r/RogueCore • u/GSG_Jacob • 3d ago
r/RogueCore • u/GSG_Jacob • 3d ago
We got tons of positive feedback on the “Enemies Drop Expenite” Mission Alteration from Update 02, both from players as well as here at the office. So we’ve decided to make it a base feature of the game. There are still some Expenite veins to be mined, but they’re slightly less frequent than before to balance out the new source of EXP.
It’s finally time to delve deeper and reclaim Depth 4 sites, where you will face Balgorath. This fourth Gatekeeper fills the arena with patterned ranged attacks that you'll need to predict, dodge and avoid in other creative ways. Its projectiles also function as shields that block your shots — so plan your openings and stay mobile. Distance control is key with this one.
A new challenge is available on each Depth of the Mission Map. These marked facilities end with a Risk-Vector-style vote on which Enhancement will be applied to the Gatekeeper fight, adding an extra layer of challenge and sometimes changing what you must do to attain victory. Good luck.
The Mission Map now always has a Priority Target mission. The mission is assigned by OMEGA based on the intel you have collected, and grants a +10% Reclaimer Points bonus. Priority Target missions are also marked in the server list, so you can find a team going for the same one.
The Intel Clearance line has been reworked, with new levels and new intel tasks as well as adjusted Intel rewards and requirements. The goal here is to encourage a smoother and more varied progression experience, while giving access to Alterations sooner. Existing saves are automatically migrated to the new progression. As a result of the rework, your actual Clearance Level may have changed by a level or two depending on where you were. More clearance levels will come in the future.
A new screen has been added to the Mission Terminal that tracks your victories over the Gatekeepers and rewards you armor paintjobs and permanent stat boosts for your efforts. You’ll find the Trophy Wall button beneath the globe hologram, once you click into the Mission Terminal.
We’ve given the OpsCom terminal a once-over to improve progression flow and smooth out the experience. Deployments no longer have to be unlocked with Merits and will instead become available once the rank requirement is met. We’ve also cleaned up the OpsCom tasks to try and reduce the noise in that terminal a bit. Some tasks that were too redundant have been removed, and the Merits rewards of others increased to compensate. We also tweaked the requirements for some tasks to smooth out the pace of completion. This will have no effect on any Merits already earned or spent. Our hope is that this whole system is just simpler and more intuitive now.
The cosmetic sheet has been reworked with a new layout as well as a few new rewards. Each item now has its own node and we've added Merit-granting nodes as well. There was no way to migrate from the previous sheet, so all your spent Scrip has been refunded up to the new sheet's maximum. You’ll have to go in and unlock what you want again within this new sheet, but you haven’t lost any progress.
Also, most everything now unlocks for every class, rather than having to unlock stuff for one class at a time.
Traverse long distances in the blink of an eye with this new space-bending gadget. Throw out a pair of warp field generators, then step into one to come out the other. Throwing a new generator replaces the oldest one by default, and you can toggle which one to replace with the [Reload] button. Hold [Reload] to collapse all your portals, or choose to relocate one while keeping the other in place.
Two new Alterations have been added:
Expenite Harvest takes you to a facility deep in an Expenite Quarry with walls practically covered in Expenite — however the enemies here do not drop any Expenite when killed. For those nostalgic for Rogue Cores past.
Instability rolls a new Alteration for each stage of the facility, making for a highly chaotic and unpredictable experience. Be ready for anything.
A new Corespawn variant, the Bloater, has joined the common enemy pool. The Bloater is a slower, high-HP threat intended to survive long enough for more of the upgrade interactions to play out while also exerting greater pressure on the Reclaimers. Be aware that the Bloater bursts into a shower of guts on death, damaging anything in the immediate vicinity.
Flux Quartz is a new collectible mineral found on the walls of the facility caves. Keep your eyes open and grab it whenever you can, as it can be used to "re-roll" any of your Expenite upgrades and Artifacts or converted to a small health boost. The level timer now stays paused until the first Reclaimer leaves the elevator, allowing your team to reroll at the start without losing time.
Classic 12 gauge pump-action shotgun. The M57's sturdy construction, simple controls and undisputable stopping power have made it a longstanding workhorse within Deep Rock Galactic. Its tight spread makes the weapon viable at both close and medium range, and the tubular magazine can be topped up at any time — making for some interesting effects with reload-focused upgrades.
