Hello Survivors!

We just updated the game with a quick hotfix. Make sure you have the latest version of the game 0.2.280d

• Added reroll duplicate protection to artifacts and weapons
  
• The Favourite unstable OC now has explosion radius instead of fire rate for "Hurricane" Guided Rocket System
  
• Fixed an issue where a nonsensical completed milestone would show up on the end screen
  
• Fixed an issue where refunding meta upgrades would show up when starting a run. This also fixed an issue with starting resources from Nitra Cache/Gold Cache would not show up correctly
  
• Fixed an issue where top bar event icons could have the wrong size
  
• Fixed an issue where the Drop Pod could land on top of a Morkite Reactor Core container
  
• Hopefully fixed an issue where the "Fire 150.000 projectiles" milestone could unlock several times
  
• Improved the UI around mastery bonuses
  
• Improved the UI around starter- and excluded artifacts for masteries and anomaly dives
  
• Vita-Miner Pills are no longer available in Bloody Learner
  
• Pause screen no longer shows biome goals when doing Masteries or Anomaly Dives
  
• Morkite Reactor Cores can now be picked up slightly faster
  
• Fixed wrong Mission Control voice lines on biome mastery stages 6 to 9
  
• Fixed an issue where the Weapon Box Artifact would not apply some Overclocks correctly
  
• Fixed an issue where the shop discount was too high on Class Mod Masteries
  
• Fixed an issue where the Weapon Box artifact would only chose from available class weapons, instead of all unlocked weapons
  
• Fixed an issue where the Classic Scout class mod mastery would not gain additional XP from enemies, but would instead get XP from mining
  
• Fixed an issue where the class mod mastery would have too much Shop Discount. Instead you now get 2x DRG Coupons artifacts, resulting in a slight nerf to the discount. (from 44% to 36% discount)
  
• Fixed an issue with the fail safe that kills the boss if it charges off the map. It can still charge off the map, but it should no longer soft lock the run.
  
• Fixed an issue where attack drones would try to target untargetable enemies
  
• Fixed an issue where the reroll artifacts buttons would not be disabled when you had enough Nitra, but not enough artifact rerolls
  
• Fixed an issue where the twin dreadnoughts would not properly transfer health while healing each other. The healing mechanic was always meant to be a health transfer, but with a net gain for the twins. The twin with most life should transfer 10% of its max HP - the one with the lowest life should be healed for 20% of its max HP. Before this patch the health transferring twin failed to take the 10% damage because of the grey health bar - that has now been fixed. To compensate, we have increased both twins base HP from 9000 to 9500.
  
• Fixed Morkite Reactor audio being too low
  
• Fixed Arbalests lava projectiles rotating while the game is paused
  
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• Changed the way facing directional weapons are aimed (Warthog, Subata, Leadstorm). They now directly follow the dwarf's rotation instead of the raw input. This should make it easier to control, though it may feel a bit slower.

Welcome to the third content update for Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor aka. The Masteries Update! This update features new game modes, tons of new artifacts, milestones, achievements, balance changes, quality-of-life upgrades, and bug fixes.

This update makes fundamental changes to the way you gain power between dives and removes the need to first level a weapon to 12 before you can start overclocking them. The goal is to create a smoother progression for new players with less feeling of getting stuck on a Hazard level. Returning players have had their upgrades refunded and will not be able to buy them all back until they engage with the new systems.

If you want to play the update spoiler-free, you should just go ahead and close these update notes and fire up the game. We hope you enjoy it!

Masteries is a brand new game mode in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, where you are challenged to complete a dive with new rules. Expect deviations from the main game in terms of stage count, number of supply pods, Huuli Hoarders, etc.

Besides being fun to learn and master, masteries also reward upgrades to weapons, class mods, and biomes. We’ve tried to carefully balance these rewards to be powerful without feeling so mandatory that you are forced to do them.

Weapon Masteries
There are 42 Weapon Masteries, one for each weapon, and they unlock once you’ve reached level 12 with a specific weapon. In a weapon’s Mastery, you enter a 3-stage dive where you are only able to use that weapon, and no other weapon slots will unlock in the dive. If you complete the run, you will unlock a permanent upgrade to the weapon that will apply to all game modes. This reward scales with the Mastery's hazard level.

