deep-dive-discussion

[sweet pagoda]

I find normal DD's fairly easy

but I barely find EDD's where I can join as a scout (my main)

[crimson tinsel]

Y’all ready for this

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Freak Arm
Stage 1: 4 Eggs + 2 M.U.L.E.s | Swarmageddon
Stage 2: 7 Aquarq + Dreadnought Twins | No Mutators!
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + 📡 1 Black Box | Volatile Guts Exploder Infestation

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Azure Weald | Code Name: Driller's Bluff
Stage 1: 6 Eggs + Classic Dreadnought | Haunted Cave
Stage 2: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard + Twins) + 📡 1 Black Box | Mactera Plague
Stage 3 200 Morkite + 2 Eggs | Low Gravity Cave Leech Cluster

[lone lance]

Everyone is gangsta until the unknown horror starts excavating eggs.

[broken shore]

EDD 2nd 2dreadnought +black box / mactera plague

[crimson tinsel]

Things are looking a lot more varied this week

[lone lance]

Twins they were.

[crimson tinsel]

So far at least got one of each dread for the DDE

[tidal spruce]

What the fuck drg

Haunted cave classic dread fight again?

[crimson tinsel]

That’s also on the DDE instead

[tidal spruce]

Hopefully it's a good room to fight it in though

[quiet mortar]

I got bad news for you lol

It's eh, could be a better room but could be worse

[flat dirge]

This sounds fun

[tidal spruce]

My second least favorite combo in the game is haunted cave classic dread

[crimson tinsel]

Why classic over the others?

[tidal spruce]

Always have to move with the twins, and there's two targets. Goop has area denial with the hiveguard. Classic you don't have to move as much, and he stays in a small area

Hopefully it's critical weakness for stage 3 edd

[weak carbon]

No weakness, enjoy your exploder magma core escort

(thank god not)

[broken shore]

EDD 3rd 200 morkite + 2 eggs / cave leech cluster + low gravity

[weak carbon]

yoooo that sounds fun

[crimson tinsel]

So much variation this week

[lone lance]

Sick midair headshots by leeches

[tidal spruce]

Okay stage 3 ain't baf

Bad

Just gotta have heightened senses

[crimson tinsel]

“Watch me fly!”
...
“It’s got me!”

[tidal spruce]

Yes

You forgot the "LIGHT" at the beginning

The scoot knows the leech is there, and still grapples straight into it

I want to run hyperprop for EDD, but I also wanna play scout/bring rj250 because stage 3

[crimson tinsel]

This sounds more fun than the Dread rush. Get to see every dread this week!

No repeats!

Stage 3 of the DD sounds like one we had weeks back but that one was in Magma Core so it was way more risky

And I think it was egg instead of morkite. But there was definitely a black box

[tidal spruce]

Imagine: stage 3 Edd, 3 dreads, 4th as secondary, haunted cave, critical weakness, and shield disruption

I know it isn't possible, but it'd be fun

[crimson tinsel]

Mission failure speed run go

Scout pops them all and leaves the game

[tidal spruce]

Oh I forgot, on fungus bogs with all the goop

[crimson tinsel]

Mission modifier: Heavy Steps
Bugs bigger than grunts break the ground as they walk and cause more frequent earthquakes and splits. Steps count as explosive damage and will leave hot ground on Magma core

Imagine that with all Dreads

Tron mode. Don’t be where they been

[stuck swan]

NO MORE DREADNOUGHTS PLEASE

SCREW DREADNOUGHTS

I HAVE NIGHTMARES FROM THE LAST EDD

At least the last stage looks fairly easy

[crimson tinsel]

The Bois are Back in Town

[stuck swan]

Lol

There’s only 1 dreadnought twins which is nice

Hiveguard is never aggressive he’s super easy

Dreadnought twins just never give you break

And if the area is open you’re screwed

[crimson tinsel]

Lol I had the one twin aggro’d to me during the last DDE and it was highlighted through a random pillar of the environment. I jiggled side to side and it sat there doing the same thing but unable to actually see me. Gave my buddies some good time to shoot it.

[quiet mortar]

Don't worry, I'm sure the dives will throw another Double Escort our way soon lol

[lone lance]

Have we had Escort +dreadnought before?

[wet pond]

last week's was my favorite because of the dreads :P

also, why the fuck is the black box next to a shield thingy

it's fine, i didn't need ammo anyway :/

[wraith shard]

Not sure if it’s possible

[rapid maple]

Alright haunted cave + dreadnought is never fun

[wet pond]

^

[rapid maple]

But doesn't seem too tough

[wet pond]

took me 20m on that stage alone

[rapid maple]

The final stage seems ez tho

And classic DD also seems quite easy

[crimson tinsel]

Yeah normal DD takes about 30 mins

[wet pond]

think mine was 31

[crimson tinsel]

We finished at 36 but that was with the engie having to take a bathroom break on Stage 2 lol

[burnt sandal]

not a possible combo

[stuck swan]

I honestly don’t enjoy dreads all that much

[mossy canyon]

I soloed reg deep dive as scout last time. It was kinda fun

[night granite]

Finally a deep dive without shield disruption

[azure steppe]

no shield disruption?? is 280 hours too late to refund the game

[raven grove]

Haunted dread again? Ugh.

[stuck swan]

I love haunted cave

You always have to be on your toes

The constant threat is just so fun

[vale lintel]

plus it screams at you which is really funny

[stuck swan]

Imagine haunted cave but the bug is a menace

That would be hell

Pure hell

[coarse terrace]

Imagine haunted cave but it's a grabber

[stuck swan]

Then it’s impossible not to get grabbed

You’d have to rely on luck

[hushed sequoia]

maybe next week will be the triple escort in magma core edd i guess

[stuck swan]

All with 3 refuels

Is it even possible to have 3?

[wraith shard]

triple escort in magma core EDD swarmageddon, exploders, lethal enemies in that order

[crimson tinsel]

Could just have the grabber scared off when shot at but it doesn't leave you alone for long

[willow oxide]

Oh my god

Could it be

That the Edd

Is actually completable

What a world we live in!

[wraith shard]

last weeks was completable

game crashed but we had it in the bag tbh.

[broken turtle]

If you could scare it by shooting it it would work, but I think it got cut because the rate of the grabbing and the screams would be obnoxious... I'd love to see it tried out as a mod though?

[hazy comet]

Did the DD in 23:33 lmao

[wraith shard]

zoom

[crimson tinsel]

Super quick this week fr

[raven grove]

Haunted but it’s a burrowing leech

[crimson tinsel]

Haunted leech even stationary would be awful. Especially if there was a task you had to complete underneath it

[crimson tinsel]

Just had the host end the game before the first egg because someone popped the dread

[open tide]

I almost shot it twice by accident while trying some minutes ago. I understand if people did this by mistake.

[jovial cairn]

dreads again :pain:

[crimson tinsel]

okay second game I joined just ended

we got it

Also the first game where the host RQ'd was titled something like LV 100+ only!
And I think after he ended the first game, he renamed it to LV 150+ only!
lol
Even though I think it was a level 300~ that accidentally popped the dread

gotta blame whatever levels are lower

[weak carbon]

Man first stage on EDD had me sweating ngl

That cave was awful

[novel ore]

fuck me this edd

so little nitra in first stage

atleast the last stage was easy

[crimson tinsel]

we were using nitra about as much as we were finding it

for each stage

we didn't run all the way dry at any point but it was riding the line

I did like Azure much more than last week's

[weak carbon]

biggest problem with first cave is the fact that it fucking sucks

Its just a hole with barely any platforms

[crimson tinsel]

Dealing with the horror wasn’t too bad, there was a decent looparound tunnel

Biggest threat was the host

[wraith shard]

fgs which channel are you in

omfg shes a nightmare

@wraith shard wow

lets go now befoire i lose my patience

grumpy

beeeer

no i told you i wanted to go on edd and what happened this morning and you drink anyway

brb wait for joiners now

@wraith shardthey've reset go freak arm instead

the baby 1??

anytime this week will be great

take steam off invis maybe?

[crimson tinsel]

What language is this

[wraith shard]

fucking deep dive language if someone will listen

oh

oops

needs promotion

my bad d'oh

[burnt sandal]

[random shadow]

wait so what are the edd stages this week

[quasi cove]

check pins

[random shadow]

oh thanks!

