I was with you till you mentioned to leave the gold, i do not care if its not profitable, its about sending a message to the glyphids

''Can take up from 30 minutes to an hour at most'' >Me spending 45 minutes in regular missions

Deep dives are insane with pots'o'gold. Greedy dwarves at their best

3:20 honestly with DRG it makes sense. There is a little text section that pretty much says cost is what you owe DRG since your last promotion. Tabs, broken equipment, vandalizing property etc

Two important additions to "How Deep Dives differ from regular missions": 1. Only promoted dwarves can participate in a Deep Dive. 2. Late joining is not possible.

Alternate title: A deep dive into deep dives

Im not sure if you know this but the Promotion fee is actually accounted for. There is a small section on the promotion screen that says all damages and repairs on Deep Rock equipment must be accounted and paid for by the dwarves themselves (This isnt charity after all!) Kind of a small and fun detail to explain why you have to pay to promote:)

Additional deep dive tip: It's a good idea to generally favor ammo in your loadouts for extra sustainability (applies more to elite deep dives, as regular deep dives tend to get flooded with nitra anyway).

For some reason, driller's c4 and engi's sentry turret ammo are refilled between deep dive stages, not sure why

My recommendation for deep dives is if you do them solo, use as much ammo as you want. Every bug you kill is one less bug that might bite you in the ass later, and by having access to all 4 resupply containers ammo is plentiful. If you chose to ignore that one oppressor's, it'll be back 100% of the time.

A tip for those encountering egg hunts: The amount of big swarms (announced swarms) that can happen when digging out an egg is constant, though different for each tier of egg hunt. 4 eggs is guaranteed to give you exactly 1 swarm, 6 eggs will give you 2 and 8 eggs will give you 3. You can't determine which egg will trigger a big swarm, but you can be sure that if all big swarms have already been triggered you will not get another big one, and if you only have one egg left to dig up and you have one big swarm left it's guaranteed to trigger. I'd advise against calling the drop pod right after triggering one. Trust me, you'd rather not fight a swarm and the way-back-blockage at the same time if you can barely handle one or the other.

I've been intimidated by deep dives and avoiding them until now, but with this guide and knowing what I'm getting into, I think you've given me the confidence to give one a try. Thanks!

Here's another tip I learned: Ghost Ship Games generally stream deep dives every week, both DD and EDD, so you can see the cave layout if you watch their steam or a recording of the stream and plan ahead before you go in yourself

If you get a dorreta and a mining objective, get EVERY LITTLE PIECE of morkite you can find. Otherwise you're going to be running around the cave searching for the 1 morkite you missed

Quick Engineer tip for deep dives: Sentry gun ammo resets at the start of each stage.

I already knew all of this. I still watched because of your fantastic editing skills.

Communication is key. I've only recently started doing deep dives and the simple act of calling out things, even stuff that might normally be a minor problem, has saved the run by simply making the team aware of it and having everyone be ready.

I just first tried my first ever Deep Dive going solo thanks to these tips. Thanks. Also, I have to thank Bosco for the carry. He's such an awesome partner.

Nitra management is essential, and part of that is knowing when to call resupplies. Generally you can get through a regular DD with one resupply on stage 1, leaving more for the more challenging stages. But I try to avoid calling them just before exiting the stage; so long as there's enough ammo to get back to the drop pod, better to fill up at the start of the next stage because maybe some of the team don't need it just yet (and any supplies left at the end of the stage are lost). This frugal approach can simplify the final stage a lot. If you've got a big nitra surplus, you can go straight for the final objectives and not worry about mining or ammo conservation.

Awesome video! Don't worry us greybeards still like the content :D About nitra, at least in my experience I've had very few dives where it's in short supply. Obviously you shouldn't spam 10 resups in the first stage, but don't fall into the trap of "imma try and save as much nitra as possible" and then run out of ammo mid fight especially in an EDD. Preventative resups have saved my life and my team's life quite a few times. R&S!