Class Mod Masteries
Class Mod Masteries unlock after completing a Hazard 2 dive with a specific class mod, and there are of course 12 of them - one for each class mod. These masteries are regular 5-stage dives, but they come with an array of added challenges, most notably the inability to heal during a stage. That’s right: No red sugar, no life regeneration, and no healing when you level up. These are combat-oriented masteries where the stage area is smaller, there are fewer minerals to mine, fewer supply drops, and many more Huuli Hoarders! Each completed Class Mod Mastery will give a permanent passive bonus to that class mod across all game modes.

Biome Masteries
Biome Masteries unlock after beating a specific biome on Hazard 3. The challenge here is straightforward: There are 10 stages instead of the usual 5. The reward is a permanent upgrade to the specific biome that will carry through all game modes.
Anomalies is a new optional game mode that offers experienced players an added layer of challenge. Each Anomaly offers a unique spin on the core gameplay, but they are not required to increase your power level.

Bloody Learner
In a Bloody Learner Anomaly Dive, you take damage whenever you level up, have +100% increased experience gain, and start your run with a BLT Ration Pack (+70 Max HP, +2 Life Regen).

Hardcore
In this mode, you’ll start with just 10% of your normal max HP, and all max HP upgrades and healing are also reduced to just 10% of their usual power.

Vanilla
In Vanilla, we have stripped you of all your meta upgrade bonuses and mastery bonuses.

No Movement
In No Movement, you can only move for the first 5 and the last 30 seconds of each stage!

During Masteries and Anomalies you will be able to find a new meta currency - Morkite Reactor Cores. Since this currency is used to unlock some of the new meta upgrades and some of the last stages of “old” meta upgrades, we have refunded all meta currency.

Players who have previously “completed” the meta progression will find that they can no longer buy all meta upgrades until they obtain Morkite Reactor Cores. This is part of the Early Access process, and we hope that you’ll see it as a challenge instead of a loss.
Artifact Rerolls:

• Reroll artifacts from the Supply Pod

Trigger Training:

• Increase Fire Rate

Catalyst Boost:

• Increase Status Effect Damage

More Juice:

• Increase Potency

Gold Cache:

• Increase Starting Gold

Nitra Cache:

• Increase Starting Nitra

Multi Tool

• -25% reload speed
  
• +5% reload speed per unique [tag] equipped

Turbo Encabulator

• 3% increased damage for every equipped Overclock
  
• 3% increased reload speed for every equipped Overclock
  
• -5% mining speed for every equipped Overclock

Weapon Box

• Equip an additional random level 6 weapon with a random overclock

Ancient Knowledge

• Instantly gain three levels

Chemist Kit

• 15% increased potency
  
• 15% increased status effect damage

Company Issued Magnet

• Spawns a magnet at the end of a stage. It collects 50% of the remaining XP when you grab it.

Piercing Projectiles

• 50% increased pierce

DRG Coupons

• Gives a 20% discount to all future shop purchases in the current run (excluding healing and reroll costs)

Energy Bar

• 1% increased damage for every player level
  
• -2 to max HP for every player level

The 9 new Artifacts are all tied to new Milestones, but they also each have a Steam Achievement. Additionally, we have added 4 new Steam Achievements for completing a Hazard 5 dive in each Biome. The Hazard 5 biome achievements are not retroactive, so returning players will have to complete a Haz 5 run again to unlock them.

• Unlock requirements for Overclocks have been removed
  
• Biome Goals can now be completed on higher hazard levels
  
• Added a refund option on the meta upgrade screen
  
• The red vines in Hollow Bough have been made slightly shorter. They now scale with the size of the level.
  
• Added a camera shake slider in Settings
  
• Added a damage vignette toggle - this is the damage flash you get at the edge of your screen when you take damage
  
• The Splash video when you start the game is now skippable

• We have identified and fixed large performance issues when mining lots of rock at the same time, so "True TNT + Cluster + Feedback Harness" mining builds should now stutter significantly less
  
• Mining fast in any biome should now feel smoother
  
• Several other systems now have improved performance as well. Damage numbers can still be a performance sink though.

• All Hazard levels have been rebalanced to match the new unlock flow and power increase
  
• Class and Class Mod bonuses have been moved from the Artifact group to the Meta group. When the final stats of a weapon are calculated, different bonuses are grouped together and then those groups are multiplied with each other. Previously, bonuses you get for choosing a specific class or class mod were in the same group as Artifact upgrades, but they are now in the group with Meta Upgrades. This makes artifacts more impactful.
  
