deep-dive-discussion

[fresh girder]

bugged weapons

damn

i hope you finish it

we will do it tomorrow

[marsh crown]

You saw nothing, definitely me not getting channels mixed up.

[fallen jetty]

Just finished the edd with 3 gunners and a scout. Man, they made it pretty smooth cycling shields through the black box phase. Scout mobility made helped actually getting back to the drop pod. Might be the most efficient and quickest edd I've done so far.

[jolly hazel]

3 gunners on a refining?

interesting

[vestal ibex]

Is there a general % amount of people that do EDD? I'm new-ish to the game but haz 5 isn't bad, and I've yet to EDD. DD was a joke though.

[fallen jetty]

The mactera plague with a black box was a bigger challenge than the terrain for building pipelines. Cycling the shields trivialized it.

[lament musk]

the terrain was fine for laying pipes yeah, no terraforming needed at all

[vestal ibex]

@oblique nest that worked well

EDD with a gunner/driller, got cleared

[gloomy dome]

Can we take breaks between deep dive missions or do we have to rock and stone deep with no disturbances

[vestal ibex]

You have a small break between levels as there is a load screen and the quick stats screen, but it has to be a quick break

[gloomy dome]

Oh i see

Guess we will have to get shit done irl before diving in lol

Thankss

[glossy walrus]

at least on ps, the stats screen doesn't advance until someone hits the button, so if you get everyone to agree you can take a break there

definitely have had people take bathroom and smoke breaks there before

[sacred rover]

its the same on pc, you just gota let your team know and wish no one forgets it and advances the mission.

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[midnight citrus]

this weeks edd has more than enough nitra

almost died at stage 2 korlok tho

[unkempt saffron]

Huh, korlok?

[midnight citrus]

stage 2 elim has dreadnought and rival presence and korlok tyrant weed

wait stage 2 isnt elim its salvage

salvage + rival presence + korlok tyrant weed

incrediby annoying

its in the middle of a giant room and the shard is on an elevated pillar

[deep plover]

Huh

[unkempt saffron]

Thats not edd, thats not even dd

There are no salvage missions this week

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(And no korloks in DD/EDD in general, it’s excluded from possible spawns)

[jolly hazel]

perhaps you mean the weekly core hunt

[midnight citrus]

wasnt edd salt pits

hmm

ah well

this is what happen when you try to sum all of your missions at the end of the day

[fierce pecan]

im gonna crack open both dreads, destroy both eggs, and fight the nemesis all at once

wish me luck

[jolly hazel]

now do it on edd

[fierce pecan]

this build is also pretty bad for dealing with bots

volatile impact mixture + wave cooker with popcorn + neurotoxin grenade

[jolly hazel]

why take neurotoxin if you are going swarm clear primary and secondary

I think thats the build I was using a few days ago

absolutely shreds haz 5 swarms

[fierce pecan]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

still trying to figure this build out

[west merlin]

Oof, tried the EDD with 2 friends and didn't get a 4th after several minutes so we started without a Gunner.
Went fine until the Black Box :(

We kept going down and couldn't get anyone up because of all the Mactera, went through 3 iron wills

[jolly hazel]

cáncer del cielo...

[vestal ibex]

Mactera is so agressive

[bold thunder]

did 4 trijaws spawn in front of you and immediately start firing

[unkempt saffron]

Build a roof, solves your mactera problems real easy

[west merlin]

Oh that's a good idea

A bit constraining

We could also have bunkered it down I guess

[jolly hazel]

laughs in bulk detonator

[bold thunder]

laughs in nem

laughs in oppressor

[midnight citrus]

I remember there's a bulk det in every stage

[jolly hazel]

you can at least bum rush an opressor with melee

[cerulean lichen]

bulk is not a guaranteed spawn, it is just luck

[midnight citrus]

I just shoot it with a phero bolt and the ifg it and free half health damage

[brisk pagoda]

embed det + 1 ifg will get you the whole health bar

[midnight citrus]

don't have that oc

[hoary cove]

all you really need are ifgs, cus bulks have a x3 weakspot anyways

do ur doing insane dmg with most direct dmg weapons if it’s in an ifg

[brisk pagoda]

my point was moreso that scout can solo a bulk with embed det and a single ifg

[hoary cove]

he can do it with a lot of his builds

if you make good use of the weakpoints

[jolly hazel]

weakpoints are dead by half hp if im using minigun lol

[broken cape]

what do you do if you're in a mission and the hiveguard doesnt spawn any babies?

[hushed sequoia]

throw a shield on it

[broken cape]

hmm we're driller and scout only

[barren prism]

did stage 2 normal drop pod spawn inside the outer wall for anyone else?

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[arctic sorrel]

Yep

[random rampart]

MC is fixed...

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-impossible-marvel-shocked-gif-15104180

[jolly hazel]

holy crap

[unkempt saffron]

This must be the start to a new era

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[left sleet]

wow

that was a shitty end to an EDD

seconds before we got to the drop pod, the host got disconnected (crashed?)

😦

[rain lagoon]

usually letting it melee you works as well

[lime marlin]

anyone here able to deep dive?

[jolly vortex]

A friend wants to know if he should use triple beam or not, how do you guys feel about it

Wrong chat

[warm cove]

bro..

I just finished the EDD, there was a fuckin nemesis at spawn, the wave that followed had a bulk, the refuel wave spawned another bulk, and we get through that hell and scrap out the heartstone, we slap it on and our scout lagged out, the poor bastard. He couldn't even rejoin =[

[ionic bear]

My last attempt died just as we got to the heartstone on the last mission

just decided to wait for the new one

[manic pivot]

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[pine epoch]

I tried doing the EDD, but at the end of stage 2 in the middle of a swarm, 2/4 dwarves were down, I froze the enemies around one of them to go for the revive, but Engie decided to lob a grenade at the body, killing both the enemies and me instantly, then he also died.
10/10

[stone leaf]

How i can get Heavy Duty Fixer?

Restart my character?

[sly kettle]

Looks like Mission Control has finally stopped drinking.

[calm jetty]

Easiest edd i have ever played in my life

[zenith wind]

There is still time before DDs are announced. Blackout Stout can take care of that in minutes…

[manic pivot]

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New Deep Dives are now available!
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[oblique glen]

[sly kettle]

Good luck, everyone!

[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Glacial Strata | Code Name: Barbarous Trick
Stage 1: 2 M.U.L.E.s + 150 Morkite | Rival Presence
Stage 2: Protect the Drilldozer + 2 Eggs | Low Oxygen
Stage 3: 6 Eggs + 150 Morkite | Low Gravity

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Dense Biozone | Code Name: Old Dump
Stage 1: 200 Morkite + 2 M.U.L.E.s | Rival Presence
Stage 2: 10 Aquarq + 2 Eggs | Low Gravity Haunted Cave
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + Dreadnought Hiveguard | No Mutators

[vivid zinc]

jesus

[obtuse pasture]

ugh rival presence.. sigh

[topaz plank]

Dammit now it's both!

Make your mind up RP

[hollow citrus]

dense biozone eww

[topaz plank]

Could be worse I guess

[sick lake]

Eugh at least the rival presence gets knocked out early

[obtuse pasture]

you don't like hordes of jellys + hordes of bots..

[topaz plank]

Assuming cave gen is merciful

[sick lake]

And the mules will give us some spare nitra.

[stiff sinew]

:(

[topaz plank]

True

[hollow citrus]

ok on the bright side at least it's not azure weald

[sick lake]

Inferno breach cutter with lingering plasma makes silly work of the nemesis

[hollow citrus]

nothing like finding small glowing stuff amidst a sea of glowing stuff

[obtuse pasture]

I am just tired of being borderline forced to run fire builds for Bot reasons

Rivals really messes with blind run build choices

[sick lake]

Honestly i just hate when i get rivals AND exterminations. Pick a lane, damnit

[topaz plank]

How bad would rp and point extraction be?

