C4 is definitely best used in dealing with the 3 enemy dwarves that spawn with you

I saw the flare gun as non-essential initially. Just a major convenience to your team but after maining Engineer and having my buddies/randoms play Scout and *not* do their job? I realize the Flare Gun *is* an essential tool.

Disregard sniss, the platforms are made of cheese and are very edible and tasty :) also the platform gun is the main reason I main engi it's so fun

Regarding bug repellent on the platform gun: The bug AI treats walking over it twice as far as normal ground. Molly uses the same AI, so you can call her over it to test your designs

I like the platform gun the most cause my green beard friends always thank me for saving them from fall damage

You forgot to mention one really useful function of the zipline: >Just staying in the air during swarms. If you prioritize Macteras etc, you can avoid a ton of damage by just hanging on to the zipline.

The real support update we need is skins for the support tools. Beyond that I would actually love to see support overclocks to be some weird fun changes to your specific flavor of support tool. Like adding the dash when going up ziplines or platforms that are bouncy and increase your jump height or other just fun stuff.

One of my first missions as a driller I used the drill hands to drill a hole all the back to the drop pod. My team mate called it during a storm and the cave system was super complex, it would've been impossible to make it in time. So with my team behind me taking out enemies, I just made an at least 200m long tunnel to the drop pod. Now I only play driller lmao

Something to note about the support tools. In Vermintide 2, another coop game, they keep you together by throwing 'disablers' at you. If they grab you, and another friend isn't nearby to save you, you die. In Helldivers, a top down coop, they keep you together by making you share the screen. The support tools in DRG keep you together far more effectively and naturally. Adding another layer of depth that's _fun_

I've been told that platform repellant works by telling the pathfinding system that any area with platforms is x2 times the area the bug has to travel, encouraging them to route a "shorter" path. That's why it's kind of jank.

Grappling Hook is easily the most satisfying support tool for me. Once you get the hang of it, traversal becomes a game of balance and momentum mastery, it's so cool.

I think the hawkeye system has really good synergy with turret whip. It allows you to prioritise targets with high damaging single shots

What do you mean do not get absolutely wasted at the Abyss Bar before a mission? Are you a pointy-eared leaf lover?

Actually grappling hook can be very beneficial for team, because scout can get to downed player and revive him much faster than others

I totally agree that there shouldn't be more support tools pre player, but overclocks for the existing ones might be fun. Things like letting turrets shoot thunderhead rounds (at lower fire rates) or changing the satchel charge to a shaped charge that explodes in a cone rather than a sphere would allow more gameplay styles while still keeping the roles of each support tool the same.

Cute dwarf girl: "Parents aren't home, come over." Scouts with their grapple: "Now this looks like a job for me."

You should've mentioned how the drills can also be used to scare enemies in a pinch.

Repellant for platforms is pretty useful for salvage missions or anything that requires you to stay in one spot. You can do a line of platforms at one side or as a roof (as seen at 16:49) to avoid bugs coming from everywhere, and funnel them into mines. From what i understand, the ai sees crossing them as a longer path that they really are so they go around, but if you make the "go around" too long they will just pass through

Im a gunner main and the shield is my child, I love it dearly.

I’m going to eat a platform it’s clearly cheese

Beautiful work as always, comedy gold and elegant explanations from the best wordsmith in the community ❤️

I love repellent additive. I feel it truly shines in situations like Salvage or OSR, making sure bugs don’t come from above you. Also great for blocking off blind lips on cliffs, like when you’re just entering a room.

I think the classes identities are strongly defined by the movement support tool, it would be cool to see new utility support tools.

gosh, your editing is so beautiful!

Grappling Hook is team oriented. Getting to revive dwarves by reaching quicker, getting those hard to reach items that would require support consumption from the other team members

Drills, drills, my beautiful drills! I started playing as driller because it was the only class no one was playing in my friends' group. I didn't like the idea, it didn't look like fun. And then I played a liquid morkite refining mission (that update had just released). WOW! Never changed my mind so quickly about something in my life. Being able to dig tunnels for those pipes, where otherwise it would have taken ages, really opened up a world for me! The drills are maybe the most reliable and versatile mobility tool in the game; virtually unlimited ammo, low risk of fall damage, a plethora of uses, and so satisfying to use!

your voice sounds so much cleaner, I really liked the engineer section, in my opinion the delivery to your jokes was best there. The thing about platform cookies probably awakened something sexually evil in someone.

