deep-dive-discussion

[burnt sandal]

yeah

deep dives are seeded

[hushed sequoia]

the caves are the exact same on deep dives and bet-cs are the same if you have the same amount of people

[west merlin]

Interesting, so a BET-C might spawn with 4 people but not 3, or something?

[hushed sequoia]

yes

or it could still spawn with 3 people and 4 people

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Or even spawn with 2 but /not/ with 4

(Which is counterintuitive)

[olive summit]

boys where the heck is the morkite in level 3 of the deep dive

[upbeat obsidian]

It's here. ^

[pliant plaza]

WHERE IS ALL THE MOROKITE on teh EDD 3rd stage

we need 2

[olive summit]

bless thank you

rock and stone

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Look up 2 messages

[upbeat obsidian]

He said EDD, though

[old widget]

Oh roit

[upbeat obsidian]

Even though the EDD doesn't have Morkite in stage 3, so idk 🤷‍♂️

[old widget]

Maybe a typo and he meant DD since everyone and their dog can’t find it

[upbeat obsidian]

Probably the case, but like you said, it's literally two lines above, so if he can't find that, he's never finding the morkite

[pliant plaza]

JUST SAW TH IANK YOU

caps

I mean DD not EDD

[robust loom]

Man, we got sniped by an elite trijaw and an elite menace right out of the drop pod. Brutal.

[severe tusk]

We got an elite bulk. Those things can move.

[robust loom]

Had to pop Iron Wills right away. But we started the third stage with like 500 nitra. We made it alright.

Oh yeah, they sure can zoom around.

[bright vigil]

what do you guys think is the best primary for driller?

[zinc coral]

Cryo. Even tho im a sticky flames main, i have to admit that cryo just contributes a lot more to the team

[tired yew]

6th failed attempt at EDD. Second stage is hell

[wraith shard]

What got you killed? My team got wiped during the fuel cells by a bulk. On the successful EDD we got lucky not to get a bulk in that stage of the mission where you are pinned in one place.

[tired yew]

fuel cells, always

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Can you fail the uplink/fuel cell primary objective if you leave the bubble for too long on a DD? I know a black box secondary can just be restarted if you fail, but is the same true for primary?

I guess most folks team wipe rather than leave long enough to find out

[wraith shard]

Nope if you leave and it goes to zero again you fail.

We failed because the bulk was taking a dump in the force field and killed anyone daring to stay inside.

[tired yew]

update: seventh fail

[wraith shard]

Hope you get lucky next try.

[gleaming wren]

redid the EDD with 2 friends

1st stage went by more easily than when I did it solo

2nd stage was easier as well until the end bit where we had several wardens and a bulk spawn

then it got pretty hellish

but we pulled through

3rd stage no BET-C spawn surprisingly

the beginning of stage 3 did get a bit crazy, but was otherwise fairly smooth

overall despite having more leeches, spitballers, wardens, and a bulk, it was actually easier than my solo

[severe tusk]

Our beginning of stage 3 got "two bulks at the same time" crazy 😄

[gleaming wren]

ooof

that's pretty wack xD

Did you manage to complete it though?

[severe tusk]

Yeah I was driller and panic drilled a way out, even though it wasn't pretty.

everyone but me went down, but I was able to get the gunner back up and we dealt with the bulks.

We had an elite bulk at the end too.

But we managed to win.

[gleaming wren]

wow

sounds really crazy

[wraith shard]

We don't care about pretty as long as the Job gets done.

• Deep rock Galactic

[gleaming wren]

good job on pulling through

[severe tusk]

Yeah, it was pretty damn tense. Definitely memorable. I had played pretty poorly the first two stages but was able to redeem myself a bit on the 3rd stage, so that felt good.

Thanks 😄

Normally I play gunner on EDDs. I don't feel as comfortable with the other classes.

[hushed sequoia]

terraforming is very good in the 2nd stage of the edd

driller made a very wide slope around the fuel cells and uplink and engineer closed off as many other caves as possible

[tired yew]

EDD 2nd stage impossible. I give up. 8th attempt failed.

[shadow shoal]

Was it really that bad?

[opaque glacier]

how so? you mean this week's edd?

[gleaming wren]

it's easier than last week's for most

[stuck bison]

Hello miners! I have a license for your game in incentive, can I play with my friend who has a pirated version of the game?

If I am not writing here, sorry, I do not see a channel for questions.

[opaque glacier]

yes, I think so too

[obtuse lynx]

Where morkite deep dive level 3

[gleaming wren]

#deep-dive-discussion message here

[random rampart]

There's like at least 10 units on the ceiling of spawn room

[random rampart]

PMs

[hallow heron]

Holy moley. Stage 2 of EDD is relentless.

Exploders. Bulks. Horrid terrain.

Gonna just call it for a week.

[merry geode]

any tips for elite ddeep dives?

I play gunner

[vale lintel]

avoid getting hit by bugs

if one gets close enough to hit you it's sometimes already enough to bring you down

also make sure you always have an escape plan should you need it, since gunner doesn't have movement abilities. The shield's good for that but has limited uses so it's best to have multiple options

[merry geode]

any perks you can reccomend?

[copper summit]

dash

[hazy comet]

dash+field medic is what i always run on gunner

as for loadouts, i like the neurotoxin flak cannon or a little more oomph minigun. i run the homemade powder bulldog for more average damage on praetorians/dreads

[tribal smelt]

^that's what I did it with, but six shooter bulldog instead

[hazy comet]

i stopped using six shooter after it got nerfed :(

[merry geode]

sadly I only have one OC the one that bounces on crits for the bulldog

[hazy comet]

thats not bad. better than nothing

how about brrt?

[old widget]

BRT lead spray also goes good with NTP AC

[hazy comet]

for brt i like lead spray and experimental rounds. both really good for spamming praetorian ass

[old widget]

That’s what I run nowadays as gunner in EDD, get the awesome crowd control from NTP AC and amazing burst DPS on single targets from BRT lead spray

[hazy comet]

imo brt is probably better in more scenarios but the bulldog is just satisfying to use for me and fulfills a power fantasy

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And as a bonus, NTP AC with fear…neuro the prats, they (sometimes) turn around and flee, BRT to the butt

[raven grove]

I do wish we had more massive damage OCs like fatboy, hyperprop, and elephant rounds

I wish I didn't have to choose between damage and ammo on C4. The utility of having 4 just vastly outclasses going for damage.

[radiant obsidian]

not if you're trying to kill a drednaught

that's the only time I change the build tbh

[raven grove]

Even for dreads. Apart from the hiveguard's "break his bits" minigame, C4 is better spent sculpting the arena.

[radiant obsidian]

nah damage c4 in combination with cryo is the fastest way to kill drednaughts in less phases

[raven grove]

Eh, I quit using C4 in combat on elim because it just wasn't very effective.

[radiant obsidian]

you can two phase a hiveguard with it

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I wish Strong Arm would let you throw C4 further

[long birch]

I just finished the EDD!

We got really lucky with both the uplink and the fuel drop

It dropped into the cave below, and all it took to make it doable was about a dozen or so platforms from me to close off one end

I felt it was overkill when I did it, but it worked perfectly

The third mission was even scarier though because of elite threat :S

I'm not really used to haz 5, so I was sure it was the end

WE HAD AN ELITE DETONATOR

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The only one of those I’ve ever encountered was in an escort mission, at the heartstone, but it spawned before we started the drill and the final cave was incredibly enormous so it was a non issue. Kinda sad, I was hoping for a more impressive showing from my first elite bulk

[spice timber]

Are morkite spawns random in the dive, or is stage 3 just UBER dry?

[uncut raptor]

they are seeded

so stage 3 is very dry, yes

unless you want nitra

[spice timber]

legit hardest part about the normal DD was stage 3 morkite. Took about 20% of the total time XD. We ended up revisiting mined patches for leftover crumbs.. - Said from a squad that oneshots EDD in 40min usually.

[zealous pond]

EDD wasn't terrible, but some terraforming was required in stage 2 to make the area around the pod more defensible. Engineer blocked off a tunnel with platforms and Driller flattened everything out so we had some nice killzones and c4ed some inconvenient outcrops.

Mostly it was just nice to have ammo again after last week

[bronze pecan]

crazy

just carried a team through edd today as cryo driller, hardest part was the uplink and nonstop swarms on stage 3, make sure to get 2 cryo driller and skip the scouts for easy speedrun

[uncut swan]

yo where is the morkite on the last mission of the deep dive

we're 2 short and can't find it anywhere

[zinc coral]

It was the opposite for us, we ran double scout lol

[radiant obsidian]

#deep-dive-discussion message

[bronze pecan]

Im sure everything works, just depends on the skillcap of the team right

[uncut swan]

thanks I found it next to the heartstone arena right after I asked lol

[zinc coral]

Yeah honestly when it comes to EDD, since everyone typically wants to run it (including people who dont normally play haz5), the individual players matter more pretty much

[leaden cypress]

It's all fun and games till the scout doesn't freaking know or understand how to place lights thus i have to do all the shit for morkite

in the dark

very cool

[severe tusk]

Just asking people to please put up some flares usually works.

