Hey Sniss.. I’m the animator on Deep Rock (and a royal subsriber to your channel). Thanks for making this video. It really warms my heart to listen to all your kind words ❤️ I have now shared this video with the whole Ghost Ship Team 🙂 Rock and Stone Brother 🤜🤛
As monetization systems go, I think BPs are pretty good when done right. They usually repay whatever premium currency they cost to buy, you know exactly what you're getting and how to earn it, and you can complete them with a reasonable amount of effort. Compare that to, say, lootboxes or gacha systems.
@@madzoroark5396 tbf, Sea of Thieves’ is pretty good, too. The whole pass is free, with the paid version giving you nothing more than early access to a set that is inevitably coming to the in game store anyway. You aren’t really missing out on anything if you do not buy the paid pass, and most of the cosmetics in the paid tracks aren’t usually that great anyway
Ghost ship have played the “game” so clever, its no surprise they’re successful. Their business model both welcomes new players without hampering them or fencing them off from content, while also giving the opportunity for dishing out dough for some special side stuff. The game literally broke records when the season dropped. Every other AAA with paid passes cannot claim that.
Doing things that make new players feel welcomed actually bolsters sales. It's having both a lot of profit and maintaining moral integrity while also delivering an amazing product. GSG has their cake and is eating it too, and as someone who loves DRG, I also get some cake of my own. DRG is a masterclass in how bigger-budget online games *should* be made
I don't see this talked about a lot, but the best part of season 1 is the sheer amount of momentum this brings. I bought the game last year and was pretty happy with it but thought that the content was all there already, which was great of course, but it makes you think about the game as done and over with, now seeing this as season 1 with the performance pass, new mission, some lore starting to take more form, the new weapons, it all just breathes life into it, there are things to strive for now that are not just keychains being jangled in front of us, and there are things to look forward to in the future that are not just a promise that the game will eventually be worth it, because it already was even before this update. This is an exciting time to play Deep Rock indeed. Rock and Stone forever
They also seem to be progressing the Lore with these seasons. They said they did seasons too because they want to theme each season so it feels like we have a lot coming.
I’m so optimistic for the future of this game, which is very rare for me. Also can’t wait for the update to hit consoles, definitely seems worth the wait, I’m gonna love the LOK and the Hurricane
Ghost Ship has, and continues to, put every other game studio to shame. Free performance pass, listening to the community, quality and plentiful updates and patches, I could go on.
With the addition of the geek chic I finally got around to update the look of my gunner from "full dark future armor" to "crazy scientist with crazy but weirdly manly beard in futuristic white armor and a full auto rocket launcher" and I freaking love it!
I would guess the cosmetics will be moving to cargo crates and lost artifacts once S1 is over, that's a good way to make them avaliable AND to make something for people that didnt get them all work towards.
@@Brandelwyn No, Devs said they will reveal more info as the season gets closer to the end. It's just my guess since it's a system already inside the game... They might create something completely different tho, who knows.
I think if they were going to add them to cargo crates they would have announced it already. They may make another way to get them just so there aren't 100 more items in the cargo crate loot pool. That would make getting the victory move or weapon frame you want very hard to get if there's a ton of possible items in them
Yeah I've actually been playing DRG thanks to this; a friend bought the game for me in january this year, I played it for like a month and then fell off because, just like you said there's not enough content in 15-25. I've now got a promoted scout and am heading into overclocks and playing the game regularly so this has been great!
With the change to seasons, it’s clear ghost ship wants this game to continue as a live service game for years and years, and I am happy as hell for this
M1000 Scouts when they saw the Outback Hunter hat: *Oh yeah, it's all coming together.* 9:16 Btw Sniss, the devs said they'd bring back Barrel Armor someday. One of the model artists said it during a livestream or something. He said he _promised._
Here are my favorite cosmetics I love so far from Season 1. Weapon Paintjobs: Copper Patinate and Scratched Metal Armor Paintjobs: Chipped Shadow and Speckled Predator Moustache: Big Ol Swirls Victory Move: Lootbug Lover Headwears: Outback Hunter and Gem-Studded Headcover Also I love all of the waster frameworks for every gun too.
7:15 is 100% correct. I have had this game pretty much since it first came out and never got a single class to 25. My friend told me about the pass and I've put like 20 hours in over the last week or so. It helps so much with bridging that early game gap to deep dives.
These new season one review videos are really informative for both green and graybeards alike. I'm really happy to see your channel getting more and more popular with each of them. Rock and stone!