THANK YOU for letting me laugh about trying to get up some stupid cliff with platforms! If you don't fall off, sure enough you'll get swarmed just as you're climbing up, while at least one of your teammates is watching.

the sad thing about this is you will soon run out of things to talk about drg :(

Zipline launcher rests as the best support tool, as it let's me build a web where I am the big shooty spider of death until I am inevitably shot down into the teaming mass of glyphids forming below me.

My favorite support tool has to be the drills because there's no feeling like looking at the dropship, seeing you can't follow the mule, and not caring. After all, I can draw a straight line for my team. And it only gets better, the more drillers you have, the less time any of you have to worry about 1. bugs chasing your team in the tunnel because fighting a straight line of glyphids is downright mundane when using any driller primary and 2. way less fuel wasted and way less time waiting for the cool down.

4:10 I started playing this game as a scout till I reached level 20 for the gun unlock. When I switched to engineer, everything became so much harder for the simple reason that I can't see jack shit without the flare gun.

the atmosphere in DRG is exceptional

If there‘s one thing you don‘t wanna miss, it‘s the latest video of Sniss. Rock & Stone!

I agree with u wholeheartedly and I just wanted to say, ghostship pls add support tool overclocks. They don't have to be too crazy, but anything to allow for even slightly more customization for these things would be awesome I think.

Driller is by far my favorite class. Ive found it hard to get good useage out of the satchel charges, but the drill tool is amazing to use, it does everything you possibly could need if you have a wall nearby. With the driller also having the most support focused weapons, with his secondaries being low damage, or being able to mine, and his primaries being mainly to set up other enemies or shut down small/medium units. Definitely the anchor of the team that is there to enhance everyone else. Such a cool design

Bug repellant is a realy interesting and rewarding upgrade if you get the hang of it, like in Salvage Opration, if the Up-link and/or Fuel are near a wall, you can make a Half circle about the size of the Buble (only at the wall), it forces the bugs to go around the thing, otherwise, go ahead and trail and error it out until you get a feel for it

The fact that the support tools are so different makes me really enjoy playing on teams with duplicate classes, it really shakes up the challenge when you're not able to rely on one of the tools.

Another great video about DRG. The support tools are awesome. Instead of new ones, I think it would be cool to have overclocks for the existing ones. They're fine as is, it's a very fine balance.

I disagree with you take on the zipline: I find it to be the do-everything, dependable mobility tool I always found the zipline to be the most reliable of the team-mobility tools. Sure, its slow going vertically, but both the drill and platform gun rely on walls already being in place. The zipline can go pretty far when upgraded properly, and it goes through open space, which is a godsend on many biomes. Not to mention, its easy to miss a driller's wall-dug staircase, without communication, but a zipline is highly visible. I find it weird you say "drills can do everything the ziplines can, but better." In reality, I think the zipline and drill are polar opposites of one another: one moves through solid rock, the other moves through open space. The zipline can also be used to create low-hanging lines around a defense area, giving the whole team a chance to get out of the reach of crawling enemies, stay mobile without having to think about moving, and have a vantage point.

That Dwarf Parkour segment is the best thing I've seen all day.

For the flare gun, I have to say, for how ineffective it is at combat, I *love* how it feels to use it like one. The speed of the flare mixed with the crisp noise shooting it makes, plus the thud of it hitting the enemy before bouncing off is just heavenly. I wish there was a support overclock that gave you way more flare ammo and increased it’s damage to like 110 or something, with a drawback of like heavily reduced lifespan. Please, ghost ship, I need this!

The outro though, “Rock and stone” Cool music plays perfectly after

Never knew my mapping skills I developed from hiking would become SOOOO USEFUL, driller makes this game so easy and still so fun because I just do quick math and my team thrives off my good tunnels.

I instantly gravitated towards driller at the beginning of the game, and I've never looked back. First promoted character, absolute favorite character, and overall, my absolute favorite toolset

A new rimworld DLC, and a sniss upload?! Today is a great day.

I didnt know i needed a platform parkour montage today but im so happy i got one

The hookshot may be the least team orientzd tool in the game, but it does make the scout fantastic at supporting his team in a very important way; gathering nitra.