[zinc coral]

Did EDD as true solo scout again...very straightforward EDD, the bug's AI pathfinding broke on stage 1 tho when I pulled 3 eggs at once lol. Stage 2 had the black box next to the glowing pillars (which if you didn't know buffs both you and enemies damage resistance) which I thought would prove to be trouble but fortunately no bugs walked near through there. Stage 3, i died to a sneaky leech; Iron will saved the day tho

[wraith shard]

DD was great fast

[crimson tinsel]

EDD was normal length

DD was the fastest I’ve participated in

[wraith shard]

One guy joined and said “what’s a deep dive”. First dive was that speed fest.

[crimson tinsel]

Don’t think I’ve seen anyone take over 45 minutes yet

[wraith shard]

I was trying to get going for like an hour and lost my rag a bit til I realized what the problem was d'oh. Wondered why kept restarting the game. all's good now, gonna quickly get EDD over with myself now, hf fellas

switch out my nades d'oh

[crimson tinsel]

Gotta use a LURE!
takes out Scout with a plasma burster

[amber yoke]

this was my first successful DD and i beat it solo in like 37

gonna try the elite later

[crimson tinsel]

first stage kinda messy because of the cave system and horror
second stage messy because of sudden aerial bombardments
third stage pretty smooth, just watch out for leeches

[night granite]

Yeesh
DD was easy. First stage of the EDD was... Rough
died on the second stage sadly. Kept running out of ammo

[gleaming oar]

How are the deep dives this week?

[wraith shard]

I'm sorry to enter the discussions this way, but what do you think that the game could use a more extensive storyline so that we would have more information about the game world?

[rapid maple]

Nah, I kinda like the ambigious lore

I like the sort of in-community headcannon we have

[shrewd bane]

I have come to the conclusion that this EDD is the most challenging dive in a while.
3 teams and can't pass further than stage 2.

[waxen verge]

mactera plague is always a bad mod :D

[steel wind]

I just completed the elite deep dive

Team of 2

First stage was absolutely brutal

Juggling the dreadnought and the ghost was ridiculous

We had a total of 22 deaths between us by the time we finished

[shrewd bane]

Definitely easier if you bring less people, scaling too op

Had a dude w/ 14 downs first stage.

[steel wind]

Not surprising

We just sort of juggled the dreadnought between us

I was engi, teammate was scout

We would try to chip down the armor and then I'd just spam the breach cutter at it

If not for the breach cutter I don't know how we would have beaten that first fight, it was ridiculous

6 eggs on top of that was really hard

[shrewd bane]

Our engie was running the rocket jumping OC on the pgl
why tho?

[steel wind]

On the first 2 missions I died and scout just went back to the pod without me

Last mission we both made it back

[steel wind]

Yeah that doesn't seem like the best choice for this mission

[crimson tinsel]

"I'm up!"

...

"I'M DOOOWN!"

[waxen verge]

probably for the ammo

[shrewd bane]

I put 2 and 2 together, that was the 14-downs guy
Could not for the life of him track the ghost and broke his legs all the time.

[quasi cove]

cant trust pubs as far as you can throw them

2 gold star promos in the 300 level range going down to leeches repeatedly and ghost entity as if they were rank 1

then one said "I dont do a lot of ghost, sorry yall I'm out"

and left

[runic robin]

lol just got called trash and kicked from the EDD for getting downed by the ghost one time, super toxic host.

[thorny geyser]

Elven behaviour, sickening.

[tall meadow]

yea this week DD is definitely a speed run type DD

[trail dove]

It's crazy how people can true solo the EDDs especially as scout
I tried to tackle the EDD solo as scout (with Bosco) since there were only a few pubs this time and they were all full or in progress, and Bosco saved my butt a lot of times, but even then I only managed to get as far as stage 2 and kill the hiveguard before the macteras downed me during the black box event XD

[azure wraith]

tips for the edd? failed 2 times already

always low on nitra during the first 2 stages

[burnt sandal]

either mine more nitra or don't shoot the dread when he's invulnerable and you don't have a clear sight on his weakpoints ?

[azure wraith]

wow

[tall meadow]

Don’t stay too long on first stage is all I can say about this week EDD

Try to have the ghost always being dragged away from the battle

And yes nitra should be overall sufficient for you to get through the stages, so yes in actual sense get every nitra you can find

Try to at most use up 2 resupplies in first stage , maybe deal with the boss egg first before trying to get all the eggs

[azure wraith]

alright thanks for the tips

[tall meadow]

Always get the ghost away from the boss or one of you guys bring him away from the main crowd slightly further

Or you can slow the ghost too at times and make it completely out of your main battle

2nd stage mactera plague honestly just dumbs down the whole swarm a lot

You have a good cryo driller , he can freeze the macteras before anything happens

Scout and his cryo grenades makes it all trivial too

As usual gunner with NTP always handy with overall ammo conservation

[burnt sandal]

I mean, I can't give you a lot of tips without knowing what you're struggling with exactly apart from general obvious tips like "don't stay too long on X or Y stage"

[tall meadow]

Ye^

First stage EDD is honestly the one I’ll watch out for

The rest especially stage 3 is just pretty standard

[burnt sandal]

Also I don't know your skill level at all. You'd be surprised to know how many people shoot at the dread when it can't be damage.

[tall meadow]

Also yea , don’t get tossed around by the twins that much xd

Balance those health pools between them if you can so you don’t have to spend so long by letting them heal and make you waste more ammo

[azure steppe]

you can still apply debuffs to the ghost

so shooting it with e.g. neurotoxin is actually pretty handy

[stuck swan]

This weeks EDD paled in comparison to last weeks

This weeks only took me one try whereas last weeks took me the entire week and I didn’t even beat it

[crimson tinsel]

We had the ghost actually getting in the way of the dread a lot, eating those ranged fireballs

Made the horror work for us lol

Bribed him with the scout

[wraith shard]

EDD was handily beaten

went scout, engi, gunnerx2

[crimson tinsel]

Once you got past the first Stage it wasn’t that bad

And as long as your host didn’t ragequit after his first down 😛

[wraith shard]

lol that sucks. our first gunner left before the first stage really got going

so we restarted with 2 lol

[rapid maple]

leaf lover moment

[lunar panther]

I had 3 bulk detonator in stage 2 of solo DD

[vale fjord]

really i soloed DD just now and did and the worst I had was like 1 oppresor and 2 menaces

[vale fjord]

it shouldnt be too bad im sorta new and was able to no death solo but i did have hyper propellant for my engi so the dreadnought was pretty easy to wipe out

[lunar panther]

Yeah... that stage wasn't a fun deep dive for me. Haha
1 stage wasn't bad, 1 menace
2nd stage, 3 bulk and 2 oppressors, both oppressors and 1 bulk spawned while fighting the twins
3rd, not bad

[vale fjord]

yeah third was pretty breezy just forgot to make some of the holes bigger on the way back

[wraith shard]

I already beat it, buddy.

the EDDs are usually easier than H5

[waxen verge]

ok

[crimson tinsel]

Which is weird because Stage 3 is supposed to be set to like H5.5 or something but they’ve been the easiest stages lately

Well I guess last week’s shield disruption Dreads

But this week Stage 3 is definitely the easiest

[vale fjord]

thank you for repeating exactly what i said

[wraith shard]

You didn't say that.

but ok.

[thorny geyser]

elves, elves

youre both beautiful

[crimson tinsel]

[vale fjord]

^

[quick kiln]

Finished the EDD

And Haunted Cave + Dreadnought is pain

Even if it is just the one

[lone lance]

how is the haunted dread by the way, do you start boxed in in a dead end like last week?

[quick kiln]

Not boxed in

But it's real uneven ground

[crimson tinsel]

Saw a few people fall through that hole in the wall right outside the starting drop pod spot

Our engie fell through and died when the Horror walked up behind him lol

[quick kiln]

Properly set ziplines can and probably will save your backside

[tidal spruce]

what's with the ball of bug stage 1 edd

[zealous pond]

right? that was weird

[quasi cove]

well dwarves

even if your teammates tk each other 26 times

the edd is still able to be completed

even if the tks are in the middle of stage 3 mactera plagues

[crimson tinsel]

Isn’t the Mactera stage 2?

[burnt sandal]

it is stage 2

[fallen estuary]

That haunted cave on the 1st stage1 was something else. Only made it to stage 2 after like 3 unsuccessful attempts and still died

[toxic lichen]

I thought edd was pretty fun this week, but I played cyro driller and we had a fire gunner, so co-ordinating that was a nice little challenge. Ran low on nitra more often than I'd like but only took one attempt.