• LOK-1 Smart Rifle:
  • Base damage reduced to 55 (was 58)

• Tactical Leadbuster:
  • Base Damage reduced to 24 (was 28)
    
  • The time between shots in a burst reduced to 0.025 (was 0.03)
    
  • Rebalanced Cluster Grenade Overclock

• Krakatoa Sentinel:
  • Range reduced to 4 (was 5)
    
  • Potency reduced to 10 (was 12)

• Spiral Boomerang Overclock:
  • Range reduced from to 350% (was 400%)
    
  • Reload speed reduction increased to 40% (was 30%)

• High Velocity Bullets Overclock:
  • Now also gives 10% increased damage

• The Favorite Overclock:
  • When applied to Plasma Burster, it now gives Explosion Radius instead of Potency

• Shellback Elite:
  • Aim rotation reduced to 30 (was 25)
    
  • Attack range reduced to 9 (was 10)
    
  • HP reduced by ~10%
    
  • Base damage reduced to 8 (was 14)
    
  • Damage tick interval reduced to 0.3 (was 0.5)

• Clipboard of Grudges:
  • Experience gain increased to 7-12 (was 5-10)

• XP Scanner:
  • Now finds experience twice as often

• Fixed the "endless stage" glitch (Sorry Farham, this was always coming). This results in slightly different behavior around the top of the drop pod ramp.
  
• Tactical Leadburster:
  • Fixed an issue where the pierce value started too high, but did not actually update when selecting pierce upgrades

• “Hurricane” Guided Rocket System:
  • Fixed explosion VFX not scaling with explosion radius (visuals only)
    
  • Fixed lingering audio issues with this weapon

• Plasma Burster:
  • Fixed the "Tape Some Nails To It" (extra Kinetic Explosion) overclock not working at all with this grenade

• Shredder Swarm Grenade:
  • Fixed an unfortunate interaction with Artifacts that applied temporary buffs (ie. Armor Grease, Popup Tripod), which made the drones act incredibly janky
    
  • Optimized game performance when using these drones

• Breach Cutter:
  • Fixed a bad piercing calculation that lead to the weapon not having infinite pierce

• Conduit Overclock:
  • Fixed the behavior of this Overlock. Before: All constructs shot lightning at all other constructs. Now: The constructs of the weapon with the overclock shoots lightning at constructs from other weapons (as originally intended. This is a slight nerf to the Overclock)

• Mocap Artifact:
  • Fixed Mocap not being unlocked when completing the milestone on the Twin Dreadnoughts fight (either of the twins will now satisfy this milestone)

• Dreadnought:
  • Fixed an issue where its volcanic spikes would sometimes have no collision

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We also want to highlight an awesome new bundle on our store page. We’ve partnered with Dome Keeper to make a ‘Space Mining Extravaganza’ bundle. Dome Keeper is a roguelike survival miner where you defend your space dome from waves of attacking aliens and dig deep into the planet in search of valuable resources and artifacts. Sounds familiar?
It’s a ‘Complete the Set’ bundle, so if you already own DRG:S, you can get Dome Keeper at 10% off.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/42671/Space_Mining_Extravaganza

Last week we revealed details about Masteries, an upcoming core feature included in Update 03 of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. This week, we’re ready to talk about another headline feature coming in the next update: Anomaly Dives.

As you progress through Masteries and earn powerful upgrades to weapons, class mods, and biomes, you also unlock access to four kinds of Anomaly Dives:

• Bloody Learner
  
• Hardcore
  
• No Movement
  
• Vanilla

Each Anomaly offers unique spins on the core gameplay and is meant as an optional game mode for advanced players looking for a challenge. If you can squeak out a victory, the bragging rights are yours!

In a Bloody Learner Anomaly Dive, you take damage whenever you level up, have 100% increased experience gained, and start your run with a BLT Ration Pack (+70 Max HP, +2 Life Regen). You better start dodging those XP orbs, avoid all pick-up radius upgrades, and let’s not forget the magnets which might just insta-kill you. A good balance of fire power, health regeneration, and a craving for red sugar should get you far.

Once you’ve tried Bloody Learner, why not go for a Hardcore Anomaly Dive? In this mode, you’ll have to be extremely careful with your health, because you’ll start with just 10% of your normal max HP. If you think a BLT will save you, think again – because all max HP upgrades are also reduced to just 10% of their usual power. The last two Anomalies will be a surprise on patch day (or you can read about them in the patch notes). We have a ton of ideas for fun Anomalies to add in future updates and ways to expand this system. Perhaps you do too? Let us know in the comments.

