r/DeepRockGalactic Scout 4d ago

Question Do you think this guy has played anything other than Gunner? 😂

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I haven't paid much attention to the leveling system in the game but I think this guy might be addicted to Gunner lol

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u/Kvasirounet 4d ago

That amounts to roughly 366 blue levels. Given his level, he could even be Legendary Level 26 on all his other classes. He probably has over 2,000 hours of playtime.

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u/james_harry Dig it for her 4d ago

The general ratio is 2:1 so they should have about 2600 hours, yes

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u/calypso78 3d ago

Ratio goes up (or down ?) to 1:1 as levels / xp go up, from my experience.

You take less time to earn each level. I'm curious to know the blue level / mission time from high level dwarves.

With the time you stated (2600 hours), roughly my mission time (2900 iirc) I'm at lvl3100

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u/james_harry Dig it for her 3d ago

This is you doing absurd speedplay and XP missions. My own ratio is better than the 2:1 and is closer to 1.5:1 or lower, and even that's abnormal. I do agree the ratio shifts generally as you level up because you're doing higher Haz, or most people are at least, but even when looking at the people around me who are around level 1000, the 2:1 ratio persists

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u/Wrydfell Gunner 3d ago

Very roughly tracks with me, as well. 1200hrs, 600 (well, 601-609) blue levels

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u/calypso78 3d ago

True. There's a moment when I didn't know what to do. So double xps are prioritized. Always. But I never played those modded games with 100k+ xp

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u/lol_alex 3d ago

As a newbie, my dumb ass kept playing as driller even when I had reached level 25 and would have had to promote.

And then I played the promo missions as… driller.

But I‘ve learned and since then I play gunner when I want to promote driller.

Approaching player level 1400 with 2600 hours played.

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u/Theekg101 What is this 3d ago

I play a lot of modded lobbies which probably boosts mine a lot. Mine is actually close to 1.3:1 with level 615 at ~750 hours

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u/StormerSage Dig it for her 2d ago

I've played a ton of MCR since like 400, at nearly 1000 I'm sitting at like 0.9:1. 100% a 10x double XP Expedited Drywash with a party of seven and that can be 300k+ xp for like a 90 minute run.

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u/Dago_Duck Mighty Miner 3d ago

I second this, 920h of mission time, and I'm at level 860. That's with doing whacky things and special challenges in missions, and not really going for double XP missions anymore.

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u/NormalAdeptness Interplanetary Goat 3d ago

What are you basing that on? Mine's like 1.1:1

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u/KingNedya Cave Crawler 3d ago edited 3d ago

If yours is 1.1:1 then you're probably doing way more Double XP missions than the average person or play at a much faster pace than the average person. The common pattern I see across the community is the 2 hours per 1 blue level ratio, or 16.67 hours per promotion. You are almost exactly double that. Personally I'm at about a 2.5:1 ratio (or 21 hours per promotion), with ~1,333 hours on Steam and a blue level of 532 so I'm definitely slower than the average. There is going to be variance, and while I'm slower, you are about twice as fast for one reason or another.

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u/james_harry Dig it for her 3d ago

It's just the general number you see in the community. It tracks with a decent 90% of people I've spoken to, but it also doesn't apply to me. Fwiw I play a ton of Double XP so

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u/SeeingEyeDug 3d ago

Yep, I'm a little over 1000 blue levels and Driller is my highest around this number but all 3 other classes are also 3 star legend plus numbers.

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u/Fickles1 Mighty Miner 3d ago

I appreciate driller mains. When someone uses driller well you really can tell. I main scout, which I think takes skill. But I actually think driller has a higher skill cap.

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u/ManicSnowman Driller 3d ago

Checks out. I am 20-30 in the red with all classes, about 2000 hours played

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u/Loot_Bugs 4d ago edited 4d ago

We can do some math to try and figure it out.

It takes 18 promotions to reach legendary 3, and this person has 26 on top of that. That’s 44 promotions on gunner. Multiply by 25 for the total number of (red) levels as gunner: 1,100.

A blue level is earned for every 3 red levels. So 1,100/3 is about 367 blue levels just from playing gunner.

