When they added pick customization is when I really started thinking about my dwarves' personalities. As I unlocked a collection of parts, I knew I'd use them to further cement their unique quirks. My insane, gore-spattered gunner carries around a rusted thing with a big axe on the back. My sleek scout uses a climbing axe that fits his colour scheme, my gaudy gold-covered driller uses a heavy, blunt tool, and my by-the-book veteran engineer's is a battery-powered precision instrument.
you forgot to mention that the power attack flips your pickaxe around, so you attack with the other end of it. its a small detail but i like it totally did not take me 200+ hours to notice
Just by looking at it a can already see that it was made not only for mining but also for obliterating the skulls of glyphids brave enough to approach a dwarf
I wish they would delegate activating Berserker to a separate keybind, I tried it a few times but kept accidentally activating it with the current version.
Sniss: Here's how the pickaxe works and why it's so satisfying to use Everybody else: ROCK AND STONE! DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE? THAT'S IT LADS! ROCK AND STONE! ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE! STONE AND ROC- oh, wait...
Here's some advice for using the pickaze: • As mentioned you can mine standing minerals from the bottom to mine them faster, this also includes bismor and magnite. • The best way to mine resources embedded in a wall is to mine from the side, as the width of the pickaze zone is nearly twice it's depth, making it easier to mine all of the vein in one go. • Mining a small ledge, or a staircase through the resources to get to stuff just out of reach will save you a lot of trouble and navigation tools. • Always mine all of the morkite and nitra you find as leaving small bits behind adds up. Since you collect in increments of one tenth, nitra will add up quickly and you won't be struggling to find little pieces of morkite you missed for that one off from quota. • You should get comfortable with pickazing small enemies such and swarmers zappers and shredders, as you will conserve a lot of ammo this way. Just don't become too reluctant to shoot at large swarms of them like I am. • You can slightly delay your power attack to sneak in a very quick regular attack before the power attack for what I call a buffered attack, this is incredibly useful for killing slashers in one shot. It's best to practice this on lootbugs, you will hear the first hit when you can activate the power attack. This is similar to Q mining as it cancels the back half of the regular swing animation. • Pickaze attacks are great at destroying armor; guards, pretorians, shellbacks and brundles all can be made vulnerable. There's a sweet spot in the pretorians armor just behind it's neck that will break it all off with one well placed swing. Shellbacks can be redirected away from you with a well timed power attack. Brundles armor can be broken with a regular swing, but a power attack will shred half it's hp. • Power attacking most enemies in the face will briefly stun it, this works best against slashers and pretorians as you can interpret their attack. Power Attacking a dreadnought in the face to assert dominance has a good chance to make it drop agro on you. Advanced Pickaze Skills: • Power attacking the dreadnoughts is a great way to conserve ammo, hitting the exposed nubs on the hiveguard is the simplest and is a good use for the buffered power attack, as the hit confirmation for the first attack will insure you are lined up for the buffered attack. Power attacking the dreadnought with armor or exposed is useful and will even hit through his front plate, just be mindful of when it can do it's big ground smash attack, which has a substantial cooldown and a fairly long wind-up. Hitting the twin with higher health when they are about to heal or to keep them even health can save you some trouble, they are still vulnerable while they are diving into the ground which is the best time to strike. • You can bounce off of large enemies rear to continuously hit them with the pickaze while staying out of line of fire and away from the bugs bittey and pokey bits. This works well against the hiveguard to strike the nubs continuously, just be careful cause he can still attack you if you are near to his face. I wouldn't recommend using it against the other types of dreadnoughts though. • All bots are weak to pickaze attacks and can be delt a huge burst of damage if you hit the weakspot. Use it against the prospector when it gets near or the arms of the overseer after they try to bash you. Don't try it against the nemisis unless you like getting grabbed as it does negligible damage. • All mactera are weak to pickaze attacks as well, and can be delt with swiftly if you are brave enough to reach their weakpoint. Goo bombers and swarms are easy targets, but the real magic is power attacking a grabber right before it reaches you to save yourself. Hitting the weakpoint on grabbers and goo bombers will chunk half there health, and swarms or trijaws die to one blow.
