>abandons development of a top-100 most popular steam game for over a year to instead focus on making 2 different roguelikes
What do they know that we don't? Surely a decision like this can't just be made out of stupidity
>abandons development of a top-100 most popular steam game for over a year to instead focus on making 2 different roguelikes
>work on a game
>lose interest in working on that specific game
>work on different game
cmon anon its not that deep
If they stopped working on DRG as soon as it seemed like they were bored we never would've gotten the terrible shit that is seasons 2-4
Why did they have to shit on it before abandoning it though? Couldn't they have made a good last update, or rolled back to the last good update they made?
What was the game like before?
the same but without rockpox or a season pass
"season pass" is misleading. it's 100% free and everything on it gets folded over into the normal loot pool when it ends. it's really just more shit to grind for rather than all the baggage that comes with an actual season pass like mtx and fomo.
You already can roll back to the last good update.
>work on different game
you mean
>work on reselling same game with less features
They are only developing Rogue Core.
They've developed an audience with blind loyalty, they don't need to put the effort in any more.
I'm more interested in seeing how well that works out for them than the game itself.
Good. The seasons and new voice lines have all been shit.
They should make a toggle for the r*ddit wholesome chungus dialogue. It's not a serious, gritty game by any means but some cohesion would still be nice, drop pod banter when put with the cutesy shit is a tad too jarring for me.
WHEN IS THE ROCKPOX SHIT ENDING
just toggle it off 🙂
after reaching lv 100 in the battlepass 🙂
where nobody else turned it off 🙂
so you have zero available servers to pick from 🙂
you can still get servers with rockpox and meteors after you turn it off
they just won't appear in games you host
rockpox still appears even if you're host and turn it off.
the only thing that they removed is the mission modifier from your mission selection screen.
when i finish cleaning it all up
never
try 6 months
not even kidding
Damn that is sad.
>Living Roadmap
>Living
>"season" 4 lasting a full year
how long were the other seasons anyway?
6 months.
There is going to be 18 months straight of rockpox, and it'll be replaced immediately with something equally as AIDS and you won't be able to avoid it either.
~6 months each
Season 1 - November 4th, 2021
Season 2 - April 28th, 2022
Season 3 - November 3rd, 2022
Season 4 - June 15, 2023
Season 5 - June 2024(TBA)
Season 6 - 2025(TBA)
so season 3 is a year and a half long since season 4 didn't even add anything to the game
More like since April 28th, 2022, because Season 2 added new guns, and Season 3 only added a few OCs and 4 grenades.
Darktide won
Darktide is still less fun, as a base game, than Deep Rock by far. Darktide is also only a year old and DRG is over 5.
When the janjans get paid.
bro it's in the tittle of the game. DEEP ROCKᵖᵒˣ Galactic.
>Every game must have 200 hours of content bloat!
Didn't your mom tell you fairy tales? Sometimes it's better to say "stop cooking, little pot!"
If DRG suffers from "first indie game made by the company has shit code" that badly then they should just make a DRG 2 and have Rogue Core be one of the gameplay modes in it.
They did the same thing that Tears of the Kingdom did by coming up with an idea too ambitious to cram in as DLC for the original game.
considering that they decided to change from the normal update system to the utter dogshit that's seasons is more than enough to show that they are just that stupid
The overpraise did the damage. They kept hearing "omg drg soul it's great" and it got to their heads.
Considering how active they are in their reddit and discord circlejerks, I have to agree with this
muh spaghetti code
small danish indie studio please understand
>RDR2 winning "labor of love" instead of this shit
Really shows how bad they managed this game in the past few months, not even the biggest shills can't cope hard enough
Glad I'm not the only one who saw this lmao
nevermind, reddit always do it
Did you honestly think that RDR2 wasn't going to win, with how many people cum buckets over GTAV and RDR2?
most people are aware that rockstar dont give RDR2 half of the attention that GTA V (online) gets
How did Starfield win "Most Innovative Gameplay". Isn't it just Fallout 4 + space + loading screens?
50% load screens is innovative
It fricking wish it was fallout 4 plus space.
I didn't play it, I just assumed. F3 was Oblivion with guns. Skyrim was F3 but fantasy. F4 was Skyrim but guns.
is there any other loading screen simulator on the market?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/652980
>2017
If it was F4 in space it wouldn't get so mercilessly shat on, maybe somewhat shat on. F4 was better.
roguelikes? you dont know what youre talking about
Well the survivor one is a vampire survivor clone, the other one is such a roguelike it has Rogue in its name. So it's actually roguelike, singular, yeah.
