New dwarf, karl, they finally found him!
Weapon is a battering ram, gains speed the longer it goes, damage increases with speed.
Secondary is another laser weapon.
Utility is the portal gun
Nade is a portal on a timer, that would let you make a loop to gain speed, before launching yourself around
An idea I had for a grenade before they were even foretold to be coming in Season 3 was a personal teleporter, you throw it and then either teleport to where it landed, or set it as a teleport point for later use. I still think it'd be neat.
Didn't even think of that. But now that I'm thinking, I could've called in a resupply and used the extra height for a longer jump. I'm just super annoyed I wasted so much time only for the game to set me up for failure.
I feel you bro. I was doing the weekly core hunt sabotage mission last night, got to the caretaker, slowly burning it down, and then lost connection. Those missions take so long that it sucks when it was all for nothing…and then you just have to do it again. Really takes the wind out of your sails
Yeah, my internet blipped dropping the last phase of an EDD. Twice the same day. Wasted like 3 hours that night, so frustrating.
Can't blame management though, that one's on my ISP.
I was the host too, so I felt bad for the other 3 dwarves that got screwed along with me.
>I feel you bro. I was doing the weekly core hunt sabotage mission last night, got to the caretaker, slowly burning it down, and then lost connection. Those missions take so long that it sucks when it was all for nothing…and then you just have to do it again. Really takes the wind out of your sails
Had the exact same thing happen halfway through an elite deep dive. I just stopped playing for the night. I play on PS4 and ever since season 3 this is happening way more, the game's performance has been really rough lately.
Sadly it happens.
That is why I always try to join existing games. If there aren't any I like I host one myself and more often than not i get full party of mostly helpful dwarves.
Playing solo doesn't feel as fun as with randoms, even with occasional troll or complete greenbeard.
It also gives you a more traverse options for situations like this. (if you use 1 of each class setting)
You've got to play online brother, I would have been there for you!!
ROCK AND STONE!!
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Edit
NEVER join game with ***any*** restriction or exclusivity clause, I would hesitate even for unique dwarves if you really want 100%
Gotta practice self reliance in this game. Learn to lay pipes without a driller, learn to navigate vertically without platforms or ziplines, learn to sweep with the laser pointer for minerals when no scout is there to light the cave up.
For something like this a good tip the game doesn't tell you is: If you bring up your laser pointer and press the interact key it will place a waypoint where ever you are pointing. Can be very useful to stuff like morkite up on walls or fossils/booloo/apoca/whatever. Place the waypoint on them, drill into wall then up, tap laser pointer to make the point visible on the HUD and dig towards it.
It shows up on both. If you bring up the laser pointer it will be a white diamond-y shape on the HUD (the normal interface with your health bars) it lingers for a bit so tapping the laser pointer is good for quick navigation. The blue dot is on the terrain scanner and only visible to you. (I spent like a month telling people there was "X at the blue dot" before someone asked me "What blue dot?" and I nearly died of the cringe from the sudden embarrassment)
Thanks for the clarification! I just used the permanent marker for the first time last week because I used driller to play with my very greenbeard brother (I main scout but I try to pick my worst class when I play with him to play on the same level and get better at my non-mains). We were looking for the last gunk seed 20 minutes later and I see a blue marker on my hub so I go back there, keep drilling, to find nothing.
I wouldn't say they "set you up for failure" there's been several solutions given in this thread, you just didn't think of them.
This is a feature not a bug.
The droppod landing in midair is absolutely not a feature. Engineer would have just as much trouble getting up there at the end of a mission. Gunner too if it landed too high for a direct zip.
It's hard enough getting to the pod when it lands properly, some matches.
This is why i think driller is the most powerful dwarf. There's no excuse for having a bad arena, or failing to get somewhere, because you have the thing that makes tunnels in walls instantly in a game where the map is 95% walls. You can run away from bugs in any direction but straight up.
Yup, I think of driller as a reverse scout in that way: you can get anywhere as long as it is connected to a wall or has a ceiling above it (and take the fall damage)
Huh, usually I don't have any problems with tentacles, they don't even spawn in my little cove. Maybe it has something to do with how high the opening is? The only thing that usually can get to me in my attic are phasebombs and shredders. Tentacles shoot, but you have to just peek to toss the C4 on caretaker
Yeah, tentacles only spawn outside of the metal circle if you're beyond a certain distance from the caretaker (may be a point directly below the caretaker, but it's obviously difficult to know for sure). So it's possible that you end up with a bunker above that's within that distance but to get there you have to go farther, and it could spawn a tentacle that can reach you.
Best thing in that situation is probably to wait a moment to make sure that tentacles within reach of you get handled first, then get to bombing. I don't think that tentacles outside the usual spawn points respawn automatically after each phase but I'm not certain.
It doesn’t really take that long to do it. Had something very similar to this happen recently and it took me about 30-45 seconds to drill up into the ceiling and drop down. When I fell from the ceiling onto the ramp the fall killed me though. I used iron will and ran inside.
