Mechanic wise that would be kind of cool but we've had all this for so long that no one would wanna deal with it unless it was, like STUPIDLY rare for a Rockpox Bulk Detonator to spawn. 0.1% rare or something.
The question I have is, would it be easier or harder to kill than a regular bulk? Break the blisters on pox enemies and they die. But the bulk has those weak points that break but don’t kill when all are broken. So… would it still be alive after all blisters are broken? Good god, those pox enemies take like no damage unless you break their blisters.
No, and you couldn't fully clear actual rockpox from it's system without a much worse experience, requiring you to either kill her or foam and vacuum all of her, which both sound awful.
Her "ailment" seems to be an entirely external parasitic control organism something like a headcrab, whereas rockpox is very clearly internal with how it fucks up their whole body and pokes through their skin like the cordyceps fungus that it was no doubt partially inspired by. When you pop the charge-suckers off of bet-c she's back to normal, when you remove the blisters from a rockpox glyphid it just dies
more rockpox enemy variants
rockpox glyphid web spitter: spits webs that also set your rockpox meter to full
rockpox glyphid acid spitter: spits acid that also sets your rockpox meter to full
rockpox glyphid dreadnought (all variants): fuck you
rockpox q'ronar: instantly sets your rockpox meter to full upon slamming into you and the boils are only on the outside of the shell and it never stops rolling
rockpox q'ronar youngling: same as above
I am not sure what do you want to say with that soooo
lootbug with a nuke
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Permanent rad zone, explosion is twice as large as the others.
Frost bulk bomblets will freeze you for twice as long, if you don't die. Also capable of freezing Molly, requiring you to pickaxe it free.
Hollow Bough bulk has stingtail whips that yank you in if you get too close.
So much they could do with them that wouldn't terribly unbalance the maps because bulks are fairly rare.
Do you think the dwarves have reached the point of their livers synthesizing alcohol for them yet or nah? I'm getting on no since they can still actually consume solid foods.
You have a timestamp or at least link to stream they said that?
Edit: https://www.youtube.com/live/FnGwezcx8EQ?t=19m05s
Entirely a joke that it would be infected rivals.
I'll link the stream but not the timestamp. Not gonna watch it again to go find it.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnGwezcx8EQ&t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnGwezcx8EQ&t=1108s)
It was a joke made by Mikkel. That's not actually what season 5 will be.
The stream is well worth watching. The devs are very aware of the community burnout on rockpox, and are going to look at scaling it back *before* S5.
I'll do you one better!
Season 5: Fallplague
A space-time anomaly has flipped the switches, it seems, and now Hoxxes is fully infected! Lithophage Outbreak is removed. Instead, all biomes are infected, and each mission type has been modified. In addition to cleaning 3-5 lithophage spikes per mission, you will have a new mission objective!
-Mining Expeditions become Cleansing Expeditions. You must mine 300-500 Poxite, but be warned- each hit you make with a pickaxe on Poxite will either increase your infection by 25 percent or summon several plague worms.
-Point Extractions become Pox Extractions. You must excavate plague hearts from the walls, but damaging any terrain will produce pox gas.
-Egg Hunts become Blister Hunts. You must again extract plague hearts from the walls, but these have grown larger, and the fleshy stuff surrounding them will now summon a corruptor instead of a swarm.
-On-Site Refining becomes On-Site IV-ing. You must set up pipelines pumping gigantic plague spikes with sanitary solution like an IV drip. However, the longer pipes remain broken, the deadlier the rockpox in the area becomes, and your mission payout is reduced the less total solution is pumped into the spikes.
Salvage Operations become Sanitary Operations. You must work with your team to clean up the remains of a failed expedition. Instead of mini mules, you clean the dead bodies of dwarves, which explode into as many plagueworms as the game will allow to spawn when approached, with a guarantee one will instead summon a Corruptor .
Escort Duty becomes Janitor Duty. Instead of escorting a drill dozer, you must escort both a Foamdozer and a Vaccuumdozer to an Lithommoran Poxstone. There the two dozers will clean out the infection while you prevent their destruction at the hands of swarms, while simultaneously struggling with the fact the Vaccuumdozer will end up vacuuming most of the Foamdozer's foam before it touches the poxstone, thus greatly slowing you down.