>Devs release an Early Access game after 2 short years
>Keep supporting and releasing FREE, massive upgrades every other month for FOUR (4) years
>make a ONE (1) new game after 6 YEARS of developing one (1) game all this time
>Zoom zoom "games as service" toddlers lose their minds and start doom posting online
Seriously now, schizos?
Man, I am glad that I'm not a bratty 00's kid.
I wish I could teleport all of your kind back to the year 2000. You'd think that EVERY single online game got "abandoned" the day they got released, because there would be nothing extra added on top, ever. Just used-ran servers and mods.
>make a ONE (1) new game after 6 YEARS of developing one (1) game
Make that 8. The first playable alpha version was published in fall 2016. Public beta (pre-E.A.) was 2017.
crazy to see how the discord shills are still lurking around here, waiting for a DRG thread to crop up that they then try and immediately defend
Legendary post
you're fricking moronic
they dug this hole for themselves when they started releasing "seasons"
its only natural the audience would expect those to keep coming, it's literally their fault for presenting it as such and then not delivering
You ever search a television show looking for an episode, or maybe pirated a series? Did you notice how sometimes there'd be these weird letters and numbers in the name that look like this:
>S02E03
The first part (S02) relates to the season of the show, in this case meaning Season 2. These seasons, they're sometimes short (3 episodes), sometimes medium length (12 episodes), and sometimes really long (24+ episodes).
Sometimes these seasons come out regularly every year, but sometimes there are massive gaps between them. Sometimes the show just ends abruptly and you're left without any closure whatsoever. Sometimes there's just 1 season, and sometimes there are many seasons. But one thing is almost always for certain, the seasons do end.
Soap operas are the exception to this rule, they seemingly go on forever, rehashing the same old tropes for ever and ever. Sounds right up your alley.
games aren't television shows you fricking mong
committing to a seasonal format for a videogame is to commit to a schedule, rather than being at the whim of the TV ratings and the network trying to balance out timeslots
His complaint was about how GSG commit themselves to a schedule and then failed to deliver anything but half-assed content past the initial 2 seasons. They set up expectations and then shackled themselves to those expectations and are surprised that people expect things now.
>Keep supporting and releasing FREE, massive upgrades every other month for FOUR years
I fricking wish. Roughnecks and New Frontiers were the only proper "massive" and free updates and they both took four months a pop. Modest Expectations was decidely un-massive, even telling you so much in the fricking name, and then it took 7 months for us to get to Season 1. At which point, the updates start to get smaller than what they were before and decidedly more half-baked, but whoa hey they're still "free" but please please please buy the cosmetic DLC that these shitty half-baked and poorly implemented updates aren't just ads for. Not to mention it taking 4-5 months to get these updates, and in fact it's a bold fricking move to say 4 years when it's going to be a year total of pretty much nothing until "Season 5," even though the devs admitted they fricked up and the biggest update until then is the option to turn Season 4 off
>I wish I could teleport all your king back to the year 2000
Many of the games released back then feel decidedly more complete than Deep Rock Galactic did, and many of them did receive at least a year or so of updates or DLC that would blow DRG's 4 years of post-release content out of the water. You might say they're bigger studios, but then I'd just say things are equaled out by about 20 years of technological advancement and years and years of pointless fricking waffling on Ghost Ship Games' part
>many of them did receive at least a year or so of updates or DLC
>a year of DLC for newly released games
>in the year 2000
why are zoomers like this?
just accept that you don't know what you're talking about
it's far less embarrassing that posting complete clueless moronation like this
This homie never played no Unreal Tournaments in his sad, pathetic life
>one game did it so they must have all done it
you need to go back
You had to move goalposts and put words in someone's mouth to still be wrong. I know what kind of "man" you are and it's absolutely pathetic.
It's fine for them to move on, but they need to leave it in a good state.
The rockpox "season" was designed to be interesting for a season. Not for the entire rest of the lifespan of the game.
I fricking hate GAAS garbage and zoomers too
>lethal company releases
>everyone jumping on it
>they will all abandon it once its feature complete because it doesn't have a fricking battle pass or constant updates for their ADHD riddled minds
>they will abandon it once it's feature complete
God I wish Deep Rock Galactic was feature complete. We still can't even have proper modding because they've yet to fix errors and bandaids they had on their implementation from years ago.
>I wish I could teleport all of your kind back to the year 2000.
You absolute mongoloid braindead moron actually have no idea, right?
Man, I wish I could teleport you back to see how disappointing it was every time to see popular multiplayer game not getting any patches, and how much the success of Blizzard was because of their long time support for their games.
