I’m a dedicated gunner player, and whenever a driller drills straight to the dropship, I always watch his back the entire way without even thinking twice

For those looking to optimize ebonut collection, use impact axes. They instantly get rid of the shell, and you can pick them back up.

I had no idea drills had an absurd 10,000% armor breaking aspect to them :o

My man actually covered himself in wood chips just for that intro. That's dedication. Also, try drilling to 12 with your drill setup. It requires you to stop holding the button as you hear the 12 terrain break and your drill will hit 100%, but not overheat.

at 19:26 when you talk about sabotage, while none of the driller primaries work well against the boss, the flamethrower works obscenely well against the bots, as they instantly die when set on fire no matter the health

I still think the zipline launcher needs some love, the ability for the zipline to cart pears/chunks/eggs/aquarqs/data cells/ect would be a nice bonus having said that i find this guide amazing as any and all information on any classes is helpful :P

I'll be real - when I first started playing Driller seemed like the least interesting class. But the more I play and the more I watch other people's strats I see Driller is probably the best dwarf all around. Insane DPS, great utility, and if you're alone you can drill anywhere and get stuff you'd normally have a scout get, even if you're less efficient.

I'm a newly self-proclaimed driller main, and when i finally decided to look for ways to get gooder at drilling, many fellow dwarves pointed me to your channel, and your content is definitely helpful(and sometimes amusing). You've earned this Dwarf's subscription. Rock and Stone, brotha!

it looks like the terrain was curved when you saved yourself, using the 2m wideness of the drills, you must have caught the terrain when it was closer to the drill range but far enough from your feet that you were able to drill in time

You can also use throwing axes to one shot the small ebonite glyphids, so not just the drills and pickaxe

When drilling to the drop pod, especially when molly is lagging behind, drill _just_ to the drop pod's entrance but don't breach the terrain. This essentially turns the tunnel into a map long bunky, allowing easier management of glyphid spawns until molly docks. when the gates are open (or when an oppressor decides to spawn inside the tunnel) simply breach the surface and run straight up to the drop pod. Bonus points if you breach with a C4 and everyone dashes out just like in the movies

impact axes can also be used for traversal. you can stick them in the wall, climb up on them. Then retrieve them when you're done.

I have quickly found the drillerr to be my favorite simply because I can immediately drill to the drop pod. Otherwise it is so difficult to leave the mission sometimes. This guide was amazing for me. Rock and stone! ⛏️

S+ driller guide! Explanation: I think you must be in precize angle with drills as you are falling down (little bit higher than aiming comletely down), so you are somehow closer to the side of that hole that is about to be created, and so you can ledge grab. Climb animation is canceled since you are still in drill animation. 2nd theory: Its somehow releated to reseting your velocity by drills and it could be affected by FPS in that given moment too. It could be even releated to physics in engine in a way like barrel jumping/boosting is, there is no way how to do it consistently.

5:50 Holy crap, pressing the jump key while the terrain scanner is up is a trick I had no idea about!

The drill save may work because ledge grabs cancel fall damage. As you are drilling out a piece of terrain below your feet, you create a ledge to grab. Maybe your character grabs this at the last second as you hit the ground where you drilled into?

Fantastic Video! I was really surprised that you went over pretty much everything with the Drills, and your videos have helped a ton when I play Driller. Keep up the awesome content!

outstanding video man. love your channel. i main driller (i literally cannot play another class lately because of the sheer versatility of the class), and i still learned more than a few things here. you deserve every subscriber you have in addition to many many more that i’m sure you’ll be getting soon :) rock and stone!

As a secret little tip, satchel charges can almost destroy all of the caretaker's vents or a load of their health if you get above them by either using a tunnel or by using a gunner's zipline

I love how almost every Driller main story begins when thinking "could I drill straight to the Drop Pod?" haha That was me in my first mission, I revive my friend, drilled to the Drop Pod and we barely made it out alive, at zero seconds left. Another thing that I love about Driller is doing an On Site Refining, and making the best tunnels in the world (in my mind at least haha), straight road from the refinery to the pumpjacks, one time, one of them made a perfect path to hacking an enemy tower Just got my second Driller promotion a few hours ago; between my two groups of friends who I play the game with, I'm the only Driller and that makes me feel more special B)

Greenbeard here, been playing a few days now with my buddy who is also new. We had a lightbulb moment when he said we're thinking like humans, think like a dwarf and since then we've been digging tunnels everywhere lmao. Great video as well. This is a really fun game.

