Mission Evolution | Deep Rock Galactic

[@eadthryth8194]

I remember the time when salvage missions used the advanced tech of bluetooth fuel transfer.

[@vizthex]

same.

[@boofe7206]

I'm pretty sure the cable is just to keep the dwarves sane - you can disconnect the pod and it's still fine. Dwarves do not believe in Bluetooth.

[@questionablelifechoices7501]

Lol I remember that stuff. Got into the game just a few months before that was changed.

[@Crimnox_Cinder]

It was before update 34? I think 34 added dorreta and refinery mission. But with the pipe mechanic from refinery they "refined" the salvage op refuel sequence with a slimmed down version of it. The days of Bluetooth fuel transfer were...strange, but it never decreased the amount of fun we had.

[@MrCokewithice]

I didnt even question it at the time, it was only when they added building the connection to refuel the pod that I understood what was happening in the mission xD

[@seapickles5762]

46:30 the J.E.B. most likely stands for “Jens Emil Bil” as seen in the year 3 art showcase segment (42:58).

[@explorianguy]

that could be the case, the few devs that I asked just told me it was a placeholder, I was 90% sure the entire time that it's an inside joke

[@B_Skizzle]

Speaking of the tutorial, am I the only one who kinda wishes the Shallow Grotto would be expanded into a full biome? I really like the color scheme. Also, is there still some kind of link between Point Extraction and random dreadnoughts? I’ve seen about a dozen of them, and I think all but one were in PE missions. EDIT: For anyone seeing this comment now, I can confirm through extensive personal testing (and consulting the wiki) that Point Extraction has its own spawn logic for dreads. However, they can only spawn if you’re playing on Haz 3 or below. I guess the devs thought they'd be too punishing on 4/5.

[@explorianguy]

perhaps that needs investigating, I recall coming across random dreads multiple times in Refinery too since it shares the same cave type

[@stavbearer9878]

Maybe it's just since waiting around gets so many more swarms in PE? The swarms you get, the more times that dice roll for it happens.

[@joltganda]

It’s just a super rare random spawn, I’ve come across a dread in a mining expedition recently.

[@mage4242]

@DRG Historian I was running some greenbeard friends through their 1st few missions, and the 1st refinery mission we did, back to back random Dreads. I also seem to get them more in PE as well

[@sniss]

fantastic as always :)

[@explorianguy]

oh yo wtf !!

[@Cryospec]

Hol up you can donate in comments!?

[@romanlinnik7441]

The man himself

[@liambutler2239]

Sniss my beloved

[@ThatNerdGuy0]

nice

[@billul1]

7:45 interesting that Helium3 seems to hint that they were going for a more "realistic" theme to the game at this point of development. Helium 3 is a real life element that is an isotope to (guess what) helium that theorized as potential nuclear fuel source that creates little radiation, and is often featured in scifi as spaceship fuel. Of course in real life it doesn't look like grey metalic rocks so that's why I say "theme", the devs were planning to use real life elements and minerals as stuff for you to mine but at some point decides to use wholly fictional minerals instead, like the good ol' morkite.

[@RealJ3sus-Joseph]

Neeeeeeeeerrrrrdd

[@metzillixochitl]

Morkite found!

[@vizthex]

i too enjoy the fictional element of Gold.

[@p1nball729]

Smart stout tastes great, doesn't it? But yeah that is pretty interesting.

[@kajmak64bit76]

@@RealJ3sus-Joseph found the Leaf Lover Lmao

[@vizthex]

a creature evolution video would be pog. hell, i'd watch a evolution videos going over every part of the game lol

[@philipgelderblom6878]

Remember when grunts were called warriors.

[@vizthex]

@@philipgelderblom6878 i still call them that every so often.

[@badpiggiesfan6918]

This video was AMAZING. cant wait to hear if you end up making that industrial sabotage evolution vid.

