Deep Rock Galactic's Hardest Mutator... 

I'm gonna go with "not bringing cryo grenades as Scout into Mactera Plague"

Bro's gonna have major war flashbacks next time a mactera appears after that catastrophe 4 minutes in

Ahh Mactera Plague, the bane of any dwarf's existence right after shield disruption & low o2.

“I’m safe” -> “what the fuck am I talking about?” is actually a true combo

Taylor surviving that mactera swarm in the sandblasted corridors made me laugh like pfhrhehe which I didn't know I could do

The primal terror that seemed to posses you any time the mactera showed up made this video very fun to watch. Even if you and your friends didn’t learn anything, I know that I will now always be bringing snowball driller to mactera plague.

I love these videos because I know I’ll watch 3 teammates die while this guy clutches repeatedly. Carl would be proud.

I think we learned that someone needs to pick Gunner :). Great vid as always!

i periodically come back to this video because its super legendary. theres so many incredible moments. the taylor goes mental saga. the forbidden mactera song. WHO ARE YOUUUUU. its all here. i never wanna see a mactera ever again

As other people have been saying a gunner is always a great idea however I think keeping James away from toggle-able mission objectives might be helpful as well

9:35 i just love how the pickaxe hits are in sync with the song

Can we talk about the absolute masterclass of scout shmovement though?

Another fun video. This game genuinely causes real primal fear, especially each time the horde of 10+ of those Mactera show up. It's great you were able to turn it into a funny, memorable experience, even if it might've been painful at the moment.

That swarm got Taylor so bad he turned into a Psychicpebbles character

Great video, but I just wanna give a shoutout to this man's GODLY aim popping flicks on mactera crit spots like its going out of style

Important lesson learned: maybe having a Gunner is actually a good idea

fr i love your videos the crew and how you put so much effort into them.surprising that you don't have more subs, Keep up the good work!

You and I play scout the exact same way and I love it, I can only hope the squad learns *something* from this mission. Happy as always to see an upload from my favorite DRG creator.

We leant that James should never be unsupervised at any moment.

After a few analysis, i can assure that we learnt that... something iron will... shoot the flying stuff... dont all die... cover is needed from all mactera...

Well since you are playing Scout in this video, I would give a scout specific suggestion of bringing the crossbow with pheromone bolts next time you go into mactera plague. One to two bolts into the mactera swarm will do wonders to buy you and your team enough time to wipe the mactera relatively safely. While it might be a bit riskier (you still have to dodge until the other mactera start aggroing on the ones hit by pheromones) than compared to something like the cryo grenades which kills mactera instantly, you get to hold a lot more bolts with the right mods and it can last you a lot more encounters both when you are with your team and when you are alone.

Life leason: some things don't give lessons, just warnings.

I can't wait until your team comes into contact with the new mutator of "DUCK AND COVER". You'll need therapy afterwards.

Solid "always bring a gunner and a scout on Mactera Plague" the shield is very underrated I find

9:34 is peak with the sync to the music, even with a pause in between beats

Every time I see a new vidéo of you showing up I always scream LETS GOOO since you are one of the only deep rock galactic youtubeux who doesn't make only one or two vidéos on it just to tell us what the game is about.

I find myself revisiting this video quite a lot, your gameplay while panicking is suprisingly good for being in such a sticky situation

you’ve learned that James can’t be trusted without a shock collar on to zap him every time he does something stupid

Bring a gunner, and group up during swarms. These two simple rules will get you through any mactera plague.

Man your vids makes my day better by interesting interactions by you and your friends,nice job!

I have to say after the one time I had a Mactera Plague on an Elite Deep Dive's final stage, it is now the most dangerous one I see. People underestimate that one so much unless you can blaze through the level fast enough

I've binged all your DRG videos, and they're SOLID. From the editing to the gameplay. 👍

Since I haven't seen it mentioned yet, the number of swarms you get depends in the total number of eggs - 1 in a 4 egg mission, 2 for 6, and 3 for 8. Every egg popped causes at least a small wave, but you can at least know whether or not there are anyore full-sized waves whek you get to the final few eggs

As always the editing on these videos is phenomenal, great job! Thank you for all the extra effort!

the most innovative gameplay commentary video I've seen. your narrative intros are genius, and the reactions are dope!

