Current Events > Deep Rock Galactic is the opposite of the "live-service" model.

(+) Yeah! (+)

-The most communicative dev team I've experienced in all my years of gaming.

-Frequent content updates and rebalances. Rationale given for all changes with likelihood of future balancing for mistuned changes.

-Free battle pass littered with cool cosmetics. Inability to complete the battle pass before changing of the season causes the items to be added to the general cosmetic "findable" pool. Meaning nothing missable and no FOMO.

-Constant addition of new Primary and secondary weapons with tons of cool overclocks. Everything is viable up until Hazard 3, but at higher difficulties you do have to be a bit pickier because some are way better than others.

-Amazing content gating that doesn't feel too grindy, but allows for a constant sense of broadening your options for each Dwarf. From unlocking new primaries and secondaries to Matrix cores and overclocks, reminiscent of Borderlands 2 in the sense of loot and progression reaching a perfect blend of the two.

It's not for everyone. There is no PvP. There is no real ranking outside of your player level which is dictated by mission time/completion rather than performance...but I haven't sunk this much time into a game over 6 months since my first time getting addicted to Dota.

I was hesistant about getting that game, but from your post it looks like the devs make it a commitment to have a good dev to player experience. I might check the game out, I'm always looking for good Co-op games to play.

Prestoff posted...

I was hesistant about getting that game, but from your post it looks like the devs make it a commitment to have a good dev to player experience. I might check the game out, I'm always looking for good Co-op games to play.

To me, it feels like a combination of TF2 and Borderlands 2 and that combination also hits just right.

My only complaint is the overclock progression system being as subject to chance as it is. They aren't necessary to have, but it was more than a little frustrating that the overclock I wanted most was the literal last one I received because RNGesus hates me.

Everything else is fantastic, and I've put 700 hours into the game.

Tried it for 10 hours, imediately deleted it after constantly losing an hours progress due to unclear instructions, or glitches. When you play a stage for an hour+ and lose it randomly at the snap of a finger is so disrespectful to someone's time, and why i think it's one of the worst games anyone can play

Drrobotniks posted...

unclear instructions

What?

Actual offline single-player, huh?

Those are all live service systems.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Actual offline single-player, huh?

You totally can. Bosco is a good lad

FurryPhilosifer posted...

Those are all live service systems.

Yeah, I should have said "It's a live service system done correctly" but there's no subscription fee or anything outside of cosmetics for purchase so I don't know if it actually qualifies.

xXfireglzXx posted...

You totally can.

You don't see that much at all anymore, especially with this type of game.

Drrobotniks posted...

Tried it for 10 hours, imediately deleted it after constantly losing an hours progress due to unclear instructions, or glitches. When you play a stage for an hour+ and lose it randomly at the snap of a finger is so disrespectful to someone's time, and why i think it's one of the worst games anyone can play

How does it even take you an hour+ to do any of the earlier missions? Unless you're just mining and not turning anything in?

Apodyopsist posted...

How does it even take you an hour+ to do any of the earlier missions? Unless you're just mining and not turning anything in?

i am actually confused too. no mission in deep rock should take an hour or more unless you're doing a deep dive lol

deep rock is the best of these horde shooter type games imo. killing floor 2 is monetized to shit and super unbalanced and vermintide 2 is very fun but has a lot of dlc

Apodyopsist posted...

How does it even take you an hour+ to do any of the earlier missions? Unless you're just mining and not turning anything in?

Absolutely the earlier missions by myself, mining everything i need for the required missions, making tubes and stuff by myself, easily around an hour for each mission cant forget that i have to stop every 4 or so minutes cause mobs spon specifically out of nowhere, eating up more time because they're on a specifically timed timer

and the fact the game thinks it's ok to take 95 percent of that away from you through no fault of your own is so fucked up i cant even look at this game anymore

Drrobotniks posted...

Absolutely the earlier missions by myself, mining everything i need for the required missions, making tubes and stuff by myself, easily around an hour for each mission cant forget that i have to stop every 4 or so minutes cause mobs spon specifically out of nowhere, eating up more time because they're on a specifically timed timer

and the fact the game thinks it's ok to take 95 percent of that away from you through no fault of your own is so fucked up i cant even look at this game anymore

Unless you're doing a level with lots of stuff on the ceiling and you're mining up to it with no abilities I still don't see how it's an hour. Hell, if you use Bosco then solo play is easier than duo and sometimes even trio play. Even if you were mining every single gold/nitra deposit I feel like you'd struggle to hit 30 minutes solo on the vast majority of layouts and/or mission types.

Also if it's taking you an hour surely you've reached the cap for the primary and secondary missions, right? So you could just extract instead of risking any of your mats. Getting extra morkite or boolo caps won't really help you progress as much as just queueing another mission.

Best coop FPS in a long time

It's fun but the gameplay loop is a bit too repetitive. I go back to it every now and then but I get tired of it after a week. And it just sucks how the overclocks are completely random and how long it takes to get them. Every new weapon update further dilutes the pool and I get tired of not getting the ones I want.

When I first started, trying to do missions solo would take over an hour and I did lose a couple of times. But that was due to me being bad, and not the fault of the game. The game can occasionally do stupid shit when the drop pod comes back, but that is pretty rare.

Apodyopsist posted...

Unless you're doing a level with lots of stuff on the ceiling and you're mining up to it with no abilities I still don't see how it's an hour. Hell, if you use Bosco then solo play is easier than duo and sometimes even trio play. Even if you were mining every single gold/nitra deposit I feel like you'd struggle to hit 30 minutes solo on the vast majority of layouts and/or mission types.

Also if it's taking you an hour surely you've reached the cap for the primary and secondary missions, right? So you could just extract instead of risking any of your mats. Getting extra morkite or boolo caps won't really help you progress as much as just queueing another mission.

Keep in mind im new to the game, jumped right in after doing the tutorial. Legit each successful mission took around an hour, this wasn't on the hardest difficulty ofc, I think it was standard? But yes every mission from mining, to building tubes, to finding eggs took about an hour by myself, and while I'm not the best at video games, I'm far from the worst

deep rock really need to invest in some better equipment

I don't even really like that genre and I love deep rock. Literally anything can happen in a mission, and that's what keeps me coming back.

sutree posted...

It's fun but the gameplay loop is a bit too repetitive. I go back to it every now and then but I get tired of it after a week. And it just sucks how the overclocks are completely random and how long it takes to get them. Every new weapon update further dilutes the pool and I get tired of not getting the ones I want.

This is basically how I feel

Always wanted to try it since I love Vermintide.

Yes deep rock is fantastic.

I like it, but I feel like it needs a lot more content.

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