Deep Rock Galactic Season 2: Wave Cooker breakdown 

So glad Ghostship stay true to driller's design philosophy across the new weapons and updates. The versatility in his kit are so amazing I don't want to play anything else.

I thought the fire/ice spreading was the major part of the chain reaction and not the shocks mist, good to know that it isnt

June 2nd's patch changed the Necrosis mod dramatically: Now, they count as a 1.5x weakspot (+50% damage) and if they're on 2x or x3 weakpoint, they'll instead become a x2 or x3 weakpoint On top of this, blisters now properly transfer all overkill damage to the target; it's no longer capped by it's remaining HP.

Damn, knowing how Blistering Necrosis works is actually really disappointing. I do hope it gets patch because it's such a cool idea for a sort of support build.

A lot of people view Blistering Necrosis as a "Spawn weakspots for your team OC" but honestly with the way it works and it is shipped it seems to be another "Complement your primary" option. You get a ton of value with it from your direct stream damage multiplication damage carrying over and the 80 extra damage is some nice burst. Remember, if they got more legs than two, the warcrimes continue

I do think the Colette does, in a number of its strengths, have a lot of overlap with the Drillers primaries, but I also really like just how reliable it feels at longer ranges. I've never really been too fond of the EPC and the Subata only really feels good with the full auto OC to me, at which point it does feel pretty nice but also becomes pretty unreliable at long ranges. So for that I do quite like this as a new option, even if it does feel a bit weird to use since it doesnt quite give the feedback most other guns do when shooting em. Edit: Okay I have found one big issue with the gun after a while, and that is that it does not make a microwave "ding" sound whenever it overheats, and really thats just inexcusable.

About Blistering Necrosis: enemy projectiles can hit and hurt them. If you put a blister in the mouth of an enemy that can spit projectiles, it will block the shot and deal +50% dmg to the enemy itself.

You know it’s starting to seem like the main theme for this set of weapons is meant to broaden utility. They aren’t the strongest weapons outside some niches but they end up providing some support that wasn’t their at the time. And I know many min maxers will see the numbers and think “trash weapon” not seeing this and throw it away. As I think these weapons can be cause for some interesting combos. Having said that, the Wave Cooker has got to be the most complicated tool I think this game has ever seen. And I thought one of Engie’s weapons could of taken that title. But no, this damn thing has so much going on and stuff you just can’t see if you are just looking at numbers and be kind of baffled by. The blisters OC being just the cherry on top of this Erdrich horror of a dessert. So glad this video could end up helping me what I want out of this weapon. Edit: Do got to wonder if those alternative modes would be useful if you use them as the main weapon. Like always being on wide mode, Etc. Wonder how useful that would be.

After running a several missions with it, i very much liked it. Easily, the Cooker is a perfect successor for the Heavy Hitter EPC when used with Sludge Pump. Perfect secondary for the Sticky Flames CRSPR too. Just love the feeling of bursting enemies from the inside out.

I personally enjoy being a war criminal with the sludge pump, tier 3a, 5a, radioactive oc, and neuro nades. Something about seeing all the status effects pile up is just sooo majestic, especially when my fellow dwarves add to it. I had clipped myself melting a bulk dett with my squad, with the slow from both my cwc and my sludge, the acid dot, the neuro from my nades and wave cooker, rads from the oc, electric from my engie and scout, his ifg and pheromone arrow, and heat from engies beamer.... There was like 9 different stats on the thing and it dissolved so fast it couldn't even move 5 meters from where it spawned directly in front of us lmao

I love the colette, idk why it gets so much hate... Being able to clear giant swarms on naedocites from the other side of the map just feels so satisfiying. Also I noticed that the desintegration kill animation prevents exploders from detonating which comes super handy to save your team mates from being sneak upon.

Just did a haz5 with the mega power supply. It was like spraying the grunts with boiling hotdog water. Yeah it worked but I was REALLY regretting not using the penetrant OC.

Blisters got buffed a couple weeks after this video came out - Weakpoint bonuses now apply when shooting blistering necrosis blisters. - If a boil from blistering necrosis is on a weak point that gives a higher damage multiplier than 1.5x the boil will copy the weak points multiplier. - Damage transferred from shooting blisters is no longer dependent on how much health the blisters have left. - Removed the cap for how much damage the blisters can transfer to the enemy at once.