[amber maple]

<@&296918282403840000> scam spam

[burnt sandal]

yeah this week is rather "nitra hungry"

GG though

[mellow cove]

Didn't find it very nitra hungry, just not that type of EDD when you have 800+ nitra at the end of stage 3

[toxic lichen]

Mostly our nitra shortages came from us just not doing damage when we broke shield so we were crawling progress at whittling it down.

Honestly I'm suprised we managed it, there was a really close call in stage one where I was last up and we'd all popped will

[crimson tinsel]

EDD nitra was just enough for us. Just enough to keep you going if you kill things in a timely manner. It would definitely mess teams up if they spent too much time doing one thing though

Saw a stream where they spent 40mins in Stage 1 only to die at the end of Stage 2 I think lol

[thorny kernel]

did the basic deep dive in 24 mins lol

so if you need the achievement this is the week i guess

elite was fun too

stage one was a nice little challenge

stage 2 and 3 were pretty easy all things considered

[burnt sandal]

yeah DD and EDD this week aren't too bad

[crimson tinsel]

We had a much better time with the EDD this week, without the shield disruption and all

[thorny geyser]

EDD had just enough nitra to get job done, but it was still rough ride.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1750203778405040269/EA7C7CAA3B148D2DF035262DDEA3D4768C589121/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

[crimson tinsel]

Our poor gunner got lost on the way back to the drop pod and I got downed once trying to get to him but the drilled tunnel was packed with bugs.

So my third and last down was just trying to get to the gunner, and that was only his second down

[thorny geyser]

I had one try where there was this annoying engineer drawing dreadnought in first stage all over the place, complaining and not really doing the plat thingie.

[crimson tinsel]

We had a lvl 35 on engie and he did really well

Got downed 10 times through the whole thing but three of those were from us reviving him when his keyboard disconnected and we didn’t know it

[thorny geyser]

this engie was good at killing but took a lot of risks

no biggie, tossing explosives on hordes at bodies is viable tactic

[crimson tinsel]

Throwing a mine onto a downed buddy is probably pretty effective. I don’t use mines that often so I haven’t seen their best uses

[odd comet]

...as long as you aren't trying to get that person up anytime soon. Dropping a mine on them when you're trying to get them back up is a terrible idea

[thorny geyser]

sometimes its good to go down and take out bugs with see you in hell

[crimson tinsel]

Not when you’re there with the bugs. If there’s a pile already on him, drop on over and wait for it to expend its charges

[burnt sandal]

their best use is on Salvage, Escort or in any tight corridors.

outside of that, they are a bit worthless

[crimson tinsel]

I usually just use Lure

[burnt sandal]

I used extensively the 3 grenades and the mines are the least useful of the bunch for me

[thorny geyser]

I use LURE with fat boy, otherwise I prefer plasma burster

[burnt sandal]

they aren't just practical

[thorny geyser]

I hate it when engies put them inside the triangulation zone.

[old widget]

Yeah mines have some pretty rough FF on higher haz

[lone lance]

fun, in EDD stage 2 stonehenge were right between an egg and the black box , my group decided to fight the hiveguard in the buff zone.

also the mactera swarm was a PROPER mactera swarm, It is never a good sign when the autocannon tears though the warms due to their sheer densety.

[burnt sandal]

oof

[lone lance]

Nitra were tight too, we ended the EDD with a mere 41 nitra, had just enough to get through with our mediocre performance this run.

we almost failed stage 3 extract because the hosts internet suddenly shat itself and we kept glitching though the floor of the pod, ha. but that is hopefully not the stages fault.

[quasi cove]

Nitra was abundant i feel like those that had issues either took a lot of damage or downs, or their scout was not exploring

[lone lance]

yup, we had all three, haha

no, the scout was exploring, so 2/3

but have had about as shitty EDDs before, but ended with hundreds of nitra regardless.

[thorny geyser]

yeah we had downs, but we had no nitra to squander like usually

after we had taken down twins, we had to move out right quick in stage 2 because we had only 40+ nitra left

[eager palm]

RJ250 is actually really good. It's very weird, but the ammo boost is so large that you can take both area damage mods and be strictly better than pack rat

so even if you never grenade jump at all, if you're after a close to vanilla PGL with lots of ammo, it's actually your best bet

and the grenade jumping can get you out of some sticky situations

it's better than fat boy at least

[hushed sequoia]

thats heresy

[humble ravine]

This week's EDD was tough. We just enough nitra to scrape by. Even after conserving ammo the whole way, we ended up with only 1 extra resupply pod at the end of the third stage.

[quick kiln]

Yeup

I distinctly remember that at the end of the second stage, all of my team had literally nothing

[stone crag]

nitra in edd is scarce?

[burnt sandal]

it's fine, unless you tend to use a lot of ammo for some reason.

[tall meadow]

nah nitra was fine

we had 2 gunners , one engi and a scout

first stage fought below halfway but decided to bring it back to spawn room

then the eggs, I was scout, i just grappled here and there to get the eggs while the rest of the folks stayed on the ziplines at spawnroom away from most mobs and the ghost

2nd stage mactera plague made it easy honestly

cryo nades works against their groups in wonders

we were toeing the line with supplies but 2nd stage had more than enough

we had no driller

[amber yoke]

is edd dread just a regular big boi

[tall meadow]

the classic dread in first stage , and then twins and hiveguard for the 2 dreadnaughts in 2nd stage

[burnt sandal]

you can see every info you need in the pinned message

[thorny geyser]

cryo wouldve been great, i had IFGs

which were good as always, but not with mactera

[lone lance]

NTP worked disgustingly well with the sheer amount of macteras.

[misty night]

hey, very new to this game, but ive just finished my first deep dive. Are they/Matrix cores in general farmable?

[burnt sandal]

nope, the only way to get them outside of the "Breach the core" assignment after the promotion are through deep dives and the weekly core assignment

you can replay a deep dive but you won't get the reward twice

[misty night]

ahh.

thanks a ton

[burnt sandal]

https://tenor.com/view/deep-rock-bosco-bosco-deep-rock-galactic-salute-robot-gif-15787514

[fast fog]

I hate haunted cave

Give me a gun that shoots ghosts

[wraith shard]

whats the point f having the ghost then?

[thorny kernel]

add luigi as the 5th class

so he can suck up the horror

[lone lance]

luigi is tall, probably an elf

and he lives in a mansion. Oh my god, he is management

[fast fog]

mission one of the deep dive is done

that took me way too long

33 minutes solo

[leaden storm]

Not gonna lie they had us in the first half

[fast fog]

Black box is the hardest mission type in the game

change my mind

[scarlet jewel]

triple hiveguard elimination mission on haz 5 with elite threat and haunted cave

[fast fog]

Fair, fair... but staying in one spot for like 10 minutes because its the slowest thing in the world with all that

I think is harder

at least I can move on dreadnought type missions.

[scarlet jewel]

i dont see how not moving can be that bad

ive done the deep dive solo as scout and the only thing that downed me were the twins

[fast fog]

the elite deep dive?

[scarlet jewel]

no, regular

ill try edd in a bit

[fast fog]

the elite deep dive stage 2 is destroying me

and its because of the black box

[burnt sandal]

it's salvage operation but easier

and faster

[fast fog]

its the hardest part of the salvage operation

[scarlet jewel]

id go scout again but

2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard + Twins)

i think a gunner is in order

[fast fog]

I was gunner

[burnt sandal]

you mean the fun part of salvage operation

[fast fog]

.>

[scarlet jewel]

the fun part of salvage is starting the uplink and halfway through 2 bulks spawn

[restive patrol]

chads run towards the bulks

deflecting away from the uplink, risking it ALL

[thorny geyser]

thats what focus shots and boomsticks are for

[lunar panther]

@zinc coral did you notice in your video when the baddies didnt show up during the wave, they were glitched https://i.imgur.com/pjSRCHF.jpeg

[zinc coral]

yeah i did, probably contributed to the enemies not showing up and also the breaking later

[thorny geyser]

Same happened to me too.

[upbeat obsidian]

This week's EDD is so much harder to complete when the host randomly disconnects or loses internet. >.>

[manic pivot]

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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!
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[random shadow]

stage 2 of the elite was a nailbiter

[lone lance]

Mods, Mission Control are bullying people again.

[next pebble]

Maybe if y'all would just git gud, this wouldn't be a problem!