[leaden cypress]

Believe me it's the 30th time i'm GENTLY asking him to place flares

Yet he doesn't do anything

he doesn't take nitra/morkite either

[feral atlas]

Ungently ask then.

[leaden cypress]

Did that too

didn't seem to work

[feral atlas]

Kick then.

[leaden cypress]

He's the host

[feral atlas]

leave instead of suffering

[severe tusk]

You never know exactly who you are playing with, could be a little kid.

[leaden cypress]

As if i could leave at stage 3

[feral atlas]

guage your chances of clearing map 3; if it doesn't seem high you'll be repeating the EDD anyways

[leaden cypress]

Anyway i finished the level myself since the other guys were as lazy as scout

[feral atlas]

otherwise, just bite your lip and get it done with, remember the name, and avoid him in the future

[vernal cairn]

anyone know if the floating rocks in escort missions have weakpoints? or if they take weakpoint damage at all?

like the big red ones that charge the dozer

[leaden cypress]

i don't think they do

however they can be slowed down with freeze & get killed pretty fast with embedded dets

[vernal cairn]

ah cool

[severe tusk]

Engineers can build a platform bridge over the drilldozer to protect it against them too.

[manic pivot]

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

[burnt sandal]

they don't have weak points

I can point you to a conversation in the wiki channel if you want to know the details

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They definitely do not. Worked through this with the lads in #wiki-related-chatroom this week

(But as a nice result, the rocks now have their own enemy write up on the wiki)

[willow sparrow]

mole pathing needs some serious work. it almost costed our deep dive in stage 3

we were in the first room and the mole somehow got stuck on the drilldozer platform

we managed to unstuck it using the eng platforms and had like, 50 seconds to get to the drop pod.. we entered the thing with 10 secs remaining

[bitter socket]

honestly just feels like there oughta be a safeguard where the pod opens at 10 seconds regardless of molle being present

[willow sparrow]

true that buddy..

[dreamy dragon]

In case this occurs, the player should attempt to reach the Drop Pod themselves since the M.U.L.E. will be forcefully teleported to the Drop Pod in the last 10 seconds.```

already is 🙂

[bitter socket]

👀

tmyk

[bitter socket]

where's this from, so i can point at it for my frens

[dreamy dragon]

from the wiki M.U.L.E. page

https://deeprockgalactic.fandom.com/wiki/M.U.L.E.

[bitter socket]

#patch-notes-steam message

^that was more what i was looking for, but i appreciate the information

[dreamy dragon]

nah i accept it. i've done a leaf lover move for showing an unofficial source. shame on me 😦

[willow sparrow]

oh, great! thanks for letting me know. rock and stone, gentlemen

[hard vine]

ugh, where the fuck is the morkite in stage 3 of DD

i found 5 and 7

still need 138 -.-

worst fucking side objective

[tired yew]

10th attempt failed on EDD. Always on second stage. I'm done.

[raven grove]

10? We beat that tonight on the first try. Thought it was pretty easy.

What are you struggling with?

[severe tusk]

No need to rub it in.

[dreamy dragon]

Let's not remind cortex of last week's edd hehe

[raven grove]

Yeah, I only tried last week's once, heh.

Dropping into stage 2 with zero ammo was just a non-starter.

[tired yew]

Fuel cells. Wardens and oppressors. Bulks are not even an issue.

[raven grove]

Hmm, I guess my team composition was ideal for that. We had a flame driller, carpet bomber gunner, m1k scout, and a breach cutter engi.

Between me and the gunner, swarms just melted, and the engi could wipe out opressors with ease

fuel cell dropped in a really convenient spot, too.

[tired yew]

I've tried the same exact configuration with each . Some teams were not good at all.

[raven grove]

Yep, a lot more greenbeards around lately.

Even in haz5

[hasty orchid]

honestly if you wanna carry, go iron will every time

it's an extra life for your team

[tired yew]

Even with iron will as a scout

[hasty orchid]

yep

just make sure to look up

[raven grove]

I took medic and berserker. Berserker is great when you're a flame driller and need to solo an opressor.

[hasty orchid]

oh man, you wanna talk about fun solo oppressor tech

zhukovs with explosive reload are disgusting against them

with the right mods a single clip does like 80-90% of their hp

also you're scout so getting to the weakpoint isn't too hard

i usually run hipster m1000 with it so I have actual waveclear though since ER has extreme ammo problems

[severe tusk]

I feel like dash is a better option than berzerker. It gets you behind bigger bugs quickly after they commit to their prolonged attacks. So you can power attack then throw a couple of axes to take them out quickly. Plus dash has a much lower cooldown and can be used defensively to save yourself frequently too.

[gleaming wren]

wait this is a thing?

Nice to know there's a failsafe in place for that

I always get half worried I'll fail a mission whenever Molly's pathfinding gets wonky

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Yeah, I’ve had it happen. Doors open even if molly isn’t there

Though the first time was quite a pleasant surprise, we were cursing the game for losing us a mission due to molly pathing bugs, and then the door opened

[gleaming wren]

nice xD

[buoyant wing]

got to the second defense in the edd and died

acid bastard and praetorian turned the inconvenient corner

heard about the morkite issues in the DD and immediately zoned in on the ceiling morkite but there was a surprisingly skint amount even on the lower parts of stage 3

[plain wharf]

had a very good deep DD run, stage 1 and 2 went well stage 3 took ages because morkite was so sparse

[vast sluice]

where's all the morkite?

[buoyant wing]

it's sparse enough that's there's barely enough in the level to do the quota

[vast sluice]

yeah, but like... where?

[buoyant wing]

I'm not a GPS, but the locations that stand out are the roofs of the beginning and end rooms and the second to last room has a small bit of morkite

[vast sluice]

this sucks

barely enough

[neat forum]

same here, we spent 15 minutes to find last ~15 morkite

the worst one was right behind stone, hidden in glowy flora. Masks shining morkite perfectly

[tough raptor]

so hum i'm stuck at the last stage of the deep dive we try found all morkite but we have just 120 morkite

anyone could help to located ?

we search the room and didn't find anything

or is completly worthless ?

well ? anyone ?

[tough raptor]

found it was really boring

[hard vine]

yah it's really stupid. they need to change how morkite spawns as the bonus objective. it shouldn't spawn so high up, or so just-barely-enough. for real morkite missions, the last room has spare. this seemed like it was exactly only 150

and unsurprisingly spawned more like oil shale, but you have like literally quadruple as much shale as you need

[uncut raptor]

it was just bad rng when the seed was generated

secondary morkite objectives usually have plenty of morkite to spare

[hard vine]

not that simple though, ive NEVER seen a real morkite mission that had distribution anything like that

i think its specific interaction of Escort mission with morkite secondary

that made it much worse

[uncut raptor]

this has happened before, i remember morkite being limited on a glacial strata DD a year back or so

i think what happens is some of the terrain/objects in the level overwrite morkite placement, meaning there is a lot less of it than there should be

like maybe the oil shale envelops some of the morkite spawns

again, this week was just bad rng and from what i can tell it doesn't happen too often

[hard vine]

ohh, yeah actually that amkes a lot of sense: i bet the last room has a bunch of morkite veins that were eaten by the omoron hearthstone. So the fix is just to push those veins out to the edge of the room. That would make sense why one of those omoron-adjacent veins is only 5 morkite

it was partially eaten by it

(but it's not JUST the seed that causes this, it's the rules themselves not accounting for spawn order/priority. you can write procedural rules that wouldn't be weak to this)

[green wadi]

my husband and I tried to do a deep dive last night for the first time. got to the second one before we died horrible deaths side by side lol gonna try and do it again after we bribe our eldest son to play (and promote his scout) with us.

[radiant obsidian]

dying side by side around a half mined nitra vein sounds really romantic tbh

[green wadi]

we had a swarm up on and were too complacent about ammo lol we died next to 2 recently dropped supply pods. lol may have to check my stream and see if maybe our boys were holding hands or trying to lol

[radiant obsidian]

Draw a heart in sticky flames to show your love next time

[viral tulip]

What if... what if we ||kissed|| in the sticky flames 😳

[radiant obsidian]

or arrange a load of corpses into "I love you and rock and stone" - something like this: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/no-survivors/

[green wadi]

lol if I had great video editing skills I could edit that p!it with that titanic theme. he iron willed and tried to save me and then just failed utterly

[azure fog]

having trouble finding morkite stage 3 on the normal deep dive?

we dont have even half

cant find anymore

[dapper tundra]

yeah that stage is bs, check for ceiling and behind plants

if you really cant find anything watch a video

[fresh plinth]

Lol took my group like 40mins to find the morkite it was awful. Its like super high on ceilings and stuff

[true surge]

how's the EDD this week?

[leaden cypress]

ez

[lofty dome]

it's terrible for me. i've played with 5 different teams and they all failed. no teamwork :<

all of em' failed specifically at the 2nd stage

[gentle wave]

just killed a 2 man dd

[gleaming wren]

Yeah 2nd stage is pretty hard if your team isn't coordinated

or if you played solo scout

[bright vigil]

Is the stubby any good?

