"Who the hell is Karl?" "Ligma balls" *Driller teamkills Gunner with a satchel charge*

@MagicalBreeze

2 жыл бұрын

i can see this comment in my head send s̶u̶p̶p̶l̶y̶ ̶p̶o̶d̶ help

@vladgabrielmatei9128

2 жыл бұрын

@@MagicalBreeze *orders supply pod* gotchu brother of the mine :D

@MagicalBreeze

2 жыл бұрын

@@vladgabrielmatei9128 aye my names also Vlad

@vladgabrielmatei9128

2 жыл бұрын

@@MagicalBreeze cheers brother!

@scruffmaster0185

2 жыл бұрын

I can hear this joke 😂

My favourite theory involving Karl is that before the incident involving him, Hoxxes didn't have that huge section of the planet broken off.

@mrhat1073

2 жыл бұрын

maybe they brought some kind of nuclear armament, and what remains is the Exclusion Zone, the Glacial Strata is that part of the planet that got blown off, and the Magma Core got exposed because of it

@dencilm5888

2 жыл бұрын

Holy shit tf did he do

@TK-7193

2 жыл бұрын

@@dencilm5888 drg probably nuked the area that karl died at from anger and sadness. to avenge karl, if you will. because whatever was dangerous enough to put karl on his knees, must have been too dangerous to be left alive

@crazygamecrafter8830

2 жыл бұрын

i think that the section formed after karl tore a bloody ravine through thousands of bulks.

@merrick5525

2 жыл бұрын

@@dencilm5888 Mined till he died

Can’t wait for the “search for Karl” season. That’s gonna be a doozy

@pillsburydopeboy3962

Жыл бұрын

If they made a quest line where we got to look for karl that be cool

@madflam3192

Жыл бұрын

saving dwarf Karl

@Karl-Heinz_Schluenz

Жыл бұрын

@@madflam3192 like it

@GhostedGamer

Жыл бұрын

Imagine if you find him, after a set of assignments (or a special deep dive), a new part of the map opens up and karl becomes an npc you can interact with. Perhaps he would give you exclusive cosmetics or become a new gameplay feature

@BierBart12

Жыл бұрын

Calling it, this game will have an entire storyline with a comic akin to TF2 after the "Soldier vs Demoman" update, without the corporate greed destroying it part.

During a deep dive to Black Crag, the dwarves encountered the Glyphid Queen. After drinking 50 Pints of Skull Crusher Ale, Karl held her back with nothing but a pickaxe as his friends escaped. The last thing the dwarves saw before the Drop Pod left, was Karl making the killing blow that sent a huge chunk of Hoxxes into orbit. Karl was never seen again.

@Im_Ethanol

Жыл бұрын

All the pieces have come together

@FireCrack83

Жыл бұрын

Never seen again? thats cause he made an emergency droppod out of the Glyphid queens shell and dropped to his homebase on Hoxxes 3 (which he mined alone before DRG corp arrived)

@Lawn_Mower

Жыл бұрын

​@@FireCrack83 not meant to be rude, but could I have a source? I'd like to see if I can figure anything out myself

@v4rtexclaw

Жыл бұрын

I believe that Karl is still fighting down there. But one thing I would like to know about Carl is what class he was. Was he a gunner? Or maybe a driller? Engineer maybe. Scout possibly.

@doggosuki

Жыл бұрын

@@v4rtexclaw karl was karl

My two personal theories for the identity of Karl are 1. Karl is both a real individual, and term used by the miners of DRG referring to the dwarves who met their ends in the depths of Hoxxes, calling upon them with the name of a legendary hero as a way of honoring their bravery 2. Karl met his end pickaxing a fully-developed Dreadnaught to death, because that’s badass

@linusandersen3587

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda like John doe.

@DarkTakanuva

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like Karl is the subject of many tall tales, sometimes literally after all, haven't you heard? He's as tall as a man, strong as rock, and beat the glyphid queen to death with his bare hands and a pickaxe

@Aerolyte

3 жыл бұрын

I like to believe he is the reason why we say "No Dwarf Left Behind" he died to buying time for his crew to escape against a Swarm with a Pickaxe.

@Adeon55

3 жыл бұрын

... or perhaps drunkenly pickaxing a bulk detonator to death 😅

@samakiraroyjanssen6326

3 жыл бұрын

davy jones locker style perhaps? in the sense that those who die in Hoxxes become a part of "Karl"

"Die like your mother did!" that quote is played whenever you kill a Glyphid with a pickaxe and that's the quote that really got me thinking. Karl would have had to do something incredible to be the icon he is today and the Glyphid being an insect species it wouldn't be too far fetched to say they had a queen at one point, a queen that Karl killed with his pixace. That's my theory.

@Jernewein

2 жыл бұрын

Karl the patron dwarf Saint of the Pickaxe

@d-emprahexpects849

2 жыл бұрын

I live this one! Nice

@mattlawn3792

2 жыл бұрын

Same theory too, it wasn't mentioned in the video.. What if he did destroy the queen (or A queen) to the knowledge of the dwarves but disappeared in an explosion. His favourite biome is littered with explosive flora after all. They must have another queen or numerous queens for there to still be so many creatures. Maybe those machines had something to do with it??

@merrick5525

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattlawn3792 what biome is his fav?

@BobbinRobbin777

2 жыл бұрын

...with a pickaxe. the absolute legend.

Karl is a bulk detonator that the dwarves were able to tame. They had to leave him behind due to the no glyphid policy for the space rig. Now he haunts the caves as the ghost bulk detonator on haunted missions.

@mrbones9332

Жыл бұрын

This is the best theory. Fight me.

@DJBabington

Жыл бұрын

Love this theory

@ihaveaplan.ijustneedmoney.9777

Жыл бұрын

@@mrbones9332 One hole in it though. Dwarves: (sees Ghost "Karl") Dwarves Pick Axe in hand: FOR KARL

@dogf421

11 ай бұрын

i was about to mention that due to the haunted caves we may be able to see a "ghost carl" but the ghost bulk detonator may be ghost carl

@Encorous

11 ай бұрын

​@@dogf421Who tf is "Carl"?

Imagine how incredibly sick it would be if one day we get to rescue Karl and have a 5th playable character.

@Dinosaurisrex

Жыл бұрын

Dude, would be cool, he gets all items. And is only unlockable after you promote the dwarves to max.

@kucy3375

Жыл бұрын

would be nice but not on multiplayer, as most of end-game players would just unlock and use that 5th class everytime, making it as common as other classes and make superior Karl as common as other dwarfs

@Unchainedful

Жыл бұрын

If they were to make a 5th dwarf, they have to make a melee class. I imagine Karl wielding two pickaxes with a very fast swing speed, slightly faster, and slight jump height. His grenades can be all rechargeable throwable items that can mark enemies when it hits them with a overclock of taming a creature when hit with a certain throwable, making Karl the only class that can have two bugs tamed. His maneuver weapon/ability would just be his ability to climb and scale any wall by using both his pickaxes to scale a wall. His class can also gain an 100% additional effect from drinking beer.

@phambao6901

11 ай бұрын

@@Unchainedful the 5th class has to be really niche for the game to not lose its balance

@chipandsalsa_

11 ай бұрын

no guns, no utility, only pickaxe. rock and stone, rip and tear

Karl once told me my beard was at its best.

