Deep Rock Galactic News

[h2]Hello Miners,
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Last week, we notified you that the Legacy version of DRG was being removed now that the Five Year anniversary event is over. Our original plan was to have the Legacy version as a fun retrospect into how much DRG has evolved in these last five years. But we heard from a lot of you that you want to keep the Legacy edition around. And that is what we’ll do.

Accessing legacy work differently to how it was during the Five Year Anniversary event – we are moving Legacy to its own Steam Branch. For details on how to access it, see this post. So now you’ll have access to this wonderful time capsule of memories whenever you get nostalgic.

Bear in mind that we don’t plan to update the Legacy version, it will stay as true to how it was when it launched. So consider the bugs to be features – the Glyphid kind as well as the technical ones. And crashes are just a reminder to go play the Live version. What we are trying to say is, now you have the option to go back to the original version whenever you feel like it – warts and all.


And with the past of DRG now accessible at your leisure, we’ll go back to working on the future of DRG.

Rock and Stone!
With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

[h2]Hello Miners,[/h2]

We adjusted hollomite spawning, now there should always be enough to meet mission objectives.
This patch will remove the 2018 Legacy Edition from the default steam branch, but it will be available through a steam beta branch called ‘drg_legacy’. A guide on how to access Legacy can be found here

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew
Season 03: PATCH 15


[h2]--- PATCH NOTES — [/h2]

- Added steam beta branch ‘drg_legacy’. Opt into this to play DRG 2018 Legacy Edition.
- Disabled mission speak when promoting for the second time and onwards
- Fixed Loot Bug Lover victory pose not showing up in crates
- Fixed that the voiceline: "Why is this so fun" was subtitled as "This never gets old"
- Fixed that Mission Control would sometimes not warn about the drop pod leaving
- Fixed a rare bug where not enough hollomite would spawn
- Fixed a few typos
- Fixed a bug with the Romanian translations not getting updated

[h3]Hello Miners, [/h3]

Deep Rock Galactic + The 2018 Legacy Edition on the Beta branch: drg_legacy, here on Steam for anyone who didn't get their fill of v.1 of DRG during the Year 05 Anniversary Event.

Save games are shared between the main and the drg_legacy branch, for both current DRG and Legacy - so no need to start over or change up saves.

Also, since the current version of the game is still included on the drg_legacy branch and will be kept up to date with the main branch - you can play the current version of DRG with Miners on the main without having to re-download the game.

Here's a guide (with pictures) on how to access the drg_legacy branch and launch the 2018 Legacy Edition of Deep Rock Galactic:

1. Go to your Steam Library
   
   
2. Right Click Deep Rock Galactic
   
   
3. Select ‘Properties’
   
   
   
   
4. Select the ‘Beta’ tab
   
   
5. In the drop down menu: Select drg_legacy - DRG + 2018 Legacy Edition
   
   
   
   
6. Click ‘Play’
   
   
   
   
7. On the pop-up with ‘Launch Options’ select ‘Play 2018 Legacy Edition’
   
   NOTE: You might need to restart Steam to make the ‘Play 2018 Legacy Edition’ show up on the list.
   
   
   
   
8. Click ‘Play’ and enjoy the 2018 Legacy Edition

[h3]Those of you who have set the ‘Always use this option’ and therefore don’t get the launch option selection pop-up[/h3]

1. Right click ‘Deep Rock Galactic’ in you Steam Library
   
   
2. Select 'Properties'
   
   
   
   
3. In 'General' click the 'Launch Options' drop down
   
   
   
   
4. Either directly select 'Play 2018 Legacy Edition' or .preferably, 'Ask when starting game'
   
   
   
   a. If you select 'ask when starting the game' you will get the UI in the second image in this post, where you can select 'Play Deep Rock Galactic' or '2018 Legacy Edition'
   
   b. If you select 'Play 2018 Legacy Edition' in the 'Properties' menu then you will have to repeat these steps but set it to 'Play Deep Rock Galactic' to be able to play “normal” Deep Rock Galactic.
   
