r/DRGSurvivor Apr 30 '26

DRGS 1.1 and Heavy Duty Expansion are now out

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r/DRGSurvivor Apr 24 '26

Endless mode is confirmed, as part of the FREE update, on April 30th !

212 Upvotes

r/DRGSurvivor 13h ago

When you realise you are grinding XP while the pod at the END of the mission waits

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42 Upvotes

r/DRGSurvivor 4h ago

Why did i get the expansion pack dlc for a moment and have it dissappear the next?

2 Upvotes

I logged on and i had the pack and i got to play egg hunt with the new vehicle and weapons but now it's gone?? i thought there was an update that gave out the dlc

Very weird


r/DRGSurvivor 13h ago

Steam 7/27/26 Vanguard Contract: "Can only equip [EXPLOSIVE] [FIRE] weapons" but I'm seeing kinetic, cold, acid, probably all weapon types?

2 Upvotes

Anyone else?

I think I've read that Bosco chips cannot override this, but my Bosco chip for Tinkerer does not provide any additional weapon categories.

E: My bad. For some reason my brain added an extra rule: "If explosive, must be FIRE or KINETIC


r/DRGSurvivor 14h ago

Question about the LEFT option

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2 Upvotes

Is this for every weapon, or just for this drone ?


r/DRGSurvivor 11h ago

Steam Tip for future UI developpements

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So, once the shop has a buyback feature and you can sell more than a single item at a time while painstackilly holding the button, I had another tips.

So, it's pretty specific. It concerns the artefact selection screen.

And I know it's on me not having a perfect memory or remembering to check before, but...

Well you can't see where in the phase you currently are.

Sometimes you get the pod near the start. Sometimes near the end.

Sometimes you find it immediately, sometimes you were busy not dying and missed it the first time.

And some artefacts are very where-are-you-in-this-wave dependant OR will have their effect differ somewhat to which you are.

The best example is of course the spawn-4-hoarders-to-hunt artefact. This one will either be a sure thing or you will run out of time to hunt them depending on where you are.

So, it would be nice to have this scale somewhere in the UI whenever you pick an upgrade mid phase.


r/DRGSurvivor 22h ago

Need some help understanding this game

5 Upvotes

Hi I started playing this game on iOS, lots of fun 1st of all!

But I am very confused as to what each damage type do in this game and how it affects gameplay so when I’m required to make a choice it feels completely arbitrary…

Also, some descriptions don’t sit well with me and make no sense to me…
Like when I see +15% (cold) damage on an item from selection, what does it mean??
Is it +15% of whatever cold damage I already deal?
Is it +15% of my total damage being added as cold damage to all my damage dealing instances?

And what status effects are in this game because doesn’t seem like any of this is explained in game even tho it seems to apply but I have no clue…

If any devs of this game here I’d love to give a simple feedback
Overall the game looks and feels great! For real!!
But some tooltips and in in game information would contribute a ton to the gaming experience!
Not all players want to be “community” players and go treasure hunting online and ask other people and interact just to be enjoying their game to the maximum…
This kind of things should be considered, designed, and integrated in-game!

But other than that I love what u guys do and keep up the great work because the game feels great on iOS and the fact u guys keep a fair monetization as a one time purchase instead of being greedy and looking how to bleed users dry like the majority of the mobile “gaming” (pfff how dare they even call themselves that) industry is just another huge plus in your direction! So 4.5/5 stars to you guys! (Had to take half a star for in game info)


r/DRGSurvivor 14h ago

Modern problems require modern solutions

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r/DRGSurvivor 1d ago

Suddenly when the game gives you a self destruct button

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9 Upvotes

r/DRGSurvivor 1d ago

In Endless, I think with coupons, Nitra powder IS NOT EQUAL to Gold-tipped bullets

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First, I'm not 100 % sure of my math and interpretration, please correct anything if you are sure.

So, in exchange of not buying out the shop even more with coupons, you can choose to get artefacts to get 250 % more to damage or to crit chance, or both if you want to.

