The opening scene was as torturous as someone teasing me with my wake up alarm

A reminder to all dwarfs. Throwing axes are specifically only used for throwing. These are not melee axes the explosion will have you lose fingers and it is not covered by insurnace.

That red circle....it scares me.

“Art…is an explosion!”

Video born towards my eyes

Every experienced driller at the drop pod: "you know the rules and so do I, now say goodbye"

Impact Axes also have little DRG lights installed on them for higher visibility, which gives them another use -- hazard lights! Used them many a time to mark main tunnels, convenient escape routes or entrances to The Bunkie. Stab an axe into the wall, and it's like a permanent short-range marker point that marks a point in the dark until someone picks it up.

Usually it’s “when in doubt: Axes out” as drillers kit usually rewards time investment with a laundry list of debuffs and dot, with some more unreliable primary, Sludge pump. I mean sludge pump. Having a back up source of damage for when you’re just sitting, waiting, waiting, waiting, for your acid to kill a single praetorian. Uses the axes, thank me later.

That intro was an entire horror movie for us scout mains

Another plus and minus for the Neurotoxin grenades: They can actually still work surprisingly well against the robots despite their poison immunity; when used in tandem with the flamethrower you can create a big fireball that can just take care of a whole bunch of machines at once. Also though... you cant see shit through them, theyre basically a smokescreen that hides the enemies while it kills them.

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another thing for the quick throwing technique: if you create a secondary bind for "switch to last weapon" on the same key as "throw grenade", you can do the quick throw with ease and just a single button.

one good thing to note, satchel charges give you two per resupply if you have one of the ammo upgrades now. This is a relatively recent change, but imo it means that taking both ammo upgrades is not very useful

Ahhh my Favourite War Criminal

Oh boy, am I glad to have been up at 4 in the mornin' to see this! Thank you for the visual aid of how large a range the Stun of the C- Satchel charge affects. I'mma try that out! :)

13:07 Are you implying I have a small dig?

He was drinking lacklock lager! Hah~ That'd do it.

didn't know about the light on the axes in different scenarios, will definitely look for that now

Video begining be like : "It's just laying there... Menacingly... "

man I miss when you could use axes as step stools or use them to place pipes on em

that opening reminds me of the 12 hour stream when i was playing driller. good times.

This video is so well made. I can't think of anyone else doing DRG stuff on this level, reminds me of the TF2 youtube community

Dang the segment for c4 fear and stun really opened up its use case for me. Never knew how much utility it really had until i played haz 4 from haz 3. It was the "heres my bigger sticky grenade from gunner" for the longest time as a greenbeard. But now... I see its both a sticky grenade, shield clutch (for fearing not on your teammates...), remote dreadnought, caretaker / dreanoughr phase skip, bunker, emergency dig, terraform or mining tool. The list goes on.. Thats a lot of uses for something a greenbeard like me looks on the surface level as "oh bigger sticky grenade, cool." Thank you for these vids, one of the most high quality content the drg community has to offer! Especially the lok1, betc and builds. So much variety and i love they're playable as mods for the game. Looking forward to your next videos!

I used to take the 2 sachel charge ammo mods every single time, but now i can recommend against that, since ammo received at a resupply rounds up you get 2 charges even with 3 total and the extra range is looking really tempting now. (With 4 max charges you basically only get one extra at the beginning of a mission)

fun fact: the gunners sticky grenade can stick to teammates

I have 700 hours in this game I never knew the HE grenade could be cooked the more you know

Man, you better watch it, talking about tunnel sizes like that. You never know, some glowy-eyed freak might get the wrong idea!

One thing to keep in mind is that Vampire doesn't start off at +5 HP on Melee kill, new players will have to upgrade it a bit when they first get it!

Morning drills and drillables

You know its great when siirvend uploads (I completely forgot about him)

There is no circle I fear more than the red one.

For me impact axes are the only Grenades Driller ownes. and i have commited myself to never unlocking the others. I am player rank 300. I own every weapon and upgrade, every overclock, every purchaseable item that modifies gameplay. except drillers other grenades.

driller when the most common and most used builds are croud clear so people mostly use axes. good video!

You can use driller grenades on ebonuts

LOL dominance over team and scout removal

I was looking forward to this so much!

Yo new video drop! Good timing too, I just started getting into playing Driller.

