Full Damage Shard Difractor is The Best - ℥ƝǤℹ︎Ɇ ɃɄȊⱠƊ ŦɆṢṰ

[@aetherblackbolt1301]

Being able to whip out the MEGA LASER after an enemy freezes is honestly so good, especially if you have an angle for weak spots.

[@Tetus7]

I'm honestly impressed that you can do Hazard 5 with a controller. Aiming looks so effortful compared to a mouse.

[@slyllamademon2652]

As someone who wipes the floor with the glyphids in haz 5 on controller, it’s quite simple, shoot the bugs with glowy bits in the glowy bits, and shoot the little bugs in the mouth. You also need to stay away from the walls, edges of platforms or cliffs, and out of the melee range of the bugs.

[@Ironface53]

If you've been playing on nothing but controller your whole life, it gets a bit easier

[@badmoose01]

Kontrol freeks definitely help

[@atlasstoned]

motion control makes it about as easy as with a mouse. H5 is pretty easy anyways

[@Pontiacfirebird]

@@Ironface53 same I can’t use mouse

[@taylor1403]

One thing that should really be hi-lighted is that switching off the shard diffractor while using either of the 'shoot till empty' effects will eat 50% of the mag. You know you wasted ammo if you see the engi's hand kind of recoil after the switch. easy way to waste tons of ammo. Overdrive booster is really good for flexible play, as its essentially just the base gun with no downsides that can also do the job of hyper proppellant, an over clock that typically demands alot of commitment to use. Its also more flexible then the automated beam controller as you can comfortably run the bigger mag, and use it generally and then absolutely melt major targets or large hordes instantly. I would recommend against thinking of it as just a kamehaha wave only and more of a back pocket burst of damage. If used propperly, you'll actually save alot of ammo as you decide when you damage burst. For example, you could burst the last part of the mag to maximize damage against a few grunt guards, saving you alot of time and ammo.

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

Yes it specifies this in the oc details! But again my context is always haz 5 or 5.5 so you will need to be able to move out of the way or die. You kill nothing when dead. I disagree on the Kameha thing. Run an edd with 4 people and use your secondary too much. Death every time or your stealing ammo.

[@Kaltsit-]

It actually wastes 50% of the ammo shot, which, most of the time is all of the ammo in the mag. But again, you need to move for higher hazards which means cancelling it is still viable, even if you lose ammo.

[@taylor1403]

@@TheLegendOfFLG I agree cancelling is needed frequently, and never said it was not, just that the ammo penalty should be hi-lighted. If a player misses that in the description, they could waste ammo needlessly. That would have been valuable to me when I first started using the two overclocks and bled ammo needlessly. I just mean the real appeal of the overclock is flexibility. The overclock has no downsides until activated, and as such you can use it as the normal version of the gun that is decently ammo efficient. Used propperly you dont run out of ammo that fast until you just have to blow everything at once. Outside of absolute nightmare situations, you can usually kite enemies to get a burst in here and there. It's a kamehama when you burst from full, but from half and quarter mag? Nah, and then you just save ammo and time because the burst has a higher fire rate anyway. Then you can still cancel, and at a much lower ammo cost too.

[@taylor1403]

@@Kaltsit- I do appreciate the correction! I found that out a few days after my post. Correct information is vital. I'll update my post in light of that. And I never said canceling was not viable, just that doing it needlessly will destroy your ammo pool. I missed the last part of the description when I first used them and cancelled frequently and was out of ammo in no time. Survival is more important then ammo, but knowing what you're committing to in overclock is key to surviving.