But the best example for shit-for-brains morons like you is Age of Empires 2, which was abandoned after 3 patches while still having a gigantic fanbase for its time. The fans tried to keep it alive with all their might, but the netcode was pure spaghetti code and in dire need of fixing. It took nearly 2 decades until microsoft realized how big they fricked up when the fan expansion hit the market with full impact. There was real money in supporting a fan favorite game even two decades later. And now? They patch this game again on a nearly monthly basis, and it's more alive than ever.
There is nothing more stupid, nothing more moronic, and nothing more self-sabotaging that dropping the support for popular game.
Have you pre-ordered the supporter pack for rogue core yet?
I dunno, getting like 4 years of free content updates for a game I bought for 20 bucks seems like pretty good value. If the new game looks nice i’ll buy that too.
Can we finally admit that DRG was never good?
It was good until the season bullshit
It's still the greatest co-op action game ever created,
and a prime example of how to avoid typical modern cancers.
>It's still the greatest co-op action game ever created
That's darktide/vermintide
ewwww
It was fun during my problem solving phase. But once I "solved" all the missions and optimized my approach it became really boring. The combat isn't good enough to keep me entertained.
seasons is what killed the game
perhaps not player-wise but soul-wise
seasons were good at first, each with new weapons/grenades etc
rockpox 2 adding virutally nothing and then admitting they're too moronic to make a new game and give us something for drg for over a year was wrong
sure the updates were fine outside the seasonal gimmicks
Nah, it was good. The disappointment comes from being able to see how they could relatively easily improve the game, but they instead went for adding a new annoyance each season and now have apparently given up.
Seasons killed it.
It's still not better than L4D2. That's the greatest coop action game.
It's good it's just not polished to modern standards and isn't very ambitious as far as gameplay goes. There's not a whole lot of tactics or strategy and deep dives never had a reason to exist it's just 3 normal missions stapled together. Hopefully they're being open about content and gameplay possibilities in the new game. They should really ditch the faux poly style and contract some fancy ass armors
>heavily marketed flavor of the month youtube clickbait garbage
It was shit from the beginning
it was and still is great
just moronic lazy 35-man dev team cant manage to do more than make half a dozen hats and beards every 12 months
they shouldve gone the Hearts of Iron 4 route and released constant new content, expansions and deepened modding support.
remember Hoi4 is almost the only game in history that has a higher player count 6+ years after release than it's initial release.
nearly every other game, including Deep Rock, bleeds players gradually until getting abandoned
>everyone hated rivals again for season 2
>rockpox is aids
>does rockpox again
>also you're stuck in rockpox for over a year
are they moronic or something
i didnt hate rivals at any point.
>homosexuals devs putting stupid light effects and post processing and shit that you can't disable on the console version to make sure the game will drop to 20 fps online
Stupid Black folk. Don't release your game on consoles if you don't care.
these creeps stole my idea for a DRG rougelike, that a posted on this frickin board a year ago, and you frickers shit on my idea.
Will the next update be good?
>next update
Frick
>next update
They've already told people it won't be worth the wait.
As long as they keep making overclock changes whatever they cough up will probably be better than the last seasonal update. The new double barrel makes my dick rock hard.
>YOU MUST WORK ON THE SAME GAME FOREVER
and I bet you morons complain about league and fortnite
>YOU WILL ABANDON PERFECTLY GOOD GAME FOR A SHITTY SPINOFF THAT COULD BE A MOBILE GAME AND WILL BE FUN FOR 20 HOURS TOP
NTA but the game hasn’t been abandoned, if it was it wouldn’t get any updates at all. The updates are just slower now that they working on other stuff. I fine with it because I legit got 500+ hours out of a $20 game. They more than deserved to cut back on updates and try to make other stuff.
might as well be abandoned at this point
1 year if fricking rockpox, let that sink in
Just take a break anon
I stopped playing months ago
Have you seen rogue core? It's literally the same game, only worse
have they showed gameplay
>Make enough money to retire
>Now make whatever you want
They simply achieved every game dev's dream, anon.
No need to be jealous
in one of the statements on steam the devs litterally said that there will be season 5 and a season after that (sry too lazy to find the source now). they will get back to drg, dont worry. for now they are simply putting all efforts to rogue core
They've already said to temper your expectations with season 5 and with how lazily designed the seasons have been I don't have hope for season 6. Probably super rockpox.
The whole reason they're making rogue core is that they don't want to put effort into the base game any more. DRG is going to continue to get seasons and updates, sure, but they're made it clear not to expect anything big ever again.