[obtuse pasture]

elims/dotty/rivals pick zero of the above for EDD

[obtuse pasture]

had a H5 mission with 10 tricky aq.. horrific

[topaz plank]

Wow I see

[sick lake]

I did a haz 3 with little issue

Got a nemesis spawn on the base right as the drop pod came. Got dicey then

[topaz plank]

I only ask since I haven't had a point extraction with the rp warning

[obtuse pasture]

really PE + Rivals on higher haz is just a straight nope from me.. you either get something annoying or something impossible nothing in between.. at least they patched nemmy spawns.. on the last PE + Rivals I got 4 nemesis in a ROW during passive waves.. making getting the job down impossible

[obtuse pasture]

but have you been yoinked FROM the drop pod?

[sick lake]

I was running gunner so neurotoxin/magic bullets on rhino for bugs and fire damage + high damage/velocity (forget the OC name) for hurricane. Partner ran scout to get the aquarqs

[sick lake]

Thankfully, no.

[topaz plank]

I've had some near experiences

[obtuse pasture]

if I see an Dotty + RP in Azure weal in stage 3 of an EDD... oh dear

[sick lake]

I usually run field medic + IW on my deep dives

Half tempted to work heightened senses into the mix

[obtuse pasture]

i do solo EDD every week

[sick lake]

Cave leeches and mactera are one thing i dont usually sweat

[topaz plank]

That's my perks but with vampire on driller

[sick lake]

Vampire is a passive

[topaz plank]

Yeah ik

[sick lake]

Oh right on

Yeah vampire is great on driller

I did run berserker on him for awhile but i seem to get more mileage out of sprint

[waxen terrace]

stage 2 edd 10 aquarq + 2 eggs | low grav + haunted cave

[topaz plank]

OH

[obtuse pasture]

Dash on driller is key

[sick lake]

Dash i mean

[topaz plank]

Well I guess low grav is a plus...

[safe gulch]

Man, how do you solo EDDs? I can never seem to have the guts to do it

[reef bison]

Bosco with max revives

Ez pz

Try using gunner

[topaz plank]

I can only do solo deep dives

[obtuse pasture]

RP + haunted cave.. oh boy .. stage 3 gonna be some elite threat

[sick lake]

me, who's not even tried to unlock Haz 5

[topaz plank]

Don't tempt fate

[reef bison]

Haz5 is amazing with friends

A chore if solo

[obtuse pasture]

I have solo EDD with Scout/Gunner/Engi and a few times driller (although not my fav for solo EDD because I HATE doing dreads solo with driller)

[sick lake]

Ive cleared a few haz 4s, but 2/3 is my comfort zone

3 less so since the nems have shown up

[reef bison]

If you really want ez mode victory every time Neurotoxin Gunner with Leadspray

[obtuse pasture]

not that fun on dread heavy EDDs

[safe gulch]

3 for fun, 4 for serious time, 5 if I feel suicidally overconfident

[oblique glen]

dd2: drilldozer, 2 eggs, low 02

[reef bison]

Well if theres more dreads then engineer works great too

But you can get away with neurotoxin gunner too

[safe gulch]

Dreads on Haz4+ though

[reef bison]

Just your BRT will run out of ammo fast lol

[sick lake]

Nooooooooo

Went so long without low O2s in DD

[reef bison]

It's still really doable

[safe gulch]

I swear solo work is impossible, too much nonsense happens

[oblique glen]

bosco is the best teammate

[reef bison]

Yeah as long as you have bosco with max revives you shouldn't fail the EDD

It really is easy with bosco

[topaz plank]

Is there o2 tanks on doretta?

[obtuse pasture]

I did a lot of solo EDD with scout last patch .. Either Bouncy Drak + ED Zkuks + IFG or M1k+cryo minelets+IFG

[oblique glen]

yes

[reef bison]

And resupply pods

That's about it besides molly

[calm jetty]

This edd was unbearably easy

[reef bison]

Maybe hack c too?

[topaz plank]

Thanks

[waxen terrace]

edd stage 3 200 morkite + 1 hiveguard no modifiers

[topaz plank]

Well that's a relief

[reef bison]

Looks like I'm going scout or gunner for this weeks EDD then

[topaz plank]

Yep and I'm probably going as engi on today's dd

[jolly hazel]

low grav= free win

[reef bison]

Deep dives are doable with any class anyway

[jolly hazel]

outside of mactera

[fierce oxide]

what's the line up looking like for the DDs this week?

[topaz plank]

Pretty decent imo

[brazen musk]

.

[topaz plank]

Only thing to worry about is Rivel presence and if your doing edd then haunted cave I guess

Just waiting for stage 3 of the dd to show

[waxen terrace]

DD stage 2 has a betc

[topaz plank]

Frick

[wraith shard]

so, why does the first stage always have rival presence

[plush stump]

last week there was no Rival Presence

[topaz plank]

I don't think so

[plush stump]

oh it had on 2nd stage DD, but it was just DD

[oblique glen]

dd3 6 eggs, 150 morkite, low grav

[unkempt saffron]

Haunted cave? Hehe boi

[lusty fiber]

Is rival presence a must from now on?

I just want to play cryo driller for fucks sake

[waxen terrace]

no?

last edd has no rivals

it is time for crispr and sludge blast driller to rise again

[lusty fiber]

Dd had

[waxen terrace]

and this dd has no rival presence

[lusty fiber]

I spent countless hours to finally get that tuned cooler just to be unable to play mu favourite class

Wait

[unkempt saffron]

Its only one stage

[waxen terrace]

and?

calm down lol

[burnt sandal]

it's just the week's DDs, it's not the end of the world

[waxen terrace]

at most youre gonna be useless against patrol bots with the cryogun

[unkempt saffron]

Who says you cant use cryo for rival presence, sure it wont be that effective but youre not gonna get steamrolled

[lusty fiber]

I know

[waxen terrace]

you can still wm1 shredders

[lusty fiber]

I'm just tired of not being able to play what I want, people say that bots don't force you into fire builds, but they for sure force you out of freeze builds

[unkempt saffron]

Tbf there is the issue of bursters and those shield thingies, but you can easily counter that by drilling to the main router thingy which controls them

[lusty fiber]

Encountered a nemesis with cryo gun and microwave once

[waxen terrace]

you can do that in every other mission

aka weekly cores and assignments

[lusty fiber]

I could still bring it in the DD , but in the Edd? Doubt

[waxen terrace]

edd just use crispr

[unkempt saffron]

Just get teammates to carry you on stage 1

[lusty fiber]

I still have flashbacks from 1st stage salvage rival presence

[waxen terrace]

i think rival presence is more annoying to deal with than the hiveguard

[jolly hazel]

personally I'd take a good cryo user over a medicore flamer user on a rival presence edd

[waxen terrace]

and shard engi deals with dreads easily

[unkempt saffron]

And dont use microwave, at least er subie or epc would be adequate choices

[jolly hazel]

because I(gunner) or engie can usually deal with the bots

[waxen terrace]

id take a good crispr over a mediocre cryo

[jolly hazel]

yeah?

[unkempt saffron]

Just drill the robots

Ez pz

[waxen terrace]

there is another option

[lusty fiber]

Good luck drilling nemesis

[waxen terrace]

hellfire gunner xd

[jolly hazel]

hot bullets is enough

[wraith shard]

if anyone wants to have a chat with mic while doing a regular deep dive my steam is https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199043660500/

[jolly hazel]

#lfg-steam

[unkempt saffron]

Or #steam-profile-sharing

[waxen terrace]

send your ip address and i might consider chatting

[lusty fiber]

Also photos of your credit card from both sides

[random rampart]

Wrong chat my dude, #steam-profile-sharing is the place for sharing those links

[wraith shard]

ah thnx

[valid pollen]

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[honest spade]

stage 3 low grav, nice

[old widget]

That typo in Stage 2 DD description… 😅
(Thanks as usual for updating the post, it was just a hilarious one letter omission)

[pine epoch]

Protect the *****zer

[brazen musk]

what

[lean mason]

Dill 'pickle' dozer

[pine epoch]

That's easy: it's because they aren't

Are you sure you didn't replay last week's EDD or start the lobby before the refresh?

Look in the pins, it's different

If you relaunch the game, does it still show the new EDD as completed?