About the drilling down saving manover: "If you pull up a ledge you take no fall dmg and reset your momentum." But because the Script that DRG uses for updating voxels and terrain is so inconcistent it can not realy be pulled of reliably. Just pray that you will dig the moment you hit the ground and the created hole is exactly in the angle to climb it.

Great stuff as usual. I don't love the trenches technique during an omen module, they don't provide that much cover (drones and burster are still an issue) and they impair your ability to move and dodge those things. Instead (if the terrain allows) I dig Dreadnaught tunnels that connect each activation platform to each other. In one of the hallways out of sight I will drill a little cubby for a resupply so you and your teammates can heal in peace. Gives you much better cover from drones (they don't seem to follow you into the hallway if you are out of sight) and if you get knocked at the opening of the hallway, your teammates have cover to revive you. The Dreadnaught tunnels are also helpful for Korlaks, especially when they are in awkward spots, like up on a smallish ledge overlooking a larger room.

a HUGE QoL for drillers btw is using impact axes on the electric crystals in crystalline caverns- - three axes destroy them and they're retrievable

So many helpful little tips! even with 300 hours i did not know many of these, thank you!

Pro Tip: On Industrial Sabotage, you can save your entire team the effort of attacking the weak points if you drill a path above the boss to where you can easily drop C4 on the center of the boss, saving valuable time and ammo. It takes 2 C4 so with a total of 3 phases, it's 6 C4 to fully clear the weak points yourself and can save your team a lot of time to focus on everything else. Just make sure you have yourself a clear path back to the entrance of your tunnel along with ammo in a safe location.

When your bomb dispenser is on higher ground than the shard you should open line of sights to be able to throw bombs down at it. For example in the video at 20:40 blow up the wall to the right when looking at the shard so you can get closer to it without having to drop down

For the drill save, I think you need to have the "Rock Knock" Apply during the same tick as you land.

Bro i came across this video back when i used to play alot and when i mained driller. This video came back into my feed today and now most of this is second natire to me as an driller main. Im VERY grateful for this video cause it taught me most of everything i know now added with a couple of cool little tricks ive learned like using enemies or teamates to break a high fall by landing on them and breaking ore spike stems by hitting the bottom twice and immediately using the power move yo destroy it

All I can say is: Keep up the good work! Love your presentation style, in-depth analysis and overall feel. Just feels cozy but informative. I love it and I wish you all the best for future videos. Rock and stone!

Always love your stuff. There's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by deep rock and you're fillin it

Owwwww dude. The driller is a iceberg class. Has so many depth than you actually seeing, this guide must be fixed in the menu of the game alongside with the other videos of you. Nice job man! You rock and stone! (Sorry, english its not my primary language, maybe one or more errors in the writing)

Learned a lot from you. I have been a cryo vamp driller main since I've started and I hit max rank just a month ago. I play around Asia region(I host all the time) and it's still satisfying to me seeing new players getting amazed and commending me on their first time encountering bunker defense especially on Salvage missions.

My brothers and I all love playing this game, and we all have different approaches. My oldest brother Aryn and my youngest older brother Clay both main Engineer, and Hawke, our middle brother, is the resident Gunner. Meanwhile I play the Driller, and while technically the youngest, Driller is perfect for how I like to play support and "baby" my brothers. Don't worry about a thing, Oldman Young is ready to roll.

What a great guide! This deserves a lot more views!!

As of season 2 the drill speed mod has changed to give you a speed boost while drilling meaning there is now great use in taking two drill speed mods

Drill holes in a checkerboard configuration to slow enemy pathfinding, catch flares, minerals and grenades if you plan on camping for longer periods in one area.

19:31, where's your correcting clone? "Hold up, the CRSPR with the triple-filtered heat mod will make quick work on the Rival bots. You don't need the mod, but it helps."

Even though I've never played driller this video was still greatly entertaining and well made, good job!

15:44 Are you really OCD? I was diagnosed recently, and it's helped me understand a lot of the oddities about the way I play this game and others in retrospect. Things like counting out the number of times drills tick before an overheat--cool to learn someone else does that, btw! My "I actually didn't know that" moment in this video was you can instakill turrets by drilling underneath them. I usually just instakill them with the CRSPR instead, but this is a useful thing to keep in mind especially if I somehow end up in a Sabotage mission with the cryo cannon.