EDIT: I'M TOTALLY WRONG! IGNORE ME! Note if you do try and mine standing veins the "quick" way you lose roughly 30% of the minerals you would gain by picking them top down.
@@Fresh3990 is this actually true...? I discovered this method by accident (just have 60 hours right now) on crystalline caverns and have been using it :(
In all honesty, I took a break from DRG by playing some sanctum 2, and I have to say, not being able to press V to rock and stone and melee things had me feeling weird. (Sanctum 2 is an FPS TD) I'm back, and I won't cheat on you again, DRG, I promise.
All of the sound design of DRG is so good! The snoring sound of Betsy, the screaming of the Huuli Hoarder, and all the Rival enemies. So many good sound design choices!
One of the most beautiful dreams I've had recently was some kind of drilling vehicle being driven through a yellow crystal crust. it was definitely a combination of DRG and Rock Raiders, and felt like the loading screen between deep dives as the crystals just kept on coming...
Little appreciation for the music choice and timing on the outro and your “rock and stone”. As satisfying as popping a salt crystal as you said. Gohoood tiiimes
Imma say something, any kind of game, if it has a pickaxe, it MUST have a good feeling while using it, the sound, the impact, the weight when you swing and hit something, those are the main things that any pickaxe in any videogame must have
have you guys ever broken those premade bridge caves? like mined out every supporting pillar and every bit that touches the walls? that goes insanely hard
The greasiest greybeards will say that Dash and Iron Will are the best perks for keeping yourself alive. But nothing beats the satisfaction of ripping Glyphids apart with your trusty pick. It's about fun, not winning. Plus, using the pick as a weapon conserves ammo.
I find Vampirism and See You in Hell to be a fun combo, so I get to look at the snazzy pickaxe designs a fair bit during swarms. That said, the latest Chillaxe look has captured my affection for the time being.
I'm so happy to be in a community like this. From the amazing developers to the awesome content creators, even your average greenbeard. It's truly beautiful. Rock and stone, lads! Thanks for all the memories!
The dirt digging sound in DRG is just so smooth and satisfying. Like digging into a cake This oddly just brought me back to playing really old(2012) custom Minecraft maps with massive swathes of dirt to dig through. It was just as satisfying
Randomly got recommended this video and I had no clue what to expect going into it. Completely blew me away, great job with the video. I had never put much thought into the pickaxe but it's clear to see how much effort went into making it as good as possible. Great video!
Big fan of mixing the front blade and back blade from Drift Cruiser with the Glyphid Trophy Hunter for a really brutal looking and feeling pickaxe, I use that on my gunner who I’ve given a set of cosmetics to make him look a bit more like an Uruk from Lord of the Rings; pale, covered in bug parts and blood, weapons covered in bug parts, scraggly and unkempt beard.
Ah the lovely rock and skull cracker! With DRG I easly get idealistic mindstorm ( that gets undermined, shot down on Reddit, Discord. Parts of the DRG is EXTREMELY hostile to ideas, even sound ones) before I noticed that the power attack uses the back head part of the pickaxe, I suggested different parts would do different kind of dmg + focused or aoe dmg with the p.a mods enhancing that even more
My favorite pickaxe cosmetic has to be Gadgeteer's Favorite. I especially love the shaft and the alternate pickaxe head that looks like a screen. The wires look great since they're always a different, usually contrasting color, to the rest of the pickaxe.
shout out to the devs to implement a new, better feature (power attack) instead of just taking out something people were enjoying. thats more than a compromise, thats so awesome of them! as a new player i had no idea of that piece of history. it makes me respect them even more. so thoughtful of them. ROCK AND STONE !!
The pickaxe is more then a tool it’s a symbol of unity and triumph it’s there for you whenever you need it and it’s as loyal and trustworthy as a dog rock and stone.
Really loved this video, taking a deeper dive into a small piece of this incredible game. It reminds me of Illusory Wall but for DRG and that’s high praise.