Thank you Sniss for representing the community in a realistic way that fully demonstrates what we really look for in this game, and showing GSG just how mastercrafted DRG really is. Not all heroes wear capes... Some wear Burger King crowns. 👑
5:15 Completing the thingy is definitely doable. The update's been out for like 8 days now and I met a guy yesterday who said he was level 40 in the pass lol Noice vid (again), ROCKNSTONE! Also I reached platinum 2 on all dwarves, I'm on my way.
honestly been loving drg so much these, i have played it like 50% of my entire days and seeing all of these videos just honestly makes me happy that a game like this which isn't like, a "marketable" game like fortnite, just something made out of love and played out of love is out there rock and stone brothers, down to the bone
Friend just introduced to me this game last week, and I’m ultimately hooked. Everything you explained I thought was perfect in critiquing seasons of other games, and showing where DSG diverged for good. Rock and Stone!
As a greenbeard, starting with the season already going gave me a bit more to work towards besides just "grind for levels". I'm already up to level 15 for the scout and 13 for the gunner in the week or so I've been playing.
Finished the performance pass and as a new player I will say it does help dramatically with progression, you feel like you're getting better at the game and your cosmetics do a good job of showing it so I think Ghost Ship Games did a really fine job with it. Rock and Stone. [ Edit ] The Geek Chic is my favourite cosmetic, I have it on my Scout.
hey i dont play drg much but your videos were the first to pop up when I was looking in to the new update and i gotta say, your editing style and the overall production is really good keep it up :)
I gotta say Im a HUGE fan of Strike Team Alpha helmet. You get it right at the beggining of the performance pass, and when combined with Gunner's Roughneck armor it makes him look like the most badass tacticool modern military shooter player model. And I love it!
I believe that Warframe also does a good battlepass system. By doing a variety of activities you gain standing which is pretty much EXP to progess up every level in the Battlepass that they call Nightwave. My favorite part is the fairness of the intermissions for it. Where they put various cosmetics, helpful items, and some extra resources into the intermission in between the special story based ones. It's all free and the grind isn't really as intrusive as I've seen in other games. Example: A simple daily mission to gain standing would be to bullet 150 times, super simple and it's just something you do in every mission. A normal weekly could be opening 3 relics in the rather easy and simple relic missions.
I think in the patch notes they said the cosmetics will be put into the crate/lost pack pool. My only issue with the pass is that the cosmetic tree has too many non-cosmetic stuff in it. I was fine with the linear pass having resource bloat under the presumption that there was a tree exclusively focused on cosmetics, but a large amount of the cosmetic tree is resource gates, some areas having three in a row, which is a little annoying. If the next pass lessened the resource bloat, I'd be a lot happier with it.
I used to only play whenever my friends played. But the season pass has made me venture out to hoxxes more. First I did it solo, but upon hearing how good the community was I have started joining random lobbies.
Its usualy trash you'll never touch, once every 20 tiers or so. Eventually after so many tiers they just dont have anything free anymore. Typically after tier 50 its nothing
If I had to guess I’d say the cosmetics from this season will be put into the cargo crate, lost gear, and matrix core item pools for players to get after the season ends. It’ll be a good way to keep those events relevant in their item drops, though they may just go into the regular cosmetic shop.
It's always a good day when Sniss uploads a new video Big Ol Swirls!!! hahaha. Glad to see that they have plans to keep making DRG the best game ever in so many ways. Rock and Stone Forevah!!!
I'm just new to it but the season pass and how it's handled feels really cool. Like they didn't just slap some random game mode on to grind only. You still make progress doing other stuff and also thru the fact they made it possible to get data cubes in other missions not just the new shiny thing it really adds to the fun and feel that it's a rival incursion
Yeah i already liked Deep Rock Galactic ALOT before this, but the fact that they added all this stuff for free just made me love both the game and the company behind it, so i went and bought cosmetic DLCs for 20€ to support them. Rock and Stone for Ghost Ship Games.
My favorite cosmetic is definitely the gas mask helmet thing in the center of the first half of the tree. It’s the only thing that I really wanted from the season, and it’s nice that it unlocks for all classes at once. It looks kind of like a stormtrooper face, but more industrial and with a separate helmet that makes it look like a high tech soldier gas mask. It looks really cool especially with the gold/black armor paint that I use (I forget the name). Also, your videos are great, you clearly put a lot of effort into them!
My fav thing in the pass is the super villain mustache, I just wish they added a blue beard color lol it feels like we have every single color now except blue
The pass is easily progressable, I don't play nearly as much to stay on par with my friends and to also do well in college but I'm like lvl 30 already.
DRG really knows how to listen to a community and steer clear of all the bad practice happening around them. Most companies just do the classic "Hey let me copy your homework. Ok but change it up a little" and then you end up grinding 100hrs of a game to get the color grey *cough cough* infinite *cough cough* and half the time you end up paying more than the initial game costs to buy
there's a lot more time needed to unlock everything, as mission performance payout is low af. Played around 50 hours since the update dropped got so many cores i can't actually claim the bonus anymore, and I'm still only at lvl 30
I get Glyphid Oppressor vibes from Big Ol' Swirls. Maybe it was a dwarf's attempt to disguise himself as one and it just kinda caught on (even if it probably didn't work)
I am extremely excited for tier 96. It's an emote simply titled "lootbug lover." I really want them to be petting a lootbug like a cat in an villians arms.