@sniss

3 жыл бұрын

what an honor

@anthony6098

3 жыл бұрын

Yooo it's funny dwarf

@gotem123

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@Kinglizard220

3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding

@gasmask7064

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a shame I had to leave him behind.

Personally, I like the idea that Karl isn't actually some legendary hero who died in a badass way, but actually he was just a regular miner exactly like the ones you play as, but in one way or another he died and his body was left on Hoxxes, and the other miners now all swear to never leave another dwarf behind.

@turtlemaster2785

Жыл бұрын

The tomb of the unknown miner

@cheezburgir2330

Жыл бұрын

That's boring

@AngryCaesCorporation

Жыл бұрын

@@cheezburgir2330 But more realistic.

@AngryCaesCorporation

Жыл бұрын

That's actually more realistic, as people have a tendency to exaggerate the qualities of deceased ones they loved.

@cheezburgir2330

Жыл бұрын

@@AngryCaesCorporation no one plays deep rock galactic for realism

I have a theory. Those new Rival Nemesis robots have either voice recordings or voice synthesized audio lines of a dwarf in need of help or having found something. What if Karl had been captured by the rival company? What if they now prey upon his comrades with recorded lines from his distress hoping that it would illicit both panic and frantic behavior in nearby dwarves who’d try to save him.

@AbyssalPlague

Жыл бұрын

*_Yes!_* I I thought the same thing! Maybe they're using him for their own purposes on Hoxxes!

@samoclese6435

Жыл бұрын

I had a slightly different idea just before watching the video. In addition to your point about the idle voice lines mimic voice lines of the dwarves, the death voice lines are spoken in the same voice but are entirely new, such as "I feel so cold" or "Why is it so dark?" The only way I can really think of those lines being on there is if they were recorded by a dwarf. What if Karl's bitter about being left behind, and all this time of isolation on such a harsh planet led Karl to join up with the Rivals when they got to the planet and found him.

@NCRRangerVet47

Жыл бұрын

@@samoclese6435 If the lines of the Nemesis are Karl, than that makes the "I thought we were friends" death line much more saddening. What if that was one of Karl's last words before the pod left him behind?

@singletona082

Жыл бұрын

all while either torturing him for info on DRG, or pulling that thing from clone wars and hooking him up to something to essentially give all their robots a vet miner's knowledge base and lived in skillset. that is horrific and i love it.

@GeneralTaco155555a

Жыл бұрын

@@samoclese6435 nah, many of the death lines are famous quotes said specifically by robots, including Roy Batty's death monolog from _Blade Runner_ They're jokes that the big evil robot was actually a sentient being capable of feeling, and you just murdered it. The rest of the voice lines are distorted versions of in-game quotes, or full on murder robot lines. It's a fun theory, but the clear implication is that the Rivals recorded the dwarves' in-game voice lines during in Season 1, made a sentient AI that would mimic their voices and try to kill them, and then sent them out in Season 2.

This is the only game that I have played where the only bad memories are when we leave a dwarf behind. I think this story of Karl is exactly what has made this game’s community so strong.

@humbertogarcia344

Жыл бұрын

dude ive bought the game last week and i played a lot (A LOT) this weekend... rock and stone forevah brother

@justanicemelon9963

Жыл бұрын

ROCK AND STONE!

@brandoncassibo6527

11 ай бұрын

Rockety, rock and stone!

@matyasgalavits295

11 ай бұрын

ROCK. AND. STONE.

@ElysiumGamingNetwork

11 ай бұрын

Don’t forget when you leave Steve behind😭

You forgot the most important part about Karl. He is the one who killed the mother of all bugs, it's thanks to him we even stand a chance against the horde!

@patrickhealy5393

3 жыл бұрын

the messiah!

@alizard7617

3 жыл бұрын

He also likely did it shitfaced if the description of skullcrusher ale is to be believed.

@stringisacrow5959

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe gotta think something big gets mad when you steal eggs the big screech afterwards warrants that the queen .ay have survived or there might have been more than one

@Anarkopsykotik

2 жыл бұрын

The "die like your mother did" hint Karl prolly killed a glyphid queen or smth

@LordVader1094

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anarkopsykotik THE Glyphid Queen.

Wait, I just hit player level 80, and under the Black Crag + Gloomstalker Mask Mk3 reward, there is a line of text that says "Black Crag - That place we no longer speak of, but all carry in our hearts. Honour. Courage. Death." Karl?

@boxofhammers1427

2 жыл бұрын

That's cool. Could be a future biome.

@OhNoTheFace

2 жыл бұрын

Now that is really interesting

@thatbritguy9261

Жыл бұрын

It may have been that the place was so bloody that management sealed it off and karl was the last one miner to die there?

@aech_two_oh

Жыл бұрын

maybe karl's pure badassery was too powerful for Black Crag and that's the huge section of the planet that's blown off, Hoxxes just couldn't handle Karl

@intCubito45

Жыл бұрын

Now with the "something" approaching Hoxxes, maybe Black Crag can be a new biome or something

Poor scout when he drank the beer, he just realized where their long lost friend was and was so ecstatic about it. Then the effect wore off

@xanmontes8715

6 ай бұрын

He what??

@JasperdenHertog

5 ай бұрын

@@xanmontes8715 7:44

@EchoBlossom059

20 күн бұрын

Not exactly ecstatic, I’d argue more frantic and panicked, as if though he knows that the realisation of Karl’s whereabouts is slowly slipping from his mind, as the drink wears off and he forgets what he was even talking about :0

For me Karl is the promoted and high level dwarf that helps new players with their missions. He always comes back for you when you go down and always gives a "Rock and Stone!" when you get back to the drop pod. But he inevitably disappears when the mission is over. Eventually we also become Karl and help new players when we become experts in the game. Helping those in memory of those who helped us.

@imcrowned2929

Жыл бұрын

like a spiritual collection of players who learn the ropes with the greats before them until they help the new players as the greats themselves

@tuttuti123

Жыл бұрын

holy shit then karl is a propaganda. Management knows Karl is alive. When the entire team go down, Karl is sent to their locations to help retrieve them back into the mining pod, hence why we end up in the sick bay each time. Maybe Karl is just left down on Hoxxes because he got some debt to pay, and it's a long debt.

@danielgoertz8962

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the REAL Karl were the friends we made along the way.

@maccer8330

Жыл бұрын

There's an achievement that says "Karl WOULD be proud" based on that, i think Karl already passed away.

@NieRAddict

Жыл бұрын

@@danielgoertz8962 i was gunna say this LOL thank you

I hope we get an ultra rare skin at some point called "Karl's axe" where instead of being a pick, it's a full blown hammer-axe combo

@mightiaskwhy5926

Жыл бұрын

There is a back blade called the "obsidian mallet" I think that is exactly what you're looking for.

@ajm2487

Жыл бұрын

@@mightiaskwhy5926 this would help my theory that he was a melee focused dwarf and that's why the beer that caused his downfall gives you more melee damage

@sethonslow7579

Жыл бұрын

That sounds badass

@jimmyford-hill1925

Жыл бұрын

I hope if in a new update you can in the hollow burrow your could find Karl

@jimmyford-hill1925

Жыл бұрын

Or Karl could still be soldiering on through the caves going full blown bear grills and going on a pickaxe rampage

I'm positive Karl is still in Hollow Bough, on very rare occasions in Hollow Bough, you can find these small dug up spaces of wood, it is not smooth like a cave, but rough, like it was mined with a pickaxe.