[sage bison]

Are deep dives easier on solo?

[wraith shard]

Often, yes.

[gleaming wren]

generally, if your team can carry their weight, no, solo is harder than having a team, though there are a few exceptions

[wraith shard]

I should have led with "I play pubs"

[gleaming wren]

if you team cannot carry their weight however, it's probably going to be harder

[vale lintel]

well you trade unlimited potential revives and more targets to split the enemies between for more ammo for yourself and more coordination with your team (you being the whole team does that)

[wraith shard]

because Shell is correct.

More ammo, but less enemies too. And lower health on large enemies.

[gleaming wren]

To follow up on this, last week's EDD was considered easier solo than with a team, due to how hard it was for most people to get nitra

[dim wigeon]

Any advice for the morkite issue? I'm mid mission and only missing 2 so I can't search through everything like I normally would be able to

For a reposted question

[gleaming wren]

#deep-dive-discussion message

this has all the morkite locations for this weeks DD

it's very sparse this week

you pretty much have to find every vein

[uncut raptor]

dark morkite is very much recommended

not necessary, but it'll help you not waste time

[calm sequoia]

Hello fellow Miners! What's this week's EDD like, and what do I need to look out for, please? Thanks and Rock and Stone

[vale lintel]

I didn't have much issue with it, as scout just went back after the rock wave of the ommoran fight to track it down in the penultimate chamber

I must say, it was easier than it was built up to be getting all the morkite

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Honestly I thought it was just a H5 in a spicy couple of caves. Cavegen was biggest challenge for us, always a spot for a speedy grunt to flank you from above/side/behind and few good places to tank/kite a swarm

Gobs of nitra

Elite RNG was kind to us too, we had almost no elites spawn

[calm sequoia]

Ok thanks everyone I'll bare that mind

[gleaming wren]

biggest thing to worry about is stage 2, it's a salvage mission with bad spawns for both the uplink and the charger

and the area in general it very vertical

[calm sequoia]

Yeah I died earlier to the brood nexus cluster

[gleaming wren]

and the whole EDD in general is often close quarters

[gleaming wren]

rip, those brood nexus can be a pain if you aren't ready for them

[calm sequoia]

Yeah 😭

[burnt sandal]

elite spawns are limited by 2 at the same time and limited in number of spawns as well by waves

they aren't really numerous

[old widget]

interesting, didn't know that

2 total alive elite things for the whole map?

I've only done a handful of elite threat missions overall (probably less than 10 since U34-hotfix-whatever dropped), but I feel like other H5 elite threat missions spawned a lot more elites than our run at this week's EDD

[burnt sandal]

at the same time yeah

[radiant obsidian]

elite menaces - what is their gimmick? just more health?

[odd comet]

More damage

[sage bison]

EDD took me 4 tries with random lobbies. We were lucky on the last stage. No elite detonators spawned. Second stage was pain tho

[mint zodiac]

more health, damage, and they bury more often

[burnt sandal]

"Elite enemies are stronger variants of some regular enemies that can only spawn with the Elite Threat warning.
They resist more damage, more statuses, and move faster, as well as other bonuses, including different behavior for some. Elite enemies can be distinguished from regular enemies by their larger size, distinct aura of vertical red lines, and "Elite" title above their health bar and name when looked at. "

[radiant obsidian]

sure, but they each have a gimmick too, and I wasn't sure what the elite menace did differently

thanks those who replied

[burnt sandal]

Oh sorry, I completely missed the menace bit.
Yeah they just bury more often

[shrewd drift]

i just finished elite with a group and we got around 2000 kills total i still see the bugs swarming the fuel cells

[gleaming wren]

Actually, I believe the elite menace doesn't do any more damage than a normal menace, but infact shoot at a much faster rate

[upbeat obsidian]

I just failed stage 2 because I got forced out of the fuel uplink by an Oppressor and just couldn't get back in. Stage 2 in the EDD is fun, but very fiddly with irritating cave gen. Fun to explore, hard to get around.
I found all of the cave leeches from super far away just because my cursor was over them shooting grunts/wardens

[bright vigil]

do you guys know where the morkite is in this weeks normal deep dive?

omg help

[wraith shard]

@bright vigil Yeah, this week's DD was kind of a dick move. This guy helped out:
#deep-dive-discussion message

[bright vigil]

Omg thanks a lot

[west merlin]

Yeah that guide was essential.

The morkite in the starting room is like... next to the hole the droppod made, or maybe the hole Doretta made

Waaaaay up on the ceiling, I needed to use 4 platforms for our Scout to reach it

[bright vigil]

We actually spent 30 mins looking for morkite

And it turns out it was on the ceiling of room 3

[west merlin]

Ooof.
I just opened up this Discord and searched "in: Deep-dive-discussion Morkite" within literally 30 seconds of us finishing the dozer and seeing we only had 14 out of 150 because a friend had heard on Reddit that it was awful

It was still incredibly painful

[severe tusk]

My team must have had eagle eyes because we had all the morkite we needed by the time the drilldozer reached the ommoran heartstone.

[stiff tulip]

Where the fcuk are the morkite veins on DD stage 3? I spent a good 10 minutes running back to the spawn and heartstone and I could never find the last 30 morkite needed to finish

oh dammit 😂 nvm I can't read lol

[wraith shard]

on DD stage 3, It took forever to find the morkite, literally hidden in the vines

[west merlin]

That's insane but I guess your Scout was doing a great job with the flares.
Are you sure nobody on your team had already done that level before?

Or was any of them checking a list as they went along?

[upbeat obsidian]

I get the feeling a lot of teams are missing one of the large veins of Mork, so they're scrambling to get all the small ones to finish up. I ran the DD, and we basically had 150 from three large veins of ore in the starting room, the dozer room, and one halfway, and didn't have to hunt around. Didn't have Dark Morkite, and had not even been looking especially hard, because we'd expected to have to search with a fine-toothed comb because of all the people struggling...

[woeful bolt]

Most people, myself included, only found two veins in the starting room

[wraith shard]

I did the DD with randoms and we too had it all relatively early. Once the Dozer was done we were leaving.

[flat terrace]

i know it's late but isit possible to pin this next time?

[wraith shard]

it do be pinned/

[flat terrace]

🤔 the last one was in april though, at least what i see from my side of the pinned message

[wraith shard]

Muffin changes the pin every week

Look at the objectives and dive titles. It's the same

[severe tusk]

I did the Deep Dive almost as soon as it released, so I doubt anyone on my team had already done it, and it was before the guy wrote the guide for finding the morkite.

[flat terrace]

ah okay

thanks for clarifying

[undone geode]

what would be the best team comp for the EDD?
im going with two of my friends, we're gonna try to beat one for the first time
one of them has a driller promoted, one has a scout and engineer promoted, and I have driller and scout promoted
which dwarves should we play as?

[leaden cypress]

driller/engi/scout is fine

[undone geode]

cool 👍

[shrewd drift]

look out for stage 2 its a long one and its really tough

my group used up like 4-5 resupplies that stage

we still felt low on ammo

[raven grove]

Uplink will be rough without a gunner, but I don’t think you can forego any other class either

[ashen patrol]

need driller to clear the area and u need engi to cover the refuel when it spawns in that pit

[west merlin]

That's weird; if the guide is to be believed there's only about 167 Morkite or so in the whole map total. Maybe there's a large vein or two they missed while writing the guide.

[upbeat obsidian]

Yes, I suspect most or many players are missing a big vein.

[west merlin]

My team searched the starting, refuel and final room as we went through them and searched them on the way back as I was checking the guide, we only found 3-4 veins that way and I pretty sure all the ones we found were mentioned in the guide

[upbeat obsidian]

It's also possible that because of the lighting/colour palette of Azure/Foliage, people are finding the veins, but only mining part of them, as well. It would be significant if you mine sloppily and miss 10 Mork from a big vein.

[wraith shard]

That's my guess, some mining isn't being completely.

[upbeat obsidian]

TBH, I was surprised at the start of the week's rotation when people started struggling with the Morkite by such a majority, because the game is really good about pretty well always spawning far more of any resource than you need, apart from one-off ones like eggs and mules

[undone geode]

I hate bulk detonators
me and my friends attempted the EDD twice
both times, we got through the first level in under twenty minutes, with basically full health and ammo, and only one resupply used
both times, a bulk detonator spawned in the second level, and in the process of killing it, all of our Iron Will's were lost
the first time, we died literally as the droppod doors were opening
the second time, a SECOND BULK dug into our kill-bunker and ended us all in one hit

[hazy comet]

kill-bunker
found your issue.

you need to spot them before they get close and dps them down

this means not bunkering

[upbeat obsidian]

Yeah, the bunker is to blame for that, not the Bulk. Especially if you are bunkering when you already have died to a bulk in the same stage

[undone geode]

i didnt expect there to be a second

[upbeat obsidian]

Once one bulk spawns, if it isn't a Crassus, another one can always spawn. It's in your spawn pool

[undone geode]

ok

[hazy comet]

bulks can spawn at literally any point in the game a special can spawn

which is pretty much always

[upbeat obsidian]

They're fairly rare, but once you have seen one, it's a good idea to always expect another one, and just be happy if it doesn't appear

[undone geode]

good to know

thanks

[upbeat obsidian]

I could be misunderstanding a mechanic too, but once you have seen 6 different enemy types that can be part of the spawn pool (ie. mactera, menace, etc; not leeches or spitballers that spawn with the level) you know that a bulk isn't one of your possible spawns so you can not expect one.

