the mactera plague counter

scout's best grenade! source: trust me bro

[@Proma_BFC]

shit build that only works on hazard 3-4

[@guibeck8259]

I will wouldn't even call it a build

[@SIMULACRA37]

I think they're just demonstrating how good Cryo Grenade is. Still used 1/4 of his grenades (they used 2/8 boomerangs) and yet killed all the mactera MUCH faster.

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

uhh. mm, TRUE!

[@kjj26k]

It's not a "shit build" if it works on the two main difficulties...

[@Proma_BFC]

@@kjj26k XD

[@alexgibbs3580]

Or just use one cryo grenade

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

indeed

[@wack6982]

Or play Driller ;)

[@nolives]

Voltaic has more utility.

[@solaireofastora6173]

@@nolives yeah being a worse cryo XD

[@slimeinabox]

Cryo nade takes skill.

[@T4FF3R]

THIS is why I have such a hard time giving up cryo grenades on Scout.

[@spookypotato9439]

the amount of people who clearly didn't watch a whole 1 min video 💀💀💀

[@kjj26k]

I dug too deep and found the toxic DRG players.

[@KingLich451]

just stay away from hazard 5 rooms, and you will be golden

[@piotrwisniewski70]

Just avoid some yt videos For some reason some DRG players are more likely to be more toxic when away from hoxxes

[@razortheonethelight7303]

People in comments “JuSt UsE CrYo GrEnAdE”. (Video shows cryo grenade superiority). Like really are people too lazy to watch a 1 minute video to the end?

[@grafeugenius]

yes

[@bighex5340]

Damn, us dwarves gotta have terrible attention spans, talking about cryos being better when you showed it at the end 💀

[@mooshrooom6853]

Yea cryo is def better if they're grouped up like that, I only use the boomerang with the MK1000 to clear out swarms most of the time etc.

[@pudimo]

half of you didn't watch till the end, shame

[@ZarHakkar]

The thing I like about the stun sweeper is that it's a good cave leech detector cause you can just throw it constantly for fun

[@squiddler7731]

One thing it _actually_ hard counters is web spitters. You often get like half a dozen or more scattered on the ceilings high above, but the boomerang has the range to reach them anyway, bouncing from one to another no matter how spread out they are and killing them off in one hit with the electric DoT

[@meekumanu]

On what hazard level does Stun Sweeper one shot a Spitter....

[@anemotic]

the amount of people who didn’t watch the whole video saying “use cryo” or just something saying to use something completely different like autocannon or leadburster????

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

i used leadburster

[@Sci_X1]

The driller with a comically powerful box fan

[@SliCeRAeR]

most people dont watch till the end. stop with your cryo nade argument. Yes it is better but he shows them both if u watched it all. Its okay i thought the same but finished the video

[@giovanniquant8121]

Driller: look at what they do to mimic a fraction of my power

[@net343]

Gunner:[insert skinner pathetic meme here]

[@heathcooper9300]

That ads for the m1000 should be in the full game

[@overseer_of_memes]

full game? so there's a demo version of drg? didnt even know

[@adumbchicken8022]

as a hater of tri-jaws, i fucking love the boomerang. The cryo may be able to remove em, but i get 8 boomerangs, and more ammo is always better IMO.

[@SereneSimian]

Así another mactera hater, the boomerangs are s must. Another upside us that you can't miss with them and they will travel across the room. Cryo grenades need to be kinda close range and aimed correctly

[@Flort-ifcations]

The only reason I was using boomerang before was because the stun makes freezing things with cryo minelets really easy. Then I realized that the stun upgrade on the m1000 does the same thing without using my grenade slot.

[@AKThompson]

I need to express my disappointment as a fellow dwarf, we just got a golden detonator AND I brought the lobby pots of gold before we launched. We managed to get it to blow up in a decent spot too, got at least 3/4 of the golden orb. The host was a level 500 something and insisted we speed though the mission for XP. I tried to reason with him that I wanted to mine the golden orb but he wasn’t having any of it. I could feel the kick coming but what could I do? And there it was, kicked for ‘I have my reasons’… I’ve never had a golden bulk with pots of gold before, it’s incredibly rare and something I’ve wanted since learning golden detonators exist. I finally got them both consecutively and this happens. I know this community is amazing but I must express my hatred towards this dirty rotten gold hating leaf lover!! It’s fine if you don’t want to help mine the gold but at least let me do it!

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

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[@zSTALKn]

This is a “Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of the game” taken way too far moment Edited to fix grammar issues

[@AKThompson]

🚎

[@justanormalaccountnothingt1571]

@@zSTALKneven funnier when you realize there is a whole video with spreadsheets explaining why skipping gold is more efficient than mining it (while that video also kills lootbugs and grabs gold nuggets, rendering the whole skipping gold thing redundant..)

