I Stacked Endless Explosions And Things Got Silly - Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor!

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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. Wield the full arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic, take on hordes of lethal aliens, mine riches, and unlock powerful upgrades. It's one dwarf against all of Planet Hoxxes!
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[@dyamonde9555]

i can definitely see why getting on your channel would be the holy grail for indie devs. i spend a lot of money on indie games, and your channel is always my first stop to check if anything interesting came out. probably bought a good dozen games i would have never touched because you covered them.

[@vailias]

Same. Maybe not a dozen, but definitely several that I'd have not bought or looked at otherwise.

[@LordBaktor]

I'm buying this one tomorrow (salary comes in tomorrow), mostly because of Wanders videos. I'm not a huge bullet heaven fan, but this one looks really enjoyable.

[@gagedude89]

Honostly, i love that you don't cut out all of the failed runs, and actually show them in their entirety. Theres a lot of youtubers who only tend to show the runs where they win, and i think sometimes its nice to see less successful runs and get a better idea of why they werent successful

[@robm6726]

Agreed, this is probably one of the more difficult bullet heavens.

[@dyamonde9555]

lol, that's some weirdly chill music for what is happening on the screen most of the video

[@badscientist42069]

Yesterday I found a golden loot bug, which I didn't even know was a thing. Took longer to bust it open, but I got a lot of gold from it.

[@robm6726]

Very nice, I found a giant one the other day myself, the color was the same though I felt. Similar feelings of discovery

[@dyamonde9555]

"We don't throw runs here!" "You know what? Hug me! *suicides*"

[@Ishlacorrin]

Acid damage buffs ALL other types of damage on the target while it's DoT effect is active. So it's worth it in almost any build as a buffer item. Great to get as a sidearm overclock to increase all other weapon damage by another 25% too.

[@luizmarcialmoreirapires7409]

I cant say I am a developer yet because it would be the first game and its not even released yet, but I always hear Wander rambling about games, and his ideas and criticism, and I already implemented a lot of his idea and I'm really thankfull because the game I'm making is probably better because of him

[@KingNedya]

38:57 It's actually really good that you didn't go for clip size here, because not only is it worse than the other option, it would have actually nerfed your PGL substantially. Your PGL's fire rate was quite a bit slower than the reload speed, so waiting longer till the next reload (which would also be slower) would kill the overall DPS.

[@reinhardtkukkuk]

I actually really enjoyed the replacement sound. Wouldn't recommend it being standard, but it was actually kinda nice.

[@IncognitoSprax]

The background music in the beginning feels like I'm in a Herbalife commercial

[@brianfitz1604]

Love the vids, big fan for years now. In the future though could you lower the back ground music overlay or just not put music over the vid please?

[@bthsr7113]

While percentile stuff may not be as exciting, blast radius percentile upgrades one one of the more exciting percentile upgrades to me.

[@dadeholmes8439]

Man, i am not happy that the mini nuke overclock isn't in the game... still good run wonder.

[@user-sg2es3jo6i]

that last run was so intense

[@NathansWargames]

You'd love the band Cloudkicker based on the music you played at the start of the stream

[@lorddevi2821]

This feels weird to write, but don't feel bad for not covering a game you have redeemed, a good company would see that information as "the game seems interesting". I've watched your videos a good while now and the sponsored videos (I atleast) feel like they are games you enjoy. If the game a developer want you to advertise ain't your cup of tea or the quality ain't up to par then we, as your viewers and your potential market for advertising these games, would rather see you play something you enjoy. Sorry to rant, you may ignore this comment if you feel like it.

[@somedude4087]

if wanted can join the DRGS server as they have a weapon chart for hiwch class/class mod can use which or I can join and drop it off...unless its wanted to figure stuff out yourself which I understand and commend

[@Ankerplays]

twitch integration for this game should be fun

[@lLumpyl]

Nice Choice of Post Rock Music, can you tell me what Songs are playing?

[@bretcalobeer5152]

There are locks on some items in the shop. What do they do?

[@michaelwolejszo6445]

Am I the only person who uses the artifact drop pod to kill all the bugs in the area? I get a bug that when I do that and interact with the pod to choose my artifact it also brings up the level up screen and bugs the game. I then can't get out of the menu and the game continues and I get killed.