@crestfallensunbro6001

2 жыл бұрын

ive actualy seen one of those on a point extraction, looked like a little hut, too smooth to be player made, like it was made by someone with more time/skill than the players

@thomasfoster4370

Жыл бұрын

found one as well. it was like a small, cylindrical pit that opened out at the bottom. there was nothing down there but two errant chunks of red sugar. had to weather a swarm down there, praetorian clouds were only just avoided. unfortunately, I had to ruin the cylindrical hole in order to gain purchase to get out as I'm an engi main.

@saprasam

Жыл бұрын

every time i've seen one of these, there's been two pieces of red sugar as well

@wardenkarn1664

Жыл бұрын

Maybe in a future season we find either his remains or he comes home

@necfreon6259

Жыл бұрын

@@wardenkarn1664 him returning alive seems unlikely but then again karl is a badass so him probably being some glyphoidion Rambo whould be an interesting image to see

I like to believe Karl is the guy who sorts the minerals when Molly gets back

My favorite theory is that Karl stayed behind to take on a Glyphid Queen for his team to escape. Not even the playable dwarves, but simply an unrelated group. He was so well known within the company, everyone regarded him as a friend. His fate is unknown, we have no body of his.

My favorite Karl theory: Karl is responsible for the huge chunk of the crust of Hoxxes that has separated from the larger mass. He somehow did it using explosives in a battle with a Glyphid queen.

@oldmancorecentral

Жыл бұрын

What if the crazy little guy mined that chunk of straight off of the Hoxxes

@TKOfromJohn

Жыл бұрын

I heard that Karl killed 5 detonators at once with just his pickaxe... Drunk

@necfreon6259

Жыл бұрын

@@TKOfromJohn probably regular ones and they probably had to surround him and he did some kind of spinning attack or some shit but yeah seems legit

@christhe2dprotogen511

Жыл бұрын

@@TKOfromJohn I headed he did it after drinking a blackout stout And then he came back for seconds!

@Dinosaurisrex

Жыл бұрын

He probably put them on his hand like batman in Arkham Island while he fights joker.

One theory I've heard get tossed around that I didn't hear in the video was that Karl sacrificed himself in taking down some sort of Glyphid Queen, referring to the "Die like your mother did!" voiceline I believe GSG has already stated they don't want to actually add a proper queen into the game, so who knows

@Hagbarth_Fistforge

3 жыл бұрын

Aye, 'tis true that I knew Karl, but only barely. I was there, on the Space Rig, on that fateful day. The day we lost Karl. Have ye ever noticed how there's a big chunk of Hoxxes just floating there in space? Thanks to all his favorite brew, Skull Crusher ale, 'twas by Karl's mighty pickaxe he split Hoxxes in twain! Karl was part of the security detail escorting the survey team at the time. Keeping mind, this was in the early days! This was before we got that newfangled restitution-machinery in the med at and such! It seemed like a regular routine mission, with a few stray bugs here and there. But then all of a sudden, they were swarmed! It was almost like the beasts had been waiting to ambush the poor blokes! Karl and the others bravely stood their ground, until... She arrived! The Glyphid Queen herself attacked the group, but Karl was able to keep her at bay just long enough for the rest of the team to make good their escape. "I'll hold her off brothers, but this is good-bye!" he cried. The last thing we saw was Karl swinging his pickaxe into the Queens jaw with all of his might! That's when the very ground shook and we were forced to take off! We all mourned Karl that day, and haven't stopped since! He truly was the greatest of us. We never recovered Karl's body. Some true believers say he's still alive down there, somehow. Most of us have lost hope. We never recovered the body of the Queen either... Some say she's retreated to the depths. Waiting, watching, plotting her revenge... They say a dwarf dies twice. Once when his heart stops beating, and again when he's forgotten. As long as we remember him and tell his story, he will live on forever! ROCK & STONE

@gmacc9304

2 жыл бұрын

this theory is actualy quiet accurate... there is an existing in-game model for an acid spitter queen and it spawns in a lot of acid spitters... i think there are videos on yt

@vizthex

2 жыл бұрын

aw but a glyphid queen fight would be so cool!

@raptorpeep2622

2 жыл бұрын

@@vizthex imagine of the rival company takes data from the queens corpse and makes a copy? would be neat.

@15thTimeLord

2 жыл бұрын

Queen would be too strong, only an 8 man team with Karl at the head could ensure this.

I always interpreted "all beat your record this time" as being about Karl. My personal theory is that Karl was an early member of DRG who went back to save a teammate but didn't get back to the shuttle. Considering what a bad ass he is, I could see him still being alive somewhere on the planet, especially considering how many materials are left behind by the Dwarves and Rival tech.

"Every monster they kill is in revenge of *a* Karl" Karl can refer to fallen brothers, as well as the man himself

@jetpilledmyron2056

3 ай бұрын

In any case, grudges requires to be settled. And there are many grudges at large

That Jacob sounds like a funny guy. Also, can't wait for the follow-up "The mystery of Unkarr".

@Germinator08

2 жыл бұрын

Literally the official ghost ship games comments on this video AND NOONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT

@TheTrashman9

2 жыл бұрын

@@Germinator08 ikr? Also can you imagine if Karl could just appear in missions like the mysterious stranger from fallout? Imagine a pissed off dwarf just stage diving one of your objectives when you aren't looking. Like a Dreadnought egg on the other side of the map is just completed out of nowhere, with just destruction left behind. Dwarves never die.

@Germinator08

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheTrashman9 imagine if during a deep dive your objective is to retrieve all the missing parts that karl died with during a mission And all the while you were being haunted by Karl's ghost

@ToxicBastard

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheTrashman9 Imagine mission control announces a swarm/dread and before it hits he congratulates you for killing them so fast of gets confused as blips just vanish nowhere near you. Hell even finding caverns with green blood and scorch marks everywhere would be cool.

@TheTrashman9

2 жыл бұрын

@@ToxicBastard yea, you should never actually see Karl. Just see where he's been

I know this is out there, but I love to imagine that Karl was presumed dead after being left behind on a mission, but is actually still alive down there on Hoxxes. He's established an enclave of left-behind Bosco and BET-C units and continues to thrive down there to this day, the Lost King of Hoxxes.

@spectralaria8648

3 жыл бұрын

He would probably have to leech off of resupplys teams leave behind to have enough ammo.

@marcotruschel9427

3 жыл бұрын

just eating the fungi in fungus bogs for years and years

@aarepelaa1142

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcotruschel9427 MMMM glyphid omelettes and red salt

@darrakg6183

3 жыл бұрын

@@spectralaria8648 Karl was rumored to only use his pickaxe, so maybe he just eats glyphid grunts and hunts praetorians for fun.

@cyceryx

2 жыл бұрын

My theory is that he's the reason that Hoxxes has a giant hole on its side. Skull Crusher Ale's description says that it was a part of what made Karl so legendary. Skull Crusher Ale increases your pickaxe damage, which means that it is entirely possible that Karl chugged like 20 thousand of them and smashed Hoxxes in half. He wouldn't have passed out from the drunkenness, because he is known to also have been a legendary drinker who could withstand just about any amount of beer. He might have been part of the only operation that DRG sent to explore the core, but the drop pod was destroyed by creatures far more dangerous than what we see, and DRG was forced to leave Karl behind.

