Does driller just suck solo?

[HeyThere]

Really fun having swarmageddon on a drilldozer mission, getting a nemesis (not rival mission) and a bet-c, on drillerdozer, with tri-jaws every 5 seconds... And it doesn't help that driller easily has the worst traversal tool in the game. Seriously, to reach a single outcrop of oil, I get a thousand swarmers and then when I'm finally close to the oil shale, I get swarmed by ~20 enemies and 3 tri-jaws, and then I have to do it all over again with another fuel cell.

And then when players die on the drilldozer, guess what happens? Because your corpse is constantly riding on the drilldozer, bosco literally CANNOT revive you, so you sit, wallowing in pain, while dotty dies because of the warden, oppressor, and nemesis over you. And then when you finally are revived, you have no ammo because the driller is also the worst class at mineral gathering. And if you do have ammo, it doesn't matter because drillers weapons suck. They're 'AOE based'. That's code for 'does extremely small amounts of damage over a period of time'. Yeah, not very helpful against a thousand enemies. Way easier when you're any other class and, I dunno, just outright kill things...?

Seriously, is driller just meant for multiplayer? No clue how to do it solo, and I'm bronze 3 with him. What good is 'damage over time' when you're in the same league as bosco??

Driller is the slowest, his drills are only good for dirt walls (seriously, pre-drilling to make blackboxes 'easier' hardly does anything, its easy either way), and his weapons are pretty mediocre. It surprises me how people call driller the 'deadliest' class, when the literal scout for me makes haz 5 missions a piece of cake.

The hell am I supposed to do as driller when I get a goo bomber, septic spreader and menace all at once? The driller is literally the only class that struggles with those kinds of enemies.

[tv]

As driller you have one job, that is to prevent engineer from creating the disgusting monstrosity he refers to as "piping" in on site refinement assignments.

[kestrel]

Originally posted by HeyThere:

when the literal scout for me makes haz 5 missions a piece of cake.

says it all, really

[HeyThere]

Originally posted by tv:

As driller you have one job, that is to prevent engineer from creating the disgusting monstrosity he refers to as "piping" in on site refinement assignments.

I get that that's a joke, but... I literally have more fun with engi on refinery missions. Placing platforms wherever works and just making efficient spaghetti is way more fun than just digging there.

[HeyThere]

Originally posted by kestrel:

Originally posted by HeyThere:

when the literal scout for me makes haz 5 missions a piece of cake.

says it all, really

Yeah maybe I'm just not meant for driller. At all. I've hardly played gunner, but as far as engi and scout go, I REALLY love those classes. Gunner seems super cool too. Driller? It's like he takes the worst parts out of every class and mashes it into one poo-brained guy.

[ShugoTheRipper]

Driller is literally the strongest solo class.

[Smetrix]

He’s probably the easiest solo purely because of his drills lol. Sounds like you just lack good builds and experience, because he is a very strong class.

[Mastema]

>And it doesn't help that driller easily has the worst traversal tool in the game.
lol what

[HeyThere]

Originally posted by Mastema:

>And it doesn't help that driller easily has the worst traversal tool in the game.
lol what

I mean, scout's is easily the best. Engi, you just build stairs wherever you want. Gunner's isn't great, but the zipline can let a whole team carry aquars/fuelcannisters/etc up and down. Driller just kinda... You just dig a lil hole or smthn, I guess. Not fast, not really fun, most drillers on haz 4/5 just kinda dig to the middle of nowhere instead of through dirt holes, usually because they're greenbeards and that's a pain to deal with.

[HeyThere]

Originally posted by Mastema:

>And it doesn't help that driller easily has the worst traversal tool in the game.
lol what

What buillds are yall using? I use sludge pump with volatile impact mixture, 1,3,2,2,1 and the wave cooker with necrosis, 2,2,2,2,1

I've tried cryo cannon, and it was alright... But still easy to get swarmed with enemies. Sticky flames are somewhat OK, might give it another try, but also just alright.

One thing I hate about driller is how hard the secondaries have to compliment primaries. I feel like with other classes, secondaries are wave-clearers as much as primaries are. With driller, the secondaries feel like the can't do anything except if you use them solely with the driller's primaries.

Other classes secondaries just feel more independent.