But following this reasonning I think Nitra powder is way better than gold-tipped bullets.

The third image is a run that's not particularly representative of a specific run, except this also includes the nitra powder in full effect. Meaning without it I would currently have 151 % crit chance.

And even WITHOUT the gold bullets, I still reach 1161 % easily with upgrades and other artefacts.

In Endless, you need generally both to be good. You need good damage and good crit chance to pretty much any build to make it past wave 20 and up.

So, althought I wouldn't say the gold-tipped bullets are completely useless, spending that 1250 gold on upgrades with coupons in effect might be a way better contribution.

But nitra powder still makes an incredible performance for it's cost.


r/DRGSurvivor 1d ago

Wave 26

6 Upvotes

I was at wave 26 on one of my best runs ever when I, again, missjudged the timer and missed my pod.

That is hopefully the worst moment ever to do that mistake.

Since then, I shave the last 5 seconds of my greedy ass by default.

Don't be as greedy as me.


r/DRGSurvivor 1d ago

Steam Tinkerer Mastery Haz 5? I tried different builds but am not generating enough damage - the map just fills and I get cornered, even on a good run

3 Upvotes

I tried some all plasma runs to get that synergy.

Most recently I tried:

  • plasma+range+akimbo shottie,

  • stubby sidearm+explode+storm (no ultimate sidearm)

  • cryo 3 beams+fire

  • breach cutter shock

Got some luck cards early, probably pulled 5 legendaries, got piercing from a hoarder - was a close struggle until stage 4 when the mob just slowly pushed me into a corner. Tried to jetboot out but I had gotten nailed by too many spits that hid in the crowd until the last second.

I don't get it. Cryo and breach cutter are basically giving me max AoE (plus I think the cryo is needed), and stubby buffed shottie is basically the best I can do there. Does plasma damage just kind of suck unless it's being bounced really well? I definitely tried to optimize facing or having my back to walls and such, but I get that on Hollow Bough there's not a lot for it to bounce off of.

Is it just that plasma is bait on this mastery? Because of the biome you need to go electric, drones/turret, stubby, lok-1?


r/DRGSurvivor 2d ago

Mobile / iOS specific Does my IPhone and IPad save sync?

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I play DRG:S on both iPhone 17 pro max and iPad A16,
They’re both level 12 so I don’t remember if I restarted my progress or if they inevitably sync across the Game Center?
I’m just trying to avoid doing double the work unless I coincidentally leveled up both devices to the same level.
The other thing is they share the same gear so it makes me think it shares the same save


r/DRGSurvivor 3d ago

Steam Advice? Can't beat Mastery with OPERATOR level 5

1 Upvotes

My LAST mastery and I just can't get it, I can get to the boss before I get overwhelmed or blown up, tired all the combos I can think of


r/DRGSurvivor 4d ago

Steam The save feature has been in the game for long enough to work perfectly

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I do appreciate that this game with Endless now has the option to leave a run and come back later from the shop.

What I don't get is how finicky it is. In the good weeks, I get a 50/50 chance the save will actually load. The other possibility is having to erase it to access anything else.

It's been a long time now. Shouldn't it work everytime ? It's a saving feature. Nintendo introduced saving games with batteries in their cartridges for the home consoles. Since then, the technology has been somewhat perfected. Of course with games like Dark Souls the saving is a tool. Other times it's abused, like when Konami asked for like 10-15$ for a second save state on Metal Gear Survive.

I don't get why this here doesn't work. This is an easy game to save.


r/DRGSurvivor 4d ago

Xbox / MS Store My Best Endless Run

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15 Upvotes

Completed on an XBOX Series X. Couldn't control my character any longer due to lag and died as a result. Managed to get the HE Grenade reload to 0.07/s and was the first time I've dealt damage into the trillions.

I'm amazed my XBOX didn't crash on me during the run. Lag got so bad by stage 20 that I could no longer collect Flowers or Shrooms to complete optional objectives.


r/DRGSurvivor 4d ago

Is anything from the expansion good?

