Tips: The first 80 nitra is top priority no matter the mission

For Salvage Mules Whenever you approach a mini mule for the first time, it will trigger a small wave of enemies to spawn within the next 30 seconds or so

For Industrial Sabotage: You can drill/platform above the Caretaker. When you do this, its easy to drop C4 or Fat Boy nukes onto the caretaker, which can shred its 4 separate HP bars/vent thingies, and basically skip the entire spinning phase. Also, make sure to not drop onto the Caretaker while its spinning, and definitely dont get downed. Its nearly impossible to get revived while the Caretaker is spinning (besides an instant rez). The corpse will spin with the caretaker, while the reviver will get frozen in place, causing the corpse to spin away and cancel the rez.

aight I'll bite: Mining Expedition: this tip applies to team play and pretty much any mission but since ME has the most mining and is also the simplest mission, this will suffice. While your Scout is busy carving out the ceiling, be on the lookout for chunks that will start falling from the ceiling once the Scout's pockets are full. a Scout with platforms can have a bunch of chunks sitting on one platform, hit it and let all the chunks fall into one neat pile easy to collect, both for himself (not needing to grapple back to the ceiling), but for any engi or gunner looking for something to do after having cleared the lower portion of any room. Egg Hunt: Egg Hunt is a non-linear map type so find youself a nice clean spot to defend, preferably at the center of all or a majority of the eggs. And bonus tip, there's pretty much no downsides to pressing the button right after acquiring the last egg - wave or mini-wave - as extraction on Egg Hunt is usually very short. Point Extraction: Strong Arm is pretty good in a post-host-throwing world. So consider taking it sometimes. Bonus tip that applies to all the non-linear maps, don't always rush out of the pod right away, especially on Rival Presence, as you could have landed in the middle of 13 spitballers or right next to the turret controller. The Pod provides cover from a whopping 270 degree angle so use it to your advantage to clean the room if need be. Plus open the terrain scanner to know which direction a Nemy is in if your hear it so you know which direction to run AWAY from. Salvage: Can't find the last secondary objective? Be sure to check the tunnels that circle back to the lost Drop Pod room as they lead nowhere but can still hold a lot of ressources depending on the generation. Elimination: Elimination along with ME can have the longest extraction period usually, so not only is the spawn room a good safe place to fight dreads, it's also usually a good spot to be equidistant to all possible drop pod locations. OSR: Getting the refinery to start running ASAP is crucial, the pipes breaking will drag aggro away from you at completely no cost. The bugs will never know better to stop gnawing at the pipelines while you pump their asses with the 500 bullets or so that your Subata needs to kill them. Until the refinery starts, the announced waves are an insane time sink. You can do all the mining and ressource gathering you want for free while the refinery is working Escort: Time for some Solo tips! Bosco has a handful of practical applications on Escort. He can mine Oil Shale that is 80% guaranteed to generate way out of reach, he can be set to defend Doretta by pinging her while you go look for the last Apoca Bloom, and he will actually mine the beamers in Phase 4 if you ping them. Sabotage: Make sure to save some ressupplies for the caretaker of course but also, use your traversal tools to make access to them easier. Gunner ziplines going from the ressuplies to raised ledges in the arena, platform ceilings to protect from possible sniper spawns and rogue patrol bot missiles. As for Driller, a tunnel that goes directly above the caretaker to drop C4 (and the Shield Batteries if you shoot them!) on it will trivialize the armor phases. important to note that the engi Turrets will never, in my experience, target the caretaker's armor or eye, turrets will only shoot bots and appendages. Appendages are EXTREMELY weak to melee so be sure to always Power Swing at any that land in your viscinity.

Salvage: Always check scanner for pre drilled resuplie droptunnels. If existing, you can dig out a "hidden" resuplie. If not broken it will give you at least one free resup. There can even be more then one per mission

industrial sabotage: the mission spawns an absolute ton of nitra, so feel free to take builds that exchange ammo efficiency for dps. it's worth it 99% of the time.

Multiple people repairing Doretta at once either does nothing or yields a negligible increase in repair speed. So don't repair Doretta if someone is already doing it (unless they changed it?) Multiple people standing on Doretta (as far as I know) increases how fast she goes, so try not to abandon her. But the funniest tip for Escort Duty that I can think of is to run to the spawn room after the Ommoran Heartstone is retrieved, and when your team presses the button on Molly, the Drop Pod for some reason seems to always drop in the Ommoran room even though 3 of your teammates are already there. It makes Molly take less time so it's ultimately faster than having the Drop Pod spawn at the other end of the cave. I've never seen someone else try to do this, so I might just be lucky.