I guess you just got another chance to complete the previous one ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[old widget]

This can happen, it’s an “exploit” of sorts. The timer for “give players a new set of cores” can roll over while you’re still in the rig with the old deep dives loaded. When that happens you can rerun the old dives and get the new cores.

But regardless of whether you run the old or new dives, you still only get one set of cores for that week, so not much of an exploit unless you’re really not liking how the dives rolled this week

[modern oxide]

Damn, I appreciate its the main focus of this season but getting a little sick of Rival Presence being on a DD AGAIN

[jolly hazel]

#lfg-steam

[limpid pond]

Is every single Deep Dive just gonna have Rival Presence now?

I have a theory that for Rival Presence generation, they just wrote some code to randomly replace some Warnings with Rival Presence so you can always have a bunch of different options for the Season Challenge, but it's making every Dive repetitive now

[burnt sandal]

it's just RNG

last week EDD didn't have rival presence

[limpid pond]

First EDD of Season 02 had it, then last DD had it, and now this week, both the DD and EDD have it
Sure seems like funny RNG regarding something I've observed to have inflated generation chance

[old widget]

we don't know what the RNG buckets are under the hood in the DD / EDD generation algorithm, it's entirely possible that Rival Presence is weighted higher as modifiers go. it's still RNG though

[limpid pond]

Yeah, I don't know anything about the backend, I'm just making an educated guess

[obtuse pasture]

This weeks EDD was not that bad.. layouts were pretty good

Just knocked it out solo gunner

had a REALLY rough swarm + double egg pull + passive wave still about on stage 2 .. but there is a lovely "thunderdome" right next to the base which you can jump in and out of with low grav.. a LOT of kiting later everything is dead

Rival Presence on stage 1 is not that bad.. its the lowest difficulty and I didn't even run fire this week. if RP had been on stage2 though it would have been irritating AF

[jolly hazel]

personally I think the edd was thrown in the tumbler until a rival presence warning was on the seed week 1 but thats just my speculation

[old widget]

yeah, I do wonder about that too

[crimson tinsel]

I used that same arena in the ground a lot lol

[thick jetty]

oh god today's DD and EDD look like hell

Low Oxy, Haunted Cave, Rival Prescence...all my "faves"

[crimson tinsel]

They're not bad

I was with a host who kept changing which Deep Dive we were doing and didn't notice it was the Elite until Stage 2

Just got in expected Rival for the first stage of both

[jolly hazel]

haunted cave is low grav aquarq

[crimson tinsel]

super easy to just jump over the horror

[jolly hazel]

you have to try to get caught in that kind of cave

[lusty fiber]

Dd is fairly easy

Just like your regular missions but with bad modifiers

[thick jetty]

well, i'll try not to whine too much before i actually get to have a go at them

just a little apprehensive about it

[crimson tinsel]

Noticed a lot of swarmers and grunts. Bring someone to wave clear.

[ebon anchor]

Haunted Cave but this EDD was actually a rather easy week I feel

[quiet mortar]

My life is over lmao

That's what I get for typing fast lol

[ebon anchor]

still depends how your spawns turn out on stage 1 I guess

are they still random? the turret spawns

[jolly hazel]

I assume the turrets are tied to the seed/playercount like other stationary enemies

not sure though

[ebon anchor]

The spawns were random on the very first week

like everytime I restarted the turrets were in different positions

[jolly hazel]

with same player count?

[ebon anchor]

yea 4 of us

[jolly hazel]

interesting

that would put it apart from other static spawn influencing modifiers like cave leech cluster

[obtuse pasture]

RP has definitely worked its way to the top of my hate list though.. I dislike fighting a lot of it

[jolly hazel]

we had turrets adjacent to korlok and prospector

awful

it is a nice increase in difficulty though

[lament musk]

the turret field in our EDD run was in a pretty annoying spot, sat right outside one of the cave openings

the driller had to get creative

[obtuse pasture]

I think there are better and more interesting ways to increase difficulty personally

I want MORE bugs and less Rivals in my DDs :p

[jolly hazel]

try starship troopers

[obtuse pasture]

I have.. it is fun

[jolly hazel]

rivals are nice because I can't just default to carpet bomber genocide build on gunner

[obtuse pasture]

I ran JFH Hurricane and UMC Coil (12123) for my solo EDD

[crimson tinsel]

I've been running my flame builds for Gunner and Driller a lot since the update

[obtuse pasture]

I intentionally ran no fire gunner for this weeks EDD to see how it played against rivals

#deep-dive-speedrunning message

like that

[echo storm]

haunted cave with dreadnought is cursed

especially if the map sucks

[wraith flame]

I think I had a situation where the ghost killed the dreadnaught when attacking a dwarf a while back. Was wicked.

[echo storm]

yooo

[sick ginkgo]

Fellow miners

Does dorreta give oxygen in low oxygen escort duty misions?

[tame oracle]

yep

near batteries

[junior tangle]

Damn, what a crazy week. First I've done the normal DD in Glacial Strata and got myself some easy cores.
Then I joined an EDD and completed it and got the cores from it, but during stage 2 I realized that the driller hosted last week's EDD in Crystalline Caverns. Immediately afterwards I checked the terminal and it registered my gained cores for this week's Dense Biozone EDD without actually doing it in Dense Biozone, but interestingly enough it didn't register my normal DD as having gained cores.
So off to Glacial Strata we go, once again, and I gained cores from a normal DD a second time.
Curious if my terminal showcases the registered cores I realized that the EDD again is showcased as incomplete, so I go and do the Dense Biozone EDD and get another set of cores for completion.
I ended up farming double the amount of cores from this week's Deep Dives due to some weirdness with unregistered wins.

[echo storm]

sounds like a major dub

[violet warren]

Okay, why is rival presence so common in deep dives

It's a warning, it should show up every so often, but we haven't had a week since season 2 that didn't have rival presence in at least one of the missions

I would like to play cryo driller thank you very much

[old widget]

Take ice storm

[real prawn]

I completed an EDD for the first time :D

[arctic sorrel]

It's just the second week after season 2, it makes sense that they want us to try the new content

[arctic sorrel]

I cleared it today with cryo driller solo in 38 mins going in blind 🤷‍♂️

[violet warren]

Deep dives are supposed to be randomly generated

[violet warren]

Did you not get a nemesis spawn at all? Cryo driller can handle bots decently well but is going to be hard-countered by the nemesis in solo

[arctic sorrel]

Ice spear

Also no nemesis

[glossy walrus]

yeah ice spear is the way to go with cryo against nemesis

pretty expensive ammo wise since it takes 5 spears or so, but it does it fine, and with the new lower spawn rate it doesn't sound like that big of a deal

[lone marsh]

probs get this alot but what items count towards total makeover for drillers?

[brazen chasm]

Can anyone tell me what the best mission gives the best xp and what difficulty to do said mission?

[true magnet]

Anyone hosting Elite Deep Dive?

[tall meadow]

check lfg channels

[true magnet]

ty bb

[tall meadow]

#drg-chat would be a better place to answer

[wispy monolith]

That's still random though.

[native bridge]

the turret room in the EDD is mega rough jesus

[violet warren]

How easy is it for the driller to cheese it?

[cerulean lichen]

epc mine them

[summer forge]

Second EDD stage as solo scout is such a breeze

[summer forge]

Okay, this EDD is legit amazing for solo scout

tho im using explosive reload on zhukovs, and its pretty busted

[echo storm]

never got the hang of embedded detonators for scout
felt like i zoom through ammo
im a cryo minelets guy

[wraith shard]

ED is for big things, if you try to kill small things with them you burn through your ammo instantly

[echo storm]

found it nice for eliminations

[sick ginkgo]

Nice

[raven grove]

The EDD has rivals again? Bleh.

[violet warren]

For those having trouble with the EDD turret nest, remember that the driller can dig underneath and sabotage the controller from safety

[warm light]

I like rival presence, really separates the good from the bad players.

Firs attempt at the EDD was over when we reached the turret room, our Scout and Gunner had zero patience and went in guns blazing while my friend(our driller) began tunneling to the controller.