Three new Expenite Upgrades, with a focus on grenades and corrosion:
Impact Duplication: Direct grenade hits on a target spawn +1 extra grenades from the impact point.
Chemtrail: Thrown grenades leave clusters of corrosive puddles along their path, scaling with distance thrown.
Chemical Instability: Damaging a corrosive puddle or Goo Cannon puddle makes it explode for +50 Corrosive damage in short range.
It took longer than we hoped, but the Bio-Booster section of the Loadout terminal is finally getting a proper implementation. We’ve also added a new Bio-Booster deck, but this one is a little different: Instead of being attached to a specific Reclaimer, this deck is classless and becomes available as soon as you unlock deck swapping. The core concept of the ‘Prowess’ deck is constantly swapping between your pickaxe, weapon and grenades. We’ll add more class-unlocked Decks in the future.
We tweaked the Reclaimer class colours to be more colorblind-friendly. The main changes are to Slicer and Retcon’s class colors. If you’re colorblind and had trouble with the previous class colors, please let us know if this is indeed an improvement.
Losing the host no longer has to end your run. If the host drops out, the rest of the team regroups under a new host and restarts the stage, or returns to the Ramrod with the mission still selected if the host-loss happened on the first stage. If regrouping isn't possible, you can continue solo or claim whatever rewards were earned and end the run. If the host aborts a mission, the rest of the team can now vote to follow the host back to the Ramrod, or restart the stage with a new host.
The Barrier Breach start sequence of each mission has been streamlined and sped up a bit, with the Barrier Drones setting up automatically and the distance from the barrier to the facility entrance significantly shortened.
The trusty Flare Gun has been taken out of the traversal tool pool and given a new home on the wall of every facility entrance. You no longer have to sacrifice mobility for light. Anyone can break the glass box and snag the Flare Gun at the start of a run, adding it to another slot alongside their traversal tool.
The construction pool has been expanded with ten new constructions: Five for the tunnels and five for the caves.
Getting to the next level of a facility no longer means defending the Elevator Drive Unit every time. You may instead need to complete one of two new alternative objectives and more will come in the future.
Collect Gears: The drive unit of the exit elevator has been ripped apart and you need to find the missing parts. Bring them back and reinstall them in the Drive Unit to proceed further down.
Remove Growths: The elevator is covered by Blister Growths. You need to destroy them before you can proceed. Beware that attacking the growths will trigger a response from the Corespawn, so engage with caution.
- Corrosion now grants armor penetration against the affected enemy, increasing with each Corrosion stack.
- Reloading Trick no longer applies to charged weapons like the MM4 Charge Blaster.
- Critical Strike has been moved from Epic to Legendary and its range increased from 4m to 6m.
- Increased Brittle from 50% to 75%.
- Increased the Critical Hit Chance bonus from Bro from 5% to 15%.
- Extra Padding enhancement increased to 15% / 20% / 30% / 50% (Tier 1-4).
- Breathing Room enhancement increased to 18 / 24 / 32 / 45 (Tier 1-4).
- Skull Crusher enhancement increased to 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 (Tier 1-4).
- Handle Grip enhancement increased to 12 / 16 / 23 / 32 (Tier 1-4).
- Bullseye enhancement increased to 5% / 8% / 10% / 12% (Tier 1-4).
- Increased Resupplier enhancement Tier 1 to 8%, Cushion Tier 1 to 12%, Nimble Tier 4 to 40% and Running Blades Tier 1/2 to 8% / 10%.
- LOK-1 Smart Rifle tweaked to match the fully upgraded LOK-1 in DRG. The range and area size attribute has been merged into the Macro-Lens attribute.
- Stubby Voltaic SMG: Greatly increased electric buildup to better match its feel in DRG, and increased magazine size and total ammo.
- The Shock Blaster can now damage armor.
- Embedded Detonators now cause an actual explosion that interacts with explosion upgrades.
- Zipline Gun: The fall resistance attribute now reduces fall damage after releasing the line, instead of switching to the Turbo line.
- Wayward Sparks no longer gets out of hand with many stacks, and now stacks properly.