[@zSTALKn]

@@justanormalaccountnothingt1571 I presume you’re talking about the one by Lazymaybe? I tried to give it a watch but I eventually tuned out because I’m a simple dwarf that mines whatever resource vein is in sight. The only time I skip gold is during deep dives where the XP gains is constant no matter what.

[@15braincellsremaining]

Me, a driller main: “look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power”

[@forgottenone2454]

Of criocannon gun

[@OhFrittata]

The Voltaic is truly one of the grenades of all time.

[@FLUX.2226]

The boomerang gets often compared to the cryo grenade or IFG in situations where these grenades shine, like this one, and then it looks weak of course. A large number of clumped up targets in front of you isn't the intended use case for a throwable whose strength lies in its overall versatility and extreme range.

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

i mostly recorded this because of how many people i saw saying the boomerang was the "mactera plague counter" which it has not been in my experience

[@FLUX.2226]

@@gagooooooooooooooo That's fair. It's actually a pretty strong counter against small flyers though, there's no better grenade to go up against a shredder swarm which is no joke on haz 5. Don't know why some people try to make it sound like it's a better cryo, which it absolutely isn't.

[@hamothemagnif8529]

Haha. That is THE reason i carry cryo grenade

[@JustAimIt]

Friendly reminder, Voltaic Stun Sweeper can stun a Detonator

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

for two seconds

[@Adazahi]

ifg + electric reload = detty will literally not move for as long as you keep ER procced stun sweeper = 2 second stun

[@aarepelaa1142]

For a tiny amount while the soon to be new buffed tranquilizer rounds for subata might be plenty better with a simple slow down, slow down effects are the best at keeping bulks at bay, or a gunner shield.

[@KingLich451]

how do you aim with the gun like that

[@theslavbeing335]

hold left click on M1000

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

mod.io/g/drg/m/focus-shot-aim-down-sight-for-m1000

[@KingLich451]

@@gagooooooooooooooo ty

[@rigelstarz6032]

Simply hold down the button Its the scout M1000 2nd primary weapon

[@berndwindi1525]

@@rigelstarz6032 he means the zoom you don't zoom like that in the vanilla deep rock

[@lukemorgan6166]

Here the cryo grenade is God tier but personally I never ever see clusters like this unless its an elite deeply dive I usually just use the boomerang for the stun , multi hit and throw and forget aspect of it

[@galact1cphantom824]

People ignore the fact that the boomerang has an extremely long range throw compared to the other grenades, so you can use it to save teammates far away when your grappling hook is on cooldown.

[@digital-black]

or you can shoot the bug

[@galact1cphantom824]

@@digital-black As scout, you cannot kill a swarm as fast as the other classes. So go ahead and shoot the bug, while your teammates get downed by the other bugs.

[@digital-black]

@@galact1cphantom824 I still think "kill the bug" is a better option than stunning 4 bugs and letting the other 17 swarm your defenseless teammate, as the other option requires you to have a boomerang. Even after your teammate gets downed any other nade is better than slowly stunning 8 bugs one by one.

[@galact1cphantom824]

@@digital-black Youre using it wrong, throw the boomerang and stun 9 bugs which is actually pretty fast, while you focus on killing the bugs that weren't stunned. And you're ignoring the scenario of my original comment where the other grenades would not be able to reach your teammates when your grappling hook is on cooldown, since Scout is usually far away from other team members.

[@digital-black]

@@galact1cphantom824 I didn't ignore your wet boomerang dream, as I said that even then it won't do much. I didn't even touch on the strategy with this "flying tazer on a stick WHICH YOU GET 8 OF WOHOO!" and you've already told me I'm using it wrong. Whenever I used it I thought to myself "Where the hell are my IFGs". Every other nade can do what boomerang does and more and doesn't feel like drinking hotdog water, if the range is the main upside when your grapple is on cooldown then build it for max recharge.

[@schizosamurai8840]

The biggest mactera plague counter is mactera plague

[@christhe2dprotogen511]

sokka would be proud

[@ascended8174]

It's not that Sweepers are bad, Cryo is just too fucking good of a grenade. Like Driller's Ripper, it is just outshined by the sheer utility and damage of Impact Axe

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

so youre saying the sweeper is bad

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

and the ripper is niche and bad too

[@ascended8174]

@@gagooooooooooooooo Difference between "bad" and "not as good as", but hey, you're free to hate anything in the world

[@nolives]

People dont understand the use of the voltaic. Not every weapon needs to kill things. The voltaic has many uses the other grenades dont. It covers a wide area of enemies with a stun. It stun lasts quite a long time. It stun just about everything except dreadnaughts, colussus and horrors. It can be thrown behind or beside you to cover your flank or if you are getting swarmed, or at a teamate to give them more breathing room when they are swarmed. And most importantly its great for those annoying nanocyte and swarmers because itll kill them in one hit and take out most of them. What it doesnt have in damage it makes up for in utility.

