Beginner's Guide to Deep Rock Galactic

[@wkr948]

Greybeards watching this because sniss makes things fun, I salute you

[@commanderhubert5659]

ROCK AND STONE YEAAAAAAA

[@neuro3423]

Yep! 800 hours in (including lobby time), level 400 something and 18 years of FPS experience and I'm still gonna watch.

[@melonwizarddemoknighttf2358]

Great video as a 1000 hours dwarf

[@hillelkor19]

WE'RE RICH!

[@Apple-nf5rk]

Karl would approve of this

[@rogerx2000]

tip regarding the battle pass cosmetics: when a battle pass ends the cosmetics in it will still be obtainable via chests or lost helmets that appear during missions, so don't worry if there's something you really want, you'll find it eventually by just playing

[@darckap2785]

_I'll get you one day, barrel bosco..._

[@spookyboi4784]

Lost helmets? They something you can run into during any mission?

[@dunkerdoodle]

@@spookyboi4784 yes, lost helmets have a random chance of appearing in any mission and scanning them will reveal a small cave you can dig to for extra minerals and cosmetics

[@meekumanu]

No FOMO for us dwarves is a great feeling

[@chonky2129]

Really good to know 👍

[@ciy_ro]

For any Greenbeards, if you mine out a piece of compressed gold then you should ping it, a lot.

[@genoteh9706]

Why?

[@everettham7]

@@genoteh9706WE’RE RICH

[@luckyduck507]

​@@genoteh9706we are rich

[@PerishSong94]

'CAUSE WE'RE RICH! (it's a meme btw )

[@BiggieBows1752]

@@PerishSong94It's not just a meme, it's tradition.

[@flamingcrimson5003]

IMPORTANT: When using the Terrain Scanner, press spacebar to have your dwarf turn to align with the view.

[@mr.s9783]

That's the jump button for the console players.

[@icky_thump]

Yep! He forgot to mention that. Such an excellent QoL function that helps you get your bearings.

[@RayanfhoulaBR]

holy shit you're a livesaver

[@Brian-tn4cd]

This greenbeard thanks you for this tip, Rock and Stone

[@bonniedykstra6722]

It really helps with mavigation

[@maxducks2001]

A tip for each class. These aren’t all of them, but I find they’re pretty important: Gunner isn’t just the heavy weapons guy. He’s also the team’s best medic. You can revive a downed teammate by holding the action button, but that can take precious time, and enemies will swarm a downed teammate’s body. If you’re in a particularly hurried or dangerous situation, gunner can throw down his deployable shield to safely revive a teammate, causing all bugs within its range to scatter. You can also shoot out of the shield, so keep that in mind. But it’s a limited duration, so be ready to get back into the fight pretty soon. If you’re an engineer, and there is a scout on your team, be sure to use your platform gun to place the pancake looking platforms underneath any minerals that are on the walls or ceiling of a cave, especially if your team pings it. Scout can use his grappling hook to zip over to the minerals, but your platforms let him mine them without falling to his death. (Though he’ll sometimes do it anyway.) The scout/engie combo is one I often see new players not knowing about, and it’s something that pretty much everyone will expect you to learn as you go forwards. Scouts, remember to use your flare gun in big areas. Not those small ones where your small throwable flares will do. I mean the big caves. It can be hard to see your way sometimes, or spot precious minerals or other objectives. A blind dwarf is a dead dwarf. (A slow dwarf is also a dead dwarf, but you already got speed covered, you’re a scout.) Sometimes, Hoxxes’ winding tunnels and cave systems can get a little complex. Too complex to easily navigate, even with the terrain scanner. And what happens if Molly takes a weird route up a wall? You can’t follow that! But there is a solution. The driller. The driller extraction is a tried and true way to get out of a hairy situation. Make sure you have plenty of fuel before doing this, though. Simply look towards the big indicator on where the drop pod is, find the closest wall in its direction, and START DRILLING. Your team will cover you from the rear. Just make sure you stop when your drill heat reaches 99%, or else they’ll be on cooldown for a good while, and you don’t want that.

[@brennonpowers9706]

All great tips! Very well done Greybeard, Rock and Stone ⛏️

[@vbgvbg1133]

ANOTHER DRILLER TIP: You have c4, and if theres a scout on your team...

[@tuongnguyen2807]

If you are first on the drop pod, ping it. This will help other teammates see exactly where the pod is. (specially when a driller is still drilling his way toward the pod) My personal keybind for laser pointer is Q (toggle off) it's like some "survival instinct" in other video games where it would highlight important things. I can see where's other teammates, where Molly is, ammo pod is, etc.

[@Wulfjager]

@@vbgvbg1133 "hey. easy on the c4, yeah?"

