r/DeepRockGalactic

Can we separate the discussion of DRG and Rogue Core between their named subreddits? Why is everyone still posting RC questions and content in the DRG sub?

I love this community, but I hope you dwarves don't fall into the pitfall of Tribalism & Toxic positivity.

Oftentimes when people read a game review, a question that may come up is: "What gives you the right to critique my game?". The 9000 hours they've spent in DRG or other roguelite games serve as their answers to that question. It shows that they have enough knowledge & experience in order to construct their feedback.

You can have fun with Rogue Core, but "fun" should never be used as an excuse to silence criticism. Game companies are not your friend. In order to gain trust they have to deliver a good product, and feedback, whether positive or negative, is necessary for Ghost Ship Games to improve the game.

Rock and Stone!

Rogue Core, on the other hand, can be bought and played on steam.

Pretty much any time anyone brings up the criticism that Rogue Core is receiving, there are just as many people saying that 'they shouldn't have expected DRG 2' or some variant thereof. However, the problem there is there's plenty of people with criticism of the game that's entirely valid and based solely on what Rogue Core actually is that is being dismissed by people because they bring up DRG at all.

To be utterly frank, Rogue Core genuinely does have issues right now in my experience. It's not that it doesn't feel like DRG, or that it's a roguelite. It has real problems that you can feel just from playing the game.

Just... actually listen to what people have to say when they don't like the game? Even if their criticism does include the phrase 'It's not like DRG', there's a big difference between "it doesn't play like an updated DRG" and "It lacks aspects that were present in DRG and it feels worse as a result".

Frankly, the bones are well fleshed out: DRG’s combat system, biome diversity, and enemy selection make the pivot to a roguelite easy and sensible.

I don’t see anything wrong with the timer that many have voiced frustration over. Roguelites are designed to be fast paced.

What rogue core struggles to do is maintain that pace UNTIL you hit the death timer. Frankly, the game needs endless spawn like (risk of rain) that rewards points for each enemy killed combined with a personal upgrade barter system that is superimposed over all of the current systems (shared barter, equipment, weapon, terminals).

We need shields (not armor). We need passive health regeneration. We need base weapons with unlimited ammo.

Rogue core has the potential to be an absolute unit of a FPS roguelite; but ghost ship needs to commit to the genre fully.

Edit: Many of you who dislike the weapon and equipment suggestions are not connecting that the suggestions are designed to accommodate a gameplay loop that utilizes endless wave.

You can still have an ammo economy for large, useful weapons that is not trivialized by a baseline ranged weapon with unlimited ammo because of endless spawn. Without some sort of baseline, unlimited ammo kit— the entire gameplay loop would consist of hunting for ammo in an endless wave environment.

The primary suggestion of this post is to implement endless wave. It is the opinion of the OP that leaning into the roguelite, endless wave would fill the void left by the lack of whimsy and exploratory depth that DRG enjoys.

I load in to Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core expecting a game true to the spirit of Deep Rock Galactic & I find one thing to be completely lacking. Barrels. I searched high & low only to find a vile dearth of barrels. I cannot kick the barrels, I cannot take them on the drop pod, I cannot throw them into the launch tube. Literally unplayable, smh my head.