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Sassy Sasquatch posted:New Elite Deep Dive concept: You can vote at the end of each mission to either bail and keep what you found, or keep going deeper with increasing difficulty. No depth limit, add a public leaderboard for tryhards. Yes I would love to play first person Spiral Knights.
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Hollandia posted:The dedicated salute / cheer button legit helps make the game friendlier. Very underrated. It's just a reflex, when I hear ROCK & STONE I am already mashing V by the time I get to the ampersand.
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Jun 29, 2021 05:50
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I have played a lot the last few weeks but haven't really looked stuff up; this chatter reminds me of a question I've had. It feels like when I blow up minerals with C4 or drill out the dirt around the perimeter of the vein, I get a lot less than if I just pickaxe'd everything out slowly. Am I nuts or is that a thing?
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Jun 30, 2021 05:42
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When the game tallies XP at the end for minerals mined, is that just for gold, or do nitra, bismor, etc etc. count? For that matter, does morkite count towards that? Also, is it just minerals mined, or do they need to be deposited?
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Jul 10, 2021 03:21
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That's mostly how I have been treating it - when I'm waiting for the pod to come in, or there is other downtime, I head out and mine for a couple minutes before regrouping, and I was wondering if that was worth it. Sounds like it is, though it's not a ton of XP.
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Jul 10, 2021 20:26
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I use the overclock that lets it put down an aura of damage over time on top of whichever chokepoint I am setting on fire, but it seems very underwhelming, yeah. I use it because the Subata feels awful too, so it's much of a muchness.
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Jul 11, 2021 23:57
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I'm sure most of you have done this before, but I managed to get a Crassus detonator with Pots 'o Gold active, and on a gold rush mission to boot. Mined 5k worth of gold, and I'm happy enough that I want to shaaaare.
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Jul 30, 2021 05:07
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Delight your teammates by doing this with a crassus detonator. I had a teammate (and former friend) do this once. "I'll keep it from blowing up!" he said, freezing just as the final shots landed. 
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Sep 17, 2021 21:48
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We were playing last night and had a wave that was just a dreadnought! Is this a new thing that was just patched in, or very rare? We'd never had it happen to us before. Also this mission name/type combo gave me childish amusement: 
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Oct 3, 2021 01:12
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TheOmegaWalrus posted:I main gunner because he is the best at popping bugs at any distance and really, that's all I play the game for. We kill bugs
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Oct 4, 2021 22:57
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Yeah that's for sure what makes EDDs hard is the objectives and modifiers, not the hazard level. I can do haz5 fairly regularly and feel fine, but liquid morkite in the fungus bogs with low o2 on haz5 is a pain.
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Oct 21, 2021 07:30
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Small bit of historical trivia that might help: an arbalest is a kind of medieval crossbow, and the arbalest is the twin that hangs out in the back and fires at you, while the lacerator gets up in your beard like you might expect. Dodgy colours aside, the names describe the way they attack fairly well, which helps me distinguish them.
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Nov 6, 2021 09:33
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To me the biggest issue with the new game mode is that it seems to have a hard block on certain classes and loadouts in a game where nothing else is like this. Even on haz 5 and elite deep dives me and my crew have gotten by with just playing what we find fun, what works for us, picking skills based on trial and error instead of following meta guides online, and that works and is fine. When we do this, we all have multiple loadouts with which we feel comfortable on high difficulty missions, and no matter what we do we feel that we have options, and it's never a case of 'well the game just hosed us.' The one exception is liquid morkite, you pretty much need a driller, it's mandatory to do it in a remotely timely fashion. The new mission type is exactly the opposite of that though. Some weapons are simply bad on this game mode. Some classes run into hard blockers. Oh, you're playing driller and you ran into a large cavern full of sniper turrets? Good luck with that poo poo. Many of the classes feel limited, and some weapons within those classes are simply wrong choices. With the exception of the liquid morkite mentioned above, there isn't a single other mission in the game where I feel obligated to preplan not just what class I play but which weapons and perks I choose, just for that mission. It feels more like an MMO raid than a normal DRG mission. Oh, and the fact that the bugs and robots are on the same team really annoys me. Technically speaking there's nothing wrong with it from a gameplay perspective, but I hate it when two groups that should be enemies both decide to work together to fight you the players, because you're the players.
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Nov 8, 2021 08:49
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Gromit posted:I've had 3 times now where I end up holding a small number of minerals that can't be deposited anywhere. None of my friends have reported this happening to them but maybe that shows they aren't doing enough mining! I am also getting this, it seems to be A Thing.
