We told you last week, but here it is again: Oktoberfest has returned to Deep Rock Galactic, with new Cosmetics, a new Oktoberfest Beer, and a chance to earn double Seasonal Mission XP! The event is starting next week, September 15th (13.00 CEST), and will end on October 3rd (13.00 CEST). So dust off your lederhosen, and get ready for the workplace party of the year! Prost!


As you’ve come to expect from a DRG event, you will get access to a new, lucrative Assignment while Oktoberfest is running. Complete it and you will be rewarded with two new hats to commemorate the festivities, along with a most handsome compensation for your efforts.



Wearing either the traditional Trachtenhut or the Kegger is sure to get you and your colleagues in a festive mood. And if that doesn’t do it, Management has made sure the Space Rig is decorated to fit the beer-and-sausage theme of the season.

Usually, that would be it. But this time, management found some extra budget to allocate to this event. You’re in for a treat, miners!


During the event, you will have access to an entirely new brew never before seen on the Space Rig. Longbeard Brewery has made a beer to go along with the Oktoberfestivities:



The Best Wurst Beer is a tangy, sausage-flavored brew concocted especially for thirsty Oktoberfest-goers! Longbeard Brewery has ensured Management that it really is the best Wurst beer on the market, so it will without a doubt live up to its name. Management was also able to secure a hefty shipment of this new delicacy, so we should be all set in terms of supply until the event ends. You’d think it almost impossible to secure enough of this new brew to last us through Oktoberfest, but Management has come through - obviously!

Enjoy it, miners - you’ve earned it.


A Longbeard cargo freighter crashed on approach, scattering its cargo of specialty beer mugs across Hoxxes! The Oktoberfest celebration is in jeopardy, we can’t serve beer if we don’t have beer mugs! It’s a catastrophe!



Recovering a “Best Wurst Beer” mug during a mission will trigger a bonus, doubling your Mission Performance Points for that mission!

We ask all employees to drink responsibly during the mug shortage.



You will have to contain your yodeling for one more week until Oktoberfest starts. We trust the party as well as the new beer will both be experiences to remember! In the meantime, how about distracting yourself in the best way possible: Work! Morkite doesn’t mine itself, you know.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

Summer is nearing its end, and we remain hard at work chugging away on Season 03. And we hear you, you want to know more about what the next season will bring. Not to worry, miners, it won’t be long until we start sharing more about what to expect - promise! For now, all we can tell you is that we are nicely on track for a Q4 release and that we are pretty sure you will like what we have in store for you.

And before anyone asks: No, it’s not more robots.

Season 03 aside, we have some more tasty morsels to talk about:


Yes, Oktoberfest is returning to Deep Rock Galactic! And from September 15th you’ll be able to join the beer-filled celebration on the Space Rig. We’ve had a lot of fun putting this event together - we may even have gone a little bit overboard. You will have to judge that for yourselves.

You can of course expect the regular assignment, rewards, hats, and so forth that you’ve come to know from a Deep Rock event - but there will also be a few new surprises. More info as we get closer to the event. For now, dust off your Trachtenhut, and get ready to party!

The event will end on October 3rd, assuming we can all last 2 weeks of in-game drinking and partying…and sometime later in October, expect something much scarier as Management has been dropping hints about a Halloween party. Again, more info to come.


Didn’t we just release support for FSR 1.0?
Well, yes, and now there is a brand new version supported in the game. We heard good things from a lot of you who used FSR 1.0 and DLSS in DRG, so we are excited to see what this new version can do in terms of performance. Early testing shows promising results.

We are also leaving FSR 1.0 in, so you can select between the two versions if you should have any compatibility issues or your setup benefits from a specific version. We truly are spoiled for choice when it comes to upscaling technology.

Check here for compatible graphics cards and other general FSR 2.0 details


That’s it for now - so until next time:
Rock and Stone!
With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

We have been so busy lately that we almost missed the fact that 4 Million of you have now bought the game since our launch into Early Access back in 2018. A hearty thank you to all of you. We are grateful for all your support and the love you have shown for the game. It makes the blood, sweat, and tears we pour into the game feel more than worth it.

The last time we hit a similar milestone, 3 Million units sold, was just after the release of Season 01. That is 1 million of you joining the game on Steam since the Rivals first came to Hoxxes. We have followed the CCU closely, and the game is more alive than we ever dreamt of when we first launched it back in 2018.

If you are a Greenbeard fresh out of onboarding, welcome. We hope your time at the company will be rewarding, productive, and lucrative. And if you are a Greybeard with plenty of promotions under your belt, we salute your efforts. Thank you for welcoming so many new Miners and showing them the best of what the Deep Rock community has to offer.

We are hard at work on Season 03, and as we mentioned in our roadmap post, we expect it to launch sometime during Q4 2022. We have also started up our newsletter again. So if you want to get news about what we are up to here at Ghost Ship directly in your inbox, sign up here. And remember to join your fellow Miners on the DRG Discord Server.

Thanks again Miners, Rock and Stone!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

It is cold in space. Luckily, Management has a plan for dealing with that.