[@LegoGoblin]

also great for throwing randomly to check for bugs unseen, cause if it misses it comes right back

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

yes it's unfortunate there is no other scout grenade that can 1 shot small enemies, cover a wide area in a status effect, cover your flank with a status effect, apply a status effect to a dread and bulk or save your teammates and yourself

[@AxisKronos]

@@gagooooooooooooooo the cope harvest is bountiful

[@solaireofastora6173]

I can’t aim my grenades the grenade

[@justanormalaccountnothingt1571]

Boomerang 😃 Debate over

[@pioneer2595]

Glad that bugs don't have a fairweather T-500 ceramic armour

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

so true...

[@Empty_Bucket]

If they were wearing it, we'd have to figure out some flaw it might have in it, possibly by beating ourselves while wearing it.... or shooting?

[@Leo.23232]

@@Empty_Bucket theres is no flaw, shoot where it isnt

[@KRIMZONMEKANISM]

Boomerang is better if you need more versatility. Personally I prefer running it if Im going to Dense Biozone or Glacial Strata because you get a lot of Naedocytes down there, and having just for grenades which you can fumble on a panic throw isnt as useful as eight boomerangs that are GUARANTEED to hit 8 targets.

[@1haust]

skill issue

[@livenishikireaction]

​@@1haustleaf lover

[@windbeneathmywings4884]

Pheromones are equally good as well, especially on hazard 5 when you're likely to encounter a sea of bugs like that. My fave thing to do is get a horde all nice and grouped up with Phero so my Driller can get all cheerful and excited to blow em all up at once c: A big fat ROCK AND STONE, TO THE BONE!

[@imcrowned2929]

or cryo literally just kills every single one of them in one go

[@drucy.]

@@imcrowned2929 Only if macteras. For regular bugs, it only freezes them in place, away from each others. Pheromones makes them gather very tight and damage each other. Which means Pheromones pair disgustingly well with a melee power attack (with damage upgrade) or a Blowthrough M1000 (non Hipster OC). Just throw the nade in the middle of the pack, wait for them to gather up, and kill the entire swarm with just one clip (works even for Haz 4, btw) And besides, Pheromones redirect the damage of some of the most damaging enemies (all sorts of macteras, exploders (particularly bulks), praetorian, oppressors, etc) onto the swarm. I've had exploders and oppressors clearing the swarm themselves more than I can count them. I also works just as well as Cryo to deal with swarmers. Pheromones are criminally underrated. But everyone and their mother just coom for what is genuinely one of Scout's worst grenade (even IFG is better) because it ONE specific case where it's the better option. Otherwise either Pheromones or IFG will give you better results. If you STILL want Cryos on top of actually picking usefull grenades like Phero or IFG, just pick Bosco's cryo rockets upgrade. It's literally the same thing as the Cryos, but without accidentally freezing yourself, and having technically infinite ammo.

[@MarkNapalmov]

​@@drucy. wdym even IFG. It is second if not the best scout's nade. Slowdown that works on everything, 30 increased damage and electricity status that, once again, affects everything. Tho they are not as good at dealing with hoards, IFGs are best against smaller waves, big boys and in narrow points. Cryo is trash.

[@drucy.]

@@MarkNapalmov I never said IFGs are bad. On the contrary they make very short work of Dreadnoughts, Oppressors, or any target with big health pool, for that mater. And they're still effective against swarms if you can place yourself in a narrow corridor to great them. IFGs are nothing to scoff at, just like Pheromones. IFG excels at damage amplification and give moderate crowd-control, while the Pheromones excels at crowd-control while redirecting damage onto the enemy. Different grenades for different purposes. Both good. I just hate how people pretend that Cryos are any good (or hell, even "the best") when they're only the better option against macteras... and that's it. Like I said, Pheromones will also cover the swarmers problem so it's not even something that is unique to the Cryo. And Pheromones work better as an "Oh shit ! Swarm circling me !" button because you don't risk freezing yourself. You can literally just pick cryo rockets for Bosco and your Cryo grenades becomes obselete and redundant.