Completing Anomaly Dives does not reward you with a permanent upgrade like Masteries do, but during a run you can find Morkite Reactor Cores which are a new currency. These cores are used to unlock some of the powerful new meta upgrades available in Update 03, such as Nitra Cache which lets you start a dive with some Nitra, or the aptly named Artifact Rerolls upgrade that allows you to reroll artifacts from the Supply Pod at the cost of Nitra. Morkite Reactor Cores are also found in Masteries, because Anomaly Dives are meant to be optional and not a requirement to progress in power level.

Update 03 also adds new artifacts, milestones, achievements, balance changes, much-requested bug fixes, and quality-of-life improvements. And you won’t have to wait long for any of this – because Update 03 is coming NEXT WEEK!

Rock and Stone
The Funday Dwarves

Last week we updated our Living Roadmap with the headlines for Update 03. This time, two of the bullet points would have appeared quite cryptic to you, but today we’ll share the details about the first one of them: Masteries. Masteries are divided into three categories: Weapon Masteries, Class Mod Masteries, and Biome Masteries.

There are 42 Weapon Masteries, one for each weapon, and they unlock once you’ve reached one of its first milestones. In a weapon’s Mastery, you enter a 3-stage dive where you are only able to use that specific weapon, and no other weapon slots will unlock in the dive. If you complete the run, you will unlock a permanent upgrade to the weapon that will apply to all game modes. This reward scales with the Mastery's hazard level.

Class Mod Masteries unlock after completing a Hazard 2 dive with a specific class mod, and there are of course 12 of them - one for each class mod. These masteries are regular 5-stage dives, but they come with an array of added challenges, most notably the inability to heal during a stage. That’s right: No red sugar, no life regeneration, and no healing when you level up. The rewards are worth it though. Each completed Class Mod Mastery will permanently increase the class mod’s passive bonuses across all game modes.

Finally, we have the Biome Masteries which unlock after beating a specific biome on Hazard 3. The challenge here is straightforward: There are 10 stages instead of the usual 5. This might not be Endless Mode, but it can sure feel like it when you dive that deep. It’s all worth it though, because the reward is a permanent upgrade to the specific biome that will carry through all game modes. What the upgrade is exactly, you will have to wait and see.

We’re super excited to bring Masteries into the game. They add a lot of variety to the core gameplay, and the passive stat rewards add a way for players to boost their power level outside the regular meta upgrade shop. In the next post, we’ll talk about Anomaly Dives which is another new game mode, and Morkite Reactor Cores which is a new meta upgrade currency.

Rock and Stone
The Funday Dwarves

Hello Survivors,

Thanks for being patient with us, as we finalized our plans for Update 03! We are now ready to share those plans in rough headlines. As always, we will start revealing more details about our headline features in the weeks and days leading up to the update. Update 03 is still on track for a (late) June release, and it will of course have many smaller features and fixes that don't exactly fit in a bullet point list on a roadmap.

Thanks for your rocks and your stones,

The Funday Dwarves

Hello survivors!

We just updated the game with a quick hotfix. Make sure you have the latest version of the game 0.2.226d

List of fixes:

Q'ronar Shellback:
- Fixed issues where his audio would keep looping in the background
- Fixed missing Elite Kill audio cue when killing him
- Reduced the width of the acid attack hitbox, it was a little larger than the visuals

Huuli Hoarder:
- Fixed an animation glitch with the Huuli Hoarder where he would slide on the ground

Overclocks:
- Fixed an issue where the Disposable Tech overclock stats were calculated as part of the Skill modifier group instead of the Overclock modifier group

Lighting:
- Fixed an issue where the dwarf shadow would disappear when going behind the Drop Pod

Welcome to the second content update for Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. This update features several new enemies, new/revamped boss encounters, tons of new overclocks, and much more! If you want to play the update spoiler-free, you should just go ahead and close these update notes and fire up the game. We hope you enjoy it!