Am I the only one that noticed that during 9:35 the hits of the pickaxe matched up with the beat of the music

James totally could have dug a hole to hide and funnel the macteras in for some easy kills. It's the reason why Driller is my go-to for Mactera Plague missions

This video marks my life event of laughing the hardest i have ever laughed for the past 3 years. I have never been so amused by anything since before lockdown. "I got to get out of here man" had me unable to respire because i was laughing so hard my core was spasming and forcing every millilitre of air out of my lungs. Your comedy legitimately almost knocked the air out of me. It was like a gut punchline

Things that are good against Mactera plague for each class: Scout: Cryo Nades and aggressive venting Plasma carbine Engi: PGL, breach cutter (can inflict stun), and plasma burster grenades. Driller: Snowball and C4 Gunner: Neurotoxin Thunderhead with Suppressive fire. Each of these has something in common; Fear infliction. Mactera have no fear resist so explosions will always scare them (anything that can cause fear will scare mactera.

The major mistakes i see are 1) not using your heavy attack to clear enemies and preserve ammo and 2) not killing enemies after you boomeranged them. the boomerang is top tier on mactera plague if used right. even if you only stun half the group, that's only half the projectiles you need to dodge, and the stun lasts for 8.5 seconds, quite a long time. Just discovered you and been binging your DRG videos. They're excellent, keep it up!

Most important lesson learned from this is to never bring someone named James to an excavation.

This is one of the best channels on DRG. I love your videos and your friends. Thank you for the pleasure of watching and I hope that you will continue to make such cool content!)

Flight of the Macteras

First video of yours I've seen and I gotta say it's a treat!

Whenever I see a tri jaw, I yell it's name in comms in a goofy way like its my arch nemesis

The lesson i noticed was stick together, bring cryo to mactera plague, and make sure you have some crowd control for them (stun, fear)

I recently had a mission similar to this (not a mactera plague, but more that we had 0 ammo for most the mission and had to rely on our pickaxes, and the mission lasted over an hour with almost constant swarms), and it ended similar as well: I was the last one alive and a trijaw domed me. I can relate to the “I just want to cry” feeling. Sad rock and stone.

Flying bugs are indeed the worst bugs

and this is why you bring a gunner for mactera swarm missions

I think what we learned is that you were straight carrying with that snipaa (good shots). Not every day you see a scout with practically double the next persons kills. That cryo nade critical error mentioned in another comment might’ve netted you another hundred kills.

Almost got me believing you would somehow survive and clutch it again at the end lol. Once more great edits and vid !

the lesson we learned is to pick gunner and bring cryo shit with the other classes when theres a mactera plauge

This is a really good video, love it. Earned my sub lol

Just when the world needed him most he returned! (Great video bro glad you're back)

as a gunner main i can never rack my head around people not wanting to play gunner

More Time Stamps [and notes] (Spoilers, Probably) 1:34 Animal Abuse 3:47 Letting a Gopher Play Scout [This has happened before on another video titled “Deep Rock Galactic’s Worst Performance Yet”, with Lumiin on Driller.] 5:18 Driller With No Drills [On Sandblasted Corridors of all places. Then again, I don’t know if Driller Fuel takes “terrain toughness” into account, but either way, when in doubt, just pick it out.] 7:33 Why Did We Start Incident [Advice to any Greenbeard reading this: Do NOT make this mistake. Thank you.] 8:39 Mentioning Ark Survival Evolved in Front of Sliceman [Props to Alex who got WHOMEGALUL’d, as the kids would say] 9:50 James [I’m glad I got to see more of James, actually. He wasn’t able to shine as much back in “The Unknown Horrors of Hoxxes IV”.] 12:52 James. Again. [This is me looking forward to the other faces of the Taylor Cinematic Universe that have not yet a lot of screen time in DRG, such as Zagreus, Gab, Jake, Mutt, and any others I might have missed.] 13:20 Taylor doesn’t revive Anna With all that said, this mission is definitely going into the VoD review. Rock and Stone.

4:05 - Alternative Title: The Mactera Mafia has come to collect what is due.