Can’t wait to experience this myself, unfortunately I play on Xbox so I have to watch everyone have their fun while I sit outside the window peering in like a Dickensian orphan
You all know that this is only free for now, right? The reason they implemented these systems is to monetize them in the future, no matter what other cooked up 'reasons' they might provide.
I have close to 1800 hours on this game. It might eventually become my most played game Ive played in my life. Only game thats still ahead of it is Team Fortress 2 with over 3000 hours total.
I really like the game's season system especially the lack of FOMO. I would however love for the system to changed so instead of performance pass/cosmetic tree rewards unlocking pretty much linearly (you can make choices with the Cosmetic Tree but it's still a linear progression) you instead choose what out of all the possible rewards you want in exchange for you pass level ups/scrips. This would allow those with limited time or prefer sporadic engagement with the game to get the rewards they want more directly while still allowing players to grind the other rewards if they want. Basically, I'd rather get to lvl 20 to get the 20 cosmetics I want then do the other level ups for fun as a bonus than force myself to grind 80 levels because to get the last reward I want I have to grind through a bunch of filler level ups that reward materials, credits or cosmetics I'm less interested in.
I gotta say I never really cared for the dlc cosmetics in drg but after a free pass came out I had a strong desire to support so I bought the supporter pack, now I want to get the other ones aswell cos I do feel like you get cool things from them and this is a way of game making I want to support.
I like the performance pass so far, and the cosmetics could come back later as part of the core infuser or cargo crates/lost gear. Either way, there's likely still a reasonable method to acquire the things you couldn't get.
The only downside I see in this update are hacking pod defense. Somehow bugs just spawn on our face unlike every single other swarm or defense in the game.
yeah i think that's the only problem so far. it's annoying having mission control yell in my ear because hack-c went back in his gamer den because 20 bugs spawned right on top of him.
Sea of Thieves' battle pass had me feeling I was working for something that I didn't then get, what with the whole hiding the most impressive things behind a paywall. Big fan of how Deep Reep did it.
I was super concerned when I heard that they were doing a Season Pass style thing, but when I heard it was free, that put me at ease some. I've been playing this season, and I've really enjoyed it. The new mission types are cool, I really like the narrative that this season is bringing (I think the rivals showing up provides a new conflict and I am super excited to see where they go with it next), and I like that I always have something to do. An issue my partner and I had (he got me into the game) was that when we ran out of assignments, it was a bit boring just to run missions for the sake of it. We play almost every day, so having season events to work towards means we have even more reason to play.
Hey Sniss. Love your vids. I was wondering if maybe you could do a video on the mutators od DRG. Perhaps by talking more in depth about them (if there is even anything more in depth to say about them) or stratagies and recommended perks. Or you could do a video rating them. Just a suggestion. Either way, love your stuff. Keep up the good work, TommyBahamah
And here I was thinking so small as simply “an entirely free battle pass”. Excellent points, which gets me excited for the game’s community and well deserved attention that it’ll hopefully be getting over this.
Kind of hoping the performance pass evolves into a means of introducing subtle story elements in later seasons, who are the rivals is a question I like to think about, also what will they expand upon in future seasons, it's very exciting. I don't expect any new playable races or anything like that, that's an obscene thought, they've already said no to anything like that, but knowing that we might see crazy new monster variants in future passes is quite exciting
What I wish they would do is give me a reason to keep promoting after the first time cause you unlock overclocks and deep dives but after that you just spend credits and resources to promote yourself to get a star and that's it
I never played pub lobbies before the performance pass came out. For me, the assignments were fine but they felt distant sometimes 3-5 missions for a new gun, then a promotion, then a pickaxe, etc. and it started to feel slow, the performance pass made it so I actually am playing the game consistently because just as I feel it's been awhile since I've gotten anything neat, I get enough scrip for a new cosmetic item or hit a tier with something new to make a horrendous abomination that causes people to undergo cruel and unusual punishment just from viewing it. Also rival corp dlc framework + deep sea defender has become my go to for every single weapon
the worst part about passes is the fear of missing out. its why i hate it and personally think its unacceptable in any game that have them even if theyre free
I started late last year, just after season 1 dropped (clueless I was too it when my friends bought the game for me) And I agree that having that early means of progression with the season pass made me want to do different things, even when they weren't my current objectives! I contrast this to the game I got almost exactly a year before: Sea of Thieves. I got it before season one, and I already was shocked at the sheer amount of timed-lock cosmetics in a game that's only rewards WAS cosmetics. It was a huge turn-off for me, but I kept playing until I seriously burnt out because I wanted to make my pirate look a certain way but "Oh no, you didn't play this game 2 years before? Too bad, these several dozen cosmetics are permanently unobtainable!" So to have DRG make a season pass system that actually makes sense is just double icing on this already huge and rich cake of a game! Thank you, GSG, for pouring so much love into this game and actually understanding players and both respecting their time and wallets. Rock and Stone to the heart and forever!
