Deep Rock Galactic: Bulldog Breakdown (and ricochet+blowthrough jank) 

It looks so sexy, please no more mods next time. I now have to clean up my floor because the model looks so good.

Never thought removing the handguard would be so beautious.

@LazyMaybe Do yo have a compendium or screenshots of your dwarvey builds? You've got so much articulate knowledge of the game and I bet with your pub-carrying experience you could put together quite the codex.

@@timesathousand I've thought about it before. But, the reason that I try to frame builds in these as recommendations with bits that may vary based on preference/playstyle is because I want to give people information to make their own builds and point them in the right direction-rather than just copying down a build. I feel like a list of setups would be leaning more in the direction of the latter.

Now I just want western themed frameworks.

**Low rolls homebrew powder and lives** "You know what, I do."

This is a great comment. It’s just that.

@@SkyNinja759 **shoots you 3 more times** "Well too bad."

Here's what I've gotta say about the Six Shooter Overclock: "6 shots. More than enough to kill anything that moves."

*incoherent bug noises*

“Yes dear”💀

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Which wouldn't make it an autocannon, it would make it a heavy machine gun with very very low rate of fire. An autocannon needs to fire 20mm rounds or above to be considered an autocannon, 12.7mm/.50 cal doesn't cut it

@@joaogomes9405 actually it's not just Caliber that determines what class of Weapon. for example, Aircraft armaments during the World Wars. some of them were Equipped with 15mm, even 13mm and "kinda 12mm" Cannons - despite the lower Caliber these were still Cannons due to the Casing and Projectile size. as ofcourse, with Guns, there's more than just one Dimension determining the capabilities of the Weapon! it could be conceivable that the Thunderhead does infact fire 12.7mm Caliber Projectiles, but doesn't mean it's .50BMG Case dimensions, or Powder load, Et Cetera. if you do that idle anim in the game where the Character holds up a Cartridge and plays with it, you can see that the Cartridge dimensions are notably larger than the diameter of the Projectile. hard to really estimate how much with the lowpoly style that forces things to generally be 'chunkier' than would be in reality, but oh well. versus .50BMG, where the Casing is only slightly larger than the Projectile. and then, we don't know what Powder charge is in this Cartridge. .50BMG doesn't tend to be a LIGHT charge perse, but i'm just saying. if the Powder on the Thunderhead is jam packed plus is a more aggressive Formula, that could also suggest a classification change. anyways the point is it's hard to say, and there's many data points that we don't have access to, due to being a zero realism game.

Actually weapon classification is bullshit in much the same way that musical genres are. They are a useful categorization for purchasing customers and moralizing politicians, not for objective understanding. Love Taiiats comment though. Precisely the spectacles pushing nerd ass comment I come to the internet for. That sounds like an insult, but it's not.

Which is weird because the description for elephant rounds says it fires modified auto cannon rounds

Did the same. Except I told my team to stay in an area as I try to lure the dreadnaught to my area and be the tank. Using my mini gun, shield, clusters, and pistol to keep it on me as they lay waste. Quickest kill and my HYPEST moment ever.

Critical Weakness doesn’t affect Dreadnaughts

​@@edcellwarrior It used to a LONG time ago. Like, years maybe. Edit: Based on a quick Google search, Critical Weakness affecting dreads was around as late as 2021. So, you're correct that it NO LONGER affects them, but it used to. It's pretty well documented in videos, reddit posts, forum posts, etc.

Elephant Rounds and Six Shooter actually get you very similar results in damage output, but Six Shooter tends to be a bit more reliable and versatile about it imo.

​@@TheSpeepYeah but Elephant Rounds trigger the dopamine in my brain when I one shot a Menace on a critical weakness mission

@@haikei888 Oh without a doubt Elephant Rounds on Critical Weakness is very fun. Do try Volatile Bullets on that as well sometimes tho, pop some into a burning Bulk Detonator if you get the chance. Its a good time.

Yep. Magic Bullets was my first Bulldog OC and it's so fun that I honestly can’t bring myself to use any of the other ones. I don’t care if Volatile Bullets or Six Shooter pairs better with my build, I just want to shoot superballs at my enemies.

The Bulldog's innate stun is also great as a lifesaver with Magic Bullets.

i normally go the direct damage hurricane when using aoe bulldog. Direct damage hurricane feels really good.

It's so nice to be able to just shoot at the general direction of a web/acid spitter at the top of a pitch dark ceiling and hit it. Really helps in the heat of the moment. It also does pretty okay with swarmers.