There can never be enough of these videos. Over 1200 hours in the game and almost every video I still learn new mechanics. "Doretta 4-sec rule". Thanks for all the content. Educational as always. RnS

Boosting engagement AND farming content, absolute stonks. On salvage, seeking out nitra is a lower priority, as you get some from each minimule you repair.

my #1 tip that's mission agnostic is don't try and be too ammo efficient. Use your tools, they're there for you to do stuff faster. Always annoying when I hear people mention how ammo efficient they are being as it usually means someone else has to cover killing more bugs, or waiting on certain classes that are the "proper" ones to do things instead of using your tools to do them faster than the wait. Most missions give enough extra nitra so if you need to drop one or two more resupplies because you're burning through ammo it's mostly irrelevant compared to the time saved.

Point Extraction : start with the furthest aquas / most difficult to reach ones. If there is an abyss under, or if the caves go super high. When the swarms grow it will be more manageable to get the close ones.

Industrial Sabotage: You can use the power cells in the Caretaker’s backup shield generator as bombs. Before the fight starts, place each battery on to one of the hatches where the arms pop out and wait for the arms to come out, then shoot the batteries to easily destroy the arms.

You can negate fall damage by landing on another dwarf’s head and by grabbing a ledge as you fall. Both take luck and practice but they have saved me at least a dozen times

For Industrial Sabotage Lures can actually distract the caretakers tentacles (something I figured it would do anyways but it’s very consistent often giving you breathing room to do damage)

For solo refinery, and bad refinery terrain, you can stack pipes on top of each other to get them to the pumpjacks

-When fighting the OMEN as Engineer make platforms at about forehead level above the weak point activation pads... It's the perfect height to avoid having to break dance while trying to activate the weak points. -When doing a drilldozer mission, at the end when you have to break pillars that shoot lasers at Doretta, you can shoot the tips with the PGL or shoot them with most of the gunner weapons to neutralize them. -heard this one from a grey beard: position turrets slightly elevated and clear anything that would break their line of sight in a room to maximize turret coverage. EDIT: Braided beard options are the best. EDIT 2: A good way to test build viability is to turn off Bosco and use the mission timer on a haz 5 aquarq mission to determine survivability (It's also a good way to improve at clutching scenarios where your whole team is downed) -Fourleafgaming taught me this~

Event tip: with the Omen, if you park Molly on a security hatch and stand on her, you’ll be safe from the plasma beams. Additionally, the security hatch for the plasma cutter layer always spawns on the other side of the Omen, compared to the core infuser

Salvage: Approaching a mini mule will summon a mini swarm, so only go within 2 meters of it when there are no bugs around. Escort: Doretta seems to drill towards the 210 mark on the compass at the top of the screen, so predrilling in that direction should lead to the Heartstone.

For the second phase on the Heartstone as Engineer, build platforms above doretta to create a barrier for the floating rocks to hit instead of hitting doretta

Mostly for Egg Hunt but also works for lost packs, but if you plan on using a resupply to knock down an egg on the ceiling that's too high up to get to normally, use a way point. Since it shows on the terrain scanner, you can check your aim before calling down the resupply. Great for maps like Magma Core and Dense Biozone, where you'll get a super high up egg with no good place to put a platform, so being able to line up your shot beforehand and just knocking it down is much easier.

I call the final cave chamber of a mining mission the "Treasure Room". Always has a lot of morkite as well as gold, nitra, brewing ingredients, crafting resources, and oftentimes a spitball infector or brood nexus.

Escort Duty: Oil Shale is slurped up by fuel canisters faster as chunks on the ground. So, Driller, I have good news: You can now do a lot more to help the team in Escort than just drilling the beamers at the end. C4 and drill out oil shale veins for faster refuels.

On refinery missions, grinding on pipes will cancel any fall damage. This is similar to the way ziplines function. Content for the Content God!

1. Ties into Point Extraction tip: Frontload aquarks above other mining (unless extremely convenient), since the most difficult resource to mine and deposit is the one you have to constantly hold. It's also easier to flex a get-out-now decision if you can hit the extract button, rather than needing to go mine another aquark. 2. For PE and Egg Hunt: Both aquarks and eggs can be mined by the resupply hole, which is really helpful if you don't have a scout. 3. Situationally, you can begin to estimate how much nitra you'll actually need in the course of a mission, depending on difficulty and type. For missions like PE, Salvage, and Refining, you don't usually need all the nitra in the stage, and can focus your time on finishing the objectives faster. Never mine nitra just to spend more time to fight more enemies.