I think the devs knocked it out of the park with this secondary. With boiler ray builds I can finally comfortably take single-target, utility, or ammo-hungry primaries which opens up a lot of builds for Driller. Definitely my favourite of the bunch.

Loved the "not pictured: a team of randoms doing this competently". great breakdown too.

I'm shocked by how much I enjoyed this weapon. Even my unoptimized random builds felt satisfying. The range is amazing and the wide firing scope means it deletes far away small targets. The ammo economy is solid and the sound effects are very satisfying.

Honestly I am growing to like the Sludge Blast and Colette combo a lot. Ice spear is also really good. It also offers a refreshing way to play driller.

love seeing some breakdowns for the new content, i am too busy with work to do the legwork right now so this is awesome

The way this thing shoots reminds me of how the BFG works in the original Doom games

I just came up with the exact same ideas of using the wave cooker with ice spear and sludge blast, super cool breakdown of that idea though and loved the throughly broke down analysis’ thanks for the great content.

I’d love to see someone take the wave cooker and make an infomercial-style video for it, like it’s the latest must-have kitchen appliance and if you call now you’ll get a second one absolutely free lol

Woah this is such a comprehensive breakdown. Love how you discuss how diff builds perform while always considering the cooker's role in your entire loadout

These are the in-depth analysis vids I never knew I needed. Amazing work and thanks :)

Edit: Blistering Necrosis has been fixed! See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TnKzURdC24M.html Also, here's a more accurate explanation of wave cooker hit detection: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UyEQMmi7G5U.html If it's unclear, all footage is hazard 5 and 4-player scaled enemies except for the footage of blistering necrosis, which is hazard 4 1-player scaled so that the damage numbers are straightforward. Other drg test/info videos: ru-vid.com/group/PLqTo6tQ9tCOrABARyls3C94qzGo6TW3h_

This was very well made. The footage fits the information displayed perfectly and makes understanding what difference everything makes much easier to understand.

This has to be one of the best video game videos I've ever seen. You answered many questions and some I didn't even know I wanted to ask. You are the gold standard for videos that explain things, thank you.

Flawless overview of it's strengths/weaknesses, usage cases, scenarios. The video sports excellent BGM too! Recognized everyone and made me smile while being educated on the weapon.

Another excellent DRG weapon breakdown video. Please upload more of these!

This breakdown was incredibly useful and very well put together. I play on haz 3 primarily and I was somewhat disappointed in how this weapon performed when I tested it out. Thanks for giving me some ideas on how to tweak it a bit. I would love to see breakdowns like this for every weapon eventually. Great work.

Great stuff man, love watching technical videos like these. I recommend running the tempshock build with sticky flames, shooting under the target first let's you build heat again quickly.

As a driller main I love this video! Thanks for making such a comprehensive and easy to follow explanation of such a complicated weapon. Would love to see more builds from you as well.

"I love you, kitchen gun!"

love that this vid cleared up the wave cookers damage type and the effect of boiler ray. I had interpreted boiler ray as an effect like shatter for the cryo, but knowing its actually like the t5 crispr mod is super helpful. I was also confused why it didn't seem to do double or normal damage to mactera, doing half fire damage clears that up too. I still think this gun could use some balancing, focus lens seems very useless for not increasing damage potential per ammo or per heat, and tiers 2 and 3 are pretty boring/obvious for a vast majority of builds. that plus the guns weak performance with raw damage makes it pretty boring to build, you generally optimize for secondary effects and sustain and thats it. the dps focused ocs, wide lens, and clip size don't have much use.

Great breakdown, I loved seeing all the testing.

I love deep rock science. Thank you for your service miner!

Great video. Also love the banjo kazooie background music. Takes me WAAAAY back

I notice that the Temp-ShockOTron seems to outshine the other builds for gun, similar to how people almost always run Thinc-Containment-Field on the EPC. Which is a shame because I also like the DoT stacking build but blowing up hordes of fronzen/burning grunts while doing big damage to the big bugs at the same time just seems way better.