@@woobi4739 Yep, it’s a great panic button. Speaking of small enemies, one of my favorite ways to use MB is swatting shredders out of the air by ricocheting shots off the terrain. And with explosive rounds, it'll even take out multiple with a single shot if they’re grouped up tightly enough.

or for old folk returning to the game

they should also add that blowthrough on super cooling chamber for m1000. Unlike elephant, It has way too many downsides for its uspide, it could use a buff to its versatility in the same way, even more desperately.

@@krustin it’s getting a buff this season, I think it’s a weak point multiplier so it can really bully large bugs with focus shots

@@Hrrrrrrrrrreng Been running the buffed scc recently and having a blast.

What if the rounds are some kind of hollowpoint, that basically just turns the bugs (or scouts) insides to mush?

Didn't expect to see you in this comment section.

think you'd ever play DRG?

@@nickolasrealmjumper5172 I have over 1,000 hours in it :)

@@ImKibitz It's only the fault of I who decided to compress a response into a smaller message only to miss phrase. I had meant to ask if you have or may at some point make videos on DRG.

Fine, but I got sick of ER pvp since damage is so high and the world design doesn't accommodate multiplayer all that well.

@@LazyMaybe hopefully you'll give ER another try now that they've added all the pvp balance patches!

I would genuinely hate that. Frankly, I hate that there's a revolver in the setting at all. It's incredibly anachronistic, especially when today, in the modern world, revolvers are already obsolete and have been for 30 years. Revolvers in sci-fi that's not specifically a space western is like a fucking fatman from fallout being in a mideval fantasy game. They don't belong and shatter immersion.

@@MeepChangeling okay 🤠

@@MeepChangelingdeep rock galactic isn't exactly a tactical military or pmc...

@@MeepChangeling L take

@@MeepChangeling This is a game where you can drink beers that make you shrink, explode, or teleport. If you care that much about applying real-world logic to it, the Bulldog’s existence should be the least of your concerns.

Pretty true, I noticed that while fire is a good mod on any gun, actual high value targets like bosses or rival tech usually either aren’t affected by it, or die instantly. Certainly an effect that’s a coin flip with powerful targets.

Makes sense

I guess it's also balanced in that you pretty much have to either build heat on your primary, expend limited incendiary grenades, or pretty much resign yourself to living permanently as a tumour on Driller's ass to leech off their fire spewing tools - and out of those three scenarios, I don't know if there's really a choice other than option one if you want to be efficient or self-sufficient. If being anything other than a one-trick, fully pyromaniac gunner is what you want to do, then Volatile ain't it, chief.

i'd really rather bosses be able to be set on fire, even if it meant VB got gutted. Certain enemies just ignoring an entire game mechanic screws so many different builds (crispr on elimination lmao), all for the sake of one OC on one weapon? :/

@@stripey566 oh i certainly agree myself yeah, at the very least i find that dreadnoughts being immune to being ignited is very strange, and either way VB is very, very strong against anything it works on. could use at least a bit of tuning to bring things closer to the middle

That sounds ridiculous, i need to try that, behold, discount coilgun.

The revolver doesn't even revolve. 3/10 game borderline unplayable.

@@agentoranj5858 nah it just revolves faster than you can see it I like to imagine that even the mechanical aspects of the bulldog is absolutely over the top insane and if any other dwarf even fired the gun, if the recoil doesn’t break their arm, the fast violent mechanical movements of the gun just shatters their hand

@@ricecooker7037 i like to imagine it just spins so fast that the ensuing pressure propels the bullet

​@@agentoranj5858This game has a lot of those little annoying weapon model problems. The mags doesnt change size when taking mag size upgrades. The bullets in Thunderhead mag aren't moving, the amount of bullets in M1000 clip is ALWAYS eight, the bulldogs cylinder always has 4 bullets no matter what overclock...

@@sagittarius5114 I think the Crossbow OCs are the only ones that change the appearance of the bolts.

Elephant Rounds is nice, but where it becomes really nice is on Critical Weakness missions. Watching a Praetorian's entire healthbar just disappear in a single shot will never not be fun.

@@TheSpeep does the same to oppressors as well

It’s literally the best series!

Now imagine two drillers with CRSPR and burning nightmare, two gunner bulldog boiz with like any of the primaries (they’re all good.) and now it becomes a game of bulk execution speedrun

yeah the feel of the gun is so good using elephant rounds FEELS so good because of the sheer recoil and damage it has

You've articulated so well why I love the bulldog. It does the highest base damage of any bullet-based. non-explosive weapon in the game, and has a massive weakpoint bonus. It's just so beefy.

Persoanally prefer the deepcore with the hyper propellant oc, fucking railgun that will insta kill damn near anything

I love to reload in battle!