Tip: Egghunt, PE and Refinery missions tend to have a hot landing zone. Don't just rush out expecting a nice stroll!

i guess most people already know it but in industrial sabo, just make ur driller to c4 the top of the caretaker. drill up or build up damage varies depending on player count but on solo with 2 dmg upgrades u oneshot all 4

Tip, When doing Escort missions have your gunner bring the Plasma missles overclock as it makes all the rocks will be destroyed in 1 hit. So the gunner can focus the rocks while the rest of the team keeps the bugs of lil Dotty.

1 not necessarily tip for missions but more for gameplay and knowing team readiness. constantly pull out your laser pointer to check who's where in the cave and ammo wise.

All good pieces of advice. I wouldn't call industrial sabotage particularly hard, it's just that players haven't played it as much as other mission types. My tip for industrial sabotage is to save all the nitra you can for the boss. Aim for one ammo drop per node and save the rest for the boss. A lot of mission failures happen due to lack of resupplies.

I've found that if a wall isn't perfectly vertical, you can spam jump and make it up 80% of the time

management loves it when you kick barrels into the launch bay

In salvage, a wave spawns shortly after any dwarve comes into close proximity to a mini mule for the first time. A smaller wave can spawn with each leg dug out of the floor. Repairing a mini mule gives 40-60 nitra and gold.

Salvage: you can tell which side the drop pod is going to open up, the port for the fuel cell is located on the left of the drop pod entrance

Doretta Missons: Doretta always spawns facing 210°, which if your driller drills ahead, will be pointing directly towards the Heartstone. No ‘Mission Control announced waves’ will spawn until Doretta is started. The trade off is time efficiency for lower pressure exploration.

Never saw this anywere before, so... Escort Duty tip: Caves in this mission generate in a straight line and Doretta spawns ALWAYS facing the direction of this line. So if you really struggling on escort part of the mission and you have a spare driller, you can drill right through every cave up to Ommoron, clearing up hazards and collecting minerals on the way. Don't worry about Doretta, bugs are not interested in her until you START her to drill.

Tip for escort missions, the oil canisters won't refill themselves. stop standing around expecting someone else to do it if dorette stops twice and there are 2 canisters, that's one refill for each player in a full team

I love the data mining tactic. Thank you so much for making it easier to learn this complex and varied game. And thanks to all the folks in your community who step up.

A small one but one that may be impactful for any mission type. If someone disconects or is kicked they will drop thier backpack with all its contents inside. This includes *primary and secondary objectives as well as nitra*! Which is why it's a good thing that pulling out your laser pointer will always highlight it through walls as if it were a dwarf, even without clicking it. It looks like a 3D hexagon and is metalic grey, so if you see anything that looks kind of hexagonal as a white outline, you should probably seek it out. It is considered a heavy object though so You'll need to carry it like an Aquark or Jadiz. It could have a full 45 nitra and some fossils for all you know!

Use resupply pods to mine hard to reach things. Ceiling red sugar, ceiling crystals like aquargs or jadiz , can be acquired easy by using a supply pod to drill it out. Looking directly up with lazer pointer is an easy way to get the position correct. Lithophage cleaning kits can do the same thing.

For salvage: getting close to the mini mules will spawn an unannounced wave of enemies, you will also get at least 40 nitra and gold from fixing one

Sorta of a tip: In the on-site refining, when the pipes get damaged, this is randomly chosen, and the bugs get attracted to it. So despite how it looks, the bugs aren’t actually the ones causing the damage to the pipes.

got me with that end screen lol

Personal industrial sabotage is my favorite mission in drg. I like how I’m not getting rushed by swarms like a soft time limit like some other missions and how the boss fight is fun and is not the same each time since it will spawn different defenses. Though I do wish it would add more versions of things to send our way to make it more interesting each time.

5:16 very good tip, saved me from setting my local orphanage on fire 👍

Here are some general tips I can think of: *Always check with everyone in your team when your ready. It not only polite, it can save a mission because everyone is on the same page and not getting flat footed. *There's a brief window during weapon animations that can be quickly canceled, shaving off time and getting you back to fighting more quickly. Watch the HUD and quickly tap the laser pointer button when the weapon magazine is reloaded. *You should always elect the driller on a team to be in charge of constructing pipes on oil extraction. Driller has the best tools second to Engineer to creating a tunnel network for pipes to go through and reach oil pumps. *Keep good pacing. You should be generally be prioritizing speed but when you can you should know when to slow down. When entering an unexplored room, backup and scan the perimeter for enemies and then look up at the ceiling while WALKING. Once your confident the room is safe, return to playing fast and collect whatever you need and get the GTFO to the next room or call the drop pod for evac. *When using pheromone bolts, prioritize tougher targets such as Bulks, Oppressors, Praetorians, Gaurds and Slashers. Each of these have much more staying power and will aggro more bugs due to them just being generally bigger. Mentally make a note of how long your special bolts last and count down from that number. Once you hit zero, let loose another pheromone bolt at the target to refresh the status effect. This will seriously help reduce waste and let you get the most effect out of your pheromone bolts. *Try to stay close to your team unless there's a good reason (mining nitra, kiting a horror, ect.) because a dwarf that is alone for too long is a dead dwarf.

