in the EDD was insane, we barely did it.

[sage bison]

That last Morkite mission made me want a some sort of mineral scanner perk in the game.

[small hare]

3rd mission EDD has lots of.. "beef"

could say, its "bulky"

[chrome quiver]

So basically dark morkite might actually be helpful on this mission?

Cause usually dark morkite just causes an already large abundance of morkite to be a massive overabundance

[hushed sequoia]

very

i used 1 whole resupply pod just on scout flares only

[chrome quiver]

So no nitra issues?

[hushed sequoia]

actually more than that because i remember we had like 680 nitra and ended up with 380

nope

[dreamy dragon]

everyone talking about how they can't find the morkite in stage 3

but no one is thankful that it isn't stage 3 in edd

[chrome quiver]

I’m playing on a laptop and not my usual higher end pc, so I’m probably just gonna skip the EDD

Even though it looks pretty decent this week

[old widget]

We had very few actual elites for all the wave spawn opportunities on EDD S3

S3 cave layout is a mess though

[dreamy dragon]

why

lots of stinky or goo?

[old widget]

It’s like 50 garbled chunks of caves slapped together

Just hard to navigate, poor sight lines, lots of opportunity for driller to go nuts with shortcuts

Few good places to tank a wave with the team

[dreamy dragon]

how is it for an engi?

[old widget]

Hard to put distance between you and bugs, always a wall for bugs to crawl on at your flank/rear, so pretty rough for engi IMO

[crude mortar]

How is this weeks EDD? Is it the hell that was last week?

[dreamy dragon]

alright thanks for the spicy description andy

i'll report back when we've done it

[worn bramble]

bunkers are a very safe method for this edd

[hushed sequoia]

had 2 bulks spawn during stage 2 on the edd and we killed both of them fairly easily

1 exploder ran into us after shield depleted and killed everyone after fuel cells were at 80%

[normal lagoon]

Oof

[tough sun]

Dang. Stage 2 of the EDD is no joke

[dreamy dragon]

Did you have a bulk spawn?

[karmic spade]

yeah, stage 2 has a bulk

[dreamy dragon]

I mean that's random

Salvage and escort missions can make or break when you get a bulk spawn at the wrong time in the wrong place.

@rotund zodiac don't forget to leave a like and subscribe to Stern (EU) lol

#deep-dive-discussion message

[tough sun]

I had a bulk spawn in both stage 2 and 3

I cant remember if stage 2 had 1 or 2 bulks though. I think 1

[dreamy dragon]

yea having bulks spawn in salvage especially during the defending is never fun

[tough sun]

ours thankfully was before the defending

on stage 3, we had a bulk spawn not too far from pod

and stage 2 it was somewhere in that massive room

[dreamy dragon]

once in a salvage mission i had one spawn pretty much in my face, i couldn't even hear his groaning first which i usually always do and then i got bombed on my attempt to grapple away

then everything went outta control

[native pulsar]

3rd stage was a little difficult but somehow i managed it

killing the elites with breachcutter solo is like a breeze. Pretty fun edd for this week.

and get to meet the elite detonator, another thing to list down on my deep dive ptsd.

[bleak minnow]

Did anyone else find the normal DD for this week more difficult than usual? My bf and I were going through it and found it more challenging than previous weeks

[night dune]

I just finished the EDD and all I can say is that it was easier than the DD. Hunting down that morkite on stage 3 was such bullshit

also gave me fatboy >:)

[unique river]

any idea where I might find the last bit of morkite?

currently in a DD and need 13 more

[dreamy dragon]

scroll up a little till you see the large spoilered text, someone wrote a guide for people that struggle

[unique river]

ty!

[dreamy dragon]

np altho you might wanna thank Stern hehe

[unique river]

I found it in the ||refuel room||. impossible to see

[unique river]

thanks for this... spent probably 30 minutes searching for 13 morkite after we had completed everything else

[native pulsar]

Done with the DD, pretty easy like the previous DD

well it is expected but eh

[dark warren]

Is this week's DD bugged? there's not enough morkite that spawned

[bitter laurel]

HEY if anyone here has the steam name DUSN and you were my scout and I was a gunner, and we had a driller named "king kong did nothing wrong" we figured it out

DD is a bit glitchy and sometimes the drop pod button shows up near the start or the hearthstone, according to reddit.

