We have a few more things to tease for Season 03. First up, something new has appeared in the caves of Hoxxes. We don’t want to spoil too much, but you might be able to spot it in this short clip:



We will be talking more about…whatever it is…very soon.

For something more hands-on (pun intended), check out the Springloaded Ripper, the second in the lineup of new grenades for Season 03:



This throwable workplace hazard unleashes a set of springloaded sawblades that will shred most organic matter it encounters. Operate with care and deadly precision. Management considers this new tool a prime example of why beer is not allowed on missions.

That’s it for this round - stay tuned for more teasers and upcoming reveals, and do be sure to catch our dev streams every Thursday and Friday on Twitch (channel: ghostship_games).

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

Oktoberfest has officially started on the Space Rig. ‘Tis time for beer, new hats, and work-related fun - and Management has supplied all of the above. Here’s what you can expect for the next two and a half weeks, in a bit more detail:

• A new assignment, the Oktoberfest Celebration assignment is now available to all eligible employees*. Complete it and receive a hefty reward, alongside the two new hats (see below)
  
• Two new hats, awarded in the Oktoberfest Celebration assignment (see above). Whether you favor the Kegger or the Trachtenhut, any of these two fine additions to your wardrobe will let anyone know that you were there at the DRG Oktoberfest 2022!
  
• The Best Wurst Beer, a seasonal, sausage-flavored brew for the event. We have heard it described as Oktoberfest in a mug…among other things.
  
• Earn Double Season XP! While Management had no issue securing enough of this new beer for the event, a shipment of Best Wurst Beer mugs crashed on approach and the mugs are now scattered across Hoxxes! Locating one during a mission and bringing it back will double your Mission Performance Points for that mission.
  
• Oktoberfest Decoration on the Space Rig - and there’s a lot of decorations this time around. For some reason, Oktoberfest really lit the creative spark in the Party Committee. Go see for yourself!

Enjoy Oktoberfest, Miners! Management is both excited to bring you this new event and slightly worried about what two and a half weeks of drinking and partying will do to overall productivity. Guess we’ll find out!

Rock and Stone!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew


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*Completing the onboarding assignment “Conquer Hoxxes” makes you eligible for picking new assignments

Hello, Miners!

You probably all saw our Dev Stream last week where we showed one of the upcoming grenades for Season 03. But just in case you were getting a refreshment from the bar and missed it, here it is again. Say hello to the Scout’s new grenade: The Voltaic Stun Sweeper!



While The Voltaic Stun Sweeper does stretch the definition of ‘Grenade’, we firmly believe you will get a lot of good use out of this shocking version of a Boomerang.

There will be more teasers, announcements, and reveals from now until Season 03 releases. So keep on the lookout for future posts, watch our Dev Streams every Thursday and Friday, and join the official DRG discord if you want to stay in the loop of all things Deep Rock and Season 03.

Until next time,
Rock and Stone!

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

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