DRG EDD: "Shattered Drop" (solo engineer)

Yes bosco, no deaths. Featuring EM refire stubby + fat boy pgl + ssgs in Glacial Strata.

I'm working on a longer engineer upload so in the meantime here's some chill vanilla again. And by chill, I mean - it's a bit of a terrible dive, but years of modded abuse really warps perspective. Repeated trauma helps rewire your brain a bit like how footy players will retire with early onset dementia after being whacked on the head a bunch. I'm not a real doctor (despite dressing up like one on onlydwarves), but I think it's the exact same mechanism.

This dive has a fine stage 2 but everything else is despicable. I tried to run modded bombodboom scout as my initial few attempts for the dive and burned out hard from the tedium of stage 1, so I ended up doing another vanilla run to reclaim a bit of sanity. Compared to those attempts (which had some of the most miraculously toxic refinery tanker positions - lol you have no idea), this was pretty straightforward. It's not even really a measure of engineer platforms either - it's just where my tanker fell in this particular run was "reasonable" compared to the batshit insane locations I got in my scout runs. We're talking like... literally center ceiling that can't even be grappled to easily to knock it down, or high up on the highest lips near the drop pod which can't really be drilled down easily and the pipes are too short to even connect to the ground without lots of manual pickaxing. Chuck in glacial swarmaggedon grind on top of that and it was just so incredibly tedious that I never got to see stage 3's actual nightmare.

Those experiences were quite literally the reason why I brought fat boy along because I wanted the satisfaction of hitting left click to see a ceiling tanker fall into a usable position. And despite not reaaaaally needing to do it, you know what I did it anyway for the 'gram. And no, that's not an abbreviation for instagram, that's a shoutout to my dead gramgram who I'm sure is up there in heaven getting a stiffy whenever I hit the whopper button.

Stage 3 is the "hard" one this week as ebonite escort is pretty toxic tbh. This is hard in the sense of not being particularly mechanically demanding (all you do is hold e), but hard in the sense of "you gotta keep up with the ebonite grunts or you lose plates fast", which makes playing any sort of more aggressive escort a bit of a slog. Like, if there wasn't enough babysitting the big toddler already - oops you have more. I made sure to drink some skullcrushers specifically for this desire to crush some ebonite skulls.

Speaking of wanting to crush some skulls: bosco is predictably useless in this map type. I mean you could argue that he helps with the shale but I have a chunky boy for that, and his inability to do basically anything valuable here is a bit tragic. Sometimes I wonder about the parallel universe where bosco can be pinged onto repairs at the same speed of a dwarf. Would it be the utopia of my dreams? Would bosco escort be as based as bosco refinery? Imagine, if you will, a blissful experience where you can spend time actually playing the game. Nah, that's crazy. Shooting in your shooter game? Outrageous. Have some E.

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Stage 1: the biggest issue with this stage is the grind surrounding the pumpjack mixed with the tedium of swarmaggedon. The uplink position is pretty rough in the death pit, but luckily the refuel was much more reasonable.

Stage 2: actually pretty fun. Being able to stack eggs and actually see the det spawn you were hoping for show up is great. Really got lucky to hit both twins with it - that's not skill there, it's just luck. I usually just go for one and getting both here while also dodging the ghost was a happy coincidence but let's pretend it was all skill. Depositing the eggs however... that part was just a bit annoying lol. Ghost bulks are a fun movement shakeup when actually fighting things, but if the goal is to hold e or wrangle molly or something like that, it's just a buzzkill. This stage had the closest near death experience (glacial shockers, classic) but all in all it was reasonably swift and clean and I made up for a lot of the time lost to grind in the other stages.

Stage 3: cave too big dottie slow. I think the bigger cave layouts really bum me out even more than usual because the downtime as you're just sitting on doretta doing nothing is pretty extreme in vanilla. Skullcrusher seems decent for this combo but it doesn't help enough against the ebonite praets which usually tend to be the bigger problem anyway. I somehow managed to not lose any plates despite playing very sloppy in the heartstone fight so that's a sign of me babysitting too closely and not attempting to multitask the morkite enough I guess.

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Loadout:
12113 EM Refire
21332 Fat Boy
SSG

Perks:
Dash / Iron Will
Resupplier / Deep Pockets / Born Ready

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Highlights:

0:00 Build
0:39 Stage 1
20:35 Stage 2
31:17 Stage 3
49:05 Final stats