One thing about sound too is that dirt in different biomes sounds different. Fugus Bogs sounds wet and moist and Crystalline Caverns sounds frozen and hard. Even normal terrain sounds different. Like Hollow Bough sounds woody and Sandblasted Corridors sounds sandy lol. Great video!!!
A big thing that make mining so appealing is the animation. A simple little trick that they did with deep rock is help making it look more natural and less stiff like in the old days is the flick and pull at the end of every swing making the simple action more rewarding. It's what it would look like to really mine like this. To dig in and pull out
There is only 1 bad thing about the pickaxe: You can't use the back pick customisations on the front pick. All I want is the shovel back pick on the front as that's the side that I do the most digging.
Arc Welder's delight is my favorite pickaxe. You can't go wrong with black and red, and the handle goes really well with like the Chasm-Borne Cliffhanger's shaft
At the end you mention how "Rock and Stone" has had a sweeping impact on dwarfs regardless of setting or universe and that is very, very true lol. I love seeing a post making the slightest mention to dwarfs or god forbid DRG and 9 out of 10 comments is a "ROCK AND STONE". Truly do love seeing them
This is a fantastically made video. The editing, motion graphics-y stuff (like backgrounds), fonts, sound design/song usage--it's all great! Creates a very comforting atmosphere. I especially loved when you made the mining footage entirely black and white except for the minerals getting smashed.
Chillaxe from the Yule event really is peak pickaxe design, the moment my squad saw how cool it was they were on board to grind out the entire event in one night. Rock and Stone!
for pickaxe cosmetics, I love using the "remove cosmetic restrictions" mod it lets you wield not only pickaxes, but regular axes too! not to mention hammers, shovels, saws, and everything in-between. one of my favourite regular parts has to be the "thiccaxe": both blades are the depth crusher style with the chunkiest handle parts you can get your hands on.
i assembled my pickaxes from like 3-4 different sets to the same for all my classes but equipped a class themed bottom part for all of them, like a drill battery for my engineer or the cliff-hanger-explorer to my scout
I'm very partial to the Incorruptible blades and the Pneumatic head. It's a solid combination as the glowing crystals in the parts and shapes really play well with each other. They also change color with the different paint jobs. Excellent overall color theory and design elements. And on the subject of sound design, my favorite sound in the game is when you step on fields of Oripricots or Bloopy Fruit in Azure Weald. The sound and color is amazing. Not pickaxe related, but incredible nonetheless. Thank you for another well executed, well put together episode. I always love your content.
Whatever god you pray to, I highly appriciate you using underappriciated music aswell. Very nice choice to fetch the Dustforce music for that. Shit gave me goosebumps.
6:35 the new chill axe is really cool because it lets you get an extra color in there while also keeping the universal look intact of the paintjob you choose to put on the pickaxe
What I want to see in deep rock galactic: A firing range to test out weapons, a use for error cubes, more cosmetic slots like eye coverings, more options for beard colors, more beard stuff, and if I can get a rock and stone
my favourite pickaxe I've made up so far consists of: - Chillaxe blades, head and shaft - Pneumatic handle - Chasm-borne cliffhanger pommel - Hammerblow paintjob
I have a Kratos build for the Driller and I absolutely love it, the Cryo cannon combined with vampire and berserker is like nothing else in the game. This years Yuletide event gave me the final piece to recreate the Leviathan Axe from the game and I love it. Rock and stone, boy!
thank you for pointing out the beautiful and immersive sensory experience of the pickaxe. as a neurodivergent person very affected by sensory things it is *~ chefs kiss ~ also gonna say i adore the texture of the egg hunt areas and the angry mama insect screech that happens when you pull the egg. so atmospheric. this game is dope . im totally a spider man dwarf on an alien planet (i play scout)
Core Hound must be the best pickaxe skin there is, my absolute favorite. It was a great feeling of satisfaction and pride when I finished gathering all of its pieces back in Season 2. Chillaxe is also pretty cool too, pun inteded!
having played deep rock before they added the power attack I can attest to how much nicer things feel now that it has been added. It adds an additional layer of depth to mining
Thorns, Vampire, and See You in Hell are a great combo for the normal pickaxe attack, especially against grunts. After they bite you, Thorns gets them low enough that one tap to the mouth bits is enough for a kill.