[@Wulfjager]

As a gunner, your zipline can break your fall if you hold down the grab button while falling. It can make vertical caves that you're staying in for awhile much easier, like point extractions. Put down a Zipline near the mine rig so people can jump down to it and save lots of time Engineers tend to forget that they can place platforms onto other platforms. You can form bridges with them to access more areas then you'd think, especially useful if you know you're going to be going through that area again and will need a convenient way across fast If there is a ledge you want to reach as a scout but it's awkward to grapple to and can reach the ceiling, you can grapple to the ceiling and let go of the grapple when you reach the ledge. You can cancel your movement at any time and stop yourself from going all the way up which makes you feel like spiderman. Instead of "from A to D skipping B and C" it's like "from A to D but can stop at B, C or D" Drillers can make everyone's lives so much easier with a little bit of foresight. For example, if you're entering a new cave during a mining expedition and you had to fall into it, don't wait until the drop pod is called to make access back up. While the rest of the team works on mining minerals and clearing bugs you can begin working on a convenient walking path back up to the previous cave before it becomes a problem. Thinking two steps ahead is what separates a greenbeard and greybeard driller

[@skylerfisher4347]

With season 3 finally out and many of my friends looking for new games, i've had an excess of greenbeards to play with, and giving them the crash course has been actually quite fun! Though sometimes my explanations can be a touch long winded, this video will definitely help with the nitty gritty bits! Oh and for the Greenbeards who aren't my friends and would like some advice, here is some advice from my greybeard from long ago that helped me: Never be ashamed of what difficulty you play on, no matter what anyone tells you. Just because some greybeards play on hazard 5 with blackout stout and pickaxes only does not mean you have to do the same! Play the game on whatever difficulty you feel comfortable with, be it hazard 1 or hazard 5, the game is meant to be enjoyable so do what you enjoy!

[@maxv9464]

Totally! Solo Haz1 is like doom. I love playing it occasionally for something easy but fun.

[@madmonty4761]

​@@maxv9464 haz 3 is my hard but fun i only do haz 1 for assignments

[@00yiggdrasill00]

This is perhaps THE single most important point. It's a hell of a good game but I walked away for over a year till my brother dragged me back in because I just kept trying to push the difficulty up and had a string of bitter losses. Take your own time and play at whatever difficulty and whatever dwarves and equipment builds you like

[@manboy4720]

i just stick with haz4 personally. haz5 can be kinda tedious and the game's RNG can really screw you over sometimes, and haz3 isn't challenging enough, so haz4 is a perfect middle-ground of being more difficult but still being enjoyable.

[@chrisandrews397]

I personally run around on Haz 3 or 4 depending on the mission because I love how fast and frantic the combat gets, but whenever I'm doing assignment missions I always just grind through them on 1 or 2 for ease. 4+ is still incredibly hard with full upgrades and overclocks, just less than without.

[@thingoria]

To clarify, the ‘red’ XP bar is a per-class rank that gives you access to upgrades and deep dive missions as you level it up, while the ‘blue’ xp bar indicates your total account level and is not limited to one class. It also gets you access to more cosmetics and assignments as you level it up.

[@necfreon6259]

For an even shorter retrospect Red xp is class exp blue xp is player xp

[@griffinpausch7779]

Thanks man, I’m pretty new to DRG and I didn’t know what the difference was between the two, so this helped me out a lot, thanks!

[@PicklestheGobbo]

Thanks I got confused on why there’s more than one xp bar

[@McNugNug255]

Quick thing about perks: The passive perks are purely passive, but the "active" perks have both a passive AND an active part about them, and require a separate perk slot to equip. I was initially confused when unlocking perks because i thought i had to choose whether to have the active or passive part of the perk, but you in fact get both when equipped

[@cyceryx]

Not all active perks have a passive part though, only some of them

[@necfreon6259]

@@cyceryx without surprise some active perks are better then others

[@mandyyy-w]

A smaller tip I'd give is: even if you're too broke or don't like to buy extra stuff, do still go buy all the upgrades for your armor rig. This is because there's a bar below the upgrades that will fill up every time your purchase an upgrade, and it will give you extra stuff when you buy enough upgrades. The weapons upgrade bars only give you some weapon skins, but the armor rig bar actually gives you extra health, so I recommend you work towards buying all the upgrades for your armor rig when you can for that bit of extra health 😄

[@rudeboyspodcast]

I played the game for 150 hours and I never knew this, lol

[@jjoshaugh]

This is an amazingly good tip. I'm getting all my Dwarves to level15 before I do anything else, based on this tip alone. That's the level where you can get all the armour upgrades and max out the health.

