I Made An Untouchable Fortress Out Of Turrets! - Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor!

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[@bathroomlew983]

LMG turrets are the silliest of weapons - Mining walls and Plasma overclock combo are busted, since plasma bounces off walls multiple times, increasing the Firearate at the cost of accuracy and the arena mines itself.

[@jordannutt2238]

that shoulds good, does it stack with the mine any rock for gold/nitra?

[@DannyByWest]

The flamethrower turret with wall mining is like wiping the board from rocks

[@bathroomlew983]

@@jordannutt2238I have no clue! Never had enough time to notice.

[@krmjo93]

im 99% sure it does@@jordannutt2238

[@ssivla2491]

Get the same build like this yesterday and it BURSTTTTED

[@cheshired.catastrophe86]

its a little funny hearing you talk about magnets then refusing to upgrade the shock tower after taking it when one of the overclocks for the shock tower is a permanent magnet on all your towers. same with the boomerang.

[@someguy1994]

Gold and Nitra do in fact determine how much xp and currency you get at the end of the run. You want to grab as much as you can.

[@schattenschuetze2867]

19:37 Yes. You can get left behind, ruining an otherwise perfect Run

[@Necro2Mutou]

Can confirm, had it happen to me. Except I died instead of being left behind. I was so mad.

[@The_Lekar]

It might depend on where exactly you stand. I was right at the doorway and it pulled me to the next level. I hadn't gone inside and I thought it was leaving without me.

[@Anthony-pu4yy]

Can confirm!! Left behind many times pulled into next level!

[@siwone532]

Resources gathered on the run affects money and xp for the classes so yeah it's worth grabbing it all even in the final level if you can.

[@jerekcrowler9682]

Wander, my brother, status effects can crit. I watched for that specifically after you've mentioned it.

[@UlfMTG]

the best upgrades for turrets is reload speed and fire rate, in that order, pretty good rule of thumb. reload speed means you have more turrets at any given time, which in turn multiplies the dmg increase from fire rate (which means a lot more crits) best overclocks imo are #1 moving turrets #2 unstable fire rate #3 electric bullets (they increase crits, which is great since with high fire rate) #4 plasma bullets #5 turrets mine walls (if you have #4 and #5 together tho it's pretty easy to destroy every rock in the map)

[@blendes3240]

Yeah, seeing wander take a green upgrade for another weapon instead of blue fire rate for the turrets is hard to watch ^^

[@GremlinSciences]

Reload speed helps increase turret count, but only actually helps when you're sitting still. While you are moving the turrets will stockpile until they hit the stockpile cap.@@blendes3240 So if you're going to be as mobile as Wander tends to be then you _absolutely_ want to be investing in increasing that stockpile cap so you can just dump out 7-8 turrets when you stop instead of just 2-3 and having to sit around slowly popping out additional turrets.

[@SIMULACRA37]

I'd want to leave some walls just to creat choke points/escape routes

[@sambucktooth]

also, theres a limit of three turrets out at a time tho

[@SIMULACRA37]

@@sambucktooth there can't be! I've definitely seen more if people increase lifetime and reload speed.

[@slonvepar]

the most dangerous enemy in this game really is greed, getting that extra gold and nitra is deadly

[@familhagaudir8561]

31:03 Nice turret damage. 5k8 DPS. Distant second was the hunter drone à 1k5 DPS

[@krazypinoy6495]

you can stand on the ramp all the way till the end....I do this to maximize drops

[@iplayminecraft2248]

you should do a max upgrades build with the gunners minigun, at level 18 it has an unstable overclock called "favorite weapon" that significantly buffs the stats of the minigun at the cost of all your other weapons being a bit weaker.

[@chrisswanepoel7389]

An upgrade to allow turrets and/or drones to pick up EXP or extend your pickup range seems like it would be a great quality-of-life upgrade, perhaps as a legendary upgrade or supply pod item?

[@carbonatedphantom8388]

Already exists. It’s an overclock for both the shock fence and the boomerang. He just didn’t get them.

[@GremlinSciences]

That is one of the overclocks for the shock towers, and the boomerang also has a similar overclock.

[@evilmindedsquirrel]

Love your videos! But you should really focus more on weapon upgrades at level up. The 18 level capstone is usually a huge upgrade that can make an entire run

[@DennisRyu]

Well gold on final level is good for rerolls, nitra is good if you got some of those crit for nitra stuff. Btw the electrical fences have an upgrade that makes them magnets, pretty useful!

