Important note: do NOT try the C4 levitation thing with the volatile compound upgrade. The C4 WILL blow up in your face, causing you to take a lot of damage.

@moofus2000

3 жыл бұрын

came back to say this after blowing myself up lol

@King.-Arthur

3 жыл бұрын

I use that upgrade, hasn’t gone south yet except for an unfortunate scout...

@ysgramorssoupspoon2261

Жыл бұрын

just don't use volatile compound, so many things blow it up that it's more useful for mining than blowing up bugs even more so if you have a 4 member team.

Possible bug tech: on escort missions during the floating rocks phase, driller can stand on top of Doretta and drill the falling rocks instantly when they fall on her, no damage and it saves mad ammo. Just like drilling the spitballer shots, basically.

@Endede

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, so driller can take down laser spikes *and* nullify rocks by himself with only a little fuel? Rock and Stone!

@vbgvbg1133

2 жыл бұрын

Holy shit you can drill spitballer bullets?!

@paulocruz2889

2 жыл бұрын

@@vbgvbg1133 was in the vid 😂 blew my mind too

@EnderSpy007

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thats great to know

@thecockdepartment2543

Жыл бұрын

Driller can parry stuff?

As a new player to the game (47 hours) looking to main driller with cryo/epc/axes combo, I really appreciate all the useful tips learnt here. Especially the axe cancelling and the spitball blocking with the drills.

@kazaakas

3 жыл бұрын

I like all the classes, but I can't help myself from playing driller all the time. He's just got so much fun utility

@scout360pyroz

3 жыл бұрын

dont discount the fun of the flamethrower, regular pistol, and other nade stuff. this video is more applicable when you are pushing the limits of what the hardest you can handle is. lower difficulties can still be enjoyable, especially when drunk, and let.you play around more

@claudealpha2090

3 жыл бұрын

@@scout360pyroz The Cryo + Axe combo goes better with my favourite playstyle of immobilising enemies completely and finishing them off while they can't do anything. So naturally I enjoy cryo more than flame. Also, epc mining is way more enjoyable to me than regular pistols. Already uploaded like 4 Elite Deep Dives on my channel using this combo.

@scout360pyroz

3 жыл бұрын

@@claudealpha2090 cryo also brings down big enemies faster when your team is on point with concentrating heavy damage manuvers. I like fire, and I like mining like a dwarf lol. My playstyle is more relaxed than this guys, though I can do hazard fives. Never really had a problem with needing ti mine that fast and I enjoy looking at the maps, so it seems a little too fast for me to use the plasma gun. I usually run around on 4s with a friend and randoms, and that lets me deal with any inadequacies. If I want to coast around on easy mode and have fun, I get drunk, encourage the other players to do the same, and we go on hazard 3. Like Karl would.

With the vines that creep up on terrain, I've found that if you find their "stem" that they retreat to, and destroy the terrain supporting it, the vine is destroyed. Takes some time, though.

@roguereaver634

3 жыл бұрын

You can also throw an axe at the base of them (can be fiddly and take a few tries) to kill them without any digging, and even pick the axe back up

@Xurican

3 жыл бұрын

@@roguereaver634 Oh wow. It's unfortunate I'm trying to promote every class first, or I'd try that sooner. Thanks!

@KittyNaptune

3 жыл бұрын

Taking out the terrain around the base works, but you can pick at the wood log part with the 'needle' sticking out. Though this is the intended way, it doesn't really work a lot of times. I don't know what causes it, but the hitbox can be inconsitent. Sometimes you hit at the base and it's like swinging your pick in the air. No hit sound, no damage done. Just pick it once, and if it doesnt work clear out the terrain around it :)

As a new player, a lot of these tips are flying over my head, but one thing that stands out to me is your ability to interweave combat & objectives. My group still has a definite "context switch" moment when changing between the two, and our missions are taking too long because of it.