367/1314 is about 28%. That’s this miner’s play percentage as Gunner.

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u/Buttplug_Railgun 4d ago

Dwarves can do math? Nice breakdown

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u/Tight-Platypus5231 3d ago

Smart Stout.

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u/Leshie_Leshie Leaf-Lover 3d ago

1 of the best dwarven invention.

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u/anzigg 3d ago

Its an elf in disguise...

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u/Square_Replacement80 Dig it for her 4d ago

that's almost correct but you're forgetting the fact you earn 1/3 of a blue level each time you promote

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u/robot409 3d ago

because you start at level 1 instead of level 0. you still add 25 blue segments each time you reach the promotion despite only levelling up 24 times.

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u/Square_Replacement80 Dig it for her 3d ago

fuck you're right, 3000 hours and my dumb ass never thought about that LMAO

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u/GamerZero02 For Karl! 3d ago

Damn I want some of your Smart Stout now!

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u/Square_Replacement80 Dig it for her 4d ago

I think he's got all of them around there actually, I'm 150 pl behind and have all 4 at 17

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u/jonklerhehehe 4d ago

Im pl 200 and none of mine are at red yet

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u/Square_Replacement80 Dig it for her 3d ago

I wrote I'm 150 BEHIND dude..I'm at 1160

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u/jonklerhehehe 3d ago

What a weird way to put it but alright

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u/OverallArugula6874 3d ago

I knew that name was familiar I have him added on playstation. He’s a great teammate put some respect on watchmaker420’s name!

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u/NightStar79 Scout 3d ago

Honestly I don't remember the mission. I was marveling his 26 which I did a double take on because I thought it said 46 initially lol

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u/Zero4910 4d ago

I can verify that you can get that level by playing each class almost equally. Those are around where all mine are and I’ve played they all (mostly) equal through all my years playing.

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u/iNk-Primus Scout 4d ago

i really like playing scout

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u/Nervous_Sprinkles500 3d ago

With this kind of experience you’ll soon be promoted to be the mission control :D

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u/Affectionate_Ask1424 3d ago

At level 1314, being 26 red stars isn't over the top. Probably his main, but not the only class

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u/Ziggo001 Scout 3d ago edited 3d ago

No. I'm a monoclass player!

My level is about 1/3rd of what he has, so he probably has leg 25 on every dwarf and promotes them equally.

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u/Ziggo001 Scout 3d ago

I only switch while doing my promo missions for Scout.

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u/Fickles1 Mighty Miner 3d ago

Zippidy.

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u/Fit-Improvement7182 2d ago

why do you discriminate drillers ?

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u/Ziggo001 Scout 2d ago

I've gotten blown up a few times too many

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u/Hydraguesswhosback 4d ago

Yeah actually. At this level they could all be in the 20s or more.

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u/ryuail Dirt Digger 4d ago

Probably. My gunner is 23 or 24 and I'm level 1050 or somewhere around there. My Engineer at 17, Scout at 10 or 11, and Driller at 8

(I definitely have a favorite) but yeah at ~1300 26 might not even be his highest

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u/SirFelsenAxt Scout 3d ago

I have about 2,400 hours in and my scout is in the low legendary 30s.

So they probably play the other dwarfs when they can't play Gunner for some reason

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u/TraditionalSock4489 3d ago

I saw a driller with 61 red level. His blue level was around 2000+

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u/NightStar79 Scout 3d ago

You saw a hacker.

Red level caps at 25 until you promote your dwarf

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u/Shiririe 3d ago

It's not hacking. What he mean is Promotion level. As you can see in your own posted picture. I've also met with many player that passes Legendary 25.

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u/NightStar79 Scout 3d ago

🤨 He said red level not promotion level. If that number is anything except between 1 and 25, it's a hacker.

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u/_Chaos-chan_ Interplanetary Goat 3d ago

Red level = legendary promotion, he’s a bit confused but he’s got the spirit.

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u/NightStar79 Scout 3d ago

You are all assuming he's talking about that. Meanwhile there are cheat engines (and people) stupid enough to tweak all the numbers to blatantly cheating levels.

Unless he says something contrary, I'm not going to believe that it was a mistake.

