#deep-dive-discussion

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pure sandal
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is it rng for it to spawn?

oblique glen
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must be

jade tusk
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All missions are set seeds

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So if a Bet-C spawns in a DD or EDD it'll always spawn

junior fossil
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spawns can be rng sometime, I had a nemsis on my first try of the EDD but not on the 2nd one

oblique glen
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bruh. there was no bet-c for me 😢 and you can hear that thing a mile away

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damn. rng doesn't like me

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only got one oppressor the whole deep dive tho 🤔

jade tusk
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I'm sure a dwarf that drinks smart stout more often can give the exact science of the spawning of Bet-C

thick jetty
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aw naur not two dreadnaut twin fights om the edd AND lethal enemies AND rival pres

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that looks tough

ebon anchor
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looks tedious also with the same objectives AND dreadnaught spawns on 2 stages

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this week doesn't look so fun

thick jetty
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Yeah, it looks like a rough roll

scenic flicker
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stage 2 EDD is total overspawn

tame verge
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it felt uhhh a lot but that might be because 2 of the people were perma downed essentially

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lethal is nasty on hazard 5

round mountain
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stage 2 on edd was really tough yeah

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I kept getting bulks once I started uplink, kinda just have to accept your fate when you see them

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especially since I was doing it solo

tame verge
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Had 3 only one was during fuel cells and at the last few seconds of it

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was pretty close

safe gulch
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What the hell, am I looking at this correct

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Refine morkite and twins on both stage 1 and 3 of EDD?

tame verge
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Yes

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it's pretty pog

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good luck speedrunners

neat charm
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im thinking vim driller might be a good option for solo

tame verge
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Yeah, if you want to go driller that would be my pick

thick jetty
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Fuck...edd stage 2 is salvage...

safe gulch
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Man I take on Mr. Orangebutt anyday

thick jetty
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Oh man...

tame verge
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Gunner is also a good option solo

safe gulch
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But not frigging Tweedle Dee and Dum

thick jetty
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Yeah I'm going to pray to Karl that my teammates are better than me because there's no way I can carry on this EDD

thick jetty
safe gulch
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Plus, robots and exploders? Man, this is just asking for a bad time

ebon anchor
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I will just do this in duo with my friend

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EDD I mean

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I don't think I can carry my weaker friends for this one

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probably too hard

thick jetty
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It's going to be tough but yknow what
Im lopking forward to taking a swing at it

wheat gull
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Decided to try EDD solo, first cave seems quite lovely 😄

unkempt saffron
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Sandblasted? Again?

wheat gull
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I think sandblasted is my favorite biome, so fine by me 😛

unkempt saffron
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Sandblasted tends to have the more challenging edds from my memory

hushed vale
unkempt saffron
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Thats like the least of your concerns, the sandstorms are quite fucked and trawlers just amplifies that by a hundred

junior fossil
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dont forget lethal trawlers

unkempt saffron
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Lethal, not lethal, trawlers are still annoying bastards

junior fossil
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well on lethal its like they do damage now

wheat gull
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I'm running it on haz 5, and so far my biggest threat has been myself. I slipped out of combat when climbing around and broke my ankle. Needed Bosco to kiss it better. 😦

unkempt saffron
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Thats the sandblasted special, if you aint getting blinded by a sandstorm or manhandled by a trawler, then youre most definitely falling off the edge of a sand pillar

wheat gull
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I always run with elephant rounds, so the trawlers are usually a satisfying crack-shot. When they sneak up on a fella though, jeeze what a friggin mess

dawn zealot
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Now those look like some fun deep dives

void vector
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EDD was nice enough

gilded gulch
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kind of a bug question but if your computer is lagging the fuck out can it throw more than one grenade even though you only pressed it once

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was on edd, game was being super slow for some reason and i pressed q once and it chucked 3 nades, froze the whole team, killed on fuel cell, and even when i was alive and clearly in the circle it would keep playing the "you're jeopardizing the mission" text

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when i say super slow i mean like <10 fps

dawn zealot
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I think I'll take scout this week nice

gilded gulch
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i guess i shouldn't say lag, i was host but legit game was running slideshow levels

torpid galleon
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are energy cell drop locations fixed?

shut heron
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every week, some random host gotta dc at the 3rd stage 😿

jade tusk
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A oof

jolly hazel
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thats why I always host lol

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wow 2 of the exact same mission

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interesting

odd dagger
queen patrol
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oh the new dives are up

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WOW

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2 refineries and a salvage

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ughhh

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atleast theres no morkite

dusty viper
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man who the heck doesn't bring iron will to an edd

burnt sandal
jolly hazel
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idk people keep bringing see you in hell which I think is garbage

pliant stone
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"See you in Hell" is really only useful if the person reviving you doesn't have the upgraded Medic perk (When you revive a teammate all nearby enemies flee)

thick jetty
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be me, waiting for people to join deep dive
10 minutes pass
"what's taking so long"
set it to private instead of public

midnight citrus
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ey I predicted mactera plague

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hollow bough dstare

jovial turret
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Man EDD was TOUGH

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Had two bulks on stage 2 and we had to have scout grapple into the pod to clutch the mission from failure as we all downed

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Lads stage 2 isn't a joke

jade tusk
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Stage 2 is looking to be the filter

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Stage 1 is either living hell or easy depending on if you don't get fucked by Nemy spawns from the Rivals. You drop almost right next to the turret controller so you can shut down the turret network before it becomes a problem. The twins isn't the worst dreadnaught to fight

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Map is overall very nice. Don't even need to drill paths to the pumpjacks

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Stage 2 starts off in a decent size room with a Mini Mule off the bat. Which is both a blessing or a curse depending on how you left Stage 1. I could see squads possibly wiping at the start of Stage 2 if they don't respect the mini swarm that comes out

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Drop pod has lots of stone pillars around it that you need to remove so you can have plenty of movement space and line of sight. Holdout is stressful due to Lethal enemies. gegg ready checks is recommended. I can see that being another wiper with a bad egg pull by a eager scout or driller and trigger a swarm or stack another mini-swarm on top of the Mini mule swarms

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Stage 3 is a repeat of Stage 1 except for the fact the robots are now replace with exploders...Lots and lots of exploders. As long as you remain active and keeping an eye. Exploders aren't much of a overall threat. Driller tunnels will help, but the pumpjacks aren't in real shit places that you're doing stupid weird pipelines to get at them

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And the twins are back for round 2, but the exploders make this round a bit harder as you're more likely to focus on the twins than the 10+ exploders rushing at you like Russians rushing B in CS:GO

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Overall. I rate this EDD in terms of difficulty a 3.5/5. Also there is a SHIT TON of Nitra this EDD

devout wing
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Nice

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Once again, i had a really nice team and the host crashed at stage 2 notnice

jade tusk
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Oof

sacred rover
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well i somehow managed to get half the kills of scout, while playing driller on the regular dd

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and only 4 more than scout on edd

devout wing
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I guess solo EDD as enginer will be

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But i suck with lethal enemies solo

jade tusk
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4 man squad for me. I ran NTP gunner

devout wing
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I usually pick the randoms but im not up to waste my patience over the host crashing

jade tusk
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Both of my EDD runs. The failure and success. I hosted both

devout wing
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Maybe i should start hosting

jade tusk
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Need to get around to doing the DD this week. Anyone has a nice Summery of it?