@dantheman4876

2 жыл бұрын

I'd say making sure your scout is always pushing objectives would help since the scout can help more on that front that shooting enemies

@Jenna_Talia

5 ай бұрын

Honestly, people don't talk enough about how hazard 4 and 5, especially on point extraction, will demand that you be able to juggle combat and the objective.

@gaberobison680

Ай бұрын

That’s not a bad thing. This game may be a shooter but it’s also an atmospheric roleplaying experience so if you enjoy it, go for it

For such a simple game, there is actually a lot of nuance. The skill ceiling for each class, specifically driller, is really surprising. I figured the best you could be at Deep Rock is decent game sense and good aim, but a lot more goes into it. You can be a pretty damn good driller even with poop aim, and that's what I love about this game. It feels really cool to wipe swarms with the floating satchel charge tech, or mine a nitra vein on the ceiling with the secondary. Great video btw, I learned a lot and I'm definitely going to practice this stuff!

You can use impact axes to destroy the shock crystals as well! Takes 3 of them and you can retrieve, and you can also get rid of multiple biome hazards like the poison shrooms, cave urchins, one hit the ebonut shells but not the radioactive crystals sadly. Love the vids man :)

"Sometimes you just gotta style on" Agreed, that was a nice shot

Axis uploaded?? **surprised mission control face*

Welp. Think I've found my favorite and most informative DRG channel. Rock n stone!

Just started playin yesterday and this is the best gameplay footage I’ve seen on the driller

Really nice video, it's super good to be able to know how a more experienced player goes around doing his missions and all the neat little secret tricks!

I used to be a boy scout and your scout video turned me into a Chad Scout. Can't wait to discover the gems in this one !

Hello AK, I found your videos just today and they are great. I am looking fwd to the Remastered EPC guide as I am having issues getting it to work consistently. All of your other videos are great as well. I am now a subscriber.

Dude, I never knew how effective the fragile mod is - back then I checked the wiki on how both T5 mods worked, and I saw that fragile only triggers on "low" health targets and it doesn't even kill them if they have frost resistance. So I dismissed it as just a funny gimmick mod and went with cold radiance without even giving fragile a try. Didn't realize that grunts only have 90 base health so even if they were still at full health after getting frozen, it can trigger with a 10% chance per hit. It's pretty brutal. Does make triggering vampire with the drills a bit more difficult though since you kill frozen grunts so fast, you can't just freeze a large group of them and then heal for half of your health bar.

@AxisKronos

2 жыл бұрын

Fragile interacts with H5 Scaling in a funny way, due to the damage resistance it leaves grunts at around 3 hp, making vampire extremely easy to use. And yeah i agree that the wording of fragile is misleading. Makes you think that "low health" is relative to how much health the enemy has, not how healthy they are to begin with.

Your videos keep gettibg even better. Cant wait to see you get the deserved growth. Have a good day too btw

**EDIT: This video helped me beat my very first HAZ 5 solo mission. :O ** Excellent video! Learned alot from this and look forward to putting it into practice. Thanks again for the awesome content!

I really liked all the neat tech you showcased in this one. I learned a lot.

Great tipps :) Been playing for a year now and still learned some stuff, e.g. the flying C4 bit is good to know.

more of these pls i enjoyed watching this and i learned and laughed along the way

I learned a lot from this. You have my utmost thanks. Subscribed. 👌👌👌

I would love to see more of these!! especially with the new sludge pump!

Most useful video i've seen so far for deep rock. thanks :)

I thought you were just to say "Chad up" and end the vid. Great stuff man.

I don´t even play Deep Rock but this was oddly cathartic. Probably the skill, voice and abient. Nice video :)

Great video as always. Rock N Stone bro!

What an amazing and well put together video,, I really appreciated you taking the time and showing all your upgrades and the reasoning behind them, it helped me understand upgrading better. I also have to say that before watching this i used to despise both the cryo cannon and the EPC but now after understanding them they havent left my loadout! Are you planning on doing a gunner video too?

