HOW TO SOLO: ORIENTATION AND BASICS | DEEP ROCK GALACTIC
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One reason I love Deep Rock is because the solo gameplay is so solid. It was a great feeling pushing up through the difficulties and soloing my first elite deep dive. Playing solo gave me a lot of insight into build crafting and what the strengths and weaknesses of each class was.
Respect + a solo elite dive is quite the feat to pull off
A solo EDD is a phenomenal feat, congratulations
I do solo much heavier than I do multplayer. I love the ability to either speedrun or take your time depending on the level. Oh yeah, and I miss Bosco in multi-player haha
Missing out on Bosco is the one thing about solo I do actually miss on co-op, the number of times I've started a mission solo on friends only, and had a friend drop in part way through the mission, but still spent the next 5 minutes trying to order Bosco around despite him no longer existing.......
If it helps you, there is a lod that let's you have Bosco in multiplayer.
However, it is an aprovecho mod. And one of those mods in which the whole team needs to have in order to work, so you might want to gather some friends.
I hear you man! Bosco is a freaking legend! 😂
Very excited to have these resources as a newer solo player. Thank you.
The point about solo players improving faster rings very true to me. As someone who isn’t very social, I spent my first 100+ hours playing exclusively solo, and the experience of being confronted by the difficulty spike between haz 3 and 4 (and later 5), and having to figure how to overcome it without any help really improved my understanding of each class and how to make builds for them. The difference in difficulty between doing a point extraction as scout vs gunner, or dying in tunnel and thinking “driller could’ve handled this”, making builds that are flexible; capable of both swarm clearing and single target, knowing the intricacies of every mission type...etc. By the time I started playing with other people I didn’t really have any issues keeping up with better/more experienced players, and I could survive when things got hectic.
...didn’t have a good sense of ammo conservation though.
That part about conservation is real. Haha. That's one of the main skills I learned being exclusively multiplayer. It's gonna be weird in my solo runs to know I can just spam resupplies even just for the health.
I can't wait to play solo now and really improve!
@@neuro3423 Playing mainly co-op myself, whenever I end up playing solo I rarely end up using more than two nodes from a given supply drop and always end up with Nitra leftover, I'm just too used to conserving ammo for other players that it's habit at this point, so it always ends up feeling like there's way too much left over in solo
The thing about solo that I hated the most is how dark it is. Playing solo I was always spamming flares and having to wait for them to recharge was annoying. That and trying to find the way back to the droppod at the end was annoying. So many times as gunner I was just lost and nearly missed the timer.
My favorite thing about playing solo is not having to deal with other people. Playing with a team is usually a lot faster & more enjoyable than playing by yourself, only when your team is actually competent. Things like dreadnoughts/tyrants can take forever when playing with people who don't really know how to play the game (or if your team synergy is really bad).
I always liked playing solo, not just because i dont have friends, but i can just speedrun without anyone having any problem with it
I kind of enjoy when ppl get mad over a playstyle tbh xD
You sure this is the only reason? I'm kidding..... or am I?
My advice: make bosco do all the work while you scout out the cave or actively look for threats
The Ammo economy bit really gets me. I play a lot solo and when I start lobbies (I'm trying to do multiplayer more) I tend to run out of ammo faster than others. I'm used to shooting everything on my own and I forget to let my team cover some stuff lol.
100% agree with this entire video. Well said, with the beautiful background gameplay of Cryo driller combat and multitasking through it all. Looking forward to the next ones!
i started playing solo only for about 50 missions and almost only gunner. you learn a lot!!! gunner solo refinery in a vertical level omfg u got learn to pickaxe ur way up to the pumpjack crawling at the wall. and now i see its super usefull for wallcrwaling up to minerals when scouts isnt there or drilling up with the driller.
Well, now you've really convinced me to do my 100 solo. I'm near level 500 but have only done 1 solo mission.
I know my place as any class well and am a good player. I have 19 years of FPS experience to build off of.
That said, I absolutely see what you mean about being good at solo making you better as a player. I'm gonna grind that shit out and be even stronger! I was hosting an OSR the other day and did most of it solo. I've watched quite a few of your solo videos so I've picked up on some of your practices so I felt like I multitasked well.
I think I see what you mean about it being satisfying though. It felt great controlling most of the mission.
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Wow, you’re like my polar opposite. By the time I dipped my toe into multiplayer I had already promoted every class multiple times and mastered haz 4. I was so anxious about messing up in front of other people, that I refused to play multiplayer until I felt I was good enough, only to find out that teammates mess up ALL THE TIME, and that I was comfortably able to keep up with everyone.