Two things I’d like to see: 1) an ability for the gunner to link ziplines together to make one very long zipline (useful for extremely vertical caverns). 2) an unstable overclock for the grappling hook that allows you to yoink fallen players to your location (useful for retrieving them from awkward places and/or getting them to a safer place to revive).

Driller for me because of all the things you listed. Plus just digging a bunker is so nice to have

The satchel charges do have a level of utility, that being against larger enemies and or bosses. Their explosion radius is not only big enough to hit multiple weakpoints, but does a LOT of damage as well. You can throw one on top of a Caretaker to take out a massive chunk of health from all four vents simultaneously, skipping one of the more tedious parts of the fight. You can hit all three weakpoints on a Hiveguard, skilling to the phase where your team can actually deal damage instead of reloading after having wasted all of their ammo on the weakpoints. You can even obliterate Omens by hitting all 12 cooling tanks with 1 satchel.

I love the zip line for when I break into a big open cave and end up on a big cliff. Then I also have an exit for the extraction

Lovely video, Sniss. Great editing, pacing, and composition as usual. I have to say, as an Engineer main, I am biased towards the platform gun. The abstract levels I have made inside the caves to assist team mates have been an incredible way of interacting with the environment. That being said, I have always seen them as cheese given their spongey nature for fall damage and bright yellow colouration. Cookies sound great too, and if it didn't affect visibility of life saving platforms so much, I'd love to colour my friendly discs in an Oreo colouration. One last little thought. As you mentioned games having a support class or role, I had to take a second to imagine what that would be given the current tools. A class with no guns (or weak weapons) with so many utilities that they get called around to do environmental work. I totally agree that each of the dwarves having a significant way to interact with the environment emphasizes the importance of the environment. A good thing, in my books. The DRG team did really well there. Thank you for your time editing this series. It has been great to watch along to some things I already know, but love hearing them in a well-constructed and funny video. You do great work, sir.

I love the drills. It gives me so much freedom as a player especially on biomes with 3 hit terrain.

When looking at the satchel charge i made exactly the change you mentioned, in the beginning I thought of it as just a big grenade, but when used as a tool to clear areas fast its way better i think

Great vid as always, man. And now you’ve made a video for basically every piece of the game. I think the only things you haven’t done yet are grenades and the progression system, and even then you’ve talked about them here and there.

The plasticrete repellant upgrade is actually amazing for point extraction missions where you need to bunker down, you can create a ceiling against a wall so that the bugs have to go around it, meaning all bugs that would've gotten behind you are now on either side of you instead, making for an effective killzone, especially with the defender mod in tier 4

The zipline cancels fall damage due to fall damage being calculated based on speed/velocity and not on fall time. Scouts special powder can harm you if you jump and aim straight up. The zipline, rail grind, ledge grab, enemy bounce, friendly bounce, and more also cancel fall damage for the same reason

I use the repellent to make shortcut bridges and run circles around bulks/dreads while they slowly climb up and down chasms. Also it's okay for funnelling stuff into a killbox where you've set mines and turrets.

The key to using Repellant Platforms is too not be too greedy. 3-5 platform widths is the maximum. As for it's utility, I'd never trade it for more platforms. The ability to keep bugs off ceilings and walls (and right into the my mines and the team's line of fire) is invaluable.

I think the grappling hook is still a team player as the scouts job for the team is to get high up ores like notes and such.

5:55 The Bug-Repellant upgrade is specific but VERY good. Probably the simplest use for it is to get bugs off the ceiling or funneling them into narrower firing lanes. For example, on salvage missions, if the black box is wedged against a wall, the engi can put 4-6 platforms above the box to form a sort of "ledge." With the ledge in place, the bugs will be forced to walk around it and join the rest of the swarm approaching from the sides. In low tunnels, like the ones in simple Mining Expeditions, you can cover the ceiling in platforms and reroute their path back to the floor, making aoe attacks and piercing rounds much easier to use. Even without ledges or tunnels, you can throw some on the ground and funnel a swarm into a tight spot for your Plasma Cutter or Grenades to do some major work. I don't take it on every mission (swapping it out for more ammo) but it's a good mod nonetheless. TL;DR: Bug-Repellant is good if you know how to use it, otherwise probably just take extra ammo Also, I would love it if they gave support tools Overclocks!