They both went down, I had to defend my friend alone while he hacked it, then the swarm started and we wiped because we had neither health nor ammo.

I'm all for giving greenbeards a chance, but you can't just fuck around in an EDD.

[violet warren]

Honestly there's no real excuse if you die to turrets

Taking a bit of damage from them is fair, but if your shields are down you can just break LOS and get your shields back

The best approach against them with a full team is usually to clear the first few turrets to get into the room, locate the turret controller, and then dig underneath to sabotage the controller with as minimal ammo expenditure as possible

Usually the average team is impatient and keeps fighting turrets while the driller is hacking the controller though

[warm light]

Thank you

[wraith shard]

This edd was boring easy same as last week.

[jolly hazel]

yeah really easy

especially with the mining mission+aquarq+mining mission

another good week if people want to try edd

[frosty vapor]

hey are there any dreads in the edd this week?

[warm light]

Hiveguard at the end

[frosty vapor]

guh thanks

[jolly hazel]

turns out carpet bomber is actually pretty good vs hiveguard

brought it because lol 1dread

but carpet bomber splash is enough to hit every weakspot if you aim at the middle one

[lofty parrot]

had the twins spawn right before the dread fight. the dd and edd were overall pretty easy. The turret room was kinda annoying

[round mountain]

Windows force update restart halfway through deep dive

[warm light]

Ouch

[inner kindle]

gotta change that active update window! not nooooooow Windows, i'm gaaaaaaming. 😛

[velvet salmon]

EDD stage two have the flat area near the mine head

i love that

kiting for day

[native bridge]

the second stages were fairly easy regular dive easy as always

i have so much more nitra when i do it solo it seems alot easier in general

[real prawn]

as soon as you enter there a swarm starts

[violet warren]

Then you retreat

[real prawn]

and it's literally a bulk, 3 oppressors, a couple of pretorians and lots, LOTS of bugs

that ain't a joke

i had 3 oppressors decimating my downed body

[violet warren]

I guess sometimes the game just wants to kill you

[real prawn]

Actually it's the only edd i ever completed

At the first try too

[violet warren]

Though with the builds I run I'd consider a shitload of grunts and some slow-moving heavy units to be easy ammo-efficient kills

[real prawn]

Luckily our driller and scout managed the thing

[violet warren]

What build was your driller using?

[real prawn]

flamethrower and microwave

and neurotoxin

I was the gunner and was using lead storm + bulldog and incendiary grenade

the weapons had clean overclocks

by the way, if you haven't done the edd yet watch out

As soon as you get into the first big room after spawn, hell will be upon you

nemesis, swarm and for me even my first ever random dreadnought spawn

although i don't know how random it could have been as it was an edd

the nemesis were two in total in the first stage

[unique spoke]

I picked a good week to do EDD as Scout

flying, flying everywhere, almost never touching the ground except to mine or revive in stage 2

[real prawn]

@unique spoke oh now i remember something

You know the small room next to the mine head?

there's a leech in there

and i watched it trying to get my engi horizontally. Funy

[unique spoke]

Any mission with a Salvage component is going to be like that. Getting close to the minimules triggers waves, so it's easy to accidentally overextend once you get to that big room and get overwhelmed from all sides + static enemies.

My team did not encounter a dreadnought though.

also yeah wow the leech placements were hilarious

[real prawn]

iirc in the first stage it's right next to entrance

evil, luckily engi did the funny bait again

[fallen jetty]

Sometimes the difference between an easy edd and a hard one is the rng that is doing them with randoms. Last week was a breeze, this week I'm on attempt number 4.

[waxen terrace]

its funny cause this week's edd was really easy

even haunted caves wasnt much of an issue cause low grav and wide ass biozone space

[drifting pivot]

irl rng

last edd did it first try with friends
then tried like 3 times with some silver / gold dwarves
then first try with some bronze greenbeards

[fallen jetty]

just re-rolled the rando dice and the edd was as easy as an dd lol

[brazen chasm]

You would think but my message went over their heads

[wraith shard]

<@&296918282403840000> could it be possible to delete this scam message ?
It's in every channel

[harsh steppe]

Yes, that’s Discord usually does it except for today.

[jaunty crag]

Anyone had issues with the morkite side objectives in this week's dd?

[leaden cypress]

no

There's a room with a ton of morkite

[formal vale]

My team almost got wiped out and ran out of Nitra and ammo in the first stage. because of a dreadnought hiveguard spawned in, and after defeating the hiveguard a bulk deto spawned, it was during a swarm as well.

So we're kind of struggling in the second stage due to low Nitra

[jaunty crag]

alright, thats good to know.

[atomic prawn]

i miss last edd, so much nitra, so much fun

[restive trout]

35 minutes for the EDD. New record.

[velvet salmon]

yeah i did this 3 times already, 1 time it went smoothly, 2 times detonator spawn

kinda random

[real prawn]

I also got a dreadnought spawn, but it was the twins. F

[formal vale]

F

[real prawn]

did you guys make it in the end?

or were you wiped out sometime later?

@formal vale

[formal vale]

We make it in the end

We were pessimistic at first, thinking about restarting

But yeah, we keep trying and damn, we went through that hell

[real prawn]

"I'M STILL STANDING"

[formal vale]

[heavy crest]

The edd this week is somewhat easy

[weary scarab]

Is GSG still streaming the DD and EDD weekly?

[burnt sandal]

they still are but they've been busy lately

[weary scarab]

Thanks 🙂 Is there a way to find out which weeks they're streaming?

[random rampart]

Generally the weeks when they don't say on twitter they can't stream :)

[brazen chasm]

One of my teammates kept calling in resupplies in the dd. None of them were needed. I checked and we all had full bars yet he still called them and we too almost got wiped out cause of his stupidity

When we actually needed ammo we didn't have any nitra cause of him

[formal vale]

Damn, did you and your team make it?

[brazen chasm]

Yeah we did.. we just didn't revive the moron when he went down

[formal vale]

Lmao, what's their level?

Player level

The blue one

[brazen chasm]

Something like 13.. rest of us were 45+

[formal vale]

Hmm, probably a greenbeard that's definitely not ready for any kind of deep dives.

[brazen chasm]

Still haven't done a EDD yet tbh. I want to but I don't know how difficult they are

[neat charm]

if you can handle haz 5 consistently you can handle an edd

i feel like the stages get easier as you progress because of nitra carryover

[brazen chasm]

Ooof.. I've done haz 5 but I'm not going anything but gunner until I get more proficient with the other classes

I'm getting up there with scout tho

[neat charm]

the edd did feel comparatively easy this week so its a good time to start

[brazen chasm]

Just gotta find a team tho

[zealous granite]

Imo if you can do haz 4 you can also do an EDD

[formal vale]

In my opinion, these modifiers make the game more difficult if using an incorrect loadout or strategy:
-Mactera Plague
-Low Oxygen
-Swarmageddon (relatively easy to tackle if you have AoE loadout)
-Shield Disruption

[brazen chasm]

How do you lot have an icon next to ya name?

[zealous granite]

Don't forget rival presence in that list

[brazen chasm]

Aye fk rival presence 😩

[formal vale]

Yep, those robots are bullet sponges. Unless you have a flamethrower, and other heat weapons

[brazen chasm]

Swarmers are my bain

Has like 15 on my ass at one point on a Haz4 mission

[formal vale]

Killing swarmers is rather satisfying, crunchy

[brazen chasm]

Oh yeah definitely satisfying but when there's 15 shredding you at once on Haz4 it's angering 😅

[formal vale]

Yep

[plucky dune]

Does current EDD have any special issues?

Or it's ok this week, without any surprises?

[pine epoch]

Other than some people disliking the rival presence warning, I don't think so

[jolly hazel]

wtf 2 megumin

easy week, only thing that can screw you is the turret room and thats if you run in like and idiot

[arctic sorrel]

I got a bulk stage 3 and oneshot the hiveguard with it, so that was nice

pretty sure it was a map spawn as well

[plucky dune]

Thanks

[echo storm]

so long as u never stop moving it's fine

[real prawn]

I tried to repeat the edd, but at the third stage i was paralysed inside the drop pod, with my dwarf occasionally doing gunsling animations

The cotroller (I'm ps4) was fine, but in drg i couldn't even press options or use the laser pointer

[jolly hazel]

solo?