I feel it should be said that the missions in the promotion assignment are no longer the same based on class, with season 3, they have finally been randomized! Hope this helps a green beard. Rock and Stone

Saying it becomes a complicated word spaghetti mess is an understatement. Examples: -Engineer mains having a full blown gang war over Fat Boy and Hyper Propellant overclocks -99% of cores being complete luck -The mess of stats -“What does this do again?” -Actually terrible overclocks -Explaining minerals and prices (basically explaining stock exchange) -Where to get blank cores -The never ending torture that are Elite Deep Dives -Why Mission Control hates the mushrooms so much

This I great! Its hard to realize how many little things are different with deep dives and you summed them up really well.

I don't need to learn about Deep Dives I'm just here to admire your epic editing skills.

When I realised that all I had to do to get home was Rock and Stone. I never lost another deep dive.

Even though I'm already well versed in Deep Dives, I love watching videos like this, just to see how well they're explained. One thing I will say though, for any greenbeards looking to get into Deep Dives, the part mentioned at 5:27 about the Hazard Levels is mostly irrelevant. All this means is that projectiles from Spitballers and Acid Spitter for example will be faster than on lower Hazard levels, and enemy health and damage will increase. This also scales with how many dwarves are in a single mission for most enemies, but again, it's mostly irrelevant. The true difficulty comes from the cave layout itself. You could play even all the way up to a theoretical Hazard 6, but have an extremely easy time simply because the cave layout is open and easy to roam about. It'll be a little more difficult because you need to constantly be moving about, but with an open cave, that should be easy work. On the other hand, you could have an extremely difficult time on even just Hazard 3 if the cave is incredibly cluttered and cramped. As a relatively new player who has roughly 560 hours in the game, this comes from experience. I used to have a hard time on even just Hazard 4 missions, but now, Hazard 4 missions feel pretty easy, and I do them regularly. One perk I'd recommend using on every dwarf except for Scout is Dash, this allows you to get out of almost any tight situation instantly, as long as it isn't on cooldown. For Scout I would use Field Medic instead, having an instant revive for your teammates is invaluable, and it's best fit for Scout since you can get in and get out very quickly with your grappling gun. And if you have the extra Active Perk slot for it, bring Iron Will. Iron will might seem like a not so great perk at first, as even at max level, it only lets you get up for another 12 seconds, and then you go down again, right? Well, that isn't entirely true. If you gain health in any way before you go down automatically, you'll actually remain standing, until you take enough damage to go down again. This means you can grab some red sugar or health from a resupply, or if you have Vampire as a Passive Perk, you can quickly power attack a medium sized enemy (Which is a Grunt or anything larger) to kill it, and remain standing. You're also entirely invulnerable until the time you would normally go down without health, so you can rush in to revive a teammate as long as it's mostly safe and you won't go down again after reviving them, or while trying to. The fact you can stay standing can be a game changer, and make or break a mission being successful, which is why I always bring it no matter what. If you use Iron Will to get back up and use Vampire to get your health, I would recommend using the power attack damage bonus upgrade for your pickaxe, doing twice the damage with your pickaxe can really be helpful in some situations, and guarantees you'll get the kill quick enough as long as you power attack either a Grunt, Slasher, or Grunt Guard. Keep in mind that the effects of Vampire work for anything classified as Melee, so your normal pickaxe swing works, Driller's drills and impact axe work, and perhaps another thing here or there.

Okay sniss but here's the real question what do you actually know about divin' down in the deep?

I just got my driller promoted, went for my first Deep Dive and got massacred. Thanks for the video, I'll try again now I'm better informed

I got really lucky with parties and aced the first 3 elites I ever saw, now I'm a few months in and I barely clear an elite-2. The haz levels make so much sense now and/or some nasty combinations of biomes and mutators.

Mine all the nitra you can. Don't call in a resupply near the end of a stage. Make sure to clear out all resupply pods before leaving a stage. Try to balance out your ammo consumption between weapons to make resupplies more efficient. This also includes using your traversal tool and support item between resupplies.

