One reason that I like Gunner so much is that I can help prevent other dwarves from getting hurt further because of the shields I have. Kinda like a protector of sorts while I gun down bugs.
The thing i love most about Engie is just how much room for creativity the platform gun gives you. Bridging, blocking, parkour, bug manipulating, bug killing with certain overclocks, fast "one way elevators", swiss cheese stacks for mole gunners. Combined with an experienced Driller, the caves become your canvas. Also, the RJ250 overclock is addictive.
The reason I started as a Driller main was exactly what you mentioned - that you can drill directly to the droppod. Getting out of the mission (especially long mining caves) often seemed more difficult than the mission itself, when I was a greenbeard. Now I have roughly equal XP in all classes and enjoy all of them.
I would LOVE a video about the "unspoken rules, role and responsebilities" of haz4 &5 play for each class. If playing with randoms and is trying out haz 4 or 5 for the first few times, what is expected of each player based on their class?
god I love driller, it's such a cerebral class, everything but your primary has combat value and utility value so the value of any one resource changes by the moment, you got 3 different projectiles with 3 different behaviors, and then there's the 3D tunneling: I am the pencil that punches through both sides of the paper!! protip to my fellow drillers: use your impact axes to mark tunnel entrances since they glow in the dark, and tunnels do basically the opposite of that, it makes your tunnel network much more accessible when the entrances are visually advertised
@webkinskid you my friend are a genius. As a driller main, I always do the main objective solo with friend bc they get lost, but now it's 200% because I'm too fast
@@Jeffery21Memes you know speaking of, that's another thing the driller is GREAT for--you can bring the team together, it's like every 3rd lobby I'm in that I'm digging a tunnel for some lost dwarf to rejoin us
@@Jeffery21Memes in that case, you should learn to cast the spell "make the cave bigger" you'll have to practice to find the right angle and depth, but basically, you get up against the wall, put your drills like 3 notches up from horizontal, dig 3 or 4 chunks deep, toss a satchel, get out, blow it up, rinse and repeat on either side of the resulting crater and boom you've just made an awesome little space to fight off whatever's coming at you, it works best in corners and bends, and if you get good at it, you can typically get 3 charges out and blown between the time the swarm is announced and when it hits, and having good room to fight and maneuver can make a big difference if you get swarmed in an otherwise bad place--plus, if you use 3 charges to do it, 1 slurp off the resupply sets you back at 3 charges and you can do it again next time you need it, very handy
I love the simple fact that every class has a role when a swarm comes, the gunner moves to the front and tries to slow down the swarm, engineer has turrets which helps with blind spots and anything not in front of the gunner, scout rushes in when the swarm dies down to kill the big targets, driller is a second defensive line like the turrets with his aoe of the flamethrower and the ice cannon and seeing the teamwork is really cool
Feel it’s always missed in these types of videos but driller is not just great at getting to “the drop pod” at the end of a mission but ANYWHERE at anytime (fuel provided). It doesn’t matter how complex the map layout is , driller just makes a path to the spot they wish to go. Hell I will see tunnels that run below or beside my current position and just drill a link to them for current or future use down the road. There is rarely an instance where I’m “lost” as I make the path.
There are a couple instances where driller's ability to do this is limited, namely very large caves. Not just those absurd 400m wide ones on max complexity mining and escort (though those are still difficult to drill around) but any large cave that is between a lot of places it'd be nice to connect. Those are times when communication with an engineer or a gunner for their traversal tools further enhances driller's capabilities. It is kind of funny when you see (or are) a driller who happens to end a tunnel too high in a wall and fall into one of those big caves, though.
Most of the time, when playing any of the classes, I encounter an obstacle that I can't make my way past with my regular movement before I realize "Oh wait, I'm playing [CLASS]" and then I instantly solve the problem. It feels amazing every time.
I've played only a couple hundred hours in DRG but I had a couple of nicknames that I used to describe each class. Engineer : Safety Steve, because of the platform gun to prevent fall damage and sentries help with first contact and holding positions. Gunner : Mobile Medic Tent, always being at the rear of the group and the one to usually pickup the closest fallen dwarf while in shield cover. Scout : Bug Boy, leads bugs, lures bugs, debuffs bugs, and runs from bugs, it's the bug boy. Driller : The Nanny, always there to save bug boy and hold the rear during an escape, has a 1/38 chance to kill bug boy doing bug boy antics. I like all the classes.
I main gunner. I think one of the main keys to mastering gunner is knowing when to hunker down and shoot and knowing when to run away. although my recent favorite class is engineer.
You absolutely right I main engi, around 600h I start main gunner and one of the most uncomfortable thing for me is how I got speed debuff for shooting and also don't have turret look out for me. Now I am getting better, stick mostly to Bee( man that thing auto attack after i shoot around 10 shot and run while charging coil is such cool playstyle)and Triple tech chamber
One of the best things I’ve found with DRG is the shenanigans classes can get up to. Scouts my favourite purely because I have the recoil overclock on the sawn off and can use it as a makeshift jetpack to yeet around the map.
When I first started, I played almost exclusively scout. I had a lot of trouble maneuvering so being able to get anywhere I could see was a huge advantage. After several hundred hours, I now play Scout the least. Having learned a lot of mobility tricks and strategies for the less mobile classes, i don’t really miss the grapple. I play a lot of solo, and I find scout’s weapons to be a little too specialized. I can go full single target dps, or wave clear, but then find I run out of ammo extremely fast when not facing their ideal targets. I think the only thing I really ever miss when playing the other classes is the flare gun, that thing is amazing.