[real prawn]

no, it was a full team

Engi saw i wasn't moving, and after a while he quitted

while i was trying to tell him via ps messages what was happening, but he had blocked DMs from strangers

so i left driller and gunner

i feel so bad for those two, at this turn we barely made it through the 2nd stage as everyone was down exept engi

[jolly hazel]

well

3rd stage was pretty easy and revive perks reset between stages

plus dives scale to player count

so they were probably fine

[zinc linden]

Finished my first EDD solo! Given that I never even played Haz 5 — this is probably really easy week...

[atomic panther]

Yep

[lusty fiber]

Had the weirdest thing happen on the edd. Legendary 3 driller that was playing like a greenbeard

Didn't know what he was doing for sure

Either save editor or borrowed account

[jolly hazel]

legendary 3 is usually edited

[rain lagoon]

not usually

imo at least

[jolly hazel]

what do you mean

100% edited?

[rain lagoon]

The legend buds I have all did it legit

and have almost 1k hours typically

[jolly hazel]

I raise you my anecdote of 50% of 1k+ plus account level playing awful

[rain lagoon]

1k account level sure

just legend 3 though

idk about that

[hollow umbra]

I have definitely noticed an increase in high EXP players acting like fools

[rain lagoon]

for sure

[hollow umbra]

I'm only account level 18, I've promoted my Scout once and that's it

And I feel like I play better than these level 300+ players

[rain lagoon]

you probably are not

Idk for sure

[hollow umbra]

I dunno, they go down and then I get kicked even though I'm trying to revive 'em

It's weird

Or they double dip on eggs and we get double swarmed

[jolly hazel]

updates bring back the shitters

[rain lagoon]

idk I very rarely get kicked

some of the really good players double egg because they are bored

[hollow umbra]

I get kicked a lot, but that's because people hate Scouts from my experience

[rain lagoon]

I do not have the same experience

[hollow umbra]

I do my dangedest to stay with the team to avoid the Scout stereotype of dying 2km away from the group

[rain lagoon]

I just dont find most groups kick people ever

Idk the last time I kicked someone

[hollow umbra]

You're lucky imo

[rain lagoon]

700 hours is usually enough for the law of averages to kick in

[hollow umbra]

Usually lol

Maybe it's less you're lucky and more I'm unlucky

[rain lagoon]

probably the case

[hollow umbra]

Ah well, I still enjoy the game regardless

Maybe I'll take a break from pubs and dig with my homie Bosco for a bit

Anyway, on topic... I have not done an EDD yet, but I've done some regular DDs. I quite enjoy the "endurance" idea of it.

[rain lagoon]

EDDS are easy if you can do haz 4-5

[hollow umbra]

I'm not quite at that level yet. I'm good at haz 3 but I get pretty easily smashed in haz 4 so far

[rain lagoon]

best way to improve is to play hard missions

[hollow umbra]

That is true. Practice makes perfect.

[rain lagoon]

If you want to work on haz 5, dont play scout

because it can be easy to rely on grapple

and not learn the games movement

[lime heron]

everyone is stupid except me

[paper bramble]

250 hours I've only ever seen one person kicked, it was a greenbeard emptying out supply drops.

You might be grouping with strange people, or doing something odd in your play

EDD today was very chill

[lime heron]

no it cant be his fault hes playing better than all the lvl 300s

[paper bramble]

I'm not 300 yet though, maybe once you break 299 you DNGAF anymore you're just going into every missing 5 drinks down.

If that's the meta I'll do it

[hollow umbra]

I didn't say I was playing better than everybody.

More like I was just unlucky

Sorry for seeming like I was being haughty, that wasn't my intention

[west merlin]

They're way harder than haz 4 but yeah haz 5

[echo storm]

trick is to keep moving

some edds feel like baby chow

[jolly hazel]

ya game gets hardest when it forces you to stop moving

salvage

[dusty meadow]

I'm over 700+ hours. I simply don't care what really happens in game. I don't even talk. My friends that are in the same played time, mostly feel the same.

If it goes south, we're like...finally something spicey.

[old widget]

Greybeard gaming

[cerulean lichen]

no game stays "fun" forever, i personally play 1-2 missions a day just because it is a solid game

[queen patrol]

does anybody lose normal bolts when traveling between deep dive stages

did atleast 4 deep dives with the boltshark and i always end up missing bolts on new stages

[jolly hazel]

bolt gremlin

[queen patrol]

gotta make sure to check between the seats

[paper bramble]

If you're getting kicked, or you're even in a game where SOMEONE is getting kicked... you may want to look at how the plays are going down. Kicking is very rare.

[terse rose]

Hey ppls, gona hop on in a few looking to do DD and "try" EDD (i havnt beaten one yet), if anyone is game, can play either steam or windows but prefer steam, i dont know how to use lfg except just joining someones lobby

[dawn zealot]

im down for that, need to get into deep dives now that ive promoted my first character on steam

[terse rose]

yea im down as well, i have no idea how to use the lfg channel lol

[dawn zealot]

i have done a normal deep dive before, solo engineer, but im on gunner this time

[terse rose]

should be alright, i do normal deep dives with randoms alot, just was looking for actual ppl to play with for the friday, im not great but not bad lol but normal should be doable

[dawn zealot]

maybe we can get some others

[terse rose]

im down, i havent had a response in the general chat or the lfg chat on how to actually make a session and i dont wana just join a random session without letting ppl know im not super good lol

or one of us could just make one ingame and then wait for others

[dawn zealot]

true

i can make one real quick

gonna show up with the name "bad at tf2 [bad]"

[terse rose]

ok

steam or windows/xbox?

[dawn zealot]

steam'

moved to steam so i can have a vine boom ping and a farting bulk detonator

ill make it in a minute gonna wait a sec

[terse rose]

lol i got the molly mule save app so i can switch my save between either version, i like my steam mods more tho

^ okay

[dawn zealot]

aight im about to make the lobby

oh right i could just make a server password and not worry about anything

do you wanna go into a pod vc and i can try and lfg?

[terse rose]

do you know how to actually make a lobby on this server>

[dawn zealot]

hahaha no

let me try

[terse rose]

lol me neither but i can get in pod vc tho n see if we get others

[dawn zealot]

lemme look around and see if theres any help anywhere

[terse rose]

ima ask in main chat again

ok theres pins in the lfg channel

[dawn zealot]

oh

[terse rose]

still not working for me tho lol

[dawn zealot]

discord is refusing to link for me yeah

@terse rose got it working

[terse rose]

i did too right now lol had to run steam as admin'

[next pebble]

🎉

[terse rose]

now got the green icon'

[terse rose]

thanks man!!!!!!!

[next pebble]

You're welcome. Have fun guys

[terse rose]

set it up then, ima run to the bathroom

[dawn zealot]

it has been set up

[terse rose]

idk whats wrong with my headset, can hear everything in the world but discord chat n ppl cant hear me apparantly even tho my mic says its working, didnt want yal to carry me while im figuring this out sorry shouldve tested it first im not on headset much, gg have fun yal

[terse rose]

ill be back on sunday just ordered a new headset

[graceful needle]

Edd was very chill this time around

Its a great one to start trying out edds if you're new to em!

[glossy walrus]

s2 added the ability to pull up the ps keyboard, go to control settings and enable it. I use double R3 for mine

that case would've been the perfect time to use it. I've only used it once so far, was to tell a gunner to shield hiveguard to unbug her

quite useful

[cunning lark]

any suggestions on how to make this weeks EDD stage 2 go smoothly?

[velvet salmon]

its low grav in open space, what the hell more do you want ?

[tall meadow]

What’s killing you the most ?