I personally don't use expanded bags on anything other than scout, but i wonder about veteran depositor instead? it roughly fills the same niche but also has a damage resistance buff, that while it only applies in a small radius, triggers on most objectives. using thorns on driller seems a bit odd to me, and i don't find the need for heightened senses much. resupplier is a must for me though, given the huge amount of health it gives, and the time saver.

@auraleedivinus

3 жыл бұрын

Expanded Bag is very useful because more often than not I find myself lacking that extra 5-10 Nitra to call in a Supply Pod, and that's a difference between success and failure especially in EDD. Veteran Depositor is useful in some cases but the issue I have is that you're forced to be almost stationary to get the damage buff, and in EDD it is optimal to kite enemies instead of tanking the damage. TLDR; if you kite, then Veteran Depositor is almost useless. Thorns is a good all-rounder passive skill especially for Driller, but I personally replace this depending on the environment (ex: Fungus Bogs) like Unstoppable (if I'm not using Dash) or Elemental Shield on Magma (Driller's 50% fire resistance + 30% elemental resistance = little fire damage). As for Heighten Senses, I typically bring it mainly because I don't want to drag down my teammates whenever something disables me due to my own lack of awareness. Sometimes them rescuing you spells doom to the whole mission. If you're Solo and you get caught, Bosco can help out but it's slow and a bit unreliable especially if it's far away from you.

Im on like lvl 190 and there were things in the video which i didnt know about. Great vid!

Man, the amount of knowledge you have is insane.

Bruh I’m new to this game and a console player, this my first time watching you and your gameplay looks so cool and smooth bruh

@AxisKronos

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, should be back to post some new stuff pretty soon, so stay tuned!

I had that same Bosco bug last night; definitely made my point extraction mission a little longer.

As a new player to this game (only a few hours on record) i found this actually very informative and helpful tips to the driller. Thanks!

@AxisKronos

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard miner! Happy to have you

This is what every dwarf eventually sounds like if they survive long enough to deal with all of managements shit.

No sleep gang :D Edit: If you don't like creeper vines you can kill them in one hit with axes and it doesn't consume them. Same applies to stabber vines, but I believe it will take you atleast 4 axes.

Awesome as always!

The fact that I have over 1,000 hours in this game and don't know half of this tech is sad. You're a godly Driller.

Great Video as always!

That mactera-epc thing is good to know!

I learned a lot from this vid, thanks

Ah yes I've been waiting for this.

Thank u sir for this guide, im still noob strugling haz 4,take care ty again

How not to hate mechanical keyboards with this vid hajaahaah.. .good content btw, keep it up !

Driller is definitely the one I have the most fun with

I main driller and engi, and I've really enjoyed learning from your guides. I've been trying to find some regulars to play with after taking a break from DRG, but nothing has stuck yet. Can't seem to get my main gaming bugs on board for this one for some reason😓

That gunner guide has burnt even on the backburner

When my driller goes up, he wants to be just like you

Your gameplay is very satisfying

Thank you dude ! So much more usefully staff rather than those “ tips videos “ with loads nonsense !

Before this video I thought "I cant wait to see what build he uses, he has more experience so he knows whats best" then I saw the build and HE HAS THE EXACT SAME BUILD I DO

Nice tips and video! One question: the plasma pistol way to mine, do the explosion destroy some % of the mineable ore?

new thumbnail style is nice :)

Interesting video! One question, why should you pick healthy (more health) over overcharged (moreshield) in your armor rig

@AxisKronos

3 жыл бұрын

In higher difficulties the main concern is how much damage you can rapidly take before dying. In theory yes, 5 points of recharging shield is better the just 20 more capacity for health. However in practice your shield rarely has time to recharge in a fight or bad situation, so have 15 extra health/shield overall is superior.