![[DRG] Drillers Drillin' Deep](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bHFCdp1wiBE/mqdefault.jpg)
When they added pick customization is when I really started thinking about my dwarves' personalities. As I unlocked a collection of parts, I knew I'd use them to further cement their unique quirks. My insane, gore-spattered gunner carries around a rusted thing with a big axe on the back. My sleek scout uses a climbing axe that fits his colour scheme, my gaudy gold-covered driller uses a heavy, blunt tool, and my by-the-book veteran engineer's is a battery-powered precision instrument.
I did the same. Once I unlocked lots of parts, I started making every character unique with colors and armor and the pickaxes themselves
my gunners an old british dude with dermatitis
Holy shit I didn't know that the prestige assignments pick have potential personality synergies
Chasm borne for scout
Gadgeteers favorite for engi
Reapers claw for gunner
Drift cruiser for driller
I’m stealing this idea
you forgot to mention that the power attack flips your pickaxe around, so you attack with the other end of it. its a small detail but i like it
totally did not take me 200+ hours to notice
@@myopiczeal the dwarf of thunder has rose from his slumber
extreme client side modder here, I just punch them in the face (or the butt depending on is it oppressor or not)
600 hours in and i still didn't notice...
Wait what.. really ? 😱
So I've been slapping enemies with the hole digger back blade 😭
It’s hard to believe that Power Attacks weren’t always in the game.
My favorite pickaxe is Reaper's Claw. That orange-and-tarnished-silver color, the cool glowy bits, the axe head, the spear at the bottom...
Perfect.
Just by looking at it a can already see that it was made not only for mining but also for obliterating the skulls of glyphids brave enough to approach a dwarf
I like the funny hammer
I wanted to comment this, and I see many agree
Sensational
i like the shovel so market gardens feel that much better, but the handle takes the cake. its like having your own Keyblade
Berserker and vampire work pretty well together in a pinch
I wish they would delegate activating Berserker to a separate keybind, I tried it a few times but kept accidentally activating it with the current version.
not worth even on driller
@@CaptmagiKono there is mod for that
@@ALUCARD8699 unfortunately can’t use mods on consoles...
@@CaptmagiKono I wish all the activatable skills were customizable... dash is annoying to trigger
Sniss: Here's how the pickaxe works and why it's so satisfying to use
Everybody else: ROCK AND STONE! DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE? THAT'S IT LADS! ROCK AND STONE! ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE! STONE AND ROC- oh, wait...
SAY IT WITH ME LADS: ROCK AND STONE!
ROCK AND STONE
Yeah yeah, rock and stone
FOR KARL
"...Wait, what is the difference between rock and stone?"
One of my fav random voice lines ever lmao
The most fun ive had was during an ebonite machine event with rich atmosphere, zooming around smashing heads in is the best
Here's some advice for using the pickaze:
• As mentioned you can mine standing minerals from the bottom to mine them faster, this also includes bismor and magnite.
• The best way to mine resources embedded in a wall is to mine from the side, as the width of the pickaze zone is nearly twice it's depth, making it easier to mine all of the vein in one go.
• Mining a small ledge, or a staircase through the resources to get to stuff just out of reach will save you a lot of trouble and navigation tools.
• Always mine all of the morkite and nitra you find as leaving small bits behind adds up. Since you collect in increments of one tenth, nitra will add up quickly and you won't be struggling to find little pieces of morkite you missed for that one off from quota.
• You should get comfortable with pickazing small enemies such and swarmers zappers and shredders, as you will conserve a lot of ammo this way. Just don't become too reluctant to shoot at large swarms of them like I am.
• You can slightly delay your power attack to sneak in a very quick regular attack before the power attack for what I call a buffered attack, this is incredibly useful for killing slashers in one shot. It's best to practice this on lootbugs, you will hear the first hit when you can activate the power attack. This is similar to Q mining as it cancels the back half of the regular swing animation.
