Deep Rock Galactic: Boomstick Breakdown and the gigachad's ghost 

edit: As of season 4, boomstick now has a fixed reload delay of 0.4s: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JyBZNxHvtS4.html This is a reupload because for some reason the processing got stuck the first time. Sorry to BeavisOfArabia for catching a stray there, in retrospect I was mostly just irritated at the person calling everyone else dumb while they were completely misinterpreting the SCC tooltip. (But also, please try things out before recommending them.) Other drg test/info videos: ru-vid.com/group/PLqTo6tQ9tCOrABARyls3C94qzGo6TW3h_

I am a firm believer that "Unga Bunga Super Damage" weapons are some of the funnest in the game - Hyper Propellent/Jumbo Shells User

Starts talking about special powder. Rocket jump waltz starts playing. I love this channel.

Your thorough testing and dry humour has quickly made this one of my favourite DRG channels. Keep up the great work!

I loved your polite little rant about people making assumptions or simply spreading false information. I spent thousands of hours mathing out all of the damage interactions and testing practical uses of skills/weapons in the Monster Hunter series. People would ask for help farming gear and designing a set to help them improve and then proceed to argue against my every suggestion. Sigh, I loved helping but it felt like a war against ignorance at times. One stat at a time man, you're doing great work. Thanks for these awesome uploads.

UPDATE: DOUBLE BARREL HAS BEEN REWORKED AND IS NOW A VERY FUN AND STRONG UNSTABLE OC WHICH BOOSTS YOUR SHOCKWAVE DAMAGE BY A LOT ADDITIONALLY, THE TIER 2 RELOAD BUG HAS BEEN FIXED.

rocket jump waltz fit so well when you were talking about special powder. edit: I'm talking about 19:34

0:56 oh wow, I didnt know that! the entire reason why I use zhukovs is because I thought they were better at killing swarmers than boomstick. One minute into the video and I already learned something new. Can't wait for the videos on the other weapons.

The beginning rant of this video does a good job of highlighting my persistent issues with GSG's weapon balance philosophy. They seem to be perfectly content to leave things objectively unbalanced so long as enough players are using the weaker option. Even if the whole reason players use that option is due to sheer ignorance. Here's hoping this video can gain some traction and impact the pick rates on Quickfire Ejector enough for GSG to do something about it. But in a world where they've left the poor GK2 essentially untouched for several years I just don't see it happening.

Chad move to say the plural of Mactera is Mactera. The official pronunciation is Macteras but saying Mactera as the plural just sounds so much better

Special powder ruined every other scout secondary for me. I feel so immobile without it.

Finally a video that explains the reload speed in DRG. I kept seeing numerical values for reloading speed and rate of fire and always assumed they were flat values in seconds, but not 1/(value) = x seconds for each stat.

14:58 ”Your boomstick jump killed 47 innocent lootbugs. Someone has to pay for your crimes, Scout. Who's it gonna be?” *_- _**_-Driller-_**_ Gunner_*

The amount of hidden, counterintuitive or just wonky interactions and oftentimes bad tooltips makes these videos an invaluable resource. Also, I think your style is just perfect for these. Definitely looking forward to the next video. P.S Thanks for getting Blistering Necrosis fixed, it's quite fun to use now.

Love your weapon breakdown videos, i find that a lot of the in game text doesn't fully explain weapon dmg and interactions so your videos help a lot!

"Oh you know, just gonna do these for fun because people enjoy them even though they are old weapons and everyone know's everything" Proceeds to blow peoples minds with Double Trigger fuckery explained in detail. Love your content dude, keep it up :D

Double barrel should just double the pellet count and shockwave damage then ammo count to 1shot per reload and ammo by 50%

Deep Rock is such a weird game, as that you always find out that something isn't working as shown on paper. Never would've assumed that attack speed factors into reload time. Good video and gave me a lot of insight into this weapon I never managed to get warm with. I probably still won't use it much, but at least I do know some things if I decide to now.

absolutely demolished those commenters Lol

These weapon breakdowns are extremely helpful for new players like me, most of the videos like this are years old and outdated

I saw this uploaded earlier, now I can watch it lets goooo

I love how you started having Team Fortress 2 music playing when talking about Special Powder. Given that all I've had to do to explain it to people who don't know what it is is say "You know the Force-a-Nature from TF2?" and people instantly get what it does, that's very fitting.

I have a couple hundred hours and I'm over level 100 and I'm kinda ashamed how much new stuff I learned here. After my total greenbeard phase I never really used it because it felt so weak compared to zhukov's with cryo minelets OC, but knowing all this now (especially the firerate problem) I can't wait to try it out once more after such a long time (especially once I get special powder). Thanks! :)

YES THANK YOU!!!!!! I cannot wait for the rest of the weapon breakdowns. They're so useful to understanding how the weapons actually work

Really glad to see you looking at all the weapons. It's great to have some math and theory put into practice to come to a better understanding about what works and what playstyle works. Can't wait to see more!