@@chene-aurelgaudreau1072 I just thought the game was best played in a 4 player group. In fact when hosting I tend to wait just a bit for everyone to get in lobbyb before start. It made sense to me. I wanted to experience the full squad experience.
As far as being nervous about being bad, well, from 18-19 years of FPS experience you tend to build a massive ego from stomping fools. Lol.
I was hesitant to try DD and EDD though. I even did the classic post on reddit asking how difficult they were. So yeah, when you have the experience I do you tend to pick up games real quick but now I need to get into solo to master the game. That's when I'll truly unlock my potential in this game.
When I first started out all I did was solo missions. But then I started doing the online co-op and I couldn't stop playing it that way for the longest time. This video has encouraged me to go back and do solos again, and I must admit it brings a thrill like no other. Thank you Kronos. :)
That's a great point about learning the little tricks of the game and good habits from playing solo
Absolutely agree. I´ve started playing DRG yesterday and was carried by some nice high level peeps (the community seems to be really beginner friendly and helpful). But I didn´t understand the mechanics and my only contribution basically was trying to stay alive, mine whatever I can and kill some enemies here and there. Today I did each and every mission solo and experienced everything you explained. It´s a necessary experience that makes me feel safer and more valuable for my team in the future. Great video - much appreciated, mate!
Great video as always, I'd love to watch a series of your personal favorite builds for each classes, you have done something similiar with "what 2000 missions looks like" series.
Nice vid. I started deep rock as i was convinced by friends, so started playing with a group of promotion 3 players... and i felt lost. I didnt know where things were, how to find and move towards objectives because they were always done before i got there. Then i did a bunch of solo, and things made sense, i am slower in solo but i could learn what things are. With a promoted driller and almost a promoted engineer, now i am learning how to solve the same problem but with different kits (fossil on high ceiling for example'
I agree that most should solo their first few mission types solo, just like I did in sea of thieves i would sail solo so I got used to using the ship alone and not depend on teammates to pay attention
I actually started playing deep rock last week, my friends convinced me to buy and play with them , The truth is that I really liked the game, and when I started my friends helped me a little at the beginning with some information and how to do certain missions, currently I'm playing more solo I'm already used to Hazard 3 and even thinking about going to Hazard 4 , Anyway, thanks for the guide, and it's always good to have an active community to give ideas and help me as a beginner put together good builds to play solo
I just picked up deep rock and i know exactly where you are coming from with the solo vs coop player i started coop and had no idea what was going on so i played some solo to figure out the missions and such, sense no one could carry me i would learn or die trying ROCK AND STONE BROTHER
I’m pretty new to the game and your guides and gameplay definitely have helped me understand the game. Would you ever consider making walkthrough from level 1?
Gonna be honest. Only recently got into this game, like a few days ago. Absolutely in love with it. My Internet at home sucks and this is one of the only games that allow me to play with people online without murdering the enjoyment by rubber banding. I was also worried that it wasn't going to be good solo, i missed Bosco a lot. I love tagging some resources and mining my own at the same time. So I'm glad solo play isn't made fun of.
I agree, some classes in certain missions solo is incredibly hard. Tbh I don't mind doing a solo escort as a scout. I can manage it.
Things like black box/being forced to stay in a bubble as a solo scout, that's incredibly hard.
I remember failing a hazard 4 salvage mission with scout. I want to see someone do hazard 5 with scout on that mission because truly I cannot comprehend being able to do it.
great video. Funny thing is that I completed my 914th mission today and it was the very first to ever count as solo according to the game lol. I have played solo maybe 20 times before but that was all just in private multiplayer sessions where I didn't have any friends with me because I thought it'd be amusing to get every achievement in the game (except the 2 for solo missions) without having a single solo mission on record, which I managed around #880 or so.
Played most of my DRG game in solo as a gunner main. The movement I've learned is insane to the point I can move faster them all but the scout in just about any public game I play. Also I refuse to do the refinery mission as a solo gunner. No amount of skill and nitra is going to help you when a morkit pipe is 100 meters above the refinary itself and the only why to get the is with a pick axe.
Im in no way an veteran player but when i started with drg i mainly played solo and it made me way more independent than i wouldve in multiplayer, especially for scout allowing me to gain resources without engie help.
I'm an old school Doomer, so playing solo came naturally to me. And the commenters here are absolutely right: this game absolutely ROCKS in solo mode. Not only is it more challenging, not only do you learn so much more, but in solo mode you really get the chance to take in the sights, the beautiful levels, the wonderful soundtrack. I usually rock a weak doobie first, then get fully immersed in all of it. And let me tell you, it's just freaking magical. I love this game. (The only bummer is, I wish Bosco could get in the escape pod with you 😂 I feel bad knowing its entirely possible the little dude might always get left behind. Sentimental, I know, but I love living the experience, and Bosco is such a dude!)
