The Most Powerful Overclock In Deep Rock Galactic?!

[@w1q2e3r4t5]

Now imagine that whole thing with critical weakness. You could hit over 100000 damage.

[@franciscoothonielaraujorib7543]

Bro imgaine ☠

[@tylerm6811]

throw a mod that allows more than 4 players on top of that

[@helohel5915]

Don't need critical weakness, just breach cutter

[@xxevildoctorxx2162]

04:38 you are not doing 2000 damage. When shredder drone time is done, the game inflicts 2000 damage to the drone, killing em

[@lookathisdood8163]

This is true. The shredders Engi deploys are presumably invincible, and that 2000 damage is essentially the game's way of deactivating them so they aren't on the field for more than a minute.

[@johnvanek9514]

​@@lookathisdood8163 Next mission: do 2000 damage to a grenade drone to deactivate it early

[@mikhailgsg120]

Wow... yeah I'm not aware of any source of damage in DRG that tops that. That was some amazing teamwork on screen to make it all happen. Rock and Stone!

[@DrillingInTheNameOf]

💪 🪨&🪨⛏️!

[@asherprobst8165]

Not only critical weakness, but add blistering necrosis for even more damage.

[@user-ox4ii2bw6x]

I kinda like how centralizing CT is. It makes the chemistry inbetween scout and driller rather positive

[@vsbung]

i mean, they already have chemistry, because driller is great at clearing all the hordes that bite scout's ass

[@Jawmax]

Conductive Thermals makes Scout Drillers new best friend. Can he stop with the satchel charges now?

[@BadShotDR]

My guy standing on the shoulders of rocks and stones by dealing 5 figures of damage, that’s impeccable. ⛏️

[@DrillingInTheNameOf]

💪🪨&🪨⛏️

[@Balazs1102_]

"Conductive thermals is balanced" Said a scout in my lobby. Yeah I'm not too sure about that.

[@rogueguy1013]

It's fantastic with team synergies but go actually use it in a lobby with randoms. It's good but not game breaking. I love it and I don't think it should change because there are plenty of broken team strats in the game and I don't think that's a problem

[@Balazs1102_]

I ain't complaining mind you. And its not like many scouts would use it anyway.

[@myr_wlk698]

​​​@@Balazs1102_ It has the potential to be broken, but only for having big numbers under very specific situations. It's balanced because it's only good against big enemies, while leaving you even weaker to literally the rest of the game. And those big enemies are not common. Leaving assassination mission, the best and probably only good target would be the bulk, and focusing your build on a very rare enemy is far from effective, specially when gunner can just throw 3 leadbursters and do the same without any teamwork. It's good, maybe even op on paper with teamwork, but doesn't have many practical uses.

[@danielplocica8766]

- 3 damage and 25% heat per shot make it probably even weak. If you have friends and they really want to run whatever you ask to reach massive damage, then yes it's really strong. The slowdown mod on LOK-1 is also busted when used in coordination to keep everyone safe at all times, the problem is teamnates, they are not going to run what you want them to. I have more toxic reactions to asking someone to run or simply even do something than positive agreeing ones. In a random lobby which most players run... how often can you have a gunner with incendiary rounds, on Elimination, along someone with this overclock, AND a source of fire damage, more times than I think but still rarely. If you aren't running specific builds and being able to coordinate with your team, that setup for massive damage usually offsets it. In context that damage isn't so impressive, just unique

[@Balazs1102_]

Well if we are talking of personal experience, randoms I end up with either don't talk much or are reasonably willing to run stuff I ask them to. I guess the community is pretty nice based on that.

[@hankhank6385]

critical weakness? :)

[@razorbladeflamingo3635]

You're a genius.

[@Spurrrg]

GSG Mike actually concidered nerfing CT on stream after he tried it.