[fast fog]

WOOO, solod the EDD for this week

and yeah. Stage 2 was really hard

had like 15 mactera on me at one point during the black box. Used all 4 shields for it

[crimson tinsel]

Stage 2 makes an argument for Snowball

[tidal spruce]

why is there a bugball in Edd stage 1

[obtuse ingot]

I saw the same thing! I also didn't get a haunt the first time I tried the EDD

[ashen oar]

I have never done a EDD. I want to do one to get the experience of how it is and to also get more matrix cores, but I've had people tell me it's too difficult. Any advice?

[quartz badge]

Unlock and play Haz 5-Missions. If you can manage those, you should be fine to go for EDD's 🙂

[flat dirge]

The difficulty I'd say is more subjective, try out Hazard 5 and if you can beat it, then you can beat the EDD.

[lucid nest]

the EDD took us over an hour the first stage alone was 20 mins the other two were a lot easier in my opinion, its just a shame i didn't bring a good loadout

[lone lance]

What did you bring, and what was the issue?

[lucid nest]

in short not enough damage out put for dreads especially on the first stage because we fought it in the egg room which was a mistake

[lucid nest]

I was Gunner

autocannon
33221 with carpet bomber oc its pretty good at killing grunts/swarmers

bulldog
21321 with no over clock

in hindsight i would have brought a better load out for this but i didn't think there would be three dreads

[burnt sandal]

if you want to be safe in (E)DDs, I would suggest you to go with the minigun instead 😛

it's more versatile

[lucid nest]

yeah i usually run the minigun but im a bit rusty with gunner and ive found myself accidently shooting team mates a lot so i chose the auto cannon to make my life easy

[burnt sandal]

Make sense

[lucid nest]

the annoying part is i have a big bertha loadout i could have used

[lone lance]

I felt i got good value out of the autocannon this EDD, the extra blast effect radius worked better against Mactera swarms than it got any business to do.

[crimson tinsel]

Our cryo driller handled the mactera swarms so we could preserve our ammo

[stuck swan]

I love running vampire and using cyro for max freeze power

Then tearing through swarms of enemies with my drills

[fast fog]

I used gunner with neurotoxin thunderhead, and elephant rounds bulldog. My go to setup.

Solo'd the EDD, but it was really close to a loss.

Several times

Wish I had brought splintering rounds instead.

[mellow cove]

ER is overkill for mactera plague

[fast fog]

Yeah. But I love it too much to let it go

It's also really nice against the big boss enemies

[vivid light]

are they still sharing keys on keymailer or should i give up and wait for a discount?

[lone lance]

I don't trust my aim remotely well enough to rely on the bulldog for Mactera swarms.

Also I ran elephant rounds this week, lol.

Gunner is working on his thesis, simplify DRG supply chains by rechambering ALL guns to use autocannon rounds. Even the cryo. Especially the cryo.

[urban sail]

ive been playing max ammo neuro thunderhead/max ammo BRT lately

boolits everywhere

always helpful for dready DDs

[old widget]

I like NTP AC + lead spray BRT. Amazing CC and great burst DPS on single target (just be close to that single target)

[barren finch]

EDD failed on 3rd mission. Lobby host rage quit, no one got xp

Sad

[odd comet]

Name checks out

[livid crypt]

We tried the EDD 3 times, but twice failed in the first stage (Bet-C + Horror is a pain to handle) and then the Mactera got us in the second stage when we were trying to get the black box

[tacit jungle]

we barely made it through second stage, the initial spawn was gigantic, everybody else died and I spent a couple of minutes lovingly tapping an ass ton of macteras with my m1k

but later spawns were manageable

[jolly hazel]

there's a bet-c in 1st stage?

my group never found it

[stable trail]

I guess 6th try isn't the charm
We got everything done, too; just didn't evacuate

[raven grove]

That was a pretty terrible run, honestly

I pretty much stopped caring halfway through and just wanted it to be over.

[glacial salmon]

I can't even get into one either none are open or I get kicked out for being a one star bronze.

[lone lance]

Unlucky, try hosting yourself.

EDD groups so tend to fill fast once they get going. Consider recruiting in #lfg-steam too.

[lucid nest]

i struggle to find open games for edd

[glacial salmon]

Hell I got kicked out of regular DD's earlier lol

[lucid nest]

i also struggle to find open games for dd near me

[lucid nest]

but yeah it sucks to get kicked

[glacial salmon]

Lvl 50 isn't good enough for some peoples regular lobbies apparently.

[tall meadow]

I always host EDD in public and I only ask if folks either played EDD before or what setup they'll be bringing

[fleet glen]

ough this edd was such a pain solo

I'm also not very good, but lead storm oc was very very fun to use here

[lone lance]

Though I avoid open games thst makes stupid requirements in the description anyway, if they demand rank 50k+ or whatever chances are they are unpleasant people anyway.

[odd comet]

^ They tend to kick/ragequit over the littlest things

[lone lance]

<@&296918282403840000>

[thorny geyser]

These people are angry manlets, not dwarven kings.

[sour jay]

@glacial salmon I'd be game to do the EDD with you. I've already done it and I don't claim to be very good but I'd be willing to give it a go. I usually run solo or with my duo so I don't even necessarily need a big group

[azure steppe]

i always just put "chill games" as the room description, seems to attract cool people consistently

[short charm]

I've set mine to "Greenbeards, graybeards. Who cares, let's go!" I've always found EDDs with random beginners to be a hoot.

[wraith shard]

mine is just my steam name because I seem to have consistent repeat joiners and it's always a hoot

[fast fog]

When do the deep dives reset again?

[burnt sandal]

every thursday

[fast fog]

I solod this week's, and need more overclocks :x

Still haven't found my Fatboy

[thorny geyser]

I have my description as "Greenbeards and veterans welcome, just don't be an asshole"

[thorny geyser]

did you do your weekly core hunt?

[fast fog]

Yes, always

[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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[vapid hinge]

how difficult are EDDs if i can manage DDs just fine?

[burnt sandal]

can you manage haz 4/haz 5 ?

[mossy canyon]

The edd this time is so ducking hard

At least for me

[severe tusk]

Oh, oops, I still haven't tried it yet. I am a Bulk Procrastinator.

[stuck swan]

I pray for difficult deep dives this week

Makes it more fun

This weeks EDD was a joke

[vapid hinge]

i havent tried any haz5 yet, but manage haz4 just fine usually

[vapid hinge]

was it easy? i should give it a try before it's out then

[stuck swan]

Yes

It’s not hard to get used to

That was like my 5th EDD

[vapid hinge]

kk, thanks, will give it a go

[stuck swan]

I’m rank 40

So saying it is easy is saying a lot

[vapid hinge]

i thought the DD this week was pretty easy too. got the speedrun achievement without even trying

[stuck swan]

Yeah

I honestly forget why it was easy since I did it beginning of the week

But I was engi and I did it with a driller

Last weeks Edd was insane tho

All dreads

Too many twins

Cave generation wasn’t great

[burnt sandal]

you should be fine then, just play safe

[sour jay]

I find EDD easier than normal haz 5 for some reason...

[burnt sandal]

probably the vast amount of nitra

[sour jay]

perhaps

[dusty meadow]

Edd cave generation isnt as twisted or cancerous of some you may encounter in normal games.

[severe tusk]

It's all random as far as I know. I have seen some really rough maps on EDD stages.

[burnt sandal]

same

if anything, it's more twisted in general because it has to account for multiple primaries.

[severe tusk]

Finally tried this week's EDD, got to stage 3 but we were nitra starved. I wonder if we just missed some veins or what.

Might have to two man it instead.

[summer musk]

Is it worth to destroy Pumpkins ?

[wet shale]

sometimes it spawns a lootbug as a "treat"

but mostly it's swarmers

[buoyant wing]

I generally do so for the lootbugs but also they tend to be obstructions on otherwise perfectly fine terrain

[odd comet]

Also, if the pumpkins use the same spawn pool as the Christmas presents (I'm not sure they do), there's a very small chance that one will contain an error cube

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[sonic edge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/726149267965870220/900491140166467634/unknown.png

what the fuck

@slender locust

just happend to me today

[next pebble]

@sonic edge don't ping the devs

[fringe kettle]

screenshot esc menu and #420195388675588096

[dusty meadow]

Doretta is headed where Karl is.

[obtuse ingot]

Anyone else notice that the DD is different after the Halloween thing appeared? You used to be able to drill straight from the drop pod on the first stage right onto this crystal, but it's now in a different place

Yeah, everything is different now. Spitballers in different places, dreadnought egg in a different place...

