[Q] so are the devs taking a break from drg?

[A] No. Work on DRG continues on a daily basis.

[Q] so, important question if drg isn’t getting massive content dumps anymore do you think seasons will be stopping, or just becoming longer

[A] We have no plans to stop Seasons any time soon. Season 5 is a long ways off, but for reasons already stated.

[A] For the record: We have no intention of Season 5 being the last season. DRG is still doing way too well to stop development.

[Q] hi robert, is it accurate seasons are to be released yearly from now on?

[A] It is not. There are no set dates for our Seasons. Season 5 will take a long time, because we are linking it up with Rogue Core. There is no telling right now if Season 6 will take longer, shorter, or anything in between. We do not plan things years in advance.

[Q] But can you assure people that it will be worth a YEAR of waiting? That is the most important part here.

[A] I cannot. And won't, either, because it likely won't be. It will be An Update. It will not be The Next Big Gamechanger. Do not expect Season 5 to be something huge and groundbreaking.

[Q] It's nice that you are honest about it. Doesn't make it sting any less, but it's something.

[A] And it stings for us too, believe me. But it's always a case of "if we do THIS, it's at the expense of THAT", know what I mean? We do not have infinite hands.

[Q] Are there plans for mid-season major balancing/bugfixing patches like U34 was ?

[A] No plans right now. Never say never, but I wouldn't expect it. We will announce if that changes.

[Q] The game is already a finished product so who tf cares if there’s a content drought. I’m mainly conerned about quality then gsg just dumping trash content just to pump something out.

Also no endgame? deep dives and double warning haz 5 exist. And if that isn’t enough i’m happy to play some modded 6x2 or 7x2 for fun

[A] This. Deep Dives were introduced to BE the endgame. The update was CALLED Endgame. DRG is never, ever going to be super sweaty - if you want that, there are better offerings out there.

[Q] Are you intending on adding some more end game content?

[A] Depends on your definition of end game content. But it should be clear to most of our community by now that we prefer to do content that can be enjoyed by as large a percentage of our player base as possible.

[Q] I ain't asking to be like "oh drg updates slow grgrgrgrgr" I just genuinely want to know, it's gonna be 9 months for season 5?

[A] Season 5 will be released Some Time before Rogue Core is released, as a sort of Prologue. This means it will be developed alongside Rogue Core as we add content to both. So yes, do not expect it before June next year.

[Q] i dont want to be confronted with a disease for another 8 months, its giving me bad vibes allready... besides that i cannot currently imagine how rogue core will truly feel like, i dont want to stop playing drg just because rogue could be better, would be sad

[A] Our intention is for Rogue Core to be so different from DRG that it won't be an either/or question. We intend for both games to live alongside each other.

[Q] I love how this sounds. The 2 games being connected thematically and hopefully content wise. I do wish they'd mention this or have a better emphasis on the connection on the stream tho since that could mean A LOT of fun and cool new possibilities

[A] Yes, but it's also very very early in development, so we can't make any big promises yet. All we can speak on right now is intentions, not promises.

[Q] Maybe Ghost Ship run out of ideas, they give us the same season events every time:
Find the mug and deposit it, find the Rabbit and deposit it, find the gnome and deposit it...

[A] Only a question of manpower - we have ideas from here to the ceiling. 😭

[Q] There are many ideas in the community regarding additional content for DRG in form of variation of existing content (e.g. "omarant heart stone variants" and the like). I think there is still a lot of stuff one could add to the game. No big-headline-stuff, just updates.

[A] Absolutely. The great thing about developing DRG has always been that we never seem to run out of ideas for it. It's only a question of manpower and time, really.

[Q] GSG have plenty of incomming games, why do a DRG RC ? I really don't see the point of doing that game, should of been a extension, and if this were the case it would of been really GREAT. I'm afraid you play with the future of DRG 😢

[A] Because we think it's going to be super fun, and it became clear to us pretty quick that what we want to do would not be suited for a DRG expansion. An expansion would be much smaller, and much more restricted, than what we intend Rogue Core to be.