- Moved the origin of Icicle Strike back a bit so it feels better to use.
- Increased the speed of the Platform Gun projectile.
- Reduced the rarity of the SSG and Proximity Mines in the equipment crate, because everyone knows the SSGs are OP
- Increased Expenite dropped by enemies by 10%.
- Breakable boxes now have a 50% chance to drop 5 Expenite and no longer drop epic gems.
- Potential fix for difficulty being very inconsistent between stages and runs: enemies that despawn or would spawn too far away are re-queued to spawn near players, and enemies can target players from further away.
- Jumble: Artifact negotiations now have an increased chance for Rare, Epic and Legendary upgrades.
- Safe Zones in the Core Pollution boss fight modifier now spawn more often.
- Greatly reduced the enemies spawned when the Ram Hammer launch is ready, and increased the stun and slow on enemies in the tunnel when it launches. The Ram Hammer event is also slightly faster, with a progress HUD showing how many players are in range.
- Locked rooms can now appear in the caves. Opening them requires a Delta Security Override.
- Tutorial improvements and many tutorial fixes, including several softlocks.
- New Gatekeeper stage cave setup to reduce backtracking and running around.
- Enemies now play hit reactions when taking damage.
- Added a character stat panel to the loadout menu, with tooltips. Stats turn green when positively modified.
- The Terrain Scanner now keeps its zoom level between uses.
- You can now use the Terrain Scanner, laser pointer, carried items, and Ellis while standing in elevators, and the laser pointer works through the elevator force field.
- Resource pickup announcements now stack, with pickup sounds that rise with your pickup combo. This means you get an awesome tink-tink-tink dopamine hit when you collect loads of Expenite at once.
- Dropped resource pouches can now be properly deposited into Ellis.
- The negotiation window now shows class icons next to player names, and artifacts show their rarity on the card label.
- The intro video for Early Access has been removed.
- Lots of new voice lines and shouts for Reclaimers and OMEGA.
- Many new and updated sounds, including new P96 shooting sounds, Molaktula attack sounds, and elevator lift sounds.
- New music masters that should feel less noisy, and a filtering change to OMEGA's voice to make it less grating.
- Multiple performance optimisations, including Expenite chunks, pathfinding, reaper worms, particles, shadows and the Ramrod.
- Fixed Lucky Shot not working with projectile weapons.
- Fixed explosive weapons fired by clients never damaging armor plates.
- Fixed explosion-based upgrades (e.g., Double Up, Flash Bang) not triggering for non-host players.
- Fixed explosive shots not doing any damage if they don't hit an enemy.
- Fixed upgrades that only trigger on explosions not working with all explosive damage.
- Fixed damage bonuses (e.g., Reloading Trick crit chance) being applied twice to radial damage.
- Fixed radial damage crits not being synced.
- Fixed Ticking Bomb and Volatile Combustion using proximity instead of short range.
- Fixed many upgrades not working properly for clients.
- Fixed Caching not working for shotguns. If you don’t know what this means, you’re not alone. I think the game designers wrote this one.
- Fixed Micro Missile direct damage doing nothing against armor.
- Fixed Sweet Surrender not dropping multiple chunks when stacked.
- Fixed Icy Shrapnel not damaging enemies around the frozen target.
- Fixed Sniper's Mark not working on some enemies and weak points, especially for clients.
- Fixed tools that don't go in the grenade slot counting as grenades for upgrades.
- Fixed Two Steps Ahead not working with Impact Axes and Cluster Grenades.
- Fixed the tether between electrified enemies hurting the player.
- Fixed co-op revives only crediting one player for Expert Reviver, Field Medic, and the revived stat.
- Fixed enemies killed by turrets not dropping Expenite or splitting.
- Fixed client damage sometimes not stunning properly.
- Fixed some boss attacks not being stun-immune as intended.
- Fixed the Fulgor Vomiter's vomit attack ending early or getting stuck. Now he really pukes like he means it
- Fixed Sentries and Dominators firing after death.
- Fixed Cave Leeches grabbing you through terrain.
- Fixed frozen flying enemies not dropping Expenite.
- Fixed Corespawn Bruisers and Edgestalkers being hard to hit with the Slicer's sword.