Thank you so much about the tips! Especially on the egg trigging swarm. I was wondering about the eggs stacking waves, and it does!

I'm gonna say as a tip that bad luck will always happen in deep dives alot, and inevitably losing alot of progress is to be expected. I did repair mules and when the refuel part started, a bulk detonator appeared and it seemed hopeless. Id just say that its not the fault of the players sometimes and that the game just shits out the worse case scenario sometimes.

I already know all of this but I still love these videos since they are so well done and genuinely enjoyable to watch

I’ll be honest, the way I get the info for what to expect from the dives aren’t from Reddit or Discord, but rather GSG’s livestreams when they show up. Now that I got that off my chest, amazing video as always (I may be a tad bit late on the draw, but who cares) and it really helped me understand the basics of the dives after I promoted my first dwarf.

Perfect little guide man thank you. I just got my scout to 25 and I'd say I'm still a green beard. Looking forward to my first deep dive, I feel ready! Rock n stone!! ⚒️

3:15 I like to think that DRG isn't exactly a mining company. More like an agency or guild even where they have members, "employees", on call to do tasks and it's up to the employee to take on that task. Everything they collect or don't collect reflects their payments. Since they probably aren't hourly they are selling everything they find to DRG. Probably why they won't hesitate to leave you behind, No dwarf? No payment needed. Also look at ammo resupply. That ammo is a ready to go drop pod that they only send you after you collect a payment pretty much. They company doesn't say what it's for, they don't want gold they specifically want nitra. Hence why you pay to gain access to higher level weapons, upgrades, and promotions. You don't earn them by recognition you pay the company to get them, not to mention it cost creds and materials, so you can have better odds at better money. DRG is all about spending money to make it lol.

Regular deep dives are perfectly soloable with Bosco, I would recommend however the perk that lets you break out of grabs from enemies

Small correction-player rank goes up every 4 class levels(3 pips and then back to empty as the 4th), so you'll get 1 blue rank if you raise each class by 1 level, or any class by 4 levels, etc.

thank you sniss for keeping up the content for drg i havent played drg in months

love your vids! its always worth waiting the time for them to launch (cause they are gold bro)!

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Swiss your videos are so informative, polished and entertaining. Keep up the good work I love DRG!

The deep dive logo would make a good desktop icon.

7:49 ur the only utuber i know that actually had new zealand as a time zone, THANK YOU

I don't have any general tips that you didn't already mention, so I'll drop one for my fellow scout mains. If you need to clear a bunch of enemies fast and you kmow for a fact you're going to die, do a kamikaze. Equip: Vampire, See You in Hell, and Iron Will. You can grapple to the ceiling to down yourself, clear all the bugs around you, and then Iron Will so you can power strike the nearest grunt. I've clutched several missions this way. Driller is another class that benefits from melee damage buffs so that works too.

Thanks. Answered all my questions. Mainly the hazard lvl. 3, 3.5, 3.5 for the three atages

Awesome video man!! That editing was fire 💯🔥🔥🙌

If your an engi main like myself you will be pleased to know that your turret ammo will be refilled when going from one deep dive mission to the next

Good stuff as always boss ❤️

To anyone confused still about why you have to "pay" to promote: way back when they were still in beta or perhaps right after they hit 1.0, your dwarves Retired after level 25. They weren't promoted initially. When you're dwarf "retired" they had to reimburse the company for each bullet fired, medical expenses, explosives used and every barrel kicked in the launch tube. That's where the payment fees came from initially. They kept it after changing it to promotions.

I appreciate the different time zones for the deep dive resets, very considerate

additional note: to save time and potentially resources make sure to delay a resupply call until after you have passed through to the next stage instead of waiting for someone to arrive while in the drop pod

I honestly love this Ur so underrated and I have been struggi Ling wih deep dives

Ive played DRG like once but this is such a good video I now know everything about this game

This game is so well made. Thanks for the tips

Very good and comprehensive guide, cheers! Most of the other videos titled "guide to deep dive" are just some dude's discord stream.

great guide, helped me alot before taking those deep drills!