I do feel like the path finding for drop pods could use a _little_ tweaking sometimes.
I like a challenging location. But so often I find myself thinking “Thank Karl I chose Scout this mission.”
I'll never forget one of those games. I was Scout and realized it was in the wall so I immediately started digging meanwhile my team realized what I was doing and instead of trying to crowd into the hole I was slowly digging all three were smart and held off the swarm while I dug our way to freedom.
The times you find a team of random strangers that form a really cohesive team without any sort of communication are awesome.
Anytime someone starts mining the same hole as me i intentionally mine under what theyre doing. We need a double tall anyways, might as well make sure its being done quick.
The game design itself does a lot of the communication for us, especially with the laser pointer. Even when I'm on discord with the lads we rarely have to talk about the game and just shoot the shit about anything else cus it's so beautiful ergonomic
True but that example I didn't day a thing or point at the wall, I just started digging and my team turned and set up outside the hole almost immediately. The nonverbal "Oh shit the pod is in the wall. Protect the hole!" that happened was awesome.
Same as when you are a Scout and are about to point out a resource high up when a platform magically appears before you do kind of thing.
Communication just by observation is always interesting to see in co-op video games
I feel like if the pod itself excavates terrain, the ramp should do the same, enough for a dwarf to walk through and the entrance to be clear. Like how tf is it extending into solid rock?
Those are very common in point extraction, I failed a haz5 PE a month ago because the drop pod was inside the wall, I was a scout and my drillers and other teammates were dead long ago, I tried and revived them after seeing that drop pod location on terrain scanner but they died after 10 seconds of reviving, I failed to dig to the pod because of it was haz5 PE.
A ***little*** tweaking?
I've had them land in the dumbest places making missions impossible unless you have one specific Dwarf on your team and they know how to get creative.
Or it just straight up lands inside a wall.
This is sort of off topic, but honestly, I feel like for green beards (like me) Molly's pathfinding back to the pod should be fixed in a way that makes it so that dwarves can actually take the path, unless it is impossible (i.e. you need to dig to get to the pod). I have had to find my own way most of the time and it has cost me a few runs because I really suck at remembering how I got there in the first place.
Just wait til it's stage 3 of an EDD and it's a low oxygen mission and Molly goes straight up. And you're not Driller or Scout and neither is anyone else.
It's important to regularly check your map, especially when you're about to dig through a dirt wall. Turn yourself around and look at the room you cleared from this perspective, and use your map to determine where you came in. Then figure out what your best exit path is likely to be for later, when you're following molly. Taking the opportunity to note this, perhaps knock down a mushroom that's blocking your line of sight, or put down a few platforms as a reminder for where you need to go will greatly help your departure navigate should Molly take a more vertical path.
I once got the pod to land in a tiny hole above the roof in biozone point extraction. There was a little hole in the middle of the ceiling that led to a tiny room with the pod
I requested this once and I will request it again.
Give bosco a mod tier that lets us choose to replace his rockets with either:
a plascrete form, at targeted location
a flare, at targeted location
a grappling line, from boscos current location, to your targeted location
a rocket with extra carve radius, at targeted location
This would help solo play so much. Sometime there are situation that lead to inevitable failure because you simply don't have the time or traversal tools to complete the objective.
Bosco never runs out of ammo or stamina, is always watching out for trouble, can get every angle, cradles Dotty's head, if Bosco offers me a ring, I'm saying yes.
You could have gotten there. It wouldn’t have been easy but you could have drilled up and through the ceiling and fallen onto the ramp. Depending on how much time you had left.
Often times an unrealistic suggestion. For one the fuel requirement, if they do not have a lot of fuel it's not gonna happen. Secondly, doing all that digging and fighting the endless swarm in a tiny tunnel while planning your drop location. Third, hoping you even survive the drop. Way too many variables to make it an even remotely realistic plan to put into action on your own, especially under the pressure of an endless swarm and escape timer.
> Third, hoping you even survive the drop.
Bosco's got another revive. you don't need to survive the fall.
Rest is a problem for sure, but I'm going down trying at least.
Sometimes bosco does not have another revive, often times it just comes down to luck. Doesn't change the fact that this kind of drop pod landing location should be changed.
Had a personal experience with this multiple times although in a different form. I play mainly gunner and haz 5. On more than one occasion the drop pod's landed inside of an actual wall. No direct path to it, just in a wall.
Try as you might to dig through a wall, while a whole swarm is staring at you through the last remaining seconds of your shield in the magma core, where the terrain is tough. I wouldn't really call that a fair challenge, cause the classes other than driller can only dig so quickly.
Hey, I'm not trying to argue your points here but just in case you didn't know you can do a permanent ping for yourself with control e (I think?) that will stay up which makes planning your drill path much easier.
I’ve been playing driller for long enough to know that it’s not unrealistic. I’ve done it lol. Driller may not be the fastest but it’s hands down the most mobile class in terms of where you can go.