One reason for why the zip line is so much better at crossing obstacles and hazards is the ease of use it provides. For example, while you could technically use the drills and platform guns to get up a cliff, if you’re in a hurry, it’s gonna be hard to find the tunnel or maneuver up the platforms, while with the zipline, you can see it with ease, and just have to interact with it to get up the cliff, allowing you to focus your attention instead on dealing with the swarm chasing you

Something I appreciate about the zipline gun is it's fire-&-forget usage. You want a way up to that ledge, but everyone else is too busy with other things, and you're also quite busy as gunner keeping them alive, so just whip out the zipline gun, put that cable down, and go back to your main job. It may be slower going uphill, but it requires the least time to put down. And for the gunner, that is exactly what you want.

about scout grapling... i would be glad if i can grapple someone to me... it would make scout much more supportive class

i'm a driller main and my favorit is doing liquid morkite extraction and glyphid egg extraction because i just making the most direct tunnel to the eggs or from the pumpjack to the refiner

I love the platform parkour compilation, half the cuts are so obviously seconds before you die from fall damage.

I just saw on the update webpage It’s says there will be more hats and I just wanted to say thank you Sniss for making “more hats” a thing. Congratulation miner rock and stone.

A couple of cool gamer moves with the platform gun are how you can use them to mine faster as they take one swing to break, and how repellent additive works by adding 10m to a bugs pathing so you can make them more consistent

In a game where most things do damage via melee the gunners zipline is insane. Keep an eye out for projectile classes (which you should be doing anyway, they're usually killers no matter what) and nothing else can really kill you. Dodge by making more zips and dropping onto them.

if you're crazy enough the grappling hook can be useful for teammates. If someone jumps in front of you while you're grappling their head hitbox can bounce off you sending them flying in the same direction as you :D

At 18:15 while u talk about driller I wanted to give a quick tip, that u can mark those tricky fossils by using Ctrl+E, so that while digging to it u have better direction by just pressing Ctrl again and seeing mark trough walls, helps to quicker navigate.

grappling hook + hover boots perk has saved my life so much. its also helpful to get secondary objectives that are placed high on the wall (i play solo) so i can just zoom up there, grab the thing, and use the hover boots before i hit the ground lol

I've posted it before, but I did have some ideas for alternate support tools for each class that still fulfil the general gist of the class, but offer enough of a different playstyle to make it interesting. Scout: Jump Pack and Beacon. Jump pack grants an ability to do mid-air jumps, with multiple charges that recharge automatically on ground. Beacon would be set up like a sentry gun and light up a large area. Engineer: Mag-gel cannon and tesla node. Mag-gel cannon would paint a black magnetic gel across walls like a hose, allowing players to float nearby it or walk up walls. Tesla nodes would zap a set number of targets near them, slowing and damaging them. Driller: Autohammers and mining charges. Autohammers would be twin jackhammers that punch out chunks of terrain similar to power-attacks, allowing for better terrain carving, but slower traversal. Mining charges would be placed, then create a series of explosions in a direction, mining out a tunnel. Gunner: Rapple lines and frontal-gun-shield. Rapple lines would function the same as zip-lines, but be based around a vertical angle instead. The gun-shield could be activated to grant your primary constant spin-up (max RoF on autocannon), as well as blocking enemies in a large frontal area in front of yourself, allowing for a more active defensive role.

Another excellent video, but there are a lot of key missed details. For example, no mention of Scout's multiple fall-damage-resistance options (including armor mod, grapple mod, and Weapon Overclocks) which make the grapple less deadly as players advance. Engineer's Hawkeye turrets have extended range, making them better alarms for incoming enemies, more effective at eliminating mactera, but also faster to deplete ammo. Gunner ziplines are great firing platforms for miners who hate allies getting in their line of fire, and two can be placed one above the other to allow a gunner to catch themselves should they get knocked off the higher zipline. Finally, the driller's Satchel mining works best when you drill into the surface a few feet and place the explosive on the ceiling of your little tunnel.

This video made my view of DRG being a great co-op game turn into DRG being the best co-op game

with the bug repellent platforms you can put yourself up against a wall or corner and platform above yourself to make a fairly effective bunker

Dang it I want to do more than just leave a like when ever you end a video with Rock and Stone!… Rock and Stone Brother!! ⛏

when you have a hazard 5 swarm and still have plenty of time to rock and stone, that's when you know you have a great team

Sometimes I just gotta make a 24 pancake staircase... looking at you, Blasted Corridors.