[Tiom]

menace - shoot with secondary and lob an axe at it

septic spreader - these things have like no health. shoot with primary or secondary and they die in no time.

stingtail - murder with extreme prejudice. ignite it, freeze it, spam axes at it. c4 it. do what you have to do

praetorians/oppressors - ignite/goo/freeze them, gather them up and toss a c4 on em. if solo ignite it, power attack it and lob an axe into it.

nemesis - if this shows up and you don't have flames then its just going to be an ammo sink, nothing you can really do. dump the ammo in it until its dead, scramble for nitra.

macteras - freezing them is kind if risky because, unless you have snowball mod, you are exposed to too many at once and you will probably take several shots. they ignite very easily and you can often just throw flames on a big group and run away. Also brundles and trijaws are prime targets for tossing impact axes into. super easy to hit.

[Cress]

I would say he's one of the best solo classes. Try cryo cannon next time, it's easy mode. Having trouble with swarmers on driller is a huge red flag lmao...

[HeyThere]

Originally posted by Tiom:

menace - shoot with secondary and lob an axe at it

septic spreader - these things have like no health. shoot with primary or secondary and they die in no time.

stingtail - murder with extreme prejudice. ignite it, freeze it, spam axes at it. c4 it. do what you have to do

praetorians/oppressors - ignite/goo/freeze them, gather them up and toss a c4 on em. if solo ignite it, power attack it and lob an axe into it.

nemesis - if this shows up and you don't have flames then its just going to be an ammo sink, nothing you can really do. dump the ammo in it until its dead, scramble for nitra.

macteras - freezing them is kind if risky because, unless you have snowball mod, you are exposed to too many at once and you will probably take several shots. they ignite very easily and you can often just throw flames on a big group and run away. Also brundles and trijaws are prime targets for tossing impact axes into. super easy to hit.

Yeah, when my secondary is the wave cooker, it'll take a while, and they're usually like 30 m away, so the axe struggles to reach. They're especially a pain on drilldozer missions, too...

Spreaders are mostly a pain when you get ~3-4 at a time, while working on charging fuel cells on salvage missions. ESPECIALLY when they're never in your line of sight (on top of a cliff)

Yeah, I wasn't able to kill the nemesis on drilldozer bc I use sludge pump. There was never any nitra too, just one of those missions.

WIth mactera, yeah, I guess thats just yet another type of enemy that the sludge pump struggles with.

[ナルゴ]

It's literally the best solo class

[Cursed Hawkins]

OP, there's actually a way to make escort missions easier when it comes to being a Driller, because the majority of the stuff you mentioned in this post, are pre-spawned into the map so you can use your drills to literally carve out tunnels to the stone's chamber working your way through the other chambers as you do and you would have all the time in the world because the game isn't going to spawn swarms except for the occasional ambush swarm.
Also to cover all the bases because out of the 500+ missions I have on record about 400+ are done Solo as all the classes, Bosco can be used to mine the harder to reach veins, Cryo Cannon can help mitigate the swarms with freeze making them easier to be dispatched without the need for much ammo consumption and can be a good pairing tool with Driller's HE Grenades as you can freeze a swarm, cook the grenade then throw it so it blows up either when the swarm thaws out or just about thaws out.

[HeyThere]

Originally posted by Cursed Hawkins:

OP, there's actually a way to make escort missions easier when it comes to being a Driller, because the majority of the stuff you mentioned in this post, are pre-spawned into the map so you can use your drills to literally carve out tunnels to the stone's chamber working your way through the other chambers as you do and you would have all the time in the world because the game isn't going to spawn swarms except for the occasional ambush swarm.
Also to cover all the bases because out of the 500+ missions I have on record about 400+ are done Solo as all the classes, Bosco can be used to mine the harder to reach veins, Cryo Cannon can help mitigate the swarms with freeze making them easier to be dispatched without the need for much ammo consumption and can be a good pairing tool with Driller's HE Grenades as you can freeze a swarm, cook the grenade then throw it so it blows up either when the swarm thaws out or just about thaws out.

Yeah, ik about pre-drilling. I'd rather not, as it can make missions like 1.5x longer than they could be.
I'm also extremely familiar with bosco, I've done like 600 solo missions.
Might try the cryo+HE combo though. Thanks.