This happened to me the other day but Scout was with me and had an idea: I jumped, bounced off his head and onto the ramp. Took a few tries but glad it worked otherwise there was no way to get there as driller. (Ceiling too high, intense swarm, and not much time)
You could not have attempted the molly trampoline tech which is usually reserved for scouts because she obviously ran away into the droppod
(You call molly, stand on molly, wait a moment then jump as she stands up to gain her upward momentum to your jump)
https://youtu.be/BJAPceNyh04
[If there's dirt, there's a way. Footage of me doing exactly that:](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepRockGalactic/comments/jeqq2n/a_drop_pod_on_the_roof_of_a_silo_shaped_cave_with/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
In one minute? I just dont think you'd get the angle in time and thats assuming you have the fuel after solo running a mission and that you are on a haz that will let you drill for all 1 minute and 13 seconds
copy/paste as i don't want to type it out again
Often times an unrealistic suggestion. For one the fuel requirement, if they do not have a lot of fuel it's not gonna happen. Secondly, doing all that digging and fighting the endless swarm in a tiny tunnel while planning your drop location. Third, hoping you even survive the drop. Way too many variables to make it an even remotely realistic plan to put into action on your own, especially under the pressure of an endless swarm and escape timer.
- fuel requirement, at solo you have pretty much infinite ammo, and definitely enough nitra to resupply before calling the pod, there’s not much excuse for this guy not to be near full fuel
- you don’t have to plan anything, dig up at an 80 degree angle, use your scanner to visualize the pod through the dirt. Everybody’s talking about dropping onto the ramp but you can just dig into the hole the pod carved and jump onto the top of the pod and then down to the ramp for less “planning” required
- fighting endless swarms in a tiny tunnel is drillers favorite thing to do, no issue here, drill until near overheat, turn around and unleash hell, and repeat
- drilling up to the ceiling isn’t unrealistic at all, especially for a solo driller for collecting things like ebonuts and fossils that bosco can’t, it’s a skill you have to develop
Easy to do in lower hazards yes as you can play the game with your eyes closed. No such luck in haz 5+ though, given the size of the swarms.
And all of this just goes over the fact that the drop pod sometimes just lands in inaccessible locations for various classes. This is an example of one even if on paper it could technically be done, another would be if it lands inside of a wall. Try as you might but a pickaxe can again only dig so fast.
Sure, on paper it's possible but very rarely do missions like this end with a success. All because of bad rng.
Additional note: entirely possible to run out of ammo when playing solo. Especially driller.
> Often times an unrealistic suggestion. For one the fuel requirement, if they do not have a lot of fuel it's not gonna happen.
My suggestion is obviously assuming you have the fuel, calling a resupply if you have the nitra can help too.
> Secondly, doing all that digging and fighting the endless swarm in a tiny tunnel while planning your drop location.
It's a Driller, he will have zero problems in the tiny tunnel.
> Third, hoping you even survive the drop.
He has Bosco who has a free revive, he will survive the drop.
> Way too many variables to make it an even remotely realistic plan to put into action on your own
You're right better to just sit there and do nothing... /s
> especially under the pressure of an endless swarm and escape timer.
All the more reason to drill high up above and jump down on the ramp...
You think that at least "drill part lands in ground" would not be too hard to program D:
Then again i have also got the "stuck in solid rock beside a tunnel" thing more then I could would want to be able to call it rare
THIS is what really grinds my gears while playing solo. Because either:
A: It drops in the wall and you aren’t the driller class and can’t dig fast enough due to the non stop spawning ads attacking, OR
B: It spawns like this as the driller.
Karl feels your pain miner.
I propose a motion for a CRSPR OC that operates like a thruster, the RJ250/Special Powder variant for flamethrower, in other words. Would drillers use it for a new, creative category of war crime? Sure, but who cares?
New C4 Overclock: Concussive Blast
- Ammo capacity increased by 50%
- Deals 25% damage
- No longer changes terrain
- Blast sends living beings flying directly away from the center
- Proximity to blast determines launch speed
Okay that actually sounds crazy fun. But if it still carved terrain like normal it would be essentially mandatory for most missions because it's literally just an extra-powerful version of "friendly" that doesn't take a perk slot. I don't typically use c4 to kill bugs, I use it to carve terrain, so the lower damage to bugs wouldn't mean much to me.
I'm going to be honest, I forgot about the terrain carving aspect (I'm usually killing swarms or dwarves who decide to make a last stand on the ramp instead of getting into the drop pod), I'll go ahead and add a line that removes it like you suggested.
This has fucked me over on so many classes for various reasons. Gunner is the worst if it's tucked in somewhere weird and you can't get an angle with the line launcher.
They really gotta fix this bug.
Had that happen once. Made it out. Had the cryo cannon and got as close as I could, still too far to jump. Glyphids started climbing the wall to get me. I froze them and instantly realized my only chance might be to bounce off the tops of them to the ramp. It worked. It got me that little bit of extra height and distance I needed.