"Ocelots are proud creatures they prefer to hunt alone" "There's nothing like the feeling of slamming a long silver bullet into a well greased chamber"

Revolver Ocelot (Revolver Ocelot) [Ocelot with his revolver)

Exactly my go to bulldog with the minimum for single target damage. But I will try the ricochet mod, never knew the explosion triggers twice, nice

ive used that exact bulldog before! very fun

It's kinda lame that they just looked up the strongest acid and named it after that. There are plenty of cooler sounding compounds that are also strong and scary acids, like piranha solution.

This didn't age well lol

Hopefully it will be worth the wait and have incredible production value, but i'll be happy as long as it's released

Omg that's me after 700 hours played! Literally my last OC in the game. And to think I was thinking of building a fire gunner build when I first got my OC.... Burning hell... 😵

Yep. Rolls ricochet once for each shot and the ricochet splits off the main bullet path, which turns invisible.

​@@LazyMaybe Another question: When using blowthrough with chain hit and bullet hell, which have 75% chances to proc, does hitting multiple valid targets in a single shot increase the odds of ricochet proccing? Say, I shoot a grunt with bullet hell and theres only terrain behind him, will the game "roll" twice to see if a round ricochets from the grunt I shot? I ask because the DRG wiki states that hitting multiple targets increases the chance for a ricochet shot and tracer to appear off the first target in a line

@@SomeKindOfFish It only rolls for the ricochet once, and if that roll is successful it will ricochet off the first thing it hits. So, it's always 75%, and never ricochets off anything besides the first thing in the bullet's path.

@@LazyMaybe thank you for the clarification. Seems like the Wiki is straight up wrong on that interaction then.

Sandbox utilities, Damage text and Better time control are the important ones.

@@LazyMaybe Thanks

Volatile Bullets really can just delete enemies under the right conditions, but it requires some building around it to really be good, and imo can feel a bit unreliable at times, but being able to just drop a detonator in a single magazine is, of course, delightful. Its a natural fit for a full fire build of course, but the problem there is that aside from really big guys like detonators, most stuff is pretty dead by the time youve lit it on fire already if you light them with the minigun or the hurricane, and again most stuff aside from detonators isnt really worth spending an incendiary grenade on a single enemy, which most grunts, macteras and the likes already barely survive anyway. Furthermore, if youre gonna make a fire build, youre gonna want to bring it to missions with rival robots, but those already just die the moment theyre lit on fire, so VB again doesnt do much there. The 4x dmg is absolutely insane when you can get it, but it does take some setup to actually make use of it. Now of course, if you have a driller buddy with a flamethrower on the other hand, that part of the story changes drastically!

@@TheSpeep Exactly this. Some people claim Volatile Bullets is overpowered, when in reality it's just another build option that leans into high risk vs. reward. If it truly was overpowered, I'd be seeing it often, but I can't tell you the last time I saw someone use it.

@@SFuruli Yeah, it can be a very strong OC no doubt, but its one of those that requires you to center basically your entire build around, because if you dont you end up with a worse version of the main gun that suddenly fails to one- or twoshot a bunch of stuff it used to. Its very situational and not super reliable or versatile, which would otherwise kind of be the Bulldogs main strengths.

Yeah you're right about the 1/3 of your ressources being spent on burning a bug... But did you know that the gunners missile launcher can inflict heat? I personally like it because you can literally burn anything and since it is homing you can easily say that you *will* burn anything anywhere in the caves. So fun and balanced 🙃👌

@@comradpingu5745 Yes, I explicitely mentioned the use of primaries in my first comment with the line "doing a not insignificant amount of up front damage with my primaries". As in I don't value the added damage for the Bulldog as highly when I am already doing a bunch of damage with a primary weapon first. I know what allows the overclock to trigger, why it's good, and what it's good for. I just don't think the setup is insignificant enough for the overclock to be considered overpowered.

@@Evan.13239 I personally think that nothing is truly overpowered (maybe exceptions but I don't know more than a few) volatile bullet is just on another level of extreme potential and capability, it just outclass most other OC with the only exception being magic bullet but I won't count it because it is almost a complitely different play style, volatile is strong mostly because it does not ask for much in return for its Power, burning a big enemy and shooting its weak point is something you will do almost if not every time you have the opportunity to but volatile bullet just makes it easier and better to do, it isn't particularly stronger than 6shooter or magic but the draw backs being almost non-existent makes it feel like a direct upgrade without problems or play style changes, I still use 6shooter because of ammo and grunts head-shot but volatile bullet is ma go to for small to medium lengths mission (it suck's ass on drill dozer and elimination because of the dreadnought being almost completely immune to fire)