It's gonna blow!

Hell yeah! Driller's grenades are really weird, and I've done my best to figure out (and wrongly assume) what they do! Great stuff!

A lot of these are interesting applications. I'm going to have to try some of these out! I just went all natural with the good ol' axe.

I really wish grenades had some mod customization. HE Grenades would be 10 times more fun if it had option to replace annoying timer with explode on impact. Also, a digging radius mod like on c4~ i mean satchel charge, would be very cool for hard to reach places. Sort of alternative for that EPC secondary with Thin Containment Field

all hail the red shield

Thanks for the guide I have always been iffy on how to use his grenades effectively(driller is my least played class) so thank you 👍

In regards to axe canceling, while I used to do the simple pickaxe cancel method, it turns out that a faster method has you holding pickaxe/laser pointer then holding grenade after. After you release the grenade immediately release whatever you’re using to cancel then repeat again. I had to spend a while in haz 1 practicing to get it right, and there’s better guides on YT out there, but as long as you have (good ping and) some axes to spare the burst damage is beyond belief with how quickly you can empty your supply. Also something that was almost shown in this video that works with so far I’ve discovered sludge pump (others may exist), but you can actually block dreadnaught fireballs by shooting at them midair if you don’t have enough room to dodge or feel like showing off to a teammate Now onto more eldritch collision techniques, we all know about the mysterious floating C4 if it lands on terrain that is destroyed after, or placed on Dotty while she’s moving as a trap for the following bugs, but there’s a reliable way to get floating C4 no matter where you are. An old method was throwing an axe at it midair, which does work depending on ping, but when the netcode isn’t in a good mood sometimes that axe is like a pencil you dropped during class in 5th grade, disappeared never to be seen again. However (on accident) I found the same technique is replicable simply by tossing a normal flare the moment you throw the C4, and the C4 now will float where the flare passed through it, letting you save more axes from going to the back rooms when you aren’t hosting the game.

that opening was fantastic

Remember when rippers had a 170% friendly fire damage multiplier on release and would down a teammate in 2 hits?

great playing with you on HD2 man

8:59 is the nurotoxin btw

A combo that wasnt mentioned is making a floating satchel using axes (if its still in the game). You toss a satchel up into the air and then hit it with an axe & it will float in place. I mostly use it on escort where i dont want to make a big pit for my team to cross on extract, as well as the charge covering more of the tunnel by being in the middle instead of to one of the sides.

Casually comes back after a month

Thank you Siirvend. Back when my beard was green I'd use all the driller nades, willing to experiment and find the best situations for each. As time grew on, and hours went from tens to hundreds, I became disillusioned, adopting the motto of axe supremacy. I'd fall back on their ease of use and complementation to driller's kit at large, believing them to be the only worthwhile grenade no matter the build. While that may potentially still be true, you have inspired me to return to my roots and really try out the other options again. Don't get it mixed up though, I just want more ways to kill scout.

Also one thing about satchel charges, even if you take only one ammo upgrade you'll get 2 satchels every resupply instead of 1

I'll be honest I half expected to hear a boom at the end of the video

That opening was....sth

Not the Destiny 1 base game first cutscene music in the beginning

9:03 You forgot the biggest con: they block sightlines. I'm also surprised you didn't bring up the C4 ammo issue. C4 used to not round up ammunition on resupply, meaning it was better to take either both ammo upgrades, or neither. GSG fixed this issue in season 4, so now it's the opposite: taking both ammo upgrades means that you only get one extra C4 for the entire mission. So now it's better to take the damage on tier 1, and ammo on tier 3.

11:52 I wear the Bio hazard kit so no worrys.

explosive place

You're awesome mayn >:D

I love to play engineer, but I just can't stand to see anyone miss use driller, it's just the best class for who use them correctly.

Some notes about the Satchel Charge. Firstly, let's talk resupply. The Satchel Charge rounds *down* on resupply rather than up. So if you take any ammo upgrades, you should take both ammo upgrades so that you also get +1 satchel on resupply. It's not really worth taking only 1 ammo upgrade for 1 total satchel for the whole mission. Second, enemy stun resistance vs fear resistance works differently, and that can majorly impact your choice. Stun resistance is a % reduction in stun duration, while fear resist is a % reduction in fear change. The satchel has 100% base chance for both, so anything vulnerable to stun will *always* get stunned, while any fear resistance can sometimes cause an enemy to completely ignore the fear.

