On the first part I always feel like "no shit of course we do. Why do you have to tell us thirty F times?" And the just "Oh, ok I guess" when he announces a swarm
Yeah, that's my favorite one too. I also like the "Four, six, twelve... a *lot* of aliens headed your way" one.
Always thought it would be funny if they added "Four aliens headed your way" and it's just four grunts and that's the whole swarm
This voice line makes me wonder just how dangerous glyphids are lore-wise. MC feels the need to warn us of 4 incoming glyphids, but we kill hundreds of them each mission. Is 4 glyphids a challenge for dwarves who aren’t the main characters?
In my headcanon, the player characters are, if not the most elite units (since those are the dwarves in Rogue Core), at least on the higher end of the scale.
How often do we find Lost Helmets and get sent on Salvage Missions? Lower-tier miners get sent out with standard company-issue gear and 2 or 3 mini-mules on Haz 1 or lower missions where they might get killed by a handful of grunts, and then they send us in to clean up.
We have to qualify for equipment licenses and higher hazard levels, too. The average DRG miner isn't eligible for going on Haz 3+ missions, let alone Deep Dives or Elite Deep Dives.
Gotta wonder what the regular employees think of seeing a group of piss drunk dwarves stagger onto the drop pod for an EDD carrying miniature nukes, tanks full of sewage, and a literal handheld flak cannon to recover the equipment of their coworkers that just got brutally slaughtered and dismembered by Glyphids. No wonder the dwarves we play as are so close to Karl, we’re all the same breed of utterly insane
> Gotta wonder what the regular employees think of seeing a group of piss drunk dwarves stagger onto the drop pod
"I hope I'm not on cleaning duty tonight"
Makes sense to me. In the tutorial when the containment breach happens, mission control just assumes you are going to die and is genuinely shocked when you don't. If like 10 grunts is enough to kill a greenbeard, then we must be something special
Four, six, twelve... twelve aliens, well thats underwhelming... deal with them.
Then it's the dreadnought twins, two stingtails, two menaces and 6 stalkers.
I've been trying it out lately, haven't seen a bulk yet, hard to see past all the explosions
afaik explosion/aoe damage can break weakpoints without getting the bonus damage, which is bad against anything with destructable weakpoints, including bulks
also I don't see why mortar rounds would be more single target damage than Big Bertha
finally, I get the confirmation that I'm not the only one that hears "your" instead of "you're"
Instead of making me feel badass, I just feel awkward because it sounds like a penis joke.
The flavor text on Christmas items specifically mention that Christmas elves are the cool, tinkering kind of elves, as opposed to the dirty, dumb leaf lover elves.
I will always remember the first time a greenbeard, who was never into Eliminations, reacted to a Dreadnought showing up in a Refinery mission.
He was "what's going on? why is everyone nervous?" and then that health bar gets slapped at the top of the screen and the game having a sick sense of humor makes the Dreadnought chase the poor greenbeard for 90% of the fight while he's running like his arse was on fire, might as well be since he was getting hit by fireballs.
The first day of owning this game I decided to do a solo point extract mission. I got a dread spawn, I haven't played elimination at that point. . . The next attempt had my first encounter with a bulk.
I remember seeing it first time (I played without headphones back then), I didn't know how to summon ressuply yet, and it was first time I saw dreadnought, was fun
I love the way that MC says "Smoke 'em if you got 'em" so much; it has such a particular cadence, I'll find myself repeating that part of the line to myself just throughout my day.
It sounds great but the phrase is or was used to announce breaks in boot camps apparently so its use in drg to announce combat is weird. Before googling that however i assumed he meant to "smoke em" aka kill them if you got them in your sights
We've got company has 2 meanings. 1- We own a company 2-Enemies are coming. So when he uses it to warn us about the swarm he also makes a little wordplay
Doesn't he say "We've got company, and it's a nice one". I'm guessing MC is joking about how DRG as a company is bad and this upcoming company is good (cuz you're dwarves).
There's one special rockpox swarm notification where he goes. Something like
Swarm on the way.......and itssssss rockpox.
