What do you think about driller?

[Xandor]

I think their passive is basically the best in the game, 20% base mining speed + foreman gets a buff that gives 2% per stack up to 25 stacks so 50% more mining speed.
The other 2 driller sub-classes I think are completely useless (the 2nd one is mostly weak because of its starting weapon I think, I could see it being good because driller is basically a dot class so bonus dot damage is suitable).

All driller classes start with useless weapons, you don't want to use any of those weapons as your main weapon.

Driller gets too many different upgrades.
Lets say you start as foreman, now you have kinetic and projectile upgrades because of your starting weapon but you likely are going to use a beam weapon that does fire/acid damage and get the flame turret and you might pick a grenade... You basically get every type of upgrade in the game.
Compared to for example gunner or scout that pick only kinetic projectile weapons, every upgrade they get will affect all their weapons unless they upgrade a specific weapon.

Driller doesn't get any good boss killer weapon I think (I have not tried viper drone or plasma charger yet, viper drone does not sound like a boss killer but plasma charger could be ok at it but I doubt it will be great). When all your weapons are aoe and damage over time it makes killing the dreadnought very hard on higher hazard levels.

One thing they have going for them is that they make a great character for farming minerals since they have enough time to get all the minerals on every map.

[Peppel]

I love playing foreman. I basically strip mine the entire map every run. The flamethrower is insanely weak though so I never go interrogator.
Every time I used the flamethrower its always the weakest weapon I have by a very large margin, even if its fully upgraded. It does like 1/5 of the damage of other weapons.

[Penjamin]

I'm finding it really challenging to play driller because of the lack luster weapons they get. Even after some big upgrades its hard to find them satisfying to play like the others.

[Hunter69]

first driller is when I finally start to enjoy the damn game :v

[danko9696]

Not sure about higher difficulties but in haz 1 the acid drones is the best weapon for the driller by far imo, followed by the flamethrower turrets and then the starting weapon. But even if you get it you'll likely get a highly polluted upgrade pool.

[Lyon-CZ]

The only useful guns for the driller are acid drones and sludge pump, the rest is garbage unfortunately. Buf flamethrower and driller will be great.

[Snowfunk]

He has far to many dogpoop weapons in his arsenal.

All these crappy, "I do medicre damage, in some random fock knows what direction" weapons, that at level 15+ gets outperformed by a level 1 weapon, because it has the BASIC FUNCTION of "I actually shoot at bugs".

[Clawdius]

I think the driller is hot garbage. The Crispr sucks worse than any flame thrower in any game I've ever played in my life, and I'm 42 so this ain't my first rodeo.

The game was balanced for DRG, after a fashion, so they seriously ruined the driller by making the NPCs all increase in health like Vampire Survivors. This isn't a survival game so much as it is an extraction game.

The enemy should all honestly be slower so that you can play strategically. This is where the driller fails, frankly. I can drill fast, woohoo! And then on every side of the map there's an endless void and traversal options ceased to exist with DRG.

The driller also sucks because he takes LONGER to kill a loot bug than any other character, once he has mining upgrades. Anyone else picks faster, driller just drills normal speed and his speed-up to get his drills going is just as slow as ever.

I hate basically everything about the driller in DRG:S, I love the driller in DRG, but here you may as well ask me if I want to cut off both of my feet before I walk to the store. No?

I know it's a matter of opinion and others may disagree with me, but the Driller's default loadout sucks, their position at the end of the line (last unlockable) makes it seem like they should be able to do SOMETHING better than other classes. Drilling resources, presumably.

I can more effectively drill as the engineer, by such a wide margin it's practically insane. I've ended up with an empty island with not a speck of rock for most of the entire map with turrets and krakatoa turrets both capable of mining (not my favorite upgrade, but it was super effective.)

As it stands, the driller's drills take too long to spin up.a control is added to spin the drills before you approach a rock wall or ore deposit might make the driller less onerous for me, personally. The idea that I need to push my car up to the lip of an off-ramp before I'm allowed to get inside it and push the gas peddle is bad and Fred Flintstone shouldn't be allowed to design game features.

[Arkay]

Same feelings here, tried so many times to make a fire build work, even with 3 x fire weapons upgraded the damage is terrible. Even supported by the sludge gun and lots of Status damage...sad as I feel like I just have to run kinetic builds or engineer electric build for something viable

[Flying Mage]

I hate his weapons. But I like to be able digging through stone almost as fast as I run.
So idk. As a digger he's great. But the problem is that you also have to fight bugs. And he sucks at that.

[Tyyne]

Driller with Subata, Sludge Pump and Viper drone is good. Otherwise, not so much. Fire weapons, especially the flamethrower need some work done on them.

[shelledfade]

Fire damage is weak. I managed to win a tier 2 with 5.5m fire damage or something and I only pulled that off by mining just on the other side of walls where the fire attacks can pass-through.

It was a fire damage + Beam damage build.

It was still way weaker than the kinetic damage I've done in runs.

[Paranoia_Inc]

Is Fire not doing DoT for anyone else? Cause it isn't for me. Which is really weird, if intended.

[The boy who cried DANGO]

driller is worse at everything than every other class yeah

[Cockadoodledoo]

Imo all driller classes should have the foreman bonus, why have drill arms if u gonna suck at mining??

[FlagelloITA]

best class to mine farm for passives