Taking too long c

?*

[cunning lark]

havent tried it yet just asking for tips from people who already done it

[tall meadow]

It’s big enough open space to kite the ghost dress

Dread*

A good scout or/and driller can get the aquards out pretty fast

I was pulling out aquards during the egg swarm and normal swarm

Because low grav

[cunning lark]

ok thank you

[tall meadow]

If you really want, once you’ve cleared out the main pre spawned swarm , just go and put down a resupply or two and get the egg swarm out of the way

The corals in specific places makes it a bitch to traverse but it’s low grav so you’ll be fine

Just the same rule for every PE mission , don’t take too long there

[velvet salmon]

i actually wish the PE can last a bit longer, kiting around is fun :((

[tall meadow]

I like things fast

[brisk pagoda]

then just wait longer to push button

[honest spade]

is the deep dive decent?

[burnt sandal]

check the pinned message

[honest spade]

t

thx

[real prawn]

you don't get it

I couldn't do anything

Use chat (wich i already binded to double R3), try to shout or walk, nothing

Muh scout would just flip his weapon like i was pressing square (gunsling animations)

even pressing options or trying to use the laser pointer, couldn't even see silhouettes

[devout jetty]

well if youre looking for general info

it's pretty easy this week 😄

quite a few detos but in big maps

so easy to run and for your teammates to pick u up

[deep plover]

Hey whats the edd stages this week?

[burnt sandal]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/202097047988469760/786741842779701258/Pinned_Messages.gif

[deep plover]

Rival presence

[chrome patrol]

Need 2 for Elite Deep Dive. I’m Xbox

[thorny gull]

Hi Xbox

I'm Borderkeeper

[midnight citrus]

#lfg-xbox-microsoft

[plucky dune]

Maybe EDD is easy this week, but the first stage...

[torpid beacon]

Are the deep dives the same as last week for console?

[old widget]

Deep dives rotate every week (Thursdays) for consoles and PCs

[torpid beacon]

Yes and they’re the same as they were before last Thursday

[pine scaffold]

anyone for edd pc?

[restive trout]

EDD was easy this week. Some randos and I did it in 35 minutes.

[jolly hazel]

restart

[boreal glade]

it was easy, yeah. second stage was annoying though. not hard, just annoying.

[west merlin]

I found it went the smoothest of the 3 levels (although the 3rd had a random dread spawn, would've been OK without that) but we had Rocky Mountain Brews which made aquarks faster to grab.
And spent a lot of time hopping around above the enemies while avoiding the ghost

[jolly hazel]

ya we got lucky with it too

rocky mountain that is

[storm crane]

This weeks edd stage 2 is a pain

[jolly hazel]

how so

just jump

[storm crane]

Wait do you actually not take damage from the ghost if you jump?

[slow laurel]

he means that you can jump once and travel for miles 🐰

[violet kraken]

team completed regular deep dive, had 4 bulks spawn in the first level lmao

[storm crane]

Oh

[jolly hazel]

if you stay airborne you shouldn't be getting caught by anything melee

[unique spoke]

also if youure playing scout you literally never have to touch the ground in low grav except to mine stuff or revive people

the Horror is basically a nonfactor

[echo storm]

yeah low grav is so fun

[calm jetty]

Fr based

[gentle fossil]

anything important I need to know when attempting Deep Dives?

[dawn zealot]

nitra tastes good

[hoary cove]

no u

[haughty spear]

Allways ask before calling in a resupply.
Thats the big thing

Wasting nitra is uh, bad.

[inland hinge]

your ammo/health/nitra carries over between phases. perks with per-mission limits on uses (iron will, field medic, etc) are refreshed between phases, same with bosco's revives. minerals don't spawn. iirc deep dive is around hazard 3 level and elite deep dive start at 4.5 and end at 5.5

and most important have fun

[gentle fossil]

[haughty spear]

Oh also another tip.
Dont be too scared of deep dives

Normal ones are barely a challenge.
Almost easier then normal missions from all the banked nitra

[inland hinge]

it's nice that the more valuable rewards, to me, are in the first two phases. so if you're unlucky enough to disconnect later or you fail at hazard 5.5 on elite deep dives you don't feel too bad. you still get your blank core and weapon core

[velvet salmon]

w8 you can use gif in the channel

[random rampart]

depends if its a file or an em🛏️ tho

[burnt sandal]

as a matter of fact : I can

[random rampart]

gif em🛏️ gang...

assemble.

[outer beacon]

Just first tried the EDD with my pal. Felt mostly easy, just that there were a lot of swarmers and shockers.

[unkempt saffron]

thats dense biozone for ya

[valid ginkgo]

People preserve ammo too much. xD

Finally done with both.

[jolly hazel]

its a good thing to do lol

[grizzled blade]

did i manage to softlock the dd

#drg-gallery

[wraith shard]

hey what is the best way to farm xp fast? trying to get to 25 with my driller

[fossil juniper]

cute moom
I think

hard to tell on tiny phone screen

[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!
_ _

[jolly hazel]

higher haz+mission length/complexity+warnings

[copper anvil]

Question, if I Promote one class and get access to Deep Dives, am I able to play them on other classes that haven't been promoted yet?

[old widget]

nope

each dwarf that wants to deep dive has to be promo'd once

[copper anvil]

Alright thanks

[severe timber]

Hello, I was hoping to see if anyone was available to help me through a deep dive? It would be my first one. Ps4

[old widget]

welcome new miner - you want #lfg-playstation

[iron summit]

Be careful where you call in your resupplies, Molly has forsaken me twice in this EDD on the escape sequence

[quiet rune]

indeed, i was the one who blocked his shots in that one thin cave area

[old widget]

This is why a good engi will look at supply pod holes on terrain scanner and plug ones that connect to higher up tunnels

[delicate storm]

Anyone else have issues getting EDD3 Hiveguard to spawn her babies? We went up and down the map before she finally summoned.

[unkempt saffron]

Try pickaxing the hiveguard

[delicate storm]

Oh, I was.

And bouncing off her like a trampoline... Kinda fun for the first few minutes.

She finally triggered when we ran a fair ways up a different tunnel.

[old widget]

Pushing HG with a shield also seems to help for the S2 HG bugs. GSG definitely has some more bugs to work out with dreads

[unkempt saffron]

Hehe more bugs

[delicate storm]

Debug bug bugs.

[true lotus]

Where's the updated list

[burnt sandal]

pinned message

[old widget]

• [Point extraction] Events that should stop scripted waves from spawning now also prevents waves in point extraction

...wow. that's a pretty big change for deep dives

hmm. unless they mean machine events

[burnt sandal]

they mean machine events and season events

[jolly hazel]

season events as in prospector?

[arctic sorrel]

idk about prospector, but I would assume at least data deposit and comm router

[jolly hazel]

thats good

[left flame]

hey fellas

is the inferno OC any good?

currently using return to sender

[old widget]

yes, the inferno OC is good

some would even say it's in "the meta" for high hazard play (haz 5+)

[jolly hazel]

I recently started using breach cutter and the ammo clean oc feels nice

with plasma trail+stun+single line

[bold maple]

Ammo clean OC and inferno are the breach meta rn

[unkempt saffron]

rts is not the meta

[hoary cove]

inferno is very good due to the amount of bugs in this game weak to fire, and also cus of its synergy with loki

[shut oracle]

that for refinery too or u still have to do events before starting?