There is now a chance that you will meet The Dreadnought Twins instead of the Dreadnought at the end of a dive. The twins consist of two smaller Glyphid Dreadnoughts: An Arbalest and a Lacerator. The Lacerator will charge you and deal damage in melee range. The Arbalest shoots deadly fireballs at you from range. In higher hazard levels these abilities become more and more intense. The twins have separate health bars and will heal each other if the difference in their remaining health becomes too large.
In an effort to not make the old Dreadnought jealous of the newborn twins, we have given it some new abilities. You'll always be our special bug <3
The first new ability is the Trembling Stomp which shoots out a tight cone of spikes that trap you until you dig through them. The second is the Swarm Bladder attack: A ranged projectile attack where the Dreadnought spits out a cocoon that bursts open and spawns a pack of Glyphids. Much like the twins, these abilities scale with hazard levels.
In Update 01 we added the Q'ronar Youngling and a mini-elite version of it. Now we have the Elite Q'ronar Shellback ready, and it's toxic as hell!
Like its younger sibling, it can roll through rocks, but it has also evolved an Acid Spit attack that shoots a beam of acid towards you.
The Q'ronar Shellback elite can be found on Hazard 2 and up, but only in Crystalline Caverns, Magma Core, and Salt Pits.
Get ready to hear the characteristic jingling of the clown car! The Huuli Hoarder has made its way into the game, and you don't want to miss this one. The Loot Crate it drops when you exterminate it can contain gold, nitra, weapon upgrades, and even rare artifacts.
Finally an enemy that doesn't run towards you.
We have had a ton of requests for more information about damage calculations, so we have added a weapon inspection screen that can be accessed by pausing a run. On this screen, you can see how the weapon works, how the damage of the weapon is calculated, what the overclocks are doing, etc.
We are introducing two new keywords in weapon descriptions: Pierce and Potency.

Pierce is now a stat on projectile weapons. Increasing the pierce stat will increase the amount of enemies that can be pierced by that weapon's projectiles.

Potency is a new stat that affects the amount of status effect stacks that is applied by a weapon (Fire, Electric, Cold, Acid). For example, if you want to increase your chance to freeze an enemy, you want to apply as many stacks of cold as possible, and increasing Potency is a great way to do that.

We have added a bunch of new overclocks. Formatted here with the name and description of the overclock, and then a bullet point list of what weapons can receive the particular overclock.

The last bullet in the clip fires in all directions.

• DRAK-25 Plasma Carbine
  
• "Thunderhead" Heavy Autocannon
  
• "Stubby" Voltaic SMG

Boomerang flies in an outward spiral before returning

• Voltaic Stun Sweeper

Drones rush to protect you when you take damage

• Electrical Defense Drone
  
• Cryo Defense Drone
  
• Acid Viper Drone

Throws grenades when you take damage

• Incendiary Grenade
  
• High Explosive Grenade
  
• Neurotoxin Grenade

You really like this one (different stat upgrades)

• Cryo Grenade
  
• "Hurricane" Guided Rocket System
  
• Seismic Repulsor
  
• LOK-1 Smart Rifle
  
• Deepcore 40mm PGL
  
• Plasma Burster

Fires in 8 directions

• Zhukov
  
• BRT7 Burst Fire Gun

Increased beam length and duration

• CRSPR Flamethrower
  
• Cryo Cannon

Even bigger explosions

• "Hurricane" Guided Rocket System

Greatly increase potency at the cost of impact damage

• Cryo Cannon
  
• Neurotoxin Grenade

Greatly increase impact damage at the cost of potency

• "Stubby" Voltaic SMG

Splits into multiple beams

• TH-0R Bug Taser

• Worked with the transparency of the stats system, highlighting different stat modifier groups with different colors
  
• Added a stage and hazard level widget, so it is now visible at all times during a run
  
• Added more tooltips
  
• TH-0R Bug Taser got a rework and is now a lot cooler
  
• Plasma projectiles works with the piercing stat
  
• Worked on a bunch of explosion and ground zone VFX to reduce screen clutter and improve visibility of other gameplay elements
  
• Added a retry button to the end screen if the mission failed
  
• Equipped Overclocks can now be viewed on pause and weapon inspect screens

• We have fixed a long standing issue where enemies that were under the effect of knockback would take double damage from most sources.
  
• Rebalanced weapons with knockback to account for the knockback fix
  
• Fire, Electrical and Acid weapon tag upgrades now apply extra stacks
  
• LOK-1 locks on way faster, has knockback and improved fire rate, damage and reload speed
  
• LMG Gun Platform now has a clip size of 20 and an internal reload speed of 0.5 sec
  
• Decreased the corrosion spread effect radius from 2 to 1
  
• OC Drone Mining Damage: Increased mining damage from 10 to 15
  
• OC Lead Wrapped Ammo: Reduces fire rate and reload speed by 20%
  
• OC The Favourite: Now modifies both reload speed and fire rate
  
• OC Cluster Grenade: Now also affects potency if the weapon applies status effects
  
