Beginner's Guide to Deep Rock Galactic 

Greybeards watching this because sniss makes things fun, I salute you

For any Greenbeards, if you mine out a piece of compressed gold then you should ping it, a lot.

tip regarding the battle pass cosmetics: when a battle pass ends the cosmetics in it will still be obtainable via chests or lost helmets that appear during missions, so don't worry if there's something you really want, you'll find it eventually by just playing

IMPORTANT: When using the Terrain Scanner, press spacebar to have your dwarf turn to align with the view.

A tip for each class. These aren’t all of them, but I find they’re pretty important: Gunner isn’t just the heavy weapons guy. He’s also the team’s best medic. You can revive a downed teammate by holding the action button, but that can take precious time, and enemies will swarm a downed teammate’s body. If you’re in a particularly hurried or dangerous situation, gunner can throw down his deployable shield to safely revive a teammate, causing all bugs within its range to scatter. You can also shoot out of the shield, so keep that in mind. But it’s a limited duration, so be ready to get back into the fight pretty soon. If you’re an engineer, and there is a scout on your team, be sure to use your platform gun to place the pancake looking platforms underneath any minerals that are on the walls or ceiling of a cave, especially if your team pings it. Scout can use his grappling hook to zip over to the minerals, but your platforms let him mine them without falling to his death. (Though he’ll sometimes do it anyway.) The scout/engie combo is one I often see new players not knowing about, and it’s something that pretty much everyone will expect you to learn as you go forwards. Scouts, remember to use your flare gun in big areas. Not those small ones where your small throwable flares will do. I mean the big caves. It can be hard to see your way sometimes, or spot precious minerals or other objectives. A blind dwarf is a dead dwarf. (A slow dwarf is also a dead dwarf, but you already got speed covered, you’re a scout.) Sometimes, Hoxxes’ winding tunnels and cave systems can get a little complex. Too complex to easily navigate, even with the terrain scanner. And what happens if Molly takes a weird route up a wall? You can’t follow that! But there is a solution. The driller. The driller extraction is a tried and true way to get out of a hairy situation. Make sure you have plenty of fuel before doing this, though. Simply look towards the big indicator on where the drop pod is, find the closest wall in its direction, and START DRILLING. Your team will cover you from the rear. Just make sure you stop when your drill heat reaches 99%, or else they’ll be on cooldown for a good while, and you don’t want that.

To clarify, the ‘red’ XP bar is a per-class rank that gives you access to upgrades and deep dive missions as you level it up, while the ‘blue’ xp bar indicates your total account level and is not limited to one class. It also gets you access to more cosmetics and assignments as you level it up.

With season 3 finally out and many of my friends looking for new games, i've had an excess of greenbeards to play with, and giving them the crash course has been actually quite fun! Though sometimes my explanations can be a touch long winded, this video will definitely help with the nitty gritty bits! Oh and for the Greenbeards who aren't my friends and would like some advice, here is some advice from my greybeard from long ago that helped me: Never be ashamed of what difficulty you play on, no matter what anyone tells you. Just because some greybeards play on hazard 5 with blackout stout and pickaxes only does not mean you have to do the same! Play the game on whatever difficulty you feel comfortable with, be it hazard 1 or hazard 5, the game is meant to be enjoyable so do what you enjoy!

Quick thing about perks: The passive perks are purely passive, but the "active" perks have both a passive AND an active part about them, and require a separate perk slot to equip. I was initially confused when unlocking perks because i thought i had to choose whether to have the active or passive part of the perk, but you in fact get both when equipped

150 hours in I've promoted every class at least once, gone on numerous deep dives and have done every mission type and yet here I am watching a beginners guide. Good stuff sniss, Rock and Stone!