[void moss]

the "Ricochet interacts with the Blowthrough mechanic." can allow you to hit how many ennemy at max ?

[hazy comet]

this is probably a question for #drg-chat or #wiki-related-chatroom

[void moss]

shit yeah realize that a bit to late

[fickle fox]

I swear to god the edd is so hard. Bulks EVERYWHERE

2 bulks back to back on the salvage

what the fuck am I supposed to do?

[hazy comet]

my pub group just used scout's IFG + electric smg from engi + neurotoxin autocannon gunner to slow the hell out of them as they spawned and they basically just exploded far away before they could do anything

if they get closer you can freeze them as they explode so they cant do anything or use gunner shield to protect from the projectiles on death. or a combination of both

[raven grove]

Lead Spray kills them real fast, too.

[finite vigil]

oof, H5.5 elite threat.

[uncut raptor]

it's not so bad

then again we didn't get nasty spawns

[sudden spade]

where is the morkite in the regular deep dive this week wtf, weve looked everywhere in this drilling mission and have found 44

[upbeat obsidian]

big to the guys I just did the EDD with. Felt like a regular mission into haz 3 with a solid crew.

[round ridge]

Are there boss in this game?

[short charm]

Yeah as soon as you hear the deep, almost laugh-like gurgle from a distant Bulk, you need to have a plan in place. Play the game long enough and you'll immediately know what to do. Bulks typically target one person at a time so its always possible to pull them away from the uplink/fuel zone. I generally play as Scout and many times I've been able to leave the field, toss an IFG and deal with the Bulk long before it gets to the rest of the group. If it gets close, cryo, neuro, electric slow, use bait to pull it away, or focus it down and try to time the cryo freeze well enough to make it explode when frozen. This is not easy with randoms, but with enough experienced people, everybody will catch on pretty quick and focus it down at the appropriate time.

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is now booting up, 24 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[ashen ocean]

Hey Mission Control what do they need those eggs for anyway?

[dreamy star]

Anyone else struggling to find the morkite needed for the last stage of the normal DD?

[woeful bolt]

There's a guide somewhere in here

Try a search

[dreamy star]

Thanks, this one was horrible

almost spent an hour with a friend just running around aimlessly trying to find it

[chilly pewter]

i played it 2 times the first time i struggelt too but in the second one i hade dark morkite and it was ez

[finite vigil]

lmao I have his sound as El Risitas laughing

[finite vigil]

cool, first bulk on stage 2 and I end up picking the worst possible place to bunker.

ya know, the bit that has one of the mini Mules and goes up, but a bit below it pinches in

feels like the bugs can spawn from that bit and are able to sneak up

[slow cave]

morkite behind the heartstone screwed me for like 20 minutes 😅

[woeful bolt]

Wow, you guys weren't kidding about EDD stage 2 lol

3 manned it and it was the first EDD for the other two. We pulled through though thanks to RJ250 coming in super clutch

[finite vigil]

phew, second time lucky

bulk spawned after the defence wave ended

[short charm]

Think I did this one like, half drunk or something, I had a couple of beers and kind of just cruised through it. My own down was to a leech on the final stage or so, thought my teammates had my back but they all turned down some other path at the last second and didnt hear my cries. 😦 https://i.imgur.com/ypG6cpI.jpg

[faint crown]

Is the guide for the Morkite pinned?

[woeful bolt]

No

[severe owl]

i cant find the morkite on stage 3 of the regular deep dive

[severe owl]

i ended up spending an hour on it because of the fucking morkite

[marble merlin]

dude elite deep dives suck

holy hell

[old widget]

#deep-dive-discussion message

[fickle parcel]

where the hell is the damn morkite on stage 3?

[woeful bolt]

Stage 2 was a bit rougher than normal but I had a lot of fun

[woeful bolt]

Search here for a guide. Check ceilings and corners

[wraith shard]

after this weeks morkite, I'm expecting a lethal doretta tomorrow. Here comes the pain

[burnt sandal]

yes

[wraith shard]

had no issues with the morkite, but the larger base did

man I don't like doing doretta dives unless it's stage 1 or 3 of the EDD

DD doesn't matter

[upbeat obsidian]

I know people don't like Escort missions in general missions, because they take longer, but getting Escort in any DD feels like a free stage. The cave gen is almost always easer/safer than some of the random BS other missions can give you. 3-5 caves in a straight line, connected in a linear way, and all you have to do is hold on and shoot for 75% of the mission takes so much potential trouble out of a mission.

[raven grove]

But it’s boring

[hushed sequoia]

cant wait for the 3 escort duty edd

[wraith shard]

because escort missions in most games, are not fun. I have all of the weapon OCs so I do the dives for kicks. Dozer is done out of obligation, not for kicks.

[uncut raptor]

plus if you get escort as the first mission it makes it a slog to replay, especially if you're retrying the dive after a failed attempt

[manic wharf]

Thanks for the guide Stern, couldn't find that last bit of morkite

[spiral gorge]

You are a hero man, been stuck on this last misson for an hour.

[distant mural]

DUDE I HATE THAT

we spent like 20 minutes looking for it

[latent steppe]

just started first level of EDD, a swarm shows up and a bloody dreadnought spawns

[burnt sandal]

oof

that's no luck

[manic pivot]

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

I still haven’t done either

Sad

[uncut raptor]

better get a move on and do them asap

[chrome quiver]

Probably only have time for one

Which means DD cause I’m more likely to not fail that first try

[wraith shard]

bruh where tf is the morkite

doing deep dive not elite

[upbeat obsidian]

Scroll up, there's a guide that has been replied and linked a ton of times

[wraith shard]

scre deep dives this isn't worth it

we were well on our way to finishing in under 45 minutes and now it's been almost 2 hours wtf

we're wasted so much time looking for the morkite and i swear we've checked every last corner and ceiling

wtffff

our scout has been all over too

glitched map?

maybe the morkite is under the ground

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

i just aborted the mission. Unbelievable

what a waste of time

deep dives suck

we need to be able to upgrade our terrain scanners to see ores on the map

i bet a bunch of morkite glitched under the map or was covered by grass or something so it was impossible to see

stupid

[upbeat obsidian]

There is literally a guide in this chat if you just scroll up and read, or search. Shame you gave up though

[wraith shard]

i scrolled up and it's just people complaining about the same thing

unless it's really far up but i'm not gonna waste time going all the way up there

i only have so much time to play, so it's frustrating when stuff like this happens smh

[unborn acorn]

It's kinda a shame how the normal deep dive was treated this week

3 longest mission types

and that morkite annoyance on the last one ontop of it being that mission type

got it done but man it wasnt that fun

[buoyant wing]

did it twice since a friend felt like doing it and felt like playing "everywhere at the end of time" trying to remember where that damn morkite was

there was some in a second patch I missed at the heartstone that I effortlessly rammed into last time

[wraith shard]

i saw the patch behind the heartstone but still it wasn't enough

we were stuck at 121/150

so infuriating

[unborn acorn]

lots were on the ceiling

there was one directly at spawn

[wraith shard]

we checked the ceilings too

hmm

we might have missed the one at the spawn oof

so infuriating reeeeeeee

why can't ores appear on the terrain scanner

it is a scanner after all

[buoyant wing]

anyway the guide's still there #deep-dive-discussion message

[wraith shard]

oh

if i quit during a deep dive mission, do i have to start all over, or can i continue from the most recent mission?

[covert plaza]

ofc you gotta start all over

its an all in one package

[molten surge]

where morkite at in the third mission?

unreal

why is it so goddamn invisible as well

[warm light]

It's GSG having a laugh.

[molten surge]

dumb as fuck

talking about respecting one's time

from what I've noticed half of one stack got eaten by those hole spawns

[covert plaza]

it cant get eaten

the map layout is the same for everyone

[radiant obsidian]

you just missed it sorry, it's definitely there

[floral flax]

thinking about buying but not sure,feedback to sway me?

[void moss]

rock and stone !

[floral flax]

wym

[void moss]

it's a saying in a game, like lok'tar ogar in WoW

[floral flax]

oh ok

[void moss]

it's a real good game tbh, if you played Payday 2 or some other coop game you'll def have a blast

[floral flax]

it got like a search option in case you have no friends and like playing with randos?

[void moss]

yeah you get a search list to play multi

and the game difficulty scale to the n° of players

[floral flax]

oki

thx 😉

[neat forum]

we need a bot for this week that will post link to the guide after it sees word "morkite"

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[uncut raptor]

Alright, speculation time

Will we see the fabled triple escort in magma core for the edd?