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Nov 12, 2021 06:17
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Fabricated posted:DX12 I say. Okay, but the real question: when I launch, I get the options of Play Deep Rock Galactic (DX11),Play Deep Rock Galactic (DX12), and Play Deep Rock Galactic. I always choose the last one, but what does that do?
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Nov 13, 2021 22:15
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Dogen posted:R&D spilled their invisibility goo on your guns too, huh Even worse, my C4 is invisible these days!
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Nov 15, 2021 05:49
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MariusLecter posted:Speaking of Engi and Scout complementing each other. I usually don't like the black & red paint, but you convinced me to put it on something finally, and now I feel stunning.
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Nov 16, 2021 04:15
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drrockso20 posted:There's something that just tickles me that of the four classes it's the Driller that's the one who specializes in dealing elemental damage with his primary weapons, just needs a Shock weapon now I loving love the Bioshock chemical thrower with electrical gel. It's viscerally satisfying and I think DRG would do the idea justice. Dogen posted:Next weapon pack I assume since this was UT weapons pack Let's see... we could still get a ripper, pulse gun alt fire would be nice, though that is basically the Q3 lightning gun as stated above, and a flak cannon, then we've filled out the arsenal. I think the Fat Boy OC is close enough to stand in for the redeemer but it's not quite the same.
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Nov 17, 2021 03:28
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Captainicus posted:Give me the tesla cannon from the sourcemod Dystopia, I want to go bowling down tunnels Now that I am over my shock of finding someone else who has played Dystopia in the wild, I want the bolt gun, for scout. For the uninitiated: 3 round magazine, reloads like a shotgun, shoots a high speed projectile that kills most things in one headshot and pins enemies to walls. And it sparks along its flight path!
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Nov 17, 2021 10:01
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Procedurally Generated mission maps, simplistic and stylized texture work, minimal voice acting… honestly it’s not that surprising. I almost guarantee you that the secret sauce is a mixture of the texture/material work and sound. Most games need to have large file size textures to use in a material, but that means if you want a 4k texture you also need a 4k normal map, and maybe a 4k roughness/spec map or 4k AO map or... well, you get the idea. A single material can easily balloon in size to dozens of mb very quickly. Most modern engines will let you get away with using a lower res normal map, and then if you have the time budget for it you can fake the other maps using shader parameters, or bake them into the texture's information channels, stuff like that. But I would not be surprised if many of DRG's materials were very heavy on the procedural side, where they have a single base texture or no texture at all, where the diffuse texture is created using math and shaders. As for sound, having just two voiced characters will do a lot for the size budget of your audio.
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Nov 22, 2021 04:29
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Had a great deep dive last night. Everyone is blue level 100+, one guy is drunk as a skunk both in game and out (one of the beers disappeared so he ordered four more and drank them all) and the whole mission is buttery smooth, rock & stones echoing throughout. Then at the end of the last escort mission we simultaneously all forget that it's low o2 and the smoothest deep dive I have ever played turns into a failure cascade that only managed to get two of us out - and that only because of iron will.
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Nov 26, 2021 23:33
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Sloober posted:Machine events seem way rarer now, and maybe it's just personal bias but they are like 75% omen towers I haven't seen any, all of my omen towers have been going to you.
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Nov 29, 2021 03:49
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Dogen posted:You can join the goon coop discord we are pretty chill we can talk bad about Austin traffic and argue about bbq like in the other thread Austin traffic is awful fr though I hope I never have to drive 183 ever again.
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Dec 6, 2021 08:07
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Johnny Joestar posted:purely been doing solo for now but it's been tense as hell to encounter various random things, like the data deposit event for the season pass during another mission. took me a second to fully figure out the signal chain thing you have to set up to get the hacking pod going since i had a bit of a weird path to it going on. got the data cube from that after a bit of a hairy battle. almost through all of the 'tutorial' assignments to unlock more of the overall game and mostly have some escort mission and i think one other thing after that. been getting the hang of it and mostly playing scout since it seems pretty handy when going it alone due to the grappling hook. not sure on overall class balance, though, so i'm mainly flying blind. If you don't mind playing with other people, definitely group up, either doing public games or with goons. The game is set up in such a way that everyone gets everything, there isn't any backbiting and competition in the group; and most pubs are pretty friendly.
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Dec 8, 2021 05:15
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:i will bring all the legs back to the space rig so we can make molly go even faster If the game let me have my way, my space rig cubby would be filled to the brim with mule legs.