safe gulch
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Det decided to drop in and say hi during EDD Stage 2 signal holdout

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Like, holy crap, as if three nemesis in stage 1 isn't already a sign of bad luck

jade tusk
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I just mention Nemy spawning in Stage 1 of this EDD during my summery of it >.<

devout wing
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I got only 1 with the drop pod on there still, i guess our quad was lucky

jade tusk
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I hope I didn't jinx you 0.o

safe gulch
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Is all good

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I more or less expected this, a lot of luck factor for EDD this week

jade tusk
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I got really lucky with no Nemy spawns at all

safe gulch
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Either it's smooth sailing, or RNG will be aiming for your balls

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That and it could have been my imagination, but swarms have a really good sense of timing to attack during sandstorms all the time

jade tusk
devout wing
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Yeah

safe gulch
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But oh well

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Deep Dive is fine and dandy

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Just a brief moment of Nitra shortage throughout stage 1 and 2

jade tusk
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Oh yeah This EDD you're swimming in Nitra

safe gulch
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^ this, at least

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I mean, you'll probably need it

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That and red rock blasters if you can order it

neat charm
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man stage 2 is rough in solo

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those trawlers got me good

digital chasm
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lost stage 2 of the EDD to a trawler

queen patrol
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even more reason to use the crspr

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season 2 may be slightly biased notnice

ember zephyr
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this week's EDD is like a joke compared to last one wtf

burnt sandal
jolly hazel
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rng of seed, swarm rolls, and what teammates you get lol

lime dirge
echo storm
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i usually find an edd to be cheese if it's sub 45

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on par is about an hour

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then fucked is 1hr 15

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flashbacks to the edd with haunted cave

safe steppe
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This deep dive is pretty easy so far

lethal stratus
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New deep dives

jolly hazel
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thanks!

glossy walrus
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was a ton of nitra yeah, we had 400 nitra coming out of stage 1 (1 resupply used)

jovial turret
glossy walrus
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which was great because the other 2 players on the team got the bug where you couldn't mine anything on stage2, red sugar included, so good thing we had lots of resupplies available

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I didn't realize that bug also removes the 6s invin on res, but apparently it does, so stage2 was quite rough for us (bulk during uplink was just the cherry on top)

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otherwise it's just a relatively long edd due to 2 refinery machines (and exploders making things feel even slower on stage3)

jovial turret
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Normal Deep Dive was ok, only bad thing was that it was treeland

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@jade tusk Did you get double dets on stage 2 of EDD? or was that just my luck?

jolly hazel
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did u do it for a particular reason?

jade tusk
warm raft
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Are the dd rewards seeded or?

jolly hazel
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no

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always 1 blank 1 weapon 1 comsetic

warm raft
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Well, is the weapon/cosmetic the same each week for everybody or random?

jade tusk
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Based on what you don't own for cores

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As you will never get the same core twice

warm raft
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Does it give a blank then or just another random oc?

jade tusk
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Assuming you own all weapon cores. The weapon core will be another blank core

jolly hazel
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^

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the weapon and cosmetic are random for each person

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unlike cargo crates being seeded

warm raft
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So it's randomized but won't give you a dupe

jolly hazel
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but it still rerolls

glossy walrus
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think we ended at around 50% on everyone

jolly hazel
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ever

warm raft
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Yeah, thought so

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Ty

jolly hazel
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I usually call one so we are full for the next stage

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if we are performing ahead of schedule

glossy walrus
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when we saw we could probably do it, we wanted to try to see if we could say we left stage1 with 400, which we barely did (was exactly 400)

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our driller was sticky flames and I was ntp, so we had a good amount of efficiency to go around

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most of the ammo was unsurprisingly used on the twins

jolly hazel
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I assume only one hp share too lol

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ntp ammo efficiency is nuts

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gotta tell engie to not kill everything that's going to die already

midnight citrus
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turrets don't care lol

glossy walrus
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yeah only one, though they got about 20% off it because we focused arbalest too hard, but not too bad overall

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oh right stage2 was lethal

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we didn't see a single lethal bug during the mission, so I completely forgot it was supposed to be lethal

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I think the same bug that made the non-host players not be able to mine might've messed up the lethal mutator and just made them not spawn or something

neat charm
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are you getting it confused with elite threat

glossy walrus
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ah, you're right, I am

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no wonder people went down so quickly

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was so focused on the not mining bug that I didn't think about that

jolly hazel
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I dont think I've played an elite threat mission in months

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feels like it got replaced with rival presence

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percentage wise at least lol

glossy walrus
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I've still been on some elite missions, but there's definitely a ton of rival presence, for the bp mission I imagine and just to show it off

jolly hazel
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I havent seen the hacking one in a while either

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in rival presence missions that is

midnight citrus
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elite nemesis

jolly hazel
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still insta dies to fire lol

fallen jetty
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Oh niiiice, black box with mactera plague again

midnight citrus
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welcome to trijaw hell

fallen jetty
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3 gunners and a scout is the way

jolly hazel
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eh

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its haz 3

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just bring subata driller or something

fallen jetty
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Lol

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I forgot first stage dd is haz 3

glossy walrus
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it's haz3 yeah, just bring whatever, doesn't really matter

fallen jetty
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Last time it was stage 2 edd I think

glossy walrus
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doing dd after edd, everyone in my group is treating it like such a joke because it is, just pickaxing things to death instead of shooting them, etc

fallen jetty
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Yeah haz 3 is ez to fuck around on

lyric bridge
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Anything goes on DD

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I’ve been trying really hard each week to get a sub 20m blind run

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Best so far is 24 I think

fallen jetty
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I saw some 11 minute runs on edd in the speedrun channel... how in tf is that possible?

lyric bridge
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Practice

burnt sandal
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lot of practice, and some exploit drillchamp

fallen jetty
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Gotta be some exploit involved bc the count down for savage missions alone

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But yeah I'm sure they are very fast

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And practice much

vapid shadow
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hey what is today's normal deep dive?

next pebble
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@vapid shadow

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Here

vapid shadow
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thank u

stone lily
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Edd looks rough this week, just on paper

boreal glade
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yeah lethal enemies salvage is just awful

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first stage was okay though. i didn't see a nemesis somehow.

stone lily
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I was more concerned about mission 1 honestly, it looked really rough from the text

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But at least twins on sandblasted isn't really pain

dawn zealot
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Two sandblasted edds in a row.. gonna need to refill my copium tanks [I dislike sandblasted because I dislike it]

lyric bridge
dawn zealot
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Probably just more likely on rival presence

lethal stratus
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DD was pretty easy

lethal stratus
dawn zealot
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I can repeat what I've heard about the first mission

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Really hectic spawn apparently

lethal stratus
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Would be nice, just woke up

dawn zealot
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With immediate dreads

glossy walrus
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can also scroll up for multiple people's walls of text about their exp

dawn zealot
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Like no option because refinery apparently spawns on top of the cocoon

stone lily
lethal stratus
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Oh god

stone lily
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Eer not mactera, rival presence

dawn zealot
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Apparently the turrets are near drop in from what I've heard

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Also

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Dreads as soon as refinery comes in