• Pickaze attacks are great at destroying armor; guards, pretorians, shellbacks and brundles all can be made vulnerable. There's a sweet spot in the pretorians armor just behind it's neck that will break it all off with one well placed swing. Shellbacks can be redirected away from you with a well timed power attack. Brundles armor can be broken with a regular swing, but a power attack will shred half it's hp.
• Power attacking most enemies in the face will briefly stun it, this works best against slashers and pretorians as you can interpret their attack. Power Attacking a dreadnought in the face to assert dominance has a good chance to make it drop agro on you.
Advanced Pickaze Skills:
• Power attacking the dreadnoughts is a great way to conserve ammo, hitting the exposed nubs on the hiveguard is the simplest and is a good use for the buffered power attack, as the hit confirmation for the first attack will insure you are lined up for the buffered attack. Power attacking the dreadnought with armor or exposed is useful and will even hit through his front plate, just be mindful of when it can do it's big ground smash attack, which has a substantial cooldown and a fairly long wind-up. Hitting the twin with higher health when they are about to heal or to keep them even health can save you some trouble, they are still vulnerable while they are diving into the ground which is the best time to strike.
• You can bounce off of large enemies rear to continuously hit them with the pickaze while staying out of line of fire and away from the bugs bittey and pokey bits. This works well against the hiveguard to strike the nubs continuously, just be careful cause he can still attack you if you are near to his face. I wouldn't recommend using it against the other types of dreadnoughts though.
• All bots are weak to pickaze attacks and can be delt a huge burst of damage if you hit the weakspot. Use it against the prospector when it gets near or the arms of the overseer after they try to bash you. Don't try it against the nemisis unless you like getting grabbed as it does negligible damage.
• All mactera are weak to pickaze attacks as well, and can be delt with swiftly if you are brave enough to reach their weakpoint. Goo bombers and swarms are easy targets, but the real magic is power attacking a grabber right before it reaches you to save yourself. Hitting the weakpoint on grabbers and goo bombers will chunk half there health, and swarms or trijaws die to one blow.
EDIT: I'M TOTALLY WRONG! IGNORE ME!
Note if you do try and mine standing veins the "quick" way you lose roughly 30% of the minerals you would gain by picking them top down.
@@Fresh3990 I always wondered if that were the case.
@@Fresh3990 is this actually true...? I discovered this method by accident (just have 60 hours right now) on crystalline caverns and have been using it :(
@@kasukahei I just looked again and I'm totally wrong! My bad
@@potterinhe11 I looked back into it and I've been wrong this whole time, it actually yields the same amount
The new holiday chillaxe is such an awesome skin. They're getting more comfortable with getting a bit wild with the designs and I love it
I love mining crystal. The quote of the dwarf that comes up also makes me smile.
"Die worthless crystal!"
In all honesty, I took a break from DRG by playing some sanctum 2, and I have to say, not being able to press V to rock and stone and melee things had me feeling weird. (Sanctum 2 is an FPS TD)
I'm back, and I won't cheat on you again, DRG, I promise.
i tried to play vermintide 2 and kept wasting my ability by instinctively pressing f when it got dark... i know your pain
Exactly
Sometimes in other games I try to click V to rock and stone... XD
Sanctum 2 was one of the first games I ever bought on Steam, man. Totally forgot about that game. It was like 10 years ago.
Rock on brother!
All of the sound design of DRG is so good! The snoring sound of Betsy, the screaming of the Huuli Hoarder, and all the Rival enemies. So many good sound design choices!
My man putting up one of the only good Adam Sandler movies in the video.
I love the sound it makes when hitting the meteorite.
TRUE
One of the most beautiful dreams I've had recently was some kind of drilling vehicle being driven through a yellow crystal crust. it was definitely a combination of DRG and Rock Raiders, and felt like the loading screen between deep dives as the crystals just kept on coming...
Someone with appreciation for fine detail.
If you see me at the bar, remind me to buy a beer for you and your pickaxe.
My favorites so far is the Gadgeteer's Favorite for Engineer and Chasm-Borne Cliffhanger. Also, one of my favorite lines is "Taste some pickax!"