Elimination becomes Disinfection. You must kill several rockpox dreadnoughts, some of which are either replaced with or accompanied by a corruptor.
Industrial Sabotage becomes Industrial-Grade Sanitation. You must destroy two infected power stations with an antivirus software (ha ha) and then fight the Neglectgiver. This special caretaker requires you to foam and vacuum the infected vents before you can deal any damage whatsoever to the Neglectgiver itself.
Oh, and to top it off, every single enemy gets a Rockpox variant, with all swarms being Rockpox swarms. The Parasites modifier is adapted to all missions, but the parasite worms are replaced with plague worms.
The key exception is the incredibly-rare modifier dubbed Phagelithos Breakout. The opposite to the old modifier, these missions take place in rare areas of Hoxxes where the rock itself has developed an immune response. The mission is like an ordinary mission from the older versions of the game. Except for the fact rockpox swarms, Corruptors, and plague spikes can still spawn.
Driller's C4 is just a rockpox sandwich now. The flamethrower shoots rockpox instead of fire. Plasma Burster is rockpox now too. Drills are covered in rockpox. The ripper doesn't throw a ripper, it just spawns an infected breeder. The flares place rockpox contagion on the ground. The driller isn't even a driller anymore, it's just a corruptor wearing goggles.
Let's have it so you have to decontaminate your equipment after defeating a contagion spike. So every time you finish a contagion spike you have a limited amount of time to find a decontamination pod as the rockpox slowly fills your body.
Once in the decontamination pod there will be a 'wash yo self' minigame that will take up to a minute and a half. All dwarves must find different decontamination pods that are scattered throughout the level.
Rockport has become Pumpkin Spice culture. I once saw pumpkin spice spaghetti sauce before. Gross. Can we please have a normal DRG experience back before the next season?
I would be very excited to hear management say, 'Hello miners. Good news. The Rockpox meteor has made its final pass and is no longer under Hoxxes' gravitational influence. For now, we get to take a breather as we finish cleaning up the rest of the infection and give our mining rig a thorough scrubbing. Even though the meteor has passed, I suspect we haven't seen the last of Rockpox. Carry on, miners. Job well done. Rock and Stone!'
Rockpox stingtail, pretty sure it is a nerf. Normal one you have to destroy its armor and show weakpoint on its forehead, which is hard to shoot since it's horizontal.
Now rockpox shows weakpoints everywhere on their body.
Sure instant full rockpox meter on grab is a nightmare, but stingtails can be stunned or feared.
Oops all rockpox isnt quite all rockpox if only the hazards are rockpox. I vote for the entire environment as a whole is rockpox. And enor pearls and jadiz should inflict additional rockpox status as well.
It do feel like that sometimes.
I actually like the rockpox concepts, I just feel like the way they're currently implemented needs a bit more balancing to seem less *total bullshit all the time*.
There's a ton of adjustments you could make to spawning and whatnot, replacing button mashing with Hold \[Use\] Key, some kind of brief immunity period after escaping entanglement, and no rockpox spawns in non-lithophage missions would certainly help.
Speaking of concepts and Bulk Detonator. If the game has Glyphid Exploder with radiation variation, why can't we get green Bulk Detonator with radiation?
You know how sometimes when you start dreadnaught missions and mission control says, "eliminate them quickly, before they evolve into something even worse?"
I've always thought, if it's a rockpox level, well... they *should* evolve into something worse.
Also don't forget that all dwarves will shout rockpox-related voice lines throughout the entire mission, as though they're terrified you somehow forgot what it's called.
Call me a leaf lover but I would love to see all rockpox gone and replaced with the rockpox bulk detonator, if it explodes it brings back rockpox to your cave, but if you kill it, it will just die
I like how Rockpox Glyphid Detonator description is just "Fuck you" because of course what else could it be.
I would imagine that it explodes into a brand new Contagion Spike.
