DRG Tips By DarkBlueX (DarkAoRaidenX)

Mission Overview

The primary objective is to collect a certain number of

Alien Eggs .
As of right now there is 4, 6, & 8 Egg Hunts.

In Deep Dives there can be 4/6 as primary and 2 for secondary.

Mission Tips

There is a number of big swarms for an Egg mined.
4 Eggs - 1 of the 4 Eggs causes a big swarm.
6 Eggs - 2 of the 6 Eggs causes a big swarm.
8 Eggs - 3 of the 8 Eggs causes a big swarm.

On Hazard 5 there is the 2 minutes per egg rule.

because of how Egg Hunt missions spawn Nitra,
As Egg hunt has slightly less nitra spawns than the rest of the mission types.

So Sticking to 2 minutes per egg
(i.e. pulling an egg every two minutes).
This allows you to deal with the previous spawns, before getting more.
A good team can do 1 minute per egg.

Elimination (Dreadnoughts)

Mission Overview

In these missions have to locate and destroy multiple big boss bugs called Dreadnoughts .

The OG Dreadnaught, the Hiveguard, and the Twins.

Mission Tips

	The OG Dread Is the most straight forward to deal with. It has Armor that you must break before doing damage. Once the armor is broken the Backside of the Dread will open up.
	The Hiveguard Before being able to damage the Hiveguard, It spawns mobs called Sentinels which need to be killed. Then you must get rid of Weak Points on the Hiveguard. After that it's backside will open up. Sometimes the game can bug out and take a while to spawn the Sentinels or not at all
	The Twins As the name suggests it is 2 Dreads. Their color's are kind of hard to tell apart. I use a mod to change the colors of the Arbalest to blue. Better Contrasting Twins / Recolored Arbalest Arbalest (Yellowish) - Stays out of range like Climbs Ceilings. Lacerator (Orangeish) - Stays basically on the ground They have no Armor, however The heal each other.
When a Dreadnoughts spawns big swarms shouldn't spawn. But smaller waves will occasionally spawn. The Swarmer Modifier will keep spawning the little bastards.
Usually Spawn/Starting area is a good area to fight.
You can't have the same Dreadnought(s) spawn from the eggs back to back. But you can have 2 of the same spawn on a 3 count. So on a 3 Egg mission, You can have OG Dread, Twins, OG Dread but cannot be OG Dread, OG Dread, Twins.
Start freezing the Dreadnoughts like quarter or less of their shield is down, not at full. Also want to freeze it when the shield is broken and back is open.


Not even a tip but I had a Mandela Effect of the names I thought it was Dreadnaughts not Dreadnoughts.

Escort Duty

Mission Overview

There is big drilling machine called Drilldozer, Dozer, Doretta or Dotty.
While it drills toward the Ommoran Heartstone, You will have to protect it from
the enemies, repair it, and refuel it when it stops.

Mission Tips

The amount of times the Drilldozer will need to be refueled
depends on the mission length.

Length	Complexity	Refueling Stops	Cave Rooms
		1	5 - Start Room - First resource room - Refuel Room - Second resource room - Ommoran Room
		1	5
		2	7 - Start Room - First resource room - First Refuel Room - Second resource room - Second Refuel Room - Third resource room - Ommoran Room
		2	7

The Drilldozer track is South West (225) on the compass. So you can Pre Drill if you want.
Pre Drilling is having the Driller, drill into the next section of the caves.

Drilldozer

- It goes faster when more dwarves on it

- Repairing with multiple people doesn't go faster.

- Fully repairing (When the health indicator shows white, not red),
Doretta briefly becomes invulnerable to all damage (~2 seconds)

At the second stage of the Ommoran Heartstone the Engineer can make
a Platform Bridge over the Drilldozer to protect from the slamming rocks.

You can start it early but don't go over too much or
it will be destroyed at the end of the stage

I classify this as an Exploit
and not Strategy like a Roof.

When the laser beam pillars spawn the Engineer
can bury Doretta's head in platforms
This prevents the laser beam pillars from spawning again.

When the laser beam pillars spawn,

The Scout can Zipline and pickaxe the tips
and the Engineer can help with platforms.

The Driller can use his drills to break them down.

The Gunner can use his weapons to gun them down,
like Autocannon, Mini Gun, or Rockets.

At the end of Escort Duty missions, you can try to go back to the start
to hopefully bring the Drop Pod closer to the others.
Usually send the Scout since he should be the fastest.

For some reason this works like all the time when I do it
but people say they do this and it ends up by them and I seen it happen.

Heavy Extraction

Mission Overview

Mission Tips

Industrial Sabotage

Mission Overview

Basically have to destroy this boss robot called the Caretaker .
Before you do it's protected by a force field and you must first
find two power stations, call down Hacking Pods and defend them.

Mission Tips

Be prepared for bots, and Fire works the best against them.

The Driller can dig above the Caretaker to throw C4 ontop of the Caretaker.

