I want to say how genius the impact axes are in terms of game design because it’s not talked about enough. Grenades are often given to characters(like scout) that do single target damage in game so they can have a limited AOE option. So what do you give a character that already specializes in AOE crowd clear? A grenade that does alot of single target damage!
I think a good compromise would be to make vampire proc only once per grenade. Because, I agree, it does need more of a niche, but making it op is not the answer.
I don't think it'd even be super op healing or anything. Its quite awkward to get a lot out of the rippers and drilller can already hold a tunnel better than most + they don't combo with anything
should've mentioned some gameplay mechanics as driller, like: - placing sticky flames (or icicles with cryo gun overclock) in a circle while in a horizontal or vertical tunnel; - drilling around the thingy u have to defend in a repair mules mission to gain benefit of the full circle, not just 1 half, because they tend to spawn near a wall; - freezing medium sized mobs with a cryo gun and then drilling them with power drills to save some gun ammo and regain health with vampire passive
I hope when GSG finally gets around to reworking the perk system, ALL melee perks will apply to drills not just vampire. Berserk/See you in hell drills would genuinely be a good bossing setup
The thing about drills, they deal melee damage so especially with the barbed wire mod, they work crazy good with cryo canon. Turns swarms into red sugar. While personally i don't use them often for breaking armor, drills have a modifier of 1000% (i believe) on armor damage.
For a beginner guide, I'd mention somewhere that you're using UI mods. A beginning player might watch these and say, "Hey, why doesn't my screen look like that? Why don't I have that cool heat gauge in the middle of the screen?" You probably wouldn't go into details on modding (other sources on YT spell out the how-to-do) but just a quick mention that you're doing it might save a little confusion for some viewers.
Dear lord I wish people in on site refining would let the driller do the pipes, so many times when I play as driller I'll drill straight paths, go back to the platform and find spaghetti f*cking junction, pipes crossing other pipes blocking grinding, pipes going to tight to the pkatform, pipes going under the ramp, pipes going over jagged terrain that cause you to get glitch on the pipes causing you to stop dead just cause the game has missed taking out one tiny speck of terrain... I could go on its so infuriating Edit:- Spelling
something good to know might be that all of drillers primary weapons are basicly all counted as AoE damage and therefor ignore both armor AND weakpoints in their damage calculations.
3:24 so a common misinterpretation of Flame Throwers is that they just shoot flames, jut in actuality they spray Napalm at them so they continue to burn after you're done firing at them. Hence why it's called a Flame THROWER. That's also why Elon Musk's "Flamethrowers" are allowed, it's basically a giant hand held Bunson Burner that you use.
Thank you for the awesome video, I have watched a whole lot of your videos but haven't really commented and only now realized I clicked on this video minutes after it came out, so uh comment time I suppose. I also want to say, your videos on the subata give me a lot of happiness. I've been playing the game since 2018 I wanna say and have been a driller main from the start (though, I do play the other dwarfs a lot as well) and have always adored the subata
Driller is probably my favorite. The microwave with exothermic reactor and temperature amplifier is so good for clearing enemies and does a good amount of damage to bigger targets
@@deemaske9143 you can have both realistically speaking... the charged projectile still makes flammable gas explode when it passes thru it... which means you can then hit it with a small boi to make the explosion happen...
@@crustybomb115 wait really? i've played driller for most of my time and yet i've never been able to do that without the fire mod, i can't even find any info about how the epc can do heat damage without that mod
CRSPR has like 2-ish seconds of sticky flames at base and can get up to 8 seconds if you take the t2 and t4 sticky flame duration mods, no overclocks required.
I love your videos, though as min-maxer in spirit I miss something even deeper and more informative. I wouldn't mind video showing which weapon talents to pick with specific overclocks, and what's best/optimal setup for specific missions.
ngl driller was my first main class but when it comes to use cryo cannons i always have a problem. i didn't like the rest of primaries and secondaries (i'm sorry), but luckily after getting promotion for him, i returned to gunner which at first glance i despised him for lvl 1 minigun. But now gunner is my favourite . Big boi with a flak cannon against damn aircraft. its beautiful
I don't think you heard of the Caretaker C4 strategy either, basically drill or platform up to a path above the Caretaker and drop C4s on top of it during the vents phase, it makes the fight so much faster. Obviously he does struggle a bit with the eye phase but other than that he stomps Industrial Sabotage missions, well as long as he has the CRSPR.