So much hard work omg, best educational content channel so far.

That music when he talks about blistering necrosis just says "oh boy I gotta explain this one"

Thanks for the amazing guide 🙏 This weapon is quite simple, but so nuanced to get right. I feel like I never get it right unless I just do the thermo shock mod

The kitchen appliance goes hard

Hell yeah Ive been waiting for this, Thanks Lazy

Damnit this is some legit & important content. Exactly what i was looking for, noice & subbed for more boss 👍

Thanks for "Aurora Palace" from Rabi-Ribi

10/10 vid. Well done, it's crazy that this is free for me to watch

Your videos are so damn good. keep them coming for all the nice games like DRG, Elden ring, etc..

love your explanation and showcases.

Blistering necrosis has been cleanly patched: - Weakpoint bonuses now apply when shooting blistering necrosis blisters. - If a boil from blistering necrosis is on a weak point that gives a higher damage multiplier than 1.5x the boil will copy the weak points multiplier. - Damage transferred from shooting blisters is no longer dependent on how much health the blisters have left. - Removed the cap for how much damage the blisters can transfer to the enemy at once.

Someone with actual insight on how the gun works. Thank you !

Awesome testing man. This is super helpful!

Helpful and very underrated content Cooker was very confusing for me to understand at first but this helped a lot

Thank you for the analytical deep dive!

Great video!!!!!ty for work and numbers on screen!

Thanks for making this video. Though for some reason I felt like power supply overdrive was multiplying the fire rate by 1.5 instead of 2.5, but I had no way to test it.

This is something small, but I appreciate the mod you're using for your damage numbers. It reminds me of borderlands 1 or 2 damage numbers.

One of the effects the T3 temperature mod claims is keeping frozen/ignited targets in that state. I'm curious how well that works on Dreadnoughts? Freezing a dread normally requires pretty tight timings to get the damage in, and I'm thinking of running the wave cooker to extend that opportunity.

Best Zero profile picture + Banjo Kazooie bgm+ ACTUAL DATA ANALYSIS AND EXPLANATION This channel has everything

Man the weapon is so strange compared to anything else in the game. Its a shame necrosis performs the way it does currently. Seems like it could be a very fun over clock with some fixes!

thank you, this gun was sort of throwing me off and you cleared up a few of my questions about it. Now i just need to decide if it's better than my Sludgepump/tox nades/Subata with bounce bullets setup and get some overclocks for it.

YES YES YES I wanted to understand this gun more. Thank you

The Blistering Necrosis boils can block projectiles. I once covered a Hiveguard’s face with them and she couldn’t shoot a single fireball

I could see a pure swarm popper build with it gun absolutely shining in one very specific, but very sought after combination. The Swarmaggedon/golden bugs combo, where you face significantly fewer single tank enemies, but more swarms, where you as a player want to remain in the cave system as long as possible.

Dude your DRG info videos are so fkin unbelievably good. All clips are amazing, wether it's the shooting range mod thingy or the real use clips. That's a shit ton of effort to make this, man, appreciate it very much. Definitely one of the most interesting guns in this game. Before release I thought this would be the least interesting new secondary :D 12:23 thats how I actually use it, the combo to get rid of a group of guards/slashers/macteras :) 19:05 but what if you keep shooting with wavecooker only? How much better than non-OC is it then (on tanky targets)? 19:55 DUDE LOL Current fav: CCBBC-LCS, paired with a BBBCB-TC Cryo, heavily relying on axes for the single target dmg. But after this video I'll try to play around alot with this gun! Notes for myself (I guess I'll watch this at least 3-5 times lol): 5:26 7:12 8:40

Thanks for the video bro!

I fucking heard that Rabi Ribi soundtrack, you can't hide from me

I like to use Gamma lense along side the sludge. If you build it right you can completely remove all movespeed from some big enemies aswell as deal huge amounts of DOT.

Gotta love the banjo-kazooie music

Heard rabi ribi ost, instantly knew was a man of culture.

Very informative, I finally get this weapon

I think part of the Blistering Necrosis mechanics were re-used for Rockpox bugs.