I love Gunner Plasma burster missiles (ala BEES) are so much fun to use And the miniguns colant one is amazing too Scout is my close second, the mobility is so amazing and its so fun when youre the last one standing zipping around to avoid death and res your temmates
Gunner I almost only play Bee with triple tech champer. I dump 5 to 10 in the crown, switch to coil gun. It playstyle amazingly negate most f speed debuff while bee become auto attack function coil TTC with elec slow everything down.
Scout has always been my main, as i like to go fast. Honestly im just a sucker for that double barrel. I do, however, play all the classes a fair bit. They all have amazing kits that just work when you get the hang it. In random lobbies I still go scout majority of the time for the new OC for the plasma rifle, as it helps anyone that has status effect builds (which is like 8/10 of the time at least in my experience with randos)
It’s worth mentioning that scout has some of the best grenades in the game. And they just so happen to be great at crowd control, which really helps make up for the lack of cc with your guns
I started as Engie.. But it fell to 2nd place after i got the hang of Driller and figured out how to play him effectively. Driller i feel like is the "difficult to master" class of the game. Can feel weak at first, especially compared to the others, but once you figure out how to play him, he can be very powerful in a mix of situations. I love using him in escorts to drill ahead and clear out all the cave chambers before starting the drilldozer. He's also key in quickly getting though the caretaker fight.
I was scout main for about a year. Buddy of mine always played engi. Then one day we switched it up. I went engi and that has been my main ever since. DRG is the only game I have over 1000 hours in and more then a 1/3 of that time is with engi. Not really sure why, but something about the way the class play just feels really good. All classes are good and when you get a balanced party (1 of each class) and everyone plays to their strengths, it is like the choir & orchestra playing the Skyrim main theme. Perfectly balanced as all things are meant to be.
I got to gunner last (I played everyone but I definitely played him least, last to get the legendary 3) and it was honestly such a good idea. Not only do you have such better situational awareness developed for shielding, but I think a pretty deep realization to have with gunner is that gunner >ISNT< slow. Your default dwarven movement is really competent at staying ahead of enemies, bunny jumping with ls lets you easily maintain speed, and using zips to zip down during swarms for infinite kite lets you turn whats generally a pretty slow class into easily the second most survivable by mobility in the game. It requires you to be pretty aware of terrain, but a good gunner looping like this is a scout with a minigun
I think the Scout's flare gun is the best tool in the game because being able to spot resources and enemies from great distances just makes everything way easier for the entire team. I have around 2k hours in DRG and play every class the same amount and keep their prestige levels the same. I like them all, but probably Engi and Scout are my favorites, followed by Gunner, and Driller.
Something ive found to be true for many, is that they stick with 1 or 2 classes at the start, but when they start unlocking some of the other weapons and fun overclocks they start playing those classes more, till you at some point end up playing quite a bit of all classes.
aahhaah saw my engi you rezzed lol!! as someone who loves all the classes, I wanted to main Engineer ( fav gun Lok-1 and archtype Minions!) then Driller totally took the top spot as my favourite movement skil with my love of throwing axes and fire!! Vampire perks man!! It's my current main! Gunner is the best bodyguard and if I'm feeling to not think too much it's all Gunner. Scout is the roughest one for me as fall damage was brutal!.... but I see a crossbow with pheromones nuff said!! Flares are so important!! Really excellent classes all.
Only really started last night so great timing for this video. Im curious though was the footage in the first few minutes the deep dives or a modded lobby?
Great video. Main Engineer as I love that 'lock down an area' kinds feeling and making an area safe for the team. At least safe from the bugs, but not from the Driller himself..... : -p
The classes are very well balanced, with certain overclocks you can make any class be high crowd control or single target, or whatever you need. There isn't any major cons to any class.
They all great but when it come to fun factor, I rank them like this: 1 - Scout: The mobility and freedom that this class give you is unmatched. Once you are used to all the mobility tech, it feel like you are in control at all time. You can see, analyze and react faster than anybody else and you can help everyone directly or indirectly. Whether it by getting the critical missing nitra at the right moment or luring a swarm away from the team to give them some breathing room. Take heightened senses and vampire for survivability and the hover boots to counter fall damage and getting those really high mineral resources (Hover boots + grappling hook tech is king). 2 - Driller: To me, the Driller have the most fun weapons in the game. Getting those elemental damage on enemies is so much fun. The drill is also the most fun tool in the game. Use it in combat with vampire and the dots from any of the 3 primaries and nothing will stop you. Range is an issue? Create your own tunnels with minimum space for the enemies to follow thought, now they're fucked. Your surrounded and have nowhere to go? Who said the Engineer is the only one with a nuke? His C4 can DEVASTRATE bigger enemies and you can even use it in tandem with the Iron Will/Vampire synergy to have a pretty efficient kamikaze option if you even find yourself surrounded. (Just make sure to melee, drill or axe someone afterward otherwise you will look quite dumb lol). 3 - Gunner: It the most basic class and on paper, the most boring BUT let me present you a perk that the gunner can make use more than anyone else: Born Ready. Learn to handle your weapons around born ready and you will have the time of your life! I also have to warn you that the Gunner get more fun to play the higher the difficulty is because he shine in situations where things are not going well. You'll never use your shield generator if nobody is in real danger thus you will feel like you have one less tool than everybody else and it not as satisfying. On haz 5, he about as fun as the Driller for me. 4 - Engineer: Let's be honest here. The Engineer is the strongest class in the game. It can do everything the Gunner and Driller does effortlessly. His turrets are amazing and positioning them at the right spot is not as hard as it seem. Just like Ron said, he got the best secondaries by far and his primaries are nothing to scoff at. His platform gun have great utilities and his grenade are arguably the best while also being the easiest to use. It the perfect class if you just want a chill time and relax...which is why it fell the least fun for me. Since everything is done almost automatically, it doesn't feel as satisfying as other class to play.
