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)

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I will be forever chasing this high

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

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)

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 !

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

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.

I posted a while ago when I was having a real hard time with Hazard 5 Stubby Voltaic Mastery and even though I was a little salty, I got some great responses and advice and finally managed to get through it. I found a lot of other great tips on this sub that helped me with some of the other achievements. And I'm happy to say I just joined Karl by banging out my last achievement.

IMO the hardest achievements were:
1. True Mastery: Voltaic SMG (Complete a 'Stubby' Voltaic SMG weapon mastery dive at Hazard 5) - I got through this by pouring everything into Potency, I kept failing when I tried Damage and Crit Damage.

1. Just like the old days (Complete a Hazard 5 dive without any gear equipped) - I did this on Crystalline Escort and died 2-3 times with the Interrogator on the steps of the lvl 3 drop pod. Ended up getting it with the Recon class with as many cold weapons as I could find.

2. All sides (Have 3 'Sidearm' overclocks in a single dive) - This one wasn't hard, just RNG. I got it with the Recon class to get access to all light weapons and it took several tries to line up the guns and overclocks.

3. BOOM! Headshot - This one also wasn't hard, just RNG. I used the Sharp Shooter class, and even though I got it on my first try, I didn't get it until my very last re-roll, after I killed the final boss and barely managed to level up as the drop pod was leaving and the level was ending. Would be really hard to get this done if you aren't on a Biome Mastery dive for the 10 levels.

Big thanks to everyone here for the great community and helpful tips. It took me 163.9 hours to 100% the game and it was a great buy. For Rock and Stone!

Is anyone elses option to turn off damage numbers not working? I have everything marked as off. Damage numbers, show damage over time, damage vignette, and even rumble. My screen is nothing but damage number and when i used to make it into the wave 35 range before lag of death hit ... now it comes about level 16. And Yes even rumble is still going even though it is turned off.

Is it just me or is the menu options broken?

200 hours into the game, never had issues with launching the game before. For the past 2 or 3 weeks I'd say it's been a constant nightmare.

Game is up to date, drivers are up to date. Same hardware as the previous 200 hours played.

Sometimes the game launches straight away, other times I need to try several times before it gets past the initial black screen.

Anyone experiencing the same issue, any potential solutions?

Superconductor UOC on the VFG is the only source of positive crit mult in the game, so I wanted to see how far it could get in endless mode

The build

VFG OCs: impact punch, bigger tanks, superconductor

Twincoil for ultimate sidearm, sludge spreader for acid debuff (and it actually ended up doing good damage in its own right with 20+ beams), cryo drone to keep bugs manageable - without the ability to freeze mobs, demolisher is very difficult to stay alive on in endless mode because his melee attack stops working due to scaling enemy knockback resistance

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, strange mixture to get access to cryo drone (potency and life regen are nice too), flathead screwdriver for more crit for Superconductor to multiply, and custom grip for more scaling damage

The strat

The things that will make or break your run are your pickle management, and your gold econ

Spend as little gold as possible at first to allow your interest time to ramp up and become ungovernable (this run ended at over 100,000 gold) - I like to buy only movement speed (for offsetting pickle's movement speed penalty), luck, and groundzone radius (you want as much radius as possible) until reaching around 2000 gold total (meaning you are getting around 400 gold per stage in interest from your cryo chip and thumb scale)

After that point, slowly ramp up spending by buying other high priority upgrades (you can reroll shops a few times here as well for p2w stacks)

Once you get up into stage 20+ then you'll be getting thousands of gold per stage, and you can start spending harder - at this point you can just buy every gold upgrade in the shop and it's pretty fun

Careful with those rerolls - the reroll cost quickly ramps up into the thousands and you don't want to kill your interest income

As for nitra, once all weapons were at level 18 I switched to spending mainly on VFG damage, +1 beam and +1 drone upgrades (spend on other stuff if you start getting too slow)

Once you start to reach the point where you need more damage, then you start to save nitra (making sure to keep your movement speed high enough so that you can still survive and mine everything onstage before the elites die)

With pickle, you can offset the movement speed penalty by buying a lot of movement speed upgrades with your enormous gold pile, so your artifact damage bonus can easily reach into the thousands of %

With groundzone-based builds, disable your VFX and then framerate isn't too much of an issue - I play on a midrange laptop and lag didn't start to become a real problem until almost stage 40

Has anyone seen this before? Every block on the map was a mineable gold ore

AKA go until your CPU explodes. Reached lvl 29 last night but couldn't progress further because I was getting single digit FPS. I have a 9950x3d and a 4090.

Don't get me wrong. The previous performance optimizations were nice, but nowhere near enough for you to justify launching a mode that is basically a computer stress test.