Best Guide I have seen for DRG Driller. ROCK & STONE ⛏

You are able to drill above the caretaker and throw satchel charges on it to destroy it's shields, but I'm still an amateur and that's the only trick I've known so this video was hells helpful to me, thx dude

0:25 seconds in and I already liked the video. Love the dedication right there

Buff the flare gun This was an amazing video about using the drills more dynamically. I’m a scout main by trade but I dabble in all classes and I definitely struggle to get through my drills’ fuel before I’ve expended my other ammo and need resupply, more so than any other traversal tool. The grappling hook is free, the zip line is so limited that using it dynamically is extremely niche, the platform gun I found pretty intuitive, but not so much the drills. But this showed me a bunch of little things, like not clearing some obstacles, and that 11-break method which is just awesome. Now I just need to figure out how to differentiate scout playstyle from everything else. I rush in too close too much without the proper tools. And I need to work on my builds, I don’t quite have a grasp on what’s effective and what’s worthless or redundant for driller, particularly his primaries. But thanks to this video I think I’ll actually take that damage cooling because I don’t use enough fuel as of now. Thanks for the advice! Looking forward to hearing what I’ve already figured out on my own from musnothus soon :)

Heyyy, good to see another Driller main. This video makes me smile, thanks mate :)

Great video! I learned a lot! One tip you didn't mention which is perhaps obvious is drilling under turret controllers. You can pop just enough of the surface under them to hack from the bottom without leaving the tunnel or exposing yourself at all. If there are a lot of distant or ceiling turrets this provides (relatively) high safety and an easy way to take them all out at once.

Incredibly well done vid. Been playing for 3 years and honestly learned a lot.

I just recently started , and Driller had immediately charmed me by the ability to not bend to the whims of the generated map

This is my first time noticing the angle meter. Worth a watch just for that.

Happy anniversary! You’re the only deep rock channel I like so I’m truly greatful you exist

At first I tought Driller was really boring class as they could only drill and stuff, so I started out on Scout because the Grappling Hook was undoubtely fun to use, but then I learned the way of Engie and had a blast feeling really powerful dealing with swarms and using platforms to support and redirect bugs... but then it happened, I tried Driller for the first time and I had a blast from the start to my first promotion, his weapons, axes, drills... I felt like I could be so creative and versatile at the same time! Being able to completely modify terrain and dig shortcuts to otherwise hallways that were a chore to sprint through that were helpful to both me and my team felt otherwordly satisfying! I love Driller so so much it's my most played class right next to Engineer. They're both a blast to use and I'm thankful for your guide to enlighten me on some tricks that I had no idea about! Rock and Stone!

I once saw a driller use a cheese strategy on the caretaker, much to the entire team’s delight. They drilled into the ceiling and dropped satchel charges on its head so that the radius hit all three armored corners. I haven’t tried replicating this yet, but it shredded the armor phase pretty quickly.

I still watch your guide videos religiously despite me being almost rank 400 and not necessarily learning anything from them. They have great entertainment value !

"Now I want this video to have something for everyone..." Literally only 2 hours into the game, played every class once. Don't even have upgrades or _beer_ unlocked yet. The drills were easy to pick up on, but they seemed more hassle than they were worth compared to just the pickaxe. Super short overheat, wonky physics, fills the screen with dust, and can't be used to actually mine things? Clearly I need a veteran's guidance on these things. So I jump to 4:25, and it's actually helping. Sometimes, a visual demonstration is what you need to see, and you're putting together clear examples without going too fast or too slow. Thank you

The whole "creating tunnels" thing with driller for bosses also is VERY good for a gunner/driller team facing an OMEN, especially with those one-shot beams of death. It creates a great sightline to their units and is easy to make cover for thats impenetrable. No more jumping! Driller makes a couple tunnels with viewports for shooting, then stands on the platform. Gunner goes in the tunnel and uses his high kinetic damage capabilities to destroy the OMEN laser first. From there, everythings a lil bit easier. Or, you know, just target whatever you wamt first. Pro tip, if playing with 3 or more, get an engi as well who can place pancakes in front of the platform from the tunnels. Now theyre invincible from all forward attacks, like those purple scythes and even the searchlight. Now they only have to focus on killing the drones.

Missed opportunity to say "My Digger" instead of "My Dwarf" but I'll overlook it because this video is so helpful

I'm a gunner main to this day but I reached silver 1 yesterday and I think it is time for me to try other classes. This was a very nice introduction to the class for me kutgw. I mean ROCK AND STONE.