• OC Drone Mining Damage: Increased the amount of damage done from 10 to 15
  
• Reduced the HP of regenerating vines in Hollow Bough significantly
  
• Changed the way cold damage can freeze enemies. This results in a slight nerf for fast firing cold weapons, while retaining the awesome freezing power of high potency cold weapons
  
• Rebalanced the number of Cryo status effects a weapons applies to make the new freeze status feel cool

• Fixed an issue where the player could re-enter the drop pod just after arriving
  
• Fixed a bunch of weapons showing too few stats on the pause screen
  
• Fixed an issue where Spitball Infector would shoot once when spawning even from outside the screen
  
• Fixed an issue where loot bugs would absorb all projectiles
  
• Fixed a rare issue where first-time players would not be able to choose a class mod, and had to manually delete their save to continue
  
• Plasma Burster: Fixed Explosion VFX was not affected by explosion range upgrades (visuals only)
  
• Experimental Plasma Charger: Fixed an issue where the projectile would not pierce through big swarms.
  
• Armskore Coilgun: Fixed Beam angle calculation so when using multiple beams, is now properly centered around the target
  
• Shredder Swarm Grenade: Fixed several performance issues with this weapon.
  
• OC Conduit: Fixed several performance issues with this overclock. We now limit how often the lightning explosion VFX can appear when hitting friendly targets, but the damage logic still executes as often as before
  
• OC Conduit: Fixed an issue that could actually cause a game freeze. FPS drops might still occur, but the game should recover. This was especially prevalent when used in combination with Shredder Swarm
  
• OC Drone Mining Damage: Fixed an issue where it would not show up in the UI and could be equipped more than once
  
• OC True TNT: Fixed an issue where grenades with mining damage would do very little mining damage
  
• Audio: Fixed very loud Vine destruction sound when drop pod lands on a whole bunch of them
  
• Audio: Fixed the wrong pickaxe sound playing when mining certain minerals

Last week we let you in on some upcoming changes to the Dreadnought encounter. In the post, we alluded to another exciting addition to the game: A brand-new boss battle. Today we’re going to reveal more details about that particular encounter. Even though we spoiled it in the headline, if you want to be surprised about the exact details of this encounter you should probably stop reading now.

When you get to Stage 5 in a dive, there is now a chance that you will meet The Dreadnought Twins instead of the Dreadnought. The twins consist of two smaller Glyphid Dreadnoughts: An Arbalest and a Lacerator that work together in sweet symbiosis. The twins have separate health bars and will heal each other if the difference in their remaining health becomes too large.

The Lacerator is the most aggressive one. Much like the regular Dreadnought it will charge you and deal damage in melee range. Even though they came out of the same egg, the Arbalest is quite the opposite. It will fire deadly fireballs at you from range while your attention is on its sibling. In higher hazard levels these abilities become more and more intense.

We’ve got a lot more features coming in Update 02 including two new enemies and a truckload of new overclocks, but you will have to wait for the update notes to read about those. We’re happy to reveal that you won't have to wait much longer. In fact, we plan to release Update 02 NEXT WEEK!

Rock and Stone
The Funday Dwarves

It’s been a while since we updated you on the development of Update 02, mainly because we were still cooking. We’re getting closer to a release day, the update is being tested and polished, and some features are pretty close to being done. Among them is the reworked version of our boss encounter: The Dreadnought.

When Update 02 launches, we’re introducing a whole new boss encounter (more on that in a later update) – and to not make the Dreadnought encounter feel like “the simple one” in comparison, we’ve given it an overhaul. The current version of the Dreadnought has one trick in its book: A jump/charge attack. The reworked Dreadnought has two new abilities to accompany the charge.

The first new ability is a variation of the Trembling Stomp known from Deep Rock Galactic, where the Dreadnought roars, stomps, and creates volcanic spikes that shoot up from the ground. In Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, these spikes shoot out in a tight cone that traps you until you dig through or outrun them. This is probably a good idea if you don’t want to be vulnerable to a charge attack follow-up. The second new ability is our version of the DRG Dreadnought’s Swarm Bladder attack: a ranged projectile attack where the Dreadnought spits out a cocoon that bursts open and spawns a pack of Glyphids. The two new abilities will be more deadly in higher hazard levels, just as the Dreadnought’s health and damage scales accordingly.

That’s it for now - stay tuned as we reveal more details about Update 02 which is releasing later this month.

Rock and Stone!
The Funday Dwarves