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Like the big thing I've been hearing is the refinery pops them

lethal stratus
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Thats horrible, god damn

dawn zealot
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Management does a little bit of trolling

stone lily
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It could be worse. Sandblasted is the most forgiving of all refinery biomes

dawn zealot
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I have an irrational sandblasted hatred, probably from a few sour solo missions

lethal stratus
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Last weeks EDD had fucking 5 trawlers

stone lily
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Stage 2 has lethal enemies though, which is very rough on sandblasted due to the trawlers

dawn zealot
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Getting insta killed by 3 honeycomb is not fun

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At least it isnt escort + lethal, unless that doesn't even do anything

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Haz 5 lethal enemies though, ugh

lethal stratus
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Haz 5.5 nemesis

dawn zealot
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Wait that would make pheromones absolutely obliterate anything you jarate righr

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Haz 5 lethal enemies swarmageddon :3

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Oh every Edd has a negative munster wow

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Mutator

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Wtf

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Discors corrected it to munster

boreal glade
dawn zealot
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Want a fungus bog dive so I can 🍄 pingdrg pingdrg pingdrg pingdrg mushwoom

glossy walrus
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heard people talking about refinery popping stuff, but didn't happen on our run on either mission

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playstation for ref

dawn zealot
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Odd

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I dont see it being too much of a problem, ive dealt with sudden refinery dreads before

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Ha ha ha ha ha

echo storm
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at least no shield disruption on magma core edd

dawn zealot
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Can deep dives have double negative modifiers

stone lily
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I wish

dawn zealot
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Edd with double negatives and exact objectives

jade tusk
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Hollow bough Volatile guts shield disruption nice

dawn zealot
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Hollow bough is the worst biome just because of corpse lickers

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If its a bug thing killed them id slap it on

stone lily
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Making "it's a bug thing" impact hostile fauna like spike plants take it from meme to contender pretty quick

dawn zealot
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Daggervines are cool looking but those fucking corpse lickers will make me blow up the fucking planet

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I hope we get more biomes one day

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Aight anyways uhh let me get on topic mm myes super elite deep dive where its exact objectives always double negative and goes 6 7 8 in haz

violet warren
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The turret part was rough because we kept getting our controller hack cancelled by exploders, but the rest went pretty well I think

summer forge
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oh to hell with this edd

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playing solo and i get 2 menace spawns

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in a middle of twins fight

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and i get oneshot by arbalest that dug out behind me
twice

atomic panther
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Don't worry on solo, they have less health

summer forge
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well i aint doing this edd again most likely

ember root
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does bosco refresh his revives every stage or no

summer forge
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he does

ember root
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nice, thanks

summer forge
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i got detonator on second stage so beware

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at least i got him between the defence

jolly moss
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The item deep dive hurts
First stage got the new robot enemy that grabs you along with two team mates leaving so it was just me (gunner) and a driller fighting off the twins and the nemesis at the same time

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Not the funnest

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We almost finished the second stage but the enemies had that lethal modifer and we got instant killed by exploders

visual pine
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anyone wanna do a deepdive? we have 2 slots in pod 8

jolly moss
visual pine
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steam

jolly moss
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Ah, can't then

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Steam doesn't allow cross platform

visual pine
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shame sorry man

jolly moss
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All good

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Good luck tho, it's a pretty crappy map for the weekly deep dive in my opinion
I just don't like it personally

ancient python
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My group had the lovely experience of having two nemesis at the same time in the first stage of the EDD. Luckily we hadn't popped the cocoon yet.

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Also that group was pretty smooth sailing. We never went down to a single dwarf.

atomic panther
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It's only a problem if you don't have driller with flamies

queen patrol
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did anybody else's molly just walk through a solid 5m of terrain on its way back to the drop pod on DD stage 1?

ancient python
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Sorry for the ping

atomic panther
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Yea shit happens, I should be careful when I'll be playing the edd

shrewd echo
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2d stage regular DD has to be the smallest cave i've seen in this game

fading ruin
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How's the elite deep dive

jolly hazel
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idk try it

queen patrol
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youve heard enough

jade tusk
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Rival presence stage 1. Also. Pray you don't get a Nemy spawn

fathom patrol
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Stage 1 was exciting, between the turret controller and the refinery popping the dreadnaught egg off the bat

fading ruin
inner rover
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kill faster

jade tusk
fading ruin
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K thanks

jade tusk
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Stage 2 is gonna be the real trouble maker depending on team comp and weapon loadouts

fading ruin
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Yeah lethal enemies

boreal glade
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yeah stage 2 EDD is rough. even though there are two separate dread secondary objectives, i still recommend bringing more AoE over single target just because of stage 2.

glossy walrus
fading ruin
boreal glade
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sounds like a plan. good luck

jade tusk
mystic ingot
storm crane
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edd this week is ruthless

shut heron
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I thought this week is pretty easy

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last week was hard tho

jolly hazel
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stage 2 got hairy

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i thought last week was pretty simple, just lots of things to kill

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team almost got turbofucked by lethal trawlers

jade tusk
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Trawlers are fucking scary with Lethal enemies

glossy walrus
jolly hazel
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we had a bulk

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early in stage 2

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but none during the zones

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i went down the most, which almost never happens lol

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you get punished hard for being careless

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did anyone else get really bad fps this week? went down to the teens sometimes

craggy fulcrum
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I hate this weeks EDD. Finished only the first stage after a few attempts. Second stage we almost finished but had 2 bulk detonators spawn one after another

jade tusk
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Bulks do be like that

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Your run is doing so fine then Boom bulks go "Sup"

craggy fulcrum
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Hahaha seriously

jolly hazel
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best bet is to use gunner shields to force it away and freeze it when it low

inner rover
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Had a weird player who would call in resupply as soon as we would hit 80 nitra

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And host refused to kick him

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We wiped soon as we entered stage 3 of DD coz no ammo

neat charm
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ok this edd is way easier solo as gunner

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what was i thinking using driller the first time

jade tusk
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Let me just waste our resources for no good reason

ebon anchor
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Bulk spawn on uplink really shows the difference between less experienced players and greybeards

neat charm
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thats one of the reasons why it went way better with gunner

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i was able to stall it by throwing a shield at it

ebon anchor
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everyone just loses their minds and within 30 seconds everyone scattered and dead and I can't do anything

lime dirge
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TFW your team had 600 nitra at the end of EDD

ebon anchor
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to be fair I think I could have clutched if I just killed the bulk immediately but

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everyone was already dead and reviving them on haz 5 would give them little to no hp, on lethal enemies. on top of that you have to defend in the crater

lime dirge
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We literally made a wall out of resuplys

lime dirge
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How we handled that is that we made two people lead the bulk away from the uplink and frozekilled him later

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yes, it is debatable if that was the best idea

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but it worked

jade tusk
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If you can figure out who the bulk is aggro on. They can lead the bulk away during the duration of the hold out

lime dirge
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yeah

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Also I think that this week's EDD is way easier than last week's

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damn

neat charm
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it really is just stage 2