Here are some tips to avoid scout's flaws: For the fall damage, you can use special powder overclock on the boomstick, the focus shot overclock on the m1000 classic or the hover boots perk, and as for the crow control: scout will not be the one killing the enemies, but rather helping the team kill them while taking care of high value targets (the annoying enemies), that is due to scout having some really good support grenades (such as the pheromones or ice nades), and that is because i didnt even mention the special bolts on the crossbow, and many other things that scout has such as that overclock on the m1000 that makes every enemy who gets shot by it recieve more damage. In conclusion, scout is the goat of support, high value target elimination, and objective completion
I was dreading the zipline section, but it was fine. To me, gunner's low mobility is kinda fun, it forces you to actually look at where tf u r going and use terrain to your advantage (or at least look how to get somewhere without spending a zipline/digging through rocks). I like to think playing gunner a lot made me somewhat good with moving around without tools For scout you didnt mention how scout is.... to put it harshly. quite a selfish class. You can get anywhere, but u ain't leaving any path for your teammates. And generally, you kinda do your own thing most of the time. Flying around getting all the minerals and nitra and what not, not interacting much with the team unless there's a horde on your ass and you can't deal with it. And (imho) some of the overclocks really do suffer from teammates existing, crossbow ones especially. And the nades are.... not explosive. Good support, but they dont kill bugs on their own For engineer, again, that's just my opinion, but while secondaries are basically primaries......... Primaries are (and you wont believe it) basically secondaries. Like im sorry, but scouts shotgun feels way better than engi one, stubby is basically subata with some ammo and electrodamage, and LOKI is just kinda clunky (altho it's the most "primary" feeling primary i'll admit). Maybe it's just me, but engi primaries just feel bad
As engi main, u are right to certain degree though. lock need ammo buff, currently stubby really the best at electric(emp, elec plat)crown damge and control but all other OC are not that good, for shotgun only 2 oc feel good to use and the main use actually turret whip. But man the secondary just so good. For gunner because how I play engi the only play style work for me is shoot around 5-10 plasma missile into the crown and ler it auto attack with stun, switch to triple tech.
@@ucnguyeminh8445 the problem with stubby is that electricity deals like no damage so you can't really do anything without weapon-changing OCs (same with crossbow on scout btw, except it has no targets that it would be good against). And then shotgun just doesnt feel shotgun-y enough, why tf do i have to aim with A SHOTGUN? Without pump-action or stunner or leaning heavily into turret whip it's just kinda bad
Favorites 1. Engi: Played it the most. I get so many kills. I love my minions. But it can be overwhelming to keep track of all your toys. 2. Driller: You just make a huge mess. You can brawl. You're the man. 3. Gunner: Just promoted him recently, as the last class. Already had many OCs. With the OCs, it starts being fun. 4. Scout. I can't aim, it ain't for me
A bit more elaboration on engineer’s weakness base on my experience and preference. In my opinion, engineer arguably suffers the most when being ambushed by stray bugs when compared along with his colleagues in the same situation, this weakness punishes engi even more painfully if the engi doesn’t have his turret setup somewhere beforehand. Gunners got the gun and shield to gun down the bugs and forcefully create a breathing room if needed; Driller can either toss a C4 and then press the button, or use the drill to scare some of the bugs away as the drills can inflict fear; Scout can toss a pheromone jar or use his grappling hook to run away. But engineer does not really have some sort of “get out of jail” free card by default, at most it would be the L.U.R.E., but even that has its limitation in terms of how many bugs can it draw away from engi. But if I may say, this weakness also accentuate on engineer’s nature of being a class of set-up and fortifying (even though there are many ways for an engi to set up the sad fortification) and in a way, teaches a new engi to be vigilant, set up the sentries and observe the cave,. Thanks again for the DRG video, ReapeeRon, your DRG videos that you made in earlier days helped me on understanding the game around a year ago by quite a bit.
Fun video, wanted to add sm stuff. For scout, he can maybe cc with some grenades like cryo or phero, tho I'm unsure their effectiveness at higher hazards For engineer, low mobility can be mitigated by using RJ250 (one of my favourite pgl ocs), tho that means you sacrifice other more damaging overclocks in order to be a budget scout that can mine his own platformed minerals
Driller has easily the weirdest primaries out of all the dwarves lol. You have: - A flamethrower, which can be turn into a cone-shaped shotgun. - An ice sprayer, which can be turn into a long ranged weapon 😳. - An acid blower, which can also be turn into another shotgun, but medium ranged instead 💀.
I started out maining driller, specifically cyro vampire driller. Melee is fun, and I can get my hp back easily. Problem is dealing with range which i use subata with explosive ammo. Right now I mostly comfortable playing with Engineer with Lok-1, turrets and shredder bombs seeking out enemies from any direction, using a shard diffractor for that strong direct damage.
