The scout class is like a mixture of spiderman and John Wick, Does that not sound like fun?

As a scout player myself I can tell you that your biggest enemy is a recharging grapplinghook

How to play Scout: 1) Grapple up to the ceiling 2) Realize you don't have an engineer on your team 3) Fall to your death

I'd say scout and engi are the two harder classes to start on (at least in the higher hazards). Gunner has the shield and driller has status effects/infinite pierce weapons for defense. Scout gives up defense for mobility, which has a higher learning curve if you want to kite with it. Engi gives up defense for high damage/zone control, which takes planning ahead to use most effectively.

The M1000 is a homage to the M1 Garand a legendary semi-auto rifle from WW2. It makes appearances in virtual every WW2 game. The M1000 even has the famous Garand ping when you empty the clip. It has nothing to do with cowboys. Perhaps your thinking of a lever-action rifle?

I would also avoid "defend the point" type missions running solo. The Scout lacks the immediate firepower and crowd control to take down the hordes of Hoxxes IV. This is mitigated in the presence of other dwarves though, as all classes cover each other relatively well. Scout also excels in single target picks. Praetorians, Oppressors, Bulk Detonators, and more are all open season to the Scout if he uses his mobility properly.

You should play him as a hard support character, with the M1000 maxed for damage and stunning ob large enemies, the grapple hook for recharge speed so you can always be ready to assist a team mate, Field Medic for obvious reasons, and then the Zhukov and Cryo grenades so you can swarm clear when you need to. Hightened senses is also great when you prestige him for the second blue perk since you will get grabbed as scout, it's just inevitable, and it can save you from a game over when you're zipping across the map to your downed teammates when you're the last one alive. Basically, scout is a hyper mobile battle medic that should always be supplying light and gathering hard to reach resources with help from his engines platforms during downtime. He can excell at dealing tons of damage, but that should always be secondary to reviving teammates if it can be done.

I do wish you mentioned how grappling scout are responsible for kiting and avoiding bugs. While it is seemingly selfish, a teamplayer scout gets the ores the team needs in places otherwise tedious to reach; and when combat begins, is extremely useful for clearing HVTs and kiting bugs and bosses away from the main group, which gives breathing room for your bros. And being able to run around until you can safely rez someone is valuable, because a gunner runs out of shields but a scout never runs out of grapples And another thing: while scout is a great transition for new players from other fps games (and trust me, as a TF|2 pilot I love my grapples), I would recommend playing driller just as much as he is the most unique of all of them (and I started with him). What I mean is that mechanics that are important to DRG are the most prominent playing him. You learn to mold terrain and use the terrain scanner effectively to reach key points and conserve fuel. You utilize melee options more often with vampire and all of his kit, especially the power attack which come in handy for the other classes who benefit greatly from conserving ammo with melee. You control your friendly fire habits, as much as driller tempts you. And finally, effective crowd control and offensive tactics are the easiest to get used to with driller when you can't run away and kiting bugs around sticky flames is good practice. I haven't watched your driller vid yet, so I will see if any of my points were mentioned in there, but I hope you make a followup that includes what a lot of other commenters mentioned. Literally everyone can be a team player in the smallest way, and I hope you don't overlook that in your next vid. Cheers 🍻

One thing to note about the Cryo Grenade it will instant kill Swarmers and most Mactera, also the White Phosphorus mod for the Boomsstick will detonate toxic clouds produced by the Driller Grenade, toxic shrooms and the Death Fog of the Praetorians.

The only thing I truly learn from playing scout (especially so as the last class I played)... Is how stupidly strong GRAVITY is

Something to remember with scout is that speed=defense

The Scouts grapple only helping them has always been a mixed bag for me. One one hand it makes sense, and on the other I'd love to be able to shoot the grapple at my team mates to pull them places. Sadly I know that would be used relentlessly to troll people, but if the driller can satchel charge me all the time I should be able to pull them off cliffs! I mean... help them up cliffs... yeah.

One more thing you missed: The other thing scout needs to do for his role in the team is get rid of HVT's(High Value Targets) such as acid spitters, cave leeches, mactera,etc. I'm really enjoying these style of videos. Fairly unique and just fun to watch even though I'm like 500 hours in. R&S miner!

I started playing recently and I played a lot of engineer at first, but scout is my favourite now. It's just a good balance of utility and firepower.

Thank you! I'm still pretty new to this game and this info helps a lot. The videos are also expertly done, good job!

While the grapple hook may seem selfish at first, it actually benefits the team quite a bit. It allows the scout to reach places other classes can’t, freeing up their time for other tasks instead of awkwardly using their traversal tools inefficiently to complete objectives. Supporting a scout can help him support the team by completing missions as fast as possible, reducing risk by a large margin.

Very high quality video and one of the best guides I have seen for the scout

Fire guide, homie. Rock and Stone!

Thanks just got started with the game and am loving it and am wanting to learn more thanks

just started playing and I appreciate your focus on what the scout brings to the team, as I definitely feel lost joining some public games.

Scout + Engineer is a great combo for hard-to-reach mineral deposits. Engineer places a platform just below the deposit, then whilst the scout grapples up to mine it he can move on to either finding the next deposit or setting up sentry turrets in case the bugs start coming.

