The Pickaxe

diggy diggy hole

MUSIC USED:
Lifeformed - Dustforce OST
OSRS OST - Garden
DRG OST - Robot Getaway

[deluxeloy]

When they added pick customization is when I really started thinking about my dwarves' personalities. As I unlocked a collection of parts, I knew I'd use them to further cement their unique quirks. My insane, gore-spattered gunner carries around a rusted thing with a big axe on the back. My sleek scout uses a climbing axe that fits his colour scheme, my gaudy gold-covered driller uses a heavy, blunt tool, and my by-the-book veteran engineer's is a battery-powered precision instrument.

[vitaminaspirin]

you forgot to mention that the power attack flips your pickaxe around, so you attack with the other end of it. its a small detail but i like it
totally did not take me 200+ hours to notice

[AtomicSpeedFT]

It’s hard to believe that Power Attacks weren’t always in the game.

[Qreamey]

Sniss: Here's how the pickaxe works and why it's so satisfying to use
Everybody else: ROCK AND STONE! DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE? THAT'S IT LADS! ROCK AND STONE! ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE! STONE AND ROC- oh, wait...

[Attaxalotl]

My favorite pickaxe is Reaper's Claw. That orange-and-tarnished-silver color, the cool glowy bits, the axe head, the spear at the bottom...
Perfect.

[TheStarMachine]

Berserker and vampire work pretty well together in a pinch

[potterinhe]

Here's some advice for using the pickaze:

• As mentioned you can mine standing minerals from the bottom to mine them faster, this also includes bismor and magnite.

• The best way to mine resources embedded in a wall is to mine from the side, as the width of the pickaze zone is nearly twice it's depth, making it easier to mine all of the vein in one go.

• Mining a small ledge, or a staircase through the resources to get to stuff just out of reach will save you a lot of trouble and navigation tools.

• Always mine all of the morkite and nitra you find as leaving small bits behind adds up. Since you collect in increments of one tenth, nitra will add up quickly and you won't be struggling to find little pieces of morkite you missed for that one off from quota.

• You should get comfortable with pickazing small enemies such and swarmers zappers and shredders, as you will conserve a lot of ammo this way. Just don't become too reluctant to shoot at large swarms of them like I am.

• You can slightly delay your power attack to sneak in a very quick regular attack before the power attack for what I call a buffered attack, this is incredibly useful for killing slashers in one shot. It's best to practice this on lootbugs, you will hear the first hit when you can activate the power attack. This is similar to Q mining as it cancels the back half of the regular swing animation.

• Pickaze attacks are great at destroying armor; guards, pretorians, shellbacks and brundles all can be made vulnerable. There's a sweet spot in the pretorians armor just behind it's neck that will break it all off with one well placed swing. Shellbacks can be redirected away from you with a well timed power attack. Brundles armor can be broken with a regular swing, but a power attack will shred half it's hp.

• Power attacking most enemies in the face will briefly stun it, this works best against slashers and pretorians as you can interpret their attack. Power Attacking a dreadnought in the face to assert dominance has a good chance to make it drop agro on you.

Advanced Pickaze Skills:

• Power attacking the dreadnoughts is a great way to conserve ammo, hitting the exposed nubs on the hiveguard is the simplest and is a good use for the buffered power attack, as the hit confirmation for the first attack will insure you are lined up for the buffered attack. Power attacking the dreadnought with armor or exposed is useful and will even hit through his front plate, just be mindful of when it can do it's big ground smash attack, which has a substantial cooldown and a fairly long wind-up. Hitting the twin with higher health when they are about to heal or to keep them even health can save you some trouble, they are still vulnerable while they are diving into the ground which is the best time to strike.

• You can bounce off of large enemies rear to continuously hit them with the pickaze while staying out of line of fire and away from the bugs bittey and pokey bits. This works well against the hiveguard to strike the nubs continuously, just be careful cause he can still attack you if you are near to his face. I wouldn't recommend using it against the other types of dreadnoughts though.

• All bots are weak to pickaze attacks and can be delt a huge burst of damage if you hit the weakspot. Use it against the prospector when it gets near or the arms of the overseer after they try to bash you. Don't try it against the nemisis unless you like getting grabbed as it does negligible damage.

• All mactera are weak to pickaze attacks as well, and can be delt with swiftly if you are brave enough to reach their weakpoint. Goo bombers and swarms are easy targets, but the real magic is power attacking a grabber right before it reaches you to save yourself. Hitting the weakpoint on grabbers and goo bombers will chunk half there health, and swarms or trijaws die to one blow.

[Iteration-_codename_goblin]

The most fun ive had was during an ebonite machine event with rich atmosphere, zooming around smashing heads in is the best

[idealis]

In all honesty, I took a break from DRG by playing some sanctum 2, and I have to say, not being able to press V to rock and stone and melee things had me feeling weird. (Sanctum 2 is an FPS TD)
I'm back, and I won't cheat on you again, DRG, I promise.

[Wulfjager]

The new holiday chillaxe is such an awesome skin. They're getting more comfortable with getting a bit wild with the designs and I love it

[Novouto]

All of the sound design of DRG is so good! The snoring sound of Betsy, the screaming of the Huuli Hoarder, and all the Rival enemies. So many good sound design choices!

[tomoe]

I love how you managed to breakdown everysingle nook and cranny of this game, and show how this details matters.Keep up the great work buddy o/

[Jawmax]

My favorites so far is the Gadgeteer's Favorite for Engineer and Chasm-Borne Cliffhanger. Also, one of my favorite lines is "Taste some pickax!"

[theriveracis]

I love mining crystal. The quote of the dwarf that comes up also makes me smile.
"Die worthless crystal!"

[MelodicCrusader]

I'm so happy to be in a community like this. From the amazing developers to the awesome content creators, even your average greenbeard. It's truly beautiful. Rock and stone, lads! Thanks for all the memories!

[spadeus]

Imma say something, any kind of game, if it has a pickaxe, it MUST have a good feeling while using it, the sound, the impact, the weight when you swing and hit something, those are the main things that any pickaxe in any videogame must have

[modman]

One of the most beautiful dreams I've had recently was some kind of drilling vehicle being driven through a yellow crystal crust. it was definitely a combination of DRG and Rock Raiders, and felt like the loading screen between deep dives as the crystals just kept on coming...

[orangnejones]

I SINCERELY want a way to see eachother's picks without needing them to salute.

[ocfos]

My man putting up one of the only good Adam Sandler movies in the video.

[adamosgood]

I love the sound it makes when hitting the meteorite.