Deep Rock Galactic: "WE'RE RICH!"

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Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Speaking of classes, my friend and I just picked up the game and I was wondering if there are any particular combinations of classes that we should avoid as being a slog in a duo.

We always play coop games as a duo in a private server because we're bullshitting about life on discord voice chat in the background while playing, resulting in a pretty slow, distractible, loving around and laughing about finding out play style that rightfully drives randoms up a wall.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2021 05:12

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:35

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

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

Maybe at some point, I need to relearn how to play a game with friendly fire first.

Minigun go brrrrrrrrrr is usually the right choice but i gotta get used to keeping it aimed a bit further from my buddy until the accuracy tightens up.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2021 18:13

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Johnny Joestar posted:

just started playing this last night and it seems pretty fun. very overwhelming in how much poo poo it just throws in your face to start with, though, but i guess that's on me for showing up late during some season pass thing.

Yeah as another new player I agree. The game would really benefit from a touch more handholding at first to introduce you to the key mechanics.

But then again just throwing you into the deep end without any real explanation really fits with the company ethos you see in the training cave and every mission start/finish. The dwarf puts the Morkite in the bin or else it's left behind again.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2021 21:26

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

IMO the zip line is just good enough to make gunner not completely excruciating in single player, and that's about it.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2021 22:40

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Can you please tell that to Molly so she doesn't take the shortcut and leave a line of markers straight up the side of the chamber?

# ¿ Dec 8, 2021 23:05

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

NoEyedSquareGuy posted:

---stations---

Don't forget the one inside your little dwarf bunk (where you spawn in and change characters) which lets you claim perk points and select perks to spend them on.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2021 04:05

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

bbcisdabomb posted:

I always think of it as being able to deposit what's in your pockets, not in your hands. If your dwarf is holding it you won't get credit for it.
_{And if Management can screw you out of a performance bonus they will, turn in your secondary objectives before hopping in the pod!!!}

Also there's a drop point on the side of the drop pod so unless poo poo is really going bad or you're scrambling to beat the time you've got a spot to unload your booty.

# ¿ Dec 9, 2021 18:23

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

gently caress fester fleas. The worst secondary objective.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2021 04:26

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

PJOmega posted:

Hack-C has unique spawns in that if you bunker or don't clear enough space around the pod bugs will spawn from the ground directly beneath it. I think it will spawn x number of bugs per interval, and if it can't spawn them slightly removed from the pod it will spawn them regardless.

Makes sense. We had a hacking pod drop in a smallish crevasse right up against a wall so Hack-C spawned essentially in the wall, and at one point a praetorian also spawned between the pod and the wall.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2021 21:28

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

verbal enema posted:

Hot starts own

Also owns when the drop pod leaves and hey turns out it murdered a loot bug convention or better yet a hoarder.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2021 01:07

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Enjoyed a point extractions game with a buddy the other day where we got too preoccupied with taking out a grabber to notice that the mining rig was incoming. He was ever so slightly nearer to it than me and got downed, it was allllmost a 15 second mission.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2021 20:42

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Funso Banjo posted:

Brand new player. Loading it up right now.

So, what does a new player need to know? And do you guys use keyboard and mouse, or controller? I like both, so no real preference myself, but some games are balanced around controller usage?

If you see a bunch of chips or blobs of a different color on the surface of the dirt try digging. If the chips/blobs are also in the dirt (and not just on the surface) there's something buried there.

If that something is a big chunk of gold or a bright pink crystal it is tradition for everyone to stand around it and use the laser pointer on it in excitement over how much money was just found.

Press V a lot. Whenever you do something cool, whenever someone else does something that looked cool, whenever you fight off a swarm, whenever you go splat and get revived, whatever. Just V it up.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2022 15:05

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Ziplines are your friend on Point Extraction because the caves are always big and open. They really speed things up.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2022 00:04

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Just be careful...

The poster said the spiral they were stuck in was on the refinery ramp too so they couldn't dig down.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2022 03:53

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

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.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2022 16:34

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

I only pop lootbugs when they are in a spot where the minerals won't fly everywhere or we are very close to being able to afford a resupply.

Or there is like ten of them congregated in a crater and I have a grenade in which case how could you not?

# ¿ Jan 9, 2022 17:16

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

If i go by what I spend the most time doing in game I love rotating the terrain scanner while becoming increasingly confused.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2022 03:27

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Two player is a lot of fun.

There will be times where you will say "drat this would be easy if one of us was a ______" so if that sort of thing rubs you the wrong way then it might not be for you. For my friend and I we just see it as a fun challenge, like built-in puzzles. you also know exactly who is to blame for calling Molly away right when you are getting ready to deposit.

Heightened senses is a good perk to have because a cave leech can totally wipe the team, and Friendly is less useful because there's just fewer other players running around to accidentally hit.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2022 16:35

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

After you max out you should just get barrels.

Play long enough and the rig ends up looking like a whiskey warehouse.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 00:24

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Fabricated posted:

This just happened, Haz 5.

Image isn't great because I was a bit surprised! It turned out extremely well because the first detonator instagibbed the hiveguard from full health and also killed the other detonator.