One solo tip I love: you can pause the game :D For a fresh out-of-the-box dad it was awesome, I could check why my kiddo is crying, help him and get back to the mission ;)
Great video, I just got this game and started playing solo. After the intro mission I switched over to the scout and I really like that character because of the grappling hook, I just finished the first Plague Fall mission and I didn't have any problem with any mission type. I decided to try the other character's Eng/Gun and I find that while they do much more damage than the scout, without the grappling hook I failed to extract on two simple mining expeditions. So I'm thinking that maybe the scout is best for that type of mission.
driller is also a good pick for mobility because you just make your own tunnels wherever you want to go. It's actually insanely flexible.
Playing with friends I admit I miss just being able to look up and ping resources on the ceiling and forget about them. Bosco is a G.
I was actually stuck without internet for a month, and was just starting the game.
I honestly believe every player should learn how to solo the game at least through hazard 3, maybe hazard 4. It gives you so much knowledge so when you do hop into multiplayer, you're ready for things such as Bet-Cs, Industrial Sabotage, Korlok-Tyrants, and other random events that might show up, as well as holding your own when one, two, even all three team members go down.
Granted, I'm not the best at solo, as I only ever tried Haz 4, not going any higher because I get overwhelmed or get tired of kiting the bugs, but that doesn't mean I can't kite. I've even helped rescue the rest of a team a couple times, and even solo'd a Haz 4 3-player Dreadnought because the two Greenbeards had died, by kiting, and bunnyhopping my Lead Storm around the bastard.
Watched this while playing solo, I concur.
10:54 damn, that was some smooth movement
I remember when I decided to solo my first deep dive. I succeeded, but it was terrifying
Bosco sure makes many mission types way easier!
Liquid Morkite extraction is easier, because he can solo build the pipes once laid...
Fetching Eggs and Aquarqs with Bosco is easy
He is great for low oxygen because he can do the time-consuming mining and fetch things back to me in the oxygen zone...
Having a flying drone instead of a scout is mostly better, but he can't fetch secondary objectives from high walls...
For me, I've started soloing missions in order to get the achievement. Then it went down to "unlocking higher threat levels", as I was the last man standing in HAZ 5 opening task (to be done on HAZ 4) and failing to kill Dreadnought with my friends or with "randoms".
I've watched some Axis' vireos, made a decent build for a Gunner (thought about good weapon damage and shield to cover me) soloed that one after almost an hour of jumping around and thought "OK, let's carry on".
I've made a trophy with no supply while still doing that intro missions set - nice! HAZ 4 achievements done as a streak of one day.
Then it went down to completing HAZ 5 missions' achievements - my co-op ppl were not up to the task - they wanted a chill gameplay rather than new difficulty levels (never unlocked HAZ 5 even), so I had to solo those - and eventually I did. (Note - playing some other shooter with more focus on tactics in the meantime greatly improved my skill in solo DRG). I've done a Platinum trophy on PS4 and a surprise - PS5 version carried my DRG-side cloud profile, but all trophies were reset. On the other hand I just had to "taste" most of achievements in order to get them, like 1 more solo mission instead of 100, one new promotion for each Dwarf etc. Second Platinum could be done in less than a week, I would have to force my friends to do Silicate harvester killing trophy, and they have stopped playing DRG sadly. On the other hand, I have found a new crew, and I am teaching them how to play DRG, so I think I will get that trophy eventually - no rush really. DRG stays on my console no matter what :)
I play alot of solo because my potato of a laptop tries its best to imitate a nuclear power plant meltdown most of the time
I have about 350 hrs in and probably 200 of them are solo. When I end up playing with a group I am definitely much more independent and still fill my role. When you only play in a group you can easily get into the "only do my job/role" and depend too much on teammates
I always solo deep dives as it drastically saves time and nitra spent
Most of the missions I completed were cooperative with random people or 1 or 2 friends. I choose solo only when I see that the mission is really difficult and I just don’t want to waste my time and the time of random people in which I’m not 110% sure, for some reason newcomers have a great desire to enter 5 hazard, die and exit. But it's really nice to play co-op with people who know that any class in the game is capable of almost everything, so for beginners, solo mode is extremely necessary to understand the capabilities of their character (and some drillers didn't ask the engineer for a platform to get gold a meter above them XD)
i mostly play solo since i dont have many friends, i use mostly scout for its single target dps, and engie for multitasking and engie can be a very good class on solo just because his sentries are good area denials
on top of good area denials, engie has a good loadout relating to destroying swarms of bugs
although the time to finish the mision is longer, its actually more fun playing alone than it is playing co op
you can now feel the game rather you get carried by your team
Solo missions is a grossly understated aspect of the game.