Fun video, and I completely agree with all of it. Before overclocks scout also feels the weakest out of the classes. None of your weapons are great at killing anything without burning through all your ammo. Especially solo you spend longer than anyone in fights using half the time to escape.
I play every class but am a driller main myself and my friends often notice even if im not plaxing driller. I am always the first one to say lets just go trough the wall to create shortcuts redardless of wich class I am playing. I think you should at least try each class a bit to learn what they can and can't do. That makes teamplay a Lot easier
The most class i like is the Eng, i like the platform gun soo much that I some times die because I try to use a platform when im not Eng, olso Eng is the perfect class if you like multi tasking like: building your sentry and useing your platform and grenades olso useing your weapons on them, But not gonna lie it takes time so it's butter to have a protection like gunner or driller to help you
I really like how unorthodox driller is, but for downsides his guns are probably the most rigid in terms of performance. You can feel absolutely useless with cryo cannon if you happen to take it vs robots and CRISPR is really weak still. Jump from it to cryo and especially sludge pump is really impactful. Playing gunner, for example, I felt like every primary was about on par with each other. Also scout's mobility tool is my favourite, but I like exactly 0 of his primary or secondary weapons.
im legend lvl 6 on all four dwarves on playstation and silver level 1 on all four on pc. id have to say that gunner is probably my least favorite class due to how basic it is. simple guns are simple guns, even if theyre effective. also in a game that promotes mobility and creative methods of reaching a destination, i find the zipline to be very arduous, especially since its the only traversal tool that you can be knocked off of by an enemy (80% of the time a silent acid spitter that sneaks around a corner the second you grab the line). with its limited angle, range, and ammo, i dont get nearly as much use out of it as the other 3 traversal tools in the game. engineer is probably my favorite. build sentries and let the sentries do the work. throw ssgs and let them do the work. equip the smart lock rifle and let the rifle do the work.
I really want to get back into DRG. I've been mainly playing HD2 and Enshrouded recently. What I miss the most about DRG is its gameplay first design philosophy. Especially compared to HD2 where the devs are constantly concerned with realism and balance. DRG is just flat out fun. It's also very polished. Running on Unreal 4 definitely helps. Quick question: did NTP get nerfed? It's been a while since I've played and I remember that OC being incredible strong. I wouldn't be surprised if it got nerfed by now lol!
"Driller has a lot of ammo". Really? I always found the driller somewhat lacking in ammo with his primaries (Definitely doesn't have a lot), regardless of how I mod them. Which makes sense because his primaries are incredibly powerful with certain mod/OC combinations.
To me each class correspond to a drug. Gunner=weed/Cannabis Scout=speed/Amphetamine Driller=Cocaine Engineer=Ketamine But since I have no experience with these drugs, I am using the movie versions, so this could be all wrong. :p
You forgot to mention in the cons for scout, the driller is the second leading reason of death to a scout
"Explosives placed"
And also pros for driller
"This thing's about to go BOOM!"
@@BradK9Drake726 Propaganda. They’re allergic to gravity. They love hitting the ground too hard
@@BradK9Drake726 pro tip. Stand higher then driller.
Driller is just chaos, chaos everywhere, explosions, flame, flying axe, microwave ray, unstable laser gun. I love it
It's really easier to list the parts of the Driller's arsenal that aren't technically a war crime:
Subata
C4
Impact Axe
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One reason that I like Gunner so much is that I can help prevent other dwarves from getting hurt further because of the shields I have. Kinda like a protector of sorts while I gun down bugs.
He is really good at that!
Special Powder is very accurately named for how addictive it is to my Scout brain
It's really good!
Ron is honestly the #1 deep rock creator
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@@BrettLapierre He probably did already
The thing i love most about Engie is just how much room for creativity the platform gun gives you. Bridging, blocking, parkour, bug manipulating, bug killing with certain overclocks, fast "one way elevators", swiss cheese stacks for mole gunners. Combined with an experienced Driller, the caves become your canvas.
Also, the RJ250 overclock is addictive.
The reason I started as a Driller main was exactly what you mentioned - that you can drill directly to the droppod. Getting out of the mission (especially long mining caves) often seemed more difficult than the mission itself, when I was a greenbeard. Now I have roughly equal XP in all classes and enjoy all of them.
I would LOVE a video about the "unspoken rules, role and responsebilities" of haz4 &5 play for each class. If playing with randoms and is trying out haz 4 or 5 for the first few times, what is expected of each player based on their class?
In general - the same as for below Haz4, but you just need to be better/quicker. Knowledge of your setup and how to use it at given moment is crucial.
god I love driller, it's such a cerebral class, everything but your primary has combat value and utility value so the value of any one resource changes by the moment, you got 3 different projectiles with 3 different behaviors, and then there's the 3D tunneling: I am the pencil that punches through both sides of the paper!!