Morkite: This is a great mission for scout to be "Lighting up!" Sometimes morkite spawns up by the ceiling and you can miss it just running around. Share the Molly, since you'll be feeding her a lot on this run. Eggs: Eggs have a surprising amount of material surrounding them. Don't be afraid to check the terrain scanner to see if you should go up or down. Or just blow them up. Salvage: Cover the area above the zone in platforms and set up, backs against a wall with turrets at the front. This funnels the bugs into a sort of cone in front of the team, instead of them crawling on the walls right behind you. Extraction: In addition to periodically spawning them, *this mission does not announce swarms.* The time between waves gets smaller as time goes on, and eventually waves start to stack on each other. Gotta go fast! Sometimes aquarqs spawn in the ceiling, keep an eye out! Also...don't fight on the minehead. Despite it looking like a good place to fight, bugs can actually bite you through the platform. Escort: Always save Doretta. But more seriously, Doretta always points towards 220 on the compass. If you have a driller, you can rip through the walls and premine all the nitra before starting Doretta. Especially useful on deep dives where there's something else to handle. Refinery: Pipes are as much for transportation as they are for connecting to pump jacks. Being able to jump on a pipe and zip away from a swarm or to a downed teammate can save runs. Elimination: Ziplines are your friend. If you're in a party, a couple of the other dwarves can bait aggro on the ground, while you're hanging above, away from the ground slam, free to put rounds into weak spots as they pop up. Sabotage: The key is a wide, flat area, about at the height of the top of the boss. You want that area to be elevated so the patrol bots are forced to fly to get to you, wide enough to dodge left and right around the repulsion waves, and deep enough to take cover from sniper turrets or dodge bombs. Also, drop a resupply up there. Driller and/or engineer can make this happen. For a not boss tip, igniting robots instantly kills them.

One tip that I was given for escort missions is that one can protect doretta's head from the flying rocks by using platforms and from bugs by dropping a shield on her. Bugs tend to favor one side of the drilldozer, but maybe that's just me seeing things. I tend to put a shield on doretta's left side because that's where bugs tend to go for first. Got me out of a few close scrapes on hazard 4. I've not tried it on hazard 5 because I am not a masochist and I'm not going to test things on that difficulty. If you play any mission in the radioactive exclusion zone, all you need to do is destroy the glowing middle, the part that looks like it's glowing brighter than the rest, of the radioactive crystals. You don't need to mine the base of the crystal, or destroy the whole thing to get it to stop. A few well placed shots at the center should destroy it and render the whole crystal inert. Similarly, one can shoot the beam spire tips in escort missions if they either don't have a driller or can't be bothered to mine out the base of the beam spires. Works best if you have a gunner with a bulldog and elephant rounds, but two or three shots from a stock bulldog ought to do the trick. All game types: if you are in the fungus bogs and you see a xenofungus you must ping it. Mushroom. Similarly if you see a bitter gem, compressed gold, error cube, or anything, ping it. Ping big enemies as well. Especially bulk detonators. And my friend group does this but I'm not sure if anybody else does, if you ping a bulk detonator and you have a microphone, do your best Joseph Joestar impression and say "Ooooh mah goooooddd!"