[@kevinnieto534]

No fun for the boys. :'c Well, I expect it's just this oc and buff the other oc's of the scout because they suck!!! 🗿 Please don't touch "rotary overdrive" I love him. 😢

[@hokuhikene]

How dare an OC other than Impact deflection is viable on Drak... I think it should stay as it is, I don't care that it is OP, it's a silly PVE shooter

[@GordonGordon]

Hopefully no nerf needed. This requires setup and coordination. For random play, the 97% of what the game is made of, this OC is a fun bonus.

[@niviera7807]

@@hokuhikene Silly PVE shooter doesn't mean you should delete bugs off your screen instantly what kind of a fucked up logic is that?

[@shoeofobama6091]

@@hokuhikene what? drak OCs are generally really good and the rest are great. the best OC by and far is TEF, impact deflect isnt actually that great

[@mrsmoothspaz8631]

R&D has invented a way for scouts to stop drillers from killing them. Neat.

[@AlteQT]

Thank you for explaining how Conductive Therms work. People kept asking me how it works in pubs whenever I help them melt a dread. I didnt really have a good understanding myself. I love this OC as it allows scout to help manage swarms while still being about to quickly kill important targets. Amazing videos showing off my favorite scout OC. Rock n stone brother!

[@SirSpootDRG]

Giving those bugs a t(h)erminal case of weakness

[@DrillingInTheNameOf]

🫡

[@CoolSs]

So this what R&D boys do in their free time. Awesome!

[@DrillingInTheNameOf]

🪨&🪨⛏️

[@veryheavyalan]

I'm really happy a video was made about this Overclock, especially from you after I tried it on Elimination missions, it basically skipped the Hiveguard's vulnerable phases with a Cryo Driller and I thought "this has to be broken"

[@bebrasmachnayq5691]

been using conductive thermals a lot because it was my first overclock for DRAK-25

[@SnydeX9]

Easily my favorite S5 OC. Never liked using the Drak before but now it's my main Scout primary.

[@hamothemagnif8529]

I think a scout used this on a dread mission when i had hyper propellent eng. i couldn’t believe what i was seeing.

[@GulliverMurdaugh-cc5cd]

4:37 the 2,000 damage number was actually from shredders dying

[@Sila23844]

"I wonder if I can make it go over 9000" Shit, you actually did it

[@tysoncook5152]

I am friends with lunari and meatshield and have done a bunch of testing myself on my youtube channel. This OC is bonkers. I love using the boomstick with this and just deleting enemies.

[@DrillingInTheNameOf]

They were very fun to work through this with! We may have even been doing additional testing last night...

[@tysoncook5152]

@@DrillingInTheNameOf I know you have. Meatshield told me! He said you found a weird bug with critical weakness and it was not doing as much damage as it was supposed to.

[@lunari42]

@@tysoncook5152 Indeed it was weird! Kinda sad though.. Not enough big numbers :'(

[@jakublhotan9029]

Man i Love your channel. Its elite deep dive between drg channels. Awesome work

[@tugbeardtransmissions8409]

STONE AND ROCK!!!! ...oh wait

[@zakthewack]

0:12 oh shit, that's me! Thanks for featuring that recording I posted, I did that before going to work.

[@DrillingInTheNameOf]

Sorry I scrolled by so fast! I realized in hindsight it would've been better to just have a collage of screenshots 😕

[@zakthewack]

@DrillingInTheNameOf you're good dude, I'm still super honored to have something that I created in one of your videos. You are one of my favorite drg content creators, and it's always a pleasure to see you release a video.

[@DrillingInTheNameOf]

@@zakthewack thank you my friend!

[@skepticalcentral8795]

I love running Conductive Thermals solo, I sooo hope it doesn't get nerfed.

[@3-valdiondreemur564]

So I've been swearing by the Supercooling chamber ever since I got my hands on it... I think it has some competition now.