If you take 2,3, or 4 C4 you will basically
use all of them each Shieled (Yellow Health Bar) stage.
So The Driller will need a resupply for himself.

The Driller can make tunnels/bunkers to help hide in and move around.

The Engineer can make Platform Towers to help hide behind.

Mining Expedition (Morkite)

Mission Overview

Basically have to mine minerals called Morkite.

Mission Tips

The Drop Pod always drops in the North East direction.

Fun fact: the opposite of North East is South West.

On-site Refining (Liquid Morkite)

Mission Overview

Like Point Extraction, there is a central platform and no M.U.L.E.
You must find 3 Pump Jacks and call them down for oil drilling
and then go the platform and build pipelines to them.

Mission Tips

Driller & Engineer are great here.

If you made a mistake building the Pipelines before building,

you can either
use the Pickaxe [Right Mouse Button] to deconstruct.
or damage the pipelines to undo it.
If you already built them you cannot undo them.

If there's an Event or something you want to grab do not fix the pipe lines
and let the bugs be busy with the broken pipelines.

When riding the Pipelines Hold [E] on a Pipeline

as it will slow down & stops at breakdown.

When riding the Pipelines Hold [Shift] on a Pipeline
to affix your screen to that direction.

Point Extraction

Mission Overview

Point Extraction mission is to collect glowing blue gems
embedded in the wall called an

Aquarq .
They have small, blue crystal specks around the location.

Mission Tips

The mule isn't present on this mission.

Swarms become never ending,
so want to try to spend less than 15 minutes in the mission.

On Hazard 5, the infinite scaling kicks in at 12 minutes,
it becomes constant at 15, and unplayable at 20.

As bugs can attack through the metal mesh of the Mine Head,
it's not recommended to fight on it.

But you can try and fight around it because as it has Turrets
but the turrets have limited ammo.

Dwarves are instantly downed by the Mine Head if it lands on top of them,
like the Resupply Pods .

Salvage Operation

Mission Overview

You have to find a number of mini M.U.L.Es, and repair them with legs.

You then have to recall them back to the Drop Pod.

You then will have to fix an uplink box,

which once activated must stay in designated area until it finishes and then

Mission Control will spawn an Fuel Line Pod, which you must connect to the Drop Pod,
and again which once activated must stay in designated area until it finishes.
Then Drop Pod will open in about a minute and 30 seconds.

Mission Tips

Broken Resupply Pods can be found.
Which can be repaired After repairing them,
they have a chance to give 0 to 2 resupply racks
and up to 2 can be generated per mission

They appear almost completely buried in the ground,
with only a small portion sticking out.
Directly above them is a tunnel created by the resupply originally dropping in,
making those Resupply Pods highly noticeable thanks to the Terrain Scanner.

Repairing a Mini M.U.L.E. will reward the team with between
40-60 Nitra and 40-60 Gold.

Coming within 2 meters of a Mini M.U.L.E. for the first time
will trigger a large wave of enemies after 12 to 30 seconds.
Another, smaller wave of enemies will spawn
when one of the legs that are found near each
Mini M.U.L.E. is dug out. This leg is picked randomly.

When defending the Black Box or Fuel Lines
the Driller can drill out the walls
in like a crescent shape so the barrier fits
and so you can move around much better

Also the Engineer can use their Platforms to platform above the defending area
with the Repellant Additive modification, to help funnel bugs.

When defending the Black Box or Fuel Lines
and you call a Resupply Pod,
you can dig it down to stay out of your way.

Deep Dives

Mission Overview

You do 3 missions back to back. It changes every week.
If you are in the Official DRG Discord
The Channel Deep Dive Discussion
has a pin what the missions are.

Mission Tips

Deep Dives Hazard difficulty are
Deep Dive - 3, 3.5, 3.5
Elite Deep Dive - 4.5, 5, 5.5

Active Perks will reset between missions/stages, such as Field Medic or Iron Will .
You will be able to use the active abilities multiple times during the dive.

When playing solo, Bosco's revive charges will be reset between missions.

Machine Events

Info
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Ebonite Mutation
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Kursite Infection
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Omen Modular Exterminator
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Tritilyte Crystal

Omen Modular Exterminator

Mission Overview

This is the hardest machine event so far.
It will open a Tower which needs to be destroyed by exposing and shooting its green-colored weak spots.

To expose these weak spots, players will be required to stand on top of three different maintenance platforms around the tower for a certain amount of time.

Each platform will expose a different module's weak spot, which will be indicated in a pop-up display.

Each module contains multiple cooling tanks that each share an equal portion of it's health.

Mission Tips

Here is some tricks to make it easier.

The platform opposite of the Ignition Key Block is always the bottom of the Tower.
For the Radial Pulse-Gun

You can put a Resupply Pod
on the platform(s)
and stand on top of the them.

You can put Engineer's Platforms
over the platforms.
Basically the height of Molly is a correct height to build a bridge over them.

Speaking of Molly, she can actually sit on the platforms as well.

The Driller can dig trenches,
giving cover to the team.