If your primary objective is a Point Extraction, and your secondary a DREADNOUGHT, you only have few minutes before swarms start comming in. I personaly suggest killing that big fat ugly boss-bug as soon as possible. PS: Love your videos. Amazing quality, ear-candy voice.

For (Elite) Deep Dives it's usually well advised to go with an ammo efficient build. Especially if you get an elimination mission, that can really put the team into a Nitra deficit. Engineers, Cryo Cannon Drillers, Impact Axes, and Beastmaster are all good options for getting every little bit of ammo conservation.

You're DRG content is quality and worth subscribing to. Thanks.

I only just realized, staring at the thumbnail, that the Deep Dive icon looks like a dwarf with the drill bit as his beard

Thanks for the info, it was in fact very helpful.

Just bought the game on sale and this video of yours looks good and is very informative. Thank you.

Tank you for the time table!

My head canon for why dwarves need to pay for promotions, weapons, weapon upgrades, and cosmetics is be because the DRG company is a decentralized co-op where dwarf employees are also the shareholders, and they invest into the company by paying for their own equipment.

This was super helpful. Thanks for making this as I’m a noob.

7:59 man that hurts but it makes so much sense

Great Guide! Thax a lot!

Thanks for this. I just promoted my first dwarf and was curious what I was getting into.

1:15 interestingly I've recently found that it preserves your reload state as well (saving whatever stage of your reload you were in) in between stages of the DD.

Even as a player rank 630, I never knew the specific difficulty of the regular deep dive. Thought it ramped up on the third stage instead of staying the same. I knew what the elite difficulty was but not the regular deep dive. Rock and stone!

Your videos are so well made

bosco wake up new sniss video

It's a very little thing, but the timing on that text editing at 1:16 was super smooth. I like

Best deep rock galactic video so far.

We like that you like that we like that you do videos about a video game that booth we and you like. Rock and Stone Brother!

can’t wait a full week to complete a deep dive!

Very informative, great info here.

Keep in mind after being promoted you get an extra active perk slot uuuse it it will help.

DRG Corporation making dwarfs pay for promotions: STONKS

Honestly I was on board until you said to leave behind the gold. I never thought I'd hear some leaf loving swill coming from such a respectable dwarf.

Awesome timing, just got through my first promotion

Thanks man, very helpful!

Just tried this weeks elite deep dive with electro turret explosion + fat boy and it actually slapped hard

Love the CONTENT

Here's a li'l piece of advice: if you're running beast master, let your team know! If they're any way competent they'll mark armored grunts for you instead of immediately murder them. This works both ways, though. Actually listen if a teammate asks you to stop genociding every bug you come across.

7:55 What?! Ignore gold? Rubbish guide! 0/10! Leaving the gold... This is definitely what a leaf lover would do.

"ignore the goal, time is important" okay i wont touch it *but ima do it anyway*

wake da whole house up new sniss video

I love this channel

I've started playing a week ago and I already did my first Deep Dive. It took me many attempts (because I was doing it solo and with no help) and my final time was 2 hours. Since I don'l like the idea of entering a server with people I don't know and don't share the same language, I've been playing solo all the time, and I sticked with Gunner because I like the feel of having the big guns.

I'm new to this game, and I think I found one of those matrix things in the wall during a random not-Deep-Dive mission. "Ooo, glowy spot on the wall! . . . What the hell is this thing?"

Great video

And the biggest tips, if your playing scout, light up the area and mark nitra. If your playing engineer, platform under ALL NITRA. I've lost count how many times I've played as a class other then scout and been the one to mine nitra in high places.

this is all pretty old news to me but i'm watching the video anyway because it's a sniss video and those videos are neat :)

I failed my first deep dive yesterday. I hope I will do better next week with your tips. Rock and Stone.

thx you so mutch for this

having to make the trek to the memorial to promote is a stroke of genius

really nice video

I one tip I learned about the elite deep dives is to think very carefully about what mission objective to complete first.