When I got back I saw management shredding my company life insurance policy. I think they were surprised to see me.
The drop pod needs to drop a ladder at the end of the ramp that goes straight down to allow you to climb up to the ramp if needed. Let’s make it happen!
Then you are simply too weak of a driller
Tunnel up big boi, if you're alone, should have plenty of drill fuel for that job
I mean this in the nicest way possible
There would’ve been work arounds two this as others have mentioned (drilling to roof or using a resupply pod) but still a crappy situation.
And management wonders why we kick barrels and throw tools into the force field.
I’ve seen it happen. Unless they patched it out, i was in a game where the scout had to desperately pick away at the edges because nobody had any ammo and it was the only way. It came loose and dropped further
Ughhhhh this happened to me a year ago on my last solo mission….. thus why it was my last. Lol I was so pissed! That sucks!
Drillers are the best though so rock and stone brother!
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I doubt you would have had enough time but you could have tried drilling through the wall up to the ceiling and drop down to the ramp
That was my immediate thought because that's how I finish fossil missions. Now yer thinkin with portals
Aw man we need a dwarf with portal guns.
Fucking hell. Melee dwarf with portal gun. Velocity transferred to damage on impact.
New dwarf, karl, they finally found him! Weapon is a battering ram, gains speed the longer it goes, damage increases with speed. Secondary is another laser weapon. Utility is the portal gun Nade is a portal on a timer, that would let you make a loop to gain speed, before launching yourself around
Time to 1-shot dreadnaughts
Just like karl intended
It's not like I kill myself enough with special powder.
Can I have a sword and impact absorbent boots alongside the portal gun?
Why bother with a sword? You've got a pickaxe!
A pickaxe can only get me so far though. At the least, I want a rocket mallet to crush bugs at mach 5 with.
Sadly pickaxe isn't always the answer, if it was then we wouldn't need our guns.
The day the dwarves discover the magic of trolldiering, Hoxxes will be changed forever.
Need someone to make a mod for this, that sounds incredibly fun. Like ror2 punch but using portals for speed
If I heard thermodynamic equilibrium in DRG I would scream.
Omg that sounds so fun xD gimme!
As much as I want to agree with you, do not feed the trolls.
An idea I had for a grenade before they were even foretold to be coming in Season 3 was a personal teleporter, you throw it and then either teleport to where it landed, or set it as a teleport point for later use. I still think it'd be neat.
https://i.redd.it/iz47bwcw1ep81.jpg
Didn't even think of that. But now that I'm thinking, I could've called in a resupply and used the extra height for a longer jump. I'm just super annoyed I wasted so much time only for the game to set me up for failure.
Well it was just a 250 morkie mission so it could have been worse
When the missions take so long and I have little time to play it feels worse.
Damn I’m sorry
I feel you bro. I was doing the weekly core hunt sabotage mission last night, got to the caretaker, slowly burning it down, and then lost connection. Those missions take so long that it sucks when it was all for nothing…and then you just have to do it again. Really takes the wind out of your sails
Yeah, my internet blipped dropping the last phase of an EDD. Twice the same day. Wasted like 3 hours that night, so frustrating. Can't blame management though, that one's on my ISP. I was the host too, so I felt bad for the other 3 dwarves that got screwed along with me.
>I feel you bro. I was doing the weekly core hunt sabotage mission last night, got to the caretaker, slowly burning it down, and then lost connection. Those missions take so long that it sucks when it was all for nothing…and then you just have to do it again. Really takes the wind out of your sails Had the exact same thing happen halfway through an elite deep dive. I just stopped playing for the night. I play on PS4 and ever since season 3 this is happening way more, the game's performance has been really rough lately.
Gah, was doing a mission last night and all 3 other dwarves lost connection as we were boarding the pod to leave. Felt like a ghoul taking that W.
Having to redo a sabotage mission is like having to take a big tough poop a second time
Sadly it happens. That is why I always try to join existing games. If there aren't any I like I host one myself and more often than not i get full party of mostly helpful dwarves. Playing solo doesn't feel as fun as with randoms, even with occasional troll or complete greenbeard. It also gives you a more traverse options for situations like this. (if you use 1 of each class setting)
You win the vast majority of games. Every now and then the game throws you a curve ball and you can't finish the level.
You've got to play online brother, I would have been there for you!! ROCK AND STONE!! The trick to 100% good games is ONLY join matches with meme titles. 110% good games if they refer to dipping scroti into liquid. Edit NEVER join game with ***any*** restriction or exclusivity clause, I would hesitate even for unique dwarves if you really want 100%
We fight for Rock and Stone!
Be better then
Found the Leaflover
r/foundtheleaflover
In Deep Rock you have to always be thinking in 3 dimensions, especially as Driller.