Stages are very similar, but not exactly the same anymore

[severe tusk]

Ugg, 3rd try, got to stage 3 of the EDD again in a little bit better shape with nitra, and then I get DCed (or the host lost internet) and have no option to rejoin.

[round tinsel]

what time do the deep dives reset?

[severe tusk]

About 9.5 hours from now.

[round tinsel]

thanks mate, rock and stone

[topaz wigeon]

https://tenor.com/view/deep-rock-galactic-rock-and-stone-gif-22047860

[rocky nexus]

Edd ez, special powder carry

[lone lance]

I don't get the jury rigged shotgun, even with jumbo shells to make it stop tickling enemies it is so unsatisfying to use.

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[manic pivot]

_ _
ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Fungus Bogs | Code Name: Unveiled Field
Stage 1: 2 M.U.L.E.s + Dreadnought Hiveguard | Exploder Infestation
Stage 2: 7 Aquarq + 2 Eggs | No Mutators!
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Classic + Twins) + 📡 1 Black Box | Cave Leech Cluster

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Blunt Hand
Stage 1: Protect the Drilldozer + 150 Morkite | No Mutators!
Stage 2: 3 M.U.L.E.s + 2 Eggs | Elite Threat
Stage 3: 225 Morkite + 📡 1 Black Box | Volatile Guts Mactera Plague

[broken shore]

EDD 2nd salvages 3 MULE + 2 eggs / elite threat

[dense obsidian]

Kek, had a tactical fumble on EDD stage 2 trying to do it before the reset, all 3 dreads were active at once.

Barely made it out 😬

[tidal ingot]

🐒

[crimson tinsel]

More dreads on normal DD, might be seeing everyone again

Wonder if we’ll be seeing any dreads in the EDD

[broken shore]

EDD 3rd 225 morkite + 1 black box / volatile guts + mactera plague

[crimson tinsel]

Wow no dreads or shield disruption in EDD?!

[signal pawn]

https://giphy.com/gifs/pDsCoECKh1Pa

[wraith shard]

Looks pretty approachable this week.

[restive patrol]

chefs kiss

blackbox on edd stage 3 is large area
the narrow tunnels were stressing me out

[rapid maple]

This EDD looks pretty easy

[stone crag]

yo the dd has the rare mushroom

[weak carbon]

MUSHROOM

[rain raven]

Many times the morphology of the caverns influences the difficulty of deep dives more than other mutators, who does not remember those damn vertical wells of 100 meters 😩

[quasi cove]

giant pit with half the enemies in the cave in it

someone falls and gets downed as the rest of the team spends 20minutes killing everything and waves to get to them

[open tide]

It looks like this week's EDD is gonna be easy. I'm probably going solo this time.

[lean juniper]

is there a deep dive LFG

just got promoted

[shadow shoal]

Normal lfg works fine for dd, just list that you’re doing it

[wet vault]

Fffffffffff

Last of the edd and my game crashes

GG everyone

[rapid maple]

YES

[rapid maple]

I was gonna but then I figured out that it means no MUSH RUm

[open tide]

MUSHROOM

[crimson tinsel]

My internet is out at home and they won’t tell us when they expect to fix it. How are the deep dives?

[shadow shoal]

They are

[crimson tinsel]

[winged chasm]

does elite deep dive have an escort this week?

[burnt sandal]

check the first pinned message

[vapid hinge]

does everyone have the exact same level layout and extra spawns for DD/EDD?

[random rampart]

yes.

i think

extra spawns not sure, but the seed is the same for everyone else

[burnt sandal]

yes, there are layout differences between microsoft/steam versions but that's about it.

[brisk pagoda]

the cave is the same. enemies are rng but the playercount affects the rng for betc, cave leeches, and spitballers

[burnt sandal]

Playercount affect the generation spawned enemies, it's not really RNG as far as I know.

[willow oxide]

Wait BetC is rng based in deep dives like in every normal mission?

Yikes, I failed last week’s stage 1 4 times and beat it on the 5th and saw her every time

[brisk pagoda]

the playercount influences the seed for enemy rng so having the same playercount means you usually get most of the same stuff

[willow oxide]

Ah, that explains it lol

[brisk pagoda]

includeing things that spawn on map start like betc and cave leech

its not always exactly the same though

ive had a few times were i went in multiple times with 3 people and for one of them no bet c

[brisk pollen]

Depends what you mean by spawn, enemies depend on player count. Generated mission stuff will always be the same spot. (Black box, droppod and fuel cells in salvage, etc)

[warm light]

https://imgur.com/LK4OBzM.jpg

Had a good dive, nothing unusual, we dug ahead and took care of the BetC with no downs.

[burnt sandal]

some enemies are generated with the cave, like leeches, spitballers, etc

[warm light]

is BETC?

[brisk pollen]

Those have set spawns too, but spawned enemies like grunts are dependent on player count

BETC is set spawn too, if applicable

[shrewd belfry]

They call that an elite deep dive ?

Not impressed

[wraith shard]

that easy?

[warm light]

elite dives are the same as normal dives, just a higher difficulty modifier

[wraith shard]

That's true.

[warm light]

If you know what you're doing, all dives are easy

[wraith shard]

Thanks, Uncle. I'll be sure to add the results of this interaction to my notes.

[blissful lily]

To the three gentlemen who joined my deep dive: I apologize from the bottom of my heart. My little brother reset the internet without telling anyone first. I'm sorry to have wasted your time.

[severe tusk]

I am sorry your brother is a leaf lover.

[crimson tinsel]

got both DD's done

[mellow cove]

Apparently this DD has some rare mushroom

[jolly hazel]

on the mule salvage?

I saw one tonight but i forgot if it was in the deep dive

it was in the fungus bog so I assume so

[severe tusk]

There's one right next to the drop pod on stage 2 of the DD, so you're not real dwarves unless you're all spamming it with your laser pointers during the entire uplink phase.

[crimson tinsel]

This was my first EDD not playing Scout. I felt out of my element lol

Our driller didn’t really excavate much during the 2nd stage so we had a pretty hard time with that

[unkempt wagon]

Get Snowball OC, one shots em

[next stirrup]

I think i cried when i finished the edd

[unkempt wagon]

They are the only two OCs for Cryo cannon I have

And I think snowball is much more useful then icicle

[lone lance]

I were running tuned cooler in the EDD though.

[icy river]

What about the snowball

Yep

[crimson tinsel]

Snowball is great against mactera plague but tuned cooler is my all around go-to

Great for anything larger than grunts

[mellow cove]

Stage 2 is basically mactera plague, except you won't freeze anything because half of macteras are elites

[crimson tinsel]

So far from the DD cores the most notable new OC I got is NTP

Stage two ended with the scout flinging himself into the pod while me and the other guy IW’d our way in lol

[mental needle]

Yes. DD stage 1. Someone posted on Reddit about it.

[quartz heath]

Is there a reason why a lot of regular Deep Dives are asking for +100 levels or Promoted dwarves? (this weeks)

[quiet mortar]

Yeah, sometimes players don't like teaching Greenbeards.

I tend to avoid those lobbies when I can lol

[quartz heath]

Thought there were something special about the current deep dive, since i saw so many more than usual (which usually is found on the Elite Deep Dives).

[severe tusk]

If you can't carry the 3 worst players in DRG in a regular DD, then you are in no position to make demands of anyone 😉

[untold elk]

What can I do as a gunner to make sure that elite deep dives go better? I use the mini gun instead of the auto cannon and the 3 burst pistol with the multiboom.

cluster grenade. Multiple booms.

Hmm. I need to work on my shield throws then. They were not going where I was intending to last night.

Yet another reason we need a practice range on the station.

It would help because in game I get a limited amount of shields to try to throw and they have a recharge time. A practice range would let me play with the physics of it in an environment with unlimited ammo and maybe a shorter recharge.
Oh yeah the BRT7 does a good job making up for the minigun. Its not perfect but I can pick off exploders at a distance.

[lone lance]

well, beyond the normal stuff of dropping them when taking damage or when reviving

[crimson tinsel]

Autocannon OC that shoots shields when

[untold elk]

Half the time Im using the shield its to give me cover because someone already went down. Last nights throws left them just outside the bubble.

[severe tusk]

Yeah, shields should often be used to preemptively block damage and prevent downs, not just for reviving people.

