DRG: Deep Rock's Most Underutilized Tool - A Repellant Crash Course

Be honest - how many of you had genuinely used repellant in premeditated ways, before this? I know I hadn't, before jumping into modded. One of the reasons I fell so hard for modded difficulties was because pushing the game that far meant that oft-neglected tools, like repellant, suddenly started to become necessary, even though they were almost never seen in Hazard 5. There's actually a decent number of things like this, which are really what I found so cool about modded. What are your favorite commonly-available but never utilized techs? There's a good chance modded players use it. If you're interested in playing with more people who push the game to its limits on difficulties who push them to their limits, PDRG, discord.gg/hFkqMXPBzA, is the place to go. I really do encourage you to give it a shot - almost everything in this video was gleaned from people in that server!

I think the most important part of using repellent well is not thinking of it as "where I don't want the bugs" and instead as "where I do want the bugs." If you take the first approach you are more likely to use too much repellent and the bugs will walk over it. Consciously planning what path you want the bugs to take makes your setups work better. Your end slides were great examples of that.

I like to think that there's a scout hanging from the ceiling, with the hud and grappling hook invisible for the making of this.

If compressed gold was a video

The Y axis of my vision suddenly waning anytime I touch a mouse and keyboard

This is crazy, it takes the meaning of the name engineer to another level. You're the structural engineer for the team, the mechanical engineer for the turrets, and the traffic engineer for the bugs!

I used to sleep on it but repellant changed the game completely for my solo engineer, and is a lot of fun to use too. Its like you become a mind controlling wizard just messing with the bugs, its great

I just lost the only person that matter to me and I'm just sitting here watching an item guide for a game I've never played. How did i end up like this

I'm not a modded player, but I try to use repellant on my own. I do not do it very effectively, but I can still feel the impact. I can definetly say that this is the most important engineer video.

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I certainly never overlooked the usefulness of repellent. A prime example is using it to block off the wall behind you while doing the hold position events.

Engineer is my second most played class yet i rarely (if ever) use bug repellant. It makes me happy to know that despite having close to 700 hours on DRG, i still have new stuff to try out.

As someone who tries to use repellant to make turret arc overclock work better this will probably help me a lot.

I've never even played Deep Rock Galactic but this was really well put together and made sense even for me who has 0 clue. Great information and perfect for someone whos actually trying to learn. Thank you I'll have to try it now! :)

The main thing I've used repellent for is to use that Ommoran overclock that causes explosions when firing at platforms, the repellent stops bugs getting in the way when I try to focus on it. Plus the slowdown upgrade also effects the AOE caused by focusing the laser on a platform, slowing down all the bugs around the plaforms just before it explodes. No sure if that's intentional or not but it's very satisfying, and effective.

All of the "sometimes, if you or the bug is too close, it wont work" stuff is why I ignore this upgrade. I tried using it, saw that it wasn't consistent on how it worked, and got rid of it. Good work on explaining how the upgrade works in better detail, I now understand the full extent to how it works. This has reinforced my position on the upgrade.

this is the video that made me finally pick up my least played class and taught me how to really utilize his kit. your tips are invaluable to newer graybeards like myself and i can’t thank you enough. rock & stone!! ⛏️

Ah yes, the 420 FOV, no effects, fully modded PC gamer... Understandable, have a nice day

This is a super valuable video! I use repellant like my best friend, but almost NEVER see other engineers do so. I even learned a fair bit myself! Had no idea about doubling up layers for better effect. Great video, great demonstration! R&S!

you and several others that cover this game are helping me become a better teamate at a much faster rate than i would by self discovery and realization. thumbs up. Many of us WANT to help the team better, we just suck and don't know how yet.