[@explorianguy]

its evolved to Rival Tech Evolution

[@badpiggiesfan6918]

👀

[@norahsnewgroove]

an hour?!?! you spoil us.

[@vexlegend313]

:)

[@bitzthe8bit668]

I've asked this before, and I'll say it again. Mission. Variations. Search & Extract could be an alternative version of Mining Expedition, without taking up an entirely new mission slot. Purely the only difference would probably be cave gen, or for a newer mission like Escort Duty, instead of refueling, you have to replace Doretta's treads. I swear to Karl I'm onto something here.

[@randomwowjunkie]

I want an escort variation where the target is something other than a heartstone as i find that event to be the most repetitive part of the entire game

[@alarmy5211]

@@randomwowjunkie i know this is a year old, but that would really fit for escort. i mean, mission control says “ *this time* you’re after the heartstone” right? it makes sense that the drilldozer would have other high value things to collect

[@noahthecrazy1632]

@@randomwowjunkiewell your in luck, season 5 has added new stuff to the hearthstone boss fight.

[@explorianguy]

my fellow Americans, epilepsy warning at 44:03-44:22 and 44:39-44:51 might be a bit intense too (im not from the us) updated: starting from Season 2 BET-C and Korlok have a 5% spawn chance, the new robot Nemesis has a 7% spawn chance

[@leonader9465]

I had to read this in Keemstar's voice.

[@krustin]

Where are you from? you have a beautiful accent sir

[@BradenBlorp]

@@krustin he sounds like he's from eastern Europe but I'm not sure.

[@gustavyes529]

america

[@epin_gamer4209]

dont dox yourself like that

[@slimeinabox]

The only thing that I would change about this game is secondary mission. Instead of collecting a set minimum amount of a thing with no bonus for extra, you have a thing to collect and you get an increasing reward per thing collected, with no limit.

[@theplague5803]

Especially with disteriom secondary or fester flea secondary because you get so much disteriom and it fells like i accidentally kill fleas more often than not but saying that i am a lok engineer so i cant say much

[@jorijndg]

You do get extra XP for overtime, like depositing extra morkite or dystrum or killing more flees. It's usually very little, but you can tell the difference with dark morkite on a long morkite mission. My main gripe is that it doesn't show extra progress in the UI. It would be nice to see if I killed 13/10 fester flees, or collected 350/200 morkite.

[@jorijndg]

Just did a 400 morkite mission with dark morkite, took almost an hour but did give over 20k XP. No idea how much morkite we deposited; my guess is around 800.

[@muffincatgames]

Fuck man, I really hope some day we get those colours back on Escort, even if it's as a mod, they are so damn pretty

[@greenbean4537]

agreed

[@sniss]

LETS GOOOO

[@tacoman2147]

ayo? love your vids, bro.

[@Bee_Tea_Sea]

Oh hey, I know that guy!

[@vizthex]

aw man, i'm sad they didn't use conveyors (though i understand why) always loved conveyor belts, and having one in DRG would be cool af

[@ShockyHazard]

I know I say this every time but I really love your editing!

[@atsushinakagima4331]

Wait. “search & extract”.. …isn’t it like new type of mission they added recently?

[@TheBadger]

If they'd only bring back the grinder from (31:06), it looks so dope

[@corvax8644]

I love how hilariously jank the early versions of doretta were

[@druidsunionvods]

Ha haaa no skips gang

[@sedniia483]

another banger

[@originaljoke4502]

42:28 the gun leg concept actually looks really fun and silly, i would love if you could call it down like supply drops, or maybe even just something to muck around with on the space rig. think about it, stuff a barrel in and watch it fly!

[@elsuertes1748]

49:58 I never tought hearing Mission control with the Dwarfs Voice would be so cursed

[@thehound8244]

this is g0nna be good imma get some food and watch this

[@vizthex]

12:47 - you mean the eggsploit? i'm not sorry.

[@rustico0]

42:01 So that’s where they got the idea for the Drillevator’s dense rock phases. Amazing to see how many ideas they keep recycling between updates! Also, when “Deep Scan Evolution”?