I definitely have found myself playing drg more because of the pp. I hop on daily to complete my daily quests and its just more fun to play without an assignment knowing you have something besides level to grind for
I usually hate looter shooter games/rpg like Warframe and Destiny. But DRG hit me with so much good vibes, and that's exactly what you described in the video, no money farming with season passes and paid campaign stuff that gets completely rewritten like Destiny 2, DRG game is just really good and I don't feel like on edge or missing stuff if I don't play the game or don't buy the DLCs
ahh but drg does in fact have some fomo items. There's a trollface mask mod available in the game that I was hoping to use but I cant because I don't have the year 1 hat (from drg's first birthday) since I didn't play back then.
3:00 I like the idea of the tree, but I'd prefer if it was split into 4 class branches, instead of 4 branches with items from each class mixed together on each.
I agree strongly with the first two problems/solutions about the pass, the time however does not come out to one hour per level, at least not for me. My guess is that the 1h/level is based on very experienced players, and not plebians like myself.
Ghost Ships pulled out a fantastic move with a free Pass, though I Wonder if it was completely their own idea or they studied Halo MCC and Infinite battle passes.
Honestly enjoy the cosmetic tree way more than the pass since it allows you to get what you want first then slowly work towards getting all of it. imo they should have put all the stuff the pass has into the tree and just not have a pass at all
3:14 Same here. I thought the devs would go down the wrong path like others before them, even knowing it would be 100% free. It's nice to see that didn't happen.
The fact that this game has so much content is the reason I'm still enjoying it, even though I don't have friends that have the game as well. Hmu if you're in the same situation so we can squad up :) Rock and Stone
Unfortunately I got into DRG only a month ago or something, though I am about 100 hours in I'm nowhere near Lootbug Lover. I did leave the game running while doing something else though so I guess that explains some things.. Well, lets hope I find it in a crate soon.
Hey Sniss.. I’m the animator on Deep Rock (and a royal subsriber to your channel). Thanks for making this video. It really warms my heart to listen to all your kind words ❤️
I have now shared this video with the whole Ghost Ship Team 🙂
Rock and Stone Brother 🤜🤛
mmm, monke. This makes me very happy
Hey, sorry to bug you (haha get it) but would I be able to commission some animations from you in the far off future?
@@doomderp No sorry. I don’t have time for things like that unfortunately.. I barely have time to do my own stuff 😔
@@reeanimationgaming1034 no worries, good luck on your game!
@@doomderp Thanks 🙂
I never cared for a battle pass system until GSG decided to add a FREE one, now I can't Rock n'Stone enough!
As monetization systems go, I think BPs are pretty good when done right. They usually repay whatever premium currency they cost to buy, you know exactly what you're getting and how to earn it, and you can complete them with a reasonable amount of effort.
Compare that to, say, lootboxes or gacha systems.
@@formorian5 to problem is that ill be paying extra to have the chance to work towards something.
Im not a fan of that.
I hope Sea of Thieves realizes that this is the proper way to do a battle pass.
@@madzoroark5396 tbf, Sea of Thieves’ is pretty good, too. The whole pass is free, with the paid version giving you nothing more than early access to a set that is inevitably coming to the in game store anyway. You aren’t really missing out on anything if you do not buy the paid pass, and most of the cosmetics in the paid tracks aren’t usually that great anyway
I find it absolutely amazing that the developers put the time into adding new frameworks to the megacorp pack for the new weapons.
they really do think of everything
Ghost ship have played the “game” so clever, its no surprise they’re successful. Their business model both welcomes new players without hampering them or fencing them off from content, while also giving the opportunity for dishing out dough for some special side stuff. The game literally broke records when the season dropped. Every other AAA with paid passes cannot claim that.