Newbie friendly tips here: Morkite: Morkite is the mission objective, but Nitra will keep you alive. Grab Nitra first, then Morkite, then minerals like Jadis or Bismor, and finally gold. Eggs: Like all mission objectives, dropped Eggs will show up with YELLOW icons on your terrain scanner. So if you can't get to molly and the swarm gets on you, you can ditch the egg and come back to grab it later. Don't die for it. Salvage: If the fuel cells or blackbox are in an inconvenient location, you can sometimes mine away at the ground to make them drop to a lower level. a "good location" means you have plenty of room to move around, and have clear sights on bugs while they are approaching you, even if it's along a wall or ceiling. a BAD location is one where the team's movement is restricted, and the bugs can sneak up on you from below a ledge, or crawl on top of you from around a corner. Fuel cells on flat ground backed up to a large, sheer cave wall are good. Fuel cells on the precipice of a ledge or in a narrow crevice in the wall are BAD. (Tip: it's a lot easier to make a BAD location a GOOD location if you have a driller and/or an engineer) Point Extraction: Like the video says, more bugs spawn in the later parts of this mission. Extraction can be nasty. Keep in mind that you don't have molly for this mission, and once you launch the minehead to begin extraction, you *cannot deposit anything until the droppod arrives*. (Remember: You can always deposit on the side of the drop pod.) Escort: It's easier (but slower) to skip gold, minerals, and optional objectives until after you've beaten the hearthstone boss. Until that point, Dotty must be protected and you have an additional failstate to worry about. Afterwards the mission is quite leisurely and you can take your time to clear out the caves and do side objectives. If you're really quick about refueling (ignore gold, ignore minerals, JUST focus on fueling up), you can even refuel dorreta before the swarms spawn which makes this method extra safe. Refinery: There's no mule on this mission, so the same tip in Point Extract applies here. However, you can speed things up by laying pipe framework as soon as possible. This makes it easier to get back to the deposit, which is super handy if you have a lot of heavy mineral chunks (Enor Pearls, Jadiz, Compressed Gold, etc) or if you have gunk seeds. It's also handy for navigating and regrouping with the team. Sabotage: Don't resupply or try to revive downed team members when phase bombs are firing. Just keep your cool, keep your patience, focus on dodging, then when the bombs are done, go in for resupply and revives.

For Escort Duty missions: If you wish to avoid backtracking or even needing to deal with dedicated waves in general to focus on the loot aspect? It's actually possible to dig ahead of the Drilldozer once it has been dropped down and clear out the caves ahead of time. Any bugs that spawned cannot damage her in her Cage and will completely ignore her until she's activated. Of course, I would recommend this only if you have a Driller even if the mission is in Fragile Terrain or you have a Rocky Mountain in effect. The distance between these caverns is unpredictable so it is far less painful to let a driller do his job here. It also allows for Oil Shale to be prepared for Rapid Collection by disconnecting it from the walls as small chunks on the ground to the point you can actually have Dorretta refueled before the first response wave even spawns in. Oh! If you do go ahead with this? Constant vigilance of your Terrain Scanner is key to finding where to go for the next cave and how one should enter it

If there's a compressed gold, stop all tasks and say "we're rich!"

The best piece of tech for Escort missions is that Doretta is completely invulnerable until she's started up for the first time. You can pre-drill all the way to the heartstone, clear the entire cave, get all your Nitra, and then just go back to spawn to start Doretta up with no risk of her becoming damaged.

I feel like the only justification for leaving the zone in uplink or fuel cell is if you have a bulk that is locked into you and you’re trying to pull it away from the zone so it doesn’t just kill everyone. Other than that, just sit in the zone.

The industrial sabotage thing got me good and had me laughing at my desk until you came back, well done

Industrial Sabotage: Engie’s platforms can be placed like overhangs to block sniper turret spawns. If stacked on alternating edges, your platforms can also make a decent sized wall to guard from patrol bots and the appendage shots, as well as give a safer resupply spot behind it. Gunner can do the Mole trick on the wall stack if they’re running the coilgun. Your turrets can be placed on top and refilled from underneath safely to deal with swarmer drones and the like.

ngl you got me with the end-of-video recommendation trick. good job sir!

This may be more of a hazard lvl tip, but it concerns 1 specific mission type: If you wanna try and get used to higher hazards, try starting by doing elimination missions on those hazards first. This may seem counterintuitive at first, but since so long as youre dealing with a dreadnought, no new swarms will spawn, these missions will give you a lot more control over the enemy spawns while youre still getting used to them.

The recommended videos were so similar to what usually get I thought the video was actually over

"You are being farmed for content. Please do not resist." Viewers: Yessir.

The prank at 5:19 actually got me since I pretty much always watch videos on Isaac and TF2. Though, it would've also made sense if there were some Deep Rock videos, since I'm watching a lot of those too (shocker I know)

*Sabotage:* Resupply pods are indestructible, place them strategically or as a wall to make a god cover for shooting at the caretaker from.

Industrial Sabotage is an epic mission type!! It's difficult and sluggish but the combat scenarios and boss fight are awesome. Really looking forward to more "boss" battle type missions. Godzilla glyphid...

