Deep Rock Galactic (L4D with dwarves in space)

[Lhynn]

 

[Lhynn]

Been heavily playing this, its a superb shooter with a lot of depth, probably the best gameplay out of any shooter ever, and all flavoured as a dwarven mining expedition in space. Beautiful environments, great emergent gameplay, very challenging.

Game seems to be designed to provide many "Oh shit" moments, many opportunities for heroic actions. Just a great game overall, terribly overlooked by the codex.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Since it has a really great community you can play it even without friends! My usual coop partners dropped this one quickly but thanks to other players I never felt alone.
Unless I got trigger happy with the Driller guy and mine to a wrong path...

 

[Pathfinder: Kingmaker]

Still the best l4d-type game. I want to believe payday 3 will compete with DRG in terms of coop fun, but somehow I have doubts

 

[Latelistener]

I don't even know who's making Payday 3, since the whole gang left Overkill to make GTFO. The director of Payday 2 left to form another studio that eventually made Metal: Hellsinger. It will never compete with DRG. The only thing that could've compete with it was Darktide, but they fucked it up royally.

 

[Salvo]

I don't even know who's making Payday 3, since the whole gang left Overkill to make GTFO. The director of Payday 2 left to form another studio that eventually made Metal: Hellsinger. It will never compete with DRG. The only thing that could've compete with it was Darktide, but they fucked it up royally.

Fatshark was too busy cashing in cosmetics money

IMAGINE putting in a truckload of unobtainable paid cosmetics for a full price game

 

[Beowulf]

Service guarantees citizenship

 

[jimster]

I don't even know who's making Payday 3, since the whole gang left Overkill to make GTFO. The director of Payday 2 left to form another studio that eventually made Metal: Hellsinger. It will never compete with DRG. The only thing that could've compete with it was Darktide, but they fucked it up royally.

Isn't it by the company that sold System Shock to Tencent?

 

[Latelistener]

I don't even know who's making Payday 3, since the whole gang left Overkill to make GTFO. The director of Payday 2 left to form another studio that eventually made Metal: Hellsinger. It will never compete with DRG. The only thing that could've compete with it was Darktide, but they fucked it up royally.

Isn't it by the company that sold System Shock to Tencent?

I'm saying that no key people from Payday 1 / 2 are involved in 3.

 

[Rocket-Propelled Game]

The holiday events are chuckle-worthy as well. Santa + glyphid-sleigh!

 

[Rocket-Propelled Game]

Eeeewwwwwww! D:

 

[Cogemesiter]

The devs made the mistake of focusing on rock-pox for the past year, but finally now they’re taking it away and the new season actually looks pretty cool. I truly think DRG is the best co-op fps/ shooter on the market. KF2 gets boring, Helldivers became kinda repetitive after a bit, but DRG just has a certain charm.

 

[rumSaint]

The devs made the mistake of focusing on rock-pox for the past year, but finally now they’re taking it away and the new season actually looks pretty cool. I truly think DRG is the best co-op fps/ shooter on the market. KF2 gets boring, Helldivers became kinda repetitive after a bit, but DRG just has a certain charm.

The amount of content is huge. Lots of weapons and mission types, also focus on cooperation and every class have it's own tools feels great.

Rockpox indeed was a blunder, especially for so long. Robots were also pretty meh. We will see how new content plays.

 

[Mitleser2020]

Tried the game during the most recent time-limed trial and got addicted.

We linked up with Wind Rose to make some Deep Rock Galactic power metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZXBm1NXBaI

 

[Duplarius]

I play this game every Thursday for the new assignments. I'm trying to get those weapon overclocks. I have 172 hours and not a single Zhukov overclock!

 

[Biscotti]

Yeah, the overclock grind is my biggest gripe with the game. Overclocks add a lot of depth and variety to the game, and often radically change how a weapon plays (RJ245 Compound, anyone?)
You'll dump hours upon hours into it, praying to RNG, before you'll gain a respectable collection of them and unlock the part of the game that lets you experiment with a bunch of loadouts.

 

[Latelistener]

I know a person who stopped playing because of unlock grind, but he's a bit of a drama queen.

Imo you should play for the moment-to-moment gameplay, which is really good here and everything will come naturally. If you don't like it, there is no point in grinding anything.

 

[Zombra]

* Plays awesome game for 600 hours
* Complains that there is nothing left to do
* Game introduces goals that take 200 hours to complete
* Complains that goals take too long

 

[-M-]

Yeah, the overclock grind is my biggest gripe with the game.

It's a legitimate gripe, even though the game is plenty fun without them. There are 160 Overclocks currently available. Realistically you can get about 6 each week:

1 Weapon OC from Mission 2 of the Weekly Core Hunt (plus 1 Blank core from Mission 1)
2 Weapon OCs from Stage 2 of each of the Deep Dives (plus 2 Blank cores from each Stage 1)

Blank cores can be converted to Weapon OCs via events (which are thankfully plentiful). You'll also get a small trickle of OCs from promoting dwarves and as bonuses for using the Forge.

Regardless, you're looking around 24 weeks or so to unlock them all, assuming you've been also grinding the gold and resources to pay for them.

 

[Caim]

So I'm giving this a shot as a Scout, and it looks like pretty good fun.

Now, from what I gather you unlock your full kit over time, with cosmetics appearing in the store as you level up (which is why it's so empty at the start). But once I reach level 25 for my first prestige, is it all about the prestige and core grind from there, with it being up to RNGsus to get the ones I actually want, or is there more after that point? Also, I get what character level does, but what exactly is player level for? Just an indicator of what they bring to the table?

 

[-M-]

But once I reach level 25 for my first prestige, is it all about the prestige and core grind from there, with it being up to RNGsus to get the ones I actually want, or is there more after that point?

That's basically it. You unlock Deep Dives (after first promotion) and Haz 5 assignment (player rank 10) and there's a few pick axes and armors you get from higher player ranks but you've seen most of the game. The rest is grinding for cores (and cosmetics I guess). The ones from in-mission events aren't complete RNG because you get to choose one of three options (2 weapon OCs and 1 cosmetic - you just pick the class, not specific core).

Weapon OCs can be a lot of fun, but yeah they are a grind.

Also, I get what character level does, but what exactly is player level for? Just an indicator of what they bring to the table?

Pretty much. There's the few unlocks I mentioned but those stop at rank 100. It's mostly just to see how experienced someone else is at the game.

 

[Drichi]

If one of those games that one saves for when one has free time and can go full autistic on it.

 

[rumSaint]

They intentionally slowed progress so player can "experience different builds", but I think they should at least let you pick for who you get overclocks (not only from machine events).

Generally you get overclocks like this:
- Weekly core hunt (1 blank, 1 weapon, 1 cosmetic),
- Deep Dive (1 blank, 1 weapon, 1 cosmetic),
- Elite Deep Dive (1 blank, 1 weapon, 1 cosmetic)
These are weekly ones

When you promote dwarf next time (after first promotion) you will also get a set of cores (1 blank, 1 weapon, 1 cosmetic).

Forging overclocks fills the bar which give you one overclock, cosmetic or weapon.

 

[Morgoth]

Is this really as good as everyone says, or just another content treadmill?

 

[rumSaint]

The gameplay loop is really fun. The procedural generation of caves and encounters make things fresh. Sometimes you get sprawling caves of tunnels with claustrophobic feeling, sometimes set of "bubbles" stacked on one another, sometimes you get caves so big, you cannot see other side of it. The community is usually pretty welcoming even for newbies. The amount of content is huge, there is tons things to unlock (if you're into this kind of thing).

For me one of the best (if not the best) coop experience. Way better than Helldivers.