[@seva7792]

So basically....if scout and driller are nemesis, gunner and scout are best friends

[@veryheavyalan]

Nah, this Overclock also makes Driller his best friend especially with Cryo Hell, all three of them can be friends with CRSPR and Volatile Bullets (and Engineer for platforms)

[@cronoedge]

Can't wait to try this on scout! Would love to see more videos dude!

[@DrillingInTheNameOf]

💛

[@lycandula]

Karl would be proud of this.

[@el_Malik42]

I think it's a great oveclock which schould not be nerfed because it rewards good teamplay.

[@bluedistortions]

Agreed!

[@benismann]

ok but then every other OC for this weapon must be buffed and actually for all the other primaries since they're unusable with how strong this is

[@bluedistortions]

@@benismann GSG has never made it a priority to try to make all OCs exactly the same power level. That's not even a part of their philosophy. For one, it's impossible anyway. For another, it's more fun to have a variety of power levels, because you can go hard and go "meta," or you can just do whatever, and have fun trying something new. The Randoweiser beer was specifically created for this. Also the "weapon maintenance" was made to force you to use weapons you otherwise wouldn't. It's all about variety and figuring out how to make things work. I wish they would take it further, and make it so the OCs themselves had something like the weapon maintenances, so we'd be encouraged to try all the OCs that we normally don't, or that aren't meta. I've discovered more than one unpopular OC that I actually like because I didn't have much to choose from at the time.

[@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox]

Not really, all it requires is that you have someone on your team that inflicts status effects. Or that you use status effects. That's not 'good play'

[@bluedistortions]

@@Yuni-is-Schrodingers-Fox um. Maybe if you're in a team that you know. With randoms, it's asking a lot. With randoms, getting them to not destroy Dottie by standing on her, or double dipping supplies when low on health, or not pressing buttons without using chat, is asking a lot. So knowing what weapons, mods, and OCs they'll use, and using them in tandom with you, is asking a DAMN lot.

[@LoganPalmer-bv4ji]

Its an instant classic just like the burning tide overclock

[@theMoonWalker87]

Marked for death + explosive reload Zhukov's is similarly deadly and that is even without the rest of the team also shooting the target (executioner engineer loves you too)

[@thequasipancake4303]

this is like team darkside trying to get the highest damage number in monster hunter world and rise

[@quintonwood9872]

What about blistering necrosis?

[@emeraldxgaming570]

My favorite reasonable team comp is to run CT with the new CRSPR OC that shoots a wall of fire, I forget the name. On normal Haz 5 4 Player, you can kill a twin in like ~6-8 charge shots, and that's without any deliberate setups like the ones in this vid (including stuff like IFG). Just going into a casual mission, that amount of DPS for 2 unoptimized dwarves is absurd, especially with the fact that the flames ignore armor, allowing you to shoot from any direction. It's incredibly simply to do, and has absurd damage numbers.

[@nikitaKarkavin]

I recommend using the latest flamethrower overclock that lets you send a wave of fire. It does quite a lot of damage

[@Hastybolt]

Here's a thought, even with a cap on stacks, Conductive Thermals might still be really really good

[@noiseagle1593]

please ghost ship in the name of karl: dont nerf this too hard!

[@CupofTea-2000]

"The only thing I know for real....there will be bug--shed Dwarf in the mirror nods his head only one - left ride on the detonators back" Men, that's a crazy amount of damage, but I personally don't think GSG will patch this cause this move requieres so much coordination and teamwork. That's what GSG wanted from their game :D

[@temetrex9324]

Thank you so much for this video. I love conductive thermals so much but everyone keeps saying its trash.

[@MusNothus]

I felt underwhelmed by it until Meat Shield explained that the "plasma splash" mod not only adds its own stack but also does fire-type damage, meaning that it gets to take advantage of the stacked vulnerability to fire so you do more damage with each shot. Since switching to that, it feels awesome.