I am not above creating a bunker to flee into from time to time during mactera plagues. Or, you know, just have the scout toss a cryo grenade their way as they are all bunched up while approaching the group 😄

[verbal igloo]

elite deep dive anyone lmao

[simple rampart]

Hard to tell... I had no problems either to get DD yesterday and EDD today and when going onto the dives I was ~50lvl and below. Both times got chill groups without needles rushing, DD done under 45 min, EDD was 1h 1m. Even went later for drinks with dive mates.

[quick thorn]

For gunner I run carpetbomber or neurotoxin autocannon to deal with swarms, and lead spray burst pustol for weakspot damage on single targets.

[thorny geyser]

We had dreadnought wave in the last phase of EDD, is this a thing for anyone else?

[novel ore]

dreadnought wave?

you mean pretorians

also no

[shadow shoal]

You can have a swarm replaced with a single dread spawn

Any of the 3

[novel ore]

damn

110 hours havent had that ever

[severe tusk]

I have only seen it happen 3-4 times in 700+ hours of play.

[shadow shoal]

First time I had it was on a deep dive

[severe tusk]

I am not sure when it was added to the game. I only started playing DRG earlier this year.

[odd comet]

I believe it has a 2% chance of happening in Mining missions, and a higher chance in PE and Refinery missions

And it's been in the game since I started playing, before the official release

[severe tusk]

Weird that I have found like 34 error cubes, but only had only maybe 4 random dreads show up. It seems way more rare than 2%, or else I am having extraordinary luck.

[thorny geyser]

you mean pretorians
@novel ore No, a random dreadnought twins fight.

[lethal drum]

I've had 10+ dreads show up in roughly 700 hours of playtime, so it's probably just very rare

[untold elk]

The first time I had it happen was after the elite enemy types were released. Dont know if it happened before then and it was just a coincidence or not.

[thorny geyser]

our driller was... special

but we still pulled through

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1751330313937582643/253E02C8CB2D31AA2FA590D1C2E8A5CBB89D57D1/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

[burnt sandal]

your driller is a new player who's not experienced/skilled enough for higher hazard I guess

happens

[thorny geyser]

doesn't explain why he spoke nothing on chat, ordered resupplies to the bottoms of pits (several at the time) and tried to down us with satchels

but he did something, so we let the weirdness slide

This EDD was loaded with nitra, we had over 700 at one point.

So do not be afraid to spend.

[burnt sandal]

oh he was just trolling then

or completely drunk

or both 😛

[thorny geyser]

could be

I thought we were goners when dread twins showed up, but scout did some clutching and saved the day.

[severe tusk]

Sounds like the exact opposite of last week's EDD, nitra-wise.

[jolly hazel]

scout tried to carry doretta back on EDD by himself

then ragequits next stage after getting caught by cave leech

still beat it with a lot of nitra to spare

[thorny geyser]

and you didnt help him? for shame

[night granite]

two people quit the full lobby of the EDD at the beginning of stage 2. Luckily the game went easy mode on me and the scout afterwards

[jolly hazel]

I tried to

he kept getting downed immediately and the other two were in the drop pod

[cerulean rapids]

EDD felt like a regular DD this week

[restive patrol]

pretty good when ppl come together
mactera on stage 3 will test that haha

imo

[modest ginkgo]

what is deep dive?

[leaden cypress]

deep dive & elite deep dive are two missions which consist in clearing 3 classic levels in a row, with each of them having 2 objectives (primary & secondary)

You gain access to them after your first promotion

[random shadow]

also your ammo carries over

[leaden cypress]

^

[random shadow]

so remember to save it!

[leaden cypress]

ammo, nitra, HP & gold

(along with other mats, though you can't find them in DD & EDD except from hoarders)

[thorny geyser]

hoarders are quite common in deep dives, so try to go alex murphy on them ASAP

[hollow parrot]

Hello miners, Crossplay come to DRG some day ? x.x

[severe tusk]

Isn't there crossplay between Xbox One and the Windows 10 Store version? Sadly not for Steam.

[burnt sandal]

if you're asking for crossplay between microsoft and steam versions, it's sadly not happening, for multiple reasons.

[wraith shard]

What happen if you got left behind in deep dive

[severe tusk]

You show up in the next stage.

[vocal quarry]

Any benefit to doing EDD more than once?

[torn leaf]

just when all of us reached the droppod of EDD lv3, then game crashed

[pale sigil]

No. You only get the rewards once a week.

[arctic jolt]

How about the xp ?

[radiant granite]

use dash lol

[crimson tinsel]

Maybe make a mod for it where once you’re inside the shield, you can’t leave until it goes away. That way you can shield lock the scout to down them easier

[thorny geyser]

Run.

Gunner shield is a panic button and a damn good one.

you can block tight tunnels with it to get to a better position, you can survive close up slasher swarms, you can resupply in peace

its pretty good, but its not mandatory for any of these

[dreamy dragon]

Mow them down before they down you 🙃

[radiant granite]

you said "any tips for preventing downs beyond dropping a shield" tho

as in stuff aside from shield, seemingly

[crimson tinsel]

Fat Boy the shield when you’re right outside of it

[radiant granite]

??? the phrasing of that sentence makes it seem like you're asking for alternatives to shield for dealing with mactera hitsquads in or out of context. it's an honest answer just like the guy immediately afterwards who mentioned burrowing into the wall as driller or using cryos as scout

[fluid fern]

Platforms were super helpful in this week's regular DD

[manic pivot]

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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!
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[lime pivot]

EDD, US Southwest hosting, Slayer stout, please join soon, ROCK AND STONE!

[rustic fjord]

Whats Shining Gate on the Deep Dive?

Thats the name isnt it?

Also, sorry, i was looking at the bottom one, didn't realise it

[rare vortex]

DEEEEP

[wraith shard]

hows the dds this week

[leaden cypress]

ez

[restive patrol]

pretty straightforward

[pallid sundial]

Haven't done the normal one but the edd was pretty easy but boring

[lucid trellis]

It was only really hard when the driller didn’t make enough room for stage 2

[severe tusk]

The only dicey moment in the EDD for my random group was when someone started the black box a couple of seconds after a swarm spawned at the end of stage 3.

[restive patrol]

that'll usually do it

[shadow minnow]

ugh I started doing dd too late this week

No one is around to do them

[shadow shoal]

I mean, I’ll be around them later

[shadow minnow]

welp, guess I'm not doing dd this week

6 runs of dd and all failed on floor 2

I have never see nthat before either

;=;

[summer thistle]

im down for a deep dive

[thorny geyser]

Elite threat on stage 2 couldve been dicey with less ammo, I was quite trigger happy with minigun.

[shadow shoal]

I believe in you, don’t give up miner!

[slender river]

dd not edd?

[shadow minnow]

edd, sorry.

[shadow minnow]

I ran it so many times today I max tilted and had to stop. ;=;

[shadow shoal]

Time to try again

[shadow minnow]

wanna help? :p

[shadow shoal]

I would, but work

DRG mobile when

[neon flame]

Found the holy blue-spotted mushrum on the standard DD

#drg-gallery

[atomic anchor]

Classic dread

[stiff shell]

Did the EDD change if you have 3 vs 4 players?

there was a BETC on one today which is different from a few days ago

[leaden cypress]

some parts depend on player count

BET-C is one of them

[stiff shell]

ahh, 2nd level seems a whole lot different also

[drifting hatch]

people when I switched to the developer version to play it was all good but when I switched to the version without beta it doesn't let me play it loads but it closes instantly, it only lets me play in developer mode

help pls

[fringe kettle]

1. https://i.imgur.com/JIW7qG4.png
2. pinned messages #experimental-bug-discussion

[icy chasm]

did the DDs change for the halloween event or just pumpkins?

[sleek nexus]

edd this week?

mission wise

[shadow shoal]

📌

[fiery cedar]

Lol, does DRG really still not have host migration?

[quasi cove]

Everything is still p2p so not that surprising, just unfortunate

Not an issue 99% of the time anyways

[orchid marlin]

Hey guys, literally bought this game and played the tutorial and pumped about it, looking forward to play some co-op, would you say i should play some solo missions first or just jump right into co -op?

ah shoot

wrong chat ._.