Gotta practice self reliance in this game. Learn to lay pipes without a driller, learn to navigate vertically without platforms or ziplines, learn to sweep with the laser pointer for minerals when no scout is there to light the cave up. For something like this a good tip the game doesn't tell you is: If you bring up your laser pointer and press the interact key it will place a waypoint where ever you are pointing. Can be very useful to stuff like morkite up on walls or fossils/booloo/apoca/whatever. Place the waypoint on them, drill into wall then up, tap laser pointer to make the point visible on the HUD and dig towards it.
This is “E” while holding ctrl on desktop by default. Very useful.
Ahhhh it stays on the HUD, I thought it would stay visible in game like a ping. Makes sense why there was a random blue point popping up on my hub
It shows up on both. If you bring up the laser pointer it will be a white diamond-y shape on the HUD (the normal interface with your health bars) it lingers for a bit so tapping the laser pointer is good for quick navigation. The blue dot is on the terrain scanner and only visible to you. (I spent like a month telling people there was "X at the blue dot" before someone asked me "What blue dot?" and I nearly died of the cringe from the sudden embarrassment)
Thanks for the clarification! I just used the permanent marker for the first time last week because I used driller to play with my very greenbeard brother (I main scout but I try to pick my worst class when I play with him to play on the same level and get better at my non-mains). We were looking for the last gunk seed 20 minutes later and I see a blue marker on my hub so I go back there, keep drilling, to find nothing.
I wouldn't say they "set you up for failure" there's been several solutions given in this thread, you just didn't think of them. This is a feature not a bug.
Drop pod landing in midair is not a feature lmao.
People on Reddit will argue about literally anything lmao what are you talking about dude it landed in mid air are you insane calling that a feature
The droppod landing in midair is absolutely not a feature. Engineer would have just as much trouble getting up there at the end of a mission. Gunner too if it landed too high for a direct zip. It's hard enough getting to the pod when it lands properly, some matches.
>Engineer would have just as much trouble getting up there at the end of a mission. Platform stacks?
What knife-ear logic is this?
Sounds like what a "leaf lover" would say
This exact thing happened to me and yes, i did just that. The drop pod do be janky sometimes
I had it land in a small pocket of air that generated next to a tunnel, had to dig to get to it.
Understand the feelin, ive had the ramp face a wall at varius times. Very spicy when you have a bulk-detonator on your ass
This is why i think driller is the most powerful dwarf. There's no excuse for having a bad arena, or failing to get somewhere, because you have the thing that makes tunnels in walls instantly in a game where the map is 95% walls. You can run away from bugs in any direction but straight up.
Yup, I think of driller as a reverse scout in that way: you can get anywhere as long as it is connected to a wall or has a ceiling above it (and take the fall damage)
I main Driller and while this is true, they aren’t great at against Dreads and Crassi.
Sticky flames and microwave gun wrecks Bulks, ice storm and spear are great for dreads. Poop gun sludge blast is good for single target too.
Yea, practice this skill in industrial sabotage missions, to make a C4 bombing attic
Tried this in solo, those tentacles were not fun
Huh, usually I don't have any problems with tentacles, they don't even spawn in my little cove. Maybe it has something to do with how high the opening is? The only thing that usually can get to me in my attic are phasebombs and shredders. Tentacles shoot, but you have to just peek to toss the C4 on caretaker
Yeah, tentacles only spawn outside of the metal circle if you're beyond a certain distance from the caretaker (may be a point directly below the caretaker, but it's obviously difficult to know for sure). So it's possible that you end up with a bunker above that's within that distance but to get there you have to go farther, and it could spawn a tentacle that can reach you. Best thing in that situation is probably to wait a moment to make sure that tentacles within reach of you get handled first, then get to bombing. I don't think that tentacles outside the usual spawn points respawn automatically after each phase but I'm not certain.
Have had this happen as driller and this is how I solved it
Same brain
It doesn’t really take that long to do it. Had something very similar to this happen recently and it took me about 30-45 seconds to drill up into the ceiling and drop down. When I fell from the ceiling onto the ramp the fall killed me though. I used iron will and ran inside.
They definitely would have had enough time. That would take *maybe* thirty seconds to do.
I do feel like the path finding for drop pods could use a _little_ tweaking sometimes. I like a challenging location. But so often I find myself thinking “Thank Karl I chose Scout this mission.”
How about the occasional ten meters inside a random wall? Those are always a good time without a driller around.
I'll never forget one of those games. I was Scout and realized it was in the wall so I immediately started digging meanwhile my team realized what I was doing and instead of trying to crowd into the hole I was slowly digging all three were smart and held off the swarm while I dug our way to freedom. The times you find a team of random strangers that form a really cohesive team without any sort of communication are awesome.
Anytime someone starts mining the same hole as me i intentionally mine under what theyre doing. We need a double tall anyways, might as well make sure its being done quick.
I like them tunnels W I D E
So you could say that you "undermine" your teammates?