At best it's going to be more of the same level of quality as the last seasons.
See
Season 5's whole point is going to be marketing their new game
I don't mind them moving on given that this isn't GAAS shit. But I wish that they would have added another mission and biome before stopping, and not falling for the """""roguelike"""" meme as we already have too many of those.
>put loads of effort into a particular tone and worldbuilding
>shit all over it
reddit game
Do other countries have native language VO?
I'm just imagining the dwarves shouting "YAMERO!" when they fall.
It probably reached a point where it was no longer making sales despite the player base.
turns out being against MTX and DLC doesn't get you money
They're not against DLC, anon. There's 10 DLC and the soundtrack.
>What do they know that we don't?
that they can get even more money and they don't give a frick about you
More like Deep wiener Galactic haha
dude! watch your language my mom just saw this on my screen
I just want new weapons to play with. Jesus christ is it so hard?
Basically, ITT replies are the reason why I walked away from the game. I don't know who you are and I don't want to know but how sad it's to witness one of the best games of the last 20 years drifting away to pander to secondaries who believe that seasons and battlecancer are the only way to stay glued to the game
its all the fricking devs want to give us apparently, so we want at least those to be as good as possible
must not be a very good game if some 4chink threads were all it took for you to drift away
or what's actually happening is you were bored anyway and blame the community to cope
Black person I just wanted new guns
I didn't want MORE FRICKING ROCK POX
>game gets rockpozzed
>dies
deserved
I didn't even hate the first version of the infection. I liked that it was more work/maintenance stuff and I even enjoyed the rock cracking because I like having to build on the fly.
But frick am I sick of it. I want more mission types. Something more like on-site refinery.
>on-site refinery.
On-stie refinery is the single best game mode in Deep Rock and it isn't even close as it involves exploration, environment manipulation and fun movement mechanics. Most other objectives are "kill a thing" or "collectathon."
based. OSR is fun for every class. Drillers can make tunnels to let pipelines through, engineers can create platforms for pipes and use their turrets since you're mostly holding a stationary location, gunners have an open space around the refinery where they can shoot everything, and scouts can frick off and get nitra or whatever since the team isn't waiting for them.
All I want is more classes like it. More class with building and planning. Or just creating fricked up tony hawk loops.
I don't get why people hate OSR. There's such a good feeling when you lay down a perfect pipeline. Only thing I hate is the pipe breaking at pre determined times.
People hate onsite refinery? I'm a newbie but that's my favorite.
>I don't get why people hate OSR
i don't know anyone that hates on site refinery
at most people hate playing it in very complex maps without a driller
the maps people do hate are industrial sabotage, and to a smaller degree escort mission
except it's the opposite? the devs dug their own grave by adding seasons and battle cancer
I don't give a shit about battlepasses and seasons Black person.
I want more cool gamechanging overclocks instead of shit like +5% fart strength. I want more enemy types that matter at higher difficulties (stingtail was a big step in the right direction). I want a perk system that doesn't automatically disqualify like 80% of the perks. I want the random events to actually pop up every now and then instead of being overshadowed by rockpox all the time, it's been weeks since I've seen a prospector boss.
No one asked for seasons and battlepasses, moron, people want more GOOD content. Not rockpox, not something similar to rockpox. Missions, biomes, guns, enemies. People have wanted a perk rework for ages.
Yeah, rock aids and cosmetics aren't what people want. This game has so much that can be improved on and they've admitted they won't do any of it.
The perks are a great example of the games wasted potential, in all those seasons all those years not a single perk was a added to the game.
this
Jej
>141 available perk points left after unlocking all the perks
>still have more perk points to unlock
What's the fricking point? Beyond completing the Milestone section. They should have done something with them.
What is there to work on other than more biomes?
Not really many new objectives you can add, and they showed their hand with rock AIDS indicating that all of their ideas for new objectives are dogshit
>Play game
>Yo this is fun
>Continue playing game
>Devs add robot homosexualry
>This is slightly less fun but we ball
>Devs double down on robot homosexualry
>Fatigue starts setting in
>Devs announce new season, less focus on robotic shit, a new BIOLOGICAL enemy :O
>Alright sounds good
>Play it for like 5 hours
>It's horrible, worse than robot homosexualry
>Stop playing
>Devs announce new season
>Hope
>They're doubling down on the rockpox cancer
I only started playing the game recently. What robot homosexualry?
rival tech and sabotage, some people hate it
Hate rival tech with all my heart and to the monkey who gave bosses periods of invincibility so every major fight becomes shooting and running away till you win.
i mean if they didn't then they would have to either have damage reduction or let players erase a dreadnought in like 10 seconds
If players can create setups capable of erasing a dreadnought in 10 seconds they should be able to.