[dreamy dragon]

one with parasites, one with lethal enemies and the other with swarmageddon, lets go

[uncut raptor]

Morkite secondaries with sparse morkite too

Hidden behind the ridges in the tall ceilings

[radiant obsidian]

the only thing you can be sure of is people will complain whatever it is

[high garden]

10 aquarks in all 3 stages

[covert plaza]

second obj is elimination

[uncut raptor]

triple twins

[copper summit]

gentlemen are you ready for the deep dives

[uncut raptor]

ready for pain and suffering, yes

[manic pivot]

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

[uncut raptor]

will do the DD now and post the stages shortly

[copper summit]

salty biome and radioactive biome

hmm

[covert plaza]

muffin report incoming

[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Salt Pits | Code Name: Corroded Ceiling
Stage 1: 225 morkite + 2 M.U.L.E.s | Critical Weakness Mactera Plague
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + 2 M.U.L.E.s | No Mutators!
Stage 3: Protect the Drilldozer + 2 Eggs | Regenerative Bugs

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Radioactive Exclusion Zone | Code Name: Stale Nest
Stage 1: 200 Morkite + 2 Eggs | Low Oxygen
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + 2 M.U.L.E.s | Elite Threat
Stage 3: 10 Aquarq + Dreadnought Twins | No Mutators!

[dreamy dragon]

Mactera plague in the basic dd lol

[radiant obsidian]

why is that a lol?

[dreamy dragon]

Dodged the bullet moment. Just amusing to see it be in dd instead of edd. And then with another critical weakness on top of it.

Reminds me of last week when the dd looked all hellish and most people seemed to have problems with that one but then you realize oh, it's just the dd

[uncut raptor]

second stage of DD is 6 eggs + 2 mules, no mutators

both mules for stage 1 are at the very end of the cave

[dreamy dragon]

Another egg mule elite threat pog

[uncut raptor]

final stage of DD is escort + 2 eggs and regen bugs

EDD doesn't look so bad tbh

[covert plaza]

o no

point extraction with twins

[uncut raptor]

i think doretta skips a room just before the heartstone

[severe tusk]

We really need to address management's obsession with alien eggs.

[lyric schooner]

wow im about to give up on the 3rd mission of the normal deep dive

144/150 morkite

[uncut raptor]

?

[lyric schooner]

i just cant find any man lol

[uncut raptor]

you're doing last week's now?

[lyric schooner]

yes

[quiet mortar]

There is some in the first room I believe, in the ceiling

[lyric schooner]

im literally using nukes for lighting

[quiet mortar]

Did you not bring Bosco lol

[lyric schooner]

no i did but im using both lol

[quiet mortar]

Ah lol

[lyric schooner]

k well apparently i just shot some out of the ceiling with a nuke cause 6 just landed in my lap

[copper summit]

this dd has well over 1000 nitra

[pale dust]

10 Aquarqs & Twins 🤔 Hope the Driller is fast

[fluid sun]

Damn, no escort

[pale dust]

😰 I'm doing my best to build a bridge

One day.. I hope to get over it

Do the bug spawns still occur after the minehead has been recalled/retrieved?

[cobalt fiber]

Does the swarm spawn if dread is a secondary objective? It used to be the case. If it is still, the dread needs to be killed ASAP in the last stage of the EDD.

Can anyone confirm/deny this?

[keen raptor]

i think it still is the case, it happened a few weeks back for a lot of people and i dont believe the game received an update since however im not eager to test lmao

[old widget]

Yes, it’s basically infinite swarms in fact after minehead has been recalled, in fact this happens before launch but after completing objective on a normal mission. Not sure how it behaves on DD/EDD if you haven’t completed secondary though, since you can’t launch a primary PE/refinery without doing the secondary

[severe pasture]

can someone confirm if placing the aquards in the minehead increases the wave spawn or it is purely mission time based? I read somewhere that its worth trying to gather all the aquards but dont put them in minehead until ready to leave

[dreamy dragon]

That's a myth. All based on time.

[old widget]

All discussions on this discord I have seen on the topic indicate that the increasing frequency of swarms is time based. Someone even calculated at what point in time you hit nonstop swarms on various haz

[severe pasture]

alright thnx, then i'll probably tell me team to fight the dreads while i haul ass on the aquards as driller then

[dreamy dragon]

I'd be careful

They might still target you when you're not looking

[pale dust]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. If we've got to take out the Twins during infinite swarms..

..gonna be tricksy

[dreamy dragon]

I recommend doing normal stuff until first official wave spawns, fight it off and then trigger the bossfight

[severe pasture]

its the same radioactive zone, i hope they dont give us the same map as last time where the aquards are very far below the minehead. I still remember that struggle to this day.

[old widget]

Different random seed each week even if biome is the same, so while it may be hell, it will at least be fresh hell

[severe pasture]

ok cool. its just that i've had quite a few deja vu moments seeing some same maps and chambers in normal missions.

[copper summit]

did anyone beat the edd here

[old widget]

There are many prefabricated sections of caves that can show up

I see the big 2-level “walking on a log” prefab at least a couple times a week when playing, for example, and there’s a huge pentagon-shaped prefab that shows up in REZ biome and a couple others I think.

[dreamy dragon]

ah yes the walking on a log one was it part of any dd last week?

[old widget]

I think it was

[dreamy dragon]

i remember i played on such a map recently

i think it was stage 1 from edd

[old widget]

Yeah, I think so

[dreamy dragon]

7 - 9 weeks ago we had a similar one but in hollow bough

[severe pasture]

the big dead end room with 'log' in the middle? I quite like that layout, seen it maybe 3 times

[dreamy dragon]

the log which is like a cross leading to 4 directions

[old widget]

Not always a dead end, but yeah. Two levels, log on top, usually (maybe always?) a cross as ICH said

[dreamy dragon]

if you fall down, gl with the swarm if ure not a scout or perhaps driller

yooo andy

[old widget]

Now I want to start cataloging the prefabs

[dreamy dragon]

i just checked a video of last weeks edd

i was right, first stage of the edd in fungus bogs had that one

[old widget]

Right on

[dreamy dragon]

maybe that's why you remembered it xD

[old widget]

Yeah I remembered running into it with our EDD crew last week so glad I’m not having memory problems (yet)

We also did the DD and a couple of random missions though so wasn’t sure where we saw it

[dreamy dragon]

I've reached a point where i kinda don't want to do the basic dd anymore lol

Last one made me tired

[cobalt fiber]

I think it was Azure Weald. Same thing, aquarks + dread and man was it tough.

[raven grove]

Last one was made easier by us knowing what was coming from the discussion in here. Found the morkite without too much trouble

[dreamy dragon]

Same. Didn't even check the guide. But i did read some comments in here talking about how there is morkite on the ceiling in the start room and some behind the ommoran

[old widget]

Our crew usually does the DD as a wind down after the EDD, though our scout likes it spicy and will try to maximize the pain by e.g. popping two egg swarms then popping dread eggs. It’s a good time generally. Last week’s morkite was legit BS though

[dreamy dragon]

After the edd sounds like a good idea

[old widget]

Yeah, I like that sequence better

[dreamy dragon]

We keep doing dd first cuz like, the easy and boring stuff outta the way first

or before we became better it was always dd first and then we'll see if we can manage the edd

[old widget]

Definitely valid

EDD first also gives you a little more time/stamina for retries

[dreamy dragon]

Yea if not, tomorrow is another day. Now that i think about it, we usually do dd first and then 2 or 3 of the core hunt and then whatever or calling it for the night. And the edd then on another day

[old widget]

That would probably be ideal

Our crew has pretty diverse schedules (not helped by half of us in US and half in EU) so we tend to just marathon it when we agree on a time

[dreamy dragon]

Starting DD and then going right into edd sounds kinda...wack now that i think about it. From chilling and not paying attention (dd) to max focus and sweat (edd) all suddenly can go bad.

[dreamy dragon]

You guys from US and EU playing together and not having any bad ping issues?

[old widget]

Yeah, I mean warmup is a thing, but I’m not sure DD is a good warmup for EDD. Maybe a haz5 warmup w/warning

[woeful bolt]

I've had some minor issues but nothing unplayable

[old widget]

Remarkably, no. I host so I get all the goodness, but we’ve tried several hosting permutations and I seem to produce the lowest average team ping. Our EU folks generally sit at 160ms and do fine.

[dreamy dragon]

Did 2 hazard 5 missions as warm up before the last edd and i can say, was not a bad idea. I'm glad tho i didn't start the edd right after the dd. God did it make me sleepy xD. All the long missions in the dd meanwhile edd has just morkite and eggs and a few mules

[old widget]

Higher ping isn’t so bad in DRG as long as you don’t also have intermittent packet loss / high ping variability (jitter)

[dreamy dragon]

BUT i don't wanna complain haha. After all we did have edd weeks constantly filled with drilldozer

also good to know. I keep hearing grappling hook delay and what not when people play with others from far away.

[old widget]

Yeah, that delay is real, I personally have trouble with scout specifically on higher ping games. Oddly our scout is EU and rocks it so maybe he’s just well calibrated IDK

[dreamy dragon]

or adapted to the delay lmao

[cunning thistle]

#drg-chat

[severe pasture]

yeah last night i was playing as scout and i click on the grapple hook to avoid falling from death. The hook didnt fire immediately but at that time, i had already thought i miss clicked and let go of the button and fell to my death

[wraith shard]

that EDD stage 3 is gonna be fun

[old widget]

at least the low O2 isn't on stage 3

[wraith shard]

I mean that honestly. The PE/Dread combo is probably my favorite PE set up. It's either a quick win or quick loss.