Cant believe you talked about one of the best sounding materials, the black ice
It's not often that the cave generation forces you to mine through a layer of the stuff, but nobody can deny the satisfaction of that "Pweowow".
Accidental sneeze piss out here with another gem.
Little appreciation for the music choice and timing on the outro and your “rock and stone”. As satisfying as popping a salt crystal as you said. Gohoood tiiimes
Imma say something, any kind of game, if it has a pickaxe, it MUST have a good feeling while using it, the sound, the impact, the weight when you swing and hit something, those are the main things that any pickaxe in any videogame must have
I SINCERELY want a way to see eachother's picks without needing them to salute.
I wish we could hang them on our hip
Have them hang from a belt of a dwarf maybe
Just swing your pick in the air
@@AtomicAlchemist true, but this only works for a few seconds tops, assuming they're not moving
They need an inspection animation for the pick.
I love how you managed to breakdown everysingle nook and cranny of this game,and show how this details matters.Keep up the great work buddy o/
have you guys ever broken those premade bridge caves? like mined out every supporting pillar and every bit that touches the walls? that goes insanely hard
Thanks for bringing attention to Berzerker, I tried it one day and felt like it was really underrated. Now it gets the usage it deserves!
The greasiest greybeards will say that Dash and Iron Will are the best perks for keeping yourself alive. But nothing beats the satisfaction of ripping Glyphids apart with your trusty pick. It's about fun, not winning. Plus, using the pick as a weapon conserves ammo.
The pick axe power attack part matching with the music really was the cherry on top
I find Vampirism and See You in Hell to be a fun combo, so I get to look at the snazzy pickaxe designs a fair bit during swarms. That said, the latest Chillaxe look has captured my affection for the time being.
I feel sad that I lost my progress before Season 3 began, but here i am, a once gray beard climbing up the ranks again and having fun with ir
I think there are saves of varying levels out there you can download and use if you want to catch back up
@@Fresh3990 nah its ok, part its my fault since i wasnt saving in the cloud
@@Fresh3990 do u have a video showing how to install a save? Been tryin but cant find any
I love the drift crusher pick axe. Works super well with driller. Rock and stone!
I'm so happy to be in a community like this. From the amazing developers to the awesome content creators, even your average greenbeard. It's truly beautiful. Rock and stone, lads! Thanks for all the memories!
The dirt digging sound in DRG is just so smooth and satisfying. Like digging into a cake
This oddly just brought me back to playing really old(2012) custom Minecraft maps with massive swathes of dirt to dig through. It was just as satisfying
im pretty sure morkite used to be less crunchy. i remember at some point an update made the sound of morkite a good bit more crunchy and i loved it
Love your videos and content, just started playing a week ago and can’t put it down. Much love!
Randomly got recommended this video and I had no clue what to expect going into it. Completely blew me away, great job with the video. I had never put much thought into the pickaxe but it's clear to see how much effort went into making it as good as possible. Great video!
Big fan of mixing the front blade and back blade from Drift Cruiser with the Glyphid Trophy Hunter for a really brutal looking and feeling pickaxe, I use that on my gunner who I’ve given a set of cosmetics to make him look a bit more like an Uruk from Lord of the Rings; pale, covered in bug parts and blood, weapons covered in bug parts, scraggly and unkempt beard.
Looking forward to the 2022 DRG review
there is something so special about seing dwarves mentioned in a random place and imidiately seeing it followed with some variety of rock and stone
The Chillaxe is pretty incredible and themed immediately with an ice dwarf look I was going for on Scout
The power attack montage in beat to "Dance Of The Dreadnaught" was *chefs kiss*
„I‘ll do anything to hit that cube twice.“ Something you really feel as a dwarf.
Ah the lovely rock and skull cracker! With DRG I easly get idealistic mindstorm ( that gets undermined, shot down on Reddit, Discord. Parts of the DRG is EXTREMELY hostile to ideas, even sound ones) before I noticed that the power attack uses the back head part of the pickaxe, I suggested different parts would do different kind of dmg + focused or aoe dmg with the p.a mods enhancing that even more
I tend to combine pickaxe parts from multiple frameworks to create a thin, but often jagged pickaxe, often with the default grey paint or gold.