[@danielgulbransen8476]

The flame turrets mining walls is fun. I picked up that upgrade the other day, and they just deleted the surrounding terrain. Also, I have never seen the Enor Pearls on any level other than the crystalline caverns... not sure if it is just a rare spawn or if it is only found in the first biome...

[@Pyrela]

I've seen the most in hollow bough.

[@GuacJohnson]

it has been interesting to watch how much ballsier you play compared to when you were first figuring out the game lol

[@EinarOfBC]

I've had great success with an electric version of this build. Get the Electric Turret and Magnetic Pylons asap and then grab every electric dmg upgrade possible. You can keep moving and mining while ramping up enough xp to just start melting bosses. I'll use the electric drones and one of the electric pistols as weapons 3+4.

[@jordannutt2238]

ooh but have you tried the breech cutter??? crazy strong plasma bouncing decimator, kinda like the electric fence meets the heavy sniper

[@wanderbots]

I tried it in this video, but haven't unlocked the overclocks to make it really shine.

[@oliver_twistor]

The final score should depend on held gold and nitra, otherwise why is there gold and nitra on the final map? Of course, it's possible the map generator doesn't take the stage into account and generates the final map in the same way it does the other maps, but I think it's unlikely.

[@jordannutt2238]

there could be a reeally nive QOL or meta progressing where entering the drop pod gathers 50% of the remaining xp

[@GremlinSciences]

Don't underestimate the effectiveness of increasing magazine sizes. Reload speed gets your guns back up faster, but magazine size makes your guns fire for longer, ultimately achieving the same goal of minimizing weapon downtime. There is a very notable difference however in how they work over the long run, reload speed has diminishing returns while magazine size is quite linear. Ideally for similar games, you want to take both in roughly equal proportions until reload speed hits 100~150%, after which it's better to focus magazine size because reload speed won't be doing much after that. From what I've seen of DRG:S however, it seems like magazine size upgrades tend to be larger for the same rarity, so it's probably worthwhile to just focus on magazine size should both options ever present themselves at the same time (especially since the reload times aren't actually _that_ bad without upgrades)

[@GremlinSciences]

I should add that some weapons have other benefits to increasing their magazine size, like the sludge pump which does get extra acid duration as you add more lifetime (all of the acid sticks around until it stops firing, and fades as it reloads) Also, turrets actually have two "magazine size" upgrades: lifetime, which increases how long the turrets stick around, and stockpile, which increases how many of them you can stock up to be quickly thrown out when you finally stop moving. Stockpile upgrades seem to be rare, but they're worth taking whenever you see them if you don't stop very often; on the flip of that, lifetime upgrades are good if you tend to stick around the same area for a while.

[@pimo1974]

on the first run you had a magent at the bottom and ran up top after exp to get killed lol

[@bradracine3426]

How do you already have levels on the weapons at the start?

[@bthsr7113]

No, show us the lower hazard grinding.

[@uroghai3439]

I think the stat meta upgrades are uncapped, for what it's worth.

[@wanderbots]

Once their borders are filled in, they're capped. Unless there's some way of upgrading them beyond.

[@uroghai3439]

@@wanderbots I never noticed the borders filling in. Huh.

[@TheWerecon]

you can get left behind on the ramp happened to me b4

[@archmagetyler]

crits are a wonderful thing and are absolutely worth giving up nitra purchases for in my opinion.

[@sopanhaleng8644]

Yay

[@TeamD3ath2]

the paint job does nothing right? like it skips to the breakpoints faster but you miss out on damage/reload/fire rate upgrades

[@wanderbots]

You don't miss out since you can keep upgrading past 18. It just gets you to overclocks sooner, which is very helpful.

[@aceazzermeen4857]

Do a cryo build

[@badscientist42069]

Idk how you get your turrets to actually kill anything. I've always found the engineer to be hot garbage. I end up killing more enemies by taunting the exploding bugs than my turrets kill. The fire turrets do much better. They literally end up doing something like 100x as much damage as the LMG turrets even though I get them later in the run.

[@Pyrela]

Try to get some reload speed early on. It's a little rough at start when you're throwing them out at a fairly slow pace. Fire rate is good as well. Really, I think it's the overclocks that make them shine. Getting electric or plasma is really good, but the main one to hope for is the fire rate with accuracy loss. That's what really makes them strong.

[@ksprr6856]

Im clearing hazard 4 in under 30min