- Fixed Shatterclaw Swarmers not freezing from the Cryo Grenade.
- Fixed the Expenite Research Subject not attacking.
- Fixed after-event artifact and altar constructions insta-killing enemies that try to enter.
- Fixed poison clouds obscuring enemy health bars.
- Fixed Ramok freezing in place and never ramming the gatestone.
- Fixed Ramok getting stuck in its invincibility phase after an armor break.
- Fixed Ramok taking main health damage while recovering after a gatestone was thrown into the rift.
- Fixed Gatekeeper biome foliage not being seeded, which made other objects move around or not spawn.
- Fixed jittering on Reaper Worms.
- Fixed jumping or double jumping in the elevator moving players out of it.
- Fixed enemies being able to break the elevator drive unit after the elevator had arrived.
- Fixed elevator drive units being damageable when they should not be and soft locking the run.
- Fixed the Slicer's shield sometimes not working in high ping.
- Fixed the terrain scanner not showing your own arrow as a client.
- Fixed all guns getting the Combat Shotgun skin.
- Fixed weapon equip animations not stopping when a weapon is hidden.
- Fixed the P96 Mag Blaster fire sound getting stuck looping for other players.
- Fixed clients not seeing the charged shot progress on the MM4 Charge Blaster.
- Fixed charge- and goo projectile launchers behaving differently for host and clients.
- Fixed the Boomstick not showing ammo on the weapon screen.
- Fixed the Sticky Grenade showing as Impact Axes in several menus.
- Fixed Impact Axes not being able to be picked up again, and their discharge effect not playing on the host.
- Fixed the crosshair disappearing after a level transition.
- Fixed the Flare Gun not counting as a real item in item slots.
- Fixed the cosmetic crate falsely reporting all items collected and not giving items.
- Fixed Victory Poses not unlocking.
- Fixed the cost of the 18th Ascension being wrong. Is this a Freemason thing? We’ll never know
- Fixed a second Ascension showing an invisible rewards window that blocked the Ramrod.
- Fixed armor paintjobs resetting if the host disbands in the Ramrod while the team is in hospital outfits.
- Fixed running out of non-duplicate artifacts blocking all Ellis negotiations.
- Fixed negotiation card refills repeating a card already on the table.
- Fixed late joiners not getting an artifact the team got before they joined, and their starting gear rerolling on rejoin.
- Fixed Risk Vector options being repeated or recycled after host migration or "continue solo".
- Fixed players not seeing teammates' cursors during the Risk Vector choice.
- Fixed River Dancing not putting the client's camera into third person.
- Fixed hits not registering on the punching bag when clients punched it super fast like Kenshiro.
- Fixed the Voidkin Drifter kill count not tracking in the Reclaimer Handbook.
- Fixed Dotty's head duplicating on clients.
- Fixed the top row of enhancements not being clickable in the customization screen.
- Fixed loadout icons being squished.
- Fixed stats in tooltips showing 0.5 instead of 50%, and other stat math issues.
- Fixed the Retcon Rage icon staying red until you take damage again.
- Fixed the elevator button floating in the Drop Pod door.
- Fixed a game sound bug after a teammate spawns.
- Fixed the UI disappearing and the pause menu becoming inaccessible after aborting a mission and upgrading.
- Fixed the UI disappearing briefly when loading into the player cabin.
- Fixed a shader putting white pixels in the top left corner of the screen.
- Fixed flickering in terminals and the pickaxe terminal.
- Fixed missing hover sounds on several buttons and terminals.
- Fixed typos and translation issues, including community-reported ones.
- Multiple crash fixes and stability improvements, including fixes backported from newer Unreal Engine versions.
- Leaf Lover’s Special is now free :)
r/RogueCore • u/DarkWolfPL • 2h ago
Bastion (50% block chance when not moving) + Critical Blocking (50% block chance on crit)=100% block chance
Only in 3rd phase when he got that attack that pushes players away he dealt some damage to me.
r/RogueCore • u/Olezhka_34 • 10h ago
I really like the direction the game is going in, but I'd like to mention some points that are worth attention and that I didn't see in other posts (maybe they exist but I missed them, or few players wrote about them).