>or let players erase a dreadnought in like 10 seconds
That would be cool.
>or let players erase a dreadnought in like 10 seconds
That would be vastly preferable
>so every major fight becomes shooting and running away till you win.
That could describe the gameplay loop of literally the entire game, so why complain about it here specifically?
because it used to not be like that
>he doesnt platformmaxx above the caretaker with a fatboy and a full resup pod JUST for himself where nothing can hurt him
are you even trying to have fun
>engi makes a giant ring around the ceiling
>each dwarf splits into a corner and calls down a resup
>violence and explosions ensue
Sometimes sabotage can be kino.
The biggest complaint was the patrol bots, people though they were either too tanky or too fast, but then they did the worse option and nerfed both. Now it's just an annoyance. Did the same to the Stingtail, people complained it was either too armored or had too much health. So they nerfed both and now it's a mild annoyance, but they still haven't fixed it launching you into low-orbit to die to gravity.
Their game is an unworkable spaghetti code monster that makes adding content significantly harder than it should be, hence they're jumping ship and shitting out a roguelike spin off instead. Paradoxically I think rogue core will have less long replayability because of that, the build variety and progression is what gives DRG so much staying power and that simply won't be present in a rogue like.
literally every game in existence always has "spaghetti code". no matter what developer no matter what game genre it is a constant law of the universe that every codebase is spaghetti.
because that's what fricking programming is
Once you had seen all the different mission types you should have known how thin the game was. The progression system was just there to extend your playtime even more. Even then the unlockable stuff was only for for a few missions before you realized you were still just doing the same shit over and over again
For a game about dwarves and mining it had little depth. Either everyone on Ganker is just desperate to do things with others or you fell for marketers
Counterpoint: it's fun
Name games that people play for thousands of hours that aren't repetitive and don't have the same general gameplay at 1 hour as they do at 1,000 hours.
Is changing the colour of your loot name and adding a few more numbers and flavour text considered doing different shit over and over again? Or maybe adding new enemies like robots and rockpox would make things less repetitive? I'm sure the community would love if they did something like that.
You know games are meant to be fun, and not a fake mundane job that gives the illusion of progress whilst giving nothing in return.
Shooting bugs and exploring caves is fun for some people. Simple as.
bugs and exploring caves is fun for some people. Simple as.
Now imagine if you had more variety in doing those things.
Wouldn't it be cool if Sc**ts could spiderman swing around? If Drillers had different types of drills? If the foam pads could act as straight up jump boosts?
>what if you were playing a different game
this is a stupid argument.
>wanting new traversal tools = a different game
Damn man. You're moronic.
Streamlining means only ever having one option with no variation? Duly noted.
the streamlining is what makes it fun dude, we don't need endless new shit to trigger fomo dopamine
>fomo
Except it wouldn't be fomo, because we're not talking about seasonal rewards, but new unlocks.
>Wouldn't it be cool if Sc**ts could spiderman swing around?
It’d also be cool if standing on a ledge or a pinecone didn’t send you flying across the map but I don’t think that’d work well with the game’s shitty engine. Not to mention I can’t imagine how you’d implement it in a way that could make it compare to a hook shot that takes you directly where you need to be. They’re struggling with secondaries and especially the fricking grenades so I can’t imagine they’d be able to create alternative traversal tools that’d be:
>fun
>”balanced”
>maintaining what you’d expect from that class
Alternative options are cool but I don’t want shit for the sake of having shit, especially if I have to deal with that shit through other players. It’s bad enough when gunners bring their delay shield grenades or drillers their team kill grenades
The biggest problem is that the discordgays b***h and cry about game balance, which makes the devs nerf everything.
>Once you had seen all the different mission types you should have known how thin the game was.
this is what annoys me
like they have 35 fricking coders working 40+ hours a week
there's no excuse for them not to be adding 10 new enemies, 5 new biomes, 20 new mission types every month or two.
just classic case of lazy c**t devs make their lucky break and waste all their profits fricking dicking around instead of coding more cool shit.
The replayability comes from the randomized caves, events, biomes, mission modifiers, enemy types, objective locations etc. Games like L4D2 and ratclick have thriving playerbases with much less variety.
Does anyone still have screencaps of the abilities/upgrades/whatever in the new game? I remember seeing one of them was literally just 12+ long range damage, they didn't learn from overclocks at all and the game's gonna suffer with all the boring basic upgrade bloat.
