Advanced Speedrunning Tips

[section=Perk Choice Consideration]
* Weekend Athlete - (6% to 12%) A Speed Boost - Relevant to all mission types
* Deep Pockets - (+4 to +12) More carry room - good for mineral objectives.
* Depositor - (20% to 40%) Faster deposit speed - good for mineral objectives
* Strong Back - (10% to 20%) Allows running with heavy minerals - good for heavy object objectives
* Sweet Tooth - (10% to 20%, move-speed 20%) Final tier - allows for temporary very fast movement - relevant to all mission types.
* Field Medic - (15% to 30%) Allows faster reviving - good backup for co-op runs
* Zipline Motor - (15% to 30%) Allows faster traversal - good for point extracts or egghunts (Transfering aquarq)
* Iron Will - (5 to 9 seconds) Allows prevention of downs with heal source - good for avoiding going down.


[section=Carrying Objects]
Running while carrying an object is based off the players movement speed. In rich atmosphere missions players can run while carrying heavy objects, but this isn't useful information as rich atmosphere is DISALLOWED in speedruns.

What is useful however, is knowing that it's a speed threshold. Having a fully ranked "Strong Back" perk, alternatively having the Red Sugar buff (20% move speed) active, or another sufficient speed boost WILL allow players to run while carrying heavy objects.

While it is faster to throw objects (See below) carrying objects is more consistent and necessary for depositing.

[section=Throwing Objects]
Utilize throwing Heavy Objects, if you flick your screen you can throw things absurdly far, which can be used to throw far away Aquarq relatively close to the minehead for depositing, eggs closer to the MULE to save time, or mini-MULE legs closer to the body.
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[section=Q-Mining]
Immediately after hitting a surface with a pickaxe, hitting q (default quickswitch) you can switch back to a previously equipped item and then follow up by hitting rightmouse to mine again.

The result of animation canceling your mining (AKA Q-mining) results in about 1.5x quicker mining, but mistiming it may result in LOSING time. No third party programs means this CANNOT be scripted, and must be done manually.

[section=Understanding Bosco]
Bosco can be useful in cutting out time in your solo speedrun. He can mine minerals out of walls, hold off hordes, and revive you to recover from bad situations.

* Hitting 'x' (default) at any time will cause Bosco to ABORT his current task to come help you. This can mean the difference between going down or being freed from a leech.
[section=Bosco Targeting]
Ctl + mouse one will cause Bosco to Target an area
There are three tasks he can do upon an area being marked. 
* Nothing of significance => Area is lit up (Yellow lightbulb hud icon)
* Embedded mineral/ exposed vein => begins to mine (Blue pickaxe hud icon)
* Enemy => begins to shoot (Red hud icon)

Directing him to a patch with an embedded object will cause him to mine until he unearths it, if you can get an angle so that he approaches underneath an aquarq, he could potentially mine it out fully and gravity would deliver it right to your feet.
Note he will dig until he "Unearths it", by this I mean it "popping" out of the ground/wall. This doesn't mean he will deliver it or anything, its very possible he will simply dig a tunnel to a material 40m up and it gets caught in some jagged terrain up there, not being of too much use to you. 
To prevent this recognize __he will begin to dig to the material based off where you point him to __


Bosco can be immensely useful for telling if you've already mined an Aquaq or not if you lose track, as

* If you HAVE and you mark a wall he will have a yellow lightbulb icon on your hud and move in to light the area.

* If you HAVEN'T he will move in to mine it with a blue pickaxe icon.

This is useful if you're playing on a biome that makes it more difficult to see the "glow" aquarq gives off or are simply having hard time telling or recalling if you've mined an aquarq or egg out.

[section=Misc. Tips]
* You can negate the speed debuff from focusing by doing a jump and charging the focus midair. This is a staple technique of higher level gunners and really helps not compromise your mobility (Also applicable to Scouts focus)
* You can freeze molly in place by continuously calling her. This is useful in ensuring she doesn't have to trek as far for linear maps such as mining expedition and the tutorial.
* You can drill shortcuts for Molly, as she will update her path to the closest route to the drop pod.

[section=Biome Choice (Under Construction)]
(Cleanup)
Hardness refers to the number of hits required

No upgraded pick (Non Driller)

"Hardness 3" : Crystalline Caverns, Magma Core, Radioactive Exclusion Zone, Salt Pits

"Hardness 2" : Fungus Bogs, Dense Biozone

"Hardness 1" : Sandblasted Corridors

Upgraded pick (Driller)

"Hardness 2" : Crystalline Caverns, Magma Core, Radioactive Exclusion Zone, Salt Pits

"Hardness 1" : Fungus Bogs, Dense Biozone, Sandblasted Corridors


* Glacial Strata
* Fungus Bogs
* Dense Biozone
* Sandblasted Corridors
* Crystalline Caverns
* Magma Core
* Radioactive Exclusion Zone
* Salt Pits
* Shallow Grotto

[section=Class Choice (Under Construction)]
* Scout
* Engineer
* Gunner
* Driller

Archived Runs

Egg Hunt 5 (pre-patch23)

Mushu - 2:20IGT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVH935VNFV4

HexZyle - 2:41IGT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78XMqa9aJzs

Nirah, Skell, Kaimann - 2:12IGT - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/358271600

