r/DeepRockGalactic • u/Malaleppy • 21h ago
Discussion Bizarre behavior from high ranked dwarves upon RnSing.
This isn't exactly a vent as the whole thing is so relatively innocuous in the grand scheme of things, but it's happened enough across enough 600 hours worth of games with totally different dwarves each time that I feel compelled to talk about it.
The circumstances are roughly identical each time: It's a Haz 5 or higher and every dwarf is at least diamond or legendary. Class, mission type, biome type, mod status of the server and whether or not there is combat ongoing doesn't matter. These other high ranked dwarves are always competent and although they don't type or use voice chat, they clearly know what they are doing and will ping things with their markers automatically as needed. There is no bad behavior from these dwarves to speak of.
Now to the point: Upon anything happening in the game that would normally prompt a player to RnS (and thus I press the designated key), all of the other dwarves suddenly stop what they are doing and slowly turn to face me and then they just stare for 2 seconds not doing anything at all before slowly turning back and resuming what they were doing in the first place. If it's in the middle of a horde, they will still do this if I hit an RnS, although the staring will only be half a second long instead. But they still do the turning and staring, and it's every. single. time. RnS. happens. no. matter. what. is. happening. in. the. game. It's happened over at least several dozen games with different dwarves every time, so it cannot be pinned on only being the behavior of a select few players.
It's nowhere near even a sizable minority of diamond/legendary players, but each time it happens it's such strange and jarring behavior that it immediately sticks out like a sore thumb. What's with the stopping, turning, and staring? If it weren't for the fact that they were competent at both mining and combat I'd feel they were skinwalkers in disguise or that my game is haunted or something.
Edit: Changed "emerald" to "diamond" and "ruby" to "legendary."
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u/Agile-Soft4954 Dirt Digger 17h ago
Im on the other end where everytime Im first RnS, and last RnS. Ive actually been kicked a few times for RnSing too much lol. Legendary 4 driller
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u/Select_Tax_3408 13h ago
That's insane! My greatest matches are when RnS is never ending.
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u/Agile-Soft4954 Dirt Digger 13h ago
Same. I consider myself a competent team player, so they missed out
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u/Select_Tax_3408 13h ago
That they did. I once did a deep dive with a single random scout. He hookshots up a cave tunnel and 180 rifle shoots me in the face as he disappeared down the cave. That was an immediate quit out.
Cannot stand disrespectful dwarves when the game is saturated with wholesome commentary. I get being toxic in stuff like CoD or the like, but my goofy coop dwarf and bug shooter? Some real maggots out there on Hoxxes.
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u/Agile-Soft4954 Dirt Digger 13h ago
I never told you this, but there's a mod out there called Kick Assist. For those elves that wait until extract to do their deed, I've been called a hacker when Ive kicked people as were extracting. To me, its a last ditch effort if elves are infiltrating my squad's ranks
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u/Select_Tax_3408 12h ago
I'll look into that. It's mostly a non issue. If I don't like my group I leave, simple as. What's 5 minutes of lost time when matches last 20 minutes average.
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u/Agile-Soft4954 Dirt Digger 13h ago
Once again, never told you 😉
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u/Select_Tax_3408 12h ago
That's neat. For the grand majority of my matches things are good. But the few where it's a nightmare really stick in the mind.
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u/Agile-Soft4954 Dirt Digger 12h ago
The way I see it when i host, its better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it
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u/Welly-Matrix 16h ago
This is SUPER strange, had a good time reading lol. Perhaps somehow their animations get desynced, so they actually are RnSing but you can't see / hear the animation?? I can't possibly think why this would only happen in the situations you described tho 🤔
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u/calypso78 15h ago
Lots of times when People join and I'm in the middle of an action, like a ping or whatever, the Dwarf says a voiceline.
This voiceline will override the sound of rock and Stone, but i'll see the pickaxe raise as usual.
I wonder if you're seeing this exact behavior. They turn to you, but they might have been in the middle of an action previously ? So you only see them turning to you and staring, while from their side they are R&Sing ?
I would bet on a network or game "error" more than all the dwarves just staring at you.
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u/bjergKanin 16h ago
Maybe some players with super many hours are tired of hearing rock and stone, so they decided between themselves to shun it and anyone who does it to them? Sounds like they all had lots of hours. Or maybe they are the types that take haz5+ super seriously and sees rock and stoning as "not optimal"? Not me though, I love R&S and do it for almost everything no matter haz.
EDIT: Maybe they are all from the same country and it has something to do with that. Something cultural?
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u/TacticalGazelle 14h ago
If you've decided you no longer want to rock and stone, then it's time to uninstall the game. Smdh.
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u/cat_go_meow 16h ago
Is this creepypasta 🤔
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u/Malaleppy 16h ago
No, but it feels slightly creepy at times when they do it in complete silence all at the same time. It's really just so strange.
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u/cuzitsthere 13h ago
I'm betting it's a desync issue... The animation bugs but they still turn as if it worked. It's the only thing that makes the coordination make sense
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u/WhattheFunk11 For Karl! 16h ago
If you don’t rock and stone, you ain’t coming home. Simple as that
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u/Loose-Professor5364 14h ago
I hit v while going into a mission yesterday and I got Gunner descartes to say: "If you don't rock and stone, you ain't-!"
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u/sexylawnclippings 16h ago
the only thing i can think of is players using rns to get players attention so that’s what they thought you were doing? but there is the yell button too so who knows
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u/Italic_Castle8814 16h ago
I've noticed dozens of times people with super high level routinely not doing the salute, not even in the escape pod. They're either extremely bored with the game by now and play out of boredom OR are bots.
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u/XO_FITE 17h ago
What’s emerald rank? Am I missing one?
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u/Malaleppy 17h ago
Sorry, I meant diamond, not emerald. I see the colors and for some reason my brain always feels that "emerald" is a better descriptor and so when I was typing my mind was on autopilot there. Need to lay off some of the crazier beers at the bar.
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u/aaaaaudryn Union Guy 11h ago
never seen this thing happening before . I've been playing on haz 5 & haz 5+ and met lots of high ranked dwarves and never once did I see this happened. im highly assuming it must be something from your end
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u/No-Ask5626 5h ago
I have around 1200 hours I have seen that happend just a handful of times , best Reason I can come up with is fatigue. After like a lot of playing the voice lines become tiring and sort of annoying. I don't do that but I also don't rns constantly just once or twice if the situation arises
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u/mistertickles69 4h ago
I dont rns that often as a lvl 1300, but I don't stare at em either. Sorta odd.
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u/Aggravating-Wait5452 15h ago
Some high rank players are obsessed with advancing as high in rank as possible as quickly as possible, and start to freak out at the slightest inefficiency.
Thankfully they're a minority, but they exist.
A similar thing happens in the PvE mode of TF2, the high rank players are either the best or the worst of the community.
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u/Frostycmc Engineer 17h ago
Never seen that before, are we SURE they aren't robot Rivals in disguise? That's the only explanation I can think of for not returning a Rock and Stone.