The first Beach Party in Space starts now and ends on July 11th.

Enjoy the (imaginary) sun and a couple of cold ones in this new event which includes:

• The Hoxxes Summer Cruise assignment. Take a trip to some of Hoxxes’ scenic spots and enjoy the sights.
  
• 2 new hats, awarded from the assignment. Complete your beach party look with these new additions to your wardrobe.
  
• The Space Rig Bar has received a vacation-themed overhaul during this event. Kick back with a cold one and enjoy Summer in space in-between missions.

Management hopes you will enjoy the party together with your fellow colleagues, and reminds you that this does not constitute actual vacation. Happy Mining.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

Management has considered its past mistakes and added more gold to the tutorial for our greenbeards. Several balance tweaks have been made to difficulty and to weapons, but most importantly, Dreadnought twins should now be 43% less buggy and 31% more killable (Note: Based on projection. Loss of life attempting to engage Dreadnoughts are not covered under company insurance)

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed inconsistencies in Nemesis difficulty scaling
- Fixed fire and booster module audio on release for HPC and Microwave
- Rival Signal Event: Extended the event time limit and the time available to hack an antenna node.
- Rival Signal Event: Fixed the timer not showing consistently for clients and host, reduced the rate at which waves spawn towards the end of the event to reduce the pressure a bit on players who are having a hard time, and slowed down the wire-cutting minigame a little as some players have been having a lot of difficulty with it.
- Rival Incursion Warning: Increased the payout bonus for missions with the warning, extended the time between Rival waves, and further spread out the turrets surrounding the Turret Controller so they are less clumped up
- Wave Cooker: Fixed Gamma Contamination OC incorrectly interacting with the T1 Shot Width upgrade
- Fixed electric bolt arcs not interacting with all-electric damage bonus upgrades and OCs
- Fixed shark grabber collision being very inconsistent
- Hacking tool no longer receives decals
- Added more obvious gold in the tutorial mission
- Fixed Boscos missing blinking lights on little guns
- Fixed a case where one of the dreadnought twins could stay invisible forever.

Modding:
- Fixed modding behaving weirdly when the mod.io user has been deleted or closed.
- Fixed mods not automatically updating to the latest version when new versions of the mod were available

We have some exciting news for you. On June 20th you can enjoy the first ever Space Beach Party. In usual DRG fashion you will find a brand new assignment available with new hats to collect. And festive decorations as well. Time for some serious workcation, miners!



Now that Season 02 has been out for a bit, it is time for a Roadmap Update. We are already hard at work making Season 03, and although it is still very early in development, we can mention a couple of things to expect.



There will be a new Performance Pass, but you can expect that for any new season, so not much of a surprise there. We are also making a whole new theme for Season 03. More updates to follow.

We are also planning to add new grenades to your arsenal. We are still testing out ideas, and some of them have blown us away. Expect these new additions to your arsenal to be a blast to use. Try not to explode with excitement before you get your hands on them.

There will of course also be a DLC to go along with the new season. And you can probably expect one or two more things to sneak into Season 03. We try to stick to scope, but we just can’t help ourselves from getting more cool features into the game. You probably know by now.

We can’t wait to tell you more. But we will have to wait a bit. Expect us to be a bit quiet over Summer as July is usually a vacation period here at Ghost Ship. In the meantime, enjoy Season 02 and the Space Beach Party. You have earned it, Miners.

Rock and Stone!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

Mods, Bismor and Dwarfs should be back to normal now, whoops

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew


- Fixed low res textured materials such as Bismor and Croppa
- Fixed characters blinking in and out of existence when wearing some headwear that hides most of the head.
- Fixed exothermic reactor triggering inconsistency for clients, now works same as host
- Making initialization of mods already on the system independent from the modio system.

Hotfix en route. Hang in there.


With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew


- Fixed Shard Diffractor T5 Dazzler Module upgrade not working
- Fixed press any key screen sometimes opening twice.
- Fixed the Shard Diffractor Plastcrete Catalyst OC carving 5m radius spheres in Ice - too hot yo!
- Reverted barrels to pre-nerf state
- Fixed Beastmaster, Steeves are tamable again
- Added information in the modding menu, shows if the mod.io servers are down

The patch pod has arrived! We fixed the issue that got a lot of people stuck in black screen after the logos (and a bunch of other stuff). Thank you for your patience while we were figuring it out. You're pretty Rock and Stone, Miners.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew



- Fixed some cases where the modding support integration caused the game to not load past the videos in the beginning
- Fixed some cases where certain saves caused the game to not load past the videos in beginning

Weapon changes

Drak-25 Plasma Carbine
- Reduced the base ammo a bit
- Reduced the ammo bonus from the T2 Larger Battery upgrade
- Increased the ammo bonus of the Shield Battery Booster OC
- Reduced the overheat duration penalty of the Thermal Exhaust Feedback OC