My favorite pickaxe cosmetic has to be Gadgeteer's Favorite. I especially love the shaft and the alternate pickaxe head that looks like a screen. The wires look great since they're always a different, usually contrasting color, to the rest of the pickaxe.
One my favourite moments was finally making my first own pick from all the random parts I got
shout out to the devs to implement a new, better feature (power attack) instead of just taking out something people were enjoying. thats more than a compromise, thats so awesome of them! as a new player i had no idea of that piece of history. it makes me respect them even more. so thoughtful of them. ROCK AND STONE !!
The pickaxe is more then a tool it’s a symbol of unity and triumph it’s there for you whenever you need it and it’s as loyal and trustworthy as a dog rock and stone.
Really loved this video, taking a deeper dive into a small piece of this incredible game. It reminds me of Illusory Wall but for DRG and that’s high praise.
That music at the end just sounds like conclusion in my head, YOU'VE MADE IT TO THE END
the music when sniss is showing his patrons really slaps, very good music!
One thing about sound too is that dirt in different biomes sounds different. Fugus Bogs sounds wet and moist and Crystalline Caverns sounds frozen and hard. Even normal terrain sounds different. Like Hollow Bough sounds woody and Sandblasted Corridors sounds sandy lol. Great video!!!
A big thing that make mining so appealing is the animation. A simple little trick that they did with deep rock is help making it look more natural and less stiff like in the old days is the flick and pull at the end of every swing making the simple action more rewarding. It's what it would look like to really mine like this. To dig in and pull out
the pickaxe
I just realized by seeing this video that I don't think about the pickaxe much in gameplay; it's just so well engrained into the gameplay.
There is only 1 bad thing about the pickaxe:
You can't use the back pick customisations on the front pick.
All I want is the shovel back pick on the front as that's the side that I do the most digging.
3:48 NOOOOO THE BARLEY BULB
Always had a soft spot for the gadgeteers pickaxe love how it’s like a power tool but it’s just a a pick. Like slapping a computer on a hammer
Bro made me feel all kinds of unexplored feelings by combining drg footage with RuneScape music at the start
Arc Welder's delight is my favorite pickaxe. You can't go wrong with black and red, and the handle goes really well with like the Chasm-Borne Cliffhanger's shaft
At the end you mention how "Rock and Stone" has had a sweeping impact on dwarfs regardless of setting or universe and that is very, very true lol. I love seeing a post making the slightest mention to dwarfs or god forbid DRG and 9 out of 10 comments is a "ROCK AND STONE". Truly do love seeing them
give each of your loadouts a unique pickaxe design, so if you forget you can just ROCK and STONE to remember what loadout you are on.
Rock and Stone! Funny enough that is also the most upvoted response to the Pickaxe in Elden Ring on the wiki.
This is a fantastically made video. The editing, motion graphics-y stuff (like backgrounds), fonts, sound design/song usage--it's all great! Creates a very comforting atmosphere. I especially loved when you made the mining footage entirely black and white except for the minerals getting smashed.
Chillaxe from the Yule event really is peak pickaxe design, the moment my squad saw how cool it was they were on board to grind out the entire event in one night. Rock and Stone!
My favorite back blades are tied between the Drift Crusher's and Chillaxe's. Beyond that: It's whatever looks good in whatever color I have.
there's a message on some of the screens in the spacerig that mentions q-mining, and I've always wondered what it was! thanks for that.
Honestly should make a poll to see what people prefer extracting
for pickaxe cosmetics, I love using the "remove cosmetic restrictions" mod
it lets you wield not only pickaxes, but regular axes too! not to mention hammers, shovels, saws, and everything in-between.
one of my favourite regular parts has to be the "thiccaxe": both blades are the depth crusher style with the chunkiest handle parts you can get your hands on.
I had youtube on autoplay,. With the title and the initial music, I thought this was a runescape video at first.
Rock and stone brother
I love Lifeformed thank you for using them as background music :)
i assembled my pickaxes from like 3-4 different sets to the same for all my classes but equipped a class themed bottom part for all of them, like a drill battery for my engineer or the cliff-hanger-explorer to my scout
Pickaxes, the work horse of mining, and what you use to ROCK AND STONE.