Greybeards and greenbeards can play along perfectly together, it’s just incredible how perfectly smooth the experience is
Doing things that make new players feel welcomed actually bolsters sales. It's having both a lot of profit and maintaining moral integrity while also delivering an amazing product. GSG has their cake and is eating it too, and as someone who loves DRG, I also get some cake of my own. DRG is a masterclass in how bigger-budget online games *should* be made
I don't see this talked about a lot, but the best part of season 1 is the sheer amount of momentum this brings. I bought the game last year and was pretty happy with it but thought that the content was all there already, which was great of course, but it makes you think about the game as done and over with, now seeing this as season 1 with the performance pass, new mission, some lore starting to take more form, the new weapons, it all just breathes life into it, there are things to strive for now that are not just keychains being jangled in front of us, and there are things to look forward to in the future that are not just a promise that the game will eventually be worth it, because it already was even before this update. This is an exciting time to play Deep Rock indeed. Rock and Stone forever
They also seem to be progressing the Lore with these seasons. They said they did seasons too because they want to theme each season so it feels like we have a lot coming.
"First we get Gunk Seeds. And now we got pp."
"nice"
Earned your sub with those S01 overview videos. :)
🤣🤣🤣
Earning XP makes your PP get bigger.
I can never get over the sheer polish of your videos. I’d guess your channel had 10x as many subs just based on production quality. Keep it up!
I’m so optimistic for the future of this game, which is very rare for me. Also can’t wait for the update to hit consoles, definitely seems worth the wait, I’m gonna love the LOK and the Hurricane
Let me tell you, all the new weapons are a blast. I always hated playing driller but the new sludge pump is so satisfying
Ghost Ship has, and continues to, put every other game studio to shame. Free performance pass, listening to the community, quality and plentiful updates and patches, I could go on.
With the addition of the geek chic I finally got around to update the look of my gunner from "full dark future armor" to "crazy scientist with crazy but weirdly manly beard in futuristic white armor and a full auto rocket launcher" and I freaking love it!
I got into DRG fairly recently and I also discovered this channel recently, these videos are super high quality and i like them
the idea of cutting an Artwork into 3 seprate videos and let them combine when you look at the channels videos looks extremly cool, well done !
I would guess the cosmetics will be moving to cargo crates and lost artifacts once S1 is over, that's a good way to make them avaliable AND to make something for people that didnt get them all work towards.
Wasnt this confirmed already?
@@Brandelwyn No, Devs said they will reveal more info as the season gets closer to the end. It's just my guess since it's a system already inside the game... They might create something completely different tho, who knows.
I think if they were going to add them to cargo crates they would have announced it already. They may make another way to get them just so there aren't 100 more items in the cargo crate loot pool. That would make getting the victory move or weapon frame you want very hard to get if there's a ton of possible items in them
@@carterwilliams7106 Maybe.... I just dont want any more RNG....
Devs just confirmed this is what will happen
Ur editing is fucking amazing dude! Ur so underrated, its a crime :(
Btw what software do u use?
adobe premiere pro & after effects
@@sniss love you
Yeah I've actually been playing DRG thanks to this; a friend bought the game for me in january this year, I played it for like a month and then fell off because, just like you said there's not enough content in 15-25. I've now got a promoted scout and am heading into overclocks and playing the game regularly so this has been great!
:)
With the change to seasons, it’s clear ghost ship wants this game to continue as a live service game for years and years, and I am happy as hell for this
Yeah this has really gotten me into the game, it's actually become one of my all time favorites now.
Unrelated but at 7:55 the way everyone throws their flares always cracks me up
M1000 Scouts when they saw the Outback Hunter hat: *Oh yeah, it's all coming together.*
9:16 Btw Sniss, the devs said they'd bring back Barrel Armor someday. One of the model artists said it during a livestream or something. He said he _promised._
Here are my favorite cosmetics I love so far from Season 1.
Weapon Paintjobs: Copper Patinate and Scratched Metal
Armor Paintjobs: Chipped Shadow and Speckled Predator
Moustache: Big Ol Swirls
Victory Move: Lootbug Lover
Headwears: Outback Hunter and Gem-Studded Headcover
Also I love all of the waster frameworks for every gun too.
7:15 is 100% correct. I have had this game pretty much since it first came out and never got a single class to 25. My friend told me about the pass and I've put like 20 hours in over the last week or so. It helps so much with bridging that early game gap to deep dives.
These new season one review videos are really informative for both green and graybeards alike. I'm really happy to see your channel getting more and more popular with each of them. Rock and stone!
Thank you Sniss for representing the community in a realistic way that fully demonstrates what we really look for in this game, and showing GSG just how mastercrafted DRG really is.
Not all heroes wear capes... Some wear Burger King crowns. 👑
5:15 Completing the thingy is definitely doable. The update's been out for like 8 days now and I met a guy yesterday who said he was level 40 in the pass lol
Noice vid (again), ROCKNSTONE!