[@windbeneathmywings4884]

@Drucy THANK YOU. I can say, when the ground and walls are bustling and start crawling towards you at an alarming speed like a tsunami of screeching chitin, pheromones have saved my beard more times than cryo has in 4 player haz 5, especially on point extraction. And besides why take cryo nades when I have cryo minelets on my zhukov's. I get way more uses outta them anyways in the long run, vs the 4 grenades I'd have, plus _potentially_ accidentally whiffing and waste in the frantic chaos. Not only does it give me breathing room to possibly rez a teammate, but they kill each other so I don't have to waste ammo AND it benefits my team bc less bugs are biting them too, and like I said, my gunners and drillers really appreciate it when I get all the fish in the barrel for them. Criminally underrated. Oh and also, cryo grenades are less effective on bigger targets and certain biomes like magma core and glacial strata, where they simply thaw out quicker from the environment or are frost resistant thank to their adaptations., respectively. Whereas pheromones don't have such weakness. Heck, they even work on robots! For... some reason. Yet cryo is just terrible vs those even with the recent buff. They're definitely overrated. Now, I won't go without saying THEY DO have their uses, like as mentioned earlier, vs mactera swarms and swarmer... swarms. Even reducing the devastation caused by bulks. But that's about where it ends bc it's just not as efficient as the other choice for the rest of the bugs. As an element, Fire basically outclasses frost in every way. Robots are devastatingly weak to it, macteras are weak to it, it can instantly wipe out hordes of swarmers, and many POWERFUL builds pretty much revolve around it...

[@meisunebernadetta9868]

Cryoller: **holds Mouse1 for 4 seconds in their general direction*

[@drucy.]

Personnally, I have too much fun redirecting the macteras' damage onto the swarm (or each other) with Pheromones. It's amazing how quickly they cut through the swarm for you. The 15 seconds Pheromones last is more than enough time.

[@m1x0]

ice granade best granade, it can instally kill mackteras and make praetorians die with two shogun rounds + the freeze everything else around it to allow you to aim without hurry.

[@pawedabek1445]

What mod did you use to aim down sights on the m1000? I need to know

[@PineappleDevourer]

Its not a mod. Its part of the weapon. Holding down the fire button will make it a focus shot, dealing increased damage.

[@Vanguard7274]

​@@PineappleDevourer yeah, but it doesn't center it in your screen in the vanilla game, it normally just zooms in a little

[@pawedabek1445]

@@PineappleDevourer you are stupid... I know focus shot is a thing but thevwepon always stays in the bottom right of the screen and only the crosshair changes slightly i want to know how he made it go to the middle of the screen

[@Sivko_]

what's the mod for the m1000 zoom? looks awesome

[@darkconch5244]

I think it just called aim down sight mod for m1000

[@bupkis72]

I find that Bodkin Points (or was it bolts) for the crossbow makes this look way better and takes less boomerangs (if any at all)

[@Alexander_Shy]

Throw at least 3 boomerangs: 💀 Use 1 cryo grenade: 💀💀💀

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

does the skull indicate effectiveness? cause that's true

[@TheHQZombie]

Dude has the attention span of a youtube short. It is almost worse since they used the skull emoji unironically

[@cromulom2223]

@@TheHQZombie i love cock

[@tonyelectionfraud669]

boomerang pretty rad if things are spread out tho. i prefer boomerang

[@gaelracine5057]

@@tonyelectionfraud669 Just kite them to get them packed better, scout is really good at that. ;)

[@beefsandvvich]

That ADS mod is cursed

[@waffleworks4]

its not a mod...

[@pizzaman10203]

@@waffleworks4 What the fuck? Scout never brought the M1000 up to aim while focus shotting. It's a mod. Stop spreading misinformation.

[@nediacheese9989]

It literally is a mod.

[@user-gw5qi5zu8i]

You can waste a boomerang more freely in a sitation where you need to focus down something, you can easily stun opressor or several bugs/maktera moving on you cause you have 8 and they auto-aim. I think its the best panic button for scout cause it will save you (or teammate) from anything very fast and with minimal aim. not as effective for long-term control as other grenades nor kill potential, but wins at reaction speed, range and ammunition. also stunnining menaces for 10 seconds is good

[@RoosSkywalker]

*7 seconds. The stun lasts 7 seconds.

[@meekumanu]

I still think just due to ammo count that Stun Sweeper is the best grenade in the game for getting revive. Cryo and Pheromone are pretty good too but Stun Sweeper just gets so much value despite costing so little of your reserves. The downside of "it won't kill anything" is such a non-issue when Scout shouldn't be dealing with swarms anyway.

[@user-gw5qi5zu8i]

@@meekumanu man thats a comment to old section :D But, honestly, i think its not the strongest but indeed safest scout grenade due to count and also good auto aim. It also actually deals decent damage with buffs to electricity that were done after the comment, but i can't be for sure rn

[@YouTenaza]

Crio FTW. Fast, ammo efficient. It only sucks when playing with a flamethrower.