Awesome tips!

thank you i just kinda jumped in scout and it definitely takes a bit to get used to him

Engineer looking to branch out into other classes, this is an excellent guide

I love that every class feels necessary. Without a scout you cant see. Without an engineer nitra can be near impossible to reach without expending all your mobility. Without a driller you can get stuck or lost. And without a gunner it can be impossible to find a chance to revive causing your team to get overwhelmed and wiped.

Thankyou di for the guide Watched all class Wanna try to fill in the role

Also a very important detail of the m-1000 that I believe you missed is the fact that it makes the really satisfying garand ping noise when reloading.

M-1000? No, that's the M-One-Grand.

How to survive deadly fall (only coop): 1.Have teamate stand where you'll land 2.Take no fall damage for whatever reason

I think the Zhukov NUK17 is a 1337speak reference to Duke Nuk’em (Zuke Nuk’it)

wait wait wait if the ifg increases damage taken for enemies, can it stack with driller's cyro cannon?

So I noticed that for the thumbnails of these class guide videos, you choose a cave with the same colour as the class to be the background Great little detail!

flairgun deals damage to enemies btw

I have two seasonal things at once to chase on Scout so I'm dipping in, trying to be conservative with upgrades. I still couldn't resist going to the shop and putting a swashbuckler getup together. (Got the eyepatch already).

3:51 Not just a little slower. The GK2, like most bullet-based weapons in DRG, is a hitscan weapon. There is literally no travel time. The Drak is a projectile weapon. 4:48 Improved Blast Wave is like the worst mod on tier 4. 20 more damage to targets right in front of the gun is barely anything. Super Blowthrough Rounds is the best mod on that tier, and it's not even close. You should also probably take ammo on tier 1 if you're running Special Powder, for more "rocket jumps." 5:01 Always take accuracy on tier 3 of the Zhukovs. Their accuracy is pretty crap without it, and 1 extra damage per shot is definitely not worth taking over reducing the spread by 60%. 6:26 It's a good long range option with Quick Fire, the overclock you're running, which doubles the projectile velocity and thus increases the range. Otherwise, the stock weapon actually has rather mediocre range. Reinforced String on tier 2 is the only other way of increasing velocity.

You can build the deepcore to always hit the first shot and spamclick for almost minigun firerate

Scout is my main class, and I love pretty much everything he have to offer. The only thing I am sad about at modded difficulties is that when he uses the pheromone grenade (which in my opinion is the best grenade in the game for modded) he does not really have great AOE options killing that gigantic ball of enemies. I would love him to have just one good AOE weapon.

I love the assault rifle, but it just doesn't have the ammo capacity for me to use it like the LMG I want to use it as, lol. Honestly I wish I could buff the primaries and sacrifice the secondaries. Can't wait til you mention that this class gets so much help from my favorite class: Engineer xD

That boomstick is just the super shotgun from the DOOM games

when you get that nitra in the ceiling they effin benefit bro, r&s

4:53 THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK!

Although I know you intentionally left Overclocks out of the discussion, I'd specifically make a note of overclocks in regards to the Boltshark Crossbow, since its overclocks change the weapon pretty significantly. Cryo and Fire Bolts turn your normal bolts into a Second Set of Special Bolts that can Freeze and Burn respectively. And its Unstable Overclocks transform them into Crowd Clearers or a Triple Threat Of Big Single Target Damage that are harder to hit at long ranges since the 3 bolts spread.

Isn't the deepcore a hitscan weapon with no bullet travel time? The visuals look like the bullets travel slow but they hit immediately.

The best way to survive a fall from terminal velocity is to fall slightly faster. Maybe it's a homeopathic thing.

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Im sorry but calling the obvious M1 Garand a cowboy gun hurt a lil-

-Be Scout in Magma Core -Suddenly tremors -Grapple to wall/low ceiling until it's over -Drop down with minimal/no shield dmg -Go revive Gunner who died in the middle of a fissure

I know you don't cover overclocks but the Explosive Minilets for Machine Pistols is an absolute beast. Will kill almost anything very quickly at close range.

My main!

"cowboy gun" > based off a world war 2 rifle. if only. if only.

isn’t scout also good on elimination because of high single target damage?

0:37 I thought I was in a TF2 vid for a sec

Fun fact lead bursters melt dreadnought armor

I always thought of scout as a version of Rico from Just Cause

M1000 is terrible because the basic assault rifle does everything it does without the downside of being only good at one thing. The AR is as pinpoint accurate as the m1000 and can throw out as much damage in a shorter period of time with its higher rate of fire. All without being terrible at crowd control. Also the m1000 is a homage to ww2 m1 riles, so not sure where you are getting cowboy rifle from.

5:18 Wait... So does that mean we're basically NOT duel wielding? So it's still just firing 1 bullet at a time, but we have a skin that makes it look like we're duel wielding? ;( Anyway, my minor griping aside, thank you SO MUCH Javarak. I just picked up Deep Rock today and your beginner guides have been very informative~.

Scout is one of the easiest classes to be "fine" at (put up flares, grab minerals), but one of the hardest to be "great" at, in my opinion as a scout main.

Never heard of Zhukov ? You need history lesson .

So basically m1000=m1 garand

Put up lights, throw boomerang, kite enemies into the team, mine nitra, double dip for extra flares. This is how how you play gold star+ scout.

The scout class is absolutely the worst class for new players to start on. Scouts are responsible for a lot of stuff and need more technical skill that your teammates rely on.

How to Scout: Step 1; Switch to Driller. Done.

i like scout until my deepdive lobby has 3 of them :I