Never used heightened senses, no intention to. See you in hell is hilarious with drill hands

This is a useful guide. I've got a couple of hundred hours in DRG and although I only play level 5 my driller sits well below the other three in terms of my ability. Even though I will definitely be trying this style of build, I've been staring long and hard at the passive perks. Thorns is, of course, a no brainer. Deep pockets I only need on my scout. Yet to bring in vampire I would need to ditch either Born Ready (best perk in the game and utterly integral to my playstyle) or Friendly. On Haz 1-3 Vampire absolutely kills Friendly, but on Haz 5 with your average pick-up group... I dunno. Would you still rate vampire higher?

driller= most versatile class, dont @ me

@harbar8896

3 жыл бұрын

@ me

I prefer using the increased radius on the EPC Because it increases the AOE on the TCF Shot and moves more dirt. I also use stun on my Satchels because I don’t remain static during swarms I kite them all and blow them all up or light them on fire. Also another thing you can do is shoot explosives at the base of the stabber vines.

@AxisKronos

2 жыл бұрын

Increasing the charge shot radius does not afffect TCF blasts. No mods on the weapon are able to effect it, just does 240 fire damage flat

My favorite combo is berserk, iron will, and cryo combo but I fully spec the dmg on the drills and I actually use the pistol with the automatic OC instead.

Is there a way to reliably avoid fall damage with the Driller? I know that if I can drill into a wall while falling can save me but sometimes I have managed to avoid fall damage or lessen it by drilling when I hit the floor but I haven't figured out what's the secret to make it consistent.

Nice video my man ^^

Great stuff, miner.

What is the best designed class and the strongest class in your opinion?

What key binds do you use to switch between cyro cannon and the drills so quickly? I’ve just been using the scroll wheel and my weapons can get jumbled up when I’m in big fights. Great informative vid btw!

@AxisKronos

3 жыл бұрын

they default hotkeys 1-4 are good, but if you have extra buttons on your mouse that's what i would recommend. Overall going from scroll swapping to hotkey swapping is the biggest personal skill progression imo

Thx for the tip!

Is the epc build still viable? Can't find any up to date guides...

@user-xn1xd4mg4j

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yea. Personally I can't stand the Subata. I use the epc load out shown here with the Cryo cannon, and with the flamethrower I use the T5 heat up mod with the heavy hitter overclock to proc fire on enemies with the EPC in 2-3 hits, roughly 5 for large enemies

15:44. Axis, you are not "misplaying" lol. You are playing "suboptimally", yet you are not! You're teaching people how to better play the lovely, amazing, unsung drilla! Besides, the folks who are appreciating your vids are probably not much on "dude, you're not playing as efficiently as possible!" I know I'm not :P Thx for another great drg vid! :D

how do you change the icon that u dont see the face anymore only the icon?

You should do another engineer one and teach people how to delete objects/doretta

I'm kinda new to the game and I've promoted the driller once, but never knew about that bubble explotion at 2:11 'till now. How do you do it?

Question - when you say you can get bonus weakpoint melee on the large things, is that still relevant while their frozen? I know freezing gets rid of normal enemy weak points so I'd presumed it'd do the same with them

@crossrw8030

3 жыл бұрын

Nah. Weakpoint shots don't do more damage when they're frozen.

Is it possible to change the pictures of dwarves to their class like he has or was that an old patch change?

Friendly fire sigma driller grindset

Question. I've noticed this many times in previous videos, but do you use a mouse button for your "depositing" key? Or is it numpad 6? I'd think pressing 6 would normally be pretty out of your way.

@AxisKronos

3 жыл бұрын

6 is on the side of my mouse yes, that would be strange for sure

I'm gonna miss that EPC build. :(

Started off as Driller. Going to end as a Driller.

@TrairFrair

3 жыл бұрын

That's how it went for me. This is the way

Hey, are you planning to do any gunner stuff?

Small note: If Bosco is transporting an item and you go down Bosco will not come to your aid to get you back up.