Imagine in Season Four, there’s a new mission called Search and Rescue, basically Salvage but you have to find a lost dwarf instead of mini mules. Mission completion voicelines like “We’ll find you Karl!”.

@vejaskunigelis1263

11 ай бұрын

Fun but not sense making. Hard to program and would ruin the games atmosphere and vibe.

@blehh_mae

10 ай бұрын

@@vejaskunigelis1263 how would it ruin the atmosphere or vibe, also it makes sense, who knows how many dwarves have been left behind or failed to get to the drop pod, and maybe their suit sensors can be seen by mission control every so often or there can generally be high hopes that a dwarf who was left behind is alive and they send you to rescue them etc the only way itd ruin the vibe is if the dwarf you find can shoot and make it so you have a 5th dwarf which is obviously not meant to be, but they can just make him unarmed (since they lost their gear, and the players cant lend theirs) or something

@xjammy3315

10 ай бұрын

⁠@@vejaskunigelis1263how would it be hard to program? As far as I know you could take the mini mules search and replace the mini mules with the dwarf, which could just be a model of the first version of any of the classes. As well, you have the dwarf act like bosco where it will follow you and help you mine, but couldn’t help you in fighting, like a protect NPC in an open world rpg game. The hard part would be getting voice acting.

@randomdude-tk6nm

9 ай бұрын

I'd like to think that sometimes instead of a dwarf it turns out being a skeleton, and then the completion for the primary objective ends right there and you can call the drop pod.

@anacondacomplex

7 ай бұрын

​​@@xjammy3315I sort of agree that it ruins the atmosphere But I kind of like the idea, only instead of the awake Dwarf following you, it's a knocked out dwarf the team has to carry on the shoulder all the way to the drop pod (a la Doretta head style)+(maybe get the drop pod near or give extended time for the mission) That would also work for the humor of the game Imagine the laughs of throwing a knocked out dwarf at each other 😅

I was always told that Karl was an homage to a real life fan that was terminally ill. Guess the legend goes even deeper than I thought

There's a theory that Karl was a "Generic Hero", not in the sense that he was a literal generic hero of his day though. Back in the early builds of DRG, there was a Dev class known as "Generic Hero", which was equipped with every Class weapon and tool for testing purposes primarily. However, the existence of Generic Hero's concept lends credence to the idea that Karl's effectiveness as a Miner could be attributed to such feats hypothetically.

there's a cut dwarf voice line saying "Don't leave me like you left karl!", the string can still be found but I swear I heard it in-game... I just can't seem to find it anymore.

@maxgrouch9706

3 жыл бұрын

Jeez that's exactly what they've done to Kerrigan in Starcraft II - left her alone on a mission. I wonder if Karl went deeper into the planet than anyone ever before and found out something, that he shouldn't have, and then was left alone to his death by the management. Then they probably came up with some heroic story on how Karl died to tell it to other dwarfs.

@declicitous1763

2 жыл бұрын

@@maxgrouch9706 why do I have a feeling that thing he shouldn’t have found was something like a DRG glyphid incubator to kill the dwarves? Idk just speculation

@FlameJackstar

2 жыл бұрын

@@declicitous1763 "The company needs eggs. Alien eggs. Don't ask why."

@karagongro-malog

2 жыл бұрын

He found the glyphid queen. Management were deliberately feeding her dwarves in the form of miners so she could breed.

@FlameJackstar

2 жыл бұрын

@@karagongro-malog Next season will be "Glyphid Prime" and will be heavily inspired by a certain Nintendo franchise.

I absolutely love little lore bits like this. Things that are referenced in the background but aren't ever officially explained. Leads to a lot of interesting community discussion

I kinda wish there was a theory that the mission control announcer guy was one of Karls friends and when he returned from a mission once without Karl. He decided to make a more permanent version of the smart stout... in order to forget the pain of loosing his friend. The reason for his grumpy behaviour being the fact that Karl was just like the rest of the dwarfs and always liked to mess around with not only the mission control and other staff that doesn't work on-field, but also to kill time, while waiting for a new mission.

There are lines about how it would be really bad if any of the Dreadnoaughts managed to develope past larval stage, but we never see any of these beasts, almost as if they were killed off. There's also the line "Die like your mother did". And the distant roars that echo through the caverns when you seperate an egg from it's incubation during egg missions. My theory is that Karl straight up sacrificed himself to kill the Glyphid Queen.

@petrusv8752

Жыл бұрын

to add to the theory, the glyphid eggs we steal cant be for regular glyphids as there arent enough, they arent for dreadnoughts cause the organic material surrounding it is not blue and the egg is smaller. the eggs we steal, with no information as to why they are wanted (even management doesnt know) are most likely glyphid queen candidate eggs.

@SollidnitrogeN

Жыл бұрын

@@petrusv8752 There is actually an implication that the Glyphid eggs are used for omelets in the cafeteria. It's also possible that we only see different stages of egg development, with the colors shifting from pink and green to blue and brownish-red, almost like the ripening of fruit. Although, one counterargument to this would be the cluster sizes. Dreadnought eggs come in a range of around 1-3, whereas the delivery eggs come in groups around 4-6. Perhaps the green eggs are for Praetorians.

@arvidhansen5892

Жыл бұрын

@@SollidnitrogeN or maybe eggs hatch at different points in growth due to some reason.

@SollidnitrogeN

Жыл бұрын

@@arvidhansen5892 That would actually make the most sense, since typically breaking open an egg before it fully develops would just kill the creature inside, but we see that dreadnoughts do just fine after being forced out

@reidepperson8534

10 ай бұрын

Pretty solid theory

*"And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts. And I looked, and behold a pale horse. And his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed him."*

@spectralaria8648

3 жыл бұрын

Actually his name was Karl. Close enough.

@surotto4321

3 жыл бұрын

This is a quote combining half of verses 6 and 8 from revelation chapter 6 of the Bible, can i ask why you took and combined these verses and then decided to comment them here?

@flowepower3000

3 жыл бұрын

@@surotto4321 ... It's the description of mk4 gunner armor

@surotto4321

3 жыл бұрын

@@flowepower3000 oh, my bad G

@Sorain1

2 жыл бұрын

@@flowepower3000 It's also the last spoken line after a Johnny Cash song. ( 'The Man comes around' to be specific.)That's where I recognized it from. (since it's two separate verses.) Edit: link kzread.info/dash/bejne/nJ2aw7CxoZqvd5s.html

I love deep rock galactic soooooo much, great video

@liluzibert5685

Жыл бұрын

super cool vid 😎

@liluzibert5685

Жыл бұрын

deep rock galactic is so cool

@brycegalster8604

Жыл бұрын

My dream is to find Karl and get 1000 hours in drg

Bringing the 'true crime video essay' vibe to deep rock is a bold move and i'm very here for it

I hope Karl is still down there alive, just like some powerful dwarf mining hermit. Waiting for the day his brothers eventually find him and bring him back. Rock and Stone

@windbeneathmywings4884

3 жыл бұрын

I once overheard an old beard at the bar speak of Karl. Said something about how hes down there making something of an army with all the lost BET-C's DRG has left abandoned down there, taking the fight to the bugs as he marches toward the core. Just a rumor im afraid, but i wouldn't put it past him.

@Charles-1

3 жыл бұрын

@@windbeneathmywings4884 I'm really curious who the bet-c dives with. I'm no greenbeard and I've never had one go down with me. So who do they go with ?

