Deep Rock Galactic

Masterfully crafted game and the prime example of keeping a game interesting. I love Deep Rock Galactic. It is simple, mindless and repetitive, but it has the ultimate gameplay loop that keeps me entertained for hours. In the basics, you play as a grumpy dwarf that is sent on mining expeditions to collect resources, both for the mission, and minerals to use yourself for upgrading and purchasing new gear. You select various missions, which play in dimly lighted, randomly generated caves and complete your mission, while collecting all kinds of minerals and items to bring back with you to the Space Station. Accompanying you is a “Mule”, which is a robot on legs in which you can store the mission items and collected minerals. Throughout each mission, many different minerals can be found and mined, including rare artifacts and upgrade materials. When playing alone, a drone named Bosco comes with you and can shoot enemies and mining minerals. Speaking of enemies, throughout your expeditions, you are constantly hindered and attacked by the local wildlife called Glyphids. These are spider-like aliens that want nothing but your swift demise. There are many different Glyphids and other alien races that are present at each level and each one is as annoying as the last. There are four classes to choose from: The Driller, which specializes in breaking through rubble and digging tunnels, the Scout, which can light large areas of the cave, the Engineer which can create platforms to reach high places, and the Gunner which obliterates Glyphids in rapid succession. Each class has its unique play style, weapons and tools and, when combined with other players, real teamwork can be achieved. This class design is one of the best aspects of the game. For example, your Engineer places a platform high on the rock and your Scout reaches it with his Grappling Hook and mines the minerals. Each mission earns you rewards like credits, mined minerals and experience. When completing certain tasks, you also earn skill points that you can use to improve your character. When reaching level 20, a special mission can be played to promote your character, resetting it to level 1, while keeping your upgrades and skills. Do this three times and your dwarf has become the best of the best. After 15 levels, a statue will be placed in the Memorial Hall in honor of you. When returning from a mission, you arrive at the Space Station, your hub of operations. Here, you can switch your class, modify your dwarf with a million different cosmetic items, play dumb video games, drink beer, shake your booty on the dance floor and spend your minerals upgrade your weapons and gear, or purchase new items. The amount of stuff to do at the Space Station alone is mind blowing. There are about eleven different types of missions that you can choose from. From simple mining missions to Egg hunts, Dreadnought extermination and Liquid Morkite refinery. Although this could get a little repetitive over time, the constant switching between these mission types, the randomly generated caves and the slightly different secondary objective make the experience unique enough each time. I really like the graphical style of this game. It is cell shading polygon and not meant to be mind blowing, but it still looks pretty nice. The animations are fluent, the controls just work and the soundtracks are fantastic. Later in the game, you unlock Deep Dives and the Forge. Deep Dives are just three missions crammed together in one large mission, while giving you a ton of XP and resources upon completing them. If you are looking for a real challenge, there are also Elite Deep Dives. The Forge can be used to crafts cosmetic item sets or “overclocks” that can give your weapons the little boost they need to become unstoppable. On top of the many, many things that you can do in Deep Rock Galactic, the added seasons and specials events make it even more fun. When Christmas arrives, you can play special Christmas themed assignments to earn unique cosmetics and a ton of resources. You also got the seasonal Terminal, in which you can earn special tokens to unlock new weapon skins and minerals. In harder missions, on higher difficulty levels, hazards are introduced in each level and some of them are God awful, like the Low Blood sugar for example in which you take damage every second and need to kill enemies to collect their healing crystals. Another small complaint with this game is the “High Ground” glitch. Enemies can attack and hurt you when you are above them because of some Clipping, making them stop underneath a platform or ledge, while going full Rambo on you. Meanwhile, you cannot do anything about it. But in the end, I can only praise this game. It got a **** of stuff to do, unlock, collect and experience and keeps you entertained forever because of the seasons, events and new content. Definitely recommend this game!

#Deep Rock Galactic ★★★☆ (7.0) 웰메이드 협동게임. 재미있으나, 딥 락 갤럭틱 특유의 폴리곤 그래픽은 상당히 멀미를 유발함.

characters progression moves like my grandma, But to be fair, the content is fun enough to keep going

lets start from the beginning... you have 4 characters, each with very similar dialogues that it doesnt even make sense trying to connect with them. each having a unique ability that helps your team. here lies the problem, these abilities dont make you feel special. they are almost bug fixes disguised as features, for instance, the cave is too dark? u got a scout to light it up, the terrain **** a s s? you got the engineer to make platforms, too much digging? well you got the driller. there is definitely a theme here, rather than smoothing out these annoying things, they instead give you tools to deal with them. that is not what abilities are, abilities or tools should make you feel special, not fix a problem with the terrain, it should make you feel like you added something to the team, not be a portable bug fix. the shooting feels very awkward, it feels like each bullet has a set recoil amount. so the gun feels like its just jumping in your hand instead of it being smooth but unpredictable. the enemy variety is a lot on paper, but what is the point of variety when the enemies are just spiders or some sort of recreation of a spider. i never felt like i died because of a mistake i did. everytime i get downed, its always because of something stupid that i couldnt avoid. getting grabbed by a monster should be funny and engaging, but here its just a chore you have to wait through. this game is a horde shooter with nothing that makes it feel like a horde shooter. the idea of a lot of content isnt enough when that content is scarce.

The game is really kinda slow at the start. Trust me it gets fantastically chaotic! The best coop shooter since Left 4 Dead!