I'm fricking sick of roguelikes. The only one I've liked in years is Dicey Dungeons. It's a fricking anemic genre.
Bro, the infinite replay value?
Infinite replay value is more or less equivalent to no replay value at all. Why replay when everything is randomized, pacing doesn't exist, and you're at the whims of the RNG? Example, I'd rather replay every one of the original four Shovel Knight games ten times than waste a single moment longer on roguelike crap like Shovel Knight Dig.
Good difficult game design = "Wow, after playing this game many times I am able to beat it without dying"
Bad difficult game design = "Wow, I got all of the "right" upgrades on this run so it's not unwinnable anymore"
I agree. I was just shitposting.
I'd argue that DRG already does the "roguewhatever" format just fine
You enter with nothing but your guns and each other, the layout is random, the population of enemies is random, and you don't keep nitra between stages (aside from deep dives). So at its core the game is asking you to think on your feet with your combat and mobility tools to work as a team.
Rogue Core is just stripping away your mobility tools and giving everyone the same gun, so you can experience a worse version of DRG where your transformative weapon mods are replaced with +5% crit damage on enemies to your left and other useless checkboxes that will have an optimized build order within a week.
And this is kind of the problem of many roguelikes...you're taking core gameplay and making it shittier to stretch out "replayability". Imagine if Nintendo decided to follow up Super Metroid with "Super Metroid but a roguelike! No guarantees you'll ever find the morph ball!"
I particularly like this in complex Aquarc missions, where as a team you map it out and build all kinds of new movement paths over the map with gunner rails and tunnels up and down and it gets lit up. Making it familiar as the mission goes on and it gets covered in dwarf crap. Really cool.
have you played dead cells
Does their new project even differentiate enough from DRG for people to bother? It comes across as so similar to me that I barely care. I don't really see any benefit to DRG in the rogue format either.
they haven't abandoned development, settle down.
>bunch of fricking newbies crying their game is slowing updates after 8 years
Did you gays never go through TF2 winding down? Thing's don't stick around forever.
>game comes out of early access
>goes on maintenance mode after five seasons
>game was developed for nearly a decade
>received a decade of support
wow I wonder why people feel ripped off with drg
>ripped off
get over yourself mate, drg is some of the best value on steam. I know its sad to think that one of the only good modern games will be winding down, but you have to remember its also not going anywhere.
The problem with both games is that the developers stopped at a worse state than before; TF2 with its matchmaking, and DRG with its seasons.
reminder
>no new missions
>no new weapons
>no new biomes
Man now I do feel ripped off. This game wasn't complete.
guys the game was finished 4 years ago, people started and finished high school in that time. you must learn that people move on
The game "released" 4 years ago, but it wasn't finished. If you wanted to say 1.0 was all that should be judged then DRG be frickin' stinky then lol
The game was complete before season 1 even started
>the days of DRG getting HUGE content dumps regularly are done
My man's typing like it's still 2020
Anyone treating the past 4 seasons as "huge" needs to get a reality check
>gamers are so seasonpass cucked they are now claiming that DRG is "incomplete"
stupid fricking consoomers
The game is lacking serious weapon variety. And no, overclocks are not a good substitute when most of them don't greatly alter the way a weapon fires.
Frick, the last round of main weapons were almost all shit and nobody really uses them.
More weapon variety would start to dilute class identity
They do use the new grenades though
Digga slander. We're just moronic, not the autistic type of degenerate(Engie or Scout) that would to try to frick a Breather.
>the engie turret in the back
lel
homie that's Molly
Frick overcharges, what a bullshit mechanic. You can only get matrix cores from weekly core hunts and deep dives, so if you play for 50 hours one week you still only progress the same amount as if you had played for 5. Core infuser events should give you a free core for beating it, so everyone gets rewarded or something like that.
Games 20 years ago
>yeah here's 500 maps, shitton of weapons, like 30 different modes, modding SDK, all available on release
>oh you've been playing for about a year?
>that's cool, here's some more free map packs and an engine update to 64-bit so you can do even more shit
Games now
>uhhh here's a couple of new map and mission types
>maybe a couple of enemies, I dunno
>it's free but make sure you buy the DLC themed after the update
>that goes doubly so for the $15 supporter pack, which is for us not DRG by the way
>shit it's been 4 years and I fricked up my programming, frick it I'm turning this new update into a standalone game, pay me $79.99USD
Shills:
>uhhhhhhhh how can you say they haven't done enough for the game????
