Hoxxes IV Tall Tales - Unbelievable Stories From The Caves

[Deadweight]

Had a pretty crazy game the other day, definitely the most intense one I've had in all my time in DRG and it made me curious if anyone else had insane, unbelievable stories. Stuff that happened to you but sounds too crazy to have, whether it's a success or failure.

This is less about carrying or anything though, and more about having a save so incredible that it makes for an amazing story to tell. I guess the kind of idea I'm going for here is like, if someone managed to kill a bulk with a pickaxe and survive the explosion - that's the kind of wild stories I'm hoping this thread can gather (Although that story would be a pretty short one). Just people or groups who've done real and incredible things that seem like they're just fabrications just because they're so against-the-odds or unusual.

DRG can produce moments like these and they seem like they'd be wasted if not shared. Having one place for people to tell their crazy stories seemed like a cool idea, so I'm hoping people can share some cool stuff.

Rock and Stone.

I decided I'd want to collect them in one thread from people with links to each individual post to make them easy for everyone to read.

Personal favorites are marked with gold
Recommended stories are marked with nitra
Other tales will be given a ROCK AND STONE (because I like them being lined up)

Long tales:

The Tyrant-Weed of Sharp Hell / Why You Never Give Up from Deadweight
The (Un)Luckiest Elite / I Think Karl Looked Upon Us That Day from 20Tigerpaw
That One Flare / Premonition from Night_Sniper
Dangers of Hoxxes IV from Zargothrax

Medium tales:

My First Random Dreadnought from Night_Sniper
Scout vs. The Goliath from kestrel
Cloud of Hate from Zargothrax
What Would Karl Do? from Grotle

Short tales:

No Gold Left Behind from derpykat5
Greenbeards' Luck from R.-
Greenbeard's Escape from Toasty
Golden Luck from Jamma003
Golden Treasure from Grotle
Buried Treasure from Chibbity
Party Crasher from Waste_of_skin

What kind of stories does everyone else have? There's bound to be some unbelievable-but-true stories from everyone and I'd love to hear them, and others probably will too.

Even if your story isn't as remarkable as the others here or even if it won't (or you just don't think that it won't) get put on the list, there's no harm in sharing it. People reading through might still check it out, and maybe they'll enjoy it. If it's a story from your time in DRG that you love to think or talk about, go ahead and post it.

Old stories from a different thread are fine, too. Just link them and if it fits, I'll add it.

[V0lcanF1re]

Nice story m8, gg.
For me the amount of games that i carry on my shoulders and saved many games, I can't write them all but they always stay in my memories as well + somewhere at my 300+ screenshots lol, the amount of them is what make deep rock galactic so special and amazing gem of a game :)
Rock & Stone brothers!

[Deadweight]

Thanks. This is less about carrying or anything though, and more about having a save so incredible that it makes for an amazing story to tell. I guess the kind of idea I'm going for here is like, if someone managed to kill a bulk with a pickaxe and survive the explosion - that's the kind of wild stories I'm hoping this thread can gather (Although that story would be a pretty short one). Just people or groups who've done real and incredible things that seem like they're just fabrications just because they're so against-the-odds or unusual.

DRG can produce moments like these and they seem like they'd be wasted if not shared. Having one place for people to tell their crazy stories seemed like a cool idea, so I'm hoping people can share some cool stuff.

Rock and Stone.

[Deadweight]

Reorganizing things a bit, so the story is getting moved down here to its own post instead of in the op. Gonna have a list of stories with links to their posts instead, more convenient for everyone.

This one happened the other day.

The Tyrant-Weed of Sharp Hell

Why You Never Give Up
Was working with some other guys I didn't really know on more dangerous caves (haz4). I'm a driller, and the others are driller, scout, engi. So, we go into a simple-looking crystal caves egg mission not expecting much. After clearing out the landing and moving on into the main chamber, which is one of those sort of shallow pits you can get there. Not really a problem on its own but rough to navigate in a hurry. Don't have a picture but hopefully you recognize the kind of room I mean by this.