[A] It started as an expansion for DRG, but as it grew it quickly became obvious that the scope of what we wanted to do would be much better for a new game entirely.

[Q] sorry i cant take jokes on this topic, to this day i think drg has extreme potential and to spread workforce like that and just say "uh yea also s5 will come next year"... ngl kinda insulting. for me it really does look like you guys are trying to milk as much as possible from drg IP. hope you understand that this critique comes from passion, not hatred.

[A] Taken as passion, not to worry. We anticipated this would be a big part of the response to Rogue Core, and we're confident enough in it that we are more than willing to take that risk.

[Q] I personally hoped that since season 4 was smaller the next season would be bigger.

I understand that you have the right to focus on the new game and you have no obligation to update DRG at all, but I am disappointed by this because I expected you to continue to focus mainly on DRG. I love the game, I buy DLCs and that's why I wanted more and more content asap 🙂

[A] For the record, we are completely aware that this will be the reaction for many, many players. And it's a justified reaction that's completely fair.

But if we ever want to do more than one game, we need to start at some point.

[Q] the response to rogue core's announcement is a bit unreasonable but the silencing of criticism isn't much better for the health of the game. some people have made reasonable suggestions but even they're being handwaved as if the game is better off having no new content released because the base is "good enough". yeah, it is good enough. game's still fun as-is. that shouldn't be a reason to deprive it of more good things later down the road. the game's being defended in good faith but i don't think letting the game stagnate is a good mentality. if we're going to see more year long gaps between updates it's fine as long as the update following them is the kind of quality we're used to at this point

[A] I find the criticism completely fair, honestly. If I passionately followed a game and was told there'd be no update for almost a year, I'd be dissatisfied too.

We are basing our decisions here on the fact that we believe Rogue is gonna be super cool, and the fact that we've worked non-stop on DRG for almost 8 years and really need to work on something fresh as well. DRG is not dying - it will continue to receive updates.

But no, and I can say this unequivocally - the days of DRG getting HUGE content dumps regularly are done. You do that early in a game's development cycle. Every new thing we add now is like adding new floors to a card house already teetering under its own weight.

[Q] I understand some people are upset but I personally am patient, and like I said, it's not like DRG is the only game I can play in the existence

[A] This. We absolutely love how passionate people are about DRG and fully understand why they want more content for it on a regular basis. We are proud that people can get fired up about this.

But yes, play other games too - if you find there's nothing for you to do in DRG, that's alright.

[Q] i wouldn't fault you guys if you asked us to pay for larger updates. the community loves this game and already spends a lot on just the cosmetic DLC's. every company needs funds to hire more work and it makes sense a game like DRG would need resources to expand further

[A] Interestingly, it's not even a question of money. While we love money, obviously, since we are GREEDY GAME DEVELOPERS, we don't need to sell our updates. Rather, we're "held back" by our desire not to grow too fast or too big. We WANT to be a small, agile studio, not huge and bloated. A lot of us intend to never work at a big studio ever again - part of the founding policy of GSG.

Of course, this means that we can't pump out updates like they do on Fortnite, ever. But we won't go insane making them either.

[Q] we definitely don't need updates like Fortnite, this announcement definitely feels a bit jarring after such a long wait without much information though

[A] We absolutely felt that long wait too. But we couldn't say anything, that was the issue - because doing so would reveal the fact that Rogue Core was being worked on. This announcement today is literally the earliest moment we could find to reveal it in a way that wasn't completely ludicrous.

[Q] Totally understandable. But it puts you and your playerbase in a very weird spot.

[A] It does, to a degree. But in the end, it's up to the players to decide if our way of doing things is something they can live with or not. I doubt we'll ever majorly revamp the way we do things, because this is how we like to work. If some players aren't comfortable with that, then we can't hold on to them - and that's fine.

[Q] Yeah GSG why not just hire 100 new people. Ez solution /s

[A] 🤮

[Q] In my opinion, this is a bad choice . The game need more content not less.

[A] And you're entitled to that opinion. And it's not even wrong. It's a question of priorities in here - we want to do more content for DRG, but there's more to it than just that.