[@leviathanu099]

150 hours in I've promoted every class at least once, gone on numerous deep dives and have done every mission type and yet here I am watching a beginners guide. Good stuff sniss, Rock and Stone!

[@BotBruh448]

133 hours here, mostly done Solo runs up until late, only promoted scout once (tho I've had another promotion waiting around for months) and I've had engie's promotion sitting around for a month or two too! I've just enjoyed how atmospheric the game is and taking it slow, but playing with people can also be so fun, even if they're randoms! This is just such a phenomenal game to experience, especially among how sweaty modern games tend to get, Rock and Stone brothers!

[@TheZweric]

@@BotBruh448 promote them, it doesn't hurt! I got 770 hours, with engy sitting on legendary II but almost none on scout, yet I'm improving that in order to fill the role in a pinch if the lobby needs it. It's still super fun and being "overqualified" allows you to carry greenbeards through higher hazards or use mods to get higher enemy spawns edit: there are still beards to unlock, it's amazing, and doesn't feel grindy at all, especially since there is no pressure to unlock everything in a season

[@leviathanu099]

@@TheZweric Yeah the edd last week we had a very poorly performing driller, whether he was new or not I dont know, and we had a very good engineer on our team who carried us through the point extraction 3rd phase. It was my first elite deep dive ever and I didnt think it was going to be as difficult as it was. Glad he was there to put us on his back

[@BotBruh448]

@@TheZweric I just forgot if there's any point to promotions after you get your first one tbh, i mean I can still slap Fatboy on engie and kill my team with it despite not having promoted him hahaha, and I've got the trytilite(?) Key, so what's the point beyond just prestiging and showing off?

[@TheZweric]

@@BotBruh448 it makes dwarf brain happy. Or brain with dwarfism, idk

[@bugjams]

*Advanced tips for exploration/combat:* - When mining, if you break everything supporting a structure (like the base of a pillar), the rest will collapse. You can mine certain minerals faster this way (ex: breaking the base of an Umanite crystal to mine the whole thing a lot faster). - As Driller, you can smooth out rough terrain for you and your team. Or, on objectives like Salvage Operation, where you need to defend a point, you can drill into the ceiling and walls to give yourselves more room to fight in around the point. - As Engineer, you can use your platforms for a ton of things. Most importantly, making ledges on hard-to-reach minerals for the Scout to safely grapple to. But also, you can seal holes in the floor, or with the Tier 2 upgrade, make soft landing pads to save you and your team from falling off cliffs. If you're quick enough, you can use the latter trick to save yourself mid-combat if you accidentally fall off a ledge. - As Scout, you're the support class. Remember to light up caves often (but not often enough that you run out of flare gun ammo), and remember that all of your grenades are support-oriented. Cryo grenades are especially good at instantly killing flying enemies, or preventing deathrattle effects like Praetorian fart clouds and Brood Nexus spawns. - For Gunner, I have 2 tips. Firstly, use your shields for your allies as well as yourself. Don't be selfish! If you see your teammates struggling, you can toss your shields a good distance to save them. Secondly, you can save yourself from falling with ziplines (if they're already below you). Just hold "E" while falling onto a zipline and you'll automatically catch it - no fancy timing required. - Once you unlock the pickax "power attack," remember to use it often. It's not just useful for combat! A power attack instantly breaks any terrain type, letting you mine faster or quickly create a ledge to mantle onto. An advanced Scout player can use this to make a foothold on a wall without needing Engie platforms, but that doesn't mean the Engie shouldn't still help out! (Also, Oppressors and Mactera take massive damage from pickax power attacks!) - During Dreadnaught fights, it's slightly helpful to always keep the Dreadnaught(s) pinged. This highlights them for the entire team, making them slightly easier to see and hit. - Many weapons have animations that can be skipped to save a bit of time on reloading. The Gunner's Autocannon, Driller's Flamethrower, Engie's Breach Cutter and Scout's M1000 are the most generous, but it's possible with just about any weapon that needs to be reloaded. To do this, watch your ammo counter when reloading. As soon as you see the next mag get refilled, quickly tap the pickax key and let go to skip the rest of the animation. - You can bunnyhop to a certain extent. Anything that adds speed or momentum to you can be carried a little further by hopping right as you touch the floor. Hot magma in the Magma Core and thorns from Hollow Bough boost your speed when you're hurt by them, which you can carry a bit by hopping. If you're using the Dash perk, you can also extend the speed boost a bit by jumping right before it wears off. - In the mission On-Site Refinery, you can save yourself from falling by holding E before hitting a pipe, similar to Gunner's ziplines. - In Point Extraction, enemy waves spawn faster and faster as time progresses. So don't take too long. It only takes about 15-20 minutes for swarms to be non-stop. - In Escort Duty, only 1 person needs to repair Doretta at a time. 2+ people doesn't speed up the repair speed at all. - When running the Iron Will perk, you can self-revive by healing at any time during the perk's duration. This will save you from dying after the invincibility wears off, but also doesn't cancel the invincibility duration either! The Vampire perk synergizes well with this, as you can just melee-kill a single Grunt to save yourself from dying. - And I just wanna mention that Born Ready is my favorite perk. It's basically "backpack reloading" from old games like Half Life. After swapping to another weapon, any weapons/tools that need reloading will reload automatically after a short time. If you can get a rhythm going between weapons, you'll basically never need to reload! This has the added bonus of letting you skip "reload speed" upgrades in favor of more damage or other effects.