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everything else is smooth sailing

lime dirge
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yep, but it scarred me enough to the point of talking about it

jade tusk
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Stage 1 could pose problems depending if you get a unlucky Nemy spawn

neat charm
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stage 1 is extremely open anyway so nemesis is less of a problem

lime dirge
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it was gone in 5 seconds

jade tusk
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True, but if the Nemy spawns while you're fighting the Twins. Could be a massive issue

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But if the Nemy spawns during the Refinery. Won't be much of a issue

lime dirge
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Yeee

jade tusk
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All it takes is a spawn at the bad time to cause the Domino effect towards a wipe

neat charm
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bosco never panics

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thats why hes the best

jade tusk
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I often do pubs. So anything can and will happen, but nothing like the trusty NTP Auto cannon for those situations

lime dirge
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I love pubs

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they're just pure chaos

jade tusk
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Nothing like dropping into a real bad situation in progress and some how bringing it back from the brink of failure

lime dirge
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if ur the one kiting the horror away from the group, while they're killing dreads

jade tusk
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Was helping a friend do last week's DD. I got put on Ghost duty as Gunner

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So I was just on my Zip line going from one end of the cave to the other

lime dirge
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Lol

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I took it back to the start room and was just running in circles

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for like 3 minutes

jade tusk
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All while I had Metroid Prime boss music playing in the background from one of the mods I had

lime dirge
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Based

jade tusk
lime dirge
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KEKW

jolly hazel
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I use this

queen patrol
unique spoke
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so what's been tripping people up about regular DD this week exactly?

queen patrol
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dunno, i flew through it

lime dirge
unique spoke
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🤷

lime dirge
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It's pretty chill actually

unique spoke
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yeah, I was hearing some rumblings and was expecting a lot of spawns or something at least

lime dirge
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although hollow bough hurr durr

unique spoke
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even the bough was pretty chill

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which, considering it's DD map generation combining two missions, is saying a lot

lime dirge
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Yeah we have a break after the last week ig

unkempt saffron
#

Its just a deep dive after all

lime dirge
#

also, yes

unkempt saffron
#

My brain simply turns off when doing a dd, its super easy

lyric bridge
#

Yea it’s official, every single weapon OC obtained on PS

#

Kinda bittersweet

#

Mostly bitter that I’ll be getting twice as many blank cores now

slow rover
#

lethal nayakka trawlers are funny

#

get drive by'd at half hp

dawn zealot
#

Do they do damage on grab

devout wing
#

No idea

#

But the bump

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It hurts

#

Lethal enemies have me wishing to be grabbed by them instead of bumped

jolly hazel
#

grab didnt instakill me

odd comet
#

The grab does damage, but significantly less than rams

lament musk
#

DD was pretty relaxed, the only thing that killed me was Bet-C pushing me off a cliff

#

Bless her

safe gulch
#

There was a BETC in DD?

wispy monolith
#

No

pine epoch
#

BET-C has a 5% chance of appearing in any mission. I don't think deep dives are exempt from this.

odd comet
#

Map spawns (like breeders, leeches, spitballers, and of course BET-C) are dependent on player count.

#

You might encounter a BET-C on a Deep Dive if you play with a full team, but not if you do it solo.

#

Or vice versa

somber hatch
#

I saw a betc too

lean pebble
#

At the end of my dd a grabber dropped me inside the drop pod before Molly had docked...

heavy crest
#

Like what the f the edd

ebon anchor
#

friend got stuck on the pipes/wall in the 3rd stage edd lol

#

couldn't revive him he was just vibrating

lean pebble
#

Mmmmmsweetvibrations

hollow citrus
leaden cypress
#

They are

#

but it depends on player count

safe gulch
#

EDD is doooooooone

#

Glad that nightmare is over

#

It would appear that the Bulk Detonator spawn is guaranteed at stage 2 signal hold out

#

When you run a 4-man crew

#

One dc-ed before we start, and he's strangely absent

#

Clear that, and the rest is a breeze with all the nitra to spend and throw in stage 3

#

Driller's idea to use C4 and kirov bomb the uplink terminal into the ground is a brilliant too, build a long ass tunnel downwards, all we had to do is to shoot up

ebon anchor
#

while rival presence is annoying, we just decided to bring cryo driller cos I don't want no bulk uplink cucking me

#

turret controller was near spawn so was easy to drill under and hack too

azure quail
#

So how bad is this weeks EDD?

queen patrol
void vector
jade tusk
pure sandal
#

stage 2 EDD has a mandatory bulk detonator during uplink

jade tusk
#

Stage 2 seems to have a Bulk spawning, but it is random when it shows up

safe gulch
#

I'm more under the impression that the bulk will spawn if you run a full crew

#

But again, take my word with plenty o' salt, could just be my ass-rotten luck speaking

#

Three nemesis, three, I appreciate a good joke, but shit ain't funny

#

I'll say this, if you make it through stage 2, 3 is a cakewalk compared to what that was

#

Oh right, I forgot to mention one thing

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A good respite in form a consolation prize, maybe, but a blessed run I had, no sandstorms occurred, at all, in all three stages

#

Almost feels like EDD is taking pity on me....

leaden cypress
#

much more than several previous EDDs

supple remnant
safe gulch
#

Nice!

supple remnant
#

But yeah there was so much nitra for some reason

#

But I’m not complaining

frosty delta
#

Any tips for second stage edd I’m really struggling with the black box part

queen patrol
frosty delta
queen patrol
#

oh the uplink

frosty delta
queen patrol
#

you playing solo?

frosty delta
queen patrol
#

you could go driller to deal with the tons of bugs but you have to deal with two sets of dreadnought twins so it would be painful Sconk

#

so maybe gunner would be better

frosty delta
queen patrol
#

try waiting for a red rock blaster on the daily special

sweet shadow
#

I just had a legend 2 soldier who, after 15 mn of deep dive, called 5 supply pods, took the 20 refills, and ruined our mission. Can I report him/do anything ?

neat charm
#

no

queen patrol
#

and a more ammo-guzzling build since your solo and it doesnt really matter

sweet shadow
#

nice! First toxic player in 200hrs of gameplay

#

I guess I was gonna get one at some point

neat charm
#

there isnt much to be done with p2p unfortunately

#

just block them

queen patrol
sweet shadow
#

humans are full of creativity

#

no idea why he did that.

fading ruin
#

I still haven't met my first one

#

I'm so excited!

sweet shadow
#

didn't say a single word

dawn zealot
#

Eugh, toxic players

frosty delta
verbal crescent
hoary cove
azure quail
void vector
#

Letting someone call 5 supplies in a deep dive (unless it was the last stage) AND letting them take all the ammo is just poor situational awareness.

sweet shadow
#

We were busy on the dreadnaught, but I guess you are right

#

It’s just sad if now I have to watch what my teammates are doing, I thought people would be mature about this

void vector
#

People in general are, but once in a blue moon you'll run into someone like that.

safe gulch
#

Rottenbeards... Yeah, you can't live them, you can't live without em'

verbal sky
#

boi this week EDD is a nightmare, it takes for about 1 hour with my team to complete all three levels

#

almost got wiped out several times

static ridge
verbal sky
#

for the first level, we got ambushed by a dozen of sniper turrets, burst turrets, etc.