@@mariobrojr Try using Triple-filtered Fuel to double the heat buildup on the CRSPR. And always remember that robots are weak to melee damage, so consider bringing Berserker and a power-attack damage upgrade to help with the floating balls (that I forgot the name of) and the Caretaker's tendrils. And needless to say, the Impact Axe is also extremely good against bots. Edit: lastly, try using the Drills to defend yourself against Shredders.
Damn i thought this video wpuld be more on the subject on how to play in a team and fulfill your role as driller (which i struggle with because i mainly play solo) rather than a weapomd and utility breakdown. But if you were to make a video on teamplay as driller i would be pleased. Ps the video was still nice to watch
Keep in mind these guides are usually for beginners, as they're not as in-depth as only someone experienced in the game would understand and absorb. So telling newer people to not troll is a good thing overall, becauee when they get a bit more experienced, they'll know the right time to serious boom and to fun boom
honestly rippers are kinda trash... they should either buff their stats or make them melee... it makes no sense to even GRAB these(unless youre a curious greenbeard) in the first place. also dreadnaughts have insane recovery when it comes to basic elemental damage temperature, so you want to pair up with a scout that has freezing on their weapons to hit it for a massive amount of damage with heat shock or have an explosion based build that utilizes the flammable part of the neurotoxin grenades when paired up with flamethrowers.
The only viable/fun playstyle I’ve made them work in is cryo cannon driller while sitting in tunnels. They absolutely destroy anything frozen to the point where it’s kinda overkill on anything that isn’t an oppressor or stronger.
@@crustybomb115 This is a decent take. Personally, I think the rippers do pretty good damage on just a single pass, and in a decently wide area as well. Even if you don't line it up to hit multiple times over, it's not bad for removing a pile of ground bugs. The carry limit, though: that can be a real problem.
I'd say your probably being a bit hard on the rippers. They're a solid enough grenade choice. Decent damage with a decent skill ceiling in regards to having the game knowledge to use them in niche situations to make them super effective.
I will always be a strong preacher of Corrosive Sludge Pump + Sludge Blast combined with Subata + Automatic Fire. Blasting an enemy with a charged shot from the CSP already chunks down a lot of their health, but shooting them with a stream of Neuro-Corrosive Toxic bullets afterwards has a similar effect to shooting an enemy in Fallout 4 with a legendary bleed weapon. It quite literally melts everything. Additionally, I'd like to share a specific "recipe" I use to make bunkers in a pinch. Step 1: Find a nice, solid wall with no openings behind it. Step 2, dig straight in until the drill breaks six patches of terrain. Step 3: plant and blow a Satchel Charge at the end of the hole. Step 4: dig a small ledge along the back of the hole you made. The bunker has a tiny funnel for bugs to crawl into, and plenty of space for teammates to move above, below, or beside each other to avoid friendly fire.
As far as I know, I invented the caretaker strat of tunneling above and dropping c4 on the shields. I hadn't seen anyone talk about it online, or anyone else do it in a mission. I invented it in late November of 2023
@soupkitchen467 thats another reason why I believe I invented it. After I started doing it, because I did so many caretaker missions and I did it every time, I saw other people do it in the game, and I saw people talk about it online
@m7th-u4n Ok. I developed it independently, and after I started doing it, I noticed others doing it in the game, and I saw online discussion about it. I looked it up to see if I had invented it, I think my exact search term was like "drg caretaker tunnel drop strat" and youtube and Google didn't really understand it well so I found nothing preceding the date of when I came up with it. This is why I believed I invented it. Although I now know I did not invent it, the fact that I saw a lot of others doing it after I did it leads me to believe I popularized it. At the time, I would play a couple hours a day (up to like 8), and I did that for about 7 months. Considering I played so many caretaker missions where I used the strat, it would make sense for others to see me do it and copy it. In the months of early 2024, I saw it others doing it (at least on xbox in the southern US), and I saw a couple of videos about it.