BUT me and the driller found another vein of morkite on the cieling in spawn, and as soon as we finished that objective, the button appeared on molly

we were able to finish. If you play again, be aware of molly's button being really weird

sorry you missed out

We saved dotty for you

[dapper tundra]

am i the only one that struggled to find the morkite in the deep dive?

[lament summit]

doing this weeks DD

where hte fuck is the morkite

found it

god is dead

[opaque glacier]

@tough sun you think then dark morkite drink is best for this weeks DD then?

[tough sun]

Ye! if you can get it, its nice

[opaque glacier]

cool, thx

[wraith shard]

No and it took time to find it all. We almost missed the part in the last room that was hidden behind some taller growing plants.
With the buff beer it ain't such a hustle.

[dapper tundra]

it spawned in some bs spots tbh, my friend and i were lucky we went scout engie

[gleaming wren]

Alright so finished this weeks regular deepdive

morkite was pretty sparse but managed to find enough without wasting too much time on the third stage

overall took me just under an hour to finish

could probably shave off 15-20 minutes or so if I tried it again without dilly dallying in the 1st stage and now knowing where all the morkite in stage 3 is

Might actually try that after I sleep

well goodnight

[native pulsar]

hmm...usually its quite easy to find it on the normal deep dive third stage, I went in solo and managed to found all of them for like 7-9 minutes, usually after the drilldozer stopped at the heart stone, I would just go looking for the nearest ones then the ones which is the unexplored part of the cave that i never checked.

[tribal hull]

can't find the last 15 morkeit 😦 we have searched for 20 minutes

[tribal hull]

what is this spot ?

[gleaming wren]

yeah that's probably around the time it took me to find the morkite, now that I know where the morkite generally is, I can probably do it a lot faster

[gleaming wren]

there's 2 spots in the 1st cave, did you get those?

[tribal hull]

no we found 1

[gleaming wren]

there's one in the ceiling

and one right next to a swarmer tunnel

[tribal hull]

oh I count it wrong

we found this 2

[gleaming wren]

ah

hm

#deep-dive-discussion message

this mentions all the spots

should hopefully help

[tribal hull]

Ah I found it on the 3rd room

[gleaming wren]

nice

[tribal hull]

comeplete

[gleaming wren]

good job

[tardy pier]

Somebody did EDD Stage 2 on Steam yet?

[gleaming wren]

Not that I know of, plan on doing the EDD later though

[tardy pier]

Just watching devstream, them having trouble finding mule #3

[gleaming wren]

Hm, must be in a really weird spot then

[tardy pier]

They found it 😄

[gleaming wren]

nice

[keen raptor]

yeah stage 2 EDD was kinda mean
salvage + 2 broods + breeder + bulk + wacky world gen and the mules being in wierd spots

[severe tusk]

Still has to be better than last week's EDD's stage 2 😄

[keen raptor]

lmao

[native kelp]

hi yall, kinda new to this cord. for EDD's is there any pro to doing it with a party of 4 vs 3?

[burnt sandal]

not really, the game always scales up to player counts so it's basically the same thing

Also :

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/548430/extras/AboutThisGame_Top.gif

[vapid roost]

Honestly this week was much harder for us than last week, we wiped twice in the main room of the second stage, and got extremely close several times in third
3 total attempts, really fun tho loved the challenge

[bleak crown]

Just had the game crash on the last stage of the EDD. Never had a crash in over 300 hours of gameplay.

[severe tusk]

Having less players can help if nitra is low.

[wraith shard]

this week was a good one to take on in a pub for both dives. Had some high levels on the DD and some new guys on the EDD. Absolutely clobbered it. Sticky Fuel + axes made short work of the Elites on stage 3 EDD for anyone looking at a solid counter play to that issue.

[long birch]

That morkite in the last mission was a bitch to find with an engi

Solo, that is

[late scarab]

Aye - I did put up a guide on where to find it: #deep-dive-discussion message 🙂

[silk plover]

Thanks Stern, managed to find the last morkite vein just blending with the terrain.