@niuskay2nd590

3 жыл бұрын

I don't think Karl is alive, how could he fight endless waves of bugs without ammo and survive without food/water?

@Charles-1

3 жыл бұрын

@@niuskay2nd590 Karl is the best of us. I know you doubt him but even then he will be with you. What would Karl say?

@danielllitpek2014

3 жыл бұрын

@@niuskay2nd590 Well for food, he does have the bugs, I bet you can so something with that. And for water he could just melt the ice and purify the water in the glacial strata. Am could be found in lost packs or he could have an improvised bow made from materials in other biomes. On paper, he could have everything he needs to survive, it's just a question of "is it enough?"

I like to think Karl hasn’t died because dwarfs never die. He’s still down there and I like to think he tamed a swarm of bugs and rides a dreadnought to battle.

@sethonslow7579

Жыл бұрын

He takes care of all the steeves left behind by the dwarves

@albearmistizio

10 ай бұрын

​@@sethonslow7579I have separation anxiety whenever I tame one

@rdproductions517

8 ай бұрын

Dwarfs never die they just go MIA

@darthmaul7434

6 ай бұрын

So he became the Doom Slayer

a small detail you left out is that, rarely, you can find small bunkers carved into the rock with a few red sugar crystals lying inside, suggesting somebody is still 'living rent free' in Hoxxes. As well, the Glyphids are seemingly scattered, as they wander around in swarms, and the dwarves say "die like ya motha did!" when they kill a glyphid with their pickaxe

Imagine a future season comes along, and Karl returns from Hoxxes alive. He doesn’t appear in-game, but the intel he brought back tells of a great threat, perhaps a fully developed dreadnaught hiding in the depths

this could be a crazy in game event one day, like an elite dive to save karl

@TheCatIsAMonster

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but then it’d kinda ruin the whole Karl voicelines

@JagEterCoola

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCatIsAMonster Dunno, "For Karl!" Stops being for revenge, and starts being a declaration of victory instead.

@benjapizarro981

2 жыл бұрын

a massive 20 man operation to save karl

@TarsonTalon

2 жыл бұрын

I think a good troll is a pro player in bug armor joining random games in progress with the name 'Karl'.

@Elysia119

2 жыл бұрын

or even better and lore friendly, and dont fuck up the cuntinuity to maybe retrieve his remains with a plot twist at the end? (some random ideas like he was the one who after getting lost found the rival-incursion guys, or he was behind it or idk, really anything alond these lines would be nice)

Karl would approve of this video.

@darealkinglouie7545

2 жыл бұрын

DEEP ROCK GALACTIC(us miners) thanks you for your service. Though we are all brothers on the surface of Hoaaxes, is Karl your brother?

Actually I have some things to say about Karl Being Mission Control My theory is that Karl was indeed lost for a while but was recovered by the higher ups and was rapidly promoted for his efficiency. Karl was overjoyed about this and would want to tell the rest, but seeing how much his "Death" changed Deep Rock for the better. He made the tough decision of dawning a façade. The higher ups agree it's better for their image (Both Karl and Deep Rock's). He actively tells the group off for goofing around the station (Maybe afraid that they'll grow reckless and end up like him) He never grows to despise the group despite them showing a disliking to Mission Control. He gets a bit worried when a swarm arrives. He gives speeches for the crew when they get promotions (He's really proud). He sounds morel like a parent scolding their child when barrels are kicked around. The reason they don't recognize Karl is mixture of a few things. 1. They think Karl has been long dead, so no point in asking 2. The radio causes enough distortion for his voice to sound different enough. 3. Karl is speaking differently. Of course all just hypothesizing. It's a lot more likely that Karl is just some fake dude that they made up so the dwarves feel like they have something worth fighting for.

@randomhandle111

10 ай бұрын

Considering that the dwarves knew Karl personally the idea that hes made up makes zero sense

I think the reason why everyone loves Karl so much is because he was playing the role of a medic

@vincentcledric5598

Ай бұрын

FINALY ANOTHER PERSON WITH THIS THEORY

I love to think that Karl was a Steeve, maybe the first. The mining team refused to let him go and brought him on the space rig, much to management's annoyance (hence why there aren't any bugs allowed on the space rig). I would imagine the dwarves would give Karl beer, like the slayer stout, making him incredibly powerful. Also it sort-of explains how dwarves under the effects of smart stout know where he is, because he would still have the instincts of other bugs and could possibly be tracked following stuff like migration patterns and he would survive much longer than dwarves being an inhabitant of Hoxxes.

@lordcommissarspartan

3 жыл бұрын

That's actually an interesting theory.

@koalabro6118

3 жыл бұрын

My most desired theory is that Karl is alive, and eats Glyphid omelets to keep himself going, and that we'll be able to start hunting him down in rescue missions. They would always turn up fruitless of course, but the Interplanetary Miners Union demands that DRG start searching for survivors, Karl included. This is a close second.

@Catflavor

2 жыл бұрын

I've wondered if Karl came before Steeve too! Wondered if the first bond was the strongest. That losing him was the hardest. That Steeving is different, is less ...

@RazmikZ

2 жыл бұрын

I’m doubtful because he’s refered as a colleague and someone who wore clothing n stuff.

@stringisacrow5959

2 жыл бұрын

@@RazmikZ you can put hats on dogs you could more or likely do so to bugs

I'm betting he was the first dwarf to start his own underground Burger King and when getting trapped on the planet he went on to create delicious Burger King meals for other dwarfs left behind. He's living his dreams out there on Hoxxes.

The theory I like the most is on a mission down to hollow bough Karl stumbled upon an odd cave. Non of the dwarves had ever seen any cave like it. It looked like a sort of nest that was big enough to be it’s own separate cave system. The others remained focused on the mission first while Karl being a legend decided to go into the cave to see if he could discover what made it so odd looking. Little did he know he was about to change missions (and hoxxes) forever causing dwarves to have to arm themselves like it was D-day if they wanted to survive a mission. Upon entering he discovers a glyphid that was just absolutely huge! We’re talking bigger then a caretaker or any dreadnought you’ve ever scene. Maybe even as big as the space rig itself. The brood mother. She was not happy to see an invader in her nest. She began to hunt Karl down like a blood hound. Karl ran as fast as he can firing back whenever he had an extra second or two to spare. He ran back to the others while shouting “CALL IN THE DROP POD!!!” The others scared out of their minds wondering why a legend like Karl would be so scared to want to call the drop pod early. Without a second thought scout relayed a message to mission control (using his AR headset) telling mission control to send down the drop pod. Mission control at first said not until the mission is done but then he heard the brood mother roaring in the back ground. Without thinking twice he immediately ordered an emergency drop pod to be sent at once for immediate evacuation. Karl regrouped with the others and they began taking turns hitting the brood mother where it hurts. After about four minutes the drop pod finally arrives. First driller gets to the drop pod. Then engineer after packing his shit in. Then gunner starts firing on the brood mother while getting in the drop pod. Gunner yells to scout and Karl to get in. Karl sees that the brood mother is getting weak but scout doesn’t. Karl continues to fight right as a swarm of almost every glyphid and mactera you’ve ever scene arrives. Thousands of them coming in through the ceiling begin to swarm to Karl. Scout gets scared and grapples to the drop pod and lands against the others. When scout comes to a few seconds after he sees Karl beginning to run out of bullets. Scouts shouts to Karl to get to the drop pod but Karl refuses. He knows he can kill the brood mother. After about 10 seconds the drop pod starts getting attacked by glyphids and they begin to damage it. Mission control sees that they can’t leave the pod there any longer and pulls the four out of there… leaving Karl behind. Right as the exterior door begins to close scout sees Karl wind up his pickaxe to finish her off and right when he connects there’s a large explosion. And right before the door fully shuts something of Karl’s flys through the grate hitting scout in the face. A single gold chunk said to be used in making the gold pickaxe in his statue. Scout is traumatized by what he saw which is why he’s more scared when diving into a mission then the others. They were still knocked out from scout hitting them so they never saw what happened. After the death of the brood mother the glyphids become more and more hostile after most of them being awoken from there slumber. Forcing dwarves to better arm themselves with advanced and unstable weaponry. Hoxxes would never be the same. With the body never being found due to a cave in which was caused by the explosion there’s no telling if Karl is alive or dead. His armour was said to be the toughest amour in existence being capable of withstanding just about anything. Allowing him to go toe to toe with bulks even. With this said he could still be alive. At times in various caves if you’re lucky enough you can find pieces of scarp that Karl may have used to try and survive down there. Maybe he’s still in the nest. But may he forever be in our hearts.