[@Have_some_plasma]

Nah, Annihilation type dmg is good so it only sucks when you are uncoordinated with your driller

[@augur8261]

@@Have_some_plasma Lmao, this leaf lover "coordinates" with his team. Real dwarves just shoot bug.

[@aarepelaa1142]

Not bad with a flamethrower if you've got the enemy fully on fire, otherwise if it's close to on fire it will just not get temp shock or even freeze.

[@TheNikotin33]

Until ya run out of nades after the 4th spawn

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

and then i resupply

[@verusAuxilium]

For engi, you can use sticky grenade + stun time + inferno on the grenade launcher

[@eurabe1]

GSG needs to make the stun sweeper recharge. One throw every 10 seconds (after it returns) might be a bit much but I feel that there is a nice balance that can be found by tweaking numbers. If they recharged like flares that might be a good starting point.

[@badasscrusader]

Or nerfed cryo

[@solaireofastora6173]

The bumerang could had a similar design and applications of the axe but instead is just a worse cryo grenade

[@wack6982]

Atleast you can cosplay as the boomerang monkey from the Bloons Tower Defense games

[@33482]

But with more ammo. 😃

[@GlyphidGuard]

That mode with scout actually using the scope of m1000 is cool! But I play on console

[@legacytwilight]

pheromones gaming lmao

[@TiinKy333]

Found the single enlightened dwarf in this whole comment section

[@jonathanhoward5284]

All the comments saying they wish they could ADS smh. This gun is so fun

[@dingding7289]

the fact i was about to comment why not use a cryo but waited instead, and would you look at that theres like a dozen dumbasses who didnt have the patience in the comments, but ya boomerang is 100% for either skill issue or legit diabled people who cannot aim for some or othr reason

[@AbelmcTrobel]

Boomerang is great for swarmers

[@CarbonKnight9]

@@AbelmcTrobel Cryo nades and phero nades would like to have a word with you

[@AbelmcTrobel]

@@CarbonKnight9 you only have 4 cryo

[@sircastic959]

@@AbelmcTrobel And one boomerang only kills 8 of those small targets. Are you telling me you can´t take out 8 swarmers? And the second you throw 2 one phero grenade, ESPECIALLY if paired with fire or cryo bolts will do the job better. If you are having issue with swarmers, use fire or cryo bolts and plant two or three in the ground around you move through that area and it will kill every single swarmer. If you had at least pointed to naedocite or rival shredders... (That last one I find actually viable. Not optimal but best for ease of use)

[@madrockon7357]

Why are people being toxic in the comments? People are clearly not paying attention.

[@niceshotd9130]

Hey what mod make your gun aim down sight like that?

[@petrmatousek7422]

you just hold the fire button for a second and release

[@Vortical_IV]

Focus-Shot Aim Down Sight For M1000 Thats the entire mod name Edit: Be warned, it does not align for some weapon framework such as Megacorp, Builder's Choice

[@antonioishere4201]

duck hunt simulator

[@rokasvaitkus7325]

Despawn-inator

[@nickmclean4004]

Dwarves don't use sights, smh

[@Whitewing89]

What are you a bloody green skin? Dwarven engineers didn't put those on there and figure out all the ballistic for you to loose every shot with all the precision and care of a tweaked out goblin. Now stop with the no true dwarf nonsense and zero your bloody sights.

[@reliantbelial2341]

@@Whitewing89 nuh huh

[@lucagimrom4787]

this sure is an example of how good it can be, but you were prepared, you knew where the mactera where spawning, and you had all the right conditionings to get a lot of value out of one cryo. In a real game this may not be always the case and they may be apart from each other that you dont get them all with a cryo, so sometimes the boomerang can be a comfortable choice for some *i cant aim grenades at tense situations *

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

yeah it's obviously not possible to accurately test it without doing a ton of mactera plague missions with each and recording everything but i think it's a fairly normal swarm representation, as for them being apart i think the mactera on the left at 0:47 shows the aoe is quite generous

[@griffin6539]

Ok but the alternative is toss a boomer-ange and shoot as many as you can... while there are no less than 3 acid spitters, 2 pretorians, a stabby grunt and 8 normal grunts all trying to rename you to "Carl". (and 1 Steve)

[@jakubcervinka9050]

also a great exaple of how good it can be is taht basically every driller uses cryo why? because it completely strips enemy armor for the duration they are frozen and for cryo grenades it is the same but compared to cryo gun grenades freeze instantly and because scouts single target dmg is great with the right build with one cryo grenade you could probably get about 3-4 praetorians or opressors and i think that shows just how usefull they are in normal situations as well

[@samuelmaurer6473]

space garand

[@KingOfMalevolence]

Sure, but this is a bit disingenuous. Even at H5 with mactera swarm you don't get swarms this big, 90% of the time you get groups of 3-5 mactera, and using 1 cryo grenade is a waste, whereas stun sweeper will still do a decent job for HALF the cost, and it will also stun some nearby bugs. I swear people just ignore the fact that you get 8 of these on purpose lol, it's such a good tool for killing small enemies like swarmers/shredders, stuning bugs for a revive, slowing detonators, etc. Obviously it doesn't perform that well into big hordes, but since when is it the Scout's job to take care of the grunts?