Personally I was apprehensive a to spend $30 on a game I figured you could only really enjoy with a group of friends I'd need to herd around different time zones and work schedules. But the game affords so much self-reliance that 1) you don't need an internet connection to get your money's worth and 2) the playing with randoms is far less frustrating than it could have been.
So many team-based games pigeonhole you into a highly-competitive mindset requiring a level of teamwork that is simply unrealistic from 5 strangers with a chatbox and an ambiguous ping system and then everyone is surprised when players that feel like they completely helpless when stacked in suboptimally skilled team resort to extreme toxicity. Aside from blatant griefing, even on higher difficulty a mission fail never feels like something I didn't have any authority in and instead of blaming a team I am only inclined to see how I can improve myself.
Твои гайды имба, продолжай в том же духе!
I can imagine someone going into co-op after only playing solo: "What do you mean I cannot use the same ammo resupply 3 times?"
I started yesterday haha.. played solo but my son wanted to join so we do duos now is so much fun😂
honestly, i only do edd in solo, partly because im afraid of screwing up and messing up for others but also because i play extremely safe and somewhat slow
The only reason i love solo is because my shit internet connection wont bother me there
Looking forward to this. I'm new and have been playing exclusively solo in order to work all four classes up to my first promotion. Highest difficulty I've gone so far is Haz3. Worst habit I need to break is my tendency to want to stand my ground instead of constantly kiting enemies so I can whittle down the little guys while keeping distance from the big bugs.
What platform do you play on?
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I can attest to this. I played solo only for my first promotions and I hopped in and did some funny carrying.
would you recommend playing solo without bosco to decrease the leniency with how many times you can die?
Been playing through the game solo, just got to the last part of the first assignment where you have to kill 2 dreadnoughts, and i got kind of close to killing one, but I was almost completely out of ammo by the time i died, if anyone has tips pls lmk lol.
No scout for light in Sandblasted Corridors. Basically asking for it.
idk but when i play scout, i doing all, find nitra, of course some goodies, making secondary objective ofc, and for example acwarks, and so on, it depends on player itself(mostly dump even play 100hrs on scout), i found out that people 500+ playing scout, and only, and only, AND ONLY dig nitra, that's. and not shoot at bugs, and collect resupply. If dude is fkn dump, he hr just gonna dump, i always run out of ammo, since i like shooting and eliminate bugs, on dreds scout can easily make tons of damage
Me who solo from the start with hazard 3 and 4 and im surprise how far bosco can do for you even if you do no shooting run and yeah alot of mission type bosco cant solo for you tho very interesting
bosco is such a gud boy
Another big draw solo has over multiplayer is you can PAUZE THE GAME! When you go into the main menu, which you can do at any time, the game gets PAUZED completely. This is great for when I wanna play some, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to complete the mission before I get called away.
I would be one of the aforementioned people who "find solo boring", but it's not so much finding the game mode boring so much as, I find myself trying to be too thorough and can end up feeling I'm taking WAY too long getting anything done.. I like to think I'm decently proficient playing solo, I complete missions at the same hazard as when I play co-op with friends without really failing missions any more frequently, but you really feel the loss of the planning/strategising element of it when you play solo.. the number of times I've played engineer alongside scout or vice versa, and the engineer can just look for resources and drop platforms next to them while the scout lights up the room and ziplines to the platforms to mine them, and other class combos, is something you can't get in solo
1:01 Where is the "'Solo mission flow" video btw? Because I can't find it anywhere on your channel neither by name or the thumbnail
Me who played 1 solo mission with Bosco as engineer... you have 1,436 solo missions
whats the build in the video???
I have seen so many videos from you, that i almost cant find more. Could you recommend me some other youtubers, that make kinda the same content as you (speedplay ect.).
10:50-11:05 smoothest driller on Hoxxes
video good
now played a 100+ solo missons i can say that YOU WILL IMPORVE ON SOLO
I mainly do duo for fun as the game is really fun but i have especially more fun playing with at least 1 friend
I played nothing but solo loved it Played around 1500 hrs as solo, then around a week ago I tried Multiplayer, it was great at first, met some great players, then that ended rather quickly, I started getting new players Leved 1 - 5 ish you know fresh starters, then the Team Killing ( using C4, ressing, then C4 again ) then once you helped another group as say driller you get kicked for no reason other than helping them out, so now I am back to Solo play and do not miss the Multiplayer at all. Love DRG but the Multiplayer is not worth it for me anyway.