[@aeldariambitions6334]

In addition to your point about On-Site Refining, even a totally green Driller basically trivializes pipe running between the rig and the pumpjacks. So often there's one that's way high up on a ledge, or down in a crevice, or in a room off to the side somewhere. A driller can just tunnel right to it and make pipe placing a breeze! Although, do be wary of bugs sneaking up on you during the tunneling process. Remember to bring a buddy at all times, if only so they eat him first.

[@cujoson1150]

Thanks so much! This was super helpful :)

[@antoinealderson8473]

Thanks for ll thoses tips, I will try to remember them when playing !

[@cujoson1150]

Update, I've put pretty much every point from here which I didn't already know to good use, and it's been really helpful. Thanks again!

[@whitygoose]

i have a major struggle, i can't in my life navigate the cave (i can't even navigate shit in real life) if there is any way to brute force it? like jetpack or any way to just be able to navigate the cave easier?

[@potterinhe11]

Here's my tip: Don't be afraid to jump from high places (as long as they aren't lethal falls) as getting a hang of how much punishment your stumpy little legs can take before your shield breaks can make navigating much more manageable, and can even save you if you need to jump away from an incoming hoard to save yourself from being downed if it means only taking a small amountof damage. Most of the environment is climbable so keep an eye out for things such as protruding crystals, mushrooms to make the jump shorter, and even your fellow dwarves you can land on to cushion the fall entirely! You can even slide down any wall with even a slight slope in order to redirect your momentum away from the ground, just beware that you can get too much momentum when you jump and be sent flying down into another death pit.

[@joshmay2944]

I'd add onto this to get familiar with the ledge grab - you might be surprised with how high up you can actually grab, and being able to quickly identify climbable ledges and jumps in the terrain while say kiting an entire swarm, can easily mean the difference between life and death in some situations.

[@empicamper]

Hehe mushroom

[@gsjacobs]

On a related note: if you're on a ledge somewhere and are about to get mobbed, better to jump and take your chances with fall damage than get downed somewhere high up and hard to reach. The easier it is for your teammates to get to you, the faster you'll be on your feet again.

[@poggestfrog]

driller tip: You can drill into a wall to break your fall

[@KLivingston]

Also, if you aim it right while falling, you can use your pickaxe as any class to break a piece of wall to "grab" before landing to break your fall sometimes...if your jump is rly high next to a wall, it's worth a shot (remember to hold jump while doing this)...I just started playing yesterday and this tech has helped me immensely when yeeting myself off as ledges, which I do by accident a lot sometimes

[@casedistorted]

One hot tip that took me many hours to figure out is that pulling out your laser pointer will reveal the UI minerals section so you know how much nitra or gold you’re carrying

[@marthahorace]

i have more than 300 hours in this game, but i still watched this video to the end just because of how good it is. thank you, sniss

[@Overlord-ih6tm]

same 😅

[@liamfalvey5142]

Same, about 180 hrs and I still watch every review and beginners guide I can find just because they’re often so well made

[@sterlingfelker6295]

my fellow oldbeard we are the same

[@wiseguidedmissile]

I recently got my friends into playing Deep Rock, I had to search for tons of videos to give them the best tutorials I could find, this video will work very well thank you sniss the piss

[@rexdoom3848]

I can't wait till everyone starts calling him sniss the piss

[@MrRedrick94]

Don’t piss sniss off. :)

[@romanchasteen3562]

I would like to say that I appreciate the fact that you are not afraid of telling viewers about videos on other channels, if you feel those channels can do a better job of explaining certain topics than you can. It's a pretty rare thing to see, and I want you to know that I really like it.

[@polish_boi3108]

Don’t forget you can jump on top of few enemies, in particular the Glyphid Praetorian. Doing some leapfrog with these guys can help you get to the soft bits while avoiding the puke attack and other beasties around the big boi.

[@papahemmy8587]

Sometimes i like to play Praetorian rodeo, were I bounce on their back as driller stripping off their armor with my drills.