   
5. Follow step 6-8 from the first part of the guide

To the Greybeards for whom, the Legacy Version were their first encounter with DRG and the Greenbeards who've just joined (and all the beards in-between):

Thank you for joining Deep Rock Galactic - Rock and Stone!

[h2]Hello Miners,
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The booze is gone, the jukebox is full of beans, and the Anniversary event is finally coming to an end after 2 weeks of trophy hunting, free beer, and smooth jazz. We hope you have enjoyed the event just as much as we enjoyed making it. And a most hearty thank you to everyone who purchased the Supporter II Upgrade - it has been humbling and encouraging to read all the wonderful reviews.

A small PSA: We will keep DRG Legacy Edition available for an additional week. It was initially meant to go away with the Anniversary Event, but we’ll keep it around until the next patch, which is scheduled for Thursday, March 23rd. More than fifty thousand of you have had a dive into this janky ol’ time capsule and seen first-hand how far DRG has come in the past five years. And if you haven’t had a chance to try out DRG Legacy yet, well, now you have another week to do so.

Thank you again for celebrating these past five years with us, Miners. We are hard at work on Season 04 as we speak, but more on that later as we get further along in development.


Until then - Rock and Stone!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

[h2]Hello, Miners![/h2]

It’s been a bit over a week since the Five Year Anniversary Live Stream - and our hangover is almost gone. So much happened - we had a look at the past 5 years and what’s to come in DRG, announced three games we’ll be publishing, and also announced the winners of the Hiring for Hoxxes competition! It’s this last part we’d like to recap for you, just in case you weren’t able to make it to the grand event itself.

Let’s dive in, shall we?



On January 16th, we announced a community competition to create a recruitment video for DRG. We made one ourselves to illustrate what it could look like.

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Once the competition closed, we looked through all 195 submissions (yes, one hundred and ninety five!) and selected 10 finalists, on which the whole team at Ghost Ship would vote to find a winner. That list eventually ended on 11 entries - we simply could not trim it down any further. The original terms of the competition were that the final winner would get an armful of prizes, one of them a Steam Deck. But when we got to witness the sheer amount of craft you people demonstrated, the sheer quality of the entries, we pretty quickly decided that everyone that entered would get the new Supporter II Upgrade.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2291670/Deep_Rock_Galactic__Supporter_II_Upgrade/

We also decided we had to add a 2nd and 3rd place, both of which would also receive a Steam Deck. Needless to say, we were having a great time watching all the videos - you can see for yourself, as the Lead Designer Mike and Content Producer Mark reacted to the finalist entries on-stream. Fun fact: Mark is the author of the recruitment video posted above.

In any case, enough faffing about - on to the finalists! These are the videos that made it to the final 11:

[h2]Runner-ups[/h2]

Here are the 7 awesome videos that made it to the finals but didn’t quite make their way onto the podium:

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[h2]3rd Place[/h2]

The bronze Medal ended up being shared between Doomer, a well-known figure in the DRG community, and Not Boogie. They were tied in votes from the Ghost Ship team, and both videos are absolutely amazing. Doomer’s over-the-top action shots left us in awe, while Not Boogie’s take on DRG from the Glyphids’ perspective made us guffaw. A round of applause to you both!

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[h2]2nd Place[/h2]

Coming in second, we have another well-known name: Drilling in the Name Of! We are avid watchers of his videos on Youtube, but this video still surprised us. You can still hear people humming the song here at the Ghost Ship office. Check out the semi-finalist video, in all its musical glory!

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[h2]1st Place[/h2]

It was very close between the top finalists. The discussion was long and heated. But in the end, the WINNER of the entire competition is:

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SuperQuaker

We still don’t know how some of these crazy shots were made. Mark is desperate to know. When we started the competition, we never expected to see a video of this caliber, showing off DRG in such an action-packed fashion. Congratulations, SuperQuaker. Your rewards are well deserved!

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What a competition, Miners! And thank you to all 195 of you who submitted a video. And a hearty congratulations from all of us to all you finalists and winners!

Rock and Stone, Miners! Rock and Stone!


With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew


PS - we collected the finalists into a playlist here