Just watched this video and I'd never thought to use the EPC TCF for terraforming things connected to the ceiling. This video really has something for everyone.

20:11 - Do NOT just drill tunnels for cover arround the caretaker. They become death traps during the barrier wave attack. Make sure you dig the tunnels at a fair distance. (I sadly don't know how far the barrier attack reaches ATM, and it's not on the wiki)

To be fair the grappling hook can be used as a weapon, ballistick dwarf strike or baiting detonators to blow it's fellow bugs to bits.

Here I thought I knew everything about terraforming but an excellent tip is opening up the ceiling!

I may be a scout main but i think this is helpful since even i play miner every now and then, you've earned a sub from this dwarf, rock and stone!

Absolutely amazing video! Finally a guide about my favorite class, and I learned so much. I've max upgraded my Driller and still didnt know a heap of stuff in this video. I feel like my Driller game is about to get MUCH better now because of this. Cheers mate!

Btw. With the robot missions. The turrets die really quick from the flame thrower. If you get any of the rival robots to have burn inflicted, they instantly die no matter how much health they have

This guide goes down as cold beer after a long dive. Helpful and entertaining.

i remember when i start playing . Driller was my least played class . then later after i start playing him more . i got one of those famous eureka moment . literally got the best terrain shaping tool in any game and can nullify the really hard vertical cave layout . and one of the c4 upgrades let him make big hole . if used in the right circumstance . you could break an enemy pathing to you . so now they taking the long route . making them easy picking .

Dang it, I've been watching your content for a bit now and I just love the editing and the humor. The dictionary part (where you literally printed the google translate definition, and stuck it inside) was the final push for me to subscribe. Well deserved!

For escort pre dig, just find the southwest corner of the cave and aim for SW225, at horizontal level, and you should see the next cave very soon if it's not immediate shown on scanner. With this in mind, it's very safe to dig all the way to heartstone room even before starting Dotty and mine all the nitra available. And driller can and should blow up some oil rocks with c4 to speed up the refueling.

Great, very informative, cool editing bonus points for using my favourite ambient theme in the game.

Seeing driller make a path back to the drop pod at the end of a lengthy mission is just the thing that made me start playing him. I'm so glad I did, as I used to be a scout main and I am now enjoying having myriad choices for bug slaughter, and not just having to run back to my gunner buddy to get things killed. Rock and Stone brother!

I did learn a thing or two in this vid. I've beeing playing since 2018 and my fav classes were Engi and Driller. I new most of the things you told like spiral drilling but the drill save or that drill would do in huge gaps. And the perks to take too, I belive in you in all of them. I had to change to drill damage after this vid.

Another thing the drills make a lot easier is sinking empty supply pods and objectives into the floor. The fuel cell in Salvage missions in particular is obnoxiously huge and blocks line of sight like a champ, so while a couple seconds sinking it a meter or two into the ground does reduce the defensive area slightly, it also does wonders to clear the lanes. The uplink box is a lot smaller, and just a couple ticks of drilling leaves only the less obnoxious antenna above the ground.

The content on this channel is amazing. I’m surprised you don’t have 100k+ subs

sometimes i just come back to this video for the intro, the wood chips are so good

saw your bunkie video and now I'm here you have my attention

10:40 Its just as fun if the teammate is alive too tbh. Not gonna lie it took me watching this video to realize "Oh, the angle meter." I've just been freeballing it the whole time. Excellent video! ROCK AND STONE!

Good job with the edit! It makes the educational video super fun to watch. 👍👍👍

I decided to try driller next after promoting engineer. While im honestly still not too sure how to feel about him in terms of his playstyle, i definitely see the value in the drills.

I just stumbled upon this video and wow I am amazed at the versatility of this class, I'm a greenbeard so will try the driller more now.

As a scout main, personally I think the grappling hook (if used right) can be very good at versatility, it helps dodge attacks and can be the difference between life or death, and sometimes just being alive really helps when your squad is destroyed by that pesky detonater or a swarm. The grapple hook platform combo is also really useful and satisfying as hell to pull of. Despite this, I can see why you wouldn’t put it in versatility, the potential fall damage is risky (especially for newer players) and perhaps you could say that the grappling hook is just as dangerous as useful. But one things for sure, it’s fun as hell, especially with special powder boomstick!