[rain raven]

Hi and welcome to Hoxxes!!, if you have friends who also have the game you will enjoy learning at the same time as them, but if you doubt, you can create a game in public asking for help, surely a gray beard will help you and help you explain the basics, do not be afraid of the community is generally very friendly and cordial

[rain raven]

The key is not wanting to run and do missions to get quick experience, savor everything little by little and patience otherwise you will feel frustrated if you want to achieve many things in a short time ;), I understand that now with the season pass the content to do can be overwhelming, for a person who has just started, keep calm and enjoy!! you will not miss anything all the content you will be able to get it sooner or later 😉

[summer musk]

Is the "Today's Special" Buff from "The Abyss Bar" Drinks a Buff per Player or for the whole group ?

[wet shale]

each individual has to drink it to get the buff

[lost night]

Does someone manage do solo on second stage of EDD?

I've got my beard kick by the elite slasher and Tri-Jaws

[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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[pearl gust]

I'm new to DD but I'm curious, if you do a DD, can you do EDD for additional blank cores?

[burnt sandal]

yes

[nimble anchor]

This week's EDD was the first one I ever played, with a few randos and it was pretty tough at times with the elite enemies in the 2nd mission and the mactera swarms in the last. How difficult are EDDs usually, compared to this week?

[leaden cypress]

this one was pretty easy imo

My view of difficulty heavily depends on the amount of nitra the levels have to offer

this EDD had a ton of it

There were way harder EDDs (with extremely tight nitra management or huge amounts of enemies) before, but these ones are kinda rare

[nimble anchor]

yea I was playing gunner with the bullet hell OC and I was going through way too much ammo. If there was less nitra i'd have been useless

[leaden cypress]

It's all about speed in the end

[nimble anchor]

Perhaps for EDDs I use a different OC

[leaden cypress]

if you do the objectives fast, you consume less nitra

i've seen gunners playing very well with bullet hell

[nimble anchor]

I think we managed in about 1 hour 15 minutes

[leaden cypress]

Well if it was your first EDD that's understandable

once you get used to it, it'll be easier

[stuck hamlet]

do black box emit sounds to be located

[leaden cypress]

No but you can see them on the map

everytime

[stuck hamlet]

funny, then it was a bug
had to search it in the dd for a good 15 mins

[pearl gust]

Thank you, I'll keep it in mind :)

[leaden cypress]

oh wait

ok i don't think i've read it correctly

I think blackboxes do emit sound

however it's easier to locate it through the map as it's always displayed

[stuck hamlet]

yeah we didn't had any blip on the map

[shadow shoal]

The scariest thing on this edd was two elite grabbers spawning at once

[novel ore]

Elites are annoying

Shield disruption is deadly

[stray lantern]

Shield disruption is my weakness when I play as scout

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
Planet scanning is still in progress, 12 hours left until new Deep Dives!
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[atomic rapids]

hi, is the third stage of the elite deep dive supposed to be two dreadnought random spawns or did we just get ridiculously unlucky

its GOTTA be intentional

there's no way

[burnt sandal]

random dread spawn ?

[atomic rapids]

hey theres a swarm coming just kidding its a dreadnought

twice in a row

[burnt sandal]

I think you're just very very very unlucky 😄

[atomic rapids]

no fuckin way boss

i refuse to believe it

[burnt sandal]

Well, you better start believin' 😛

[atomic rapids]

rgr o7

all we had left to do was the black box on stage three and we got a hiveguard and classic random spawned

[burnt sandal]

waves are randoms so

you just go very unlucky

[atomic rapids]

epic

so glad

at least i got the other two

[pure arch]

Genuinely Sorry for you

[lost night]

That Elite Grabber tho

He literally lure me to the spitball

[burnt sandal]

they're evolvin'

[lost night]

I can't do the second stage on solo

But man, that elite variant just bullet sponge

[dusty barn]

Question, what's the deep dives for this week again? sorry missed the dives for the past couple weeks and I can't seem to find the Dives

[burnt sandal]

check the pinned message

btw, this message is edited each week

so whenever you want to check it, you can

[dusty barn]

thank you!

[burnt sandal]

https://tenor.com/view/deep-rock-bosco-bosco-deep-rock-galactic-salute-robot-gif-15787514

[willow oxide]

That’s like a 0.7 chance. Each.

[burnt sandal]

random dreadnought is 1.53% of base chance of happening. Going up with hazard level.

[willow oxide]

Divided by 2 cause it happened twice

Quick maths

I genuinely thought it was 0.7 each tho. I had a convent excuse

[burnt sandal]

That's not how % work 😄

[willow oxide]

That makes it even better!

[burnt sandal]

Poor miner tho

[willow oxide]

Rip

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[chrome olive]

Did the previous DD Elite and bunker did a damn good job

[crimson tinsel]

Last time we did a bunker in a DD, the Gunner went off on his own while we were prepping, ignored us trying to gather everyone and then ran back and busted my plats in the ceiling to get in. Then blamed us for being in a hole in the ground after we then had to watch two separate entrances.

[thorny geyser]

Last time we had a bunker, bulk peeled off the ceiling and said hello.

[crimson tinsel]

He just wanted some sugar

Be a neighbor

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives are now available!
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[crimson tinsel]

Les do dis

[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: Rocky Gate
Stage 1: 2 M.U.L.E.s + 150 Morkite | Rich Atmosphere Exploder Infestation
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + Dreadnought Twins | No Mutators!
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Low Oxygen

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Radioactive Exclusion Zone | Code Name: Sacred Look
Stage 1: 3 M.U.L.E.s + 2 Eggs | No Mutators!
Stage 2: 200 Morkite + 📡 1 Black Box | Exploder Infestation
Stage 3: 4 Eggs + 2 M.U.L.E.s | Elite Threat

[broken shore]

EDD 2nd : 200 Morkite + 1 black box / exploder infestation

EDD 3rd : 4 eggs + 2 mule / elite threat

[open tide]

Looks like this week's EDD will be just as easy as the last one

I'm glad, because 2 weeks ago we had Dreadnoughts on all 3 stages, that was painful

[oak pond]

I had less issues with that EDD than last week's

stage 2 kicked my ass all the way to sunday

this week tho, unless a mactera wave spawns on the last second you're fixing the black box, or 2 bulks spawn on the black box, was relatively easy

or unless your host crashes

all of which happened to me :<

[crimson tinsel]

SHIT

lost internet on third stage

guess I'll just go without cosmetic this week

don't feel like redoing everything

[shadow shoal]

Coward

[crimson tinsel]

only lost internet for a moment too

sucks

[shadow shoal]

You could be missing out on a beard

What kind of self respecting dwarf would allow themselves to leave a beard behind

[leaden cypress]

Damn

how nice it is to meet 3 players, all of them being huge fans of bunkering (so much that they make a bunker during each swarm)

Along with host being so toxic that it doesn't let me take my own supply & start taunting whenever i tell him that bunkering is a lot more annoying than playing normally

In the end communication was so bad that he tried to stole my supply again but took his friend's instead, died while complaining through his mic because someone started the BB & ended up wasting another supply drop to supply his friend

I was scout, host was gunner, his friend was driller & engi was a newbie who started calling me an ass whenever i answered to gunner for some reason https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/208606706580586498/903286313682358282/unknown.png?width=1196&height=676

Too bad such people still exist in DRG

[valid swift]

I am not sure, but, from what you have described, there is a chance that you were actually the bad guy here...

[leaden cypress]

May i ask what made me the bad guy please ?

Legit asking though

The only reason for me to be roasted during this EDD was simply because i was worried about the first stage since the uplink was all the way down the hole near the pod & i didn't want to see bulks/oppressors spawn right on my butt

I've witnessed it way too many times to not be worried about it

[valid swift]

I said "there is a chance" because, I wasn't present during the run and don't know the details of your interactions with with these guys.
But if 3/4 people want to follow a specific strategy, you should consider not trying to brute-force your way.

Though I do agree that bunkering isn't a pinnacle of DTG gameplay and has severe drawbacks, but some people actually prefer that over fighting in the open, because they don't like feeling surrounded.

[leaden cypress]

I understand your point of view

however i didn't try to bruteforce at all

i told them i was worried there would be detos & oppressors

I ended up agreeing with their strat saying that i won't complain anymore

And for some reason they took it as a taunt

And started acting like kids by stealing supplies & such

[valid swift]

Well, I said, I wasn't there, so I can't know the whole picture for sure.
Sorry if my assumption was a bit rude.

[leaden cypress]

All good

Hope i don't meet them again

[cobalt fiber]

That's why I always host 🙂

[oak pond]

too bad it's not always the best idea

my upload is shit

also, the amount of pearl clutching people do (both here and in the subreddit) when it comes to bunkers is amusing

[cobalt fiber]

I haven't seen people bunkering up for quite some time. On haz5 at least.