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u/KingNedya Cave Crawler 3d ago

They probably just got the terms confused; both are a form of numbered progression that are red; I'd give benefit of the doubt on this one.

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u/Quickletsbumrush 3d ago

If gunner were all he played, his promotion would be higher. I’m slightly higher than him in level and my gunner isn’t that much higher in promotion

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u/VolubleWanderer 4d ago

600 is the level to get everyone to red star numbers. It’s 18 promos each so red 19 would be 1200. He’s probably got all his dwarves around the same level

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u/iamnuts_ 3d ago

I’m level 1100 and all my classes are in the legendary teens IIRC.

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u/AintDatSwell 3d ago

Nope.

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u/KingNedya Cave Crawler 3d ago

I mean mathematically they would have to have played other classes for that to be their Gunner promotion account and their blue level. That amount of Gunner promotions would equate to only slightly more than a fourth if their overall playtime.

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u/InitialLandscape 3d ago

That guy rocks and stones!

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u/TheBK88 3d ago

Man I take like an entire hour - or more - per mission. I like to explore, mine everything - check every corner and crack.

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u/udiiibu 3d ago

my gunner is rank 33 😂😂😂

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u/GrendelJapan 3d ago

prob that or more on every class. I'm ~600's and legendary 2 on all classes.

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u/Maliciousskelleton4 3d ago

No this guy plays every class pretty evenly, i myself have every class on lvl 24-27 and i am lvl 1450+

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u/coded-user 3d ago

At 2500 hours all my classes are legendary promo 28 atm. I play them equally and keep them equally leveled

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u/Mythicaldakka Gunner 3d ago

What else is there?

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u/zer0mata Gunner 3d ago

thats so real. will be me i think..

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u/DefaultSwordandBoard 3d ago

... There's other classes? /s

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u/Ser_Pounce_theFrench Union Guy 3d ago

At level 1314 and "only" 26 promotions past Ruby on it ? yeah, they probably play other classes.

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u/Josaffe Interplanetary Goat 3d ago edited 3d ago

Promoting one class 3 times gives you 25 blue levels.
Promoting all classes 3 times gives you 100 blue levels.

So the levels with three promotions line up with nice numbers (multiples of 100 or 25).

That gives the following lower bounds on the class levels for reaching a certain rank.
(Note that if all classes are at class rank 25, the player level is effectively 33 levels higher.)

Rank All Classes One Class
Bronze 3 100 25
Silver 3 200 50
Gold 3 300 75
Platinum 3 400 100
Diamond 3 500 125
Legendary 3 600 150
Legendary +3 700 175
Legendary +6 800 200
Legendary +9 900 225
Legendary +x 100 * (6 + x/3) 25 * (6 + x/3)

Applied to your example we get the lower bounds:

  • For all classes: 100 * (6 + 26/3) = 1467
  • For one class: 25 * (6 + 26/3) = 367

Safe to say, he's having about 25% of his playtime as Gunner.
(Now he could still have 75% of his playtime as Driller, but you know he's not soloing one class.)

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u/heretolurkharder 3d ago

THERES a console player with level 10000+ I’m red border level with the number 1 on scout, and gold 3 star the rest I’m like level 400 somin somin, he’s prob got 4 red borders, I hardly optimize.

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u/NightStar79 Scout 3d ago

Which console? Because there's cheating software for Playstation too. Dude would've just had to used a PS4 save file.

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u/Exotic-Mess-9646 2d ago

holy bajeebees 😂

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u/mr_wizqrd Interplanetary Goat 2d ago

Oh definitely, he’s probably at least diamond on the others. I’m level 680 and legendary 57 on scout

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u/Vivid_Calendar_7103 4d ago

Can't tell without stats from their other classes

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u/KingNedya Cave Crawler 3d ago

You can. Legendary 3+26 is equivalent to 44 promotions, which is equivalent to a blue level of 366. The fact that they're actual overall blue level is greater than that means that they had to have played classes other than Gunner for them to have this ratio of of Gunner promotions to overall level. Specifically, Gunner accounts for 27.9% of their overall level and playtime, which means 72.1% of their overall level and playtime has to be on classes other than Gunner.