Yooo, new vid finaly! Can't wait for your content from season 4!

what we learned always bring a gunner for haz 4 and 5 missions and cryo builds for mactara plague

Ya know, in this case Bunkers do focus all the mactera into one chokepoint and allowing everyone to focus fire (And ofcourse dig an emergency tunnel just in case)

100% resonate with james (least in this vid, first time view to this channel c:) human weasel, able to somehow eek away from every n any situation even in 200% panic, able to squirrel from metaphorical branch to metaphorical branch with minimal hiccups tabg was my awakening and resting place as weasel king, rest in peace you beautiful bastard rolls eyes)

Without doubt one of the best DRG youtuber. Thanks for another banger !!

10:30 some next level kiting, holy shit

i love ur videos this outro was brilliant

I like this modifier :) very fun

like 9:27 i love how the pickaxe hits where on beat

You would not believe your eyes If Taylor uploads at sunrise, makes the world better as I fall asleep ❤

Moral of the story DON’T BRING JAMES and also have a gunner I guess

Very well made video. Thank you for making this.

I laughed so hard when the mactera horde flew down at you. As a driller main, I suggest u and friends try drilling a hole into the wall and bring a cryo weapon, retreat into the hole whenever flying enemies swamp in, an U-shaped hole would be a good idea in case a bulk came out of nowhere. Rock n Stone Brothers !

4:05 this section is like a cartoon character getting chased by bees lmao

i believe you have learned that james is a detriment to your survival

Nameistaylor you are the most professional scout i have ever seen, my conpliments

The stun C4 in my support slot when mactera: Kaboom?

I enjoyed watching this video.

The "Uh oh" 's are music to my ears

Always have a bunker ready near you during mactera plague

Yo wtf this is so high quality for your amount of views! Here's hoping the algorithm blesses you brother

I honestly like the Mactera. It temporarily changes the game from a horde shooter to a cover shooter. And both positioning yourself behind cover and firing back at their giant, juicy guts is really satisfying once you learn to juggle that with evading Glyphids. That's really the issue, if you can consider it one. They change the game significantly compared to other enemies.

And thats why you bring a snowball cryogun and all the cryo nades you have to the mactera swarm missions(and probably a gunner too)

"macteras aren't that bad"I thought with level 10, nowadays with level 102 and I saw mactera plague in Hazard 5 I know what it is to lose sanity (and it was still shield interrupition)

I've watched this video multiple times so that if I ever have to deal with a Mactera Plague I know precisely what not to do.

I'll go with not bring embedded detonators, field medic, or cryo grenades, to this situation, especially since you KNOW you gotta revive people CONSTANTLY in these kinds of friend group situations, and also know you gotta bring quick pain, and also insta kill mactera because no shit honestly another driller with cryo cannon would be better than a second scout at least as well

Funny that you would mention Ark in a video about mactera when they recently added a creature that has the abilities of every mactera type.

As stated by many people cryo grenades but cryo driller and if you have the overclock cryo minelets on your scout for the zukovs is another amazing way to deal with the flying bastards.

After this video, you bet Taylor is always running cryo grenades.

This was some PEAK war movie shizzz right there !!!

We learned “Avoid Mactera Plague missions”

MacnCheese is what you get with Gold and Mactera mutators.

It's crazy how long you lived for that was some god gaming

I'm very intrigued by how you spontaneously develop new accents when put under a severe amount of stress.

Bronzie gameplay is always so fascinating

4:04 this is why i still run cryo nades

Damn, he is nice with that m1000.

Movement. I noticed the rest of the team stood still and took the shots. Downs could have been avoided if everybody moved more. Genuinely good video though. I personally have panic dreams about macteras.

This was an enjoyable watch :)

Sliceman would be an ark fan getting angry quickly at that point in time

At least now u know that Haz 5 is where even gray beards die

This reminds me when I had to fight around a group of 50 mactera and lost horribly

bunker upwards into a wall as driller at a 45-50 degree angle if it gets really bad. while it makes it harder to hit weakspots, the mactera will group up & will usually hit the walls of tunnel they just flew up more then you. If you see any weakspots while in this bunker setup; they have a clear shot at you so take them out first.