Rather have that than dozer

But, it kind of pushes toward Cryo. Sad about that.

[timid merlin]

Absolute madlad on EDD stage 3, first thing he does before we clear the room is activate the dreadnoughts

[wraith shard]

I would do that first, too tbh.

beat them before the first swarm so the ambient swarm is at its lowest.

[timid merlin]

Yeah I mean I'd do them before anything else but we could at the very least clear the initial spawns first and a drop pod

[wraith shard]

Ah I see what you mean

[timid merlin]

Dunno if it's random but we got the cursed twins too

[woeful bolt]

It's not random

[timid merlin]

good to know

[wraith shard]

rather them than the OG, but ymmv. HG is the easiest for everyone else?

[woeful bolt]

Yeah I think HG is the easiest. I actually prefer OG to twins though

[timid merlin]

Same, I hate their healing

[uncut raptor]

if they didn't heal so much i wouldn't mind the twins

[woeful bolt]

They won't heal if you keep their HP close to each other

But I hate the burrowing and projectiles

[uncut raptor]

i can deal with the burrowing since there is time to avoid it

but the one that launches the bombs from the ceiling give you no time to react sometimes

if it was slightly longer it'd be fine

like even the OG dread's slam AOE attack can be dodged if you're quick enough since that can come out fast

but it feels fair because you can see and hear it just before it happens

[pale dust]

They do at it at least once, but otherwise yes

[warm light]

wow I have to say that this EDD is absolute fucking garbage

[sudden mortar]

what does that mean

[warm light]

Twins on an aquarq mission where enemies do not fucking stop spawning

[sudden mortar]

sounds like neuro gunner time

[warm light]

How does killing them slowly solve an immediate and constant problem?

[uncut raptor]

kill the twins asap

then get the aquarq

[warm light]

Just tried that

near instant wipe

[wraith shard]

Just have to blitz the welcome party and then do the twins in under 5 minutes or so.

cryo, hyper, minigun, and cryo grenades on each class will make short work of even the H5.5 Twins if everyone is aggressive on managing the health.

[raven grove]

I love me some berserker for twins

[wraith shard]

that too

[keen raptor]

although i was solo engi, i completed EDD stage 3 by clearing all the enemies and having bosco grab some aquarqs, then the second that the first announced wave is finished, i spawned and killed the twins. idk if i killed the twins kinda slow or smth but there was another wave almost directly after lol, but you should have enough nitra for a lot of resupplies

[short charm]

Oh yay, game crashed on stage 3. Fucks sake.

The crashes have been rather plentiful in the latest version.

[severe pasture]

i thought it was just me

because i just updated windows to that 21h1 update, got a blue screen playing the game, then 2 more crash reports between now and then

[woeful bolt]

I've never crashed, every PC is different though

[warm light]

Did it on my fourth attempt

Finally found the right dwarves to do it with, the swarm started spawning just as the twins were almost dead

It was touch and fucking go multiple times during that fight, but the second the arbalest when down I knew it was in the bag.

[wraith shard]

doretta can erase ores as she mines, so maybe some morkite is in her path and it just gets erased from existence. what a joke

[void moss]

DD is chill this week

like the mule obj is ezpz

[burnt sandal]

the minerals are uprooted and fall of the ground, they are not erased

[wraith shard]

oh ok

[keen bronze]

edd sucks

twins haz 5.5 can suck my dwarven gunk seeds

[errant dew]

Did anyone else find the... secret chamber above the omorran heartstone?

[warm light]

the what now?

[errant dew]

I'd post a pic if I could but right above the cave where the heartstone is there's an unconnected big chamber

[uncut raptor]

i posted it earlier in #drg-gallery

[errant dew]

Did yours have a single brood nexus and like 90000000 swarmers?

[uncut raptor]

oh i didn't go in there so i wouldn't know

i realised there was an unconnected cave shown on the terrain scanner, and i assumed doretta was supposed to go into it

[burnt sandal]

doretta don't go through every room in escort

some of them are left unexplored

[errant dew]

It only took like 10 seconds to dig up into it so we checked it out

nothing in there but swarmers and death

[uncut raptor]

good thing i skipped it then

[errant dew]

also enjoyed doretta mining through one of the eggs lol

[wraith shard]

is this edd hard?

[uncut raptor]

as tough as they usually are, but people have been saying last stage sucks because of the twins + point extraction combo

just try and kill the twins asap

[warm light]

Very

Bring your A+++ game for this week's EDD

[wraith shard]

ah crap

okay

[warm light]

Stage 1 is alright, grab a couple eggs and mine some morkite.

[wraith shard]

whats stage 3's missions?

assuming it has a dn?

[warm light]

Stage 2 can get pretty hairy, six eggs, two mules, hard part is the elites.

Stage 3

[wraith shard]

ahhh okay

[warm light]

Kill the Twins

[wraith shard]

sounds like fun

[warm light]

On an aquarq mission

[wraith shard]

yikes.

mkay

tyty

[warm light]

When you get in, clear the room quick and then spawn the twins, the longer you wait the worse it gets.

[wraith shard]

gotchya

[warm light]

it's a 5.5 mission too, so they have extra damage.

[wraith shard]

mhm, makes sense

[old widget]

worth grabbing resups to top up at end of stage 2 so you come out fighting on stage 3? I assume nitra is plentiful as usual

[hushed sequoia]

i was just hosting the deep dive and we were on the 3rd stage

doretta mined through the 2nd egg and then i grabbed the egg and the game crashed right after that

[naive monolith]

failed twice on stage 3. The dreads 1 hit me and my team, along with some trash mobs, we got wiped out quite quickly. Dont know how we'll be able to do this. I remember fighting dreads on edd stage 3 before, dont remember them being this unforgiving

[uncut raptor]

that's the twins for ya :^)

[worn bramble]

the driller on my team went to quickly get the aquarqs while everyone else fought the twins

[quaint lake]

not really, that's just how arbalest works, a very lazily done aimbot machine, can't even flank it, it will just shoot out of it's ass

[frank halo]

fight any dreads on EDD stage 3 ASAP
fight the dread later with bunch swarms is not fun at all :<

[quaint lake]

you can also probably just abuse the dread fighting state and mine all the aqua with 0 swarms

[valid phoenix]

I'm pretty sure swarms still spawn even during the fight since its a secondary objective

unless devs changed something

[quaint lake]

small spawn waves maybe, but not the wave that the mission control announces I am pretty sure

[warm light]

Small? Not on Haz 5.5

I'd say they're medium size

You're given a choice, fight the dreadnoughts and get wrecked by the swarm, or the other way around.

[hazy comet]

secondary dreads still have mission control swarms

only primary dreads dont

[harsh rune]

is there a build to have like..unlimited sentry ammo? or have sentries be the main front of use?

[barren isle]

not unlimited ammo, though I think defender gemini sentries do the most dps

[harsh rune]

yeah i wanna use em but i'm worryed about evenually running outta ammo

then i'll be useless

[barren isle]

Be sure to pick the ammo mod obviously

With that said, you could use the Mk2 if you want to burn through your ammo slower

unless gemini changes max ammo and I didn't realize

[hazy comet]

gemini doesnt change max ammo

the issue is that the single turret does marginally more damage than the gemini ones, so it doesnt really hit great breakpoints

meaning it usually spends just as much ammo, but slower

[barren isle]

If the ammo is the same but the mk2 is doing more damage per shot, doesn't that mean its doing more total damage?

Even if the dps goes down the sink

[hazy comet]

yeah but it also does more overkill

so you're wasting ammo

[barren isle]

Either way, to formally answer zirix's question, no you can't go full level three sentry engineer TF2 style

although you can pick proxy mines and bug repellent if you want other defensive shenanigans

OH Almost forgot

You can play more into sentries using stubby overclocks or the warthog's turret whip

So you can sort of do a sentry focused build

[harsh rune]

hmm gotcha

rip no building a dispenser for free ammo lmao

[barren isle]

If you take the extra sentry ammo perk, you should be able to last a while

And whether or not Mk2 is worth it, it does bleed ammo slower

My current build is like this and I think I might have it a bit overkill in that regard but I digress

[quaint lake]

gemini does increase max ammo

also turret whip got a massive buff, you can now wreck insane chaos with gemini

and only 5 ammo for a 130 damage AOE is a good trade-off

[buoyant wing]

yeah with the bullets it gives, if you go full ammo on either mk2/gemini, iirc the difference in total damage is 40 (which translates to a few bullets)

[quaint lake]

Mk2 Hawkeye turret whip is a solid support turret

[buoyant wing]

I want to like turret whip but I don't want to return to the days of clicking every shot when trying to unload

[quaint lake]

what?