A smaller tip I'd give is: even if you're too broke or don't like to buy extra stuff, do still go buy all the upgrades for your armor rig. This is because there's a bar below the upgrades that will fill up every time your purchase an upgrade, and it will give you extra stuff when you buy enough upgrades. The weapons upgrade bars only give you some weapon skins, but the armor rig bar actually gives you extra health, so I recommend you work towards buying all the upgrades for your armor rig when you can for that bit of extra health 😄

i have more than 300 hours in this game, but i still watched this video to the end just because of how good it is. thank you, sniss

One hot tip that took me many hours to figure out is that pulling out your laser pointer will reveal the UI minerals section so you know how much nitra or gold you’re carrying

Here's my tip: Don't be afraid to jump from high places (as long as they aren't lethal falls) as getting a hang of how much punishment your stumpy little legs can take before your shield breaks can make navigating much more manageable, and can even save you if you need to jump away from an incoming hoard to save yourself from being downed if it means only taking a small amountof damage. Most of the environment is climbable so keep an eye out for things such as protruding crystals, mushrooms to make the jump shorter, and even your fellow dwarves you can land on to cushion the fall entirely! You can even slide down any wall with even a slight slope in order to redirect your momentum away from the ground, just beware that you can get too much momentum when you jump and be sent flying down into another death pit.

*Advanced tips for exploration/combat:* - When mining, if you break everything supporting a structure (like the base of a pillar), the rest will collapse. You can mine certain minerals faster this way (ex: breaking the base of an Umanite crystal to mine the whole thing a lot faster). - As Driller, you can smooth out rough terrain for you and your team. Or, on objectives like Salvage Operation, where you need to defend a point, you can drill into the ceiling and walls to give yourselves more room to fight in around the point. - As Engineer, you can use your platforms for a ton of things. Most importantly, making ledges on hard-to-reach minerals for the Scout to safely grapple to. But also, you can seal holes in the floor, or with the Tier 2 upgrade, make soft landing pads to save you and your team from falling off cliffs. If you're quick enough, you can use the latter trick to save yourself mid-combat if you accidentally fall off a ledge. - As Scout, you're the support class. Remember to light up caves often (but not often enough that you run out of flare gun ammo), and remember that all of your grenades are support-oriented. Cryo grenades are especially good at instantly killing flying enemies, or preventing deathrattle effects like Praetorian fart clouds and Brood Nexus spawns. - For Gunner, I have 2 tips. Firstly, use your shields for your allies as well as yourself. Don't be selfish! If you see your teammates struggling, you can toss your shields a good distance to save them. Secondly, you can save yourself from falling with ziplines (if they're already below you). Just hold "E" while falling onto a zipline and you'll automatically catch it - no fancy timing required. - Once you unlock the pickax "power attack," remember to use it often. It's not just useful for combat! A power attack instantly breaks any terrain type, letting you mine faster or quickly create a ledge to mantle onto. An advanced Scout player can use this to make a foothold on a wall without needing Engie platforms, but that doesn't mean the Engie shouldn't still help out! (Also, Oppressors and Mactera take massive damage from pickax power attacks!) - During Dreadnaught fights, it's slightly helpful to always keep the Dreadnaught(s) pinged. This highlights them for the entire team, making them slightly easier to see and hit. - Many weapons have animations that can be skipped to save a bit of time on reloading. The Gunner's Autocannon, Driller's Flamethrower, Engie's Breach Cutter and Scout's M1000 are the most generous, but it's possible with just about any weapon that needs to be reloaded. To do this, watch your ammo counter when reloading. As soon as you see the next mag get refilled, quickly tap the pickax key and let go to skip the rest of the animation. - You can bunnyhop to a certain extent. Anything that adds speed or momentum to you can be carried a little further by hopping right as you touch the floor. Hot magma in the Magma Core and thorns from Hollow Bough boost your speed when you're hurt by them, which you can carry a bit by hopping. If you're using the Dash perk, you can also extend the speed boost a bit by jumping right before it wears off. - In the mission On-Site Refinery, you can save yourself from falling by holding E before hitting a pipe, similar to Gunner's ziplines. - In Point Extraction, enemy waves spawn faster and faster as time progresses. So don't take too long. It only takes about 15-20 minutes for swarms to be non-stop. - In Escort Duty, only 1 person needs to repair Doretta at a time. 2+ people doesn't speed up the repair speed at all. - When running the Iron Will perk, you can self-revive by healing at any time during the perk's duration. This will save you from dying after the invincibility wears off, but also doesn't cancel the invincibility duration either! The Vampire perk synergizes well with this, as you can just melee-kill a single Grunt to save yourself from dying. - And I just wanna mention that Born Ready is my favorite perk. It's basically "backpack reloading" from old games like Half Life. After swapping to another weapon, any weapons/tools that need reloading will reload automatically after a short time. If you can get a rhythm going between weapons, you'll basically never need to reload! This has the added bonus of letting you skip "reload speed" upgrades in favor of more damage or other effects.