Was very close to managing similar tonight but the dreadnaught got millimeters outside the explosion radius (it loving fell back into the hole dammit) so instead we ran around like chickens with our heads cut off as we popped the dreadnaught egg early to try to pull off the insta-kill instead of spending the time scouting out and prepping the cave.

Love this game :allears:

# ¿ Jan 15, 2022 05:00

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

"Scanner reports significant seismic activity. And it's heading your way. Dig in and prepare."

Huh haven't heard that mission control line before...

oh hello dreadnaught twins, really weren't expecting you to pop in

# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 05:15

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

The liquid morkite missions let you do sick grinds while firing a minigun, I can't be mad at anything that lets that happen.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2022 23:30

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

I'm a little scared to think about what an unstable zipline overclock would do.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2022 01:09

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Hwurmp posted:

rocket ziplines for super fast ascent

the rockets can't turn off so descent is super slow instead

If the rockets can't turn off then we should get a repeat of the thread Father Windingo mentioned.

Leaving looney tunes style dwarf-shaped holes when you make the mistake of firing 40m at 40� down.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2022 02:11

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

PJOmega posted:

Well the midpoint gimmick is finding the dwarf and then getting him out.

Problem is it becomes a standard video game escort.

Make it a prototype mechanical miner that is going haywire. It has a fat load of minerals the company wants returned.

It has guns, and a glitchy FOF system, and will follow molly.

Just tie the dwarf on top of Molly like the heartstone.

Maybe paint a Red Cross on the side of her while you're at it.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2022 03:15

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Mined an absurd amount of nitra onto the ground in a refining mission only for a swarm to come in. When I remembered to go back to pick it up there was a loot bug party and all the nitra was gone.

Sorry loot bugs for what I had to do but you gave us four supply drops so you won't be soon forgotten.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2022 04:47

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Am I missing any special mod combination for the non-OC hurricane? Feels like I'm spending an inordinate amount of time reloading vs the autocannon and not really dishing out as much damage in-between.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2022 04:33

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Johnny Joestar posted:

i want driller to get a shrapnel cannon that just launches blasts of scrap metal at things

While that would be amazing it feels like there's not enough lingering friendly fire potential to be a true driller primary.

Maybe electrify the whole thing with a hold down secondary fire which lobs the unbroken flak cartridge UT99 style with remote detonation on release that covers an area (and enemies/dwarfs) in electrified bits.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2022 14:52

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

And a hearty "gently caress you" too game. Goddamn.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2022 03:22

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

If you iron will into the drop pod does that count as someone making it, or do you need to pull off a revive or get some red sugar for it to work?

# ¿ Mar 15, 2022 04:14

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

I feel like a simple horde mode would be kinda against the spirit of the game since there's the implication that there's no coming back.

I could see a tower defense type deal where you guard a drilling rig that runs until it is destroyed (which wipes bugs heartstone explosion style), with the returns getting greater the longer it runs. Have it hit a nitra vein every now and then for resupply and punch through to a new level regularly to keep the room from turning into one giant crater.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2022 18:53

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Awww yeah gonna fail some missions and get tore the gently caress up at the bar in a surgical gown.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2022 18:30

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Got the bunny ears last night.

Not sure I'll ever take them off tbqh.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2022 17:27

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

love the goldrush beer but never see it on offer

I kinda hate pots o gold because you fill your bag so drat quickly that it makes mining gold a pain. Takes spotting a vein from "ooo some gold don't mind if I do!" to "welp, guess I'd better get to work."

# ¿ Apr 15, 2022 04:30

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Saw someone on Reddit claim that you don't want to mine until your bag is full because the game has some sort of rounding if the last hit that fills the bag is close enough to the amount needed to fill. Like if you had 43 in the bag and there was was 2.6 morkite in the last hit the game will just delete the 0.6, but if your bag was already full it would drop a 2.6 chunk.

Could be bullshit but also could explain what's going on in the DD where some people get enough but others don't.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2022 14:20

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Serephina posted:

Trying to ice spear patrol bots sounds like a great way to run out of ammo after the 2nd bot. Stick to the flamethrower.

edit: Since I page sniped, I'll ask this question again: Some old internet guides suggested using Ice spear vs Oppressors, saying you can shoot them when frozen. I have *never* been able to get the OC to do anything near that, as the windup period stops normal fire and is longer than the Opressor's freeze duration. Tips?

Spray the ground under the oppressor at the very end of your freeze. The timer for creatures to begin warming doesn't start until they are no longer receiving cold damage, and the ice trail the Cryo cannon leaves behind on surfaces does a few seconds of (minor) cold damage to whatever is on it.

At least that's my understanding, it certainly seems to help extending the freeze significantly.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2022 01:26

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Fishstick posted:

Don't forget about BET-C

Revived and on your team, which is where she can do the most damage.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2022 17:51

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

I went ahead and used our last nitra to call down a resupply. It is conveniently located on an isolated outcrop 3/4 the way up the wall in a room three corridors back.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2022 18:06

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

I hate the sand caverns because it is the only biome that I've had the drop pod position itself with the ramp hanging off into a giant chasm so that I absolutely could not get to it as a driller unless I drilled up into the ceiling and came down right above the ramp.

Multiple times.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2022 15:15

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 08:35

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

It is definitely a time for a gunner to shine and save the day.

I just down myself and let my friend who plays scout ride the pod out.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2022 16:22

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