protip to my fellow drillers: use your impact axes to mark tunnel entrances since they glow in the dark, and tunnels do basically the opposite of that, it makes your tunnel network much more accessible when the entrances are visually advertised
@webkinskid you my friend are a genius. As a driller main, I always do the main objective solo with friend bc they get lost, but now it's 200% because I'm too fast
@@Jeffery21Memes you know speaking of, that's another thing the driller is GREAT for--you can bring the team together, it's like every 3rd lobby I'm in that I'm digging a tunnel for some lost dwarf to rejoin us
@webkinskid that's a good point, but I only play with friends or solo but I can see it
@@Jeffery21Memes in that case, you should learn to cast the spell "make the cave bigger" you'll have to practice to find the right angle and depth, but basically, you get up against the wall, put your drills like 3 notches up from horizontal, dig 3 or 4 chunks deep, toss a satchel, get out, blow it up, rinse and repeat on either side of the resulting crater and boom you've just made an awesome little space to fight off whatever's coming at you, it works best in corners and bends, and if you get good at it, you can typically get 3 charges out and blown between the time the swarm is announced and when it hits, and having good room to fight and maneuver can make a big difference if you get swarmed in an otherwise bad place--plus, if you use 3 charges to do it, 1 slurp off the resupply sets you back at 3 charges and you can do it again next time you need it, very handy
@webkinskid I do that when I need to, but thank you for trying to teach me
I love the simple fact that every class has a role when a swarm comes, the gunner moves to the front and tries to slow down the swarm, engineer has turrets which helps with blind spots and anything not in front of the gunner, scout rushes in when the swarm dies down to kill the big targets, driller is a second defensive line like the turrets with his aoe of the flamethrower and the ice cannon and seeing the teamwork is really cool
driller is probably upfront tho. Then gunner, then engi and scout is god knows where but he is SOMEWHERE sniping down all the annoying targets
Feel it’s always missed in these types of videos but driller is not just great at getting to “the drop pod” at the end of a mission but ANYWHERE at anytime (fuel provided). It doesn’t matter how complex the map layout is , driller just makes a path to the spot they wish to go.
Hell I will see tunnels that run below or beside my current position and just drill a link to them for current or future use down the road. There is rarely an instance where I’m “lost” as I make the path.
deep scans become a matter of
1 find direction of crack rock
2 go in direction of crack rock
3 repeat
4 profit
There is no boon to a highly complex cave system like a Driller that knows how to read the map.
Driller is an insta pick when I play on-site!
There are a couple instances where driller's ability to do this is limited, namely very large caves. Not just those absurd 400m wide ones on max complexity mining and escort (though those are still difficult to drill around) but any large cave that is between a lot of places it'd be nice to connect. Those are times when communication with an engineer or a gunner for their traversal tools further enhances driller's capabilities.
It is kind of funny when you see (or are) a driller who happens to end a tunnel too high in a wall and fall into one of those big caves, though.
I love all the classes equally, however the build diversity with each class just elevates their fun factor!
I heavy agree with that.
Most of the time, when playing any of the classes, I encounter an obstacle that I can't make my way past with my regular movement before I realize
"Oh wait, I'm playing [CLASS]"
and then I instantly solve the problem. It feels amazing every time.
I've played only a couple hundred hours in DRG but I had a couple of nicknames that I used to describe each class.
Engineer : Safety Steve, because of the platform gun to prevent fall damage and sentries help with first contact and holding positions.
Gunner : Mobile Medic Tent, always being at the rear of the group and the one to usually pickup the closest fallen dwarf while in shield cover.
Scout : Bug Boy, leads bugs, lures bugs, debuffs bugs, and runs from bugs, it's the bug boy.
Driller : The Nanny, always there to save bug boy and hold the rear during an escape, has a 1/38 chance to kill bug boy doing bug boy antics.
I like all the classes.
I have over 1000 hours on DRG, and the only time I played a class that wasn't driller was the tutorial.
lol
I wish I had that power. My completionist bones demand I play something that isn't Gunner once Gunner is fully leveled.
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I hate wasting XP, so I swap to Gunner to do my driller promotion assignments.
Other than that, it's all driller all the time.
Missing out
haha, that's a good one
You forgot driller's #1 con of having the best accidental team wipe capability. :D
Yeah, but sometimes that's funny when it happens on accident because they/everyone was panicking.
Calling out the minions thing for Engi was so real
I main gunner. I think one of the main keys to mastering gunner is knowing when to hunker down and shoot and knowing when to run away. although my recent favorite class is engineer.
You absolutely right I main engi, around 600h I start main gunner and one of the most uncomfortable thing for me is how I got speed debuff for shooting and also don't have turret look out for me. Now I am getting better, stick mostly to Bee( man that thing auto attack after i shoot around 10 shot and run while charging coil is such cool playstyle)and Triple tech chamber
One of the best things I’ve found with DRG is the shenanigans classes can get up to. Scouts my favourite purely because I have the recoil overclock on the sawn off and can use it as a makeshift jetpack to yeet around the map.
That is another great selling point for Scout.
After 1500 hours, I realized 1200 hours in that I enjoy and have come to be good at using every class
Very well said.
When I first started, I played almost exclusively scout. I had a lot of trouble maneuvering so being able to get anywhere I could see was a huge advantage.
After several hundred hours, I now play Scout the least. Having learned a lot of mobility tricks and strategies for the less mobile classes, i don’t really miss the grapple. I play a lot of solo, and I find scout’s weapons to be a little too specialized. I can go full single target dps, or wave clear, but then find I run out of ammo extremely fast when not facing their ideal targets. I think the only thing I really ever miss when playing the other classes is the flare gun, that thing is amazing.
I love Gunner
Plasma burster missiles (ala BEES) are so much fun to use
And the miniguns colant one is amazing too
Scout is my close second, the mobility is so amazing and its so fun when youre the last one standing zipping around to avoid death and res your temmates
Gunner I almost only play Bee with triple tech champer. I dump 5 to 10 in the crown, switch to coil gun. It playstyle amazingly negate most f speed debuff while bee become auto attack function coil TTC with elec slow everything down.