Also I reached platinum 2 on all dwarves, I'm on my way.
honestly been loving drg so much these, i have played it like 50% of my entire days
and seeing all of these videos just honestly makes me happy that a game like this which isn't like, a "marketable" game like fortnite, just something made out of love and played out of love is out there
rock and stone brothers, down to the bone
its so cool seeing a deep rock youtuber that delves into more than just optimal builds and cosmetic showcases, im lovin it
Deep Sea Defender looks sick with Neon Band
Friend just introduced to me this game last week, and I’m ultimately hooked. Everything you explained I thought was perfect in critiquing seasons of other games, and showing where DSG diverged for good. Rock and Stone!
As a greenbeard, starting with the season already going gave me a bit more to work towards besides just "grind for levels". I'm already up to level 15 for the scout and 13 for the gunner in the week or so I've been playing.
Finished the performance pass and as a new player I will say it does help dramatically with progression, you feel like you're getting better at the game and your cosmetics do a good job of showing it so I think Ghost Ship Games did a really fine job with it. Rock and Stone.
[ Edit ] The Geek Chic is my favourite cosmetic, I have it on my Scout.
hey i dont play drg much but your videos were the first to pop up when I was looking in to the new update and i gotta say, your editing style and the overall production is really good keep it up :)
I gotta say Im a HUGE fan of Strike Team Alpha helmet. You get it right at the beggining of the performance pass, and when combined with Gunner's Roughneck armor it makes him look like the most badass tacticool modern military shooter player model. And I love it!
I believe that Warframe also does a good battlepass system. By doing a variety of activities you gain standing which is pretty much EXP to progess up every level in the Battlepass that they call Nightwave.
My favorite part is the fairness of the intermissions for it. Where they put various cosmetics, helpful items, and some extra resources into the intermission in between the special story based ones. It's all free and the grind isn't really as intrusive as I've seen in other games.
Example: A simple daily mission to gain standing would be to bullet 150 times, super simple and it's just something you do in every mission. A normal weekly could be opening 3 relics in the rather easy and simple relic missions.
The Hunter's hat was an immediate "I MUST have it for my SCOUT!" moment. Pairs perfectly with waster weapons and Dawn of Dread armour 😀
I think in the patch notes they said the cosmetics will be put into the crate/lost pack pool.
My only issue with the pass is that the cosmetic tree has too many non-cosmetic stuff in it. I was fine with the linear pass having resource bloat under the presumption that there was a tree exclusively focused on cosmetics, but a large amount of the cosmetic tree is resource gates, some areas having three in a row, which is a little annoying. If the next pass lessened the resource bloat, I'd be a lot happier with it.
I used to only play whenever my friends played. But the season pass has made me venture out to hoxxes more. First I did it solo, but upon hearing how good the community was I have started joining random lobbies.
You can now revisit *any* performance pass seasons. Good on you DRG.
i love how theres just some primal urge in most players to put the furlined ushanka on gunner
Another great video. Thanks Sniss
Don’t forget about how in other games’ season passes, the track for free cosmetics is extremely underwhelming
yeah i essentially consider it paid because the free one is just awful
Its usualy trash you'll never touch, once every 20 tiers or so. Eventually after so many tiers they just dont have anything free anymore. Typically after tier 50 its nothing
If I had to guess I’d say the cosmetics from this season will be put into the cargo crate, lost gear, and matrix core item pools for players to get after the season ends.
It’ll be a good way to keep those events relevant in their item drops, though they may just go into the regular cosmetic shop.
I'm really hyped
I'm on xbox so I'll get it later but I'm as excited non the less
⛏️ ROCK AND STONE ⛏️
ROCK AND STONE, BROTHER!
It's always a good day when Sniss uploads a new video Big Ol Swirls!!! hahaha. Glad to see that they have plans to keep making DRG the best game ever in so many ways. Rock and Stone Forevah!!!
I'm just new to it but the season pass and how it's handled feels really cool. Like they didn't just slap some random game mode on to grind only. You still make progress doing other stuff and also thru the fact they made it possible to get data cubes in other missions not just the new shiny thing it really adds to the fun and feel that it's a rival incursion
Yeah i already liked Deep Rock Galactic ALOT before this, but the fact that they added all this stuff for free just made me love both the game and the company behind it, so i went and bought cosmetic DLCs for 20€ to support them. Rock and Stone for Ghost Ship Games.
My favorite cosmetic is definitely the gas mask helmet thing in the center of the first half of the tree. It’s the only thing that I really wanted from the season, and it’s nice that it unlocks for all classes at once. It looks kind of like a stormtrooper face, but more industrial and with a separate helmet that makes it look like a high tech soldier gas mask. It looks really cool especially with the gold/black armor paint that I use (I forget the name).
Also, your videos are great, you clearly put a lot of effort into them!
