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Honestly a waste except for soldier, the worst is scout using it, that and dash for any class is a waste.

the rivals are my favorite robotic faction

Did I hear a rock and stone?

This damn thing is quite possibly the hardest goddamn boss/event in the game. Period. It can fuck you over even on a haz 1 while fully maxed out, mostly due to the KAMIKAZE DRONES (WHY)

I'm looking forward to the briefing about the caretaker, as these are really well made

Throwing shade at Blizzard, very nice lol

Siir the title makes me feel threatened

8:26 once I had a bet-c just run. The scout chased for a bit,then gave up. After a long while of the boss health bar on screen,one of the charge suckers just healed? The bar did go away eventually.

On Engi, Shard difractor is generally your best bet for dealing with most bots and especially sniper turrets, just use make sure to use the heat mod. Fatboy will usually be a waste of ammo on these enemies unless you’re using it to hit all 4 vents on the caretaker

They should elevate the psychological trauma by making the nemesis call for help and make it appear like your teammates are downed In another cave.

Anyone here cause of the new overclock?

my personal theory is that the rival corp is composed of gnomes. elves wouldnt be concerned with hoxxes rocks at all, and goblins wouldnt make tech nearly as refined as what we see in game. gnomes, on the other hand, would definitely want the resources of hoxxes, whether it be for materials or for morkite. additionally, gnomes are too physically frail to go down there and do the mining themselves, but they do have the tinkering ability and hint of insanity to just engineer a few warcrimes to do the mining for them.

Considering many of the robots have glowing runes on them I wouldn't be surprised if the running the rival corp were also dwarves

I am on my journey to promote all classes. So far ive promoteed scout and gunner. Im a level 20 engi

the gas from the poisonous fungi in fungus bogs is also flammable, be careful.

Granite smoothie

My personal opinion is that the Rivals are either Humans or Elves, elves for obvious reasons would be hilarious but I think humans fit better. Humans love information and we would gladly/ happily get more of it. The bots and their design is also very human like being one fully automated, two mimicking the wildlife of Hoxxas, and three just their general design of being very adaptable and built upon compromises between abilities seems like a very human engineering thing to do. That coupled with what they’re made out of and the design choices. It could also explain the word mimicry of the hunter k*ller, humans love to mimic things after all, why shouldn’t our robotic AI’s? Finally, creating an AI to hate seems like a very human thing to do.

Please update the Mission Control mod, I miss you

Huh. Got a weird sense of satisfaction when reaching the Electroplasma Loophole section and finding out that it's the *exact* main build I use for Scout. When it works, I guess!

Can't wait to hear you again on S5 of DRG, Siirvend! keep up the good work!

Pleased to announce that for the first time in a bit, i (with a Scout’s great help) have managed to successfully churn a Korlok into shards without spending 29 minutes taking out the healing pods. Unfortunately Hoxxes IV decided that we’d spend those 29 minutes on several other bulks that spawned on swarms instead.

I do wonder, did the rivals come to hoxes in advance of the rockpox. Since they arived we've had all sorts of shit fall out of orbit. If they've caused them trouble on other worlds they may be here to see and learn about the progress of the infection.

6:25 Another good way to deal with them, if you are a Scout, is using the shock boomerang. Insta-kills any that it hits and can hit a LOT.

Also, sticky grenades are great at dealing with a sudden threat of slashers. They have a weakness to explosive damage, and they can run away before they hit you. No more getting stunned!

Drilling under the heart clam as driller is viable because you can drill the clam while it is open and do MASSIVE DAMAGE!

I wish dwarves also said something like, "Oh shit, i'd better move quickly!" when stepping on hot rocks.

20:25 ecological deadzone flashbacks

ROCK AND STONE

Dang the segment for c4 fear and stun really opened up its use case for me. Never knew how much utility it really had until i played haz 4 from haz 3. It was the "heres my bigger sticky grenade from gunner" for the longest time as a greenbeard. But now... I see its both a sticky grenade, shield clutch (for fearing not on your teammates...), remote dreadnought, caretaker / dreanoughr phase skip, bunker, emergency dig, terraform or mining tool. The list goes on.. Thats a lot of uses for something a greenbeard like me looks on the surface level as "oh bigger sticky grenade, cool." Thank you for these vids, one of the most high quality content the drg community has to offer! Especially the lok1, betc and builds. So much variety and i love they're playable as mods for the game. Looking forward to your next videos!

I always thought the OMENS were rival tech. That would've been cooler honestly.

Fun fact on Shredders on Industrial Sabotage: If you're lucky enough, you might be able to see a package of them get sent along the cables to a group of players. Once the package reaches said location, it pops open and unleashes Shredders. It seems to target a specific Dwarf at random as I have seen a package fly by me once and stop later to drop of some Shredders elsewhere where a teammate was

You're awesome mayn >:D

I know that the elf theory is just a theory... A GAME THE- But it does make sense, if you look at DRG as a scifi interpretation of classic fantasy... Which it is... - "Rivals" of Dwarves - Technology is more sophisticated in looks and has more finesse, as opposed to dwarven practical, rough and sometimes duct-taped together - Isolationistic and refuse to communicate with others (Implied sense of superiority) - Do not get their hands dirty, prefering to send unmanned drones - The dichotomy between Send in manual laborers/Use remote drones is similar in philosophy to classic fantasy Dwarf physical/Elf magical - (Bonus about the technobabble) their "Specially constructed steel" could be a nod to Mythril or Elven steel They're very obviously elves, or at least "Precursors", a sci-fi archetype that is often based on elves

I appreciate having only the stock weapons shown in combat. A nice touch!

Google translated MC at the end is always funny

Thank you Siirvend. Back when my beard was green I'd use all the driller nades, willing to experiment and find the best situations for each. As time grew on, and hours went from tens to hundreds, I became disillusioned, adopting the motto of axe supremacy. I'd fall back on their ease of use and complementation to driller's kit at large, believing them to be the only worthwhile grenade no matter the build. While that may potentially still be true, you have inspired me to return to my roots and really try out the other options again. Don't get it mixed up though, I just want more ways to kill scout.

Damn am I the only person that calls it the loki?

the gas recycleing should give a 500% damage vs armor

lok-1's comments are hilarious, and I love them!

Remember when rippers had a 170% friendly fire damage multiplier on release and would down a teammate in 2 hits?

Stickies are a godsend when paired with a weakpoint DPS secondary. one sticky on a praetorian will usually force it to show its ass letting you magdump your BRT or bulldog. I've heard a lot of people complain about stickies being bad since they try to use it for swarm clear and the grunt they stick it to just runs away from the pack and dies alone, but the fear stat makes it one of Gunner's most powerful imo

The Drak-25 made playing Scout enjoyable again for me!

ROCK AND STONE

They are now affected by freeze. They take a lot more damage when "frozen"

Hey man is it okay I use your video for a TA walkthrough I'm writing? This is a pretty hard boss to take down.

it would be really cool if you made a mod where you added the bet-c voice from the wrangling bet-c to the in game bet-c

Oh my, your style of videos + my favourite game? Awesome!

What I like about the Weed is that if it’s in a closed off or some other convenient spot you can just leave it alone and come back later when you’re more prepared. You can do this especially if you already destroyed the healing pods or if it can’t heal any further anyway.

Haha Engineer go brrrrr

Came across a BET-C during a lava rock mission and scared the hell outta me, I had no idea what it was, and got lucky wrangling it for the first time and it was a beast!! Kinda wish we could take it back for extract as a reward or a bonus pose like they did with Dorreta if you take her back of finishing the mission