[@tenacity25]

I just want overclocks that can let me use more sources of Neurotoxin other than the grenades

[@danielplocica8766]

Yay, I love overclocks that are balanced and even weak by the fact I get kicked for being a toxic minmaxer whenever I ask my team to run something specific to synergize

[@alexbayswood4847]

Devs made an oc that went over_9000

[@oween5013]

Deep rock finally invested in some better equipment

[@gsganders8355]

It's meant to have a cap of 20, but for some reason it's bugged. Infinite stacks is not how it's supposed to work.

[@atomicscout7676]

When its fixed i hope you take a look at the downsides cause when it was capped at 20 it felt really bad to use. Right now people consider it a strong pick but just for specific situations. Vs swarms of enemies its still bad and runs out of ammo fast. If you decide to keep the cap at 20 i hope you change that negative damage to -2 or -1 to make it better for swarms.

[@gsganders8355]

@@atomicscout7676 Sure. It seems people find it more fun this way, so some tweaks would need to be done. No plans as of now.

[@threeprongedfork7061]

I'm in Awe

[@aritradutta1745]

Hes back!

[@Boba19423O]

Question, would a setup with the mole using overcharger and necro-thermal catalyst(2a and 5a) with several penetrations be better than volatile bullets?

[@nanoknight4741]

Would hyper propellant with fire mod hit harder than volatile bullets? either way beeg number is hilarious

[@primcrane8736]

pgl's mod doesn't actually inflict fire damage, rather it converts half the damage to heat. Heat only changes a bug's temperature and has no effect on health so while technically yes, CT does increase the amount of heat incendiary hyperprop deals it would have no effect on the damage dealt.

[@humanprobably]

I asked them if they had plans on nerfing it during one of their last dev streams, and they said maybe, but dealing a lot of damage is kind of the point of it

[@benismann]

then just kill the ammo or smth

[@ForwardStory]

Would hyper propellant with fire damage upgrade do more as a final blow? Also obligatory critical weakness mention

[@VolodymyrMartynov-yj4om]

does meat shield have a world record

[@omark1781]

What if the other scouts also throw ifg's, would it stack?

[@bluedistortions]

They better not nerf this by TOO much. It needs to have a big reward because of the amount of coordination it requires. That last test wasnt legit though, was it? You cant equip marked for death and conductive thermals in the same loadout.

[@benismann]

"because of the amount of coordination it requires." Drilling in the name of literally shows that it's good solo and scout himself has things that work with it?

[@lunari42]

Hello, am the guy who briefly joined and suggested that last test! And you're correct. Unfortunately, it was not "legit". Originally CT Drak + VB Revolver + IFG was going to be the last test. But at the moment, I was just thinking quickly about anything that can buff the damage of VB Revolver. You know, want to make numbers go BEEEEIG. MfD is the one that crossed my mind, so I asked them I could switch to MfD at the last second. I am not sure on the legit one though. 2x CT Scouts + 1x MfD Scout VS 3x CT Scouts, 1.55x multiplier OR just more stacks? Hmm.. MeatShield might easily math this out, but me? nope.

[@bluedistortions]

@@lunari42 oh ok that makes sense. So it was more of an experiment than suggesting a specific load out. Thanks for helping make this cool demonstration video!

[@bluedistortions]

@@benismann he shows the ways Scout can tap into the damage potential, but they're far from "broken" combos. Scout has always had high single target dps. The damage doesn't get crazy until you find another player specifically built for it and following you around, paying attention to what you're shooting and taking advantage of it. That's a very high level of coordination you won't often find in pubs, so it's hardly something that threatens to ruin the meta.

[@joshuabower219]

Where did you get that fuzzy dice in the background?

[@not.krosshair]

Whats your damage indicator 2 config

[@The_Meloman]

What about fire PGL with hyper prop?

[@The_Meloman]

What about PGL with hyper prop. and fire upgrade?