[@krymz1]

@@papahemmy8587 rock and stone to the bones, that's my favourite move too!

[@Claymann71]

Engy: _Equip RJ250 Compound_ *Shoot 3 feet infront of you, fly forward or backward. Land on Pretorian's back. Use Power Attack. Strip Armor from Weakpoint. PUSH BARREL INTO BUG-BUTT. UNLOAD -SHOTGUN- WITH PREJUDICE. RJ250 & fly away. Scouts: I feel so unnecessary... *walks into a Cave Leach like a rake from an old Looney Tunes cartoon.

[@PlebNC]

Season Pass advice: Rewards aren't time limited. Once Seasons end the rewards are added to shops and loot drops so if you don't have time/care to grind out the pass you won't miss out. Also the Seasons are massively long, like multiple months, which is great as it allows the devs to properly create new content and lets players complete the pass at their own pace.

[@jacobfoxfires964]

The perfect phrase for this game can be found in the game itself. “Rock and Stone! Never gets old!”

[@jonathangibson9098]

Stone & Rock! .... ummm

[@ReNaN30081992]

1.5k hours in the game here. Sniss pretty much sums up all the basics in the video. My tip: always look for red sugar (a red crystal found through the caves) to keep your health at or near max. It is a common mistake from greenbeards not caring for this, so they end up dying a lot and very fast after they are down for the first time.

[@MrDrManPerson]

Sniss I love you! This is what the community needed so bad at the perfect time. Just something fun and easy to get them started. Perfect timing my guy.

[@freindlessversion2.021]

An important detail that Sniss didn't mention is to use all your weapons/tools and don't only stick to your primary weapon for two main reasons 1. The weapons and tools are designed for different roles so it's best to even out the ammo so that you always have the tools for an encounter, instead of being caught out not having ammo for the gun best suited for a situation 2. Resupplies don't fill you guns to full but give 50% ammo to EVERY gun/tool and doesn't specify a single one, which means if you use a resupply and you only used your primary weapon you will only get 50% ammo for your primary, and the ammo for your secondary, utility, movement tool, and grenades go to waste

[@brendonhowbert9330]

This is actually a tip for all you Greys in here. If you want to help bran new Greenies, just look for them in all the Haz 1&2 missions. This should be obvious to most but myself just remembered I didn't start out doing Haz 3 for ez mode. And remember, have fun! Rock Stone Brothers! (and sisters!)

[@krymz1]

I recomend doing it with what I call "meme overclock" (all the ones you don't want to equip because you got something that does more DPS) and set ups that make you less of a total terminator destroying everything before the greenbeard even gets a chance to see the bugs.

[@smit_ty6771]

just started playing this game, completely overwhelmed by how welcoming and nice everyone is to new players. so rare to see in games right now

[@Nikolai0169]

Im glad you mentioned where and how perks are unlocked. It is an often overlooked part of the game and ive seen many a dwarf without knowledge of how to unlock them.

[@alexbarker111]

Took me a YEAR to realize that you need to buy ALL the Body Rig upgrades, and you'll receive like a 5 to 15 health bonus if you only bought the minimum like I did.

[@memesrdreams4854]

4:50 "Ok, so you're gonna need to mine Nitra so we can refill our ammo. It's the red stuff on the walls." '...Everything's red!' An exchange with me and one of my friends when he was just starting the game, on that first mission in salt pits.

[@umbralelite4343]

Since DRG is growing pretty quickly, it's nice to see these videos come to help our fellow greenbeards. And to our fellow greenbeards in the comments: ROCK AND STONE!! And welcome aboard the Spacerig!

[@pulse-xzs]

Just bought the game with my friend this month and we've been enjoying playing the game ever since . Thank you for this guide, now I can interact to the community without offending anyone. Rock and Stone!

[@libertyprime9891]

1100 hours with full legendary 3's across the board. Glad there's more videos like this for newcomers, i always try to give bits and pieces of information to players i come across.

[@gregtime9539]

This came out the day I got the game. As a greenbeard this is good stuff, thanks man

[@ZombieNausea]

Thanks for the guide! I'm feeling more confident that I can at least figure out what I'm doing now, I appreciate it.

[@codemon1352]

I just got a friend in the game, I bet it can be overwhelming with all the amount of things to do. Thanks Sniss, this couldn't come at a better time. Rock n'Stone everyone

[@spectralaria8648]

As a greybeard whos currently at rank 400, my best tip is that you can climb up just about any terrain by spamming jump. If the wall is a teeny bit slanted, you can probably climb it. If whatever you're climbing is too steep, at most you will look like an idiot for a few seconds so its worth testing what you can and cant climb. If you or somebody else plans on getting up or down the slope a few times, it may be best to use movement tools to make the climb a bit easier.