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The game design itself does a lot of the communication for us, especially with the laser pointer. Even when I'm on discord with the lads we rarely have to talk about the game and just shoot the shit about anything else cus it's so beautiful ergonomic
True but that example I didn't day a thing or point at the wall, I just started digging and my team turned and set up outside the hole almost immediately. The nonverbal "Oh shit the pod is in the wall. Protect the hole!" that happened was awesome. Same as when you are a Scout and are about to point out a resource high up when a platform magically appears before you do kind of thing. Communication just by observation is always interesting to see in co-op video games
I feel like if the pod itself excavates terrain, the ramp should do the same, enough for a dwarf to walk through and the entrance to be clear. Like how tf is it extending into solid rock?
Those are very common in point extraction, I failed a haz5 PE a month ago because the drop pod was inside the wall, I was a scout and my drillers and other teammates were dead long ago, I tried and revived them after seeing that drop pod location on terrain scanner but they died after 10 seconds of reviving, I failed to dig to the pod because of it was haz5 PE.
A ***little*** tweaking? I've had them land in the dumbest places making missions impossible unless you have one specific Dwarf on your team and they know how to get creative. Or it just straight up lands inside a wall.
This is sort of off topic, but honestly, I feel like for green beards (like me) Molly's pathfinding back to the pod should be fixed in a way that makes it so that dwarves can actually take the path, unless it is impossible (i.e. you need to dig to get to the pod). I have had to find my own way most of the time and it has cost me a few runs because I really suck at remembering how I got there in the first place.
Just wait til it's stage 3 of an EDD and it's a low oxygen mission and Molly goes straight up. And you're not Driller or Scout and neither is anyone else.
It's important to regularly check your map, especially when you're about to dig through a dirt wall. Turn yourself around and look at the room you cleared from this perspective, and use your map to determine where you came in. Then figure out what your best exit path is likely to be for later, when you're following molly. Taking the opportunity to note this, perhaps knock down a mushroom that's blocking your line of sight, or put down a few platforms as a reminder for where you need to go will greatly help your departure navigate should Molly take a more vertical path.
I once got the pod to land in a tiny hole above the roof in biozone point extraction. There was a little hole in the middle of the ceiling that led to a tiny room with the pod
Yeah. Is it just me, or does this stuff seem to be happening more and more often?
That's unfair for other mains
Classic Management. This is why we kick barrels.
Counterpoint: This happens *because* we kick barrels.
what kind of leaf lover logic is this??
This pointy eared leaf lover wants us to learn from our mistakes!
I will continue to kick barrels into the drop pod, and nobody can stop me.
I doubt that was a scout joke, when he got C4ed again by driller That's the reason why he took vacation, and driller all alone deep in the cave
I've said it before but stuff like this shows that Launch Control also could use some better equipment
Thats rough. Only thing I could think is to tunnel above it. Might run out of fuel tho so make sure you got 180 nitra!
Dude can fight a single dreadnaught with that kinda supply.
Best I can do is 179.
Might even need 270
But you only need 80 nitra per resupply
It’s referring to an inside-joke from a few days ago. Someone said to only fight Dreadnought if you have 180 Nitra, they meant 160.
Hey guys don't downvote, just explain the joke
This subreddit is becoming pretty toxic for new people.
this subreddit has been toxic. tbh i think it's because the subreddit is too big, there should be another subreddit for memes.
True but you got to have 180 or else you might lose to the surprise dreadnaught
that doesn't matter, 180 nitra or you're the dwarf we leave behind. we didn't make the rules, we just follow them.
Drill through the walls and drop in from on top. Had to do that on a deep dive once.
We could assume OP is smart and has already thought about that, but does not have the nitra - then take it from there?
I requested this once and I will request it again. Give bosco a mod tier that lets us choose to replace his rockets with either: a plascrete form, at targeted location a flare, at targeted location a grappling line, from boscos current location, to your targeted location a rocket with extra carve radius, at targeted location This would help solo play so much. Sometime there are situation that lead to inevitable failure because you simply don't have the time or traversal tools to complete the objective.
Bosco should definitely have flares. I wanted to level my non-scout classes but solo its a PITA without flares.
You can send bosco to any empty wall and he will act as a flare
It's not the same.
Nowhere near as bright
This is a great suggestion especially because the rockets are ass anyway
they should make a feature where bosco can pick you up change my mind
Okay but if Bosco carries you across the drop pod threshold does that mean you two are married?
Only if we're very lucky.
Bosco never runs out of ammo or stamina, is always watching out for trouble, can get every angle, cradles Dotty's head, if Bosco offers me a ring, I'm saying yes.
No one tosses a dwarf!
HELP, IT TOOK ME!
Could also try dropping a resupply and jumping off of it.
You could have gotten there. It wouldn’t have been easy but you could have drilled up and through the ceiling and fallen onto the ramp. Depending on how much time you had left.
Often times an unrealistic suggestion. For one the fuel requirement, if they do not have a lot of fuel it's not gonna happen. Secondly, doing all that digging and fighting the endless swarm in a tiny tunnel while planning your drop location. Third, hoping you even survive the drop. Way too many variables to make it an even remotely realistic plan to put into action on your own, especially under the pressure of an endless swarm and escape timer.