[buoyant wing]

miner adjustments lets you hold m1

[quaint lake]

oh, that

I kinda already got used to it

prob cuz TF2 shotguns work that way

[buoyant wing]

I'm pretty sure you can hold it there too

[quaint lake]

yea, but you end up never doing it cuz, well, people usually try to dodge ur boolet

[buoyant wing]

dunno about that

but anyway

[quaint lake]

but yea, I get ya

[buoyant wing]

I just think hold m1 to fire should just be a qol depending on the gun

subata's already got an overclock that relies on that comfort

[quaint lake]

still you are trading very strong utility for comfort of holding M1

[buoyant wing]

it's also an RoF increase in the case of the shotgun

[quaint lake]

they nerfed it tho, it only adds 0.5 now

[buoyant wing]

what'd they do, move some of it to the base gun?

[quaint lake]

I think so

[buoyant wing]

probably why I never noticed

[dusty flame]

what is the best way to level up a character?

for prestige

[dusty flame]

ty

[topaz plaza]

hey newbie here :3 what are the union chapter factions? any difference?

[opaque glacier]

Head on over to #interplanetary-miners-union

[dusty flame]

rock and stone?

[amber moon]

no difference

[tardy pier]

Would somebody be so kind to provide me with a few screen shots of this weeks EDD Stage 3 - the carving area of the Drillhead / PE Rocket?

So you can see how it affected the terrain around it

[burnt sandal]

No, it's basically the same thing. The lore behind it is the only difference.

[topaz plaza]

gotcha thanks :3

[dusty flame]

what are the treasure for each map?

[native pulsar]

Managed to solo with gunner this time for this edd, the second was slight struggle but the third stage was difficult as i thought, focused on the aquarq first then leave the dread for last was the best solution for a gunner solo, honestly since i use the zap minelets with big bertha, its slightly easy to manage as i thought.

[topaz plaza]

i cant help but feel the 3second shield from the gunenr is a bit meh but i just played 5 missions total

[native pulsar]

Mostly shield that last slightly longer is the best for me, since I can use this time to reload and not only that but to re sup as well, even in tight situation like hordes coming from all different direction, 2/1/3 is the best for me since I can utilize my time to either kill bugs or reload and also resup. Dash with this is really good since I can pop the shield down and just run to the drop pod as quick as possible whenever if its in a tight cave or just ya know, run away.

Tried going with melee build on driller solo, 3rd stage almost got it but as soon as i reached to the pod entrance, until a singular tri-jaw appears and just slapped me as soon i reached to the entrance of the drop pod, i gave up using driller after like 4th time since well he is at promo already and I just used gunner instead.

[wraith shard]

it can be upgraded to last longer and be larger. Any invulnerability becomes incredibly useful in the right hands. One of the biggest mistakes the common Gunner makes is underusing their shield.

[old widget]

#drg-chat would be a better place for general DRG questions

[dusty flame]

what is this place for?

[wraith shard]

deep dives

Also the EDD was pretty standard with the twins being a fun engagement. We had a swarm mid fight which turned up the pressure. Once you're through that you're home free as the gems are pretty easy to find. Good dives this week.

[dusty flame]

what?

[uncut raptor]

deep dives and elite deep dives (EDD) are special missions you unlock once you promote a dwarf

they're basically 3 interconnected stages, each one getting progressively harder in hazard difficulty

though standard deep dives do not get any harder than hazard level 3.5

[uncut raptor]

if you want to know more about them, check here: https://deeprockgalactic.fandom.com/wiki/Deep_Dives

[dusty flame]

ohhh

thank you

[uncut raptor]

np

[modern dirge]

hello guys im looking for frostthrower gun build.can someone help me?

[wraith shard]

#drg-chat

[uncut raptor]

holy cow last stage of EDD was intense

did it first try and got sub 45 minutes barely

[old widget]

What was your team’s approach

[uncut raptor]

just get it done asap

the first 2 stages are pretty small and can be done very quickly

[old widget]

More meant the last stage

Aquarq / twins in parallel?

Twins first?

[uncut raptor]

we focused on the twins first

[old widget]

Wait for wave then twins?

[uncut raptor]

honestly we kinda winged it lol

i'd recommend doing it after the first wave

so getting as much aquarq as you can and extra nitra

then putting down some resups in the main area

i honestly didn't think we were going to make it but we got very lucky

also running iron will helps

[wraith shard]

you can beat the twins before the first swarm if your team plans ahead. We had basically no planning and managed fighting the first swarm mid twins.

Cryo+hyper would have been nice

[uncut raptor]

yeah that's what happened with us, we did it before the 2nd announced swarm happened

[wraith shard]

nice

you guys did sub 45m that's a very good run too

[uncut raptor]

by like, 9 seconds lmao

[wraith shard]

stil

whether you win by and inch or a mile - Din Viesel

[uncut raptor]

new hatred for the twins is how their attacks just go through gunner's shield sometimes, not fun!

[wraith shard]

yeah the shield penetrating attacks are kind of iffy, but I suppose they serve a balance purpose

[old widget]

I assume that’s AoE projectiles landing just outside shield and blast penetrating the shield?

[uncut raptor]

no i mean one of the dreads not getting pushed away/scared of the shield and just breathing fire straight into the shield area

lmao

i think sub 30 is definitely possible, since the first 2 stages are pretty short

it's just the twins at the end

[old widget]

At least a retry is fast if you wipe on S3

[uncut raptor]

yep

[calm kernel]

tfw your scout pops the bul;k det on top of loretta

5% from completion

@lethal inlet sorry I got kicked

well rip, maybe next time

[old widget]

This EDD was mostly on autopilot for us. No bulks or other spiciness. Did have one “full team down” moment when we didn’t quite beat the swarm timer during the twins, but we IW’d our way out.

Cave complexity and size was super mild this week for all three stages IMO. REZ often seems to roll up friendlier caves

[old widget]

Did have a sublime moment in regular DD stage 2 where we slapped down a C4 and popped five eggs at once (reason #47 why voice chat is awesome in DRG)

[quiet wyvern]

EDD was easy this week

[hushed sequoia]

edd was pretty straightforward but we had pots of gold as the beer and the gunner thought it was a good idea to have everyone wait to pop the dreadnaught until all the gold was mined

then we almost started during a wave but i started mining the aquarqs once we got out of the pod and it went well otherwise

[quiet wyvern]

well if it still worked out then very good, me and my partner killed the dreads right off, and got almost all the arquarq's after the first wave

[hushed sequoia]

got fatboy from a blank core and hipster from the edd so cant really complain

[quiet wyvern]

nice

[feral atlas]

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1684891608412101878/2522EC26CB8CFBBF846681ACC9B113D542F034F2/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

pretty easy edd

[loud isle]

Internet went down yesterday afternoon and I can't deep dive, how do I cope

[barren isle]

drink craft brews

[jovial tide]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/631311276483805185/858222205045178388/unknown.png?width=830&height=467

first 1, for 3/4 of us

[raven grove]

Dangerous amounts of liquor.

[outer bloom]

Did anyone else notice Stage 3 of the EDD was the exact same map from the DD last week? Do they usually reuse maps like that?

[ebon slate]

Probably asked alot but how many cores/forge stuff is it possible to get per week?

[dreamy dragon]

yoo did you see, there was another "log" room again in the stage 1 of the edd 😄

[old widget]

Yes!! I even commented to my team about how I’m getting tired of these log rooms. Too funny

[dreamy dragon]

I just entered and was like "Ah shit, here we go again"

[hazy comet]

3 blank cores, 3 weapon oc cores, 3 cosmetic cores per week

[severe tusk]

It's 3 of each, isn't it? One of each from the Weekly Core Hunt assignment, DD, and EDD.

[hazy comet]

oh ya i forgot it gave the other stuff as well

[olive dune]

any good M1K builds with "hoverclock OC"

[old widget]

That’s definitely when it’s time to “show them you’re dwarves”

[radiant granite]

https://karl.gg/preview/3303

[rugged solar]

I’m just gonna copy and paste what I said earlier about my teammates fucking up not even five minutes into the deep dive

The driller lured a BET-C into a super enclosed, tiny tunnel, and of course she bombed us. And then the gunner tried fighting the BET-C but didn’t even bother aiming so he was shooting at a wall and nowhere near her, because she just casually sidestepped behind him and started launching bombs again. So I just left

[uncut raptor]

ouch

[regal mango]

i dont think it was exactly the same but PE cave gen can be kind of repetitive

[olive dune]

Thanks!

[covert plaza]

cant seem to finish this edd

first time it was because we were slow to get the aquarks and our driller seemes to shoot with a lighter rather than a flamethower

second time some got impatient and popped the twins before we were ready

[silk plover]

had to fail around 5 times this edd due to the influx of greenbeards going in edd the moment their dwarf got promoted

[ebon slate]

So i read somewhere its possible to carry over your progress to another platform (steam-> microsoft, visa versa) can anyone confirm if its possible?