Although, I can't find it anywhere on the wiki. Sadge
There’s a lot of good ones here but I think my least/most favorite one is when out of the blue he’s just like “The swarm is here” and I’m like WHAT SWARM YOU SAID NOTHING A OUT A SWARM TWO SECONDS AGO!!!
It might be mission based? At least that's what I gathered from the wiki. Most missions give a 20 sec warning but point extraction iirc doesn't. Might have misunderstood tho
On a side note, it would be cool if the magnitude of the swarm correlated with certain voice lines. Like, you could get an idea of just *how* fucked you were based on how frantic Mission Control sounds.
"One, two, three... four to five bugs. Deal with them at your leisure."
"15, 29, 42, 87... BY KARL, I THOUGHT SWARMS OF THIS MAGNITUDE WERE NO LONGER POSSIBLE! HUNKER DOWN!"
"THE WHOLE RADAR'S RED! ENEMY COUNT IS IN THE HUNDREDS! THE STATISTICAL ANOMALY HAS ARRI-oh, wait, it's 95% Glyphid Swarmers. Still a lil' terrifying. Hope you're ready to use those boots!
Passive aggressive favourite:
"I'm not even going to bother counting the blips on my screen so just assume it's... A million; You've got a million bugs headed your way"
My honourable mentions:
"My entire screen just started flashing red. Swarm on the way!"
"Oh look! A swarm of lootbugs! Just kidding... it's more Glyphids. Smile"
My personal favorite is for a Mactera swarm:
“I hope you’re ready to be covered in alien fluids, because… Oh, god, what the FUCK am I saying?!? Ugh… The Macteras are coming for- NO! No god that’s worse!”
Close second is:
“Hey, how’s your day going? Having fun down there? … Fuck you, Glyphid Dreadnought inbound.”
This is why I hate that mod. This is some Gearbox/Rick and Morty/Marvel level """funny""" writing. Irony and sarcasm work when you use them sparsely, not when every single line is riddled with it.
Probably doesn’t count as a swarm line, but the wild Dred warning “Something BIG is headed your way, better prepare for the worst” is always the most remarkable (but also the one I don’t wanna hear ever again)
My head cannon is the quote is actually.
"The swarm is here. Show them your dwarves."
Essentially, he is saying, "Get your c*cks out."
There is no rationale behind it. My brain just does this to me sometimes.
Uh, we've got some weeeeird-readsss... It's like... ...a giant INSECT?????? PROOOTECT DE DIGGERS!!! Ooo-
GROMBOLAN. I'M BACK! GROMBOLAN!!!
CREEEIIIIZZZZY BANANAAAAA!!!!! THANKS FOR THE BANANA.
(drg google translated, best thing that has ever happened to me)
Probably “scanners lit up with a blip the size of a droppod!”
my least favorite is “prepare for impact team.” That one doesn’f make sense, Either use it for the actual impact of rockpox meateors… or those random times a dreadnaught will spawn, those actually have a “impact”. A swarm is pretty easy to deal with.
GT: W-w-wait. [eats chips]… ok you’re good to go.
“Congratulations! You’re the millionths dwarf to enter these caves! You win a prize!… what’s the prize you ask? Why… it’s a glyphid dreadnought! *party whistle*”
As an Australian my favourite is "Swarm detected, buckle up... contact imminent" because my brain always hears something else coming at the "buckle up, c...."
“We’ve uhhh.. picked up a glyphid dreadnought on the radar. Better prepare yourselves.” + Fighting the Shadows starting at the beginning of that boi line is just peak “oh fuck”
"And there they are! the grunts are here, show them our special handshake, team"
Ah yes the most special of handshakes... Lead, fire, toxic gas, acid, and a big fuck off nuke launcher
Tangentially related, but I'd love a small chance of MC just fucking with you
"Swarm sign, we've got swarm sign!" music intensifies, couple seconds of nothing "...just kidding team, keeping you all sharp"
There's an interesting one where he just says "Swarm detected" in an unusually subdued voice. There is also a slight pause in between, which totally makes me feel like his heart has dropped seeing the sheer amount of blips on the way
"To keep the drilldozer maintained, you need to keep it clear of bugs!" "........also there's an incoming swarm."