I would like to say that I appreciate the fact that you are not afraid of telling viewers about videos on other channels, if you feel those channels can do a better job of explaining certain topics than you can. It's a pretty rare thing to see, and I want you to know that I really like it.

The perfect phrase for this game can be found in the game itself. “Rock and Stone! Never gets old!”

This is actually a tip for all you Greys in here. If you want to help bran new Greenies, just look for them in all the Haz 1&2 missions. This should be obvious to most but myself just remembered I didn't start out doing Haz 3 for ez mode. And remember, have fun! Rock Stone Brothers! (and sisters!)

I recently got my friends into playing Deep Rock, I had to search for tons of videos to give them the best tutorials I could find, this video will work very well thank you sniss the piss

Don’t forget you can jump on top of few enemies, in particular the Glyphid Praetorian. Doing some leapfrog with these guys can help you get to the soft bits while avoiding the puke attack and other beasties around the big boi.

Season Pass advice: Rewards aren't time limited. Once Seasons end the rewards are added to shops and loot drops so if you don't have time/care to grind out the pass you won't miss out. Also the Seasons are massively long, like multiple months, which is great as it allows the devs to properly create new content and lets players complete the pass at their own pace.

god i love helping out greenbeards

just started playing this game, completely overwhelmed by how welcoming and nice everyone is to new players. so rare to see in games right now

1.5k hours in the game here. Sniss pretty much sums up all the basics in the video. My tip: always look for red sugar (a red crystal found through the caves) to keep your health at or near max. It is a common mistake from greenbeards not caring for this, so they end up dying a lot and very fast after they are down for the first time.

An important detail that Sniss didn't mention is to use all your weapons/tools and don't only stick to your primary weapon for two main reasons 1. The weapons and tools are designed for different roles so it's best to even out the ammo so that you always have the tools for an encounter, instead of being caught out not having ammo for the gun best suited for a situation 2. Resupplies don't fill you guns to full but give 50% ammo to EVERY gun/tool and doesn't specify a single one, which means if you use a resupply and you only used your primary weapon you will only get 50% ammo for your primary, and the ammo for your secondary, utility, movement tool, and grenades go to waste

Since DRG is growing pretty quickly, it's nice to see these videos come to help our fellow greenbeards. And to our fellow greenbeards in the comments: ROCK AND STONE!! And welcome aboard the Spacerig!

As a greybeard whos currently at rank 400, my best tip is that you can climb up just about any terrain by spamming jump. If the wall is a teeny bit slanted, you can probably climb it. If whatever you're climbing is too steep, at most you will look like an idiot for a few seconds so its worth testing what you can and cant climb. If you or somebody else plans on getting up or down the slope a few times, it may be best to use movement tools to make the climb a bit easier.

sniss sounds like a drug and I'm totally addicted.

Sniss I love you! This is what the community needed so bad at the perfect time. Just something fun and easy to get them started. Perfect timing my guy.

Big time tip from a pepperbeard: IF you are worried about PURE MAXIMIZING when it comes to dwarf promotions you dont actually NEED to play the class you want to promote as you do their assignment. You can actually use that time to play another dwarf and level them up so you dont "waste exp" or whatever

Im glad you mentioned where and how perks are unlocked. It is an often overlooked part of the game and ive seen many a dwarf without knowledge of how to unlock them.

Something handy to keep in mind is that using your Laser Pointer also reveals the outlines of teammates and certain objectives through walls!

The mushroom pinging clip absolutely killed me

This came out the day I got the game. As a greenbeard this is good stuff, thanks man

1100 hours with full legendary 3's across the board. Glad there's more videos like this for newcomers, i always try to give bits and pieces of information to players i come across.

