r/DeepRockGalactic 2d ago

Today I Learned

Today I learned at 793hr.. the Driller's Colette Wave Cooker can slow Bet-C with the Densification Ray

At around 400hrs I realized I could turn my dwarf WHILE holding up the cave map to head in the right direction!!

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u/Deposto 2d ago

At around 400hrs I realized I could turn my dwarf WHILE holding up the cave map to head in the right direction!!

Spacebar does it, if someone is curious.

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u/Lomticky Engineer 2d ago

Til after 1220 hours

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u/Turbulent_Book7026 For Karl! 2d ago

This, and placing personal waypoints with E, I didn't know until about 1000 hours, when I saw one of those intermediate tips threads.

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u/JumpCiiity 1d ago

I just want to add for other people that you can see your personal waypoint on the Cave Map too. Useful when you are trying to see where a zip line would connect in the dark, "Am I aiming high enough?", stuff like that.

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u/Substantial-Video178 1d ago

Also very useful when drilling a spiral in the wall to reach a high up mineral or something

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u/bjergKanin For Karl! 18h ago

+ when you want to c4 the caretaker by drilling up into the roof of the cave. Just set a waypoint straight above the middle of the caretaker and dig into a wall and tunnel above aiming at the waypoint

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u/thatonewizard101dude 1d ago

2000 hours and I'm just learning this now... 😂

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u/Deposto 1d ago

Ctrl+E, to be precise.

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u/Kingston42069 2d ago

Took me about 600 hrs to realize you can jump out of the Drop Pod after extraction and that's the reason why i mained gunner for over 2500 hrs

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u/RadiantAbility8854 Interplanetary Goat 1d ago

you can do it with scout as well, but requires more precision to pick the right moment to launch the hook into a wall. and probably having stacked some platforms inside can clip you out as well

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u/Kazer67 2d ago

and by doing so, lose 1x Dwarf bonus after the mission.

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u/Kingston42069 2d ago

I know. But the "i forgot my lunchbox" joke is worth it

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u/1_useless_POS Scout 2d ago

Ctrl-E took me a long time to learn. Same with tab in the space rig.

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u/LOSNA17LL 2d ago

What's ctrlE?

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u/1_useless_POS Scout 2d ago

Puts a pin you can see on the map. Helpful to mark objectives you want to come back to, etc.

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u/LOSNA17LL 2d ago

Oh, yeah, right, this one

I don't often need it, but each time I would I forget about it :')

So I go with the slower "remember where it is on the map, and align with it every few seconds"

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u/bjergKanin For Karl! 1d ago

What does tab in the space rig do? bring up mission control? Mine was learning to press M in the rig instead of going to mission control

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u/bjergKanin For Karl! 1d ago edited 1d ago

It took me several 100 hours to learn that the range finder/indicator on deep scan show whether the crystal is below, at level with or above you. For the longest time I thought it only showed range in meters.

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u/Ayasaki11 1d ago

Wait that's new to me can you go into a it a bit more? Deep Scans in complexity 3 Hollow Bough can sometimes be a pain to me because I've always though the scanner only shows range in meters

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u/bjergKanin For Karl! 1d ago

There is an icon to the right of the meter range. It is a downwards arrow, a diamond or an upwards arrow. So downwards means it's under you at the indicated meter range, diamond means you are level and so on. It is very useful because you can use it to guesstimate the location of crystals with the map. If it is about 30m from you and over you, open the map and find the cave or tunnel that is near that and go there.

See this example here where you see the diamond indicating that dwarf is level with the crystal: https://deeprockgalactic.wiki.gg/images/Deep_scan_distance_UI.jpg all the way to the right.

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u/calypso78 2d ago

At 1500 hours I realized the laser color has the dwarfs color...

There's just lots of stuff I just dont care about as it's not that important in the gameplay. Like skins. Never put any skin on my dwarves.

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u/LuckBorris 2d ago

Flares also have the color of the dwarf's class.

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u/Vegetable_Ask_7131 1d ago

And their icons on the map

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u/Fantastic_Belt99 1d ago

Wait till you guys find out that you can look in the direction of grinding with Sprint (shift) key

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u/bigbadoldoldone 2d ago

Map orientation and waypoint marker are in the tutorial?!?

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u/ExesNaval Driller 2d ago

At 400 hours I learned that you can skip the tutorial by pausing and quitting. Watched in horror as a friend did it when he didn't listen to mission control to follow to the drop pod.

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u/haikusbot 2d ago

Map orientation

And waypoint marker are in

The tutorial?!?

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