fluid tide
#

wait how does stationary objects ambush you

verbal sky
#

i mean theres a lot of them

fluid tide
#

oh phew i was worried that they added moving sentinel turrets

verbal sky
#

and we almost got wiped out several times cuz of the goddamn sniper turrets

turbid dawn
verbal sky
#

im the driller and i do what exactly you just said

turbid dawn
#

Then how did you die to snipers?

radiant fern
#

Bro, I did edd few times and first time the liquid morkite thing didn't drop on the dreadnought egg but now it does

#

I thought deep dives are all the same for the whole week

jolly hazel
#

they reset on thursday?

pine epoch
#

Yes, every Thursday at 1 p.m. CET

jade tusk
#

We just had the weekly reset yesterday 0.o

lost jungle
jade tusk
#

I think I found the most storm trooper dwarf ever

#

And I have seen and heard some real storm troopers dwarfs

wraith flame
#

I just had a 5 man EDD. Idk how it happened but I spawned in the mission console of the base and we had a full roster an additional scout. Was fun.

spring maple
#

I wonder just how many players the game could handle if you removed the 4 player cap

wraith shard
brisk pagoda
lost jungle
#

those actually exist?

brisk pagoda
#

yes

#

and its not like a sandbox mod or anything, you can even have people use it in unmodded servers

lament lantern
#

I love that spot on the second deep dive that has 9 stabber vines clustered together

lost jungle
#

lol

lament lantern
#

got a mod that changes the scream sound when you pop an egg and it's fun

#

stage two DD was really peaceful tbh

#

hah, the drop pod kills a stabber vine in stage 3

#

bet-c on stage 3?? why is that not in the pins?

sacred rover
#

i dont remember one

lament lantern
#

well, right now i have her helping me

burnt sandal
lament lantern
#

but doretta goes right through her activation range, and she does work to the poor dozer

lament lantern
burnt sandal
sacred rover
#

you on console perhaps?

lament lantern
#

pc, solo

#

bleh, no screenshots here

sacred rover
#

cause i just went trough the regular one solo and there was no bet c, just like when i did it whit a group yesterday

lament lantern
#

huh, why did i get one then

sacred rover
#

there was a bulk tho

lament lantern
#

i've had no bulky yet, hoping that doesn't change

#

i've had a bulky die by doretta once, i'd rather not have it again

sacred rover
#

i lost 2 segments to him, eaven tho he didint do any damage to her

lament lantern
#

lost 1 segment to bet-c, but she's being fucking amazing in helping out once i got her repaired

#

sadly she doesn't attack the beamers aha

#

obliterates the rocks at least

sacred rover
#

gota be honest tho, i forgot how much multiple players scale dread hp so seeing stiky flames oblitorate the classic dread was nice.

#

escpecialy bc i havent used the flamethrower in a while

lament lantern
#

mmm, shard diffractor did great against the dreads

#

gotta take dotty home

queen patrol
#

cleanest EDD ive done so far, no nemesis on stage 1 and only 3 downs in total (cant say the same for the rest of my team mboi)

#

also ended with 700 nitra in storage so dont be afraid to bring crappy ammo efficiency

weary blaze
#

ty

wild talon
#

might be a good thing given the combo of rival presence with dreads

lusty shuttle
#

Stage 1 of the EDD had a Nemesis and a random Dreadnought spawn for me.

vapid zephyr
#

EDD stage 2 was my favorite this week because my whole team was down with 1 minute on drop pod being ready, I typed out sorry bros I have to kite. I proceeded to fly around with special powder and grapple for the entire time dodging hordes of enemies until pod was ready then I gtfo of there

lament lantern
lusty shuttle
#

Yeah, and after we killed the random Dreadnought that just kind of spawned spontaneously and got those guys down to about 25% each, Nemesis spawned in.

lament lantern
#

a deadnought that wasn't part of the objective?

lusty shuttle
#

Yes.

lament lantern
#

that... shouldn't happen

lusty shuttle
#

It spawned before we popped the egg.

supple remnant
#

After you killed it did it show y’all completing the secondary objective

lusty shuttle
#

Nope.

supple remnant
#

Weird

lime dirge
sullen hamlet
#

That edd second stage felt impossible

#

Uplink, detonator spawn which was yea sure ok fine

But the warden had 10 slashers

#

Along with the detonator

lime dirge
#

I like how it was so scarring everyone talks about it even after it's over

sullen hamlet
#

Did i mention that my nitra and red sugar also desynced lol

lime dirge
#

lol

burnt sandal
#

for Mining Mission, Point Extraction and On-site Refinery, waves can rarely be replaced by a random dreadnought.
Chances of that happening are very low but it can still happens.

lime dirge
#

I didn't experience it

#

ever

lime dirge
burnt sandal
lime dirge
#

yikes

lament lantern
#

the more you know

unique spoke
#

I let my engineer talk us into defending the objective on the bridge it spawned on instead of digging it dow to ground level bc we had no driller

#

So that ended poorly

sullen hamlet
#

Once when i was starting like 20 hours in and one the other week

burnt sandal
fallen jetty
tribal mountain
#

I got one within I think my first 20 hours or so, though it was a regular solo mission, rather than a deepdive. Was back before I got my first promotion. Was honestly kinda disappointed they haven't been as common as that made me expect, lol

summer knoll
#

Is engineer getting a 100% refill on turret ammo after each stage a bug or feature?

burnt sandal
summer knoll
#

Damn, I actually wish it was a feature, sentry ammo drains fast

outer beacon
#

Man, this dive made me go full sweatlord.

#

Two stages chock full of exploders, and that first stage was downright painful. Also, can I just say that getting sandstorms while the level is full of swarmer tunnels just blows?

pastel mason
void vector
summer knoll
#

Interesting, might try that

raven grove
#

I had two random dreads spawn in a row once. That was really something.

fading ruin
#

I've officially completed the edd

#

Hooray

wicked sand
#

yo this week fucking blew ngl had me sweating hard

brittle halo
fading ruin
#

Thanks!

brittle halo
#

I'm just left waiting for the next thursday

#

I have one core but I don't feel like searching for a machine event even more

fading ruin
#

Same lmao

#

Just gonna hope it appears and get some good ocs

copper cedar
#

Is there anything specific to know before heading into the EDD?

#

I've completed a fair few deep dives. But never tried an EDD

burnt sandal
unkempt saffron
#

More info on the dive youre about to do will always help no matter what

copper cedar
#

Can you view all stages of an EDD before you go into it?