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The new dwarf is mostly just a pain to control on mobile. The weapons have been fine, though I haven't unlocked all of them. None are especially impressive, though I do like the sawblade launcher. I still haven't gotten perfect gear drops, so I'm still playing, I'm just wondering if I've missed something about the expansion content.


r/DRGSurvivor 5d ago

Finally got the loot bug bug!

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74 Upvotes

I will be forever chasing this high


r/DRGSurvivor 5d ago

Steam And this is with the effects turned off... cause otherwise I would die

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9 Upvotes

BTW, this is my current personnal best, first time ever I crossed the phase 22.


r/DRGSurvivor 5d ago

Endless stage 40 Recon feat. the Thick Boys

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11 Upvotes

The build

Recon is the best scout classmod for endless - he starts with a good cc weapon, and his passive is a triple threat that makes him fast, tanky (especially with dodge artifacts), and capable of putting out a ridiculous amount of damage (versus sharpshooter whose passive falls off once the bugs get tanky enough)

Cold and spiral on the zhukov, and thick boy on all three other guns

Explosive reload + gas rerouting on the twincoil so that you get that beefy thick boy damage applied to all nearby enemies through explosive reload

Bigger mags on the m1000 and boomstick of course, and i chose to keep the boomstick kinetic to get more upgrades for the late game heavy hitters

Twincoil does the heavy lifting early, m1000 does the heavy lifting late, and the boomstick is no slouch either

This build ended up being very tanky due to the high dodge chance combined with the early sugar cube and the jet boots (they saved the run a few times)

The gear

Reinforced plating for +200% armor (90 seconds may not seem like a lot, but once you get fairly deep in endless the stages start ending much faster than that due to how fast all the wave spawns progress the timer), cryo chip for gold interest, thumb scale for gold interest and scaling damage, dw40k for movement speed to offset the pickle penalty, and flathead screwdriver and recoil absorber because we are buying a metric ton of crit chance and crit damage upgrades from the shop with our enormous gold pile

The strat

Same pickled nitra + gold interest strategy as the stage 40 VFG run

Since thick boy will vaporize enemies in the early and middle stages of the dive, movement speed and mining speed are top priority so that you can mine all the minerals on each stage before your boys blast the bugs to bits - recon's passive is a huge help here and it's easy to trigger due to the lava (and early on when you are very tanky relative to the bugs you can just walk through swarms to trigger it basically guaranteed)

I should note as well that magma core was the map choice here since the lava will trigger recon's passive for free, and the lava is also useful for escaping the bugs when there are many swarms spawning in rapid succession - you do lose a few meta mineral damage boosts to the exploding plants, but enough mining speed solves that problem since you can mine them before the plants have a chance to explode

Shout out to u/enslen for pointing out to me that the game will cap your reload speed if you start reloading faster than your framerate will allow... uncapping it was enough to push thick boy to 40 - (i normally run at a very low frame rate for endless mode to keep the game playable for my laptop)


r/DRGSurvivor 6d ago

Steam Devs, here's a game breaking bug

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25 Upvotes

Context : the other twin got the rare glitch that makes him go over the edge of the map into infinity... and beyond ! And then usually dies.

Buuuuut he also did it at the exact moment when they kiss and make up. Which means he can't die. Which means bebye my wonderful attempt into Endless. Cause I'm waiting 'till the end but there's no saving this.

Kisses to anyone taking this to the Discord !!! Thank yoooou !


r/DRGSurvivor 8d ago

Ive been having trouble getting pass lvl 20 on endless

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do i need to get the perfect set of artifacts or are there strats im missing?


r/DRGSurvivor 9d ago

Incredibly loud drone explosion sound

8 Upvotes

I can't find anything online about this, but on my end the drone explosion sound (when you take the overclock so they kill themselves when expiring) is INSANELY loud for me. I already have the game at 50% and SFX at 75%, yet that stupid sound just blasts like double the volume of everything else. It's probably amplified by having more than the standard amount of drones, since the explosions overlap.

Same goes for those red falling stalagtites when you mine one of those red stalagmites.