As someone who played 130-ish hours of solo before glancing at multiplayer, I felt vastly over-prepared. The decision making is up to the team in stead, making the burden much lighter.
Play majority of the time solo. Duo is the best though for challenge and being efficient.
I lost 3 solo missions so far. 2 of which I gigantic exploding bug trapped me and killed me a few times.
Yesterday I got achievement for 4 gold promoted, but still no achievement for 100 solo missions. I kinda dont like playing DRG solo. I even forced myself to do 10 missions
I attempted my first solo deep dive the other day and of course I chose elite because im fookin stupid but i managed to reach the third stage before failing the run.
That's great regardless! Mainly because you got the blank and the OC, which is what really matters. But stage 3 EDD is the hardest numerical difficulty in the game, so if anything is understandable to fail, its that haha
@@AxisKronos yeah I'm glad they make the cores that matter in the earlier stages. And I guess I didn't bring a boss hunter build when two of the stages had dread hunts.
I’ve had 0 interest in solo play and only a single solo mission besides the tutorial on my 400 level account. Till today at least, i consider myself a very competent player. (Most kill least downs most of the time regardless of class) and I still don’t think it’ll be more fun than playing with friends and even carrying randoms BUT I am interested in being a better player. Your logic is sound if someone can do it all by self themselves, efficiently, then it should be a cake walk when they have help.
best part of solo is you can't ping gold chunk
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while some builds become stupidly op some also become stupidly weak.. always keep solo in consideration if you are building for that and the fact that you do need both a aoe and a single target weapon
10:12 dammmmmmm
Oh boy time to play Solo Scout Haz5 Elite Enemies Drilldozer to improve my skills
ive done my 100 solo missions, and can confidently say that mission failiures in multiplayer tend to not be my fault anymore.
I play solo a lot because my friends don’t really care for Deep Rock, and the last time I played in a public lobby I got kicked because some chick playing scout didn’t like my engineer platforms
I can attest to solo players learning the game better than team players. I only play by myself or with my friends. One of my friends will play with randoms but never solo, and the other will only play with us. The former can reliaby pick me up if I go down, the latter cannot. Conversely, when they both go down (often at the same time from the same attack because the latter friend is hugging the former) I can reliably finish the mission by myself if I have to. Probably also helps that I solo on 3 or 4 and we play on 2. xD
i’ve put 110 hours on drg over the last year or so and about 75% of that is solo. i find it a lot easier lol
I almost only play solo 😥
I played for all of season 2 solo, until I finally decided to get Xbox gold and socialize lol.
You should change the video's name to: "WHY to solo"
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Kinda sucks that those who don't have ps plus are forced to solo
Bosco is consistent, pubs are a crap shoot.
Great video but don't need it, already know my orientation is BI
Saying a game isn't "designed" for singleplayer is one thing, it's something that's debatable in a game that was made for co-op like this, but for someone to say it isn't "meant" for singleplayer is ludicrous, and I'm surprised to hear you say people have that opinion.
The only game that I can think of that isn't "meant" for singleplayer (barring PVP games) is Don't Starve Together, which is ironic because it's based on a game that wasn't "meant" to have multiplayer, before being all but abandoned in favor of the multiplayer version, where they try to force you to play in multiplayer so you can beat the raid bosses that literally require exploits to be able to beat solo.
solo is more fun because the game is too easy in coop. Also you can hear the music better when there's less player shouting
gsg really should implement a "death" system for haz 5 similar to vermintide 2. Then there would be an incentive to play thoughtfully. Otherwise you can just throw yourself at stuff and finish missions just fine.
Basically how that would work is that if you get downed 2 times in a row without healing your dwarf dies, then a minute or so later his clone is dropped down in a pod further on in the cave that a teammate has to interact with in order to bring you back to the game
It seems like haz 5 basics went up in flames. Truly sad imo
P.S. I get that this will also apply to coop, but still focus is a bit shifted
My ratio of solo to multiplayer missions is probably actually reversed in comparison to yours. I do not like relying on randoms to help me win and I do not have many friends who play this game.
There is no question HOW to solo in DRG.
There is question WHY to solo in DRG?
600hrs with random dwarves - still love this game )
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I dislike solo just cuz i get lonely lol
nice try, but i wont play co op, i have crippling anxiety of co op and not doing the job PERFECTLY
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(Please get back to me on this, I want to resolve this)
well that was a waste of my life. You talked about basically nothing for 90% of the video lol