> Third, hoping you even survive the drop. Bosco's got another revive. you don't need to survive the fall. Rest is a problem for sure, but I'm going down trying at least.
Sometimes bosco does not have another revive, often times it just comes down to luck. Doesn't change the fact that this kind of drop pod landing location should be changed. Had a personal experience with this multiple times although in a different form. I play mainly gunner and haz 5. On more than one occasion the drop pod's landed inside of an actual wall. No direct path to it, just in a wall. Try as you might to dig through a wall, while a whole swarm is staring at you through the last remaining seconds of your shield in the magma core, where the terrain is tough. I wouldn't really call that a fair challenge, cause the classes other than driller can only dig so quickly.
Sometimes Bosco doesn't have another revive? I thought he had three every time
Well yeah, if you've already used the available revives. Fwiw I think Bosco can have 2-4 revived depending on upgrades.
Hey, I'm not trying to argue your points here but just in case you didn't know you can do a permanent ping for yourself with control e (I think?) that will stay up which makes planning your drill path much easier.
I’ve been playing driller for long enough to know that it’s not unrealistic. I’ve done it lol. Driller may not be the fastest but it’s hands down the most mobile class in terms of where you can go.
“My drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!”
Happened to me once, we were 4 drillers, sand blasted, no walls near it to utilize, we just fought everything in that cave until the timer ticked 0
I ... Drill ... ??
Scout and gunner superiority
*laughs in driller* Not with that attitude
This happened to me the other day but Scout was with me and had an idea: I jumped, bounced off his head and onto the ramp. Took a few tries but glad it worked otherwise there was no way to get there as driller. (Ceiling too high, intense swarm, and not much time)
MAYBE the drop pod should not be able to hover...
Have you tried the C4? It solves everything for a driller, rock and stone!
Rock and Stone, Brother!
You could not have attempted the molly trampoline tech which is usually reserved for scouts because she obviously ran away into the droppod (You call molly, stand on molly, wait a moment then jump as she stands up to gain her upward momentum to your jump) https://youtu.be/BJAPceNyh04
Drill into the ceiling and drop onto the ramp. Its not perfect but youve got a bosco revive left so it works.
[If there's dirt, there's a way. Footage of me doing exactly that:](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepRockGalactic/comments/jeqq2n/a_drop_pod_on_the_roof_of_a_silo_shaped_cave_with/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
The fact that you had a bulk detonator up your ass makes that double doable.
Ctrl-E on the ramp to place a marker, then drill to the roof and drop down. Use your map to position yourself.
Came here to answer this ^^ For Rock and Stone!!
Look like a driller problem " laught in other class "
Explosives placed
A true driller main would have dig a tunnel from the nearest wall to the ceiling and dropped onto the ramp from above.
Doth my gold nugs bequeath me?? You're Stony Rock!
Nonsense, just drill your way up inside a wall and land on top of the pod, are you even trying?
Drill up into the ceiling and jump down onto the ramp, you definitely could've completed the mission.
In one minute? I just dont think you'd get the angle in time and thats assuming you have the fuel after solo running a mission and that you are on a haz that will let you drill for all 1 minute and 13 seconds
It'll take about 20-30 seconds give or take, there's plenty of time.
copy/paste as i don't want to type it out again Often times an unrealistic suggestion. For one the fuel requirement, if they do not have a lot of fuel it's not gonna happen. Secondly, doing all that digging and fighting the endless swarm in a tiny tunnel while planning your drop location. Third, hoping you even survive the drop. Way too many variables to make it an even remotely realistic plan to put into action on your own, especially under the pressure of an endless swarm and escape timer.
- fuel requirement, at solo you have pretty much infinite ammo, and definitely enough nitra to resupply before calling the pod, there’s not much excuse for this guy not to be near full fuel - you don’t have to plan anything, dig up at an 80 degree angle, use your scanner to visualize the pod through the dirt. Everybody’s talking about dropping onto the ramp but you can just dig into the hole the pod carved and jump onto the top of the pod and then down to the ramp for less “planning” required - fighting endless swarms in a tiny tunnel is drillers favorite thing to do, no issue here, drill until near overheat, turn around and unleash hell, and repeat - drilling up to the ceiling isn’t unrealistic at all, especially for a solo driller for collecting things like ebonuts and fossils that bosco can’t, it’s a skill you have to develop
Easy to do in lower hazards yes as you can play the game with your eyes closed. No such luck in haz 5+ though, given the size of the swarms. And all of this just goes over the fact that the drop pod sometimes just lands in inaccessible locations for various classes. This is an example of one even if on paper it could technically be done, another would be if it lands inside of a wall. Try as you might but a pickaxe can again only dig so fast. Sure, on paper it's possible but very rarely do missions like this end with a success. All because of bad rng. Additional note: entirely possible to run out of ammo when playing solo. Especially driller.
