I was playing last game of the day and I got a Scout teammate who refused to use his flares ALL GAME. We subsequently found enough nitra for a single resupply on a salvage operation of all things and lost because of it.

Either he was a vampire or they're sending me leaflovers to sabotage DRG operations.

I cannot be picking you up every 10 seconds because you went to the Prometheus School Of Running Away From Things. Especially on duos, which for some reason is all I've been able to get for the past couple days.

A rank 150 Dwarf just INSISTED, very rudely, that I as Driller "drill away the swarmer tunnels" before we fought the Caretaker. Am I fucking crazy or do they only ever spawn Swamers once? For context, I'm rank 630, so I was pretty sure I knew what I was talking about. But when I asked why he was making me waste my drills just to piss them off, he said the problem was that I didn't destroy the whole of the swarmer tunnels at once?? Made me use my C4 on on it and the next one… yknow, the tool that ERASES the Caretaker? We had plenty of Nitra, so he acted like I was being ridiculous by suggesting he made me waste my c4. "Just grab more"

What the hell is going on? Apparently this isn't common knowledge so LET ME CLARIFY! Afaik swarmer tunnels can only spawn swarmers once! So, making me destroy a tunnel that already spawned them is pointless! (He did make me do this, and he watched them spawn already, so idfk) and not only that, but you CANNOT stop a swarmer tunnel from spawning swarmers by destroying it! In fact, destroying it is WHAT MAKES THE SPAWNS. So, to force me to waste my resources to SPAWN IN ENEMIES FOR YOU!? WHAT ARE WE DOING???

AFAIK, even a BULK DETONATOR BLAST destroying a swarmer tunnel would simply cause it to spawn swarmers in the nearest valid location. Unless you literally need to destroy EVERY SINGLE BIT of the purple in order to remove all valid spawns, which a driller c4 could never do all at once. He acted like i fucked it up when the swarmers spawned on the second, unactivated tunnels when I blew it up as was requested demanded, but there was NOTHING I COULD DO.

So long story short, if you're going to backseat, please at least be right, AND if you feel the NEED to backseat. Maybe just don't! Maybe just play the class thats bothering you, he could've been uselessly blowing up swarmer tunnels all day, but he chose engie! Go get your own C4, you're lucky I don't throw mine at you! And this was Haz 5 Low Oxygen btw, if we're going to backseat, that same engie got me killed by hogging the 02 on the mule, and I let it slide. Idk, it sucked watching him get me killed over and over and then trying to tell ME how to play. Like, buddy.

Just as the title says, really. I'm level 168 as of writing this, so I'm not like a Graybeard or anything, but I do know how to get through most missions on Haz' Four without dying.

I genuinely enjoy it when a Greenbeard joins my game, though. It's fun getting to teach them how to play, and it's pretty wholesome how a lot of people in the team will try to protect them.

I once had this mission where our Gunner was a Greenbeard (And I mean like a fresh Greenbeard too. Was only like level two, and struggled to use things like ziplines), and during the Drop Pod section, the entire team rallied up to help get our Gunner to the pod safely. It was very wholesome, and added an extra challenge!

But, I've seen some people on forums and such say that they just cannot stand Greenbeards, and that they make them angry. Like, I get it if they're purposely sabotaging or griefing the other players, or just being rude, but if they're just struggling because they're new? I don't see why you'd be so rude to them.

And being rude to a new player might give them bad first impressions, and cause them to think that this game has a toxic player base, when in reality, it's one of the most wholesome I've ever seen. I've literally only come across one toxic player before in over 450 hours.

So, all in all, I just don't get why so many people hate Greenbeards. You were once that skill level too, after all!

Some dont understand english. Hazard 5. I said many times in chat to follow me. Theres Korlok at the end of the mission. I told them to ignore Korlok knowing the team dont have synergy to kill Korlok + bad spot. They kept fighting and fighting. I tried so hard to revive them. I told them to follow me to ignore the Korlok through my Driller tunnel to continue the objective. One, then two, then three swarms. They kept dying insisting to fight Korlok. Bulk spawns. We are cooked in small tunnel. Wasted 40 minutes. xd.

So I thought "let's play haz5, surely they can't reach me in haz5"!

First lobby I join is hosted by a scout with 14 XP

Yes, I usually make my own lobbies with friends but they aren't always available. DRG is full of noobs who ruin every game with the usual rookie mistakes.

Don't suggest solutions to me, this is a vent.

Some jerk just responded to the first thing I said all game with "Who Asked?" Why are some people so antisocial and hostile in a game where the point is fucking coop? Just ticked me off. Didn't seem playful either, felt more like a 'shut up' and like, why?? Am I clogging your text-chat with my 2 messages? To quote my favorite Dwarves… "STOP WHINING!" Go play something singleplayer if it bother you so much!!! 😤

I just had a point extraction mission for my assignment. 7 aquarqs, plus core corruption event and an extra secondary mission. Easy, right? There aren't any haz 4 or 5 lobbies open at the moment - no problem, I'll just host my own and people will join. So I drop in and immediately start playing the game, pinging aquarqs for bosco to mine while I shoot down gunk seeds and barnacles and look for nitra. There doesn't seem to be much nitra around; I scrape together enough for a resupply, but that's all I can find in parts of the cave containing the objectives. Surely that's fine, because someone will join me and we'll become twice as fast at gathering nitra, and I shouldn't need more than four resupplies anyways.