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

@@taylor1403 oh I get you, and I actually should have mentioned that detail in case someone wanted to run it like that. It's a great benefit. If I where to do it that way, I would have run different primary settings and maybe a different primary all together. I think I wasn't clear enough that the way I was using it isn't how to use that overclock, it's how I ran the specific build and purpose around it. Using it as a 1 time special blast for special circumstances and taking everything else out with the rest of my build. I will try to be more clear on that next time. That build is for boosting when I use it. I want all ammo for the strongest enemies or most important ones. I don't want to spend any on anything else unless it's urgent af. That's just another way to run the same overclock. Kind of like a bunker turret arc vs not bunkering, same overclock, but different grenades/secondary etc and overall purpose. This was my bad for not being clear mate. I think I got another similar comment that was confused I said it was low on ammo when it didn't specify it. And if you use it for only boosting on edds like I do then yeah...it's low on ammo. This was informative for me, I need to be more clear on that next time 🙂👍

[@Autogyro.001]

It's fascinating to me how few KZbinrs talk about how a particular weapon build actually works *with* their team and how their team plays. And fewer yet who talk about having to trust their teammates to get through certain sections. But our group really has a lot of that kind of trust. Some of us take care of all the little stuff and some of the high damage, ammo intensive guys melt the big stuff, and together we get through the missions; but so few DRG creators go there. You remind me more of Uncle Dane in TF2 because you address the team aspects of the game. I'm grateful you do.

[@guilhermemadureira9083]

You can pickaxe cancel the beam even with the Automated Beam Controller overclock, that way, you don't have to waste ammo and there's no downside to the weapon at all except for the capacity, but if you're cancelling it with pickaxe anyway, then there's no reason to even want that big of a mag size anyway. Overall this is definitely my favorite overclock for this weapon, it's extremely fun and also VERY powerful! Another tip: You can actually pickaxe cancel the normal beam with no overclock, and that makes you be able to fire it again faster! No need to wait until it's ready to fire again, just press that pickaxe button and you're good to go! Hope this helped anyone who didn't know about this, Rock and Stone miners!

[@atlasstoned]

nah, if you cancel it with ABC or overdrive booster then you still lose the ammo. they thought of that

[@solntsuy]

At the moment you lose the clip when you change weapons/pickaxe

[@LadyTsunade777]

As a fan of Sticky Flames Driller, the Volatile Impact Reactor feels really good to use. Except for flying enemies, it's really best to just lightly use it to lay patches of magma in front of swarms, _not_ to fire it straight at their faces/bodies. This way you can save on ammo while still killing lots of enemies, and using it this way lets you use it like a primary weapon for small enemies, freeing up your actual primary to be dedicated for large enemies. So I like Shard Diffractor 31213 (or 31211 with the right allies) with Volatile Impact Reactor, and the Warthog 22322 with Cycle Overload.

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

Yes I felt the same way when using that build.. reminded me of sticky flames. Just fund another way to deal with flying enemies and it's a very fun build. Great suggestion 👍

[@problemdog9876]

Great video, man - loving the content and your delivery style. Really helpful for a newer Engi-main player like me! Subbed.

[@hokuhikene]

My main engi build is Lok-1 with Explosive chemical rounds in 21111 and Shard diffractor with just efficiency tweaks in 32211. I'm a basic B and this rlly works in all situations. It is build for switching and with now the SSGs the build might be the most meta and best allrounded in the game

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

Almost identical to one of mine.

[@greyfalconow9467]

My Engi builds usually have my "Workhorse" stubby build. 32221 EMRefire booster. Gives what I feel like is the best ammo to damage ratio on the gun. But here's a build I have trouble switching away from: Scout-Gineer: Engie: Stubby+EMRefire = 32221, PGL+RJ250 = 21132, Plat = 212, Turret = 1211, Armor = 1113, Plasma Grenade, IronWill+Vampire, Born Ready, Dash, Thorns (Alternatively, IronWill+Vampire, Born Ready, FieldMedic, Resupplier) Like why would I ever want to give up near Scout tier mobility. Unless it's a dread mission, or swarmageddon.

[@mingalo2620]

Dude you literally just gave me the answer I was looking for. I really wanted to play the RJ250 and thought that the Stubby would be a good gun to combo with it, but I couldn't find the right build for it. Thank you so much!

