Why ask? Just play.

Playing with randoms is fine. Just avoid lobbies that have certain names that try to gatekeep who enters, like "Minimum rank ###" or "Promoted dwarves only", etc.

Or host your own and leave it open for others to join. That's what I do, and 99% of my missions go without a hitch.

They are very good. 90% of my playtime is with public lobbies and 90% of the time it's a good time with randoms.

Originally posted by SCamp:

Why ask? Just play.

"Does hydrogen chloride hurt?"
"Why don't you just touch it?"

Originally posted by Chris!!:

Originally posted by SCamp:

Why ask? Just play.

"Does hydrogen chloride hurt?"
"Why don't you just touch it?"

Except there's no harm in joining a pub, which is a social experience that varies by person, region, time zone.

It's not a physical experience with real consequences and recorded data which can be looked up.

Originally posted by SCamp:

Why ask? Just play.

Cause I’m not gonna be on till tomorrow so figured I’d ask

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Playing with randoms is fine. Just avoid lobbies that have certain names that try to gatekeep who enters, like "Minimum rank ###" or "Promoted dwarves only", etc.

Or host your own and leave it open for others to join. That's what I do, and 99% of my missions go without a hitch.

Originally posted by Chris!!:

They are very good. 90% of my playtime is with public lobbies and 90% of the time it's a good time with randoms.

Sounds good, might just leave a lobby open and chill. Thx

Originally posted by SCamp:

Originally posted by Chris!!:

"Does hydrogen chloride hurt?"
"Why don't you just touch it?"

Except there's no harm in joining a pub, which is a social experience that varies by person, region, time zone.

It's not a physical experience with real consequences and recorded data which can be looked up.

timezones matter more than region tbh, the lobbies of my region are chill during the day but during the night its wild, once i joined a lobby with a argentinian calling a russian who was spamming memes racial slurs and it was surreal as ♥♥♥♥

and the weirdest part was that no one was trolling the mission itself, everyone was doing the objectives and stuff, i love this comunity lol

Playing with randoms is fine, just don't expect many people to be too talkative. 99% of DRG's communication happens non-verbally, at least in random lobbies.

Originally posted by zukene:

Sounds good, might just leave a lobby open and chill. Thx

Just be sure to still start the mission if no one joins the lobby while waiting on the space rig. Many players prioritise joining missions that have started. Too many hosts pick a mission then go AFK. Getting that 2nd player can take a bit of time, especially if not doing an assignment mission, but once the 2nd dwarf joins, more often than not you will have a full team within a minute.

Otherwise just join another game in-progress. At Haz 3 & 4 the majority of hosts are chill. Just watch out for "requirements" in the lobby name.

I play pubs about 95% of the time, and join random games 90%, hosting maybe 10%. Been kicked/griefed maybe 5 times in thousands of games.

It's great. The community is overall really chill. Host your own lobbies if you're worried about the occasional ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (just kick em EZ).

My experience in over 200 hours was that Hazard 3-4 is pretty chill. Hazard 5 is where all the sweatlords are and they´ll kick you once you need more than 5 seconds for a thing.

90% of the games are super chill and friendly, 9% is just neutral; as in people aren't really doing silly stuff like pinging mushrooms or spamming r&s but they still get the job done. 1% is just bad lobbies, which can be easily avoided by not joining lobbies with gatekeeping names or hosting your own I said 1% but it's probably less than that

Originally posted by zukene:

My friends don’t wanna play this game anymore so I’m considering checking out pubs, are they any good or am I better off playing solo?

I often play with randoms and the experience is flawless, the people are super nice with each other. Just avoid going to high hazard levels with randoms, sometimes people that just started playing will join and have no idea what they're doing and probably throw the mission.

I actually play online with strangers in this game.

I need you to understand that the last time I did that was the free Xbox live trial that came with my copy of Halo 3. I. Don't. Play. Online.

Online in public lobbies in DRG are some of the most fun I've had in gaming in a LONG time.