@turtleboi456

6 ай бұрын

beautiful story

I like to think that one day a dwarf made up a story about an imaginary hero named Karl, and everyone else just went along with it and it’s all just a big inside joke

You didn’t mention a super important part. The deep dive flavour text for the salt pits can say that “leave no dwarf behind” originated from there

Another one for that propaganda one; there is a deposit voice line that is along the lines of “I swear I’ll beat your record this time” which would fit the idea that Karl gained fame by doing unnatural amounts of mining, since no matter how many things the player mines they will still say that line

@Shad0wBoxxer

2 жыл бұрын

Hes the one who mined all the gold with no pick axe

@likehowdudehelp

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shad0wBoxxer Fucking *_what_*

I really like to think that Karl was a knife ear, but was such a good miner and could handle his beer so well, DRG just let him work for them

@markhirsch6301

3 күн бұрын

There's a dwarf fortress story that goes something like that

6:10 here's what I think happened: Karl and his team were strapped for ammo and were making their way through extraction. His team was in danger of being killed, so he decided to stay behind on purpose to fight off the glyphids for as long as he could to buy the rest of his crew time to escape

if DRG gets a campaign Karl would have to be the protagonist

@spectralaria8648

3 жыл бұрын

And in the end he betrays you and tries to stop DRG from exploiting the planet (which is making the bugs angry)

@DixieSchizo

3 жыл бұрын

@@spectralaria8648 gay

@sketchpad7116

2 жыл бұрын

@@spectralaria8648 Na it should be a sad ending, where he dies, or something similar, to save your team, so every time your dwarves mention him, it's sad

@BobbinRobbin777

2 жыл бұрын

@@sketchpad7116 maybe he sacrifices himself by exploding a nuke on the (previous) biggest bug infestation on the planet (maybe a massive nest) and have it be revealed that that said infestation later became the massive chunk of rock that exploded from hoxxes.

@MyUsersDark

Күн бұрын

@@sketchpad7116 similar to Bill from Left 4 dead

I feel like Karl is a dwarf because if you look at the memorial hall there are 5 dwarfs. Scout, Driller, Engineer, and Gunner, then theres a 5th one that looks like the scout but has the engineer shotgun. Back in early versions of the game there was a 5th dwarf for the devs that had all the equipment that the dwarves had. This dwarf had everything but then they stopped using it after a while. I have a feeling that when they stopped using this dwarf who might be named a Karl they added in the voice lines for the dwarvs remembering Karl. Then also the random lost mining gear you find in caves that has cosmetics, Karl had drip and I feel like this lost mining gear was stuff he had. It all makes sence that Karl was a dev tool and the fact he was such a great worker was probably from having access to everyones gear. Just my own theory tho.

@Real_RUBB3R

Жыл бұрын

Interesting theory, but doesn't seem very plausible. I don't think it's very likely that the devs added a voice line specifically for this dev-dwarf they used for testing purposes or whatnot, they likely just had the voice lines made on the spot and it ended up being turned into a whole thing

Karl was just a homie I love it. I just started playing this 2 weeks ago and I've rarely set it down. What a masterpiece

Karl will never die so long as he is remembered. He's the badass dwarf that dwells within all of us. Rock and stone, brothers!

I really like the mystery and legend of Karl, what few pieces we do have. I hope that the devs expand on it, but also that the mystery is never "solved". Karl is just this amazing super-dwarf somewhere on Hoxxes, probably making beer out of dreadnaught piss and breeder eggs. Edit: Maybe Karl is why we find beer materials growing all over the different biomes

@lancejobs

Жыл бұрын

Karl Starchnut... Leaving a trail deeper into the planet.

@thomasfoster4370

Жыл бұрын

nah. Cultivating plants is a knife-ear activity, fermentable or no. Karl would never do that.

@Definitely_not_ai

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasfoster4370 how would we make the fine dwarven beer without a bit of gardening

Some say the exploded part of Hoxxes was caused by the final showdown between Karl and 3 different queens. Others say it was 5 queens.

@Dimitri9511

3 жыл бұрын

Other theory would be that Karl make the crater of hoxxes while fighting those dreadnought.

@Hagbarth_Fistforge

3 жыл бұрын

Aye, 'tis true that I knew Karl, but only barely. I was there, on the Space Rig, on that fateful day. The day we lost Karl. Have ye ever noticed how there's a big chunk of Hoxxes just floating there in space? Thanks to all his favorite brew, Skull Crusher ale, 'twas by Karl's mighty pickaxe he split Hoxxes in twain! Karl was part of the security detail escorting the survey team at the time. Keeping mind, this was in the early days! This was before we got that newfangled restitution-machinery in the med at and such! It seemed like a regular routine mission, with a few stray bugs here and there. But then all of a sudden, they were swarmed! It was almost like the beasts had been waiting to ambush the poor blokes! Karl and the others bravely stood their ground, until... She arrived! The Glyphid Queen herself attacked the group, but Karl was able to keep her at bay just long enough for the rest of the team to make good their escape. "I'll hold her off brothers, but this is good-bye!" he cried. The last thing we saw was Karl swinging his pickaxe into the Queens jaw with all of his might! That's when the very ground shook and we were forced to take off! We all mourned Karl that day, and haven't stopped since! He truly was the greatest of us. We never recovered Karl's body. Some true believers say he's still alive down there, somehow. Most of us have lost hope. We never recovered the body of the Queen either... Some say she's retreated to the depths. Waiting, watching, plotting her revenge... They say a dwarf dies twice. Once when his heart stops beating, and again when he's forgotten. As long as we remember him and tell his story, he will live on forever! ROCK & STONE

@zombieranger3410

3 жыл бұрын

OH SHIT I just remembered the dwarves do yell “Die like your mother did!” which REALLY could mean Karl met his fate killing *the* queen, I always just imagined it like ant colonies with multiple queens. Hoxxes is a full planet so that queen must’ve been Godzilla-sized. Maybe one day we’ll get a DLC to re-live Karl’s final mission, some sort of nuke escort followed by a last stand.