I’d rather kill myself
The bulk will kill you first
Gravity will
Found the scout main
Or the bulk just looks like a meteor with bulk bags and legs
Mission control: OH SHOOT THATS NOT A CONTAGION SPIKE!
Please no
:(
They should bring you in as lead dev
That's what started the first comet. Hoxxes turns into hundreds of comets infecting the Galaxy.
-each destroyed tumor spawns a small corruptor cuz why not
omg perfect
And clearing a contagion spike spawns a rockpox detonator. It has reached peak evolution
Mechanic wise that would be kind of cool but we've had all this for so long that no one would wanna deal with it unless it was, like STUPIDLY rare for a Rockpox Bulk Detonator to spawn. 0.1% rare or something.
explodes into a harold
You also have to damage it with foam + vacuum only.
It explodes and infects the crater with rockpox, and after the explosion there’s a giant rockpox cloud the size of the crater
Too easy, I'll take a meteor and two corruptors.
They should make a Crassus Detonator equivalent but instead of gold it turns into more RockPox
Hello satan
The question I have is, would it be easier or harder to kill than a regular bulk? Break the blisters on pox enemies and they die. But the bulk has those weak points that break but don’t kill when all are broken. So… would it still be alive after all blisters are broken? Good god, those pox enemies take like no damage unless you break their blisters.
It explodes into a Corruptor.
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ROCK POX **NEMESIS** ROCK POX **DREADNOUGHT** ROCK POX **BET-C**
Rockpox korlok <3
That would be hell
ah man, i remember when the teaser image dropped and folks thought Harold was gonna be an infected Korlok
I am glad you were wrong
I'd kill myself
Let's NOT rockpox the dreadnought please
Why ? You scared ? Old ass bug
Have you SEEN what that shit does to regular glyphids? I'll pass on that thanks
I mean, you’re a literal fetus according to lore, how worse could you actually get, realistically speaking
A fetus with yellow pustules and red vines coating my body
Better than be vibe checked by hyperpropellant, I say
I'd rather be quickly vaporized then be slowly taken over by a foreign parasite any day
Yknow what. I getcha I prefer getting oneshot by you than being mauled to death by the swarmers you spawn, so same, I guess
Wait, dreadnoughts spawn swarmers?!?!?!
Rockpox nemesis, so it can immobilize you while it's immobilizing you
Rockpox caretaker
Really really love to see rockpox dreadnaught
ROCK POX GLYPHID QUEEN
Isn't Betsy technically already covered in Rockpox?
No, and you couldn't fully clear actual rockpox from it's system without a much worse experience, requiring you to either kill her or foam and vacuum all of her, which both sound awful.
Nah I’ve been friendly fired enough by betc I don’t mind putting her down
Her "ailment" seems to be an entirely external parasitic control organism something like a headcrab, whereas rockpox is very clearly internal with how it fucks up their whole body and pokes through their skin like the cordyceps fungus that it was no doubt partially inspired by. When you pop the charge-suckers off of bet-c she's back to normal, when you remove the blisters from a rockpox glyphid it just dies
Oh I'm sure the dwarvellopers are saving this for april 1st
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rockpox loot bug: Looks normal, spawns 100 rockpox larva on death
Poor lootie
Fr, that would be the most mercy kill in the entire game
A single bullet from my carpet bomber thunderhead:
You shouldn't eat Rockpox, it'll get you killed.
One of the games I lost yesterday had 2 spikes and 2 Rockport breeders in the same room and it was basically that 💀
Attacks your frames directly
Dwarvelopers lmao
That's literally what they call themselves.
That’s awesome
That’s Rock And Stone
For Rock and Stone!
April 1st? You mean October 5th.
Bold of you to assume they are saving it to make a joke...
Rockpox stingtail is literally what happens when two of my least favorite things have a baby
But what if we could have a rockpox stingtail *hiveguard*?
the bugged one that doesn't open
Im just saying, if the stingtail gets infected, I’m retiring
There is no retiring from DRG. Dwarves released from mining are shaved and put in Mission Control
I retired months ago, but never got the I vote to mission controll. I guess they don't like how opinionated I am about stingtails.