[@nrshocks6931]

instead of volatile bullets use the mole

[@lunari42]

Hello! Lunari here and I tried with the Engineer's Swiss Cheese strat. It did a lot of damage, but there's one thing that's holding Mole with Conductive Thermals. Mole's additional damage.. is entirely Kinetic, and can't be modified by T5.A Necro-Thermal Catalyst. MeatShield told me that. So.. Mole can deal heavy damage with a looooot of terrain penetration, but the combination with CT is kinda meh than VB. Sad.

[@Karmerin]

Heyo at 6:30 there is a stack count where does it come from?

[@MusNothus]

There's a mod called "Status Effects Number" which shows stacks

[@mitchelbrown793]

What were you using to see the number of CT stacks at 6:28?

[@MusNothus]

There's a mod called "Status Effects Number" which shows stacks

[@mitchelbrown793]

@@MusNothus You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. Much obliged. Can't wait to see the new numbers.

[@squiddler7731]

I remember being so disappointed in this overclock when I saw Lazymaybe's video on how it works. But then I tried my absolute best to force it to work anyway, and discovered that the damage cap had been removed. Once I learned that it was like a world of possibilities had opened up, and it's honestly been some of the most fun I've had. I know it's going to get adjusted sooner or later, but I really really hope they don't just slap a hard cap on damage like it had before. Like as powerful as it seems the overclock genuinely kind of needs it, you lose so much damage on your main weapon that it was nearly worthless back when it capped at 20 stacks (at that point it was just a worse marked for death and that overclock is honestly a little weak to begin with). If it must be rebalanced, do it in a way that's fair and keeps the fun intact (like maybe a halved duration on dreadnoughts like with marked for death, honestly that's the only time it's particularly broken anyway).

[@ngmatt8652]

this is going to get hit with the nerf hammer SO hard

[@hypernovamkvi715]

man i was sleeping on ct got it and was like ehh this is ok. boy i was wrong must have been the worst build possible

[@Appletank8]

Nah, the problem with CT is that it's hyper specialized. In order to break even with the damage penalty, you need to fire over a dozen shots. On the other hand, that much damage boosting is overkill for the vast majority of DRG enemies. That makes it basically only useful on Praets and up. If a bunch of guards and Mactera show up, it's either overkill or ammo inefficient.

[@SIMULACRA37]

Why not just use a dreadnaught? I need to see you four try an elimination mission.

[@beebee5191]

But is it good as team play ?

[@maya4good]

ok cool, drop the build

[@nicolasarena5050]

Has this been patched?

[@MisterM4n]

conductive works best with a team. otherwise its probably best with double barrel and fire.

[@monkeywee1858]

I have seen a lot of people say (burst fire) overclock is bad. I personally find it fun. I would like to know what is everyone's favorite overclock

[@Appletank8]

it's fine to find it fun, but do keep it mind the damage bonus is minimal and it's a general dps decrease all around

[@spazalicious5208]

it is fun, but it is quite literally worse than nothing numbers wise.

[@spazalicious5208]

@@monkeywee1858 oh and for the record my favorite overclock is for SURE the new exploding goo one

[@thegoldenraysoftheglorious1180]

​@@spazalicious5208combustive goo mix and the 3 gunner overclocks are my favorite new ones

[@bluedistortions]

Burst needs to be buffed.

[@catmandudebro4334]

First, to stop everyone else

[@Waterishloki100]

thank you

[@WoofleTheWolf]

watch it get nerfed so hard it will be useless

[@helohel5915]

Btw your breach cutter build wasnt perfect. You want the triple lines since each can deal its own dmg iirc, so you would deal far more damage that way

[@KaihanFidaiy]

All tier five mods won’t help that much, as triple split line only makes the hitbox bigger

[@spikedclown3163]

Now combine with marked for death for even more BS

[@McManthony21]

Oh no! Now it will be nerfed 😅 Good work and ise it while it is here yall

[@LeLe-bo7cs]

First

[@chugbunga1665]

this has no practical application