@surotto4321

3 жыл бұрын

@@zombieranger3410 i feel like this theory is most likely to be true out of all the ones ive read under this comment section

@cyceryx

2 жыл бұрын

My theory is that Karl is the reason that Hoxxes has a giant hole on its side. Skull Crusher Ale's description says that it was a part of what made Karl so legendary. Skull Crusher Ale increases your pickaxe damage, which means that it is entirely possible that Karl chugged like 20 thousand of them and smashed Hoxxes in half. He wouldn't have passed out from the drunkenness, because he is known to also have been a legendary drinker who could withstand just about any amount of beer. He might have been part of the only operation that DRG sent to explore the core, but the drop pod was destroyed by creatures far more dangerous than what we see, and DRG was forced to leave Karl behind.

That is some SICK scout gameplay! Not since a Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon have I seen someone throw something really hard forward, and the move fast enough to be there and catch it when it comes down! Rock and Stone, brother!!

I think Karl was the first ever dwarf who died or got left behind on Hoxxes, sacrificing himself for his team as they barely made it away from the unknown danger in the caves, and he is the dwarf in the middle of the hall of remembrance.

Karl probs thought the buff beers stacked and drank like 10 and went alone on a elimination and never came back making drg require to let you know they don't stack

Imo Karl was one of the first dwarves to dive into hoxxies (in this theory im assuming DRG existed pretty much as we know it before going to hoxxies), on one of the early missions him and his team encounter a fully grown dreadnaught (or possibly a gliphid queen) Karl after a few skull crusher ales managed to defeat the colossal threat in melee combat, buying his team time to escape but in so doing sacrificed himself. As for how the playable dwarves know Karl i dont think they actually met him, but instead heard stories from older dwarves about him and his exploits. this would explain the idealised view the dwarves have of him, as well as his position as somewhat of a folk hero among the dwarves. the reason i dont think the dwarves were present for Karls exploits is the deep dive description "This is the kind of place *they say* we lost Karl" the uncertainty here subjects that the dwarves (who seem to be the ones passing comment on the biomes in the descriptions from their more casual tone) only heard of Karls' story rather than witnessing it themselves.

@justafurrywithinternet317

Жыл бұрын

Sounds reasonable.

@milesmitchell8085

Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget the dwarves we play have been hired recently by DRG after the tutorial mission

@motivatedman9730

Жыл бұрын

I would love a story assignement in drg where we meet the dwarves that were with karl during his final mission like one was a new employee when it happened and now is obsessed with finding him like hes his idol, one of them quit drg after the incident and now drinks till hes k.o to cope with the lost of Karl (he was his best friend) and the others i dunno

@charnor2727

Жыл бұрын

​@@motivatedman9730the third one just keeps throwing himself into the thick of swarms, trying to take as many bugs as he can in retribution for Karl.

I think that Karl is the statue in the center of the memorial hall. He is obviously a fallen dwarf, but in the list of fallen dwarves, the closest thing to his name is Karl9, who is obviously a player. As he is a pretty epic dwarf, the reason he isn't on the list may be because they built him a statue instead.

my friends just got me incredibly hooked onto DRG, so seeing this and wanting to watch more of ANYTHING about it, is so awesome, so thanks

I’ve heard the dwarves say their grandparents “used actual mules” so I’m hoping for a line that says “my grandpa knew Karl!” Or something like that.

@robbanks7483

2 жыл бұрын

that's the reference to project dwarka

@hishamjalal9078

Жыл бұрын

@@robbanks7483 reference to your mom

We hear the same question often repeated: "Who was Karl?", "What happened to him?", "What did he do?". We ought not remember Karl for who he was nor for what he accomplished. As that would not be like him. Nor should we ever remember the fallen for their fall. We ought to remember Karl for what he stood for.

It's interesting that in the end Ghost ship added a voice line when tagging a cave leach saying-"THAT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT KILLED KARL!". Still it's really interesting to see this video from the perspective of knowing and still learning new stuff! Great work

@capofantasma97

Жыл бұрын

There's no such line, nor anything that mentions Karl in the context of cave leeches.

@qwerty-bm5gx

Жыл бұрын

​@@capofantasma97 Kinda late but as you know Season 3 added a bunch of new voice lines to the game, specifically lines for the Cave Leech. They say stuff when killing one and pinging it has one voice line that goes "10 credits say it was one of those tentacly things that got Karl!" so... yeah...

@penultimateApogee

Жыл бұрын

@@qwerty-bm5gx it sounds to me like the dwarf is making a bet/guess that Karl was killed by a cave leech, not stating authoritatively that they know he died to one.

I like to believe that Karl and his Crew had a run in with a matured Dreadnought and Karl stayed behind to fend it off so his team could escape.

I hope they start adding little things to the missions to hint at him recently being there, maybe a couple already dead bugs and a camp site, or even little footprints.

@sketchpad7116

2 жыл бұрын

That would be sick

Even I knew Karl, what a dwarf he was!

@BobbinRobbin777

2 жыл бұрын

the ultimate crossover.

I'd like to think that Karl is still alive and is now basically wandering through the caverns of Hoxxes, living off of the carcasses of dead creatures and plants and having adopted a couple Glyphids as pets. Maybe he tamed a dreadnought and is using it as a sort of horse that can dig. Would honestly be in line with his description.

Karl could've had the helmet you can find in mission as the "Lost Helmet", with which you can get resources and a cosmetic

@seekervaltriz9447

3 ай бұрын

Some of the voicelines after discovering the equipment imply it was a greenbeard who died. Plus he'd need to have a lot of helmets if it's all Karl's.

I'd like to imagine he was just a normal ass dwarf that enlisted, and ended up blowing a chunk off of Hoxxes IV out of sheer force of will while fighting some huge monster

@Hagbarth_Fistforge

3 жыл бұрын

Aye, 'tis true that I knew Karl, but only barely. I was there, on the Space Rig, on that fateful day. The day we lost Karl. Have ye ever noticed how there's a big chunk of Hoxxes just floating there in space? Thanks to all his favorite brew, Skull Crusher ale, 'twas by Karl's mighty pickaxe he split Hoxxes in twain! Karl was part of the security detail escorting the survey team at the time. Keeping mind, this was in the early days! This was before we got that newfangled restitution-machinery in the med at and such! It seemed like a regular routine mission, with a few stray bugs here and there. But then all of a sudden, they were swarmed! It was almost like the beasts had been waiting to ambush the poor blokes! Karl and the others bravely stood their ground, until... She arrived! The Glyphid Queen herself attacked the group, but Karl was able to keep her at bay just long enough for the rest of the team to make good their escape. "I'll hold her off brothers, but this is good-bye!" he cried. The last thing we saw was Karl swinging his pickaxe into the Queens jaw with all of his might! That's when the very ground shook and we were forced to take off! We all mourned Karl that day, and haven't stopped since! He truly was the greatest of us. We never recovered Karl's body. Some true believers say he's still alive down there, somehow. Most of us have lost hope. We never recovered the body of the Queen either... Some say she's retreated to the depths. Waiting, watching, plotting her revenge... They say a dwarf dies twice. Once when his heart stops beating, and again when he's forgotten. As long as we remember him and tell his story, he will live on forever! ROCK & STONE

@merrick5525

2 жыл бұрын

Or he mined a chunk of hoxxes out of existence and then got killed by a glyphid edit: there's a chunk of hoxxes floating in space so i'm guessing not

@PakistaniGoatMilker94

2 жыл бұрын

The Doom slayer of dwarves

@cyceryx

2 жыл бұрын

Skull Crusher Ale's description says that it was part of what made Karl so legendary, and it increases your pickaxe damage, so it's entirely possible that Karl chugged like 20 thousand of them and smashed Hoxxes in half.