[@greyfalconow9467]

@@mingalo2620 no worries, just the one weakness of the build is that you can't do anything against shellbacks except use turrets with armor shredding

[@firstnamelastname6324]

I like running a similar build but with a 11122 rj250 pgl (budget fatboy), executioner loki to imitate scout's single target burst, and strong arm to imitate scout's flare gun.

[@mackinbox]

Nice video. Wish that the other new secondaries had gotten as much attention as this one

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

They will. All of them. I work 6 days a week and on console only got the new secondaries earlier this month. 🙃 But I appreciate your comment and will work hard on the next 3 vids for secondaries

[@mackinbox]

@@TheLegendOfFLG sorry, meant attention by the devs. This gun was really singled out by them from what I hear

[@greyfalconow9467]

So you know what I really couldn't figure out the use for the microwave cooker. Then I figured out that it can be used as a temperature shock weapon for the Crspr. And now it's my go-to weapon for robot missions. Just pops armor grunts like nothing. Similarly, couldn't get the hang of the sludge pump. But 11222 with volatile impact mixture perfectly breakpoints so a single shot slowly kills a grunt. But the charge shot instakills grunts and slashers, and gets armor grunts down to 2 pickaxe swings left of HP.

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

@@mackinbox oh! Haha I feel so far behind so that's my own negative projection, sorry mate. Ya know I never thought of that actually. I will keep that in mind when testing the new guns.

[@serthiag7373]

WOW THIS IS THE QUALITY CONTENT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR

[@amicusrex1908]

I use loki with explosive round and then the shard defractor with magma trail. Loki can apply electricity so it can buff the shard defractor. Like wise the shard defractor can set thing on fire and with electro chemical rounds the bonuses for a target being electructed and on fire stack, making a it a strong single target weapon as well. Both weapon are strong for crowd control and single target

[@hah-vj7hc]

I appreciate your videos because you're smart and thoughtful. It means many people do not understand you, which was very evident in that Macro video, but good thing you're doing this anyway - it helps me.

[@danielcaffy7845]

I appreciate you saying it. Although examining a single weapon helps you understand it, it truly is the combo's that "click" that make playing DRG special. I play DRG specifically to avoid number-fueled meta-centric game play since to be quite honest, I don't think it's necessary in DRG. I also suggest the exploding rounds overclock Loki with 21111 whilst using the boost. I find the gameplay to be very smooth after you master the 3 lock on max to get your explosions out. Excited to try your builds aswell! Keep up the insightful videos! RnS!

[@johnjohnson9321]

i hope they never nerf this gun its so good and satisfying to just melt praetorians

[@magoichi75]

EM discharge and this thing are my new engineers go to!

[@JP-st9hn]

I like putting my turrets on the platforms then using the turret EMP blast with the stubby. Then, using endothermic explosion. Overkill.

[@CoolSs]

Man . DRG needs to add more loadout slots for sure . the new 5 are not enough . here is my build that i use on haz 4 solo a lot : vvvvv # *Stubby smg* :- 2-3-1-2-2 . overclock [turret EM discharge] Good for AOE damage and to make enemy get electrocuted to synergy with my shard diffractor . # *Shard diffractor* :- 3-1-2-1-1 . overclock [Overdrive booster] Boss/high HP killer after getting electrocuted build . i find myself not run out of ammo when i focus a lot on "turret EM discharge" for herd cleaner . # *turrets* :- 1-2-2-2 . After they buffed the Gemin system . i find so much fun using the turret EM discharge overclock on it .it's allow me to protect a wider area or to cover two areas in the cave/tunnel .

