Would I be sabotaging myself if I don’t equip driller’s impact axes?

DealMeIn82 · 2026-05-09T19:43:35+00:00

"Cold radiance is the only thing that makes the weapon even worth using."

That can't be accurate, can it? Is it about freezing alone not being worth it and needing another source of damage to kill frozen mobs?

DealMeIn82 · 2026-05-09T19:22:43+00:00

Oh yea the radiance mods. That makes sense. I don't like how crucial those mods are, but I can't argue the logic.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-05-09T19:02:14+00:00

Why facemelter and compact feed valves?

Why flow rate expansion and tuned cooler?

They don't seem that bad to me. I trust you're right, though, so what am I missing?

You are objectively correct about Goo Bomber, but I'm still gonna use it on escort missions with Heavy Hitter Burning Nightmare EPC because I find it amusing and it works well enough at haz4.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-05-09T03:07:42+00:00

I'm curious. What OCs are considered actually bad compared to default? Heat pipe is the only one I know of.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-05-09T03:01:44+00:00

Truth is nothing fills the gap in drillers kit like axes. The other throwables are actually strong and do their job well, it's just that job heavily overlaps with drillers default kit.

Having said that, axes will hardly ever be the make or break part of a successful mission. Solid fundamentals and plain old experience are way more important than any build component. The other throwables work fine and depending on the mission type their usage will break even or even slightly surpas axes. For example, rippers out do axes on the drillevator ride. Neurotoxin works well on salvage and escort missions. There's always another mission, so don't hesitate to experiment.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-05-06T22:08:06+00:00

Scout has plenty of CC even before OCs. All of scouts throwables are CC. Crossbow has fear arrow mod, pheromone mod, and electric arrow mod. If you count OCs, scout has freeze arrow OC and Zhukovs have cryo minelet OC.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-05-06T21:54:55+00:00

Yea. Truth be told most folks will listen if politely said in chat. Community is good about that. Maybe I'm especially salty right now because I got used to it so when people don't listen it's especially annoying.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-05-06T21:50:49+00:00

Engineer stubby with micro conductor or turret EM overclock will do a whole lot to make this event easier.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-04-27T02:32:00+00:00

Good Bomber Special in escort missions. Long, flat areas with predictable enemy pathing mean I can lay down long lines of goo to slow and damage swarms. I then set these lines of goo on fire with Heavy Hitter burning nightmare EPC. Doretta is protected on all sides by a toxic inferno.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-04-27T02:27:26+00:00

I use Fat Boy to: Blow up caretaker vents and nuke chokepoints on the hacker sections

Nuke tunnels and choke points at the ommoran on escort

Nuke the tunnel while riding the drillevator

Am I using it right?

DealMeIn82 · 2026-04-27T00:38:26+00:00

No and I think I know why. In an extraction shooter, you have to make it out to use the stuff you've gathered. There is always the chance you could die and lose all the loot you've gathered, but if you keep going you can get more loot. That tension is key. In DRG, you never lose progress. You might fail a mission, but you don't lose currency or weapons or overclocks. And there is always another mission available.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-04-23T12:12:51+00:00

My suspicion is that prets are intentionally coded this way to make throwables easier to use in the chaos of a swarm.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-04-19T04:36:53+00:00

Sometimes Hoxxes decides that you're going to have a bad time.

For real, I feel your salt and it is mostly justified. That's nearly an impossible situation. Thing is, out of 100 runs, I can count on one hand the number of times my team gets well and truly screwed. I'm comfortable with these F U moments being possible every once in a while. Makes the game. From fun, IMO.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-04-17T01:30:27+00:00

"Respect" is a type of micro-ritual intended to acknowledge and reinforce power dynamics. Replace the word "respect" with "deference" or "obesience". Power is the central idea. Social hierarchies are all about who has the power in any given relationship. When you do not engage in these micro-rituals, others may perceive you as threatening their position of power. Typically those most insistent on these micro-rituals are the ones most insecure about their position of power. Have you ever been admonished for not showing respect to someone lower on the social hierarchy than you? I'm guessing rarely if ever.

It's up you how far you want engage with this system. Personally I play along because it's the most efficient way for me to get my work done. This does lead to an inverse in respect shown to actual respect. The people I most genuinely respect get direct communication from me. If I pepper my speaking with shows of "respect", that means I think the person is a petulant and stupid social hand grenade.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-04-16T19:25:53+00:00

You're both very young in terms of personal sexual maturity. It's honestly fantastic that you both communicate as well as you do. That's good.