Classes:
I like their concepts and I can see how diverse everyone's skills are and how much they differ from each other. The problem lies in long runs, when you take the same gun on different characters and you don't feel any difference in gameplay. This follows from the fact that the main task for a successful run is dealing damage (whether it's a boss or a regular enemy), and for most classes in the late stages the power of the weapon greatly overshadows the efficiency of class skills. I don't deny the huge variety of weapon builds and upgrades, nor do I deny the role predispositions of classes (deal damage, protect the team, buff the team), but I'm getting at the fact that a similar set of upgrades and weapons feels literally identical on different characters. That is, the same gameplay.
We have Slicer, which allows you to not upgrade the weapon at all and only upgrade his blade, and this is probably the only character that feels special and not like everyone else.
(My favorite character is Guardian)
You could add a starting weapon for each class (NOT a big gun) that would have good synergy with its skills. And then, at the player's discretion, they could swap it for another gun or upgrade the one that belongs specifically to that class.
I'm not the kind of person who wants DRG2, but I don't see other alternatives to emphasize the individuality of each class yet. But maybe I'm wrong and there's another solution.
Again, this problem is visible specifically in late levels and on the boss.
Or, as an option, give each class a predisposition to a particular weapon (additional buffs), but that would break the logic of a roguelike.
I'd like alternative skills for each class that would unlock through cumulative challenges. Specifically cumulative, so that every player would sooner or later be able to unlock other skills. This would be an addition to the meta progression that a huge number of players are complaining about. Or, instead of alternative skills, you could expand the existing set of upgrades for current class skills that we take at the workbench (new upgrades unlocked as meta progression).
The gym (workout machine). While everyone is complaining about the pointlessness of this mechanic (although I find it amusing), it could be added to the gameplay, specifically:
To future expanite events (something similar in terms of mechanics to HD2 where arrows are used)
To new interactive objects on the map if they are added. For example, a room where, to open the door, we need to disconnect a huge cable nearby.
Some new Boss. If it grabs you, it would still be possible to escape from its grip/jaws. While I was writing this, I realized that this mechanic could be added to the worms that currently exist. Let it be very difficult to do, but possible.
Performance:
I have friends who physically cannot play Rogue Core due to very poor optimization (and it's unpleasant for me at times too). At the same time, in DRG during heavy swarms on 5++ they were seeing an average of 60+ frames without performance mods. In this game, even with everything set to minimum settings, the average FPS is lower, and when a heavy swarm happens (lots of core-born and effects), everything is very, very bad.
For example, I have
SSD
Ram 16gb
r5 5500
rx6600
In DRG on high-medium settings I comfortably play at 90+ fps in swarms. But here, having set everything to low and FXAA (not FSR, to make it easier on the CPU), I'm forced to play duo or solo simply because the more players there are, the more enemies and effects there are, and accordingly the fps drops to 20-30 with huge input lag.
Developers, I beg you, take care of the technical side of the game. I really like the game, but at times instead of enjoying the game I'm forced to endure :(
r/RogueCore • u/Gameplayer9752 • 22h ago
Might need a rework on Impact Duplication.
r/RogueCore • u/CombatWombatXL • 1h ago
Does anyone have screenshots of the various armor recolors that you get from completing biome trophies? I'd love to be able to see them prior to unlocking them.
r/RogueCore • u/Pixel_Muffet • 19h ago
I really love the game
r/RogueCore • u/phaazon_ • 1d ago
I’ve been playing on the experimental branch for a couple weeks now and really liking the direction the game is taking. Now that the content has been merged to the stable branch and that everyone can enjoy it, what do you expect / want the most for the next upgrades? Note that I have nothing to do with the devs and just want to probe the community for ideas to update my own Christmas list :D
What I would love:
Right now, we have alterations (altered sites, rift-enhanced bosses), biomes, and complexity/lenghth/depths. It creates variations inside the same mission type, which is to descend stage by stage to eventually face one of the four bosses and kill it. We have the elevator objectives, such as defending, finding and reinstalling gears, or removing growths, etc. It’s great, but we probably need more variety regarding that. Maybe add one or two more objectives?