[oak pond]

this week's EDD's first mission has the uplink in the bottom of a crater

[crimson tinsel]

We bunk'd it okay but without cryo it would have been easily overrun

[dreamy dragon]

Wtf can the edd look any easier?

[leaden cypress]

There were easier EDD actually

the easiest i remember of had 2 escorts with 900+ nitra at the end of it

[dreamy dragon]

nahhh dude rly

i mean 1 escort is harder than this entire edd

but hey maybe the map is so awful that it isn't

a total of 5 mini mules here too so a lot of extra nitra

[leaden cypress]

it was easy because there were very good mutators iirc

volatile guts in particular

[dreamy dragon]

yea but which class shall i play this edd

think im gonna scout

[leaden cypress]

any is fine tbh

[dreamy dragon]

ok i should phrase my question more thoroughly

which class do i want to play 😄

[willow oxide]

Every Edd with “1 hard stage and the rest are a cakewalk” always go horribly for some reason

Oh god, there’s mules as a primary objective

[dreamy dragon]

Yea, first stage and no modifiers xD

[candid plover]

I don't know if any Dev will read this but yesterday we lost a comrade, a dwarf was left behind, he loved the game but couldn't played it as much as he wanted, and now he'll never be able to dive again. and i don't think i'll be able to do so myself
Long live our fallen brother

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/565850434376302613/903337365341372446/unknown.png

[shadow shoal]

We mine in his honor tonight, my condolences.

[leaden cypress]

just noticed like a dumbass what he was talking about

My condolences sir

[patent cliff]

Yeah, bunkers are fine if you do them right. Have a pre-dug escape tunnel that just needs a hit or two to break and you're fine. They're not some sort of gamebreaking strat for or against the players. And if you don't use the terrain modification tools, what's the point of having them?

99% of the time I just can't be bothered and I'd rather shoot stuff far away

[tidal spruce]

So much dreadnought. Also, exploder infestation in the REZ sounds painful

[upbeat obsidian]

Big Rock and Stone to the legends I just did the EDD with. Fun times all around, even that guy who didn't like sno cones.

[night granite]

sno cones are vastly inferior in every way to ice cream

[tidal spruce]

Snow cones are weird

[amber maple]

but theyre an alternative for peoples who dairy turns their rump into magmacore

[wintry nexus]

but what about italian ice? Good flavors, with a mix of texture between ice cream and sno cones

[bleak comet]

standard DD stage 2 almost kicked my arse along with a stranger
||we broke the cocoon JUST as Mission Control Announced a Dreadnought approach. Twins x2||

shoutout to some bloke MCCAT, 4 against 2 ain't smooth sailin

[severe tusk]

That sounds fun.

[jovial cairn]

you too eh

mine was a hive

[humble ravine]

A toast, to our driller, who lost connection at the end of the second stage of the DD

[drifting laurel]

hey anyone have any recomendations on builds for the new weapons? Im on the experimental patch rn just checking them out

Im a driller main

[burnt sandal]

#experimental-discussions

[drifting laurel]

rip, ty!

[short charm]

Ohhh you love to see it. That one down happened when I grappled, with 80% health toward the pod wiht the other 3 inside. And one of them blew up a gas cloud as I passed through it. No biggie, of course. https://i.imgur.com/OrKa5yb.jpg

Also, what the fudge was that uplink placement on the first map? One of the worst I've ever seen. We plugged it up and then I sat on top of the plug and kited throughout the entire uplink process, all alone. I had precision terror on the M1000 to repeatedly induce fear in everything up top with focus shots. And pheromones to really gather em up for some berserker action. With that said, this EDD was easy, very easy.

[somber glacier]

almost boutta finish my first deep dive

[ancient arrow]

Truth

[radiant patrol]

Is there any way to Transfer your xbox progress to steam without any issues

[quasi cove]

Id ask this in #drg-chat

[shadow shoal]

They did

[stuck swan]

I’m become so obsessed with engi and I want to do the EDD with him

But first I’m completing a promotion assignment for him as driller so I haven’t done it yet

The normal DD was insanely easy

I hope the EDD is difficult last weeks was so easy I beat it in like 40 mins

[novel ore]

no

its still really easy

[narrow lodge]

Easy, but pack a lot of ammo. 😛

[novel ore]

id say its easier than last week

[narrow lodge]

So. Many. Exploders.

[shadow shoal]

Are there 3?

[wraith shard]

I had the same thought.

[humble ravine]

I feel like I need to put out a PSA about exploders. Too many people seem to not realize that you can just let exploders get close, then sprint away, their fuse time is long enough to get away safely. This works both for standing still and then running, or just running through a horde of exploders without stopping.

And that way, you don't need to waste ammo and it really doesn't take any longer.

[shadow shoal]

Counter offer

no

[short trench]

Even better, for all you vamp-abusing drillers out there: Walk through the exploders with your drills active, then sprint away before the explosions. It's free health! Bit riskier without barbed drills.

[pale sigil]

fast EDD

[mellow cove]

Fun fact: when exploder started detonating on its own you can still shoot it in the face and prevent explosion

[mighty arch]

DD wise on the exploder one I had a small ring of platforms that I jumped across repairing it as the exploders followed me instead I'd the team

[tacit jungle]

I wonder how many times you can play the exploder hissing sound through your mic before teammates catch up

hsssss

[leaden cypress]

I'm good at making the leech's hissing sound

[sinful pelican]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/506645659395555330/903795635260620841/unknown.png

this was actually my first EDD, was pretty fun even though it took 3 attempts

one of them was a crash

[thorny geyser]

Well done.

[stuck swan]

I just did my first attempt at this EDD

And I thought it would be easier we were getting swarmed so much

And with all the radioactive crystals final phase

We just didn’t have enough space and we didn’t have the time to clear them

Eventually we were knee deep in enemies

A bulk cornered the gunner

And I ended up being the last one and got caught when dashing

[restive patrol]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez

engi sealing the stage 1 blackbox is great

the rofo

roof*

[thorny geyser]

oh yes

thank goodness there werent any bulks

but just in case, we made several escape tunnels and plugged the hole twice

[restive patrol]

very good

[glass sedge]

How do you rejoin a deep dive after disconnection?

[odd comet]

In theory, you can use the rejoin game option to get back in; in practice, it almost never works so if you disconnect you're out of luck

[glass sedge]

Well that sucks.

[stuck swan]

Should I feel bad for playing terribly?

I just redid the EDD and beat it but I was so tired and I felt like I was just a burden to my team lol

[fallen estuary]

You beat it, that's all that really counts. Leave no dwarf behind

[hollow wraith]

Ok so I've just managed to get my first promotion, how much of a shock am I going to be in for with the deep dives?

[wet shale]

not much if you handle haz 3-4

at least for the regular deep dives

[hollow wraith]

Done some 3's not really done 4's... maybe time for some more practice then!

[random rampart]

Ur fine with only haz3's tbh. I'm lvl 203 and done mostly haz3, so a dd should be absolutely fine with that

[thorny geyser]

Just stay frosty, keep playing like when you succeed in haz 3 and collect all the nitra you can.

Then you shall triumph.

[stuck swan]

I mostly play haz 5 now even though my success isn’t guaranteed

I love how overwhelming it is

Especially on point extractions which usually have non-stop swarms

[left hearth]

i hate this damn planet!

[chrome quiver]

This rock is gonna be the death of us

[haughty orchid]

My crew barely managed to survive the EDD last night. We set up our camp point at the tunnel to with the black box, hoping it would help defend from Mactera/spitters. Of course that meant dealing with waves of exploders. At one point all three of my teammates were down in one spot and I had very little HP - thankfully a wave of exploders came, killed all the bugs poking at my friends’ corpses, and I was able to start the revive chain.

Victory was never in doubt /s

[timber rune]

nope!

[leaden cypress]

yes i do

[restive patrol]

if you freeze x<2 seconds hit alt f4
thats how im able to always get the reconnect screen after restarting the game

if you wait too long and the screen reacts you wont get the rejoin prompt

[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!
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[mint spindle]

Finished my first EDD yesterday with some randoms, only took two attempts and we worked together pretty well, absolutely loved the difficulty

[lost night]

how deep the DD cave was?

They abyss bar just gonna give me tunnel rat

[maiden berry]

one of the stages had some taller sections, nothin too bad