I'm so glad to hear you're doing more of these. I love how in depth and thorough these guides are. I have around 600 and a half hours on DRG by now and I never knew about a lot of the information you make light of in these videos; for example damage type percentages, resistances, the reload issue with the boomstick mod, and especially blistering necrosis pre-patch. Anyways, thank you for continuing this series, I can't wait to see what's next!

Great video. Mod and OC breakdowns with build suggestions. Exactly what I want to see. You promote the weapons so well, this video really made me want to pick up the Boomstick again. And it's been so long since I've used the Boomstick, I even thought Double Barrel and Double Trigger were the same thing.. ugh..

That was great. Can't wait for a video on the GK2 and the Gunner primaries.

I really appreciate the guides. Every time I think I have this game figured out, I realize its more complicated than I previously thought. Its also super useful to see multiple opinions and to have them properly defended

_The Rocket Jump Waltz_ cutting in at 19:32 was perfect. I trust this will return when covering the PGL.

You're doing god's work here! Amazing, simple and efficient presentation. Keep it up man, you're helping A LOT!

23:16 scout’s voice lines go really well with the doom ost

Great, clear breakdown of the broomstick. I also paid very close attention to all of the music. Excellent choices throughout.

These are really valuable to me, explaining mechanics that I never even realized were there

I think the problem when it comes with testing out builds in the field vs testing them out on paper is that players don’t test them out on high enough difficulties. If it works on haz 4/5, it’ll work on haz 2. If it works on haz 2, it won’t necessarily work on haz 4, and probably won’t work on haz 5

Great video all around. Always nice to get some in depth information on weapons and mods without having to go on a 3 hour long wiki binge and testing spree. Looking forward to future videos of this series and specifically really excited to eventually see your organized thoughts on the Totally Not A Space M1 Garand™️.

Man, the amount of work you put in those videos is astounding, I'm in love with them. There might be a chance they'll fix the reload delay problem after this, because the devs seem to pay attention to your channel, as they said during the last DevStream that your Wave Cooker video was a great help on fixing the Blistering Necrosis OC (if you want to check, they start talking about it at 11:55, and you're directly mentioned at 12:32).

I didn't even wait for you to say "If you've been using Quickfire Ejector, you should switch to Double Trigger immediately", I had already opened up Deep Rock and switched on all 5 slots after your initial example vid.

Jumbo shells metal montage had me jumping up and down, that was so sick. Love your vids, keep it up!!!!

That doom music at the end was perfect! Love your video's they very well made, and I love the pro math life you got that!

LOVE these breakdown videos, especially looking forward to the PGL! hopeful to potentially learn something new about it

The fear mod might sound bad on paper, but it can be extremely handy in a real game. Scout can struggle with sustained damage due to being constantly swarmed (and so he has to grapple away and find his footing again), but shooting with this mod in the midst of a swarm can give scout the breathing room to take out praetorians, wardens, etc with his primary.

Great and informative breakdown, hoping for more breakdown content in the future. Keep up a good work!

Excellent breakdown on the Boom Stick. Very nice pointing out some builds and gear mods to take for optimum performance. I fixed my builds as a result of your video! Looking forward to more on other weapons. 👍🏻😁

Thanks for making these weapon breakdown videos. They're really informative and fun to watch. Honestly I never really make 100% serious thought out build because it's so intimidating to have to consider the effects of each overclock and tier of mods on the weapon as a whole and this really helps puts things into perspective.

Oh man, the background tracks, the sarcasm, the Moral Orel...perfection! ❤

Recently joined DRG, thanks for the video, noticed you added the Rocket Jump Waltz while explaining the Best OC , nice addition

Damnit man, rocket jump waltz will always get to me after 2020 no matter the context

Love these videos you make great content and its great seeing what insights you have with way more hours than me

The Jump Academy music during the Special Powder overclock is GENIUS Wholesome and very useful video! Thanks

really good vid, ive always used quickfire ejector and now im pumped to get way more capability

Dude how is this the first of your videos I've seen? Love the in-depth analysis!

As a new player, these vids are lifesavers, thank you! Excited to see the rest!

I miss the doom gunner mod so much. It’s still with the old modding page. Came with a unique OC for the broomstick that really gave it that doom feel. Was it a balanced mod? Hell no. Was it fun? YES.

love this vid. I saw it before you took it down but couldn't comment before. more like this please!

that thumbnail alone makes me want to find a doom music mod for drg, thanks for that, i didnt know i needed that in my life

I had already subbed mid video, but I subbed again for that BFG Division during the Jumbo Shells exposition xD

i love this breakdown series. hope more to come

Thanks so much again for these amazing videos man, I’m sorry when they end

amazing, thank you. can't wait for the other vids in this series.

Got my sub, hoping to see a breakdown like this for every weapon!

Great video. Big eye opener for me, especially on T2. Can’t wait for more hot takes and more ancient gamebreaking bugs coming to Jacob and Johann’s attention in this series hahaha

Your music choice is always spot on

19:32 I'm so happy you put Rocket Jump Waltz as a background music.

Loved the doom music in the montage at the end

Bro, thanks for doing this. Very informative, plus, cool doom-theme.