On-site Refining: if you stay near the refinery while the drop pod arrives, it will land near one of the pumpjacks. you can ride the pipeline to that pumpjack and get into the drop pod with little hassle. Escort Mission: once you've cracked open the Ommoran Heartstone, you have an opportunity to go back through the caves and complete any secondary objectives or optional events before calling in the drop pod. take that opportunity. additionally, digging out the terrain around a node of oil shale is often more effective than using the fuel canister to suck it all up off the terrain. general advice: if you have a Crassus Bulk Detonator spawn in, lure it into one of the smaller tunnels of the map to kill it. if you have a driller on your team(or are the driller yourself), let them take the time to use their drills and dig out the earth around the gold. then, when they're almost finished and only a small bit of terrain is holding the gold up, use the pickaxe to get the gold to drop all in one area for easy collection.

Salvage: You can dig underneath the mini mule to drop it down to an area closer to the legs. Useful in Dense Biozone when the legs are all over the place. It's faster than a gunner zipline and allows you to reach the mule with less strife.

you got me so bad with the industrial sabotage video end joke, My recommended is so similar to yours that I literally clicked on one of the videos just for yours to pause and feel like a clown

Great Tips!!! Never knew about the Drilldozer invulnerability after repairing to full.

General tip - It's pretty easy to instakill Korlok Tyrant Weed with a resupply. The fact you have some control of when it opens up and that it's stationary makes this pretty trivial. Industrial sabotage - if you have the EMP overclock on engi's smg, you can set your turrets up right above the caretaker and just shoot them from afar. The blast damages all of the 4 weak points, making you get through this stage in seconds. Salvage uplink (or Black Box in deep dive) - this is a little frowned upon at times but if you feel like your team might not survive this stage or you're running low on ammo, you can have your driller drill under the uplink and then drill out a bunker. Engi can plug the entry hole and you can do the uplink safely with no bugs bothering you. Of course, if there's an oppressor, bulk, or a dread, it will dig inside your cozy bunker in no time and you're dead. That's one of the reasons it's frowned upon.

I respect the very upfront “you are being content farmed, please do not resist”

My absolute favorite tip that i never see anyone doing: in escort you can kill the beamers in phase 4 instantly by just shooting their tops with the pgl a single time since itmines the terrain a bit.

CLASS BASED TIPS FOR ESCORT: 1. while Doretta is drilling, it is still viable for the Engi to be setting up sentries. if Doretta is digging downwards or straight, set up sentires behind her, facing her, and give them some high ground with platforms. 2. During refuel, gunner is the most efficient at refueling, as he can use his ziplines to get to higher veins of oil shale, and can hold oil canisters while on a zipline (it might be worth upgrading your zipline so it can deploy on a higher angle. additionally, if the refuel room is extremely vertical, scout can zip to the oil shale that is too high for the other classes to reach, and can mine it down, from where other classes can use the oil canisters to collect the chunks from the floor 3. during the Ommoran Heartstone battle, stage 4, an engineer can platform the tops of the beamers, allowing the scout to mind the tips of them. you don't have to mine the beamers from the bottom! Additonally, gunner can shoot the tips of the beamers with any of his 3 primaries, as they can damage terrain. as well as this, Engi can use the grenade luncher to destroy the tips of the beamers as well.

bro that industrial sabotage outro was actually almost identical to my recs that was nuts

that fake ending fucking GOT me, I thought it was a glitch

For Industrial Sabotage: You can stand on top of the Caretaker without any worries about getting shocked. The use cases are admittedly limited, but if you are playing scout this can be quite usefull. Power attacks to the vents can do a good chunk of damage if nothing else. You can also fire into the vents from on top of it, but the spinning does make this quite difficult and disorienting. Also, in case you didnt know yet, robots die instantly when overheated, including the Caretakers tentacles. That said, the Caretake itself is still immune to overheating.

in sabotage, scouts can grapple on top of the caretaker for an easier time taking out the armor. Also, it’s advised to only drop resupplies in the Caretaker arena since you’ll be spending alot of ammo during the fight (i’d say one for every team member at least)

Tips for any mission with Lithophage Outbreak Warning. Solo: Bosco has a Lithoovac and will suck up foam when you're close. Coop: While there are four pieces of gear it's best to have at least one team member play lookout for enemies.

One thing I've found up to Haz 4 at least is the arms in the Caretaker fight in Sabotage missions take one power attack swing to go down so if there are 4 dwarfs they can take them down every 20-30 seconds during that fight. I have found it is easy to miss though and I'm now sure how. It doesn't need to be at the tip of the arm but will work at the base. Also general Scout tip: The batarang works great against swarm enemies, especially annoying flying swarmer's

Bouncing off a teammate, praetorean, oppressor, dreadnought, or (probably) a detonator negates fall damage. A ledge grab works too but is difficult to pull off in my experience.

