Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core

As of now, it just doesn't have enough meat on its bones to justify the price tag. It just feels like DRG, but you get a drip-feed of barely significant upgrades. I know this because I picked whatever and wasn't punished. Also a multiplayer roguelite is also basically an oxymoron.

Bom, sobre o jogo: Comparando com Deep Rock Galactic, existem alguns problemas que tornam as partidas estressantes de forma desnecessária. Um exemplo é a interação entre os Nucleogênicos e as plataformas, que ainda não foi corrigida e pode fazer você perder uma partida por absolutamente nada. A velocidade dos personagens também poderia ser um pouco maior. Mesmo que a velocidade dos inimigos fosse aumentada para manter o equilíbrio, isso daria aos jogadores uma opção real de fuga se aproveitando do mapa e mecanicas. Outro ponto é a quebra de imersão na história. Não somos mineradores; somos Recuperadores, enviados para investigar e resolver o problema do Núcleo. Por isso, a enorme quantidade de mineração acaba tornando a experiência repetitiva e cansativa com o tempo. Na minha opinião, os upgrades poderiam ser obtidos principalmente ao derrotar os Nucleogênicos, enquanto os minérios serviriam apenas para melhorias secundárias ou para a troca de upgrades. Também sinto falta de um modo infinito, onde fosse possível aproveitar as builds por mais tempo sem a pressão de um encerramento rápido. Esse seria, de longe, o modo que eu mais gostaria de ver adicionado ao jogo. Por fim, acho que o jogo precisa de um final de missão mais marcante. Seria muito mais imersivo chamar uma nave para resgatar os anões ou até mesmo um enorme feixe perfurando o teto da caverna para abrir o caminho de volta. Hoje, sinto falta daquela sensação presente em Deep Rock Galactic de que, mesmo após concluir todos os objetivos, ainda precisamos escapar vivos e garantir que nenhum anão seja deixado para trás. São mais de 300 horas dedicadas a explorar tudo o que o jogo pode oferecer, testar seus limites e conhecer o trabalho que a equipe colocou neste projeto. Entendo que o jogo está em Acesso Antecipado e todas as implicações que isso envolve. Deixo este comentário na esperança de que, no futuro, eu possa editá-lo e substituí-lo por uma mensagem muito mais simples: Rock and Stone!

Эта игра - огромный кусок говна. Понятия не имею, что разработчики делали 3 года. Учитывая, что игра тупо пустая и наполовину сделана из ассетов первого DRG, я буквально увидел абсолютно весь контент за 20 часов. Пик онлайна щас это 800 человек, днём меньше 400, найти людей поиграть - просто анрил, можно по 15 минут стоять в лобби, так и не дождавшись ни единого человека. Просто напоминаю, ради этого кала разрабы бросили оригинальный DRG. После выхода первого патча разрабы на месяц ушли в летний отпуск... Вся игра является прогревом фанатов на бабки, не более.

Just get DRG instead!