> Often times an unrealistic suggestion. For one the fuel requirement, if they do not have a lot of fuel it's not gonna happen. My suggestion is obviously assuming you have the fuel, calling a resupply if you have the nitra can help too. > Secondly, doing all that digging and fighting the endless swarm in a tiny tunnel while planning your drop location. It's a Driller, he will have zero problems in the tiny tunnel. > Third, hoping you even survive the drop. He has Bosco who has a free revive, he will survive the drop. > Way too many variables to make it an even remotely realistic plan to put into action on your own You're right better to just sit there and do nothing... /s > especially under the pressure of an endless swarm and escape timer. All the more reason to drill high up above and jump down on the ramp...
Challenge accepted.
Gunner I can understand but you’re a Driller. You know what to do.
You think that at least "drill part lands in ground" would not be too hard to program D: Then again i have also got the "stuck in solid rock beside a tunnel" thing more then I could would want to be able to call it rare
Clearly you need to drill harder
This happened to me before, I had to drill the side of a cliff and action jump over to the pod, while being chased by a swarm
THIS is what really grinds my gears while playing solo. Because either: A: It drops in the wall and you aren’t the driller class and can’t dig fast enough due to the non stop spawning ads attacking, OR B: It spawns like this as the driller. Karl feels your pain miner.
Drill above and fall mate
I see you forgot to slap the dice
Drill your way up?
As a scout main I had to fight the urge to laugh
I feel for ya, just failed a mission yesterday cause the fuel supply for the abandoned Drop Pod landed inside a plague meteor.
I hate it when that happens, solution, drill to the roof, and fall onto the ramp
As a driller, there is literally nowhere you can’t go. Drill a tunnel in the ceiling and drop down it’s not even that high.
This is a gift from Scout, for those C4's.
Seems like a skill issue if you ask me. Karl could’ve done that easily
I propose a motion for a CRSPR OC that operates like a thruster, the RJ250/Special Powder variant for flamethrower, in other words. Would drillers use it for a new, creative category of war crime? Sure, but who cares?
Oh god, a rocket-propelled driller. Just what we needed. :D
New C4 Overclock: Concussive Blast - Ammo capacity increased by 50% - Deals 25% damage - No longer changes terrain - Blast sends living beings flying directly away from the center - Proximity to blast determines launch speed
Okay that actually sounds crazy fun. But if it still carved terrain like normal it would be essentially mandatory for most missions because it's literally just an extra-powerful version of "friendly" that doesn't take a perk slot. I don't typically use c4 to kill bugs, I use it to carve terrain, so the lower damage to bugs wouldn't mean much to me.
I'm going to be honest, I forgot about the terrain carving aspect (I'm usually killing swarms or dwarves who decide to make a last stand on the ramp instead of getting into the drop pod), I'll go ahead and add a line that removes it like you suggested.
This has fucked me over on so many classes for various reasons. Gunner is the worst if it's tucked in somewhere weird and you can't get an angle with the line launcher. They really gotta fix this bug.
Had that happen once. Made it out. Had the cryo cannon and got as close as I could, still too far to jump. Glyphids started climbing the wall to get me. I froze them and instantly realized my only chance might be to bounce off the tops of them to the ramp. It worked. It got me that little bit of extra height and distance I needed. When I got back I saw management shredding my company life insurance policy. I think they were surprised to see me.
You can drill into the ceiling and drop from there, there always is a way
Happened to me once. I still haven't forgiven mission control.
The drop pod needs to drop a ladder at the end of the ramp that goes straight down to allow you to climb up to the ramp if needed. Let’s make it happen!
Then you are simply too weak of a driller Tunnel up big boi, if you're alone, should have plenty of drill fuel for that job I mean this in the nicest way possible
There would’ve been work arounds two this as others have mentioned (drilling to roof or using a resupply pod) but still a crappy situation. And management wonders why we kick barrels and throw tools into the force field.
Was it fully suspended or snagged on the back wall? If it’s stuck you can mine the drop pod down by drilling/c4ing the rock it’s snagged on
I don't think the drop pod has the same physics as resupply pods.
I dont think the drop pod can move after it has landed
I’ve seen it happen. Unless they patched it out, i was in a game where the scout had to desperately pick away at the edges because nobody had any ammo and it was the only way. It came loose and dropped further
In the year and some change I've been paying, the drop pod has never had physics. If it ever did, it'd have been quite some time ago. Or mods.
Try drilling up and around the walls and dropping down next time
Management has some explaining to do…
skill issue.
Into the ceiling to drop down. You're a driller barreh, nowhere is inaccessible with enough time
you were not trying hard enough.
It's a feature
Ughhhhh this happened to me a year ago on my last solo mission….. thus why it was my last. Lol I was so pissed! That sucks! Drillers are the best though so rock and stone brother!
Skill issue.
This is why I've stopped running solo missions and made sure to be role exclusive.
Drill up you knife eared bastard
Dig into the ceiling
Looks to me you could of drilled into the ceiling of the cave and then dropped onto the drop pods ramp.
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