To me it looks a lot like the Fallout NV desert ranger helmet
My fav thing in the pass is the super villain mustache, I just wish they added a blue beard color lol it feels like we have every single color now except blue
The pass is easily progressable, I don't play nearly as much to stay on par with my friends and to also do well in college but I'm like lvl 30 already.
yeah the new weapon paintjobs are too good
DRG really knows how to listen to a community and steer clear of all the bad practice happening around them. Most companies just do the classic "Hey let me copy your homework. Ok but change it up a little" and then you end up grinding 100hrs of a game to get the color grey *cough cough* infinite *cough cough* and half the time you end up paying more than the initial game costs to buy
there's a lot more time needed to unlock everything, as mission performance payout is low af. Played around 50 hours since the update dropped got so many cores i can't actually claim the bonus anymore, and I'm still only at lvl 30
The battlepqss and how it was setup is what got me to play the game and massively increase my playtime.
Your super underated. Keep of the good work! 👍
I get Glyphid Oppressor vibes from Big Ol' Swirls. Maybe it was a dwarf's attempt to disguise himself as one and it just kinda caught on (even if it probably didn't work)
With the outback hunter hat I can now make my dwarves look like Griffin Hallsey from Evolve
I am extremely excited for tier 96. It's an emote simply titled "lootbug lover." I really want them to be petting a lootbug like a cat in an villians arms.
Can’t wait to experience this myself, unfortunately I play on Xbox so I have to watch everyone have their fun while I sit outside the window peering in like a Dickensian orphan
I like how DRG and Halo are doing it
DRG: Free! No P2W!
Halo: Never expiring BPs, no P2W!
That moustache makes you look like the 3rd dreadnought twin
You all know that this is only free for now, right? The reason they implemented these systems is to monetize them in the future, no matter what other cooked up 'reasons' they might provide.
Can’t get enough of shock spike. Greatest.
I have close to 1800 hours on this game. It might eventually become my most played game Ive played in my life. Only game thats still ahead of it is Team Fortress 2 with over 3000 hours total.
I really like the game's season system especially the lack of FOMO.
I would however love for the system to changed so instead of performance pass/cosmetic tree rewards unlocking pretty much linearly (you can make choices with the Cosmetic Tree but it's still a linear progression) you instead choose what out of all the possible rewards you want in exchange for you pass level ups/scrips. This would allow those with limited time or prefer sporadic engagement with the game to get the rewards they want more directly while still allowing players to grind the other rewards if they want.
Basically, I'd rather get to lvl 20 to get the 20 cosmetics I want then do the other level ups for fun as a bonus than force myself to grind 80 levels because to get the last reward I want I have to grind through a bunch of filler level ups that reward materials, credits or cosmetics I'm less interested in.
3:30 i love the background
I'm glad we can all agree Big ol Swirls is just the best mustache ever implemented. Now we can bring the Mishima look to Hoxxes.
I gotta say I never really cared for the dlc cosmetics in drg but after a free pass came out I had a strong desire to support so I bought the supporter pack, now I want to get the other ones aswell cos I do feel like you get cool things from them and this is a way of game making I want to support.
I like the performance pass so far, and the cosmetics could come back later as part of the core infuser or cargo crates/lost gear. Either way, there's likely still a reasonable method to acquire the things you couldn't get.
The only downside I see in this update are hacking pod defense. Somehow bugs just spawn on our face unlike every single other swarm or defense in the game.
yeah i think that's the only problem so far. it's annoying having mission control yell in my ear because hack-c went back in his gamer den because 20 bugs spawned right on top of him.
Yeah I hope they patch this at some point. Otherwise I'll be cheesing it with multiple gunners and constant shields.
Sea of Thieves' battle pass had me feeling I was working for something that I didn't then get, what with the whole hiding the most impressive things behind a paywall. Big fan of how Deep Reep did it.
I was super concerned when I heard that they were doing a Season Pass style thing, but when I heard it was free, that put me at ease some. I've been playing this season, and I've really enjoyed it. The new mission types are cool, I really like the narrative that this season is bringing (I think the rivals showing up provides a new conflict and I am super excited to see where they go with it next), and I like that I always have something to do. An issue my partner and I had (he got me into the game) was that when we ran out of assignments, it was a bit boring just to run missions for the sake of it. We play almost every day, so having season events to work towards means we have even more reason to play.
This greenbeard is slowly grinding. I almost have the ushanka I want.
nice! that hat is wonderful
Hey Sniss. Love your vids. I was wondering if maybe you could do a video on the mutators od DRG. Perhaps by talking more in depth about them (if there is even anything more in depth to say about them) or stratagies and recommended perks. Or you could do a video rating them. Just a suggestion. Either way, love your stuff. Keep up the good work, TommyBahamah
And here I was thinking so small as simply “an entirely free battle pass”. Excellent points, which gets me excited for the game’s community and well deserved attention that it’ll hopefully be getting over this.
