It's a great feeling when you see a couple tri-jaws about to delete your engineer but you throw a shield on him from across the cave

A scout + gunner interaction tip: If there's something like a fossil high up, a zipline can be placed anywhere below to catch the scout's fall.

I generally dislike floating off of ziplines as gunner because it makes the ground bugs aggro to the other dwarves... I want them to come to ME when I run a strong swarm clear primary like a blowthrough Leadstorm or a Carpet Bomber Autocannon.

Been a Gunner main for years now. Nothing gets me going harder than putting down a clutch shield and proceeding to mow down the swarm. As for tips I could give: You might sometimes have to become the medic of the team. Make sure to get your fellow dwarves up. The more of you are up, the faster the swarm gets cleared. If it's too dangerous to get them up, use a shield, tell everyone near to get in and begin shredding the swarm after reviving the fallen dwarf. If you see incoming danger (Like a horde of Mactera), use your shield: Nothing smashes through a team faster than getting gunned down by a lot of Mactera. So use that shield. Keep the team safe and take down those flying bastards from the safety of the bubble. Focus your targets: What's more important? A small wave of glyphids or 2 praetorians? It depends on the situation, but you should almost always target the swarm over the bigger targets. Let the classes with burst damage take care of the bigger things. If you have an engineer, team up with his turret to clear the swarm and keep your team safe. The praets should get handled by your comrades, and if not, you still have more than enough firepower to take them down. Just remember to also watch your own back out there before switching targets

As a gunner I always end up left behind mining ore unable to protect my team because the high rank scout skipped most of the ore and speedran to the next cave

When using the zipline and you expect big damage that would normally make you fall, you can just start spamming the "e" button to latch on to the zipline again before falling.

This is quite the cool vid, gunner is my favourite class and i also learned somethings that i think are semi important: as your are falling you can just hold E to get a zipline to stop your fall no need to time it making ziplines even more important. Gunner being able to destroy terrain pretty easily with his weapons means that he can destroy the crystal laser tips on the 4th phase of the ommaran heartstone, he is able to destroy red sugar crystals on the ceiling to give them to them team and you have to be really mindful in magma core biome since the destroyed terrain creates harmful ground. If you are not confident with your aim as gunner take the friendly perk, with how many bullets and aoe gunner throws around friendly can be a life saver especially on haz 5 where friendly fire damage is much higher. Rock and stone miners.

I've been trying to promote all four classes once, and having got Engie and Scout done, I got halfway or so on Gunner, got frustrated, and skipped to Driller (who is now further along and easier so far.) I think the biggest hurdle for me is the practice of spreading damage among all potential threats instead of taking them out one at a time. I think I'm gonna have another try with that in mind.

#1 Minigun is generally better for Single targets and Autocannon better for crowds. The coilgun with hellfire oc, fear and and partial loaded fire is the best secondary for clearing swarms and self defense. #2 Staying on Ziplines makes the swarms put more pressure on your friendlies. And with minigun you generally want to line them up straight to shoot effectivly. If u use ziplines put a second one underneath it to grap if you fall. Hold E to auto grab when in reach. Also Hiveguard cant hit you on ziplines, so here i can recommend the tactic.

minigun to clear swarms with great single target dps and autocanon to deal with single high priority targets using the great AOE damage bulldog to finish enemies and burst pistol to take out enemies at range with accuracy, sure (feels like they reversed)

Having only played for two weeks at this point, I was thankfully able to pick up most of these! I have noticed that every other class can out burst me as a gunner! The infrequent reloading and outrageous damage and clip sizes are powerful tools!

Heres another tip for you. You can also carry heavy objects such as crystals and batteries on the zipline too which is useful.

I play only gunner in DRG. His main role is air support - zip line hanging reconnaissance, softing enemies from distance and throwing shields on teammates, sometimes downed ones. His kill count is not as high as engineer, more closely to driller. Gunner has good synergy wih scout in team rescue, and with driller in mass killing. Engie only helps with his platforms, rest of actions are rather independent.

Gunner main. I think what’s gunner/driller teams are underrated. The sheer destruction the two of us can achieve is astounding.

This point about the gunner excelling at sustained dps rather than burst dps is really important. as a fairly new deep rock player (two promoted classes, scout and engie) I've been struggling playing gunner and as dumb as it sounds, understanding his niche. When you can out dps him with scout and get superior mobility, why would i ever play gunner? Well sustained dps is the answer. This is really going to help me play gunner better and have more fun as I'll be able to more effectively lean into his role instead of just wishing I was playing a different class,, so thanks!

I was actually hoping to become a gunner main. This was a very convenient video😂. Thanks man!

Great video bro!!!

The job description: bodyguard How it actually feels: Christmas Ornament that does a lot of damage

I found the zipline perch strategy less usefull on newest update because of new ennemies (grabber and acid 2.0) it's add 2 mortal thread to the spawn pool so there is basically no games where i don't encounter these thread for zipline user : acid, mactera, grabber 2.0, acid 2.0. That why i stop using it because the cost/reward don't worst it, and it hurt me because i love hurricane + zipline, but zipline is still a good escape (if you're on a cliff and need to go down)

As a gunner main I am excited and glad to watch this video

One real tip - if mission calls for aoe dmg, like escort or salvation - take proper aoe, like neurotoxin or any other good aoe option

When I first started as a greenbeard, I underestimated the gunner class. Now, 400 Hours later, as a Diamond Gunner Main, I know so much better.

My friends dont really play gunner, so a bit ago I decided I will fill the role, so we have a team of a scout who doesnt use his mobility enough and gets shut down quite sometimes and misses NITRA VEINS, a god among man engi whos favourite is actually the scout , but can play skillfully as all classes(the teams glue) a guy who mostly does driller but hardly see online and me whos an engi turned gunner😅 We get carried so hard by the glue guy,but my job isnt not dying but pumping out sustained lead😂 Im not doing anything wrong except forgetting the shields exist as a defense tool while pumping out lead and sweating and vibing lol😊

Gunner most underrated class

Gunner is my favorite class! One trick I've been getting good mileage out of is when you are staging an area for a big fight, layer ziplines so they cross over each other at different heights and angles. You can hop off of your zipline when you are in trouble and catch the other ones to stop your fall, or to hit a steeper angle so you can speed boost away. It works well to keep you safe from ranged fire and to stop fall damage if you're knocked off.

"I cut the swarms health in 1/2" I always say 😂

My biggest tip is to just use Carpet Bomber. It's by far the most OP overclock in the game.

I thought that the autocannon was the main anti swarm weapon but okay, guess I learn something new from time to time

Imagine if you could use the Zip line gun Like a harpoon and prevent enemies from moving.

Nothing like a gunner with NTP/Hellfire build based on fear and fast reloading shields. If that doesn't protect and keep your team alive, you need a new team anyways.

What's up Jay, guy here.

"Costs". "At all costs". JS.

Gunner sucks

Literally 0 tips here.

I’m a bit of a gunner one trick and can confirm this video hits it’s mark!! 🎉

Gunner is high key the worst class. It has zero benefits. Direct damage? Scout. AOE? Driller. Mobility? Literally everyone. 0/10, will never use again