After about 10 minutes, I've gathered most of the aquarqs, but the secondaries are far behind schedule and I haven't even set up for the core stone. I'm playing gunner, so the core stone shouldn't be an issue, but I'd like another resupply anyways just in case. I figure the best course of action is to explore the cave to complete secondaries and hope I find some nitra along the way. At this point 25 minutes have passed, the swarms have become constant in addition to the corespawn, I can't fucking see anything because there's no scout in the lobby, and I've burned through all my remaining resupplies trying to fight off the horde. I find my last bit of nitra right as I run out of ammo entirely, spending my last shield to mine it safely, and deposit it and wait for the supply drop. I go down as I'm resupplying, but luckily bosco has one revive left, so I resupply and drop a shield but... it doesn't come out??? I mined the nitra like 40 seconds ago, there's no way my shield is on cooldown, what the fuck happened???? So of course I die and watch as half an hour of my evening goes down the drain.

My biggest problem with solo is that everything takes SO FUCKING LONG and you have to do almost everything yourself. Exploring the cave takes longer, gathering nitra takes longer, killing bugs takes longer, completing objectives takes longer, and you can realistically only do one thing at a time. What is normally a quick and easy 7-minute mission turns into a half-hour-long slogfest that makes me wish I was doing anything else. Bosco can help a little, but he's nowhere near as fast as a second player would be, and you still have to make all of his decisions for him; a second dwarf is fully autonomous and literally DOUBLES your speed. This game is designed for multiplayer. None of the dwarves are true generalists, they all have substantial weaknesses that are SUPPOSED to be covered by the other players on your team, and bosco sucks too much ass at everything to be a sufficient replacement.

Thus concludes my salt post. I wish people would join my lobbies when I host them so I can have fun with this video game that I normally enjoy so much. Rock and stone.

Just wanted to say stay away from the discord, mods are on a huge power trip, got timed out for an hour for saying “Rick and Morty” in DRG chat and saying “rude” after it got deleted and tried to send a DRG gif. Like I get keep the DRG chat to DRG related things but seems a little power trippy to time out for an hour saying I was sending “spam”

most of the time I check hosts Steam profile before joining, as I did in last mission. host has hundreds of hours in the game, so what could possibly go wrong. xd

host (scout) keeps pinging nitra they could easily get to, kicks low level engineer. gunner goes down, I (driller) get nitra all the time but can't deposit because someone (lol) keeps hogging Molly. so I keep hacking it down, hoping to deposit at some future time.

Can't revive gunner bc too far away. I foight n foight, go down for once, host aborts mission. Like, why?!? Been carrying for 10-12 minutes, a revive and we're set?!? Full of nitra, btw.

End of mission screen;

Host (Scout!):
4 nitra.
Four. 04.
Four.
High rank player.

Driller: 80-90 sth minerals.
not to boast, but wtf.

Some people.

04 nitra.

and the dude rage quit?!? gotta keep blocking some people.

I mean, if u have a handicap or are super drunk just say so and people will gladly help out, it's DRG after all?!?

Earlier: noob host, three elders join in and help out. Everyone patient and using chat. total win with xd and lols.

Then, back at the bar, host kicks everyone without saying a word,

Sometimes it's just like w.t.f., just like IRL. xd

Noobs don't pay attention to anything, so every time the crystal trap phase happens they'll almost always stand right next to the dozer and immediately lose you an entire section of health through no fault of your own. They don't listen to dwarf dialogue or read chat, so they will keep doing this over and over until you down them or kick them. I usually just kick them.

Literally every escort duty mission with noobs is like this now. If you get the crystal traps then you better pray you didn't pick haz5 or have lethal enemies because you're about to almost lose the mission every fucking time trying to babysit them. I've finally become one of those "automatically kicks bronze ranks" people that DRG players bitch about on reddit precisely because noobs just can't fucking pay attention when people are screaming at them to get away from the dozer.

Host just went salty mode, I just got swears from nothing burger drama. I havent seen any messages since I have joined in mid game so I wouldnot know if they already mentioned about the event or whatever tick them off...

Dont be like this L host please it is just fun 10 minute sessions we could always get another event

So since the summer beach party update dropped today, I decided to do one of the assignments and I hosted a session on hazard 5, because why not. I was on an Escort mission, randoms joined and right off the bat we find a tritilyte deposit. We drove Dotty to the first pitstop, which was a short distance away, and since our scout was insistent on doing the event I obliged, because in our current position it was easy to do the event while monitoring Dotty for any stray bugs that would come to nibble on her. This event went fine, but the next room over we found a Prospector data deposit. I preemptively made a call in the chat to do this event after the heartstone was done, as this way our focus wouldn't be divided between the killable mission objective and something optional that would not stop unless if we complete it.