I want to say how genius the impact axes are in terms of game design because it’s not talked about enough. Grenades are often given to characters(like scout) that do single target damage in game so they can have a limited AOE option. So what do you give a character that already specializes in AOE crowd clear? A grenade that does alot of single target damage!
I wish rippers were considered melee, it just makes more sense
I don't care if it makes it op with vampire it'll at least give us a reason to take it
@@MrSoup1 well said
I think a good compromise would be to make vampire proc only once per grenade. Because, I agree, it does need more of a niche, but making it op is not the answer.
@@mythos951 what about every fifth kill including the first one?
I don't think it'd even be super op healing or anything. Its quite awkward to get a lot out of the rippers and drilller can already hold a tunnel better than most + they don't combo with anything
9:00 Subata's gimmick is that it gives you arthritis
should've mentioned some gameplay mechanics as driller, like:
- placing sticky flames (or icicles with cryo gun overclock) in a circle while in a horizontal or vertical tunnel;
- drilling around the thingy u have to defend in a repair mules mission to gain benefit of the full circle, not just 1 half, because they tend to spawn near a wall;
- freezing medium sized mobs with a cryo gun and then drilling them with power drills to save some gun ammo and regain health with vampire passive
MY LIFE FOR ROCK AND STONE!!!!
Rock and stone!
Yeah yeah rock and stone
I hope when GSG finally gets around to reworking the perk system, ALL melee perks will apply to drills not just vampire. Berserk/See you in hell drills would genuinely be a good bossing setup
They already reworked it. Berserker used to be a passive that increases your pickaxe dmg based on how much health you have
The thing about drills, they deal melee damage so especially with the barbed wire mod, they work crazy good with cryo canon. Turns swarms into red sugar.
While personally i don't use them often for breaking armor, drills have a modifier of 1000% (i believe) on armor damage.
For a beginner guide, I'd mention somewhere that you're using UI mods. A beginning player might watch these and say, "Hey, why doesn't my screen look like that? Why don't I have that cool heat gauge in the middle of the screen?"
You probably wouldn't go into details on modding (other sources on YT spell out the how-to-do) but just a quick mention that you're doing it might save a little confusion for some viewers.
Dear lord I wish people in on site refining would let the driller do the pipes, so many times when I play as driller I'll drill straight paths, go back to the platform and find spaghetti f*cking junction, pipes crossing other pipes blocking grinding, pipes going to tight to the pkatform, pipes going under the ramp, pipes going over jagged terrain that cause you to get glitch on the pipes causing you to stop dead just cause the game has missed taking out one tiny speck of terrain... I could go on its so infuriating
Edit:- Spelling
a whole video about me? How nice :)
ROCK AND STONE!
something good to know might be that all of drillers primary weapons are basicly all counted as AoE damage and therefor ignore both armor AND weakpoints in their damage calculations.
i just want to say THANK YOU, i cant find any driller guides and im new at this game
ROCK AND STONE
3:24 so a common misinterpretation of Flame Throwers is that they just shoot flames, jut in actuality they spray Napalm at them so they continue to burn after you're done firing at them. Hence why it's called a Flame THROWER. That's also why Elon Musk's "Flamethrowers" are allowed, it's basically a giant hand held Bunson Burner that you use.
drillers need to bend the cave to their will
clear obstacles, create space
drillers are great for elimination missions
Thank you for the awesome video, I have watched a whole lot of your videos but haven't really commented and only now realized I clicked on this video minutes after it came out, so uh comment time I suppose.