>you kids these days don't know how good you have it
I'm telling you sincerely, DRG is the top of the entire industry for support. It sucks that games are all dogshit now a days but you can't be such a pissy baby at the company thats done more than any other in todays world.
Nah, you just don't play that many games if you think that 1-2 updates a year with such small amounts of content in order to sell associated cosmetic micro-DLC is somehow an impossible feat of passion and altruism for the industry at large these days. The only commendation DRG or Ghost Ship Games deserves is the singular employee named Jonas that provided help with the More Players mod. Everything else in terms of long term support has been the bare minimum for the amount of content that DRG had launched with and they should be commended absolutely fricking nothing for it. The fact that they are now abandoning it in the sorry state it is means they deserve every complaint coming their way.
If they want more credit for providing support, then 1.0 should've been more complete and Season 1-4 shouldn't have been lazy hackjobs done to sell cosmetic outfits.
please let me know other games that aren't just endless season pass grind fests or gearscore slop, genuinely want to play them.
of course, it also has to be multiplayer without required DLCs.
>that aren't just endless season pass grind fests
But anon!
That would disqualify Deep Rock Galactic as well!
the DRG season pass may as well not exist compared to how other games do it, even ignoring that its free.
Oh now that's just bullshit, anon. Deep Rock Galactic has a very typical season pass nowadays, as more and more games have shifted towards having passes be revisited or having the free track be distributed into the game after the season to be gained through other methods. I'd actually go as far as to say it's worse than some other games that are actually more about season pass grind, as compared to something like Sea of Thieves, the way that the free items are redistributed back into the game after the seasonal period ends is way way WAY less of a grindfest than DRG, which is hilarious because that game is basically 100% grind
okay I'm sorry. I don't play a lot of modern games because I can't stomach carrot on a stick treadmill stuff. I just like doing missions.
I haven't played since season 2
What have I missed? Both good AND bad, if you will.
Game's good but not great. As usual, yuros make a promising game at first and then slowly frick it up over the course of numerous updates.
Red Dead didn't deserve the award, but let's be real, neither did Deep Rock for this year. And it will be another 6 months without any new stuff with already Season 5 confirmed to not add much at all. Sad but the Hypetrain is gone.
>all these posts saying how bad DRG is
I really don't get it. Yeah it has flaws. I think we've been bored of the fricking stoneherpes for a year now. We're bummed they're now diverting resources to some bullshit cash grab. But DRG is still one of the best games ever made and if you disagree you are a jaded piece of shit. We've got so much free shit from these people and the game has so much fricking soul and you people are STILL shitting all over them. Every season has been free and every piece of seasonal loot gets thrown into the loot table so you're never FOMO'd. They even allow you to hack cosmetics into your saves and don't give a shit so you can easily get the holiday cosmetics as well.
People just got bored anon. That's all. A game can have a very good baseline but if it professes itself as an ongoing game that gets new content, then it's disappointing if all that new content is underwhelming and does very little to improve upon the base game. DRG would probably have a stronger reputation at this point if the developers just released it out of the beta and said "we're done with the game, it's finished have fun", but people feel like they've been strung along with unsatisfying drip feed content due to all the robot/rockpox stuff being less satisfying than the game's normal stuff and most of the "seasons" adding stuff nobody cares about. Why would I care about new bad colors for a secondary pistol when I want better perks?
I think you've got the best answer, is that peoples *expectation* was for some kind of much more regular and larger update cycle, like Apex legends or something, that the dev team cannot support. I can still play left 4 dead 2 with no progression systems at all but thats not how games are made anymore and not what people expect from them.
>Why would I care about new bad colors for a secondary pistol
All of the unlock colors are so bad too.
It's good, certainly not "one of the best ever made".
All the things you listed that the devs did, like no FOMO and access to loot and cosmetics(eventually) is what any decent dev should do already.
They still fricked up balance numerous times and introduced tedium into the game over the course of the last two years.
if it's anything like another game company i know some people in, they probably think
>"well we made 1 very popular game, we'll just make a couple of new ones and reap more millions ezpz"
completely oblivious to the fact that hitting it this big is some lightning in a bottle shit that is very hard to replicate, no matter how good (you think) you are at making games as a team
>No water biome
Theses devs are fricking hacks that just got lucky, i hope their new game flops and their laptop gets stolen
It's a shame how they killed this game with season bullshit.
Doesn't this game have a bunch of DLC? I thought they promised they weren't doing that?