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

think it's pretty reasonable for a mactera plague swarm, as the title suggests, and using 2 boomerangs for a swarm that size uses the same amount of your nade supply as 1 cryo so 8 isn't a very good argument

[@wingedseal1051]

I just got like 80% of that amount in H4 a few days ago.

[@salemantoris4780]

@@gagooooooooooooooo its a good argument when u dont use m1000, throwing only one let you stun the whole mactera swarm and oneshot them with every other weapon even like Zhukovs

[@augur8261]

You have clearly never played Haz 5 lmao.

[@KingOfMalevolence]

@@augur8261 I actually play mostly haz 5, and always take boomerangs or IFG

[@kliveran]

Boomerang would work if where 8 instead of 6 like driller impact axes

[@annihilator_ron7691]

i will be sure to send this to anyone who tells me to use boomerangs instead of cryos

[@slyllamademon2652]

This is scout’s purpose.

[@net343]

Or just nuke it out of existence Or use the autocannon Or use the shard diffractor Or use the snowball oc Or use the lok-1 Or use the leadbuster Or use the c4 Or use the minigun Or use the flamer Or use the plasma cutter Or use the plasma burster (f fire) For best results try as many as you can

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

true... scout issue

[@user-yq7wg8le1p]

A boomerang is more suitable for controlling a crowd of bugs or a swarm of slicer drones, and a freezing grenade is more suitable for spot freezing or quickly killing bosses.

[@gaelracine5057]

Honestly, the boomerang nade is something you would like to go with over all else scout's grenades in only a few situations, and i can hardly think of 2 situations. The only mission type where i would prefer to bring boomerang over any other grenade, is sabotage, and it's only because of shredder swarms. For any other situation, any other scout's grenades is better at anything. Now, yeah it looks cool, but being limited to one boomerang at a time that can only hit 9 random targets does not make it a really good choice for highest difficulties. In haz 4/5 the mobs will always be too numerous for it to be really worth it. IFGs and cryo nades will 95% of the time be better at anything, even phero nades are better for crowd control. Actually Boomerang is kind of bad for swarms control, it's only good against small groups of enemies. They need some kind of rework to be as worth as any other scout grenade.

[@deamooz9810]

Yes, cryo is better against big groups of mactera. Boomerang is still a great grenade in multiplayer

[@Dj_531]

Personally I play scout as supportively as possible, and I think the long-term stun and extra ammo is better than the cyro's burst freeze for teamwork

[@deamooz9810]

@@Dj_531 exactly, I saved many teammates’ lives thanks to the range and speed of the boomerang, and having 8 of them is awesome

[@drucy.]

Pheromones are better in multi. Gives you and your team some breathing room (relocate some aggro) while the bugs damage each others. Also redirect the damage from the actually damaging enemies onto the swarm instead of you.

[@tonyelectionfraud669]

@@drucy. no shot

[@FungalFury]

I haven't played since season 2 and started again recently. Does the rang have any real advantage over cryo?

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

not really imo, there's the 8 carried argument but you're getting 8 weaker grenades with spotty targetting instead of 4/6 strong nades reliant on how you use them gk2 at base and m1000 with the mod are both able to stun as well which leaves drak, i've had the most use out of the stun there since you have a harder time dealing with long range menaces etc but the damage potential for cryo & ifg is still huge

[@notsotrvgic9104]

I like to use the boomerang and the secondary sub machine guns with the conductive bullets mod It does 33% more damage to electrified targets. Add the blowthrough rounds and quickfire ejector mods making it easy to clear a big cluster of grunts in seconds, it’s really good at area denial.

[@quintonlim4275]

@@notsotrvgic9104 But IFGs do the same thing and more effectively at that with the inherent 30% more damage debuff. Sure the boomerang can be useful but as of now they are an inferior option to Scouts other nades. Edit: Forgot to mention but IFGs also count as electrified with the slow but you can also stack another electrified status effect for even more damage not just with the dot but to proc conductive bullets as well.