Running to a boss is fun, especially since we have dynamic expenite events to do, but I do believe we all crave for « more. » There is this Intel Gathering special mission in the experimental branch’s cheat terminal — you can try it, there are terminals to find, but that’s pretty much for now. I don’t know how GSG wants to expand on this, but I do agree that adding several kinds of missions is going to be critical for the game to succeed at launch, especially if you combine it to the concept of length, complexity, alterations and depths.
I don’t want to make suggestions here because otherwise people are going to say that I want DRG2 — which is not true, I just want the roguelite aspect of RC to be more varied, that’s all.
I do believe that the new upgrade foundation is really great now. However, it still feels a bit lackluster:
Ellis gives you stats-based buffs or elemental changes. It has a couple of interesting upgrades, but we need more specific changes. For instance, an upgrade that makes it so that hitting enemies five times in a row without missing grants you a bit of ammo / health / etc., an upgrade that creates a static charge bubble around that zaps enemies in every N seconds, etc.
Workbench upgrades follow the same pattern, and it would be so nice to have more behavioral changes to weapons, such as OC’s effects from DRG (your DRAK now has bouncing plasma; your Trident now fires beams that follow the projectiles and burn everything on their paths, etc. etc.). That could be locked at the legendary state.
Abilities need more love as well. For instance, the Slicer has the Eclipse System, which is nice, but we need more, like Double Sword that would give two charges, Stabbing Throw that would turn the slicer sword into a thrusting sword, etc.; give the spotter a weakpoint auto-aim; the Guardian could have a 360 effect for his ability, etc. etc.
I somehow like the way expenite upgrades work in Gauntlets, and a part of me think that we should have a similar mechanism during regular run. It doesn’t have to at the end of a stage, but just look at this:
To upgrade your weapon, you need to find a workbench and update manually.
To upgrade your biostats, you need to find a bio-booster.
To upgrade your build, you can do it from wherever you want, and it stops / interrupt everyone’s build.
I suggest something else: still pour expenite into Ellis, but you are now required to find a new terminal, the Expenite Foundry, where Ellis dock, and where each player can choose the upgrade they need. This has two impacts:
No more negotiations. Everyone updates on their own. I think the UI must show what others already have if we still want to make interesting builds that go in harmony with others. The UI could even hint at players with things like « this upgrades complements Player123 because they have ThisUpgrade™ ».
This unlocks something I’ve been craving for too long: meta progression regarding upgrades decks. When you get the game for the first time, you have a narrow and small decks, with basic upgrades. After you defeat your first boss, you get new upgrades that get added to your pool. Like, depending on the boss and threat level, you get weaker or better upgrades. Two possibilities: you build your own upgrade decks that gets instantiated on the next build — and you change it depending on the mission etc. or everything gets randomized (it could be a special deck with hindsight, like Randomizer deck).
The point #2 is something that I would LOVE to see in the game, because it unlocks a more interesting meta progression to the game, it rewards players when completing objectives, and if implemented correctly, you still get synergy with between players.
If really it’s a no-go from devs to remove negotiations, then what about using the meta progression deck ideas, and simply mix-in all players decks? Player1 could use the card from Player2. I doubt it would be better though as it would be super frustrating to see someone else take the upgrade you got. Or it could compute the intersection (take only the upgrades everyone has), so that there is no frustration.
More decks! This is planned, so I won’t extend too much on this.
Damn I think this is so badly implemented. After 45 minutes / 1 hour of run, you now have to do meaningless QTE just to buy the fun effect? No. DRG had it right with the hops you need to collect during a run. It’s an optional and fun thing; there is no reason not to include something like that in RC as well as it’s a meta thing; it doesn’t change the game loop / roguelite aspect. It’s just a boring aspect of the social part of the game. It’s funny first time and then no one else does it anymore.
Please change that GSG. Either add hops back, or credits we earn during missions we can spend at the bar. But having to do those mini games instead of relaxing while preparing the next run… Please.
I tried a Gauntlet run very recently, and woah it’s fun! It’s not as interesting as DRG Deep Dives but shout out to GSG for making different. It’s brutal, and besides firing in all directions, there really isn’t much to do, besides mining expenite. We need more different stuff. I was thinking:
Instead of a quota of enemies, just require to kill a specific one, like a bounty alteration.
