HOW TO SOLO: ORIENTATION AND BASICS | DEEP ROCK GALACTIC

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.

now played a 100+ solo missons i can say that YOU WILL IMPORVE ON SOLO

I played for all of season 2 solo, until I finally decided to get Xbox gold and socialize lol.

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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!

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.

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.

Kinda sucks that those who don't have ps plus are forced to solo

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

I dislike solo just cuz i get lonely lol

I lost 3 solo missions so far. 2 of which I gigantic exploding bug trapped me and killed me a few times.

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.

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...

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

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.

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'

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.

bosco is such a gud boy

Me who played 1 solo mission with Bosco as engineer... you have 1,436 solo missions

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

Твои гайды имба, продолжай в том же духе!

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

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?"

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.

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. :)

would you recommend playing solo without bosco to decrease the leniency with how many times you can die?

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 ;)

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 :)

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

My advice: make bosco do all the work while you scout out the cave or actively look for threats

You should change the video's name to: "WHY to solo"

I can attest to this. I played solo only for my first promotions and I hopped in and did some funny carrying.

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 always solo deep dives as it drastically saves time and nitra spent

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?

Bosco is consistent, pubs are a crap shoot.

Oh boy time to play Solo Scout Haz5 Elite Enemies Drilldozer to improve my skills

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 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

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.

I remember when I decided to solo my first deep dive. I succeeded, but it was terrifying

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.

I almost only play solo 😥

video good

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.

best part of solo is you can't ping gold chunk