#

On drg? Or do you have to check online

burnt sandal
#

check the pinned messages

copper cedar
#

Ty

junior fossil
#

usually people finish a run by the hour after reset so you can know by then

lyric bridge
#

If you time it right you can shoot the dreadnaught egg and the refinery will insta kill both twins

#

Use your scanner to see the refinery falling

#

Once the first wave of bugs and the twins are out you’re clear to hack the rival doohickey ezpz

copper oasis
#

Failed the EDD because my game crashed and I was the host. never failed like that before kekw

restive patrol
#

whole team died at least 15 times

#

each

#

still fucking completed the elite dive

#

boo yah

echo storm
#

last week's edd was a bit more intense

copper cedar
snow wraith
lyric bridge
#

Not too hard, it’s just that the refinery falls much slower than it seems like it ought to so you do have to watch it on the scanner

snow wraith
#

do you pop the egg and just

#

run for the refinery?

lyric bridge
#

No the refinery drops where the egg is

#

So you pop the egg right before the refinery drops through it

snow wraith
#

oh

lyric bridge
#

You can do the same concept with supply drops as well but it’s not as much damage

copper cedar
#

We managed to kill one of the twins, but not both. Still helped an awful lot though

unkempt saffron
#

Edd was quite the challenge, i think its really a matter of whether rngesus is forgiving for a specific run or not, on another note, fuck tons of nitra

shut oracle
#

edd stage 1 sounds horrid lol

#

and they act like volatile guts helps but it just gonna kill me every power attack 😂

unkempt saffron
#

Edd stage 1 is actually kinda chill in a way

#

Stage 2 is the one to look out for

#

And stage 3 is somewhat challenging but it isnt impossibly hard

#

The main thing id say to look out for are nemmies in this edd

#

I used vim, gamma microwave and neuro nades and it worked fine enough for me

sullen hamlet
wraith flame
#

Just wanna say, again, I had a 5 man EDD and we had PLENTY of nitra folks. We ended and has at least 6 or 7 resupps. Wild. Just survive and keep the DPS up and you will win. You have all the ammo you need.

sacred rover
#

yeah i used it mostly for health. 100% would not have survived if i didint.

#

the first stage is the only one i had any trouble whit nitra.

brazen kettle
#

Is anybody doing a deep dive?

sacred rover
#

ive done both twice, once whit a team and second as solo, and dont feel like playing for a bit after that solo edd so nah.

brazen kettle
#

Ok

dark compass
#

Who completed a elite deep dive, how you go further then second stage, we tried complete it even with 2 gunners, engi end driller and there was too much bugs even with this team.

jolly hazel
#

kill them faster

sacred rover
#

yep

jolly hazel
#

prep the fighting area more

#

make sure you can funnel the bugs to one or two locations

#

and just shoot that area

#

there will be enough nitra where u can just make an artificial floor

#

at the shitty fuel pod location

sacred rover
#

sticky flames was amazingly usefull for me when doing it solo

#

and i diditn prepare anything

lime dirge
sacred rover
#

also if the ammount of bugs is a proplem, 2 engies or drillers is better than 2 gunners

lime dirge
#

8 resupplys

brazen kettle
#

Doing a deep dive if anyone wants to join

trail hound
#

also bring scout hes better than a second gunner id say

#

his ifgs are very very powerful here

#

and a cryo driller or ntp gunner packing clusters can do serious work

jade tusk
#

Add in the ability to light the cave giving everyone increase vision and survivability

unkempt saffron
#

Is that supposed to be a suggestion or a call to all players doing the edd to bring a scout?

unkempt saffron
#

For the entire edd*

sacred rover
#

imagine having more nitra than gold from a carassus

jade tusk
pure berry
#

Yea I tried the EDD yesterday and we died at the end of the second mission

#

It might've been my fault for not going into the driller bunker

#

I didn't know

lime dirge
unkempt saffron
sullen hamlet
#

Oh yea are enemy spawn set in stone on dd and edds?

#

Eg therell always be wardens and bulks on stage 2 of the edd

lyric bridge
#

Nope

#

Only the spawns that are part of the level like leeches and spitballers

pure berry
#

We just got super overwhelmed at the end when a bulk spawned and then a warden

#

And a bunch of mactera

#

Oh man it was a bad time

jolly hazel
#

I think the enemy spawns are seeded

#

not 100% sure though

dawn zealot
#

There might be a cue to spawn a certain type of enemy set in

#

queue? que? cue? Idfk

#

que or cue

sullen hamlet
sullen hamlet
jolly hazel
#

I think everyone is getting wardens and bulks stage 2

unkempt saffron
#

You have to keep moving in this edd, staying stationary is a death sentence as ironic as it may seem for stage 2 salvage

jolly hazel
#

or its confirmation bias

#

yeah dont be afraid to vacate the sphere

#

ideally the bulk is dead before it reaches you

unkempt saffron
#

Also where the fuel drops is also rng, sometimes it may land next to the relay, other times it lands in a bad position

sullen hamlet
#

By the sound of it, it is seeded

#

So wardens and a bulk huh notnice

jolly hazel
#

what was rest of team doing?

#

or were you solo

jolly hazel
#

it came in directly on top of an arch for us and it was awful

sullen hamlet
#

I was running spinning death engi and the other 2 were a gunner n driller

#

Probably couldve done it with a bunker but couldnt because bulks were spawning notnice

jolly hazel
#

huh

#

those 3 should be able to handle it

#

you did mostly the right play though

#

just dont get caught

sullen hamlet
#

Yea

#

We were fucked because the bulk lost interest and the buffed slashers got me before i could reload

#

Bear in mind there was a wall right behind me

unkempt saffron
jolly hazel
#

hmm interesting

#

guess thats an rng element some people will get screwed by and probably contributes to people who think its hard and people who think it isnt

sacred rover
#

indeed, i had a nemesis when trying the edd solo, but when i tried again after dying to the dreads there was no nemesis.

unkempt saffron
#

Thats already known really

supple remnant
#

I thought the fuel locations were seeded (obviously it depends on the version)

sacred rover
#

i think those are

hoary relic
#

also, isn't the dreadnought egg's position fixed?

#

because on our third try it changed on stage 1

#

and it made it SO much easier

frail sorrel
#

i'm gonna cry, i hosted for the EDD, we blazed stage 1, scraped by on stage 2, and my game freaking CRASHED on the last minutes of stage 3

#

just AAAAUGH

#

the game feels more unstable recently, i've had a lot of disconnect issues, crashes, and other stuff recently, in normal missions and the dives

pure berry
#

I get visibly annoyed when I can't mine for longer than 30 second without my ass getting chomped by grunts

uncut zodiac
#

What kind of an EDD is up at the moment, as in what objectives on each stage and are there any bulks n' such?

midnight citrus
#

check pinned

safe gulch
#

Could have sworn somebody said EDD Stage 2 is like a gatekeeper

#

Bulk during the uplink holdout, it's like they know exactly how to consistently ruin everyone's day

sacred rover
#

somebody did indeed say that

ember otter
#

I didn't get any bulks stage 2, plenty on 1-3 though

sacred rover
#

i got no bulks in elite both times i did it if i rememebr correct. i did get one in the normal dd during the 3rd stage at the omoran heart.

pure berry
#

I got bulk during uplink

#

And a Warden right on top of it

#

Then the mactera spawned in and that just put the cherry on top

#

Stupid tri jaws

jolly hazel
#

just shoot em

#

problem solved

pure berry
#

When literally 4 trijaw are flying around me while I have swarmers and slicers at my feet

