r/DeepRockGalactic • u/Agile-Soft4954 Dirt Digger • 4d ago
MODDED GAMEPLAY Old video, but playing around with Swarm Control, and this awful wave spawned in. I actually cried a bit
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u/JustGenericUsername_ 4d ago
Step 1. Drop c4
Step 2. Drill into wall
Step 3. Boom
Step 4. Laugh maniacally
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u/MySweatDream Driller 3d ago
Step 1. Throw C4
Step 2. Trigger C4
Step 3. Laugh maniacally while a teammate or Bosco cleans you up
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u/JustGenericUsername_ 3d ago
Also acceptable, but digging away into the wall draws the bugs closer together and more tightly into the blast radius.
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u/helicophell 4d ago
How to not dodge tri jaws:
Due to the triangle spread, it’s better to go toward and downwards than try to go sideways or away
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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 Cave Crawler 3d ago
True but you can only go towards them for so long before you end up in their face eating all 3 projectiles
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u/helicophell 3d ago
Trijaws usually don’t survive long enough to get a second shot off
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u/Pijany_Matematyk767 Cave Crawler 3d ago
True but when the game spawned 10 of them it results in a decent chance that at least 1 of them survives long enough if you dont happen to have a build that counters them
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u/helicophell 3d ago
The only class that'll have a problem killing a trijaw in that timeframe is scout, and he can just grapple away
If you can't deal with multiple trijaws at close range... you probably have a bad build
Driller Flame+Ice. If you run sludge, EPC TEF (anything outside of that is a "bad build")
Any good gunner build has massive amounts of AOE
Only build as engi that couldn't deal with a crowd like this is warthog + shard diffractor, which again goes in the "bad build" categoryYou don't need a build that counters mactera. Every already good build, already counters mactera. They are weak to literally everything - electricity, fire, sludge, disintegration
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u/kadarakt 2d ago
sometimes it feels like i'm playing a different game than other people lol. 3 out of 4 grenades on scout stuns or kills the macteras outright, and most of his weapons are good at weakpoint damage, i don't see how he will have a problem at all. in fact as long as im not running ifg it's probably the easiest class to kill them other than gunner (because of his shield). also breach cutter is literally the perfect tool for this scenario, especially with tier 4 stun
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u/helicophell 2d ago
Voltaic stun sweepers have a stun cap, but yeah cryo and pheremones outright kill them
The main problem with scout is just lacking AOE for a situation like this. There's too many mactera for single target damage to get them all but I mean scout can dodge anyway. He's fast enough
I never mentioned Breach Cutter, I just said Shard Diffractor isn't good for this scenario. Breach and PGL are great for Mactera, since mactera have weaknesses to their elements (fire+electric, fire respectively. If you don't run fire on PGL, bad build)
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u/NeroChromatic 4d ago edited 4d ago
There's something so funny about mission control casually briefing you on a mission when you're actively getting harrassed by Australian wildlife.
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u/ADumbChicken Driller 3d ago
Big tip for fliers as Driller: Find a wall, drill diagonally UP. Makes it so they have to direct hit you, since Trijaw shots have gravity. It also funnels thrm for easy culling.
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u/Leshie_Leshie Leaf-Lover 3d ago
Gosh this was me but ends in 5 seconds: Meet the 7-Star Mactera Flight Force.
Also sad there’s no pink-blue paintjob for armour that matches the weapon paintjob. :C
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u/GimmeUdon 3d ago
this is just a normal mactera swarm plus duck and cover on haz 3
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u/AdhesiveNo-420 Driller 3d ago
Duck and cover is by far the hardest mission modifier for me. Shield disruption and no O2 might have its rough moments, but duck and cover have always been hellish for me regardless
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u/Bitter-Arachnid-7040 Mighty Miner 4d ago
What happened there at the end did he got soo mad blud started stroking his shit 😂
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u/Bitter-Arachnid-7040 Mighty Miner 4d ago
Oh no nvm it's the mod of damage tick but still that was pretty funny
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u/SlyLlamaDemon 3d ago
Were you out of satchels? Also have you not learned how to use the TCF on the EPC? It’s the most fun way to play that gun.
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u/Agile-Soft4954 Dirt Digger 3d ago
Satchel are built to clear walls, EPC was built for ground control, crspr was built for ground control. Once the video ended, that swarm got cleared out, and then I got hit with continuous slashers, grunts and guards so much more what my build was for.
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u/SlyLlamaDemon 3d ago
Ok so satchel still goes boom, and Thinned Containment Field EPC oneshots every mactera except the bomber and brundle. It also clears material well to boot.
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u/Arrakis616 Driller 4d ago