Babe wake up new sniss video just dropped

ROCK AND STOOONE!!!!

I cant tell you how sick this video was being mad educational and in making me want to progress even more than i already did, im running with a driller build atm and having this brush over everything in the game without giving it all away will really help me decide upgrades and how i want to continue. Thanks man your channels great and ur really helping a lot of greenbeards out haha

You are my favourite You Tuber at this point dude! Your content nails the sound & atmosphere perfectly, & your sense of humour is modest, snappy & dry. Yet your knowledge of DRG is extensively authentic. Thanks for putting the time in to make these. They are special, & I revisit your channel to watch your content a few times lol! If you don't Rock and Stone...

this is a really nice guide, i recently got some people i know into the game, one thing that the guide could use is how to find the big crafting minerals, as that was something they all struggled spotting and digging them out the walls when first getting into drg and maybe where to find the season pass terminal, other than that, this guide seems prefect, keep up the great work

This is a good video like always! There is a lot of information to share in Deep Rock, but this gives a good overview of what people can work towards while also giving some basic but still useful advice!

wow i just started watching and already the intro is absolutely hilarious i love you sniss

bought DRG in this christmas winter sale. this helped a ton plus the editing is sooooooooooooo good. I love it. Not only you helped me educationally, you definitely inspired me artistically as well! Hope 2023 will be a good year for you!

this is actually huge! my friends started playing after this free week/sale, perfect timing

Why am I watching this, I already promoted like 3 of my dwarves 😭

Thanks for the guide to get my duo started!

Thanks man! Loving the first few hours of this game : )

Holy the editing on this video is amazing so clean

Very well made video. Got lots of useful information, which i didn't know about. I tried the game on free play weekend and enjoyed it so much i bought it right away with the supporter DLC, because i never had this much fun ever with a video game. Thanks a bunch for the video. Had a good time watching it. ROCK AND STONE!!!

Me watching this with 300+ hours: Hmm interesting.

Awesome guide! Started drarving about week ago so it's really helpful! Rock and stone!

This is perfect! Me and my friend are gonna try this for the first time today! Thank you for this information 🙏

I‘ve been playing for a while but I watched because your content is so well made. Gotta comment to boost that engagement

this game is so good and im glad there are videos like this to help realise it

THE WOBBLEDOGS MUSIC MADE ME GASP OUT LOUD WHAT

Picked the game up on sale, been looking for this exact video for two days now. Good timing and great video, now to find some fellow dwarfs to play with!

That tab cave map thing is great! I did'nt really know about that. Thanks for the tip. Also some other nice tips in there too.

Just tried this game for the first time yesterday. This vid has some useful info. Thanks! ROCK AND STONE!

A few things for newer players. Promoting - You can play ANY class for the promotion Missions. You do not need to play the class you're promoting to progress. Playing another class will allow you to get both ¢ & XP for your other classes while promoting. While you're at Red Level 25 - ANY XP you earn will be Lost, however you still get your ¢ earned for the Mission. Deep Dives - Focus on weapon overclocks until you have them all. The third or last reward for a deep dive will always be a forced cosmetic, in other words use your Blank cores for weapon over clocks only, until you have them all. Weapon overclocks can dramatically change and or enhance your weapon's performance, and capabilities. Classes - Watch some beginner Class guide videos for each class. Learning the * basics * of all 4 classes and their differences/abilities will significantly improve your Mission outcomes, personal playing experience and most importantly * multi-player * experience. Have fun - This is truly what most, if not all, gaming should be about anyways. Do and play what bring you the most enjoyment. In a multi-player environment, respect the other player's right to do the same.

Thx for all the tips!

I haven't played for a few months so thanks for the refresher 😁

I feel enlightened, thank you

Really cool guide. Can't wait to jump into the caves!

Great video! I loved listening and is def helpful

Wow, this explained everything that deep rock has to offer, Great job!

Just downloaded and started to play today. I grouped up with some random high level players and they were very helpful and nice explaining how some stuff worked and helping me with the objectives. Really cool game so far and I'm considering buying some skins to support the development. Your video really helped me figure out a lot of the things because indeed the game throws you on the missions/ assignments without explaining much in the tutorial. I guess this is kinda nice since I like exploring and finding things as I move along. Thanks again and good luck !