I notice on the other side of the chamber there's a korlok turret so I either marked it or spotted the bulb and marked it, and said to be careful of the korlok. This is where things started to fall apart. The other driller pulled an egg and a swarm started, and the scout decided to initiate the korlok. The spot we were at was rough with the turrets, so after taking some shots we started running about to deal with it better, and I dug us to the bulb which was relatively safe to where we were. While avoiding shots I got leeched nearby if I'm not mistaken, which definitely spooked a bit. Scout got me out of there after I either got downed or just was hurt so bad enough that I might as well have. Got caught up in some fights and saved each other a few times but we kept ending up getting knocked out. After that we were all pretty beat up but gave it a pretty fierce beating (1/3 hp) without too much issue. By that point, the healing on it was becoming a big problem and we were low on ammo and now two guys were KO'd at the bottom of the ledge.

I dug down to them but couldn't revive because of the turrets, so backed off. The other driller was on the other side of the cave and starting to get into trouble. It was at this point that two bulk detonators showed up. The other driller and I started to desperately look for nitra since we were all low and we were part of the way to getting one. Something got him, and now both dets were after me, so I ran around the long tunnels to get them away from all that mess while looking for nitra and trying to figure out what to do here. Team leader asked if we're completely done for (bail and get a new game or continue) and if we should give up, but we decided to keep going and try to save this or die trying. We're dwarves, damnit! Not elves!

Went through the tunnels and saved the other driller, and we scrounged up some nitra and killed the bulk pair. Dug another safety passage or two around korlok and tried but failed to burst it down, so we started looking for any nitra again. Found a bit but wasn't entirely enough. We ran around a bit before he got downed and I found a small nitra vein, just barely enough for resupply.

Then another pair of bulks showed up. This was a problem and we figured we were doomed. Tossed an idea to the lead in between running from them and slowly whittling down their health. I want to say it was somewhere around this point that scout died (dc'd). When one was sufficiently cooked and full of bullets, I baited them to the korlok and knocked out a healer and turret to open it and then killed the bulk.

Unfortunately, I just barely missed the window of opportunity and didn't manage to kill the korlok with them. That screw-up hurt and I imagine the other two guys felt the same but didn't say anything. Now I was pretty much out of ammo again and low on health.

But the bulks deaths also gave me the chance to revive the other guys, so I dug down and took out one turret and safely grabbed engi, and I deposited scout's loot which gave us just enough for one more resupply (the last one of the mission). Then we got driller and regrouped in the landing room. Forgot to mention this on the report earlier, but we found a lost helmet and the remains were also at landing zone. Can't imagine how some greenbeard died in this hellhole! I kind of blocked this part out earlier because I said to the others that I think there would've been nitra in there, but there wasn't and I just made a bit of a fool out of myself.

We caught our breath, resupplied, and I tried to come up with a short plan for us to finally kill this thing and save the mission now that we had an opening. We ran over and I tunneled us closer to the bulb, making passages in the wall for both safe navigation and cover from the turrets. We took some out, cleared out the healing pods, and tried to burst down the core. Missed the first chance, but we killed off the healers before they got it back all the way up so we had good odds. We opened it again and I burst it down with my axes, running out and having to burn it. Just barely killed it with flamethrower before it closed again, and it was finally over.

At some point towards the end here mission control sent in a second engi to replace the scout, don't recall exactly when. Pretty certain it was after korlok was dead but it might have been during the last time we opened the bulb. That guy sure got an interesting story when things calmed down. After this, we got the last egg and wrapped up the mission, escaping with our lives and an unbelievable comeback. It took a while, almost an hour if I recall, but I think we got something way more interesting than that handful of minerals or credits out of this encounter. That, and we're lucky to be alive!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2352520572

Hopefully I described this well enough for everyone to picture how it went down. This was the most intense fight I've had in my time on DRG and it's one that'll stick in memory, I'm sure of it. Our fight with the Korlok Tyrant-Weed of Sharp Hell!

Stuff like this really makes you feel like a team, and recovering from what seems like a hopeless and impossible situation really pumps you up. This kind of feeling is really rare in games, and is the reason I love Deep Rock Galactic.

[Derpykat5]

Diving with some greenbeards. We hit quota early and one of them presses the button. I (driller) rushed ahead to the final cave to take what I could while the others ran back. I spy a compressed gold chunk in the cave.