X-80
- Moved some of the reload speed bonus and ammo switch speed bonus from the T3 Stabilizing Arm Brace upgrade to the base weapon
- Increased the base special Taser ammo
- Increased the base special Chemical Explosion ammo
- Increased the base duration of the Taser bolt
- Significantly increased the base duration of the Chemical Explosion bolt effect, giving a longer window in which to kill the affected enemy
- Significantly increased the explosion damage from an enemy killed while affected by the Chemical Explosion bolt and changed the damage type to Explosive

Coil Gun
- Moved some trail DoT from the T5 Electric Trail upgrade to the base weapon
- Reduced the base charge speed slightly and increased the bonus of the T1 Optimized Magnetic Circuit upgrade
- Significantly increased the effect strength and radius of the T3 Fear Trajectory upgrade
- Increased the explosion damage from the T5 Necro-Thermal Catalyst upgrade
- Removed the reload penalty from the Re-atomizer OC and changed it from Balanced to Clean
- Significantly reduced the damage penalty of the Backfeeding Module OC and reduced it's ammo bonus slightly

Zhukov NUK17
- Slightly increased the damage bonus of the T5 Conductive Bullets upgrade
- Increased the damage bonus of the Gas Recycling OC

Voltaic SMG
- Moved some of the electrocution chance bonus of the T1 Upgraded Capacitors upgrade to the base weapon
- Moved some of the recoil reduction of the T2 Recoil Dampener upgrade to the base weapon

Shard Diffractor
Endothermic Explosion OC
- Renamed the Endothermic Explosion OC to Plastcrete Catalyst and tweaked the description to better clarify it's mechanics
- Made the visual effects better reflect the AoE range increase when shooting at platforms
- Fixed the explosion effect not matching the size of the explosion
- Explosion now fully consumes all plastcrete within its effect radius
- Reduced the time it takes to trigger the explosion and made the weapon auto-cycle after an explosion is triggered

Colette Wave Cooker
- Moved some shot width from the base weapon to the T1 Concave Lens upgrade
- Reduced the effect of the T3 Temperature Amplifier upgrade on both the target and surrounding enemies
- Reduced the ammo bonus of the Mega Powersupply OC

Blistering Necrosis OC
- Weakpoint bonuses now apply when shooting blistering necrosis blisters.
- If a boil from blistering necrosis is on a weak point that gives a higher damage multiplier than 1.5x the boil will copy the weak points multiplier.
- Damage transferred from shooting blisters is no longer dependent on how much health the blisters have left.
- Removed the cap for how much damage the blisters can transfer to the enemy at once.

HURRICANE Guided Rocket System
- Increased the bonus of the T1 Increased Blast Radius upgrade
- Increases the projectile velocity and turn rate bonuses of the T2 Bigger Jet Engine upgrade

Weapon Bug Fixes
- Fixed taser arrows electric arc not damaging the enemy which the arrow is stuck in
- Fixed issue where arrows and other projectiles would start floating
- Fixed Crossbow also switching to special arrows when picking up stuck arrows.
- Fixed The Nishanka Boltshark X resupplies special bolts incorrectly
- Fixed Nishanka Boltshark X-80 bolts are doing less damage for clients.
- Banshee module for crossbow now takes fear resistance into consideration
- Fixed Bolts are consumed when hitting Pipes in refining mission instead of bouncing off
- Fixed an issue where electric bolts would cause the game to freeze
- Fixed coilgun not being able to damage the caretaker

Tweaks
- Fixed season challenge timer - season challenges now have 21 hours timer cooldown, down from 24 hour, for more flexibility
- Barrels now have a short cooldown before you can kick it again
- Increased the amount of holomite required to complete the secondary objective
- Updated grappling gun to disallow use through walls, and correctly correspond with UI

New Features
- Implemented NVidia Reflex

Enemies
- Fixed Bulks not exploding as you would expect in missions with Volatile Guts anomaly
- Fixed grabbers not releasing the victim properly if they were released too fast on a spotty connection
- Fixed that Dead dreadnoughts would collide with the players
- Attempt to fix the case where Arbalest twin dreadnought would become invisible when killing its twin while it was burrowing
- Added more scaling to how lethal the Nemesis is based on hazard and number of players

Missions
- Fixed that Salvage would sometime not spawn enough mule legs’
- Fixed that some tunnels would be too narrow
- Fixed cave generation scaling issue - where cave features like slanted crystals in salt caves would become larger than intended

Cosmetics
- Fixed that Ears would pop through the flight commander hat
- Set Hex helmet head visibility set from neck to none

Mods
- Mods will now not be marked as causing a crash if you quit the game normally.

Misc
- Fix attempt for escape pod sometimes not dropping down
- Fixed exploding barrel event lasers not animating
- Fixed the icon over the lost pack being upside down... whoops!
- Fixed barrier turret not spinning when the host wasn't looking at it
- Fix for Barbaric Bosco Paintjob using the wrong material
- Added async loading of season briefing
- Client interaction system fixes for high ping
- Updated spaceball physics
- Attempt to fix case where hearthstone progress bar was not showing

We found and fixed a crash related to the crossbow.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew


- Fixed a crossbow related crash