For Green Beards: - When refilling Doretta, laser the oil shale closest to the wall. The larger portion will break off and sit on the ground making it easy to collect without missing any. Idle hands during this segment can mine behind the shale to drop it down from tough to reach spots. - If you have a cave horror, keep pinging it so nobody gets caught off guard. - When laying down pipes in a driller's tunnel, put it as close as you can to the wall, as it clears out additional space around the pipe segments, widening the tunnel. - If you don't ping chunks of gold at least 30 times before moving from your location, Karl himself will come down from the heavens and smite the shit out of you.

*HOW DID YOU PREDICT MY RECOMMENDED DOWN TO THE T?* Anyways, I actually like Industrial Sabotage so my one tip is building walls of cover or tunnels underground as driller to have an easy way to escape from the boss's attacks, as the only things that can chase behind that would be the shredder drones or patrol bots, easy place for resupplies and avoid getting shot while not having to just run super far away from the boss. I always play the mission as Engie because I build my sentries on top of these walls for them to shoot down the robot limbs.

I know you already made a video on it, but I never noticed it, even after 1k hours: Salvage: The mini mules have some half a resup worth of nitra in them + a bit of gold

These tips are awesome. I didn't know any of them exept the morkite and slavage one.

Me, watching you skip lots of minerals and brewing ingredients: [having an aneurysm]

Useful video as always, thanks!

I've found that it's handy to split up into two teams for mining ops, having engie/scout clear out large rooms, with driller/gunner clearing out minerals in the tunnels, that way the team is always progressing. Scout/engie have molly, and can pick up minerals that the gunner/driller team left behind when catching up

In Liquid Morkite Extraction missions, bring a driller. 90% of the time, the easiest way to build the pipes is just digging a hole straight between Refinery and Pump Jacks. The other 10% are high places where engineer platforms are a better option.

All good tips. Many thanks!

My biggest pet peeve because I see this even in higher levels is the twin dreadnoughts and how people will unload into them during their health swap phase. They’re invincible during this time so all you’ll be doing is wasting your ammo.

On Egg missions, try to plan out which eggs you want to pull ahead of time; if you have a couple of eggs closer together, save them so you can pull both of them either at the end of the mission, so you can skip the swarm(s) they may spawn. Alternatively, if your team is really good on nitra/ammo, you can save a bit of time and ammo by pulling both at the same time. Just be careful if you're on the higher haz levels with this; calculate your chances of getting a double swarm, and make sure you can deal with it if it does happen.

1: Keep your head on a swivel. Most of the time you're downed by a hostile (as opposed to friendly fire or gravity) it's because you didn't see the bug that got you. This is especially egregious with slashers because if they sneak up on you, you're stunned, and other bugs now get a nibble too. 2: Always be progressing the objective. It's so easy to get caught up mining gold, extra nitra, or looking for secondary's, but these auxiliary tasks do not make the mission successful. Constantly ask yourself if you're progressing the mission, and if the answer is no, then you should have a good reason. 2.5: As an adjunct to this tip - in the caretaker fight, it's super easy to blow through all of your nitra working down the robot arms, patrol bots, etc. and end up without enough firepower to down the caretaker itself. Only fight the defenses that you need to, save those precious bullets for the giant bullet sponge standing between you and a successful mission. Also - for anyone who didn't know, an impact axe to the head is a one shot kill on the robot arms. 3: Stay out of the line of fire! If I had a dime for every time I've seen a dwarf run right into a minigun stream or engi's lazer beam and get downed by friendly fire they could have seen and avoided, I could buy a new PC by now. Seriously folks - STOP running smack into obvious lines of ongoing fire! 4: Refuel canisters pick up oil shale chunks off the ground much faster than they mine it out of a vein. Since it takes so much pickaxe time to mine it, that's not economical, however, a driller's C4 and EPC with thin containment can both mine it down instantly, making refueling SO much faster. If you have Rocky Mountain brew, then mining out the rock the shale is attached to can also be a real help to refueling speed.

in escort missions you can block the floating rocks from hitting doretta on the 2nd phase of hearth stone, but it never was consistent for me for some reason

A very general tip mostly for Haz4/5 and EDD: Think of your team as a wrecking ball. This mission is a smash and grab, don't linger in any single place too long. Stay together but keep pressing forward. When I'm on a mission with a tight fast team, we crush caves; and I can't count the times missions went into the frying pan because we sat around too long.