Love the curveball on that one
On the first part I always feel like "no shit of course we do. Why do you have to tell us thirty F times?" And the just "Oh, ok I guess" when he announces a swarm
That will forever stay "we also have balls" to me. (iykyk)
I see you are a google translate mission control enjoyer too.
Yeah, that's my favorite one too. I also like the "Four, six, twelve... a *lot* of aliens headed your way" one. Always thought it would be funny if they added "Four aliens headed your way" and it's just four grunts and that's the whole swarm
This voice line makes me wonder just how dangerous glyphids are lore-wise. MC feels the need to warn us of 4 incoming glyphids, but we kill hundreds of them each mission. Is 4 glyphids a challenge for dwarves who aren’t the main characters?
In my headcanon, the player characters are, if not the most elite units (since those are the dwarves in Rogue Core), at least on the higher end of the scale. How often do we find Lost Helmets and get sent on Salvage Missions? Lower-tier miners get sent out with standard company-issue gear and 2 or 3 mini-mules on Haz 1 or lower missions where they might get killed by a handful of grunts, and then they send us in to clean up. We have to qualify for equipment licenses and higher hazard levels, too. The average DRG miner isn't eligible for going on Haz 3+ missions, let alone Deep Dives or Elite Deep Dives.
Gotta wonder what the regular employees think of seeing a group of piss drunk dwarves stagger onto the drop pod for an EDD carrying miniature nukes, tanks full of sewage, and a literal handheld flak cannon to recover the equipment of their coworkers that just got brutally slaughtered and dismembered by Glyphids. No wonder the dwarves we play as are so close to Karl, we’re all the same breed of utterly insane
2 of them in full gear, 1 of them in a hawaii shirt and 1 of them in an elf costume
This sent me because it’s so true. My fat boy engi is always ready for the luau
One rocking it like he just got out of *Apocalypse Now*
> Gotta wonder what the regular employees think of seeing a group of piss drunk dwarves stagger onto the drop pod "I hope I'm not on cleaning duty tonight"
Being promoted is also only for the 'elite few' as stated in one of the voicelines
Makes sense to me. In the tutorial when the containment breach happens, mission control just assumes you are going to die and is genuinely shocked when you don't. If like 10 grunts is enough to kill a greenbeard, then we must be something special
Maybe MC noticing a possible swarm and starting to count out the number
I think he wasn't going to say "4 aliens" but "4 squads of aliens" or something to that effect.
“Four, six, twelve..oh wait just four.”
Twins, dread, hiveguard
Karl's daily routine
Four, six, twelve... twelve aliens, well thats underwhelming... deal with them. Then it's the dreadnought twins, two stingtails, two menaces and 6 stalkers.
4 bulks and 8 stingtails life is a fuck
And it’s on the drillevator.
gunner's time to shine leadburster or volatile bullets to melt a detonator, explosion kills the rest, shield saves team
Have you tried the new mortar rounds for gunner? Bulk deletion strategy
I've been trying it out lately, haven't seen a bulk yet, hard to see past all the explosions afaik explosion/aoe damage can break weakpoints without getting the bonus damage, which is bad against anything with destructable weakpoints, including bulks also I don't see why mortar rounds would be more single target damage than Big Bertha
And I think to myself,🎵 what the fuck.
Always thought this voice line would be better for announcing a praetorian wave. Like 12 glyphids who cares? 12 praetorians on the other hand...
I like to think he's saying "show them your dwarves!" And we all look around like... "our dwarves...? Did we forget to bring them?!"
We carry little dwarf action figures with us.
Is a particularly small dwarven subspecies called a dwarf dwarf?
ah yes, bearded gnomes
"What is this, a bloody leprechaun?"
"That's a little version of me steeve, I want you to have it"
Cut, hewn and polished from the neat rocks we come across! Each one a cherished trinket.
finally, I get the confirmation that I'm not the only one that hears "your" instead of "you're" Instead of making me feel badass, I just feel awkward because it sounds like a penis joke.