I personally think it would be really cool of the devs were to implement a giant community event where some sort of queen or fully developed dreadnought had to be fought and the just went wild for the max player count, like 50 or something for that mission and the last phase of the boss you have to use the pickaxe to break its shell or something but then there is a massive wave of damage but you hear a very distinct "ROCK AND STONE" and Karl pops out of the depths to deliver the final blow

@DatBoiChucklez

Жыл бұрын

Dope idea

@drakewingcopperheart2533

Жыл бұрын

Or he emerges midfight and you fight alongside him

@hishamjalal9078

Жыл бұрын

what makes you think the game can support up to 50 simultaneous players? heck even 10 players are too much. the idea sounds kinda cheesy and breaks the whole mystery surrounding Karl.

@PaulJohnarthan

Жыл бұрын

ok

@drakewingcopperheart2533

Жыл бұрын

@@hishamjalal9078 You can't say that fighting a giant boss with a company of players doesn't sound awesome tho

Your channel deserves so much more attention.

Awesome video! Keep up the good work!

The mystery of the machine pressed burger king chicken fries

@samuraidog1510

3 жыл бұрын

true

@crazylegs299

3 жыл бұрын

H A M B U R G E R C H E E S E B U R G E R B I G M A C W H O P P E R

@cakes1831

3 жыл бұрын

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My theory is that Karl went back to save his team, only to have the extraction pod slam its door shut before he could get on himself. So no one actually saw him die, but management left him behind.

A few words about Aleksey Stakhanov. Didn`t expect to hear about him in this video, that was a nice touch. I have some rumors about him from my grandfather who was a miner in Donetsk. As he said, Aleksey was just lucky enough to mine a big soft seam of coal so it didn`t took too long to overdo his daily plan. Obviously, he also worked with the team (and yes, his achievment isn`t a propaganda) Also we talked about stakhanovites. (bit funny to hear this pronouncement, in russian it sounds like "Stahanovtsi" (Стахановцы)) He mentioned there was no anvy in the working teams. Most of the stakhanovites spent a decent part of their raised salary for their teams buying anything they needed for the moment, from radios to drinks. So, there is it. Thank you, sniss, for the vodeo, and thank YOU for reading this comment.

I would LOVE if somehow Karl was still alive down there in Hoxxes' core. Maybe in the future the devs could leave salvaged encampment remains and clues about Karl's whereabouts in new biomes to give clues about his story

The look on my customers face when they ask me "what's that for" and I say "it's for Karl" Priceless

My theory has always been the Karl was part of one of the first missions, and that he killed the Glyphyd Queen. The line "Die like your mother did" seems to confirm that she's dead, and Karl being the one who killed her in a self-sacrifice, maybe with an antimatter bomb that ripped off a chunk of Hoxxes, is too cool not to believe. Maybe he survived, maybe he didn't - and the Dwarves raise their pickaxes so in the off-chance that Karl hears their voices echoing through the caves, he may finally find a way home.

Tbh I love the theory about dwarves being cloned from Karl, because it instantly makes me think of how the leagues of votann from warhammer 40k procreate, even though it's slightly different.

Was bored at work and stumbled across this video. I'm enjoying DRG and I also enjoyed your video.

Karl was a janitor on the space rig, I thought this was common knowledge

@gryphonkingbros847

3 жыл бұрын

BLASPHEMY!!

@armintor2826

3 жыл бұрын

Only the bravest and most suicidal will volunteer to clean the toilets after mactera brew night

@MartianMoon

3 жыл бұрын

Source?

@aarepelaa1142

3 жыл бұрын

@@MartianMoon got it from the river 200m that way - - - - >

@thecatpersonuk9962

2 жыл бұрын

@@armintor2826 or ‘the incident’

Had a deep dive in the salt pits that read "Leave no dwarf behind." stems from this biome. So if Karl really was the first on Hoxxes AND the first to be left behind (though not very presumable), his last known location would be there.

You have a real talent with making this video, Bro. Brilliant editing.

@sniss

2 ай бұрын

thanks!

Great video man!

Perhaps Karl wasn't some legendary dwarf, but simply a good friend of everyone at DRG, and met his end in Hoxxes. And everyone does what they're doing for him.

Karl is the lost miner, change my mind. No one else could justify leaving behind so much gear in every damn cave on the planet, or could be so legendary to just be leaving cosmetics on the ground.

@kedarunzi9139

2 жыл бұрын

Karl is running around naked canon confirmed

Amazing video fam, congrats

I believe karl was similar to Stanislaus Katczinsky(AKA Kat) from the book/movie all quiet on the western front. He was an older mentor figure and friend to the current team of dwarves back when they were still fresh-faced recruits, and after teaching them all he could, he would ultimately sacrifice himself for the sake of his comrades wich is why every bug they kill is killed "for karl."

Theory: Karl was a friend of the DEVs who never believed the game would be finished and hence avoided getting involved in game development. Or has passed away.

@streamyspy4673

Жыл бұрын

i like the idea of it :D

Great video man! ROCK AND STONE! I have a feeling that Karl may have played a mentoring role to the playable dwarves when they first started diving into Hoxxes IV. I bet he was, like you said in the video, part of (and maybe the last of) the first teams that went down there. They looked up to him and his skill and in turn he got more and more confidant in showing off during missions, as you do as a dwarf with all the sick moves. That's what led to the unfortunate Skull Crusher Ale incident. He bit off a bit more than he could chew and got swamped during an escape sequence. I don't think they would willingly leave him behind but when that timer runs out, not even Karl got an exception. "No Dwarf Left Behind" and the constant toasts are a reminder to never let that happen again. If management wont wait for us than we get each other back one way or another, like Karl would have wanted! My little added theory is that Karl was a Gunner and the player character in the tutorial is the recent replacement for Karl's former team.

The beginning of this is S-tier filmmaking. Well done sir

@thefilmjerk901

Жыл бұрын

The rest is great too

I one day wanna see like a sort of story moment for the game, where we get to actually play as Karl, sending the drop pod early without him to get his team out, its basically that "SURVIVE" section in Halo Reach but in a dark cave slaughtering bugs with a Pickaxe

@jimmyford-hill1925

10 ай бұрын

And a headlamp that is having a stroke

Def one of my favorites you've made so far! I love it when games take a small piece of lore and keep it open ended so it can grow as a legend. Also I'm all for more brief history lessons with sniss.

Note that the Hollow Bough description says that is the kind of place that they lost Karl, not that that was where he actually met his end. It could be that there's a biome that Deep Rock refuses to send miners to anymore, perhaps some kind of toxic hellscape like the cancelled Caustic Mire. I also think that this dangerous zone contains something that could actually KILL a dwarf, not just down them. Dwarves that fail missions still show up at the medical bay, implying that they got dragged out by a Bosco or something. Karl clearly wasn't, though.

Thank you so much! It was always kinda confusing for me :D

I’ll be perfectly honest, when you finished your starting speech, and that short montage started, the slow background beat caused every hair on my body to stand on end, as I got sudden flashbacks of a wolfhound, who isn’t quite what it seems, running across the arctic, a single Norwegian chopper shooting after it.

@sniss

Жыл бұрын

the thing is one of the best movies of all time

@khalaenas8208

Жыл бұрын

@@sniss Amen.