People seem to hate industrial sabotage but, I think it's a lot of fun I also don't think it's incredibly difficult even on haz 5. Some tips that I would give (focusing on the final fight) 1. Highground, high enough to avoid the repulsar blast means instead of dodging you can focus on damage. 2. Spacing, take long range weaponry and give yourself enough space to get a full view of the battlefield this extra space and view gives you more time to react to threats and you are less likely to be surprised. 3. tight angles, use the terrain to your advantage and if there isn't any good terrain then make some with the platforms the drills or your pickaxe holding a tight angle on a thick enough wall will allow you to duck behind it from either tentacle stabs or sniper turrets just make sure you have enough space to dodge warp bombs 4. Target priority, people spend a lot of time and ammo on the tentacles and I would highly advise against it. It will only ever spawn 4 at a time but they will always come back the more ammo spent on them the less ammo you have for the caretaker. These tentacles will despawn as "phases" change honestly these missions are always the most successful for me the less time I spend on them. I'll take the electric boomerang and zapem then mag dump right into the caretaker reload and repeat speaking of which is the same strat I use against tyrant vines and it works very well against them. 5. Patience, don't panic and make a bad situation worse it's better that when shit does hit the fan you or your allies are in a decent location to pick up instead of out in the open. Stay close and stay smart. 6. Have fun, bringing negativity in right from the get go will almost ensure a bad experience. Not everyone is going to enjoy every mission type but if you must do it for an assignment lower the difficulty a notch and try not to bring the whole team down.

That fake ending had surprisingly accurate recommendations

Ive had issues fighting the hiveguard in the spawn room. Sometimes it takes her a really long time to even find me once I run back to spawn. A few times shes gone through one phase but when it's time for her to spawn new babies she does the roar but no babies spawn, leaving me running around the room waiting for the babies to show up and hoping im not really softlocked. Each time this has happened I've just run around for a few minutes and eventually they show up. I've only had this happen when I fight in spawn rather than the egg room so I'm assuming it's a glitch related to that but im not sure. Anyone else ever had this happen?

men that industrial sabotage got me good 🤓thats legit my recommended videos 💀

I got tricked, backstabed, and quite possibly bamboozled 5:21

On site refs: you can connect the pipes to morkite wells before calling in the pumpjack

There's not much reason to play Industrial Sabotage, but honestly, its just kind of fun. Its a challenging gamemode with a boss at the end that really gets the dopamine flowing once it bursts into pieces. Usually I like to dig a few tunnels through the walls to navigate while taking cover from the tentacles. OH, one thing I've noticed as well, is that the rival tech seems to mimic certain lifeforms on Hoxxes. The prospector seems to resemble a silicate harvester, and the tentacles that the caretaker spawns seem to resemble those of a tyrant weed/stabbervine. As for tips, for Elimination missions.. There's a really powerful attack any dwarf can do, but its kinda hard to pull off, takes a while, and costs 80 nitra. if you do decide to use a resupply pod as a weapon, make sure to fight the dreadnaught normally first, and then once its at like 40/50% health, you might be in need of a resupply yourself. (This is rather easy with a hiveguard, since that one does not move around once its ass is exposed. I pulled this off on a Haz 4 Dreadnaught too, but that felt a lot sketchier. Don't even try this on the twins, they are way too fast to consistently pull this off.) Refining missions: If the refinery is finished doing its thing, it will trigger an endless swarm, so pushing the button to launch the goods into orbit quickly is of importance. Escort missions: An engineer can place platforms above doretta during the start of the 2nd phase, which can block a lot of the flying rocks outright, the engineer should keep an eye on the platforms though, as the rocks will eventually start puncturing holes in it. Also, you can dig or drill to the next chamber without doretta, this is a slow and tedious process, but you can gather the materials or even prep the oil shale in the pitstop room before even starting doretta (this is handy for cave leech cluster especially). Having doretta fueled at a pitstop will stop swarms from spawning, yet if you're still gathering oil shale, the swarms will periodically keep happening.

I have a tip for low oxygen missions Keep nitra handy as resuplies give oxygen

Cave leeches are newbie kryptonite imo. With so many good perks in the game it feels like a waste to go with the heightened senses perk, so my advice is to play scout and look up and fire flares upon entering a new cave. This is the highest counter, but if you don’t like scout then you can also use the laser pointer to scan the dark roof, it will let you know when you’re hovering a cave leech and you can kill it. You can’t always be scanning the roof while exploring, but just glancing up when you get to a new cave section can do the trick, as the cave leech will light up as it’s reaching for you. This isn’t 100% foolproof like with scout, cause sometimes the buggers like to hide behind stalactites, so my final piece of advice is to learn the audio cue very well, and ingrain it into your brain to spin when you hear it to try and locate the leech as fast as possible to kill it before it grabs you.

640 hours and i didn't know there was swt amounts of swarms for egg hunts, i also just guessed my gut for if there would be a swarm