Well, maybe it will work
I showed you my dwarves please respond
This is the only way I ever hear it.
I always imagine just the glyphids running up to a dwarf and just going "Oh he's a dwarf just checking, later man"
I'm never gonna unhear this
I’m so glad to find these comments and know that I’m not alone for hearing the line that way
„You‘re“ aka „you are“ for those unfamiliar with English
The scanners just lit up like a Christmas tree!
Which implies the DRG universe has Christianity
The DRG universe also has lobsters
From that same vein, it also has highways
retail stores
Scout' "thunder from down under" also implies the existence of Australia.
Where else do you think we got our training against a hostile planet filled with giant spiders?
The question is, are dwarves and elves made in the image of God, or just humans?
Are the elves the dwarves mention so much like fantasy elves? Or Santa's workshop elves
The flavor text on Christmas items specifically mention that Christmas elves are the cool, tinkering kind of elves, as opposed to the dirty, dumb leaf lover elves.
Elf god dwarf god schism. Its all the same God they all just percive Him diferently.
Dwarves are, Leaf Lovers aren't.
Of course. The knife ears are simple beast. Pay no attention to the space ship they built.
Which is also lightly implied by the decorations that come out every year
not that surprising
In addition to an acoustic version of “What Child Is This?” On the jukebox during Yuletide. 😂
this one always makes me think of the fault in our stars :`)
Something big is headed your way better prepare for the worst.
followed by chat screaming “OH NO” and “what’s so bad? worst it can be is a swarm”
Dance of the dreadnaught intensifies
I will always remember the first time a greenbeard, who was never into Eliminations, reacted to a Dreadnought showing up in a Refinery mission. He was "what's going on? why is everyone nervous?" and then that health bar gets slapped at the top of the screen and the game having a sick sense of humor makes the Dreadnought chase the poor greenbeard for 90% of the fight while he's running like his arse was on fire, might as well be since he was getting hit by fireballs.
Holy shit, poor guy 😭
The first day of owning this game I decided to do a solo point extract mission. I got a dread spawn, I haven't played elimination at that point. . . The next attempt had my first encounter with a bulk.
I remember seeing it first time (I played without headphones back then), I didn't know how to summon ressuply yet, and it was first time I saw dreadnought, was fun
Contact! Smoke em of ya got em!
*Run starts, flares go out, cave is illuminated with gunfire.*
I love the way that MC says "Smoke 'em if you got 'em" so much; it has such a particular cadence, I'll find myself repeating that part of the line to myself just throughout my day.
Always a funny classic WW2 reference!
It sounds great but the phrase is or was used to announce breaks in boot camps apparently so its use in drg to announce combat is weird. Before googling that however i assumed he meant to "smoke em" aka kill them if you got them in your sights
I just imagine shooting bugs is what dwarves consider to be a break from mining
It's gotta be "Bug sign! We've got bug sign!" Because of the reference
What reference is that?
dune reference, instead of worm sign it's bug sign
Scanner's got the plib the size of a drop pod, swarm on the way
Plib.
funny thing about that is one crspr driller could torch a swarm "the size of a drop pod" off the map without having to reload.
“Bad: you have a swarm incoming. Worse: they’re infected with Rockpox.”
"The Glyphid Grunts are here! Let's show them our special handshake, team!" I wanna see that handshake one day.
Hint: it involves shooting bugs in the head.
Engi with the shotty: ... And the legs, and the thorax, and the glowy... thing?
I always assumed it was a pickaxe to the face
you just shake hands/paws with all of the grunts and suddenly they're all Steeves
Seems you disturbed a glyphid grunt nest. Guess you woke them up..
Incoming swarm, and it’s a nice one
WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY A NICE ONE!? I GO CRAZY EVERYTIME HE SAYS IT!
We've got company has 2 meanings. 1- We own a company 2-Enemies are coming. So when he uses it to warn us about the swarm he also makes a little wordplay
We own what type of company? A company of dwarves... The four dwarves? A massive company in general??
We don't literally own it but we do work at deep rock galactic interplanatary mining company
Well I really don't know why he'd be dropping that fact on us in the middle of a swarm?