[@chicken_matrix8878]

I know this video is 5 months old but I just want to say I got two of those weird cubes in one day

[@xxevildoctorxx2162]

How much fun did you have playing the escort build lmao

[@jogomango2387]

Original concept for the amoran look like jawbreakers

[@Elijah668]

Ive been making a dumb little dnd spacehulk abomination for a drg type game. just with some 5e rules and some timers for flavor, but i hadn't a clue what to do for their abilities, with your video ive been slowly but surely breaking down each move into more interesting things for the boss monsters. gj man.

[@cardnal44]

49:21 seems like an early rockpox

[@girf4233]

this is not the hour long video about "A Rat's life: the Cat Conspiracy" I was hoping for. Well it will have to do.

[@rainy729]

Once again great work, Historian. Was a lovely (and fun!) trip into the past. Also, appreciate the nostalgic Serious Sam music :)

[@ErikKing-k7o]

2:30 whats crazy is saw someone got the name unending head for a deep dive

[@RedStar441]

I remember when I first picked up Deep Rock just before the full release. The game had such a great charm back then, and its come such a long way. I love this game, and I look back on those days fondly.

[@lennyface5314]

Godlike soundtrack selection. Never thought I'd hear Advance Wars Dual Strike main menu in a DRG video.

[@vizthex]

just realized the foreshadowing at 0:17 with Industrial Sabotage being greyed out.

[@vizthex]

should've added an info card with the six bits video at 1:02:36 but great video overall though - love these evolution ones, and can't wait for more.

[@aydinmakesthings]

As a more recent fan (Joined in early 2023) I find it so interesting to see how different this game use to be.

[@joshuaanderson7511]

I clicked on this thinking it was 10 minutes, and 5 seconds.... Strapped in now i guess

[@explorianguy]

I don't know why but the thought of that realization is hilarious to me

[@Papa_Tin]

You make great content, I was impressed with how deep you dove into the topics at hand!

[@etherealrat1818]

Excellent video, Morbius Historian

[@TheTretex]

Season 1 made it so escort missions could vary more in length I believe, thus the rooms could be shorter distance from each other and you could reach the ommaran faster.

[@killsode4760]

I know that you can get either one refuel for length two, or two refuels for length 3

[@Tay1Qr]

wait, the point extraction sentries don't have infinite ammo?

[@badpiggiesfan6918]

guess not? no one really sticks around long enough for the ammo to be a problem.

[@joltganda]

I learned that the hard way early on.

[@changtiger4372]

learned that in my first haz5 mission it was a long and tough fight for a greenbeard

[@Kwaark]

that was very cool to see all the evolutions ! thx for the awesome vid!

[@benismann]

i bought and started playing drg in march 2018, those videos are such a dive into memory

[@ARPGAMER19]

12:08 “This is also when the egg secondary objective gets removed once and for all.” that didn’t age well

[@explorianguy]

it wasn't the same egg secondary, it was the egg hunt's primary objective as a secondary that's gone forever

[@aspen3531]

it would seem that part of the video has become inexplicably dated now that morkite geodes are around

[@explorianguy]

what part of this video is dated?

[@Xirce]

Ok I don't know if I'm misremembering, but I remember that for the Salvage Operation mission, there was no refueling section, just repairing the mini-mules and uplinking. Am I misremembering or was this actually a thing?

[@tacoman2147]

oh man, this is the perfect start to a three day weekend

[@vizthex]

maybe they can bring back Search & Extract as part of a future season, where you have to find a season-specific objective instead of morkite. Would be neat to at least have the name back.

[@vizthex]

i kinda prefer salvage requiring you to fix up the drop pod. Feels more logical, especially since you only ever see Mini Mules here, whereas the drop pod is in every mission. but on the other hand, Mini Mules are cute and give you free gold & nitra.

