Deep Rock Galactic News

[h2]Hello Miners,[/h2]

THE GREAT EGG HUNT is back - so get ready to find some eggs and hunt some bunnies! In true DRG fashion, this Seasonal Event has a lot to offer. Details below:

• A decked out Space Rig which should put some Spring in your step
  
• Double Season XP Bonus when you find and deposit one of the Mechanical Bunnies that have been let loose in the caves of Hoxxess
  
• Not just one, but TWO new assignments available during the event - The Great Egg Hunt and Last Year’s Spring Fashion
  
• 4 obtainable spring-themed hats- 2 brand new hats for this year’s event and 2 from last year
  

Enjoy, Miners. The Great Egg Hunt ends on April 20th, 1pm CET. So suit up, join your colleagues for some egg-stra work fun, and remember to be vewy vewy quiet when hunting that wabbit.

Rock and Stone!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

[h2]Hello Miners,
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Eggciting news! By popular demand, The Great Egg Hunt is returning! The event will start on April 4th, 1pm CET and end on April 20th, 1pm CET.

For those of you who just commenced employment within the last year, the Great Egg Hunt is a chance to eggsperience some Spring festivities together with your colleggs. What can you eggspect from this Seasonal Event, you ask? Well, let’s crack right into it!

[h2]The Great Egg Hunt Assignment[/h2]
For the duration of the event, a special EGG HUNT ASSIGNMENT will be available, and Management is willing to shell out a hefty reward upon completion. And on top of that, Management has thrown in an eggstra assignment - Last Year’s Spring Fashion, Which will reward you with the Spring-themed hats of yesteryear.

[h2]Hats[/h2]
That’s a total of 4 eggsquisite hats you can obtain from this year’s eggstravaganza! The two new hats, Chicken Cap and Eggshell on Your Egg are both obtainable from The Great Egg Hunt Assignment. And put in that overtime by completing Last Year’s Spring Fashion to collect the Bunny Bun Bun and Sunny Side Up hats. Your wardrobe will be filled to the brim in no time! That’s a hard to beat opportunity!

[h2]Bunny Hunt[/h2]
To contribute to the festivities, Longbeard Freight has crashed a shipment full of mechanical spring bunnies into the caves of Hoxxes. Management originally ordered these for decorating the Space Rig, but are now scrambling all miners in an effort to locate them - this is no yolk. Retrieve a bunny while on a mission, and you and your team members will be rewarded with a Double Mission Performance Point Bonus.

Yes, Management should look into alternative delivery methods, but mishaps like these are an eggsellent opportunity to put in some paid overtime. In conclusion - you’re welcome, Miners.

[h2]Space Ship Decoration[/h2]
While these festive work opportunities should serve to keep you all eggstremely busy, we hope you still have some time to eggsplore the Space Rig. The Party Committee has put in their usual bang-up effort into this year’s d’eggorations. Enjoy, Miners!

[h2]Soundtrack update[/h2]
Oh, and before we forget - the soundtrack for Deep Rock Galactic is now available on Spotify. Both volumes, to be precise. Save them to your playlist now!

Deep Rock Galactic (Original Game Soundtrack): Volume I Deep Rock Galactic (Original Game Soundtrack): Volume II

Now, hop along Miners, and until next time:

Rock and Stone

With Love
The Ghost Ship Crew

[h2]Hello Miners,
[/h2]

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!