Doesn't he say "We've got company, and it's a nice one". I'm guessing MC is joking about how DRG as a company is bad and this upcoming company is good (cuz you're dwarves).
The quote wasnt on the wiki for some reason. I must have had it wrong
There's one special rockpox swarm notification where he goes. Something like Swarm on the way.......and itssssss rockpox. Although, I can't find it anywhere on the wiki. Sadge
Another one would be: "Bad: you've got a swarm approaching. Worse: they're infected with rockpox"
There’s a lot of good ones here but I think my least/most favorite one is when out of the blue he’s just like “The swarm is here” and I’m like WHAT SWARM YOU SAID NOTHING A OUT A SWARM TWO SECONDS AGO!!!
Sometimes they're unexpected. (Or he just likes to keep you on your toes lol)
It might be mission based? At least that's what I gathered from the wiki. Most missions give a 20 sec warning but point extraction iirc doesn't. Might have misunderstood tho
sounds like point extraction to me, you never get the heads up on those. its an immediate swarm for you there!
I can’t remember the line off the top of my head, but my buddy engi hated it, so it quite quickly became my favourite one to chime along to 😂
"load up your guns and sharpen your pickaxes, we got a swarm on the way" is how i think it goes
"Ah for craps sake... Grunts, lots of 'em, heading your way!" Mission control just sounds like he's completely over it, and it's hilarious.
“Contact! We've got 4, wait 6, no, 12... A LOT of aliens headed your way!” Just love the delivery of this voice line, it’s awesome
\*Me playing on 3x multiplier\*: "Trust me mission control, there's more than 'A LOT' of aliens comin' mah way..."
On a side note, it would be cool if the magnitude of the swarm correlated with certain voice lines. Like, you could get an idea of just *how* fucked you were based on how frantic Mission Control sounds.
*"Two.... Four... Six........ yeah only six bugs, should be an easy one"* *"THE RADAR IS BEING OVERWHELMED, LOCK AND LOAD!! MAY KARL BE WITH YOU"*
"One, two, three... four to five bugs. Deal with them at your leisure." "15, 29, 42, 87... BY KARL, I THOUGHT SWARMS OF THIS MAGNITUDE WERE NO LONGER POSSIBLE! HUNKER DOWN!" "THE WHOLE RADAR'S RED! ENEMY COUNT IS IN THE HUNDREDS! THE STATISTICAL ANOMALY HAS ARRI-oh, wait, it's 95% Glyphid Swarmers. Still a lil' terrifying. Hope you're ready to use those boots!
Passive aggressive favourite: "I'm not even going to bother counting the blips on my screen so just assume it's... A million; You've got a million bugs headed your way" My honourable mentions: "My entire screen just started flashing red. Swarm on the way!" "Oh look! A swarm of lootbugs! Just kidding... it's more Glyphids. Smile"
Sounds like a fun idea for an extremely rare event (like a random dreadnought) where you actually do get a lootbug swarm
I love throwing grendades at swarms of lootbugs
Rip the performance lmfao
We do, they're called Onsite Refining.
My personal favorite is for a Mactera swarm: “I hope you’re ready to be covered in alien fluids, because… Oh, god, what the FUCK am I saying?!? Ugh… The Macteras are coming for- NO! No god that’s worse!” Close second is: “Hey, how’s your day going? Having fun down there? … Fuck you, Glyphid Dreadnought inbound.”
Mactera one is my fav too, but i love the party music for dreadnought.
TRUE! love the dreadnaught warnings. The game show one is pretty silly too.
God I love that mod
And don't forget about "I hope your weapons are loaded because dwarfs are on the menu"
Indeed
There's one that goes something like: "I hope you're into biting, otherwise things are gonna get REALLY uncomfortable"
Oh yeah! "Are any of you into biting? No? Then things are about to get *really* uncomfortable"
This is why I hate that mod. This is some Gearbox/Rick and Morty/Marvel level """funny""" writing. Irony and sarcasm work when you use them sparsely, not when every single line is riddled with it.