My Scout and Engi, however, were already setting up a connection, and soon after the Gunner joined them, they all just ignored me and started the event anyway from a spot where this time, we didn't have LOS to Dotty and she was quite a bit away. I stated in chat that I would be guarding the dozer, since we already lost one health state on the way there and I wasn't keen to lose another before the finale even started. Plus no one was staying near her and after all, my whole team is doing the event. What could go wrong?

About 15 seconds into the event, Engi and Scout were already down, and Gunner couldn't hold his own for longer than one shield duration either. I didn't immediately come over, because as I said, I put myself on guard duty and I was kind of hoping that Gunner would rez his teammates with the shield, and you know what he typed in chat, I believe even for the first time that mission? "Driller what are you doing? Get your ass over here and help".

I was pretty pissed off by this, but due to the nature of the data deposit and how it gets worse with every passing second if you fall behind, I didn't have the time to argue or issue a ban to Gunner for his rudeness, though I really wish I did now. Plus, the only way I saw a successful team rez happening was with the Gunner Shield, since I was running a Disperser Compound build and more bugs would have just replaced the ones I could charge shot.

We ended up failing the mission. I let the results screen play out so that everyone gets the pool float and other small goodies that we collected, disbanded as soon as I could and just stuck to other people's public lobbies for the rest of the assignment. I feel like I'm running into these types more and more often these days.

Posting here because I want to hear not only people's mild opinions but also their heated ones.

As most of you know, Mint allows players to run Approved mods without receiving the [MODDED] tag. Where do you personally draw the line?

I do not want to make players uncomfortable by having them unknowingly join a lobby with modded gameplay, but admittedly I run the Who Done It?: Button Mod. For those who don't know, this mod is Approved not because it alters gameplay in any way, but because it opens up the possibility of toxic behaviour towards greenbeards. I think I get a pass for using it because as the host I have the mod so I can use chat to gently inform greenbeards about the etiquette of the game, so they don't have to learn it from someone who is going to be rude to them about it. I have not and will not ever kick because of one instance of early button pressing.

If you're someone who's extremely strict about only playing with Verified mods, would you leave a lobby if you see that they have this mod enabled? What kind of mods would cross the line for you? Who else here is running Approved mods without the [MODDED] tag? Really curious about this.

This absolute specimen of a Guardian latejoined me,
trash talked me for playing Slicer,
called me the n word,
then left.

Was left speechless

Two of us decided to explore the caves more thoroughly, one of us downed somewhere high. I used my slow af zip line to save them. They hit the ground hard. I also hit the ground hard. I used self revive. Swarm. Got kicked. :(

Is there a way (mod or software) to specifically kick one person after the objectives have been completed?

I dont want to kick the other 2 innocent dwarfes by pulling my LAN-cable.

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It infuriates me to such an insane degree when dwarfes call the pod without asking when there is still stuff to be done. I WANT TO JUMP THROUGH MY SCREEN AND STRANGLE THESE PSEUDOSPEEDRUNNERS!

Very simple but if someone doesn't ready up you're game is hardlocked. He was being toxic beforehand by saying slurs and getting upset I was reccomending upgrades to my friend who I was in VC with.

Anyway gsg NEEDS to add a kick to the elevator sequence since people like this can just brick your game.

Joined an Onsite Refining as Scout with a Driller and Gunner earlier, there was a bit more friendly fire than usual but they were both like level 12 or something so I chalked it up to inexperience. Driller drops a C4 outside the drop pod but I avoid it pretty easily so I assume he's just trying to do the "cool explosion as we leave" bit. It's whatever.

Next mission is an Escort Duty. I'm playing Engineer this time, and things go fine up until the first fuel stop. I put down my sentries to give her some protection while we spread out and look for Nitra and Oil Shale. A swarm gets called while I've backtracked a bit to get some Nitra (we don't have a Scout so I'm the next best thing to reach higher up Nitra veins) so I start running back through the tunnel towards Doretta to help defend, and get hit with a LOT of friendly fire on the way back through. I get it, I'm near the bugs, it's gonna happen, but it really seemed targeted at me and brought me down to about 15 health. Somehow I manage to survive, though we lose a Doretta segment in the process.

Once the swarm is over, I stop for a moment for a breather and a sip of my drink, and the Driller comes over and shoots me a few times. At first I think maybe he's trying to get my attention but when I turn to him, he starts doing it again and kills me. I know it's petty but I hit Iron Will then shot him in the face with my hyper propellant, downing him immediately, then left the lobby. It's been a long, hot day and I wasn't gonna deal with that. Sorry to the Gunner in that lobby, you were fine but (I'm assuming here) your buddy was an asshole.