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Dec 11, 2021 09:49
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Unsinkabear posted:What are you guys using on the Hurricane? I tried Jet Fuel Homebrew and just could not make it work. The rockets go too fast for aim shenanigans so it just feels like a worse autocannon in every way. And the T5 heat mod gives up way too much damage for the rate at which it sets things on fire, so that angle in turn feels like a worse BH minigun The reason it feels like that is that it was fun and then it got nerfed really really hard. It's a worse autocannon now.
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Dec 14, 2021 07:19
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Duderclese posted:Thank you for asking this. I really only enjoy driller, and filling in other classes for a group has been highly dissatisfying. Also, don't feel bad about duplicating classes on a team, you really don't have to fill in if you don't want to. Almost every mission type and difficulty works just fine with lopsided teams; the game is not balanced around having one of each class. There are very few challenges that are insurmountable unless you have a specific class with you, even if a certain class might do something more easily. Triarii posted:Oh, you think I would be tasty, fucker? Yeah, go ahead and try it again you poo poo This is so cathartic.
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Dec 14, 2021 11:20
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verbal enema posted:Until some Lil flying bitch hits down if you set up a second zipline underneath, when you fall you can grab the next one!
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Dec 21, 2021 01:20
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Triarii posted:Spending all of your time on a zipline also means that bugs will all aggro onto your teammates, thus clumping them up more for better AoE efficiency, something the whole team is sure to appreciate. Sounds like they should have been on the ziplines too then. 
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Dec 21, 2021 03:43
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El Fideo posted:Wow, I lost track of things, because I was not expecting them to be this far along in making the boardgame. This one gives me Forbidden Bridge flashbacks.
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Dec 26, 2021 21:57
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Am I weird for liking point extraction? Most people seem to really hate it, but unless the minehead really fucks you then it's in and out in ten minutes tops, usually closer to seven.
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Jan 3, 2022 02:08
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Almost always including secondary objective, but we won't obsess about it if it's one of the really annoying ones to do.
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Jan 3, 2022 06:46
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Shifty Pony posted:I swear my autocannon has a hidden mod that lets it act as a targeting laser for my friend's PGL. Me getting started in on a good chunk of grunts only for a grenade to come flying in from across the drat room and instantly delete them all happens too frequently to be a coincidence. Ahhhh, I didn't know the gunner got a version of my sticky flames mod which requires all my teammates to stop what they are doing to finish off the bugs that are already burning to death and immobilized. That's cool that you can play either class that way.
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Jan 9, 2022 07:12
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drrockso20 posted:That one should really be on by default Strongly disagree. Most teams work fine with a duplicate class, and some mission types even favor it. I'd also rather have someone playing a class they enjoy and are good at than one they hate and would rather not be using.
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Jan 11, 2022 05:19
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rideANDxORdie posted:This is either a bug or someone forgetting they already used it. What usually happens when everyone is down but someone has iron will is the game starts a ten second countdown to give people a chance to use iron will and either get health or revive someone. I've been the last dwarf down and used iron will many a time Seconding that this is how it's supposed to work. Most of my builds have iron will because when it comes to clutch or kick, I almost always have a plan to clutch. Scout finds red sugar, driller vampires something, gunner pops a shield and either eats a supply pod or revives under his dome.
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Jan 17, 2022 10:26
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I admit that I hate turret classes in games so I play engineer with the turrets built completely so that I have as little babysitting of the machines as possible. One turret, fast deployment, 360 FOV, etc. I drop my turret when it seems necessary using as little brainpower as possible and recall it when it's not needed. I'm sure at the very highest levels this is a terrible build, but I routinely run haz5 with haz4 as my chillout zone and I always equal the other engineers in killcount, and we never struggle in situations where the turret system is doing heavy lifting.
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Jan 25, 2022 07:32
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HAmbONE posted:So why aren’t deep dives randomly generated? Are they only generated weekly? I’m out of missions Being more standardized also makes DDs feel more 'fair,' in the sense that you know what you're getting, you don't need to keep grinding them because you got an unlucky seed or you're hoping for an easy one.
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Jan 30, 2022 08:04
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BET-C wouldn't feel like such a kick in the teeth if it weren't actively detrimental once repaired. Despite how much it can gently caress up a dwarf, it sucks against bugs and I can't count how many times it has shoved me from ledges or blocked the escape route I needed.
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Jan 30, 2022 22:08
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Unsinkabear posted:What sidearm are you guys running on your sticky fuel builds? Tranq rounds subtata? Charge speed EPC? Full auto machine pistol for maximum fun and comedy? I run heavy hitter plasma. Subata still feels weak to me with everything except the gimmick builds which are good but I don't like. It's a very straightforward build, click the bugs, bugs die.
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Samadhi posted:Got this for you This is transcendent, I can't help but respect it. With power and vision like this, a dwarf could do anything.
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