Honestly though, this was such a wonderful way to learn more on the drills. I started off playing engineer, then started to learn each of the other roles as well. Eventually settled on Driller for the most part just because of all the interesting implications his drills have, I remember when this video came out

even though im already saving up for my first plat promotion on driller, i still learned new stuff from this video, a lot actually, can't to take this into pubs and blow some greenbeards' minds

When dealing with most of the bosses in this game, dwarf-made tunnels, trenches, and any other holes you decide to make can go a long way to giving your team more cover to work with, making trenches to get easier resupplies and such

Oh my god, I didn't even know about the waypoint thing so many hours in. That could have been so useful

Very interesting stuff as a mini-drilldozer myself.

I feel like a psychic everytime I drill straight to a mineral near the ceiling without waypoints.

Wow, that's a lot to try out, man i love this game! The jump looks thrilling... and dangerous. Now i need to go try the bunker strategies!

Okay that intro was hilarious. Just had to comment that, just made my day.

Great video! My favorite trick is for opening up an area near a wall without (much) ground height variation: walk right up to the wall, facing it, angle your drills at 45 degrees, drill two ticks or until it stops drilling, and, without changing camera angle, throw a satchel with max carving radius, back away, and detonate. It's fairly close to the height of the terrain that you started on but saves you a lot of drilling effort. For spiral staircases, I got fed up with them not being perfect, so I've got an AutoHotKey script that makes perfect staircases every time. It's now my preferred method of dealing with modded x2 swarms: drill a long horizontal tunnel until it overheats, then spiral down at a 30 or 35 degree angle, and repeat for two overheat cycles. Return to the beginning of the long tunnel and prep a small hole on the side of the tunnel to dodge acid spitter shots, and then fill the entrance with goo, persistent plasma, and neurotoxin grenades (not at all once, unless there's a massive swarm that needs to be dead immediately). If they chase you, just go down the staircase and leave the same DoT death trap and if done right then the DoT will apply through the walls and affect more bugs.

Best guide out there. Amazing work on the video. Mad respect.

Here are some more tips, drills can drill a projectile before it hits you. Look straight at a spitballer and drill watch yourself immune it's ranged attack might come in handy on higher hazards especially when facing something like a tri-jaw or menace you can immune him while your team wrecks him. Spear overclock is the best thing on drill it's a 500 damage 350 direct and 150 aoe projectile if you freeze a pertorian and use spear it dies, if you freeze an opressor and use a spear into a quick axe it dies. Satchel charges make items you can carry fly really far and fast if you have a bunch of aquarq in a bad spot you can dig yourself a short 45 degree tunnel throw all the aquarq inside with a satchel charge and blow the aquarq over terrain and gaps. Plasma burn on the experimental plasma cannon allows you to set thing on fire while your primary is the cryo cannon. Thing on fire like bots get executed and if something is on fire and you freeze it or vice versa there is an aftershock effect that deals an extra 200 immediate damage which is very nice to have against joggernauts presistent plage coupled with a focus on single target damage lets you heat things up very fast while your charged attack would set them on fire as well as leave a plasma cloud this really matters against glyphid spawners,acid spitters,korloks and every boss fight including bet-c.

I did not know the fact about pumpjack color thanks I wish I knew that a few days ago

The intro was amazing

Didn't know that drills worked on ebonuts but personally I just prefer hitting them with an axe. Can usually retrieve it the second you throw it and it doesn't use fuel.

Nothing like a last minute search and rescue when a teammate gets downed or gets stuck getting back to the drop pod

Loved that intro! You earned a subscriber before I even saw the video.

I love your sense of humour and the level of research put into explaining things perfectly. You remind me of Karl !

31:20 I'm pretty new to DRG, but from what I'm seeing, I'd say the key is the timing of the tick. I think the key would be to time the tick of the drill to destroy the rock right at the perfect timing (be it when you hit the rock, just before, just after, I don't know though)

17:30 at this point a tip to make after about 1k hours is take an engi with you on missions if you can. They can patch holes you make allowing you to drop the fuel cells inside the bunker giving you a bigger radius to work with. You can also dig under the uplink and patch the hole. Have escape planned tho cuz oppressors and bulks can break in.

Drill save appears to be a ping issue. Most likely damage is decided by sending to the host "Hey I smacked into the ground" it sends back "hey you eat dirt." Most likely there is a time between the two where if you are drilling you respond with "nah I'm drilling we are cool."