[@MrPain522]

Really enjoy the FTL music in the background

[@ojhat]

I still really miss the old cave generations that gave fortune to the search & extract mission type. It frequently featured the cave as ginormously sprawling like the example shown; open stretches of multi-layered caves, pillars, plateaus, twisting tunnels, mushroomed faux cave floor, no central cave, entirely non-linear. While yes, Egg hunt has since replaced it, I still liked Search & Extract more, and think they could have balanced it closer to a mix of Mining Mission & Point Extract with chunks to find; Instead of knowing exactly where the eggs where, you really did have to search and explore for all that morkite hidden away in walls.

[@djonezzz6853]

Amazing video, very well don!

[@thescoutpanda]

oh nice thank you, i'm but a relative newcomer so it's nice being able to catch up on history

[@plasmabasher]

It’s amazing to see how this game made such subtle variations in builds over its YEARS of development, the entire time I was watching this video I was thinking “oh this is the part where they stopped changing [this]” only to hear “then in update [number] they changed [this]” and I have to double take. DRG really has aged well, it deserves its rising popularity after all the time and love its developers have put in. Also, it’d be amazing if there was a Caretaker-esque fight called ‘Queen Hunt’ where you have to actually “hunt down” a constantly moving giant enemy, and follow the visible aftermath of its rampage. Dead dwarves who failed to kill it, broken MULEs, and even Drop Pods busted open after their occupants tried to escape. It’d really change the tone of “We’re badass dwarves who can kill anything!” to “Oh god, whatever the hell this thing is is something I do *not* want to see”. You never find the Queen, but maybe it could be a chapter-based system like Deep Dives where you do all the search and rescue stuff, but the players are in a darker environment, everything feels unnatural, and there’s evidence of something *big* being nearby. That, or it’s an advanced mission based on the Haunted Cave modifier, where something you’re incapable of fighting is chasing you and you have to rush through the mission before it kills you.

[@nubcake67]

Did you seriously sneak in Sami's theme from Advance Wars 1+2 in at 22:30? He's a man of incredible record keeping and culture.

[@vizthex]

every time i re-watch this video, the editing at the part where you explain how missions generate gets me. it's so damn clean.

[@vizthex]

they could bring back Search & Extract in a future season.

[@R3verse301]

sorry dude they just released a new mission type guess you've gotta make all this again...

[@Paronak]

1:04:12 is that the fucking ball Darth Vader was in?

[@El_Batipapa]

A new mission type is coming in season 5! And they said it involves searching! Could it be the return of Search and Extract?

[@jackie_lad]

I think a good idea for the Search and Extract thing could be a warning modifier that only applies to Mining Expedition. This could be the first in a line of mission-exclusive warnings.

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

Oh, yeah the normal Dreadnaught does that. If only one player is up (whether that's just one player, a player with Bosco, or only one person is alive and everyone else is down) it will just stop and roar. Only in that situation, though, and I believe iron will counts as someone being up. The combination of its powerful attacks, decent mobility and speed, extreme aggressiveness and heavy armor make it still the most terrifying of the three options. Hiveguards are slow and manageable, if hellish to your ammo supply; and Twins aren't even full dreadnoughts - I'd describe them as 'pre-dreadnought' seeing as they have regressed physically in order to form into two creatures. The classic continues to be the best. This was _an hour?_ I honestly didn't notice until you pointed out that it was expected people would skip stuff. Amazing work, to make something so engaging like that!