Kind of hoping the performance pass evolves into a means of introducing subtle story elements in later seasons, who are the rivals is a question I like to think about, also what will they expand upon in future seasons, it's very exciting. I don't expect any new playable races or anything like that, that's an obscene thought, they've already said no to anything like that, but knowing that we might see crazy new monster variants in future passes is quite exciting
babe, come here, new sniss video
sea of theives also does a season pass (or blunderpass) really well were most of the cosmetics are free
My friend did a Syndrome cosplay with the Shock Spike style on their Scout lol, it's hilarious.
What I wish they would do is give me a reason to keep promoting after the first time cause you unlock overclocks and deep dives but after that you just spend credits and resources to promote yourself to get a star and that's it
4:26 Give me your hat!
No really I want the fish hat.
I never played pub lobbies before the performance pass came out. For me, the assignments were fine but they felt distant sometimes 3-5 missions for a new gun, then a promotion, then a pickaxe, etc. and it started to feel slow, the performance pass made it so I actually am playing the game consistently because just as I feel it's been awhile since I've gotten anything neat, I get enough scrip for a new cosmetic item or hit a tier with something new to make a horrendous abomination that causes people to undergo cruel and unusual punishment just from viewing it.
Also rival corp dlc framework + deep sea defender has become my go to for every single weapon
the worst part about passes is the fear of missing out. its why i hate it and personally think its unacceptable in any game that have them even if theyre free
I started late last year, just after season 1 dropped (clueless I was too it when my friends bought the game for me) And I agree that having that early means of progression with the season pass made me want to do different things, even when they weren't my current objectives!
I contrast this to the game I got almost exactly a year before: Sea of Thieves. I got it before season one, and I already was shocked at the sheer amount of timed-lock cosmetics in a game that's only rewards WAS cosmetics. It was a huge turn-off for me, but I kept playing until I seriously burnt out because I wanted to make my pirate look a certain way but "Oh no, you didn't play this game 2 years before? Too bad, these several dozen cosmetics are permanently unobtainable!"
So to have DRG make a season pass system that actually makes sense is just double icing on this already huge and rich cake of a game! Thank you, GSG, for pouring so much love into this game and actually understanding players and both respecting their time and wallets. Rock and Stone to the heart and forever!
I'm 35 something and its been just a few weeks, playing with greenbeards and testing meme builds lol.
I definitely have found myself playing drg more because of the pp. I hop on daily to complete my daily quests and its just more fun to play without an assignment knowing you have something besides level to grind for
Treating players well equals profit for Ghost Ship because most players are so happy they instantly buy most of their DLC
I usually hate looter shooter games/rpg like Warframe and Destiny. But DRG hit me with so much good vibes, and that's exactly what you described in the video, no money farming with season passes and paid campaign stuff that gets completely rewritten like Destiny 2, DRG game is just really good and I don't feel like on edge or missing stuff if I don't play the game or don't buy the DLCs
ahh but drg does in fact have some fomo items. There's a trollface mask mod available in the game that I was hoping to use but I cant because I don't have the year 1 hat (from drg's first birthday) since I didn't play back then.
3:00 I like the idea of the tree, but I'd prefer if it was split into 4 class branches, instead of 4 branches with items from each class mixed together on each.
I agree strongly with the first two problems/solutions about the pass, the time however does not come out to one hour per level, at least not for me.
My guess is that the 1h/level is based on very experienced players, and not plebians like myself.
DRG is the only game I've been truly happy to PAY for cosmetic packs for, simply because I want to support Ghost Ship Games.
Babe wake up, new Sniss upload
I want the new Shock Trooper Helmet that is the tier 100 reward.
It will fit with anything that is military themed!
Ghost Ships pulled out a fantastic move with a free Pass, though I Wonder if it was completely their own idea or they studied Halo MCC and Infinite battle passes.
Honestly enjoy the cosmetic tree way more than the pass since it allows you to get what you want first then slowly work towards getting all of it. imo they should have put all the stuff the pass has into the tree and just not have a pass at all
"First we have gunk seeds, now we have PP, nice"
Don't forget anor pearls ;)
3:14 Same here. I thought the devs would go down the wrong path like others before them, even knowing it would be 100% free. It's nice to see that didn't happen.
Sniss i like the drak because it makes you feel like the doom slayer
The fact that this game has so much content is the reason I'm still enjoying it, even though I don't have friends that have the game as well. Hmu if you're in the same situation so we can squad up :) Rock and Stone
My only probelm is the possibility of the prospector dones and data toweres geting removed
Unfortunately I got into DRG only a month ago or something, though I am about 100 hours in I'm nowhere near Lootbug Lover.
I did leave the game running while doing something else though so I guess that explains some things..
Well, lets hope I find it in a crate soon.
I really wish that the system was JUST to the cosmetic tree. I really like the tree and would like all the cosmetics on it.