#

Its a little difficult lmao

#

Even on scout

#

I was a bit of a buffoon bringing cryo nades and not ifg but

#

I feel the need to bring cryo for breeders

jolly hazel
#

I dont think I saw any breeders

#

cryo is nice for panic detonator freeze

#

but yeah ifg is good for the funny 2 praetorians spewing cum on the uplink

pure berry
#

I'll run it again with ifg and see how it goes

sturdy pollen
#

This is probably gonna be my first deep dive

#

I hope I do well

#

I'm not wretched at the game in my opinion

#

You need to have a base idea of what you're doing to even participate in Deep Dives anyway

jolly hazel
#

if u can handle haz 3 u are fine

sturdy pollen
#

Good

#

I'm fairly comfortable on Haz 3

pure berry
#

I'm comfy on Haz 4

#

For the most part

#

I struggle on engi and driller cause I'm still learning them

#

Scout and Gunner I do fine

#

I'm either killing things or running away from the things doing the killing

jolly hazel
#

gunner is idiot proof as long as they use shield well and scout is theoretically idiot proof but attracts a lot of idiots

pure berry
#

Big fact

#

Thankfully I'm not an idiot I just enjoy playing the funny movement characters in most games

#

Especially after I learned that Special Powder existed

#

"hey do you like fun move techs? Well this turns your secondary weapon into a movement tool"

#

Okay Game yes I will play you more

#

Super Shotgun was the best weapon in Eternal for a reason lmao

#

Speaking of Super Shotgun

#

I actually found the Double Barrel OC the other night

#

So I may use that for a little bit and build around it

midnight citrus
#

according to people it's not that good

jolly hazel
#

if that's the double tap one the difference is negligible

#

personally I think the shotgun is totally outclassed by zhukovs unless you go for special powder

pure berry
#

Hmm so for damage I'm better off doing one of the unstable ones

#

Like Jumbo Shells

jolly hazel
#

you need to be dangerously close to enemies for jumbo shells full effectiveness but yeah

pure berry
#

Alrighty

#

I run special powder exclusively because I love the bonus movement

#

I also don't have any other secondaries yet nor other overclocks

jade tusk
#

Nothing wrong with Special. The Boomstick has enough damage to clear any light enemy that gets too close

latent basin
forest temple
pure berry
#

The ability to cross caverns instantly is too valuable to my monkey brain

jolly hazel
#

just have to remember dont jump while firing

pure berry
#

Sometimes I do

#

But more often than not I stick to killing with the Drak

jade tusk
#

I been using the explode on reload akimbos. Pretty good burst damage on scout

waxen surge
#

Finally cleared my first elite deep dive today

#

Stage 3 spawns were intense haha

#

Went as gunner with Neurotoxin Payload AC

jolly hazel
#

I hate boreotoxin pozload

#

but it is definetly effective

jade tusk
#

It's boring, but if it ain't broke. Don't fix it

hoary cove
jolly hazel
#

single target gunner crying in the distance

#

though I guess his is sustained and longer range

dry charm
#

how's this weeks dives? bf and i will tackel em soon

unkempt saffron
#

Deep dive? Easy. Elite deep dive? Challenging the first time maybe

steady elm
#

Confession time:
I've never done a Deep Dive

pure sandal
#

how long have you played the game without doing deep dives

lime dirge
#

yeah

#

These cores are just waiting to be taken

devout jetty
#

your whole team still has to be good to do edd

#

🙄

sacred rover
#

not true if you amazing at the game.

#

wich i am not.

#

still did it solo tho.

devout jetty
#

😉

#

i prefer to play with full team, it's more fun... but always have issues with that ONE lacking player

#

sighs

sacred rover
#

i did it whit a team at first too, so i didint eaven get anything for doing it solo

#

expect xp and gold but yeah.

devout jetty
#

mhm

jade tusk
shadow pond
#

Is the Deep Dive Elite give better loot than the normal? If so, how much better? 🙂

jade tusk
#

It's the same 3 things that the Deep dive gives

#

Beat Stage 1 gets you a blank core
Stage 2 a Weapon OC (Black if you own all the Weapon OC)
Stage 3 a cosmetic core

shadow pond
#

Thank you! Then what is the point to run the ELITE one?

rough stone
#

Deep dive elite is mainly to challenge you

shadow pond
#

i see 🙂

sacred rover
#

also 2 more chanches to get an overclock you want

jolly hazel
#

ya its the only way to get a guaranteed 3rd blank, weapon and cosmetic oc per week

red condor
#

Just loaded int the edd. This is what hell looks like. I lasted 10 seconds with a team of 4 dwarfs

jade tusk
#

Stage 1 is pretty brutal.

#

You drop right by a turret cluster

unkempt saffron
#

Its very easy to drill through and hack the controller from below ground

#

If your driller aint doing that then he sucks

sacred rover
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and since its sandblasted, it aint bad eaven if you arent driller

unkempt saffron
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Exactly, the controller should be the easiest and the first thing to take down when starting stage 1, unless theres a nemmy at the start

clever parcel
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Tbh

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The 2nd stage is such ass

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Hidden leech, countless oppressors, double bulk and acid spittets

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1st round is a warmup imo

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Don't get me started on the sandsharks

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A friend got teleported out of the world bc of one

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Couldn't res so he had to use his iron will

jolly hazel
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simply shoot the bugs

sacred rover
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love how both times i dodged the leech and only noticed it when it started retracting

clever parcel
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It aint easy to shoot if you get a literal julius ceasar formation of exploders

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I can freeze em but some get too close for me to cancel out their animation

fair zodiac
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Hi guys, I always struggle to find people to do Deep Dive Elite, I play on PC from the Microsoft Store.. Is it normal?

rocky cipher
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anyone got past the second mission on the edd? Id like to know what you did for the scans

tall meadow
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Clarify what you mean by scans

rocky cipher
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the uplink and power for the drop ship

tall meadow
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Repellant as engi

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Filter the bug to travel to the sides

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Gunners can be smart on using shield at right time, not when someone is only down

rocky cipher
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So you know how theres a little bride above the uplink, you are using the repellant to keep the bugs from going up there or you are blocking off one side?

tall meadow
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Lethal enemies after all so don’t underestimate even the small guys and the usual grunt

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Also no clue which part you mean specifically unless I see it

rocky cipher
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Fair enough, cant expect you to remember the exact layout of the map

tall meadow
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I’ve ran the EDD for folks 3 times now so I technically remember the larger details kek

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but not the part you’re describing

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But if you understand the concept of repellant, it should be the same situation as here, have repellant plats a line behind you and making it so they come further from the front

rocky cipher
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Im be honest I never used repellent before but I'll try that out , I can figure out the rest on the first map

tall meadow
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Reminder that repellant just changes the bug pathing

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Not outright prevents bugs from ever going there

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Bug always chooses the shortest route to bite your ass, a repellant plat basically makes it so it shows to the bug that the route to you via that plat is 2x the travel so they would go around it

rocky cipher
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alright so its like playing tower defense game, thats my take away. Thanks bl4ankets

tall meadow
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Hah something like that

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Np

jade tusk
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Big thing as well. Remember to clear out your line of sight. There's a lot of pillars around the drop pod

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With decent planning. A Bunker may be a idea as long as you do it right

unkempt saffron
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I honestly dont recall seeing any lethal enemies in stage 2

inner rover
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We wiped coz ofcourse my team tried to make a bunker in stage 2

jade tusk
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The difference between a successful bunker and a tomb is a way out of a bad situation and being built right

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The tunnel to the Bunker is 2 to 3 full drill length so the bugs have time to get into the tunnel and clump up into nice groups for the gunner and Driller to deal with

tall meadow
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You’re thinking of elite threat

unkempt saffron
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Yup im stupid

jolly hazel
jade tusk
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You'll be surprised at how many people forget about the tunnel