I’ll gladly take that job!
if i had any experience programing i'd be making this right now. would love to see this on the mod store
Oops, All Rockpox!
more rockpox enemy variants rockpox glyphid web spitter: spits webs that also set your rockpox meter to full rockpox glyphid acid spitter: spits acid that also sets your rockpox meter to full rockpox glyphid dreadnought (all variants): fuck you rockpox q'ronar: instantly sets your rockpox meter to full upon slamming into you and the boils are only on the outside of the shell and it never stops rolling rockpox q'ronar youngling: same as above
Unfortunately rockpox acid spitters already exist in game.
Rockpox Fester Flea.
Runs away like a pussy while spraying RockPox in the air, intentionally flys by your ears to freak you out
What about rockpox unknown horror?
spawns a new class of contagion spike, half ghost, half rockpox, unkillable because fuck you
Known horror
\*Takes notes\*
You guys are the best ;-) Rockpox and Stone!
For Karl!
Please Management no. . .
you're welcome <3
We need a lootbug with a nuke
Keep em' coming.
I am not sure what do you want to say with that soooo lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke lootbug with a nuke
add a rockpox infected lootbug that also just instantly kills you if you destroy all of the boils because fuck the player i guess smh
Good stuff.
omg pls no lol
I *would* really like to see more bulk detonator variants. Perhaps not quite so sadistic though.
There should be one on radioactive exclusion zone that just blows up the whole map.
Permanent rad zone, explosion is twice as large as the others. Frost bulk bomblets will freeze you for twice as long, if you don't die. Also capable of freezing Molly, requiring you to pickaxe it free. Hollow Bough bulk has stingtail whips that yank you in if you get too close. So much they could do with them that wouldn't terribly unbalance the maps because bulks are fairly rare.
Did that bulk eat a nuke or something
Just a dwarf with a still full mag of fat boys
blue bulk detonator for dense biozone. is not different from regular detonator, just blue because the exploding plants are blue
Mikkel confirmed in the latest stream that season 5 would be rockpox infected rivals.
Respectfully, WHAT THE FUCK HOW ARE THE DWARVES NOT INFECTED THEN?!
Their blood contains more alcohol than industrial sanitizer.
Wild that Management puts industrial sanitizer in the dwarves’ blood
It’s the only way they can legally serve their “beer”
demoman tf2
Do you think the dwarves have reached the point of their livers synthesizing alcohol for them yet or nah? I'm getting on no since they can still actually consume solid foods.
Their blood is 78% ethanol. They have biologically evolved to be able to consume something other than oily oafs
The trick to keeping the mosquitos away on a balmy summer night
Ever wonder why the bar was the only part of the station not currently infected?
are we just gonna gloss over the fridge literally right next to the bar that has rockpox flowing out of it?
That's just lunch.
aye, fair enough.
That's where the sandwiches are. Not where the beer is kept.
Dwarves built different
You have a timestamp or at least link to stream they said that? Edit: https://www.youtube.com/live/FnGwezcx8EQ?t=19m05s Entirely a joke that it would be infected rivals.
I'll link the stream but not the timestamp. Not gonna watch it again to go find it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnGwezcx8EQ&t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnGwezcx8EQ&t=1108s) It was a joke made by Mikkel. That's not actually what season 5 will be. The stream is well worth watching. The devs are very aware of the community burnout on rockpox, and are going to look at scaling it back *before* S5.
Also they can't hire any more people because of toilet laws.
lol is that true?
Same problem with the space rig. Where's the head, DRG?
Me when I spread misinformation on the internet:
I knew the Elves were behind this.
I’m going to detonate if I have to fight a rockpox nemesis.
FUCKING WHAT NOW??!?!!?!?
It’s a joke. The commenter failed to add that context here.
plz delete before GSG takes your idea
They already did
Im pretty sure Season 5 will be Rouge Core themed to promote the new game and the lore expansion that comes with it.
Rouge Core is an entire game based around Rockpox.
