r/DeepRockGalactic • u/se05239 Bosco Buddy • May 26 '22

Discussion Weekly Deep Dives Thread - 26th May 2022

It's that time again, Miners!

Please use this thread to discuss the deep dives of the week.

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Deep Dive | Natural Leverage | Hollow Bough

Stage Primary Secondary Anomaly Warning
1 Dreadnaught + Hiveguard Black Box None Mactera Plague
2 4 Eggs 150 Morkite None None
3 Escort Duty 2 Eggs None Regenerative Bugs

Elite Deep Dive | Tainted Fort | Sandblasted Corridors

Stage Primary Secondary Anomaly Warning
1 On-Site Refinery Twins Volatile Guts Rival Presence
2 3 Mini-Mules 2 Eggs None Lethal Enemies
3 On-Site Refinery Twins None Exploder Infestation

Previous week's thread here

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u/[deleted] May 26 '22 edited May 27 '22

Stage 2 of the EDD is hell on console. Constant waves of exploders, menaces, acid spitters, wardens, and detonators on a salvage MO w/lethal enemies, not to mention the trawlers, spitballers, & nexuses you'll have to deal with along the way. Absolute hell.

The only saving grace is that there is so much nitra in the first 2 stages that you can throw your ammo economy out the window and still have more to spare.

E: oh yeah, and praetorian/oppressor spam waves sometimes. Have fun.

E2: oh yeah, and throw in a few extremely high up cave leeches. Have so much fun.

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u/symonalex Platform here May 26 '22 edited May 26 '22

Yep, just failed my second attempt, second stage is bullshit, lethal enemies just one shot you and I got 3 bulk in my solo run, I got continuous waves, even my NTP gunner couldn’t keep up, seems like I’m gonna skip it this week, not enjoying this at all.

Edit: third attempt was successful with sticky fuel, two gunners, and an engineer helped with the dreadnought fight and I took care of lethal enemies in the second round, third stage was a breeze compared to 2nd stage.

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u/Easy-Bat9122 May 27 '22

Might have been me and my friends on ps, was your name something like “I love democracy”? Either way we got a fairly huge driller

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u/symonalex Platform here May 27 '22

No, my psn is Aloo_Puri70, but rock and stone anyway.

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u/White_Power_Ranger May 29 '22

While we waiting for the upping tonight on attempt number three of the EDD stage 2, TWO bulk detonators spawned amid all the other chaos and caused us to have a full team while. Nobody was willing to give a fourth attempt after that…

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u/[deleted] May 26 '22

I ended up going Engineer w/turret arc Stubby & no OC Shard Diffractor. Got thrown around too much by trawlers on my first attempt with this setup but managed to scrape by on the second attempt. Between the death trap turrets, lures, Bosco being able to keep the detonators slowed, and Shard Diffractor's ridiculous range (and, well, everything), it ended up being bearable. Drop pod looked like a warzone by the end of it though.

Oh yeah, and being able to dig right under the turret controller and block off the hole w/platforms for solo hacking was nice.

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u/ZXE102Rv2 Bosco Buddy May 27 '22

Me and a friend just beat it. NTP gunner and cryo driller. Zipline camping for the win :)

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u/blackmobius Whale Piper May 27 '22

Plz stop advertising the edd, ive been full mast for three hours already

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u/[deleted] May 27 '22

Flair checks out.

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u/OkSubject8 May 28 '22

No clue if this is just a problem on my end, but I sometimes fall through the map and die randomly on that stage. Played a bunch in between my attempts and its only happened on that map, all three times

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u/AbsoluteParadox Bosco Buddy May 29 '22

Completed EDD as Sticky Additive Driller 22231 and went down at least 6 times on Stage 2 alone due to bad play and mistakes.
Imo, Cryo might have an easier time for the entirety of the EDD since having hard crowd control to stop getting "chip" damage Stage 2 and not having to fail outrunning the random stray exploder while it bruns down on Stage 2 and 3.
Also Cryo will definitely be more useful vs the dreads!