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

Used almost exactly the same thing a few weeks back except 2 turrets. I will have to go back and try the gemini instead👍. Turret em discharge could be crap and i would still use it just because of how fun it is ⛏️🪨🍻

[@CoolSs]

@@TheLegendOfFLG I can argue it deserve more credit than people give it . the EM discharge may not do a lot of damage but shocking the enemy making them slow as also taking damage is really good utility . the amount of ammo used compared to the AOE damage you putting out . making it really good . (i also love the Gemin system sound . BRREEEEEE) and best of all . if the turret run out of ammo . it still useful because of the EM discharge . To the bone! ♦💎 ⛏

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

@@CoolSs to be clear I said it could be crap and I would still use it. It deff IS NOT crap lol its worth maining and you can run every secondary with it. Although I wish you could still use it without building it fully. I just always have fun using discharge builds. As long as your having fun it really doesn't matter. (Unless your deaths are in the high 20's) 😆

[@channelbelongtous]

Totally agree with your point in the intro btw

[@nobodysbusinezz]

the explosion OC was the first one I got and I really like it. lucky me, I guess. looking forward to trying more builds though.

[@raphaelmastel9680]

endothermic explosion with tesla plats effectively makes you a god among dwarves, so long as you platform on every viable surface. and yes I still use bug repellent with that because i can do math and have a rudimentary understanding of how the pathing system works

[@iirelative9797]

Endothermic is SO amazing AND weird, my new favorite oc over rj250, spinning death, hyperpropellant, and fatty... unless cryo drillers around, then hp still king in elim👑. Battle plats!!

[@renanrochaukulele7595]

Hey, that’s me! (The scout)

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

😂brother you are such a solid player. I would run any mission with you any time.

[@DuncDog]

8:42, nothing like a deep fried image to really get me in the information absorption phase lol.

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

😂I'm so sorry lol I reuploaded and it still happened 😅

[@DuncDog]

@@TheLegendOfFLG all good I thought it was fully intentional for the bit lol.

[@TheSpeep]

Hey, no shade on stun builds! Probably my favourite build in the game is stun plasma hurricane usually accompanied by burst stun electro minelets brt. They work surprisingly well.

[@jeffmartinez3485]

My go to, Stubby w/ EM Refire Booster OC and 22222, Shard Diffractor Efficiency Tweaks OC with 11221. Shooting medium to larger enemies by switching from primary to secondary to get the maximum amount of DPS def takes practice, but has proven to be an awesome build in EDDs. The warthog use to be my main primary but since using this high damage electrical build I have yet to go back. Def worth giving a shot! If you prefer a faster rate of fire for Stubby, change tier 2 from Recoil Dampener to Improve Gas System. Great video, keep up the DRG content!

[@joarsturve7103]

I got Endothermic Explosion in the first couple days of the season, and damn it quickly became my all-time favourite overclock. It is genuinely bonkers how much damage this thing spits out, and literally melts everything super quickly. I always use the shard diffractor as an AoE weapon instead of single target and this overclock takes that to the extreme.

[@Terminarch]

> Enters ED haz 5.5 I AM THE HAZARD

[@renaldoawesomesauce1654]

My "Engi Meta" is Lokk1 with Chemical Rounds + Breach Cutter with lightweight casing. I use the drone grenades and max platforms. Then your typical gemini setup on the turrets. Perks are reload + resupplier + sweet tooth + Dash + field medic/ironwill/steve. It slaps and I get top kills every game.. I'm not sorry. :D

[@jacobwarkentin2156]

just tried this because of your video. killed the leeches off doretta before she even got an attack off. wow. kinda felt bad wasting my platforms for it though, guess its something ill have to get used to.

[@darthmemeious9526]

mmmmmm, splendid... splendid

[@Yoshi92]

Your favorite OC really lacks some visualization. It feels underwhelming, even tho it decimates everything. Sick video!!!