I drilled that thing back 100+ meters to the pod by myself and still made it with less than 30 seconds to spare and a triumphant "no gold left behind!"

[Deadweight]

That kind of thing happens sometimes, don't it? Can't help but be annoyed about early calls like that, but good to hear you got it and got out.

[NJK]

There was some kind of glitch and a group of strangers and myself had a 5-dwarf team for a few rounds. It was a joyous moment. We dubbed the 5th person Carl.

[R.-]

So one of my pals brought 2 of his friends to play DRG with us.

The first friend had a Korlok Tyrant Weed encounter in his first mission ever. It was his first assignment mission right after the tutorial.

The second friend joined us the other day. He also had a Korlok Tyrant Weed on his first day. Luckily it was like his second or third mission.

But wait, there's more: On his first day, we found lost crates in 5 successive missions. According to wiki, the chance is 1 out of 6^5 = 7776.

Still can't prove that assignment missions are rigged. Probably just RNG playing tricks on our new friends.

[Deadweight]

New guys do seem to have good luck like that. I remember back on a friend's first mission we got a cube, bittergem, and a crate.

[null]

The (un)Luckiest Elite

"i think karl looked upon us that day, heh, know i aint done enough good to deserve that kinda luck"
elite deep dive. driller was red 3-star, scout was gold 1? or 2? cant remember. and gunner and I (engi) were bronze 2.
driller didnt speak a lick of dwarvish for karl's sake!(he didnt speak any english) Think he may have been one of those short humans who joined in the early days!

"No big deal, done worse with worse 'warves" i think....thankfully im right today...


We drop, egg hunt/black box, easy enou-
And scout just dies of a heart attack before he even leaves his seat!(just up and disconnected right after mission start)
ok...well, they are bringing the pod up anyways, i ask if we want to go back up with it to get a new scout, engi and gunner say we should be alright, i had my doubts, but we continue. the eggs go almost flawlessly, no problems, and the box had a nice kill-tunnel set up for us to mow down those nasty bugs.

2nd drop, arqs and another black box, we work on the arqs almost getting wiped a couple times, and the bulks spawning didnt help either, we get 9/10 arqs and do the box since its starting to get spicy down there. We finish the box, and by karl's beard i think i pissed myself! 2 bulks spawn right over and after another! we take out the first -sadly out of range to kill the 2nd- and manage to get whats left of the nitra and the last arq, afterwards we hit it and try to get out of there, the parasites didnt help either...think i can still feel one wiggling around in me....uUuUuUghgh.

3rd drop, and i proceed to do the one mistake you NEVER do on a EDD: "no bad modifiers? ha, this ought to be easy!"
they send down dottie to help us get a omeran, plus a couple ol' mini M.U.L.E.s down there. we do what you normally do, mine the nitra and slap dottie.
everything is going smoothly at first, we manage to get the nitra and gold on the way to the refuel station....but...then....a bulk.... so close to dottie, i was sure it would hurt her! the acid spitter managed to melt one of her sides as we tried to lead the walking nuke away, but we managed to get it away fast enough! the room was small, so she got hit with a sack, but still kept the rest of her intact. we finish refueling and get back to drilling. we reach the stone with no problems after that.
this....you got spare paper right? good.

this was....to say a cluster-♥♥♥♥ that made my ancestors cringe would be a understatement. the 1st wave goes by, driller dosent even try to fix dottie as she gets close to breaking a couple times. as the 2nd phase starts a bulk spawns and we try out best to get it away, as me and gunner -we didnt know who it was on, we were just trying to get the damn thing away from dottie- were leading the bulk away, i catch a glimpse of dottie....driller is looking down at the bugs as the last 2 flying rocks crash down on her...i can still hear her screams...[the drilldozer dosent scr-] YOU EVER WORKED ALONGSIDE HER YOU LEAF LOVER!? SHE. SCREAMS. [irrelevant, continue the debrief] {bah, thats management alright} right...the rocks... right right, they crash down and she loses her right side, me and gunner manage to detonate the detonator, and rush back over to repair her. 3rd phase goes smoothly, no problems. 4th starts and driller is surprisingly drilling the beamers, its going decent until...another bulk spawns, i see it and rush past it to behind the omeran, it follows, what i dont see is the prae and slashers crawling up to munch my ass, i go down.
right after the driller does....