[@AegisAuras]

You get double the instances of grenade use with the boomerangs. In actual practice it’s far more useful than one would expect from the hypothetical scenario of the video. Boomerang is also more effective against medium sized enemies that don’t get frozen by one grenade, like praetorians. Personally, I’ve transitioned over to rangs from cryo. I primarily play haz5 for reference. Of course, it’s best to simply try it for yourself and decide.

[@mamode242]

More ammo, easier to aim Applies shock instead of freeze works wonders with bullets of mercy imo

[@stevenfoss3015]

Works better against swarmed and shredders

[@gaelracine5057]

Shredders yes, it's the only real effective point of bringing boomerang instead of anything else. Swarmers? Bruh! Let them come close to you, and once they're pretty much packed, just throw a cryo nade and they're all instantly gone. Anyway you have many options to kill swarmers( or grunts) quick with scout: Fire/Ice OC for the boltshark( or electric bolts), cryo minelets for the zukhovs, shockwave upgrade for the boomstick, bouncy bullets for the drak( with aoe damage of course) and even pheromones: just apply pheroes on some medium/big enemies, and let swarmers go kamikaze on them. Also: pickaxe like a real dwarf! :D

[@SunnyJCR]

Just want to point out that you can kill 72 total swarmers with all 8 stun sweepers... And it takes a while to do it too. 1 Pheromone nade can comfortably kill >30 swarmers and stops all of them (and any other bugs) in your vicinity immediately. Killing shredder drones is the only non-negligible upside I can see for the boomerangs over scouts other grenades.

[@meekumanu]

@@gaelracine5057 Using a cryo grenade on swarmers has got to be one of the craziest takes I have ever read from a fellow dwarf...

[@gaelracine5057]

@@meekumanu Well, considering you only have 4 cryo nades at once, it sure is'nt the most economic option, but still ultra effective, way better than boomerang. Many better options have been suggested already, one of the most ammo efficient being the fire boltshark imo, way too easy to get rid of them quick while reviving a mate

[@theplumpert4852]

I prefer nukes but alright

[@reliantbelial2341]

c4 gaming

[@theplumpert4852]

No, engi grenade launcher overclock

[@reliantbelial2341]

@@theplumpert4852 ranged scout detonation is aceptable

[@copperheadchris2807]

A lot of people gibe the tang crap, but it is good for a safe pickup

[@quantumdisappointment5711]

On multiplayer difficulty there's way more than 8 enemies on someone's body, pheromones or cyro would guarantee a revive with 20+ bugs on someone's body. Even an ifg with blowthrough rounds on the m1000 would do better.

[@KeravnosPrime]

@@quantumdisappointment5711 Boomerang is faster though, you dont need to aim and travels faster i saved many teammates from getting mactera bombed with it and in general, another thing i like about voltaic stun sweeper is i can easily get a stunned steve and it stuns caretaker tentacles when im upclose unloading on its eye

[@enrico4818]

how do you have this kind of map test? plz i need it

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

Sandbox Utilities

[@Joseph-mw2rl]

How the hell are you aimming down sights

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

hacks (focus shot aim down sight mod) (its in the top comment) (insane) (gone incredible)

[@robertmartinez601]

What's the m1k build here?

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

23112 minimal clips

[@lyt664]

*_DRG players becoming some of the most toxic people to walk the planet progress: 62%_*

[@jgkvdf8811]

how do you make dead bug disappear or is it a mod? haz5 dead bug are way too much

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

a mod, drg.old.mod.io/no-ragdolls

[@tylerdinho14]

Don't mods like this kinda take the fun out of the game? Honestly just curious though I could see if your PC was a little slower.

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

@@tylerdinho14 it helps with game performance and the only alternative is an approved mod so you can't really join anyone

[@suhg4317]

@@tylerdinho14 how does it take the fun out of the game, i find it much more enjoyable to be able to see other bugs coming rather than have them be obscured by a pile of corpses

[@SirTriton]

Or use the second primary you unlock for the gunner (i forgot the name) I always think it looks a bit like a anti-air cannon but cariable

[@fizzlock]

Eh, the AutoCannon is kinda inaccurate. Hurricane is fun tho

[@jojomaster7675]

@@fizzlock Hurricane is fun, but lacks DPS compared to the other 2. I find that the minigun is better against single targets while the thunderheads rips through crowds, but both are pretty general purpose overall, especially when paired with the right secondary.

[@questionablelifechoices7501]

@@jojomaster7675 Also depending on the overclocks. Bullet hell on minigun is good crowd control, big Bertha on auto cannon sort of evens it out into really high direct damage but still decent crowd control.