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

Agreed! I think they need to do something about that 🤔 Thanks friend 🪨⛏️🍻

[@turtlemaster2.025]

Executioner and overdrive booster is my favorite dreadnought build for engie

[@brandorino]

Great video and very informative, probably a personal opinion but the music was a tad distracting

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

Thanks for that feedback, I will consider lowering the volume on my next video ✌️

[@aunulimansfield3277]

That second to last one with the loki is my primary build

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

It's an epic build ⛏️🪨🍻

[@aunulimansfield3277]

@@TheLegendOfFLG It really is, one of my friends who's new to the game and currently mains gunner likes to make jokes about it

[@evanedwards4598]

I'm personally a hyper propellant enjoyer, but shard defractor is likely better in the long run. I just like walking into a room on 4 player haz 5, seeing a spitballer, and then RAILING IT.

[@bob4895]

good work = D

[@binnieb173]

I think you should use the loki with the three round burst overclock with this gun. Just be careful with ammo, but you are a dps machine.

[@vinhha7474]

I dont really think this gun is more effective then the breach cutter, but it sure looks fun to use. Who doesnt want to use a gundam beam on the bugs?

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

Agreed! 👍

[@aslightlysanescientist3874]

Using bio whatever the fuck the ammo on kill upgrade along with feedback loop makes me want to turn into heavy from tf2

[@Paul-A01]

Overdrive Booster: AKA The Kamehameha wave

[@yureka62]

karl is proud

[@tychoplaysiogames7141]

the endothermic explosion build seems really fun but i got a question, isnt it a waste of platforms? i know that surviving goes above all else on haz 5 but it feels wrong to not use them to make traversal and escaping easier

[@kaicmma]

You dont have to explode them everytime, they double the aoe and damage boost when hit with the fractor by default

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

Great question, I altered my usual platform build for Max Ammo, and that's truly enough for me so far. I think in this video of course I have ten thousand on the ground but that was more for testing purposes. Since then, I've been just throwing 1 or maybe 2 down and it's been working great ammo wise :)

[@bosstwind7010]

I really suggest taking heat damage instead of armor break, instead of converting 25% of your damage into heat it converts 100% of your damage into heat.

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

Yeah that was a fun build for a while. Obviously it worked out great for me either way but that does sound like a lot of fun. I went with armour because I only plan to use it against shooting at things with armour and specifically dreadnoughts. We actually fought 5 dreadnoughts that day so I'm glad I had armour break and not heat damage. It also obliterated everything I shot at without it even with my poor aim. I'm starting to need more loadout slots tbh, I don't have room for all these different variations. Like if I was going into an egg hunt or aquarq I think I would use the heat damage instead.

[@mr.tweaty]

This honestly might be the first “meta” related DRG video I’ve seen. Shows you how unintrusive the meta can be in PvE games…

[@heavenlydemon5994]

Feedback Loop is oddly enough more of a single target damage overclock rather than a crowd clear weapon.

[@hadgeron9556]

I just use the shard as a panic swarm clear or to peel praetorians for my lok 1 to finish them off and the ssg for general use

[@net343]

Reminds me of the mega laser from heavy weapon

[@prich0382]

8:40 what happened to the resolution?

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

No idea how that happened and I even went back and re-rendered and re-uploaded but it kept happening :(

[@prich0382]

@@TheLegendOfFLG Yeah there were other points like that too, couldn't really read what they were without having to look them up myself

[@sgtace]

what about chemical explosives lok1 + explosive laser?

[@couchpotato351]

9:00, 9:27, 10:19 Why aren't you getting damage from explosion? Is this console thing or old patch?

[@Nuggiepops123]

I really dont burn ammo that much with VIM, I use it with the warthog with the unstable ammo one (I forgot the name sorry) and I preserve ammo pretty good.

[@qwp1884]

Has this build been effected by balance changes?

[@bosstwind7010]

8:40 is it just me or are those images super low res.

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

*waves hand* "that is not the droid you're looking for"

[@sproesser1]

Speaking of accuracy on PC, you can use a keyboard and mouse in DeepRock galactic on a PS5!

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

Yeah I need to get on that for console. Truly a better system imo.