2:37 "the particles that come out of.."
I think I should turn off no particle mod and upgrade GPU instead,
How come I forgot how satisfying it was!
I'm very partial to the Incorruptible blades and the Pneumatic head. It's a solid combination as the glowing crystals in the parts and shapes really play well with each other. They also change color with the different paint jobs. Excellent overall color theory and design elements.
And on the subject of sound design, my favorite sound in the game is when you step on fields of Oripricots or Bloopy Fruit in Azure Weald. The sound and color is amazing. Not pickaxe related, but incredible nonetheless.
Thank you for another well executed, well put together episode. I always love your content.
Skull Crushers or Critical Weakness on a mission makes it fun to try and tap little glyphid heads with your pick
Whatever god you pray to, I highly appriciate you using underappriciated music aswell. Very nice choice to fetch the Dustforce music for that. Shit gave me goosebumps.
I have a few favorite pickaxe parts I love:
- Reaper's Claw
- Drift Crusher
- Core Hound
- Chillaxe
Damn the way sniss aligns outro with music gives me chills everytime
Thank sniss for another video I am starved of good deep rock content
6:35 the new chill axe is really cool because it lets you get an extra color in there while also keeping the universal look intact of the paintjob you choose to put on the pickaxe
Love the pick it’s one of those little things that make DRG stand out
What I want to see in deep rock galactic: A firing range to test out weapons, a use for error cubes, more cosmetic slots like eye coverings, more options for beard colors, more beard stuff, and if I can get a rock and stone
my favourite pickaxe I've made up so far consists of:
- Chillaxe blades, head and shaft
- Pneumatic handle
- Chasm-borne cliffhanger pommel
- Hammerblow paintjob
They actually made an awakening called "Egoist"
I love these Devs.
I have a Kratos build for the Driller and I absolutely love it, the Cryo cannon combined with vampire and berserker is like nothing else in the game. This years Yuletide event gave me the final piece to recreate the Leviathan Axe from the game and I love it. Rock and stone, boy!
"Hitting different things should sound different"
Half-Life Source Crowbar on wood or steel: CLONGCLONGCLONGCLONGCLONGCLONGCLONG
I always knew my Twitter account was destined to be immortalized in a UA-cam video as a primary example of a morkite enjoyer
I love your videos Sniss! Do you think you will ever collab with other DRG UA-camrs?
The hammerblow is like my proudest achievement but im yet to get the damn shaft for it
thank you for pointing out the beautiful and immersive sensory experience of the pickaxe. as a neurodivergent person very affected by sensory things it is *~ chefs kiss ~
also gonna say i adore the texture of the egg hunt areas and the angry mama insect screech that happens when you pull the egg. so atmospheric. this game is dope . im totally a spider man dwarf on an alien planet (i play scout)
The End of the video where u just thanked for watching, ''Rock and Stone'' into music rolls in was way to Epic for its actual content xD
Core Hound must be the best pickaxe skin there is, my absolute favorite. It was a great feeling of satisfaction and pride when I finished gathering all of its pieces back in Season 2. Chillaxe is also pretty cool too, pun inteded!
For those about to Rock and Stone, we salute you
Rock and Roll and Stone!
having played deep rock before they added the power attack I can attest to how much nicer things feel now that it has been added. It adds an additional layer of depth to mining
I wish we could see other dwarves picks on their belts so we can show it off more!
Pneumatic is pretty cool, but the Obsidian mallet piece? Goated.
Thorns, Vampire, and See You in Hell are a great combo for the normal pickaxe attack, especially against grunts. After they bite you, Thorns gets them low enough that one tap to the mouth bits is enough for a kill.
I've always wondered what the final moments a turret's AI sees as a scout grapples towards it and anhilates it with a power attack.
I love the Incorruptible pickaxe set. Always end up mixing at least one part of it into almost every pick i make :)
Remind me to sharpen my pickaxe when we get back to the space rig
Rock n'Stone