[@dyamonde9555]

While i'm with Wander on that the Game could do with some Multiplayer, i think the basic Way he is imagining it, with a second Dwarf running around, wouldn't work at all. It's the level ups and the pause that would just kill it. In Singleplayer that's not a problem, you know when the pause happens, you got something to do during the pause, and then you continue on command. During a run you spend about 3-4 minutes leveling up (3-4 seconds per level, 55+ levels on full run). Now with two dwarves: the game would pause twice as often and end up with about 8 minutes of paused gameplay per full run, with pauses at times you are not prepared for, you dont have anything to do during half of those pauses, and it would continue suddenly without warning. Any system i came up with so far to help with these problems either made the game unbalanced as hell (pausing one player and bugs while player 2 can move for instance) or would immidiately kill one of the dwarves (like pausing for the level up dwarfves, but not player 2 or the bugs). No, what needs to happen here is HotS Cho'gall/Abathur Style Gameplay. One Dwarf playing as normal, the other playing support-gunner from a Backpack. Player 2 would have zero control over movement, but he could have a range of good support powers, that could be a lot more complex than what player 1 can get, since he has more capacity to think about them and target stuff. Like, give player 2 a mining laser, a brief invulnerability on cooldown, a blink, a directional shield, targeted bombs, stuff like that. maybe even access to a big map with markers. The pauses would still be slightly annoying for player 2, but not deadly. or even better, dont pause the game at all, have player 2 do the upgrade selection.

[@Maxtech50]

Tbf I like the idea of player 2 doing the upgrades for playing one that's kinda fun. The other way to maybe do it simpler with 2 dwarfs running around is have them share xp so they lvl up at the same time and then there would only be maybe a few extra seconds as the other person takes a lil longer to pick them you.

[@bathroomlew983]

With the Explosives Engineer, I think the easiest way to progress to the 2'nd stage is to use the drop pod on the boss. Btw. Where's the game audio? Also, I think it was a mistake saying that you're on a specific Discord (or any other place on the internet); now there's going to be even more weirdos looking specifically for you.

[@Grovesrussell]

How many hours a week are you putting in for youtube?

[@pakero61]

Anyone knows the name of the music used at 43:00?

[@eMgotcha77]

It feels like for H4+ Scout with M1000 is the only viable option. Anyone managed to finish a H4 run with the rotating fire gun thingy?

[@the_matad0r342]

A game review is nicer for you than your current style of game review. As it stands, you get distracted easily while playing. That’s just the nature of doing videos. In a written game review, you can maintain your train of thought pretty well. At least, that’s what it seems like to me.

[@Af-Firm-A-Tion]

How does a novice get into covering Games/Mobile App Games? Great background music btw!

[@LordBaktor]

Start doing it, learn from doing it and discover if it's your thing. If you love doing it, keep going and you'll eventually find your audience. If you discover you don't really like doing it, look for something else.

[@tlsgrz6194]

Have to admit, I'm a bit disappointed, that "replacing the game audio" meant adding music, and not you making pew-pew and angry bug sounds.

[@wanderbots]

That would be hilarious. But would also take soooo long.

[@Brokda_Rok]

🪨💥

[@DennisRyu]

As an artist I wholeheartedly agree and applaud your view on generative contend. Cause I know some of my artwork was used in training a lot of the models out there and never got asked or reimbursed for using my work in them. While it was a scientific experiment that was ok, but it became not ok once companies started using those models to do multi million business work with it. But on the other hand I also see valid applications for generative stuff. Like small developer team can afford to hire voice acting for major languages but would like to have audio for not so common languages then using generative to some degree to turn the voice acting they have into those languages would be sort of ok in my book.

[@derAtze]

Also one point to mention, especially in the case of a deckbuilder game: you still need to design the types of cards yourself, the AI just helps with the execution of the design. The major work on a deckbuilder is not painting the artworks (the game works without, and the alternative to AI would be creating simple vector graphics or stock footage/Creative Commons imagery) but you'd still need to be creative when it comes to naming and giving effects, which then informs the artwork. Not the other way around. Wander made it seem like they just generate ready made cards out of the AI aether, which isn't true. Having AI artworks or commissioning them is a question of time and budget, not laziness or unoriginality/ moral inferiority

[@thatrandomguy1140]

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