[@Damaged-d]

What do you play on

[@maclegend9169]

These are nice fun builds but could be improved. E.g em discharge with stubby instead of turret whip. Since turret whip consumes turret ammo and EMD can be used on a turret with no ammo, 60 DMG in a 5 metre radius plus electricity. With Gemini turrets and stubby full electric build you only need a few stubby shots to pop the explosion. I would say turret whip is better for mactera missions though. Also, feedback loop on the laser deals absurd damage in such a short space of time. Take the extra mag capacity and this thing can melt a horde instantly. Also anything with multiple parts gets melted fast. Seriously, try this on a bet c. You don't even need to aim it just 100-0s it in moments. Had a lot of people saying wtf in chat on this thing. Try it.

[@Orudaiken]

Automated beam controller is sooooo bad. Red/unstable downside for green/clean upside. It’s like 40 total ammo more than the base gun with the down side of firing to empty every time! Then saying overdrive has bad ammo issues!? It’s literally a green/clean overclock with zero downsides. Use it as normal against anything and boost against huge threats.

[@CaptainFisticuffs0]

i just use the green overclock, having control over when you consume ammo is really great.

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

oh your one of those people. Yes the devs just put bad overclocks in the game for fun because they want their game to be terrible. They only make 1 overclock good just to fuck with us. not like they get tested before hand or I clear edds with them no problem. How is clearing the hardest thing in the game make the overclock bad? did you ever consider that you're struggling with it when others aren't? As far as overdrive booster goes, can you please upload a video of a group edd, only overdrive boosting for every shot like the build your referencing and don't steal ammo, to show me what I'm doing so wrong to think it has low ammo? Your confusing the overclock as if it only has 1 build or purpose. Builds are more than an overclock, In the video, i've made this build for overdrive boosting. To do massive damage when needed. With EXT mag and emptying the entire mag for every shot, it can run out of ammo much faster than burst fire. I'm not sure where the tons of ammo comes from if the entire mag empties with an extended mag. Also my context is not haz 3, 4 or solo. It's always been and always will be haz 5 or 4 player edd's, 3rd stage being haz 5.5. In those scenarios, ammo has always been short, even when choosing my moments. So clearly you know something I don't. Please upload a video showing me what I don't know about this build and how there is tons of ammo for it and correct me. Because I have to see it to believe it. Otherwise I don't know what your talking about mate.

[@Orudaiken]

@@TheLegendOfFLG no need. Overdrive can be activated when desired. ABC cannot, leading to wasted ammo. Only boost when needed so ammo isn’t wasted. Yes it’s technically 40 less ammo than ABC. But if the boost does 160 ammo used it breaks even with ABC. (Really easy on big targets) However if ABC wastes its extra ammo from inability to stop then Overdrive wins without ever boosting. Overdrive can win by default because ABC downsides actually outweigh upsides!

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

​@@Orudaiken Yes your right, except the build in my video is an overdrive booster build. Its why I chose the exact primary with the exact points into that primary. I really need to do a better job on my end here. If I was using the OC like you suggested I wouldn't have the loki set up the way it was, or I might bring turret discharge instead. The whole point of my channel is to show everyone that you can use the same overclock for different builds and uses. Bumped into a level 1800 that doesn't build his turrets. He glitches them to get them both electrocuted for double damage and never arcs the turrets but instead has 2 invisible electric areas with 600 damage each. He obviously knows what he is doing and is having fun as he said he mains this build. I need to do better next time explaining that I am not telling anyone how to use this overclock, but rather the build I made and how I used it. I only use that for overcharging because single target damage is something I don't have any loadouts for. The rest of my loadouts are all breach cutter and grenade launcher. So we are talking to different things mate. Yes if your not overdrive boosting it's technically not low on ammo comparatively. That's just not the build I'm using in this video which is why I didn't understand what you were saying. I will do better to articulate this on my next videos

[@somegoodsoup7008]

My only problem with the Shard Diffractor is that their is no rainbow skin that makes the laser change color. Make it happen Ghost Ship!

[@TheLegendOfFLG]

This is a must

[@nltiro3387]

Controller.