[@Cheesyboy6520]

Something handy to keep in mind is that using your Laser Pointer also reveals the outlines of teammates and certain objectives through walls!

[@brendonhowbert9330]

Its great to make sure you C4 all of your... I mean "avoid" C4'ing Your team.

[@skarmex3439]

A tip for Greenbeards that wasn't covered in the video. Make sure to check out the Abyss Bar before a mission as the speciality beers they serve can provide buffs for a mission. Such as a beer that gives you an extra 30% health or allows you to carry heavy items a lot better. :)

[@dylanherron3963]

Excellent. I just heard about this game a month ago, as a "List of Games you may not know about but should" kinda deal. TLDR I'm new, I'm hooked, there is nothing like this game, period.

[@pizzamozzarella9786]

this is a really nice guide, i recently got some people i know into the game, one thing that the guide could use is how to find the big crafting minerals, as that was something they all struggled spotting and digging them out the walls when first getting into drg and maybe where to find the season pass terminal, other than that, this guide seems prefect, keep up the great work

[@Driptor_Swagpyre]

Thank you for the tip at 8:15. I'm new to DRG after putting countless hours in Vermintide/Darktide and was suggested to try DRG. I picked up driller first because any class with a flamethrower is an instant winner for me. Great video, it taught me a lot! For Rock and Stone!

[@kaseymathew1893]

Just tried this game for the first time yesterday. This vid has some useful info. Thanks! ROCK AND STONE!

[@xanabomb0]

Big time tip from a pepperbeard: IF you are worried about PURE MAXIMIZING when it comes to dwarf promotions you dont actually NEED to play the class you want to promote as you do their assignment. You can actually use that time to play another dwarf and level them up so you dont "waste exp" or whatever

[@amazonbox8717]

What is a pepperbeard? I thought it was based around how many promotions you had going green(no promo), brown(bronze promo), black(silver promo), red (Gold), and everything above that was grey

[@alexpascu1985]

Just downloaded and started to play today. I grouped up with some random high level players and they were very helpful and nice explaining how some stuff worked and helping me with the objectives. Really cool game so far and I'm considering buying some skins to support the development. Your video really helped me figure out a lot of the things because indeed the game throws you on the missions/ assignments without explaining much in the tutorial. I guess this is kinda nice since I like exploring and finding things as I move along. Thanks again and good luck !

[@SuperCaitball]

My general tip for DRG is "if it's glowing, it's probably important... probably"

[@g_vost]

this is actually huge! my friends started playing after this free week/sale, perfect timing

[@SilverWhitefang]

That tab cave map thing is great! I did'nt really know about that. Thanks for the tip. Also some other nice tips in there too.

[@nyxfred]

My friend just recommended this game to me since I quit my main game after 9 years of playing. This video really helps out ty

[@anonymjet4436]

hello, just bought DRG, and also a mid-vet warframe player here, so i understand very well when you say losing your way in the cave or the ship. Thanks for the beautiful guide btw

[@ThatOneYuno]

god i love helping out greenbeards

[@papahemmy8587]

Best part of the game

[@therealKINDLE]

You are my favourite You Tuber at this point dude! Your content nails the sound & atmosphere perfectly, & your sense of humour is modest, snappy & dry. Yet your knowledge of DRG is extensively authentic. Thanks for putting the time in to make these. They are special, & I revisit your channel to watch your content a few times lol! If you don't Rock and Stone...

[@matrixphijr]

Literally just bought this game and am about to start playing because I randomly found a meme video while browsing YT. Funny how that works. Don't know how I missed out on something so overwhelmingly loved by its community for 5 years.

[@dreadpiratekiel]

Picked the game up on sale, been looking for this exact video for two days now. Good timing and great video, now to find some fellow dwarfs to play with!

[@dowroa]

Thanks for the guide to get my duo started!

[@gordric6049]

Very well made video. Got lots of useful information, which i didn't know about. I tried the game on free play weekend and enjoyed it so much i bought it right away with the supporter DLC, because i never had this much fun ever with a video game. Thanks a bunch for the video. Had a good time watching it. ROCK AND STONE!!!

[@hawkmoon5290]

I finally picked up this game after seeing all the youtubers begs everyone else to try it. Damn this game is great. I still laugh when a dwarf 100 meters away rock and stones and everyone else pops out of thier hole to salute back

[@TurboTwinky28]

A tip I've learned is that if you're clumsy and prone to falling from large heights a lot (or lazy and often just want to get straight to the bottom of the pit asap), equip the hover boots perk and use them to break your fall. It's best to activate them about 5 dwarve's heights above ground because they take a second to actually bring you to a hover

[@lukasgamingl447]

sniss sounds like a drug and I'm totally addicted.

