best class for solo

[shadow]

just started the game

[Greb]

The game does a pretty good job of making you miss other classes when they're not present, but I'd say Engineer. They have powerful weapons and the sentry turrets to watch your back or pick up the slack elsewhere I.E defending Doretta while you're busy hunting for secondary objectives. Also a platform gun which is pretty handy too.

BOSCO can do what Scouts do well, without getting wrecked by Cave Leeches or fall damage, too.

[Chibbity]

Driller would be a strong contender, because there is literally no where he can't go.

[Aimee]

Engineer is hard to start off with since its the weakest class in the beginning, but once you have him upgraded its probably the best class.
Gunner is the easiest to start with since you can shield yourself and the ammo pods so you can savely resupply.

[76561199455560242]

Depends on mission type. Gunner/driller/engi are all equally powerful in their own right and can easily do any mission solo, even without bosco. The only exception I can think of off the top of my head is driller on refinery missions as some locations of wells can be troublesome to get to without digging.

Scout excels at certain missions like point extraction, but can struggle on defensive missions such as salvage.

I don't play solo often, but when I do I play scout just due to fun factor. If I had to pick the most "powerful" class, I would go with engi.

[Cor.]

We cant really say, because we dont know what fits your playstyle.

try them all, and then ask how to be better at the one you pick.

[Ittrix]

Post promotion and OC collecting 100% scout, pre promotion... probably driller. Or engi.

[PortageeChino]

looking for players

[CCShad]

I would personally recommend Driller, and if not Driller, Engineer.

These are the “balanced” dwarves in the sense of firepower and agility (Gunner having subpar traversal but high firepower, and Scout having subpar firepower but high mobility). The reason I put Driller over Engineer as a starting class is because Engineer is honestly really rough before unlocking upgrades and overclocks and alternate weapons - the most difficult of the 4.

To enjoy the game fully though, you’ll wanna learn them all eventually. Get Driller (or engineer) to Level 25 and promote them to unlock all the game content, then start work on another dwarf if you’re still enjoying the game!

[KingKickAss]

Pretty much all of them work fine for solo, but engineer not so much if anything. I find the scout to be best for solo personally.

[Pain_Train]

Driller and engi, driller is great for his drills and makes accessing anywhere easy and engi because your platforms are great, I dont agree with scouts imo as yes you can grapple to a lot of places, however if you screw it up you can burn through lives quickly

[ShugoTheRipper]

Not Scout.

99.9% of the time new players fall into a trap of only ever running constantly with their grapple hook. Just extending their death throws much longer than is bearable.

Driller can solve mostly all problems. And almost all Scout problems at the cost of maybe 1 to 2 more minutes a mission.

Scout is too weak and lacks enough overall damage without all the OCs and cheese builds.

Go Driller.

[Cor.]

Originally posted by ShugoTheRipper:

Not Scout.

99.9% of the time new players fall into a trap of only ever running constantly with their grapple hook. Just extending their death throws much longer than is bearable.

Driller can solve mostly all problems. And almost all Scout problems at the cost of maybe 1 to 2 more minutes a mission.

Scout is too weak and lacks enough overall damage without all the OCs and cheese builds.

Go Driller.

Agreed.

Scout should be the last class a player takes.

Dont get me wrong, I love playing Scout, but if you havent taught yourself how to conserve ammo, and make each shot really count, you will drain a Scout of all ammo in a heartbeat.

[tcpl]

I'm too spoiled by the flare gun to play any other class in solo.

[babuk.fracal]

I'll suggest gunner
If you become good at moving around with him, you will have no problem moving with the others.
In term of combat I can't really recommend any, for exemple I always found that gunnner potential shine the most in higher difficulties but that his firepower feels unecessary in lower difficulties.
At least if you pick gunner first, combat won't be much of an issue.

[Mason]

Driller.