I also want to say, your videos on the subata give me a lot of happiness. I've been playing the game since 2018 I wanna say and have been a driller main from the start (though, I do play the other dwarfs a lot as well) and have always adored the subata
Except dreadnoughts they have insane heat resistance
and recover basically instantly from cryo
I use ice storm with the cryo cannon and with that buff it freezes them relatively quickly for how fast they break out of the ice
Just did this weeks DD as scout with conductive thermals
Driller and me had a blast absolutely bullying dreads, preatorians etc
This is perfect timing because I’ve been thinking about playing driller
You released the video when i started playing driller for the first time, only saw today, good video thank you
Driller is probably my favorite. The microwave with exothermic reactor and temperature amplifier is so good for clearing enemies and does a good amount of damage to bigger targets
Very glad to see you cranking these out. Great video as always!
i personnally like using the epc because it does pretty much everything
crowd control? check
burst damage against big threats? check
mining? check
you forgot to mention that it counts as flammable... so you can pair it with neurotoxin grenades or sludge pump with explosive goo mix...
@@crustybomb115 that's true but if flammable then no mining :(
@@deemaske9143 you can have both realistically speaking... the charged projectile still makes flammable gas explode when it passes thru it... which means you can then hit it with a small boi to make the explosion happen...
@@crustybomb115 wait really? i've played driller for most of my time and yet i've never been able to do that without the fire mod, i can't even find any info about how the epc can do heat damage without that mod
@@deemaske9143 you need to shoot the same target a few times with the small bullets... a single shot isnt going to trigger the volatile nature of it.
I like throwing rippers on pumpjack pipes to make a high damage train area
Here's a like and comment for the algorithm. You're welcome!
Are you using mods? for things such as the heat circle on the crosshair and light up rails on the pipeline?
Yes I have a few QoL mods installed
"Resident HR visitor" I'm dead XD
Is sticky flames an inherit ability on the CRSPR? Or does it require an OC to use?
CRSPR has like 2-ish seconds of sticky flames at base and can get up to 8 seconds if you take the t2 and t4 sticky flame duration mods, no overclocks required.
I love your videos, though as min-maxer in spirit I miss something even deeper and more informative. I wouldn't mind video showing which weapon talents to pick with specific overclocks, and what's best/optimal setup for specific missions.
Very helpful video.
"So don't use it on the teammates, instead use it on the bugs"
*Driller raises hand
"No Patrick, Scout isn't a Glyphid Bug"
"face melter" and "insane damage" is not something i thought i'd hear in a sentence
ngl driller was my first main class but when it comes to use cryo cannons i always have a problem. i didn't like the rest of primaries and secondaries (i'm sorry), but luckily after getting promotion for him, i returned to gunner which at first glance i despised him for lvl 1 minigun. But now gunner is my favourite . Big boi with a flak cannon against damn aircraft. its beautiful
Drillers move things..... your drills move earth.... your satchel moves other players ...lol!
Fun fact the neurotoxin grenade also slows enemies
Drills fear enemies
I main driller and didn't know that the fire can insta kill robots
i sitll think driller is the worst pick for data core missions tho
I don't think you heard of the Caretaker C4 strategy either, basically drill or platform up to a path above the Caretaker and drop C4s on top of it during the vents phase, it makes the fight so much faster. Obviously he does struggle a bit with the eye phase but other than that he stomps Industrial Sabotage missions, well as long as he has the CRSPR.
@@mariobrojr Try using Triple-filtered Fuel to double the heat buildup on the CRSPR. And always remember that robots are weak to melee damage, so consider bringing Berserker and a power-attack damage upgrade to help with the floating balls (that I forgot the name of) and the Caretaker's tendrils. And needless to say, the Impact Axe is also extremely good against bots.
Edit: lastly, try using the Drills to defend yourself against Shredders.
driller is by far the best sabo class lol
You should make a mod video/guide
All my builds for driller have Friendly fire perk. :)
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Rock and stone miner!
Damn i thought this video wpuld be more on the subject on how to play in a team and fulfill your role as driller (which i struggle with because i mainly play solo) rather than a weapomd and utility breakdown. But if you were to make a video on teamplay as driller i would be pleased.
Ps the video was still nice to watch
19:55 as simple and as straight as dwarfly possible*
you are not a pesky human are you?
bro im addicted to tcf mining what do i do😭
I just wish they nerfed his c4 and count it as a grenade to enable another small ability for him. The c4 being an ability feels wrong for some reason
Anyone can shoot the ball for a nice boom and dig.
