‘Deep Rock Galactic’ Season 3 preview: feverishly enjoyable

Plaguefall, the identify of Deep Rock Galactic‘s third season, tells you every little thing it’s essential to know concerning the procedural co-op shooter’s subsequent story. Simply if you suppose well being and security requirements can’t slip any decrease on this world’s mining operation, a plague-ridden comet falls to the planet of Hoxxes IV – and if that wasn’t sufficient, an infectious new species of monster hitched a experience on it.

Whereas Deep Rock Galactic‘s expeditions are procedural, your pre-mission map will spotlight which deployment areas are at the moment contaminated. When you select to land in a kind of places, it received’t take lengthy earlier than you run right into a corrupted spot: the rock beneath your ft teems with boils, and every little thing’s tinged a sickly inexperienced. It appears to be like nice and feels very thematic, however the actual signal that one thing’s off is that lots of Deep Rock Galactic‘s normal enemies have was oozing zombie-like creatures.

Whereas contaminated enemies are much more resilient than their wholesome counterparts, aiming for his or her weak spots – plump boils throughout their our bodies – makes brief work of them. Hitting these spots is essential if you’d like your ammo to final your complete mission, and since Plaguefall duties miners with further missions on a run-through, staying well-supplied is essential.

Moreover not dying, your job in Plaguefall is twofold. On prime of your regular hunt for riches, gamers now have to scrub up contaminated areas and if potential, mine the offending meteor for riches. As disgusting as the primary job sounds, it’s extremely satisfying. An orbital resupply grants your workforce with a foam gun and industrial hoover – the primary is for lathering up the contaminated rocks with a thick froth, and the hoover is for sucking all of it up. For a sport that’s all about blasting hordes of enemies and getting wealthy, the mundane cleansing is immensely satisfying – and whereas it nonetheless includes preventing off monsters till the corruption is gone, the tidying parts rapidly turned my favorite a part of Plaguefall.

With the elevated workload, it’s solely proper that every dwarf class will get a brand new grenade. Whereas not one of the 4 new devices truly explode, the Gunner’s Tactical Leadburster comes closest – a spinning projectile that vomits bullets just like the world’s smallest, least-accurate sentry gun. The Scout’s Voltaic Stun Sweeper is a bit of bit extra delicate, with an electrical boomerang that may bounce between foes should you angle it proper. Nonetheless, my favourites have been the Engineer’s Shredder Swarm and the Driller’s Springloaded Ripper. The primary unleashed a number of tiny, flying drones to assault your enemies, whereas the second is a nasty sawblade contraption that cuts throughout partitions, flooring and ceilings like a Bomchu from The Legend of Zelda.

When all of those new options come collectively, Deep Rock Galactic is pure carnage. On prime of making an attempt to fulfill your worker’s normal mining quota, there are such a lot of new threats to handle: it’s unhealthy information for our favorite area dwarfs, however the brand new content material is filled with leisure worth – which means it’s nice information for gamers.

Season 3 of Deep Rock Galactic is about to launch on November 3 for PC, and November 17 for Xbox and PlayStation.