[@fizzlock]

@@jojomaster7675 Fair, I just meant that it's far more accurate at Range or on Flyers. I don't generally have a problem with the DPS, but that's when playing duo with a Scout to light up the room range for me, so I can get rid of things long before they reach us. I don't think I've ever fully ran out of Ammo with the Ammo upgrade either. I need to do more solo Gunner, obviously, it's my least played class, but Hurricane just seems like a nice all-purpose primary. Even though I love the autocanon XD

[@JimJamTheAdmin]

​@@jojomaster7675 Hurricane does not lack dps in any sense. Don't use nano-missiles and go for fire rate if you really must, but Hurricane with frag missiles shreds any and all content. It does it without it too, but the gun is so good its best OC is the most minor buff that pushes it over the edge. Compare frag missiles aoe and damage to carpet bomber sometime.

[@sergeant6414]

too much time for counter...

[@funnydude69]

Boomerang is better than other grandes.... On difficulty below 3

[@badasscrusader]

Not even then cryo is op

[@funnydude69]

@@badasscrusader less enemies = boomerang more effective, cryo pheromones and slowdown less effective. Unless we are talking about macteras, still on haz 1-2 they are nowhere to be seen.

[@neocortexv15]

Now try using the cryo I'm a tunnel with macteras spread out around the place, the boomerang is better in actual normal gameplay

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

grouped up mactera in a tunnel just makes the cryo nade better so not sure what you mean

[@TheDorianTube]

@@gagooooooooooooooo If he's having macteras all over the place inside a tunnel, then it's a position issue on his part. Allowed them to go past him, leaving him in the middle of them lol

[@ienybu759]

Excuse me, what location is this? Some kind of training field? How to get this?

[@absolutelypeakshitters]

Sandbox Utilities Mod

[@PoshBeard]

Sandbox Utilities mod

[@user-kc3bi5ej8v]

Or just one cryo.

[@Long_Patrol]

Watch the full video.

[@user-kc3bi5ej8v]

I choose cryo still

[@daktotathecolossus7404]

@@user-kc3bi5ej8vthats.. what the video is saying.. media literacy challenge

[@user-ks1iz6br6o]

how to make such a room?

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

mod.io/g/drg/m/sandbox-utilities, in the mod hub menu you can make a sandbox room, spawn enemies, change loadouts

[@lukemorgan6166]

Here the cryo grenade is God tier but personally I never ever see clusters like this unless its an elite deeply dive O usually just use the boomerang for the stun , multi hit and throw and forget aspect of it

[@PoshBeard]

I'm gonna be honest, I'm not sure what you're trying to show off here. The cryo grenade worked *way* better.

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

you got the point being made

[@the_parasites]

almost as if that is the point of the godforsaken video

[@SofaKing401]

I don't get it, so zip around and shoot the enemy. That's just what the scout does for everything

[@ExceedProduction]

Tell me you didn't watch the entire video without telling me you didn't watch the entire video

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

you missed the funny

[@aarepelaa1142]

Probably one of the worst counters to mactera plaque when cryo grenades exist.

[@ricoarmstrong7440]

Bro 💀

[@aarepelaa1142]

💀 orB

[@cothrone3651]

did you watch the video

[@the_parasites]

negative attention span.

[@advtuto]

Wait, that zoom is it a mod?

[@Grahdens]

Yes

[@user-iy9gw2ec8k]

Bro just 1 freeze grenade they all dead

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

i wish i knew that

[@ricoarmstrong7440]

Bro 💀

[@rajatariq6498]

Fun fact: freezing a mactera will insta kill it so just use cryo grenades or run driller

[@agedgouda8809]

Fun fact: he does that in the video. So it’s not news to anyone.

[@PVMAS07]

stop yapping and watch the full video bro, it's not that hard

[@rajatariq6498]

@@PVMAS07 Ik he shows the cryo nade too but I’m trying to say that the video should’ve been centered around it to begin with

[@jacklewis1248]

@@rajatariq6498 brother of Jesus Christ, child of god, the video is already essentially centered around it.

[@the_parasites]

​@@rajatariq6498 the mere concept of an attention span is unknown to you

[@benjaminmanning2769]

ever heard of cryo nade

[@gagooooooooooooooo]

which class is that on?

[@gektor_flektor]

@@gagooooooooooooooo the speedy one I think. I need to check tho

[@Gutek524]

ever heard of watching till the end?

[@benjaminmanning2769]

yeah I watched to the end posted the comment 20 seconds in when he struggled to kill a wave with a boom and M1000 not sure why the video starts with that and the picture for the video is a boom

[@loup067]

@@benjaminmanning2769 so you basically didn't watch until the end to post your first comment.

[@FatSultan]

or 1 cryo grenade

[@Michal97.]

yes

[@Mike-os3pt]

MRW I don't finish watching the video