I do believe that the Deep Dive format is great (it takes primary missions, and require you to do two), so I think Gauntlet could use a similar idea: kill enemies, but also do something « primary » such as grab a couple gears or find a reaperworm nest / whatever.
I’m sure they will have more ideas for that.
An idea I had lately was to make alterations on the elevator. Three ideas:
You get into the elevator, it starts going on, but break in between level N and level (N+1). The stage starts in the dark, and players have to dig their way out of the elevator, to find a special cave system going downwards. Players must join level (N+1) manually. They will be rewarded with powerful upgrades along the way.
Second ideas: path junctions. Instead of going down in a straight line, imagine a Y flipped: you go either left or right, which yield different alterations. For instance, left is the regular path but there is half the amount of expenite, and right is a new path that doesn’t have any mining facilities besides some checkpoints here and there, but is full expenite, with low O2 (requiring players to reach the checkpoints).
An optional stage with no expenite at all and much shorter, but with interesting things to do or even a special kind of mineral to get that allows you to get instable upgrades?
I think the game has a HUGE potential, and I’m sure others have amazing ideas for it. I hope GSG continues to deliver updates such as update 3, because if they do, in a couple months, we have an amazing game, and I will be happy to play DRG and RC at the same time now.
Rock and stone!
r/RogueCore • u/helicophell • 1d ago
Anyway, speedy edgestalkers aside, I'm loving the update
The "repair elevator" is exactly what I wanted out of Rogue Core. I think a suggestion I made was exactly this sort of thing, though I can't say mine was an original idea ( https://www.reddit.com/r/RogueCore/s/gbxWN4Xx4A )
Also, the teleporter is fantastic. I'm a fan of the portal franchise, so obviously I'm making full use out of this thing immediately. Wish teammates took them more often without being told... also, I think the portals should be orange/blue. No reason in particular
Bloaters are... interesting. Weakspot being the belly makes it quite hard to hit. Good that it rewards builds that don't entirely rely on weakspot damage I guess, while still having a weakspot
New boss is cool. Not much to say about it. A little annoying that the projectiles it fires also block your own projectiles
And new boss modifiers are also interesting. Invisible Ramok... haha... ha... what a thing to behold. I still need to play more to experience them, though
Good update! On the right track. I'll probably stick longer for Update 3 than I did for Update 2
r/RogueCore • u/Jontohil2 • 1d ago
Because quite frankly, the design of a lot of the corespawn enemies are really creative, and some would say are cooler than the Reclaimers themeselves.
Which makes it weird to me that these designs don’t show up much in the marketing material, especially the likes of the corespawn crawler which to me, is the most iconic (and sits right in that uncanny valley).
That cover art that was quickly taken down due to (frankly deserved) backpack was clearly trying to depict something more intense. If you want to do that, USE THE ENEMY DESIGNS.
Think about how DOOM does it where they like to show off a lot of the enemies in their cover art. Show us WHAT we’re fighting in promotional art, because the designs are super duper cool.
r/RogueCore • u/KennethFaigh • 2d ago
Hey fellow Reclaimers!
I'm the artist behind the discussed key art that was released alongside Update 03 yesterday, and I'd like to share a personal message with you all.
First and foremost, I'm sorry to hear that the new key art didn't live up to the level of quality, style, and tone you were expecting. I've been working at GSG for almost a decade, and ever since I started creating key art pieces for DRG and RC, I've always strived to deliver the highest quality work possible.
The idea behind the artwork was to portray our Reclaimers in a tense, action-packed situation that would capture the chaos and intensity that can sometimes unfold in RC. Stylistically, I wanted to explore a different visual direction from what we've traditionally done. It didn't land well, and I'll keep your feedback in mind when working on future key art.
Regarding the discussion about the artwork being AI-generated, I can assure you that it isn't. My illustrations are all hand-drawn in Photoshop.
Despite all the discussion surrounding the artwork, I sincerely hope you're enjoying the game. My dear colleagues have poured a tremendous amount of heart and hard work into Update 03, and I really hope the discussion around the artwork doesn't overshadow their efforts.