Egg Hunt 10 (pre-patch23)

Mushu - 7:09IGT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4utSWL15Qb4

Makershyn - 10:24IGT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE9t3UF8N90

Skell, Yuyu, Kaimann, Nirah - 7:35IGT - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/348571288

Elimination 2 Dread (pre-patch21)

HexZyle - 2:24IGT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ZRrsv4qQc

Mushu - 3:50IGT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QsVDbSOPN8

Tutorial - Tips and RNG

*Notice: This game is still in its alpha phase, the tutorial mission might get a major overhaul in the future. Whenever that happens these Tutorial runs will either be obsolete or kept in some sort of "OLD" category, no promises.*

[section=Intro]
This guide is more or less to document on RNG possibilities and a few tips to help you 'ace' the tutorial, once you've got the speed running techniques down such as Q-Mining, calling MULE, etc. you will have to pray to the RNG gods for the perfect generation.
What's great about the tutorial is that the caves themselves are never incredibly different, it's mainly the tunnels, ore placement and drop pod that you have to worry about, making this the least RNG run in the game (at least that's what I like to tell myself).

[section=Locations]
I'll go into minor detail describing each cave you can encounter in the Tutorial.

1st cave (aka spawn cave) - your spawn area, there's always two pillar formations and behind them is the next cave's entrance.
2nd cave (aka zipline cave) - there's a big downward drop with a large rock sticking out of the ceiling demonstrating the zipline's abilities, right behind it is the next cave.
3rd cave (aka morkite cave) - this cave will provide you with the morkite that you need, there's always a long rock bridge leading players to the cave's ending.

[section=Tips]
• This is Shallow Grotto a biome which is only available in the tutorial, digging through the terrain is actually more efficient than the dirt, try digging **around** the dirt instead of directly.
• Make sure to call the MULE not too often nor too little, every time you call the MULE while it's moving will slow it down very briefly.
• This may not make a big difference but customizing Bosco's upgrades for mining is a good idea since there are minimal enemies anyway.
• Drop the Shield Generator at the end of the 2nd cave to prevent any creature from blocking your digging.
• When the Drop Pod arrives to pick you up, dig the area where the MULE would board, I am not 100% sure but I believe it makes the MULE skip a few steps and then it snaps into the 'boarding animation'.
• Drink buffs still carry over to the Tutorial but they will barely help, don't forget that Dark Morkite is banned.

Recommended Perks:
• Veteran Depositor - depositing things faster is often a great choice.
• Souped Up Zip Line Motor - you will always need to shoot at least one zipline, the extra speed is worth it.
• Sweet Tooth - when maxed out you get a 20% speed boost on heal, take intentional fall damage if you're gonna utilize this.
• Deep Pockets - being able to carry more resources means you'll need to run to the MULE less.
• Weekend Athlete - a speedrun must. you don't have this equipped already? what are you doing?

[section=RNG]
You're likely already fully aware that Deep Rock Galactic runs are heavily dependent on RNG, I'll do my best to document on the possible generations and outcomes for the Tutorial here, doing the same for any other mission is at least 10 times harder.

**__Ores**__
There's two factors to ores, their location and their amount.

First two Morkite veins are placed throughout the 1st and 2nd caves.
And the rest of Morkite veins are placed in the 3rd cave.

Some Morkite vein sizes:
• Tiny (~7 Morkite) - common
• Small (~15 Morkite) - common
• Medium (~25 Morkite) - common
• Big (~40 Morkite) - rare (except for morkite cave)
• Huge (~52 Morkite) - very rare (except for morkite cave)
* Colossal (~70 Morkite) - extremely rare

It's possible for the first two veins to provide you with 100 Morkite (although the chances are abysmally low), if this ever happens you've got yourself the ultimate record.

**__Tunnels**__
Tunnels are what connect the caverns, their sizes and formations greatly vary. It would take thousands of playthroughs for a somewhat accurate documentation on each of them.

There's one tunnel type that stands out to me the most and those are the spiral ones, where a part of the tunnel is just like a spiral staircase, I believe they are a good thing more often than not since the MULE can easily climb through the middle hole.

There's also the dirt which separates the caves from the next tunnel, the dirt length can vary from being instantly open to just being lengthy. This shouldn't impact time too much if you already have Q-Mining down.

**__Drop Pod**__
There's mainly two spots the Drop Pod can land in if you haven't opened up the last cave. And that's either in the 1st cave or the 2nd cave. The second cave drop pod has proven to be the best option.

If you're in the tunnel between the 2nd and 3rd caves, make sure to bring the MULE near the 3rd cave otherwise the drop pod will arrive all the way back where you spawned. However there may be a minuscule chance it wont drop at spawn.

Possible distances:
*These distances are based off when the MULE is called back at the morkite cave's entrance.*
• <90m - this means it'll be near your (supposedly) deployed zipline, ultimate spot
• 90-100m - this will be in the middle of the 2nd cave, good spot
• 100-120m - it will be in the further end of the 2nd cave, decent spot
• 160-180m - this means it's back in the spawn cave, bad spot
• 180m> - you're better off aborting, terrible spot

Keep in mind that the MULE will always board the right side of the drop pod's entrance, depending on the pod's rotation this could potentially ruin or improve a run.

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Advanced Speedrunning Tips	FlipFTW 6 years ago
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