[radiant obsidian]

Yea thanks for that write up stern, it helped me out too

[severe tusk]

Did the EDD on the first try with a good group. Was a bit of a bumpy ride with 2 bulks at the start of stage 3 and an elite bulk toward the end.

[tired yew]

Started the DD with 3 other guys, 2 left the game during the begining. The other guy and me aimed for the 40 min achievement. No way, it was 1 hr 18 min due to the morkite on the third stage.

[weak crown]

if u by chance dropped a supply drop on a vein of morkite

is it ruined?

[lament lance]

That last EDD, suddenly: ELITE BULK DETONATOR

😄

Eh, it died easy enough

Engi, yes

no worries, was a damn good run

Wins a win, and after " You will give me an E G G"

pain~~ peko~~ Dwarf

[old widget]

Yeah this DD is not the one to try that on

Refinery is also not all that fast

[lament lance]

Eggs and salvage ahoy

[old widget]

Yeah

[dry charm]

bloody hell the morkite for the last mission is so hard to find

[noble tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/asterix-obelix-prosterner-glisser-glissage-gif-15819245

I can finally go to bed

[chrome quiver]

Lol

[random falcon]

this helped a lot thank you :)

couldn't find the last bit until i saw this guide

[shell tendon]

VERY good guide, will say the morkite in heartstone room is a bit further west then directly south, i went directly south and took me a few mins to wander around far enough to find it. overall great guide tho

[crystal oyster]

i have a problem,my friend have the game in xboxapp and i i have in steam,how we can play together?

[next pebble]

you can't

only xbox and windows store copies have crossplay

[tired yew]

just failed theEDD twice in the exact same spot with two different teams, 2 hours wasted

in the last we used a bulk to nuke a bulk, that was sweet

[fallow gale]

What the HELL

Stern ❤️

[gleaming wren]

finally got around to running the EDD

managed to get through stage 1 without issue

stage 2 was pretty brutal with the spawns and the subpar holdout spots

ended up dying once to an acid spitter just as I finished the 2nd holdout

nearly died to the same acid spitter after getting revived by bosco

xD

3rd stage wasn't too bad

BET-C died surprisingly fast with bosco and I shooting it

the elite pratorians were quite painful though

overall I found it more difficult than the previous week

mostly due to stage 2 forcing me to hold out in two different cramped locations

Still, only 1 death for a blind run is pretty good I'd say

[fickle fox]

people be complaining about the morkite in dd s3..

just be glad it wasn't dystrum

though idk if you can get dystrum in a dd

[gleaming wren]

don't think I've ever seen dystrum in a dd now that you mentioned it

[dreamy dragon]

I mean dystrum is a secondary objective. Morkite is always a primary (in normal missions) so you won't ever see dystrum in deep dives.

[silent zinc]

On the normal DD, me and my friend were just mining minerals in the starting room when we noticed molly got stuck and wouldn’t move at all and just walked in place.

Literally couldn’t do anything.

Since the secondary objective is Morkite well we couldn’t really do anything, just 35-40 minutes down the drain is all.

[gleaming wren]

you can actually get molly out of it

it just requires a lot of leading around

and possible digging the area around her

[silent zinc]

Do you have to walk really far away and she follows or what?

[gleaming wren]

no you need to stay close-ish

and lead it a few steps at a time

[silent zinc]

Because she was literally floating walking in place, we got 200 meters away from here and still didn’t do anything.

We stuck around her for about 10 minutes before the drilldozer just trying to get her to walk.

[gleaming wren]

did you try making her sit?

[silent zinc]

She was floating and walking in place

So yes lol

[gleaming wren]

did you have a scout grapple up ontop of her and get her to sit that way?

if that didn't work then idk what else you could've done tbh

[silent zinc]

We were able to get on top of her either way, she was semi low to the ground, we dig underneath her, sat on top of her and tried to make her sit, walked around for awhile, went super far away, and she just stood there.

[gleaming wren]

damn

that's unfortunate

[silent zinc]

Let me clear up some clips and I can grab the screenshot.