[next pebble]

@ebon slate check the pinned messages in #xbox-and-windows-store

[silk plover]

nah man, then it won't be a challenge carrying 3 greenbeards. I feel powerful after finishing an edd carrying 3 greenbeards

[ebon slate]

@next pebble Ty, one thing it doesnt mention is if it syncs? i have friends on both platforms i wanna play with from time to time

[teal elbow]

A friend of mine has this little problem with the game that i gave him . It gives him this error.Couldn't start: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Deep Rock Galactic\FSD/Binaries/Win64/FSD-Win64-Shipping.exe" FSD -nohmd
CreateProcess() returned 2

[sullen zealot]

@teal elbow has he tried verifying the integrity of the game files through steam ?

@teal elbow Right click DeepRockGalactic ->Properties->Local Files-> Verify integrity of game files

could possibly fix

[teal elbow]

Yes same problem

It donwloads a file . It ask launch option and the same problems apeards

No matter what option she picks

[sullen zealot]

@teal elbow I found a similar error on the drg reddit and they mention anti-virus. Do they have an anti-virus on their system ?

@teal elbow add me as friend and discord so we don't fill deep dive chat with troubleshooting

[fringe kettle]

#bug-discussion

[wraith shard]

Hell yes! Just unlocked the Deep Dives!

Giving the normal one a shot rn

[outer flint]

Me too, and I'm sitting lonely in pod 4. Wanna join? 😉

[wraith shard]

Are you on Xbox/windows?

[outer flint]

steam

[wraith shard]

Sadly no then, internet is trash anyway

[outer flint]

okie dokie, have fun

[wraith shard]

I hopefully will!

Alright 225 Morkite and 2 mini-mules

Shouldn't be too bad

[gritty fox]

we had over a thousand nitra by the last stage even after a couple call ins during the previous two, super easy this week 🙂

[wraith shard]

Nice

[wraith shard]

Alright, on to stage 3 of the normal DD

[gritty fox]

good luck! 🙂

[wraith shard]

Deep Dive complete!

one moment and I'll put a picture in #drg-gallery

I'm gonna run it again

Actually nah

[hazy comet]

try out the elite deep dive

[chrome quiver]

Neither seem too bad this week

[copper summit]

I had 15 revives and 3 deaths this edd

[manic pivot]

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

[chrome quiver]

Yes yes I’ll do it

[green fjord]

Is there any easy way to earn the "If Only I Got Paid For This..." Achievement?

[warm light]

@green fjord Yes

[green fjord]

How so?

[warm light]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2505143443

[green fjord]

Ive already seen this guide, the mug doesn't shoot strait up far enough

[warm light]

You're not doing it right then.

Also this channel is for deep dive discussion, kindly move thus to another channel.

[green fjord]

Didnt know there was a wrong way to press the Space bar and LMB, also didn't know this wasn't a discussion of an achievement 🤔

[woeful bolt]

#drg-chat

[chrome quiver]

Lol that guide isn’t even helpful

How many stops is the dozer?

[covert swift]

yo is this weeks EDD hard?

[warm light]

Extraordinarily hard.
Stage 1 can be trouble, stage 2 is very dangerous because of all the elites.

Stage 3: You have to GO GO GO, clear out all the threats in the room and start the dreadnought fight as soon as possible, you will have to fight other glyphids throughout the fight because they never stop spawning.

If you take too long the scheduled swarm starts, you need to kill the dreadnoughts fast enough for that swarm to not be a problem, eventually the bugs will overwhelm you and the combination of glyphids and dreadnoughts will wipe yohr team.

When I beat it, the twins were at about 1/8th health and the swarm started, it turned touch and go almost immediately, but we managed to kill them before the swarm was in full swing.

[raven grove]

You can also wait until the first swarm ends and then pop it. The twins are relatively easy to kill, even with an unoptimized team.

[warm light]

If they play nice, if they don't then their game of hide and seek will drag the fight out long enough for the next swarm.

[raven grove]

Either keep their health roughly equal so they barely heal, or dump so much dakka into the lacerator that healing doesn't matter.

I honestly have never had twins try to play hide and seek.

The problem with popping immediately is you have to kill the welcoming committee first. If you wait until the first swarm ends, you don't have to fight the whole cavern and the twins simultaneously.

I did personally struggle with the twins on this one because I was crispr driller. But my team slaughtered those things.

[old widget]

We had the same experience as Uncle, didn’t quite knock the twins out in time for second swarm and things got a little spicy. Pulled through ok though with only one full-team-down IW. That one moment of overlap was the only “interesting” part of the EDD tho

[severe tusk]

I had read that you should do the twins right after the 1st swarm and told my team that, but they wanted to get all the aquarqs first. So we did that, then someone popped the twins seconds after a big swarm spawned. We lost.

[quiet wyvern]

Me and my partner Mercenary handled this Elite dive no sweat, no downs and just over 45 min.

[leaden kindle]

so i have no OC, how hard is EDD then

just promoted all 4 dwarves to bronze 1

[severe tusk]

That's kind of somewhat up to you and how skilled you are. Some pros do EDDs with no OCs or perks.

You get plenty of nitra, so it is not as difficult as some EDDs imo, but it's not a cake walk either.

[unkempt jackal]

hi will I be able to run the game on G4560 1050ti and 8gb ram?

[obtuse ingot]

Probably best asked in maybe #drg-chat , but definitely not in #deep-dive-discussion but here are the system requirements: https://deeprockgalactic.fandom.com/wiki/System_requirements

[burnt sandal]

I think so but I would advise getting at least 16gb ram for.... well literally everything tbh 😄

Not just this game

[tidal salmon]

anyone know the last stage for EDD?

im aware of the first 2

[leaden cypress]

pinned messages

[tidal salmon]

ty

[zinc coral]

Having no OCs will be a slight setback, but a pretty minor one. The base weapons are pretty decent. experience with the game matters a lot more. In most cases, the rest of ur teammates individual experience also matters more

[wraith shard]

and this weeks dives were pretty approachable. Should be fine tbh

[quiet wyvern]

ez enough and straight forward, long as you plan ahead and work together, unless you want to solo, then gl

[ashen patrol]

solo deep dives are honestly easier

bosco op

[nova condor]

yep

[blazing silo]

deep dive data base error and my comp has nothing to do with it. What else to check :S

[wraith shard]

it sounds like #bug-discussion turf

at least if I'm understanding that first set of words correctly

[blazing silo]

Deffinetly for deepdive 😛 haha thanks let me check that there

[wraith shard]

yeah if we discussed bugs all over the place, though, it wouldn't be reliably trackable.

[vast mirage]

Yea its annoying, this is why I dont select upgrades for him other than light and digging. I wish I could disable revive/guns altogether but keep the mining aspect.

[dark scroll]

I think I missed something while leveling up over the last week or so. What's the point of an elite deep dive?

[teal cliff]

i think its a harder difficulty one but more overclocks and cores

i've never done one myself though

[rough kite]

Thats it. You get an extra set of cores.

If you are getting cores as fast as possible, elite deep dives account for 1/3rd of your core gain rate

[dark scroll]

How much harder are they than regular deep dives?

[steel ingot]

palpable suspense

[deft jetty]

3 ways to get cores.
weekly core hunt
deep dive
elite deep dive

the deep dives will get you 1 core, one cosmetic, and one weapon overclock

so you are getting 3 blank cores weekly, assuming you earn them all

[deft jetty]

Elites are probably some of the hardest content you could face
Hazard ratings range from 4.5 to 5.5
the battles are grueling

the hardest

[dark scroll]

Thanks.

[deft jetty]

im level 300 and i still soil myself

[dark scroll]

I won't be doing any of them, then.

I don't even like haz 4.

Appreciate the info

[deft jetty]

yw

[atomic anchor]

Regular deep dives are still no walk in the park either. At least for the average player it seems

[deft jetty]

i feel that regular deep dives are pretty easy
then again i regularly play on haz 5

the regular ones range 3-3.5

meanwhile, elite deep dives are ripe with hardship, suffering, and glory

always feels good to get them finished

[neat forum]

also crafting rewards

so you can basically get 9 that you mentioned + 2 (weapon and cosmetics) from craft rewards

or was the question only about blank cores?

[deft jetty]

blanks, i believe

[obsidian moat]

hi i played my 1st deep dive but ended it halfway, do i have to finish it to get the cores or do i find it in one of the missions?

[deft jetty]

you get a reward for each mission completed
so if you done mission 1, you got the reward

[obsidian moat]

yeah but i dont think i got any cores

[deft jetty]

it'll be displayed alongside your cash money while on the space rig

theres also the chance that it might have not been a blank core, but instead a OC or a cosmetic

could try looking in the forge

[wraith shard]

nice pfp @deft jetty

[obsidian moat]

yeah got it, my silly ass didnt see it

saw it on my 3rd deep dive

lol

do i get the same thing if i play it over and over again?

[old widget]

Nope, you only get matrix core rewards once per deep dive / elite deep dive.

And the paltry XP/minerals you get for total time spent in a DD/EDD makes them generally not worth grinding for rewards

[lucid mango]

Just clarifying that the rewards for a DD or EDD are once per week for each. Definitely not worth repeating unless helping somebody out.

[quaint lake]

no minerals in deep dives and no juicy multiplier for gold

[gleaming spindle]

how is this week's EDD generally

[uncut raptor]

honestly it's not so bad compared to the last few EDDs, but it's still tough