Scout has always been my main, as i like to go fast. Honestly im just a sucker for that double barrel. I do, however, play all the classes a fair bit. They all have amazing kits that just work when you get the hang it. In random lobbies I still go scout majority of the time for the new OC for the plasma rifle, as it helps anyone that has status effect builds (which is like 8/10 of the time at least in my experience with randos)
It’s worth mentioning that scout has some of the best grenades in the game. And they just so happen to be great at crowd control, which really helps make up for the lack of cc with your guns
I started as Engie.. But it fell to 2nd place after i got the hang of Driller and figured out how to play him effectively. Driller i feel like is the "difficult to master" class of the game. Can feel weak at first, especially compared to the others, but once you figure out how to play him, he can be very powerful in a mix of situations.
I love using him in escorts to drill ahead and clear out all the cave chambers before starting the drilldozer. He's also key in quickly getting though the caretaker fight.
I was scout main for about a year. Buddy of mine always played engi. Then one day we switched it up. I went engi and that has been my main ever since. DRG is the only game I have over 1000 hours in and more then a 1/3 of that time is with engi. Not really sure why, but something about the way the class play just feels really good.
All classes are good and when you get a balanced party (1 of each class) and everyone plays to their strengths, it is like the choir & orchestra playing the Skyrim main theme. Perfectly balanced as all things are meant to be.
I started playing driller, it was as fun as I expected. Love my guns, love my drills, love my satchel charge, love my axes. Simple as
I got to gunner last (I played everyone but I definitely played him least, last to get the legendary 3) and it was honestly such a good idea. Not only do you have such better situational awareness developed for shielding, but I think a pretty deep realization to have with gunner is that gunner >ISNT< slow. Your default dwarven movement is really competent at staying ahead of enemies, bunny jumping with ls lets you easily maintain speed, and using zips to zip down during swarms for infinite kite lets you turn whats generally a pretty slow class into easily the second most survivable by mobility in the game. It requires you to be pretty aware of terrain, but a good gunner looping like this is a scout with a minigun
I think the Scout's flare gun is the best tool in the game because being able to spot resources and enemies from great distances just makes everything way easier for the entire team. I have around 2k hours in DRG and play every class the same amount and keep their prestige levels the same. I like them all, but probably Engi and Scout are my favorites, followed by Gunner, and Driller.
Something ive found to be true for many, is that they stick with 1 or 2 classes at the start, but when they start unlocking some of the other weapons and fun overclocks they start playing those classes more, till you at some point end up playing quite a bit of all classes.
I can see that, and that does make sense.
Hate the bugs
Hate the bots
Hate the scout
Luv me flames
Luv me satchel
Luv me rocks and stones
- Thoughts of a driller main
Very fair.
As a driller main I eat rocks and scouts for breakfast. And then dip my balls in liquid morkite afterwards.
aahhaah saw my engi you rezzed lol!! as someone who loves all the classes, I wanted to main Engineer ( fav gun Lok-1 and archtype Minions!) then Driller totally took the top spot as my favourite movement skil with my love of throwing axes and fire!! Vampire perks man!! It's my current main! Gunner is the best bodyguard and if I'm feeling to not think too much it's all Gunner. Scout is the roughest one for me as fall damage was brutal!.... but I see a crossbow with pheromones nuff said!! Flares are so important!! Really excellent classes all.
Only really started last night so great timing for this video. Im curious though was the footage in the first few minutes the deep dives or a modded lobby?
Yes, that is a modded lobby that has more players in it. Hope that this helped out a bit though.
Great video. Main Engineer as I love that 'lock down an area' kinds feeling and making an area safe for the team. At least safe from the bugs, but not from the Driller himself..... : -p
Scout has some of the best crowd control in the entire game with cryo/phero grenades and cryo/fire bolt nishanka
That is true, those do help a lot with crowds.
yea, scout has good crown CONTROL but not much in crown CLEAR
The classes are very well balanced, with certain overclocks you can make any class be high crowd control or single target, or whatever you need. There isn't any major cons to any class.
They all great but when it come to fun factor, I rank them like this:
1 - Scout: The mobility and freedom that this class give you is unmatched. Once you are used to all the mobility tech, it feel like you are in control at all time. You can see, analyze and react faster than anybody else and you can help everyone directly or indirectly. Whether it by getting the critical missing nitra at the right moment or luring a swarm away from the team to give them some breathing room. Take heightened senses and vampire for survivability and the hover boots to counter fall damage and getting those really high mineral resources (Hover boots + grappling hook tech is king).
2 - Driller: To me, the Driller have the most fun weapons in the game. Getting those elemental damage on enemies is so much fun. The drill is also the most fun tool in the game. Use it in combat with vampire and the dots from any of the 3 primaries and nothing will stop you. Range is an issue? Create your own tunnels with minimum space for the enemies to follow thought, now they're fucked. Your surrounded and have nowhere to go? Who said the Engineer is the only one with a nuke? His C4 can DEVASTRATE bigger enemies and you can even use it in tandem with the Iron Will/Vampire synergy to have a pretty efficient kamikaze option if you even find yourself surrounded. (Just make sure to melee, drill or axe someone afterward otherwise you will look quite dumb lol).