Thanks Man, this gives me new view on the Doomstick

Great analysis & editing as is tradition, big thanks for all your content. I'm compelled to put my two cents out here after watching your vid because I've tried both upgrades and keep coming back to faster reload on boomstick when I'm running Special Powder. The self-propelling force of a single shot is almost always enough to get me where I need to go, and using the faster fire rate upgrade usually results in me firing both shots on accident when I only needed one. That niche scenario where you've fired one shot and want to reload quickly comes up a lot for me when I am boomstick-jumping into or out of a situation and want to reload midair. I think with discipline and practice I could get more consistent about not accidentally firing off both shots when running RoF upgrade, but between the base stun chance of the boomstick & the focus on mobility over killing power of a hoverclock/special powder scout that extra killing power doesn't feel as handy as having a smoother "feeling" midair reload. I think this video highlights very clearly how the RoF upgrade is objectively superior to the reload speed upgrade, but I figured I'd put this comment here and see if any others agree with me that the reload speed upgrade "feels" more compatible with a mineslave/objective-crusher/full-mobility/ammo-stingy scout playstyle. This opinion of mine is in contrast to the phenomenon you addressed of people promoting build choices they haven't actually tried. In my case I've put hundreds of hours into both options, and the subjective experience is not congruent with the "truth" of the way the upgrade choices are balanced. Sidenote: I am now interested if the link between reload delay and RoF is a deliberate design choice by the devs or an unintentional consequence of coding restraints. I do not know enough about computers or game design to have any intuition of the matter. It just sounds like a huge can of worms at face value given that animation cancelling and various reload/recharge features are present in this game. Rock & Stone!

Subbed for the rocket jump waltz. Great taste.

Playing Rocket Jump Waltz for Special Powder and BFG Division for Jumbo Shells? This is why I love your videos.

Didn't know the little one had a lot of things with the T2 mods. Thx for the info!

Love your channel, hope to see more soon !

Every day is a good day to hear classic doom music and watch DRG weapons breakdown videos

a shotgun review with a classic doom ost as a bgm? what could be more perfect

Thankyou I had no idea that double trigger was just better than quick fire ejector so I’m going to change my build now

Using the underhalls music (Doom 2 level you get the Super shotgun on) as the backdrop for this is amazing. Sub

Great video, never realised I was running such an inefficient build before and yes, I was using quick fire ejector and double barrel (it’s my only overclock for the boom stick so far)

If it weren't for the recent taser bolt fixes/buffs making the crossbow so much fun, this video would make me want to switch back to the broomstick. Also great music choices for every single section 👌

Lol I was a quick fire Stan for a long time. Thank you for showing me the light

I love how you started playing Rocket Jump Waltz when you got to special powder. Awesome

This is the best DRG channel on youtube. Love it. Rock and Stone!

Doom music very fitting for the double barrel shottie video! I highly approve.

Great video loved the jumbo shells part of it

Most excellent! Looks like I'm gonna be carrying more broomsticks across all my builds!

Dude, when Rocket Jump Waltz kicked in, I couldn't help but shiver and salute. Godspeed, you magnificent bastard..

The more of your videos I watch, the more I'm baffled at how DRG is *this* pants-on-head about the way stats and functions work. I've been using Quickfire Ejector for so long only to learn it doesn't do as advertised because of funny hidden reload numbers. That being said, thank you so much for making videos like this that not only set the record straight, but also goes the extra mile in DEMONSTRATING that your word is true. And on a similar note, thank you for the update videos whenever a patch retroactively changes things you show in a previous video.

Every vids a banger, R&S bro

Your use of Rocket Jump Waltz was excellent sir

Thank you for breaking down the guns, I usually use engi and scout was my least favorite. But after watching this I am excited to play with scout. I hope you do all of the guns, I would love to see the rest of engi's guns as well as all the other classes.

The doom soundtrack in the background is such a nice detail

I love these videos.

absolutely love this videos, thanks a lot

I learned a good bit watching this. Thank you Lazy Maybe.

theres a surprising number of hidden mechanics on these guns. these videos are both educational and interesting

Hi, a very cool and informative video. I will rework my loadout immediately. I am very exited for more videos like this 😬

Weapon breakdowns on old weapons too? very nice

Doom music, both the one from the first two games and a modern track from the Jumbo shells section, is just icing on the cake

You Sir are quickly becoming my favourite DRG content creator. Right after Karl and Usteppin.

It's videos like this that are singlehandedly swaying my desire on who I want to play. I've only just started about a week ago and been mainly Engineer, but the Big Damage that Scout is able to do is making me rethink what it is I wanna main. All the classes have something that seems cool to me, but getting to absolutely delete chunks of a Dreadnaught is pretty dang enticing

Honestly the best channel for this game, and to be honest at this point I simply like you too much not to watch any other content you decide to put out. Deep rock is a great game cause it manages to have fun gameplay even when you don't have the most practical loadouts, but I always had that itch to get to the needy greedy of things while being too lazy to do it myself.