Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor News

[h2]Hello survivors,[/h2]

We have some exciting news to share!

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor has been nominated for a Golden Joystick Award! 🎉



We’re thrilled to be nominated in the Best Early Access Game category. This would not have been possible without your amazing support!

All that is left now is to bring home the WIN and for that, we need your vote. 🗳️


https://www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoystickawards/


ROCK AND STONE!

[h3]Athletes spend a lifetime training for a moment like this.[/h3]

Years of practice. Endless hours of honing kiting skills, tightening fast-twitch reflexes, building a master’s touch for baiting a Dreadnought into a supply pod.

All this, to get to the place where champions are forged: the Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - Ultimate Challenge Invitationals.

The Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - Ultimate Challenge Invitationals are the absolute pinnacle of sporting competition. This is the highest level of pure performance, where top athletes from around the world come together to prove themselves as the ultimate Survivor. Here, in a live broadcast head-to-head elimination tournament, we will witness eight athletes compete to claim the coveted World Heavyweight Champion title.

The Invitationals begin on Monday, November 4th at 17:00 CET, broadcast directly from the Ghost Ship Games headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. This premiere event features live sports commentary, detailed on-field analysis of the players, and a front-row seat to all the action as it unfolds before you.

This live esports event, scientifically guaranteed to be the most serious and high-stakes and professional one of its kind, is already being described by many sports journalists as “The biggest broadcast since the moon landing” and “So athletically dazzling it makes Michael Jordan look like a baby horse on ice.” It is also one of the oldest-running sporting traditions in history, beaten only by the Olympics and mammoth rodeos.

We hope you’ll join us live on November 4th for the Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - Ultimate Challenge Invitationals, to be a part of the greatest sporting event ever orchestrated in human history.

WHO: A global audience, eight tenacious DRG:S athletes, and a crack team of sports broadcasting professionals
WHAT: The biggest sporting event of the century
WHEN: Monday, November 4th at 17:00 CET
WHERE: Live from Ghost Ship HQ, and all over the world on Youtube and Twitch WHY: To prove who is the ultimate Deep Rock Galactic Survivor.

With Love,
-Ghost Ship Publishing / Funday Games

[h2]Hello Survivors,[/h2]

We’re excited to announce that Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor will be part of Save & Sound starting November 4th!

Save & Sound is an online music festival featuring sales and demos on Steam. It celebrates headbanging soundtracks and unique implementations of music and audio in games. 🎶

We’ll be participating in the festival with a deep dive into the sounds of DRG: Survivor. Our sound designer, Nicolas, will show us how he creates some of the sound effects in the game (looking at you 🧲sound).

📅 Our video will be featured Monday, Nov. 4th at 3 PM PST/ 12 AM CET!

You can watch the showcase on:

• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bedtimedg
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BedtimeDG

Check out the new trailer for Save & Sound 2024 below!
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We're looking forward to sharing some great music and vibes with you. Enjoy the festival, and catch it live on November 4th!

ROCK AND STONE! 🤘

WARNING: This post contains details about Update 04 that might be considered spoilers to some.

In Update 04 we are introducing a new feature to the game called Mutators. Mutators are a system of novel affixes added to a run to make them more interesting and chaotic. They come in the form of positive mutators that will help you in the run and make you more powerful, and negative mutators that will challenge and test you. Here’s an example of a run with two positive and two negative mutators:



You might be curious about where and when these mutators will appear in the game. We have created two new game modes called ‘Vanguard Contracts’ and ‘Lethal Operations’. A Vanguard Contract is a specific set of mutators and run conditions that change every day. For example, you might be tasked with going into Crystalline Caverns as a Maintenance Worker Engineer with the Cryo Cannon as a starting weapon, only able to equip [COLD] Weapons, and a list of mutators like the ones depicted above. Vanguard Contracts can be challenging but you will often feel much more powerful than in a regular run.

Notice anything different (besides the flying dwarf?)

Lethal Operations, on the other hand, are meant to be a proper challenge that you can dive into and “solve”. That’s why it only changes weekly giving you ample time to experiment with different setups or discuss strategies with fellow players. The biome is locked, but you get to pick a class and class mod to test out different approaches to overcoming the mutator combos. How about one where your starting weapon is Cryo Grenades, shop prices are increased by 50%, enemy speed is increased by 45% and you only get two choices when you level up? We look forward to seeing some epic runs.

Will you ever escape the ghostly shellback?

Since Vanguard Contracts and Lethal Operations change every day/week, we do not want to add a reward that will make you feel obligated to play them for fear of missing out on powerful upgrades. We have instead opted to make the dives give a bonus to Rank XP and Credits the first time you complete them. This should make it an optional game mode for any players still progressing, and for the greybeards, we hope you will instead compete on EMPLOYEE REVIEW SCORE - another feature added in Update 04. You will have to wait for the patch notes for more details on that one.

That’s it for now miners. Stay tuned for more Update 04 which is on track to launch NEXT WEEK!

Rock and Stone!

WARNING: This post contains details about the Azure Weald that might be considered spoilers to some.



In order to meet the latest quotas, management has decided to open operations in a new biome: the Azure Weald! Today we’ll talk a bit about what makes this place so marvelous and profitable.

On the surface, the Azure Weald is a stunning blue cave with blue and pink luminescent plants that produce a soft and comforting light. It’s not as dense with rock as Salt Pits, and features no pesky obstacles like the vines of Hollow Bough, making it a fairly maneuverable place. It’s the only cave system with water as a minor obstacle and a surrounding border.


The biome has a few features you won’t find anywhere else, like the glowing crystal formations known as p[[[[[[[{0}]]]]]]]q. These crystals will heal you when you stand near them, but Glyphids gain the same benefit so use them wisely. They can also be destroyed with your trusty pickaxe… or an ill-timed drop pod. You might want to preserve them though, because Azure Weald contains no Red Sugar to heal you.

Another Azure Weald curiosity is the membranes on the ground that launch you into the air when you walk over them. They offer a quick getaway or a daring aerial attack if you’re feeling brave.


The Azure Weald is home to a couple of new Glyphids that are sure to make your job interesting. The Glyphid Mini Exploders are faster than regular Glyphid Exploders, very abundant, fashionably pink, and almost as deadly as their bigger brothers.

The cunning Glyphid Warden is also lurking around between the glowing lichens of the Weald. When stationary, it sets up a Mind-Link that makes all nearby Glyphids take much less damage. You will have to hunt it down to get rid of it, as it is fairly skittish.


The Azure Weald comes with all the bells and whistles of a new biome: Five Hazard levels with three biome goals in each, and a Biome Mastery mode with five Hazard level challenges offering permanent meta bonuses to any runs in the Weald.

That’s it for now miners. Stay tuned for more details about Update 04 which is on track to launch this fall.

Rock and Stone!