Totally axeptable

Volatile Satchel Charge has no downside. Teammates accidentally hitting your midair C4 with a single pick swing because you were trying to save everyone some time on an ore vein is both hilarious AND optimal.

I love the thumbnail

I've been maining Driller since the start and my best pick will alway be the Cryocannon and HE grenade, the cryocannon is alway useful due to it high+strong crowdcontrol and the HE grenade is very good once you get the timing right, imo Driller should focus on wave control to give other classes more breathing room to focus on stronger target.

Q + G is faster than laser pointing

Me when the flag of my barely mentioned country is seen on a funny space dwarf video:

"Explosi-"

the light on the axes only turns off if you are host, not as a client. or my games just buged. highly confusing and anoying when i try to pick up my axes that i think are still active but they are not. also as a tip for dorry missions as driller, while she is drilling tunnles though walls throw a c4 on her ass (right about where her button is) and itll float there in the center of the tunnle shes digging with bugs trailing behind, time it well and u can clear a few bugs with ease.

The HE grenade would be alot better , if there wasnt this weird cap of how much armor can be stripped from a singular explosion. If one well timed grenade could strip a praetorian of all its armor , I'd probably swap from the super fun and dangerous saw grenade

Useful but seemingly obvious fun fact: the neurotoxin grenade has the highest capacity for friendly fire as the explosion effect for igniting it is NOT affected by friendly fire. So many deaths...

For some reason, rippers count as explosives, making them weak against tank enemies and not giving you health from vampire. One of the biggest design mistakes in the DRG tools manufacturing department

Scout here It's not my fault you detonated that death trap right as I was zipping past, so I'm sure you won't mind paying for the leg surgery caused by it? Union says they can't get the company to pay for it, figures.

If you want to add even more chaos to your Mission Control lineup, try out the Intern Team. I've been running it along with Passive Aggressive, You, and Chaotic Mission Control for a while now and its an absolute mess 😂

So i don't really use the axes. I'm a driller main and just got past gold but i much prefer the toxin and h.e.. it also was only recently that i started playing around with the cryo cannon. I know. Blasphemy. What I've started doing with the rippers is when I'm digging a tunnel I'll dig to the side, extend that out a bit and then I'll dig to the other side to make a sectioned off hallway. Throw the ripper in there when the bugs come in and they out of that section. The fear on the c4 shows that the fear effect comes from you. You can see this if you dig a tunnel bunker (see a pattern here?) put a charge at the front and then set it off when they are close to you. They will turn around and run for the exit even though that is where the explosion was. Rock and Stone

Imagine if the ripper counted as melee damage. The vampire proc on a crowd of frozen bugs would pretty much be a full heal.

driller has grenades?

Axes would be my favorite grenade, but I tend to play in random lobbies, and like 50% of hosts have bad enough internet that I can't hit anything with them. Like, I'll hit a target with an axe, but the axe won't do any damage and just act as if it hit terrain, floating midair.

the q on my keyboard:

That's it I'm a driller main

The red shield is my favorite! It seems to be bugged tho, it doesn't block any damage for some reason?

19:30 OSHARE

Do you take inspiration from Ahoy? You guys have a similar editing style and thumbnails and delivery

Are axes the obvious comparison to rippers? I always thought of them like the HE's quirkier cousin

If you don't want to see twitching beards, copy your mods onto an external mod manager.

i REALLY want grenade perks

hiveguard…. crystalls….? splash epc…… man your limit is haz5? oh yeah… of COURSE, this is just the way to “enjoy” right hahahah 😅😅

I can't believe you didn't mention that axes are laggy and inconsistent garbage unless you're host 😥

Is there any difference between Tier 1's damage mod and Tier 3's Volatile Compound? They both provide +250 damage but there is the Unstable Explosives modifier which I don't know its effects.

I hate bugs!

Man... ever since Helldivers, I didn't touch this game :(

Now that I think about it I don’t remember team killing someone in at least an hour I think it’s time to change that

Shame the sawblade doesn't do melee damage

When Driller met Mr.Torgue again?

2:40 ,alright guys, what's that mod called 🤣

First!

Gas grenades are easy S tier and axes are super overrated and no one can convince me otherwise.

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