less then a 4th left on the 4th phase, gunner has no time to kill the bugs, so he puts down his shield and begins to repair dottie, his shield goes down and he cant stay on her, i use my iron will and rush over to dottie, i slaughter a couple crawlies and put down a prox mine, i get to fixer her up a little as i go down...then i just watch the display...5%....3%....1% suddenly it vanishes...i think "thats it...goodbye dottie" those 2 seconds felt like minutes, maybe even days... and then...one final blast comes from the omeran, i think knows how weak dottie is...and then....she begins to back up...i thought "nah. if i died at least show me what REALLY happened." but then gunner starts to cheer? he picks me up and i see that there are no bugs left..."cant be" i keep thinking "im dead arnt I? this cant be real." but sure enough...i touched that heartstone...and it was all real....heh, i call molly over, strap the hearstone to her, we all load up, and call the pod...we also all stayed with her to make sure she got back safe. we got back, got congratulated by some of management themselves! walked past em, and right to the bar, same with gunner and driller, i order a blackout, and next thing i know im in here...

and all this happened just 2 days ago... rock. and. stone!

[Deadweight]

Hah, this is perfect, the exact kind of thing I'm lookin for here! Did it actually get so far down to 1% and you won? Unbelievable.

Staying more in-character makes the story a bit better, I think. Tempting me to rewrite mine more like it.

I like how you ran with the title+subtitle thing, too. Thanks for sharing! Added to the list!

[null]

Originally posted by Deadweight:

Hah, this is perfect, the exact kind of thing I'm lookin for here! Did it actually get so far down to 1% and you won? Unbelievable.

I like how you ran with the title+subtitle thing, too. Thanks for sharing! Added to the list!

i wish i recorded, we did, and i swear the game took longer then normal to reveal the heartstone. ive only had one other experience as edge-of the seat as this, but it involved 2 crass dets, not as story-tellable, but it was my 15th? game, around there, and the first time i ever saw a crass det too.

[Deadweight]

Originally posted by 20Tigerpaw:

ive only had one other experience as edge-of the seat as this, but it involved 2 crass dets, not as story-tellable, but it was my 15th? game, around there, and the first time i ever saw a crass det too.

Go ahead and tell it. The short stories section seems a better fit for oddities and less in-character story-tellable things, if it's fitting there.

Also made a few small changes to mine to make it more in-character, like a story being told by one of the dwarves instead of just me, haha. Really liked the way you did that.

[V0lcanF1re]

Yeserday i had PE mission that was like hazard 6 by sooo many bugs and cracass golden detonator.. we won with some dead dwarfs around xD

Another run: the drilldozer drive in face of golden cracass detonator, will show pics later how awesome feeling that was.

At the end of the day, faced 3 cracass golden detonators, that was free credits from Karl and gave nice story to tell :)
Hoxxes IV always supprise us ^^

[Deadweight]

Originally posted by V0lcanF1re:

Another run: the drilldozer drive in face of golden cracass detonator, will show pics later how awesome feeling that was.

lol

[Toasty]

During what I believe was an egg hunt on hazard 4 we had completed both objectives and were heading for the drop pod when I saw an unmined gold vein and tried to get it before heading out.

I'm fairly new at the game and Scout is by far my least played class so I'm still working how to use the grappling hook efficiently so I just ran there, mined the gold and turned back only to see a praetorian and a horde of brutes charging at me from the way I came. I decided to run the other way and find another path to the drop pod since my teammates were already waiting there and wouldn't help me.

On my way back I found Molly's markers on the ground and followed them, which lead me to a wall of compacted dirt with Molly's marker going up a vertical shaft left behind by a personal drop pod. From the hole in the dirt came another praetorian and several swarmers. Being low on ammo and dry on grenades I started frantically trying to get up the shaft with my hook with only a sliver of HP left. After several unsuccessful attempts I did get it somehow, all thanks to my shield for not breaking because if it did I surely would have died in a single hit.

In the end I got to the drop pod with 5 seconds left on the clock and 15 extra gold.