I’m glad you are helping the greenbeards brother!

Great video. I'm glad you spent a good deal of time talking about the terrain scanner and the ping tool. Those are super, super useful tools and when you get in the hang of pulling them up often you will find that you have a better understanding of what is happening and how to move through the caves. New players should get into the habit of regularly tapping CTRL just to see where your team and the resupplies are, and to see how much ammo everyone has, and to see how many resources have been deposited. Pay attention to that nitra total, you always want that above at least 80 (so you can always call a resupply when you need one).

Thanks for the video. I was very confused by this game. This helped a lot.

Remember, if you don't finish the season pass, everything in it will be put in the normal loot tables. So don't worry about it!

coming back to the game after like 8 months, thanks for this

A tip for Greenbeards that wasn't covered in the video. Make sure to check out the Abyss Bar before a mission as the speciality beers they serve can provide buffs for a mission. Such as a beer that gives you an extra 30% health or allows you to carry heavy items a lot better. :)

Just started. This is awesome... Thanks! 😊

Thank you. That was very helpful

A tip I've learned is that if you're clumsy and prone to falling from large heights a lot (or lazy and often just want to get straight to the bottom of the pit asap), equip the hover boots perk and use them to break your fall. It's best to activate them about 5 dwarve's heights above ground because they take a second to actually bring you to a hover

Thanks for all of the insightful point and tips in this game. Just downloaded it on Xbox and am honestly pretty excited to play. Hello from New Hampshire! 🤟💪🇺🇸

The greenest of greenbeards over here (just started last sunday), thanks for the guide! Been making my way through the first assignment solo to get the hang of this, so I'll know what to do in each mission type when I enter multiplayer

That was a really helpful and well put together guide for Beginners like me. Thank you! -Rock and Stone-⛏

Thanks for the video. Recently started playing this game with a group of friends and we are absolutely loving it! But we also have no idea what we're doing, so I thought I'd look for something like this to see what we're missing!

Great beginner guide 👍

Great video, i recently started, super greenbeard over here, i am 3 hrs in and this video helped a lot. Especially i didn't know you can call in ammo :D

Rock and stone, another great vid!

Good vid as always

This video got me back into the game

thanks for this new player guide, its mean a lot for me and my friend that just started to play this game...

Clear, Concise, and super helpful! Thanks a lot, I picked this up the other day via game pass and my friends and I are having a blast. -Sincerely, A Greenbeard

Thanks for the quality video.

Thank you for the tip at 8:15. I'm new to DRG after putting countless hours in Vermintide/Darktide and was suggested to try DRG. I picked up driller first because any class with a flamethrower is an instant winner for me. Great video, it taught me a lot! For Rock and Stone!

Thanks for the video! I've pretty much been playing solo player games for the past 10 years and have been wanting to get back into multiplayer/coop games but do feel a bit nervous/intimidated to start. Sounds like this will be friendly and fun game to start with!

8:25 - Over 550hrs in the game and I never knew that function with marking a waypoint... mind blown

Sniss makes such good videos

Great beginner video 😊

A section on getting back to the drop pod would be great for any beginners guide... things along the lines of making sure you have an easy run back when digging through packed dirty, having drillers be ready to rescue players that are lagging behind, keeping enough nitra to call in a resupply before calling the drop pod, etc, etc.

Good to see this game still going strong just got in a couple months ago with friends

My friend just recommended this game to me since I quit my main game after 9 years of playing. This video really helps out ty

Great video!

Excellent. I just heard about this game a month ago, as a "List of Games you may not know about but should" kinda deal. TLDR I'm new, I'm hooked, there is nothing like this game, period.

The one thing that I highly recommend is when you want to know what something is, point the laser pointer at it, it will tell you the name and distance of everything in the game, and in combo with miners manual, very handy thing.

Bought the game an hour ago. Thanks for the guide.

love you sniss, convinced a friend to grow his greenbeard today. you're an irreplaceable resource on this platform! rock and stone!

What luck! With the game going on sale I’ve convinced some friends to get it and now I don’t have to do the explaining myself!