Give me an R, give me an S, Give me a Rock and Stone!
Why so serious? I know you specialise on making guides, but this is DRG. We live for the jokes. C4 the fellow scout! But at the end of the mission 😅
Keep in mind these guides are usually for beginners, as they're not as in-depth as only someone experienced in the game would understand and absorb.
So telling newer people to not troll is a good thing overall, becauee when they get a bit more experienced, they'll know the right time to serious boom and to fun boom
I thought you were supposed to use your c4 to blow up scout players?
Zip line fancy??????. Engi's want a word with you about our platforms.
honestly rippers are kinda trash... they should either buff their stats or make them melee... it makes no sense to even GRAB these(unless youre a curious greenbeard) in the first place.
also dreadnaughts have insane recovery when it comes to basic elemental damage temperature, so you want to pair up with a scout that has freezing on their weapons to hit it for a massive amount of damage with heat shock or have an explosion based build that utilizes the flammable part of the neurotoxin grenades when paired up with flamethrowers.
The only viable/fun playstyle I’ve made them work in is cryo cannon driller while sitting in tunnels. They absolutely destroy anything frozen to the point where it’s kinda overkill on anything that isn’t an oppressor or stronger.
@@crustybomb115 This is a decent take. Personally, I think the rippers do pretty good damage on just a single pass, and in a decently wide area as well. Even if you don't line it up to hit multiple times over, it's not bad for removing a pile of ground bugs. The carry limit, though: that can be a real problem.
I'd say your probably being a bit hard on the rippers. They're a solid enough grenade choice. Decent damage with a decent skill ceiling in regards to having the game knowledge to use them in niche situations to make them super effective.
Them lot are not like us
I will always be a strong preacher of Corrosive Sludge Pump + Sludge Blast combined with Subata + Automatic Fire. Blasting an enemy with a charged shot from the CSP already chunks down a lot of their health, but shooting them with a stream of Neuro-Corrosive Toxic bullets afterwards has a similar effect to shooting an enemy in Fallout 4 with a legendary bleed weapon. It quite literally melts everything.
Additionally, I'd like to share a specific "recipe" I use to make bunkers in a pinch. Step 1: Find a nice, solid wall with no openings behind it. Step 2, dig straight in until the drill breaks six patches of terrain. Step 3: plant and blow a Satchel Charge at the end of the hole. Step 4: dig a small ledge along the back of the hole you made. The bunker has a tiny funnel for bugs to crawl into, and plenty of space for teammates to move above, below, or beside each other to avoid friendly fire.
Stupid YT un subbed me, i was wondering why I have not gotten any popups.
As far as I know, I invented the caretaker strat of tunneling above and dropping c4 on the shields. I hadn't seen anyone talk about it online, or anyone else do it in a mission. I invented it in late November of 2023
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I see people do it all the time in game
@soupkitchen467 thats another reason why I believe I invented it. After I started doing it, because I did so many caretaker missions and I did it every time, I saw other people do it in the game, and I saw people talk about it online
@@Duskcosmog if you just look around online, it's been a strat mentioned at least as early as 2021 when s1 released
@m7th-u4n Ok. I developed it independently, and after I started doing it, I noticed others doing it in the game, and I saw online discussion about it. I looked it up to see if I had invented it, I think my exact search term was like "drg caretaker tunnel drop strat" and youtube and Google didn't really understand it well so I found nothing preceding the date of when I came up with it. This is why I believed I invented it.
Although I now know I did not invent it, the fact that I saw a lot of others doing it after I did it leads me to believe I popularized it. At the time, I would play a couple hours a day (up to like 8), and I did that for about 7 months. Considering I played so many caretaker missions where I used the strat, it would make sense for others to see me do it and copy it. In the months of early 2024, I saw it others doing it (at least on xbox in the southern US), and I saw a couple of videos about it.
bro is bronze 3 making this
Silver 3*
On his not primary dwarf