The platform mod that makes enemies avoid it is fantastic for point-defense situations like uplink repairs and fuel pods. You can line the wall above you with platforms so that they have to crawl around to your sides. Then you can lay some in front, and they only have 2 directions to come at you from. Set up your turrets, some sticky nades, and you're good to go.

My favourite funny dwarf man has uploaded again thanks for the dwarf funny man

I've started playing DRG just a month ago and GOD THAT PARKOUR PART WAS SMOOTH

Platform gun saved me from so many fall deaths I lost count of how often I use that to lessen my fall

I love my ziplines. In steep caves, you can build a ladder with them and then jump from one zipline to another. You can easily mitigate being knocked off by placing another line a bit lower. When you've been hit, you start to tap E to catch the other line. Needs setup but it's great for defending Doretta and Dreadnought fights.

cookies eh? id say the most of the community collectively agree the platforms are like pancakes. but either way, my favorite thing about the platforms is when u land on it from a high height, it makes that PFFFT sound. also how it compresses and deforms but i feel like theres no greater feeling than special powdering and grappling across a massive cave. especially when its like "oh dam scouts like 100m away" *poom poom schhh "nvm hes right behind us"

I don’t focus playing any one dwarf. I switch classes a lot, usually whenever I feel like it. When I first started doing it, for a while I would sometimes forget about the support equipment for that class, then half way through the mission I’d realise how much easier and more enjoyable it would have been to remember said equipment. It really goes to show that despite having 4 different pieces of equipment, everyone of them is an integral part of the gameplay. The fact you can customise your entire play style without even changing your primary or secondary weapons to different ones is insane.

Just looking at these tools make me appreciate the game so much more and want to play it even more

I think your assessment of Hawkeye is a bit flawed. The reason it's called Hawkeye is because it essentially makes your sentries have infinite range (For whatever you ping). It isn't about focusing down Praetorians or Oppressors, it's about picking off Spitters, Grabbers, Leeches, and even Spitballers (Though that last one can be quite an ammo sink, so not recommended). I think this ability makes up for Engineers lack of range for dealing with single targets. You certainly can take out all those enemies from a distance, but you'll likely end up using way more ammo than you need to. And pinging a Grabber will mean that your sentries will repeatedly chase it away even if they dont kill it outright. Edit: Also sometimes I just dont want to worry about which direction my guns are facing when I place them.

6:22 I didn't know you could do this! Nice will start practicing soon

The repellent additive can also be used to block off ledges so bugs cant crawl over walls and get ya from behind

Something i’ve noticed about the traversal and support tools: they each match the dwarves characters perfectly. Scout avoids the problem entirely (flaregun and grappler) Engineer cleverly works around the problem (platforms and turrets) Gunner negates the problem (zipline and shield) And Driller just gets rid of the problem (which holds for his primaries too)

10/10 video sniss, keep up the good work

Thank you sniss

My favorite Traversal Tool is the Scout's Grappling Hook. Though it is inherently a selfish tool, it lets me take care of menial tasks like mining some Nitra that's too high up (you can stand on most Nitra veins or do a power attack during the right moment to create space to stand), zipping to the purple lights that need to be hacked for that one event, getting heavy objects up to places (you can toss upwards, then grapple up and carry the item while you still have some upwards-momentum), picking up fossils and similar side-objectives, and the like, which would take a lot more time (and ammo) for other classes. Team goes down? I can still kite enemies and look for an opening that allows me to revive them with some extra speed (I like the Medic perk on Scout). Overall, it allows the other dwarves to focus on what's important, while I make sure to take care of minor tasks.

I started playing scout when I first played because I intended to play solo and not play online for a while. Then play engineer as a support class when I play MP. But I realized how amazing the flare gun is for everyone. And how easily I can get everyone nitra and all that. Sometimes being able to go away from your team is a great way to support your team.

I love that the engie you blew up with the satchel charge was named Splodey

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As a gunner, you can hold your interact key to grab the zipline as soon as possible. Also workes for pipes, cave angels, and heavy objects.

I cleared my first Heartstone mission (hazard level 3) only thanks to the gunners shields. I was out of ammo and not enough nitra to call in a resupply, so I just stood on top of the drill and constantly repaired it. When the drill got critical I threw a shield and I could safely repair it, for some reason the gryphoids also focused only the drill and I was basically left alone...