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And having a "Oh shit" plan in the event a Bulk starts digging to it and you don't have the length in the tunnel to deal with it

glossy walrus
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dw you're not alone, I got mixed up by lethal/elite too

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even if you do a long tunnel, when doing an underbunker on an uplink, the bulk is quite happy to burrow in from above rather than using the tunnel (happened on s2 this week), so it's not the best either way in that case unless you have an engie around to make it a deeper bunker

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luckily I heard it early so we had time to dig out

inner rover
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but they diddnt realize oppressors can slam their way through

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so all 3 of them were dead WAAY into the ground

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and surrounded by bugs

jade tusk
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That's the first mistake there. Dug it straight down without having a Entry tunnel for the bugs to path into

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THat wasn't a bunker at all. That was an all you can eat bug buffet

rocky cipher
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finally beat the edd

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had use bh mini with the venting, so I could use the fear to push them out the scans

rocky cipher
inner rover
glossy walrus
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ah yeah that's definitely one of the worst types of bunkers. even if they get lucky and don't get an oppressor or bulk, when they have to leave they're gonna be swarmed the entire swarm at once

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and in general I've found people who make that type aren't good enough to drill straight to the drop pod ramp either, instead just coming out somewhere random

queen patrol
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best bunker is no bunker

jade tusk
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A good bunker will work. Just you get more bad ones over good ones and all that depends on many factors. Depends on current mission, team and if they're willing to commit to it, good planning on the driller on making it, and what bugs is on the spawn rotation. I won't make a bunker if there's a lot of bulks spawning in that run

wraith shard
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Just finished this deep dive by far one of the hardest I've ever done

crude panther
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Is there a page for deep dive squads? I need someone I’ll feel lonely

hoary cove
jade tusk
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Nowadays I don't use bunker as often as before, but its still something in the Driller playbook I keep in mind when it calls for it

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The fun part is watching the Last dwarf standing attempting to do the Hail mary of all revives only to be yoinked away by a Mactera grabber

latent basin
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imagine being a scout player and your team decides to do a bunker play

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you gotta feel claustrophobic when you cant grapple in there, eww

jade tusk
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Honestly. I prefer the scout to be outside the bunker. They can kite the bugs around or call out HVTs such as Bulks and Shellbacks

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A bunker isn't ideal for everything. As it can one hell of a time if the game REALLY loves Shellbacks

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Had a Driller during a Haz 5 run bunker up just as the Swarm was announced and make a Quickie bunker, but I notice the game was very spawn happy with Shell backs. So I made a Zipline as Gunner and used it to keep myself safe from most of the bugs and only focus on Acid spitters and Mactera. I saw a Shell back roll right into that bunker and within 10 seconds of that shell back coming in. I became Last Dwarf Standing

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Shellbacks is the 2nd hardest counter to a Bunker. 1st being Bulks

glossy walrus
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driller just sighed and went off to dig the escape tunnel

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that said, it did end up fine underbunkering the fuel pod as no bulks spawned for that, so it's just whether you want to roll that die or not

jade tusk
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Always have a god damn escape tunnel. So you and your team can GTFO

supple remnant
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I don’t end up getting in bunkers with people because they never make it correctly

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I’m just like yeah enjoy getting a bulk in there without an escape route

jade tusk
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Or a shellback playing the best game of Dwarf pinball ever

tiny frost
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mannn.. fuckin lethal enemies twice in a row on EDD is super aids

inner rover
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I give up man

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This week is not worth it

tiny frost
jade tusk
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I can help you guys through this EDD in a bit

inner rover
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Thanks but im a console peasant

jade tusk
tiny frost
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i almost dont even want to bother lmao, but also, dem overclocks tho

jade tusk
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Your call

tiny frost
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what's your region, so i know what kinda ping i'm gonna be playing on lol

jade tusk
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Eastern United States

tiny frost
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aight ye why not

jade tusk
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Currently eating ATM. SO give me about 10-15 minutes

tiny frost
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k

jade tusk
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What's your Steam friend code BTW?

balmy sinew
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This week's Elite Deep Dive feels like it's a bit much, at least for me. Starting with volatile guts, one big room, rival bots present, multiple terminators being spawned, and a bunch of sniper and burst turrets scattered around at the start, on just the first mission alone, gets rather hectic.

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And then the second is lethal bugs.

neat talon
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It's a fun one!

balmy sinew
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A tad too 'fun' for my liking.

manic pivotBOT
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inner rover
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thanks mission control ily

lime dirge
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Mission control our beloved

rocky cipher
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wow someone said the "refinery broke the egg" in the mission one of the edd, then tell me how Ive ran this 10 times before and the egg is no where close. not to mention I dont think drops can damage eggs

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and this happen 3 times in a row

jade tusk
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It's been iffy on whether or not it's real and no one has gave video evidence of it happening

unkempt saffron
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Its probably not true

lyric bridge
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Playing on PS refinery breaks egg every time

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4 man team if that makes a difference but it shouldn’t

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Not the first time I’ve heard of discrepancies between playerbase of things like drilldozer popping eggs or not etc

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If I had to guess they’re slightly differently seeded between platforms

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As far as I’m aware PS didn’t have the hidden morkite vein last week either, it was all out in the open

turbid dawn
unkempt saffron
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Got footage of it happening?

lyric bridge
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Only proof I got is the 3 other dorfs that ran it with me like six times

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@royal bramble

unkempt saffron
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Footage also helps too

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Ig

lyric bridge
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@eager dome

wraith shard
# lyric bridge Playing on PS refinery breaks egg every time

100% second this. It definitely breaks every time for me as well (ps5).. I ran it solo, but restarted stage 1, 4-5 times to see refinery guaranteed to hit the cocoon open… crazy first stage. Completed whole thing solo, and first thing was hardest due to forced dread fight.

old widget
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Cavegen is different between PS and PC versions, so not surprising to see a difference of experiences

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Sounds pretty memorable

unkempt saffron
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Twins plus controller plus possible nemmy? Sounds like a fun time alright

wraith shard
lyric bridge
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We gave up trying to fight the whole horde head on and instead started exploiting the refinery to instakill the twins and then taking out everything else from the safer end of the cave before coming back to finish hacking the doohickey and get the refinery started

unkempt saffron
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You could get someone to hack the controller while the rest handle the twins

rocky cipher
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btw I really love this weeks edd, I hope next weeks is this challenging

lament trail
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For ref the refinery did not pop the egg for us on PS4 host (on PS5), but we had a 3man unlike the others

pure berry
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Finished the EDD! And it was my first EDD clear!

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Did it as scout

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was commended for my use of special powder

dawn zealot
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wow the edd this week is a toughie

lean pebble
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Darn bots popped the egg in the first mission lol

atomic prawn
lean pebble
vapid fractal
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holy fuck mactera plague

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pain

jade tusk
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The "Gunner. You're not allowed to use your Ziplines for the entirety of the mission" Warning

spark yacht
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Damn, the EDD is rough this week.

atomic prawn
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it's alright

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a bit odd since stage 1 and 3 are basically the same

sacred rover
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luckily you can use nitra for health semi- regularly do to there being so much of it

jolly hazel
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or if u mean this week then derp

jade tusk