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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มิ.ย. 2024
- After nearly two years the Evolution Series makes a comeback, this time taking a bit of a deep dive into Missions. This covers most of everything up to 2022 May.
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Music:
Lacheque - Perfect Sound ( / perfect-sound-instrume... )
The Brothers Records - Sleeplessness (yt audio library)
jin.x - throwaway ( / throwaway )
Bad Snacks - In the Atmosphere (yt audio library)
DivKid - Cosmic Drift (yt audio library)
Otis McDonald - Thirty First Dream (yt audio library)
South London HiFi - Kamogawa Dreaming (yt audio library)
Yung Logos - Nilly Willy (yt audio library)
Yung Logos - Papov (yt audio library)
jin.x - slash ( / slash )
Soundtracks Used:
Deep Rock Galactic Vol. I (store.steampowered.com/app/80...)
Spacegulls (drive.google.com/file/d/1lizL...)
Burger Shop 2
Advance Wars Dual Strike
Sega Channel
Serious Sam The First Encounter
FTL: Faster Than Light (benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl)
Parappa The Rapper 2 Instrumentals
Chapters:
0:00 - Preface & Intro
0:46 - Mission System + Icons
4:47 - Mining Expedition
9:32 - Search & Extract
10:37 - Egg Hunt
13:05 - Point Extraction
15:56 - Elimination
23:58 - Salvage Operation
29:53 - On-Site Refining
41:14 - Escort Duty
58:01 - Bonus: Tutorial Mission
1:00:41 - Bonus: Machine Events
1:03:32 - Evolution Series' Future
1:05:12 - Outro
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I remember the time when salvage missions used the advanced tech of bluetooth fuel transfer.
same.
I'm pretty sure the cable is just to keep the dwarves sane - you can disconnect the pod and it's still fine. Dwarves do not believe in Bluetooth.
Lol I remember that stuff. Got into the game just a few months before that was changed.
It was before update 34? I think 34 added dorreta and refinery mission. But with the pipe mechanic from refinery they "refined" the salvage op refuel sequence with a slimmed down version of it. The days of Bluetooth fuel transfer were...strange, but it never decreased the amount of fun we had.
I didnt even question it at the time, it was only when they added building the connection to refuel the pod that I understood what was happening in the mission xD
46:30 the J.E.B. most likely stands for “Jens Emil Bil” as seen in the year 3 art showcase segment (42:58).
that could be the case, the few devs that I asked just told me it was a placeholder, I was 90% sure the entire time that it's an inside joke
7:45 interesting that Helium3 seems to hint that they were going for a more "realistic" theme to the game at this point of development. Helium 3 is a real life element that is an isotope to (guess what) helium that theorized as potential nuclear fuel source that creates little radiation, and is often featured in scifi as spaceship fuel. Of course in real life it doesn't look like grey metalic rocks so that's why I say "theme", the devs were planning to use real life elements and minerals as stuff for you to mine but at some point decides to use wholly fictional minerals instead, like the good ol' morkite.
Neeeeeeeeerrrrrdd
Morkite found!
i too enjoy the fictional element of Gold.
Smart stout tastes great, doesn't it? But yeah that is pretty interesting.
@@RealJ3sus-Joseph found the Leaf Lover Lmao
Speaking of the tutorial, am I the only one who kinda wishes the Shallow Grotto would be expanded into a full biome? I really like the color scheme.
Also, is there still some kind of link between Point Extraction and random dreadnoughts? I’ve seen about a dozen of them, and I think all but one were in PE missions.
EDIT: For anyone seeing this comment now, I can confirm through extensive personal testing (and consulting the wiki) that Point Extraction has its own spawn logic for dreads. However, they can only spawn if you’re playing on Haz 3 or below. I guess the devs thought they'd be too punishing on 4/5.
perhaps that needs investigating, I recall coming across random dreads multiple times in Refinery too since it shares the same cave type
Maybe it's just since waiting around gets so many more swarms in PE? The swarms you get, the more times that dice roll for it happens.
It’s just a super rare random spawn, I’ve come across a dread in a mining expedition recently.
@DRG Historian I was running some greenbeard friends through their 1st few missions, and the 1st refinery mission we did, back to back random Dreads. I also seem to get them more in PE as well
fantastic as always :)
oh yo wtf !!
Hol up you can donate in comments!?