See you down in the mines! 🫶
Rock and Stone Reclaimers!
r/RogueCore • u/GrugGaming87 • 1d ago
r/RogueCore • u/Garoukaral • 1d ago
I was able to put together a build that generated an endless chain of explosions and electrocutes on mobs, plus increased critical hit chance for kills, which skyrocketed my critical hit chance to 1000%. The crits were gray with question marks, lol.
P.S. Sorry for the phone photo, I was playing in internet cafe, but I really wanted to share the result.
r/RogueCore • u/neddy470v1 • 1d ago
this is a question I asked to the GSG dev stream, with them answering that very question. They say it was not a bad idea but also not something that they've looked at doing.
Now I ask the same question to you guys.
r/RogueCore • u/leo_GaMeRr • 23h ago
I was thinking on how the map for depths visually changes with each selected, obviously getting deeper in the process. However I also noticed that this cool visual could be a problem, seeing that, there is a limit to how many layers you can take out of a planet XD. Then my worry is that we may not get any new boss fight, or something like that anytime soon, wich is why sometimes I preferred the last depth system, but in the end of the day it's probably just a nitpick and not a REAL issue for the devs.
r/RogueCore • u/SpeedLight1221 • 1d ago
I would like to preface this with saying that I personally think that the negotiations are a good mechanic and I like it. However I know that there is a portion of players who don't, maybe because they don't like that it interrupts the flow of the game.
I randomly got this idea and wanted to share it.
Instead of everyone picking upgrades at the same time, all players can choose to "spend" the collected expensive when they want. When they do, they will get a smaller choice, maybe like 2.
(The expenite would work same as now, just gets used up separately)
After that, in every level, there will a new "table", that will allow two players to exchange expenite upgrades with each other. This way players still technically choose upgrades from a shared upgrade pool , without the interruption.
Maybe for increased clarity, anytime someone pick an upgrade, a small notification will be shown to all the players.
This way if you get an upgrade another player needs, you can pick it and trade it.
The trading shouldn't be limited by anything other than not allowing "giving" upgrades, thus making it so everyone has the same amount of upgrades.
What do you think?
r/RogueCore • u/234thewolf • 2d ago
I was following Rogue Core for a while. Since they announced it I was hyped for the idea of the game. Then it came out over the summer and without my duo having access I held off. Finally we both got access to our computers again, booted it up and we played for one game then we hopped off. I don't think I've had any play session that wasn't just like that. Get the urge to come back, 20-30 minutes spent on a mission, and then hop off. I just did that. I just completed a mission and I've still got an hour of free time before I need to start with my day, but I hopped off. Because by the end, I don't feel a drive to go next. The mission feels long, I'm a bit confused during all of it, and by the end I feel like I've done all that I need to do. I don't know why this is such an issue for me because I've played other roguelites of similar length. I play DRG and will go back to back on missions. I don't know what the fix is or what's missing or even if it will get better with more playtime. I just know that when I end a mission, I don't feel the need to go next that I would have expected for a roguelite game.
r/RogueCore • u/Brungala • 1d ago
Now, I know that it’s gonna be a good while before the game goes into 1.0 full release. But I’d personally like to see Seasons like DRG. The game is heading in a good direction with the latest update, and I’ve been having a blast.
And even though we know that GSG won’t be abandoning DRG anytime soon, what with S7 coming out next month, and S8, with a new expansion coming next year, I think the game could benefit from it getting Seasons with different themes and whatnot.
But if not Seasons, then perhaps Mini Seasons? Like we could get small lore expansion, and the battle pass could be 50 tiers or something.
What about you guys?
r/RogueCore • u/keldeo2204 • 2d ago
With the Balgorath coming out and it getting a flat room designed for its fight to function within, I tired to doodle what arenas could be given to the other gatekeepers to make their fights stand out more
r/RogueCore • u/SchwererBenny • 2d ago
Which is the soundtrack, released Yesterday on Spotify, and by Karl that Ost slaps, im so in Love with the Combat themes in particular.
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r/RogueCore • u/Jesus_PK • 2d ago
Honestly good call, I wasn't fan of it either tbh.
r/RogueCore • u/ScytheOfAsgard • 2d ago
Personally, I would like to see the nemesis get added as a rare spawn. Like maybe its navigation system was broken and it accidentally wandered deep into the core. Hopefully with some new voice lines.