MA, HEY MA I MADE IT INTO A VIDEO. Good lord who knew! Great video and hope to meet you in the depths once more!

This gun is also the best gun for killing fester fleas in big rooms. I’ve had aquarq mission where I stood in place tracking the festers and slowly ticking their health away. It’s awesome too because you don’t have to chase them down as much.

Thanks. I do say i was bit confused with this one. For real, i thought it was underpowered but when i found out how good thermal shock was. I knew it was good.

I hated the driller's first two wacky secondaries when i started playing as a driller. But... After unlocking my personal handheld microwave of destruction, I fell in love with driller finally

Beautiful video. Thanks!!!

I like the Wave Cooker cuz I came to DRG from Warframe and stacking DoTs and Status effects is already ingrained in my DNA.

You're doing Karl's work, comrade, thank you.

100% Best Channel for in-depth DRG info, have this award from me, which ultimately means nothing, lol

Molly getting in the was as per usual at ~7:50 Also, I really have been using this weapon all wrong, and am very glad I clicked on this video. Thank you for the information.

Your videos are great and informative, cant wait for the laser beam

Today I learned. Thank you!

I used this for a while and enjoyed it, but I switched over to the Pistol with auto. I played driller with a more burst-focused damage strategy and it just suited me more. The Cooker is still my go-to for great sustained damage.

"well yes, but actually maybe, but realistically no, but also sort of yes, but also kinda." - these videos in a nutshell

Love this gun so much

This really is a strange weapon. Thanks very much for the explanation.

Until minute 8 this video is so chill

The "can't hit weak points" is a truth with some modifications. It can't deal weak point damage, but it will deal damage to weak points and thereby count towards popping them on enemies such as Mactera Goo Bombers and Bulk Detonators, and more importantly the new Rock Pox-Infected enemies which it will basically instantly kill due to their low weak point health and the fact that they instantly die once all weak points have been popped.

Good stuff, thanks a million.

I think they've fixed blistering necrosis to work properly now. Additionally, a better strategy for using it is adding a weakpoint to an armored portion of the bug then using flamethrower to damage both the bug and the weakpoint. Reverse order also works well, especially with temp shock.

Very informative, thanks.

I like the swarm clear cooker + face melter dps flame thrower. Tons of fun lol

Regarding gamma contamination, I feel like different enemies have different proc chances for the DoT. Oppressors I've shot with it almost never receive the effect, while the odds for rival robots feels much higher than 25%. I've found this OC particularly useful when tagging those wily patrol bots and distant sniper turrets.

Great vid

Uranium lens is simply put, the best overclock.

Thanks for making this video, this weapon is truly complex and confusing, I hope it gets some fixes.

Wave Cooker is absolutely best used as a combo weapon, build it towards blistering necrosis and impact axes, or build it towards hot and cold damage and pair it with the flamethrower or cryo cannon. I'm doing the latter and it's so damn good at taking out swarms and bigger targets. For the latter build, It's no longer about the status duration of your fire or freeze effect, it's about building that status up quick enough so you can swap over to the wave cooker and use it to deal a decent amount of burst damage, which will more often than not get rid of the status on the target in the process, but it's worth the damage output and if you build it right, the burst damage procing on enemies effected by fire or ice will affect other targets near them, which can lead to a chain reaction of you blowing up bugs with the wave cooker. Basically, you're suppose to synergize the wave cooker with the flame thrower or cryo cannon for this build. Whichever one you choose is preference, or depends on the biome you're in. If you want, you can also slap on the contaminated overclock for some radiation dot damage, which from what I can tell procs quite a bit.

This gun continues the trend of most, if not all of driller's weapons violating the Geneva Convention, or being easily modifiable in a way that would do so. About the only safe ones are C4 (and barely so) and the HE grenade, unless it's made of plastic.

One of my favourite things to do is to cover a dreadnaught in blisters, then charge shot with impact damage overclock on the sludge pump. You can nearly 2 shot the twin dreadnaughts like that.

Damn, I'm going to have to try that ice spear + wave cooker build for myself

Could you please share your Ice Spear build for the cry cannon and build for the sludge pump? Absolutely love these videos so far, very in depth.