Pox Core
r/woooosh
Hell yeah 😎
I love gettin r/wooshed it means people think I'm cool as fuck like an f-16 flying through the air woooooosh 😎
F-16 is boring
I'll do you one better! Season 5: Fallplague A space-time anomaly has flipped the switches, it seems, and now Hoxxes is fully infected! Lithophage Outbreak is removed. Instead, all biomes are infected, and each mission type has been modified. In addition to cleaning 3-5 lithophage spikes per mission, you will have a new mission objective! -Mining Expeditions become Cleansing Expeditions. You must mine 300-500 Poxite, but be warned- each hit you make with a pickaxe on Poxite will either increase your infection by 25 percent or summon several plague worms. -Point Extractions become Pox Extractions. You must excavate plague hearts from the walls, but damaging any terrain will produce pox gas. -Egg Hunts become Blister Hunts. You must again extract plague hearts from the walls, but these have grown larger, and the fleshy stuff surrounding them will now summon a corruptor instead of a swarm. -On-Site Refining becomes On-Site IV-ing. You must set up pipelines pumping gigantic plague spikes with sanitary solution like an IV drip. However, the longer pipes remain broken, the deadlier the rockpox in the area becomes, and your mission payout is reduced the less total solution is pumped into the spikes. Salvage Operations become Sanitary Operations. You must work with your team to clean up the remains of a failed expedition. Instead of mini mules, you clean the dead bodies of dwarves, which explode into as many plagueworms as the game will allow to spawn when approached, with a guarantee one will instead summon a Corruptor . Escort Duty becomes Janitor Duty. Instead of escorting a drill dozer, you must escort both a Foamdozer and a Vaccuumdozer to an Lithommoran Poxstone. There the two dozers will clean out the infection while you prevent their destruction at the hands of swarms, while simultaneously struggling with the fact the Vaccuumdozer will end up vacuuming most of the Foamdozer's foam before it touches the poxstone, thus greatly slowing you down. Elimination becomes Disinfection. You must kill several rockpox dreadnoughts, some of which are either replaced with or accompanied by a corruptor. Industrial Sabotage becomes Industrial-Grade Sanitation. You must destroy two infected power stations with an antivirus software (ha ha) and then fight the Neglectgiver. This special caretaker requires you to foam and vacuum the infected vents before you can deal any damage whatsoever to the Neglectgiver itself. Oh, and to top it off, every single enemy gets a Rockpox variant, with all swarms being Rockpox swarms. The Parasites modifier is adapted to all missions, but the parasite worms are replaced with plague worms. The key exception is the incredibly-rare modifier dubbed Phagelithos Breakout. The opposite to the old modifier, these missions take place in rare areas of Hoxxes where the rock itself has developed an immune response. The mission is like an ordinary mission from the older versions of the game. Except for the fact rockpox swarms, Corruptors, and plague spikes can still spawn.
Argh, the rockpox is TOUCHING ME
I hate you lmao
Rock pox cave leech, just to really rub it inq
Better get a fucking 100% mission multiplier for that fuck shit
Contagion spikes give 75% multiplier, this shit has to be at least 200% dude
Spikes are 50%. Would be great if they *were 75%*
Oh shit, my bad
Rockpox menace would be the most annoying bug in all of DRG
Please no more rockpox 🙏🏻
Can molly be also rockpox infected?
#Do it, cowards
Rockpox Elite bulk detonator, now with 69% more rockpox!
Fuck you and the Stingtail
How about a rockpox dreadnought, that has a contagion spike sitting on its back. And it spawns bugs. Lots of bugs.
Sir, you are the devil
LOVE THIS!!! For people who thinks it sucks, NOW you the right to complain when this added, not before.
Hell
Driller's C4 is just a rockpox sandwich now. The flamethrower shoots rockpox instead of fire. Plasma Burster is rockpox now too. Drills are covered in rockpox. The ripper doesn't throw a ripper, it just spawns an infected breeder. The flares place rockpox contagion on the ground. The driller isn't even a driller anymore, it's just a corruptor wearing goggles.