[@haminatorivan]

an hour video? you spoil us DRG history man

[@Mikalent]

Honestly, I would like a mission type like extermination, a mission where you get only the Nitra that was created when the cave was generated, and the players having to balance their Nitra supply with the amount of time, and enemies, they contend with while in the cave. As for how you would stop said mission from becoming a one stop shop for XP grinders, introduce an XP scaling system and XP cap for the mission, as well as having the mission be more gold and crafting materials poor. Another idea would be a variation of the above extermination mission, but more for credits than XP. The idea would be similar to on-site refining and the early gas extraction of escort duty. The idea would be for 5 gas wells to spawn in a large chamber, players call down gas collectors that pump their individual well into a balloon, before launching said balloon after a certain amount of gas is collected. Each refinery gets 10 balloons before the well is tapped, HOWEVER the refinery attract bugs, and can be attacked and destroyed. A destroyed refinery can not be repaired or rebuilt, nor a new one called down, while a damaged refinery can be repaired. Another mechanic that could be added would be the passive damage that occurs to the refinery while working, similar to the rock crackers, just on a slower scale. Also just to add more player agency, the idea that each refinery can be started and run at different times. So players can choose to defend one refinery at a time, ensuring they get maximum credits, or run all 5 refineries and risk losing one or more.

[@vizthex]

love that mission icon flowchart, looks noice.

[@alexruska9390]

2020 July added the first iteration of the Ommorian Heartstone.

[@CrashHeadroom]

7:30 I know they used Squat as a reference for design, there is even pictures ofit in their concept art ....but that is a damned lasgun if ever I saw one! lol

[@birdmustard7098]

Any chance you might post those escort duty wallpapers somewhere? So that a ps4 rock and stoner like myself could get them? Edit: just got to the point where you said there's a place to get them lol

[@t_t5222]

God that music intro is so top quality broooooooooo

[@Smartcoughdrop]

What a profound quote to end the video on

[@AdroSlice]

Weirdl, enough, I never really noticed the numbering on the refinery pipelines.

[@Jellydoughnuthole]

19:41 bro gave me flashbacks to advance wars dude it took me a moment to recognize that song

[@nickr8662]

Wait, doretta’s head appears next to the gun terminal?? Holy shit!

[@Magmatica7]

Am i the only one who really wants the tutorial mission as a full biome?

[@copperheadchris2807]

Early access doretta my beloved ♥💖💜♥️💖✨️

[@iamthecheesegod]

your closing words were enough to convince me to subscribe

[@MihaiAkexandru]

I remember one time when I was playing this game in a biome there were 2 mining expedition mission

[@LyntheWicker]

I hope they give us a defense mission like in hell divers 2

[@minkwandering3561]

COOL IDEA. LOVE THE VIDS. THNX FOR MAKING

[@tonycallme3667]

ngl, mega cave sounds hella cool to see, like giant cave.

[@Liam-gt3qm]

How do you access the old versions of the game?

[@doctaterror]

I was really disappointed when they revealed that clean ups were just a mission modifier instead of its own primary mission type. I really love all the new mission types (on site, escort) and want more so bad.

[@explorianguy]

imo that mutator should become its own mission for season 4

[@D3v1ance]

Yoooooo noodles are the best, no doubt, can't deny!!

[@maryjaneperry9951]

Hey what about industrial sabotage

[@thegoose8663]

On-site refining, my beloved!!!

[@bk2yu]

Kind of glad I’m coming to the game late 😅

[@danteinpuro319]

Not gonna lie I kinda like the blue look on the hive guard

[@NickMaovich]

that ending lmao sick video mate!

[@MyWaifuNow]

1:03:45 i think saying mission so many times got to you a little bit lol

[@Badbadgerboy]

4:16 I can actually tell the difference that is so sad

[@purpurthedragon]

I had to sleep while watching this video

[@DraconicKobold]

2:55 for some reason it started doing that tho.

[@zhevika_part_1]

Wow, such a awesome video keep it up

[@ZydrunasLeib]

41:39 TF2 payload?

[@philipgelderblom6878]

I also like point extraction!

[@AnthonyMcinnes-k8l]

Rock and stone

[@angelmartinez-plaza8255]

I see the different' colors of the egg's

[@flashbackfrank8781]

But fr though that mini-molly surrounded by cryomines was a anxiety shot if there ever was one. Only worse thing would be seeing 3 nemesis-s (....nemesi?) Next to a cave full of leeches.