Deep Rock Galactic in the Test

Dwarves, beards, mines and beer: the stuff of epic adventure. A guarantee for brutal battles against huge monsters in unimaginable Depths. Deep Rock Galactic the Fantasy, the total package, embedded in a freaky Sci-Fi Setting à la Starship Troopers. On the inhospitable planet Hoxxes IV, we dig with a Team of up to four dwarves for valuable resources and get it at our missions with legions of extra terrestrial beetles to do. So we don’t have as hairy a Buffet for the alien hatching, has us, our employers Deep Rock Galactic a lot of fire power bought. So anything more is a joyful Digging in the way, or?

In this paragraph I should be actually, something about the Story of Deep Rock Galactic write, but this is barely to non-existent, and, as with any Action title, the anything to holds in one to two sentences: “you are miners of the inter-galactic group’s Deep Rock Galactic and builds in their order of valuable minerals from. Stupid, the mines of hungry Killer are, however, insects inhabited!“ The wafer-thin story, however, is not a weakness of the Games. Deep Rock Galactic would not elaborate narrative present, but it has its focus in other aspects, and because it can be all along the line to convince.

The absolute hardness are dwarves, Gold, and beards!

Deep Rock Galactic jumps into the gap, which Left4Dead has left. With a squad of up to four dwarves you can take, in co-operation with other players, missions in procedurally generated Levels. While the environment goes down, in most cases, it is visually varied, is not the mission design is unfortunately not the case. You land in a Mine, the required resources, hoarding them in your M. U. L. E. (a transport robot with spider legs) and then back to the extraction point.

Although there is a lack of orders some Variation, these are never boring. A fact that is due to various factors. Because of the immense creativity and variance in the enemy types would be. Of beetles, larvae, and creeping things, and each Monster requires its own particular approach. Especially on higher difficulty levels, absolute consultation and coordination in a Team is therefore necessary. Thanks to the incredible number of monsters and it is always a wonderfully chaotic skirmishes, so as a result, no fight is like the other.

We have a Mission to complete, we get as a reward, of course, powerful gravel, and when we have fulfilled a variety of optional specifications, we can activate in a Skill-Tree with additional Perks. The earned money into Weapon upgrades and all sorts of cosmetic Items such as clothes and beards for our dwarves to invest.

The fantastic Four

In total, there are Deep Rock Galactic four classes, each with its own tactical focus. The scout has a grapple hook and can bring with its flares of light into the Dark. The drill goes in a particular Tempo all the types of Rock at the collar and the scrabbling Horde heats up with the flamethrowers. The engineering makes platforms hard-to-reach minerals in accessible, and the gun is ideal for unguarded entrances to secure. The Tank comes with a heavy Gatling Gun, which makes for a neat Damage with its cable cars, we can reach deeper levels without taking any damage. You realize that in the design of the classes a lot of emphasis on complementarity in the team work. Be playful Potential exhaustion of Deep Rock Galactic , especially from when I put it together with friends gambled have. The targeted balance, and use of the various dwarves made me the most fun!

In theory, you can Deep Rock Galactic by the way, as a Solo-adventurer games. For this, you get a drone by the name of Bosco put to one side. This has, however, only a handful of features, such as, for example, the Illumination of regions, lighter attacks on opponents and Quarrying of minerals. Unfortunately, the “We go in practice, but against the!” Feeling and also a large piece of the game fun is lost.

Lost in the depth

Deep Rock Galactic plays from the Ego-perspective. As a result, it is typical for the genre-functional and has no coarser quirks. The worlds are designed, in her idiosyncratic cartoon graphics are great and very immersive.

The period of time of the orders, depending on the complexity of the level structure and mission requirements, between 20 and 40 minutes. Also said here is: in theory! Because if Deep Rock Galactic from my point of view has a weakness, then it is the orientation in the mines. Well, if I’m completely honest, it should be mentioned at this point that I have sneak, in General, about the sense of direction of a dead blind, but my friends found the pathfinding is not always optimal. The area in which it is via the 3D Holomap is shown in surgery, and sometimes requires some thinking around the corner, in the truest sense of the word. If the group is Together, everything else than easy. Problematic especially when you have met the requirements of your assignment and your m. calls out U. L. E., so he should bring the Team extracted and back to the starting point. The Lore goes back with legs exactly the same way that the Team has previously dug. As a guide, the machine ensures torches. Since the pick-up happens after the expiry of a certain period of time, comes lot of pressure and if you turn then accidentally wrong or the Overview loses, then that is sometimes a bit frustrating.

Stupid is when you are sprinting to the starting point, of a Horde of insectoids attacked, and in a panic, accidentally, his friends blown to bits, because there is friendly fire! The has led to less frustration than the biggest laughs, and costumes.

CONCLUSION

Deep Rock Galactic has the Early Access to leave. I had already during this very a lot of fun with it, but in its finished Form, it is simply great! I’m generally a big Fan of dwarves, in all their variants. Therefore, had me Deep Rock Galactic from second One on the hook. The missions are the basic features of necessarily Varied, with the percentage of generated elements, but unpredictable enough to stay interesting. The Action in Deep Rock Galactic is captivating, sympathetic, messy, and requires a well-functioning Team. To be the great-designed monster hordes are balanced, the four different optimally on the various Strengths and weaknesses of the Other and as a whole, a complementary unit. Together with friends, a great Drive from exploration, combat, and Collect results. A little more optimization and Overview, I would have liked the orientation. Especially in the hectic final stages of the missions, the difficult-to-read 3D Map, we have several times fatal. However, this is a rather small thing. The total package is with its Gameplay, to its Humor, its self-irony, and the great sympathetic optics so successful that despite some minor quirks, many hours of fun with Deep Rock Galactic will have.

What is the Deep Rock Galactic is? A creative Co-op Shooter with dwarves.
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Tested on: Intel Core i5-6500, 8GB RAM, Radeon RX Vega
Developer / Publisher: Ghost Ship Games/Coffee Stain Publishing
Release: 13. May 2020
Link: Official Website