6:49 alien pepe

Good stuff

The exploding bugs can be quickly disabled without an explosion with a pickaxe to the mouth or a carefully aimed shot to the mouth. You can also kill three of the little bugs at a time or three of the flying electrical bugs at a time with a normal pickaxe swing. I've been watching a lot of videos and those two tips are not something I have seen anywhere.

Minor question: why do u have the logo of the driller instead of the portrait?!

You doing all classes? It's good.

And how do you climb very high positions? This is why i can't play with the driller solo.

10:00 is the area large enough to mine a krassus's explosion entirely this way?

@user-Insane_Ails

3 жыл бұрын

Not entirely but it might help a bit with the mining

@justincasebro1567

3 жыл бұрын

Insanely great idea

@dvirperetz9712

3 жыл бұрын

he made a video about that

Pog its the tube

what Bosco specs do you have?

Perfectly Tuned Cooler for the Cryo is now a balanced OC, rather than a clean OC. I use Improved Thermal now.

Scout needs a raw damage buff

how did you make bosco throw the jadiz at you?

@auraleedivinus

3 жыл бұрын

Press X button.

Just got into this game legit 1 hour played is the flamethrower ever viable?

@AxisKronos

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Flamethrower is one of the best weapons in the game. Cryo is a very different playstyle that CAN do a ton of damage when practiced and mastered, flame is slightly less, but still massively impactful.

good video

I could not play at max effort, I feel you get to a point where it's almost work instead of fun lol.

Does the flamethrower has it's use, or the cryo overshadows it completely?

@justincasebro1567

3 жыл бұрын

Flamethrower can be a great damage over time with sticky additive but cryo overshadows quite a bit.

@auraleedivinus

3 жыл бұрын

Sticky Additive is great on Flamethrower but it has less ammo, and in higher difficulties you'd rather want your enemies to be dead asap than wait for them to die out via DPS. Sometimes I use Flamethrower on Glacial Strata for that extra damage VS monsters there, but Cryo Cannon is still better in most cases.

@scout360pyroz

3 жыл бұрын

of course. put sticky and slow on it and take some more ammo. your job is to crowd control and slow/DOT large groups of enemies OR big fellas you want to keep in place. A line/pool of sticky fire in the right spot will completely shut down swarms of lesser enemies. The slow effect may keep that bulk detonator from getting too close to the downed party member being revived during an opening in a tough swarm of enemies.

Me : I prefer... *look at player level* Me : ...nevermind... also, thanks for the spitball drill tip. Didnt know that until now!

@AxisKronos

3 жыл бұрын

Hey if the builds you run work for you then by all means stick with em, this is far from the only setup that works. With enough practice and skill you can play Haz 5 with random or even no upgrades.

@coffeeflavored8530

3 жыл бұрын

@@AxisKronos well tbh my build was pretty much same with yours. I was just joking with your player level lol

@scout360pyroz

3 жыл бұрын

@@AxisKronos well said. I prefer flamer and stock pistol myself, but I do different tactics and dont play solo as much. Sure I gotta be better at keeping my distance and have less room for errors, but its so much fun.

It feels like Im watching video on 1.5 speed but im not... Gets me depressed knowing Im never getting close to this level because my reactions and ability to see things are bad.

AXIS KRONOS WHAT'S UP MAN

4:10 dude I have literally no idea how u gather them up and just circle around em like it’s god zombies..i literally run at max speed away and theyll still tag me with every single hit then slow me and it just piles up

How did you get bosco to throw you the egg? I always have to grab it from him or make him do something else to drop it EDIT: After leaving my jade-colored beard behind, you press X, or whatever your "Shout" button is, to get BOSCO to throw carried items.

@chibi_kay

2 жыл бұрын

I'm on ps4 and I have to double tap left bumper, so if you're on pc try double tapping keys

6:49 hehe peepee

So can you redo this since epc mining is dead?

@AxisKronos

2 жыл бұрын

Not really dead, just the builds are tweaked. Already remade twice so needless to say it’s a little low on the priorities to get remade again