3 - Gunner: It the most basic class and on paper, the most boring BUT let me present you a perk that the gunner can make use more than anyone else: Born Ready. Learn to handle your weapons around born ready and you will have the time of your life! I also have to warn you that the Gunner get more fun to play the higher the difficulty is because he shine in situations where things are not going well. You'll never use your shield generator if nobody is in real danger thus you will feel like you have one less tool than everybody else and it not as satisfying. On haz 5, he about as fun as the Driller for me.
4 - Engineer: Let's be honest here. The Engineer is the strongest class in the game. It can do everything the Gunner and Driller does effortlessly. His turrets are amazing and positioning them at the right spot is not as hard as it seem. Just like Ron said, he got the best secondaries by far and his primaries are nothing to scoff at. His platform gun have great utilities and his grenade are arguably the best while also being the easiest to use. It the perfect class if you just want a chill time and relax...which is why it fell the least fun for me. Since everything is done almost automatically, it doesn't feel as satisfying as other class to play.
Here are some tips to avoid scout's flaws: For the fall damage, you can use special powder overclock on the boomstick, the focus shot overclock on the m1000 classic or the hover boots perk, and as for the crow control: scout will not be the one killing the enemies, but rather helping the team kill them while taking care of high value targets (the annoying enemies), that is due to scout having some really good support grenades (such as the pheromones or ice nades), and that is because i didnt even mention the special bolts on the crossbow, and many other things that scout has such as that overclock on the m1000 that makes every enemy who gets shot by it recieve more damage. In conclusion, scout is the goat of support, high value target elimination, and objective completion
I was dreading the zipline section, but it was fine. To me, gunner's low mobility is kinda fun, it forces you to actually look at where tf u r going and use terrain to your advantage (or at least look how to get somewhere without spending a zipline/digging through rocks). I like to think playing gunner a lot made me somewhat good with moving around without tools
For scout you didnt mention how scout is.... to put it harshly. quite a selfish class. You can get anywhere, but u ain't leaving any path for your teammates. And generally, you kinda do your own thing most of the time. Flying around getting all the minerals and nitra and what not, not interacting much with the team unless there's a horde on your ass and you can't deal with it. And (imho) some of the overclocks really do suffer from teammates existing, crossbow ones especially.
And the nades are.... not explosive. Good support, but they dont kill bugs on their own
For engineer, again, that's just my opinion, but while secondaries are basically primaries......... Primaries are (and you wont believe it) basically secondaries. Like im sorry, but scouts shotgun feels way better than engi one, stubby is basically subata with some ammo and electrodamage, and LOKI is just kinda clunky (altho it's the most "primary" feeling primary i'll admit). Maybe it's just me, but engi primaries just feel bad
As engi main, u are right to certain degree though. lock need ammo buff, currently stubby really the best at electric(emp, elec plat)crown damge and control but all other OC are not that good, for shotgun only 2 oc feel good to use and the main use actually turret whip. But man the secondary just so good. For gunner because how I play engi the only play style work for me is shoot around 5-10 plasma missile into the crown and ler it auto attack with stun, switch to triple tech.
@@ucnguyeminh8445 the problem with stubby is that electricity deals like no damage so you can't really do anything without weapon-changing OCs (same with crossbow on scout btw, except it has no targets that it would be good against).
And then shotgun just doesnt feel shotgun-y enough, why tf do i have to aim with A SHOTGUN? Without pump-action or stunner or leaning heavily into turret whip it's just kinda bad
As a gunner main I can say that you are quite accurate.
Thanks!
Gunner: The Medical IFV
Engie: The Swiss Army Knife
Driller: The Terraformer
Scout: The Jet Mining Cart
That's a good summary.
Favorites
1. Engi: Played it the most. I get so many kills. I love my minions. But it can be overwhelming to keep track of all your toys.
2. Driller: You just make a huge mess. You can brawl. You're the man.
3. Gunner: Just promoted him recently, as the last class. Already had many OCs. With the OCs, it starts being fun.
4. Scout. I can't aim, it ain't for me
A bit more elaboration on engineer’s weakness base on my experience and preference.
In my opinion, engineer arguably suffers the most when being ambushed by stray bugs when compared along with his colleagues in the same situation, this weakness punishes engi even more painfully if the engi doesn’t have his turret setup somewhere beforehand.
Gunners got the gun and shield to gun down the bugs and forcefully create a breathing room if needed; Driller can either toss a C4 and then press the button, or use the drill to scare some of the bugs away as the drills can inflict fear; Scout can toss a pheromone jar or use his grappling hook to run away.
But engineer does not really have some sort of “get out of jail” free card by default, at most it would be the L.U.R.E., but even that has its limitation in terms of how many bugs can it draw away from engi.
But if I may say, this weakness also accentuate on engineer’s nature of being a class of set-up and fortifying (even though there are many ways for an engi to set up the sad fortification) and in a way, teaches a new engi to be vigilant, set up the sentries and observe the cave,.
Thanks again for the DRG video, ReapeeRon, your DRG videos that you made in earlier days helped me on understanding the game around a year ago by quite a bit.
Fun video, wanted to add sm stuff.