[@MrSeanface]

Thanks man! Loving the first few hours of this game : )

[@tobieaube3595]

Thanks for all of the insightful point and tips in this game. Just downloaded it on Xbox and am honestly pretty excited to play. Hello from New Hampshire! 🤟💪🇺🇸

[@patp3725]

The greenest of greenbeards over here (just started last sunday), thanks for the guide! Been making my way through the first assignment solo to get the hang of this, so I'll know what to do in each mission type when I enter multiplayer

[@zephyniah]

bought DRG in this christmas winter sale. this helped a ton plus the editing is sooooooooooooo good. I love it. Not only you helped me educationally, you definitely inspired me artistically as well! Hope 2023 will be a good year for you!

[@BoldRhythm047]

Hi! A VERY Greenbeard here. I had heard about DRG having one of the best communities out there, so thought of giving it a try. Bought the game, did the tutorial, then browsed the server tab for a game. But, there were NO hazard 1 and 2 games, and I thought that no one would join a game that I hosted (not true, but yeah, I did haha). So, I joined a HAZARD 3 AS MY FIRST EVER GAME OF DRG. Got lost, overwhelmed, and since I was the scout of the team, they were kinda annoyed. But NO ONE talked shit to me. No one. Just helped me figure stuff out. Even though I team killed by mistake, no one got pissed! Just cheers of “ROCK AND STONE!” were ringing in the caves. I was smiling SO fucking wide. I love this game, and I love the people that play it, SO fucking much.

[@lAcedUpLiss]

Greenbeard here, this tutorial is really helpful! Thanks so much. Rock and stone! ⛏️

[@xetif2058]

I cant tell you how sick this video was being mad educational and in making me want to progress even more than i already did, im running with a driller build atm and having this brush over everything in the game without giving it all away will really help me decide upgrades and how i want to continue. Thanks man your channels great and ur really helping a lot of greenbeards out haha

[@jonathangibson9098]

Other tips for green beards: -learn to use melee attacks, esp the power attack, saves ammo & great for handing clustered swarmers -events in a mission are not essential esp when you are starting out and might be running solo. Don't feel bad about skipping them until you find your beard.

[@chastermief839]

Great video. I'm glad you spent a good deal of time talking about the terrain scanner and the ping tool. Those are super, super useful tools and when you get in the hang of pulling them up often you will find that you have a better understanding of what is happening and how to move through the caves. New players should get into the habit of regularly tapping CTRL just to see where your team and the resupplies are, and to see how much ammo everyone has, and to see how many resources have been deposited. Pay attention to that nitra total, you always want that above at least 80 (so you can always call a resupply when you need one).

[@icky_thump]

8:25 - Over 550hrs in the game and I never knew that function with marking a waypoint... mind blown

[@deangeloagan6868]

This is perfect! Me and my friend are gonna try this for the first time today! Thank you for this information 🙏

[@SCHMACKK]

this game is so good and im glad there are videos like this to help realise it

[@Draconicfish2679]

10:28 If you don’t rock and stone, you ain’t coming home.

[@HardcoreCasualGW2]

Thanks for the video. Recently started playing this game with a group of friends and we are absolutely loving it! But we also have no idea what we're doing, so I thought I'd look for something like this to see what we're missing!

[@cashusbucks]

Came here to watch & like to get this vid the recognition it deserves. Greenbeards gonna Green if they don't WATCH Sniss!! Rock & Stone Brotha

[@EdKauffmann]

make sure to buy all of the armor upgrades in the terminal, even once you've gotten the ones you actually want. doing so will permanently increase your default health (you can see a progress bar at the bottom of the upgrades box) - i didn't realize this until quite late and it would have been nice to have the extra HP in the early days

[@LightsEnd304]

I‘ve been playing for a while but I watched because your content is so well made. Gotta comment to boost that engagement

[@DiscreetHobo]

The mushroom pinging clip absolutely killed me

[@Kazgrel]

Great vid; only thing I'd think I'd change would be to consider getting that first promotion unlocked as a short term goal (right after completing the Conquering Hoxxes assignments) since it unlocks what I'd consider the main course of long term goals: Overclocks. Took me right at 500 hours to finally get all of those, but in all fairness I'm essentially arguing semantics here, heh. Besides, dropping overclocks on greenbeards could be a bit of information overload...not to mention it's a lot of fun to hop in a mission and have them go "how tf did you shoot them with a nuke?" or "what just deleted that menace/spitter/etc.?"

[@KarlsFormerRoommate]

I’m glad you are helping the greenbeards brother!