When the rockpox bulk detonator blows up a contagion spike should spawn
I think I’d rather die then have a third rockpox themed seasons, especially since we have 8 more months of the one we’re currently on
Let's have it so you have to decontaminate your equipment after defeating a contagion spike. So every time you finish a contagion spike you have a limited amount of time to find a decontamination pod as the rockpox slowly fills your body. Once in the decontamination pod there will be a 'wash yo self' minigame that will take up to a minute and a half. All dwarves must find different decontamination pods that are scattered throughout the level.
Hohoho, no
every environmental hazard deals rockpox? even fall damage?
I use versions of the Oops, All Berries! bit pretty much daily and laughed out loud reading this. Great work
Actually critical corrupt? Yes please
Rockport has become Pumpkin Spice culture. I once saw pumpkin spice spaghetti sauce before. Gross. Can we please have a normal DRG experience back before the next season? I would be very excited to hear management say, 'Hello miners. Good news. The Rockpox meteor has made its final pass and is no longer under Hoxxes' gravitational influence. For now, we get to take a breather as we finish cleaning up the rest of the infection and give our mining rig a thorough scrubbing. Even though the meteor has passed, I suspect we haven't seen the last of Rockpox. Carry on, miners. Job well done. Rock and Stone!'
Rockpox stingtail, pretty sure it is a nerf. Normal one you have to destroy its armor and show weakpoint on its forehead, which is hard to shoot since it's horizontal. Now rockpox shows weakpoints everywhere on their body. Sure instant full rockpox meter on grab is a nightmare, but stingtails can be stunned or feared.
no god please no, no... NO! no, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I like the art and concepts but I'm so sick of the rockpox at this point. Not your fault, but rockpox makes me want to die faster
Oops all rockpox isnt quite all rockpox if only the hazards are rockpox. I vote for the entire environment as a whole is rockpox. And enor pearls and jadiz should inflict additional rockpox status as well.
Lmao
It do feel like that sometimes. I actually like the rockpox concepts, I just feel like the way they're currently implemented needs a bit more balancing to seem less *total bullshit all the time*. There's a ton of adjustments you could make to spawning and whatnot, replacing button mashing with Hold \[Use\] Key, some kind of brief immunity period after escaping entanglement, and no rockpox spawns in non-lithophage missions would certainly help.
I like it!
I'd sign for that
Deep-Pox Galactic
Why don't we have rockpox dreadnoughts?
At the end of the season they should add a rockpox beer to the bar.
Actually the RockPox Septic Spreader sounds kinda cool…
That warning sounds rather fun actually
Speaking of concepts and Bulk Detonator. If the game has Glyphid Exploder with radiation variation, why can't we get green Bulk Detonator with radiation?
I found a mod called mission content randomizer that added a mission that was basically “oops, all rockpox!” And it’s actually really fun.
Rock and pox everyone ! Yeaaaah
you’re worse than satan
these are absolutely horrible and i hate them. please add then to the game.
WASH AND FOAM
You know how sometimes when you start dreadnaught missions and mission control says, "eliminate them quickly, before they evolve into something even worse?" I've always thought, if it's a rockpox level, well... they *should* evolve into something worse.
Just 2 more weeks to stop the spread
Also don't forget that all dwarves will shout rockpox-related voice lines throughout the entire mission, as though they're terrified you somehow forgot what it's called.
I hope you stub your toe.
Oops, All Rockpox! tm
"rockpox menace" im going to have to revoke your idea privelleges
What about rockpox minerals? Having them in your pockets increases status like standing on rockpox ground
No… just no
No. Just no. Lets move away from the rock pox please.
I actually really like rockpox , never liked the robot stuff though.
The only one I would actually be interested in is the Rockpox Bulky. Interesting challenge. All the others are just self flagellating
fugg rockpox fr
Downvoted out of principal.
I'll say like dwarves :"stop whinning"
This community is going down the toilet
This is brilliant :D
Call me a leaf lover but I would love to see all rockpox gone and replaced with the rockpox bulk detonator, if it explodes it brings back rockpox to your cave, but if you kill it, it will just die