The man himself
Sniss my beloved
nice
a creature evolution video would be pog.
hell, i'd watch a evolution videos going over every part of the game lol
Remember when grunts were called warriors.
@@philipgelderblom6878 i still call them that every so often.
I've asked this before, and I'll say it again. Mission. Variations. Search & Extract could be an alternative version of Mining Expedition, without taking up an entirely new mission slot. Purely the only difference would probably be cave gen, or for a newer mission like Escort Duty, instead of refueling, you have to replace Doretta's treads.
I swear to Karl I'm onto something here.
I want an escort variation where the target is something other than a heartstone as i find that event to be the most repetitive part of the entire game
@@randomwowjunkie i know this is a year old, but that would really fit for escort. i mean, mission control says “ *this time* you’re after the heartstone” right? it makes sense that the drilldozer would have other high value things to collect
an hour?!?! you spoil us.
:)
This video was AMAZING. cant wait to hear if you end up making that industrial sabotage evolution vid.
its evolved to Rival Tech Evolution
👀
my fellow Americans, epilepsy warning at 44:03-44:22 and 44:39-44:51 might be a bit intense too
(im not from the us)
updated: starting from Season 2 BET-C and Korlok have a 5% spawn chance, the new robot Nemesis has a 7% spawn chance
I had to read this in Keemstar's voice.
Where are you from? you have a beautiful accent sir
@@krustin he sounds like he's from eastern Europe but I'm not sure.
america
dont dox yourself like that
The only thing that I would change about this game is secondary mission.
Instead of collecting a set minimum amount of a thing with no bonus for extra, you have a thing to collect and you get an increasing reward per thing collected, with no limit.
Especially with disteriom secondary or fester flea secondary because you get so much disteriom and it fells like i accidentally kill fleas more often than not but saying that i am a lok engineer so i cant say much
You do get extra XP for overtime, like depositing extra morkite or dystrum or killing more flees. It's usually very little, but you can tell the difference with dark morkite on a long morkite mission. My main gripe is that it doesn't show extra progress in the UI. It would be nice to see if I killed 13/10 fester flees, or collected 350/200 morkite.
Just did a 400 morkite mission with dark morkite, took almost an hour but did give over 20k XP.
No idea how much morkite we deposited; my guess is around 800.
LETS GOOOO
ayo? love your vids, bro.
Oh hey, I know that guy!
Fuck man, I really hope some day we get those colours back on Escort, even if it's as a mod, they are so damn pretty
agreed
Godlike soundtrack selection. Never thought I'd hear Advance Wars Dual Strike main menu in a DRG video.
I know I say this every time but I really love your editing!
every time i re-watch this video, the editing at the part where you explain how missions generate gets me.
it's so damn clean.
You make great content, I was impressed with how deep you dove into the topics at hand!
aw man, i'm sad they didn't use conveyors (though i understand why)
always loved conveyor belts, and having one in DRG would be cool af
that was very cool to see all the evolutions ! thx for the awesome vid!
I remember when I first picked up Deep Rock just before the full release. The game had such a great charm back then, and its come such a long way. I love this game, and I look back on those days fondly.
i bought and started playing drg in march 2018, those videos are such a dive into memory
Once again great work, Historian.
Was a lovely (and fun!) trip into the past.
Also, appreciate the nostalgic Serious Sam music :)
I watched until the end without skipping, and I can say that it was absolutely worth it. Great video!
You did a great job on this video! I don’t know what it is but i enjoy learning and seeing these kinds of evolutions, plus seeing weird obscure stuff. Unrelated but the tutorial biome has always fascinated me, i wish we could play in it
19:41 bro gave me flashbacks to advance wars dude it took me a moment to recognize that song
COOL IDEA. LOVE THE VIDS. THNX FOR MAKING
Amazing video. Thank you for your work! I played this game for a few years and missed all of developing progress.
As a more recent fan (Joined in early 2023) I find it so interesting to see how different this game use to be.
If they'd only bring back the grinder from (31:06), it looks so dope
your closing words were enough to convince me to subscribe
oh man, this is the perfect start to a three day weekend
Amazing video. Thank you for your work!
that ending lmao
sick video mate!
42:28 the gun leg concept actually looks really fun and silly, i would love if you could call it down like supply drops, or maybe even just something to muck around with on the space rig. think about it, stuff a barrel in and watch it fly!