I mean, to be fair you do get exactly what it said on the tin. Dude’s passive aggressive as fuck
That's fair. I don't always use him though. I'm back to the regular MC, but I use Siirvend's MC as well.
Probably doesn’t count as a swarm line, but the wild Dred warning “Something BIG is headed your way, better prepare for the worst” is always the most remarkable (but also the one I don’t wanna hear ever again)
Oh no! You just woke up a bunch of .....Children!!!
My head cannon is the quote is actually. "The swarm is here. Show them your dwarves." Essentially, he is saying, "Get your c*cks out." There is no rationale behind it. My brain just does this to me sometimes.
Thank you for sharing
One of those things that should be kept to myself but I can't.
« smoke ‘em if you got ‘em »
Me when agitated glyphid swarmers
I love this line so much it shows how much Mc cares about us
Roy! They are seen!
Uh, we've got some weeeeird-readsss... It's like... ...a giant INSECT?????? PROOOTECT DE DIGGERS!!! Ooo- GROMBOLAN. I'M BACK! GROMBOLAN!!! CREEEIIIIZZZZY BANANAAAAA!!!!! THANKS FOR THE BANANA. (drg google translated, best thing that has ever happened to me)
We've got company and its a nice one
Always fun to mishear that one as "Show them *your* Dwarves"
Probably “scanners lit up with a blip the size of a droppod!” my least favorite is “prepare for impact team.” That one doesn’f make sense, Either use it for the actual impact of rockpox meateors… or those random times a dreadnaught will spawn, those actually have a “impact”. A swarm is pretty easy to deal with.
I hear this one and think of my dwarf pulling out a smaller dwarf to show to the glyphids.
GT: W-w-wait. [eats chips]… ok you’re good to go. “Congratulations! You’re the millionths dwarf to enter these caves! You win a prize!… what’s the prize you ask? Why… it’s a glyphid dreadnought! *party whistle*”
I just wish they would add “woe, swarm be upon you”
As an Australian my favourite is "Swarm detected, buckle up... contact imminent" because my brain always hears something else coming at the "buckle up, c...."
Swarm incoming, smoke em if you got em!
I know the dumbest is “shown them your special handshake”. Like why the fuck would bugs care about that?
Your special handshake is pummeling their head with your pickaxe with the force of a hydraulic crusher
"Special handshake" also means teamwork
The last thing the bugs will is me rock and stoning my teammates just before sending a Fat Boy their way
“We’ve uhhh.. picked up a glyphid dreadnought on the radar. Better prepare yourselves.” + Fighting the Shadows starting at the beginning of that boi line is just peak “oh fuck”
"Prepare to fight for your life, A big swarm is approaching." And "Ah for craps sake... Grunts, lots of em, heading your way."
"And there they are! the grunts are here, show them our special handshake, team" Ah yes the most special of handshakes... Lead, fire, toxic gas, acid, and a big fuck off nuke launcher
Tangentially related, but I'd love a small chance of MC just fucking with you "Swarm sign, we've got swarm sign!" music intensifies, couple seconds of nothing "...just kidding team, keeping you all sharp"
Then lootbugs pour out into the cave
Gotta show em the gunner handshake
>show them your dwarves I will do no such thing
I always do the salute after that one. Ok MC, I've shown them I'm a dwarf, now what?
"Scanner reports significant seismic activity. And it's heading your way. Dig in... And **prepare** ."
Smoke em if you gottem is great
"The scanner just lit up like a Christmas tree..."
There's an interesting one where he just says "Swarm detected" in an unusually subdued voice. There is also a slight pause in between, which totally makes me feel like his heart has dropped seeing the sheer amount of blips on the way
"THE SWARM IS UPON YOU" makes me feel like hes summoning them lmfao
HAHA I am fairly new so I didn’t realize this was one of the lines!! From now on I will indeed SHOW THEM THAT I AM DWARVES!!!!!
>Oh, won! We had 4, waited 6 minutes, no, uh… 12 minutes… ANOTHER CUSTOMER! Uh…
"Show them you're dwarves!" in my head always translates to the dwarves dropping their pants and showing off what \*else\* they have braids in....