For scout, he can maybe cc with some grenades like cryo or phero, tho I'm unsure their effectiveness at higher hazards
For engineer, low mobility can be mitigated by using RJ250 (one of my favourite pgl ocs), tho that means you sacrifice other more damaging overclocks in order to be a budget scout that can mine his own platformed minerals
Engi and plat parcours my beloved but I enjoy Gunner time to time and actually playing some Scout, the crossbow is very fun to play and master
Driller has easily the weirdest primaries out of all the dwarves lol. You have:
- A flamethrower, which can be turn into a cone-shaped shotgun.
- An ice sprayer, which can be turn into a long ranged weapon 😳.
- An acid blower, which can also be turn into another shotgun, but medium ranged instead 💀.
I like to play engineer, because it reminds me of my time playing tf2, when i mained engi, because i like to annoy people with sentry's
same lol "if it doesn't work use more gun"
I started out maining driller, specifically cyro vampire driller. Melee is fun, and I can get my hp back easily. Problem is dealing with range which i use subata with explosive ammo.
Right now I mostly comfortable playing with Engineer with Lok-1, turrets and shredder bombs seeking out enemies from any direction, using a shard diffractor for that strong direct damage.
As ROCK SOLID Gunner main I'm really enjoying my machinegun
I have heard the zipline refered to as grandma's chairlift.
Ayyy! Glad the video idea panned out :)
The king hath spoken!
Fun video, and I completely agree with all of it. Before overclocks scout also feels the weakest out of the classes. None of your weapons are great at killing anything without burning through all your ammo. Especially solo you spend longer than anyone in fights using half the time to escape.
Been putting in a couple hundred hours on engi, my awareness and reaction time is varying as I often get drunk playing so my minions help a lot😅
12:47 the way my jaw dropped at that info.
the council of spitballers will decide your fate x)
They always pick death, there was no other options.
Driller main mostly because of the drills.
Top Stoner on the big rock with bugs and minerals
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?!
Rock and Stone!
I play every class but am a driller main myself and my friends often notice even if im not plaxing driller. I am always the first one to say lets just go trough the wall to create shortcuts redardless of wich class I am playing.
I think you should at least try each class a bit to learn what they can and can't do. That makes teamplay a Lot easier
Ron is the GOAT
Bro you did NOT put my favorite two on the HATE side!
I like them all, but this was going to make someone upset.
The most class i like is the Eng, i like the platform gun soo much that I some times die because I try to use a platform when im not Eng, olso Eng is the perfect class if you like multi tasking like: building your sentry and useing your platform and grenades olso useing your weapons on them, But not gonna lie it takes time so it's butter to have a protection like gunner or driller to help you
I wish DRG would get a meaningful content update. I really miss playing this game.
I really like how unorthodox driller is, but for downsides his guns are probably the most rigid in terms of performance. You can feel absolutely useless with cryo cannon if you happen to take it vs robots and CRISPR is really weak still. Jump from it to cryo and especially sludge pump is really impactful. Playing gunner, for example, I felt like every primary was about on par with each other.
Also scout's mobility tool is my favourite, but I like exactly 0 of his primary or secondary weapons.
I love engineer because of big damage numbers, but god damn is gunner essential in higher haz or with green teammates
Im a scout main but I am on a mission to get the rest of my classes to promomtion rank 1
im legend lvl 6 on all four dwarves on playstation and silver level 1 on all four on pc. id have to say that gunner is probably my least favorite class due to how basic it is. simple guns are simple guns, even if theyre effective. also in a game that promotes mobility and creative methods of reaching a destination, i find the zipline to be very arduous, especially since its the only traversal tool that you can be knocked off of by an enemy (80% of the time a silent acid spitter that sneaks around a corner the second you grab the line). with its limited angle, range, and ammo, i dont get nearly as much use out of it as the other 3 traversal tools in the game. engineer is probably my favorite. build sentries and let the sentries do the work. throw ssgs and let them do the work. equip the smart lock rifle and let the rifle do the work.
Well said
I really want to get back into DRG. I've been mainly playing HD2 and Enshrouded recently. What I miss the most about DRG is its gameplay first design philosophy. Especially compared to HD2 where the devs are constantly concerned with realism and balance. DRG is just flat out fun. It's also very polished. Running on Unreal 4 definitely helps.
Quick question: did NTP get nerfed? It's been a while since I've played and I remember that OC being incredible strong. I wouldn't be surprised if it got nerfed by now lol!
@@joeygwood nope ntp is still ruining pubs to this day along with minelayer lol
I love driller but I really wish some of the unstable overclocks were better
@@Curseofculture gotta get lucky and get those clean overclocks as they can be ridiculous in a fun way.
I hope they update or add some new perks.
"Driller has a lot of ammo". Really? I always found the driller somewhat lacking in ammo with his primaries (Definitely doesn't have a lot), regardless of how I mod them. Which makes sense because his primaries are incredibly powerful with certain mod/OC combinations.
I want to play as mission control.
Driller 🫱🏻🫲🏾 Scout
wait wait wait wait. the most important question to have is... is that nerf gun skin already in-game? or is it part of a mod???
asking for a friend 😅
That is a new skin that was added in this Season, called Buff. You get it from cosmetic cores.
Most excellent, thank you for the heads up!
Hehe drill go brrrrrr
Whao dakka love orcs
Driller
WE'RE RICH!!!
To me each class correspond to a drug.
Gunner=weed/Cannabis
Scout=speed/Amphetamine
Driller=Cocaine
Engineer=Ketamine
But since I have no experience with these drugs, I am using the movie versions, so this could be all wrong. :p
Somebody really cares about which class you playing? Bruh.