[@solsoman102]

wow i just started watching and already the intro is absolutely hilarious i love you sniss

[@jamesmarquess1496]

The one thing that I highly recommend is when you want to know what something is, point the laser pointer at it, it will tell you the name and distance of everything in the game, and in combo with miners manual, very handy thing.

[@SubFlow22]

A section on getting back to the drop pod would be great for any beginners guide... things along the lines of making sure you have an easy run back when digging through packed dirty, having drillers be ready to rescue players that are lagging behind, keeping enough nitra to call in a resupply before calling the drop pod, etc, etc.

[@thisisthebananaman3176]

What luck! With the game going on sale I’ve convinced some friends to get it and now I don’t have to do the explaining myself!

[@mofoman1239]

Holy the editing on this video is amazing so clean

[@Truth4None]

One for the greenbeards: The drinks at the bar may be expensive, but they're totally worth it, especially the ones that don't cost any credits and just want you to supply the ingredients.

[@aguywholikesbobross9423]

Great video only thing I would of add would be machine events, since a lot of new players don't understand what they are and maybe forced to do it because of a higher level dwarf starting it.

[@liamfalvey5142]

Yeah, I’ve seen a bunch of reviews/guides for this game and none of them describe what to do in the machine events lol

[@iamethan4444]

love you sniss, convinced a friend to grow his greenbeard today. you're an irreplaceable resource on this platform! rock and stone!

[@angusthegreybeard]

Wow, this explained everything that deep rock has to offer, Great job!

[@Hrrrrrrrrrreng]

A tip for scouts, green beard or not: I’ve found it’s helpful to top off my ammo just before calling the drop pod and then running ahead of the team shooting flares marking and lighting the path to the drop pod. Makes it easier for your teammates who can’t zip across the caves. They don’t have to worry about not seeing something. Plus scout is usually faster then Molly.

[@awesomesmileyguy]

This is a good video like always! There is a lot of information to share in Deep Rock, but this gives a good overview of what people can work towards while also giving some basic but still useful advice!

[@Over9k420]

Clear, Concise, and super helpful! Thanks a lot, I picked this up the other day via game pass and my friends and I are having a blast. -Sincerely, A Greenbeard

[@ShadowGamr]

Remember, if you don't finish the season pass, everything in it will be put in the normal loot tables. So don't worry about it!

[@SCANNI]

Babe wake up new sniss video just dropped

[@jgunner280]

Big thanks for this. Was playing the game for a good while (10 hours already), and while I figured out a lot of this over time, I was without a clue about the perks. I kept thinking that screen was some arbitrary achievement chasing system the way it looked, and given everything else big was outside those rooms, I had no clue anything of real value would be there. Likewise I was bugged about the dwarf promoting thing. Level 25 is a long way to go without a solid clue, but now I at least have an idea in my mind that I'm not exactly missing anything. For others, this will be an even bigger help given I was a few levels through before I realized how to get more ammo, and while I learned about it on my own, it got anxiety inducing to run low and thinking "this level better end before my shotgun rounds do..."

[@DMingThoughts]

Awesome guide! Started drarving about week ago so it's really helpful! Rock and stone!

[@itzeer1251]

Me watching this with 300+ hours: Hmm interesting.

[@ASpaceOstrich]

Using the "align to view" button on the terrain scanner is super useful. It makes your character turn to face the direction your terrain scanner is rotated to, which is incredibly useful for navigating. I didn't learn this for over a hundred hours and I'd constantly been wishing this was a mechanic. I had never realised it existed the whole time. I use this every time I get to a compact dirt wall, because you open the scanner, turn the viewpoint to face the direction of the cave you want to dig to, and then hit space, and my dwarf automatically rotates to face that direction. It doesn't aim you upwards or downwards, just rotates you horizontally, so you don't need to worry about the vertical angle on the scanner, just the rotation. Its super useful and easy to miss.

[@emirrp]

Tip 1: Pet a lootbug. Tip 2: Pet the golden lootbug. Tip 3: Get Steve and pet him

[@atroniac5703]

Man I remember reading a steam review of someone who had 500 hours in the game and still struggled to complete the game on haz 2 and sometimes took hours to just fail a mission during extraction. I feel like this vid might have helped him

[@yxz5198]

coming back to the game after like 8 months, thanks for this

[@Half_a_bosco]

I remember back in 2018 when I started, there was almost nothing about this game let alone tutorials I wish I was a grean beard now days with people like you.greanbeear

[@benturtl9076]

Really cool guide. Can't wait to jump into the caves!

[@Frontier327]

This is kind of a personal tip, but whenever you're on the on-site refining missions, if you HAVE to cross pipes, make sure they don't get in eachother's way if someone tries to grind on them. Either one can go below or above but it's just a lot more convenient for everyone.