Highlights
- Pick up the BLT Ration Pack for survivability - health regen without upgrades is a huge benefit.
- Consider the Popup Tripod Artifact - great for standing still and boosting fire rate/reload speed.
- Don't overlook the Nitragenic Powder - hoard Nitra to boost critical chance easily in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor.
the newest product from beloved developers Ghost Ship Games is out in Early Access, and it's called Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. This is obviously a game that takes place in the Deep Rock Galactic universe, but instead of being a cooperative objective-based extraction shooter, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is a Vampire Survivors-esque game where players control one dwarf who uses multiple weapons at once.
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As players dig deeper, mine more materials, and advance further in their objectives, they're bound to unlock more and more Artifacts to find on future runs. And, among all the Artifacts the game offers, these seem to be the best ones to keep an eye out for.
7 BLT Ration Pack
Unlock: Reach 300 Map HP
Name | Unlock Achievement | Description |
|---|---|---|
BLT Ration Pack | Delicious BLT | +70 Map HP & +2 Life Regeneration. |
First up is the BLT Ration Pack, one of the best Artifacts in the game, hands down, in terms of survivability. Not only does this Artifact make it possible for players to charge through a wave of Glyphids without dying, but it also makes it possible to regenerate health without putting any points into the Health Regen Upgrade. Compared to the immediate benefit gained from grabbing this Artifact, there really aren't any other Artifact options that even compare.
6 Pickled Nitra
Unlock: Deal 1337 Damage In One attack
Name | Unlock Achievement | Description |
|---|---|---|
Pickled Nitra | Relish the Pain | Increase your Damage by 2 percent and decrease your Move Speed by 0.5 percent for every Nitra you currently have. |
Actually unlocking Pickled Nitra can be a real commitment, considering 1337 damage in one hit is pretty absurdly high. But, with a build centered around high-damage weaponry, Critical Chance percentage, and Critical Damage buffs, it's possible.
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Anyway, once players actually unlock this Artifact and find it in a subsequent run, hitting for thousands of damage becomes a lot more viable. Of course, the decrease in Move Speed can be pretty rough, but as long as players counter this by occasionally taking Move Speed level buffs and by spacing themselves properly, Pickled Nitra is far more beneficial than it is detrimental.
5 Popup Tripod
Unlock: Kill 15,000 Aliens While Standing Still
Name | Unlock Achievement | Description |
|---|---|---|
Popup Tripod | Pillar of Society | Increase your Fire Rate and Reload Speed when standing still by +2 percent each for 2 seconds. Stacks up to 10 times. |
There are usually a couple of characters or even item builds in Vampire Survivors-like games that are focused on the idea of standing still and essentially letting the game 'play itself'. Garlic + Holy Bible in Vampire Survivors is a good example of this, but in DRG: S this playstyle is pretty much what the Engineer's turrets were designed around.
So, getting the Popup Tripod on the Engineer is an easy recommendation, but it's also a great item to grab on just about any Dwarf. As long as players don't have to constantly move to aim their directional weaponry such as the Lead Storm Minigun or the Warthog Shotgun, this Artifact is a huge boon.
4 Any Of The 3 'Scanner' Artifacts
Unlock: XP Unlocked By Default & Other Two Are Unlocked By Collecting 250 Gold and Nitra Respectively
Name | Unlock Achievement | Description |
|---|---|---|
XP Scanner | N/A | You get a small chance to find XP, when mining any kind of rock. |
Nitra Scanner | Gotta Stay Nitrated | You get a small chance to find Nitra, when mining any kind of rock. |
Gold Scanner | Get That Midas Touch | You get a small chance to find Gold, when mining any kind of rock. |
Next up for the Artifact recommendations are the three different 'Scanner' Artifacts, the XP Scanner, the Nitra Scanner, and the Gold Scanner. The XP Scanner is available to the players by default in DRG: S, but the Nitra and Gold Scanners need to be unlocked first. Thankfully, doing this is very easy as gathering 250 of either mineral is something players will end up doing passively over the course of a couple of runs.
Regardless, all three of these Scanners are worth grabbing if players find themselves mining a lot more than they are farming XP, and even if they fight Glyphids more often these Artficats still help them out while they're digging out the area around the Supply Pod or digging through walls to escape the swarm right behind them.
3 Squint-EE5
Unlock: Reach 75 Percent Critical Chance
Name | Unlock Achievement | Description |
|---|---|---|
Squint EE5 | Squint & Squeeze the Trigger | +30 percent Critical Chance, +100 percent Critical Damage, & -30 percent Damage. |
The 'viability' of Crit Chance and Crit Damage in Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor really depends on the player's loadout. Depending on the weapons they choose at 5, 15, and 25 it may end up being a lot more beneficial to go for overall damage buffs than rely on Crit-based upgrades.
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However, if players find themselves at all building into Crit Chance in the run, the Squint EE5 is absolutely an Artifact worth keeping an eye out for. That damage debuff it gives is pretty huge, but as long as players have even 20 percent Crit Chance by the time they pick this Artifact up their damage output shouldn't drop much and will instead jump up due to all the Critical Hits they'll be giving out.
2 Barley Bulb Juice
Unlock: Reach 50 Percent Move Speed
Name | Unlock Achievement | Description |
|---|---|---|
Barley Bulb Juice | It's Got Electrolytes | Gain a temporary Move Speed buff when standing still of +5 percent Move Speed for 3 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times. |
Depending on the 'type' of roguelike game someone is playing, the Movement Speed stat can really vary in how useful it is to invest in. For example, in a game like Risk of Rain 2, Movement Speed is one of the best stats in the game. And thankfully, this is also the case with DRG: S as the more Move Speed one has, the faster they're able to run around mining, completing objectives, and picking up EXP.
Barley Bulb Juice is great for this, as it not only synergizes well with other Artifacts built around standing still such as the Popup Tripod, but it also makes it very easy to reposition when enemies get close to a player who is stationary.
1 Nitragenic Powder
Unlock: Collect 2,000 Nitra
Name | Unlock Achievement | Description |
|---|---|---|
Nitragenic Powder | Sprinkle of Nitra | Increase your Critical Chance by 0.5 percent for every Nitra you currently have. |
Last up is another Artifact that'll take DRG: S players quite a few runs to unlock, the Nitragenic Powder. Requiring around 10 times the amount of Nitra to be mined as the Nitra Scanner, the Nitragenic Powder is thankfully worth all that effort. If players find themselves unable to get up to that 75 percent Crit Chance needed to get the Squint EE5 Artifact unlocked, they'll be able to do it in a single attempt by getting the Nitragenic Powder. A player with this Artifact simply needs to hoard all their Nitra instead of spending it in between levels, and they'll find that their Critical Chance stat will skyrocket without really needing to invest in it much at all.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor released February 14th, 2024 is available on PC.
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