Im sad to say that unfortunately not worth the money right now, and im not entirely convinced it'l ever be particularly good as the fundamental gameplay floor isnt very compelling. This is sad for me because as a big deep rock fan even though i knew this would be a quite different style of game, i was hoping that itd be a blast, especially for Ghostship games own sake as they clearly are very passionate about this project. That said i will quickly say what i think is praiseworthy: the game looks lovely, and is only 5 gbs worth of space, and seems well optimised. They also maintained the deep rock art style very well. I don't want to be that guy who's going to complain that this is why we were starved of deep rock galactic content, as i honestly hoped the game would be good especially because Ghost ship seems to be very invested and i know how disheartening it must be to see negative reactions to your hard work, but i must be honest. Character budling is very minimal, build choice is significantly weaker than deep rock galactic, this is partly due to you acquiring most of the things that make your dwarf feel unique randomly during missions, and as such, most of the equipment isn't even class exclusive anymore, this is an example of what i mean when i say im not sure how much it can be improved: This system of effectively building your build through random drops through the missions is baked into the games core loop and balance. The game also lacks the soul the original had, they said they wanted a darker tone for this game, but taking this game in a darker direction was a silly choice, deep rock is fundamentally a highly satirical world, it doesn't suit a more serious direction, its hard for me to treat it as a serious game when i know that, in cannon, there are probably other dwarves just 3 km or so above my head doing absurd things like laser pinging a mushroom over and over again and saying the word "mushroom" on end for minutes and annoying management. I can't take that seriously as a "gritty" universe. This is a problem all over the game: Everything is far more bland, even the new Molly equivalent just has no charm, it looks like a generic sci fi drone, none of the funny waddling charm of molly, the dwarves lines about it aren't as charming either, and mission control has been replaced with a generic sci fi ai, that isn't relatable, and barely ever funny...... its like the souls been sucked out of the game. They gated the beer and bar behind doing QuickTime event minigames to earn calorie points before you can have a drink..... which is baffling to me, deep rocks community is wholesome because the game subtly encourages it in many ways, one of which was the quick access to the bar before and after the mission where players could just quickly grab a drink for 30 sec before a game, gating that behind a QuickTime event minigame EVERY TIME is going to result in almost no one doing it. In fact this game has several quirks that i think will greatly reduce the community's bond: No one really playing a set clear role like in the previous game will make each member of the team blend in more and not have a "purpose" that stands out, which makes it feel much less cooperative. The multi staged missions that cause you to fail the whole stack and have to redo it like the old deep dives will make everyone less tolerant of newer or worse players. There's nothing inherently wrong with that type of setup but given this is deep rock and its largely about encouraging a close bond in the community i think this will step on the toes of that heavily. The ai enemies aren't as well developed as the glyphid encounters either, that ones honestly hard to pin down my exact thoughts, it just didn't seem to stand out as much as the glyphid swarms. The whole dynamic of it seemed more basic. I could go on, but that the gist. Ill reupdate if i ever rebuy in the future and it's good, which i will only do if community sentiment heavily turns in it's favour after future updates.

Roguelikes, at their core, are made by gamers who just want to have their own dopamine boost. For those who want as much silly dopamine rushes as possible, even if perhaps at the cost of allowing the game to rng-fight you away from it. That's why whenever you *do* get an insane build in a roguelike it feels so vindicating - you *won* against the game. You managed to break it's rules, it feels like. So it's baffling why this game almost goes out of it's way to *not* give you this feeling. If you've played base DRG game, you will very quickly recognize the game gives you a gun, and 5 rng upgrades for it (that aren't typically *that* interesting even compared to the base game). Sounds *kinda* like a roguelike setup, but...... Isn't that just... Base game? You also just get your gun right away there to, and even get to *choose* it, and the much more interesting gun-specific upgrades there too? So is this not literally just... The base game, but with a needless rng element slapped on top of it? And in this game, it doesn't even let you go *PAST* that power level??? I understand the expenite upgrades are also supposed to serve as a backup power to add to it, but with how minimally the power increases from them, how far between they will be (a "high amount" of these upgrades in an entire mission would be 20ish), and how harsh the journey getting there will be, it feels less like you're actually gaining any progress and more like the game is making you "stronger" by just starting you with absolutely no power at all so you feel special when you get *anything*. Another example of this is the trait upgrades, being your out-of-run progression system - these are similarly extremely minimal. It takes a long, LONG time to get all of them, takes money to even have the slots for them, and even when you do have a perfect build for them, you just kinda feel like you're as strong as any good overclock in the base game would be. I genuinely just don't know who this game is for, honestly. It absolutely cannot be for DRG fans of the base game, because you are just *better* there, even without """""infinite""""" upgrades via expenite. It's significantly harder, you have way less stuff to collect and not necessarily any varying objectives makes all maps and biomes still feel same-y, and even when you start to feel like you're doing something epic with a build you finally landed, the run will likely be over within the next 5-10 minutes. Genuinely, just go play the base game. And don't play this one.

They alienated the only good parts of DRG 1, no way to get heals or ammo in when you need it because no nitra or ability to call down ammo/heals, no ability to have even one reliable standard weapon, a run can be a waste with the first weapon choices are pistols with 8 bullets in them. Kept giving it a shot and after 4 sessions the nostalgia of DRG has fully worn off.

The way Corespawn are right now is really bad. The Glyphids in the first game were significantly better. Less weirdness with the angle they attack you from, no jumping, and the ranged enemies weren't the second biggest bullet sponges in the game by a large margin. Deeply unsatisfying to fight them right now.