[Q] I miss the golden times when Ghost Ship release new weapons, overlooks, enemies and balance in only 6 months.
I play DRG since early access.

[A] So do we. Ironically, that's part of the reason why we're excited to work on a new game, because then that becomes possible again.

Ading new content to DRG now is exponentially more work than it used to be, simply because of how big the game is now.

[Q] Bro, in the past Ghost Ship have.. How many? 20 employers? And give us a lot of new content in 2 years of EA, Now you have the double of man ppwer and can't make a simple mission history..

[A] Making updates for DRG now is a lot more complicated than it used to be. Not sure how much clearer I can make that.

[A] And on the point of more weapon variety in DRG: It is doubtful we are getting new weapons in DRG anytime soon, if ever. Unlike a CoD or similar, we only do new weapons when they add something significant and new to the gameplay.

We do not wish to do 17 assault rifles that basically work the same except for some minor differences. Again, there are better offers out there if that is what you want.

[Q] some new overclocks might be a comparatively easy way to add some fresh content. Depends on how overclocks are setup codewise though

[A] You'd think so, but Overclocks are by no means easy to do. Not so much the implementation, but more the actual balancing and finding something unique for it. We won't add an Overclock if it's just a slight variation on something already in there.

[Q] Do you think overclocks for traversal tools or support tools will ever be a thing? Or do you only plan on implementing overclocks for primary weapons, secondary weapons, and cosmetics?

[A] Yeah, that's why I say unlikely, not impossible. We have a stack of weapon idea from the floor to the ceiling, but implementing just one new gun into the game at this point is a MASSIVE undertaking.

Consider: PER GUN, we need versions of it for EVERY framework, it needs unique Overclocks that must be balanced with every other Overclock in the game, WHILE being new and fun to use, it needs a full upgrade tree.

That is a MASSIVE task - and you lot would be howling for new guns the week after anyway... tell me I'm wrong. xD

[Q] All of that would pile up the more weapons there are overall, so i'd imagine it's a bit of a pain in the ass to even consider let alone implement xd

[A] Yeah. In some ways, our design has made adding new weapons a bit of a dead end.

[A] Perk Rework: It's still a term I hear in here often, but as I say in all things regarding updates: Do not expect it to be some HUGE thing that COMPLETELY CHANGES EVERYTHING. We MAY do a Perk Rework at some point. But it probably won't be enormous.

[Q] Do you plan to change how the current perk meta is or simply "give more options"?

Because I believe there is a difference

[A] Let me be clear: There isn't any "plan" right now. There is a note on a list that says we should probably have a look at Perks at some point. What that entails, I have no way of telling at this moment.

[Q] actually, are there any plans to add community content and/or allow modded weapons and mission types and biomes?

[A] Plans, no. I wouldn't say it's impossible, but don't hold your breath.

[Q] @Robert - Art Director I have a few questions but I'll start with the biggest one. Will we ever fight a fully matured dreadnought queen in like a 8 dwarf giant raid boss???? Is something similar like that in the plans??????

[A] It's something we've discussed, but I wouldn't count on it. Adding 8 player content isn't as simple as just putting four more players on the team, even if that lovely glitch is fun in small doses.

[Q] will we ever get that tutorial biome people always talk about, i forgot its name

[A] That biome is only in the tutorial for a reason. The reason being it's super boring and empty. xD

[Q] Getting a bigger team also does imply new challenges when it comes to maintaining communication and standards :Sconk:

[A] Extremely much so! I'm terrified of us growing too quickly, because it brings SO much more work with it.

[Q] thanks mission control! honestly what i think would be most beneficial for the game's health, or any game for that matter, is to hold regular Q&As with the community. Jacob or some other part of the community staff could handle it.

[A] We would like to do more AMA's too. Right now we are quite stretched, but expect more Q&A's and AMA's down the line.

[Q] i'm sorry to hear you're stretched, robert

[A] Stretched in that we have a lot of stuff to do, not that we're burnt out, not to worry ^^

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