Deep Rock Galactic News

[h3]Hello Miners,[/h3]

Happy New Year! This patch contains a fix to an issue with our implementation of the modding support plugin - that affected anyone who had interacted with the modding support system (whether or not they had mods enabled or installed). Hopefully this will also fix some of the rubberbanding we’ve seen reported. Woooo…

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

[h3] — PATCH NOTES —[/h3]
- Fixed sabotage power cable lights turning off in some cases
- Fixed that refinery would sometimes spawn underneath the drop pod
- Fixed a crash caused by missing savefiles
- Fixed overlapping mission objective icons
- Fixed crossbow radial damage sometimes not registering
- Fixed damage on fire and cryo bolt for crossbow
- Greatly reduced modding plugin performance impact per frame from 3ms down to 0.5ms for solo lobbies, and to 0ms for missions and multiplayer lobbies. This also means you can no longer inspect the modding menu during missions or while you are playing with others.
- Fixed lost pack room sometimes not generating after helmet scan

[h3] — KNOWN ISSUES —[/h3]
- Inconsistencies with O2 replenishment on Low Oxygen warning missions

[h2]Hello Miners,
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You did it! Deep Rock Galactic has been nominated for a Labor of Love award in the 2022 Steam Awards! From the bottom of our hearts, Thank you.



Voting has begun, so please vote for DRG. It would mean the world to us. Because, as we said when we were nominated, this truly is a labor of love.

By the way, we hope you are enjoying our latest Labor of Love offspring - the Yuletide Event. We’ve seen your reactions both here and wherever you post awesome DRG content, and it warms our hearts to see you having this much fun with everything we managed to cram into this event. Especially how you’ve managed to clear a good amount of Yuletide Elves from the caves of Hoxxes. There are still more left though, so let’s get to it, Miners. We’ll make Hoxxes as Elf-free as can be by 2023.

We will also be taking a bit of time away from the Studio between now and New Year. And we will be back and well-rested in 2023, hard at work on many more exciting new updates for DRG. We are not quite ready to talk about those yet, but we promise you will be the first to know once we are ready. They will be exciting. We promise.

In the meantime, let’s get voting. Rock and Stone!

With Love
The Ghost Ship Crew

[h3]Hello Miners,[/h3]

This patch contains a couple of fixes, most noticeably fixing a crash that would happen with meteors, returning the power cables to Industrial sabotage and buffed some sounds effects to be 68% better.


With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

[h3] — PATCH NOTES —[/h3]
- Fixed a crash caused by meteor rock crackers not able to find a spot to land
- Fixed that Industrial Sabotage would sometimes not have cables between the vault and the power stations
- Fixed a bug that allowed the minigun to fire faster than its intended fire rate
- Fixed audio being low after a meteor impact nearby
- Tweaked sounds for enemies not in view
- Fixed a typo in the Coil Gun description
- Fixed a typo in the Mega Power Supply OC description
- Fixed typos in the Mactera Brundle and Glyphid Web Spitter entries in the Miner’s Manual

[h2]Hello Miners,[/h2]

Yuletide is here! And as we promised, we have a very special surprise for you during this event.

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You can earn all of this in the second Yuletide assignment, the Yuletide Elf Hunt. Yes, part of the surprise is more work. You’re welcome.

For good measure, and because there is so much content this time around, let’s do a rundown of everything you can experience during this jolly time of year.

• TWO (!) assignments, the Yearly Performance Bonus, and the Yuletide Elf Hunt.
  
• A hefty reward and cosmetic items (so many items) for completing each assignment. Completing the Yearly Performance Bonus earns you the Reindeer Games headwear. And completing the Yuletide Elf Hunt earns you the Yuletide Elf Suit + Headwear, Chillaxe pickaxe set, and the Yuletide Special Bosco framework.
  
• Double Season XP when you catch and deposit a Yuletide Elf during one of your missions. A fitting reward for keeping the caves of Hoxxes elf-free.
  
• Space Rig decorations to put you in the best of Yuletide moods. Including snow substitute, for friendly snowball fights.
  
• Presents may appear in the caves of Hoxxes. What do they contain? Only one way to find out.
  

Thank you for another wonderful year, Miners. We are so grateful for your support. We will be taking a bit of time off ourselves during the last week of the year but will be back again at the start of 2023. We initially did not plan on making a lot of the features listed above for this event. But once we started, we couldn’t help ourselves - again…

We hope you will enjoy the Yuletide event as much as we enjoyed making it. Merry Yuletide, Miners - and a happy New Year. You have worked hard all year and management is proud of your efforts.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

[h3]Hello Miners,[/h3]

After a lot of convincing B.O.S.C.O. finally agreed to go to anger management therapy. He will not throw large gems and eggs through the map anymore. Additionally, the Huuli Hoarders should no longer scream your ears off from the afterlife and the crew has learned how to spell “catalyst”.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

[h3] — PATCH NOTES —[/h3]
- Added new pass for procedural setup to prevent issues when generating objects in caves
- Fixed a bug where plaguehearts deposited in the drop pod triggered tentacles to come out of Molly
- Fixed a bug with the Assignment Board not showing the correct mission icons
- Fixed Huuli Hoarder screaming after dying
- Fixed being able to carry objects and fly on the cave angels at the same time (The prompt to ride it should no longer show, if you are carrying an item)
- Fixed a bug with The Abyss headwear not showing any eyebrows
- Fixed some translated strings
- Fixed some spelling and grammatical errors
- Fixed the % number on the minigun ammo display not updating directly after resupplying, but only after firing the gun
- Fixed inconsistent comma separator when using mineral trade terminal
- Fixed the heat/ammo counter on the Cryo Cannon Milspec framework
- Fixed Party Hat - Year Two headwear changing hair color depending on skin color selection
- Fixed player characters rolling eyes when reloading
- Attempted to fix biotank stuck bug
- Fixed debris lights on Plague areas
- Improved small meteorite carving when falling through terrain multiple times
- Fixed plaguehearts having the wrong icon
- Fixed carving for facility data vault
- Fixed a bug when trying to shoot while using Hold to Sprint for clients
- Hot rock no longer shows up as a status effect (No red lighting icons on enemies)
- Added logic for the rock cracker pods to avoid refinery pipes
- Fixed Bosco ending up in a weird state when picking up pinged things before Bosco can get to them
- Fixed Bosco sometimes making large items fall out of the map
- Fixed bug where Deep Dives with Industrial Sabotage could be ended before completing both missions causing the Deep Dive to fail
- Controller Options: 1. Moved 'Swap Left/Right', 'Turn 180 Degrees', 'Previous Item', 'Open Chat' from Controller Bindings to Controller. 2. Turn 180 Degrees is now off by default