No, just "supporter" packs and cosmetic packs which people shilled a lot even here becaus muh heckin wholesome indie devs need support
lmao and look where all that money went now
enjoy your board game paypiggies
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>lmao and look where all that money went now
Supporter Pack 2 is still the scummiest thing fricking imagineable, because they released it around the same time they announced they were publishing all these other games, so everyone was lead to believe that DRG was still going to be their main focus and that's what you were support. Nope, you were just supporting the development of Rogue Core which they suspiciously decided to withhold the announcement for until after a good amount of people would've paid for it.
>No
>Actually Yes.
DLC is DLC anon, I don't care what they cope and claim it is otherwise, it's DLC.
The DLC is just some sidegrade cosmetics that don't even look good. They're what you buy if you really want to support the developers but there's no gameplay or good customization hidden in them, it's just symbolic.
>I wonder why this game gets shilled so much.
because of russians?
>DEEP ROCK GALACTIC: ROGUE CORE is a spinoff of Deep Rock Galactic with a roguelite twist. The roguelite twist means you start from basics in each mission and cooperatively build up powers and abilities for the team, sometimes leading to insanely overpowered builds and other times to spectacular flops.
>purposefully design game so it is only fun 25% of the time
this trend is so fricking gay it's unbelievable
It's even worse, Rogue Core is a purely movement-based roguelite, meaning all attacks and skills are used automatically and you can only walk around. it's designed to be played on mobile.
That's DRG Survivor, the OTHER spinoff they're working on while the main game languishes in rockpox hell.
survivor is another developer, gsg is just publishing
that... doesn't change the fact that the other homosexual is wrong about rogue core lol
what in the name of frick is going on, sounds like they made too much money with DRG
It's bizarre, all the spinoffs would make you think they're trying to turn Deep Rock Galactic into a big franchise and yet they're abandoning the flagship game.
They want more money and the redditors buying the cosmetics to "support the devs" have dried up. They should have scrapped that idea and just made paid expansion packs instead.
The game is still going to make more money, now they dont have to invest more resources in trying to make new content
The game is complete
I'm glad they lost the steam award category they were in
the fact that fricking RDR2 won is even more hilarious
lootbug popped
lootbug plapped
Early Access is a terrible system. It incentivizes this shit.
The game was finished though. They're stopping large updates like 5 years after the release.
>GOD! I just hate how every multiplayer game these days is live service bullshit! Remember good old days when developers were releasing finished products?
>DRG devs finish the game and move on to other projects
>Noooo! You can't do that I need my endless fix. Please come back!
I think your characterization is correct.
but what is your image conveying.
>but what is your image conveying
You're too pure for this hellsite. Leave while you can
ohhhh he's even got the wedding ring, how lovely.
>"seasons"
I haven't played modern multiplayer games in a long time
I can't see myself playing multiplayer games that do that
But that probably is every new multiplayer game?
The problem with "seasons" in MP games is that a battlepass or season format usually means you'll be locked out of seasonal content and rewards if you miss that season, or in some cases if you don't pay during it. DRG doesn't have that problem since all the seasonal content is later integrated into normal gameplay and all the rewards are just sent into the normal reward pool, and there's no payment involved.
>Perks are still untouched after 5 years
>everyone's sitting on fricking 100s of perk points that they cant spend
drg is fine and the updates didn't change the formula. i don't care about cosmetics.
Just bought this on PC. Is the new update really that bad? I might just refund it. I had it on console during the initial Rockpox season and played it a lot but stopped right as the new Rockpox season dropped. I was lukewarm on Rockpox content. Thought it might be good on PC with better framerate/graphics and it wasn't that expensive.
No, the game is really fun if you just got it, go nuts. If it clicks for you, you have a couple hundred hours of good times ahead of you. Playing with randoms is encouraged, everyone is cool and very friendly.
Like many other people who are upset with the direction the game is heading, I have 300+ hours in it and just can't stand it anymore. The fact that they outright said "dont expect anything new, we're working on some dogshit instead" got a lot of people even more riled up, but I just outright stopped playing. Maybe i'll come back next year, but I have more than my share of missions under my belt as is
only people with 1000+ hours think its even slightly bad, and only because they endlessly grinded lithophage only missions.
You know how sometimes, your mission gets interrupted by a meteor or two? Season 4 introduces a miniboss that may randomly appear where a meteor would be, and it's the single most tedious enemy to kill in the entire game.
Sounds awful. I didn't mind the meteors but lithophage outbreaks became very tedious and I ended up just avoiding them whenever possible. I don't know why they doubled down on this shit. Do you at least have an option to fight the miniboss when it shows up?
You're not required to kill the boss, but it covers the floor with rockpox spikes as it moves around, so killing it makes the rest of the mission more convenient