[tribal totem]

inferno is also good with the first mission of the EDD if you get a nemesis and can hit multiple shots in a row

[shut oracle]

6 shot magazine helps too if u wanna light it up

[jolly hazel]

does breach cutter go through nemesis shield

[pine mural]

yes

also useful knowledge for repulsors

[hoary cove]

wud be useful if i actually ever used breach cutter nowadays

[frigid gulch]

Yo

I’m bad

At the deep dives

Any tips

[dry charm]

either im good at the game or that was the easiest EDD ive ever seen

solo too

[dry charm]

conserve ammo, keep your head on a swivel and dont stop moving

[frigid gulch]

Ight

[dry charm]

also trying to it as fast as possible is good, but take it slow at the same time and assess what you should be focusing on first, like priority enemies such as wardens and oppressors

getting a team helps too

[violet warren]

I feel like rival presence EDDs swing wildly on whether or not a nemmy spawns

[drowsy holly]

or where it spawns

like the pc one this week i had it spawn when we entered final cavern and when we were otw out to the pod both are bad because youre in a tiny tunnel thats hanging above a large drop and he destroys the floor in one shield

the third time we won by getting into the room quickly so it came down to us

[warm zenith]

how's the EDD this week

[echo storm]

easy

baby chow

did the edd faster than i did the dd

[calm jetty]

Beat it with one hand ezpz

[warped storm]

Is the big bertha overclock good? I've got it as a reward this week

[lusty osprey]

It's decent imo with the right build. I enjoy using it from time to time

[bold maple]

yes

[timber wraith]

is the deepdive morkite sussy

[thin galleon]

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[unkempt saffron]

Yes its good with the right build as with all things

[midnight citrus]

apparently flying nightmare goes thru nem shield as well
doesn't seem to do damage to nem tho

[toxic hazel]

Favour ammo upgrades over damage, until you are able to consistently hit your shots

[midnight citrus]

also need crowd control

[unkempt saffron]

Nemmy shield blocks pretty much everything afaik, so no point shooting through its shields

[hoary cove]

i don’t think it blocks bc

[hollow citrus]

I'm legit hoping for a hollow bough DD/EDD soon so everyone can experience the weirdness of s2 hollow bough cavegen. It's way worse than s1

[midnight citrus]

dear god please no

[arctic sorrel]

How come? Were any official changes made?

[hollow citrus]

officially nothing was changed, but since s2 cave layouts have gotten much more complicated. Rooms are now larger/overlap more and filled with branches and vines to the extent that it can be very hard to navigate cos you can't see the exit as it's blocked by stuff. Minerals and objectives are also harder to find among all the clutter as well. overall just annoying to play in.

I suspect it's a bug

[dim gorge]

Did this week's EDD with two of my friends. Definitely a good one! I think we only got a single Nemesis spawn near the start of the first stage and like one or two Bulks at some point. Overall pretty chill dive!

Managed to do it first try with only a few downs, don't think we had any clutch situations either

[modest dock]

how i can get credits?

For subscribing to discord

[random rampart]

Wrong channel to ask. Let's go to #drg-chat instead

[jolly hazel]

I agree hollow bough feels 10x worse in s2

worst biome by far now

[sharp moth]

dumb question but do Deep Dives reset weekly? and if so, what day is the reset?

[random rampart]

yes, they reset weekly. every thursday, 12h danish time

[sharp moth]

thank you!

[uncut schooner]

Do you guys know if you get more matrix cores for doing the EDD after you’ve already done the DD? Still a bit of a green beard when it comes to higher hazard and I’m wondering if it’s worth risking a challenge.

[viral tulip]

You do

[unkempt saffron]

DD and EDD are separate

So the rewards you get are separate

What doesnt give you rewards however as you may have known is repeating the DD or EDD again after completing it entirely (or completing a specific stage yadda yadda yadda)

[uncut schooner]

Alright. Makes sense. I’ve been seeing you guys discussing the EDD this week as easier but I think above all I don’t want to slow my team down. Do I want to wait for more powerful overclocks for my gunner so that I’m at least doing better damage at least? I think I have a handle on the basics of what is expected from gunner but I’m still only copper one.

[merry holly]

Overclocks help, but i would say buy the upgrades for your equipment end all upgrades for your armor if possible. (adds another 15 hp to your healthbar) Some higher level perks may help also. Its mostly about communication and teamwork, so know your role and stay together. R&S!

[uncut schooner]

Thanks for the advice, Squid! Rock and Stone.

[rich current]

Question. What Hazard level are deep dives and elite deep dives?

The wiki shows 3 and 3.5 for DD, and 4.5, 5, and 5.5 for EDD. But how can you tell which it is?

[merry holly]

DD is close to haz 3.5 EDD is like a haz 4.5. Its really dependent on the warnings and map layout

[unkempt saffron]

theres more to it than just having the right OCs, of course having the right builds are important even without OCs, but its important that you understand how higher haz gameplay is and how to work with your team accordingly, know how to play your class and play it well regardless of how easy or hard an edd can be, the right builds and OCs may help you kill more bugs, but skill and game sense is what allows you to kill efficiently, stay alive and help your team without slowing them down

[unkempt saffron]

according to the stages, so stage 1 will be 4.5, 2 will be 5, and 3 will be 5.5, in practice it may not necessarily be like this so ymmv

[dim gorge]

It tends to depend on objectives, warnings/modifiers and cave layout. Those can make it so stage one (haz 4.5) feels like hell while stage three (haz 5.5) feels like a walk in the park

[jolly hazel]

also the seeded swarm size modifier can make particular edds really bad

this week is very simple though

[dim gorge]

Yeah, it really is

I think the hardest (quote unquote) stage was the first one purely because of random Nemesis surprise spawn, otherwise it's all pretty straightforward

[wraith flame]

Hey there, I'm I'm a silver one gunner who plays haz 5 alot and has done this EDD twice and am pretty confident in my gunner abilities. Feel free to ask me anything.

Your overclocks don't have to be the best as long as they are not detrimental to your play. What OC's do you have?

[uncut schooner]

In short, almost none. I've kinda made the decision to get better at haz 4 and 5 before I try an EDD, and then maybe I'll know more about my own playstyle.

[wraith flame]

Yeah you probably should be pretty comfy at haz 4 and dabble in haz 5 before you hit up EDD. That is what I did and was pretty nervous in my first EDD. Haz 5 is pretty darn punishing and requires some decent game knowledge.

[echo storm]

always keep moving is really the main one

I started doing EDDs a week after I could do DDs and it has been smooth sailing ever since

[covert pier]

Hey all - I'm a filthy casual greyish beard

I did my first DD this week and curious what the difference between DD and EDD is

[random rampart]

Mainly the missions, the biome, the end xp, and the difficulty

DD is 3/3.5/3.5 and EDD is 4.5/5/5.5

[covert pier]

oh yikes

Thanks for the info!

[jolly hazel]

I couldn't find anything related to speed but slashers will catch you while kiting

I dont think normal grunts can catch you

but slashers are priority 2 enemies, after ranged bugs (whos projectile speeds and damage increases with hazard)

[burnt sandal]

enemies speed is kind of a... difficult topic tbh

that's why we don't have any stats on that

[jolly hazel]

how so?

[frail plume]

damn whoever said the edd this week is easy

barely won, almost no nitra

two of us left behind at final stage

damn you deep rock galactic

should really invest in some better equipment

[buoyant wing]

we almost did it easy peasy then the hiveguard killed us with its dying stomp and nobody had iron will

kept getting stuck on crap and everyone was rushing

[pure sandal]

my team made it to the hive guard but didnt have enough ammo to defeat it

[frail plume]

i killed with my second to last shot

had 1 m1 shot left

nothing else

we basically kept reviving eachother while trying to conserve ammo

luckily we had skullcrusher so our mega hit recharged quickly

that was very useful

[olive crown]

Yeah, that 5.5 Hiveguard is a ballache, especially if you don't go out of your way to terraform the arena.

[hoary cove]

bruh i fought it in a hallway

cus my team was soeedrunning

[midnight citrus]

didn't skull crusher increase damage only

[dim gorge]

We just cleared the egg "root" in the middle of the room where the egg was and that was plenty of space for us to fight it. Didn't take long at all

[coral crest]

probably meant slayer stout

[unkempt saffron]

Im surprised there are those who struggle with nitra for the edd, theres more than enough for each stage imo

[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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[dawn zealot]

Boot up deez nuts hah take that mission control

Please dont dock my pay

[glossy walrus]

we struggled on stage1 for nitra, but that was because we missed a good 2-3 veins on the way down and only found them during extraction

that biome can be annoying for nitra without a scout

[cerulean lichen]

step-1: find a scout
step-2: blow him up
step-3: find nitra

ezpz

[arctic sorrel]

Driller gaming

[boreal phoenix]

[manic pivot]

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

fr

[tribal stump]

this is the wisest and greatest thing ive ever heard

a fellow driller main perhaps

[abstract crystal]

Is anyone up for clearing the epic in about an hour?