Didnt skip and wouldnt have another hour. Thx for that awesome views of a top fav game! RnS!
The old ommoran heartstone looks like a giant jawbreaker candy, really like the wallpapers as well!
nice vid bro, love your content, keep it up!
God that music intro is so top quality broooooooooo
Excellent video as always bro
Excellent video, Morbius Historian
just realized the foreshadowing at 0:17 with Industrial Sabotage being greyed out.
Oh, yeah the normal Dreadnaught does that. If only one player is up (whether that's just one player, a player with Bosco, or only one person is alive and everyone else is down) it will just stop and roar. Only in that situation, though, and I believe iron will counts as someone being up. The combination of its powerful attacks, decent mobility and speed, extreme aggressiveness and heavy armor make it still the most terrifying of the three options. Hiveguards are slow and manageable, if hellish to your ammo supply; and Twins aren't even full dreadnoughts - I'd describe them as 'pre-dreadnought' seeing as they have regressed physically in order to form into two creatures. The classic continues to be the best.
This was _an hour?_ I honestly didn't notice until you pointed out that it was expected people would skip stuff. Amazing work, to make something so engaging like that!
49:21 seems like an early rockpox
Awesome video! JUST awesome. so in depth
Original concept for the amoran look like jawbreakers
Amazing video, very well don!
love that mission icon flowchart, looks noice.
Ive been making a dumb little dnd spacehulk abomination for a drg type game. just with some 5e rules and some timers for flavor, but i hadn't a clue what to do for their abilities, with your video ive been slowly but surely breaking down each move into more interesting things for the boss monsters. gj man.
this is not the hour long video about "A Rat's life: the Cat Conspiracy" I was hoping for. Well it will have to do.
I think a good idea for the Search and Extract thing could be a warning modifier that only applies to Mining Expedition. This could be the first in a line of mission-exclusive warnings.
This was honestly a great video to just have in a small pop up while I was playing other games. Learned a lot about the game's history and I sincerely appreciate the effort put into this video. 10/10 :)
Really enjoy the FTL music in the background
I still really miss the old cave generations that gave fortune to the search & extract mission type. It frequently featured the cave as ginormously sprawling like the example shown; open stretches of multi-layered caves, pillars, plateaus, twisting tunnels, mushroomed faux cave floor, no central cave, entirely non-linear. While yes, Egg hunt has since replaced it, I still liked Search & Extract more, and think they could have balanced it closer to a mix of Mining Mission & Point Extract with chunks to find; Instead of knowing exactly where the eggs where, you really did have to search and explore for all that morkite hidden away in walls.
49:58
I never tought hearing Mission control with the Dwarfs Voice would be so cursed
Wow, such a awesome video keep it up
I know this video is 5 months old but I just want to say I got two of those weird cubes in one day
should've added an info card with the six bits video at 1:02:36
but great video overall though - love these evolution ones, and can't wait for more.
another banger
It’s amazing to see how this game made such subtle variations in builds over its YEARS of development, the entire time I was watching this video I was thinking “oh this is the part where they stopped changing [this]” only to hear “then in update [number] they changed [this]” and I have to double take.
DRG really has aged well, it deserves its rising popularity after all the time and love its developers have put in.
Also, it’d be amazing if there was a Caretaker-esque fight called ‘Queen Hunt’ where you have to actually “hunt down” a constantly moving giant enemy, and follow the visible aftermath of its rampage. Dead dwarves who failed to kill it, broken MULEs, and even Drop Pods busted open after their occupants tried to escape. It’d really change the tone of “We’re badass dwarves who can kill anything!” to “Oh god, whatever the hell this thing is is something I do *not* want to see”. You never find the Queen, but maybe it could be a chapter-based system like Deep Dives where you do all the search and rescue stuff, but the players are in a darker environment, everything feels unnatural, and there’s evidence of something *big* being nearby.
That, or it’s an advanced mission based on the Haunted Cave modifier, where something you’re incapable of fighting is chasing you and you have to rush through the mission before it kills you.
6:55 that voice sounded so weird, I literally jumped out of my chair god damn
seeing pre alpha and old update DRG makes me so happy it got to develop into how it is today. I wouldn't have looked at the original static mission build and see it coming anywhere near where it is now
On-site refining, my beloved!!!