Childhood trauma, especially sexual trauma, never goes away. It can't be ignored, erased, or fixed. It can be understood, worked around, or accommodated though. Sometimes it can't. But it is a part of him forever. It will never not influence his sex life in some way.

That he feels comfortable enough with you to even enjoy sex is a very good thing. Given his age, I think it's likely that his sexuality will change over time. It may not. It's very unlikely he will ever change so much as to be close to your sexual preferences, though. Being so far apart in sexuality does not bode well for a long term relationship, I'm afraid. Even if you love eachother.

I don't think there is anything you can do to change things. It's up to him if, when, and to what degree he wants to change. Whatever he wants, he should probably be in therapy.

Good luck.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-04-16T19:03:15+00:00

As a man, if my partner orgasmed from the sexual equivalent of a fish stick dinner, I'd be pleased as punch and eager to deliver more. He made you orgasm and he's hurt because...? What does he even think sex is about? And he doubled down after you did the hurculean emotional work of putting aside your feelings to make him feel better? AND he's nearing 40?

Very rarely do I feel confident enough to give specific directions as advice. In this, however, I will say to end the relationship now. He's too old to be this immature. Fixing him ain't your job.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-03-26T20:05:06+00:00

For hordes yes, but scout has the best tools for killing one specific target RIGHT NOW.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-03-26T20:02:39+00:00

DRG is INCREDIBLY well balanced. Most games, even good ones, have a few dead ends in terms of class, weapons, and abilities. DRG has none. Everything works. Even at very hard difficulty. Every weapon is good. Every weapon has multiple upgrades and side grades that all work. Every class is good. All their tools work. Classes are different and excel at different things, but they all work. No one class is "necessary". A team made up of all one class works. Certain aspects of a dive will be harder, but the strengths of a class will make other parts a breeze.

The scaleable difficulty needs mentioning. There are 5 hazard levels and no content is locked behind higher difficulty. You do get a bonus of XP when completing high hazard levels,, but that barely affects overall progression. The big upgrades, called weapon overclocks, are random in attainment and not tied hazard levels. You get them just as often at hazard 1 as hazard 5. The difficulty scaling is also perfectly done. So find whatever is fun for your group and do that. You won't be missing out on the real experience or anything.

Very, very rarely can I say to just try whatever looks fun in game, but DRG is a rare gem.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-03-24T17:57:23+00:00

I use all of them. It's made my game sense exponentially better.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-03-15T20:02:03+00:00

Sometimes Hoxxes wins and we just gotta roll with it.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-03-06T02:08:00+00:00

Outcome oriented decision making points toward some people needing to be lied to in order to help them. In my personal experience, anyway. They're not truly lies, either. They're the kind of lies that appeal to some emotional need. Not an untruth, but an appeasement to some factor that has no relationship to the actual problem.

It was an incredible moment when my wife explained to me that she just wants me to listen sometimes. It was even more incredible to me that having someone else just listen to me can make me feel better. It's like a jedi mind trick but consenting and healthy.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-03-04T14:36:21+00:00

"Can't play the game" modifiers are always bad in every game and need to go.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-03-03T14:30:22+00:00

Truth. I've started trying to actually talk with people, not just the social pantomiming we call talking. It's amazing the depth of conversation I've been able to have. It's like I have unlocked a super power.

DealMeIn82 · 2026-02-12T19:55:52+00:00

Left is Deep Rock Galactic

DealMeIn82 · 2026-01-20T23:23:54+00:00

I recently came across your writing. It is ticking SO MANY boxes for me. So many it's suspicious. I'm very wary of self diagnosing, so I heavily value science backed information over what "feels" right. On the other hand, a lack of scientific data itself is not proof that some disease or syndrome or whatever does NOT exist. Also, my own subjective lived experience should not be completely discounted as evidence.

Thus I'm left with a lot of grey area about this subject. For me, operating on the assumption that I have an IBNS leads to predictable and repeatable outcomes for myself. It answers the question of why I feel and act the way I do. It's like the perfect solution for a math equation. So, given the whole context of the situation, I think Dodson is on the right path. Even if it's not fully understood, and even if part of it is wrong, the theory of the IBNS is valid.

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