[gleaming wren]

Sorry that happened

and alright

[silent zinc]

Nah it was just like 35-40 minutes down the drain is all, disappointing part was it was the last part and I don’t have any reason for the DDs besides blank cores and cosmetic cores lol

[gleaming wren]

ah

[frank moat]

where the hell is all the morkite in the regular deep dive stage 3...

[agile pilot]

i just had an 80 minute deep dive because we spent the last 40 minutes trying to find 50 god damn morkite

how long are deep dives supposed to take

because that was my first one

[gleaming wren]

If you're struggling, there's a guide further up that tells you where all the morkite is if you don't care to look for it all

[gleaming wren]

most usually take around 40-60 minutes, depending on how fast you are

a lot of people have been struggling with finding the morkite though

for this one

Mostly due to the fact that in the azure weald it's a lot harder to spot morkite in than the other biomes, and the morkite in this DD is very sparse on top of that

You basically have to find every vein to have enough

[frank moat]

thanks for the info - what a nightmare

[lofty coyote]

Just finished this weeks EDD, it is waaaaay easier than last week's! Stage 2 is thougher than the 2 others but still easier than last week's Stage 2!

[gleaming wren]

huh, I found this EDD harder than the previous one

I actually died on this one unlike the previous

though I think that was because I was a little careless with a slasher and got caught by an acid spitter in quick succession

[robust root]

How can I play with a friend when He has Steam and I have an Xbox Pc?

[gleaming wren]

sadly you can't I believe

[severe tusk]

Difficulty can change based on the number of people you take, as certain set pieces on the missions are different. When I did the EDD solo last week, there wen't as many spitballers on stage 2 as there were when I ran it with a team. Also, you still get random spawns, so one play through could be smooth and another one quite rough, like how 2 bulks spawned on my team soon after we got off the drop pod on stage 3 this week.

[keen shale]

how come EDDs are easier for me than normal DDs

like jesus DDs always have screwed up missions

[burnt sandal]

you can't, it's not a primary objectives

[burnt sandal]

you can't, there's no crossplay between steam and microsoft versions for now

[mild zenith]

I just did a deep dive, where the scout probably didnt deliver the 40 morkite, he had with him. spent another half an hour looking for the missing morkite with my mate until i found a hexagonal thing, i could pick up like a jadiz. and that thing actually had morkite in it. cant find anything online, what is that?

[burnt sandal]

that's a resource bag, it's left by players carrying resources when they are kicked/leave the game

[mild zenith]

ah ok

thats what i thought got us in that situation

[lucid trellis]

way way way down below

the final room after the bridge room

[strong sequoia]

also in the ceiling in the first room

[woeful bolt]

Ceiling of the first stop as well

[dusk heath]

so I have a question about deep dive spawns. I know the caves are the same, but are the enemies and random POIs (helmets, BETC) also the same, or are those random?

[high garden]

Helmets don’t spawn in deep dives
Betc is part of the map seed and so always the same

Leeches and huuli hoarders are part of the seed too

[woeful bolt]

Bulk Dets are random right?

[high garden]

Normal dets are
Crassus is part of the seed

[old widget]

BETC spawn (or not) in DDs is also affected by number of players. Sometimes you’ll see one with 4 players but not with 2 (and sometimes vice versa!)

[hybrid wyvern]

i gave up on this deep dive just for the morkite being such a pain to find

[vague urchin]

Is there enough morkite at the end of the normal deep dive?

[burnt sandal]

yes

[vague urchin]

Where please? Because we can't find it

stuck at 135/150

[burnt sandal]

I don't know but I know there's enough

The devs and many other people here managed to find it

[hushed sequoia]

@vague urchin

[vague urchin]

Thank You

[gritty fox]

even with the guide we were stuck at 136 for like 20 minutes, at least the bugs were nice enough to leave us alone

[west merlin]

Ooooh TIL! That's really good to know. I saw one being pinged yesterday but had no idea what it was

[hushed sequoia]

i think resource bags show up as yellow marks on the terrain scanner

[gritty fox]

OH that explains so much tbh. had a mission where it seemed like so many of them were spawning, thought we were just getting lucky or something, but it's because our scout kept disconnecting. now it makes sense lol

[west merlin]

Oh are the caves the exact same on a deep dive?
I've replayed the same normal mission once or twice and it had the same general setup but with different details