Season 1 made it so escort missions could vary more in length I believe, thus the rooms could be shorter distance from each other and you could reach the ommaran faster.
I know that you can get either one refuel for length two, or two refuels for length 3
What a profound quote to end the video on
an hour video? you spoil us DRG history man
oh nice thank you, i'm but a relative newcomer so it's nice being able to catch up on history
awesome video. looking forward to more.
Interesting and enjoyable, well done and thanks
FANTASTIC VIDEO
imo, i like the older fuel can, the folding handles and horizontal progress bar looks alot better than the AA battery we have right now
Thanks!
This rundown of the development of missions really highlights for me how anemic and quaint mining missions now feel. Usually just a linear dive with a fairly straightforward but boring objective. There’s no variation or climax to a mining missions pacing. Compare that to something like salvage operation. I think they could use a sprucing up. I’m not sure how you make mining more exciting so maybe the cave layout could be pushed so navigation is the challenge.
Rock and stone brother!
All the missions came from 1 common ancestor: That gem icon up there
Seeing that mounted turret walker, I kind of want the version of escort where you sit in a mounted turret with unlimited ammo and you have to fight off waves as Doretta refuels herself.
Just watched the full way through. Really great video!
Keep up the good work
7:30 I know they used Squat as a reference for design, there is even pictures ofit in their concept art ....but that is a damned lasgun if ever I saw one! lol
@13:04 A fellow man of discerning mission type taste. Point Extraction ftw.
Also loved recognizing the Advance Wars Dual Strike music. Good ost.
Honestly, I would like a mission type like extermination, a mission where you get only the Nitra that was created when the cave was generated, and the players having to balance their Nitra supply with the amount of time, and enemies, they contend with while in the cave.
As for how you would stop said mission from becoming a one stop shop for XP grinders, introduce an XP scaling system and XP cap for the mission, as well as having the mission be more gold and crafting materials poor.
Another idea would be a variation of the above extermination mission, but more for credits than XP. The idea would be similar to on-site refining and the early gas extraction of escort duty. The idea would be for 5 gas wells to spawn in a large chamber, players call down gas collectors that pump their individual well into a balloon, before launching said balloon after a certain amount of gas is collected. Each refinery gets 10 balloons before the well is tapped, HOWEVER the refinery attract bugs, and can be attacked and destroyed. A destroyed refinery can not be repaired or rebuilt, nor a new one called down, while a damaged refinery can be repaired. Another mechanic that could be added would be the passive damage that occurs to the refinery while working, similar to the rock crackers, just on a slower scale.
Also just to add more player agency, the idea that each refinery can be started and run at different times. So players can choose to defend one refinery at a time, ensuring they get maximum credits, or run all 5 refineries and risk losing one or more.
I love Doretta even more knowing the glowup she had, but still love her silly early phase
ngl, mega cave sounds hella cool to see, like giant cave.
2020 July added the first iteration of the Ommorian Heartstone.
46:30 The Drilldozer's early name of J.E.B. may have to do with the name Jens Emil Bil on the side of that early showcase model showed earlier, maybe it's a reference to a dev?
12:47 - you mean the eggsploit?
i'm not sorry.
Kudos on the amount of effort and playtime these videos take. I'm wondering how you get access to all these dev builds?
this is g0nna be good imma get some food and watch this
Wait, doretta’s head appears next to the gun terminal?? Holy shit!
Honestly I would love to see the super colorful omeran make a return as a super rare azure/biozone exclusive variation
Oh i hope a blue heart stone comes out for Halloween because it looks so pretty in blue
Mmmmm jawbreaker heart stone
I remember one time when I was playing this game in a biome there were 2 mining expedition mission
I remember those static missions... back in closed beta
maybe they can bring back Search & Extract as part of a future season, where you have to find a season-specific objective instead of morkite. Would be neat to at least have the name back.
I had a really weird start in drg because the tutorial mission had the scout not the gunner I remember using the emps and the shot gun
But fr though that mini-molly surrounded by cryomines was a anxiety shot if there ever was one. Only worse thing would be seeing 3 nemesis-s (....nemesi?) Next to a cave full of leeches.
I love this series
Great Video
it would seem that part of the video has become inexplicably dated now that morkite geodes are around
what part of this video is dated?
That concept art is all gorgeous. Is that available somewhere?
I really hope they add more dreadnoughts with season 3, like a infected mold dreadnaught or something.