Need 2 more people for a 4x

[old widget]

Welcome - you’ll have the best luck with the associated #lfg channel for your platform

[unkempt saffron]

You can do it with 2 people too if youre up to it, this weeks edd is particularly easy

[abstract crystal]

Thanks! I was going to post in the lfg once I am logged on, not quite rdy for another 30 mins so didn't want to jump the gun in the lfg channel.

[drifting parrot]

are the Deep Dives always rival presence right now?

like, is it intentional that they've both got rival prez as a warning at some point?

[old widget]

the dives aren't handcrafted, it's just RNG from a single seed, but it's not impossible for the devs to hit the "roll me up a new dive" button repeatedly until RP showed up. (though there hasn't been any explicit mention from the devs of doing this that I've seen)

[wraith shard]

So would the Beast master Scout approach work well for Deep Dives? I can send Screenshots in DMs.

[old widget]

Anything works for regular DD, it’s Haz 3/3.5/3.5. You could go perkless and do fine. Steeve is a decent draw for aggro tho, nice for solo if that’s your thing.

[oak jay]

Thursday, 4AM PST, at least for me.

[covert tangle]

When I launch a deep dive should I wait for people to join I'm a little confused on what I'm doing

[vital sluice]

People can't late join deep dives so if you want more people you should wait

[covert tangle]

ty

[vital sluice]

soloing deep dives isn't too hard though as long as your kit is well-rounded

[quiet wyvern]

Truth be told

[sand helm]

Just did my first ever deep dive, and I did it solo

[shut sierra]

grats!

[sand helm]

I still haven’t done hazard 5 yet lol

[stuck fiber]

Finally, this weeks elite deep dive is the first one I’ve completed

Wow that second mission was kinda insane

[sand helm]

The only problem I had was finding enough morkite on the first mission. Had to check every nook and cranny

The second one was pretty intense but manageable

(It’s also my first deep dive)

[stuck fiber]

I personally just absolutely hate Dense Biozone, especially on point extraction

[sand helm]

Wait

You did the EDD

[stuck fiber]

Yessir

[sand helm]

I just did the regular one

I haven’t done an EDD yet

[unique ore]

this weeks feels real easy, tho theres not much time left

[stuck fiber]

I absolutely love how the EDD went from

Haunted Cave Low Gravity, 10 Aquarq and Two Eggs, to

200 Morkite, Hivegaurd

[unique ore]

casually in a team of 4, it only took 30 mins to do

[stuck fiber]

I’m still not quite adjusted to hazard 5+ yet so that’s probably why EDDs are still kinda difficult

My friend was a huge help as gunner though, definitely couldn’t have done it without him

[midnight blade]

EDD's are fun

I want to try one solo

[buoyant wing]

I have an easier time solo usually

no ping shenanigans no host crashes/abandons so on so forth

also the bug spawns are pretty chill

[wraith shard]

Dwarf Pheromones work wonders when applied to a Pretorian or Glyphid via Arrows. Really Opens up the room to escape or group them for bigger explosives.

I’m loving the Crossbow Addition as much as I thought I would

[sly kettle]

A fire bolt and a pheromone bolt on a pretorian or oppressor and bam, bugs will burn themselves to death en masse. Surprisingly flexible. Shame fire bolts suck otherwise.

[plush void]

Ive played a couple of eed's as of now 1 solo and like 2 groups (im a new player)and its mostly about speedrunning the objective, scout in the team really helps when its a gather mission

[shut oracle]

think as long as its not in escort im fine with rival presence in edd

[dawn zealot]

1.5 hours miners

[pine epoch]

If start a DD/EDD and don't finish before the week rolls over, can I still get my cores for last week or do I just get the ones for the new week?

[manic pivot]

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ATTENTION MINERS!
New Deep Dives will be available in one hour!
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[stuck hamlet]

no, you cant get them retroactively

[pine epoch]

Alright, thanks.

[olive tulip]

You can hold the mission even after it resets though

[stuck hamlet]

if your space rig doesnt get reloaded, yes you have the "grace period"

[dawn zealot]

anybody up for going into the deep dive and edd blind and naked and afraid?

[manic pivot]

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

[sly kettle]

Good luck, everyone!

[north urchin]

that's it? no error error etc? lol

[sly kettle]

Mission control finally recovered from his drinking habits.

[north urchin]

he got his shit together lol

[supple crest]

Edd first 2 mules 2 eggs lethal enemies

[quiet mortar]

DEEP DIVE
Region: Crystalline Caverns | Code Name: Frozen Crater
Stage 1: 7 Aquarq + 📡 1 Black Box | Elite Threat
Stage 2: 6 Eggs + 📡 1 Black Box | No Mutators
Stage 3: 2 Dreadnoughts (Hiveguard + Twins) + 150 Morkite | Haunted Cave

ELITE: DEEP DIVE
Region: Sandblasted Corridors | Code Name: Unknown Blade
Stage 1: 2 M.U.L.E.s + 2 Eggs | Lethal Enemies
Stage 2: Protect the Drilldozer + 150 Morkite | Parasites
Stage 3: 200 Morkite + Dreadnought Twins | *No Mutators

[sand helm]

Phew, no hollow bough

[random rampart]

Inb4 escort

[prime blade]

haunted escort

[topaz plank]

?

[brazen musk]

I don't think that is possible

[jaunty crag]

ooh boi, Crystalline caverns

[prime blade]

it's probably not, but they'll make an exception just for you

[brazen musk]

Jadiz

[lapis copper]

Where deep dive

[oblique glen]

fuck that black box

[broken shore]

EDD 2nd : protect drilldozer + 150 morkite / parasites

[topaz plank]

Damn

[brazen musk]

This aged like a fine wine

[plush void]

Stage 2 seems wacky

[random rampart]

HOOOH

[stuck hamlet]

is stage 2 doable? missing 5 morkite
pls dont tell me its like a coupld weeks ago

[supple crest]

there is some hidden

[broken shore]

EDD 3rd : 200 morkite + 1 dreadnought / no mutator

[supple crest]

search the room where drilldozer stops

[stuck hamlet]

found 2 veins there, is there a 3rd?

god, found it
ty

[random rampart]

Escort on edd. Will there be escord on dd too...?

[calm jetty]

Easiest edd i have ever played in my loge

[grim veldt]

we got 147 morkite

[stuck hamlet]

where dotty stops, between a wall and a ledge

[broken shore]

edd 3rd dreadnought is twins

[sly kettle]

Haunted Cave.. urgh..

[left raptor]

Same

upd found last bit

[rich pier]

missing morkite on edd stage 2, again

[real plover]

it's in between ledge and wall near 1st pitstop

try looking up

i spent so long looking too

[dawn zealot]

hows the edd

[analog brook]

a fucking shitshow

no morkite..... again

[dawn zealot]

got fucked on the third stage of the regular one by a menace

popped a fucking cocoon

[low flax]

not enough morkite stage 2

[topaz plank]

.

[analog brook]

i checked that spot ur talking about, just found it

i was about to go into a mental breakdown, been searching for like 15 minutes

[dawn zealot]

so does anybody wanna do an edd

i can do gunner or driller

[onyx nest]

2nd stage morkite: refuel point, facing towards omeron: left hand behind the pillar.
Check this one

[analog brook]

did anyone else get a nemesis in hte last edd mission?

[low flax]

can't find any

134/150

[next trellis]

First 2 stages of EDD suck as scout. Sit in one place and play point defense against large waves of guys... The thing scout is best at. Bring pheromones if you attempt. Cryo dont cut it for the dozer

[low flax]

easy with IFG, doing solo as scout

currently locked due to morkite

134/150

[manic path]

yes, last pieces are well hidden

my scout found at one of the refueling places

bit high up

[charred cipher]

147/150 morkite.....

edd

2nd stage

[low flax]

is there morkite in the big room?

[hollow citrus]

escort + morkite seems cursed

[void vector]

Nah people are just quick to complain.

[low flax]

I want this nightmare to end ffs

[next trellis]

back left side of the where the dozer parks in the big room i seem to recall some morkite